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US President-elect Donald Trump delivered brief remarks to reporters at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Dec. 28, 2016.
Isabel Lopez, an immigrant rights activist, stands in front of a chalkboard at a meeting in the back of a church in Brockton, Massachusetts, a town just an hour’s drive south of Boston.
Lopez, the leader of a group called the Brockton Interfaith Community, has been fighting for months to get a city ordinance passed that would make life easier for undocumented immigrants.
This ordinance — called the Trust Act — states that local police will not detain undocumented immigrants on behalf of immigration authorities — unless a criminal warrant has been issued.
This will not be an easy ordinance to get passed.
It was on the docket in Brockton in October.
But then, on the campaign trail, Donald Trump said he would cut off funding to “sanctuary cities” — cities where local officials have vowed not to help enforce federal immigration law.
Many feared that if the Trust Act passed, Brockton would be considered such a place. In response, city councilors in Brockton decided to wait until after the presidential election.
But then Trump won. And the Trust Act is on the docket yet again. For January.
This time around, though, the debate around it is even more complicated, even more contentious, even more emotional than before.
Only a few people attend Lopez’s meeting. They sit in a semi-circle on foldout chairs.
Isabel Lopez takes notes at a meeting in a church to discuss immigration issues in Brockton, Massachusetts.
Usually, Lopez speaks quietly. But tonight she is loud.
“The reason you don't see people from the immigrant community right now, guess why?” she asks.
“They are scared,” somebody whispers.
Lopez’s point is that nobody should interpret a half-empty room as a sign that passing the Trust Act is no longer important for the immigrant community. If anything, it’s a sign that passing the measure is more important than ever.
Many undocumented immigrants, Lopez says, have been too afraid to leave their homes since the election, worried what the Trump presidency might mean for them.
The proposed Trust Act would make these immigrants feel safer, at least in Brockton, advocates say.
And this small group of people, huddled together in the back of a church, seem determined to make sure that it passes.
There are so many ideas on the chalkboard they hardly all fit.
Bill Healy says he could not bring himself to vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. So he wrote in his friend and took a picture of the ballot on his phone.
For longtime Brockton Police officer Bill Healy, though, the issue is complicated.
He worries that if the Trust Act passes, the police department will lose thousands of dollars in federal funding.
At the same time, Healy wants everyone in Brockton to feel like they can come to him with their problems.
A couple years back, he says, he got to know a group of Brazilian women who worked at a Dunkin' Donuts. He saw their English get better and better. They always had his coffee ready for him when he arrived.
Those women, they were hiding from him.
Healy says he would never want to get anyone in trouble for their immigration status. That’s a job for immigration officials, not his. He just worries what formalizing that policy could mean.
Craig Pina is an activist for a group opposed to the Trust Act called No Sanctuary for Brockton.
There is none of this ambivalence at a pizza parlor across town, where members of the Brockton Republican Committee gather.
This is the same night that Lopez and her group hold their meeting in the back of the church.
Here, though, the television is on and the mood is jubilant.
Bob Wisgirda, a local radio host, says he opposes the Trust Act because he thinks undocumented immigrants make his city dangerous.
“These are hardened criminals because they are on a daily basis killing people in the city of Brockton,” he says, his voice rising.
Yet decades of research show that immigrants, regardless of their legal status, commit fewer crimes than people born in the US.
But the debate here seems to be less about facts than political views.
However, that assumption is not accurate. Being in the US without proper paperwork is a civil offense, not a crime (and, today, many immigrants out of status in the US have overstayed their visa). However, crossing the border illegally is a federal misdemeanor and punishable by a fine or jail time.
Specifics aside, tension between longtime Brockton residents and some immigrants since the presidential election has been palpable.
As residents wait for city councilors to put the Trust Act to a vote yet again, next month, there's a feeling in the air, kind of like something might snap.
A feeling not so different, maybe, from the national mood. | 2019-04-26T01:49:38Z | https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-12-30/after-trump-s-victory-city-debates-offering-sanctuary-undocumented-immigrants |
Can Indy Media Stop the Corporate Media's Hillary Bandwagon?
Prominent pundits seem ecstatic over Hillary Clinton's entry into the presidential race just days after Barack Obama's media-created candidacy became official. Media talking heads are having so much fun lately they don't seem to notice that our political system is failing to address ever-worsening problems: social, environmental, fiscal and imperial.
Indeed, our country's political decline in recent decades has been abetted by the decline in mainstream media. The same media outlets that were complicit in the disastrous Iraq war are bent on turning politics into an insular celebrity club in which only they get to anoint frontrunners.
If the torch of leadership passes from Bush I to Clinton I to Bush II to Clinton II, it will be a loss for our country - but a victory for a corrupt Beltway press corps that abhors fresh ideas, especially those that challenge its power and privilege. It was a frightened national press corps that vilified the netroots supporters of Democratic outsider Ned Lamont in defense of pro-war warhorse Joe Lieberman.
For the coming election season to be fact-based and reality-based instead of just power-based, independent media (online and off) will have to play a bigger role in shaping the debate and correcting the record. For example, a recent San Francisco Chronicle news report (headlined "Obama Emerges as Clinton's Rival for Dems' Left") asserted that Hillary Clinton was "widely regarded as the left's most influential voice inside the now-revered Clinton White House."
Widely regarded? Actually, progressives see Hillary Clinton as having been consistently wrong on the war and a host of other issues, especially trade. Her absurdly bureaucratic healthcare proposal in 1993 - shaped by and for big insurance companies - was a slap in the face of unions, Congress members and grassroots forces who'd built a movement for simple, nonprofit national health insurance: in effect, enhanced Medicare for All. She helped set back the cause of universal coverage for years.
And far from being "revered," many Democratic activists see the Clinton era as one of decline in which Democrats lost their strong majorities in the U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governorships and state legislatures. It's simple math .
The 2008 presidential election is shaping up as a test of the power and capacity of new independent media vs. old conglomerate-dominated media. And a test of grassroots/netroots politics vs. corporatized Democratic politics.
In 2004, new media and netroots forces weren't quite strong enough to win. The Internet-fueled and funded Howard Dean insurgency caught the press corps (and Democratic elites) off guard, but they rallied to savage the then-frontrunner -- in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses -- as hot-headed, inexperienced and unelectable. Those weeks saw many Iowa caucus-goers move from Dean to allegedly "electable" candidates. . . like Kerry.
This month in Memphis, more than 3,000 independent journalists, critics and media activists joined members of Congress at the National Media Reform Conference to strategize on how to build more democratic, diverse, independent media. Not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton - who's been historically close to media conglomerates and was endorsed for Senate by Rupert Murdoch - was not present.
Only one presidential candidate came to Memphis: Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who now chairs the House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on Domestic Policy, with jurisdiction over the FCC. There was disappointment in the no-show of presidential candidate John Edwards, who has some of the Dean thunder this year with his Internet-savvy campaign calling for a war on poverty and withdrawing troops from Iraq.
This election season, it will be fascinating to see whether blogs and independent media and grassroots Democrats will be able to counter - as Dean almost did in 2004 -- the ferocious assaults and clichés of corporate media. In much mainstream media discussion twelve months before the Iowa caucuses, the campaign has already been narrowed to a two-person race, with Clinton way ahead of Obama.
But a different story emerges when Democrats are polled in crucial early primary and caucus states where voters are beginning to pay attention: Edwards is ahead in Iowa; Obama is ahead in New Hampshire.
This race is certainly not over. Nor is it a two person-race.
My advice to mainstream journalists: If you love covering horse races, transfer to the sports pages. If you want to cover only celebrities, switch to the gossip pages. If you're obsessed with how candidates look or dress, try the fashion pages.
As for how these presidential aspirants would govern, I'm counting on independent media. The public needs to hear Kucinich's step-by-step plan to end the war in Iraq. And Edwards needs to be asked: after the first 50,000 troops are withdrawn, what's the next step?
As for Clinton and Obama, the vaguer their rhetoric, the more they seem to dazzle the establishment media (not unlike Chance the Gardner in "Being There"). It will be up to independent media to decipher their actual positions, and the political/financial interests of their funders and advisers. | 2019-04-21T19:21:12Z | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/can-indy-media-stop-the-c_b_39304 |
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Through our sister organisation in the US, the Christian Camp & Conference Association, we are now able to provide another member benefit to our already significant list!
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CCCA is offering CCI members around the world access to read each issue of InSite online - FREE OF CHARGE!.
These digital copies are our gift to our friends in camping around the world, in the hope that they will benefit your ministry as well."
This offer is made to personal members and any staff & people on the governing body of organisational members.
To register, simply click on this link and complete the simple form. Once submitted, a confirmation screen will be displayed, with a link so that you can go back & register more people.
Once registered, people will receive an email (with an appropriate link) when a new issue is ready to read online (approximately 2-monthly).
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Dallas Indie-Pop Duo Still Electric Crammed 201 Nods To The Office Into Its New Music Video. How Many Of Them Can You Spot?
After 730 days of pre-production, 180 hours in the studio and what it estimates as 4,380 cups of coffee, the Dallas indie-pop duo Still Electric says it is still put the finishing touches on its debut album, which is called Friend and is set to earn its release on May 10.
Title aside, though, it’s not Rachel, Phoebe, Monica, Ross, Joey or Chandler that vocalist/pianist Rachel Africh and her guitar-playing hubs Maurice Africh are obsessed with. No, that designation goes to another early aughts-era NBC sitcom — The Office, which the couple estimates its seen all the way through more than 70 times.
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So, as they say, they opted to stick with what they know well with the new music video for for their single, “Move On Cue.” During a late-night brainstorming session with director Jeremy Biggers, the group decided to turn their video into a faux one-shot house party scene featuring as many Easter eggs references their favorite TV show as possible. In the end, they say they were able to 201 of them into the 4:35 clip.
They run the gamut, too. In our own viewings of the below clip, we’ve spotted sad brown balloons, Prison Mike’s bandanna, Kevin’s slow cooker filled with chili, three-hole punch Jim, the notorious George Foreman Grill, Dwight’s beets, just to name a few.
It’ll probably take a few repeat viewings for you to catch all 201 references in the clip, which we’ll conceded is as fun to watch as the duo’s fictitious The Office-themed party looks like it would be to recreate.
Mostly, we’re impressed with the strategy at play: Having people re-watch the clip over and over again in order to catch all of its The Office references is a pretty clever way to inflate a video’s streaming numbers.
Next ArticleGet Off Tay Money’s Stage & Stay The Hell Outta Her Way. | 2019-04-23T02:42:33Z | https://www.centraltrack.com/still-electric-crammed-201-the-office-references-in-its-new-video/ |
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Moanalua PTO would like to thank our families, faculty, and staff for their unconditional love and support for our children. Fun Fair 2016 was a success!
We couldn’t have done it without the hours of planning, the manpower, the donations!
It was wonderful to see the Moanalua community come together to create a fun filled evening for everyone!
We look forward to seeing you all at Fun Fair 2017! | 2019-04-24T20:02:05Z | https://moanaluapto.org/2016/12/20/thank-you-for-supporting-our-fun-fair/ |
CHICOPEE - A historic B-29 Superfortress bomber plane, one of only two in the world that still fly, will be on display at the Westover Metropolitan Airport next week and will even be open for rides.
The Commemorative Air Force will be bringing three historic aircraft to the airport on 255 Padgette St., from June 20-24. The B-29 will be joined by two other planes, a C-45 Expeditor and a T-6 Texan.
People will be able to view all three aircraft between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. all five days at a cost of $10 for adults, $5 for youth 10 through 18 and there will be no charge for children under 10. People can also book rides on the planes for $85 to $1,695 depending on the aircraft type.
The Great New England Air and Space Show will be held at Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee on July 14-15.
While the event is being run through the Commemorative Air Force, it is coincidentally serving as a countdown event to the Great New England Air and Space show that will be held at Westover Air Reserve Base on July 14-15, said Connie Brown, president of the Galaxy Community Council which helps sponsor the show.
"It is a coincidence that they will be here at this time but it is a very happy one," Brown said.
Members of the Community Council will be at the airport during some of the display handing out information about the Westover Air Show, which will include multiple historic planes as well as modern military aircraft and many other events and displays. The headline act for the show will be the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.
The B-29 Superfortress, began active service in 1944 and is known as the aircraft which dropped the atomic bombs over Japan bringing about the end of World War II. It was also flown extensively during the Korean War, according to the Commemorative Air Force.
This will be the second event held at the municipal airport leading to the show. Saturday the Galaxy Community Council and the Chicopee Chamber of Commerce will host the "Run the Runway" road race which will send participants down the base runway. Proceeds from the race will fund Galaxy Community Council programs.
For more information about the display or to book a ride on a plane go to AirPowerTour.org. | 2019-04-20T10:31:19Z | https://www.masslive.com/news/2018/06/historic_b-29_plane_others_com.html |
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Each September 11, the nation looks back on a tragic day in history—a day with so much sadness, shock and fear, but also one that showed the resolve and unifying spirit of America.
But, asks author, religion and culture expert, and national radio host Dr. Alex McFarland (www.AlexMcFarland.com): How much has changed in our world since September 11, 2001?
“The world is a much different place than 16 years ago,” McFarland said. “Unfortunately, there seems to be even more hatred toward America—and, sadder still—within America. There are still many who want to harm and kill Americans and destroy our society and our ideals, replacing freedom with fear. And this is not reserved for those outside our country. We have developed an increasingly hostile attitude toward each other, because of a variety of reasons, such as where we stand politically, what we believe about sexuality, how we view gender, and even our goals economically.
At the same time, however, McFarland holds true to the fact that Christians must stand for their beliefs in every aspect of life. He recently debuted his newest book, co-authored with apologist and evangelist Jason Jimenez, called “Stand Strong in Your Faith: Live What You Believe with Confidence and Passion.” The guide provides Christians with insight and encouragement to keep the faith during the toughest times of life. “Stand Strong in Your Faith,” released earlier this summer, is available from AlexMcFarland.com. | 2019-04-23T17:56:47Z | https://hamiltonstrategies.com/dr-alex-mcfarland-asks-how-has-the-world-changed-since-september-11-2001-2/ |
Paul Lewis has been praised by The Guardian for his 'thoughtful and refined' pianism.
He concludes his three-year journey weaving together the threads that connect the music of Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven.
This concert opens with Haydn's E minor Sonata, Hob.XVI:34, at once playful and dramatic.
Brahms' late Op.117 Intermezzi take the form of three poignant lullabies, expressing the quiet grief that the composer felt all too deeply in the last years of his life.
Closing the concert, Lewis then takes on Beethoven's magnificent set of 33 Diabelli Variations.
Radically inventive, they contain musical multitudes, exploring a range of moods and styles from the parodic to the deeply profound. The interpretative possibilities presented by Beethoven's stupendous achievement are almost infinite. | 2019-04-23T18:06:36Z | https://southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/135763-paul-lewis-haydn-brahms-beethoven-2019 |
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to be included in your gallery. It was so a great time with Devon and Clement. They are so nice and friendly guides. We saw more than we expected (5 nights from 9 - 14 May 2013). And the lodge, the rooms, the stuff, the meals and the service are wonderful. We have already recommended you!
Hi guys, heard the sad news of Salayexes cub; here are some photos from Nov 2012. We hope to see Shadow's or Thandi's cubs when we are coming again in November ( 6th time).
Greetings to all of you - Louis, Morn�, Wayne, Etienne and all the others.
These are a selection of some of the many excellent photos we took during our stay at Elephant Plains in April 2013. We had the most wonderful holiday, thanks to all the staff.
Heather and David, North Lincolnshire, England.
A few pictures from our amazing stay at EP in March 2013, special thanks to Louis and Fanuti. We can�t wait to return. A few more pictures are available on my website at and some videos on YouTube.
As we have seen over your webcam you had rainy days � we (back in Switzerland) have snow and ice and it's really cold. Greetings to all the staff at EP - we enjoyed our stay very much. Looking forward and kind regards - also from Ivana.
Thanks for the great time in elephant plains. It was great again. We see you next year (Sept 2013).
Here are a few more pictures taken when we honeymooned at Elephant Plains (September 2012).
Hi guys, here is some photos from Feb 2011, we are freshing up the memory, greetings to Louis, Morn�, Wayne and to the whole staff, see you in beginning of Nov 2012, our fifth time at EP, "The heaven on earth".
A few photos of our memorable visit to Elephant Plains from August 21 - 24, 2012. Highlight of our second visit was seeing Salayexe's 8 week old cubs.
Special thanks to our awesome guide and tracker, Willie and Connie! | 2019-04-23T06:39:08Z | https://www.elephantplains.co.za/photo-galleries/gallery/guest-gallery/page-3/ |
Driving from where I was staying at Whichaway Camp (70’ 45’ 49’ S, 11’ 36 59 E) on the Schirmacher Oasis, to the Novolazarevskaya the ice strip, which services the Russian research station, to fly to FD 83, the Pole of Inaccessibility, to refuel en route to the South Pole.
At FD 83, aka Fuel Depot 83-degrees South, The Pole of Inaccessibility, the most remote and difficult spots to reach in Antarctica where there is nothing except an ice runway, a cache of fuel barrels parachuted in by a Russian transport plane, a handful of tents and vehicles, and the five men who wait to refuel planes like ours that land en route to the South Pole.
At FD 83, The Pole of Inaccessibility, which is one of the most remote and difficult spots to reach on the planet, with the world’s coldest year-round average temperature of -72.8°F, as reflected in the goggles of my fellow traveler, a former NASA astronaut and Commander of the Space Station.
At FD 83, aka Fuel Depot 83-degrees South, The Pole of Inaccessibility, which is basically a seasonal makeshift gas station in possibly the most remote and most difficult spots to reach on the planet, refueling our converted DC-3 Basler en route to the South Pole, which is 878 km away.
We spent the night at FD 83, The Pole of Inaccessibility, on our way back from the South Pole. It is considered more remote and harder to reach than even the South Pole, which is 878 km away. It has the world’s coldest year-round average temperature of -72.8°F and nothing but an ice runway and these tents, which we spent the night in.
Refueling our DC-3 Basler at FD 83, The Pole of Inaccessibility, the point on the Antarctic continent most distant from the Southern Ocean, and the most challenging spots to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features that could provide access.
Our converted DC-3 Basler at FD 83, aka Fuel Depot 83-degrees South, The Pole of Inaccessibility, a summer season-only, makeshift gas station in one of the most challenging spots to reach on the planet. Fuel barrels are parachuted in, and five men travel 1900 kilometers over 90 days to be on hand to refuel the few planes like ours that stop en route to the South Pole.
At FD 83, The Pole of Inaccessibility, the point on the Antarctic continent located the furthest from any ocean, and considered more remote and harder to reach than even the South Pole, which is 878 km away. It has the world’s coldest year-round average temperature of -72.8°F.
Our DC-3 Basler landed on skis at FD 83, The Pole of Inaccessibility, the most remote spot in Antarctica (and hence, the world), where five men who traveled 1900 km over 90 days to be there, hand pumped fuel from barrels that were parachuted in by a Russian transport plane at the beginning of summer.
Refueling our DC-3 Basler at FD 83, The Pole of Inaccessibility, where there is literally nothing except an ice runway, a cache of fuel barrels parachuted in by a Russian transport plane at the beginning of summer, a handful of tents and vehicles, and the five men who wait to refuel the few planes that come through. | 2019-04-26T08:04:33Z | http://wendysimmons.com/country/antarctica/pole-of-inaccessbility/ |
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You took your bow to the archery shop, and it’s now tuned and shooting tight, consistent groups in the bull’s-eye. Your calendar shows you’re inching closer to some vacation time. Yes, bowhunting season is near. Which animal will be in your sights this fall?
From Alaska’s ice caps to Florida’s steamy swamps, bowhunters enjoy memorable big-game hunting opportunities. In fact, record-keeping organizations recognize 29 big-game species in North America. The Pope & Young Club is bowhunting’s official record keeper. The organization uses the same scoring system that the Boone and Crockett Club uses for gun hunters. For example, certified scorers measure deer by their antlers, sheep by their horns and bears by their skulls. Click here for an in-depth look at how animals are scored.
Individual animals and the bowhunters who arrowed them can qualify for the records program by meeting measurement standards set by the two clubs. Besides being a great accomplishment for bowhunters, these records provide important data for conservation efforts. Both clubs share the information with wildlife agencies, which use the data to help monitor and analyze big-game populations.
Gathering and analyzing all that information is a grueling task for the Pope & Young Club each year, but it provides insights into which species get the most hunting pressure. Based on that data, let’s look at North America’s most bowhunted big-game animals.
Whitetails are found in nearly every state in the Lower 48 because they thrive in countless habitats. Their adaptability and large numbers make them ideal quarry for bowhunters. Photo Credit: John Hafner.
White-tailed deer are easily the favorite quarry of everyday North American big-game bowhunters. Since the Pope & Young Club’s founding in 1961, nearly 60,000 whitetails have entered the club’s record book. Whitetails are found in nearly every state in the Lower 48 because they thrive in countless habitats. Their adaptability and large numbers make them ideal quarry for bowhunters. Their wariness, sharp eyesight and keen sense of smell also make them a supreme challenge. Many bowhunters learn their craft by sitting in treestands awaiting whitetails, and that’s a challenge that never gets old.
The spring season for the black bear is especially popular, possibly because bowhunters have limited opportunities that time of year, and black bears are a unique, plentiful quarry. Photo Credit: John Hafner.
Though not as widespread as whitetails, black bears also inhabit much of North America, making them a popular bowhunting quest. Some states even offer spring and autumn bowhunting seasons for black bears. The spring season is especially popular, possibly because bowhunters have limited opportunities that time of year, and black bears are a unique, plentiful quarry with thick fur coats from their winter slumber.
The bow season for elk usually falls during the rut, which creates exciting, action-packed bowhunting. Bowhunters use many tricks to try to get into arrow range. Photo Credit: John Hafner.
The piercing bugle of a bull elk in September provides the ultimate sensation for many bowhunters. The bow season for elk usually falls during the rut, which creates exciting, action-packed bowhunting. Bowhunters use many tricks to try to get into arrow range. Whether they wait by wallows, or use calls to imitate bulls with bugles or cows with mews, bowhunters must make the most of their hunting skills.
Many states hold their pronghorn season in late summer, which can be hot and dry. Those conditions make it productive to wait inside a ground blind near waterholes. Photo Credit: John Hafner.
Pronghorn antelope live on the prairie, which can provide a unique bowhunting experience. “Speed goats,” as they’re often called, usually require bowhunters to ditch treestands for ground blinds. Many states hold their pronghorn season in late summer, which can be hot and dry. Those conditions make it productive to wait inside a ground blind near waterholes. Other bowhunters spot and stalk pronghorns, which is especially challenging. Crawling through low-growing prairie plants and ground-hugging cacti requires extreme stealth and even a decoy.
Big muleys also live in the high country, which makes for ruggedly beautiful scenery. And although most bowhunters prefer treestands for whitetails, they primarily spot and stalk muleys. Photo Credit: John Hafner.
Although they aren’t as popular as whitetails, mule deer are still one of North America’s most hunted big-game species. Many bowhunters target big muleys in the early season while their antlers are in velvet. Big muleys also live in the high country, which makes for ruggedly beautiful scenery. And although most bowhunters prefer treestands for whitetails, they primarily spot and stalk muleys. Either way, bowhunters who target both deer species usually experience vastly different hunts.
One reason those five species are so popular with North America’s bowhunters is that they inhabit large areas of the country and provide lots of lean, tasty meat. That’s why they also provide the bulk of entries into the P&Y and B&C record books. Meanwhile, some of the least hunted big-game animals in the record books are bison, polar bears and tule elk, all of which have less than 100 submissions in P&Y records.
Then again, few people take up bowhunting just to get their name in a record book. Bowhunting provides plenty of exciting reasons to pursue game animals, whether they’re bears, deer, squirrels or ruffed grouse. In fact, bowfishing is also increasingly popular.
No matter which species you bowhunt this season, good luck and enjoy the chase! | 2019-04-20T10:52:21Z | https://bowhunting360.com/2018/08/16/north-americas-5-bowhunted-big-games-species/ |
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The Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries carried out a locust training session and destroyed three egg-beds earlier this week.
In a statement, the Ministry said the pest abatement exercise was launched by its County Victoria staff on Friday, November 10 and detected three separate Moruga locust (Coscineuta virens) egg-beds in the Tableland area.
These discoveries were as a result of the efforts of a joint team of staff from the Ministry's St Patrick East; Victoria; Nariva / Mayaro and Caroni Counties, who visited each of the three sites as part of their practical locust training session on Tuesday November 14.
The training – which was facilitated by Agricultural Assistant III (with direct responsibility for the Locust Control Programme in County Victoria), Rudy Ramdass – targeted approximately 40 staff involved in the operational elements of locust management inclusive of monitoring, tracking and chemical control.
Ramdass said the egg-bed finds were a positive sign in the Ministry's efforts toward the effective control of locust populations in the area.
"Traditionally, egg beds are much harder to find as they tend to be isolated in highly forested areas and are only revealed after they emerge in the hopper stage."
He said finding the creatures in the egg-bed stage is critical in order to make a significant dent in the locust population.
"During the egg-bed stage, we can potentially kill thousands of locusts per square metre as opposed to hundreds in the emerging and hopping stage and as few as 10 locusts per square metre during the adult stage," he said.
He also noted that because the area was not traditionally a locust-populated site, any proactive measure aimed at limiting the geographical spread of the pest was to be explored and welcomed.
"The locusts are no longer confined to the 10-mile radius between Moruga and Guayaguayare but have traversed and settled as far as 40 feet from their nesting sites, to areas such as but not limited to Tabaquite; Braso; Piparo; Caparo Valley and Tableland," he observed.
Also attending the training exercise were the Ministry's Acting Director of the Regional Administration South (RAS) Division, Dr Michelle Mellowes, and County Agricultural Officer (Victoria) Sati Gangapersad.
To report sightings of the Moruga locust and for additional information on the agricultural pest, please call the Victoria County Agricultural Office in Princes Town at 655-3428/7526/5637. | 2019-04-25T06:16:08Z | http://www.looptt.com/content/three-locust-egg-beds-destroyed-during-training-session |
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This document is a continuation of the Basic Starter user guide. It aims to provide users with additional understanding on how to build and design your own customized Internet of Things pipeline in Reekoh.
Process and Enrich data from external Services.
Transmits enriched data to the specified database.
We will use Service and Storage plugins such as Dark Sky, Google Geocoding, MongoDB, and MySQL to show how this works.
Since this is an extension of the Basic Starter, we will be using the same registered device which is Device 1.
If you want to register another device, you may refer to the Basic Starter document for the procedure.
After configuring your device, we can now proceed on pinning additional plugins.
In this procedure, we will pin additional plugins to demonstrate how data is processed from your registered device.
First, we'll pin Dark Sky and Google Geocoding which are Service plugins. These plugins will get the current weather condition and outputs the readable address based on the latitude and longitude.
Navigate to Marketplace on the mega menu, and then select the Service tab. Hover over the Dark Sky plugin, and then click Pin on the pop-out window. You should be able to see a notification saying your plugin is pinned.
Do the same procedure for Google Geocoding.
After you've pinned your Service plugins, you need to pin MySQL and MongoDB. These are Storage plugins which enables you to store enriched device data.
Select the Storage tab, and then hover over the MySQL plugin. Click Pin on the pop-out window. You should be able to see a notification saying your plugin is pinned.
Do the same procedure for MongoDB.
After all plugins are pinned, we can now configure them in your Pipeline.
For this demo, we will create a new pipeline to configure the additional plugins we'll be using.
In addition to the new plugins we've pinned, we will also be using the MQTT Gateway and HTTP Webhooks Connector plugins.
Let's start with Google Geocoding. Locate the Service category on the left pane, and then drag & drop the Google Geocoding plugin to your work space.
To configure, double-click the plugin and then complete the wizard that comes next. Click Save.
Do the same procedure for Dark Sky.
After you've configured your Service plugins, we'll proceed with the Storage plugins. Let's start with MySQL.
Locate the Storage category on the left pane, and then drag & drop the MySQL plugin to your work space.
Once you've configured all plugins, connect them by dragging the output terminal of one plugin to the input terminal of another. You may refer to the image below for sample. Select Save & Deploy from the drop-down menu.
After configuring your plugins, we can now proceed on connecting and sending data to the MQTT Gateway. To create a new device connection, open the MQTTLens chrome application and then click the Add icon.
Once all details have been completed, click Create Connection.
After connection has been established, you need to send a JSON Data to the MQTT Gateway. Under the Publish section, key-in or paste the JSON data on the Message field, and then supply a value for Topic. Click Publish to send data to the MQTT Gateway.
To check if JSON data has been received in Request Bin, type the webhook URL you've provided upon configuration of your HTTP Webhooks plugin and then add ?inspect in the address bar. For example, https://requestb.in/1hfag4u1?inspect. You should able to see the processed data under Raw Body. This includes the obtained weather condition and address based on the given latitude and longitude.
The image below also shows that data is successfully sent to the configured database. | 2019-04-23T08:50:23Z | https://support.reekoh.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000638333-Advanced-Starter-Guide |
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This is what my table looks like right now. Okay, so it's what my table looks like always.
I love reading. Always have, always will. But with seven years of college under my belt, I haven't always had the time to read. That's why one of my 2018 NYE resolutions was to read 36 books this year.
That's three books a month. Which doesn't feel like a lot to me, but it does give me some wiggle room to accommodate how much I work.
It's now February and according to my GoodReads account I have read a grand total of 2 books so far. BUT HEAR ME OUT, GUYS. The book I am currently reading is actually a trilogy packed into one big fatty (Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks, pictured to the right of the stack) so teeeeechnically I have read 3.5 books in January. EVEN MORE if you count the books I have started and not completed (here's lookin' at you, poetry).
In the (relatively) near future, I will start blogging book reviews. DRUNK book reviews.
But first, I must acquire some wine. | 2019-04-24T10:31:27Z | https://989kkzx.iheart.com/featured/allison-o/content/2018-02-03-reading-challenge/ |
In the past decade, Tom has presented to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Australian Media Conference and Australian Bishops Conference, and at various worldwide conferences and Pontifical Councils at the Vatican. Tom and his apostolates have been featured in nearly three hundred media venues worldwide, including multiple appearances on Fox News and EWTN.
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Two months in already - time just flies by. And again we had a big week - five incredible entries for last week's photo!
This week I have gone with a face. It was a struggle to find the creator of this incredible image because their current page on Deviant Art is empty. But two sources confirmed that it is indeed called 'Dragon Incarnate' and was created/copyrighted by LuckyWolf13 (Lauren from the US).
The story I imagined coming out of this picture turned into something else, and refused to change to what I wanted - as stories are often wont to do. And it pushed the Word Count too. But I do rather like it. Hope you do too.
Avilijn sat in front of the mirror watching the tracer work on the intricate design on the left side of her face. She remained stock still as the heat of the needle left behind its black ink creating a depiction of her latest conquest for all to see.
This latest scrollwork made it clear that she wasn’t to be trifled with. It made it clear she was a woman of strength and means. She felt a flush of pride, her mind turning to what she needed to do to have designs on the right side.
Her musing was interrupted by Finnella, who fluttered in behind her in awe and anxiety.
Avilijn pictured Falcroon and his oversized wings. The way he would always flex them whenever a pretty fledgling would go by while still in conversation with another. He thought he was such a hot shot. Would he really dare to come and take her on? She wondered. Would he be vain enough to risk his life? Would pride be his downfall?
The pecking order was strong, and she had to keep them all in place now. Since her father’s demise many had tried to usurp her and turn the skies into chaos, but she was responsible for maintaining peace at all costs – something Hawkseye had found out to his detriment ... and death.
Falcroon was coming to defend his honour. They had always had an intimate alliance: brothers in blood. She’d heard of their comradeship during the War of the Kestrel Marshes, but he had to understand that compliance was going to be the only way, and if that meant bloodshed then so be it. She wasn’t afraid.
A messenger arrived and she waited for Finnella to speak to them. When Finnella turned, the fearful bright eyes that met hers in the mirror told her all she needed to know.
The artist gave her a bob of the head as Avilijn rose to take on her next contender.
Avilijn stretched her turquoise and black wings, the magnificent glint causing gasps from the crowd, who had begun to gather in the archaic atrium since word had spread of the challenge.
Falcroon was more subdued than Avilijn expected. Was he nervous? Or was this something he didn’t want to do? But he was the one who had requested the duel, so it was his choice. She waited for his move.
But he didn’t swoop, instead he spoke.
Avilijn struggled to hide her annoyance. This wasn’t what she wanted. She wasn’t here to grant wishes, or be some kind of public executioner. What game was he playing?
He surprised her by flying low and bowing his head, offering the back of his neck; an act of submission. And one she had to acknowledge.
She flew over him in acceptance, but rather than remaining in position, Falcroon twisted just as her talons crossed over him, stretching his head back and up, exposing his neck. Before Avilijn could react a claw sliced through his skin, sweeping across it – deep. Blood gushed, as his body fell limp to the ground below.
Avilijn circled in shocked dismay. He had manipulated her into granting his wish, but this also placed her in a precarious position of an unwarranted kill, something which could upset the balance of power.
Damn him! He had not only avenged Hawkseye’s death, but achieved Hawkseye’s original intent.
Last week's photo prompt set a record at 5 wonderful entries! Such a diverse range of stories too. I love seeing how people are inspired. I am hoping this image will do the same.
I ummed and arhhed over the choice for this week's photo, as there are just SO many waiting to be used. I want to provide something new and fresh each week, and not the same sort of photo either, as well as a prompt that provides ample possibilities. I'm hoping this one does.
This photo was taken by Sirombo (Luca) from Italy over on Deviant Art.
My tale this week is actually based on the novel I have been working on, which is in the final editing stages. It gives a good outline of it, although it is set 10years on.
Lizzy stooped to pick up the feather stuck in the pebbles on the beach. She ran it through her fingers as she looked out to sea at the setting sun. It was a sign, she knew it.
Feathers had always shown up at significant times in her life: a turquoise one had landed on her windowsill the day before Steve had asked her out; a tiny brown one had been on the dashboard in her car the day he had proposed, and a beautiful white one had fluttered in through the kitchen window the day before her wedding. They had all signified good things. And this one did too. This one signified freedom.
She inhaled deeply, taking in the sea air, something she hadn’t been able to do for over ten years. Instead she had been stuck in a prison cell looking at four grey walls twenty hours a day. It was the penance you paid for losing your mind and taking your husband’s life.
She sighed, still feeling the weight of what she had done deep inside her chest. The last time she’d walked on a beach she’d been with Steve on a holiday they’d taken to try and recover from the loss of their second child. They’d splashed out and gone to the Maldives, a dream destination for Lizzy. With Steve’s modelling career taking off they’d been able to afford it.
It had helped a bit; they’d reconnected a little, although the return home had not gone as well as hoped with his parents forgetting to cancel the delivery of the pram. It had stood there in the entrance hall, taunting her when they’d arrived.
Gosh that all seemed so long ago. Another lifetime. She could recall the feelings but they didn’t cut her like they used to. She had something new to cut herself up about instead; something much bigger. And now she was out, the pain of what she had done was much keener.
In the years running up to the murder her head had become fuzzy, full of angry noise, bitterness and resent. And during her first years inside it hadn’t cleared; it had only become foggier as more negative emotions had swallowed her up: guilt, shame and despair. Now she stood here, finally out, on a beach in the crisp evening air, there was no noise in her head, no anger, there was only sadness and a gratitude at the chance for a fresh start.
Lizzy took in another deep breath and turned her back on the sunset. But before she could begin on that, she had to face the people and the memories from the past, the last part of her penance. But the arrival of the grey feather was a positive sign, and one she clung to as she headed back up the beach.
It seems that last week's challenge was a hit, with 4 wonderful entries. I hope we can eventually top that, but I am very happy it spoke to so many people. I am hoping this image will do the same.
The Chateau de Singes (Castle of Monkeys) is really the Château à Cahaignes (Castle Cahaignes), located in Cahaignes, Eure, Upper Normandy, France. Abandoned in 1976.
This is how it inspired me. I hope it inspires you too.
She could see the cracks of light falling on the floor, so knew that stepping through the door would not lead her into darkness. And she could even see more doors in the distance so she knew it wasn’t a trap, so what held her on the threshold?
It could only be fear – but fear of what? Fear that it would not take her anywhere; that the time and effort to go through and find out it was a dead-end would take too much from her. She had been through so many doors like this, with the light shining in, only to find that they were empty, devoid of the life and connection she sought. She wasn’t sure she could deal with the overwhelming disappointment again.
But standing her on the threshold was no solution; she gained nothing standing here – she knew that. You gained nothing without risk. Sometimes you had to take a leap and hope for the best, and try and not anticipate what might come; try and embrace the moment and have no expectation.
She heard the creak of another door in the distance. She heard the chatter of voices.
Her heart yearned to be a part of them, to join in and feel alive again, feel a part of something. She had been trapped in this place for so long, she could only fantasise what it might be like.
Her toes tingled as the voices drew nearer. Shadows moved further ahead in the corridor she was looking into. They would come round the corner at any moment. They would face her and she would see them. If she could just step forward she could greet them, she could walk with them and hear their conversation properly and not just snippets. But she could not compel herself to do so.
They would be here any second.
Here's my entry for the new Horror Bites challenge, hosted by Laura Jamez. A a photo prompt challenge, where you have to write a horror piece to a set word count.
Mandy rolled a gel ball around between her fingers. She found the motion soothing. She needed soothing after the row they’d just had. He’d stormed out as usual, revved the engine of his motorbike and squealed off up the road.
She didn’t have the luxury of buggering off when things got tough. She couldn’t drive. It’s how he liked to keep her: financially dependent, kids, unable to read, and unable to drive. He’d kept her this way since she was fifteen. He liked the control it gave him – and she knew it.
But he didn’t know she did.
He thought she was dumb, but the older she got the more she understood. And once she’d discovered audio books, she’d understood a whole lot more.
She looked at the gel balls in the glass, how they were clear at the top and grew darker as they reached the bottom – although the ones at the bottom weren’t gel, they were metal.
The doorbell rang. She opened the door a crack and saw two uniformed policemen standing there.
Mandy opened the door and led them into the lounge. They remained standing.
Mandy caught sight of her phone while the PC continued to tell her how her husband hadn’t made it to the hospital alive. She glanced down at it and saw it was still on; the book she had been listening was still playing. It was what had caused the row – him finding out she’d been listening to books.
Fortunately it was a different one to the book she’d been studying the last few weeks. That one had helped her through the difficult bits when tinkering with his motorbike in the garage while he’d been out at work.
Last weeks challenge brought two entries. I had hoped it would inspire more, but maybe it was a little intimidating. Hopefully this week's photo will elicit more.
This week's prompt photo was created by Marcela Bolivar, a digital artist from Columbia. You can check out some of her other wonderful creations on her website here.
This photo provides many different interpretations. I am interested in what others might make of it. This is what I came up with.
He carried the pain around with him as though it was on display. He thought others could see it as though his chest were made of glass and people could see inside, see the damaged darkness where there was once a heart – once a happy healthy heart, full of joy and love and giving. But it was no more. It was now an aching husk of darkness that poisoned his body, draining it of energy, of any desire, of any point of being.
He wanted it to end, but he didn’t have the guts to. He couldn’t quite bring himself to step out of this life. There was guilt at what it might do to those around him, those that felt they were good and close friends. And there were those that flung the word selfish around when people took their lives, which led him back to the guilt. Although he always believed that was a reflection of themselves: how they felt wrong and selfish for not understanding. No one knows the pain another suffers, let alone should judge it.
He imagined being free of this pain; imagined throwing off the shackles of the dead weight it brought to his life. But it did little to change anything. She was gone. She was just a shadow in his heart. She had come, wrought her damage and left. Turned her back and walked away. He could even see her in his mind’s eye, walking away across a field, while he was unable to move or call out and stop her.
It was the risk he had taken; one he would never take again – or so he told himself.
And one more belated entry for Horror Bites, hosted by Laura Jamez, to bring me up to speed, and ready for the new challenge. A a photo prompt challenge, where you have to write a horror piece to a set word count.
Reg frantically rubbed at the inside of the windscreen, but it made no difference, the mist was outside, not in the car. It had come on so suddenly it unnerved him. He hated driving at night as it was. It served him right for taking up tennis in the winter months; driving home in the dark was a given with dusk falling at 4pm. He was a summer person, he hated winter.
He swerved sharply to miss someone standing at the edge of the road. He looked in his rear view mirror but the mist had enveloped them. Who would want to be out in this?
Then there was another. He just spotted them in time, hearing the screech of his tyres as they twisted on the wet road. But as he avoided them another came into view, until all he could see along either side of the road were outlines of people.
In the dim foggy light he couldn’t make out their features, but they didn’t seem to be moving very fast. He slowed down, wondering where they were had come from. Could there be some kind of concert in the area? It was all countryside round these parts, but surely it was too cold for one of them raves.
At the reduced speed some of their features came into view. Reg wondered if he was seeing things; they all seemed to be slack jawed with their mouths hanging open and arms dangling at their sides. And he was so busy staring he didn’t spot the few that had wandered into the road until he felt the thud of a body hitting the bonnet.
He came to a sharp halt, and jumped out, running round to the front of the car to see who he had hit. It was a bad move. He didn’t see them turn towards him as he squatted down to check the pulse of the person on the ground, and as he readied himself to give mouth to mouth resuscitation he didn’t look up.
He was pushed forward onto the body as someone fell on top of him, and when another body fell on top of that he was pinned to body on the ground. He felt the last of the air in his lungs expel when several more dropped on top, and as he lay gasping, all Reg could think was how he planned to have pasta for his tea.
Horror Bites, hosted by Laura Jamez, has started up again, reminding me that I am not up to date with my entries, so here is my entry to #3.
It is a photo prompt challenge, where you have to write a horror piece to a set word count.
When she returned to the seating he was gone; only his empty juice box remained. Maggie ran her hand through her hair as her eyes scoured the platform. He couldn’t have gone far.
Most mother’s would worry someone had snatched their kid, but not Maggie. She knew better. He’d been encouraged to play hide and seek again. She’d tried to teach him that he needed to keep control in public places, but he was still too young, Jake would get the better of him. She sighed and bit her lip. People didn’t take kindly to Jake’s games – they hurt. She’d lost count of the amount of times they’d ended up in the police station.
She caught a glimpse of blond hair as a woman leapt forward suddenly clutching the back of her leg. Maggie moved in that direction, taking her time, acting nonchalant. If Jake thought he had been spotted it could get dangerous. Then she heard a ‘Hey!’ shouted from the other end of the platform.
People were starting to look round, nervous expressions on their faces.
“Where ARE you?” Maggie muttered under her breath. She stood still and saw movement in her peripheral vision. She stuck out an arm behind her and grabbed, catching material. Then she heard a rip and her hand was empty. Damn!
A woman screamed and she heard shouting from a guard. Christ, he was escalating; this could get really bad.
Then the rumble of an approaching train began and people started moving forward to the edge of the platform. Maggie moved backwards even though this was their train. Jake would be weaving through people; it’s what he liked doing best. She would get a better view from behind.
She saw what appeared to be jostling to the right and moved in fast. She needed to grab him now. She didn’t want to think about what would happen if someone ended up pushed onto the platform.
She lunged between two people, startling them, and caught the collar of a coat, yanking a wriggling child back. As she dragged Jake back she ignored the judgmental looks, only registering his eyes rolling, and the dark irises. He turned and bared his teeth at her, snapping at her hands as she firmly took hold of his face and crouched down in front of him.
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Traditionally there has been a clear distinction between curriculum based and problem based approaches to accomplish learning. Preferred approaches depend of course on conviction, culture, traditions and also on the specific learning situation. We will argue that it is not a question of either/or but rather both/and. In this paper we describe an approach to design and delivery of online courses in computer science which on the one hand is based on a specified curriculum and on the other hand gives room for different learning strategies, problem based learning being one of them. We discuss the challenges in applying problem based learning strategies in a context where several universities, with different cultures of teaching, collaboratively develop and deliver online courses. We present a pedagogical framework embracing both problem based and curriculum based strategies and show how we used this as a basis for trying out various online learning strategies.
Curriculum and problem based strategies for accomplishing learning is often described in opposition to one another (e.g. Kirschner et al. 2006). Curriculum based strategies, normally designated as teaching, aim at providing the student with a relatively fixed amount of agreed upon knowledge within a domain. Focus is on content, teacher control and instruction. Problem based strategies, normally designated as learning, on the other hand is more aiming at providing the student with abilities to acquire knowledge appropriate to solve problems within the domain. Focus is on learner experience, participant control, learner self-management and guidance. The two strategies here mentioned must of course be seen as an expression of a rather gross simplification, covering many variations in the conception of learning and the use of technology in the learning process. We use it as a way of referring to two different paradigms for using technology in online learning (Barr & Tagg, 1995). One is the “traditional” approach covered by the Instructional Design tradition focusing on transfer of knowledge and teacher controlled organization of the learning process. The other, being a social–constructivist approach, is formulated almost in opposition to the traditional approach of using technology in learning and is characterized by focusing on providing conditions for the students’ construction of knowledge, working with authentic task, and in collaboration with others (e.g Jonnassen, 1994).
In this paper we describe a pragmatic approach to design of online courses in computer science which on one hand is based on a specified curriculum and on the other hand gives room for different teaching strategies including problem based learning. In what follows we describe the Mediterranean Virtual University project in which the design approach were developed and used and our own role herein as responsible for providing project participants with knowledge on learning design and e-tutoring. We explain the design approach and the overall pedagogical model chosen. We present a model of problem based learning, which were our own point of departure, and discuss the challenges involved in applying this in the project. Finally we introduce a broader framework for strategies to accomplish learning and explain how this framework was used to present, test and discuss various aspect of activity based learning.
The Mediterranean Virtual University project (henceforth MVU) was a collaborative venture between institution in the Mediterranean region, the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and Aalborg University in Denmark building a network to collaboratively develop and deliver online courses within the domain of computer science. Thus the aim of the project was to develop and deliver courses which could meet the requirements of industry and individuals, to explore opportunities and advantages afforded by e-learning, and to build capacity among the participating partners in ways that could be cascaded locally and sustained. The project was funded by the EU EUMEDIS1, had duration of two years (2004-2006) and was led by the University of Strathclyde. The project resulted in the development of 40 undergraduate level courses in computer science. Each of the courses was rated at 5 European Credit Transfer Point2 and together they cover all levels of the undergraduate curriculum. Almost half of the courses were delivered in a pilot version to students, mostly to already existing groups of students as part of credit bearing programs. Furthermore the project resulted in a concrete basis for the partners involved for development and use of e-learning both collaboratively and individually.
Our role, as participating in the project from e-learning lab at Aalborg University, was to train participant in learning design and to specify pedagogical models for effective delivery of online courses. The training was delivered by two sets of activities, one for course developers and subject specialist providing them with knowledge on pedagogy and e-learning and another for tutors providing them with knowledge and experience in online teaching strategies (Buus et al 2006, Bygholm et al. 2006).
In the beginning of the project some fundamental decisions were made to structure and guide the development and delivery of courses.
First it was decided to base the development on the recommendation of the Computing Curricula 2001 project (CC2001) - a joint undertaking of the Computer Society of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE-CS) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)3. These recommendations were recognized as the authoritative statement of the educational goals and requirements in the area of computer science and all the partner institution had already been mapped to this standard. The ACM2001 description of computer science curricula made it possible to develop a coherent set of course with a specified relations to one another and no overlaps, making explicit what kind of knowledge were involved in e.g. “object oriented programming” or “databases”. It provided a common language and framework for expressing the course design.
Second it was decided to base the development of courses on the concept of learning activities comprised of learning objects based on the general assumption that people learn better when actively involved in doing something. This learning approach ensue from an understanding of learning based on the idea that knowledge is actively constructed by the learner, not passively received from the teacher. Furthermore the basic understanding of learning in the MVU project involved the assumption that learning is both a social and a situated process, meaning that emphasis should be put on dialog, group work and situated activities.
Third it was decided to use Moodle4 as learning management system (LMS). Moodle was chosen in the beginning as a platform for our training activities with the partners. As open source software Moodle was free to all partners to install, which almost all partners have done during the process of development. Moodle was considered to be very user-friendly by developers and tutors and the common platform also facilitated the interoperability of courses across the consortium.
To guide the design of courses the MVU course design approach was developed and expressed in two diagrams (Everett 2004). A course was based on several modules, and each module was divided into several activities. The activities should respond to learning objectives (as specified in the ACM2001 curriculum). An activity were comprised, as illustrated in figure 2, of different learning objects e.g. a test or explanation to read, live video conference, group work, research, or self-tests like quizzes etc. Furthermore an assessment was attached to each activity.
Also of importance for course design approach was the wish to share smaller elements of courses among the partners. Thus in order to pursue portability and reusability it was decided that design of Learning Objects should be compliant to the learning standard of “Shareable Content Object Reference Model” (SCORM), making it possible to adopt small elements of course material from one course module into other course modules. Using SCORM as the standard for learning objects meant a standard for how content may be packaged into transferable files5, and a possibility to be reused in other modules in a course.
The course design approach provided a framework and in a broad sense ensured a common approach, based on activities, to design and develop courses. There were room for flexibility which e.g. allowed for use of different technologies and techniques in the development of courses, for different ways of organizing the development process and also for different interpretation of the activity based pedagogical approach. Problem based learning was introduced and discussed with the partners, both course developers and tutors, as a way of realizing the meaning of an activity based learning approach.
Problem-Based Learning (PBL) has gained a lot of interest since it was launched in established educational settings over 30 years ago in the medical programmes at McMaster University, Canada. Essentially it is a leaning methods based on the principle of using problems as a starting point for learning and it is now used in multiple disciplines. There is many descriptions and definition of PBL but according to the editorial in the first issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem Based Learning (launched in 2006) their commonalities define it essence: At its core, a problem-based approach is designed to help students achieve two goals: (1) to acquire a deep understanding of specific content knowledge, and (2) to develop problem-solving and higher-order thinking skills (Ertmer, P.A. & Macklin A.S., 2006).
At Aalborg University we work with Problem Based Learning in a special form designated “The Aalborg PBL model” (Kolmos et al 2004). This model has it historical roots in critical theory and, in particular, in the work of the German philosopher and sociologist Oskar Negt. Negt’s work in the area of learning is linked to his proposal of a renewal of the education program in the trade union, but also connected to the more general concepts of experimental learning and self-regulation (Negt 1971). Negt’s work gained a lot of interest in Denmark and the Problem oriented project based learning was developed under this inspiration. It was implemented as a framework for learning when Aalborg University was established in the beginning of the 1970’s. The study form has also proved to work well, offering high rates of accomplishment at a satisfying level of qualification both in psychical and online setting (Kjærdam et al, 1994, Kolmos et al, 2004, Dirckinck-Holmfeld 2002, Bygholm et al. 1998, Knudsen et al 2005).
To use problems as a starting point for learning means, in the Aalborg model, that the crucial point in the learning process is the problem and not the curriculum. Thus content and focus of the study is not defined solely in terms of disciplinary knowledge but in terms of personal, social, and scientific problems. A problem is an anomaly; something that deviates from ordinary norms of behaviour; something unusual. Other main characteristic of our model is participant control, interdisciplinarity, and project organization. Participant control means that choosing the subject matter in important parts of the study is on the initiative of the students. Thus identifying the problem is a central part of the learning process. Interdisciplinarity means that insights from different scientific disciplines are integrated in the study of specific problems. Project organization means that the work with the problem is organized by a group of student in projects. The members of the group have to learn to work together, to make decisions collectively, to make a division of work, and to coordinate, etc. By making several projects, the students develop qualifications in connection with formulation, planning, management, and evaluation of projects. Besides, the students acquire a number of techniques and methods which are essential in connection with handling information and skills at processing and analyzing problems at different levels.
This model of PBL has a risk of not providing the student with a sufficiently broad subject-area overview. In order to overcome this projects are conducted within the frame of a theme (in the study of computer science a theme is e.g. “development of software”, or “modelling”) and different kind of courses are offered both to support the project work and to provide the students with curriculum knowledge. The organization of the learning process is illustrated in figure 3.
A semester is lasting half a year (5 month approximately) the course work refers to 50 % and the project work to the last 50%. The student’s responsibilities of defining the problem contribute towards a high degree of ownership and engagement in the learning process. Thus this model of PBL is to be seen as a very learner active and collaborative pedagogy, which requires interdependency between participants in the learning situation, together with motivation, support and facilitation from the teachers (Ryberg 2006, Kolmos et al.2004).
For several reasons it was not possible to fully apply the above described PBL model in the MVU project. First it was too big a step for the involved partners who were used to a more traditional university pedagogy building on lectures, distribution of information and teacher controlled organization of the learning process to switch to a problem oriented project based pedagogy where the determination of the content is guided by the problem not by the curriculum, and where the learning process is controlled by the student, based on collaboration and dialogue, and the role of the teacher is to act as a facilitator. The fact that the studies were to take place online gave problems in itself for several of the partners. Thus some of the involved institutions were rather sceptical of the whole idea of online education and hence also hesitating in the accreditation of the developed courses. During the project however most partners succeeded in getting the developed courses accredited at their own institution. Second the commitment to the ACM2001 curriculum with its very specific descriptions of curriculum and objectives (which were practical in order to reach a coherent set of courses) contradicts the basic philosophy of the PBL model described above. The basic idea of a successful result of the learning process differs considerably. To success in PBL is to achieve the competences to solve problems within the area of, in this case computer science, independent of specific curriculum bites, whereas success of the learning process in a curriculum based approach implies a more specified qualification in certain methods and techniques.
The reason for presenting and discussing in detail the PBL model with the partners were to provide them with a concrete understanding of what the application of activity based learning could mean. It turned out during the development of the courses that the activities specified by the partners were rather “passive” like e.g. “reading”, “make a presentation”, “do an analysis”, “make a report” and so forth. Although this is indeed activities we did not feel that it was in line with the commitment made in the beginning of the project that knowledge has to be actively constructed by the learner, situated in real settings and build in collaboration with others. Although it was not possible to fully implement the PBL model it played an important role in the project as a vehicle for getting attentions to issues involved in activity based learning and also as an outset for reflections on possible online strategies.
Realizing that the PBL model was too radical in the context of the MVU project we introduced a broader model focusing on different ways of accomplishing learning. The intention of the model is to embrace the whole spectre from traditional teacher controlled curriculum based approaches to student controlled project based approaches. The model is derived from Richardson (2002) and modified under the inspiration of Goodyear (2001) and Ryberg et al (2006). Basically the model makes a distinction on the horizontal level between a content delivery focus and a focus on experience and practice and on the vertical level between guided navigation and learner self navigation. These distinctions give four qualitatively different ways of accomplishing learning, which are teaching (teacher controlled content delivery focus), studying (participant controlled content delivery focus), and exercises (teacher controlled experience and practice focus) and project (participant controlled experience and practice focus).
The model was used in several ways during the project. First and foremost it was used in the Tutor Course to raise the awareness of and knowledge about different learning and teaching strategies in the organization of online courses. The tutor course introduced key concepts, methods, techniques and tools in teaching online courses. The course involved readings and assignment in parallel with actual testing and experimenting with teaching practice in running pilot modules. The overall issue during the Tutor Course was explaining, discussing and experimenting with different ways to carry out the activity based pedagogical methodology. Thus, techniques for communication, possible resources and assessment techniques were introduced along with main issues in organizing online learning e.g. tutor role, student motivation and teamwork. We attached importance to discuss examples on instructional strategies and explore the possibilities of staging activity based learning under each quadrant in the model. Actually a few of the participant adopted the problem oriented quadrant specifying activities as e.g. “Evaluate an existing interactive system with human-centred criteria and a usability test” (in the HCI course) The model provided a framework for gaining knowledge, for discussions and reflections, for experiments and for sharing ideas and experience.
Secondly we used the model as a guide in the preparation and organization of an online workshop (Buus et al. 2006). The intention of the online workshop was to provide examples of online instructional strategies on the one side and on the other side to give the participant concrete experiences with different strategies as learners. The virtual workshop was also organized to give the participants opportunity to generate experience in the use of different tools and techniques for communicating online in various forms of collaborations. In brief the workshop lasted for five days, had a synchronous session each day (e.g. a talk, a discussion, a presentation) and a small project requiring cooperation between participant from different universities and countries.
The use of the model as a theoretical input in the tutor course and as an organizing principle in the virtual workshop led to many discussions on the concrete understanding of the meaning of participant controlled versus teacher controlled activities and the differences between a focus on content delivery versus a focus on experience and practice. Also the experiments with various tools for communications and collaborations (chat, Flash meeting, wiki, messenger, forums, skype) led to a considerably interest in especially synchronous communication and collaborations tools. Although the partners in the development and delivery of courses preferred the teacher controlled quadrants in the model they adopted strategies for adding communication and collaboration among the students. And as mentioned the use of synchronous communication between students, student and teachers, and students and other external actors in the area, e.g. representatives from companies became highly used. All in all the broader model provided a solid foundation for explicating differences in main pedagogical strategies, for discussion and reflections, and for informed choice of instructional strategies.
In order to manage the gab between curriculum based and problem based learning in the MVU project we applied three main techniques. First the course design approach ensuring a coherent set of course but also leaving room for flexibility and allowing for use of different technologies and techniques in the development of the courses, for different ways of organizing the development process and also for different interpretation of the activity based approach. Second The PBL model functioned as a vehicle for raising awareness on activity based learning and although the model was considered as too radical it fostered many discussions on possible pedagogical strategies. Third the model of multiple learning strategies were used both as frame for discussions and reflections, for informed choice of instructional strategies, and also as a concrete platform for testing various instructional strategies. The project did not succeed to implement radical changes in the pedagogical format among the partners, but the multiple learning strategy and the experimental approach in the online workshop practising PBL and ICT turned out to be very successful with respect to experiencing and explicating differences in main pedagogical strategies, and for discussions and reflections on the choice of pedagogical and instructional strategies.
1 EUMEDIS is a regional MEDA project for the development of the Euro-Mediterranean Information Society which aims at interconnecting through the Internet the Euro-Mediterranean research communities thanks to pilot projects in five priority sectors of intervention, one of them being information and communication technologies applied to education.
Buus, L., Bygholm, A. and Walter, T. 2006, “Documentation of the three courses developed in Work Package 1 – “Training and Knowledge Exchange”. Course documentation report - the MVU Project, E-Learning Lab, Aalborg University.
Everett, J., 2004, Course Quality Framework p. 3., Internal MVU document.
Kirschner, P. A., Sweller, J. & Clark, R. E. 2006, “ Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching”. Educational Psychologist, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 75-86.
MVU Technical Annex, approved by the Commission in 2004. Project funded by the European Community under the EUMEDIS initiative, strand 2.
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video camera is going to lead to a horrible picture, nevertheless if the professional photographer.
arises from the correct edge as well as positions up a little the lighting as well as shadows.
are going to assist also out the components while always keeping the differences that make.
Create certain you obtain a comprehensive collection of shoots. Those must feature a.
view, a wide angle as well as a middle variety. The Angel is actually important as.
effectively. , if you use the inappropriate place of viewpoint you may quickly undo the optimal.
. Don't forget, your photo needs to present exactly what is actually established out before you.
Lights is the upcoming necessary measure to picture digital photography. A bunch of.
photographers like unprocessed lighting to artificial. Your subject matter will definitely in component.
light will definitely frequently call for setting the eye to make up for the.
cams are without of meaning. In various other terms you should create the.
comparison with the light and also darkness for the result you really want. Typically.
artificial light is extreme and also certainly not driven correctly unless in a studio.
Once again you will must use the hands-on settings on your electronic camera to.
Certainly, the trick to any kind of photograph is to grab the individuality and also.
the "heart" from your subject. I was filming a police in his.
Uniform for a very vital picture to the household given that the child.
had attained the Bald eagle ranking, which is actually a high praise. Yet I understood this child.
possessed great deals of character so I really wanted the "professional" chance but I preferred this.
little one's heart in it as well. So I told him I would certainly be popping a handful of shots to.
test my shutter and also I obtained him discussing boy scouts and also camping. As.
backpacking, that grin showed up and boom, I possessed my go. That awaits my.
entrance hall today as being one of my finest minutes as a photographer.
When discussing lighting, the experience is additionally essential. In a workshop a.
photographer will certainly pick an experience that will definitely not clean your functions out.
or even your clothes. They wish to possess a distinction or even comparison between.
you and the experience. This is actually likewise vital from house image.
digital photography. You will really want a background that offers color to your.
subject instead of having it out. Finding a great place along with a plant to sit.
on and mountains behind-the-scenes might be a terrific picture, yet you will.
desire to create certain the experience is actually not too hectic to sidetrack off the.
subject matter. Create the topic appear apart from the photo as opposed to outside.
This holds true that the technical ability that the man at Wal-Mart may need to have to.
take infant imagines could coincide as an excellent photo performer.
might require. The opposition doesn't delay given that the very same.
human language is actually used to develop fantastic poems as this has scream out.
profanities at a baseball video game. It isn't really the skill-set that makes that fine art.
Lastly however not minimum. Photos could be actually messed up simply if your tools.
is actually certainly not in tip best shape. Produce certain that your lense is tidy whatsoever times from.
dirt. No smutches etc. I recognize this appears to become a topic that should not.
also need to be actually mentioned, but frequently that is the motes we forget.
The entire aspect of forensic photography is to grab those.
little relatively mute factors that are actually frequently neglected.
Is it merely an issue from viewpoint? Somewhat, yes. There is actually an.
craft planet and also an industry behind this that depend upon there being some.
specifications after which craft is actually evaluated. One such criterion is actually the intent from.
the performer. If you generate a photograph or an art work derived from a.
photograph that picture intended to aimed viewed be actually watched, the customer is.
obligated to attempt to observe the imaginative benefit in this. Whether the customer sees.
that value or otherwise might rely on the viewer's capacities, how good you.
go to obtaining your creative message around or even a lot of various other aspects.
Once more your eye is actually the most effective tool for locating a topic. Just how you choose.
the target will rely on exactly what is available, the slant as well as the light.
Moving slowly via an area such as landscape will assist you.
determine the topic. Appearing under rocks or even fallen leaves is actually usually.
good for finding something new and various. You never know.
where you are going to discover a photo just expecting you to click on an imagine. Some.
folks as well as creatures do factors that will definitely never again take place and also this is.
when you desire to possess electronic camera accessible. Lots of people thinking about.
sounds like a routine, a real behavior develops into an activity as well as a possible.
revenue if you end up being excellent at having the right pictures. As you acquire.
a lot better at taking the photos, you can after that start presenting your images.
for others to observe and also potentially purchase.
Digital photography is actually just one brand new technique of taking a.
picture. The face is necessary to the slant you will definitely fire off. Be sure you get a full set from shoots. The Angel is really crucial as.
Remember you will certainly use the illumination you possess.
Digital digital photography is just one brand new way of having a.
picture. The skin is actually necessary to the position you will fire coming from. Remember you will use the illumination you have. Digital digital photography is just one new technique from having a.
picture. The face is necessary to the slant you are going to fire from. | 2019-04-26T02:19:16Z | http://beckoningforchange.org/arizona-professional-photographer-jobs-in-peridot-arizona/ |
although the two are commonly confused.
Since 1980 in the United States, overall environmental quality improved by 18.6 percent, the level of sulfur dioxide decreased by 47.7 percent, and nitrogen dioxide decreased by 16 percent.
Overall, environmental quality improved by 17 percent in Canada relative to 1980.
The ambient level of sulfur dioxide decreased by 61.4 percent in Canada between 1974 and 1999, and many cities experienced similar reductions, including Toronto (-66 percent), Montreal (-77 percent), and Vancouver (-67 percent).
The annual mean nitrogen dioxide level fell by 28 percent between 1974 and 1999, and many cities also experienced declines, including Toronto (-12 percent), Vancouver (-23 percent), Ottawa-Hull (-40 percent), Calgary (-25 percent), Quebec (-40 percent), Winnipeg (-6.2 percent), Hamilton (-49.8 percent), and St. John’s (-53 percent).
The index of environmental indicators for Canada, the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and South Korea shows that fears about increasing environmental degradation in these countries are unfounded. Environmental quality is getting better, not worse. While there are still some serious environmental problems that need to be addressed, overall environmental quality continues to improve.
Bulletin, The Fraser Institute, April 2002. | 2019-04-22T19:34:28Z | https://fcpp.org/2002/10/14/environmental-quality-improving/ |
Tim Farrell/The Star-LedgerVincent Mazzola, left, chairman of the William Paterson University Board of Trustees, applauds Kathleen Waldron, new president of the university.
WAYNE — William Paterson University inaugurated a former bank executive as its new president today in a colorful — though low budget — ceremony that acknowledged the school's strained finances.
Kathleen Waldron was presented the presidential robes, presidential medal and university mace before nearly 600 guests at the university’s Shea Center. After pumping the ceremonial wood mace in the air to a standing ovation, Waldron outlined her plans for the 155-year-old school in Wayne.
"We stand for what is best about public universities," said Waldron, 62. "We are a home for research and innovation, a place for learning and scholarship, a center for creative arts and music, a pathway for social mobility for diverse students and a partner with our communities."
The new president said her goals are to expand enrollment at the 11,000-student university, hire more professors, start new academic programs, build a new parking garage and renovate aging campus buildings. But she stressed campus improvements should not be "over the top" in the current economic climate.
Waldron, former president of Baruch College, took over as William Paterson’s seventh president in August. She was hired for the $295,000-a-year post after a national search to replace Arnold Speert, who retired after 25 years on the job.
The university’s trustees hired Waldron partly because of her financial background as a top executive at Citibank. Like all of New Jersey’s public colleges, William Paterson is facing deep cuts in state funding.
Waldron used her inaugural speech to pledge to keep the school affordable and accessible. Annual undergraduate tuition and fees are $11,238.
"If William Paterson, our namesake, were alive today it is doubtful that he would have graduated college given his modest family origins," Waldron said.
Tim Farrell/The Star-LedgerThe faculty of William Paterson University parade through the campus during the induction of Kathleen Waldron as the seventh president.
Over the last century, William Paterson University — named after a New Jersey statesman and signer of the U.S. Constitution — has grown from a small teacher training school to a 11,000-student university with more than 250 degree programs.
The university spent a relatively-modest $25,000 on Waldron’s inauguration, which included a lunch of roast turkey and pumpkin gnocchi for about 500 people in the student center, school officials said.
"As requested by President Waldron, we have planned an investiture ceremony that captures the significance of this important university milestone in a modest manner," said Steve Bolyai, the university’s vice president for administration and finance.
Waldron was welcomed by a long line of speakers, including Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-8th Dist.) and Rutgers University President Richard McCormick. The front rows of the audience were filled with her relatives and a contingent of former colleagues from Citibank.
Naima Ricks, president of William Paterson’s student government, said Waldron has already made an impression on students by attending numerous student meetings and events.
"Something that might seem so minor is extremely important to the students. It shows that she cares," Ricks said. | 2019-04-25T21:49:16Z | https://www.nj.com/news/2010/11/william_paterson_university_we.html |
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Did the warriors of ancient Sparta simply vanish without a trace along with their city, or did they find sanctuary at the tip of the mountainous Peloponnese? That stark, unforgiving region’s roots today run deep with a history of pirates, highwaymen, and neighbors ferociously repelling any foreigner foolishly bent on occupying this part of Greece. Less well-recorded are the Mani’s families’ strict code of honor and their history of endless vendettas with neighbors and with their own relatives. No wonder their farms look like fortresses.
When Special Crimes Division Detective Yiannis Kouros is summoned from Athens to the Mani by his uncle, Kouros fears his loyalty to his boss, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis, is about be to be tested by family pressure on the detective to act in some new vendetta, for this uncle once headed the Mani’s most significant criminal enterprise. Instead, Kouros learns the family is about to become rich through the sale of its property—until the uncle is killed, and thus the deal. Acting swiftly to head off a new cycle of violence, Kouros satisfactorily solves the murder. Or so it seems until, back in Athens, Kaldis’ probe into deeply entrenched government corruption leads straight back to the Mani. Both cops now confront a host of unexpected twists, unanticipated players, unanswered questions—and people yet to die.
In the early 1900s a young medical student studying in Athens received a message from his father to return home at once. The trip from Athens to the Mani, in the southernmost part of Greece’s Peloponnese, took several days. When the student arrived home he learned that his younger sister had humiliated their father by becoming pregnant by a young man in their village. Her lover had proposed to marry his sister, but their father refused. Instead, in front of his sister and her lover he told his son to shoot and kill them both.
The brother was acquitted and returned to medical school.
The driver shot a quick glance down at the Corinth canal as he passed west from the Greek mainland onto the Peloponnese peninsula.
I wonder what Uncle has in mind, thought Greece’s Special Crimes Division detective Yianni Kouros. Judges weren’t as forgiving these days as they had been in his grandfather’s day.
The Peloponnese stood as the southernmost part of mainland Greece, about the same size as the American state of Massachusetts. It had served as the setting for much of the blood-soaked drama that played out across ancient Greece, as well as the ancestral home to Spartan power that had rattled the ancient world even more than its legend resonated in popular imagination today. Many said the ancient Spartans simply vanished from the Earth without a trace, same as their city. Others believed they had gone farther south and found sanctuary deep in the mountain-spined, middle peninsula of the trident-shaped tip of the Peloponnese, to the region known as the Mani.
Kouros smiled as he recalled his father blasting anyone who dared question the Mani’s claim to Spartan origins. Maniots took great pride in their region’s colorful, notorious history as home to their pirate, highwayman, and warrior ancestors; in men and women fighting ferociously alongside other Maniots to defeat every foreign force foolish enough to attempt to occupy their part of Greece; and in being the first to declare war on the Turks in Greece’s 1821 War of Independence.
But the smile faded as he thought of his uncle, the last male of his generation. The others had all died young, Kouros’ father the only one from natural causes.
West of Corinth, Kouros turned south at Tripoli onto a two- lane road toward Sparta. In these late October days, with most tourists gone, he’d made good time, but still had halfway to go, and beyond Sparta the road would slow him down even more.
This wasn’t the Sparta of ancient times, whose inhabitants lived a warrior life disinterested in erecting the magnificent edifices so important to their northern Peloponnese neighbors and the far-off Athenians. No, this was modern Sparta, a town of government offices, businesses, and residences where prosperity depended upon groves of oranges and olives, not on war.
North of Sparta the road coursed through a five-mile stretch of lush, high, mountain passes overlooking broad green valleys and a horizon of jagged mountain giants. He always wondered as he traveled through this wilderness why nearly one-half of Greece’s eleven million people chose to live crammed together around Athens with so much of Greece this green and uninhabited.
South of Sparta, Kouros passed into the Mani. The land turned harsher, wilder, tougher, less forgiving, though still green and filled with citrus, olives, and corn. But once he turned west and began climbing the rugged north-south Taygetos mountain range, greens swiftly turned to browns and grays. On the other side of those mountains lay the region of the Mani his family called home—arid rocky land penned in by the Ionian Sea to the west and worn-down limestone mountains to the east, a place where olive trees battled with boulders for the region’s arable land. The source of this part of the Mani’s only significant modern economy loomed like sentinels along the ridges and hillsides: ancient four- and five-story, square, stone battle towers, historical treasures erected by Mani families as far back as the thirteenth century, which today drew tourists in flocks.
But to Kouros the towers were stark reminders of another side to the Maniots’ fierce character, for although they offered strong defensive positions against bandits, pirates, and foreign invaders, their principal purpose served the families’ ruthless battles with their neighbors. Here the concept of family vendetta was so deeply engrained that Mani society had rules on how, when, and against whom vengeance could and could not be taken. Doctors and priests, for instance, were considered too valuable to the community to serve as targets of an offended family.
At the southern end of a long, wide plateau running between the road and the mountains, Kouros turned left and followed a rock and dirt lane up toward a sharp-edged, two-story stone farmhouse. Decade-old cars and a couple of beat-up pickups sat parked every which way next to a five-story, beige and gray tower made of the same stone as the farmhouse a hundred feet away. He parked next to one of the pickups and sat for a moment, staring at the farmhouse. Everything about it, from the color of its walls, its roughhewn wooden front door, and its traditional Peloponnesian terra-cotta-tiled roof, brought one word to mind: nondescript.
Precisely how his uncle wanted his home to appear to the outside world.
On the other side of the farmhouse door lay what few could imagine existed in historically impoverished, southwest Mani. This was Mesa or Deep Mani, where people struggled with virtually waterless, salt-wind-driven land, enduring lives far more difficult than did Maniots living in the fertile, olive-and honey-rich areas of Exo or Outer Mani to the north, or to the east, beyond the Taygetos mountain range, in Kato or Lower Mani. Amid land so poor and scarce that not even the deeply held Greek tradition of dowry was practiced, Uncle’s home featured artwork and furnishings as fine as any to be found in a ship owner’s Athenian mansion. Its ground floor, which once functioned as stables, mangers, and a barrier from the damp ground, now served as the main living area.
Kouros’ grandfather had lived in this house after finishing medical school. He’d returned to his village to practice medicine, serving what he called his penance for taking his sister’s and her lover’s lives. He spent his life committed to helping any woman in trouble, defending her however necessary, knowing he’d be spared vendetta assassination by reason of his position as a doctor. In this same house, he’d lived to die in his sleep after fathering four sons and two daughters.
Regrettably, his children did not share their father’s immunity from revenge, and the savagery that had plagued the Deep Mani for so much of its history claimed three of his children—retribution for acts by their father considered insults to the honor of another family.
Kouros’ father and one aunt survived because they were sent away to live in Athens. His uncle had been spared, according to him, because the village’s council of elders—charged with ruling on feuds among warring clan families—placed Uncle outside the bounds of vendetta, fearing that his father would abandon the village and leave it without a doctor should Uncle, his last surviving child there, be killed.
Kouros’ father, however, had a different explanation for his brother’s longevity. He attributed Uncle’s survival to his uncanny skill at modernizing traditional Mani techniques for augmenting their barely subsistence standard of living: piracy and banditry. Throughout its history the Mani welcomed pirates on its seas and bandits to its hills. With the introduction in the 1960s of paved roads across mountains that once isolated much of the Mani from the rest of Greece, Uncle had seen his opportunity to spread proven Mani methods to the rest of Greece.
Soon, Uncle had not only feuding families but also rival clans working together as their Maniot ancestors had once united solely to battle foreign invaders. But now their rallying cry was a call to rack up profits in a united criminal enterprise. Up until a decade before, when Kouros’ uncle “retired,” as he called it, Uncle had been the most significant criminal leader in the region. A position in obvious counterpoint to his nephew’s current role as right hand to Andreas Kaldis, feared chief of the Greek police’s national anticrime and political corruption division.
Kouros’ and his uncle’s different approaches to life had never been an issue between the two men. Kouros’ father had passed away and his uncle retired before Kouros became a cop, and on the occasions they’d been together since, Kouros had sensed an unstated bit of pride in Uncle that his older brother’s son had made it to the “other” side.
Then again, nothing before had ever put their differences in conflict. As Kouros knocked on the front door, he hoped that wasn’t about to change. | 2019-04-24T02:25:15Z | https://poisonedpenpress.com/books/sons-of-sparta-a-chief-inspector-andreas-kaldis-mystery-6/ |
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After seeing the positive effects Pilates had on his chronic back pain Neil trained at the Pilates Institute and furthered his education at CPM education (Pilate’s method alliance certified).
Now fully certified in Pilates Matwork and Equipment Neil has been teaching Pilates for 11 years. Neil works at our dedicated Pilates studio here at Ruislip Physiotherapy as well as teaching staff at Harefield Hospital and The Royal Brompton Hospital Chelsea. | 2019-04-23T04:10:31Z | http://www.ruislipphysio.co.uk/staff/neil.html |
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She is a registered dietitian nutritionist and a licensed dietitian in Texas and Nevada.
She is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian Supervisor (CEDRD-S) through the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP).
She is a certified personal trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM).
She works with a multidisciplinary treatment team (medical doctor, therapist, psychiatrist, etc).
She has experience in addictions and eating disorders and can work with someone who is struggling with a dual diagnosis.
She provides individualized care. Tina develops a plan that is specific to your needs. This is not a one-size-fits-all process and Tina creates a strategy that works for you.
She has an in-depth understanding about eating disorders, medical nutrition therapy, body image and physical fitness. Tina has gone through extensive training to specialize in eating disorders, nutrition counseling, and medical nutrition therapy.
Her spunky personality will make your sessions fun and exciting. Tina understands that this process is challenging, but can also be really fun. Tina is ready to lead you to your recovered life.
What makes a registered dietitian nutritionist more qualified?
A registered dietitian nutritionist is a nutrition professional that is trained and required to meet strict educational requirements. They must complete a bachelor's degree, an accredited supervised practice program (dietetic internship), pass a national exam and must complete continuing professional educational requirements to keep their license active.
TLB Nutrition Therapy does not accept insurance. However, Tina can provide superbills (medical receipts) that may be submitted to your insurance provider for possible reimbursement. Please note that Tina is an out-of-network provider for all insurance companies. If your insurance covers nutrition sessions it is important to ask if they cover out-of-network providers to see if submitting superbills for reimbursement would be possible.
1. Do you cover nutrition sessions? If so, do you cover out-of-network dietitians?
2. If you cover nutrition sessions and out-of-network providers, how many sessions are covered per year?
3. If you do cover nutrition sessions and out-of-network providers, are there any medical diseases you cover?
4. What percentage of my nutrition bill is covered by insurance?
5. Do I need approval from my Primary Care Physician in order to receive nutrition coverage?
All of your in-person sessions will remain confidential per HIPPA requirements. Please note that if you choose to have sessions via FaceTime or Skype that these are not confidential through HIPPA requirements. The best way to honor HIPPA is to have in-person sessions or TeleHealth through the program VSee. All information discussed in and outside of sessions will not be disclosed unless you provide a release for disclosure. If you provide releases for disclosure for outside providers, family members or others, then Tina will be able to discuss your treatment with those individuals to best assist your recovery.
TLB Nutrition Therapy requires a 24 hour cancellations for all scheduled appointments. A session fee will apply if cancellations are not done within the 24 hours. TLB Nutrition Therapy does understand emergencies and understands that sickness and emergencies cannot be helped. | 2019-04-25T01:15:51Z | https://tlbnutritiontherapy.com/faq/ |
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today the Principals of the BC treaty negotiations process, the Government of Canada, the Government of British Columbia, and the First Nations Summit, signed the Principals’ Accord on Transforming Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia. This Accord further strengthens the goals of treaty negotiations: recognition and protection of Aboriginal title and rights, nation-building, and establishing a government-to-government relationship.
Aboriginal title and rights are a legal interest and must be recognized and treated as such if changes to government policies are to be effective and live up to the commitments in the Accord. Treaty negotiations are the best means to establish this legal and constitutional recognition of title and rights.
The Accord also acknowledges that treaty negotiations must reflect the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Treaty Commission has focused on the importance of the UN Declaration in treaty negotiations for the last several years.
The Treaty Commission congratulates the Principals for signing the Accord and looks forward to supporting the implementation of these important commitments. | 2019-04-21T22:42:20Z | http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/12/02/1660409/0/en/Canada-British-Columbia-and-First-Nations-Summit-sign-accord-committing-to-changing-BC-treaty-negotiations.html |
IFREMER, French Research Institute for the Sustainable Exploitation of the Sea, is a national marine research institute whose missions are to improve knowledge about the oceans and their resources, monitor the coastal and marine environment and sustainable development of marine activities. It designs and deploys observational, experimental and monitoring tools and manages the French ocean research fleet on behalf of the entire scientific community.
> Finalized research in the prospect of answering to social expectations (climate change effects, marine biodiversity, pollutions prevention, seafood quality…). The results are scientific knowledge and technological innovations, but also ocean observation and exploration systems. The partnership is public, private or both.
> Oceans seas and coastal waters’ monitoring, in support with public policy for the environment and its resources. In the form of notices or studies reports, the results provide the information about the environment state or the evaluation of a resource and permit the expertise on sea-related questions.
> Development, management and open access of large research infrastructures – fleet, calculation means, data centres, experimental facilities – which are made available to the whole National and European scientific community, as well as to private partners.
The departments of “coastal environment dynamics” and “physical and space oceanography” are yet involved in global and coastal operational oceanography. They have a major role in the development of European operational networking activities in Europe (MyOcean, EuroGOOS) and in Data management (CORIOLIS, SeaDataNet, and PREVIMER). These systems provide data and elaborated products to academic laboratories, research institutions, environmental agencies and SMEs in France and around Europe.
Ifremer brings all his experience in coastal observing systems, research and technology. Within his two technological departments, Ifremer is one of the leaders in definition, development and use of technological observing systems as profiler, Recopesca probes for fishing boats, glider and buoys.
Patrick Farcy, Senior Engineer, coordinator of the JERICO Project and leader of the WP7 JERICO Service Access. He was previously Head of CERSAT project (Acquisition and processing of ERS satellites data), deputy director of the spatial oceanography laboratory and then deputy director of the Fleet and Submarine direction at Ifremer. He is now coordinator of oceanographic and technological prospective and strategy in the Research Management Department of Ifremer.
Ingrid Puillat, PhD, member of the coordination team. PhD in Oceanography (“Marine environment science”), deputy coordinator of the FP6 Network of Excellence ESONET. She as experiences in project Management(Coordination of activities between working groups, control of the deliverables according to the timeline, financial management, animation, communication, word-wide collaboration development) and research: Oceanography (Hydrodynamics, marine biochemistry, Instrumentation and measurements at sea, oceanographic surveys, data processing, satellite image processing and analysis).
Gilbert Maudire, SeaDataNet 1 coordinator, senior engineer, leader of task 5.2 – Interface with SeaDataNet. Gilbert Maudire is presently in charge of the Marine Data Centres programme for Ifremer. He has been involved or in charge of the development and operation of several data management systems : French National Oceanographic Data Centre (SISMER), Quadrige (Quality of French coastal water), Coriolis (Global data centre for Argo international program), Medar (Climatology of Mediterranean Sea), Mersea (Sea circulation modelling), Biocean (Observation of deep sea ecosystems). He was also the French representative in the Information Handling Panel of the Ocean Drilling Program and participated to the data management of InterRidge program.
Loic Petit de la Villeon, coordinator of CORIOLIS and CDOCO (operational coastal oceanography), he manages the Ifremer activities in the WP5.
Yannick Aoustin, project engineer. As an engineer in hydrodynamics, he has designed generations of marine measuring instruments and platforms. His background includes deep-sea moorings and automated estuarian or coastal systems for coastal monitoring schemes currently operated in estuaries. He has a long experience and knowledge of operation of systems in real sea environment He is in charge of the developments of innovative instruments for operational monitoring.
Florence Salvetat, project engineer in instrumentation. She coordinates the calibration activities at Ifremer.
Laurent Delauney, project engineer, responsible of the electronic team in the R&D technological unit of Ifremer. He is a specialist in bio-fouling protection research, and well none in that community. For Jerico, he is also task leader of the 10.4 task on “ship of opportunity next generation probes”.
Dominique Gueguen, is the administrative coordinator of Jerico, member or the European unit of Ifremer in Issy les Moulineaux.
Elodie Jousset, is the contractual officer for the Jerico project.
Nadine Rossignol, is the coordinator assistant.
IFREMER involvement in recent European projects: As coordinator ESONET (IP), MarinERA (ERANet),Spicosa (IP), SeaDataNet 1 & 2 (I3), EUROFLEETS (I3), EUROARGO (ESFRI). And also main partner in EMSO (ESFRI), MariFish (ERANet), SEASERA (ERANet) and MyOcean 1 & 2. | 2019-04-19T08:33:34Z | http://www.jerico-ri.eu/previous-project/partners/ifremer/ |
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International Silver Stick® special rule: Fighting in an International Silver Stick® competition is not allowed. A major penalty plus a game misconduct will be assessed to any player(s) and he/she will be suspended from the remainder of the tournament. The major penalty will be served by another player, other than the goalkeeper or spare goalkeeper, chosen by the coach/manager of that team. | 2019-04-21T21:04:57Z | https://silverstick.org/Tournaments/6778/Pages/7217/Regulations/ |
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An extension of this commission was the design of a new Visitor Centre, Operations Complex (VOC) and Viewing Platform. The VOC is sited at the end of Haviland Park to take full advantage of the spectacular vista that overlooks Warragamba Dam and the new auxiliary spillway. On approach the roof of the building appears to be a continuation of the landscape beyond as the architecture is downplayed and the view across the auxiliary spillway to Warragamba Dam is maintained.
However, from the cliff side the building perches itself boldly on the edge with a series of public viewing platforms that cascade down the rock shelves. The building comprises two key components. The first is a visitor component equipped with both a large multipurpose room and an exhibition room whilst the second is the operations component which accommodates the Sydney Catchment Authority Education, Operations (Catchment and Water), Maintenance and Projects teams. | 2019-04-20T02:36:52Z | https://www.lahznimmo.com/new-project-2 |
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Living things are natural machines that manage to replace themselves by growing copies of themselves which will continue to live once they themselves have died. Most of them (particularly plants) are just massively complex chemistry sets, and even most cells in animals are nothing more than a bunch of chemicals and chemical reactions. The only place where anything special happens is inside the brains of animals (including birds, fish, etc.), and that special thing is called consciousness. Consciousness is the part of a living thing that experiences feelings - it's the part of you that is the real you. You can lose your arms and legs in an accident and yet you are not lost along with them because you do not live in your arms or legs. People used to believe that the soul (the conscious part of them) was located in the heart, but people who have heart transplants don't suddenly become someone else just because their heart has been replaced with someone else's. These days we know that the soul (meaning the thing that is conscious) lives somewhere in the brain.
Consciousness is one of the biggest mysteries left in science, and most of the experts in this field of study talk absolute nonsense about it, though that's hardly surprising given that it's so hard even to begin to imagine what consciousness might be. We know that parts of the brain can die without consciousness going away, but there doesn't appear to be any central part anywhere in the brain which we can point at and say that consciousness resides there. There is no special atom or particle lurking at the centre which calls the shots. The soul does not seem to be a single item, and yet it feels as if it ought to be a single piece of something: surely your soul can't be split in two?
My own semi-theory of consciousness is that every piece of matter is conscious, though most of them are sitting around in non-living things like rocks, planets and stars, so they might only experience random feelings and have no sense of any passing time. Even the particles of plants would only experience random feelings, and they are not related to anything that is happening to the plant in any useful way. Material in the brains of animals is very different, however, because brains are designed to load the consciousness of the material of which they are made with data which means something real to the animal. The conscious feelings of the matter in the brain are no longer random, but can be made to feel pleasant, unpleasant or neutral sensations, and these sensations can come in many different flavours and intensities. Different flavours of feelings are mapped to different kinds of events, so the neutral feelings that we call colours have been mapped to neutral information that comes from our eyes, while the unpleasant feelings that we call pain have been mapped to damage-detection sensors. Clearly an animal would not survive for long if pain was mapped to the sensors in the mouth that detect tasty food, or if pleasant sensations were linked to the damage-detection sensors: the mapping of different kinds of sensations to different kinds of information has obviously had to evolve in such a way as to aid the survival of the animal.
My theory suggests that there is more than one consciousness in a brain: indeed, there must be millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions or quintillions of them, and all of them mistakenly feel that they are the only consciousness in that brain. I suspect that the brain uses these consciousnesses as an averaging mechanism to make decisions: different bits of the brain load the material of the brain with feelings which spread out through the rest of the brain, and then the brain reads back the average feelings at some point far from the inputs in order to get the answer as to how it feels overall. None of the conscious bits of material will ever know if the decision went for them or against them, because they have no mechanism for remembering what they wanted at the time the decision was made, and there will be new inputs based on the result of the decision which will flow through the material of the brain and make all of it feel happy with the result of the decision and that the decision must have gone the way it wanted.
That may account for what goes on in the consciousness of a simple animal, but there are more complex features of consciousness in the higher animals which are harder to account for. We seem to be able to understand complex ideas in a fully conscious way. To some extent this can be shown to be an illusion, but it's hard to pin down just how much can be explained away in such a manner. I am still working out experiments to test the limits of my own consciousness, and I will let you know what happens if I get any nearer to an answer. In the meantime, you might like to try some experiments of your own: you could start by trying to work out how many things in front of your eyes you can actually be aware at the same time. Is it a great many, or might it be as few as two? I actually wonder if it might only be one, but it's hard to tell because we seem to be able to switch our attention between different things so quickly that it gives us the illusion that we are conscious of many things at once, but I'll leave you to make up your own mind about that. You might not realise that almost everything you can see is blurred and that it's only in the centre of the central area of what you can see that things are fully sharp, and yet you generally feel that everything is sharp at once. I am sure of one thing, though: an intelligent computer would not need consciousness to work. Our feelings are used as a rough-and-ready calculation mechanism, but we often have to go against our feelings when reason tells us that our feelings are wrong. Feelings are a primitive mechanism, whereas our intelligence is a more recent innovation which tends to come up with better answers, though decisions based on feelings are often quicker and easier to make, and they may save your life. Computers are fast enough that they can calculate everything properly without needing to fall back on an ancient system originally designed for controlling the behaviour of simple animals, but there is nothing in the machine to call itself "I", so it cannot be thought of as being alive in the way that we are.
If I am right about the way consciousness works, then it may mean we are not who we think we are. All the atoms in your brain are replaced from time to time by new ones which come into you in the food that you eat, so the parts of you that are consciously aware of being you right now may not be the same ones as were there a year or two ago, and indeed it is likely that the child that I remember being long ago, I never really was at all: I have his memories written into the structure of my brain, and so when I remember things from the past I re-live them in my mind and feel that they really are my own memories, but it's a mere illusion because I wasn't there at the time when the memories were made. The implications of this (if it's true) are extraordinary: if someone killed you, some of your conscious particles could end up finding their way into the head of the person who killed you, and so you could end up serving time in prison for a crime of which you were the victim! Think about this too: many of the pieces of conscious matter in your head have been inside the heads of many people before, all the way back through history. Every single one of you has pieces of matter in your head which now conciously believe themselves to be you, but in the past they used to be conscious of being Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and indeed every other mass-murdering dictator who's ever lived, including all the ones who are still alive. You also have conscious material in your head that used to be in the heads of everyone else who has ever lived, so long as they have been alive long enough for enough material in their heads to be replaced and for it to have come to you in your food. You have conscious material in your head that has come from every other kind of living thing too, so there are parts of you, which now believe themselves to be you, which used to be conscious of being dinosaurs, and indeed you will have some from practiacally every individual dinosaur that has ever lived. This may sound unlikely to you for a number of reasons, but the logic behind it is robust. Atoms are so small that if you throw a cupful of water into the sea and wait a few years for those water atoms to spread out through the world's oceans, you can then scoop a cupful of water out of the sea anywhere in the world and it will contain a number of atoms which were in that original cupful of water that you threw into the sea all those years before: this is possible because there are more atoms in a cupful of water than the number of cups required to hold all the water of the sea. The same applies to the number of attoms in your head and the size of your head relative to all the amount of material in circulation that can be used to make living things: it's all recycled to make new living things, and it doesn't even wait for an animal to die before it moves on again. We may be much shorter-lived than we normally suppose, and yet at the same time we are much longer-lived as well because we have been living here for hundreds of millions of years in a succession of different forms.
There is a serious problem with my consciousness theory: there is no mechanism by which conscious material could tell the brain that it is conscious, so it should be impossible for us to know in any intelligent way that we are conscious, and none of us should therefore be able to talk about it. This is one of the biggest puzzles in the world, and whoever solves it will become one of the most famous people of all time. It may be that there is no such thing as consciousness and that the whole idea of consciousness is a fiction made up by the brain, but it's hard to see why such a fiction would be an advantage, and it's also hard to imagine that we are being fooled into thinking we feel pain. If it turns out that it is just a fiction, then there can be no such thing as suffering, and if there is no such thing as suffering, then there is no need of morality either (no such thing as good and bad) because it must be completely impossible to harm anyone.
We've strayed a long way into philosophy rather than science, so let's get back into some hard facts. All living things on the Earth use a chemical called DNA as a kind of construction manual for making new plants or animals of the same type as themselves: DNA takes the form of extremely long molecules with four different kinds of chemical links in them which are used to encode data. The data can be read by special chemicals which behave in different ways according to the data they are reading at the time, and different parts of the body can be set to read different parts of the DNA so that they can perform different tasks, so brain cells will read parts of the DNA which relate to setting up thinking equipment, while muscle cells will read parts which relate to enabling movement. Scientists are still trying to work out the details of how the system works, but it is essentially a natural computer which appears to have designed itself through a long series of chance events (though it's a computer with a very specialised and limited functionality). The DNA is the program code that the computer runs (though more as a recipe for construction rather than to control thinking tasks), while chemicals in cells are the machine that rus the program. Some scientists think it is such an amazing mechanism that it must have been designed by God, but other scientists are carrying out experiments which are making it look increasingly likely that it could have come about through a series of chance events (evolution by natural selection). The most serious question left about the system is how the first living thing came into being (because more complex things could easily have evolved from a simple one), but major breakthroughs are now beginning to be made in this field. I suspect that the simplest possible living thing would be much more simple than many people imagine, because it would be in a simpler world in which there is nothing around waiting to eat it: it might not even have needed to be protected by a cell wall, so that in itself would enable it to be far simpler than any living thing that exists today. | 2019-04-21T13:33:55Z | http://magicschoolbook.com/science/p-science12.html |
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Calling young artists from around the world!
Every year young artists and students around the world enthusiastically participate in the World Awareness Children’s Museum’s International Youth Art Exchange (ARTeX) program. They submit art to us and, in return, receive up to 35 pieces of American students’ artwork to keep and display as they wish! There is no submission deadline for International participants – they can submit their art anytime throughout the year. All participating artists receive Certificates of Recognition.
Schools, groups, museums, organizations, families and individuals throughout the world are invited to participate in this year’s ARTeX exchange program.
“My Community, What I See” is the current year’s ARTeX theme, however, Non-U.S. (international) participants are free to create their art about any aspect of their daily life or the culture of their country.
Click here to download the forms for non-U.S. submissions only. If you are inside of the U.S., please download the forms available from our U.S. page. | 2019-04-26T02:37:50Z | http://www.worldchildrensmuseum.org/support/international-youth-art-exchange/international/ |
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Abela was attending to his goats in a farm near his house around 12 p.m. on Jan. 22 when five suspects fired at him, a police report showed.
Abela sustained gunshot wounds on the body and died, the report added. | 2019-04-24T10:59:32Z | https://www.panaynews.net/land-conflict-motive-in-san-carlos-shooting/ |
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Was wondering if anybody else is unable to view their reservations in the my cruises section on the royal caribbean website?
How long have you waited for a 'guarantee' assignment & what kind of cabin?
We booked two interior GTY cabins on the 4th of november for the voyager of the seas 8th of december. On the website, it is only showing one available balcony cabin otherwise it is sold out, when do you think we will receive our cabin assignments? and it would most likely be in an interior room wouldn't it? | 2019-04-22T19:26:04Z | https://boards.cruisecritic.co.uk/profile/618546-coult/ |
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Hey there, looking for compatibility recommendations on your docks with the Lenovo X1 Carbon Yoga 3rd Gen. I love that your pages list compatibility but I guess this guy is new enough it’s not listed.
can stream video over HDMI, including Netflix. Without a dongle preferably, unless the dongle is included.
For future proofing, I’d love to have at least one more USB-c port than the one that connects/powers the host computer. Currently my monitor isn’t even 1080p, but my laptop is 4k so eventually I’ll probably want to get a 2k or 4k monitor, and if I could hook up both monitors that would be best. But I’m also on a budget and I’m hoping to get something for around $200CAD.
It sounds like the UD-CAM would tick all my current need boxes, including price.
But the UD-ULTCDL has a few more of the ports I want (a whole extra HDMI and USB3.1), is about $50 more, but sounds like it might not power my machine as it’s only rated up to 60W? Is there anything other devices I’m missing?
Based on your description, it sounds like you have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga 3rd Gen laptop -> https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-x-series-laptops/thinkpad-x1-yoga-3rd-gen-type-20ld-20le-20lf-20lg (the Carbon model is different from the Yoga). Please let me know if I am mistaken.
Assuming for the moment my understanding is correct, we do not have your specific system in our test lab so unfortunately we cannot guarantee its compatibility with our products.
That said and as you mention, our UD-CAM dock (https://plugable.com/products/ud-cam) does appear to meet your current requirements and we have had positive compatibility reports from other customers with similar Lenovo systems.
The UD-CAM provides the ability to connect up to one external HDMI display at up to 3840x2160 resolution at a 30Hz refresh rate. Lower resolutions such as 2560x1440 and 1920x1080 are also supported, at a higher 60Hz refresh rate.
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A quick note, any of our DisplayLink-based products (such as the UD-ULTCDL) would not be an option in this case because they do not support video services that make use of HDCP copy protection (such as Netflix). The UD-CAM does not use DisplayLink technology, so it is unaffected by this limitation.
Should you elect to proceed with a purchase and find that the dock does not meet your needs, we do offer a 30-day no-hassle return policy for all products sold by Plugable and fulfilled by Amazon.
Hi Bob, you are absolutely correct on the laptop model, thank you so much for the reply! I will look into ordering that device.
You are very welcome Gillian! | 2019-04-20T06:58:49Z | https://support.plugable.com/t/lenovo-x1-carbon-yoga-gen-3/16830 |
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A little while ago, Tim and I again dined at Il Solito Posto (meaning "The Usual Place"), an Italian restaurant entered via a Melbourne laneway. You can read about our first visit here.
It was absolutely scrumptious. I particularly loved the mozzarella balls.
It tasted as wonderful as it looks, with plenty of sauce to flavour the filling.
Il Solito Posto is a terrific place to enjoy good Italian food, but I recommend booking - they always seem to be very busy.
There is a free food newspaper called Gram that is found at various locations aorund Melbourne. Tim always picks up a copy for his Dad. In one recent edition, Tim found a recipe for Pear and Chocolate Cake that he thought I'd like to make, and sent me a copy. The cake was from Florentine by Emiko Davies.
I was also impressed with the sunray pattern on top of the cake formed by the pears - so easy to do yet so effective.
It was a gorgeous cake, and I would definitely make it again.
I own Lola Berry's The Happy Cookbook. It contains some really good recipes for those times when I am trying to eat a little bit more healthily. I have previously made Lola's Paleo Chocolate Celebration Cake and her Fig, Peach and Cardamom Paleo Loaf from this cookbook.
This time, I decided to make one of her savoury recipes, and chose Lola's Beef, Broccoli and Cashew Stir Fry, the recipe for which is online here. This recipe is unlike the stir fries that I normally make because there is no sauce added to it - you just have the juices from the vegetables and meat. I worried that this would make the stir fry a little lacking in flavour, but it surprised me - it was so simple yet so tasty, and no sauce was required.
I would definitely put this stir fry on regular rotation as a light, healthy main meal.
One recent Sunday night, Tim and I were off to the Madonna Rebel Heart Tour concert at Rod Laver Arena. The concert didn't start until 8pm (or had we known at the time, much later), so we started off our evening with dinner.
In keeping with the Italian flavour of the evening, we decided to go to Vapiano, a pizza and pasta restaurant for which I had a discount voucher in the Entertainment Book.
Vapiano is very informal. You can't book, and there is no table service. You choose your own seat, and order and pay for your food at the counter. Once the food is ready, you go and pick it up yourself at the counter.
For pasta, you choose your own pasta and sauce, and whether you want garlic or chilli or both, and they cook it on the spot. It was surprisingly delicious.
There is a bar with a large selection of beers and wines to accompany your meal.
Vapiano became very busy very quickly, so I recommend going early.
I prefer a restaurant with table service, but the food at Vapiano was quite good and reasonably priced. We would go again.
In the Sunday newspaper magazine this week, Adam Liaw had published a recipe for Chocolate and Almond Easter Cake, a cake of Spanish origin known as Mona de Pascua. It looked irresistable, so I decided to make it this week.
The dense chocolatey glaze on top really made it. It was really "the icing on the cake".
This year they are all pink and are flavoured with raspberry flavouring. I also made some little "eggs" in my silicone egg mould.
If you want to make your own bunnies for Easter, the recipe is here.
Our theme for Eating with Ellie this week is Super Soups, chosen by Chaya. Regular readers will know that, scarred by childhood condensed soups, I am very wary of soup. However, I have had some very good soups in the US, and my choice from Weeknight Wonders this week was a US style soup - Curried Pumpkin and Tomato Soup.
I adored this - it had just the right amount of kick to make it interesting, and the flavours melded beautifully.
To see what the others made for Super Soups, visit the LYL section of the EwE website.
You know that autumn is here when the mornings become nippy and dark. We have been having a run of lovely days, but the mornings are a reminder that they won't last.
I have been trying to make the most of the last of the summer fruit, and recently picked up some figs from the supermarket. I had best intentions to make a fig clafoutis tart that I had seen on the SBS website, but when I went to make it, I realised that I didn't have any cream. Instead, I decided to make a fig and frangipane tart for which I had all of the ingredients.
The tart recipe that I chose was this one, but I skipped the raspberry sauce. I also took a shortcut on the pastry - I had frozen the leftover dough from Adam Liaw's Bondi Meringue Pie, and so I used that as the base for the tart.
The resulting tart was just gorgeous - a melt in your mouth, fruity spectacular. The figs had become jammy and soft in the oven, and the buttery frangipane set them off nicely. It was a worthy send-off to summer.
The second March recipe for Tuesdays with Dorie is matcha financiers. I have seen a lot of recipes using matcha, but didn't really know what it was, and I had never tried it before. Matcha is a fine Japanese green tea powder, and it is very pricey - I won't disclose how much I paid for a tiny container of matcha, but it was way too much. I will be trying to make lots of matcha recipes in the future to use it all up, as it is too expensive to waste.
I made a half recipe of financiers, primarily because the full recipe requires 6 egg whites - a rather extravagant use of eggs in my house, especially when the yolks (which don't freeze well) are not required. I knew I had three whites in the freezer from my tiramisu, which lent itself perfectly to a half batch of financiers.
I thought that these financiers were rather tasty, but I can't say that I really noticed the matcha, other than for the green colour it gave the financiers.
To see what the others thought of this recipe and the alternate recipe, Odile's Fresh Orange Cake, go to the LYL section of the TWD website.
Tim likes panettone and tiramisu, so when I saw a recipe for Panettone Tiramisu in The West Australian while on a work trip late last year, I knew I had to make it for him. The recipe was in a special on TV chefs' Christmas recipes, and can be found online here (keep scrolling down until you get to it).
It worked beautifully in this recipe.
I am not sure how many people Tania and Christina were feeding with their tiramisu, but the recipe is massive. I halved everything except the panetonne, for which I used roughly the same quantity (that is, the whole 750g dove cake). My tiramisu still ended up quite massive, so I highly recommend taking the same route of halving everything but the cake.
I was meeting Tim for a Madonna concert (yep, she was fabulous), so I took some tiramisu for both of us in a takeaway container, which we ate before the concert on a public bench tucked in a laneway with plastic forks while we did a spot of people watching. It doesn't have to be fancy to be good!
Because of the panetonne ingredient, this was an expensive version of tiramisu to make, but you can cut down on costs by making your own panettone. Alternatively , you can use that dry old store bought panettone gifted to you at Christmas - this is a perfect way to use it up if you are not a fan of the panettone itself.
I like a good curry, and as a change for work lunches recently, I made Michelle Bridges' Vegetable and Tofu Curry. I got the recipe from her book, Total Body Transformation, but you can find it online here.
The flavours are bold and there is enough body from all of the vegetables in the curry to make it quite hearty. It is also low in calories, so it is a pretty healthy lunch.
It doesn't look that attractive, but if you like curry, this could be a way for you to enjoy it regularly without dialling up the fat and calories.
The Liam Neeson from Doughnut Time with Baileys glaze, caramelised biscuit and shamrocks.
For Eating with Ellie this week, Margaret chose the theme of "Eat More Chicken". Ellie has lots of fab sounding chicken recipes in Weeknight Wonders, so the hardest part this week was choosing just one.
I went for Ellie's Chicken Florentine Roll-ups, mainly because I had goats cheese left over from last week's recipe that I didn't want to waste, and this recipe happened to use it.
These roll-ups were so delicious - they comprised chicken breasts filled with goats cheese, spinach and sun-dried tomatoes. Seriously good! The chicken was moist and tender because it was braised in chicken broth.
To see what the others made of this week's theme, visit the LYL section of the EwE website.
Recently, a colleague and I went to a function where they served jam drops (or thumbprints, as they are known in the US). The jam drops were a little too flat and pale for my liking. When my colleague indicated that she didn't know how to make jam drops, I was inspired to make a batch of jam drops for her. I never really think about baking the staples that I grew up with because they are interwoven with my identity - they just are. However, I was jolted out of this by my colleague, at least in respect of jam drops.
The recipe that I used was a handwritten one that I copied out of Day to Day Cookery by I M Downes when I first moved out of home. This was my home economics textbook, which my mother commandeered once I had finished with it. I have added a few extra details below, because I M Downes has assumed that people know quite a bit about baking in her recipes.
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream (that is, beat them in a stand mixer until light and fluffy). Add the egg to the mixture and beat well, then add the vanilla extract and beat to combine. Gradually add the sifted flour and salt to the mixture, and mix into a smooth paste.
Roll the mixture into walnut-sized balls, place them on a lined baking sheet about an inch apart and make a hollow in each one with your forefinger. Add just enough jam to each hollow to just cover it - don't add too much or it will ooze out during baking.
Bake the biscuits in a moderate oven (that is, 180 degrees Celsius) until golden on top (~12-15 minutes). Remove the biscuits from the oven and allow them to cool on the baking sheet.
In Australia, Wagon Wheels are a chocolate biscuit treat, comprised of two chocolate coated biscuits sandwiched together with raspberry jam and marshmallow. The closest US equivalent that I know of is the Moon Pie, but the Wagon Wheel is a larger and more luscious affair.
When I was at my dentist a couple of weeks ago, the cover of the March 2016 edition of Delicious magazine caught my eye - there on the cover was the most decadent looking Wagon Wheel Slice. However, you cannot judge a book by its cover, and a flick through the magazine revealed that this was a "wholefoods" version of Wagon Wheel Slice, with no flour or chocolate in sight. I bought the magazine to give this slice a go, as I was intrigued by the possibility of a "healthy" version of the Wagon Wheel.
This slice would be quite expensive to make if you didn't already have most of the ingredients - I did, so this aspect was not a problem for me. The finished slice looks the part of a Wagon Wheel, but it tastes quite different. It is not particularly sweet, and the "marshmallow" has no sweetener added to it at all. Everyone remarked that they enjoyed this slice, but if you are expecting the full on sweetness of a Wagon Wheel, you will be disappointed (as I was). It is much more like a health food bar in flavour. If you cannot indulge in treats like Wagon Wheels or your own dietary inclinations won't allow you too, but you secretly enjoy such treats, this slice could be just the ticket for you. For me, I would prefer to indulge in the more decadent versions of Wagon Wheel slice. You'll have to make up your own mind.
Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Grease and line a 12cm x 22cm x 5cm deep slice tin.
In a small bowl, combine the almond meal, shredded coconut, rice malt syrup, egg and 80ml of rice malt syrup. Press the mixture into the base of the slice tin. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes or until golden. Remove from the oven and cool in the tin.
Make the jam by putting the strawberries, rice malt syrup and vanilla in a small saucepan and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes or until slightly broken up. Remove from the heat and fold through the chia seeds. Allow to cool completely before spreading over the almond meal base. Chill for 30 minutes to set.
Soak the gelatine leaves in water for 5 minutes to soften. Heat the coconut cream in a saucepan over medium heat. Squeeze the excess water out of the gelatine leaves and add to the coconut cream, stirring until melted and combined. (I used powdered gelatine according to the instructions on the tin instead with no problems.) Strain the mixture and allow it to cool to room temperature. Pour the coconut cream over the strawberry jam on the slice base and chill for 3 hours or until set.
Combine the cacao powder and 170g coconut oil in a bowl and stir until smooth. Place the chilled slice over a lined baking tray. Pour the cacao mixture over the top of the coconut cream, then work quickly to spread it evenly over the top of the slice. Allow to set at room temperature for ~ 20 minutes.
Once set, dust with extra cacao powder, and cut into pieces to serve.
One of our regular restaurant haunts is Thai on High in Armadale. I adore Thai food, and Thai on High's versions of well-known Thai dishes never fail to disappoint.
It is a hot evening, so we are warned not to sit at the table near the glass doors so that we are not scorched by the incoming sunlight. We opt for a table in the dark, cool interior of the restaurant.
Rice paper rolls are a favourite of mine with their crisp, clear flavours, and the sweet chilli dipping sauce was a perfect accompaniment.
I chose this option for its light, healthier qualities, while still being delicious.
The fact that he always orders this speaks for itself.
The service at Thai on High is always efficient, with water glasses being refilled regularly without asking and meals coming out promptly.
Thai on High remains one of our favourite restaurants for a meal out.
In the January/February 2016 edition of Taste magazine, there were quite a few Cook It Now! recipes that I literally wanted to cook now. One of them was this chicken curry. Another recipe that I made was Lentil Braised Pork with Olives.
As you can see, it is a bright and colourful dish. It is full of lots of good things, and is only 426 calories per serve, with 15g of fat. It is also tasty. Win, win.
Heat the oil in a large frying pan, season the pork with salt and pepper and cook for 3 minutes in the pan or until browned each side. Put the pork on a plate.
Add the onion and garlic to the pan, cooking until softened. Add the fennel seeds and cook for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes and cook for another 1 minute. Add the wine and simmer for 2 minutes or until the wine is reduced by half.
Stir in the stock and mustard and simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in the lentils.
Return the pork to the pan and cook, turning the pork halfway, for 6 minutes or until cooked through. Stir in 1 tbspn lemon juice and season with salt and pepper.
In a bowl, combine the parsley, olives and remaining lemon juice. Serve the pork topped with the olive mixture.
Our Eating with Ellie theme this week is Sensational Salads, chosen by Kayte. I chose to make Ellie's Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad with Hazelnuts and Apricots from Weeknight Wonders.
Ellie states that this is a variation on coleslaw, perfect for a barbecue. I simply served my salad with pan fried fish and steamed sweet potato. I was not sure how this salad would go, but I really enjoyed it. The Brussels sprouts have a slightly peppery flavour which makes the salad a little different to the usual, and the apricots add sweetness, while the hazelnuts add crunch.
To see what the others made for this week's theme, visit the LYL section of the EwE website.
For Tuesday with Dorie this week, I made Odile's Fresh Orange Cake. This is just a lovely, light, spongy orange cake that is moistened with orange syrup.
You could have fancied this up with poached oranges on top, but I have limited time so left out this optional extra.
This is a beautiful cake that is a cinch to make - I'd make it again.
To see what the other Dorie bakers thought of this cake (or the alternate recipe, Matcha Financiers), visit the LYL section of the TWD website.
I recently found a collection of summer fruit recipes on The Mill House Kitchen blog (via Facebook). I would be happy to make all of them, but the one I chose first is the Melt and Mix Summer Fruit Cake (Recipe No. 10). It was the perfect recipe for using up two clingstone peaches in my fruit bowl that were not that nice for eating due to being rather dry.
The cake was beautifully light and moist, and was a wonderful vehicle for the fruit (which might otherwise have been wasted). My cake took 45 minutes, not 30, to bake, but otherwise I had no problems with the recipe.
This cake would also be lovely in winter with poached winter fruits, as the authors suggest.
Our theme for the Melbourne Cake Club meeting this month was March Madness. I loved this theme - there are so many different directions you could take it.
Another new member, Katrina, also came along to check out proceedings.
We had a fabulous night of March Madness. | 2019-04-18T18:16:45Z | http://kitchenlaw.blogspot.com/2016/03/ |
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The phrase "My mother has four noses" is not a play on words, a joke, parody or something with any major cosmic significance. Rather, it refers to something much more serious and all too real in Jonatha Brooke's very moving one-person show of the same name. This revelation being the starting point in Brooke's tale regarding her relationship with her mother, especially during the final two years of her mom's life.
Brooke takes great care to paint a clear picture of her mom, Nancy Lee Stone through words and pictures, thus allowing the audience to feel they know her quite well. Nancy wrote poetry, had a great sense of humor and was a devout Christian Scientist to the point she ignored a personal medical situation for nearly two decades; leading to the loss of part of her face and the introduction of the four noses in the title - one for each season of the year. Brooke pointing out that while her mother depended heavily on her faith, when there was some kind of crises "then she turned to me". Brooke also admits that her own rejection of this religion caused something of a strain in their relationship. Yet through it all there remains a deep connection between the two women, one often more of emotion than words.
Things change when Nancy starts experiencing signs of dementia. Jonatha becoming her de facto caregiver, along with the support of her husband and her husband's sister Julie. Brooke describing the painful process of beginning to lose someone she loves to a condition over which she has no control and where flashes of her mom's humor and lucidity mix with ever-increasing incidents of disorientation, rage and anger. There's also the issue of her becoming incontinent and all that that entails. Most telling of all however, is the ever-present fear Nancy starts to exhibit, such as when she refuses to take her various medications and the struggles that resulted in an effort to get her to do just that.
This is a tale that is sadly all too universal and Brooke's unhesitancy about bringing forth her own feelings in the matter allows the story to shine as she recounts the huge struggles and occasional triumphs she experienced while dealing with Nancy's condition. These include describing how Nancy starts collecting junk and giving it to family members as Christmas gifts; the pride in her voice as she reads her mom's poems; and the awe and relief she felt when it became clear that Julie was able to calm Nancy down when no one else could.
It also helps that Brooke tosses in a goodly amount of humor into the mix to leaven out the overall seriousness of her tale. Such as when her mother is trying to plan an escape in a wheelchair during a physical therapy session following knee surgery. Stories like these - which include talking about the different noses and her mom' s love of hats - also help to show more than just the pain and hardship of what was happening, thus making the entire piece much more interesting and involving.
Where things run into problems is when Brooke, who is also a singer/songwriter, injects various musical moments into the story. That's not to say the songs she performs aren't good - it's just that they're not really necessary and serve more as a distraction from the overall narrative. It's this uneven blending of styles that keep things somewhat off balance and also succeed in removing an element of immediacy from the tale. It also results in the show feeling a bit too long and taking too much time to get to its ultimate conclusion.
Jeremy B. Cohen's direction is fine as he helps Brooke, who obviously has a clear idea of the story she wants to tell, bring the proper emotional emphasis to the forefront, though Cohen is also hamstrung by the use of the musical selections, which ultimately keep the tale from delivering its maximum potential.
Also quite good are Caite Hevner Kemp's various projections, which greatly aid in creating a more fully formed image of Brooke's mom. Also deserving of mention are the efforts of the two onstage musicians, Ben Butler and Anja Wood.
My Mother Has Four Noses is a very touching and personal tale and Brooke deserves great credit for being able to talk about her experiences so clearly and expressively. However, it probably would have worked better without the various musical touches.
Tickets: (646) 223-3010 or www.dukeon42.org/Shows/2014/4Noses.aspx. | 2019-04-19T12:15:57Z | http://www.stagebuzz.com/2014/04/my-mother-has-four-noses-intimate-but.html |
It was a definite first step Monday when BCEHS announced three additional paramedic resources allocated to Castlegar.
Unfortunately, it does nothing to address the lack of actual ambulances in the West Kootenay. The more significant threat to health care in the region is the delay in transfers or emergency response because of a shortage of available vehicles equipped with advanced-care paramedics.
Having BCEHS recognize the seriousness of the situation and take steps to rectify it is a great sign, but it is just a bandage on an open wound. As we’ve established in our six-part investigative series, Critical Condition, the problem goes much beyond paramedic staffing numbers.
There is a recognized lack of support for rural British Columbians, identified in several studies and independent audits. We’ve received many personal stories that provide solid, if anecdotal, evidence of the dangers in this approach to rural care.
We’ve also established that the province could save lives and millions of dollars in health care costs by instituting a more efficient system that better provides pre-hospital care to all of B.C.’s residents regardless of postal code.
A vice-president from STARS — the successful and critically lauded air ambulance program — said his organization would be very willing to sit down with BCEHS and the province to talk about potential solutions to service those gaps identified by non-partisan experts. When you also consider that many primary health facilities in the province will come due for replacement at approximately the same time, we’ll need to find multiple solutions involving innovative technology, training and HR ingenuity to provide the necessary level of care without bankrupting the province.
What is clear after three months of investigation and reporting is this: People need to keep the pressure on those with the ability to research, approve and deliver meaningful solutions to our region. They need to call, email and message representatives at BCEHS, your MLA and provincial media outlets to push for real movement.
They’ve heard us and have responded. Now those in power need to hear from you. A united front of key representatives from the Kootenays working together with a sitting minister (MLA Katrine Conroy) could make a lot of noise and fast.
There have been recommendations put forward and an “Action Plan” in place for several years.
An Action Plan with little action is not much of a plan, and it could be devastating for many families.
We’ve leveraged interviews with many industry experts to lay the groundwork for change. Now, someone needs to step up and follow through. | 2019-04-23T12:32:51Z | https://www.haidagwaiiobserver.com/opinion/john-white-we-need-more-than-a-bandage-for-this-wound/ |
Research into a genetic mutation causing some men to be infertile shows that an important protein in the sperm that is a key component of the egg fertilization process, known as phospholipase C zeta (PLC-zeta), is ineffective in these individuals.
The investigators found that they could restart the fertilization process in the lab by injecting eggs with a higher amount of the PLC-zeta protein from the infertile men than found naturally in their sperm, which suggests that this type of infertility could become reversible with medical assistance.
“Recent clinical studies have highlighted the crucial importance of PLC-zeta in human fertilization, reporting that sperm from infertile patients, who exhibited failed fertilization even after the most powerful in vitro fertilization techniques, contained either reduced amounts or mutated forms of this protein,” said Dr Michail Nomikos (Qatar University, Doha, Qatar) lead author of the Biochemical Journal paper.
It has been known for some time that an essential part of the human fertilization process is a repetitive, dramatic increase in calcium levels in the egg known as ‘calcium oscillations’ triggered by a message from the sperm that happens just before an embryo begins to form. This calcium increase is vital for all the early events of fertilization and early embryo development.
In 2002, Professor Tony Lai (Cardiff University, UK) and colleagues discovered the sperm-specific PLC-zeta protein. Over the last decade, research carried out by Professor Lai, who is also the senior author on the current study, and colleagues has shown that PLC-zeta is a key trigger of the calcium oscillations seen in the egg upon fertilization.
A number of genetic defects in the gene encoding the PLC-zeta protein have been linked to male infertility in the past. A recent study by Jessica Escoffier and colleagues identified a new mutation (single nucleotide polymorphism — I489F) located in a different part of the PLC-zeta gene (C2 domain) of two infertile brothers from Tunisia.
In the current study, Dr Nomikos and collaborators investigated the effects of this C2 domain mutation in more detail. They found that injecting the abnormal PLC-zeta protein into mouse eggs at levels comparable with those found in the sperm of the infertile men resulted in no calcium oscillations and therefore no fertilization. However, if they increased the amounts of the protein they injected to a higher level than would be present naturally, the normal fertilization process began and calcium oscillations were observed.
This finding suggests that this form of infertility could be treated in the future, say the researchers.
“The identification and characterization of another male infertility-linked PLC-zeta mutation necessitates that we begin to consider use of recombinant PLC-zeta protein in a clinical setting, with the aim being to rescue such cases of egg activation failure,” commented Professor Lai.
The team also looked at the biochemical properties of the mutant protein compared with normal PLC-zeta to try and discover more about its function. The key difference between them seemed to be that the abnormal protein was much less likely to bind to liposomes (small circular molecules that help different parts of the cell communicate with each other) containing molecules known as PI(3)P and PI(5)P than the normal protein.
The investigators are now investigating the exact role and physiological significance of the interaction of PLC-zeta with PI(3)P and PI(5)P. They believe it is possible that the mutation affects the interaction of the PLC-zeta C2 domain with another, currently unidentified egg protein or ‘PLC-zeta receptor’, resulting in this infertile phenotype. | 2019-04-18T22:59:05Z | http://biotexcom.com/male-infertility-research-reveals-new-life-begins/ |
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I left Windows 7 in the dust with beta 8! Anyway here is my desktop. 3 monitors, my apps always on the left! | 2019-04-21T16:55:07Z | https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/show-your-desktop-here.76794/ |
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!Wars Without End -- Again!
Thanx for your invitation for me to speak to you today!
For millions of people (I among them) the Nov. 2006 elections marked a major turning point in U.S. politics -- or so we thought.
The elections had one, single motivation: to end the Iraq war.
Well, the elections changed majorities in Congress. But did it change U.S. policy?
Before the numbers of votes could all be counted, you heard the backtracking: "we must be cautious"; "if we leave now, there'd be chaos", etc., etc.
Now, Democrats say openly that no significant troop withdrawal can come before 2012- 5 more years!
And then, don't you think you'll hear an additional 5 or 10 years?
War isn't a Democratic or Republican project - it is a corporate one, where both corporate parties play the game laid down by their sponsors and contributors.
But, people, working through popular movements, can change how politicians think, speak, and even act.
If you put your trust in the same politicians, you'll achieve the same result - disappointment, frustration and yes -- betrayal.
What kind of democracy is it if you vote for peace, only to get more war?
But the answer isn't less protests -- it's more protests!
To finally bring peace, the People must bring it! | 2019-04-21T09:00:03Z | http://free-mumia.org/articles/mumia-10-14-07.html |
When it is time to layer up, it is time for fashionable Burocs parkas and winter jackets for men.
If you’re looking for a parka that won’t make you look like the Marshmallow Man, look no further than Burocs parkas and winter jackets. Burocs jackets are tailored well so you won’t look like a snow beast when you’re walking down the street.
The traditional parka might be born of function more than form, but that does not mean that you can’t rip up the rule book. Burocs parkas and winter jackets serve up a style that stands out from the rest.
Burocs was launched in 2016, now it has established itself as a brand known for affordable prices, authentic styles and quality garment. | 2019-04-22T13:21:45Z | https://www.85online.de/brands/burocs/ |
The funding streak for educational startups in Asia continues into 2019 after Emeritus, a U.S-Indian company that partners with universities to offer digital courses, landed a $40 million Series C round led by Sequoia India.
The deal includes participation from existing investor Bertelsmann India Investments, and it takes Emeritus — founded in 2010 as offline management program company Eruditus — to around $50 million from investors to date. It also follows notable rounds in December for India-based education companies Byju’s ($540 million) and Toppr ($35 million).
Emeritus is the online branch of Eruditus. It was founded in 2014 as a response to the growth in digital learning. Specifically, it took the core elements of the Eruditus — which include helping educational institutions design new curriculums — and applied it to the online space to develop certificate courses and online degrees.
The company has offices in Boston — where it works to develop curriculum content — as well as Dubai, Mexico, Mumbai and Singapore. In total, it has some 350 employees while its partners include MIT, Columbia, Tuck at Dartmouth, Wharton, UC Berkeley and London Business School.
Today, Emeritus accounts for most of the business’s growth potential and it is really the focus of this investment, co-founder and director Ashwin Damera told TechCrunch in an interview.
For one thing, all Emeritus courses are run in collaboration with universities, they tend to attract older students — since they are masters level — and their completion rates are around 90 percent, according to Damera. Students on a course, he said, are broken down into sections of around 100 and then smaller working groups of around six, much like traditional offline courses.
Emeritus said it will enroll 30,000 students from 80 countries during this current financial year. That’s a figure that Damera wants to grow ten-fold over the next five years.
The company’s strategy to reach that lofty goal revolves around widening its reach to new audiences. A key part of that focus is to expand its existing English and Spanish content libraries, and develop content in Portuguese and Mandarin for the first time. Interestingly, in the case of China, Emeritus is open to a potential acquisition or a joint venture to get a local business up and running.
Right now, Damera said that just 70 percent of students are based overseas. In addition to accommodating additional international languages, he said that global push will mean the company will develop its tech stack to enable a greater more mobile-based content for students.
But, beyond those perhaps obvious areas, Emeritus is examining the potential to offer newer products and courses at more affordable prices. In particular, Damera believes there is a “huge opportunity” to apply itself to bachelor degree education although he plans to expand its master degrees first. | 2019-04-20T09:29:34Z | https://www.satoshinakamotoblog.com/emeritus-which-develops-online-courses-with-universities-raises-40m |
Letting Agent Fees Banned in England. What can be learned from Scotland?
In last week’s Autumn statement the new Chancellor Philip Hammond threw a curve ball at the lettings industry south of the border by banning letting agents from charging tenants fees. Up until last week, the feeling from letting agents in England was that after years of pressure from tenants groups, a limit would be put on what an agent could charge a tenant rather than an outright ban. Their feeling was that this would stop tenants being exploited with some agents charging eye-watering fees (up to £780 per tenancy in some cases) but the average fee of £386 per tenancy would still be permissible.
The agents got it wrong.
The Chancellor has gone further and banned tenant fees altogether and it’s caused shockwaves through the industry in England. At £386 per tenancy, this probably represents 10%-15% of an agents’ income and possibly all of their profit. By taking this income away, it’ll put pressure on all letting businesses in England. Something will have to give.
The average fee in Scotland was about £80 compared to £386 in England. The loss of this income was much easier for Scottish agents to bear or pass on to their landlords.
The “ban” in Scotland was a clearing up of ambiguous wording in the existing law that previously made charging tenants a grey area. We all knew it was only a matter of time before tenancy fees were abolished in Scotland and we built our businesses and fee models accordingly so 2012 was not the same shock as last week’s announcement in Westminster.
The Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) in Scotland was introduced at the same time as the tenancy fee ban. TDS was arguably bigger news than the banning of tenancy fees because it meant agents could no longer hold the huge sums of tenants’ deposits in their bank accounts and it caused many agents to sell up or exit the market.
The ban of tenancy fees in Scotland in 2012 made agents charge their landlords a little bit more, they had to make their businesses better and more efficient and the ones that didn’t went out of business. I suspect we’ll see the same thing happen in England. Rents in Scotland have continued to increase since 2012 but this appears to be in line with rent increases throughout the rest of the UK so can’t be put down to the banning of tenancy fees. I would think that tenancy fees being banned in England will increase rent levels but this is nothing compared to the changes caused by market forces and the continuing over-demand and under-supply that shows no sign of changing.
My advice for any agents in England worried about the loss of tenancy fees is to look again at their own businesses. There is an opportunity to embrace technology in a sector that lags behind service in other industries. Agents can do more for their existing clients in an ever changing private rented sector. They need to get their own story out there as there will be a whole world of landlords and tenants who are waking up to a choice of letting agents they’ve not had to make before. This is a tremendous opportunity for the best prepared letting businesses.
I’d be delighted to hear any comments you have on letting agent fees so please do submit a comment below or send me an email. | 2019-04-23T04:55:07Z | https://www.umega.co.uk/blog/letting-agent-fees-banned-england-can-learned-scotland/ |
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Swedish international Zlatan Ibrahimovic has moved from Italy to Spain and has signed a five-year contract with Barcelona.
The Catalan giants have paid £40 million for the player and the deal also sees Samuel Eto’o moving to Ibrahimovic’s old club Inter Milan as does Aleksandr Hleb who makes the switch on loan. The agreement includes a buy-out clause of £216 million.
It feels like I’m living a dream now. It was not easy for me in the last weeks.
I’m not coming here to be Samuel Eto’o, I’m somebody else, somebody new, but I will try to achieve as much as Eto’o, or even more.
Ibrahimovic was the top scorer in Serie A last season, while Eto’o was equally prolific as Barca clinched an unprecedented treble after landing the La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League crowns.
But with 28 year old Eto’o only having one year left on his current deal, Barca were willing to sell.
I agree, seems like an awesome deal for Inter, Hleb and Eto’o, plus 40 million.
I don’t get the valuation….
BarĂƒÂ§a had to get rid off Eto’o this season, because otherwise next season with his contract coming to an end he could end up leaving the club for nothing. I believe that is great signing by BarĂƒÂ§a and now they are stronger than ever.
Its because Eto’o is a constant locker problem and was never even supposed to be a part of last years team. Plus also, and this is just a theory, Ibra is sponsored by nike which sponsers Barcelona while Eto’o wears Puma. The main reason though was the locker room issues an his inability to get along with his teammates.
y is ibra wearing the air legend III in the photo ?
I think it was a bit much for Ibra, but he is an amazing striker and I believe he can do as good and better than Eto’o. Thats only my opinion though. Zach, by the way, Ibra is wearing the Tiempo Legend III, there are only Air Legend I and II, no III. Nike took out the Air Zoom technology for the 3rd generation of the Legend.
Ibra worth eto’o, hleb, and 40 mill.. I dnt know about that. But definately a good buy. It shakes up all of the game plans other teams may have set up for Barca..
Definately champs of europe again.
Barca knew what they were doing even tho I think it’s dumb/smart. As Eduardo said Eto’o is a bad vibe in the locker room but a terrific player on the pitch. To wait next year and buy Ibrahimovic for 80 mill and let off eto’o for no money…No instead they are paying half the price they would have paid if they didn’t use eto’o. Theoretically this is the 1st or 2nd most expensive transfer this summer. Let’s hope that Zlatan does have the bad vibe in the locker.
who carse about air zoom technology? why is zlatan wearing the legends and not superflys?
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Just my bias opinion though. | 2019-04-20T14:58:33Z | https://www.footy-boots.com/ibrahimovic-moves-to-barcelona-7409/ |
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The PS4 is launching with a versatile set of games today, but that doesn’t mean Sony wants gamers to focus on them. Mere minutes before the console’s launch, Sony took to a stage in New York City to reveal more exclusive experiences for its gaming console.
The company started its launch event with news for fans of the The Last of Us adventure game starring Ellen Page. Sony’s studios are already working on a single-player campaign add-on for the game, and if the trailer is any indication, there are still more battles to fight and more mysteries to uncover. There’s also more Ellie, a surprise favorite character from the title’s debut earlier this year. The company didn’t confirm an exact date for the Left Behind DLC for The Last of Us. Instead, Sony says users should expect the add-on “early next year.” Users can pre-order the DLC from the PlayStation Store for $14.99 beginning November 19th.
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Sony didn’t end it there either. The company also confirmed that gamers on its system will get early access to the beta of Destiny, the first-person shooter/adventure in production from Bungie Studios. That’s big as Destiny is the first game the studio will release independently since it split from Microsoft and the Halo franchise. Users won’t need to purchase a PS4 to get into the beta. Sony says PS3 users will get early access as well.
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Ms. Kane first joined the SEC in 2007 in the Division of Corporation Finance where she worked on corporate securities disclosure matters until 2012. She worked in the agency’s Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs from 2012 to 2013.
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COTE DE TEXAS: Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
Everyone who reads design blogs has probably heard of Pigtown Design – a wonderfully written daily diary by Meg Fairfax Fielding. Although Meg’s home base is Baltimore - in the historic Pigtown neighborhood – her blog is a running commentary on any town or country where she finds historic architecture, interesting interior design, antiques or whatever else she finds intriguing. Fielding, whose roots run deep in her town could probably become the Good Will Ambassador of Baltimore, she is such a great supporter and proponent of her city that lies in the shadow of the capitol. And as if keeping up with one blog isn’t enough, Meg is also a foodie and writes a second blog Pigtown Pigout on edible delights. But, there is more to Meg than blogging: in “real life” she works as the Director of Development for the Woodbourne Center. Woodbourne has a fascinating history – one of the oldest charities in America, founded in 1798 – it provides a safe haven and home for children who are abused, neglected, or unwanted. Some children at Woodbourne suffer from mental illness, some suffer from poverty, some suffer from drug abuse – but all suffer. The children’s welfare depends on the generosity of others that keeps Woodbourne operating but, like most charities, this years donations are down – way, way down. Even the state has cut their funding, but more damaging, it is requiring that 2% of last year’s grant be returned! Woodbourne needs your help. Can you spare a dime, a dollar?
The Woodbourne Center – once this house is where the orphans actually lived. Today it houses offices for the staff, including Meg who is lucky to have a gorgeous fireplace in hers!
This year, some of the children are seen in a video reciting their Christmas List. To watch it, go HERE. It’s heart breaking. Their wishes are so basic - books, pens, pencils, an MP3 player, art supplies, Monopoly, a radio, a sketch pad. One child quotes the bible. Another wishes for joy and happiness, something he says he doesn’t have much of. Oh my. If it doesn’t make you cry……. To hear their simple dreams and hopes is a real eye opener to how so many children have to live their lives in this – the most prosperous nation in the world.
“As economic conditions worsen, it is often children who suffer. Their parents are more stressed than ever and their frustration is sometimes taken out on their children, who then act out and get into trouble at home and at school. They are often the unseen casualties in the economic climate.
You can make a donation – HERE.
I am overwhelmed with your wonderful and kind words about me and the kids I work for. You are such an amazing woman and I am so proud that I can call you a friend.
what a wonderful, selfless woman you are.
Such a tragedy that this organization sits in the shadow of such waste and disregard for the values this country once held dear. Thanks for posting and bringing this to our attention.
I am sending off a check today, in your honor....I don't read Meg's blog, but you know I love yours!
Blessings of the season and happy New Year.
ps I painted my house and it came out great- Thanks again!!!
I just made a donation, it really seems like a worthy cause. Thank you Joni for this wonderful blog that I enjoy so much!
You're a good girl, Joni! This is a wonderful cause and thank you for bringing to light!
You can even donate through PayPal. No check to write or stamp to lick.
Totally fat-free, one size fits all feel-good gift--from you, to you.
I too made a contribution..... Thank you for bringing it to our attention. I hope many people will feel generous and donate as well. It is hard to imagine a teenager asking for paper and pencils - when my own children have so much. Very Sad!
Thank you all so much! I really appreciate this - I know this is a hard time of the year - and a hard year to give anything. I understand the sacrifice!
thank you so much all of you !!! I do hope that maybe some of the wish list might be bought for these kids. but how you buy peace and happiness?
Thank you Joni for bringing Meg's devotion to this organization to our eyes. There are always so many needy, important causes to donate to, but it tears at my heart-strings to donate money to children overseas when I know there are those in such need here in our own country, our own back-yards. The video was very difficult to watch. Breaks a mothers heart.
Joni and Meg...cheers to you both. I made my contribution in both of your names.
Now that was a real holiday rush.
Thank you so much for bringing us this story of need, sacrifice & hope.
My children are making a donation in their school's name. That is the holiday spirit!
I crumbled when I listened to the video. Their wants are so simple. And you know there will be enormous gratitude if those wants are fulfilled.
Thank you for letting us know about this. Donation done.
Thank you for binging this story to us. I was once in an orphanage and wish it had been a place like Woodbourne with people like Meg. So this story gave me an opportunity to help make things right for today's children. I have given on line through paypall.
And Meg, bless you for all that you do for children. They will draw strength and courage for the rest of their lives from the good done for them today.
Their wants are so simple. And you know there will be enormous gratitude if those wants are fulfilled.
Thank you for highlighting this. SO important to realize there are those of us in such need... and I had no idea about this facet of Meg! and Maryland requiring 2% back!? Ashamed of my former state!
Joni, a very thoughtful post for Meg and the children. Meg really cares about Baltimore, her roots, and her work. Tis the season to give!
I haven't even watched the video yet, and I am crying. As an adult abused child, Thank you for all you do and Thank you Joni for letting us know about this.
And, I can not believe that they are being forced to give a percentage of last year's grants back! That is horrid.
God bless them each and every one!
I try very hard to show my children what Christmas really means. Every season we adopt a family, pack up clothes and toys to drop off at the domestic violence shelter and every time we see a red bucket we drop in all of our change and then some. The other day we were entering the mall with several other shoppers and my son loudly said, "Mom, why were we the only ones giving? If they are coming here to shop I bet they could have given a dollar." Its hard to shush such brilliant reason. Why don't more people give? Thank you Joni for encouraging others to be selfless. It truly is the very best give to give and what you receive is far greater.
Thanks so much for sharing your compassion. In a season in which we are often caught thinking about adding to our own already full coffers, it's so important to remember and give to those who have less. Donation on its way to Woodbourne. | 2019-04-20T00:20:19Z | https://cotedetexas.blogspot.com/2009/12/brother-can-you-spare-dime.html |
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The Dance Theater of Syracuse (DTS) is an emerging dance force in Central New York .
The Dance Theater of Syracuse (DTS) is a not-for-profit dance organization dedicated to providing pre-professional dance training to young artists and providing emerging dance artists with a place to develop new work.
11.11.11, will forever mark, a new direction for our organization, formerly known as Parents Promoting Dance. We have chosen to rename ourselves. A name that encompasses the fullness of what we, have become…as an organization, a school and \ a company. The name we have chosen for ourselves pays homage to the dance legacy from which we come and the dance legacy that we endeavor to impart to or dancers. We are channeling Alvin Ailey, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Arthur Mitchell and the Dance Theater of Harlem and Garth Fagan and Garth Fagan Dance and Katherine Dunham. We caught a vision to walk into that light and that love and that level of artistry, excellence and passion to birth and to share this legacy with future generations of young people in Central New York who aspire to master the art of dance, heighten their creativity and artistry and to bond with a community of people that will use their art to affect change for good in the world. Toward that end: The Dance Theater of Syracuse (DTS) is an emerging dance force in Central New York which honors the dance traditions the great African American Dance pioneers of the 20th Century.
A pre-professional conservatory of dance specializing in seeding the training of the next generation of accomplished artists. The DTS School: aspires to become the feeder school in Central New York to: the major conservatories across the country; including The Julliard School the Ailey Fordham Program, Boston Conservatory and the North Carolina School of the Arts; and the major dance companies of our day. The DTS Ensemble seeks to become the first professional Dance Company in Syracuse, New York – a place for emerging choreographers to develop and present new works; and a place for our young protégés to return to and perform should they desire to return to Central New York.
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Two students accepted to the Professional Division – Ailey School Summer Intensive-on scholarship. Two DTS students accepted to Dance Theater of Harlem Summer Intensive and the Syracuse Summer Dance Intensive Program.
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This is one of my absolute favorite mugs- it's sooo moody and sleek! Comes as is with a Matte Grey background glaze and handle so that the crystals get the entire show! If you'd like to make a modification like Matte White instead etc., just message me prior to ordering.
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The rainbow and iridescent sheen of the crystals are so pretty in person. It’s a really unique and special piece. I really love this mug.
so beautiful! Amazing work! my fiance loved it! thanks collin! | 2019-04-23T12:58:33Z | https://www.essaraiceramics.com/listing/642728329/made-to-order-iron-ore-mug |
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Accent lighting is an important part of your homes decor. Our Sconces & Vanity Lighting catagory offer many styles to choose from. Beautiful wall sconces handcrafted of metal and mica are art in themselves. Western vanity lighting ensures that you always leave home looking your best. | 2019-04-26T10:29:23Z | https://www.lonestarwesterndecor.com/scvali.html |
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Browse our range. You’ll want to find a promotional clothing option that suits your brand. You might be aiming your promotion at a group of people who need workwear fleeces and will be happy to wear a custom printed fleece with your logo on it, or they might be more of a golf crowd, in which case a polo shirt with your logo might do the trick. Get creative and ask what clothing item your target demographic will be interested in. When you land on the right answer, they’ll be wearing your logo for years to come. Most importantly, have fun with your promotional clothing. If you have a good time exploring all the choice on offer, then you know you’re on the right track. Take a look below to see some of our clothing options.
The most important thing when it comes to custom printed tops is that the quality of the material is excellent. You’re going to be putting a lot of time and effort into planning your campaign, so you want that to be reflected in the final product. Our promotional shirts, promotional polo shirts, and promotional T-Shirts are all made from comfortable, high quality materials that fit well and last long. Furthermore, the printing process we use ensures that your logo will look as good as the material feels.
Among our range of promotional sweat shirts and pullovers, you’ll discover an array of comfortably fitted hoodies, sweaters and pullovers, each available in numerous colours, and all them custom printed with your logo design. We're dedicated to providing every possible option for your custom promotion campaign, so you’ll find we provide everything from the very basic custom printed pullover to our custom printed leather hoodie.
Our promotional clothing range includes everything from body warmers to jackets that are insulated so well you could wear them in the toughest weather conditions and still feel protected from the cold. You’ll also find custom printed pants, and many other promotional accessories, including caps, hats and gloves.
All things considered, with our huge selection of promotional clothing options, you could be wearing your logo from head to toe, and, what’s more, you’ll look good too. | 2019-04-25T21:04:51Z | https://www.axispromotionalproducts.ie/clothing.html.html |
Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Darlene Harris somehow manages to regularly get herself into the petty types of quarrels that make Buzzfeed headlines — in April last year, she made local headlines when she got into a verbal altercation with a bicyclist.
She took up bike lanes as a major aspect of her platform — always arguing against them, even though public safety is “very important” to her. And in response to online criticism of her blatant harassment of a cyclist, she blocked three constituents on Facebook. She later blocked another man who said she was “uninterested in development or change,” — and a current lawsuit alleges blocking constituents is unconstitutional under the First Amendment.
And the ACLU may be right. Since the laws regarding public communications weren’t written in the digital age, much of this controversy exists in a legal gray area. But despite this ambiguity, Harris violated her constituents’ constitutional rights by blocking them on a clearly professional account — and if she wants to avoid a lawsuit she would probably lose, she might be smart to listen to ACLU.
Across the nation, courts face cases like Harris’ — and the trend seems to be in favor of blocked constituents. A Virginia district court decided a county chairperson had to unblock her constituents in July, despite the fact her Facebook was not operated using government funds or on government time.
In Harris’ case, it’s clear the Facebook account in question is regularly used in a governmental, professional capacity. Her timeline is a miniature town hall, where constituents post to her page to notify her of problems in the Northside — by blocking constituents from this page, she’s limiting one of their primary methods of contacting her.
Sometimes she redirects inquiries to her public email account, but when she does respond, it’s detailed.
“THERE IS ‘NO’ REASON FOR PITTSBURGH TO BE IN ‘ACT 47’ AGAIN EVEN THE ACT 47 MEMBERS GAVE TESTIMONY THAT PITTSBURGH NEED NOT BE IN ACT 47 ANY LONGER,” she wrote in response to an inquiry regarding Pittsburgh’s financially distressed status, original formatting maintained.
She later used her Facebook to “set the record straight” following an incident in which she drove her car on a pedestrian walkway through Allegheny Commons Park in North Side.
There is a fine line between using an account in a personal and professional manner, particularly when there’s a shrinking divide between the two — and in the digital age, the laws haven’t kept up.
But it’s clear Harris crossed that line. By blocking her constituents, she’s prohibiting them from participating in their government the way their peers can — and even those that disagree with her have the undeniable right to voice their opinions. | 2019-04-18T14:27:29Z | https://pittnews.com/article/124972/opinions/aclu-lawsuit-threatens-harris/ |
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