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The Swiss Association for Common Tasks of Health Insurance Companies (SVK) is automating its auditing process. To do this, it is using the Sumex solution developed by Suva and Elca. Sumex enables the digitally supplied accounts of its providers to be audited efficiently and accurately.
The Swiss Association for Common Tasks of Health Insurance Companies (SVK) audits invoices<|fim_middle|> five months", says Roger Schober.
Sumex is a joint project between Suva, various health and accident insurers and Elca as an innovation and technology partner. Over 20 health and accident insurance companies successfully deploy Sumex. Sumex currently checks the accuracy of almost 100 per cent of AIA (Accident Insurance Act) invoices and over 50 per cent of all invoices in line with the Health Insurance Act (HIA). | for health insurance companies, e.g. for transplants, dialysis or artificial nutrition. These invoices are generally complex, and auditing them is time-consuming. The SVK aims to offer optimal support to its customers and provide as efficient a service as possible despite the complexity of cases and strict data protection regulations.
The SVK therefore decided to automate the supplied data to the greatest possible extent, using the Sumex solution developed by Suva and Elca. "Sumex enables us to efficiently receive electronic invoices, process them in line with regulations, and transmit them to our customers", says SVK director, Roger Schober. Thanks to Sumex, the audited invoices can be approved quickly and efficiently. Sumex is part of the "Data collection point in line with the Ordinance on Health Insurance (HIO) 59a", which the SVK developed and brought into operation in collaboration with Elca. "With the professional collaboration and the specialist knowledge of all involved, we were able to successfully implement this challenging project in the record time of | 210 |
St. George awarded medical marijuana processing facility by Utah subsidiary cannabis company
Terell Wilkins
Southern<|fim_middle|>Ascend has a proven record of pharmaceutical research and development of products that meet the high standards our state policymakers intended when they passed the law."
Feldman says TerrAscend plans to have the facility up by mid-year at a location inside the Fort Pierce Industrial Park.
Follow reporter Terell Wilkins on Twitter, @SpeedyVeritas, call him at 252-367-8463 or email him at twilkins@thespectrum.com. | Utah is moving into the cannabis game with a new medical marijuana processing facility expected to open later this year in St. George.
TerrAscend Utah, a subsidiary of TerrAscend Corp., the first global cannabis company licensed for sales in the U.S., Canada, and the European Union, was announced last week it had been granted approval for a Medical Cannabis Processor License by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.
Brian Feldman, General Counsel for TerrAscend and TerrAscend Utah representative, says after taking a trip to St. George that he knew it was the right area to open the facility.
"From our partners there, they said this was a good area and we met with (St. George Mayor Jon Pike) and I really enjoyed my meeting with him as he made it clear he had some high expectations for the people he wanted to partner with," Feldman said. "Met with some other local health officials and it just seemed like it was just a really great place to do business and that's why we ended up going down there."
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Feldman says he believes the new facility should benefit the city by bringing jobs and supplying the area's growing number of health care providers.
"In terms of benefit to the community, we like that there are some big hospitals there that include some pretty large affiliations so we can hopefully help in getting people the medical help that they need and also employ some local people," Feldman said. "We really want to help out the community and are looking for some spaces while there's some land there that needs tenants so we're looking forward to doing that."
Prominent city officials such as Pike and Jeriah Threlfall, the president of St. George Economic Development, were involved with recruiting the company.
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"We are pleased St. George will have a company like TerrAscend in our community," Threlfall said in a written statement. "Terr | 413 |
This is the movie<|fim_middle|> give it to the local charity shop and buy this. | which made 'big Arnie' a household name - sure the guy's not much of an actor but you certainly wouldn't mess with him! Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton also turn in excellent performances. But then I suppose it doesn't really take too much skill to act like you are scared as the 'the big guy' comes towards you guns blazing.
Despite its fairly cheap budget, The Terminator was well renowned for its impressive special effects. Ok, they look pretty poor by today's standards but I certainly remember how frightening the Terminator looked when the flesh had been ripped away, leaving the metal endoskeleton.
The extra material included doesn't actually warrant a second disc - I'm sure it would all have fitted on one dual-layer disc but then the asking price would have been far less. In fact, most of the extra material we could do without. Does anyone really want to flick through three different copies of the original script on their DVD player? And why is there no voice over commentary during the film? The two interviews with Arnie and Cameron and the behind-the-scene-guys is entertaining but I doubt you'll watch it more than once.
That said, the picture is beautiful, as you'd expect, and the 5.1 Dolby puts you at the centre of the action.
If you haven't watched your old VHS copy for a few years | 278 |
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) sometimes referred to as "the Father of Botany", strayed from his chosen field when he suggested that Atlantis had been located in the Atlantic and that following an earthquake in the Mediterranean, the<|fim_middle|> Lampsacus (c. 250 BC), who declared that the Black Sea had joined the Mediterranean when it overflowed into it and in a similar fashion the Mediterranean had joined the Atlantic.
Stel Pavlou (Atlantipedia.com) has traced Tournefort's comments to the posthumously published Relation d'un voyage du Levant published in sets of two and three volumes. Kessinger has published a facsimile copy of volume 3 and the original French can also be read or downloaded from the Internet(a). An English translation was reportedly published in 1718. | level of that sea rose causing an outflow into the Atlantic that swamped Atlantis. Sprague de Camp states that Tournefort got his idea from the Greek writer Strato of | 36 |
Retail Stores Are Making a Strong Push in the Garment District
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Inside the new Urban Outfitters that flirts with the Garment District border; Photo by Driely S. for Racked
Retailers and commercial landlords alike are always looking to pounce on the next hot New York City neighborhood. Since<|fim_middle|> Fashionable Retail Trend [WSJ]
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521 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10175-0003 212 867 4107 Visit Website | the Financial District retail transformation is already well underway and with Hudson Yards on deck, where will we turn to next? The Wall Street Journal bets that it'll be the Garment District.
Following the debut of the Urban Outfitters lifestyle store here, several developers have been sprucing up their properties along the Broadway corridor that connects Times Square to Herald Square, where the city recently added a pedestrian plaza for lingering tourists. Retail rents in the area have also seem a bump, topping out at $150 per square foot two years ago but now running as high as $350.
"I've been working in this area for 30 years and in the past nine months [the retail change] is moving faster than I have seen" before, said real estate company president Bob Savitt of Savitt Partners.
WSJ contributes that to the changing workforce in the neighborhood—due to cheaper office rents compared to other parts of the city, young companies in the fields of tech, media, and advertising have moved to converted spaces here, and they've got money to burn.
"It's a perfect storm of events," Kenneth Hochhauser of Winick Realty Group told the paper. "There's a more educated workforce, a typically younger workforce and, in some ways, a more voracious workforce."
But what about what the Garment District was built on—garment manufacturing? Will that still have its place in this revitalized neighborhood? Nanette Lepore thinks so. "It won't ever be like it was in the 80s," she said "But there is still a strong manufacturing element here."
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But, the missing piece of the puzzle from a lot of Programmatic, and it's been impressed quite a lot, is the creative element. We need great creative narrative, we need great creative executions. Programmatic's a fantastic way to throw a lot of banners at a website but, really, that's not really working for us as an industry at this time. So, the new tools that we're seeing from people like DoubleClick allowing us to do better creative executions are really gonna be the fuel that keeps Programmatic's fire burning. | the latest developments in the world of Programmatic Display.
Native ads, it's a display ad format, but really it's a catch-all term. What we really mean by native is an ad format unit that fits seamlessly into its surroundings, or relates specifically to the content that it's being served against. Now, in Programmatic, that's always been a bit of a problem because we tend to buy over vast sets of websites, many different pages, many different apps, and we have a variety of places we're gonna serve. So unifying a native advert doesn't really go together.
However, what we do talk about in Programmatic is a particular type of native advert, which is a combination of text and imagery which can be manipulated and changed so it can fit into many more surroundings a lot more seamlessly than just a chunk of image or a typical banner ad. And that's what we typically mean when we're talking about native advertising within Programmatic Display. Of course, native advertising for the old school can be an advertorial, because that's one thing we all know and love, and that can have a journalistic element. But really, we're talking about a sort of in-feed style display, native formats.
So, one thing that's involved in Programmatic is the way that you can actually buy media, the types of deals. In previous videos we've spoken about open-exchange buying which, I think, everybody knows. We've spoken about private marketplace, which can't be about 30% of Programmatic advertising is bought through private marketplaces. Private marketplaces are fantastic. They allow more control to the buyer, they allow us to specify what we want to buy on publisher's sites, whether that's audience or placement, and Programmatic guaranteed is really an extension of that and it actually gets really close to reservation IO-based buying that, actually, we all know and love from the past.
Now, it might not be immediately obvious why you'd want to replicate an IO-buy through a demand-site platform. But, actually, there's a few things that...there's a few advantages of doing that. First and foremost is workflow, it's easier to do things in one platform if you can. But, second of all is, actually, you can start to bring some of your first-party data to the party, which means that you can still execute a reservation buy - you might still have a volume guarantee attached to that, it might have a fixed price - so all those Programmatic parts have kind of gone. But, you can suppress people that you know, your customers, or treat them slightly differently or do something like that. So you can still benefit from the media efficiencies that Programmatic is famous for.
Programmatic, as we all know, has grown ridiculously quickly over the past five, six, seven years, since we've started playing around with this new technology, this protocol for delivering adverts; not a channel, by the way. And one thing that we started to really see extend that growth is the ingestation of more and more formats like the native placements that we've spoken about. But also, you know, it's Programmatic, it means server-to-server integrations, allowing machines to talk to each other to make transactions and make data transfer more effective. And actually, what we're starting to see is more and more players coming to the market, opening up their APIs, and allowing Programmatic buying technologies to work with their data, or to work with their inventory. So we're gonna see growth through application, in that sense, we'll see growth through formats | 729 |
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England manager Gareth Southgate has defended his decision to rest eight players as his side lost 1-0 to Belgium at the World Cup on Thursday.
Speaking after the match, Southgate told reporters (per the Guardian) that he was looking 'at the bigger picture' with England's 'biggest game for a decade' coming up against Colombia on Tuesday.
"This was a game we wanted to win<|fim_middle|> in the games leading into and at the tournament, and I don't think we've played poorly at all tonight.
"We don't like losing and don't want to lose matches, but the primary objective from the evening we've got. And if we'd put Harry on for 10 minutes and someone had raked his ankle, that would have been ridiculous. The knockout game is the important one."
While conceding that that he and his team have a responsibility to produce good football and positive results, Southgate stood firmly by his decision, with which he is 'entirely comfortable'.
"Of course we have a responsibility to the supporters, and the support in the stadium was absolutely outstanding tonight. The support and encouragement from home has been brilliant. But when you're a leader and a manager, you have to make decisions which are right for your group to achieve the primary objective. | but the knockout is the biggest game for a decade for us and we had to make sure our key players were preserved," said Southgate.
"You have to look at the bigger picture sometimes and make decisions which, in some quarters, might be criticised. But everyone understands – in the dressing room and in the group – what we're trying to do.
"With respect, in the Euros I think we were only ahead for a few minutes of any of the games. Here we've played extremely well. We've played well | 103 |
La King's Company, la « Troupe du roi », était l'une des deux compagnies ayant obtenu du roi Charles II le droit de monter des représentations théâtrales<|fim_middle|>'Angleterre) | à Londres au début de la Restauration anglaise, après la fermeture des théâtres imposée pendant dix-huit ans par le régime puritain. L'autre compagnie était la Duke's Company. La King's Company exista de 1660 à 1682.
Historique
Le , Charles II accorda à Thomas Killigrew et à Sir William D'Avenant le privilège temporaire de former chacun une compagnie théâtrale. La Troupe du roi de Killigrew se trouvait sous la protection de Charles lui-même, tandis que celle de Davenant, la Duke's Company (« la Troupe du duc ») était placée sous le patronage de son frère, le duc d'York, futur Jacques II. Les privilèges temporaires furent remplacés par la suite par des lettres patentes, le dans le cas de Killigrew, scellant un monopole héréditaire sur le théâtre pour les titulaires de ces titres.
La Troupe du roi s'installa tout d'abord provisoirement au Red Bull Theatre, situé St John Street à Clerkenwell, puis, de manière plus durable, dans un ancien court de tennis transformé en théâtre, le Gibbon's Tennis Court, situé Vere Street, près de Lincoln's Inn Fields. C'est dans ce lieu que la troupe débuta le par la première partie de Henri IV de William Shakespeare. C'est là également que douze jours plus tard, Samuel Pepys vit pour la première fois de sa vie, et à son grand plaisir, des femmes sur scène lors de la reprise de Beggars' Bush de John Fletcher.
Pour répondre à la concurrence de la Troupe du duc, qui s'était installée aussi dans un ancien court de tennis, Lisle's Tennis Court, mais qui avait pris plus de temps pour l'aménager, Killigrew acheta en 1661 un petit terrain proche de Drury Lane, et y fit construire un théâtre, qui ouvrit en 1663. Appelé à l'époque « King's Playhouse », c'est aujourd'hui le Théâtre de Drury Lane. Il brûla totalement le , et fut reconstruit de façon plus grandiose par Christopher Wren. Pendant les deux ans que dura la resconstruction, la Troupe du roi utilisa Lisle's Tennis Court abandonné par d'Avenant. Rebaptisé « Théâtre Royal de Drury Lane », le nouveau théâtre de Killigrew accueillit deux mille spectateurs le jour de son inauguration par Charles II, le . John Dryden en fut le dramaturge consacré et applaudi.
Killigrew vendit la majorité de ses parts au début des années 1670, et la direction passa, à partir de 1671, dans les mains de son fils, Charles, assisté de l'acteur Hart. Mais les soucis d'argent et les dissensions internes de la troupe affaiblissaient la compagnie, qui résistait de plus en plus mal à la concurrence de la troupe rivale. En 1682, la Troupe du roi fut contrainte de fusionner avec celle du duc, formant l'United Company, sous la direction des personnes de la Troupe du duc. Killigrew mourut peu après.
Membres de la troupe
Au moment de sa fondation, la Troupe du roi disposait d'une grande partie des acteurs les plus expérimentés encore en activité ; Michael Mohun, Charles Hart, John Lacy, Edward Kynaston, Walter Clun, et Thomas Betterton faisaient partie de la troupe initiale. Betterton fut « incité » à quitter la Troupe du roi pour celle du duc peu de temps avant que Edward Montagu, le Lord Chambellan de l'époque, publiât une ordonnance interdisant de tels transferts d'une troupe à l'autre. Cette interdiction serait rappelée dans les lettres patentes de 1662. Les acteurs se trouvèrent liés par contrat à une seule compagnie, et étaient considérés comme les serviteurs du roi ou du duc, sous la protection du Lord Chambellan.
Le , quinze membres de la Troupe du roi — Thomas Killigrew, Sir Robert Howard, et treize acteurs — signèrent un bail avec le duc de Bedford pour l'emplacement du nouveau théâtre de Drury Lane, un accord qui définissait aussi les actionnaires de la compagnie. Les treize acteurs/actionnaires étaient Hart, Mohun, Lacy, Clun, Kinaston, Richard Baxter, Theophilus Bird, Nicholas Blagden, Nicholas Burt, William Cartwright, Thomas Loveday, Robert Shatterell, et William Wintershall.
Killigrew agrandit rapidement sa troupe en y intégrant en 1661 les premières actrices du théâtre anglais : Margaret Hughes, Anne Marshall, Mary Knep, Elizabeth Boutell, Katherine Corey, Elizabeth Cox, Elizabeth James, et, la plus célèbre de toutes, Nell Gwyn<ref> John Harold Wilson, All the King's Ladies: Actresses of the Restoration » », pg 7 à 22</ref>, qui débuta en 1665 dans The Indian Queen, et qui conquit le roi en 1669 en jouant Tyrannic Love''.
Killigrew, en s'engageant dans cette entreprise théâtrale, était motivé davantage par l'aspect financier que par le côté artistique. Durant une grande partie des années 1660, il ne sembla pas beaucoup s'occuper de l'administration courante de l'entreprise, laissant cette tâche aux acteurs plus âgés, tels que Hart, Lacy, and Mohun. Killigrew n'exerça pas — il en aurait été d'ailleurs sans doute incapable — un réel contrôle de la direction artistique de la compagnie.
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When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home. But as it turns out, Nick's childhood home looks like a palace, and he just happens to be the country's most eligible bachelor.
On Nick's arm, Rachel may as well have a target on her back, and her relaxed vacation soon turns into an obstacle course of old money, new money, nosy relatives, and scheming social climbers.
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"Rollicking. . . . A lively, generous story of shallow extravagance and human devotion." —The Boston Globe
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Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web
By R. V. Guha, Dan Brickley, Steve Macbeth
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Recent proliferation of devices with widely varying form factors has dramatically increased the number of different presentation formats that websites must target. At the same time, a number of new personal assistant applications such as Google App and Microsoft's Cortana have started providing sites with new channels for reaching their users. Further, mature Web applications such as Web search are increasingly seeking to use the structured content, if any, to power richer and more interactive experiences. These developments have finally made it vital for both Web and application developers to be able to exchange their structured data in an interoperable fashion.
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Why Oprah Is Smiling Extra Big This Week (Congrats, Lady O!)
It's good to be Oprah (as if you had any doubts, of course). Every year The Hollywood Reporter throws one of my favorite events, the Women in Entertainment breakfast, which not only has a star-studded turnout (last year alone brought Kerry Washington, Ellie Kemper, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling, Cat Deeley, and others), but also includes the WIE Mentorship Program, which pairs inner-city girls with leading women executives from media and entertainment. It's a powerful, inspirational, and heartwarming morning—you know, those kinds of sunny days that a certain mogul loves. And so, this year, Oprah Winfrey will receive the prestigious Sherry Lansing Leadership Award, which recognizes a woman who is a pioneer and a leader in her industry (Our only question? What took so long?!). Oprah's good friend Maria Shriver will present the award, which will take place at the Beverly Hills Hotel on December 11. Between the success of The Butler and the fact that OWN is, yes, coming into it's own, Oprah has a lot of reasons to be smiling. Plus, given her remarkable philanthropy that includes the Oprah Winfrey Foundation, the Oprah Winfrey Scholars Program, and Oprah's Angel Network, there's no one more deserving. Previous honorees include last
Woah, Lance Armstrong Is Going to Confess to Doping on Oprah's Show. Will You Watch?
Wow. After being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in August—and claiming multiple times that he was innocent—Lance Armstrong has admitted during an interview with Oprah Winfrey to using performance-enhancing drugs to win championships. The confession will air in a two-part series starting Thursday, Jan. 17 at 9 p.m. ET on Oprah's Next Chapter. I'm surprised that Lance is confessing after all this time, but I am not surprised he decided to with Oprah—if I was a mega celeb with a big secret to share, she'd be my first choice. She handles celebrities—and their stories—with class. Will you tune in? And what do you think of Lance's confession? Photo: Courtesy of Harpo Studios
Which Female Stars Make the Most Money in Hollywood? (Hint: One of Them is Our November Cover Girl!)
Forbes has released their annual list of "Hollywood's Highest Paid Women." While the number one spot may not be totally shocking--expected, actually--it's so exciting and empowering to see a group of creative, fierce, in some cases young women at the top of their game.
By Lauren Brown
8 Celebrities We Wish Would Start Clothing Lines
While celebrity clothing lines continue to get more and more "huh?!"-inducing (ahem, Rob Kardashian's sock collection!), we rounded up a list of well-dressed ladies we wish would get in the game, instead of some of the C-list "designers" we're stuck with. Wanna see?
By Tracey Lomrantz Lester
We Thought "Kimye" Was a PR Stunt Too--Until We Watched the Way Kim Kardashian Gushed to Oprah Winfrey Last Night!
My friends, I've been battling the nastiness known as strep throat all weekend, but that was not going to stop me from watching the dramatic conclusion of Oprah's Next Chapter with the Kardashians. Last week, I was so impressed with how open and raw Kim got about all her most "controversial" topics--from her 72 day marriage to the sex tape that basically made her famous. I really didn't think Kim would be quite as honest about her new relationship with Kanye West. Why should she? Kim and the rest of the world have been burned by the way she "falls in love hard" one too many times.
Kim Kardashian Really Did Open Up to Oprah About Everything!
So . . . let's cut right to the chase. Tonight was billed as the Oprah's Next Chapter interview with ALL the Kardashians--Kim, Khloe and Lamar Odom, Kourtney and Scott Disick, Rob and even Kris, Bruce, Kylie and Kendall who are technically Jenners. Spoiler alert: you have to wait till part two NEXT week for EVERYONE.
What Does Oprah Winfrey Have In Store For ALL the Kardashians?
I've been totally honest that I watch all things Kardashian pretty religiously. And we're not just talking the original Keeping Up With . . . no, I've "Taken" New York with Kim and Kourtney, Miami with Khloe and Kourtney and watched the love of Khloe and Lamar go from LA to Texas and back. Not to mention all those specials--even Kendall's Sweet Sixteen. So, you better believe that when the whole family sits down with Oprah on Oprah's Next Chapter on Sunday night, I'm tuning in. | .
Ava DuVernay's Advice for Women to Break Glass Ceilings: "Focus on Your Work"
By Jessica Kantor
A Conversation Between Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey Is Just As Magical (and Quotable) As You'd Expect
The pair sat down at the White House's United State of Women Summit on Tuesday.
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Oprah Winfrey Buys 10 Percent of Weight Watchers and Joins the Board of Directors
This morning, Weight Watchers announced that the patron saint of inspiring people herself, Oprah Winfrey, has invested in the brand and joined its board of directors. Weight loss is a topic Winfrey has become known for, as she's spent decades chronicling her own personal progress and sharing tips that have worked for her. In the announcement about the partnership, she credits the organization for helping her keep her progress going. "I believe in the program so much I decided to invest in the company and partner in its evolution," said Winfrey in a press release. Jim Chambers, president and CEO of Weight Watchers said of Winfrey, "We believe that her remarkable ability to connect and inspire people to realize their full potential is uniquely complementary to our powerful community, extraordinary coaches and proven approach." That's for sure. Winfrey officially purchased a 10 percent share in the company, but she's not just a shareholder—she's also a client. She'll continue to share her experiences on the program with the public, which is a move that will undoubtedly bring continued success to the brand. More from Glamour:
By Marissa Gold
Happy 8th Birthday, Twitter! Let's Look Back at These Celebs' First Tweets Ever
Who knew 140 characters could change the world? That's what happened back in 2006, when Jack Dorsey sent the world's first tweet (back in the olden days when Twitter was spelled Twttr): just setting up my twttr— Jack Dorsey (@jack) March 21, 2006 Since then, Twitter has become one of the biggest, most influential social networks in the world (to the point that even Facebook has borrowed some of its trademark features—#copycat). To celebrate eight years of news, jokes, and selfies, let's look back at some of our favorite celebs' first tweets: Ashton Kutcher was one of the site's earliest celeb users (and the first to reach a million followers): dropping my first tweet— ashton kutcher (@aplusk) January 16, 2009 The person with the most followers currently? That would be Katy Perry, with more than 51 million. Dang. Just got into Berlin...feeling better thank you, have my vicks inhaler by my bedside... and P.S. I TWITTTTER! GAH. Such a follower!— Katy Perry (@katyperry) February 21, 2009 My first tweet, peeps. I apologize in advance for my slow learning curve. Nice to (sort of) meet you. It's amazing how quickly 140 charac— Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) November 16, 2009 You get
By Lindy Segal
Obsessed TV Report Card: Lindsay Is the Best Reality Debut in Years
It seems that Lindsay, the Lindsay Lohan reality show produced by Oprah Winfrey, is the guerrilla hit of my TV season. After giving the obligatory eyebrow-raise at the original announcement, I didn't pay attention to it until the trailer dropped on Friday—and, with its true docu-style and arresting sound bites, made me take notice. The show premiered last night, and (as is befitting of O) it's basically a master class in reality television. Lindsay is shot like a more sophisticated True Life—we get background when we need it, stats when they're powerful, and tons of private moments. Of course, none of that matters if you don't have the perfect subject—and as it turns out, Lohan is. She's seen every nook and cranny of the fame game, so she's not affected by the cameras. She's had her every mortifying moment dragged into the public eye, so she's completely unafraid of honesty. She's wary, funny, occasionally bitchy—basically, she reminds me a lot of the rest of us, especially in the sense that she gets up every day seemingly believing that it'll be a happy one. Sometimes her good mood is waylaid by the apartment process (been there) or the indefatigable paparazzi (that
Lindsay Lohan's Reality Show Actually Looks Riveting. (Watch the Trailer Before You Roll Your Eyes)
Today's the day. Three years after Oprah Winfrey's OWN network launched, I finally just found the channel on my TV and set up a series pass for one of its programs: Lindsay, the Oprah-produced docu-series on Lindsay Lohan now. Hold your scoffs for a sec. I too approached the news of Lohan getting her own reality show on OWN with the same maxed-out weariness I've felt at most Lohan news updates since 2010 or so. But the trailer below has me changing my tune for one reason: The tone is dead-on. This isn't a show where we're going to ignore Lohan's struggles and follow her through a Kardashians-style gamut of parties, family antics, and business ideas. It's also not a show that will plate her up like a victim, a sad sack rocking a perpetual single tear, in need of just one (more) second chance. Even in the preview, we're seeing that this is a show that, without being maudlin, will be honest about everything from Lohan's sobriety to her professionalism regarding the series itself. (You've gotta watch, if for no other reason, than to see Winfrey get pissed about Lohan flaking on shoots.) So, if I have one more
6 Moments in Oprah Hair Greatness in Honor of Her Big Birthday Today
It was 60 years ago today that Oprah Winfrey made her world debut. Yes, today is Oprah's 60th birthday, and a milestone like that deserves to be celebrated. So, in tribute to the woman who is constantly encouraging us all to evolve, here are five moments in her great hair evolution: In 1987, it was all about big, Dynasty-worthy locks. The '90s saw a shorter, sassier, more confident O. By 2002, she had graduated to a flippier Meg Ryan-esque cut. In 2005, a straight bob was just her speed. This ponytail in | 1,400 |
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Ten predictions for energy in 2021
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Tori Wilson, May 15, 2020 October 5, 2020
Welcome to the LNG & Gas Hub Weekly Roundup. This week we are delighted to announce the launch of our new weekly podcast, The LNG Wrap. In this new content offering from the World LNG & Gas Series, industry expert Pat Roberts rounds up key LNG & Gas moments from the week and discusses what they mean for the industry. There are now two episodes for you to catch up on here, covering a potential phasing out of 'lock-down', opportunities that low gas prices can bring and, of course, China.
This week in the news:
The May edition of the TPLNG outlook looks at energy demand and how prices are heading down in a way we haven't seen before. Called "When the World turns Upside Down" this edition looks at Global LNG: what actually happened in Q1 2020 and some trends that are emerging for Q2 Q4 and the possible use of Force Majeure clauses in term contracts.
Asian LNG spot prices have recorded a jump of at least 20% in the last week. This sudden spike in prices is the result of a resurgence in demand occurring in Asia, while the rest of the world is in the process of cutting back on production, as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
According to a report by energy consultancy EnergyQuest, Australian LNG projects shipped a total of 6.9 million tones in April. The volumes were delivered onboard 101 cargoes.
Royal Dutch Shell said all conditions had been met for its final investment decision (FID) on a new LNG processing unit at Nigeria LNG, a project known as the Train 7 expansion.
The Wärtsilä Technology Group announced that it had successfully completed the delivery of three large-scale regasification modules for the first floating LNG storage and regasification unit (FSRU) built in China.
LNG: Intercontinental to inter-regional? Price differentials are threatening the economics underlying global LNG arbitrage. But the lower prices may unlock competition within regions.
As always, keep checking the LNG & Gas Hub throughout the week for new content from industry experts and if you'd like to be involved in future roundups, or with our content on the LNG & Gas | 503 |
review by Ludvík Píza from Prague
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An Unfortunate Tale Of Not Finding the Truth
It was on Sunday, 17th of September 2017, when several incidents changed the daily routine in Belgrade. The streets of Serbia's capital were full of police guarding the area where the Pride Parade was about to start, and by noon Kralja Milana Street was already filled with loud beats and pop music. All passers-by were met by countless colorful balloons, rainbow flags and the generally positive vibe of the relatively small gathering outside the Yugoslav Drama Theatre.
PetrovićAt that time, in the same building, the UTE held the second part of its Conference on European Theatre Structures, which was attended by directors, cultural journalists, politicians and artistic directors from theaters of Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Luxembourg. An evening performance of Luigi Pirandello's Right You Are, If You Think So, directed by Jagoš Marković, was also part of this two-day programme. The theatre production had already premiered earlier this year in July to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of this Italian Nobel Prize laureate for Literature. The play itself, as for its interpretation, greatly corresponds to our current post-truth society, and provides a considerable potential for communicating directly with the audience. In short, life in a post-truth world represents a kind of an existential model, where a person distortedly perceives their surroundings due to the overwhelming amount of information or their own laziness to think critically.
Right You Are, If You Think So, directed by Jagoš Marković | Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade © Nenad Petrović
Regarding the characters of Pirandello's drama, it is certainly their laziness that drives them into the wheel of sensational suspicions and scandalous wishes that mask their lack of identity and absence of personality. As they are trying to find out the truth, which—from their perspective—stands for a clear resolution, a simplified solution or just a clarification of the storyline they've plotted (and which therefore has no solution), their actions are used to demonstrate something disturbing about the human mentality and men's weakness. Pirandello's characters are so-called prominent citizens from an unspecified town who have the permanent need to pester someone, and to define others solely because of their changing mood, desires and suspicions. The trigger for this social fuss is a strange married couple and a mother-in-law that newly moves to town, awaking its citizens from their daily apathy. Once they are awake, so is their nosiness, and they are adamant about finding out personal details about their new<|fim_middle|> changing of "facts" and their negations. It's difficult to stay focused , even in just about 90 minutes. Sadly, the show doesn't offer a vision of the idiocy of society in a contemporary context. It follows the original story without any adaptations that would attract the viewer's attention, nor does it provoke them to ponder the content. Regarding the production's aesthetics, the abstract set rather reminds us of socialistic theatre productions from the late 50s than a space related to today's reality. In the end, this theatre piece keeps its distance to today's spectator and real life, despite its very lively and topical message.
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Ludvík Píza Lives in Prague/Czech Republic. He studies and works as assistant dramaturg and Web editor for various magazines and festivals. | neighbours.
The theme of identity is symbolised by a huge golden standing mirror, placed unwieldy to the left side of the forestage, vertically to the audience. However, considering its size and symbolic meaning, it's odd that it's only used once by a single character, a rather provocative old man Lamberto Laudisi. The scene where he's staring at his own reflection, doubting not just his clarity but also identity, serves as a manifest of the incapability to recognize the truth. Other characters ignore the mirror with great confidence and, instead of looking at themselves in the reflection, they intensely aim their focus on somebody else.
Besides the mirror, there are only a few other objects on stage, such as several upholstered chairs and a chandelier, once used as a secret microphone. At the very end of the performance, Laudisi climbs on the chandelier, then he's lifted up a few meters and hangs there as a sign of insanity that took over all of the characters. At the same time, the upset group of citizens is having a fight; meanwhile the stage walls made of green velvet screens collapse, revealing the backstage and the theatre machinery. This abstract scene, designed by Jagoš Marković himself, may at first evoke an interior of a distasteful parlour or a forest, where the characters are lost. After the breakdown, it may then refer to the general chaos and inability to distinguish between reality and illusion.
The costumes designed by Bojana Nikitović support the stylized caricature form of acting, reminding us of Gogol's collective of small-town officers from The Government Inspector, similarly trapped in their own idiocy. A rather traditional caricature approach strengthens the comedic nature of the characters' actions; however the form of conversational salon comedy is quickly exhausted, especially on such a big stage. The spectator promptly follows the narrative based on the constant | 384 |
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Cover Reveal for Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young, cover by Shonto Begay (Heartdrum, 2021) from We Need Diverse Books. "Indigenous people in the United States, my people included, were not legally allowed to practices their belief systems until the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 came to be. My culture is still recovering from colonization. I hope that while readers may recognize the structures of the hero's journey with urban fantasy elements, they also recognize that my culture isn't something to be taken lightly. I have taken much consideration in how I want to share it."
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A Conversation With Booked & Printed Columnist Laurel Flores Fantauzzo by Jackie Sherbow from Trace Evidence. Peek: "It's healthy to think out loud about books; to join in conversation about them, to express our praise and reservations and questions about books. It's also healthy to point out works that may have gone unnoticed…."
Ger Duany Author Essay from Random House Teachers and Librarians. Peek:"I learned to create alternate realities in my mind…safer places in<|fim_middle|>
Guest Post: Debbie Gonzales on Kidlit Promotion, Pinterest Analytics & You
In Memory: Jerry Wermund
More Personally – Cynthia
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As Cynsations readers, you may be interested to know that, in 2020-2021, review copies sent to me for coverage consideration will be going to BookSpring, "…the only Central Texas charitable organization focusing on building literacy skills and the motivation to read through increasing book ownership and reading activities for children at home." If you're likewise someone who regularly donates books, you may want to double check on C19-guidelines and make sure any previous recipients are still accepting physical copies.
What else? Don't miss the cover reveal for Navajo debut author Brian Young's middle grade novel, Healer of the Water Monster (Heartdrum, 2021). The gorgeous cover art was done by legendary Navajo illustrator Shonto Begay, of whom I've been a fan since I first began writing for young readers in the late 1990s. Debut books are so special! Please consider signal boosting this cover reveal by sharing the We Need Diverse Books' posts on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
As for me, drafting continues on my next young adult novel. Of late, I've also been reading work by my advisees in the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Probably my personal highlight of the week was watching "Enola Holmes," on Netflix, which is based on the YA mystery series by Nancy Springer (Penguin, 2006-2010). It's a timely, thoughtful adaptation. If you like YA historicals and gender empowerment, you'll love it.
Enola Holmes author Nancy Springer on her popular mystery series and the Netflix adaptation by Suryasarathi Bhattacharya from Firstpost. Peek: "Conan Doyle may not have been a total misogynist; he might have been merely as short-sighted as other male writers of his generation – but for whatever reason, he created Sherlock Holmes to be almost entirely ignorant of what went on regarding the female half of England's population."
Speaking of YA stories, the ebook edition my novel Hearts Unbroken (Candlewick, 2018, 2020) is now on sale (Kindle, Nook, etc.) for $.099—it's also available in hardcover, paperback and large-print editions—and there's a thoughtful new review in from a highly respected Native source.
"…the most vivid, timely, gut-wrenchingly realistic YA novel…this finely-crafted book; Hearts Unbroken promises to foster rich intellectual conversations in our scholarship and our classrooms. Smith's novel will also be a breath of fresh air to her young readers from Indigenous and other oppressed communities whose experiences—both joyful and painful—are affirmed by this book." —Mandy Suhr-Sytsma, Studies in American Indian Literatures (Vol. 32, Nos. 1-2, spring-summer 2020)
Six Diverse Voices to Add to Your Reading List by Megan Stolz from Amendo: Reconnecting Life and Spirit. Peek re Hearts Unbroken (Candlewick, 2018, 2020): "…I appreciated spending time with a protagonist who is a Native teen living in suburban America today, which busts the stereotype of Native Americans only living on reservations or tribal lands."
More Personally – Gail
This has been a busy week reading multiple YA story submissions as an assistant editor for Lunch Ticket Literary Magazine, working on children's/YA author interviews, and attending the impressive Northern Ohio SCBWI Friends in Rectangles 2020 Online Conference. This year's week-long conference, ending Oct. 3, featured publishing-industry experts who included editors, art directors, a literary agent, and Ben Sapp, Director of the Mazza Museum, The Museum's mission is "to promote literacy and enrich the lives of all people through the art of picture books."
Native Voice: Darcie Little Badger on Writing, Persistence & Elatsoe | my imagination….At our core, we all have the same dream of a good life, free of war, pain, and suffering. We all crave happy, peaceful times with family and friends and the opportunity to connect to one another through storytelling."
Cherie Dimaline on Representing Native Youth in Her Work with Mitzi Rapkin from Literary Hub. Peek: "I was developing the story…And I thought, god, what is missing?…[I]n our communities we need young people. They give us hope, and we always are conscious of leaving if not a door then a window open for them, so that…there's always light….And I thought, ah, there it is, I'm missing a young person."
Sennah Yee by Rachel Stadder from savoircare. Peek: "How can I learn to sit with my power and privileges and use that to empower others?…I'm scared of making mistakes as I try to do so, but I need to remember that sometimes…those mistakes are part of it….I recommend being kind and patient with yourself, and others."
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Author Jacqueline Woodson on the Power of Storytelling by Hilary McQuilkin and Anthony Brooks from wbur. Peek: "[J]ust knowing that small bit that we have inside of us, this survival mechanism, is really important. And I think that's…important for all people to know about themselves as a means of like, yeah, we're in a moment. And we can move through this moment because people have moved through moments similar or worse before."
Why Kati Gardner Chose to Have Her Character Not Wear a Prosthesis by Karis Rogerson from We Need Diverse Books. Peek: "'I wanted to write a book where the characters go to cancer camp and where nobody dies of their disease,' Gardner said. 'You see a lot of cancer books; you don't see a lot focused solely on just being a survivor and what that's like, and how that changes your perception of things.'"
Q&A: Kelly Yang, Author of "Three Keys" by Elise Dumpleton from The Nerd Daily. Peek: "It's critically important for children to learn antiracism and about the immigrant experience at a young age so they can understand what other kids around them are going through and have more empathy….[O]nly by understanding what's happening can we start to make things better. I love that my books are conversation starters for families."
New Picture Book From RH and American Ballet Theater Inspires Boys to Dance by Krystyna Poray Goddu from Publishers Weekly. Peek: "[Dancer/book contributor Calvin] Royal hopes that the book will help him in his goal 'to inspire the next generation, especially those who are Black and brown, who may see themselves in me. My hope is that my presence and my art will allow them to dream and make their own dreams a reality.'"
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Identity, Perseverance, and Setting: A Latinx Heritage Month Celebration by Sarah Yung from Publishers Weekly. Peek: "[Mark] Oshiro aims to center queer Latinx characters in their work….Oshiro spoke about the pushback they had received against novels with teenage characters in adult situations. By saying that gatekeepers don't want to expose kids to that kind of negativity, 'it erases all of the children who are experiencing those things….'"
New Groups Aim to Get More Latinx Stories to Young Readers by Mandalit del Barco from NPR. Peek: "Children don't often get to read stories by or about Latinos….But several new groups of writers, editors and agents are trying to increase Latino representation in children's literature. They're working in different ways, and have their own stories to tell. I spoke to a few of them—and got some reading recommendations, too."
#Worldkidlit Month: Why We Need Translated Lit for Kids! by M. Lynx Qualey from Book Riot. Peek: [Alexandra Büchler, Director of Literature Across Frontiers:] "By reading beyond our borders we explore the vast diversity of voices and perspectives that complement and contrast with our own. Global kid lit offers a window onto the world and a reflection of other cultures, but it also expands the opportunities for children to find the texts that speak personally to them."
Q&A With Brandy Colbert, The Voting Booth by Alaina Leary from We Need Diverse Books. Peek: "For the first time…I followed a strict outline. I'm used to writing books with a pretty loose timeline, so it was definitely a challenge to not only map it out…[but] actually follow the outline. I was more worried about cramming too much into one day, so I had to slow down at times…."
Book Trailer Reveal: Swish! The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters by Don Tate (Illustrator) and Suzanne Slade (Author) by CBethM from Nerdy Book Club. Peek: [Suzanne Slade:] "I was intimidated by the research this project would require. I wanted to get every detail right…I kept track of where I found each fact in the story in a 'sources document' which eventually grew to 14 pages. (I create a source doc for every book project to preserve my sanity…)."
Let's Talk Illustrators #157: Naoko Stoop from Let's Talk Picture Books. Peek: "Each project starts with a slightly different approach. When I worked on a story about the ocean, I went to an aquarium…and spent all day staring at creatures, and I slept with ocean sounds…When I did a wolf story, I went to the Wolf Conservation Center…and I learned how to howl to them…."
In Conversation: Varian Johnson and Shannon Wright from Publishers Weekly. Peek: [Varian Johnson:] "[T]here are…parts of the [graphic novel] process that are entirely different, like breaking down a book by panels. Instead of setting up the panels as I went along, page by page, I would write out an entire scene with dialogue, and then I would go back and break it up into panels."
An Indies Introduce Q&A With Tracy Deonn by Mariana Calderon from American Booksellers Association. Peek: "I spent a long time making sure that the magic could conceivably exist, and fit in believably….So, my first step was to write them out in prose form first…to test whether I could actually verbalize them! Then each system was moved to whiteboards to play out generational examples or work out problems."
Interview: Space Battle Lunchtime by Rachel Weiss from POMEmag. Peek: [Illustrator Natalie Riess:] "Color is really important to how a scene 'feels,' so I like to…match up the colors I use to the feelings and emotions I want to evoke in the reader. Clashing bright colors for intense sequences, appetizing golden colors for food…, pastels for romance/big emotion and jewel tones because I like them."
Examining the Impact and Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg from School Library Journal. Peek: "Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg['s] most famous quotes filled social media. One speaks volumes to educators, particularly, librarians. 'Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.'…Educators who want to explain her work…and legacy can turn to one of the many biographies of her life."
Beyond the Pandemic, Libraries Look Toward a New Era by Ellen Rosen from The New York Times. Peek: "Many companies and public institutions were unprepared for the…lockdown. There was one notable, perhaps even surprising, exception: the nation's public libraries. For more than a decade…[they] had been investing in a range of technologies….With a wealth of electronic books, streaming platforms and of course Zoom, many were ready, with some adjustments, to provide services…."
Nicole and David Yoon Launch YA Romance Imprint Starring Heroes of Color by Emma Kantor from Publishers Weekly. Peek: "…the imprint, called Joy Revolution, will be devoted to publishing teen love stories by and about people of color. Wendy Loggia, senior executive editor at Delacorte Press, will oversee the imprint. The Yoons will partner with a soon-to-be-hired editor within Delacorte to acquire titles and shape the list, working with the team at RHCB throughout the publishing process."
Wellesley Writes It: Interview With Patrice Caldwell…Founder of People of Color in Publishing by E.B. Bartels from Wellesley Underground. Peek: "I founded People of Color in Publishing…to allow people of color clearer access into the book publishing industry, better support networks, and professional development opportunities. It really is about sending the elevator back down for others after climbing…the stairs."
PRH Launches "The Conversation" to Sustain Antiracist Engagement, Collaboration, and Action from American Booksellers Association. Peek: "Penguin Random House has announced the launch of a new website to support families, educators, communities, organizations, and readers who are working to combat…racial inequities in our daily lives. Named 'The Conversation,' this website brings together a curated array of resources and programming…A primary focus will be young readers…."
IBPA Publishing University 2021 has been scheduled to take place online from April 7 to April 10, 2021. "Through numerous online educational sessions and networking opportunities…you will create, learn, and connect as you move your book publishing program forward…" Registration is open and applications for scholarships for complimentary tickets will be taken until Nov. 30.
Cover Reveal for Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee by Alaina Leary from We Need Diverse Books. Peek: "[B]uild your connections early….[W]hen you sell/announce your book, things fluctuate between slow and way too fast, so trying to build up a platform on top of everything else is just so stressful, and building a strong, organic platform takes time so you'll miss out on the opportunity to build that base."
ABA Joins With Publishers to Launch Virtual Reading Series This Fall by Sydney Jarrard from American Booksellers Association. Peek: "The American Booksellers Association's ABC Children's Group is working with publishers to present a virtual reading series to facilitate bookstore events for educators, students, and readers during the fall and winter of the 2020–2021 school year….The ABC Group will provide all of the… links, marketing materials, and educational resources that bookstores need…."
Bookshop.org Launches in the UK from Books + Publishing. Peek: "In the UK, Bookshop.org, a retail site for independent booksellers, has launched to the trade ahead of its planned opening to consumers in November…UK bookshops can create their own online shop profiles for the site, earning 30 percent of the cover price on any sales that come via their links, book lists or shop page."
Education/Other Resources/Events
Colorín Colorado, a bilingual site for educators and families of English language learners, celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month (from Sept. 15 to Oct.15) with "dynamic booklists, classroom activities, and multimedia resources. These are great materials for the curriculum year round!..Our Hispanic Heritage collection features more than 50 booklists for kids and teens…."
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The 2020 Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word will take place online from Oct. 1 to Oct. 11. More than 100 authors are on the lineup, including several children's/YA authors such as Kalynn Bayron, Victoria Bond, Kacen Callender, Lamar Giles, and Rita Lorraine Hubbard.
The Portland Book Festival will take place online from Nov. 5 to Nov. 21. The event will feature authors for all age groups, and include children's/YA authors such as Adib Khorram, Evette Dionne, and Aida Salazar. On Nov. 11, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., Portland public high school students will read from their work featured in the 2019-20 Writers in School anthology, The Seeds to Plant the Future.
Stay at Home With Candlewick Press: Rain Before Rainbows from Candlewick Press. Peek: "Candlewick Press is pleased to be providing the e-book of Rain Before Rainbows free for a limited time in order to raise awareness for Save the Children's work in bringing resources to the most vulnerable children in rural America, now so disproportionally affected by…school closures." Download here.
Submissions for the SCBWI 2020 Narrative Art Award are open through Oct. 20. The narrative sequence theme is "Silver Linings." The general goal is to show sequence and narrative. You must be a current SCBWI member to submit.
Congratulations to children's author/illustrator David McKee, the 2020 recipient of the Children's Book Charity BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is well known for his Elmer and Mr. Benn picture book series, and Not Now, Bernard. The award celebrates the work of an author and/or illustrator who's made an outstanding contribution to children's literature.
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Congratulations to the 2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Finalists and Winners. Winners in the categories of Bilingual Children, Children's Picture, Juvenile, and Young Adult include No More Bullies! /¡No Más Bullies by Rudolfo Anaya, illustrated by El Moisés (Museum of NM Press, 2019), Goodnight, Los Alamos by Whitney Spivey, illustrated by Brenda Fleming (Whitney Spivey LLC, 2018), Heroes of the Rio Abajo: A History Book for Young People by Richard Melzer and John Taylor (Valencia County Historical Society, 2019), and Between Wild & Ruin byJennifer Edelson (Bad Apple Books, 2019).
Submissions for the 2021 Green Earth Book Award are now being accepted! The nomination period is from Oct. 1 to Dec. 15. The judging panel will select books that "best convey the message of environmental stewardship" in the categories of Picture Book, Children's Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Children's Nonfiction, and Young Adult Nonfiction. The short list will be announced in March 2021, and the winners will be announced on Earth Day, April 22, 2021.
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We Need Diverse Book Mentorships. Peek: "For the 2021 year, we are offering mentorships to 15 rising voices—twelve aspiring authors and three illustrators (or author/illustrators)—who personally identify with an underrepresented community or are working on a book with a diverse protagonist….Applications will be open from Oct. 1 to Oct. 31, 2020…."
James Patterson Donates $2.5 Million to Teachers… by Emma Kantor from Publishers Weekly. Peek: "In an effort to assist teachers and students…James Patterson is donating $2.5 million through his Patterson Partnership program with Scholastic Book Clubs. As part of the initiative, 5,000 teachers throughout the U.S. will receive grants of $500 and 500 Scholastic Book Clubs Bonus Points to help create classroom and at-home libraries for students."
Young, Black & Lit Impacting Future Generations from Enspire. Peek: "'Young, Black & Lit'…[has] two programs, Lit Year and Lit Monthly. Lit Year partners with an elementary school, or a school district, to provide one…book every month to kids between the grades of kindergarten to third grade. Lit Monthly partners with low-income or Title I schools and offers them 50 free books each month."
Artist Relief Distributes $13.5 Million in Pandemic Grants by Calvin Reid from Publishers Weekly. Peek: "Artists Relief, a funding initiative created to assist artists struggling under the pandemic, has distributed more than $13.5 million in emergency grants to more than 2,700 individuals since it was launched in April. In response to demand, Artist Relief will extend grant distribution through the end of the year."
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In a three-part series, Debbie Gonzales teaches fellow children's authors how to turn Pinterest into a powerful marketing tool for their books.
Guest Post: Debbie Gonzales What's With the Buzz About Pinterest & Promoting Kidlit?
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Enjoy rich holiday memories with this heartwarming collection of true Christmas stories from favorite LDS authors—everyday people who have received tidings of comfort and joy. From miraculous to dramatic, profound to heartwarming, this touching anthology will fill your soul with lighthearted surprises, faith-affirming treasures, and thought-provoking insights about the greatest gift of all.
THE DARK ENEMY NEVER RESTS. BUT NEITHER DO THE HEROES OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.
Book 1 (The Hidden Kingdom): A magical playground whisks Dan and Page into the Hidden Kingdom where a skinny giant quickly registers them for hero training camp. There, they learn they must gain skills and earn powerful treasures by travelling back in time and walking in the footsteps of a real pioneer hero.
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This second installment of Dalton & Dalton Romantic Paranormal Mysteries brings renewed love, heart-pounding suspense, and terror in Niagara Falls when a paranormally cursed treasure and a second "gifted" child kidnapping throw Alexandra from Rick's waiting arms into the clutches of their daughter's murderer.
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Announcement Confidence Intervals are a way of taking data from a sample and saying something about the population from which the sample was drawn.
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Our goal is to get to the point were we can read, understand, and write statements like
A 95% confidence interval for the mean yield of corn from farms using integrated pest management is 142.7 to 153.9 bushels per acre. OR Farms that practice integrated pest management while growing corn have a mean yield of 142.7 to 153.9 bushels per acre (95% confidence interval).
We are 95% confident that mean caloric intake of infants of low-income mothers receiving WIC assistance is 80 to 200 kcal per day greater than that of infants of low-income mothers who do not receive assistance. OR Infants of low-income mothers receiving WIC assistance have a greater mean daily caloric intake than infants of low-income mothers not receiving assistance (95%CI: 80 to 200 kcal).
We are 95% confident that the mean total cholesterol level resulting from a canola oil diet is between 9.3 mg/dl less and 17.2 mg/dl more than the mean cholesterol level resulting from a rice oil diet. OR Our study was unable to distinguish between rice and canola oil. Based on our data, the effect of canola oil could do anything from reducing the mean cholesterol level 9.3 mg/dl to increasing it 17.2 mg/dl relative to a rice oil diet.
Confidence Intervals
Does the mean vitamin C blood level of smokers differ from that of nonsmokers? Let's suppose for a moment they do, with smokers tending to have lower levels. Nevertheless, we wouldn't expect every smoker to have levels lower than those of every nonsmoker. There would be some overlap in the two distributions. This is one reason why questions like this are usually answered in terms of population means, namely, how the mean level of all smokers compares to that of all nonsmokers.
The statistical tool used to answer such questions is the confidence interval (CI) for the difference between the two population means. But let's forget the formal study of statistics for the moment. What might you do to answer the question if you were on your own? You might get a random sample of smokers and nonsmokers, measure their vitamin C levels, and see how they compare. Suppose we've done it. In a sample of 40 Boston male smokers, vitamin C levels<|fim_middle|> compared to means of 0.60 and 0.90, but we know that if we were to take another random sample, the difference wouldn't be exactly the same. It might be greater, it might be less. What kind of population difference is consistent with this observed value of 0.30 mg/dl? How much larger or smaller might the difference in population means be if we could measure all smokers and nonsmokers? In particular, is 0.30 mg/dl the sort of sample difference that might be observed if there were no difference in the population mean vitamin C levels? We estimate the difference in mean vitamin C levels at 0.30 mg/dl, but 0.30 mg/dl "give-or-take what"? This is where statistical theory comes in.
One way to answer these questions is by reporting a 95% confidence interval. A 95% confidence interval is an interval generated by a process that's right 95% of the time. Similarly, a 90% confidence interval is an interval generated by a process that's right 90% of the time and a 99% confidence interval is an interval generated by a process that's right 99% of the time. If we were to replicate our study many times, each time reporting a 95% confidence interval, then 95% of the intervals would contain the population mean difference. In practice, we perform our study only once. We have no way of knowing whether our particular interval is correct, but we behave as though it is. Here, the 95% confidence interval for the difference in mean vitamin C levels between nonsmokers and smokers is 0.15 to 0.45 mg/dl. Thus, not only do we estimate the difference to be 0.30 mg/dl, but we are 95% confident it is no less than 0.15 mg/dl or greater than 0.45 mg/dl.
In theory, we can construct intervals of any level of confidence from 0 to 100%. There is a tradeoff between the amount of confidence we have in an interval and its length. A 95% confidence interval for a population mean difference is constructed by taking the sample mean difference and adding and subtracting 1.96 standard errors of the mean difference. A 90% CI adds and subtracts 1.645 standard errors of the mean difference, while a 99% CI adds and subtracts 2.57 standard errors of the mean difference. The shorter the confidence interval, the less likely it is to contain the quantity being estimated. The longer the interval, the more likely to contain the quantity being estimated. Ninety-five percent has been found to be a convenient level for conducting scientific research, so it is used almost universally. Intervals of lesser confidence would lead to too many misstatements. Greater confidence would require more data to generate intervals of usable lengths.
[Zero is a special value. If a difference between two means is 0, then the two means are equal!]
Confidence intervals contain population values found to be consistent with the data. If a confidence interval for a mean difference includes 0, the data are consistent with a population mean difference of 0. If the difference is 0, the population means are equal. If the confidence interval for a difference excludes 0, the data are not consistent with equal population means. Therefore, one of the first things to look at is whether a confidence interval for a difference contains 0. If 0 is not in the interval, a difference has been established. If a CI contains 0, then a difference has not been established. When we start talking about significance tests, we'll refer to differences that exclude 0 as a possibility as statistically significant. For the moment, we'll use the term sparingly.
A statistically significant difference may or may not be of practical importance. Statistical significance and practical importance are separate concepts. Some authors confuse the issues by taking about statistical significance and practical significance or by talking about, simply, significance. In these notes, there will be no mixing and matching. It's either statistically significant or practically important any other combination should be consciously avoided.
Serum cholesterol values (mg/dl) in a free-living population tend to be between the mid 100s and the high 200s. It is recommended that individuals have serum cholesterols of 200 or less. A change of 1 or 2 mg/dl is of no importance. Changes of 10-20 mg/dl and more can be expected to have a clinical impact on the individual subject. Consider an investigation to compare mean serum cholesterol levels produced by two diets by looking at confidence intervals for 1 - 2 based on . High cholesterol levels are bad. If is positive, the mean from diet 1 is greater than the mean from diet 2, and diet 2 is favored. If is negative, the mean from diet 1 is less than the mean from diet 2, and diet 1 is favored. Here are six possible outcomes of experiment.
for 1 - 2
(what was
observed) (what the truth
might be)
Case 1 2 (1,3)
Case 2 30 (20,40)
Case 3 30 (2,58)
Case 4 1 (-1,3)
Case 5 2 (-58,62)
Case 6 30 (-2,62)
For each case, let's consider, first, whether a difference between population means has been demonstrated and then what the clinical implications might be.
In cases 1-3, the data are judged inconsistent with a population mean difference of 0. In cases 4-6, the data are consistent with a population mean difference of 0.
Case 1: There is a difference between the diets, but it is of no practical importance.
Case 2: The difference is of practical importance even though the confidence interval is 20 mg/dl wide.
Case 3: The difference may or may not be of practical importance. The interval is too wide to say for sure. More study is needed.
Case 4: We cannot claim to have demonstrated a difference. We are confident that if there is a real difference it is of no practical importance.
Cases 5 and 6: We cannot claim to have demonstrated a difference. The population mean difference is not well enough determined to rule out all cases of practical importance.
Cases 5 and 6 require careful handling. While neither interval formally demonstrates a difference between diets, case 6 is certainly more suggestive of something than Case 5. Both cases are consistent with differences of practical importance and differences of no importance at all. However, Case 6, unlike Case 5, seems to rule out any advantage of practical importance for Diet 1, so it might be argued that Case 6 is like Case 3 in that both are consistent with important and unimportant advantages to Diet 2 while neither suggests any advantage to Diet 1.
It is common to find reports stating that there was no difference between two treatment. As Douglas Altman and Martin Bland emphasize, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, that is, failure to show a difference is not the same thing as showing two treatments are the same. Only Case 4 allows the investigators to say there is no difference between the diets. The observed difference is not statistically significant and, if it should turn out there really is a difference (no two population means are exactly equal to an infinite number of decimal places), it would not be of any practical importance.
Many writers make the mistake of interpreting cases 5 and 6 to say there is no difference between the treatments or that the treatments are the same. This is an error. It is not supported by the data. All we can say in cases 5 and 6 is that we have been unable to demonstrate a difference between the diets. We cannot say they are the same. The data say they may be the same, but they may be quite different. Studies like this--that cannot distinguish between situations that have very different implications--are said to be underpowered, that is, they lack the power to answer the question definitively one way or the other.
In some situations, it's important to know if there is an effect no matter how small, but in most cases it's hard to rationalize saying whether or not a confidence interval contains 0 without reporting the CI, and saying something about the magnitude of the values it contains and their practical importance. If a CI does not include 0, are all of the values in the interval of practical importance? If the CI includes 0, have effects of practical importance been ruled out? If the CI includes 0 AND values of practical importance, YOU HAVEN'T LEARNED ANYTHING!
This Will Hurt Your Head!!!
...but it's important!
Statistics is backwards! and Confidence Intervals are a perfect illustration. Analysts are fond of means...for good reason. It is usually reasonable to assume that the effect of something, if it does anything, is to take the distribution of the population (the histogram) and shift it to the right or to the left. In some cases, the effect may be to shift things by a fixed percentage rather than a fixed amount, but this can be viewed as shifting things by a fixed amount in the log scale. In that case, the effect can be summarized by what it does to the population mean.
We would like to be able to say something like, "There's a 95% probability that mean total cholesterol on this new statin will be 10 to 20 mg/dl lower than on the old formulation." Classical frequentist methods do not permit such statements. Instead, we get to say things like, "We are 95% confident that mean total cholesterol on this new statin will be 10 to 20 mg/dl lower than on the old formulation."
It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that "95% confident" is the same as "95% probability", but they are two different things. To illustrate the difference and keep life simple, we will deal with 50% confidence intervals. The same thing could be done with 95% CIs, but it would not be as transparent.
If you believe "50% confident" means "50% probability", then you MUST be willing to accept the following terms:
We generate a 50% confidence interval.
I look at it.
I get to choose whether the interval contains the parameter or not.
If I am correct, you give me $1; If I am wrong, I give you $1.
If "50% confident" meant "50% probability", then I'd be just as likely to be right as wrong. Since the same amount of money changes hands, neither of us would have an advantage. However, as we shall now see, confidence intervals are not betworthy. If you are willing to accept the terms I outlined, you will quickly be bankrupt, as the following example demonstrates:
Consider a measurement whose values are uniformly distributed between the values -1 and +1. Suppose we wish to estimate the mean, , the value in the middle of the distribution (histogram). We draw two observations independently at random. It is straightforward to show that the ordered pair of observations is a 50% confidence interval for .
The probability that the first observation is less than is 1/2.
The probability that the second observation is less that is 1/2.
Therefore, the probability that both observations are less than is 1/4.
By symmetry, it follows that the probability that both observations are greater than is 1/4.
Since the probability that both observations are less than is 1/4 and that both observations are greater than is 1/4, it follows that the probability that one observation is less than and the other observation is greater than is 1/2. That is, with probability 0.5, will lie between the two observations. Thus, the two observations form a 50% CI.
There is no trickery there. If the mathematics seems minimal, straightforward, and easily understood, that's because it is. Two observations from a Uniform( -1, +1) distribution give a 50% CI for because 50% of the time the interval will contain . If you draw successive pairs of observations and look to see whether is between them, half of the time (50%), the answer will be yes.
It is easily seen that the two observations can be anywhere from 0 to 2 units apart. If the two observations are more than 1 unit apart, it is impossible for them NOT to contain ! That is, it is impossible to draw an interval of length greater than 1 in the interval -1 to +1 without containing even though it is a 50% CI! (It is straightforward to show that this will happen 25% of the time, that is, with probability 0.25 the difference between the two observations will exceed 1 in magnitude.)
Confidence refers not to the particular interval but to the process that generated it! Every pair of observations drawn at random is properly called a 50% confidence interval--even though there are some intervals that must contain the parameter of interest--because they are a realization of a process that covers 50% of the time.
It would be nice to think that this is an anomaly caused by the uniform distribution and that it can't happen with a confidence interval for the difference between two means based on the normal distribution. Unfortunately, that's not true. You can go broke betting on 95% CIs based on the normal distribution. The difference is that one cannot point to one of these intervals with certainty the way one could earlier. Without going into the details, the trick, as Hartigan demonstrated in the 1970s, is to pick some value K>0 and bet on the interval if its length exceeds K and against the interval if its length is shorter than K.
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Copyright © 1999 Gerard E. Dallal | had a mean of 0.60 mg/dl and an SD of 0.32 mg/dl while in a sample of 40 Boston male nonsmokers (Strictly speaking, we can only talk about Boston area males rather than all smokers and nonsmokers. No one ever said research was easy.), the levels had a mean of 0.90 mg/dl and an SD of 0.35 mg/dl. The difference in means between nonsmokers and smokers is 0.30 mg/dl!
The difference of 0.30 looks impressive | 124 |
Growth is the second exhibition presented by Thru Contemporary Arts. It opens at the Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts in St. Croix and follows a recent, inaugural exhibition in Cologne, Germany. Growth is intended to expand conversation about the nature and boundaries of art in the Caribbean by exposing the public to a variety of approaches to creating contemporary art. It features a specially selected collection of contemporary art by present-day artists from countries around the world. From mixed media art to photography, embroidery, and digital works of art – all are represented in this exhibition, which is part of Thru Contemporary Arts' permanent public collection.
Kristy is better known for painting Portraits that are privately commissioned; however, she also paints flowers, seascapes<|fim_middle|> | and more recently, landscapes and houses/ buildings. And, as with the variety of subjects, Kristy explores many artist mediums of oil, acrylic, watercolour/ gouache and pastels.
These two artists have put together a vibrant, warm body of work in this exciting joint exhibition. The opening of Karen and Kristy's exhibition will take place on Tuesday, 26th May, 2015 from 7:00pm until 8:30pm at Horizons Art Gallery located at 37, Mucurapo Road, St. James. The exhibition will continue until June 6th during 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays to Fridays and 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays at the gallery.
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The Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago , informs her membership of the passing of Angus Bascombe , artist .
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I have never seen the extreme self-denial as a path for Western Quakers, except when it represents solidarity with others who have much less or as a commitment to environmental concerns.
Excess in anything tends to overshadow the inner light, the spark of the divine within us. This includes the extremes of self-denial as well as the extremes of self-indulgence. Both having too little and having too much are problematic.
I don't experience the Society as finding virtue in self-denial as punishment of the flesh; it is more to gain a clearer relationship with the divine. It is not so much a sin to indulge one's desires, just as it is not sinful<|fim_middle|>, and morality depend on self-denial? At what point is it too much?
And do I really have to avoid the foods I love? What about the value of enjoying God's creation? | to participate in liturgical ritual - but such things are not necessary.
In more recent years, simplicity of life has come to be seen, I think, as stewardship of the earth and responsibility towards all people - i.e., live simply that others may simply live - self-denial as enabling others to exist/survive/have what is needful rather than self-denial as punishment of the self.
William Penn's No Cross No Cross exhorts good Christians to deny luxury, including things like a love of food.
To what extent would you say this makes the Society an ascetic sect? Should good religion, spiritualism | 126 |
Chapter: 2 Toward a Theory of Action
« Previous: 1 Introduction
Suggested Citation:"2 Toward a Theory of Action." National Research Council. 1999. Testing, Teaching, and Learning: A Guide for States and School Districts. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9609.
The task of the Committee on Title I Testing and Assessment was to develop a guide for states and districts to assist them in implementing the Title I statute. This guide includes criteria for the components of an effective education improvement system, along with examples of ways states and districts have applied these criteria. But to understand the committee's point of view, we need first to present the big picture—the "theory of action" that animates the entire system.
The 1994 law that reauthorized Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act drew on a powerful strain of education thinking that has grown increasingly prominent in the past decade. Beginning with the publication of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards in 1989, and accelerating after the establishment a year later of the national education goals, educators and policy makers have increasingly focused on standards for student performance as the centerpiece of education reform; indeed, the idea has since acquired the name "standards-based reform." The Title I statute fits squarely within that tradition.
Generally, the idea of standards-based reform states that, if states set high standards for student performance, develop assessments that measure student performance against the standards, give schools the flexibility they need to change curriculum, instruction, and school organization to enable their students to meet the standards, and hold schools strictly accountable for meeting performance standards, then student achievement will rise.
This idea is not unique to education. A number of businesses have implemented similar principles and have won acclaim as high-performing organizations. The Saturn Corporation, for example, which was created by General Motors and the United Auto Workers during the steep slump in the domestic automobile industry, has attracted considerable attention for its innovative
standards-based structure. At Saturn, the company sets high goals for performance (e.g., a standard of zero defects), measures performance regularly, and gives extraordinary authority to teams of workers, including line workers, while linking their pay and job security to performance.
Likewise, a number of public-sector agencies are "reinventing government" by adopting similar principles (Osborne and Gaebler, 1993).
In education, the idea of standards-based reform grew in part out of the same notions that drove the reforms in business and government, but also out of a critique of previous education reform efforts, particularly the experience with Title I and Chapter 1. Yet despite the prominence of standards-based reform in the policy debate, there are few examples of districts or states that have put the entire standards-based puzzle together, much less achieved success through it. Some evidence is beginning to gather. Grissmer and Flanagan (1998), for example, found that North Carolina and Texas have produced gains in student performance through the implementation of standards-based systems. Other evidence comes from Europe and Asia, where national systems of education have produced curriculum guides and related assessments, and where many countries outperform the United States on international assessments (Schmidt et al., 1998).
In large part, the limited body of evidence in this country reflects the complexity of the concept. It requires substantial changes in a number of major interlocking dimensions, and education policy seldom occurs in such a systematic fashion. Moreover, it poses the technical challenge of creating new instruments and systems, all of which are exceedingly controversial and costly, in the center of a highly charged political arena.
The Standards-Based Reform Model
The theory of action of standards-based reform rests on four major components: standards, assessments, flexibility, and accountability. It is represented graphically in Figure 2-1.
Setting Standards. As its name suggests, standards-based reform rests primarily on standards for student performance. The standards should be clear,
Model of the theory of action of standards-based reform
high, and the same for all students. Reformers argue that setting clear, high standards for all students will help improve their performance by giving students, parents, and teachers a vivid picture of what good work looks like and what they have to do to produce it.
Aligning Assessments. Assessments are linked to standards so closely in discussions of standards-based reform that the two are often referred to almost as one word: "standards-and-assessments." But the link is important. Assessments make the standards concrete by providing students with opportunities to demonstrate the knowledge and skills the standards call for. At the same time, they<|fim_middle|>.
Assessments. Assessments provide information on progress toward the standards, but they do so in different ways for different constituencies. Assessments serve a number of purposes—guiding instructional decisions, monitoring progress, holding schools and districts accountable. Classroom assessments provide frequent and detailed information about individual student strengths and weaknesses, district assessments monitor school progress toward standards, and state assessments provide data for use in accountability systems.
School reports consist of a range of measures—which include indicators of instructional practices, as well as student work and test scores—that provide a complete picture of performance. The reports indicate the performance of groups of students within the school or district; overall average scores may be misleading.
Not all assessments are equally capable of providing useful information. The most informative measures are ones that respond to instructional changes aimed at teaching toward the standards. Such measures inform students, teachers, and parents about the effects of instruction and suggest directions for improvement.
The array of assessments include assessments that are appropriate for young children, as well as assessments that accurately and validly measure the achievement of students with disabilities and those with limited English proficiency.
Indicators of the Conditions of Instruction. The link between instructional practice and student performance suggests the need to collect information on the conditions of instruction to which students are exposed, in addition to the student outcome measures used in the assessment system. Such indicators serve as "leading" indicators of school progress and suggest needed areas of improvement. They also could point out possible inequalities.
Measures of instructional practice at the district level also indicate the extent to which districts are fulfilling their role in building local capacity to improve instruction and student performance.
Accountability. Accountability creates an incentive for students, teachers, and administrators to focus their attention on the standards. It also closes the loop in the system by providing an explicit link to instructional improvement; rather than hit the hammer harder, administrators provide assistance where the accountability measures suggest it is needed, and direct teachers' and school administrators' attention to the standards.
Such a system is never "complete." States and districts need to examine each component and the system as a whole, continually, to determine the extent to which it is achieving the goal of improving teaching and learning. In the following chapters we outline the criteria for each of the components.
Next: 3 Standards for Student Performance » | serve as a means by which students, parents, teachers, and administrators can know the extent to which students are meeting the standards.
Providing Flexibility. For years, educators have complained that the plethora of rules associated with Title I have hamstrung their efforts to redesign their instructional programs and have forced them to use questionable practices in order to comply with statutory mandates. For example, administrators say, schools have pulled Title I students out of their regular classrooms in order to provide specialized instruction for them, even though research suggests that such programs have been implemented in ineffective ways, because schools were required to demonstrate that they were in fact providing compensatory education services to eligible children.
Standards-based reform changes the rules of the game by measuring performance against standards rather than compliance with procedures. Policy makers will know if their money is spent well if student performance improves, not if schools follow rules faithfully. Thus, lawmakers can relax rules that mandate how schools must go about their jobs. And that, in turn, will help improve student performance, reformers say, by reducing the impediments schools now face in designing instructional programs appropriate for their student populations.
Requiring Accountability. Accountability is the flip side of the coin of flexibility. In exchange for the freedom to design instructional programs according to local needs, schools in standards-based systems are no longer held accountable for following rules and procedures and making sure that funds are spent as intended. Rather, they are accountable for results—for ensuring that student learning improves.
Holding schools accountable for results serves a number of purposes. Accountability helps keep educators' "eyes on the prize," reducing the possibility that they will spend their time on issues less directly related to improving student performance. On the other hand, accountability creates an incentive for teachers and administrators at all levels to use standards to guide curricular and instructional decisions, and to use assessment results to diagnose problems and suggest ways to improve. On the other hand, holding schools accountable for some other set of instructional goals will encourage schools to focus on those goals, rather than the standards, regardless of how compelling the standards may be.
Although each of these elements—standards, assessments, flexibility, and accountability—is itself complex and challenging to administer, the essence of standards-based reform is the idea that states must implement all of them. Reformers argue that previous education reforms failed because they were piecemeal; they addressed one aspect of the system while leaving the rest untouched, and failed to address the core of schooling. Without a comprehensive change, standards-based reform will suffer the same fate.
How, then, to implement such a massive change? The Title I statute lays out a precise schedule for implementing standards-based reform. The law's sequence is as follows: flexibility, standards, assessments, and accountability.
Not all states and districts have followed this linear sequence. In some places, political exigencies have led policy makers to put in place accountability measures before standards and assessments were revised. Others followed a different approach because of a different conception of how to achieve change. For example, Community District 2 in New York City started with a vision of teaching and learning and invested heavily in developing teachers' knowledge and skills to be able to realize the vision. They held teachers and administrators accountable for the quality of instruction and made sure that everyone in the system, from teachers all the way to the deputy superintendent, knows the quality of the staff, the quality of teaching, and the quality of student work in each school. Only after years of developing teachers' abilities—and after rising from 16th to 2nd among New York City districts in performance on conventional tests—did the district adopt standards and a testing system that they believed reflected their instructional goals (Elmore and Burney, 1998).
Regardless of the approach, the expectation is the same: comprehensive standards-based reform systems will result in students' meeting high standards for performance.
The Theory in Practice
In a study conducted for the National Education Goals Panel, David Grissmer and Ann Flanagan (1998) examined two states that registered large gains in student performance in mathematics and reading in the 1990s, North Carolina and Texas. They found that many of the factors often associated with improved student performance—increases in education spending, reductions in class size, changes in the student population—did not explain the results in the two states they studied. Rather, they suggested, what the two states had in common were a set of statewide policies that coincided with the increases in test scores. These policies were: statewide academic standards, by grade, for clear teaching objectives, holding all students to the same standards, statewide assessments closely linked to the standards, accountability systems with consequences for results, increasing local flexibility for administrators and teachers, computerized feedback systems and data for continuous improvement, shifting resources
to schools with more disadvantaged students, and an infrastructure to sustain reform. These policies were, in short, the main elements of standards-based reform.
Grissmer and Flanagan found few data to show how teachers and administrators in North Carolina and Texas changed their practices in ways that produced higher test scores. "But," they conclude, "it appears to be the changed design of the organizational environment and competitive incentive structure which is responsible for teachers and administrators finding creative ways to foster higher achievement in their students" (p. 21).
Other evidence suggests that standards-based reform can be effective when district policies to establish standards-based assessments and accountability mechanisms are coupled with strategies for instructional improvement. Case studies of reform efforts in San Antonio, Philadelphia, and Memphis, for example, show that these districts achieved gains after instituting standards-based accountability systems and assistance to local schools to revise curricular and instructional practices (Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights, 1998).
Other studies suggest that if the link between standards-based policies at the state and district levels and instructional improvement at the school level is not clear-cut, then higher student performance may not result. In these instances, the theory of standards-based reform may not work as designed.
For example, an examination of district policies that call for "reconstitution" of failing schools (breaking up the faculty and staff and rebuilding it from the ground up) found that schools threatened with severe penalties are not changing their instructional practices in fundamental ways. Instead, they seem to focus on short-term gains in test scores, rather than deep improvements in student learning (O'Day, in press).
Another study of 20 schools found that the internal accountability within schools—that is, teachers' collective responsibility for improving student learning and for making the changes necessary to bring such improvements about—varies widely (Abelmann and Elmore, 1999). When such internal accountability is weak, the willingness of teachers to change their practice in fundamental ways to respond to external accountability pressures may be lacking.
These studies and observations from our own experience have led the committee to call into question some of the assumptions that appear to be embedded in the theory of action underlying the standards-based reform model in general and the Title I law in particular. Chief among these assumptions is the idea that teachers would institute effective practices if they had both the freedom and the motivation to do so. Relaxing rules would provide the freedom; holding schools accountable for results would provide the motivation.
The committee found that this idea may be overoptimistic. First, it assumes that teachers—indeed, the education profession generally—know enough about what it takes to educate all children to challenging standards of performance. The experience since 1994 suggests that, although some schools and communi-
ties are showing success, their practices are not widely shared, and knowledge about how to implement effective instructional strategies to help all students learn to challenging standards is also largely unknown.
Second, implicit in the theory is the notion that motivated teachers would seek guidance about improving instruction and districts would provide the support teachers need, largely by making more widely available the existing array of professional development opportunities. Recent research suggests, however, that the amount and kind of professional development is inadequate to meet teachers' needs, and that teachers continue to feel unprepared to teach all students to challenging standards (National Center for Education Statistics, 1999; National Partnership for Excellence and Accountability in Teaching, 1999).
What would such a system look like? In our view, the focus would be on teaching and learning, and the theory of action revolves around the links between all the elements and instruction. We call the expanded system an "education improvement system," and it is represented graphically in Figure 2-2.
The theory of action behind an education improvement system relies on information and responsibility. Everyone—students, parents, teachers, principals, district administrators, state officials, and policy makers at the district, state, and federal levels—knows what it is expected, what they will be measured on, and what the results imply for what they should do next. Those directly responsible for raising student performance—teachers and schools—have access to high-quality information about performance and about the effects of their instruc-
Expanded model of the theory of action of standards-based reform: An education improvement system
tional practices. They are then responsible for using this information to adjust their practices and seek support for additional resources for improvement.
But others have responsibilities as well, since student performance depends on the capacity of teachers and administrators to deliver high-quality instruction. Therefore, the education improvement system also provides information on the progress of efforts to develop instructional capacity. In all cases, the information the system provides is transparent—that is, it shows results and suggests remedies. In addition, the information provides a means for states and districts to monitor the effects of their changes and make course corrections when warranted.
As with the conventional model, the theory of action for education improvement systems is based on the idea that a number of components work hand in hand. States and districts can develop these components in any order; what matters is coherence among the components.
The components of an education improvement system are: standards, assessments, indicators of the conditions of instruction, and accountability.
Standards. As with standards-based reform, challenging standards for student performance drive instructionally valid standards-based systems. Content standards set expectations for learning for all students, and performance standards are the benchmarks against which progress is gauged. Performance standards also provide instructional guidance by offering clear ideas of classroom strategies to enable students to reach the standards | 2,093 |
Bruce Springsteen told the Sunday Times that Donald Trump has no equal among Democrats — and the rock star doesn't mean it as a compliment. Well, not completely. Springsteen, who campaigned for Barack Obama and John Kerry, thinks the current POTUS has big moral deficiencies. Nevertheless, Springsteen says he doesn't see "the man who can beat Trump, or the woman who can beat Trump" in 2020 — because the Democrats don't have anyone who can really talk to the people who voted for Trump. The Dems, in Springsteen's opinion, lack that voice. And Springsteen should know: he counts a lot of Trump<|fim_middle|> same language," Springsteen says, while also saying he dislikes much of Trump's language. That's a tough position — between the proverbial rock and hard place. A winner will have to talk to Trump's people the way Trump does, but somehow not also convey all the racially inflammatory triggers that undergird Trump's rhetoric. Is it possible?
Well, Springsteen himself has done it. Indeed, Springsteen the troubadour is often portrayed as the ultimate "man of the people" for understanding and the stories of everyday people. Interestingly, "Man of the People" is a title that Trump also, despite his alleged billionaire status and Fifth Avenue address, wears among his loyalists. Trump may be rich, the thinking goes, but he's still an outsider. And he talks like regular people. Springsteen fears the Democrats can't offer up anyone who talks that way, even if Bernie Sanders also sounds like a regular guy to the core. | voters among his biggest fans.
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Pat Toomey takes first trip abroad as U.S. Senator
Pat To<|fim_middle|> American troops will still be there in 2016, when his Senate term expires. | omey and three other freshman Republicans joined Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on the trip.
They spent the past few days meeting with military and political leaders, including General David Petraeus.
Toomey says he delivered a message to Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai.
"The main point that I wanted to stress with him was that his government needed to do more to rat out the corruption that has been, really, very pervasive," said Toomey. "I was perhaps a little bit more subtle about it than that, but that was really my essential point."
Toomey last visited Afghanistan in 2002, when he was a congressman.
He says there's a "night and day" difference in the capital city of Kabul, since his last trip, with much more commerce and traffic in the city this time.
Still, Toomey says there's a lot of work to be done in Afghanistan.
He says he assumes | 189 |
When Yoga Mats Meet Prayer Mats
by Erin Luhmann Hinrichs
Some pregnant women wear leggings, sports bras and cotton T-shirts for maximum comfort. Others wear full-body black hijabs with rhinestones along the cuffs and colored scarves over their hair. But once they dig their heels into their yoga mats, these pregnant women cast a unified silhouette: bulging bellies.
A trained doula and yoga instructor, Lana Anderson-Kuchynski, leads expectant mothers in pre-natal yoga at Everyday Miracles, a nonprofit breastfeeding advocacy organization in Minneapolis. She gets them stretching, rocking, balancing and squatting to better prepare them for childbirth.
For her Muslim students, this meditative practice fulfills a need for exercise that is both culturally appropriate and comfortable. Just a few steps away in the same room, they can transition into evening prayer, embracing some of the same fluid motions and meditative state.
"Wash peace all over your body<|fim_middle|>, especially during cold winter months.
Anderson-Kuchynski coaches them through labor positions and teaches them how to reposition their babies through various yoga poses. She asks the mothers to modify each position to their own comfort level, reassuring them that these simple movements are preparing their babies to exit the birth canal safely.
"Giving these women the tools with the yoga class, I think they feel more empowered," she said.
Aluhamad agrees. Before coming to Minnesota, she lived in a refugee camp in Kenya for 10 years. She now works as a translator for Somali immigrants and recently gave birth to a baby girl. In addition to praying five times a day, she does her best to continue practicing the yoga techniques she learned from Anderson-Kuchynski.
Sharing her discovery of inner peace through yoga, she said: "It reduces my stress level."
Pregnant Somali women use yoga as a peaceful tool for cultural immersion in Minnesota.
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Erin Luhmann Hinrichs January 22, 2014 | ," Anderson-Kuchynski instructed during a Tuesday evening class. She walked her students through a standing meditation pose meant to simulate the sense of calm they'll soon experience between contractions.
While the transition from prayer to a yoga may appear seamless, Somali women pay strict attention to the differences between these two disciplines. During yoga class, they feel free to talk and expand their range of motion. However, as the sun sets toward the end of yoga class, some women leave to perform "wudhu," Muslim ritual washing to pray in the direction of Mecca. During prayer, they are silent and their movement is more restricted.
"The difference is, during prayer time, you're not shaking your bottom," said Shamsa Idle, a trained Somali doula at Everyday Miracles.
The fact that these two practices – prayer and yoga – can coexist in the same space bodes well for the ability of Somali women to assimilate without losing their religious identity.
When asked about her own yoga experience at Everyday Miracles, Amina Aluhamad, 26, said, "I like to socialize with other women. I like to learn from other cultures too."
Class sizes fluctuate, depending on due dates. One constant, however, is the strong representation of the Somali community.
The non-denominational nature of Anderson-Kuchynski's yoga class allows these women to participate without compromising their own faith. It also helps fulfill their need for a peaceful immersion outlet.
These yoga movements are "good for their bodies, their minds and their unborn babies, she explains. Somalia has been embroiled in violent unrest since 1991, when clan warlords began vying for power. Since then, the nation has made headlines for its humanitarian crisis, piracy, and Al-Shabab militant activity. One of the most recent headlines concerns the attack on a mall in Nairobi, Kenya.
According to 2011 estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, Minnesota is home to more than 32,000 people of Somali ancestry. This makes Minnesota the Somali population capital of the U.S., with Ohio, Washington and California trailing as other hubs.
"We came because our country is not safe," said Fartun Abdulla, 28, reflecting over a cup of sugary Somali tea after yoga class.
Abdulla's mother and grandmother are still living in Somalia, but she came to Minnesota with her aunt and is now pregnant with her first child. To reconcile familial disruption Abdulla identified Idle as a surrogate mother and took her advice on attending pre-natal yoga classes.
"Yoga, we don't have in Somalia – the specific type like this," said Idle, adding that you'd be hard pressed to find a gym at all.
Minnesota is full of indoor exercise facilities, but not all Somali immigrants can afford to pay membership fees. Fortunately, pre-natal yoga classes at Everyday Miracles are free, offering expectant Somali women a comfortable way to practice self-care.
While some types of yoga are geared toward spiritual nourishment, Anderson-Kuchynski's teaches asana yoga in her pre-natal classes, focusing purely on the physical benefits of yoga. Her classes are ethnically diverse and she doesn't want to dissuade anyone from participating.
"I don't think these classes are the space to bring in religion," she said.
Strictly speaking, these yoga classes do not have a religious component. But there's a certain element of peacefulness that emanates from a circle of pregnant women leaning into warrior pose and cupping one hand under their bellies while stretching into tree pose.
Most of these women have embraced yoga because they can feel the physical benefits of attending class. Idle explained that women got plenty of daily exercise back in Somali simply from walking to the market, chasing after children and visiting relatives who live miles away by foot. But here, in Minnesota, many replaced walking with commuting | 800 |
I'll never fully understand the ambition that drove my father to build a beach house in the Hamptons. Dad was just 39 in 1971 when he and mom bought the small sandy lot tangled with dune grass and bayberry bushes 50 yards back from the ocean beach on Amagansett's slender low-lying Napeague isthmus—and he was already overextended.
My parents built their dream home on<|fim_middle|> expenditures. Pop revealed his deepest inner emotions with his journal entries. Shakiness crept into Pop's otherwise beautiful Irish parochial school penmanship when he wrote big numbers—especially if they mounted to bigger numbers. The wobbliest of Pop's numbers was the $1,700 he paid in 1951 for Dixie, his used 1937 17-foot Chris-Craft Runabout. (I doubt my Nana ever knew the cost.) Another shaky number was the $47 monthly mortgage payment (which Nana definitely knew about) to pay the $4,200 purchase price on the house.
About halfway through construction of his beach house, Dad rented a small wooden skiff with an outboard to take us fishing in Gardiners Bay. Though he disliked everything about fish and fishing (and we caught only small sand sharks and spiny spider crabs that day), Dad loved sailing and got "the lay of the land," a navigational sense for his planned sailboat. Dad was born to sail and, in fact, had majored in seafaring, graduating first in his class from Fort Schuyler, the New York Maritime Academy in the Bronx and later holding a Coast Guard captain's license.
In the early 1980s, Dad moored the lone sailboat, in Napeague Harbor, a 26-foot sloop. The harbor is about four hundred yards behind my parents' beach house as the seagull flies, but a three-mile drive over the rutted shell-strewn roads that wind around the salt marshes and freshwater ponds. Though it once supported a thriving fish factory, the harbor was then mostly inhabited by local baymen's flat-bottom skiffs. It teemed with life: Schools of quicksilver baitfish stirred the pellucid beach-stone shallows; clouds of krill floated in deeper water; helmet-shaped horseshoe crabs (now endangered, after thriving for 450 million years) patrolled the sandy bottom.
During construction in the early 1970s my brother John and I, years before the dangers of tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease were known, walked straight back from the house to the harbor. We headed toward the two 300-foot-high Mackay radio towers (one of which still stands), tramping over dune grass, across the highway and railroad tracks, through scrub and then squishy marsh.
Earlier in the 20th century local commercial fisherman trawled the ocean side of Napeague the same way their ancestors had for hundreds of years: launching wooden dories in the surf, unfurling a mile-long haul-seine net in a big arc out beyond the breakers and then winching in their catch. The surfmen once built makeshift shanties close to the ocean beach (their permanent homes back on the safer bayside) until the Hurricane of 1938 blew waves across the Napeague isthmus, washing the shacks away and temporarily making Montauk an island.
My parents, worried about losing their hard-won dream house, paid dearly for flood insurance. My Mom still pays the premium, which has increased geometrically over the years. In 1972, the ocean beach measured about 50 yards from dune-top to surf. The Atlantic gradually eroded the beach in half by 2012—when Hurricane Sandy hit. My dad died in August 2011. And so he missed Sandy, which breached the dunes, damaged the beach-front White Sands Resort, but left his house, still 50 yards behind the dunes, completely unscathed, without even a power disruption.
I now live in suburban Kansas, a half mile west of the Kansas City, Mo., state line. I headed west from Midtown Manhattan in the 1990s to keep my editor job, but the publishing company went south and my magazine folded. My wife and I visit my mom every summer, and each trip east I gain a deeper appreciation of Napeague's fragile splendor and restorative powers. My brother Dave recently bought the house next door, which sits on the neighborhood's highest point, and so far he's calculated against paying for flood insurance. Dad would probably approve. | the very narrowest point (less than a half-mile wide) of the biggest, longest, most- populated island in the contiguous United States. By the time it was finally completed, the house built on the vulnerable stretch of sandy land had strained my family to a breaking point. Although my parents' double-digit mortgage was fixed, Dad was forced to take out a series of adjustable home-improvement loans to pay subcontractors after the first homebuilder absconded. His dream-house investment underwater, Dad ended up borrowing money from his Irish-immigrant parents to stay afloat.
My paternal grandparents had both worked civil service jobs, my grandfather as a NYC Subway dispatcher, to steadily salt money away. They sweated through more than 20 summers in their Bronx apartment before buying their own Long Island summer place in the town of Mastic Beach, 60 miles east of New York City and 50 miles west of Amagansett. Their tiny white cottage, initially without electricity, sat a mile from the town dock and another mile across Moriches Bay from Fire Island's ocean beach.
My older brother John and I spent summer weeks with Nana and Pop, who also often shared their house with a half-dozen other sunburned cousins visiting from the New York City area and from Ireland. We'd sleep on army cots up in the stifling attic, with the bleached, line-dried white sheets like sandpaper on our sunburns. Mostly, our vacation meant the nearly daily adventure of cruising across the bay in Pop's speedboat, Dixie, to spend the day at an undeveloped strip of Fire Island.
Nana and Pop's careful thrift and sober work ethic fueled my dad's restlessness and drive to expand his horizons beyond the small Bronx bedroom he shared with two brothers—and, later, beyond his parents' family cramped summer cottage. My father moved from the Bronx in 1959, when he and mom bought a pretty brick and stone house in the town of Franklin Square, just east of Queens on Long Island. In 1965, when our family outgrew that house—my mom gave birth to five children within eight years—we moved farther east still, to the leafier then-semirural North Stamford, Conn.
Owning a beach house in the East End was well within the reach of middleclass families in the early 1970s—especially in the fishing villages of Amagansett and Montauk. If everything had gone as planned, and my parents paid in cash, the house and land would've cost about $30,000.
In the spring of 1972, after contractors tore out the sandy lot's scrub and dug a shallow foundation, my parents began the long, contentious and expensive building process. My dad hired first one and then another incompetent builder (the first one stealing subcontractor money) to assemble our house from a Lindal Cedar Homes kit. The small, three-bedroom house finally took proper shape, looking like a cross between a barn and an ark—with two decks, a balcony and a prominent roof-ridge overhang that, from underneath, resembles the prow of a ship against the sky.
Dad seethed as the adjustable-loan rates rose. He squeezed every construction dollar. We tiled floors (with asbestos linoleum squares), stained the exterior (with Woodlife, a toxic wood preservative, subsequently taken off the market) and planted dune grass around the property (roots two feet apart, as per law). Dad snapped at us for every mistake—and they were easy to find, particularly with my tile cutting. My younger brother Dave was a construction prodigy; I was best at straightforward physical labor. At 14 I spent one long day digging a 50-foot-long trench, graded between 2 ½ – and 4-feet deep from the street to the house, for the water supply pipe.
Numbers often best tell the tale of thrifty, upwardly mobile families. My grandparents weren't misers but rather scrimped and saved to buy big things—like houses and boats and education. My father, who rose through the ranks to become chief financial officer of AT&T, seemed to have charted his life course as forward progress in a likeminded way, a sort of dead reckoning. Seldom articulate with words, he was always eloquent with facts, figures and linear logic.
I better understood the importance of sensible spending to immigrant families when Dad inherited Pop's journal, a basic accounting of daily weather and | 932 |
Note: This analysis of ANF and KORS leans heavily on my personal stock screener.
Last weekend I took a look at Abercrombie & Fitch and Michael Kors with the aid of my stock screener.
Given ANF's poor performance in recent history, I approached it as a case of mean reversion. ANF appears as relatively cheap to its peers, but is not "undervalued", as defined by my screener. At $22.55 per share, ANF is still within its predicted valuation range of $18.48 to $70.05 per share.
Still, there are a few ways to invest based on the findings. First, you can write put options at a strike price outside of the predicted range. Second, you can simply wait and take advantage of a sudden pull back in the stock price.
KORS meanwhile appears "undervalued". At a price of $50.78 per share, KORS falls well outside of its predicted range of $61.84 to $108.93 per share. This range is based on KORS's current ROE of 42.1%.
It's likely however that the market expects a coming decline in ROE. The market expectations derived from the screener show that KORS's ROE will decline to somewhere between 14.9% to 31.9%, with a central prediction of 23%. This is a sharp drop from its historical average of 45.2%.
To determine if Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) is currently "undervalued", I utilized the aid of my personal stock screener. For this screen the pairing multiple of Return on Equity and Price to Book is used. The regression made on ANF and its peers results in a rather high R^2 of 0.92.
Brief explanation: The stock screener uses a simple linear regression to find "Undervalued" stocks. An "Undervalued" stock, as defined by the screener, is any stock that fall two standard errors below the regression line. An "Undervalued" stock in this context is assumed to provide a statistical margin of safety.
As seen in the regression below, ANF falls just slightly above the blue trend line. This indicates that ANF is trading slightly above fair value. But when we consider the inputs used in this screen, it becomes clear that there's a problem that needs to be addressed.
Note: Any stock that falls outside of the "regression channel" created by the red and blue lines can be considered mis-priced by the market.
Note: The peer companies included in the screen were; related in nature, dividend paying, with a market cap greater than $100 million, and an ROE between 0% and 60%.
First: Using a single period ROE has the implicit assumption that financial performance of a company is rather consistent from year to year. This assumption may be reasonable for a company like Coca-Colca, but Abercrombie & Fitch has too much fluctuation in its business to make use of a single period ROE.
Second: Using a depressed ROE in the screen will result in a stock appearing as more expensive than it truly is. Given ANF's recent poor financial performance, it will experience this form of screening bias.
The alternative to using a trailing 12 month figure is to use a historical average which we will look at next.
In forecasting the future, there are often two paths one can take; extrapolation of current trends, or mean reversion. As just discussed, the trailing 12 month figure is based on extrapolating the present<|fim_middle|> the screen gives you the price at which a stock is undervalued (Lower), fairly valued (Trend), and Overvalued (Upper). This feature can assist with both buying and selling decisions.
Note: Not all stocks that appear as under or over-valued within the screen are indeed good or bad investments. There are quantitative and qualitative elements which the screen misses. The screen is generally meant to be an aid which is best used in unison with an investor's knowledge, insight, and research .
3. Profit: Can we profit from this today?
While ANF's share price does not provide that statistical margin of safety that we require, there are still a few way to implement these findings today.
Write Put Options: An alternative strategy to invest in ANF is to sell put options with an exercise price near or below the "undervalued" price.
For example, one could sell a January 2017 put option with a $19 strike price and take in a $1.70 premium. Then, if you get put the shares at expiration, you'd effectively be buying them for $17.30. Well below the undervalued price of $18.48 per share.
Wait: Understanding the range where ANF is undervalued, we can opportunistically use this information if stock price should decline. But periodic updating of the screen results will be necessary.
The regression analysis found that ANF is not currently "undervalued" at its Friday close price of $22.55. Rather you may say it becomes undervalued somewhere below 18.48. But that's ok. It's still possible to wait and buy ANF if it becomes undervalued. Additionally, it is possible to write uncovered put options with a strike near or below the undervalued price and benefit accordingly.
Note that when I ran the ANF screen earlier, I excluded all non-dividend paying stocks. This meant that stocks like Michael Kors (KORS) did not appear. So after I finished, I doubled back and ran another screen to include these non-dividend paying stocks.
The result: Michael Kors appears as undervalued. In the screen below, KORS appears significantly below the lower green trend line. This means that we can reject the hypothesis that KORS is fairly valued given a 42.09% ROE.
The lowest valuation that is justified by the regression is $61.84 per share, which is an 18% discount from its current share price of $50.78. In fact, the regression predicts a valuation range for KORS of $61.84-$108.93.
These predicted values are contingent upon KORS's future returns on equity resembling its past. The market on the other hand, likely believes the future will be worse. Exactly how much worse is what I want to know. For that, we can go back to the screen.
Earlier, we found the "Undervalued ROE" that would make ANF fall outside of the "regression channel". This time, we want to find the range of ROE's that would make KORS fall within the "regression channel".
Doing this we find the that the market expects a future ROE in the range of 14.9% to 31.9%, as shown above. This is in contrast to KORS' historical ROE of 45.2% and trailing 12 months ROE of 42.1%. This implies that if an investor expects Michael Kors's future ROE to resemble the past, or be higher than 31.9%, then KORS offers considerable value at today's price of $50.78 per share. | while a historical average is based on mean reversion.
In his book, "Deep Value", author Tobias Carlisle explains that the process of extrapolation feels natural to the human mind, but is often misleading. We instinctively want to reward good companies and punish bad ones. But as we carry this out, we become blind to one of the most powerful elements in investing; Mean reversion.
Carlisle explains, "The better bet is the counterintuitive one: deep undervaluation anticipating mean reversion." Consequently, given Abercrombie's poor recent history, I thought it appropriate to look at ANF as a mean reversion candidate. This leads me to the second screen.
To account for mean reversion, I made the simple assumption that ANF will mean revert to its 10 year average ROE. Using Morningstar data, I calculated ANF's 10 year average ROE as 11.9%. Using this new ROE for ANF, I re-ran the original screen.
In this new screen, ANF goes from being mildly overvalued to one of the cheapest stocks. Despite this move, AFN is still not "undervalued". Thus we cannot reject the hypothesis that the market has mis-priced AFN.
Note: In the following graph notice that ANF has shifted closer to the lower green line, but has not crossed.
ROE: At what ROE is ANF undervalued?
Price: At what price is ANF undervalued?
Profit: Can we profit from this today?
1. ROE: At what ROE is ANF undervalued?
Given ANF's current Price to Book Value, I want to know what ROE assumption would make ANF undervalued today. We will call this ROE the "Undervalued ROE". Within the regression, the "Undervalued ROE" is the lowest expected ROE where ANF drops out of the regression range and becomes undervalued at today's price.
As seen in the graph below, it's found that that ANF's "Undervalued ROE" is 14.1%. Meaning that if we believe ANF will earn an ROE greater than or equal to 14.1% moving forward that we should invest today.
It might be tempting to convince ourselves that ANF can achieve a 14.1% ROE moving forward. Especially after looking at ANF's ROE from 2004 to 2009. Or after considering that the median ROE of companies in the screen is 14.8%. But there are three reasons to be cautious about expecting a 14.1% ROE moving forward.
First: ANF only averaged an 11.9% ROE for the past ten years.
Second: The last time ANF's Fiscal Year ROE exceed 14.1% was 2009. It was 15.72%.
Third: High long-term ROE is achieved by businesses that build wide and durable competitive moats, and then rigorously maintain them. In my cursory readings of ANF's 10k, moat building did not appear high in their priorities for the past 7 years. Rather their plans for the future were largely based in making a swift return to the past. i.e. Their chief focus was restoring gross and operating margins to historical levels through cost cutting.
2. Price: At what price is ANF undervalued?
Using the earlier mean reversion screen (which assumed an 11.9% ROE), we can find the share price at which ANF is undervalued. This price is $13.68, which is a 39% discount from its close of $22.55 on Friday (08/19/2016).
Before moving on however, I'd actually like to refine this regression a little further. In the "mean reversion screen" conducted earlier, JWN and GPS appeared as Over and Under-valued respectively. This tends to exact a significant influence on the regression. Sometimes it can prove to be quite informative to remove them, which is what I did in the chart below.
Once removed, the predicted PBV of the lower trend line moves from 0.76 to 1.00. This results in an undervalued price of $18.48, or an 18.05% discount from the current share price.
The Price to Book trend data and predicted values for both screens are show below. Notice that | 952 |
A new 3D printing robotic arm could open up an exciting world of composite production and +LAB has taken inspiration from the silkworm to make the Atropos a reality.
<|fim_middle|> the print head's path and motion speed. It's designed to be simple enough for any competent 3D printer to make the most of the robotic arm and we're curious to see how this one develops.
It's clearly a high-end print solution for specific commercial applications. But that's the beauty of innovation like this, you never really know where it's going to end up. | Essentially the new print mechanism doesn't 3D print the fiber itself, instead it uses an existing fiber soaked in a resin solution that sets instantly with the help of UV light as it leaves the print head. This gives us the opportunity to make precise shapes, structures and combinations of different fibers that we simply couldn't achieve with traditional 3D printing.
Technically we can use almost any fiber that can work with the resin, so there are potentially a huge number of combinations that we haven't even considered yet and a simple fiber that we have used for hundreds of years could take on massive significance and wholly new mechanical properties when combined with the resin.
Right now the team is using fibers containing glass and basalt, but they're working hard on carbon and polyaramide fibers. It is even starting to work with bamboo and epoxy resins to make a number of different combinations for specific tasks. There's an awful lot of testing ahead, but this has the potential to change 3D printing as we know it.
It also means we don't need molds, which could be a huge advantage for bespoke creations and constantly evolving designs. Even though 3D printing means we can create specific molds quickly, if we can remove the need for them then that will streamline the production and in some cases R&D processes even further.
The team, made up of researchers from KUKA, Owens Corning and +LAB, will now set to work on practical applications for this new 3D printer. Different isn't always better, so this is not a solution that will work in every case and it certainly won't render every other 3D printer redundant. In certain instances, though, this new production method will give a real competitive advantage and the team will now work hard to identify useful markets and work with the specialists to refine the process even further.
Some of nature's simplest animals have inspired some of the greatest feats of engineering in recent times. One recent example was Airbus adopting a natural cellular structure to strip weight from the bulkhead of its planes, but engineering is full of ideas taken from the lowliest animals on the planet.
Now the humble silkworm and spiders have inspired a six-axis robotic arm that moves fluidly in space and prints a continuous, thermosetting fiber that is instantly cured. With this simple concept, the team has opened up exciting opportunities to create composite materials with specific characteristics in terms of strength, flex and more. Artists have even shown an interest in the 3D printer's potential.
Atropos is one of the three Moirai in Greek mythology and ironically the name means Unturnable, which is pretty much the polar opposite of a six-axis robotic arm that can sweep fluidly through space to trace almost any shape we can imagine. It's controlled by a series of algorithms and essentially fibers are soaked in a reservoir of resin on their way to the print head.
A UV source photocures the resin in the fiber instantaneously and that means that the team can lay down anything from a single fiber in a specific shape to a complex mesh or even a tightly wound coil to create the mechanical properties that each application requires. It's just as capable of creating solid structures, too, as the video demonstrates.
Shear strength can be a real problem with traditional 3D printing and we can find ourselves overengineering the product in terms of thickness or using a more expensive and complex filament to prevent breakage. This new technique means we could 3D print by overlapping the filament and using the finished product's own structure to provide shear resistance on a number of different planes.
By winding a filament up and down a product's length we can end up with a thinner, stronger product and that could be useful across the board.
The whole process begins in Rhinoceros' 3D modeling software and then uses a graphical algorithms editor, Grasshopper, and KUKAIprc to create the data for | 792 |
Vinitaly will host a tasting for the Chicago area wine trade and media.
The Chicago program will include a Grand Tasting, a guided tasting and wine business seminar.
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Business Seminar: What Are The Recent Wine Trends in Restaurants?
Registration for the Grand Tasting is now open and<|fim_middle|>. VeronaFiere created the Vinitaly World Tour in 1998 to develop an international platform focusing on the promotion of companies in the wine & food sector and to support the institutions involved. The Vinitaly World Tour travels to many of the most important cities in China, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Russia and the United States of America.
For more information, please contact Dana Polonsky at dpolonsky@colangelopr.com or at 646-624-2885 ext. 106. | is available exclusively to active members of the wine trade and press. Registration is by invitation only and is non-transferrable.
VeronaFiere is the leading organizer of shows in Italy, including Vinitaly, the International Wine and Spirits Exhibition | 50 |
A former U.S. Army analyst from Oklahoma was arrested in Minneapolis while trying to board a one-way flight to China with electronic files containing a restricted Army field manual, authorities said Friday.
Federal prosecutors said Liangtian Yang, 26, also known as Alfred Yang, of Lawton, Okla., allegedly was carrying multiple data storage devices when he was arrested Thursday at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Yang was charged in Oklahoma City with one count of theft of government property, which carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison. Defense attorney Frederick Goetz of Minneapolis said the charge is a misdemeanor, but declined to comment further Friday.
Yang made his initial appearance Friday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn. A detention hearing was scheduled for Monday to determine when Yang will be returned to Oklahoma, said Bob Troester, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney�s Office in Oklahoma City.
Yang worked as an analyst at Oklahoma�s Fort Sill until Aug. 16, when his clearance was revoked because of security violations, according to an FBI affidavit in the case. The<|fim_middle|> employees, the document said.
�The subject was not authorized to be in possession of this material, nor was he authorized to have it on his personal computer,� the affidavit said. | affidavit did not disclose the nature of the violations.
During security screening before a Tokyo-bound flight with China as its final destination, authorities found Yang, a Chinese national, was carrying multiple media storage devices that were confiscated by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents, the affidavit said.
One of the devices contained an Army field manual restricted for use by Department of Defense | 72 |
Chia seed pudding is super creamy and delicious. Leave it simple, with the coconut milk and maple syrup as the star flavors, or add in some cacao or matcha powder for an added flavor twist! The pudding is delicious as is<|fim_middle|> in the refrigerator overnight (or at least 4-6 hours). I usually mix it up the night before, then it's ready to grab and go in the morning!
In a small bowl (with sealable lid), pour in the milk, then mix in the chia seeds and maple syrup. Stir well until combined.
Leave in the fridge to set for 4-6 hours, or preferably overnight. The chia seeds will absorb the liquid, causing them to expand and become soft.
When it is done setting, top with yogurt and fresh blackberries! Use the kiwi slices to slide down the edges for a visually pleasing decor, and added yum.
What is your favorite way to make chia seed pudding? I'd love to hear what you like to eat it with. | , but I love to top it with yogurt and fresh fruit, which makes it burst with flavor. The combinations are endless!
It is super simple to make, and only requires 3 ingredients (or 2 if you choose to skip the sweetener).
You need a 4:1 ratio of liquid to chia seeds. Use whatever kind of milk/liquid you prefer. I used 1 cup unsweetened coconut milk and ¼ cup chia seeds. Add in as little or much sweetener as desired. I used 1 tablespoon of infused maple syrup* (simply add in a vanilla bean and cinnamon stick to your syrup to do the same). You can also sweeten it by blending up a couple of medjool dates*, or use honey* or agave* instead.
Simply pour ingredients together in a sealable jar/bowl, and mix until combined. Then place | 180 |
Rewind 5 months back and I remember sitting in my room in a sweater, sipping hot tea and looking outside my window to the view of snow. It was a beautiful moment and I had the chance to go out and snap a few pics with Sylvia.
It was cold, the snow was wet and we couldn't use our cameras with gloves. I<|fim_middle|>Either way, I think it is worth sharing and I think it really turned out well! Let's travel back to a colder time!
Remember when it snowed a lot and then melted away the next day?
If summer is lively and colourful. Winter is calm and peaceful. | snapped a few pics and we called it in early because it was snowing like crazy and we got too cold to hold our camera's steady enough to focus.
Fast forward to now and I finally finished shooting that roll of film and even got it developed! It's already a kind of surreal feeling to look at old pictures you almost forgot about... It's an even weirder feeling looking at pictures of snow, when it's 20+ degrees outside.
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Rewind to 2011. Chicago. The conference was smaller with fewer attendees and vendors. You would hear "The physician shortage is coming" and "Take these steps so your<|fim_middle|> a nice job evolving into a major source of knowledge. Second, health systems are feeling the heat of recruiting physicians—and are looking for solutions.
Some health systems are looking for help from outside recruiters or locum tenens—obviously, judging by the number of locum tenens exhibitors there. I can't imagine they'll all survive. Speaking to attendees, we heard health systems seem to be expecting magic from their recruiting departments—with some even cutting budgets and staff! Ouch.
Focusing on recruitment marketing seems to make a lot of sense.
At ab+c, we were doing this "recruitment marketing" thing years before the 2011 conference, and we've only grown in our capabilities and experience. Here are a few tips we've put together on branding, sourcing, technology and organizational value to help you with your recruiting efforts. | health system is prepared" or "These are the recruiters you should be using." The term "recruitment marketing" was hardly known at that point.
Now fast-forward back to 2015. Orlando. There was a record number of attendees and 90 exhibitors—with a waiting list of 30 more! That tells me two things. First, ASPR has done | 78 |
Symphonicity Tour Extends To Include Free Concert In Russia This Summer...
Live Nation is pleased to announce that Sting will perform in St. Petersburg this summer as a part of his critically-acclaimed Symphonicity world tour. Following sold-out performances across North America, Europe and Australia, Symphonicity finds Sting performing his greatest hits re-imagined for symphonic arrangement, accompanied by a symphony orchestra and band, conducted by Sarah Hicks. On June 16, 2011, the Symphonicity tour will appear at the opening of the XV St. Petersburg International Economic Forum at the Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia.
This concert is a non-ticketed event and is free to the public.
SYMPHONICITY SUMMER TOUR 2011 ITINERARY:
06 Jun - Piata Constitutiei, Bucharest, Romania
07 Jun - Georgi Asparuhov Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria
08 Jun - Belgrade Arena, Belgrade, Serbia
10 Jun - Stozice Arena, Llubljana, Slovenia
11 Jun - Schwarlz Freizeitzentrum, Graz, Austria
<|fim_middle|>. Following sold-out performances across North America, Europe and Australia, Symphonicity finds Sting performing his greatest hits re-imagined for symphonic arrangement, accompanied by a symphony orchestra and band. On July 13, 2011, the Symphonicity tour will appear at the Estadio de Gran Canaria in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. The Fan Club presale will begin at 10AM (local time) on Wednesday, April 20. Legacy Fan Club members will be given a one hour advance window at the start of the presale followed by a presale to all members beginning at 11AM (local time). Tickets will go on sale to the public on Saturday, April 23 at 10AM (local time). | 13 Jun - Olimpsiki, Moscow, Russia
16 Jun - Palace Square, St. Petersburg, Russia
18 Jun - Ergo Arena Gdansk/Sopot, Gdansk, Poland
20 Jun - Aalborg Hallen, Aalborg, Denmark
22 Jun - Warsteiner HockeyPark, Mönchengladbach, Germany
23 Jun - Arena in Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
25 Jun - Schloss Salem, Salem, Germany
27 Jun - Minsk Arena, Minsk, Belarus
29 Jun - Zimny Stadion Ondreja Nepelu, Bratislava, Slovakia
30 Jun - Budapest Arena, Budapest, Hungary
02 Jul - Tatneft Arena, Kazan, Russia
07 Jul - Palace of Sports, Kiev, Ukraine
09 Jul - Moon & Stars Festival, Locarno, Switzerland
11 Jul - Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland
13 Jul - Estadio de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
15 Jul - Plaza de Toros, Granada, Spain
18 Jul - SAP Arena, Mannheim, Germany
19 Jul - Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany
21 Jul - Les Nuits de Fourvière Festival, Lyon, France
22 Jul - Poupet Festival, St. Malo Du Bois, France
23 Jul - Nimes Festival, Nimes, France
25 Jul - Monte Carlo Sporting Club Festival, Monte Carlo, Monaco
27 Jul - Complesso Monumentale Castello a Mare, Palermo, Italy
29 Jul - Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy
30 Jul - Cavea dell'Auditorium Parco della, Rome, Italy
31 Jul - Piazza Dell Loggia, Brescia, Italy
Symphonicity World Tour - New Performance Confirmed In Spain...
Live Nation is pleased to announce that Sting will perform in Granada at the Plaza de Toros on July 15, 2011, along his critically-acclaimed Symphonicity world tour. Following sold-out performances across North America, Europe and Australia, Symphonicity finds Sting performing his greatest hits re-imagined for symphonic arrangement, accompanied by a symphony orchestra and band. The Fan Club presale will begin at 10AM (local time) on Tuesday, April 26. Legacy Fan Club members will be given a one hour advance window at the start of the presale followed by a presale to all members beginning at 11AM (local time). Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, April 29 at 10AM (local time).
Symphonicity World Tour Extends To Include Additional Concert In Spain This Summer...
Live Nation is pleased to announce that Sting will perform in Spain this summer as a part of his celebrated Symphonicity world tour | 620 |
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For both down and side imaging, the Humminbird Helix 7 CHIRP SI GPS G2 has a depth capability of 150 feet and up to 1,500 feet for the Dual Beam PLUS Sonar. It operates at 455 kHz (420-520 kHz) for both down and side imaging. Also, it features an internal GPS with built-in basemap as well as an AutoChart Live feature, which allows you to create maps of your fishing spots in real time.
800 x 480 px resolution
4 different imaging technologies
CHIRP Digital Sonar
CHIRP Down Imaging
CHIRP Side Imaging
DualBeam PLUS
150-foot depth capability (Side & Down)
1,500-foot depth capability (Dual Beam PLUS)
Operates at 455 kHz (420-520 kHz)
Internal GPS
Built-in basemap
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The Helix 5 CHIRP SI GPS G2 boasts everything you'd expect from a Humminbird fish finder but with the additional side imaging features. It has a 5-inch screen with a resolution of 800 x 480 px. Its CHIRP technologies, which offers clearer and more precise imaging, operates at 455 kHz (420-520 kHz) and applies to its sonar, down, and side imaging features.
From side-to-side, the Helix 5 CHIRP SI GPS G2 has a range of 200 feet while its down imaging range is 350 feet. This fish finder also features Humminbird's DualBeam PLUS, which allows you to switch between a narrow and a wide beam for better clarity or wider coverage, respectively. You could also use both beams at the same time in order to give you a complete picture of your fishing grounds.
The Humminbird Helix 5 CHIRP SI GPS G2 has an internal GPS receiver and has built-in chart plotting and track plotting features. It also includes Humminbird's basemap, which uses data from both NOAA and LakeMaster to give you accurate and detailed maps right out of the box.
5-inch screen
Equipped with CHIRP technologies
200-foot side-to-side range
350-foot down imaging range
Features DualBeam PLUS
Internal GPS receiver
Built-in chart plotting and track plotting features
Includes Humminbird's basemap
The Garmin Striker 7sv is 7-inch fish finder with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. It has a precise GPS with a built-in map that allows you to chart your fishing grounds. Plus, it is equipped not just with CHIRP but also Garmin's trademark ClearVü and SideVü imaging technologies.
CHIRP offers clearer imaging by using multiple frequencies rather than just one. ClearVü provides a wide photographic image of the area below your boat while SideVü gives you a good view of the area at each side. The Garmin Striker 7sv also offers dual-beam sonar imaging at 77 and 200 kHz. In 2D mode, you can use both mid and high CHIRP frequencies while in the SideVü and ClearVü modes, supported frequencies include 260/455/800 kHz. In saltwater, the sonar is capable of providing images of up to 1,100 feet deep while it goes up to 2,300 feet deep in freshwater.
The Striker 7sv by Garmin measures 9.3 x 5.5 x 2.3 inches and weighs 24 ounces. It has an IPX7 rating, which means the unit can safely be submerged in water up to 1 meter deep.
Precise GPS with map
Includes chart plotting features
Equipped with CHIRP, ClearVü, and SideVü
Equipped with dual-beam sonar imaging
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1,100 ft. depth capability in saltwater
2,300 ft. depth capability in freshwater
IPX7 waterproof rating
The Humminbird Helix 9 SI GPS is a 9-inch fish finder with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. It has GPS capabilities with chart plotting and track plotting features. It also has several sonar technologies like down imaging, side imaging, and DualBeam PLUS.
With both down and side imaging, you'll be able to get a good picture of what's happening immediately below your boat and to each side of it. Its side-to-side range is up to 150 feet while its maximum downward depth is also 150 feet. Frequencies supported include 50, 83, 200, 455, and 800 kHz. Additionally, Humminbird's DualBeam PLUS allows you to toggle between a wide beam for a larger coverage area, or a narrow beam for a more detailed view. This fish finder also comes with a Transom XNT 9 SI 180 T transducer.
Though you can get the Helix 9 SI GPS with the Humminbird Basemap, it is also compatible with a number of maps including LakeMaster, Minn Kota i-Pilot Link, Navionics Gold/HotMaps, and Navionics Platinum+. Also, it allows you to take screenshots as well as sonar recordings making it great for a fishing boat or a fishing kayak.
GPS with chart plotting and track plotting
Has down imaging, side imaging, and DualBeam PLUS
150-foot maximum downward depth
Supports 50, 83, 200, 455, and 800 kHz
Has Transom XNT 9 SI 180 T transducer
Compatible with most maps and charts
Allows screenshots and sonar recordings
Not equipped with CHIRP
The Garmin Striker Plus 7sv is a 7-inch fish finder with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. It has integrated GPS that allows you to mark waypoints. It is also equipped with a GT52HW-TM transducer, which combines traditional CHIRP and Garmin's ClearVü and SideVü technologies to provide a clear and complete view that will help you catch more fish.
With Garmin's ClearVü and SideVü imaging technologies, the Striker Plus 7sv gives you a good view of what's off to each side of your boat as well as what's directly below it. Frequencies supported include 260, 455, and 800 kHz. Traditional CHIRP uses multiple frequencies to ensure a clear and detailed picture. This unit offers both mid and high CHIRP. It also features dual-beam sonar in 77 and 200 kHz.
Apart from GPS and high-quality imaging, the Garmin Striker Plus 7sv has other useful features including a water temperature sensor, which allows you to record and graph data as well. It also has an A-scope, which shows you fish passing through the transducer beam in real time. Additionally, it allows you to measure the depths of various targets underwater.
Equipped with GT52HW-TM transducer
CHIRP, ClearVü, and SideVü technologies
Supports 260, 455, and 800 kHz
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After holding various positions in the retail industry from General Manager to Regional Manager, Jason Fierst found his true passion in the Hospitality world<|fim_middle|> as gardening. | . Starting out as a Night Auditor to make some extra income, Jason found himself gaining experience in all facets of the business. Working in housekeeping, front desk, maintenance, all gave him the experience he needed to make the jump up to General Manager. As a General Manager, he oversaw renovations for 2 properties, acquisitions of 3 properties, and earned numerous awards from nationally recognized brand such as InterContinental Hotels Group, Choice Hotels, and La Quinta Hotels. His properties consistently exceeded revenue expectations of his ownership as well as the brand; thus, it was no surprise when Jason was offered a position as a Regional Revenue Manager for Choice Hotels. This is where he realized that the "numbers" game of the Hospitality world is what really got his engine going. Jason is very analytical when it comes to financial management and is able to increase Zenique's portfolio revenues by maximizing the ADR at each hotel. He also has a keen eye for effective marketing techniques, which assist in maximizing revenues through lead generation and digital exposure. He joined Zenique Hotels in February 2019 after earning a degree in Hospitality Revenue Management at Cornell University. In a short period of time, he has already made positive impact on the company as a whole! When Jason is not crunching numbers, maximizing rates, and adjusting hurdle points, he enjoys coaching his three children's baseball and soccer teams. He and his wife are huge foodies and enjoy cooking as well | 292 |
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Okay, there are two models here, the BOS4 – which is thinner and rather flexible. Then there is the BOS5; the thicker counterpart and a lot stronger and weightier one. Both these are well shielded and grounded with silver solder. So by first impression they look very durable and mean (especially the BOS5) – and I am confident they are.
Anyway, the interesting part was, BOS4 & BOS5 produced (or transferred) two distinct sound signals from my audio source to my portable amp/DAC. BOS4 offered tight low ended frequencies. In other words, the bass was robust and controlled with that visceral rumble in a way. Nonetheless, it was the clear signal transition that truly stood out for BOS4.
On the other hand the BOS5 provided crispier mids and highs. My ATH-M50 really thrived with the BOS5. I always placed fair emphasis on percussion (snares) and rhythm section reproductions to my music set up; and in that regard, the BOS5 did a very good job accentuating these sounds over my ATH-M50 (via iBasso D2 Boa+). I plugged the same to the NAD3020 Hybrid amplifier and the sound was even more vivid and precise. Yes, this was obvious since the NAD3020 is in a different league compared to my much much smaller iBasso D2 Boa+. But the fact was, the other subtle or not-so-subtle distinction was because of the BOS5 cable in my opinion. | for my portable set-up. Anyhow, they look the part – an audiophile DIY | 18 |
Tag Archives: Graphic Arts
Things I Like … Right Now
September 20, 2010 Lee Theodoros Leave a comment
I love this vintage button pin featuring graphic art by Carol Summers, a master American print maker renowned for his intensely vivid colors and woodblock techniques. The pin is stamped 1971, and may have some collectible value as do Summers' prints. The Santa Cruz resident has works in museums including The Art Institute of Chicago, Biblioteque National in Paris, New York's Museum of Modern Art and Brooklyn Museum of Fine Arts.
But for me, the cool vintage pin – purchased from my favorite online vintage store http://www.riceandbeansvintage.com/– is all about wearable art. I plan to use it to drape and pin into place some of my oversized, slouchy winter sweaters. Or maybe I'll pin it on my bag the way my kids do with their superhero pins!
I'm also loving this Claudia Pearson poster for its bright cheekiness. It's the first in a series of hand-drawn type posters featuring some classic and some more obscure song lyrics. This one was inspired by Roy Ayers "We Live in Brooklyn Baby!" Pearson, a Brooklyn local, has been published in the New York Times, Elle, The New Yorker and The Big Book of Illustration, among others. She also has one children's book and is working on another. Besides prints like the one pictured, her illustrations are available on tea towels, totes, cards and books. You can find her work in her etsy store.
I am not the crunchy, granola-making sort BUT I am having a clog moment as the weather turns and the Havaianas no longer cut it to run the kids to school on a chilly, wet morning. Plus, I am not very good at wearing shoes. Seriously, no matter what shoes I wear I manage to end up with red, chewed-up heels and other assorted blisters and bumps. I am obviously meant to be barefoot but since that isn't practical roaming the Brooklyn streets, clogs – which have no back – seem like a practical alternative. What's more, they could work well with the whole knee-high-sock-t<|fim_middle|>Claudia PearsonClogsFall TrendsFootwearGraphic ArtsKnee-High SocksPrintsRefineryRice and Beans Vintage. EtsySaltwater SandalsStyleSvenTrendsWearable Art
Like It, Want It
April 7, 2010 Lee Theodoros 5 Comments
I Like It Too!
I love graphic arts; probably something to do with my job at a graphic design magazine and writer's thirst for the brief, catchy one-liner. Well, I discovered this Anthony Burrill print hanging on a friend's wall at the weekend and wanted to take it home.
"I Like It. What Is It?" was exactly what I asked my host, several times, in fact, until he introduced me to Burrill, a UK-based designer whose work spans witty posters, to film and Internet projects. Trained at the Royal College of Art in London, Burrill has designed ad campaigns for London Underground, DIESEL and Nike, among others; and covers for The Economist and Wallpaper. He's also produced interactive web-based work for bands such as Kraftwerk and Air, murals for Bloomberg and Priestman Goode, and designed the identity for KesselsKramer's London base KK OUTLET.
But it's his woodblock posters, each one signed in pencil, that I really fell for. Burrill uses traditional woodblock letterpress techniques to convey his message on 100% recycled paper.
His appreciation of simplicity comes across loud and clear in his trademark one-liners. He's not saying anything particularly deep or cerebral, but the direct, uncomplicated style makes it something you want to repeat, or at very least hang over a desk someplace visible. His limited edition prints – including one of the most well-known "Work Hard and Be Nice to People" – have become mantras for the design community and beyond.
The April issue of Creative Review also features Burrill's cover art. To see more of his work or to buy one of his woodblock prints, check out his website www.anthonyburrill.com.
Anthony BurrillArtCreative ReviewGraphic ArtsLevine/LeavittMagazine CoversPostersUK DesignerWoodblock Prints | rend that's promising to be big this Fall. I haven't owned clogs since I was a very young girl back in Adelaide and probably still in primary (elementary) school, and I probably haven't worn knee-high socks since then either – but this Fall, it's all about to change. I like the lightweight Sven clogs, available online or at Refinery on Smith Street, the go-to for Brooklyn women searching for clogs or the other staple Saltwater Sandals. I know there are much fancier and pricier clogs out there right now, but I'm thinking Sven might do the job and be a good "trainer" clog so to speak.
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Dickens & Christie Mysteries Tour and Giveaway
Whiskers, Wreaths & Murder
A Dickens & Christie Mystery Book 3
by Kathy Manos Penn
Genre: Cozy Mystery
If it were up to her, they'd be singing carols and baking cookies.
Instead, they're stockings-deep in a murder investigation…
Leta Parker is looking forward to her first holiday season in the Cotswolds. Prepping for the town's tree-lighting ceremony, the village is enraged when the new American earl announces plans to develop his family's estate into a resort. And when the brash successor is found dead in a ditch, it's obvious this car crash was no accident.
Determined to unwrap the truth behind the tragedy, Leta enlists the help of the Little Old Ladies Detective Agency and her talking dog and cat. But with everyone in the charming hamlet a suspect, it'll be tough to discover who's not on Father Christmas's naughty list.
Will Leta and friends deliver the gift of justice?
Whiskers, Wreaths & Murder is the third book in the delightful Dickens & Christie cozy mystery series. If you like clever senior women, deep friendships, and animals of the talking variety, then you'll love Kathy Manos Penn's yuletide whodunit.
Buy Whiskers, Wreaths & Murder for a holiday homicide today!
I've caught the Christmas spirit, I thought. The Christmas after Henry died, I'd barely managed to put out a few snow globes and candles, much less get a tree. I knew I'd still have some tearful moments, but I hoped today's spurt of enthusiasm was a sign I was healing.
I'd been hesitating to pull out my boxes and boxes of Christmas decorations, worried I'd have a meltdown, but since I'd made it through tree shopping without tears, I decided to chance it. After all, I thought, even if I have a good cry, tonight's party will cheer me up.
By the time I carried all the boxes from the garage to the sitting room, I was thinking I should have asked Peter or Gavin for help. What on earth was I thinking when I shipped all this? At least the containers were clearly labeled. In the summer, when I'd moved into my fairytale cottage and begun sorting boxes, it was apparent I'd swung back and forth from haphazard to highly organized when I was packing in Atlanta. Thank goodness the Christmas decorations were in the organized category.
Dickens and Christie watched as I opened the box of teddy bears and other animals, many of which I'd acquired pre-Henry. There was my treasured Richie Bear from the now-defunct Rich's department store in Atlanta. He was a white bear with a red sweater and red knit cap. Two brown Lord & Taylor bears from different years were wearing knit scarves and hats. The Lord & Taylor locations in Atlanta had long since closed, and I still couldn't believe the flagship store on Fifth Avenue had closed after over one hundred years in business.
Christie wandered over to climb into the box. "What's with all the bears? I thought we had cats too . . . Wait, here's one." She'd found a black and white cat with a Santa hat. She sniffed everything as I pulled out several more cats, a moose, and a mouse. Each one made me smile and Christie purr. Dickens was more interested in lounging in front of the fire and content to watch from afar.
"You know, Christie, I have a picture of you as a kitten, curled up with the packages beneath the tree—after you'd chewed ribbons and clawed wrapping paper. You played so hard, you conked out."
"I've learned better now. I prefer to play with the paper after you've unwrapped the packages. I still think the ornaments are fair game, though."
"Yes, dear. That's why I never place fragile ornaments on the lower branches where you can reach them." Thank goodness, she confined her antics to the bottom of the tree. I'd had a kitten named Moocher, another black cat, who'd climbed up the trunk of the Christmas tree one year. I was lucky I'd been there and been able to reach in and grab him without breaking a single ornament or worse, toppling the tree.
I was saving the several boxes of ornaments until last, so I turned to the box labeled China. I knew it wasn't china, but I hadn't known what else to call the plethora of candle holders, decorative plates, and Christmas knickknacks I'd collected. I had a handblown glass tree with tiny glass balls hanging on the branches, a wooden sleigh, and several snow globes.
Christie meowed, "I remember the big snow globe, the one on the gold base that played music. That thing scared me to death."
That got Dickens's attention. "It only scared you after you knocked it to the floor and it burst into pieces! We didn't see you for hours after the crash."
Christie turned her nose up before she replied, "Excuse me, I believe it jumped off the shelf. I had nothing to do with it."
Jumped off the shelf? That's a creative explanation. I looked around the sitting room and considered my collection. Garland, I need garland. I'd go out Sunday afternoon to get some, and then I could arrange candles and snowglobes in the greenery and hang the three Christmas stockings with the names Christie, Dickens, and Leta.
There, I thought. I've made it through without tears. I'll tackle the ornaments another day. Maybe I'll just open the boxes and set them by the tree and leave it to my friends to pull them out one by one—all except the box of cat ornaments. I moved it to the office with the idea of decorating the cat tree on my own before the tree trimming party next week.
Pumpkins, Paws and Murder
The Fall Fête isn't very festive when an illusionist is discovered dead.
Can an expat and her talking pets crash the killer's party?
Retirement in the Cotswolds has given Leta Parker a new lease on life. Growing close to her small-town pals, the former corporate trainer is thrilled to help them put on the village's annual autumn celebration. But the punch goes sour when a friend's estranged magician husband is found murdered.
With the newly widowed woman the prime suspect, Leta leaps into action with spunky friends and her talking dog and cat to clear her name. But when they trace the lecherous victim to England's picturesque southern coast, they discover a long list of past lovers who'd be happy to see the sleight-of-wandering-hands womanizer permanently disappeared.
Can Leta expose the truth, or will this investigation be her final trick?
Pumpkins, Paws & Murder is the second book in the lighthearted Dickens & Christie cozy mystery series. If you like compelling characters, talkative four-legged friends, and journeys full of action and humor, then you'll love Kathy Manos Penn's playful tale.
Buy Pumpkins, Paws & Murder for a grand illusion of danger today!
Bells, Tails &<|fim_middle|> cultural backdrops, and talkative four-legged friends? Then you won't want to miss these clever whodunits.
Get the box set on Amazon!
**Coming Soon!**
Collectors, Cats & Murder
Picture me sitting serenely at my desk surrounded by my four-legged office assistants. The dog warms my feet, and the cat provides the purr-fict background music. I sip hot tea, sift through handwritten notes, and place fingers on the keyboard as thoughts take shape. Such is the joy of writing.
As a child, I took a book everywhere—to family dinners, to doctor's offices, and of course to bed. Years later, a newspaper article inspired me to put pen to paper and submit my thoughts—my words—to the editor. Before I knew it, I was writing weekly columns and blogs. Then came a book co-written with my dog. (What? Doesn't everyone do that?)
Now I'm living a dream I never knew I had—writing cozy animal mysteries featuring a dog and cat who talk to their owner. If a dog can write a book, surely animals can communicate. Naturally, my office assistants help with the dialogue. And, yes, they are angling to be listed as co-authors.
By the way, if you can't find me, I'm traveling in the UK doing research for my next mystery—don't judge.
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She crossed an ocean to start her life over.
Can she nab a killer before her quaint village becomes a graveyard?
Recently widowed Leta Parker desperately needs a change of scenery. Pursuing her lifelong dream of retiring to the Cotswolds, she leaves her soulless corporate hustle in Atlanta and moves to England with her talking dog and cat companions—Dickens and Christie. But she's barely begun making new friends when she stumbles across her housekeeper's body …
With several villagers pegged for the crime, Leta teams up with a retired English teacher and her sharp-as-a-tack octogenarian mother to track the killer before the trail goes cold. As the not-so-friendly local policewoman elbows them out and scandalous rumors plague the tight-knit community, it's left to the ladies and their pets to sleuth for the truth.
Can Leta, Dickens, and Christie sniff out the culprit before the cute little town loses more than its charm?
Bells, Tails & Murder is the delightful first book in the Dickens & Christie cozy mystery series. If you like spunky literary women, amusing animal sidekicks, and inviting cultural backdrops, then you'll love Kathy Manos Penn's engaging page-turner.
Buy Bells, Tails & Murder to see the fur fly today!
A Dickens & Christie Mystery Box Set
Books I, II & III
If you like clever senior women, deep friendships, and amusing animal sidekicks,
you'll love this cozy mystery series.
When tragedy rocks her world, Leta Parker hops across the pond to mend her soul. Will a murder in her tranquil hamlet upend her plans . . . or can she catch the killer and still be home for tea?
Dive into the first three books in the delightful Dickens & Christie mystery series. Do you like compelling characters, | 376 |
Discussion on resort proposal Barham Valley.
CFA Community Fireguard Facilitator Kylie McLaren will conduct the session. Take this opportunity to review your Bushfire plans, update resources and connect with new neighbours.
Last week's swap was supurb, there were so many lovely and interesting things - cherry plums, zucchinis, curry leaves, passion fruit, parsley, rocket seedlings, scarlet runner beans, etc, etc.
If you dont have anything to swap please feel free to drop in and say hi & check out what this event is all about!
EVERYONE IS WELCOME - but please let us know in advance - see below.
In exchange for this three course BBQ, which will certainly replace your need to cook your own dinner, we kindly ask a donation of $15 adults and $10 for under 16.
INVITE FAMILY, FRIENDS, POTENTIAL SAILORS, and anyone else you can things off.
from Vivaldi Four Seasons to O'Carolan's Celtic harp and lute music arranged for guitar and violin & Matthew's Celtic and Flamenco compositions from his successful CD Indigo Moon which still receives airplay on ABC.
Gypsy fire was founded by Matthew Fagan in 1997, and has delivered fiery performances at the Port Fairy Folk Festival, National Folk Festival, Wangaratta Jazz Festival, The National Gallery of Victoria and more.
in Australia with Orchestras and groups from Matthew Fagan's Gypsy Fire to Jazz, Pop, Gypsy & country groups.
Internationally acclaimed performer Matthew Fagan is one of Australia's most engaging, versatile, fluent and imaginative musicians. Matthew has toured with international celebrities including Natalie Cole, The Original Buena Vista Social Club, Billy Connolly, Shirley Bassey and Michael Crawford. Matthew's virtuosic rendition of Bach's famous Toccata in D Minor featured on ABC TV.
Romana Geermans (nee Mazalnova), born in Prague, member of a musical family, twice won the prestigious Kocian International violin competition in her early teens and was the youngest member of the renowned Czechoslovak Chamber Orchestra and at the age of fifteen she toured with them Internationally for seven years. Romana studied under Prof Dr Otoka Stejskal and received her Absolutorium from Conservatorium Prague in 1981. Romana was also involved with the Film music studio in Prague which recorded film scores for American, French, Italian and English films.
In Australia Romana was the concert master for the Orana Chamber Orchestra and played with the Australian Pops Orchestra for several years. Romana has toured extensively in Australia with many different groups including Jazz, Pop, Gypsy and country groups. Romana has performed at the New Caledonia Jazz festival, Major National Jazz festival and has toured with Johnny Chester and Charley Pride. Romana has currently recorded two CD's and another is underway.
Matthew's music education has been at the Victorian College of the Arts (Performance -Classical and improvisation), Monash University (Ethnomusicology, Composition Education) and a Masters PHD of Cultural Development at the University of Melbourne. Matthew has studied and/or performed with masters John Williams, Paco Pena, Leo Kottke, Martin Taylor, Joe Pass and Tommy Emmanuel amongst others.
For objections to Barham Valley resort .
Featuring The Fillmore Brothers; Nick Barker; The Beachniks.
Latest news on the Barham resort proposal and the harbour redevelopment.
Connected community, rewarding community events, making sustainable changes to the way you live. This is happening through the Transition movement in Melbourne's northeast.
The five Transition Town communities in the municipality of Banyule are learning and working together to bring about change in their community. In the words used by Transition they are engaging with their head, hands and heart to transition to a fossil fuel free future.
Transition occurs at street level as well as neighbourhood, municipal, national and global levels. It is a hands-on movement that is inspired by the power of vision, which Transition calls back-casting.
The collective and the personal play out in friendship, ideas, support, connections and lasting change as 'transitioners' aim to create a more sustainable, connected and resilient community.
Barbara has been a committed community worker for over three decades. She has worked in the Northern Territory, Western NSW, Vietnam and Cambodia. Upon returning in 2005, she worked for the City of Whittlesea on the Community Futures project. In 2006, she fully realised the urgent need to prevent global warming. She joined the Nillumbik Climate Action Now group. Through her networks developed during the NCAN years she joined with a group of Montmorency locals to start a Transition Town, which is still going strong.
Barbara has also been heavily involved with the Montmorency Asylum Seeker Support group, the Refugee Council of Australia and the Bridgidine Asylum Seeker Project. She volunteers weekly with the Baptcare Sanctuary for people seeking asylum.
The meeting opens at 6.30pm to allow you to order food and to be seated by 7pm for Barbara to commence. The Hotel offers a fixed price menu of $20 but you may order from the regular menu. Pink boxes are placed on each table for donations. Donations are optional but all received are distributed back into the local community.
Seas The Day at the 2018 Apollo Bay Seafood Festival's Harbour Day. Join thousands of seafood lovers from around Australia, and head along the Victoria's spectacular Great Ocean Road to Apollo Bay.
The Apollo Bay harbour will come alive at this day-long festival in celebration of the local fishing community, world-class seafood and the authentic sea port where the mountainous Otway Ranges meet the sea.
Take in the spectacular ocean views from the champagne and oyster deck, enjoy a lobster roll matched with local craft beer, or just enjoy live music over fish and chips.
Down at the water level, the Harbour's low landing pier will be pulsating with a vibrant program of entertainment and family-friendly food vendors, demonstrations and hands-on workshops, casting competitions and an informative expedition above and below sea level.
Tackle sailing knots, watch the fishing boats arrive with their daily catch, stroll the pier, have a bite and soak up the festival atmosphere.
Apollo Bay is now one of Victoria's remaining fishing ports, let us take you back to when it all began.
We bring you the stories - the people, the fleet, the catch, the boat builders, and the infrastructure that supported their endeavours.
Transition Towns is a movement that takes on the big challenges of global warming. As a community we can do a lot to care for the environment, our finite resources and to reduce climate change.
We can build on and help grow the initiatives already working to preserve and care for our environment. To hear more about how we can come together to take on the challenges we have a special guest, Mary Stringer, co-founder of Transition Banyule and part of co-ordinating group for Transition Australia.
Mary has many years of experience in setting up and supporting communities to come together as they help and care for each other, while they are caring for the place where they live.
Mary has a lot she can tell us but she also wants to hear what is important to us in our community. There will be a time to chat over tea and biscuits and to think about how we can make Transition Towns happen in Apollo Bay.
This afternoon session is open to all the community so invite your family, friends and the people in your street to come along. They do not have to be U3A members and we welcome all ages.
We have 20 bags issued to us that we hope to fill with little nasties like cigarette butts, bottles, plastic bags and pieces, ropes and fishing line that can be found in the dunes. This will go a long way to protecting our native species both on land and in the water from potential harm and continue to allow us to enjoy the magnificent scenery that is ours to enjoy day in, day out.
Australian Demeter Bio dynamic farming methods are used throughout Australia and the world. In the home garden, orchard or farm, they offer the potential to develop better structured and more fertile soil. The plants you grow improve in flavour and nutritive qualities.
At this field day, you will be introduced to the Biodynamic growing method by an accredited BDGA trainer. A BD compost heap will be built on the day. Completion of the workshop qualifies you to join Biodynamic Growers Australia (BDGA) and have access to Demeter quality biodynamic preparations.
Venue and address given on booking.
Open to all interested persons. Numbers limited to 25. Apollo Bay locality residents to be given preference.
A picnic lunch to share with a cup, plate etc. Tea and coffee will be provided.
A garden fork: be prepared to work, so wear your gardening clothes.
You are invited to attend a consultation session with Colac Otway Shire to have input into the development of the new actions for Council's 50 Plus and Access Equity and Inclusion Plans.
Colac Otway Shire is conducting a review into the services provided at the Port of Apollo Bay to determine their suitability, compare them to services provided at other local ports, to determine whether they meet the needs of the user community and other stakeholders, and to help determine any future governance and operational models for the Port for the future.
It is intended that a report will go to the June Council Meeting for Council to consider the findings of this service review.
To inform the review, a series of community consultation sessions have been arranged.
These sessions are focussed on marine services at the Port, meeting users needs and examining future governance and operational models for the Port and will be facilitated by Susan Benedyka from The Regional Development Company.
The sessions are not related to Council's recent Expression of Interest for a private sector partner to develop other complementary assets at the site.
If you would like to attend, please register your interest through the following methods.
Alan is a retired computer programmer who runs a small double-glazing business part time. Twelve years ago he became concerned about climate change and started working within his community to help people become more energy efficient. In 2015 he led a group of four people in a 30 day walk from Melbourne to Canberra to deliver a petition asking for action on climate change.
Twelve months ago he became heavily involved in the #StopAdani movement. This grassroots organisation is fighting to stop the Adani Company from opening Australia's largest coalmine in Qld. The movement has successfully got many banks and engineering companies to walk away from the project. It has also ensured that a one billion dollar concessional loan to the company from the government has been stopped.
However Adani still persists with work in QLD. A group of activists has been active in blockading the work and taking Non Violent Direct Action to stop the mine. In December, Alan was arrested and charged with trespass and refusing a police direction. He now faces fines of $800. He is returning to take further action in Qld this week.
Alan will give a wide-ranging talk on climate change and his involvement in the movement. He will explain why he is willing to break the law to try and save the world for future generations. While our government has ludicrously low targets to address climate change, he will show there is still real hope for renewable energy and electric transport.
Come along to a talk which will be lively and entertaining and will increase your understanding of climate change, the #StopAdani movement and the use of non violent direct action.
The meeting opens at 6.30pm to allow you to order food and to be seated by 7pm for the guest speaker to commence. The Hotel offers a fixed price menu of $20 but you may order from the regular menu. Pink boxes are placed on each table for donations. Donations are optional but all received are distributed back into the local community.
Featuring Dave Gunning, Clare Ann-Taylor and Georgia Howell.
Tickets $20 or $15 concession or children under 12 free available at Bay of Apostles.
This event will be subsidised by Apollo Bay Arts Inc with help from a grant from Creative Victoria.
The Apollo Bay P-12 College International Trip students will be running the kitchen/bar on the evening so bring your appetites and a thirst for good music and a fun night out!
16th March: Informal get together at the Brewhouse aka Top Pub on Friday evening.
17th March: RSL at 12pm. Sausage sizzle for light lunch and beverages. Photos will be displayed, if you have any please bring along.
The school was and is a large part of the Apollo Bay Community. We are running a raffle and the proceeds are going to the Apollo Bay Football/Netball club. I'm sure we all had as children some connection to this club and this allows us to give back for the future people of the community.
Jeff Brownrigg who was former teacher of the school is launching his book for the first time in Victoria. What a better place to do this is in Apollo Bay at our School Reunion. The title of the book " Encounter On The Hippie Trail 1971" an elegy for Mrs P.
Meet up at the The Apollo Bay Hotel at 6pm for meal and dance to the live music.
18th March breakfast at the Illuka at 8.30.
Once again The Seaview Motel has offered discount for accomodation. Make sure you mention you are attending the school reunion. Ph (03) 5237 6660.
Regardless of the weather ABSC's Easter Fundraising BBQ will be going ahead.
The FARE will be similar to the previous bbqs and will include a variety of savoury and sweet items and of course Café 153's fantastic salads. There will be some gluten free and vegetarian options. Heather and Angelika will aim to have food available by 4.30pm (dependent on race completion time) and will then stagger food delivery.
Any RSVP's after that time may be accepted @ $20 per head (regardless of age). We hope all members will once again support the club by attending and encourage others eg friends and family to come along as well.
Please RSVP ASAP and include whether you need gluten free or vegetarian food!!
In exchange for this three course BBQ, which will certainly replace your need to cook your own dinner, we kindly ask a donation of $15 per adult, $10 u16s. If RSVP is after the cutoff time it will be $20 per head regardless of age.
Food Swaps are local gatherings where<|fim_middle|>ou (classical guitar) playing for us, and enjoy a special performance from our own choir.
Catch up with old friends, meet new ones and enjoy beautiful music, followed by a scrumptious afternoon tea with champagne.
Everyone is kindly donating their time, so all proceeds will go to help refugees and asylum seekers.
Trouble with transport? Let us know and we will help you to get there.
Tickets $25 from Marie at Hawkeye or Gary at Great Ocean Properties or call Ali 0418 395 205 or Bucky 0431 749 131 or visit Michael's website.
Meet at Blanket Bay day visitor car park.
The Edible Garden Trail is thrilled to present a special fundraiser for the Apollo Bay P-12 College Kitchen Garden program.
Have you ever wondered what those lucky kids get to do in the Stephanie Alexander program? Have you been put to shame by a 9 year old with a nuanced understanding of culinary herbs and better knife skills than you?
Now's your chance to get the real Kitchen Garden Experience with experts Dave Nelson and Nattie Murray, while supporting this fantastic program at the school. Join them for a hands-on workshop that's suitable for anyone who wants to learn more about seasonal eating and cooking - from the experienced cook to the total novice. The group will harvest, prepare and eat a delicious communal vegetarian feast using fresh produce from the school's kitchen garden.
This event is suitable for all ages and most dietary restrictions can be catered for.
Tickets $30 - available from www.ediblegardentrail.com.au or from Galapagos Bookstore. All proceeds to the school's Kitchen Garden program. Places are limited to 20.
Bring a touch of nature indoors this year as your children decorate your tree when they learn how to make rustic twig Christmas ornaments.
Brighten up your home and add some sparkle this Christmas when you child brings home their own Christmas glitter jar lanterns.
Classes are $10 each or 3 for $25 - Places are limited so book now to reserve your spot.
Contact Marrar Woorn to pay for single classes.
Dr. Corke will be talking about Advanced Care Planning.
Thursday 29 November, 2018 12.45pm for 1.00pm start.
Light refreshments provided following the AGM.
Are you sick of travelling to your specialist appointments in Geelong and Melbourne?
Come along to find out how you can connect to your hospital appointments using video technology from either the comfort of your home or with the support of your local GP centre.
Children can use their creative flare to create a colourful 3D Christmas tree wonderland display. Displayed in a group they are a great table decoration.
Capture a scene of Christmas on black paper with a striking coloured chalk drawing. Whether it's a candy cane, a Christmas tree or a nativity scene – they all look fantastic.
These fun and cute portraits look adorable framed and are a great addition to the Christmas decorations or even a special gift.
Made from colourful Christmas fabric and wire, these super cute Christmas wreaths are easy to make and look fantastic on a wall or door.
The whole community is invited.
See what we do, take a tour of the studio, have your own show, share a show, come onboard and join a very easy going committee and radio station that provides a huge positive community asset.
Please be advised that the AGM has been adjourned to Saturday 15th Dec at 10am at the Apollo Bay Youth Club.
Any member unable to attend may forward by email or hand a proxy nominating another member to represent on their behalf.
Apollo Bay Radio presents Jingle at the Bay.
The evening will begin with Christmas Carols preformed by local community groups.
Then Santa will hopefully drop in for a visit followed by the Christmas Open Mic.
If you would like to perform at the open mic could you please let Claire Smith know before the event (leave a message on the Facebook event and Claire will get back to you).
Non perishable food items will be collected for those in need.
Presented by Synergy Christian Church.
For more details contact PS Marni Briffa 0406 351 838. | people swap excess home grown produce and gardening extras.
Items may include fruit, jars, home made goods, vegetables, herbs, eggs, seeds, seedlings, gardening tips and worm juice, but may easily extend to skills shares, stories and seasonal recipes.
If you dont have anything to swap please feel free to drop in and say Hi! & check out what this event is all about!
Are you looking to start a small business but not sure how?
Do you own a business and need expert advice on how to grow and thrive?
The Victorian Government's Small Business Bus is coming to a location near you.
Friendly ASSISTANCE from a Small Business Victoria information officer.
Book a session and discover how the Small Business Bus can help you plan, start or grow your business.
Visit business.vic.gov.au/sbb or call the Business Victoria Contact Centre on 13 22 15.
The Victorian Government is calling for public submissions on the future management of the Great Ocean Road following the release of an Issues Paper.
Topic: "The Effect of Table Salt on the Immune System"
Dr. Katrina Binger is a biomedical research scientist in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Melbourne. She completed her PhD in 2009 where she studied the underlying mechanisms causing proteins to clump together and cause diseases like Alzheimer's. She has spent the past eight years working on projects related to the functioning of our immune systems, including infectious diseases, and chronic conditions like high blood pressure (hypertension) and autoimmune diseases.
In 2012 she was awarded a prestigious Early Career Fellowship by the Australian government to further her research in Germany. Here, she studied the effect of table salt (sodium chloride) on the immune system. She showed that too much salt in food weakens a specific group of scavenger cells (macrophages), which play a critical role in repairing wounds and combatting inflammation. At the same time, she found that proinflammatory cells - that is, cells that cause inflammation - responded positively to a higher salt intake. The overall result of these seemingly contradictory studies is that salt pushes the immune system out of balance by boosting inflammatory cells, and inhibiting cells that stop inflammation.
Since returning to Australia in 2015, Dr. Binger has been focussing on understanding the underlying mechanisms causing the response of immune cells to high salt. Her hope is that this information can be used to develop drugs to combat a variety of diseases: to enhance our immune system to fight pathogens, or prevent salt's deleterious effects and treat hypertension and autoimmune diseases. Dr. Binger will discuss some of her latest findings and talk about what being a biomedical scientist is really like, and why supporting young researchers is so important for Australia.
We hope all members will once again support the club by attending and encourage others eg friends and family to come along as well.
BBQ dinner and on-site camping available.
The Bendigo Bank and Apollo Bay Choir bring you A POP UP CHOIR CONCERT with all proceeds going to the School kids' International Trip.
Featuring special guests Georgia and Grace.
7pm on Tuesday the 8th of May at the Community Hall, Whelan Street.
$10 per person, kids free!
Raising funds to donate to the trip to India. Bring drinks and nibbles and hear the choir's fabulous new repertoire.
One of our songs 'All at Sea' has never been performed outside the UK. Come and hear your friends and neighbours singing close harmonies in four and five part arrangements. When was the last time you were serenaded by candlelight.
Come and collect your t-shirts and snack packs and get instructions for your volunteering duties this weekend.
Lesley is our locum doctor at Apollo Bay medical practice for the next four weeks. She loves the opportunity that locum work gives her to meet many fascinating people and explore the Australian bush.
Early in her career Lesley discovered going to work by plane first as a paediatric doctor in New Zealand, later with the Royal flying Doctor service in Alice Springs and Broken Hill. Privileged to work in many indigenous communities in the desert she has also been a rural and remote doctor on many of Australia's wonderful islands. Lesley has also explored the wild islands of Scotland, searched out walrus and polar bears in the Arctic, and experienced the complex cultures of Papua New Guinea.
Becoming a ship's doctor and nature guide introduced her to the polar regions. She was captivated by the wildlife of South Georgia, where elephant seals guard their harems, and king penguins dodge fur seals.
What really caused Shackleton's collapse?
Which doctor saved his whole ship from madness?
What do Scott's ponies have to do with zombie pathogens?
The success of our expedition depends on you!
Program includes works by Saint-Saëns, Beethoven and Alter Bridge.
Join us for THE STAGING POST, an uplifting and unforgettable film.
Stuck in Indonesia after Australia 'stopped the boats' two Afghan Hazara refugees built a community and started the school that inspired a refugee education revolution.
A real-life, real-time documentary, The Staging Post is about friendship, connection and the power of community.
Supper: Hot soup with crusty bread and cakes & slices. Fresh fruit.
Spectacular Rubber Ducky Racing in front of the Surf Club.
Please note that participant vehicles will be in use around the Surf Club vicinity all weekend.
Colac Otway Shire Council is supporting a community solar and battery bulk-buy program.
Buying solar PV and battery systems in bulk will give our community access to discounted prices on quality solar and battery storage systems.
The aim of the program is to make the process of installing solar simple and easy.
This project is running across the Geelong, Surf Coast and Otway region. It is being led by Geelong Sustainability, a not-for-profit, with local support from the Colac Otway Sustainability Group.
Meet at Johanna day visitor carpark.
Tea, coffee, bickies supplied. BYO lunch and gumboots. All welcome.
See the Friends of Otway National Park page for further details.
Topic: "Proteins in CSIRO (Wool, Blood Cells, Diabetes)"
Do you know which Protein this is?
Dr Lindsay Sparrow worked with the CSIRO Division of Protein Chemistry, first on the structure of wool. He then took up the challenge of attempting to isolate and characterise a protein thought to be a controlling factor important for the production of certain blood cells.
Lindsay will describe some aspects of his work involving the structure of wool, the formation of blood cells and a protein important in diabetes and relevant to its treatment.
The meeting opens at 6.30pm to allow you to order food and to be seated by 7pm for Lindsay to commence. The Hotel offers a fixed price menu of $20 but you may order from the regular menu. Pink boxes are placed on each table for donations. Donations are optional but all received are distributed back into the local community.
Doug is an award winning conservation and wildlife photographer based in Melbourne who creates work that can positively influence the world. Doug has published in National Geographic, Australian Geographic, New York Times, Fairfax media and NewsCorp publications. He is also a Nikon (Australia) instructor.
Initially trained as a zoologist, then later completing a Masters of Environment and a Masters of Bioethics, when not taking photographs, Doug is also a governor for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Australia and chairs the Victorian Alliance for Platypus Safe Yabby Traps.
The meeting opens at 6.30pm to allow you to order food and to be seated by 7pm for Doug to commence. The Hotel offers a fixed price menu of $20 but you may order from the regular menu. Pink boxes are placed on each table for donations. Donations are optional but all received are distributed back into the local community.
World renowned saxophonist Philippe Geiss will be part of a musical cabaret and dinner evening, including food by Apollo Bay P-12 College's International Trip students (curries, flatbreads and desserts).
Tickets will be available very soon, but it would be worth writing the event on your calendar, an opportunity like this doesn't come along very often!
Hosted by Seacroft, 4990 Great Ocean Road, Sugarloaf.
This will be an information session for the community with DELWP outlining plans for the future management of the foreshore and then they will be available for one on one discussions.
Peter Brown (CEO Colac Otway Shire), Mayor Joe McCracken, Sarah Henderson MP, Richard Riordan MP and members of the Otway Coast Committee will be in attendance.
VicRoads, DELWP and Lily D"Ambrosio MP (State Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change) have also been invited.
In the lead up to this meeting OTWAY FORUM has placed a number of technical reports relevant to the issues in Apollo Bay on the website www.forum.apollobay.org.au. Please read these reports so that you are aware of all the issues involved in this complex situation.
A reminder to members the the Apollo Bay SLSC will be holding their 66th AGM on Saturday 4 August at 5pm. Drinks and finger food will be available at the conclusion of the meeting.
We would like to encourage members to contribute to the CLUB MEMBER AWARDS.
Please remember to ensure you are a 2018 / 2019 Financial Member if you intend to nominate.
Any questions please contact Yvette Hill on 0407 365 961.
See more about Otway Forum here.
Please contact Gary @ Parks Vic for another date for this activity.
This free training session for Colac Otway event organisers featuring guest presenter Caroline Moore, Program Director of the Port Fairy Folk Festival, will cover the topics of event waste management and public liability insurance.
This is a great opportunity to gain insight into staging a successful event and meet other local event organisers.
For more information visit www.colacotway.vic.gov.au or contact Council's Event Officer on (03) 5232 9400.
Program includes works by Prokofiev, Bach and Alter Bridge.
Tickets - $6 Children, $12 Adults - can be purchased from the Lavers Hill College office (03) 5237 3213 or at the door.
The Wednesday Matinee is SOLD OUT.
Come and Meet the Greens Polwarth candidate Dr Courtney Gardner and enjoy acoustic music from local artists.
From 6pm $20 includes pizza and a drink.
If you don't want to eat come at 7:30pm and pay $5 to enjoy the music.
We have rescheduled the concert for Saturday, 10th November @ 7.30pm at the Anglican church. We are sorry for the inconvenience but unable to sing for joy with members of the ukuholics sick at present.
Featuring The Otway Ukaholics and Seasonal Singers.
Planning Panels Victoria will be holding the Hearings examining the application for a tourist resort at 275 Barham River Road, Apollo Bay commencing at 10am on Monday 17th September.
The Hearings are scheduled for September 17, 18, 20 and 21, then resuming October 8, 9, 10, 11 and 15. See the full timetable here.
See here for further information about the Hearings.
There will be live commentary each day at 5pm on the Hearing proceedings on Apollo Bay Radio 87.6FM.
The Apollo Bay Community Website Inc. have removed the DWELP logo this listing and apologise for any misunderstanding this may have caused.
Inspired by her work with another change-maker, primatologist Dr Jane Goodall at the Jane Goodall Institute in China, Alicia founded Cherished Pets in 2015, a unique enterprise that supports pets and people through all life stages and enables the human-animal bond to flourish.
The meeting opens at 6.30pm to allow you to place your food order from the fixed price ($20) or the regular menu, and be seated for Alicia to commence at 7pm. Pink boxes are placed on each table for optional donations which are distributed back into the local community.
21st September at 12 midday.
The Otway Road Safe group usually meet the last Friday of the month in Colac. This month they will be having their meeting in Apollo Bay in the meeting room at the CFA station.
If you have a road safety issue that you would like addressed please attend.
See here for more information or contact Liz O'Carroll on 0409 523 771.
Come along to a free art workshop at Marrar Woorn to create and enter a piece of artwork in the youth exhibition as part of the Colac Otway Arts Trail!
Create a piece of art that best represents your experience as a young person.
Come along between 10-2pm on Friday 5th October to get crafting!
Planning Panels Victoria will be continuing the Hearings examining the application for a tourist resort at 275 Barham River Road, Apollo Bay commencing at 10am on Monday 8th October.
COPACC Manager Tamzin McLennan encouraged families to come along and immerse themselves in the "wonderful silliness".
"This show has been developed to align with the Early Years Learning Framework, and it encourages children to explore their balance, communication skills and healthy choices, all while engrossed with larrikin circus acts," she said.
COPACC is presenting three shows of Big Tops & Tiny Tots as part of its 2018 Education Outreach program - on Monday 8 October at 10am at the Beeac Hall and 2pm at the Forrest Hall, and on Tuesday 9 October at 1.30pm at the Apollo Bay Mechanics Hall.
All tickets are $16 and can be purchased at the COPACC Cinemas Box Office or online at www.copacc.com.au.
Please join us for our AGM on Wednesday 17 October at the outdoor but heated pool at 4 pm.
Come along and check it out and browse the plans for the structure for which construction is planned to begin after Easter.
All welcome! Register your interest here.
Topic: Superbugs: How Do You Prepare for a World Without Antibiotics?
Professor Grayson is Director of Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Austin Hospital, Professor of Medicine, University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is also Director of Hand Hygiene Australia, the body responsible for the implementation of the National Hand Hygiene Initiative in which all public and private Australian hospitals report their rates of hand hygiene compliance. He has chaired and been a member of numerous committees in the field of infectious diseases and their control as well as being the author and editor of many publications on the subject.
Professor Grayson has a longstanding research interest in antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance, particularly relating to enterococci and staphylococci. He is a keen environmentalist, furniture builder and part-time sheep farmer at Apollo Bay, Victoria.
The meeting opens at 6.30pm to allow you to order food and to be seated by 7pm for Prof. Grayson to commence. The Hotel offers a fixed price menu of $20 but you may order from the regular menu. Pink boxes are placed on each table for donations. Donations are optional but all received are distributed back into the local community.
Come and join us at the Farmer's Market at the Youth Club Hall this Sunday 21st October, 9am-1pm.
The "experts" will be on hand to help you with those small repair jobs that will give new life to things broken, with holes, tears or missing buttons, zips etc..
Sewing, knitting, crochet, small solder jobs. Let's see if we can help reduce the "throw away" reaction to things in need of repair or that could be remade into something new.
We are proposing to do the section of the Great Ocean Walk from Parker River to Cape Otway (4.5km). There is an option to do the smaller section from Point Franklin to Cape Otway (3.2km).
Meeting at 10am at the Parker River car park.
Tea, coffee, bickies supplied. BYO lunch. All welcome.
There will be a FREE bus service from the Surf Club which will take you to the Marriner's Lookout Carpark. ORA Coffee will be located in the car park so bring some money if you're wanting a hot beverage.
The initial public speeches will take place in the carpark, followed by a walk to the top of the lookout for an aerial photograph.
A FRIENDLY REMINDER: There are no public toilet facilities at Marriner's Lookout, however there at 2 public bathrooms either side of the Surf Club.
Transition Towns will host Otway's largest Waste Forum featuring industry experts & guest speakers from local small businesses.
They will share their success stories on reducing waste, how they have gained efficiencies, costs savings & met the demands of the 'green consumer'.
A variety of sustainable packaging solutions will be on display for business to look at.
The evening will conclude with question and answer session.
Together, through small steps, we can make the Otway's a greener place!
Today's waste can become tomorrow's future.
Libby Coker, Federal ALP candidate for Corangamite, will be joining us to meet the local community and have a chat after the formalities of the AGM are over.
Come along, ask Libby and your local Colac Otway Shire Councillors about local issues, catch up with your neighbours, grab a coffee from Charlie's and find out what's going on at Skeenies!
Find out what amazing work has been done since we had the first Open Forum on the 6th of May.
Groups were formed around common interests and concerns about the environment, sustainability and the impact of climate change on our town. The Energy Group, Artisan Coast Group and the Waste Management Group will let us know what they have achieved so far.
Other priority ideas that are still in the development stage include establishing a Social Enterprise, a Community Skills Register, exploring farming from the sea, improving housing sustainability and affordability, reclaiming Heathfield Estate for public use, improving community Knowledge Transfer, Local Production of Food and Fibre, setting up a Repair Café and Organic Agriculture.
We invite your participation and involvement in keeping the momentum going!
1.30pm for a 2pm start. Afternoon tea will be served on arrival.
Please RSVP by Monday 22 October (for catering purposes).
Thursday 8 November 2018 at Marrar Woorn, 6 Pengilley Avenue, Apollo Bay.
Guest speaker Barb Birkett on the progress of the Apollo Bay Indoor Pool Project.
We are also very pleased to advise that our Guest speaker this year is Inspector Trevor Cornwill, Ballarat Police Local Area Command. Inspector Cornwill's topic will be Drugs and Alcohol and their negative impact on the health and wellbeing of the community.
A public meeting will be held at the Beech Forest Hall on Monday 12 November at 7.00pm for the purpose of appointing a Community Asset Committee to manage the Beech Forest Hall and Beech Forest Recreation Reserve.
The meeting will be a discussion on the committee's structure, process for appointing members of the committee and timelines for implementation.
For enquiries please contact Peter Macdonald at Colac Otway Shire Council on (03) 5232 9424.
Please join us for the official opening and investiture of all cubs and scouts.
We will be joined by the Chief Commissioner for Scouts Victoria, Brendan Watson OAM, Sarah Henderson MP and CR Joe McCracken, Mayor of Colac Otway.
This is the biggest new group starting up in Victoria and looking to be one of the biggest groups in the Geelong region!!
Wed. 14th November 4-6pm with supper to follow.
Rob was the architect of Bendigo Bank's Community Bank® model and as Managing Director and C.E.O. of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank 1990 – 2009 among his numerous directorships are: Community Bank® Strategic Advisory Board' Community Sector Enterprises Pty Ltd' Community Sector Banking Pty Ltd' Bendigo Community Telco' Community Telco Australia and Lead on Australia Limited. He is also Patron-in-Chief of Community Enterprise Foundation and Patron of St Luke's Anglicare.
Rob will talk about the Community Bank journey, and sustainable communities.
The meeting opens at 6.30pm to allow you to order food and to be seated by 7pm for Rob to commence. The Hotel offers a fixed price menu of $20 but you may order from the regular menu. Pink boxes are placed on each table for donations. Donations are optional but all received are distributed back into the local community.
Come along and listen to renowned musicians Michael Johnson (harp) and Evripides Evripid | 4,406 |
Rising SOX Compliance Hours & Costs Underscore Need for Technology
The 12th annual SOX Compliance Survey found that COVID-19 remote work highlights opportunities around digitization and technology adoption.
MENLO PARK, Calif., June 15, 2021 – The twelfth annual Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance Survey, conducted by global consulting firm<|fim_middle|>, operations, data, analytics, governance, risk and internal audit through our network of more than 85 offices in over 25 countries.
Named to the 2021 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, Protiviti has served more than 60 percent of Fortune 1000 and 35 percent of Fortune Global 500 companies. The firm also works with smaller, growing companies, including those looking to go public, as well as with government agencies. Protiviti is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Half (NYSE: RHI). Founded in 1948, Robert Half is a member of the S&P 500 index. | Protiviti, finds that 65% of respondents who reported an increase in their SOX compliance hours said those hours increased by more than 10% over the prior year. Rising SOX compliance hours coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the continued need to deploy technology and automation within compliance processes as well as to look for synergies with other organizational initiatives to enable greater efficiencies.
While most organizations continue to spend more hours on their SOX compliance activities year-over-year, "digital leaders," – those organizations that have higher levels of maturity in the use of technology and innovative practices – have reported experiencing a lesser impact of increasing hours, which suggests they are gaining advantages through their greater use of technology (including automation) in the SOX compliance process. Fifty-one percent of survey respondents utilized technology tools, such as automated workflow technology and audit management software, in the testing of controls for their fiscal year, marking a yearly increase of 5%. Still, many companies, even digital leaders, are early in their adoption of technology and will continue to realize more efficiencies going forward.
Overcoming Adoption Hurdles
The survey reveals that while 78% of digital leaders have moderate to significant plans to further automate their manual processes and controls within their fiscal year, the same is true for only 57% of "digital laggards." The findings uncovered the top challenges inhibiting these organizations from deploying automation in their SOX compliance processes, including: lack of time to spend on exploring automation; the misconception that certain areas of the SOX control environment are not conducive to automation; and a lack of funding and executive support.
"While audit teams are eager to make SOX compliance and other regulatory requirements less manually intensive through automation so that they will have more capacity to focus on higher-level strategic tasks, we're finding that the majority don't know where to start, especially without buy-in from their senior leaders," said Brian Christensen, executive vice president and global leader of Protiviti's internal audit and financial advisory practice. "We've found that the best way to begin and demonstrate the clear, bottom-line value that automation tools deliver in regulatory compliance processes is to start small: identify a simple, small-scale process to automate and present the use case to leadership to pave the way for broader applications across the organization."
Among the survey respondents currently leveraging technology in their organization's SOX compliance processes, the following applications –‑ given their simplicity and accessibility – were indicated to be optimal starting points to equip SOX compliance teams with positive use cases:
IT application controls (43%)
Accounts payable process (42%)
IT general controls (41%)
Account reconciliation process (37%)
"In addition to these use case areas, we find that organizations realize benefits through automation in other areas, including evidence gathering and interactions with audit, risk and compliance platforms – for example, in uploading completed work papers and evidence documents," said Andrew Struthers-Kennedy, a Protiviti managing director and leader of the firm's IT audit practice.
"SOX teams should take every opportunity to explore and evaluate how to make increased use of data and technology. Organizations that have committed time and effort to doing this have been able to realize a broad range of benefits beyond efficiency improvement, including increased coverage, real-time monitoring capabilities, talent upskilling and team member job satisfaction, to name a few," added Struthers-Kennedy.
The Protiviti report, titled "SOX Compliance and the Promise of Technology and Automation," is based on a survey of more than 650 audit, compliance and finance leaders and professionals, representing a wide range of industries. The survey was conducted with support from AuditBoard, a leading cloud-based audit, risk and compliance management platform, during the first quarter of 2021. Protiviti and AuditBoard formed an alliance in 2019 to collaborate in providing organizations with a comprehensive solution of software, consulting and thought leadership for advancing their SOX and internal audit initiatives.
The survey report is available for complimentary download here. Additionally, an infographic and a podcast featuring Protiviti's Kristen Kelly, director, and Angelo Poulikakos, managing director, discussing key survey findings are also available on the web page. Protiviti and AuditBoard will conduct a free 60-minute webinar on June 17 at 10:00 a.m. PDT with Christensen and Kelly along with Scott Madenburg, market advisor, AuditBoard and Jeremy Wildhaber, director, Protiviti, to further explore the study's results and the impact of the pandemic on SOX compliance processes. To attend the webinar, please register here.
About Protiviti
Protiviti (www.protiviti.com) is a global consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration to help leaders confidently face the future. Protiviti and our independent and locally owned Member Firms provide clients with consulting and managed solutions in finance, technology | 1,012 |
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Metatarsals
Created Feb 10, 2000 | Updated Feb 13, 2012
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'Metatarsals'. Such a lovely word, it rolls fluidly off the tongue. But what are they?
Well, you have five metatarsals in each foot1. The bones in your toes are called phalanges. The bones at the back of the foot, those lumpy things under your heel, are called tarsals. The bones in between are called the metatarsals. If you have occasion to look at a skeleton, they're the ones with more than passing resemblance to chicken drumstick bones.
The proximal end of each metatarsal, also known as the base, is articulated with the tarsal bones. The distal end of each metatarsal, also known as the head, is articulated with a phalanx (the singular of phalanges). Here, as elsewhere in the body, proximal means 'towards the centre of the body' and distal means 'towards the edge of the body'. Incidentally, the big toe is short-changed, having only two phalanges while the rest of the toes have three each.
Soldiers and ballet dancers are prone to fractures of the metatarsals, in both cases presumably related to spending too much time on one's feet. This is not generally a problem for the typical sedentary web surfer.
Of course, human beings are not the only ones to have metatarsals. In birds, for example, the metatarsals fuse together into a solid mass of bone after being separated in the embryo. The archaeopteryx, on the other hand (that famous fossil of a primitive reptilian bird) has distinctly separate metatarsals. Presumably it hadn't learned to fuse them yet.
1Assuming, of course, that your anatomy matches that of the usual run of human beings.
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Virginia "Jenny" Lois Younglove Roaten was born in Burkett, Texas January 14, 1925 to Alfred McKinley Younglove and Gladys Oma Hickson-Younglove. Jesus opened heaven's door to welcome Jenny on March 9. Their dad died when she was very young and she grew up being raised by a single mom on the farm. They produced anything from tomatoes to cotton. She grew up with one older sister, Dorothy Younglove Adams, and two younger brothers, Ben<|fim_middle|> Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.
Virginia "Jenny" Lois Younglove Roaten was born in Burkett, Texas...
Send flowers to the Younglove Roaten family. | and James Younglove. Virginia came to a saving faith in Jesus Christ at age 6 and was baptized in the Baptist church in Burkett. She reaffirmed her decision once more at Sagamore Hills Baptist Church in Ft. Worth. The Youngloves' lost their home in a fire when she was 12 years old. Uncle George paid for the lumber to rebuild the small house. He also paid the $95 each for Dorothy and Virginia to go to nursing school at the Shannon-West Texas Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. Virginia graduated from Burkett High in 1942 and received her nursing degree in 1945. All four of the Younglove children grew up to be professionals in their respective fields of nursing, administration and university education. Jenny married a strapping Army Air Corp soldier John Roaten in 1944. The wedding was conducted on January 1 in San Angelo Texas by the Baptist preacher Dr. AC Donath and witnessed by his wife. They had been married 64 years in 2008 when John died at the age of 90. The Roaten's lived in many places in Texas until they settled in Ft. Worth in 1956. They started out in San Angelo but soon moved to Austin Texas for John to finish his pharmacy degree. Virginia worked full time at Brekenridge Hospital and not long after moving there they gave birth to their first son Norman Paul Roaten. That was April 20, 1948. The pharmacy job moved them to Tahoka, Texas where they gave birth to a second son James "Jimmy" Byron Roaten January 10, 1951. In 1953 they moved to Rockport, Texas where John joined his brother Shelly Poe at the Roaten Pharmacy. They moved to Kerens, Texas in 1954 then back to Austin in 1955. Then they made the final move to Ft. Worth. Their youngest, a girl, was born April 22, 1957 at Harris Hospital in Ft. Worth, Laurie Ann Roaten-Childers. Jenny enjoyed making clothes for her daughter. They had a special relationship. Virginia and John both worked at Harris Hospital in Ft. Worth until retirement. Jenny's years of service were 1957-1990. She spent most of her career in Labor and Delivery. They loved traveling and in later years traveled with her sister and husband Hollis and Dorothy Adams. They went to England, Scotland, Germany, Italy and Greece. They had a most memorable trip to Israel. She and John went to Hawaii when her nephew was married. Virginia was a seamstress, avid reader, Dr. Phil follower, note taker, news bug, and prayer partner. She made bears, Christmas stockings, nursing scrubs to match the season, and patched everything needed. She loved watching programs in which workers built cabins in Alaska and fix up old houses in New England. She saw humor in so much. She read the Ft. Worth Star Telegram every morning. She was forthright and frank. Virginia loved photos and creatively would stick cartoon bubbles on pictures with funny captions. She always dated and described the picture on the back. She loved and supported her Church, "Fielder Church," and was a faithful member of Bob Miller's Sunday school class. She was also a part of LLL, a senior adult gathering focused on fellowship and ministry. The greatest generation. Virginia enjoyed the Town Village Crossing (https://www.pegasusseniorliving.com/town-village-crossing/ ) community where she lived since March of 2020. The family is appreciative of how she was cared for at Town Village and for the services of Liberty Hospice of Farmers Branch, Texas (http://www.liberty-hospice.com/ ) in her final days. Virginia is survived by her sons Norman Roaten and wife Jo of Arlington, Texas; James Roaten of Ft. Worth, Texas; daughter Laurie Childers and husband Wayne of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Five grandchildren: Dana Ortega and husband David of Virginia Beach, Virginia; David Roaten and wife Tiffany of Arlington, Texas; Amy Butler and husband Chuck of Springdale, Arkansas; Carrie Patterson and husband Walter "Bo" of Kaufman, Texas; Andrew Childers and wife Lauren of Amman, Jordan. She is survived by eight great grandchildren Peter, Wesley, Macon, Ellie, Wrigley, Deacon, Zane and Lily. Virginia is also survived by her younger brothers James and Ben. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband John, sister Dorothy and daughter-in-law Sue. Interment will be at Grand Prairie National Cemetery. The time and date will be announced. In leu of flowers the family requests that gifts be made in her honor to Mission Arlington (https://missionarlington.org/).
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The Changing Place of Canada
By Tom Kent
TOM KENT, Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press; formerly Assistant Editor of The Economist, London
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CANADA'S place in the world has been utterly transformed<|fim_middle|> principles already deeply embedded in the country's historical development."
The continuity emphasized in those words is real enough. But recent years have made Canadians more conscious also of great changes in the environment in which their embedded interests and principles must be pursued. The changes are too obvious to need listing here. Our problem is to assess how exactly they have produced the new place Canada is coming to occupy in the world.
We can best define that place, and at the same time indicate the problem it creates in Canadian politics, by starting with a proposition that is plainly true but to the truth of which many Canadians are emotionally resistant. It is this: the first, essential interest of Canada in the world today is the security of the United States; that takes overwhelming priority over everything else in Canada's external relations.
This is a revolutionary statement. One does not have to go far back in Canadian history to a time when the | within less than a generation. Indeed, there is hardly any exaggeration in saying that in thought and feeling the transformation has been going on for barely a decade.
The new era, in which Canada's place is quite different from any she previously occupied, was brought into being in 1939. But through the war and the first postwar years no one could tell with confidence what were temporary conditions and what were fundamental changes. We all took time to adjust, mentally and emotionally. It was as late as 1950 that a distinguished historian and diplomat, George P. de T. Glazebrook, concluded an essay on the historic factors in Canada's external relations with these words: "National maturity brought no fundamental change in the interests of Canada in world affairs or in the principles on which her policy had been based. The change consisted rather in a growing appreciation of the necessity of assuming responsibility for the pursuit and maintenance of interests and | 192 |
Marla Moore Named 2012 SEMA Person of the Year
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By Mike Imlay
The SEMA Person of the Year Award ranks among the association's most prestigious honors. For 2012, it was bestowed upon Marla Moore of Hypertech during the recent SEMA Show Industry Awards Banquet, held Thursday, November 1, in Las Vegas. Moore, who is currently the chair of the SEMA Businesswomen's Network (SBN), has been involved with the specialty-equipment industry for more than three decades.
Although a barrier-breaking champion of women throughout her career, Moore's commitment to the specialty-equipment market has inspired both genders. Ask around the industry and you'll soon learn that she knows the high-performance world inside and out. Thanks also to a keen understanding of consumers, she is especially recognized by peers as a skilled advertising leader.
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As she sat at the Industry Awards Banquet listening to emcee Dave McClelland describing the 2012 Person of the Year, saying it was a woman, Moore wondered who it might be.
"It could have been any one of the many outstanding women that I have had the pleasure to work with, especially on the SBN," she said. "So when Dave named me Person of the Year, I was shocked, humbled and deeply honored to get an award for doing something I love with people I love. I have spent most of my life working in this industry and this recognition is the highlight of my career."
"Marla Moore exemplifies all that makes our industry great," said SEMA President and CEO Chris Kersting. "She is a person of passion, initiative, service and tireless volunteerism. I can't think of an individual more deserving of SEMA's 2012 Person of the Year Award, and we congratulate her on her achievement." | with SEMA in the first place.
One of Moore's most recent accomplishments with the SBN is her work as task force chairman for the SEMA Mustang Build—Powered by Women, which she sees as an historical endeavor.
"The hard work and dedication of the SBN Select Committee and the Mustang Build team made this project a huge success, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to serve with the incredible women on this project," she told SEMA News.
The roots of Moore's automotive passion reach to childhood.
"My dad, much to my mom's dismay, was always rebuilding one car or another in the carport," she said. "I had two brothers, but I was the one who helped my dad. A boyfriend later introduced me to dirt bikes. I bought a Suzuki 250 and started racing. I was totally hooked on anything fast—cars, bikes or boats.
"I became an art director and was hired by Auto Shack—now AutoZone—and then Competition Cams and finally Hypertech. My greatest moment in life was when I brought my dad to the SEMA Show and was able to introduce him | 228 |
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The country reports provide a systematic account of the legal beginnings, the most important reforms and the current configuration of social security systems.
News from Project A04
Job Vacancy: PhD Researcher
Our project A04 is offering a research position focused on the development of health care systems, especially in former colonies in Africa. Salary scale TV-L 13 (part-time 65 %), starting as soon as possible.
At the University of Bremen the Collaborative Research Centre 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" invites applications for the following academic position (under the condition of job release):
PhD Researcher (f/m/d)
Salary Scale TV-L 13, part-time 65%, start date: as soon as possible.
The position is a fixed term position until June 30th, 2026. Reference number: A367/22
The time limitation is based on § 2 (1) WissZeitVG (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, i.e. temporary science employment act). Therefore, candidates may only be considered who dispose of the respective scope of qualification periods according to § 2 (1) WissZeitVG.
The position is part of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" (Globale Entwicklungsdynamiken von Sozialpolitik) funded by the German Research Foundation and will be located within the project A04: Global developments in health care systems
The Collaborative Research Centre 1342 (CRC 1342) "Global Dynamics of Social Policy", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since January 2018, examines public social policy in a global and historical perspective. In the second phase of the CRC (January 2022 - December 2025), research will focus on how social policy programs have evolved in terms of coverage and generosity after their adoption. The CRC is divided into two project areas: Project Area A consists of six projects that examine the coverage and generosity of eight social policy areas across the globe. The eight projects of project area B examine dynamics related to coverage and benefit generosity in selected countries and regions from all continents. In an information infrastructure project, the Global Welfare State Information System (WeSIS) will be developed further.
Project A04 is based at the University of Bremen and led by Heinz Rothgang, Lorraine Frisina Doetter, and Sebastian Haunss. It focuses on the development of health care systems worldwide. Adopting mixed-methods, the project has three main goals. First, it quantitatively traces and maps how and why health care systems have changed the inclusiveness and scope of health care services during the last 140 years in a macro perspective. Second, using macro-quantitative methods, it explains these changes with respect to national constellation and political, social, and economic interdependencies between national states and global actors. Third, by way of case studies, the project qualitatively analyses the impact of colonial legacies in the birth of health care systems in Kenya and Nigeria.
The successful candidate will mainly assume tasks related to data collection and analysis. Responsibilities include
Qualitative data collection on the introduction of social and health policies in former colonies in Africa through expert interview, literature and archival research, and field work
Data management and documentation
Qualitative descriptive and explanatory analyses of the introduction and further developments of health care systems, with the use of process-tracing and other qualitative methods
Participation in project-related publications, events, and networking activities (e.g. organizing workshops, co-editing the CRC Social Policy Country Brief Series, communication with country experts)
The successful candidate will prepare a PhD dissertation thematically related to the project, to be completed in June 2026.
Master Degree in the social sciences or related fields with excellent academic credential
Good knowledge about social policies, comparative welfare or comparative health care system research
Experience with / good knowledge of qualitative research methods (e.g. interviews, document analysis, and process-tracing)
Excellent English-language skills (spoken and written)
Strong communications skills and willingness to collaborate within the project team and CRC
Willingness to travel
Knowledge about health care policies / systems
Knowledge about social policies in Africa
Knowledge about legacies of colonialism in former colonies, especially former British colonies
Experience in working with qualitative content analysis software (e.g. NVivo, MaxQDA)
Experience in archival research
Working knowledge of German preferred (or strong interest and willingness to learn German)
Knowledge of additional languages are an asset
The university is family-friendly, diverse and sees itself as an international university. We therefore welcome all applicants regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.
The University is committed to a policy of providing equal employment opportunities for both men and women alike, and therefore strongly encourages women to apply for the positions offered. Disabled applicants will be given priority if their professional and personal qualifications are essentially the same.
If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Gabriela de Carvalho (decarvalho@uni-bremen.de).
Applications including a cover letter, CV, publication list (where applicable), copies of degree certificates, and a sample of academic writing (e.g. Master Thesis, published papers, or term paper) should be submitted by February 26th, 2023 with the reference number A367/22 to:
SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy
or by e-mail (including up to two PDF files; reference number) to: decarvalho@uni-bremen.de
The costs of application and presentation cannot be reimbursed.
Dr. Gabriela de Carvalho
CRC 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
E-Mail: decarvalho@uni-bremen.de
Project A04 is looking for a student assistant
Tasks include literature research and support of archival research. The working hours are up to 37 hours per month.
At the University of Bremen, the following positions are available in the Collaborative Research Centre 1342's project "Global developments in health care systems":
Student Assistants with up to 37 hrs/month
Start date: As soon as possible. The position is temporary, but a longer-term employment is intended.
The project is a part of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" and is directed by Prof. Dr. Heinz Rothgang, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss and Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter.
The aim of the project is to map and analyse healthcare system introductions and developments in former British colonies, i.e. Nigeria and Kenya.
Literature research
Supporting the preparation of archival research
Supporting on administrative tasks
Enrolled in a German University
Excellent command of English
Knowledge of social policies, especially healthcare policies
Experience in literature research and qualitative research in general
Independent, reliable and organised working style
Interest in social policy, health policy and/or health inequality
Experience with reference management software, especially Zotero
Knowledge of and/or strong interest in African countries
Deadline for application: Rolling basis until positions are filled.
Please send applications with CV and short letter of motivation stating expected graduation date to Gabriela de Carvalho (decarvalho@uni-bremen.de).
The project "Global developments in health care systems" is looking for new student assistants
The tasks include data and literature research as well as classification, annotation and coding of documents. Working hours up to 37 hours per month.
The aim of the project is to map the historical development of the inclusiveness and the scope of benefits of health care systems worldwide. In doing so, we develop an AI supported system to facilitate the classification and annotation of a large corpus of documents.
Database and literature research
Supporting the systematic classification of documents
Supporting the annotation / coding of documents
Knowledge of French is particularly welcome
Experience in literature research
Experience in annotation / coding of text documents
Interest in natural language processing and application of artificial intelligence
Please send applications with CV and short letter of motivation to Gabriela de Carvalho (email:decarvalho@uni-bremen.de).
Johanna Fischer successfully defends her PhD thesis
Johanna Fischer
Fischer has studied the development of social policy in the field of long-term care both in a comparative and conceptual perspective.
Johanna Fischer is working in project A04 "Global Developments in Health Systems and Long-Term Care as a New Social Risk" and has written her doctoral thesis entitled "The Emergence of Social Policy in the Field of Long-term Care. A Comparative Analysis of the Introduction and Types of Long-term Care Systems in a Global Perspective".
Her work is based on three papers:
The Introduction of Long-Term Care Systems: The Nascent Diffusion of a Novel Social Policy Field (with Alexander Polte and Meika Sternkopf, forthcoming)
Comparing long-term care systems: A multi-dimensional, actor-centred typology (with Lorraine Frisina Doetter and Heinz Rothgang, 2021, in Social Policy & Administration)
The social long-term care insurance model: Comparing actor configurations across countries and time (under review)
Johanna Fischer's work includes the first comprehensive comparative study on the introduction of long-term care systems worldwide and the development of a multi-dimensional, actor-centred typology of long-term care systems. Based on this, she has presented a systematic international comparison of long-term care systems and especially of social insurance-based long-term care systems.
Dr. Johanna Fischer
E-Mail<|fim_middle|> A04 and the CRC please see: https://www.socialpolicydynamics.de/projects/project-area-aglobal-dynamics/project-a04/en/
The internship will mainly focus on in-depth research on the historical development of health care systems and/or longterm care systems in one or in several countries. You will search and review relevant academic literature, reports and legal documents and summarize the results. Ideally, this work will feed into writing 5-7 page country briefs which will be published in our CRC 1342 Social Policy Country Brief Series. Additional tasks might also include the collection of quantitative data and literature research and management on health and long-term care.
Interest in health and/or long-term care policies
Very good knowledge of English and experience in writing English texts
Experience with literature review and/or data research
Basic knowledge of social policy, health care policy and/or long-term care policy
Knowledge of EndNote
Additional language skills (French would be an asset)
Knowledge of or interest in politics or policies in specific regions/countries in the Global South
We offer a cooperative working environment in a friendly, interdisciplinary, and multicultural team at one of the major research projects on comparative social policy study in Germany, where you get the opportunity to apply and develop your skills and knowledge. The internship provides you with insights in working in academia and the possibility to attend (online) meetings of the A04 project, and (digital) events of the CRC 1342 and SOCIUM. During your internship, you have the opportunity to author one or several Social Policy Country Briefs which will be published in our country brief series. If interested, writing your MA thesis related to the project is a possibility as well.
Internships can be flexibly arranged in the period between September 2020 and March 2021 and should last approximately 2-4 month. Weekly working time should range between 20-39 hours. Please state your preferences for period, length, and weekly hours in your application. Concrete modalities will then be coordinated during the hiring
Due to the restrictions caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, work will usually have to be conducted from home and meetings and coordination will take place online.
If you are interested in an internship at the project A04 please send your application to Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss (sebastian.haunss@uni-bremen.de). Your application should include a CV, a short letter of motivation as well as a current transcript of records as a PDF document. Please specify your preferred work modalities in the application as well. In case of questions on the internship please contact Sebastian Haunss.
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss | : johanna.fischer@uni-bremen.de
20th issue of the CRC 1342 Social Policy Country Briefs now published
Gabriela de Carvalho, Johanna Fischer
Johanna Fischer and Gabriela de Carvalho explain in an interview how the country reports are produced and what added value they offer compared to other sources.
The twentieth issue of the CRC 1342 Social Policy Country Briefs was published a few days ago. On this occasion, could you briefly explain what this series is about?
Johanna Fischer: The series consists of short reports which each focus on a specific social policy field in an individual country. For instance, the latest two reports were published on the The Health Care System in Bulgaria (No 19) and the The Long-Term Care System in Sweden (No 20). In line with the CRC's current focus on social policy emergence, the Country Briefs focus on the introduction of social protection policies and systems and their further development until today. The aim of the series is to give country and policy experts the opportunity to share their knowledge in a semi-structured format, to disseminate the information through the online open access publications, and to shed light on under-researched cases, in particular those found beyond high-income economies.
How did this series come about?
Gabriela de Carvalho: Within our project A04 on the Global Developments in Health Care Systems and Long-term Care as a New Social Risk (as well as the CRC as a whole), we are collecting a lot of data for instance on the introduction points of health and long-term care systems, their characteristics, and subsequent reforms. From this we have plenty of indicators which are stored in the CRC's Global Welfare State Information System (WeSIS) and can be used by us and others for research. However, this information is contained into – mainly – categorical and numerical indicators. We have established the Country Brief Series to complement these datasets with more in-depth descriptions in a story-telling format and information that country experts or team members have accumulated. We thought that it would be a pity if this comprehensive knowledge about health and long-term care system beginnings and development would not be recorded and published. For the future it is planned that the Country Briefs will also be stored in WeSIS as an additional country-based resource.
What is the particular benefit of the series compared to existing social policy country profiles?
Johanna Fischer: There are several benefits of the CRC 1342 Social Policy Country Briefs which are not fully covered by other publication series. One is the explicit historical focus – in line with the CRC's research agenda – on the initial introduction and further chronological development of social protection systems. Other publications do focus much more on providing a snapshot of the currently existing systems. However, we think it is important to contextualise current developments with a thorough understanding of their historical trajectories to understand why they look like as they do today and also for comparing countries at different stages of development.
Gabriela de Carvalho: We also emphasise the role of the state in health and long-term care systems, and the different ways in which this actor took responsibility for health and elder care. Even though we plan to publish briefs on all countries of the world, we particularly target under-researched cases from the Global South. Examples are the reports on the healthcare systems of Equatorial Guinea and Mozambique which are currently under review.
Gabriela, you have written the first issue of the series - what is the biggest challenge in such a report?
Gabriela de Carvalho: The biggest challenge in writing such a report is, I would say, the 'novelty' of the content. As here at the CRC we have an explicit interest in historical developments and the role of the state in social policies, our country briefs shed light on these topics, which is different from existing descriptions of social policies. Therefore, a historical analysis and reflection of each case is necessary before producing the report.
There are also conceptual challenges: For instance, experts have different ways to measure and operationalise what a system is, and when a system starts. This requires an open and constant dialogue between the editors of the series (the A04 project) and the authors.
Further, data availability differs greatly among countries. Authors often need to slightly adapt the provided template to accommodate for issues of data availability and reliability.
How do you choose the topics of the issues (policy field and country)?
Johanna Fischer: At the moment we are working on the both policy fields covered by our project, that is health and long-term care. As for the countries, we have started mostly with the ones where we had an established contact to potential authors for instance because they had participated in our expert surveys already. Furthermore, we tried to cover a diverse set of countries situated in different regions. Our aim is explicitly to cover cases outside the standard Northern/Western country samples often analysed, even though we are of course happy to also include reports on the more well-known cases. For long-term care, for instance, many reports have so far focused on the long-standing members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development or the European Union. We are therefore happy that we were already able to extend this sample, for instance with the Country Briefs on Uruguay, Costa Rica, Taiwan, Singapore, Ukraine, and Serbia.
Gabriela de Carvalho: In the case of healthcare, reports on countries such as Jamaica, Mozambique, Albania, and Mexico have already been published or are currently under review.
Will the series cover other policy fields in the future as well?
Johanna Fischer: We are open to extend the series to other policy fields. In the future we would therefore like to more closely collaborate with other CRC projects to make this happen.
Gabriela de Carvalho and Jakob Henninger defend their PhD theses
Gabriela de Carvalho, Jakob Henninger
De Carvalho studied the role of global actors in shaping health systems in the Global South, Henninger the interplay of immigration and social policy in authoritarian regimes.
Gabriela de Carvalho's thesis is titled "The role of global actors in shaping healthcare systems: Advancing analytical frameworks to better portray the empirical reality of Global South countries" and was graded "magna cum laude".
The primary aim of her dissertation is to analyse the role global actors play in shaping healthcare systems in Global South countries in order to advance typological work to better portray the empirical manifestations of healthcare systems worldwide, especially in middle and low income nations. My dissertation consists of three papers: The first study empirically examines whether and how IOs, more precisely the World Bank (WB), influence the (legal) foundations of healthcare systems in the nations of the Global South (Article A). The second investigation consists of a systematic literature review of the scholarship on healthcare system typologies to verify whether existing frameworks (a) take into account the increasing role global actors play in healthcare system arrangements, and (b) are able to portray the universe of healthcare systems worldwide, with a special focus on LMICs (Article B). Finally, a conceptual and analytical framework of healthcare systems to display and compare arrangements is proposed, taking into consideration the particularities of Global South systems (Article C).
Article A:
de Carvalho, G. (2021). The World Bank and healthcare reforms: A cross-national analysis of policy prescriptions in South America. Social Inclusion (in press).
Article B:
de Carvalho, G., Schmid, A., & Fischer, J. (2021). Classifications of healthcare systems: Do existing typologies reflect the particularities of the Global South? Global Social Policy, 21(2), 278–300. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468018120969315
Article C:
Frisina Doetter, L., Schmid, A., de Carvalho, G., & Rothgang, H. (2021). Comparing apples to oranges? Minimising typological biases to better classify healthcare systems globally. Health Policy OPEN, 2, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hpopen.2021.100035
Jakob Henninger's doctoral thesis is entitled "The Politics of Immigration and Social Protection in Electoral-Authoritarian Regimes" and was graded "summa cum laude" (examination committee: Susanne K. Schmidt, Friederike Römer, Christian Joppke, Heiko Pleines, Patrick Sachweh, Johanna Kuhlmann).
Jakob Henninger's findings include:
Concerns about immigration are more likely to lead to an increase in demand for social security in authoritarian regimes than in democracies.
Questions in parliament are also a means for opposition MPs to criticise the government's immigration policy in electoral authoritarian regimes.
In electoral authoritarian regimes, the goals and actions of civil society organisations advocating for immigrants' rights are significantly weaker than in democratic states.
A paper on which the thesis is based has already been published:
Choose your battles: How civil society organisations choose context-specific goals and activities to fight for immigrant welfare rights in Malaysia and Argentina, with Friederike Römer (2021) in Social Policy & Administration. Two further papers are existing as manuscripts.
Dr. Jakob Henninger
CRC 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies
E-Mail: jakob.henninger@uni-bremen.de
Lorraine Frisina Doetter featured in "Rights Talk"
The co-director of project A04 was invited to the podcast run by the City College of New York to talk about health care systems in the Global North and South, global trends and challenges doing research on these topics.
Rights Talk is a City College of New York podcast that addresses current human rights challenges around the world. The podcast invites critical perspectives and questions the future of rights in the twenty-first century.
Lorraine Frisina Doetter, co-director of the CRC project A04 Global Developments in Health Care Systems and Long-term Care as a New Social Risk spoke on the podcast about health care around the world and challenges in comparative health care systems research.
Among other topics, Frisina Doetter touched on topics like health care as a human right, global trends challenging healthcare systems around the world, the inefficiencies of the Us healthcare system and its resistance to change.
Frisina Doetter also presented the work being done at CRC 1342 and the challenges of doing comparative healthcare systems research on a global level: (1) the availability of data, especially historic data on healthcare in the Global Sout, and (2) How to arrive at concepts that can be universally applicable and still meaningful. "Most scholars have a very specific understanding of a health care system with doctors and nurses trained in biological studies as the core", Frisina Doetter says. Other actors are being neglected as well as so called alternative medicine, which is a functional equivalent in many societies. "These and other functional equivalence should not be missed/neglected in our research. We need to develop concepts that capture that in our comparisons. In order to do this, we need to examine our normative and epistemic biases."
Listen to the episode of Rights Talk:
The Right to Health in Comparative Perspective: the WHO, North-South Systems, and Transnational Interdependencies with Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter
"A biased orientation towards the North can prevent new insights"
Dr. Achim Schmid, Gabriela de Carvalho, Johanna Fischer (left to right)
Gabriela de Carvalho explains in an interview why existing typologies of health care systems have a strong Global North bias and why this is problematic.
Gabriela de Carvalho, Achim Schmid and Johanna Fischer have examined the literature on health care system classifications. The existing typologies, the team has found, have a strong Global North bias and thus fail to capture important features of health care systems of the Global South. Gabriela de Carvalho, the first author of the paper published in Global Social Policy, explains some details of their findings and what this means for researchers and policy makers.
You have reviewed the literature for existing classifications of health care systems and found that they are poorly suited to support research on the Global South. What is the reason?
Gabriela de Carvalho: The main goal of our research was to evaluate the health care system typology literature and its ability to capture the particularities of health care systems of the Global South. The findings of our study points to limitations of several features of existing typologies: their coverage, methods used, and criteria they build on. Regarding coverage, health care systems of LMICs (low- and middle-income countries) are rarely taken into consideration in the literature, as classified cases consist of a 1:5 ratio of Global South to Global North countries. With respect to methods, the overreliance on inductive approaches to classification often excludes countries that cannot be measured in numeric terms. Health statistics mostly focus on the Global North, and has only recently included more data on countries from the South, hampering the analysis of arrangements beyond high-income nations. The use of inductive typologies to classify systems may result in poorly informed classifications especially if the study aims at the creation of a tool for applicability beyond their sample of cases. With regard to the criteria and characteristics health care systems are compared by, dominant features of health care systems that mostly exist in LMICs such as the segmentation of the system for different population groups, are not taken into consideration in many typologies. This often results in typologies that do not capture the empirical reality of the South.
In your paper you write that the health care systems in many countries of the Global South are very different from those of the Global North. What are the most important points?
Gabriela de Carvalho: All health care systems regardless of the country face numerous challenges and the current pandemic made this even more evident. Still, it is undeniable that systems of the Global South endure even greater financial and technical constraints. Besides larger disparities in health care per capita spending, number of health care professionals, and burden of diseases, LMICs are more prone to rely on international actors (transnational organisations, INGOs, and third countries) to finance, provide services and even regulate their systems. Another very important characteristic of many health care systems of the Global South is segmentation, the coexistence of different schemes targeting different population groups according to income, social status and/or type of employment. As a general rule, the poor are beneficiaries of public services due to their exclusion from formal employment, while the upper classes are covered by social and/or private insurance. This stratification leads to extensive health inequalities, as public services only provide basic care, and supplementary services are only used by those who are able to afford them.
What do you see as the reasons why these aspects have not been sufficiently considered in the classification literature so far?
Gabriela de Carvalho: In general, we believe that scientific research is still concentrated in and revolve around OECD countries due to data availability, financial and technical resources, institutional capacity, and the interest of researchers. Of course, recent decades have seen an expansion of (health care systems) scholarship on LMICs, mainly in the form of in-depth case studies, but it still lacks in comparison to the Global North literature, especially when systematic comparison is concerned. If more varied cases are not taken into account, the literature will continue to only partially represent the empirical reality, amplifying the 'invisibility' of less studies countries/regions. Particularly to the scholarship we are analysing, it is clear that classification and the development of meaningful typologies is much more complicated when dealing with countries of the Global South. Reasons for that vary from segmentation/parallel (public) systems, parts of the population and/or health services left to markets, and the existence of less "mature"systems. While systems found in the Global North can also be mixed or hybrids in some way, it is much harder to condense the information and assign an LMIC to an ideal type.
What are the consequences of the mismatch between the existing classifications in the literature and the health systems existing in the Global South - for scientific research and for practice/policy?
Gabriela de Carvalho: As the literature often relies on health care systems of the Global North to develop classificatory tools, it seems reasonable to assume that the models resulting from these typologies are more prominent and influential in shaping researchers and policymakers' ideas of what a health care system does – and should – look like. We argue that high-income examples can be (mis)interpreted as portraying 'best' models or 'benchmarks', which may lead to standard setting for other countries, disregarding particular and fundamental characteristics of health care systems in LMICs. This could also translate into policy advice being modelled in terms of the well-known types. For scientific research, this bias towards the North may hinder novel knowledge production that could potentially focus on less analysed cases, as research tends to gravitate around seminal works, leaving aside unfamiliar cases or new theoretical considerations.
Read the full paper (Open Access): Classifications of health care systems: Do existing typologies reflect the particularities of the Global South?
More about the research of Gabriela de Carvalho, Achim Schmid and Johanna Fischer and the whole project A04 team:
Global Developments in Health Care Systems and Long-term Care as a New Social Risk
Dr. Achim Schmid
E-Mail: aschmid@uni-bremen.de
"20,000 additional nursing assistants is a first step - but there are obstacles"
CRC member Heinz Rothgang welcomes the Federal Government's legislative proposal. However, the jobs could only be filled if the federal states changed their binding quotas for highly qualified staff.
The Federal Government has adopted a legislative proposal under which 20,000 additional positions for auxiliary staff in full-time inpatient care for the elderly in Germany are to be financed by the nursing care insurance scheme. This is not intended to increase the contribution of those in need of care.
Nur mit einer ausreichenden Personalausstattung ist eine gute Pflege möglich. Darum wollen wir bis zu 20.000 zusätzliche Stellen für Pflegehilfskräfte in der Altenpflege finanzieren. Heute wurde der entsprechende Gesetzentwurf im Kabinett beschlossen: https://t.co/UbNPF5zEmd pic.twitter.com/7RGapFE8xx
— BMG (@BMG_Bund) September 23, 2020
CRC member Heinz Rothgang, who together with colleagues has developed a procedure for the standardised assessment of personnel requirements in care institutions, evaluates the proposed legislation positively: "It is a first step - no more and no less. The proposal itself is good and sound for now," he said in an interview with buten un binnen. However, the new assessment procedure revealed that a total of 100,000 additional full-time jobs will be needed in long-term care nationwide, which corresponds to an increase in personnel of one third compared to today. "We need about three to four percent more skilled workers in Germany," said Rothgang, "but 70 percent more auxiliary staff.
The planned financing of the 20,000 auxiliary staff positions via the long-term care insurance scheme is a necessary precondition, but regulations at state level stand in the way of practical implementation. "In almost all federal states ... we demand a skilled labour share of 50 percent of the nursing staff. If a facility falls below this level, legal action and even closure is looming," Rothgang said in an interview. The federal states will therefore have to change these regulations, otherwise there is a risk that the positions will not be filled.
Rothgang does not expect the quality of nursing care to decline if the ratio of skilled staff falls: "If auxiliary staff is added without cutting jobs for skilled staff, this should not lead to disadvantages. If additional unskilled workers take the pressure off the skilled workers, this will result in an improved quality of care - with a decreasing ratio of skilled workers".
The final report of the project for the development and testing of the scientifically based procedure for the standardised assessment of personnel requirements in care facilities was approved and published on 23.09.2020.
Internships for MA students
Project A04 "Global developments in health care systems and in long-term care as a new social risk" is offering internships lasting 2-4 months (20-39 hours/week).
Project A04 is part of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" and focuses on tracing the development of social policy in the fields of health care and long-term care in countries worldwide. Our research aims at pinpointing introduction times and major reforms of health care and long-term care systems and identifying different types of systems as well as factors shaping their development. The project team consists of seven researchers and is directed by Prof. Heinz Rothgang, Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter and Prof. Sebastian Haunss. For more information on the project | 4,425 |
Gary had just played his last train carriage, signalling the final round. The game is tight and I only have four trains left. What to do?
I can't complete any more routes, but maybe someone else can, can I block them? It's doubtful, the cards in my hand aren't great, and at this point in the game everyone has either completed their routes or been thwarted already. Aah! But wait, I have three red cards, and there's Zagreb to Sarajevo, come to daddy! It might not mean much to you, but that's just given me the longest continuous path… and the game!
Ticket to Ride is a card drafting, set collecting, route building game, which sees players racing to complete routes, joining countries across Europe. Is this just for gricers*? Or is it a runaway success for everyone?
* A gricer is a fanatical railway enthusiast – there, you learn something new everyday!
The board is a nice and large, linen finish map, representing Europe, with the sepia tones and artwork placing it in the early 20th century. Railways join all the major cities, each in a colour that indicates the requirement to claim it. There is a scoring track running around the outside, which has good-sized numbers that are clear and easy to read.
The plastic train carriages are just over 2cm long and made from rigid plastic. They fit perfectly on the railway tracks and are an ideal size to hold, and place, with your fingers. There are also 3 extra carriages of each colour supplied as spares.
All of the cards are normal playing card size, and are of very good quality with a linen finish. The train cards come in 9 different colours – red, white, yellow, blue, black, pink, green, orange, and multi-coloured – they are also symbolised for those who may be colour blind. Each colour of card is depicted with a type of train car, with the multi-coloured one displaying a locomotive.
Train cards have a symbol in the corner, matching them to their track.
Both regular and long route cards, show a representation of the board with the cities to be joined clearly indicated, as well as written below. The points scored for completing the route are also indicated. The long routes are distinguished by having blue as the predominant colour, as well as a symbol in the top right corner.
Destination cards and the European Express card.
There are two more cards, one handed out at the end for scoring the longest route, the European Express card, which scores you 10 points, and a card with the scoring table depicted on it.
The wooden scoring markers are nice addition, and are a good chunky size. They are stackable, for when players are on the same score, and easy to see and handle.
The rules are an 8 page booklet, leading you through set-up, object of the game, and the game play. The rules are very easy to understand containing lots of pictures and examples. It also highlights, for players of the first game in the series (Ticket to Ride), the new additions to the game – ferries, tunnels, and train stations.
Finally, the box itself is of good quality, and again, has a linen finish. The art depicts a scene of a locomotive pulling into a Scandinavian station, and though the people in the scene don't seem to 'fit' in the picture, it does give a nostalgic feel to it all. The box inlay contains all the components perfectly, with the board holding everything in place.
To set up the game, each player chooses a colour, and receives a set of 45 train carriages, along with 3 matching stations.
Each player places his coloured scoring marker by, but not on, the number 1 of the scoring track.
The train cards are shuffled, and 4 are dealt to each player. The rest are placed alongside the board, and represent the draw pile. Turn over the top 5 cards, laying them face up, next to one another. The train cards come in colours matching the routes on the board; a locomotive card counts as a wild card, and can represent any colour; they are also required to claim ferry routes.
Place the summary card, and the longest route bonus card, next to the board.
Shuffle the long route cards, and deal 1 to each player. Return the rest to the box and then shuffle the regular route cards, dealing 3 to each player. Place the remainder alongside the board. Players look at these, and keeping at least 2, discard to the box those that they do not want.
Claiming a route linking 2 cities.
Completing a route as per their destination cards. Points are deducted for incomplete destination cards held in the hand at the end of the game.
Completing the longest continuous route, irrespective of the cities joined.
Having unused train stations at the end of the game.
Join cities, by claiming routes, to score points.
Draw Train Car Cards – Either, two cards from the top of the draw pile, two from the face up cards (immediately replacing them with cards from the draw pile), or a combination of the two. If a face up locomotive is taken, then this must be the only card drawn.
Claim a route – A player claims a route linking two cities by playing cards from their hand that match the colour and quantity of the route spaces. Playing a set of any colour can claim a grey route. Ferry routes are classed as grey routes, but must contain at least the amount of locomotives indicated on the route. Tunnel routes, which are identified by a boarder around their spaces, are claimed in the following manner – The player plays the number of appropriately coloured cards in the normal manner; The top three cards of the draw pile are revealed, if any match the colour played to claim the route, then the player must play an additional card from his hand for each match. Once a route has been claimed, the train cards used are placed in a discard pile (formed next to the draw pile), and the route is scored, depending upon its length. The players scoring marker is moved the appropriate number of places on the scoring track.
Build a train station – A player can build a station on any city that does not already have one. To build their first station they discard a single train card; the second requires a discard of two cards the same colour, and the third, three cards. A station enables its owner to use one of the routes belonging to another player, leading to or from that city; thus helping them to complete a destination ticket. The owner of the station decides which route to use at the end of the game.
Draw destination tickets – The player draws three destination tickets, and must keep at least one.
A note on routes – By looking at the board it can be seen that certain cities are joined by two parallel, and identical in length, routes. In a 2 or 3 player game, either, but only one, of these routes can be claimed.
Ferry routes require a number of locomotives.
The game ends when one player ends their turn with two or fewer, plastic trains left to play. Play continues until all players, including this player, have had one more turn.
Each player then reveals their destination tickets and final scores are calculated. For those that they have completed, the indicated score is added to their total, and for those that are incomplete,<|fim_middle|> may well lose interest. And that would be a shame, because it shouldn't take long for everyone to claw back your advantage, as this really is a relatively easy game to learn to play well.
To not recommend Ticket to Ride Europe, would be standing against all the evidence presented, not just by myself, but by hundreds of other gamers out there, and the 6 million + copies of the game series sold world wide.
This is a game of widespread appeal – excellent for the newcomer and seasoned gamer alike. Playable at any age, and offering a fun experience even if you lose dismally – it's good enough just to see your coloured carriages progress across the board, joining city after city.
The game time of 30-60 minutes is pretty spot on, whatever player count you have, and it's quick to set up, and to pack away.
Is this the Ticket to ride for me?
There are many versions of Ticket to Ride out there now; the latest 'New York' version offering a quick play time, and taxis instead of trains! It can be a difficult decision deciding where to jump on, and this certainly is a good point to start. Other versions develop the game in different ways; I especially like 'Rails and Sails', which introduces sea routes. So, it's best to do a little research on what each game offers, and what you like the sound off; what appeals to one person, may not appeal to the next, and, you may just want the one that represents the area you live in; either way, it'll be a sound investment. Do you need more than one? Personally, no, for me one version of the game is sufficient, and if I get a new one, the older version usually finds a new home. But, again, that's personal choice; you may find enough difference between certain versions to warrant keeping both.
Next Remember When… Frustration & Pop-O-Matic! | the score is subtracted from their total. For each station a player has not placed, they add 4 points to their total. A check is made to determine the longest continuous route a player has made. The European Express card is awarded to the player with the longest route, and they score an additional 10 points – Continuous routes can contain loops, and pass through the same city several times. If players are tied on length, they each receive the extra 10 points.
Before I move onto the game, let's take a look at the components.
The board is large, but then it needs to be, any smaller and it would start to feel cluttered. The colours are easily distinguishable, and for those who may be colour-blind, the different colours are differentiated by symbols.
The cards each have a different train carriage depicted, depending on its colour, and though fairly plain, the colour stands out so you can see at a glance what you have in your hand. The backs of the card have a combined image of a locomotive and clock face, which I though gave them a nice air of nostalgia.
The destination cards containing the map image and an indication of the where the cities are located, is a great touch, especially when playing with children, allowing them to easily find the cities on the game board.
The little plastic coloured carriages are really neat, and the game looks fantastic in play, sparking a smile from those who enjoyed playing with model trains in their youth! It's also nice to see the inclusion of a few extra pieces of each colour included, ideal for when one ends up hiding under the sofa!
The wooden scoring markers are a nice size, you can actually pick them up, unlike some games I could mention (Tokaido!). They also stack nicely, and being wooden, they have a little more weight so they don't ping off at the slightest nudge of the board – though the plastic trains will scatter, taking a bit of time to re-align.
I'm not sure why the scoring reference card has been included, as it's duplicated clearly on the board, but it's there if needed.
The rules are excellent, very easy to follow and understand, and once you've played through the game once or twice, you'll probably never refer to them again!
The rules contain lots of examples.
Finally, I'm not a total fan of the box art. I like the background picture of the loco, but it's the figures in the foreground. For starters they look like they've been added as an afterthought, and secondly, they just don't seem to gel with the background. Of course, art is a personal thing, and I'm sure there are plenty out there who will quite like it, but for me, I think they could have done better.
Ask the majority of gamers to name a great gateway game, and Ticket to Ride will probably be the first on the list. It's easily accessible to people dabbling into the hobby for the first time, but it also has a much wider appeal than just being an easy introductory game.
Its continued success since the release of the original is highly justifiable, but why?
It is simple to learn, it is easy to play, and yet it also has a depth of strategy and divergence of game play that will keep you coming back.
Ok, here's what I mean – When you first play the game, you'll probably be focused on completing the destinations you were given at the start, desperately not wanting to receive those negative points at the game's end. Your concentration will be fixed upon planning a route from one city to another; players will get in each others way, sure, but mostly through going about their own business. The game will end, scores will be totalled, and everyone will have had an enjoyable game.
By game three of four though, you'll find a different game emerging. You'll be looking around at what everyone else is doing, and thinking, 'Where can I block them, whilst not being detrimental to myself?' The game takes on a slightly more tactical feel, as you concentrate on completing your destination cards.
Moving on another few games, and you start to figure out how to score more heavily. You learn that the destination cards are really the driving force of the game, and it's not a case of just trying to complete the few you were dealt with. No, it's all about trying to complete as many as possible, by drawing and using destination cards intelligently. Keep those that enable you to extend, or slightly diverge, your planned route, and discard those that prove to be too far away.
At this point the game has become a grand tactical battle between the players; blocking others in just the right place can give a big burst of satisfaction, whilst been thwarted just before you complete your main route can lead to total failure, and the sound of your head hitting the table!
But that's not everything, the game offers a different experience with varying player count, and this is what I mean when I say it has a divergence of game play.
At two players, the board is uncluttered, and the chances of successfully blocking the other player, is quite low. So, you concentrate on completing as many destination cards as possible, it in fact becomes a race. You'll both score heavily, often hoarding cards at the start whilst drawing the odd new destination card. Then you'll start to lay your routes, trying to form the most economical way of joining your cities together, but you have to be aware – that European Express card could just swing the game!
As you increase the player count the game play changes. Players start to get in each other's way, confounding you at every turn. A well-placed station can be a winner, and blocking others now becomes a more prominent part of the game. Drawing destination cards is better in the middle game, and can play out either way, though being able to discard two cards should provide you with something to chase.
A well placed station can increase your options.
It is in these games that tunnels and ferries become all important, and once again, can be the difference between winning and losing, as a bit of bad luck on the drawn cards for a tunnel can ruin your day.
Tunnels are indicated on the board by a black border.
So you see, Ticket to Ride Europe offers so much more than just a simple gateway game, and that's why it has become immensely popular. Okay, there isn't always a great deal of player interaction, as each player is often concentrating on their own strategy, but there's very little down time either, as the play rattles along with the determination of a certain children's Tank Engine.
It's not all a bed of roses though. This isn't the kind of game that you'll find yourself playing game after game of in one sitting, other than the initial flurry when first purchased, that is. But it will become a shelf staple, regularly making an appearance on your game table.
This is what I find odd about the game; one game is usually enough, any more and the games start to blur into one, as there isn't enough variation in the game play from one play through to the next. But, give it a week, and you'll be itching to play it again!
Also, the game is at its best when played with a group of similar ability players. Once you become familiar with how to win at the game, then it loses its challenge when played with people still learning its intricacies, and the odds are you will win by a large margin. Usually the losers will end up having a fun game, but, after a few games of easy wins, you | 1,567 |
Suzuki GSX-S750 Review
We ride the well-priced sport naked on a racetrack in India.
Middleweight sport nakeds are undoubtedly the most sensible sports bikes. The demand for these bikes is continuously increasing internationally. The combination of the usable riding position along with decent power makes for a practical alternative rather than a hard<|fim_middle|> a motorcycle that will stun you in any way. However, its friendly nature is likeable especially considering its competitive price. It is priced at Rs 7.45 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi) which undercuts the Z900 (Rs 7.68 lakh). However, it is a lot more pocket-friendly than the Street Triple S (Rs 9.19 lakh) and the MT-09 (Rs 9.5 lakh).
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Suzuki Gixxer | core super sport. The GSX-S750 is a considerably new machine; it was launched only last year. We got to sample the bike on the racetrack however, didn't get to take it out on the streets.
When one considers the aggressive nature of the big S1000 from Suzuki, one can't help but expect something similar from the manufacturer's smaller sibling. Additionally, they do look very similar as well. The headlight on the 750 is also shaped similarly to the 1000 but this unit has two separate parking lights on each side. The 750 also has a similar front heavy design with large radiator shrouds.
Like the GSX-S1000, the best angle on the motorcycle is the rear. The sharp, aggressive tail works well with the small taillight that doesn't intrude with the lines. The rider gets a large and flat seat. Another nice touch is the flat handlebar that puts you in a sporty position but not an extreme one. The instrument cluster on the bike is the same one found on the GSX-S1000 which works well and display enough data.
The motor on this bike is taken from the GSX-R750, however has been reworked for more torque. It makes 114hp and 81Nm of torque which is slightly more than the motorcycle it replaces globally. The power figures are pretty impressive, but they are delivered in a friendly and easy way. Like most inline-four cylinder engines, it can be ridden even in its highest gear at 40kph. However, when you do give it the beans, proper power comes in after 6,000rpm and dies off just before 11,500rpm.
The performance the bike offers is impressive and the speedo was showing 227kph on the straight at the track. The bike is fast but not that fast that it will lift its front wheel up with a slight twist of the throttle. Furthermore, like other Suzuki motors, it isn't silky smooth either. The bike does vibrate and one can feel it through the handlebar and footpegs. However, the accelerator on this bike isn't as spikey as the one on the GSX-S1000.
Suzuki also has a neat feature called 'Low RPM assist', what this does is stops the revs from falling too low which in turn reduces the chances of stalling the motorcycle. You can get moving with a lightly releasing the clutch on this motorcycle. This Suzuki also features a one touch start which cancels the need for you to keep the button pressed.
In terms of handling, the suspension is set-up a bit firm and we are curious to see how it will manage on our roads. The bike handles well on the track but can't compare to the agile dynamics of the Street Triple S. This is owing to the heavy 215kg kerb weight. In terms of brakes, the bike gets twin discs ahead which work well and have minimal ABS intrusion. However, if you are an enthusiastic rider and will be frequently braking hard, you should upgrade to steel braided lines.
The Suzuki GSX-S750 is a brilliant bike but it doesn't have a single feature that stands out. The bike is capable and powerful but the Z900 offers more power and torque. It does this while being more refined than the Suzuki.
The Suzuki is a nice package overall but it isn't | 721 |
KSU researchers identify rapid test for E. coli in ground beef
Tim Carpenter @TimVCarpenter
Feb 4, 2020 at 11:16 AM Feb 4, 2020 at 11:16 AM
TOPEKA<|fim_middle|> KS ~ 422 Seneca St., Leavenworth, KS 66048 ~ Do Not Sell My Personal Information ~ Cookie Policy ~ Do Not Sell My Personal Information ~ Privacy Policy ~ Terms Of Service ~ Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy | — Faculty at Kansas State University's veterinary medicine college outlined Tuesday development of a faster method of detecting in such food as ground beef a toxin-producing E. coli frequently linked to recalls.
The approach patented by Kansas State requires one day to obtain confirmatory test results rather than the week under the existing standard for detection of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, or STEC.
Jamie Henningson, director of the university's veterinary diagnostic laboratory, said in a statement the alternative detection method could be used widely by food safety and inspection services for rapid analysis of STEC or other food-borne pathogens.
The research objective has been to identify a more rapid system of testing without compromising accuracy of findings, researchers said.
STEC can cause illnesses with symptoms including abdominal pain and diarrhea in people who have ingested such foods as ground beef and vegetables. STEC may lead to kidney failure and be life-threatening. However, some E. coli strains don't produce Shiga toxins and don't influence human health much.
"While the current, commonly used testing method is considered to be the gold standard, it is tedious and requires many days to obtain results that adequately differentiate the bacteria," said Gary Anderson, director of the International Animal Health and Food Safety Institute at Kansas State's campus in Olathe.
Funding for the research project was provided by the veterinary diagnostic lab at Kansas State. The Journal of Clinical Microbiology published results of the E. coli study.
The Leavenworth Times - Leavenworth, | 299 |
Marine Le Pen delivered a speech in Paris to thousands of her National Rally party supporters, who chanted "Macron, resignation!" as she spoke.
She denounced Macron and the EU as agents of globalisation with contempt for ordinary people.
She<|fim_middle|> support compared to his 18 percent, according to an Ipsos poll in December. | also said the European Parliament elections in May ought to be a referendum on whether Macron stays in office. "If Macron does not have the wisdom to go back to the people by dissolving parliament, then let the political arbitrage come from European elections," she said.
"The European Union as it stands is a menace to our identity and to our security," she added, while praising the Yellow Vests as a "healthy popular revolt". The battle is now between nationalists and globalists," she concluded.
At the same time Macron published a letter in French newspapers.
In the letter he called for a "national debate" on reform over the next two months, leading to a new "contract for the nation" that he would draft by mid-April.
"This is how I intend, with you, to transform anger into solutions. If everyone is being aggressive to everyone else, society falls apart," he said.
The debate ought to focus on taxation, bureaucracy, environmentalism, and democratic participation, he noted. "No questions are banned", he added.
But he would not go back on his government's economic reforms, and if people wanted lower taxes, then they would have to accept less welfare.
Le Pen narrowly lost to Macron in French presidential elections in 2017. But her party now has 24 percent | 264 |
We invited Satchithananthathirumal Piranavan, our superstar driver, translator, and workshop collaborator from Vavuniya to share his experience working with us during our holiday workshop in August. Below is the translation, as well as his original text in Tamil below.
I am Piranavan. I got the opportunity to mingle with small kids for<|fim_middle|> we will go and meet them again. | two weeks. I would like to share this experience with you. We travelled to Kakkaiyankulam which is situated 18-20 km from Vavuniya. It was a beautiful village. There were forests and ponds and the environment was very peaceful. People of this village were kind and good-hearted. We were able to work together with school children from Grades 6 to 10. The group that arrived from Colombo to help these students asked me to be a part of this great opportunity.
First we played an interesting mind game to effectively increase the functionality of the brain. The students first counted numbers from one to three and clapped their hands. Secondly, without pronouncing the first number they snapped their fingers. Afterwards they clapped their hands instead of counting two. Finally the third number was not counted and instead the students tapped their feet. They continued to repeat this faster. This was a very minute and interesting game. Then the students were instructed to create games on their own. Each of them created different and interesting games. When they explained the reasons for creating specific games, we all laughed. The kids were very patient when they made handworks which were very creative.
Every day was different and interesting. During the resting hours they played 'fruits' game and 'dog and meat' game. Without any age based demarcations they all played together. In this way the first six days were well spent. Three of the volunteer girls had to leave due to other commitments. After they left a bunch of five people joined. Finally the day arrived for us to leave Kakkaiyankulam Muslim Maha Vidyalayam. It was a really sad departure. Leaving these innocent kids was painful. We were satisfied that this initiative will continue in the future.
The next day we travelled to Naddankandal which is 37km away from Kakkaiyankulam. Here also we met nice people and children. The first activity was to create a mask without any instruments. The children had to keep it on their faces without using their hands. The students made several efforts to successfully complete this task. The second task was to draw something they like. The person next to them drew further and made it more beautiful. The task was done until five participants completed the drawing. the purpose behind this game is to check whether the drawing was changed from the initial one to the last one. Some of the kids liked the game. Some others felt sad that their drawing was changed. But when we explained that the purpose behind these games was to increase the group collaboration and teamwork they understood. Next they drew different types of chairs and picked one design and made it using clay. After this they made the same design using cardboard. The kids completed this task beautifully.
After some days of work some of the volunteers left. Soon an artist joined us. He told us how to draw beautifully using wastes and biodegradable waste. He also taught us to keep the environment clean. He made us creative and enthusiastic. They days spent with him were aesthetic. Finally we had to leave this place reluctantly. Parting from the kids was painful. We hope | 641 |
Gas ejectors offer a reliable technology for recovering waste or surplus gas to prevent emissions whilst simultaneously conserving energy. Gas ejectors use high-pressure (HP) gas to safely and economically compress flare, vent, and surplus<|fim_middle|>or solutions for the oil & gas industry'.
EPA (2009). 'Installing Vapor Recovery Units: Lessons Learned from the Natural Gas STAR Program'. Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, Charleston, West Virginia, February 2009. | or low-pressure (LP) gas. When utilizing HP motive gas from existing sources, ejectors (also called eductors or jet pumps) have no running costs.
An ejector is based upon Bernoulli's Principle which states: 'When the speed of a fluid increases its pressure decreases and vice versa'. The ejector uses a converging nozzle to increase the fluid velocity to transform high static pressure into velocity pressure. This conversion of static pressure to velocity pressure results in a low pressure zone that provides the motive force to entrain a side fluid. The mixed fluid then flows through a diffuser section comprising a diverging nozzle that then reduces the velocity and increases the pressure, thereby re-compressing the mixed fluid. Figure 1 shows the basic components of an ejector designed for use with gas.
A gas ejector has three connection points: one for the high pressure gas; one for the low pressure gas; and one for the discharge. There is a nozzle designed to mix the two incoming streams by converting the pressure energy of the high pressure fluid into kinetic energy. The venturi shape towards the discharge end is the diffuser, which slows the mixture down and thereby increases its pressure. This enables the ejector to discharge at a pressure that is greater than that of the low suction branch. The ejector is thus capable of compressing or boosting the pressure of the entrained fluid.
This equipment has many different applications, discussed below.
System designs in which the flare gas is compressed into the fuel gas system are common. The ejector system should be designed to avoid creating a vacuum in the flare gas line to ensure safe operation.
Waste gas is recovered and added to production.
There is a potential reduction in carbon or flare tax liability, where applicable.
This equipment can be used to restart production of existing low pressure wells which have been shut in for years due to high back-pressure. If a suitable HP well is available nearby, the pressure energy that is normally wasted across a choke could be used to drive an ejector to entrain the gas from the LP well, thereby bringing it back into production, even at times of high demand. Gas production is therefore increased.
Gas ejector technology can also be used to boost production. Indeed, in some cases an increase in production is not possible without adding another compressor. Nevertheless, by using an ejector in the recycle line of the existing compressor, the manifold pressure of the wells is reduced and thus production is boosted. The increase in production can reach up to 15% as a function of well performance.
Cost savings relative to 2nd stage compression option.
Gas ejector solution is much faster to put in place than 2nd stage compression.
Ejector internals can be easily replaced to maximize production throughout the field life (continual reduction of well pressure).
Ejectors can be used to recover gas that is vaporized due to working losses from storage tanks (which occur when crude level changes and when crude is agitated in tanks) and standing losses (which occur with daily and seasonal changes in temperature and barometric pressure). The ejector system must be designed to avoid creating a vacuum in the storage tank vent line.
Range of application: Large range of applications. Can generate up to 34 Mscfd of 'extra gas' from shut-in wells.
Guideline capital costs: Investment costs Involved: relatively low compared to other vacuum technologies.
Guideline operational costs: No moving parts so virtually maintenance free.
Typical scope of work description: The scope of work begins with the collection of application data. These data are critical to the proper selection and application of the technology. The basic information to be collected includes mass flow and physical properties of each component in the entrained gas stream, together with the temperature and pressure conditions for the high pressure and entrained fluid streams, as well as the discharge conditions. The scope of work must also include the design of the piping systems and valves, bypass lines, and other ancillary instrumentation.
Technical: Presence of high pressure motive fluid.
Need to restart 'dead' wells.
Installation time (gas ejector solution is much faster to put in place than 2nd stage compression).
Feasible as an alternative to compressor installations (e.g. where there is a lack of space, no available power, or where there are cost constraints).
Operational: Low disruption in existing plant operations.
Requires a stable suction pressure to ensure reliable operation; this can be achieved in some cases through the recycle gas stream (see the section on 'Operational issues/risks', below).
Commercial: Relatively low costs mean project upgrades become cost-effective.
Environmental: Reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint through efficiency / production rate improvements.
High GHG reduction potential when used in flare gas recovery applications.
Recycling of gas from the discharge side of the gas ejector back into the low pressure side.
Incorporation of an integral HP gas regulating assembly which varies the motive fluid consumed.
1b Bore the motive nozzle to a larger diameter to permit design gas consumption. Consult with manufacturer to determine proper nozzle diameter.
Accidental entrainment of liquid slugs may cause momentary interruption in pumping, but no damage to equipment.
The case study described below provides an overview of the kind of issues that may occur during ejector implementation.
The platform has no power to run an electrical compressor.
It is unmanned so rotating machines are avoided.
A gas-engine driven compressor would have been detrimental to the environment and incur the additional costs of gas consumption.
The ejector is a small device with no moving parts.
The ejector is driven by an existing force (Well 5).
Costs were driven by piping works offshore and associated production losses. One major expectation was the frequent change out of the ejector internals to cope with the decline of the production.
Well 5 was newly developed with no historical data.
Well 1 stopped producing after four years due to a water cross-flow from the bottom reservoir to the top reservoir that took some time to shut off.
Well 3 was killed by too much formation water production after 3 years.
The efficiency of an ejector increases with the differential between motive fluid and entrained fluid in terms of flow rate and pressure. For this reason the project had to be implemented quickly in anticipation of the decline of Well 5. The project was performed within eight months.
Additional dynamic information from Well 5 was gained. A redesign of the ejector was performed with the additional constraint of respecting the initial spacial footprint which was already fixed.
The ejector was effective in reducing the wellhead pressures of Well 1 and Well 3 as planned but, unfortunately, the 20 bars reduction was insufficient to restart either of the two wells. The ejector was a technical success but the candidate wells did not respond as expected.
Well 1 was dewatered by means of nitrogen injection, after which it was opened with the ejector and restarted. After six months, the output was three times higher and production has been stable with the well operating on its own.
Subsequently, the ejector was connected to another well on the platform — Well 4 — where it was used successfully to stabilize and increase production. Thanks to the ejector, this previously dead well was restarted successfully.
For Well 1, the costs of the ejector installation and the nitrogen lifting operation were paid back between six months and one year after production was restarted. The internals of the ejector are changeable and the main part can be reused in a future project after the decline of Well 5.
Due to the success of this ejector, it has become established as a technology that is investigated systematically for each new project. The installation of an ejector is also a major stepping stone to other innovative projects such as wellhead compressors (subsea R&D).
Transvac Ejector Technology (2010). 'Eject | 1,594 |
Our client in Fort Lauderdale is seeking a Chief Information Officer who will be responsible for leading their technology organization. The CIO will plan, coordinate, direct and design IT- related activities of the company, while providing direction and support for daily operational activities. The CIO will also define and implement IT policies, procedures and best practices.
Lead the IT department's operational and strategic planning, including innovation, planning projects and allocation resources.
Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade and support of all IT systems, including telecom, servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software and peripherals.
Analyze, benchmark and report on and make recommendations for improvement and growth of<|fim_middle|> end-user services, including help desk and technical support.
Work with stakeholders to define business and system requirements for new technology implementations.
Manage financial aspects of the IT Department, including purchasing, budgeting and budget reviews.
Develop business case justifications and cos/benefit analyses for IT spending and initiatives.
Develop and implement IT policies and procedures, including those for architecture, security, disaster recovery, standards, purchasing and service provisions.
Four-year degree (BA or BS) is required, Information Technology preferred or comparable industry experience.
Minimum 3+ years of Information Technology leadership experience is required.
MS Dynamics Great Plains experience is required.
Must possess project management skills and the ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment. | IT infrastructure and systems.
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Zoom Zoom Zoom
Max Kohler
March 31st, 2020 4:41 min read 1289 words
I recently wrote about the privatisation of university buildings1 and how that's a Bad Thing™.
Between the time I enrolled and graduated at Camberwell College of Arts, the building went from being largely open to the public to a situation where access to the building, and movement inside it is tightly controlled by access cards, remote-controlled gates, cameras, visitors lists, fencing, and private security guards. The Royal College was already in a similar state when I got there (plus the private landlord adding their own power mechanisms to the pile in the form of inspections, hostile architecture, and more security guards).
The move to online teaching over the last few days is a dramatic escalation of this same movement. While our department heads are doing their best to get everyone onto Zoom calls or Hangouts as soon as possible, let's remember what these apps are: entirely private, venture-funded1, data-collecting, exclusive to anyone without high-end internet, for-profit spaces designed to reproduce the hierarchies of business meetings. Access is finely graded and revokable at any time if you stop paying your subscription fees or otherwise become a nuiscance to the institution.
Zoom, which has somehow become the default choice for online teaching, embodies all of these attributes. It's a particularly good example of how institutional power structures are hard-coded into these apps, beginning with who gets to control the knowledge about what's happening on the platform1:
Zoom allows administrators to see detailed views on how,<|fim_middle|> access to sharing, analytics, and cloud management privileges.
Nothing escapes the administrative gaze. Further, it can look beyond what happens in any given Zoom meeting and reach into whatever physical space we happen to be calling in from:
For any meeting that has occurred or is in-process, Zoom allows administrators to see the operating system, IP address, location data, and device information of each participant. This device information includes the type of machine, specs on the make/model of your peripheral audiovisual devices like cameras or speakers, and names for those devices (for example, the user-configurable names given to AirPods). Administrators also have the ability to join any call at any time on their organization's instance of Zoom, without in-the-moment consent or warning for the attendees of the call.
With shared workspaces shuttered and everyone forced to connect from home, this data now illuminates formerly intimate spaces: my IP address no longer bounces between coffee shops, university, and the library, but invariably points to my house, and my device information now describes hardware I keep in my bedroom.
But the most dystopian Zoom feature of all has to be Attendee attention tracking. In a 2018 article1 the company describes the feature and its potential use in an educational context as follows:
Cool feature alert! Attendee Attention Tracking in Zoom can help you monitor your students' attention to your shared presentation. Whether it's a video, a powerpoint, or your desktop, if Zoom is not the app in focus on a student's computer you will see a clock indicator next to their name in the Participant box […] It may also be helpful to let your students know that you will be grading this metric. In the virtual classroom, anything you can do as educators to facilitate engagement and attention will translate to continued success in the classroom.
Again, this information only flows up toward the administration (and in semi-anonymised form to Zoom and its advertising partners1). Attendees (remember when we were students) are seen, but can't themselves see beyond whatever material the organisation has made available.
Google, 2012: Method and apparatus for focus-of-attention control, Patent Drawing. Available at patents.google.com/patent/US8913103B1
Management at the Royal College have announced they will be rolling out Zoom to all students, but it is unclear which of its administrative features they're planning to use, what information they're storing, and for what purpose. But even if they didn't use any and stored nothing, the fact that these control mechanisms are built into the platform to be turned on at any moment without any real option to dissent, is damaging enough. You can't practice institutional critique when the institution is sitting on a giant mute button1.
Not that this kind of privatised software-space is new to education. Other ed-tech junk like Edublogs, Moodle, Panopto (nice), Connect2, G-Suite, and "The Intranet" fit largely similar descriptions. But under social distancing, these apps have become impossible to avoid.
This is why it is now more necessary than ever to interrogate these virtual spaces as we would the classroom and, as Hal Foster puts it, "find fissures within this world, to pressure these cracks, and open up a little running room"1.
Some of this has already started: public Whatsapp groups provide an unofficial commentary track to most official Zoom meetings. Multiple programs at the RCA have taken over their formerly marketing-oriented Instagram accounts and are using them to critique the institution. Official emails are screenshotted and discussed in cross-institutional Slack channels. This isn't to say that these platforms don't have their own problems, but by creating our own spaces within them, we're at least avoiding the most immediate level of administrative control. The next step is to think about how we want this online-learning thing to work, and building our own systems (not necessarily technological) to support that.
Max Kohler is a European immigrant who studied Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts before starting an MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art. He writes words and code.
@maxakohler
neoliberalism zoom covid-19 | when, and where users are using Zoom, with detailed dashboards in real-time of user activity. Zoom also provides a ranking system of users based on total number of meeting minutes. If a user records any calls via Zoom, administrators can access the contents of that recorded call, including video, audio, transcript, and chat files, as well as | 69 |
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology (4)
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Evaluation by Monte Carlo Tests of Effects of Cloud Seeding on Growing Season Rainfall in North Dakota
A. S. Dennis, J. R. Miller Jr., D.<|fim_middle|>. Dennis, Bernard A. Silverman, Arlin B. Super, Edmond W. Holroyd III, William A. Cooper, Paul W. Mielke Jr., Kenneth J. Berry, Harold D. Orville, and James R. Miller Jr.
The design and conduct of HIPLEX-1, a randomized seeding experiment carried out on small cumulus congestus clouds in eastern Montana, are outlined. The seeding agent was dry ice, introduced in an effort to produce microphysical effects, especially the earlier formation of precipitation in the seeded clouds. The earlier formation was expected to increase both the probability and the amount of precipitation from those small clouds with short lifetimes. The experimental unit selection procedure, treatment and randomization procedures, the physical hypothesis, measurement procedures and the response variables defined for the experiment are discussed. Procedures used to calculate the response variables from aircraft and radar measurements are summarized and the values of those variables for the 20 HIPLEX-1 test cases from 1979 and 1980 are tabulated.
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1984)023<0497:HEDARV>2.0.CO;2 | E. Cain, and R. L. Schwaller
Rainfall data collected at 67 gages in a 2750 mi2 target area during a four-year randomized cloud seeding experiment in North Dakota have been stratified in a variety of ways and subjected to several kinds of statistical tests. Some stratifications related to cloud model predictions were possible for only the last two years when a rawinsonde station was operated as part of the project. Monte Carlo experiments simulating 500 reruns of the four-year experiment have been used to establish significance levels for the tests within each data stratification.
The analysis provides significant evidence that seeding convective clouds on a determinate set of days leads to 1) an increase in the frequency of rainfall events at the individual target gages, 2) an increase in the average rainfall recorded per rainfall event, and 3) an increase in total rainfall on the target. The set of days to which this evidence applies is those days with dynamic seedability; that is, days for which a cloud model predicted an increase in cloud top height under the influence of silver iodide seeding. Rainfall observations on days when the cloud model predicted no increase in cloud height show no significant differences between seed and no-seed days.
The possibility of bias has been checked by comparing the frequencies of wet and dry days and the averages of several meteorological variables for seed and no-seed days within each stratification, by cross-checking the stratifications, and by comparing rainfall on seed and no-seed days over an area of roughly 50,000 square miles surrounding the target area. There is no obvious bias to account for the significant differences between seed and no-seed days with dynamic seedability.
It is tentatively concluded that dynamic effects, including rainfall increases, were produced by light to moderate silver iodide seeding from below cloud base. The potential rainfall increase resulting from seeding below selected clouds on days with dynamic seedability is estimated at one inch per growing season.
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1975)014<0959:EBMCTO>2.0.CO;2
Hail Suppression Data from Western North Dakota, 1969–1972
J. R. Miller Jr., E. I. Boyd, R. A. Schleusener, and A. S. Dennis
Four seasons of hail data were gathered on a randomized cloud seeding project aimed at reducing hail damage and increasing rainfall in western North Dakota. Hail on seed days was generally less severe than on no-seed days. Statistical tests of data from passive hail indicators do not permit rejection of the null hypothesis at the 90% confidence level, but application of rank tests to crop-hail insurance loss data indicates that the seeding reduced crop damage from hail.Post-analyses of related data indicate that 1) the ratio of rainfall amount to hail energy was greater for seed days than no-seed days, and 2) radar characteristics of seeded storms differ from those of unseeded storms. In addition, case studies of 34 storms indicate that damaging hail was usually suppressed when their updraft areas were seeded continuously.
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1975)014<0755:HSDFWN>2.0.CO;2
HIPLEX-1: Statistical Evaluation
Paul W. Mielke Jr., Kenneth J. Berry, Arnett S. Dennis, Paul L. Smith, James R. Miller Jr., and Bernard A. Silverman
Results of statistical analyses for HIPLEX-1, a randomized cloud seeding experiment, are presented. The analyses are based principally on multi-response permutation procedures (MRPP) as specified before the HIPLEX-1 experiment was initiated. Even though the sample sizes are very small, due in part to the premature termination of this experiment, the three primary response variables measured in the first five minutes following treatment indicate pronounced differences in the development of ice crystals between nonseeded and seeded events. However, the response variables measured more than five minutes after treatment generally do not indicate obvious differences in the subsequent development of precipitation between nonseeded and seeded events. This lack of difference is a possible consequence of 1) lack of a seeding effect, 2) inadequacies in the physical hypothesis, or 3) the small sample sizes. Consequently, only the initial steps in the HIPLEX-1 physical hypothesis could be confirmed in this evaluation of the experiment.
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1984)023<0513:HSE>2.0.CO;2
HIPLEX-1: Experimental Design and Response Variables
Paul L. Smith, Arnett S | 1,016 |
For Berkeley software engineer Anthony Kosky, cheese is a recurring theme in life. Without cheese, he might not be married. Without a wife, he wouldn't have two young daughters. And without the daughters, he wouldn't have written The Mouse and the Moon, an adorable new children's book starring cheese.
"If left to myself, I will just eat bread and cheese for dinner," admits Kosky, a London-born computer scientist who favors Cheddar, Comté and Vermont Creamery's Bonne Bouche. So perhaps it's not surprising that his online dating profile specified "appreciation for fine cheese" as a quality he sought in a partner. Sara Cob<|fim_middle|> lightly; you may not need it all. Toss well. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Divide the salad among 6 plates. Crumble some of the cheese over each serving. Top with some of the hazelnuts. | urn, the San Francisco Opera Chorus soprano who responded 12 years ago, is now his wife.
The Mouse and the Moon is self-published and available on Amazon.
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Fuyu persimmons won't be around much longer, so seize the moment. Adapted from The Cheese Course by Janet Fletcher (Chronicle Books).
In a small bowl, whisk together the oil, vinegar, shallot, and salt and pepper to taste. Let stand 30 minutes to allow the shallot flavor to mellow. Taste and adjust the balance as needed.
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Toast the hazelnuts on a rimmed baking sheet until lightly browned and fragrant, about 15 minutes. Set aside to cool, then chop coarsely.
Peel persimmons (that's optional) and quarter. Cut each quarter into thin slices.
Halve the endive lengthwise and core, then cut crosswise into thin half-rings.
In a large bowl, combine the greens, endive and persimmons. Add just enough dressing to coat the leaves | 275 |
Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist/producer Scott Hirsch has recorded a follow up to his critically acclaimed 2016 record, Blue Rider Songs. On Lost Time Behind the Moon, Scott chronicles confronting ghosts of the past, acknowledging that darkness rides alongside the light, and avoiding the pitfalls of regret. The record was recorded and produced by Hirsch with the help of Mike Coykendall (M Ward), and features musical guests William Tyler, Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco), Orpheo McCord (Edward Sharpe), Jimmy Calire (America) and Jesse Siebenberg (Lukas Nelson, Supertramp).
Scott Hirsch's name is one you'll find lurking in the liner notes of many admired recordings from the late 1990s to the present. As a founding member of Hiss Golden Messenger, he was integral to the band's first five records, lending his sonic imprint on their productions, as well as shaping the sound of the live outfit, having toured heavily through the formative years of the band. Much of this work is reflected on the forthcoming Merge Records box set entitled Devotion: Songs About Rivers and Spirits and Children. Along the way he produced and played on records by Kim Krans' Family Band, as well as recording a Grammy nominated record by the legendary folksinger Alice Gerrard. Having stepped off the demanding tour schedule of Hiss in 2016, new pathways opened up for Scott to fully engage in the craft of songwriting. On his second record, Lost Time Behind the Moon, his production tones and songwriting talents are in full bloom.
When we were both 21, Scott and I lived in a small apartment together in Santa Barbara on Hope Avenue, directly across from the cemetery in the lap of the Santa Ynez mountains. We passed some time in the red bar at Jimmy's Oriental Gardens, or under the soft blue neon of the Four Winds, an old man bar on State Street, but mostly we sat on the floor playing acoustic guitar together. We<|fim_middle|>—and I know he knows this because it's the whole beautiful thesis of Lost Time Behind the Moon—is that time will touch you and change you in every way it can, and it will make you live with your pain and regret and radiant, transcendent joy in ways that you cannot anticipate and have no reason to expect.
All songs written, produced, recorded, mixed by Scott Hirsch © 2018 Dreamwood Music. Recorded at Echo Magic West in Ojai, California and at Blue Rooms in Portland, Oregon with Mike Coykendall. Mixed at Echo Magic West. Mastered by Ian Sefchick at Capitol Records. Artwork by Daren Thomas Magee. Layout and design by Darryl Norsen. Photos by Scott Hirsch. | were wondering—though it wasn't a particularly pressing concern before marriage and children, long moments when the steady unwinding of time seemed to have missed us—what came next, and how to convey that wonder in rhythm and harmony. We took our freedom for granted and lived like brothers.
Like me, like everyone, Scott has crossed a lot of rivers since those days: A move to San Francisco, followed by a years-long sojourn on the East Coast. Marriage. A daughter. Work. Miles and miles of music. And finally, for him, a return to Ojai, California, 50 miles from where he and I sat staring out over the cemetery in the rain, wondering whether we could teach our hands to play the way our minds wanted them to. Listening to Lost Time Behind the Moon—and there is such bittersweetness to this—I can't help but hear what time has made of the questions that we pressed on each other when we were just kids on Hope Avenue: What is life without a little regret? Is there a way to look in that old cracked mirror and feel as hopeful as we do haunted? Lost Time Behind the Moon doesn't answer any of these; in fact, it poses more—and harder—questions. But they're softened and wizened by the years that Scott has spent playing music for himself alone, trying to discover some kind of truth that works for him. And in this solitude, he's created something that feels wide and inclusive and loving and forgiving. I think of Lost Time Behind the Moon as Scott's masterpiece, because everything I know about him is in these songs, the groove and the wonder.
Scott always knew better than I the ways that a particularly voiced chord might make you feel like laughing and weeping at the same time. What we didn't know when we were young—and what makes this album so heavy, frankly—is the way that time makes work, however simple, deeper, indelible, like a scar or a wrinkle. The ways that the hourglass transforms a common beginner's chord into something far more elegiac, and touched, and auto-biographical. What Scott knows now | 437 |
Lovett, Doyle-Hayes & Crowe visit Acorns
Rhys Lovett and Jake Doyle-Hayes joined Head of Medical Gavin Crowe on a visit to Acorns Children's Hospice in Worcester on Thursday.
Acorns,<|fim_middle|> online.
Rhys Lovett | who were the club's official charity partner during the 2018/19 season, provide care to life limited and life threatened children and support for their families.
Their Worcester hospice is one of three across the West Midlands providing specialist palliative care and support for children and families.
Rhys, Jake and Gavin spent time with some of the children at the hospice, taking part in arts & crafts, playing football and other games on their visit.
The charity were also presented with a shirt that had been signed by the squad.
Mel Hall, Area Fundraiser for Acorns, said: "We were thrilled to welcome players from Cheltenham Town to Acorns for the Three Counties. The children had a great time and the lads really got stuck into Christmas craft making. The football session was a particularly special moment, and we're so grateful to Rhys, Luke and Club physio Gavin for taking the time out of their busy schedules to come and visit Cheltenham's local children's hospice.
"Cheltenham Town are longstanding supporters of Acorns and always go above and beyond to help raise not just awareness of our work but vital funds to help us to continue caring for children and families across Cheltenham and the West Midlands."
Find out more about Acorns and their work and how you can donate | 273 |
Morocco's Progress Makes Regional Integration Even More Vital
November 23, 2014 /0 Comments/in Economic development, Employment, Human development, Maghreb, Morocco, News and Analysis, North Africa, Reforms /by Jean AbiNader
European Union Supports Greater Cross-border Cooperation
A recent article in Magharebia, "Morocco: European Union Backs Moroccan Reforms," focused on the latest grant from the EU in support of a wide range of ongoing reforms. Yet the subtext of the article, emphasizing the need for greater regional collaboration, hints at the EU's concern for sustainable economic growth as the strongest antidote to radicalism.
credit: damienpoussier.com
The story starts by noting that "The grant is aimed at three [programs] improving governance and rule of law, jobs and sustainable growth, access to basic services, and support for civil society." As the EU continues to redefine its social, economic, and political links to its southern neighbors, its emphasis has shifted from funding good intentions to rewarding positive outcomes. This "results" focus has reshaped how the EU determines what kinds of and how much assistance it will extend, moving it away from platitudes and vague notions of accountability to a more realistic set of metrics for determining the targeting and impact of programming.
The agreement with Morocco, signed November 5, makes Morocco the largest recipient of EU programs and signals, along with the EU's growing support for Tunisia, that the EU is quite serious about seeing direct benefits to the citizens of those countries. Moroccan Finance Minister Mohamed Boussaid told Magharebia that the funding shows that Morocco is making the right, if difficult decisions across a range of policies, from subsidies and pension reforms to revisions proposed for its judicial and media laws.
Rupert Joy, EU Ambassador to Morocco
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Rupert Joy, the EU Ambassador to Morocco, echoed Minister Boussaid's sentiments. "These new grants for the period 2014-2017 represent the EU acknowledgement of the uniqueness of its partnership with Morocco." They "reflect EU determination to support the Moroccan government in its efforts to meet people's aspirations and to turn the reforms initiated in 2011 into tangible progress," the ambassador added.
Analysts were quick to point out that the EU is using its support programs to nudge the North African countries towards greater cooperation and cross-border economic integration. A Peterson Institute study in 2008 showed the promise of regional integration; since then, a number of additional studies by European and international organizations indicate the benefits to be had from closer economic cooperation.
The broad outlines of the future are taking shape daily. The Maghreb countries are complementary in terms of their core economic strengths (Morocco and Tunisia in services, tourism, agri-business, and manufacturing; Libya and Algeria in hydrocarbons/energy; Mauritania in mining and transportation). The future prospect of a region-wide consumer market fueled by a growing middle class is evident as private sectors play a larger role in both human and economic development across borders.
Ahmed Charfi, a noted economist, told Magharebia that greater regional integration will speed up the pace of development in all of the countries and generate even greater opportunities to meet their needs. "There are two things that are fundamental to development: democracy and promotion of the regional economy," he said. "If the countries of the Maghreb combine their efforts, they can jointly tackle social problems such as unemployment, regional and social inequalities and poverty . . . Together, they can make rapid progress."
Morocco does not see its progress in isolation from its neighbors. From the World Bank's latest report lauding Morocco's sustainable development strategy, to recent agreements with Tunisia that bring the countries closer together across a broad range of development initiatives, to its growing role as a platform for business in Africa, Morocco has truly transformed its mission from one of domestic growth and stability to becoming a key player in the security and stability of the region. Objective policy analysts<|fim_middle|>hreb Integration?
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In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital, a place that was called a 'grand asylum of human misery'. Assessing the dismal conditions, he quickly upgraded the facilities, and in doing so, revolutionized the treatment of mental illness.
Many of Charcot's patients had neurosyphilis (the advanced form of syphilis), a disease of mad poets, novelists, painters, and musicians, and a driving force behind the overflow of patients in Europe's asylums. A sexually transmitted disease, it is known as 'the great imitator' since its symptoms resemble those of almost any biological disease or mental illness. It is also the perfect lens through which to peel back the layers to better understand the brain and the mind. Yet, Charcot's work took a bizarre turn when he brought mesmerism – hypnotism – into his clinic, abandoning his pursuit of the biological basis of illness in favour of the far sexier and theatrical treatment of female 'hysterics', whose symptoms mimic those seen in brain disease, but were elusive in origin. This and a general fear of contagion set the stage for Sigmund Freud, whose seductive theory, Freudian analysis, brought sex and hysteria onto the psychiatrist couch, leaving the brain behind.
How The Brain Lost Its Mind tells this rich and compelling story, and raises a host of philosophical and practical questions. Are we any closer to understanding the difference between a sick mind and a sick brain? The real issue remains: where should neurology and psychiatry converge to explore not just the brain, but the nature<|fim_middle|> *
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Absorbing and scholarly... A twin biography of psychiatry and neurology, their study charts this uneasy relationship from marriage to divorce to reconciliation even as fundamental questions about the nature of mental illness remain... Hugely entertaining. * Guardian * A rollicking ride, patient by patient, through the history of two conditions, hysteria and neurosyphilis. * The Times * Central to this book is the ongoing dispute regarding which mental illnesses can be attributed to physical abnormalities within the brain and which originate in the mind, or consciousness. The authors emphasise that in many cases we still cannot be sure... Along the way, their investigations exhume some unforgettable scenes and characters... Fascinating * Mail on Sunday * Rich, compassionate and passionate... Sceptical of the excesses of both psychological and biological reductionism, it is a refreshing call for an intellectual reset and disciplinary rapprochement. -- Anne Harrington * Nature * This aptly titled book picks up where Oliver Sacks left off in examining the behavioral characteristics of neurobehavioral syndromes in an effort to span the gap that has historically separated the twin disciplines of the brain, neurology and psychiatry. * Jeffrey A. Lieberman, author of Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry * Through tales of eminent physicians and their suffering patients, replete with sex, drugs, and magnetically-induced hypnotism, we learn how a bacterium that deprived countless souls of their reason also helped scientists discover a role for brain biology in mental illness. * Alan Jasanoff, PhD, author of The Biological Mind * Ropper and Burrell have written an insightful, fantastically readable analysis of what was once called "hysteria." Also, by studying how things can go wrong, we learn a great deal about the working of the human mind when things go right. * Elizabeth Loftus, author of Eyewitness Testimony | 386 |
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A large number of various<|fim_middle|> considering wattage, it is important to take into consideration your surrounding terrain and where you will be using your board the most.
Depending on the type of electric skateboard, some have been built to handle rougher terrain and higher inclines than others, such specs can be evaluated in looking at the hill grade or incline metric provided by the skateboard manufacturer.
For example, the Dual+ Boosted Board packed with a 2000 wattage provides a great uphill torque and 25% hill grade. To put that percentage in perspective, Elite Tour de France riders generate 500 watts riding up the mountains, while the Dual+ electric skateboard has four times that. Even the Boosted Board "Single's" line equip with a 1000 watt ride has the torque to cruise up moderately steep hills, perfect for a commuter or casual rider.
Getting back to the basics of a skateboard, the 75 mm to 100 mm longboard wheels equipped on most boards allows for users to have a smoother ride and enhances the board's ability to roll over rocks, cracks in the road, and sidewalk bumps with more ease than the standard 56 mm wheel on a regular skateboard.
What About the Weather?
Accompanying the consideration of where an electric skateboarder can and cannot ride, when to ride is just as important. Will the weather have an effect on my board? Can I take my board out when the ground is flooded?
Although many boards such as those manufactured by Boosted Board and Yuneec E-Go are equipped with water-resistant batter-packs, making the rain a more trivial factor in the comfort of a ride, it is still important to note that this is a skateboard after all and it would be in the user's best interest to avoid rainy weather and puddles when riding.
Riding in the rain not only makes for a more dangerous and slippery ride, dangerously hindering the user's visibility and the ability to stop the board, but also dirties the wheel's bearings. The bearings of the board are what allow them to spin and provide a smooth ride. When these bearings are exposed to water, they become dirty and stiff, making more work for the battery to accelerate the board.
Your Battery Charge is Important
Now, battery life on the electric skateboard might be one of the most important aspects to consider before purchasing. Being stuck in the middle of the street with no power should be the last of our worries on the daily commute.
Electric skateboard manufacturers have done a great job providing the consumer with fairly long battery lives on a full charge, relatively short charging time, and the convenience of getting a charge. The majority of electric skateboards have a compatible smartphone app that connects to the user's IOS or Android device to track the distance of their ride, the battery life, and the miles to go before the next charge is needed.
In the scenario that the board's app displays 1 mile to go before the device dies, electric skateboards, Bolt and E-Go, for example, have a USB feature for the device that will allow the user to plug their board into any USB outlet for a charge. This scenario seems to be ideal to the 10- 15 mile commuter, where his or her board will be quite drained upon arriving to work, but luckily, with its lightweight, small size, and USB capability, the electric board can be plugged in right under the desk for a full 8-hour workday of charge if needed.
In addition to the USB convenience, many electric skateboards such as the Boosted Board have an easily replaceable battery pack, which allows users to instantly swap a dead battery for a charged one in a matter of seconds.
In the worst-case scenario, however, some boards will also allow users to remove the battery pack and ride the board as an ordinary longboard when necessary. The culmination of these features make for quite the convenient mode of transportation for the average commuter.
Know Your Budget
The price of electric skateboards vary by manufacturer, so be sure to do research on which specs are worth the most as a consumer.
Most boards will cost you about $1000 if you are looking for quality and durability, something that will last you for a while. Though consumers can also find boards for as little as $300-$500, such a board is not equipped with certain features such as a powerful motor, strong battery or water-proof parts, etc.
Consumers must evaluate their priorities when considering a fair purchase price for an electric skateboard, and evaluate what you are willing to pay.
Traffic Laws and Safety
While all of this talk of speed and torque has the consumer amped to hop on an electric skateboard, one must also evaluate where users can and cannot ride. The restrictions concerning where he or she can ride an electric board vary by state laws.
Most states technically do not allow non-licensed vehicles such as this to be legally ridden on public streets. However, if riders do choose to cruise alongside traffic, they are advised to wear protective gear for their safety and be aware of their surroundings.
Still, similar to the ordinary skateboard, riding on sidewalks and in public parks is typically permitted though local community officials where you live still do have the right to ban or allow the use of boards at their discretion.
Since laws specific to the use of electric skateboards are not federal laws, they vary by state and municipality, so it is suggested for users to become familiar with local laws regarding establishments that are electric skateboard friendly or not-so-friendly.
In 2015, California made it legal to ride skateboards places where it is legal to ride bicycles, reversing the 1977 ban to discourage people from riding loud gas-powered vehicles. Governor Jerry Brown of California has considered such a bill outdated and has now officially, taken effect January, 1 2016, allowed riders of electric skateboard to use roadways, pathways, and bicycle lanes for their commuting. California is a supporter of alternative and clean energies, and has clearly recognized the value in permitting commuters to utilize electric intermodal transportation.
Electric skateboards have consistently proven to be user-friendly and easy to ride even for those with minimal or no skateboard experience. In fact, according to Fortune, many customers that buy electric skateboards are those who actually have not skateboarded or have not skateboarded recently.
It is important, however, to become accustomed to riding your board locally before taking it out on the street or crowded grounds. The true trick to riding an electric skateboard is staying balanced, similar to a standard skateboard, keep your knees bent and lend slightly more forward when riding, specifically when turning or breaking.
The effort needed to be put into learning how to operate the board should be a consideration upon purchase but should not be one of large concern.
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Anna Sally says | electric skateboards available out there to browse that you may not know how to pick. You might be confounded as to what great specs seem to be, what you need or need it to do, and where you have to utilize it. The ideal approach to make sense of these angles is by doing research into various items, so you can perceive what the most well-known electric skateboards are able to do and what you ought to anticipate.
Here is a point by point review of the best electric skateboard that you can buy. Keep reading for every one of the information you should have the capacity to settle on a choice for your first electric skateboard buy. We will examine 10 best electric skateboards that you can purchase and every one of them is awesome items.
The Best Electric Skateboards in 2020 – Editor Choice
Boosted Mini X Electric Skateboard $800.00 Check Latest Price
RazorX Cruiser Electric Skateboard Check Latest Price
Teamgee H5 37" Electric Skateboard, 22 MPH Top... $459.00 Check Latest Price
SKATEBOLT Tornado II Electric Skateboard 26 MPH... $479.00 Check Latest Price
SWAGSKATE NG2 38" A.I. Powered Electric... Check Latest Price
1. Teamgee H5 37" Electric Skateboard
There is no doubt that this range of skateboards has gotten very notable for its thin line plan. This is a result of the pack containing the battery incorporated with the board. At the point when you understand that the thickness of the board is just 0.6 inches, it appears this is practically unimaginable. This additionally implies there is no flex to offer insurance to the battery, and the deck is inflexible. The entirety of the parts is notable, standard parts, which you will discover on a ton of the sheets out there today. This incorporates lodging 380W center point engines at the back and 90mm 83A Flywheel clone wheels.
The top speed of this skateboard is 20mph. The powertrain is better than average. It's not the best component of this electric longboard, yet it is more than adequate to take care of business. All in all, what does separate this skateboard, and for what reason is it one of our top picks? There are a few reasons why this is the situation. Right off the bat, it is one of the more moderate models available today, and you unquestionably receive a great deal consequently with regards to this board.
0. 59 inches thick
37 inches' longboard, 8. 7 inches' wide
3 inches ground provides stability and control
Made from 10 ply Canadian Maple and 1 ply fiberglass
2. RazorX Cruiser Electric Skateboard
This electric skateboard is perfect for apprentices. It goes up to 10mph, it is modest, and it is anything but difficult to utilize as well. What more would you be able to need from your absolute first electric skateboard? This, yet Razor has gained notoriety for electric skateboards; thus, you can positively depend on the brand. This specific skateboard has 125 watts. It accompanies a hand-held remote and a mind-blowing read-wheel-drive engine, which offers usability.
You can likewise drive at your favored cruising speed because of the variable-speed control. You can expect around 40 minutes of constant use with this skateboard. It is additionally one of the more reasonable models available when contrasted and comparable electric skateboards. There is additionally no gathering required; you can mostly hop on the skateboard and begin riding.
Powered by a 125-watt motor
Features high-grip urethane wheels
Recommended for ages nine and older
Includes a wireless (2.4 GHz) remote with wrist strap
29.7 inch (754 mm) deck length and high-quality 5-ply Maple deck
If you require a lightweight skateboard that you can use for your drive or relaxation, this is a superb decision since, despite its reduced plan, the presentation it offers is comparable to that of heavier models. The unit looks simply like a standard longboard since the producer has shrouded the battery inside the deck. It can arrive at velocities of up to 15 mph on account of its ground-breaking engine, and the 3.5Ah battery will keep the block running for to 8 miles on a single charge.
There is likewise a battery show with the goal that you can design your drive in like manner. Most definitely, we have just beneficial things to report since this choice is produced using 10-handle Canadian maple and 1-utilize fiberglass. Not exclusively are these materials entirely sturdy, yet they will help keep the deck adaptable so it can twist simply like an ordinary skateboard to give the rider a smooth encounter even on harsh streets.
Built from 10 ply Canadian maple and 1 ply fiberglass
Reach speeds up to 15mph, and 15 angle hill climbing
Comes with a high-performance battery inside the deck
Ergonomic wireless, remote control, cruising mode, three-speed settings
4. RazorX Longboard Electric Skateboard
Among the best modest electric skateboards, we discover the RazorX longboard (additionally accessible in a cruiser form, a brand known for putting quality first and having some expertise in the creation of electric bikes. True to form from the value, RazorX is a programmed skate with fundamental execution yet ideal for those with scarcely any demands and needs an apparatus to have some good times and for easygoing use.
The RazorX electric longboard ensures self-sufficiency of 40 minutes. It has a most extreme speed of 16km/h, along these lines, in any event, multiple times the average speed of an individual who strolls by walking. It supports the most extreme load of 100Kg and mounts a 125W engine. The weight is normal (5.4 Kg), and the table is in bamboo and has a length of around 95 cm.
Comes pre-assembled
Powered by a kick-to-start
37.5" (952.5 mm) long deck
Includes a wireless, digital, hand-held remote with 22V battery
5. SWAGSKATE NG2 38" A.I. Powered Electric Skateboard
The savvy highlights of this electric skateboard will enthuse the two tenderfoots and expert skateboarders. You can control it effectively without a remote! It is a standout amongst other electric longboards in its value go! The SWAGSKATE NG2 has an incredible pair of brushless Rear 450-watt engines. The 900w of intensity drives it to speeds up to 18 mph. It has a 43.8V 3.1Ah LFP lithium-particle battery that arrives at full charge in 2 hours. It has a scope of 11.8 miles. The SWAGSKATE NG2e skateboard has various riding/speed modes, remote control, and somatosensory route framework.
The somatosensory route framework encourages you to utilize your body weight to control the skateboard. The progressed AI-fueled somatosensory route framework distinguishes moves in body weight to control the skateboard. You should lean front or back to move the skateboard in either course. It has a most extreme speed of 18 mph. The barricade is made of six layers of maple with two profoundly durable layers of strong bamboo. It is passionate and adaptable enough to ingest shocks for smooth riding experience.
Up to 18 mph a
Comes with a remote
Supports up to 220 lb max weight
Powerful pair of brushless Rear 450-watt motors
6. SKATEBOLT Electric Skateboard Longboard
If going as quickly as possible on an electric skateboard is the thing that you want for, SKATEBOLT can give you your requirement for speed easily. This board conveys two methods of speed, the low-speed mode: 14 miles 60 minutes (22 km/hr) and the fast mode, which conveys up to 25 miles for every hour (40 km/h). One of SKATEBOLT's greatest selling focuses is its astonishing exhibition due to the double 90 mm brushless 1000-watt engine.
This is an electric powerhouse that can arrive at predictable velocities of more than 32 km/hr and can climb tough slants with the greatest edge of 25 degrees. Once more, as I have said over and over, you can't get a precise number on a board's speed due to certain elements you have to take into accounts, for example, your weight and the street conditions. The deck has nine layers of Canadian maple that fortify it than all the sheets on this rundown. The weight limit is 280 pounds, all that could be needed to convey riders of all small scale to huge sizes and all ages.
Equipped with 2 red warning taillights
Made with 8 layers of northeast maple
The remote controller is designed with an LCD screen display
8. Boosted Mini X Electric Skateboard
Supported Boards Stealth Electric Longboard is a standout amongst others that helped electric skateboards for riding, particularly for adolescents. It has overly responsive increasing speed and quicker than some other skateboard with 24 miles for each hour. It has five ride modes, including the all-new hyper mode, select helped secrecy, which varies from others. It has a too adaptable composite deck that gives a decent vibe while riding. It can go up to a limit of 14 miles due to having an all-inclusive range battery. Helped Boards Stealth Electric Longboard is the best electric skateboard for apprentices who love to fly and need to appreciate the ride.
This sort of skateboard structured with stratus wheels having great fussing and adaptability, which gives you the most elevated move speed. It has dialed back protected twitch channel, which conveys you the most elevated ride mode and making the remote increasingly receptive to info and giving riders a more straightforward association with the board's capacity. Helped keeps up unfathomably elevated requirements of wellbeing, quality, and unwavering quality. It accompanies an ergonomic remote that is easy to utilize, natural, and dependable, which causes you to control the brakes or speeding up.
3 ride modes
Deep dish composite deck
Charge time-1 hour 45 minutes
Exhilarating top speeds of 20 mph
Run up to 14 miles with the battery
9. BLITZART X-Plore Electric Longboard
Hunting down an electric longboard that is solid however won't burn up all available resources? At that point, the BLITZART X-Plore Electric Longboard is the one you are searching for. The BLITZART is manufactured extreme, sufficiently intense to convey a 300-pound man. The deck is made of eight layers of maple wood and has a layer of bamboo to finish everything and at the base making it strong however malleable.
To guarantee that the rider doesn't tumble off, the board is of a curved shape. Add to that all the grasp tape that has been connected to guarantee to foot. The 320W brushless center point engine can give you a lively 17 miles an hour and, completely charged, the battery has enough squeeze to get you to the extent 15 miles away. On the off chance that your battery goes dead while out and about, you can simply lift the BLITZART up by its handle and convey it. At 13 pounds, it's extremely not that overwhelming. Additionally: the BLITZART comes completely amassed so no compelling reason to assemble it yourself.
8-ply maple wood deck
Easy to hold wireless remote
Battery fully charged within 3 hours
Top speed of over 17 MPH and a max range of over 10 miles
10. Boosted 2nd Generation Dual+ Electric Skateboard
As far back as the Boosted Electric Skateboard turned out, it has been rethinking the urban transportation as we probably are aware it. Ride it to work or school or anyplace you need to go. Never be indebted to open travel again. It's path superior to anything an auto since you can disregard activity inside and out. What's more, when you are in a place where it's not fitting to utilize, simply lift it up and convey it.
The Boosted Electric Skateboard has a 2000W engine associated with a belt drive framework that proselytes it to more torque. That implies it can run tough without hardly lifting a finger. With the best speed of 22 miles an hour and a scope of 12 miles on the broadened battery, it's ideal for those short drives. Talking about speed: it has four ride modes, the slowest of which go at a protected ten miles 60 minutes. The Bluetooth-empowered hand remote is exceptionally responsive, giving smooth increasing speed and quick braking.
Light enough
2,000 watts of power
Features incredible speed and ease
powerful enough to go everywhere
How to Choose the Best Electric Skateboard or Longboard
So you are living your dream life in New York City or maybe even San Francisco. Commuting to work and everywhere else either by foot, bus, or train is okay, but you wish there was another form of intermodal transportation for getting around the city.
One of the most fun ways to travel or commute is to buy an electric skateboard. Unlike an electric bike, Segway or even scooter, an electric skateboard is extremely portable. Maybe you have had the unfortunate first-hand experience of trying to get a Segway onto a subway platform, and out of the train in time for your stop (It didn't go very well, as one would imagine.)
Now, before you buy an electric skateboard there are many factors to consider. Since you are an everyday commuter, it is important to know the various specs and beneficial features, such as the weight, battery life, range, type of motor, size, etc., where and when you can and cannot use it, the ease of mastering the ride, and of course the average cost of a board.
Questions to ask yourself might be:
What am I missing in my everyday commute that an electric skateboard can make better?
What is the need that I hope to fulfill with the purchase of an electric skateboard?
Is it easy to learn for beginners?
Understanding Power and Wattage
Many electric skateboard manufacturers try to impress the average consumer with the specs of their gadgets. They list the wattage, the torque, hill grade, etc. But to the average consumer, what does that all mean? And most importantly, should I care?!
Firstly, yes, you should care. Secondly, this article might make all of those confusing specs sounds a bit more layman for those considering the purchase of an electric skateboard.
Specs on good electric skateboards are competitive, with wattage ranging from 1000 watts- 2000 watts, battery life of 3 hour- 7 hour ride, or 9-18 miles per charge, charging time of 1.5 hours- 4 hours to charge full, speeds reaching 25 mph and weights of board being about 10-15 lbs. Let's begin:
Some consumers might see the term wattage and become discouraged with its translation due to their likely lack in knowledge on electric engineering. Not to worry! Essentially, the gears and motor control is most important when it comes to optimizing wattage on electric skateboard.
The wattage numeric listed in the specs of the board is the maximum wattage, or the maximum power the board is able to emit for the highest performance ride. However, similar to switching gears on a manual automobile or a mountain bike, the user's control over the board has a strong influence on the ability for the board to achieve its optimal wattage capacity.
For instance, finding a skateboard with high-quality gears, often suggested to be one with a belt-drive motor like on Boosted Boards, allows for the user to be more in sync with controlling the torque, breaking and turning functions as they ride.
All of these controls are synced with a Bluetooth-compatible hand-held remote. Ultimately, such controls will allow the user to optimize the board's riding capacity.
Conversely, a hub-drive motor is one in which the motor is built into, most commonly, the back wheels of the board where all of the power is exerted from the back of the board to the front, utilizing much more energy especially on rough terrain or on an incline.
Planning for All Terrains
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You have adorable babies. Kids love to enjoy and playing all the time and so they need healthy diet. I am glad to know that you are giving the organic eggs. | to market this morning I was thinking about how spoiled we are in Ukarumpa. Our Papua New Guinean neighbors have learned over the years what kinds of produce the waitskins like, and they grow a lot of things in their gardens specifically to sell to us as cash crops... things that they don't really eat themselves. The variety of produce has grown a lot even since Brian and I have lived here. Some of the things you can buy at the Ukarumpa market that you may not find at other markets in PNG include cilantro, jalapeno peppers, red onions, red cabbage, red and yellow bell peppers, and lots and lots | 133 |
Nelson's Christmas banners will be back this week. Photo: File.
The banners will be back but there will also be some new elements in Nelson's 2018 Christmas display.
The decorations will go up at the end of this week with Nelson City Council allocating a total budget of $70,000, which allows for constructing, installing and maintaining the displays.
A<|fim_middle|> Christmas as well as introducing some new components.
The summer banners and tree wraps will be back in the inner-city streets. The decorations couldn't be hung up any earlier as some of the floats from Sunday's Santa Parade were "quite high" and wouldn't have been able to pass under the banners.
A new Christmas tree will light up 1903 Square in upper Trafalgar St, featuring a lighting display from the Light Nelson team. Another Light Nelson installation will be on the Church Steps and the Cathedral bell tower will be illuminated. The clock tower at Civic House will also be running a lighting display.
The "Catch a Star" installation by Lee Woodman is on display again in the Cathedral, where there are also plans for a large nativity scene.
Locals can expect to see some of the characters appearing around the city as they make their way there in the lead up to Christmas.
Uniquely Nelson is also working closely with central city businesses on initiatives, such as carol singing performances in the two weeks prior to Christmas, Christmas trees outside shops and lighting displays projecting on to the footpath outside shops on Bridge St. | council spokesperson says they are reusing what they can from the $100,000 investment they made last | 24 |
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Halifax Plantation home sells for $395,000
A Halifax Plantation home topped the sales list for residential real estate transactions the week of Dec. 23-30, in Ormond Beach. Olga Palant, of Cresskill, N.J., sold 1483 Ineri Court to Shelagh Raczynska, and Peter and Helena Stoughton, of Ormond Beach, for $395,000. Built in 2006, the house has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a heated in-ground pool and spa, and 3,644 square feet of living area. It sold in 2004 for $76,000.
Joseph and Lori Dupree, and Marjorie Peckham, of Ormond Beach, sold 54 Ivanhoe Drive to David and Elizabeth Linkinhoker, of Ormond Beach, for $254,000. Built in 1958, the house has two beds, three baths, a fireplace and 2,255 square feet. It sold in 1999 for $81,500.
Wells Fargo Bank, of Daytona Beach, sold 8 Pinto Lane to Anthony and Andrea Guerin, of Ormond Beach, for $199,949. Built in 2003, the house has four beds, two baths and 2,173 square feet. It sold last April for $294,637.
Joseph and Dorothy Olah, of Ormond Beach, sold 130 Imperial Heights Drive to Emin Cay, of Ormond Beach, for $130,000. Built in 1969, the house has two beds, two baths and 1,501 square feet. It sold in 2007 for $230,000.
John and Norma Mailhot, of Ormond Beach, sold 507 Lakebridge Dr. to Kathy Wise, of Ormond Beach, for $90,000. Built in 1982, the house has two beds, three baths and 1,602 square feet. It sold in 2005 for $175,000.
Friends Bank, of New Smyrna Beach, sold 481 Chelsea Place to Margaret<|fim_middle|>ells Fargo, of Daytona Beach, sold 394 Military Blvd. to Crystal Anderson, of Ormond Beach, for $142,500. Built in 1997, the house has two beds, two baths and 2,413 square feet. It sold in 2005 for $250,000.
Federal National Mortgage Association, commonly known as Fannie Mae, of Dallas, Texas, sold 80 Bluebird Lane to James Cunningham, of Ormond Beach, for $114,900. Built in 1984, the house has four beds, two baths, a fireplace and 1,866 square feet. It sold in 1999 for $118,500.
David and Sue Graves, and Madelyn Graves, of Lafeyette, Calif., sold 236 S. Beach St. to Randall and Marybeth Keener, of Wallingford, Conn., for $275,000. Built in 1976, the house has two beds, one bath and 900 square feet. It sold in 2009 for $169,833.
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Arthur and Liana Sarukian, of Ormond Beach, sold 6 Moonglow Drive to Jennifer Carter Stepniak, of Ormond Beach, for $251,300. Built in 2005, the house has three beds, two baths and 2,315 square feet. It sold in 2004 for $64,900.
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Oslo Properties Inc., of Little Pine, S.D., sold 37 Greenwood Ave. to Jeffrey Goodrich, of Ormond Beach, for $92,500. Built in 1957, the house has two beds, one bath and 1,078 square feet. It sold last September for $51,700.
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Kevin Robar and Christie Marron Henderson, of Anchorage, Ark., sold 13 Raymonde Circle to Hannah Willingham, of Ormond Beach, for $72,500. Built in 1959, the house has two beds, two baths and 976 square feet. It sold in 2007 for $184,500.
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Joseph Osiborski, of Port Orange, sold 82 Rogers Park to Keith and Lauren Yarnell, of Ormond Beach, for $49,500. Built in 1955, the house has two beds, one bath and 1,072 square feet. It sold in 2003 for $67,000.
*John Adams, of Adams, Cameron & Co. Realtors, contributed to this report.
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Lakefront home sells for $435,000 | Digaetano, of Ormond Beach, for $265,000. Built in 2006, the house has four beds, four baths and 2,624 square feet. It sold in 2006 for $566,561.
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Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary offers a variety of fun and educational nature-based programs for Scout troops, birthdays, homeschools, and more. The unique features of our varied<|fim_middle|> and many other clubs and organizations. | landscape, including our boardwalk, give us many opportunities for close-up wildlife viewing.
The programs offered at Stony Brook allow Girl and Boy Scouts to work together to gain an appreciation for the natural world. We offer different programs designed to help your Scouts meet their badge requirements. Self-guided hikes can also be arranged. Programs are offered after school or on weekends. Ask us about opportunities for Eagle or Gold Award projects.
Invite a Stony Brook teacher/naturalist to bring a variety of nature topics to your class. Seasonal topics, taught September through May focus on what is happening outside in our own backyards. We incorporate creative dramatics, songs and games, manipulatives, puppets, and an occasional animal into the programs to engage your preschoolers.
We have facilities available for rental by private and public groups and organizations.
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"Beautiful space! Well-designed with good light. I took a class here out of the free week deal but will definitely be back. Their Manduka mats are really slippery so if you can, bring your own mat."
"A bit pricey, but man! One of the grilled egg ham and cheese sandwich I've ever had in my life (even more incredible when you add bacon!) #drool"
"Thai style spare ribs were good! Cozy little spot. There is a downstairs with more seating if full upstairs... which it generally is. Definitely retro, well decorated vibes."
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The company is making its voice-assistant technology available to outside<|fim_middle|> (NASDAQ:AAPL) Siri on a regular basis knows the limitations of voice-controlled artificial intelligence (AI).
Sometimes the service gives iPhone, iPod, and Mac users what they ask for. Other times, asking Siri to "call Joe" results in the not-always-helpful assistant doing an internet search for "calljoe" rather than placing a phone call.
Sometimes Siri has trouble understanding what the person is saying, and sometimes it's the AI not being as intelligent as one would hope it would be. Apple is not alone in sometimes disappointing with its AI product, but it's the most visible in the space.
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), on the other hand, has been more successful with its Alexa digital assistant, which is built into its various Echo and some Fire TV products. That's at least partly because while Siri launched with a broad set of supposed abilities, Echo has had a very slow rollout of features.
At first, Alexa voice commands could be used to ask Echo to play music, deliver weather reports, or complete narrow tasks like adding items to a shopping list. Those commands have expanded and improved dramatically over time, and now Amazon wants to roll out its AI tools to its development partners.
Amazon's Echo is embedded in its Echo device: Amazon Echo is listed today on Amazon.com costing $179.99. Image source: Amazon.
The company has made three AI tools available to developers for free so they can build their own Alexa-enabled apps. This, Amazon said in a press release, should "make it easy for any developer to build apps that can understand natural language, turn text into lifelike speech, have conversations using voice or text, analyze images, and recognize faces, objects, and scenes."
Amazon Lex: Brings natural language recognition to any app using the technology that powers Alexa's ability to understand people.
Amazon Polly: Lets developers create apps that talk back in 47 lifelike voices with support for 24 languages.
Amazon Rekognition: Allows apps to analyze images, and recognize faces, objects, and scenes.
"The combination of better algorithms and broad access to massive amounts of data and cost-effective computing power provided by the cloud is making AI a reality for application developers," said Raju Gulabani, VP, databases, analytics, and AI, AWS. "We are excited to see how customers use Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, and Amazon Rekognition to build a new generation of apps that have human-like intelligence and can see, hear, speak, and interact with people and their environments."
By throwing open the doors on its technology and giving developers access to these three tools, Amazon is encouraging companies/programmers to find new uses for its technology. Some of these won't directly help the online retailer, but others will certainly enhance its own products.
Alexa is already a powerful tool that's arguably more useful than Siri (albeit with less distribution). Amazon is not alone in offering developers access to AI technology. Alphabet's Google Assistant has very similar open access, and both Apple and Microsoft offer limited developer access to Siri and Cortana, respectively.
It's a crowded space, but Amazon has embraced having a platform open to developers since Alexa launched. It already has over 1,000 third-party services working with earlier, less expansive access to its technology, so this move should encourage those partners to do more while welcoming others in.
Amazon has done something its rivals have struggled to do. It has built an AI that works, that's useful, and that people are eager to try new things on. Alexa may not have Siri's market share, and its functions are limited compared to some of the other players. It also does not have the Apple service's reputation for not working very well. Opening up more of Alexa to partners should help make Amazon's devices more useful while expanding its AI's capabilities, which should lead to more people wanting Alexa-enabled devices. | developers.
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April brings warmer temperatures, longer days and the excitement of long weekends spent across North Dakota. Ample hiking, biking and kayaking pursuits exist for the outdoor adventurists. History buffs can lose track of time at significant landmarks and museums around the state. North Dakota's cities welcome visitors to explore their unique shops and galleries and to eat in their restaurants. So, get busy planning your North Dakotan summer adventure.
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For ages, the splendor of North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt National Park has captivated visitors. Spend a day traversing one of the parks many trails for exceptional vantage points of the mystifying Badlands. Follow the paved scenic drives in the north or south units of the park for views of prairie dogs, bison and wild horses. Don't miss beloved attractions near the park like the Bully Pulpit Golf Course, the Maah Daah Hey Trail and the Medora Musical.
Many fishing, camping and boating adventures are easily accessible via North Dakota's state parks. Visitors can experience both natural and historical aspects of life on the prairie at parks near Lake Sakakawea, Pembina Gorge, the Missouri River or Devils Lake. Try sleeping in a teepee or a yurt for a unique night under the stars. Check park listings for fun, family-friendly and educational events occurring throughout the summer.
Plan a golfing getaway at one of the state's 120 courses available. North Dakota's uniquely rugged landscape and lovely summer weather provide an ideal backdrop to a day on the golf course with family and friends.
Rent a canoe or kayak and explore the<|fim_middle|>-5663. | peaceful, nature-rich waterways of North Dakota.
North Dakota is abuzz with new eating establishments. Minot's The Starving Rooster just opened another location in Bismarck to serve its renowned wood-fired pizzas, paninis and cocktails. Downtown Fargo recently welcomed Twist and the vegetarian Greenhouse Café to Broadway Avenue. Taylor Made BBQ recently opened its doors on Mandan's Main Street and serves patrons Texas-style barbecue utilizing North Dakota meats. Long-time favorites continue to thrive and offer travelers unique experiences. Bismarck's Peacock Alley was established at the end of Prohibition in 1933 and today serves nationally acclaimed plates in the original dining room and bar. The 100-year-old Hotel Donaldson in Fargo reopened as a restaurant and hotel in 2003 and has been serving diners exceptional cuisine ever since. Travel across the state and stop in at local cafes to rub elbows with the locals and learn firsthand about North Dakota's best-kept travel secrets.
What's summer without a fair? The North Dakota State Fair is a food lover's paradise with its turkey legs, cheese curds, fry-bread tacos and mini donuts. Enjoy these American classics while listening to live music, enjoying rides and visiting the exhibits.
North Dakota is an agricultural state and food festivals are a fantastic way to celebrate summer's bounty. Taste local flavors, enjoy the summer weather and meet the locals at county fairs.
North Dakota has a vastly rich heritage available to travelers without much effort. The State Historical Society preserves and manages 57 historic sites where visitors can learn about North Dakota's earliest peoples and significant events that shaped modern society. The North Dakota Heritage Center, the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center and Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park offer visitors hands-on opportunities to learn more about North Dakota's past.
There is a vibrant and ever-growing cultural scene in the state. The fabulous Medora Musical is North Dakota's most famous show, and there are many other must-see productions. See a local theater production or go to an outdoor music concert this summer. Sleepy Hollow Theatre and Arts Park in Bismarck and Frost Fire Summer Theatre near Pembina River Gorge at Walhalla put on shows throughout the summer months. North Dakota's art museums and galleries are also a great source for cultural enrichment.
These are just a few suggestions to help plan your summer vacation to North Dakota. For more information, go to NDtourism.com or phone 701-328-2525 or 800-435 | 519 |
Back<|fim_middle|> and outreach was and continues to be provided to engage the public in the project and to encourage people to become involved. The project continues to thrive as the young trees continue to be distributed throughout the Village. Though HOPP was developed under the direction of Kathryn and Julie, it was a collaborative effort of the Openlands TreeKeepers and The Morton Arboretum – a true partnership for success! | to the main CRTI Urban Forestry Awards page.
The 2015 CRTI Urban Forestry Awards were given out at a ceremony during our Partner Recognition Celebration on July 14th.
View pictures and descriptions of the winning projects, programs, and communities below.
Since 2006, the Land Conservancy of McHenry County has been developing an oak conservation program called "Project Quercus" with the goal of ensuring that oak woodlands will be part of the local landscape 200 (or more) years from now. Working with the McHenry County Conservation District, The Land Conservancy has preserved over 100 acres of remnant oaks through an effort called the Oak Legacy Project. At the time the Land Conservancy began the program, there was a growing awareness that the remaining oak woods in the county were at risk of dying out due to an aging oak population, development and environmental stresses, limited regeneration and expansion of invasive species. Several thousand oaks have been planted through Project Quercus on public and permanently protected private property using 4-H clubs, service organizations, schools, scouts and others. Thousands or acorns are collected each year by local residents for planting at home or other locations in McHenry County. The Land Conservancy produced and published a brochure on oaks for homeowners to help them become better stewards of their trees. The brochure has been distributed by Oak Keepers and also made available to residents through municipalities. The Land Conservancy has also created an oak restoration guide for landowners. Restoration workshops, field trips and other trainings teach landowners how to effectively support their oaks.
Hazel Crest has proven its commitment to an effective, growing community forestry program, but what really stands out in this community is forester Karl Persons' efforts in the community's Open Lands. Karl's passion is the Hazel Crest Open Lands - a 53 acre site that is home to a diversity of trees, including elms, conifers, crabapples, horse chestnuts, ginkgos, oaks, maples and walnuts, among others. Karl leads work crews two Saturdays every month to beautify and enhance the Open Lands. From March through November, Karl works with crews from the Sheriff's Work Alternative Program, who help clear weeds, cut down diseased and dead trees, and plant new trees and flowers while at the same time building confidence and skills in adults. In addition to caring the community's trees, Karl teaches the community about the urban forest and the services these trees provide so that this generation and the next generation understand and support the urban forest. He also hosts Full Moon events, Johnny Appleseed's birthday party and many other activities to engage the residents of Hazel Crest in the Open Lands and the urban forest.
The Forest Preserves of Cook County is embarking on the second century of protecting and preserving nature for the pleasure and recreation of the public. The Next Century Conservation Plan outlines bold actions to make Cook County a national leader in urban conservation. Included in the Plan is the restoration of 30,000 acres of natural areas. There are many volunteer and stewardship groups working in the Forest Preserves to preserve and protect natural resources for the next generation. These include volunteers with the North Branch Restoration Project - working to preserve the North Branch of the Chicago River to ecological health; volunteers of the Palos Restoration Project - working to restore 15,000 acres and many others.
Volunteers are trained to safely operate equipment including training as Midwest Ecological Prescription Burn Crew Members. Utilizing volunteers allows the Forest Preserves to leverage its resources and expand its potential. Volunteers are also important to the Forest Preserves outreach efforts. They assist with educational programs and events connecting people to nature. The Forest Preserves of Cook County's volunteer program forms the framework and foundation for the next 100 years.
They engage with local natural areas and experienced stewards to learn how to best steward our ecosystems. During the winter they focus on brush removal, clearing at home sites, and other locations. Informal gatherings foster learning by talking about topics of interest such as "Hops n Herps" and "Beer and Botany" – a blend of social outing and shared learning. During the fall they collect seed. In the spring they remove invasive species all the while intermixing social activities with hands on learning. Bioblitzes and happy hour hangouts bring the group together to encourage an exchange of ideas resulting in members engaged in sustained stewardship work. Urban meets nature in this successful volunteer organization.
The Pierce Downer Heritage Alliance provides educational opportunities for citizens. They have hosted talks on Project Quercus, Wilderness and Wildflower Walks and other programs. They participate in the annual Arbor Day celebration and have donated trees to be planted in community parks. The Pierce Downer Heritage helped to notify the public about efforts to eradicate Japanese knotweed, and other invasive species on public and private land. They have adopted a stretch of Highland Avenue where they conduct clean up. The Pierce Downer Heritage Alliance has also provided extensive testimony to the Downers Grove Village Council trying to preserve existing trees on private property from being removed due to development, and to coordinate restoration efforts in the buffer area between Good Samaritan Hospital and Lyman Woods. The Alliance continues to promote and preserve the urban forest in Downers Grove.
Helen Denham and the Riverdale Tree Commission are a force to be reckoned with. The Commission is comprised of volunteer residents and an arborist who participate in community-wide efforts to publicize the value and benefits of trees. For more than a decade the National Arbor Day Foundation has recognized the Village of Riverdale as a Tree City honoring the commitment of the village to provide a comprehensive community forestry program. The Commission and especially Helen have recognized the importance of involving youth in urban forest stewardship through the "Tree Buddies." Mentorship and the youth volunteer programs get children outside, teaching them the importance of trees in an increasingly urbanized setting and provides them a positive environment in which to work and learn. A local butternut is believed to be the largest of its species in the state of Illinois. The Commission collects seed from this tree. Arbor Day is a special day in Riverdale. Helen and the Commission are a testament to the ability of volunteers to engage and educate the public on the value of the urban forest.
Adam has learned on the job. He has hand selected more than 1,000 parkway trees at the nursery and made sure that there is broad species diversity so that problems like EAB don't impact Mundelein in the future. Staff have learned to trim and prune trees correctly. The Village has procured grants from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to help extend limited resources in the village for the purchase and planting of trees. Mundelein is a model of how to address big problems with few resources in thoughtful ways by supporting and empowering staff.
The City of Joliet has struggled to come to terms with limited resources and expanding needs. Like other communities in our region, Joliet has experienced the impacts of EAB. They have seen limited stock and higher prices for trees.However, Joliet's best resource is their outstanding forester - Jim Teiber. Jim has worked long hours and expended significant effort to create a diverse forest in Joliet. He has tracked the age and condition of the trees so that is knows what trees need to be removed and opportunities for species expansion to keep a diverse forest. Jim was successful in getting his municipal board to approve a multi year contract for contract growing. Through contract growing, Joliet can get the trees they need, and the prices they want, when they need them. The urban forest in the downtown and throughout the neighborhoods are being thoughtfully managed to support the urban forest for generations to come. Engagement and education of youth in urban forestry inspires the next generation and also their parents. Jim and the City of Joliet have extended their resources through thoughtful planning for the future.
Oak Park is the first community in Illinois to qualify as an Arboretum! Oak Park is a thriving community of about 52,000 people located immediately west of Chicago and known for its architectural heritage and diverse population. Within its 4.5 square miles live one of the region's most diverse mixes of cultures, races, ethnicities, professions, lifestyles, religions, ages and incomes. With over 103 linear miles of street and 84 acres of parkland. The Village and its Park District have over 20,000 tree representing over 130 different species and varieties within their jurisdiction. Oak Park is proud of its trees and the professional care they receive and it shows!
The Glenview Natural Resources Commission is comprised of five voting members and a student member. This commission was formed in 2003. The Commission was created to identify and advocate for opportunities to improve natural resources throughout the Village. The village is the site of a successful redevelopment of the Glenview Naval Air Station, including preservation of a 32 acres remnant tall grass prairie and establishment of a 140 acre community park – emphasizing native landscaping. They have developed a natural resources master plan, updated the Village's Tree Preservation ordinance, applied for a grant to create an urban forest management plan, evaluated nine trees for induction into the Village's Heritage Tree recognition program, overseen installation of interpretive signs designed by high school students, led bicycle tours highlighting installations of green infrastructure, judged an elementary school science fair, staffed two Earth Day celebrations, the annual summer festival and the fourth of July booths, conducted an Arbor Day ceremony and tree walk, hosted two river clean up workdays, supervised an Eagle Scout project to plant native vegetation in a new detention basin, sponsored a Farmer's Market Green Tale with weekly outreach topics, participate in Invasive Species Awareness Month through speaking events and volunteer workdays, coordinate with public and private IDOT landowners to control invasive species, reviewed plans for a reviewed walk/streambank stabilization project and participated in the comprehensive Plan update – all within the last year! Members of the Commission are dedicated and knowledgeable about native resource management and urban green infrastructure. Major projects arising from the plans developed by the Commission include streambank stabilization and re-meander of the West Fork of the Chicago River.
The Commission works to engage citizens of all ages in natural resource protection. They make sure that natural resource issues are considered among the many competing priorities that the Village Board faces. They have provided guidance to the Board in setting policy in response to the Emerald Ash Borer epidemic and is the appeals body for the Village Tree Preservation Ordinance. Members of the commission are effective, dedicated and committed to the community.
Mary McClelland and Joe Beeson are owners of Glacier Oaks Nursery and McHenry County Nursery in Harvard Illinois. They have a deep personal commitment to conservation of oak woodlands and to providing quality trees to communities and organizations across northern Illinois. They helped to start the "Shrub Club" to increase the availability of affordable native shrubs for oak woodland restoration. This entailed the donation of their time, greenhouse space and materials. They grow a wide variety of trees to support species diversity. They propagate many native tree and shrub species from seed and cuttings collected locally, helping ensure local genotypes are preserved and planted throughout the region. They grow and donate hundreds of oak seedlings each year to support conservation projects. Mary and Joe serve on the Steering Committee for Project Quercus. They are generous with their time and resources. Their nursery business plan isn't just to grow and sell more trees and bushes but to support conservation and tree planting in the Chicago region.
The Conservation Foundation is a non-profit land and river protection organization that promotes stewardship in DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will Counties, Illinois. The support of more than 3,500 members and 500 volunteers help to carry out their mission to preserve and restore open space and natural lands, protect rivers and watersheds, and promote stewardship of our environment in DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will Counties, Illinois. Whether you are starting from a grass lawn or have existing natural areas on your property, the Conservation@Home program can help you make your yard more sustainable. The Conservation Foundation works to make our region more attractive to wildlife and retain precious rainwater by planting native vegetation, creating butterfly and rain gardens, using rain barrels and removing exotic species of plants. The Conservation Foundation works with landowners across the region through the Conservation@Home and Conservation@Work programs to teach landowners how to sustainably manage their properties to reduce the amount of pesticides and fertilizers and to increase tree and shrub canopy. The Conservation Foundation teaches that native wildlife needs the berries and bugs that thrive on native plants. The native plants of our region have evolved in this area for more than 10,000 years. The bugs and berries that grow on native plants are the day to day food source that sustains our bird population. In the fall of each year, The Conservation Foundation distributes oak trees. The Conservation Foundation encourages sustainability including our urban forest.
The Lincoln Hill Homeowner's Association had the desire to replant parkway trees after the removal of ash trees. The Township did not have the resources to replace these trees so the Homeowner's Association took matters into their own hands. They formalized a tree committee to support the planting project. They met monthly to discuss tree selection and negotiated with the Township to be able to replant the trees. They engaged residents to help with the nursery selection and selection of a contractor to carryout the work. They developed a planting plan. Residents paid the costs associated with purchasing and planting trees where the ash trees were lost. They even set up a fund to assist others who could not afford to purchase and plant trees in front of their homes. They purchased 62 trees to be planted along their street. They are true tree champions!
A Morton Arboretum graduate of the Openlands TreeKeepers program worked with the residents to help them select the correct species, educated them about tree maintenance, mulching and watering, and organized volunteer events to assist residents with spring mulch. Al Zelaya of Davey Tree Experts developed an Energy Benefits report for the residents and Township to highlight the economic impact of the lost ash trees and the future benefits of the new trees. A linden tree was planted, with Mrs. Lang, for her 100th birthday! The trees are being mapped and reported to the forest composition effort of the Chicago Region Trees Initiative.
The residents of Adare Farms were concerned about their trees and took the initiative to care for, protect and improve the trees in their homeowner association. The neighborhood was hit hard by emerald ash borer and the loss of trees impressed upon the residents how important it was to increase the diversity of their forest and to manage their trees in a more proactive manner. The homeowner's association decided to write a management plan for their trees, but soon realized that in order to increase diversity they first needed an inventory of the trees that they already have. The homeowner's association didn't have funds to hire someone to do the inventory, so several of the residents took it upon themselves. They bought a GPS unit, enlisted the help of a couple of TreeKeepers and hit the streets. In a morning they identified and geo-located nearly 500 trees in their neighborhood. They are now working on using this inventory to write a management plan so they can select new trees to replace the ashes they lost. The tireless effort of the Adare Farm's residents has fostered awareness and interest in caring for trees throughout the neighborhood, and exemplified how citizens can take initiative to create a more sustainable forest.
The Village of Riverwoods is small but it encompasses a diverse set of natural environments including large areas of upland woodlands, flatwoods and floodplain forest. The Riverwoods Preservation Council is an all-volunteer, resident-run 501c(3) corporation dedicated to preserve the Village's native woodlands and ecological heritage. These two units work together to support the urban forest. The Preservation Council has been instrumental in development of the Village's woodland ordinances and cost sharing program. They conduct annual public education programs and volunteer to plant and maintain community garden areas. They host a plant sale which emphasizes trees and shrubs native to the area woodlands. They even provide consulting services to residents on their individual properties. They host workdays and teach youth about invasive plants and local ecology. The village adopted a tree ordinance which declared trees to be "an important public resource enhancing the quality of life. This ordinance requires approval of the village forester for any type of tree work, specifies the size and types of trees subject to restrictions and replacement including penalties for violations. The village adopted an ordinance designed to protect at least 70% of the village's woodlands. The Preservation Council wrote and published a comprehensive guide entitled "In Our Own Backyard, a Guide to the Pleasures, Possibilities and Responsibilities of Living in Harmony with Nature". This guide has been distributed to every resident in Riverwoods. The village had created a restoration demonstration center to assist residents in realizing the vision of the village and the Preservation Council. The village and the council are great partners in supporting our urban forest.
The Historic Oak Propagation Project project continues to generate interest and results! Under the direction of Kathryn Jonas and Julie Samuels (Daniella correct Julie's name here!) an all out effort was generated to collect acorns from white oak trees in the Village that were 200-300 years old. 400 acorns were potted up with nearly 100% germination! These trees were lovingly cared for until they were large enough to transplant out with adoptive families in the Village of Oak Park. These trees were lovingly cared for until they were large enough to transplant out with adoptive families in the Village of Oak Park. Residents were required to complete an application form, pay $25 to cover the costs and agree to properly care for the trees. They were also asked to allow TreeKeepers to monitor the trees on an ongoing basis. The trees where then delivered to their new homes. Each tree was serial numbered and address located to track their success. Local education | 3,720 |
You don't need the address for this treasure trove of ingredients. Just<|fim_middle|>. Looking for palm sugar for that authentic Thai curry? How about an obscure dried chilli for that salsa recipe you've been dying to make? They have 10 types of ghee. You'll never be stumped for an ingredient again. Stop upstairs in the cafe for a cheap, filling pita and the city's best mujadara. 123 Lexington Ave, near 28th St.
Not technically NYC, but definitely worth the $4 shuttle from Port Authority. Come hungry: Mitsuwa is half-food court, half-market, and the food court covers all the bases from ramen to tonkatsu. The market is New York's best Asian mart (sorry Chinatown) – stock up on Sun Noodles, dumpling wrappers, kurobuta pork and shiso leaves. 595 River Rd, Edgewater, New Jersey.
The big momma of New York's food shopping destinations, this is your one-stop-shop for all things Italian and then some. Fresh and dry pasta, beautiful breads, prosciutto, cheese, seafood and endless walls of jams, cookies and caramele. And what could be more civilized than shopping with a glass of wine? What you might not expect is Eataly's reasonable prices especially in the stunning fresh produce section (the butcher less so, although the quality is superb). Look beyond the perfect fruit and vegetables for hard-to-find ingredients like fresh porcini mushrooms, kaffir lime leaves and Italian (not Chinese) pine nuts. 200 5th Ave, near 23rd St.
Jam-packed with olives, nuts, dips and other Middle Eastern delights, this is the place to stock up for a cheat's mezze party. An amazing selection of groceries spanning the region and beyond (this is where I find British ingredients in NYC like stem ginger and clotted cream). I love their real taramasalata and prepared foods like kibbe and vine leaves. Stop next door at Damascus Bakery for beautiful pita and lavash or a cheap falafel sandwich to go. 187 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn.
The ultimate cookbook store, with a huge selection of classic cookbooks and latest releases, plus nostalgic food postcards, food zines and a collection of Short Stack Editions, which make lovely food gifts. But this is no B&N, it feels like the neighborhood bookstore it is. Worth a hike up to the Upper East Side just for a browse. 1435 Lexington Ave, between 93rd and 94th Sts. | follow your nose to the scents of freshly-ground cumin, garam masala and vadouvan. Start with the walls of spices, oils, vinegars and unique finds like banana water and orange blossom extract – just the thing to unleash your inner mixologist. Out the back, plump figs, perfect chanterelles and Sicilian pistachios will leave you feeling like a kid in a candy store. 104 Ave B, near 7th St.
It's impossible to leave this culinary Aladdin's Cave without a serious dent to your wallet. First, the spices – they have them all, from allspice to za'atar | 135 |
Q: I have vulnerability report which has "<|fim_middle|> CVE numbers, or some other way to find out which security patches fix a vulnerability identified by a particular CVE.
There are also vendor-neutral vulnerability databases, like this one for example. They often include links to vendor-specific security announcements: find the announcement applicable to your distribution, and you'll have the exact information you need to fix the vulnerability in a maintainable way.
Vulnerability databases also include short descriptions of the nature of the vulnerability, if you need that: in this case, OpenSSL responds differently to different types of errors in received encrypted traffic, and if the attacker can detect this difference, it can be abused to decrypt encrypted data under some specific conditions.
From the description, you might guess that there could be two possible ways to fix this vulnerability: 1.) patch OpenSSL to have an uniform response to all decryption errors, or 2.) patch all OpenSSL-using applications to not disclose the type of decryption error to a possible attacker. Both are obviously desirable, but 1) provides a quick solution for many applications at once, and so it is likely to be the primary fix.
The vulnerability database also indicates that the vulnerability exists in OpenSSL versions starting from version 1.0.2 to version 1.0.2q. So you'll want to install an update for your OS that includes either OpenSSL 1.0.2r or greater, or any version of OpenSSL 1.0.2 that specifically says it includes a backported fix for CVE-2019-1559.
| OpenSSL 0-Length". What does it means and how to fix it? "OpenSSL 0-Length" how to fix this?
A: First, you find out the CVE number for this vulnerability. A quick bit of Googling tells me "OpenSSL 0-length" is CVE-2019-1559, published in February of this year.
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Throughout the year, I've repeatedly been critical here at CFIF of the atrocities occuring in Bashar al-Assad's Syria and the feckless Western response they've engendered. What I haven't done, however, is called for regime change.
There's a reason for that. In the hornet's nest that is the Middle East, even regimes seemingly superlative in outright evil (such as Assad's Syria and Gaddafi's Libya) can't be displaced with any certainty that the successor regime will be better. Writing for the Texas-based private intelligence firm Stratfor (of which he is and founder and CEO), George Friedman gives an excellent summary of why that is, using Egypt and Syria as examples:
What was misunderstood [in the West] was that while there was in fact a democratic movement in Egypt, the liberal democrats who wanted a Western-style regime were not the ones exciting popular sentiment. What was exciting it was the vision of a popularly elected Islamist coalition moving to create a regime that institutionalized Islamic religious values.
Westerners looked at Egypt and saw what they wanted and expected to see. They looked at Egyptians and saw themselves. They saw a military regime operating solely on brute force without any public support. They saw a mass movement calling for the overthrow of the regime and assumed that the bulk of the movement was driven by the spirit of Western liberalism. The result is that we have a showdown not between the liberal democratic mass and a crumbling military regime but between a representative of the still-powerful regime (Shafiq) and the Muslim Brotherhood.
If we understand how the Egyptian revolution was misunderstood, we can begin to make sense of the misunderstanding about Syria. There seemed to be a crumbling, hated regime in Syria as well. And there seemed to be a democratic uprising that represented much of the population and that wanted to replace the al Assad regime with one that respected human rights and democratic values in the Western sense. The regime was expected to crumble any day under the assaults of its opponents. As in Egypt, the regime has not collapsed and the story is much more complex.
Syrian President Bashar al Assad operates a brutal dictatorship that he inherited from his father, a regime that has been in power since 1970. The regime is probably unpopular with most Syrians. But it also has substantial support. This support doesn't simply come from the al Assads' Alawite sect but extends to other minorities and many middle-class Sunnis as well. They have done well under the regime and, while unhappy with many things, they are not eager to face a new regime, again likely dominated by Islamists whose intentions toward them are unclear. They may not be enthusiastic supporters of the regime, but they are supporters.
It's long past time that those of us in the West allow the Jeffersonian reveries that accompanied the genesis of the Arab Spring to fade. In most nations in the region, we are faced with one of two choices: secular dictatorships or Islamist totalitarianism. In general, the former will be preferable to the latter, though only marginally less despicable. In Syria, the brutality of the Assad regime — combined with its alliance with Iran — makes the situation virtually unnavigable.
These are loathsome choices. But that fact shouldn't lead us to the delusion that they are false ones.
Tags: Arab Spring, Bashar al-Assad, Egypt, foreign policy, George Friedman, Hosni Mubarak, Islamism, Muslim Brotherhood, Stratfor, Syria
Iran Tells Israel Not to Worry, Warships Sailing Past to Train in Syria
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Who says Iran's leaders don't know how to lighten the mood? With tensions in the Middle East boiling over – and Iran rumored to be behind many of the region's revolutionary protests – the Islamic Republic is trying to downplay the threat of its decision to send two warships through Egypt's Suez Canal and emerge off the coast of Israel.
Hard to blame Israeli officials in Tel Aviv for fearing the truth of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinijad's repeated promises to destroy the Jewish state after getting the news about his navy's surprise trip. But as proof of Iran's peaceful intentions the government offered two assurances. First, the ships won't carry any weapons or nuclear or chemical material. Second, the duo is headed to Syria for training.
Unfortunately for Iran, its dishonest record of nuclear enrichment and ties to terrorist organizations in Syria and elsewhere aren't fooling anyone – except the weakened Egyptian government looking to avoid a confrontation.
It's worth noting that an Iranian warship going through the Suez Canal under the Mubarak reign is unthinkable. Now, Israeli officials must consider more unthinkable scenarios with its sworn enemy soon sailing within sight of the Jewish homeland.
Tags: Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Iran, Israel, Middle East, protest, revolution, Suez Canal, Syria, war, warship
January 31st, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Understanding Egypt
Trying to wrap your head around the fast-breaking events in Egypt? Unsure as to whether this is a triumph for liberal democracy or a dark new chapter in the spread of militant Islam? You could do worse than turning to two of the most sagacious pundits in the land, David Warren and Andy McCarthy (the latter a former federal prosecutor who handled several cases relating to Islamic terrorism).
In the Ottawa Citizen, Warren perceptively writes:
While I recognize that support for "democracy and freedom" is substantial, within each Arab national society — that the middle class is not a nothing; that each economy depends on it — I doubt this "faction" can prevail. Worse, I think we are watching its final, hopeless bid for power.
The key fact, in Egypt (paralleled in Yemen and elsewhere), is that the Muslim Brotherhood has not declared itself. The Islamists could put vastly more people on the street. They could subvert the loyalties of policemen and soldiers, who already resent the moneyed middle class. They could generate just enough heat to make large districts of Cairo and Alexandria, now simmering, boil over.
But instead, they are playing neutral, watching those policemen and soldiers put the demonstrators down, while most of Egypt remains quiescent.
For this is not their revolution, and for the moment they are content to watch the autocratic regime, and its frustrated middle class, weaken each other. Their moment will come when Mubarak totters.
Equally insightful — and grim — McCarthy writes at National Review:
History is rarely a Manichean contest between good and evil. It's not a choice between the pro-Western shah and Iranian freedom, but between the shah and Khomeini's ruthless Islamist revolution. It's not a choice between the pro-Western Musharraf and Pakistani freedom, but between Musharraf and a tense alliance of kleptocratic socialists and Islamists. Back in the 1940s, it was not a choice between the British-backed monarchy and Egyptian freedom, but between the monarchy and a conglomeration of Nasserite pan-Arab socialists, Soviet Communists, and Brotherhood Islamists. And today, the choice is not between the pro-American Mubarak and Egyptian freedom; it is a question of whether to offer tepid support to a pro-American dictator or encourage swift transition to a different kind of tyranny — one certain to be a lot worse for us, for the West at large, and for our Israeli ally: the Muslim Brotherhood tempered only, if at all, by Mohamed ElBaradei, an anti-American leftist who willfully abetted Iran's nuclear ambitions while running the International Atomic Energy Agency.
History is not a quest for freedom. This is particularly true in the Islamic ummah, where the concept of freedom is not reasoned self-determination, as in the West, but nearly the opposite: perfect submission to Allah's representative on earth, the Islamic state. Coupled with a Western myopia that elevates democratic forms over the culture of liberty, the failure to heed this truth has, in just the past few years, put Hamas in charge of Gaza, positioned Hezbollah to topple the Lebanese government, and presented Islamists with Kosovo — an enduring sign that, where Islam is concerned, the West can be counted on to back away even from the fundamental principle that a sovereign nation's territorial integrity is inviolable.
Both pieces deserve to be read in their entirety — and both serve as chilling warnings of what may be to come.
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VI is the fifth studio album by American hardcore punk band Circle<|fim_middle|> well worth hearing.".
Personnel
Keith Morris - vocals
Greg Hetson - guitar
Zander Schloss - bass
Keith Clark - drums
Karat Faye - production, engineering
Eddy Schreyer - mastering
Edward J. Repka - design
Mark Weinberg - art direction
Gary Leonard - photography
References
1987 albums
Circle Jerks albums
Albums with cover art by Ed Repka
Combat Records albums | Jerks, released in 1987 by Relativity Records. Taking into account the Circle Jerks' contribution to the documentary and soundtrack The Decline of Western Civilization, VI is the band's sixth major body of work. It was the band's last album before its five-year hiatus from 1989 to 1994. This album's lineup later reunited in 1995 to record its final studio album to date, Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities.
Background
"Fortunate Son" is a Creedence Clearwater Revival cover.
Track listing
"Beat Me Senseless" (Greg Hetson, Keith Clark, Keith Morris) – 1:57
"Patty's Killing Mel" (Zander Schloss) – 2:05
"Casualty Vampire" (Hetson, Clark, Morris, Schloss) – 2:36
"Tell Me Why" (Hetson, Morris, Schloss) – 3:18
"Protection" (Clark, Morris, Schloss) – 1:45
"I'm Alive" (Clark, Morris, Schloss) – 2:37
"Status Clinger" (Clark, Schloss) – 2:43
"Living" (Darren Lipscomb, Clark, Schloss) – 2:29
"American Way" (Clark, Schloss) – 1:44
"Fortunate Son" (John Fogerty) – 2:02
"Love Kills" (Clark, Morris, Schloss) – 2:33
"All Wound Up" (Hetson, Morris, Schloss) – 1:32
"I Don't" (Hetson, Schloss) – 2:00
Release and reception
In an AllMusic review, David Cleary says "This strong album is one of the band's best. Tempos here are slowed down from that of standard hardcore; as a result, the songs here inhabit the uneasy netherworld between punk and heavy metal traversed most successfully by the Stooges and the Dictators. Only Keith Morris' raspy, growling vocals retain the band's tie with classic hardcore. Songwriting is still inconsistent, but there are a surprisingly large number of strong selections here, and all are performed with fiery energy. Highlights include "Casualty Vampire," "I Don't," and the top-notch "Beat Me Senseless." There's also a rushed and raw cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival chestnut "Fortunate Son." This platter is | 549 |
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Cubs Go From Longshots to Longer Shots After Deadline Deals
By Bryce Derouin @B_DEROUIN
August 3, 2021 01:50pm
The trade deadline marked the end of an era for the Chicago Cubs. Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant and Javier Baez are gone, and so are the team's chances of competing for a World Series title this season.
It didn't take long for Illinois sportsbooks to react. The Cubs were already longshots to win it all before the trades at +10000, but their sports betting odds have dropped even further after being sellers at the deadline. Chicago is now +30000 to win the World Series.
The team's MLB betting odds to win the division also took a hit from +2000 to +7500. As of Tuesday, the Cubs are currently 13 games behind the Milwaukee Brewers for the division lead.
Even the players are still adjusting to the franchise's mainstays no longer around.
"It's definitely been really tough. Still is," pitcher Kyle Hendricks told reporters. He is one of the few who remain from the 2016 championship team. "It's going to take a while to process. It's just very different around here without those guys. It was a crazy 24 hours. Still probably processing it all. It's going to take a while."
How They Got Here
Publicly, Bryant, Rizzo and Baez stated they wanted to remain with the team long term. But in a recent interview, Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer said that wasn't the case.
"When we sat down to do negotiations, that wasn't how they acted," Hoyer said.
After an 11-game losing streak to put the team out of contention, Hoyer stated the team would become sellers at the deadline. Fans knew this was coming. But there was hope the team would retain and extend any of the three franchise figures.
"I put my head on the pillow every night knowing that we put our best foot forward," Hoyer said. "The extensions we offered these guys will hold up exceptionally well; historically they'll hold up exceptionally well against the open market. I don't know why guys didn't want to sign. I don't know why guys didn't even<|fim_middle|> about to overpay, either. The team made that clear when it traded Yu Darvish and the $56 million remaining on his $126 million contract after ownership stated they were suffering "biblical losses" because of the pandemic.
Crosstown Trade
On the other side of the city, the White Sox are running away with the AL Central division with an 8.5-game lead. For IL gambling, the White Sox have the third-best odds to win the World Series at +700 and –5000 to win their division.
The White Sox benefited from the Cubs' fire sale, landing closer Craig Kimbrel to strengthen their bullpen. For Kimbrel, the White Sox sent second baseman Nick Madrigal and right-handed pitcher Codi Heuer. Kimbrel has a 0.41 ERA this season and has recorded 23 saves.
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Spotlight On: Missy Brown
by OR Today Magazine | May 1, 2017 | Magazine, Spotlight On
By Matt Skoufalos
In eight years touring the world with the non-governmental Mercy Ships, OR nurse Missy Brown has been to countries as far-flung as Togo, Benin, Sierra Leone, Congo and Madagascar.
Brown traces her interest in medical mission work to a childhood during which she accompanied her physician father and nurse mother on several trips to Haiti. The climate was far different from that of her home in a small suburb of Fort Wayne, Indiana, but it left a lasting impression. Whether looking through the windows of a local household or sitting in while her father consulted on a medical procedure there, being immersed in a foreign culture from a very young age seemed natural, and each trip became more personally significant, Brown said.
By the time of her final trip to Haiti, Brown was 16, and knew that she wanted to pursue a career in nursing. On that last visit, she left with more of an understanding about the broader local impact her family was having in the community, and it all fell together in her mind. Nursing is purposeful in and of itself, but nursing that elevates the standard of care in areas of the world where it is needed the most is an entirely different thing.
Brown took that impulse with her into her senior year of high school, where a health occupations education program also afforded her a glimpse into life in the operating room. From the time she saw her first surgery, Brown said she knew she'd found her niché. In the scant months between finishing high school and starting nursing school, she volunteered in the OR as often as possible, and was able to put enough experience under her belt in a summer to land work as an OR technician. It was a job Brown worked throughout the two-and-a-half years she spent earning her degree. Within three years, she'd passed her boards, launching a career that has spanned 22 years to date.
Five years into it, Brown learned about Mercy Ships, which she said offered the opportunity to reconcile her interest in helping communities of need while continuing in the OR.
"I thought, 'Oh, someday, I'm going to serve with them,' " she said. "And it wasn't until 2009 that it was my first time to serve short-term. I didn't know anyone, but I knew how to be an OR nurse."
Mercy Ships targets six different surgical specialties, all of which are focused on restoring function or dignity to patients in the developing world. Pediatric plastic surgery patients are commonly recipients of burn contraction releases or skin grafts, she said. In places where families cook over an open fire or on a charcoal stove, young children can stumble into a bad burn that can lead to a lifetime of debilitation. When health care isn't readily accessible, or is too expensive to obtain, families suffer for years from a lack of quality treatment. Corrective procedures can enable a child to develop the ability to provide for his or her family, or to go to school for the first time without social consequences, Brown said.<|fim_middle|> in your career." Surgeons who check their egos – and their paychecks – at the door allow the crew to "fully focus on others, whether it's your own team members or the local people you're working with," she said.
"It's so much more about relationships, or working with each other for the good of someone else who doesn't have access to care," Brown said. "I love the different specialties. I love having a smaller team where you become a family."
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"That child is not able to go to school because they're needed at home," Brown said. "Removing cataracts restores sight. That person can now provide for themselves, and they're not dependent on their family to care for them. It changes the whole family."
The Mercy Ships maxillofacial program helps patients overcome facial tumors that they may have carried for years. Obstetric patients whose fistulae are corrected also go through a dress ceremony, in which each patient is given a new dress to celebrate their chance at a new life free of discomfort.
"It's such a huge realm," Brown said. "There are so many opportunities. I love being able to directly help the surgeons; correcting a problem, helping people. I like hands-on nursing."
The crew on Mercy Ships is multinational; although English is the common language, its 400-member crew hails from 35-plus different nations. It's a seafaring organization, traveling from country to country on a converted Danish rail ferry, The Africa Mercy. Mercy Ships is also a faith-based organization, which Brown said allows her to live in a community that brings first-world medical care to third-world environments. The mix of factors gives her a sense of purpose and common cause at the same time.
"I feel like we uphold our standards of practice from AORN, and we are able to do just as good of surgeries here at the highest standard of care," Brown said. "I could be challenged and even learn and grow more here and learn from others. Everyone's coming with the same purpose: I want to serve God with my professional abilities."
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Stronger peeling medicine (salicylic acid). Prescription-strength wart medications with salicylic acid work by removing layers of a wart a little bit at a time. They may also stimulate your immune system's ability to fight the wart.
Your doctor will likely suggest you apply the medicine regularly at home, followed by occasional office visits.
Freezing medicine (cryotherapy). Cryotherapy done at a doctor's office involves applying liquid nitrogen to the wart, either with a spray or a cotton swab. This method can be painful, so your doctor may numb the area first.
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If pressure on the wart causes pain, try wearing well-cushioned shoes, such as athletic shoes that evenly support the sole and relieve some of the pressure. Avoid wearing uncomfortable shoes. | , and the dead tissue sloughs off within a week or so. Cryotherapy may also stimulate your immune system to fight viral warts. You may need to return to the doctor's office for repeat treatments every two to four weeks until the wart disappears.
Some studies suggest that cryotherapy combined with salicylic acid treatment is more effective than just cryotherapy, but further study is needed.
Other acids. Your doctor shaves the surface of the wart and applies trichloroacetic acid with a wooden toothpick. You'll need to return to the doctor's office for repeat treatments every week or so. Side effects include burning and stinging. Between visits, you may be asked to apply salicylic acid to the wart.
Immune therapy. This method uses medications or solutions to stimulate your immune system to fight viral warts. Your doctor may inject your warts with a foreign substance (antigen) or apply a solution or cream to the warts.
Minor surgery. Your doctor cuts away the wart or destroys it by using an electric needle (electrodesiccation and curettage). This procedure can be painful, so your doctor will numb your skin first. Because surgery has a risk of scarring, this method usually isn't used to treat plantar warts unless other treatments have failed.
Laser treatment. Pulsed-dye laser treatment burns closed (cauterizes) tiny blood vessels. The infected tissue eventually dies, and the wart falls off. This method requires repeat treatments every three to four weeks. The evidence for the effectiveness of this method is limited, and it can cause pain and potentially scarring.
Vaccine. HPV vaccine has been used with success to treat warts even though this vaccine is not specifically targeted toward the wart virus that causes the majority of plantar warts.
Peeling medicine (salicylic acid). Nonprescription wart removal products are available as a patch or liquid. Usually, you're instructed to wash the site, soak it in warm water, and gently remove the top layer of softened skin with a pumice stone or emery board. Then after the skin has dried, you apply the solution or patch. Patches are usually changed every 24 to 48 hours. Liquid applications are generally used daily. You may need repeated applications on a regular basis over several weeks to months to see results.
Freezing medicine (cryotherapy). Nonprescription medicines that freeze the wart include Compound W Freeze Off and Dr. Scholl's Freeze Away. The Food and Drug Administration cautions that some wart removers are flammable and shouldn't be used around fire, flame, heat sources (such as curling irons) and lit cigarettes.
Duct tape. Using duct tape to remove warts is a harmless but unproven approach. To try it, cover the wart with silver duct tape, changing it every few days. Between applications, soak the wart and gently remove dead tissue with a pumice stone or emery board. Then leave the wart open to the air to dry for a few hours before covering it with tape again.
You'll likely start by seeing your primary care doctor. He or she may refer you to a specialist in disorders of the skin (dermatologist) or feet (podiatrist). The following tips can help you prepare for your appointment.
Bring a list of all medications you take regularly — including over-the-counter (nonprescription) medications and dietary supplements — and the daily dosage of each.
If I have a plantar wart, can I start with at-home care?
If I proceed with home treatment, under what conditions should I call you?
If the lesion isn't a plantar wart, what tests do you need to do?
When did the lesion first appear?
Has it changed in size or appearance?
Have you had warts before?
Do you have diabetes or poor sensation in your feet?
Do you have any condition or take any medication that has weakened your ability to fight disease (immune response)?
Have you tried any home remedies? If so, how long have you used them and have they helped?
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Add potatoes and cook for about 5 minutes until just starting to feel tender. Try not to let them get too mushy. Drain.
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Cook onions until translucent and just starting to brown on the edges.
Remove onions from pan, and add some additional butter and/or olive oil if needed.
Add half the potatoes, toss with the oil and butter, and season with 1/2 tsp garlic powder and 1/2 tsp paprika, and additional salt if desired. Spread into roughly a single layer in the pan to get a nice crispy brown edge on the potatoes.
Cook for about 10 minutes, with minimal stirring, until they start to really brown on one side. Then stir to cook on the other sides for a few more minutes as well.
Set aside and cook the second half of the potatoes the same way, adding additional oil or butter to the pan if needed.
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Driving us to drink: Local beers power the Maine Brew Bus
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Jeannie Marvelle and Seth Hubley, of Hallowell, try some of Allagash Brewing Co.'s tasting room beers during the Maine Brew Bus tour on Sept. 5 in Portland. | By Will Graff
PORTLAND — From beneath the bill of his hat, Don Littlefield eyed his students in the large rear-view mirror of the bright green bus he was driving last week. They're mostly quiet; maybe a little unsure.
"Welcome class," he said, introducing himself through an intercom system, mimicking the distinctive mechanical voice of an air airline pilot. "I'm your tour guide and guidance counselor today. And this is Lenny."
Lenny is the Maine Brew Bus. Reinstated after a decade in the Kennebunk schools, Lenny is "now on to more noble adventures," Littlefield said, given new life as a tour bus for Maine's rapidly growing craft brewery scene.
After gently nudging a telephone pole while maneuvering out of a parking spot outside the back entrance to the Thirsty Pig on Market Street, the bus was off on the Dirigo Trail Tour. Littlefield steered the bus down Franklin Street and over to Forest Avenue.
The tour visits three of Maine's leading breweries: Allagash Brewing Co. off Riverside Street, where the visit begins with a tour and ends with a tasting; then to Maine Beer Co. in Freeport for a beer sampler and snack, and finally to Rising Tide Brewing Co. in East Bayside, for a final tasting.
Littlefield, who also works an overnight supervisor shift at UPS, starts the trip with an icebreaker.
He asks everyone, starting with the back of the bus and moving forward, to share their name, what they do and their favorite beer style. Accuracy on the first two questions is not required.
On this trip, their names ranged from Taco and Adam to Valerie and Carmanjello. It was also a diverse group that included a New York City chef, a fantasy football commissioner, a veterinarian and a "professional couch surfer."
Most were Mainers, including a small group from the Saco area and a couple from Hallowell. Another couple was from New Jersey. All appeared to be in their mid 20s to late 30s.
And while Littlefield led the tour alone, he is usually joined by the founder of the Brew Bus, Zach Poole, a 32-year-old, part-time physical education teacher in the Saco School Department.
Poole started the company – which celebrated its first anniversary Labor Day weekend and hosts five different Maine beer tours in Cumberland and York counties on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays – after taking notice of the "craft beer boom," not only in Maine, but across the country.
"There's all these breweries popping up and I wanted to show people to them, teach them about the beer and learn myself," Poole said.
Maine has about 40 breweries, with another 18 planned in the next year and half, he said.
That explosion is driving people's interest in craft beer and "beer tourism." Another beer tour bus called Maine Beer Tours also opened in 2012 and offers tours on Friday and Saturday.
In addition to the the scheduled tours, the Brew Bus also hosts private tours, and when cruise ships are in town, it meets passengers as they step off the ships. Prices for the tours range from about $40 to $75.
And while there is drinking involved in the tour, Poole said it's not about getting drunk.
"I'm very happy with the little amount of intoxication we've had. I'm proud of it," he said. "This is not a party bus, it's educational. And while I want people to have a good time, I also want to feel good about where I'm dropping them off."
Into the Allagash
At the first stop, Mike Guarracino of Allagash leads a tour of the brewery, which expanded this year. He takes the crowd through the brewery and out back to an adjacent building that hosts the barrel room, where the brewers age dozens of experimental beers.
The tour ended in a sampling of four of the Belgian-style brewery's beer.
Afterward, the group piled back into the bus and headed north on Interstate 295 to Freeport and Maine Beer Co.
On the way, Littlefield spit out nuggets of brewing history and statistics, including that Maine breweries have increased production 90 percent since 2009, ballooning from 4.1 million barrels to 7.9 million.
He then launches into a trivia game that tests the student's knowledge of beer.
The bus is split into two teams, left side versus right side. A score is kept, although at the end of the tour it's not entirely clear who wins. Probably the right side.
Trivia draws from five subjects: science, math, history, geography and art, Littlefield said, and includes questions like, "What is the science of brewing called?" (zymurgy) and "What is an alabeorphilist?" (bottle collector). Later, he admitted, there are no art questions.
At Maine Beer's new brewery on U.S. Route 1 in Freeport, which opened earlier this year, the group tries four more five-ounce beers. They include three of the brewery's established beers and one pilot beer, an intensely hopped red India Pale Ale.
When the beer tasting was finished, Littlefield shepherded his students back on board the bus for the final stop: Rising Tide.
Heading south on I-295, Littlefield continued the trivia questions.
Testing their math skills, and possibly their soberness, he asked the group to calculate the beer score of a $6 pint of Allagash White, the brewery's 5 percent alcohol by volume flagship Belgian wheat beer.
The formula is beer size, multiplied by ABV, divided by price. Littlefield's question was followed by a long silence, as the students pulled out the calculators on their smart phones.
Finally, a woman in the back called out, "13.33333 … ."
"Correct," Littlefield said.
Soon after, the bus exits the freeway.
Welcome to 'Yeast Bayside'
"Now, we descend into the depths of 'Yeast Bayside,'" Littlefield said, referring to the Portland neighborhood known for its concentration of fermented-beverage makers.
Rising Tide's tasting room Manager, Stasia Brewczynski, greeted the group and poured everyone four more beers, including the newly released Calcutta Cutter, a double IPA.
Poole, who met the bus at Rising Tide after a day of teaching, said working with slightly intoxicated people is not unlike working with kids.
"Kindergartners and drunk people are kind of the same, but that's says more about drunk people than kindergartners," he said. "I have a good balance working with kids and people who are drinking. It's a good mix."
After everyone finished off their 60th ounce of beer, they climbed back onto the bus.
Littlefield then drove his students back to the Thirsty Pig and left them with a few parting words.
"It's been my pleasure to drive you to drink local," he said.
Will Graff can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @W_C_Graff.
David Geary, founder of D.L. Geary Brewing Co., on Monday, at his office off Riverside Street in Portland.
It's all about the bottles for David Geary, the father of New England craft beer
PORTLAND — The craft-brewing scene in Maine has grown rapidly in recent years, with more than 40 breweries and another 20 planned in the next year and half.
It's all exciting, unless you're David Geary, the father of New England craft beer.
Tucked away in a nondescript industrial park warehouse office off Riverside Street, the owner of D.L. Geary Brewing Co. on Monday said he is not encouraged by the explosion of craft beer.
"Beer is a zero-sum game," he said. "There's only a finite number of taps and shelf-space capacity."
According to the Brewer's Association, the United States is home to about 2,500 breweries, a dramatic increase since the 1980s, when there were only about 90.
Today, there is the equivalent of one brewery opening every day.
Geary, who lives in Cape Elizabeth, said the brewing scene has changed dramatically in the years since he began building his brewery in 1984.
"There we no real road maps, how-to guides," he said. "All of our equipment is custom made. These days you can buy it off the shelf, turn-key operation, if you've got enough money.
"Everything we did, we did by the seat of our pants and it was sometimes very difficult."
When Geary tried to buy 300 empty kegs – an extremely small order for the time – suppliers laughed at him, he said.
Geary trained in the 1980s at a Scottish brewery housed in a Traquair House, which is the oldest inhabited house in Scotland. The 350-year-old brewery had all wooden vessels and cobblestone floors, he said.
With no home-brewing experience or any particular long-time interest in beer, Geary set out to build New England's first independent brewery.
"It just seemed like a crazy, exciting, wonderful thing to do," he said, adding that looking back, it has actually turned out to be "crazy and exciting."
He sold his first beer in December 1986.
Since then, Geary has expanded the brewery six times, and has helped start two other large breweries in Maine: Shipyard Brewing Co. and Portland's first brewpub, Gritty McDuff's.
Then, in 1995, another brewery arrived: Allagash Brewing Co.
Allagash founder Rob Todd came to Geary to tell him he was opening a brewery just down the street.
"He came over and said, 'Hey man,' with his ponytail, peace sign bumper sticker, driving a Volvo, forest green, with Vermont plates," he said.
Imitating Todd's voice, Geary continued, "'I'm gonna open up a brewery and I thought I'd check out your operation.' I said, 'excuse me, but what?"
"We still laugh about that," he said.
And now, even more brewers have moved into his neighborhood, including three planning to open at what has become the incubator for Portland breweries.
In the shadow of Allagash, the 1 Industrial Way building has been home to Rising Tide, Maine Beer Co. and the now-defunct Bull Jagger Brewing Co.
"The business is nowhere near what it was four or five years ago," Geary said. "Everybody's a brewer now."
And while the market may be somewhat saturated, Geary said his brewery has survived because most of the new brewery sales are at the tap, not in retail stores, where he sells most of his beer in bottles.
Still, he doesn't like sharing any words of wisdom.
"Why would I give them advice?" Geary said.
— Will Graff
Gary Drew, of Saco, stands in front of a wall of aging beer barrels Sept. 5 at Allagash Brewing Co. in Portland, during a Maine Brew Bus tour.
Zach Poole, left, founder of the Maine Brew Bus, and Don Littlefield in front of Lenny, the bus, on Sept. 5 outside Rising Tide Brewery in Portland.
A selection of beers at Maine Beer Co. in Freeport.
Don Littlefield of the Maine Brew Bus takes a photo of a group of friends from Saco who took the tour. From left, Adam Caras, Leigh Trask | 2,431 |
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If I may offer some advice. Keeping a journal is a great idea, however I would make a suggestion.
1. If you are sticking to your trading plan and your trades are working then Great!
2. If you are not sticking to your trading plan and are making revenge trades or becoming impatient and just making trades to make a trade these will all show up in your journal if you keep track of them.
If you keep doing the same thing over and over making the same mistakes..well, that is insane.
So first you need to find out what you keep doing wrong, remember you can't fix it if you don't know what you keep doing wrong over and over. Focus more and why you are losing and fix it, the winners will take care of themselves.
here's a "mixed salad" of my thoughts and experience.
First, sure you know the 80/20 % rule. For example, most probably 80% of your profit comes from 20% of your winning trades. Okay, you can improve your entries but see this. 80% of your loss comes from 20% of your losers. Now that's what needs attention, imho. Keep in mind that there is no perfect system so losses will be with you as long as you trade. But size matters..
For me, this is the ever best advise for traders. The system is more important than the goals! Sharpen your system and operate it day by day. You should reach your goals.. or even more.
Logging all of your trades is the best. You can find cyclical things like trades in the lunch time are losers or long trades on Wed, Thu on some instrument are the most profitable. What can you do? Avoid trading in the lunch time and focus on the best days of week. There is life outside and now you know when to sit at your computer.
For such analysis you need to have both winners and losers, trade times and instruments. And most importantly you must do the homework with it!
lol..very true, it typically can take a lot of time to accumulate a return, and very little time to give it back to the market. Especially when learning.
Journal the good and the bad, and make yourself a trading robot. making yourself mechanical and following your plan works in the longer run in refining your trading plan through lesson's you've learnt, and cutting out making the same old mistakes through less qualitative/psychological based decision making. It also forces you to learn about the markets and different approaches to understand why what happened, did happen.
After a few people have quit or temporarily stopped journaling on futures.io (formerly BMT) and after reading some of the journals, I'm trying to figure out the value of journaling here, meaning public journaling. I definitely see the value of journaling, but what is the value of doing it publicly?
- how many successful traders are actually journaling publicly?
- may be it's not a coincidence that successful traders hate sharing their PnL?
- if you have a particular issue you are trying to figure out, then may be posting a few charts to get somebody else's opinion is good, but what's the value of every day posting?
I'd like to hear what everybody else thinks. thanks!
Last edited by Anna K; September 17th, 2014 at 04:37 PM.
The journal is whatever you make it, that's the main point. The time that exists between trades that need to be taken is far greater than the effort and time it takes to post a simple journal entry.
Most make it too complicated, thinking they need to find every emotional glitch or technical chart snag or discuss a dozen different ways of doing something. It's much simpler - say what you did, why you did it and what happened. It's for your benefit first and foremost, anything else is a bonus, and a handful of lines is plenty.
As regards looking good or looking bad, you have to get way past that in the real hot seat so I think you should discount that. We all screw up, usually in style at some point, and usually frequently in some phases of the journey. It's irrelevant and it will always happen.
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Journalling is like sharing our cards, we can be confident that what we see is real and know where we are in the journey, no point pretending to ourselves otherwise.
Keep them short, light, honest, direct and simple. No great audience needed and no more detail needed, it either tells a good story and each chapter made a difference to our life or progress, or we weren't serious anyway.
Yes, I know, but there are still plenty in real life. Get used to making your own judgements about how long the lines between the two different sets of arrows are, not picking the one the rest of the group says is the longest.
Best of living and trading to you. | the same applies, if you can't ignore them in a journal then there's no chance in the hot seat.
If you want to find a method, hone an edge and really make progress at this job I think it's hard to beat. I've kept two real slum dog chat holes of journals and I would have no chance of doing what I can do now if I hadn't kept them. Despite how casual they are I have always recorded a summary of all trades taken, always both winners and losers. I have also run three separate monthly evaluation exercises, in each case achieving terrific gains and then blowing them out, all in public. No better therapy exists. I am currently in the fourth, this time with more paint.
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A Practical Approach to More Thoughtful MVPs (and MVTs).
Product design and development is a long and complicated process that can pose considerable risks for businesses, especially those just starting out. This is why most successful companies follow a tried-and-tested strategy for better product design and reducing the time<|fim_middle|> has features that users will actually need — which brings us to the next point.
Better awareness of users' wants, needs, and pain points. Sure, product teams can make informed assumptions about what the end-user will expect from their product and come up with ways to solve their problems. But, the keyword is assumptions. Instead, letting future users test the product not only helps gather early supporters and adopters but also generates constructive feedback and suggestions. Product teams will know exactly what their target customer's pain points are that need to be fixed — and avoid building a product that users will hate to use!
Having a clear development plan. Starting with an MVP can help ensure that all the product features are relevant to the market and the end user. It will also help product teams work on the development in iterative steps: for instance, if it's a digital product, like an app, it can be released in batches, each time with updated or added functionalities. This will allow users to provide ongoing feedback with each batch.
The plan can follow an inverse pyramid structure:
Need to have. Must-have features that the product/platform can't function without — key service offerings.
Want to have. Features that add substance — non-essentials that help with service offerings.
Like to have. Extras that are not needed for a full product, e.g., animations, Easter eggs — features that make your product stand out. This is definitely favorable to add but is not always feasible in early versions.
But, there is another strategy: instead of building a basic version of the product and testing it in the market with actual users, it involves testing hypotheses about the market before attempting to launch the product.
Minimum Viable Test.
When it comes to assessing something that is not a definite product, a minimum viable product (MVP) can be substituted by a minimum viable test (MVT). This is particularly helpful for companies that want to experiment with a fresh business (or product) idea or, at a larger scale, entire business models or processes.
Essentially, MVTs enable companies to evaluate whether the market would appreciate their innovation — by testing an assumption rather than a product. They help businesses reduce failure and predict their chances of success with higher accuracy.
The key is to take the main idea or vision and break it down into a few brief initial hypotheses. At this stage, the testing process should be minimal and only focus on these early predictions.
One of the many advantages of MVTs is that they can be done by business stakeholders without a tech background and by non-technical teams. This means that a founder can test their idea for an app without having to design and code it first, and then look for technical team members only after their vision has proven successful. That way, they waste as little time (and money) as possible both for their business and for potential hires.
MVTs vs. MVPs.
The key difference between MVPs and MVTs is that a minimum viable test (MVT) does not attempt to replicate the final product; instead, it's about testing an assumption that has to be true for the business and its future product to appeal to the market. On the contrary, a minimum viable product (MVP) implies something distinct and already useable — and this is not always realistic for untested product visions.
The MVP process starts with building the prototype, seeing how it performs, and then iterating on it until it shows a good market fit. On the other hand, the MVT approach begins with running tests to create a vision for a product that already has a good market fit — and then only building it.
So, rather than launching an incomplete app — say, an early version of a food delivery platform that can perform basic functions like making an order and notifying about its arrival, — you would run tests by crafting a landing page or a digital marketing campaign for the app, and observing how it performs and what kind of response it gets. Even if you need to make revisions, the changes can be as simple as modifying the copy or adjusting the target audience.
Prioritizing for Success.
One issue with MVPs is that building the most basic features can be more challenging than it sounds. It's easy to go overboard with things that are perceived to be essential but could result in overbuild. MVPs can also become bloated as various stakeholders continuously come up with features to add and things to improve. At the early stages of product development, this is unnecessary — you want to prioritize only the most important features that you believe will make the product a success.
Strategy for Simplicity.
When working with an MVP, product teams often go through a pattern of updating and testing the product, receiving feedback, and then revising it repeatedly until it seems "perfect" and complete. This will inevitably result in adding features and functions that are not critical for an initial prototype.
The fact that MVPs can quickly grow out of control and become complex hinders their value in testing an idea or a product. So if your business has one specific vision and one distinct problem to solve, you might end up losing sight of this key focus. With an overload of features, how can you determine whether your original hypothesis is working or whether the product is a success?
Running MVTs instead can remove constant (and often redundant) revisions by helping product teams refine their strategy early on so that they can confidently move forward. With a minimum viable test, you're only trying out a single hypothesis to ensure that you don't deviate from the original vision. Because of this, MVTs have to be simple and feature-light so that they're flexible enough to make changes in case the idea doesn't fit the market.
In short, MVTs require you to focus on simplicity first — something we prioritize at Mäd. So our advice is:
Choose one core idea or solution and focus on it. All the other features can come later.
3 Steps to Running an MVT.
This detailed article by Gagan Biyani (co-founder and CEO of Maven and, previously, founder of Udemy and Sprig) outlines a great 3-step framework for planning and running efficient MVTs.
1. Find your value proposition.
The first thing to do with a product idea is to determine the solution you're offering to clients. Start by asking the following questions:
Is there a demand for the product or service you want to introduce to the market?
Will this new idea result in positive changes for your organization and your customers?
At this stage, try to define not only why users might want your product or service but also whether you can realistically deliver on your promise and provide value. With that in mind, it will benefit your business to stay away from overly complicated ideas and keep it simple!
2. List the threats and risky assumptions.
Not every idea is a good one. But instead of trying to figure out if you're as good as the current industry leader, think instead of the primary risks and roadblocks:
Why might this product fail? But also, why might it succeed?
What internal and external factors could break your system?
Evaluating risks and threats is important before taking any action — many great ideas fail simply because they don't work in reality, or you end up building something that people don't really want or need.
A few subjects to consider are market characteristics, product marketing, and profit.
Market. Before introducing something to the market, you need to assess its size and any existing competitors. If your product or service is too niche, the demand for it will be smaller and not always easy to be part of; and if the market is already very saturated, differentiation becomes essential.
Marketing. Once you have your idea or product and the market seems comfortable enough to enter, you should also think about your selling strategy. If you add an excellent, on-demand app to the App Store, yet you don't plan any communication or campaigns about it — it can easily drown in obscurity, no matter how great it is in theory! So, know how to market and sell your idea.
Profit. Finally, decide on a reasonable pricing scheme for your product. Success is not instant, so it's important to force yourself to figure out what price consumers are willing to pay relative to the cost it is for you to deliver your solution (source).
3. Test the atomic unit.
At this stage, you can start determining whether your idea works in practice — that is, planning and running your MVTs.
Look for the smallest possible unit or feature to test. Biyani refers to this as the atomic unit of your planned product, which is also the one main hypothesis that MVTs will help to assess. (As an example, "For Google, the atomic unit is a search query. For Amazon, it's ordering a book online. For Coinbase, it's an easier way to buy and sell crypto.")
If it's a physical product, think of the smallest possible item that a consumer would buy. Then, use MVTs to test against each threat or risk you've identified, and adjust as needed. You might need to do several MVTs to de-risk your ideas and hypotheses. In the process, you will also gain insight into the market, the consumers, and your product in the context of its environment.
Finally, the next step after running sufficient tests is either crafting a well-informed MVP and launching it or developing and building the whole product — now grounded on actual market knowledge.
Quick Guide.
Follow this simple list to identify the main aspects of your hypothesis and plan your MVTs:
Title — Descriptive, informative, and easy to understand.
Who? — Whom are you targeting? Define the audience for your MVT.
What? — What are you going to do? Run a campaign, test a landing page, etc.?
Where? — Which platform will you use?
When? — Either the duration of the test or the date or occasion on which you will run it (e.g., Christmas).
How? — Describe the testing process with who is involved and what is needed, i.e., the necessary resources and preparations.
Why? — Finally, what is the purpose of the test — what is your hypothesis? What are you trying to prove or assess?
Final Thoughts.
Experimenting with both minimum viable products and minimum viable tests can help businesses develop and launch great products that consumers need — and actually enjoy using.
Of course, it's not always possible to predict how a market will evolve as customer demands change regularly and more companies enter to compete; neither MVPs nor MVTs can guarantee success and prevent failure. But developing a good product testing strategy can give businesses more confidence in their idea, driving them to long-term performance and growth.
Running both MVTs and MVPs can help generate a clear-cut vision of the product while collecting feedback from actual users. But while launching a minimum viable product can benefit businesses by informing them of what real users think of their concept, it's not always the most time- and cost-effective way of testing an idea.
A more practical approach is to start with minimum viable testing. Running several uncluttered, simple MVTs helps businesses craft a better strategy and be well-prepared when actually building their vision. MVTs require minimal resources — yet often generate plenty of insight and a higher chance of success when launching the final product.
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Building and testing a minimum viable product (MVP) is an important step in this process. Essentially, an MVP is an early prototype that looks and feels like a simplified version of the final product. It should have the basic functionality of the planned product so that it can be testable by real-world users. MVPs create grounds for feedback and experimentation without the need for the product to be fully developed, which can be time-consuming and costly.
While the term MVP is typically a buzzword in the digital product space, it's important to note that this is not exclusive to software and technology — an MVP can be the quickest and most accessible way to test any idea.
Benefits of the Bare Minimum.
It requires a lot of time, effort, and money to build the perfect product, whether it's a physical item or software. Most businesses — especially startups — can (and should!) try to avoid risk and begin by releasing as early as possible a version of their product for testing before launching the final thing.
There are a few benefits to doing this:
Optimizing investments in time and money. Both physical and digital products can be incredibly costly to develop, not to mention time-consuming: selecting the right team, preparing resources, and actually building the product. Designing and testing an MVP allows businesses to gain feedback before releasing the final output to avoid wasting time crafting a shippable product and then (potentially) having to rebuild the entire thing after feedback. This can greatly reduce overheads and ensure the final product | 315 |
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Students in this course learn soldering, layout, and basic circuit design<|fim_middle|> nursing houses and hospitals, switch testers are needed in each room. A switch tester includes an LED, a resistance, and 2 AAA batteries inside a package. Each student was responsible for building one switch tester and the final product was delivered to nursing houses and hospitals. Students showed great interest in the projects and some even asked for working on more than one device for more experience. Xingwei Wang comments on how the dynamics of the project and the division of the students into groups gave her the opportunity to help each student "one by one": "I have better communication with each student". She also comments that: "The students show greater interest in the class and the community also would like us to continue this cooperation". | ; as a project the students applied all this knowledge to building a Switch Tester. A switch tester is a device to test the functionality of big switches especially designed for disabled persons who have difficulty in handling standard-size switches for control of lights, toys, wheelchairs, etc. In some | 57 |
Located almost halfway between the I.F.S.C. / North Quays and Fairview, "Cusack's" is a well known Licensed Landmark occupying a prominent corner trading position on the south side of North<|fim_middle|> side of the building..
Drygoods Store : Staff Cloakroom : Wc. Wb.
INVENTORY: Inventory of furniture & effects included in the sale available on request.
VIEWING: Strictly by appointment with the selling Agents.
SOLICITORS: Donal M. Gahan Ritchie & Co. (Mr. Joseph Richie). 36, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. | Strand Road, close to G.A.A. headquarters at Croke Park, in the centre of an established and densely populated business and residential district of North Dublin.
Currently Let on a short-term basis, with three months unexpired, the Premises are fitted out to an exceptionally high degree, with an amazing inventory of Nautical, Historical and Sporting Memorabilia and Collectables, including old-world posters, mirrors and advertisements.
The upper floor provides valuable potential for the up-grading of this accommodation into a spacious Apartment, with independent access from Bessborough Avenue, to the | 114 |
Final thoughts on Wimbledon 2017
1) Garbine Muguruza loves the big stage
Muguruza has won just two titles in the last three years – Roland Garros and Wimbledon. The 23-year-old struggles to produce her best on a regular basis<|fim_middle|> unprecedented 8th title at a canter.
Federer may have been outstanding, but the majority of top players failed to produce their best in SW19. There was an opportunity for a new name to emerge and reach the latter stages, but the youngest competitor in the quarter-finals was 27-year-old, Milos Raonic. | but she is capable of raising her level at the majors.
The Spaniard is a relentless attacking force when in full flight however she has little to fall back on when her destructive groundstrokes fail to hit the target. She completed her Wimbledon preparations by suffering a humbling 6-1 6-0 defeat to Barbora Strycova in the second round of Eastbourne, and few would have predicted what would follow in SW19.
In her final duel with Venus Williams, Muguruza cracked the ball 6mph harder when staring down break-point or seeking a breakthrough. Her refusal to back down in tight situations is partly why the Spaniard will likely add to her major haul in future years.
2) Rafael Nadal will not win Wimbledon again
The 'King of Clay' arrived at the All England Club brimming with confidence after completing 'La Decima' in Paris just weeks before. He had not been beyond the quarter-finals at the penultimate Grand Slam of the year since 2011 but injuries had contributed to his woes.
Nadal was irresistible in the first three rounds as he swatted John Millman, Donald Young and Karen Khachanov aside with the minimum of fuss. The first player he encountered with serious weaponry, though, bundled him out the competition.
Gilles Muller ended Nadal's hopes in five pulsating sets. The Spaniard has always been vulnerable at Wimbledon against big-hitters – especially in the first week when the grass is lush – but he is now unable to aborb the heavy-blows like he once did.
If Nadal was ever going to recapture his best grass-court form again, it was going to happen this year.
3) Andy Murray needs an extended break
Watching the defending champion hobble around Centre Court using his racket as a walking stick was a sorry sight. The world No.1 was in obvious discomfort in his quarter-final defeat to Sam Querrey and he exited the tournament he adores with a whimper.
It's been a miserable year for Murray and he has been plagued by injury and illness. He still appears to be feeling the effects of a hectic end to the 2016 season and he desperately needs to rest his weary limbs.
It might mean missing the US Open, but it's time for the 30-year-old to think about the long-term.
4) Johanna Konta shows her quality
The British No.1 was one of the pre-tournament favourites despite only ever winning one main draw match at Wimbledon.
There was enormous pressure on the No.6 seed but she was excellent from the first ball of the championships. The combination of power and precision helped take the 26-year-old to the last four however she came unstuck against a rampant Venus Williams.
It was a valiant effort from Konta and she will have opportunities in the future to lift the iconic Venus Rosewater Dish.
5) Roger Federer wins 8th title easily
Federer is the third man in the Open era to win multiple Grand Slams without conceding a single set. The Swiss previously achieved the feat in 2007 at the Australian Open but few would have believed a 35-year-old could replicate the achievement.
The 19-time major winner dropped serve just four times in the tournament and his longest match was 2 hours and 20 minutes against Tomas Berdych. It was a fortnight of spellbinding tennis from the fleet-footed Swiss and he won an | 713 |
Internet hosting cocktail hour at house is back. ABarAbove posted a photo of his accomplishment explaining "this is what happens when a wife asks knowledgeable bartender to build a home bar." And now we have to confess, it's one of Boat Deck Paint many extra spectacular initiatives we have seen on Reddit, and it's not<|fim_middle|> Supplies" | simply because this area appears like a great time in the making, if you understand what we imply.
Most designs come precut to fit a bar prime, so installation merely requires a hammer, nails, some mild sanding, and a remaining varnish to make the molding match the remainder of the bar. F. The drink rail is where drinks get poured on a standard bar. In addition to stopping spills from leaking to the floor and providing a pleasant arm relaxation for elbow benders, bar molding turns an abnormal countertop into a bar high.
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Sport and nature. In Antey there is a cross-country track while for downhill skiing all the nearby resorts are so close and easy to be reached in a few minutes by car.
Antey is a sort of scenary with plenty of nice small houses surrounded by an intact and relaxing environment. From here you can enjoy the first amazing view of the Matterhorn, a mythical image that, since last century, striked the fantasy of some brave travellers.
Art and tradition. Antey, previously considered as the small main place of the Marmore low valley, has very old origin dating back to the time just before the roman occupation. The parish church of the XIIIth century and the "rus du pan perdu" represent the oldest remains. The annual wooden exposition gives an idea of the trained skills of the local craftsm<|fim_middle|> area give new opportunities for fun. | en.
Excursions and sport. During the summer season there are plenty of opportunities for walking or using the mountain-bikes along the different routes, including a "healthy itinerary". Beautiful paths reach Torgnon, Chamois and La Magdeleine crossing old picturesque villages. The recent sport | 58 |
Introduction: To optimal glycemic control without hypoglycemia must be the aim of insulin treatment for all patients with type 1 diabetes (T1DM). Despite the advantages of the basal-bolus insulin regimens with MDI, hypoglycemia presents a major barrier in achieving desirable blood glucose levels. Degludec is a new basal insulin analog with longer half-life and lower variability.
Objetive: To investigate the differences between long-acting insulins glargine and degludec, in real-life study in pediatric and adolescent patients with T1DM.
Materials<|fim_middle|>ludec is effective as Glargine in glycemic control, without differences in glucose variability, and might be advantageous in patients with risk of hypoglycemia. | and methods: This observational, retrospective study enrolled 19 patients with T1DM. They were on basal bolus therapy with Glargine administered once daily and pre-prandial insulin boluses. Blinded CGM (Medtronic iPro 2®) was chosen to monitoring glucose values. Glucose data obtained by CGM during treatment with Glargine and 3 months after switching to Degludec were compared. Each patient serves as a self-control. Data were analyzed by several indexes: HbA1c, total insulin dose, basal/bolus ratio, average glucose and SD, fasting mean glucose, time in range (70–180 mg/dl), time in hypoglycemia (<70 mg/dl, <54 mg/dl), time in hyperglycemia (>180 mg/dl, >250 mg/dl), hypoglycemia episodes and glucose variability (coefficient of variation (CV), MAGE, MODD and CONGA). Stastistical processing was performed using IMB SPSS Statistic 19. T Student test for paired samples.
Results: Nineteen patients with T1DM (10 boys, 9 girls, age 8–19, with an average duration of T1DM of 7 years, were on basal-bolus therapy with Glargine once a day and preprandial fast acting insulin boluses. Reason of switching: hypoglycemia or variability. Overall glucose control was the same between the two treatments, and HbA1c did not change after switching from Glargine to Degludec (7.05±0.7% vs 7.01±0.7%). Total daily insulin requirement was reduced in 10 patients, dependent on basal insulin. Looking at hypoglycemia (n=16), a statistically significant increase in fasting mean glycemia was observed (120.4 vs 151.2, P=0.08). Time spent by patients in hypoglycemia (<54 and <70 mg/dl) was not statistically different between Glargine and Degludec. Current tratment with Degludec, episodes of hypoglycaemia are reduced (11 vs 8, P=0.09). Switching from Glargine to Degludec did no change in terms of daily glycemic variability, despite CONGA index with a significant increase.
Discussion: The potencial limitation of this study is the small sample size, but it shows that Deg | 539 |
Failure to Thrive (FTT) is a condition by which a child's growth and development falls short and is often attributed to malnourishment. The patient significantly lags in height or weight, falling at risk for long-term effects, including impaired motor skills or delayed learning and language skills. These are the children who are seen in BMC's Grow Clinic for<|fim_middle|>, the Grow Clinic advocates for policies that decrease the number of children in need. | Children. A sub-specialty service founded by Deborah Frank, MD, pediatrician at BMC, the Grow Clinic has been dedicated to treating FTT through a unique multidisciplinary approach for more than 30 years. More than 1,650 patients have benefited from comprehensive medical, nutritional and social services, provided by a team of physicians, dietitians, social workers and outreach workers. More than 80% of patients have shown significant improvement in their weight by the time they "graduate" from the Grow Clinic.
In addition to providing clinical services | 114 |
S49-85-066 - STS-049 - RMS end effector seen through the aft flight deck window
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Close-up view of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) end effector as seen throught aft flight deck window of the STS-49 orbiter Endeavour. Subject Terms: REMOTE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM, END EFFECTORS, STS-49<|fim_middle|>ives.gov/id/22706503 | , ENDEAVOUR (ORBITER) Date Taken: 5/11/1992 Categories: Payloads Interior_Exterior: Exterior Ground_Orbit: On-orbit Original: Film - 70MM CT Preservation File Format: TIFF feat: NON-EARTHOBS nlat: -26.9 nlon: 103.8 azi: 76 alt: 199 elev: -14
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. 2/17/1973. S49-85-066 - STS-049 - RMS end effector seen through the aft flight deck window. 1981-04-12/2011-07-21. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://catalog.archives.gov/id/22706503. (Accessed July 19, 2019.)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. 2/17/1973, (1981-04-12/2011-07-21) S49-85-066 - STS-049 - RMS end effector seen through the aft flight deck window. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://catalog.arch | 310 |
Najib Says Malaysia Will Review Foreign Investment Policies
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April 17 (Bloomberg) — Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said the government will review the guidelines on foreign investment in the country. He spoke to reporters in Klang, outside the capital Kuala Lumpur, today.
On the further easing of foreign-investment rules:
"We will review whatever policies that will not be good for business, but we need a bit of time to study all the current policies to make sure whatever decision that we make is well- received, not only by the business community,<|fim_middle|> Economic Planning Unit to suggest to the government a comprehensive solution to tackle the toll-hike issue, which is a burden to the people and the government."
On whether the government would acquire toll-road operator PLUS Expressways Bhd.:
"We're looking at every option but it's too early for me to say what will be done by the government." A toll increase "is an issue that the people dislike very much."
–With reporting from Soraya Permatasari in Kuala Lumpur. Editor: Stephanie Phang
Source : Bloomberg
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纳吉兑现承诺送大礼 槟242中学正副校长升级 | but also by the people. The people above all must accept the policies of the government."
On the review of gas and electricity tariffs:
"It has to be taken in a holistic manner. One is the position of Tenaga Nasional Bhd., the other one is the position of the industries" and the third consideration is "our own natural capacity, in terms of the reserves of oil and gas that we have.
"All these things have got to be taken into account in a holistic manner. I don't know yet" when the next review will be.
"I will study the matter."
On the increase in highway toll rates:
"I have directed the | 129 |
ROSEVILLE, CA - The joint venture between Barker Pacific Group (BPG) and WHI Real Estate Partners (WHIREP<|fim_middle|>market is the premier suburban office location in the Sacramento region, and our team is committed to providing office space for the market's diverse array of tenants."
The acquisition of Olympus Corporate Center is the BPG-WHIREP JV's second foray into the Sacramento market after the acquisition of Lava Ridge Business Center, and they are excited to make a further impression on the market.
"Olympus Corporate Center is a fabulous asset. We see great potential to increase value," said WHIREP's Jim Orth. "We are excited to continue our work in the Roseville market with Barker Pacific Group." | ) has acquired its second project in Olympus Corporate Center, a Class "A" office asset in Roseville, CA consisting of four multi-tenant buildings totaling 195,665 square feet. Olympus Corporate Center boasts an impressive array of tenants, including Direct Technology, Granite Bay Development, KB Home, Gallelli Real Estate, Orange Hook, and UBS.
Located at 3001, 3005, 3009, and 3013 Douglas Boulevard, Olympus Corporate Center consists of four two- and three-story buildings located in Roseville's highly desirable Douglas Corridor. The project is replete with amenities, including an on-site fitness center and conference room.
Following the trend set with its first Roseville project, Lava Ridge Business Park, the JV secured debt financing from BBVA Compass.
Chris Lemmon and Zac Collie of Newmark Cornish & Carey are acting as Olympus's leasing agents. Mr. Collie and Lemmon have intimate familiarity with the Sacramento market, and note that the asset is currently in very good condition, with minimal need for deferred maintenance. This leaves room to focus on improving the lobbies and upgrading corridors.
"Olympus Corporate Center is one of the most attractive campuses with outdoor plaza areas in the Roseville market," said Michael Barker, BPG's Managing Director and CEO. "The Roseville Office Sub | 284 |
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