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Okay, I cried a bit. It was emotional.
Nikki Webster, my first and greatest idol.
When Nikki's single "Strawberry Kisses" was released a year later, I couldn't deal. I was in ecstasy. NIKKI WEBSTER WAS SO COOL I COULDN'T AND WOULDN'T HANDLE IT.
I remember watching the video clip for the first time and being AMAZED. What about that ANIMATED ROBOT DJ, AMIRITE? Luckily, all my year one friends were on board the Nikki train, so we listened to the "Strawberry Kisses" single approximately 1,657,900,393 times.
Although other video clips have since attempted to be cooler, edgier, or better animated, than "Strawberry Kisses", I think you'll agree upon rewatching that it remains the greatest production ever on Earth and also in Robot Space.
Watch "Strawberry Kisses". You won't regret it. I pinky promise.
Today, I read that Nikki Webster is all grown up. (Not like that creepy issue of Zoo Magazine announcing she was "all grown up", but actually, properly all grown up).
She has a two-year-old daughter, Skylah. She looks good, but more than that, she looks... normal. Happy. Chilled-out. Like a regular mum with regular stuff to do.
Nikki Webster now. Image via Instagram.
For work, she runs three performing arts studios with her brothers in Sydney, a job she loves. And speaking to The Daily Mail, Nikki describes her life as pretty normal for a working mother.
"At times I'm at home and I do regular mum things and at other times I'm at work and at other times I get to do fun things like perform, get up on stage and do interviews. So I have three areas of my life, it's all very different."
Like most mums, she's looking forward to sitting down with her daughter and watching the Rio Olympics this year.
"To sit down and watch the Olympics with her will be a pretty proud moment for me. To show [my daughter] that you can work hard and fulfil your dreams and whatever she wants to do, to follow her passions and dreams and I will support it."
It looks like, without knowing it, my year one gang of cronies chose... well, quite a good role model. She's doing a job she loves, raising a family and not worrying too much about what other people think.
It's possible she doesn't even remember singing about kissing on an intergalactic space station with a team of dancing robots. | Remember Nikki Webster? She's a mum now.
Nikki Webster: Where is our favourite Sydney Olympics mascot now?
If you were in Australia for the Sydney Olympics in 2000, you'll have a favourite Olympic memory. Of course you will! This was our chance to be part of the action! To witness sport history in the making!
But what we were most into as the Olympics rolled into town, was Nikki Webster.
You can argue all you like, but the truth is pretty much non-negotiable: Nikki Webster was the highlight of the Sydney Olympics.
My seven-year-old obsession with Nikki Webster was a little over the top, I admit. I wanted to be her (curly hair included) and also be her best friend and also be in the Olympics, and would they maybe let us do an Opening Ceremony duet where the two identical Nikkis sang next to each other?
Alas, the Nikki-as-Nikki and Zoe-as-Nikki duet wasn't to be, but I watched her sing in that opening ceremony | 212 |
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Here's a fun infographic to show just how important small businesses are to our economy.
NOTE: Small Business Saturday is sponsored by American Express, a BBB Accredited Business and a National Partner.
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Customer 'wish list' pushes design boundaries
"A solution looking for a problem" is too often the way new products and technologies reach the market. How creative could a company be if they knew in advance what customers really wanted and invented products to meet those needs? Richard Bull describes his company's strategy to do just that.
About three years ago, Norgren went to forty customers across industries in Europe, the US and Asia Pacific, and posed thirteen open-ended questions. The company then listened carefully as OEMs and end-users answered these questions and talked about their 'wish lists' - those key aspects of a product that would really give them a competitive advantage.
There were five things that came up again and again. First was increased uptime. This would raise productivity,<|fim_middle|> cushioning for end-of-stroke damping - the cylinder in the IVAC slows at the end of the stroke to minimise impact with the end cap. When the cylinder does reach the end of the stroke, it touches a buffer rather than making metal-to-metal contact, so there is no wear of metal parts. The cushioning speed and pressure are also adjustable.
ISO mounting rear end cover - the rear end of the IVAC comprises the single air supply port and an ISO 15552 mounting interface. All connections are at one end of the IVAC, simplifying installation and streamlining the machine's appearance.
With these technologies in place, Norgren took the early IVAC back to customers for additional feedback. One result was the development of a cylinder-only version for applications where multiple actuators are used close together and can all be controlled by a single pilot module.
Customers found the IVAC helped them increase uptime since, with just one electrical and one pneumatic connection, it is simple and quick to install. If an IVAC needs to be serviced, it can be easily removed, replaced and serviced offline. The single integrated package replaces up to 13 separate components that would otherwise need to be specified, purchased and stocked.
Norgren also discovered that the cleanline version of the IVAC (originally intended for operations subject to washdown), with its smooth casing and ingress protection rating of IP67, was proving popular with OEMs looking to upgrade the aesthetic appearance of their machines.
Finally, they learned both in testing and in the field that eliminating the tubing between actuators and remote valves could reduce the amount of compressed air required by as much as 50 percent. This resulted in faster response times for increased productivity, but more importantly, it also reduced energy consumption for compressed air by 50 percent. For large operations with hundreds of actuators, compressed air can account for the largest share of energy consumption so the potential cost savings are significant.
The IVAC was designed to meet customer requests for increased uptime, energy efficiency, aesthetics and design flexibility in an integrated package. Now it is proving its usefulness in applications as varied as food and beverage processing, meat handling, warehousing, metal stamping, packaging and any other operation that requires pushing, pulling, lifting, positioning or conveying.
Learn more about the IVAC here.
Richard Bull is Norgren Inc's regional product marketing manager, Americas
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Fourth was the ability to meet application-specific requirements like high speed, greater control, or higher throughput. And fifth, they wanted motion control in an integrated package, combining multiple functions in one assembly. This would reduce commissioning time and costs, shorten installation time, minimise size and simplify ordering.
Putting 'ideation' to work
Norgren then used its 'ideation' process to conceptualise products that matched up with this customer wish list. Ideation prompts creativity by bringing together people from different disciplines inside and outside the company. They use their experience with procedures and proven solutions from the 'operational world' to dream, speculate and experiment with ideas in the 'innovation world'.
Among the concepts that came out of ideation was a new solution to a long-standing challenge – integrating a valve and actuator in a single package.
Actuators are powered by compressed air, the routing of which is controlled by valves. The whole setup can be several yards long, depending on where the actuators are needed and where the valves can be installed. Multiply that by dozens or even hundreds of actuators, and suddenly there are a lot of valves and yards of tubing that need to go somewhere. The problem is compounded by the fact that actuators and valves are often added after the machine has been designed, so they look as awkward as braces on a teenager.
The quest to integrate actuator with valve and reduce tubing has been a long and elusive one. Norgren even met one customer who tried setting a valve right on top of an actuator to get the two as close together as possible. But, frankly, no one had been able to come up with an affordable, reliable solution to this problem that could fit the same footprint as a conventional actuator.
Integrating a valve and actuator was the ideal test for Norgren's ideation process because the company already had deep technical experience and a portfolio of proven products. The creativity arose as they worked back and forth with customers to use this background to develop the product that eventually emerged - the integrated valve and actuator control (IVAC).
The challenge was to combine the cylinder, valve, flow controls, cushioning and sensors in a single actuator package that could fit in the same ISO/VDMA footprint as a standard cylinder. Norgren achieved this by optimising component function and design in the follows way:
Pilot valves - a module seated on top of the IVAC contains small pilot valves, which are electrically operated. Only one M12 electrical connection is required.
Glandless spool - the IVAC relies on one of Norgren's key competencies, the glandless spool, for its valve functions. Only this type of valve was small enough to fit in the IVAC package. With the Teflon coated inner and outer parts of the spool precisely matched, no rubber seals are required.
Flow controls for speed regulation - in the IVAC, the flow control is built into the actuator end caps, so there is no protrusion.
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The National Park Service Celebrates 100 Years !! Making Life Easier for The Men And Women Who Maintain These Parks
On August 25, 2016, the National Park Service will celebrate its centennial anniversary. Last year, the federal agency reported a record number of visitors totaling 305 million.
National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis attributed the big numbers to the agency's ability to, "actively reach out to new audiences."
Currently there are 409 parks spanning 84 million acres in the nation's 50 states. A super volcano, a desert rich with fossils and a historic river corridor were added in 2015.
This year a federal budget of $860 million was requested for Parks upgrades. With a $12 billion backlog in repair work, many are wondering what the next 100 years will<|fim_middle|>3 ft by 8 ft
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National Park Service Centennial Fast Facts
Congress voted to establish Yellowstone National Park, the first national park, on March 1, 1872
In 1916 Woodrow Wilson created the National Park Service within the Department of the Interior
In 1933 The National Park Service officially took charge of all parks and monuments previously managed by the War Department and the Forest Service.
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Judith Watkins, an EFL teacher from Sheffield College, is the overall winner of our first Action Research award.
Judith and five other teachers all successfully initiated and completed classroom research projects under the scheme run and supported by English UK and Cambridge English Language Assessment. Applications for the 2015 awards are opening soon.
Judith, who has been an EFL teacher for more than 20 years, was judged the overall winner and received a £500 prize and a trophy at this year's Teachers' Conference.
"It's been incredible," said Judith. "I've been teaching a long time and had wondered if it was time to give up. Colleagues were asking if the Action Research was worth doing, and why I was doing it. It brought me back to why I came into teaching in the first place, to focus on what's important - students, and how I could help them. It's been transformative."
Judith's project was to investigate whether her students were reading outside classroom comprehension exercises, and what would happen if she introduced an extensive reading programme, with students choosing books for pleasure, into the course timetable.
She said: "The project re-engaged me with the whole learning process and why I came into this profession. It's been inspiring."
Judith's idea came from students working on Ielts exams who wanted to improve their reading<|fim_middle|> take part in this year's round of submissions. The teachers will get expert support and it really is excellent CPD which can have an impact beyond their own classroom."
Participants will be supported in their research projects by Professor Simon Borg and Fiona Barker from Cambridge English, receive expenses to attend special workshops, will present findings at next year's Teachers' Conference, and have their papers published in Cambridge English's Research Notes.
Full details on the Action Research Scheme 2015. | scores. "I'd send them off to the Learning Centre but they wouldn't necessarily borrow books. My idea was that if I forced them to read in class time, would that be effective? I found their speed improved, their vocabulary and grammar knowledge was enhanced and they enjoyed it.
"I brought them a range of graded readers, and it was an ongoing process. I got books which they were interested in from the learning centre. One is a student dentist, and I found him a dental book for instance. The whole point was for them to enjoy the reading and the majority of them are continuing to read now. It's been a revelation: they are now reading for pleasure."
Judith's classes included a regular weekly slot where the students were expected to read for pleasure, and now her colleagues are going to try the idea in their own practice.
This is part of the idea of Action Research, where teachers suggest and then test a hypothesis to improve their students' achievements in their own classrooms, and then disseminate their findings to colleagues.
Huan Japes, Deputy Chief Executive of English UK who has been working closely on the scheme, says he wanted to promote it for both its value as CPD and as part of the organisation's drive to raise quality among member schools.
"We're really delighted to be running the scheme for a second year with Cambridge English Language Assessment, and we're all pleased with the really fantastic outcomes from the first year. Our six teachers ran really interesting projects, and found the support they got invaluable.
"We'd really encourage member centres to put forward teachers to | 317 |
Title: Cyberchase Fractions Quest
Principal Investigator: Goldberger, Gary Awardee: Fablevision, Inc.
Project Website: http://www.fablevision.com
Video Demonstration of the Phase I Prototype: https://youtu.be/GIU6aI3sw3<|fim_middle|>ed as intended, that students were engaged during gameplay, and that from pre- to post-test, students using the prototype increased significantly in their knowledge of number line problems compared to the control group. In Phase II, the team will finalize the design, artwork, and animation, the formative and summative assessment component, and learning management system. After development is complete, the researchers will carry out a pilot study to assess the usability and feasibility, fidelity of implementation, and promise of the game to improve student learning of fractions over a 5-week period. The study will include four classrooms of grade 3 students, two of which will be randomly assigned, to use the games to supplement in-class lessons while the others will use paper-based activities. The researchers will compare pre-and-post scores for student learning of fractions. The study will also track teacher implementation.
Product: The final product is Cyberchase Fractions Quest—a math game based on the storyline of PBS children's television series, Cyberchase. In the game, students in grades 3 and 4 will apply learning fractions within three contexts: areas and regions (such as shapes), sets (groups of objects), and on a number line. The game will identify specific areas where students struggle and will introduce challenges to support individualized learning. Similar to other popular game apps, student will receive immediate feedback from one to three stars based on how well they perform on each challenge as well as in-game rewards as they progress toward mastery. The game will include teacher resources for classroom implementation, and an educator dashboard presenting results. | U
Purpose: This project team will fully develop and test Cyberchase Fractions Quest, a web-based mathematics game for students in grade 3 and 4. Research shows that inadequate understanding of fractions can persist from early grades through higher education, and that success in fractions predicts future success in mathematics and other STEM subjects.
Project Activities: During Phase I (completed in 2016), the team developed a prototype of Cyberchase Fractions Quest, including an interactive number line game with four levels of challenges, and a tool to scaffold learning through hints and provide encouragement as students progress. At the end of Phase I, the research team conducted a pilot study over one week with 60 grade 4 students, half of whom were randomly assigned to use the prototype and half assigned to paper-based fractions activities. Results revealed that the prototype function | 171 |
Primo Water Corporation announces 2Q 2021 results, declares quarterly dividend
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Ferrero Rocher and Raffaello now available in a premium chocolate bar format | Primo Water Corporation, a leading provider of sustainable drinking water solutions direct to consumers in North America and Europe, today announced its results for the second quarter ended July 3, 2021.
The Company also announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of US$0.06 per common share. The dividend is payable in cash on September 2, 2021, to shareowners of record at the close of business on August 19, 2021.
(Unless stated otherwise, all second quarter 2021 comparisons are relative to the second quarter of 2020; all information is in U.S. dollars.)
Primo Water Corporation: Second Quarter Highlights
Revenue increased 15% to $526 million compared to $457 million.
Reported net loss and net loss per diluted share were $8 million and $0.05, respectively, compared to reported net loss and net loss per diluted share of $132 million and $0.82, respectively. Adjusted net income and adjusted net income per diluted share were $28 million and $0.17, respectively, compared to adjusted net income and adjusted net income per diluted share of $13 million and $0.08, respectively.
Adjusted EBITDA increased 21% to $100 million compared to $83 million and adjusted EBITDA margin increased by 80 basis points to 18.9%.
Repurchased approximately 800,000 outstanding common shares for $13 million.
Company expects approximately 6% organic revenue growth in 2021, plus growth from tuck-in M&A. Full year outlook for Adjusted EBITDA raised $10 million to between $390 million and $400 million.
"We are very pleased with our second quarter and first half results which have exceeded our forecasts," said Tom Harrington, Primo's Chief Executive Officer. "We continue to see elevated demand from our residential customers even as our Water Direct commercial customer base slowly recovers, confirming our view that there is not a one-for-one tradeoff in demand between these customers as they return to work and mobility increases. As such, we feel confident raising our full year Adjusted EBITDA outlook by $10 million to between $390 million and $400 million."
Primo is targeting the following results from continuing operations for the third quarter and full year 2021:
2Q results
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Let these two ESPY winners inspire you
By Kaylee Pofahl
July 14, 2016 | 3:48pm
Richard Browne, Tatyana McFadden Reuters; University of Georgia via AP
While the ESPYs were celebrated for activism and altruism and awkward red-carpet humor, perhaps the most meaningful awards of the evening may have gone relatively unnoticed:
The winners of Best Female and Male Athlete with a Disability were Tatyana McFadden and Richard Browne.
McFadden, a wheelchair racer, was born with spina bifida that paralyzed her from the waist down. She spent the first six years of her life in a Russian orphanage with not so much as a wheelchair, and learned to walk on her hands to keep up with other children. She was brought to the United States after being adopted by her mother, Deborah.
McFadden, 27, made her Paralympic debut in Athens in 2004 at just 15 years old, the youngest member of Team USA. At the 2013 World Championships, she became the first athlete in history to win six gold medals at the same competition (<|fim_middle|> about
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Browne, an 25-year-old amputee sprinter who hails from Jackson, Miss., was high school junior when he ran to take shelter at a laundromat during a rainstorm. He slipped and went crashing through the glass front door. After several years and 14 surgeries, Browne became a below-the-knee amputee on his right leg. He refers to his "blade" prosthetic by the name of "Earl."
Prior to the accident, Browne never had competed in track (football was his sport), but he gone on to shatter world records. At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships, he broke his own 13-month-old world record in the men's 200 meters for the T43/44 classification by 0.35 seconds, crossing the line at 21.27.
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I have promised my niece a treat for her birthday and am hoping this movie opens in time for the beginning of December in the UK so that I can take her!
I did see the movie Tues. though and agree w/ your review – very cute film.
I've had the songs – especially Let it Go – stuck in my head every since we saw it. It's really nice that my kids are capable of sitting on a train and then sitting through a movie too, so we can DO fun things like this!
Being able to just hop on a train into the city sounds so very cool. And Idina? I would've frozen up too; how cool! I'm hoping to take the boys to see Frozen when it's released, but I don't think Sawyer would keep the glasses on long enough to catch it in 3D. Looks super cute either way!
I am perpetually jealous over blog things that I don't get invited<|fim_middle|>, Loved her on Glee, and I would have tried to contain myself but IDINA! AHHH! Can't wait to take my kids to see this movie! | to, but OMG I would have LOVED to go to this. I am such a Disney movie freak. And Idina Menzel?
I need to start pumping up my blog or something!
I have NO idea how I ended up on their list. Maybe it's something you just sign up for? I only recognized one other person at the thing, so it's a different list from the Cabbage Patch Kid thing. I will send you a link if I get any more cool invites!
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If you run a local business, eventually you're going to encounter a negative review on Yelp, or a similar local business directory. It doesn't matter how hard you try to perfect your business or make your customers happy; it's simply impossible to please everybody all the time. Unfortunately, an accumulation of negative reviews could spell disaster not only for your PR strategy and your brand, but for your SEO strategy as well.
Before you get too upset or react instinctively, take the time to understand why Yelp reviews matter, and what you can do to recover from a particularly bad review of your business.
Yelp wasn't always the powerhouse it is today, but as local searches grew in both significance and popularity, the local directory site exploded in importance to the world of SEO. Consumers use Yelp because it gives them a public voice where they otherwise had none, and potential consumers appreciate Yelp because it gives them objective insight into a business before they make a final purchasing<|fim_middle|> may still be presented (possibly inaccurately). Yelp pulls and displays basic business data from third party providers and public sources, so you'll be at the mercy of the accuracy of those sources. There's also no way to take this information down entirely, so you might as well claim your territory.
While you're at it, it's a good idea to claim your company's profile on any relevant local review and directory sites you can find. Post-Pigeon Google algorithms view your presence on these sites as ranking signals, so it's vital to ensure all your details are accurate and consistent across each platform.
Now that you've claimed your Yelp page, you'll have the ability to respond to your reviewers (both negative and positive ones). Take your time with this step, and think through exactly what you want to say. Responding to negative reviews is the best way to generate something positive out of the bad experience—first, you'll have a chance to make it up to the reviewer, but more importantly, you'll have the chance to prove your brand trustworthiness to others.
Yelp offers two options for businesses to respond to negative reviews: public and private. It is possible to send a private, direct message to the reviewer, giving you a chance to apologize and offer a discount or refund to help make things right. Again, avoid responding with criticism or negativity; the reviewer could easily take your email response and publicize it, making you look even worse. Instead, be sincere and constructive, and work to make things right.
Still, private messages aren't the best way to respond to a negative review since not everyone can see them. It's far better for your brand if you respond publically. Acknowledge the complaint and treat it as constructive criticism (even if the post is inflammatory or hateful). Explain the circumstances or apologize, and tell them what you're going to do to make this better for future customers. Even if the negative reviewer remains adamant, your potential customers will read your response and rest assured knowing that even if they do have a questionable experience, you'll be there to try and make things right.
Once you've taken control of your page and addressed the reviewer publically, the last step to take in your recovery is to encourage more positive reviews. Since there's no direct way to eliminate the negative reviews that already exist, the best you can do is overwhelm those negative reviews with positive reviews.
Learn from the negative reviews that are posted, and do what you can to improve your customers' experience. Encourage your customers to post a review of your business on Yelp—either with posted signs in your establishment, social media callouts, or a follow-up form of communication asking them directly to post their thoughts. If you have enough positive reviews on Yelp and similar sites, the negative reviews will no longer matter.
It's impossible to completely avoid the possibility of getting a negative review, but if you respond quickly and positively, you can turn each bad experience into a productive one. Use negative reviews as a learning experience, and correct any mistakes that could lead to future reviews. Take control of your page, respond to negative users publically, politely, and directly, and ameliorate your reputation by fostering an environment that encourages more positive reviews. Follow these steps and eventually, your negative reviews will be lost in a sea of positive brand demonstrations. | decision.
Today, Yelp is especially important due to Google's recent "Pigeon update," a minor algorithm change that affected the way Google populates local search results. This change gave greater emphasis to the value of local directory sites, including reviews—meaning the number of positive reviews you have on Yelp and similar sites could result in a higher ranking (and, conversely, negative reviews could cause you to drop in ranks). For some local businesses, their Yelp pages actually rank higher than their official company pages. Some see this as a disadvantage, but if you take full ownership of your Yelp page and handle the negative reviews appropriately when they come up (and they will), you can turn it into a major search advantage for your business.
It's natural for your first reaction to be offense or anger, but don't let that emotion take control of your response to the situation. Remember that everybody is entitled to an opinion and a voice, even if that voice is damaging or nonsensical. If the post in question is poorly worded or blatantly accusatory, odds are that most potential new customers reading the review won't take it seriously. If the negative review is thoughtful and seemingly accurate, you might even walk away from it with a lesson learned about your business.
Don't panic. This is not a situation you can fix immediately, but with time and careful effort, you can turn this around the right way.
The first thing you need to do, if you haven't already, is to take charge of your Yelp page. Yelp offers a simple, easy-to-follow process for local business owners to verify their ownership and correct any discrepancies on the page. This will give you more control and insight into your customers' reviews. Having this ownership will not allow you to remove negative reviews from your page, but you will have the opportunity to respond to them.
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It's that time of year again — time to review the social media trends we expect to shape the upcoming year. Let's dive in now to our annual list of social media trends to watch in 2021:
Companies Will Need to Address Social Media Team Burnout
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Social media burnout has been a huge topic with a lot of Social Pros podcast guests over the last few months. I've also heard the concern from our clients in higher education. In fact, according to Sprout Social, '88% of social marketers [in higher ed] say the pandemic has made their work much harder, and nearly half don't have adequate support or resources to manage their mental health. Checks out."
Anna Hrach, Strategist
Fee-based Fan Communities Will Grow
"Many businesses continue to suffer from a lack of organic reach in social media. Concurrently, consumers are increasingly gravitating toward smaller, more intimate topical communities (see the rise of Facebook Groups popularity as an example). Simultaneously, 2020 saw a big move in the direct-to-consumer space, both in terms of e-commerce (as evidenced by Instagram shopping), and content (look at the explosive growth of OnlyFans and similar).
In 2021, we'll see these trends converge, and brands will begin to adopt fee-based communities that give superfans exclusive access to content, exclusive products, and more. This is the post-modern version of the Membership Club, and will give smart brands the ability to build advocacy and word-of-mouth among core customers who are willing to pay a small monthly fee to interact with one another, and the business."
Jay Baer, Founder, Convince & Convert
Building Trust Through Content Delivered By and Featuring Humans
"Sure, for a long time, people have talked about the erosion of trust in brands, but never before have brands had to face it more head-on than 2020. It should become the default that content is carried by human beings — whether that is influencers, your employees, or other subject-matter experts. People don't just need to trust because it feels good; people have to put their every action and every purchase through a filter of safety and economic impact. It's time to up-level content — not necessarily in production value, but in human connection. Is it harder? Yes. Is it the right thing to do? Yes."
Mary Nice, Strategist
The Rise and Resurgence of Private Groups and Platforms
"As noise increases on social media, many are looking to customize their experiences by joining private groups and forums based on causes and personal interests. There has been a rise in the number of Facebook Groups and membership, and Instagram is now seeing the use of its Threads or sharing Stories with specific friends. Many people are also going to or returning to private and semi-private online forums for education, entertainment, networking and mutual interest."
Christin Kardos, Community Manager
Influencers Will Become Vital in B2B, not Just B2C
"According to the 11th Annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report from CMI/MarketingProfs, 89% of B2B marketers use social media for content distribution, but only 24% used Media/Influencer relations.
It's no surprise that in the last decade, social media has become an extremely fragmented and noisy place, and therefore, brands both in B2B and B2C will find that their dollars go further when they collaborate with individuals whom their audience trusts. Whether these are macro-influencers or micro-influencers, co-creating content that comes from these trusted voices will help brands to break through the noise AND reach broader audiences."
Zontee Hou, Co-lead, Consulting
Socially-conscious Values Extend to Imagery as Well
"Nearly 80% of people globally have said it isn't enough to have people of various ethnicities, backgrounds, and appearances in advertising but that they expect companies to do a better job at capturing people's true lifestyles and cultures, according to new research by Getty Images. Searches have increased year-over-year for 'diversity' (up 133%), 'culture' (up 115%), 'real people' (up 115%) and 'inclusion' (up 126%).
From May to June alone, customer searches for diverse images increased by 200%, and searches for images around unity and equality increased by 500%, trends that are believed to be intensified due to anti-racism protests. Side note: our client, AARP, partnered with Getty to create more authentic images of people 50+."
Jenny Magic, Marketing Strategist
Social Media Is Part of Everyone's Job
"Social media has been a core part of business for more than a decade. Long gone are the days where 'playing on that Facebook thing' was only supposed to happen on lunch breaks. In the age of coronavirus, social media has become more important than ever to business survival and success.
Your employees are your greatest social media assets. In fact, 45% of consumers are more likely to research a product or service when a brand's employees post about that product or service.
Social media skill sets go beyond marketing and communications roles. They are less frequently required but especially needed, in customer service, HR, sales and research. Even in roles without direct ties to content, messaging, design, lead gen, sales or service, we're still asking employees to be good at social media to power our internal advocacy efforts. Employee advocacy programs continue to be a top trend because their success to humanize a brand and amplify storytelling is undeniable at scale. Businesses must provide social media policy guidelines and resources for their employees to master social media skills, as this technology is more akin to email than VR in today's business world."
Lauren Teague, Strategist
Use of User-generated Content Grows
"User-generated content has become an increasingly reliable social media marketing tactic. Brands and consumers find this type of content more authentic and trustworthy. A majority of users trust UGC when it comes to influencing their buying decisions, and people want to see real-life experiences. We will see a surge in UGC content this year through platforms such as TikTok and Instagram."
Leanna Pham, Brand Marketing Intern
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Jody Williams
Nobel co-recipient: International Campaign to Ban Landmines ,
"for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines."
Biography by Morgan McGuirk
Jody Williams was co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work advocating for the banning and clearing anti-personnel mines around the world. Her award was shared with the organization she founded, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).i At the time of her award, she was the tenth woman and third American woman to have ever received the Nobel Peace Prize. While discovering the journey Williams took to becoming a Nobel Laureate, I learned that the path an individual takes in life can lead a person to greatness in very unexpected ways. From where a person first starts his or her journey to where a person ends up is not always a clear path. Jody Williams explains this best in her memoir stating that an "average woman" can make extraordinary change in the world through perseverance, courage and imagination.ii
Nobel Laureate Jody Williams
Source: Brattleboro Reformer
Jody Williams was born in 1950 and grew up in a small town in Vermont of just over a thousand people. Williams received an undergraduate degree in the arts in 1972 from the University of Vermont. Although she was not initially interested in foreign policy during college, the Vietnam War taking place during this time interested her for it was very controversial. After graduating from college, Williams worked as a dental assistant but soon realized this was not the right field for her, stating that she fainted seven times the first day on the job.iii Soon after, she returned to school and obtained a master's degree in teaching Spanish from the School for International Training in 1976. She travelled to Mexico as part of the program. Her travels further sparked her interest in international affairs.
After returning to the United States, she pursued her interest in foreign affairs by obtaining a master's degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1984.iv During graduate school, Williams studied international politics in El Salvador where she learned about how devastating antipersonnel landmines were to the local civilians. In a war-torn country, antipersonnel landmines in El Salvador were a great hazard to many innocent individuals. These antipersonnel landmines were specifically designed to explode if a person touched them, unlike other types of landmines that were built to explode if a tank or other heavy object came into contact with them. As antipersonnel landmines were greatly used during the Cold War, the landmines that had been left behind in numerous countries around the world were leading to many civilian casualties. During the early 1990s it was estimated that over 2,000 people a month were being killed by these devices.iii Until the U.S. pulled its aid from El Salvador, for over eleven years, Williams was very active in the effort to help civilian casualties of these mines by helping provide artificial limbs to injured children.
Upon returning to the U.S., Bobby Muller of the Vietnam Veterans of America asked Williams to start a campaign to raise awareness about antipersonnel landmines. Enthusiastically, she took on this challenge. During this time Williams also focused on other issues about which she was passionate. She raised awareness about U.S. foreign policy in Central America by establishing humanitarian relief projects including medical aid for El Salvador and education projects in Nicaragua and Honduras. She also established 'English as a Second Language' projects in Mexico, the U.K. and Washington D.C<|fim_middle|> Campaign to Ban Landmines
Source: ICBL
Jody Williams meeting Cambodian Tun Channereth
before her Nobel Prize ceremony in 1997
By 1997, Williams was leading the ICBL. It had been established in over sixty countries. More than 1,000 NGOs were participating in the ICBL. Based on all of Williams' hard work, she received the Nobel Peace Prize, something she never expected to happen in life. Later, she continued her work with the ICBL, working with the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to develop an international treaty that banned anti-personnel mines. Additionally, Williams served as a technical advisor for the United Nations study on how armed conflicts impact children.viii In 1999, over 120 nations signed the Ottawa Convention, agreeing to ban the use, production, sale, and stock-piling of anti-personal mines. The agreement also established an initiative to clear mines and the obligation for each nation to provide assistance to those affected by the mines. Although Williams is from the U.S., it was not until 2014 that the U.S. agreed to accept most of the terms of the Ottawa Convention and to prohibit landmine use outside of the Korean Peninsula.ix
1997 Ottawa Convention, signing
of the treaty banning landmines
Source: United Nations Audiovisual Library
Today, Williams continues to advocate for banning landmines and participates in other human rights and global security efforts. From a small town in Vermont with no initial interest in foreign affairs, her life's journey unfolded in a very unexpected and meaningful way. She has received over fifteen honorary degrees for universities and was named one of the top 100 powerful women in the world by Forbes Magazine. Williams has also written numerous book chapters and articles for magazines and newspapers about landmines. In 2006 she tackled a new endeavor being one of the founders of the Nobel Women's Initiative with five other women who are Nobel Laureates to promote and advocate for women in leadership roles. The initiative's goal is to empower women to engage in world peace and equality efforts in countries around the world.x
Jody Williams (third from the right) alongside
other women from the Nobel Women's Initiative
Source: Real Leaders
In 2012 she reflected on her life's journey publishing her memoir, My Name is Jody Williams, detailing her life to becoming a Nobel Laureate.xi As of 2020, the recent relaxation of U.S. foreign policy against landmine use in the Korean peninsula have made Williams speak out, advocating for stricter policies and enforcement.Xii Overall, Williams continues to advocate for important matters that she comes across in her life. She never thought she would have such an international impact on foreign policy or women's equality, but she continues to play a role in many important global matters.
Jody Williams' memoir about her life
and becoming a Nobel Laureate
Source: University of California Press
"Jody Miller Facts." The Nobel Prize.
Williams, Jody. 2013. My Name is Jody Williams. University of California Press.
Malek, Cate. 2005. "Co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her role as the founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines." Beyond Intractability.
Ibid. "Jody Miller Facts."
"Ending the Landmine Era – Victim Assistance." International Committee of the Red Cross. 8 Jan 2004.
Ibid. Malek.
"United States Government Loosens Restrictions on Landmines." Nobel Women's Initiative. 5 Feb 2020.
Nobel Women's Initiative.
"Ms. Jody Williams." International Campaign to ban Landmines.
Ibid. "United States Government Loosens Restrictions on Landmines."
Photo Justin Hoch, Hudson Union Society, Wiki. Painting Tim Tompkins PaintHistory.com
Name: Jody Williams
Birth: 9 October 1950, Putney, VT, USA
Residence at the time of the award: Putney, VT, USA
Award: "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines."
Portion of Cash: 1/2
Nobel Prize Cash and Charity | .iv Finally, in 1991, with the help of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Williams founded the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Initially, five non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including Handicap International, the Human Rights Watch, Medico International, Mines Advisory Group and Physicians for Human Rights were involved in the ICBL. The ICBL is cited for being successful for a variety of reasons under Williams' direction. The campaign was loosely structured and did not have centralized leadership, allowing for each organization to operate independently to adapt to what worked best in each region when addressing landmines. Also, the organizations that were successful at banning and removing landmines shared their stories with the other organizations and all the organizations met regularly to set goals for the next steps in the campaign.vi
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Contact centres across the country answered calls from Children in Need. Taking thousands of pounds of donations to help make a difference to children and young people. Check out the stories and photos below.
As first ever Principal Partner to BBC<|fim_middle|> 8,500 volunteer hours to process millions of pounds during the Appeal Night telethon on Friday 18 November. With 730 telephone lines pledged and over 1,700 volunteers working in six call centres, the Group was the largest provider of telephone lines to the charity for the second year running.
The British public has also got behind the Group's support of BBC Children in Need this year, buying over 40,000 limited edition Pudsey Moneyboxes available exclusively in Lloyds Bank and, for the first time this year, Bank of Scotland branches. Costing just £5, every penny of the purchase price has gone directly to the charity, raising more than £200,000 so far. This year, Lloyds Bank and Bank of Scotland are also matching donations made online. Donations in branches are being matched from 7 – 21 November 2016.
Stuart Beaver, Director, Partnership & Community Programmes, Lloyds Banking Group, said: "The ongoing generosity of colleagues and customers when it comes to supporting BBC Children in Need continues to amaze me. The lengths the British public go to with fundraising and volunteering is inspirational and demonstrates how much loved the charity is.
Don't forget you can still send your photos from Children in Need to our news desk! | Children in Need, Lloyds Banking Group is proud to have yet again contributed a record-breaking amount to the charity appeal.
With over £5.5 million being raised by colleagues and customers so far in 2016, almost one million pounds more than at this point last year, Lloyds Banking Group is proud to have broken its own fundraising record of raising the most ever by a corporate partner of BBC Children in Need in a single year. Combined with last year's total, Group colleagues and customers have now raised over £11.2 million for the charity in just two years, supporting the Group's ambition to helping Britain prosper through its commitment to supporting communities through fundraising and volunteering. The money is helping BBC Children in Need to fund over 300 projects and support over 39,000 disadvantaged children and young people across the UK.
The money raised will help BBC Children in Need to reach more children, make a bigger difference in their lives and enable positive changes to continue for years to come.
Lloyds Banking Group colleagues and customers have been fundraising all year round for the iconic charity, raising at the time of the Appeal, over £5.5 million. This is almost one million pounds more than the Group had raised by this time last year. Lloyds Banking Group was BBC Children in Need's largest corporate partner in 2015, raising more than any other partner.
This year's fundraising activities have included Ready Teddy Bake, where 3,000 colleagues across the country joined forces to bake over 5,000 cakes, cupcakes, pastries and buns to support the charity bake sale. Colleagues raised over £110,000 through the Pudsey-themed cake sales.
The exhaustive efforts of 60 colleagues who completed the Tour de Pudsey challenge helped to raise over £275,000. Three groups of twenty riders departed from London, Edinburgh and Cardiff and cycled over 300 miles in all weathers in just three and a half days to arrive all together in the town of Pudsey. The finish line of Pudsey was chosen for two reasons: it is the town after which the iconic mascot was named, being the hometown of Pudsey's designer, and it is home to one of Lloyds Banking Group's Regional Offices and Call Centres for Appeal Night.
Branches and offices across the UK have also been participating in fun runs, dress-up days and many other fundraising initiatives throughout the year.
Colleagues have also made significant volunteering contributions to BBC Children in Need, with over 420 supporting local schools to go Spotacular. Colleagues also volunteered more than | 554 |
Have you ever heard of a vision board? A vision board is a tool for inspiration and a helpful reminder of where you want to go in life. The cool thing is that you can have multiple vision boards for multiple goals that you want to accomplish and for daily reminders of things to be grateful for in your life. Your vision board can be extremely specific or more general for the future like the one above<|fim_middle|> my wife, success, being a national recognized public speaker, being as physically fit as a Crossfit athlete and eating right. In the center I have a cross because I am a Christian and I want my life to reflect that.
Creating a vision board is not only fun, it can be a powerful source of inspiration for keeping you highly motivated.
If you are ever struggling with staying on track or acknowledging what you really want in life a vision board is a great way to see what you actually want and why it's important to you.
After you create your vision board it's time to sit down and look at what your daily habits are that are leading you towards success or away from it. You can think of this exercise like reverse engineering your life.
You most likely have a general idea, however if you spend a few minutes breaking down each step to getting where you want to go, a lot of time it can take a more strategic approach for each step.
Subscribe to get your FREE copy now! | . On my vision board I have pictures of love, growing old with | 14 |
Sportsman Boats Manufacturing<|fim_middle|>'s always very exciting to see a company start its operations in the Palmetto State. We celebrate Sportsman Boats Manufacturing's decision to establish its plant in Dorchester County and create 30 new jobs," Gov. Nikki Haley said in a statement.
The state's Coordinating Council for Economic Development approved the company for job development credits, which will be available when hiring targets are met. The South Carolina Technical College System will provide pre-employment training. | , a new builder of saltwater fishing boats, announced plans Wednesday to establish its new facility in Dorchester County, S.C.
The $2 million investment is expected to generate 30 new jobs.
"We are pleased to begin operations in South Carolina's Lowcountry area. Dorchester County has provided us with an excellent business environment and we look forward to building boats here. We appreciate all the support we've received from state and local officials," Sportsman Boats Manufacturing co-owners Tommy Hancock and Dale Martin said in a statement.
The company will produce boats ranging in size from 20 to 25 feet and will initially build deep-vee center consoles and bay boats. It expects to begin manufacturing operations next month.
"We are talking with companies every day about bringing investment to South Carolina, but it | 163 |
13th Sept: National Food & Drink Conference
The National Food and Drink Conference and Exhibition takes place on the 13th September in the Citywest Convention Centre, Dublin.
The annual event will welcome 3,000 food industry professionals, 200 speakers and 170 exhibitors to discuss the key issues facing the food industry.
The drinks sector will be a major focus at this year's event with the Craft Beer and Spirits Expo, Pub and Off-Licence Expo, the Food & Drink NPD and Innovation Expo all taking place there.
Brexit, Craft Beer, Tourism and more…
Against the backdrop of Brexit this year there will also be a Brexit Food Summit taking place at the event to discuss the wide-ranging impact of the ongoing Brexit negotiation and what a 'Hard Brexit' could mean for food and drink producers across Ireland.
Speakers this year include:
Mella Frewen, Director General, FoodDrinkEurope
Simon McKeever, Chief Executive, Irish Exporters Association
Paul Kelly, Director, Food & Drink, IBEC
David Thompson, Director, Food and Drink Federation Scotland
Tim Casey, Country Manager, Innocent Drinks
In the shadow of Brexit, the UK will be a hot topic at this year's conference. The drink industry contributes €2bn to the Irish economy and employs over 92,000 people in Ireland while the UK remains the largest destination for drink exports accounting for 27% of all drink exports from the country – but there has been a decline in exports in recent months.
"This is an important event for the drinks industry in Ireland," commented Colin Murphy, National Food and Drink Conference and Exhibition Organiser, "It's taking place at a time when there is a<|fim_middle|> of Applegreen; Alison Cowzer, Investor, Dragons Den; Colum O'Sullivan, Co-Founder, Cully & Sully and Brian Lee, Co-Founder of Choppe.
This year's winner will receive a free stand at the International Food Exhibition in London including expenses and exposure to Ireland's largest stockists.
Noreen Doyle of The Irish Biltong Company won the Lion's Den competition last year.
"Winning first prize has totally transformed our business by gaining placements in some of Europe's largest retailers in Ireland, the UK, Belgium and Germany," said Noreen, "I would highly recommend any startup food business to participate."
Entry to the Lions Den is free and interested companies can sign up at LionsDen.ie
Tickets and entry
This is a free-to-attend event for industry professionals and you can register online at http://www.fooddrinkevent.com.
For further enquires contact
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Roe & Co. collaborate with Irish chef Mark... | significant amount of apprehension ahead of Brexit.
"Drink exports to Britain have seen a slide in recent months but thankfully the sector has seen growth in other markets. That being said, at the moment it's not business as usual as businesses on both sides of the border are left in limbo until we know what happens next.
"Brexit will be a dominant theme at the conference this year. We'll be bringing together the largest gathering of food and drink industry professionals including senior executives of Ireland and the UK's major food and drinks companies to outline what they think is the best case and worst case scenarios for the Irish and UK industry post Brexit."
Attendees and Exhibitors
The 3,000 attendees expected at this year's conference will include senior executives from across the food and drink industry who will also be treated to a showcase of the latest innovations in the Irish drink sector along with new products, services and the latest drinks on their way to becoming stock on supermarket shelves from over 170 exhibitors.
The challenges facing the Irish craft beer and spirits sector will feature at this year's conference with the inclusion of the Craft Beer and Spirits Expo.
With over 50 whiskey distillers and 120 brewers across Ireland, the domestic market has become highly competitive while selling internationally remains an issue for many companies. The CBS Expo will bring together some of the leading brewers and distillers in Ireland to discuss what happens next in the industry.
Lions Den Competition
For the second year running, the event will also host the Lions Den competition for Irish food startups.
The competition is open to all export ready food startups in Ireland where entrants are expected to pitch to a judging panel of four which so far includes Joe Green, Co-Founder | 354 |
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A Creative Outlet for Veterans
Retired Lt. Col. Ron Capps created and founded the Veterans Writing Project, a free program that allows veterans and their family members to hone their writing skills. (Photo by Jacqueline M. Hames.)
Retired Lt. Col. Ron Capps needs to write. And he has a lot to write about.
As a member of the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, Mr. Capps went to five wars— Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Darfur — all in a 10-year span.
"I came away from those experiences badly traumatized," he said.
After a suicide attempt in Darfur, Mr. Capps was medically evacuated home and enrolled in a graduate writing program at Johns Hopkins University. Writing became an outlet for Mr. Capps, whose work has been published in Time Magazine and who has been featured on National Public Radio and the BBC.
"I think that throughout history, returning war veterans have sought outlets to express what they experienced," he said. "Any of the creative arts might serve as well as writing, whether it's art, dance, theater or music. Writing worked for me, and it has<|fim_middle|> now that less than 1 percent of the population is in the military.
"Those of us who have served have a responsibility to express what we have experienced to those who sent us to war," he said.
Mr. Capps also notes that veterans writing is a time-honored tradition. Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and J.D. Salinger are among the many acclaimed authors who are also veterans.
And participants aren't just writing about their experiences on the frontlines. Mr. Capps said veterans have been writing in all sorts of forms, "everything imaginable from fantasy to memoir to poetry."
"The topics range from the war and their experience in it to wild flights of fantasy into almost unrecognizable worlds with kings and kingdoms, flying lions and magical swords," he said.
Mr. Capps already sees veterans responding to his workshops. An Iraq veteran with a traumatic brain injury told Mr. Capps the Veterans Writing Project "changed his life" by giving him the skills with which to write fiction; another veteran told Mr. Capps that through the project she felt comfortable —for the first time—talking about her experience on the frontlines.
Junior Elena Kim is an Army veteran who participated in a panel during the UWP-sponsored workshops last fall along with Mr. Capps and Navy veteran Joe Mancinik, now a GW senior.
For Ms. Kim, writing is "everywhere" in her life, from her classes to helping her younger brother craft his high school essays.
"Writing can be powerful, whether what you are writing is for yourself and helps get you through a rough time or whether what you are writing is for others and helps get a message through to the world outside of you," she said.
Of course, not all veterans have to write, but Mr. Mancinik said they all need some way to process their emotions.
"I've seen other veterans teetering on the brink because they have no outlets other than alcohol and drugs," he said. "If they want to write, and they would like to hone their skills, the Veterans Writing Project is a great place to go. I do feel that everyone has a writer in them, if simply as a diarist of their experiences. And the experiences—the pain, the joy, the grief of military service—are worthy subjects indeed."
DIVISION OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS | for many other veterans."
Mr. Capps said he soon realized that he wanted to help other veterans find their own outlet.
"I wanted to do something different with what I was learning," he said, "which was giving away to other veterans what I had learned in school and as a working writer."
So Mr. Capps created the Veterans Writing Project, a free program in which veterans and their family members receive instruction about writing elements and style as well as feedback about their work. Mr. Capps teaches the courses along with Iraq War veteran and author Dario DiBattista.
Veterans can enroll in sessions that run up to 14 weeks, or participate in two-day "open seminars." The curriculum is based on Mr. Capps' book "Writing War: A Guide to Telling Your Own Story."
Starting last fall, Mr. Capps has also been teaching student-veterans at GW in a series of workshops funded by the University Writing Program (UWP). In December, he participated in a panel discussion titled Veterans in the Classroom: The Effect of Military Service on Students' Experience of Academic Discourse sponsored by UWP, and conducted an open seminar for veterans last weekend in the Marvin Center.
Thanks to a gift from Joanne Holbrook Patton, MVS '48— widow of Maj. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., the son of World War II Gen. George Patton— Mr. Capps' workshops will be translated into a regular credit-bearing UWP course at GW.
"The course will provide an opportunity for GW students who are veterans—or who have close connections to veterans—to explore their experiences of war and its effects through writing in a safe and encouraging space," said UWP Interim Executive Director Derek Malone-France.
Dr. Malone-France said the UWP is working with the development offices for both the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and the Mount Vernon Campus to establish a Center for Veterans and Writing on Mount Vernon, which would offer writing courses as well as host lectures and conferences around veterans' writing. The center would also host a digital archive of veterans' writings that could serve as important research material.
"GW is perfectly situated to make an impact on national conversations about the military and veterans, and a Center for Veterans and Writing would provide a useful, centralized organizational foundation from which to launch initiatives and programs that draw on our unique position in the nation's capital," said Dr. Malone-France.
Mr. Capps said Ms. Patton's gift is a significant step towards integrating the Veterans Writing Project within the university.
"We still have a great deal of work ahead of us in turning this curriculum into something with sufficient academic rigor that meets the standards of the university, but everyone I've worked with at GW has been incredibly open and helpful in this process," he said.
Dr. Malone said students in Mr. Capps' UWP course will be studying and writing about war across a variety of genres and disciplines, including both nonfiction and fiction, and will learn how to conduct academic research to supplement the testimony of their own experiences.
Writing is a powerful tool for those in the military, said Mr. Capps, as it's a way for veterans to use familiar skills to process their trauma in a safe and creative way.
"You use a different part of your brain to handle memory when writing," he said. "And what you've created is then something concrete rather than some dark memory festering in a corner of your imagination."
Documenting personal experiences also helps them live on in history. This kind of "bearing witness" is especially important, said Mr. Capps, | 728 |
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Alix Pressley | 27 July, 2020
A robust IT environment is highly important in the manufacturing industry in order to lay the foundations for innovation. Theo van Andel, Senior Manager Field Development Segment Marketing at Equinix EMEA, discusses how to respond quickly to changing production conditions and to innovative demands.
For manufacturing industry leaders, times of crisis can be like a right hook in the boxing ring. Unsurprisingly, the sector has seen a huge shake-up in recent months. Future uncertainty makes it difficult, if not impossible, for manufacturers to predict exact production volumes.
The situation is prompting many companies to look for a more flexible business structure. In fact, research shows that more than half of manufacturers anticipate a coming change to their business operations.
The central question is: how can<|fim_middle|> allow for quick responses when changing circumstances lead to fluctuations in production?
Production processes
Production volume is not the only variable to take into account – the production process itself can also change. For instance, an Equinix customer in the food industry is currently experiencing a significant shift in demand. The closure of restaurants and company canteens stalled the demand for its catering packaging. At the same time, however, its production technology can barely keep up with the demand for small packaging.
As the demand shifted, the process also changed. The manufacturer asked anyone who is not directly involved in the production process to work from home in order to minimise contact between employees. This impacted many procedures, from sudden changes in communication forms to the process monitoring that now has to happen remotely.
Sudden adjustments
The best way for companies to weather radical changes like this is with a solid IT environment, one where flexibility is a foundational principle. Thankfully for the aforementioned manufacturer, they made the necessary adjustments to create a robust and flexible IT environment before the crisis hit.
The manufacturer placed crucial IT infrastructure in a neutral data centre. From this neutral environment, the company can connect with (public) cloud providers, network service providers and both new and existing partners in the ecosystem (on a local scale as well as a global one). From there, it's easy to change or add cloud providers, which prevents vendor lock-in and keeps the cost of change to a minimum.
Scale up or down as needed
Equinix developed a tool to streamline this process and both simplify and support hybrid and multicloud infrastructures for businesses. The interconnectivity platform makes it easy for companies to create secure private connections with virtually any cloud and service provider. Additionally, the required bandwidth can be easily scaled up or down according to need.
With the tool, businesses can avoid the less secure public Internet. Data cannot be intercepted en route and latency is low and predictable. Companies across the world can establish direct and secure interconnections with any other company via the Equinix network. This allows companies to scale their digital business up and down as fast as the economy requires. A good IT infrastructure helps organisations to remain flexible and operational in difficult times.
It's not just in times of crisis, however, that a robust IT environment is of great importance. The right infrastructure is the digital foundation for innovative companies. To remain competitive, it is crucial for manufacturers to embrace digital technology and set up business processes so quick adjustments can be made based on data-driven insights.
Manufacturers are investing in digital technology such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) more frequently, not only to support their production processes but also to be able to meet the market's constantly changing demands. We also see that manufacturers are marketing more and more products 'as a service'. These developments are causing a major adjustment of business models and have a huge impact on the IT environment. Ensuring secure interconnections with partners from the ecosystem is the key to this model.
Current developments have made securely connecting with multiple cloud services indispensable. A flexible IT environment is now a crucial factor in the success of the company, both in good times and difficult ones.
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Newcomers Club a resource for new Oxonians
Published 6:00 am Sunday, September 27, 2015
By LaReeca Rucker
The Newcomers Club meets near Oxford, Miss.<|fim_middle|> Branch man | on Tuesday, September 22, 2015.
With new residents arriving in Oxford every week, the Oxford Newcomers Club is gaining members and helping people adjust to new surroundings.
Eddie Clinton and his wife, Carol, moved to Oxford in December 2012 from Orlando. He was an Ole Miss fan who had always wanted to live in Rebel country. The couple also has three grandchildren who live in Oxford and one in nearby Senatobia.
"There is something to do every day here," Eddie Clinton said. "This morning, we played bingo at Chick-fil-A. Now, my wife has gone to exercise. Then she goes to play Mahjong. We also belong to The Orchard, and we have a community group that meets every Wednesday at one of our houses, where we do a little Bible study."
The Clintons are also members of the Oxford Newcomers Club. Founded in 1999, the club welcomes new community members and provides information about what Oxford has to offer. New members are welcome to join any time.
It features a number of activity groups that typically meet once a month to play games, read books, have cocktails and dine, watch movies, do needlework and attend athletic gatherings.
Members receive a monthly newsletter plus notices of special events. While most members are retirees, any newcomer to Oxford and Lafayette County is invited to join.
Eddie Clinton owned a printing company in Memphis before he became involved with Amateur Athletic Union girls basketball.
He led several championship teams before he was asked to oversee AAU girls basketball in 1996 at the newly constructed, multimillion-dollar AAU facilities in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. His wife, Carol Clinton, taught school for 48 years in DeSoto County, Memphis and Florida.
Eddie Clinton, who joined the group in 2013, said another benefit to the club is the fact it is a part of the Chamber of Commerce.
"It's really been a godsend for us," he said. "On Mondays and Thursdays, I go to breakfast at the Beacon. Last night, we had our kickoff party. There were about 160 people. It was good fellowship and good music."
He said the club also will have Thanksgiving and Christmas parties.
Member ages range from 20-80.
"There are so many things to do," he said. "Take advantage of all that Oxford has. I had to do a selling job to get my wife to come up here. She won't leave now. She has friends like she's never had before."
Reba Greer leads educational events for the group. She grew up in Mississippi, left in 1963, and lived in several sates before settling in Virginia. She worked as a teacher and as a school administrator. Her husband, Lance Greer, graduated from Mississippi State University with a degree in mechanical engineering. The couple moved to Oxford in 2011 after living in Virginia for 40 years.
"Everybody we met said, 'You need to get in Newcomers,' and we didn't for a year or so," she said.
Greer said the club's next hour-long educational program will be at 10 a.m. Oct. 13 at the Chamber of Commerce. Mayor Pat Patterson will talk about what city leaders do. Those interested in attending should email the club or Chamber of Commerce to reserve a spot.
"The Newcomers Club is quite a diverse group," Reba Greer said. "There are couples, people who are single, people who have lost spouses. They are exploring aspects of the Oxford community.
"People come to the group from a variety of states. There are people who come to the group from all sections in Mississippi. There's really quite an eclectic mix of people who enjoy meeting new folks and learning about different topics."
About LaReeca Rucker
LaReeca Rucker is a writer, reporter and adjunct journalism instructor at the University of Mississippi's Meek School of Journalism and New Media.
A veteran journalist with more than 20 years of experience, she spent a decade at the Gannett-owned Clarion-Ledger - Mississippi's largest daily newspaper - covering stories about crime, city government, civil rights, social justice, religion, art, culture and entertainment for the paper's print and web editions. She was also a USA Today contributor.
This year, she received a first place award from the Mississippi Press Association for "Best In-Depth Investigative Reporting." The story written in 2014 for The Oxford Eagle chronicles the life of a young mother with two sons who have epilepsy, and details how she is patiently hoping legalized cannabis oil experimentation will lead to a cure for their disorder.
Her website is www.lareecarucker.com.
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Travel|Egyptian Scenes: Pharaohs and Queens of the Nile
Egyptian Scenes: Pharaohs and Queens of the Nile
Patrons of El Khayam in Queens smoke shishas.Credit...Robert Caplin for The New York Times
By Seth Kugel
THERE are two Egyptian New Yorks: the living and the dead.
It's a big divide. The dead have been dead for thousands of years, and though the ancient Egyptians were skilled at preserving the deceased, New York's modern Egyptians are much more fun to hang out with at night.
But you can mix and match, combining the city's unbeatable museum collections with the traditions and cuisine brought here courtesy of immigrants from Egypt.
First, the museums. You can get lost roaming the Metropolitan Museum of Art's labyrinth of friezes, statues, stellae and sarcophagi, one of the world's most famous collections. The models of funeral and pleasure boats discovered by the Met's own Herbert Winlock in the Tomb of Meketre from 1990 B.C. are all too easy to pass by but definitely worth a look.
You can't possibly miss the Temple of Dendur, built around 15 B.C. under the Roman emperor Augustus, in a room flooded with sun from the wall of windows looking out on Central Park. While many New Yorkers' first reaction upon entering is "I wish my apartment got this much light," yours may be one of considerably more cultural value. A new exhibition, "Discovering Tutankhamen: The Photographs of Harry Burton," is scheduled to open on Dec. 19.
The Brooklyn Museum is also known worldwide for its collection of ancient Egyptian art and objects, on the third floor; it has also been sending its own archaeologists to Egypt for a century. One way to prepare for a visit to the museum is to read the online diary on the museum's Web site from its dig at the Temple Precinct of the Goddess Mut. It provides blow-by-blow details of the last two years of the excavation (which has been going on since 1976). Warning: this narrative may discourage those budding archaeologists who imagine digging up a mummy a day.
The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition "Egypt Through Other Eyes: The Popularization of Ancient Egypt," which ends on Nov. 12, focuses on documents and books from the 19th and early 20th centuries that reflect the West's long obsession with Egypt. You may also want to stop by what Roberta Smith, an art critic for The New York Times, called "an engrossing exhibition" at the Dahesh Museum of Art in Midtown. "Napoleon on the Nile," centered around almost 90 engravings from the "Description de l'Égypte," 23 outsize volumes assembled by Napoleon's "savants" during the French occupation there, runs through Dec. 31.
Now, for the living. There were 54,652 Egyptians in the metropolitan area in 2005, an 18 percent rise from 2000, according to the Department of City Planning. Though a large number actually live in Jersey City, and the best Egyptian strip in New York City is in Astoria, Queens, there are several spots in Manhattan worth checking. On the high end is Casa la Femme North, which the restaurant critic for The Times, Frank Bruni, reviewed in December 2004 and found the ingredients its chefs use "as fresh as I could desire" and the spicing "clear and well calibrated." He was less enamored of its "facile exoticism, built around such obvious props as palm fronds and shisha (a k a hookah) pipes." But there's nothing wrong with a little facile exoticism now and again, especially for fans of belly dancing.
You'll find several other shisha spots catering to the non-Egyptian crowd in the East Village, including Horus Cafe, where the music can get so loud — ah, Arabic groove — it's almost clublike, and the outdoor seating at Sahara<|fim_middle|>.org. Suggested admission $8. "Egypt Through Other Eyes" runs through Nov. 12.
Dahesh Museum of Art, 580 Madison Avenue (between 56th and 57th Streets), (212) 759-0606; www.daheshmuseum.org. Admission $10. "Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists and the Rediscovery of Egypt" runs through Dec. 31.
Casa la Femme North, 1076 First Avenue (59th Street), (212) 505-0005.
Horus Cafe has three locations with slightly differing names: Horus Kebab House, 93 Avenue B (Sixth Street); (212) 777-9199; Horus A, 293 East 10th Street (Avenue A), (212) 228-4774; and Horus Lunch, 510 La Guardia Place (between Bleecker Street and Houston Street), (212) 677-1120.
Sahara East, 184 First Avenue (between 11th and 12th Streets), (212) 353-9000.
To get to Little Egypt in Queens, take the R Train to Steinway and either walk over three avenues or make a free transfer to the Q101 bus.
Sabry's, 24-25 Steinway Street, (718) 721-9010.
El Khayam, 25-72 Steinway Street, (718) 267-0400.
Nile Deli, 25-12 Steinway Street, (718) 278-6030. | East, which is heated in winter.
But it is only a short subway trip (and a substantial walk) to Astoria's Little Egypt — Steinway Street between 28th Avenue and Astoria Boulevard — a stretch so Middle Eastern that the smattering of Latino restaurants mixed in might as well be offering Martian cuisine. Writing about Sabry's, an Egyptian seafood restaurant, in The Times's "$25 and Under" column, Peter Meehan recommended the squid and shrimp tagine, as well as the whole baked fish "seasoned with lemon, oil and cumin, cooked quickly and expertly, and served without adornment, save a sprinkling of fresh herbs."
There's a real slice of Cairo at El Khayam Cafe, where the boisterous owner, Gamal Dewidar, presides over an informal array of mismatched couches, benches and wobbly tables; cheesy images of the Nile and pharaohs are painted on the walls; Arab music videos pulse; and, most important, Egyptian New Yorkers young and old relish their shishas. Some smoke in what appears to be a near-meditative state (the tobacco tastes milder than cigarettes); others chat with friends or read the newspaper. It's a friendly spot that often attracts outside visitors on weekends.
And what would a trip to an ethnic enclave be without a visit to the local market to check out what's being imported these days? The Egyptian-owned Nile Deli does not disappoint, with shisha pipes for do-it-at-homers to multicolor halal marshmallows from Pakistan called Jiggly Wigglys (not recommended), canned hummus from the United Arab Emirates and some darn good pistachio halvah from Egypt. Why the pharaohs did not ask to be buried with pounds of that stuff instead of priceless artworks is a question for the ages.
The Two Faces of Egypt
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, (212) 535-7710; www.metmuseum.org. Recommended admission $20. "Discovering Tutankhamen: The Photographs of Harry Burton" is scheduled to run Dec. 19 through April 29.
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, (718) 638-5000; www.brooklynmuseum | 495 |
Disney Nearing Deal to Own One-Third of MLB's $3.5 Billion Digital Business
Friday July 1, 2016 8:28 am PDT by Mitchel Broussard
The Walt Disney Company is nearing a deal that will net it a one-third stake in Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the streaming division of MLB whose business is valued at around $3.5 billion (via Bloomberg). According to those close to the deal, an agreement between the two companies has not yet been officially finalized, but once it is the contract will allow Disney to purchase another 33 percent of MLB's digital sector over the next four years.
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The can start asserting control over naming conventions. The San Diego Simbas. Atlanta Aladdins. Cincinnati Cinderellas... | been reported recently to be facing troubles with its traditional, broadcast viewing numbers with the rise of streaming and web-only packages. WatchESPN offers viewers the option to watch live sports broadcasts on platforms like the Apple TV, as long as they have a cable package that includes ESPN's content channels.
Disney has also been a key Apple content partner over the years, due in large part to Disney's partnership with and ultimate 2006 acquisition of Pixar that made Steve Jobs the largest individual Disney shareholder and gave him a seat on the company's board. Long-standing rumors of Apple seeking to launch an over-the-top streaming television service have generally included Disney as one of the key early content partners on board with the project, although Apple has so far been unable to secure all of the deals it would need to launch the service at the price point it wants to hit.
Given that the deal between Disney and MLBAM is not yet official, there's no word yet on what the ultimate outcome of the acquisition would entail for the company's streaming services. Still, some knowledgable of the deal and the streaming sports world see the move as a way for Disney to continue to bolster ESPN's streaming offerings if MLBAM were to be rolled into the company's online video platforms.
"MLBAM has some great assets that could help ESPN build a robust over-the-top offering," said Bernard Gershon, a media consultant based in New York.
"You see the biggest sports media company moving to greater digital delivery," said Chris Russo, a former National Football League executive who now heads sports investment banking at Houlihan Lokey Inc. in New York. "It really shows they're trying to get ahead of the digital phenomenon rather than being left behind it."
Disney currently offers a number of its services as streaming options on the fourth-generation Apple TV, including Watch ABC, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Jr, and Watch ESPN. MLB has also been a strong Apple content partner, with an advanced live streaming app being one of the key demos during the introduction of the fourth-generation Apple TV.
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Join AOPA, GAMI, Avfuel for unleaded fuel webinar
September 13, 2021 By AOPA ePublishing staff
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Delta drops degree requirement for pilot applicants | Chief Engineer George Braly, and Avfuel Corp. Director of Trading and Logistics Muneeb Ahmed will discuss GAMI's new G100UL unleaded fuel, its distribution plan, and more during a one-hour webinar on September 16 at 7 p.m. Eastern time.
GAMI announced supplemental type certificate approval for its high-octane unleaded avgas on July 27 during EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The STC allows the fuel to be used in a limited number of Cessna models with Lycoming engines. GAMI expects the FAA to expand its approved model list.
GAMI has tested the amber-colored fuel for nearly a decade and says that it will serve as a drop-in replacement for 100LL in most piston aircraft engines and can be mixed with 100LL. At 6.2 pounds per gallon, it weighs slightly more than 100LL. GAMI has also tested the fuel successfully in turbocharged and normally aspirated Continental IO-550s and Lycoming IO-390s and IO-540s without detonation occurring. These high-compression engines are particularly susceptible to detonation in some conditions.
GAMI has teamed with Avfuel to develop a distribution plan for the fuel.
"Avfuel is establishing a supply chain to responsibly bring G100UL avgas to market on a commercial scale," Avfuel announced in a press release July 27. "Together, GAMI and Avfuel have committed to a process that will ensure G100UL avgas is available to all legitimate distributors and vendors on an equitable basis in terms of access and economics."
During the webinar, the three industry leaders will discuss how FBOs and airport managers can explore ways to get ready to use this fuel once it is more broadly approved.
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Bill<|fim_middle|> than 24 hours this week ‒ at the age of 79.
The veteran, who lives in Walvis Bay, will take a third consecutive shot at breaking the 24-hour mark in the race from Windhoek to Swakopmund.
The event starts on Friday and takes the riders through the world's oldest desert, the Namib.
"In 2015, I finished outside the 24-hour mark by 13 minutes. Last year, it was seven minutes. It was close, but close is not good enough," Jooste said this week.
"This year I want to finish in under 24 hours; maybe under 23," said Jooste, who hails from Johannesburg, ran the Comrades Marathon 11 times, retired in Mossel Bay and has been a resident of Walvis Bay for seven years.
"It's a difficult race with different challenges, but I'm optimistic," he said.
Jooste knows what to expect. "It's fairly flat here at the coast. There are no big hills like you'll find around Windhoek.
"Down here we get really strong south-westerly and northerly winds, so the conditions make it hard to train.
"But I'm looking forward to it. It's quite interesting riding through the changing landscapes. The scenery can be extraordinary," he said.
The race begins at 3pm on Friday and Jooste expects the first half will be the hardest. "That's where most of the climbs are.
The conditions can be unpredictable, he added. "Anything can happen; you never know what to expect.
"I'm a bit nervous because there's some rough terrain and the roads aren't always good.
"I have to pace myself carefully; it's obviously not about speed for me. But I'm also excited. I'm doing it because I want to enjoy it," the former tri-athlete said.
Jooste, who turns 80 in May 2018, said he would still carry on cycling next year; but would still decide closer to the time whether he'll take part in the next Desert Dash. | Jooste is determined to finish the 369km Desert Dash in Namibia in less | 19 |
Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Dublin is in the province of Leinster on Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey. The city has an urban area population of 1,345,402. The population of the Greater Dublin Area, as of 2016, was 1,904,806 people.
Dublin is administered by a City Council. The city is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city, with a ranking of "Alpha-", which places it amongst the top thirty cities in the world. It is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration, economy and industry.
Dublin is situated at the mouth of the River Liffey and encompasses a land area of approximately 115 square kilometres (44 sq mi) in east-central Ireland. It is bordered by a low mountain range to the south and surrounded by flat farmland to the north and west. The Liffey divides the city in two between the Northside and the Southside. Each of these is further divided by two lesser rivers – the River Tolka running southeast into Dubin Bay, and the River Dodder running northeast to the mouth of the Liffey. Two further water bodies – the Grand Canal on the southside and the Royal Canal on the northside – ring the inner city on their way from the west and the River Shannon.
Dublin's sheltered location on the east coast makes it the driest place in Ireland, receiving only about half the rainfall of the west coast. Ringsend in the south of the city records the lowest rainfall in the country, with an average annual precipitation of 683 mm (27 in), with the average annual precipitation in the city centre being 714 mm (28 in). The main precipitation in winter is rain; however snow showers do occur between November and March. Hail is more common than snow. The city experiences long summer days and short winter days. Strong Atlantic winds are most common in autumn. These winds can affect Dublin, but due to its easterly location it is least affected compared to other parts of the country. However, in winter, easterly winds render the city colder and more prone to snow showers.
In the 20th century, smog and air-pollution were an issue in the city, precipitating a ban on bituminous<|fim_middle|> City Council, but the term "Dublin" is also used to refer to the contiguous urban area which includes parts of the adjacent local authority areas of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin. Together, the four areas form the traditional County Dublin. This area is sometimes known as the Dublin Region. The population of the administrative area controlled by the City Council was 553,165 in the 2016 census, while the population of the urban area was 1,345,402. The County Dublin population was 1,273,069 and that of the Greater Dublin Area 1,904,806. The area's population is expanding rapidly, and it is estimated by the Central Statistics Office that it will reach 2.1 million by 2020.
Since the late 1990s, Dublin has experienced a significant level of net immigration, with the greatest numbers coming from the European Union, especially the United Kingdom, Poland and Lithuania. There is also immigration from outside Europe, including from India, Pakistan, China and Nigeria. Dublin is home to a greater proportion of newer arrivals than any other part of the country. Sixty percent of Ireland's Asian population lives in Dublin. Over 15% of Dublin's population was foreign-born in 2006.
The capital attracts the largest proportion of non-Catholic migrants from other countries. Increased secularization in Ireland has prompted a drop in regular Catholic church attendance in Dublin from over 90 percent in the mid-1970s down to 14 percent according to a 2011 survey. | fuels across Dublin. The ban was implemented in 1990 to address black smoke concentrations, that had been linked to cardiovascular and respiratory deaths in residents. Since the ban, non-trauma death rates, respiratory death rates and cardiovascular death rates have declined - by an estimated 350 deaths annually.
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Janssen Sciences Ireland UC has announced an expansion of its Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork facility that will allow it to meet the critical needs of patients around the world. The expansion plans involve an investment of more than €300 million that will increase the existing manufacturing space by an additional 19,100m2, provide employment<|fim_middle|> Johnson operates 11 sites throughout Ireland, located in Cork, Dublin and Limerick. The overall operation comprises six manufacturing plants, four commercial offices and an IT centre of excellence. | for up to 450 people during construction and an extra 200 people once completed.
· Construction of a new manufacturing building.
· Expansion of the existing warehouse building, laboratory and administration buildings.
· Modification of expansion of other aspects of the existing site and infrastructure, including utilities, car parking, underground services, internal roads, yards and pipe racks.
· Expansion of the on-site waste water treatment plant to accommodate increased volumes.
Janssen Sciences Ireland UC, (previously Janssen Biologics), is part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, the world's most comprehensive and broadly based manufacturer of healthcare products and related services.
Established in Belgium in 1953 by Paul Janssen, the company's headquarters are located in Beerse, Belgium, and its stated aim is the continuous development of better drugs to improve quality of life.
Johnson & Johnson employs more than 2,700 highly skilled and motivated people in Ireland. These employees support the company's pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer business through engineering, manufacturing, quality, sales and marketing, commercial and IT roles.
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This smashing recipe for chicken tenders is done in a clean eating style. The crunchy coating, similar to traditional fried chicken, is made from a healthier mix of almonds, garlic, and spices. The chicken is skillet fried in 10 minutes using unrefined coconut oil, instead of deep frying in hydrogenated oils. We suggest adding our organic Southern Fried Chicken Seasoning to the almond mixture. The Almond Crusted Chicken Tenders recipe is from Bailey of the Simply Sissom blog. Click on image for the recipe.
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If you are a fan of oven-frying vs deep-frying, we think you'll love this crispy fried chicken variation using panko and buttermilk by Steph of the<|fim_middle|>, you can with this simple and comforting Seafood Stew recipe by Tina of the Scaling Back Blog. Packed with clams, fish and shrimp, it's a great recipe to try with Splendor Garden's organic Seafood Seasoning. Click on image for the recipe.
From our kitchen to yours, we are pleased to feature this tasty recipe shared via homesweetjones.com for you to try with our organic Salmon Seasoning.
This creamy and light wild salmon spread, served on toasted baguette, is an appetizing treat that you'll find it hard to stop eating! Inspired by a dish from Thomas Keller (an American chef/restaurateur ), the recipe for Potted Salmon Rillettes is from Maggie of the blog Home Sweet Jones. It's an ideal recipe to try with our organic Salmon Seasoning, that is – for seasoning the steamed salmon part of the recipe. Click on image for the recipe.
From our kitchen to yours, we are pleased to feature this tasty recipe shared via gastrosenses.com for you to try with our organic Salmon Seasoning.
Making a pancake pie with salmon is a great idea and the brainchild of fellow Canadians, Lily and Dmitriy from the blog Gastro Senses. We like that they are fans of organic products! And, we think our organic salmon seasoning works well with this easy recipe. Our suggestion is to add a tsp (or to taste) of the seasoning when sauteing the onion mixture, which is combined with the salmon to make the pancake pie's filling. Enjoy! Click on image for the recipe. | 'i am a food' blog. Consider using our organic Southern Fried Chicken Seasoning, which already includes the four spices in the recipe. Click on image for the recipe. And, if you prefer deep-fried chicken, then Steph also has a lip smacking recipe for Buttermilk Deep-Fried Chicken Wings.
Use this to make Grandma's traditional fried chicken. Great on chicken breast as well.
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From our kitchen to yours, we are pleased to feature this tasty recipe shared via justataste.com for you to try with our organic Seafood Seasoning "Salt Free".
We bring you another wonderful seafood dish that can be easily made in 30 minutes! Zucchini noodles (made with either a spiralizer, mandoline or a vegetable peeler) are one of the stars of this recipe by Kelly of the Just A Taste blog. The other key ingredient is shrimp, which can be seasoned with our organic Seafood Seasoning. Click on image for the recipe.
From our kitchen to yours, we are pleased to feature this tasty recipe shared via scalingbackblog.com for you to try with our organic Seafood Seasoning "Salt Free".
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: Bangkok - Bangkok - Thailand | 90% Of All Airbnb Users Are "Doing it Wrong"!
Claims Full-time Airbnb'er, Freelancer and 'Digital Nomad' In His New Book
By: BizWebResource
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Tony Santos - Author
BANGKOK, Thailand - Oct. 26, 2016 - PRLog -- Tony Santos, author of the new travel advice book "Mastering Airbnb: The Expert Guide to Maximizing Your Travel" is hoping to help travelers and "digital nomads" around the globe change the way they use Airbnb, so they can get more value and stay in better places for less.
As a copywriter and consultant who travels the globe full-time using Airbnb, he has developed and fine-tuned several key strategies that help him leverage his Airbnb dollars.
For example, one of his best scores was a fully-furnished one-bedroom apartment in the heart of Budapest which cost him under $400 for a one month stay.
His new book is currently available on Amazon -
(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M0YCV4W)
Santos' aim is to help other travelers leverage Airbnb the way he has been able to do over the last few years.
"I wrote this book because it's clear to me that most people who are booking on Airbnb could get a lot more for their money. It just requires making a few tweaks to how they search for places, among other things," he said in a recent interview.
"It's important to take into consideration that most Airbnb'ers are missing out on incredible deals, simply because they don't know how or where to find them."
Tony Santos is an avid flag-bearer of the "digital nomad" lifestyle, and has been living in various places around Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia thanks to Airbnb since giving up his last permanent home in Panama in 2011.
With the rising number of people both using Airbnb and working remotely, he's part of a trend that shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.
The book can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M0YCV4W.
Tony can be contacted via his website at http://bizwebresource.com.
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Oakland dominates second half to beat East Tennessee State, goes to finals of Vegas 16
Max Hooper ended the night with 28 points, shooting 8-for-11 behind the arc and 4-for-4 from the line.
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With 2:30 to go in the game, Kay Felder missed a layup and got his own rebound. He got outside the three-point line. Martez Walker swooped down from the paint to the left side, behind the arc. Felder passed it. Walker shot it.
"Is this it?" the CBS Sports Network play-by-play announcer said.
But it wasn't Walker's triple he was referring to. Felder got the second triple-double of his career on that basket. The second in Oakland's history.
Gibson ran back down the court with a big ol' grin on his face. Felder just glanced up, maybe at the scoreboard, and almost smiled. Then he started guarding again.
Oakland men's basketball seemed to do everything right Tuesday night in the semifinals of the Vegas 16. But it took a while.
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Sherron Dorsey-Walker scored six.
Nick Daniels got five points. He closed the defensive vice "On a kid … that had 31 and 10 last night," Kampe said.
For East Tennesssee State, Ge'Lawn Guyn led with 16 points, and got nine boards.
T.J. Cromer and Desonta Bradford scored 15. Bradford shot 6-for-9 from the field.
Lester Wilson scored 11.
A.J. Merriweather scored 10 and shot 4-for-6 from the field.
Oakland plays Old Dominion in the finals of the Vegas 16 at 10 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 30. Watch on CBS Sports Network, stream on College Sports Live and Vegas16.com, or listen on WDFN-AM (1130).
It'll be Oakland's third game in three days.
"We had three weeks off," Kampe said, "so we were all rested. I think we'll be excited, and the adrenaline'll be pumping.
Old Dominion is 24-13.
"They've got two great offensive players," Kampe said. "We're gonna have to guard and we're gonna have to rebound. If we do those two things, we might have a chance. They're really good." | The Golden Grizzlies ended the first half with a five-minute, 9-0 run, but the stat sheet still didn't look too pretty.
East Tennessee State and Oakland had traded the lead six times. The Golden Grizzlies led by two and had been shooting 37.8% from the field. Felder was 3-for-11; Jalen Hayes was having an uncharacteristic zero-point game; Percy Gibson was scoring, but had only taken four shots; Martez walker hadn't scored.
And then there was Max Hooper, who shot 4-for-7 behind the arc in eleven minutes of playing time and wouldn't miss another one.
Apparently everyone wanted to be like Max.
The rocket launch started with 14:08 to go in the second half. It was 53-52 East Tennessee State off a three-pointer by Lester Wilson.
Sherron Dorsey-Walker made a three. Hooper wanted to follow, so he stole the ball, shot a three and got fouled.
Hooper missed the basket, but made the foul shots and sent the Oakland lead to five.
Blastoff. Farewell.
"The last thirteen to fifteen minutes of this game, we peaked," Oakland head coach Greg Kampe said in the post-game GrizzVision interview with Neal Ruhl. "We played at an unbelievable level."
Oakland (23-11) defeated the East Tennessee State Buccaneers (24-12) 104-81 Tuesday night at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
Felder's numbers on the night were simply serendipitous. He broke the Horizon League single-season assist record, and his total stands at 313, the area code for Detroit, from where Felder, Walker, Dorsey-Walker and Gibson hail.
He bumped up the Horizon League career assists record to 777. Vegas, anyone?
Plus, he turned 21 years old. What better birthday gift to give yourself and your team than 29 points, 10 rebounds (five offensive, five defensive) and 10 assists?
Hooper followed Felder right up there with 28 points, shooting 8-for-11 behind the arc and 4-for-4 from the line. It's like he thought he was back in Wisconsin again, where he ignited on the road trip that sparked the Golden Grizzlies' six-game win streak which got them back into the upper reaches of the Horizon League. He got three boards.
Gibson got 15 points and shot 7-for-10 from the field. He picked up five rebounds.
Martez Walker got 10 points and five boards.
Xavier Hill-Mais shot 2-for-3 from the field and scored | 574 |
A d<|fim_middle|> | ashing collection of holiday billboards.
As a freelance interactive copywriter, I still always welcome the challenge of a billboard. You have only seven words and half a second to get your message across. (How many times have I slowed down just to read a too long message.) The holidays are an especially fun time with plenty of holiday carols, motifs and traditions to play off of.
This billboard by the San Diego Zoo is a visual pun on the sleigh pulled by Santa's reindeer. This billboard ran last year as well, proving that some holiday traditions are worth repeating.
One of my favorite holiday billboards is this one by Wells Fargo which first ran I believe in 2007. It plays off the iconic stagecoach, with the nose of the lead lighting up red at night. Simple, clean and clever without being cutesy. It ran for numerous years and then last year was replaced by the billboard below which runs more on the cutesy side. | 197 |
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PicMonkey is among the hottest editing and movies making sites Today, which makes it an ideal choice for inexperienced photographers and aspiring photo editors. So let's have a peek at what this online tool for picture editing has to offer.
If you find yourself in need of a powerful and easy to use tool which Will allow you to generate social networking posts immediately then you need to look at utilizing PicMonkey. Here are the things you should take into account before you make this online picture editor, your go-to option.
Pros: You actually Don't have to be a photo editing magician so as to be able to produce magical pictures with this online tool. The PicMonkey's list of features you can use to edit your photos is very long, which essentially means you can do virtually anything you want with photos you'd like to edit. Besides impressive photo editing options, PicMonkey additionally supplies a good number of graphic design programs that could assist you through the process of building a banner for your website or producing a Facebook cover photograph your friends will adore.
Cons: Those of you Who were hoping that you are able to edit pictures of all sizes are going to receive a little disappointed since PicMonkey has a picture size limitation. You can choose from three distinct options, but no choice will allow you to upload images larger than 16MP and if you upload a photo that's larger than this the platform will automatically resize it to 4000X4000 pixels.
Although you can use this photograph editor to edit photos or create collages Free of charge, PicMonkey won't permit you to save, export or share the images you've edited unless you install an account, for which you must pay a yearly or monthly fee.
Most online picture editors offer ways to create goofy photos but at The exact same time they lack traditional picture editing programs that are generally utilized to enhance photographs. PicMonkey manages to find the appropriate balance between topics that allow you to recreate the visual look of comic books on your photos and blur alternatives that can be used to create the artistic feel on the images you edit. Furthermore, the Focal B&W tool enables you to decide which portion of the photograph you want to desaturate and which region of the picture should retain colour.
This online photo editor offers tens of thousands of overlays, ranging from Zig-zag lines to birds, butterflies, and flowers. Every one of these overlays can assist you in creating photos that will attract a good deal of attention on social networking.
PicMonkey is well-equipped with programs that enable you to edit your Selfies and the other portrait photos to perfection. Characteristics like Blemish Repair, Wrinkle Remover, Lip Tint, Mascara or Weight Loss<|fim_middle|> who Wish to design pictures and this online editor also allows you to pick the perfect dimensions for your Instagram story photos or Facebook cover photo.
On the AppStore and Google Play, the PicMonkey cellphone app comes With useful features that lets users edit photos and do a couple of touch ups on their selfies before posting on social networking. It is essentially a photograph editor you can use on the go.
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Choosing the best strategy is ultimately your decision. It Is Dependent upon how Frequently you edit your photos, how broad your editing projects are and whether you actually have a demand for those advanced capabilities. | enable you to have complete creative control on how the skin, mouth, eyes or figures of people depicted in your photographs will look like.
There are several pricing options available to people who Choose to use PicMonkey on a continuous basis. The Premium alternative can costs $7,99 a month or $5,99 per month, billed annually at $71,88. The cost for Superpremium pricing plan costs $107, 88 per year, however the number of alternatives you may unlock will probably leave you wondering if you were better off purchasing a desktop software like Fotophire for a considerably lower sum of money.
The PicMonkey's interface is well-organized, therefore even if you never used a Photo editing software before you should not have too much difficulty learning how around this online picture editor. Standard photo editing features such as Cropping or Rotating images are easily accessible from the editor's toolbar that provides alternatives like Basic Edits, Effects or Frames, among others. PicMonkey enables you to upload pictures from the personal computer, Facebook, OneDrive, Flickr or even Dropbox. In addition, Premium account owners are able to store around fifty images at the editor's Hub, whereas the Superpremium account owners have boundless Hub storage.
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"Too many cities wrongly sign away power to ensure the safety of citizens on the roads when they privatize traffic law enforcement. Automated traffic ticketing tends to be governed by contracts that focus more on profits than safety," said Alana Miller, Program Associate of PennPIRG, the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group. "That shouldn't happen," Miller added.
Earlier this week, the Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill that would expand red light cameras to 19 cities around the state, despite worries about the effectiveness of the program in Philadelphia.
· Put public safety first in decisions regarding enforcement of traffic laws – this includes evaluating privat<|fim_middle|> Looking at the growth of this industry around the country and the Senate's recent decision, we want to learn from problems elsewhere to prevent them in Pennsylvania" said Miller. | ized law enforcement camera systems against alternative options without regard to potential revenues.
· Ensure that contract language is free from potential conflicts of interest.
· Avoid direct or indirect incentives for vendors that are based on the volume of tickets or fines.
· Retain public control over traffic policy and engineering decisions, including cancelling contracts if the public is dissatisfied.
· Ensure that the process of contracting with vendors is completely open, with ample opportunity for public participation and each ticket listing where to find online data about automated ticketing for each intersection.
"We are lucky that Pennsylvania hasn't yet seen the controversy and lawsuits over red-light cameras found in states like California and Texas. | 129 |
It's a popular phrase — repeated from person to person with little consideration for its true meaning.
Though it's often attributed to English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon, the expression's earliest written occurrence appears in 10th-century Islamic literature.
Visit any university campus and you'll find hundreds of professors lecturing on everything from computer science to theoretical physics to demystifying the hipster — yes, that's a real class.
For example, the more one knows about finance, the more options one has when saving for retirement.
But is more knowledge always better? And does it really make us more powerful? In my opinion, the answer is no.
Due to technological advancements, reaching proficiency in most subject areas is now more attainable than ever before. With 24/7 access to thousands of free online courses, blogs and podcasts, we can advance our education in our pajamas.
However, conversations with friends, colleagues, and family members have led me to believe that consuming information has become trendy to a fault.
Of course, the irony that I'm<|fim_middle|> Eventually, we come to realize we've been duped: Knowledge has no power without action.
And, if we're honest with ourselves, we don't even remember most of the content we consume.
During the 1960s, National Training Laboratories measured student retention rates after 24 hours of varied learning. The organization found that participants retained a mere 10 percent of the information they learned through reading.
Conversely, the students retained a whopping 75 percent of the information they put into action and 90 percent of the information they taught to someone else.
Whatever knowledge we don't immediately use, we lose. That's why the world's most successful entrepreneurs seem to intersperse knowledge acquisition with creative experimentation.
An entrepreneur may then decide to cement their newfound knowledge by sharing it with others.
Obviously, most of us don't have time to teach a formal class after every book we read. But we could upload a quick tutorial on YouTube; discuss our findings with interested family, friends and colleagues; or even become a mentor for less experienced business owners.
2. Forced learning deflates creativity.
Have you ever seen a child who isn't self-directed? Consider how much they learn without forced suggestion.
For instance, toddlers watch their parents walk before naturally attempting to do it themselves. They fall several times before getting back up and trying again.
Children don't feel discouraged by mini-setbacks because they have no concept of failure; they keep trying because it's fun.
We were all children once. Our natural interests led us to speak languages, learn social cues, and study anything we deemed important. It wasn't until school that learning became a chore. In other words, learning is natural — until we force it.
"We send them to school and then we wonder why they're no longer self-motivated, because we've taken away the basic motives for learning: curiosity, playfulness, sociability," says Peter Gray, psychology professor at Boston College.
Gray's observation is hardly new; it even inspired the 1970s unschooling movement. Coined by educator John Holt, the term refers to a philosophy that advocates learner-chosen activities as a primary means for education.
Not to be confused with homeschooling, unschooling students learn through their natural life experiences. In essence, curiosity drives curriculum. Learning tools include play, household responsibilities, work experience, internships, travel, and educational resources.
While I'm not suggesting unschooling as a parenting choice, I think we can all empathize with how bad it feels to force enthusiasm.
As entrepreneurs, we must be brutally honest with ourselves about our motivations: Are we seeking knowledge about a topic of true interest? Or are we acquiring copious information around a subject because we've convinced ourselves we must?
The most successful entrepreneurs I know maximize their learning around the aspects of their businesses they enjoy most.
While they do spend time studying essentials of less interest, they minimize acquisition to the bare minimum for action.
3. Sometimes we need to unlearn.
Understandably, most of us view learning as adding knowledge and skills. However, sometimes we have to remove old ways of thinking to embark upon something new.
For example, a husband and wife came to author and Fast Company contributor Marcia Conner to learn how to kayak.
The man knew a lot about canoeing; it was a skill he had spent significant time developing. However, his wife was a water sports novice. And it quickly became evident that the husband's previous experience was a hurdle to overcome — not an asset.
His wife, on the other hand, made significant progress from day one.
Though much entrepreneurial knowledge is interchangeable, some is project specific. Each business endeavor requires us to challenge our previous experiences. Whether we're dealing with an unfamiliar industry, an emerging technology, or new team members, we must approach every project with fresh curiosity.
Take Einstein. He never would have discovered special relativity if he hadn't broken away from Newton's laws of motion. Nearly every major scientific discovery has challenged an old paradigm.
Unfortunately, approaching new ventures with a fresh perspective isn't always easy. One way to reduce this tendency is to immediately focus on what makes a new project different than previous ones.
When we proactively ask ourselves why something is different, we break the tendency to run on autopilot. This is a great way to generate fresh ideas, solutions, and perspectives.
As I've mentioned before, the most successful entrepreneurs maximize their time in areas of top interest. As they become more successful, they delegate less interesting tasks to others.
It's a lesson every seasoned founder understands: There simply aren't enough hours a day to do everything yourself.
So, why do we even attempt to read every book, listen to every podcast, and watch every TED Talk? If we know we can't do it all, we shouldn't be learning about it all.
For example, my company, JotForm creates web forms for time-strapped organizations.
Our developers apply decades of expertise in various programming languages, graphic design, and other web-based disciplines to deliver out-of-the-box functionality.
Someone who doesn't know how to create forms could spend hours each day increasing their knowledge — or they could pay a small fee for our subscription-based services.
Indeed, there are now so many technology-based solutions available to save us time, energy and money. We live in an era of seemingly unlimited knowledge and service-based resources.
The key to success appears to be regulating our knowledge intake, while putting the information we acquire into action.
The less we obsess about staying up to date on the latest books, podcasts and informational trends, the more time we have to create.
And isn't that what our five-year-old selves would have wanted? | writing productivity articles is not lost on me. However, I hope to share a different perspective that encourages strategic action.
Constant reading, researching, and learning can give aspiring entrepreneurs a false sense of accomplishment.
Unfortunately, Abhishek's story is far from unique. Even experienced entrepreneurs sometimes get stuck in information overload, which shows why sheer knowledge is often powerless.
So, maybe knowledge alone isn't what we're after — maybe it's acquiring just enough knowledge to inform intelligent action.
Big goals often require more than rote memorization; they demand a deeper understanding of core principles. But many of us still associate learning with memorizing facts, formulas, and concepts.
Whether they're studying Spanish vocabulary words or repeating how "Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492," cramming information is standard procedure for many young adults.
That's why I was surprised to learn that educational experts believe informational recall is a mere stepping stone to total comprehension. K-12 teachers and college instructors around the globe often plan lessons around something called Bloom's Taxonomy — a learning framework based on decades of formal research.
Despite the fact that total comprehension includes more than reading textbooks and listening to lectures, these seem to be the educational processes that stick with us after graduation.
Perhaps some instructors prioritize rote memorization over creative and logical experimentation, but this tendency also keeps many of us stuck.
Too much knowledge without action leads to overwhelm, discouragement, and misdirection. | 301 |
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The self-perception process as a cause of implicit-explicit consistency in the domain of disgust sensitivity (2012)
Zinkernagel, Axel
Based on dual process models of information processing, the present research addressed how explicit disgust sensitivity is re-adapted according to implicit disgust sensitivity via self-perception of automatic behavioral cues. Contrary to preceding studies (Hofmann, Gschwendner, & Schmitt, 2009) that concluded that there was a "blind spot" for self- but not for observer perception of automatic behavioral cues, in the present research, a re-adaption process was found for self-perceivers and observers. In Study 1 (N = 75), the predictive validity of an indirect disgust sensitivity measure was tested with a double-dissociation strategy. Study 2 (N = 117) reinvestigated the hypothesis that self-perception of automatic behavioral cues, predicted by an indirect disgust sensitivity measure, led to a re-adaption of explicit disgust sensitivity measures. Using a different approach from Hofmann et al. (2009), the self-perception procedure was modified by (a) feeding back the behavior several times while a small number of cues had to be rated for each feedback condition, (b) using disgust sensitivity as a domain with clearly unequivocal cues of automatic behavior (facial expression, body movements) and describing these cues unambiguously, and (c) using a specific explicit disgust sensitivity measure in addition to a general explicit disgust sensitivity measure. In Study 3 (N = 130), the findings of Study 2 were replicated and display rules and need for closure as moderator effects of predictive validity and cue utilization were additionally investigated. The moderator effects give hints that both displaying a disgusted facial expression and self-perception of one- own disgusted facial expression are subject to a self-serving bias | 393 |
Investing in Digital Literacy through Social Media – John A. McArthur, Ph.D.
This article was featured on the Social Media Club's Education Blog on Wednesday, May 9, 2012.
Entertainer Cee-Lo Green's cat, Purrfect, has become a mouthpiece for NBC's The Voice, a singing competion which this past Tuesday crowned its second winner. With 63,000 followers on Twitter, this feline certainly has a voice of its own – one that meows to promote the television show that led it to fame.
If a cat can do it, we all can.
The insertion of social media in education has the potential to advance core aims of our society: to teach students how to engage with their families, neighbors, and communities in a new way.
The combination of social media and education requires that we teach students how to become literate in a digital world. The skills of literacy are no longer<|fim_middle|>aching and learning can be dramatically impacted by social media. But only if we as teachers are willing and able to model its effective use alongside our students. | just about reading and writing, but about abilities that surround our responsibilities as authors.
Access refers to an individual's ability to use a computer to connect to the Internet. Many of us who use the Internet everyday take access for granted, but even in America, a vast digital divide still exists. The lack of access to both computers and the Internet play a distinct role in determining who can contribute to a conversation.
Analyzing information is a skill frequently taught in educational circles: how to establish the accuracy of a source or the reliability of an author. Digital media expands this conversation as sources become too numerous to count and an author's reliability is often found in shades of grey rather than a decision that is black or white.
As we engage digital tools, we are creating. Whether designed through Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest or using advanced software like Final Cut Pro, Garageband, or Illustrator, the creations we make are messages that we send out to others.
Reflection on our own actions in a digital space remains a core competency forgotten by many. We operate in a social media space that encourages us to reveal ourselves without reflecting on our actions. Reflection will become a distinct indicator of success and value as we move toward an increasingly interconnected world.
Action is not about tweeting or updating a status or sharing a video, but rather about using the tools we can to make a positive impact on others. Our actions in social media spaces can degrade, insult, and embarrass, but they can also engage, promote and uplift. The choice is a minute-to-minute decision of each author.
One aim of education is to train a citizenry for active participation. When applied to social media, these five competencies are learning outcomes that the combination of social media and education can address to contribute to that aim.
Social media gives each one of us a voice, and we each have a role to play in our respective communities. I can choose to be a town crier by advancing today's news or costermonger who peddles my wares online. I might be a village idiot making jokes.
But, on a fundamental level, we must all serve as citizens who are listening to the voices of those in our communities and discerning the voices of merit from the rest.
Teachers and learners around the country are grappling with ways to insert social media into pedagogy and trying to decide if and how it fits.
Teachers, use the five competencies of literacy above as guideposts for your instruction using social media. I don't teach Twitter for Twitter's sake. I teach it as a tool for active engagement in communities. Some of these five competencies have become learning outcomes in my classes and social media have become one piece of the larger set of pedagogical aims for my teaching.
Learners, invest yourself in the five competencies to better your own practice. You may find yourself tweeting for your company, advertising a product on Facebook, or writing a blog about your family. Ask yourself if your skills are being enhanced in the process. But, more importantly, ask yourself if your use of social media is working for the good of your community.
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Schoolbank of wel Gedenksteen Sint Joannesschool is een artistiek kunstwerk in Duivendrecht.
Het werk dateert uit circa 2011 en is ontworpen naar een idee van architect Dick Albert en uitgevoerd door kunstenaarsechtpaar Marianne en Rob Wintershoven. Het is geplaatst in een plantsoentje ten noordoosten van Station Duivendrecht.
Het beeld heeft de vorm van een zitbankje, waarop al drie leerlingen in silhouetvorm hebben plaatsgenomen. Alhoewel het bankje uitnodigt om bij deze drie figuren te gaan zitten, wordt dat ten sterkste ontraden; het bankje is namelijk gemaakt van cortenstaal dat bruingeel<|fim_middle|>egen. Het kunstwerk werd gemaakt in Geleen (Metaal Service Dassen), waarvoor de steen tweemaal 200 kilometer moest reizen. Op 10 september 2011 (Open Monumentendag) werd het beeld onthuld, waarbij burgemeester Mieke Blankers-Kasbergen een toespraak hield.
Beeld in Noord-Holland | gruis (natuurlijke roest) afgeeft. De bijnaam van het monumentje verwijst naar de gedenksteen gedateerd 22 mei 1913, die refereert aan de eerstesteenlegging bij de bouw van de Sint-Joannesschool op 13 april 1913 (steenlegging pastoor F.J. Evers, gedenksteen A.D. Timans). Die school werd in 1973 gesloopt om ruimte geven voor het genoemde spoorstation. Die steen had na de sloop van de school een reis langs diverse eigenaren binnen het dorp gemaakt.
Het kunstwerk wordt vergezeld door een infobord. Het originele ontwerp was groter en zou in brons gegoten worden. Daar waren echter de financiële middelen onvoldoende voor, vandaar werd gekozen voor een beeldje in cortenstaal. Echter in de periode van fabricage bleek de prijs voor dat metaal aanmerkelijk gest | 243 |
Lisa Fitzgerald is no stranger to being awarded for her good work at the Charlottesville-University of Virginia-Albemarle Emergency Communications Center.
For 29 years, Fitzgerald has been in the life-saving business through her work as a Public Safety Communications Officer (PSCO), and in September, her stellar skills resulted in saving an Albemarle County man's life by talking his wife through administering CPR.
The 4:00 a.m. call went out as "difficulty breathing" on Sept. 12, 2018, but was quickly upgraded to a cardiac arrest. Within minutes, a fire crew arrived and found 68-year-old Michael McQueen of Earlysville unresponsive and receiving chest compressions from his wife under the direction of Communications Supervisor Fitzgerald. Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) were able to continue chest compressions, administer the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) early, and get Mr. McQueen to the hospital.
Fitzgerald's calm and clear directions during that early morning call began what is called the "Chain of Survival", a crucial component necessary if there is any hope to saving a life in these medical emergencies.
ECC Operations Manager Todd Richardson has worked with Fitzgerald for 22 years and supervised her for a little over a year.
McQueen was released from the hospital after receiving more than a week of treatment.
Feedback on the positive outcomes from these types of calls is rare in this line of work for various reasons.<|fim_middle|> first responders from that incident, when she met the McQueens under much more ideal circumstances.
"Their appreciation has really meant a lot to me," she said.
Fitzgerald was nominated by Richardson and presented with the ECC Life Saver Award for her important role in this medical emergency. The award is part of an ongoing internal recognition program. | In Fitzgerald's almost three-decade career, she knows of around six saves she had a hand in, to include this one.
"It was great to hear from Mr. and Mrs. McQueen. I was really touched that they took the time to send me such a heartfelt thank you card and I would love to tell them that in person," said Fitzgerald.
On Friday, Fitzgerald got her chance to express her gratitude, along with the other | 88 |
OneGov is leading the charge in helping the NSW government improve line of business for each agency and deliver services to customers through Service NSW.
Prior to the launch of OneGov, the Software-as-a-Service provider to the NSW government and provider of Service NSW, the state government was running in silos and on outdated systems, some of which were up to 40 years old.
OneGov technology head Rahul<|fim_middle|> enhancing the use of big data and machine learning through chat bots and conversational interfaces.
Investing in Hadoop will also be another future consideration for the government as it invests in big data, Dutta said.
Dutta added that OneGov is looking to adopt objective storage and move away from the existing block storage, with the belief it will give the government added flexibility to upgrade when dealing with large amounts of documents and files.
Last June, Service NSW received a AU$362 million in further funding from the 2015 state budget to increase the number of digital interactions with government. | Dutta explained recently at OpenStack Day Australia that each department -- whether it was transport, education, or justice -- ran their own different systems and processes which resulted in duplications, poor data quality, restraint on budgets, and ultimately impacted the way customers connected with the state government.
Dutta went on to say that when the state government realised the problem it had, there was a decision to consolidate each department's processes into one platform. He said part of that process meant re-engineering each department's line of business, which Dutta pointed out had a lot of similarities.
"What we found was there was a huge amount of similarities in how cases were managed, how payments are done, how partners are managed, and what we decided was to create and re-engineer business processes and create a new platform," he said.
Specifically, the government deployed a hybrid cloud, with the private cloud hosted within the government's datacentres located in Silverwater and Unanderra; and on top of that, Dutta said, a multi-tenanted application was deployed to run the same business processes each department had. This gave each department visibility and the opportunity to configure their offices on the platform in a short period of time.
"It's a little bit like a Salesforce in the government," he said.
In addition, the government partnered with Rackspace to migrate 50 organisations, largely their application environments, into OpenStack.
Since launching the new platform, OneGov handles 10 million transactions a year while managing a similar number of customers through Service NSW, the state's one-stop shop for government transactions.
At the same time, the state government has realised so far more than AU$100 million in cost savings as a result of the platform.
But according to Dutta, the work so far is just beginning for the NSW government. He said the next focus for will be to work on becoming more customer-centric by developing a single account for customers to manage all of their transactions with the government; developing concepts such as introducing digital licences; and | 412 |
<|fim_middle|> stitching adds a lovely touch. | The Lilly dress: a new pattern!
Hello everyone, there is a new pattern hitting screens all round the world, and it is the Lilly dress.
This dress is inspired by the Lilly Pulitzer dresses that everyone but me has heard of, and was designed by the incredibly creative Deby Coles at S0 Sew Easy.
the pattern is layered. I had never seen this before. What it means is that you choose your size prior to printing and only that size gets printed. Need to grade between sizes? No problem, just print the sizes you need and do your grading.
There is a quick checklist for more experienced sewists, so they don't have to wade through all the (for them) irrelevant detail.
Tricky components of the construction are supported by tutorials.
Although I made my dress in the middle of winter, I have been able to wear it with the addition of one of my Jenna Cardis on some of our slightly warmer days.
This is the kind of basic shift pattern that is a must in any wardrobe. The opportunities for hacking the pattern are endless. Change the neckline, add darts at the front to give a bit more shaping, make it from a thick ponte knit for a winter option, add sleeves, add pockets, and so on.
I added front darts to add shaping as I looked a little second trimester without it.
I decided to quickly make a ponte version to wear in the cooler weather. I wanted pockets on this one, but didn't want them inseam, so using a compass I drew a semi-circle, added some straight lines and hey presto, I had pockets.
It all looked a bit plain, so I cut a couple of strips of bias and used Sashiko techniques (after a fashion) to stitch the binding to the top of the pockets. I made my binding slightly longer than the width of the pockets so that I got a gathered effect. I then Sashiko sewed around the edge of the pockets. They are not perfect, but I'm ok with them.
I consulted with Megan from Meggipeg and she suggested that I put stitching round the neckline too. So I've now done that. She's right, it helps.
I didn't use a zip or line this version. Without the lining I needed to finish off the neckline and armholes, so I managed to scrape a few scraps of bias from the leftover fabric and did a regular binding (I have no fabric left from this one, which is wonderful).
Details: Pattern is the Lilly Shift Dress just released from So Sew Easy (pattern here). My first one is made from a cotton remnant from Potter Textiles that I've had in my stash for years. I lined it with some blue lining also from my stash. The second one is made from a mid-weight ponte remnant that I may have bought at Pitt Trading. The cardigan is my purple Jenna, blogged here.
I LOVE that print!, claps me gleefully! I love all things Lilly Pulitzer! I hadn't yet heard of this pattern. Thanks for the intro!
Thanks so much for helping me to test this pattern and for sharing it on your site. The print is just stunning and interesting to see it made in a knit too, for the cooler weather.
I don't think you can go past a simple, but well designed, shift. I was really pleased to get this pattern.
Both of these look great. The first is very elegant and the second really cute. I like the hand stitched neckline. This is the dress I was telling you about http://www.meggipeg.com/2014/03/making-my-second-elegant-escape.html. The cardi is a perfect match!
Your dress is divine. I agree with you, the slightly irregular hand stitching gives it a bespoke look.
Love the different versions Sue! My machine is refusing to see knits at the moment so I may need to start trying out your beautiful hand stitching too.
Oh no, why isn't your machine liking knits? Have you tried a different needle?
I'm slowly working through all the options, tension, needles, thread…no obvious answer yet but it's frustrating as it used to breeze through knits.
Love the colours on that fabric. Beautiful dress!
Lovely shift dress. The fabric in your first one is just gorgeous. I can see this being a favourite in the summer.
A useful pattern, and two great dresses for the wardrobe. Enjoy wearing them.
Great dresses, both of them. I love how you changed the style by choosing a diffenrent fabric and adding pockets and hand stiching.
Great shift dress and the coloured one will be worn out by summer. Interesting to see the dress as a pinafore for winter working just as well and your | 972 |
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From filet mignon, T-bone, rib eye, and New York strip steaks…to seafood such as salmon filet, lobster tail, til<|fim_middle|> rings, bacon wrapped shrimp, and pepper steak Caesar salads…to BBQ baby back ribs, pork chops, fried chicken, and bacon wrapped meat loaf — there's something fantastically tasty for even the most picky eater — at the Lariat Steakhouse.
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What Questions Should<|fim_middle|> DeVos Confirmation Hearings?
What questions should lawmakers ask U.S. Education Secretary-nominee Betsy DeVos during her confirmation hearing this week? Joy Pullmann says lawmakers should ask what she will do to repeal high, comparable education standards.
In her piece in the Federalist, Pullman claims that a rigorous, consistent baseline of student expectations is effectively "an academically mediocre K-12 testing blueprint." President-elect Donald Trump and DeVos have pledged to end "federalized" education standards, she adds, and it is important that DeVos explains how they will make good on that promise.
But this question seems inappropriate for the U.S. Secretary of Education nominee, give that the Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced No Child Left Behind and returns near full control over education to state and local authorities, prohibits federal authorities from meddling in states' standards and assessments. "States decide academic standards. That has been true for years but was spelled out explicitly by the [Every Student Succeeds Act]," conservative columnist Lyndey Layton wrote in the Washington Post.
As we have written before, calls for President-elect Trump and his administration to repeal high, comparable standards are moot. Between the Every Student Succeeds Act and the end of the Race to the Top Program, threats of federal overreach have ended. Most states are further raising the academic bar for students, which aligns with what parents want and expect from their schools.
Indeed, for all intents and purposes, the debate over high, comparable learning goals has been settled. Overwhelmingly, states have embraced a more rigorous, comparable baseline of student expectations. They have coupled those goals with high-quality assessments giving parents and teachers a more accurate measure of student readiness.
States are having success with higher classroom expectations. This year a majority of states made significant student-proficiency improvements in reading and math. Some of the biggest gains were made by third-graders, who have spent most or all of their academic careers learning to meet higher standards – indicating higher learning goals are helping to improve student outcomes.
So what's a better question to ask Devos? Rather than resuscitating a debate that has effectively been settled, lawmakers would be wise to focus instead on how DeVos – who has signaled her support for setting expectations to college- and career-ready levels – will empower states to continue to build on the success they are having. | Be Asked at | 3 |
Unter den Fabrikgesetzen oder der Fabrikgesetzgebung (Factory Act) versteht man die in England ab 1833 und später auch in anderen Ländern langsam einsetzende staatliche Gesetzgebung zum Schutz der Arbeiter vor der Willkür der Fabrikherren (Unternehmer). Diese beschäftigten die ihnen zu Beginn der Industrialisierung vollkommen ausgelieferten Arbeiter üblicherweise 15 Stunden pro Tag und länger. Im Vereinigten Königreich wurden vor allem Frauen und Kinder als nationale Ressource und damit als besonders schützenswert angesehen. Das Fabrikgesetz wurde in der Schweiz 1966 durch das Arbeitsgesetz abgelöst.
Entwicklung im Vereinigten Königreich
Die Fabrikgesetze waren anfangs sehr umkämpft. So warnte der zeitgenössische Ökonom Nassau William Senior vor der Begrenzung der Arbeitszeit auf 10 Stunden täglich, da die Arbeitszeit<|fim_middle|> erste gesamtschweizerisches Fabrikgesetz wurde erst 1877 erlassen und ersetzte die kantonalen Fabrikgesetze. Dieses Fabrikgesetz des Bundes wurde nach dem Muster des 1872 vom Kanton Glarus erlassenen Fabrikgesetzes verabschiedet, verantwortlich dafür war der zuständige Bundesrat Joachim Heer, FDP, welcher aus dem Kanton Glarus stammte. Der grosse Einfluss des Kantons Glarus auf die frühe schweizerische Sozialgesetzgebung zeigt sich auch daran, dass einer der ersten drei schweizerischen Fabrikinspektoren, nämlich Fridolin Schuler, aus dem Kanton Glarus stammte.
Das neue Gesetz verbot unter anderem Kindern unter 14 Jahren den Zutritt zu Fabriken, was als entscheidender Schritt zur Verhinderung der Kinderarbeit gilt. Nicht alle wollten sich indes daran halten und so wurde etwa die Stickerei in St. Gallen immer stärker zur Heimarbeit umstrukturiert, wo die Kinder nach wie vor uneingeschränkt ausgenutzt werden konnten.
Allerdings war die Durchsetzung des Gesetzes in der Epoche des Hochkapitalismus teils noch ungenügend. Im Kanton Solothurn etwa wurde erst im Jahr 1904 ein Fabrikinspektorat eingerichtet.
Literatur
Thomas Marxhausen: Fabrikgesetzgebung (pdf). In: Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Bd. 4, Argument-Verlag, Hamburg 1999, Sp. 37–45.
Weblink
Kapitalisten, Kinderarbeit und Kontrolle – Fabrikgesetz von 1877 In: Zeitblende von Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen vom 13. März 2022
Einzelnachweise
Rechtsgeschichte (England und Wales)
Privatrechtsgeschichte
Arbeitsschutzrecht
Kinderarbeit
Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (Schweiz) | verkürzung zum Zusammenbruch der Baumwollspinnerei-Industrie führen müsse. In seiner Studie wollte er herausgefunden haben, dass die Fabriken erst in der letzten (also der zwölften) Arbeitsstunde einen Profit erwirtschaften würden. Der Ten-Hour Act wurde nach mehreren Anläufen erst 1847 vom Parlament verabschiedet.
Das vom britischen Parlament am 29. August 1833 erlassene Fabrikgesetz (Althorp's Act) beschränkte erstmals den Arbeitstag für Kinder, und zwar sorgfältig abgestuft: Zwischen 9 und 13 Jahren auf acht Stunden, für Kinder zwischen 14 und 18 Jahren auf 12 Stunden, Kinder unter 9 Jahren sollten die Schule besuchen.
Vier Fabrikinspektoren sollten das Gesetz im ganzen Vereinigten Königreich durchsetzen.
Weitere Schritte waren:
1842: Verbot der Frauen- und Kinderarbeit in Bergwerken
1844: Beschränkung der Arbeit von unter 13-Jährigen auf 6,5 Stunden, von Frauen auf 12 Stunden, Verbot der Nachtarbeit für Frauen
1847: Allgemeine Beschränkung der Arbeitszeit auf 63 Stunden pro Woche durch den Factory Act of 1847
1867: Ausdehnung der bislang für die Textilindustrie geltenden Gesetze auf alle Betriebe mit mehr als fünf Arbeitern
1901: Mindestalter für Arbeitskräfte 12 Jahre
Entwicklung in der Schweiz
Nachdem in der Schweiz zu Beginn der Industrialisierung zunächst einzelne Kantone wie Glarus und Zürich Fabrikgesetze zum Schutz der Arbeiter erlassen hatten, übernahm der Bundesstaat 1877 die entsprechende Gesetzgebungskompetenz um die schlimmsten Missstände landesweit zu bekämpfen. So arbeiteten beispielsweise schulpflichtige Kinder regelmäßig vor und nach dem Unterricht in den Fabriken, bis dies verboten wurde.
Frühe Gesetzgebung im Kanton Glarus
Im Bereich der Sozialgesetzgebung nahm der Kanton Glarus innerhalb der Schweiz eine Pionierrolle ein, welche aufgrund der direkten Demokratie in der Form der Landsgemeinde möglich war. Die Gesetze von 1848 und 1856 sahen Arbeitssicherheits- und Hygienemaßnahmen sowie einen bescheidenen Wöchnerinnenschutz vor, und die Gründung des Kadettencorps Glarus erfolgte 1856 in diesem Umfeld. Für die Durchsetzung der von der Landsgemeinde verabschiedeten Schutzbestimmungen war ausschlaggebend, dass die Kontrolle durch eine kantonale Fabrik-Kommission und nicht durch die Gemeinden erfolgte.
Die einzelnen Entwicklungsschritte waren wie folgt:
1846: Verbot der Beschäftigung von Kindern unter 12 Jahren in mechanischen Spinnereien durch die Kantonsregierung von Glarus. Gleichzeitig wurden jedoch Nachtschichten von höchstens 11 und Tagschichten höchstens 13 Stunden erlaubt und eine Obergrenze von 14 Stunden für den Normalarbeitstag festgelegt.
1848: Bestätigung dieser Regeln durch die Landsgemeinde von Glarus.
1856: Ausweitung des Arbeitsverbotes für Kinder unter zwölf Jahren auf alle Fabrikbetriebe.
1858: Verbot der Sonntagsarbeit.
1864: Begrenzung des Normalarbeitstags auf 12 Stunden und Verbot der Nachtarbeit durch die Landsgemeinde und gegen den Willen der Kantonsregierung von Glarus.
1872: Die Landsgemeinde von Glarus beschließt einen Normalarbeitstag von 11 Stunden.
Frühe Gesetzgebung im Kanton Zürich
Die Gesetzgebung im wirtschaftlich bedeutenden und von den Liberalen regierten Kanton Zürich setzte früher ein als im Kanton Glarus. Die Entwicklung blieb jedoch stehen und schlussendlich wurde der Kanton Zürich vom Kanton Glarus in der Sozialgesetzgebung überholt:
1837: Der Grosse Rat von Zürich erlässt eine Verordnung zur Reglementierung der Kinderarbeit und verbietet die Beschäftigung von schulpflichtigen Kindern in Fabriken.
1859: Erlass eines eigentlichen Fabrikgesetzes zum Schutz der Gesundheit der Arbeiter, welches die zulässige Maximalarbeitszeit auf 13 Stunden festlegt und die Nachtarbeit von Kindern grundsätzlich untersagt.
Übergang zu einem Bundesgesetz
Das | 1,108 |
Home News & Updates 2014 Student from the "Minshar for Art" School Wins Bernstein Documentary Prize
Student from the "Minshar for Art" School Wins Bernstein Documentary Prize<|fim_middle|> |
The Jerusalem Foundation will award NIS 40,000 to Elia Schwartz for her film "Pandora" which will be screened at the next Jerusalem International Film Festival
Elia Schwartz, a fourth-year film student at the Minshar for Art school in Tel Aviv, is this year's recipient of the Bernstein Prize for her documentary film, "Pandora," which will be screened at the next Jerusalem International Film Festival. The prize has been awarded by the Jerusalem Foundation for the past four years in memory of Lord Alex Bernstein of England, a long time friend of the Jerusalem Foundation and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The Bernstein Prize is granted to students who create documentaries as part of their studies. The jury, which received 23 submissions, is comprised of documentary filmmakers Netally Brown, Naftali Glicksberg and Ora Maimon- Pilavsky.
Schwartz's film, "Pandora," is a "docufantasy" in which the director, whose family life was shattered following the death of her mother when she was 10, adopts the viewpoint of the girl that was. Using an animated version of her diary to create a journey between reality and imagination, she explores her family dynamics from the past, after years of silence. The jury was impressed with Schwartz's rich film language and bravery in addressing issues relating to her childhood.
The award is administered in conjunction with the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, which will assist Elia professionally until the completion of the film and its gala premiere at the Jerusalem International Film Festival in 2015.
"We are thrilled by the range of social issues that young film directors choose to engage with," said Eyal Sher, Director of the Jerusalem Foundation's Art and Culture Department. "We are delighted to be able to help them realize their vision and look forward to seeing the final product." | 383 |
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Q: Route to static file in Play! 2.0 I'm trying to make a route to a specific static file but everything I'm trying ends with an error.
I've made 3 different attempts:
1.
GET /file staticFile:/public/html/file.html
The error I get:
Compilation error
string matching regex `\z' expected but `:' found
2.
GET /file controllers.Assets.at(path="/public/html", "file.html")
The error I get:
Compilation error
Identifier expected
3.
GET /file controllers.Assets.at(path="/public/html", file="file.html")
The error I get: (and this is the weirdest)
Compilation error
not enough arguments for method at: (path: String, file: String)play.api.mvc.Call. Unspecified value parameter file.
The weird part about the 3rd error is that it's thrown in a different file (app/views/main.scala.html) on the following line:
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="@routes.Assets.at("stylesheets/main.css")">
All of these methods were found in the official documentation and/or threads here on stackoverflow.
What am I missing here?
Thanks.
A: Your third attempt was almost right.
Instead of
GET /file controllers.Assets.at(path="/public/html", file="file.html")
do it like this
GET /file controllers.Assets.at(path="/public", file="html/file.html")
I got the same issue before. My route file looks like this.
# Application
GET / controllers.Assets.at(path="/public/html", file="static.html")
GET /exmpl controllers.Examples.index
# Resources
GET /assets/*file controllers.Assets.at(path="/public", file)
And I have below reverse route inside views (examples.scala.html)
@routes.Assets.at("imagefolder") #try to generate path to /public/imagefolder.
When I open http://localhost:9000/exmpl, this error showed up.
not enough arguments for method at: (path: String, file: String)play.api.mvc.Call. Unspecified value parameter file.
To fix this issue, I just changed this route
GET / controllers.Assets.at(path="/public/html", file="static.html")
to this
GET / controllers.Assets.at(path="/public", file="html/static.html")
This solution was works for me. I hope it works for you and the others too.
A: I have the exact same issue. I followed the advice from @Jamil and managed<|fim_middle|> /assets/*file controllers.Assets.at(path="/public", file)
GET /assets2/*file controllers.Assets.at(path="/public2", file)
the default @routes.Assets.at calls in main.scala.html failed compilation
Compilation error
not enough arguments for method at: (path: String, file: String)play.api.mvc.Call. Unspecified value parameter file.
This would seems to be because of an implicit parameter for which there are multiple matching objects. The solution is to add a leading positional parameter:
href="@routes.Assets.at("/public","/css/main.css")"
Unfortunately, if you go back to having only one assets line in routes, you will have to change to the one-parameter form to avoid a compilation error. Seems like a bug to me.
A: Play java packages public folder in a jar file and this would be a problem if you would like to serve a static file that resolves to an absolute file location in the server. The right way to do is to have your own controller and use it to serve the static file.
For ex, to serve a file "mystatic.html" that is in the
<your playhome>
|-----<myfolder>
|------mystatic.html
You would configure this route in your routes file.
GET /mystatic mypackage.mycontrollers.Static.getFile(path="/myfolder/mystatic.html")
and your controller would be implemented as follows.
package mypackage.mycontroller;
import java.io.File;
import com.google.inject.Inject;
import com.google.inject.Provider;
import play.Application;
import play.mvc.Controller;
import play.mvc.Result;
import play.mvc.Results;
public class Static extends Controller {
@Inject
Provider<Application> app;
public Result getFile(String path){
File file = app.get().getFile(path);
if(file.exists()){
return ok(file);
}else{
return Results.notFound();
}
}
}
| to get this working for the static file (in my case a favicon) and managed to get the templates to compile but get a new error at runtime when trying to use the view. Relevant code below,
Change to the route (this route now resolves correctly)
GET /favicon.ico controllers.Assets.at(path="/public/images", file="favicon.png")
Change to the view (compiles)
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="@routes.Assets.at("stylesheets/","main.css")">
New error (only at runtime)
[MatchError: (stylesheets/,main.css) (of class scala.Tuple2)]
// @LINE:29
// @LINE:28
def at(path:String, file:String) = {
(path, file) match {
// @LINE:28
case (path, file) if path == "/public" => Call("GET", "/assets/" + implicitly[PathBindable[String]].unbind("file", file))
I know this isnt an answer but perhaps it will allow someone to pipe up with one.
A: I was experiencing the same issue while I was trying to configure some additional css. It worked with this syntax in the "routes" file
GET /css/*file controllers.Assets.at(path="/public/css", file)
A: IIRC, change
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="@routes.Assets.at("stylesheets/main.css")">
To
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="@routes.Assets.at("stylesheets/", "main.css")">
I am talking about your third attempt
Also, watch out for extra /
EDIT
GET /assets/main.css controllers.Assets.at(path="/public", file="/stylesheets/main.css")
Assuming your resource is at /public/stylesheets/main.css
A: I am not totally sure if this is correct, but this is what we are using to map a public folder containing our images, javascripts... etc..
# Map static resources from the /public folder to the /assets URL path
GET /assets/*file controllers.Assets.at(path="/public", file)
A: This ability still haven't been added, as I know. But if someone needs answer, as an option, helper controller can be created for these purpose:
object StaticFile extends Controller {
def html(file: String) = Action {
var f = new File(file)
if (f.exists())
Ok(scala.io.Source.fromFile(f.getCanonicalPath()).mkString).as("text/html");
else
NotFound
}
}
and then in routes config
GET / controllers.StaticFile.html(file = "public/index.html")
A: The solution to this that is cleanest is to create your own AssetsBuilder that will build your static page.
Create this file in your controllers package - Static.scala
package controllers
object Static extends AssetsBuilder
Then in your routes you can define your static endpoint
GET /file controllers.Static.at(path="/public/html", "file.html")
Done. Now the file at /public/html/file.html will be served off of localhost:9000/file
If you replace the hard code above with a more generic:
GET /*file controllers.Static.at(path="/public/html", *file + ".html")
then /foo will serve /public/html/foo.html, /bar will serve /public/html/bar.html etc.
A: I ran into the same issue. When I added a second controllers.Assets.at to routes like
GET | 727 |
Independence Day Celebrations - Local Fireworks
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ELIZABETH, NJ - The City of Elizabeth will celebrate Independence Day on July 4, at Veterans Memorial Waterfront Park on Front Street. Festivities will start at 2 p.m. and include food trucks.
Their annual Fireworks Show will begin at dusk, which is approximately 9:15 p.m. There is a scheduled rain date of Friday, July 5th.
For more information, call 908-820-4220.
Listed below are a few other dates and locations for Fireworks.
July 2nd:
Cranford's Fireworks at Nomehegan Park at 9:15 p.m.
On Tuesday, July 2, Cranford will celebrate the nation's birthday at Nomahegan Park, beginning at 5:30 p.m. with food vendors, amusement rides and games. The finale will be the fireworks, which will start at 9:15 pm. Limited parking will be available at Union County College, 1033 Springfield, Ave., Cranford.
July 3rd:
The Borough of Roselle Park will<|fim_middle|> 5:00 p.m. and festivities begin at 6 p.m. Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets, and an appetite. There will be food vendors on West Colfax Avenue, including Funnel Cakes, BBQ, Italian ice, ice cream, pizza, popcorn, hot dogs and more.
*Please note, for security purposes, all bags are subject to search.
Transportation for Roselle Park Senior citizens will be provided by signing up at the Casano Community Center. Street closures will be enforced in surrounding neighborhoods and will be announced at a later date.
The rain date for this event is Sunday, July 7. For more information, or to sponsor the Borough events, contact Rupen Shah at (908) 245-0666.
July 4th:
Union Township's Fourth of July Festivities with fireworks at Biertuempfel Park at 9 p.m.
Mountainside's Fireworks at the Our Lady of Lourdes field at dusk.
Clark's Annual Firework Show at Arthur L. Johnson High School will begin at 9 p.m. | be hosting their Annual Independence Day Celebration on July 3, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The Borough touts theirs to be the best fireworks program in Union County and attracts thousands to Roselle Park High School's Herm Shaw Field located at 214 West Colfax Avenue, every year.
The year's celebration features fun for the whole family, including food vendors, kids activities, arts and crafts, a live concert by Little Nikki's Radio, and fireworks at dusk.
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As a computer programmer, entrepreneur, and farmer, Ed<|fim_middle|> education and from there, widespread adoption in the industry. | Kepler knew the importance of controlled environments for testing various agricultural elements, including phenomics of plants and other living organisms and founded Phenomics Labs to help with this mission.
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Thalamocortical oscillations can be Affective?
Delta wave
Theta wave
Alpha wave
Mu wave
Beta wave
Gamma wave
Current interest in a presentation given through Stanford in a series of 6 videos had brought up for me the question of what consciousness is. A fundamental recognition of what consciousness is, as it is measured. So we speak about the different frequency ranges that are examined as "attributes of that consciousness."
Thalamocortical oscillation involves the synchronous firing of thalamic and cortical neurons at specific frequencies; in the thalamocortical system, the exact frequencies depend on current brain state and mental activity
The understanding I have in regard to this question is whether we could induce those frequency ranges as an "affect" directly through the thalamus to the whole brain. This so as to bring the whole brain toward coherence.
The human visual pathway. The lateral geniculate nucleus, a region of the thalamus, exhibits thalamocortical oscillation with the visual cortex.[7]
Thalamocortical oscillation is thought to be responsible for the synchronization of neural activity between different regions of the cortex and is associated with the appearance of specific mental states depending on the frequency range of the most prominent oscillatory activity, gamma most associated with conscious, selective concentration on tasks,[8] learning (perceptual and associative),[9] and short-term memory.[10] Magnetoencephalography (MEG) has been used to show that during conscious perception, gamma-band frequency electrical activity and thalamocortical resonance prominently occurs in the human brain.[2] Absence of these gamma-band patterns correlates with nonconscious states and is characterized by the presence of lower-frequency oscillations instead.Relation to brain activity -Recurrent thalamo-cortical resonance -
The answering of this question through experimental validation had come through in a couple of what I am regarding as those, which could reach these measured brain states, as in TM, or in use as a binaural method. As listed through the lectures such evidence while directly not attributed to sound, was revealed in a question by a audience member in the last video , We Create Our Reality.
Psychoacoustics is the scientific study of sound perception. More specifically, it is the branch of science studying the psychological and physiological responses associated with sound (including speech and music). It can be further categorized as a branch of psychophysics.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoacoustics
Cymatics (from Greek: κῦμα "wave") is the study of visible sound and vibration, a subset of modal phenomena. Typically the surface of a plate, diaphragm, or membrane is vibrated, and regions of maximum and minimum displacement are made visible in a thin coating of particles, paste, or liquid.[1] Different patterns emerge in the exitatory medium depending on the geometry of the plate and the driving frequency.
A thought had occurred to me a long time ago with regard idea of using polymerization substances as a technique in order to bring concrete into a orderly and fast solid state process.
This was an answer to how through such a dream period, I observed I had used such a process so as to create designs to incorporate into a lattice screen with which to divide a room.
In the absence of gravity looking to space above earth, such molecular arrangements were significant to me about how pureness could have been attained regarding a "crystallization process."
So the thoughts had occurred to me that in a three dimensional context of the chaldni plate(2 dimensional expression) what may be adhering inside any boxed frame of reference to say that it would be "coherent" so as to be brought into a pattern matching this particular sound. How far a leap then too, lets say bring brain coherence into a EEG state of consciousness.
Links to this post Labels: Consciousness, Cymatics, Hans Jenny, Hemi-Sync, Sound
Musical Acoustics
A recipe for a violin
Chladni patterns show the geometry of the different types of vibration of violin plates. This site has an introductory explanation of modes of vibration and a library of photographs of the Chladni patterns of the bellies and backplates of two different violins (one mass-produced and one hand-made). It also has photographs of plates with regular geometries which assist in understanding the violin modes. For some related history, see Chladni's law. For some Chladni patterns on metal plates, with sound files, see Acoustics of bell plates. To make your own Chladni patters, try this site.
Modern tests of the vibrational properties of the unassembled topand back plates of a violin reveal something of what violimakers do by "feel" and lead to thr making of consistently good violins by Carleen Maley Hutchins.
Links to this post Labels: Chaldni, Hans Jenny, Harmonic Oscillator, kaleidoscope, Oscillations
A General Guide to Harmonic Analysis and Beyond
Thanks to Clifford of Asymptotia for the Link too, and from Good Vibration
Some of us do look toward these analogies as signs of Complexity science, so as to apply this thinking to the life they lead. How such implementations allow them to look at this life very differently.
Each time the operator tuned to a new frequency, the wave was very simple and repetitive, just as above. This wave can be expressed by only two qualities: frequency and amplitude, and yet each new frequency created a new and many times surprisingly different result than it's neighbor.
This phenomenon is analogous to all aspects of Complexity Science. And just like the simple rules set by the speaker in the video, an economy can achieve surprisingly complex results with simple rule sets.Harmonic Science
In classical mechanics, a harmonic oscillator is a system that, when displaced from its equilibrium position, experiences a restoring force, F, proportional to the displacement, x:
where k is a positive constant.
If F is the only force acting on the system, the system is called a simple harmonic oscillator, and it undergoes simple harmonic motion: sinusoidal oscillations about the equilibrium point, with a constant amplitude and a constant frequency (which does not depend on the amplitude).
If a frictional force (damping) proportional to the velocity is also present, the harmonic oscillator is described as a damped oscillator. Depending on the friction coefficient, the system can:
Oscillate with a frequency smaller than in the non-damped case, and an amplitude decreasing with time (underdamped oscillator).
Decay exponentially to the equilibrium position, without oscillations (overdamped oscillator).
If an external time dependent force is present, the harmonic oscillator is described as a driven oscillator.
Mechanical examples include pendula (with small angles of displacement), masses connected to springs, and acoustical systems. Other analogous systems include electrical harmonic oscillators such as RLC circuits. The harmonic oscillator model is very important in physics, because any mass subject to a force in stable equilibrium acts as a harmonic oscillator for small vibrations. Harmonic oscillators occur widely in nature and are exploited in many manmade devices, such as clocks and radio circuits. They are the source of virtually all sinusoidal vibrations and waves.
Simple Harmonic Motion Frequency
The frequency of simple harmonic motion like a mass on a spring is determined by the mass m and the stiffness of the spring expressed in terms of a spring constant k
The Landscape "avant la lettre" by A.N. Schellekens
The lowest harmonics correspond to the particles of the Standard Model, plus perhaps a few new particles. The higher harmonics correspond to an infinite series of particles that we can never observe, unless we can build a Planck Energy accelerator
Cymatics and the Heart Song
Links to this post Labels: Cymatics, Hans Jenny, Harmonic Oscillator, Heart
I think one has to wonder with such diversities of souls who have entered this world, such distinctions of being identified as a "emergent product of all souls" might have a distinctive element with which lives could have been choreographed. Each soul, manifests according to their Heart Song? :)Each Heart Song is carried through a series of many lives? Each Heart Song,manifests according the conceptual acceptances and digestibility of our grokking, according to each circumstance that surrounds that life?
I just finish spending the last 8 days with two of my seven grandchildren. One had passed just a couple of days after being born.
Yes "Happy feet" has become a intricate part of my days visiting as these children are mesmerized by the hearts songs and uniqueness of being borne learning to tap instead of singing. It's trials and tribulations of being different. See:It's a Penquin?
Biology sees no possible reduction to the physics of thinking, that I have to wonder if they might of thought of the correlation here, as distinctive elements have distinctive sounds?
It's an anologistical way of looking at the space of thinking(mind /body) to have it coincide with somethng inherent in our make up. Some thing that is correlative to what strides the thinking mind makes and what resonances in the world are set up for each soul distinctive? Each soul's cause and effect, bringing home to roost the conceptually formed resonances that have been formed " by grokking and digestibility.
For example, in 1704 Sir Isaac Newton struggled to devise mathematical formulas to equate the vibrational frequency of sound waves with a corresponding wavelength of light. He failed to find his hoped-for translation algorithm, but the idea of correspondence took root, and the first practical application of it appears to be the clavecin oculaire, an instrument that played sound and light simultaneously. It was invented in 1725. Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus, achieved the same effect with a harpsichord and lanterns in 1790, although many others were built in the intervening years, on the same principle, where by a keyboard controlled mechanical shutters from behind which colored lights shne. By 1810 even Goethe was expounding correspondences between color and other senses in his book, Theory of Color. Pg 53, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, by Richard E. Cytowic, M.D.
So to then in my thinking that before each soul crystallizes it's hold on the reality of being in this world, that each soul was in a much different state. A state that the senses held no distinctions other then too, sense "all things" as connected to each other. The differentiations were our attempts to acceptance of living within this world that it should have it;s compartments for sensory outputs distinctive themselves. See:Soul Food
Resonance made visible with black seeds on a harpsichord sounboard
Amplified sine wave's effects on cornstarch & water solution
The apparatus employed can be simple, such as a Chladni Plate[2] or advanced such as the CymaScope, a laboratory instrument that makes visible the inherent geometries within sound and music.[clarification needed]
3 Influences in art
The generic term for this field of science is the study of modal phenomena, retitled Cymatics by Hans Jenny, a Swiss medical doctor and a pioneer in this field. The word Cymatics derives from the Greek 'kuma' meaning 'billow' or 'wave,' to describe the periodic effects that sound and vibration has on matter.
The study of the patterns produced by vibrating bodies has a venerable history. One of the earliest to notice that an oscillating body displayed regular patterns was Galileo Galilei. In Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), he wrote:
As I was scraping a brass plate with a sharp iron chisel in order to remove some spots from it and was running the chisel rather rapidly over it, I once or twice, during many strokes, heard the plate emit a rather strong and clear whistling sound: on looking at the plate more carefully, I noticed a long row of fine streaks parallel and equidistant from one another. Scraping with the chisel over and over again, I noticed that it was only when the plate emitted this hissing noise that any marks were left upon it; when the scraping was not accompanied by this sibilant note there was not the least trace of such marks.[3]
On July 8, 1680, Robert Hooke was able to see the nodal patterns associated with the modes of vibration of glass plates. Hooke ran a bow along the edge of a glass plate covered with flour, and saw the nodal patterns emerge.[4][5]
In 1787, Ernst Chladni repeated the work of Robert Hooke and published "Entdeckungen über die Theorie des Klanges" ("Discoveries in the Theory of Sound"). In this book, Chladni describes the patterns seen by placing sand on metal plates which are made to vibrate by stroking the edge of the plate with a bow.
Cymatics was explored by Hans Jenny in his 1967 book, Kymatik (translated Cymatics).[6] Inspired by systems theory and the work of Ernst Chladni, Jenny began an investigation of periodic phenomena but especially the visual display of sound. He used standing waves, piezoelectric amplifiers, and other methods and materials.
Influences in art
Hans Jenny's book influenced Alvin Lucier and, along with Chladni, helped lead to Lucier's composition Queen of the South. Jenny's work was also followed up by Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) founder Gyorgy Kepes at MIT. [7] His work in this area included an acoustically vibrated piece of sheet metal in which small holes had been drilled in a grid. Small flames of gas burned through these holes and thermodynamic patterns were made visible by this setup.
Based on work done in this field, photographer Alexander Lauterwasser captures imagery of water surfaces set into motion by sound sources ranging from pure sine waves, to music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Karlheinz Stockhausen, electroacoustic group Kymatik(who often record in surround sound ambisonics), and overtone singing.
Rosslyn Chapel's carvings are thought to contain references to Cymatics patterns and in 2005 composer Stuart Mitchell and his father T.J.Mitchell created a work realised by the use of matching Cymatics/Chladni patterns to the 13 geometric symbols carved onto the faces of 213 cubes emanating from 14 arches. They have named the completed work The Rosslyn Motet and has received a great deal of media publicity and acclaim from scientific and musicological sources.
List of wave topics
Oscillon
Mode shape
Music visualization
Visual music
Cymatic therapy
Harmonic analysis
^ Jenny, Hans (July 2001). Cymatics: A Study of Wave Phenomena & Vibration (3rd ed.). Macromedia Press. ISBN 1-8881-3807-6.
^ "Instructional Research Lab: Chladni Plate". University of California, Los Angeles. http<|fim_middle|> recognitions of getting to the source of creation and bringing back tangible equative solutions.
Perhaps it is of some use for a example to better understand this?
While journalling for many years and recording my dreams, I came up with what I called "dream poetry," because I wanted to try and catch the rhythmn and story behind it as best I could without subjecting it to the scrutinization of my mind and analysis.
Of course having a pen and paper beside the bed was always good advice. There was always a definite difference in the lucidness of those dreams, that seemed to indicate this past life referencing, then the normal dream periods.
Also by doing this "awareness of the dream time" it became very pronouced in terms of the recall before getting busy with the day.
Mandalas:
Since ancient times, Mandalas have been used for meditation and healing. In old Tibet, Mandalas were used in the process of training the mind to be quiet, so that That Still Place Within was more easily accessible.
It was said that the Divine lives at the center of the Mandala. With that in mind, the Mandala was used as a focus point for meditation.
As the mind quiets and becomes still, the meditator finds the Divine at the center of his own being.
I read about this use of Mandalas years ago. When this series of designs came through me, I realized that that was the intent within them: that the Divine would reside at each design's center.
Research I've done indicates that Mandalas are the visual forms of the resonance traces of specific frequencies of sound/light. Some pretty amazing research done by Hans Jenny shows that if sound is transmitted through a thin layer of sand on a metal plate, the sand vibrates in such a manner as to create designs in the sand, the patterns shifting with the sounds transmitted.
If one wanted to pursue it further then it makes sense that the Chaldni plate becomes a interesting piece of equipment in analyzing the nature of such vibrations. A balloon dipped in a dye solution and subjected to different sounds, has an interestig perspective to it.
Nodes and anti-nodes
On beautiful mandalic designs see:
Flower Mandalas Project
Links to this post Labels: Art, Chaldni, Concepts, Creativity, Hans Jenny, Landscape, Liminocentric, Mandalas, Ramanujan, Riemann Hypothesis, Sound
What A Special Black-footed Ferret Can Teach Us About Conservation Success - When a species is critically endangered, every individual matters -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | ://www.physics.ucla.edu/demoweb/demomanual/acoustics/effects_of_sound/chladni_plate.html. Retrieved 3 September 2009.
^ Good Vibrations, Joyce McLaughlin, American Scientist, July-August 1998, Volume: 86 Number: 4 Page: 342, DOI: 10.1511/1998.4.342
^ Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni, Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University
^ Pg 101 Oxford Dictionary of Scientists- Oxford University Press- 1999
^ Jenny, Hans (1967). Kymatik. ISBN 1-888138-07-6
^ Gyorgy Kepes profile at MIT
Cymatics and Rosslyn Music 'Cubes'
Global Cymatics Community
Cymatics, A Study of Wave Phenomena
Cymatics Conference
Cymatica.net : Architectural thesis investigation into the synthesis of space and form generated from sound
Cymatics.org: Cymatics images & video capturing the interaction of sounds with liquids
Video of Cymatics of salt grains on vibrating square metal plate
DIY Cymatics
TED Talks: Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics
Links to this post Labels: Chaldni, Cymatics, Hans Jenny, Heart, Sound, Synesthesia
ta kymatika
......in Greek means "matters pertaining to waves." Or in Hans Jenny's case Cymatics.
There were other images which mirrored biological forms and natural processes, as well as flowers, mandalas and intricate geometric designs - all this the result of audible vibration. These experiments seemed to reveal the hidden nature of creation, to lay bare the very principle through which matter coalesced into form.PUBLISHER'S CONFESSION by Jeff Volk, January 2001 Newmarket, New Hampshire, USA
I hope I will not see some so lost by accepting an "mystic interpretation," as some sign of engaging the decay of the scientific values. As Nature being the Architect, and in recognition of our builders of science, I have always been enthralled by what nature could have supplied. Not only in such designational feature of sound that is telling, but of what SOHO is to supply. How we see the Cosmo in relation to the WMAP. How such a "gravitational spectrum" maps the earth "in assumption" of the rules of relativity. We now see earth much different. Not so round and pretty:)
There are two reasons that having mapped E8 is so important. The practical one is that E8 has major applications: mathematical analysis of the most recent versions of string theory and supergravity theories all keep revealing structure based on E8. E8 seems to be part of the structure of our universe.
The other reason is just that the complete mapping of E8 is the largest mathematical structure ever mapped out in full detail by human beings. It takes 60 gigabytes to store the map of E8. If you were to write it out on paper in 6-point print (that's really small print), you'd need a piece of paper bigger than the island of Manhattan. This thing is huge.
See:Pasquale Del Pezzo and E8 Origination?-Monday, March 19, 2007
I would like to clarify that such patterns are somewhat "given to people in recognition of states" that are much closer to that "decomposable limit" that is declared by Connes in his articulation of the mathematics.
Such "decomposable limits" are the recognition of "pure states" becoming condensible. While we may think of the allotrope and their configurations, what is the final product given in the arrangement of the matters specific? Is there some "higher version of geometrics" that we had lost, while we see only the matter at hand.
IN this mandala above it is by design that human nature sought to construct the basis and foundation of experience so that it could be a record for all time. This is an intentional act to build in experience an foundational perspective. This is one time where we might use such a mind map to be used in this context. People become enthralled too, by the beauty of flower under computerize algorithmic code manipulated image because it is pleasing to the eye, while, there is another time where these "pure states" become the reflection of an intense experiential journey of sorts.
Sort of like, discovering new math and by definition, a decomposable limit.
ON the one hand you might say, well, this case its matter defined then, and while I am saying this is in the image of the mind, that too is a coalescing of the pure state, into a image form.
Such an kaleidescope view of the most intangible seems fitting that it defines a complex recognition state that was not accessible, before, this intense info packet had descended into the mind.
The Geometrics Behind the Supernova and it's History
13th Sphere of the GreenGrocer
E8 and the Blackhole
Links to this post Labels: Cymatics, Hans Jenny, Mandalas, Mind Maps, SOHO, Woodcuts
Past Life Bleed Throughs?
In studying over the many years, certain concepts and ideas brought from other cultures stayed with me of course, while I explored the dream world enviroment on my own.
The idea here is that similar patterns used in construction of mandalic interpetations, serve to illustrate model applications, that when bleeding, overlap experiences, whether they be drean information gathered, or, historical correlations, these struck me as significant.
This is not to say that all people who dream will be good mathematicians, just that the road to cogitive realization held in context of Ramanujan should be seen as the developing subsconscious as a very important tool in moving the cogitive revelations that the creative mind can utilize, in developing math models for the future?
THatpattern had to be understood a dLimincentric structures as well. If you didn't you would not have seen the importance of the schematics that Liminocentric structures reveal of themself as mandalic models of intepretation.
A Pure Love of Math
A Tribute to Hinduism
The inexhaustible Ramanujan was an observant Hindu, adept at dream interpretation and astrology. His work was marked by bold leaps and gut feelings. Growing up he had learned to worship Namagiri, the consort of the lion god Narasimha. Ramanujan believed that he existed to serve as Namagiri´s champion - Hindu Goddess of creativity. In real life Ramanujan told people that Namagiri visited him in his dreams and wrote equations on his tongue.
Ramanujan could never explain to G H Hardy how he arrived at his deep insights in mathematical terms; but he did say many of his discoveries came to him in dreams, from the goddess Namakkal, and that he had a morning ritual of awakening and writing them down.
Having heard of Ramanujan method of information gathering, it was interesting from the standpoint of how the consciousness could organzed itself and bring forth abstract notions(jumbling experiences in that dream world), to have the method of mathematical explanation bear tangible proof in our reality now.
This is of course are some of the ideas I have around cognitive | 1,548 |
Fans, Dutch GP 2021
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Zandvoort is cementing its place in Formula 1's medium-term future.
The entire racing world hailed the success of the first Dutch GP for almost four decades, where legions of orange-clad fans created what Christian Horner described as a "<|fim_middle|> of Lewis' stature says the track is epic, that's fantastic for us," he said.
"He also deserves a huge compliment for the way he presented himself here and interacted with the Dutch fans."
Now, contract options for several more years at Zandvoort are likely to follow.
"The management of Formula 1 is very happy with us and they're making that known on all sides," said Dutch GP boss Jan Lammers.
"Obviously we are very happy with that."
The icing on the cake was home hero Max Verstappen's dominant win from pole, with Lammers commenting: "We wanted to create a fantastic festival here, and we succeeded.
"It's indescribable how Max is that extra factor for us."
The only negative, he says, is the financial loss caused by authorities' decision to prevent a third of the ticketed 105,000 spectators per day from attending.
"We haven't calculated everything yet, but the decision cost us 10 million euros," he revealed. "Because it was 100 percent effort but not the expected 100 percent return.
"At the same time, we don't want to complain, so we see the glass as two-thirds full. We are here for a long time and want to go one better next year."
It is unclear whether Zandvoort will get another September date on the 2022 schedule, but Lammers says that is not a concern at the moment.
"I don't worry about that, because the calendar is the responsibility of Formula 1 and the FIA. I'm concentrating on making sure we keep one of the twenty or more dates for at least five years," he said. | nightclub atmosphere".
And the 'old school' nature of the circuit, combined with some steeply banked corners, was also popular among the drivers.
"How unforgiving the circuit was surprised us a little, but 6 or 7 years ago all the circuits were like this," F1 veteran Fernando Alonso told DAZN.
Seven time world champion Lewis Hamilton also hailed the track, to the delight of Dutch GP boss Jan Lammers.
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I stared, in desperation, back at the nine pairs of eyes that watched my every move. For a second, I imagined my escape- sprinting down the stairs, past the faded murals on the walls, out the gate and into the street. But just for a second. I walk off the stage and see my nephew running to me. Twenty five years ago, my parents decided to leave not just Mexico City but their home, family, and culture, in pursuit of a better and brighter future for their families.
My father and mother worked endlessly to bring their families over to California. He was the leader, the commander of the ship guiding though the rapid current. It did not matter that we had 18 people living in our home; the most important priority was that we were together.
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For this reason, all employees will be allowed to contribute to their full potential, which portray a sense of humility Maslow In addition, managers should not take advantage of their positions to exploit their followers. This implies that the responsibilities of the leader should go in line with the expectations of the followers. One of the best ways to achieve this is through a manager enhancing openness.
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Consequently, it would improve the nature of the organizational performance since the manager is considered an effective leader Terry Leadership and The One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership. William Morrow and Co. The Mandate for New Leadership. Also, good leaders tend to get good publicity, which also reflects well on the alma mater. Think about some recent presidents of the United States.
Who was more popular with the media and the general public - the silver spoons or the ones who worked their way up from the bottom? I<|fim_middle|> and perseverance will not only benefit you in the admissions process, but in life in general. Take pride in overcoming your hardships. If you only discuss yourself, versus talking about yourself as part of a team, family, and community, you run the risk of sounding like someone who is self-absorbed.
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Understanding the value, role, and importance of being part of a team is a lesson that you are never too young or too old to learn. One thing I learned from team sports as a high school student, and also in community groups and business groups as an adult is that to be part of a winning team, you need to know when to lead and when to follow.
Then that university will feel like you are taking it seriously and you should be.
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Smoke Charge for this flight is KNSB 65/35 O/F ratio (was 60/40). This is to increase smoke output rate to improve sighting. A new aft-facing minicamcorder is being flown for the first time. The model is SJ1000 with 12 megapixel HD image. A backup timer,<|fim_middle|> deployment. | intended to fire a pyro separation charge a few seconds after apogee, was designed and built. Although the Raven has proven to be highly reliable, achieving 100% reliability with regard to apogee separation in 18 flights, it was felt prudent to employ an independent backup system. This is in support of my "Avoid Complacency" directive.
Setup of the rocket once again went smoothly with no glitches. A checklist was used for this flight due to increased level of setup complexity. Raven confirmed all three pyro charges had continuity. A video camera was set up about 15 feet from the pad to capture liftoff from up close. After verifying the sky was clear, the countdown proceeded and at "zero" the rocket immediately came to life, rapidly accelerating skyward. The rocket ascended straight as an arrow, reached apogee and shortly after, the apogee pyro charge fired, as indicated by a bright smoke cloud. The rocket then free fell as expected, tumbling as it fell. The smoke trail was clearly visible and greatly aided tracking. At about 400 ft. altitude, pyro charge fired, producing a bright smoke cloud. The parachute did not immediately deploy, and after free-falling for a few more seconds, chute suddenly deployed and fully blossomed. Rocket slowly drifted down to earth in a stable manner, landing about 10 seconds later in a nearby field. The rocket was soon recovered and appeared to be in great shape.
Post-flight examination confirmed that the rocket was in perfect shape after landing. The Apogee Backup Timer system appeared to work nominally, as pyro charge had fired. The on-board video footage was very good, with excellent resolution, clarity and colour. The footage clearly showed that the rocket ascended in a very stable manner with no wobble. The medium output smoke charge produced a readily visible trail. Oddly, it burned a lot longer than expected, 37 seconds compared to the expected 24 seconds. The chute pyro charge needs to be slightly increased and more nosecone retaining tape is required to ensure reliable chute | 432 |
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Carolyn was hired to coach<|fim_middle|> several years. But because the agreement wasn't signed, she was in a sort of limbo.
Liz Hoffman, director of athletics, University of Toronto:
Ms. Hoffman says Carolyn should have signed a contract clearing outlining her duties and responsibilities, adding that is becoming the norm in university sports.
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This search allows you to look for stories that have appeared on The Globe and Mail Web site in the last seven days. Explanation and other options available. | a university sports program. After several years, the program was dumped for what Carolyn thought were spurious reasons.
During her time at the university, a union was certified for the staff but it took years to negotiate a contract. In fact, it was not signed until after Carolyn was let go. However, she had paid union dues ever since the certification.
When she sought the union's help in clearing up her situation, she didn't get it. Two union officials said they couldn't handle the case because of a conflict of interest -- Carolyn's boss reported to their boss. Carolyn eventually hired a lawyer and got a settlement. But she is wondering if she could get her union dues returned, and whether the conflict of interest the union claimed was legitimate.
Stewart Saxe, employment lawyer, Baker & McKenzie, Toronto:
It is unusual, but perhaps not unprecedented, for union dues to be collected before a first collective agreement is signed, Mr. Saxe says.
But if the employer deducted them, there must have been some kind of interim agreement with the union. Therefore, "I can't see any way Carolyn could get the dues back." In Ontario, such an interim agreement would have to be ratified by the employees it affects.
The only circumstances under which Carolyn could get the dues returned would be if a labour board ruled the local union officials' failed to represent her, he says. Ontario law says the failure to represent an employee has to be arbitrary or discriminatory. It is hard to predict if this case would qualify, he says. But raising the issue might persuade the union to return Carolyn's dues on its own.
With regard to the conflict of interest, the union officials seem to hold a "common but misinformed" view of what constitutes such conflict, Mr. Saxe adds. Their job, from the moment of certification, is to represent employees.
Since the union was certified and negotiating for a contract, there may have been another remedy for Carolyn. She might have filed a complaint at the labour board suggesting the employer, while negotiating, was engaged in activities other than "business as usual."
Employers are prevented from changing employees' working conditions while a first contract is being negotiated. Unfortunately, "business as usual" is a difficult concept to work with. Closing down the sports program may or may not have qualified.
Chris Schenk, director of research, Ontario Federation of Labour:
Mr. Schenk doesn't buy the conflict-of-interest argument either. The union reps may have believed they had a problem because of their lack of experience, he says, but their first duty is to members.
If they were worried about their own boss, they could have asked a union staff person -- such as the one who headed the organizing drive -- to intercede for Carolyn.
There is nothing to stop the university dumping a program if it wants to, he adds. If a collective agreement had been signed, the union could have filed a grievance on Carolyn's behalf and at least tried to get her bumped into another job. After all, she had been on staff for | 615 |
For competitive swimmers, winning a race is inseparable from how they start it. The technique and speed of their dive off of the starting block and into the pool can affect their final race time by up to 26 percent. The very beginning impacts it all. Just as swimmers hone the particulars of their start until they're poised to win, we can mold and shape our morning routine to set us up for a stellar performance in the race of our day. Here are my top five tips for daily success.
Want to wake up feeling accomplished? Get your phone to moonlight for you. Schedule automated tasks to happen at night so you can rise knowing you've already cut into your to-do list. Have your groceries delivered via Instacart, or use Filld to get your car's gas tank filled. How many times have you clicked "Remind Me Tomorrow" for that big software update? Why not schedule it for one a.m. when the only task at hand is counting sheep? Schedule these must-dos to cross the finish line while you're sleeping, and voila, you've got fewer things to take care of during your precious waking hours.
Stop Snoozing. Get Your Pet on a Schedule.
Though you've heard it a thousand times, this sage advice is no joke — breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. Start with a big glass of water to prime your metabolism and make up for the dehydration that occurs while you're sleeping. Your brain is about 70 percent water. Staying hydrated boosts your ability to stay focused and alert. Next choose a simple, balanced meal to kick your body and brain into gear. Avoid sugary meals to dodge the post-sugar rush slump. Low-glycemic foods like oatmeal, nuts, fresh fruit, and eggs are great options. They take a longer time to digest (which means your blood sugar levels won't rapidly spike and plummet), leaving you with sustained energy throughout the day.
Too many options can overwhelm our brains. Research shows that the brain loses efficiency somewhere beyond 15 potential choices. The hangup is Choice Overload. To save your brainpower for bigger decisions, create a template that can act as your go-to work outfit. Then, organize those items to hang right beside each other in your<|fim_middle|>. Let's be honest — fully conquering a to-do list just feels good. Take time to refine your morning habits, and you'll set yourself up for victory right at the start. | closet. Black pants and a button up shirt. Done. A dress with a grey cardigan and tights. Easy. Figure out what attire makes sense for your typical day. If you narrow down the number of possibilities to items that fit within your work template, you'll spend less time in your closet and more time taking on your day.
Most of us know what it feels like to reach the end of a hectic day only to find key items on a to-do list lingering almost mockingly as they stretch into tomorrow unchecked. This often happens because we aim to accomplish more than one day actually allows for. Do your best to set reasonable goals as you're forming your list. Chart out every hour if it's helpful. If you need to scribble down each task that's on your mind to gain a little peace, make a master list for the week, and break the tasks down by day. If the days are too packed, weed out or reschedule what's inessential. You'll be more focused knowing that there is, in fact, enough time for each thing you need to do | 220 |
MSP Newsletter, April 2018
Metropolitan Airports Commission sent this bulletin at 04/09/2018 03:03 PM CDT
Flying like an eagle at MSP
This place is a zoo -- MSP goes wild again at spring break
New destinations coming this month
Terminal 2 security line wait time information now available
New service areas now open on Concourses C and E
The eagle has landed at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport – literally.
Challenger, the first bald eagle in U.S. history trained to free fly in major stadiums, was at Target Field last week for the Minnesota Twins home opener. The 934th Airlift Wing was on hand at MSP to welcome the Thomson Reuters-sponsored bird for the big event.
The American Eagle Foundation cares for Challenger.
You can see a video of Challenger at the airport here.
Spring break travelers at MSP had a chance to see animals from the Minnesota Zoo up close and personal.
Staff from the ZooMobile at the Minnesota Zoo brought a number of creatures through airport security in Terminal 1, where they drew the attention of wide-eyed<|fim_middle|> including Delta, Alaska and Sun Country.
On April 6, Sun Country Airlines started offering direct service to Myrtle Beach, a coastal city in South Carolina with white sand beaches and great attractions for families. Sun Country offers the flights on Mondays and Fridays until June 4.
The average high temperatures are already in the mid-70s in Myrtle Beach, so don't hesitate to head to the beach soon.
Your wait time for a security screening at MSP just became more easily accessible, as Terminal 2-Humphrey now joins Terminal 1 in offering up-to-the-minute information on how long the lines are.
The technology takes into account a number of factors to provide passengers in the terminal – and online – an estimate of how long they can expect to wait. The system monitors how many people are in line and how long it takes them to move from the end of the line to the secure side of the airport.
The technology was first introduced at Terminal 1's north and south security checkpoints last year. It will soon be available at Checkpoint 10 – near the skyway connecting concourses C and G – as well.
You can find wait time information on MSP's website.
Amenities to make your trip through MSP easier recently opened on Concourses C and E.
On Concourse C, near the skyway to Concourse G, you will find a new nursing mother's room. The spacious room is equipped with a comfortable chair and a changing table.
Across the hall is a new relief area for service animals or pets. It is the second indoor pet relief facility in that terminal.
Both new facilities are on the north side of the second level.
A new lactation room also opened recently on Concourse E near Gate E2. To get access to the room, visit the information booth on the Airport Mall between French Meadow Bakery and the iStore.
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Travelers were able to see many zoo animals, including an anteater, ball python, bearded dragon, a giant African millipede, and a western hognose snake, among others.
The Madagascar hissing cockroaches were also popular.
The zoo animals were at the airport on two separate days in late March, during the peak of spring break travel.
As spring arrives, at least on the calendar, so do some new seasonal destinations from MSP.
On April 12, Spirit Airlines will begin service from MSP to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
The flights will operate once daily and be offered through Sept. 5.
With the Spirit flights added at MSP, there will be four airlines serving the Seattle route | 151 |
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Let's get started by reaching back to mid-October of last year, for a week that started in Chicago, stretched through the Dodgers' final home playoff game and on to my<|fim_middle|>is? Madonna-wannabe? Must be an 80s party!
6-OCT-2013: NLDS Game 3 pregame, Dodgers vs. Braves. | sister's 40th birthday and beyond! Remember, to see any image at full size, just click on it!
14-OCT-2013: Love (LOVE) the Lodge in Chicago. This Instagram image shows just one reason why.
15-OCT-2013: Waiting at LAX bag claim … as usual.
16-OCT-2013: NLCS Game 5, Dodgers vs. Cardinals.
17-OCT-2013: Working on my preview of college football's most historic rivalry.
18-OCT-2013: A VERY 1973 gift pack for my sister's 40th birthday.
19-OCT-2013: My sister and her husband at her 40th birthday shindig.
20-OCT-2013: These pumpkin candies are like crack this time of year.
We start with a celebration and end looking out a bar window in Chicago. Here's the week that was Oct. 7-13!
7-OCT-2013: The Dodgers defeat the Braves in the NLDS, three games to one.
8-OCT-2013: Still flying high after Juan Uribe's HR lifted the Dodgers into the NLCS the night before.
9-OCT-2013: Fall is in the air with this candlestick holder and table runner.
10-OCT-2013: An unsurprisingly hazy October sunset from my DTLA rooftop.
11-OCT-2013: Shades in the foreground … and the background.
12-OCT-2013: If you've been here, you know why people are waiting outside.
13-OCT-2013: Looking out a bar window across Division St. in Chicago.
The week of Sept. 30-Oct. 6 offered up a pretty wide array of image opportunities. From still-lifes to portraits to wide shots, there are some solid ones in here. Let's take a look as we turn the corner into the year's final quarter!
30-SEP-2013: Ties being unpacked after a week away.
2-OCT-2013: Just past 6:30 p.m. at USC.
3-OCT-2013: Some late-night copy edits in the home office.
4-OCT-2013: Travis, live at the Wiltern.
5-OCT-2013: Lloyd Dobler? Ramb | 538 |
MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION TO STUDY CAPITAL BUDGETING Meeting of Friday, November 13, 1998 (1) Minutes
Transcript available. The meeting was transcribed. A copy of the transcription is available upon request to Dick Emery, the Executive Director of the Commission.
Introduction.--The meeting was held in the Truman Room of the White House Conference Center, 726 Jackson Place, NW, Washington DC. Sitting at the table with the Commissioners was William Dinkelacker, Designated Federal Official from the Department of the Treasury. Robert Litan, Writer, was seated at the witness table with Philip R. Dame, OMB. Mr. Dame was there in place of Dick Emery, Executive Director of the Commission. As required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the meeting had been announced in the Federal Register, and the meeting was open to the public. Co-chair Corzine and Commissioners Brittain, Collender, Leone, Metzler, O'Clearicain, and Rattner were not present for the meeting.
Several items were distributed to the Commission and were available at the meeting:
-- the November 6, 1998, draft of the Commission's report, which was prepared by Robert Litan for discussion by the Commission, and Mr. Litan's cover memo, which identified seven areas for discussion;
-- the fact sheet about the Commission;
-- the Federal Register notice announcing the meeting;
-- the press release announcing the meeting;
-- two items pertaining to the records of the Commission: the November 5, 1998, letter from Marva W. Frazier, National Archives at College Park, to Bill Dinkelacker; and a list of items to be archived;
-- "Legal Issues/Questions and Others that are Policy, Program or Administrative Pertaining to the President's Commission to Study Capital Budgeting," a note distributed by Bill Dinkelacker; and
-- draft minutes of the meeting of Saturday, September 19, 1998.
Purpose. The purpose of the meeting was to provide guidance to Robert Litan for his preparation of the next draft of the Commission's report.
Discussion. Co-chair Kathleen Brown opened the meeting at 9:10 a.m. and requested approval of the minutes for the meeting of Saturday, September 19, 1998, in Washington. The Commission approved the minutes. Ms. Brown announced that the December 4 meeting of the Commission had been canceled and asked the Commissioners to hold Friday, December 18, for a possible meeting, if one were necessary. She also announced that the deadline for the report had slipped to early January, and that January 8, 1999, was a tentative date for presentation of the report to the National Economic Council principals.
Discussion of Mr. Litan's draft began about 9:30 a.m. and continued until about noon. The discussion covered the seven areas identified in Mr. Litan's cover memo and other areas. He agreed to prepare a revised draft reflecting the day's comments and additional<|fim_middle|> approve the minutes. These minutes were approved by the Executive Director. | comments he receives. The revised draft was to be ready for distribution to the Commission by Monday, November 30, 1998.
Mr. Dinkelacker asked whether the Commission wanted a CD-rom distributed with every report. The CD-rom would include the final report, the final website material (testimony, staff papers, and other information), and the verbatim transcriptions of the meetings. After some discussion, Mr. Dinkelacker agreed to present alternative options to the Co-chairs for their review.
On behalf of herself and Mr. Corzine, Ms. Brown thanked the Commissioners, the staff at OMB and Treasury, and the members of the public for their support in carrying out the work of the Commission.
The meeting adjourned at 12:02 p.m.
1. Because this was the last meeting of the Commission, it never met again to | 183 |
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The Army will stand up its cloud program office in the coming months as part of a larger Pentagon cloud<|fim_middle|> he added.
"Our near-term focus is posturing ourselves to leverage the all-purpose and fit-for-purpose cloud hosting capability," he said.
The initiative is more about "increasing operational effectiveness throughout the force," and "less about saving money," he noted.
The Army is also planning to establish at least five "pathfinder" efforts this year. They will be focused on "tactical intelligence data, financial management applications, global force integration systems, logistics and maintenance, and a tactical server infrastructure," Crawford said. "We really want to focus on getting after those."
In fiscal year 2020, the service intends to pursue more of these types of initiatives to improve readiness, he noted. "Our plan is to establish six to eight pilots at our most critical camps, posts and stations," he said.
The Army hopes to be able to look back years from now and see a noticeable difference in growth capacity for cloud computing, Crawford said.
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"You can expect that in the next 90 days," Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford said during a breakfast in Arlington, Virginia, hosted by the Association of the United States Army.
The service has been working on updating its cloud strategy for the first time since 2015, efforts that Crawford says are in line with the one recently released by the Defense Department.
The Pentagon has "multiple disjointed and stovepiped information systems distributed across modern and legacy infrastructure around the globe leading to a litany of problems" that impact the U.S. military's ability to use critical information to make timely decisions, noted the Defense Department's new cloud strategy, which was released in February.
Commercial industry has made major strides in addressing these types of challenges that the department can leverage, the report noted.
Commercial cloud computing is a subscription-based service that provides network-based resources to customers.
"It allows users to store and access data and programs over the internet rather than on a local computer hard drive. It also allows users to access information from anywhere at any time," the report said. "The department must take full advantage of this technology enabler."
The Army plans to release its revised cloud strategy in the next 90 days, Crawford said. It is also slated to award two contracts this fiscal year for services required to sustain the Army's use of the cloud, | 288 |
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A new government report to Congress warns of rising threats to U.S. financial stability, including the looming risk of surging corporate loan defaults. While big banks and other systemically important financial institutions have been steadily reducing their risks since the financial crisis, debt among nonfinancial companies is at an historic high relative to U.S. gross<|fim_middle|> their debts is declining," the research agency warned. | domestic product, the Office of Financial Research, an independent unit of the U.S. Treasury Department, said in its annual report to Congress Wednesday.
Slowing economic growth, therefore, could hurt companies' ability to repay their loans and lead to a tidal wave of defaults, warned the OFR, which was mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act to study financial stability following the financial crisis. This, in turn, could hurt banks, which are already seeing loans to energy companies sour due to severe declines in oil prices.
In its fourth annual report to Congress, the OFR warned of other looming threats to the financial system, including concerns that persistently low interests rates could prompt investors to seek out riskier investments, which "may encourage excessive borrowing." The U.S. economy has remained largely resilient to the global slowdown so far, OFR said. "But continued or magnified problems overseas could harm future growth and financial stability in the United States." "Profits are declining, debt levels are high, and the ability to pay down or pay off | 209 |
Countdown to 150 years
Share some memories of former NCW students and staff here, as we count down to 16th December 2016, when we end our celebratory year in style with a concert at Worcester Cathedral.
Today is the end of the Countdown and the Celebratory Christmas concert. Thank you for the positive feedback we have had on the Countdown, and, of course, thanks to current and former staff and students without whom there would have been no memories. Our final memory comes from Mrs Mardy Smith, who is retiring after 14 years as our Principal:
I have so many memories of my 27 years at the College, I found it very difficult to choose one. So I decided I would think back to my memories of my very first week of employment at the College, in September 1989, when I arrived to be Head of Economics and Politics. Susan Boreham met me on the first day and made me feel very welcome, explaining what the programme and routines were for the day. Four new teachers joined NCW on the same day, the others being Maggie Verdeyen/Harrison, Trish Smith and Frances Betts, and we felt some fellowship being on a steep learning curve together! Gerald Gunton worked in my department and I found him to the most kind and courteous colleague I could have hoped for.
My teaching room at that time was Room 38 and I can still remember the students I taught in my first week, too many to name, and together they allayed many of my concerns about teaching visually impaired students for the first time. I have always appreciated the humour of our students and there were many examples that first week or so, not least when I made memorable clangers about issues related to visual impairment! I remember dodging Perkins braillers as the students carried them from lesson to lesson, being shown where the small number of BBC Micros (computers) were and being issued with a 5.25 inch floppy disk!
Little did I think I would still be at the College 27 years later, but I would not have had it any other way!
Students are enjoying end of Autumn term events, including staff/student football matches and the College Christmas dinner. Also, the Choir and other performers are busy preparing seasonal music for tomorrow's concert. The Christmas concert has been an important part of the history of Worcester, Chorleywood and New Colleges Anne and Eileen recalled Chorleywood carol concerts from the 1950s and Trish and Julie remembered the 1960s and 1970s:
Christmas in the fifties was a much more low key affair than it is now. The nation was still recovering from the war and, although we weren't hungry, there wasn't an abundance of food. This was very much reflected at Chorleywood. What we remembered about Christmas at school is mainly music. They practised and sang carols for weeks in readiness for the Carol Service which was held in what was then the hall. A few people from the neighbourhood were invited and how we all squashed into that small space is beyond me. The one thing we do remember very clearly is the party given by the Rickmansworth Firemen. It was brilliant. We all went to the Fire Station and they entertained us and then we sang, "All in the April Evening" which reduced the hulks of men to quivering heaps.
By the late 1960s, we still spent weeks practising carols, especially as in some years we had a carol concert, to which parents were invited, in addition to the more private carol service. We walked in procession down the oak stairs, across the entrance hall, through the library into the winter garden and coming through into the back of the hall for the carol service? What a performance!
Miss McHugh loved carols, and in the Christmas term before she retired, we started singing carols in our morning prayers from early November. No firemen's parties for us, though sometimes the choir did have a trip to Ford's at Dagenham, where our carols were relayed all through the factory. We were rewarded with a very good lunch, and usually were each given a box of chocolates or other small gift.
The CDs with extracts from the Oral History interviews have been delivered today, ready for Friday. At the end of the Oral History Project, students interviewed each other. Amy and Ellie told Matthew what they liked about NCW today:
The best thing is that it is like a community. It is like a family. If you are in the corridor and don't look happy, someone you are guaranteed will say 'How are you'. It is really caring. As students we really respect that we all have similar problems and we really support one another, which I think is a really nice thing to have. And there are lots of teachers you can to talk to if you are having a bad day. In the morning it is cheery. I think it is such a positive and happy place. It is nice to come into a positive learning place.
At the end of his Oral History interview, Adrian reflected on his time at Worcester College in the late 1950s:
It was excellent. I enjoyed it very much. I was pleased I had the opportunity of being here, because it so easily could not have happened. I had a better academic education than I would have got anywhere else. I developed a sort of spirit that if I wanted to do anything enough I could find a way of doing it. I was reasonable about it as well: I obviously wasn't going to be an airline pilot or something like that. But if there was something I really wanted to do, I could probably do it, and I went on and did so.
During her oral history interview, Julie reflected on what she gained from her time at Chorleywood:
The thing that has shaped me the most has been learning how to make friends and relate to people, which happened there very much. Also what came through my parents, and was fostered by both my schools, was having high expectations of myself<|fim_middle|> interesting supper than had been available earlier in the term.
The Stratford House party invariably enabled Ray Follett (Assistant Housemaster) to entertain. Invariably, he sang in his wheezy tenor voice, "A Policeman's Lot Is Not an 'Appy One".
The Christmas dinner was held on the last Sunday of term, and was the only occasion on which chicken would be served for the whole year. It was followed by Christmas pudding, and it would be probably the only meal that would be appreciated by all.
The Christmas Variety was a concert put on, and organised, by the students. Staff were invited, and some actually came. There were some parts which were expected: the College Band, the skiffle group (that I led), the more musical playing the piano, some other instruments, but most importantly, was the song, which was especially written each year, to satirise staff, students and happenings. This was sung to the tune of "Much Binding In The marsh".
Here's a verse from circa 1955, inspired by a flu epidemic:
'At Worcester College for the Blind
We're getting very close to Armageddon!
At Worcester College for the Blind
It's hard to tell a live one from a dead 'un!
The sickroom's full of people with the fever or the flu,
They say that Brad has made his will and fled to Timbuktu.
I'd book in at the nearest B and B if I were you
At Worcester College for the Blind.'
With the end of term and Cathedral concert approaching, the students are looking forward to Christmas. The girls at Chorleywood have fond memories of their Christmas traditions, although Susan, a student from the 1970s, remembers her worry of one year:
I dreaded the day before the October half term when, as we filed out of assembly, we each took a piece of paper from a drum. The paper bore the name of the person for whom we had to make a "tree present", to be given out at the Christmas party. These were to be made rather than bought, they weren't supposed to cost much and food (though plentiful) was discouraged.
One year my worst nightmare happened - I was to make something for our headmistress. Nobody wanted to swap. What did she get? A spring bonnet pin-cushion made out of a paper plate turned upside down, a round bath sponge, a bit of an old dress and some different coloured pins and a spray of artificial flowers. Miss Markes found out who made it and thanked me.
In the late 1930s, the boys of Worcester College were joined by Hans, a Jewish German refugee. In 1939, his mother, although sadly not his father, was able to escape the Nazi Holocaust, by coming to Britain:
I entered Worcester College in May 1938 aged 15 and went back to my parental home for the Summer holidays with Reg Dowell, one of the teachers at the time who stayed with us. The following term witnessed the events of "Kristallnacht" on the 9th of November. After that my parents wrote to say that I should not return "home" for the Christmas holidays because of the worsening conditions for Jewish people. Our headmaster at the time, B.O. Bradnack, appealed in the chapel for someone to take me in for the holidays.
The first one to respond, I remember clearly, was the son of a Welsh miner. The final choice fell on Alan whose father was a butcher in Leicester. There I was well fed and learned to sing "underneath the spreading Christmas tree" and to kiss females under the mistletoe. The Easter 1939 holidays I spent with Jim and his family in Guildford.
Click here to see more memories | and not seeing limits. Seeing only opportunities – to have a go and try to find a way to do it, and not, 'oh dear I can't do that because I'm blind, it's too difficult.' Chorleywood did foster that sense of not feeling limited. We always assumed we would get jobs, husbands, houses and do stuff. That is what we thought would be the norm. We didn't think in terms of this might be difficult. Sometimes it was difficult, but it wasn't the first thing we thought of. This is what has shaped me because I've always wanted to have a go at things. It is better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all.
Our new students will be reflecting this week on the end of their first term at NCW. In the early 1960s, Richard reflected on his first term at Worcester College:
I came to Worcester on 7th May 1913. This was the second term of Mr. G.C. Brown's headmastership. With his characteristic courage and determination, he was destined to build a great school. I was the tenth boy only, but in spite of the small numbers, Mr. Brown shaped with us the beginnings of a range of activities.
My first term, for instance, saw the foundation of our first Troop of Scouts; in the following term, as two or three more boys came along, we formed a second Patrol, and the highlight of our Scouting career occurred when we went to London, eight strong, to act as guard of honour for King George V at the opening of the Headquarters of the R.N.I.B. We were inspected by His Majesty and by the Chief Scout after the opening ceremony.
This was on 19th March, 1914. We used to think we were the first blind Scouts and it would be interesting to know if this is really so.
Mr. Brown was a very enthusiastic swimmer and a very able life-saver, and the beginning of this successful College activity dates from the day on which he took Wilkinson and myself to the City Baths, about a three mile walk, for what proved to be the first of a series of almost weekly visits.
On Saturday evenings during my first summer term we were encouraged to practise athletic sports on the lawn, and produced quite a reputable sports afternoon during Speech Week.
To me, this first term at Worcester was most enjoyable, especially after the severities of my first school. The human kindness, the family life and the deep sense of relaxation at Worcester, compared with the rigours of that other school, have remained a happy memory throughout my life.
In 2005-6, the History and Drama departments, with outside students from LOOK, were involved in the 'Prisoner 4099' project with the National Archives. Students visited the archives in Kew and then studied the documents relating to the family and imprisonment of William Towers, a Victorian child prisoner; he was in prison for stealing two pet rabbits. As the National Archives website describes, the work culminated in the production of a dramatisation, which can be still heard at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/prisoner4099/listen-to-the-play/default.htm
The Performance
The performance took place on a Saturday in May at New College Worcester. The play was to be a 'rehearsed improvisation'. This meant there were to be no scripts; the students would have to create and then remember their parts! Everyone was nervous and excited and we spent the morning practising.
Lights... Sound... ACTION!
We staged the performance in the afternoon. The actors and musician played their parts with great enthusiasm, some of them wearing Victorian costumes. All the LOOK journalists had press hats and carried homemade microphones!
The play was recorded and edited by the team at Youthcomm Radio, a Worcester-based radio and online service run for young people, with the help of Worcestershire County Council. The atmosphere was fun but the young people were also determined to do justice to the play and to the characters they had created.
After the final scene was recorded, there was a huge outbreak of applause and shouts of joy! Everyone was really excited about what had been achieved. We celebrated with tea and cake and were very grateful that we didn't have to go to prison, wear Victorian costumes or have bread and water for dinner!
As the newsletter of 2013 describes, New College students have collaborated with a local theatre company:
Students came together to perform an adaptation of 'Midsummer Night's Dream', the Shakespearean comedy which follows two sets of young lovers as they make their way through a magical wood of fairies and sprites.
36 students were involved in two productions: the play itself and a devised piece which was created by the young people of the college with local theatre company, Perfect Circle.
The Drama studio was transformed into the world of a film set with director's chairs and clapperboards whilst the characters were dressed in 1930s costumes, black and white, with the fairies representing the colour in their purple costumes. Music by Glenn Miller was used to the set the scenes and in the interval the audience were treated to a performance by NCW's jazz band.
It was fantastic to hear our young people working so beautifully with Shakespeare's lines and making them sound so natural. The audience's response to both plays was genuine delight - Shakespeare is definitely thriving at NCW.
In 1952, Chorleywood and Worcester College students took part in a film called 'Pathway Into Light', which had a commentary provided by the actor Jack Hawkins. John describes his involvement:
While I was at Worcester RNIB sent a crew down to make a publicity film and they wanted some activity in the gym. I was singled out for this and I had to kick a football at Ray Follett, who was in goal, i.e. the window ladders at the end of the gym. Ray rolled the ball out and I promptly belted it back at him. The cameraman said this would not do and insisted that I bent down to feel the ball with my hand before kicking it. I tried to explain that this was not what we did, but was silenced and told that if I kicked the ball without touching it people would not believe I could not see. Much to my shame I capitulated and did what I was told.
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Another occasion when students were able to be part of an artistic collaboration came in 2012. The NCW choir sang 'Raise the Sky' at the Olympic Torch Relay celebration and a group of students assisted the lyricist when he was considering Sir Edward Elgar and looking for ideas. Chris Baldwin, the lyricist, described what happened in the Souvenir Programme:
When I had the pleasure of working with the young people from New College, I discovered that they had much in common with the composer. One young woman could identify trees from the call of the birds roosting in them. Another young man knew the kind of building he was approaching by the nature of the echo it produced.
So a group of students from New College Worcester, their tutors and myself planned a journey of our own. We visited Elgar's Worcester and Worcestershire. And we also visited the Worcester that these young people know and love – experiencing it from the perspective of those more interested in 'fixing the sounds' than most of us. And from this journey a series of themes and songs emerged which now form this song cycle. We have created a celebration of Worcester and Worcestershire through an imagined conversation between the late Elgar and contemporary blind and partially sighted young people.
In 1959, the Chorleywood Choir produced a 45 RPM extended play record called 'The First Christmas' which was issued in the HMV Junior Record Club series. As the record sleeve describes:
Christmas is inevitably linked with carols and many of the most popular of them are sung on this record by the Chorleywood College Blind Children's Choir. They form the musical background against which the story of the shepherds watching their flocks by might, of the three kings from the East following the star to Bethlehem, of the child Jesus in the manger, is told by Dame Edith Evans, one of Britain's best loved and distinguished actresses.
The tradition of a students' informal Christmas concert was continued at NCW, as recalled in the magazine of 2000 by Mrs Campbell:
A range of dedicated students shared their wonderful talents in an evening packed with songs, jokes, music, sketches and poems. During the course of the evening, our funny bones were tickled by Charlotte with an amusing rendition of a monologue about Anne Boleyn's Ghost. Philip performed a selection of very funny limericks, while a selection of Y11 students performed a satirical sketch, written by themselves. All the singers entertained us with a wide range of music, from the latest chart lists to enduring classics. Students also played keyboards, the piano and the accordion.
On a more sober note, students performed a short Drama piece about the plight of the homeless. This piece lent itself well to the evening, as the concert this year raised money for the homeless charity SHELTER.
Another Chorleywood Christmas tradition was recalled by Trish when she was interviewed as part of our Oral History Project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The Sixth Form would get up early on the last day of term and walk around the main building singing carols. Each dormitory would have submitted a choice of carol and the members of staff did too. And so they would sing that particular carol up at the windows; coming from outside it just sounded beautiful. We used to wait for the carols coming. You could hear the carols coming from around the other side of the building. When we were younger, we used to follow it round. We used go into other people's dorms to listen to their carols. I took part twice. One morning it was a real winter's morning and by the time we had finished we were absolutely frozen, but it was good fun. Some of the dorms would throw bags of sweets down after you had sung the carol.
The Sixth form also went out on two evenings during the last week, round the village to sing carols to the friends of the school, like the local vicar or some of the cleaners who lived locally. They weren't expecting us. Then there was one lady who had been a housekeeper at the school and she was expecting us. We always made that the last port of call and she would invite us all in and she would be ready with hot mince pies and hot drinks. We used to spend the rest of the evening with her and sing the occasional carol; and that was really good.
The NCW Boarding Houses organise their own Christmas events, alongside those held during the school day. As the magazine of 1996 shows, the choice for a meal has varied considerably:
Bradnack's pre-Christmas meal was on Friday 1st December at Perdiswell. The food was very good, and the boys certainly enjoyed dancing to the band with the ladies they met there. After the excellent Bradnack Christmas meal on 11th December, we all had a good sing-song around the camp fire in the lounge. On Friday 1st December, Fletcher House held a Summer party to remind people the Winter would not last forever. Some guests unearthed their shorts and T-shirts to add to the summery theme. A barbecue provided refreshments. A visit to 'Summer Father Christmas' in his grotto proved to be a tempting attraction! The proceeds from the evening went to Acorn's Children's Hospice.
This year the Dorothy McHugh house Christmas dinner was held at a pub in Hallow. It was a very good evening with lots of food, and everybody agreed it was a great success.
David describes some of the Worcester traditions of the 1950s (the boys were divided into Malvern and Stratford Houses):
Each House, would have its own separate party, and even here, there was competition as to whose party was better. These parties involved all sorts of party games, but most importantly there was the chance of a more | 2,521 |
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I know how to change a tire–dad made sure of that. But it's been more than 10 years since I actually did it! For example, did you know that the jack is actually tightened into that little cubby on the side? You have to loosen it just to get the jack out. And people make fun of me for making sure the car booklet is in the glove box before I buy a used car.
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The Alex will keep their pre-season games local but Davis says a trip to Burton may be something different as his pre-season preparations continue.
Steve told the club's official web-site: "We tend to try and keep the pre-season games local because we don't want to be travelling too far. We want it to be cost effective for our supporters and help the local teams out financially as well.
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Errol Christie
One of the boxing greats - looking back on memories of Errol Christie's career
Mike Lockley reflects on the legacy of 'one of the greatest amateurs this country has ever produced'
Mike Lockley
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The boxing world united in tributes to former British boxer Errol Christie following his death from cancer aged 53.
Coventry legend Errol, who captained England in amateur boxing between 1980-83, had been battling the disease for the last two years but died on Sunday.
He grew up in inner-city Coventry and had a colourful upbringing that included run-ins with skinheads and the police. He was a regular at the Standard Triumph Gym in Capmartin Road, Radford, where he was first introduced to boxing.
Errol Christie's family say boxer was a "kind and special man"
Here, Mike Lockley, who was a<|fim_middle|> was shockingly sparked out by Jose Seys in 1984. It was generally regarded as a freak result.
He went on a seven-fight unbeaten run before the Kaylor disaster, then, with the bubble burst, defeat became a more regular visitor. Charles Boston, Jose Quinones, James Cook, Ian Strudwick, Michael Watson and Trevor Ambose all overcame Christie before he bowed out of the game with a 32-8-1 record.
The career that offered so much had come to nothing.
Coventry boxer Errol Christie proudly shows off the ABA light-middleweight trophy which he won by outpointing England International Cameron Lithgow at the Wembley Arena
Yet, in his prime, Christie had been embraced by Detroit's famed Kronk gym and sparred Thomas Hearns as the great prepared to face Roberto Duran. Of those frantic sessions, he said: "I would say Tommy Hearns is the best person I ever sparred or worked with. I could do both - fight and box - and Tommy Hearns could bang really hard but he was also fast and really snappy at the time. He was one of the greatest spars I ever had.
"Tommy was The Man at the time in that gym. He didn't think anyone in the world was better than him, and he liked to show it. We had a real good toe-to-toe."
In retirement in London, Christie worked the doors, tried his hand at stand-up comedy and steered children away from gun and knife crime.
Last June, he posted on Facebook: "Hi everybody! Back after a bit of a break. As you might have read - I've got the biggest battle of my life right now. The Big C is in the ring with me and he's giving me an hard time. But - no retreat, no surrender!"
Even in ill health, Christie was every inch a fighter. And a fine man, to boot.
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Radford | reporter with Boxing News, charts his memories of the ex-middleweight fighter from Radford.
Errol with his brother Mike in 1982
Errol Christie, one of the greatest amateurs this country has ever produced, believed the lung cancer that took his life was spawned by smoke-filled working men's clubs where he fought in his childhood.
The Coventry sensation learned his craft long before the smoking ban came into force. Back then, boxers exchanged blows under a nicotine-impregnated, cigarette-induced cloud.
"It was a bit like holding an AA meeting in a brewery," said leading West Midlands fight figure Jason Lowe, who helped promote Errol's biography, No Place To Hide.
"He often said he got it from that. You had these young sportsmen plunged into these smoke filled halls. Today, it's hard to comprehend. He was a lovely guy, a truly lovely guy and a really classy fighter."
Coventry boxing legend Errol Christie dies aged 53 after cancer battle
The cruelty of Errol Christie's career is that it will forever be defined by his savage battle with Mark Kaylor: a war that reeked of too many right wing things.
Christie should be remembered as one of Britain's greatest amateurs, a poetry-in-motion boxer who earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records for clinching an unprecedented 10 domestic titles.
He also ruled Europe and captained his country.
Sadly, unjustly, the fleeting fan's awareness of Christie, who died on Sunday at the obscenely young age of 53, begins and ends with Cockney Kaylor. I flinch writing this, but some of Kaylor's more odious followers - shaven headed, heavy with pot bellies and vulgar bling - considered his eighth round win a vindication of their vile right wing beliefs.
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As a reporter at Boxing News, I'd covered Kaylor's professional rise and become increasingly uneasy over a growing contingent of supporters. They brandished Union flags with the vigour of a fascist, not with the pride of a patriot. They stank of stale beer and bigotry, they oozed more prejudice than pride.
Errol Christie at the Standard Triumph Boxing Club, Coventry in 2010
That is not a slur on Kaylor, honest and brave as they come - he rose from the floor twice to beat Christie. A fighter cannot pick his fans.
But I had misgivings at the time the 1985 contest was announced, misgivings heightened when the two brawled following the Stakis Regency Casino press conference.
I have misgivings today.
It was a punch-up polluted by the NF into a propaganda exercise. And Christie knew it.
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Such was the tension at a time when the Broadwater Farm riots and Pc Keith Blakelock's death still dominated the front pages, the British Boxing Board of Control considered scrubbing the title eliminator. The police certainly wanted it stopped.
Errol Christie fought Harlein Holden of Chicago and knocked him out in 64 seconds at Coventry Sports Centre in 1983
The embers of racial resentment and hatred glowed so brightly on that Wembley night, Cass Pennant, undisputed ruler of West Ham United's hooligan firm, was secretly called in to provide security
I still wish it had not taken place. In the aftermath of the epic, Christie was tortured by the sense he had let the Afro-Caribbean community down, Kaylor, who is not a racist, was saddled with more tattooed, foul mouthed supporters.
The blood spilled on that night turned into something horribly toxic.
In his book, Christie stated: "As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My entire life's struggle was ending here, in plain view of my enemies.
"How was it possible? How had I let things come to this?"
In 2010, the pair were re-united via a London radio link-in - Kaylor is now living in California - and Christie was quick to rake the embers of that sullied encounter. He pulled no punches.
Recap: Reaction and tributes after boxing legend Errol Christie dies
Kaylor replied: "I'm sorry for the things I said, I respect you, I always have. Why were we allowed to go nose-to-nose with nobody between us? Somebody never did their job."
Nobody did their job. The police, the boxing authorities, the council, could, and should, have scuppered the bout, but allowed this stew of simmering intolerance to continue.
Christie lands a fierce right cross on the jaw of Dexter Bowman during a fight at the Digbeth Civic Hall.
To a degree, the contest defined Christie's very public, and personal, campaign against racism. The man from a fighting family - brother Lloyd won the British light-welterweight title - certainly didn't back down when confronted by rednecks.
He told The Daily Mail: "Racists were great for my boxing in the '70s and '80s. You see, they only attack in groups. Racist on the left, bang! One in the middle, bang! Do a little spin to the right and two bangs for you, fella! That's good training when you do it every other day for a few years."
Prejudice played no part in Christie's failure to hit the expected heights as a pro. Seldom has a fighter with such a glittering CV, a fighter heralded as the next golden boy, failed to deliver in the paid ranks.
That had nothing to do with skin colour. That had everything to do with a chink in the shining armour, a lack of the necessary resilience, that became a gaping hole over the longer, professional course.
Revealed: This is what Coventry's tower block cladding is made of
In hindsight, the signs were there. An amateur up-and-down affair with Liverpool's Joey Frost, a fellow fragile puncher, indicated Christie's chin could fail the acid test.
And after peeling off 13 wins, Christie | 1,296 |
Posted on June 3, 2013 by Susan H.
I enjoyed a beautiful weekend away visiting my mother to celebrate her birthday.
The perfect treat to bring along to my mother's church for their coffee/tea meet and greet after the service…they loved them!
This recipe comes from my neighbour<|fim_middle|> the blueberries.
In a separate bowl, mix the wet ingredients (oil, lemon juice, vanilla and water) excluding the non-dairy beverage.
Fill mini muffin tin paper liners with batter.
Tip 1: I was able to fill a 24 cup mini muffin tin and then baked another 8.
Bake at 350 F for 10 – 15 minutes.
Let cool in muffin tin for 10 minutes before removing to continue cooling on cooling rack.
Tip 2: Wondering what to do with the leftover lemon juice? I love it stirred into water for a refreshing drink or sprinkled over fresh fruit with a drizzle of local honey.
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Wow your boys are so lucky! Always baking delicious looking treats!
They turned out great didn't they!? They look delicious! The cookies you gave the girls were gone probably before you got to your moms.. .hahaha!! The tea towel looks great! 🙂 So glad you like it! | , Linda…who in turn was given this recipe from a friend. I cut the recipe in half, adapted it to be dairy, soy and egg free and opted to bake mini muffins.
Did you notice the beautiful tea towel the mini muffins are wrapped in?
Carla @ My 1/2 Dozen Daily sewed it for me.
The 'Little Red Riding Hood' pattern was from a Scrap Swap Carla held. As soon as I saw it…I knew I needed her to sew me something with it.
After my husband referred to me as 'Little Red Riding Hood'…I went delivering my muffins in my basket through the neighbourhood last week…I knew just what Carla could sew for me…a patchwork tea towel for my muffin basket.
In a large bowl, mix the dry ingredients (flour, cornmeal, baking soda, baking powder, sugar and lemon zest) excluding | 182 |
Tech Memo: Triton Digital's Podcast Reports
2:56 PM MST on Jan 7, 2020
Shortly after we published the last newsletter of 2019, Triton Digital — the digital audio technology and services provider now owned by EW Scripps — announced that it will soon be launching public podcast reports in the United States. Powered by the company's Podcast Metrics measurement service, those reports will provide rankings of participating US networks and podcasts based on Average Weekly Downloads and in accordance with the IAB's technical guidelines.
According to the associated press release, the company submits that the reports will seek to "eliminate inconsistent measurement practices and self-reported data, providing content creators, marketers, media buyers, and the audio industry at large with validated and transparent podcast metrics for the first time." (In the United States, that is. Triton has already been publishing similar reports in Australia and Latin America, and plans to do so for the Netherlands sometime this year.)
Participating publishers at the time of announcements include NPR, Stitcher (also owned by EW Scripps, by the way), Entercom, and Cumulus Media. At least a few others are expected to join as the reports begin publication. The first edition is scheduled to roll out in March.
Let me begin by saying that Triton's upcoming ranker is a welcome addition to the wildly limited pool of public resources that shape the way observers and insiders weave narratives about the podcast industry. We've long had the Apple Podcast Charts, of course, whose "hotness" ranking system has often been problematically mistaken as a relative measure of bigness or dominance. And yes, Podtrac has been publishing podcast rankers since 2016, but as long-time readers might recall, I've never been able to get past the myriad methodological and presentational caveats that I've long found extremely troublesome (see here and here). Furthermore, my frustrations have only exacerbated over time as various publications ended up using the ranker, unqualified, as means to indicate a given show's or network's popularity in their respective pieces. Podtrac is far from a Nielsen-like solution, and it has been frustrating to see it treated as such in the past.
Certainly, the introduction of the Triton ranker won't completely solve podcasting's knowability problem. It will have its own caveats to grapple with; some of which will be familiar, like how it will only be able to be a reliably representation of participating publishers and therefore should not be taken as a comprehensive reading of the space.
But its very existence — as a second public ranker, one that derives credibility from Triton's recognized authority in other formats like streaming audio — is already significant. It means that Podtrac will no longer be the default text on relative show size, and that further triangulation is possible now, which means our ability to tell better stories about various podcasts and networks can make a meaningful leap forward. That's not nothing.
A few other specific points on the ranker, gleaned from a conversation I recently had with John Rosso, Triton Digital's President of Market Development:
(1) Rosso tells me that the underlying goal of the Podcast Metric measurement service, which powers the rankers, is to solve two problems. The first is to "increase transparency and trustworthiness" in the analytics that inform podcast buys, and the second is to help streamline that buying process. "Advertisers still complain that podcast buying is still too fragmented," he said.
(2) That first goal is expressed through the handling of the measurement service's technical aspects, which assesses and validates listening data on the hosting-server side. Participating publishers would need to sign an agreement with Triton that would allow the company to implement its tracking solution directly on the platform. (It is thought that publishers would feel less wary about letting Triton into their analytics because Triton, unlike Podtrac, doesn't have an associated direct advertising sales<|fim_middle|>on describes its data collection approach as "census-based," using four week cycle-based "Average Weekly Approach," over a calendar month approach meant to phase out timing-based variances.
(3) The second goal is expressed through a partnership that funnels the data from Triton's podcast reports into Strata, a media planning and buying platform managed by FreeWheel (owned by Comcast). With that integration, agencies and advertisers using Strata — of which there are apparently over a thousand, according to this Broadcasting+Cable write-up — will be instantly exposed to podcasting as another available sales channel, in addition to their usual options like television, print, outdoor, and several other digital channels.
(4) As mentioned, Triton's rankers won't display non-participating publishers, and for inclusion into the ranker, publishers have to subscribe to the Podcast Metric measurement service for a fee. This, of course, is Triton's business model around this product, though Rosso tells me he doesn't expect it to be a big moneymaker. "However, we all have a vested interest in seeing the podcast space grow," he said, before mentioning that he does expect additional derivative products to roll out in the future that may end up being big revenue drivers for the company.
Again, the first report is scheduled to roll out in March. | business.)
The big pitch for advertisers is that the tracking process happens completely "untouched by publisher's hands," thus eliminating the skepticism that comes when the audience data is self-reported. Trit | 37 |
Earth Science Week: "Geology helps the land tell you stories"
It's this year's Earth Science Week - see the American Geosciences Institute and Geological Society of London sites). I have periodically attempted to join the celebrations with posts on the "Nine big ideas" and the associated videos, Earth Science Literacy, and the outstanding "known unknowns" of earth science - please have a re-visit.
A good introduction to geology course is actually a course in time.
Let me start by defending geology's honor. Is there any other discipline that a rhyme so easily reduces to ridicule? Nearly every campus has some version of "rocks for jocks," the intro geology course touted as the easiest way for granite-brained humanities majors to fulfill their science requirements without significant intrusion on their time or erosion of their GPAs.
But you shouldn't take geology because it's easy. (It isn't necessarily easy—the geology class I took, from a bright-eyed elfin woman with the pleasing, rocklike name of Jan Tullis, certainly wasn't.) You should take geology because it will fundamentally transform the way you see the world.
I mean this literally. Understanding geology gives you a new way to interpret the visual data of the planet. Sometimes this can feel like X-ray vision or a sixth sense. The color of the soil can tell you what it's made of. The lightning bolts of white across that cliff the highway blasted through? Quartz veins, a sign of metamorphic activity, way back, when fissures opened up in bending, cracking stone, and mineral-laden water coursed through. Looking out of a plane window at the contours of a mountain range, you can tell from shape alone whether the peaks are old or new—or rather, which are very very old and which are just old. (It's the opposite of human aging: cragginess is a sign of relative youth, and smoothness comes only with time.) And the words! Schist. Nickeliferous. Gneiss. Each<|fim_middle|> scientists understand links among Earth's water, energy and carbon cycles; reduce uncertainties in predicting climate; and enhance our ability to monitor and predict natural hazards like floods and droughts. SMAP data have additional practical applications, including improved weather forecasting and crop yield predictions.
During SMAP's first three months in orbit, referred to as SMAP's "commissioning" phase, the observatory was first exposed to the space environment, its solar array and reflector boom assembly containing SMAP's 20-foot (6-meter) reflector antenna were deployed, and the antenna and instruments were spun up to their full speed, enabling global measurements every two to three days.
The commissioning phase also was used to ensure that SMAP science data reliably flow from its instruments to science data processing facilities at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
"Fourteen years after the concept for a NASA mission to map global soil moisture was first proposed, SMAP now has formally transitioned to routine science operations," said Kent Kellogg, SMAP project manager at JPL. "SMAP's science team can now begin the important task of calibrating the observatory's science data products to ensure SMAP is meeting its requirements for measurement accuracy."
Together, SMAP's two instruments, which share a common antenna, produce the highest-resolution, most accurate soil moisture maps ever obtained from space. The spacecraft's radar transmits microwave pulses to the ground and measures the strength of the signals that bounce back from Earth, whereas its radiometer measures microwaves that are naturally emitted from Earth's surface.
"SMAP data will eventually reveal how soil moisture conditions are changing over time in response to climate and how this impacts regional water availability," said Dara Entekhabi, SMAP science team leader at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. "SMAP data will be combined with data from other missions like NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement, Aquarius and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment to reveal deeper insights into how the water cycle is evolving at global and regional scales."
It is, to me, wondrous that even a simple examination of the three successive images from which the one at the head of this post was taken reveals clear changes over the course of a few days – I can only begin to imagine what analysis of the real data will reveal.
The UN's map and classification of global drylands drives home their importance to the way our planet works. The new SMAP data bring this to life in a dramatic way. | one with its own dense poetry.
Geology helps the land tell you stories. I remember flying once and noticing funny little slab-like mountains, each one distinct from the next, lying in parallel rows. Where once I would have seen only mystery, now I could imagine how those mountains came to be—a sedimentary bed, layer upon flat layer of different types of rock, broken and thrust upward by the movement of the plates, revealing a cross section in which the softer rocks had eventually eroded away, leaving only these orderly little slabs.
Geology is a gorgeous way to contemplate the abyss.
But geology does more than give you something to think about when you examine pebbles on a beach or go swimming in a quarry. You should also take geology because there is no better way to gain perspective on the fleetingness of life. Any good intro geology course is actually a course in time. You've heard the statistic: If the whole planet has been around for a single 24-hour day, the dinosaurs showed up at 10:56 p.m. and we just before 11:59. But imagine spending hours holding that thought in your mind, learning what happened during all the time that preceded us. Understanding, in a real way, how long the planet has been around; how slow, patient, and indifferent the movement of the rocks beneath us has been; how insignificant in the scheme of things our fervid civilizations and wars and inventions really are—this is a head trip better than any you'll experience during the concert at Spring Fling..
Taking geology actually had a funny side effect for me. I came into the class an avid environmentalist. I was a child of the '90s. I cared about whales. I recycled. I spent a semester on a farm. I wanted to keep humans from changing and destroying the planet. But geology complicated my understanding of this desire. The planet has been changing for millennia. It's been destroyed and remade again and again. The temperature used to be different. The continents were in different places. Different creatures roamed the land. The environmentalist instinct to preserve the planet exactly as it is began to seem not altruistic, but selfish. The planet is a tough cookie. This pile of rocks doesn't need saving. What we were trying to save, it seemed, was the version of the planet that works best for ourselves. And, sure, future generations and all the other species that currently live here. Still a worthy goal, of course. Perhaps an even worthier one, when you consider how unusual and unlikely Earth's menagerie is. But geology made me think about it in a new way.
College students often enter university with an outsized view of their own significance. It's good to study things that make you realize how unimportant you are. As a history major, I took a lot of classes that helped me understand how small my life is in the span of human existence. But there are a few courses—geology, astronomy, perhaps particle physics—that force students to confront true vastness, that make you consider the insignificance not just of your life, but of your entire species. Geology is a gorgeous way to contemplate the abyss.
This is valuable, in the end, because it both helps you care less and makes you care more. What's a bad day in the scheme of things? But then again, why not make each one count? Something to consider, next time you contemplate the contours of the land.
Much of the information contained in this image came from a single remote-sensing device-NASA'sModerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS. Flying over 700 km above the Earth onboard the Terra satellite, MODIS provides an integrated tool for observing a variety of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric features of the Earth. The land and coastal ocean portions of these images are based on surface observations collected from June through September 2001 and combined, or composited, every eight days to compensate for clouds that might block the sensor's view of the surface on any single day. Two different types of ocean data were used in these images: shallow water true color data, and global ocean color (or chlorophyll) data. Topographic shading is based on the GTOPO 30 elevation dataset compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center. MODIS observations of polar sea ice were combined with observations of Antarctica made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's AVHRR sensor—the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. The cloud image is a composite of two days of imagery collected in visible light wavelengths and a third day of thermal infra-red imagery over the poles.
Once in a while I enjoy losing myself in the wonders of Martian landscapes. Words just don't seem necessary for this selection from the latest HiRISE images.
Humans add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere through fossil fuel combustion and deforestation. About 40 percent of this carbon stays in the atmosphere and roughly 30 percent enters the ocean, according to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Scientists thought the remaining carbon was taken up by plants on land, but measurements show plants don't absorb all of the leftover carbon. Scientists have been searching for a place on land where the additional carbon is being stored--the so-called "missing carbon sink."
The lead author of the report in the AGU publication, Geophysical Research Letters, is Yan Li, a desert biogeochemist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Urumqi, Xinjiang; he and his team examined the character of groundwaters in the gigantic closed system of the arid Tarim Basin, and came up with some fascinating – and provocative – results. Runoff waters from the surrounding mountains pick up, as a normal part of the carbon cycle, some CO2 dissolved from the rocks and soils through which the rivers flow. However, by the time that water ends up in aquifers, the underground reservoirs beneath the desert, it contains substantial amounts of DIC, dissolved inorganic carbon.
Being able to date the carbon, Li and his colleagues could distinguish between old carbon originating from the rivers and very young carbon added to the water as it seeped through the soils of the irrigated oases along the desert margins. These are poor soils, not in themselves sources of much CO2 - it originates from the respiration of the roots of crops and microbes in the soil. And because these crops are irrigated almost constantly, not only to keep them growing but to wash out the salts that, as in all desert agriculture, accumulate in the soil, most of the CO2 is transported downward into the groundwater moving out below the desert to be trapped in the deep aquifers. Importantly, because of the salts, these waters are saline and alkaline and the solubility of CO2 in saline/alkaline water is much higher than in pure or acidic water – the desert groundwater is a very significant CO2 sink.
Based on the various rates that carbon entered the desert throughout history, the study's authors estimate 20 billion metric tons (22 billion U.S. tons) of carbon is stored underneath the Tarim Basin desert, dissolved in an aquifer that contains roughly 10 times the amount of water held in the North American Great Lakes.
The study's authors approximate the world's desert aquifers contain roughly 1 trillion metric tons (1 trillion U.S. tons) of carbon--about a quarter more than the amount stored in living plants on land.
Yet again, thank you NASA. As announced last month, their latest extraordinary earth-monitoring system is in orbit, commissioned and providing data: SMAP, the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission provides a high-resolution view of continuing changes in soil moisture across our world and allows understanding, analysis and planning in an unprecedented and fascinating way.
These maps of global soil moisture were created using data from the radiometer instrument on NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory. Each image is a composite of three days of SMAP radiometer data, centered on April 15, 18 and 22, 2015. The images show the volumetric water content in the top 2 inches (5 centimeters) of soil. Wetter areas are blue and drier areas are yellow. White areas indicate snow, ice or frozen ground.
The soil moisture scale is in cm3/cm3 and demonstrates dramatically the often-forgotten fact that drylands, home to a third of our planet's population, comprise over 40% of the land area.
Launched Jan. 31 on a minimum three-year mission, SMAP will help | 1,774 |
Medical Express has a piece on an autistic man, Kyle Barton, who lives in the Plano area and who attended UTD who has had a hard time finding a job. The title of the piece is Man with Autism Helps Design Virtual World to Make Life Better for Adults like Him. The entire thing is well worth reading, and I don't want to summarize it. The article not only discusses his project, but goes into the struggles he's had finding a job.
I certainly understand that struggle. Barton certainly should not be unemployed. He is a graduate of UT-Dallas and, very obviously, very intelligent. And yet, he's struggled to find work. I have a Ph.D. from UT-Dallas, and yet the only work I've managed to get have been adjunct professor jobs, and temporary and part time work. I'm incredibly thankful I now have a full time job, but it's as a paraprofessional (don't get me wrong, I love the work I'll be doing, but I should be making far more given my education and abilities).
While I do hope that Barton's work will help many autistics navigate the world better and, hopefully, find and keep work, there's a certain absurdity to someone like him or me having trouble finding employment. We seem to mostly be guilty of being socially awkward, spending too much time working at work, being too creative, and treating too many people as equals. The fact is that most people are completely intolerant of any real differences in thinking and behavior and only tolerate superficial differences.
Over the past several weeks I have noticed a new pattern in the way Daniel speaks. He will now say a sentence, then repeat the last part in a whisper (in a whisper). This is a speech disorder, or complex tic, known as palilalia. And, no surprise here, it can be found in autistics.
As I just noted, it's a complex tic, meaning it's not dissimilar to my own tics, or movement seizures, which are of course connected to my own autism. My movement seizures also developed later in life, so it's not surprising that Daniel has developed this one later, at 8 years of age.
There doesn't seem to be much about palilalia on the internet, so there's not much I can discuss about it for the moment. I have found some discussions of its relationship to echolalia, but echolalia is the exact repetition of phrases and sentences spoken by others. It's also found in autistics (and it something I've done for years, repeating things from TV and movies and integrating them into my usual speaking repertoire), but the two differ primarily in the fact that palilalia is a repetition of one's own self-generated sentences.
There's nothing like autism to introduce you to interesting little things the human brain sometimes does.
I am certain that one of the ideas I have about autistics will likely annoy some people because they are bound to misunderstand it. That idea is that autistics essentially have the brains of two-year-olds. While the feedback to that linked post was all positive, I still don't want people to misunderstand what I mean when I talk about this topic, because I know people will mistakenly think I'm just saying autistics are "childlike" or some such nonsense, or that we're "retarded" (too bad that word hasn't been quite retired). However, nothing could be farther from the truth.
At the same time, it occurred to me that we could look at some traits of 2-year-olds and see if my thesis is correct.
If autistic people missed part of a brain update around age 2, it would make a lot of sense to have a really good long-term memory but not so good short-term memory. Isn't one of the main functions of a 2-year-old's memory to learn as much new information for use for the rest of his life? At that stage in life, I would imagine long term memory would be a much better investment than short-term memory.
<|fim_middle|>, our brains wouldn't have anywhere near as many neurons and thus wouldn't be anywhere near as big.
This gene is found on chromosome 1, in the location 1q21.1. As the original article in Cell notes, additional copies of this region have been found in people with autism. In other words, it's possible that at least some autistics have even more copies of NOTCH2NL, resulting in even more neurogenesis. More neurons could push the brain toward greater positive feedback, which seems to be a main feature of autism regardless of various potential causes.
What this implies is that the very process that made us humans–the proliferation of NOTCH2NL (after it evolved)–could be behind the emergence of autism. In other words, some autistics may be more human than human. | I think this is probably true. It would, I think, explain this aspect of the way our memories work. It would also explain why many are more visual (at the cusp of learning language, the child would actually be more visually-oriented) and also why many are good at seeing patterns (finding the patterns of the world is vital to living in it), as these traits continue to get developed through the delay. And we also know that delays in development can result in improvements in function.
So, that having been said, I want to look at the traits of 2-year-olds.
They may play with other children for a short time, but aren't yet capable of true sharing.
They can't understand reason or control their impulses.
We could rephrase these such that they sound like you're describing an autistic person. While we know there's a huge difference between tantrums and meltdowns, that difference may not be quite so clear-cut among 2-year-olds. Older autistic children typically only play with other children for a short time and have a hard time sharing. I know I have a hard time waiting, and I have a hard time making choices (as my wife can attest when we're trying to pick a restaurant).
An interesting one is the one about understanding reason and controlling their impulses. The latter is certainly true to a certain degree. That's our weak executive function–weak also in 2-year-olds. But if anything, we're hyper-rational. If there's anything we understand, it's reason. I think, though, that our cognitive delay may in fact be among the reasons for our strong rationality. It's more developed, because developed more slowly. Not to mention that it's a replacement for our weak executive function.
Eulalia is essentially copying adults (or films or TV shows). We tend to be bossy. My son has a hard time distinguishing between the cartoons he watches and reality–he's always asking me for clarification of what can and cannot happen in the real world compared to the cartoons he watches. And it's well-established that we all have a hard time following complex instructions, but rather need things broken down.
The fact that many of these traits continue as children become older, and often into adulthood, suggests the mature-yet-2-year-old brain hypothesis–a form of neoteny–may be worth further investigation.
There is a gene–NOTCH2NL–that is found only in humans (and Denisovans and Neanderthals, once upon a time). It's actually part of an ancient family of genes, but this particular version is only found in humans–and, more, we have multiple copies of it.
What this gene does is slow down the development of stem cells into neurons. Why does this matter? This delay actually causes more stem cells to turn into neurons, meaning without NOTCH2NL | 582 |
Alison Gibb and her ambergris edition I am knot…a. poster in pieces of POWER will be at the wonderful Small Publisher's Fair at London's Conway Hall on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th November 2017.
Alison will also be doing several readings on the Saturday and the Fair is open from 11am to 7pm. More info over at the Small Publisher's Fair – see you there!
Based on the aesthetics of tie knots I am knot…a. poster in pieces of POWER by Alison Gibb is available now in our shop.
Made up of seven A4 pages printed and folded by the artist and housed in an A6 box I am knot…a. poster in pieces of POWER is available in a signed and numbered limited edition of 30 priced at £29.
We're thrilled to be working with poet and artist Alison Gibb on a new edition to be released just in time for Christmas!
Forming part of Alison Gibb's project I am knot a… the new edition investigates issues of POWER dressing through the aesthetics and value of tie knots to create an experimental series of posters.
In the meantime you can watch Alison Gibb's performance of the Lo Ri Co T / Li Ro Li Ro Li Co T / Lo Ri Lo Ri Co T / Lo Ro Lo Ro Co Lo R oCo T / Lo Ci Ro Ci Lo Ro Li Co T / Lo Ri Lo Ci Ro Li Co T sequence of tie knot instructions in the video below. Tie knots featured include the Oriental, Victoria, Kelvin, Dietrich, Balthus and St Andrews…….
9 artists and 1 curator learnt how to create using the lo-fi technique of Kitchen Lithography – a process using nothing more than kitchen foil, cola, ink, paper and an all important wooden spoon.
As part of the workshop, we invited each participant to make a print for the Kitchen Foil Print Portfolio which is available now in our shop priced at £25 each.
The Kitchen Foil Print Portfolio has been created in a varied edition of 20, of which each participant has a copy leaving just 10 complete portfolios available for sale.
ambergris editions is on its way to the It's a Book publishing fair at the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig on Saturday, 19th March!
We're delighted to be presenting all of our current editions as well as works by our friends Egidija Ciricaite and George Cullen of Collective Investigations, Jenny Baese and a new video work by Alison Gibb.
Saturday will also see the launch of a new print portfolio from ambergris editions featuring works from 9 artists and 1 curator based at Wysing Arts Centre!
For more info about It's a Book click here.
The wait is over! Mella Shaw's varied ceramic edition from her wonderful installation Notes on a City is now complete. 30 sets of Sticks & Stones are available – and each consists of 3 unique sculptures handmade by Mella using body stained porcelain and glazed stoneware.
As the artwork is so varied and unique we're making 10 of the edition available at a time and the first 10 sets of these handsized ceramic sculptures can now be found over in our shop. An oversized postcard format print signed and numbered by the artist accompanies each of the edition.
Notes on a City explores the emotional hinterland between nature and the built environment and was most recently exhibited at the 2015 British Ceramics Biennial.
You can also see Mella's work in Force Majeure at the Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge until 1st April.
…….and did we mention Mella was selected by culture24 as one of the top ten artists you should be collecting right now?
We are thrilled to announce that our next edition will be with the artist Mella Shaw whose installation Notes On A City was one of the highlights of this year's British Ceramics Biennial.
Mella is a graduate of the Royal College of<|fim_middle|> at Sluice Art Fair.
This large format book include 12 images of drawings by Wilkens with a focus on the potential of images as catalyst for discourse and change together with an essay The Half Life of Messages by Reece Jones and an untitled essay by Elise Routeledge.
Please join us at 4.50pm when Lisa Wilkens will be in conversation with Reece Jones to discuss The Shadow of an Unseen Power and highly obsessive making as well as a fascinating biography and particular relationship with nuclear proliferation.
Photography and design is by Jenny Baese with printing by DDZ, Berlin.
Published in an edition of 150 and available now from the ambergris editions shop.
Holly Corfield Carr wins Frieze writers prize!
We are absolutely thrilled to learn that Holly Corfield Carr has won the Frieze Writers Prize!
You can read Holly's award winning review of Katrina Palmer's installation The Loss Adjusters (part three of her Artangel project End Matter) here.
Holly edited our first ambergris editions publication the very last time with Lawrence Epps and we're looking forward to reading Holly's next review in Frieze!
ambergris editions' the very last time together with Lawrence Epps' installation AGAIN are now on their way to Stoke-on-Trent for the 2015 British Ceramics Biennial which features work by Mella Shaw, James Rigler, Bruce McLean and many many more.
This years Biennial opens on 26th September with a preview party on 25th September at 6.30pm. If you'd like to join us for the party please contact us.
Once again the show is being held in the extraordinary and cavernous abandoned Spode Factory and runs until 8th November.
……and extra special thanks to contributors Joey Connolly, Esther Leslie, Tamarin Norwood and Marie Toseland who read from the book together with Holly Corfield Carr and Lawrence Epps.
Saturday 12th September sees the launch of ambergris editions #1 the very last time edited by Lawrence Epps and Holly Corfield Carr at Firstsite, Colchester from 2pm together with a preview of Epps' new installation AGAIN.
AGAIN is an installation involving a hexagonal 6 player arcade coin pusher stocked with thousands of porcelain, terracotta and gold coins which the viewer can win and take away – or gamble and enter into a wager with the artwork.
the very last time is a new artist's book responding to AGAIN. It includes a new translation one of Fyodor Dostoevsky's most poignant letters as well as contributions from poets, artists, academics, an archaeologist, a psychoanalyst, a valuation expert, a bookmaker and a mudlarker. In turn each contribution to the book has inspired a coin design which can be won in AGAIN.
Please do join us for the launch of AGAIN and the very last time at Firstsite. Coins will be falling from 2pm and there will be readings and performances from our contributors once you have lost all you have won on AGAIN. For more information on the launch event and how to get to Firstsite, please see the gallery's listings.
This project is supported by Arts Council England and the Firstsite Associate Artist Bursary Programme. | Art and has regularly exhibited in the UK as well as Sweden, and has recently been featured in Wallpaper* and Crafts Magazine. With a practice exploring tipping points and transition we're incredibly excited to be working with Mella. More info to follow very soon.
In his lyrical essay Item, A Juell from the very last time by Lawrence Epps and Holly Corfield Carr (eds), managing director of Wartski and keen mudlarker Geoffrey Munn OBE weighs the value, use and pedigree of a prized talisman from his personal collection.
We were delighted to see to see Geoffrey and his object also finding their way onto episode 8 of the current series of The Antiques Roadshow at Broughton Castle.
The latest issue of Frieze Magazine (issue 175) includes a review of Lisa Wilkens' show The Shadow of an Unseen Power by the curator and writer Eleanor Clayton.
The review is also available online for subscribers here.
Many thanks to all those who made it to Sluice and Lisa Wilkens in conversation with Reece Jones to mark the launch of The Shadow of an Unseen Power.
It was a pleasure to see so many there to hear the discussions ranging from the fallout of life in an activist household, protest rallies at primary school, studio visits on the anniversary of the attack on Hiroshima and the practicalities of sourcing ever dwindling reserves of vintage GDR paper.
The Shadow of an Unseen Power is available from our online shop.
ambergris editions' second publication created to accompany Lisa Wilkens' exhibition at Paper Gallery The Shadow of an Unseen Power launches on Saturday 17th October | 337 |
Your hospitality property needs direction and it's up to you to choose that direction by setting goals that you can strive to accomplish.
Today, I am going to look at "Setting up Short-Term & Long-Term Goals for Your Hospitality Property".
Your hospitality property (your hotel, resort, inn or bed and breakfast) needs direction and it's up to you to choose that direction by setting goals.
Long-term goals can be a great motivator for self-improvement. They give you purposes that you can strive to accomplish.
Some of these goals might be far-off dreams, probably the ones that inspired you to open your property in the first place.
Short-term goals can allow you to stay on track toward attaining your eventual long-term goals.
By setting goals you will be more focused since you will know exactly what you want. Accordingly<|fim_middle|>. A basic guideline to help you get started with setting short-term and long-term goals.
If you have any stories about "Setting up Short-Term & Long-Term Goals for Your Hospitality Property" and would like to share or have any questions or feedback you can leave them in the comments section of the show notes. | , you will need to set both short and long-term goals.
The first step in setting both long and short-term goals is knowing exactly what you want. This means that your conscious should be clear before setting any type of goal and you need to write it down.
It is important to make realistic goals.
Being realistic means that you are setting goals which you know you can achieve and avoid the frustrations that come when you repeatedly fail to achieve your goals.
It's a fact that many people give up because they set goals which are too high and as a result fail to achieve their objectives.
Setting the short-term goals is simpler because these goals could be achieved in days, hours or even minutes and because it is a short period, you can see factors that might hinder you from achieving your goals.
On the other hand, long-term goals can be a bit challenging. This is because the factors you had considered while setting the goals might change with time. Therefore, while setting long-term goals it is advisable to consider that some factors might change. You have to be flexible.
This means you should set goals with options for changing as time progresses.
The end results of the long-term goals should also not be very specific. Instead, your long-term goals should have a range. For instance; you can say in five years you want to reach a certain income level or open two or three other properties.
This will motivate you towards expanding your business without being too specific on the end results.
Once you know where you want to go, think about what needs to happen just before you reach each of your long-term goals.
If you want to achieve room sales of $1 million, before that you have to determine what you need to achieve to reach of $750,000 in sales.
Then keep working backwards to the present day and set dates for each step.
Once you have all of your steps, place each chain of steps into categories. Some will relate to sales, others to profits, others to expansion and others to advertising and marketing. You may find exclusive categories that relate to your specific operation.
By categorizing the steps, you relate them to your existing business practices.
You should create objectives for each aspect of your business operation based on the categorization of your steps. Objectives are the stepping stones on the path and the vision is the destination. You should list your short-term goals and then long-term goals in sequence so that you can make sure every activity you engage in contributes to your overall vision for your company.
You should make it a habit to write down your goals every day, as it makes them even more compelling.
But goal-setting by itself isn't enough, you have to follow it up with action to make that goal a reality – and that's where most people fail.
So there you have it | 565 |
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The museum is run by the society of the same name (Grenzmuseum Sorge) and, since 2006, has been checkpoint no. 46 in the system of checkpoints of the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network.
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Oberharz am Brocken | of charge near Sorge in the Harz Mountains of central Germany. It is located immediately by the former Inner German Border, southeast of Braunlage and aims to recall the division of Germany into East and West Germany.
In the border museum, elements of the original East German border may be seen, including a section of border fence, the dog runs, parts of the signal fence and the patrol road made of concrete slabs, a watchtower (a so-called B Tower) and an East German border post.
Immediately on the state border between Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony is the "Ring of Commemoration" (Ring der Erinnerungen), which was created by the environmental and landscape artist, Herman Prigann, in the 1990s. Made of dead wood, the artist has created a large ring based on the concept of a witches' | 176 |
By Bob Keagy
Photos by Pam Keagy
Published in Sept/Oct 2004 SAFARI
I dutifully got my shooting sticks in place. It was a 100-yard shot, roughly 45 degrees uphill. Additionally, I would have to skim – and not hit – the edge of the tree in order to slip the .340 into the nyala's brisket and heart. The obvious challenge was to get the shot as close as possible to the tree without touching it to avoid deflecting the shot. One of the trackers assisted me by putting his knee under my left elbow, providing additional support. I had a good sight picture.
Jason said, "Shoot," and I squeezed off the Weatherby .340.
Among the Eucalyptus
Spiral-horned antelope are complicated animals to hunt. They are quite intelligent, extremely alert, and often found in challenging terrain. This family comprises the elusive and rare sitatunga, unbelievably beautiful bongo, huge but furtive Lord Derby eland, and the mountain nyala found only in Ethiopia. I had specimens of the first three but lacked the last.
My wife Pam and I attended the 2001 SCI Convention. While there, we spoke with Nassos Roussos of Ethiopian Rift Valley Safaris and his 25-year-old son, Jason. Nassos is, to my mind, the "dean" of Ethiopian hunting,<|fim_middle|>-day mountain nyala hunt that offered a three-day Omo Valley add-on.
We left San Francisco toward the end of October 2003, bound initially for Frankfurt. We continued to Cairo and then to Addis Ababa, our final destination. There, Jason promptly met us and delivered us to the Saudi-built Addis Ababa Sheraton (which simply has to be seen to be believed).
Jason picked us up early the next morning, and we began our four-hour drive to the Arsi Mountains/Munessa concession.
As we drove, we got to know him a bit better. We quickly realized he would be an excellent and perceptive guide and a fine and cheerful companion. We also discovered that Jason was a trained wildlife biologist and avid photographer (who we hoped would help Pam take some truly stunning photos).
Shortly after midday, we arrived at the tented camp that would be our base for mountain nyala and Menelik bushbuck, also uniquely indigenous to Ethiopia. The camp consisted of four tents set in a stand of pine and eucalyptus trees. Our tent was clean and neat, with roll-up canvas windows, comfortable cots, and a bath area directly behind.
The dining and cook tents were nearby, along with Jason's sleeping quarters. A large campfire was centrally located. The camp's overall quality appeared excellent and, due to the piney mountain environment, it reminded me a good deal of a typical North American elk camp.
The First Curl
Mountain nyala is both nocturnal and diurnal, so our hunting days began at 4:15 a.m. After a quick breakfast, we would drive to a point one or two miles from that day's glassing point and walk silently up the mountain in the dark. Flashlights were essential until the first glimmer of dawn allowed us to put them away.
After arriving at our day's glassing point, which often overlooked a salt lick, Jason would send scouts out along all the adjacent ridgelines to check any likely areas. We often spotted small groups of females, along with an occasional young bull or two. However, they were nothing to really throw a stalk on.
Because all the game was bedded down by 11 o'clock or so, we always returned to base, enjoyed a leisurely lunch, and then went back out in the afternoon. The likelihood of stumbling upon a big nyala in the waning afternoon was not great, so our afternoon emphasis centered on Menelik bushbuck (unfortunately, we passed up a dandy on the first day).
On the sixth day, we decided to try a slightly different area and left camp very early. We hunted parallel to a beautiful little stream that danced artfully over granite boulders. Our trail followed the stream.
We were making a small turn when Jason urgently whispered, "Down!"
We instantly knelt down in the foliage while Jason and the trackers peered intently up a slope. I, too, spotted the big-horned male nyala as he, in turn, observed us from behind a large tree. I couldn't tell how big he was because he was staring straight at me. In fact, all I could really make out was the first curl.
Jason whispered, "Get ready!" I quickly set up my shooting sticks, prepared for the shot, aimed, and squeezed the trigger.
One of the few problems with a .340 Weatherby is that between the recoil and muzzle blast, you lose your target for a fraction of a second. I cranked another .340 into the chamber and caught sight of the nyala, bolting along the slope and already 150 yards away. He suddenly disappeared.
He's down!" Jason yelled.
Into the Omo
After skinning the nyala, the trackers arranged for a mule to pack out the meat. We hiked a couple of miles back down the trail to the Land Cruiser and were back at camp by noontime. We hoped some of our monumental luck would hang around while we hunted bushbuck. We hiked and hiked – to no avail.
Jason informed us that the charter aircraft for Omo was available only at certain times. As a result, we decided to take advantage of aircraft availability and broke camp. We could always return to Munessa for bushbuck at a later time.
We returned to Addis Ababa and then flew out to the Omo Valley via a chartered Caravan. The flight began over Addis's farmland, but the checkerboard topography soon gave way to a rugged, mountainous country. Slowly, the terrain flattened, and then the wide, green Omo Valley, a World Heritage site, materialized. It is on the Kenyan border and is reminiscent of a location from Out of Africa – absolutely beautiful.
Ethiopian Rift Valley Safaris' Omo Valley camp is permanent. It comprises concrete bungalows with en suite baths, thatched roofs, well-tended walkways, a veranda that overlooks the roiling, rushing Omo River, and a dining hall. The site is well-shaded because the Omo can be unbearably hot.
The Omo is famed for its variety of antelope, including lesser kudu, northern Grant gazelle, gerenuk, and tiang (as well as buffalo in some areas). Lesser kudu are usually hunted in the foothills, with spotting accomplished from ridges. They are creatures of heavy cover, but we were informed that a few were seen in the riverine brush adjacent to the camp. We decided to cruise the brushy areas, even though the odds of spotting kudu weren't good. We rolled along through the brush or hiked along old logging roads.
Lesser kudu are notoriously difficult. When we finally located one, I made an impossibly quick shot through a screen of a thornbush. The .340 was true, however, and I downed the kudu bull of my fondest dreams. He was a heavy, old battler with worn-down tips, torn ears, and scars on his flanks. At 30 inches, he wasn't the biggest lesser kudu in the books, but oh, boy, did he have character!
We interspersed our Omo adventure with some great fishing in a lake near the camp. The Nile perch weren't biting, but big, ugly African catfish were. The boat bottom was soon writhing and wriggling with dozens of indignant, struggling catfish. Jason vainly tried to put them in a closed area under the seat, but there were simply too many fish. Laughing, we kept a few for a tasty, crispy catfish-fry dinner and gave the rest to the villagers.
We took wonderful specimens of northern Grant gazelle and Guenther dik-dik and photographed gerenuk and endless tiang. We were also able to get striking pictures as unseasonable rains cooled and cleaned the landscape, bringing its colors into sharp contrast.
We returned to Addis Ababa after a full week in the Omo and then drove back to the Munessa concession for the elusive and notably uncooperative Menelik bushbuck. It is found only in Ethiopia and is much darker than other bushbucks. This time, luck was on our side. We got a dandy, gold-medal specimen with a snapshot on the first afternoon.
Counting zeroing-in shots, I fired my trusty .340 Weatherby nine times during this trip, while Pam took over 5,000 digital images.
I began to wonder who had gotten the better deal. In fact, it would be difficult to overstate just how well this hunt had gone – after all, each hunt can't be the "best." Nevertheless, it is hard to imagine a more enjoyable trip than our trip to Ethiopia.
Editor's note: Rich Elliott can be reached at P.O. Box 121A, Crossville, Illinois, 62827; (618) 966-3563; ervs@shawneenet.com.
Back to Member Articles | especially when it comes to mountain nyala. Pam and I were impressed by their expertise, knowledge, and confidence, as well as their evident enthusiasm for the beautiful mountain nyala.
Their U.S. booking agent, Rich Elliott, assured us he would arrange for our licenses, assist in air reservations, advise us on visas, gun import permits, and other details. We liked Ethiopian Rift Valley Safaris so much that we booked a 21 | 89 |
Earle Bruce raises his signature fedora to the crowd at Ohio<|fim_middle|> Alzheimer's Research Fund in Neurology support research into the disease, which affects an estimated 5.7 million Americans. Bruce revealed he had Alzheimer's in 2017.
Eight students tell stories about how they found home at Ohio State.
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It's time for a summer scavenger hunt. See how many Buckeye treasures you can find at home and on the road this season.
Link to A Buckeye game from A to Z | Stadium on Oct. 1, 2016, when he dotted the "i" during the Ohio State-Rutgers Homecoming game.
By Todd Jones
Remembering former Buckeyes coach Earle Bruce, who died in April
"Do you hear me?"
Those words were never really a question when spoken by Earle Bruce '53. They were a point of emphasis as he leaned into you, eyes ablaze, his finger jabbing your chest.
If you listened — really heard him — you learned something.
You learned about love.
Love of family. Love of Ohio State. Love of Buckeye football.
Oh, the details of a Bruce message of yore might be lost, in the same way plays blurred together across years into the precise measurement of a career that landed him in the College Football Hall of Fame and Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame.
Numbers such as his 154–90–2 record in 21 seasons as a collegiate coach — including 81–26–1 in nine seasons with the Buckeyes from 1979 to '87 — were invoked when Bruce died April 20 at age 87.
Yet his death spurred a more impassioned recounting of his values than the dutiful recitation of statistics.
Earle Bruce as a freshman at Ohio State in 1950. A knee injury ended his playing career the following year. Courtesy of University Archives
The Buckeyes are led onto the Ohio Stadium field by Earle Bruce. He replaced Woody Hayes in 1979 and led Ohio State to the Rose Bowl in his first season. Courtesy of University Archives
Earle Bruce's fedora became part of his legend while he went 81-26-1 in nine seasons as Buckeyes head coach from 1979 to 1987. Courtesy of University Archives
The Buckeyes carry Earle Bruce off the field at Michigan after a 23-20 win in his final game as Ohio State coach. He went 5-4-1 against the Wolverines. Courtesy of University Archives
Earle Bruce enjoys a laugh at a Skull Session on Oct. 1, 2016. Later that day he dotted the "i" during halftime of Ohio State's victory over Rutgers. Jo McCulty
"Loyalty was his greatest asset, at times to a fault," says grandson Zach Smith, Ohio State receivers coach. "If he had your back, he had it forever."
Bruce was married to his late wife, Jean, for 56 years, and their love shines through their four daughters and nine grandchildren, each of whom he treasured dearly, even in the grips of Alzheimer's.
"He kissed a grandkid on his final day, recognizing the voice even when he couldn't remember that an apple was his favorite fruit," Smith says.
Bruce's love for Ohio State was equally durable, even when his coaching path took him miles from campus to stints at the University of Tampa, Iowa State, Northern Iowa and Colorado State. "He was a Buckeye. That's what Earle always said, 'I'm a Buckeye,'" says Jim Lachey, a star offensive lineman for Bruce at Ohio State.
The coach professed that loyalty despite moments of pain, heartache and disappointment at Ohio State, dating to a knee injury that ended his playing career in 1951. "He did not have a path that was clear," says Jim Tressel, the former head coach who served as an assistant for Bruce.
Sometimes Bruce was left muttering under his breath while toiling as an assistant for the relentless Woody Hayes, the beloved icon he eventually replaced. "Pushed beyond his limits at times only made his love stronger," says Urban Meyer, the Buckeyes' current coach and a former Bruce assistant.
Love is why acrimony didn't linger after that ugly week in November 1987 when Ohio State fired Bruce, but allowed him to coach the season's final game. The Buckeyes carried their mentor off Michigan turf following that 23–20 upset, a day after Bruce had quietly filed suit against then-President Edward Jennings and the university.
The man in the fedora didn't fade away in bitterness.
Instead, Bruce evolved into a tough yet tender grandfather figure for Ohio State during 23 years as a Columbus sports radio analyst. He was a fixture around the football program, always finding time for coaches, players and fans.
"That's what an alum is supposed to be, just what he turned out to be," Tressel says. "He came here and ended here. That's the definition of an alum."
Bruce will live on in his work for the Earle and Jean Bruce Alzheimer's Research Fund in Neurology at Ohio State, which in the past decade has raised $1.2 million to combat the cognitive disease that afflicted several members of his family.
Such a legacy is worth a fist pump, the type Bruce gave at midfield Oct. 1, 2016, while dotting the "i" for The Ohio State University Marching Band at halftime of the Buckeyes' victory over Rutgers.
In the end, love triumphs.
All Buckeyes heard you, Coach Bruce.
We'll always hear you.
Donations to the Earle and Jean Bruce | 1,093 |
LITHIUM X UPGRADES MINERAL RESOURCE ESTIMATE FOR SAL DE LOS ANGELES PROJECT
by Ceo Technician | posted in: Lithium, Lithium, Lithium X | 0
NI 43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate of 194,860 tonnes of lithium (1,037,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent) of Indicated, and 189,130 tonnes of lithium (1,007,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent) in Inferred category.
Significant potash by-product resource of 2,143,491 tonnes of potassium (4,088,000 tonnes of potassium chloride) Indicated, and 2,068,161 tonnes of potassium (3,948,000 tonnes potassium chloride) Inferred.
High average grade of Indicated resource of 501 milligrams per litre (mg/L) lithium and 5,512 mg/L potassium
Low average magnesium to lithium ratio of 3.8
Feasibility Study underway
VANCOUVER, Aug. 30, 2016 /CNW/ – Lithium X Energy Corp. ("Lithium X" or the "Company") (TSX-V: LIX) (OTCQB: LIXXF), is pleased to report the filing of a National Instrument 43-101 technical report prepared by FloSolutions (Chile), dated August <|fim_middle|>29, 2016.
THE READER IS CAUTIONED THAT MINERAL RESOURCES ARE NOT MINERAL RESERVES AND DO NOT HAVE DEMONSTRATED ECONOMIC VIABILITY.
"The deposit is open to the north, where Lithium X has the opportunity to grow the resource through further drilling," commented Paul Matysek, Executive Chairman of Lithium X.
"The indicated resource defines a high-grade core in the northern portion of the basin that will be the focus of further work leading to the design of a production well field in this area," Matysek said. "We expect to continue advancing the project at a fast pace and converting the indicated resource into reserves."
"The overall quality of the brine continues to impress with its low level of impurities," commented Eduardo Morales, Chief Operating Officer of Lithium X. "We now have an indicated resource allowing us to develop a Feasibility level study. Lithium X is assembling a team of in-house and external consultants, led by Andres Barrientos and myself, to advance Sal de los Angeles through feasibility and on to construction as efficiently as possible."
"The quality and quantity of the Sal de los Angeles brine should allow for a world-class operation. We intend to demonstrate the viability of such an operation in the coming months," Morales said.
The resource estimate was prepared in accordance with the guidelines of National Instrument 43-101 and uses best practice methods specific to brine resources, including a reliance on core drilling and sampling methods that yield depth-specific chemistry and drainable porosity measurements. The resource calculations were also confirmed using two different resource models. The work was completed by independent qualified person Mr. Frits Reidel of international hydrogeology firm FloSolutions.
The resource is defined by reverse circulation and core drilling, but it has also been sampled by low-flow pumping and pumping tests in numerous locations. The footprint of the resource is 55 square kilometres. The new Indicated, and Inferred resource incorporates 21 reverse circulation holes and 7 diamond drill core holes, for a total of 6,270 metres of drilling in 28 holes. This equates to nominal drill spacing of 2 boreholes per square kilometre. Over most of the basin, the brine resource comes to within a few metres of the surface and its thickness is defined by the basement contact, which itself was defined by drilling and seismic tomography surveys. The brine resource was defined from 5 metres to more than 185 metres depth in one area.
The resource estimate confirms the favourable chemistry of the Sal de los Angeles brine. The low magnesium to lithium ratio has been shown to be a significant factor in reducing the use of common reagents employed during lithium concentrate production using conventional solar ponds. Some important parameters of the brine composition are:
Average density of the brine: 1.10 g/cm3
Average Magnesium/Lithium ratio: 3.8
Average Sulphate/Lithium ratio: 14.6
Based on the geological model, approximately 95% of the brine volume in this resource is hosted by predominantly sand and gravel aquifers; the balance is hosted in silt or clay dominated units.
The total contained lithium and potassium values are based on measurements of drainable porosity distributed throughout the aquifer volume that defines this resource and by pump tests performed within the indicated portion of the resource estimate. These methods of porosity determination, or specific yield, are designed to estimate the portion of the total porosity that can reasonably be expected to be drained by pumping; however, these in situ estimates may differ from total extractable quantities. The porosity of the resource volume varies with geology and the average for the entire database is approximately 12%. These porosity values compare favourably to other unconsolidated, clastic basins similar to Diablillos.
Resource Estimation Methodology
The resource estimate was developed for the Lithium X Sal de los Angeles Project using SgeMS software. Dr. Gregoire Mariethoz, Professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland led the numerical model effort to develop the resource estimate. The author was in close communication with Dr. Mariethoz throughout the model development process; all results have been reviewed and checked at various stages and are believed to be valid and appropriate for these resource estimates.
The total resource is calculated by multiplying, on the entire grid, the lithium concentration by the porosity. The overall resource is then estimated by taking the average of this weighted concentration on the entire grid.
The following steps were carried out to calculate the lithium, potassium and boron resources.
1) Adjust a variogram on the data in x, y and z directions.
2) Definition of model grid (52,154 nodes) and node size (x =150 m, y=150, z=6m).
3) Interpolation of Li, K B and Specific Yield in each node in g/m3 using kriging with the variogram models of step 1.
4) Calculation of total resource.
5) Preparation of grade-tonnage curve for Li.
The primary analytical laboratory for the data used in this resource is ALS Environmental laboratory of Fort Collins, Colorado. ALS labs are accredited to ISO 9001:2008 and ISO14001:2004 for its geochemical and environmental labs for the preparation and analysis of numerous sample types, including waters. The details of analytical methodologies and quality assurance protocols are reported in the NI 43-101 technical report for the project, which is filed on SEDAR.
The porosity determinations were made by Daniel B. Stephens & Associates, Inc. Soil Testing and Research laboratory of Albuquerque, New Mexico. For 30 years, the DBS&A Soil Testing & Research Laboratory has been the premier provider of consistent and reliable soil properties testing. It is also the go-to facility for research, development, and implementation of novel technologies and instruments to aid in successful project outcomes and project cost reductions. The laboratory adheres to standardized testing methods and industry accepted procedures established by the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM), American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), Methods of Soil Analysis (MOSA), American Petroleum Institute (API), American Society of Agronomy (ASA), and procedures developed and patented by DBS&A personnel.
The resource estimate and the information in this news release have been prepared and reviewed by Mr. Frits Reidel. Frits Reidel is a consulting hydrogeologist and is a Member of the American Institute of Professional Geologists. Mr. Reidel has sufficient relevant experience to qualify as a "Qualified Person" as defined in NI 43-101. Mr. Reidel has worked on lithium resource estimates for numerous brine projects including Salar de Hombre Muerto, Salar de Olaroz, Salar de Cauchari and Salar de Maricunga. Frits Reidel consents to the inclusion in this announcement of this information in the form and context in which it appears.
About Lithium X Energy Corp
Lithium X Energy Corp. is a lithium exploration and development company with a goal of becoming a low-cost supplier for the burgeoning lithium battery industry. Lithium X owns 50%, and has the option to acquire up to 80%, of the Sal de los Angeles lithium brine project in the prolific "Lithium Triangle" in mining friendly Salta province, Argentina, a well-known salar with positive historical economics, grade and size. Lithium X is also exploring a large land package in Nevada's Clayton Valley, contiguous to the only producing lithium operation in North America – Silver Peak, owned and operated by Albemarle, the world's largest lithium producer. Lithium X is listed on the TSXV under the trading symbol LIX.
For additional information about Lithium X Energy Corp., please visit the Company's website at www.lithium-x.com or review the Company's documents filed on www.sedar.com. Join the Company's email list at http://lithium-x.com/subscribe.
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Brian Paes-Braga Investor Relations
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Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
This news release contains certain forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities legislation (collectively "forward-looking statements"). Certain information contained herein constitutes "forward-looking information" under Canadian securities legislation. Generally, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "expects", "believes", "aims to", "plans to" or "intends to" or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "will" occur. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management as of the date such statements are made and they are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed by such forward-looking statements or forward-looking information, including the business of the Company and the commencement of trading in the Company's shares. Although management of the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements or forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and forward looking information. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements or forward-looking information that are incorporated by reference herein, except as required by applicable securities laws.
Lithium X, LIX.V, Sal De Los Angeles | 30, 2016 and entitled Resource Estimate for Lithium & Potassium, Sal de los Angeles Project, Salta (Argentina) containing its first independent lithium ("Li"), potassium ("K") and boron ("B") resource estimate for the Sal de los Angeles brine project at Salar de Diablillos (the "Project"). Lithium X holds a 50% interest in the Project and can acquire an additional 30% interest (see March 3, 2016 news release).
The NI 43-101 resource estimate, prepared by FloSolutions and summarized in Table 1 below, includes an Indicated component of 194,860 tonnes of lithium at an average grade of 501 milligrams per litre ("mg/l") (1,037,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent) ("LCE") and 2,143,491 tonnes of potassium at an average grade of 5,512 mg/l (4,088,000 tonnes of potash ("KCl") equivalent). The resource estimate also established an inferred resource of 189,130 tonnes of lithium at 410 mg/l (1,007,000 tonnes of LCE) and 2,068,161 tonnes of potassium at 4,489 mg/l (3,948,000 tonnes KCl equivalent).
The resource estimate establishes Sal de los Angeles as a large and high grade undeveloped lithium brine project, with a Feasibility Study underway.
Brian Paes-Braga, Founder and CEO of Lithium X, commented, "This resource estimate confirms the significance of the Sal de los Angeles deposit and will form the basis of a Feasibility Study. Our experienced operating team, led by Eduardo Morales, continues with ongoing processing and engineering work. These are major steps towards bringing Sal de los Angeles into commercial production."
Table 1. Sal de los Angeles Brine Resource Statement
Notes to this resource statement:
CIM definitions were followed for Mineral Resources.
The Qualified Person for this Mineral Resource estimate is Frits Reidel, CPG.
The Qualified Person relied entirely on data provided by Lithium X Energy for the preparation of the resource estimate and no independent data collection was carried out to verify the accuracy of the data provided by LiX.
A lithium cut-off concentration of 100 mg/L has been applied to the resource estimate.
Numbers may not add due to rounding.
THE EFFECTIVE DATE IS AUGUST | 541 |
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Review – Elephants of Scotland – The Perfect Map – by Progradar
"When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.'" – Dave Haywood.
I've spoken in the past of how, on one side, a band's name can alienate them from an audience or, on the other, how it can grab people's attention and generate interest in the artist.
I first heard of Elephants of Scotland through bandcamp and the incongruity of the name got me wanting to find out more about it and the band behind the name.
Apologies if you've heard this story before but, while researching the band for my review of their debut album from 2013 'Home Away From Home', I got talking to the band's bassist and unofficial spokesperson Dan MacDonald and he revealed how the band came to be called Elephants of Scotland…….
The name Elephants of Scotland comes from a photography exhibit by noted photographer George Logan where wild animals were superimposed onto images of Scotland and the countryside, one of the more notable ones being an elephant in a highland village (above). In keyboard player Adam Rabin's own words,
"There are no Elephants in Scotland. That's part of what I like about the name. It's just a Band name."
The band is completed by Ornan McLean (drums and percussion) and John Whyte (guitar) who shares vocal duties along with Dan and Adam. They have released two albums to date, 2013's 'Home Away From Home' and 'Execute and Breathe', from 2014.
With the release of their latest musical tapestry 'The Perfect Map', Elephants of Scotland themselves up to a broader variety of styles and songs. They continue to keep the "rock" in progressive rock with their high energy performances while employing elements of folk, balladry, and Eastern music.
'The Perfect Map' was not conceived as a single unified piece nor does it tell a single story like many concept albums in the progressive rock genre. Each song was written independently. It wasn't until all of the songs were written that a clear theme emerged which then helped the band create the order of the tracks. The album could be seen as an examination of our journey through the various stages of life from childhood to death.
Adam goes on to explain,
"The whole idea of the album concept started with the contradiction: How could we have "Counting on a Ghost" on the same album as "The Perfect Map"? The former being anti-religion and the latter having the refrain of "Man plans and God laughs." How could we challenge the existence of God in one song and acknowledge it in another?
I had written "The Perfect Map" about the foolishness of making plans. But the lyric is just as much about Man's plan to find Truth or to find a simple answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything. It's a moving target – it's unknowable. If you think you're on the right path then you're definitely on the wrong one.
Then I realized that each song deals with a foolish pursuit for "what we want the most." "Orphans" is about longing for healing; "Counting on a Ghost" about Truth; "One By Sea" about controlling love; "Swing the Gavel" about justice; and "The Perfect Map" about control of our destinies.
None of these topics is knowable or controllable. So, I wouldn't get caught up in the topic of God or religion (which are two VERY different things, remember). Rather, focus on humanity's relationships with all of these concepts – our need to explain the unexplainable – and how fleeting knowledge really is.
The resolution is in "Random Earth" which accepts that everything really is out of our control and we should spend more time appreciating the beauty of each moment."
Opening track Sun-Dipped Orphans and the Wizard's Teapot is the first of three lyrical contributions on this album from Greg Skillman. One possible reading of this lyric is from a Jungian perspective where we spend our childhood forming our ego through the mother archetype, apparently…. The song opens with a great piece of drumming over which some intricate keyboards and guitars lay the melody. For anyone who knows Elephants of Scotland, the sound is instantly recognisable. The feel good instrumental opening really allows the music to shine and puts a smile on your face before the vocals begin. Nicely harmonised and layered, there is a feel of alternative, even jazz-infused rock to the voices, like Ben Folds had joined a progressive rock band. The musicianship is of a high pedigree and you find yourself on a crest of a progressive influenced wave, surfing to the beat and I love the abrupt ending.
The immediate feel of Counting On A Ghost is a large slice of Rush influence. Keyboards, drums and guitar all have that late 80's power trio feel. The vocals are dynamic and edgy. On this song Skillman and Rabin collaborated on the lyric challenging the trust we often place in empty in promises whether it's religion, politicians, each other, or even ourselves. The harder we try to nail down what Truth really is, the further we get from it. Serious, compelling and determined, it drives on at a fair lick, holding your attention with every note. Let the music wash over you and there are some delicate intricacies that run throughout as well and Rabin really does earn his corn on this track, his keyboards are immense. The caustic guitar solo sees Whyte channeling his inner Alex Lifeson and you find yourself nodding appreciatively at the complexities of the musical mosaic being played out in front of you.
On One By Sea the band brought in guest vocalist Megan Beaucage (a former bandmate of Rabin, Whyte, and McLean in their old cover band side project). Emmy award-winning composer and violinist Gary Kuo (a childhood friend of MacDonald) also takes the track to a new level. A gentle piano opens the song before Megan's delicate, fragile voice brings an etehreal and otherworldly feel to this part of the song. There is a sheer beauty to her singing that almost moves you to tears and you are transfixed by the sincerity at its core. Gary Kuo's violin adds some real heart and soul and, also, vibrancy as the song then opens up into a foot-tapping country jazz romp. A quite uplifting track with some wonderful nuances deep at the heart of the matter.
The first track that Dan shared with me was the heavily medieval folk influenced Swing the Gavel, written for Musea Records' "The Decameron" compilation, it is based on a 14th Century story by Boccaccio. Rabin breaks out some recorder flutes in the verses and a thinly-veiled double entendre in the choruses. It feels light hearted throughout, that delightful sound of the recorder is impish in its delivery and the mandolin adds the required authenticity. You could almost imagine the band capering around in medieval garb, like a host of Royal Fools entertaining their Lord and his guests. The chorus is really addictive and catchy and the whole track just breezes past in a maelstrom of fun and frivolity. An up-to-date instrumental section, still full of all the fun of the fayre, keeps the jovial and buoyant atmosphere going and you get the impression that this would be a bundle of fun to play live, a really jovial and lighthearted track.
The Perfect Map is about the foolishness of making plans or expecting the future to play out exactly how we want. The past two years since their last album has been challenging for each member on a personal level. Lots of changes and losses. This is a lesson learned the hard way. Percussionist Joe Netzel contributes a tasty doumbek track to add to the exotic feel on the song. There is an eastern, mystical feel to the opening of the song, exotic sounds evoke exotic smells whirling around your mind with a subtle psychedelic undertone. The vocals start edgy and low down, almost hesitant and the guitar note is full of eastern promise. Mysterious and enigmatic, it slowly worms its way into your psyche with its slow burning spiritual ambiance.
"Man plans and God laughs."
There's an overtone of ambiguity and uncertainty at the heart of things here, searching for a resolution to the eternal question. It's a very thoughtful and thought provoking track, intelligent and inquisitive and one that plants a seed in your consciousness, left there to flower at a later date. The keyboard takes centre stage with its beguiling and hypnotic tone and you are left entranced by the intricate melody and precise percussion delivered by Adam and Ornan. A perceptive and creative song that maybe leaves more questions than it answers.
The last lyric on the album, Random Earth is about accepting that we will never have any lasting control over our world or even ourselves.
"I'll never know what I am. The idea is ever-shifting."
Quite a philosophical song, it opens with a pulsating and questioning 80's sounding keyboard and guitar riff. The vocal begins, questing and searching and the drums add weight to those questions. This is pure Elephants of Scotland, a sound I have come to appreciate more and more for its involving and interwoven melodies and influential rhythm section. It takes that forceful power trio feel of Rush and adds barely perceptible hues of its own to create something engaging and refreshing. There are moments of calm and clarity and also flashes of complexity and esoteric profundity, something for all progressive fans. You can lose yourself in the music and hear different subtleties every time you listen to it, the guitar and keyboards on this track are at their most bullish and impressive, it's Prog Jim but not necessarily as we know it……
The album closes with Für Buddy, a requiem for Adam Rabin's dog and the band's long-time mascot who died during the writing stage of this album. Buddy had attended just about every practice since the band's inception. A moving instrumental that leaves a tear in your eye and a lump in your throat, the beautiful music is a fitting tribute to the loss of someone close to their heart and gives the the album a poignant ending.
This impressive Vermont four-piece just keep getting better and better and are forging a truly unique identity in the world of progressive rock. 'The Perfect Map' is another tour-de-force from these rather fine musicians who take incisive, intelligent lyrics and combine them with some of the best music around. Find it in the Progressive Rock section under 'E' and just buy it, trust me, it is well worth your money!
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Released 17th June 2016
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Posted on 12th July 2016 Categories Album Reviews, ReviewsTags Adam Rabin, Dan MacDonald, Elephants of Scotland, Gary Kuo, Greg Skillman, Joe Netzel, John Whyte, Martin Hutchinson, Megan Beaucage, Ornan McLean, Progradar, The Perfect Map1 Comment on Review – Elephants of Scotland – The Perfect Map – by Progradar | 2,419 |
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After cricket and football, if there's a sport that commands as much attention and respect from Indian sports buffs, it is kabaddi.
Kabaddi is a contact sport that traces its origins to India and, was for a long time, limited to the Indian subcontinent only. It also happens to be Bangladesh's national sport, and this is despite cricket and online cricket betting in Bangladesh being so popular.
Unlike 'The Gentleman's Game' that was birthed and raised by the English, kabaddi has a stamp of Indian-ness to it, having first begun amid rural settings in the state of Tamil Nadu. Over the years, kabaddi has become increasingly popular, with countries as foreign to the sport as South Korea, Canada, and Australia taking part in the Kabaddi World Cup, an event conducted by the International Kabaddi Federation.
While it goes by the name 'kabaddi' in most parts of the world, a few countries have chosen to name it differently. For instance, in Bangladesh, you'd find the locals referring to a sport known as Ha-du-du, which is only a slight variation of the original kabbadi. In the Maldives, it is called Baibalaa.
• Of all the seven Men's Kabaddi World Cups (circle style) so far, India has won six of them.
• Pakistan won for the first time in 2020, defeating India in the final 43-41.
• Pakistan has been the runner-up on four occasions (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014), while Canada, England, and India, on one occasion each (2011, 2016, and 2020, respectively).
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The popularity of kabbadi in India cannot be argued with. This has resulted in a burgeoning demand for well-designed kabaddi betting sites offering high odds, user-safety, and an easy UI. And, in Parimatch, punters have a reliable and trustworthy bookie providing markets for the Pro Kabaddi League, the Kabaddi World Cup, and other championships.
In all honesty, kabaddi betting sites, despite the sport's popularity, are not yet as easily found as the best cricket betting sites India. However, Parimatch is one of those bookies that delivers on its promises, and is undoubtedly an excellent choice when it comes to the most competitive kabaddi betting odds and multiple betting markets.
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How to Play Kabaddi
If you're new to kabaddi betting, it would help if you familiarised yourself with some basic rules of the sport itself. With that in mind:
What's the Objective?
The objective of the game is to score more points than the opponent within the stipulated time. Each team will attempt to score either by attacking (going for a raid) or defending (when a player from the rival team comes to raid). While defending, players will try to wrestle the opponent raider to the ground, preventing him from reaching his end of the court until he is out of breath.
How Does the Scoring Work?
Scoring is relatively simple. A team bags one point for each player (from the rival camp) who is taken out of the game. Taking out an opponent can be done in two ways:
While raiding: The raider touches a rival and gets back to his part of the court successfully, in one breath.
While defending: The team manages to avert a successful raid by defending and wrestling the raider to the ground, thwarting his efforts at getting back to his part of the court.
The raider can earn an extra bonus point if he successfully touches the 'bonus line' in his opponent's half.
How is the Winner Declared?
At the end of the game, the team to score the most points is declared the winner. In case both sides end up with the same number of points, the match is deemed a draw.
Rules of Kabaddi
Each team consists of a maximum of 12 players, with only seven allowed to take the field at any point in time.
Matches are categorised into weight and age categories. This is because of the physical nature of the sport.
The match is divided into two 20-minute halves, with a half-time of five minutes.
A coin toss decides which team goes for the first raid.
To win a point while raiding, the raider must inhale once and immediately run into the other half to tag members of the rival team before returning to his part of the court again. For a raid to be successful, it has to be completed in one breath.
To prove that a raid has been executed in a single breath, the raider must keep on chanting 'kabaddi' continuously until he's back in his part of the court. Failure to do this would automatically deem that raid unsuccessful and award one point to the opposition.
Each team will take turns to raid and defend.
Kabaddi: Standard Style vs Circle Style
There are two variants of kabaddi worth knowing: standard and circle style. Of course, there are a few similarities, including the 40-minute duration of a match and the 30-second limit to complete a raid. In both formats, a raider has to keep chanting the 'kabaddi' cant for the entire length of the raid.
The primary differences between the two are the playing field, the number of players allowed on the court, and the scoring system. As if that wasn't enough, there are four subtypes of the circle style of kabaddi: Punjabi, Saunchi, Lambi, and Goongi.
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Playing fieldRectangular IKF kabaddi mats, measuring 13m x 10m; the baulk line is at 3.75mCircular field with a radius of 22m
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Scoring system Points scored by raiding and tackling successfully. One point each for tackle and raid; bonus points available as well. Two points for 'All Out' No 'All Out' in this stye of kabaddi. A raider can't go on two successive raids.
Kabaddi Betting Markets
Below, we have listed some of the most valuable kabaddi betting markets and the recommended bookies for each one. Remember, it is better to keep things simple if you're just starting out.
Once you learn more about the sport and have picked up a few useful kabaddi betting tips, you can then go ahead and try out more complex markets as well as live kabaddi betting.
Match Winner
This is one of the most straightforward wagers on kabaddi. You bet on either side to win the match or the game to finish in a draw. Usually, the home team is denoted by '1', the 'away' team by '2', and a draw by 'x'. Before betting on this market, we suggest looking into the teams' recent form and their H2H stats. This will give you a better shot at winning so that you can beef up your bankroll and place other wagers.
Recommended kabaddi betting sites: 1xBet | Parimatch
In kabaddi, a team on the offensive sends a 'raider' who has to touch his opponents in their side of the court and then return to his half of the field without being tackled – all of it in one breath while chanting the 'kabaddi' cant. Suppose you are betting on this market in the Pro Kabaddi League. In that case, it is wise to stick to proven performers (read top raiders) like Rahul Chaudhari, Pardeep Narwal, Anup Kumar, or Deepak Hooda.
While you might not expect huge odds, you'll still have a good chance of landing a winning bet. And, if you're feeling a little more adventurous, go for the dark horses – raiders who have the potential but may not have necessarily set the court on fire with their raiding abilities. Having said that, remember the flip side – a higher degree of volatility will then come into play.
Recommended kabaddi betting site: 10CRIC
Top Tackles
A team can also bag points by successfully tackling a rival raider. Again, much like when wagering on the Top Raider market, it is imperative for you to consider which tacklers have been in red-hot form. Suppose you are wagering on the Pro Kabaddi League. Go for proven performers like Manjeet Chhillar, Ravinder Pahal, Surjeet Singh, and Fazel Atrachali, who figure among the top 10 tacklers at the PKL across all seasons.
Recommended kabaddi betting sites: 10CRIC | Parimatch
Team to Score 15 Points in 1st Half
Kabaddi is typically a high-scoring sport. However, if both the teams are defence-heavy and pack some of the best tacklers, it could end up being a closely contested affair. This market is usually available for the Pro Kabaddi League only, considering PKL games are generally 'point fests'.
This market only requires a simple 'yes/no' decision. You just need to predict whether a team can score 15 points in the first half. That said, don't mistake 'simple' for 'easy', as this market is better left to more advanced punters who know the ins and outs of a team's style of play.
This market is usually abuzz with action before the Pro Kabaddi season gets underway. Here, you need to accurately predict which team would be the eventual champion at the end of a particular kabaddi tournament – the Pro Kabaddi League or the Kabaddi World Cup, for instance.
Nearly all kabaddi betting sites should have this market; at the very least, for the above-mentioned Pro Kabaddi League and the Kabaddi World Cup.
We have listed our top five kabaddi betting tips below in order to help you back a winning selection. But, you read on any further, remember that in order to profit significantly from sports betting in India, you'll need to study the sport itself. This means not only learning the rules, but also following the match (or the tournament) you want to wager on.
That out of the way, let's start:
Know Your Markets
Firstly, get to know the popular kabaddi betting markets available, especially those we have listed in the previous section. The more you follow the sport, the more you'll learn about the different teams and players' style of play. This knowledge is invaluable, particularly for wagering on the various layer markets and/or on the match winner.
Pro kabaddi betting tip: Markets usually change quickly, and you do not want to miss out on handsome kabaddi betting odds. We suggest you download a mobile betting app, which can help you track markets when you're on the move. Moreover, it is so much more convenient than having to sit in front of your desk-bound device all day. Our picks for a kabaddi betting app would be those offered by 10CRIC or Parimatch.
Study and Compare the Odds Available
Serious about kabaddi betting? Try and get the most competitive kabaddi betting odds. Sure, high odds won't guarantee success, but settling with average odds will only generate modest returns, and that's no fun.
Pro kabaddi betting tip: Take some time to compare odds with multiple bookies. Shop around – don't commit to the first bookie you come across.
Step into the Stat-o-Sphere
Suppose you are betting on the Match Winner market. Before you get to it, you should have a good understanding of the form of the two teams heading into the match, as well as their recent head-to-head records. Remember, stats don't lie. While past performance is never indicative of the future, it can still give you you an idea of a team's quality, and help you make the right decisions.
Pro kabaddi betting tip: Don't let yourself be overwhelmed by all the information out there online. Instead, develop your own understanding of the game. Remember, even the best kabaddi betting tips will come to nought if you don't follow the sport.
Back the Underdogs
More often than not, kabaddi betting odds will depend on the kind of interest a match generates. While the favourites will carry lower odds, the weaker team (at least, on paper) will have higher odds on them. Any usual Sunday, and you'd back the stronger outfit without giving it much of a thought. But remember, sporting legends are scripted by dark horses that outwit the stronger side on a given day.
Sure, there is almost some kind of romanticism associated with backing the underdogs. After all, everybody wants to see a David take down a Goliath. But, in sports betting, rooting for the underdog can be a wise move financially. It tends to generate the most bang for your buck.
Pro kabaddi betting tip: Betting on the dark horse is as tempting as it is risky. You cannot afford to be impulsive here; if you wish to bet on the underdogs, ensure there's adequate reason and logic to it.
Manage Your Money
The cardinal sin of sports betting is to go overboard. Don't let wins or losses get to you – stuck to a pre-defined budget. Bear in mind that winning sprees or lucky streaks don't last forever, so practise self-discipline and manage your money responsibly.
Pro kabaddi betting tip: The urge to bet everything you have in one go often creeps up. After all, it only takes one overzealous friend to egg you on to bet as if there's no tomorrow. But your financial wellbeing is in your hands, and you shouldn't let your emotions override reason. Keep a cool head and gamble responsibly.
Live Kabaddi Betting
Things change fast in a kabaddi match. A successful raid and a tackle are extremely common, happening almost with every attempt by the players to do so. The more you watch the game, the more you'll understand how different the sport is from cricket or football (where it can sometimes take forever to score that one goal or get that important wicket).
And that is precisely why you should get into in-play kabaddi betting. Watch the game on TV while you place your bets. The better you read a team (or a player's) style of play, the better you'll become at predicting possible match outcomes, and the easier it gets to back a profitable selection.
Check out our list of the best in-play betting sites to make the most of live kabaddi betting, and learn the best ways of wagering as the match unfolds in front of you.
Our pick? Parimatch. This bookie offers one of the better in-play betting features, with the live scoreboard only adding to the convenience. While live kabaddi betting odds can change rapidly, the Parimatch team is quick to swing into action mode, updating the prices in real-time so that you can bet on the latest odds and win sizeable returns.
Kabaddi Live Streaming
If you want to try in-play kabaddi betting, you'll also want to stream the match live so you can place informed wagers as the match plays out. While you can always do that on TV, a bookie that offers live streaming has, needless to say, a jewel in their crown.
We cannot say with certainty which kabaddi betting site would support live streaming. That's because streaming rights of kabaddi are difficult to obtain. Your best bet is bet365, considering it has an excellent live streaming feature that covers a wide range of sports. Also, head over to our list of the best live streaming sites available to see if any strike your fancy.
Top Kabaddi Tournaments
We hope that we've given you a good idea of the best kabaddi betting sites and markets that are out there. Stated below are some of the biggest kabaddi tournaments for you to wager on.
Vivo Pro Kabaddi League
The Vivo Pro Kabaddi League is definitely the world's biggest kabaddi tournament, attracting spectators in enormous numbers. The first edition was broadcast on TV in 2014, while 2019 marked the seventh and the latest edition. In 2020, the league unfortunately had to be called off because of the global pandemic.
Organised by Mashal Sports, the Pro Kabaddi League has 12 teams in the fray, gunning for the title. The league, a mix of Indian and overseas players, is extremely popular, and a testimony to that is pro kabaddi betting, which has been embraced by punters worldwide.
Best kabaddi betting sites for Pro Kabaddi League: 10CRIC|Parimatch| 1xBet
Kabaddi World Cup (Circle Style)
This is the blue-ribbon competition in kabaddi. Administered by the Government of Punjab, this international competition has had seven editions, with six of them (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016) won by India. However, the latter lost the latest chapter in 2020 to their arch-rivals, Pakistan, in a riveting final.
Still, India is the dominant force here, and is arguably the most sensible choice for kabaddi betting. Riding on its success, the women's World Cup started in 2012 and has had four editions as of the time of writing (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016). India has been the impregnable force there as well, reigning supreme on all occasions.
Dubai Kabaddi Masters
In 2018, an all-new international kabaddi tournament was hosted in the UAE. Six teams competed in the first Dubai Kabaddi Masters, including India, Iran, Pakistan, Argentina, South Korea, and Kenya. This week-long tournament saw India coming out on top yet again, defeating Iran in the final 44-26.
As of now, we don't have a date for the next edition of the Kabaddi Masters, so keep checking the official website for any news.
Kabaddi Betting FAQs
What are the two different forms of kabaddi?
There are two broad forms of kabaddi style: standard and circle style. In the former, you have seven players a side (with five reserves in each team), slugging it out on a rectangular field. The match is divided into two halves of 20 minutes each.
The circle style, on the other hand, is played on a circular court with a radius of 22 meters. Eight players per side are allowed to take the field, with no weight limit.
What are the best kabaddi betting sites?
Off the cuff, we'd rank Parimatch, Dafabet, and 10CRIC as the best kabaddi betting sites. That said, we suggest you don't limit yourself to these. The other bookies listed at the top of this article are equally good when it comes to offering various kabaddi betting markets and competitive kabaddi betting odds.
Where can I find the best kabaddi betting odds?
It is difficult for us to put a finger on just the one kabaddi betting site that offers the best odds. Bookies like Parimatch, 22Bet, and ComeOn! typically offer the most competitive odds. But again, we'd advise shopping around for the best prices before settling for a bookie. You could land handsome kabaddi betting odds if you devote just a little time and patience.
Where can I play fantasy kabaddi?
Fantasy kabaddi betting is where you can make your own teams before the start of a match, and then compete with others for cash and other prizes. Dream11 is, without a doubt, the best in India when it comes to fantasy kabaddi and a range of different sports. You only need to select an upcoming match, create your team, and join a cash contest (or a free one as well) to join the fun.
If you are an avid fan of fantasy cricket, check out our Dream11 fantasy cricket guide.
What are the most popular tournaments for kabaddi betting?
For starters, there's the Vivo Pro Kabaddi League in India and the Super Kabaddi League in Pakistan (modelled along the lines of its Indian counterpart). These two aside, you have the Kabaddi World Cup, which is the blue riband of all kabaddi tournaments in the world, and the Kabaddi Masters.
You should be able to find competitive kabaddi betting odds for all the four tournaments at the bookies mentioned in this article.
Can I use the Indian Rupee for kabaddi betting?
Of course. Most of the bookies mentioned here, if not all, accept bets in the Indian currency (INR). Once you sign up with a site, you can easily select your preferred currency and then deposit money using some of the most secure and zero-hassle betting payment methods.
Can I enjoy kabaddi betting on mobile?
Absolutely. Most of the bookies we've compiled here have dedicated betting apps as well. That said, even if your preferred kabaddi betting site doesn't have an app of its own, you can still place bets on your mobile, considering almost every bookmaker has a mobile-optimised version of its desktop website.
We would single out 10CRIC and Parimatch as having two of the best apps for kabaddi betting. To learn more, take a look at our detailed guide to the best cricket betting apps in India.
What should I look for in a kabaddi betting site?
Any bookmaker worth your time should offer at least a few of the following features:
More than one kabaddi betting market
Competitive kabaddi betting odds
Welcome bonuses, kabaddi betting offers
Easy and safe banking options
24×7 Customer support
Kabaddi betting tips would be an added plus
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CricketBettingAdvice Final Say
As a sport, kabaddi is fast, physical, and thrilling – definitely not for the faint of heart. Betting on it only adds to the excitement!
Here at CricketBettingAdvice, we've done our best to bring you a list of the best kabaddi betting sites in India. However, considering the sport is not as well known outside the Indian subcontinent, it can be challenging to find multiple markets, unlike something as widespread as football betting, for instance. Usually, you will get the typical bets, but not a lot beyond that.
That said, if you stick to the kabaddi betting tips that we've explained here and take your time to find competitive kabaddi betting odds, you should be able to back a winner and enjoy some hefty winnings.
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Jacksonville has many exciting things to offer, and breweries are definitely one of them. If<|fim_middle|> (peanut butter porter), and Eden's Garden (IPA). If you're interested in hosting an event, you can do so at Hyperion Brewery in their taproom or in their Helios Beer Garden!
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Cover photo courtesy of Pxhere | you're looking for a great time with friends, and maybe even a pet or two, Jacksonville has the breweries for you! The city is home to over 20 breweries, but you certainly can't go wrong visiting any of these Jackson breweries whether it's Sunday Funday or any other day.
Bold City Brewery
Family-owned and operated, Bold City Brewery got its start when founder Brian began home brewing in 2002. This sparked the motto "be bold" as well as the dream and drive to create the brewery with his mother, Susan. Now Bold City has two locations: one in downtown, and the other the brewery itself. Bold City will be celebrating its 10 year anniversary on October 20, so you're in for one specTAPular party!
Intuition Ale Works
Founded in 2010, Intuition Ale Works' mission is to "create quality, flavorful, and creative beers in a wide range of styles." Specializing in small-batch handcrafted ales, Intuition Ale Works got its claim to fame in 2012 by being the first craft brewery in Florida to can its beers. Intuition offers plenty of brews, eight of which are Intuition beers. Intuition Ale Works is also unique because they offer food in-house rather than from a food truck, and Black Sheep in Jacksonville creates the wide-range menu for Intuition.
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Aardwolf Brewing Company
One of Jacksonville's highest-rated breweries, Aardwolf has an outdoor patio, friendly staff and the exposed brick sets the mood for a great time! Other than the plethora of great brews they have to offer like my personal favorite, the Sarah Lovely (a raspberry dark sour aged in bourbon barrels), Aardwolf also has a regular stream of food trucks serving tasty fare to pair with your craft beer.
Veterans United Craft Brewery
What started as a simple Christmas gift of an at-home brewery kit from his wife turned into a thriving business. Ron established the Veterans United Craft Brewery in 2013 and now serves many flagship beers such as Raging Blonde Ale, HopBanshee IPA, and Scout Dog 44 Amber Ale. Veterans United Craft Brewery also offers guided tours every Saturday for $7 and includes sample pours and a pint glass!
Hyperion Brewing Company
Hyperion is unique compared to other breweries you may come across in Jacksonville because their mission is "flights, not flagships." They believe in the evolution of beer, so they regularly change and improve their offerings. Because of this, you often won't find the same beers on draft. Currently, they're serving Selene Citrine (blood orange blonde), Phoebe's P.B. | 560 |
After looking over the Givenchy 2013 Resort, I couldn't help but think that Riccardo Tisci and I could be friends. I honestly feel this way. (Is that weird?) Tisci always turns out looks I LOVE and NEED in my life. That includes ALL the knee high boots that he has produced for the last three collections.
Tisci has cited "gypsy" and "traveling, nomadic woman<|fim_middle|> of black and white works in a way I could have never put together, but definitely want to wear. More importantly, I want to travel the world dressed like this.
Highlights of the collection for me included the boots (obviously), the cape like effect on some of the looks, and the sarouel pants that Tisci does so well. I should own a pair in every color. The only thing I felt was missing from this collection was some jewelry. I want to wear all these looks with arm fulls of gold and silver bangles and big, curly hair. You know, to really touch on that gypsy vibe. I'd really want to push these looks over the top. | " as references for the collection and I thought, "Yeah, I could see that." It's the use of the paisley print and the scarf like draping that lends itself to that feel. The print paired with the blocks | 46 |
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Gift to McCombs Center for Global Business at UT Positions Students for World's Challenges
$2.5 million initiative highlights connections, removes barriers for leaders-in-training
Cutting-edge international coursework and global experience will become more accessible for students at The University of Texas at Austin thanks to a $2.5 million gift to the McCombs School Center for Global Business.
Austin resident Raymond Brimble, founder and CEO of the Lynxs Holdings LP, and his wife, Karen, made the gift in support of the center, where he is emeritus chair of the advisory board. A UT graduate who has founded and managed 30 companies across North and Central America and Europe, Brimble hopes to enhance global resources for students entering an increasingly multicultural and interconnected workforce.
"Texas is a global player, and its future professionals need to be ready," Brimble said. "It's our dream that we can support new and enriched programs that will make an international business education available to more students. Rapid global change calls for the leadership that a UT education provides."
The Brimble Global Impact Initiative will elevate student access to the professionals, curriculum and skills that an international perspective requires. Programs will help McCombs to provide global business education to students within the school and throughout campus, to engage with international alumni, and to remove financial barriers to experiential learning.
Raj Mahale, chair of the advisory board and a graduate of the International Business program, sees an opportunity to cultivate valuable global business acumen for students from diverse backgrounds and nonbusiness fields of study. He is eager to grow enrollment and strengthen global alumni connections to expand mentoring and career opportunities.
"I am deeply grateful to Ray for this contribution. When I was a student, the International Business program opened my eyes to resources and opportunities beyond any I envisioned when I first stepped on campus," said Mahale. "I felt the pull to develop as a global citizen, and these programs showed me the way. Now, more students will have access to relevant coursework to become competitive on the world stage."
Currently a partner at KPPB Law, Mahale has spent nearly two decades as a corporate attorney advising businesses in South and Southeast Asia, China and the Middle East. He mentors international business students and encourages them to build international professional networks. The Brimble Initiative will help enhance networks such as these.
Raymond Brimble, founder and CEO of the Lynxs Holdings LP, and Deirdre Mendez, director of the Texas McCombs Center for Global Business. Photo by Lauren Gerson/McCombs School of Business/UT Austin.
The initiative is well timed as the rising pressures of world events affect all markets and nations, said Deirdre Mendez, director of the Center for Global Business.
"Understanding global repercussions has never been more important. This gift positions us to prepare UT students as global leaders," she said. "It's been a pleasure working with Ray to find ways to expose more students to a global experience while strengthening connections to international alumni."
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The new opportunities are expected to appeal to traditional business majors and students adding a valuable minor.
"We like to point out that business has no borders, and that applies on campus, too. Whether you are studying communications or engineering, natural sciences or computer science, understanding international business has never been more relevant," said Deborah Salzberg, global readiness adviser for the center. "This gift will open doors to global readiness across the university."
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Snowed In é um álbum da banda Hanson. É uma colectânea de covers de tradicionais músicas natalinas, lançado no Natal de 1997. Apenas três músicas foram escritas pela banda: "At Christmas", "Christmas Time" e "Everybody Knows The Claus".
Faixas
"Merry Christmas Baby" (Lou Baxter, Johnny Moore) — 3:12
"What Christmas Means To Me" (Allen Story, Anna Gaye, George Gordy) — 3:43
"Little Saint Nick" (Brian Wilson, Mike Love) — 3:33
"At Christmas" (Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, Zac Hanson) — 5:17
"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" (Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry) — 3:20
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Coletâneas de 1997
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Álbuns lançados pela Mercury Records | Around The Christmas Tree" (Johnny Marks) — 2:38
"Christmas Time" (Mark Hudson, Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, Zac Hanson) — 3:59
"Everybody Knows The Claus" (Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, Zac Hanson) — 4:47
"Run Rudolph Run" (Johnny Marks, Marvin Brodie) — 3:11
"Silent Night Medley : O Holy Night, Silent Night, O Come All Ye Faithful" — 5:25
"White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) — 1:56
Créditos
Banda
Isaac Hanson - guitarra, violão, vocal
Taylor Hanson - teclado, órgão, wurlitzer, vocal
Zac Hanson - bateria, percussão, vocal
Músicos adicionais
Mark Hudson - guitarra
Andy Wright - teclado
Chris Taylor - baixo
Laurence Cttle - baixo
Matthew Cordle - piano
Nadia Lanman - violoncelo
Ian kirkham - saxofone
Produção
Produtores - Mark Hudson, Hanson
Arranjos - Mark Hudson, Hanson
Programador - Andy Wright
Mixagem - Tom Lord-Alge
Produtor executivo - Hanson
Engenheiros - Paul Wright, Ian Roberton
Design - Richard Patrick
Fotografia - Danny Clinch
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Coin illustrated is from Corduba's FORVM Gallery. | is also seen clothed in the paludamentum. On a medallion of pure gold, and of the largest size, published by Vaillant, from the French cabinet, Arcadius is so represented, holding in his left hand a globe surmounted by the small figure of Victory, extending a wre | 63 |
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Diagnostic Imaging is an important part of cancer care. Imaging is a non-invasive and painless way of visualizing tissues and organs in the body so that abnormalities can be identified. For those who are being treated, imaging allows us to see if a patient's therapy is working. There are many different techniques for generating images used for detecting or diagnosing cancer.
New Mexico Cancer Center offers imaging, MRI, CT, and PET, for convenience, lower cost and faster results.
Below you will find a list of the main imaging techniques used at New Mexico Cancer Center. If you want to learn more about a particular technique, click on its box to open it and read more about that technique. At the end of several of the boxes, you will find a link labeled "Learn more..." that you can<|fim_middle|> a detailed radiograph, or X-ray. The CT imaging system is comprised of a motorized table that moves the patient through a circular opening and an X-ray machine that rotates around the patient as they move through. Detectors on the opposite side of the patient from where the X-ray entered record the radiation exiting that section of the patient's body, creating an X-ray "snapshot" at one position (angle). Many different "snapshots" are collected during one complete rotation of the X-ray machine. A computer then assembles the series of X-ray images into a cross-section, or a picture of one small slice of the body. A CT scan is a series of these cross- sectional images. Learn More...
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Recent research indicates that a combination PET/CT scan may be more effective than whole body MRI for diagnosing the extent of spread for various cancers. Researchers from Germany conducted both PET/CT and MRI on 98 patients with various cancers. Overall, PET/CT scanning was 77% accurate for detecting the original cancer, cancer spread to nearby lymph nodes, and cancer spread to distant sites in the body, compared with only 53% accuracy with MRI. Learn More...
Radiation Oncology Practice Accreditation (ROPA) program
New Mexico Cancer Center is fully accredited for quality by the American College of Radiology (ACR). A listing of NMCC imaging accreditations is found below. Click on any of the listings to show the certification document for that accreditation, where you may download any of the certification documents by clicking on the download icon at the top right, and return here by clicking the 'Return to Site' button on the bottom right. You can also click on the ACR icon at the right for complete details of the ROPA Accreditation process.
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Radiography involves the use of radiation (x-rays) to create an image of the body. Radiographs are created by passing small, highly controlled amounts of radiation through the human body, capturing the resulting image on a special type of photographic film. Radiation passes through the various structures of the body differently. For example, very little radiation passes through the bones, leaving white "shadows" on the x-ray film. This is why X- rays are very useful for evaluating bones, as in detecting fractures. X-rays are useful for determining whether cancer has spread (metastasized) to the bones. Because cancer cells are so dense and metabolically active, tumors, or masses of cancer cells, may also appear white on an x-ray, as is the case with lung cancer. Learn More...
Positron emission tomography (PET) Expand
Unlike techniques that provide anatomical images, such as X-ray, CT and MRI, PET scans show chemical and physiological changes related to metabolism. This is important because these functional changes often occur before structural changes in tissues. PET images may therefore show abnormalities long before they would be revealed by X-ray, CT, or MRI.
Before a PET scan, a patient will receive an injection of a radiopharmaceutical, which is a drug labeled with a basic element of biological substances, called an isotope. These isotopes distribute in the organs and tissues of the body and mimic natural substances such as sugars, water, proteins, and oxygen. This radioactive substance is then taken up by the cancer cells, thereby allowing the radiologist to visualize areas of increased activity.
After the patient has received the injection, a small amount of radiation is passed through the body, which detects the isotopes and reveals details of cellular-level metabolism. Although the radiation is different from that used in radiography, it's roughly equivalent to what is administered in two chest x-rays. After the scan is complete the radiation does not stay in the body for very long.
PET is useful for diagnosing lung and breast cancer, and for monitoring response to therapy. Effective therapy leads to rapid reductions in the amount of glucose that is taken up by tumors. PET imaging can easily reveal this drop in metabolic activity and show—sometimes within minutes or hours—whether a patient is responding positively to a particular course of treatment. PET has been shown effective for predicting outcomes, detecting spread of cancer, and/or monitoring therapeutic response in a wide range of cancers, including breast, colon, lung, ovarian, head, neck, and thyroid cancers, as well as melanoma and lymphoma.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Expand
MRI uses a strong magnet and radiofrequency waves to produce an image of internal organs and structures. Under the influence of the strong magnet, the hydrogen atoms in the body line up like compass needles. Next, the patient is exposed to radio waves that cause the hydrogen atoms to momentarily change positions. In the process of returning to their orientation under the influence of the magnet, they emit a brief radio signal. The intensity of these radio waves reflects what type of tissue exists in that area of the body. The MRI system goes through the area of the body being imaged, point by point, collecting information from how the radio waves emit. A computer generates an image of organs and structures based on these radio wave recordings. MRI has proven useful for detecting some types of cancer, and in some cases, may be more effective than biopsy, mammography, or ultrasound. Learn more ...
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London, Paris and Madrid
Discover London, Paris and Madrid with your students! Storybook European highlights, here you come. Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, a chunnel ride, Louvre, Champs-Élysées, Versailles, Royal Palace, Prado, Reina Sofia Museum – and plenty more in between.
Day 2 : Hello London
- Meet your tour director and check into hotel:
Day 3 : London landmarks
- London guided sightseeing tour: Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, St. Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace
Day 4 : London-Paris
- Eurostar Chunnel crossing: Take the Eurostar under the English Channel. Faster than you can say... anything, in French, you'll whiz through a tunnel and arrive in Paris.
- Paris guided sightseeing tour: Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Élysées, Eiffel Tower, Les Invalides, Notre Dame Cathedral visit
- Add on: Eiffel Tower Ascent: Travel to the top of the Eiffel Tower for breathtaking views of Paris.
- Versailles Guided Excursion: State Apartments, Hall of Mirrors, Gardens of Versailles
- LEAP Seize the Château:
- Louvre visit: The world's largest art museum, the Louvre is housed in a Medieval fortress-turned-castle so grand it's worth a tour itself. You walk through the 71-foot glass pyramid designed by I.M. Pei and added in 1989, and step into another world--one with carved ceilings, deep-set windows, and so many architectural details you could spend a week just admiring the rooms. The Mona Lisa is here, as well as the Venus de Milo and Winged Victory (<|fim_middle|> Today the palace functions as a monastery, royal palace, museum and school.
- LEAP El Caudillo's Conquest:
- Free time in Madrid:
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5 Haunted Places In Europe | the headless statue, circa 200 BC, discovered at Samothrace). The Louvre has seven different departments of paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and antiquities. Don't miss the Egyptian collection, complete with creepy sarcophagi, or the collection of Greek ceramics, one of the largest in the world. (Please note the Louvre is closed on Tuesdays).
Day 6 : Paris-Madrid
- Fly to Madrid:
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Live the artist life. Explore line, color, perspective, negative space and form, then paint a masterpiece inspired by the beauty of Paris.
- Madrid guided sightseeing tour: Prado guided visit with Whisper headsets, Plaza Colon visit, Plaza de España, Royal Palace
- Reina Sofia Museum visit: Officially recognized as Spain's National Museum of 20th Century Art, The Sofia—as it is more commonly known—is home to an impressive collection from Spain's two greatest 20th century masters. Hosting works of both Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, it's no wonder that The Sofia has risen to such a prominent place in the world of art. Certainly the most famous piece in the museum is Picasso's Guernica, but in addition to this wonderful masterpiece, you'll also find a vast library, archive, bookstore and restaurant.
- LEAP Cocina Española!:
- Add on: El Escorial half day excursion: Discover King Phillip II's imposing palace, El Escorial. This massive structure is home to over 500 frescoes and 1600 paintings by famous artists such as Velazquez and El Greco. | 337 |
Firmly established...as an innovative force within the world of jazz.
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Alex Davis should not have worried when he told his son Ron, "All you care about is music, why can't you get a real job?" The now acclaimed pianist and composer makes a living off of music, and with eight noteworthy albums behind him, he has firmly established himself as an innovative force within the world of jazz.
Davis's talented fingers and shifting, indefinable style become clear when he hops onto the piano seat opposite bass player Mike Downes at an on-campus event put on by Musicians@Ryerson and Hillel@Ryerson. He takes on pieces from Duke Ellington's C Jam Blues to Bal u Grubego Joska (Polish for "Party at Fat Joe's"), an eponymous song about his late grandfather, to an improvised jazz version of You Are My Sunshine.
"It's a border-free, open-playlist type of influence," Davis says when asked about his multi-genre playing, which originated from stride and swing roots. "Eclectic? Sure. I would just call it open-minded. I appeal to different tastes."
Davis is quick to say that his music does not qualify as "jazz purism," and he openly embraces criticism of his work. "You're not making a statement if there isn't room to disagree with the statement," he says. "When you're making music, there has to be room for rejection in your work, otherwise it's too bland."
It is little bits of wisdom like these that Davis shares with the group of students and guests gathered before him at the evening performance. "Let me tell you, the music that you're getting from whatever source you're getting it from â?¦ that music is as highly processed as a McDonald's hamburger. One of the things about this music is it's handmade."
Davis is a small man with a big presence. Upbeat and energetic, his amusing digressions bubble with exaggerated impersonations and droll<|fim_middle|> professor and now you do just piano?", he jokes with a hint of earnestness. | self-mockery. "I married a musician and she thought she was marrying a lawyer!" he jokes. "Thank you for putting up with it," he tells an old schoolmate after she congratulates him on his performance, at the end of the night.
Light-hearted and loquacious in person, at the piano Davis is straight-faced and focused. His nuanced, freestyle improvisation emits liveliness and breeziness, combining the fragile and strident in a quick phentermine buy on line succession of notes.
Music wasn't always the way of life for Davis. Despite playing piano since age eight and studying at the Royal Conservatory of Music beneath Darwyn Aitken (a student of classical master David Saperton and jazz legend Oscar Peterson), Davis decided to pursue a career in law. Two years later, he returned to the University of Toronto to get his PhD in French and teach, as an assistant French professor.
Davis' fervour for professional music was reignited just 16 years ago, when saxophone player Doug Banwell nudged him into a jam session that soon transitioned into regular gigs at local cafés. It took four years for Davis to remove "lawyer" from his email signature.
Since then, the piano has ousted the legal robes and conjugation charts. Davis has toured worldwide with various collaborators and accrued a great deal of praise to his name, with Jazz.FM calling him "one of the great minds in jazz" and CFRB "one of Canada's A-List pianists."
In his newly released album Blue Modules (displaying a cover image that Davis calls his "FU cover"), covers like Elvis' Viva Las Vegas and Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child (Slight Return) are interspersed with originals. Symphronica, his next album, set for release in late 2013, is a jazz-symphony fusion that bridges the divide between classical and jazz.
Davis has also found a way to shrink the gap between music and charity. For eight years, he co-produced Jazz for Herbie, a benefit for the Sick Kids Hospital Foundation, and he served as secretary of The Glenn Gould Foundation for many years.
These days, he also performs regularly for various charities and sits on the advisory boards of Reaching Out Through Music and the Jazz Performance and Education Centre, as well as serving on the board of Opera Five. "There are so many challenges in music that somehow I think we can identify with some of the charitable causes," he said. "There's that natural symbiosis."
Though fulfilled with his music career, Davis can't help but to wander back to his late father's misgivings. "My father was always like, "You're a lawyer, you're a French | 562 |
Bibury Holiday Cottages are self catering holiday accommodation set in the heart of the outstandingly beautiful village of Bibury on the river Coln in this most picturesque corner of the Cotswold Hills. Bibury Holiday Cottages are perfect examples of a Cotswolds holiday cottage.
Bibury is steeped in history, parts of the church<|fim_middle|> time of year). Prices fully inclusive of all heating, bedding and towels. All major credit cards taken.
Bibury Trout Farm selling newspapers, milk and other produce is 2 minutes walk away, as is the Village Post Office.
If you would like to send us your feedback about Bibury Holiday Cottages please use the form below. | dating back to Saxon times. Overlooking the village of Bibury are the famous Arlington Row of 17th Century Weavers' Cottages and Arlington Mill. Rack Island, set along the river between Arlington Row and the Mill is now a National Trust bird and wildlife reserve. In the village centre is the Bibury Trout Farm, which provides a fascinating and picturesque attraction for visitors of all ages. The whole setting is an English village landscape at its best.
Our luxury cottages in Bibury are annually inspected under the English Tourist Council's Quality Assurance Scheme and are all 4 star rated.
Two cottages, The Bakehouse and The Stables, have broadband access.
Nearby "places to see" include the Roman Villa at Chedworth, the Cotswold Wildlife Park at Burford, the Model Village, Railway and Birdland at Bourton on the Water, Cotswold Countryside Collection at Northleach and Cotswold Water Park for sailing, jet ski and windsurfing. Notable annual attractions include the Cheltenham Races and the Fairford Tattoo – not forgetting the Bibury Duck Race every Boxing Day!
Bibury Holiday Cottages are available all year round. Children welcome – sorry no pets. Our cottages are non-smoking.
Broadband access available in The Bakehouse and The Stables.
Tarriff ranges from £280 to £450 per cottage per week (depending on | 295 |
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Obituary of Betsey Doyle
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Betsey Doyle died peacefully after a long illness on November 27. She was born Betsey McClellan Innes on September 26th, 1929, in Ross, California and grew up in rural California. She had many fond memories of summer vacations on the beach in Bolinas California and sailing on Pinecrest Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
At the Katherine Branson School and the University of California – Berkeley, she met lifelong friends. She graduated from the University of California Berkeley in 1952. She maintained contact and was active in several her high school and college networks and alumni associations. She celebrated her 93rd birthday with family and friends a few months before her death.
At Berkeley, she met her husband, Bernard Ray Doyle. She raised three children with him, all the while relocating her family from California, to Washington state, to upstate New York, back to California, and then finally to New Canaan, for his career at General Electric. In 1971 she and her family settled in New Canaan and she has lived there ever since. One constant in her life was summer vacations at Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondacks for over 50 years.
While in New Canaan, Betsey was an active member of Saint Mark's Episcopal Church and arranged beautiful altar flowers for many years. She continued to arrange flowers while at The Inn where she lived the last seven years of her life. She was a member of the Board of Cobblers Green, a house member of the New Canaan Country club and an active member of the local Kappa Alpha Theta chapter. She was also a talented artist.
Betsey is predeceased by her husband, Bernard Ray Doyle, her brother, Benjamin Innes, and her son-in-law, Chris McCormack. She is survived by her two sons, Michael Doyle of Mendham, New Jersey and David Doyle of Taos, New Mexico, her daughter Sarah McCormack of Trumbull, Connecticut, her daughter in-law Terrill Doyle of Mendham, New Jersey and her four grandchildren – Benjamin McCormack, Elijah McCormack, Patrick Doyle and John Doyle.
Betsey will be remembered with love and gratitude for her selfless devotion to her family, for her loyal and long-lasting friendships, and for her love for and dedication to her husband. She spread beauty wherever she went through her gardening, her flower arranging, her thoughtful consideration for others, and her artwork.
A Memorial Service honoring Betsey that was originally scheduled is now at 1pm on Saturday, March 4th at St. Mark's Church in New Canaan with a reception following at The Inn (located behind St. Mark's). In lieu of flowers please contribute to the W | 590 |
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SMU students stand up for Texas Tuition Equalization Grants
Posted on March 9, 2011 Updated: November 10, 2011
SMU<|fim_middle|> See a slideshow of groundbreaking day
> Learn more about SMU and the Bush Center
> Visit the official Bush Center website
Categories: News, Tune InTags: Alan Lowe, Bush Presidential Center, Caren Prothro, George W. Bush, groundbreaking, Jake Torres, Laura Bush, R. Gerald Turner, Ray L. Hunt, Rev. Mark Craig, student news, trustees, video, visitors | students who receive Texas state tuition assistance are speaking up against proposed budget cuts that could jeopardize the grant program that provides the funds.
The Tuition Equalization Grant (TEG) program provides financial aid to students attending 42 private Texas colleges and universities. It awards grants averaging $3,400 to about 28,000 Texans with financial need each year, nearly half of whom are minorities.
The TEG program faces cuts of more than 40 percent; the proposed budget cuts would eliminate about 10,000 students from the grant program. More than 1,500 SMU students received the grant for the 2010-11 academic year.
Vice President for Student Affairs Lori White encouraged the University's TEG recipients "to contact your Texas legislators and express your opinion about this issue" in an e-mail sent earlier this week.
A group of students met with state legislators at the Texas Capitol on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 to express their support for the TEG program. They included senior and student body president Jake Torres; seniors Laura Baez, Daniela Balderas and Brian Quarles; junior Bethany Mackingtee; sophomore Erin Hoya; and first-year Ryan Swick. Fernando Salazar, coordinator of Latina/o Student Services in Student Activities & Multicultural Student Affairs, joined them on the trip.
"This was an opportunity to make our voices heard," Torres said. "We were able to emphasize the importance of these grants to the SMU community and to Texas."
Students are gathering in support of the TEG program in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Commons through 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 9. The students will have postcards and addresses to allow fellow TEG recipients to write to their representatives in the Texas Legislature.
(Above, SMU students and staff members at the Save TEG table in Hughes-Trigg Student Center include Gordon Brannon, Financial Aid; Fernando Salazar, SAMSA; senior Jake Torres, student body president; and junior Bethany Mackingtee. Photo by Isaac Cotherman.)
> Learn more from SMU News
> Read the students' letter to the editor of The Dallas Morning News
> Read the students' op-ed in The Austin American-Statesman
> Find coverage of the students' Austin trip in the DMN's Politics section
> More about SMU and TEG from the DMN Trailblazers blog
> Read and listen to coverage from KERA Public Radio
Categories: NewsTags: Bethany Mackingtee, Brian Quarles, community involvement, Daniela Balderas, Erin Hoya, Fernando Salazar, financial aid, Gordon Brannon, grant programs, Isaac Cotherman, Jake Torres, Laura Baez, Lori White, Ryan Swick, SAMSA, SMU, Texas Legislature, Texas state budget, Tuition Equalization Grant
George W. Bush Presidential Center breaks ground at SMU
Posted on November 18, 2010 Updated: April 7, 2014
More than 3,000 guests filled a massive tent on the site of the George W. Bush Presidential Center to celebrate groundbreaking for the building. Fifteen officials took up shovels to turn dirt, marking the official start of construction, with completion scheduled for 2013.
"Today is another milestone along a timeline that began for us in December 2000, when we began our effort to bring the George W. Bush Presidential Center to the University," SMU President R. Gerald Turner told the crowd.
"We knew that this Presidential Center would benefit from its association with SMU because of the academic resources, vitality of dialogue and research programs we offer. Having the historic resources of the Library and Museum will provide remarkable opportunities for research and educational experiences for more than 200,000 K-13 students in the Metroplex," Turner said.
George W. Bush welcomed the crowd, saying "To those of you who are not privileged to live in Texas, welcome to the great state. And welcome to one of the finest universities in the whole United States, Southern Methodist." He said the groundbreaking "is an important milestone" and "the beginning of a journey. We take the first step toward the construction of this presidential center, which will be a dynamic hub of ideas and actions based upon timeless principles."
Participating in the groundbreaking for the Bush Presidential Center were (left to right above) David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States; Ray Hunt, co-chair of the Bush Foundation Finance Committee, SMU trustee and chairman of Hunt Oil Company; Caren Prothro, chair of the SMU Board of Trustees; Alan Lowe, director of the Bush Presidential Library and Museum; Robert Stern, architect for the Bush Presidential Center; R. Gerald Turner, president of SMU; Condoleezza Rice, chair of the Bush Institute Advisory Board and former U.S. Secretary of State; George W. Bush; Laura Bush; Dick Cheney, former U.S. Vice President and former SMU trustee; Mark Langdale, president of the George W. Bush Foundation; Don Evans, co-chair of the Bush Foundation Finance Committee and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce; Michael Van Valkenburgh, landscape architect for the Bush Presidential Center; the Rev. Mark Craig, SMU trustee and pastor of Highland Park United Methodist Church; and Jake Torres, SMU student body president.
The Center includes the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum and the George W. Bush Institute.
> Read the whole story from SMU News
> Dignitaries visit with SMU students
> Watch video of the groundbreaking
> | 1,176 |
Forth () (Yola: Forthe, or Vorth) is a barony in County Wexford in Ireland.
Forth is bordered by Wexford Harbour to the north, St George's Channel to the east, the Celtic Sea to the south, and the baronies of Bargy to the west and Shelmaliere East to the northwest. Settlements in the barony include
Wexford,
<|fim_middle|> which survived throughout the late medieval Gaelic Resurgence. The distinctive Forth and Bargy dialect of English survived until the 20th century.
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From other sources:
Baronies of County Wexford | Rosslare,
Kilrane,
Broadway,
Ballycogly,
Killinick,
and Tagoat. Other features include Lady's Island Lake and Carnsore Point.
The Fotharta from whom the barony was named were a sept allied to the Uí Bairrche who ruled the Wexford region until the 8th century, when the Uí Ceinnselaig pushed them back to the southernmost part: the Fotharta to Forth and the Uí Bairrche to neighbouring Bargy. Another group of Fotharta settled in the Carlow barony of Forth. Patrick Weston Joyce quotes from Lebor na Cert that the Fotharta were descendants of Eochaidh Finn Fothart, son of Fedlimid Rechtmar, a second-century High King of Ireland. The Norman conquest of Ireland of the 1170s established a large English-speaking colony in Forth and Bargy, | 205 |
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Delrin yoyos are, for some weird reason, quite under-rated. We like them a lot because they offer a nice change from the usual full metal experience and they have a more sturdy / quality feel than their plastic counterparts. And because we're stubborn we'll keep stocking them<|fim_middle|> very different feeling than most delrin yoyos and that makes it way more exciting. The shape is very comfortable to hold and the catch zone is wide enough for even the most complicated tricks. We also like the "lip" near the centre of the yoyo - it's a nice touch which is more common to the full metal yoyos. It's purpose is to reduce friction from the string - making the yoyo spin that little bit longer. Simple Love also has a concave ballbearing and a pair of 19 mm pads.
Overall this is a very interesting yoyo, both from the technological point (no - we have no idea how they make them either) and from the performance point. It also has some great build quality which should make some more well known brands envy. | . And it's good thing that we do! Because this new throw from YOYOEMPIRE is a very, very fine yoyo indeed.
Simple Love is machined from POM plastic and it has two stainless steel weight rings implemented into the body. Which totally redistributes the weight around the yoyo. It's now more rim heavy and therefore spins longer and has more stability. It has a | 82 |
The Cenacle Sisters Retreat Center and Convent, located in Ronkonkoma, New York, and designed and built by Hoffman, has earned LEED® (Leadership in Energy and<|fim_middle|> States. | Environmental Design) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Multiple environmentally friendly elements that reduce energy and water consumption and take advantage of natural light contributed to the facility's certification, including high-efficiency boilers and fluorescent lamps; low-flow shower heads, toilets and faucets; a geothermal heating and cooling, open loop well system; and rain barrels to capture storm water and naturally irrigate the land.
The new facility's convent space features ten Sister rooms with two guest rooms in a household layout, chapel, a Sister community/library room, a craft/music room, and a central Sister dining room. The retreat portion of the facility has 24 private rooms, a bathing spa, massage and dining areas, meeting and spiritual direction rooms, and a Four Season/Prayer space.
Following a facility evaluation of their existing 1920s building in Ronkonkoma—which was double the space required by the Sisters, would not meet their future needs in its current state, and was not a candidate for renovation—the Sisters asked Hoffman to first responsibly deconstruct their existing building and then design and build a new facility on the same location.
The certification of the two-story, 46,000 sq. ft. Cenacle Retreat Center and Convent adds to Hoffman's list of LEED projects, which includes Holy Wisdom Monastery, the highest-rated building under LEED-New Construction v2.2 in the United | 289 |
For over 100 years, Fawkner Memorial Park has been serving the people of Victoria.
Fawkner Memorial Park opened in 1906. Spanning 111 hectares, today it is one of Australia's largest cemeteries.
Fawkner Memorial Park has a history of innovation and leadership in the Victorian cemetery industry. This included the introduction Victoria's first modern, purpose-built crematorium in 1926 and more recently the introduction<|fim_middle|> public mausolea and ornate private mausolea into Australia.
The Garden of Angels is a special section at Fawkner Memorial Park for the interment of children. The Garden of Angels features a range of plaque and headstone memorials.
The Holy Angels Mausoleum complex blends contemporary design with the classic architecture of Europe, featuring colonnaded walkways, sweeping staircases and stained glass.
Registrations are now open from members of the community who are seeking to purchase a mausoleum crypt at Fawkner Memorial Park. To register your interest please email us today.
Fawkner Memorial Park features three non-denominational chapels set in native vegetation. Refurbished in 2015, the Fawkner chapels are modern and contemporary spaces that provide a tranquil option for families to hold a funeral or memorial service. Following a service, families can choose to relax and reminisce with family and friends over a cup of tea and light refreshments at Fawkner Memorial Park's historic tearooms.
The tearoom cafe is open from 7.30am – 3.00pm on weekdays and 8.30am-4.00pm on weekends. The recently-renovated heritage building also includes a space available for functions.
If you're planning a service or a visit, the virtual tour can assist you to locate cemetery facilities and public toilets. If you're interested in purchasing a position, you may like to explore the grounds to find that special location that is right you and your family. | of grand | 2 |
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