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Single game tickets on sale October 2nd - Manitoba Moose
Single game tickets on sale October 2nd
By: Chris White | Published: September 29th 2015
The Manitoba Moose announced today that single game tickets for the 2015-16 regular season will go on sale on Friday, Oct. 2 at 10:00 a.m. CT.
Tickets to all 38 regular season Moose home games at the MTS Centre will be on sale at<|fim_middle|> Jets Mail subscribers on Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 10 a.m. CT followed by a general presale on Thursday, Oct. 1 at 10 a.m. CT.
Single game tickets are priced at $25.50, $30.50, and $35.50, a total cost which includes all taxes and agency fees.
Fans still currently have the opportunity to save $10.50 per ticket across all price categories by purchasing Full Season Seats and Mini Packs by clicking here. | that time, including a limited number of tickets remaining for the 2015 home opener on Thursday, Oct. 15 against the Ontario Reign.
There will be a presale available for all Moose Mail and | 44 |
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Lakeside Wheelers awarded Cycling Ireland Club of the Month - August
Updated Clubhouse Roster
Club AGM
Lakeside Wheelers AGM 2019 will be held on Friday 29th November. Put the date in your diary with further details to follow.
Beginners Cycling Group
Commencing Sun 6th Oct 9.30am-11.30am approx.
Meet & greet/ Safety talk & a short 15/20km cycle on the first morning.
This will run for a few Sundays.
Meet at the Clubhouse at the Barracks.
Helmet compulsory & a functional bike.
Please contact Gerry Wallace on 0872557733 if you intend to take part or have any queries.
Event for your Diary
Sat 7th December - Christmas Party and Awards Night @ Annebrook Hotel. Details to follow.
Centra National Youth Cycling Championships 2019 - Results and Documents
Results and Race Documents
Midlands League 2019 Updates
Midlands League 2019
Cycling Ireland Accredited Courses:
The committee are currently in the process of compiling a list of members who have completed Cycling Ireland accredited courses. Please contact secretary@lakesidewheelers.ie If you have a Cycling Ireland accredited qualification and wish to be included. The list will be uploaded on the club website and posted in the Clubhouse.
La Vuelta a Espana
posted 13 Sep 2010, 13:38 by Kevin Monaghan [ updated 13 Sep 2010, 15:07 ]
(By Shay O'Toole 12 Sept.2010)
As already stated, I was off on a little holiday this week and where else would one go but to the Tour of Spain or, to give it its correct title, La Vuelta a Espana. Although not as hectic as the Tour de France, this is one of the three Grand Tours and it was an unbelievable experience to see some of the world's top cyclists in action.
The circus-like atmosphere that surrounds a race like this has to be seen to be believed as a cavalcade of at least 200 vehicles escorts it around Spain. With a very relaxed scene compared to the Tour de France it is possible to get up close and even personal with these iron men of the road. We were lucky enough follow two stages, so took in a finish and<|fim_middle|> super sprinter Mark Cavendish | a start in the Barcelona region and a mountain climb in Andorra. With two Irish competitors, Nicolas Roche and Philip Deignan taking part there was an extra dimension to our interest.
The former went on to perform extremely well and is currently lying in fifth 5th place overall, however Deignan continued his recent run of bad form and abandoned the race due to ill health. The finish is in Madrid next Sunday so keep an eye on the telly as there is a real chance that an Irish man could be on the podium.
Coincidentally, whilst we were boarding the flight home I got a tip on the shoulder and when I turned there was Deignan asking me was I the guy he was chatting to at the start line only three days previously. Not surprisingly, being a Donegal man, he was full of chat all the way home and although he didn't jump at my invite to join Lakeside Wheelers for a spin whilst he is in Ireland he didn't totally refuse either so who knows, he may be in ORS some Sunday soon. Either way, it was very interesting to hear all the news about the pro-tour from the horse's mouth and with an optimists outlook, maybe it is a sign that the sport has turned a corner from the days of drugs and cheating as there is no doubt that in another era someone like Philip Deignan would have been "attended" to by the team "doctor" and instead of sitting on a plane talking to me he would have been still in the peloton heading for Madrid.
Yours truly and Nicolas Roche at Villanova i la Geltru La Vuelta 2010...
Up close and personal... with | 345 |
Designed to be fun and stylish, the 2012 Rio is economical and Golf-ish.
Kia has introduced the new Rio at the Geneva Motor Show.
Available in three- and five-door body styles, the redesigned model features a bold front fascia, deeply sculpted doors, and optional LED daytime driving lights. It measures 55mm longer, 25mm wider, and 15mm lower than the outgoing model. Furthermore, the 2,570mm wheelbase results in a spacious cabin and a luggage compartment which can hold up to 390 liters (13.8 cubic feet) of cargo.
Speaking of the interior, the cabin is described as "clean" and "sophisticated." While<|fim_middle|>9 lb-ft) of torque. It enables the car to accelerate from 0-100 km/h in 14.2 seconds and top out at 171 km/h (106 mph).
The five-door Rio will go on sale later this year, while the three-door variant will be launched in early 2012. | we wouldn't go that far, material quality seems significantly improved from its predecessor. Additionally, the Rio offers options such as passive entry, Bluetooth connectivity, and heated front seats.
Under the hood, four different engines will be available. The entry-level 1.25-liter petrol produces 85 PS (63 kW / 84 hp) and 118 Nm (87 lb-ft) of torque, which enables the car to accelerate from 0-100 km/h in 13 seconds and hit a top speed of 167 km/h (104 mph). Moving up the 1.4-liter petrol rewards owners with 109 PS (80 kW / 108 hp) and 136 Nm (100 lb-ft) of torque. Thanks to the extra power, the dash from 0-100 km/h takes 11.5 seconds and the top speed is 181 km/h (112 mph).
On the diesel side, there's a 1.1-liter three-cylinder that develops 82 PS (60 kW / 81 hp) and 94 Nm (69 lb-ft) of torque. This anemic engine means 0-100 km/h clocks in at 16.4 seconds and the top speed is 161 km/h (100 mph). If you don't have all day to wait around, the 1.4-liter four-cylinder churns out 90 PS (66 kW / 89 hp) and 216 Nm (15 | 344 |
Governor tries to remake Sacramento with Prop. 11
John Cannizzaro
California Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, speaks before members vote on passing the state budget at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 19<|fim_middle|> what the hell to think about it."
Contact the writer: 916-449-6046 or bjoseph@ocregister.com
Brian Joseph
Orange County GOP promotes event featuring Judy Mikovits of 'Plandemic' fame | , 2008.
State senator Lou Correa explains how lucky first generation American students at Anaheim High School are and tries to make them understand how important it is for them to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming general election during an assembly at the School this past week.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, center, speaks as former governors Pete Wilson, right, and Gray Davis look on, during a news conference Thursday Aug. 23, 2007 in Los Angeles. The three along with members of the Voices of Reform Coalition including Common Cause and League of Women Voters met to discuss ways promote a fundamental change in the way political boundaries are drawn to insure fairness and transparency in elections.
Former California Governor Gray Davis, right, speaks to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as former Governor Pete Wilson, left, looks on, during a news conference Thursday Aug. 23, 2007 in Los Angeles. The three along with members of the Voices of Reform Coalition including Common Cause and League of Women Voters met to discuss ways promote a fundamental change in the way political boundaries are drawn to insure fairness and transparency in elections.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, speaks as former California governors, Pete Wilson, left, and Gray Davis look on during a news conference Thursday Aug. 23, 2007 in Los Angeles. The three along with members of the Voices of Reform Coalition including Common Cause and League of Women Voters met to discuss ways promote a fundamental change in the way political boundaries are drawn to insure fairness and transparency in elections.
By Brian Joseph | Orange County Register
October 10, 2008 at 3:00 a.m.
SACRAMENTO When John Cannizzaro received his voter guide in the mail recently, he tried reading about "Proposition 11 Redistricting. Constitutional Amendment and Statue." but he couldn't make sense of it.
"I read it and tried to understand what they're saying," said the 77-year-old Fullerton Republican, "but for a novice trying to understand what they're saying in this book is an effort in frustration."
He's not alone. For Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the other supporters of Prop. 11, voters like Cannizzaro are a big problem.
Since 1982, seven redistricting measures have gone before voters and seven have failed. There's several reasons why, but one of the biggest seems to be that voters don't understand what redistricting, an arcane political process, is all about. (Click here to see a graphic explaining what happens now and what could happen if the proposition passes.)
"Voters aren't that tuned in to the inside baseball of politics," said Mark DiCamillo, director of the San Francisco-based polling service the Field Poll. "They don't see the relevance. … They don't see it as important to their day-to-day lives."
"Redistricting" refers to the regular boundary adjustments made to legislative districts and with the possible exception of seeing his friend John McCain win the White House, reforming the process is Schwarzenegger's top priority this election season.
Every decade following the federal government's Census, California embarks on redrawing its legislative districts to reflect the changes in population. Over 10 years, one region might lose people and another might gain, so redistricting is important to ensure that each district represents roughly the same amount of people.
Under current law, state legislators are responsible for redrawing the districts for members of the Board of Equalization, for California's representatives in the U.S. of House of Representatives – and for themselves. Critics, including the governor, say this is a blatant conflict of interest.
Indeed, what's historically happened is that legislative Democrats and Republicans cut a deal to maintain the status quo. They agree to draw districts that are overwhelming populated with voters of one party or the other and they agree that the ratio of Democrat to Republican districts won't change.
That's why any informed observer can predict with 100 percent accuracy the winners of all 12 of the county's state legislative races this year. The system is completely rigged to the parties' benefit.
One glaring exception is the 34th State Senate District, which covers parts of Anaheim and Santa Ana. There, changing demographics virtually eliminated the gap between Republicans and Democrats. In 2006, the two parties dumped millions into the race, with Democrat Lou Correa pulling out a narrow victory.
Correa is an oddity in the Legislature. The vast majority of his colleagues represent safe districts, so it's in their best interests to hew strongly to their party lines. Correa's district, however, is divided, so he's much more moderate. He's widely considered the most conservative of the Legislature's Democrats, yet he follows his party line on many big votes.
Correa is a perfect example of what Schwarzenegger hopes to accomplish with Prop. 11. The measure calls for taking away the Legislature's power to redraw districts and give it to an independent commission, which will be instructed to draw districts based on geography.
The result would be districts with a more even distribution of Republicans and Democrats, which in theory would lead to more moderate politicians in Sacramento and less gridlock on the Capitol.
"Now we're talking," said Cannizzaro, when the concept was explained to him. "I like that."
Schwarzenegger and the other Prop. 11 supporters are counting on voters coming to the same realization and they think they've got a good tool to help them: this year's state budget impasse. In speeches across the state, the governor has said the historic 85-day impasse was fueled by too many hardcore partisans in Sacramento.
"It is inexcusable to have a budget that is three months late," Schwarzenegger said last month. "And it is three months late because both parties stayed in their ideological corners and refused to come out."
But lining up against the measure is the State Senate's outgoing leader, Democrat Don Perata, who e-mailed Democratic supporters in June that Prop. 11 was "the last best chance to prevent us from protecting and expanding our majorities in the Legislature in the decade to come." Perata's long-time political consultant, Sandi Polka, is working for the No on Prop. 11 campaign, which through the end of last month had raised $370,000 to defeat the measure.
"We think it tilts the playing field in favor" of Republicans, said Paul Hefner, a Perata spokesman who is working for the no campaign. "It's really a raw deal for everybody," he said.
DiCamillo, the pollster, thinks the Democrats' opposition may be Prop. 11's fatal flaw. The issue is so complicated, DiCamillo says, Democrats can just criticize Prop. 11 as a Republican power grab and voters will defeat it just to be on the safe side. Back in July, the Field Poll found that 58 percent of voters intended to vote no on Prop. 11 or were undecided.
But as for Cannizzaro, he thinks redistricting reform is something he could get behind. "I think it sounds like a good idea," he said, "now that I know | 1,511 |
Sheila Jordan has been chief information officer of the company throughout the journey. She came to the company nearly four years ago from Cisco.<|fim_middle|> for the team at Symantec to integrate each of the major companies it has acquired. She also has developed the company's CustomerONE program, highlighting her team's use of the company's products. Jordan discusses all of the above and more in this interview.
Sheila Jordan: With the Blue Coat acquisition, we were able to retain Greg Clark, who is our CEO, and Mike Fay, who is our president and COO. They came in and quickly established the vision and overall strategy for the company, which is what we call our Integrated Cyber Defense Platform. An integrated platform is important for CIOs and chief information security officers (CISOs) because fragmentation and lack of integration generate risk by creating white spaces where the bad guys hang out and cause damage. Acquiring Blue Coat gave us the opportunity to improve the security posture of our small, medium, and enterprise customers. | The latter is a legendarily acquisitive company, and Jordan has leveraged her experience to develop a playbook of sorts | 25 |
<|fim_middle|> target them. | The Highgrove run is made from the same sturdy framework and thick black wire mesh wire as the rest of the Highgrove Hutch.
The run can be permanently attached to the front of the hutch using the 4 metal brackets supplied.
The run is designed with plenty of access points. There is a lockable front door as well as two smaller metal side doors on both the left and right side of the run.
There is a fully folding roof which allows easy access from the top of the run and with the roof folded back there is also enough space to stand inside the run while you clean out your hutch.
The Highgrove Run provides a spacious area for rabbits and guinea pigs to exercise in and is the perfect add on to the Highgrove Rabbit Hutch.
The Highgrove Run has not been designed to be used as a stand-alone run. This is because one end is open to allow it to join onto the hutch itself so you wouldn't be able to use it effectively as a separate run. Most of our customers looking for a stand alone run go for either medium or large folding runs.
2. How is the Run attached to the Highgrove Hutch?
3. Can I add 2 Highgrove Runs together to form 1 long one?
We would like to think that our Highgrove Run is made to a higher standard than most other suppliers in its price range. While we have purposely used thicker, sturdier wood, wire and locks with the aim to make it as safe and secure as possible for your pets we cannot absolutely guarantee that foxes and other predators won't try and | 329 |
It's exciting when there's something new to talk about in the world of donor management for nonprofits. After all, managing and reporting on constituent and donor interactions is critical to raising the funds that support a nonprofit's mission.
It makes donor management tasks more efficient. Instead<|fim_middle|> resources. The Salesforce Trailhead environment, combined with robust training resources and access to the Power of Us Hub provide a network of training and resources.
It allows you to record matching gifts. There's not much better than getting a donation that ultimately results in two donations / twice the money! The NPSP allows nonprofits to identify and track matching organizations, record the initial donation received, and then create the matching gift from the matching organization's record. This feature is flexible in the NPSP, allowing you to record one matching check with a single gift, or split that single matching check between several other original gifts.
It allows you to record full and partial soft credits (a credit for a donation that a contact or donor did not actually make, but may have somehow influenced).
Soft credits are calculated in "rollup" fields on contact records, making it easy to see how many donations a contact has influenced for your organization over a lifetime.
Examples of these include matching gifts, or when a peer-to-peer fundraiser is driving donations (the fundraiser would receive soft credit for every donation he/she brings in as a part of his/her efforts).
It's ready for and compatible with the new Lightning user interface within Salesforce. Lightning is a collection of tools and technologies behind a significant upgrade to the Salesforce platform, and the NPSP supports it.
If you haven't seen Salesforce in a while (or ever!), be sure to take a look at the Nonprofit Success Pack. It just might be the right donor management solution for your nonprofit. And, if you're still not sure if the NPSP is right for your nonprofit, Cathexis Partners can help you evaluate the NPSP for your organization, and even set it up for you.
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It's cloud-based and mobile-friendly, so you can access donor information from anywhere, plus you can do anything with the NPSP via a mobile device that you can do on a desktop.
It's FREE! — 10 user licenses/logins to the NPSP are free for nonprofits (additional licenses for the NPSP are $36/month).
It's powerful — It's built on the Salesforce platform, and as a nonprofit user, you get the same powerful CRM tool as any Fortune 500 company using Salesforce.
It can grow with you. The NPSP integrates with thousands of apps, many built specifically for nonprofits, through the Salesforce AppExchange. So, you can expand and enhance your Salesforce CRM solution with everything from email management to peer-to-peer fundraising management to credit card processing (just to name a few) as your organization's needs evolve.
It includes extensive training and | 220 |
Mr. Edwin Roth
On March 16, 2018 March 16, 2018 By emmapalovaIn Fallasburg Historical Society, legacy, Uncategorized
Edwin Christian Roth, the founding member of the Fallasburg Historical Society, passed away on March 8, 2018
Members of the FHS express deepest condolences to the family of Mr. Roth.
Edwin Christian Roth
Full obituary
Roth, Edwin Christian Age 98, passed away on March 8, 2018. He is survived by his 3 children, Steven & Barbara Roth, Jeanne Vandersloot, Nancy & Michael Moore, sisters-in-law June Roth and Phyllis Petersen, grandchildren Aaron & Barb Roth, Aletha & John VanValkenburg, Ryan & Renae Roth, Kyle Roth, Trenton & Jessica Roth, Nicholas & Missy Vandersloot, Nathan & Beth Moore and Brett & Melanie Moore and 18 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 70 years, Doris June Roth, her parents Arthur and Ila Edmonds, his parents Godfrey and Rose Roth, son-in law Glenn Vandersloot and brothers Fred, Alfred, Rudy, Walter and sister June Houser.
Visitation will be at Roth-Gerst Chapel at 305 N Hudson, Lowell on Friday March 16 from 2:00-4:00 pm and 6:00-8:00 pm. The funeral service will be at the First United Methodist Church at 621 E Main, Lowell on Saturday March 17 at 11:00 am with visitation one hour before the service at the church. Rev. Brad Brillhart officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to Lowell FFA, Fallasburg Historical Society, Lowell Historical Society or Lowell Arts.
His parents came from Switzerland in 1909 and met on the boat immigrating to America, and settled in Michigan. Ed was born August 20, 1919 on the original family farm in the Clarksville area. His parents later bought the farm north of Lowell and packed up all the children and belongings and went by horses pulling sledded wagons to the new family farm. Ed then grew up on the dairy farm north of Lowell and began helping to milk the cows at age 11.
The family only spoke Swiss and learned English while attending the one room country school. There was no electricity at that time. Food was grown on the farm with fruit and nut trees, a large garden, chickens and other farm animals along with the dairy cattle for milk production. Fields were plowed with horse-drawn equipment. He took a short-course semester at<|fim_middle|> many relatives with 4 trips there, and has hosted various Swiss family members in his home also. He was very proud of his full Swiss heritage and still spoke fluent Swiss.
He had a great sense of humor and always had a joke or two to make people laugh. He and Doris were founding members of the Fallasburg Historical Society and he was a member and supporter of the Lowell Historical Society, the Lowell Arts, the Tri-Rivers Historical Society and the FFA program.
"We deeply Sympathize with the family," FHS spokesperson said.
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The oldest member of the Fallasburg Historical Society has passed away. | Michigan State University (MSU) after high school graduation and learned many skills, especially welding, as he ended up repairing items for neighbors and creating whatever he needed for the farm, such as wagons and tractor accessories. He saw the installation of electricity and phone service in later years to the farm. He also has witnessed the greatest time span of technology growth in America during his years of living with farming by hand and horses to huge computer driven tractors.
He met his future wife Doris at the Ramona Park skating rink in Grand Rapids. His introducing line to her was he thought she needed some help skating better. Life on a farm in those days only allowed dating on a Saturday night if all chores were completed. Ed and his brother Rudy ran the farm after their parents retired and moved to Lowell. Ed and Doris married in 1946. When the main barn burned, Ed and Rudy divided the cows and Ed and Doris moved to the adjacent farm 1/2 mile north and farmed with Holstein dairy cows for 50 years. They bought this farm in 1949 and over the years added more acreage from the original 80 to 267 acres. Having knee problems from hand milking, he built the first milking parlor in Ionia County where the milking person stands up instead of kneeling.
He designed and built his own barns from wood sawed from the farm woodlands. He retired from milking in 1981 but continued to help with tractor work into his 90's as his son Steven had taken over the farm. He cut his own firewood until age 95. He loved to travel and attended the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and several other world fairs and attended almost every National Farm Bureau convention after he retired. He was the oldest Farm Bureau member in Ionia County joining the organization in 1947 for 71 years. Ed and Doris traveled a good portion of the world, with his favorite destination being Switzerland, where he visited | 424 |
Brook takes from BT and FNZC
Brook Asset Management has announced two senior appointments to its investment team.
Friday, November 21st 2008, 2:00PM
Slade Robertson will join the business as a Senior Portfolio Manager and Andrew Mortimer<|fim_middle|> will contribute towards Brook's primary aim of generating returns for its clients.
"Fundamental research is at the very core of our business, so we're delighted to be welcoming Andrew to the team," Brighouse said
« IFA upgrades education rules Sovereign takes regulation bull by the horns » | as a Senior Research Analyst.
With 16 years experience in the funds management industry, Robertson comes to Brook from BT Funds where he has spent more than four years, most recently as Head of Equities.
Prior to this role, he spent time with Challenger International, BNP Paribas Equities and Southpac Investment Management.
Brook Managing Director, Mark Brighouse, said that Robertson is well known within the New Zealand's funds management industry for his extensive knowledge and investment expertise.
"Slade is an equity manager who we have long admired for his investment decision making abilities, long term performance results and the close working partnerships he develops with clients," Brighouse said.
"His experience in managing absolute return and concentrated equity strategies will enable him to contribute to the continued success of Brook's funds."
Mortimer has more than 10 years research experience and will join Brook from First NZ Capital, where he was a Director of Equity Research, primarily focusing on the building materials, transport, beverages and agriculture sectors.
Prior to this, Mortimer also spent time with KPMG in Wellington and Jakarta, along with Credit Suisse First Boston.
With a strong team of research analysts already in place, Brighouse said that Mr Mortimer's appointment will bring additional expertise that | 258 |
Just in time for summer grilling season, researchers present evidence that certain high-heat methods of cooking red meat—including over an open flame—may boost the risk of type 2 diabetes. Past research has shown that cooking at high heat can produce cancer-causing chemicals. This is the first study to examine whether such cooking methods influence diabetes risk.
For 26 years, Harvard researchers followed 59,033 women, ages 30 and 55, who ate red meat (such as beef, pork, and lamb) at least twice a week. None of the women had diabetes at the start of the study. In 1986, when the study began, the researchers<|fim_middle|> those methods, the greater their risk of type 2 diabetes became. Pan-frying, stewing, and boiling did not increase the likelihood of type 2 diabetes.
Limit how often you cook red meat on the grill, under the broiler, or in the oven, and you may reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes. People with diabetes also should consider cutting back on these cooking methods, says the study's lead author, because high-heat and open-flame cooking contribute to inflammation and other risk factors for heart disease. The authors don't know whether cooking poultry or fish using these methods would present similar risks. To best protect your heart, eat red meat in moderation, no matter how you cook it.
"Cooking Methods for Red Meats and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Study of U.S. Women." Gang Liu, Geng Zong, Frank B. Hu, Walter C. Willett, David M. Eisenberg, and Qi Sun. Diabetes Care, published online June 13, 2017. | asked the women how often they cooked red meat in the following ways: broiling, barbequing/grilling, roasting, pan-frying, and stewing or boiling. Every four years, the women described their eating habits. They reported on their health, including diabetes diagnoses, every two years. During the study period, 6,206 women developed type 2 diabetes.
The researchers linked three methods of cooking red meat with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes when they compared women who used these methods at least twice a week to women who cooked with these methods less than once a month. Broiling increased the risk of diabetes by 29 percent, barbequing/grilling by 23 percent, and roasting by 11 percent. The more often the women cooked using any of | 167 |
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Commitment:Minimum 3 months, two days a week. Internships are on a rolling basis and available year round.
As a Programming intern, you'll be involved all aspects of the department's responsibilities, from the first brainstorming meetings to the installation of an artist's work. Specific tasks will vary from project to project, but you can expect to conduct research on artists and sites, assist in correspondence and administration, and help with exhibition production. And, you'll be able to attend curatorial meetings, where you'll have the opportunity to meet with artists and participate in an informed manner.
Qualifications: Interest in visual art and music, event experience, strong written and verbal communication skills, proficiency in Microsoft Office, and Google drives, access to personal computer, reliable transportation.
Commitment: Minimum 3 months, two days a week. Internships are on a rolling basis and available year round.
Our Fabrication interns will work directly with our Lead Builder and Project Engineer Christian Repaal. Specific tasks will vary from project to project, but you can expect to assist our team and artists in the building of musical houses and other projects.
Qualification: Experience in working with power tools. Basic welding skills a plus.
Commitment: Two days a week. Internships are on a rolling basis and available year round.
If you have an education background and a strong interest in the artist, New Orleans Airlift wants you to join our team as our Education Intern. You will assist the airlift team in conjunction with a partner education organization to create educational workshops and curriculum around our musical houses to be use during our 2015 Roving Village residency. You will work with an Airlift staff member to recruit groups, schools, and institutions to participate in workshops.
Sample Task: Work with artist to create custom workshops, develop educational curriculum relates to arts and music around the Roving Village installations, contact and organize school groups, and youth organizations.
Commitment: Internships are on a rolling basis and available year round. If you are interested in interning with New Orleans Airlift, please fill out this form. We look forward to hearing from you | 463 |
10 Outdoor Adventures for Birmingham Athletes in 2016
by Natalie Cone
Birmingham is filled with outdoor activities to fill your calendar in 2016. Dave Walker
At the start of a new year, we find ourselves looking back over the past 12 months and figuring out how to make the next year even better. For some people, it's to simply eat healthier and get more sleep. For many, the goal is to be more active and get fit. Runners may challenge themselves with faster times. Cyclists may decide to try a few competitive rides. Climbers determine to conquer that one challenge that, until now, has gotten the best of them. Parents resolve to get their kids outside more and explore new places.
The Magic City is the perfect playground to set goals and work toward them. Rich with parks, tracks, and trails, this city offers Birmingham athletes endless opportunities to get outside and get active. And you'll likely surprise yourself at how much fun it is. Whether your passion is for cycling, climbing, running, hiking or walking, Birmingham is full of opportunities to enjoy the outdoors. Here are 10 of the best:
1. Go Hiking at Oak Mountain State Park
Oak Mountain State Park Kelly Verdeck
There are so many reasons to hike Oak Mountain State Park—the gorgeous trails, the scenery, the overlooks, the exercise, and fresh air. But the variety of trails should keep you coming back to the park year after year. Oak Mountain has 51 miles of trails with many route options. Explore a new combination each day and you'll turn those 51 miles into what feels like hundreds (in a good way). There's everything from an easy 3-mile loop that winds around a stunning lake, to a 17-mile backcountry loop with more than 800 feet of elevation gain. Creeks, waterfalls, hardwood forests, pine-studded ridges, and rocky overlooks, are just some of the highlights along the way, and you can always take a cool plunge in Double Oak Lake upon your return. Not sure it gets much better than that.
2. Discover Waterfalls at DeSoto State Park
DeSoto State Park offers plenty of waterfalls to explore. Stanislav Vitebskiy
In DeSoto State Park, you'll find a treasure trove of hidden jewels just waiting to be discovered. With an abundance camping, hiking, climbing—and incredible waterfalls—DeSoto is at the top of our list as one of the best places to make some memories. The most well-known waterfall is 107-foot-high DeSoto Falls, one of the tallest waterfalls in Alabama. Lodge Falls is an easy waterfall to spot just behind the Lodge. Indian Falls is easy to locate from the wooden footbridge that crosses over the top. Laurel Falls is tucked away about three-quarters of a mile from DeSoto's Country Store down the Orange Trail, a winding trail that is nearly as enchanting as the hidden falls. Just 10 miles south of DeSoto State Park is Little River Falls and Grace's High Falls, located in Little River Canyon National Reserve.
3. Run the Mercedes Marathon
The starting line of the Mercedes Marathon is loaded with excited runners. Curtis Palmer
The Mercedes Marathon is an annual Birmingham tradition that many runners have been looking forward to, and working toward, for months. With options such as a Kid's Marathon, Relay, 5K, Half-Marathon and Marathon, there is something for everyone at this year's event on Feb. 14. Get an early taste of the race with course preview runs, which will be held on January 17 and January 31, starting at the Boutwell Auditorium at 6:30 a.m. The group will run one loop of the course, and GU, lemon-lime Powerade and water will be provided at three aid stations along the way. The event ends with coffee and doughnuts at the Boutwell.
4. Take the Vulcan Park Spring Walking Tour
A view of downtown Birmingham from Vulcan Park. James Willamor
Vulcan Park and Museum hosts a unique and fun walking tour series of Birmingham neighborhoods. Beginning on March 19, locals and visitors can tour downtown and<|fim_middle|> Birmingham, AL
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by RootsRated | the great renovation projects the Magic City has undertaken. Be one of the first to see these historical properties up close. On April 16, the Parkside community will be explored and the tours series will be concluded with a tour of the Forest Park neighborhood on May 14. Register early to ensure a spot the tours, led by local leading historians and architects.
5. Ride in the Magic City Cycliad
Beautiful View of Birmingham City Skyline from Railroad Park. Lexcio
The Magic City Cycliad is a truly unique experience in Birmingham. Part of an epic 15-day, 1,000+ mile ride, the event tours much of the Southeast over the course of 4 weekends in April. The purpose of this ride is to raise funds and awareness to support both the patients and programs of the UAB Cancer Community Network. On April 24, the Cycliad will be at Railroad Park. All ages and skill levels are welcome to participate.
6. Join the Trak Shak Weekly Training Runs
If you're looking to up your running game and challenge yourself, just visit the Trak Shak in Homewood every Wednesday night at 5:30 p.m. for a good training run. All skill levels and paces are welcome—slip into your running shoes and join in the fun.
7. Run and Dine with Mojo
Start and end at Rojo for a nice run through Highlands Park. Natalie Cone
For another safe, fun way to put those miles on your running shoes, visit Rojo on Thursday nights at 6 p.m. for its weekly training run. The group starts at this incredible restaurant and loops around Highland Park. On the first Thursday of each month, the Thursday Night Fun Run joins up with the Big Benefit Run, which helps bring awareness to local Birmingham charities. Don't leave afterwards, however—runners are awarded 10 percent off their bill if they stick around and enjoy good food and a much-deserved drink.
8. Take a Day Hike with Southeastern Outings
There are many trails to hike and explore at Moss Rock Preserve. Will Gurley
For a more laid-back pace with tons of adventure, join the Southeastern Outings, created for people who enjoy outdoor adventures, nature and fresh air. These outings are open to the public, and all ages/skill levels/paces are welcome. Hiking locations such as Bankhead National Forest, Oak Mountain State Park, Red Mountain Park, Sipsey Wilderness, Moss Rock Preserve and more, you'll find yourself challenged and enjoying every minute of it.
9. Climb Birmingham Boulders
First Avenue Rocks has a new project facility called Birmingham Boulders, and more than 12,000 square feet of climbing makes it the largest bouldering gym east of Colorado. For kids, families, beginners and pros, this is the place for all pebble-wrestlers to enjoy. Opening Winter of 2016, climbers will be flocking to this new facility for a unique indoor climbing experience.
10. Discover Le Tour de Ham
Le Tour de Ham brings cyclists from all walks of life to explore Birmingham on two wheels. Greg Harber
Every Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. across the street from Naked Art, cyclists meet for a social bike ride called Le Tour de Ham. The crew rolls out promptly at 6:15 p.m. for a 10-12 mile bike ride through the eclectic, bohemian and fun parts of the Magic City. This social bike ride is considered to be the largest weekly ride in Alabama. Le Tour de Ham cyclists often end their ride through Forest Park at the Silvertron Café, a sponsor of the ride, where they enjoy a drink and meal together. With a 15 percent discount for the riders, who could resist?
From waterfall-exploring hikes to group bike rides and runs, Birmingham athletes have plenty of options for outdoor adventures in 2016.
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A Brief Guide to Christmas in Italy
Bearing in mind Italians' reputation for flamboyance and passion, it came as quite a surprise to find that Christmas is celebrated in a relatively understated manner in Italy. It remains first and foremost a religious festival, and although it is one of the church's cheerier ones, it is still treated with a greater degree of reverence than in UK and hence is not subject to anywhere near the same level of rampant and relentless consumerism – thankfully.
First of all, there is barely a hint of the approach of Christmas until the feast of the Immaculate Conception on 8th December, which is when most families put up their Christmas trees and decorations and when town centres turn on their Christmas lights. No giant inflatable snowmen and rooftop reindeer, though, nor any over-the-top light displays that you can practically see from outer space: it really is all very restrained and traditional. And although Father Christmas – aka Babbo Natale – plays a leading role in festivities, the star of the show is very much the baby in a manger along with the rest of the cast of the nativity. Very many families will create their own nativity scene at home as part of their Christmas decorations, and most towns and villages will have one in a central piazza; museums and galleries often put on exhibitions of historical examples, and starting from Santo Stefano (Boxing Day) many places put on a living nativity scene – presepe vivente – complete with ass if not the ox.
This relative restraint is also apparent when it comes to Christmas shopping. People exchange gifts in Italy in much the same way as in the UK and so the shops do get much busier in December, but there is certainly no 'shop 'til you drop' mentality. Shops themselves don't seem to rely on sales over the Christmas period for their very survival, and there are no over-packaged, over-priced Christmas 'gift packs', novelty goods and jokey stocking fillers. Christmas cards are a rarity, as are advent calendars of any kind – even the more traditional variety, never mind those filled with cheap chocolates or toys – and Christmas wrapping paper, gift tags and ribbon can take some tracking down too. But since most shops beautifully gift-wrap even the smallest purchase for you – a couple of years ago one of my purchases for Mr Blue-Shirt came extravagantly wrapped in chocolate-scented paper, for instance – this is seldom much of an issue.
This being Italy, however, what there is definitely an abundance of is food, both in the form of gifts and, more especially, of family-based feasting, which begins in earnest on Christmas Eve (La Vigilia). The centrepiece of meals served on the eve of religious festivals is fish as the idea is to have a giorno magro – literally, 'a lean day' – to prepare for the indulgence of the festival itself. That said, la cena della vigilia (Christmas Eve Dinner) is seldom that 'lean' as it often consists of several courses. If you are feeling brave (and hungry) enough you could go for the the seven-course festa dei sette pesci (feast of<|fim_middle|>, Le Marche is, unfortunately, about to move from the white to the yellow zone over Christmas. And while it won't quite be business as usual, tables of up to four people will still be permitted, so at least Mr Blue-Shirt and I shouldn't have to change our plans for Boxing Day lunch…
Buone feste – e buon appetito – a tutti!
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Next Next post: Ring out, wild bells | the seven fishes), which represent the seven sacraments. Those who relish a real challenge, though, may opt for nine courses to represent the Trinity (squared for good measure), but some may truly 'go large' with twelve courses to represent the disciples, or even thirteen if you include Jesus.
There is no single, national dish that is the star of the show, though, as Italian cuisine varies so much from region to region. In Naples, for example, salt cod fritters are very popular, in Rome, a soup of broccoli, pasta and arzilla (a type of skate) is traditional, while in Calabria, it's spaghetti with anchovies and crispy breadcrumbs, and here in Le Marche it has to be stoccafisso all'anconetana, a hearty fish stew made with stockfish (dried cod), potatoes and tomatoes. Although we have not yet plucked up courage to attempt such an iconic dish ourselves, Mr Blue-Shirt and I do observe the fish tradition, and our previous Christmas Eve dishes have included a Ligurian fish stew, and langoustines poached in a rather moreish shellfish bisque served on homemade linguini. Our hearts weren't quite in it last year thanks to the Christmas lockdown and so we only managed some fried sea bream in shrimp butter, but this year, homemade seafood ravioli in that yummy shellfish bisque are the most likely choice.
So after your giorno magro, it's back to meat as the centrepiece of the Christmas Day feast. But before that, there will probably be a selection of cured meats and cheeses just to whet the appetite, and then there will almost certainly be at least one pasta course – and possibly several. Once again, there is no single, national dish, but pasta in brodo (pasta in broth) is a pretty ubiquitous in the north, while in the south, pasta al forno (baked in the oven) tends to prevail. When it come to the main course, roast turkey is becoming increasingly popular, but just as common are goose, pheasant, partridge and duck, or, in Le Marche at least, a large joint of porchetta – roast pork. And again, it is quite normal to have more than one meat course. Heretical though it may seem to our Italian friends, we shall probably give the pasta course a miss, and then for our main course we are going Anglo-Italian this year. We shall be having roast turkey, but it will be accompanied by a sauce made from red wine, pancetta, olives and homegrown figs – oh, and by roast parsnips, which Mr Blue-Shirt smuggled back from the UK recently as they are practically unheard of here.
As far as dessert is concerned, although there is no equivalent of British-style Christmas pudding or mince pies here, dried fruit, nuts and spices in various combinations feature strongly. Frustingo, for instance, is a Marchigian speciality made from a deliciously rich and squidgy mix of dried figs, almonds, pine nuts, raisins, chestnuts and candied peel flavoured with coffee, chocolate, rum and mosto cotto (a syrupy reduction of the leftovers of the wine-making process – and much tastier than it sounds). Probably the only truly national favourites – and two of the very few dishes that are invariably shop-bought rather than homemade – are panettone, the large, domed, brioche-like cake studded with sultanas and citrus peel that originated in Milan, and pandoro (golden bread) the slightly denser, tall, star-shaped cake traditionally dusted with icing sugar that originated in Verona. We fall into the panettone camp, but tend to treat it as an alternative Christmas cake rather than as a dessert. Since neither of us is a big fan of English-style Christmas pudding, however, our dessert always consists of a light, chocolate sponge pudding flavoured with lots of Christmas spices and laced with brandy.
After two days of multi-course dining, you'd be forgiven for thinking that on Boxing Day (Santo Stefano) there is some respite from the feasting. But no. As in the UK, leftovers tend to feature strongly, but in the form of completely re-worked dishes rather than just cold meat with bubble and squeak. Leftover pasta, for example, is mixed with eggs and cheese to create a frittata di pasta (pasta omelette), and leftover meat is shredded and chopped and mixed into a rich tomato sauce to create a hearty stew. However, giving the chef a break and going out for lunch is just as popular on Boxing Day. Indeed, when I went for a waistband-and-conscience-easing run along the seafront at Civitanova Marche a couple of years ago, most of the town's beachfront restaurants had come out of hibernation especially for the festive period and every single one of them was crammed with groups of ten, twelve or more, all tucking in to steaming bowls of saffron-scented brodetto (fish stew), huge pans of silky pasta mixed with locally caught shellfish and platters piled high with crispy fritto misto (mixed fried fish). But there still won't be any large groups (unless they are from the same household) in those beach restaurants this year, as although everything will at least be open | 1,116 |
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Buyer's guide to tandems—everything you need to realize to buy a bicycle constructed for two
There is an announcement that couples who play together stay collectively; sharing an interest can, in reality, make a relationship stronger, whether or not it's taking walks with the dog, skydiving, or riding a motorcycle. But for plenty of couples, the problem with biking together is that one birthday celebration<|fim_middle|>, more potent, or has a higher approach, experience, or device than the other. That ends in frustration on both aspects as they fail to be collectively at some point in the experience.
A tandem can clear up this. You're on the same motorbike, so you can't get separated, but there's more to it than that. A tandem takes each rider's strength and puts it through identical transmission, so it doesn't be counted if one rider is working more difficult than the opposite. So you can hammer at the same time as your associate gentle-pedals, and you'll nevertheless arrive together.
This calls for teamwork. The captain—the rider up the front—has sole duty for brakes, gears, and steering but has to avoid surprising modifications of the route and permit the stoker to know what's occurring. In addition, the captain must warn of main adjustments of pace, something that could wobble the stoker around and especially drawing close bumps and potholes.
The stoker is responsible for pedaling, waving at humans, and taking the mickey out of the captain; although it's crucial, they sit down moderately nevertheless; begin leaping around, and you may seriously unbalance the motorbike.
Both parties need to receive that the alternative may also have a distinct capability for effort, so if one is flagging (or is weaker), the opposite has to look upon it as a possibility to have a better exercising even as giving their partner an extra exciting revel in.
Suppose making a decision that you do want to 'play collectively,' pitching the idea of a tandem, needs to be really worth trying. If you're a hit, you've got computerized support in the 'n+1' discussion, and the opportunity is probably which you may absorb your partner's chosen interest. Once you have settled to continue, you may need to position some paintings into keeping that enthusiasm at some stage in the preliminary teething difficulties. In my experience, the first-rate manner to gain that is via ensuring that your accomplice enjoys the ride each time. That doesn't just mean agreeing to go to a pub or espresso shop. Still, it's miles extra about no longer suffering machine malfunctions, no longer being uncomfortable, suffering unnecessarily, not being made to feel worried, no longer having disagreements, and so on.
When you're out cycling, you will discover that for some reason, the general public regularly likes to shout feedback to tandem riders as they skip, but not like solo bikes; these are nearly usually supportive or jocular. By far and away, the most commonplace call that you will listen to is "she's now not pedaling," which is a status shaggy dog story in tandem circles. More ingenious types shout "she's behind you," and sometimes we hear "I need one of these" while passing the slowest member in a collection of cyclists. And of the path, there's "can you trip tandem?" from bystanders old sufficient to do not forget the PG Tips chimps.
Tandem has the load and strength of two riders, but its aerodynamic drag is only a bit extra than a solo. This approach, a tandem, is faster on the flat than a solo and lots faster on descents. It's not difficult to hit properly over 50mph on a fairly slight downhill, and tandems—once in a while with as many as five riders supplying the power—have been used as pacing machines for track racing and the 600km Bordeaux-Paris race before the advent of derny motorcycles. Tandems have a popularity for being slower uphill than solos. Many tandem groups comprise one faster and one slower rider, so their average energy-to-weight ratio decreases than a healthy rider on a solo, and they're slower uphill. But a couple of fits experienced riders who're used to riding collectively provide little or not anything away to a solo on climbs besides the potential to accelerate quickly.
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Seaweed shown to reduce nitrogen run-off from rivers<|fim_middle|> Alexander River estuary, in Israel, hundreds of metres from the open sea. The river was chosen because it discharges polluting nitrogen from nearby upstream fields and settlements into the Mediterranean. Data for the model were collected over two years from controlled cultivation studies.
The Alexander River, in Israel, was chosen due to its high nitrogen levels
The researchers explain that nitrogen is a necessary fertiliser for agriculture, but once it reaches the ocean, it disperses randomly, damaging various ecosystems. As a result, the state currently spends a great deal of money on treating nitrogen concentrations in water, and there are international agreements that limit nitrogen loading in the oceans, including in the Mediterranean.
"My laboratory researches basic processes and develops technologies for aquaculture," explained Professor Alexander Golberg from Tel Aviv University, in a press release. "We are developing technologies for growing seaweed in the ocean in order to set carbon and extract various substances from them, such as proteins and starches, in order to produce the agricultural produce in the ocean as well. In this study, we showed that if seaweed is grown according to the model we developed, in close proximity to streams and rivers' estuaries, they can absorb the nitrogen to conform to environmental standards and prevent its dispersal in water and thus neutralise environmental pollution. In this way, we actually produce a kind of 'natural decontamination facility' with significant ecological and economic value since seaweed can be sold as biomass for human use."
The researchers add that the mathematical model predicts farm yields and links seaweed yield and chemical composition to nitrogen concentration in the river.
"Our model allows marine farmers, as well as government and environmental bodies, to know, in advance, what the impact will be and what the products of a large seaweed farm will be – before setting up the actual farm," added Miron Zollman. "Thanks to mathematics, we know how to make the adjustments also concerning large agricultural farms and maximise environmental benefits, including producing the agriculturally desired protein quantities."
"It is important to understand that the whole world is moving towards green energy, and kelp can be a significant source," added Prof Alexander Liberzon. "Yet today there is no single farm with the proven technological and scientific capability. The barriers here are also scientific: we do not really know what the impact of a huge farm will be on the marine environment. It is like transitioning from a vegetable garden outside the house to endless fields of industrial farming. Our model provides some of the answers, hoping to convince decision-makers that such farms will be profitable and environmentally friendly. Furthermore, one can imagine even more far-reaching scenarios. For example, green energy: if we knew how to utilise the growth rates for energy in better percentages, it would be possible to embark on a one-year cruise with a kilogram of seaweed, with no additional fuel beyond the production of biomass in a marine environment."
"The interesting connection we offer here is growing seaweed at the expense of nitrogen treatment," concludes Prof Goldberg. "In fact, we have developed a planning tool for setting up seaweed farms in river estuaries to address both environmental problems and derive economic benefit. We offer the design of seaweed farms in streams and rivers containing large quantities of agriculturally related nitrogen residues to rehabilitate the stream and prevent nitrogen from reaching the ocean while growing the seaweed itself for food. In this way, aquaculture complements terrestrial agriculture."
The study is published in Communications Biology under the title Multi-scale modeling of intensive macroalgae cultivation and marine nitrogen sequestration.
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Establishing seaweed farms near river estuaries significantly reduces nitrogen concentrations in the river and prevents environmental pollution in streams and oceans.
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You are currently browsing the Archaeofacts.com archives of<|fim_middle|>? no whitefish? I prefer the old name to the modern one: South Manistique Lake. | Musings for June, 2018.
We headed out early, down the Garden Peninsula to the ghost town of Fayette. Here's the business part of town, where workers made charcoal pig iron for 24 years. The market began to decline and the hardwoods they made the charcoal from were no longer nearby…and, pfft, an industrial town went out of business.
I always take harbor-pilings photos. The water seemed higher than the last few years.
We made our return via Kitch-iti-kipi, the Big Spring. Love the raft ride, powered by park visitors' arms.
More trout(?) that I ever remember seeing swam in the depths as we made our slow crossing and return.
Hot day; good day to avoid outdoor chores by going sight-seeing!
Lordy, lordy, we were in the vortex of people-here/people-leaving. This clover-visitor was off that axis.
The peonies in our part of the property are darned perky. The earliest bloomers are already fading toward white/the lightest pink. Cycle of life.
Have I noted this before? Show-stopping light here!
Missing our now-absent visitors and the one we saw briefly today…sigh—moving on. Luv.
Of course, first we had coffee, not shown, most of which we enjoyed sitting outdoors in this area. Then, our guest got out some fantastic black pepper bacon and cooked batch after batch on this camp stove/their camp table, meaning neither closed-in, traditional kitchen (our house, their camper) acquired a lingering bacon aroma. (Yay.) On the regular burner, she did a big skillet of scrambled eggs. And a fantastic brunch was enjoyed by all.
We independently nibbled (and sipped) through the rest of the day until we sat down to a FEAST. We brought out salads that didn't get consumed yesterday and added new salads and miscellaneous veggie dishes. Meat courses were ribs (not shown; bought thoroughly cooked, and reheated), and my version of Irish stew (lamb, Two Hearted brewskis, potatoes, rainbow carrots, oddments—in the iron dutch oven). Pretty sure the white carrots tasted funky, kinda like slightly acrid parsnips, but no one else was bothered by them.
In short, a good-eating day, with plenty of visiting and page-turning, and the like. Near perfection—low-stress and fabulous fun all day.
Cooking down some Zin and fresh sweet cherries to make a sauce to go with the (charcoal) grilled lamb….
Oh, man, it was so tasty, it made the moon rise.
Pretty sure this is the Heracleum that is not friendly to the skin–sap makes the human skin photosensitive, causing blistering and burning (wild/cow parsnip).
A couple of years ago I saw one flourishing over the hill, but this one is by our beach!
Pondering how to carefully remove the plant with no…downstream negative effects…no burns, skin blistering or brown streaks that can last over a year!
Moon over Whitefish Lake. Which used to have whitefish in it, I have read. Most people don't call it that anymore…because | 669 |
Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought practically universal acceptance to the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons, exactly alike in charge, but differing widely in<|fim_middle|> the requirements of the science, the student must make himself familiar with a considerable body of most intricate mathematics, the mere retention of which in the memory materially interferes with further progress. The first process therefore in the effectual study of the science, must be one of simplification and reduction of the results of previous investigation to a form in which the mind can grasp them.
First sentence of Maxwell's first paper (read 10 Dec 1855), 'On Faraday's Lines of Force', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (1857), Vol. X, part I. Collected in William Davidson Niven (ed.), The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell (1890), Vol. 1, 155.
From Varied Types (1903), 126.
'Probability abd Uncertainty—the Quantum Mechanical View of Nature', the sixth of his Messenger Lectures (1964), Cornell University. Collected in The Character of Physical Law (1967), 128.
To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.
In Otto Neurath, Empiricism and Sociology (1973), 220. | mass, the positive electron—now usually called a proton—being 1850 times heavier than the negative, now usually called simply the electron.
Time, Matter and Values (1932), 46. Cited in Karl Raimund Popper and William Warren Bartley (ed.), Quantum Theory and theSchism in Physics (1992), 37.
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.
As quoted in Christian Science Monitor (7 May 1952).
Mathematics is often considered a difficult and mysterious science, because of the numerous symbols which it employs. Of course, nothing is more incomprehensible than a symbolism which we do not understand. … But this is not because they are difficult in themselves. On the contrary they have invariably been introduced to make things easy. … [T]he symbolism is invariably an immense simplification. It … represents an analysis of the ideas of the subject and an almost pictorial representation of their relations to each other.
In Introduction to Mathematics (1911), 59-60.
Science means simplification. It substitutes a single rule for a million miscellaneous observations.
In Chats on Science (1924), 4.
The central dogma, enunciated by Crick in 1958 and the keystone of molecular biology ever since, is likely to prove a considerable over-simplification. That is the heretical but inescapable conclusion stemming from experiments done in the past few months in two laboratories in the United States.
'News and Views', Nature, 1970, 226, 1198.
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification—the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.
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Class of 2010 Ring Melt
The 9th Annual Ring Melt took place on Monday, 9 March, at the Pease and Curren Refinery in Warwick, Rhode Island. This event is part of the program designed to enable USMA graduates and their families to donate their or their loved ones' Class Rings for inclusion in the gold of the Class Rings of today's cadets.
This program is called the Class Ring Memorial Program and was the idea of LTC Ron Turner '58. The Bicentennial Class of 2002 was the first Class to benefit from this idea, with the Class of 201<|fim_middle|>20 | 2021 | 0 being the latest. This year's Ring Melt participants were CDT Arron Conley '10, Class President; CDT Matt Archuleta '10, Class Vice President; CDT Brandon Mulrine '10, Chair of the Ring & Crest Committee; CDT Mark Armstrong '10, grandson of LTC Armstrong '46 and son of COL Armstrong '81; LTC Tracy Bannister, Class Advisor; CPT Katrina Lewison, Class OIC; COL (Ret) Robert McClure '76, WPAOG President and CEO; Mr. Joel Jebb '82, Director of Class Support; and many family members and friends of the 23 Graduates whose Rings were donated to this year's Melt. (Photo: Arron Conley (President), Mark Armstrong (grandson of LTC Armstrong '46 and son of COL Armstrong '81), Matt Archuleta (Vice-President), and Brandon Mulrine (Chair, Ring & Crest Committee) -- Four happy cadets hold the gold ingot comprised of the gold from all 23 donated Rings.)
The Ring Melt ceremony began with an introduction by Keith Edwards '85. Mr. Edwards is a former employee of Pease and Curren who now lives in Albuquerque but who makes significant contributions to each year's Melt and returns to this ceremony every year. Mr. Edwards was followed by Mr. Jebb, who spoke to the group for a few minutes to explain the background of this program and note several interesting aspects of this year's Melt. COL Robert McClure then addressed the audience, focusing his remarks on the way this program makes it possible for past, present, and future Graduates to "Grip Hands." CDT's Conley, Archuleta, Mulrine, and Armstrong then took turns reading aloud the biographies of each Ring owner as a representative—a family member, Classmate, or Graduate from the local area—placed that owner's Ring into a crucible.
View the slide show at this link
Class of 2010 Ring Memorial Donor Listing
1904 BG George R. Allin
1922 2LT William A. Burns, Jr.
1923 CPT John A. Austin
1924 COL Samuel H. Fisher
1930 COL Oscar B. Beasley
1931 COL Paul Burns
1933 LTG Richard M. Montgomery
1940 COL Samuel M. Patten
1941 COL Walter Mather
1945 Class of 1945
1946 LTC John Armstrong
1946 COL Willis D. Cronkhite
1947 COL Wallace F. Veaudry
1948 COL Glenn C. Wilhide, Jr.
1949 Mr. Donald McLean
1951 LTC Don C. Anker
1952 MG Graham Rider
1958 Donald J. McCullough
1959 Gerald W. Noga, M.D.
1970 COL James McHone
1971 LTC Dan Howard
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Margin Call
Be First. Be Smarter. Or Cheat.
In "Margin Call," the executives working late at an imperilled investment firm in Manhattan stand in an office tower and stare at the lights and the streets below, wondering if the great city isn't a dream. The movie is a fictionalized account of a disastrous twenty-four hours in 2008, when "financial instruments" that had seemed solid dissolved into air. The rush of panic is halted, now and then, by moments of disbelief. Earlier in the movie, two of the company's young analysts, sitting in the back of a Lincoln Town Car, look out at the people walking by and marvel at how little they comprehend of what is about to hit them. As visual and verbal rhetoric, the awe-inspiring appearance of Manhattan at night and the moods of choking anxiety aren't terribly fresh, but the writing and the acting in "Margin Call" are so good that we get completely caught up. When the investment guys ask if we're aware of what's happening, we look at them and ask the same thing. What were people like this thinking? How could men and women paid fortunes for their judgment have continued, as late as 2008, to package<|fim_middle|>'s prickly script attracted a talented cast. At the company, Sullivan's findings quickly work their way upward: first, to his immediate superior, Will Emerson (Paul Bettany), a cocky, cynical, free-spending pit boss with a streak of decency; then to the longtime head of trading, Sam Rogers (Kevin Spacey), a lonely man who believes that the company does some good in the world and finds himself grieving excessively over his dog, who is dying of cancer (a decent enough symbol); then to the head of risk, Sarah Robertson (Demi Moore), who warned of danger but still has to take the fall; then to their boss, Jared Cohen (Simon Baker), a severely controlled corporate snake; and then, at last, to the C.E.O., John Tuld (Jeremy Irons). Tuld sweeps in by helicopter, assembles everyone in a conference room at 2 A.M., and, with debonair flourishes, devises a desperate strategy: dump the "greatest pile of odiferous excrement in the history of capitalism" the next day; sell all of it, at discounted rates, in a few hours, before word gets around to buyers that the paper is nearly worthless. There are a few such group meetings in "Margin Call," but most of the scenes play out with just two or three characters bullying or appeasing one another. (Is this guy my ally? Will I survive this mess?) Chandor has worked out what all these people think of one another while keeping the drama steadily moving forward—no easy job—and if there's a false note or an overwrought scene in "Margin Call" I couldn't find it. Chandor has just enough camera technique to do what he needs to do. In this largely indoor movie, the city looming outside is a palpable presence; the camera, quiet and relentless in moments of confrontation, tracks silently at night through the empty trading floor, a ghost invading a once healthy company. The second half of the movie is devoted principally to the conflict between Tuld (his name a not too subtle play on that of Dick Fuld, the former head of Lehman), who thinks that investment is merely the greatest of games, and always subject to bubbles and crashes; and Sam Rogers, who hesitates to carry out Tuld's strategy, on the plausible ground that if you peddle junk to your customers they will never buy anything from you again. Kill trust, and you kill the market, he says. But Tuld waves away his worries. The game will go on, he believes; the firm will rise again and make money. Irons is stentorian, charming, threatening. Spacey, after a long career of playing acidulous bad guys, gives a performance of surprising gentleness. As Rogers, sleepless, makes a speech to his traders in the morning, prepping them for the unsavory task ahead, Spacey's body slumps and his facial muscles go slack. Will Rogers walk out on Tuld? In "Margin Call," money insistently pushes its way into personal decisions; the movie is sympathetic to the executives' plight but hard-nosed about their constant desire to elevate pay packages over principle. Courtesy David Denby, The New Yorker Official Trailer
J.C. Chandor
Starring Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Stanley Tucci, and Demi Moore | , repackage, and sell billions of dollars in bonds backed by subprime mortgages? Our sense of the unreality of their enterprise is far greater than their wonder at our innocence. As the movie opens, people at the firm are being summoned to a glass-walled conference room and politely told to clear out. Among the victims is an uncomplaining risk-management executive, Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci), who, leaving with nineteen years of his life in a cardboard box, passes a flash drive to Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto), one of the young analysts. "Be careful," he says. Staying late on the trading floor, and plugging Dale's numbers into standard volatility models, Sullivan quickly understands: if the mortgage-backed securities currently on the company's books, which are heavily leveraged, decline in value by an additional twenty-five per cent, the company's losses will be greater than its total market capitalization. "Margin Call" is one of the strongest American films of the year and easily the best Wall Street movie ever made. It's about corporate manners—the protocols of hierarchy, the rituals of power, and, most of all, the difficulty of confronting flagrant habits of speculation with truth. That moment is avoided until it's absolutely necessary, at which point communication among the responsible parties becomes exceptionally nasty. The young writer-director, J. C. Chandor, has made documentaries and commercials, but he's never had a script produced before, and this is his first feature as a director. Chandor's only obvious qualification is that his father spent forty years at Merrill Lynch, which, like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, destroyed itself with an excess of mortgage-backed securities and finally, in 2008, subsided, at a bargain rate, into the arms of a wealthier firm. Chandor is a beginner, but, to my ears, the terse, generally understated, yet sometimes barbarously rude language feels exactly right. I would guess that he has studied David Mamet's work, digesting the dramatic value of repetition and silence in, say, "Glengarry Glen Ross," along with the play's stunned outrage and the characters' strangely displaced, almost disembodied reactions as some appalling reality swings into view. Chandor | 463 |
CARMEL, Calif. – July 22, 2016 – Automotive Fine Arts Society (AFAS) member Niles Nakaoka will unveil three new paintings that celebrate racing at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance® Aug. 21, 2016, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in Pebble Beach, California. Nakaoka is a self-taught artist and Formula One fan with a specialty in transforming rare snapshots into automotive settings. Sponsored by The Lincoln Motor Company, the 2016 AFAS exhibit at the 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links in beautiful Pebble Beach, California, will showcase the latest creations from the world's finest automotive artists.
One of the pieces Nakaoka will showcase is titled, "Bullpen". An 22" x 28" acrylic on canvas, this painting is set in the fast-paced Toro Rosso garage with renowned driver Max Verstappen. Nakaoka's painting offers a snapshot into this iconic garage/driver duo creating a once-in-a-lifetime feeling. Incorporating a realistic viewpoint with soft blurred<|fim_middle|> canvas. This highly detailed painting portrays Felipe Massa, one of the veteran drivers in a Williams. Featuring the timeless Martini Rossi graphics, this crystal-clear shot of the vehicle contrasted with the blur of the road creates a live-motion feel to the painting.
It was around the time of the US Grand Prix in Phoenix in the late 1980s that Nakaoka became an automotive artist, after being inspired by the work of Hector Bergandi. He prefers Formula One cars because their open wheels impart a feeling of speed. He paints the driver–his favorite part–last of all.
Ironically, this Hawaiian Islands resident is thousands of miles from any race tracks. He tries to attend at least one major open-wheel race a year, but relies mostly on friends to supply him with photographs for subject matter. A surfer and snow skier, he sees parallels between his two favorite activities and racing cars.
Nakaoka's artwork has been featured in car enthusiast magazines like Road & Track, Racer, Championship Racing, Cavallino, the Russian magazine, "Autopilot," as well as the cover of Sports Car Market. | edges, the painting portrays an intimate view of the racers in action.
Another of Nakaoka's paintings to be on display at Pebble Beach titled "Vettel" showcases an uncommon yet artistic aerial viewpoint of Sebastian Vettel in the beautiful SF16-H Ferrari. Using bold colors and dynamic imagery, this 24" x 36" acrylic on canvas employs a unique birds-eye perspective.
Nakaoka's final work is titled "Massa", an 18" x 24" acrylic on | 106 |
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NIMD and Demo Finland renewed their<|fim_middle|> elections, and beyond. | Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) – a formal agreement outlining the terms and details of their collaboration – with the Union Election Commission (UEC) of Myanmar on 26 September in the national Finnish Parliament in Helsinki.
The occassion signified the continuation of the fruitful partnership which started in 2015, under which NIMD and Demo Finland run the Myanmar School of Politics (MySoP) programme. MySoP works with election commission officials and leading politicians of over 30 political parties in Myanmar's eastern most 5 states and region. By means of training retreats and dialogue programmes, MySoP exchanges the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to be effective politicians, a key ingredient to help Myanmar's nascent multiparty democracy succeed.
With the renewed MoU, NIMD and Demo Finland are looking forward to working with the UEC of Myanmar during the leadup to Myanmar's 2020 national parliamentary | 193 |
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An industry of enormous complexity, it is difficult to fully get to grips with how the travel and tourism sector works without targeted study. For those willing to commit however, it is an industry with simply limitless scope in terms of career development and progression. In fact, statistics show that the UK's travel and tourism sector alone increased hiring in 2015 by almost 5.5% - almost doubling the vast majority of all other key industries.
As mentioned above, the fact that travel and tourism represents such an extraordinarily secure and relevant sector in which to begin a career highlights the benefits of studying the subject. Many of the skills and competencies required to climb the career ladder demand extensive professional experience. Nevertheless, the most outstanding careers in travel and tourism are always built upon a solid educational foundation. OHSC offers some free online travel and tourism courses as well.
Not only is the travel and tourism sector one of the world's largest and most lucrative, but it's also in a continual state of growth. In terms of career opportunities and the possibility of advancement, there a few contemporary industries that come close.
Specific roles within the travel and tourism sector are spectacularly diverse and call for an endless range of talents and specialisms. From sales representatives to tour operators to hoteliers and so on, it's a fantastic industry to put your skills and experience to valuable use.
As already touched upon, the fact that the sector is so incredibly robust and resilient means that a career in travel and tourism can often be a career for life. Not only this, but the possibility of enjoying an extremely lucrative working life is also very realistic.
Unsurprisingly, working in travel and tourism often means having the opportunity to travel on a regular basis, both for professional purposes and recreationally. Free travel and heavy discounts more often than not accompany generous reward packages.
In addition, there's also much to be said for the satisfaction that comes with spending your working life assisting others with their important travel plans. Everything you do is geared toward the satisfaction and delight of your clients and customers.
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It is obvious to anyone who has been there or seen it shining in the distance, that the summit of Mauna Kea is a sacred place. Native Hawaiians are not unique in this reverence: Virtually all the great religions venerate high places. The book of Exodus says God talked to Moses and gave him the 10 Commandments on Mount Sinai; both Buddhists and Taoists revere the Sacred Mountains of China; Mount Fuji is venerated in Japan and even non- Christians frequently quote from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.
Mountains and mountaintops separate us from the mundane reality of everyday life and help us see farther, both literally and spiritually. Mountains are both destinations and way stations in our spiritual journeys as we seek our deeper purpose as humans and our connection with all of creation.
Many<|fim_middle|>, if you have lived here for almost all your adult life.
Keep in mind that TMT has already gone through an arduous seven-year political, regulatory and legal process that confirmed the majority of Hawaii's people want it on the summit of Mauna Kea. We don't need to redo that process; we just need the people who support that decision to make it clear they have not changed their minds.
There are also lessons to learn. We need to do a better job of respecting and protecting the environmental and traditional sacredness of Mauna Kea. That has been done poorly in the past, though things are getting better. It is good news that the operators of each telescope have a strategy for shutting down and restoring their site when their telescope is no longer useful. Such reverence for the site, combined with the continued presence of productive telescopes exploring the universe, are the best ways of embracing both types of sacredness on the summit of Mauna Kea. There is room for both. There is need for both. | of the characteristics that make Mauna Kea's summit such a spiritual place – distance from built-up areas, dark skies, clean air, low humidity and clear views of both the planet's northern and southern skies – also make it the best place in the world to view the universe. So good that there are 13 telescopes already on the summit and another planned, the Thirty Meter Telescope, which will be the most powerful telescope on Earth.
Do we protect this sacred place or allow the TMT to be built and maintain the existing telescopes? I suggest the best answer is a sacred and scientific middle ground.
There is no question that the telescopes have changed the summit; any time humans set foot there, whether they are cultural practitioners or scientists, they affect the mountain. But if we can think beyond traditional concepts of sacredness, it is clear that the telescopes, if respectfully used and maintained, can enhance the sacredness of the summit.
First, because this is a business magazine, let's cite the worldly reasons the telescopes should be there. Half of the 626 employees working for the existing 13 telescopes were hired locally, and all of them have well-paid jobs that are sadly lacking on Hawaii Island. (Most work in Waimea and other places on the island, not on the summit.) Some $300 to $400 million of the TMT's $1.4 billion construction cost will be spent in Hawaii. And, after it is built, TMT, like the existing telescopes, will be big buyers of local products and services. The summit of Mauna Kea is a huge economic engine for Hawaii's poorest major island.
But more important than economics is that the human race learns far more about the universe from the summit of Mauna Kea than any other place on the planet. These telescopes investigate the origins and workings of the universe, they help answer grand questions of matter, energy and time, they look for signs of life in the universe, among many other grand pursuits. These may be the greatest spiritual journeys of our time and these telescopes are our canoes. Yes, manmade tools such as observatories can have a sacred purpose, even if they are built of concrete, steel and glass. After all, ancient Hawaiians built heiau in sacred places. Consider these observatories modern cathedrals of knowledge.
I recognize the sacredness of Mauna Kea's summit. So, I think, do many of the scientists and engineers who work there, as well as the many Hawaii residents who are proud our state helps lead humanity's exploration of the universe. I think that ancient Hawaiian voyagers would be proud, too, as would Hawaiian leaders such as King Kalakaua, who embraced modernity in many forms, including instrument-based astronomy and electricity.
Of course, it is not up to me, but to individual Native Hawaiians themselves to decide what they think of the telescopes. However, Hawaiians are not the only ones who should decide the future of Mauna Kea. Everyone who lives on Hawaii Island – and, to a lesser extent, everyone who lives in this state – should have a say in this decision, whether some or all of their ancestors immigrated here 1,400 years ago or 100 years ago or, as in my case | 685 |
Families are often associated with the "yearly family photo," but yearly photos are something everyone should partake in. It doesn't matter if you're single or married with a family; you should get your photo taken every year.
Every now and then, there are stories about people who took a photo of themselves for years. One of those stories was about Noah Kalina. For 12-and-a-half years, Kalina took a picture of himself every day, and in 2012, he posted a compilation of those photos as a YouTube video.
The video is striking and, a bit, eerie—due in part to the soundtrack that accompanies the video. It lets you view how this man, Kalina, lived his life for 12 years. You see how his appearance changes, and you view some of the different life stages he passes through as the background changes and he ages.
In another similar case<|fim_middle|>ce about the changes you've experienced. You and your family will experience many positive changes, and it'll be nice to look back and remember those times. | , Zed Nelson, a photographer, documents the life of a family in his project, The Family. Nelson photographs a family on the same day for 24 years. It's a lovely project that shows the way members of a family change over time.
Both projects act as a record of the lives of the people photographed, and they carry flavors of the yearly school pictures you took in school as a kid. At the moment, school pictures seem bothersome and annoying, but looking back at the school photos, it's hard not to smile. Yearly photos—whether school-themed or not—are a fun and easy way to document the changes you go through as time passes.
Yearly photos have the obvious benefit of acting as a way to record memories, but there's more. Have you ever looked at photos and felt nostalgic? According to John Tierney, a columnist at The New York Times, feelings of nostalgia have psychological benefits.
"Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, boredom and anxiety. It makes people more generous to strangers and more tolerant of outsiders. Couples feel closer and look happier when they're sharing nostalgic memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nostalgia to literally feel warmer," writes Tierney.
What about that bittersweet feeling you get when you hear an old song on the radio, and it reminds you of the good times you've had in the past? That feeling is also nostalgia, and you can get it by reminiscing over yearly photos of you and your pals. You could make it a tradition, like the five guys who took the same photo every year, for 30 years.
Taking your picture every year is the kind of thing that doesn't seem useful until 20 or 50 years have passed. You'll thank yourself for getting those pictures taken when years down the line you have plenty of photos to get nostalgic over. You'll also get to see how you and your family have changed.
It's not easy to see the use of this until years have passed. 20 or 50 years from now it will be nice to be able to look back at your life and reminis | 438 |
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Fire-tube boiler
Sectioned fire-tube boiler from a DRB Class 50 locomotive. Hot flue gases created in the firebox (on the left) pass through the tubes in the centre cylindrical section, which is filled with water, to the smokebox and out of the chimney (far right).
A fire-tube boiler is a type of boiler in which hot gases from a fire pass through one or more tubes running through a sealed container of water. The heat of the gases is transferred through the walls of the tubes by thermal conduction, heating the water and ultimately creating steam.
The fire-tube boiler developed as the third of the four major historical types of boilers: low-pressure tank or "haystack" boilers, flued boilers with one or two large flues, fire-tube boilers with many small tubes, and high-pressure water-tube boilers. Their advantage over flued boilers with a single large flue is<|fim_middle|> Tubular boiler (HRT) has a horizontal cylindrical shell, containing several horizontal flue tubes, with the fire located directly below the boiler's shell, usually within a brickwork setting
Admiralty-type direct tube boiler Edit
Extensively used by Britain, before and in the early days of ironclads, the only protected place was below the waterline, sometimes under an armoured deck, so to fit below short decks, the tubes were not led back above the furnace but continued straight from it with keeping the combustion chamber in between the two. Hence the name, and considerably reduced diameter, compared to the ubiquituous Scotch or return tube boiler. It was not a great success and its use was being abandoned after the introduction of stronger side armouring – "the furnace crowns, being very near the water-level, are much more liable to over-heating. Further, on account of the length of the boiler, for an equal angle of inclination, the effect on the water-level is much greater. Finally, the unequal expansion of the various parts of the boiler is more pronounced, especially at the top and bottom, due to the increased ratio between the length and the diameter of the boiler; the local strains are also more severe on account of the comparatively feeble circulation in long and low boilers." All these also resulted in a shorter life. Also, the same length of a combustion chamber was much less effective on a direct tube than on a return tube boiler, at least without baffling.[4]
Immersion Fired Boiler Edit
The Immersion Fired boiler is a single pass fire-tube boiler that was developed by Sellers Engineering in the 1940s. It has only firetubes, functioning as a furnace and combustion chamber also, with multiple burner nozzles injecting premixed air and natural gas under pressure. It claims reduced thermal stresses, and lacks refractory brickwork completely due to its construction.[5]
Variations Edit
Water tubes Edit
Fire-tube boilers sometimes have water-tubes as well, to increase the heating surface. A Cornish boiler may have several water-tubes across the diameter of the flue (this is common in steam launches). A locomotive boiler with a wide firebox may have arch tubes or thermic syphons. These increase the heating surface and give additional support to the brick arch.
Another technique for increasing the heating surface is to include internal rifling inside the boiler tubes (also known as Serve tubes).
Not all shell boilers raise steam; some are designed specifically for heating pressurised water.
Reverse flame Edit
In homage to the Lancashire design, modern shell boilers can come with a twin furnace design. A more recent development has been the reverse flame design where the burner fires into a blind furnace and the combustion gasses double back on themselves. This results in a more compact design and less pipework.
Package boiler Edit
The term "package" boiler evolved in the early- to mid-20th century from the practice of delivering boiler units to site already fitted with insulation, electrical panels, valves and gauges. This was in contrast to earlier practice where little more than the pressure vessel was delivered and the ancillary components were fitted on-site.
Kewanee Gas-Fired Packaged Fire-Tube Boiler from 1974 rated at 25 horsepower
Safety considerations Edit
Because the fire-flume boiler itself is the pressure vessel, it requires a number of safety features to prevent mechanical failure. Boiler explosion, which is a type of BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion), can be devastating.
Safety valves release steam before a dangerous pressure can be built up
Fusible plugs over the firebox melt at a temperature lower than that of the firebox plates, thereby warning the operators by the noisy escape of steam if the water level is too low to cool the firebox crown safely.
Stays, or ties, physically link the firebox and boiler casing, preventing them from warping. Since any corrosion is hidden, the stays may have longitudinal holes, called tell-tales, drilled in them which leak before they become unsafe.
The fire-tube type boiler that was used in the Stanley Steamer automobile had several hundred tubes which were weaker than the outer shell of the boiler, making an explosion virtually impossible as the tubes would fail and leak long before the boiler exploded. In nearly 100 years since the Stanleys were first produced, no Stanley boiler has ever exploded.[citation needed]
Maintenance Edit
An intensive schedule of maintenance is needed to keep a boiler in safe condition. A typical regime will involve regular external inspections (including the inside of the firebox), washouts (with an internal inspection), periodic detailed examination and a general overhaul.
Daily inspection Edit
The tube plates, the fusible plug and the heads of the firebox stays should be checked for leaks. The correct operation of the boiler fittings, especially the water gauges and water feed mechanisms, should be confirmed. Steam pressure should be raised to the level at which the safety valves lift and compared with the indication of the pressure gauge.
Washout Edit
Cutaway of locomotive boiler. Note the narrow water spaces around the firebox and the "mudhole" for access to the crown sheet: these areas require special attention during washout
The working life of a locomotive boiler is considerably extended if it is spared from a constant cycle of cooling and heating. Historically, a locomotive would be kept "in steam" continuously for a period of about eight to ten days, and then allowed to cool sufficiently for a hot-water boiler washout. The schedule for express engines was based on mileage.[6] Today's preserved locomotives are not usually kept continuously in steam and the recommended washout interval is now fifteen to thirty days, but anything up to 180 days is possible.[7]
The process starts with a "blowdown" while some pressure remains in the boiler, then the draining away of all the boiler water through the "mudholes" at the base of the firebox and the removal of all the "washout plugs". Scale is then jetted or scraped from the interior surfaces using a high pressure water jet and rods of soft metal, such as copper. Areas particularly susceptible to scale buildup, such as the firebox crown and narrow water spaces around the firebox, are given special attention. The inside of the boiler is inspected by sighting through the plug holes, with a particular check paid to the integrity of the firetubes, firebox crown and stays and absence of pitting or cracking of the boiler plates. The gauge glass cocks and tubes and fusible plug should be cleared of scale; if the core of the fusible plug shows signs of calcination the item should be replaced.
On reassembly care should be taken that the threaded plugs are replaced in their original holes: the tapers can vary as a result of rethreading. The mudhole door gaskets, if of asbestos, should be renewed but those made of lead may be reused; special instructions are in force for the disposal of these harmful materials.[7] At large maintenance facilities the boiler would have been both washed and refilled with very hot water from an external supply to bring the locomotive back to service more quickly.
Periodic examination Edit
Typically an annual inspection, this would require the removal and check of external fittings, such as the injectors, safety valves and pressure gauge. High-pressure copper pipework can suffer from work hardening in use and become dangerously brittle: it may be necessary to treat these by annealing before refitting. A hydraulic pressure test on the boiler and pipework may also be called for.
General overhaul Edit
In the UK the specified maximum interval between full overhauls is ten years. To enable a full inspection the boiler is lifted from the locomotive frame and the lagging removed. All firetubes are removed for checking or replacement. All fittings are removed for overhaul. Before returning to use a qualified examiner will check the boiler's fitness for service and issue a safety certificate valid for ten years.[7]
↑ "Lancashire Boiler" (pdf). Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester.
↑ K. N. Harris (1974). Model Boilers and Boilermaking. MAP. ISBN 0-85242-377-2.
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↑ Louis-Émile Bertin: Marine boilers—their construction and working, dealing more especially with tubulous boilers - Ed. 2 (1906), tr. and ed. by Leslie S. Robertson. Freely available on the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/marineboilersthe00bertuoft. pages 233, 235 and others
↑ http://www.gbt-inc.com/sps-single-pass-steam-boilers.html
↑ Bell, A M (1957): Locomotives, seventh edition, Virtue and Company, London.
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Unknown authors (2005):The management of steam locomotive boilers. Health and Safety Executive, Sudbury, Suffolk, England.
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Retrieved from "https://tractors.fandom.com/wiki/Fire-tube_boiler?oldid=171777" | that the many small tubes offer far greater heating surface area for the same overall boiler volume. The general construction is as a tank of water penetrated by tubes that carry the hot flue gases from the fire. The tank is usually cylindrical for the most part—being the strongest practical shape for a pressurized container—and this cylindrical tank may be either horizontal or vertical.
This type of boiler was used on virtually all steam locomotives in the horizontal "locomotive" form. This has a cylindrical barrel containing the fire tubes, but also has an extension at one end to house the "firebox". This firebox has an open base to provide a large grate area and often extends beyond the cylindrical barrel to form a rectangular or tapered enclosure. The horizontal fire-tube boiler is also typical of marine applications, using the Scotch boiler. Vertical boilers have also been built of the multiple fire-tube type, although these are comparatively rare: most vertical boilers were either flued, or with cross water-tubes.
Operation Edit
Schematic diagram of a "locomotive" type fire-tube boiler
In the locomotive-type boiler, fuel is burnt in a firebox to produce hot combustion gases. The firebox is surrounded by a cooling jacket of water connected to the long, cylindrical boiler shell. The hot gases are directed along a series of fire tubes, or flues, that penetrate the boiler and heat the water thereby generating saturated ("wet") steam. The steam rises to the highest point of the boiler, the steam dome, where it is collected. The dome is the site of the regulator that controls the exit of steam from the boiler.
In the locomotive boiler, the saturated steam is very often passed into a superheater, back through the larger flues at the top of the boiler, to dry the steam and heat it to superheated steam. The superheated steam is directed to the steam engine's cylinders or very rarely to a turbine to produce mechanical work. Exhaust gases are fed out through a chimney, and may be used to pre-heat the feed water to increase the efficiency of the boiler.
Draught for firetube boilers, particularly in marine applications, is usually provided by a tall smokestack. In all steam locomotives since Stephenson's Rocket, additional draught is supplied by directing exhaust steam from the cylinders into the smokestack through a blastpipe, to provide a partial vacuum. Modern industrial boilers use fans to provide forced or induced draughting of the boiler.
Another major advance in the Rocket was large numbers of small-diameter firetubes (a multi-tubular boiler) instead of a single large flue. This greatly increased the surface area for heat transfer, allowing steam to be produced at a much higher rate. Without this, steam locomotives could never have developed effectively as powerful prime movers.
Types of fire-tube boiler Edit
For more details on the related ancestor type, see Flued boilers.
Cornish boiler Edit
For more details on this topic, see Cornish boiler.
The earliest form of fire-tube boiler was Richard Trevithick's "high-pressure" Cornish boiler. This is a long horizontal cylinder with a single large flue containing the fire. The fire itself was on an iron grating placed across this flue, with a shallow ashpan beneath to collect the non-combustible residue. Although considered as low-pressure (perhaps 25 psi) today, the use of a cylindrical boiler shell permitted a higher pressure than the earlier "haystack" boilers of Newcomen's day. As the furnace relied on natural draught (air flow), a tall chimney was required at the far end of the flue to encourage a good supply of air (oxygen) to the fire.
For efficiency, the boiler was commonly encased beneath by a brick-built chamber. Flue gases were routed through this, outside the iron boiler shell, after passing through the fire-tube and so to a chimney that was now placed at the front face of the boiler.
Lancashire boiler in Germany
Lancashire boiler Edit
For more details on this topic, see Lancashire boiler.
The Lancashire boiler is similar to the Cornish, but has two large flues containing the fires. It was the invention of William Fairbairn in 1844, from a theoretical consideration of the thermodynamics of more efficient boilers that led him to increase the furnace grate area relative to the volume of water.
Later developments added Galloway tubes (after their inventor, patented in 1848),[1] crosswise water tubes across the flue, thus increasing the heated surface area. As these are short tubes of large diameter and the boiler continues to use a relatively low pressure, this is still not considered to be a water-tube boiler. The tubes are tapered, simply to make their installation through the flue easier.[2]
Side-section of a Scotch marine boiler: the arrows show direction of flue gas flow; the combustion chamber is on the right, the smokebox on the left.
Scotch marine boiler Edit
For more details on this topic, see Scotch marine boiler.
The Scotch marine boiler differs dramatically from its predecessors in using a large number of small-diameter tubes. This gives a far greater heating surface area for the volume and weight. The furnace remains a single large-diameter tube with the many small tubes arranged above it. They are connected together through a combustion chamber – an enclosed volume contained entirely within the boiler shell – so that the flow of flue gas through the firetubes is from back to front. An enclosed smokebox covering the front of these tubes leads upwards to the chimney or funnel. Typical Scotch boilers had a pair of furnaces, larger ones had three. Above this size, such as for large steam ships, it was more usual to install multiple boilers.[3]
Locomotive boiler Edit
A locomotive boiler has three main components: a double-walled firebox; a horizontal, cylindrical "boiler barrel" containing a large number of small flue-tubes; and a smokebox with chimney, for the exhaust gases. The boiler barrel contains larger flue-tubes to carry the superheater elements, where present. Forced draught is provided in the locomotive boiler by injecting exhausted steam back into the exhaust via a blast pipe in the smokebox.
Locomotive-type boilers are also used in traction engines, steam rollers, portable engines and some other steam road vehicles. The inherent strength of the boiler means it is used as the basis for the vehicle: all the other components, including the wheels, are mounted on brackets attached to the boiler. It is rare to find superheaters designed into this type of boiler, and they are generally much smaller (and simpler) than railway locomotive types.
The locomotive-type boiler is also a characteristic of the overtype steam wagon, the steam-powered fore-runner of the truck. In this case, however, heavy girder frames make up the load-bearing chassis of the vehicle, and the boiler is attached to this.
Taper boiler
Certain railway locomotive boilers are tapered from a larger diameter at the firebox end to a smaller diameter at the smokebox end. This reduces weight and improves water circulation. Many later Great Western Railway and London, Midland and Scottish Railway locomotives were designed or modified to take taper boilers.
Vertical Fire-Tube boiler Edit
Main article: Vertical boiler
A vertical fire-tube boiler (VFT), colloquially known as the "vertical boiler", has a vertical cylindrical shell, containing several vertical flue tubes.
Horizontal Return Tubular boiler Edit
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What to do you get when you invest 15 years, around 15,000 hours, and a whole lot of intellectual property assets in the development of a one of a kind optimization software to solve a multitude of problems?
Well if you're smart, like nQube Data Science's founder and CEO Jason Fiege and COO Anastasia Baran, you might get a once in a lifetime chance to pitch your idea at one of the most prestigious gaming summits in North America—in this case GiGse 2017, the Global iGaming Summit & Expo, April 26 to <|fim_middle|> from one strategic partnership, Casino Science out of Seattle, WA, who has helped line up their first pilot in a casino this May.
They estimate the potential market for the casino optimization product to be in the area of $211 million/year.
nQube has relied on founder investment so far but will be looking for additional investment and strategic partnerships to take it to market on a global scale.
Baran said that the intelligence isn't limited to casinos but that's an opportunity she identified while reading a thesis that had been written by another researcher about optimizing casino floors. "Jason doesn't understand gambling or Las Vegas, but I convinced him to look at it and he also saw that it used a really simple method that produced some great results." The two reproduced the thesis in an evening and came up with the more complex and realistic nQube solution, using the data modeling optimization Fiege had been working on for years.
The software draws from a model of behaviour of the people on the floor. "It's about giving them what they want and optimizing the experience by analyzing their behaviour," Baran said. This analysis will guide casino management on where to place slot machines for different kinds of gamblers—i.e. those who want to be next to a table and all the action as well as those "wallflowers" who want to be alone and away from the noise and activity of the casino.
"We're taking very large data sets and looking at what's contributing to performance for individual machines," said Fiege. The "spatial" aspect of the model is a departure from work others have done, which was more focused on what kind of machines were needed to maximize revenues, to a solution that looks at where to put individual machines on the floor to achieve a better result.
Fiege, a scientific computing, data modeling, and optimization expert with over 20 years experience emphasizes that the software is designed to solve big problems. He sees many expanded opportunities for the software going forward and has many irons in the fire for other ways it can be used in science, engineering or medicine.
The software is also licensed for many research projects at the University of Manitoba, where Fiege is an associate professor of astrophysics and Baran is a post-doc.
Baran is no stranger to entrepreneurship—but it wasn't always that way. Her other company, Genuwave Imaging Technologies, won Best Research and Best New Product pitch at Innovate Manitoba's Pitch'Day 2016 for Embrace, an inexpensive, portable knee joint imaging device for sideline assessment of injured athletes. | 28, in San Diego, CA.
Fiege will take the stage at the event's Startup Launchpad competition to pitch nQube's artificial intelligence-based software that tracks casino customer behaviour to optimize casino floor layout and maximize gaming revenue. It is the only Canadian company amongst the five finalists for the pitch competition.
The April event is expected to draw some of the top gaming brands as well as potential investors and strategic partners to share ideas about industry challenges and opportunities. It invites 'unconventional thinking' to explore the technology, innovations and potential regulatory hurdles facing all gaming brands operating in North America.
While there is no cash prize, the magnitude of the event promises to put nQube in front of legitimate buyers, serious investors and strategic partners.
The company already benefits | 155 |
Parkgate promenade in Cheshire has finally got its landmark property back after years of scaffolding covering up the distinctive black and white frontage of Mostyn House School.
Thanks to painstaking repair work and outrageously clever construction, the scaffolding has disappeared and it is once again the pride of Parkgate.
Manchester based Conservation developer The Pj Livesey group bought the Grade 2 listed site from the Grenfell family in 2013 and since then have been working hard to re-establish and<|fim_middle|>eshire.
Most of phase one was sold off-plan due to high demand and now properties in phase two are ready to preview which range from bright and spacious garden apartments to luxury duplex apartments with vast terraces and penthouse with a viewing gallery located within the original tower.
Historic features and premium specification combine to build a sense of luxury and exclusivity that sets these very special homes apart from the ordinary.
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An all-expense paid trip to an exclusive Caribbean island sounds like a dream come true. But instead of soaking up the sun and sipping tropical drinks, a Newport, R.I.-based volunteer group was there for a different reason.
Cats. A burgeoning population of feral cats is a big problem on Mustique, a hideaway for the rich and famous. So the volunteers spent hours baiting traps, performing surgery and releasing the wild cats back onto the 1,400-acre island.
"They don't have an animal-control officer and a shelter and all the things that we take for granted here," said Liz Skrobisch, a spokeswoman for the group.
The five who went in June are all member of PawsWatch - an organization aimed at humanely decreasing the feral cat population through a process called TNR, "trap-neuter-release." The cats are lured into traps, then taken to a veterinary clinic and spayed or neutered by a volunteer veterinarian and then released back into the wild. For these purposes, a dentist's office was transformed into a makeshift veterinary clinic.
The idea behind it is decreasing the population through attrition, but not to eliminate them. "The cats are part of the ecological balance on that island," Skrobisch said. "They are helping with rodent control. They actually do have a function there, there's just too many of them."
Both Skrobisch and Pat Munafo, another volunteer, said they could not guess at how many cats there were on the island.
"All we can say is that the population and the people who live there they are not noticing as many (cats), they're not noticing as many litters and they're happy," Munafo said.
The other volunteers on the Mustique Cat Project were Pat's husband, Dom Munafo, a retired veterinarian, and Kim Province and Rebecca Bray.
But PawsWatch was not the source of funding for their journey, housing or equipment. All of that was paid for by the Mustique Co. - a management company that owns the private island.
The key to this project, Skrobisch said, is the humanity behind it. "Alternative solutions, which have been suggested elsewhere<|fim_middle|> program is working," she said.
After the surgery is completed by a veterinarian, the male cats stay overnight for recovery and monitoring, and the female cats are released within two nights. Skrobisch said the group carefully catalogues where each cat was trapped to ensure its proper return.
Before the group came along, there were only a few cats being fixed and released, Skrobisch said.
"We're the first time they've brought in an outside group," she said. "Nobody really wants to see the cats killed, some people just don't want the cats around their homes."
The Munafos have a friend in Jamestown who frequents the island of Mustique, and alerted the couple to the feral cat problem. Previously, the Munafos have helped with TNR projects in the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands.
"You go in and you are the vet and you bring everything with you - the medicine, the equipment, the techs and everything," Pat Munafo said.
Skrobisch said the reception from the islanders was "tremendous. It was fabulous." Animal lovers on the island donated their homes and their staff to provide for the workers' needs. The group had access everywhere on the island, and Skrobisch said they encountered many people with questions about the process, and some of them led the group directly to cat colonies.
"They are all aware of the cat population issue, and they were eager to see us succeed," she said.
Skrobisch said she spoke to a local elementary school teacher about instilling an educational program about humane treatment of animals, including the TNR process for feral cats.
"They loved the idea of it and they very much want to include it in their curriculum," Skrobisch said.
Skrobisch said a typical day for the group would begin around 5 a.m. preparing traps for the day, and wouldn't end until midnight. The group would check the traps by the hour so any trapped animals wouldn't die from the excessive heat.
"It's go, go, go and hopefully we can make some headway from the night before," Munafo said. "We would average probably maybe 20 to 22 cats on a day."
"It started off as an opportunity for adventure and a great learning experience," Skrobisch said. "Having started it, we're committed to seeing it through, which means continuing to go as long as they'll let us. | ... would be to either shoot all the cats or to drown them. Our suggestion very simply is that that's inhumane."
The volunteers' previous trip to the island was in October. Skrobisch said she plans on making a trip twice a year for as long as the island can pay the fees. Their next trip is tentatively planned for next month.
Though on the two visits they have fixed about 230 cats in total, Skrobisch said the group still has a lot of work to do. But, on a note of optimism, she noticed during the last visit a few of the cats that were trapped this time were ear-tipped - an identifying procedure for previously fixed feral cats.
"It was a bit frustrating, but it let us know that the | 157 |
UF, NC State researchers using tomato genome to tackle nematodes
Parasitic nematodes are responsible for about $125 billion in annual crop loss worldwide, and they can cause farmers to lose<|fim_middle|> heads top entomology group
Two new agronomists added by Vive Crop Protection to US team
Washington state respirator Fit Test Trainer Course scheduled for Feb. 18 | up to 80% of their tomato yield.
"The situation with nematodes is exacerbated by an emerging concern in agriculture: the effect of warming nighttime temperatures. This unprecedented trend is causing critical challenges to crops," University of Florida scientist Peter DiGennaro said in a news release.
These tomato roots show damage caused by nematodes.
DiGennaro has been awarded $2.3 million to get to the root of the problem. He and two colleagues from North Carolina State University have been awarded $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation and $500,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct the research.
Dahlia Nielsen, associate professor of biological sciences, and Colleen Doherty, associate professor of molecular and structural biochemistry, from North Carolina State, are also conducting the study.
With the grants, researchers will study how the genome – all of the genetic material – in tomato plants alters the behavior of the plant and pathogens during those increasingly warm evenings.
Over the years, plants have adapted well to a consistent global temperature difference between day and night. In the past few decades, however, this difference has begun to shrink.
Richard DiGennaro, UF/IFAS
"Increasing nighttime temperatures, even as little as 4° Fahrenheit, have been connected to reduced yield, biomass and grain quality as well as disease severity," said DiGennaro, a UF/IFAS assistant professor of entomology and nematology.
As it stands, growers are limited how they can control nematodes, DiGennaro said. They can apply nematicides or pesticides or grow tomatoes that resist underground wormlike creatures.
The research will help develop new ways to grow crops that are more resilient to nematode damage and increasing temperatures.
"We also see broader impacts in the future as an outcome of this research. We can identify types of tomato plants that are more resilient to warmer climates. We also want to elucidate the molecular biology behind the nematodes' response to tomato plants under warmer nighttime temperatures," DiGennaro said in the release.
The new research will reach beyond identifying relevant genes in tomato plants.
"Understanding the nematode and the plant paves the way towards targeting the parasite directly. We are more interested in the plant genes than the nematode genes," DiGennaro said. "We want to know how plants, through their genes, control their responses to nematodes and higher temperatures."
—Brad Buck, University of Florida
Top photo: Researchers are studying how to protect tomatoes from nematodes by learning why the difference in daytime and nighttime temperatures seems to influence their development. PHOTO: University of Florida
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Black History Month: ARS scientist | 598 |
Secret Messages
Released: June 1983
UK Chart Position 4
Rock n Roll Is King - A3500 Black Vinyl 7" & 12"
UK Chart - 13
Secret Messages A 3720
7" & 7" Picture Disc
Four Little Diamonds
A 3869 - 7" & 12" Black Vinyl
Album Track Listing
Loser Gone Wild
Take Me On and On
Time After Time (CD only)
Danger Ahead
Letter from Spain
Train of Gold
Rock 'n' Roll Is King<|fim_middle|> LP release adds six tracks to its running order, all with cutting-edge synthesizers as well as up-front guitar mastery.
Comes with plain white windowed paper inner sleeves, no lyrics.
Secret Messages 19075837691 |
Re-issue CD Bonus tracks (2001 remaster)
Endless Lies
Richard Tandy
Kelly Groucutt
Mik Kaminski
Louis Clark
JET LX527
1st UK Original Issue. On Jet label with yellow / pink light beams. The album was originally planned to be a double album, but was thwarted by Jet's distributor, CBS Records, claiming that producing a double vinyl album would be too expensive.
As a result Jeff Lynne had to reduce it to a single album.
With printed paper inner lyric sleeve.
Jet CD Jet 527
Re-Issue Year
1st UK issue on CD. Secret Messages album was digitally recorded and was to have been ELO's first original issue CD.
The CD contained one extra track "Time After Time" that was not on the Vinyl issue.
EPC 502496 2
Re-Issue - Re-master with 3 extra tracks that were meant to be on the double album issue. Plus expanded fold out poster style booklet with history and information on the album.
The first UK/European/USA CD issues had a pressing error. Rock & Roll Is King has the "thank you for listening " intro but not the "welcome to the show" outro !
This was corrected on later pressings.
Credit Max Cawthray
When viewed and played as a double album, Secret Messages is one of ELO greatest albums. Finally in August 2018 it was released as double LP and MP3/FLAC download, minus one track that may have not made the original planned issue anyway.
Original intended track listing for double album
Beatles Forever
Buildings Have Eyes
Motor Factory/Rock 'n' Roll is King
Hello My Old Friend
Double Vinyl
UK/ Europe double 180gm LP Issue on Epic Legacy label. For the first time ever, ELO's Secret Messages has been released as a double album on August 3rd 2018. Jeff Lynne's eclectic creation of self-written, self-produced songs come to life as originally conceived in 1983. This 2 | 442 |
Has zero harm got you puzzled?
To Zero Harm or not to Zero Harm
Zero harm
Whether you have a zero harm policy or not, this divisive topic may not be the most important thing to focus on when it comes to creating safer outcomes at work. Here's why.
The rise of zero harm policy implementation over the past 20 years has had a polarising effect on workplaces. Often those who don't subscribe to a zero harm policy are treated with contempt, as if a policy alone can ensure the safety of workers everywhere.
For those living in Victoria, Australia, the Transport Accident Commission (TAC) has a Towards Zero vision, acknowledging that it's unlikely if not impossible to aim for zero fatalities and injuries when it comes to human behaviour on our roads, but we should at least try.
We think the same can be said of workplaces. While it's a commendable goal – to achieve zero incidents at work – there are other more beneficial things we can invest our resources towards to minimise potential harm and risk to people.
Since zero harm policies first appeared in the 1990s, we've seen organisations invest time and money into branding zero harm safety programs for the workplace, keeping in step with the echo chamber of other like-minded companies in their industry, when these resources might have been directed elsewhere.
Yet zero isn't a rational goal. As soon as people turn up to work, there's always a chance someone might trip over the front door. No matter how hard you work and how "good" you are at safety, every organisation, at some point, will have an accident. As Drew Rae says, believing in Zero Harm just show people that you don't understand maths.
While having a zero harm policy is not in and of itself<|fim_middle|> that discouraging the reporting of bad news is a bad thing in the workplace, that we need to be careful when we're running safety campaigns because they can accidentally seem a bit silly and cause disengagement.
If you're in an organisation that hasn't adopted zero harm, it's probably best to take a different path with your safety aspiration and messaging – focus on what that you want to create rather than what you want to avoid.
I bet you never hear of an organisation setting their business strategy and target as "don't go broke". Instead their business strategy is full of all the positive goals that they're going to achieve instead. | a bad thing, we are wary of the baggage that comes with implementing an industry-focused policy, particularly around branding, at the cost of creating more targeted, positive and action orientated messaging for safety within organisations.
There are wildly different schools of thought on this topic, which emerged in the 1990s when organisations like DuPont began to assert that all accidents are preventable. Since then a growing rift has emerged between two very different camps of safety thinking.
Here though, I'd like to present some of the arguments for and against the idea of a zero harm policy – acknowledging from the start that both parties care about the safety of their workers. This, at least, is a given and some clear common ground from which to start the debate.
Is adopting a Zero Harm policy a good idea?
At Forge Works, we've worked in organisations that both have and have not implemented a Zero Harm policy. We're as aware of those who are anti-zero harm policies and the philosophies driving their arguments, as those who support the approach.
There are positives and negatives to both sides of the argument.
Throughout the 1980's safety science researchers (e.g. Sagan, Perrow, Rasmussen) were suggesting that accidents were normal outcomes of work, with the potential to increase in frequency due to the increasing complexity of our social and technological systems.
The idea of "zero harm" came from the industrial backlash to this idea in the 1990's and proclaims that every individual accident is both unacceptable and indeed preventable. That we shouldn't accept injuries and fatalities as part of work, that it's unethical. If we accept them, we're not doing our best.
Whereas, zero harm opponents believe work is risky and people are imperfect, so it's best to focus on improving safety to improve the potential for successful outcomes over time, as eradicating danger is impossible and an act of folly.
Release the hounds now.
Yet what really matters when it comes to safety isn't actually the number of accidents. When we talk about improving safety, we're talking about reducing the amount of risk at work.
You can eliminate the risk of working at heights by not working at heights. You can eliminate the risk of asbestosis by not using asbestos. But unless you're not going to go to work, you can't eliminate all risks at work.
From a mathematical perspective, no workplace will ever reach zero. But our practical question isn't (and never will be) does zero harm make sense? Instead, we're interested in knowing if a zero harm policy makes an organisation safer or less safe.
Is Zero Harm a target or an aspiration?
There are two ways of interpreting a zero harm policy. The people who think that the zero-harm policy is an aspiration say "we know we will never get there but it doesn't mean we shouldn't try". Others say, "Yes! We legitimately think it's a target and we can reach zero."
In our podcast The Safety of Work, Episode 12, we discussed three different perspectives on the topic of zero harm. These authors represent the entire published academic literature on zero harm. They cover all approaches – for, against and in between.
According to Professor Gerard Zwetsloot based in the Netherlands, those who see zero harm as an aspiration argue that it's a strategy of commitment. It enables companies to score higher when asked to assess whether management holds safety as a priority.
While having a policy doesn't mean that workers will change their behaviour, it does promote the idea of senior management being committed to safety – at least, from the outside. Some believe this commitment can trickle down and help to change culture which will in turn get other decisions made to improve safety.
The trouble with adopting a zero harm policy as an aspiration or to demonstrate a commitment to safety, is that it needs to be accompanied by clear expectations so managers and workers know what needs to be achieved and how. This is a criticism of the zero harm policy as an aspiration.
But many companies do go a step beyond this aspiration and make zero harm a target. Some set specific timelines and very clear markers around what is success. The problem here is that these goals can be corrupted within organisations – because the board and senior management can fail to be clear on their actual expectations.
People at lower levels form their own perceptions around what is meant by zero harm, while it may be set as an aspiration by senior management, others in the organisation interpret it as don't have any accidents. So, any messaging around zero harm always needs to be super clear.
From what we've seen, this is never the case. More often organisations self-assess their success of zero harm programs, noting that they might have had fewer injuries or that they've increased their safety culture score, but rarely, if ever evaluate the physical risk position of their workplaces.
What are the side effects of focusing on Zero Harm?
Some other leading safety theorists, like Professor Sidney Dekker who founded the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, are quite specific when it comes to listing the negative side effects associated with committing to a zero harm policy.
Dekker argues that these side effects, all of which will be currently occurring in an organisation that has adopted zero harm, include:
1. If you adopt zero harm you will focus on minor accidents at the expense of major accident risks because they're the easiest ones to count and to drive the number down towards zero.
2. You'll have distorted reporting that doesn't represent the real state of work or risk in your business because you're trying to reach a target of zero – just having a zero target is going to result in hiding results at work because organisations have committed to the illusion that zero is possible.
3. Having an unrealistic policy about safety and work as done, means you're going to have cynicism and disengagement at work. If management pretends that zero is possible and workers know that it's not, then the gap between management and workers will widen.
At Forge Works we know these side effects to be true, anecdotally at least, and we would argue that more evidence is needed to fully resolve the debate around the merits of Zero Harm, particularly when it comes to organisations proving their commitment to safety and safer outcomes.
Too often zero harm policies remain as just big-branded safety programs that tie workers up in marketing collateral and result in little concrete improvement when it comes to changing how people work.
What are our practical takeaways?
If you're in an organisation that has a zero harm policy, our suggestion is don't fight it, unless you are up for a real challenge – instead, find out how it's interpreted by the workforce and used or not used to drive strategic and operational action. Focus on eliminating hazards not driving down numbers. Be very clear about what the company wants management to do, and what management wants workers to do.
Practical improvements for 'the safety of work' should include: increasing departmental safety budgets, lowering production targets to remove goal conflict, reviewing critical risks at all individual sites, investing in higher-order engineering and elimination risk control measures.
Then, the fact that there's a zero harm policy in the background driving all this activity is probably not going to be much of an issue in relation to work (just something for us safety professionals to continuously debate). Try not to focus on the branding – rather tune into the practical actions. Make sure management knows what it wants to change, and how they will do it!
If you don't like the idea of zero harm, focus on tacking the specific problems it causes that I've mentioned above. Even if we can't all agree on whether we like it or not, hopefully we can agree, for example, that focusing on minor accidents at the expense of major risks is something best avoided.
It's our hope that we can also agree | 1,592 |
In my last post I shared my first Sewaholic Renfrew with you, there's no doubt that this pattern has now become a firm favourite of mine – I've made many, many different versions. In this post I'd like to share the cowl neck Renfrews I've made. This neck line option was a big part of why I was drawn to the pattern in the first place and it also turns out to be the easiest of the necklines to sew, win!
First up was this 3/4 length sleeve version using a lightweight cotton jersey. It looks like a solid colour from a distance, but up close you can see narrow stripes with a bit of sparkle.
I then moved on to a couple of long sleeve versions in solid colour viscose jerseys. These have proved perfect for work etc as they have a more dressy look than regular jersey tops but are still super comfy!
For the purple one I changed the sleeve cuffs a little more so that they are wider over the hand than at the wrist. This feels pretty perfect to me now as the cuff contours nicely over my wrist and hand. The slightly wider diameter at the end also works very well if I get a bit warm and want to turn up the cuffs.
And more recently I've made a couple more of the 3/4 sleeve variety, lengthening the sleeve a bit for these as the cuff on the first one can get a little uncomfortable sitting right on my elbow. I only made these last autumn so they haven't had a lot of wear yet as it is rare that I don't go for long sleeves in the winter, but I'm looking forward to wearing them more<|fim_middle|> of cowl Renfrews, nearly enough for each day of the week! Not so many bloggers talk about the Renfrew pattern any more, but I still love it and consider it my default t-shirt and jersey top pattern. Have you made any Renfrews? Or do you have another favourite pattern that was released years ago but that you still keep reaching for? | now that spring is on its way.
These 2 were made with better quality fabric than the others – as I've gotten more confident with my sewing I am now happy to pay more for fabric as I want my garments to last. The navy and white is a lovely soft viscose from Sew Over It, doesn't look like they have it any more I'm afraid (it had been in my stash for a while). The stripey one is a modal from Guthrie and Ghani – I'd not sewn with modal before, but boy am I converted – this is exceptionally soft.
So that's my collection | 124 |
The recent news that IBM has committed to a major investment in establishing an Internet of Things (IoT) unit is indicative of the growing importance of mobile devices in data collection and analytics – something we've long believed will be the future. It is widely recognised that the use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets outstrip PC and desktop machines, but IoT encompasses a far wider remit and is a huge data source with significant potential. In fact, IBM says that around 90 per cent of the data generated by mobile devices and IoT, including vehicles, wearables and household appliances, doesn't even get analysed.
IoT has been a real buzz phrase in the technology world, with the very idea of it once being too futuristic to contemplate. Who would have thought that one day we'd be switching on our washing machines, lights or heating systems remotely from a mobile device while out shopping? Additionally, the introduction of 'life logging' wearables such as the Apple Watch (set to take the world by storm this month), indicates that devices are set to get smarter and more beneficial to users. Certainly, the launch of Apple's ResearchKit – which aids the medical research world with the provision of valuable data that can help with the advancement of medical studies and medicines – is a great example of how IoT will become instrumental in data provision. Apple Watch + iPhone = more data points on our health than ever before are being stored on our devices. As another source of data collection, IoT arguably presents better opportunities than others due to the way in which people use and interact with these devices, presenting more accurate data.
So with mobile apps used to control and monitor devices and appliances remotely, how will IoT evolve further? As<|fim_middle|> clothes have been hotly tipped).
In a world full of distractions where consumers are arguably less likely to participate in surveys for the reporting of data, passive measurement is a real innovation and will play a significant role in the evolution of data collection from IoT. Developments that take the onus away from the user to report and facilitate collection, measurement, analytics, and even take the relevant action as a result of these insights, will be a real focus.
The evolution of IoT will be a huge asset to the data collection industry. In the MR world, a real consideration is the growing importance of user experience; understanding respondent behaviour to better affect survey completion and buy-in, from how people want to take surveys to when, and in what environment. Data from IoT will better enable MR players to tap into preferences and better understand behaviour to consistently improve the user experience. This is a key consideration as sample supply isn't infinite and as the population ages, it falls to the younger generation to take part in surveys, so mobile will be the mainstay of MR.
It's another exciting development in a fast-paced, ever-evolving landscape with technology at its heart, and user experience is a key consideration that must never be underestimated. | well as investment by the likes of IBM, whose plans involve tapping into the data and providing platforms through which it can be analysed more intelligently, we will see a real push on development of apps to get consumers on board in a more mainstream way. It will be down to brands to drive this adoption among consumers which will likely be led by apps with added benefits to keep them engaged, as well the introduction of new wearables, (items such as jewellery and even | 93 |
Franz Gottwalt Fischer (* 15. November 1902 in Florenz; † 9. Oktober 1960 in Würzburg) war ein deutscher Chemiker.
Leben und Wirken
Nach seiner Schul- und Studienzeit wurde Gottwalt Fischer 192<|fim_middle|> Chem. Institut am Röntgenring 11)
Otto Dimroth (1918-1937; Chem. Institut am Röntgenring 11)
Einzelnachweise
Chemiker (20. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Hochschullehrer (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Deutscher
Geboren 1902
Gestorben 1960
Mann | 4 bei Heinrich Wieland in Freiburg mit einer Arbeit Über die Einwirkung von Jod auf die Silbersalze organischer Säuren promoviert. Mit Forschungen auf dem Gebiet des Phytols habilitierte er sich 1929 bei Wieland an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München.
1930 erhielt Gottwalt Fischer einen Ruf als außerplanmäßiger Professor für organische Chemie in Freiburg. Am 1. November 1938 übernahm er als ordentlicher Professor für Chemie die Nachfolge von Otto Dimroth in Würzburg, wo er als Vorstand des Chemischen Instituts (damals am Röntgenring 11) wirkte.
Zuvor war an der Universität Würzburg der Bereich Chemie 1937 von der philosophischen Fakultät in eine neugeschaffene naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät ausgegliedert worden. Seit 1940 war er ordentliches Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Als Dekan der Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät gehörte Gottwalt Fischer 1948 dem Akademischen Senat und dem von Waldemar Schleip geleiteten Verwaltungsausschuss der Universität Würzburg an.
Ab 1954 war er der Herausgeber der Heftreihe "Theoretische Biochemie-Physikalische Chemie Grundlagen der Lebensvorgänge", zusammen mit Franz Lang gab er Nachkriegsbände der Biochemischen Zeitschrift heraus.
Seine Forschungsgebiete umfassten die Phytol- und Naturstoffchemie, viele Ergebnisse wurden erst nach seiner vorzeitigen Emeritierung 1956 bzw. nach seinem frühen Tod 1960 publiziert.
Bekannte Schüler
Alfred Roedig, Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie, Würzburg.
Gottfried Märkl, Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie, Regensburg.
Vorgänger an den chemischen Instituten in Würzburg
Joseph von Scherer (1842–1869†; Juliusspital, ab 1867 neues Chemisches Institut in der Maxstr. 4)
Adolph Strecker (1869-1871†; Chem. Institut in der Maxstr. 4)
Johannes Wislicenus (1872-1885; Chem. Institut in der Maxstr. 4)
Emil Fischer (1885-1892; Chem. Institut in der Maxstr. 4)
Arthur Hantzsch (1893-1903; Chem. Institut in der Maxstr. 4, ab 1896 neues Chem. Inst. am Pleicher Ring 11)
Julius Tafel (1903-1910; Chem. Institut am Röntgenring 11 (1909 umbenannter Straßenname))
Eduard Buchner (1911-1917†; | 685 |
We originally featured LibriVox in the 10-05-2012 Scout Report, and it continues to be an excellent source of free audiobooks of public domain literature. To date, the LibriVox catalog contains more than 12,000 audiobooks (including over 1,600 non-English works) recorded by more than 9,000 volunteers.
The LibriVox site is billed as an "acoustical liberation<|fim_middle|> fun way to learn about what has recently captured the attention of the folks at LibriVox. One can even register to help record an audiobook for the site. Visitors are encouraged to sign up for the LibriVox RSS feed and to check out their interesting podcasts as well. | of books in the public domain." This claim proves to be true; the site provides free audiobooks of public domain works from authors such as Dickens, Chaucer, and hundreds of others to forward their mission of recording all the books in the public domain. First-time visitors can click on the LibriVox catalog to search a title or author to get started. One can also view recently cataloged titles or just elect to browse the entire catalog. The new releases area is a | 98 |
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This Sour Patch candy comes in a large cardboard box that holds 24 individual packs. If you're interested in shocking your taste buds while traveling, this treat makes it super easy to do so. Simply place a pack into a pocket, a purse, a backpack, a suitcase or the glove compartment of a vehicle. Tear it open when it's time to chow down and enjoy. And if you have children, placing one in their lunch boxes is bound to put a smile on their faces.
While it's entirely normal to eat Sour Patch candy right out of the package, they can also be placed into different pastries and deserts. You can get creative by tossing a few pieces of sour sweet candy into cakes, cookies and even ice cream to enjoy that exhilarating, one-of-a-kind taste. | 333 |
Bavaria Towers, Munich
Modern skyscraper ensemble for Munich city East
Formwork planning for spectacular architecture of the four towers
P<|fim_middle|>The sloped roof surfaces of both towers, more than 9 m high - a ring stiffened by beams - are manufactured using Topmax system slab formwork tables with support towers from the Gass range. An international Hünnebeck development team with experts from Germany, England and the Netherlands has developed a special head especially for use on the Bavaria Towers that connects the Topmax steel frame tables with the Gass towers at the desired inclination of 11 degrees.
The Hünnebeck formwork concept developed jointly with the construction site also includes the use of around 4,000 m² of Topflex slab formwork. It was used in the basements, for the construction of the ramp slabs for the underground car parks and as formwork for the fitting areas. The modern system based on H20 wooden beams does not require rigid system grid dimensions and is suitable for slab thicknesses of over 30 cm and room heights of over 4.50 m. The system is also suitable for the construction of the ramp slabs for the underground garages.
MY.O office building Munich
Skyline Living and Skyline Office Stuttgart | entagonal layouts and inclined roof surfaces
The building ensemble consists of the three office towers Sky Tower, Star Tower and Blue Tower with a total gross floor area of around 62,000 m² and the already rented White Tower hotel tower. There will also be two central underground garages with a total of 798 parking spaces.
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Hermaphroditic Cat to Receive $1,500 "Gender Assignment" Surgery to Be Named either Arthur or Martha!
BURNLEY, ENGLAND – An hermaphroditic cat is awaiting gender assignment surgery – but only if a charity can raise $1,500 for the operation.
Hermaphroditic cat Angel who needs £1,000 gender assignment surgery
Little black and white tabby cat currently named Angel needs the treatment as cats with hermaphroditism may develop health problems otherwise.
Charity Friends of the Cats are now looking and hoping to raise the money needed for the op after they took in the part male, part female cat, writes the Accrington Observer
Andy Richards, who is the founder of the charity, which fosters stray and feral cats until they find new homes, said he has never seen anything like it.
Angel, thought to be approximately three years old, came to the charity when a friend of Andy's called him to say that a cat had walked into a corner shop called the One Stop Shop, on Blackburn Road and simply refused to leave.
Andy, 5<|fim_middle|> Get Rid of Smidge!
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A Shame – This Cat Was Dumped at A Shelter Just Because it Had Diarrhea! | 4, told this story:: "Customers kept putting her out but every time the automatic doors opened Angel came back in and sat down."
Car fosterer Zoe Whittaker with hermaphrodite cat Angel
When Andy went to pick the cat up, he was confused because he was unable to establish its gender.
He said: "I thought I was just being stupid. On taking Angel for a vet check, the vet informed me, after a long examination, that Angel is both male and female."
Hermaphroditism is caused by specific genetic mutation and happens when insufficient testosterone means a foetus' testes are not able to develop properly, and it grows ovaries.
Andy added: "Angel will have to have blood tests to establish whether she has more male or female genes.
"Whichever she has most of, she will need gender alignment surgery to make her either Arthur or Martha."
Charity Friends of the Cats needs to raise money for the operation for little black and white tabby Angel before the feline develops health problems
In the meantime, Angel is being cared for by one of Friends of the Cats' fosterers, whose name is Zoe Whittaker, at her home in Burnley, and it is hoped that a permanent home will be found following the surgery.
Andy said: "Angel is a fascinating cat and definitely a first for Friends of the Cats.
"She is an absolutely lovely cat. Whatever it takes, we will move heaven and earth to make sure Angel gets the very best veterinary treatment available."
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Research Interests Bayesian decision analysis, monitoring network design, spatial prediction.
My research has two major themes. The first concerns the issue of how best to use statistical information in<|fim_middle|>vestigators consider the problem in the abstract. The work takes account of the inevitable uncertainty in the information generated provided by the data. It incorporates the knowledge gained from previous data or from prior experience. And it takes account of the potential consequences (or value) of any specific decision that might be taken.
One specific problem of interest concerns a team or committee of experts mutually selecting a decision when the members of the team (of, say, medical specialists) have different value scales, different information and different levels of uncertainty about their information. A surprising conclusion is that under some circumstances the team is better off not getting additional information. A second problem deals with the incorporation of the relevant information in data obtained for purposes other than those in a current investigation. New methods are being explored.
Environmental health studies provide the second source of my current research topics. Again abstract theory forms the core of the work, with excursions into the implementation of the resulting theory. My initial interest was prompted by the need to develop a statistical design for assessing the negative environmental impact, if any, of wildcat (exploratory) drilling in the Beaufort Sea. That was followed by a search for trends in the acidity of acid rainfall. This led to the development of methods of designing networks for monitoring spatial pollution fields, for interpolating between existing monitoring sites to find out what goes on in between, and finally to methods of smoothing the noise out of the data obtained form such network data. Now in turn, the use of this methodology in applications is being explored. In particular, a current study is exploring air pollution and the effect of human exposure to such pollution, both long and short term. Of special interest are airborne particulates that appear to be associated with respiratory disease and with mortality. | decision making and inference. Producing an estimate would be an example of such a decision. I and my co-in | 23 |
At IRRI: IFPRI project holds policy writeshop for food and agriculture
With the challenges facing food security today, foresight and strategies are important to get a step ahead. This entails understanding the landscape, exploring trends and policy options, and making informed decisions for policies in food and agriculture. To this end, the Global Futures and Strategic Foresight (GFSF) project led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) hoped to contribute through a meeting and a writeshop held at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) from May 15 to 19, 2017.
The meeting, led by Keith Wiebe of IFPRI and Steve Prager of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), gathered together 24 participants from the different institutes across the CGIAR to work on papers exploring alternative agricultural research and investment scenarios, focusing on a range of commodities, regions, and other topics. The week-long activity aimed to prepare these papers for publication in an upcoming special issue of the Global Food Security journal, and to help in making informed decisions for the CGIAR and its partners and other policy-making bodies.
GFSF is a CGIAR initiative that works to explore long-term trends, challenges, and policy options for food and agriculture through multidisciplinary foresight analysis. It is a project designed to improve agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability, especially in developing countries, and is focused on evaluating promising technologies, investments, and policy reforms. GFSF is funded by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among others.
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Labels: Global Futures and Strategic Foresight, IFPRI
Restructured Biometrics courses to boost use of statistics in breeding trials
IRRI Biometrics has re-designed its course on Design and Analysis of Breeding Trials (DABT). The new DABT includes a one-day stand-alone session on the use of statistical design and analysis under different environmental and technical challenges.
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Labels: Alaine Gulles, biometrics, breeding, DABT, Design and Analysis of Breeding Trials
Trimble donates laser leveling equipment for IRRI projects in Myanmar
A partnership with Trimble, a company that supplies farming solutions, has been helping the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) sustain the work to help farmers through promotion and adoption of the laser-assisted land-leveling technology.
Trimble has been a partner in the distribution of high-quality equipment as well as provision of equipment for demonstration and capacity building, and offers a reliable support service.
Just recently, Trimble donated brand-new laser equipment for use in IRRI projects in Myanmar. The donation was facilitated by IRRI's Postharvest and Mechanization Unit as a result of discussions held during AGRITECHNICA Asia in Bangkok in March 2017. The equipment will be used for adaptive research in laser leveling and for field demonstrations under the Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia (CORIGAP) and MyRice projects.
Labels: ACIAR, Caling Balingbing (IRRI), laser land leveling, Martin Gummert (IRRI), Postharvest and Mechanization Unit, SDC
Mobile app Rice Doctor now available in Filipino
The Rice Doctor Filipino App features localized content for Filipino extension intermediaries and farmers
Rice Doctor, an offline mobile app for identification and management of rice crop problems in the Philippines, has just launched a version in Filipino and is now available for free at the Google Play Store for Android devices.
Poornima Shankar, knowledge management and outreach specialist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), describes Rice Doctor as an interactive questionnaire that helps extension workers, farmers, researchers, and students in the diagnosis of pests, disease, and other problems affecting rice. The current version of the app can help diagnose any of more than 80 of the most common of these conditions affecting rice.
The app is also available online at http://ricedoctor.irri.org.
Although Filipinos remain among the most English-proficient in Asia, for many farmers as well as the agricultural extension workers assisting them, a mobile app such as Rice Doctor being available in Filipino presents an easier-to-understand and, thus, a more straightforward knowledge resource. Rice Doctor in Filipino is the first 'localized and translated version of the diagnostic app. Similar efforts are ongoing in<|fim_middle|> on rice farming for their livelihood. These areas are unstable and have low productivity, ranging from an average across years of 1–2.5 tons per hectare because of the constraint presented by multiple environmental stresses, such as drought followed by flood.
"The Consortium has worked to improve lives in resource-poor rice communities by building a network of networks and linking groups and individuals facing similar constraints," said CURE Coordinator Digna Manzanilla.
The book also offers insights into drivers of change and enabling factors—social, cultural, economic, environmental, and institutional—that helped partner countries benefit from technologies and make an impact in unfavorable rice environments.
While farmers in several partner countries have limited access to seeds, for example, rice farmers in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal have faster access to newly-developed high-yielding, climate-ready varieties because of a regional seed cooperation agreement that expedites the release and dissemination of rice varieties to farmers in stress-affected areas.
Laos' agri chiefs received first copies of CURE's latest book, Climate-ready technologies: Combating poverty by raising productivity in rainfed rice environments): (L-R) Digna Manzanilla, CURE coordinator; Bounthong Buoaham, director general of the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI); David Johnson, head, IRRI-CESD, and former CURE coordinator; Xaypladeth Choulamany, director general of planning and cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Laos; Chay Bounphanousay, deputy director general of NAFRI and Laos representative to the CURE Steering Committee.
"Although one country's experience may be unique from another in terms of specific contexts, we see this exchange of experiences as contributing to innovative ways of thinking about how we can overcome many of the constraints and challenges facing rainfed rice environments," said David Johnson, who also formerly managed CURE and is currently head of IRRI's Crop and Environmental Sciences Division (CESD).
"There is rarely a clear-cut path to overcoming any challenge and raising rice productivity in rainfed environments, but by looking at what worked and what did not work from the experiences shared by our country partners, we can find ways to make rainfed rice environments less challenging," Dr. Johnson added.
Alternative seed systems help unfavorable rice areas combat poverty
Partners from nine member-countries of CURE convened in early May to share challenges and lessons in their work to help farmers in unfavorable rice environments.
VIENTIANE, Laos—The formal rice seed production system in Laos can supply only 10% of the country's seed requirement, but as researchers have found, availability of seed is just one part of the story. The delivery system is just as important, but not as simple when it comes to rainfed and similarly challenged rice areas. In the country, several non-government organizations (NGOs) were instrumental in helping some of the country's food-insecure communities acquire rice seeds.
Community-based seed systems were reportedly instrumental in introducing stress-tolerant varieties in India, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Indonesia, where formal seed sectors are yet to meet national seed requirements. These seed systems also supported the government's move in these countries to fast-track seed dissemination, especially when the formal seed sector has not operated well, and where commercial seed growers are yet to be convinced that the production of seeds is investment-worthy.
IRRI's CESD chief and former CURE coordinator David Johnson sought insights, experiences, and lessons from each member-country, recognizing that seemingly unique experiences also offer an array of options that may apply to other countries as well.
This and other interventions were discussed in a review and planning meeting of the steering committee of the Consortium for Unfavorable Rice Environments (CURE) on 9-11 May, which this year focused on scaling out climate-smart technologies that help raise productivity and combat poverty in Asia's fragile rice ecosystems.
More than the interventions and outcomes are so-called 'enabling' factors—social, cultural, environmental, financial, political, and institutional—that were just as important to achieve impact at a broader scale.
Through better varieties, improved management systems, community-based seed systems, and several other interventions, the abovementioned countries benefitted from enabling farmers in the most challenging environments to improve their livelihood. These experiences were reported in a newly published book by CURE, "Climate-ready technologies: Combating poverty by raising productivity in rainfed rice environments."
"This year's meeting brings member-countries together to discuss accomplishments, experiences, learning, and challenges during the past four years and as well as form plans for the coming year," according to Digna Manzanilla, CURE coordinator.
"There is rarely a clear-cut path to overcoming any challenge and raising rice productivity in rainfed environments," Dr. Johnson added. "But by looking at what worked and what did not work from the experiences shared by our country partners, we can find ways to make rainfed rice environments less challenging."
The member-countries of CURE include Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos PDR, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Myanmar.
Labels: Consortium for Unfavorable Rice Environment, CURE, Lao PDR, Southeast Asia
IRRI participates in workshop on improving small farmers' postharvest practices
Field visit to Florenden Farms in NE Arkansas. UARPP workshop participants pose in front of storage silos for rice. (L-R): Kate Wilkes (University of Arkansas), Dr. Michele Reba (USDA-Agricultural Research Service), Zarini Tahir (Kellogg Company), Caling Balingbing (IRRI), Dr. Alicia Perdon (Kellogg Company), Martin Gummert (IRRI), Dr. Terry Siebenmorgen (University of Arkansas), Sangeeta Mukhopadhyay (Univ. of Arkansas), Mike Sullivan (Florenden Farms), Dr. Bhagwati Prakash (Univ. of Arkansas), and Zeph Odek (Univ. of Arkansas). Photo by Miriam Gummert.
ARKANSAS, USA—To exchange knowledge on state-of-the-art quality research and identify potentials for cooperation on grain quality improvements, two IRRI staff from the Postharvest and Mechanization Unit (PMU) participated in the Rice Postharvest Processing and Management Workshop sponsored by Kellogg's and hosted by the University of Arkansas Rice Processing Program (UARPP), USA, last 3-4 April 2017. This was followed by a field trip to rice farmers, food processors, and support service providers from 5-7 April.
Labels: Caling Balingbing (IRRI), grain quality, Kellog's, Martin Gummert (IRRI), mechanization, postharvest, rice, rice farming, University of Arkansas Rice Processing Program
Mozambican farmers learn to choose the best rice varieties
Farmers get busy selecting best rice varieties during a field day held at the locality of Mucelo in Zambézia, Mozambique in April 2017.
ZAMBÉZIA, Mozambique - Farmers learned how to better select the best rice varieties during a field day in late April organized by the Mozambique Agricultural Research Institute (IIAM) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
About 40 participants came for the event, during which the farmers among them were given an introduction to concepts and principles that guide the breeding scheme at IRRI and the goals of the rice sector in countries in Eastern and Southern Africa.
The event was organized by the IRRI-Mozambique rice breeding team involving various partners in the rice value chain. Millers and representatives of district services for economic activities (SDAE) and some NGOs also took part in the event, in addition to the rice farmers who themselves represented several farmer associations.
The event included a visit to a field that had been set up with breeding trials and demonstration plots of promising rice lines. Twelve lines, including checks from the participatory varietal selection (PVS), were presented for final selection. Some of the promising lines in the demo plots were the same ones that had previously been selected by the participants themselves. Lines HHZ5-SAL14-SAL2-Y1 and IR 10L 203 were finally selected as the best, having high yield, long panicles, medium and long grains, medium plant height, and disease tolerance.
During the event, participants were able to share their respective experiences and come to appreciate new and well-performing varieties.
At the end of the field day, a recommendation was made that more of the participatory varietal selection trials be conducted in more locations.
IRRI and its partners hold field days to help rice farmers stay up-to-date on varieties, technology, and equipment that could help them improve productivity, thus empowering them to make informed decisions to improve their income and livelihood.
Labels: Africa, ESA, farmer, field day, Mozambique, PVS
Agricultural extension seen as key to impact of science in India
NEW DELHI, India – Senior officials, scientists, and other representatives of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), and partners convened for the ICAR-IRRI Collaborative workshop on 4-5 May 2017 to discuss the strengthening of research in agricultural extension.
Agricultural extension is seen as a crucial means to accelerate the impact of agricultural knowledge and technologies by informing policy and practice, as well as to promote innovation.
Labels: extension, India, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, strasa
IRRI gears up for a modernized rice breeding program
By Maria Rowena M. Baltazar
NEW DELHI, India—"Modernize your rice breeding program."
This is the challenge issued by Gary Atlin, senior program officer, Agricultural Research and Development of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), to the scientists and partners of the Stress-Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia (STRASA) program, supported by the BMGF, during the annual review and planning meeting.
Labels: BMGF, breeding, RICE CRP, strasa
NIA, farmer group, partner with IRRI for irrigation research
Signatories to the agreement were Engr. William Ragodon, regional manager, NIA Region IV-A;
Jacqueline Hughes, deputy director general for research, IRRI;
and Mr. Andres Batitis, president, PIDAMMARIS .
LOS BAÑOS, Philippines – A portion of the experimental farmland of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) will soon become the site of research to find the most efficient way to distribute irrigation water.
Under an agreement signed recently among the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) of the Philippines, the farmer association Pinag-Isang Damdamin ng mga Magsasaka ng Mabacan River Irrigation System, Inc. (PIDAMMARIS), and IRRI, the project will be looking at rice productivity and water use, sustainability of rice production systems, water quality, and the overall operations and management of a local irrigation system, with the goal of developing a model approach for other irrigation systems under NIA.
Labels: Bruce Tolentino, irrigation, James Quilty, National Irrigation Administration, Philippines, Zeigler Experiment Station
Rice technologies feature in India farmers' fair
BIHAR, India - Rice technologies were showcased during the Kisan Kalyan Mela 2017 (agriculture exhibit) held at the Motihari District of Bihar on 15-19 April 2017. The event commemorates the 100th year of the Champaran Satyagrah movement initiated by Mahatma Gandhi, whom many consider the "father of the nation," to help poor farmers in the region.
Labels: farmers, India, Indian Council of Agricultural Research
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To facilitate the 'localization' of Rice Doctor for the Philippines, workshops and consultations with farmers, extension workers, and specialists from the Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice) were organized by the Impact Acceleration Unit of IRRI.
The development of Rice Doctor in Filipino was supported fully under the project ImprovingTechnology Promotion and Delivery through Capability Enhancement of Next-GenRice Extension Professionals and Other Intermediaries (IPaD), a collaboration among IRRI, DA-PhilRice, and DA-Agricultural Training Institute.
Last year, Project IPaD and the Impact Acceleration Unit also did a study in different parts of the country to assess and improve the usability of Rice Doctor.
IRRI with its partners have also developed other mobile-based tools for farming, one of which is RKB Lite, the offline version of the Rice Knowledge Bank, a web-based resource on the best practices in rice farming. It is also available as an app at the Google Play Store.
Labels: ICTs in Agriculture, Mobile Apps for Farming, Pest and Disease Management, Rice Doctor
Dilbagh S. Athwal, IRRI's first deputy director general, passes away
By Gene Hettel
Dilbagh S. Athwal, 88, a member of the early management team at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), passed away on 14 May at his residence in Toms River, New Jersey. He was born in Lyallpur, India (now Pakistan) on 12 October 1928.
A renowned Indian plant breeder, Dr. Athwal joined IRRI in 1967 (photo from that time) as its assistant director. In 1972, he was promoted to associate director and then, in 1976, he was appointed as the Institute's very first deputy director general.
At IRRI, he administered the fledgling training program, supervised the research studies of postdoctoral fellows, and shared various administrative duties with IRRI's first director general, Robert F. Chandler. Of his colleague, Chandler later wrote: "Athwal had sound judgment, was an indefatigable worker, and was highly regarded by the IRRI staff."
While still at IRRI in 1975, in recognition of his outstanding work as an agricultural scientist, Dr. Athwal won the Padma Bhushan Award. It is the third-highest civilian award presented by the Government of India. Also in 1975, he took a sabbatical from IRRI and completed an MBA at Harvard University.
In 1954, Dr. Athwal earned his PhD in genetics and plant breeding at the University of Sydney in Australia and then, back in India, he became the first head of the Department of Plant Breeding at Punjab Agricultural University and did pioneering work that led to the development of the hybrid pearl millet variety, Bajra, in 1963. He went on to produce the iconic wheat variety, Kalyan, in collaboration with his colleague and friend Norman Borlaug, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. His work in wheat was instrumental in bringing the Green Revolution to Punjab, India.
In 1977, Dr. Athwal left IRRI to become program officer for Asia at the Rockefeller Foundation's International Agricultural Development Service (IADS) in New York under Sterling Wortman, former IRRI associate director who was then IADS president. In this position, he traveled extensively in Asia where he helped design and implement programs to increase food production.
His career also took him to Washington, D.C., and Winrock International in Little Rock, Arkansas, from where he retired as a senior vice president in 1991.
Dr. Athwal is survived by his wife Gurdev, son Barinder (wife Susan), son Harjit (wife Amardeep), and five grandchildren, Lisa, Neal, Jagdeep, Nishan, and Hernoor. He is also survived by many family members, including his nephew, Raghbir.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Alzheimer's Association, 225 N. Michigan Ave., 17th Floor, Chicago, IL 60601.
Sustainable Rice Platform plans integrated training strategy to support rollout of rice assurance program
LOS BAÑOS, Philippines – Experts gathered at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in early May to design a training strategy to support smallholder adoption of sustainable best practices.
The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP), an alliance of 70 stakeholder institutions convened by IRRI and UN Environment, will launch an assurance scheme targeting smallholders, based on the SRP Standard and Performance Indicators for Sustainable Rice Cultivation—the world's first sustainability standard for rice.
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New book on success stories and lessons in unfavorable rice environments launched
CURE's newly launched book is also freely available at irri.org.
VIENTIANE, Laos—A new book that documents success stories as well as lessons learned from the work to help farmers in unfavorable rice environments of Asia was launched by the International Rice Research Institute during a review and planning meeting of the Consortium for Unfavorable Rice Environments (CURE) on 9-11 May 2017 in this Laotian capital.
The book, titled, Climate-ready technologies: Combating poverty by raising productivity in rainfed rice environments, shares in detail the challenges, lessons learned, and cases of success in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos PDR, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand.
Rainfed rice areas, largely considered unfavorable because of lack of irrigation, are also home to millions of farmers who live in poverty and rely | 1,202 |
Murray battles past Fognini, and conditions
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Murray explained how he had to deal with the elements and overcome them. "The conditions were very, very hard today. There was a big shadow on the court making it hard to pick up the ball and wind was swirling everywhere. I just tried to keep fighting and waited for him to make mistakes.
"If you have a consistent wind throughout the course of the match, it's easier to deal with. If you're playing in the wind you hit the ball flatter and harder; if you're playing against the wind, you play with more top-spin," Murray explained. "Today it was one shot you were playing with the wind and the next you were playing against it which meant you had to change your technique all the time. I just tried to be patient. It wasn't pretty at times, but the main thing is I'm through and maybe will play a better match next time." | , 2016 12:00 AM Last update on: Sat Aug 13, 2016 12:00 AM
It's been very windy in Rio de Janeiro for the last couple of days. And the wind has often been accompanied by rain, making it quite unbearable at times.
That swirling wind, Andy Murray believes, got him in trouble against Italian Fabio Fognini on Friday. But he said he dug deep, and played not-so-pretty tennis to make sure he got through to the next round.
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And that he did. The defending champion is through to the quarterfinals after battling back against the Italian for a 6-1, 2-6, 6-3 victory for a quarterfinal berth.
"I'm just happy to get through," Murray later told reporters at the mixed zone. "It was very hard conditions today. The goal on days like today is not to play well, but to try to win. Thankfully I'm still there."
The scoreline might suggest a straight-forward victory for the Brit, and it seemed like it would be easy sailing when he sealed off the first set 6-1 in just about half an hour. The second set, though, proved to be a different affair altogether as the Italian staged a brilliant comeback after breaking Murray in his third service game and taking the next three games to wrap up the second set 6-2.
The Italian went from strength to strength and forged an eight-game winning streak as Murray's game started to unravel. The Brit was hitting the ball long, making too many unforced errors, visibly not in command of the conditions. Fognini was 3-0 up at that time when Murray started his resurgence. The Brit showed why he is a three-time Grand Slam winner and the defending champion in this event. He exhausted his opponent with an array of powerful backhands and long rallies to take the last six games on the trot and wrap up what has been his most difficult tie so far | 426 |
We're headed to Toronto this time round, and it's well worth the trip. The Ruby Spirit are "kaleidoscopic indie-rockers", which I've personally translated into simply meaning, it's fun.
Their album "Born Under a Veil" is set for release September 4. It is very simply, awesome. Paige Boy, is the voice that leads the way, and she produces nothing but smooth vocals<|fim_middle|> is driving, sometimes hypnotic, but constant with positivity and happiness. Listening to it just makes me feel good. It's the type of music that lends itself to just about anything.
The band is gearing up for a supporting tour of the six song E.P. The album has a good variety of sound, my favourite tune has got to be Caligari though. I really dig the organ in it, and Boy sings her heart out in parts.
With nothing but positive reviews in regard to their live show and stage presence, the energy behind this album would be very worthwhile catching live. Their album release show in particular sounds very intriguing. The group is taking over The Great Hall in Toronto (Queen and Dovercourt) on September 4, and turning the space into a multi-dimensional atmosphere. A great opportunity to see The Ruby Spirit in their element.
If you need an album for your next road trip, bike ride, walk, run, paper-route, whatever, this is no waste of your time. You don't need to be in any certain mood to listen to The Ruby Spirit, and in the end, it always leaves you in the same mood...a great one.
your review is so spot-on. it's definitely a recording that always leaves you in a good mood! glad we agree!
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Love your review of the EP and your site!
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Song of the Day on CBC today!!
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Dan Mangan, need I say more? | that do wonders. Behind her, the rest of the band (Alex Pulec, Mickey Donnell, Jay Cipparrone, Juliana Eye), play music that | 35 |
LAKEWOOD, CO and SHREVEPORT, LA (July 14, 2016) – ElectSolve Technology Solutions & Services, Inc., has been selected by American Municipal Power Inc. (AMP) to provide meter data management (MDM) and back office integration services for AMP's large-scale advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) program, the company announced today. ElectSolve offers advanced meter data management solutions and technical services to public power utilities at a discount through its alliance with Hometown Connections, APPA's utility services subsidiary.
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ElectSolve is a full service provider of technical services, consulting and advanced data management solutions. Since 1999, ElectSolve has helped electric, water and gas utilities maximize the return on their technology investment dollars. ElectSolve's flagship product, uCentra™ Operational Data Management System (ODM), is a proven and vendor neutral next-generation meter data management system (MDM) that provides an integration platform for integrating advanced data collection systems. uCentra™ provides a full 360-degree view of all operational data with centralized management, analysis, and reporting all from a single unified platform. For more information, visit http://www.electsolve.com/. | high level of | 3 |
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This city is known for its rich history and is known to have a very friendly atmosphere. This is GREAT for people who enjoy working with great people on a daily basis. Whether it is the staff or the patients, there are so many strong bonds that have been created through the delivery of quality health care to people in the community.
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The sea food is incredibly delicious and incredibly fresh (less than 48 hours caught out of the west coast we're told), but what you really need to know is, the very young and talented baker behind the scene, prepares desserts that sell out, so you must order your dessert before... read more your entree, otherwise you might just miss out on the best dessert you ever had...if you enjoy sweets that is.
Great addition to Castle Pines. We've had several meals there and have never been disappointed! I'd highly recommend folks try them out. You won't be disappointed.
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Obituary: John Winter
by Henrietta Billings
John Winter is best known for the steel-clad design of his house in Swains Lane (1967-69). I met him at this house – his family home for over forty years<|fim_middle|> rooms on the upper floors with views over the park. The living room in particular has an almost entirely glazed south-facing elevation, and retains its central spiral timber staircase.
In 1968 Winter built 81 Swains Lane, overlooking Highgate Cemetery, his most famous building and now Grade II* listed. This was another house that almost did not make it past design stage: 'The planners wanted an Arts & Crafts style house on the site. It went to the local Highgate Society conservation group, whose representative was Walter Bor.' Bor (1916-99) was an architect and one of the original planners of Milton Keynes. 'Walter Bor was wonderful. He said there was a tradition in Highgate of young architects building houses in the back gardens of other houses. And the fact he said it was a tradition got it through. We wouldn't be sitting here today if it wasn't for Walter Bor.'
Planning permission was not the only obstacle on the Swains Lane site. 'Once the foundations were in I couldn't find anyone to put the steel frame up. I had a client up the hill, a civil engineer who worked at Balfour Beatty. He recommended using Cor-ten steel for the frame – a hard-wearing material that they used at the Ford factory in Dagenham. He also mentioned that all the workers there were on strike and the sub-contractors were looking for work. So I contacted them. The subcontractors had never done a house before, never done a building. But we just got on with it, and it worked.' Typically modest, he argued that this was not a DIY project like Regal Lane: 'I just did the boring jobs, like painting. I also did a bit of the welding [of the steel frame].'
The clever design of the steel-clad house makes the most of a tight site, the garden of the former superintendent's house at Highgate Cemetery. As English Heritage's listing description points out, it was seen as an important marker in the history of the steel house in Britain; a highly influential and unusual house in its structure, materials, plan and aesthetic: 'It is still a model for minimal housing, as influential today as it was when it was built.'
Later in his career John Winter focused on the restoration of modernist houses, including High Cross House at Dartington in Devon by William Lescaze (1932, Grade II *) and High and Over in Amersham by Amyas Connell (1930, Grade II*). This interest in conservation reflected the careful attention he paid throughout his career to understanding modernist architecture as well as the importance of designing new buildings in context.
When I asked him about his reputation for designing simple, compact yet functional spaces, he replied: 'I've always liked the car designer William Stout's advice to his colleagues at Ford: "simplicate and add lightness". I think that's a theme that runs through my work.' He is survived by his wife Val, their daughter Martha and two sons, Timothy and Henry.
John Winter, born May 16 1930, died November 12 2012. | – six months before he died. He had a lifelong interest in conservation, but he also paid careful attention to the key aspects of building attractive small-scale modern houses, and his style became synonymous with the British tradition of modernist architecture. His importance was highlighted at the AA School/ Docomomo annual lecture in December 2011, where an in-depth interview with architectural historian Adrian Forty featured a review of John's significant projects, with images of him building his own first family house in Regal Lane, Primrose Hill in 1962-63.
As a student John Winter won a scholarship to Yale University, and while there he and his wife Val spent six months crossing the country from New Haven to San Francisco in a Studebaker Champion, knocking on the doors of modernist houses in 42 states and asking the owners for a look around. This trip was to prove hugely influential. He saw his first Frank Lloyd Wright house in Amherst, Massachusetts, a single storey flat-roofed dwelling of brick and cypress wood with glass facades (1940). Wright's original client, the English professor Theodore Baird, was at home when Winter arrived unannounced, and welcomed him in. 'He told me: "Mr Wright and I had an agreement. I gave him $480, he gave me happiness for life." I thought that was wonderful – I'd never heard anyone speak about their architect like that!'
He also visited Richard Neutra in California, and was struck by the way Neutra also invited him into his home. 'He was a very busy architect, and I dropped in, just a wondering student. He put down everything he was doing and spent the rest of the day with me showing me his work.'
After graduation Winter went on to work for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) architects in San Francisco, where he developed an interest in simple steel-framed building methods. He felt that he was lucky to work with the firm when they were at the peak of their fame. 'They were the best architects in the world and they knew it. I remember asking them if they ever took architecture magazines, and they said, "No, they all follow our work – we set the trends – why bother?" And they were quite right.'
In the UK Winter worked initially for Erno Goldfinger, an architect he greatly admired. 'If you look at architectural fashions in the 30s and 40s, he didn't follow any of the fashions. He did his own thing and I liked and respected that. He was a tough taskmaster, but I learnt a lot from him.'
Winter then went on to lecture at the AA from 1960-64, where his students included Michael Hopkins, Nick Grimshaw and Richard Rogers. It was during this time that he designed and built his first house for his family at 2 Regal Lane. 'I was up every morning at 5.30am laying bricks', he recalled. 'It took two years to build – all DIY. All the Americans I knew built their own homes – it seemed the normal thing to do there – so it was the normal thing to do when I got back here.' Built on the foundations of a former garage in a leafy lane next to Regents Park, the house was classed as a conversion rather than a new-build, and so got past the planners. When completed, it featured in national newspapers as a self-build home that cost £700. This modest house made maximum use of the site and sunlight by placing the bedrooms on the ground floor and the principal | 751 |
Another<|fim_middle|> working groups advising the WHO, along with being Chair of the National Polio Elimination Certification Committee and Western Pacific Regional Measles Elimination Verification Commission.
Saving children's lives through effective vaccines and limiting the impact of infectious diseases through novel surveillance and containment measures. | of my interests is finding "One Health" solutions to limiting the risk of 'zoonotic' diseases that may be spread from animals to people.
Developing system solutions for reaching all children with effective vaccines for preventing infectious diseases is a passion that drives me.
I am driven by a desire to find appropriate solutions that ensure people most at risk have access to evidence-informed prevention and management solutions.
To see serious diseases with outbreak potential rapidly detected and contained, or prevented through vaccination and other effective public health measures.
David Durrheim is Conjoint Professor of Public Health Medicine, University of Newcastle, and Director - Health Protection, Hunter New England Health.
He is a Public Health Physician with an established track record in conducting public research that has an operational focus and is translational in nature. His ability to use operational research findings to assist local public health programs to improve their surveillance and service delivery, particularly in challenging under-resourced environments, has resulted in a number of awards and international recognition.
Professor Durrheim is an outspoken advocate for equitable global access to effective public health measures, particularly immunisation. He has been instrumental in developing novel surveillance systems to detect and facilitate response to emerging infectious disease risks.
He has served as an expert adviser and consultant to a number of World Health Organisation (WHO), regional and national health programs in the African and Pacific Regions. He continues to serve on various Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation | 284 |
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Canadian-Funded Archeologists Unearth Iron Age Statues
Look at that face. This statue, carved around the year 1000 B.C., was unearthed during an archeological dig in Turkey called the Tayinat Archeological Project (TAP). Along with the human figure, the team dug up the base of a column that was once part of a gate leading into the capital of the Neo-Hittite Kingdom of Patina (the headband isn't part of the statue, by the way - it's just there to keep him upright).
Tim Harrison, a professor of near eastern archeology at the University of Toronto and the director of TAP, says the two pieces "provide a vivid glimpse into the innovative character and sophistication of the Iron Age cultures that emerged in the eastern Mediterranean following the collapse of the great imperial powers of the Bronze Age at the end of the second millennium BC".
Life during the Iron Age probably involved a great deal of hard labour for average people, with men, women and children working the fields to get enough food to eat. Sculptors capable of producing statues like these were rare - according to website The Tollund Man, "very few people were actual artisans".
The human statue appears to depict King Suppiluliuma, whose military accomplishments are carved in hieroglyphics on the statue's back, while the column base features a sphinx and a lion:
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TAP is an international project involving researchers from a dozen countries and more than 20 universities and research institutes. This year's archeological work was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of Toronto, as well as the U.S.-based J.M. Kaplan Fund.
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Is there a perfect way to stretch?
Dynamic stretching or static stretching, which ones should you be doing? Lounge has the answers
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The correct stretching routine before and after your workout makes all the difference. (Photo: Istockphoto)
By Pulasta Dhar
It's surprising how boring stretching can be. Whether it's the old school wide stance alternate toe-touches that you can see people doing in every gully or ground before a cricket match, or reaching up with the fingers laced together, every stretch becomes mundane after just a few moments. It's also more difficult than it seems. And yet, it is the one part of exercising that everyone insists on. Getting ready for a workout? Stretch. Done with a workout? Stretch. Sore midway through a workout<|fim_middle|> and never be lazy about holding them for 15-30 seconds
-Make sure you target all the overlooked areas like hip flexors, adductors, and hamstrings.
-Remember what Boyle says: "positioning is everything. Most people don't stretch, they just try to look like they are stretching."
Pulasta Dhar is a football commentator and writer. | ? Stretch. Injured? Stretch.
However, the science behind stretching is anything but simple. It is the one area of sports science that has seen a huge shift over time, mostly on the question of how and when one should stretch.
Back in school, before a football match, I remember being put through a warm-up consisting of static stretches, the ones where you hold a position for 30 seconds. 15 years later, if I were to do static stretches before a workout, it will be frowned upon. Renowned strength and conditioning coach Michael Boyle writes about this change in attitude in his frequently-referenced piece The Static Stretching Renaissance on strenthcoach.com: "static stretching has gone from the best way to warm-up to something that no one should ever do again." Boyle has coached elite athletes and teams like the Boston Red Sox and the American women's Olympic football and ice hockey teams, and his opinion is that the fitness world has unfairly turned against static stretching in favour of dynamic stretches.
Researchers are fairly divided on which kind of stretch is better, and this makes it harder to pick any one routine. But this, in a way, can be a good thing, because the truth is that both static and dynamic stretches are important. Both can, in fact, be done before and after workouts depending on how you pair them with other drills. The trick is to find the right balance between the two, and more importantly, knowing how they affect the body.
A simple way to put it would be that dynamic stretches help your muscles get ready for activity. These are stretches where you are focusing on waking up your muscles and increasing blood flow to avoid acute injuries. In fitness jargon, they tend to increase your range of motion, or ROM. They also tend to boost the ability of muscles to produce force. One of the muscles that tends to respond really well to dynamic stretching before physical activity is the hamstring. A paper in the Journal Of Sports Science And Medicine on the sustained effects of dynamic stretching on ROM and stiffness of hamstrings found that "dynamic stretching caused a sustained reduction in passive stiffness of the hamstrings and increase in knee ROM… our results suggest that dynamic stretching of the hamstrings before exercise may help to prevent injuries."
The easiest dynamic stretch for the hamstring is the leg swing aka the high kick with toe-touch. But these are not the only ones. Add some torso twists and yoga flows as well to your full body routine. HASFit's 12-minute pre-workout warm-up has some fun stretches to get you ready for a good session.
This doesn't mean you avoid static stretching altogether. Despite the step-motherly treatment afforded to static stretches, and despite a findings published in the Journal Of Strength And Conditioning Research which says that it can impair explosive performance for at least 24 hours, it is smart to remember that casual fitness enthusiasts are more concerned with flexibility and injury prevention rather than speed and power.
"If you are seeking a greater range of motion for your performance in something like practicing your overhead reach in swimming, while static stretching may impair your speed, your movement will benefit greatly in the long term. Especially when combined with aerobic activity both before and after the stretch, both performance and range of motion improve," writes strength and conditioning specialist Karl Riecken in his article The Benefits of Static Stretching Before and After Exercise in trainingpeaks.com.
Riecken's views match those of Micheal Boyle's, who in his book New Functional Training For Sports, asks us to break the cycle of dynamic stretch-workout-static stretch. He says that adding a static stretching routine before a dynamic stretching routine works better before a workout. In the end, it's also about figuring out what works best for you.
There are some tips for stretching you may want to apply though, before you get into a routine:
-Stretching should never be painful, but slightly uncomfortable
-Use active stretches, | 791 |
We weren't planning on having any more hack sessions in 2009, but after last Saturday's successes we've decided to surf the Howduino high for at least one more get-together, because it makes us happy!
We'll be at our usual location, The Edge (the Fr<|fim_middle|>7754 634993 if you get stuck and need directions.
We'll be there from 6pm until about 10pm – drop in whenever suits you.
Note we're straying from the Wednesday pattern though and the 8th is a Tuesday.
Wi-fi is free, and there are kitchen facilities if you'd like to use them.
We're asking for £2 per person as a contribution towards the heating costs. Tea and coffee will be available for a nominal price and there something of a tradition developing for paying a visit to the local chippy.
Bring whatever you'd like to work on, or just pop in for a chat and a mooch around to see what others are doing. It's a social gathering as much as anything else.
Channels to watch to see what others may be planning are the discussion group thread and the wiki page. | iction Arts studio space) at 79-81 Cheapside, Deritend, Birmingham, B12 0QH [google map].
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UK Army reservists conduct Exercise Sava Star
9 September 2013 (Last Updated September 9th, 2013 18:30)
The UK Army soldiers from third Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment have participated in the Exercise Sava Star at the Combat Training Centre in Zaghreb, Croatia.
Involving participation from approximately 140 personnel, the exercise was aimed at providing the army reserves with an opportunity to develop and practise their infantry skills, including patrols, section attacks, harbour security and forest fighting missions.
The two-week exercise also marks the return of British soldiers to the Balkans, 20 years after they served as peacekeepers in the bloody conflict in the region as part of the Nato Stabilisation Force.
The reservists were joined by their regular counterparts from second battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment throughout the exercise, which also incorporates dismounted tactical engagement simulation (DTES) equipment to develop the soldiers' basic infantry skills within a non-Afghanistan environment and also bring them into action for the relevant army 2020 policy.
<|fim_middle|>lian Regiment commanding officer, lieutenant colonel Paul Morris, said the completion of training confirms that the soldiers are in the best shape they have ever been.
"The training here has been superb, unlike any training the soldiers would have experienced before."
"The training we have completed here has been superb, unlike any training the soldiers would have experienced before," Morris said.
"Joint exercises like this can only improve that capability and we can look forward to more of this pairing in the future."
A second battalion private, Luke Call, said participation in such exercises helps soldiers to get to know one another and how to react to a situation, which benefits them when it comes to operations.
"We need to do more of this type of training; it helps build a bond," Call said.
Carried out at the invitation of the Croatian Armed Forces, the exercise culminated with UK troops training alongside Croatian soldiers, and living in the field, in dense jungle-like forest.
Image: UK Royal Anglian Regiment soldiers during Exercise Sava Star in Croatia. Photo: copyright of Crown.
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George Strait's Best Live Shots [PICTURES]
Updated: June 5, 2020
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Since the early 1980s, George Strait has been one of the biggest names in country music, and fans have flocked to see the King of Country live in concert.
In September of 2012, Strait announced that he would be hanging up his cowboy hat and retiring from the road after his final The Cowboy Rides Away Tour. The trek kicked off in January of 2013, and<|fim_middle|>clusives, Galleries, Legends, Photos | Strait played his "final show" on June 7, 2014, drawing 104,793 fans to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. (Footage from the concert has since been released as a live album and DVD.)
Since then, the country icon has performed at awards shows, and although he will not go out on the road again, he has, since 2016, continued to schedule runs of concerts at Las Vegas' 20,000-seat T-Mobile Arena. Strait has also scheduled on-off shows at a few other large venues across the country.
"In 2016, I might say, 'What a dummy,'" Strait said back in September of 2012, when discussing his decision to quit touring. "If that's the case, I'll reconsider."
Click through the photo gallery below to see some of the best in-concert photos of "the King."
NEXT: A Look Back at George Strait's Legendary Career
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Henri Konan Bédié Bridge, also known as the HKB Bridge or Third Bridge, is a road bridge and expressway linking the<|fim_middle|>
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Transport in Abidjan | north and south of Abidjan. The viaduct crosses the Ébrié Lagoon connecting the districts of Cocody and Marcory.
Built, financed and operated as a Public-private partnership, the toll bridge is the third major road crossing of the Ebrié lagoon and was designed to reduce congestion on its two predecessors, the Houphouët-Boigny Bridge and the Charles de Gaulle Bridge, constructed in the 1950s and 1960s respectively.
History
The bridge featured in development plans for Abidjan as far back as 1952. In 1997 the Ivorian government signed a concession agreement with a consortium headed by the Bouygues Group for the construction and operation of the bridge and associated expressway project. Due to political instability, major work on the project only got underway in 2011.
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Kurt von Stetten is... 16 & Pregnant?!?
That's right folks. Our own Kurt von Stetten was featured on last night's episode of MTV's 16 & Pregnant. We told him to use protection. Ha! I funny! What we mean to say is Kurt's song Pangaea—off his 2010 album Pyramid—was featured on last night's episode "Hope" (watch it here). Crazy huh? And there's more to come as SMR continues to penetrate Viacom. Stay tuned...More News >
12 tracks of lusciously catchy '90s-dosed indie-pop.
— Boston Globe
A gifted creator… New England's top new talent… The man wears his heart on his sleeve and much of the magic ends up on<|fim_middle|> Quinn (Moontower).
12 tracks of lusciously catchy '90s-dosed indie-pop. | the records here. Pyramid offers up more digestible indie pop with dissonant border skirmishes here and there…. New England has a prolific genius on its hands and his name is Kurt von Stetten.
— Ryan's Smashing Life (Best of 2011)
It feels kind of old school-Malkmus-y, but only if Malkmus played EVERY SINGLE INSTRUMENT!
— Perfect Porridge
A fantastic example of an amazing, talented guy who seems to have no limits to what he can do.
— Music Savage
There's been a musical force hiding in Boston that has been making some of the most unique and creative music over the past decade.
— Dysonsound
Medium-fi indie-rock illustrated with lots of personal love and instrumental colour.
— Ride the Tempo
On his latest album, Pyramid, he crafted some truly great indie rock songs and goes to show that even relatively unknown artists can create something with a great sound.
— Oh So Fresh Music
Kurt von Stetten crafts a musical wonder with his latest, Pyramid.
— American Chronicle
Think about the Pyramid!! One main idea with many (logically organized?) supporting elements. A mosaic. It's a structure for life, art, and one hell of a new album by Kurt von Stetten. Per usual, Kurt plays every instrument on the record, including cello, guitar, bass, xylophone, drums, washboard, keys/synth, and a variety of children's toys, noise makers, and hand percussion. And this time, Kurt got some production help--making it his most sonically dynamic effort to date. Headphones, kids. Headphones.
Tracks & Credits
Aioki
Come Correck
1st Base
Radical Son
Sea Hag
Kurt von Stetten: cello, guitar, bass, xylophone, drums, washboard, keys/synth, and a variety of children's toys, noise makers, and hand percussion.
Engineered it Kurt. Mixed by Owen Curtin (The Bridge Sound and Stage). Mastered by Mike | 419 |
Depressed mum's drowning tragedy — (North Wales Daily Post)
Wednesday, April 21st, 2004
SSRI Ed note: Woman given "strong" antidepressants for miscarriage turns to alcohol, has manic episode, sees dead parents and runs naked outdoors, drowns in canal.
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By North Wales Daily Post
A MOTHER who claimed she had seen a vision of her dead parents in the middle of the night was found drowned in a Sandbach canal hours later.
Linda Carter, 49, of Ettiley Avenue, told her husband Eric she saw the apparition in the early hours of November 5.
A short time later she was seen running naked in a nearby road by a female postal worker, before being found floating in the Trent and Mersey Canal, an inquest in Crewe heard.
Forklift truck driver Mr Carter,<|fim_middle|>.
Gemma, of Stoke-on-Trent, said: 'Mum seemed jittery and said she had taken more tablets than she should have done the previous day.'
Miss Carter then described how she received a phone call from her mum at 2.20am the next day. She said: 'Mum said she had seen her mum and dad at the end of her bed. She seemed really hyper. She spooked me and I told her I would see her the next day. She wasn't upset, she actually seemed excited.'
Dr Christopher Johnson, who conducted an autopsy, reported 'no overtly suspicious injuries which would suggest foul play.'
A toxicology report found that Mrs Carter had not been drinking but had a large amount of anti-depressants in her system.
DC Janet Pattinson said: 'I don't believe there was any third party involved in the death. There were no suspicious circumstances.'
In recording an open verdict, Cheshire coroner Nicholas Rheinberg ruled out the involvement of a third party, but said: 'Unfortunately this is one of those cases in which the evidence does not sufficiently disclose how Mrs Carter met her death.' | who was sleeping downstairs that evening due to a rib injury, said: 'She came downstairs screaming, saying she had seen her mum and dad, but they are dead. It was about 2am. I told her not to be silly and sent her back to bed. I thought she must have been hallucinating.'
Postal worker Carol Laurie, who lives in Ettiley Heath, wept as she told the hearing: 'I left for work at around 4.50am. I was driving down Elton Road.
'In my lights I saw a figure. At first I thought it was a shadow but then she jumped out in front of my car, waving her arms. I was very frightened and drove around her. I phoned my friend at work and told him to phone the police.'
Mrs Carter's body was found shortly after 7am by Sandbach woman Beverley Astbury while she was walking her dog.
The inquest was told Mrs Carter had suffered from depression since a miscarriage in 1986. She was prescribed with strong anti-depressants and had turned to drinking heavily.
The day before her death she went on a shopping trip with her daughters Gemma and Kelly | 245 |
Researchers say smoking can damage heart health as well as brain health.
Does smoking raise your risk of memory problems later in life?
A new study conducted by researchers at Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea suggests that it does.
The researchers followed more than 46,000 men, ages 60 and older, from 2006 to 2013.
They found that men who had never smoked and those who had quit smoking were less likely than current smokers to develop dementia over the course of the study.
Compared to current smokers, men who had never smoked were 19 percent less likely to develop dementia in general. They were 18 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease in particular.
Compared to men who still smoked, those who had quit smoking for four years or more were 14 percent less likely to develop dementia in general. They were 15 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease in particular.
These findings add to a growing body of research that suggests that smoking negatively affects brain health and memory in later life.
"The idea that smoking impacts your brain health and makes you at increased risk of cognitive decline and dementia is something that we've seen before," Heather Snyder, PhD, senior director of medical and scientific operations at the Alzheimer's Association, told Healthline.
For example, a previously found that people who had never smoked were less likely to develop dementia than those who currently smoked.
Likewise, past studies have also found that quitting smoking can lower<|fim_middle|> and damage blood vessels, which can restrict blood flow to the brain. This can deprive the brain of essential nutrients and oxygen.
Smoking also raises the risk that blood clots will develop in the brain, which can result in strokes. This can lead to a type of dementia known as vascular dementia.
Moreover, reactive compounds in tobacco smoke cause oxidative stress, which can also damage brain tissue.
According to the Alzheimer's Association, avoiding tobacco smoke is one of many steps that people can take to potentially lower their risk of developing dementia in later life.
It's also important to get enough sleep, eat a nutritious diet, socialize with others, and stay both physically and mentally active, Snyder suggested.
"Studies have shown that people who continue to learn new things — whether it's taking a class at a local college or taking up canasta or ballroom dancing — that's beneficial," she said.
If you currently smoke and are interested in kicking the habit, consider making an appointment with your doctor to discuss strategies to quit.
Your doctor might recommend over-the-counter or prescription medications to help curb nicotine cravings.
They might also recommend individual, group, or telephone counseling to help you manage the challenges of quitting.
Scientists are focusing on the APOE E44 gene and how much it raises the risk of developing dementia. | the odds of developing cognitive decline later in life.
In 2016, an estimated 17 percent of men and 13 percent of women in the United States were smokers, reports the .
Smoking has been linked to increased risk of certain cancers, lung disease, heart disease, and many other health conditions.
While more research is needed, the negative effects of smoking on the heart and blood vessels might help account for the link between smoking and dementia.
"We see a link between heart health and brain health," Snyder explained.
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It's the bear-bear Renfrew! My cosy new t-shirt with bears on!
This was so much fun to make! Especially after making my fern print Mimi which took forever and involved fabric that didn't behave. This t-shirt was planned as my first foray into working with knits, but completely by accident (because I wasn't pay attention), the fern Mimi took that crown. This t-shirt was an absolute breeze compared to that. The fabric is a fairly thick jersey – almost maybe sweatshirt material – and it did exactly what I told it to. Heavenly! And it took hardly any time at all to make, which I really appreciated as I had to go to work on the weekend I made it so I didn't have many spare hours.
Apology up front: the pictures in this post have come out a<|fim_middle|> fits nicely with absolutely no adjustments. Is that how knits work? Is it always this magical?! I bet I just got lucky this time.
The fit is just right across the bust and has enough ease around the waist for a proper big dinner. For future Renfrews I may go for a size 2 at the waist for a snugger fit, but for this particular tee I think the looseness adds a casual vibe that goes well with the casual fabric.
So comfy and cosy. I want to make twenty more like it! | bit desaturated, oops! It was a really bright day when I took these photos so the colour got a bit washed out and I've struggled to put it back in. The pic at the top is the truest to the colour – it's a nice vivid blue with a hint of grey. We can pretend that the rest of the pictures are using a cool Instagram filter.
There were a few steps in the construction that I was worried about – the neck, arm and waist bands which are a bit shorter than the opening you sew them to, and the sleeves which are sewn flat – but it all went surprisingly smoothly. The trick to the bands is to put a pin in every quarter of the way around, matching seams – then with the band on top, gently stretch it to the right size as it goes through the machine. On my very first go I went pin-mad but it just got really fiddly. It was much easier with fewer pins.
There are little bears mountain climbing all over me!
I picked the size 4 and it | 214 |
Overview: Trichopodus pectoralis are a hardy species recommended for a beginner in the fishkeeping hobby because, despite growing to a relatively large size, they are peaceful fish that can be kept in a community tank.They can be mixed with barbs, danios, tetras, Cory<|fim_middle|>gae based foods as well as meaty foods. An algae-based flake food, along with freeze-dried bloodworms, tubifex, and brine shrimp will provide these fish with the proper nutrition. | doras, angelfish, loaches, Loricariids and other gourami.
Care & Breeding: A planted aquarium with floating vegetation and hiding places, as well as open water for swimming is ideal for this species.
Overview: Gold Gourami are at home in pretty much any tropical freshwater community aquarium. While always an attractive fish, their coloration and pattern can change based on their mood and their surroundings, at times being a deep Gold with a well defined pattern all the way to a pale gold with a very faint color pattern.
Care: Gold Gourami are a very hardy species that is very tolerant of water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen levels and KH. They prefer aquariums that have plenty of dense live plants with calm or moderate water currents. Gold Gourami will spend most of their time near the surface of the aquarium, but will seek cover in plants of near driftwood if they feel threatened.
Overview: The common name fits this fish well, as it grows to a size of only two inches. Males are slightly larger than the females and have a bright red-white body that extend into the fins. The dorsal fin of the male is pointed in contrast to the rounded dorsal of the female.
Care: Dwarf Gouramis are well suited to smaller aquariums, as well as community aquariums due to their peaceful nature. They should not be kept with very large or aggressive fish. Provide plenty of vegetation, including floating plants that cover part of the surface of the water.
Comments: The ideal tank mates for the Pearl Gourami would be similar in size and temperament. They should not be housed with aggressive tank mates, like Cichlids. They will hide in a corner, begin to loose color and may refuse to eat if kept with overly aggressive fish.The Pearl Gourami is an omnivore and prefers both-al | 379 |
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As with all emerging technological trends, some elements of artificial intelligence are hyped out of proportion, some elements are ahead of their time, and some even incite fear. However, there remains some truth beneath the hype, cycles and buzzwords. Advancements in AI stand to benefit the energy sector but come with own limitations and practical concerns.
Currently, AI, Machine Learning, and their other counterparts Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning etc, have seen wide coverage in a variety of industries.
But what do all these terms mean? AI is a broad term and its scope varies but the idea is simple – adaptive intelligence displayed independently by a machine, in which the behaviour is not necessarily pre-determined, but which adapts to data inputs.
AI in informal settings is used interchangeably with Machine Learning (ML), but in reality, ML is a subset of AI. Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning are promising areas within ML. Within AI and next to ML there are the fields of robotics, speech recognition, computer vision, etc., which are key building blocks towards enabling machine intelligence.
ML is the use of statistics to give computers the ability to learn from data. This differentiation is key because fast advances in ML have led to the sudden interest in AI worldwide. The initial set of improvements have been in the underlying algorithms and data architectures, but the current key improvements are just two: data and computation.
Developments in data are driven by smartphone uptake and improvements in sensors, supported by revolutionary breakthroughs in data communications and data storage technologies. This has made many more datasets available than ever before, which allows for in-depth scrutinization enabling more accurate predictions to be made.
The developments seen in computation can be attributed to dramatic increases in processing power, enabling algorithms to tackle many parameters simultaneously and conduct the same amount of computation in parallel rather than in sequence, saving a great deal of time.
What is AI/ML used for?
Most ML methods are suited to tackling two key problems: prediction type problems and classification type problems. Prediction type problems include 'can I predict when this equipment will fail?' (If so, I can deploy maintenance before failure to ensure the plant doesn't grind to a halt, while saving on unnecessary maintenance).
Classification type problems include 'is this customer different from another, based on the data I have from them?' (If so, I can further study the differences and maybe deploy a new marketing program to retain them). The key requirement to enable these ML predictions has been the need for clean and useful datasets. For this reason, the ML method that has been showing the most potential recently is Deep Learning, a type of model which can extract complex patterns and sequences in a dataset.
In challenging areas such as speech recognition and image recognition, Deep Learning models have seen more success than traditional rules-based approaches or detailed expert systems and has led to a marked increase in accuracy of the prediction, well beyond what was possible before.
Some popular examples of products which use Deep Learning (amongst other models) are Siri, Cortana, and Google Translate for speech/text recognition. The Google Translate model, for example, was trained on large amounts of EU and UN documents online which provide the same text professionally translated into different languages.
The most promising area with AI and ML is Reinforcement Learning, which involves training software agents towards a certain goal through rewards – in a sense mimicking how humans learn. This, when combined with Deep Learning, has led to powerful strides towards accurate prediction systems and is the key algorithm being used to drive autonomous vehicles.
A particularly interesting example of Reinforcement learning is AlphaGo, which was the first computer program able to beat a high-ranking professional player in the complex board game Go. It did this through playing against itself and other repeatedly in order to know how to make the right move out of the billions of combinations possible.
In short, the core idea of ML methods is that, as long as the data and computational power are available, it is possible to augment and even automate decision-making by creating some sort of expert system.
The future of these expert systems lies not only in enabling automation, but also in aiding complex decisions. Nowadays, computational power is easy to acquire (even for a short-term basis), and common algorithms are reasonably well known. The major investment required is in the form of time needed to acquire and assemble data, remove any mistakes from it, and assess different algorithms to see which one delivers the best performance.
Examples in energy
In energy, there are several interesting examples in both the retail and the commercial space:
• Fault prediction and dynamic maintenance: This is one of the clearest uses of AI, and enables operators to predict equipment failures. It does this by using sensor data from various units, and significantly reduce their costs of downtime and maintenance. A start-up, Verv, is offering a meter device which identifies individual home appliances and tries to predict faults and alert when devices are accidentally left on.
• Investment optimisation: BP's venture arm invested in an AI start-up called Beyond Limits, enabling them to dig through seismic images and geological models to increase the chances of success when drilling wells.
• Energy efficiency: Deepmind, a part of Google, has championed the use of Reinforcement Learning to reduce energy use in their data centres by a claimed 15 per cent. The model learnt by looking at years of operational data and then issued changes to individual units.
• Better prediction: Deepmind has also recently announced talks with National Grid to better forecast demand of the system, with the stated goal of reducing the entire country's energy usage by 10 per cent.
• Trading: Origami Energy uses machine learning to predict asset availability and market prices in near real time, enabling them to successfully bid into the Frequency Response markets. Pöyry is also exploring a deep learning algorithm to support trading and dispatch decisions for generation assets in the prompt trading markets, focusing<|fim_middle|>)-payment. Customer call centres are being fronted by algorithms which chat to customers (verbally or online) and deal with queries verbally.
• Customers: For customers, AI solutions are also gaining traction, and many retailers are offering these systems as part of an integrated package. Devices such as Amazon's Alexa enable the customer to seamlessly interact with their thermostat and control systems (such as Centrica's Hive). This increasing customer interaction with the device leads to the development of a more personalised usage profile, which reduces bills for the consumer and helps the energy provider to accurately forecast demand.
Now the caveats
Despite all the upsides, AI comes with many caveats. What happens if there is a low volume of data available for the ML model to learn from? Can it contextualise between two similar tasks and transfer learnings from one to the other? How can AI systems be protected against false (perhaps maliciously-introduced) data?
As some of these models are essentially black boxes, can the model users understand why the model took a particular action? Will the AI systems learn to collude or break through regulatory ringfences? Can the model take the right decision when it faces a new unforeseen environment? And, as decisions are increasingly driven by AI outcomes, will the underlying system converge, or will the outcomes be unstable?
To some degree, Reinforcement Learning coupled with intelligent model design with safety constraints and external controls can allay many of these concerns (this is being used for Autonomous Vehicle technology).
Techniques will develop to combine historic-based AI outcomes with anticipated future changes in the fundamentals (e.g. new interconnection, changes in market rules), but these questions will persist, e.g. how should a car react in an earthquake if it never had a dataset under earthquake conditions?
As the standards of AI decision support improve, the interface with humans must adapt. Initially, humans must learn to trust the systems, even though the results cannot fully be explained. Techniques will be found to blend humans' anticipation of the future with existing (historical) data to augment today's algorithms, in what might be termed 'augmented artificial intelligence' (in which the AI is augmented by human knowledge, not the other way around).
And ultimately, as the algorithms become more robust and are given more autonomy to act without human intervention, we need to ensure that appropriate monitoring, alerts and controls are put in place.
That being said, AI or rather ML as it stands, is a powerful tool for prediction and classification problems, as long as the data to learn from exists. In non-critical business applications, ML is uncovering value in almost every application where past predictive data exists.
The caveats must be put in context: human behaviour and existing prediction methods are far from perfect, and AI should not be compared with an impossible benchmark. For now, AI/ML coupled with better analytics, improvement in sensors and robotics can help automate the small directed issues entirely and let us focus on the unstructured problems of tomorrow. As succinctly put by Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity – enabling us to do more."
Ravi Mahendra is an analyst at Pöyry Management Consulting involved in European gas modelling projects using Pöyry's proprietary market modelling software called Pegasus. Previously he was an O&G equity research intern at Tudor Pickering Holt & Co (now Perella Weinberg) and energy modeller at KBC Technologies (now Yokogawa Electric), where he applied ML techniques for oil refineries.
Artificial intelligence in the energy sector will be a key focus at Clarion Energy events this year, including POWERGEN Asia and European Utility Week.
This piece was first published by Power Engineering Internaitonal
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Online training programme on Machine Learning concludes at SKUAST | on the issue 'when should I commit a trade' (to maximise the option value of flexible capacity).
• Retail: Retailers are using ML to understand patterns of customer behaviour, to attract and retain customers and even to predict bill (non | 49 |
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Let's Give a Hand to Sliders
Sliders, tiny bite-size burgers — betcha can't eat just one, or would want to.
Not your typical Thanksgiving dinner, but "sliders" as they're called are a satisfying meal to share all the same. For chef Bobby Flay the tiny burgers are a small miracle:
"We call 'em little bullets," said Rich Belfer. "And we just put 'em on the grill, smash 'em, the grill's hot enough so the bottom will stick."
Burger maestro Rich Belfer<|fim_middle|> are an endangered species - relics of an era when lunch counters served hand-cooked meals to factory workers in-between shifts. Sliders sold for a nickel a piece.
In the 1920s, sliders were popularized by White Castle.
Starting in the Midwest, White Castle quickly grew into America's first national burger chain. The word "white" symbolized cleanliness and purity.
Today, White Castle and Krystal - a slider chain across the South - serve more than 800 million little burgers a year.
But for my money, nothing can compare to the charm of an old-fashioned slider joint like White Manna in Hackensack, N.J.
"These are not ingredients that are very compelling on their own," said Burger blogger Nick Solares. "But for some reason when you combine them, it's something that is just so ethereal, and it's so much greater than the sum of its parts.
"It is our national dish, and rightfully so."
Solares is the poet laureate of sliders. His guide to the slider grills of New Jersey is essential reading to the Internet's meat mavens.
"What you're tasting here when you eat the slider is you're tasting history," Solares told Flay. "You're tasting a process and a technique that hasn't changed in 50 or 60 years."
Nostalgia aside, sliders are finding new fans in restaurant kitchens across the country. There's no limit to the possibilities, whether it's ahi tuna sliders . . . Lobster salad sliders . . . or Asian pork-and-beef sliders.
Even at this temple to haute cuisine, L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon in New York's Four Seasons Hotel, sliders have landed on the menu. Just be prepared to swallow a hefty price tag: $38 for two.
Chef Xavier Boyer showed us one of his best sellers. He loads his sliders with the best money- can-buy: kobe beef, truffle oil, and (of course!) foie gras.
"So we have 20 percent fat here and we have about 100 percent fat here, right?" Flay asked.
"About 99!" Boyer laughed.
And yes, you do get fries with that!
"The bread, the meat, the garnish, everything is just incredibly first rate," Flay said. "It's like, it can't get any better than this."
Who would have thought the humble little slider could make it all the way to the big time?
It's a true American success story - well done!
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Check out the CBS News "Sunday Morning" Recipes Index for more tasty selections from our guests, contributors and Bon Appetit magazine! | has always lived by one motto: "Good things come in small packages."
"So, why are you smashing it down?" Flay asked.
"Just so they'll fit on the roll," Belfer said.
"Okay. It's all about size," Flay said.
For 18 years, Rich has manned the grill here at the White Rose, his little diner in Linden, New Jersey. It even offers a big window so that you can see the griddle where Rich is cooking everything.
"Why are you showcasing the griddle?" Flay asked.
"Well, I like to show my handiwork," Belfer said. "And I want the people to see what they're eating."
And what they're eating are sliders - tiny two-ounce burgers that deliver heavyweight flavor in a featherweight package.
They're called sliders because they slide right off the grill . . . straight into your mouth.
"This is what your mother made you," Belfer said. "You know, it's not something you get frozen out of a box. Your mother made you fresh meat hamburgers, and this is what people want."
To prepare his sliders, Rich adheres to a rigid technique: Smash . . . smother . . . top . . . and cover.
The taste can't be beat - and neither can the price.
"The people who work and live around here are working people," Belfer said. "They work hard and they want a good meal. And there you go. There's a meal for $5. They can eat lunch, throw a soda in, at a decent price."
"Five bucks. This is the way to go," Flay said.
Still, restaurants like White Rose | 348 |
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Our staying power is built upon our relentless drive to innovate.
We pioneered the inflight entertainment experience. And we never stopped.
Our dedicated team of innovators is always pushing the boundaries.
Panasonic Avionics is headquartered in the city of Lake Forest, California. Our Bothell, Washington, facility supports our operations in Program Management, Quality Control and Repair. We also have Panasonic Technical Services base stations to support our customers in major airport locations all throughout the Americas, such as United States, Canada, Peru, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.
Panasonic Avionics offers a wide range of career paths to match your expertise and skill set. Employees | 215 |
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Art. 136. Authority to administer oaths and to act as notary (a) The following persons on active duty may administer oaths for the purposes of military administration, including military justice, and have the general powers of a notary public and of a consul of the United States, in the performance of all notarial acts to be executed by members of any of the armed forces, wherever they may be, and by other persons subject to this chapter outside of the United States: (1) All judge advocates of the Army and the Air Force. (2) All law specialists. (3) All summary courts-martial. (4) All adjutants, assistant adjutants, acting adjutants, and personnel adjutants. (5) All commanding officers of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. (6) All staff judge advocates and legal officers, and acting or assistant staff judge advocates and legal officers. (7) All other persons designated by regulations of the armed forces or by statute. (b) The following | 297 |
The Killers 10/1/16
Posted on October 10, 2016 by Kat Manos
(a) setlist
Sam's Town:
Sam's Town
Enterlude
When You Were Young
Bling (Confession of a King)
For Reasons Unknown
Read My Mind
Uncle Jonny
My. List
This River Is Wild
Why Do I Keep Counting?
Exitlude
The<|fim_middle|> there is heart, passion, and an unforgettable quality to the music, the band, and the experience. I treasure every note, every song (yes, even "Shadowplay"…), every moment, and every show because I – like the many before me and the many after me – love this band and their music more than words could allow. If that's the only thing I could take away from something like the Sam's Town Extravaganza, then I think I still won.
a dustland fairytale brandon flowers Dave Keuning joy division Mark Stoermer Ronnie Vannucci sam's town sam's town 10 sam's town gambling hall and casino shadowplay The Killers the way it was
The Killers 9/30/16
Kaiser Chiefs 2/19/14 | Way It Was
Shadowplay (Joy Division cover)
Somebody Told Me
A Dustland Fairytale
All These Things That I've Done
(b) highlights
just being able to attend this show at all was one for the books. The entire Sam's Town Extravaganza weekend was a privilege in every sense.
I fully expected the band to come out and play the exact same setlist as the previous night so it was nothing short of a gift that they changed things up and even played a longer set. Bonus points for playing acoustic "Human" for the VIP on the night I didn't have VIP. Avoided that mess, praise! (Just kidding. But not really.)
it was nice to be able to actually watch "Sam's Town" without sobbing through it like the previous night – I don't think I'll ever get over those confetti cannons and curtain-projection scene. That is a Moment with a capital M in every way.
for the first time in a long time, I got to spend a good portion of the show in front of David Brent Keuning, aka the dude in the band who accidentally became the most underrated? Like when the hell did that I happen, I don't understand this fandom. Dave is everything and we should all be lucky he graces us with his guitar solos every night.
sometimes Ronnie is incredible and wonderful, and sometimes Ronnie is incredible and wonderful. This night he was incredible and wonderful, if you know what I mean.
it's always a GREAT night when you get to hear "The Way It Was" – why the band briefly stopped playing that song live, I will never understand, but bless it for returning.
got to spend pretty much the whole show with my girl Rikki, who I almost always get separated from once shows start. She worships DBK and it was amazing getting to watch the show, in a sense, through her eyes. Long live Dave and long live Rikki.
Brandon was exceptionally emotional during "A Dustland Fairytale" – this always seems to happen at Vegas shows and it doesn't take a genius to figure out why.
right at the encore, Mark uncharacteristically walked toward center stage and raised both fists in the air before walking off. It felt like everyone in the venue cheered extra loud when he did that and it made me so happy.
the band closing with "All These Things That I've Done" brought me back to Hot Fuss days when they used to end every show with it. I got soul but I'm a soldier, baby.
(c) lowlights
please god anyone on earth, Bueller, anyone anyone please let me know who I have to speak to in the band/management/anyone to get these dudes to please stop playing "Shadowplay," I will pay out of pocket, I will do everyone's laundry for a month, please, throw me a lifeline.
(note: I love Joy Division and really like "Shadowplay" but it's been nine years. Nine. Okay, end mini-rant that I know I'm not at all alone in, The Killers are perfect and it's fine.)
(d) overall thoughts
Getting to see Night 2 of this Sam's Town Extravaganza is one of those experiences that I'll look back on in 5 weeks, 5 months, 5 years and say, Wait, was that real? Did we actually see that? Damn, we saw that. We had general admission tickets, sat in line, chatted the afternoon away, floated on clouds from the night before, and let the night take hold. Turns out it was quite the adventure.
Through luck, charm, grace, and opportunity, my friend and I got super sick spots during the show and rode the Sam's Town wave from 2006 and beyond. The people around us were Victims from literally all around the world and it was pretty cool getting to know most them and letting the goddamn-American-as-hell confetti rain down on us from above. Sam's Town was just as pitch-perfect and exhausting as the previous night and the band felt slightly more loose playing it. Everyone lost it during "Sam's Town," "When You Were Young," "Bling," "Bones," and "This River Is Wild," and very few moved during "Uncle Jonny," "My List," and "Why Do I Keep Counting?" but what can you do? In the words of Brandon Flowers, I had my dancing shoes on and Sam's Town was a real rattlesnake from beginning to end.
I was so delirious that by the time Ronnie started drumming the intro to "The Way It Was," I thought it was actually "From Here On Out," and nearly passed out in blind rage. Luckily, good ole Dave took it away with that slick and reality-lifting guitar intro and we all survived. (I actually don't hate "From Here On Out," but do we really need to hear it again? No.) Brandon gave an intro after "Human" that really led me to believe the band was FINALLY going to play "Sweet Talk" and I nearly died. But no. It was just "Shadowplay." Heavy sigh. Getting to hear "A Dustland Fairytale," which the band skipped over the night before, was a real treat in every sense. If your heart isn't bursting at the "and the decades disappear like sinking ships, but we persevere, God gives us hope, but we still fear what we don't know," then you're lying. "All These Things That I've Done" felt more triumphant than ever, truly a marked moment of accomplishment and experience after the night wound down. You can hear these songs again and again – and I have – but I promise you they both feel like greeting old friends you haven't seen in awhile and new, clean breaths of fresh air. Every show is familiar, but every show is different. Every feeling is real and every memory sticks to your brain like putty. You can't easily forget about these guys.
Bottom line: Despite what the naysayers may have said 10 years ago, or what people might even say now about a band like The Killers, you can't deny that | 1,280 |
Home › Blog › Education › Why Argumentative Essays Are Useful in Real Life?
There are many tasks that you'll have to fulfill in college never realizing why you need that experience in real life. However, writing is not one<|fim_middle|> find them ridiculous, but if you have enough strength to acknowledge their existence and respect people who share them, you'll have a lot of success in life.
Writing argumentative essays might seem like a tedious task, but it pays off later. So try to develop your writing skills in college, and they will help you out in another form in your life later on. | of them even though now you might not be aware of how you'll benefit from this skill in the future. That's why you need to know these five things that argumentative essays will teach you.
Even if you're a person who avoids conflicts by all means, you can't avoid arguing with others in your life. Writing essays teaches you how to do it diplomatically. The word "argue" is derived from "argument," and no essay can exist without them. Whatever your conviction is, you need to vindicate it with supporting arguments, and practicing it in writing will arm you with quick thinking in real life. People who don't appeal to cheap emotional tricks but are able to clearly explain their thoughts are the ones who can go a long way.
This skill is related to the previous one, since you won't be able to come up with strong arguments if you lack information. This informational gap can be filled through research. Same relates to the real life. People who are well-versed in various topics can support any conversation and give a positive impression in any social group. Knowledge does not come by itself – it's always a result of self-education done through search and filtering of information.
Every person has logic but not everyone knows how to use it properly. This is a skill that is honed through practice, and writing argumentative essays contributes to it greatly. Every essay should have a logical flow, and your speech also needs to have that feature. People who use logic in everything they do and say are always taken seriously and highly respected.
There are as many opinions about one thing as there are people out there, so you need to be able to stand by your point. This is done through the combination of things mentioned above – evidences, research and logic. Writing argumentative essays, you learn to incorporate all these things together, and this ability will make you a strong interlocutor in any circumstances.
You are not always right, even though you might be assured you are. In an argumentative essay, you always need to recognize alternative ideas, and in real life you'll also encounter them everywhere. You might not like them, you don't have to agree with them, you might even | 444 |
The Informationsgemeinschaft zur Feststellung der Verbreitung von Werbeträgern (IVW) (Information Community for the Assessment of the Circulation of Media, comparable to the Audit Bureau of Circulation) certifies and audits the circulations of major publications, including newspapers and magazines within Germany.
Since the IVW was founded on November 4, 1949, the testing association has continuously expanded its control activities and adapted its individual test procedures to the new requirements of the advertising market. It was founded by the publishers in cooperation with the Central Association of the German Advertising Industry (ZAW). The IVW is a sub-organization of the ZAW, but has<|fim_middle|> audit
Publishing organizations | been legally independent since 1955. The Chairman of the IVW is the President of the ZAW. Today (as of 2006) the IVW collects and controls distribution data for almost the entire range of advertising media in Germany.
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Good teaching is at the core of counter-radicalisation
/ By<|fim_middle|> consumption skills to our kids so they're able to see through extremist propaganda independently. That requires a greater focus by schools on teaching critical thinking as a measure to prevent radicalisation.
Typically, of course, schools take it as their core mission to teach critical thinking anyway. Learning to think clearly is one of the reasons for educating students in the first place.
But we shouldn't ignore the benefits of that core mission in the counter-radicalisation field. Extremists see things in black and white; if students are able to think critically, they'll be more resilient to extremist messages.
Dr Anthony Bergin is deputy director, Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
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Observable behaviours may not always be indicative of radicalisation.
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The radicalisation of younger people hasn't, until recently, been seen as a real threat. Education departments across Australia must catch up to the reality and instil resilience in students, writes Anthony Bergin.
Against the background of a growing number of schools grappling with the radicalisation of students, and the startling speed at which ever younger wannabe jihadis are radicalising, Australian education ministers met in Brisbane on Friday to consider a proposal by the Abbott Government regarding students at risk of radicalisation.
Ministers agreed that they would collate current initiatives that support youth at risk of radicalisation and identify gaps in prevention and intervention measures for schools.
Such a step is necessary to ensure our kids aren't exposed to extremist views from others at school. It won't be easy, however, to identify problem individuals.
Victoria is slightly ahead of the curve here, having earlier this year appointed a senior adviser to work with government and non-government schools to promote community safety, especially in relation to radicalisation. The Education Department has strengthened its ties with Victoria Police to provide advice and support to school principals.
At the moment, we don't have much research data on what is happening in our schools on this issue: the radicalisation of younger people hasn't, until recently, been seen as a real threat. Education authorities, it would appear, have been reluctant to admit that there's an issue with extremism in schools.
There are some resources for teachers to access, such as the Beyond Bali Education Kit, which works to engage students by talking about the social impacts of the Bali terrorist attacks and guiding them through alternatives to violence.
The risks for younger people are now are coming from online radicalisation. As Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin recently pointed out, terrorist groups are now using classic grooming tactics so that there's "a need to consider teaching children that the risks are much broader than simple grooming for online pedophilia", where kids are taught to be suspicious of people in chat rooms, and to educate our young people about violent extremism and terrorist propaganda.
Next month, Alastair MacGibbon, the newly created children's e-safety commissioner, an independent statutory office within the Australian Communications and Media Authority, will commence work to tackle the growing problem of cyber-bullying material targeted at children. There will be a complaint system to get harmful material targeted at Australian children down quickly from social media sites.
But in order to keep Australian children safe online, the e-safety commissioner should also be working with a range of agencies to consider violent extremism as part of schools' instruction on child-safety issues.
Our education departments should be providing guidance to teachers to be alert to signs of radicalisation such as appearance, the expression of hard line views, behaviour becoming focused on an extreme idea, and spending more time in the company of other suspected extremists.
But we'll have to be careful here that teachers and educators take into account the complexity of the issue. A simple set of indicators related to signifying behaviours can be counter-productive, unless it's also accompanied by a well-informed and comprehensive framework of understanding.
Parents, teachers and other socialising agents need to have the skills, capacity and awareness necessary to identify any worrying behaviours. The challenge is how to develop that framework without oversimplifying radicalisation.
Observable behaviours may not always be indicative of radicalisation, but issues such as drugs, gangs, or inter-generational conflict often are. That's why we need more research and stronger conceptual models in this area.
A key priority should be to provide the critical | 803 |
First of many training events organized in Croatia
As part of the Decisions and Dilemmas 3: making learning about the EU motivating and meaningful project, the first of many national training events was organized on May 19 in Pula, Croatia. The training is based on the translated materials from the Historiana Changing Europe unit. Similar training events will be organized in the upcoming months in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Finland, Latvia, Portugal and Spain.
The seminar was opened by project coordinator Vedran Ristić by presenting the background to the project. The overall goal of the project is to make learning about the EU interesting for students while simultaneously conveying more information about the motives and reasons behind political, economic and social initiatives that led to the founding of the EU. This is done by giving students insight in dealing with current issues. Following the project presentation, Igor Jovanović also delivered the results of the Teaching Europe research, focusing on the way EU is being taught in Croatia and other participating countries, by analyzing school textbooks.
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The first workshop, titled Rising from the Ruins: Rebuilding Europe after World War Two, was led by international trainer Kati Hynönen from Finland. The unit showcases the situation in post-war Europe and the events that initiated the start of European integration. In order to better understand the unit,<|fim_middle|> Warsaw Uprising Museum
Sharing European Histories through stories of the past
Call for teaching practices: Heritage and history education
World Café: How can we bring Remembrance Education to the classroom?
Virtual book launch: Contested Histories in Public Spaces
Teaching history through the lens of football
Partner Project (Re)Viewing European Stories Publishes Learning Activities
In Europe Schools: What do teachers and students say?
New Contested Histories research collaboration sparks a call for more
Seminar on historical thinking concepts in Sri Lanka February 1, 2023
Historical Thinking, Culture, and Education: Call for Papers January 30, 2023
6th Public History Summer School, University of Wrocław (12-16 June 2023) January 26, 2023
Conference – "The Politics of Memory as a Weapon: Perspectives on Russia's War against Ukraine" (8-10 February 2023) January 23, 2023
Help us pilot teaching practices January 20, 2023
Call for Experts for the project "Football Makes History II" January 20, 2023 | the participants took part in several activities, by studying character cards as well as by taking part in a drama. The play allowed the participants to roleplay as various historical figures, from George Marshall to Jean Monnet, to others. After that, an analysis of the workshop was encouraged and the participants shared their thoughts about the materials and its applicability in their own classrooms.
The second workshop, EU Trade in a Global Context, looked into contemporary challenges faced by the European Union, and was delivered by Igor Jovanović. A short starter activity was followed by an analysis of personal stories in small groups and then a discussion about them. Then another set of sources was analyzed and discussed. The workshop also ended with a conversation about the materials and its applicability in the classroom.
The final workshop, A Comparison of European Peace Treaties, was given by Vedran Ristić where the focus was placed on analyzing and comparing European peace treaties from 1648 to 1919. Participants were given data cards and worksheets to work in small groups which they then presented and compared their findings. Following the presentation, a discussion was formed asking about which elements make a good peace treaty, and was followed by an analysis of materials and their applicability in the classroom.
Overall, the participants were satisfied with the workshops and remained active throughout the training. We look forward to future trainings organized by our partners.
All the material will be made available online by EuroClio, as well as on the website of the Croatian Association of History Educators.
The text was written based on a report by Vedran Ristić.
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Exeter University Conservative Association at Conference
Saturday, 8 October, 2016
by Calum Glazier
Members of the Exeter University Conservative Association joined members of the Exeter Conservative Association this week at Conservative Party Conference at the ICC and Hyatt Regency Hotel in Birmingham this week.
By all accounts, the Conference was an enormous success. Members attended a variety of speeches, fringe events and receptions, providing ample opportunities to listen to and meet numerous senior figures within the Party. Unsurprisingly, there was a strong showing at the South West Conservatives Reception, where the Prime Minister Theresa May offered a rousing speech in support of our efforts as Conservatives within the South West region.
Other significant guests in attendance at the reception include the Rt. Hon Liam Fox MP, Secretary of State for International Trade, and the Rt. Hon Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, himself an alumnus of Exeter University.
Conference provided an opportunity to learn more about the vision of Theresa May's new government, including greater clarity about the timetable for 'Brexit'. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Phillip Hammond's speech on the Monday morning established his economic outlook, and most notably included his intention to relax the programme of austerity in line with the demand of the economy consistent with turbulence relating to Britain's departure from the European Union.
Fringe events also provided an insight into the nature by which 'Brexit' might occur, whereby there was a strong suggestion that Britain will almost certainly be leaving the European Single Market and Customs Union. This certainly provided considerable food for thought for our<|fim_middle|> May's vision, combined with the challenge ahead of 'Brexit' means that it clearly is an exciting time for the Party. May has firmly re-established the Conservative Party as pragmatic and forward looking, reaching out to those who mayhave been alienated in the past.
Overall it was a tremendously successful few days, and we can hope to build on the momentum established nationally, locally going forward. | members, and established vigorous debate.
The highlight was, however, Theresa May's keynote speech on Wednesday lunchtime whereby we garnered a greater understanding of how Britain seeks to establish 'a country that works for everyone'. Bold comments were made about how she sought to address the disconnect between the liberal elite and politicians and ordinary hard working people.
May's speech was a clear appeal to the centre ground, whilst setting herself apart from her predecessor. At the same time, she committed her government to faithfully enact the will of the British people through the referendum result of June 23 rd . Most interestingly was her establishing her belief in interventionism where markets go wrong whilst reasserting the Conservative Party as the Party of business as part of her vision.
The reaction to the Prime Minister's speech both amongst the other delegates and in the wider press was positive, with even the TUC championing May's intention to have worker representation on company boards. | 187 |
Phew this week flew by! Probably because it was a four-day workweek. Can I have a repeat of that next week and the week after?? And how is it really June already? This month is pretty slow and steady around here. Our weekends are fairly open, and I'm looking forward to some quality family time with my two favorite people outdoors. I just can't believe that we'll be officially kicking summer off in 1<|fim_middle|>.
D R E A M I N G > About renovating a house. I've been itching for years to do it. One day.
S W O O N I N G > Over my new laptop cover!
Have such a good weekend, friends!
p.s. look what's coming up next month!! | 7 days!
T H I N K I N G > I would love to know what you all like best post-wise on this blog. What would you like to see more of? Is there something you want me to post that I haven't yet? What if I did a post answering all of your questions? Tell me what you think.
P O N D E R I N G > Over what all the new emojis are going to be. I love the ones they have disclosed so far!
N E E D I N G > To get started on the 21 Day Fix. Thanks so much to those of you that reached out with info, I appreciate it!!
L I S T E N I N G > To New Girl in the background as I put this post together | 158 |
Great Bug Hunt 2019 winners announced
The winners of this year's Great Bug Hunt competition have been announced! The competition, brought to you by the Association for Science Education (ASE) and supported by the Royal Entomological Society (RES), takes science learning out of the classroom and brings it to life outdoors. The winning...
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Insect events this February 2018 half term!
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Photography Competition launched
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National Insect Week 2018 launch at RHS Garden Wisley 18 th June 12.00-14.00 (invited guests and press launch) The UK will be buzzing and crawling with hundreds of events during National Insect Week 2018. From 18 th to 24 th June there will be exciting events all over the country to celebrate...
The Royal Entomological Society has announced the winners of its Student Awards for articles about an entomological topic that would be of interest to the general | 352 |
A faithful and true use of religious beliefs to guide policy in our constitutional system of government is very difficult. Even those with the best intentions will often fall far short, and that is why our founders were so careful to build barriers between the two<|fim_middle|> that policy decisions in these arenas have an enormous effect on families!
As we hear regularly during their speeches on abortion and gay marriage, faith and moral leadership do not allow for compromise. That may very well be, but in a like manner, throwing a few scraps to the poor and middle class cannot compensate for cuts to public services, allowing the torture of God's children, degrading creation, and support for massive tax cuts to the wealthiest among us. Any attempt to do so would be utterly inconsistent with the clear message of the Bible.
It is very hard for us as mere humans to rule as God would have us do. But if Republicans and the religious right want to try, we should challenge them to apply those principles not only to bedroom issues but also to the kitchen table issues where Jesus and the prophets dedicated most of their attention. | . They did so not because they had lost their faith in God but rather because their faith allowed them to understand that we are all sinners, and therefore we will never be able to align our priorities and wills perfectly with God's.
Elected officials can stay true to their faith without wearing that faith on their sleeves for all to see, and they would do well to heed the words of Abraham Lincoln, who sought to show "not that God should be on my side, but that I should be on God's." Nevertheless, some might feel that the only way to stay true to their faith is not only by having it quietly guide their actions but also by proclaiming it loud and clear for all to hear.
Jesus warned against those who prayed from the street corners to be seen by men, but Jesus did plenty of public praying and seemed to find fault more with the telos of the public religious acts of the pious than the fact that it was public. After all, it is difficult to carry out the Great Commission without ever giving an accounting for the hope that is in us. Furthermore, since every vote an elected official makes is a value decision, it is appropriate for voters to want to know what their candidate's values are and from where those values come.
God calls people differently, and so progressive Christians should not categorically condemn those who claim their faith must publicly inform all they do. But we should remind those who make such claims that when they take such a stance, they place a much higher burden on themselves. When they take such a stand, they open themselves to having their policy positions held up to the light of the very scriptures which they claim guide their faith. And if they truly are trying to follow Christ in all they do, they should welcome accountability from fellow believers.
Which brings me to my concluding point: If certain elected officials and Christian interest groups seeking to influence elections and government claim that they cannot check their faith at the door when it comes to their so-called "family values" issues, then this same faith must also inform their positions during tax and budget debates along with all the debates on the "compassion issues." Although "family values" issues are mentioned only peripherally in the Bible, Jesus and the prophets are quite explicit about the clear responsibilities those with power and wealth have to the "least of these"…not to mention | 475 |
Frontiers in Plant Science
Relevance of Translational Regulation on Plant Growth and Environmental Responses View all 11 Articles
Anna N. Stepanova
North Carolina State University, United States
Robert D. Willows
Macquarie University, Australia
Catharina Merchante
University of Málaga, Spain
Front. Plant Sci., 28 March 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.00385
Translation and Co-translational Membrane Engagement of Plastid-encoded Chlorophyll-binding Proteins Are Not Influenced by Chlorophyll Availability in Maize
Reimo Zoschke1*, Prakitchai Chotewutmontri2 and Alice Barkan2
1Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
2Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
Chlorophyll is an indispensable constituent of the photosynthetic machinery in green organisms. Bound by apoproteins of photosystems I and II, chlorophyll performs light-harvesting and charge separation. Due to the phototoxic nature of free chlorophyll and its precursors, chlorophyll synthesis is regulated to comply with the availability of nascent chlorophyll-binding apoproteins. Conversely, the synthesis and co-translational insertion of such proteins into the thylakoid membrane have been suggested to be influenced by chlorophyll availability. In this study, we addressed these hypotheses by using ribosome profiling to examine the synthesis and membrane targeting of chlorophyll-binding apoproteins in chlorophyll-deficient chlH maize mutants (Zm-chlH). ChlH encodes the H subunit of the magnesium chelatase (also known as GUN5), which catalyzes the first committed step in chlorophyll synthesis. Our results show that the number and distribution of ribosomes on plastid mRNAs encoding chlorophyll-binding apoproteins are not substantially altered in Zm-chlH mutants, suggesting that chlorophyll has no impact on ribosome dynamics. Additionally, a Zm-chlH mutation does not change the amino acid position at which nascent chlorophyll-binding apoproteins engage the thylakoid membrane, nor the efficiency with which membrane-engagement occurs. Together, these results provide evidence that chlorophyll availability does not selectively activate the translation of plastid mRNAs encoding chlorophyll apoproteins. Our results imply that co- or post-translational proteolysis of apoproteins is the primary mechanism that adjusts apoprotein abundance to chlorophyll availability in plants.
Chlorophylls are crucial for the light reactions of photosynthesis. They harvest light energy in the antenna complexes of photosystems I and II (PSI and PSII), they transmit the energy to the reaction centers of both photosystems and they are the primary site of light-induced charge separation. Chlorophylls are tetrapyrroles whose synthesis starts with the reduction of an activated glutamate delivered by the glutamyl-tRNA inside chloroplasts (Masuda and Fujita, 2008; Tanaka et al., 2011). Subsequent steps produce protoporphyrin IX, which is the substrate for the first committed step in chlorophyll synthesis: the insertion of a magnesium ion (Mg2+) by the enzyme protoporphyrin IX magnesium chelatase (referred to as magnesium chelatase). Additional reactions generate chlorophyll a and its descendant chlorophyll b. The majority of chlorophylls are bound by plastid-encoded proteins located in the cores of PSI (PsaA/B) and PSII (PsbA/B/C/D, also known as D1, CP47, CP43, and D2, respectively) and by nuclear-encoded proteins that make up the light harvesting complexes (LHC) (Umena et al., 2011; Croce, 2012; Mazor et al., 2015).
Chlorophylls are highly photoreactive and their accumulation outside the context of a photosynthetic complex produces deleterious reactive oxygen species (Apel and Hirt, 2004). Hence, the synthesis of chlorophylls is coordinated with the availability of chlorophyll-binding apoproteins (Wang and Grimm, 2015). Chlorophyll synthesis is regulated at different steps and activated by light (Brzezowski et al., 2015; Gabruk and Mysliwa-Kurdziel, 2015). In turn, the expression of the nuclear-encoded LHC apoproteins is adjusted by retrograde chloroplast-to-nucleus signaling, which has been suggested to emanate, among other origins, from intermediates in chlorophyll synthesis (Kleine and Leister, 2016; Larkin, 2016). Two of the genes identified in a genetic screen for mutants with disrupted retrograde signaling, genomes uncoupled (gun) gun4 and gun5, were found to encode components of the chlorophyll synthesis pathway (Susek et al., 1993; Mochizuki et al., 2001). GUN5 constitutes the catalytic H subunit of the magnesium chelatase (ChlH, Mochizuki et al., 2001) and its interaction partner GUN4 enhances the chelatase activity (Adhikari et al., 2011).
The accumulation of plastid-encoded chlorophyll-binding proteins strictly requires chlorophyll (e.g., Klein et al., 1988a; Herrin et al., 1992; Eichacker et al., 1996). Various lines of evidence implicate chlorophyll both as essential for the stability of chlorophyll-binding proteins and as an activator of their synthesis. For example, the results of in vivo and in organello pulse-labeling assays suggested that the rate of synthesis of chlorophyll-binding apoproteins increases upon a shift from dark to light, coinciding with the onset of chlorophyll synthesis (Fromm et al., 1985; Klein et al., 1988a,b; Malnoë et al., 1988; Mühlbauer and Eichacker, 1998). Furthermore, pulse-labeling experiments with chlorophyll-deficient Chlamydomonas and Synechocystis cells showed strongly diminished PsbA labeling, suggesting that chlorophyll activates psbA translation (Herrin et al., 1992; He and Vermaas, 1998). By contrast, other experiments provided evidence that chlorophyll-binding stabilizes nascent chlorophyll-binding proteins and does not influence their synthesis (Mullet et al., 1990; Herrin et al., 1992; Kim et al., 1994a; Eichacker et al., 1996). Specific ribosome pausing sites were identified on the psbA mRNA and were suggested to enable chlorophyll-binding (Kim et al., 1991). However, ribosome pausing was not detectably altered between dark-grown plants and plants illuminated for short periods, arguing against a chlorophyll-mediated pausing mechanism (Kim et al., 1994b). Taken together, the available data provide strong evidence that chlorophyll-binding apoproteins are highly unstable in the absence of chlorophyll, and that several of the apoproteins are synthesized at normal rates in the absence of chlorophyll in barley or Chlamydomonas (Mullet et al., 1990; Herrin et al., 1992). Although reduced levels of radiolabeled PsbA in pulse-labeling assays in the absence of chlorophyll suggest that chlorophyll may, in fact, activate translation (Klein et al., 1988a; Herrin et al., 1992; He and Vermaas, 1998), the technical challenge of discriminating lack of protein synthesis from rapid protein turnover in pulse-labeling assays precludes firm conclusions.
The binding of chlorophyll to nascent chlorophyll-binding proteins has also been suggested to be coordinated with their insertion into the thylakoid membrane (Sobotka, 2014). Recently, we have shown that membrane engagement of nascent plastid-encoded chlorophyll apoproteins occurs shortly after the first transmembrane segment emerges from the ribosome (Zoschke and Barkan, 2015). Interestingly, an interaction between a chlorophyll synthesis enzyme and the ALB3 protein translocase in the thylakoid membrane has been demonstrated in cyanobacteria (Chidgey et al., 2014) and this provides a potential mechanism for linking chlorophyll attachment with membrane integration.
Altogether, there is a paucity of firm data that address the interconnection of chlorophyll availability with the synthesis and targeting of plastid-encoded chlorophyll apoproteins. To clarify this issue, we used ribosome profiling to comprehensively analyze (i) ribosome distributions on plastid mRNAs, and (ii) the co-translational membrane-engagement of plastid-encoded proteins in chlorophyll-deficient chlH mutants in maize. Our results show that chlorophyll deficiency has little if any effect on the abundance or positions of ribosomes on chloroplast mRNAs, nor on the co-translational membrane engagement of plastid-encoded chlorophyll apoproteins. Together, this implies that plastid apoprotein synthesis and membrane engagement are not regulated by chlorophyll-binding and that changes in protein stability account for adjustments of apoprotein accumulation to chlorophyll levels in plants.
The Zm-chlH mutants were recovered from our large collection of mutants with defects in chloroplast development, the Photosynthetic Mutant Library (Belcher et al., 2015). An Illumina sequencing approach (Williams-Carrier et al., 2010) detected the insertions in the GUN5/ChlH ortholog GRMZM2G323024 (B73 genome v.3) in individual yellow seedlings. Gene-specific PCR confirmed that the insertions co-segregated with the phenotype [primers used for genotyping the mutants: et175GRM3230245 5′-gacgaggacacggacaaccta-3′, et1082GRM3230243 5′-ggcgaagttgctggagttg-3′ (Zm-chlH-1 and Zm-chlH-2); et966GRM3230245 5′-CAATTGCTCGGGTGTTTTCA-3′, et1847GRM3230243 5′-AACGAATTGGGGTTGGTGTC-3′ (Zm-chlH-3)]. The alleles are recessive and confer a seedling lethal phenotype. Plants were grown in soil in cycles of 16 h light (∼300 μmol m-2 s-1)/28°C and 8 h dark/26°C. On the eighth day after sowing, leaf tissue was harvested and snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen one hour after the start of the light cycle. Plant tissue was stored at -80°C until use. The second and third leaves to emerge were used for ribosome profiling and chlorophyll measurements whereas the apical half of the second leaf was used for protein extraction and immunoblotting.
Protein Analysis and Chlorophyll Measurements
SDS–PAGE and immunoblotting used the methods and antibodies described previously (Barkan, 1998; Roy and Barkan, 1998). Chlorophyll content was examined in 80 % acetone by the method described by Porra et al. (1989) and normalized to fresh weight.
Microarray-based ribosome and transcriptome profiling experiments were carried out as in Zoschke et al. (2013). Spatially resolved analysis of stromal and thylakoid membrane-tethered ribosomes was performed as in Zoschke and Barkan (2015). For the latter approach, a micrococcal nuclease pre-treatment was performed to remove mRNA-tethered ribosomes from thylakoid membranes before pelleting the membranes (Zoschke and Barkan, 2015). The microarray figures for Zm-chlH-1/-2 are based on one biological replicate including three technical replicates (Figures 2, 5, 6). The wild-type data in Figures 5, 6 come from two biological replicates including three technical replicates each, and were taken from Zoschke and Barkan (2015) according to the journal guidelines. The values used to generate the plots are available in Supplementary Datasets S1, S3. Due to the known difficulties of a reliable quantification of highly abundant RNAs (problem of saturation effects), signals for tRNAs and rRNAs were excluded from the plotting of total RNA (Figures 2C,F). To verify the microarray-based ribosome profiling results, ribosome profiling by deep-sequencing was performed with one biological replicate as described by Chotewutmontri and Barkan (2016) with minimal adjustments: ribosomes were pelleted through sucrose cushions by layering 0.82 ml lysate on a 0.33 ml sucrose cushion (1 M sucrose, 0.1 M KCl, 40 mM Tris acetate, pH 8.0, 15 mM MgCl2, 10 mM 2-Mercaptoethanol, 100 μg/ml chloramphenicol, and 100 μg/ml cycloheximide) in a 11 mm × 34 mm tube and centrifugation in a Beckman TLA-100.2 rotor for 1.5 h at 55,000 rpm. Reads were aligned to the maize chloroplast genome using Genbank accession X86563.2 and the quality of the footprints was evaluated (Supplementary Figure S1). The data are normalized to ORF length (kilobase) per million reads mapping to nuclear genome coding sequences (rpkm). The data used for the plots are provided in Supplementary Dataset S2. RNA was extracted from an aliquot of the same tissue homogenate used for ribosome profiling, and used for transcriptome analysis by either microarray or RNA-sequencing as described previously (Zoschke and Barkan, 2015; Chotewutmontri and Barkan, 2016). Each of the abovementioned ribosome profiling experiments used plant tissue from independent mutant plants.
Identification of Transposon-induced chlH Mutant Alleles in Maize
The maize gene encoding the ortholog of ChlH/GUN5 is designated GRMZM2G323024 in the B73 v.3 genome annotation1. We identified three Mu transposon insertions in this gene during the systematic sequencing of Mu insertions in our large collection of non-photosynthetic maize mutants, the Photosynthetic Mutant Library (Belcher et al., 2015) (Figure 1A). Zm-chlH-1 and Zm-chlH-2 have insertions in the 5′-UTR, and represent hypomorphic alleles as shown by the reduction of chlorophylls in Zm-chlH-1/-2 mutants to less than 10% of wild-type levels (Table 1). The insertion in Zm-chlH-3 maps in the last exon and is flanked by a deletion of 11 base pairs. Zm-chlH-3 is a null allele, based on the facts that chlorophylls are undetectable (Table 1) and that the insertion/deletion prevent translation of a highly conserved protein-coding sequence (Supplementary Figure S2). All three alleles condition a yellow seedling phenotype (Figure 1B). Experiments below used the Zm-chlH-3 null allele and the heteroallelic progeny of a complementation test cross between Zm-chlH-1 and Zm-chlH-2. Mutants with any of these allele combinations die between the three and four-leaf stage (∼2 weeks after germination), as is typical of non-photosynthetic mutants in maize.
FIGURE 1. Overview of Zm-chlH mutants. (A) Sites of Mu insertions. The nucleotide position of each insertion with respect to the start codon is indicated. The Zm-chlH-3 allele has an 11 bp deletion flanking the insertion. The sequences flanking each insertion are shown below the map, with the 9 bp target site duplications underlined. (B) Yellow phenotype of Zm-chlH mutants. Plants were grown for approximately 8 days in soil. (C) Immunoblot analysis of core subunits of photosynthetic complexes. AtpB is a subunit of the ATP synthase, PsaD is a subunit of PSI, PsbD is a subunit of PSII, and PetD is a subunit of the cytochrome b6f complex. A single blot was probed sequentially with each antibody. The Ponceau S stained blot below illustrates the abundance of RbcL (the large subunit of Rubisco) and also serves as a loading control.
TABLE 1. Chlorophyll content in Zm-chlH mutants.
We examined the abundance of the thylakoid membrane complexes PSII, cytochrome b6f, PSI, and ATP synthase in the Zm-chlH mutants by immunoblot analysis of one core subunit of each complex (Figure 1C). The PsaD and PsbD subunits of PSI and PSII, respectively, were reduced more than ten-fold in the hypomorphic mutant and were undetectable in the Zm-chlH-3 mutant. This is expected based on prior evidence that chlorophyll-binding proteins and the proteins with which they closely associate fail to accumulate in the absence of chlorophyll (e.g., Klein et al., 1988a; Herrin et al., 1992; Eichacker et al., 1996). Interestingly, the PetD subunit of the cytochrome b6f complex was substantially reduced in the Zm-chlH-3 null mutant (∼10% of wild-type levels). Reduced levels of the cytochrome b6f complex were also observed in an Arabidopsis chlM mutant (Pontier et al., 2007), and may result from instability of the complex when its single chlorophyll is unavailable (Croce, 2012). The AtpB subunit of the ATP synthase and the large subunit of Rubisco (RbcL) accumulated to normal levels in the hypomorphic mutant but were reduced approximately four-fold in the Zm-chlH-3 null mutant; the reduction of these proteins is less severe than that of subunits of PSI, PSII, and the cytochrome b6f complex, consistent with the fact that the ATP synthase and Rubisco lack chlorophyll. It is interesting, however, that AtpB and RbcL were reduced at all, and possible explanations are discussed below.
Ribosome Placement on Plastid mRNAs Encoding Chlorophyll-binding Apoproteins Is Not Substantially Altered in Zm-chlH Mutants
To address whether chlorophyll alters ribosome behavior on apoprotein-coding mRNAs, we used ribosome profiling to compare the distribution of ribosomes among and within plastid ORFs in wild-type and Zm-chlH mutant leaf tissue. The original ribosome profiling method uses deep-sequencing to map and quantify ribosome footprints – small mRNA segments that are protected by ribosomes from nuclease attack (Ingolia et al., 2009). Our initial experiments used a modified method that substitutes high-resolution microarrays for deep-sequencing to profile ribosome footprints (Zoschke et al., 2013; Figure 2). We hybridized microarrays to ribosome footprints (Figures 2B,E) and total RNA (Figures 2C,F) from wild-type and Zm-chlH-1/-2 samples; translational efficiencies were then calculated as the ratios of ribosome footprints to RNA abundances (Figure 2D). Genotype-dependent differences in the abundance of ribosome footprints from several genes are apparent, the largest of which mapped to the psbA and atpF coding regions (Figures 2B,E,G; ratios > 3). However, these result from a difference in mRNA abundance (Figures 2C,F,H). A several-fold decrease in psbA mRNA had previously been observed in other maize mutants with diverse chloroplast biogenesis defects and is, therefore, likely to result from pleiotropic effects of the photosynthesis defect (Zoschke et al., 2013; Williams-Carrier et al., 2014). The calculated translational efficiencies for all ORFs encoding chlorophyll-binding apoproteins (Figure 2I), and in fact for all other ORFs, were very similar in the wild-type and the Zm-chlH-1/-2 mutant (Figure 2D). These results strongly suggest that there are no substantive differences between the wild-type and the Zm-chlH mutant in the number of ribosomes bound per mRNA for the plastid-encoded chlorophyll apoproteins or any other chloroplast ORF.
FIGURE 2. Microarray-based plastome-wide analysis of ribosome footprint and transcript abundances in the wild-type and the Zm-chlH-1/-2 mutant. Plots are based on data that are provided in Supplementary Dataset S1. Genome positions refer to the reference maize chloroplast genome (Maier et al., 1995). (A) Gene map indicating protein-coding genes of the maize chloroplast genome created with OGDraw (Lohse et al., 2013). The circular map of the chloroplast genome was linearized and shows only the first of the two large inverted repeat regions. Asterisks mark genes with defects in gene expression based on the microarray data in B-F (wild-type to mutant signal ratio > 3). Dashed lines connect these genes on the map with peaks in the plots below. (B) Normalized ratios of ribosome footprint signals (Ribo footprints) in wild-type versus mutant are plotted as a function of genome position. Peaks designate regions with more ribosome footprints in the wild-type compared to the mutant. (C) Normalized ratios of total RNA signals in wild-type versus mutant are plotted as a function of genome position. Peaks represent regions with higher RNA accumulation in the wild-type compared to the mutant. (D) Translational efficiencies were calculated as the ratios of ribosome footprint ratios (shown in B) to total RNA ratios (shown in C). (E) Normalized ribosome footprint signal intensities obtained from wild-type (red) and mutant (green). (F) Normalized total RNA signal intensities obtained from wild-type (red) and mutant (green). (G) Median ribosome footprint signals for chlorophyll apoprotein-coding ORFs (signals plotted in log10-scale). (H) Median total RNA signals for chlorophyll apoprotein-coding ORFs (signals plotted in log10-scale). (I) Median translational efficiency values for chlorophyll apoprotein-coding ORFs.
To validate and expand on these findings, we repeated the experiment by using deep-sequencing to profile ribosome footprints. Deep-sequencing offers greater sensitivity than the microarray approach and is especially well suited for detecting changes in ribosome distribution within an ORF at codon resolution. We used the null mutant Zm-chlH-3 for this experiment to ensure that the trace amounts of chlorophyll present in the Zm-chlH-1/2 mutants used for the microarray experiment did not mask any effects that chlorophyll might have on ribosome behavior. The normalized abundance of ribosome footprints mapping to each chloroplast gene is plotted in Figure 3. Translational efficiencies were calculated by normalizing ribosome footprint abundance to RNA abundance (Figure 3C). Unlike the Zm-chlH-1/2 mutant, four genes (cemA, ndhE, ndhJ, and rpoC1) showed more than three-fold decrease of translational efficiency in the Zm-chlH-3 mutant compared to wild-type. However, as observed by microarray analysis of the Zm-chlH-1/2 mutant, no substantial differences in translational efficiency of mRNAs encoding chlorophyll apoproteins were detected between wild-type and the Zm-chlH-3 mutant.
FIGURE 3. Summary of deep-sequencing analysis of plastid ribosome footprint and transcript abundances in wild-type and Zm-chlH-3 mutant leaf tissue. Genes encoding chlorophyll-binding proteins are shown in bold green font. The data are displayed as the number of reads per ORF after normalizing to ORF length (kilobase) per million reads mapping to nuclear genome coding sequences (RPKM; values are shown in Supplementary Dataset S2). Translational efficiencies are calculated as the ratios of ribosome footprint to transcript reads. Co-transcribed genes are marked with arrows according to the direction of transcription. (A–C) Ribosome footprint abundance, transcript levels, and the derived translational efficiencies are displayed according to native gene order on the maize chloroplast genome. RNA levels and translational efficiencies of petN and intron containing ORFs (marked with i) were not determined (n.d.) due to technical limitations that preclude accurate quantification of the mRNAs. The ribosome footprint values provided for intron-containing ORFs come only from the last exon or, in the case of rps12, from exon 2.
The dynamics of ribosome movement along an ORF are reflected by the relative abundance of ribosomes at each codon, with longer ribosome dwell times resulting in a higher abundance of ribosome footprints (Ingolia, 2014). To determine whether chlorophyll impacts ribosome pausing, we analyzed the distribution of ribosomes along plastid mRNAs encoding chlorophyll-binding apoproteins (Figure 4). The profiles of peaks and valleys in these ribosome coverage plots are very similar between the mutant and wild-type, suggesting that the deficiency of chlorophyll does not substantially alter pausing at specific sites or the relative rates of initiation and elongation. Minor differences in ribosome distribution were detected between wild-type and the Zm-chlH-3 mutant at several positons and may indicate chlorophyll-dependent changes in apoprotein translation behavior (more than two-fold diminished or increased ribosome occupancy is marked by asterisks in Figures 4A–D). However, similar features were found for many other reading frames that do not code for chlorophyll-binding proteins (Figure 4E shows rbcL as an example). Consequently, these differences are not likely to be a direct consequence of the presence or absence of chlorophyll on ribosome dynamics.
FIGURE 4. Ribosome footprint distributions along mRNAs encoding chlorophyll apoproteins based on deep-sequencing data. Data from wild-type and Zm-chlH-3 mutant plants are plotted in red and green, respectively. Annotations are as in Figure 2. Total read counts within the genomic region shown in each panel of each genotype were standardized to a value of 100 (based on coverage normalized to million reads mapping to nuclear coding sequences). The positions of annotated transmembrane segments (TMS) and chlorophyll-binding sites are shown by gray rectangles and green arrows, respectively. TMS positions are based on information provided previously (Zoschke and Barkan, 2015). Asterisks denote minor differences in ribosome coverage between wild-type and Zm-chlH-3 (ratio > 2 or < 0.5). (A–D) Normalized ribosome footprint distributions along mRNAs encoding chlorophyll binding apoproteins. (E) Normalized ribosome footprint distribution along the rbcL mRNA is shown as a control. rbcL encodes the large subunit of Rubisco, which does not bind chlorophyll.
In sum, our results show that the distribution of ribosomes among and within ORFs encoding chlorophyll apoproteins is not markedly altered in Zm-chlH mutants. This provides strong evidence that chlorophyll does not act as a specific regulator of the synthesis of plastid-encoded chlorophyll apoproteins.
Co-translational Membrane Engagement of Nascent Chlorophyll-binding Apoproteins Is Not Altered in a Zm-chlH Mutant
To address whether chlorophyll availability impacts the co-translational engagement of chlorophyll-binding apoproteins with the thylakoid membrane, we used a previously described approach that reports the partitioning of ribosome footprints between the membrane and soluble fractions (Supplementary Figure S3); this method reveals the point in nascent peptide synthesis at which co-translational membrane engagement occurs (Zoschke and Barkan, 2015). We isolated ribosome footprints from separated membrane and soluble fractions of the Zm-chlH-1/2 mutant and examined them by competitive hybridization to our maize chloroplast microarrays (Figure 5). The results did not reveal any substantial difference in co-translational membrane engagement of nascent thylakoid proteins in the Zm-chlH mutant compared to wild-type plants (Figures 5B,C). We observed the same set of proteins to be co-translationally membrane-engaged (including the chlorophyll apoproteins; shown as green shaded regions in Figures 5B,C), and the relative signal intensities of ribosome footprints recovered from membrane and soluble fractions are similar in Zm-chlH mutant and wild-type plants (Figures 5B–E).
FIGURE 5. Plastome-wide analysis of co-translational membrane engagement in wild-type and Zm-chlH-1/-2 mutant plants by microarray-based ribosome profiling. (A) Map of the maize chloroplast genome showing only protein-coding genes. Genes highlighted in green encode chlorophyll-binding apoproteins. Plots are based on data that are provided in Supplementary Dataset S3. Plots and data for wild-type-derived footprints are identical to those we presented previously (Zoschke and Barkan, 2015). (B,C) Normalized ratios of ribosome footprint signals from membrane and soluble fractions in wild-type (B) and mutant (C) leaf tissue, plotted according to genome position. Note that ribosomes that are tethered to membranes solely by mRNA are recovered in the soluble fraction (see Supplementary Figure S3). Green shaded regions mark ORFs encoding chlorophyll-binding apoproteins. (D,E) Normalized signals for soluble (red) and membrane-bound (green) ribosome footprints in wild-type (D) and mutant (E) leaf tissue.
High-resolution views of the same data (Figure 6) showed that the point at which membrane engagement of nascent chlorophyll apoproteins takes place is very similar between wild-type and Zm-chlH mutant plants (Figures 6A–D). Furthermore, the topographies of the mutant plots closely resemble those of the wild-type plots, providing further evidence that chlorophyll has little if any effect on the dynamics of ribosome movement through these ORFs. Minor isolated differences were detected for several probes: e.g., peaks were observed for membrane-attached ribosome footprints in the psaB and psbB coding regions in the Zm-chlH mutant that were absent in the wild-type (marked by asterisks in Figures 6C,D bottom panels). This might reflect ribosome pauses that differ between wild-type and mutant. However, we favor the view that these differences result from technical variations because we did not detect analogous changes in ribosome distribution when profiling unfractionated chloroplast lysates (Figures 2B,E, 4C,D).
FIGURE 6. Zoom-in views of the co-translational membrane engagement of chlorophyll-binding apoproteins in wild-type and Zm-chlH-1/-2 mutant plants. Gene maps are drawn to scale above the plots. The positions of annotated transmembrane segments (TMS) and chlorophyll-binding sites are shown by gray rectangles and green arrows, respectively. TMS positions are based on information provided previously (Zoschke and Barkan, 2015). The plots of wild-type data were taken from Zoschke and Barkan (2015). The upper two plots in each panel show normalized ratios of ribosome footprint signals from membrane and soluble fractions of plants of the indicated genotype. The lower two plots in each panel show the signals for membrane (green) and soluble (red) ribosome footprints in plants of the indicated genotype. Asterisks denote minor differences in ribosome coverage between wild-type and Zm-chlH-1/-2 (see Results). (A) Co-translational membrane engagement of the nascent chlorophyll apoprotein PsbA (D1). (B) Co-translational membrane engagement of the nascent chlorophyll apoproteins PsbD (D2) and PsbC (CP43) encoded by the overlapping psbD and psbC reading frames. (C) Co-translational membrane engagement of the nascent chlorophyll apoproteins PsaA and PsaB encoded by the adjacent psaA and psaB genes. Data from the rps14 gene, which is co-transcribed with psaA and psaB, is included to illustrate the origin of the soluble ribosome footprints derived from the psaB 3′-UTR. (D) Co-translational membrane engagement of the nascent chlorophyll apoprotein PsbB (CP47).
Altogether, our results demonstrate that chlorophyll availability does not impact the initial co-translational engagement of plastid-encoded chlorophyll apoproteins with the thylakoid membrane. However, our assay does not address any possible effects of chlorophyll on the integration of downstream transmembrane segments.
Chlorophyll-independent Translation of Plastid-encoded Chlorophyll Apoproteins
Compared to the sophisticated knowledge about the structure of the photosystems and the location of chlorophylls therein (Umena et al., 2011; Croce, 2012; Mazor et al., 2015), little is known about the coordination of apoprotein synthesis with chlorophyll availability. Although it is well established that chlorophyll binding proteins do not accumulate in the absence of chlorophyll (e.g., Klein et al., 1988a; Herrin et al., 1992; Eichacker et al., 1996), the relative contributions of increased protein instability and reduced protein synthesis remain unclear. In this study, we used three different ribosome profiling approaches (each employing independent mutant tissue) to comprehensively analyze the translation of chloroplast mRNAs in chlorophyll-deficient chlH maize mutants. The results consistently showed no substantial effect of chlorophyll deficiency on the abundance or distribution of ribosomes on plastid mRNAs encoding chlorophyll apoproteins. These findings strongly argue against a chlorophyll-dependent regulation of the synthesis of plastid-encoded chlorophyll apoproteins in plants.
This interpretation of our data relies on the assumption that ribosome footprint abundance is a valid proxy for rates of protein synthesis, an assumption that is widely made when interpreting ribosome profiling data (Ingolia, 2014). This view is based on a considerable body of evidence that gene-specific differences in translation rate under any particular condition generally result from differences in the rate of translation initiation (e.g., Shah et al., 2013; Hersch et al., 2014). The global rate of translation elongation can be modulated by environmental inputs (Shalgi et al., 2013), but examples of gene-specific differences in translation elongation rates on mRNAs that are native to the host organism are rare. An example of particular relevance to the question we address here involves a nascent peptide that can modulate ribosome stalling at a specific site in response to the small molecule arginine (Fang et al., 2004). It has been suggested that ribosome pause sites may facilitate the co-translational binding of chlorophyll (Kim et al., 1991), but our results do not address that possibility. However, the fact that ribosome distributions along ORFs encoding chlorophyll-binding apoproteins are unaltered in the Zm-chlH mutants provides strong evidence against site-specific effects of chlorophyll on ribosome stalling. Our results are consistent with previous findings from experiments with isolated barley chloroplasts, which showed that the chlorophyll apoproteins PsbA, PsbD, and PsaA indeed can be synthesized independent from chlorophyll (Kim et al., 1994a).
The fact that the abundance of Rubisco and ATP synthase subunits are reduced in the Zm-chlH-3 mutant suggests a global decrease in translation rate in the mutant chloroplasts. Our data are consistent with the possibility that the mutants experience a global reduction in the rates of translation initiation and elongation in the chloroplast such that the distribution of ribosomes within and among genes shows only minor variations. Validation of this possibility and investigation of the underlying mechanism are potential subjects of future investigation. That said, our data do provide strong evidence against any selective effect of chlorophyll on the translation of open reading frames encoding chlorophyll apoproteins.
Altogether, our data strongly support the idea that, in plants, the adjustment of apoprotein accumulation to chlorophyll levels is mainly achieved by co- or post-translational proteolysis of apoproteins when they are not bound by their chlorophyll cofactors. Indeed, it has been suggested that chlorophyll-deficient apoproteins may incorrectly fold or assemble into complexes and thereby trigger their rapid proteolytic turnover (e.g., Kim et al., 1994a; Eichacker et al., 1996). In line with that, binding of chlorophyll can induce folding and assembly of LHC chlorophyll a/b-binding proteins in vitro (Paulsen et al., 2010). Several thylakoid membrane proteases have been assigned to chlorophyll apoprotein processing and homeostasis and are candidates for a proteolytic adjustment of apoprotein levels to chlorophyll availability (van Wijk, 2015; Nishimura et al., 2016). It is important to note that different synthesis and assembly mechanisms apply for PsbA during biogenesis and repair (Jarvi et al., 2015). Since we studied translation in seedlings containing primarily "biogenic" tissue, we cannot rule out that chlorophyll may regulate psbA translation during the D1 repair cycle.
Chlorophyll Is Not Required for the Co-translational Membrane Engagement of Nascent Chlorophyll-binding Apoproteins
The chlorophyll apoproteins PsaA/B and PsbA/B/C/D engage the thylakoid membrane co-translationally (e.g., Kim et al., 1994a; Zoschke and Barkan, 2015; see also Figures 5, 6). Assuming co-translational binding of chlorophyll to nascent apoproteins and a coupling to apoprotein folding and membrane integration, it can be speculated that chlorophyll availability may influence the co-translational integration of nascent apoproteins. However, our analysis of ribosome footprints in separated membrane and soluble fractions showed that the position at which the nascent chlorophyll apoproteins engage the thylakoid membrane is not influenced by chlorophyll deficiency. This is perhaps unsurprising, given that none of the chlorophyll interaction sites is located upstream of the first transmembrane segment (UniProt annotations: PsaA (P04966), PsaB (P04967), PsbA (P48183), PsbD (P48184); and Croce, 2012), which comprises the signal that initially engages the membrane (Zoschke and Barkan, 2015). In line with that, the terminal chlorophyll synthesis enzymes and carrier were found to be associated with the thylakoid membrane, which would enable chlorophyll attachment to apoproteins only after membrane engagement of the nascent apoproteins (Wang and Grimm, 2015). It remains possible that the integration of downstream located transmembrane segments that occurs subsequent to chlorophyll attachment is, in fact, influenced by chlorophyll availability in a way that does not change ribosome progression, a possibility that cannot be addressed by ribosome profiling technologies.
RZ and AB designed the research; RZ and PC performed the research; RZ, PC, and AB analyzed the data; RZ and AB wrote the paper.
This research was funded by the German Research Foundation, the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam/Germany (grants ZO 302/4-1, SFB-TRR 175, and group leader granting given to RZ, respectively), and the US National Science Foundation (grant IOS-1339130 to AB).
We thank Rosalind Williams-Carrier and Susan Belcher for discovery, genetic analysis, and propagation of the Zm-chlH mutant alleles. We acknowledge Rouhollah Barahimipour for helpful comments on the manuscript.
The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2017.00385/full#supplementary-material
FIGURE S1 | Characteristics of ribo-seq data demonstrate that the reads derive from bona fide ribosome footprints. (A) Distributions of sequencing read sizes within the coding sequences of chloroplasts, mitochondria and cytosol are similar to previously published distributions of ribosome footprint sizes (Chotewutmontri and Barkan, 2016). (B) Metagene analysis of cytosolic reads around start and stop codons of all nuclear genes indicates specific occupancy of the reads to the coding region. These reads exhibit 3-nucleotide periodicity depicting the characteristic codon movement of ribosomes. Number of reads were normalized per million reads mapped to nuclear coding sequences. (C) Comparison of RNA-seq and ribo-seq read coverages for a representative chloroplast transcription unit (coding for atpI/-H/-F/-A). RNA-seq reads map to the entire transcription unit whereas ribo-seq reads map specifically to the coding sequences as expected for ribosome footprints.
FIGURE S2 | Ribosome footprint distribution along the Zm-chlH mRNA. Ribosome footprint reads aligning to the Zm-chlH gene were normalized to the reads mapping to nuclear coding sequences and are displayed per million for wild-type and Zm-chlH-3 mutant plants (note the different y-axis scales of the diagrams). A dashed vertical line indicates the Mu transposon insertion site in Zm-chlH-3 to illustrate the absence of translation downstream of the transposon. The about ten-fold reduced ribosome footprint coverage upstream of the transposon insertion is caused by a reduced accumulation of the Zm-chlH transcript in the mutant (as detected in our transcript dataset).
FIGURE S3 | Model for the co-translational membrane engagement of nascent chlorophyll-binding apoproteins and its resulting spatially resolved ribosome profiling data (modified from Zoschke and Barkan, 2015). (A) Ribosomes translating chlorophyll-binding apoproteins become attached to the membrane in a nuclease-resistant fashion by co-translational thylakoid membrane engagement of the nascent peptide. This occurs shortly after the co-translational exposure of a transmembrane segment from the ribosome (see Zoschke and Barkan, 2015). The supposed co-translational binding of chlorophyll (Chl) is indicated. Ribonuclease pre-treatment releases translating ribosomes to the stroma if they are tethered to the membrane in an mRNA-mediated manner (scissors represent RNase-facilitated ribosome release). A hypothetical membrane channel is shown for illustration only and is not intended to imply any particular membrane insertion mechanism. (B) Results of the spatially resolved ribosome profiling analysis of stromal and thylakoid membrane-bound ribosomes for the co-translational membrane engagement shown in A. Top panel: the signals of soluble (red line) and membrane-bound (green line) ribosome footprints predominate the 5′- and 3′-regions of the reading frame, respectively. Bottom panel: The ratio of membrane to soluble ribosome footprint signals reverses between the 5′- and 3′-end of the reading frame.
DATASET S1 | Data set of microarray-based ribosome profiling and total RNA control experiments illustrated in Figure 2. Data were processed and analyzed as previously described (Zoschke et al., 2013).
DATASET S2 | Data set of deep-sequencing-based ribosome profiling and total RNA control experiments displayed in Figures 3, 4. Data were processed and analyzed as previously described (Chotewutmontri and Barkan, 2016).
DATASET S3 | Data sets of spatially resolved microarray-based ribosome profiling experiments shown in Figures 5, 6. Data were processed and analyzed as previously described (Zoschke and Barkan, 2015). The wild-type data were taken from Zoschke and Barkan (2015).
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Keywords: translation, chloroplast, chlorophyll, ChlH, GUN5, ribosome profiling, maize
Citation: Zoschke R, Chotewutmontri P and Barkan A (2017) Translation and Co-translational Membrane Engagement of Plastid-encoded Chlorophyll-binding Proteins Are Not Influenced by Chlorophyll Availability in Maize. Front. Plant Sci. 8:385. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00385
Received: 14 December 2016; Accepted: 07 March 2017;
Published: 28 March 2017.
Anna N. Stepanova, North Carolina State University, USA
Catharina Merchante, University of Málaga, Spain
Robert Drant Willows, Macquarie University, Australia
Copyright © 2017 Zoschke, Chotewutmontri and Barkan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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It's great to hear that you had a great experience too! This year's 10th anniversary conference should be a very special one. Hope to get to meet you!
I am thrilled that you are one of our Ambassadors this year! You are a total rock star and will be so important and such a great resource for the speakers, as well as attendees and brands!
Awww…thanks so much, Bernard! So excited to be a BlogPaws Ambassador and get to pay forward all the kindness that we've received from so many…including you! You were one of the first to follow us on Twitter when we started blogging just a little over a year ago! Thank you!
This event sounds so amazing! I REALLY wish I could be there! My young kids are still in school so unfortunately travel is pretty much out of the question. I loved reading about your journey to blogging and how BlogPaws has impacted Your and Chloe's life! What a blessing this organization is for all of us!
So true! Wish you could come! Kansas City is family-friendly with…just sayin' 🙂 Thanks so much for your kind words about our blog and our blogging journey. Grateful for BlogPaws and pet-lovers and pets!
Soooo excited to work with you and see you in KC!
It's an honor to be an ambassador and get to work with you, Carol! Also, congratulations on being selected as a BlogPaws conference speaker! I'm looking forward to your session and learning more about affiliate marketing! See you in KC!
I absolutely luved reading this Chloe Doodle & Miss Jenise! And Mom & I didn't realize you used to work for Hallmark! We can't wait to hear about your experience as Ambassador! I think Chloe needs an official hat! Purrs & luvs & keep up the furr-tastic work!
Thank you, sweet Valentine! The hat is a great idea! It could say "Official Ambassa-doodle! Tail wags and take care! | supports her kiddoodle's obsession for yellow tennis balls. The two share endless games of fetch.
A whole new world (and a pet-loving adventure) begins after Jenise is laid off from her 27-year career as an innovator and strategist at Hallmark Cards. In the blink of an eye, her world is rocked. But with Chloe by her side and through the support of her family, she decides it's time to reinvent herself–and to put her energy into a business of her own. Through freelancing and consulting, she begins to rebuild.
As she works, Chloe patiently waits by her side until it's time for a break–a game of fetch or two or three or four. It's during those moments of companionship, that a new adventure ignites…and the two become the hands and paws behind the vision for Happy-Go-Doodle, a blog and brand founded in sharing as much joy with others as Chloe shares with everyone she meets.
"Wordpress and keyword strategies and how to grow an email list…and what's affiliate marketing, anyway?" Self-doubt swirls around in the girl's head like a goldendoodle doing zoomies in the first winter snow.
Chloe's happy-go-lucky attitude helps Jenise press on–along with her discovery of another joy: a social learning community called BlogPaws.
Through a Google search, BlogPaws pops up at the top of the search results. Like a dog sniffing out a treat hidden under the couch cushion, the girl joins BlogPaws–a premier social media company, a gem of a pet-loving community, a wealth of social media/blogging education, and a gold mine of new connections with pet-loving people, pet brands, and a friendly BlogPaws staff. And all of this culminates in a yearly pet blogging and social media conference.
With some coaxing from her family, she attends the BlogPaws 2017 conference in Myrtle Beach.
From the moment she steps off the plane in Myrtle Beach, the connections with cool people begin. Through conversations with bloggers, brands, influencers, and speakers, the girl's (and Chloe's) new future begins to unfold.
…and even more love for pets and the people who love them.
Well, this story is still in the works as the girl and her dog set off on more blogging adventures together. But the next chapter will be written at the 2018 BlogPaws conference in April!
What will BlogPaws do for you?
We hope our BlogPaws story offers a little inspiration to you and insight into what the BlogPaws conference is all about. Wherever you are in your life journey or in your pet-loving adventures, BlogPaws could be the spark that ignites something new for your too! We hope you'll join us at the BlogPaws 2018 Conference in our hometown of Kansas City, Missouri!
WE'RE HAPPY TO BE BLOGPAWS 2018 CONFERENCE AMBASSADORS!
You can read the BlogPaws 2018 Ambassador bios here.
Additionally, as the BlogPaws Speaker Ambassador, I'm excited to help share news about the great line-up of sessions and to help the speakers feel welcomed to the BlogPaws community and conference!
2. When is the BlogPaws 2018 Conference? Where is it?
3. What makes BlogPaws unique?
Plus, this year marks BlogPaws' 10th conference anniversary! It will be an epic celebration of ten years of loving pets and bringing people together! It will be a special celebration that's bound to become a happy memory for a lifetime!
It's easy. You can register here and then look forward to all the new adventures that are about to begin for you! Once you register, BlogPaws will make sure you have all the information you need–and as an attendee, you'll get to hear all the latest news first!
Don't wait or hesitate! There are a limited number of tickets and we don't want you to miss out.
5. How can I learn more?
Find out more about the BlogPaws 2018 Conference in Kansas City, MO right here!
Ready to write a new chapter in your pet-loving story? Then the 2018 BlogPaws conference is right for you!
We hope you'll catch all the BlogPaws conference happiness along with us!
Doodle kisses and tail wags!
Have you attended a BlogPaws conference? How has BlogPaws positively impacted your life? We'd love to hear! Please comment below!
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What a fantastic post! I'm really looking forward to seeing you in Kansas City. I'm so glad BlogPaws had such a profound effect on your life. It can definitely a life-changing experience if one takes full advantage of it.
Awww…thanks so much! I'm looking forward to seeing you too! Who know what this year's conference will bring! So exciting!
I had an amazing time last year, and I'm really looking forward to this year's conference too! I'll rep both Colorado Pet Pantry and The Rufus Files, but Rufus is staying home. I *might* bring Sophie- we'll see. So many dogs impressed me last year with their good behavior, I worry that Sophie would be too wiggly for that many people.
Happy to hear that you'll be at the conference! I'm looking forward to seeing you!
Ahhh I LOVE your photos from the conference! I so wish I could go this year, but I'm definitely making it happen in 2019. Can't wait to see everyone's adventures during the event!
Thanks! We'll be sharing photos and information during the conference on Happy-Go-Doodle's social media. But if you change your mind and decide to come to KC, it would be fun to meet you!
So, I'm a very new blogger and of course the self doubt swirls daily! Another blogger suggested I go to the conference and since I'm only two hours, I'm definitely considering it. Then the introvert in me is screaming: "you have to network," "you don't know anyone!" "You have to talk to new people," there will be a lot of people." Luckily, your post makes it sound worth all the insecurities and doubt. I can do this! I have so much to learn about blogging and I'm so hopeful for the journey it could be!
I'm so glad you stopped by and read the post! Yes, the conference is definitely worth it! Once you get to the conference and see all the adorable pets and friendly people, the doubts dwindle. You can do it and have fun too! If you have any questions, please let me know. Happy to help!
We can't wait to meet you in Kansas City. It is going to be so much fun and we will all learn such a lot. Our flights and hotels are booked and now, we wait for the day!!!!
Good luck and conCAtulations. Make sure you introduce yourself. I nearly missed a couple of our Ambassadors the year I was International Ambassador from New Zealand!!!
Thank you! We're looking forward to meeting you too! I understand what you mean about nearly missing folks! There's so much to do and so many people to meet! We will make sure to introduce ourselves!
Isn't it amazing how one door closes and another one opens? I was in a similar situation last year and was only blogging a few months before I attended BlogPaws in Myrtle Beach. The people (and pets) are amazing and it should not be missed. Especially the 10th anniversary conference.I'm looking forward to chatting with you a little more this year.
Yes, so true. Step through the door and new adventures await! I'm looking forward to chatting with you more this year too! And congrats on being named a BlogPaws conference speaker!
Aw what a great story! I'm looking forward to meeting you! It will be my first time attending. I love how you explained the benefits of the conference. You've reminded me to announce it to our readers as well that I'll be in attendance and speaking!
Thank you! Congratulations on being chosen as a speaker! I look forward to meeting you…and learning from you too!
It's a fantastic event for pet peoples to meet, mingle and learn from each other. I hope that one of these days I can make it also.
So true! Hope you can attend sometime too!
Aww, what a wonderful post! It brings back so many fun memories of my first (and so far only) trip to BlogPaws! It was a fantastic time. Congrats on being an ambassador!
Thank you! It's such an honor to be a BlogPaws Ambassador! It will be so fun to help welcome everyone to the conference and make them feel as at home as I felt last year!
Such a cutie-pie doodle! I'm happy you found your purpose and inspiration at the conference.
Awww…thanks! And thank you for stopping by to join us on our adventures!
I'm getting so excited for the BlogPaws Conference! Joining this community was one of the best decisions I've made. The wealth of information that everyone shares just blows me away. From blogging tips to pet knowledge, I'm continually impressed by the conversations BlogPaws promotes.
You said it well! The conference is the icing on the cake! Or the peanut butter on the Kong ball! I'm looking forward to meeting you at the conference in KC!
Oh, my what a fantastic post and so sweetly told. And congrats again on being a BlogPaws ambassador! I wish I could meet you again this year, but I'll be watching the live stream from afar!
Last year was my first year attending BlogPaws and it was great! It looks like there is another amazing group of ambassadors. I am looking forward to going again this year | 2,083 |
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Someone associated with the England soccer team has suffered a significant injury at the World Cup, but it's not quite what you might think.
England manager Gareth Southgate dislocated his shoulder on Wednesday in a jogging accident, and he met the media with his right arm in a sling as a result.
Southgate wasn't letting the injury get him down, preferring to look on the bright side and crack a few jokes.
"It is better this is me than one of the players," Southgate said, via the FA's official website. "They were a bit surprised in the team meeting and were asking 'what have you been doing!?' – as always, they were probably quite amused. It is good<|fim_middle|>'re guessing there was a fall involved, in which case the England manager might want to work on his coordination for the future. | that we have had a quiet day today so I had prepared the meeting before and we are on to preparations for Panama.
Southgate joked there would be one tangible consequence of his injury.
Hey, bizarre injuries happen to the best of us. We | 49 |
Luis Trenker does not only care about your good looks. Its cooperation with 'Physiotherm' is also proof that the company cares about how you feel, too. What is really striking is the marriage of innovative technology and traditional values.
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The modern infrared cubicle adds an Alpine flair to the living area with lovingly made details such as a ski attached to the outer wall and an ancient belt buckle serving as the handle on the cubicle's door.
Physioterm's technology is also part of the main furnishing for the LUIS TRENKER Special Edition suites.
Physiotherm GmbH is a market leader in the development and manufacturing of infrared cubicles. The low temperature infrared technology guarantees a healthy sweating action from 30°C. This will not endanger the blood circulation; in fact, it will alleviate tensions and back pain, and strengthen the immune system and blood circulation.
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When it comes to home design, the human eye is drawn<|fim_middle|> pendant light for your home. | to that which is visually striking—whether in shape, color or placement. What do you want people to notice when they first enter a new room inside your home? You may have a perfectly pleasant design scheme, but is it missing that one "wow factor" that ties the space together and gives people a real reason to remember your place?
One simple, space-conscious way to drum up interest in a room is adding a ceiling-mounted light fixture. Have you considered a hanging lamp instead?
The living room should be, well, the life of your house. It's the natural place where people gravitate, mingle, unwind after a long day and tackle their favorite hobbies. But none of this can happen without ample lighting!
Hanging a large globe pendant high above your sitting area kills two birds with one stone: it casts a pleasant overhead glow and makes an impression with its unique shape and shade material. If your home is particularly open concept or your ceilings higher than average, consider hanging a collection of globes to multiply the visual appeal.
The kitchen is the premier place for a well-placed pendant. This is not a space to compromise on visibility! Preparing even the most basic of recipes is dangerous, if not downright impossible, without strong overhead light. And when you're cooking, you certainly don't want to worry about sending a table or floor lamp flying with a stray elbow or knee. In such a physical space, you need everything to stay streamlined.
Hanging lamps, particularly mini pendants and drum pendants, are the perfect way to shine task lighting onto your island or counter workspace without adding a fixture at ground-level. While you're busy whipping up the chef's special in your brightly-lit workspace, the rest of the room only benefits from the beautiful shapes and colors of whatever shade material you choose.
Some people prefer to stick with an old-school chandelier over their dining room table, but not you. You're modern all the way—plus, who wants to spend hours cleaning each individual crystal? But of course, you still want your eating space to stick out and provide a stunning backdrop for group meals.
Have you considered dual hanging lights? Instead of one heavy chandelier smack dab in the middle of the ceiling, two large modern pendant lights placed near either end of a rectangular table tend to add a dash of sophisticated symmetry. Plus, with two fixtures, you'll never have to worry about uneven lighting bringing down one of your legendary dinner parties.
For some reason, decorating the bedroom often takes a backseat to decorating the more public spaces. Of course you want your home to look its best for guests, but don't you deserve to pull out all the stops for yourself, too? After all, you're the one who will spend the most time in your bedroom.
Don't just settle for the outdated yet still-functional flush mount that came with the home. Treat yourself to a light display fit for royalty so you can feel your best at the beginning and end of each day! Whether you choose a spa-like bowl pendant in a beautiful natural material or a series of contemporary hanging pendants that are positively artsy, you'll be glad you took the time to spruce up your personal sanctuary.
As you can see, hanging lights are a great addition to virtually any room in the house. If you've got a blank patch of ceiling and a burst of inspiration, you're ready to find the perfect show-stopping | 688 |
Jay Barton II, former UA president, dies at age 78, Sequim, Washington (AP) September 12, 2000
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Jay Barton II, an educational administrator and promoter of international development who headed the statewide University of Alaska system for five years, is dead after a brief illness. He was 78.
Barton, a biologist by training, died Aug. 21 at his home in this Olympic Peninsula community.
After working as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Columbia University in New York City and at several other schools, he became vice president and provost of West Virginia University from 1968 to 1979, president of the University of Alaska system from 1979 to 1984 and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Missouri from 1985 to 1989.
Barton also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Pakistan, spent two years in Peru as an adviser to the National Agrarian University, helped administer an agricultural training program in Tanzania and lectured at Milan, Italy.
Barton was born in Chicago and received a doctorate in zoology from the University of Missouri in 1951. He was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree<|fim_middle|> in the Pacific from 1943 to 1946.
He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Ann Taylor Barton of Bainbridge Island, Wash.; seven children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
A private family memorial was held Aug. 26. | by the University of Alaska in 1984.
He served with the U.S. Army | 20 |
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Drove many miles to the Marias and Missouri rivers confluence. This was called Decision Point because the expedition had to decide which of the two rivers coming together led from the high mountains, and so, would take them close to the Columbia's headwaters. Lewis and Clark sent out people to scout out each river for a few miles and report back. They disagreed on which would go up the mountains, but decided on the Missouri. Its waters were more clear, so they figured it was more likely to come directly from the mountains.
Today we drove to the Confluence of the Marias and the Missouri. I think they decided by a coin toss which river to take. Then we drove to Ft. Benton, checked into our hotel, and had dinner. After that, we<|fim_middle|> bags to stuff tonight, and told us to meet there at 9am the next morning packed and ready to go. We did a laundry and I drove Aron back to our restaurant for a banana split. I can't believe he ate the whole thing! | went to a meeting at our guide, Jim's, house, where we received 2 waterproof bags-One that we would only have access to at camp, the other which we would take in our large canoe with us. Then I ate an enormous banana split and we all retired to our beds.
Drove a bit more to Fort Benton, Montana, where we are spending the night. We walked around the town, which was mostly constructed from 1866-1890. Then the river ceased to be used for shipping, and the gold was panned out, so the town was left alone and barely changed. It has a grand old hotel, built in around 1880, and the waterfront has a colorful history of drunken brawls, thievery, and prostitutes.
Ft. Benton, MT: replica of the keelboat "Mandan"
Had an early dinner. At 7p met with our leader for a three-day canoe trip, Jim Cummings, and with two of his assistants, Whitney Norville and Nate _. They told us what to expect, what to take, gave us our overnight dry bags and our day | 236 |
The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell to a four-year low last week, suggesting employers kept hiring in March at a healthy pace.
Weekly applications dropped 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 357,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. That's the fewest since April 2008.
The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell to 361,750, also the lowest in four years.
Applications have been steadily declining since last fall. The four-week average fell 4 percent in the January-March quarter, after dropping 8 percent in the final three months of last year.
When unemployment benefit applications drop consistently below 375,000, it usually signals that hiring is strong enough to lower the unemployment rate.
The downward trend in applications is a promising sign ahead of Friday's report on March job growth. Employers added an average of 245,000 jobs per month from December through February. And the unemployment rate has fallen from 9.1 percent in August to 8.3 percent in February, the lowest in three years.
Economists forecast that employers added 210,000 jobs last month, although they expect the unemployment rate was unchanged for the second straight month.
"We believe that<|fim_middle|>aining phase of the recovery with stronger job creation," said John Ryding, an analyst at RDQ Economics, in a note to clients.
Consumers are growing more confident in the economy and are stepping up spending. Many large retail chains on Thursday reported healthy sales in March.
Gap Inc., Target Corp. and Macy's were among the retailers reporting solid gains. Overall, revenue in stores open at least one year — an indicator of a retailer's health — rose 4.1 percent, according to a preliminary tally of 22 retailers by the International Council of Shopping Centers.
Analysts said a better job market and rising stock prices are encouraging more Americans to shop. Last week the government said consumer spending jumped in February by the most in seven months.
Other data show consumers and businesses are more optimistic about the economy. | the economy has entered a more self-sust | 9 |
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Quickly make 10 jumbo (2.5-inch) square ravioli with classic fluted edges; uniform-sized pasta cooks evenly for<|fim_middle|> forms, fills, seals, and cuts 10 jumbo (2.5-inch) square ravioli at a time. Nothing tastes better than homemade pasta and uniformly sized ravioli cooks evenly for better-tasting results. Simply roll and cut a sheet of dough and drape over the Ravioli Maker base. Firmly press the rounded form into the dough to create wells, remove the form and spoon in the ravioli filling. Drape another sheet of dough on top and press a rolling pin across the top to cut the pasta and seal in the stuffing. Cook according to recipe. Grandma Luisa's Jumbo Ravioli Maker features classic fluted edges for authentic looking pasta, 10 at a time. BPA free and FDA approved. Easy to use and store. Includes instructions and Fante's family recipes. Hand wash in warm, soapy water. | better-tasting results.
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Fante's Grandma Luisa's Jumbo Ravioli Maker easily creates authentic stuffed pasta. It | 80 |
Shop Schlagworte Indische, Ost-Indoeuropäische und Dravidische Sprachen The Gorani language of Zarda, a village of West Iran
Mahmoudveysi, Parvin; Bailey, Denise
The Gorani language of Zarda, a village of West Iran
Texts, grammar, and lexicon
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This volume presents the documentation and description of an endangered variety of the Gorani language as spoken in Zarda, a village located near Sar Pol-e Zahab and Kerend in Kermanshah province, western Iran. The volume contains background information about the village and society, eight texts with English translations, an interlinear morphemic glossed text, and a grammatical description and lexicon based on the material in the texts. Audio recordings of the texts are included on a CD.
This volume presents the documentation and description of an endangered variety of Gorani as spoken in Zarda, a village located near Sar Pol-e Zahab and Kerend in Kermanshah province of western Iran. The contents of this volume—texts, translations, a grammatical description, lexicon, an interlinear glossed text, and audio recordings on a CD—provide foundational material for research in linguistics, Iranian studies, anthropology, sociology, and oral tradition studies. Along with an earlier volume (on Gorani of Gawraju), this book can serve as a valuable resource for multilingual education as well as language maintenance and revitalization.
The variety of Gorani from Zarda is genetically classified as North‑West Iranian within the Indo‑European language family. For many centuries, Gorani had the prestigious role as the court and literary language of the Kurdish Ardalan rulers (14th to 19th centuries), and as the language of the sacred texts of the Ahl‑e Haqq (also known as Yaresan). In modern times, Gorani varieties are undergoing sociolinguistic processes of shift and loss, and there are only a few speech enclaves remaining in this area of western Iran. In neighboring Iraq, several Gorani varieties are also found, including those commonly named as Macho, Hawrami, Shabaki, Bajelani, Kakayi, and Zangana.
The Zarda grammar and lexicon in this book treat many characteristic features of the Gorani group, including an oblique case marked on noun phrases and a complex system of verb agreement with aspects of ergative-absolutive patterning in past tense clauses. There are also noteworthy phonological features and processes, including the lenition of plosives.
The Zarda texts presented in this volume involve several themes, including some of distinct historical and social importance. Three of the texts consist of eyewitness accounts of events that took place towards the end of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), when the small village of Zarda and the pilgrimage site of Baba Yadigar came under attack by the Iraqi military forces, and the civilian population was bombed with chemical gas. Other topics in the texts include descriptions of wildlife, local plant life, agriculture, and there are also several traditional narratives.
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Washington Nationals' lineup for the second of four with the Atlanta Braves in SunTrust...
Davey Martinez's squad plays the second of four with the Braves at 7:20 PM tonight in SunTrust Park.
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With a 32-13 record going back to May 24th after last night's 13-4 win over Atlanta's Braves in SunTrust Park, and wins in 14 of their last 18, 19 of their last 25 games, and 28 of the last 40, the Washington Nationals improved to 51-44 overall on the season after a 19-31 start to the 2019 campaign.
With the win over the NL East's first-place team, the Nats pulled within 5.5 games of the division lead with three more to play in the Braves' home this weekend.
Looking back on the way things started this season, Nationals' GM Mike Rizzo told 106.7 the FAN in D.C.'s Sports Junkies this week that he had never experienced something like that in his long career<|fim_middle|> thought they assembled for the season.
"I thought all along that this was going to be a good team," he said.
"I thought that we were a 90-92 win-ish team coming out of Spring Training and that's how we attacked the offseason and early on in this season. So when it doesn't go your way, you try and find remedies for it, and kind of some fixes, and again, coaching staff and our minor league staff, our development staff that kept developing these players that we could bring up to kind of stopgap these things till we got healthy are to be commended."
The lineup today does look a bit more impressive than the one the Nationals fielded in Miller Park on that May trip. No offense to those players, of course...
HERE'S THE NATIONALS' LINEUP FOR THE 2ND OF 4 WITH THE BRAVES:
Don't let Stephen Strasburg's all-time performance distract you from the fact that ⭐️All-Star⭐️ Anthony Rendon had 3 hits with 2 doubles, an RBI and a walk last night.#OnePursuit pic.twitter.com/InzK7oG7gm
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"This was the most frustrating two months that I've ever had as an executive and as a baseball guy," Rizzo said, "just because of all the things that happened.
"It just kind of roller coastered and dominoed on us, it was — when Trea Turner goes down and then [Juan] Soto goes down, [Anthony] Rendon goes down, [Ryan Zimmerman] goes down, [Matt] Adams goes down, two of our starting pitchers go down, all in a big bulk of the season, then you're playing — the toughest part of your season really was in those first two months."
At the risk of offending some of the players the Nationals were fielding at that point, Rizzo recalled looking at the lineup card during a rough road trip in May and not being sure how they would do it.
"I remember going into the clubhouse when we were on the road trip where we were in Philly for three, Milwaukee for three, and Los Angeles for four, and the lineup card on the wall, I go to Davey [Martinez], 'How are you going to pull this one off?' you know what I mean? With the lineup that we were featuring there. It was several Triple-A players, we had bench players that we were playing every day, we had pitchers that we have high regard [for] but we thought that needed more seasoning in the minor leagues, and we've got these guys in prominent roles against some big-time teams, and we're just treading water to keep our nose afloat and from not drowning totally, so, again, a testament to that coaching staff and to Davey, he kept this club together when it could have splintered off very, very easily.
"I didn't hear and I didn't notice, and I'm around all the time," Rizzo said, "... one player, one veteran, one young player, pointing a finger or blaming someone else either on the record or anonymously. There was nobody back-biting the manager."
"Everything was handled professionally and the way a big league team should."
Now that the Nationals are healthy, for the most part, though a few players are still banged up and everyone's waiting to see when Max Scherzer returns, they're playing like the team Rizzo and Co. in the front office | 473 |
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Spin move still works for Cardinals' Dwight Freeney
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Arizona linebacker Dwight Freeney (54) forces Minnesota quarterback Teddy Bridgewater to fumble last week. (Ross D. Franklin / AP)
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — In Dwight Freeney's 14th NFL season, his trademark spin move still works just fine.
Minnesota quarterback Teddy Bridgewater was its latest victim.
Freeney spun around tackle Matt Kalil and stripped the ball from Bridgewater's hands in the waning seconds of the game, thus preserving Arizona's 23-20 win over the Vikings last Thursday night.
The play gave him 115 1 / 2sacks, good enough for 19th on the NFL career list. His 46 forced fumbles are tied with his former teammate Robert Mathis for most among active players.
A big share of those sacks came when he spun around the would-be blocker, a move he says dates back to his basketball days at Bloomfield High School in Bloomfield, Connecticut.
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"Every single time I got the ball in the post I had a little spin move I got called for traveling," Freeney said. "So I decided to play football. In football there's no traveling, right? It's funny but I think it probably started from there."
Freeney went on to become a first-round draft choice of the Indianapolis Colts, joining Mathis to wreak havoc on the opposing quarterbacks.
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Cardinals coach Bruce Arians recalled facing Freeney in those days.
"You had to know where he was all the time and game plan for him," Arians said after Wednesday's practice. "…Of course you had Robert Mathis on the other side. It was no piece of cake. Sometimes one of them (you) had to single block and you held your breath."
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Freeney made the Pro Bowl seven times and was a three-time All-Pro selection. He left the Colts in 2012 and spent the last two years with the San Diego Chargers.
Freeney found himself out of work when this season began and was considering retirement when the Cardinals came calling. Arizona had lost its top pass rusher off the edge, Alex Okafor, with a calf injury. Freeney signed a one-year contract on Oct. 13.
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His role is limited to obvious passing situations and he did well enough that, when Okafor returned, Freeney stayed in the rotation on an Arizona team that's 11-2, has won seven in a row and can clinch the NFC West title with a win Sunday night in Philadelphia.
"Two months ago I didn't know if I was going to play," Freeney said. "But the things we're going through now is why I decided to come back, to have these types of feelings, and this camaraderie with this team and just be able to go after another ring."
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He compared his spin move to a pitcher's "out" pitch.
"I don't spin every time," Freeney said. "Sometimes I try to beat you inside. Sometimes I bull rush you. But I try to make them all kind of look the same. I guess the longer you play, you can figure it out, figure out how to make everything look the same so he doesn't know what's going to happen."
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The staple in his repertoire, though, is that spin.
"I'm spinning when I get off the bus, I'm spinning when I get out of the locker room," he said. "That's just me."
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Freeney signed a one-year deal for the veteran's minimum of $870,000 with incentives that could tack on another $1 million.
The sack of Bridgewater was Freeney's fourth of the season, earning him an extra $200,000. From here on out, he gets $100,000 per sack up to $1 million.
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"I'm not going to try harder because there's incentives," Freeney said. "I'm already giving 110 (percent). There isn't much more to give. But it makes it a little more fun, something to talk about."
And a little something to put in his pocket.
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Zoning Of Apple Trees In Province Of Khorasan Razavi, Iran
Mokhtar Karami, Mehdi Asadi
Zoning, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Khorasan Razavi, Geographical Information System (GIS).
The main objective of this study was to investigate the feasibility of prone areas for apple cultivation in Razavi Khorasan province. Therefore, in this study, criteria and sub criteria were considered to determine suitable areas for growing apple trees, and due to the importance of data integration, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was selected to determine the weight of layers. The software ArcGIS version 10.2.2 was used to analyze the spatial and overlapping layers, after data analysis, in terms of growing apple trees, Razavi Khorasan province was divided into four levels: very good, good, average and bad. The results showed that suitable areas for growing apple trees in the studied area are located in the south, east, northeast and center of the province including Sarakhs, Neyshaboor, Gonabad and Kashmar stations with an area of over 4364789.32 hectares, which is about 48.34% of the total area of the province.
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Iranian Defector Dedicates Olympic Silver Medal to Israel
In one of the most beautiful<|fim_middle|>-kilogram division after losing the gold to Japan's Takanori Nagase.
Foreign Desk News reports on the touching story:
Mollaei represented Mongolia to win his first Olympic medal after leaving Iran two years ago after it was reported that his coaches had instructed him to lose in the 2019 semifinals at the World Championships in Tokyo only to prevent him from going up against Israeli opponent, Sagi Muki, in the final, according to The Times of Israel.
After this incident, Mollaei moved to Germany and then became a Mongolian citizen.
Coincidently, Mollaei and his would-be Israeli opponent, Muki, became friends after the 2019 World Championship incident, offering each other support.
"I'm super happy for Saeid," Muki said in a press conference of Israeli reporters Tuesday.
"I know what he's gone through, and how much he wanted it. He's a very close friend of mine, and I'm so happy that he succeeded in achieving his dream. He deserves it — his journey is incredibly inspiring."
In his dedication, Mollaei told the Israeli Sports Channel, "Thank you to Israel for the good energy. This medal is dedicated also to Israel. I hope the Israelis are happy with this win."
Two Olympians, representing Sudan and Algeria, have recently bowed out of the current Games in order to not compete against Israel's Tohar Butbul. Muki placed ninth in this week's competition, and the story of the two athletes' unlikely friendship is under development for television by Israel's Tadmor Entertainment and MGM.
Former COVID-19 Investigator Claims France Warned U.S. About Wuhan Lab in 2015 | stories of humanity to ever have existed, an Iranian Olympian just dedicated his silver medal to Israel. Saeid Mollaei is a former Iranian judoka who now represents the Mongolia team and just won the silver medal in the men's 81 | 52 |
Alameda out at Na Leo
By NANCY COOK LAUER West Hawaii Today | Friday, December 3, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Assistant General Manager and Marketing Manager Micah Alameda announces his resignation on Na Leo TV on a Nov. 5 sports show. (taken from Na Leo video)
Na Leo TV is undertaking a management change following former CEO Stacy Higa's guilty plea to federal embezzlement and bribery charges and the subsequent filing of a whistleblower hostile workplace complaint by an employee there.
A 13-page statement of offense, signed Aug. 19 by Higa, detailed a complicated series of transactions among Higa; co-conspirator Hanalei Aipoalani, who has also pleaded guilty; Na Leo; Makaala Solutions LLC, a business and leadership consulting company owned by three of Higa's Na Leo employees — Assistant General Manager and Marketing Manager Micah Alameda, Grants Manager Kyle Kawano and Production Manager Matt Cordero and Kawaico Inc., an embroidery company owned by Higa and his wife at their Hilo home address.
A Na Leo employee who requested anonymity filed a workplace complaint Oct. 29 with the Na Leo board of directors and the state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs' Cable Television Division, saying the continued management by the three named managers made the employees "very uncomfortable and unsafe."
Alameda announced he was leaving Nov. 5 on a Na Leo sports recap show, saying, "It's been an absolute honor and privilege of my professional career," to co-host the show.
Interim Na Leo CEO Connie Kiriu said Thursday the nonprofit's investigation into the allegations is not finalized. The board had earlier commissioned an independent third-party investigation and audit after learning of Higa's involvement.
"The findings of the investigation were presented to the Board and it allayed any concern of "personal profit" by any Na Leo employee beyond what was already reported in the media concerning Higa," the Na Leo board said in a statement earlier about the first investigation.
Kiriu said Alameda left voluntarily. Alameda couldn't be reached for comment by press-time Thursday.
The community television station has created a new position of business manager and is currently advertising to fill it. The position serves as chief financial, human resources and administrative services officer. The station also is seeking an accounting clerk.
There are no records of legal action in federal court against the three employees.
The statement of offense doesn't specifically name the companies or the parties other than Higa and Aipoalani, but the names were ascertained by the newspaper from public records, campaign spending reports and business filings.
Higa, a former County Council chairman and mayoral candidate, faces a likely range of between 46 and 57 months in prison and a fine of up to $200,000. In his plea agreement, he pointed to the three managers as having a part in his schemes.
The statement signed by Higa says Higa asked his three Na Leo employees to create Makaala Solutions with him as a silent partner, and he had control over it. He then had Kawano create a back-dated false invoice for $270,000 and other invoices through Na Leo adding up to $845,000 of CARES Act funds based on his relationship with Aipoalani, who had been named City and County of Honolulu Department of Community Services grant administrator for coronavirus relief funding.
Makaala Solutions also received $39,962.95 in AmeriCorps money based on contracts signed by Higa, and, in turn, forwarded $25,142.10 to Kawaico Inc., for Higa's own use. Another $4,000 was sent to Higa's mayoral campaign account as a business donation. In addition, $20,000 was spent on Higa's elective cosmetic dental care.
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Flash flood watch issued; blizzard and high wind warnings in effect for summits
Former governors defend emergency proclamations | Aipoalani admitted to embezzling from AmeriCorps and agreeing to accept a bribe under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. He was sentenced to 46 months in prison.
Email Nancy Cook Lauer at ncook | 58 |
Q: How do I find objects with a property inside another object in JavaScript I have a object with all my users, like so:var users = {user1:{}, user2:{}}, And every user has a isPlaying property. How do I get all users that have isPlaying false?
A: You should use Object.keys, Array.prototype.filter and Array.prototype.map:
// This will turn users object properties into a string array
// of user names
var userNames = Object.keys(users);
// #1 You need to filter which users aren't playing. So, you
// filter accessing users object by user name and you check that
// user.isPlaying is false
//
// #2 Using Array.prototype.map, you turn user names into user objects
// by projecting each user name into the user object!
var usersNotPlaying = userNames.filter(function(userName) {
return !users[userName].isPlaying;
}).map(function(userName) {
return users[userName];
});
If it would be done using ECMA-Script 6, you could do using arrow functions:
// Compact and nicer!
var usersNotPlaying = Object.keys(users)
.filter(userName => users[userName].isPlaying)
.map(userName => users[userName]);
Using Array.prototype.reduce
As @RobG has pointed out, you can also use Array.prototype.reduce.
While I don't want to overlap his new and own answer, I believe that reduce approach is more practical if it returns an array of user objects not playing.
Basically, if you return an object instead of an array, the issue is that another caller (i.e. a function which calls the one doing the so-called reduce) may need to call reduce again to perform a new operation, while an array is already prepared to fluently call other Array.prototype functions like map, filter, forEach...
The code would look this way:
// #1 We turn user properties into an array of property names
// #2 Then we call "reduce" on the user property name array. Reduce
// takes a callback that will be called for every array item and it receives
// the array reference given as second parameter of "reduce" after
// the callback.
// #3 If the user is not playing, we add the user object to the resulting array
// #4 Finally, "reduce" returns the array that was passed as second argument
// and contains user objects not playing ;)
var usersNotPlaying = Object.keys(users).reduce(function (result, userName) {
if (!users[userName].isPlaying)
result.push(users[userName]);
return result;
}, []); // <-- [] is the new array which will accumulate each user not playing
Clearly using Array.prototype.reduce concentrates both map and filter in a single loop and, in large array, reducing should outperform "filter+map" approach, because looping a large array twice once to filter users not playing and looping again to map them into objects again can be heavy...
Summary: I would still use filter+map over reduce when we talk about few items because sometimes readability/productivity is more important than optimization, and in our case, it seems like filter+map approach requires less explanations (self-documented code!) than reduce.
Anyway, readability/productivity is subjective to who does the actual coding...
A: Iterate through your users object:
var list = [];
for (var key in users) {
if (users[key].isPlaying === false) {
list.push(key);
}
}
This will give you a list of all users who have an isPlaying property that is false.
If you would like all of the user objects where isPlaying is false, you can add the objects themselves instead:
var list = [];
for (var key in users) {
if (users[key].isPlaying === false) {
list.push(users[key]);
}
}
A: This can also be achieved using Array.prototype.reduce, which is a great all<|fim_middle|> false, you can do:
var usersNotPlaying = userNames.reduce(function(names, name) {
if (!users[name].isPlaying) {
names.push(name);
}
return names}, []);
To return an object of user objects with their names as keys is similar:
var usersNotPlaying = userNames.reduce(function(names, name) {
if (!users[name].isPlaying) {
names[name] = users[name];
}
return names}, {});
You could also use forEach in a similar way, however since it returns undefined the object or array collecting the members must be initialised in an outer scope first:
var usersNotPlaying = {};
userNames.forEach(function(name) {
if (!users[name].isPlaying) {
usersNotPlaying[name] = users[name];
}
});
You can also use for..in:
var usersNotPlaying = {};
for (var user in users) {
if (users.hasOwnProperty(user) && !users[user].isPlaying) {
usersNotPlaying[user] = users[user];
}
}
All of the above can return an array of names, array of user objects or object of user objects. Choose whatever suits. ;-)
A: Please try the JS code below: set all the isPlaying to false.
var json_object={};//{"user1":{"isPlaying":"false"},"user2":{"isPlaying":"ture"}};
json_object['user1']={"isPlaying":"false"};
json_object['user2']={"isPlaying":"ture"};
console.log(json_object);
for(var key in json_object){
if(json_object[key].isPlaying === "false"){/*do what you want*/}
}
console.log(json_object);
| round tool. It starts with getting an array of the names:
var userNames = Object.keys(users);
To return an array just the user names where isPlaying is | 33 |
Home » Music Department Administration » Faculty and Artist Affiliates » William Ransom
Mary Emerson Professor of Piano
Director of Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta
Office: Schwartz Center, Room 336
Email: wransom@emory.edu
D.M.A. 1985, University of Michigan
Pianist, Artistic Director, Master teacher, editor and judge for international competitions, William Ransom regularly appears in recital, as soloist with orchestras, and as a chamber musician in Eastern and Western Europe, Japan, Korea, South America, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the United States. He has performed in New York's Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Town Hall, and Merkin Hall; in Orchestra Halls in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and Atlanta; at the National Gallery in Washington D.C.; and in Philadelphia, Boston, Miami, and Dallas. He has been invited to perform for the American Ambassadors to Austria, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands and Ireland, and his performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio and Television in the United States, Japan, Korea, Argentina, and Poland. His recording of Enoch Arden, by Richard Strauss, The Music of Alfredo Barili, Chamber Music of Johannes Brahms and "Listening to Memories" with Chopin, Brahms and Bach were released on the ACA label. Ransom can also be heard on Heartkeys, from Rising Star Records.
Ransom commissioned and premiered several major works by composer Stephen Paulus including his "Concert<|fim_middle|> played to perfection." The Journal, New York
"A technical dazzler, and more." Detroit Free Press
"He made the piano sing." Le Sud-Ouest, France
Link to Highlands Cashiers Chamber Music Festival | o for Piano and Wind Ensemble", and he was also the featured pianist performing music by Dwight Andrews used in August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway hit, The Piano Lesson, as well as the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie based on the same play. A popular performer on many University concert series, he has performed at numerous colleges around the world including Yale, Cornell, Duke, Tulane, Vanderbilt, M.I.T., Stanford, Toho (Japan), Yonsei (Korea), and the School of the Arts (Argentina) where he has also given master classes.
Born in Boston, Ransom began his musical studies at an early age. He was a scholarship student of William Masselos at The Juilliard School in New York (BM and MM), and he also worked with Theodore Lettvin at the University of Michigan (DMA) and Madame Gaby Casadesus at the Ravel Academy in France. Ransom is currently the Mary L. Emerson Professor of Piano at Emory University in Atlanta. He is founder and Artistic Director of the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta collaborates with such artists as cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Steven Isserlis; clarinetist Richard Stoltzman; members of the Juilliard, Tokyo, Cleveland, St. Petersburg, American, Ariel, Parker, Vega, Borromeo, Lark, Cavani and Muir String Quartets; violinists William Preucil, Elmar Oliviera, Tim Fain and Robert McDuffie; guitarist Eliot Fisk, and members of the Empire Brass Quintet, the Eroica Trio and the percussion group Nexus among many other classical musicians. He has also worked with jazz great Dave Brubeck and American masters Chris Thile and Mark O'Connor. In the summers, Ransom is Artistic Director of the Highlands- Cashiers Chamber Music Festival in North Carolina and for ten years was also an artist- faculty member of the Kamisaibara Pianists Camp in Japan. In 2016 he was named Artistic Director of the Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival and also one of Musical America Worldwide's "30 Musical Innovators".
"One of the greatest of the new generation of pianists." La Voz, Argentina
"His playing really caught fire, filling the hall with pianistic sparks that brought the audience to its feet." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Full of natural vitality and richly expressive. An impressive performance." Ongaku no Tomo, Japan
"Ransom's power was overwhelming. Technically perfect, musically expressive and lyrical, his performance offered only delight. He | 537 |
7-Things For Jacksonville: Part III.
6. Jags- The Jags are at Home looking for vengeance. "Obviously, we're playing a really good team this week. This team has a lot of talent. They're very well-coached. They're a tough, physical team. This will be a big challenge for us down there on the road," BB said. "Offensively, it's a very explosive group. They've got them at every position: the receivers, tight end, all of the backs, the quarterback. All of those guys have made big plays for them and are very dangerous players if they get any space. [Jags got] a good offensive line, a big, physical group." They have to hit Bortles, like they hit Watson last week.
They might have the best D-line in the NFL. "He's a really good speed rusher that has more than speed (Ngakoue), but he wins with speed and he makes you defend the speed and then he sets up other things off of that," BB said. "That's definitely his go-to move, is his get-off and his edge rush, and his speed. But when you overplay that, he's quick enough to come underneath. He can turn speed into power and he can counter, so he's certainly got enough to be a problem in a lot of ways." Ngakoue is not the only guy.
They got rushers to hit Brady all over their D-line. "Again, complemented by some good inside pressure, guys like Campbell that can move the inside part of the pocket and not allow the quarterback to step up away from the edge rush that he and Fowler a lot of times have," BB said. "Jackson, and Campbell and guys like that that are up the middle of the pocket keep the quarterback from stepping up. Fowler and Ngakoue are on the edge and keep the quarterback from standing back. So there's not a lot of space in there. They've got a very balanced pass rush. It's not one guy. It's not one thing. Then they run games with it, and occasionally they blitz the linebackers, too. They do a good job. It's a lot of hard guys to block." The O-line is going to have<|fim_middle|>.
The 2nd Half is going to be a brutal bake fest. I just don't see how they win this war of attrition. The weather is just too brutal. But… but, I got a good feeling about this game. I go that feeling that BB, Brady, and the Defense win his game for the Pats. And I have no Idea how or why.
Also Corey Coleman and Kenyon Barner were not activated for this game. So the Pats have… about… two WRs on the roster? Three? If they include Fowler? Four? If they include Slater? I just don't know how they win this game? But I got that feeling. | to be great for the Pats to win this week.
7. Pats Will Somehow Win? Don't Ask Me How?- The Jags have an advantage on defense, but it seems to me the Pats should have an advantage on defense as well. The Pats D-line was terrific last week, maybe even better than the Jags vaunted D-line was last week. They were killing Watson.
I don't think the Pats can win this game. The weather and humidity is deadly down there today. We've seen the Pats melt in the heat of Florida in September a dozen times.
And the Jags are a very talented team. "I mean, they do the things that they do. Like I said, they led the league in almost every category last year, so I would imagine they wouldn't be looking to make a lot of dramatic changes," BB said. "They keep you off balance. If they have a problem with something they have a way to fix it. They have a complement or an answer to it. They do enough to cause you a lot of problems and nobody's really done much against them." Brady and the O-line are going to have to be on the top of their game for 60-minutes | 253 |
Hot Desking (a<|fim_middle|>ien Arbeitsplatz.
Durch Hot Desking werden im Vergleich zum festen Arbeitsplatz pro Mitarbeiter Kosten gespart, da weniger Büroarbeitsplätze benötigt werden. Hot Desking findet vor allem in Bereichen Anwendung, in denen die Mitarbeiter unterschiedliche und kürzere Anwesenheitszeiten haben, zum Beispiel bei Außendienstlern. Voraussetzung für Hot Desking ist die Möglichkeit, Telefonnummer und Datenzugriff einfach umleiten zu können.
Bei dem Bürokonzept Activity Based Working wird Hot Desking angewendet.
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In computing, a parallel programming model is an abstraction of parallel computer architecture, with which it is convenient to express algorithms and their composition in programs. The value of a programming model can be judged on its generality: how well a range of different problems can be expressed for a variety of different architectures, and its performance: how efficiently the compiled programs can execute.[1] The implementation of a parallel programming model can take the form of a library invoked from a sequential language, as an extension to an existing language, or as an entirely new language.
Consensus around a particular programming model is important because it leads to different parallel computers being built with support for the model, thereby facilitating portability of software. In this sense, programming models are referred to as bridging between hardware and software.[2]
Classification of parallel programming models
Classifications of parallel programming models can be divided broadly into two areas: process interaction and problem decomposition.[3][4][5]
Process interaction
Process interaction relates to the mechanisms by which parallel processes are able to communicate with each other. The most common forms of interaction are shared memory and message passing, but interaction can also be implicit (invisible to the programmer).
Shared memory<|fim_middle|>/parallel_comp/#Models
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Ian Foster, Designing and Building Parallel Programs, Argonne National Laboratory
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Main article: Shared memory (interprocess communication)
Shared memory is an efficient means of passing data between processes. In a shared-memory model, parallel processes share a global address space that they read and write to asynchronously. Asynchronous concurrent access can lead to race conditions, and mechanisms such as locks, semaphores and monitors can be used to avoid these. Conventional multi-core processors directly support shared memory, which many parallel programming languages and libraries, such as Cilk, OpenMP and Threading Building Blocks, are designed to exploit.
Message passing
Main article: Message passing
In a message-passing model, parallel processes exchange data through passing messages to one another. These communications can be asynchronous, where a message can be sent before the receiver is ready, or synchronous, where the receiver must be ready. The Communicating sequential processes (CSP) formalisation of message passing uses synchronous communication channels to connect processes, and led to important languages such as Occam, Limbo and Go. In contrast, the actor model uses asynchronous message passing and has been employed in the design of languages such as D, Scala and SALSA.
Partitioned global address space
Main article: Partitioned global address space
Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) models provide a middle ground between shared memory and message passing. PGAS provides a global memory address space abstraction that is logically partitioned, where a portion is local to each process. Parallel processes communicate by asynchronously performing operations (e.g. reads and writes) on the global address space, in a manner reminiscent of shared memory models. However by semantically partitioning the global address space into portions with affinity to a particular processes, they allow programmers to exploit locality of reference and enable efficient implementation on distributed memory parallel computers. PGAS is offered by many many parallel programming languages and libraries, such as Fortran 2008, Chapel, UPC++, and SHMEM.
Implicit interaction
Main article: Implicit parallelism
In an implicit model, no process interaction is visible to the programmer and instead the compiler and/or runtime is responsible for performing it. Two examples of implicit parallelism are with domain-specific languages where the concurrency within high-level operations is prescribed, and with functional programming languages because the absence of side-effects allows non-dependent functions to be executed in parallel.[6] However, this kind of parallelism is difficult to manage[7] and functional languages such as Concurrent Haskell and Concurrent ML provide features to manage parallelism explicitly and correctly.
Problem decomposition
A parallel program is composed of simultaneously executing processes. Problem decomposition relates to the way in which the constituent processes are formulated.[8][9]
Task parallelism
Main article: Task parallelism
A task-parallel model focuses on processes, or threads of execution. These processes will often be behaviourally distinct, which emphasises the need for communication. Task parallelism is a natural way to express message-passing communication. In Flynn's taxonomy, task parallelism is usually classified as MIMD/MPMD or MISD.
Data parallelism
Main article: Data parallelism
A data-parallel model focuses on performing operations on a data set, typically a regularly structured array. A set of tasks will operate on this data, but independently on disjoint partitions. In Flynn's taxonomy, data parallelism is usually classified as MIMD/SPMD or SIMD.
Implicit parallelism
As with implicit process interaction, an implicit model of parallelism reveals nothing to the programmer as the compiler, the runtime or the hardware is responsible. For example, in compilers, automatic parallelization is the process of converting sequential code into parallel code, and in computer architecture, superscalar execution is a mechanism whereby instruction-level parallelism is exploited to perform operations in parallel.
Parallel programming models are closely related to models of computation. A model of parallel computation is an abstraction used to analyze the cost of computational processes, but it does not necessarily need to be practical, in that it can be implemented efficiently in hardware and/or software. A programming model, in contrast, does specifically imply the practical considerations of hardware and software implementation.[10]
A parallel programming language may be based on one or a combination of programming models. For example, High Performance Fortran is based on shared-memory interactions and data-parallel problem decomposition, and Go provides mechanism for shared-memory and message-passing interaction.
Example parallel programming models
Class of interaction
Class of decomposition
Example implementations
Actor model Asynchronous message passing Task D, Erlang, Scala, SALSA
Bulk synchronous parallel Shared memory Task Apache Giraph, Apache Hama, BSPlib
Communicating sequential processes Synchronous message passing Task Ada, Occam, VerilogCSP, Go
Circuits Message passing Task Verilog, VHDL
Dataflow Message passing Task Lustre, TensorFlow, Apache Flink
Functional Message passing Task Concurrent Haskell, Concurrent ML
LogP machine Synchronous message passing Not specified None
Parallel random access machine Shared memory Data Cilk, CUDA, OpenMP, Threading Building Blocks, XMTC
SPMD PGAS Partitioned global address space Data Fortran 2008, Unified Parallel C, UPC++, SHMEM
Global-view Task parallelism Partitioned global address space Task Chapel, X10
Automatic parallelization
Bridging model
Degree of parallelism
Explicit parallelism
List of concurrent and parallel programming languages
Optical Multi-Tree with Shuffle Exchange
Parallel external memory (Model)
^ Skillicorn, David B., "Models for practical parallel computation", International Journal of Parallel Programming, 20.2 133–158 (1991), https://www.ida.liu.se/~chrke55/papers/modelsurvey.pdf
^ Leslie G. Valiant, "A bridging model for parallel computation", Communications of the ACM, Volume 33, Issue 8, August, 1990, pages 103–111.
^ John E. Savage, Models of Computation: Exploring the Power of Computing, 2008, Chapter 7 (Parallel Computation), http://cs.brown.edu/~jes/book/ Archived 2016-11-05 at the Wayback Machine
^ Ian Foster, Designing and Building Parallel Programs, 1995, Section 1.3, "A Parallel Programming Model", http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~itf/dbpp/text/node9.html
^ Blaise Barney, Introduction to Parallel Computing, "Models", 2015, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials | 1,352 |
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Providing connectivity to many rural Ugandans.
Motorola, one of the leading global phone manufacturers yesterday launched a new product on the market called Motopower.�The public function in Uganda was held at Kawempe Mbogo where Sophie Nanyonga became the first woman in Uganda to win herself a Moto kiosk. Motorola is continually forging ahead as a leader in telecommunications and community development. The Motopower product is their way of giving back to the Ugandan community through social development.
The Motopower initiative is designed to bring the power of communication and connectivity to many rural Ugandans who<|fim_middle|> Ugandans along the way to achieving their goals .
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Click ***here*** for the archive of Fiona's Views from Fiona only at UGPulse.com. | find problems in accessing electricity to charge their mobile phones. This in turn renders them unreachable by the rest of the world. The Moto kiosks will be given for free to women. These women will be chosen according to location, their poverty level and the number of dependants they have. Initially, therefore, this business project will target poor women and single mothers. A typical Moto kiosk will have a solar panel on its roof and can charge 24 Motorola phones at a go. Telephony business has to keep looking for new business ventures because urban Ugandans have access to mains electricity and have discerning tastes to decide on which cell phone to use.
The rural folk on the other hand generally do not have such options and mobile phone companies very well realise that whoever brings services closer to the people first among them will reap big. MTN Uganda started with wireless village phones, but Motorola is going one better. Rural Ugandans will be able to buy mobile phones from those kiosks with all their accessories and can have them charged at these kiosks free of charge! It does not matter what network one subscribes to. As long as they are using a Motorola mobile phone, they dont have to worry about low batteries.
After the launch, Cell2Cell, the official Motorola distibutor in Uganda hosted a cocktail party for their dealers and a few invited guests at Kampala Serena Hotels Maisha rooftop. Nikesh Patel, the�Motorola guru in charge of Africa gave a short speech on Motorolas desire to bring communication closer to the people by availing them cheaper products. That done, it was time for a short documentary on the launch in Kawempe and then Blu*3 entertained the guests, who included State Minister of Foreign Affairs Okello Oryem. To officially hand over the Moto kiosk to Nanyonga was Mr. Rogers Baguma of Taangaza, the group that organized the function on behalf of Motorola and Cell2Cell.
With giant phone manufacturers jumping in to improve the lives of Ugandans, especially through empowering rural women, this is quite an awesome partnership. It definitely goes a long way in improving the standards of living of such communities, which will in turn help the beneficiaries of these small businesses improve their family incomes. We applaud Motorola on this unique product and for their desire to help the marginalized | 473 |
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Hard to believe – Les Levine has been gone…
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Les Levine (News-Herald file)
By Jeff Schudel | jschudel@news-herald.com | The News-Herald
PUBLISHED: January 2, 2022 at 2:32 p.m. | UPDATED: January 2, 2022 at 2:41 p.m.
Picking the top 10 pro sports stories of 2021 and then placing them in order was an enjoyable yet challenging task.
One story from last year isn't on the list. That's because the passing of Les Levine last Feb. 3 deserves separate mention.
Levine, a familiar voice on radio and a familiar face on his "More Sports and Les Levine" television show for decades, died after fighting a lengthy battle with Parkinson's disease and diabetes. He was 74.
I had the privilege of being a guest on his television show several times. I knew he was ill, though he never complained. Sometimes he shuffled rather than walked from his office to the studio set.
"The worst part of Parkinson's is it's really difficult to place a golf ball on a tee," He joked one time during a commercial break.
Levine had a long career as a play-by-play announcer on radio doing Kent State and Cleveland State basketball games. Then, for nearly a quarter-century, he was on television, a gig he thoroughly enjoyed. He was "the self-proclaimed voice of truth and reason" yet never took himself too seriously. He often was a guest co-host on WKRK-FM 92.3 The Fan.
Les took pride in coming up with "How Come Quickies." They were a play on words in the form of a question, such as, "How come that thing you can touch with your tongue is called the roof of your mouth and not the ceiling?" He kept a pad of paper and a pen on the passenger seat of his car so he could jot down a "quickie" if he was hit with a flash of inspiration while stuck in traffic or waiting in line at the bank or a railroad crossing.
The pad and pen also served to note his "birthday" characters. Without fail, a segment of "More Sports and Les Levine" was reserved for famous birthdays on whatever date the show aired. Three were genuine, and one was a fictitious name, such as former Chicago Bears center "Ben Dover," or former Yankees third baseman "Kareem Puff." Les always had his birthday person born in 1947 "because odd-numbered years sound funnier than even-numbered years," he said.
Fans liked Levine because he was honest. He praised Cleveland's sports teams when they deserved praise and criticized them when they deserved criticism. He never forgave Art Modell for moving the Browns to Baltimore after the 1995 season. His grudge continued after Modell passed away in 2012.
Les was inducted posthumously into the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame on Oct. 19. Former Cavaliers Larry Nance Jr. and Zydrunas Ilgauskas plus 2003 British Open Champion Ben Curtis were inducted into the Hall of Fame at the same time.
Jeff Schudel | reporter
Jeff Schudel has worked for The News-Herald and The Morning Journal since 1972. He covers the Browns, Indians, Cavaliers and Monsters and helps The News-Herald's coverage of high school sports. He counts covering 18 Super Bowls, the Cavaliers' 2016 NBA championship run, the Indians | 748 |
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