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What was discussed:
- improving communication between teachers and families
- Student motivation
- Improving nutrition as a way to improved academic performance
- Why teenagers need 10 hours of sleep every night!
- How families and teachers can support students in Q4 and help them graduate on time.
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It is an allegory of the role Our Blessed Mother plays in salvation history. The story, on its own, is delightful, but the theological symbols that are woven throughout make the tale that much more rich and meaningful. (A great explanation of all the theological insight into this book can be found here. I just found this, so now I want to reread the book with this list in hand, as I’m sure there is so much I missed!)
Every time I read Take It to the Queen with my trio, I feel overwhelmed with awe and gratitude for God’s divine gift of Mary to us as Jesus’ mother and also as our mother, our queen. My children are a bit young to understand the depth of this book, but they do understand how the queen in the tale is like Mary. On the simplest level, how we ask Mary to pray for us, just as the villagers ask the queen to intercede for them. This story will indeed grow with the kids as they grow in their understanding of our Catholic faith.
In addition to a beautiful story, the illustrations by Katalin Szegedi are gorgeous. It simply is a lovely book to look at, as my pre-reading girls enjoy doing.
If you haven’t had the opportunity to read this book, I encourage you to do so. It would make a wonderful First Communion or birthday gift, or as something special to place on a Mary altar come May.
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen. | <urn:uuid:112444de-7b5c-4601-9d35-7490abb87845> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | http://sarahdamm.com/index.php/2009/03/27/have-you-read-this-book-ye/ | 2021-09-19T11:49:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056856.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20210919095911-20210919125911-00556.warc.gz | en | 0.968268 | 399 |
A diabetic foot ulcer is very serious complication of diabetes. It is when the skin breaks down in an area of excessive pressure. The wound has a great potential to become infected. Because of reduced circulation, a diabetic foot ulcer puts your foot and entire lower limb at risk for amputation. This is why a diabetic foot ulcer is an emergency that must be treated immediately.
An important element to heal your diabetic foot ulcer is to control the pressure that had caused the wound to form. After it is healed, it is critical to manage that pressure or the ulcer will reopen. In most cases, the pressure can be controlled with a diabetic shoe and appropriate custom insole to reduce the pressure beneath the foot. The use of a therapeutic shoe after a diabetic foot ulcer is healed is covered by Medicare and many private insurance plans.
In some cases, a diabetic shoe is not enough to adequately control the pressure that causes the diabetic foot ulcer to return. In these cases, such as a Charcot foot or a very flat foot, an ankle-foot orthotic (AFO) can provide more comprehensive control of the pressures and more completely prevent the wound from reopening.
If you have a diabetic foot ulcer, it is to not wait any longer to seek attention. Call Houston podiatrist Dr. Andrew Schneider for an immediate appointment. Once healed, we will do what is necessary to make sure the wound does not reopen. | <urn:uuid:2ca97c3f-02e0-441f-9d69-e88ddd1bde63> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | http://www.tanglewoodfootspecialists.com/faqs/once-mydiabetic-foot-ulcer-is-healed-how-do-i-stop-it-from-returning.cfm | 2020-02-29T09:09:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875148850.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20200229083813-20200229113813-00033.warc.gz | en | 0.952005 | 292 |
Chippy Leo, Chippy Leo!
JP Asong is in town, arranging his papers to resume his studies in UP. He's currently teaching at Ateneo de Davao, his students just about the same age as he is. He's flying back to Davao tomorrow and will return here next year.
JP is one of those who made dorm life more exciting that what it actually is. I couldn't imagine Kalayaan without him. We had so many things in common—books, movies, food, and friends. It was because of him that I got more interested in the classics. I borrowed his copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula which I never returned. He introduced me to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, lending me his copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude. And he liked old movies, having watched To Kill A Mockingbird ahead of me.
When I had nothing else to do, my default was to go to his room or Jef's. I'd bother him with my kakulitan, and he'd igladly indulge me. Many times he's crazier than I am.
Tonight he treated me to dinner at Chocolate Kiss. If there's something I miss being with JP, it's the fact that we never hesitate to dine in slightly expensive places because, come on, it's not everyday that we can eat these fancy things—like blueberry cheesecake, for example.
I'll miss dear old Chippy Leo. See ya soon, old pal. | <urn:uuid:b065c0fc-515e-4405-ac2c-b19682b69dfd> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | http://www.bottledbrain.com/2008/11/chippy-leo-chippy-leo.html | 2023-12-11T17:07:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679515260.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211143258-20231211173258-00370.warc.gz | en | 0.986271 | 309 |
Read here for brief updates on policy developments affecting music education around the United States. These news items include federal, state, and local items that may be of interest to music educators, and are compiled periodically by Lynn Tuttle, NAfME Director of Content and Policy, and Tooshar Swain, NAfME Public Policy Advisor.
NAfME NEWS AND ANALYSIS
- Read NAfME’s analysis on insufficient state education funding, and how our state MEAs are advocating against more cuts.
- Read our summary of the great work our State MEAs did during Music In Our Schools Month (MIOSM).
The Trump administration plans to identify and inform disabled veterans that they’re eligible to have their federal student loans discharged, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Monday. The Education Department has reached an agreement with the VA to match records of disabled veterans who may be eligible for a discharge of their federal loans or TEACH Grant aid. Federal law allows student loan borrowers who have a “total and permanent disability” to discharge their debt. Simplifying the loan forgiveness process and proactively identifying veterans with federal student loans who may be eligible for a discharge is a small but critical way we can show our gratitude for veterans’ service,” DeVos said in a statement.
House lawmakers on Tuesday morning touted state grants for student support services that got a boost in the recently passed omnibus spending bill — from which the Trump administration wants to cut out as much as $60 billion.
The Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants — which help schools offer counseling and mental health services, among other things — have seen a wave of support following the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. Congress gave the grants a $700 million boost in the fiscal 2018 $1.3 trillion omnibus spending plan, H.R. 1625 (115), passed last month. “Our nation has seen how vital it is that students are receiving care for mental illness — both for their own well-being and for the safety of those around them,” Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) told members of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees education funding. “Another issue we’ve seen time and time again is kids‘ and families‘ access to mental health, particularly for school-age kids. This program is a way to get to the heart of that.“ Hill, who was speaking before the subcommittee during its Members Day hearing, noted the grant program requires schools to spend the money in each of three program areas, of which mental health services is just one. He said he wants the Education Department to survey schools on how they would prioritize the money if there weren’t such restrictions on how it is used and report the findings to Congress. Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), who chairs the subcommittee, said the spending agreement allowed his committee to put more money into programs like those grants.
Republicans in Congress are plotting a breakneck pace of spending bills this summer as they look to avoid a bruising shutdown battle just ahead of the midterm elections. In separate meetings Wednesday, both House and Senate spending chiefs sat down with their committees and laid out aggressive timetables to approve all of the fiscal 2019 appropriations bills by Sept. 30. Frustrated by last year’s stop-and-go funding cycle, GOP appropriators say they’re committed to putting the 12 bills on the floor, even if it means sidestepping partisan battles — like policy riders — in an election that could cost them their majority in Congress. “We’re going to try to do this the right way,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said after the meeting. “Let’s be realistic. You can’t pass an appropriations bill on a partisan basis. It takes two to tango, and we’re ready to tango.” Sen. Richard Shelby, the newly crowned chairman of Senate Appropriations, told his committee that he hopes to pass the first individual bills on the floor in early June. It would be the first time that the Senate passed an individual bill since 2016, and a marked shift from last year, when only a handful of bills were moved out of committee on time.
Alberto Morejon, dressed for business in a white button-up shirt and red tie, stood near the steps of the Oklahoma Capitol, surveying what he had started. Around him, several thousand teachers, many who knew him by name, chanted: “One day longer, one day stronger!” It had been almost two months since Morejon watched news coverage of teachers in West Virginia, who hadn’t had a raise since 2014, as they embarked on a nearly two-week long strike that forced the state’s Republican Legislature to approve a 5-percent salary boost. Teacher salaries in Oklahoma, as Morejon knew well, were not much better than West Virginia — both states have been ranked among the five worst in the nation. Morejon, a 25-year-old social studies teacher and baseball coach at Stillwater Junior High in Stillwater, Oklahoma, saw the price it was taking on his colleagues. One fellow teacher, nearing retirement age, had to mow dozens of lawns after school every week to afford his daughter’s college tuition.
The Senate on Wednesday on a 55-43 vote confirmed Florida attorney Carlos Muñiz to serve as the Education Department’s top lawyer — overcoming objections from some Democrats who challenged his record protecting students. Muñiz heads to the department as it tackles major legal challenges like rewriting regulations governing for-profit colleges and debt relief for defrauded borrowers; deciding whether to rescind Obama-era school discipline policies; and laying out new rules for colleges handling allegations of sexual assault on campuses under Title IX. Republicans praised his legal experience. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said Muñiz is the type of person “we would hope would serve in public life.” But Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate HELP Committee, disagreed. Murray said that DeVos needs an independent general counsel “who will stand up to her when laws are being bent or broken. I’m afraid Mr. Muñiz has failed to convince me that … is the kind of general counsel he would be.”
The White House is ignoring warnings from worried Hill Republicans and moving ahead with plans to cut billions of dollars from the massive spending bill that Congress passed in late March, after President Donald Trump has spent weeks grousing about the legislation. Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney — himself a former congressman — is taking the lead on developing the rollback proposal, according to eight current and former administration officials and Republicans close to the White House. The White House expects to release it around May 1, according to one administration official. These officials anticipate the White House could propose slashing anywhere from $30 billion to $60 billion dollars from the $1.3 trillion dollar spending bill passed for this year — even as Republican lawmakers are openly asking the president not to re-open the negotiations. “The president is frustrated with omnibus. I also know that his base is frustrated with the omnibus,” said Paul Winfree, who served as Trump’s director of budget policy and deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council until he resigned in December to return to The Heritage Foundation. “The main question is: How big will they go?”
By CAITLIN EMMA
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) this morning stressed that public school teachers should be paid as highly as college professors and suggested that sexism is a driving factor behind lower salaries. “I’ve often advocated that we reverse the way we pay teachers,” she said, stressing that they should be paid the “same wages as college professors.” Foxx, the chairwoman of the House education committee, spoke at the Reagan Institute Summit on Education and emphasized the need for better pay in response to a question about an uprising of teachersin red states like Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona, where teachers are demanding better pay and more education revenue to make up for years of budget cuts. She noted that the majority of public school teachers “are women and the majority of college professors are men.” “If we want teachers to be professionals, we have to treat them as professionals,” she said.
WASHINGTON — An Education Department watchdog has found that the agency has not been properly screening its contractor employees. The department’s Office of Inspector General says in a report released Wednesday that the agency’s financial aid office has not been following guidelines on hiring contractor staff. As a result, there is “increased risk” that some of those employees are working without appropriate security clearance. The watchdog found that the office was sometimes giving employees access to sensitive information without first checking their backgrounds, as well as disclosing sensitive information to non-U.S. citizens. Department press secretary Liz Hill says the agency is working to correct the problems and security “remains a top priority.”
The college admissions season is coming to a close and once again, the results demonstrate the growing divide in American higher education between the haves and have-nots. The “have schools” are selective colleges — those that accept fewer than 50 percent of applicants. Although they enroll only 20 percent of the 17.5 million undergraduates in U.S. higher education, they account for more than one-third of all college applications. Within that group is a sliver of super-selective colleges that accept fewer than 20 percent of applicants, and in some cases fewer than 10 percent. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that the acceptance rate among the eight campuses that make up the Ivy League reached record lows this year. Harvard, for instance, admitted only 4.6 percent of applicants; Princeton just 5.5 percent. Among these schools, applications are rising every year as students see ever-lower acceptance rates from previous years and hedge their bets by applying to more schools, helped by technology that eases the process. Looking for any advantage, more students are also applying through the early decision process to their top choice so they can learn their fate in December, when they think the chance for admission is a bit easier (it is, ever so slightly). Many top schools now fill more than half their class through early decision.
President Trump’s Education Department is on its way to delaying by two years the implementation of an Obama-era rule that is intended to address the disparities in the treatment of students of color with disabilities. The rule amended regulations that are part of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). John King, the U.S. education secretary in December 2016, said then: “Children with disabilities are often disproportionately and unfairly suspended and expelled from school and educated in classrooms separate from their peers. Children of color with disabilities are overrepresented within the special education population, and the contrast in how frequently they are disciplined is even starker.” Current Education Secretary Betsy Devos is not a fan of the rule, and last month, the Education Department published a notice in the Federal Register seeking public comment on a proposal to delay the rule’s implementation, which was supposed to start in the 2018-2019 school year. The notice says the department wants to make this move to ensure the rule’s “effectiveness” can be ensured.
If a student artist wrote an essay, completed a lengthy project, and finished an end-of-course task to show mastery in her discipline, should she be excused from her last Regents exam?
That is one option New York state’s top policymakers considered on Monday during a discussion about how to test students’ knowledge in in areas such as visual arts, music and theater. The conversation is part of New York’s broader effort to expand graduation options and could provide a roadmap for state officials as they try to create testing options that stretch beyond multiple choice bubble tests.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s message to his new schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, has been consistent: Take America’s largest school system “to the next level.” It’s just not entirely clear what that means. The mayor delivered the edict earlier this month as he and Carranza sat over pastrami sandwiches and Cel-Ray sodas at Katz’s. He delivered the same message during Carranza’s visits to the ornate sitting rooms of the mayor’s home, Gracie Mansion, and during the new chancellor’s first appearances in City Hall’s stately Blue Room. In an interview with POLITICO last week, Carranza offered an explanation of what the mayor’s ultimatum means: Take the big-picture education policy initiatives de Blasio conjured up in his first term and actually make them work.
RICHMOND, Va. — More than a dozen school districts in Virginia have been recognized by the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation as best communities for music education. In cooperation with researchers at The Music Research Institute at the University of Kansas, the foundation each year selects school districts for recognition and individual schools to be honored with the SupportMusic Merit Award for exemplary music education programs. The Virginia school districts being honored this year include: Arlington Public Schools, Harrisonburg City Public Schools, Henrico Public Schools and Roanoke City Public Schools. The four schools receiving the merit award are: Bull Run Middle School, in Gainesville; Colonial Forge High School in Stafford; Smart’s Mill Middle School in Leesburg; and Stonewall Jackson High School in Manassas. The awards program is now in its 19th year.
Two education advocacy organizations who had initially supported Gov. Doug Ducey’s plan to give teachers pay raises have withdrawn their support for the so-called #20by2020 measure. Both groups, Save our Schools Arizona and the Arizona Parent Teachers Association, released statements on Wednesday withdrawing their support for Ducey’s plan to give teachers a 19 percent raise over the next three years. Adding in the 1 percent given this year, the effect would be a 20 percent raise by the year 2020. The statements from the groups criticized the funding of the plan, calling it unsustainable.
AUSTIN – As a new poll showed Gov. Greg Abbott with just a single-digit lead over either Democrat vying to face him, Andrew White sought to improve his chances of winning the party nod with a plan to pump billions more into public education. White’s plan would be funded in part by revenue from casinos that he wants to allow at destinations including the Retama Park horse track in Selma, an idea that has died in the Legislature before. The gambling expansion would require a constitutional amendment, according to an expert, which would need approval by two-thirds of the Legislature and by voters statewide. White — a Houston businessman battling former Dallas County sheriff Lupe Valdez for the Democratic nomination for governor — also wants to shift $800 million from spending on border security to education.
All four candidates at Tuesday’s gubernatorial forum in Jackson vowed to revisit the state’s Basic Education Program, a key funding formula for K-12 public schools. The two other top-tier candidates who did not attend the event on rural issues at Lane College said later they also support revisiting the issue. Last year, the state comptroller said the funding formula, known as the BEP and created in 1992, represents $4.5 billion. The formula helps factor how much the Tennessee Department of Education should provide districts for each student. Among the factors included in the formula are teacher salaries and health insurances, in addition to the cost of books and technology for students.
The Florida Constitution Revision’s already controversial education proposal is quickly gaining its own social media tag based on its anticipated spot on the November ballot — #Amendment8. If that sounds familiar to education advocates across the state, it should. Eight years ago, they waged a heated campaign for a different Amendment 8 also focused on schools. That year, lawmakers asked voters to ease the state’s K-12 class-size restrictions. The question failed to meet the 60 percent threshold. This time around, Amendment 8 has three pieces to ponder: School board member term limits, a civic literacy requirement, and expanded state powers to establish local schools outside a school board’s control.
Kentucky’s public education is not the same as it was two days ago. In the past 48 hours, Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed seven new members to the Kentucky Board of Education. The entire 11-member policy group has now been entirely handpicked by him. On Tuesday, the board’s first order of business was to discuss Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt, who, under pressure, ended up resigning. The board’s decision to force Pruitt’s resignation was condemned by the Kentucky Teacher’s Association and state democrats. Several Republican lawmakers joined in the outrage, too. None of the state education board’s new members have experience in public education in regards to teaching.
The Boulder Valley School District serves a largely affluent population with highly educated parents. In Sterling on the Eastern Plains, fewer than 1 in 6 adults has a bachelor’s degree. But both the Boulder district and the Valley Re-1 district serving Sterling send a large portion of their graduates to college, and few of them need remediation classes when they get there. Those are just two of the findings in a new report from the Denver-based education reform advocacy group A Plus Colorado that examines both exemplary and struggling districts. A Plus focuses on data analysis to drive public support for policy changes. This is the second year that A Plus has released “The Outliers,” which is intended to help educators find models to emulate.
Mayor Jenny Durkan is proposing a new property-tax levy for preschool, K-12 and college programs that would see Seattle spend $636.5 million over seven years. The city-education levy, sweeping in size and scope, would replace two existing levies that are set to expire and would cost significantly more annually than those levies combined. The increase in spending is primarily focused on a huge expansion of the city’s subsidized preschool program. Durkan says her proposal — targeted for the November ballot — would cost the owner of a home of median assessed value $249 per year. The existing levies, approved by voters in 2011 and 2014, cost the typical homeowner a combined roughly $170 per year. The mayor plans to announce the proposal at a news conference Wednesday before sending it to the Seattle City Council for review.
RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS
Until a few years ago, Emily Bloomfield had not thought much about the needs of children living in foster care. She had been working hard on education policy in Washington, and had served on the board of the local charter-school authorizer. But then she was suddenly given a front-row seat to the problems faced by kids who have had to be separated from their parents. The aunt and uncle of her husband took custody of their two grandchildren, after the mother and father’s parental rights had been terminated by a court. The grandparents, at their advanced age, weren’t sure they could manage full responsibility. But they knew the children needed someone to step up. So they did, and began seeking help from extended family and others. “This got me pretty obsessed” with the problems of children in foster care, says Bloomfield.
In the final days of 2015, Congress ushered in a new era of federal education law, updating No Child Left Behind to reflect both the big lessons we’ve learned over the past 15 years in education policy and the major changes that have taken place on the ground in our nation’s schools since the 1990s. Yet if you listen to the rhetoric of many on the front lines of our education wars, you could be forgiven for thinking that Reality Bites has just premiered, Crystal Pepsi is all the rage, and the Spice Girls are the hottest ticket in town. Though a slow-moving Congress has realized that we live in a new education world, too many who spend their days fighting in the trenches have not.
This resource provides an overview of state instructional time requirements for kindergarten through 12th grade — including days or hours per year, hours per day and start and end date parameters where they exist in state law.
There are many exceptions to instructional time requirements across states and not all of them are indicated in this 50-State Comparison. Unless otherwise indicated, states that have hours per year and days per year require both.
Click on one of the 50-State Comparisons below showing how all states approach instructional time in current policy. Or choose to view a specific state’s approach by going to the individual state profiles page. | <urn:uuid:b2e8e72b-4f6a-437f-b1ab-d508c994a3e9> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | http://smte.us/2018/04/27/music-education-policy-roundup-april-27-2018/ | 2019-09-21T03:29:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514574182.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20190921022342-20190921044342-00385.warc.gz | en | 0.966201 | 4,332 |
Hello and welcome back. I just returned from the 2012 Montana Traffic Education Association conference in Billings. What a great event. I had the pleasure to reconnect with other teachers and meet new friends. I always come back from these event recharged and ready to get after it and continue to improve myself as a Teacher.
I would like to acknowledge Rich Hanson, who was a presenter at the conference. What a motivational person and what a talent. I was so impressed with what he had to say and how he said it. One thing that I keep hearing him say was, "If students don't learn the way YOU teach, teach the way THEY can learn".
There was another great activity that we participated in. It was a round table discussion of memorable moments. I am thinking I will focus on some of my most memorable moments and encourage YOU to also submit some of yours to me. I believe this is important so that no one teacher feels like they are on an island. There is a lot of stuff that happens to us, please consider sharing some of yours with me. Send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org and I will add yours to the blog. Please let me know if you would like to remain anonymous. Thanks and check back soon to read some of my crazier times in the Driver's Education car. | <urn:uuid:d983d6c4-9193-48a5-9a2a-762f26397abb> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://thecoacho.blogspot.com/2012/04/hello-and-welcome-back.html | 2019-08-25T23:40:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027330907.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20190825215958-20190826001958-00156.warc.gz | en | 0.983065 | 276 |
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a bit of a quarterback controversy last year between Jameis Winston and veteran Ryan Fitzpatrick. Winston was suspended for the first three games of the season, and Fitzpatrick got the team off to a 2-1 start, throwing for 400-plus yards in each of the first three games. Winston eventually won the job back, but Fitzpatrick would still make a few more appearances.
With Fitzmagic now gone, this is Winston’s make-or-break year, which also happens to be the first for new head coach Bruce Arians. But even if the Bucs are set on Winston as their quarterback for the 2019 season, they have to start thinking ahead, and one way to do that would be to trade for Arizona Cardinals quarterback Josh Rosen.
The No. 10 overall pick in last year’s draft has been the subject of much trade speculation given that many believe the Cardinals, who hold the first pick in this month’s NFL draft, will take Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray. Even though it looks like Rosen will show up Monday for the beginning of the team’s offseason program, there’s a good chance this will be his last one in Arizona.
Rosen landing with the Buccaneers would be good for both the quarterback and the team. For Rosen, he’d be given the opportunity to learn from Arians, who has been credited with helping develop Andrew Luck, Ben Roethlisberger and resurrecting the career of Carson Palmer. Plus, given Winston’s inconsistent play at times, there’s a good chance Rosen would see the field, giving him a shot to audition for the Bucs’ starting job in 2020.
For the Bucs, it would give them a chance to acquire a young, talented quarterback on a rookie salary. They can keep Rosen a year, and if Winston proves himself as the long-term solution, the Bucs can dangle Rosen as trade bait. But, if they decide to move on from Winston after 2019, they’d have a former top-10 pick ready to step in.
We don’t know what the Cardinals will do with the first pick, but that shouldn’t deter the Bucs from at least inquiring about Rosen. | <urn:uuid:b2f1279f-a0cd-4f8e-bde4-d24cabde98e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://bucswire.usatoday.com/2019/04/05/buccaneers-josh-rosen-cardinals-trade/ | 2022-10-02T18:51:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337339.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20221002181356-20221002211356-00122.warc.gz | en | 0.963597 | 460 |
Info on Preventing Bullying, Harrassment, Online/Social Bullying and School Bullies
Statistics show bullying & harassment is becoming a huge problem.
The purpose of this website is to help educate the public on bullying issues; such as school bullying, workplace bullies, bullying teachers, adult bullies, and more.
Our goal is to help teens, families, schools, and communites get the education and help they need to prevent being bullied.
This site offers information on seeking therapy or treatment for those who are harassing or bullying others, or are victims of bullies.
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I liked Night Watch enough that I got all of Sarah Waters’s other books out of the library in the hopes that I would be getting a grand new favorite author. Tipping the Velvet was evidently her first, and I didn’t like it as much as Night Watch, sadly, but I still totally enjoyed it. So much I stayed up until three last night finishing it even though I have a paper to write today. I’m doing that straightaway after I write this.
Lots of interesting Victorian underworld in this book. I spent a lot of this book trying to work out what all that mad Victorian slang was about, which was jolly. Though I did get fed up with Nancy when she was window-shopping at the tobacconist and the dude came up and talked to her and she was dressed as a boy and she like totally talked back. I was in my room going “Well that’s just GREAT, Nan, you WINDOW-SHOPPING HUSSY. Hope you’re enjoying offering that UNEQUIVOCAL SEX INVITE with all that crazed WINDOW-SHOPPING TALKING you are doing. He is OBVIOUSLY trying to pick you up and that might be okay if you weren’t a GIRL, you humongous MORON.” Not really fair to get so cross about it. She didn’t know.
I got seriously worked up about Nancy’s behavior and what I wanted to happen. Like Florence? I was against Florence from the beginning. Why’s everyone always ending up with snotty righteous uninteresting people? It was like that time Dorothea married Casaubon, only more ugh and no dashing young Will for her to hook up with later. What if Jane Eyre had married St. John? Ugh. About forty pages into the book I went and read the end, and there was this random-ass Florence character I’d never met, so I took against from the beginning, and when she finally showed up I was like PFFT, Florence, I hate that bitch. So it was good really that she was such an aggravatingly virtuous character and I didn’t have to reconsider my early unfriendly assessment of her.
Well, that’s neither here nor there. Sarah Waters is a good writer. Tipping the Velvet was good. We’ll see, won’t we, whether my fondness for her survives reading her other two books. I’m saving Affinity for last because it’s about spiritualism. I like spiritualism. Hester Whatsherface received a whole play all from Oscar Wilde. | <urn:uuid:6b999f5f-23f3-4e19-9759-e725db983ef7> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://jennysbooks.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/tipping-the-velvet-sarah-waters/ | 2022-11-30T06:23:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710733.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20221130060525-20221130090525-00369.warc.gz | en | 0.985655 | 574 |
The bureaucrat charged with breach of trust in relation to his work as Petrolia’s top manager has been ordered by a court to not contact the town’s mayor and several municipal staffers, court records show.
According to information prepared for the court, Manny Baron agreed to not communicate with Mayor John McCharles and several top town bureaucrats, including his successor as CAO, Richard Charlebois. He’s also not to contact Horst Richter, a local developer, or John Fleming – whose investigation into a secret land deal involving Baron led to Baron’s resignation last November.
Baron, 43, was hired in January as top bureaucrat for Mapleton Township, northwest of Kitchener. Mapleton’s mayor, Neil Driscoll, has told Postmedia Baron will “definitely” stay in the job after being charged earlier this week with breach of trust by a public official.
The accusations have not been tested in court. Baron is next scheduled to appear in Sarnia court April 16.
In an internal probe last year, Fleming investigated why Baron hadn’t disclosed ownership of two buildings leased to the Town of Petrolia, including one Baron bought from Richter and then sold back soon after questions were raised.
Baron resigned in November after Fleming’s report was shared with council.
It has not been made public, but McCharles has previously said it’s not “scathing,” and noted it contained no accusations “other than Mr. Baron made an error in judgment and owned the two buildings.”
Per the court documents, which do not detail the charges, Baron has agreed to not visit Petrolia town hall. He’s also barred from speaking with two women except in relation to landlord/tenant matters.
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Finished the 8 x 10 of the donkey and goldfish. That makes three paintings done yesterday. Not bad. I work well under conditions of extreme terror.
Unfortunately for my productivity–but fortunately for the rest of me!–my natural ebullience re-exerted itself, and I am at least reasonably mellow again. I cannot afford to slack off, as I still need at least three or four more paintings for Anthrocon, and however many for Trinoc, but I’m Zen. In the squishy nuclear reactor of my brain, there are frequent meltdown warnings, the klaxons go off, red lights flash through the corridors, but the problem always corrects itself within a few hours and everything slides back to green. I suspect the brain cells don’t even bother to file out in orderly lines any more. The warning goes off, they get out coffee and put their axons up on the desk.
The Anxiety Creature, bereft of the rest of the chorus, is sulking under my sternum. However, it, too, is fairly mellow. It knows that sooner or later, another pile of paperwork will drop, or I’ll sell a painting that was gonna fill out my space, or I’ll discover I can’t get a mat cut in time, and its hour will come ’round at last, a cute beast slouching towards the zyphoid process to be born. | <urn:uuid:8b8d5f11-b7ff-4a9e-ac60-73505a1b9bf0> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.redwombatstudio.com/2005/06/24/1388/ | 2021-12-06T11:49:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363292.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20211206103243-20211206133243-00569.warc.gz | en | 0.944365 | 303 |
Social Media platforms such as Instagram and YouTube have made it easy to create a perfect looking life. YouTube sensation Zoe Sugg, known as Zoella, wants people to know that she is NOT perfect. In her recent interview with Seventeen magazine, she said:
A few years ago, she made her first video about anxiety. She refers to her anxiety attacks as being like "the car in the street whose car alarm goes off from a little gust of wind, unlike the other cars in the street whose car alarms will only ever go off if somebody is smashing the window." That drives (pardon the pun) it home better than any description we have ever read.
"A lot of young people look at me and think, She has the perfect life: She's got the boyfriend, the house, the dog, the book, the successful YouTube channel," Zoe shared. "Not everything is perfect... Sometimes I have days where I don't want to leave my bed, or I'll have multiple panic attacks."
We think Zoe is so brave for taking us behind the scenes when she could so easily pretend to have a perfect life. It's like a breath of fresh air to watch someone use her online "celebrity" in such a positive way. Zoe wants to make sure her viewers dealing with anxiety and panic attacks know they are not alone and there is help. We can't wait to see her October cover of Seventeen! | <urn:uuid:30993151-4797-4c7e-a21f-b9e5ed5e858d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.cambio.com/2015/09/14/youtube-sensation-zoella-reveals-what-its-really-like-to-suffer/ | 2017-06-25T01:49:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320386.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625013851-20170625033851-00190.warc.gz | en | 0.981909 | 290 |
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I was scanning my images in my Yuku profile and I figured somebody might enjoying viewing some of them (again).Anyone else got any cool images to share?First some Barry Smith.
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The Lamp of Zion
by Steven Fine
Harvard University Press, 304 pp., $29.95
According to Steven Fine, the menorah’s 3000-year history makes it “the longest continuously used religious symbol in Western culture.” Unlike the cross, the crescent, or the Star of David, which are each composed of a few clean lines, it’s a busy image. Images of the menorah, even minimalist ones, seem more like representations of an object out there in the real world than the abstract symbol of a people, its religion and its aspirations. How did the visually complex menorah come to be such a symbol?
For Fine, the answer is deeply entwined with the image of the menorah carved into the Arch of Titus two thousand years ago. Following Rome’s military victory over Judea in 70 C.E., the city honored its returning heroes with a triumphal procession, the highlights of which are depicted in bas-relief inside the arch. On one side, a panel running the length of the arch’s interior depicts the victorious general (and future emperor) Titus in his chariot, being crowned with a wreath by a winged god of victory, Nike. On the other side, Jewish humiliation is represented by the plundered vessels of the Jerusalem Temple carried into Rome on the shoulders of strapping Roman soldiers, who are likewise crowned with wreaths. The golden seven-branched candelabrum, jostling above the heads of the Roman soldiers, stands out among the Temple vessels.
No matter how lifelike or faithful to its model the arch menorah may have been, it is not a neutral or objective rendering of this celebrated Temple artifact. Etched into a monument memorializing the recently deceased Roman emperor, the arch celebrates Roman majesty by telling the story of a triumphal parade. Fine helpfully explains that the Romans would have understood the Temple vessels being carried in the triumphal processional as “cult images” of the God of Israel, brought to Rome to join other subjugated deities in the Roman pantheon. The arch menorah stands at the intersection of conqueror and conquered, exalting the triumphant Romans and laying low the vanquished Jews and their humiliated God.
Built to lift up one nation while laying low another, the arch requires its visitors to take a side. Will they exult with the triumphant Romans (as the Roman builders and artists intended) or will they sympathize with the Jews captured for all eternity at the moment of their defeat? As a 21st-century American Jew, Fine faces little to none of the humiliation endured by the Jewish slaves marched into captivity, but he is drawn—almost compulsively—to identify with their subjugation. He writes the following of his face-to-face encounter with the menorah while leading an international team of researchers there in 2012:
I stood, imagining the parade before me, with triumphal Romans, Jewish slaves—their mangled bodies and festering wounds hidden beneath fine Roman garments, and “our” holy vessels passing by.
A few pages later, Fine writes “I found myself fidgeting and thinking about the humiliations that my ancestors had felt here.” He contrasts this “flesh-and-blood” response to the cooler irony of the 19th-century Jewish visitor imagined by Percy Bysshe Shelley in a famous prose fragment. Shelley’s Jew sees the Arch of Titus “mouldering to its fall.” This “monument of the power of our destroyer’s family,” he wrote, is “now a mountain of ruins.”
For many years the arch menorah was inaccessible to the majority of the world’s Jews. It was in Rome, and they were elsewhere. But images of the menorah proliferated in the centuries following the arch’s construction. Visual representations of the menorah are found in synagogues, “on mosaic floors, wall paintings, lintels, ‘chancel’ screens, oil lamps, and fixtures for hanging glass lamps . . . Jewish tombs, Jewish jewelry and even household goods,” such as gold-decorated glass. The rise of the menorah in late antiquity, however, was not inevitable. During the late Second Temple period, several cult objects had been associated with the Temple. The menorah appears with the golden table that held the showbread on reverse sides of a Hasmonean coin, Josephus mentions the showbread table, the menorah, and the incense altar, and, of course, the showbread table, silver trumpets, and a Torah scroll are featured on the arch along with the menorah. Interestingly, coins minted during the Bar Kokhba revolt (60 years after the Temple’s destruction) depict the showbread table, but not the menorah.
But in late antiquity, the showbread table fades from view and the seven-branched menorah emerges as the premier symbol of the lost Temple. It’s hard to know exactly why. One wonders if it’s related to the familiar nine-branched candelabra of post-destruction Hanukkah celebrations. Fine doesn’t address this, but he supplements the visual record with literary depictions of the Temple menorah. The 6th-century poet and liturgist Yannai mourns the extinguished flames of the menorah, all the more so because the lights of Rome burn ever brighter:
The lamps of Edom [Rome] strengthened and increased.
The lamps of Zion were swallowed up and destroyed.
The lamps of Edom prevailed and glittered.
The lamps of Zion were crushed and extinguished.
The lamps of Edom prance over every pitfall.
The lamps of Zion receded.
The lamps of Edom their brightness shines.
The lamps of Zion were darker than soot.
The lamps of Edom were filled and they dripped [oil].
The lamps of Zion were lowered and broken.
Fine astutely notes that “the extinguished menorah represented far more than just the extinguished lamp of the Temple. It symbolized the Jews themselves.” Yannai’s liturgical menorah may have been conjured from the imagination, but it expresses many themes conveyed by the arch menorah, albeit from the perspective of the conquered rather than conqueror. Drawing on Yannai’s poem, we might speculate that the menorah draws interest in late antiquity because it recalls a glorious past that is no more.
One danger of a book like this is the temptation to include every menorah one has found in the course of one’s research. While interesting insights can be found throughout, at times the book takes on an encyclopedic quality as it catalogues one menorah after another. What is missing at those points is an absorbing narrative thread to pull the reader along. The book is at its strongest when Fine tells a story about his visual data. Especially helpful are the numerous illustrations and vivid color photographs, many taken by Fine himself or his research team. Positioned alongside the relevant prose, the images help the reader grasp Fine’s insightful interpretations of the evolving iconography.
The 19th century brought a wave of European tourists to the sites of classical civilization, among them the Arch of Titus. In this context, the menorah morphs from a nostalgia-evoking relic of the past to a nation-inspiring symbol pointing forward:
[V]isits to the arch are well documented from the late nineteenth century onward, and it seems that it was a standard stop on the Jewish pilgrimage route. . . . Jews ranging from Boris Schatz, founder of the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, to noted rabbis, politicians, and simple Jews—Zionists, culturalists, Hassidim, and reformers—often made (and make) their way to the arch in a kind of ritual, reciting to themselves, one way or another, “Titus you are gone, but we are still here, the people of Israel lives.”
Foremost among modern Jewish reactions to this site was a resolve to transcend the degrading circumstances depicted there. The new Jewish take on the arch emphasized that, as Shelley had already noted in 1819, Rome stands in ruins, while the Jewish people endure. It was during this period that the “now well-known Jewish ‘tradition’ of not walking under the arch took hold—a kind of ritualized negation of the arch ‘so as not to give honor to Titus.’” The arch invites Jews to act out resistance to Rome’s overwhelming might (as well as that of Rome’s contemporary successors!).
The modern period witnessed an interesting reversal in interpretation of the arch’s marching figures. Modern Jewish viewers superimposed their own aspirations onto the figures carved into the panel. Where earlier viewers (like Yannai, if he had had an occasion to visit the arch) would have seen despair on history’s captive Jews, these viewers saw Jewish resilience. And lo and behold, the panel’s triumphant Roman soldiers, the ones bearing plundered Jewish gold, were transformed into unbroken Jewish captives carrying their national treasure into exile with pride. In a fascinating reversal of iconography, figures who were carved as Roman victors become symbols of Jewish resistance.
In the 20th century the arch became a locus of Jewish self-determination. A striking example involves using the arch as the site of two major demonstrations in the immediate aftermath of World War II. In one, in 1947, Roman Jews and Holocaust survivors from across Europe gathered at the arch to celebrate the United Nations vote in favor of the partition plan allowing for a Jewish state in Palestine. In a clever use of the arch’s iconography, the crowd marched through the arch from west to east, reversing the direction that the “Jewish captives” pictured on its wall had marched some 2,000 years ago. Another 20th-century expression of Jewish aspirations for autonomy involves depicting the long dormant flames of the arch menorah rekindled. The image of the relit arch menorah appears, for instance, as the hat insignia of the British Jewish Legion during World War I and in a 1923 children’s alphabet book illustrating the letter mem.
Fine’s book is filled with many more of history’s menorahs, those of Maimonides, Chabad, and Israel’s state seal, to name only the most well-known. And while I have focused here on the menorah as symbol, the book tells an equally fascinating story about the menorah as object. What was it made of? (Different materials at different times, bronze, silver, and gold depending on economic conditions.) What did it look like? (The curved branches of Second Temple depictions are more authentic than the straight branches that Maimonides posited.)
What can we learn from the biblical instructions for its construction? (Not much. Contemporary artisans would have understood the detailed technical specifications, but we don’t.) Why are there conflicting images of the menorah from the Second Temple period, especially the base, when it was accessible for all to see? (Exodus doesn’t provide instructions for the base, so successive generations constructed it in the image of contemporary Greek and Roman lamp bases.) Was there more than one menorah? (Yes! The idea that there was a single authentic menorah is a myth.) If so, how many? (At any given time, at least two, sometimes three, were in circulation; Josephus actually says that two (!) were exiled to Rome.)
What happened to the Jerusalem Temple’s menorahs after they were brought to Rome? One was on display at Vespasian’s Temple of Peace. The record runs dry after a major fire there in 192 C.E. If the menorah survived the fire, then it was likely melted down for its gold value during the Sack of Rome. In any event, it is long gone. It is not submerged in the sands of the Tiber River, nor is it sequestered in the Vatican basement. These myths are promulgated because of the very human fascination with relics. We want to be able to touch the past, to assure ourselves that it really happened. In the meantime, the menorah etched on the Arch of Titus will have to suffice. As Fine eloquently reminds us:
It is a tangible object—an ancient relic that has outlived the “real” menorahs of antiquity. Unlike the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail—the most significant “lost” artifacts of Western culture—it can be touched and measured, and has been for centuries. In the end, however, the arch menorah is just an approximation—so close to the original, but not it.
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According to A Dictionary of Sociology, it's only since the 1960s that evaluation research has become a field of its own. It also describes evaluation research as “a type of policy research devoted to assessing the consequences, intended and unintended, of a new policy programme or of an existing set of policies and practices, including measurement of the extent to which stated goals and objectives are being met, and measurement of displacement and substitution effects.” The different types of evaluation methodologies focus on various elements from this definition.
Goals-based evaluations look at the specific goals established by a program or a project, and they try to determine if the initial objectives and goals will be met. The goals are originally described in the initial program or project plan. Typical questions of a goal-based evaluation will inquire about the effectiveness of the processes toward completion of the original goal, the current status of the project in comparison to the end objective, the resources available to achieve the goals and the timelines.
The process-based methodology is oriented toward a full understanding of the workings of a program or a project. When a program has been in place for a long period of time and has seen several changes over the years, the methodology of process-based evaluations will be able to examine the impacts of these long-term initiative and changes. For example, if a program has been receiving multiple complaints from its customers over the years, the process-based evaluation will be able to identify the inefficiencies in the delivery mode of the program or services by looking at the way it operates.
Outcome-based evaluations are conducted to gather descriptive data about a project and allow to examine short-term results. For this type of methodology, the focus is on tasks that describe the output of the activity, such as the number of complaints received about a new product or the number of sign-ups after the launch of a new program. The results from this type of methodology only describe the immediate effects of a specific action and help identify changes in attitude, knowledge, audience intentions, behavior or policies, and institutional changes. The impact evaluation method is synonymous of the outcome-based methodology. It differs slightly in that it looks at long-term changes. For example, it can be used to evaluate a change in absenteeism in the workplace after a new logging system would have been put in place.
Formative Evaluation Method
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Coronavirus updates: Pa. reports its second death, state total reaches 371
Pennsylvania confirmed its second coronavirus-related death Saturday morning, according to the department of health.
An adult from Allegheny County, who was being treated at a hospital has died.
Due to confidentiality laws, no other information has been released at this time.
The state's number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus increased to 371 on Saturday, a spike of 103 cases since the day before, according to the DOH. Even higher numbers are expected in the coming days with increased testing throughout the state.
More than 170 cases are in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties. In southcentral Pennsylvania, Franklin County reported its first case Friday, while as of Saturday, York County had nine cases, Adams had four cases, Lebanon had two, Cumberland had 11 and Lancaster had four. The City of York confirmed it had two of York County's cases.
Governor's shutdown order
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf released an updated list of "life-sustaining businesses" Friday evening that are permitted to remain open and delayed enforcement of his closure order until Monday.
On Thursday, Governor Wolf ordered that all "non-life-sustaining" businesses in Pennsylvania close their physical locations to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Business owners who feel they should be allowed to remain open should seek a waiver by filling out an online application.
In other news Saturday:
Pa. coronavirus cases by county
Here's how many cases each county has, according to figures released by the Pennsylvania Department of Health as of March 21:
- Statewide total: 371
- Montgomery County: 71
- Philadelphia County: 69
- Allegheny County: 31 (1 death)
- Delaware County: 33
- Monroe County: 25
- Chester County: 19
- Bucks County: 24
- Cumberland County: 11
- Northampton County: 17 (1 death)
- York County: 9
- Berks County: 7
- Adams County: 4
- Lackawanna County: 5
- Beaver County: 3
- Washington County: 5
- Lancaster County: 4
- Lehigh County: 13
- Luzerne County: 6
- Pike County: 2
- Westmoreland County: 4
- Centre County: 1
- Franklin County: 1
- Lebanon County: 2
- Potter County: 1
- Wayne County: 1
- Butler County: 1
- Erie County: 1
- Montour County: 1
What are the symptoms of the coronavirus and what should you do?
According to the CDC, reported illnesses from COVID-19 have ranged from mild symptoms to severe illness and death.
Fever, cough and shortness of breath might appear 2 to 14 days after you've been exposed to the virus.
If you think you've been exposed to the coronavirus and develop a fever and symptoms of respiratory illness, such as cough or difficulty breathing, call your primary healthcare provider immediately.
With further spread of the virus and disruptions to everyday life expected, officials remind residents to wash their hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer if soap and water are not available.
You should also cover coughs and sneezes with your elbow (not your hands), clean surfaces that are frequently touched (such as countertops, light switches and phones), and stay home if you are sick.
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There is currently neither a vaccine nor an approved treatment for the new, or novel, coronavirus.
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Great Song and singer Dixie.Yvonne.
Thanks, Yvonne. It felt so jazzy and got me moving. I couldn't resist sharing. Btw, I enjoyed your poem.
Perfect! I'm waiting on pies in the oven now so I'll have room for the turkey tomorrow. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, Dixie! I'm thankfu for your friendship, always. <3
COOL!!! I am so glad to meet, and get to know more about you this past year. Are you going to do the Christmas memory blog hop this year?Enjoy your family. I'll tell you what my Mom always said to me: "have fun, be careful, and I love you."
Fantastic Gobble Day selection!
HEY YOU!! I have missed you. Had no idea that was you on my 'dcrelief blog #1'. Hope you are well, and I'll visit you this week!!!I had a blast. Will have to tell you all about it some time. (smile).
Whoa! That was really, really good, dp.Keeping the theme alive, here's one for you. (The music doesn't start playing right away, so just sit tight and wait for it.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJDr3EzuV5MI hope you're having a nice Thanksgiving Day.~ D-FensDogG (aka Mac)
Wow, Mac!Booker T. and the MGs - that takes me back to some serious old times. Thank you, sir, (smile).I had a wonderful Thanksgiving; hope you did. Battle on - Dec. 1st!!!
This was not a normal Thanksgiving for me foodwise. I'd still like to have some of my oyster stuffing, sausage dressing, and sweet sweet potato casserole laden with toasted marshmallows. Ah, waddya have to go and bring up sweet potatoes for anyway..Arlee BirdTossing It Out
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Last year, an injury-depleted Harvard men's squash team captured a 5-4 decision over Trinity College...and Trinity was on top of the world. It had almost upset the team which had been ranked number one for six consecutive seasons.
But last night, the Crimson brought Trinity back to earth with a 9-0 thrasing in front of 40 fans at Hemenway Gymnasium. The win extended the Crimson's winning streak to 70 games. Harvard hasn't lost since February 6, 1982.
It wasn't even funny. It was like Mike Tyson fighting Pee Wee Herman.
Eight of the nine matches were won in straight games.
"Everybody played well," Co-Captain Doug Lifford said. "We came in and treated it like it was going to be a tough match. We're going to take the rest of the matches the same way."
"Let's not beat around the bush," sophomore George Polsky said. "We were like a school of pirahnas--as tonight's match clearly showed. When we smell blood, it's lights out."
The Crimson started off strong with wins in the evened-numbered matches. Senior Doug Cohen started off the rout with a 15-3, 15-7, 15-8 blasting of Scott English, while teammate and number-six player Polsky burned Geoff Strawbridge, 15-9, 15-8, 15-7.
Playing second for Harvard, Jon Kaye wasted little time in destroying Bob Hopkins. After taking the first two games, 15-8, 15-13, Kaye cruised 15-4 in the third set to win the match.
Jon Masland, who played number 10 last year, had an easy match at number four. The sophomore has clearly taken his game up a notch since last year. Masland crushed John Rouston, 15-8, 15-11, 15-6, to give the Crimson a 4-0 lead in overall matches.
At number seven, Seth Handy clinced Harvard's 70th straight victory with a 15-2, 15-10, 15-8 triumph against Brian Haupthur.
After the first five matches, the rest of the players seemed to be racing each other to the shower. Junior Charles Dowling crushed Diego Roca, 15-3, 15-7, 15-8, while Co-Captain Frank Huerta didn't even have to go airborne to capture a 15-7, 15-12, 15-11 victory over Malcolm Miller.
Lifford, who played at number seven last year, used a mixture of corner shots and knicks in outplaying Chris Smith, 15-11, 15-13, 15-13. Lifford is just another one of the Crimson players who has taken his game up a notch since the end of last season.
In the last match of the day, freshman Farokh Pandole lost the first game, 11-15, but rallied to take the next two, 15-5, 15-10. But Trinity's David Confair pulled out a 19-17 win in the fourth game. After holding a 14-11 lead in the fifth game, Pandole saw his lead cut to one, 14-13 before scoring the next point to when the game and match.
"They were a little stronger last year," Huerta said. "We didn't underestimate this year. We didn't want a fiasco like last year. We're looking forward to MIT, Williams and Nationals."
"It was a good start for us," Masland said. "After our tournament at Yale, it's easy to have a let-down. But we went out there and took it right to them."
Missing the match for the Crimson were Jon Bernheimer, Jeremy Fraiberg, and Jim Masland.
THE NOTEBOOK: During Harvard's current streak, the Crimson has won 582 individual matches, while surrendering only 49...Harvard now holds a 14-0 series lead over Trinity...Harvard has also recorded 10 shutouts against Trinity. | <urn:uuid:1061bfe4-8410-4c45-8215-a35fa9da52af> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1988/12/1/racquetmen-nix-trinity-9-0-plast-year/ | 2014-08-23T17:20:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500826322.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021346-00300-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970318 | 836 |
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|el-Saadany 1991||Biochemical effect of chocolate colouring and flavouring like substances on thyroid function and protein biosynthesis.|
|Williams 1988||Haemolytic anaemia associated with Nigerian barbecued meat (red suya).|
|Worathumrong 1975 ||The effect of o-salicylate upon pentose phosphate pathway activity in normal and G6PD-deficient red cells.|
Biochemical effect of chocolate colouring and flavouring like substances on thyroid function and protein biosynthesis.
"Synthetic chocolate colourant, flavourant and the mixture of both were administered to healthy adult male albino rats to evaluate their effect on the nucleic acids metabolism,... total serum protein, thyroid hormones (T4 and T3) and nuclease enzymes, ... in brain, liver, and kidneys. Also, the activity of the fundamental enzymes ... (G-6-PD and 6-PGD), as well as total lipids and cholesterol contents in the same organs were studied. Ingestion of the studied food additives significantly increased serum protein, RNA and T4 hormone, while, DNA and T3 hormone were insignificantly elevated. In connection with this, the hydrolytic enzymes of nucleic acids... were stimulated by all studied food additives and in all mentioned organs. The activity of G-6-PD and 6-PGD ... increased. The highest increase was noticed in rats fed on diets supplemented with the mixture of both colourant and flavourant followed by colourant then flavourant, respectively."
Haemolytic anaemia associated with Nigerian barbecued meat (red suya).
Williams CK, Osotimehin BO, Ogunmola GB, Awotedu AA,
Afr J Med Med Sci 1988 Jun;17(2):71-5
Five cases of haemolytic anaemia occurring in male Nigerians following the ingestion of spiced barbecued meat ... a special brand, called red suya... Ingestion of the culprit suya sample was followed within 24 h by malaise and fever, while passage of dark-coloured urine and jaundice followed 1-3 days thereafter. ... G6PD deficiency was a predisposing factor ... the culprit agent responsible for the haemolytic disease is believed to be a recently introduced food additive that is probably accessible only to a limited number of suya vendors.
The effect of o-salicylate upon pentose phosphate pathway activity in normal and G6PD-deficient red cells.
Worathumrong N, Grimes AJ
Br J Haematol 1975 Jun;30(2):225-31
The effect of the major metabolite of aspirin, namely salicylic acid, upon the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) of normal and G6PD-deficient red cells has been studied. Salicylic acid was shown to inhibit this pathway in proportion to the amount present. At any concentration of this substance there was greater inhibition of the PPP in G6PD-deficient than in normal red cells. | <urn:uuid:66641986-6c36-4b5c-b4c3-086108ff3bff> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://www.feingold.org/Research/g6pd.php | 2018-01-18T07:29:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887077.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20180118071706-20180118091706-00372.warc.gz | en | 0.915445 | 647 |
Monday, May 27, 2013
Another myth of retirement - you say you want to travel but you won't.
Recently at Red Butte I met a couple from PA who were traveling the continent as they had wanted to after retirement. They still had a large house on a lot of acreage in a rural area where they had lived many years and raised their family. They had owned a travel home of some kind for several years and said until the husband retired, they had used it for annual vacations to here and there, but nothing really far away from their home because they didn't have that much time for travel.
The husband retired in 2010, and they said the intended to take off on their dream long trip, but things happened, including illnesses in other family members, and they just didn't do it. The myth in action, right?
Sunday, May 12, 2013
School has almost finished up for the year. I have just one student taking an incomplete, and I was given no summer school assignment this year (yeah!) so I'm pretty much free to do whatever the heck I want right now. I'll be leaving for the summer home in a couple of weeks. I'm staying in town in order to get in some hours working at Red Butte and to take part in a couple of taiko performances.
I am back to planning for the future. The next myth of retirement to consider is the one that says "your money will last as long as you need it." | <urn:uuid:7edc0ffc-d134-49f7-a861-544dbc56c3c4> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://doshinontheway.blogspot.com/2013/05/ | 2017-12-14T18:53:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948550199.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20171214183234-20171214203234-00056.warc.gz | en | 0.993664 | 304 |
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We had to fight tooth and nail to bring you the full specs of the Motorola DROID Maxx – for some reason Motorola wasn’t making that very public knowledge during the event – but alas we’ve rounded them up, complete with a full hands-on with the phone. Motorola is promising 48 hours of usage time with the DROID Maxx, its big selling point, thanks to a large 3,500mAh battery. That kind of battery life comes at a cost, however.
The DROID Maxx offers similar as the DROID Ultra, including a 1.7GHz dual-core processor, a 10-megapixel camera, a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, 2GB of RAM, and a 5-inch display with a 720p resolution. It’s noticeably heavier and bulkier than the DROID Ultra, however, because Motorola needed to toss in that full size battery. We’re also a bit partial to 1080p screens these days, though text still looked crisp on the phone. Still, this is going to be an excellent option for anyone who is frequently trying to find an outlet. On looks alone, though, we’re definitely in favor of the 7mm-thin DROID Ultra.
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We have launched a new website for the Fraternity of Priests and I encourage you to use this as a resource for our fellowship and formation.
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Marco Carbajo is a business credit expert, author, speaker, and founder of the Business Credit Insiders Circle. He is a business credit blogger for Dun and Bradstreet Credibility Corp, the SBA.gov Community, Business.com, About.com and All Business.com. His articles and blog; Business Credit Blogger.com, have been featured in ‘Fox Small Business’,’American Express Small Business’, ‘Business Week’, ‘The Washington Post’, ‘The New York Times’, ‘The San Francisco Tribune’,‘Alltop’, and ‘Entrepreneur Connect’. | <urn:uuid:19677e01-7d7f-4b95-9d93-d24ca57b9255> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://businesscreditblogger.com/2013/08/29/credit-card-processing-for-small-business/ | 2022-06-29T19:10:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103642979.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220629180939-20220629210939-00209.warc.gz | en | 0.936816 | 966 |
Bad news, new Netflix members. You're going to have to save a little more couch changeor have some friends contribute another buck to your monthly swear jarin order to pay for Netflix.
Netflix has increased the price of its Standard subscription from $8.99 to $9.99 for new members, which allows two concurrent streams and HD streaming. If you want to save some cash, the $7.99 Basic package with no HD and one stream per account is still available, while four concurrent streams costs $11.99 per month.
Those who are already paying $8.99 per month will retain that price for 12 months.
"To continue adding more TV shows and movies including many Netflix original titles, we are modestly raising the price for some new members in the U.S., Canada and Latin America," Netflix said in a statement.
Netflix last increased its prices in 2014, when the price of a Standard account went from $7.99 to $8.99 per month. Some people are still paying $7.99 per month, though, since Netflix guaranteed that price for existing users for two years. Those customers will likely see their monthly fee increase to $9.99 in May 2016.
According to Bloomberg, Netflix has to deal with a not-so-insignificant amount of programming costs right nowabout $4.3 billion or so over the next year, and $5 billion over the next three years.
Even at $10 per month, Netflix's two-stream plan is still cheaper than the competition: Hulu costs $12 monthly for its ad-free streaming service, HBO Now costs $15, and Showtime's streaming service costs $11 monthly.
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“Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.” Psalm 84:10, NIV
This verse reminds me of two things, which happen to be connected together. The first is an experience that I had in college at One Day 2000. Along with others from the college ministry of which I was a part, I traveled to Shelby Farms Park in Memphis Tennessee for One Day. This was one of the Passion Conferences and you can read more about it at this blog post – Remembering OneDay 2000-Sacred. Holy. His. This verse also reminds me of the song Better is One Day by Sonic Flood, who played at the One Day event.
More than these things, this verse brings perspective to my life when I get caught up in the details, tasks and minutiae of life. It helps broaden my perspective. Were you at One Day in 2000? I would love to hear from you in the comments. Also, how do you respond to this verse? | <urn:uuid:7f2b307b-da01-4d16-aa3e-a51b505b4f88> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://andrewconard.com/2011/10/03/one-day/ | 2018-06-22T08:53:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864387.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622084714-20180622104714-00025.warc.gz | en | 0.97081 | 226 |
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A group of six men including a student leader reportedly assaulted a physical education instructor at Mount Carmel PU College over enquiry for PU admission form.
According to a Bangalore Mirror report, 52-year-old BV Harish Kumar was dragged outside the room and was beaten up in front of students, teachers and parents last Wednesday.
The accused have been identified as Jayander Shahi Rajput, Bengaluru district president of National Students' Union of India (NSUI), Yasin Khan, S Yogesh, Chandrashekar, VS Yogesh and Manish G Raja.
The incident occurred when Rajput visited the PU college in the pretext of enquiring for PU admission forms. When he asked Kumar, he was told to talk to other lecturers. When Kumar brushed off Rajput’s demand that he be treated with respect, Rajput called his associates who then reportedly assaulted Kumar.
"They slapped me and kept hitting me on the head, and also used foul language. I was beaten without a provocation. The entire incident was captured on CCTVs," Kumar was quoted as saying.
Kumar was then taken to the hospital and the six accused were immediately arrested, but later released on bail.
However, in his defense, Rajput told BM that he had been receiving complaints from students and parents that Kumar was demanding money for seats. "I went in the guise of a parent, asking about admission and was shocked to find out that the college was not giving students ample time to enrol. When I asked Kumar about it, he started abusing me." | <urn:uuid:85caa5b7-6412-419c-9204-e5c9616da751> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/nsui-president-beats-mount-carmel-teacher-says-money-demanded-seats-44927 | 2021-06-13T12:48:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487608702.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20210613100830-20210613130830-00535.warc.gz | en | 0.989636 | 322 |
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A variety of circumstances may cause a student to have a refund or credit balance on their student account. Payments, including scholarships, grants and loans, that are higher than the amount owed and are in excess of tuition, fees, room and board may result in a student refund.
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PERRYVILLE -- After Sikeston defeated Notre Dame 75-70 on Dec. 14, the Sikeston student section began chanting "We want Willen," referring to the Notre Dame all-stater who missed the game due to an injury. On Saturday night, they got him.
Playing in front of a sold out, vocal crowd, the 6-8 senior scored 23 points and pulled down nine rebounds in Notre Dame's 59-36 win over Sikeston in the Class 4, District 1 championship game.
"Willen is a tough ball player," said Notre Dame coach Paul Hale. "He's our leading rebounder, scorer and best passer. He's just a good player and I thought he played awful well tonight."
The much anticipated match-up of Willen against Sikeston's Michael Porter never came to fruition as the Notre Dame defense keyed on Porter all night, limiting the all-stater to 13 points.
By not allowing the ball inside, the Notre Dame defense forced Sikeston to shoot from outside, but the Bulldogs' sharp-shooting guards were unusually cold, hitting only 2-of-19 from 3-point range. The 36 points was a season-
low for Sikeston.
"We wanted to try to get the ball inside more," Sikeston coach Gregg Holifield said. "They were doing a great job clogging up the inside. We just didn't make shots tonight. Our guards have been good all year and have worked extremely hard. We had some good looks, some open looks, but it just didn't fall for us tonight and that's just how it goes some nights."
Sikeston fell behind early as Notre Dame jumped out to a 13-4 lead in the first quarter. However Sikeston closed the gap to 13-9 at quarter's end and looked to have the momentum. But a Willen 3-pointer to start the second quarter once again put Sikeston on their heels.
With Sikeston scrambling to find offense, Notre Dame continued to add to their lead, taking a 31-19 lead into halftime.
"We didn't play well early," Holifield said. "They are a potential state championship team. (Once you get down) you've got your problems because you've got to scramble back. Once we got down we had to battle back and try to keep it close and within reach and we just couldn't do that."
Holifield said Sikeston hoped to cut the lead down to six or seven points in the third quarter but Notre Dame's John Unterreiner had other plans. The 5-
11 junior scored 10 of his 16 points in the third quarter as Notre Dame built a 20-point lead 49-29, forcing Sikeston to press and foul.
"It's hard to press them because they all catch it and handle it so well," Holifield said. "Plus, once you get down, you have to foul and they all shoot free throws so well."
Notre Dame hit 11-of-13 free throws on the night, including 5-of-7 in the final quarter. The Bulldogs improved their record to 19-6 and will take on DeSoto Wednesday night in sectionals.
"We're very proud and lucky to be in this position," Hale said. "Sikeston is a real fine ball club and I have all the respect in the world for their team and coaches. We feel very lucky to get out of here with a win."
For Sikeston, Saturday night was a bitter end to a stellar season that saw the Bulldogs finish with a 22-4 record, one of the best in school history.
"I told our kids they didn't have anything to hang their heads about," Holifield said. "They were probably one of the most consistent teams in southeast Missouri the entire year. It just didn't go our way tonight. Overall our team had a great year and I'm very proud of their effort."
Sikeston will lose six seniors: Brandon Washington, Dominique McCray, Matt Ritch, Scott Droddy, Sherwin Jones and Stephen Jackson.
"It is a great senior class," Holifield said. "All those guys worked hard every day in practice and games. They provided great leadership. I couldn't be more proud of a group of seniors than I am that group."
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I have a love/hate relationship with Benito’s Hat. I love their marketing and their vibe, I hate their salsa. I love their staff (now – didn’t have a great experience the first time), I hate their guacamole. I love their tacos, I hate their tortilla chips. You get the picture.
The last time I went, it was to the Benito’s Hat Goodge Street branch for a messy burrito with some work colleagues. You may remember, I didn’t rave about it – but all the people who work there are quite nice, and I’ve been in contact with the owner Ben since that experience who’s asked me a few times to come back.
The opportunity arose after I was invited to try their new line of tacos and burritos*, Lamb Barbacoa. On Monday, I ventured down to Benito’s newest location in Covent Garden to give it a try.
Barbacoa, I learned, generally refers to either goat meat, beef or lamb slow-cooked in a hole dug in the ground and lined with Maguey leaves. Wood is burned down to a pile of coals which are then poured into the hole, with a limestone slab placed on top. Once the stone is flaming hot, the meat – which is covered in water and salt and wrapped in avocado leaves – is placed on the stones. This is then covered in more Maguey leaves and woven matting to seal the oven. All this is then covered in soil and the meat is cooked for about four hours.
I went with the Barbacoa tacos. The lamb was lovely – very rich and tender just as promised. I hope they consider doing a goat version soon, as I imagine that would be just as good, if not better (Though they might have to be prepared for accusations of copying Mooli’s,but whatever). However, as alluded to above, my issue with Benito’s Hat lies with the condiments. They’re just not punchy enough. The pico de gallo and guacamole are in sore need of some lime juice. The hot sauce, while quite spicy, comes out one-dimensional. And the tortilla chips? In dire need of salt. It put a damper on what would otherwise be a fantastic dish.
That said, I really like this new Covent Garden location. It’s much more pleasant to sit down and enjoy a meal – more like a restaurant than the overly fast-paced atmosphere of its Fitzrovia sibling. I’d like to go again, and I would definitely order the Barbacoa again (though it’s only available till the end of February), but perhaps along with something else. I could be wrong, but I just can’t help but think that Benito’s is catering too much to a palette that’s afraid of what makes Mexican food so delicious.
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What’s up designers, welcome back to Rempton Games. Today, I’m very excited to bring you the next installment of my Game Designer Spotlight Series. Today’s entry is all about legendary designer Sid Meier, creator of such classic games as Sid Meier’s Pirates, Railroad Tycoon, and of course, the classic Civilization series. For today’s video we are going to begin with a look at Meier’s life and career, before taking a closer look at his design process and game-making philosophy. Without further ado, let’s get into it.
Sid Meier was born in Canada in 1954, but grew up in Michigan in the United States. As a child, Meier describes that he has always been interested in games. “Before there were computers available in the home, I was making games and designing games, with toy soldiers and blocks. I was always trying to understand the rules, the dynamics behind things. Trying to watch football and figure out which plays worked, and why did they work, and what was everybody doing. So I’ve always had a fascination with the rules behind these interesting outcomes.” However, even as he studied these games he had no ambitions of doing game design as a career, saying “I didn’t really expect to be a game designer. That wasn’t really a profession or a career when I was a young. There was Monopoly and Sorry!, but those weren’t games that you aspired to design. The whole idea that game design was a career just wasn’t around.”
Meier went on to attend college at the University of Michigan, and graduated with a degree in computer science. After college, Meier got a job at General Instruments Corporation, working on cash registers for department stores. It was during this time that Meier got his first gaming computer – an Atari 800. He found that the Atari 800 was pretty easy to work with, and began to use it to make some simple games. Many of Meier’s earliest games were based on existing games that were popular at the time, such as Space Invaders or Pac Man. During this time he reportedly put a Space Game that he had made onto the office network, and it hooked so many employees that his boss forced him to take it down.
However, Meier’s career in game design didn’t really begin until 1982, when a group of mutual friends introduced him to Bill Stealy at a corporate meeting at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. At this meeting Meier and Stealy competed against eachother in a variety of arcade games, with Meier winning each time. Stealy eventually challenged Meier to compete in the flight simulator game “Red Baron”. Stealy, a former Air Force pilot, believed that there was no chance that Meier would be able to defeat him in this game, but he was mistaken. After his loss, Stealy asked Meier how he had done it, to which he replied – “While you were playing the game, I memorized the algorithms”.
Meier then went on to claim that he would be able to produce a better flight simulator on his home computer in a week. Stealy replied “If you can build it, I can sell it”. It actually took 2 months for Meier to complete his game, which went by the name Hellcat Ace. Stealy, true to his word, decided to try to sell the game, and sold 50 copies on his first sales call. Hellcat Ace went on to become the first product of the new company that Meier and Stealy would form together, which they called MicroProse. Fun fact – in 1988 Microprose actually went on to buy the exact Red Baron cabinet that was responsible for sparking the creation of the company.
Most of MicroProse’s early games were historical simulations, mainly flight simulations, with titles such as F-15 Strike Eagle, Solo Flight, and Gunship. However, by 1986 Meier was fascinated by a different idea – a game about living as a pirate in the Caribbean, which would go on to become Sid Meier’s Pirates. This game was not only incredibly successful, but also began a long tradition of putting Meier’s name in the title of the games. When asked why this decision was made, Meier claimed that it was mainly a marketing move. Stealy was worried about the pirate game, because it was very different from anything that the company had done up to that point. Therefore, he suggested the Meier put his name in the title, believing that it would help draw in players who were fans of Meier’s previous work.
Stealy, however, describes it a bit differently, claiming that the idea to put Meier’s name in the title came from none other than legendary actor and gaming enthusiast Robin Williams. “We were at a dinner at a Software Publishers meeting, and Robin Williams was there. And he kept us in stitches for two hours. And he turns to me and says ‘Bill, you should put Sid’s name on a couple of these boxes, and promote him as the star.’
After Pirates was released Meier continued to work on flight simulators, but gradually shifted his focus more towards Strategy games. Inspired by Will Wright’s SimCity (which was itself influenced by Sid Meier’s Pirates), Meier decided to make his own “God Game”. That desire, mixed with a childhood interest in trains, led to the creation of Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon in 1990. This became the first entry in the popular “Railroad Tycoon” series, and also inspired many other MicroProse “Tycoon” games, including RollerCoaster Tycoon.
Following the success of Railroad Tycoon, Meier wondered how he could take the “God Game” concept even further. His solution? What if, instead of growing a railroad you instead grew…a Civilization.
Sid Meier’s Civilization was released in 1991, and was a massive success. This series is probably Sid Meier’s most recognizable work, even to this day, and has spawned a franchise that has sold around 40 million copies in total.
However, while the early 90’s was an exciting time for Meier creatively, it was not a great time for MicroProse financially. They made a number of very expensive investments – trying to start an arcade division, and developing an engine for adventure games – which left them in significant debt. Stealy, who was good friends with Spectrum Holobyte president Gilman Louie, convinced him to help MicroProse and in 1993 the two companies merged. This merger resulted in MicroProse having to close some of its satellite offices, and laying off many members of its staff.
In 1994, Bill Stealy also left MicroProse, claiming that “It was a great marriage, but the new company only needed one chairman”. MicroProse continued as a separate subsidiary company under Spectrum Holobyte until 1996, when Spectrum Holobyte consolidated the companies and laid off a large number of MicroProse staff to save costs. Unhappy with the layoffs and corporate reshuffling, Meier left the company – along with 2 other former MicroProse employees Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds – to form a new company, Firaxis games. The last game that Sid Meier worked on for MicroProse was a licensed game based on Magic: The Gathering, which was released in 1997. It would also be the last game he worked on that did not have his name in the title.
At Firaxis, Sid Meier has continued to produce strategy games in a wide variety of different topics, including Civil War combat and, more recently, outer space with the releases of Civilization: Beyond Earth and Sid Meier’s Starships. He has also produced new entries in his Railroad Tycoon and Pirates series of games, and while he hasn’t produced any new Flight Simulators he has created the Ace Patrol series, which are airplane combat strategy games.
The one game that he hasn’t yet been able to produce – his “White Whale”, if you will – is “Sid Meier’s Dinosaurs”. Meiers has tried several different times to produce a dinosaur based game, but has never come up with a concept that was fun enough. In a Kotaku interview he stated that “I did three different prototypes. One was real-time, the other turn-based, and one was a card game. And they were all kind of fun, but just not fun fun.”
When asked how he could tell when the game was fun enough, he said “I play the game. That’s how I develop it, by playing the game, tweaking it, and changing it. If other people play it, and they’re like “oh, that’s okay” I ask “but your not still playing it”? If they say “no, I put it away” then I know it’s a problem. If they’re still not playing it, then it’s not as fun as it needs to be.” If other people at work were playing it long and often, even when they didn’t have to, then he knew he was on the right track.
Finding the fun is a big part of Meier’s design mentality. Meier believes in finding the fun in any concept, and will iterate, and try new things until he does. He refuses to release a new game unless it meets his standards of fun. According to Firaxis developer Jake Solomon“Sid just has a very insightful way of looking at the world. He can find the fun in almost anything.”
Finding the fun is also the source for another aspect of Meier’s design process – a focus on prototypes, rather than design documents. Meier believes that the only way to actually find the fun in a game is to actually play it – you can’t tell just based on a design. Because of this, according to Solomon, “Sid’s never had to write a design document, because instead of debating with you about some new feature he wants to implement, he’ll just go home and at night he’ll implement it. And then tomorrow when he comes in he’ll say, ‘Okay, now play this new feature.’
Part of finding the fun in any design is listening to feedback from the players. Solomon continues – “He told me a phrase I use all the time – Feedback is fact. That’s the way you have to look at feedback, as if it’s a fact. You’ve worked on this massive system or this game, and they come in your office and they go, ‘I played it, and I was bored.’ The worst thing you could do as a designer is start to defend your design or argue with that person. What you do is accept what that person told you as a fact. They said they were bored, so guess what? Your game bored that person. And you need to figure out why that is.”
When responding to feedback, Meier was not the type to make small changes. Brian Reynolds recalled another of Meier’s rules “if you are making a video game, and you’re having trouble with a number—say, the number of damage points a unit can do—either double it or cut it in half.
“He didn’t have any patience for, ‘Let’s try increasing it by 10%. Let’s try another 10%,’” Reynolds said. “Turns out that’s a pretty good rule of thumb to start with for a game designer, because the typical thing is to be really careful and try to inch up a little bit, and then you have to change it seven times to get it right. If you double it, you’ll immediately feel whether making it stronger was even a good idea.”
Finally, one of Sid Meier’s most well-known game design philosophies is his belief that “A great video game is a series of interesting decisions: a set of situations in which the player is constantly confronted with meaningful choices.” If you want to learn more on that topic, I have actually made a whole video about it, which you can check out as soon as you are done watching this one.
In regards to his own games, however, this philosophy goes to the very core of Sid Meier’s games. Meiers tends not to design linear, story driven games. Instead, he likes to give the players choices, and design games where players can create their own narrative. “I prefer games where the player can lead the game in the direction that they want, and then they kind of end up with that unique story that only they can know”.
This also partially explains a number of design decisions that he has made in games in the past. While he often makes games based on history, and tries to be historically accurate in many respects, his games do tend to avoid many of the darker parts of history. Combat in his games, for instance, tend to be very tame when it comes to violence. One other major historical omission in regards to the Civilization series is his decision to not include slavery. When asked about this decision, Meier explained that “There’s a conflict between an emotionally-charged topic and kinda giving the player this freedom of choice that really makes the game good. One of the things we really try to avoid in our games is this kind of—’this choice would be the right thing to do, but this choice is gonna help me win the game’—put the players in those kind of moral dilemmas. That’s not what our games are about. We want you to feel good about yourself when you finish the game.” Basically, he doesn’t players to have to choose between the morally correct choice and the strategically advantageous choice.
The Civilization series in particular has a number of other interesting design decisions, which could go a long way towards explaining its long-running success as a series. One of the most fundamental design decisions of the Civilization series is to have each game led by a different person. While Sid Meier’s name continues to be in the title of the games, he was only the lead designer on the first entry. However, even though different people have led the designs of different Civilization games, the core design philosophy still remains from entry to entry.
When asked what makes a good Civ game, Meier responded that “What happens in the players imagination…what fueled this “one more turn” phenomena was that you were always projecting what was going to happen next, and what was going you happen eight turns from now. You had multiple irons in the fire”. He also described how he designed the ruleset of Civilization, saying that “The basic ruleset is pretty clear…you are dealing with clear, intuitive rules, and basing your strategy on them interacting…Even though the systems are pretty straightforward, how they interact with eachother, how you make the tradeoffs, is where the interest lies, where the interesting decisions show up”.
In regards to whether newer entries in the Civilization series should still be considered “Sid Meier” games, he explained that ““I think they are all true to the core precepts of Civilization. We call it the one-third, one-third, one-third rule. When we do a new Civ, one third of it is the stuff we know has to be there. One third of it is things that we’ve tried – a religion system, or an espionage system – but have now figured out how to do better. And one third is brand-new ideas. I guess I feel ownership of those fundamental rules, the basic concepts that we talked about a minute ago, the “one more turn,” the anticipation.
But the new ideas, from other people, are also very significant. I’m not uncomfortable that my name is on there as a brand, because I think these games are true to the ideas that made Civ work in the first place. But it’s not that I’m claiming that every good idea in there is mine.”
Finally, in regards to where he gets the ideas for his games, Sid Meier says that he likes to make games about things that he is personally fascinated about – things like history, railroads, airplanes, pirates, and dinosaurs. He likes to take things that he was interested in as a kid and revisit them, to remember what was cool and fun about them and bring them to life. “The games that I make are the games that I wanted to play but nobody had made them yet. I had to make them before I could play them.”
Thank you so much for watching this video. If you liked it, leave a like and subscribe so you don’t miss more videos like these in the future. If you want to see more, check out my other videos, like my video where I dig further into the idea that games are a series of interesting decisions. I also have over 100 articles on the RemptonGames blog, which you can check out at the description down below. If you want to see more entries in this series please let me know, and leave suggestions in the comments for designers that you would like to see spotlighted in future videos. And join me next time for a video on designing characters in Super Smash Bros. Until then, thank you so much for watching and I’ll see you all next time.
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Update: October 22, 2012
For the last few months I’ve been using You Need a Budget for the Mac. It’s not quite the same as Microsoft Money, but it is a fantastic program and I highly recommend it.
Warning! Do not be fooled by what you might read anywhere on the Internet. If you have been using Microsoft Money and you switch to a Mac, you are screwed. There is nothing comparable for the Mac. No … Quicken is not an option. No, there is no version of Microsoft Money in development for the Mac. No, there are no other software programs available which are even remotely similar. No, none of the other potential financial software programs will allow you to successfully import your MSMoney data. No, you are not going to find another financial software application that is freeware or shareware or open source that comes close to Microsoft Money. No, you should not believe any website that attempts to explain how to convert your Microsoft Money file(s) for use in any Macintosh program.
And, no, you are not going to be able to return the $49.99 copy of the Mac version of Quicken 2007 once you’ve installed it and seen what a pathetic piece of crap it is.
No matter how in love you are with your new Mac, you are going to have to keep a Windows machine in your life so you can continue to use Microsoft Money. (Or, at the very least, you’re going to have to use Bootcamp, VMWare Fusion, or Parallels to use XP on your Mac.)
Just in case you think that this is a case of me simply not doing my homework, here is a quick, short list of other Mac users complaining about the same issue:
- Mac equivalent to Microsoft Money?
- Macintosh Version of Microsoft Money
- Why Windows Users Won’t Switch To The Mac
- Moving from MS Money to KMyMoney
- Looking for Mac OS X personal finance software
- Home budget software
- Should I give up on iBank 3 and go back to Moneydance?
If you have just converted from Windows to Mac and are looking for a replacement for Microsoft Money, I’ve gone to the trouble of compiling a list of financial software applications that will not impress you. None of these will make you happy. Epic fail.
- My Money Minder
- Jumsoft’s Money
- Liquid Ledger
- Fortora Fresh Finance
- Flowing Pennies
- Personal Finance
Update: March 20, 2012
It’s been four years since I wrote this post and there is still not a viable replacement.
Update: July 26, 2011
If you only are concerned with tracking bills and don’t care about investments or balancing your checkbook or importing statements or anything like that, I can recommend Chronicle. It’s a very well-done app that lets you stay on top of your pending bills. It is not a replacement for MSMoney, but it may be helpful for some. The interface is quite nice, and if they added the ability to track line items in your checkbook and savings accounts and credit cards, it would be fantastic. But they don’t. So there is STILL no viable Mac alternative to MSMoney.
Update: July 2011
I am really getting disgusted with my old Dell laptop and dealing with Microsoft Windows XP, so I tried once again to use a Mac alternative to MS Money 2007. I tried the new version of iBank, but just can’t handle the interface. (Why the hell can nobody recreate the register style UI of a fifteen year old Microsoft program?!) I also tried using SEE Finance, which someone recommended in the comments here, but that was a catastrophic failure. I tried importing about a year’s worth of my checking account and it completely locked my Mac for ten minutes! My Mac never crashes, so the fact that SEE Finance caused it to choke so quickly on a simple import was a bad sign and I just quit.
Update: April 2010
I decided to try the new Quicken Essentials for Mac in March 2010. I used it for about two weeks but just couldn’t stand it. The transaction interface is terrible and the categorization system is even worse. I also attempted to use MoneyWell again, but the latest version is just as bad as the last version I tried. So — as much as I hate to admit it — I am still using Microsoft Money 2008 on my old Dell laptop. It is the only reason I ever use a PC these days and I would supremely love to find a financial software package for the Mac as good as it.
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Hello my little monsters! I hope you're all well and that you had a great weekend. Last week saw our two bubbles return to school and Mrs Hall and I were so impressed with how sensible and mature they were with the new procedures that have been put in place to keep us all safe. Well done, you are all AMAZING!
There are a few little notices for this week, firstly, our Teams meeting will be on Monday afternoon at 1.30pm! An email should have been sent to you first thing Monday morning! Again Bubble A (or Poppsy Bobble as they've called themselves) won't get an invite as they will access the call through my laptop. I would ask that children do not unmute unless they've been asked to do so or we're having a free chat time, therewas quite a bit of disruption in our Teams call on Thursday which was unfair to the children who were following the instructions. If this continues, unfortunately, I will have to remove anyone who continues to do this from the meeting. (I really hope I don't have to!) I would also ask that parents do not use the chat function, it was actually one of the points in the usage policy that Mrs Bamford sent through to all parents when we began using Teams for keeping in contact.
Secondly, this week is Sports week! As we can't host a whole school sports day due the current situation, we will be doing a virtual sports week, so that it gives the children who are at home a chance to represent their school house and contribute to the house cup. These will be done in a series of daily challenges that are set on the PE page for the children to complete. They will be able to submit their scores through a form that Mr Nicholls has set up through Microsoft forms. This has been emailed to you already. The children who come into school will do the challenges for the day in school with me. The link below will take you to the Daily challenges!
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Beer, wine and cider prices have been capped under the Chancellor's new rules - however cigarette prices will rise almost immediately.
Tobacco duty rates will increase at 6pm on Wednesday, the Government has confirmed.
Hidden in the small print of Rishi Sunak's Budget 2020 speech, he revealed prices will rise by up to 6% across the board.
Duty rates on all tobacco products will increase by 2% from Wednesday - while the rate on hand-rolling tobacco will increase by 6% this year.
These changes will take effect from 6pm on March 11, 2020.
It will follow a ban on menthol and flavoured cigarettes from May this year as part of plans to curb social smoking.
Menthol cigarettes will be made illegal from UK stores, along with skinny cigarettes and flavoured rolling tobacco, from May 20, when the laws come into force.
The ban, stemming from new EU Tobacco Product Directive laws, is part of a bid to deter young people from taking up smoking by outlawing cigarettes with a 'characterising flavour' other than tobacco.
It's understood that these cigarettes encourage social smoking among young people - which the Government wants to put a stop to.
The plan to phase out flavoured cigarettes completely follows a ban on packs of 10 in May 2017.
The charity ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) said the latest changes will stop the production and sale of any filters, paper, packaging, capsules or other component containing flavouring in cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco.
It also extends to 'technical features' which would allow consumers to modify the 'smell, taste, or smoke intensity' of the product.
Amanda Sandford, of ASH, said increasing the price of cigarettes and stopping the sale of smaller packets have made smoking less appealing.
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This year sees BroadcastAsia again sharing a site with CommunicAsia, now at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, 18-21 June. A few years ago, the two shows moved from the expo near the airport to downtown Singapore. This meant that they were no longer at the same venue, which led to a slow bus ride back and forth. Now, as if to reinforce that the shows are back at one venue, organizers are promoting cross-industry discussion in 2013, reflecting the convergence of communications and broadcast in a multi-platform age.
Marina Bay Sands is a large resort developed by Las Vegas Sands. The Sands Expo stands opposite the spectacular hotel — three 55-story towers topped by an infinity pool. For recent visitors to NAB, the style of the hotel will be familiar. The architecture of Moshe Safdie is something to behold.
CommunicAsia is the much larger show and covers IT as well as communications technology. Several areas overlap with the broadcast show, including satellite operations (in the SatComm2013 section), mobile broadband, LTE/4G and OTT. BroadcastAsia encompasses all aspects of the broadcasting business, from acquisition through distribution, including supporting Asia’s growing film industry.
The broadcast portion’s focus will be on newer technologies, including: DVB-T2, OTT and cloud, and TV everywhere. DVB-T2 is one solution to tackling broadcast infrastructure and transmission issues in the Southeast Asia region. IP-delivered content is another topic of great interest.
Content creation is covered through the Cinematography/Film/Production Zone. The audio sector also has its own zone, Professional Audio Technology 2013.
After NAB and IBC, BroadcastAsia is the third-largest international show, and draws visitors from all over Southeast Asia and beyond. In 2012, the show attracted 11,200 visitors and 740 exhibitors, with the majority of visitors from outside Singapore coming from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and India, followed by smaller numbers from the Philippines and Indochina.
Parts of this region are seeing strong growth in infrastructure, with roll-outs of gigabit Ethernet to apartment blocks and ubiquitous use of mobile devices to consume content. Some governments are specifically promoting the digital media sectors, which is another boost to media and entertainment (M&E) businesses in the region.
Singapore is a media hub with many global M&E companies having bases there. It is a popular location for teleports and transmission service operators, being conveniently placed for satellite coverage of the Asia region. This position of Singapore in the global media infrastructure reflects in the quality of exhibitors attracted to the show. All of the leading brands from NAB will be exhibiting, along with distributors and resellers from across the region.
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8 Crepes, recipe follows
1/2 cup chocolate sauce
1/3 cup roasted almonds, chopped
25-30 bamboo skewers or lollipop sticks
(yield: about 10 crepes)
1 1/4 cups milk
1 cup flour
2 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp butter, melted
nonstick cooking spray, as needed
Whisk everything together in a medium bowl (or blender). Refrigerate batter for at least 1/2 hour.
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Assemble the Banana Crepe Lollipops:
Arrange 4 crepes onto your work surface. Top each with 1 tbsp of chocolate sauce, and spread in an even layer. Top with a second crepe, and another layer of chocolate sauce.
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Kiini Ibura Salaam, Ancient, Ancient. Aqueduct Press, 2012. Pp. 253. ISBN 978-1-933500-96-6. $18.00.Reviewed by Martha Hubbard
This new collection of arresting and beautiful stories by Kiini Ibura Salaam draws the reader immediately into a world of magic and struggle. The author describes herself as, “...a writer, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. The middle child of five, she grew up in a hardscrabble neighborhood with oak and fig trees, locusts and mosquitoes, cousins and neighbors.” Her fiction has been included in such publications as: Dark Matter, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Dark Eros, FEMSPEC, Ideomancer, infinitematrix.com and PodCastle.org. She works as an editor and copy-editor in New York. This collection of moving stories interleaves many themes, perhaps the most effective for me being the alienation of the foreigner.
Early on, a trio of stories introduce WaLiLa and MalKai, extra-terrestrial beings sent to earth to collect a magical substance, nectar, released during intense erotic encounters. Their task should be simple: retrieve this substance and bring it back to the ancestors so the life cycle can be continued. But as is so often the case with passionate encounters, everyone is changed by the experience; George realises he is the owner of his own feelings, Cori finds the courage to come out of the closet and WaLiLa is catapulted into a completely new life.
One theme that runs through many of the stories is the conflict between ancestors and/or parents attempting to stay in control of rebelling younger people. In ‘Ferret’, a granddaughter must engineer the death of her grandfather to save the lives of fellow passengers on a travel bubble. In ‘Rosamoju’, an abused young woman wrecks a terrible vengeance on a rapist father. ‘Battle Royale’ presents us with a ‘Big Rock Candy Mountain’ gone rancid, as a young man sent on a nightmarish journey by his magical grandfather struggles to retain control of his sanity, life and choice of partner.
Another theme is the painful price people must pay to protect and care for the ones they love. Equi, in ‘Bio-Anger’, takes a job under the sea to support her mother and sons, giving up her human form in the process. A visit home goes horribly wrong and Equi realises she can no longer survive in the above. In ‘Pod Rendezvous’, Se-se defies her culture and traditions to help Laki escape a restrictive future, only to be abandoned.
“Even now, after she had restructured Laki’s future, Laki had blown her a kiss and was hurtling away without a backward glance.Throughout the language is stunning, like music become words. I found my own mind dazzled and my imagination stretched to keep up with the flow of images. The story that spoke most strongly to me was that of ‘Marie’, a young Creole woman who has gradually become disconnected from her Louisiana home and her family identity.
Se-se’s vision went blurry as the pain of it broke in her chest.”
“[the trees of NYC] could not compare to majestic oaks whose powerful roots ripped up sidewalks, shaded porches, and gifted the earth with a bounty of acorns. When ever she mourned the loss of trees she found herself on a slippery slope to misery.”
“The first February was torture. She felt like she was trapped on an alien planet. At home there were parties; people went about masked and glittered. But New York had no carnival season.”Gradually she becomes acclimated to her New York life, only to find there is another toll to pay:
“Loss and gain are too sides of the same heavy coin. As Marie lost the behavioural habits of an outsider, she gained a painful estrangement she had not anticipated.”Accepted as white in a white person’s world, she cannot escape the everyday racism of her companions and the guilty pang that comes from tolerating it. After falling asleep on the subway she is accosted by a hooded creature who knows her innermost feelings. Marie makes a bargain with the old crone who agrees to take away her homesickness and painful feelings in exchange for a payment at sometime in the future.
Marie’s story, even without the supernatural elements, could stand as an exemplar for many, many people in today’s rapidly changing world. It is a story that has meaning for anyone, PoC or white, who has ever tried or had to adapt to life in a radically different environment. Perhaps never before in the history of our Mother Earth has the more or less voluntary mobility of people been so prevalent. Never has the potential for misunderstanding been greater. Refugees from Somalia, finding themselves freezing in the Finnish winters, take over the lower concourse of the train station trying to recreate the community marketplaces of home—terrifying the Finns in the process. A mother from the Philippines now resident in The Netherlands is disgusted by the casual racism of the Dutch. Culture shock has become a fixture of modern life. I left The USA and moved to Europe almost 30 years ago. The first years in Greece as I struggled to adapt to a Greek way of doing things, while never painful in the ways that Marie had to endure—I went the other way, from a bleak urban environment towards a lush Mediterranean one—still presented many of the stomach churning dislocations as in her story.
In the story, Marie is offered a choice. The hag will take away her home sicknesses and painful memories but the price, which she learns too late, is her future. It’s a crossroads that all ex-patriots come to. Which road to take? Eventually I found my ingrained Nordic sensibilities refusing to adapt to the social and financial attitudes of the Greeks. I fled—not back to the US but to the land of my grandparents. Unlike the Somalis, I like the cold.
Ibura Salaam has a wonderful voice and very sharp insights into the effects of displacement on her characters. I totally recommend this collection to any reader who wants to be challenged and enchanted. I hope she’s planning to stretch her talents on a novel—soon. I especially would like to know what happened to WaLiLa in Cuba.
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Do you ever stop to think about whether you could be exposed to asbestos in your home?
During the 20th century asbestos was used heavily by the UK’s construction industry and even though its use has been banned for more than two decades its legacy lives on in our homes, garages, workplaces and public buildings.
If you own a property that was built before 2000 there is every chance it may contain asbestos somewhere in its walls, floors or ceilings.
If you are in any doubt you should have an asbestos survey so you can identify if you have asbestos, what type it is, where it is and what condition it is in.
This is the first step to managing your asbestos safely and ensuring that neither you nor your family, visitors or any workers at your property are exposed to asbestos.
If at any point you are carrying out work at your property you will be in a position to inform your tradespeople about where your asbestos is located so the necessary arrangements can be made to ensure it is dealt with by people who have the correct asbestos training.
Sadly, a recent case has shown the necessary steps are not always taken to prevent people from being exposed to asbestos.
Builders exposed to asbestos
A few weeks ago, Kieran Lynch was prosecuted at Reading Magistrates’ Court after his employees were exposed to asbestos while refurbishing domestic premises in Barnsdale Road, Reading.
The court heard Mr Lynch, trading as Lynch and Co, was contracted to carry out a largescale refurbishment for his client who had recently purchased the property from their local council.
Prior to the project commencing, the owner of the property informed Mr Lynch the ceiling boards in the garage contained asbestos.
Mr Lynch instructed two employees, who had no experience in asbestos removal, to take down the boards with no protective measures in place.
Once they had taken down the boards, they stored them inside the house for a further three months before they were moved into the front garden to be disposed of.
Subsequent examination of these boards identified them as Asbestos Insulating Board (AIB) – a high risk product which requires an asbestos removal licence to remove.
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From amazing Amazon workout tops and bottoms to the best home gym equipment, here are 33 of my favorite budget-friendly fitness essentials.
I am frequently asked about home gym equipment – the dumbbells I use, strength band recommendations, protein powder ideas, and workout clothing go-to’s. So I compiled a list of the exact sources that I have and do use.
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Here are my 33 favorite budget-friendly fitness essentials.
1. Before And After Body Measurements Sheet
This is the before and after measurements sheet that I give my FASTer Way clients to use and the one I use as well to track my progress. If you haven’t read why you need to ditch the scale and take measurements instead then read all about it HERE.
2. Body Tape
This is the body tape that my clients and I use to take measurements.
These unflavored collagen peptides are a go-to supplement that get a lot of attention in the fitness category but is really more beneficial for hair, skin and nails (as well as your joints). I put one scoop of this in my coffee every morning.
Did you catch this DIY home gym mirror that I posted recently? Super cheap and super easy.
I actually use our piano bench for my home workouts, but this is the perfect space-friendly workout bench for your home workouts.
This is the power rack that Zach uses. I do not use it frequently because our workout spaces are in two different rooms of the house.
This is the macro tracking app I use and m clients use.
These Racerback Pack Of 4 Crop Tops are my go-to budget friendly workout tops. Only $24 for a pack of 4 tops. I do recommend sizing up. I normally wear smalls, but these tops I wear a medium.
This Keyhole Crop Top Tank is possibly my favorite workout top ever. It is slightly longer in the back. It comes in a lot of different colors. This top is TTS.
10. Slim Fit Joggers
These Slim Fit Joggers are my FAVORITE workout pants in the world no question. I call them magic pants. They have a wide high waist band that is incredibly comfortable and flattering. I even dress these up with a casual crop top and wedge sandal sneakers. These are TTS.
These high waisted Quick Dry Running Shorts come with a zipper side pocket and look great with the two crop tops above. These shorts run TTS.
I love these 7″ Compression Yoga Shorts. 7″ is the perfect length.
13. Fitness Watch
This is my favorite protein powder. Be sure to check out How To Choose The BEST Protein Powders to cut through the clutter and choose the best protein powder for you.
15. PBFit Powder
This peanut butter powder is a great low carb option to fill you up.
We have been using these Interlocking Home Gym Floor Mats for the past 7 years or so. They have gone with us through several moves and several different home gyms.
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These Glass Meal Prep/Leftover Containers are perfect for making lunches ahead of time or storing leftovers for the next day.
For a couple of years I used to make monthly freezer meals. I would make casseroles and put them in tin foil 9x13s that I would giveaway or or save for later. The dishes that were for our family I would make in these Anchor Hocking Freezer Baking Dishes.
20. Body Fat Caliper
These body calipers are what I use to calculate body fat %. There are so many reasons to ditch the scale. I talk all about them here.
22. Foam Roller
We use these Foam Rollers to roll out hamstrings, quads, ileotibial bands, calves etc.
I keep this set up in my office/gym for convenient hydration..
Speaking of hydration this Motivational Timer Water Bottle is an encouraging way to consume your daily water intake.
27. Strength Bands
28, Yoga Block
I use a Yoga Block during a lot of my workouts. Using it properly improves pelvic floor tone, slims the inner thighs and can improve lower back strength. You can get my 9 Minute Ab Blast With Yoga Block here!
These Adidas CloudFoam Slip-On Sneakers are perfect for home workouts. I would not recommend these for running.
These ASICS Running Shoes have been my go-to running shoes since I ran track in college. I have tried many brands over the years, and ASICS are my favorite.
These cards are a convenient workout ideas on vacation or when you’re traveling. We typically just bring a deck of playing cards and makeup our own workout, but this deck is a great idea as well.
Don’t overpay for expensive airpods when these Wireless Ear Buds are effective and nearly indestructible. I run with these all the time. I have put them through the laundry on accident and even bought a second pair assuming they wouldn’t work. Guess what? They came out of the laundry in perfect condition. When they say they are waterproof – they are waterproof.
A lot of leggings have a pocket for your phone while running, but I always feel like my pants are going to fall down. I prefer this armband instead.
I hope you found something useful in this list. Happy exercising!
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What we love strength bands for the most is we take our bands on vacation or when traveling, so it’s a great way to still get a strength workout in while not needing dumbbells or super heavy equipment. Welcome to the Imperfectly Empowered Podcast with DIY Healthy Lifestyle Blogger on a former empowering you to transform your life one imperfect day at a.
Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Imperfectly Empowered Podcast. I am your host, Anna Fullmer, from amazing Amazon workout tops and bottoms to the best home gym equipment. Today I am sharing 33 of my favorite. Budget friendly fitness essentials. I am frequently asked about home gym equipment, the dumbbells.
I use strength band recommendations, protein powder ideas, workout clothing go-tos that you don’t have to take out a second mortgage on your home for. So I compiled a list of the exact sources products that we use here in our home, both my husband. That are tried and true tested products that we can actually vouch for because we use them on a regular basis.
So let’s get to it. 33 of my favorite budget friendly fitness essentials. As always, the links to these products are in the show firstname.lastname@example.org. If you’re on YouTube, scroll and check the description below. Product number one that you may not have even thought about as a fitness essential is a printable before and after body measure.
Sheet. If you have not been around here for long, then you may not know this, but I believe you should ditch the scale unless you are pregnant or have one of a few chronic medical conditions. The average adult should not be weighing themselves and should be taking measurements or tracking body fat percentage.
Instead, So I have made this body sheet available the before and after measurements sheet that tells you exactly where and how to measure in order to track your progress. A side note, you should not be measuring on any less than four weeks apart, meaning you take your before measurements and then you should not recheck them for four to six.
Four to six weeks and make sure that you write the date above your before and afters. So I’ve shared the sheet that I send to my clients that gives you measurement instructions, and then fitness essential number two that goes along with this is a body tape. I think this body tape might be $3 on Amazon.
I’ve had one for years. You can also use it to measure for clothing, et cetera. So the before and after sheet, the body measurement sheet, and then a body. Are two of my top fitness essentials. Three Flavorless collagen peptides. Unflavored. Collagen peptides are a frequently mentioned supplement and get a lot of attention in the fitness industry, but the reality is collagen peptides are really protein that is more beneficial for hair.
And nails as well as your joints. Just to be clear, if you’ve not listened to my protein series, you want to go check that out. Collagen is really not gonna do anything for Muscle Build, but it is still a very essential protein that will benefit hair, skin, and nails as well as joint health. And I put one scoop of this in my coffee every morning and I shared the one that I personally use Vital Protein.
Number four, a body mirror. Now I know what you’re thinking. A lot of you, especially my mommas out there or the women out there are thinking I do not want to watch myself work out. I can understand that sentiment. I very much resonate with not necessarily wanting to see , the, uh, unflattering early morning lack of makeup face.
I’m speaking to myself specifically, but here’s the deal with the essential workout body mirror, is that having a full length mirror wherever you work. Will help you maintain proper form. It will enable you to increase your range of motion because so often you don’t even realize that bicep curl, you’re actually not getting full range of motion.
You’re only going a third of the way. A mirror helps you to be able to see in real time your range of motion. It helps you to also prevent injuries. Make sure that that knee is not going over your foot. A full length body mirror is essential to maximum. Your workout and listen, we wanna work smarter, not harder.
You’re already putting in the time to work out. A full length body mirror can help you work out smarter and get more bang for your buck. So if you did not catch the recent DIY Home Gym Mirror that I just posted on my blog, you can catch the link in the show notes. It is the easiest diy. You can create a full body mirror for 25.
No tools needed. It is so cheap and super easy and it looks great, so you wanna check that. Fitness essential number five is a workout bench. In full disclosure, any bench works I, in our last several fixture uppers and now currently in this rental home, until we find our forever property, I am still using our piano bench.
Our piano has ended up in my office, which is also my workout space in our last two houses. So I use our piano bench for my home workouts, but I did include a link for a space friendly workout bench. That. I also encourage my clients to invest in that you can really keep in any, any space in your home, but any bench works, even a piano bench, fitness essential number six is a lifting power rack.
With plates. Now, this is probably more for the men listening. I personally, rarely, rarely ever use Zach’s power Rack, but one of these days I’m gonna get him here on the podcast to share his own fitness story. And one of the number one things that he would say is it was a game changer for him when he invested in the equipment that he needed to live well and exercise regular.
At home and a power rack was a huge part of it. I shared the budget friendly one that we have. It is still a little pricey, but compared to a lot of power racks, this is incredibly budget friendly for sure. I wanna say it might be 300 some dollars. So I shared the power rack that Zach uses. If you are really, really wanting to get into the aesthetic side as a woman, then certainly a power act would be a great in.
I don’t think it is as essential for women because we can usually max out, unless you’re really wanting to get into body building. We can usually max out weight just with dumbbells. So I shared that power rack and the one that Zach uses. Number seven, My Fitness Pal is an amazing free app that my clients actually use to.
Macros. Now I coach for the faster way to fat loss, a virtual fitness nutrition program. They have their own app. I will be completely honest. I still actually prefer My Fitness Pal, and partly for other details. You can actually put in like a whole casserole recipe and then. Divide the servings. It’s a little more user friendly for families, but it’s free.
Here’s the thing, even if you’re not in a fitness and nutrition program, My Fitness Pal is a free app that you can start learning how to track the food that you’re consuming and see how it breaks down into macronutrients. If you have not listened to that podcast episode, you need to do so right now. If you’re still counting calories, you need to come to the light
You need to track macros. I. I talk about why, again, counting calories is not wrong, but if you are strictly counting calories, it is incomplete, possibly dangerously incomplete. You need to be tracking macros as well. So check out that podcast episode. But my fitness pals an excellent, excellent, free app to use to track the food that you are consuming, as well as enter your own recipes, et cetera.
Fitness essential number eight. I shared my favorite budget friendly four pack of race or back crop tops from Amazon. The majority of my workout clothes are from Amazon and they’re amazing. So I shared this four pack. They come in a lot of colors. It ends up breaking down to I think like six bucks a top.
You cannot beat. And they’re just the right length. I did mention you wanna size up in these. I typically wear smalls, but in these I wear medium, so I would size up number nine. Keyhole crop Top tanks. These are also from Amazon. This is probably my favorite workout top. It has an opening in the back. I also like it because it’s slightly longer in the back.
I don’t know, it just looks more flattering. I don’t know why. It’s a little shorter in the front. It’s true to size. I wear smalls lots and lots of color options, but especially in the summer, that keyhole in the back really keeps it. It keeps the breeze flowing through. I run in that top all the. Number 10.
Okay. My very, very favorite workout pants in the world, they’re called Slim Fit Joggers. They are amazing. These are my favorite workout pants. I have also been known to call these the Magic Pants . They’re so flattering. They are so comfortable they can be dressed up. I have warned them with. Wedge sneaker sandals.
So for a slightly dressier but casual look, these are amazing pants. You cannot go wrong with these. They have a really nice wide waist band. They have a great tapered leg. They have pockets. They’re absolutely incredible. So the slim fit joggers, number 10, you definitely want to check these out. My favorite long pants to work out in, or a lounge around in.
And then my favorite shorts, I have two. So number. Are the quick dry running shorts from Amazon. These took me a little bit to get used to because they’re really, really high wasted. So the secret I think to, to working out in these and feeling comfortable is using, pairing them with a crop top. And actually the crop tops that I shared work really, really well with these shorts.
It’s a really high waist and when you wear like a normal length shirt, It just looks really bunchy and it, it just doesn’t really work. So I will give you that disclaimer with these shorts. They are amazing. They’re really, really wide waist, which is great for running. They have side slits. They have a pocket for your phone.
I do recommend wearing one of the two crop tops that I mentioned with the these shorts, and it will definitely go together a little bit better. They run true to. My favorite compression shorts or biker shorts are the seven inch shorts from, I don’t know how to say the name of the company. I think it’s Bay Leaf, maybe.
They are very budget friendly. I have, I don’t know how long I’ve had mine now. They’ve held up really well. They are definitely not the same quality as, say, Under Armor. I’m a big Under Armor fan, but you pay, I could buy like three of these for one pair of Under Armor, shorts, . So we’ll see how long they last the elasticity, but they’re really nice length.
I love the seven inch. They’re very flattering and they’re comfortable running. They don’t ride up really high. So the seven inch compression yoga shorts, I highly, highly recommend. These are my favorite spandex shorts, also from Amazon. Number 13, a fitness watch, in case you have not heard me say it before, activity is not the same as exercise.
You still need to. Exercise being defined as keeping your heart rate to a moderate high intensity, which means you wanna get it above 130 beats per minute. If you go on a long bike ride, that’s great, but if your heart rate is not getting above a hundred because you’re just leisurely biking you guys, that’s not exercise.
That is activity. It is still preferable to sitting in front of a TV inside. But again, understand exercise is not the same as activity. People ask me, Well then how do I know if I’m actually getting the right amount of exercise? One of these watches, these fitness watches, is an excellent way to be able to determine that because you want to watch your heart rate.
Your heart rate should be sustained above 130 beats per minute to really benefit from the the cardiovascular element of exercise. So you wanna keep your heart rate up, these fitness watches, you can go hardcore and get the really, really expensive ones you, It’s not necessary. All you need is a cheaper fitness watch that can basically include a heart rate monitor while you work out.
It can track your steps, et cetera. I did link one very budget friendly. This might actually be an Amazon brand. Highly, highly, highly recommend one so that you can really start honing in on that heart rate. And also track your steps, steps or activity. Unless you’re speed walking and that gets your heart rate above 130, then we’re hitting exercise 14 or gains grass fed.
WHE protein powder is an essential in our house. Again, if you missed our protein series, be sure to check that out. I talk all about how to cut through the clutter of protein powders, understanding protein, the best food sources for protein, how to actually consume protein, in order to build muscle and shed fat.
You do not wanna miss that series. It was highly requested for the last several months, so I finally got around to doing, it’s a three part series. You wanna check that out. But the bottom line for gains, WHE powder is WHE protein Powder is my favorite. Chocolate and vanilla. But again, be sure to, uh, check out those podcast episodes.
Number 15, pb. Powder. So this is a powder form of peanut butter. What I like about it is that it is a great low carb option that still fills you up. Now, I’m not gonna get into it here, but just to be clear, protein, believe it or not, is actually not a significantly beneficial source of protein. It is a huge misnomer in the nutrition world.
People say, Oh, protein’s a great source, or Peanut butter’s a great source of. It actually isn’t. It’s a better source of fat. And here’s a side note, if you are not consuming all natural peanut butter, guess what else is in it? Sugar. If you are not consuming an all natural peanut butter, then you are likely consuming almost as much sugar.
There’s probably more sugar and fat than there are protein grams . So learn to read your labels, understand what you are eating and why, but this PB Fit powder I like because it is a low carb option, but still gives you a nice boost of protein that I will actually mix in with my protein powder with my WHE protein.
So PB Fit Powder is a great, great product to have in your fitness and nutrition arsenal. Number 16, interlocking home gym floor mats. These last forever I was, as I was writing this, I was thinking we’ve been using these. Floor mats for probably, gosh, probably seven years now. They’ve, This is the third house that these floor mats have.
Oh my gosh. No, I take that back. These were in our very, very first fixer upper Wow. So it’s been like eight or nine years since we’ve been using these floor mats. They last a really, really long time. Highly, highly recommend them. They lock, they’re like sort of a foam, so it is really nice, especially if you’ve got weights and you’re dropping ’em on the floor.
A very budget friendly option for a workout space anywhere in your home. Number 17. I would be remiss if I did not put this in here, but it is the faster way to fat loss virtual fitness nutrition program. I would love to have you join my program. In fact, the next round, my next six week virtual round starts on Monday, October 24th.
I would love to have you sign up. You can click on the link in the description or on the blog post show notes. I can’t say enough good things about this program. It is not original to me. I coach for a umbrella program, but in my groups I give you several hours of bonus material that clients have told me many times how much they appreciate.
So you do not want to miss that if you are ready to get fit and healthy before the holidays. Control of your health. Then you definitely want to join this next round, starting October 24th. I’d love to have you. We talk about everything from macro tracking. It includes meal plans. All the 30 minute exercises are on the app, intermittent fasting, carb cycling.
I’m telling you, you won’t regret it. The great investment for yourself before we go into the holidays. Number 18, glass meal. Leftover containers. I actually need to invest in more of these. Basically they are glass containers that just we, we try to prioritize glass over plastic when we can for multiple reasons, but these ones have little compartments and that are great for making lunches ahead of time or for storing leftovers.
Or if you are tracking food and you’re trying to create portions, again, it’s. It’s great for so many different things. You can reuse them a million times. This leads into product number 19. Which are my favorite freezer baking dishes. You might be like, What is a freezer baking dish? Well, Anchor Hawking is the name of the company and what’s unique about these glass dishes is they are thicker for one than the average, like nine by 13 baking dish.
This was several years ago now, but there was a season in my life when I was. My second master’s program, my second nursing masters, and Zach was coaching, he was also in a master’s program. It was just like a super guy. I had lots of little kids at home, so I was really into making monthly freezer meals. I really should get back to doing that, but what I would do is I would make these taser rolls and soups and crock pot recipes ahead of time, and I would Castros, for example, I’d put in these glass.
Freezer baking dishes from Anchor Hawking, and then they have this sealable lid that you put on. But the beautiful thing is you, you freeze them in these dishes and then you can take them from the freezer, thaw it, and put it right into the oven. They’re absolutely wonderful. I highly recommend them. We have two eight by eight eights and two nine by thirteens.
I use them all the. They’re great. Then you also store the leftovers in them. You just pop the lid back on, but you can also put ’em right in the freezer, so anchor hawking freezer baking dishes. Highly recommend you have tried it all. Worried you will never lose the extra weight or reclaim the energy you once enjoyed.
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Accelerator course today and start your own transformation story number 20, a body fat caliper . I, I love my clients here. We talk about body fat cas and they’re like, Ah, I’ll just use a body tape instead. People get real, real intimidated when I talk about measuring your body fat percentage because that’s really.
Really what I’m all about, it is a much better indicator of your overall health and wellness. Not to mention your disease risk as your body fat percentage. It’s not hard to measure. I know it feels very much like invasive, like I don’t wanna know how much body fat I have, but you guys wouldn’t. You rather have a number that you can actually use as opposed to the arbitrary number on a scale that is merely a reflection of your relationship with gravity and a terrible picture of your overall.
The answer’s yes, you should be nodding your head yes, . Don’t be scared of measuring your body fat. It is a much, much more accurate number, and you can actually determine your disease risk and truly calculate a number that matters and track a number. That’ll make a difference in the way that you live. So I included the body fat caliper.
It is, again, very cheap. It is an easy thing to have at home. If you have not looked at that blog post yet, I included the link, but you can learn how to measure your body fat percentage at home, and then how to find yourself on the body composition spectrum, meaning you measure your body fat percentage, you put yourself on the scale.
Body fat spectrum, not like the skill that you stand on and you see where you land. And the goal is to land smack in the middle. Smack in the middle. I feel like I’m saying that wrong. Smack dab in the middle, , I need more coffee. But basically on this body composition spectrum, you want to live in the middle in this healthy fit body fat percent.
That’s the goal. In order to truly thrive, prevent disease, and live well. Don’t be afraid of measuring your body fat percentage, and please be sure to check out that post and the links to learn how to do that. 21, an extra thick yoga mat. Here’s why I say extra thick because. I feel like I go through yoga mats yearly and I realized the reason was I was buying the like cheapo target version that is super, super thin.
And because I do all my workouts from home, I’m always on this yoga mat and it wears through. And it’s super thin by the end of the year with like holes starting to form in it. So get the extra thick one. I linked the most popular yoga mat on Amazon. This is actually on my own personal Christmas list, to get and invest in, but prioritize an extra thick one and also give you more support.
22, A foam roller. If you have really tight muscles, maybe you were an athlete and you had an old injury, and you are prone to hamstring pain or quad pain, or maybe it’s a calf tear that you still experience pain from. These foam rollers are amazing. It’s literally how it sounds. It’s a roller that’s made out of a really, really dense foam and you use your body weight to help roll out these muscles.
You can use them for your shoulders, you can use them for your back. So many different ways to use them. Your butt, I included that on it. These foam rollers are really beneficial. I used one for years to roll out my ilio tibial band, My it band. It’s the, um, band that basically runs from your hip down to your knee.
Zach, um, uses them a lot for his, his hip as well. Number 23, a Roman Hyper extension chair. One day when we finally build our house. I would like to get one of these. I do not own one of these. To be clear, I have used my mom’s multiple times and I love it. There are so many ways to use these. They’re not expensive, but it’s a great way to strengthen your lower back, and then you can use it for a lot of other things as well.
I will say this, there are some hacks to using these Roman chairs to extend your range of motion. For other exercises, you can use it for bicep curls, you can use it. There’s a lot of ways to use it. I actually included a link to a video to learn nine exercises that you can do with a Roman chair. This is a great addition to your fitness arsenal at home.
It really is to your home gym, and they’re not incredibly expensive. Number 24, This fitness essential is possibly, possibly one of the best investments Zach and I have ever made for our home. And again, to give you perspective, Zach and I have not owned a gym membership since we’ve been married. So that’s like what?
Oh, this is bad. I think 11 years. 11 years now. So we invested in this core home fitness adjustable dumbbell set with a stand. Oh my word. It’s absolutely phenomenal. Now we don’t have a million sets of dumbbells. It is one set that is adjust. And then we have them on a stand. Highly recommend them. Core Home Fitness is the name of the company, and we use them well.
I use them all of the time, and they take up a lot less space than a full dumbbell set. Highly, highly recommend. Number 25. This is a little hack for your home gym. Wherever you work out in your home is getting a large water jug dispenser with a. You will often see these in offices or in businesses, right, where they have like the big like five gallon water jug with like a pump on it.
You guys, you can just buy these on Amazon and keep them in your bedroom. If you work out in your bedroom, if you work out in your basement, it makes staying hydrated a lot easier cuz you’re not like, Oh man, I totally forgot to fill up my water bottle now if you’re run upstairs. But I don’t feel like it type of a.
So I just keep mine right here with my adjustable dumbbells, and when I run outta water, I don’t even have to run into the kitchen. I just pump it up right there. This is also my office, so it’s also nice during the day to help stay hydrated. I just use this five gallon water jug. So I included the products there so that you can create your.
A water bottle. This seems like an obvious one. I did link a really unique twist on a water bottle. It’s called a motivational timer water bottle. I think this is especially nice for people who have desk jobs who are working from nine to five or whatever, kind of have a normal day job because it actually has.
Times on it to remind you. So by two o’clock you should have drank this much water. By three o’clock you should have this much gone. So, you know, it’s kind of a nice, and it has like cute little phrase, like, Woohoo, go for it. You know? If you need some encouragement to drink to drink your water and stay hydrated, then maybe you wanna check out this motivational timer water bottle.
But invest in a good water bottle is the bottom. A good one, a big one that will help encourage hydration. If you did not listen to my 13 Ways to Consume More Water, you definitely wanna check that out. Side note, it’s possible that your headaches, your muscle spasms and palpitations might just simply be because you are not getting enough water.
Check out that podcast and I give lots of tips how much you should actually be drinking. It’s an easy formula and tips to get more water in every day. Every day you’ll be amazed how much better you feel. So be sure to check out that podcast, episode number 27, Strength Bands. Strength bands are a fabulous alternative to dumbbells.
One of the added benefits to strength bands is they often require a little bit more core stabilization to use because you have to get a little bit more creative. You often have to step on the bottom of one band in order to get enough range of motion to leverage the tension, and it’s often a great core workout as well.
What we love strength bands for the most is we take our bands on vacation or when traveling. A plug for the faster Way to Fat Loss program is almost every single workout has a strength band alternative move. So what I love about it is when I go on vacation, like when we go to the beach for two weeks, I take these strength bands along and I do strength workouts still at the beach using the strength band.
So it’s a great, great way to still get a strength workout in while not needing dumbbells or super heavy equipment. Number 28 is a yoga block, a yoga block. I use a l a yoga block during a lot of my workouts. Using it properly improves pelvic floor tone. Can help slim the inner thighs and improve lower back strength.
What I do is a lot of the moves, again, because I do all my own workouts from home. Anytime that I am laying on my back, like for chest work or even like shoulder stuff, I will elevate my hips and go into like a bridge position while squeezing a yoga block between my knees. I’m activating, This is a compound move.
I’m activating a lot of muscle. For one move. I also do this in my ab workout, so I created my own ab workout a long time ago. It has morphed. It originally was a, um, gosh, what’s the name of the program? I think it was an ab workout from P nine Dx that I did like, oh my gosh, probably nine years ago now. And I loved it, but I started to modify it over time to try to make the move.
More compound, meaning I was getting more bang from my buck. One of the things that I did was added a yoga block to improve my pelvic floor tone. It has definitely made a difference in like thigh strength, like that inner thigh, everyone carries fat in different places. For me, it would be more like truco.
So for those of you that don’t know what that means, that would mean like belly. So that would be where I would tend, You know, for some people they put it on their hips or their butt. Everyone carries differe. By including a yoga block and a lot of my exercises between my knees, I have definitely toned my inner thighs much, much more.
I have actually included the link to get my nine minute alast. I do this twice a week, twice a week. If I really, really, really wanted to cut in addition to significant nutritional changes, I would probably up this to three times a week. But on a regular basis, I do my alast twice a. Typically on Tuesdays, and then once over the weekend at some point.
So, and I use a yoga block, so you can get that. You just click on the link and it, you can enter your email and it’ll go right to you. Highly, highly recommend it. Get a lot of bang for your buck with that workout. Twice a week. Twice a week. To tone your abs, your pelvic floor, and your inner thigh. Number 29, the Adidas Cloud foam slip on sneakers.
Now if you read the description for these sneakers, they will suggest that they are running shoes. As somebody who ran track competitively for eight years and still love running today, a do not recommend running in these shoes, . These are not running shoes. Am I? Personal opinion, do not be running in these shoes.
They are, however perfect for home workouts. I love them. They are super easy to slip on, slip off. I keep them actually here in my office. I just slip them on for my workout. Again, I workout for the most part first thing in the morning, and they’re super convenient for really easy home workouts. Again, I do not recommend these for running.
So what do I recommend for running? Well? This is gonna be number 30. As somebody who ran competitively for eight years, I also ran for a couple years in college. I went through a lot of different sneaker brands. There are some really, really good ones out there. This one is not the end all be all, but I have been using asics running shoes for years and years.
They are my personal favorite. I included the link to the running shoes that I have been buying. Uh, probably since I ran track in college, actually asics are the brand that I landed on that I just loved. Many, many professional runners will also back up that Asics is an excellent running brand, so I highly recommend asics.
31 is called a deck of cards. Work out now. These are super fun. In full disclosure, I have never actually used this specific deck of cards. I love deck workouts, So card deck workouts, basically. Um, this is one of the other go-tos that we do on vacation when we’re traveling. I just stick a deck of cards in because we bring them along anyway to play games.
So what I will do is I’ll use a deck of cards and you assign four exercises to each suit. So say pushups, Russian twists, um, plank with shoulder taps and jump lunges. I just made that up on the spot, but each of them would be assigned a suit and then when you pull a jack of hearts, that would be say 11 jump lunges if hearts are jump lunges.
So huge, huge card deck workout. But I found these online where it’s literally exercise cards that one are exercise cards for body weight, one are exercise cards for strength bands. Like there’s all different categories, which I thought was super, super cool. So I included the body weight one because it’s a no equipment workout.
Which is really convenient. So store this for when you travel. This is a great resource for when you travel or you’re going on vacation. A resource like this that is a, you know, no equipment workout. So body weight exercise cards is what it is called. 32 wireless earbuds. If you are watching this on. These are the exact earbuds that I am talking about when I speak on podcasting.
I’ve done a couple presentations now on podcasting and obviously one of the essential pieces of equipment are earbuds to prevent feedback from the sound. And I found these, and I have been using these for some time now. I had no idea what people were paying for earbuds. These are like 30 some dollars.
Made by Toso, I think is the name of the brand. And you guys, these are like indestructible. I have two pairs of these. I have a ping pair and a white pair. The ping pair initially bought for running and I accidentally put them through the wash. I stuck them in a pocket of my shorts and then washed them.
And I was so mad at myself cuz I was like, oh my gosh, I just, you know, wasted 30 bucks. Put them through the washing machine. They went through the dryer as well. I bought these then cuz I was like, well there’s no way that they still work. You guys, they still work fine , they, when they say they’re waterproof, that is no.
They’re waterproof. So now I run in the rain with these like they’re absolutely amazing. So these earbuds do not pay a hundred dollars for these earbuds. Oh my goodness. Don’t do it. These work really, really well. They are waterproof. You can put them through the washer and the dryer and they’re still work.
That pink pair is what I use for running these, I strictly use for podcasting. So anyways, Pozo wireless earbuds, cannot recommend them. Work smarter, not harder, and save some bucks in the process. The last one, number 33, along with the running earbuds, is an arm band for your phone. We’ve been using Arm, Zach and I both have been using arm bands for some time, and um, they often rip, I don’t, maybe we were just getting really cheap ones, which is entirely possible, but this, the one that I linked is by far my favorite.
Arm band. If you follow me on Instagram and you see when I post videos, running videos, um, you’ll probably see this. I wear it every time that I run. I know that a lot of the compression shorts or like for example, the shorts that I just shared, both have a pocket for your phone. I don’t like working out with my phone in my pocket.
I feel like my pants are falling. I mean, phones are really big nowadays, you know what I mean? It’s like a mini computer, it feels like, and they’re just heavy and I, I don’t like that feeling, so I don’t like running with my phone or even working out with my phone in my shorts. So I definitely prefer the arm band.
This arm band is my favorite so far. It is definitely the best quality that I have had yet it is also waterproof. I, I run in the rain with this arm band with my phone. And these earbuds and have never had any problems. So I hope that you guys found something useful in this list. Again, these are tried and true products that I back with my own experience.
These links that I included will take you to the exact product to make sure that. I’m actually referring you to the exact product that I am using, and I hope that you can move smarter, not harder, and save some pennies. In the meantime, happy exercising. Thanks for listening to this episode of the Imperfectly Empowered Podcast.
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When asked about the load he has to carry with Davis still trying to return from an injury, James had this to say:
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LeBron James is averaging 34.9 points, 9.4 rebounds and 8.3 assists in nine games since turning 38. Nobody in the history of the game has come close to the numbers he has been putting up at his age. It seems like he’s setting a record almost after every game with the way he has been playing.
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Just some quick reviews for stuff I’ve recently watched on Netflix Streaming.
Sleepwalk With Me: Autobiographical film written, directed, and starring Mike Birbiglia, based on his stand-up comedy career, personal life, and his REM sleep behavior disorder, a dangerous and terrifying condition which makes him act out the dreams he’s having. If you follow Birbiglia’s comedy and writing, none of this material is new to you (especially some of the same jokes he’s been telling for, like, eight years now) but it’s still an enjoyable, funny, sad, and interesting film. If you don’t know Mike Birbiglia, this is an excellent place to start.
The Queen of Versailles: An excellent documentary about the ultra-rich Siegel family, owner of Westgate Resorts and proud builders of the largest home in America, an unfinished 85,000 square-foot monstrosity which cost $100 million dollars. An interesting and personal examination of how the U.S. economy tanking hit the wealthiest of Americans, though it’s hard to feel completely sorry for someone complaining about financial troubles while they’re in the midst of building a home with 30 bathrooms.
Headhunters: Norwegian thriller. I was reading the description and accidentally hit the play button and was like, Eh, guess I’ll watch it, otherwise I’ll have to press another button. Anyway, it starts out as the promising tale of a clever art thief living above his means until he goes for that one big heist that winds up being a lot more trouble than it’s worth. I was into this for a bit, but about halfway through it just descends into absurdity. Stars one of those guys who I think is in Game of Thrones. Yeah, I’m a good film reviewer!
Fire With Fire: 2012 action film starring Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D’Onofrio, 50 Cent, Vinnie Jones, Josh Duhamel, and right about now you’re thinking “Why the hell did I not hear of this?” and the answer is because it went straight to DVD, because it’s a very, very bad film. Josh Duhamel is a firefighter who goes all vigilante on some gangsters after they try to kill him to prevent him from testifying against them. I’m pretty sure Bruce Willis was just doing someone a favor, and I’m pretty sure they only had him for one day because all of his scenes are of him talking while walking down the same hallway a bunch of times.
The Next Three Days: Russel Crowe’s wife goes to prison for a murder she may not have committed, and Russel Crowe comes up with a plan to spring her, and you will not be spared a single minute of his extensive, laborious, endless careful planning. This isn’t a terrible movie by any means, it’s just slow, and not particularly interesting. I don’t know. It was okay.
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Notes on Sounds of the Field: Writing About Sound and Sport
My fall 2010 course, entitled “Sounds of the Field: Writing About Sound and Sport” is an experiment in working together with students on a new area of research—the sounds of mass sport in North America—that constitutes a critique of my discipline, ethnomusicology, and its focus on the exotic and the artful. I aim to enable students to use their expertise as “native speakers” of the language of sport fandom, and native listeners to its sounds, as a sounding board for writing and thinking about how (culturally situated) senses, particularly hearing, and ways of being social are intimately linked. In the process I hope to teach them the ethnographic trick of making the familiar strange—of articulating their sensory experience of sport in the empirically invested prose of field texts, so that they can construct that experience as ethnographic data and analyze it. And I hope to teach them to use theoretical texts constructively and carefully, as building blocks for their own statements on how sound works socially in sport. In the course, we begin by writing a brief Memo that connects two key practices and genres for the course: writing a critical theoretical precis; and commenting on a fieldnote from a theoretical perspective. The Memo also explores the first area of content in the course—sounds from the perspective of fans as a kind of “society,” or in the metaphor that structures the course “the arena.” We then turn from the sounds of fandom in “the arena” to those that enable athletes to act on “the field” of play. We read a new set of theorists who think pistemologically about the senses and how they enable us to act. We write a field narrative (Writing Project 1), using the sounds on the field of a particular game to comment on sound as a way of knowing and acting. We turn to “circulation,” reading ethnomusicological texts on national anthems and identity, and writing a new fieldnote about the musical media that are part of sport, and that circulate outside of particular sporting events. Our final paper, Writing Project 2, is a short ethnographic paper—drawing on the elements of the genre weʼve learned thus far—which pulls together our fieldnotes on sound for fans, players, and audiences not present at the game, and makes our own contribution to the discourse on what sound has to do with sport and society.
There are several distinctive features of the course note: first, it tries to treat students as “experts” or “native speakers” who know and participate in narratives and languages of sport. To this end, we use a Wordpress site as a place for students to gather popular texts that articulate a popular discourse on sound, and we discuss and analyze these texts together in class. Second, it tries to make the pre-texts of fieldwork—jottings and fieldnotes—public, highlighting the ways that representation and writing are always already part of the research process. We use Wordpress to share and discuss our fieldnotes and field recordings; and we use Twitter to collaboratively construct a shared “stream” of field jottings on a game, documenting the ways a group of 5-10 students saw and heard a game in real time. (I am considering writing an article on the use of social media in fieldwork—a topic that has not been discussed among ethnomusicologists, to my knowledge.) Third, since ethnomusicology has shied away from mass culture and has often focused on elite / art musical traditions (albeit those of the “Other”), the course tries to engage students in reading a disciplinary canon (such as texts on anthems and national identity) and a counter-canon (such as texts on “participatory discrepancies,” which, while widely read, also offer a sharp critique of ethnomusicologyʼs subject matter and methods). | <urn:uuid:f114d305-080f-4bb2-99f9-39dc61b77c8e> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://twp.duke.edu/faculty/excellence-awards/jonathan-m-dueck | 2019-04-26T09:54:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578765115.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20190426093516-20190426115516-00378.warc.gz | en | 0.941273 | 843 |
I have recently discovered the art of handspinning........and I am in LOVE! I am a big Etsy promoter, and I buy my spinning supplies exclusively on Etsy. I purchased this bundle of fiber from North Star Alpacas on Etsy. It is a blend of 70% Alpaca and 30% Silk. The Alpaca was a natural fawn color and the silk was dyed red, together the fiber becomes what I refer to as a Dusty Rose color. I absolutely love this fiber. I spun up 2 oz of it already and it made 144 yards of a light worsted weight yarn, 12 wpi. I am knitting a cowl and shawl in this fiber. I have started the shawl already. I was going to wait until I had all the fiber spun, but I just couldn't wait to start knitting with it. It is a dream.
I purchased my solid oak, top whorl drop spindle, from Spinsanity on Etsy. Both shops are based here in Michigan, which is another bonus. I am very dedicated to shopping local whenever possible, and there are many shops on Etsy owned and operated by fellow Michiganians. I guess, with the economy the way it is, many people are turning to running there own business. At least that way, you will never be downsized, and you can spend your time doing something you love.
I know that I love what I am doing. (I was permanently laid off when my office closed almost 2 years ago). Now I work a part time job away from home to help supplement my income right now, but as much as I need the extra money, I just wish I could spend all my time making the things to sell on my etsy. I am just bursting with new ideas and wanting to try new things all the time.Back to topic, I know I run off on tangents sometimes, in addition to spinning my own yarn and carving rubber stamps, I am still very active in my mail art trading.
I just finished up some Button Fairies and Valentine Chunky Pages for swaps on Mail Art World. I love these Button Fairies, and I think I want to make many more of them. I collect all things relating to Faeries. I even have my eye on a yarn gauge at BrandywineWW on Etsy that is named after the Fairy Cup that was carved at the top of the handle. Take a look at it here........How cool is that! | <urn:uuid:9ecd648f-9777-4227-956d-374916989242> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://thestarbox.blogspot.com/2009/02/joy-of-spinning.html | 2017-07-24T00:42:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424645.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170724002355-20170724022355-00062.warc.gz | en | 0.976644 | 505 |
Drawing from the Past
May 30th - June 6th 2015
in collaboration with Cambridge Regional College
Drawing from the Past is an exhibition of art work made by students on the Skills Matrix and Options courses in the Faculty of Foundation Learning at Cambridge Regional College. The exhibition includes both art and photographic work by the Options students inspired by a visit to the museum.
The exhibition also be launches a second book called “Beautiful Counting Numbers”, produced by a group of Skills Matrix students.
The Skills Matrix course is for students with various kinds of learning difficulty and Options is for students returning to education after experiencing problems with low self-esteem or mental health. | <urn:uuid:5d639795-16f6-4b07-bbec-1e2f8c7a3491> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/exhibitions/drawing-from-the-past | 2017-03-27T14:27:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189474.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00585-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969325 | 137 |
Panathinaikos and PAOK secured positive results in their first-leg games for the third qualifying round of the Europe League on Thursday, while Panionios suffered a reverse it can overcome in the return game.
Panathinaikos defeated Qabala from Azerbaijan 1-0, the team that had dumped it out of the same competition two years ago. This was the first win in a European game for Panathinaikos after seven matches.
In front of full stands at the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium the Greens deserved a higher score given the number of chances they created. Eventually they scored from the penalty spot, as Guillermo Molins’ goal on the 37th minute was the first for Panathinaikos after three European games when the Greens were scoreless.
Robin Lod hit the woodwork twice and his colleagues missed numerous chances to add to the Greens’ tally on the night, while the Greek defense held firm for a clean sheet that could prove precious.
PAOK escaped with a 1-1 draw from Kiev as Olimpik Donetsk outplayed the Greeks (who actually had no Greeks on the pitch until the 81st minute) but was unable to transform that into a home win.
Pedro Henrique scored for PAOK through a spectacular shot four minutes after coming on as a substitute on the 55th minute, to equalize Stanislav’s Bilenkyi’s opener on the 49th minute.
The players of coach Aleksandar Stanojevic were obviously unprepared for the game, but were fortunate enough not to concede any more than once on the night.
Panionios lost 1-0 at Maccabi Tel Aviv although it played quite well in the humid conditions of Israel.
Facing its host without Masoud Shojaei and Ehsan Hajsafi, as the Iranian players are not allowed by their government to visit Israel, the Nea Smyrni team held on till the 48th minute, when a solo effort by Vidar Orn Kjartansson found the back of the net.
The chances that fell to Giorgos Masouras and Lazaros Lambrou went to waste, but Panionios showed it can overturn the deficit in a week’s time at home.
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Designing and implementing an application for recording and evaluating strategic marketing data according to the scope of products and market size. The aim of the application is to display and compare a product hierarchy and a sales hierarchy, in order to assess and evaluate trends and to draw conclusions for requirements planning in production.
The product manufacturing and marketing units view products differently. Agents are given support in allocating the structures (mapping) by means of an appropriate dialog structure. Some of the data is exported from Access to MS Excel via an interface, where it is used for further evaluations. The application enables top-down and bottom-up analyses.
The stages of the product scope are subdivided various times and correspond to specific levels of the market scope. Entries on different levels and views are aggregated upwards in evaluation hierarchies and distributed downwards on the basis of rules. Both views are always coordinated at any one time. The evaluations form the basis for marketing activities and production planning. | <urn:uuid:d82882dc-c5e2-463f-b226-601dd59f3e2b> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.pta-consulting.com/projekt/tool-kit-for-strategic-marketing/ | 2024-02-25T05:40:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474581.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225035809-20240225065809-00413.warc.gz | en | 0.927232 | 193 |
Incidental Comics — Cartoons about... just stuff.
Dreaming Methods — Atmospheric digital fiction projects designed to be experienced on a computer with the lights down and your sound turned up. Use the mouse to pan around and interact. [more inside]
I knew I wanted to find a very special way to propose to a very special woman. This long exposure, and the making of footage, were shot over three nights in Raleigh, North Carolina as a marriage proposal to Emily. [more about light writing]
The Warrior Writers Project brings together recent veterans and current service members to be in creative community and utilize art-making processes to express themselves. There is a deep necessity for veterans to create when so much has been shattered and stolen. A profound sense of hope comes from the ability to rebuild and transform.
What if you wrote to Alpo to ask if they have a senior citizen's blend, or to the AARP to inquire about the living status of Abe Vigoda? And what if they wrote back? That's the purpose of Jackassletters.com, part mischief, part mayhem, from MeFi's own cjorgensen. History has demonstrated the fun of hoax letter writing, for instance Kitty Piddle Soda from Avery's Beverages. Someone has to carry on the tradition. Tweaking the noses of power and fame. (via MeFi Projects)
Scene 360 is an online film and arts magazine, profiling and interviewing artists & web designers, filmmakers and writers.
The New York Moon is an internet-based publication adhered to the lunar phases. It is a collection of experimental, reflective, and imaginative projects produced with every other month’s full moon. In the current issue visit the 6th Borough interactive map to discover imaginary precincts, find ephemeral street sculptures on The Trash Map, browse sketches of the moments in between Waiting, or redesign your neighborhood in Blueprints. [more inside] | <urn:uuid:c4f34edc-d915-4ed8-a31e-a3b6e67f12e7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.metafilter.com/tags/writing/951 | 2016-10-23T12:03:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00289-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937806 | 389 |
Semler grew up as the child of a priest. Now they make music about their lives and the rejection they faced in the church.
Although they don’t consider themselves a Christian artist, singer Semler, who identifies as non-binary, has risen to number one on the iTunes Christian music charts.
“I never really talked about my faith,” Semler said. “It’s something I buried for a long time because I wasn’t ready to unpack it.”
Their album, titled “Preacher’s Kid”, is based on their experiences as the queer child of an Episcopal priest.
“I was raised and conditioned in a church society and culture that was pretty, I would say vague, or kind of treated LGBTQ people like a taboo thing that we’re not going to talk about,” Semler said. .
This subtle rejection shines through in songs like “Youth Group”, which notes “Be nice to yourself. Take care of that kid. You’re not what they said you were.”
“The music that comes out of me is this expression of belief, doubt and complicated feelings about my upbringing, but also this divine sense of peace that I try to cultivate in my life,” Semler said.
While reception has been good for Semler in some circles, you won’t hear them on contemporary Christian music stations. Online debates have sparked conversations about what really makes Christian music.
“That’s what drives me crazy with Christian music,” Semler said. “It’s so sanitized, and I think having faith is a very rich thing, but it’s complicated, it’s messy, it’s funny.”
They say the younger generation demands rawness. Other artists like Andy Mineo and Lecrae have tackled topics like mental illness, racism and politics – often to the rejection of some Christian fans.
In 2016, former Everyday Sunday singer Trey Pearson told his fans that he was gay. The band broke up shortly after.
According to data compiled by the Williams Institute at UCLA, approximately 40% of LGBT adults between the ages of 18 and 34 are religious.
The majority of Christian denominations have grown in their acceptance of same-sex marriage. Black Protestants remain among the lowest with white evangelicals, according to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.
Disagreements over the place of the LGTBQ community within church leadership have led to splits in denominations.
In May, a schism within the United Methodist Church led to the formation of the conservative World Methodist Church.
Semler says they accept that their music isn’t for everyone.
“I think ‘Preacher’s Kid’ resonates especially well with other preachers’ kids, but I think the notion of being kind to yourself and that you’re worthy of the love and care and tenderness you don’t you may not have received as a child is a more universal feeling,” Semler said. | <urn:uuid:7395a216-9a6b-47c6-a274-8cec7fa64b8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://celticmusicnews.com/queer-artist-semler-is-making-waves-in-the-christian-music-genre-video/ | 2022-08-08T17:21:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00396.warc.gz | en | 0.972661 | 652 |
Fake Bake 60 Minute Tan Liquid, 236ml
A long lasting, natural looking, ultimate fake tan from Fake Bake. A revolutionary, super fast, self tan liquid which develops into a beautiful, natural looking tan in 60 minutes.
Easy to apply with the Fake Bake “shows where it goes” colour guide. Includes the tanning agents - dihydroxyacetone and erythulose which are activated upon contact with the skin.
Accelerators speed up the development time and a golden glow can be achieved in an hour. To achieve an even darker tan, there’s no need to re-apply, simply leave for 60 Minutes on longer then rinse off the colour guide to reveal the tan.
Please note Fake Bake do not recommend leaving on any longer than: three hours.
This light weight, fast drying formula is non-sticky and does not clog the pores. Includes re-usable application mitt and step-by-step application advice.
- Eligible for International Delivery
- Suncare/Tanning Type
- Self Tan
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Our Unique Qualities:
- Archetypal Amazon architecture rustic houses built on stilts all connected by thatched roofed corridors with a refreshing swimming pool in its inner garden; ecofriendly limited electricity yet safe and secure which is the lodge’s standard
- Built by local construction masters from the Yanamono Reserve, renowned for its vast biodiversity and having the most number of tree species in the jungle of the Amazon River.
- Commitment to protect the surrounding ecosystems in a working and sustainable cooperation with our host communities; observing sustainable practices such as providing hot water shower using natural gas.
- Typical Amazon cuisine, distinct flavor with global appeal
The Lodge in detail:
Stay at an eco-sensitive, limited electricity lodge built by the local host community in a complex of 14 rustic clusters of native style pavilions that house the Reception/Bar, rooms, dining, public areas, Shamanic Ritual House and the swimming pool within the inner garden. Admire the Lodge’s high ceilinged thatched roof made entirely of palm fronds, a rustic work of art. Rest and relax in a choice of completely screened rooms with terraces overlooking the gardens & forest or bungalows with hammocks and rocking chairs, likewise, you can dine and unwind in the comfort of screen protected restaurant and lobby bar. | <urn:uuid:e99b7217-f044-4f44-8696-bbee2dc3e65a> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://terraverde.pe/heliconia-amazon-river-lodge/the-experience | 2017-10-21T11:52:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824775.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021114851-20171021134851-00494.warc.gz | en | 0.921147 | 273 |
Few days before, Apple released its long-awaited iOS 4.2.1 update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. For Apple iPad, it is the first major update after its launch. After this update, iPad users can now take advantage of features like multitasking, threaded messaging, app folders and much more.
iOS 4.2.1 also comes with new features like AirPaint and AirPlay for all iOS devices. AirPaint allows you to take prints from the mobile while AirPlay for streaming between mobile and Apple TV or other AirPlay-enabled hardware. This new features surely be useful and makes iOS devices more powerful than ever before.
However, for iOS devices Jailbreakers, the only thing they need to worry about is whether they able to jailbreak the new iOS update? And the answer is YES, you can jailbreak the latest iOS 4.2.1 update on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
iPhone Dev Team released Redsnow 0.9.6b4 that can be used to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1. While iOS 4.2.1 is tethered for devices such as iPhone 3GS (new bootroom), iPhone4, iPad, iPod touch 2G (MC model), iPod touch 3G and the iPod touch 4G whereas iPhone 3GS (old bootroom), iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G (Non-MC Model) can be jailbroken untethered.
Guide to Jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch using Redsn0w 0.9.6b4 :
1) Download iOS 4.2.1 IPSW for iOS devices. You will find all download links at the bottom.
2) Update your iDevice to iOS 4.2.1 via iTunes 10.1. Select your iPhone in iTunes, browse and select the latest FW iOS 4.2.1 IPSW.
3) Download Redsnow 0.9.6b4 and browse it to iOS 4.2.1 you downloaded in the first step.
4) Redsnow will now prepare the jailbreak data. Now, select “Install cydia” and click “Next” as you see in the image below.
5) In this step, please make sure your device is both OFF and Plugged in to the computer. Click “Next”, a prompt will appear where you have to put your device in DFU mode by holding “Power” and “Home” button for nearly 10 seconds. Now, release the “Power” button while holding the “Home” button until you see a process start for installation.
6) Click on Finish after the installation process ends, you device will automatically restarts and now you will use all the features on your jailbroken latest iOS 4.2.1 device.
7) This step is only for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS (New Bootrom), iPod touch 4G, 3G, 2G, and iPad. From here onwards, whenever you want to do anything related to jailbreak, on every reboot you must run your device in the “jailbroken state” by using “Just boot tethered right now” option available in Redsn0w.
That’s it, you have jailbroken almost any iPhone device working on latest iOS 4.2.1 update.[rss] [re]
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Reflation trade’s effects on investors
Joel Dresang: Kyle, for months I’ve been hearing about a reflation trade that’s been affecting the financial markets. I know that inflation is a period of rising prices, what is reflation?
Kyle Tetting: Reflation is this idea that prices are rising more quickly, that the rate of inflation is picking up. What we’ve really seen is that as the economy has improved since the recession, that as employment has picked up and wage growth has picked up a little bit, that the rate of inflation is starting to increase a little bit.
Joel: So, tell me more about what’s driving this acceleration of inflation.
Kyle: In addition to some of the economic improvements, we’ve also seen now some expectations for infrastructure spending, expectations for changes to the tax code, as well as expectations for some deregulation in the banks and other industries. That can really have an economic impact as well, potentially driving inflation higher as well.
Important to remember that right now it’s based on a lot of expectations, but if we do see some of that come true, we’ll see some inflation pick up there potentially as well.
Joel: Are there any global forces at play?
Kyle: Yeah, there absolutely are. We had some concerns about growth in China that seemed to have been a little bit overblown perhaps, and things have picked up a little bit. Certainly not out of the woods there, but definitely some signs of optimism. I think more importantly, Europe and Japan especially have started to emerge now from what had been a pretty protracted period of at least slow growth – so those kinds of things now feeding into the expectations for inflation as well.
Joel: So, as an investor, why should I care about this expectation of rising inflation?
Kyle: Inflation really erodes your purchasing power, and that’s one of the reasons that as an investor we put stocks in a portfolio is because they have the ability to overcome inflation.
So obviously, if we’re seeing the rate of inflation pick up, or if we expect the rate of inflation to pick up, we really need to reassess the way that we’re building portfolios to make sure that you’ve got an appropriate allocation to overcome that potential inflation.
Joel: So, how have the financial markets been responding to this reflation?
Kyle: Especially since the election, but certainly in the last few months, we’ve seen that the markets have really run quite a bit higher. You look at pretty much any measure of stocks, and they’ve moved pretty drastically higher. However, I think it’s important to remember that it’s based on expectations for these changes – and not necessarily what we’ve actually seen happen.
Joel: So what, if anything, should I be doing about reflation?
Kyle: I think it’s important for investors to remember why they hold the portfolio they hold. They have a particular tolerance for risk. And, for them, that likely means that they don’t want to take too much action one way or another. Also, important to remember that for many investors, we’ve already been increasing exposure to stock just simply because it made sense in the current rate environment, and there were a number of opportunities out there. I don’t think investors need to respond to the potential for reflation. I don’t think they need to try and take advantage of the reflation trade. They probably already have. But I think it is important to remember again that risk tolerance and why you hold the portfolio you hold.
Joel: What about on the bond side?
Kyle: So, inflation does tend to accompany improving economic growth. So what that typically means is that interest rates tend to be rising in that environment as well. It’s going to provide a little bit of a head wind for your bonds. But, again, there’s a reason for those bonds in your portfolio. So, it’s kind of difficult to say that you should be getting out of that piece of your portfolio – simply because of an expectation.
Joel: Is it a good time to rebalance?
Kyle: You know, it’s always a good time to rebalance, especially if you haven’t looked at your portfolio in a while. But I think especially now as you’re looking at the stock market having had a very nice run, as you’re looking at the expectation for growth but not really seeing any of the things that would signal that it’s imminent, you know, now may be a great time to say, “Let’s take some profits on what we’ve made. Let’s start to match up our liabilities with already getting some cash for those liabilities.” So yeah, absolutely, now is a good time to rebalance.
Joel: But bottom line is we should understand what this reflation trade is and not overreact.
Kyle: Yeah. Again, it is based on expectations right now for what may be some above-average growth – at least from what we’ve seen. And so, I think investors just need to keep in mind that anything could happen from here and that they have a balanced portfolio for a reason.
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Oh don’t be shocked; we’ve all read it for the articles, and now you can do so from the privacy of your iPhone.
You won’t find full nudity (although it is still rated 17+), but you will find “iconic monthly features” including the Playboy Interview, Playboy Advisor, 20 Questions, Party Jokes, Celebrities Hangin’ with Hef, and Fashion. Along with those items, you’ll also get some extra goodies…
The new Playboy iphone app gives fans of the magazine a glimpse of the latest issue, along with exclusive content such as free Rabbit Head and Playmate wallpapers, and a Playmate video clip.
Each month, users can download a new edition of the app on the same day Playboy’s new issue hits newsstands. Archived editions will be available through in-app micro-transactions with the launch of the Jan/Feb double edition (available 12/18).
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The City of Evanston Youth Advisory Committee held its first Youth Town Hall Nov. 1 Credit: Gina Castro / Evanston RoundTable
Evanston teens and young adults delivered passionate pleas Nov. 1 for the city to take action against gun violence and systemic racism, as part of the Youth Advisory Committee’s first Youth Town Hall.
“Listening to youth voices is not something politicians should do,” said Olivia Ohlson, the mayor of the committee. “It is something they must do.”
YAC is a new initiative and partnership between the city and Evanston Cradle to Career. This committee gives youth between the ages of 14 and 24 the opportunity to participate in shaping the local government. They spoke to an audience of city officials, parents and concerned residents, who crowded the City Council Chambers at the Morton Civic Center.
Each of the committee members introduced themselves to the audience and shared what issues in the community they care most about.
Jude Foran, committee manager, grew up in the Sixth Ward and is a senior at ETHS. He told the audience that because of redlining, his ward was invested in more by the city and the Fifth Ward was disinvested.
“As a member of the Sixth Ward, I’d like to acknowledge our disproportionate success,” Foran said. “I’d like to call on my ward to reach out and help the Fifth Ward and share our success so that Evanston can be an equitable place.”
Many of the students on the committee cited the impact of redlining on the community today. They each learned about the 2022 Evanston Project for the Local Assessment of Needs (EPLAN).
This year’s EPLAN took a different approach in comparison to years prior. The 2022 EPLAN analyzed the impact systemic factors have on an individual’s options. The EPLAN shows that the city’s disparities in health, income, environment and even literacy matches the 1935 redlining map, which segregated the city.
The city set aside $3 million for public projects that every resident 14 and up can have a say on. The city and Evanston Cradle to Career hosted several Data Walks to show how redlining impacts the community today, and this lesson really stuck with the students on the committee.
While the discussion covered housing, safety and mental health, the majority of YAC’s time was spent on safety, especially gun violence.
The students shared how scared they were last year when ETHS locked down because a few students brought in guns.
“We had no clue whether it was an active shooter,” Foran said. “We just saw cops coming with guns and assault rifles into our classes. It was really scary.”
Sachin Clark, a senior at ETHS, recommended that a program be created to help develop a relationship between students and the Evanston Police Department.
Another ETHS senior, Lila Kapinga-Muboyayi, talked about how important it is for students to feel safe while at school. One of her suggestions was to allow students to carry pepper spray. ETHS recently suspended a female student for bringing pepper spray to school. The school did that in 2019 as well.
Youth Town Hall poste Credit: Submitted
“I think that they should allow students to have things for self defense, like they do not allow students to have pepper spray,” Kapinga-Muboyayi said. “But I think that we should have little things to protect ourselves because we are by ourselves at school and the majority of the time after we leave, too.”
The event drew state Senator Laura Fine, Chief of Police Schenita Stewart, Mayor Daniel Biss, members of the NAACP Evanston and many City Council members, including Devon Reid, 8th Ward; Bobby Burn, 5th Ward; and Krissie Harris, 2nd Ward.
Biss called the students’ words “real” and “persuasive.”
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Alright, after much suspense and anticipation, I've finally taken a moment to post a few pics for you of the new studio. Now, most of the images were taken after I moved into it so it's full of stuff but there are a few pics stashed aside of the naked walls before the boxes arrived...check it out!So the photo above shows my work station including my computer and my scrapping table. I put a small book case on top of the table against the wall giving me loads of vertical storage - not to mention my massive tower of Rubbermaid drawers!! And yes, that's all purple walls you see but you have to understand how happy purple makes me...obviously pretty dang happy judging by those walls!!
The photos above show my retail portion of the studio. It looked like way more stuff before I had so much wall space, but now it looks a little sparse...but that should be changing soon. I can't wait to bring in new goodies for the scrappers of Whitehorse!
This photo is mostly my own stash. The albums at the top left are my personal ones (they're so huge, it's kinda silly. I think my 2007 album will have to be in volumes!) The shelf below that holds all the cardstock for now (until I have a better, more visible system) and the shelf on the bottom is all my books (which I plan to use as a lending library, that way I can expand the collection and feel a little less guilty! LOL) the shelf beside that holds a few black boxes for storing private clients' photos for custom album projects and the shelf below that is where I keep my ever-growing magazine collection. The bottom shelf holds mostly my CTMH papers and other miscellaneous papers. The rack in the corner is mostly for my stamps & ribbons. The image below is a close-up of my wallpaper on the feature wall (the one I face when I'm scrappin') I've been dying to use this Debbie Travis (from Canadian Tire) paintable wallpaper. I LOVE IT!!!
One more quick thing. Today is World Kindness Day and I plan to scrap a page of my boys actually being kind to one another (a rarity sometimes) so I think everyone in the blogosphere to rise to the challenge and create your own Kindness page. Upload your link here and we'll check it out!
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Ubiquitous and Wistron showcase "QuickBoot" on Freescale's i.MX51 processor, Proving "Instant-On without Standby" of Smartbooks, e-Books and Tablets
QuickBoot supports Freescale i.MX processors as a primary platform to shorten time to market
TOKYO, May 31, 2010 – Ubiquitous Corporation, a Tokyo based leading embedded software company [JASDAQ NEO: 3858] announces that “Ubiquitous QuickBoot”, the ultimate instant boot solution software for embedded devices, supports Freescale Semiconductor’s i.MX application processors as a primary platform among other ARM? based processors. Wistron Corporation, a Taiwan based major ODM company, will showcase products with QuickBoot running on Freescale’s i.MX51 processors this week at Taipei, demonstrating “Instant-on without standby power” as a solution for its various product lines.
“We have chosen Freescale’s i.MX products as a primary platform for QuickBoot because the processors are now widely used for various devices like smartbooks, tablets, e-books and automotive infotainments where the instant-on user experience is essential” said Tomoyuki Ietaka, President of Ubiquitous. “Manufacturers who use Freescale’s i.MX processors are now ready to utilize QuickBoot without further intensive engineering works, and hence they can quickly release products which boot up within a few seconds from cold start, enabling short time-to-market”.
“We are glad to see Ubiquitous’ QuickBoot has proven that consumer applications run instantaneously from power on, enhancing the consumer experience across a wide range of devices using i.MX application processors.” said Sridharan Subramanian, Senior Product Manager for Freescale’s Multimedia Applications Division. “Freescale is committed to support the Android™ platform on i.MX51 and follow on application processors. Technologies like QuickBoot are designed to add value to Android based Freescale devices by enabling zero standby power, without sacrificing booting time.”
Ubiquitous QuickBoot is a software product of a break-through booting technology, and enabled Android and Linux to boot from a cold start in about 1 second by using Freescale’s i.MX31 processor, restoring the 128MB memory image. QuickBoot can restore necessary portions of the memory image by automatically determining the priority of memory usage of the system. The QuickBoot SDK uses Freescale’s i.MX31 and i.MX51 based boards as its reference hardware.
The Ubiquitous QuickBoot will be demonstrated at Freescale’s demo room and ?Wistron’s private demo held in conjunction with Computex Taipei this week. Ubiquitous have implemented QuickBoot on Wistron’s smartbook product N900Z which uses the Freescale i.MX51 processor.
Ubiquitous will also demonstrate QuickBoot on the Freescale i.MX51 processor at ARM’s demo room at Grand Hyatt Taipei, by using Sharp’s mobile internet tool “NetWalker”.
The video of the NetWalker demo is available at Ubiquitous web site:
■ About Wistron Corporation
Wistron Corporation is among the world’s largest original design manufacturer (ODM) companies producing information and communication technology (ICT) products–including mobile and handheld devices, servers and storage, IA, networking and communication products. Utilizing a strong engineering base, Wistron is a leader in the delivery of a broad range of services. Utilizing extensive product development experience, as well as partnerships with leading technology companies, Wistron incorporates the latest technology platforms into product offerings for OEM customers.
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About Ubiquitous QuickBoot SDK
This SDK (software development kit) is provided for developers at OEMs and ODMs enabling them to design “instant-on” capable products. The SDK includes “QuickBoot snapshot script” and “QuickBoot snapshot driver”, which are used to store snapshots of RAM image to a nonvolatile memory, and “QuickBoot BIOS” and “QuickBoot IRA (Intelligent Resource Allocator)”, which enable systems to boot up instantly by selecting necessary blocks of the stored memory image.
About Ubiquitous Corporation (JASDAQ: 3858)
ABOUT_STOCKCODE => Ubiquitous was established with the aim of realizing the dream of ubiquitous networks for connecting the various devices that we constantly use today so seamlessly that we need not even think about it making connections. Compact, efficient and high-speed software is indispensable to the creation of such ubiquitous networks, and Ubiquitous is committed to contributing to this endeavor through developing the world’s most compact, efficient and high-speed network and database software. For further information visit https://www.ubiquitous-ai.com/en/
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I am working with a bq 20z65 fuel gauge. I have been attempting to run a golden cycle on the pack according to the instructions "when a close Qmax is not known in SLUA 334B".
From what I observed so far it looks like the Vok flag resets about 4 hours into the relaxation time after charging the pack. But there does not seem to be any change in the output voltage.My understanding is that for Qmax to update the Vok flag must be set.
Is there a setting in the gg file that could affect this or cause this to happen?
In reply to Chase7071949597:
One more thing. It appears that Cell 4 is quite imbalanced from the other 3 cells. It reaches charge terminate voltage more quickly and the CUV threshold much more quickly than the other 3 cells. You may want to look at that and make sure the cell isn't damaged or aged somehow.
The communication issue was most likely caused by another program periodically opening up on the computer I was using. The golden cycle was never disrupted during charge or discharge. The communication loss fornutately only happened during the relaxation periods. Also there were no power losses during the cycling. Tomorrow I am setting up another computer to run the cycling on.
I am using chem ID 0404 which closely matches the discharge curve shown in the data sheet for these cells. The discharge curve is very flat. I could not find a chem ID specifically for the Valence IFR 18650 cells. Do you have a chem ID for these cells?
The datasheet calls out 3.65 volts for the full charge voltage. There are 4 cells in series so I'm charging it to 14.4 volts at 675mA and and shutting off charge at 68mA taper current as the data sheet suggests. Should I raise the taper current up to prevent overcharge? What would you suggest?
I am discharging at 270mA and cutting off discharge at 9.8 volts. The data sheet calls out min voltage per cell to 2.5 volts. I can raise the cut off to 10 volts.
One other thing, I saw that the gg file calls out the CUV Threshold at 1700mV. Is this too low for a cell that the min voltage is rated to 2.5 volts?
In reply to Mark Gaugenmaier:
Can you send command 0008 to address 00 and then read back from the address? This will show us the chemistry ID. The reason I ask is becaus the default Ra table in the GG file you sent doesn't match the default Ra table for ID404.
As for your cell, it doesn't look like we have ever characterized. The main concern you will have is potential accuracy issues by using the wrong ID. The typical process for cells is to send a few samples to TI and we characterize them and create a new ID. The process for LiFePO4 cells takes about 4 weeks. ID 404 is the correct type of chemistry, however, so if accuracy is acceptable once you get your learning cycle going, then we don't need to create a new ID for you.
Your charge and discharge settings appear to be fine, then. I think we first need to figure out what ID is in the gauge.
I believe I sent you the wrong gg file.
I may not have made a copy of the file with 0404 before we cycled it. But I just confirmed the ID to be 0404 with the 0008 command and I know the pack has not been disturbed since it was cycled. I exported the gg file and attached it for your review.
I am also ordering a fresh set of cells to eliminate the weak cell.
I just completed another golden cycle. The data is attached. I included two copies of the gg file. One was exported just before cycling and the other copy was exported after cycling. I used brand new 18650 cells (IFR Valance same kind as last time). The chem ID is 0404. I followed the instructions "when no close Qmax is known" in your previous post. I am using the 20z45R1 TI EVM board for the cycling.
The Max Error is still at 100%, so Qmax did not update. Please take a look at the data and see if you can see anything that might be causing the problem.
I also need to do golden cycling on the 26650 version of these cells but I haven't started that until I can resolve the issue with the 18650 version.
It looks like the issue is related to the ID. The ID isn't quite right for your cell. There is a parameter in the gauge that prevents Qmax updates if an OCV reading is taken during a portion of the voltage curve that is too flat. It helps prevent large errors in accuracy. Unfortunately this means we will need to to obtain 2 or 3 cell samples from you so we can create a new ID specific to this cell. I'll send you a friend invite so that I can give you the contact information of the person who will be doing the characterization.
Thanks Chase, I appreciate your quick response. I would think that the same would apply to the 26650 cells since they are from the same mfg.
What would be your opinion?
Would you post the invite here or send it to my email?
Did you not receive my friend request? If not, click on my screen name in one of my forum posts. There should be an Add as Friend link on the right side of the screen.
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First time visitor?
Visiting a church for the first time can be daunting - there are lots of questions, and you are probably wondering what to expect when you arrive. The one thing we try very hard to do is give everyone a warm welcome, and try to make your visit worthwhile. After all, we'd love it if you wanted to come back!
Who are we?
Christ Church consists of a wide range of different people, from all ages and different backgrounds.
Whoever you are you are assured a very warm welcome.
Where are we?
Christ Church and the Church Centre are on Chapel Road, 200 metres from the roundabout at the centre of the village. We are opposite the village Library and Carrington Junior School.
We have some on-site parking, including a number of disabled bays, but it does get quite full, so if you want a space you might need to arrive early. However, there are no parking restrictions in the neighbouring roads, although please be considerate by not parking too close to driveways and road junctions. There is also some parking in the Library and supermarket car parks.
What to wear:
This is easy… wear whatever you feel comfortable in. We accept people just as they are!
When you arrive:
If it's your first visit then it's probably best to turn up about 15 minutes before the service begins. You'll be greeted at the door by our 'Welcome Team' who will give you some information about the service and notices of forthcoming events.
What to expect:
Going anywhere for the first time can be a bit of a nerve-racking experience. To help avoid any worries here's a quick summary of what you can expect at Christ Church. Our regular style of worship is a mixture of modern and traditional with an emphasis on biblical preaching. We take a collection during our services, but as a visitor there is no obligation to give. Hopefully you'll find us a friendly bunch, and if you don't understand something please simply ask. What happens depends on what service you come to:
9.00am services are straight-forward Holy Communion with a commitment to a quieter, more traditional style and hymns. Services last about 50 minutes. Refreshments are provided at the end of the service on the first Sunday of every month.
10.30am services are more contemporary in style with a mixture of modern and older worship songs and hymns led by our Worship Group, with two communion services a month, an all-age Family Service and a non-Eucharistic morning service. We offer crèche, children and youth groups and there is an opportunity for personal prayer after the service. Refreshments are provided at the end of the service.
6.30pm are smaller services, often more intimate and quieter, with a variety of styles. Once a quarter we join together with our friends from the Methodist Church and other Christians in the village for a joint evening service.
As Christians, we believe that prayer changes things. After the 10.30am service we offer a 'Prayer Ministry Team' who will pray with you. The service leader will point out where they will be, so please do not be afraid to go and see them and ask for prayer. We also offer a more liturgical ‘Prayer for Healing’ on 1st Sunday evenings.
Is it just Sundays?
Absolutely not! We have a daily meeting place in Coffee Stop and offer mid-week services, activities and small groups. ‘Homegroups’ meet for friendship, study and prayer and are a great way to get to know others in the church and grow together.
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The data collected about website users is used only to improve the experience of website visitors.
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Written data is stored in a MySQL database hosted on a dedicated JawsDB server. Larger pieces of data (such as photographs) are stored encrypted on an Amazon Web Services cloud server. All servers are located in the European Union. Student names, email addresses and notes are encrypted with a key specific to the user that uploaded them.
When uploading class data, you must choose an expiry date for the class. When this date is reached, that class, all students within it and all seating plans associated with it will be permanently deleted.
On deletion of a user account, all data imported by that user is also deleted.
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At “Congressmen’s Wearhouse,” millionaires — not billionaires — can afford their own candidate. Candidates are available for custom-order, based on issues and stances: from open carry to denying climate change.
“All the latest styles, at prices you can afford,” promises the company’s CEO, in a perfect deadpan parody of Men’s Wearhouse former CEO George Zimmer, who has appeared in the retailer’s commercials for years.
Even better: “Congressmen’s Wearhouse” takes anything that remotely resembles money. Even Bitcoin. Boris Polanoff, who voices the ad, is part of the New York City-based Big Bad Boris.
“You’re going to like the way they vote,” he promises. “I guarantee it.”
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Beijing Dance Theatre (北京當代芭蕾舞團)
Sadler’s Wells, London; October 14, 2011
In three sections, “Haze” takes the audience on a journey that starts with figures being drawn through a dark world, through a confused and seemingly violent cityscape, to dreams of a distant future and a bright new world. If that is not a metaphor for today’s world, economically and environmentally, I’m not sure what is!
“Haze” has much to commend it in terms of atmosphere and design. The whole 75-minute piece takes place on a stage covered with springy foam that had the appearance of a bouncy mattress. It sometimes made it seem as if the dancers were in some ankle-deep morass on their journey in search of a better future. Not that the foam hindered the movement; far from it. It emphasises the lack of balance or certainty in the world and allows extra movement possibilities such as collapsing with a stock straight torso as if felled by a lumberjack’s axe.
Haze (2). Beijing Dance Theater in Haze. Photo Beijing Dance Theater.jpg [ 36.45 KiB | Viewed 1803 times ]
The scenario and staging are promising, but Artistic Director and choreographer Wang Yuanyan (王媛媛) fails to develop them. The first section (“Light”) is by far the best. The wonderful lighting that strikes through a mist glints off the dancers’ bodies and bathes the stage a golden hue. Górecki’s String Quartet No.2 adds to the sense of foreboding and mystery. The dancers form small groups and they embody their struggle through the darkness, their often slow movement packed with feeling.
It is in the middle part (“City”) that the problems start to surface. The choreography loses effect as it becomes much more literal and the dancing much less assured as the cast act out a game of tag that becomes increasingly threatening as they circle an individual. Wang seems unable or unwilling to develop or vary the movement. More and more we see the whirling arms, rolls, and huge, sweeping rond de jambes that show off the dancers’ flexibility that are so common in contemporary dance in East Asia. There is little in the way of accent or change in tempo in the dance, although it’s not helped by Biosphere’s relentless music. There is much passing of movement phrases from one to another and a great deal of repetition, not least in the way the dancers constantly fall or hurl themselves into the floor.
Haze (4). Beijing Dance Theater in Haze. Photo Beijing Dance Theater.JPG [ 32.56 KiB | Viewed 1803 times ]
The closing “Shore” that sees the dancers on an imagined shoreline is better, not least because everything is slowed down once more, which allows a sense of control to be regained. We are also back to Górecki, which helps enormously. But there is nothing new choreographically and the spell cast in those opening minutes has been broken. Until, that is, the end, when Wang presents one of the most spellbinding, yet simple, conclusions to a work I have seen in years. At first the dancers teeter on the edge of the stage, the edge of an abyss perhaps, but then, for what must be something like three minutes, they stand stock still and stare towards a future that has hope, even if it seems so far away. Once again they are bathed in golden light as it snows. It is unbelievably stark and beautiful.“Haze” continues on tour to:
Harvery Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City; Oct 19 - Oct 22
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Open the doors
· The Pope meets a group of survivors of a shipwreck last year in Lampedusa ·
“I ask all the men and women of Europe to open the doors of their hearts”. Visibly moved by the stories of the survivors of the shipwreck on the coast of Lampedusa, Sicily, last year.
Pope Francis again underlined the plight of migrants. He met with the survivors and their families on Wednesday afternoon, 1 October, in a small hall adjacent to the Paul VI Hall. The tragedy, which occurred on on 3 October 2013, claimed the lives of 368 people in the Mediterranean Sea.
Following the Holy Father's visit last year on 8 July to Lampedusa, chosen as the first visit of his Pontificate, the Bishop Rome symbolically returned to the island in Sicily receiving for half an hour about 40 Eritrean men and women, including 20 who survived the tragedy. They came to Rome from various countries in Europe where they had since been welcomed.
During the audience, one of the refugees asked for the Pope's support in the process of recognizing the still unidentified bodies. Another spoke to the Holy Father in his native language and a young girl thanked him for the various forms of aid given to migrants.
St. Peter’s Square
Sept. 22, 2018
Ecumenism of martyrs
“The ecumenism of the martyrs is a summons to us, here and now, to advance ...
What has happened to Europe's soul?
What has happened to “the Europe of humanism, the champion of human rights, democracy and ...
The mission of the poor
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Application This product has been excellent engineers carefully study design, the use of microcomputer control of optical technology, high accuracy, fast, good quality, solve the traditional tea packaging tedious process. An automatic dosers several labor equivalent amount of tea production and tea shop is a good helper. Uses: Suitable for tea, food, food, seeds, fruit, grain shape chemicals and pharmaceuticals, micro and small components such as general non-sticky solid materials.
Features 1: microcomputer control self-energy, so that more precise and accurate dispensing, fast, fully automated dispensing process. 2: The contact material parts all stainless steel, no contaminated material. 3: double shock structure, the machine is running smoothly, low noise. 4: small size, light weight. 5: minimal power, energy conservation. 6: oblique throwing feeding, do not squeeze the material damage, especially for fragile materials packaging. 7: Show Package weight and number of packages. 8: Adjustable packing speed. 9: Set weighing excessive alarm.
Technical parameters Aliquot speed :10-25 times / min 600 bags / hour (depending on materials and different aliquots weight) Scope: general particulate material Dimensions: 35 × 40 × 42cm Power supply: 220V -50HZ/110V-60HZ we default ship 220V, if you want the 110v, please notice me Power: 200W Aliquot Weight :1-50g (range of different specifications can be customized) | <urn:uuid:336d4042-b56b-4f19-b658-731f9745e308> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://www.zonesunpack.com/products/zonepack-2-200g-guantitative-machines-automatic-powder-filling-machine-medicine-wolfberry-granule-food-filling-machine | 2021-05-15T23:55:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991488.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20210515223209-20210516013209-00002.warc.gz | en | 0.858305 | 306 |
Research focus of the Smart Sensors group will be the technology challenges for designing and developing robust and accurate sensors and actuators for a variety of applications. This activity will be coordinated through endeavors in the following knowledge verticals:
- Process Technologies Group: The smart sensors development needs a number of unit processes and their integration. Often these processes need modifications/ developments on case-to-case basis. This team will focus on all such requirements and will be crucial for the final device realization.
- Nano Bio-Sensors Group: This group will focus on the design and development of technologies and devices for health care, diagnostics and environmental monitoring applications.
- Transducers and Actuators Group: CSIR-CEERI has established track record of developing and delivering various physical sensors/ actuators for strategic applications. The group will continue to cater such requirements for strategic and industrial needs.
- Optoelectronics & MOEMS Group: The team has a strong background on opto-electronic materials and devices. This group plans to focus on up-coming MOEMS devices along with new application of opto-electronics platforms.
- Flexible & Non-Silicon Electronics Group: This is an emerging area very much relevant for new wearable and low-cost devices and systems. The group will focus on technology development on flexible substrates and non-silicon materials development for next generation smart sensors and systems.
- Advanced Packaging Group: Packaging requirements for sensors and actuators is very important and crucial to realize the optimum performance of the sensors/ systems. Often these packages are customized and application dependent. The group has a track of providing such solutions and will continue to cater all such requirements of the smart sensors.
These research groups will be supported by following infrastructure support group working for facilities management
Process Operations: It is very important to keep all the process and characterization equipment in operation for the success of various sensors realization. For the timely completion of the processes, the equipment maintenance is very critical. The group will focus on the streamline operation of the entire fabrication and characterization facility. | <urn:uuid:29e69f69-340e-4abe-8b7d-d494347a174b> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://www.ceeri.res.in/hi-in/departments/smart-sensors/ | 2017-12-17T15:36:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948596115.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20171217152217-20171217174217-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.916217 | 423 |
JEDDAH opening in 2019
Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City
KUWAİT opening in 2019
Mêlant styles classique et contemporain, réunissant ainsi des visions de l'Istanbul antique et moderne.
located in the vibrant neighborhood of Bomonti, the city’s rising arts and culture center that is conveniently located near Nişantaşı and Beyoğlu. | <urn:uuid:281d6948-b598-4935-be96-f77a069570b5> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://househotels.com/fr/ | 2020-09-25T22:31:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400228998.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925213517-20200926003517-00118.warc.gz | en | 0.728095 | 93 |
HOBOKEN – In a visit to Hoboken today, Gov. Chris Christie kicked off an ongoing conversation with New Jersey families on his Reform Agenda for real, lasting property tax relief. Last week, the governor outlined a sweeping 33-bill reform package intended to solve New Jersey’s property tax crisis and control spending at every level of government. The centerpiece of the plan is Cap 2.5, a constitutional amendment creating a 2.5 percent cap on property tax increases.
Property taxes have grown an astonishing 70% over the last ten years, resulting in an average annual property tax bill of $7,281 on New Jersey families – the highest rate in the nation. Cap 2.5 aims to halt the astonishing growth in property taxes while the Christie reform agenda offers towns and school boards tools to control spending.
“It’s time that we finally put the power to control property taxes in the hands of those who are paying the bills – New Jersey’s overburdened taxpayers. Cap 2.5 and the accompanying tool kit reforms will bring the relief our families desperately need and achieve the overdue reform necessary to empower taxpayers in the Garden State,” said Christie. “The stakes couldn’t be higher for our families and future generations of New Jerseyans. By acting swiftly to adopt this needed reform, we will take an enormous and critical step towards making New Jersey more affordable again.”
Under Christie’s proposal, the property tax levy cap allows for adjustments in the event a municipality adds new ratables, and provides a single exclusion from the cap in the form of debt service payments. Current law provides for a 4% cap with at least 13 broad exclusions that render the cap virtually meaningless. This new cap is intended to force local governments to eliminate waste and inefficiencies in their own operations and enable school districts to better manage their budgets.
In 1982, Massachusetts voters approved and implemented a similar Cap 2.5 amendment. The Massachusetts model encouraged municipalities, school districts and counties to reduce annual tax increases below the 2.5 % by allowing them to “bank” the unused amount for future use. To exceed the levy cap, municipalities must have voter approval. More than 25 years later, Massachusetts went from having the 3rd highest local tax burden to 33rd highest.
The plan also calls for collective bargaining reforms that prohibit any arbitration award from exceeding the 2.5 percent cap and requires arbitrators to consider the impact on property taxes when making their decisions. Proposed changes to the civil service system would provide greater flexibility for municipal and local governments to conduct furloughs, and create options for local governments to opt out of civil service.
Christie’s reform package provides modifications in a number of other areas including employee pensions and benefits, red tape and unfunded mandates, election reform and shared services. He has also recommended a number of measures intended to assist higher education institutions in New Jersey lower costs, economize, and manage their budgets more effectively.
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Olivia Loop- Mustangs Ahead
(LAKEWOOD RANCH, FL)- The start of the second semester means seniors are this much closer to graduating. Senioritis is starting to affect many seniors as the school days get closer to graduation. LRHS seniors were asked to provide some tips to overcome senioritis.
Senior Gabbi Tomaselli said, “I just have the mindset that I worked hard for the last three and half years, so I need to finish out this year the same way. I don’t want to throw away all my hard work by being lazy, so I keep that as my motivation.”
Some seniors use different organization methods to stay on track with their goals.
Senior Hayden Springer said, “I try to stay organized by using my planner to keep track of all my assignments and that way I will not procrastinate. I keep in mind that I am going to college next school year and I want to maintain my good grades.”
Senior Hayes DuJardin said, “I generally try to set reminders on my phone for myself to get things done. Otherwise, I’ll just keep forgetting what I have to do.”
An option provided at LRHS is the ability to take classes online and be able to go off campus.
Senior Chloe Nelson said, “I chose to leave early from school so I wouldn’t have to sit in a chair for 7 hours. I have two classes online, so I feel a little more motivated to do things when it’s on my own time.”
Senior Chris Georges said, “I think the most important thing for seniors is the way they think. For example, I do my best to prioritize the most important things for me at this moment and to leave everything not related to my future for later or downtime.” | <urn:uuid:3aa424c4-5bc5-400a-8450-ad83c4614e75> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://mustangsahead.com/2020/02/04/senioritis-need-not-ruin-final-year/ | 2020-10-01T18:25:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402131986.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20201001174918-20201001204918-00547.warc.gz | en | 0.965698 | 389 |
[R6RS] ->inexact and ->exact
sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Fri May 12 13:18:09 EDT 2006
dyb at cs.indiana.edu writes:
> If we do figure out how to add identifiers that start with -> to the
> language, should we rename exact->inexact to ->inexact and inexact->exact
> to ->exact? It's always seemed funny that exact->inexact allows inexact
> inputs and inexact->exact allows exact inputs.
Fine with me. It certainly confused the Scheme 48 implementors and
users for the longest time.
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla
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For year’s tobacco shops and convenience stores have been caught selling tobacco products to minors through a decoy program. Although we had hoped selling to minors wouldn’t be an issue for the electronic cigarette industry, it is. In fact, there are many bad seeds or those just looking to make a quick buck without any attention to the law or professionalism in the way that they conduct business.
As a result, deputies from the Sheriff’s Office in San Mateo, CA., as well as officers spanning across 3 more cities in the area have teamed up to crack down with a full on sting targeting vapor shops in late March, which was a plan to expand their typical decoy program that went after those selling tobacco products to minors.
The decoys tried to purchase from 187 merchants, and only 19 were cited for selling tobacco products to a minor. A third of those attempts were made trying to purchase e-cigarettes, but only two of the 19 offenders actually sold e-liquid to a minor. Those numbers are certainly much better for vapor products, but the ultimate goal is to eliminate selling to a minor completely.
Typically, the first offense selling to a minor would result in a $100 to $300 fine, but the Sheriffs deputy claims that no one in the county has been jailed for selling vapor products to a minor. However, until Federal Regulations are in place, county prosecutors are restricted to imposing the lesser infractions. To combat this, state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, has proposed legislation that would offer stricter penalties to those who sell e-cigarettes to minors.
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Behind the Build: Concrete Foundation
An overview of the Scott Simpson Design + Build process of creating a concrete foundation for a new construction home – cement conveyor, remote control conveyor belt, concrete forms, agitation, form recycling and more!
Alright so today we’re pouring concrete at 1020 Butternut. We’re moving the concrete from these concrete trucks onto a conveyor belt up and over and they’re pouring into the actual foundation wall. So timing is everything here, there’s about $5,000 worth of concrete in that truck.
He’s lining the chute up and the guy in the orange shirt over there can control the conveyor belt from like a video game console right here on the actual site. The question is how fast can we move that concrete from that truck into those concrete walls? This conveyor belt is probably delivering 2,000 pounds of concrete every minute. If we didn’t have this conveyor belt we’d have to wheelbarrow it or shovel it. It would be much much harder. We’ve done it that way and we can do it that way this just makes it faster.
This is a concrete form – this is the backside. It’s got a steel structure that makes it strong, as the concrete puts a lot of pressure on this side. This is the inside wall, and this is the face of the concrete wall. Each one of these things comes pre-made 24 inches by 48 or whatever and we keep building the wall – it’s sort of like an erector set. They snap it all together, they make sure it’s all square, they pour concrete in the middle of it, and then they break all the little parts and pieces out that they strip this wall off. And when we’re done, there’s a standing concrete wall.
These are form ties. This is a high tensile piece of steel that they clip on either side. As the concrete drops into the wall it creates a huge amount of force on the actual concrete form work. If these guys miss these things, that concrete wall will actually unzip under the pressure and collapse. So there are guys that are constantly walking around making sure that all of these are holding or staying intact.
So, that’s the actual concrete wall formed together as they drop the concrete in they fill up the form work and then when the concrete’s cured, they can break the forms off and you’ve got a standing concrete wall.
The guy standing on top of the wall right there, the concrete goes in, he vibrates the concrete so it can spread out inside the formwork and makes a nice smooth concrete wall.
This is Wednesday we poured the concrete walls on Monday morning and so the guys are here and they’re starting to strip the formwork off the walls. So you can see these are short wall forms right here, he’s breaking them off. They split them off the wall and you can see the concrete foundation. This is the chimney. You can reuse this formwork over and over and over again, so they’ll take all these forms, pull them out of the hole, put them on the trailer and take them to the next job.
When all this framework has been removed, the last step in before we actually backfill the foundation wall is we’re going to waterproof the foundation to keep the basement really nice and dry. Once that gets done we’ll have a couple more inspections, we have a drain tile that’s going in to keep the basement dry as well. Then we get those inspections done, we backfill and then the concrete work for the foundation is done. | <urn:uuid:c65beca3-4386-4c7d-91a9-7316808f2bbb> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://scottsimpsondesignbuild.com/blog/behind-the-build-concrete-foundation/ | 2021-10-20T07:04:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585302.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20211020055136-20211020085136-00395.warc.gz | en | 0.921202 | 777 |
Here is a story of switched identities, an exotic spy, and tying up girls. It would hardly be a Wonder Woman story worth reading if it didn’t include the latter.
From Sensation Comics #40 (1945).
Here are two more Wonder Woman stories, including the last issue H. G. Peter drew, and a Wonder Woman story unpublished until it appeared in The Amazing World of DC Comics #2 in 1974. Just click on the thumbnails. | <urn:uuid:c705f318-0c40-4f6e-af9f-f0afc6c740b2> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2014/04/number-1558-what-in-ding-dong-goes-on.html | 2015-05-28T21:50:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207929656.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113209-00179-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90333 | 95 |
FalconStor CEO Resigns Under Mysterious Circumstances
Storage OEM-er FalconStor Software, which provides storage software to EMC, Oracle, Nexsan, SGI, Acer and Data Direct, among other companies, revealed in a very unclear press statement Sept. 29 that its CEO, ReiJane Huai, has resigned.
That he resigned is the only clear part.
The company then said that Huai made this decision "following his disclosure of certain alleged improper payments in connection with the company's contract with a customer."
And what the heck does that mean? Are we talking about under-the table "carrying charges?" From Huai to somebody else? From somebody else to Huai? From Huai to regulators? Was Huai paying off middlemen to obtain more business, or a former actress who had provided special services?
FalconStor Vice President and General Counsel Seth Horowitz answered eWEEK's e-mail query with a simple: "We have no comment other than what is in the press release." And that's precisely the problem, because no detail of what really happened to the chief executive of a prominent international storage company is explained.
Whatever happened, the news sent the already-suffering FalconStor stock price down as much as 34 percent -- from about $4 to $2.80, although the price did start to inch back up later in the day to around $3.20.
To help right the ship, FalconStor picked current Chief Strategy Officer James McNiel to be its interim CEO and said a special committee of the board will conduct an internal investigation.
The Melville, N.Y.-based company said it would cooperate with law enforcement authorities on the ongoing investigation, whatever it's about. | <urn:uuid:57764bf1-4403-4eaa-84b1-1205b75649b2> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.eweek.com/storage-station/falconstor-ceo-resigns-under-mysterious-circumstances.html | 2015-07-04T23:03:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096991.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00005-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961546 | 363 |
NCALM Seed. PI: Corina Cerovski-Darriau, University of Oregon. The survey consists of two separate polygons located 38 km west of Eugene Oregon in the Oregon Coast Range. Together the polygons enclose approximately 40 square km. The data were collected to investigate a possible fault triggered landslide in the densely forested Oregon Coast Range. The survey took place on August 02, 2013. | <urn:uuid:13190b65-8b46-407d-94b8-64fff6c886a1> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | http://opentopo.sdsc.edu/lidarDataset?opentopoID=OTLAS.052014.26910.4 | 2018-12-16T14:57:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376827769.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20181216143418-20181216165418-00083.warc.gz | en | 0.930764 | 83 |
Mark Zuckerberg’s innovation erupted the social media bandwagon. In fact, Facebook has been such the friendliest teacher for then-offline people to be Internet literate. Its active members are the believers and living proofs that exchange of messages and media (Video, Photos, Soundtrack) could actually be FREE, making Telecommunication Companies fear their services (Call, SMS, MMS) to be obsolete in 2 years now.
However, what if the next time you surf, the Internet could convert and organize (transfer/ purchase, withdraw, deposit) currencies “efficiently charge-less” because of ONE digital asset you started owning today?
Scam sounding? Read back the first paragraph. More over, PayPal, when introduced was deemed fraudulent too. Now, online job incentives and purchases are processed through it. One more thing, Online banking is promoted now by your banks. Only, both place whopping charges and a bit procrastinating.
Stop reading this further when you are satisfied with your dormant money in banks or strategist managed stock market ventures. Don’t even read a word more when you don’t have faith (until now) to the unknown possibilities the Technology is yet to divulge. This is about Financial world cohabiting the Internet. Their synergy!
Cryptocurrency. A currency in the Internet form. These are unique codes (algorithm) which when solved (mine) posses an intrinsic value (solution/coin). A medium of exchange which nominal value is determined by the number and rate of acquirers through the process of mining a predetermined, publicly known number of coins in a created system. It sounds too IT jargonistic but simply, these are codes with values. Values are influenced by the community who agreed to consider it as a means of exchanging resources.
So why would YOU swap a tolerable part of your money NOW to Cryptocurrency?
1. CRYPTOCURRENCY HAS COME TO ITS ERA: Bitcoin‘s success had startled the era of transactions using online currency. Since then, It served as the basis for innovations. Coins before were hard to earn due to costly equipments and highly specialized IT professionals. Before, cryptocurrency were just for the wealthy who can fund the hardware pieces and the experts who know the science of the process. Due to ONE recent innovation like making the mining process friendly to the majority, more people now are participating on this breakthrough which is changing the financial arena both online and offline, catalyzing that 2016-2020 will be the era of cryptocurrency.
2. EVOLUTION OF PAYMENTS. Years ago, we were reluctant in buying our desires through the keyboards and monitors. Now, I’m sure you know about Lazada, Ebay, and Alibaba. Reflect how you did not notice how commerce had evolved from Barter System to Paper Money to Codes with values. As learned consumers, we would then find a payment mode which would help us save by eradicating transaction charges. As learned currency organizers, we would then find a medium of transfer that doesn’t let us fall in line like ants inside the bank or wait 3-5 days to receive the much needed remittances. Digital Money solves those.
3. SAVINGS DIVERSIFICATION. There is no such investment predetermined as safe. It is always about the battle of risks and return. As that classic investment tip teaches, sparing a fraction of your savings to be converted as a digital money is just in a way allocating some of your income to a new promising investment instrument. A bit of everything.
4. BE A MILLIONAIRE. The financial science of digital money is, when you earned the coin earlier than everyone else, it is still cheaper. As the coin hopefuls increase, the chances of earning the coin lessens igniting scarcity based to the available pieces of coins programmed to be mined. When majority is still studying about this breakthrough, you are already teaching the while earning. So learn this ONE, NOW.
5. LEGACY. Just like any other will-able asset, As digital money are recorded through the block chain through unique algorithm (codes), and as the technology continues to flourish to the generation of your offspring’s offspring, digital money lets your clan remembers you. They will be thankful.
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Any principal who has engaged in the process of change will tell you that the ultimate goal is when the change becomes ingrained in school culture, and is no longer considered “new” but rather just thought of as “what we do.”
Over the last couple of years, I have started to notice that our work to implement a competency-based learning (CBL) system in our New Hampshire school district has started to reach that point in the change process. The last decade has been quite the journey, filled with many ups and downs. The transition to CBL has questioned my thinking about instructional practices and overall philosophy about education. It has tested my resolve as a school leader as I have been questioned about—and in some cases asked to defend—parts of the model to various stakeholders. Most importantly, the work has given me a great sense of satisfaction as a principal that I am positively impacting my students, my school, and the profession through work that is making a difference.
As an early adopter of this model and this work in the nation, not a week goes by that I don’t get asked by a school leader somewhere in the country if I could offer advice from my own experience making the transition as they engage in similar work in their schools. In my book Breaking With Tradition: The Shift to Competency Based Learning in PLCs at Work, my co-author Jonathan Vander Els and I take on this topic by developing a “top five” list of advice for school leaders:
- Include all stakeholders in the work.For any change, buy-in is an incredibly powerful prerequisite to have in order to sustain the work. As a school leader, you will need the buy-in and commitment from all of your school’s stakeholders, including teachers, students, parents, and community members, in order to make CBL become the culture in your school. When done correctly, it will be these stakeholders who will “teach” others how to adopt the school’s CBL culture across all aspects of the school community.
- Be a prophet of research.To engage in this work in 2018, know that you can stand on the shoulders of giants such as Thomas R. Guskey, Ken O’Connor, Douglas Reeves, and Rick Wormeli, among others. They have paved the way for you by providing decades of research to show that these systems work. There will be many in your school community who will struggle with this transition, as it breaks from the traditional school model of which they have grown accustomed. Don’t let them challenge the work with their traditional views. Be a prophet of research, and bring research into the discussion whenever possible.
- Don’t compromise the model.Too often, schools make concessions and compromises with stakeholders in the community who are not ready to accept the competency education philosophy. This can be a difficult trap for a school principal to get caught up in, particularly if a compromise seems like a way to get non-believers to support the work. Be true to the model and stay with the course; don’t let the model get watered down or misdirected by a compromise that doesn’t fit the school’s beliefs.
- Keep student learning at the center.Aren’t we all here for the kids? When doing this work, people will sometimes forget that. The hallmark of the CBL philosophy is to provide a laser-focus on student learning in ways that we have never had before. As the principal and leader of the change, you will have to constantly remind your school community of this. When teams get derailed from their work, remind them to focus on student, not adult issues. Above all, keep students at the center of all that your school does.
- Start today.There is an ancient Chinese proverb that goes something like this: “The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now.” No amount of planning will ever completely prepare your school to be successful in this journey, but you don’t have to have all of the answers before your school begins. Start your school’s journey today, even if you start slow. Doing something will be better than doing nothing. Your students deserve it. Your teachers deserve it. You deserve it.
In Dr. Richard DuFour’s book In Praise of American Educators, he writes, “Changing the traditional culture of public schools that has endured for more than a century is no easy task, but at no point in American history have the stakes for our students been greater.” I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Do you have a clear picture of what you can do as a leader to support a change like competency-based learning in your school?
Brian M. Stack is the NASSP 2017 New Hampshire Secondary School Principal of the Year. He is Principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, the author of Breaking With Tradition: The Shift to Competency Based Learning in PLCs at Work, 2018 by Solution Tree, and an expert for Understood.org. He consults with schools around the country engaged in school redesign. He lives with his wife Erica and his five children Brady, Cameron, Liam, Owen, and Zoey on the New Hampshire seacoast. You can follow Brian on Twitter @bstackbu or learn more about him by visiting his blog. | <urn:uuid:e7b70674-81c8-403f-884b-cb459794930d> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.nassp.org/2018/10/25/lessons-learned-from-a-decade-of-competency-based-learning-implementation/ | 2021-10-27T09:23:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588113.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20211027084718-20211027114718-00207.warc.gz | en | 0.973737 | 1,120 |
Energy Coop Meeting
April 22nd 7:00pm
Winslow Myers, 16 Britol Pines Road, Bristol
The Midcoast Green Energy Cooperative (the Co-op) is an informal association of Midcoast Maine residents, formed for the purpose of helping its members reduce their winter heating costs by improving the energy efficiency of their homes and converting to renewable energy use.
Longer term, members of the Co-op intend to gradually eliminate their dependence on fossil fuels. Member households commit to improve their dwellings, as rapidly as their financial situation permits, track their energy savings, and reinvest them in further energy improvements. The key is discipline on the part of members and support on the part of the Co-op. The Co-op makes it possible for member households to stay within their current heating budget, and gradually reduce heating costs, regardless of fuel price inflation.
It does this principally through community support, education, professional advice, independent, professional energy audits and assistance with implementing the audit’s recommendations. In addition the Co-op seeks out opportunities not economically available on an individual basis. One example is the development of solar photovoltaic farms which, through shared ownership, offers to households without good solar access the same advantages households with good solar access enjoy. | <urn:uuid:6f442d1a-1633-414c-bc89-ea795065446e> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | http://www.midcoastgreencollaborative.org/coop/coop.html | 2023-03-21T19:54:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943746.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321193811-20230321223811-00443.warc.gz | en | 0.958941 | 270 |
Courtois looks destined to finally join Real Madrid.
The Belgium international is keen to move to Madrid as his family are still based in the Spanish capital.
Courtois spent three seasons on loan at Real’s city rivals Atletico Madrid before establishing himself as top dog in west London.
Kepa, meanwhile, is London bound as Maurizio Sarri desperately sources a new player to don the No.1 jersey.
The Spaniard has a £72m release clause and Bilbao aren’t willing to negotiate.
He’ll fly to London tomorrow and train with the Blues on Thursday.
"It is a big gamble," Mason told Sky Sports.
"It is going to be very difficult to replace Courtois because for me he is in the top three to five 'keepers in the world.
“He has proven that over a number of years now.
"I do not see many 'keepers who can come in and replace that.
“So to now go and sign someone for an extortionate amount of money that is not proven to be one of the so-called best in the world is a big risk."
Kepa, 23, has racked up 53 appearances for Bilbao since breaking into the first-team two years ago. | <urn:uuid:3c960b78-b08f-4630-ae64-18bf6724d4d2> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-transfer-news-kepa-arrizabalaga-16876202 | 2021-07-24T08:05:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046150134.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20210724063259-20210724093259-00680.warc.gz | en | 0.96631 | 270 |
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