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Just ask Marlo Bender about her work as a tutor with AARP Experience Corps. As a volunteer in Tempe, Arizona, Bender is just as excited to be in the classroom as the kids are to have her.
“It’s magical,” says Bender of her experience. “When my students realize they’re reading, not just word-for-word but fluently, their faces light up,” she says.
And many adults 50 and over that work with AARP Experience Corps say they have an improved sense of purpose, as well as increased physical and brain health as a result of their time back in the classroom.
The Experience Corps Solution
In the U.S. only approximately 30 percent of American children are reading at grade level by the third grade. Many states are now implementing laws that effectively hold children back if they can’t pass basic reading tests. AARP Experience Corps provides tutors who work with children in kindergarten through third grade who are struggling with reading—improving their reading scores with additional weekly support that the teacher just can’t give. The extra time and attention pay off in improved reading scores for most. The work resonates with those who want to leave a legacy and provide future generations with the tools to be successful. Volunteers need have no prior experience teaching or tutoring; we provide extensive training.
Teachers Feel the Impact
It’s not just the volunteers and children that are reaping the benefits from Experience Corps’ special, hands-on approach to literacy. The teachers are well aware that Experience Corps tutors are useful tools in helping them make pronounced improvements in literacy.
Principals like Donna Smith count on Experience Corps. Volunteers work in the classrooms of her school, John Wister Elementary in Philadelphia, with most of the 12 current volunteers in their late 60’s and early 70’s. “They’re not taking kids to the bathroom or making copies; these are trained literacy volunteers; they make drastic changes in where kids are academically,” Smith says.
To learn more about AARP Experience Corps, visit us at www.aarp.org/experiencecorps.
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The most important discovery you can make in life is to understand the purpose you were born for. Every product is designed to accomplish a purpose. I am yet to see a manufacturer creates a product without a purpose. God created us and determined our individual purpose He wants us to accomplish in our lifetime. This creative ability is divinely extended to man. Example, Steve Jobs created and determined the purpose of Apple products. The Wright brothers created and determined the purpose of the aircraft, today we can fly across the globe. The names continue on and on. Listen, the fact that you were born and remain alive today is because you have a unique purpose designed for you to accomplish by your manufacturer (God). Finding that purpose will give you maximum satisfaction and significance in life. No body, regardless of the circumstances that characterized his/her birth is an accident. God allowed you to be born because He has a grand plan and purpose for your life. He knew you were coming even before your conception. "Before I made you in your mother's womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I chose you for a special work. I chose you to be a prophet to the nations." (Jer 1:5). I have written this book to help you understand that there is a unique purpose for your life that has to be fulfilled, as you yield to God. Be bless as you read. | <urn:uuid:b06e428f-a6cb-43a1-95ce-3f0268d5fc65> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://shop.authors-direct.com/products/understanding-your-divine-calling-and-purpose | 2022-01-27T05:02:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305141.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127042833-20220127072833-00413.warc.gz | en | 0.981265 | 281 |
The Diamondbacks eked out an ugly 7-5 victory Wednesday over the Cubs on the 100th anniversary of Wrigley Field — the Snakes’ sixth win in 24 games this season — but bad news greeted the team when they returned to the visitors clubhouse.
According to beat writer Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic, starting left fielder Mark Trumbo has been diagnosed with a stress fracture in his left foot. Trumbo is headed back to Phoenix, Arizona to have the foot examined by a specialist so that the D’Backs can get a better idea of the injury’s severity.
Trumbo did not play Tuesday or Wednesday due to what was described as “foot soreness.”
An MRI taken Wednesday afternoon in Chicago revealed the stress fracture.
The 28-year-old was batting .210/.264/.506 with seven home runs and 19 RBI in 21 games played. | <urn:uuid:4365a994-696c-4759-b6d2-d1e2c4010a0d> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2014/04/23/mark-trumbo-diagnosed-with-stress-fracture-in-foot/ | 2018-02-22T15:09:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891814124.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20180222140814-20180222160814-00570.warc.gz | en | 0.961096 | 187 |
Defensive tackle Gerald McCoy is healthy again, and Tampa Bay's pass rush suddenly is showing signs of dramatic improvement.
The third-year pro had one of three sacks of Cam Newton in a 16-10 season-opening victory over Carolina, while also helping the Buccaneers defense limit the Panthers to 10 yards rushing.
McCoy was the third overall pick in the 2010 draft, selected two spots behind Detroit's Ndamukong Suh. But while the Lions' young defensive tackle immediately established himself as a rising star, McCoy struggled to stay on the field the past two seasons because of injuries.
The Bucs were last in the NFL with 23 sacks in 2011, when McCoy missed two games because of an ankle injury and the final eight weeks of the season tearing his right biceps trying to make a tackle in a loss to New Orleans. He sat out the final three games of his rookie year with a torn left biceps.
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Juanita CottenPublished 12:00am Wednesday, December 12, 2012
NATCHEZ — Services for Juanita Cotten, 85, of Natchez, who died Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Morgantown Baptist Church with the Rev. William McCorkle and the Rev. David Hodges Jr. officiating.
Burial will follow at Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 10 a.m. until service time Friday, both at the church. | <urn:uuid:553edb49-49ae-4458-bed8-2046693e246d> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2012/12/12/juanita-cotten-2/ | 2014-08-22T23:35:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500824970.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021344-00218-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947294 | 142 |
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (LCPUFA), accumulates in the brain during the first two years of life and plays an important role in cognitive development. The cell membranes of the central nervous system contain high levels of DHA and other LCPUFAs. It is believed that a higher concentration of these fatty acids leads to better developmental outcomes.
Many studies of DHA have been conducted but with varied results. Some research shows that supplementation with DHA in lactating mothers has beneficial effects on the mental development of infants, while other research shows that supplementation with DHA has no additional benefits.
So, is DHA really that important?
A DHA Study
In 2005, researchers from Denmark, under the supervision of Lotte Lauritzen, conducted a study titled “Maternal Fish Oil Supplementation in Lactation: Effect on Developmental Outcome in Breast-fed Infants,” in which they investigated the effects of DHA supplementation in mothers on the developmental outcomes of breastfed infants. The objective of their study was to assess whether or not an increased level of DHA in breastmilk via supplementation with fish oil affects the mental development of infants.
Danish people consume more fish than those in many other European countries do. Since this study was conducted in Denmark, the mothers already had a high intake of fish in their daily diets.
The mothers participating in the study were divided into two groups: a study group and a comparison group. The study group consisted of mothers who consumed fish on a lower-than-average basis. The members of the study group were given supplements of either fish oil or olive oil. The comparison group consisted of mothers who consumed fish on a higher-than-average basis. The women in the comparison group were not given any supplements.
Supplementation began after delivery and continued throughout the first four months of lactation. The infants’ motor functions and problem-solving abilities were assessed at nine months of age and their linguistic development was assessed at one year and two years of age.
There was a 2.5-fold increase in DHA in the infants of the mothers who received fish oil supplementation. DHA levels did not increase in the group that received olive oil supplementation. However, the increase in DHA levels in the fish oil group produced no significant improvement in the infants’ motor development when compared to the olive oil or comparison groups. All the infants learned to sit, crawl, and stand at approximately the same age. Neither were there any apparent differences in the infants’ problem-solving abilities among the three groups.
Fish oil supplementation did impact the language development of infants, but it was a negative effect. Specifically, maternal fish oil supplementation negatively affected the linguistic development of boys but not girls. Rather, girls had a significantly higher vocabulary than boys at one year of age as well as at two years of age. However, the difference was attributed to the fact that boys usually mature slower than girls and not to DHA levels.
The study showed no additional benefits of DHA supplementation, although some other studies have. These inconsistencies may be due to a dose-response relationship. Other studies also could have used different tools and methods to evaluate cognitive and language abilities.
Cross-cultural studies show that Danish children have slow early language development compared to American, Swedish, and Spanish children, but they appear to catch-up after two years of age. Some researchers think this is because Danish people consume a higher amount of fish.
Nevertheless, further investigation is required to fully understand the advantages and disadvantages of DHA supplementation.
Lauritzen, Lotte, Marianne H. Jorgensen, Sjúrdur F. Olsen, Ellen Marie Straarup, and Kim F. Michaelsen. “Maternal Fish Oil Supplementation in Lactation: Effect on Developmental Outcome in Breast-fed Infants.” Reproduction Nutrition Development 45, no. 5 (2005): 535–547. Retrieved from https://rnd.edpsciences.org | <urn:uuid:ec3fcb79-bc00-47ea-8e7a-b7fdb1d6b048> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://parentingscience.today/are-dha-supplements-beneficial-for-mothers-or-a-myth/ | 2021-10-24T07:05:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585911.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20211024050128-20211024080128-00605.warc.gz | en | 0.959013 | 839 |
Collection Development Policies: Ground Rules for Planning University LibrariesP. Olatunji Olaojo Acquisitions Librarian Igbinedion University Okada, P. M. B. 0006, Benin City Edo State, Nigeria
M. A. Akewukereke Medical Librarian Lautech Teaching Hospital Library P. M. B. 5000, Osogbo Osun State, Nigeria
Collection development includes everything that goes into acquiring materials, including selection, ordering, and payment. It is a chain of events that includes planning, administration, and control. Collection development serves as a foundation upon which other library services are built.
A collection development policy establishes ground rules for planning, budgeting, selecting, and acquiring library materials. These documents provide a framework for coordinated collection development programme throughout the university libraries. In addition, these policies help the library serve the academic community. Theys assist bibliographers in making not only routine selections, but also approval plan profiles and gift acceptance decisions. With common terminology and collecting standards, bibliographers can work with greater consistency towards defined goals. The standard processes to be considered include selection, scope of collecting, and replacement of missing but useful materials and worn-out materials. According to Eguavon and Ochai (2002), collection development is a planned, systematic development of a collection based on the objectives of the library.
Collection development policies also function as a guide to library resources for faculty, other users, and other libraries by describing the scope and nature of the collection. As an indication of collection strength and weakness, they can be useful in resource sharing and cooperative acquisitions.
A collection development policy is a written statement of selection principles and criteria, with guidelines on the depth of subject coverage, and details such as language, geography, and time period. For instance, in the E. Latunde Odeku Medical Library (ELOML) all local, African, and tropical medicine titles must be acquired (Tamuno and Ojedokun 1997). In like manner, the University of Texas libraries develops collections and plans information access according to policies based on continuing analysis of the University's evolving academic programs, research, interests, and user needs. In light of these policies, the University of Texas libraries acquires or provides access to a wide variety of resources in formats ranging from manuscripts to digital images, in many languages and scripts supporting inquiry in all areas of knowledge.
Collection Development And Planning
A collection development policy looks forward. Library adminstrators must be aware of potential library users and their various needs are likely to be. Knowledge of the user population also affects library organizational structure, the need for special reading materials and accommodations for particular user groups. The acquisitions librarian makes decisions concerning these questions.
Other library staff also participate in the collection development process, since no individual can cover all current publications. Expert advice is important in making decisions about the collection. This does not mean, however, that the acquisitions function should be taken away from qualified library staff, as in the case of some privately funded institutions in Nigeria.
Budgeting and Collection Development
For a budget to be successful, it must be directive. It must be based on a plan so that there is value for the money spent. Money available for collection development is always very limited. The collection development policy considers the focus of the library, the clientele, and the organization it serves. The reverse is the case where acquisitions is at the mercy of the institutional director, or the founder, in the case of a private institution. In order for the collection development librarian to defend expenditures for library materials, there must be a guide to assist his decision making process. Human and material resources must not be wasted; hence, the collection development policy also serves as a training manual for new library staff. Determining why scarce resources should be spent on item"A" instead of "B" is not an easy task. A collection development policy can help bring order out of chaos.
Collection Development in Relation to Selection and Acquistion
Ifidon (1996) opines that a focused, positive, and consistent collection development strategy is a necessity for any meaningful library development. Librarians engaged in selection must answer the following questions:
The librarian must also ensure that no race, nationality, profession, trade, religion, school of thought, or local customer is overlooked during selection. The collection is built according to the policy, and patrons demands must also be considered.
Materials should meet high standards of quality in content, expression, and format. On the other hand, the selector should not hesitate to acquire a mediocre book that will be read in preference to a superior book that will not be read. The quality of materials must be related to the other two basic standards of selection , which are purpose and need. The library performs a variety of roles, which in turn demands a variety of materials.
According to the American Library Association (ALA) standard as discussed by Carter (1974), three elements are very important in a collection development policy. They are general overview, which is the introduction and general collection; detailed analysis of subject collections; and a miscellaneous section. These form the basis of the discussions below.
Element one, thegeneral overview, gives an introduction to the policy and also a description of the community the library serves. This section introduces the library collection development efforts and defines and explains the operations covered by the policy. Topics to be covered include purpose of the policy, its intended audience, a description of the institution and its clientele, and an overview of how the collection has developed. Also included are details on the types of programmes or patron needs are to be met by the collection. Likewise, the general limitations and priorities of the collection should be included in the policy.
Secondly, a detailed subject analysis of the collection is essential. The types of materials and classes of users are included. Five levels of collecting are specified:general coverage,instructional/working collection level,research level,andcomprehensive level.
The policy should specify who is responsible for selection. It could be combination of users and librarians. Methods of selection, treatment of gifts and donations, weeding and collection assessment are also included.
The collection should be inclusive and contain whatever materials contribute to the library mission. The collection development policy establishes ground rules for planning and budgeting, selection and acquisition of library materials. This is in agreement with Poole as reported by Cutter (1978) that, "it is important to remember when one is trying to select the best that there are as many kinds of best as there are kinds of readers" (p. 43). Cutter (1978) once asked, "Best in what? In style? In interest? In instructiveness? In suggestiveness? In power? Best for whom? For the ignorant? For people in general? For College students? (p. 43). Since the library attempts to serve all those various categories of readers, they would be willing to accept a variety of materials, whose standards of quality might vary as the titles are seen to be useful for one group or another.
Elaturoti (1995a) sees collection development as the process of assessing the strengths and weaknesses in a collection and then creating a plan to correct the weakness and maintain the strengths.
Selection is the decision-making aspect of collection development. The decision to order means attempting to build a well-balanced collection covering most subject equally, whereas, during difficult economic times, it will only be possible to attend to a few users requests.
Acquisition is the implementation of selection decisions: ordering, receipt, and payment. These must be done according to a procedure that is guided by the collection development policy. To correctly distinguish ends from means, examine values as well as capabilities, the dimension and importance of Readers Services must be known. This is only determinable through the use of a written collection development policy statement or document. According to Buckland's (1963) argument, all library operations that primarily facilitate the exploitation of the collections and those directly consumed by the end users of the library have their roots in the collection development policy.
Ikem (1995) opines that collection development policy is the vehicle through which the library achieves the goals of its readers' services. Proper budgeting (in line with the collection development policy) and its careful operation are vital to the success of library services activities. It should be used as a planning and monitoring instrument. Just as no group of activities can succeed without proper planning, so also the activities of meeting users needs cannot succeed without proper policies and monitoring.
He further states that "for purpose of progress and development, the performance of library activities should be evaluated over certain periods, strengths, and weaknesses in services, which can be used as basis for actions and future plans." Power (1943) observes that, "one of the most meaningful ways to judge the quality and effectiveness of a library's services is to measure how well it is meeting the needs of the users. If the users needs are mostly not met, then the library acquisition policy needs to be re-appraised and modified. The policy must at all time be scientifically managed if the library is to fulfill its mission." For any collection development policy to be acceptable it must reflect six basic elements identified by Tamuno (1995) as reported by Ikem (1995). They are philosophy, needs assessment, goals and objectives, implementation, administrative control, and evaluation.
Among other things, a policy statement can do the following:
Help achieve a unified view of what areas of the collection should be developed
Help develop coordination among individuals responsible for the collection
Help achieve a consistency in the collection
Help reduce the number of ad hoc decisions that have to be made regarding the collection; and
Help avoid confusion in the minds of selectors and patrons as to what the collection is and is not (Elaturoti, 1995a)
The following recommendations are for combating the professional challenges facing acquisitions librarians:
librarians should insist on having a functional policy;
material should be ordered for the library continuously, without necessarily waiting for things like accreditation reviews;
efforts should be made by the head of the library to overcome any social, political, economic and environmental factors;
Nigerian Library Association (NLA) should create a standard policy and ensure compliance by all academic libraries for them to enjoy increased funding.
High proficiency in acquisition processes can improve the status of an academic library.
Collection development is a planned, continuous, and cost effective acquisition of quality, relevant materials to meet the needs of users and the objectives of the library. Collection development is not only growth in volumes and titles but in the quality of acquired materials in enhancing effective information delivery. It is only from this perspective that the word "development" could be meaningful in relation to collection development.
Buckland, John E. (1963). Planning the University Library Building: a summary of discussions by Librarians. New York: Columbia University.
Carter, M. Duncan (1974).Building Library Collections. 4th Ed. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Cutter, Charles A. (1978)Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue. 4th Ed. Washington: Government Printing Office. p. 43.
Danton, J.P. (1963).Book selection and collections: A comparison of German and American university libraries. New York: Columbia University Press.
Eguavoen, E. O. L, Madu, E. C., and Darisu, M. B. (2002).Collection Development, Information, Science and Technology for library Schools in Africa. Ibadan - Celeman, 2002 pp 122-138.
Elaturoti (1995a). Strategic Planning for Collection Development in Libraries and Information Centres.Nigerian Library and Information Science Review 12-13 p. 67-74.
Elaturoti (1995b): Developing a School Library Media Centre. Ibadan, Onibonoje Press.
Ifidon, Sam E. (1996). Planning for Collection Development in the 21st Century, being a paper presented at a conference on strategic planning for Academic Libraries in the 21st Century, organized by and held at the University of Abuja, 20th-23rd March 1996.
Ikem, J. E. (1995). Managing Reader's Services in a period of Financial Scarcity.Journal of Oyo State Chapter of the Nigerian Library Association. 12-13, p. 46-69.
Nwafor, B. U. (1990).Funding for University Libraries in the Third World,Third World Libraries 1(1); p. 25.
Ochai, A. (2001). Collection Development in Nigeria Libraries: Problems and Prospectsin Olanlokun, S. O. and Salisu, T. M. Libraries and Librarianship in Nigeria : A Festschrift for Ezekiel Bejide Bankole, Lagos, Ikofa Press, 2001, p. 62
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The collection consists largely of personal correspondence, mostly the incoming and outgoing correspondence of E. Joe Albertson,
Sr. while he was living in the Philippines, and the incoming and outgoing correspondence of Larrabee Albertson while he was
living in Mexico and then various other locations while serving in the Air Force. Overall contains more than 1500 letters
(with envelopes), as well as postcards, greeting cards, and personal ephemera.
Elijah Joseph Albertson (known as Joseph or E. Joe) was a teacher in the Philippines and Peru and later worked at the Peekskill
Evening Star, where he served as editor and co-publisher for nearly 40 years. Albertson was born in Pennsylvania on September
12, 1880, to Elijah and Ella (Larish) Albertson. He wed Beatrice Larrabee in 1910, and the two had several children, including
three sons: J. Donald, Larrabee (also referred to as Lad and Larry), and E. Joe Jr. They settled in Peekskill, New York, in
1924, and E. Joe bought the Star with partner Donald F. Ikeler. Larrabee Albertson (born circa 1915) attended Columbia and
the University of Hawaii, and later served as a lieutenant in the Air Force in the 1940s. He was stationed in various places
including Hawaii, China, and Tampa. Other family members represented in the collection include E. Joe's siblings: Chauncey,
Atta, Hazel, Charles, and Marguerite, as well as Beatrice's sister Louise. Elijah Joseph Albertson, Sr., died in 1965.
6.59 Linear Feet
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization
to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction
beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish
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You are herecontent / Protesters demand Bush resign because of Iraq war
Protesters demand Bush resign because of Iraq war
The Arizona Republic
A group of about 80 protesters marched through downtown Phoenix on Wednesday, chanting their demand to President George Bush: "Step down!"
The protesters gathered at noon in Cesar Chavez Plaza, Second Avenue and Washington Street, and listened to event organizer Danita Miller say the president "has led the country into a war built on lies. We are calling on Bush to step down, and we will do civil resistance until he does."
Miller, 28, a Phoenix real estate appraiser, said she went to a peace rally in Washington, D.C., in September where she learned about the national organization the World Can't Wait and the group's plans for national anti-Bush rallies Wednesday.
"I got with some organizers in Tucson, and we sent out fliers and contacted (other organizations) to spread the word," Miller said.
As of Wednesday, at least 2,035 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
After Miller addressed the crowd, Jarrett Maupin II, 18, who recently lost a bid for the District 8 Phoenix City Council seat, spoke to the group.
"We are seeking out justice from this administration," he said. "We're here to say, 'We've had enough!' America is headed down a path to destruction."
Chet Leach, 72, of Quartzsite, said he made the long drive into Phoenix for the rally, "without a thought: I'd drive around the world to get this war stopped."
Joan Kroll, 64, of Sun City West, wore a sandwich-board sign that represented a large report card on the President. It read, "Peace: F; Budget: F; Energy: F; Election: F; Environment: F."
"I believe Bush never has been legally elected," Kroll said.
"Not the first time; not the second time. He is an illegal president who has led us into an illegal war."
Not everyone on hand agreed with the anti-Bush rhetoric.
Amanda Block, 34, a secretary taking a lunch break in the plaza, said, "I think these people have little idea how complicated the world situation is. I didn't vote for the president, but I think he's facing an almost impossible situation."
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If you’ve read my whiny posts recently, you know I’ve been trying to solve some challenges at work, and that I’m feeling like I’ve lost my equilibrium. Well, I can tell you I’ve discovered one reason for the mental speed bumps: I’ve been spending way too much time drifting on the web, reading article after article on any and all subjects. Especially ones about trump and the election, which I’m still amazed by.
I’ve concluded that part of my recent frustrations stem from my inability to concentrate for extended periods. I don’t blog as much as I once did, and I don’t read as many books. I tend to spend a lot of time on the internet visiting the same sites over and over, checking them multiple times each hour.
While watching TV with the family, I find myself picking up my phone to check twitter or Instagram. Or reading my email. I never used to do any of that.
To combat this problem, I’ve created new family rules. No phones at the dinner table, which is really my wife’s rule, but my daughter and I tended to push the limits of it. No longer. Now we follow it.
And no more phones or computers if we’re watching a movie or television show. We concentrate on one thing at a time now. I noticed my daughter not paying attention to movies and it drove me nuts. Then I started picking up my phone too. (Sound of a screeching halt). The new rule is if you want to use your phone or computer: you leave the room.
So if I’m having a problem like this, how are electronic “distractions” impacting my daughter? I worry about her consuming more than she creates. The phone rarely leaves her hand and is always close by if it does. It’s an electronic clutch and crutch.
It’s not easy to break a habit like this, and I’m an adult (at least in age). I find myself going a day or two without excessive surfing but then falling back when I’m bored or tired. Or while doing my 4.5 hours of treatments each day.
My last thought-and I have no proof of this, it’s just a hunch – is that my surfing large amounts of negative news stories takes a its toll beyond my poor concentration. My gut tells me it extracts a greater price: anxiety, depression and hopelessness. Yay, a triple scoop of hell.
Maybe there is such a thing as too much knowledge in this day and age. I’m thinking it’s time for my brain to go on a diet, especially with four years of a rich oaf leading our country on the way. | <urn:uuid:a9788b1c-f4c4-4b5d-b2ba-77f3bd9de18f> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://unknowncystic.com/category/internet/ | 2020-11-25T16:05:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141183514.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20201125154647-20201125184647-00366.warc.gz | en | 0.94028 | 589 |
Location: London W11
Client: Private Client
Project Year: 2006
Cost: £500k - £2mThe unit is planned as a totally open plan one bedroom space. The bedroom has a large walk-in wardrobe area lined in stained oak panels, mirror and glass as well as a travertine lined ensuite bathroom with a separate wetroom in the original church turret.
There is also a separate area with a large oversized built in L shaped sofa with projector and electronic screen. This area can also be partitioned off by a 4 metre long sliding stained oak wall to form an additional bedroom when needed. A bed slides out of one of the joinery units.
Electronically controlled diffuser curtains give greater privacy at night and due to the high degree of glazing, comfort cooling has been installed throughout.
The base build ceiling heights were relatively low at 2.6m so 'floating ceiling rafts' and raised coffers with recessed lighting have been designed specially to give a sense of greater volume and height as well as hiding the structural beams and providing a sense of drama to the space.
There is an integrated AV and lighting sy stem throughout with ceiling mounted speakers to help create a seamless look.
Bedroom with concealed lighting
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Here we will explain how to create a construction on your own and how to use it.
Our goal is to create a construction which, given two points A and B and a numerical value ang, will create a triangle AMB rectangle in M such as angle BAM has ang for measure.
Let’s create a new figure with menu item File - New figure.
If necessary, use menu Options - Current figure to check that the angle unity of the figure is the degree.
Use icon to create a calculus named ang containing 30 for formula.
Create two free points with icon and give them A et B for name with icon .
Use icon to create the midpoint of segment [AB].
Use now icon to create the circle with center the former midpoint and going through point A.
Let’s now create the image point of point B through the rotation of center A and angle ang.
For this click on icon .
Now click on point A (rotation center) which starts blinking.
Click now on point B to create it’s image through the rotation.
Use now icon to create the half line with origin A and going through the last point created.
With intersection tool create the intersection between the circle and the half-line. Simply click at the intersection when displayed this intersection.
We will call this new point M (tool ).
Use icon to create segments [AB], [BM] et [MA] and icon to create a right angle mark in M (click on A, then M, then B).
Our figure is now ready to create the construction.
Use menu item Constructions - Source objects choice - Graphical.
Click on A, on B then right click (as indicated in the indication line on the bottom of the frame).
Use menu item Constructions >> Sources objects choice - Numerical.
A dialog box pops up.
The left list box contains numerical elements that can be chosen for sources objects. Click on ang the click on button Insert (you can also double-click on ang) then validate as shown underneath.
We must now indicate the final objects of our construction. In this example, final objects will only be graphical objects.
Mathgraph32 allows the user to choose for final objects exclusively objects created only with the sources objects.
Use menu item Constructions - Final objects choice - Graphical.
Click on point M, on the three segments, on the angle mark then right click.
To get the construction finalized, use menu item Constructions - Finish current construction.
Fill in the dialog box as shown :
Here are explanations about the informations entered in the edit text box.
The four first lines are explanations the user will get when pressing F7 key when using the construction.
The last three lines will indicate the user which is the source object he must indicate when implementing the construction.
Each indication starts with character # followed by the number of the object and a character : .
To be noticed : When implementing a construction, numerical objects are to be chosen first.
If you don’t delete this construction, it will be saved in the file with the figure but it is better if you save it in a mgc file on disk.
For this, use menu item Constructions - Save construction of figure to file.
A dialog box pops up, displaying all the constructions contained in the figure. Our only construction is already selected.
Click on button Save to save this construction in the directory of your choice (it is better to keep the samme name for the file as the construction itself).
We will now show how to implement this construction in another figure.
Use menu item File- New figure to create a new empty figure.
Use menu itemCalculus - New variable to create a variable named a with - 90 for mini value - 90, 90 for maxi value, 10 for increment step, 30 for current value and set the checkbox Associated dialog selected.
Create two free points with icon et name them C and D.
Use menu item Constructions - Implement construction from file and open the construction you saved before (you must browse to the directory where the mgc file was saved).
A dialog box pops up for the choice of the real value that will be the angle (named ang when the construction was created).
A dialog box pops up.
Click on a in the list as shown underneath.
Then click on points C and D. Pressing F7 key will make appear informations specified for this construction. These informations are very important for the user to understand what the construction is made for.
Now you can see the final objects created : the three segments, the point M and the right angle mark.
Clicking on buttons + et - of the little dialog box associated with the variable will modify the angle value in point C.
To be noticed : In more sophisticated constructions you can have also numerical final objects.
Using the F5 key (for the figure protocol ddiplay) and selecting the checkbox Trace through constructions you will see how the figure was created.
Intermediary objects cannot be used to create other objects, unless you use menu item Constructions - Merge constructions of the figure.
You can specify the file directory where your own constructions are saved.
The choici of this directory is available in menu item Options - Preferences in tab Constructions directory.
An important remark :
In an usal usage, free points are not supposed to become fianl objects, but, in some cases, it may be useful.
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This weekend, from March 20th-22nd, Chicago will be playing host to the sixth annual Chicago Tattoo Arts Convention, the biggest in the city and one of the largest in the country. The convention will be held at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare and it will provide an opportunity to all fans of ink to mingle with like-minded people, learn new stuff about tattooing and hear from some of the biggest names in the industry.
The event will feature innumerable tattoo artists from all over the United States, presenting their best work and doing some tattooing on the spot. This will be the perfect chance to get some new ideas for your future ink.
The list of special guests for the event is a long and exciting one. Jason Clay Dunn, the winner of Ink Master Season 5 will be there, as will the winner of Season 4, Scott Marshall. Joey Hamilton who won season 3 will also be there, as well as a number of runners up and contestants from the 5 seasons of the show and some other very popular tattoo artists: Cleen Rock One, Erik Siuda, Alli Baker, Matti Hixson, Emily Elagado, Robbie Ripoll, Stan Moskowitz,S Shanghai Kate and many, many more.
The entertainment will also be top-notch, with performances from The Show Devils, Marlo Marquise, Half Pint Brawlers, Dr. Blasphemy and others. In addition to this, a number of artists and experts from the industry will also be holding seminars where you will be able to learn a ton.
Finally, the after parties will be held at Exit, Chicago’s Original Punk Bar since 1981. | <urn:uuid:4d434649-f345-4765-b136-73a09735cb27> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | http://www.citiesjournal.com/chicago-is-getting-inked-this-weekend/ | 2019-03-21T22:27:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202572.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20190321213516-20190321235516-00492.warc.gz | en | 0.952831 | 347 |
Title: Rest Assured (That All My Love's For You)
Pairing: Santana Lopez/Brittany Pierce
Disclaimer: Nothing owned, no profit gained.
Spoilers: Through Heart. Because it broke me.
Summary: She remembers the very first time like it’s today.
A/N: Title from Green Day's "Last Night On Earth."
The first time still sends tingles zipping up and down her arms, traveling like sharp, warm currents of electricity beneath her skin. First times are meant to be so nerve-wracking, so awkward—maybe even a little gross—but she doesn’t remember it that way. It remains in her mind in every moment after, clean as a new brand, the vivid ink of a fresh tattoo. She can’t banish it, and, though there may have been moments when she’d have liked to, she wouldn’t dream of it now. It’s too important, too beautiful.
She remembers like it’s happening now, in this moment, bright and hot and gorgeous.
She remembers hands: smaller, then, rough from time outdoors. There was a time, not so long ago, when they lived outside, perfectly at home in trees and backyards. Hands back then were small, pale, dotted with light freckles—freckles she’d never have noticed if not for how close they come on this day, close enough to count each and every one. Fingertips trickle across the planes of her round face—thumb skirting around the little scratch on her nose, the scab on one cheek left over from a bike accident last week. Her eyes are closed, letting it happen, letting those hands—thin, shaky—travel where they will. Exploring. Soft, the slightest bit sticky—always sticky back then, from melted candy and traces of bright blue ice cream—prowling across her cheekbones, thumbing the skin beneath her eyelashes. She lets them go, feeling her own breath coming and going in hitches—like running too fast to get here, to this moment.
The hands pause against flushed cheeks, palms tilted to cup either side of her jaw. One thumb sweeps left, halting an inch before it can reach her lips. Her tongue flicks out, instinctive. She doesn’t think it about it; it’s just something to do, a natural reaction to this brave new sense of someone so close to what has always been hers. Only hers.
She’s never shared something like this before. It’s striking, how brave she feels, doing it now.
She remembers sunlight, gentle and insistent as it patters down upon her loose hair. Shadows dance behind trembling eyelids, twirling and sparking with anticipation. It’s like dessert, waiting on the kitchen counter, like that endless moment stretching on and on before her hands come loose from the swing chains and she lets her body soar. She imagines she can feel each new freckle bursting to life upon the hands cradling her face. Her feet in their scuffed sneakers are excited, twisting around one another in the rain-drunk grass—puppies tumbling over and over with abandon. She can’t stand it much longer, this moment of just waiting.
It must show on her face, this soaring feeling inside that prays for time to tick faster. It must be etched into each line of her face, every fluttering eyelash, each crack in chapped, plump lips. She remembers wondering if it can be read in the shine of her hair, or the curl-tuck of her fingers as they rub against the denim shorts that scratch her thighs. She wonders if the whole world can sense her impatience, if it’s grinning at her the way Dad does as she squirms on Christmas morning.
This is a thousand Christmas mornings, bundled up tight with bright red string and the promise of always. This is a squirming she’s never known before, her toes angling into the muddy ground, propelling her skyward. She wants to leap, to fly, but—but—
She remembers feeling so mature in that moment, keeping her desperation in check with that discipline her father had been instilling for months. She remembers feeling so in control, and it makes her laugh to think of it now, to have ever imagined such a thing—when, really, it may have been the least control she’d ever had up to that point. Control comes later, but for now…
She recalls the way her eyes flickered open, breaking a silent vow to herself: the promise that she wouldn’t look, wouldn’t push. They’d agreed to this, of course, and done so together, but all the same—it’s supposed to happen with eyes clenched shut. She’d promised herself that.
But her eyes are open now, and she knows there's no way she can look anywhere else. Not with how blue the gaze burning back is. She’s never realized before how blue blue can be, how brazenly this color can reflect the sky, the sea, the racing beat of her heart, trembling like a newborn kitten beneath her rock-n-roll t-shirt. She’s looked a thousand times into these eyes, but she feels now that she really sees them—and, though it’s maybe a little terrifying, they see her right back. Deep and clear, shining with the summer sun, as cloudless as a dream. She looks, and her lips pull in a mad grin, unbidden.
She remembers feeling insane just then, realizing for the first time just how deep this thread might run under her skin. This feeling, her feet pushing off from the soft ground, her teeth betraying the biggest, wildest smile she’s ever been capable of—this is the soul of madness, the core of what it means to lose control.
And to kind of love that feeling, like leaping on her bike from a curb that’s just a little bit higher than expected.
The eyes are drawing closer, and now, suddenly, it all comes together: thumbs tracing shivery little patterns into her cheeks, fingers almost awkwardly braced against her face, the radiation of the sun’s warmth above them. Her sneakers punch the ground again, and she’s up, up, her nose bumbling out of place, and she knows she should be embarrassed—
--except it feels so nice, so unexpectedly glorious, to rub the tip of her nose against one a little longer, a little paler. It feels nice, so she presses in harder, listening for that first gasp, the quick intake of air that reminds her where they are, what they’re doing. She drags her nose left to right, drinking in the scent of sweat and sugar, wondering all the while if freckles have a smell all their own or if this is just—well…
The name lights up in the very middle of her brain, glowing neon as the signs littering New York. It bursts into full color, tendrils sneaking down through every artery, pumping the bump of that B into her bloodstream, the gentle curl of the Y coursing free. The name explodes, and her stomach drops—the half-flying, half-falling sensation of exploding off that curb into the air—and still she keeps stretching up, following its whispers until they’re flush together. Until her fingers are curling against Brittany’s shoulders, twining in the bright yellow cotton of that Tweety Bird t-shirt. Her hands clench firmly, fisting around the material until the tendons in her hands yelp with discomfort.
Everything falls away with the first cautious sweep of Brittany’s lips against her own. The grass beneath her feet fades into fog, the sunlight all but vanishing as she scrunches her eyes again and melts. Brittany’s got her in a clumsy half-hug, one arm looped around her middle, her palm tap-tap-tapping against the small of her back like it can’t decide if it’s all right to settle there. Her free hand is still pressed to a blushing cheek, fingers bending just behind her ear, pushing slowly, uncertainly into thick dark hair. Brittany’s got her, strong and nervous and almost laughing against her mouth with how crazy this all feels. She gets that. She’s never felt anything like it, either.
She remembers how long it took to progress from that point. The standstill is so awkward in her mind, so hilarious: Brittany’s mouth stills above her own, frozen, her nose crushed there like she’s scared to move it. Like now is the moment everything could come apart.
She remembers how certain she was that something like that couldn’t be allowed to happen.
Her mouth slips once, twice, nearly falling away, nearly landing on Brittany’s chin. Determined, she shuffles up an inch or two, angles her head—and goes for it. Someone’s got to, someone has to be brave first, and she’s always been so good at leading Brittany. So good at showing Brittany how awesome the scary things can be.
She goes for it, doing her best not to giggle, and opens her mouth. Brittany makes a little noise, sort of strangled and helpless, her hand seizing against the hem of that old Styx t-shirt. The tips of her small fingers accidentally brush exposed skin, and she makes that sound again, her body surging forward. Her lips part, accepting the chapped, hopeful kiss that flows between them, until one lower lip is caught, both of them forgetting what belongs to whom. Her tongue skates clumsily up to catch the tip of Santana’s upper lip, and darts immediately away again. Santana remembers laughing out loud then, the sound disappearing into Brittany’s mouth even as her own tongue nudged its way inside to taste, to stroke out a new adventure. She remembers how fantastic the buzzing in her head had grown, how it bounded in an excited tizzy between her burning ears.
She remembers Brittany dragging her nearer, laughing with her until they could kiss no longer. She can still feel the sensation of soft lips falling away, landing on her shoulder, Brittany’s face buried in dark blue material as she snorted in hysteria. Her hands tighten at Santana’s back, thumbs doodling lazy circles unwittingly into the skin above her shorts. She remembers how it felt, that warm fist clenching in the pit of her stomach for the first time.
It’s hard to forget. She still feels it today.
She still feels all of it, every bashful, blissful beat of that first summer dance. Each time she sees Brittany’s ears burn bright crimson with want, with every teasing pass Brittany’s palm makes over her bare knee, every time Brittany’s startling blue eyes capture hers in a crowded room—every moment they spend together follows the old tempo, holding fast to that same beautiful rhythm. She remembers like it’s happening now, because it is—and because, as far as she can tell, it’s never-ending. The moments bleed together, past and present, impossible to tug one loose from the other. It’s eternal, a band that winds around and around for all of time.
She feels it each night in bed, her arms sandwiching a pillow as Brittany climbs in behind her, lips brushing the back of her neck.
She feels it as she reclines against Brittany’s chest in the hallway, head rolling with laughter upon Brittany’s slim, strong shoulder.
She feels it in the choir room as their friends croon, hands clasping reflexively between them until she has trouble determining which fingers are meant to be hers.
She feels it on Valentine’s Day, in the middle of the “Sugar Shack,” in that black dress with Brittany’s hands smoothing down her back, spinning in slow circles on the dance floor.
She feels it when Brittany forgets herself, forgets everything that has ever gone wrong in their lives, and pulls her close, crushing their chests together, beaming into an adoring kiss.
She feels it when they graduate, fingers bound tight on the tabletop at dinner, silently admiring this new look into an exciting future.
She feels it every day, in every moment, every time Brittany’s smile lights up a room, or those blue-blue eyes gleam with pride and love.
She remembers, forever, that very first kiss, and the promise it drew up on an innocent summer afternoon. She could never forget. | <urn:uuid:0f815216-0019-4250-858d-4cef32c5077d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archiveofourown.org/works/420193 | 2013-05-19T20:23:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698063918/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095423-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94911 | 2,694 |
Gasoline got cheaper last week and is predicted to continue downward.
The national average price of a gallon of gas fell by a nickel, with Florida posting a 3-cent drop.
The timing couldn't be better with a long holiday weekend ahead.
Bloomberg's weekly survey of 38 industry analysts found 21 predicting that the price of gas will continue falling. High inventories and low demand are behind the slide in prices.
Reduced wholesale prices indicate a longer-term retail drop, according to Retail Fuel Watch, an oil industry trade paper.
That's good news with the upcoming three-day July 4 weekend expected to put thousands of people on the road.
"Last year at this time, we saw the national average price of gasoline increase from $4.07 to $4.10 on July 4,'' said Gregg Laskoski, managing director of public relations for AAA Auto Club South. "Fortunately, it's a much different story this year. All the indicators reflect that the peak price is behind us and we can now expect retail gasoline prices to edge downward, even as we approach the Independence Day weekend." | <urn:uuid:13461012-2477-47fd-a4a2-bfc1d5ca5a2f> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/gas-prices-drop-as-holiday-weekend-looms/1014158 | 2015-08-04T15:08:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042990900.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002310-00211-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950418 | 227 |
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Universal Accessibility Technical Committee
Reporting to the Board of Directors of the Société de transport de l'Outaouais (STO), the Universal Accessibility Technical Committee's mission is to examine the accessibility of the regular transit system and paratransit.
The committee's objective is to provide an advisory role during preparation of the universal accessibility development plan for the STO's service area for 2015 to 2019, and to conduct annual monitoring.
The committee is made up of STO employees and members of the STO's Board of Directors. The committee also has representatives for patrons who are chosen, subsequent to a call for nominations, by a selection committee made up of members of the Universal Accessibility Technical Committee. Representatives carry out their duties on a volunteer basis.
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“In hope we were saved” (Spe salvi facti sumus). Pope Benedict’s encyclical Spe salvi, released in late 2007, begins with this quote from Paul’s letter to the Romans (8:24). Benedict goes on immediately to speak of redemption: “According to the Christian faith, “redemption”—salvation—is not simply a given.
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Chemometric techniques for multivariate calibration and their application in spectroscopic sensors.
Date of Issue2012
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Chemometric modeling for multivariate calibration of spectroscopy is a crucial technique to ensure product quality and process performance at low cost in many industries. This technique provides fast, noninvasive and nondestructive analysis of sample/process by predicting analyte properties from measured spectra. Traditional multivariate calibration methods, such as principal component regression (PCR) and partial least squares (PLS), are only reliable when the relationship between analyte properties and spectra is linear. In practice, external disturbances, such as light scattering and baseline noise, will introduce non-linearity into spectral data, deteriorating the prediction accuracy of PCR and PLS. In this thesis, several chemometric strategies will be investigated to address this challenge, including pre-processing and non-linear calibration techniques. Pre-processing methods of the first (D1) and second derivatives (D2), standard normal variate (SNV), extended multiplicative signal correction (EMSC), and extended inverted signal correction (EISC), are proposed to remove the impact of disturbances first, so that the linear calibration method of PCR or PLS can be applied. In addition, a unique linear calibration strategy of optical path length estimation and correction (OPLEC), which involving the building of two linear calibration models, is also investigated. Non-linear calibration techniques aim to model the non-linearity directly, including the methods of artificial neural network (ANN), least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM), and Gaussian process regression (GPR). Through comparison of different linear and non-linear calibration techniques, it is found non-linear calibration techniques give more accurate prediction performance than linear methods in most cases. However, non-linear calibration models are not robust enough and small changes in training data or model parameters may result in significant changes in prediction. Therefore, the strategies of bagging/subagging are investigated to improve the prediction robustness of non-linear calibration models. Furthermore, when using spectroscopic data to predict the analyte property, not all of the variables have contribution to the calibration model. Therefore, selecting the useful variables is effective to improve the prediction performance of calibration models. Two penalized regression algorithms with variable selection using LASSO (least absolute shrinkage and selection operator), penalized linear regression (PLR) and penalized Gaussian process regression (PGPR), are investigated to solve the variable selection problem. Finally, chemometric calibration techniques are applied for solving practical problems which involve predicting the length distribution of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) through ultraviolet-visible near-infrared (UV-vis-NIR) spectroscopy and designing a soft sensor to monitor an industrial anaerobic wastewater treatment process. | <urn:uuid:13ac7532-3113-4650-b593-c8f79f44ca90> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/handle/10356/48640 | 2018-03-19T13:08:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257646914.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319120712-20180319140712-00353.warc.gz | en | 0.870496 | 580 |
|First page of James Maxwell's poem "A Paradoxical Ode", his last and final poem on his views concerning thermodynamics, evolution, immortality, morality, soul, and consciousness reasoned down to the atomic level, sent to Peter Tait in jest of his 1875 conservation of energy theory of immortality, co-written with Balfour Stewart. |
Scottish physicist James Maxwell, in his 1878 Nature review of Balfour Stewart and Peter Tait’s religion-sided science-crouched books The Unseen Universe (1875) and followup sequel Paradoxical Philosophy (1878), gave the following depiction of the paradoxical philosopher:
“Paradoxical philosophers [are those] eminent men of science, ‘driven,’ as they tell us, ‘by the exigencies of the subject,’ [who] having laid down all the instruments of their art, shaken the very chalk from their hands, and, locked up their laboratories, have betaken themselves to those blissful country seats where Philonous long ago convinced Hylas that there can be no heat in the fire and no matter in the world; and where in more recent times, Peacock and Mallock have brought together in larger groups the more picturesque of contemporary opinions.”
Paradoxes that arise in the paradoxical philosophy mindset, as discussed by Maxwell, include the "double mind", the "binding problem", the unbridgeable gap issue or “leveling up policy”, as Maxwell called it, the "continuity issue" (morality or immortality), among others.
Maxwell goes on to comment how the scientists with philosopher’s paradox often tend to conclude with the conception of the “double mind” and cites the following passage of German physician-physiologist Emil de Bois-Reymond as an example:
“On the one side the acting, inventing, unconscious material mind, which puts the muscles into motion, and determines the world's history; this is nothing else but the mechanics of atoms, and is subject to the causal law, and on the other side the inactive, contemplative, remembering, fancying, conscious, immaterial mind, which feels pleasure and pain, love, and hate; this one lies outside of the mechanics of matter, and cares nothing for cause and effect.”
Maxwell then goes on to comment “we might ask professor Du Bois-Reymond which of these [two minds] it is that does right or wrong.” Maxwell also give the example of how the paradoxical philosopher may lead to the contradictory conclusion that “all matter is, in some occult sense, alive”, i.e. the panpsychism or panexperientialism, in modern parlance, such as posited by a doctor Hermann Stoffkraft, in one chapter of Paradoxical Philosophy.
In his discussion of the “leveling up” policy [extrapolate up vs. extrapolate down], a name which he gives to the view of Dr. Stoftrakft that all kinds of matter have their motions accompanied with certain simple sensations or that all matter is to some sense alive, Maxwell also brings up the recent 1877 lecture “The Limits of Natural Knowledge” by Swiss-born German botanist Carl von Nageli, wherein Maxwell summarizes as follows:
“He can draw no line across the chain of being [unbridgeable gap], and say that sensation and consciousness do not extend below that line. He cannot doubt that every molecule possesses something related, though distantly, to sensation, ‘since each one feels the presence, the particular condition, the peculiar forces of the other, and, accordingly, has the inclination to move, and under circumstances really begins to move—becomes alive as it were; ... If therefore, the molecules feel something which is related to sensation, then this must be pleasure if they can respond to attraction and repulsion, i.e., follow their inclination or disinclination; it must be displeasure if they are forced to execute some opposite movement, and it must be neither pleasure nor displeasure if they remain at rest’.”
Maxwell goes on to speculate as to whether or not atoms can have pleasure, in terms of pure dynamics, and concludes with the remark “even if a man were built up of thinking atoms would the thoughts of the man have any relation to the thoughts of the atoms?” This is what is known as the “binding problem” in modern philosophical parlance, a 1890 expression of American psychologist William James who commented “how can many consciousnesses be at the same time one consciousness?” This is what is called, according to American philosopher Christian de Quincey, the main issue in any standard critique of any form of panpsychism.
A Paradoxical Ode
In followup to his review, in 1878 Maxwell penned a satirical three-part poem entitled “A Paradoxical Ode”, addressed to Hermann Stoffkraft (the so-called materialistic hero of Paradoxical Philosophy), which he sent to Tait poking fun at their work, themed on the alluded to premise that his soul was an amphicheiral knot, a knot that can be deformed into its mirror image, in a scientific sense, which curiously was Maxwell’s last poem, as he died in midlife, at the age of 48 (in 1879) and knew he was dying as he wrote it.
Paradoxical philosophers | modern
In modern times, a recent example of a paradoxical philosopher is English physicist Philip Moriarty who argues and teaches that entropy can apply to arrangements of atoms and molecules in statistical systems, supposedly viewed in terms of the Max Planck 1900 black body-multiplicity of atomic states model of entropy, but that that "thermodynamic entropy", in his own words, cannot be applied to the arrangements of students in a field. His view was discussed and argued at length in the 2009 Moriarty-Thims debate.
Another example of the paradoxical philosopher, i.e. one who used contradictory phrases and statements in argument, is Czech black hole thermodynamicist, string theorist, and former MIT physics professor Lubos Motl, who when confronted with the view that thermodynamics governs human relationships, commented in hasty objection to the work of American chemical engineer Libb Thims, on 20 Nov 2010, that:
“It is blatant absurdity to model laws governing human relationships using rules of thermodynamics, a set of rules that only apply at the molecular level and human beings are NOT molecules.” (his capital use).
This statement, however, contradicts Motl's previously stated views on how thermodynamics applies to black holes. In 2003, for example, he stated:
"Entropy defined statistically as the logarithm of the number of microstates always behaves in the same approximate thermodynamic way if the systems become large, and black holes are no exception."
This paradoxical contradiction of views is sort of akin to the "double blind placebo effect", being that: (a) theorizing objectively on something external to oneself, e.g. the thermodynamic behavior of bacteria or black holes, tends to have no observer bias, for the most part (unless say the theorizer is being funded by an entity with ulterior interests in mind, which tends to skew results and conclusions), but (b) theorizing objectively on oneself may very well often tend to lead to skewed thinking, e.g. Motl switching his choice of words to "rules of thermodynamics" (in arguing against thermodynamic human modeling), from his standard "laws of thermodynamics" in his journal articles on black hole thermodynamics. In other words, for black holes Motl becomes objective and not subject to observer bias, but when he thinks about how thermodynamics applies to himself, he becomes mentally confused and contradicts himself, to conclude that no thermodynamics cannot be scaled up as systems become large (such as in human societies).
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4. (a) Maxwell, James. (1878). “A Paradoxical Ode / After Shelley”, in: Life of Maxwell, pgs. 649-51; in: Knott, Life of Tait, pgs. 242-43.
(b) Knott, Cargill G. (1911). Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait (pg. 241-42). Cambridge University Press.
5. (a) Silver, Daniel S. (2007). “My Soul’s an Amphicheircal Knot: the Last Poem of James Clerk Maxwell”, SouthAlabama.edu.
(b) Brown, Adam. (2006). “Maxwell’s Paradoxical Ode”, research paper, University of South Alabama, Fall Term.
(c) Original copy of "Paradoxical Ode" contained in Tait's scrapbook donated to the James Maxwell Foundation in Edinburgh.
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Scottish Green MSPs John Finnie and Mark Ruskell have today (13 Feb) written to the government's economic development agencies urging them to step up efforts to secure new orders in light of warnings that the BiFab marine engineering yards in Fife and on Lewis could close by the end of June.
The Unite union says it expects 260 jobs to go, with redundancies beginning in May, and that it has been told that the decision will only be reversed if new contracts for work are signed.
Scotland has a pollution problem with microfibres and the Scottish Government must act now to fix it, a Green MSP will say in the Scottish Parliament today.
Mark Ruskell MSP, the Scottish Greens’ environment spokesperson, will use this afternoon’s “Stemming the Plastic Tide” debate at Holyrood to urge ministers to take action to address the problem of plastics, and other materials, from synthetic clothing entering the water cycle from washing machines.
Mark Ruskell MSP, Environment spokesperson for the Scottish Greens, today (6 Feb) warned that a ban on exports of Scottish farmed salmon is a step closer after regulators and the industry were unable to say what steps they have taken to meet US import rules prohibiting the killing of mammals such as seals.
At today's meeting of Holyrood's Environment Committee, the Scottish Salmon Producers' Organisation also confirmed that it will begin routinely publishing data on disease, sea lice infestations, and mortalities at their farms following pressure from campaigners.
Scottish Green MSP Mark Ruskell today (1 Feb) raised concerns about safety in schools with Deputy First Minister John Swinney after a freedom of information request revealed that more than one in four schools in Fife have no smoke detectors.
Mr Ruskell also revealed that not every Fife school is fitted with a fire alarm, and he questioned how appropriate a manual bell or a hand bell is in such an instance.
The Mid Scotland & Fife MSP sought information following the recent fire at Cairneyhill Primary School.
Ineos’s decision to challenge Scotland’s fracking ban has been called predictable and desperate by a Green MSP.
Mark Ruskell MSP, the Scottish Greens’ climate and energy spokesperson, also says the multinational chemicals company should accept they “lost the democratic debate” instead of throwing their toys of the pram.
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The Signs of Spring Coming
“Look, Joan-Joan, look what I found! Isn’t it beautiful?” My 6 year old granddaughter had found a daffodil in the back yard.
I said, “Oh yes, it is very beautiful. The daffodil is telling us that spring is coming!” Jessica immediately jumped up and down and up and down and up and down shouting “spring is coming, spring is coming, spring is coming!”
Is there anything more delightful than the totally honest enthusiasm of a 6 year old?
Dear God in Heaven, make me enthusiastic as Jessica! I am thankful for the seasons and I love, love spring and always have. This year, I will not only enjoy it, I will celebrate with enthusiasm! I think maybe the next time Jessica is here, we will get out my mama’s little tea set and have ourselves a real “Southern lady tea party” to celebrate the coming of spring. As Jannelle Kleppin recommends in Banish the Blahs, perhaps I will cut the peanut butter sandwiches in fun shapes with no crust. Yes, we will celebrate!!!! May we all be encouraged by the signs of spring coming. Welcome, Spring!
From Musings from Joan – 2008
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Becoming a Border Patrol Agent
United States border patrol agents are federal law enforcers employed by the US Customs and Border Protection, which is a branch of the Department of Homeland Security. Their sworn duty is to guard the borders of the United States while facilitating legitimate international travel and trade. This includes protecting the American public from terrorists and their weapons, preventing dangerous pests from entering the U.S. (agricultural protection), and enforcing laws on immigration, customs, and trade.
Patrolling the land and maritime boundaries for illegally entering persons is perhaps the most recognizable activity carried out by border patrol agents, however, border management and control is only one of the many duties thrust upon today's agents. In addition to securing the border, they carry out surveillance and interdiction operations to stem the smuggling of narcotics, counterfeit goods, stolen art, illegal weapons, and biochemically hazardous substances, among others. On a typical day, border patrol agents will apprehend approximately 1,100 individuals for suspected violations of U.S. laws, screen nearly one million international travelers, seize nearly six tons of illegal drugs, and prevent over 400 dangerous pests from entering the U.S. Theirs is one of the largest US law enforcement agencies, with the actual manpower strength exceeding 21,000 male and female agents.
Border Patrol Agent Employment
US Border Patrol agents are routinely exposed to dangerous situations due to their role as guardians of the American homeland. As the front line defense against terrorist and criminal acts, agents must display high levels of vigilance and professionalism as they complete their daily tasks, which includes inspecting people, vehicles and cargo. Border patrol agents also conduct raids and seizures of illegally smuggled materials such as narcotics, which is an inherently dangerous situation.
If you are interested in working as a US Border Patrol agent, and you think you are well-suited for a career that requires vigilance, integrity, and professionalism at all times, its best to start preparing early for the recruitment process. Preparing for the recruitment and screening process means, among other things, getting into top physical shape and taking steps to familiarize oneself with the policies, requirements and duties of the agency you wish to work for. The screening and selection procedures for US Border Patrol are exhaustive, including a series of physical fitness tests, and the competition is very high.
Below is a five-step guide on how to become a US border patrol agent:
Step 1 - Meet the Minimum Requirements
As listed in the CBP's basic qualifications and medical requirements, aspiring US border patrol agents must fulfill the following:
- Be a US citizen.
- Be less than 37 years old at the time of selection (except for veterans, and currently or formerly employed federal law enforcement agents covered by Public Law 100-238 special retirement provisions).
- Be of good moral character, and have no disqualifying criminal convictions.
- Have resided in the U.S. for the last three years.
- Possess a valid driver's license.
- Pass the CBP Border Patrol entrance examination and other capability assessments.
- Pass the in-person panel interview
The CBP entrance examination for border patrol agents consists of three parts, which includes a proficiency test in Spanish. Applicants who do not speak the language, which is critical in most border patrol operations, are administered an artificial test that predicts the ability to learn and comprehend Spanish. Another exam component involves logical reasoning. For this part, the test items are hypothetical questions relating to the job being applied for, and the answers are drawn from the information supplied in the exam questionnaire.
To gain consideration, applicants must furnish résumés that contain previous job duties and actual accomplishments that illustrate their capacity to work within the CBP system. Other required documents must be submitted to the CBP Minneapolis Hiring Center on or before the deadline specified in the job vacancy announcement.
US border patrol agents are hired to positions at the GL-5, GL-7, and GL-9 levels. (The codes are assigned by the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees federal staffing.)
The GL-5 level requires at least a year's worth of paid or voluntary experience that demonstrates abilities in making decisions and sound judgment calls, as both a leader and a team member, in fostering collaborative environments and maintaining productive relationships at work, and in learning and abiding by law enforcement policies and procedures. Voluntary experience refers to working under national service programs (e.g., Peace Corps) or recognized initiatives that show strength of character, personality, and competency (e.g., participating in philanthropic endeavors). Applicants who have no prior experience may substitute a four-year college degree in any field, obtained from an accredited US academic institution, or from foreign schools recognized by the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES). Applicants with experience, and who have earned college units (but who did not graduate), may combine the two requirements. The college units earned will be computed toward experience; i.e., one year of full-time semester or quarter units earned is equivalent to six (6) months' worth of experience, and so on.
The GL-7 level, which is considered more senior than its GL-5 counterpart, requires at least twelve (12) months' worth of law enforcement experience. This is because GL-7 positions require demonstrable knowledge in the dynamics of law enforcement and criminal justice. An applicant must be able to show the ability to make lawful arrests and exercise sound judgment in the use of force and handling of firearms; to analyze information quickly, and take prompt and appropriate law enforcement action based on the analysis; to deal with persons within the criminal justice environment effectively and tactfully; and to create and nurture viable working relationships with informants. An applicant without prior experience must have at least a full year of graduate education in law or a law enforcement-related field, such as criminal justice, justice administration, or police science. Otherwise, s/he can qualify under Superior Academic Achievement (SAA) provisions, which refers to having a bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year US college or university, or a foreign educational institution recognized by NACES (in some cases). The SAA provisions call for: 1) a GPA of 3.0 or higher, out of a possible 4.0, at least for the courses completed in the last two years of undergraduate study; 2) a class standing within the upper third of the applicant's graduating class; or 3) a membership in a national scholastic honor society (not counting freshman honor societies).
The GL-9 level, which pertains to a rank and pay scale higher than the GL-5 and GL-7 levels, does not look into educational qualifications. However, it requires that applicants have at least a year's worth of experience in the law enforcement field. The job description involves the conduct of interrogations and arrests, the collection of evidence against suspects, and the development of cases on these actions. They must also be prepared to write and submit reports, and testify in court in regard to the cases that they are pursuing. They must be familiar with law enforcements databases and information retrieval systems.
The medical requirements for US border patrol agents include clear eyesight (20/20 corrected distance vision; at least 20/100, without correction); hearing in both ears without the use of hearing aids; and the absence of any impairments and illnesses that can be detrimental to the discharge of duties, and which can endanger the work environment. Pre-employment fitness tests (or PFTs) must be passed for consideration.
Disqualifying marks are derogatory information retrieved from police databases and public records, and failed urine drug tests and polygraph tests. Background investigation will be conducted, using different methods that include credit checks and interviews with former employers. Information collected will be verified through lawful means.
Step 2 - Obtain a Degree or Accumulate Experience
As explained in Step 1, applying for a US border patrol agent position does not require a bachelor's degree, as long as applicants have earned the necessary experience. But even with some experience, particularly in a GL-5 or GL-7 position, a college education can spell the difference between success and failure in employment. Competition is quite stiff.
Degree programs that are recommended for the job are criminal justice, justice administration, public administration, police administration and operations, police science, behavioral science, homeland security and counter-terrorism, and human relations. Foundation courses include international criminal justice, American politics, constitutional law, criminal law, and ethics in criminal justice. Electives include immigration law, customs law, intelligence and surveillance, international relations, sociology, and psychology.
Proficiency in Spanish is an asset, considering that Hispanic-initiated illegal border-crossing activities consume a substantial part of CBP operations. The language course is best paired with academic training in multicultural understanding and tolerance. The soft skills acquired and developed in the formal-education context involve interpersonal relationships, effectiveness in written and oral communications, critical analysis and problem solving, and the exercise of sound judgment in pressing situations.
Another important reason for obtaining a degree is in view of a progressive CBP career; there are many opportunities for advancement within the organization. But internal competition is high. Among personnel, those who excel in the field are recognized and commended. But the “promotable best” are those who possess both experience and education.
Step 3 - Apply for a Position
Vacancies for the US border patrol agent position are announced on the official CBP website, although the actual platform where applications can be lodged may be found at www.USAjobs.gov. The requirements needed for each phase in the recruitment process are listed in said sites, with explanations on waivers and accommodations for persons with special cases (like qualifiable candidates with disabilities). Preparation handouts, study guides, and helpful hints for the entrance examination are also available for viewing and downloading on the CBP site.
The call for applications ends exactly on the date specified in the job vacancy, or when the quota (the number of applications to be accepted) is reached, whichever comes first. The earliest-submitted applications have the best chances of being considered.
Especially that the position is highly competitive, applicants must strictly comply with all requirements; i.e., from filling out online forms to submitting the necessary documents. After successfully completing the screening requirements, including proficiency and physical tests, they must ace the panel interview. The oral examination is crucial in selection because this is where interviewers can make individual assessments of the applicants' character, personality, and capabilities beyond the physical and intellectual aspects. The questions will be based on claims in the résumés, and can include hypothetical questions. The answers reflect the applicants' attitude and inclination to the job, and the willingness to be part of a demanding and dangerous work environment.
It must be noted that the agency evaluates applicants for stellar qualifications. The five-grade ranking system is used for prioritizing candidates: Best Qualified, Very Highly Qualified, Highly Qualified, Well Quallified, and Qualified.
Step 4 - Complete the Required Training
Qualified candidates are required to undergo a 55-day basic resident course at the CBP Border Patrol Academy within the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers network. The campus is located in Artesia, NM. Prior to this, they need to pass a month-long pre-academy training at their respective duty stations. While all expenses involved in the academy training are shouldered by the agency, the cost of relocating to the duty stations for the pre-academy orientation are borne by the trainees.
The challenging curriculum has four components: integrated law, including nationality and immigration laws; physical training, which prepares trainees for the timed running and confidence tests; firearms instruction, which involves range practice sessions and classroom instruction on a wide array of topics (like firearms safety, survival shooting, and instinctive reaction shooting); and driving, even if trainees already possess valid licenses. Those who have yet to learn how to speak Spanish must stay for an additional 8-week specialized, task-based language training.
The academy training culminates in tests that predict the candidates' performance under stressful, arduous situations. These tests also gauge their capacity to work rotating shifts, irregular hours, and extended periods of time; and to operate under hazardous conditions borne by nature and man (e.g., harsh weather and armed confrontations).
Successful trainees are then hired, initially on conditional terms (a probationary period). After passing the probationary period which usually lasts 12 months, they are given permanent federal appointments. Regardless of their employment status (probationary or permanent), all agents are required to participate in job-specific training programs, submit to random drug tests, and take the mandatory firearms proficiency tests.
Step 5 - Get Sworn In
Successful candidates become bona fide members of the élite force of US border patrol agents when they take their oath of office. The written and oral versions affirm the vow of carrying out the primary mission of keeping America safe. They are issued firearms and are vested with full law enforcement powers, which authorizes them to conduct searches on people and property, arrests and seizures, and such other duties.
Border Patrol Agent Jobs & Job Description
Border Patrol Agents work to ensure the security of their country by managing the flow of people and goods in and out of the country, by land, sea, air, and freight. While jobs do vary from location to location, border patrol agent jobs have the same core set of responsibilities:
- Foundational knowledge of the role of border protection
- Awareness of the ethics that they represent
- Awareness of diversity
- Understand how agents contribute to the border’s mission
- Engage in service excellence to internal and external stakeholders
- Focus on ensuring the country’s security and prosperity
- Remain vigilant toward any and all safety concerns
- Meet new challenges with confidence
- Resolve to enforce border procedures with impartiality and fairness.
- Value strong domestic and international partnerships
- Commit to working in collaboration on safety, security and trade
- Commit to contributing to global security and commerce
- Apply the law fairly
- Record and report accurate information
- Promote compliance with border, trade, and tax legislation
- Responsibly enforce regulations
- Intercept contraband goods
- Prohibit drugs, firearms, and other goods from entering the country
- Assess duties and taxes
Senior border patrol agents are often given additional responsibilities due to their expanded professional experience. While duties do vary from location to location, senior employees should be comfortable with the following skills on a regular basis:
- Extensive knowledge of the role of border protection
- Deep understanding of the ethics that they represent
- Engage in service excellence to internal and external stakeholders
- Create reports and presentations for senior administrative team and other stakeholders
- Create schedules, benchmarks and budgets
- Ensure the country’s security and prosperity
- Present support and perspective on complex safety concerns
- Engage in and arrange for professional development
- Review border procedures to ensure impartiality and fairness.
- Foster strong domestic and international partnerships
- Work in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate safety, security and trade
- Ensure that the law is applied fairly
- Stay up to date on current developments in the field
- Become proficient at all materials and tools required on the job
- Ensure that records and reports are accurate
- Ensure that procedures to promote compliance with border, trade, and tax legislation are effective
- Foster mentorship opportunities with junior employees
- Responsibly enforce regulations
- Intercept contraband goods; dispose in approved fashion
- Ensure that all contraband is documented and disposed of
- Assess duties and taxes on routine and complex cases
Border Patrol Salary Information
Border Patrol Salary by State
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Started out in Victoria, BC. Great show at a place called Heckler's. A bit worrisome at first since ya walk in and it's a sports bar filled with people eating and big screens on all over the place. But at 9pm the lights go down, the TVs go off, and the place morphs nicely into a venue.
Of course it's a terrible name for a place but I will say they have the best pre-show announcement I've ever heard to get people to shut up and turn off cellphones. It's a pre-recorded bit that explains that even though the name is Heckler's that doesn't mean you should yell shit out. And then it explains what the rest of the crowd will think if ya do (via an act out by a good voiceover guy). The whole thing lays out, in a fun way, that you're a dick if you say anything or let your phone ring. Effective.
Crowd was probably 200-300 strong and they were into it right out of the gate. I opened by riffing on something the MC said and the Hamburger Challenge on the menu (one of those 2 lb. burger "you get a free meal if you agree to have a heart attack" deals). There was a Big Buck Hunter Pro game right next to stage so I moved my bit about that to the front of my set. Always fun when you can take an established bit and make it seem like something that just came to you.
I wound up doing 37 minutes total and it felt great. So nice to be able to do that much time in front a big crowd (in NYC, I rarely get spots longer than 15 mins). A big crowd is a different animal. It starts to feel like a single organism instead of individuals. And the long set means you can actually get a fleshed out identity across (tougher to do that in quick sets). I felt like a real performer that night which is a feeling I don't get in NYC very often.
In NYC, crowd reactions often make it feel like you're trying to take a dog on a walk when he doesn't want to go anywhere. Sure, you can get somewhere if you yank the leash hard enough. But it's a struggle. You can't use pauses and timing the way you can in other places. You need to keep slapping 'em in the face.
This was different. It was a crowd of hundreds who were out to have a good time and excited to be there. I have one joke about my mom being paralyzed in the final years of her life. It can be iffy due to the subject matter, but it got the biggest reaction it's ever gotten that night. I had to wait 10 seconds before I could even go on to the next bit. I just kept saying a single word from the punch ("never") over and over while waiting for the laughs to die down.
Anyway, nights like that make all the heavy lifting and shitty shows in NYC seem worth it.
My next two shows were in Vancouver. Smaller gigs with shorter sets, but still fun. At first one, the comics stood in a paneled box at the front of the room. My opener: "I know you guys like hockey, but I didn't expect to be performing in a penalty box." The next night I followed a gal comic and a dude in the front row yelled out at her "show us your tits." I guess some things transcend borders.
It's interesting to perform in Canada because you have to start thinking about cultural references they may not get. Things I now know: They don't have Luna Bars. They don't know the game Fuck, Marry, Kill. They don't know what an Uncle Tom is. It's not Native Americans, it's First Nations.
And I said 6'8" in one bit and then I'm like, wait, how many centimeters is that? Some guy yells out 203. I continued on but said 203 meters instead. Then I realized that'd be one huge dude. At that point, I just segued into talking about how dumb I feel as an American sometimes.
After that, I took the bus to Seattle. First show there was a benefit show where the charity group forgot to promote it so there were just seven folks in the crowd. One thing about NYC "training": I am SO comfortable performing in front of a group of seven people. A depressing skill to have, in a way, but also nice to not be someone pushing jokes hard to folks who are like "Why is this guy pretending that what's happening isn't actually happening?"
I began with something like: "Comedy is best when the audience is unified as a group on a positive wavelength. You guys definitely feel unified...but it feels more like the unity of a group of people who have been taken hostage. It's a unity that says, 'We're going to get through this together.'" At least it was real.
Next show was a mic. Always surprises me when I do mics in other cities and there are actual audience members there. I went up last but got to do about 20 minutes and talked about some of the other comics who had performed that night (always a fun thing to do at mics since they attract, um, a fringe element).
Then went into material. At mics in NYC, I try new stuff. But there I kept to jokes that work already. It was all new to them and I wanted to make a good impression since there were a bunch of decent comics there too. One good thing about a mic is you get to meet a bunch of comics in that place. Not always doable at regular shows.
Then I did a weekend of guest sets at the Seattle Comedy Underground, four shows in all. The good about that: Shows were packed, esp on Saturday night. The not so good: I was doing quick 5 min sets, all clean, and as the first comic onstage (no host). Still fun but felt rushed. That's a great club though.
And now I've been back in NYC for a bit. Great to be back but it sure is nice to tell jokes elsewhere every once in a while.
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WORTHINGTON -- I don't know who can be credited with coming up with the saying "who would have thunk it." I have said this more than a few times in my life and most of those occasions were right after something happened that cost a lot of money.
I had one of those moments in the vets' office about eight years ago when he told me that my dog needed $2,000 worth of surgery. We had taught the dog to jump up and catch a knotted rope out of the air. Little did I know at that time that this act in Labradors and other big dogs destroys the dogs' ACL tendons about 1/2 of one percent per jump. Two-hundred jumps later and the ACL tendon was toast. These 200 jumps took place over a four-week time span.
It ended up costing $3,000 because as soon as the first ACL was repaired it became evident that the other needed the same surgical repair. As I sat there with my chin on my chest, I asked myself, "Who would have thunk it" that this apparently harmless game played with my favorite dog could do so much damage. She never hunted to a high level again, but lived to 13 years old. It was a big mistake and one that I will never make again.
I was doing some general dog reading on no specific topic and came across another example of one of those "who would have thunk it" experiences. I was reading about all the things that you should never feed your dog. One list had 25 things on it for the most part any moderately informed dog owner would have said, "DUH! Even I know that."
Things like alcohol, tobacco and marijuana were all on the list. I have never been tempted to feed my dog any of these. I can't imagine these items making the list of any dog owner as a possible meal for their dog. What kind of dog owner ever could? Other items on the list were less obvious, but I still had no desire to feed them to my dog. They include onions, garlic, caffeine, candy and gum. I swallowed gum when I was a little kid and did many others. Dog owners would have to understand that if swallowing it yourself might be bad it has to be bad for the dog.
The next few items have never been fed to any of my dogs, but are very serious if you decide to do such. Macadamia nuts and avocado is really bad to the highest level. These items, even in small portions, can do more than make your dog sick. They can outright kill them. Raw eggs, raw fish or raw meat all have the probability of making your dog sick. Some have long-lasting effects on digestion, kidney function and a whole host of other costly outcomes.
I have tried a whole host of dog foods that vary from the most expensive to the moderately priced. My family and friends will tell me how mean I am that I don't let my dogs eat people food. There is one exception and I have never heard of any significant negatives from it. That is that I share my popcorn with my hunting buddies. Not bowls at a time just a kernel here and there. Dog food is what dogs need, but there are very few dogs that exist only on food from the dog food bag. I am one of the very few that can say that mine do.
Other bad things on the list are chocolate, grapes, raisins and dairy products. Salty chips and other dog favorites made the list as well. The last item on the list that was ranked at No. 10 out of 25 is the item that again made me stop again and say, "Who would have thunk it?" When I read it I got this big pit in the bottom of my stomach and wondered just what I might have done. Item No. 10 on this list was cooked or raw bones of any kind and fat or gristle trimmed off raw or cooked meat. Now I know better than to feed a dog a chicken or other poultry bone. These bones are hollow and are very subject to splintering in to sharp shads that get caught in the dogs' throat when they eat them.
I couldn't believe that a good old pork chop bone or a juicy beef T-bone steak bone would possibly hurt my dog. I have heard that feeding your dog raw bones might make it more likely to develop the desire for blood and I never did that. This might be a wive's tale as well. So what problems do feeding your dog's cooked bones do that is bad for them? It causes pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer.
I got the big pit in my stomach because I had my very best pheasant dog die a few years ago from pancreatitis. I fed him cooked pork rib bones all the time. I would cook a few racks of ribs and save the bones for a small and easy snack for my hunting buddies. I did not feed him bones every day nor did I feed him bones once per week, but I did do it regularly for the four years he was alive. He was always a little on the skinny side and I thought this would help him gain a little weight.
It might have been a coincidence or I might have unknowingly added to demise of my own dog. No dog owner will hang me out to dry for some grievous breach of dog ownership protocol for sharing a rib bone with my dog occasionally, but in my mind I will never really know if I had something to do with his death because I did not know. Scout had always been my biggest "who would have thunk it" episode until Ace died and I read this.
No dogs at my house now get any bones of any kind and no fat no matter what eyes they look at me with trying to convince me that they need or deserve it. I have heard other dog owners say that feeding your dog people food or letting the dog eat items they catch in the wild (like a rabbit) make them tougher dogs. Their stomachs get more resilient from the variety and that they get an upset stomach less often. I cannot prove this right or wrong. All I know is what I read and use my experiences to make decisions from that knowledge base.
Only you can decide if a bone is in your dogs' future, and you will likely never have a problem, but I will say that if you ever experience an "Ace episode," you'll question the wrong decision for a really long time. Finally, rawhide bones have been found to have a variety of toxins in them depending on where they are manufactured. Consult with your veterinarian as to which ones you should purchase if you decide to go that way.
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Girl, 5, trafficked to UK to work as servant spent TEN YEARS believing family who beat her was her own
- Called tormentors 'Mum' and 'Dad' thinking they were her parents
- Kept wondering why she was not given toys or sent to school like family's children
- Police describe her as a 'frightened rabbit'
- Was smacked and hit with a wooden spoon
A life of servitude: The girl couldn't remember what her parents looked like
A five-year-old child trafficked to Britain for a life of domestic slavery believed the woman who tormented her was her own mother.
The girl was so young when she was brought from Nigeria to the UK that she was convinced the couple who set her to work in their house were her parents.
She remembered nothing of her life back in Africa and could not even recall what her real parents looked like, said a High Court judge.
The extraordinary ordeal suffered by the girl - who is now aged 18 - emerged during a hearing to decide whether she should have been entitled to benefits and support when she finally escaped her life of slavery.
She was initially denied this when she was taken into the care of Hillingdon Council when she was 15.
Mr Justice Keith said the youngster was put to work as a domestic dogsbody in a family home in Wembley, North-West London, and for years called her tormentors 'Mum' and 'Dad'.
She wondered why she did not go to school and was given no toys or presents of her own, like the other children in the family, the court was told.
The girl - named only as 'Y' during court proceedings - was smacked or beaten with a wooden spoon, or slipper, by her 'mother' if the housework was not up to scratch.
And she was not allowed to eat with members of the family while the father of the house simply ignored her.
The judge said: 'To him she was just a servant.'
Ordeal: The girl's extraordinary story was revealed during a hearing at the High Court
She was never allowed out of the house unaccompanied and, if anyone asked, the woman would say that the girl was her daughter.
Y was later sent to work for another family in Hillingdon where, after five more years of servitude, she became so miserable that she packed a bag and ran away in the middle of the night.
After several days living rough, a woman found her sleeping in a telephone box in Elephant and Castle and contacted the police.
A life of isolation had left her with almost no understanding of the world and Y was described by officers as 'like a frightened rabbit'.
'To him (the father of the family), she was just a servant': High Court judge Mr Justice Keith presided over the case of 'Y'
Y was handed over to the London Borough of Hillingdon, who placed her in short-term foster care.
However, it disputed her claim that she was a child, aged just 15, and therefore entitled to accommodation and a wide range of benefits under the Children Act.
Although she had no memory of her early childhood, Y said she had found a diary under a pile of clothes at the house in Wembley, giving her date of birth as February 17, 1993.
The judge said it was 'entirely understandable' that Hillingdon wanted to know her true age, and two specialist dentists were commissioned to assess her date of birth from examining her teeth.
Hillingdon argued her 'confidence and maturity' indicated she was over 18 when she arrived on the council's doorstep, but the judge said that may have been because she was then 'experiencing for the first time the freedom to do as she liked, which the majority of us take for granted'.
He said Y's account of the diary entry was 'by far the most important evidence in the case' and her testimony on the issue 'hangs together and has the ring of plausibility about it'.
Accepting that Y's date of birth was February 17 1993, the judge concluded: 'I am as sure as I can be ...that Y saw the entry in the diary which she claims to have seen'.
Although Y has now passed her 18th birthday, the ruling means she should have been treated as a child by Hillingdon until then and may, until she is 21, be entitled to additional benefits and support as a 'former relevant child' under the terms of the Children Act.
Following the successful outcome of this case - The Children’s Legal Centre are now reviewing all their options to pursue further legal action.
Carolyn Hamilton, Director of the Children's Legal Centre, said: 'How could this happen? Like the Victoria Climbié case, 'Y' slipped through the net. 'Y' lived in England for 10 years without anybody noticing that she was a young child who didn't go to school nor was she registered with a doctor.
'She was treated as a servant and not as a child of the family. This was despite the fact that she took and picked up the family's young child from a nursery every day when she was no more than 12 and attended church at times with the family.'
Commenting on the judgment handed down, Danusia Brzezina, the Children's Legal Centre solicitor who represented 'Y' stated that 'this is a wonderful outcome for 'Y'. She is thrilled. Regrettably this is one of all too many cases of children being wrongly age disputed in the UK, because of this 'Y's life was put on hold. She would now like to get the appropriate support from the local authority, so that she can move on from her past'. | <urn:uuid:0502ff03-4cb3-403d-9864-412966a1582e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004238/Girl-5-trafficked-UK-work-servant-believed-abusive-family-own.html | 2016-06-30T05:40:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991852 | 1,181 |
Reflecting growing concern about brand safety and non-human traffic, marketers are also increasingly wary of running advertising on sites that publish pirated or counterfeit content, as these sites are more likely to employ deceptive, fraudulent practices.
To help combat Internet piracy and counterfeiting and bolster marketer confidence, the Trustworthy Accountability Group is joining forces with the Alliance for Audited Media to provide certification to legitimate publishers and advertising technology companies.
Under the terms of the agreement, TAG is authorizing the AAM to certify that companies are complying with TAG’s standards, set forth in its “Brand Integrity Program Against Piracy.”
As an independent validator, AAM will be able to bestow TAG’s stamp of approval on ad tech companies and platforms as “Digital Advertising Assurance Providers” (DAAPs), verifying that they have put TAG’s recommended anti-piracy measures in place.
The AAM and TAG noted that some big media agencies are already requiring their ad tech partners to become TAG-certified. For example, in September GroupM announced that all its partners, or their associated vendors, must become TAG-certified DAAPs by the first quarter of next year.
AAM has collaborated with TAG on a number of ad quality and anti-fraud initiatives, for example helping formulate standards to govern Web sites that derive traffic from third parties. At TAG’s request the AAM is also establishing a training program for compliance officers at TAG member companies, as called for by the new anti-fraud guidelines issued by the Media Rating Council last week.
The industry organization, official arbiter of media ratings in the U.S., highlighted a number of key points in the guidelines, including the requirement for enhanced internal controls covering employee behavior policies, partner qualification processes, analysis of acquired or paid traffic, periodic risk assessments, and the correct procedure for challenging a decision to remove invalid traffic. | <urn:uuid:90c505e6-e472-4344-89a9-ebb3739647f6> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/261684/tag-aam-join-forces-against-internet-piracy.html | 2017-03-26T02:03:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189090.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00156-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950442 | 396 |
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There are a lot of artists that work together to bring a piece of theatre to life, and now teens will have a chance to be a part of that process from the beginning with our Teen New Works program. Developing skills in playwriting and giving and receiving constructive criticism, students will end the week with a draft of a short play that will be presented as staged readings on the last day of the program.
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The implementation of electronic health records will improve patient outcomes, patient safety and the cost effectiveness of health care delivery; however, a fully interoperable system depends on the introduction of standardized datasets. In Canada, as part of the National Nursing Data Standards initiative, the Clinical Working Group has been examining how to include clinical data standards in acute care admission assessments and explore if these concepts could be captured across different sectors of healthcare. This session will present the initial work in this area as part of the C-HOBIC project and discuss the work done to-date on identifying concepts for inclusion in acute care assessments. The session will provide an opportunity for input from participants on advancing this work in across Canada.
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How to change name servers through the FutureQuest-Dotster registration pages?
Posted on 13 January 2004 09:21 AM
I registered my domain name using the co-branded Dotster domain registration pages available through the FutureQuest web site.
Where do I go to change the name servers for my domain? How do I do it?
The domain registration pages linked from the FutureQuest web site are actually Dotster registration pages and if you have registered a domain using that area the domain is registered through Dotster, an ICANN-accredited registrar.
To make changes to your name servers, and other aspects of your domain registration, you would start by visiting this URL:
You will be prompted to enter your account name and password. These will probably not be the same as your FutureQuest account username and password as you had to create an account in the domain registration area just for the purpose of registering a domain with Dotster.
(If you have forgotten your username, you may send an email to email@example.com and request that we attempt to locate it for you. However, if you have lost your password, you will need to use the "Forgot Your Password?" link on that same page.)
Once you have logged in, you will see a listing of the domain(s) that have been registered through this account. Click on the domain you wish to change the name servers for.
On the next page, click on "Update Name Servers". On the resulting page, you will be presented with the name servers currently associated with that domain.
Enter your new name server information, such as NS1.FutureQuest.net (not IP address). If you are transferring to FutureQuest, the entries required would be:
Press "Add" after each entry. (You must enter a minimum of two (2) name servers.) Then enter your confirmation email address and click "Continue".
The next page will ask you to wait while the name servers are updated. When done, you should be presented with a success page. Always click "Back to Domain Information" and verify that only the name servers you wish to appear are listed.
Note: Whenever you change a domain's DNS entries there is a period of propagation that will normally last from 24 to 72 hours before the domain name will work properly. This cannot be sped up as it is not in the control of any single entity.
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Dr. Priyadarshi Ranjan is a renowned Urologist and pioneering kidney transplant surgeon, reputed for his innovative and dynamic surgical capabilities and outstanding results and is also commonly perceived as the “kidney man of India”. Dr Ranjan is currently the Chief of Urology and Kidney transplantation at Fortis Hospital, Mohali and is the founder Director of Kidney Transplantation Programme in the same hospital.
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Tue, 04/03/2018 - 11:17amAs you know, the Safety and Security of all students and staff has, is and always will be our top priority. To that end, HCPSS and HCPD have strengthened their partnership.
Wed, 03/14/2018 - 10:32amHoward County Library System and Howard County Public School System are launching a new fully functioning A+ STUDENT CARD. It allows easy access to HCLS eContent (including research databases) in the classroom, at home, or anywhere students need to do homework or research through hcpss.me.
Wed, 03/14/2018 - 10:29amCome out to sports camp the week of July 16th at Reservoir High School with Lime Kiln teachers Phil Ranker (PE), Tom Dougherty (Math) and Erika Lupo (PE). The camp is open to rising 1st-9th graders and features many different sports and activities every day.
Wed, 03/14/2018 - 10:27amCamp Improv is a summer comedy camp for middle school students directed by Centennial High School’s theatre teacher, Kathryn Carlsen. By focusing on teamwork and artistic collaboration, students learn the joy of jumping in and finding the funny.
Wed, 03/14/2018 - 10:23amAny incoming 9th grade student who would like to tryout for a fall sport next year (2018-2019 school year), please note that tryouts begin on Wednesday, August 8th.
Wed, 03/14/2018 - 10:15amStudents applying to private schools who will need teacher recommendations and/or transcripts sent to the private school should submit this request to the Student Services office. We will collect all information and mail as one packet to the school. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Mongello in Student Services.
Wed, 03/14/2018 - 10:08amPlease have your student check the Lost and Found table located in our school cafeteria for any misplaced items. Several coats, gym uniforms, lunch boxes, etc. have been recovered during the past few weeks.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 – Film Review
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Brendan Gleeson, David Thewlis
Director: David Yates
Synopsis: Harry, Ron and Hermione, now armed with the knowledge of the Horcruxes, set off on a mission to destroy these evil objects to defeat Lord Voldemort once and for all.
Review: This is what the previous six movies of the Potter franchise has all been building towards, the final battle between good vs evil, between Harry Potter and the Dark Lord, except not quite in this film. Although the Deathly Hallows marks the final instalment in Rowling’s series of novels, the film-makers made the decision to split this final chapter into two movies. Although one can certainly make the argument that this was a decision done purely to make more money for the studio, the decision to do so does have its merits, but it does have its problems too, namely that this film is a little bit slow.
The dark tone that has been an ever present since almost Azkaban certainly does not diminish here. With Dumbledore now dead, Harry is armed with knowledge of the Horcruxes, the means that Voldemort uses to ensure immortality, but he knows very little about what they are or where to find them. As such, writer Steve Kloves goes into a bit more detail with certain elements. These are certainly interesting to watch, particularly the opening battle between our heroes and the bad guys, and the scene exploring the origin of the titular Deathly Hallows. Yet ultimately it is all just build up to the big climatic battle that we know is coming in part 2. That being said, writer Kloves is given the opportunity to spend more time on certain things. The origin of the Deathly Hallows is very interesting to watch, and is told in a very interesting manner. Yet, there are some bizarre additions that really don’t make a great deal of sense, namely a random dance scene between Harry and Hermione, it just feels all out of place and does not make much sense.
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The key trio of Harry, Ron and Hermione, the centre pieces of this franchise are front and centre once again. Yet here, the friendship is severely tested as the magical objects they are seeking begin to stir up emotions, very much of the wrong sort. The performances of all three have for the most part been on point, but Radcliffe and Watson do give the more well rounded performances. The veteran actors such as Fiennes, Bonham Carter, Rickman and John Hurt merely have small cameos, but in spite of little screen time, they continue to excel.
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We are going to be taking a break. Odin's been working his butt off, I got a new job and to be honest, we're not enthralled with this storyline. Velen bugs the crap out of me. I'm over argus and the light.
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A DELIGHTFUL QUESTION OF KIND: WHAT ON EARTH IS IT?
A recent arrival on the Winter & Winter label restores a pleasant puzzle to mind. So far as I am aware, Stefan Winter’s Munich-based enterprise devotes itself to jazz, more or less. Yet Winter & Winter 910 044-2, co-produced with West German Radio, Cologne (WDR 3), reveals remarkably little of jazz’s customary plumage. Those feather which are there (and these can be debated) are at most fleetingly gestural.
The disc is entitled ENSEMBLE MODERN / FRED FRITH. The exemplary Ensemble Modern generally concerns itself with new art music, along with significant 20th-century work, e.g., on RCA Victor Red Seal 09026-61730-2, heartily recommended, Paul Hindemith’s seven Kammermusiken (chamber concertos). Joining forces with this emphatically European, virtuoso band are three exemplars of the New World’s Downtown sensibility: Fred Frith, guitar and music director; Ikue Mori, drum machines; and Zeena Parkins, harp and electric harp. The chemistry of interaction yields the puzzle I speak of above. As in, What on earth is this stuff?
Easier asked than said. One hears all kinds of things happening. While certainly classical in the new-music way, well — sometimes it isn’t. When I think I’m hearing the sort of bright-etched idiom one would expect from this fine German band, one is reminded that Fred Frith’s name appears as composer, although this connection is less than absolutely direct. In the commendable event, we’ve a boxcar of talent doing nice, puzzling turns — puzzling, that is, if one sees his first responsibility to the reader as a kind of clearing house with regard to categorization. For long, raucous moments, the music sounds like An American in Paris Rerouted to Hell. At others, it’s a thinking person’s carnival. Even when the raucous climbs close to intolerable, we detect clear thinking and an absence of cliché. The program consists of Traffic Continues and Traffic Continues II: Gusto (for Tom Cora). Frith writes: “Traffic Continues consists of a number of cells of composed music which can be juxtaposed with improvisation of various kinds. The structure and precise content are determined spontaneously by the conductor [Fred Frith], with the help of the players … Traffic Continues II … was constructed in the immediate aftermath of [Tom Cora’s] death, around samples of [his] unique and extraordinary cello playing …. ” I’ve listened to this CD often without growing weary of, or to be honest, without entirely understanding it as I would, say, something more pointedly classical or jazz. An invigorating, multifaceted enigma, this, and certainly one of Winter & Winter’s important releases. I hope there are more such. The recorded sound is immediate and well detailed. What little studio gimmickry one detects serves serious musical needs.
A what-is-this-stuff handful of hatOLOGY CDs next. (The hatOLOGY handle replaces hatART Jazz Series. The label is Hat Hut Records of Therwil, Switzerland. I’ve been plugging Hat Hut for years, first in Fanfare, now here, as one of the music world’s more consistently interesting.) Guillermo Gregorio participates in three true beauties directly relating to our what-is-this-stuff topic: Ellipsis, hatOLOGY 511; Red Cube(d), hatOLOGY 531; and Background Music, hatOLOGY 526.
For Ellipsis, Gregorio performs on alto and tenor saxophones, clarinet, and conducts Moholy 1, the fourth of eight numbers. For the disc’s full roster, we’ve Gene Coleman, bass clarinet; Jim O’Rourke, acoustic guitar, accordion; Carrie Biolo, vibes; and Michael Cameron, acoustic bass. Red Cube(d) consists of a trio: Gregorio, clarinet and tenor saxophones; Pendelis Karayorgis, piano; Mat Maneri, electric violin. For Background Music, Gregorio (alto and tenor saxes, clarinet) plays with Mats Gustafsson, tenor saxophone; fluteophone; and Kjell Nordeson, drums, percussion. As different as these CDs play, it’s clear that Gregorio’s is the overseeing conceptual presence as an intense yet lightly applied hand. I value Gregorio most, I think, for the angst-free milieu in which these luminosities thrive. No music I know veers farther from any shared definition of jazz. Yet neither would one presume to call it avant-garde classical. (Thus one’s half-way tongue-in-cheek title, What Is It?) Gregorio’s conceptions are abstract in the main, as well as pointillistic: rather than protracted phrases, evocative harmonies, lengthy rhythmic footings, luminous fragments come and go quite independent one from the other, and yet we understand that the music proceeds as something other than randomly in classical’s avant-garde sense of the term. Perhaps the most astonishing aspect of Gregorio’s art is a staunch individualist’s having managed to discover instrumentalists capable of contributing to an obviously coherent yet novel vision. There are few discs in my collection I value more. That I shelve them among my jazz CDs may be seen as a matter of convenience. You might even call it cowardice. Good news too for the audiophile. All three discs more than meet hat’s high sonic standard. (Sound engineers who work largely in the classical domain could profit from the gorgeously detailed intimacy of the best jazz, near-jazz and supra-jazz recording technique. Small-ensemble recording awash in large-hall ambiance sacrifices immediacy, the quality we most value in music of this kind.) I’ll be returning to hatART often. Meanwhile, for a much fuller picture of Gregorio, see Art Lange’s interview in www.hathut.com.
Potlatch is a French independent with several humdingers to its credit. Fred Van Hove, whom I encounter here for the first time anywhere, is a Belgian pianist-improviser, which in this spectacular instrumentalist’s case is rather like saying that a single-malt Scotch is an alcoholic beverage. Critic-producer-sound engineer John Corbett wrote the brief and entertaining English-language note. Corbett’s attendance in any of the listed categories flags a potentially interesting release. Flux [Potlatch P 2398, 2 CDs] confirms. The program, recorded live in Montreuil, 1998, divides into two parts at 52:21 and 42:52: Dérive and Ruwe Riumte. My guess is that Van Hove is no stranger to the technically challenging mid-century keyboard music of Jean Barraqué, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez, from which foundation he promptly takes off. Any attempt on my part to more accurately characterize what Van Hove does is like nailing Jello to a tree. I propose to cop out by quoting Corbett: “[Van Hove] is, simply put, one of the most accomplished and daunting figures in improvising, and his solo music has been in a class by itself since the ’60s. Emotionally exhausting and creatively exhilarating, these two set-length solos … are masterpieces of instantaneous execution. Staggering beauty, with unerring control of momentum, dynamics and details and a long-haul sense of structural architecture rarely heard in free play.” I would only emphasize Corbett’s take on the architecture as indeed a rare thing. I’d also remark that one’s ears have trouble keeping up with Van Hove’s fingers! Fine, up-close recording by engineer Jean-Marc Foussat.
Hauts plateaux [Potlatch P 498] features Daunik Lazro, alto and baritone saxophones, and Carlos Zingaro, violin and electronics. (Throughout this release the violinist’s name appears as “Zingaro.” Elsewhere, on CDs and my references, he’s an unpunctuated Carlos Zingaro. An email to Potlatch cleared up the mystery. Zingaro is a nickname. The official handle is Carlos Alves. Not exactly a stop-the-presses scoop but of some value to mavens perhaps.) This is another live recording, 1995, Marseilles. The disc’s unique magic inhabits the consonance between Lazro’s saxophones and Zingaro’s violin and electronics, the latter playing a significant and entirely authentic part in events. The duo’s range is extraordinary. The opening moments of Gravir la montaigne sounds indeed like some weirdly ethnic mountain music, out there where the werewolves dwell. It’s like that throughout — strangely evocative, marvelously inventive, and as a collaboration, unbelievably coherent. I’ve listened to Hauts plateaux at least a half-dozen times, each play more involving than the last. What better endorsement than that? The enormously talented and simpatico Lazro was till now a stranger to me and so remains to my reference books. As much of this music receives on the spot electronic manipulation, one’s evaluation of sonics by some audiophile standard must remain vague, as in: quite acceptable.
The edge-treading saxophonist Steve Lacy engages in two improvisational interactions, one with Derek Bailey’s electric guitar in live Paris sets, 1983. The release is entitled Outcome, Potlatch P 299. The other has Lacy performing with bassist Joëlle Léandre, No Waiting, recorded live at Montreuil, 1987, Potlatch P 198. I treasure the Zingaro-Lazro and Van Hove discs; these two somewhat less. I’m a great fan of Léandre’s but I’ve never responded to Lacy as I suppose I ought, and it is he whom I hear dominating events on both CDs. Lazro’s alto and baritone saxes can be as abrasive but he balances these moments by way of relief with others of contrasting texture. For Potlatch, try www. potlatch.digiweb.fr, email@example.com or BP 205, 75921 Paris Cedex 10, France.
Finally (mea culpa!) I’m getting around to a Tone Road Ramblers release. The label is Einstein, which connects to Roulette, the Tribeca (Downtown Manhattan) performance space under by Jim Staley’s directorship. The Tone Road Ramblers are Steve Butters, percussion; John Fonville, flutes; Eric Mandat, clarinets; Morgan Powell, trombone; Ray Sasaki, trumpet; and Jim Staley, trombone, with vocalist Phoebe Legere in the last of nine numbers. Excepting Legere’s winsomely glancing turns on Chatanooga Choo-Choo in Discola and a moment in C-U Rag when trombonists Powell or Staley seem about to break into Tiger Rag, the program plays as the sort of elegant yet mischievous abstractions only this band seems capable of. Be that as it may, it takes master players to comport themselves so. The disc’s name, The Ragdale Years [Einstein Records 012], refers to the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, IL, where the Ramblers have held an annual residence since 1993. It’s also where they recorded these sessions, between 1994 and 1998. The Tone Road Ramblers’ relatively ham-handed Intersections & Detours, Einstein Records 007, in no way prepares us for the insouciant grace of the CD here reviewed.
One of the Ramblers’ two trombonists, Morgan Powell — one hesitates to write “is the composer of.” Events, while obviously directed, again exhibit highly improvisatory characteristics. Let’s let it go with: His name attaches prominently to an Einstein release entitled Orphans on the Road, Einstein Records 013. Again the mood is feather light, inventive and Dada-droll, with feather-lightness as perhaps the most difficult posture to achieve in music of this kind. These collaborations are further enhanced by Phoebe Legere’s captivating speaking and singing voice (and accordion). Dorothy Martirano’s violin and Dan Anderson’s tuba add to the basic Ramblers mix.
Living in Fire, Einstein Records 014, features the Tone Road Ramblers’ flutist John Fonville in a program of his own works (the three-part Striae and Venus Noodles), along with music by Paul Koonce, David Dramm, Ignacio Baca-Lobera, Chaya Czernowin (whose Mode CD is a gem), and Hiroyuki Itoh, all of whom connect to the U. of California, San Diego. I’ve long heard John Fonville as a supreme virtuoso with taste (a virtuoso with taste! mine Gott!) and an adventuresome spirit. As gifted as he is, he’s likewise unflashy. I do no one an injustice in characterizing Fonville’s program as sunlight dancing on water, rippling and still. The magical moments are many. As to sidefolk: Fonville performs David Dramm’s by, for two amplified flutes, with Anne LaBerge. Rand Steiger conducts a small ensemble in Ignacio Baca-Lobera’s Mundos Interiores, for alto flute, violin, cello and two percussionists. Chaya Czernowin’s Ina calls for live bass flute and six pre-recorded bass flutes and piccolos. (As an ideal example of the magic abovementioned, begin here.) Vibraphonist Steve Butters assists in Fonville’s Striae. Paul Koonce’s Escape Tone and Fonville’s Venus Noodles are for solo flute; Hiroyuki Itoh’s Salamander (source the collection’s title), for solo piccolo. The contrast between Fonville’s musical biases and those of the Tone Road Ramblers is instructive, amusing, and best of all, a source of good and interesting listening. Well recorded. | <urn:uuid:3938ad61-e533-423a-be77-302d226f8e6d> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.lafolia.com/scardanellis-motley-v2n5/ | 2015-04-02T00:10:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131309986.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172149-00205-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913488 | 3,226 |
Small Business Minute: Dealing with stress
By Brian Leaf
If youíre stressed out about business, your employees are probably stressed out, too.
Job stress is costly. Health care costs nearly 50% more for stressed out employees, according to the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
And the workplace has never been more stressful. A quarter of employees see their jobs as the number one stress in their lives, according to one survey. Another found that three-fourths think work is more stressful than a generation ago.
Todayís stresses include fewer people doing more work, job loss fears, lower raises and increased pressure to balance life and work.
American Psychologist magazine says managers can reduce job stress. Here are some suggestions:
- Design meaningful jobs so workers can use their skills and talents. Clearly define roles and responsibilities.
- Let employees help in decisions affecting their jobs.
- Inject humor into the workplace. Studies suggest that humor produces endorphins, the bodyís natural painkillers. That can help relieve tension, headache, backache and boredom.
- Improve communications to reduce job security fear. Hold company get-togethers so workers can socialize.
- Be flexible. Create work schedules that allow employees to meet demands and responsibilities outside of work.
- Encourage exercise and wellness.
- Stressed out workers not only increase health care costs, but their productivity suffers, too. Thatís a double whammy that you can manage by eliminating workplace stress. | <urn:uuid:0742cc75-1b60-4f2a-ba99-f90d79163dc7> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=30423 | 2017-12-12T23:50:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948520042.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20171212231544-20171213011544-00114.warc.gz | en | 0.947909 | 305 |
FAA Plans 'Isla de APAC' Fundraiser
Guests will be treated to a full dinner, premium open bar, musical and dance performances, and an opportunity to dance the night away at Mango's Tropical Cafe.
The event, sponsored in part by Shaw Floors, includes comfortable motorcoach transportation to and from the event. One additional sponsorship remains. For information about co-sponsoring this premier event, click here and then go to faahq.org/products/marketing-opportunities and select "Isla de APAC Co-Sponsorship" from the available opportunities. You may also contact firstname.lastname@example.org if you have questions.
Buses load at 6:15 p.m.; event begins at 7 p.m.
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We were very pleased to be hosted by the Galway 2020 team in their bright and lively space for a specialised workshop in July on how to make a winning proposal under the Town Twinning and Networking strands. We had twenty attendees from across the West of Ireland.
In Dublin on Friday 28th July, we hosted a special application clinic in our own offices in Dublin for seven people, all considering preparing an an application. Do you need similar support? Please don't hesitate to contact us with your queries on PIC numbers, e-form, project ideas etc. Email firstname.lastname@example.org | <urn:uuid:01d0996e-372c-46fa-9e8b-8ad1ba2a73f1> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://www.europeforcitizens.ie/news/galway-and-dublin-application-trainings | 2018-03-19T00:43:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257646189.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319003616-20180319023616-00232.warc.gz | en | 0.971474 | 122 |
Research released earlier this year by Sabio and the Customer Contact Association showed that anywhere between 25% and 40% of the calls that are being handled by UK contact centers are unnecessary or avoidable. According to the research, the most common causes of these calls were:
- Customers chasing information about deliveries, how to apply for a particular business service, or being unsure as to what is due to happen next in the purchase cycle, and when.
- Customers calling to clarify complicated pricing and other terms and conditions issues.
- Customers feeling they had to repeat their call as the call center failed to take action, or the appropriate action.
While some of these problems must be addressed personally and on a case-by-case basis, many also pose a great opportunity to offer solutions to the problems ... before they even become a problem. Through better initial education, you could save your customer service team a huge amount of time and effort, and by extension, deliver better customer service.
In particular, I believe that the inbound marketing tenet of creating quality, educational content could go a long way to helping solve some of these customer questions and problems as they arise. There are plenty of ways to do it, and there are already several leading companies in the US and UK demonstrating content's ability to alleviate customer service issues. Here are some examples of how real companies are taking advantage of marketing content to provide better customer service.
How Real Companies Use Content to Improve Their Customer Service
Zendesk Uses Content to Explain Product Updates
Product-based companies typically have customer service teams that are flooded with questions whenever new updates or features are released. That's why cloud-based customer service software and support ticket software provider Zendesk is wise to use their company support site to communicate their product and software update announcements. The site not only explains what the updates are -- it allows customers to post questions, read training guides so they can self-educate, and watch instructional videos for those that prefer to learn by watching instead of reading. This vibrant user community helps answer many questions before they ever reach a Zendesk customer support representative.
first direct Leverages Non-Written Content to Educate Customers
This UK phone and internet only bank doesn't just write white papers and ebook. They've invested in content like videos, interactive calculators, and detailed visual guides to both educate and support their customers. They particularly excel at educating their new customers that are just getting started with direct banking.
Taking the route of making your customers better at not just using your product or service, but being generally better educated about the problem your product or service sets out to solve, helps alleviate those long consulting-based customer service calls that occur when customers "don't know what they don't know."
Debenhams Creates Buying Guides to Reduce Returns and Exchanges
Debenhams, one of the leading department stores in the UK and a customer service champion, uses their site to provide detailed buying and sizing guides for every product they carry. Just look at the variety:
That's a serious investment in content creation. What's it all for? To help mitigate the need for returns and exchanges, the types of calls and inquiries that can quickly overburden a customer service department, particularly during busy shopping seasons. If your business sells products that boom during the holiday seasons, now's the time to start investing in similar types of content to help prepare your customer service department for this coming December.
Riverview Law Provides Templates to Get In Front of Common Requests
If someone asked you how to do something over and over, it's only logical to create a templated answer to that question for future reference. That's what UK based law firm Riverview Law did when they launched their Myview site, which provides answers to common legal questions, many which come in the form of legal templates. All of these, by the way, are free documents that most lawyers would normally charge for. And keep in mind these templates require registration, so the opportunity for upselling and cross-selling is ripe, indeed.
Zappos Uses Blog Posts to Create Power Users of Their Products
US online shoe and apparel shop Zappos is often lauded for its online and phone based customer service. However, they also go the extra mile for their customers by writing blogs and creating instructional videos on all things from how to pack using a certain product, to how to use a hairdryer properly.
What does this do for their customer service team? It helps customers envision more ways to use the products they've purchased, increasing the likelihood they're happy with their buy. A "power user" of that Eagle Creek suitcase would know all the nooks and crannies of the luggage and all the creative ways to use it, and as such would never want to give it up.
One thing all of these companies have in common is that they believe by better understanding their customers and their common questions, they can build and develop their content accordingly. This allows them to make their customer support more proactive, and much of it self-service focused. This also allows them to send their customers links to resources they have developed based on an understanding of their maturity and needs. Take Zappos, for example -- I could imagine speaking to one of their agents, and upon completing an order, receiving a link to a post or a video that they think I might find interesting and useful based on my purchase.
So, where to get started?
I would suggest that you start by asking a series of questions:
- Who are your customers, what are their personas?
- What do they like, and what are they interested in? (Remember, people buy from people they like, share interests with, and feel comfortable with.)
- What questions will each persona have?
- What will be each persona's top concerns?
- What will each persona want to know in each stage of your buying process?
If you generate content -- in whatever form is most appropriate -- to answer all of these questions, you'll be well on your way to amassing a significant resource base that will be of great use to your customer service representatives, and your existing and future customers.
The net result of all of this, of course, is that it allows you as a business to develop trust and loyalty with your existing customers. Further, by optimizing your content for search so that it gets found and shared by an organic audience, it can demonstrate your helpfulness and customer focus to new leads and potential future customers.
Adrian Swinscoe is a business and team performance coach and consultant and is passionate about helping companies deliver great service to their customers. You can check out his marketing and customer service blog and connect with him on Twitter @adrianswinscoe.
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Refraining from alcohol might be a good choice for women whose mothers have had breast cancer.
A team of researchers found that among teen girls with breast cancer in the family, girls who drank were twice as likely to develop what is called benign breast disease, according to Reuters.
Benign breast disease isn't cancer, but the lumps could become cancerous later.
Researcher Catherin Berkey of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston said women with a family history of breast cancer "should be aware that drinking alcohol may increase their own risk for [benign breast disease] and for breast cancer later on."
Another independent expert said refraining from drinking is not likely to affect breast cancer risk.
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Location: Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, Provence, France
Signature: Knighton Hammond
Dimensions: 47.5 cm x 61.5 cm
Moustiers-Sainte-Marie is a historic village in Provence. Its picturesque nature would have inspired Knighton-Hammond to get out his watercolours and paint. The resultant view of the village is high up in the background. The buildings are bathed in sunlight and painted as an impression rather than in detail. The landscape and trees in the foreground are typically Mediterranean cypresses and olives. | <urn:uuid:89013b8a-7594-4cf3-a006-3fe8e8b5db31> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | http://www.knighton-hammond.com/library/moustiers-saint-marie-provence | 2021-02-26T16:15:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178357929.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20210226145416-20210226175416-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.931638 | 125 |
Firstly I would like to say a massive thank you to Dinah for sending me this lovely box. When Mel asked who would like to review this, I jumped at the chance! My feet were in desperate need of some TLC and pampering (and I can handle feet haha).
The box arrived via Royal Mail in a parcel bag. Inside was an elegant grey box with ‘Footbelles’ embossed onto the box, which was wrapped in clear cellophane. The packaging was clearly thought about before being sent. The grey box is a magnetic snap shut box, inside pink tissue paper and shredding to keep the products protected. Have a look at my live unboxing to see this beauty for yourself…
So what did I received in my box…. well I shall tell you…
Isla Apothecary Lemongrass and Rosemary Foot Scrub 120g – RRP £11
I only used a small amount of this just as a little test to see how it works, this left the soles of my feet super soft the smell is like being in a spa! The lemongrass scent reminded me of having a nice massage and was really relaxing.
The Soap Shop Peppermint and Avocado Foot Balm 60g – RRP £5.95
was quite hard to get out initially but once out the peppermint kicked out a very strong smell, which was quite overpowering so I did only use a small amount. It left my feet looking quite greasy but it was so hydrating. I’d recommend using this before bed so it can absorb into your feet properly overnight.
The Deep Moisturising Foot Mask with Shea nut extract – RRP £5.99
Now this was the product I was most looking forward to, but waited till last to try to get a full feel for the other products… it left my feet super soft and moisturised and I didn’t want to take them off and get back to the real world.
Leighton Denny expert nails Sole Pleasure Soothing Foot Cream 75ml – RRP £12
This is an unscented product; but I love this just the same! This left my feet silky smooth and was a delight to rub in. It gave my feet the moisture it must have been so desperately craving and was like giving myself a mini massage.
Last but not least is…
Arena Arctic Foot Spa Natural Foot Soak 100ml – RRP £7.99
I couldn’t pinpoint this scent, but it is nice… I haven’t tried this as I don’t have a foot spa and would much prefer to get the full effect. So I shall be trying this out at my mums as soon as I can. Having a look into this it is for people who suffer from foot odour, tired, sweaty or achey feet and contains tea tree essential oil to combat fungal feet or nail infections.
I will be taking all my bits with me to my mums and look after her feet for her with a nice massage using the soothing foot cream and a good scrub too (eww feet haha).
The box I received was the Luxury ‘Relax’ Gift Box For Your Feet
“Our luxury ‘Relax’ box is your monthly spa at home for your feet. Selected from out luxury range of soothing soaks, and scintillating scrubs combined to ease your soles into heavenly relaxation. You’ll receive a box with 4-5 full sized products curated to relax your feet. Many of our products are handmade in the UK, and vegan.”
This box would have cost £40 plus p&p. Total cost of the products would have been £43 without postage although you aren’t really saving a lot, but the concept behind the box is that people forget to pamper and look after their feet. The box would be ideal for people who don’t have the time to pop out and pick bits up for themselves or generally need to give there feet some tlc with a bit of a pamper at the same time. This box would make a brilliant gift.
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At Whiz Kidz we recognise the importance in giving your child the skills to be ready for Primary School.
“it takes a village to raise a Child..”
Starting School can be overwhelming for children and families. At Whiz Kidz we recognise this step as an important part in our families lives. We aim to work in partnership with our families to prepare your child for School. We want children to be confident, involved, participating learners ready with the skills both socially, emotionally and cognitively to cope at school.
Our curriculum has a strong focus on learning through play and getting children engaged in all their fundamental learning areas through Project investigations.
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An easy summer rustic tart that makes the most of ripe and juicy seasonal tomatoes. This tomato galette has a beautifully crisp and flaky pastry. It’s topped with a layer of basil pesto which is then covered in colourful cherry tomatoes. Delicious served either warm from the oven or cold next day.
This simple rustic French rhubarb galette tart is one of the delights of spring. There’s no need to line a tin and the filling is only partially covered by the delicious yet easy to make orange flavoured flaky pastry.
Whose up for a delicious savoury green vegetable galette? This quick rustic tart has a beautifully crisp and flaky pastry topped with a creamy spinach sauce, bell peppers, asparagus and peas. It’s a must try.
Yes autumn is here again and it’s brambling season. If you’re wondering what to do with all those black fruits you’ve gathered, this double blackberry chocolate galette might do the trick. It’s a rustic blackberry tart with a hidden layer of chocolate blackberry jam to give added depth and sweetness.
If you’ve got gooseberries and you’re not quite sure what to do with them, try making this gooseberry galette. It’s a simple rustic French fruit tart with the filling only partially covered by the delicious yet easy to make flaky pastry. If you haven’t got any gooseberries, go out and get some. | <urn:uuid:19e0e6eb-62cd-4248-a4df-ca2ebe103b8a> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://tinandthyme.uk/tag/galette/ | 2019-09-22T03:43:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514575076.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20190922032904-20190922054904-00428.warc.gz | en | 0.868147 | 317 |
I just stumbled on a really cool web-based activity that has apparently been around since 2005 or maybe earlier. It's called Virtual Astronaut, and it puts you inside a 3D model of the ISS. You can fly around and locate various activities, which are brief educational modules on subjects like bones, muscles, plant growth in space, recognizing Earth features from space, and others. Most of them are biological or medical in nature, relating to the challenges faced by humans living and working in space.
Each activity ends with some sort of quiz or puzzle for which you gain points. Gain enough points and you can go to the space suit fitting area to purchase the components and assemble your space suit, and then buy 2 minute blocks of EVA time. Go to the airlock, press O to open the hatch, and you can then go outside and explore the 3D exterior of the ISS. There are no EVA activities other than floating around and looking, but it's still pretty cool.
Most of the activities seemed suitable for elementary school kids, though the ones involving muscles, bones, and the inner ear had some tough vocabulary to learn (the activity itself teaches you the vocabulary, and you can repeat each activity as often as you like to increase your score).
This "learning environment" was probably developed for NASA by Tietronix, though I can't see an "about" page for background so I don't know. It's well designed and easy to navigate. It requires downloading and installing a couple of plugins including one for a 3D viewer (though there are Flash-only and text versions also available).
I think this would work really well with Marianne Dyson's book Space Station Science which I have mentioned in a past post, providing a way for students to explore the ISS after they read about it (the book also has various activities). | <urn:uuid:c6992282-e5b4-4c79-952d-7b7fc58d3ab8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://flyingsinger.blogspot.com/2008/08/virtual-astronaut-cool.html | 2016-10-27T16:42:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721355.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00169-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97725 | 377 |
Law of the Sea Treaty Could Prove Dangerous to America
by Bonner Cohen, Ph.D.
As if the war in Iraq and the ever-present threat of a terrorist attack weren't enough to worry about, the Bush administration may have decided to resurrect one of the worst foreign-policy ideas to come along in decades: the Law of the Sea Treaty.
Those with long memories may recall that President Reagan refused to sign the UN-inspired Law of the Sea Treaty in 1982, after his administration's efforts to make the pact acceptable to the U.S. were roundly rejected by a coalition of developing and communist countries. The treaty's supporters now claim it has been "fixed," with the provisions Reagan objected to having been removed.1 A closer look, however, reveals a deeply flawed document still at odds with U.S. interests.
Ostensibly, the treaty establishes an international consensus on the extent of jurisdiction countries may exercise off their coasts and allocates rights and duties among nations in all maritime areas.2 In reality, the treaty -- then as now -- represents a fundamental assault on American sovereignty, one which is all the more troubling in this age of global terrorism.
Aside from killing as many civilians as possible, Al Qaeda and its allies are keen on inflicting economic disruption and environmental degradation on their enemies. To this end, one of the potentially most devastating weapons in the terrorists' arsenal is the hijacked supertanker. When loaded with fuel and manned by terrorists, these behemoths can be scuttled or blown up, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil and other toxic materials in or near our coastal waters. Yet, taken together, the treaty's provisions on the environment, navigation, and the high seas are woefully inadequate to meet this kind of unconventional threat and actually make it more likely.3
This point was made abundantly clear by Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, in testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. "If, for instance, foreign vessels operating on the high seas do not fit into one of three categories (i.e., they are engaged in piracy, flying no flag or transmitting radio broadcasts), [the treaty] would prohibit U.S. Navy of Coast Guard vessels from intercepting, searching or seizing them," he noted.4
What's more, the treaty undercuts the Bush administration's comprehensive and innovative plan to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the Proliferation Security Initiative, or PSI. This U.S.-led multinational program of high-seas interdiction, boarding, and searching of vessels suspected of carrying WMD is, as Mr. Gaffney pointed out, barred by the Law of the Seas Treaty.
Author and defense consultant John M. Leitner, whose involvement with negotiating the treaty goes back to the 1970s, fears that the pact "would effectively gut our ability to intercept the vessels of terrorists or hostile foreign governments even if they were transporting nuclear weapons."5 "We must ensure," he adds, "that we are not binding the government of the United States to a legal regime that makes us more vulnerable and trades the lives of our innocent citizens for the sake of participating in yet another unnecessary treaty."6
Concerns about national security and homeland defense are not the only reasons to be concerned about the treaty. Among other things, the treaty creates a supranational regulatory agency, the International Seabed Administration, complete with its own judicial process and the authority to regulate seven-tenths of the world's surface. It would be staffed by unelected and unaccountable international bureaucrats.7 "The creation of yet another International Court," Mr. Leitner notes, "where the United States or our citizens can be dragged before politically motivated foreign jurists to adjudicate and set penalties is not a pleasant prospect."8
No, it's not.
# # #
Dr. Bonner Cohen is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public
Policy Research. Comments may be sent to [email protected].
1. John F. Turner, assistant secretary of state, Bureau of Oceans and Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Testimony before the U. S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, "The Law of the Sea Treaty," 109th Congress, March 23, 2004.
2. Turner, Testimony.
3. Peter M. Leitner, Testimony before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, "The Law of the Sea Treaty," 109th Congress, March 23, 2004.
4. Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., Testimony before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, "The Law of the Sea Treaty," 109th Congress, March 23, 2004.
5. Leitner, Testimony.
6. Leitner, Testimony.
7. Gaffney, Testimony.
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How to get a warm sound?
Over the past few decades, many popular songs were recorded in expensive studios with even more expensive equipment. One of these high-end pieces of equipment are definitely analog mixing desks, which are highly praised for the sound they deliver. That warmth and depth which is introduced to any instrument processed through mixing desks like Neve or SSL are clearly distinguishable in comparison to digital mixers or software. That unique sound is largely coming from dynamic, harmonic and frequency response of each individual channel from the mentioned consoles (in most cases 24, 32 channels). The master busses on analog consoles are also playing a big role in shaping and colouring of the sound.
In recent times, Waves audio presented us with a digital emulation of the aforementioned legendary consoles named NLS Non-Linear Summer. Consequently, this gave us the opportunity to get one step closer to that famous analog sound. They have modelled each left and right channel of the master bus to accurately reproduce the perceived stereo image and the buss amplifier harmonics of each console. The interface is rather simple and it sounds great. Therefore, in the next tutorial, I will show you how to set it up. In addition, I will make a demonstration of how the track sounds with and without it.
Improve your sound easily
In a newly made SoundBridge project, I have already made few channels with drums, bass and piano. The first thing to do would be to create 3 group tracks within SoundBridge and place instruments separately to each group. After that, I will place an NLS Channel plugin on the drum group track and chose a version of the console that I find best sounding for drums (you can choose between Spike, Mike and Nevo). Furthermore, I will set the amount of distortion/drive and send the VCA group fader to the first channel.
Next, I will repeat the same process for the bass and piano groups with different console selection and different drive amount. Then, I will send the VCA Group of the bass to the second channel and VCA group of the piano to the third channel. It is important to remember that all of this doesn’t mean much if we don’t place a second NLS plugin to the master channel in SoundBrige (named NLS Buss). This is because this particular plugin is actually summing the signals sent over NLS Channels. As you can see in the picture above, the groups can be further mixed with faders. Moreover, there is a drive knob as well if you feel like adding more distortion.
Finally, let’s hear how the drum group and the full mix sound without and with the NLS plugins.
~Drum group without NLS
~Drum group with NLS
~Full mix without NLS
~Full mix with NLS
You can clearly hear that instantly everything sounds richer and wider. My advice would be to experiment with settings in order to get the best possible results.
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by Django G-S
South of Lincoln (Max Holmquist) performs "Man Pt. 1" on a horse-drawn carriage ride in Omaha's Old Market.
Thanks to Magical Journey Carriage Services and the city of Omaha for the location.
audio recorded/mastered by django g-s
video edited by django g-s
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Comments about Good Cook Plastic Cutting Board, 10 X 15:
Nice board but the rubber strips on the side do nothing other than look nice. For the board to remain still while your cutting on it I have to put a damp paper towel under it. Other than that it works great for raw meats then you can toss it in the dishwasher.
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CHAPS rescues 4 month old foal
A four-month-old foal has been rescued by CHAPS, the equine charity based in Gowerton which aims to improve the welfare and quality of life for both horses and people.
The Lottery Funded Community Horse and Pony Scheme (CHAPS) which is now part of Gwalia, acted after members of the public spotted the distressed foal who they had nicknamed Milo darting in and out of roads.
CHAPS Equine Welfare Officer Lisa Lanfear said: "Milo had even made himself a bed amongst the ferns. He had been was rejected by the other horses grazing on the lands.
"The rescue was a triumphant operation and it took 12 people to quietly herd milo to the safety of a yard and stable nearby. He was clearly traumatised by the whole situation and petrified of human contact. It was lucky that Milo was found and brought to CHAPS before his health began to deteriorate too quickly."
Despite being in need of medical treatment, Milo is making big strides on his road to recovery.
CHAPS Project Manager Katie Double added: "Milo is now getting four meals a day to bring his strength to normal. The CHAPS project would like to say a huge thank you to everyone that helped rescue Milo and we are now fundraising to buy him essential equipment, feed, supplements and equine essentials."
CHAPS are raising money to support Milo and other horses the scheme has rescued.
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Andy Reid me in the Scarab
Andy Reid in the Scarab me in the Tojeiro great fun it was.
First time driving is at Musclemann’s race track. Tojiero California Handled better then both the 911 cars.
John’s son Robin Tojeiro has a new company http://www.tojeiro.co.uk/
Tojeiro facebook page
The day we picked her up from Coachsmithing
Check the progress this week on coachsmithing’s web site. She is looking very good!!!!!!!!!!!
This beautiful complete chassis wire frame with suspension components hung in the ceiling of John Tojeiro’S shop until it was acquired by Gilbert Dickson, who managed the Tojeiro Registry.
On May 5, 2015, at 6:33 PM, John Stewart Muller wrote:
The only email exchange with John Tojeiro’s daughter was her inviting the car to an event sometime this year when it was supposed to have been finished. My dad restored his first Tojeiro, the TCM2N6, in the 1980s and sold it to a fellow from New England named Tom Ellsworth, in about 1997. He still owns it. Through Gilbert Dickson, John Tojeiro confirmed it as one of his. In 1994, my dad bought TCAL59 from GILBERT DICKSON’s Garage in Surrey England. He owned it since 59, and never finished the restoration. As you know GILBERT ran the Tojeiro registry for years. I’m not sure what exactly you’re looking for, but this is the history of the current Tojeiro project…
In 1959 John Tojeiro the famous car designer and builder who is most recognized for his work on the AC, which later became the Cobra, began creations of one of his last front engine sports cars. He used a similar design as on the earlier Ecurie Ecosse Tojeiro Jaguar that ran at LeMans. The new car incorporated a similar tube frame structure on which Tojeiro used coil springs with concentric tubular shock absorber’s fabricated upper and lower A-arms at the front. A DeDion rear axle located by parallel trailing arms on a Watts linkage also with coil overs at the rear. It was also fitted with disc brakes the rears located in board to reduce un sprung weight. John built two chassis, one to replace the crash cured Ecurie Ecosse racer from an accident at Nurbugrring and this one. John was intrigued by the new Ferrari California body design and ask friend Cavendish Morton to create a similar look for his new chassis. Cavy did a lovely drawing which was used as reference for the alloy builders Coachsmithing. John Tojeiro produced the complete chassis suspension components and wire body frame inspired by Cavy’s drawings. He never finished the body, as he was then into the mid-1959 and was working on a new mid-engine design, later driven by Stirling Moss. The beautiful complete chassis wire frame with suspension components sat in the back of John’s shop until it was acquired by Gilbert Dickson, who managed the Tojeiro Registry. Gilbert planned on completing the project, but work and other projects prevented it. On a trip to England the current owner visited Gilbert in Surrey, England he wanted to research a Tojeiro Climax and was shown this, the last front engine design of John Tojeiro, Vin number TCAL 59 purchased directly from Gilbert Dickson. The Tojeiro California Spyder was crated and sent across the Atlantic. Eventually it was to be completed as John Tojeiro and Cavendish Morton designed it in 1959, incorporating all the original components preserved on the chassis. John Tojeiro recommended that this car sport an American motor so as not to confuse it with the other Tojeiro Jaguars with the same chassis configuration. The car runs a vintage six-cylinder GMC motor with triple carburetors and an overhead valve, linked to a four speed transmission, housed in John’s beautiful tube frame and connected to a deDion rear axle. Smith style gauges, wood steering wheel, Dunlap alloy wheels and correct racing tires complete the package.
Thank you Gilbert
Below is a link to Coachsmithing Facebook page
When I asked Alan Buresh about this website he told me that it was done by one of the ex employees. Hence that’s why there are no entries for a couple of years
May 5th 2015
YouTube video of shop
JULY 9 2015
Below are a couple of cars that were done by Coachmissing
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There are five main areas in which a baby develops namely; the cognitive development, social and emotional development, fine motor skills, gross motor skills and language skills. We have tracked baby Kebotlhale’s development from month 1 to month 12 through video. This is only a guideline of a baby’s development through infancy. I have also included some quick tips on how you can encourage your baby’s development at home.
1 – 3 months:
-The baby’s vision is becoming clearer.
-She looks at the direction where the sound is coming from
– She responds to familiar voices by gurgling and cooing.
-Her hands are starting to open up more and she can feel different objects.
– She gives you her first beaming smile.
Developmental Skills Achieved: Cognitive and Emotional Development
Tip: Encourage your baby to keep exploring sounds by interacting and talking to her every morning even when she doesn’t respond yet. I used to take videos of Kebotlhale every morning to send to her Dad at work. He looked forward to these when he was having his morning coffee in the office before he started his day. Morning video
3 – 6 months:
– She learns how to balance her head by raising her upper body using her forearms and elbows.
-Her muscles are stronger and she learns how to crawl by shuffling toward things that interest her.
– She responds to people she is familiar with.
-She can laugh.
-She loves kicking and waving her arms around!
– Baby Kebotlhale can now sit without support.
-She is learning how to use her tongue and lips by making new sounds.
– She has her first solid food. Kebotlhale’s favorite was pureed Butternut!
Developmental Skill Achieved: Social and Emotional Development, Fine motor skills, and Gross motor skills.
Tip: Place an object in the baby’s hand for her to grab. This will help develop her fine motor skills. Place her toys around her so that she can reach for them from a seated position. This will give her a head start to learn how to crawl as well as improve her vision.
6- 9 months :
-She can reach and pick up toys, then pass them from one hand to the other.
– She imitates facial expressions and makes more sounds while playing.
– She uses gestures and sounds to get your attention.
– The mirror is her new best thing! She loves seeing herself in the mirror.
-Baby Kebo crawls around the house more confidently and is fascinated by tiny particles on the floor.
-She stands up using furniture and even attempts to walk holding onto furniture.
Developmental skills achieved: Gross motor skills, language skills
Tip: -You can encourage your baby’s walking by holding her fingers from both hands and allow her to trot around. What I did was to place her favorite toy at a distance on the couch and told her to fetch it. She will use whatever is near to make sure she reaches that toy thus strengthening her leg muscles.
9- 12 months:
-She enjoys stacking toys on top of each other.
– She bangs her hands on everything!
-Kebo starts walking without holding onto anything. Though some kids won’t walk until they’re about 18months and some might walk earlier.
-She learns how to stand up with no support.
-Her understanding of language has improved and she can understand phrases like; no, come here, put it there, please give me, clap your hands.
-Her vocabulary is improving. She can say the words no, papa, mama, hello, bye, and thank you.
– She can hold a conversation using gestures and sounds to express herself and respond.
– She loves dropping her toys and seeing where they go.
-She imitates songs or the sounds you make when you talk to her.
Developmental Skills achieved: Gross motor skills, Social development, Language Development.
Tip: Since your baby is interested in different objects and what each of them can do, why don’t you place different objects from the house into a box and let her explore them. These could be wooden spoons, an old TV remote, empty pill container, small make – up bag, plastic cups. This will afford you an extra 2hrs to yourself!
Remember every child is unique and therefore their developmental journey will also differ. Some kids learn how to walk before crawling and some crawl for long before having the confidence to walk. Some like Kebotlhale only get their first tooth at 11 months old. They’re all uniquely awesome!!
What fascinates you about children’s development? What milestones are you proud of that your baby, your niece, or your nephew have achieved!? I would love to hear from you | <urn:uuid:9cf06e9b-724d-4a91-ad09-43d7c33ab4bf> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.precious-pearls.com/baby-development-from-1-12-months/ | 2020-09-27T11:06:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400274441.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20200927085848-20200927115848-00019.warc.gz | en | 0.957802 | 1,036 |
Czech Republic Docu Fest Features the Philippines as Country in Focus in 2022
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, DECEMBER 6, 2021 — One of Europe’s leading documentary film festivals spotlight the Philippines for the upcoming Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (IDFF) in Jihlava, Czech Republic, in 2022.
FDCP Opens Call for Emerging Producers to Attend Rotterdam Lab 2022
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, DECEMBER 3, 2021 — The Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) is offering an opportunity for budding producers to attend the international training and networking workshop Rotterdam Lab online of the 51st International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in the Netherlands from January 24 to 28, 2022.
Alien Cat Plots New Plan to Conquer Planet Earth on Final ‘Heneral Tuna’ Episode on FDCP Channel
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, NOVEMBER 29, 2021 — After spending a substantial amount of time on Planet Earth learning and experiencing the culture of the “earthlings,” Heneral Tuna plots a new evil plan to successfully take over the planet in the last episode of “Heneral Tuna” on the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) Channel.
FDCP, DFA to Hold Film Festival Tribute to National Artist Kidlat Tahimik
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, NOVEMBER 26, 2021 — To honor the invaluable contributions of National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts Kidlat Tahimik to the development of independent Philippine Cinema, the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) and the Department of Foreign Affairs’ (DFA) Public and Cultural Diplomacy arms will hold free screenings and a talkback session on November 28 to December 8.
Sine Kabataan Short Film Lab and Festival Returns with P100,000 Production Grant Each for Ten Youth Short Film Projects
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, NOVEMBER 23, 2021 — Following the success of the recently concluded 4th Sine Kabataan Short Film Competition last September, the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) is holding an open call for story concepts from young filmmakers starting November 19, 2021 for its fifth edition.
France's International Program Produire au Sud Puts a Spotlight on PH Cinema on its 20th Anniversary
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, NOVEMBER 22, 2021 — The Produire au Sud (PAS), the international training program designed for young directors and producers from Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and the professional side of the Festival des 3 Continents (also known as the Three Continents Festival), with the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) as its official partner, presents one film and one film project representing the country in the festival from November 20 to 26 in Nantes, France.
New Added Features and Brand New Look for FDCP Channel Streaming Platform
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, NOVEMBER 19, 2021 — To further promote ‘edutainment’ on its streaming platform and make it more accessible to local and international audiences, the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) upgrades FDCP Channel’s website with additional features.
3 Filipino films competing in the prestigious Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, NOVEMBER 15, 2021 — On its 25th year, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) selected three films from the Philippines to participate in its film festival happening in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia which started last November 12 and will conclude on November 28, 2021. | <urn:uuid:4cd4e61c-ad04-47c6-8424-a2a1aea1e76d> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://fdcp.ph/taxonomy/term/20?page=1 | 2022-12-02T23:18:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710916.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20221202215443-20221203005443-00443.warc.gz | en | 0.853092 | 767 |
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I'm a 25 year old graduate of the University of Florida. I hope to become a sportscaster or sports analyst some day, which has been my dream since I was 8. The closest thing to the real thing that I have seen was being on the Jaguars sidelines during the Monday night game against the Colts working as an on-field assistant. For the record, unless you've stood on the actual sidelines you really don't know how fast those players are going. It's insane.
I appeared on WAOC 1420 Sports Radio in St. Augustine on the show Sports Talk at Random. I might still get on the show once in a while.
If you wanna be my friend on facebook or just want to know a little more:
P.S. For those of you in Florida who feel my name sounds familiar, I'm the guy who made that Hardees Commercial, the answer is yes.
One last thing, here is our promo video in case you wanted to use it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5wkY9LsFT4&list=UUL_OEjsHTwsHK6WKWs7s7Uw&index=6&feature=plcp
Sorry for the delayed response, here is our official press release http://web.sny.tv/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120119&content_id=26390972&vkey=2. Let me know if you need anything else.. including tickets!
Wanted to reach out to see if you would be able to do a feature on our tournament, the 2012 SNY Invitational for NY Metro area high school basketball teams.
Teams competing this year:
- St. Anthony of Jersey City, NJ
- St. Raymond of the Bronx, NY
- Benjamin Cardozo of Queens, NY
- Thomas Jefferson of Brooklyn, NY
Check out our page for more info: http://www.facebook.com/SNY?sk=app_284307498252223
If you have any questions, please contact us at email@example.com
If you want a good laugh check out my new slide show on the greatest sports mullets of all time.
Check out my new Fun With Numbers
If you have time could you check out my mock draft
Check out my new Mock Draft
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here is a story of another NFL Legend who has yet to get his deserved respect :
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How well do you understand curves? Find out with this quiz
posted Monday, January 11, 2016 at 4:09 PM EST
DIY Photography has put together a ten-question quiz to help determine just how good you are with curves.
The quiz presents ten questions, each with before and after images, and you have to select the correct curves adjustment that was used to make each “after” image. The test has been designed such that it can be completed without a calibrated monitor, so long as you understand curves, but it is far from simple.
Curves are a very powerful tool once you get the hang of them. Using curves, you can adjust everything from contrast and tone to color correction.
Check out one of the questions below, do you know which curve is the correct one?
To see how you fare on the full quiz, check it out here.
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I’m not afraid of a complicated dessert recipe and don’t mind at all spending an absurd amount of time in the kitchen trying to get it just right.
Buuut, I know most people roll their eyes at me and want easy. And, honestly, I pretty much agree with them during the summer months!
I want my summer recipes to consist of a few key components:
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- still be homemade
- and I love fruit desserts in the summer!
Lemon is a particular favorite of mine, especially when paired with blueberries or strawberries! I’m a sucker for anything tart and creamy, and this lemon icebox pie recipe fits the bill!
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Lemon Icebox Pie Recipe
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 14 oz. can Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 1 1/2 cup finely crushed vanilla wafer crumbs or graham cracker crumbs
- 6 tablespoon pre-sweetened lemonade flavor drink crystal
- 1 envelope unflavored gelatin
- 1 1/2 cup water divided
Melt butter in a microwave safe bowl; stir in wafer or graham cracker crumbs. Press firmly onto bottom and up sides of 9-inch pie plate; chill.
Soften gelatin in 1/4 cup water in small saucepan. Heat until dissolved over low heat; set aside.
Combine sweetened condensed milk, remaining water and lemonade drink crystals in medium bowl; mix well. Stir in gelatin mixture and mix until well combined
Pour into prepared crust. Chill 3 hours or until firm. Garnish as desired.
I garnished with whipped cream, blueberries and lemon zest but that is purely optional!
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Miami-Dade County reminds residents to plan and prepare for hurricane season
Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez, Commission Chairwoman Rebeca Sosa and Emergency Personnel to host May 27th News Conference
(MIAMI, May 26, 2014) – Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez, along with Commission Chairwoman Rebeca Sosa, members of Board of County Commissioners and the American Red Cross South Florida Region, Regional Disaster Program Officer, Carlos Castillo, will hold a hurricane preparedness news conference on Tuesday, May 27th, 2014, at 10:00 a.m., at the County’s Emergency Operations Center, 9300 NW 41st Street, Doral.
Miami-Dade County Commission Chairwoman Rebeca Sosa
Members, Board of County Commissioners
Carlos Castillo, Regional Disaster Program Officer, American Red Cross South Florida Region
9300 NW 41st Street
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How to Find the Right Physical Therapist Training Program near Chenoa 61726
Getting a physical therapy degree near Chenoa IL is a critical first step to starting a fulfilling career in the medical care field. Physical therapists (PT) help patients who have been incapacitated due to injury or illness gain back function and mobility. But before they may legally practice and work with the rehabilitation of patients, they need to obtain the appropriate training and education. A PT must also be licensed in all states, many requiring that the licensee receive a physical therapy degree from an accredited school. So prior to enrolling in a physical therapy school, it’s necessary to evaluate the ones you are thinking about to make sure they will furnish a quality education and comply with your state’s licensing standards. What you should not do is select a college simply because it happens to be the nearest to your home or it has the most affordable tuition. There are other important qualifications that need to be considered along with cost and location. But before we talk about what those qualifications are and the questions you should be asking, we’ll cover what a physical therapist does and the options for education.
What Do Physical Therapists Do?
Physical therapists work in diverse locations, including Chenoa IL private practices, hospitals, assisted living facilities, rehab centers and sports facilities. What the facilities all share in common is that they are equipped for diagnosing and rehabilitating patients. As previously touched on, physical therapists help individuals that are suffering from a lack of mobility and in many cases pain due to illness or injury. After patient diagnosis, they design a course of treatment to deal with the mobility problems and reduce or eradicate any pain. They also strive to stop any advancement of the disability. Although the causes of disability requiring physical therapy are abundant, they include:
- Osteoporosis and Arthritis
- Car or motor cycle accidents
- Heart attacks.
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
- Burn injuries.
- Knee Replacement.
- Cerebral Palsy.
Licensed physical therapists practice in close association with other Chenoa IL medical specialists, including chiropractors, physicians, dentists and nurses. They can also oversee several physical therapy assistants who work for them assisting with diagnosing and treating their patients. Something to take note of for anyone thinking about going into the physical therapy field, it is rather physically demanding. Physical therapists often lift heavy equipment as well as patients, and stand, crouch and kneel for long periods of time on a daily basis.
Physical Therapy Degrees Offered
There are three physical therapist degrees available for individuals to enroll in at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Of these choices, the one degree that is attainable to become a physical therapist is the doctorate. Undergraduate degrees concentrate on either preparing students to become a physical therapy assistant (PTA) or preparing them to advance to the doctoral level. Following are short descriptions of degree levels that are offered in the Chenoa IL area:
- Associate Degrees educate students to become physical therapy assistants, or may be used as a stepping stone to a more advanced degree. Applicants must have earned a high school diploma or equivalent to qualify for enrollment. The programs are most often provided by community or junior colleges, and take about two years to complete. An internship or other form of clinical training is normally a component of the program.
- Bachelor’s Degrees are created as pre-physical therapist training to ready students to advance to the doctoral level. Although they are not a requirement to be eligible for the doctoral program, they are an integral preliminary step to becoming a PT. Similar to most bachelor’s degrees, they normally take four years to finish and often incorporate an internship program of at least 500 hours.
- Doctorate Degrees are a requirement in order to become a practicing licensed physical therapist. The degree program must also be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE). After earning the bachelor’s degree, the doctoral takes 3 years to finish, making the overall investment of time 7 years in the majority of cases. Clinical training is an intregal element in addition to the extensive lab and classroom instruction. Therefor the fulfillment of an internship is required, not just for graduation but in a number of states for licensing also.
The Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) has replaced the Master’s of Physical Therapy (MPT), which has been eliminated and is no longer offered in the USA. Some practicing physical therapists holding a master’s or in some cases a bachelor’s degree were “grandfathered” in prior to the current licensing mandate for a doctorate was instituted.
Physical Therapist Online Programs
While not as common as the more traditional options, there are many accredited online physical therapy programs offered, even more at the graduate level. Because of the hands-on nature of the training, clinical lab work and internships are incorporated with the online classes. This requires that the student live near the school campus or in proximity of an available internship. Fortunately, the online segment of the program may be accessed within the convenience and comfort of the student’s Chenoa IL home. Online programs are not only partially more accessible, but in a number of cases more economical. Tuition can be somewhat less than comparable on campus alternatives, and expenses for commuting are reduced. And many of the online programs are accredited by the CAPTE, assuring a quality education. These benefits can make the online alternative the right choice for those students that are disciplined enough to attend classes at home.
Subjects to Ask Physical Therapist Schools
By now you probably have come to decision regarding some of your preliminary questions, like the kind of physical therapist degree you would like to earn, where you prefer to attend classes, and how much you can afford to invest in your education. But since there are so many PT colleges within the Chenoa IL area and throughout Illinois, you’ll need to research other qualifications also so as to further reduce your list of college options. Moreover, you want to make certain that you pick the school that is best for you. That’s the reason we have collected a list of essential questions that you must ask the physical therapist colleges you are reviewing. Ask each of the competing colleges these questions before making a final decision.
Is the Physical Therapist School Accredited? Find out if the schools you are considering have received accreditation from a national or a regional agency. As previously mentioned, if you are pursuing a doctorate the program must be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE). If you enroll in an online school, it can also earn accreditation from the Distance Education and Training Council. It’s essential that both the physical therapist program and school you select are accredited, not just the school. Additionally, make sure that the accreditation is from a U.S. Department of Education acknowledged accrediting organization. Besides guaranteeing that you obtain a quality education, accreditation might be required for state licensing and even for getting student loans or financial aid.
What is the School’s Ranking? Along with accreditation, it’s essential that the college and program you choose have outstanding reputations within the physical therapy profession. There are a number of ways you can research a PT college’s reputation, beginning with asking for references from employers that they refer their students to. You can also search for online rating services and reviews and ask the accrediting agencies for their reviews as well. Contact several Chenoa IL physical therapy centers or other healthcare facilities that you may have an interest in working for and ask if they can provide any advice about your program selections. It might also be prudent to check with the Illinois Attorney General and school licensing authority to find out if any complaints have been submitted against the schools.
What is the Program’s Job Placement Rate? There are a couple of important statistics that you should know about all of the physical therapist colleges you are reviewing. One is their graduation rate. A lower rate might indicate that students left due to displeasure with the program, the instructors, or both. After the students have graduated, how many of them are being placed in jobs with the assistance of the college’s job placement program, particularly in the Chenoa IL area? If a school has a higher job placement rate, it suggests that its reputation within the medical care field is good or perhaps exceptional. It also affirms that the program has a large network of contacts to assist students obtain internships or jobs after graduation.
Does the School Prepare You For Licensing Requirements? It’s important that the college you select furnishes both superior training and a course of study that satisfies the licensing criteria for Illinois or the state where you will be practicing. In every state a passing score is required on the National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE) along with a degree from an accredited physical therapist school. While licensing requirements vary state by state for PT and PTA graduates, many states require a minimum amount of clinical hours be completed as well as passing scores on additional tests.
Are Internships Sponsored? Find out if the physical therapy programs you are assessing have associations with Chenoa IL clinics or hospitals for internship programs. Not only are internships a great manner to receive hands on training in a clinical setting, they are also a requirement for the majority of PT programs and state licensing. As a supplemental benefit, they may assist graduates and students establish professional relationships in the Chenoa health care community and help with obtaining employment after licensing.
What are the Class Sizes ? Unless you are the sort of student that prefers to sit way in the rear of the classroom or get lost in the crowd, you will undoubtedly want a smaller class size. Small classes allow for more individual participation and one-on-one instruction. Ask the physical therapy schools you are reviewing what the typical student to teacher ratio is for their classrooms. If practical you may want to monitor one or more classes before making your ultimate determination. This will also give you a chance to converse with several of the students and instructors to get their opinions regarding the pharmacist technician program also.
Where is the College Located? For many students, the physical therapist college they choose will have to be within driving distance of their Chenoa IL home. Individuals who have chosen to attend classes online naturally will not have to worry themselves with the location of the campus. However, the availability of area internships will be of concern. One thing to keep in mind is that if you choose to enroll in a school that is out of state or even out of your local area, you may have to pay a higher tuition. State colleges generally charge higher tuitions for out of state residents. And community colleges usually charge a higher tuition for those students that don’t reside within their districts.
Is Financial Help Offered? The majority of DPT schools offer some form of financial support to their prospective students. Find out if the colleges you are looking at have a financial assistance department and see what kind of aid is obtainable. At a minimum they should help in obtaining a student loan or any grants you might be eligible for. Some physical therapy colleges provide scholarships, while others provide work programs. So before you eliminate a college because the tuition is too expensive, ask what financial aid might be available.
Can the College Accommodate your Schedule? And last you need to verify that the physical therapy school you finally choose can furnish the class schedule you need. This is particularly crucial if you decide to continue working while you attend classes. If you must schedule night or weekend classes in the Chenoa IL area, verify that they are available. If you can only enroll on a part-time basis, check if that is an option and how many credit hours or courses you would have to enroll in. Also, ask what the procedure is for making up any classes that you may miss due to work, illness or family emergencies.
Earning Your Physical Therapy Degree near Chenoa Illinois?
If you are planning on attending a Physical Therapy School in the Chenoa IL area, the following information may prove to be both interesting and educational regarding the location of your future Alma Mater.
Chenoa is a city in McLean County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,785 at the 2010 census. Located at the intersections of Interstate 55, Historic Route 66, and U.S. Route 24. Founded in 1854 by Mathew T. Scott, Chenoa was created to provide a retail and trade center for his farm tenants as well as a grain shipping facility. The Chenoa Centennial was celebrated in 1954. The town is situated in a highly productive agricultural area. Two currently active businesses here are notable due to their longevity. They are Schuirman's Drug Store (now Chenoa Pharmacy) and Union Roofing. The latter company today is one of the largest roofing contractors in Illinois. Several small manufacturers operate here and a number of antique dealers are Chenoa-based. The town school system closed at the end of the 2004 school year, consolidating with the nearby Prairie Central school district. A well attended July 4 celebration is held in Chenoa each year.
According to the 2010 census, Chenoa has a total area of 2.475 square miles (6.41 km2), of which 2.43 square miles (6.29 km2) (or 98.18%) is land and 0.045 square miles (0.12 km2) (or 1.82%) is water.
Situated in McLean County, the area surrounding Chenoa boasts some of the richest soil in the world. Only patches of farmland in Argentina, southern Ukraine and along the Yellow River in China match the fertile ground that covers much of the northern half of Illinois, particularly a high-yielding band through the state's midsection. McLean County is traditionally the state's leading corn and soybean producer.
Select the Right Physical Therapy Degree Program near Chenoa IL
Picking the right physical therapist program is a necessary initial decision you have to make to start a rewarding career in the healthcare field. As we have covered in this article, the PT or DPT degree program and college you pick should both have outstanding reputations and accreditation. However there are other important questions that you need to ask regarding your college of choice also. As you commence your search for a physical therapist school, bear in mind that numerous variables will guide you to your ultimate decision. You may decide to go to different schools to see their facilities and talk to current DPT students. While there, ask yourself this critical question: will this school help me achieve my goal of becoming a licensed practicing physical therapist? By adhering to our list of supplemental questions, you will be able to narrow down the field so you can make the appropriate selection. And with the proper training and education, you can accomplish your dream of becoming a licensed physical therapist in Chenoa IL.
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Brian Doherty Development is pleased to present a luxurious new single-family home on Lincoln Park's gracious Burling Street. This 4-level residence offers approximately 6,400 square feet of finely finished, thoughtfully designed living space with 5 bedrooms, 5 full baths, and 3 powder rooms -- all on an oversized 28' wide lot. This house is filled with natural light as it aligns the private alley to the south and has a generous setback to the north and west. Outdoor space will include a rear terrace, a roof deck, and a deck above the 3-car heated garage. The home is scheduled for Winter 2017 delivery. It offers top quality transitional finishes by Elizabeth Taich Designs. Highlights include an elegant brick and limestone facade, hardwood floors, tall ceilings, sophisticated millwork, wood-burning fireplaces, and state-of-the-art electronics and mechanical systems. There is still time to customize some finishes for your personal touch. Alcott School District
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All brick exterior home located in the perfect Andersonville location. This 4 BR home offers 3 levels of living space with 3 full baths, one half bath, 2 fireplaces and large recreation room in the finished basement. Enter on the main level into a large combo LR/DR with gas fireplace with granite surround. Cook's kitchen with 42" cabinets, granite CT, stone backsplash and SS appliances including wine fridge. Large breakfast bar separates the kitchen from the family room which has a WB fireplace with stone surround & chimney. The wood deck & fence off the family room gives complete privacy making it your own oasis in the middle of a busy Chicago neighborhood. Upper level has large master suite with 2 walk-in closets and balcony. Master bath has dual vanities, separate shower, and a whirlpool tub. 2 additional bedrooms on the upper level share a Jack & Jill bath. Hardwood floors thru out main & upper levels. Walk to Andersonville restaurants, shopping, gyms, nightlife and Starbucks. | <urn:uuid:edc43a23-56ab-4e23-a32f-69f6163e576f> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://brittanyshapiro.koenigrubloff.com/homes-for-sale/IL/Chicago | 2017-10-20T19:27:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824325.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020192317-20171020212317-00336.warc.gz | en | 0.875983 | 2,839 |
Senator Yaw and Representative Cutler Introducing Pennsylvania Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Legislation
April 18, 2017
HAP President and CEO Andy Carter today joined providers, advocates, and lawmakers from across the commonwealth to praise the pending introduction of legislation to codify Pennsylvania Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) as an option for patients and their families.
The legislation, which HAP supports, will be introduced in the Senate as SB 623, sponsored by Senator Gene Yaw, and in the House as HB 1196, sponsored by Representative Bryan Cutler.
The POLST process offers patients the option to dictate their wishes about a variety of life-sustaining matters, including:
- Medical interventions (such as resuscitation, feeding methods, and administration of medication)
- Transportation methods
- Other treatments or procedures
The legislation enables POLST to be recognized across the continuum of care, from pre-hospital emergency services to post-discharge care in nursing homes or through hospice and home health care.
Senator Yaw stated, “the legislation will help Pennsylvanians put their preferences into medical orders,” and will “open the discussion of choices about treatment between patients, family, and physicians.
Representative Cutler noted that “end-of-life care often is colored by personal experience,” and “that POLST compliments use of advance directives or living wills and will help start meaningful discussions in families and with caregivers.”
HAP has worked closely with the Pennsylvania Medical Society, other health care provider organizations, faith-based groups, consumer advocates, the Aging Institute at UPMC Senior Services and the University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Department of Health, and members of the General Assembly to craft and support this legislation.
Dr. Alexander Nesbit, who practices palliative care at UPMC Susquehanna in Williamsport, also spoke on behalf of the medical community. “Figuring out what is right for each patient can be hard and POLST is a tool that helps us, as practitioners, do a better job in getting it right regarding patient care preferences at the end of life.”
Carter added, “HAP is dedicated to helping Pennsylvanians become their own health care advocates. POLST education and use of the POLST form helps patients take charge of their care decisions, giving them a tool to make their wishes known.”
HAP applauds Senator Yaw and Representative Cutler in recognizing the need to provide patients and families with consistent resources to assist them in making often-difficult health care decisions that could result from advanced illness. The legislation provides authority to the Pennsylvania Department of Health to maintain and update the form and to provide educational materials for use by health care providers.
Carter added, “The standardized form, pink in color, is easy to understand and works hand-in-hand with advanced directives. This is just another example of a coalition of health care champions working together to help patients receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time.”
Both bills await consideration by their respective standing committees in the House and Senate.
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Yeah, that's about right. There will no doubt be people in line that have been there for days.Law_of_4 wrote:Movie is at 12am, I'm getting there by 4
The 2012 superhero epic about Batman's struggle to overcome the terrorist leader Bane, as well as his own inner demons.
I thought my two-hour drive was going to be long. Bravo, sir. I salute you. Are you planning on staying at a hotel or driving straight home afterward? If you do the marathon, which would quite literally make that an all-day affair for you, I can't imagine driving four hours when it will already be around 3am. However, I'm sure your mind will be racing as with everyone else, so I doubt being tired would be an issue.Big Bad Harv wrote:The closest IMAX to me is four hours away, so my wife and I and four of our friends are all going together.
We'll be meeting up with probably two other people as well once we arrive.
I went with about eight friends for the midnight showing of TDK, and it was such a great experience.
We were about two hours early then and got close to first pick of seats, but this time we'll be going about five hours early.
However, if IMAX does offer the marathon, we're totally doing it.
Most of us are probably going to watch the first two films in advance anyway, so the marathon is literally the best possible way to see those films right before TDKR.
And with an intermission between each film, how can you lose?
Yo dude I'm going to that same trilogy marathon except the daytime one! So pumped, although i've never been to a 9 hour movie marathon b4, hope that I can stay awake (cue double espresso coffee shots!)!corderouge wrote:My IMAX theatre is running a trilogy screening event,
so I'll be there at 6pm to watch Batman Begins,
then they'll provide us with dinner
then at midnight,
July 18th, 6pm, here I come
I feel the same way. I really want to see BB and TDK on the big screen again. But I'm never really comfortable in movie theater seats. And I feel like I might be worn out sitting through 2 lengthy films. I also really invest myself emotionally in movies and TDK is an exhausting movie for me, especially on the big screen. I just don't think I have the energy to handle all 3. I wish they would simply play Batman Begins two weeks prior and The Dark Knight a week before leading up until The Dark Knight Rises. I don't have a need to watch them back to back.TehBatGetsBraked wrote:The fact that I'd get to see BB on and TDK on the big screen is a major draw for me. But I dont want to be "burnt out"
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Democracy Diary: It's too late: no legislative paths forward
Probably hunger strikes and sit-ins are the best hope - so let's say that
Voting rights groups in Georgia have told President Biden not to come to the state to speak on the topic unless he has a plan to pass federal voting rights legislation.
According to articles in the Atlanta Journal Constitution and the Independent (again, thank God for these British papers) “The groups – which include Black Voters Matter Fund, the Asian American Advocacy Fund, the New Georgia Project Action Fund and the GALEO Impact Action Fund – ‘reject any visit by President Biden that does not include an announcement of a finalized voting rights plan that will pass both chambers, not be stopped by the filibuster, and be signed into law.’”
The articles continues, “On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer pledged to change the Senate’s filibuster rules on or before 17 January.”
But, as we all know, they don’t have the votes, because Krysten Sinema opposes reform.
There are no remaining legislative paths forward. I suppose it’s possible Sinema will change her mind — but we saw how that worked out with Manchin’s treachery on Build Back Better. So why aren’t Democrats saying loudly and clearly that we have no remaining legislative options to prevent the entrenchment of authoritarian rule in the US? That it’s already too late?
It’s one more thing that’s totally baffling to me about the way Dems are approaching this and the media is covering it.
Wiser and more knowledgeable friends, tell me what I’m missing.
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Let’s play a game? The expected time to read this article is 9 min. But you can finish it sooner, right? Check what time it is now and start reading. We Promise the prize at the end will be worth taking the challenge. Go!
Today, the mobile app market is enormous, and the numbers from Statista prove that: on Google Play, you can find apps totaling $2.5 million, Apple App Store – $1.8 million, Windows Store – $669 thousand, and Amazon App Store – $489 thousand. In total, we have a number of $5,5 billion in mobile apps! For business owners, both exciting and disturbing at the same time!
Thus, it’s getting more and more challenging to create a mobile app that will stand out from other apps, be interesting for users, and kept on the shelves like a favorite toy. Yes, users are quite spoiled children – so many toys in the stores to play with – no chance for boring toys to survive.
As a result, offering boring apps to users will lead a business owner, not only to a loss of user interest but, of course, the impossibility to involve new users and their money. In the end, we come to an unexpected mathematical equation:
No users = no reviews, comments from them = no leading positions in searches = no new downloads = no success. But don’t be so quickly disappointed. There is a way to transform an app and achieve all your business goals in a much short period of time.
Interested? Keep reading so you don’t miss an opportunity that will really work for your app!
What is Mobile App Gamification and Why This is What You Need
According to research conducted by a neurology scientist, Matthias Koepp, adult brains release the hormones dopamine and serotonin while playing games and taking challenges. They feel that internal accomplishment that makes them happy, full of energy, and the motivation to continue and move to another level. This answers the question of why people desire to and actually play more and more.
In real life, it’s harder to experience these emotions because for this to happen you need to achieve bigger goals. Emotional triggers are what returns us to one source of happiness – games – and we can be happy again and again.
So here we go – to the games or it would be better to say ‘mobile app gamification’.
Mobile app gamification is a marketing concept based on the use of such game techniques as rewards, progress display, leaderboards, competition, and social interaction. As people are more inclined to fulfill tasks when they know that at the end a reward will be waiting for them, mobile app gamification is a guide that leads you directly to the user’s production of dopamine and serotonin hormones.
Mobile App Gamification Benefits
Turning the user experience into playing a game can significantly increase the users’ engagement and encourage them to interact with the app more often.
The possibility of winning influences the user’s behavior even more than we can imagine. But nothing negative here: this works both for a user and business owner as both of them are reaching their goals. In essence, a user is happy to accomplish a task and is rewarded for that, and a business owner has revenue growth and a delighted client who is likely to bring new clients to the app.
Gigya says that mobile app gamification can boost interaction with an app by one third, the number of comments rises by 13%, shares on social media by 22%, and content discoverability by 68%.
So, what will you as a business receives from mobile app gamification:
- A constant social presence without putting in any effort
- A leading positions in searches
- Growth of engagement with your app
- Active users on social media
- More and more positive reviews
- Increase in the number of new users who are your target audience, who are ready to start using your app right now
and one more important thing:
- Happy users whom you helped to make their lives better every day.
How gamification works
A user should accomplish a particular task in an app, and for this, one is pleased with different rewards. In this way, a user feels like a superhero who is struggling to succeed in something, and in the end, it is an enjoyable experience because everyone wants to win.
Let’s move to the practical issues and find out how to actually gamify an app.
There are different techniques of app gamification you can use, but your success depends on your imagination and how good you know your users. We give you insights, you turn them into the cherry on top of your app gamification strategy, ok?
Remember being given a new toy for getting a good mark at school? That motivated us to study even those subjects we were not interested in as we knew that in the end, we would have that desirable present from our parents. Yes, it was hard to achieve, but the happiness we felt when we had finally got the prize couldn’t be compared to anything. More importantly, we are rewarded in both ways: an excellent mark and a reward for our success.
That works even now: we’re still those kids who are too lazy to do important things even while realizing the scope of their importance for us, but a possible reward is what encourages us at least to try. And when we try, the desire to get more and more increases.
Providing your users with rewards for the frequency of using an app, purchasing goods, accomplishing personal goals, participating in quizzes, competitions, sharing posts with their friends, and inviting them to join the app, will not only help to keep their interest in the app but increase their interest continually.
What kind of rewards can there be:
- Сash rewards – money is a never-changing motivation for everyone
- Digital goods that can be exchanged for real goods – this will give customers a chance to choose what goods inspire them more to fulfill tasks
- In-app currency to spend inside the app that will promote more purchases as a result
In other words – anything that has value for your target audience. But avoid useless prizes – they are just a waste of time and money for a business. Identify exactly what will make users come back to your app again and again, and offer it to them. Yes, simple to say but hard to achieve, but we know that you will find the answer, or you can always ask us.
It’s important to see how far we have moved towards our goal, and what improvements we can see right now. This inspires us not to give up and do more.
If we’ve succeeded, we want the whole world to know about it, that’s why we post on social media so much and share our results with others. Recognition is a huge need for every human being. And it actually works for business presence and promotion.
Improving ourselves is the right motivation, but often it’s not enough for users to stick to the goal. However, when talking about comparing our achievements with others, that becomes much more interesting and tempting for us to participate in the ‘race’ and prove who is the winner.
People love competitions, and they love to win. They’re striving to have the highest scores, and when they see someone’s above them in a leaderboard, they start to do everything to be in 1st place. That’s human nature.
Your business can help people to fulfill this immutable desire to be the best while really becoming the best. Everyone benefits here – business has higher conversion and user activity, and the user has his/her need to win satisfied and a reward for their efforts.
Moreover, people are inclined to challenge their friends and compete with them, so involving new users is guaranteed!
Starbucks is a coffee giant that offers a loyalty system to its clients.
- Progress display of your purchasing frequency
- Rewards for each order in the form of stars which can be exchanged for material prizes later
Duolingo is an educational app for learning foreign languages.
- Progress display of course completion in the form of a percentage
- A reward for actions – an internal currency called lingots
- Competition – voting for the best translation
- Leaderboards with scores based on learning achievements
- Social interaction with friends on Facebook
Fitbit is a fitness app for the completion of different kinds of sports activities.
- Progress display while filling in a circle of your physical activity
- Rewards for walking a certain distance every day. Different badges for different distances.
- Social engagement – to find friends or invite them
- The possibility to compete with your friends in sport
- Challenge yourself with original tasks
It is a tracker that allows controlling the completion of both daily and business tasks.
- Rewards for tasks – karma points (a user can also go minus if deadlines are missed)
- Progress is shown in a number of unlocked levels
- Social shares of a user’s karma on social media
This is an app to manage user finances and help them to achieve their financial goals, for example, to save money for a new car.
- Progress bar to see how much money is saved and how much is left.
What to Remember: Risks and Challenges
Despite all the advantages of the gamification of an app mentioned above, you, as a current or future business owner should always remember that it is not a one-way working panacea that guarantees the success of your business. It might work, and, at the same time, it might not work.
So, it’s vital to consider all possible risks and challenges that can prevent you from reaching set business goals. And here are some tips that are taken from our practice to show you how to get the best of app gamification and build a successful mobile app gamification strategy:
Set clear goals and monitor their status
If you decide to implement a solution, then you’re doing it for some purpose. Know your purpose from the very beginning, keep it in mind, and follow a plan or your actions won’t bring the desired result. Shape your app gamification strategy while focusing on both your needs and the needs of your users. Remember that you both need benefits.
Identify your target audience, learn it and always analyze
Even a well-developed gamification app strategy won’t work if it’s not developed based exclusively on your target users’ needs and interests. In this case, you will simply hit the wrong target.
Data is what helps you to find out who is interested in you, how he or she behaves, why something is happening in a certain way, and how to make it play for you.
Find what has value for your users and integrate it into your app
Even if we’re sure that something will definitely work because we like it, it doesn’t mean our users will share our opinion – they have their own likes and dislikes.
So here it’s important to discover what your users want the most, what will become their biggest motivation to complete the task, what will make them use your application, and not others.
Keep it simple
Probably, it’s the biggest mistake to think that you have to rebuild your app entirely to make it gamified. That’s not always the case. If it works well, adding some unique gamification features to it will be enough.
Don’t confuse both yourself and your users with complex systems, techniques, and approaches. The rules of the game you’re offering to other people should be easy to get and follow. You don’t want to make your users irritated, right?
Keep it entertaining
The success of your app gamification is directly dependent on the user’s experience while using an app. The more playful and enjoyable it is, the more delighted your users are.
It often happens that, in the beginning, an app attracts a lot of users, but then, the app gets more and more boring and predictable and has nothing new to experience. So, users have no motivation to explore it further.
To avoid this, build your app gamification strategy in a way users can be entertained throughout the whole game, not only at levels 1 and 2. They shouldn’t know what is coming next, but be curious to discover it by themselves.
Encourage users to share
All people want likes and shares. So does a business. Make your users proud of the achievements they’ve accomplished with your app, and they will say ‘thank you’ with shares on their social profiles. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – communicate with your audience everywhere.
Hear your users
Pay attention to what your users are saying; what they’re complaining about and what they’re complimenting about your app. This will give you a clear picture of what to improve, change, or keep.
The Game is Not Over Yet
Remember that game we started in the beginning? Congratulations! It’s almost at an end.
The point here is to see how gamification works as an example, influences your behavior, and how it can make a usually long and boring to read article fun, entertaining, and simple to finish.
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Approaching the New Year with a clear head and clear cut intentions, the concept of Dry January is one we’re all familiar with. When the third week of January rolls around and we’ve all fallen off the wagon, I like to remind others that we live in Ireland.
If it didn’t rain in Ireland for over half the month, January would be deemed dry overall, and a dry fortnight in Galway would be damn near miraculous. When it comes to breaking your resolutions mid-January, there are few places in Ireland that can top the cosy bar-lined cobbled streets of the city of the tribes for a night on the town.
Once you’ve effectively ended your dry spell with numerous whiskeys (Sonny Molloy’s is an ever-present hazard), you will need somewhere to regroup, recover and revive. The recently launched Boozy Brunch at Galway favourite The Front Door seemed like the perfect port in the hangover storm on a recent visit.
Cavernous and inviting, the Front Door is certainly less hectic in the daylight hours, calm with soothing tunes humming so as not to aggravate any already-sore heads. Always a safe bet for a fantastic night out, we were keen to see if they could provide the cure for the kill provided the previous night.
More than just hair of the dog, a tempting cocktail list included Mocktails like Blueberry and Rosemary Smash, which is the perfect aperitif for anyone feeling too delicate or dodging drinking. On the other end of the spectrum Fruit Punch Mojitos (€8.95) and Breakfast Martinis (€8.50) with Beefeater Gin and orange marmalade would knock the cobwebs out.
My brunch buddy Fred and I both opted for a much-needed caffeine hit in the form of Espresso Martinis(€8.50), which didn’t fall into the trap of being too syrupy and packed a serious Absolute Vanilla Vodka punch.
An extensive menu made nods to all the brunch stalwarts, fun, hearty and bursting with options sure to satisfy even the most ravenous of appetites. Dishes like Crispy Chicken Wings with Jameson Black Barrel BBQ Sauce and Gin-Cured Salmon accompanying numerous classics carried the boozy theme through to the food and there were no complaints from us on this front.
A dish I really feel doesn’t get enough credit this side of the Atlantic, Steak and Eggs, tickled Fred’s fancy and when a chargrilled behemoth arrived topped with too perfectly fried eggs, I was a little jealous.
The dreaded food envy increased upon tasting, as the smokey tenderness you can only achieve from a vapo or Josper grill revealed itself, making the medium rare beauty all the more tempting. The most expensive dish on the menu, this was a feast fit for a comedy king for €17.95.
For me, a Panko Coated Crab Cake(€10.95) was a far better vessel for a poached egg and hollandaise than an English muffin (does anyone actually like those?). Choosing to pair mine with the aforementioned gin-cured salmon made this a far more tempting take on Eggs Benny, for me, than the traditional.
Finished with a crown of avocado and a plump and oozy poached egg, crispy skin-on home fries (hollandaise’s best friend) were probably an indulgence too far, but my New Year New Me attitude was waning at this stage.
An honest appraisal of the situation led us to conclude that resolutions were well and resolutions were well and truly out the window, and a dessert of American Style Pancakes(€8.95) became imperative.
While we didn’t quite manage to scale the stack of three massive and fluffy hot cakes, we certainly made a dent in this irresistible dish, made all the more sinful with one of my personal guilty pleasures, clotted cream and lashings of chocolate sauce.
Borderline rolling out the door, Fred and I agreed that the diet would start on Monday, as we all so often tell ourselves. The Front Door can expect me to come knocking again for the cure after my next Galway night out though.
Many a great night has kicked off at The Front Door, but their boozy brunch is a fantastically fun start to a Sunday too. Our bill, for two mains, a dessert and two cocktails came to €52.
The Front Door
8 Cross Street & High Street
T: 091 563 757
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September 18th, 2013
05:01 PM ET
People with dyslexia may have an easier time reading on an e-reader than using traditional paper, a new study published today in the journal PLOS One suggests.
Researchers say the idea for the study came out of anecdotal reports they were hearing from dyslexics who said they never read for pleasure before smartphones and e-readers enabled them to start.
“They said it was a much more comfortable experience,” said Jenny Thomason, a study author who worked at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education at the time. “We wanted to take a closer look.”
Thomson and her colleagues selected a group of 103 students from Landmark High School in Massachusetts, which is focused on students who struggle with language disabilities. The students were given age-appropriate text to read on both traditional paper and on an iPod touch. (The study authors also later duplicated this experiment using an iPad.)
Researchers measured the students' reading speed with a stop watch. They then gauged their reading comprehension with multiple choice questions about the text.
On traditional paper, the text was presented using 14-point Times Roman font with 1-inch margins. Students read from the paper under light conditions that were consistent with a classroom setting.
The reading material on the iPod used a 42-point Times Roman font. That made the lines they read short, with about three or four words per line. The background was black, and the font was white.
Most students consistently read faster and remembered more using the iPod. Researchers attributed this to the fewer words per line on each page.
For example, one sub-group of dyslexics who benefited from the e-reader had what’s called low VA Span Scores. A low VA Span Score means the reader’s attention can’t keep up with the speed that their eyes are moving along the text.
Text on paper is usually formatted to be maximally efficient, according to the study - i.e. book publishers put as many words on one line as they think typical readers can handle. "Efficient readers are able to accurately control the dynamics of their gaze and make use of the long lines of text," the study authors write.
Not all dyslexia is the same. While researchers found the e-reader helped most dyslexic students, not all benefited from the electronic device. For instance, dyslexics who had a high VA span actually did better reading with traditional paper.
The study suggests that an assessment tool to determine what kind of dyslexia the student has would be helpful for teachers or parents, Thompson says. Knowing the type would help identify what kind of device would best fit that child’s reading skills.
“It’s great news,” Thomson said. “Our study shows that you don’t have to create a new device, you can use the technology many people already have to help people read better. It’s such an easy thing you could do.”
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How to Write My Thesis Paper
If you’re writing a thesis paper, then you’ve had to deal with the stress of the section on results. This section of your thesis must include numbers, as this provides the evidence-based basis for your study. Avoid using descriptive terms or any other tools for artistic expression. Stick to truths. Discuss the importance of your outcomes and explain why they’re important. These are helpful suggestions for you to use in the sections on results. Read on to discover more.
Arguments for or against a thesis
When writing a thesis paper, students often struggle with the notion of an argumentative thesis. It is possible that they believe it is simply biased. However, in reality every argument that is effective can be based upon an opinion. This is even more challenging to establish its validity. Although opinions are logical, controversial, and provable and substantiated with evidence and data. Here are some examples of argumentative thesis declarations.
First, a thesis statement must be able to articulate the idea that will be addressed in the essay. In the ideal scenario, your thesis must be concise and strong statement that articulates your argument in a clear easily understood manner. It should also restate the argument in an engaging and engaging manner at the close of your essay. You could, for example, write about the effects of https://www.scratchbeer.com/profile/kiteba8570/profile political corruption and poverty on Africa. The problems you’re addressing have become so severe that the continent requires immediate focus. Your thesis should comprise an outline of an idea. Then, provide evidence to support the thesis throughout your essay.
While writing a thesis when writing a thesis, you must think about both logic and rationality. A well-constructed thesis can demonstrate that you’ve conducted the necessary research. A good example of a rational thesis assertion is that bullying can be caused by an absent parent. One unrealistic thesis might be that every Democrats should be thrown out of the country. This is a plan which is not feasible to an unsolved problem.
The thesis statement must be as precise as is possible as it can be, and ought to be appropriate to the topic of the research. The thesis essay on the origins and evolution of English literature isn’t able to contain five pages of thesis. It must therefore be short. In focusing on a lesser issue, including the technique or point of view, and clearly defining its limits, you can narrow the subject of your thesis.
The format of a thesis paper
There are numerous aspects to be considered when developing the thesis paper. The thesis should be clear about the topic of the study and be backed by sufficient background information. It will improve the credibilty of your research by bolstering your thesis. If you fail to adhere to these requirements, your thesis won’t be regarded as credible which will get a poor grade. Here are https://www.fortunetelleroracle.com/news/guidelines-on-how-to-write-a-dissertation-research-proposal-434319 some suggestions that can help you write a compelling thesis paper for your professor.
Your introduction is your introduction to the reader. It’s the start of your essay. You should include a hook in the opening paragraph to draw the reader’s attention and to explain the issue. The body of the document should be backed by evidence and research that support the claim. Conclusions should explain the implications of your findings as well as any gaps https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/profile/tiyakis762/profile in data or weaknesses. It is important to give ample time for the most critical sections. If you have many sections, then you need to be able to compose them in the right order.
The design of a thesis is a crucial component of the overall work. A typical format for your master’s or bachelor’s dissertation comprises three parts that include the introduction, body, and the final. After you’ve selected the structure of your thesis, make sure to organize every section into folders. It’s also important to be sure to include the importance of the research along with the research methodology used for your study.
The reference section is equally significant. Research should use proven methods and yield solid findings. A consistent style should be employed for your references. If you do not have the time or energy to follow the entire process it is possible to hire someone to do it on your behalf. There’s an array of services available online that can help you with your thesis. A thesis template can alleviate the strain in writing your thesis.
Sources of support
When writing a thesis, the sources you use are required to prove your thesis. The primary sources you can use are for example, like documents from the government such as meeting minutes and newspapers, to prove your thesis. Secondary sources are, however can include news articles or books, lecture, documentary films and more. Your argument must be supported with credible sources that prove the thesis you are defending. Evidence may also be used in determining whether you made general assertions or used biases in constructing your argument.
Remember that your scholarly research paper is based on evidence. You should therefore make use of multiple sources to support of your arguments. While it is best to employ research-based articles in the scholarly journals in order to justify your claims, you can also include your voice in your analysis. A teaching assistant, or professor could be a great resource. You must be aware of the biases and shortcomings of the sources you choose to use so that you’re able to select the most reliable ones.
Additional sources can be useful in to support your arguments, in addition to scholarly journals. Additional sources can be utilized to justify opposing points of view. The sources you use can be used to back up your arguments. The thesis essay should function as your personal statement. It is essential to be able to discuss it with other students. Make use of additional sources to prove your position. Whichever source you use Your thesis essay is not your initial draft.
A thesis table of its contents
Tables and figures for the thesis should be placed after on the Table of Contents. These lists must follow similar format to tables of content. You must ensure that the Tables and figures easier to comprehend. Lists may also include Nomenclature Dictionary, Definitions and Glossary. It is important to format them correctly and in a clear manner. Whether you are putting together an outline for your thesis or creating a glossary, you should ensure that they are easy to locate.
Tables and figures must be marked and must appear at least as close to their initial mention within the text. In some cases, they may fill multiple pages. You should use the same margins throughout your entire document. The table of contents must also be in the same font type. The size of the font that you use for the chapter headings must be 14 points, and for subheadings, you should use 12 points. The table must be laid out on a landscape-oriented page, and long quotations should be double-spaced.
Include an acknowledgment page as an addition to your Table of Contents. It is not mandatory, but most theses acknowledge the contributions of the committee members. The acknowledgements page shouldn’t have to be separate from main body. The pages should be kept professionally designed. The number of pages should be 1/2 inch from the bottom on the webpage. So, the reader can quickly find the committee’s names. But, there shouldn’t have a Title Page following the Table of Contents.
A table of contents of the thesis should contain at minimum three different levels of headers. The table of content should not exceed the size of two pages. The table of contents should contain all the major headings, and should not be repeated. A table with more https://thelightworkinggroup.academy/members/patriciastones1202/profile/ than three levels needs to be placed on its own webpage. It should also contain the acknowledgements, abstract, and title. There should also be space for the table-of-contents, acknowledgments must be included before the table of contents.
Selecting a service for thesis-writing
An online thesis writing service will assist you in getting your thesis accomplished quickly and in a timely manner. A thesis writing service for various reasons, each with its positives and negatives. There are many services available. You must be aware of what you be looking for. These are some things to be aware of when choosing a thesis writing service. A trustworthy service will never use plagiarized content, and writers will go to whatever extent is required to make sure that the thesis is original and https://www.ausu.org/forums/users/eddysmith/ authentic.
Customer service should be the first thing you look at when choosing a thesis-writing service. Does their customer support staff responsive? Can they keep clients informed? Can they assure that the work is not erroneous? Do you have the ability to make changes to the paper? Will they charge you extra for revisions? There are several good reasons to seek out dissertation writing service which provides free revisions. So be sure to find one which is affordable and reliable.
Read online thesis writing service reviews. There are independent reviews which will provide you with an objective opinion about the firm. It is also important to check for negative reviews. It’s a red flag if reviews are all positive. The service likely moderates objectionable critiques. In the best case scenario, you’ll see a few negative reviews, however, not more than 2 percent. These cases will give you an understanding of the kind of reviews to be expecting.
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