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\section{Introduction}
Traditionally, machine learning has been applied to areas where there are no known underlying laws that describe the observed data. For example, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been very successful in computer vision applications (see \cite{He2016,Ren2015,Krizhevsky2012} for some famous examples), even though it is unclear how the lower-dimensional manifold of ``valid'' images is parametrised. This manifold has to be discovered in a purely data-driven way by feeding the network vast amounts of data. Of course, also in this case domain specific prior knowledge is built into the structure of the network: deep CNNs are so successful since the network structure supports the hierarchical representation of higher level features and encapsulates the fact that the input images are not random, but nearby pixels are likely to have similar values. In contrast, other fields of science such as physics are governed by well known fundamental laws. There appears to be little value in applying machine learning in this case since these laws allow the construction of an exact mathematical description, which can then be translated into an algorithm for making predictions with traditional techniques from numerical analysis. However, often the dynamics of a system is only partially constrained by these underlying laws. For example, the motion of a particle in an external potential might conserve energy and angular momentum, while the exact form of the potential or the expression for the kinetic energy is still unknown and needs to be inferred from observations. In fact, a very successful approach to constructing new theories in modern physics is to write down the most general Lagrangian which is invariant under certain symmetry transformations and to then constrain the remaining parameters through a fit to experimental data. Famously, general relativity \cite{Einstein1923} is constructed by demanding that the theory is invariant under local coordinate transformations but this allows the existence of a cosmological constant which needs to be constrained by experimental evidence. In particle physics a similar method is used for the construction of Chiral Perturbation Theory \cite{Gasser1984,Scherer2003} and other effective theories for which the Lagrangian can be written as an infinite sum of terms that are invariant under certain symmetry transformations. The expansion coefficients have to be inferred from experiments.
In this work we study simpler systems arising in classical mechanics of point particles. The key idea is to represent the Lagrangian by a neural network in such a way that it exactly conserves quantities like linear and angular momentum. The weights of the network are then learned from training data which consists of trajectories that follow the true dynamics and are perturbed by random noise. While in the present paper we use synthetic training data that is obtained by integrating the exact equations of motion numerically for a set of model systems, it should be stressed that the data could also come from the observation of a real physical system. Drawing a historical analogy, our neural network can be seen as the virtual version of an astronomer who tries to derive the celestial equations of motion from observations of the planets in the night sky. In contrast to its medieval predecessors, our virtual astronomer has read Noether's paper \cite{Noether1918} and takes care not to violate fundamental physical laws such as angular momentum conservation.
\subsection{Related work}\label{sec:relatedwork}
Several approaches for solving time dependent differential with neural networks have been pursued in the literature. In \cite{Kadupitiya2022} the authors train an LSTM \cite{Hochreiter1997} based neural network to predict the solution at the next time step, given the solution at a number of $s$ previous times. Hence, this can be seen as an extension of classical linear multistep methods (see e.g. \cite{Hairer1993}) and the hope is that with a suitably trained network it is possible to substantially increase the timestep size without losing accuracy, thereby making the method more efficient than traditional methods. For Hamiltonian systems a completely different approach is pursued in \cite{Greydanus2019}: a neural network is trained to learn a scalar valued function $\mathcal{H}_{\text{NN}}(q,p)$ which approximates the true Hamiltonian $\mathcal{H}(q,p)$ as a function of the generalised coordinates $q\in\mathbb{R}^{d}$ and conjugate momenta $p\in\mathbb{R}^{d}$; here and in the following $d$ is the dimension of the dynamical system. It is well known that symplectic integrators preserve a so-called shadow Hamiltonian $\widetilde{\mathcal{H}}$, i.e. the numerical solution generated with the true Hamiltonian $H$ is the \textit{exact} solution of $\widetilde{\mathcal{H}}$. For this reason, the numerical solution approximately preserves energy. While the authors on \cite{Greydanus2019} do not exploit this since they use a non-symplectic fourth order Runge Kutta integrator, in \cite{Chen2019} it is argued that symplectic Neural Networks (SRNNs) show superior performance. SRNNs represent both the kinetic and potential energy by a neural network and then use a symplectic Verlet method \cite{Verlet1967} to propagate the solution. Instead of working in the Hamiltonian formulation, it might be more convenient to represent the Lagrangian by a neural network as in \cite{Cranmer2020}. As argued there, working in the Lagrangian framework is more flexible since the system can be formulated in \textit{any} coordinate system, not just canonical coordinates, which are often not easy to find.
The methods discussed so far only preserve some physical quantities such as the total energy. It can be shown that energy conservation directly follows from time invariance of the system, i.e. the fact that the Lagrangian does not explicitly depend on time. Noether's Theorem \cite{Noether1918} generalises this result and shows that invariance of the Lagrangian under \textit{any} infinitesimal transformation results in a corresponding conservation law. Hence, if the neural network that represents the system's Lagrangian can be constructed such that it is exactly invariant under a certain infinitesimal symmetry transformation, this will guarantee the conservation of a physical quantity. The role of symmetries in neural networks has been explored in \cite{Mattheakis2019}. The authors use so-called ``hub-neurons'' to construct a neural network which represents a symmetric function $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ that satisfies $f(x)=f(-x)$. They then show that this gives better fit to ground-truth training data which is polluted by non-symmetric noise. They use a similar technique to construct a symplectic neural network for the solution of time-dependent systems, but it is not clear whether their network is truly symplectic. The central role of symmetries is also exploited in \cite{Ling2016}. Here the aim is to use neural networks to represent closures for the Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes equations. Such a closure allows computing the shear-stress in the fluid from the non-turbulent component of the velocity field. Crucially, if the flow is isotropic, the shear stress can only depend on combinations of the velocity field which are invariant under rotations. The authors of \cite{Ling2016} achieve this by systematically constructing rotationally invariant scalars from the vector field and restricting the input of their neural network to these scalars.
\subsection{Aim of this paper}\label{sec:achievements}
In this paper we show how neural networks can be used to solve Lagrangian dynamical systems while exactly preserving physical quantities. In contrast to \cite{Mattheakis2019} we consider invariance under \textit{continuous} transformations. For this, we follow \cite{Cranmer2020} and represent the Lagrangian as a neural network $\mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}(q,\dot{q})$ which takes as input the coordinates $q$ and velocities $\dot{q}$. As in \cite{Ling2016}, the first layer of the network reduces $q,\dot{q}$ to a set of scalar variables which do not change under the symmetry transformations that correspond to the conserved quantities. Noether's Theorem then guarantees exact conservation and during training the network learns the finer details of dynamics of the system that are \textit{not} constrained by the conservation laws. Since the network has to find solutions in a smaller sub-manifold of the entire solution space, training is likely to be more efficient. The main achievements of this paper are as follows:
\begin{enumerate}
\item We show how invariance under continuous symmetries can be built into Lagrangian neural network models by passing the input through a so-called symmetry-enforcing layer; according to Noether's Theorem this leads to the exact conservation of a corresponding physical quantity.
\item To demonstrate this, we consider three example systems:
\begin{enumerate}
\item The motion of a single particle in three dimensions under the influence of a central force field, which is invariant under rotations and thus conserves angular momentum.
\item The motion of a massive particle in the rotationally invariant Schwarzschild metric, which is the relativistic pendant of the first problem. Again, three dimensional angular momentum is conserved.
\item The motion of two interacting particles in $D$-dimensional space, where the interaction potential is invariant under rotations and translations. This results in the conservation of the $D$-dimensional linear momentum vector and the $\frac{1}{2}D(D-1)$ independent components of the antisymmetric $D\times D$ angular momentum tensor.
\end{enumerate}
\item For all systems we demonstrate that the generated trajectories are more realistic and that they conserve angular momentum and (in the case of the two-particle system) linear momentum to a high degree of accuracy.
\item We further show numerically that enforcing invariance under continuous symmetry transformations makes the trajectories more stable with respect to small perturbations of the initial conditions.
\end{enumerate}
\paragraph{Structure} This paper is organised as follows: in Section \ref{sec:method} we review Noether's Theorem and explain the construction of Lagrangian neural networks that are invariant under continuous symmetry transformations. We write down the explicit form of the symmetry-enforcing input layers for the three model systems considered in this work. Numerical experiments for the model systems are described in Section \ref{sec:results}, where we present results that demonstrate the superior performance of our approach. Section \ref{sec:conclusion} contains our conclusions and ideas for future work. Some more technical details are relegated to the appendices: we discuss the construction of scalar invariants under the special orthogonal group $SO(D)$ in \ref{sec:rotationally_invariant_combinations} and present loss histories for the different neural networks in \ref{sec:loss_histories}.
\section{Methodology}\label{sec:method}
\subsection{Continuous symmetries and conservation laws}\label{sec:noether_theorem}
For completeness and further reference, we start by writing down Noether's Theorem here and refer the reader to \cite{Arnold2013} for a proof and further details.
\begin{theorem}[Noether \cite{Noether1918}]
Consider a dynamical system which is formulated on a manifold $M$ with tangent bundle $TM$; the Lagrangian of this system is a real-valued function $\mathcal{L}:TM\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. Let $h^s:M\rightarrow M$ be a family of maps parametrised with the continuous parameter $s\in\mathbb{R}$ and let $h^s_{*,q}:TM_q\rightarrow TM_{h^s(q)}$ be the local derivative which maps between the tangent bundles at $q$ and $h^s(q)$. If the Lagrangian $\mathcal{L}$ is invariant under $h^s$, i.e.
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}(h^s(q),h^s_{*,q}(\dot{q})) = \mathcal{L}(q,\dot{q})\qquad\text{for all $q,\dot{q}\in TM$},\label{eqn:L_invariance}
\end{equation}
then the following quantity is a constant of motion in the sense that $dI/dt=0$:
\begin{equation}
I = \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial \dot{q}} \frac{dh^s(q)}{ds}\Big|_{s=0}.\label{eqn:noether_conserved_I}
\end{equation}
\end{theorem}
As an example, consider a particle moving in three dimensional space $\mathbb{R}^3$ and assume that the Lagrangian is invariant under rotations, i.e. the action of the special orthogonal group $SO(3)$. In this case, $M=\mathbb{R}^3$, $TM=\mathbb{R}^3\times \mathbb{R}^3$ and the maps $h^{s}$, $h^{s}_{*,q}$ can be written as linear transformations
\begin{xalignat}{2}
h^{s}(q) &= \exp\left[s \Gamma \right]q, & h^{s}_{*,q}(v) &= \exp\left[s \Gamma \right]v
\qquad\text{for $q,v\in\mathbb{R}^3\times\mathbb{R}^3$}
\label{eqn:rotations}
\end{xalignat}
where $\Gamma$ is an element of the fundamental representation of the Lie-algebra $\mathfrak{so}(3)$ of $SO(3)$. The three matrices corresponding to rotations around the $x$-, $y$- and $z$- axis are
\begin{xalignat}{3}
\Gamma_x &= \begin{pmatrix}0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & -1\\0 & 1 & 0\\\end{pmatrix}, &
\Gamma_y &= \begin{pmatrix}0 & 0 & 1\\0 & 0 & 0\\-1 & 0 & 0\\\end{pmatrix}, &
\Gamma_z &= \begin{pmatrix}0 & -1 & 0\\1 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0\\\end{pmatrix}.
\end{xalignat}
Further, we have that
\begin{equation}
\frac{dh^{s}}{ds}\Big|_{s=0} = \Gamma q
\end{equation}
and hence there are three conserved quantities, namely
\begin{xalignat}{3}
L_x &= \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial \dot{q}_3}q_2 - \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial \dot{q}_2}q_3, &
L_y &= \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial \dot{q}_1}q_3 - \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial \dot{q}_3}q_1, &
L_z &= \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial \dot{q}_2}q_1 - \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial \dot{q}_1}q_2.
\label{eqn:conserved_L_rotational}
\end{xalignat}
For a non-relativistic particle such as the one discussed in Section \ref{sec:kepler_problem}, the kinetic energy in the Lagrangian is $\frac{m}{2}(\dot{q}_1^2+\dot{q}_2^2+\dot{q}_3^2)$ and hence $\partial L/\partial \dot{q}_j = m\dot{q}_j$. In this case, the three conserved quantities are the components of the angular momentum vector
\begin{equation}
L = m\;q \times \dot{q}.\label{eqn:angular_momentum_3d}
\end{equation}
It is worth pointing out that the quantities in Eq. \eqref{eqn:conserved_L_rotational} are conserved for more general cases, such as for the Lagrangian that governs the motion of a massive relativistic particle in the rotationally invariant Schwarzschild metric discussed in Section \ref{sec:schwarzschild_problem}.
\subsection{Neural networks with built-in conservation laws}\label{sec:nn_with_symmetries}
The central idea of this paper is as follows: we wish to construct a mapping $\Phi:\mathbb{R}^{2d}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^d$ which predicts the acceleration $\ddot{q}=\Phi(q,\dot{q})$ from the position $q$ and velocity $\dot{q}$ such that the dynamics of this system preserves certain quantities \textit{exactly}. To achieve this, we use the Lagrangian formalism and represent the Lagrangian $\mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}$ by a neural network as in \cite{Greydanus2019}. The equations of motion are obtained by finding the stationary points of the action (= the time integral of the Lagrangian) which implies that
\begin{equation}
\frac{d}{dt}\frac{\partial \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial\dot{q}} - \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial q} = 0.\label{eqn:lagrangian_stationary}
\end{equation}
Following \cite[Eq. (6)]{Cranmer2020} the acceleration can then be obtained by taking the total time derivative of Eq. \eqref{eqn:lagrangian_stationary}:
\begin{equation}
\ddot{q} = J_{\dot{q},\dot{q}}^{-T}\left( \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial q} - J^T_{q,\dot{q}}\dot{q}\right) \label{eqn:qddot_Lagrangian}
\end{equation}
where the components of the matrices $J_{q,\dot{q}}$, $J_{\dot{q},\dot{q}}$ are given by
\begin{xalignat}{2}
\left(J_{q,\dot{q}}\right)_{ij} &= \frac{\partial^2 \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial q_i \partial \dot{q}_j}, &
\left(J_{\dot{q},\dot{q}}\right)_{ij} &= \frac{\partial^2 \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial \dot{q}_i \partial \dot{q}_j}.\label{eqn:J_matrices}
\end{xalignat}
The crucial point is now that the Lagrangian is constructed such that it is exactly invariant under the symmetry transformations $h^s$ which correspond to the conserved quantities. To guarantee that $\mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}$ satisfies Eq. \eqref{eqn:L_invariance}, we write $\mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}} = D_{L} \circ D_{L-1} \circ D_1 \circ S$, where $D_\ell$ are standard, non-linear dense layers. The symmetry-enforcing first layer $S:\mathbb{R}^{2d}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{M}$ is a function that combines the inputs $q,\dot{q}$ into a set of $M$ invariants such that
\begin{equation}
S_m(h^s(q),h^s_{*,q}(\dot{q})) = S_m(q,\dot{q})\qquad\text{for $m=1,2,\dots,M$}.\label{eqn:S_invariance}
\end{equation}
For example, if we consider a three-dimensional system which is invariant under the rotations in Eq. \eqref{eqn:rotations}, then the simplest three invariants that can be constructed from the position $q$ and the velocity $\dot{q}$ are $S_1(q,\dot{q})=q^2$, $S_2(q,\dot{q})=\dot{q}^2$ and $S_3(q,\dot{q})=q\cdot \dot{q}$.
The structure of the entire function $\Phi$ is shown in Fig. \ref{fig:nn_architecture}. Removing the symmetry-enforcing layer $S$ results in the standard architecture already introduced in \cite{Greydanus2019}. The explicit form of symmetry-enforcing layers for specific systems is discussed in Section \ref{sec:model_systems}.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{.//network_architecture.pdf}
\caption{Structure of the function $\Phi$ which maps the inputs $q,\dot{q}$ to the predicted acceleration $\ddot{q}=\Phi(q,\dot{q})$. The symmetry-enforcing layers $T$, $R$ and $R\circ T$ for the specific systems studied in this work are discussed in the main text. A network without any symmetry constraints can be obtained by removing $S$, as represented by an undecorated downward arrow $\downarrow$.}
\label{fig:nn_architecture}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
The weights of the dense layers $D_\ell$ are learned by training the neural network on measurements of the physical system. As already pointed out above, the training data could consist of (noisy) observations of a real physical system. However, to demonstrate the principle and to not be restricted by a lack of training data, here we use synthetic, simulated data instead. More specifically, we compare the output of the neural network $\Phi_{\text{NN}}$ to (noisy) ground truth data. The ground truth predictions $\widehat{y}$ are generated by adding random noise to the true acceleration $\ddot{q} = \Phi_{\text{true}}(q,\dot{q})$ for some choice of $q$, $\dot{q}$; the function $\Phi_{\text{true}}$ is obtained by replacing $\mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}$ with the true Lagrangian $\mathcal{L}_{\text{true}}$ in Eqs. \eqref{eqn:qddot_Lagrangian} and \eqref{eqn:J_matrices}. For each prediction $\widehat{y}$ the input $X$ of the neural network is obtained by also perturbing the corresponding $q,\dot{q}$ with random noise, thus simulating measurement errors for a real physical system.
During training we minimise the standard mean square error (MSE) loss function, which can be written as
\begin{equation}
\text{Loss}\left(\{X^{(j)},\widehat{y}^{(j)}\}_{j=1}^{N}\right) = \frac{1}{N}\sum_{j=1}^{N}\left(\Phi(X^{(j)})-\widehat{y}^{(j)}\right)^2\label{eqn:MSE_loss}
\end{equation}
for a set of $N$ training samples $(X^{(1)},\widehat{y}^{(1)}),(X^{(2)},\widehat{y}^{(2)}),\dots,(X^{(N)},\widehat{y}^{(N)})$ with $X^{(j)}:=(q^{(j)}+\nu_1^{(j)},\dot{q}^{(j)}+\nu_2^{(j)})$ and $\widehat{y}^{(j)}=\ddot{q}^{(j)}+\nu_3^{(j)}$ where $\nu_i^{(j)}$ represents the random noise on the data.
\subsection{Model systems}\label{sec:model_systems}
We now discuss the three physical model systems, their symmetries and the corresponding conserved quantities in more detail.
\subsubsection{Motion of single particle in a gravitational potential}
\label{sec:kepler_problem}
First, we consider the dynamics of a particle of mass $m$ moving in a central force field with a potential energy that is inversely proportional to the distance from the origin. The true Lagrangian is
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_{\text{true}}(q,\dot{q}) = \frac{m}{2}\dot{q}^2 + \frac{\alpha}{|q|}
\qquad\text{with $q,\dot{q}\in\mathbb{R}^3$}
\label{eqn:true_lagrangian_single_particle}
\end{equation}
for some positive constant $\alpha>0$. It is well known that for negative total energy $E=\frac{m}{2}\dot{q}^2-\alpha/|q|<0$ the trajectory is an ellipse where the origin of the coordinate system coincides with one focal point. Kepler studied this kind of motion in the solar system and derived three laws from observations, without knowing the analytical relationship between position, velocity and acceleration. The Lagrangian in Eq. \eqref{eqn:true_lagrangian_single_particle} is invariant under the rotations in Eq. \eqref{eqn:rotations}, which leads to the conservation of the vector-valued angular momentum $L$ in Eq. \eqref{eqn:angular_momentum_3d}. As a consequence, the entire trajectory lies in the plane spanned by the initial position $q(0)$ and initial velocity $\dot{q}(0)$; this plane is orthogonal to the vector $L$.
Our objective is to learn the neural network Lagrangian $\mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}(q,\dot{q})$ and hence the relationship between $q$, $\dot{q}$ and $\ddot{q}$ from data under the assumption that the dynamics is invariant under the action of the special orthogonal group $SO(3)$. To achieve this, recall that the simplest invariant scalars that can be constructed from position $q\in\mathbb{R}^3$ and velocity $\dot{q}\in\mathbb{R}^3$ are $q^2$, $\dot{q}^2$ and $q\cdot\dot{q}$. Hence, the symmetry-enforcing layer $S$ in Fig. \ref{fig:nn_architecture} should take as input $q$ and $\dot{q}$ and output these three invariant quantities; in the following we denote this layer as $R$ (for ``rotationally invariant''), see Fig. \ref{fig:rotational_invariant_layer_3d}.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{.//symmetry_enforcing_layer_3d.pdf}
\caption{Layer $R$ enforcing invariance under the group $SO(3)$ of rotations for a single particle moving in three dimensional space as discussed in Section \ref{sec:kepler_problem}.}
\label{fig:rotational_invariant_layer_3d}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
Adopting the Einstein sum convention of summing over pairs of identical upper and lower indices, the three quantities that are conserved for the dynamics generated with neural network Lagrangian $\mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}$ can be written as
\begin{equation}
L^{(\rho)}_{\text{NN}} = \varepsilon^{\rho\sigma\tau} q_\sigma\frac{\partial \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial \dot{q}_\tau}
\label{eqn:angular_momentum_NN}
\end{equation}
where $\varepsilon$ is the three-dimensional Levi Civita symbol defined in Eq. \eqref{eqn:levi_civita_definition}. We stress that by construction the angular momenta in Eq. \eqref{eqn:angular_momentum_NN} are \textit{exactly} conserved, independent of the weights of the neural network.
The quantity $L^{(\rho)}_{\text{NN}}$ can be likened to the shadow Hamiltonian, which is conserved for symplectic integrators of time-independent Hamiltonian systems. For the true Lagrangian in Eq. \eqref{eqn:true_lagrangian_single_particle} the ``neural network'' angular momentum $L^{(\rho)}_{\text{NN}}$ reduces to the three components of the ``true'' angular momentum vector in Eq. \eqref{eqn:angular_momentum_3d}, namely
\begin{equation}
L^{(\rho)}_{\text{true}} = m \varepsilon^{\rho\sigma\tau} q_\sigma\dot{q}_\tau.
\label{eqn:angular_momentum_true}
\end{equation}
For future reference we combine the quantities defined in Eqs. \eqref{eqn:angular_momentum_NN} and \eqref{eqn:angular_momentum_true} into two vectors:
\begin{xalignat}{2}
L_{\text{NN}} &= \left(L_{\text{NN}}^{(1)},L_{\text{NN}}^{(2)},L_{\text{NN}}^{(3)}\right),&
L_{\text{true}} &= \left(L_{\text{true}}^{(1)},L_{\text{true}}^{(2)},L_{\text{true}}^{(3)}\right).\label{eqn:angular_momentum_kepler_vector}
\end{xalignat}
\subsubsection{Motion of a massive relativistic particle in the Schwarzschild metric}\label{sec:schwarzschild_problem}
Next, we consider the motion of a massive particle in the Schwarzschild metric \cite{Schwarzschild1916,Droste1917}, which is the relativistic equivalent to the Kepler problem in Section \ref{sec:kepler_problem}. With the space-time dependent metric tensor $g(q)$ the Lagrangian can be written as\footnote{The geodesic line element is $ds=\sqrt{g_{\mu\nu}dq^\mu dq^\nu}$, which would imply that the Lagrangian is $ds/dt=\sqrt{g_{\mu\nu}(q)\dot{q}^\mu \dot{q}^\nu}$. However, since the square root is a monotonous function, the Lagrangian in Eq. \eqref{eqn:schwarzschild_lagrangian} has the same stationary points and thus generates the same dynamics.}
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L} = g_{\mu\nu}(q)\dot{q}^\mu \dot{q}^\nu \qquad \text{for $\mu,\nu=1,2,3,4$},\label{eqn:schwarzschild_lagrangian}
\end{equation}
where $q^\mu$ are the components of the four-dimensional contravariant time-position vector $q=(x,\tau)=(x_1,x_2,x_3,\tau)$. $\dot{q}^\mu = dq^\mu/dt$ denotes the derivative with respect to the eigen-time $t$ experienced by a moving observer and $\tau$ is the time measured by a static observer far away from the origin, where $g \rightarrow \operatorname{diag}{(+1,+1,+1,-1)}$ tends to the constant metric of flat space-time.
Expressing the spatial coordinate $x$ in spherical coordinates, the true Lagrangian in Eq. \eqref{eqn:schwarzschild_lagrangian} can be written as
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_{\text{true}} = -\left(1-\frac{r_s}{r}\right)\dot{\tau}^2 + \left(1-\frac{r_s}{r}\right)^{-1}\dot{r}^2 + r^2\left(\dot{\theta}^2 + \sin^2(\theta)\dot{\varphi}^2\right) \label{eqn:schwarzschild_lagrangian_II}
\end{equation}
where $r_s$ is the Schwarzschild radius and $r=|x|$ is the distance from the origin. It is easy to see\footnote{Observe that $r^2\left( \dot{\theta}^2 + \sin^2(\theta)\dot{\varphi}^2\right) = \dot{x}^2 - (x\cdot\dot{x})^2/x^2$.} that Eq. \eqref{eqn:schwarzschild_lagrangian_II} is invariant under rotations in three dimensional space and can be expressed entirely in terms of the three scalars $x^2$, $\dot{x}^2$, $x\cdot\dot{x}$ and the time derivative $\dot{\tau}$. As a consequence, the dynamics conserves the (specific) three-dimensional angular momentum which turns out to be
\begin{equation}
L = x\times \dot{x}.
\end{equation}
Note that this expression differs from the one in Eq. \eqref{eqn:angular_momentum_3d} only through scaling by the (constant) mass $m$. In analogy to Eq. \eqref{eqn:angular_momentum_true} we can also write down the three components of the angular momentum vector as
\begin{equation}
L^{(\rho)}_{\text{true}} = \varepsilon^{\rho\sigma\tau} x_\sigma\dot{x}_\tau.
\label{eqn:relativistic_angular_momentum_true}
\end{equation}
Again, we want to learn the Lagrangian $\mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}(q,\dot{q})$ which is represented by a neural network. We drop the dependency on $\tau$, since we found that including it leads to instabilities during training. The reason for this is that for the true solution $\tau$ grows (approximately linearly) with time. While the neural network will learn that the coefficient that multiplies $\tau$ in the Lagrangian is small, it will always remain non-zero, thus leading to a large, unphysical contribution for $\tau\gg 1$. Note that dropping $\tau$ from the inputs is consistent with the true Lagrangian in Eq. \eqref{eqn:schwarzschild_lagrangian_II}, which only depends on $\dot{\tau}$ but not the $\tau$ itself. The symmetry enforcing layer takes as input the two vectors $q,\dot{q}\in\mathbb{R}^4$ and it will return the four scalars $\dot{\tau}$, $x^2$, $\dot{x}^2$ and $x\cdot\dot{x}$, as shown in Fig. \ref{fig:rotational_invariant_layer_schwarzschild}.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.375\linewidth]{.//symmetry_enforcing_layer_schwarzschild.pdf}
\caption{Layer $R$ enforcing rotational invariance of the spatial part of the Schwarzschild problem discussed in Section \ref{sec:schwarzschild_problem}.}
\label{fig:rotational_invariant_layer_schwarzschild}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
With this symmetry enforcing layer the dynamics generated by the neural network Lagrangian conserves the three quantities
\begin{equation}
L^{(\rho)}_{\text{NN}} = \varepsilon^{\rho\sigma\tau}x_\sigma\frac{\partial \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial \dot{x}_\tau}
\qquad\text{for $\rho=1,2,3$}\label{eqn:relativistic_angular_momentum_NN}
\end{equation}
exactly.
\subsubsection{Two interacting particles in $D$ dimensions}\label{sec:two_particle_problem}
Finally, we consider a system of two non-relativistic particles with masses $m_1$ and $m_2$ that move in $D$-dimensional space and interact via a potential that is invariant under translations and rotations. Setting $d=2D$, the $d$-dimensional state vector $q=(x^{(1)},x^{(2)})\in\mathbb{R}^d$ contains the two particle positions $x_1,x_2\in\mathbb{R}^D$ with corresponding velocities $\dot{x}^{(2)},\dot{x}^{(2)}\in\mathbb{R}^D$. The true Lagrangian is
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_{\text{true}}(q,\dot{q}) = \mathcal{L}_{\text{true}}(x^{(1)},x^{(2)},\dot{x}^{(1)},\dot{x}^{(2)})
= \frac{m_1}{2}||\dot{x}^{(1)}||_2^2 + \frac{m_2}{2}||\dot{x}^{(1)}||_2^2 - V(||x^{(1)}-x^{(2)}||_2)\label{eqn:true_lagrangian_two_particle}
\end{equation}
with the interaction potential $V(r)$ given by the double-well function
\begin{equation}
V(r) = \frac{\mu}{2}r^2 - \frac{\kappa}{4}r^4\label{eqn:double_well}
\end{equation}
for some positive constants $\mu,\kappa>0$. As usual, $||\cdot||_2$ denotes the Euclidean two-norm
\begin{equation}
||z||_2 := \left(\sum_{j=1}^{D}z_j^2\right)^{1/2}\qquad\text{for $\in\mathbb{R}^D$}.
\end{equation}
Again, the goal is to learn the neural network Lagrangian
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}(q,\dot{q}) = \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}(x^{(1)},x^{(2)},\dot{x}^{(1)},\dot{x}^{(2)})
\label{eqn:nn_lagrangian_two_particle}
\end{equation}
which approximates the dynamics of the system, while taking into a account the symmetries of the problem. Although $\mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}$ in Eq. \eqref{eqn:nn_lagrangian_two_particle} depends on $4D$ unknowns, it can be restricted considerably by assuming that the system is invariant under translations and/or rotations. For this, we consider the following two continuous transformations of the entire system:
\begin{description}
\item[Translations] $h^s_T$ with a constant vector $\Delta\in\mathbb{R}^D$
\begin{equation}
h^s_T: q = (x^{(1)}, x^{(2)})\mapsto (x^{(1)}+s\Delta,x^{(2)}+s\Delta)
\end{equation}
\item[Rotations] $h^s_R$ with a constant rotation matrix $R=\exp[s\Gamma]\in SO(D)$
\begin{equation}
h^s_R: q = (x^{(1)}, x^{(2)})\mapsto (R(s)x^{(1)},R(s)x^{(2)}),
\end{equation}
where the antisymmetric $D\times D$ matrix $\Gamma$ belongs to the fundamental representation of the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{so}(D)$ of the special orthogonal group $SO(D)$.
\end{description}
Assuming that the physics of the system is invariant under translations and/or rotations dramatically restricts the possible form of the Lagrangian $\mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}$. For example, for a rotationally invariant (but not necessarily translationally invariant) system the Lagrangian can only depend on dot-products of pairs of the four dynamical variables $x^{(1)},x^{(2)},\dot{x}^{(1)},\dot{x}^{(2)}\in\mathbb{R}^D$ and contractions of these variables with the antisymmetric Levi-Civita symbol $\varepsilon$ in $D$ dimensions. More generally, for a set of $n$ vectors $A=\{a^{(1)},a^{(2)},\dots,a^{(n)}\}$ with $a^{(j)}\in\mathbb{R}^D$ we denote by $\mathscr{R}(A)$ the set of all rotationally invariant scalars; a detailed discussion of the construction of this set can be found in \ref{sec:rotationally_invariant_combinations}. For example we have for the three vectors $u,v,w\in\mathbb{R}^3$:
\begin{equation}
\mathscr{R}(\{u,v,w\}) = \{u^2,v^2,w^2,u\cdot v,u\cdot w,v\cdot w,u\cdot(v\times w)\}
\end{equation}
since there are six different scalar products and
\begin{equation}\varepsilon^{ijk}u_iv_jw_k = u\cdot (v\times w)
\end{equation}
is the only non-vanishing contraction with the three-dimensional Levi-Civita symbol in this case.
With this notation, the set of scalar invariants that are output by the symmetry-enforcing layer $S$ can be written down as in Tab. \ref{tab:lagrangian_restrictions}.
\begin{table}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|cc|c|c|}
\hline
& & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{rotationally invariant?} \\
& & no & yes \\
\hline
translationally & no & $\{x^{(1)},x^{(2)},\dot{x}^{(1)},\dot{x}^{(2)}\}$ & $R(q,\dot{q}) = \mathscr{R}(\{x^{(1)},x^{(2)},\dot{x}^{(1)},\dot{x}^{(2)}\})$ \\
\cline{2-4}
invariant? & yes & $T(q,\dot{q}) = \{x^{(1)}-x^{(2)},\dot{x}^{(1)},\dot{x}^{(2)}\}$ &
$(R\circ T)(q,\dot{q}) = \mathscr{R}(\{x^{(1)}-x^{(2)},\dot{x}^{(1)},\dot{x}^{(2)}\})$ \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Output of the symmetry-enforcing layer $S$.}
\label{tab:lagrangian_restrictions}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{.//symmetry_enforcing_layers.pdf}
\caption{Pictorial representation of the symmetry enforcing layers.}
\label{fig:symmetry_enforcing_layers}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
While the most general Lagrangian is a function of $4D$ unknowns, translational invariance reduces it to a function which only depends on $3D$ variables. A Lagrangian which is invariant under rotations (but not necessarily translations) depends on $10+{4\choose D}$ unknowns; assuming both translational and rotational invariance reduces this further to only $6+{3\choose D}$ variables.
To derive the conserved quantities according to Eq. \eqref{eqn:noether_conserved_I}, observe that the $D$ generators of the translation group are the vectors $\Delta^{(\alpha)}\in\mathbb{R}^D$ with components
\begin{equation}
\Delta^{(\alpha)}_j = \delta_{\alpha j}=\begin{cases}
1 & \text{if $\alpha=j$} \\
0 & \text{otherwise}
\end{cases}
\qquad\text{for $1\le\alpha\le D$}
\end{equation}
where $\delta_{jk}$ is the Kronecker-$\delta$. The $\frac{1}{2}D(D-1)$ generators $\Gamma^{(\rho,\sigma)}$ of the rotation group are the antisymmetric $D\times D$ matrices with entries
\begin{equation}
\Gamma^{(\rho,\sigma)}_{jk} = \delta_{\rho j}\delta_{\sigma k} - \delta_{\rho k}\delta_{\sigma j}\qquad\text{for $1\le\rho<\sigma\le D$}.
\end{equation}
Using Noether's Theorem, this leads to the following $\frac{1}{2}D(D+1)$ conserved quantities $M^{(\alpha)}_{\text{NN}}$ and $J^{(\rho,\sigma)}_{\text{NN}}$:
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
M^{(\alpha)}_{\text{NN}} & = \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial \dot{x}^{(1)}_\alpha} + \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial \dot{x}^{(2)}_\alpha}\qquad\text{for $1\le\alpha\le D$}, \\
L^{(\rho,\sigma)}_{\text{NN}} & = \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial \dot{x}^{(1)}_\rho} x_\sigma^{(1)}-\frac{\partial \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial \dot{x}^{(1)}_\sigma} x_\rho^{(1)} + \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial \dot{x}^{(2)}_\rho} x_\sigma^{(2)}-\frac{\partial \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial \dot{x}^{(2)}_\sigma} x_\rho^{(2)}\qquad\text{for $1\le\rho < \sigma\le D$}.
\end{aligned}
\label{eqn:two_particle_NN_momenta}
\end{equation}
For the true Lagrangian in Eq. \eqref{eqn:true_lagrangian_two_particle} this simplifies to the usual linear momenta $M^{(\alpha)}_{\text{true}}$ and (generalised) angular momenta $L^{(\rho,\sigma)}_{\text{true}}$ with
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
M^{(\alpha)}_{\text{true}} & = m_1\dot{x}^{(1)}_\alpha + m_2\dot{x}^{(2)}_\alpha\qquad\text{for $1\le\alpha\le D$}, \\
L^{(\rho,\sigma)}_{\text{true}} & = m_1\left(\dot{x}^{(1)}_\rho x_\sigma^{(1)}-\dot{x}^{(1)}_\sigma x_\rho^{(1)}\right) + m_2\left(\dot{x}^{(2)}_\rho x_\sigma^{(2)}-\dot{x}^{(2)}_\sigma x_\rho^{(2)}\right)\qquad\text{for $1\le\rho < \sigma\le D$}.
\end{aligned}\label{eqn:momentum_true_twoparticle}
\end{equation}
For future reference we collect the conserved quantities in the following vectors
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
M_{\text{NN}} & = \left(M_{\text{NN}}^{(1)},M_{\text{NN}}^{(2)},\dots,M_{\text{NN}}^{(D)}\right)^T\in\mathbb{R}^D, \\
L_{\text{NN}} & = \left(L_{\text{NN}}^{(1,2)},L_{\text{NN}}^{(1,3)},\dots,M_{\text{NN}}^{(D-1,D)}\right)^T\in\mathbb{R}^{\frac{1}{2}D(D-1)}, \\
M_{\text{true}} & = \left(M_{\text{true}}^{(1)},M_{\text{true}}^{(2)},\dots,M_{\text{true}}^{(D)}\right)^T\in\mathbb{R}^D, \\
L_{\text{true}} & = \left(L_{\text{true}}^{(1,2)},L_{\text{true}}^{(1,3)},\dots,M_{\text{true}}^{(D-1,D)}\right)^T\in\mathbb{R}^{\frac{1}{2}D(D-1)}.
\end{aligned}
\label{eqn:two_particle_momentum_vectors}
\end{equation}
\section{Results}\label{sec:results}
\subsection{Implementation and hyperparameters}\label{sec:implementation}
The code that was used to obtain the numerical results reported in this section has been implemented in tensorflow \cite{Tensorflow2015} and is freely available at the following URL, which also contains instructions on how to install and run the code:
\begin{center}
\url{https://github.com/eikehmueller/mlconservation_code}
\end{center}
The results reported in this paper were generated with the release published at \cite{code_release}. In all cases the Lagrangian is represented by two hidden dense layers $D_1$, $D_2$ with $n_{\text{h}}=128$ output units each and a final dense layer $D_3$ with a single output unit. This unit does not have a bias term since adding a constant to the Lagrangian does not change the equations of motion. A softplus activation function is used in all cases. The layer weights are initialised with a random normal distribution similarly to \cite{Greydanus2019}: the standard deviation of the normal distribution is set to $2/\sqrt{n_{\text{h}}}$ for the first hidden layer $D_1$, $1/\sqrt{n_{\text{h}}}$ for the second hidden layer $D_2$ and $\sqrt{n_{\text{h}}}$ for the output layer $D_3$; the biases of all layers are initialised to zero. Single precision arithmetic is used in all numerical experiments.
For all three systems discussed in Section \ref{sec:model_systems} the networks are trained over 2500 epochs with 100 steps per epoch and a batch size of $B=128$ using the Adam optimiser. The training schedule is a cosine decay, starting with a learning rate of $10^{-3}$ which is reduced to $10^{-5}$ at the end of the training cycle. We find that this reduces the MSE to $10^{-5}-10^{-6}$ for the single-particle problem described in Section \ref{sec:kepler_problem}, to $10^{-6}$ for the relativistic particle in Section \ref{sec:schwarzschild_problem} and to approximately $10^{-4}$ for the two-particle system in Section \ref{sec:two_particle_problem}. This is consistent with the chosen random noise on the training data, which is $\sigma=10^{-3}$ in all cases and therefore limits the minimal achievable MSE to the order of $\sigma^2\sim 10^{-6}$. The full loss histories can be found in \ref{sec:loss_histories}.
\subsubsection{Motion of a single particle in a gravitational potential}\label{sec:results_single_particle}
Both the mass of the particle and the strength of the gravitational potential in Eq. \eqref{eqn:true_lagrangian_single_particle} are set to $m=\alpha=1$. To train the model, we generate pairs of inputs $X^{(j)} = (q_{\text{exact}}(\varphi^{(j)})+\sigma \xi_1^{(j)},\dot{q}_{\text{exact}}(\varphi^{(j)})+\sigma\xi_2^{(j)})\in\mathbb{R}^6$ and ground truth $\widehat{y}^{(j)} = \ddot{q}_{\text{exact}}(\varphi^{(j)})+\sigma\xi_3^{(j)}\in\mathbb{R}^3$ where $q_{\text{true}}(\varphi)$ is the exact solution as a function of the angle azimuthal angle $\varphi$. The size of the noise is characterised by $\sigma=10^{-3}$ as discussed above. The angles $\varphi^{(j)}\sim\text{Uniform}(-\pi,+\pi)$ are uniformly distributed while $\xi^{(j)}_{1,2,3}\sim\mathcal{N}(0,1)$ are drawn from a normal distribution with mean zero and unit variance. We assume that the motion takes place entirely in the $x-y$ plane and the true trajectory is an ellipse with eccentricity $\varepsilon_{\text{ecc}}=0.8$. The initial conditions are chosen such that the vertical component of the angular momentum is $L_z=1$.
Fig. \ref{fig:trajectories_kepler} shows the trajectories predicted with the trained neural network Lagrangian. The equations of motion are integrated up to the final time $T=128$ with a fourth order Runge Kutta (RK4) method and a timestep size of $\Delta t=10^{-2}$. The figure also shows a trajectory for which both initial position and initial velocity are perturbed by normal random noise with a standard deviation of $10^{-3}$. As can be seen from the top figure, the trajectory obtained with the neural network Lagrangian deviates significantly from the true solution (the red ellipse) for the unconstrained Lagrangian and the two trajectories with perturbed initial conditions diverge. In fact, the neural network trajectories become unstable. Radically different behaviour is observed for the neural network with built-in rotational invariance (bottom plot in Fig. \ref{fig:trajectories_kepler}). Visually the trajectories obtained with the neural network Lagrangian can not be distinguished from the true solution. In particular, the trajectories appear to be confined to the $x-y$ plane, which implies that the two corresponding components of the angular momentum indeed remain close to zero.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{.//trajectories_kepler.pdf}\\
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{.//trajectories_kepler_rot.pdf}
\caption{Trajectories for the motion of a particle in a gravitational potential described in Section \ref{sec:kepler_problem} without (top) and with (bottom) constraints on the neural network to enforce rotational invariance of the Lagrangian. In each case, a trajectory that is obtained by perturbing the initial conditions by $\sim10^{-3}$ is also shown as a dashed curve. The ellipse that represents the true solution is marked with red dots.}
\label{fig:trajectories_kepler}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
To investigate the conservation of angular momentum further, we compute the time evolution of the deviation of the angular momentum from its original value. For this we consider the deviation
\begin{xalignat}{2}
\delta L_{\text{NN}}(t) & = \frac{\left|\left|L_{\text{NN}}(t)-L_{\text{NN}}(0)\right|\right|_2}{\left|\left|L_{\text{NN}}(0)\right|\right|_2}, &
\delta L_{\text{true}}(t) & =\frac{\left|\left|L_{\text{true}}(t)-L_{\text{true}}(0)\right|\right|_2}{\left|\left|L_{\text{true}}(0)\right|\right|_2}.
\label{eqn:deltaL_definition}
\end{xalignat}
of the angular momentum vectors defined by Eqs. \eqref{eqn:angular_momentum_NN}, \eqref{eqn:angular_momentum_true} and \eqref{eqn:angular_momentum_kepler_vector} from their initial values at time $t=0$. Exact conservation of angular momentum would correspond to $\delta L_{\text{true}}(t) = 0$ for all times $t$. As Fig. \ref{fig:conservation_kepler} (top) shows, for the unconstrained network $\delta L_{\text{true}}(t)$ is small initially, since the network has learned some degree of angular momentum conservation from the data, but then increases to around $1$ by time $t\approx 50$ and diverges shortly after that. As expected, for the rotationally invariant network shown in the bottom figure $\delta L_{\text{NN}}(t)$ remains zero within single precision rounding errors. More importantly, for the rotationally invariant neural network the deviation $\delta L_{\text{true}}(t)$ of the true angular momentum never exceeds $10^{-3}$. Hence, even though mathematically only the conservation of $L_{\text{NN}}$ can be guaranteed, numerically this appears to also help with the conservation of $L_{\text{true}}$. This behaviour is similar to the approximate conservation of the true energy observed for symplectic integrators of time-independent Hamiltonian systems, which is related to the exact conservation of the shadow Hamiltonian.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{.//invariants_kepler.pdf}
\caption{Conservation of angular momentum for the motion of a particle in a gravitational potential defined in Section \ref{sec:kepler_problem} without (top) and with (bottom) constraints on the neural network to enforce rotational invariance of the Lagrangian. In each case the deviation $\delta L_{\text{NN}}(t)$ and $\delta L_{\text{true}}(t)$ of the absolute value of the total three dimensional angular momentum vectors are shown as a function of time. Both the ``neural network'' angular momentum $L_{\text{NN}}(t)$ defined in Eq. \eqref{eqn:angular_momentum_NN} and the true angular momentum $L_{\text{true}}(t)$ defined in Eq. \eqref{eqn:angular_momentum_true} are considered.}
\label{fig:conservation_kepler}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
Finally, in Fig. \ref{fig:pertubation_kepler} we show the distance $\delta q_{\text{NN}}(t) = ||q_{\text{NN}}(t)-q_{\text{NN}}^{(\text{perturbed})}(t)||_2$ between the position vectors of the two neural network trajectories that only differ by a $\sim10^{-3}$ perturbation of the initial condition. While -- as expected -- the trajectories diverge over time, for the rotationally invariant neural network they stay much closer together and for the considered time interval their distance stays below $0.1$. Intuitively, the reason for this is that rotational invariance limits the allowed trajectories to a smaller sub-manifold, so there is less ``room'' for nearby trajectories to diverge.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{.//perturbation_kepler.pdf}
\caption{Evolution of the distance $\delta q_{\text{NN}}(t)= ||q_{\text{NN}}(t)-q_{\text{NN}}^{\text{(perturbed)}}(t)||_2$ between two trajectories obtained with slightly different initial conditions for the Kepler problem. The initial conditions that differ by $\delta q_{\text{NN}}(0)\sim 10^{-3}$.}
\label{fig:pertubation_kepler}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
\subsubsection{Motion of a massive relativistic particle in the Schwarzschild metric}
For the motion<|fim_middle|> laid out in Tab. \ref{tab:lagrangian_restrictions}. In each case, both the true trajectories (dashed lines) and those obtained with the neural network Lagrangian (solid lines) are shown for the two particles. The starting positions are denoted with a star ($\medblackstar$) and the final positions are marked by circles ($\medblackcircle$/$\medcircle$). The figures shows a projection on the first two coordinates of four dimensional space.}
\label{fig:trajectories_two_particle}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
To quantify the conservation of the linear- and angular momentum, we again plot the time evolution of $\delta L_{\text{NN}}(t)$ and $\delta L_{\text{true}}$ as defined in Eq. \eqref{eqn:deltaL_definition}, but now with $L_{\text{NN}}$ and $L_{\text{true}}$ being the six-dimensional vectors defined in Eq. \eqref{eqn:two_particle_momentum_vectors}. In analogy to Eq. \eqref{eqn:deltaL_definition}, we define the time dependent deviation of the linear momentum as
\begin{xalignat}{2}
\delta M_{\text{NN}}(t) & =\frac{\left|\left|M_{\text{NN}}(t)-M_{\text{NN}}(0)\right|\right|_2}{\left|\left||\widetilde{M}_{\text{NN}}(0)\right|\right|_2}, &
\delta M_{\text{true}}(t) & =\frac{\left|\left|M_{\text{true}}(t)-M_{\text{true}}(0)\right|\right|_2}{\left|\left|\widetilde{M}_{\text{true}}(0)\right|\right|_2}.
\end{xalignat}
where $M_{\text{NN}}$ and $M_{\text{true}}$ are the four-dimensional linear momentum vectors given in Eq. \eqref{eqn:two_particle_momentum_vectors}. Since the initial conditions are chosen such that the total linear momentum is zero, we cannot normalise by $\left|\left|M_{\text{NN}}(0)\right|\right|_2$ and $\left|\left|M_{\text{true}}(0)\right|\right|_2$ but instead divide by the two-norm of the linear momentum of the first particle defined as
\begin{xalignat}{2}
\widetilde{M}_{\text{NN}} &= \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}_{\text{NN}}}{\partial \dot{x}^{(1)}}, &
\widetilde{M}_{\text{true}} &= m^{(1)}\dot{x}^{(1)}.
\end{xalignat}
While the unconstrained network is able to learn the conservation of $L_{\text{true}}$ and $M_{\text{true}}$ to some degree, at the final time both quantities have deviated from their initial values by $10\%-100\%$. The picture is somewhat better once either translational or rotational invariance is enforced. In particular rotational invariance limits both the relative deviation of both the linear and angular momentum to below $\approx 10\%$. As expected, the linear and angular momenta $M_{\text{NN}}$ and $L_{\text{NN}}$ derived from the neural network Lagrangian (see Eq. \eqref{eqn:two_particle_NN_momenta}) are conserved up to rounding errors caused by single precision arithmetic. Enforcing both rotational and translation invariance improves the conservation of the true linear and angular momentum substantially, with both now not deviating by more than $1\%$ from their initial values. In contrast to the other cases, there also does not appear to be any upwards trend for $\delta M_{\text{true}}(t)$ or $\delta L_{\text{NN}}(t)$ as time increases.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{.//invariants_two_particle_4d.pdf}
\caption{Conservation of linear and angular momentum for the four-dimensional two particle problem described in Section \ref{sec:two_particle_problem} with different constraints on the neural network to enforce rotational and/or translational invariance of the Lagrangian. In each case the relative deviations $\delta L_{\text{NN}}(t)$, $\delta M_{\text{NN}}(t)$, $\delta L_{\text{true}}(t)$ and $\delta M_{\text{true}}(t)$ of the linear and angular momentum vectors in Eq. \eqref{eqn:two_particle_momentum_vectors} are shown as a function of time. Both the ``neural network'' momenta defined in Eq. \eqref{eqn:two_particle_NN_momenta} and the true momenta in Eq. \eqref{eqn:momentum_true_twoparticle} are considered.}
\label{fig:conservation_two_particle}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
Finally, we study the stability of the neural network trajectories under small perturbations of the initial conditions. For this, in each of the four cases the initial position and velocity were perturbed by the same normal noise with standard deviation $10^{-3}$. The distance $\delta q_{\text{NN}}(t) = ||q_{\text{NN}}(t)-q_{\text{NN}}^{(\text{perturbed})}(t)||_2$ between the trajectories with these two different initial conditions is visualised in Fig. \ref{fig:pertubation_two_particle}. As can be seen from this plot, enforcing rotational and translational invariance reduces the growth of the perturbation significantly. However, only enforcing either rotational or translational invariance seems to be almost as good, with the latter performing even slightly better at large times $t$.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{.//perturbation_two_particle_4d.pdf}
\caption{Evolution of the distance $\delta q_{\text{NN}}(t)= ||q_{\text{NN}}(t)-q_{\text{NN}}^{\text{(perturbed)}}(t)||_2$ between two trajectories obtained with slightly different initial conditions for the two-particle problem. The initial conditions that differ by $\delta q_{\text{NN}}(0)\sim 10^{-3}$.}
\label{fig:pertubation_two_particle}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
\section{Conclusion}\label{sec:conclusion}
In this paper we showed how the Lagrangian neural network approach in \cite{Cranmer2020} can be combined with Noether's Theorem to enforce conservation laws while learning the dynamics of a physical system from noisy data. As the numerical results demonstrate, this generates significantly more realistic trajectories since the network does not have to learn the underlying conservation laws from data. As expected, for each symmetry of the Lagrangian the neural network integrators conserve a quantity up to rounding errors from single precision arithmetic. While the corresponding invariant quantity of the true Lagrangian is not conserved exactly, its deviations from the initial value are significantly reduced. Using a Lagrangian with built-in symmetries also improves the stability of the solution in the sense that the system is less sensitive to small perturbations of the initial conditions.
There are several avenues for extending the work presented here. To demonstrate the principle ideas behind our approach we assumed that essentially unlimited (synthetic) data with relatively small errors is available for training. It would be interesting to instead train the Lagrangian neural networks on measured experimental data for real physical systems. While we already assumed that the training data is perturbed by random noise, in real-life situations measured data might be corrupted or only projections of the state space vectors might be available. For example, in celestial dynamics usually only motion perpendicular to the line of sight of the observer can be measured. More generally, it would be interesting to further explore the how the symmetry enforcing layers improve the solution for limited data with larger errors. So far, we considered Lagrangians that describe the motion of point particles. However, the Lagrangian formalism can also be extended to continuous systems such as (classical) field theories and it would be interesting to see how our approach works in this case. For example, in \cite{Cranmer2020} a discretised one-dimensional wave equation is studied and the authors show that the Lagrangian approach leads to the approximate conservation of energy.
\section*{Acknowledgements}
The author would like to thank Patrick Lavelle and Tony Shardlow for useful discussions during the early stages of this project.
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| of a massive relativistic particle in the Schwarzschild metric as defined in Section \ref{sec:schwarzschild_problem} we set the Schwarzschild radius to $r_s=0.1$. In this case, the ``true'' trajectory $q_{\text{exact}}(t)$ is obtained by integrating the exact equations of motion, which can be obtained from the true Lagrangian in Eq. \eqref{eqn:schwarzschild_lagrangian_II}, with a RK4 integrator with a timestep size of $\Delta t=10^{-2}$. As above, normally distributed random noise with a standard deviation of $\sigma=10^{-3}$ is added to obtain training samples $(X^{(j)},\widehat{y}^{(j)})$ with $X^{(j)} = (q_{\text{exact}}(t^{(j)})+\sigma \xi_1^{(j)},\dot{q}_{\text{exact}}(t^{(j)})+\sigma\xi_2^{(j)})\in\mathbb{R}^8$ and ground truth $\widehat{y}^{(j)} = \ddot{q}_{\text{exact}}(t^{(j)})+\sigma\xi_3^{(j)}\in\mathbb{R}^4$, where $\xi_{1}^{(j)}, \xi_{2}^{(j)}, \xi_{3}^{(j)}\sim \mathcal{N}(0,1)$ and $t^{(j)}$ are sample times along the true trajectory.
Fig. \ref{fig:trajectories_schwarzschild} shows the trajectories predicted with the trained neural network Lagrangian up to the final time $T=1000$. Again, a RK4 integrator with a timestep size $\Delta t=10^{-2}$ is used. The trajectory obtained with a slightly perturbed initial condition is also shown as a dashed line. In contrast to the non-relativistic equivalent, Fig. \ref{fig:trajectories_schwarzschild} (top) shows that for the unconstrained network the trajectories do not become unstable. However, they still diverge strongly from the true solution (shown as a dotted red line) and they oscillate about the $x-y$ plane, which indicates that angular momentum is not conserved. Perturbing the initial conditions also leads to very different trajectories at later times. Fig. \ref{fig:trajectories_schwarzschild} (bottom) demonstrates that the picture is fundamentally different for the rotationally invariant Lagrangian neural network. Here the trajectory generated with the neural network stays very close to the true solution (which is indeed almost completely hidden beneath the solid blue curve) and the two trajectories with slightly differing initial conditions only diverge slowly at later times. Furthermore, the motion appears to be completely confined to the $x-y$ plane, which indicates that the two corresponding components of the angular momentum are conserved.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{.//trajectories_schwarzschild.pdf}\\
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{.//trajectories_schwarzschild_rot.pdf}
\caption{Trajectories for the motion of a relativistic massive particle in the Schwarzschild metric as defined in Section \ref{sec:schwarzschild_problem} without (top) and with (bottom) constraints on the neural network to enforce rotational invariance of the spatial part of the Lagrangian. In each case, a trajectory that is obtained by perturbing the initial conditions by $\sim10^{-3}$ is also shown as a dashed curve. The true solution is shown as a dotted red curve.}
\label{fig:trajectories_schwarzschild}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
Again, we investigate the conservation of angular momentum quantitatively by plotting the time evolution of the two-norms $\delta L_{\text{NN}}(t)$ and $\delta L_{\text{true}}(t)$ in Eq. \eqref{eqn:deltaL_definition}, now using the expressions for $L_{\text{NN}}$ and $L_{\text{true}}$ defined via Eqs. \eqref{eqn:relativistic_angular_momentum_true} and \eqref{eqn:relativistic_angular_momentum_NN}. As Fig. \ref{fig:conservation_schwarzschild} shows, the unconstrained network is able to learn the conservation of angular momentum to some degree, but the true angular momentum $L_{\text{true}}(t)$ deviates from its initial value by around $10\%$ at later times. This is consistent with the fact that the trajectories in Fig. \ref{fig:trajectories_schwarzschild} (top) are visibly not constrained to the $x-y$ plane, but do not stray too far from it either. The neural network with built-in rotational invariance, on the other hand, is able to reduce the relative deviation $\delta L_{\text{true}}(t)$ from the initial angular momentum to less than $10^{-3}$. As expected, the quantity $L_{\text{NN}}$, which would be zero in exact arithmetic and for an exact time integrator, is very small and never exceeds a value of around $10^{-5}$, which is consistent with (accumulated) rounding errors in single precision arithmetic.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{.//invariants_schwarzschild.pdf}
\caption{Conservation of angular momentum for the motion of a massive relativistic particle in the Schwarzschild metric as defined in Section \ref{sec:schwarzschild_problem} without (top) and with (bottom) constraints on the neural network to enforce rotational invariance of the Lagrangian. In each case the deviation $\delta L_{\text{NN}}(t)$ and $\delta L_{\text{true}}(t)$ of the absolute value of the total three dimensional angular momentum vectors are shown as a function of time. Both the ``neural network'' angular momentum $L_{\text{NN}}(t)$ defined in Eq. \eqref{eqn:relativistic_angular_momentum_NN} and the true angular momentum $L_{\text{true}}(t)$ defined in Eq. \eqref{eqn:relativistic_angular_momentum_true} are considered.}
\label{fig:conservation_schwarzschild}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
Fig. \ref{fig:pertubation_schwarzschild} shows the distance $\delta q_{\text{NN}}(t) = ||q_{\text{NN}}(t)-q_{\text{NN}}^{\text{(perturbed)}}(t)||_2$ between the two neural network trajectories with slightly perturbed initial conditions. The plot confirms that the rotationally invariant Lagrangian is much more robust under perturbations of the initial conditions. Compared to the unconstrained Lagrangian neural network, the distance between the perturbed and the unperturbed trajectories is around one order of magnitude smaller and grows only moderately over time.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{.//perturbation_schwarzschild.pdf}
\caption{Evolution of the distance $\delta q_{\text{NN}}(t)=||q_{\text{NN}}(t)-q_{\text{NN}}^{\text{(perturbed)}}(t)||_2$ between two trajectories obtained with slightly different initial conditions for the motion of a massive relativistic particle in the Schwarzschild metric. The initial conditions that differ by $\delta q_{\text{NN}}(0)\sim 10^{-3}$.}
\label{fig:pertubation_schwarzschild}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
\subsubsection{Two interacting particles in $D=4$ dimensions}
Finally, we consider the system of two interacting particles described in Section \ref{sec:two_particle_problem} for $D=4$ dimensions. The masses of the two particles are set to $m_1=1$ and $m_2=0.8$, while the parameters of the double well potential in Eq. \eqref{eqn:double_well} are fixed to $\mu=\kappa=1$. The initial condition was chosen such that at time $t=0$ the total linear momentum $M=m_1x^{(1)}+m_2x^{(2)}$ is zero. We consider four setups, corresponding to the constraints on the Lagrangian listed in the four quadrants of Tab. \ref{tab:lagrangian_restrictions}:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Unconstrained Lagrangian
\item Rotationally invariant Lagrangian
\item Translationally invariant Lagrangian
\item Rotationally and translationally invariant Lagrangian
\end{enumerate}
Since (except in the first case) the input to the neural network is first passed through a symmetry-enforcing layer, the number of inputs to the first hidden layer $D_1$ depends on which symmetries we assume for the Lagrangian, as shown in Tab. \ref{tab:n_inputs}. Note that as we do not enforce invariance under reflections (i.e. we only consider the $SO(4)$ subgroup instead of the full $O(4)$ group), in the case of a rotationally (but not necessarily translationally) invariant Lagrangian, the contraction $\varepsilon^{\alpha\beta\rho\sigma}x_{\alpha}^{(1)}x_{\beta}^{(2)}\dot{x}_{\rho}^{(1)}\dot{x}_{\sigma}^{(2)}$ with the Levi-Civita symbol is included in the set $\mathscr{R}\left(\{x^{(1)},x^{(2)},\dot{x}^{(2)},\dot{x}^{(2)}\}\right)$.
\begin{table}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|cc|>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{12ex}|>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{12ex}|}
\hline
& & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{rotationally invariant?} \\
& & no & yes \\
\hline
translationally & no & 16 & 11 \\
\cline{2-4}
invariant? & yes & 12 & 6 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Number of scalar inputs to the first dense layer $D_1$ of the Lagrangian neural network.}
\label{tab:n_inputs}
\end{center}
\end{table}
As in the other two cases, we generate synthetic training samples $(X^{(j)},\widehat{y}^{(j)})\in \mathbb{R}^{16}\times \mathbb{R}^{8}$ by integrating the true equations of motion obtained from the Lagrangian in Eq. \eqref{eqn:true_lagrangian_two_particle} with a RK4 integrator ($\Delta t=10^{-2}$) and adding normally distributed noise with a standard deviation of $\sigma=10^{-3}$.
Fig. \ref{fig:trajectories_two_particle} shows a projection of the four-dimensional trajectories onto the first two dimensions for each of the four considered setups. The true solution (dashed) and the neural network solution (solid) are shown for both particles with the final positions at time $T=8$ marked by circles ($\medblackcircle$/$\medcircle$). Visually, the completely unconstrained network gives the worst solution. While enforcing rotational or translation invariance improves this somewhat, the best qualitative agreement is achieved with the neural network Lagrangian that is both rotationally and translationally invariant. Although even in this case the final positions have a distance of order 1, this appears to be mainly attributed to the fact that the neural network solution lags behind the true solution. Ignoring this phase error, the trajectories generated with the neural network Lagrangian show good agreement with the true solution.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{.//trajectories_two_particle_4d.pdf}\\
\caption{Trajectories for the two-particle problem assuming different constraints on the neural network Lagrangian as | 2,743 |
Confidence is unique because it cannot be taught, but is gained in every path.
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Details of the first<|fim_middle|> by a new document, The Navigator. In addition to information about Pathways, it provides details on meeting roles and Club Officer roles for example. It also contains useful guidance on evaluations, awards and mentoring.
When choosing your first Learning Path, in addition to using the online assessment I recommend reading the Pathways Paths and Projects Catalogue for more detail. In particular, look at the required projects for each Learning Path as you can chose the optional projects later. One of my club members has also prepared a summary matrix of the required and optional projects which you may find useful.
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I know this is not new to all of you since it's been months since Jollibee released their Cheesy Bacon Mushroom Champ! But let me just share you my experience with this giant.
I thought that it's just all in the picture. We (I'm sure I'm not the only one) who is a victim with a photo effects and advertising strategy of different food stops. But not this one!
Look at that gorgeous thingy? Oozing with cheese, and perfectly crisp bacon and delicious mushroom!
Even the innards of the burger is photogenic as well! The 1/3<|fim_middle|> in our tummy, boyfie and I ordered their new offering as well, Jollibee Mix Ins (39 pesos)! This reminds me a lot of Dairy Queen's Ice Cream (Chocolate Chip flavor). Mixed with Chocolate Shavings, Cookie Bits plus Hershey's Kisses! Take note: this kisses is a real deal! I examined it thoroughly! hahahah! | pound 100% beef burger patty was cooked perfectly! Plus the gooey cheese made this burger irresistible. Who can resist that? Considering that it's just 129 pesos (Solo) or 165 pesos (Value Meal). It's sulit!
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JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING, SEP 2014, 30(<|fim_middle|> variables. This model generates the expected default frequency (EDF) as an endogenous variable. The macroeconomic variables included were the gross domestic product (GDP), consumer price index (CPI), Korea composite stock price index (KOSPI), currency exchange rate (CER), certificate of deposit interest rates (CD), and corporate bond yield (CBY). We used the arithmetic mean value of the EDF for 25 construction companies as an index to indicate their status and found that the effects of these macroeconomic variables on the companies were different at different times. We expect these results to be useful to interested parties in the construction industry and to economists interested in creating relevant industry indicators. (C) 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers. | 5), p.1-9.
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Stephen Curry had no lift on the potential two-point shot that would've tied the game before end of regulation. Chris Paul who contested Curry's shot appeared to make contact but no call was made in the final seconds of the game.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened, Curry floated an air ball and the Clippers celebrated as they go up 2-1 in the best-of-seven series. The problem for the Warriors wasn't missing a two-point shot before the buzzer but more the tandem of of Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan.
The two combined dominated Golden State on both<|fim_middle|> his first 17 shots. Green on the other hand was more successful in guarding Griffin to cut the lead down to one point late in the fourth. | sides of the court. Griffin finished with 32 points and eight rebounds while Jordan grabbed 22 rebounds and had 14 points. Without Andrew Bogut, the Warriors are struggling defensively in the paint.
Despite fouling out, Draymond Green provided better defense on Griffin who came out to start the third quarter on a 10-0 run. David Lee had no answer in containing Griffin who hit 12 of | 88 |
NOTE the Academy has installed new fences and gates along the car parks. A new map is in preparation, but current access is either via the route as indicated by the current the red arrow, (now enclosed by fences), or via a new gate in the centre of the car parks.
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From the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-nineteenth century, telescope mirrors were made of speculum metal – an alloy of copper and tin. (Example above is the Rosse Telescope mirror in the Science Museum) In addition to the age-old process of 'silvering' the back of domestic mirrors with a mercury amalgam, experiments in depositing metal films on speculum-metal mirrors and glass were attempted as early as the mid-eighteenth century, but these processes were intended only for aesthetic purposes and were of no use for optics. In the mid-1830s, Justus von Liebig succeeded in depositing a thin film of silver on a surface by chemical means, though this was an incidental effect resulting from his work on aldehydes. By the late 1850s, the process of depositing silver on glass had become sufficiently refined for optical purposes, resulting in a sudden 'revolution' in telescope technology.
There will an Observing Evening with the hope of seeing the very close encounter of the bright star Aldebaran with the Moon.
Meet at the Society's Observing Site in Barnet - click here for details - at 17.00hrs/ 5pm as the event takes place at 18.00hrs.
Dale continues with more stories of his autograph hunting amongst the rich and famous - with time time concentrating on one of the most famous - animator Ray Harryhausen.
As the April Observing<|fim_middle|>Astronomy gave us our day, month and year - though these divisions of time don't last as long as most people think! There are other planets, where days and years are very different to those on Earth, so time really does depend on where you are in space.
The main news for anyone in the UK (and we hope elsewhere) in space, is that we have finally got an official British ESA astronaut to the International Space Station. Celebrated around the UK on 15th December when the launch took place, including a Stargazing Live Special from the Science Museum, this was just the start of Tim's visit to the ISS, where he will be for six months. We trust also that it is a re-boot in the new-found 'official' interest in human spaceflight, that until now was frankly ignored by the UK Government (of any colour), as not being a priority. Your Editor, who was working on the SGL Tim Peake Special, will take you through the whole story and - as your Starter for 10 - just how many British-born astronauts have there been?
Meet at the Barnet Observing Site see details.
More on the recent New Horizon probe encounter with what is still referred to by many as 'the outermost planet'. Mike Goldsmith has written an intriguing book on all aspects of the planet (dwarf or not...); its discovery; recent demotion and the latest findings from New Horizons. The book also includes other aspects of Pluto, such as its mention in fiction - and that includes Doctor Who!
Dr Mike Goldsmith studied variable stars and cosmic dust at Keele University, receiving his Ph D in 1987. Since then he has written more than fifty books and scientific papers on a variety of subjects, including astronomy and astrophysics. He worked in the field of acoustics for many years, as head of the Acoustics Group at the UK's National Physical Laboratory. He is now a freelance researcher and science writer.
The Moon is almost full, so a good comparison to the February meeting. The Lyrid Meteor Shower is at near-peak, and although the bright Moon isn't the best situation, you never know!
Plus Jupiter is still bright and Mercury could just about be visible???
Fermilab runs many international projects and it is also the centre for DUNE - Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment - shooting these elusive particles underground to a similar facility at Stanford, 800 miles away.
Includes a trip 1000 feet underground to meet the detectors!
Elon Musk says he wants to visit the International Space Station aboard his own craft by 2020 -- and he doesn't think it will be "that hard". Speaking at the StartmeupHK Festival in Hong Kong, Musk said the company was also looking further ahead, to Mars and beyond, and could unveil its plan to do so as soon as September 2016.
ASTEROID MINING : GOLD RUSH or GOING BUST?
Michael Franks has been delving into the practicalities - which seems will involve slightly more than a shovel and sieve!
An extra meeting, on the day that would have been the usual October date.
Sights on view could be the constellations, Andromeda, Pegasus and Taurus - the last of which contains the Plieades or Seven Sisters open star cluster, always worth a view.
It will also be the peak of the Orionids Meteor Shower. The Moon is only four days past full (16th), so could drown out the fainter, but you never know!
This enigmatic title refers to 2016 being the 90th Anniversary of the launch of the world's first liquid-fuelled rocket. This was on March 26th 1926 by Robert H Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts.
An Observing Evening is being planned for this day. | Evening went so well, another one for May - before the skies get too bright in the evenings. Check OBSERVING for maps and details.
The Moon - skies permitting - should look similar to the image - a very thin crescent as the Moon is but 2 days old - and it will be very close to Venus.
Dale continues his intriguing look at one of the pioneers of movie special effects.
Greg works at the Royal Observatory Greenwich presenting planetarium shows, school workshops, adult evening classes and occassionaly presenting on radio and television. He also work for Astronomy Now magazine, creating artwork and writing articles.
He's given many lectures at various venues over the years, including the Society.
Society member Dale Baker collects autographs - but there's far more to it than that!
The Society is well known for its eclectic talks, and here certainly is one as Dale will tell stories, show clips and - maybe - even reveal a few secrets (!) of our on-screen Science Fiction heroes.
The Saturn Cassini probe has only a few month left - it will be steered to destruction in the Saturnian atmosphere in September 2017. It has been in space for 20 years and has been one of the most successful planetary probes ever.
Jim will be examining the legacy and what will be happening in the next few months.
No not the Oscars, but instead the Griffith Observatory (left) and its recently-built basement exhibition on the Solar System and a private conducted tour of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory! Oh and K-9 happened to be visiting as well. All will be revealed at the meet!
We often assume all Society members automatically know all there is to know about telescope and viewing, but of course they may not, and anyway new members arrive, and they may not be fully knowledgeable as to 'how to get the best out of your instrument'!
This slightly enigmatic title refers to the fact that firstly SETI - the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - is still alive and well, and now through BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) anyone with spare downtime on their home computer (and most home computers are only used at 1% of their capacity) can join in the search.
Past ASH member George Emsden, who participates in the exercise, will show how it is all achieved!
Our measurements of time have largely been derived from our observations of space. In addition, simple astronomical observations and timings can tell us remarkable things about Earth's orbit around the Sun.
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Ms. Valerie Poarch-Harding received the Professional Achievement - Government Award at the 18th Annual Women of<|fim_middle|> of math she made sure her daughter, Melodie Poarch, loved math and didn't hate or fear it.
Her daughter graduated with a degree in Manufacturing Engineering with a minor in mathematics in 2011 from Virginia State University (mother's alumni). He daughter is currently the only black female and youngest mechanical engineering supervisor at Norfolk Southern Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Film Room: Steelers Get What They Need With Jon Bostic
You can't always get what you want.
That's the famous line in The Rolling Stones song with the same title. It's how I evaluate the Pittsburgh Steelers signing Jon Bostic, dipping their toe into free agency waters for the first time this offseason, being the second-to-last team to make a move.
But if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
That finishes out the rest of the chorus. That's what they have in Bostic. No, he is not an elite, ideal replacement for Ryan Shazier. But on a base level, he checks the requirements they need for the Mack position. Versatility, availability, an all-situations kind of player.
Today, we're<|fim_middle|>The injury history is lengthy. Like we said, he suffered a season-ending knee injury in mid-December last year. He missed all of 2016 with a broken fifth metatarsal suffered in training camp during a joint practice with the Steelers in Latrobe. He also suffered back problems in 2015 which seemed to plague him for months.
Bostic is one of the few candidates who fit what Pittsburgh needs from the Mack position. There's no projection needed. He's shown to be an every down player. He's used to dropping into coverage, protecting the sticks on 3rd down. There aren't a lot of linebackers available who play every snap, especially at what I assume is a cheap price tag.
Pittsburgh certainly could – and should – look to keep adding at the ILB position. But it offers them some flexibility and not feeling obligated to take one 28th overall. They can wait until the 2nd or 3rd round and look at more of a project, someone who can be more niche or take a backseat role their rookie year (if drafted in the third round).
Once the Steelers missed out on who they wanted, they got who they needed.
Related Items:Featured, Jon Bostic, Pittsburgh Steelers | going to break down Bostic's tape from 2017. Go through his run defense, coverage, the rest, and look at the good and bad at his game. At the end, we'll make a final evaluation.
Bostic was the Indianapolis Colts' every down linebacker in 2017. Officially, he played 85% of the snaps but that includes the two games that he missed, put on IR with a knee injury suffered in December. When healthy, he almost never came off the field. In 13 of 14 games, he played 100% of the defense's snaps and 95% in the other.
He played the Buck and the Mack spots. Mostly the Buck in the boundary but he flipped around, rotating with several linebackers this year. Eight different LBs played at least 100 snaps this year for Indy. The Colts often stayed in a more traditional sub-package defense, a 2-4-5 and he stayed on the field when they went with a more hybrid 2-3-6.
Occasionally, he would line up and rush off the edge. He would play the slot against some spread sets and I've see him take the tight end solo on the outside.
Bostic played it reasonably well to the tune of 97 tackles, 52 of them versus the run according to Pro Football Reference's Play Index. What's most impressive is his ability to process, athleticism to string out perimeter runs, and hand use to defeat blocks. He does well to anchor, square his shoulders, and keep vision on the football.
Let's look at this years game versus the Steelers. Late in the game, Pittsburgh running to their pin/pull scheme with Le'Veon Bell. Bostic, #57 (the number he'll wear for all these clips), rips through David DeCastro on the perimeter and forces Bell to keep his angle wide. It's only a gain of three.
Not the only time that happened either. Same thing against Todd Gurley in Week One, though too often, the Colts failed to have a forced player to truly contain the back.
But he can take on tight ends and fullbacks in the hole too. He does a great job of staying square and being able to use his hands to defeat the block, not turning his shoulders and allowing himself to be washed. Left guard pulls but Bostic rips under him and stuffs Gio Bernard at the line.
This is one of my favorite plays of his. Slide as the tight end pulls across, not commit early and still prevents the cutback and once the back hits the hole, fill and finish with violence.
He can get engulfed by tackles, who are bigger and match/exceed his length (Bostic has 33 inch arms). I saw him get run out by Joe Thomas once but hey, that's a Hall of Famer. It happens. Overall, I like what I saw from him.
It's good, not great. Like we pointed out above, his every-down background gives a lot of tape to work with in coverage. There's not a ton of splash. One career interception, that came in his rookie year, and listed to have seven pass breakups, though going through the tape, there aren't that many instances of him truly playing the ball.
The best one I saw came against Houston this year. Empty set, needing to defend the entire field. Zone coverage but Bostic gets depth, tracks the ball, and throws up a hand to bat it away from the pass down the seam.
It's low on the list of importance but I would characterize his hands as pretty bad. Trouble finishing plays, even layups, and balls have gone in and out of his chest.
He didn't do a lot of matchup man coverage the way the Steelers ask their Mack to do. Mostly spot dropping zone, walling off the seam threat rather than truly carrying him. He did play some man when moved to the slot or cover a TE that moved around or when bailing off a fake blitz.
Bostic shows good short area quickness to change directions and explode out. It's not a Sportscenter Top Ten play but I like how he closes on JuJu Smith-Schuster on his out cut and doesn't create a window to allow the throw. Forces the checkdown.
Often, he was asked to get true Tampa 2 depth, sometimes even deeper than the safeties. Winds up matching on Antonio Brown deep downfield here and the ball has to go elsewhere. He's squarely in the middle of the field in the clip below.
Vertically, he can struggle in man-to-man. Watch the tight end beat him down the seam. That's Gerald Everett, a good athlete, and Bostic can't find the ball and finish the play. Ends up as a 39 yard gain. Top of your screen.
He's not on Shazier's level, which is obvious and expected, and there are some limitations to what he can do in coverage. That may limit the Steelers scheme a little bit but not terribly so and Bostic shows enough athletic ability to be the Mack linebacker.
He was used a fair amount as a blitzer though didn't see much success. His one sack from 2017 was from merely existing. Initially dropped into coverage and then was the nearest bystander when Andy Dalton ducked out of bounds in Week 8. He struggles one-on-one against guards and won't win unless the scheme opens him up or if he gets a chance on the back. But those are things Keith Butler's scheme regularly provides. They don't want their linebackers on linemen.
I would call him an ineffective blitzer and the stats bear that out.
He runs hard to the ball and covers sideline to sideline. Didn't see him loaf or take plays off. Rarely did any of his teammates pass him up flying to the football. Overall, he is a good open field tackler who finishes plays with authority.
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With the creepy new adaptation of Stephen King's seminal novel IT scaring up all sorts of box office records – and audiences – the legendary author's work is well and truly back in the limelight.
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Climber's Board
Applauding risk acceptance beyond your own limits
riskmanagement
By glassgowkiss
March 11, 2018 in Climber's Board
genepires
15 hours ago, TrogdortheBurninator said:
I'm not sure it's quite that black and white. Luck is a benefit for both the subjective risks and the objective risks. In the case of something like freerider, you still have risks like rock fall and broken holds. The likelihood of those is perhaps less than encountered in alpine envions, but the consequence is pretty absolute. Also, dont forget that Honnold has practiced his craft in patagonia and other alpine environs.
A quick look at the fate of a number of pure-rock soloists still reveals that it is a risky endeavor. Were Bachar or Hersey unlucky on the days they passed away?
I think if you look at the total number of solo climbs where they came back safe (quit possibly thousands for those two) vs the number of hard alpine climbs before succumbing to the mountains, then soloing rock climbs looks "sa<|fim_middle|> man small pot belly to absorb some of the forces. A skinny little sport climber would have been cut in half. If it hit his head, a helmet would have done nothing but make a better casket viewing.
Yeah, falling rock is still an objective hazard rock climbing even if a rare one. Generally, you have a feel for the 'loose-factor' of a crag (hell, in the Sandias it's in the guidebook route-by-route) but not always. It is something you have to factor in even in rock climbing. | fer". for them anyways. I would die soloing a 5.9.
JasonG 26 posts
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olyclimber 18 posts
glassgowkiss 15 posts
No matter where one stands on the issue of risk, this thread is an important and necessary conversation for climbers of all ages and skills. Like many climbers, I believe, my relationship and out
JensHolsten
My name was mentioned above (I think). It seemed in reference to my ability to stay alive and climb in the mountains. Just to be clear: I'm alive because I've been lucky. No more, no less. Sure,
keenwesh
Really sounding like a grumpy old man here, dude. When someone loses a friend or loved one do you tell them to not feel sad? I don't know how you feel all the time, and it's none of my bu
TrogdortheBurninator
4 hours ago, genepires said:
Gets back to that frequency argument though. A smaller risk at a higher frequency can give a shorter expectancy than a larger risk with lower frequency.
JasonG
22 hours ago, G-spotter said:
I wager everyone that's climbed has stories of close calls like that. Lucky isn't a learned behaviour. And it's nothing to moralize about.
This is my experience, and why I'm here and some of my partners are not. They didn't screw up any more than any of us who alpine climb, and I didn't learn anything from their deaths that I didn't already know.
glassgowkiss
On 3/17/2018 at 11:26 AM, oldster said:
Then the boys die on a standard descent where any regular joe climber could have been. Wrong place wrong time. S@!# happens.
Unfortunately not the case. 99% of accidents are a series of bad decisions, combined with some some bad luck. I only saw a handful of accidents we can classify as "wrong place at the wrong time". Marc had near miss on Stanley Glacier Headwall a couple of seasons back, where he had a huge class 3 ripper going over their heads. That should have been a wake up call for risk risk assessment. Avi forecast for that day was calling for considerable to high risk, and he still decided to climb in one of the worse avalanche terrain possible.
Then he solos a bunch of crumbly rock routes and baits people to beat his day. Insane!
Boils down to the fact, that there is a persistent glorification of risky behavior among climbers.
On 3/15/2018 at 1:23 PM, dberdinka said:
I don't have any direct exposure to paragliding culture but my impression is if you came down and said "I just thermaled to 30,000' in that thunder cloud!" you'd be taken to task.
This nails it. Yes, pretty much the reaction would not be "good job buddy, you are a great pilot", but you "are an idiot and I do not want to be around when you kill yourself".
olyclimber
22 minutes ago, glassgowkiss said:
99% of accidents are a series of bad decisions, combined with some some bad luck.
Are you going to back that up with some data that supports that statistic? Not that its super meaningful, since I guess you could say taking up a sport that has any risk at all was a "bad decision". More like it was a "decision"....99% of accidents are the direct result of a series of decisions. Bad or good? There is a huge continuum that you're not mentioning. But I guess we're talking about accidents, so from the armchair they are all "bad".
And bad luck? Duh. What are we talking about again?
48 minutes ago, olyclimber said:
well of course it would be near impossible to make a even half decent number, I think that if one looks through any or all of the Accidents in North America Mountaineering, pretty much all of them detail the lack of judgement that lead to the accident.
I don't really want to speak for Bob, but I can remember a lot of bad decisions were good luck prevented me from a true accident. And one time were bad decision and lack of good luck (bad luck?) were it went bad. In that case though, good luck prevented me from death so I guess it is all good luck too? my head hurts.
yes i'm just saying there is a continuum by which we judge how bad a decision is, and usually we only call it bad if an accident happens...at least on the less risky side of that continuum. sometimes getting out of bed in the morning seems like a bad idea.
by painting it as black and white, he's making it seem like 99% of the people who get into accidents made terrible decisions, when many "bad" decisions are only bad if they don't work out for you. like climbing a mountain at all...its very rewarding experience if you're successful, good. but if you attempt and get hurt, what "an idiot, what did you risk it all you adrenaline freak"!, bad. This applies to the Tooth. This applies to some crazy new alpine 5.14. It depends who is in the armchair. Remember the comments we got from the world at large when the Hood climbers went missing? "Y" symbol???
of course there is the end of the continuum where its a just a terrible decision, even suicidal. but its a continuum...its not black and white. and where risks taken sit on that continuum often depend on a lot of information those judging from the armchair often do not have. so i think Bob could be a little less "judgey" about things. but i'm not going to ask him to be who he isn't, so there is that.
well of course it would be near impossible to make a even half decent number...
There are numbers, there are statistics, and there are articles on climbing accidents. You can read ANAM and put together your own chart if you wish. Claiming there are no data or that risk can't be quantified is lazy at best and inviting trouble at worst.
To Bob's comment, my kids and I talk about how much luck and skill are involved in the games we play. Chess is all skill. Chutes and Ladders is all luck. For the ones in between, we try to assign a percentage. Settlers of Catan, for example, might be 70% skill and 30% luck. Cribbage might be 70% luck and 30% skill. Climbing accidents can be viewed this way as well.. Some are 100% human error (rapped off end of the rope), all luck (a stone falls down Everest and beans poor Ueli Steck), and many are something in between (getting struck by lightning in an alpine thunderstorm).
I advise, support, and invest in biotech and medtech companies. There are at least as many types of risk in these ventures as there are in alpine climbing. People's careers, reputations, and money are on the line, so we can't just throw up our hands and say, "I don't know" when it comes to evaluating risk. We try to break down the different types of risk, work to see what can be avoided or mitigated, and determine when there are unacceptable risks. It's never easy, and we still get it wrong, but we analyze as much as we can in hopes of making the most informed decision we can.
In climbing, we don't get to learn from our mistakes very often as a single error can kill us, so it's important to learn what we can from the mistakes of others. Adding statistics and probability into these analyses allows us to learn from a larger data set than just a few examples.
Choada_Boy
Super Heroes take risks. Normal people do not. That's what makes Super Heroes Super Heroes and not normal people. "Superman" is not called "Normal Man" for a reason: Normal Man is fucking boring.
Everyone is agog at Honnold, for whatever reason, from "He's amazing!" to "He's going to kill himself!".
Replace "Alex" with "Superman" and it all makes sense.
"Superman! You shouldn't have taken such incredible risks to save Lois!" But he did, and he lived, and he's a hero. Until he dies and then he's dead and everyone can go on and on about how he was taking too many risks and that she wasn't worth it.
He does love her, though...
Perhaps an innate human tendency to have intense feelings towards risk takers. Not selected for, in the evolutionary sense.
To live is to climb. Don't F up!!
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Imagine this in bad weather.
Edited March 21, 2018 by DanO
1 hour ago, Rad said:
Claiming there are no data or that risk can't be quantified is lazy at best and inviting trouble at worst.
But quantifying risk is Y incidence per X events. We have data on the accidents, but do we know the number of events that it took to produce those accidents? That is what @olyclimber is getting at I think.
1 hour ago, JasonG said:
The data probably exist, but it might take some work to get them. For example, in MRNP and NCNP backcountry climbers are required to register, so this provides data on the number of outings. This can be compared with accident data. In avalanche papers I seem to recall data about accidents per user-day. There will be cases where the user-days are not available or harder to get, but that doesn't mean we should throw up our hands and say there's no data.
3 hours ago, Rad said:
There are numbers, there are statistics, and there are articles on climbing accidents. You can read ANAM and put together your own chart if you wish. Claiming there are no data or that risk can't be quantified is lazy at best and inviting trouble at worst..
I guess I am lazy and inviting trouble.
or maybe I just require a highly accurate data set to come up with a number. My training was in applied math and not statistics. Not comfortablable with unknowns left dangling. You may be required to make inferences with less than complete data and be ok with possible correct or close or completely wrong conclusions. You do what you must with what you got. But I don't like to go there. If I can't prove it, I prolly won't say it.
6 hours ago, olyclimber said:
Are you going to back that up with some data that supports that statistic?
Are you kidding me? Have you read AAJ accident reports?
Edited March 22, 2018 by glassgowkiss
Well I guess in hindsight it Ian always easy to see the bad judgement in accident situations. But it seems like there are usually obvious in hindsight lapses in decision making tha lead to accidents. Maybe not 99% but prolly real close. Things like not wearing helmet, continueiing upwards into bad weather, not protecting a climb well enough, etc.
i feel like you may be putting more into what bob said than he was intending?
my take of what bob says is that
-some days you do everything right and you have good luck and give a bunch of high fives
-some days you do everything right and get dealt a bad luck and you go home with a good story
-some days you make a bad decision and get some good luck and maybe you learn a lesson, maybe not
-some days you make a bad decision and get some bad luck and you get a epic story to tell
-some days you make several bad choices and no amount of good luck will overcome it. End of game!
Well Bob, good for you for providing data...but I don't see it backing up your 99% number. 7% falling rock, ice, or object. it doesn't classify it as "a bad decision"...just a bad outcome. it could be related to a bad decision, but could it not also be random. 4.3% illness. Is getting ill a bad decision? Under certain circumstances, it could be, but not all. 11.3% slip on snow or ice...it says nothing about a bad decision other than the outcome. It could be because of simple bad luck...a good climber tripping is not a "bad decision". People don't "decide to trip". 39.4% people "decided" to slip fall or slip on rock. Of course in all of these there are factors...factors that could be the result of a bad decision. Or they could just be a bit of bad luck. Those charts don't tell you that, however.
So what you're saying is 99% of the time people make a mistake of deciding to get out of bed. yeah...you don't really have point in my book about 99% being bad decisions unless you're talking about leaving your home as a decision. And there are definitely some listed on that chart that fall under "bad decision". I just don't see that number being 99%. Inadequate equipment, not placing pro, placing pro in the wrong spot, exceeding abilities....now those are "bad decisions".
I guess if by decision you mean "mistake"...like you consider tripping to be a decision...then I guess that works!
bonathanjarrett
I teach a composition course to high school freshmen, and, as an assignment, they write an argumentative essay addressing the following prompt: Is is possible for climbers/mountaineers to make climbing a safer activity. Almost none of them have any direct experience with climbing. Most know almost nothing about it all. I provide them with data from Accidents in North American Mountaineering, a selection from Lynn Hill's autobiography, an article about the OES tragedy on Hood, and a video where two of my climbing buddies discuss their own direct experiences.
Almost every student comes to the following conclusion: the environment that climbing occurs in is inherently dangerous and that the qualities of the choices that climbers make directly influence the rate of accidents. It is reinforced to me trimester after trimester that the math is not that hard on this one. Even an outsider, thinking carefully about the data, can come to this assessment.
One of the interesting points of data that they often marvel at is that exceeding abilities and climbing unroped are contributing causes at nearly identical rates. They also note that half of accidents are caused by falling.
When they ask me about what I do, my response is fairly simple. Accept that I engage in a dangerous sport and yet always make careful, thoughtful choices about my practices and habits.
It is very possible I'm reading too much into what Bob is saying. It just doesn't sit well with me when I think of the people I know that have passed while climbing, and to have someone pass judgement on them like that. and all the situations you list make total sense to me. But I also think there are other situations other than what you list.
JosephH
I would find those charts more useful in two identical sets by environment - one set for rock, one set for alpine. Muddle together they are somewhat less useful, but I still look at them.
1 hour ago, bonathanjarrett said:
half of accidents are caused by falling.
Talk about a poor decision!
You are absolutely right. There must be an infinite amount of possibilities / situations that I left out like
-some days you do everything right and get dealt a supreme bad luck day.
i have a friend of a friend whose partner died right in front of him while approaching a alpine rock climb. Both was wearing a helmet but a single random falling rock killed his partner.still.
Unfortunate and sorry to hear that. Curious if that was alpine?
yeah. somewhere in patagonia actually. But I had a friend who got nailed by a microwave sized rock at lower town wall index. Had to get 3 feet of his intestines taken out because of the rupture and bleeding. luckily he had a grown | 3,428 |
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Q: Can we form a topological or Banach space of $C^1$-differentiable functions on a manifold? Let $d\in\mathbb N$, $k\in\{1,\ldots,d\}$ and $M$ be a $k$-dimensional embedded $C^1$-submanifold of $\mathbb R^d$ with boundary.
If $M$ is an open subset of $\mathbb R^d$, we can consider the $\mathbb R$-Banach space $$C^1_b(M):=\left\{f:M\to\mathbb R\mid f\text{ is }C^1\text{-differentiable and }f\text{ and }{\rm D}f\text{ are bounded}\<|fim_middle|>(x)v| \right)
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You have to choose a way of measuring tangent vectors, so you have to choose a metric. This is why I required for $M$ to have such a metric $g$. This can also be done with a Finsler metric.
| right\}$$ equipped with $$\left\|f\right\|_{C^1_b(M)}:=\max\left(\sup_{x\in M}\left|f(x)\right|,\sup_{x\in M}\left\|{\rm D}f(x)\right\|_{\mathfrak L(\mathbb R^d,\:\mathbb R)}\right)\;\;\;\text{for }f\in C^1_b(M).$$ Is there an analogous topological or (complete) normed $\mathbb R$-vector space of $C^1$-differentiable (bounded) functions in the general case?
I think the first problem is that the domain of the analogue to the Fréchet derivative, which is the pushforward $T_x(f):T_x\:M\to\mathbb R$, depends on $x\in M$. On the other hand, we could consider the map $$TM=\left\{(x,v):x\in M\text{ and }v\in T_x\:M\right\}\to\mathbb R\;,\;\;\;(x,v)\mapsto T_x(v)\tag1.$$
A: Consider a compact riemannian manifold $(M,g)$. Then $\mathcal{C}^1(M)$ has these natural norms :
\begin{align}
\|f\|_1 &= \sup_{x\in M}|f(x)| + \sup_{(x,v)\in TM, ||v||_g = 1}|\mathrm{d}f(x)v| \\
\| f \|_2 &= \sup\left(\sup_{x\in M}|f(x)|,\sup_{(x,v)\in TM, ||v||_g = 1}|\mathrm{d}f | 383 |
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Coogee Chemicals has started the new financial year with a freshly installed executive chairman in Tim
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Mr Martin anticipates more growth opportunities as traditional oil companies move out of refining and
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Coogee Chemicals is ranked in BNiQ as one of WA's top 25 private companies, with annual turnover
around $300 million, though Mr Martin said this was not a good reflection of profitability in a capital-intensive
Mr Martin, 42, has been an executive at Coogee since 2005 and was appointed managing director in 2012.
He anticipates continuing to work closely with Mr Lukey.
"We're a fairly flat business," Mr Martin said.
"We don't get too hung-up on formal reporting lines."
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I am dragging boxes from the attic, trying to remember where I displayed each nativity set in my NC home and scanning my rooms for the same flat surfaces in this new place. None of my familiar table-tops are in good viewing areas in this home. I let out a sigh, my my shoulders slump. I stare at the dusty Rubbermaids stacked and scattered so haphazardly my back dining room resembles an obstacle course rather than family living space. I fight the urge to haul them all back up to the rafters and forget the whole thing. Shouldn't a tree and fresh wreath be enough?
I glance out at Superman who is stringing lights along the front of our decidedly easier roofline compared to the steep pitches of the last six years. He is a happy man, happy in his part of the preparing. I…not so much.
But there is no going back on Christmas. It is coming whether I open my boxes and find new places to put old treasures or just leave the whole mess for my children to use as a giant pinball game. Given the visual of the later, I decide to accept the former.
This is my first step in preparing: Accept the assignment.
I want to answer like Mary did. I want to accept the assignments given me in each season of life. Once the assignment is accepted, then preparations can truly begin.
I plug my phone into its docking center and find my Christmas station on Pandora. Soon the room fills with the sounds of carols and my mind slowly begins to unknot itself.
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Light a candle. Listen to the music. Advent has begun! | . Beginning with songs of Prophesy—the promise foretold, stanzas of journey towards Bethlehem where the Prince of Peace was born, hymns sung in Joy with the shepherds, Love lines in the message the Angels brought them, and finally Hallelujah! praise to Christ our King, born of the one who accepted her assignment.
My desire and prayer for these next four weeks is that you will Advent with me. Together we can wonder over the moments leading up to Christ's birth through the lines and st | 107 |
Sightline Systems, a leading Industry 4.0 intelligence & IOT cybersecurity company, is excited to announce our expansion of operations into Latin America through the opening of a new office in Santiago, Chile.
Through this expansion into the Latin American Market, Sightline will bring their flagship solutions, EDM and SIAS, to help power predictive analytics and machine learning insights in the growing South American industrial technology sector.
Sightline's EDM is a unified and easy-to-use industrial and manufacturing data collection & intelligence platform with powerful end-to-end security capabilities. Top manufacturers & industrial companies in more than 15 countries depend on Sightline Systems' advanced Industry 4.0 software<|fim_middle|> Systems. | . SIAS security intelligence capability protects process cross-facility industrial environments and data against new cyber risks & responds faster to threats using a "zero-trust" policy, end-point device cloaking, cryptographic zoning, data encryption, and dynamic isolation to secure, detect, and respond to malicious events in real-time. Industrial and manufacturing sites are currently under cyber threats like never before; SIAS™ brings military-grade protection to these critical environments. "We are very excited to bring our solutions to the Chilean market. Companies are looking for ways to improve operations and reduce costs and our EDM software can help organizations be more competitive", says Brandon Witte, CEO Sightline | 133 |
Graeme's Blend is the Passing Cloud flagship. Eponymously labelled after the proprietor winemaker, Graeme's Blend has consistently delivered a cornucopia of breathtaking Bendigo fruit every year since inaugural vintage 1980. The unirrigated Passing Clouds property produces meagre yields these days and grapes are called upon from outstanding vineyards<|fim_middle|> of dark fruits are interwoven by vanilla , aniseed and spice. Rich complex aromas of blackberry, blackcurrant and spice follow through onto the palate, lined by a veneer of gentle oak. A superb balance of tannin and acidity complemented by lingering fruit, beautifully balanced on a length of fine chalky tannins. | between Bendigo and Heathcote. Parcels of Cabernet and Shiraz grown to eminent Bendigo sites are assembled around the backbone of estate grown fruit to create a complex, more powerful wine.
Dark Japanese plum colour, an indication of its power. Complex aromas | 55 |
Le Labyrinthe de l'amour (titre original ) est un film autrichien réalisé par Rudolf Jugert sorti en 1958.
Il s'agit de l'adaptation du de Carl Zuckm<|fim_middle|> artistique : Felix Smetana
Costumes : Fred Adlmüller
Photographie : Willi Sohm
Son : Otto Kraus, Hans Riedl
Montage : Paula Dvorak, Annemarie Reisetbauer
Production : Otto Dürer
Société de production : Vienna-Filmproduktion GmbH
Société de distribution : Union-Film
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Barbara Rütting : Martina Nissen
Ivan Desny : Frédéric Fleury
Bernhard Wicki : Karl Anton Chur
Dietmar Schönherr : Ferry Chur
Nina Sandt : Jessica Miller
Kurt Kasznar : Nathanael Dobbs
Johanna Terwin : Tante Matilde
Rudolf Carl : l'aubergiste
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Vienne, juste après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La jeune Martina Nissen, unique héritière de Nissen-Werke, rencontre le séduisant cosmopolite Frédéric Fleury au bord de la route et succombe à son charme. Elle est tellement enthousiasmée par le jeune homme au nom élégant qu'elle lui demande un peu plus tard s'il aimerait l'épouser. Et tout aussi surprenant, Frédéric ne s'y oppose pas. Mais son père avait stipulé dans son testament qu'elle se marierait afin non seulement d'hériter mais aussi d'avoir leur mot à dire dans l'entreprise avec son mari qui sera le gérant officiel. D'ici là, elle sera placée sous tutelle à ce titre. En effet, un peu plus tard Martina et Frédéric échangent les bagues pour sceller le mariage de raison. Pour le jeune mari Nissen, cela signifie également qu'il peut désormais développer davantage ses inventions dans cette entreprise.
La lune de miel a lieu dans le Salzkammergut, près du Frauensee. Sur place dans l'hôtel du château, un deuxième homme, d'abord représenté dans un tableau, puis également dans la vraie vie, apparaîtra bientôt dans la vie de Martina. Il s'appelle Karl Anton comte Chur. Il fait des avances, mais Martina le remet d'abord à sa place. Mais le comte, comme s'en rend compte l'héritière millionnaire, peut aussi être utile à Frédéric encore une fois pour lui rappeler clairement le sens de son « alliance de convenance » conjugale. C'est ainsi que Martina affirme hardiment à son mari que le comte Karl Anton est son véritable amant. Maintenant Frédéric se montre assez jaloux, car il commence réellement à ressentir quelque chose pour son épouse, pareillement pour Martina. À partir du mariage de convenance temporaire, une véritable relation amoureuse se développe de plus en plus pour tous les deux.
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Thanksgiving is just around the corner. I would bet my bottom dollar that you are freaking out about the family coming together and the food you need to cook. As grown-ups, we have gotten so caught up with having the "right place setting" or the "right crowd" around the Thanksgiving table that we must ask: have we completely forgotten the true meaning of the Thanksgiving holiday? If you are dreading Thanksgiving this year, or if you are feeling completely overwhelmed about it, perhaps you should explore what kids can teach us about Thanksgiving. After all, kids have this wonderful gift of truly knowing how to simply live in the moment without scrutinizing everything. Maybe by looking to the little ones, we will be inspired and reminded of the things that truly matter when it comes to this beautiful holiday.
Yes, this one is quite obvious but as grownups we tend to forget that Thanksgiving is about giving thanks and not piling on more food and waiting for black Friday sales. Kids, on the other hand, fully understand the meaning behind this holiday. Kids are so dependent on everyone to fulfill their basic needs that sometimes they have a special view on what it means to be thankful, even if it's just for the trivial things in life such as having a roof over their heads. Being thankful and showing it may be the single most important thing we do on Thanksgiving day!
"Mashed potatoes and gravy anyone?" Kids love the Thanksgiving meal, and, really, who can blame them! Most grown-ups have a childhood memory of the mashed potatoes grandma used to make or of how mom use to cook the Thanksgiving meal filling the house with yummy aromas. Thanksgiving is your opportunity to create a meal that will be remembered for generations to come! Don't stress over the menu, just cook with simplicity and<|fim_middle|> with cousins, aunts and uncles, and running around the house building forts made out of pillows! OK, so, maybe you are not exactly going to be building pillow forts with your mother-in-law, but perhaps you can remind your heart of that feeling of honesty and acceptance that you once displayed towards your family when you were a kid. Live and enjoy the blessing of having family around you and be open to the possibility of being silly and having the childlike attitude of cheer. Who knows, the family gathering may actually turn fun!
Kids love Thanksgiving for the simple things this holiday brings: the yummy pumpkin pie, the turkey coloring sheets, and the family gathering around the table. As grown-ups, we get stuck with creating the right menu, having the house spotless, and making sure the bar is well stocked to put up with family. Perhaps we should learn from kids and realize that Thanksgiving should be about the simple things in life: having a warm and cozy home, food on the table and people to share it with.
Kids have this incredible capacity to act without over analyzing every little detail. While sometimes it gets them in trouble, sometimes acting without over analyzing allows them to experience life to the fullest. This Thanksgiving, don't over analyze your life, your feelings, the menu, or your family. Simply enjoy the holiday for what it is: a time to eat, give thanks, and be merry! | love. Remember, more than cooking a massive meal, you are creating a memory.
This one is a bit difficult to accept. Yes, you may be dreading your mother-in-law's visit but, remember the feeling of family gatherings when you were a kid? Oh! The joy of getting together | 60 |
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The Monetary<|fim_middle|>, Insurance, Real Estate, Rental, and Leasing: Finance and Insurance: Federal Reserve Banks, Credit Intermediation, and Related Services for United States Metropolitan Portion [QGMPFRBCIUSMP], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QGMPFRBCIUSMP, April 25, 2019. | Authorities-Central Bank subsector groups establishments that engage in performing central banking functions, such as issuing currency, managing the Nation's money supply and international reserves, holding deposits that represent the reserves of other banks and other central banks, and acting as fiscal agent for the central government.
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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Quantity Indexes for Real GDP: Private Industries: Finance | 143 |
Bang Zoom Design invents toys. Pretty rad, right? The local company was founded in 1991 and operates out of a home-turned-office in Walnut Hills. / Image: Brian Planalp
No Doubt, This Local Company Has Created Some Of Your Kids' Favorite Toys
by Brian Planalp
It's a strange sight to see the grey plastic skeleton and bare mechanical gears of an Elmo toy without its plush red covering.
Mike Hoeting places that uncanny figurine next to a fully finished model to highlight what he and his team do best. A DAAP graduate, Hoeting co-founded Bang Zoom Design in 1991. Now he's head of design and development at the toy invention company.
And "invention" is the key word there. Bang Zoom's products are often new takes on classic designs or wholly original ideas altogether. The results are fun, novel toys you'd be happy giving to your kids or keeping for yourself.
"YOU HAVE TO BE A LITTLE BIT ADHD."
...says Hoeting of what it takes to succeed as a toy inventor.
The design of Bang Zoom's Walnut Hills office mirrors that spirit. It resembles something between a Willy Wonka factory (where, unfortunately, nothing's edible) and a 10-year-old's brain: colorful, energetic, and loaded with boxed toys and oddly defaced Pixar characters.
In the back room, Hoeting and his team work at desks blanketed in intricate sketches and proprietary prototypes. That's where they come up with the concepts<|fim_middle|> Zoom doesn't deviate too much from its legacy of designing stellar mechanical toys. He's moving thoughtfully into the digital app space.
"We are a mechanical toy shop," he says. "The app space is congested, so we don't want to compete there. What we want to do is marry together toys and apps so there's a bridge between the tangible things and the application of technology."
Hoeting envisions a child using his or her phone to bring out certain latent attributes of the toy -- to "bring objects on that toy into the play pattern of the phone," he says. That implies the use of virtual reality, similar to what is being used in Pokemon GO.
But unlike Pokemon GO, there'll be a real toy behind the phone, with the product of an expert Cincinnati design team supporting it.
Want to know more about Bang Zoom Design? Head to the website. | that underlie their toy designs -- designs Bang Zoom has patented and licensed to the likes of the toy manufacturing giant Mattel for more than $1 billion.
I guess it pays to be a little hyperactive every now and again.
TOYS IN THE 21st-FIRST CENTURY
Bang Zoom's row of additive-layering 3D printers are a reminder that the company operates firmly in the 21st century. They also use the internet for inspiration, especially YouTube. "Let's say there's a video that has 30 million hits, like a baby laughing at something," he says. "We ask ourselves, 'How can we create a product based on what they are watching?'"
But Hoeting is careful Bang | 149 |
Meng Wu, assistant engineer, and Rong Liang, project geologist with the Canada Golden Fortune Potash Corporation spoke at the Moosomin Chamber of Commerce meeting last week about a planned solution potash mine that would be located 20 km south of Broadview.
Rong and Meng were invited to the meeting to share more about the project.
"We are really happy that we can have the Chamber of Commerce know more about our project and potential ways to help with our project," said Meng, speaking to Chamber members.
Meng went over some of the logistics of the project ,including where the company is at in the approval process.
Golden Fortune Potash Corp. was founded in 2014 in Saskatoon. Meng said the company has acquired two potash permits, one south of Grenfell and Broadview, and another north of Quill Lake, but their current<|fim_middle|> Moosomin.
"I believe by the time of production, we will have a training program, especially for young people, in the surrounding towns and communities. We would like to give back to people in the communities and Southeast Saskatchewan," said Meng.
Kevin Weedmark asked where the mine was in the permitting process.
Dr. Wessel Roets asked if the medical aspect of the workers have been addressed by the company yet.
Harry Meister asked how thick the high grade potash ore body was when they cored in the mining area.
"Five meters of high grade potash," said Meng, adding that that is much smaller than the underground mines.
Larry Tomlinson asked how far out the solution mining process would go from the plant?
"In the beginning we will start to mine the area that is closest to the plant. At first it will be only one to two kilometres away from the plant. But as we keep mining we will move east," said Meng.
Bill Thorn asked what the life expectancy of the mine would be.
"We are confident that we can have this mine operating for over 50 years, and that is only for the current designated mining area, and after that we can mine the area that is already in the permit area but not in our current mining plan. So our mine will be a long term neighbor," said Meng.
Kevin Weedmark asked where they would source their permanent employees from. | focus is on the Broadview project.
He explained that the mine would be a solution mine.
"After construction, we will drill well pads, which are similar to oil and gas well pads, unto the ground and basically pump water into the potash bearing formation to mine the potash," he said.
Meng said the company began drilling exploration wells in 2014 and, based on the core analysis, found an abundance of high grade potash in the area, which spurred them to start their environmental impact assessment in 2016.
"We have started to use all the base line data and also have started our modelling on the potential impact of this project," he said.
"Now we are in the environmental impact assessment. We have submitted our technical proposal to the government and the government. We will submit an environmental impact statement with more details of the study to the ministry of environment.
"Now we are working on the impact statement and planning to submit it in the middle of 2018. We expect to wait for six months for the environmental approval. By the end of 2018 or early 2019 we will start our construction, but before that we will apply for our construction permit to allow us to break ground.
"The construction is estimated to take two and a half years. During the two and a half years of construction we estimate that we will have average construction jobs of 600, and the peak number is 1,200 construction jobs.
"So we will need a lot of support from the local businesses, from Grenfell, Broadview, Kipling, and Moosomin.
Meng said water from the plant would be drawn from a deep aquifer—the Hatfield Aquifer—located north of Grenfell and southwest of Crooked Lake. "We have done a field water investigation of the water source last summer and we have confirmed there is sufficient water to support a one million tonne production mine," he said.
He added that for the rail line, the company would build a spur line from the plant site to the CN line.
Meng explained how the solution mine would work.
He explained that the tailings would have a lot of moisture in them, so there would be little risk of salt blowing onto the ground.
"Production is only one million tonnes a year, which is way less than Rocanville and Esterhazy, which are five million tonnes a year, so there will be less impact on the area than the other mines," he said.
"In the end of the production, the formation (underground) will be like a honeycomb or cheese, because potash only accounts for a quarter of the formation, so most of the salt will stay underground—we will only extract potash.
Meng said the current focus of the company is on the environmental impact assessment. He said they have been collecting data since 2015 to examine the impacts of the project in the area, including information on air quality, acoustics, climate, hydrology, ground water, and local vegetation.
He added that this particular potash mine would use little water.
"We keep recirculating water into the cavern and reusing the water so the water consumption will be way less than any other solution mine or underground mine in Saskatchewan," he said.
He said the company will be combining all of the data into their environmental impact statement and submitting it to the Minister of Environment for examination.
Meng said community engagement has also been a big part of the project.
"We started our community engagement since mid last year. We have had open houses in the surrounding towns," he said.
Meng added that, as part of their community contribution, the company would like to build a mineral spa in the area.
"In addition we are planning to build a not-for-profit mineral spa close to the project area," he said. "We have not decided the location yet. It's not for profit because we understand it may be a tourist attraction for the community if you have a mineral spa like the one in Moose Jaw, so it may help the local economy.
After his presentation, Meng took questions from Chamber members.
Jim Davidson asked if the mine would draw any water from Pipestone Creek, or if any excess water would be put into Pipestone Creek.
Bill Thorn asked if the gypsum byproduct would be processed locally or shipped elsewhere for processing.
"We will have a gypsum tailing area to store the gypsum, but we know that gypsum is a material to manufacture drywall, so we are looking at the potential uses of the gypsum tailings but we haven't decided yet," said Meng.
Harry Meister asked if the salt and gypsum tailings would be covered or out in the open.
Harry Meister asked if the wells for the mine would all be located in one spot.
"No, we are planning to have three well pads to support one million tonnes of production. In each well pad there will be around 14 wells drilled from that well pad," said Meng.
Greg Nosterud asked who owns the company.
"Our stakeholders are mainly investors from mainline China, Hong Kong, some from Malaysia, and customers. It's not publicly traded yet," said Meng.
Bill Thorn asked where the potash would be sold.
Bill Thorn asked if the company has been in the potash mining before or if this is a first time venture and Meng said it was a first time venture.
Neil Russell asked if the mineral spa could be located in Moosomin. Meng said there was potential for the field office to be located in | 1,124 |
How Can I Increase My VIPs?
The clues to who your future prospects,<|fim_middle|> per customer.
VIPs are the most valuable customer group you have. What would it mean to you to increase this group by 65%?
Find out more about Predictive Analytics here. | customers, and VIPs will be, exist in your data. From the prospects likely to purchase, or the customers at risk of lapsing, RedEye is using Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics to successfully identify key 'next likely actions'. By doing this we put the power back in the marketer's hands, giving you the opportunity to influence those outcomes.
Using its proprietary Customer Data Platform, RedEye has built a series of Predictive Models that work on top of Travis Perkins' database. The Models analyse all customer behaviour, from past transactions to website engagement even within the last hour, to understand patterns of behaviour.
The VIP Model, used in this case, searched for patterns of behaviour that reflected the behaviour of current VIPs. This identified Travis Perkins customers who were likely to become a VIP customer. This gave Travis Perkins the opportunity to use multi-channel communications to engage those customers, encouraging them to join this incredibly value customer segment. Machine Learning comes into play to ensure those algorithms are constantly honed and tweaked to provide ever more accurate insight and models specifically in step with your brand.
For Travis Perkins, and for your brand, increasing VIPs means increased engagement and increased spend. With an overall increase in the Travis Perkins VIP segment of 5.3%, imagine the increase in spend that could be achieved for your brand.
In our fully integrated platform, Artificial Intelligence then allowed for the delivery of highly personalised messages to be sent to every individual on the Travis Perkins database, according to that prospect or customer's individual behaviour.
Every customer receives a message specific to their stage in the customer lifecycle.
The nature of the customer lifecycle means that growing the proportion of VIPs is just one of the ways that an organisation can improve lifetime value. For Travis Perkins the use of the VIP Model drove an increase in customer lifetime value of 34% in a single 12-month period.
The VIP segment has the highest lifetime value when compared to any other customer segment. Expanding this group not only means increased revenue, but also strengthens your customer retention and engagement. VIPs represent the epitome of loyal customers and are key brand advocates, the most persuasive way to market your brand and engage new customers.
At RedEye, we have been working on implementing Predictive Models on the Travis Perkins database for over a year now. Together with RedEye, Travis Perkins have progressed from trying to understand what marketing messages will work best to drive customers to become VIPs, to automatically targeting predictive segments with their latest products and offers.
Increasing the proportion of VIPs in the Travis Perkins database is just one element of increasing customer lifetime value – and it is clearly an effective method at that!
By increasing VIPs over the last eight months, the overall value of the Travis Perkins database has grown by over 86%, with those customers identified as likely VIPs seeing an increase in lifetime value of 198%. By identifying those customers likely to become a VIP and marketing specifically to them, Travis Perkins saw those customers increase their average spend by £194 | 607 |
How Do You Define 21st-Century Learning?
One question. Eleven answers.
By Elizabeth Rich — October 11, 2010 9 min read
The term "21st-century skills" is generally used to refer to certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving that advocates believe schools need to teach to help students thrive in today's world. In a broader sense, however, the idea of what learning in the 21st century should look like is open to interpretation—and controversy.
To get a sense of how views on the subject align—and differ—we recently asked a range of education experts to define 21st-century learning from their own perspectives.
Richard Allington
Professor of Education, University of Tennessee; Early-Reading Expert
I'm an old guy. I've never Tweeted, Skyped, Facebooked, or YouTubed. Oddly, I don't feel the least bit disenfranchised by technology. I am preparing this response on my laptop, I use (though not much) my Blackberry every day, and I will e-mail this response. But I'm still stuck on fostering 18th-century literacy in citizens. As far as I can tell, illiterates rarely use 21st-century literacies if only because they never developed the 18th-century kind of literacy. I think we actually could teach everyone to read (the old way) and for the life of me I cannot understand why schools would spend funds on computers when their libraries are almost empty of things students might want to read. I cannot understand why classrooms have whiteboards but no classroom libraries. The research, to date, has provided no evidence that having either computers or whiteboards in schools has any positive effect on students' reading and writing proficiencies. But school and classroom libraries are well established as essential if we plan to develop a literate citizenry. However, there is no buzz about books.
Barnett Berry
Founder and CEO, Center for Teaching Quality
Twenty-first-century learning means that students master content while producing, synthesizing, and evaluating information from a wide variety of subjects and sources with an understanding of and respect for diverse cultures. Students demonstrate the three Rs, but also the three Cs: creativity, communication, and collaboration. They demonstrate digital literacy as well as civic responsibility. Virtual tools and open-source software create borderless learning territories for students of all ages, anytime and anywhere.
Powerful learning of this nature demands well-prepared teachers who draw on advances in cognitive science and are strategically organized in teams, in and out of cyberspace. Many will emerge as teacherpreneurs who work closely with students in their local communities while also serving as learning concierges, virtual network guides, gaming experts, community organizers, and policy researchers.
Sarah Brown Wessling
2010 National Teacher of the Year
Twenty-first-century learning embodies an approach to teaching that marries content to skill. Without skills, students are left to memorize facts, recall details for worksheets, and relegate their educational experience to passivity. Without content, students may engage in problem-solving or team-working experiences that fall into triviality, into relevance without rigor. Instead, the 21st-century learning paradigm offers an opportunity to synergize the margins of the content vs. skills debate and bring it into a framework that dispels these dichotomies. Twenty-first-century learning means hearkening to cornerstones of the past to help us navigate our future. Embracing a 21st-century learning model requires consideration of those elements that could comprise such a shift: creating learners who take intellectual risks, fostering learning dispositions, and nurturing school communities where everyone is a learner.
Karen Cator
Director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education
Success in the 21st century requires knowing how to learn. Students today will likely have several careers in their lifetime. They must develop strong critical thinking and interpersonal communication skills in order to be successful in an increasingly fluid, interconnected, and complex world. Technology allows for 24/7 access to information, constant social interaction, and easily created and shared digital content. In this setting, educators can leverage technology to create an engaging and personalized environment to meet the emerging educational needs of this generation. No longer does learning have to be one-size-fits-all or confined to the classroom. The opportunities afforded by technology should be used to re-imagine 21st-century education, focusing on preparing students to be learners for life.
Milton Chen
Senior Fellow & Executive Director, Emeritus, The George Lucas Educational Foundation; author of Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools
Twenty-first-century learning shouldn't be controversial. It is simply an effort to define modern learning using modern tools. (The problem is that what's modern in 2010 has accelerated far beyond 2000, a year which now seems "so last century.")
Twenty-first-century learning builds upon such past conceptions of learning as "core knowledge in subject areas" and recasts them for today's world, where a global perspective and collaboration skills are critical. It's no longer enough to "know things." It's even more important to stay curious about finding out things.
The Internet, which has enabled instant global communication and access to information, likewise holds the key to enacting a new educational system, where students use information at their fingertips and work in teams to accomplish more than what one individual can alone, mirroring the 21st-century workplace. If 10 years from now we are still debating 21st-century learning, it would be a clear sign that a permanent myopia has clouded what should be 20/20 vision.
Steven Farr
Chief Knowledge Officer, Teach For America; author of Teaching as Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap
Twenty-first-century learning must include the 20th-century ideals of Brown v. Board of Education. Sadly, we have failed to deliver on that promise. Our system perpetuates a racial and socioeconomic achievement gap that undermines our ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity.
As we study what distinguishes highly effective teachers in our nation's most challenging contexts, we see that education reform requires much more than lists of skills. We need classroom leaders setting an ambitious vision, rallying others to work hard to achieve it, planning and executing to ensure student learning, and defining the very notion of teaching as changing the life paths of students. What will make America a global leader in the 21st century is acting on what we know to educate all children, regardless of socioeconomic background.
Steve Hargadon
Founder, Classroom 2.0; Social Learning Consultant, Elluminate
Twenty-first-century learning will ultimately be "learner-driven." Our old stories of education (factory-model, top-down, compliance-driven) are breaking down or broken, and this is because the Internet is releasing intellectual energy that comes from our latent desires as human beings to have a voice, to create, and to participate. The knowledge-based results look a lot like free-market economies or democratic governments (think: Wikipedia). Loosely governed and highly self-directed, these teaching and learning activities exist beyond the sanction or control of formal educational institutions. I believe the political and institutional responses will be to continue to promote stories about education that are highly-structured and defined from above, like national standards or (ironically) the teaching of 21st-century skills. These will, however, seem increasingly out-of-sync not just with parents, educators, and administrators watching the Internet Revolution, but with students, who themselves are largely prepared to drive their own educations.
Lynne Munson
President and Executive Director, Common Core
I define 21st-century learning as 20th- (or even 19th!-) century learning but with better tools. Today's students are fortunate to have powerful learning tools at their disposal that allow them to locate, acquire, and even create knowledge much more quickly than their predecessors. But being able to Google is no substitute for true understanding. Students still need to know and deeply understand the history that brought them and our nation to where we are today. They need to be able to enjoy man's greatest artistic and scientific achievements and to speak a language besides their mother tongue. According to most 21st-century skills' advocates, students needn't actually walk around with such knowledge in their heads, they need only to have the skills to find it. I disagree. Twenty-first-century<|fim_middle|> practice. It's time to let go of polarizing debates, consider the evidence, and get to work.
Elizabeth Rich
Opinion Editor, Education Week
Elizabeth Rich is the opinion editor for Education Week.
A version of this article appeared in the October 12, 2010 edition of Teacher PD Sourcebook as How Do You Define 21st-Century Learning?
College & Workforce Readiness Opinion I'm a First-Generation American. Here's What Helped Me Make It to College
Roni Lezama, January 11, 2021
College & Workforce Readiness Documentary A Year Interrupted
When COVID-19 closed schools for millions of students, Education Week documented two seniors as they faced an uncertain future.
Elizabeth Rich & Brooke Saias
College & Workforce Readiness COVID-19's Disproportionate Toll on Class of 2020 Graduates
The pandemic hit college-bound members of the class of 2020 from low-income homes much harder than it did their better-off peers, our survey found.
Alex Harwin
Magdalena Estiverne graduated from high school this past spring during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is currently taking online community college classes.
Eve Edelheit for Education Week
College & Workforce Readiness Conflicting Messages Exacerbate Student Detours on the Road to College
Amid the many disruptions of the COVID-19 era, it's more important than ever for educators to be consistent about the admissions requirements—and the costs—of college.
Liz Ogolo, 18, who is attending Harvard University this fall, said the transition to college was difficult without guidance from her high school, which switched to remote learning in the spring.
Angela Rowlings for Education Week
College & Workforce Readiness Coping With Disruption at School and at Home
A 2020 high school graduate struggles to continue her education despite a disrupted senior year, a move to a new home, and spotty internet access.
Magdalena Estiverne graduated from Evans High School in Orlando, Fla., this past spring during the COVID-19 pandemic. | technology should be seen as an opportunity to acquire more knowledge, not an excuse to know less.
Keith Moore
Director, Bureau of Indian Education, Department of Interior
Students in the 21st century learn in a global classroom and it's not necessarily within four walls. They are more inclined to find information by accessing the Internet through cellphones and computers, or chatting with friends on a social networking site. Similarly, many teachers are monitoring and issuing assignments via virtual classrooms.
Many of our Bureau of Indian Education schools are located in disadvantaged rural and remote areas. The BIE is working with various stakeholders to ensure that our schools have a Common Operating Environment so that students and teachers can access information beyond the classroom.
Within the federal BIE school system, we must rely upon the vision and the ability of our tribal leadership, parents, teachers, and students to work with the federal leadership to keep education a top priority.
Education Historian; author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System
To be prepared for the 21st century, our children require the following skills and knowledge: an understanding of history, civics, geography, mathematics, and science, so they may comprehend unforeseen events and act wisely; the ability to speak, write, and read English well; mastery of a foreign language; engagement in the arts, to enrich their lives; close encounters with great literature, to gain insight into timeless dilemmas and the human condition; a love of learning, so they continue to develop their minds when their formal schooling ends; self-discipline, to pursue their goals to completion; ethical and moral character; the social skills to collaborate fruitfully with others; the ability to use technology wisely; the ability to make and repair useful objects, for personal independence; and the ability to play a musical instrument, for personal satisfaction.
Susan Rundell Singer
Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of Natural Sciences, Carleton College
Adaptability, complex communication skills, non-routine problem solving, self-management, and systems-thinking are essential skills in the 21st-century workforce. From my perspective as a scientist and science educator, the most effective way to prepare students for the workforce and college is to implement and scale what is already known about effective learning and teaching. Content vs. process wars should be ancient history, based on the evidence from the learning sciences. Integrating core concepts with key skills will prepare students for the workplace and college. We need to move past mile-wide and inch-deep coverage of ever-expanding content in the classroom. Developing skills in the context of core concepts is simply good | 525 |
A colorful, delicious addition to any summer party!
This platter of grilled and roasted veggies is from a barbecue we had in celebration of my Dad's birthday: Grilled zucchini, yellow squash, portobello mushrooms, baby eggplant, radicchio, red onions and roasted broccolini, red and yellow peppers and tomatoes. It was colorful, loaded with everyone's favorites and so yummy!
But…. if only you saw the mayhem behind the scenes ?I grill and roast veggies all the time but have never made so many different vegetables or such a large quantity at once… let's just say I did not allot enough time and ended up with the outdoor grill, indoor grill and oven going all at once! ? So many<|fim_middle|> idea but never so much as at a summer party! It adds color, nutrients and works well with just about everything. I use a combination of roasting and grilling to maximize time and space, but either one will work.
Quantity depends on number of people serving. I tend to always end up with too much of some and not enough of others! And I like having extra for the next few days.
For all: Clean and leave skin on. The most important thing is to cut vegetables in similar thickness to make cooking easier.
In preheated broiler, roast peppers for approximately20-30 minutes, rotating midway through, or until blackened. You want them black so that the skin peels off easier.
Remove from oven and place in a brown paper bag, seal and let cool for about 15 minutes. Then remove from bag and the blacked skins should peel off easily. Slice peppers into strips.
The key to getting those great grill marks is to not shift the vegetables too frequently once they've been placed on the hot grill. I tend to flip only once. I find the best grill marks are easiest on the grill pan. | lessons learned ?. But it was all worth it!
Plan ahead in terms of type and quantity of vegetables. Think of your guests and their favorite vegetables and consider limiting it to those, and maybe adding in a smaller quantity of other vegetables if you want some additional color.
Grill or roast a day ahead of time! This will be a huge time saver and they will taste just as great. Just make your platter and let it get to room temperature before serving.
Invest in a grill tray for outdoor grilling. This was key in keeping vegetables from falling through the grill.
A grilled and roasted vegetable platter is always a good | 126 |
What If We Could Find Sick People Before They Knew They Were Sick?
By Russell Tillitt September 15, 2020 Mobile Behavioral Data No Comments
Embee and UC Berkeley are working on a COVID-19 early warning system as part of a study titled "Social distancing and sheltering in place: Using a nationwide smartphone panel with location data to understand population heterogeneity and inform intervention methods," led by UC Berkeley researchers Daniel Chatman, Joan Walker, and Daniel Rodriguez.
The pandemic has forced a lot of change in a short period of time. At Embee, we are endeavoring to see if we can pitch in. We're working with UC Berkeley to build an early warning system that can examine the data we collect from our panel using Berkeley's artificial intelligence and machine learning capability, combined with its world-leading epidemiology expertise. The goal is to be able to spot outbreaks before they start based on the behavioral cues, app usage, and mobility.
Let's go through the rationale for this undertaking.
If you think back to the early days of COVID-<|fim_middle|> know they are sick, when contact tracing and other mitigation methods can be most effective.
This is what we're endeavoring to do along with UC Berkeley. We're working on something of an early warning system—like a buoy out on the ocean that indicates a tidal wave is coming. The work is part of a study (see the announcement here), titled "Social distancing and sheltering in place: Using a nationwide smartphone panel with location data to understand population heterogeneity and inform intervention methods," led by UC Berkeley researchers Daniel Chatman, Joan Walker, and Daniel Rodriguez.
That kind of timely data is critical so that a community can take action before an outbreak becomes a crisis—or even before it becomes an outbreak.
Embee and Berkeley are working to build a predictive model that combines Embee's survey and behavioral data (things like indicators of mobility, app usage, and behavioral cues) with Berkeley's expertise in AI, ML, and epidemiology to predict where outbreaks are likely to happen with the goal of finding sick people before they get sick.
If we suddenly see an uptick in people searching for bars, movie theaters, and restaurants, there's a high likelihood they'll end up going to one of those establishments. Looking at people's intended behavior (in this case, searching) is a great way to anticipate what actual behavior will be. We can also look at other factors, including search patterns, and app downloads and usage.
Looked at in the aggregate, these are leading indicators: Are people going to bars, restaurants, and movie theaters? Are they also searching for COVID symptoms? Are they downloading medical apps? Are they scheduling doctor's appointments? Embee is working with the Berkeley machine learning and artificial intelligence group to develop AI-based models built on this very data to predict outbreaks and alert local health officials with advice on where to increase testing.
We are early on with this initiative. But we're hopeful that the results will live up to the ambition we've laid out here.
So why are we doing this?
It's pretty simple. We want to try to make life better for us all.
I don't know about you. But I'm longing for a return to normalcy—not the new normal we all hear about, but the real normal we all had in February and the months and years before.
One way to do that is to make the existing response systems we have more effective, efficient and surgically precise. By combining UC Berkeley's expertise and Embee's data and tools, we can help.
Stay with us as we update you on our progress. | 19, most states were on some kind of lockdown, and movement was very limited. Highways during rush hour looked like a scene from The Walking Dead. Pretty much everyone was at home, and mobile phones weren't very mobile.
Inevitably, whether we were ready or not, society started to open back up. There was considerable discussion about the risks people would take as they venture out into the world. As an area opens up, how can you mitigate risk?
For example, if you merely drive past a restaurant in your car (assuming you're by yourself or accompanied by a family member), there's no risk at all. If you go and sit outside the restaurant, there's a slightly elevated risk from passersby and fellow diners. Then again, if you go inside the restaurant, there's an even higher risk because transmission of the virus is more likely indoors. It turns out, knowing the degree of movement, alone, isn't enough. Instead, it's about where you go and what you do.
So, while researchers worked to develop therapeutics and vaccines, those of us in technology wondered how we could help.
Could we redirect the tools we use every day to help slow the spread?
Contact tracing, which went from a term no one knew to a buzzword at dizzying speed, became the focus of a number of tech firms. But, useful as it could be in some ways, the idea behind contact tracing wasn't to prevent outbreaks. Rather, it was to trace an outbreak after it had started. Plus, given the degree to which outbreaks can spread among asymptomatic people, the reality is, by the time it becomes apparent there's an outbreak, it may already be too late for contact tracing to be effective. As one of the epidemiologists from Berkeley put it to me, once sick people start showing up at hospitals, the "networks already overlap" too much.
So, we asked a question: Could we, effectively, find sick people before they know they are sick? In other words, could we use information about what people are doing to spot patterns and find out whether there's a heightened risk of an outbreak in a specific area? If so, then we could alert authorities so they can deploy precious testing and medical resources to a pinpointed area to find sick people before they | 468 |
GAVAN REILLY: FG can hardly claim the high moral ground on Meath Co Council seat shenanigans
Wednesday, 3rd July, 2019 12:09pm
Cllr Sharon Keogan was elected in two electoral areas
You will have read elsewhere on these pages of the events at County Hall in Navan – and of the weird situation where Fianna Fáil councillors ended up voting against the nomination of a Fianna Fáil councillor to take the vacant seat being left by Sharon Keogan in Ashbourne.
Be clear: there's not a soul in County Hall that doesn't know how empty seats in county councils are filled. The practice is perfectly clear, and even defined by law: the Local Government Act 2001 outlines how if the seat was held by a member of a political party, it's up to the party itself to decide who should fill the vacancy.
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This makes perfect sense: the only alternative would be to fill council seats through the brute force of a council by-election, in which case the seat would be automatically claimed<|fim_middle|>. It's exactly the same responsible approach that FF has taken to putting FG in power in Leinster House, and FG know it.
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Wayne Harding elected Cathaoirleach of Meath County Council | by the ruling coalition. That would have meant that when FF's Shane Cassells became a TD in 2016, or SF's Joe Reilly passed away last year, their seats would have been taken over by the Fine Gael and independent coalition that ran the council at the time.
In fairness, the law does stipulate that when it's an independent seat up for grabs, it's supposed to be up to the full council to fill. But that's hardly fair – it assumes independent councillors are incapable of acting as a group, or having any input in their own succession. But if an independent left-wing councillor like Alan Lawes were elected to the Dáil next year, would it be fair for Fianna Fáil to use its council clout to claim the seat for itself?
This is where the council dispute this week becomes very clear. It's entirely plausible that Sharon Keogan could be on her way to Leinster House in the next 12 months. The obvious procedure in that case would be to let Keogan nominate her own successor. So why would that Keogan vacancy, in Laytown, be treated any differently to the one in Ashbourne?
There are certainly precedents for recruiting the 'next best' candidate to fill the vacant seat, as Lisa Mellor would have been – such as in 1979 when Frank Godfrey managed to win three seats on Drogheda Corporation, and handed two to the highest defeated candidate. But back then, there was no ban on the dual mandate, and there simply wasn't a culture of having to fill vacancies, because they rarely arose. Nor was there a law to say how it should be done.
Lisa Mellor is certainly entitled to feel a little bit hard done by, having lost out in an election to a candidate who quite evidently could not take up the seat she had just won. Likewise, those in Stamullen who don't have a councillor are also entitled to feel a bit overlooked that they remain symbolically unrepresented.
But both have been led down the garden path. The governing bloc in Meath has already been formed, and the independents would have been fully entitled to walk out if FF turned around and outvoted Keogan's own nominee to install their own sub instead. Such an act would have led the council into near-ungovernability for the next five years.
Fine Gael might preach the moral high ground by trying to ensure the opinions of the voters of Laytown were honoured by inviting Mellor to join them in County Hall. But they're also guilty of no small amount of shenanigans, engineering a situation where FF had little choice but to turn down one of their own | 544 |
The original 90,000 square-foot<|fim_middle|> mail order company established in 1983, has grown from a single delivery truck selling first aid kits to this national full-line safety products company that will employ (200) people at the new facility. | facility, designed and built for Northern Safety Co., was completed in December 1998. The Butler Manufacturing Company pre-engineered building consists of a two-story Office Building and a Distribution Facility. The office building is 15,000 square-feet per floor, with an E.P.D.M. rubber roof system, architectural masonry, light gauge steel, aluminum strip windows, and an E.I.F.S. wall system. The distribution facility is a 60,000 square-foot Butler "Landmark 2000" long span structure with a 31 foot eave height. The roof system is Butler's MR-24 standing seam with an "Elaminator" insulation system and "Shadowall" wall panel. The facility was designed for future expansions up to (3) times the initial phase. Other features of the project include a "Super-Flat" warehouse floor, E.S.F.R. sprinkler system, automated conveyor and racking systems and a two-story open entrance atrium. We returned in 2000 to double the size of the warehouse bringing the total building area to 150,000 square-feet.
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Dr. Miga grew up in Warwick, RI, the youngest of seven children. He attended college at Brown University in Providence, RI graduating in 1991 with a degree in Biomedical Ethics. He also completed medical school at Brown in 1995. Following medical school he moved to Denver and completed residence in Pediatrics at University of Colorado – The Children's Hospital. Dr. Miga joined<|fim_middle|> All 4 of our children like him and are very comfortable with him. He takes the time to have conversations with them about school, friends, activities and home life. He is very knowledgeable and gives great advice. We highly recommend him and the practice.
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Dr. Miga currently lives in Denver and enjoys spending time with his children, Luke, Addie, and Bennett.
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I have always been impressed with how well Danny engages with my children. We have been seeing him since my oldest daughter was born 13 years ago. I was lucky enough to work with both he and Sharon Sagel when they were residents. It was here that I became impressed with Danny's bedside manner and witnessed his love of children. SO when I had my oldest daughter I knew who I was going to take her to! Dr. Miga will speak with them on their level and as stated prior, he will speak with them about things they are doing in school, sports, etc. He directs questions to the child . I also appreciate that he tells them what he is going to do BEFORE he does it, this is very important with my older daughter (Cameron) especially. She feels very comfortable with him. Danny asked if she would like to switch to a female provider now that she is older but she refused, telling me later that she feels most comfortable with him. My younger daughter (Tess) also loves to see Dr. Miga because he "asks me silly questions and he is funny". I think it is Dr. Miga's calm easy demeanor that puts them at ease. Thanks for being a great provider for my girls. Keep up the great work!!
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Babacar commits future to Fiorentina
The Senegalese international has turned his back on rumours of a switch to the English Premier League, maintaining his faith in the Viola
By Connall Mar 30, 2016, 11:41am CEST
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Khouma Babacar has poured cold water over the rumours linking him with a move to England, committing his future to Florence and focusing on his desire to return to the score-sheet.
Opportunities haven't come knocking all too often for Babacar this season, mainly down to Nikola Kalinic's impressive form at the<|fim_middle|> breathed after an interview with local newspaper Corriere Fiorentino, in which he revealed the difficulty he would face in moving away.
"I've never thought about going to the Premier League, even though for a striker life would be simpler [over there]" he said.
"I don't want to leave.
"I would be disheartened, leaving this city after nine years wouldn't be easy.
"No one has said anything to me yet and I'm only thinking about scoring to get this beautiful Fiorentina going again."
Phew! For now at least, it seems that B1 and B2 partnership will be staying intact. | start of the campaign, which as a result has seen the 23-year-old linked with a plethora of clubs abroad, including English side Crystal Palace.
However, a sigh of relief can now be | 40 |
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Trump vs. Iran – What holds the future?
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The paramount question at this stage is not what the United States will do in the nuclear domain but how it will act on Irans regional violations of the spirit of the agreement. The 13 October statement describes Irans steady expansion of proxy forces and terrorist networks … in hopes of dominating the greater Middle East … as they try to establish a bridge from Iran to Lebanon and Syria. The administration, according to this document, will address the totality of these threats from and malign activities by the Government of Iran and will seek to bring about a change in the Iranian regimes behavior.
During the Eisenhower and Reagan administrations, rollback of Soviet power from Eastern Europe was a cause célèbre for the right. Containment, as advocated by George Kennan, was condemned as immoral in consigning the populations of Eastern Europe to Russian domination. And, with Munich in mind, it was also deplored as a strategic blunder. Rollback was never embraced as policy, however, because Eastern Europe was more important to the Soviets than it was to the United States. Asymmetry of interest virtually guaranteed escalation and Soviet victory.
The rollback of Irans presence to its territorial borders poses the same difficulty. Proponents of rollback, who include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman as well as Trump-administration principals, argue that Iran seeks to carve out land corridors to the Levant to embed itself on Israels borders while sustaining a wounded Syrian regime. Land and naval bases would follow. Land corridors naturally evoke interwar geopolitics; this exaggerates the stakes by creating the impression that we are now in a pre-war crisis that will determine the fate of the West.
Iran, however, has pursued these goals for decades, certainly since 1982. Iran fed Hizbullahs stockpiles of Iranian missiles not through a land corridor, but by flying them in cargo planes to Damascus and then shipping them by road the short distance to Lebanon. Until 2003, when the US removed Iraq as a barrier to Iranian land access to Syria, Tehran did fine without such corridors.
Since a bloodied Reagan administration withdrew from Lebanon, having entered to ensure Americas global credibility, successive US administrations have rejected rollback of Iran as infeasible. Israels forced withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000 reflected the same calculation. Perhaps there was such a possibility in early 2011, when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad supposedly agreed to abandon Iran in return for the Golan Heights. The outbreak of civil war that spring eliminated the possibility of any such deal.
According to State Department testimony on 11 January 2018, President Trumps strategic judgment calls for an indeterminate US military presence in the crucial north and northeast of Syria. This continuous deployment is meant to achieve a number of objectives: to foster the political reconstitution of a Syria without the Assad family at the helm; to protect the largely Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, who fought so valiantly against the Islamic State (ISIS); to prevent the resurgence of ISIS; to facilitate humanitarian aid; and to ensure the diminishment of Irans malign activities in Syria.14 Members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, who were the recipients of this strategic judgment, asked for clarification, given that there was no conceivable scenario in which Iran would not have a role in Syrias future. And if this were indeed the case, then the US presence would necessarily be permanent. Asked to clarify, the witness, a long-serving, customarily punctilious diplomat, initially refused to answer in open session; but his implication that the purpose of US troops in Syria was too secret to reveal didnt fly. Pressed further, he disclosed that the administration was deeply concerned with the activities of Iran, with the ability of Iran to enhance those activities through a greater ability to move materiel into Syria.
Yet this raises additional questions. Iranian land routes through Syria do not pass through the northern areas where US forces are now deployed. The so-called corridor transits southern Syria where the borders of Jordan, Iraq and Syria meet, or central and eastern Syria around the beleaguered city of Deir ez-Zor. The southern flashpoint includes the neighbourhood of al-Tanaf and Al<|fim_middle|> and ground forces.
Indeed, it would exceed the last great expansion of Americas force structure which began in the last year of the Carter administration and vastly increased in Reagans first term. Adjusted for inflation, the Trump budget matches Reagans cataract of cash for the Pentagon. The difference is that Reagan thought that a powerful military was the prerequisite for negotiation with Americas adversaries. For Trump, negotiations are valorised but avoided, precluded by unilateral action or undermined, as shown by the withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Paris climate-change accord and now the JCPOA. A gigantic military seems therefore to be an end in itself. If the administration is genuinely determined to see the Baghdad—Damascus highway reopen under the control of the United States, a perpetual US occupation of a wasteland amid unreliable tribal coalitions is in the cards. As I have noted previously in this journal, for the Trump administration, this is where rollback begins. But, as in the Cold War, someone needs to be asking where it ends.
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The apparent confusion could signify that the administrations reliance on Iranian corridors as a predicate for a long-term presence in Syria is merely cover for another purpose, such as threatening the Assad regime with attack if, in the fullness of time, Assad doesnt depart. Or it could presage an impending adjustment of the US military presence to interdict the nettlesome corridors. Israels alleged 18 June airstrikes on Shia fighters on the Syria—Iraq border, reportedly killing 52, reinforced perceptions that momentum towards concerted military action along these lines was building. Or the ambiguity could mean that a coherent strategy was being formulated but was not quite ready for prime time. Or it might simply reflect real confusion. If so, the Trump administration would turn out looking like many of its predecessors for whom neither marriage nor murder was an acceptable resolution to the tensions entailed by the bilateral relationship. A couple of signs pointed to the latter possibility: the administrations eventual decision to conduct rather limited strikes in response to the Douma chemical attack and its reluctance to engage Iranian forces in eastern Syria. But the subsequent appointment of John Bolton as national security advisor and Mike Pompeo as secretary of state indicated a harder line. Furthermore, the Trump defence budget suggests that the administration is gearing up for a fight. The 2018 request would significantly increase the size of the navy, air force | 285 |
I splurged this year. I admit it. But there's a method to my madness<|fim_middle|> excited!
I'm so thrilled you won Julie! Ha, glad you enjoyed my silly quote.
Oh My! I purchased the same little candles from balsam hill and I love them dearly! One set was enough to complement the rest of my ornaments 9′ tree.
I love your beautiful angel. My wonderful grandmother was a very devout Catholic and had angels all over her house. Seeing yours make me think of her. Thanks for the memory.
I love buying thinks that can be used year round! The angel is gorgeous! I listened to my first podcast and loved it! I listened to the one about how to choose a sofa. Your story about your first couch was hilarious! You have a wonderful sense of humor and great style Anita! I love your book too! There is no way I would buy a couch every 7 years! Mine need to last. Bit longer. I finally purchased a beautiful new sofa this year after looking for over 2 years.
True confession, my sofa is about 10 years old, so Yvonne is going to tell me to ditch it!
I know you said the angel you purchased was sold out but could you share with us where you purchased it or who manufactured it. Thanks so much. | . Here's my splurge, this adorable angel! What I do is buy angels during the Christmas sales and lambs during Easter sales, then I use them year round. This angel has a candle holder that currently is holding a glass full of greenery. I'm going to keep the angel out all year and put seasonal things in his hands.
Doesn't he have a sweet face? I'm not sure if it's a boy or girl. I buy angels at Christmas time (typically on sale) and then use them all year.
You can see my evergreens in the Moroccan tea glass.
Check out today's episode of the podcast. It's one of our favorites. Today we are doing a Best of episode on our favorite paint colors.
Here he is holding a large mercury glass ornament. In February, he'll be holding a Valentine's Day heart. I may look for a lamb ornament so he can hold a lamb during Easter-time.
His wings are gorgeous with gold leaf gently applied.
He is sold out, but I've curated some other Christmas items below that could be used all year.
I've also gotten some super charming candles for my Christmas tree.
These are obviously electric so there's no open flames. The candles clip on the tree branches. I used one set for this small tree. If you were ordering these candles for a full sized Christmas tree, I am guessing you would need 3 – 5 sets. You can find them CLICK HERE.
They really are a lovely addition to a tree. You could also use them on your fireplace mantle or staircase attached to a garland.
I hope you are enjoying your time between Christmas and New Year's Day.
And thank you so much for your interest in the two giveaways! The Polder's Old World Market giveaway was won by Debbie C. The Jackson and Perkins giveaway was won by Julie B.
I have an affinity for angels and use them in my decor all year long as well. They are especially meaningful at Christmas and Easter time but I do so enjoy them every day!
Love your beautiful angel! Would love to know where you got the French candlestick lamps on the table. I am looking for one to use in my family room.
It is from Aidan Gray Marsha. I ordered it from their website.
I too am a sucker for angels and cherubs. I have 4! But if I had seen that precious herb, I'm sure I'd have snatched it up too. AND he's utilitarian! Can't beat a multitasking angel!
Love your angel and love how you will be able to have fun with him all year! The candles look neat, too.
Angels are so special, and yours is particularly nice! I like the idea of using something year round in different seasonal ways!
Thank you so much for the J&P prize! I'm really | 576 |
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Designed by Ecstatic | 9 edition of the Odlum Brown VanOpen, and the former Junior World No. 4 didn't disappoint his local fans as he dominated in a 6-3, 6-1 win over JC Aragone of the United States, who was entered into the singles main draw as an alternate.
Sigouin used a loss against Aragone two weeks ago at the Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships where he was beat soundly as motivation to win this one. "He beat me pretty good, so it felt good to get revenge, I learned from our previous match and tried to take from what didn't work there and utilize it here and it worked."
The 20-year-old, who earned Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-America honours in men's singles earlier this spring for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels, says it is always a special feeling when he takes the court at Hollyburn.
"It means a lot… I've been coming here for a long time. I remember being 10 years old and sitting in the stands just watching people like Baghdatis and Dudi Sela play," he explained. "To see that I'm at that level now and play in the same tournaments as those guys is special, I worked really hard for this."
In total, 32 matches were played on Day One of the Odlum Brown VanOpen, the most in one day in the tournament's history. Organizers also announced that the tournament is sold out for the remaining six days. It's the second straight year that fans have scooped up every available ticket for the event.
The action continues Tuesday, August 13 at 10 am, featuring matches from Men's Singles First and Second Round, Women's Singles First Round, and Men's and Women's Doubles First Round. A full schedule is available here.
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Q: What characterizations are available for two-photon Bell state light sources? It is often technologically important to know how photon statistics change over time when a light source is turned on. A light source that comes to full intensity/visibility in a nanosecond after it is turned on has different uses than<|fim_middle|> the middle of last year, which received no answers or comments. [I hope this question is sufficiently more focused to elicit an answer or comments. I'd like an answer, not upvotes, for this question.]
| a light source that takes a second to come to full intensity/visibility.
For the case of correlated two-photon Bell-state light sources, are there any characterizations of the increase of the visibility of Bell inequality violation after different types of such light sources are turned on? From a foundational point of view I'm interested in whether it takes a nanosecond or a second for the Bell violation to come to full visibility, but from a technical point of view I'm interested in whether different light sources have significantly different visibility curves when they are turned on.
Ultimately, I would like to see a characterization of the relationship of the emergence of visibility over time for the uncorrelated single photon component relative to the emergence of visibility over time for the two-photon Bell state component for different light sources.
I would also be interested in characterizations for the same light source but for different ways of interrupting (or modulating) the light source, instead of simply turning the power off and on.
This somewhat or perhaps largely duplicates my question "Do Bell inequality violations appear instantly when the source is turned on, or do they increase over time?" from | 227 |
Hagel warns Congress of more severe spending cuts in 2014
14 July 2013 (Last Updated July 14th, 2013 18:30)
The US Department of Defense (DoD) will have to implement dracon<|fim_middle|>D is forced to absorb an additional $52 billion in budget cuts next year due to the Congress' failure to pass the legislation that would avert further cuts.
"If the cuts continue, the department will have to make sharp cuts with far-reaching consequences, including limiting combat power, reducing readiness and undermining the national security interests of the United States," Hagel said.
In addition to declining combat readiness, the cuts will lead to a freeze in hiring, further deterioration of facilities and maintenance funds, according the defence secretary.
If these cuts are applied to military personnel funding: "DoD could accommodate the required reductions only by putting into place an extremely severe package of military personnel actions, including halting all accessions, ending all permanent-change-of-station moves, stopping discretionary bonuses and freezing all promotions."
"DoD could accommodate the required reductions only by putting into place an extremely severe package of military personnel actions."
The Pentagon was provided with some flexibility by the Congress for management of the 2013 cut requirements, however 650,000 civilians were still laid off without pay for 11 days.
Expressing DoD's intentions to avoid lay offs in 2014, the defence secretary called on the Congress to collaborate with the department to avoid spending cuts and also to approve the President's defence budget request.
Besides requesting gradual military pay raises and fee raises for some military retiree's health care, the president's budget also seeks retirement of ageing Air Force and Navy assets, as well as a new base realignment and closure programme.
The letter was written by Hagel in response to the request made by the Senate Armed Services Committee for detailed information on how persistent cuts could impact the military.
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Medical device maker NxStage filters out the pessimists and rockets higher by as much as 13% after reporting better-than-expected third-quarter earnings results and lifting its full-year sales forecast.
What's happening: Shares of NxStage Medical (NASDAQ:NXTM), a developer of medical devices used to treat kidney failure and other blood-related treatments, surged higher by as much as 13% after reporting better than expected third-quarter earnings results before the opening bell.
Why it's happening: For the quarter, NxStage Medical reported a 13% increase in revenue to a record $75<|fim_middle|>.08 per share, it reported in the year-ago quarter. However, the net loss was also smaller than the company's prior guidance and did include $4.1 million in losses associated with the "market development activities" associated with its NsStage Kidney Care. Comparatively speaking, Wall Street had been expecting just $71.8 million in revenue and a loss of $0.13 per share.
Furthermore, NxStage boosted its prior full-year sales guidance to a fresh range of $296 million-$298 million (prior: $290 million-$293 million), and narrowed its full-year loss estimate to $24 million-$26 million (prior: $23 million-$27 million). By comparison, the consensus on Wall Street had been calling for only $292.2 million in revenue for the full year. | .3 million, which happened to be higher than the prior guidance issued by the company of $71 million-$72.5 million issued during its second-quarter earnings release. NxStage specifically cites the rapid adoption of its NxStage System One hemodialysis machine at home, in both domestic and international markets, as the reason for its revenue surge. Overall, home revenue rose 20% year over year to $40.4 million, with critical care revenue also jumping 24% year over year to $13.3 million.
Net loss for the quarter totaled $6.7 million, or $0.11 per share, which was a bit wider than the $5 million net loss, or $0 | 149 |
Glow-in-the-dark pep rally illuminates school spirit
Shivi Sharma, Staff Writer
The fifth pep rally of the year, called the "Blackout" pep rally, took place Friday morning in the Coppell High School arena, prior to the Coppell-Marcus football game. The incorporation of glow-in-the-dark made it unlike<|fim_middle|> friends and family, listening to music...
3 Responses to "Glow-in-the-dark pep rally illuminates school spirit"
A Gardner on October 23rd, 2018 9:15 pm
It's Nathan Payan – you spelled his last name wrong 😉
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Michelle Chaney on December 6th, 2018 5:02 pm
Hi! My school is currently planning a black light/glow in the dark pep rally for the upcoming Jan., but we are having trouble with the gym lights. What did your school do to turn off the gym lights so that it was completely dark? Our gym has flood/fog lights that still remain on after the large circular lights turn off. Thanks! | the others before it.
Encouraged to wear white and neon colors, the student body swarmed into the bleachers, welcomed by the band, cheerleaders and Lariettes.
As has been tradition this year, the pep rally was led by Student Council President Jay Dempsey and senior Plunger Boy Nathan Payan, who greeted the audience prior to the series of performances by various CHS departments.
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Coppell High School senior class president Jay Dempsey, and senior Plunger Boy Nathan Payan lead the pep rally in the CHS Arena on Oct. 19. The blackout pep rally is when students wear neon and white while the lights are out and the cheerleaders, Lariettes and band perform.
"That's one of the great things about the pep rally, where you get to celebrate some of the accomplishments of our athletic program, the cheerleaders, the Lariettes, the band and the choir," assistant principal Ryan Lam said.
LED lights placed on four sides of the arena illuminated the cheerleaders as they performed their routine in neon shorts and scrunchies, their faces and legs dotted with glow-in-the-dark paint. The drumline came next, standing out in glowing white shirts as they did their routine.
"It definitely led to a difference, compared to the last four pep rallies," Lam said. "The kids shined, literally and figuratively. It was a good opportunity for them to have a little fun with it and see a different type of show."
Students waved their phone flashlights and glow sticks about in the darkness, a move making the event reminiscent of a concert. During the school-wide "wave" around the room, the beams of light could be seen rippling in semi-coordinated motion.
The administration's planning in making this pep rally unique has been in the works for a while.
"We started the planning process last spring," Principal Dr. Nicole Jund said. "We wanted to do something special with a couple of the pep rallies so we looked at the calendar and tried to figure out where we could accomplish something like this."
The idea for the pep rally seems to have originated from a video called "Why Isn't My School This Lit?", where a student plays the piano during a pep rally and the room descends into darkness. At CHS's Blackout Pep Rally, senior Benjamin Henze played a short piece on the piano positioned in front of the band.
"It was very different from other pep rallies in the past," senior Anika Qureshi said. "I think it was very fun because it was glow-in-dark-themed and that's something I've never experienced before."
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We are committed to engaging with the many diverse peoples and organizations of our community, particularly in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, but also on a national and international scale, to work towards the goals of a knowledgeable public and a peaceful and environmentally sustainable planet. The Statement is also geared towards inspiration, an attempt to make their employees feel like they are part of something big, motivate them into working hard under the mantra that they are making a difference. With that in mind, here are seven mission statements that you can use as inspiration. The book store company manages their inventory wisely in order to keep costs at a minimal for their customers. Be the global leader in customer value. The first step of this evaluation is looking at the primary activities and their cost effectiveness. Buyers have greater influence over the industry, because they have more buying options and faster price comparison ability.
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As of June 28, 2012, the company operated 691 bookstores in 50 states, as well as 641 college bookstores serving approximately 4. The bookstore operations on selected campuses promote the brand identity that is an imperative component to responding to any specific external environmental stimuli. In many cases, such statements are big, fat wastes of time, the spouting of pie-in-the-sky pabulum that the authoring organization is utterly incapable of emulating. Mission: Our mission is to inspire healthier communities by connecting people to real food. They are a reliable source to learn the definition of business terms and phrases. | try-on at home for free -- and keep what you want. Mission: The mission of Southwest Airlines is dedication to the highest quality of Customer Service delivered with a sense of warmth, friendliness, individual pride, and Company Spirit. Several e-readers and e-book devices from Sony, Apple, and Samsung have been introduced; yet have not seen success as the Kindle from Amazon. We provide the best value to customers. We are a team of highly qualified professionals, dedicated to providing services of unparalleled quality to our customers. Every organization, small or large, rich or poor, profit or non, has a mission statement. The company designs, manufactures, and markets cars, trucks and other automobile parts in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific regions.
The first thing to understand is that a mission statement explains who the organization is, which markets it serves and what its overall goals are. However, an effective mission statement should contain the following characteristics: • Brief - it should be easy to understand and remember • Flexible - it should be able to accommodate change • Distinctive - it should make the business stand out Examples of Mission Statements Psion plc Our mission is to grow rapidly and profitably through innovation in mobile internet. Qantas' vision is to be one of Australia's great companies and oneof the world's great airlines. There must be a decision of the operation style of the business: will it continue its traditional, in-store, operations, along with the digital market all under one business operation. Caterpillar people will increase shareholder value by aggressively pursuing growth and profit opportunities that leverage our engineering, manufacturing, distribution, information management and financial services expertise. Caterpillar will provide its worldwide workforce with an environment that stimulates diversity, innovation, teamwork, continuous learning and improvement and rewards individual performance. This process includes regular senior management meetings where they set short and long-term initiatives as well as extensive planning and development of.
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Гразульф II (; умер около 653) — герцог Фриуля (610-е/620-е — около 653) из рода Гаузы.
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Основным повествующим о Гразульфе II нарративным источником является «» Павла Диакона.
Гразульф II был младшим сыном правителя Фриульского герцогства Гразульфа I. Его старшим братом был Гизульф II, погибший в 610 году во время нашествии аваров.
Гразульф II унаследовал Фриульское герцогство, после того как византийцами были убиты его племянники, герцоги-соправители Тасо и Какко. Противоречивость свидетельств первичных источников не позволяет установить точную дату гибели фриульских правителей. Следуя труду Павла Диакона, описывавшего убийство герцогов ранее смерти короля Агилульфа, ряд историков считает, что это событие произошло в 616 году. Другие же авторы датируют убийство временем экзархатства Григория I, то есть, 619—625 годами. На основании же свидетельства франкского историка Фредегара гибель Тасо и Какко датируется периодом около 626 года, когда экзархом Равенны был уже Исаак.
Павел Диакон сообщает о том, что получение Гразульфом II власти вызвало такое недовольство среди членов правившей семьи, что два его племянника, Радоальд и Гримоальд, навс<|fim_middle|>
Правители Европы VII века
Персоналии Лангобардского королевства VII века | егда уехали из Фриуля и поселись при дворе своего родственника и воспитателя, герцога Беневенто Арехиса I.
О дальнейшей жизни Гразульфа II сведений в исторических источниках не сохранилось. Предполагается, что он мог скончаться в середине VII века (возможно, около 653 года), после чего власть над Фриульским герцогством перешла к Аго.
В 1874 году при ремонтных работах в историческом центре Чивидале-дель-Фриули была найдена могила знатного лангобарда. В погребении был обнаружен каменный саркофаг с граффити «Cisul» на крышке, на основании чего этот археологический памятник получил название «Могила Гизульфа». Однако в ходе изучения найденных в захоронении артефактов, историки пришли к выводу, что погребение относится к периоду не ранее середины VII века. Это позволяет предположить, что в могиле находились останки не одного из двух фриульских герцогов по имени Гизульф, а Гразульфа II.
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Netflix updated its Windows 10 version of the popular application with a new Notifications tab. Now, if you are using Netflix on a computer running Windows 10, you will now be notified about new series and movies that are added to the application.
This is very useful especially if you are watching a TV series on Netflix. For example, if a new season of a series you previously watched on Netflix appears, the application will notify you via the new Notifications tab. While this new feature doesn't do too much, we think that a good number of Netflix users will be very happy about it. As expected, the new version of Netflix also comes with performance improvements and bug fixes, meaning that it should run smoother than before.
Sticky Notes app also receives a new update
Alongside the Netflix update, Microsoft released a minor update for its Sticky Notes application. This new update can be accessed only by Windows 10 Insiders and doesn't bring a lot of new features outside the most visible: an "improved" Trash icon. However, even if this update doesn't come with bug fixes or other significant improvements, we can say that the application is quite stable.
There are just two weeks away until Microsoft releases the Windows 10 Anniversary Update which will bring lots of new features and improvements to users. The American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington will most likely improve the app with future updates, especially since Sticky Notes app will is distributed via the official Windows Store.
This new update will be available for all Windows 10 users once the Windows 10 Anniversary Update will be released to public.
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The fun started soon after we left Mfuwe with an elephant very close. However, the highlight of our stay at Kaingo was the epic struggle between two young lions and a buffalo, which we watched for most of the day until too dark to see. Very gory but very exciting (the buffalo lost). The proximity of elephants in camp also made for excitement - "meals on wheels" at dinnertime one night because the elephants were between the kitchen and the dining-room. Unfortunately we were among the 5% who didn't see a leopard (but we don't do long night drives).
Patrick is an excellent guide, both driving and walking, ably assisted by Labin and Ben, and Alison did an excellent drive with Anne. The hippo hide is a wonderful photo opportunity.
Meals were a bit on the "heavy" side. The 3 hour drive from Mfuwe to camp would have been improved if we'd had more than cold drinks and a biscuit half-way - we'd all had a very early start (2 of us from London) with little or no breakfast.
A stop at Tribal Textiles on the way to or from Mfuwe is a "must".
Kaingo - wonderful as always!
Everyone at the camp was extremely friendly, and being the first guests of the season meant that we were treated like royalty. We felt like we had a private camp as we were the only guests!
Patrick was a superb guide, knowledgeable, enthusiastic & friendly with a great sense of humour, we were lucky enough to have him to ourselves for the whole time we were here as he moved with us to Mwamba.
This was the second visit to Kaingo for two of us and we were not disappointed, the camp was as wonderful as we had remembered.We were treated to special dinners on the deck & a surprise bush breakfast in the Ebony grove. Such a treat! It was lovely that Derek & Jules were able to spend so much time with us in camp & great to meet Saphire (their 14 months old little girl) who was just a bump last time we were at Kaingo.
Sleeping overnight in the elephant hide (20 feet up a tree) was an unforgettable experience for us and we highly recommend it to others. We very much enjoyed the optional midday activity, sitting in the hippo hide or just under a shady tree.
The food as with our previous visit was plentiful! Delicious meals & fabulous bread & cakes baked fresh every day. You will never go hungry here!
We hope to return to Luangwa & will certainly be staying here again!
Chris and Lisa said it all. It was absolutely fantastic! Everything. Patrick was the best guide we have ever had on our many trips to Africa. Not only did he know everything, he was also full of stories and lovely to be with.
Everybody at Kaingo was extremely friendly. After John had his breakdown, they looked after him (and me) so well. We were very grateful. We are full of wonderful memories. Writing this down brings it all back, the smells, the great food, this wonderful bush feeling, and above all, the friendliness. We would love to come back!
Wonderful camp for the serious photographer with well sited hides and dust covers etc. Accommodation was a little rustic but all the better for this.
Excellent guides and 3 activities during the day keeping you busy. My only monor complaint is that they seriously over-feed you - there seemed to be food coming from all directions all the time.
Our guide Retief was exellent, plenty of birds (our main interest) but also saw mating leopards and lions - a first for us. The camp set up encouraged interaction between guests.
The food and accomodation was very good. The daily programme was just right. The trip to see the Carmine Beeaters was stunning. The staff were very friedly and helpful.
Wonderful service from the moment of arrival to departure. We were particularly well looked after by Alison. It was very special that Derek, Jules and Sapphire regularly made an appearance to talk to the guests and make them feel welcome.
Wonderful location overlooking the river each chalet having complete privacy. The hides and lunchtime activities were a real attraction, but for those wanting a midday rest there was no need to move from the camp.
We walked most mornings including across to Mwamba Bush Camp and to us these were really special, enabling us to feel closer to nature, seeing many things which would have been impossible from the vehicle. We were overwhelmed with excellent food and spoilt by the excellent game viewing.
Unnecessarily smart for us really after the bushcamps, but we did need to recharge camera batteries after 4 days with no facilities. We never got really introduced to the Zambia support staff which seemed a shame. We wnated to use the 3 hides - the hippo hide is pretty useless in midday as they just sleep; the carmine bee eaters is well worth it as they are fascinatiing to watch for 45 -60 minutes from so close; the elephant was not in use; elephant crossing depends on timing it just right. 3 activities a day works quite well actually provided the hides can be used - otherwise it is too hot.
The chalets were well organised but the solid walls retain the heat so they were much hotter at night than the Tafica thatch ones.
We did not like the drums for meals - over organised and noisy. The comfort level is higher than we needed.
The guides and game drives were excellent with lots of sightings really close and revisits to animal kills to see progress of the scavengers. We often met other vehicules from Carr Safaris which means it can get a bit crowded at times. We did meet Derek Shenton briefly at the end, but he is clearly busy at his bushcamp and with new family.
The only significant snag was that there were many tsetse flies and both my wife and I were badly bitten. Normal insect protectors don't work. We were advised to use a Dettol Spray, that was loaned to us and this seemed to work. Antihistamine creams did not<|fim_middle|> for photography; Other highlights include a walking safari where we came very close to a pack of hyenas gorging themselves on a buffalo, with vultures flying in from all corners; the sky was as busy as Heathrow on a Friday afternoon.
We were also fortunate to have Derek Shenton as our guide for the last couple of drives, a true master !
The camp staff were excellent - special thanks to Gail who looked extremely well after us and everybody.
The cabins were excellent, very private, and the outside bath was much appreciated for relaxation and cooling off!
We felt the atmosphere was slightly more divisive than at other camps because some clients were playing for private guiding and had their own vehicles and that may have caused the scouting shortage.
There was a good variety of landscape - with the river and the beautiful ebony groves. We enjoyed the hippo hide and Retif's explanations. | help, but antihistamine tablets did. It would have helped if we had been warned about this in more detail. (see next lodge comments).
The staff were wonderful; when I first arrived they introduced themselves to me and Gail really paid attention to the small things.
Overall an excellent experience! Idyllic location with 'private' views across the river; Huts very comfortable; open air bath fantastic; lunch was taken on a pontoon terrace deck on the river - excellent; We visited the hippo and carmine bee eater hide several times - outstanding and absolutely wonderful | 117 |
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Writer-director Drew Goddard is at his best when he's working in enclosed areas. As a writer, he scored an Oscar nomination for The Martian. As a director, he turned the slasher film on its ear with The Cabin in the Woods. Now, he's gathering another group of unfortunate souls for a wild night at a rundown hotel on the border between Nevada and California.
The whole crew is in for some Bad Times at the El Royale, an upcoming thriller that released its<|fim_middle|>. Jeff Bridges is fleeing a botched heist. Dakota Johnson is hiding secrets. Cynthia Erivo is singing a mournful tune. And Chris Hemsworth is working on building up his cult following. It's all good stuff, even before you factor in Nick Offerman's mysterious role.
From a creative standpoint, Drew Goddard is far from prolific. El Royale marks only his second feature-length film in six years. Since the talent distinguished himself among JJ Abrams' crew with contributions to both Lost and Alias, each of Goddard's projects have been met with warm reception. His track record makes his next movie an undeniably exciting event.
Bad Times at the El Royale arrives in theaters on October 5. | first official trailer today.
The first trailer for Drew Goddard's next film plays right into the auteur's wheelhouse. There's more than a few quirks, the dialogue is light and snappy, and the characters are so deeply layered that it's impossible to tell what's going on at a glance.
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Digital vending machines: The term "smart contract" comes from digital currency pioneer Nick Szabo, who coined it more than 20 years ago (and who may or may not be Satoshi Nakamoto). The basic idea, he wrote, is that "many kinds of contractual clauses (such as collateral, bonding, delineation of property rights, etc.) can be embedded in the hardware and software we deal with, in such a way as to make a breach of contract expensive (if desired, sometimes prohibitively so) for the breacher." Szabo called<|fim_middle|> funds will happen as expected—that is, no one will get cheated. | physical vending machines a "primitive ancestor of smart contracts," since they take coins and dispense a product and the correct change according to the displayed price.Enter the blockchain: Today, the most common conception of a smart contract is a computer program stored on a blockchain. A blockchain is essentially a shared accounting ledger that uses cryptography and a network of computers to track assets and secure the ledger from tampering. For Bitcoin, that gives two parties who don't know each other an ironclad guarantee that an agreed upon transfer of | 103 |
Abbey Farms in Aurora to host cooking classes
By Beacon-News staff
The Beacon-News |
Abbey Farms in Aurora will host a seven-session series of cooking classes this summer.
The inaugural season of "Abbey Farms Fresh Flavors – Cookin' with Chef Dave" demonstrations will begin with a focus on barbecue on June 13.
All classes will take place at Abbey Farms: The Emporium at 2855 Hart Road in Aurora, with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.
The sessions will be led by Dave Voirin, the chef who creates and cooks during the Pine Tree Cafe which is open during the Christmas season at Abbey Farms.
The schedule includes the barbecue<|fim_middle|> School Health Association.
This award is presented to an individual who has had a significant effect on the organization throughout his or her career.
Jim Oberweis
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
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Low-risk high school sports return in three regions, but basketball and football remain in limbo. 'Maybe the season gets pushed back,' IHSA says. | class on June 13; "Super Snazzy Summertime Salads" on June 27; "Fantastic Finger Foods" on July 11; "Christmas Chili in July" on July 25; "Back That Hitch Up – Let's Tailgate" on Aug. 8; "Beat the Heat with these Sweet Treats" on Aug 22; and "Picture Perfect Pumpkin Party" on Sept. 12.
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Tickets for each class are $39.95 and include two drink tickets for a selection of wine or beer, hors d'oeuvres and class demonstrations with samples of three or more recipes.
For information, go to abbeyfarms.org/tickets or call 630-966-7775, Ext. 3.
Recycling and shredding day set in Aurora
State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, will host a Community Recycle and Shred Day from 9 a.m. to noon June 8 at the Waterford Plaza Parking Lot at 1677 Montgomery Road in Aurora.
"I encourage all residents who are looking to shred documents, donate books or cell phones, safely dispose unneeded prescription and over-the-counter medication or donate eyeglasses and hearing aids to stop by our event," Kifowit said in a press release.
For more information about the event, contact Kifowit's constituent service office at 630-585-1308 or email Stephanie.Kifowit@att.net.
Senior Health Fair planned June 6
State Sen. Jim Oberweis, R-Sugar Grove, will host a free Senior Health Fair June 6.
The fair is scheduled from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the American Legion Hall, 123 Main St. in West Chicago.
"Our Senior Health Fair provides a convenient setting for senior citizens and their families to gather information about health, safety and financial security. A variety of vendors will be on hand to discuss programs that benefit senior citizens," Oberweis said in a press release.
For more information, call Oberweis' office at 630-800-1992.
Tree identification classes planned
The Forest Preserve District of Kane County and the Geneva and St. Charles park districts will hold nature programs in June focusing on the basics of tree identification.
Instructor Valerie Blaine will lead a walk on wooded trails and provide tips for identifying common, native hardwood trees. Leaves, bark, branches, flowers and form are just some of the characteristics attendees will learn.
The first class is from 9 to 10:30 a.m. June 16 at Tekakwitha Woods Forest Preserve at 35W076 Villa Marie Road in St. Charles. The second class is from 7 to 8:30 p.m. June 26 at Creek Bend Nature Center in LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve at 37W700 Dean St. in St. Charles.
Advance registration is required. The registration fee is $10 per class. To register, call 630-444-3190 or emailprograms@kaneforest.com.
Food preservation focus of programs
University of Illinois Extension Educator Laura Barr will lead three upcoming seasonal programs on home food preservation.
"Canning is a simple, smart way to make the most of the fresh produce available this time of year," Barr said in a press release.
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There are three choices for the "Yes, You Can: Preserving Safely" presentation: 1 to 3 p.m. June 21 at the Extension Office at 1100 E. Warrenville Road in Naperville; 10 a.m. to noon July 10 at the Extension Office at 535 S. Randall Road in St. Charles; and either 1 to 3 p.m. or 5 to 7 p.m. July 18 at the Extension Office at 7775B Route 47 in Yorkville.
There is an $8 fee. To register, go to go.illinois.edu/extensiondkk.
Habitat restoration day in Sugar Grove
A habitat restoration work day will be held at Bliss Woods Forest Preserve in Sugar Grove from 9 a.m. to noon June 1.
Volunteers will be pulling Hedge parsley and garlic mustard during the event, which are invasive species.
Participants will meet in the main parking lot of Bliss Woods Forest Preserve off of Bliss Road in Sugar Grove.
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Anyone under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. For information, email Mary Ochsenschlager at maryoxie@sbcglobal.net or call Robb at the Kane County Forest Preserve District at 630-232-5980.
District 204 students receive video awards
Indian Prairie School District 204 students recently won several honors at the 26th annual High School Video Festival, which was sponsored by the Chicago/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Midwest Media Educators Association.
Neuqua Valley High School was awarded nine top honors, Metea Valley High School earned three and Waubonsie Valley High School earned two.
The local students were among more than 830 high school television students from 42 high schools across northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana competing in the festival.
Neuqua Valley senior Christine Corbin received the Student Television Award for Excellence in the short-form nonfiction category and Megan Kosak was awarded the $1,000 Lucas Palermo Scholarship from the Midwest Media Educators Association.
Waubonsie teacher honored
Waubonsie Valley High School health teacher Millie Shepich was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Illinois | 1,320 |
Tomato Drumstick Gravy Recipe| Thakkali Murungakai Kuzhambu with step by step photos. Tomatoes have a natural tangy flavour, Drumsticks when cooked together with tomatoes will have an awesome taste .This form the base of this gravy .I served this kuzhambu with Steamed Rice and Potato Fry. Now let's see how to prepare this kuzhamb<|fim_middle|> Leaves and Hing, Saute and then add slit green chilli and crushed garlic .Mix well and add chopped shallots.
2. Cook till they becomes glossy and then add in the chopped tomatoes .Cook till then turn mushy and leaves oil.
3. Now add the chopped Drumstick, Add Chilli powder, Turmeric powder and salt .Mix well and add a cup of Water.
4. Cover and cook in a medium flame till the drumsticks are cooked and the gravy consistency is reached. Switch off the flame.
· You can also add Kuzhambu milaga thool (Curry Chilli powder) it gives a nice taste.
I so love the drumstick. Next time, instead of adding into sambar, gonna try this tomato version. Really mouthwatering. | u.
1. In a pan add in oil and let it heat up then add Mustard Seeds, Fenugreek Seeds, Curry | 27 |
Published with the Art Gallery of Ontario.
The Group of Seven brought together Canadian artists who were searching for a new way to paint.<|fim_middle|>Lawren S. Harris, Lake, Algonquin Park, n.d.
A. Y. Jackson, Near Murray Bay, Quebec, n.d. | They wanted to make art that helped people understand the way our Canadian landscape looked and felt. Their names were Franklin Carmichael, Lawren S. Harris, A. Y. Jackson, F. H. Varley, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frank Johnston, who left the group and was later replaced by A. J. Casson. Tom Thomson is often considered an honorary member of the Group of Seven. He joined them on many painting trips, but drowned in Algonquin Park before the group formed.
In this coloring book, you will find 22 paintings of lakes, forests, and mountains by Thomson and the Group of Seven. They are shown as small pictures on the inside front and back covers. You will notice that the painters did not try to make a painting that looked like a photograph. Instead, they used bold brush strokes and simple shapes to tell the story of what it felt like to be in that place. When you color in these pictures, you can either try to copy the original colors and style, or you might decide to use your own. The last page of this book is blank so that you can draw and color in your own picture. Find a hill, a group of trees, or a row of houses, and see if you can capture them on the page.
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Last night they sent me home with a DVD of pictures to take to whatever OB I find in Florida. We searched all morning to see if we could get an appointment anywhere today, and found out that my old OB has closed down her practice, and that no one else was willing to see a new patient on a Friday, even if it was an emergency, including the hospital maternity clinic (they only see diabetic and psych cases on Fridays...).
So the waiting goes on. I've been looking at this little picture a lot though. The baby is the little shape at the very bottom (with a mother's imagination I can see a little face).
And thank you for all the prayers. They are a great comfort, as our the stories of mothers who've gone through similar experiences and ended with a healthy little one in their arms. I so hope that happens here.
You and your little one are in my prayers. With my first daughter I spotted for six weeks and was on bed rest because of it. I don't think I was more than 7 or 8<|fim_middle|> through this, good or bad. With God, all things are possible. It brings to mind the Bible verse my Godfather dedicated to me- "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" (1 Corinthians 2:9) May you find hope and peace in the knowledge that God is in control and is carrying you and your unborn baby in his arms.
I'm going to Mass this afternoon - I will offer it up for you and your baby! I do not have first-hand experience at what you are going through, but when I imagine what you must be feeling and try to put myself in your shoes, it makes me want to cry. God is with you and your baby, and Our Lady knows what you're going through and feeling! Hang in there, we're praying for you! | weeks along at the point when I started having problems. I'm so sorry you are going through this. I will continue to pray that your little one holds on to life.
Did you try a crisis pregnancy center?
That's a beautiful picture... and even if the worst happens, you'll treasure it. I still have the one ultrasound picture we have of the baby we lost in 2006.
Thinking about you and praying for you and your baby! Your little one is beautiful. I hope (s)he makes it! I have never experienced what you are going through, but I can relate because I am a mother myself...my husband and I are new parents - we have a 6mo old baby boy.
Prayers are coming! Our Lady of Guadalupe, ora pro nobis!
I'm praying for you. My daughter died last year when she was but two days old. Losing a child is the hardest grief.
I can totally picture a face! I had one picture of my miscarried son. It is in a frame next to his urn and teddy bear. The teddy was the only thing we ever got for him- I think God tried to prepare us for what was to come.
If you have a CD of pictures, I would try and copy it. We did that for each of the ultrasounds from my pregnancy with our son, because we knew what it was like to be left with what felt like nothing.
The only comfort I really got out of literature was a poem about how the mother was such a good mommy that God brought the baby home before it was even born- it had learned everything it needed to. The other thing that helped me through the rough patches was "The Climb" by Miley Cyrus (recommended by a friend during the tough pregnancy) and "My Name" by George Canyon. I do recommend that you listen to the Miley Cyrus song if you are so inclined, but you might want to hold off on the George Canyon one. It still makes me cry, although now they are tears of joy.
My prayers are with you. You WILL get | 431 |
Fern plays role in helping Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp earn award nomination
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Football Fern Meikayla Moore has played a role in the nomination of Liverpool FC manager Jurgen Klopp for an award recognising his efforts to spread awareness and positivity for the LGBT+ community.
The 54-year-old Klopp has been nominated alongside motor racing champion Lewis Hamilton, actor Daniel Radcliffe and singer Jade Thirlwall as the LGBT+ Celebrity Ally of 2022 and the winner will be announced at Britain's LGBT Awards in June.
Klopp has been a vocal advocate for the community and continues to wear rainbow laces – a symbol of his support – especially since taking part in a broadcast discussion with New Zealand's Moore in November.
Christchurch-born Moore (25) plays for Liverpool FC's women's team and her sit-down chat<|fim_middle|>. I'm completely in."
Klopp's sit-down with Moore
Watch the 7-minute video discussion between Klopp and Moore on Liverpool FC's YouTube channel here:
Meikayla Moore
Meikayla Moore. Photo: Shane Wenzlick / www.phototek.nz
As a junior and youth player, she played for Burwood, Avon United and Coastal Spirit before starting her professional career with Bundesliga clubs FC Köln and then MSV Duisburg in Germany.
She joined Liverpool in 2020.
Moore has represented New Zealand at U-17, U-20 and full international level with the Football Ferns.
Football Ferns, Jurgen Klopp, LGBT, Liverpool FC, Meikayla Moore | with Klopp helped to open up discussions about the need to support footballers who may be struggling with their sexuality.
She described her own experiences of being an openly-gay footballer and her commitment to the Rainbow Laces campaign.
Moore said she feels accepted within football.
Klopp says the environment in men's football was different to women's and there were no players in the English Premier League who were openly gay. He said he wanted to help make it possible for players to feel comfortable about doing so.
Klopp: 'Whatever I can do … I will do. I'm completely in.'
In the chat, Klopp says:
"I'm 54 and I've been through a lot of different periods in my life but there's a lot of problems I've never had so it means you talk about them like an interested viewer and think 'How would that feel?', but never having the problem.
"I have so many gay friends in our age now and I never thought about how it was when they had to say: 'By the way Mum / Dad / whoever, I'm not exactly how you expected it may be', and that's a challenge we should not face in the way we face it in our life so that's it and how it still is, obviously.
"Whatever I can do, and I will say it here today live on camera, I will do | 276 |
Most people get intimidated with the thought of traveling to Paris because of the heavy expenses. But you can enjoy Paris for free. When you take time to plan out your schedule, you'll realize that it does not really take much to enjoy the place.
For all you know, you can actually enjoy the city for free. The only expenses you will have to consider is your transportation and where you would be settling in while you are there. But doing it this way may also depend upon the time where you get to Paris. Going on<|fim_middle|> the scenes. Whether it's posing in front of the world-famous Louvre or trying to make the Eiffel tower fit in your camera screen together with yourself or your companion, these simple joys can be enjoyed in Paris for free. | a lean season is one of the best ways to do it so you can fully enjoy Paris for free.
1. Parks – Have you ever wondered how it will be like if you can have the picture-perfect moment of feeding pigeons while sitting on a bench? That's one of the perks you can enjoy in Paris for free. This is actually one wonderful moment you can have to spend time with your companion and just bask in the beauty of France and its rich culture.
2. Churches – Paris is best known for its rich cultural heritage and what better way to enjoy that than to visit its many churches. You can hop from one church to another in Paris for free since churches are always open to public. The only important thing you need to bring with you is one great camera to make that lasting souvenir.
3. Museums – Admittedly, not all museums are for free. But if you come in around the first Sunday of the month, you may be lucky enough to be granted with free passes for state museums. Also, you can find museums that display specific art collections in Paris for free. You can also visit gift shops of pricey museums and you can always come in there for free.
4. Exhibits – If basking in art is your type of thing, then you need to check up on various exhibits. These exhibits will give you the much needed cultural immersion you want since most of them are new local artists ready to break into the art scene. To get more information on these schedules, you can do some online research first and mark down the ones that interest you the most.
5. Local View – Enjoying Paris is best experienced through the local views you'll find everywhere. As usual, all you need is a handy camera to enjoy | 353 |
Stereoscopic pair of photographs taken by Underwood & Underwood in c.1900 of a shrine in the Ngadatkyi Pagoda at Sagaing in Burma (Myanmar). The 17 the century shrine is built in the form of a pyatthat or tiered<|fim_middle|> different viewpoints. The prints in this set are generally of high quality and selected for their clarity and instructive value. A few of the mounts also have a detailed descriptive caption printed on the reverse, with instructions (presumably for the guidance of teachers) as to what general topic the photograph illustrates. | wooden pavilion, a characteristic form of Burmese sacred architecture, and contains a giant statue of the seated Buddha. In this view his head can just be seen in the pagoda interior. The prints are from a collection of 36 stereoscopic views of Burma, one of a series of "stereoscopic tours" of foreign countries published as part of the 'Underwood Travel Library'. Stereoscopic views became enormously popular from the mid-19th century onward as they enabled observers to imagine that they were really "touring" around distant parts of the world. Each pair of views, made using a special camera with two lenses, is mounted on stout card for insertion in a stereoscope or binocular viewer. This device produces the illusion of a single three-dimensional image in the mind of the observer by using the binocular function of human sight to combine the two images, which are seen from fractionally | 185 |
Whether you're a large or small business, everybody needs a helping hand when it comes to managing your IT infrastructure. Let's face it, running a business is hard work and requires you to manage multiple things at once which can often be overwhelming and responsible for slipping standards. In this digital era that we live in, efficient IT infrastructure is vital to the success of a business, so if you're struggling to maintain a fast, reliable, and secure IT system, why not have all of your IT systems managed externally by an IT support specialist so that you can focus on the other important aspects of your business<|fim_middle|> that you won't suffer from connectivity failures as this disrupts productivity and communication.
We specialise in network design and installation. We will firstly survey your area to check coverage and capacity. We will then design a wired or wireless network which will consider coverage, capacity, security and resilience of your connectivity. Our implementation process ensures that there is no disruption to your business as engineers aim to install with little network downtime. Once installed we will run a final survey of the site to ensure that everything is working reliably and efficiently.
In the past, having software on your devices meant having to buy each programme individually to install onto your computer. However, with ICT Solutions you can have as much software as you need on all of your devices.
We use various software packages including Amazon Web Services, AVG Anti Virus, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Office 365. Handling and managing some of these packages can be alien to some people which is why it's helpful to have experts manage them for you, that way you get the benefits of the software without the headache of managing them. You can find out more about each of these software packages here.
ICT Solutions are a leading IT support company in Liverpool for a reason, as not only do we provide the best services, we work with world class software and security providers. Each of the services we offer is managed from beginning to end and we provide ongoing support. If you're interested in using us as your IT support specialist and you would like to find out more information, give our professional and expert team a call on 0151 230 2424. | ?
ICT Solutions can take this responsibility away from you with our IT services.
Our managed IT infrastructure service takes away the burden of having all of your software, hardware, networks, and all related equipment on-site. When problems occur with IT systems it can be disruptive to your business, especially having to find time for repair work. Here at ICT Solutions we host and manage all of your IT infrastructure in the cloud so all of your files are stored off your personal devices.
Our range of cloud services includes data backup, hosted desktop, hosted exchange and sharepoint with Microsoft, and hosted servers. With our cloud computing services, your devices will automatically have the latest updates, greater security, and will be running efficiently which will increase your business's performance and revenue.
One of the most important services that we offer is IT security. When managing your own IT systems it's easy to let your guard down. With other business matters taking higher priority, security can be neglected which can have significant effects on your business as sensitive data can become vulnerable.
Our security services provide you with peace of mind that your devices and data are always protected as we are always on top of software updates and latest security issues. We use AVG Cloudcare to thoroughly protect your IT infrastructure and increase your productivity with content filtering. Our managed antivirus and firewall services will ensure that your IT infrastructure will never be under threat from cyber attacks, and if security issues do occur they will be resolved immediately.
In order for you to have an IT infrastructure in the first place you need to be connected. Efficient connectivity is vital to the productivity of your business. You need to be assured | 323 |
The Eye Of The World
Robert Jordan (forfatter)
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Soon to be a major Prime TV series Prepare to turn the Wheel of Time - discover the first novel in one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published. The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. But one truth remains, and what mortal men forget, the Aes Sedai do not . . . What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the …
Undertittel Book 1 of the Wheel of Time
Forfattere Robert Jordan (forfatter)
Forlag Orbit
Utgitt 10 desember 2016
Serie Wheel of Time
The Wheel of Time Companion
Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons 139,-
Conan the Defender
Robert Jordan 39,-
Conan Chronicles 2
Conan The Destroyer
Conan the Invincible
Conan The Triumphant
Conan The Unconquered
Conan the Magnificent
Soon to be a major Prime TV series Prepare to turn the Wheel of Time - discover the first novel in one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever published. The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. But one truth remains, and what mortal men forget, the Aes Sedai do not . . . What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow. ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 100 FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME 'Epic in every sense' - Sunday Times 'With the Wheel of Time, Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal' New York Times '[The] huge ambitious Wheel of Time series helped redefine the genre' George R. R. Martin 'A fantasy phenomenon' SFX The Wheel of Time The Eye of the World The Great Hunt The Dragon Reborn The Shadow Rising The Fires of Heaven Lord of Chaos A Crown of Swords The Path of Daggers Winter's Heart Crossroads of Twilight Knife of Dreams The Gathering Storm Towers of Midnight A Memory of Light New Spring (prequel | 503 |
You've heard of Unified Communications (UC), and you've heard of Software as a Service (SaaS), but have you heard of UCaaS? Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS<|fim_middle|> cost-effective way to communicate and collaborate. Rather than expensive investments in hardware, software and IT staff time, you can turn to cloud-based solutions that are self-sustaining. This is especially true for small- and mid-size businesses that have a need for unified communications but not the budget or staff to manage the various systems.
Cost efficiencies aside, one of the biggest drivers for UCaaS adoption is employee demand. By 2020, 50% of Workforce Will Be Remote, according to MarketWatch. And, although employees are in different locations and time zones, "knowledge workers" expect employers to provide tools to help them overcome these obstacles including screen sharing, group chats, instant messaging, and video calling and conferencing – both in and out of the office. Further, they expect business apps to be as easy-to-use as their consumer apps.
Many legacy UC systems, especially those without mobile capabilities, can't keep up with today's knowledge worker needs.
By adopting cloud-based, UCaaS solutions, you can provide the tools knowledge workers want and need. Think about it. Most of your employees have been using UCaaS enabled consumer devices for years. They expect the same quality and efficiency in their work life, as well as at home. Equip them with the right tools and watch them work happier, smarter and more collaboratively. | ) is a combination of the two and an increasingly popular way for businesses to manage communications and collaboration technologies.
But ask any CIO or COO what they think about their UC systems, and you will probably hear these three words: complex and expensive.
UC requires investments in hardware and software, as well as upgrades and maintenance of the different systems. The routine management of UC can take IT staff away from focusing on more strategic initiatives such as aligning technology investments with broader business objectives. As a result, productivity suffers. In addition, despite the claims, many of the systems in the market today are not well integrated and are based on outdated technology.
UCaaS encompasses the same functions as premise-based UC, yet resides safely and securely in the Cloud.
With UCaaS, virtually any business can realize the benefits of a simpler, more | 165 |
Connections with Brighton and Hove : Ever since the 1970s, the biggest company in Brighton and Hove has been American Express which has its European headquarters in Edward Street. But for many years before that, it was Allen West, an electrical engineering firm, which was based in Lewes Road. It was named after its founder, Allen West, who started a small business in 1910 manufacturing electrical control gear. The firm rapidly expanded, reaching its peak in the 1950s and 1960s when it had more than 3,000 employees. Recessions of the 1980s damaged Allen West as it did all the other engineering firms in Brighton and Hove. But there are still many men and women with fond memories of a company where they spent most of their working lives. Allen West himself was a sports<|fim_middle|> Open Top bus October 2014. | man as well as being an engineer. He served as a soldier in the Boer War and was present at the relief of Mafeking.After being wounded, he recuperated at Hove, West, who also served in both world wars, was sales engineer as well as managing director for the company and travelled extensively in that role. He had a long association with the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association. West gave up being managing director in 1933 but remained on the board for another 20 years before retiring at his own request. He died in 1957 in his 80th year.
616 Scania Omnidekka carried name since delivery in July 2003, in July 2004 the name was changed to white to see if the names will stand out better on these vehicles. Repainted into new livery June 2006. Name removed as bus being converted to | 195 |
Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a committed man--a priest who's additionally a scientist, and a scientist who's additionally a person. He has discovered no insoluble conflicts in his ideals or his ethics . . . until eventually he's despatched to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of extraterrestrial beings who're admirable in each manner<|fim_middle|> it's the so much profitable technology fiction e-book sequence ever written.
Enemy Unseen Transporting a diplomatic occasion is not anything new for Captain James T. Kirk and the staff of the firm™ -- yet this actual undertaking provides hassle from the beginning. For something, the spouse of the Federation ambassador in this journey is an past love of Kirk's -- she's made up our minds to determine that they resume their romance the place they left off.
"You remain on your homeland, you find yourself extra of a stranger than if you'll begun new somewhere else. "The fight among the indigenous rural operating category and the higher crust intensifies during this ultimate novel of Hebert's Darby sequence as Freddy Elman, son of town trash collector, and Lilith Salmon, daughter of a prestigious relations, embark on their ill-fated love affair.
Oh—one more thing. My vote, if anybody is still in any doubt about it, is to keep the planet closed. " "Ramon," Michelis said, "do you want to speak next? You're certainly entitled to it, on a point of personal privilege. " "No, Mike. " "I'm not ready to speak yet either, unless the majority wants me to. " "Sure," Agronski said. "Speaking as a geologist, and also as an ordinary slob that doesn't follow rarefied reasoning very well, I'm on Cleaver's side. I don't see anything either for or against the planet on any other grounds but Cleaver's.
To a great extent that's also true of the animals. The lion doesn't lie down with the lamb here because Lithia has neither animal, but as an allegory the phrase is apt. Parasitism occurs rather less often on Lithia than it does on Earth, and there are very few carnivores of any sort except in the sea. Almost all of the surviving land animals eat plants only, and by a neat arrangement which is typically Lithian, the plants are admirably set up to attack animals rather than each other. "It's an unusual ecology, and one of the strangest things about it is its rationality, its extreme, almost single-minded insistence upon one-for-one relationships.
The enforced pause would last about eight seconds, and on a sudden inspiration, Ruiz-Sanchez put it to use. On the next pip, he said: "Mike, let me stop here and ask you a question. " "Why, just what I've said before that it suggested," Michelis said slowly. "An enormously superior social science, evidently founded in a precise system of psychogenetics. " "Very well, I'll go on. I felt as you did, at first. Then I came to ask myself some correlative questions. —but that the code by which they live so perfectly is, point for point, the code we strive to obey? | apart from their overall reliance on chilly cause; they're incapable of religion or belief.Confronted with a profound clinical riddle and moral concern, Father Ruiz-Sanchez quickly reveals himself torn among the lessons of his religion, the lessons of his technological know-how, and the internal promptings of his humanity. there's just one answer: He needs to settle for an historic and unforgivable heresy--and danger the futures of either worlds . . .
Perry Rhodan is the identify of a technological know-how fiction sequence released seeing that 1961 in Germany, in addition to the identify of its major personality. it's a house opera, facing all significant topics of technological know-how fiction. Having offered over billion copies in pulp book structure around the world, it's the so much winning technology fiction booklet sequence ever written.
Perry Rhodan is the identify of a technology fiction sequence released due to the fact that 1961 in Germany, in addition to the identify of its major personality. it's a house opera, facing all significant subject matters of technology fiction. Having offered over billion copies in pulp book structure around the globe, | 235 |
An overhaul of government communications has delivered the twin aims of producing better targeted and more effective communication – and reducing the cost. It's raised the profile of communicators across Whitehall and set new standards for the profession as a whole.
Cast your mind back to the early days of the 2010-15 coalition government. It was then, says Russell Grossman, Head of Profession for Internal Communications, Government Communication Service (GCS), that the Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, posed a question.
In charge of government communications he asked: if half the money the government spent on communications was wasted, which half was it? A simple question – with dramatic results. In 2009-10 the government's total spend on communications was £1.15 billion. Last year it was between £250 and £300 million.
"That," says Russell, "shows how much more efficient we are." Yet that's only one part of the equation: research shows that while the cost of government communication has plummeted, its effectiveness has soared.
And that, says Russell, can be put down to the 2013 launch of the GCS.
Increasing<|fim_middle|> by line managers (defined as "those who affect the working life of someone else"). Line managers can put the polished words of the practitioners into practice, showing what it means to employees on the ground, transforming it into something real.
And there's a programme of training for line managers that's being rolled out as part of the fourth phase of the Internal Communications Excellence Project. But phase four also has two other crucial elements.
Firstly making sure the improvements delivered by GCS over the last three years are maintained and that's because, as Russell says, "there's always a decay element if you're not careful". The second part is set to assess IC teams in terms of "those that are good, those that are so-so, and those that need help". And that's because a key part of the GCS overhaul is get teams to help each other, share ideas and thoughts.
Shiona Adamson, head of IC at Natural England, an ALB, says: "We have a very strong, welcoming community that comes together to create and share our own solutions." She explains that in March 2017 the team is holding an event "where we're bringing heads of IC across ALBs together with practitioners from central government. We'll be having external speakers and a key aim is to raise the standards of the profession".
Raising the standards of the IC profession as whole – and yes, that means you too – is something Russell believes is the responsibility of government communicators as much as anyone. | the degree of insight into the audience was pivotal. It ensured communications were as good as they could be and focused communicators' minds on using the most appropriate channels, especially digital ones. On top of that the GCS gathered evidence on what worked and what didn't, and ran capability reviews across Whitehall departments and several ALBs.
"A key finding of that review was that we also needed to significantly improve internal comms (IC): both its delivery and the value that was attached to it. One target was that IC should be as respected across government as media relations," says Russell who was tasked with leading the resulting Internal Communications Excellence Project.
Russell explains that led to a four-pronged approach.
Firstly "establishing some tools, tips, tricks and techniques" that could be used by a wide variety of IC practitioners wherever they were based. This led to the formation of the IC Space – a fantastic resource that's freely available on the internet to anyone, whether they are in the public or private sector. With sections on Strategy and Internal Communication, Audience Segmentation, Evaluation and Engagement, the IC Space is increasingly being seen as a must-use resource for communicators.
But why make it freely available?
On top of these tools, the project also created a robust model for running IC, and established career paths and job descriptions for the government's 1,000+ IC practitioners.
The second phase saw the model rolled out to key Whitehall departments and some ALBs, while the third phase is focusing on line managers. Why?
"I make a distinction between internal communication and internal communications," says Russell. Put bluntly, internal communications is the thing that IC professionals do, while internal communication is the responsibility of the whole organisation. Internal communication aims to make the individual employee realise the value they bring to the organisation they're working for – and how much they are valued by the organisation. This, he argues, is best done | 389 |
There are few people who haven't at least heard of Pink Floyd's The Wall. I would hazard to say that those who have never heard the album are in the minority as well. Surely it was one of the most popular albums to come out in the 1970's and has had some incredible staying power since. With that in mind Billy Sherwood (World Trade, Yes) has assembled an all star cast of classic and prog records to produce a new version of the CD - sort of a lasting tribute to the album. I have to say that I really burned out on the original The Wall years ago - I listened to it way too much. The good news is that this album has made me remember just what it was that I loved about the album in the first place. I have to say that I find this one to be even better than the original - and that says quite a lot.
Let's have a look at the cast of players that Sherwood put together. First, there are a number of present and past members of Yes in this grouping - Sherwood included in that number. Filling out the Yes alumni set are Geoff Downes (keys - currently in Asia), Steve Howe (guitar), Tony Kaye (keys), Chris Squire (bass and vocals), Rick Wakeman (keys) and Alan White (drums). Three current or past members of King Crimson are on show here in the personage of John Wetton (vocals and bass), Adrian Belew (vocals and guitar) and Tony Levin (stick and bass). Tommy Shaw (guitar and vocals) of Styx and Keith Emerson (keys) are also on hand. Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) contributes both voice and flute to the album. Larry Fast (Synergy, Tony Levin Band, Nektar) is along for some of his trademark keyboard work. Billy Sherwood's brother Michael is also included here as is World Trade drummer Jay Schellen (who has recently joined Asia). Steve Morse of Dregs and Kansas fame and currently with Deep Purple lends his guitar expertise to the project. Gentle Giant is represented here by guitarist Gary Green. Zappa alumni Vinnie Colaiuta is one of the drummers on the project.
The Doors guitarists Robby Krieger is included here, as is "the voice of hard rock" Glenn Hughes (who has worked with Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and many, many more artists). Fee Waybill of The Tubes also provides a lead vocal performance. Alex Ligertwood (best known for his work in Average White Band and Santana) also puts his vocal cords to the ready for this one. Steve Porcaro (keys) and Steve Lukather (guitar and vocals) both from Toto are on hand, as well. The Cars' Elliot Easton puts in a surprisingly hard-edged guitar performance. Also included here is drummer Gregg Bissonette, best known for his work with David Lee Roth's band. David Glenn Isley from Giuffria is included on one track and Tony Franklin of the Firm makes several appearances. Journey drummer Aynsley Dunbar shows up on the release, too. Guitar hero Ronnie Montrose contributes a smoking showing. Rounding out the lineup are Bob Kulick, Jordan Berliant, Del Palmerm John Giblin, Jason Chefe and two other notables.<|fim_middle|>wood handles the remaining guitars, vocals and keys. This one really feels a lot like it would if Yes were to take a turn at this number. It is probably the most altered track on show here, but it really works very well. Yes fanatic that I am, this one is a standout for me. Squire's vocal outro is very cool. Always a great song, this one is truly amazing here.
Adrian Belew is back to provide the vocals here along with the Sherwood brothers and Vinnie Calaiuto. This one feels to me like a merging of the Floyd original with the Beatles.
Always one of the most bombastic and frightening tracks on the disc, Keith Emerson's keys are a nice touch here. Sherwood takes the lead vocals with Calaiuto on drums, Green on guitar and Giblin providing bass. Michael Sherwood is also on hand with backing vocals. They play this one fairly true to form, and it (as it always has been) taken out of context is sure to offend just about anyone with its lyrical content.
The soaring, frightened sound of this cut is provided by Jason Chefe's vocals and bass, Aynsley Dunbar's drums, Bob Kulick's guitar and Billy Sherwood's keys. This is a very modern sounding rendition of this scorcher. Tony Kaye provides a great keyboard solo over a funky bass pattern. Dweezil Zappa then takes a noisy, but quite tasty solo. This one is quite a bit different than the original, but very good.
Waiting For The Worms
The Sherwood brothers, Levin, Colaiuta, Green, Emerson all return here, while Jim Ladd provides "ranting and raving" This one is another strong one, fairly faithful, but still modernized. Emerson provides a killer keyboard solo.
Billy Sherwood performs this short piano and vocal duet solo. It's pretty, but sad.
Billy Sherwood provides the orchestral keyboards here to serve as the backing for a killer vocal performance by actor extraordinaire Malcolm McDowell. While Sherwood does provide some vocals, McDowell actually sings. Frankly, while I've always loved his acting, I never would have expected this from him - bravo! I like this one better than the original. McDowell plays every character and it is sheer wonderful theater.
Sherwood, Sherwood and Schellen provide the backdrop as Jim Ladd returns for the closing narration.
So This is Where We Came In
Sherwood creates a separate little track here for this ambient section that on the original simply tied into the closing piece.
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This stomping version of the disc opener is fairly faithful, right down to the starting keyboard textures. Adrian Belew provides the vocals here - and at times he's almost a dead ringer. At other points, though, there are some noticeable differences. Rounding out the lineup for this track are Alan White, Keith Emerson, Gary Green, John Giblin, Billy Sherwood and Michael Sherwood.
The Thin Ice
Ian Anderson's unique voice and his flute work both are great additions to this rendition bringing an intriguing new life to the cut. Green and B. Sherwood are still present here, but they and Anderson are joined by Tony Levin and Jay Schellen. The heavy jam later works exceptionally well with the Tull like combo of metallic guitar and flute.
Another Brick In The Wall Part 1
Steve Morse provides some killer lead guitar work n this one, otherwise only Billy Sherwood is featured on this track - taking all the instruments and providing the vocals. This one is fairly faithful, but the textures are a bit new and different. They truly did a nice job of capturing the spirit, but Morse brings a bit more blues to the show than Gilmour originally did.
This has a more modern texture than the original and works quite well. Sherwood and Vinnie Calaiuto join forces for this one.
Kicking in with the familiar chorus, this time provided by Fee Waybill, this one has a bit of a different texture, but still smokes. Besides Waybill and B. Sherwood, the cut is performed by Ronnie Montrose (with some scorching reproductions of Gilmour's lines) Mike Porcaro, Greg Bissonette. The vocal talents of both Alex Ligertwood and David Glenn Isley and a children's choir complete the picture.
John Wetton, one of the cooler voices in prog, provides both the bass and vocals on this track. Alan White's drums drive the percussion and B. Sherwood performs acoustic and electric guitars while Adrian Belew's guitar takes the lead. This is another nice updating capturing the spirit of the song, but with a modern texture.
Goodbye Blue Sky
Steve Howe lays down the acoustic guitar line here, expanding upon the original music to make it his own. Besides Howe and B. Sherwood the only person on hand here is Del Palmer on bass. This one has always been a very potent and dark, yet pretty song. They do a great job of capturing that and the cinematic texture of the original.
Sherwood is joined here only by Robby Krieger on guitar. They play it pretty true to form
Young Lust
Glenn Hughes provides a killer vocal delivery here, making this rocker over in his own image. The man can truly rock! Elliot Easton scorches out the guitar lines here while the rhythm section of Aynsley Dunbar and Tony Franklin hold down the bottom end. Bob Kulick (guitar) and B. Sherwood on keys round out the lineup. They turn in a cool rock and roll break out on this one. It ends with the familiar phone call.
One of My Turns
Sherwood doesn't show up at all on this one. Larry Fast provides the keyboards and Tommy Shaw's guitar and vocals add to the performance. Jay Schellen and John Giblin provide the rhythm. This haunting, but a bit weird number is poignant and powerful and fairly faithful to the original in the early segments. Tommy Shaw really smokes on the later furious section - and a few variations on the arrangement that pull in a more anthemic prog style show up in the second half.
Don't Leave Me Now
This cut carries forward from the last with Shaw still carrying the vocal. This time he's joined by Krieger's guitar and Geoff Downes' keys. Jay Schellen and Sherwood provide the rhythm section. This psychotic number is pretty faithful and well delivered. The later hard-edged segment is particularly powerful and even more prog oriented than the original.
Steve Lukather (vocals) joins Tony Levin (bass), Jay Schellen (drums) and Steve Porcaro (keys) on one of the few tracks on which B. Sherwood doesn't play. This quirky hard rockier is delivered with style and reverence. They do pull in a cool echoed effect like a part of "Dogs" from Animals to link this into the next song.
Goodbye Cruel World
This starts with what feels like a musical quote from …Dark Side's… "Us and Them". Sherwood provides the keys and vocals and Levin holds down the rhythm in this short duet. Other than the intro, it stays pretty true to its roots.
As the pretty guitar chimes in it's provided by Tommy Shaw. John Wetton's vocals are predictably awesome. Wetton also brings his bass to this party and Steve Lukather provides the lead guitar. Geoff Downe's keys are added to the mix and Alan White joins Wetton to complete the rhythm section. Add Gary Green's guitar and Sherwood's vocals and the cast is set. They put in a faithful and very powerful take on this - always one of the most evocative tracks on the album.
Is There Any Body Out There?
Sherwood provides the lead vocals and keys to this one with Adrian Belew brining acoustic guitar to the table. Michael Sherwood provides backing vocals and so far the picture seems quite ordinary. As Ian Anderson's flute is added, though, it brings with it a new and more traditional acoustic progressive rock texture that suits the track quite well. This extended jam moves it to the noises that carry it into the next one.
Nobody Home
Rick Wakeman's piano weaves waves of melody to bring a new texture to this sad, but oh so powerful ballad. Billy Sherwood's vocal and orchestral keys are Wakeman's only accompaniment here, giving him a major opportunity to shine. This one is even more powerful than the original, if that's possible.
Steve Howe gets the chance to shine here, bringing a new melody with his acoustic guitar. He expands on the original, Billy Sherwood's bass and keys and Tommy Shaw's vocals providing the rest of the arrangement.
Bring The Boys Back Home
This strange and brief track is brought home with an updated sound from the music offices of Sherwood, Sherwood and Schellen.
Comfortably Numb
Chris Squire plays double duty here delivering both the bass and lead vocals while the other half of the Yes rhythm section Alan White helps him hold it down. Jordan Berliant provides acoustic guitar and Sher | 1,571 |
All the World in the Flip of A Coin
January 8, 2023 January 9, 2023 ~ GregWW
(Getting down to the bottom of things, all in a simple read! A revised version of an earlier post. The mystery of the different Levels of existing things is explored through the example of the simple tossing of a coin. Keeping it pretty lite and pretty curious while trying to popularize the ideas of philosopher Dan Dennett, from his 1983 John Locke Lectures delivered in Cambridge, England and published as Elbow Room, the varieties of Free Will worth wanting, 1984.)
HOW CAN A THING BE TWO THINGS? Well, they can, and we think that all the time as long as the many different ways we characterize a thing don't trip all over each other. Some large degree of consistency is necessary. A dog is a mammal and a chordate and an animal, that works ok.
(Two Old Dogs)
But also a dog can be my pet, a mammal, a Beagle, Nika, and a congregation of atoms. I guess that means that I have pet atoms, and if I owned two dogs I would still have pet atoms just two different clumps of them. Funny how my pet clump loves to run about the yard in perfect attunement to the expansion of the universe and the constant decay of her sub-atomic particles. Those adorable little particles sure do get a charge (a different electrical charge?) when my wife comes home! My dog's brain-waves love my mammalian mate. Its cute little tail (and brain waves, I presume) wiggle and waggle all over the place on those occasions.
Now that didn't sound quite right to me, but I guess it's true somehow. We just have to keep all our radically different ways of talking about something in their own compartments. We cannot mix them like a tossed salad. And speaking of tossing…
(A Fair Human Coin Toss)
When we think about coin-flipping, we have a somewhat similar issue. How should we talk about it?
On the one hand, there is "elbow room," "wiggle room," says philosopher Dan Dennett. We don't know whether a fair human flip will come up heads or tails, but we do know that it will come up one of those. In fact, we have a whole set of "laws," the laws of probability, that say in the long run heads and tails will come up with equal frequency. So if, oddly enough, you have just flipped a coin five times and they all came out heads, don't say "Tails, it's got to be" for the sixth flip, because it doesn't. Yes, that is elbow room; that coin has some room to maneuver!
Dennett cites the famous 18th century English philosopher, David Hume: we want "a certain looseness" to exist in our world. It "prevents the possible from shrinking tightly around the actual," says Dennett and is "presupposed in our use of the word "can." The flip "can" come up heads or tails. Many things "can" do various things and have various states. Water "can" be a solid, liquid or gas. This kind of flexibility is presupposed in our idea of human freedom, and in much social science ("She can vote Republican or Democrat."), biology ("The dog can bark.") engineering ("The auto can accelerate."), but also in statistics and probability ("Any gene of the father "can" be passed on to the offspring, but only 50% of the offspring's genes will be paternal.). This "openness" is very important to us.
But on the other hand, we also believe that every flip of that coin is completely determined by all the physical laws and conditions that compose it; in other words, no elbow room. If we could control, or know, all the conditions, no mystery to the outcome of any flip would remain. "Mystery gives way to mechanism," as Dan Dennett has stated in many circumstances.
(The accurate Coin Flipper. The spring must<|fim_middle|> sufficiently caused.
But who cares? Dennett says this kind of cause is "diffuse, complex and uninteresting." We can really do nothing with it. What we really want are Necessary Causes, not sufficient causes, he says, and this is just what a coin toss lacks. No one or two or three factors exist (or are evident to us and evident to us in time) to determine the outcome in a fair human coin flip. The outcome is "up in the air" so to speak. It has no Necessary cause, in that way. It is a very ordinary event (no "spirits," no "mind," no extraordinary "powers") and it has no (necessary) cause!
The same may be said for the "choice" of your shirt this morning: it had no particular and necessary cause! An openness existed to it, from our perspective. Like the coin toss it had sufficient causes but no one or two obvious and determinate (necessary) causes). "I'll wear the blue shirt, today," I decide, for no obvious reason. It seems to be a "choice" by me and not a causal event forced on me.
WE SHOULD PAUSE AND APPRECIATE THIS RECOGNITION. Nothing in particular (no physical force, no environmental condition) caused the coin's outcome, or even the choice of my shirt. A coin toss is both caused and determined in its outcome (by sufficient causes) and NOT caused and determined (by a necessary cause) at the same time. Let us explore these circumstances.
Maybe this idea of Sufficient Causation is not helpful to us? As Dennett has already said, this kind of explanation is all over the place ("diffuse"), extremely protracted ("complex"), and "uninteresting" because it does not exclude much of anything. "Sufficient Cause" seems to appeal to our inclination to think of everything as being involved with everything else, at least in some sense.
("All is One" : Ouroborus, the Egyptian and Greek symbol of a snake eating its own tail in an eternal act of self-destruction and recreation. Pronounced various ways including: 'Ore-o-bore-us, all o's are long.)
In this obtuse way, the idea of sufficient causation is helpful, I suppose, and Dennett acknowledges this and then suggests: we seem to be lucky that the world we are in has the character that it has, because a lot has come out of it. All the many different things interact and it comes to some notable occurrences.
Some interesting sh!# does happen! For example, we know much about the chemical and structural character of the simplest living things, yet we cannot recreate them, cannot produce Life from Non-Life in a lab. We know much about its pieces and parts, but just can't put them together to work There seems to be "many more ways to not be alive than to be alive," a prominent biologist, Richard Dawkins, has concluded. We are lucky to have the degree of complexity that we do have, for even in our own universe (let alone other "possible universes") there seem to be many places where "things" just don't come to much.
('Get it together, for God's sake!' What if all the interacting forces and particle in this part of the universe almost totally cancelled each other out? It would be like a galactic Sargasso Sea, a lot stuff but just not doing much of anything more.)
(A diver swims below the debris of the Sargasso Sea.
But most of our world seems to be highly diverse, interactive and consequential: Simpler things accumulate, bond, congeal, constitute, formulate more complicated "things." What then is 'more real,' the little pieces or the big thing they compose? Are there any limits to how big this process of accumulation can grow, and on what terms do these processes of congregation occur?)
And when 'all' the world comes together to make a very specific things or event, sometimes a necessary cause will jump out at us from all these sufficient causes. A traffic accident was "caused" (necessary cause) by the car that ran the light, in addition to the state of particles shortly after the Big Bang and Henry Ford's invention of the auto assembly line in 1913 that made mass auto transit feasible— all parts of the sufficient cause that do play their role in this car crash. Stock market fluctuations, World War One, are other examples; things that may lack a necessary cause.
Laplace's Demon is very much at home in this world of massively interacting sufficient causes. The Demon would have the capacity to know them all and precisely trace each exact contribution far into the future (and back into the past). But we humans do not; we have limited horizons. We do not even know with certainty the outcome of the day we are in. "Subjectively our future is open," says Dennett. Objectively, from the demon's point of view, all movements are already determined. Like a coin toss.
So, we choose by taking hold of (taking advantage of) a more limited pattern that we do see (a necessary cause, hopefully); we act, and then wait to see what happens. Choice and responsibility, free will and planning (avoiding the bad, seeking the good), and rationality, all are ideas based in our limited knowledge and abilities, contends our philosopher.
It's a good thing to be a creature with limitations, we might conclude. It seems like we are free, in a universe that is already determined! In this way, our freedom and our responsibility are conditions of "our epistemic limitations" and not our most wide-ranging ontological condition. Subjectively there is looseness in our lives; different events "can" happen!
(In a universe of interconnected causes, Subjectively we seem to jump in, jump into the middle. This mediate perspective is crucial to our situation, argues Dennett.)
We are free because often we know no necessary causes to explain much of what happens to us. We are like our flipping coin, no cause seems to stand out. This morning when I chose my shirt, gravity did not necessarily cause that, nor did entropy, nor the food I ate yesterday and every day before that (they were all sufficient causes, real and active but in a subtle way), nor was my mother abusive in my childhood by always screaming at me and demanding: "Wear blue on Wednesdays!" Like the coin rotating in the air (head or tail?), we are subjectively free to make "a choice:" red shirt or blue?
But "choice" is not always the best word to use. We do not say that the coin chooses head or tail, but we do recognize a new set of standards apply to the outcome of the flip from our perspective. A different way of talking about the coin toss becomes applicable. The Coin Toss exists and behaves at two different ontological levels: the micro-physical level of Laplace's Demon and the hard sciences; and the macro-physical level of everyday interactions.
At the macro level this morning, an openness seemed to exist and I used it to (very briefly) consider the color for my shirt. 'What color pants am I going to wear?' 'What color shirt did I wear yesterday?' 'It's winter, wear subdued colors,' I thought. Of course, gravity and entropy and millions of chemical reactions were also playing their part as sufficient causes in the background for "my decision." But, I now had the "Elbow Room" to utilize my fashion standards and some other even more important standards, to make my decision according to The Standards for "a free and responsible person!" Or so we say.
(My friends and I are Not too concerned about fashion!)
Spoiler Alert: If you think I have put our "freedom" in somewhat of a precarious position, you are right! We are stuck between the Eternal and Fixed Background of Physical Laws and our own limits and needs to Think and Act Reasonably. "Stuck in the Middle with You!" It's the basis of a Nature and Religion Connection! Stay tuned for the resolution!
"STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU." —–"Stealer's Wheel" one and only hit, but a good one!
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3 thoughts on "All the World in the Flip of A Coin"
SolveForce says:
Is a coincidence that the word coin coincides in words that contain the letters that spell coin? Good article. Very informative!
GregWW says:
Thanks for your feedback, really glad you found it interesting! I did not notice that COIN-incident CO-INcidence. I' working on the "Resolution" to the coin toss post now, and some other amazing stuff from from that Dennett book, "Elbow Room." I have read that book many times since the early 2000s and I'm only now really starting to get it.
Good stuff, thanks for the response! | be finely adjusted for each location and time. Heads-up will bring you a Heads-outcome at a very high rate for some appreciable time thereafter.. The coin flips from pictured red cup, and then lands there.)
So, is it elbow room or no elbow room? Contemporary magician turned mathematician, Persi Diaconis has developed a highly accurate mechanical coin-flipper. And Pierre Laplace, the famous 18th century French physicist, postulated that with Newton's laws, if we had a very powerful intelligence (often called "Laplace's Demon") capable of discerning the position of all the particles of the universe at any one instant, to that knower the past and the future would be one, all movements and destinations—including our flipping coin—would be known. As Hume feared, to the demon, the possible has collapsed into the actual. From that perspective there is no wiggle room; what actually happened was determined to happen long ago and even far way.
(In Roman times it was called navia aut caput, "ship or head." The head is that of Emperor Pompey the Great.)
So what is the truth of this two-sided event? Is it designed to allow "a certain looseness" or is it totally determined to come to the one and only outcome that did in fact out-come? How do we think both ways about this 'simple' event? Dennett has tried to make much of this combination and much may ride on it including human freedom.
(Called by some philosophers, "The God's Eye Point of View": From above it all, God seeing All the Universe At Once and in a Single Instant. Tapestry by Cima de Conegliaro, 1504. )
First Dennett contends, we have limited knowledge. We are not Laplace's Demon; we are too much in the middle of all things: too much limited in time and in space. The position and velocity of all particles at one instant is well beyond our capabilities (beyond anyone's). We have this Ideal of Perfect Scientific Knowledge as 'a guiding light,' but our limitations are well known to us and deeply embedded in our way of thinking. We know we have limits and here we have run right into them.
Second, in a very important sense, The Outcome of a Coin Toss has No Cause. How could this be? A coin toss has many causes, Dennett just said that. Some of us might think that a human being can do un-caused, "free," things, but not a dead and dumb disc of metal. But, there are ambiguities in our idea of "cause" explored by philosophers going as far back as Aristotle. A sufficient cause and a necessary cause is the distinction Dennett will use here, but at another point a different idea of causation will also be prominent. The coin toss has no "necessary" cause, he contends.
A coin-toss has sufficient causes, argues Dennett. Its outcome was caused by many things, including the positions and qualities of the particles of the universe one minute after the Big Bang. Whatever the situation of those particles, they were at least sufficient to allow the outcome of this coin flip these billions of years later.
More immediately, we are sure the outcome was caused by the many, many, specifics of the situation at the time of the coin's flight (humidity, wind, the specific gravity of its location…), and the various exact features of the flip itself (speed, rotation, height of toss, size of coin…). All these factor into the exact outcome of any and all particular flips. In this sense, that event—and all events, you picking a shirt from your closet this morning, for example– have causes sufficient for their occurrence: they are | 767 |
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You can visit the 31-room mansion of the 19th President, Rutherford B. Hayes, see his library, estate and tomb.
The main entrance of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center is located at the corner of Hayes and Buckland Avenues in Fremont Ohio. The facility consists of 2 buildings – the Hayes Home and Hayes Museum. Daily tours of both are available year-round. Visitors can opt to tour one building or both. Tours<|fim_middle|> marks their burial site. | of the Hayes Home are guided and take about 45 minutes. The Hayes Museum involves a self-guided tour. However docent-led museum tours are available for groups of 15 or more by prior arrangement.
The museum was started by the President's second son, Colonel Webb Cook Hayes and his siblings, shortly after the turn of the 20th century. In several transactions, Colonel Hayes and his brothers and sister deeded over to the state of Ohio, Spiegel Grove, the President's estate and all its holdings. Ground was broken in 1912 for the museum building and the first presidential library/museum in the United States opened in 1916 funded by the state of Ohio and Webb C. Hayes.
Sardis Birchard was born in 1801 in Vermont. Both of his parent died when he was only 12 and so he moved in with his sister Sophia and her husband. A few years later, the Hayes family consisting of Rurtherford, Sophia, Fanny and Birchard moved from Vermont to Delaware, Ohio. Five years later, Sophia was pregnant when Rutherford died before his son was born. After the birth Sophia name her son Rutherford Birchard Hayes in honor of her husband and her brother. Birchard took responsibility for the Hayes family, insuring that young Rutherford got a proper education.
Sardis Birchard was just 23 years old when he first came through the Lower Sandusky area that would later become known as Fremont. He had been delivering hogs to communities along the Sandusky River. Several years later he moved the Hayes family from Delaware to land he had purchased in Lower Sandusky. Over the years Birchard purchased numerous plots of land throughout northwest Ohio. This land proved to become very valuable. One of those plots of land was a 25 acre wooded lot located on the edge of town that he had admired. One of the things that attracted him were the pools of water that formed on the floor of the woods after a rainfall. They reminded him of mirrors reflecting light filtering down through the trees. As a child his mother had read him German fairy tales. One of those tales referred to mirrors (the German word for mirrors is "spiegel") and so Sardis decided to call this enchanted land Spiegel Grove.
He selected the land as a home for his nephew Rutherford and his family. Birchard began building the brick house in 1859, but with the Civil War and political obligations, Rutherford and his wife Lucy were not able to move into the property until 1873.
The Museum Store, located adjacent to the Reception Desk in the Hayes Museum, carries a variety of books for children and adults, souvenirs, postcards, and gift items relating to President and Mrs. Hayes, the Civil War, history, and the Victorian Era. The Museum Store's boutique-like atmosphere is generated by the array of specialty merchandise that changes with the seasons. Visitors can shop the Museum Store anytime free of charge. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and noon-5 p.m. Sundays and holidays.
Tuesday - Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Closed: Mondays, Christmas and New Year's Day, Easter Sunday, and Thanksgiving Day.
When you enter Spiegel Grove, you can't miss the massive iron gates. Rutherford B. Hayes did not put those gates in place, in fact they were installed well after his death, but Rutherford Hayes had passed through the gates many times. These were the actual gates being used to protect the White House in Washington DC up until 1921 when they had to be replaced with wider gates to accommodate automobiles. Rutherford's son, Webb, led an initiative for the government to donate them to the Hayes Memorial.
President and Mrs. Hayes are buried just south of the Hayes Home, within the grounds of Spiegel Grove. A granite tombstone, quarried from the Hayes homestead in Dummerstown, Vermont, | 834 |
"Chill is a miserable attitude when it comes to hosting gatherings," (pg 74).
"…The final transition between the guests' arrival and the opening is a threshold moment. Anticipation builds between the initial clap of thunder and the first drops of rain; hope and anxiety mingle," (pg 171).
"Good controversy is the kind of contention that helps people look more closely at what they care about when there is a danger but also real benefit in doing so," (page 233).
What if our 'agenda' was a list of questions that we could select to discuss/reflect on in pairs/small groups?
Do we need a 'pre-meet' and 'post-meet' section?
How can we save time by asking people to do thinking before or after a meeting?
Can we do more to invite debate<|fim_middle|> purpose and vulnerability to a meeting. Understanding this as a concept could help add intentionality to our gatherings.
Thanks for suggesting the book Tricia!
Thanks for organising this Tricia, I enjoyed the book and wish I had been at the meeting!
I loved her anecdotes from Google and the different ways of reaching compromise or agreement. The car parking announcement at the funeral was a really clear lesson about how not to start a meeting too!
Looking forward to the next one. Cheers.
Some really interesting ideas and provocations there Tricia. I love it. Thank you for promoting my thinking. | in?
What if we built in more time for 'hot topics,' or intentionally sought out provocations?
Could we ask teachers to take on the opposite stance and debate accordingly?
Let's mix and match norms for different sessions.
Have a pop-up rule that will allow the meeting to function even better.
When might you need a time-keeper?
When might you need a designated 'devil's advocate'?
When do you need someone else to lead your meeting?
How might an outsider's perspective allow for new ways of thinking?
Should each member of the team lead a meeting at some point in the year?
When might you make attendance invitational? How might giving time back to others help?
One of my other takeaways from this book is how a venue can almost inform the agenda and so worth us taking some time to think about this sometimes, instead of going to the easy/routine option. By mixing up venues perhaps we can help people to shake off "roles" and routines. Perhaps this can assist with the role of controversy.
The idea of the 15 Toasts was excellent in terms of adding | 222 |
The game of gamification: how to play it right
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In the pursuit of better customer engagement and employee productivity, companies have adapted many experimental and novel techniques and models, including the play-it approach to non-game contexts.
The concept of "gamification" has been around for a while and continues to gain<|fim_middle|>ified CRM platform maximizes its return, users should be rewarded not only for achieving the best performance levels but also for continuously practicing certain behaviors identified as particularly valuable to the company. For example, a company might establish a point system to reward the quality of sales calls: 1 point for a new contact, 2 points for a contact with an executive title, 5 points for a referred contact and so on. A CRM platform with gamification can also transform specifically defined goals into scores, enabling players to continue moving forward with each achievement.
The Role of Gamification in Social Media
Long before gamification began making an appearance in CRM and sales tools, it had various community-based uses spanning from user forums to social platforms. With the ability to share successes and ask for opinions, these tools proved how important sharing achievements had become to today's generation. And the latest applications of gamification within software revisit that social and communal aspect, allowing users to share results within the company and, on a larger scale, on their personal social profiles.
The trend of socially driven activities within the gamification element of CRM is expected to continue expanding — and likely to become a part of several other technologies where a gamified component could prove valuable.
The Bigger Picture of Gamification
While searching for information on the subject of gamification, one gets the impression that the tactic must offer sizable benefits to be adopted into so many popular software solutions. Yet at the same time, many critics are beginning to suggest that the value of the gamification method is exaggerated and oversimplifies the more sophisticated philosophies of business productivity.
It's worth remembering that not so long ago many practices implemented today on a global scale (such as agile marketing) were also highly criticized. As the technology and functionality of gamification move forward, this methodology could eventually have significant effects on standard business processes, upscaling the productivity and performance of the teams. The focus now is all on the vendors working with gamification to come up with even better opportunities aimed at bringing business productivity levels to new heights. | traction in the business world. Gamification is the simple idea of encouraging participation in certain behaviors by stimulating our innate desire as humans to compete and win. In the realm of business software, applications of gamification include score-based and reward-driven activities, which have been proven to boost employee morale and increase individual performance.
As M2 Research predicts, the technique is becoming so popular that the gamification software market will reach $2.8 billion by 2016. The trend is promising and exciting; however, the concept of gamification does not necessarily work equally well in all aspects of employee-operated business processes. It's best to fully understand the cons and benefits of gamification software and how it can best be used before trying to implement a gamification-based operational strategy.
How Does Gamification Work?
As previously mentioned, the concept of applying a competitive edge to business processes by utilizing goal-minded incentives has already gained significant momentum in many fields, with sales and customer service being the most noticeable and applicable areas. In these fields, incorporating the gaming element into daily routines proved to be an effective motivational tool that has already helped thousands of sales professionals to reach their goals.
Game-enabled applications provide rewards in the form of badges, scores, rankings and other types of recognition, which set standards for future accomplishments. Gamification applies the systems of either tangible or non-tangible rewards to help employees amp up their performance in a way that benefits both employee and employer.
Built-In Gamification in CRM
Many CRM vendors have successfully adapted the concept of gamification into their systems, promoting increased efficiency and productivity levels within an organization (when the function is used right). Intelligently designed and properly applied, this form of motivation can show remarkable results — though it is worth noting that gamification techniques are better for some scenarios than others, and work well only when implemented correctly.
When applying this approach, it's important to remember that the ability to spur participation stems mainly from the reward elements of the tactic, rather than through a strong desire to help the business meet certain profit figures. And while the number of sales calls made by a participant does not necessarily affect the performance of the sales pipeline, it can help by increasing the number of qualified prospects — and improving the call agent's perception of the task.
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To adopt and sign as a correct record the minutes of the Cabinet meeting held on 6 August 2020.
RESOLVED: to approve the minutes of the meeting held on 9 July 2020 as a correct record and agree that the Chair sign them as such.
Declaration of disclosable pecuniary interest
To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests in respect of items on the agenda for this meeting.
Urgent business and chair's announcements
To receive notification of any matters which the chair determines should be considered as urgent business and the special circumstances which have made the matters urgent, and to receive any announcements from the chair.
To receive any questions or statements from members of the public that have registered to speak.
Recommendations from other committees
To consider any recommendations to Cabinet from other committees.
Climate Emergency Advisory Committee – 14 September 2020
Power purchase agreements
The Climate Emergency Advisory Committee discussed a report on power purchase agreements. The report suggested that officers should join discussions with other Oxfordshire councils and commercial partners to identify the feasibility of entering into a power purchase agreement. The committee made the following recommendation.
Recommended: to Cabinet that officers join discussions with other Oxfordshire councils and commercial partners to identify the feasibility of entering into a power purchase agreement.
However, the committee wish to understand what flexibility would be allowed in such a contract. There was concern that the council would have to commit to a fixed amount of electricity purchase, when the council's aim is to reduce use. The committee also wished to understand the contractual arrangements pending any local government reorganisation in Oxfordshire.
Cabinet considered recommendations from other committees
Climate Emergency Advisory Committee on 14 September 2020
Power Purchase Agreement
Cabinet noted the recommendation from the Climate Emergency Advisory Committee (CEAC) that officers join discussions with other Oxfordshire councils and commercial partners to identify the feasibility of entering into a power purchase agreement.
Cabinet had been advised by CEAC that the committee wished to understand what flexibility would be allowed in such a contract. There was concern that the council would have to commit to a fixed amount of electricity purchase, when the council's aim was to reduce use. The committee also wished to understand the contractual arrangements pending any local government reorganisation in Oxfordshire.
Cabinet also noted the committee's intention to review the opportunity to enter into negotiations with the Low Carbon Hub and other Oxfordshire Councils on a potential Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The Chair of CEAC, Councillor Sue Roberts, advised Cabinet on progress, informing the meeting that no recommendations had been made at this time as discussions on the possible agreement were still proceeding.
The Chair of CEAC also reported that the Vice Chair of CEAC, Councillor Sam Casey-Rerhaye, who had also been working closely with officers of the council, had been liaising with the five other Oxfordshire councils. Progress had been slowed by the Covid 19 situation, which had introduced an element of uncertainty into the councils. However, the negotiations themselves were extremely complex, involving multiple intermediaries. At the present time, working with a given provider, rather than entering into a full PPA, seemed attractive, particularly as most PPAs were of 15 years' duration and difficult to withdraw from during the term. Councillor Roberts hoped that the forthcoming appointment of a council environment officer could assist in clarifying issues and progressing matters.
The view was expressed that moving the council offices to a new site would also have implications for energy purchase and consumption. Therefore, it might be sensible not to conclude a new approach to energy consumption until the full implications of new accommodation and any agreement became clearer.
This delay and uncertainty offered the council the opportunity to undertake innovative energy saving work at the council's leisure facilities, which consumed the largest proportion of all council energy needs. This could involve ground-breaking approaches to direct energy generation, such as overnight usage and the installation of state-of-the-art technology and equipment.
Councillor Roberts advised Cabinet that, typically, the negotiation process for PPAs lasted a year, so any delay might be to the council's advantage in this uncertain era.
Cabinet concurred that in view of the negotiation timeframe, and issues of new council office accommodation, the urgency of this issue had been reduced and that therefore CEAC should continue to consider the matter with a moderated sense of urgency.
RESOLVED: to refer the proposal that officers join discussions with other Oxfordshire councils and commercial partners, to identify the feasibility of entering into a power purchase agreement, back to the Climate Emergency Advisory Committee for further consideration.
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To consider the interim head of finance's report.
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Appendix<|fim_middle|>2019/20. This action also complied with the requirements of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA's) Code of Practice on Treasury Management.
Cabinet was advised that the Joint Audit and Governance Committee had considered the report and were satisfied with the council's financial performance.
Cabinet noted with approval the performance demonstrated in the Yield table (page 9 of report) which depicted an actual investment income of £3.243m against a budgeted investment income of £2.807m. Including the property investment income, the overall total for 2019/20 was £3.634m, with a rate of return of 1.99%.
RECOMMEND to Council to:
(a) approve the treasury management outturn report for 2019/20; and
(b) approve the actual 2019/20 prudential indicators within the report.
Exclusion of the Public
To consider whether to exclude members of the press and public from the meeting for the following item of business under Part 1 of Schedule 12A Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 and as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006 on the grounds that:
(i) it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 1 to 7 Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, and
(ii) the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.
RESOLVED: to exclude members of the press and public from the meeting for the following item of business under Part 1 of Schedule 12A Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 and as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006 on the grounds that:
i. it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 1,2 and 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, and
ii. the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.
Commercial negotiations with Capita and the review of Exchequer Services and Finance IT systems
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To consider the report of the acting deputy chief executive – transformation and operations and the interim head of finance.
Cabinet noted negotiations with Capita and agreed to consider an option to provide Exchequer Services and Finance IT systems.
Office accommodation
To consider the report of the acting deputy chief executive – transformation and operations, and the acting deputy chief executive - place.
Cabinet noted a review of potential office accommodation sites and agreed to proceed with a particular site. | B - Prudential Limits 2019-20 , item 24. PDF 53 KB
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Cabinet considered the report of the interim head of finance on the treasury outturn 2019/20. This reporting fulfilled the legislative requirements to ensure the adequate monitoring and reporting of the treasury management activities and that the council's prudential indicators were reported to the council at the end of the year. The report provided details of the treasury activities for the financial year | 212 |
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At a first glance, this image appears to tell a coming-home story. The four soldiers coming from the east look as if they are taking a breath of fresh air. The smile of the soldier on the left portrays an emotion of pride and happiness. From what we can see of the east, there are no reporters. There are only soldiers in a one colour uniform providing us with a distinction between the colourful west and the monotone east. It is visually appealing because it illustrates a contrast between the two sides of the wall. The wall is lowering towards the beholder of the photo, creating distinct layering and making the photo highly informative. It's an emblematic photo because it is taken at a moment when the wall is still up and only a small portion has started to fall. It is a raw moment as the communists and the capitalists, are re-integrating. The wall itself, from the west side, has been graffitied establishing an expressive connection from the western population. The bottom layer from where we perceive the image, displays a range of colours and people in all different outfits. There are some police men at the front as well as soldiers from the west side controlling the lowering of the wall. Everyone is bustling and pushing each other to get a good angle and view of the other side. There are many people attempting to capture this moment.
Cut down until it became no more.
The above poem narrates, the nation of Berlin as two million hearts experiencing the end of the cold war. This portrays the synchronicity of the contrasting sides of the country. In the exposition, the war is introduced as "a ticking time bomb, whose time never came." This metaphorically pays tribute to the tension surrounding the antagonist. "Rigid regulation," is alliteration used to further define the conflict as division inflicted by the wall, a result from the war. The thawing of the cold war is a pun, which highlights the initiating incident. The rising action encompasses the emotion portrayed in the photo, anticipation for the fall. Researching the grandness of the events unfolding, as well as the context behind the photo; helps to fuel the poem with little events that occurred in order to create the big picture. Racing hearts, people bustling and the hope of capturing the historical moment. The unison of the armies who have come together to fulfill a common task. The climax, being the destruction of the wall, is an allusion to a speech by Winston Churchill in which he addresses the wall as an Iron Curtain. This helps the reader to grasp the concept of division between the east and the<|fim_middle|>acts/index.html. Accessed 12 Apr. 2019.
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Rank, Michael Scott. "What Was the Iron Curtain?" History on the Net, 2000-2019. https://www.historyonthenet.com/what-was-the-iron-curtain. Accessed 14 Apr. 2019. | west. The resolution is the greatest party known to history, with two million attendees and the mixing of cultures. The conclusion is the consumption of capitalism by the communists who adopt their government system to mend their broken hearted nation.
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Posted on March 21, 2017 by andreaemg
SAN RAMON, Calif. – March 16, 2017. ONVIF®,<|fim_middle|> at ISC West 2017, April 4-7, at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas, Nev., as part of SIA Education@ISC, the Security Industry Association's educational program held in conjunction with ISC West. ONVIF is also a sponsor of ISC West and will be hosting the ONVIF Lounge at Booth LL1 within the Sands Expo, where attendees can relax and recharge their mobile devices.
ONVIF Steering Committee Chair Per Björkdahl and ONVIF Communication Committee Chair Jonathan Lewit will be speaking on behalf of ONVIF on "Using ONVIF for Network Connected Security" on April 4, 2017, from 10:15-11:15 AM. The joint presentation will focus on how end users, security system designers and systems integrators can use ONVIF to integrate access control, video surveillance and other security and operational elements as part of a security deployment. The session will also provide an overview of the history and current profiles of ONVIF, as well as opportunities for industry involvement within ONVIF standardization activities.
Lewit and Björkdahl will also join a panel discussion entitled "The Standards Developers Panel," to include panelists representing SIA and other organizations involved in standards initiatives affecting the physical security industry. The standards panel will be held 11:30 AM-12:30 PM on Tuesday, April 4.
"Standards are a major facilitator of the physical security industry's dramatic expansion to encompass much more than just video surveillance and access control," said Per Björkdahl, Chair of the ONVIF Steering Committee. "It is important that we continue the conversation as an industry about how standards can continue to grow as a resource for systems integrators and end users in their businesses."
ONVIF also will host the ONVIF Lounge for ISC West at booth LL1, adjacent to the ISC West Registration Booth on the show floor. Visitors to the lounge are welcome to recharge their mobile devices at the charging stations provided within the lounge.
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Founded in 2008, ONVIF is a leading and well-recognized industry forum driving interoperability for IP-based physical security products. The organization has a global member base of established camera, video management system and access control companies and more than 7,000 Profile conformant products. With Profile S for streaming video; Profile G for recording and storage; Profile C for physical access control; Profile Q for improved out-of-the-box functionality and the Release Candidate Profile A for access control configuration, ONVIF continues to work with its members to expand the number of IP interoperability solutions ONVIF conformant products can provide.
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Last fall, the University Budget Advisory Committee, or UBAC, implemented the university's first open budget enhancement request process. This was an opportunity for all units to request general use funds in a transparent and uniform manner for their most important needs over a three-year budget planning window. Twenty-two requests were submitted from 14 units, totaling more than $23.7 million in funding needs. As we noted in our May 24 letter, due to budget constraints, a number of the proposals were returned to the requesting units and implementation of others was recommended to be deferred until FY 2018 and FY 2019.
The University Budget Advisory Committee met on Aug. 25 to begin the process of reviewing revenue projections and prioritizing expenditures for the university's FY 2018 budget. During the meeting, the committee discussed the potential fiscal impacts to the university's FY 2018 budget, including those enhancement request proposals, which had been deferred previously. The committee also discussed the critical need to focus on faculty and staff salary needs in the upcoming fiscal year.
After reviewing the university's financial outlook and considering the extreme pressures, which exist across the academy for some type of compensation action in FY 2018, the committee recommended that the call for budget enhancement requests from the deans and vice presidents this fall be suspended. After discussion in the cabinet, interim President Myers approved this recommendation. Those enhancement requests whose implementation was originally delayed until FY 2018/19 will remain under consideration and prioritized accordingly within the three year planning horizon FY 2018 through FY 2020.
As we turn our attention to planning for FY 2018-FY 2020, many of you may have read about the request by the State Budget Director for all agencies and universities to submit a 5 percent reduction plan for next fiscal year to the Governor's Budget Office. General Myers recently described this request best when labeling it as a "budget drill." In the past, all state agencies, except Regents institutions, have been asked to submit this information as part of the annual budget request submitted to the governor's office and the State Legislature. This year, the Regents universities were asked to participate in the exercise.
Provided below is the narrative information included in K-State's budget submission describing how the university would implement a 5 percent budget reduction for main campus and the impact of the cut on the university community. Similar narratives were included in the budget requests for the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Extension and Research sub agencies.
The budget instructions from the Division of the Budget directed that the university submit "a reduced resource package of 5.0 percent" for the FY 2018 and FY 2019 budgets. The reduction amounts for the KSU Main Campus are $4.9 million for each respective fiscal year. Presently, the university would plan to allocate the state general fund reductions across-the-board to each unit head, president, provost/senior vice president, vice president and dean based on their current year general use fund allocation. General use funds comprise state general fund appropriations and tuition funds. These units will determine how the reductions will be absorbed to mitigate the impact to the mission of the university. Since the reductions are distributed to each unit head, each function of the university is impacted<|fim_middle|>7 budget adjustments later this fiscal year. The University Budget Advisory Committee will continue to work throughout the academic year to prioritize and recommend planned expenditures and a balanced budget for FY 2018.
We are facing potential state general fund budget cuts, enrollment challenges and increased operating costs at a time when we also need to address compensation needs as a priority across the university. It is more important than ever that we continue to work together as the K-State community to adjust to our "new normal" fiscal environment. | including instruction, research, public service, academic support, institutional support, student services and physical plant.
State funding is still an essential and substantial component of the financing model for Kansas State University. We strive every day to ensure that state funds invested in the university are effectively managed and produce real results for the Kansas taxpayer. Further reductions in state funding will degrade the university's ability to fulfill its land grant mission for the state and to achieve our K-State 2025 vision of a Top 50 public research institution. In addition, more financial burden will be placed on students in the form of increased tuition and fees.
After reviewing the budget submissions from all agencies, the State Budget Director announced last week that the governor will not propose across-the-board cuts to state appropriations in the budget he will submit for the 2017 Legislature's consideration.
As always, we continue to monitor not only the state's fiscal condition, but the university's as well. We recently announced a slight drop in enrollment for fall 2016, which will have yet-to-be-determined budget implications. At this time, we anticipate finalizing any FY1 | 231 |
IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission - ISO/IEC 9594-6:2014
Information technology -- Open Systems Interconnection -- The Directory -- Part 6: Selected attribute types
Publication Date: 25 February 2014
ICS Code (Application layer): 35.100.70
ISO/IEC 9594 has been produced to facilitate the interconnection of information processing systems to provide directory services. A set of such systems, together with the directory information... View More
ISO/IEC 9594 has been produced to facilitate the interconnection of information processing systems to provide directory services. A set of such systems, together with the directory information that they hold, can be viewed as an integrated whole, called the Directory. The information held by the Directory, collectively known as the Directory Information Base (DIB), is typically used to facilitate communication between, with or about objects such as application entities, people, terminals and distribution lists.
ISO/IEC 9594-6:2014 defines a number of attribute types and matching rules which may be found useful across a range of applications of the Directory. One particular use for many of the attributes defined is in the formation of names, particularly for the classes of objects defined in ISO/IEC 9594-7. Other attributes types, called notification attributes, provide diagnostic information. ISO/IEC 9594-6:2014 defines context types which supply characteristics associated with attribute values. It also includes definitions for lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) syntaxes relevant for attribute types and matching rules.
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Happy to welcome our editor and friend C.S. Lakin to the blog for a special post on story structure. Please read on!
This is probably THE<|fim_middle|> follow CS Lakin too. Thanks.
More structure posts! This is awesome. I personally can never learn enough about structure. Thanks so much for sharing :).
Thanks. I have found that clear charts are the best help. Novels are complex, and navigating through the morass of scenes can be daunting. That's why I wrote Layer Your Novel: to make it as easy as possible. Though, it doesn't take the needed work out of the process! | question every aspiring novelist has asked . . . but maybe hasn't had answered in a satisfying and clear manner.
There are plenty of techniques floating around that help writers learn how to structure solid scenes, craft compelling characters, bring setting to life, and pen engaging dialogue.
But as far as the nuts and bolts go—meaning, where the nuts and bolts go—therein lies the challenge—and hardly anything has been written about it.
Novels are made up of scenes. Lots of scenes.
Where the heck do all the scenes go, once you've come up with them?
If you're a pantser, you wing it and write whatever scenes come into your head. If you're a plotter, you sit down and make a list of as many scenes as you can think of, and then you try to put them in order as best you can, maybe create an outline, and then (cross your fingers) hope it works.
If you've written a lot of novels, you probably have a good sense where scenes need to fall in your story.
You may know that you need some initial disturbance (also called "the Inciting Incident") to kick off your story somewhere near the beginning of your novel.
And you might also know that at some point your protagonist should be pursuing a goal (but, believe me, a lot of writers don't even understand this is at the crux of plot and premise) that builds to a climax somewhere near the end. And then you figure you need to wrap things up and end the darn thing.
Many writers resist "overplotting" because they want flexibility. They want to allow their characters to come to life and take over (without overthrowing The Creator of the Novel) to some extent. I do too!
But novels are highly complex, and you cannot (she says adamantly, after having critiqued more than a thousand manuscripts) just write a bunch of scenes, stick them where they feel right, and call it good.
Most writing coaches will tell you: you must follow novel structure, very specifically, to craft a terrific novel. And that means understanding what types of scenes you need to frame your novel and where to put them.
The first layer of ten scenes is your foundation, your frame-up. It supports your entire story and premise. While I go deep into all of these ten scenes, as well as a variety of second and third layers (supported by many handy charts, such as the one in a post on layering romance you may have read on this blog) in my book Layer Your Novel, let's take a brief look at the ten key scenes (and if you need more info on each of these, read the linked posts).
#1 Setup. Introduce the protagonist in her ordinary life. Establish her core need. Set the stage, begin building the world, bring key characters on stage. You want to begin your novel right before the Inciting Incident.
#2 Turning Point #1 (10%) Inciting Incident. This starts the protagonist moving in a new direction. It's the "opportunity" that arises that will shift the character toward the fixed goal.
Turning Point #2 (25%) The visible goal for the novel is set.
#3 Pinch Point #1 (33% roughly). Give a glimpse of the opposition's power, need, and goal as well as the stakes. Your protagonist may or may not be aware of this development.
#4 Twist #1. Something new happens: a new ally appears, a friend becomes a foe. New info reveals a serious complication to reaching the goal. Protagonist must adjust to change with this setback.
#5 The Midpoint – Turning Point #3 (50%). No turning back. Important event that propels the story forward and solidifies the protagonist's determination to reach her goal.
#6 Pinch Point #2 (62% roughly). The opposition comes full force. Time to buckle down and fight through it. If the first pinch point introduces the opposing force (which could be a person/people, group, or force of nature, to name a few), the second pinch point brings this force to bear in all its power upon the protagonist.
#7 Twist #2. An unexpected surprise giving (false?) hope. The goal now looks within reach. A mentor gives encouragement, a secret weapon is presented, or an important clue is revealed (examples).
#8 Turning Point #4 – Dark Night Moment (75%). Major setback. All is lost and hopeless. The protagonist's support system is threatened or even fails. Time to go all-in for the final push.
#9 Turning Point #5 – Climax (76-99%). The climax in which the goal is either reached or not; the two MDQs are answered. Everything from the 25% mark to this moment is about progress and setbacks toward the goal, and the climax should be the BIG event in which the protagonist faces her most daunting opposition.
Take the time to learn just what each of these scene types are about. It's important.
Sure, you can veer off track a bit. These scenes don't have to be in exact places. And you're not limited to two pinch points or twists. Remember: this is the basic framework to start with. And from here, you can layer your next scenes (I provide charts for three different second layers in my book).
This isn't rocket science, but it's also not something to rush through. Take the time to learn about these key scenes and understand why they're important.
I will dare say if you use this chart when you begin to plot (or need to revise) your novel, you will see how much easier the process is than if you rely on guesswork.
Which scenes do you struggle with most when plotting out your novel? Does a look at this chart reveal to you what you might be missing in your structure?
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The pantser side in me is always knocking on the door but the plotter continues to change the locks. Some days I'm not sure which side I am on.
I'm definitely bookmarking this! I've been following a similar 7-step method, but the addition of the twists makes for a more complete story map, especially if you're writing a mystery.
I'm always amazed at how much invaluable info is put up on this site, ladies 😀 Thank you!
Thanks for the info, C.S.! Your tips are amazing!
I've experienced a here and there type education with writing. Frustrated with asking myself 'where am I going.'Your guests offer great advise on how to advance my writing. Enjoy your books, in my library of how tos, and refer to them often. I | 1,392 |
Laem Sor is in the deep south, with Laem Set to the east and to the west the area finishes at a headland, beyond which is Thong Krut.The area is very peaceful with the main attractions being the golden pagoda perched at the waters edge, together with the unspoiled tropical beach and beautiful views. Our Laem Sor villas are quietly located right on an unspoiled beach.
Laem Sor is in the deep south with Laem Set to the east and to the west the area finishes at a headland, beyond which is Thong Krut.
The main attraction here is Wat Laem Sor, part of which is a golden looking Pagoda per<|fim_middle|> villas that occupy this bay, to differentiate between this sandy bay which is swimmable most of the year and the main Laem Sor beach which is rocky in places.
South - A very quiet unspoiled sandy palm fringed beach protected by a coral reef so swimming is not possible at certain times due to the low tide but opens up to a wide expanse of sand for other activities. The beach is rockier towards the western end. | ched on the waters edge at Laem Sor beach. Next to this Chedi which was built many years ago is a 'meditation' forest, where there are also some seats and tables should you wish to stay a while and enjoy the stunning views over to the neighbouring islands of Koh Tan and Koh Matsum and even have a picnic. On Buddhist holy days, monks and lay people will fill the area with a festival atmosphere.
Next to this is a boathouse where model boats are placed to thank the monk who built the pagoda, for granting their wishes. A visitor centre is here to provide further information.
Prior to the existence of Pagoda Laem Sor, a snow white stupa known as Khao Chedi was erected over 100 years ago and sits on top of a steep hill above Ban Khao bay surrounded by various statues of Buddha. The view over the bay and the islands and mainland beyond is an added bonus.
The beach is quite rocky and not swimmable for most of the year, to the west it is narrower and at the western most point a small attractive sandy bay is shared by two high end luxury holiday villas. The perfect retreat for a Koh Samui holiday with family or friends.
Renamed South Beach by the luxury | 256 |
On the Microsoft Advertising blog, Microsoft's Head Of Research & Market Insights EMEA Anita Caras announces new research that looks at the effectiveness of brand campaigns in digital. The whitepaper looks at 20 campaigns across 4 EMEA countries and was done in conjunction with ComScore and Eyeblaster. Positive outcomes of brand campaigns include "Branded search-term activity," "Visits to brand sites" and "Uplifts in numbers of engaged visitors to brand site (measured in pages consumed and time spent on the brand site)." Read the post. And, download the whitepaper.
CNET's Elinor Mills reports that WhitePages.com has halted the delivery of ad network campaigns that were suspected of delivering malware on its site. Incredibly, the people who discovered the malware attack may have been related to the United States Senate as a Senate rep said that Senate computers had been infected by malware from WhitePages.com and the Drudge Report the day before. They're reading the Drudge Report in the halls of Congress? You gotta be kidding me. Nope.
On website Travolution, Ian Dowds, UK VP of Revenue at Specific Media, discussed momentum for the<|fim_middle|> bills." Read more. | online ad network in the travel space. Business doubled in January compared to the year ago period and Dowds told Travolution that "two of his top five clients in 2009 were in travel, and that 22 travel clients booked 30 campaigns in January 2010 – up from just 11 clients in the same month in 2009." Read more.
Daniel Farey-Jones of Mediaweek UK says that Rubicon Project has been asked to take over AOL inventory in Europe for "all countries where AOL has had a network-only sales policy." These countries include Spain, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands . Read more.
On Media.Asia, OMD Worldwide CEO, Mainardo de Nardis discusses the future of digital advertising saying, "The rapid evolution of digital platforms and consumer behaviour is causing a similar inflection point for marketers." His point: change or die. Read more.
Do you have your high octane, data crunching server yet? It seems like a lot of digital ad tech companies are buying into the Netezza product line which had been developed in the world of finance among other places. interCLICK is the latest client of Netezza TwinFin computing power. Read more.
Research firm VentureSource and some Wall Street Journal-types have created a list of what it believes are the Top 50 Venture-backed companies. From the world of advertising, #12 is Glam Media, #38 is Adchemy and #46 is iCrossing. The list was based on attributes called Equity, Executive, Valuation and Board rankings. Bad boards mean low scores. Read the summary article. And, see the list.
PC World's Tony Bradley looks at the HP Slate and the Apple iPad and it turns into comparison of Flash vs. HTML 5 with complete hysteria in the comments. "Each platform has a unique functionality and a different target audience--neither of which really needs Flash in order to find value in the tablet device itself." Read more.
On the Efficient Frontier blog, updates to technology of the Yahoo! Partner Network is the feature du jour as YPN's "domain exclusion and the relative size of the Yahoo! Partner Network .. represents a major opportunity for increased efficiency and growth." Read about YPN changes.
ClickZ's Zach Rodgers reports that Google has started running ads on the mobile website version of m.YouTube.com. Rodgers says, "Ad placements will be sold by the day, and each day's advertiser will own all inventory on the mobile site for that day - just like they do on YouTube's regular home page." Given the lighter volume of YouTube inventory, it might make a better sales pitch to say to an advertiser, "You will own the entire mobile presence of YouTube." Read more.
Looking to catch up on the tax implications of various states who are in the process of or think about an ad tax? The Performance Marketing Association has put together the latest update to its state-by-state rundown and finds, for example, that "A new ad tax bill, Number 5481, was proposed on March 8th in Connecticut. The language in this bill specifies a $2,000 per quarter threshold, which is much lower than the typical $10,000 threshold in other state's ad tax | 678 |
What Carroll Reed employee was the first to schuss the Tuckerman Headwall and win the 1939 Inferno race?
Toni Matt, Whom happens to have a ski run at Big Mtn (a.k.a. Whitefish Mtn Resort) Where I used to live an is only 2 hours from Fernie. It is snowing here but we seem to be in a Eastern weather pattern, snow turning to rain.<|fim_middle|> week I sharpened my skiis for the first time in 14 yrs. We generally do not sharpen skiis here we just replace as they are only worn out.
Toni Matt schussed the headwall at Tucks. If I remember correctly he later said that he did it by mistake rather than by plan.
Sometimes he claimed he was so hungover he just wanted to get the damn run over.
Ahh, my Alpine hero. It sure was some heady stuff skiing w/Toni when I was young (a thousand years ago). He was Catamount's Austrian Ringer (had been Lowell Thomas's greenskeeper after his bad injury post-Tuckermans) Toni had a 2inch lift one of his Kniessel White Stars to compensate for his shorter leg (broken then rebroken to heal better after the crash that didn't heal so well).
That man was quite a mentor, and so so very wonderful to watch, let alone try to keep up with. Grace and Elegance in motion, that wonderful old man was.
As our SRs are forwarded, I'm always too late on trivia. I've know most if the answers ( the longevity advantage). | Last | 1 |
Inside Holy Cross' Most Unique Dorm Community
Over 177 years, the College has offered students many places to live, but for generations, none has the everlasting pull on former residents like Wheeler Hall
It's subterranean champagne soirees and secret speakeasies. High adventure propelled by hurricanes and blizzards. It's fraternity forged in the clandestine heist of a decommissioned missile. It's street cred earned in hall jai alai and inspired scribbling done in drafty garrets.
It's a story nested in stories so numerous they'd tax Scheherazade in the telling. At the center of it all is a house with space for infinite memory, by a beach with no sand nor ocean.
Over its 177 years, the College has offered a variety of residences for students, yet none seems to have an everlasting pull on its former residents like Wheeler Hall.
Rev. Anthony J. Kuzniewski, S.J.'s 516-page history of the College, "Thy Honored Name: A History of The College of the Holy Cross 1843-1994," states that Wheeler was built to alleviate overcrowding in Fenwick and O'Kane. The dorm opened in January 1940 and was named (quite ironically, it would come to pass) for the late Rev. John D. Wheeler, S.J., prefect of discipline. Initially, seniors occupied the first four floors and juniors, the fifth. Total cost: $415,000.
College Archives and Special Collections is home to blueprints, newspaper clippings and pictures of Fr. Wheeler, but save for a single newspaper clipping about the opening of his namesake's short-lived basement bar, culture and pride aren't so much the concern of historical record. So, on the occasion of her 80th birthday, the question is put to alumni: What is it about Wheeler?
"I really don't think anyone was there by accident," says Cyndi Tully Webber '89, a former RA. "Whether you had big hair and high heels, were a tough-as-nails straight shooter or from a sheltered, single-sex Catholic school upbringing, you found your home in Wheeler. We all bonded. Everyone I met along the way there belonged in Wheeler. Everybody."
Stephen Hickey '73, P01 arrived at Wheeler in the fall of 1969. Then, the newest dorm, Mulledy, was the place to live. Hickey preferred Wheeler. "People didn't tend to leave Wheeler because it was the most convenient dorm. The Field House and Hogan were half a hill up; the library was half a hill down. And Wheeler had a sense of community. Wheeler was the only totally integrated dorm on campus. We had students from all four classes in it. A lot of guys spent their whole college career at Wheeler."
It was in an enviable location for another reason. "The College would bus women from all-women's colleges to the Field House or the Hogan parking lot and what was the first dorm you'd see? Wheeler," he says.
At the ready was the lounge, The Brickskellar. A black-and-white photo from the 1973 edition of the Purple Patcher shows a motley arrangement of folding chairs and mismatched tables, ashtrays, playing cards and empties. "A certain amount of interior renovation made Wheeler a more comfortable dwelling for the hundreds of Stephen Daedalus's [sic] that descend yearly to the house," the Patcher reported. "This title is appropriate because the undergraduates' years spent within the confines of the house are still those years of hopeful searching, to come to a full realization of what life at Holy Cross entails. From the penthouse level of Wheeler, one may oversee the seven hills of Worcester, but hopefully no one will attempt to make his flight from this height before coming to terms with his values and goals." (Clearly the writer was in Professor Edward Callahan's Joyce seminar.)
Hickey was one of 10 students with keys to The Brickskellar. "We served beer and booze. Wine? Ha, no," he says. "It was 25 cents for a 12-ounce beer and 50 cents for a hard drink. You had to buy tickets, $1 or $5 tickets. A dollar got you five beers. It was always packed. We opened when we opened, and we closed when we closed. Every Friday in the fall each academic department was invited over, providing a relaxed atmosphere for the students to get to know the faculty and have a drink with students. Although the room was open most Friday and Saturday nights, the rest of the week was open by request for Bruins or Celtics games or other special events."
And this was a business with a social mission decades before there was such a thing, Hickey notes. Proceeds of the Wheeler social room were often donated to student organizations.
At the time of the lounge's opening, the administration praised the enterprise. In a letter to the dorm's residents, Dean of Men McClain wrote, "The other houses now have a new standard for which to strive, both in fellowship and style … from now on when I think of community, I will think of Wheeler House."
O'Neil, director of the RA program, was even more effusive in his praise: "I think the men of Wheeler House did a fine job in offering the campus something with a little class," he wrote to the residents. "I hope that you are successful in making Wheeler House the best place on campus to live."
"Sophomore year, Lehy, Hanselman, Clark and Mulledy houses were the preferred resident selections," says Paul Howard '71. "Wheeler 507, a.k.a. The Penthouse, was our home. Our roommate, Ed, built a bar and we painted our ceiling in lime, pink and yellow. We viewed Wheeler House as the epicenter of our Holy Cross campus and Wheeler 507 cemented our lifelong friendship and treasured memories of our Holy Cross experiences."
It Has a Certain Energy
Diane McDonnell Pickles '89 and Bill Pickles 88 can be found (somewhere) in the sophomore Wheeler 2 photo from the Purple Patcher.
Feng shui dictates that a building be designed to encourage optimal flow of energy, qi. It's unlikely Boston architectural firm Maginnis and Walsh had this in mind in Wheeler's design (they also designed St. Joseph Memorial Chapel, Dinand Library and Alumni Hall), yet alums like Dave Curran '73 say the dorm's layout created a neighborhood atmosphere. Students took to the halls like city dwellers to stoops. "You walked out your door," Curran says, "and you were immediately part of things. No one ever wanted to leave Wheeler. We had the luck of having a good mix of people."
The hallway was a living room, notes Mary Lynch Supple '82, P17, P13. People would gather and chat over popcorn or even pop champagne, on occasion. "We held a reception on Wheeler 5 when Luke and Laura got married on 'General Hospital,'" Supple recalls. "It was a real community with a special bond. We would gather to walk to Kimball together and gather to walk to 10 o'clock Mass Sunday nights — and go to the pub on our way home."
"There was something about the way the light came in through the dorm room windows, casting a cozy glow in the afternoons and the old-fashioned radiators that smelled so good when the steam heat came on," remembers Lesley Stackler '88. "These contributed to an atmosphere of comfort and happiness that invited friends to visit and hang out in each other's rooms for hours on end. I met my best Holy Cross friends in Wheeler and our friendship has endured to this day."
This caused concern for some parents, especially dads leaving their 18-year-old daughters at college for the first time, recalls Diane McDonnell Pickles '89. "My dad took one look around and said, 'Get back in the car. You're not staying.'"
The pair reached a compromise. "I'll let you<|fim_middle|> There was even a Wheeler aesthetic. "It was a preppy time," Tracy recalls. "And we were sort of the Timberland boots, jeans and a flannel-shirt-over-a-band-T-shirt type of crowd," he says.
Garbage can frisbee games, backgammon, cribbage and poker, shared meals, sledding on Kimball trays in hurricanes and blizzards, time logged in the hall: What seemed like ordinary, even banal, activities fostered extraordinary friendships. For 20 years, Tracy has hosted an annual Wheeler reunion — Wheeler-palooza — at Winter Homecoming. It started out as a few guys getting together for lunch and a basketball game, he says. More than 50 people attended this year. "It's a good group of folks," Tracy says. "People looked at Wheeler as this party dorm — and it was — but it was more than that. There's a real affinity between people. It's good folks."
Carlin alum John Forsythe '89 observes there has always been something about the building's culture. "Did admissions assign certain incoming freshmen there? Or did the mantle of passing along the culture fall on returning upperclassmen?" he asks. "Was it something about the relatively isolated location? Was it the physical layout — for example, Wheeler Beach — that led to that culture?"
"Everyone who lived there was really proud to say they lived in Wheeler —like people you meet on the street who say they went to Holy Cross," notes Hanselman alum Rebecca Karos '13. "That's how Wheeler people talk about Wheeler."
"Maybe it was the fact that Wheeler was regally located on the hill and not crowded down below, like Beaven or Carlin," says Ron Makovitch '65. "Maybe it was that we were removed from the bustle of the quad and the cafeteria. Maybe it was having a bird's-eye view of the completely darkened panorama of Worcester at the outset of The Great Northeast Blackout. Or maybe it was just experiencing our first real home away from home as we lived, shared and learned that first year at Holy Cross."
"Wheeler is home to a big, crazy family. Somebody knew what they were doing in placing us there," Webber insists. "And the people who were there, they were invested in sustaining the culture for the people who came after. We all found our way together and nobody would rewrite that story."
Today Wheeler is still going its own way, the only underclass dorm not located on Easy Street. For those who return, Wheeler rewards by making the past present again.
When you walk through Wheeler's doors, TJ Treanor '89 says, "it's physically like going back in time to your college years. You expect to see those same folks you went to college with walking down the hall — which is made more real when you see young folks who look like your old dorm-mates.
"It's a time machine that brings you back to the best years of your life."
Written by Marybeth Reilly McGreen '89 for the Spring 2020 issue of Holy Cross Magazine.
Academics, Alumni, English, Holy Cross Magazine, News, Spring 2020 | stay, but you have to promise not to date anyone on this floor," Pickles' father told her. "And no football players."
This year, Pickles celebrates her 30th wedding anniversary with hallmate and former Holy Cross football player, Bill Pickles 88.
A metal fire door divided women from men on Wheeler 2. It was mostly left open except during hall jai alai matches, says Jonathan "JW" Cahill '88, P23. The door had to be closed to play the game, and it kept the women from serious injury.
"Well, it involved throwing a golf ball against that door, and it would come flying back and it was dangerous and that's what was great," Cahill says. "It wasn't advisable for anyone to play, but it happened quite often that guys from other dorms came to play."
Another Wheeler draw: TRM, Cahill's band, which won the College's Battle of the Bands four years in a row. "The gigs in Wheeler basement were some of the best gigs I've done. We'd walk downstairs to the Wheeler social room and people would be lining the hall and cheering," Cahill recalls.
And about that decommissioned missile.
"Well, Bill Pickles says, 'I know where there's a decommissioned missile and we're going to get it.' So, we got into my car and headed to an airfield on the South Shore. We strapped it to the top of my car and, miraculously, didn't get stopped," Cahill recalls. "I think a state trooper even followed us for a bit. When we got back, we hung it up in the dorm until the next fire inspection. Then we had to take it down. The last I saw of it, it was rolling downhill at Wheeler Beach. Then I heard it appeared in a Worcester parade."
"Idiots," Diane Pickles says, fondness honeying her tone. "And to think I married one of them."
It's a Source of Inspiration
A student outside the lounge collects entry fees.
The arrival of the class of 1989 marked another historic moment for Holy Cross, as the incoming class was 60% female. This caused overcrowding in the building and rooms designed for three had to fit four. Susan Lennon Capot '89 discovered a crawl space between the two dormer windows in her triple-turned-quadruple on Wheeler 5. The roommates outfitted the space with a rug, a beanbag chair and a lamp — creating the perfect dismal garret to inspire an English major like Capot. "I would crawl into this space on my hands and knees. There was nothing above but rafters. There was no insulation. Heat may rise, but it never made it to Wheeler 5.
"And I wouldn't crawl out until I'd written something: a poem or a paper. Wheeler could be a hotbed of craziness, but I had this space I could crawl into and do this thing," Capot recalls. "It was of lifesaving importance to know I could be alone in this space and recharge."
That cradle of craziness required a sense of humor, says Marc Thibodeau '80. "Senior year, I was an RA on Wheeler 1 and on April Fool's Day, people waited until I left for class and then — using 40 boxes of Jell-O, water heated on hot pots, and several bags of ice — filled a tub up with Jell-O," he recalls. "People came from all around campus to see this. So what do you do with several pounds of Jell-O? My roommate Dave Boulay '80 and I know from experience that it's too heavy to drag away in trash bags. And there was too much to try and melt it to flush it down the drain, so we shoveled it out the window. It left quite a red stain for quite a long time."
It's a Place of Tradition and Friendship
College President Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J., joins Bob Tracy '81 and his fellow 1979-1982 alumni at Winter Homecoming 2020.
Bob Tracy '81, P15, P12 lived on Wheeler 2 for the whole of his college career. He saw big changes over those four years. He was there for the legendary Fantasy Island Party of '79 when residents built a tiki bar, bridge and a little waterfall in the lounge, and party-goers tried their luck at roulette, baccarat and poker. He was there when Wheeler 2 went coed. "One of the ways the College tried to calm Wheeler down was to add women to the mix," he says.
Mingling of the classes was Wheeler's strength, Tracy says. Cultural transmission, Wheeler style, fostered pride and cemented traditions. | 1,010 |
Will new Congress lay down the law on tech?
Not too many years ago, hardly anybody in Washington wanted to regulate the Internet. Suddenly, almost everybody does — or claims to.
For decades, Internet companies were sheltered by a bipartisan consensus: Regulate with a light touch, and see what happens.
The results have been extraordinary. Facebook and Google are now among the world's biggest companies. However, their actions also have subjected millions of users to the threat of identity theft and loss of privacy, and record fines by the US government for privacy-related violations.
And now members of both parties are in a regulating frame of mind, according to lawmakers and industry-watchers alike. Some lawmakers are calling for more aggressive antitrust enforcement against Big Tech. There's even talk of reviving the idea of Net neutrality, which requires that Internet service providers treat all data alike.
But the idea that appears to have the best chance of success, these people say, is a law setting national standards for online privacy and data security.
Witness the similarity between a Massachusetts Democrat and a Tennessee Republican.
"I agree with consumers who demand their privacy be protected in an Internet ecosystem where everybody is playing by the same set of rules," she said in a statement to the Globe.
Another Republican senator, John Kennedy of Louisiana, proposed a privacy bill last year, in tandem with Democratic colleague Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. Kennedy told the Globe he plans to reintroduce the bill in the current session.
Even the tech industry's biggest companies — Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple — have come out in favor of a federal privacy and data security law. And in mid-January, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a think tank funded in part by Big Tech, called for a "grand bargain" that would repeal all existing federal laws covering the privacy and security of various medical and financial data, and replace this patchwork with a single statute that covers personal data in all its forms.
But don't<|fim_middle|> Foundation, an online civil liberties group, said the tech industry is getting on board because they fear tough privacy laws being enacted by the states, especially California. They prefer a single nationwide privacy standard—and one that's as toothless as possible.
For instance, the proposed "grand bargain" from the ITIF would prohibit individuals from suing for privacy violations or data security breaches. And it doesn't include data minimization, the principle that companies may collect only the personal data they need to deliver specific services. Data minimization would block apps from tracking your location when you're not using them. That would eliminate fat revenue streams for app makers that track you constantly and resell the data to marketing companies.
ITIF vice president Daniel Castro said companies use the vast amounts of data they collect to devise new services for consumers; force them to collect less data, and you can expect less innovation.
"There are lots of things you can do that protect consumer privacy but that's bad for innovation," Castro said.
Instead, the ITIF wants lawmakers to give companies wide latitude in what data, and how much of it, they can collect, while giving consumers the option to opt out if they choose.
ITIF's grand bargain would also include "preemption," a feature that would overrule all state privacy laws. The federal law would become the national standard, making it easier and cheaper for companies to comply. "Then you don't have the problem of companies having to fight a lot of lawsuits in different states," Castro said.
But the tech companies could use their clout in Washington to enact a federal law with few meaningful limits on their access to our data.
Democrat Ro Khanna, a congressman who represents Silicon Valley, has drawn up an "Internet Bill of Rights" full of limitations on Internet companies, such as data minimization, and a mandate that companies get permission before sharing customer data with any other person or organization.
At least there's general agreement that some kind of privacy and security protections are needed. But on other tech-law issues, consensus is harder to come by.
Net neutrality, for instance — the principle that all network traffic should be treated exactly alike.
The Federal Communications Commission under President Obama adopted Net neutrality rules that in principle would let the agency enforce equality among network traffic as well as the prices charged by Internet carriers, and their quality of service. The Trump administration moved swiftly to undo that approach.
Both Democrats and Republicans have said they would back a Net neutrality law. But Khanna, for example, wants a law based on the broader standard in place under Obama; Republicans such as Blackburn prefer a simpler, stand-alone law that would simply mandate Net neutrality, and do nothing else. Don't expect much progress here.
Khanna is also calling for a law to mandate "data portability," requiring Facebook and other social networks to move a user's data to another host on request, just as a cellphone user can switch his phone number from one carrier to another.
Facebook has no serious competition today, but Khanna believes that with data portability, it would be far easier for smaller players to offer consumers an alternative.
But data portability is a hugely complex issue, and raises privacy threats of its own. For example, do you have the right to port information about your Facebook friends to a different network without their permission? Until such questions are answered, data portability seems like a nonstarter.
And there's the simmering question of whether the federal government should use antitrust law to rein in giants like Facebook and Google, or even break them up, as Standard Oil was dismantled in the early 20th century.
Many economists argue that existing antitrust law doesn't apply to Google and Facebook because they don't charge for their products and therefore don't obviously create direct financial harm to consumers.
Democratic US Representative David Cicilline of Rhode Island plans an antitrust bill specifically targeting Big Tech. It's might have a fighting chance, as quite a few Republicans have also been making antitrust noises of late. During the recent confirmation hearings for Attorney General-designate William Barr, Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Mike Lee of Utah both demanded tougher antitrust enforcement from the Justice Department.
Whatever the fate of these legislative proposals, you can expect them to keep coming. The era of "light touch" Internet regulation is probably over. | expect lawmakers to start crowing that they've finally brought Big Tech to heel.
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This morning Microsoft officially launched its two Azure Cloud<|fim_middle|> Palace on the 14th of February, as we demonstrate how our DB Shield Service and Microsoft Azure can be leveraged to create value, and be secure as you embark on your journey to digitally transforming your company.
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.
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Secret 37 in Zingerman's Guide to Good Leading, Part 3: A Lapsed Anarchist's Approach to Managing Ourselves takes a look at how we perceive and use our time. In this essay, Ari includes 15 practical tips on how to make better use of our time.
This tip is really about pace—moving steadily forward, neither too quickly nor too slowly, but as a good marathoner would do, maintaining her pace throughout the race. It's about staying away from the extremes of either abandoning something altogether or racing forward so quickly that you make more trouble than you might have had in the first place. Other than in extreme emergencies (when you want to go quickly, of course) or when dealing with compulsive behaviors (try to back off as best as you can), you'll want to stay steady, measured, in the middle.
Being mindful of feelings—and frequently not acting on them—can help here. My experience is that the best pace to move at often runs completely counter to the one that we feel like we need to follow. If you feel internal pressure to act impulsively and in the moment, you're generally going to do better to back off. If you're a procrastinator, move more quickly. In either case, it's about shifting away from unneeded extremes of action and back towards the middle.
Important work takes time to unfold, but getting moving more quickly than slowly helps—I can draft a rough outline or a preliminary write-up for most projects in under half an hour. And the risk of drafting—not acting, mind you, but drafting—is next to nil. The longer you put off that first round of action, the further you get from your true feelings, your creativity, and your insight. Mind you, this first shot at things is just a beginning—don't race right out and send what you've done to headquarters, or trigger immediate action. But if all you do is draft, I think you can have the best of both worlds. You clear your mind by getting moving quickly and follow your intuition, but you integrate safety into the system by waiting a while to gather input before you pull the final trigger on anything too controversial. If in doubt, wait a day, talk to two friends, do a quick vision and values check, and then go with your gut. Steady as she goes might be a good motto for our work styles, as well as our ships.
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• Appreciate Yourself: Like all meaningful organizational change, I believe that an appreciative environment absolutely has to come from within us as leaders. Which means that before I could even begin to be more appreciative of others I had to learn to treat myself with the same respectful approach that I wanted to deliver to those around me. While I can't prove this scientifically, my experience is that if I don't appreciate myself in a meaningful way, the praise I give to others won't connect, either.
Peter Koestenbaum, in Talk Is Walk: Language and Courage in Action, writes that, "You need a friend even if you are that friend." For me this meant learning to speak to myself respectfully, to appreciate myself for what I achieved (while still of course pushing myself to get better at the same time—don't worry, I'm not slacking).
• Appreciate Others: It's just too easy to lose track of the positives. They're always there—I just have to take time to notice them. In service of which, I've adopted an almost daily routine of making myself pay close attention to the many positive things, the great people and really wonderful food and service, that surround me. There are a few zillion examples every day. I also try to do a bit of journaling almost every day, a part of which is regularly making lists of people and things that I might have failed to appreciate of late.
• Train and Organize to Encourage Appreciation: Part of our job as leaders is to help the folks we work with to be successful. And in our world, one way we can do so is by being appreciative of those we work with and serve. While it's nice to think that appreciation is so much the "right thing to do" that it will spring up on its own, the reality is that one of the most effective things we can do organizationally is to set up systems and structures that make it easy—even require—people to be much more appreciative than they might normally be on their own.
• Stay in Synch: We've also learned the hard way that some staff members are embarrassed by public praise. It's most effective to compliment people in the way that they most appreciate being appreciated. For some that's in public, others in private, some in writing, some with gifts, some with a pat on the back, some with eye contact and a head nod.
• Appreciations in the Staff Newsletter: We basically follow the same format in our monthly staff newsletter. Each issue contains three, four, or even five pages of appreciations and thank-yous sent in by various staff members.
• Code Greens: This is the name for the form we use to capture and communicate the compliments we hear from customers (the opposite, of course, is a Code Red). Could be big, could be small, but any positive comment we hear should be written up as a Code Green. These are shared with as many people as possible, sometimes by email, sometimes through bulletin board postings, sometimes by reading them aloud at meetings. The important thing is that the information is shared and that the people who work in the organization hear the positive feedback that their work has earned from customers.
• Performance Reviews: These certainly aren't unique to our organization, nor, I'm sure, are we the only organization that struggles to do them in a timely way. But they are a very good tool for keeping us focused on the positive achievements of those around us—every review here starts with a summary of the person's achievements.
• Specificity: In all of this positive recognition I've continued to learn that praise means more when it's specific. While general thanks and kudos never hurt, it's more helpful to be clear about what it is we really value, so that others know what they can do more of down the road to be even more effective in their work.
• Going the Extra Mile: Since we work to treat our staff here like customers, "going the extra mile"—the third of our 3 Steps to Great Service—applies to them, too. That means doing the unexpected (as in good things, not goofy stuff like dumping water on them) for co-workers, showing appreciation and creating the sort of positive feelings that we all want to experience. The effort doesn't have to be fancy,<|fim_middle|> they can count on—the more consistent we are, the less they're worrying about the random wackiness we're going to do or say next. If you want to be strict, that's fine—just be strict all the time. If you want to keep things loose, that's lovely—just do that all the time. The point is just to be consistent with your energy, your personality, your decision style, your . . . everything.
By contrast, the most frustrating bosses to be engaged with are all over the place: open to input and appreciative on one day, then distant and dictatorial on the next. Sure, I'm an anarchist, but I'm not at all about being unprofessional. People can learn to cope with most anything; even undesirable behaviors done daily are probably less stressful to adjust to than a manager who's mellow on Monday, tough on Tuesday, wimpy on Wednesday, thorough on Thursday, fun loving on Friday, scattered on Saturday, and sensitive and supportive on Sunday. This scattershot style is only productive if you're out to produce a victim mindset in your staff. When bosses are predictable only in their unpredictability, people on the front lines don't go for greatness, they just look for cover. No sane frontline person wants to step up and take a leadership role on a shift when they don't know what role the leaders will be playing until they show up for work.
While it's true that we're not on Planet Fair (see Zingerman's Guide to Giving Great Service for details on that one), it's way easier to work with, and for, a manager who's reasonable and who consistently and effectively explains their reasoning. Look, even the most spoiled souls among us know that we're not going to get our way every single time. What everyone does want is to know that, whatever decision is delivered, there was a fair process behind it. I'm not necessarily talking about Solomon-like wisdom or breathtaking leadership brilliance—just some balanced, reasonable, ethically oriented thinking and decisions that are explicable without expletives. Whether your organizational orientation is anarchistic, autocratic, or anywhere in between, pretty much all adults like to know why we're doing what we're doing and why we're asking them to do what we're asking them to do.
By contrast, managers whose comebacks to questions about their decisions include things like, "That's the way it is," "Just take care of it," "I'm in charge here," or " I don't want to talk about it—just get it done," are anything but effective. While I know there's something going on in those managers' minds, from the outside it sure seems like their decisions are random, driven more by mood or electrical disconnects than by depth, deference, and attention to detail. Arbitrary action at the top leads verily towards victimhood as well. When reason, reality, and what's right have little to do with what the bigwigs decide, it's hard not to feel like one's future is completely out of control. Frontline folks are, literally, at the mercy of the way the management winds happen to blow on any given day. And when frontline people start basing their actions on the mood of the manager, you can be sure that the business is not benefiting. | high-tech, or expensive. Something as simple as a Post-it note stuck to someone's computer screen, a handwritten card that actually comes in the mail, a quick unexpected email, a flower, a bouquet of fresh asparagus from the Farmer's Market, or a basket of just-picked cherries . . . these little things can make an enormous difference to people in the organization.
• The "3 and Out Rule": This is an internal mechanism that I've come to use regularly, and, in writing this piece, realized I should share more actively. When I'm having a really rough day (which of course happens) positive appreciation is the easiest way I know to turn things around. Appreciate, appreciate, appreciate… the old baseball saying "three and out" actually works pretty well and it's kind of catchy. So I think I'm going to officially adopt it right now: When in doubt, three and out.
…Thinking of staff as customers is a key component of Servant Leadership, but belief in the concept without coming through on what you committed to delivering isn't going to win many staff members over to your cause.
…The V list is here just to help raise our awareness; if acceptance is the first step towards recovery, then knowing that this stuff is happening is a very solid step in the right direction. From there the simple act of consciously deciding not to do them can only help make your business—and really, the whole world—a better place! It is, after all, all about free choice. Me, I'm gonna try to get on the A team.
As I told a classroom full of K-4 kids a few years ago, "Kindness is free." A gentle hand, a welcoming tone, and a caring question are almost always appreciated. Thinking of things from someone else's perspective, having empathy, and looking at a task from the point of view of a new employee are always helpful. Used rotely, polite words are pretty much meaningless; but saying them when you mean them, truly thinking kindly and considerately of others, means the world. If nothing else, you exude good energy, which surely will get you good energy in return, and get your entire organization going in the right direction.
I don't know if this is so stupidly obvious as to make it unworthy of appearing here, but rudely riding over others, cutting people off midsentence, yelling unnecessarily, and, basically, just being a jerk are never helpful behaviors. Behaving this way helps no one, least of all the leader who's doing it. To quote early 20th-century Italian anarchist, Errico Malatesta, "Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world." What it does do is sow seeds of victimhood—when people can't get heard, when no one cares what they think, when they're shut down and shut off before they've even finished sharing their thoughts, then starting to think and feel like a victim comes naturally. What else can you do?
Whatever style you choose for yourself as a leader, one key is to keep living it as consistently as possible every day. One of the most important roles for any leader is to create confidence; and that confidence is, in part (though certainly not fully), based on consistency. People want to know what | 676 |
Peak Time | Interview with TPRTA President, Past President
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Auguste Eugène Méquignon (21 February 1875, in Paris – 1958 in Paris), was a French entomologist. He specialised in Coleoptera, especially Staphyliniformia and Cucujoidea.
He was a member of the Société entomologique de France and was president<|fim_middle|> de MM. L. Chopard et A. Méquignon aux Açores (Aout-Septembre 1930). XIV. Catalogues des Coléoptères Açoréens. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 111: 1–66.
1943 Notes diverses sur des Coléoptères de France. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 48(11): 159–162.
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Anonym 1958: [Mequignon, A.] Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., Paris 63 (7/8) 157
Constantin, R. 1992: Memorial des Coléopteristes Français. Bull. liaison Assoc. Col. reg. parisienne, Paris (Suppl. 14): 1-92 Portrait
Lhoste, J. 1987: Les entomologistes français. 1750 - 1950. INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Paris : 1-355 208-209
French entomologists
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Many short papers (notes diverses) in Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France and Miscellanea Entomologica
1938 with Jean Sainte-Claire Deville Catalogue raisonné des coléoptères de France Société entomologique de France, 1938 - 474 pages
1942 Voyage de MM. L. Chopard et A. Méquignon aux Açores (août-septembre 1930). XIII. Diagnoses de Coléoptères nouveaux. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 47: 9–11.
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Dairy farmers already reeling<|fim_middle|> federal government has provided loans of up to $1 million or 50 per cent of the existing commercial debt of the business over 10 years to help out farmers. | from having their milk prices slashed have been handed another price cut for the upcoming season.
Many farmers faced huge bills when Murray Goulburn retrospectively slashed its milk prices in April to between $4.75 and $5.00 per kilogram of milk solids, down from $5.60.
Now the company has set its opening price for the 2016/17 season at $4.31, leaving farmers "gutted".
"This opening price is below the cost of production for many dairy farmers and we'll all need to pull together to get through the months ahead," United Dairyfarmers of Victoria president Adam Jenkins said today.
"Dairy farmers are still carrying the weight of MG's poor management decisions that's led to the debt they're being forced to repay on the back of this low opening milk price."
Murray Goulburn said it eventually expects to pay dairy farmers $4.80 per kilogram over the upcoming season, with prices set to rise slightly from the opening price.
"This is a conservative price, and it's most likely that MG is erring on the side of caution, but it opens up the possibility of stepping up to a more reasonable price later in the season," Mr Jenkins said.
Murray Goulburn chief executive David Mallinson said key commodity prices had been low for almost two years - much longer than historical price downturns.
"Global conditions have not improved, and the latest data suggests excess global inventories, including the impact of European intervention, may have surpassed the equivalent of six billion litres of milk," Mr Mallinson said.
"We have set a robust forecast, and while there are a number of areas which may provide upside to our FY17 forecast, we do not believe it is prudent to include these in our forecast at this stage."
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Physicians and providers all over the state can now access immediately and securely exchange current, updated electronic health records (EHRs) for thousands of Arkansas children, thanks to the contributions of Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH), which is now pushing data through SHARE, the Statewide Health Information Exchange.
SHARE enables providers at different medical facilities across Arkansas to exchange medical records for patients they have in common. Using SHARE, a pediatrician can connect to a patient's most current and comprehensive health information, including that patient's health data from other facilities connected to SHARE.
For example, if six-year-old Josephina from Batesville is admitted to Children's Hospital, her SHARE-connected pediatrician back home can securely access her health data from her stay in the hospital. Her pediatrician can then update her progress using SHARE, so that Josephina's other SHARE-connected physicians can also stay informed about her care.
From a hospital's perspective, if a child arrives in the Emergency Room for the first time after a car wreck, the ER staff is now able to pull up his record in SHARE, see his current medical condition and medications, and make better-informed decisions about his care on the spot.
Arkansas Children's Hospital Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Darrell Leonhard said the hospital was excited to be able to offer this level of care coordination for its patients. "We want the best experience possible for the kids we treat, and we see SHARE as a way to improve the already excellent care provided by the staff at ACH."
ACH is one of 26 hospitals signed on to participate in SHARE. Arkansas Health Information Technology Coordinator Ray Scott said ACH's participation marks a turning point for SHARE.
"We are very excited to have Arkansas Children's Hospital as part of our SHARE network. Every time a new practice or hospital in the state joins SHARE, the network is that much more useful to its participants. Arkansas Children's Hospital is the one that other providers in SHARE have been clamoring for—being able to access electronic records and communicate more easily with ACH makes SHARE significantly more powerful and relevant to all hospitals, physicians, therapists, and parents," Scott said.
Scott said that research shows that patients whose health records are available via a secure health information exchange with their other physicians receive better care and have fewer duplicate tests and procedures ordered by the different physicians.
"SHARE makes health care better for all of us," Scott said. "National studies show that the average patient in the U.S. sees 18 different providers. Think about that. Haven't you ever wished your doctors could communicate your health information with each other so that the next provider you see knows what the previous one did for you? That's what this linkage between ACH and SHARE makes possible."
The State Health Alliance for Records Exchange (SHARE) is a secure, electronic system that allows authorized health care providers, health services professionals and public health authorities in Arkansas to exchange accurate patient medical information in real time. The Arkansas Office of Health Information Technology (OHIT), created by Act 891 of 2011, has implemented SHARE in a series of phases, beginning with Secure Messaging to help providers meet meaningful use requirements, and a fully-functional health information exchange (HIE) that gives health care providers access to hospital discharge summaries, lab results, immunization records and other vital information. For more information, visit www.SHAREArkansas.com.
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Arkansas Children's Hospital is the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest in the United States serving children from birth to age 21. Over the past century, ACH has grown to span 29 city blocks and house 370 beds, a staff of approximately 500 physicians, 95 residents in pediatrics and pediatric specialties and more than 4,000 employees. The private, nonprofit healthcare facility boasts an internationally renowned reputation for medical breakthroughs and intensive treatments, unique surgical procedures and forward-thinking medical research - all dedicated to fulfilling our mission of enhancing, sustaining and restoring children's health and development. For more information, visit www.archildrens.org.
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Well<|fim_middle|> of the points to 0 on z and merge it didn't remove them. I had to set my merge up to .7 mm to remove the extra points and fix the pinching.
Maybe that point isn't welded? weld, or merge points. Unlikely, but maybe it is a smoothing error? Try lowering smoothing value on surface to 45 degrees or less. Maybe that point is connected to another point internally? Maybe some junk geo floating around? Delete one and two point polys. Could be a hidden poly behind, or two in the same spot. Those are my best guesses.
The other way, would be to lasso around the point (in wireframe for best chance of catching all), and see if it says you have more than one point selected. Then weld if you do.
Yes, that's what I finally did. I tried welding but got weird results. The trick was, as you said, finding where the extra points were and then doing a manual merge slowly increasing the value until just the points I needed to merge did so. Thanks. | I found it. I've been using the JS_SymmXMirror Script. However I'm having the same issue just using mirror. Somehow I'm creating extra points almost right on the 0 x axis. And even when I set all | 48 |
If you've ever been<|fim_middle|> to nurture your most important assets. | asked this single question (and given a scale of 1-10 to respond) you've participated in the Net Promoter Score, a measure of customer loyalty used by many businesses.
If you respond with a score of 9 or 10, you're a "Promoter" – and a valuable asset to that business. Promoters are the most likely to buy more, stay longer, and refer other potential customers.
Fred Reichheld, who created the Net Promoter system and is also author of The Loyalty Effect, found that most corporations lose 50% of their customers every 5 years, 50% of employees in 4 years, and 50% of investors in less than one year.
In a bid to address these scary numbers, the Net Promoter Score is a simple, point-in-time measure that can track fluctuations in the customer experience while there is still time to influence any decline.
Even more importantly, polling customers this way helps to identify your most valuable assets – the loyal customers who love you, support you and are prepared to sell you to others.
We all have important customer relationships that need some love and attention to build the Promoter effect.
Come along to How To Retain Your Most Important Contracts and Customers on November 24 in Melbourne and discover creative ways | 266 |
Many congratulations to first Flyer home, Liam Briscoe, who 'jogged' round in 40:15 during his taper for the Brighton Marathon in a fortnight's time. A special mention too to Miriam Valencia who was third female home in the race in 43:04.
22 of the Flyers took part in our 'naked run' competition, running without a watch and seeing how close they could finish to their pre-race predicted time. The provisional results are below. They are provisional because I'm not sure I captured everyone who gave me a predicted time when we were all together at Race HQ, and a couple of you ran with numbers you'd been given by other Flyers and I'm not certain I<|fim_middle|> out or got your times wrong.
So, in order of closeness to predicted time, these are the results (the difference measured in seconds). You'll see the winner, Martyn Greaves, ran to within one second of his prediction! Congratulations to him, and an honourable mention to Catherine Hinch who was only a further four seconds out. You might be interested to know that 15 of you ran quicker than your predicted time, and 7 slower.
I hope you all enjoyed the experience of running 'naked'. A box of Celebrations to Liam for being first Flyer and one to Martyn for being the closest to his prediction. | 've matched everyone to their number. If your name isn't below and you had given me a prediction, or if your time difference doesn't seem to square with your prediction and finishing time, please do drop me an email with the details – and apologies if I've missed you | 55 |
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Section 26 of the Planning Act notes that where an Official Plan is in effect, Council shall, not less frequently than every five years after the Plan comes into effect, revise the plan to ensure that it conforms with provincial plans, matters of provincial interest and policy statements issued under the Act and to update policies relating to employment lands.
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The better answer is that this is our opportunity to take a good look at the Official Plan to ensure it still reflects our goals and objectives for our community:
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by Lindsey Estes November 20, 2019
Broad mix of media companies selected for Facebook Journalism Project-funded program to test and expand branded content programs
NEW YORK – Nov. 20, 2019<|fim_middle|> three ways: collaborative development of new products; providing tools and trainings for journalists; and providing tools and trainings for people. www.facebookjournalismproject.com
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Lindsey Estes
Estes is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Member Services for the Local Media Association. She works closely on all of LMAs initiatives, members and the R&D community.
Lindsey has been with LMA for 9 years. Previously she worked at Catholic Relief Services in their Major Donors department. Her career began at the Newspaper Association of America (Now NMA) where she worked for 5 years with small market newspapers and the association's events.
Lindsey lives in Bel Air, MD. When shes not working, she is spending time with her husband and three kids driving them all over town to sports and activities. | – The Local Media Consortium and the Local Media Association, two of the local media industry's most innovative organizations, today announced the selection of 22 diverse local media companies as beta group participants for the Branded Content Project, a partnership between the LMC and the LMA, and funded by a $1 million investment from the Facebook Journalism Project that commenced in March 2019 with an initial alpha test group. These organizations, each of which demonstrate a commitment to furthering best practices in branded content initiatives, will received grant money to test and develop successful and sustainable branded content offerings and revenue streams.
The LMA and LMC define branded content as any sales initiative that uses content to engage the user and is paid for by a client who participates as part of the content, helps supply the content, or sponsors the content that is distributed across any platform.
"We received applications encompassing every media type from all over the world, and ultimately selected the Branded Content betas that best demonstrate the ability to help others learn from their initiatives while learning more about branded content strategies themselves," said Julia Campbell, Branded Content Project lead. "As part of the Branded Content Project initiative, these beta testers will build on the knowledge gleaned from the alpha projects, participate in case studies and contribute to white papers to explain their findings and share their results with the broader local media industry. "
The call for applications was announced in September and closed October 21 seeking groups with a mature branded content program. Applications were received from LMA and LMC members and non-members, with entries from across the U.S. and as far away as Africa and Argentina. The Branded Content Project beta group includes the following (listed in alphabetical order):
ARA Newspaper (ara.cat)
Cox Media Group
Entravision Communications
Gannett (formerly GateHouse)
Lifestyle Frisco
Mundo Hispanico
Narcity Media
Newsday Media Group
Masthead Maine Media Network – Portland Press Herald
Skyline (SCNG Media)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TAPinto.net
The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)
Village Media Inc.
WBOC (Draper Media)
Many of the organizations will focus their testing on the common challenges identified across all organizations in the first round, including the need for education of the sales teams and advertisers, proving ROI for clients, and improving the process and workload of branded content teams. In addition to interacting with and drawing from the alpha group's discoveries, planned beta initiatives include working with brands and advertisers to test scalability in other markets, improving usability or UX, implementing better analytics or reporting, adding additional training for sales and news, adding social video production, gaining assistance with in-market group sales events for clients and purchasing technology for improved production.
"Our participation in the Branded Content Project's alpha group has been especially rewarding as each of the participants brought a unique perspective and challenges to the table in an earnest effort to collaborate and grow together," said Eric Brandner, general manager, Creative Lab at McClatchy. "The best part is seeing the wins: our team has already incorporated several Branded Content Project insights into our work, and it's been great to see our project colleagues launch revenue-driving initiatives, too. I know the beta group will benefit from these same opportunities."
The consensus among Branded Content Project participants is that drawing from strength in numbers and lessons learned from industry colleagues is an invaluable opportunity. "Our team is honored to participate in the Branded Content Project because it offers us the opportunity to learn from other wonderful publishers in the space who have seen success too," said Robin Gruen, Vice President, Tribune Publishing. "We all bring unique and varied experience to the table, which makes for interesting, insightful and applicable outcomes. We know this initiative will prove valuable to our clients, as well."
The beta testing will begin in January 2020 with plans to share initial findings with fellow alpha and beta participants in spring 2020. The cohort will work together to test projects through fall 2020, ultimately sharing findings industry wide to guide local media organizations toward more efficient and effective branded content programs and revenue streams.
About the Local Media Association
The Local Media Association is a thriving and innovative association that serves local media companies (newspapers, TV, radio, directories, digital news sites, and more) as well as research and development partners in the industry. LMA assists local media companies with the digital transition via cutting-edge programs, conferences, webinars, research and training. They are intensely focused on helping local media companies discover new and sustainable business models. Learn more at http://localmedia.org.
About the Local Media Consortium
The Local Media Consortium delivers economic value through strategic partnerships on behalf of nearly 90 local media companies in top markets across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, and includes more than 3,300 outlets. By harnessing the combined volume and scale of its members, the LMC reduces costs and increases revenue with technology and service providers like Google, Facebook, Monster and others. The aggregated LMC audience footprint spans 1 billion unique monthly visitors and its member companies serve more than 6 billion pageviews to consumers. More information is available at http://www.localmediaconsortium.com/.
About the Facebook Journalism Project
Created in January 2017, the Facebook Journalism Project (FJP) exists to establish stronger ties between Facebook and the news industry. FJP works to ensure quality journalism thrives by unlocking and adding value through new products, partnerships with the news industry and specific FJP programs. FJP works in | 1,145 |
Day <|fim_middle|> not look so scary. | 149 on Empowering Women to be Healthy and Confident!!!
Good morning my most beautiful friends. I am so happy and in such an amazing place in my life right now. I have been enjoying these past few days because things are finally working out. I have been making peace with my past and healing my old wounds. What I have been going through the past week has just been acknowledging all the work I have been doing with myself along with finally getting some serious healing. I love it.
When I saw this inspiration it was not a big deal...okay...then it kept popping up on my page; I had no choice other than to really read it and absorb it so it would really sink in. When I did stop to really read it...I could not believe what I was reading.
The CAVE YOU FEAR TO ENTER....Think about that for a second. How many caves in our lives do we fear to enter? I know for me personally quite a few...I fear the cave of myself the most. I know how smart I am when I apply myself, and I know how much I am capable of doing when I apply myself...but yet I fear the biggest cave of all which is ME. That's crazy!!!
HOLDS THE TREASURE YOU SEEK...Think about that for a second. We are always looking outside ourselves for the answers, for the miracles and for the strength to do something. But it is always inside each and every one of us. How powerful is that to know? We all hold the treasure inside the cave of ourselves.
Yesterday my husband and I went to this little park for a walk. It didn't have the usual trail that I am used to...it was cut grass then it turned into pretty much a deer trail. My husband always takes me into trails that are not trails and I am never dressed appropriately for the walk/"HIKE" LOL. Anyway, we end up on this crazy deer path that is muddy, tall grass and weeds with those sticker things that you can't get off your clothes...but to get to the end I had to climb down a steep hill and back up. However, there was this little creek I had to jump without falling in, or falling back or falling forward and getting hurt. I stood there for a minute or two or three or four...until the inspiration came to me....what we fear in the cave holds our treasure; I jumped...made a lot of crazy sounds, even pididdled myself a bit...but I made it. At that moment this inspiration allowed me to move forward.
I have been realizing more and more that I am trusting and getting stronger because I know that I am the cave...I want those treasures...but they are already inside me, therefore I already have them. I just need to bring them out so I can enjoy them. Really think about this for a bit...how have you been in fear? Trust yourself and know that you already are the cave and the treasure. You already have it all.
Another thing that is so important to realize is with my business...I am always in fear of that crazy cave...but now that I know what I am seeking is already inside me. Today, I am looking at my life totally different. In reality there is nothing to fear at all...it's the unknown that scares the daylights out of me. If I am going to fail it's because I could not get over myself...if I am going to succeed it's because I know that I have what it takes to do it. I am the cave and I am the treasure...from this day forward my cave is lit up so it does | 740 |
When Dee of Red Dirt Ramblings wrote about her lady in waiting on last week's Three for Thursday, my comment to her was that I hadn't seen any Argiope spiders in my garden in a long while. Monday morning, I walked outside to take the measure of the morning and noticed a spiderweb hanging from the gutter on my bedroom patio. Then I took an<|fim_middle|>. I commend you for worrying about her ... I'd probably be mostly freaked!
Dee, LOL re the high heels ... and they don't get dizzy!
Elizabeth, I hope she's in the family way.
David, I'm replying to these on Tuesday morning. Isn't the rain wonderful?
Pat, Cassandra very kindly located herself in an easily photograped spot.
Ginger, the markings fascinate me! Thanks for stopping by MCOK!
Rose, I stood there watching her for several minutes. It looks like a laborious process for her to maneuver that big body! | involuntary step backwards when I saw that the web had a resident!
This beautiful and amazing creature was suspended motionless above me, a queen on her throne with nothing to do but look beautiful and amazing.
I've never seen one this big before. Even my daughter was impressed: when I called her to come look, she trudged downstairs and came outside with that jaded attitude of a young adult who is indulging her maternal unit out of the incredible goodness of her heart. But that changed when Hayley spotted the spider: she took the same involuntary step back that I did. She even served as my hand model to illustrate just how large our new favorite arachnid is.
I've been taking pictures daily, planning ahead for Three for Thursday, and this last picture was taken this morning before I sat down to write this post. I found Professor Trelawney* not in her usual position but on the move. I watched as she circumnavigated her web and it took her a half-circuit for me to realize that she was weaving her orb as I watched. I'm struggling for a word to describe the process and convey to y'all the marvel of simplicity and elegance in her actions. This picture captured our Cassandra in the act of hooking the new section of web to the old. As she spins, she stretches the silk with her left hind leg and then, as seen here, uses her right hind leg to tack it down. She circles the web without pausing to rest, or contemplate whether that last section was equally spaced, until instinct tells her she's done. Then she resumes her position in the center of her universe, mistress of all she surveys.
I hope you'll join me in posting Three for Thursday, if not this week, then next! Pick 3 pictures of plants from your garden ... tell us about 3 books you've read that you want to share ... rant about 3 things that bug the heck out of you ... show us 3 pieces of garden art or 3 photos of egregious crimes against gardening ... have fun, be creative and leave me a comment when your post is up!
Gail, I am so in awe of my Cassandra, although I still jump a little when I walk out that door and spot her. I warned the Executive Producer that she was there and he was not to touch her since I knew his instinct would be to get rid of her. Thanks for posting today!
I walked through a big web on my way to spread the coffee grounds on the blueberries this morning. I didn't see it in the semi-dark and felt both sad and freaked.
My goodness, she is huge! I don't think I have ever seen one that big! They are amazing creatures, and this seems to be the time of year when they are most visible and busy.
It's September! Only one more month to go until October! YAY!!!
She's a beauty! Who named her? I laughed when I saw it.
She's so pretty! I wonder if you will get spiderlings?
My Orbs have not been back in years and I don't know why.
I'm almost ready to paint a sign "Orbs Welcome Here" to see if that might do the trick. I love these big spiders. So nice to see one in the area.
I've got my 3 for Thursday up...finally.
and yes, I got rain this week as well..albeit some tiny ones. Maybe we're turning the corner on the dry spell.
Cindy - It's been so hot I forgot what day of the week it is, but just wait until next week. We've got a lot of spiders this summer, but none this photogenic.
She must be expecting. That is the coolest marking on its back isn't it?
I remember the first time I found one of these orb weavers in my garden. I was so fascinated by it and had to check out some information on it. But I've never seen one in the act of spinning its web; that must have been amazing to watch.
Leslie, I'm sure your spider got busy weaving | 836 |
The Four C's of Diamonds by Craig Husar, G.G.,C.G.
Have you ever given someone a gift that they will, without a doubt, use every day for the rest of their lives? No, you probably haven't. Not even those adorable handprint ornaments you made for mom when you were in kindergarten can stand the test of time. A diamond ring, on the other hand, will be worn and treasured every day for the rest of your beloved's life.
That fact inspires couples to pick out the perfect diamond, but it also strikes fear in the heart of many of our clients at Lyle Husar Designs. Our customers often come to us confused and frustrated after finding conflicting information about diamonds and ring styles.
Movies and TV shows put even more pressure on couples to find the perfect diamond. Most people aren't lucky enough to be Reese Witherspoon in "Sweet Home Alabama," when Patrick Dempsey proposed by taking her into a jewelry store, pointing to the rows of jewelry cases and telling her to pick one. We'd argue that he took the easy way out. He didn't have to know anything about diamonds or his betrothed's tastes and preferences to get engaged; he let her do all the work.
In reality, the thought and time put into picking out the perfect diamond are what make it the ultimate gift. Many of our clients begin the process by thinking that all diamonds are the same: beautiful and sparkly. However, picking the right diamond includes knowing your beloved's tastes and favorites, understanding the important and varied features of a diamond and finding a jeweler with whom you'd like to work.
Since many of our customers feel lost in diamond-buying process, I have created this diamond buying guide to help you find the perfect diamond. My gemologists and design experts have helped to create this diamond buying cheat sheet as a way to simplify this sometimes complicated process, so that you can be educated enough to buy the diamond that is right for you.
We know how tough it is to purchase a diamond, so let's review the basics of how diamonds are evaluated and rated: the Four C's.
According to the World Diamond Council, more than $13 billion in rough diamonds are mined each year, and after inspection, only about 30 percent of those diamonds are found to be of jewelry quality. Then, those precious gems are sent out to expert craftsmen for cutting and polishing. It is in this process, from formation inside the Earth to the finishing touches, that a diamond's worth becomes known.
Each of these is used to establish the rarity, and ultimately the price, of a precious diamond. Here's our cheat sheet to help explain these categories.
Some of our customers get confused when talking about the color of diamonds. They'll say, "She wants a blue stone," and we'll explain that she actually wants a sapphire. Or they'll say, "She wants platinum," and we explain that that is the metal of the setting, not the diamond. There are some rare diamonds, like yellow canary diamonds, that do have a natural and sought-after color, and they are different than the yellowing color we will talk about below.
In truth, when evaluating the color of a diamond, we are actually evaluating how colorless it is. A lack of color indicates a near perfect diamond, while color – such as a faint yellow tint – indicates a less perfect diamond. The colors of diamonds are ranked from D to Z, with D being the highest sought after colorless and Z having light color and appearing slightly yellow.
Why is a rating of colorless so sought after? Diamonds of this quality are able to reflect light more brilliantly, resulting in more of what we call light interaction and what you may call sparkle. What adds color to a diamond? The precious gem can be impacted by chemical impurities or defects within the structure of the stone, neither of which are desirable and both of which will decrease value.
Some of the changes in color are not perceptible to the human eye, but take a look at our helpful diamond color grading sliding scale. It compares diamond color grading in an easy-to-use chart, so that you can learn the differences in color.
The next C that we will explain is clarity. Clarity is the measure of how the stone appears both internally and externally, with a particular eye towards faults called inclusions or imperfections. These blemishes may be caused by microscopic crystals trapped in the stone during its formation or by breaks in the diamond, called feathers, or by chips or cavities within the diamond.
Many of these so-called blemishes are not visible by the naked eye. The scale of measurement starts with the very rare flawless rating and ends with I3. The I in this case stands for inclusions.
Our Diamond Clarity Scale illustrates the difference between these ratings. Gemologists can rate these imperfections thanks to tools that allow them to magnify the diamond tenfold, but many differences in rating aren't clear to the naked eye. Very few people are even able to detect VS2 inclusions, even though it is about the middle point on the grading scale. Imperfections that are visible to the naked eye do a have negative impact on the value of the stone and should be avoided.
Confused about inclusions and imperfections? Use the diamond clarity scale to see examples of the types of flaws that could negatively impact the value of your diamond.
Our third C is cut. Some people think this indicates the actual shape of the cut, like emerald, princess or oval. Not so.
In reality, the cut of the diamond is critically important to its overall value because it creates the refraction of light that is sought after. A well-cut diamond will refract light and appear clear, while a poorly cut diamond will have no light refraction and appear dull. Because of this, many gemologists consider cut to be the most important C of the four.
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) rates cut on a scale from excellent to poor. Our Diamond Cut Grading Scale illustrates the difference between a well-cut diamond, which displays even dark and bright areas and scores across the top, and a poorly cut diamond, which – due to its steep angle – contains mostly dark areas.
Expert craftsmanship is needed to cut each individual stone to maximize its brightness. Thanks to the lighting at many jewelry stores, poorly cut stones can often appear to be well cut<|fim_middle|> comes from the light created by an expertly cut diamond, so be sure to consult the diamond cut grading scale.
The final C that we will explain is the carat. Perhaps this is the one that most people are familiar with, as it indicates the weight of the diamond. In most cases, it also determines the size of the diamond, but some cuts do require more depth, meaning two gems of the same carat weight may appear to be different sizes.
A carat is equal to about .007 of an ounce. The word carat comes from the Greek for carob seed, which was used as a standard for weighing small items. You may also hear jewelers refer to a certain point diamond. Each point represents one one-hundredth of a carat. So a 200-point diamond is a two-carat diamond.
Unless you are in the market for the 45 carat Hope Diamond, most of our customers use our Carat Weight Measurement Ruler, which go up to 5 carats, as a way to compare diamond sizes. Our diamond carat guide also allows clients to select two sizes of diamonds, so that difference in the weights can be easily compared.
While many of our clients have ideas of how many carats they'd like in their gem to weigh, oftentimes they are surprised to see just how different two of the same carat weight diamonds can appear once in the setting. Since diamonds are viewed in the engagement ring from the top, the distance across the top of the diamond often has much to do with how large the gem appears. A diamond of fewer carats with a longer diameter across the top of the gem can appear larger.
Another aspect to considering carats is the difference between the carat of the center diamond the total carat weight. The total carat weight also takes into account any smaller diamonds that may surround the center diamond or decorate the band. Do not be confused when a jeweler tells you a ring is 2 carats. Be sure to find out if that number represents the total carat weight of all of the diamonds or the weight for only the center stone.
For our clients who are budget conscious, it is important to keep in mind the so-called magic numbers. Those refer to the round numbers, like a half a carat or two carats, which often see a price increase in the diamond market. So if you are shopping for a 1-carat diamond but find it hard to fit in your budget, look for a 99-point diamond instead; it may be more suited to your budget while looking almost exactly the same to the naked eye. Our consultants can help you with these decisions as well.
• Thanks to differences in diameter across the top of the gem, it can be difficult to differentiate between carat weights. Use our diamond carat guide to see the differences.
• Be sure to find out the carat weight of the center stone, not only the total carat weight of all of the diamonds in the setting.
• For those on a budget, consider shopping for rings just below the round magic numbers. For example, a 1.4-carat diamond may be significantly less expensive than a 1.5-carat diamond.
Knowing and understanding the four c's – thanks to our diamond buying cheat sheet – will make you a wise consumer and will probably impress your significant other. Now that you know how to pick a diamond, there is more to consider when selecting the most important gifts you will ever give.
Do you think she wants a round stone when she thinks princess cut diamonds are the most precious? Does she wear small jewelry and you are shopping for a mega-ring?
• Take note of the jewelry she already wears. Are most of them large statement pieces, or are they delicate family heirlooms? We can use this information to help steer you in the right direction.
• Start listening. When she's flipping through a magazine, does she compliment a particular ring or jewelry designer? Has she gushed about the diamond jewelry of a friend or family member? Make a note of those preferences.
• Ask her mom or best friend to help. Chances are, she has mentioned the type of diamond she's dreamed about to those closest to her.
• Ask her. More and more of our clients are working as couples to create the perfect piece of diamond jewelry. Unless she's specifically said she wants to be totally surprised, this is a reliable and safe option. Thanks to Craig Husar's extensive website, it could take just a bit of Web surfing together. Bookmark the styles she likes and we can help you finalize your purchase. Of course, if you are located near Brookfield, WI, you can also stop into our store.
For some couples, only personally designed diamond jewelry will do. We have helped thousands of couples across the country find the right engagement rings, wedding rings and diamond jewelry. We can show you prototypes of both contemporary and classic designs and make changes to our three-dimensional models to show an accurate design at any time. We can also help you design jewelry from scratch if your partner yearns for a one-of-a-kind piece. Finally, our craftsmen jewelers can make your vision a reality by creating the jewelry you've designed. Typically, we can finish these custom projects within six weeks.
Call or email Craig Husar today to start on the road to the perfect piece of diamond jewelry.
Thanks to our experts, designing or choosing your diamond can be the easy part. Start to think about how your partner would like to be asked to start the rest of their life. Is she a private person who would be mortified to see her face on the Jumbotron? Proposing at a sports arena is probably a no, even if you are a super fan. Is she very family oriented? If so, an engagement in front of family might be the ideal setting for this celebration.
Getting engaged to the person you love is exciting and romantic. Sure, you've probably been dating for some time, but you've also dated other people in in the past. Engagement is the first step in setting this relationship apart from the others and making a commitment to a lifetime of love and happiness.
We look forward to helping you start the rest of your life today. Questions? Fill out our contact form below. | . Observe the stone in different lights, including natural light outside, and ask for official documentation of the cut. The wow factor your beloved is hoping for | 31 |
The word "Doula" originated with the ancient Greeks, and now refers to a woman experienced in childbirth, who understands the physiology and emotional needs of women in labor. She provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to the mother before, during and just after the birth. She recognizes birth as a key life experience that the mother<|fim_middle|> remind them to eat and rest, and take care of themselves. I firmly believe having the help of a Doula enhances the partner's experience by taking off some of the "pressure" to do all and be all for the mom. It allows the partner the freedom to be fully emotionally present at the birth of their child.
Wherever a woman chooses to birth – home, hospital or birth center – a Doula will support, comfort and empower her through one of the most challenging and transformative experiences of her life. The whole family benefits from this important support as they each adjust to the new family structure. | will always remember.
I do not make decisions for birthing women. I educate, offer comfort measures, act as a liaison between the family and their clinical care givers, and assist women and their partners to prepare for and carry out their plans for their individual birth experience. The nurturing support I offer helps each mom open fully to the innate wisdom and magic within her. The mom then feels empowered to make informed decisions for herself and her family.
What about Partners? A Doula in no way "replaces" the mom's loving partner at the birth! Rather, I facilitate the partner's contribution to the mom. I can teach them how to best offer physical comfort measures, answer their questions about what "normal" labor looks like, and | 149 |
Home » Naddours » How an Old Art Form Can Add a Modern Twist
Dec 26, 2018 | Naddours
"We're forging people's dreams."
Although it might seem unlikely, you can give your home a contemporary feel by turning to an ancient craft. Opting for custom wrought iron or other metals rather than wood combines proven longevity with endless design choices, according to Tony Medina, vice president of marketing and sales as well as the designer at Baltic Iron Doors & Naddour's Custom Metalworks in Santa Ana. Though the company is known for wrought iron, it also uses other metals to create one-of-a-kind pieces.
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Works of art. Part of what Medina has come to love about working with metal is the design process. He says that the<|fim_middle|>, that took the form of the railing seen here, positioned between the kitchen/dining area and the seating area overlooking the ocean.
Rather than copying the straight lines in the home's other railings, Medina designed gently curving stainless steel arcs to give the "showcase" railing a wave-inspired look and reflect the home's waterfront location. "It was very difficult to weld," he says, but the result provided the clean look the homeowners wanted and the durability the location needed.
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Naddour's Custom Metalworks Facility & Designers
Naddour's Custom Metalworks Facility & Designers → | artisans, many of whom have been with the company since it started in 1983, can create any desired design, no matter how large or small. "People are shocked at how amazing it is," he says about the artisans' ability to shape the materials. "They bring the metals to life."
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Built to last. While the designs may look delicate, the products' longevity is legendary when the metal is finished properly. Medina says that to ensure the wrought-iron pieces will last, the artisans forgo powder-coating and instead use a hot zinc process to prevent rusting. "It's especially good outdoors, but it's good indoors as well, especially near the beach," he says.
Below, Medina suggests three ways to incorporate wrought iron and other metals into your home.
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1. Find Your Style
If you like wrought iron but your home is a more contemporary style, don't despair. Although it's most common in Tuscan-style homes, "you can create any design you want," Medina says. For example, clients in Laguna Niguel wanted a wrought-iron staircase railing but were looking for a design that fit with their preferred transitional style.
Medina sketched a vine-inspired look that was both fluid and airy. "They asked if that was really possible," he says. The resulting railing, seen here, and matching pattern on the front doors give the home a more modern touch and provide a nice contrast to the white walls and marble floors.
See more of this project…
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2. Make It Shine
Looking for a show-stopping feature? Consider something that will come to life at night. "Don't think you have to limit your look," Medina says. Clients in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles asked for a modern design that hadn't been seen before for the banister and railing in the custom home seen here.
Medina created a railing of polished pewter to echo the angles that define the house. The surface reflects the light from the multiple overhead fixtures as well as the lighting underneath the bullnose of the steps. The result is a staircase that appears to glow at night.
Want a similar design? Contact us…
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3. Add Local Flair
Create a design that plays off your surroundings. For a contemporary home in the Balboa area of Newport Beach | 546 |
Time: 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
The MSOE Basketball High School Team Camp is organized to give student-athletes an experience with collegiate coaching and to help them prepare for the upcoming season.
June 9th<|fim_middle|>9th (afternoon) and June 10th - Games will begin in the afternoon and continue into the next day. Each team will be guaranteed 3 games. Games will be set up in a tournament format.
The Basketball Camp is held at the Kern Center, MSOE's 210,000-square-foot health, wellness, fitness and recreation facility.
All campers should bring the appropriate workout attire and basketball shoes.
Campers must have their own health insurance. Each camper must complete a medical history and liability release form. The medical history form will be mailed/emailed with confirmation. Download the medical history form and mail it in with your registration. Under no circumstances may a camper participate without completing these forms. | (morning) - Each team will receive an hour of gym time for a practice and have the opportunity to work with a certified strength coach to go over workouts for the summer to help improve the athletes game.
June | 44 |
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