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Conflict management is the process of limiting the negative aspects of conflict while increasing the positive aspects of conflict. The aim of conflict management is to enhance learning and group outcomes, including effectiveness or performance in an organizational setting. Properly managed conflict can improve group outcomes.
Conflict resolution
Conflict resolution involves the process of the reducing, eliminating, or terminating of all forms and types of conflict. Five styles for conflict management, as identified by Thomas and Kilmann, are: competing, compromising, collaborating, avoiding, and accommodating.
Businesses can benefit from appropriate types and levels of conflict. That is the aim of conflict management, and not the aim of conflict rejection. Conflict management does not imply conflict resolution.
Conflict management minimizes the negative outcomes of conflict and promotes the positive outcomes of conflict with the goal of improving learning in an organization.
Properly managed conflict increases organizational learning by increasing the number of questions asked and encourages people to challenge the status quo.
Organizational conflict at the interpersonal level includes disputes between peers as well as supervisor-subordinate conflict. Party-directed mediation (PDM) is a mediation approach particularly suited for disputes between co-workers, colleagues or peers, especially deep-seated interpersonal conflict, multicultural or multiethnic disputes. The mediator listens to each party separately in a pre-caucus or pre-mediation before ever bringing them into a joint session. Part of the pre-caucus also includes coaching and role plays. The idea is that the parties learn how to converse directly with their adversary in the joint session. Some unique challenges arise when organizational disputes involve supervisors and subordinates. The Negotiated Performance Appraisal (NPA) is a tool for improving communication between supervisors and subordinates and is particularly useful as an alternate mediation model because it preserves the hierarchical power of supervisors while encouraging dialogue and dealing with differences in opinion.
Orientations to conflict
There are three orientations to conflict: lose-lose, win-lose, and win-win. The lose-lose orientation is a type of conflict that tends to end negatively for all parties involved. A win-lose orientation results in one victorious party, usually at the expense of the other. The win-win orientation is one of the most essential concepts to conflict resolution. A win-win solution arrived at by integrative bargaining may be close to optimal for both parties. This approach engages in a cooperative approach rather than a competitive one.
Although the win-win concept is the ideal orientation, the notion that there can only be one winner is constantly being reinforced in American culture:
"The win-lose orientation is manufactured in our society in athletic competition, admission to academic programs, industrial promotion systems, and so on. Individuals tend to generalize from their objective win-lose situations and apply these experiences to situations that are not objectively fixed-pies".
This kind of mentality can be destructive when communicating with different cultural groups by creating barriers in negotiation, resolution and compromise; it can also lead the "loser" to feel mediocre. When the win-win orientation is absent in negotiation, different responses to conflict may be observed.
Early conflict management models
Blake and Mouton (1964) were among the first to present a conceptual scheme for classifying the modes (styles) for handling interpersonal conflicts in five types: forcing, withdrawing, smoothing, compromising, and problem solving.
In the 1970s and 1980s, researchers began using the intentions of the parties involved to classify the styles of conflict management that they included in their models. Both Thomas (1976) and Pruitt (1983) put forth a model based on the concerns of the parties involved in the conflict. The combination of the parties' concern for their own interests (i.e. assertiveness) and their concern for the interests of those across the table (i.e. cooperativeness) yielded a particular conflict management style. Pruitt called these styles yielding (low assertiveness/high cooperativeness), problem solving (high assertiveness/high cooperativeness), inaction (low assertiveness/low cooperativeness), and contending (high assertiveness/low cooperativeness). Pruitt argues that problem-solving is the preferred method when seeking mutually beneficial options (win-win).
Khun and Poole's model
Khun and Poole (2000) established a similar system of group conflict management. In their system, they split Kozan's confrontational model into two sub-models: distributive and integrative.
Distributive – Here conflict is approached<|fim_middle|> division, activeness did not have a significant effect on the effectiveness of conflict resolution, but the agreeableness of the conflict management style, whatever it was, did have a positive impact on how groups felt about the way the conflict was managed, regardless of the outcome.
Rahim's meta-model
Rahim (2002) noted that there is agreement among management scholars that there is no one best approach to how to make decisions, lead or manage conflict.
In a similar vein, rather than creating a very specific model of conflict management, Rahim created a meta-model (in much the same way that DeChurch and Marks, 2001, created a meta-taxonomy) for conflict styles based on two dimensions, concern for self and concern for others.
Within this framework are five management approaches: integrating, obliging, dominating, avoiding, and compromising.
Integration involves openness, exchanging information, looking for alternatives, and examining differences to solve the problem in a manner that is acceptable to both parties.
Obliging is associated with attempting to minimize the differences and highlight the commonalities to satisfy the concern of the other party.
Dominating in this style one party goes all out to win his or her objective and, as a result, often ignores the needs and expectations of the other party.
Avoiding here a party fails to satisfy his or her own concern as well as the concern of the other party.
Compromising involves give-and-take whereby both parties give up something to make a mutually acceptable decision.
International conflict management
Special consideration should be paid to conflict management between two parties from distinct cultures. In addition to the everyday sources of conflict, "misunderstandings, and from this counterproductive, pseudo conflicts, arise when members of one culture are unable to understand culturally determined differences in communication practices, traditions, and thought processing". Indeed, this has already been observed in the business research literature.
Renner (2007) recounted several episodes where managers from developed countries moved to less developed countries to resolve conflicts within the company and met with little success due to their failure to adapt to the conflict management styles of the local culture.
As an example, in Kozan's study noted above, he noted that Asian cultures are far more likely to use a harmony model of conflict management. If a party operating from a harmony model comes in conflict with a party using a more confrontational model, misunderstandings above and beyond those generated by the conflict itself will arise.
International conflict management, and the cultural issues associated with it, is one of the primary areas of research in the field at the time, as existing research is insufficient to deal with the ever-increasing contact occurring between international entities.
Interorganizational conflict management
One of the key features of conflict management in inter-organizational relationships is the involvement of both an individual level and an organizational level. In inter-organizational relationships, conflicts have to be managed through a set of formal and informal governance mechanisms. These mechanisms influence the likelihood and type of conflicts but also the way conflicts are managed between the parties.
Application
Higher education
With only 14% of researched universities reporting mandatory courses in this subject, and with up to 25% of the manager day being spent on dealing with conflict, education needs to reconsider the importance of this subject. The subject warrants emphasis on enabling students to deal with conflict management.
"Providing more conflict management training in undergraduate business programs could help raise the emotional intelligence of future managers." The improvement of emotional intelligence found that employees were more likely to use problem-solving skills, instead of trying to bargain.
Students need to have a good set of social skills. Good communication skills allow the manager to accomplish interpersonal situations and conflict. Instead of focusing on conflict as a behavior issue, focus on the communication of it.
With an understanding of the communications required, the student will gain the aptitude needed to differentiate between the nature and types of conflicts. These skills also teach that relational and procedural conflict needs a high degree of immediacy to resolution. If these two conflicts are not dealt with quickly, an employee will become dissatisfied or perform poorly.
It is also the responsibility of companies to react. One option is to identify the skills needed in-house, but if the skills for creating workplace fairness are already lacking, it may be best to seek assistance from an outside organization, such as a developmental assessment center.
According to Rupp, Baldwin, and Bashur, these organizations "have become a popular means for providing coaching, feedback, and experiential learning opportunities". Their main focus is fairness and how it impacts employees' attitudes and performance.
These organizations teach competencies and what they mean. The students then participate in simulations. Multiple observers assess and record what skills are being used and then return this feedback to the participant. After this assessment, participants are then given another set of simulations to utilize the skills learned. Once again they receive additional feedback from observers, in hopes that the learning can be used in their workplace.
The feedback the participant receives is detailed, behaviorally specific, and high quality. This is needed for the participant to learn how to change their behavior. In this regard, it is also important that the participant take time to self-reflect so that learning may occur.
Once an assessment program is utilized, action plans may be developed based on quantitative and qualitative data.
Counseling
When personal conflict leads to frustration and loss of efficiency, counseling may prove to be a helpful antidote. Although few organizations can afford the luxury of having professional counselors on the staff, given some training, managers may be able to perform this function. Nondirective counseling, or "listening with understanding", is little more than being a good listener —
something every manager should be.
Sometimes the simple process of being able to vent one's feelings—that is; to express them to a concerned and understanding listener–is enough to relieve frustration and make it possible for the frustrated individual to advance to a problem-solving frame of mind, better able to cope with a personal difficulty that is affecting his work adversely. The nondirective approach is one effective way for managers to deal with frustrated subordinates and co-workers.
There are other more direct and more diagnostic ways that might be used in appropriate circumstances. The great strength of the nondirective approach (nondirective counseling is based on the client-centered therapy of Carl Rogers), however, lies in its simplicity, its effectiveness, and the fact that it deliberately avoids the manager-counselor's diagnosing and interpreting emotional problems, which would call for special psychological training. No one has ever been harmed by being listened to sympathetically and understandingly. On the contrary, this approach has helped many people to cope with problems that were interfering with their effectiveness on the job.
See also
Alternative dispute resolution
Conflict escalation
Socionics
References
Baron, R. A. (1997). Positive effects of conflict: Insights from social cognition. In C. K. W. DeDreu & E. Van de Vliert (Eds.), Using conflict in organizations (pp. 177–191). London: Sage.
Batcheldor, M. (2000) The Elusive Intangible Intelligence: Conflict Management and Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace. The Western Scholar, Fall, 7-9
Blake, R. R., & Mouton, J. S. (1964). The managerial grid. Houston, TX: Gulf.
Borisoff, D., & Victor, D. A. (1989). Conflict management: A communication skills approach. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Eunson, Baden: Conflict Management. John Wiley & Sons, Australia 2012, .
Follett, M. P. (1940). Constructive conflict. In H. C. Metcalf & L. Urwick (Eds.), Dynamic administration: The collected papers of Mary Parker Follett (pp. 30–49). New York: Harper & Row. (originally published 1926).
Rahim, M. A. (1992). Managing conflict in organizations (2nd ed.). Westport, CT: Praeger.
Thomas, K. W. (1976). Conflict and conflict management. In M. D. Dunnette (Ed.), Handbook in industrial and organizational psychology (pp. 889–935). Chicago: Rand McNally.
Ishak, A. W., & Ballard, D. I. (2012). Time to re-group: A typology and nested phase model for action teams. Small Group Research, 43(1), 3-29. oi:10.1177/1046496411425250
External links
Conflict Management Articles - a collection of conflict management articles
Search For Common Ground - one of the world's largest non-government organisations dedicated to conflict resolution
CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium
The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Conflict Management Toolkit
Party-Directed Mediation: Facilitating Dialogue Between Individuals by Gregorio Billikopf, free complete book PDF download, at the University of California (3rd Edition, posted 24 March 2014)
Party-Directed Mediation: Facilitating Dialogue Between Individuals by Gregorio Billikopf, free complete book download, from Internet Archive (3rd Edition, multiple file formats including PDF, EPUB, and others)
Conflict Prevention, Management & Resolution, in: Berghof Glossary on Conflict Transformation, 2012. edited by Berghof Foundation, Berlin, Germany.
Conflict Management Processes - effective conflict resolution techniques
Conflict (process)
Ethnic conflict | as a distribution of a fixed amount of positive outcomes or resources, where one side will end up winning and the other losing, even if they do win some concessions.
Integrative – Groups utilizing the integrative model see conflict as a chance to integrate the needs and concerns of both groups and make the best outcome possible. This model has a heavier emphasis on compromise than the distributive model. Khun and Poole found that the integrative model resulted in consistently better task-related outcomes than those using the distributive model.
DeChurch and Marks's meta-taxonomy
DeChurch and Marks (2001) examined the literature available on conflict management at the time and Ni established what they claimed was a "meta-taxonomy" that encompasses all other models.
They argued that all other styles have inherent in them into two dimensions:
activeness ("the extent to which conflict behaviors make a responsive and direct rather than inert and indirect impression"). High activeness is characterized by openly discussing differences of opinion while fully going after their own interest.
agreeableness ("the extent to which conflict behaviors make a pleasant and relaxed rather than unpleasant and strainful impression"). High agreeableness is characterized by attempting to satisfy all parties involved.
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John: We don't gravitate to shows that are throwing out zingers every other line. I also don't know that Dave and I have the joke writing chops to pull off one of those shows. We're much more into story and character and we try to earn really big moments that'll make somebody laugh out loud.
What attracts you to the dark humor that runs through THE MICK?
Dave: We're sick, demented individuals trying to fill the void inside our souls.
John: Truthfully, while I don't think we always hit the mark, the goal is to find a clever way to do something funny. Now that we have a writing staff at our disposal, while we're not going for the dark humor thing necessarily, we're always sitting across from at least one person who knows a lot about comedy and we're always trying to make him or her laugh. I don't think we start out and say "How can we make this darker?" Nothing makes me happier than making another writer groan and laugh. We're chasing that more than anything.
Dave: It comes down to the fact that that's our sense of humor, and what people are used to on network television is the opposite of that, where everybody's happy and everything's so pretty and bright. That feels dated to us now.
Maybe we'll go a little bit dark, but we certainly don't set out to write anything dark or screwed up or controversial. We recognize that it's a network family sitcom, but we also try to make it realistic, and the reality is, that kids are drinking in high school. And while that may not be okay for a lot of network TV shows, it's how we write ours.
John: In general, though, we don't really believe in anything categorically "too far" or something categorically "off limits." That's one of the coolest things about comedy: There, in theory, should be a way to make anything funny. That doesn't mean it's always possible, but we believe everything's on the table.
Dave: Yeah, there's nothing more rewarding from a writing standpoint than getting audiences to laugh at an area that they don't think is funny. That means we've done our job. If something comes up in the writers room that feels a little too messed up, if anything, we see that as a challenge to dig harder and find a way to make it relatable and to get people on board and find the fun in it.
John: And if we can't, we'll move on. We're not interested in doing something controversial or outrageous just for the sake of doing it.
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many people would consider mainstream humor?
Dave: I would say know the rules of writing. John and I took a lot of time when we were younger to study the craft and understandstructure and all these things. Not to say that we stick with these rules, but when you know the rules, it's easier to break them. You know when you're coloring outside the lines and you can always fall back on that structure.
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Dave: There's so much out there now that it's getting harder and harder to really separate yourself from the pack, so all you can do is write for yourself. You don't get any fulfillment out of writing for other people. And at the end of the day, if you fail, you've got to fail on your own terms.
John: Yeah. Keep at it and do whatever makes you laugh. If it makes you laugh, there's a good chance there are others out there who share your sensibilities.
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OnWriting spoke with Dave and John about the transition from Staff Writers to running their own writers room, writing dark humor for wide audiences and the current state of the family sitcom.
How did you get your start as writers?
Dave: John and I were living together after we graduated college. We decided to write a movie together. At the time, John was working as an assistant to the Farrelly brothers and then with Ridley Scott's commercial production company.
I knew an agent. I wasn't comfortable giving him any of the feature stuff I'd written, because I didn't think it was good enough. He asked me to write an episode of my favorite TV show. IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA was just starting up at the time, so I wrote a spec for SUNNY. A few months later, I got a call from [SUNNY creator] Rob McElhenney, and I started working for him as a Writer's Assistant.
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What was your experience like as a Writer's Assistant on IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY?
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What was the first episode you worked on as writing partners?
Dave: When I was still a Writer's Assistant on the show they gave me a script called "The Gang Reignites the Rivalry." John and I were living together, so I would go home every day after work and talk it out with him. John's not credited, but that was probably the first SUNNY episode that we worked on together. That ended up becoming a real hit over there. The first episode where they did actually credit John was called "Dennis Gets Divorced." I feel like we did not do a great job on that. I don't know what it was, but it wasn't our best work.
John: When we worked on that first episode, we were so excited that people were willing to give us the opportunity. When we did "Dennis Gets Divorced" we were actually on staff, and we were so nervous and so afraid of messing up that I don't think we had as much fun with it. They were kind enough to stick with us and help us get the script into a good place. From then on, we were more confident in our own abilities and we started having more fun with it.
I've always seen IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY as an alternative, depraved version of Seinfeld. THE MICK is more in the vein of ROSEANNE or MARRIED WITH CHILDREN. Can you tell me about the creation of THE MICK and how you transitioned to this sort of show from IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY?
John: All those shows that you just mentioned actually came up in our pitch. THE MICK was an idea we had for a while and we had pitched it to some other people. To us, it always felt like it was a little too soft for cable and a little hard for network and we weren't sure what to do with it. We ultimately thought, "Since we're coming off a pretty dark, twisted show like ALWAYS SUNNY, let's see if we can't translate that to network TV and try to do one of the dysfunctional family sitcoms that we loved growing up." We didn't feel like we were reinventing the wheel in any way. We felt like these shows that had this ballsy kind of edge to them had just disappeared from network TV for a while, and we really wanted to do a show within that vein.
Dave: The idea behind THE MICK was to start with this really familiar sitcom concept which on its own is so traditional and digestible to an audience. We used that concept as our foundation, but then we wrote Mickey in a way that was very tonally separated from it. That kind of deconstruction of the more traditional sitcom concept is definitely something that we took from SUNNY.
Is there a scene in THE MICK that you feel translated particularly well from the page to the screen?
Dave: There's a scene with Mickey [Kaitlin Olson] and Alba [Carla Jiminez] in episode two that wasn't supposed to be a scene in THE MICK at all. We needed something to audition Alba, because she didn't have many lines in the pilot, so we pulled this scene out of one of the first scripts we wrote together. Carla was the first one to come in and audition and it was the first time we heard that scene come to life. Immediately we thought, "We've got to put this in the show." It came across exactly as we saw it on the page and it ended up making it into the second episode. It established the dynamic between those two characters and it helped us as writers moving forward.
John: I also really like the first Mickey/Sabrina [Sofia Black-D'Elia] scene in the pilot. The first time they meet each other. We set up this really brash character in Mickey and she went toe-to-toe with a 17-year old and the 17-year old crushes her. Everything Mickey says, Sabrina has a reaction for. It's one of those scenes that doesn't really have jokes in it, but it's fun and moving. More than anything, Sophia and Kaitilin are such talented actresses that you don't need to give them that much for them to be funny. The two of them knocked that scene out of the park.
Where are you now in the process of writing Season Two?
Dave: We finished editing the finale of Season One this week. So, you'll see when you watch that, that there are questions that will need answering in Season Two.
John: Especially as it relates to Ben's [Jack Stanton] character.
Dave: As well as Chip [Thomas Barbusca]. There are some cliffhangers for those two. I won't spoil anything, but we wrote ourselves into corners and we're excited to write ourselves out of them.
Speaking of Ben, how do you handle writing a character that young into THE MICK?
John: Yeah, I also think that the character is at a perfect age where you can put this kid in these incredibly dark, fucked up, dangerous situations and he's too naïve to really understand it. He's oblivious to the dangers. That makes the audience squirm a little bit, because they understand it, but you also get a laugh because he doesn't have the wherewithal to know how close he is to being in real trouble. We have a limited window to take advantage of that and we have every intention of putting him through the ringer while we can.
Dave: But you have to credit Jack Stanton, the actor playing that character, as much as us. He's never really acted before and we've been so pleasantly surprised every step of the way. We can give him stuff and he doesn't balk at any of it and he's really brought that character into life in ways that we didn't see. We've learned so much just from watching that kid act. We're excited to go further with him.
How do you run your writer's room? Do you have a specific structure or any particular approaches that you use?
John: We go with whatever is working on any given day. We came in for Season One with a few ideas, but for the most part we wanted to hit the ground running. Dave and I certainly believe that a good writers room is the greatest job in the world. You get to sit around the table with really funny people and try to make each other laugh. We try to keep things fun and light and we really try to impress on everyone that we have to come out with a good story or a good, clean break.
Dave: It's very collaborative, up until the point that someone goes off and writes a script. We had a staff of seven talented, funny writers. For a week or two, we started by blue-skying it and throwing out random kernels of ideas. We put them on note cards, posted them up on a corkboard, and from there we started whittling them down to the ones that we liked. We start pairing ideas together, and then we go through it as a room and break the story out beat-by-beat.
If we've done our job well, by the time they go off to write that script they have a breakdown of each scene with the ins and outs of the scene and a strong motivation and point of view for each character. It starts there and like John said, we find if we have that then the funny comes pretty naturally.
Is there any sort of formula that the two of you like to work with when you're writing jokes?
Dave: We get a lot of chuckles in our show from the dialogue, but our biggest laughs come from story turns and character motivations. The humor is frankly the last thing we think about. We think our show's really funny, but we also don't think of it as a joke | 2,146 |
Columnist Cheryl Costa shares the account of an Erie County woman about her close encounter.
Thea, of Erie County, said that since her husband worked nights in a local factory, she had plenty of time on warm summer nights to sit on their house's balcony and study the starry night sky.
"I lived in Tonawanda, NY, which is north of Buffalo and I lived across the road from a very large grassy park area which was near the Niagara River," she said.
On one such summer night in 1970, she had just taken a sip of lemonade as she glanced up to view a odd sight. Hovering out over the river was a perfect circle of lights. They levitated at the height of a low-flying airplane; the circle of lights was seemingly just parked there, stationary in the local sky.
At first Thea thought it was some constellation she had never seen before, but after realizing constellations was in the shape of a near perfect circle.
She said that the circle of lights remained stationary for quite a long<|fim_middle|>., a motorist in Clay witnessed fast-moving silver-colored UFO.
Dec. 10, 2015: At 8 p.m., a resident of Olean saw a bright sphere flying in the sky toward the north. | time. Then, suddenly, one of the objects left the circle of lights. Thea was quick to explain that as the one light left and flew off and out of sight, the other lights in the circle quickly closed the gap, and seemingly appeared to make the distance between them equal. While she studied the new arrangement of the lights, something even more unexpected happened.
She described the object as craft of some sort with huge windows all along the side of it. To her, it appeared to be dark grey, but being late at night, it was difficult to be sure.
She admited that she was so awed by what she saw that she didn't think to yell down to her neighbors to come see the craft before it flew completely out of sight. By the time she did yell to them, the craft was gone. Of course her neighbors all got a big laugh and thought she had been mixing a bit of gin in her lemonade.
Thea said the clincher was the next evening, when her neighbor dropped by with a copy of the daily local newspaper.
"Did you see what was in the paper?" asked her neighbor. Thea said she hadn't.
Her neighbor then showed her the front page where a picture of two uniformed policemen from Niagara Falls were pictured. The two policemen were quoted as saying that they watched a UFO for nearly ten minutes; that it looked like a circle of lights.
Dec. 6, 2015: At 11:30 p.m., a resident of Fairport observed a glowing chevron flying west to east at high speed.
Dec. 6, 2015: At midnight, a resident of New York City reported seeing 20 silver disks flying in a uniform formation.
Dec. 9, 2015: At 7:25 a.m | 376 |
ABU DHABI – World eight-division boxing champion and Sarangani Congressman Manny Pacquiao donated US$50,000<|fim_middle|> Z. Zonio. | to a cancer charity organization during his visit here over the weekend.
Nora J. Al-Suwaidi, director general of the Cancer Patient Care Society (CPCS) here, personally received the check from the Filipino boxing legend, who came here together with his wife, Sarangani Vice Governor Jinkee Pacquiao.
Pacquiao and his entourage traveled all the way from Dubai, the financial capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where they stayed for about a week before flying to Athens, Greece last Monday for another one week vacation.
Pacquiao took part in RahmaYAS, a three-kilometer charity walk & cycle around Yas Marina Circuit here, to attract volunteers and help raise AED200,000 for the Cancer Patient Care Society.
The event was held to raise awareness for Rahma, a charitable service spearheaded by CPCS to provide practical and psychological support for people diagnosed with cancer.
Rahma, the Arabic word for mercy, was launched last month by the CPCS.
Dr. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi, chairman of the board of directors of CPCS and an intellectual and strategic expert of the United Arab Emirates, hailed Pacquiao for coming over to support their cause.
"Manny Pacquiao's life is a big inspiration for many of us. His presence at the Yas Marina Circuit was a big boost for the event and helped raise awareness for our charity organization," Al-Suwaidi told reporters.
Pacquiao expressed profound gratitude for the warm welcome given by a huge Filipino fans present during the RahmaYAS.
He also thanked his hosts both in Dubai and Abu Dhabi for their hospitality and generosity.
"I have found good friends here in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. They treated us with utmost hospitality. I'm looking forward to spending a private vacation here with my family during the Christmas season," Pacquiao said.
From Greece, Pacquiao and his entourage will proceed to Israel before flying back home tentatively on November 23.
Photo: Filipino boxing legend and Sarangani Congressman Manny Pacquiao enjoyed chatting with children after a three-kilometer charity walk at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. The event was spearheaded by the Cancer Patient Care Society led by Nora J. Al Suwaidi, CPCS director general, to encourage volunteers and help raise AED200,000 for the Cancer society. Photo by Aquiles | 500 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — With most of music industry's top acts absent — from Beyonce to Bruno Mars — the MTV Video Music Awards lacked star power and felt flat, and some of the winners turned heads — for the wrong reasons.
Exhibit A: Camila Cabello beat out Drake, Mars, Cardi B, Ariana Grande and Post Malone for artist of the year.
"I can't believe this is for me," Cabello said Monday onstage.
Neither can we.
Exhibit B: Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B and DJ Khaled won best collaboration for "Dinero" — a song that has peaked at No. 80 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart — besting the record-setting hit "Meant to Be," by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line, and Mars and Cardi B's anthemic "Finesse" remix.
The show, at Radio City Music Hall in New York, lacked oomph with its performances, too: Grande, backed by several female dancers, was a bore during "God Is a Woman," but added some excitement when she was joined by her mother, grandmother and cousin onstage at the end of the performance. Travis Scott, whose album is No. 1 for a second week, had strong energy while onstage, but the performance felt like it belonged more to singer James Blake, who is featured on Scott's album and performed just as long as Scott during the segment.
Scott closed with kind words: "Rest in peace the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin."
Hopefully that wasn't MTV's tribute to one of music's best singers of all-time, who died last week.
Lopez, who earned the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for lifetime achievement, provided the night's most energetic performance. She started off slow — Kylie Jenner and Scott's unamused faces perfectly captured the vibe —<|fim_middle|> are all human beings," to protest the Trump administration's separation of migrant children from their parents after they illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. The rapper, best known for the suicide prevention anthem "1-800-273-8255," wore a T-shirt that read, "(Expletive) the wall."
Grande won best pop video and thanked her fiance Pete Davidson "for existing."
As for the top nominees, Beyonce and Jay-Z were behind Cardi B with eight bids for "Apesh--t," filmed at the Louvre museum in Paris. Gambino's "This Is America," which tackles racism and gun violence, earned him seven nominations, while Drake, who gave away $1 million to Miami residents in his "God's Plan" clip, scored seven nods.
Avicii, who died in April, won for best dance for "Lonely Together" alongside Rita Ora.
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Privacy Created by | but she hit a strong stride when she sang old smashes like "Jenny from the Block," ''I'm Real" — where Ja Rule joined her onstage — and "All I Have," which showed the skilled dancer's vocal range.
But Lopez's speech was more stirring than her fun performance: She was emotional as she thanked her children and beau Alex Rodriguez onstage at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
She was teary-eyed and looked at her "two little angels," as she called them, and said, "I stand here stronger and better than ever ... so thank you Max and Emme." She called Rodriguez, who filmed her performance with his phone, "my twin soul."
"My life is sweeter and better with you in it," she said.
While Lopez's speech went for the heart, Cardi B aimed for jokes. The rapper, in her well-known silly demeanor, "opened" the show — not with a performance, but with cute jokes. The new mom was onstage pretending to hold a baby, but she then revealed to the audience that it was actually a Moonman, which she won earlier in the night for song of the summer for her No. 1 hit, "I Like It," with Bad Bunny and J Balvin.
Cardi B, who gave birth last month, also won best new artist and said people told her she was "gambling your career" when she decided to become a mother.
"I had the baby, I carried the baby and now I'm still winning awards," she said.
She also seemed to take aim at Nicki Minaj, who while promoting her new album last week said other musicians have hired fans to listen to their music.
Cardi said she's been blessed with fans "that you can't buy," looking into the camera and shouting an expletive.
Cardi B was the top contender of the night with 10 nominations. For the top prize, Cardi B and Mars were competing with Childish Gambino's "This Is America," Drake's "God's Plan," Beyonce and Jay-Z's "Apes--t," Cabello's "Havana" and Grande's "No Tears Left to Cry." But only Cardi B and Grande were on hand for the evening's festivities.
Nicki Minaj won the first televised award — best hip hop — and checked comedian Tiffany Haddish for dissing girl group Fifth Harmony, now on hiatus.
After congratulating ex-Fifth Harmony member Cabello on her five nominations, presenter Haddish said sarcastically, "Hi Fifth Harmony." When Minaj accepted an award moments later, she looked to Haddish and said, "Don't be coming for Fifth Harmony because Normani is that (chick)." Normani currently has her first hit apart from the group with the Khalid-assisted "Love Lies."
Minaj, who has been a trending topic this week after she madly tweeted about why her new album debuted at No. 2 behind Travis Scott, also provided the first bleeped moment of the night when she told the audience to listen to her Apple Music radio show this week to hear "who the (expletive) of the day award is going to."
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BioEd Online: Food and Fitness
BBC: Archaeology
Small Business Administration: Free Online Courses
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http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/anns/mps/math/mathlab/col_algebra/index.htm
The introduction to this site remarks, "If you need help in college algebra, you have come to the right place." Their statement is accurate, as the staff members at the West Texas A&M University's Virtual Math Lab have done a fine job creating a series of online algebra tutorials for students and anyone else who might be returning to the world of algebra. First-time visitors should look at their online guide to the tutorials to learn how their tutorials are organized. After that, they should feel free to browse through any of the 59 tutorials offered here. Each tutorial contains information about learning objectives, full explanations, and numerous examples of how to correctly solve problems. [KMG]
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http://content.cdlib.org/ucpress/
The California Digital Library has been working on bringing a wide array of primary and secondary materials online over the past few years, and this particular digital endeavor is one that will delight both academics and those who are just plain curious about everything from the influence of Elvis Presley on Mexican popular music to the ceremonial costumes of the Pueblo Indians. All told, the general public can access almost 2000 books from a variety of academic presses. Visitors to the site can perform a quick title search if they wish, or they can also look up available titles by author or subject. Additionally, there is a help feature for users who might encounter any difficulties during their time on the site. [KMG]
http://www.learner.org/interactives/periodic/index.html
It can be tricky to remember the position of lanthanides within the periodic table of elements, but this interactive feature from Annenberg Media's "Interactive" series will keep students in the know about those so-called "rare earth" elements. This particular feature begins with "Atomic Basics", which provides an overview of the atom and its various functions. After completing this section, visitors can test their knowledge with the "Name That Atom" game. The game is full of protons, neutrons, and electrons, but it should be no problem for students who've been paying attention to this lively exploration of the atom. Moving on through the site, visitors will learn about the periodic table's organization, isotopes, and the groups within the table, all the way from the alkali metals to the boron family. [KMG]
The Harris School of Public Policy: Working Papers Series [pdf]
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/About/publications/working%2Dpapers/
A number of public policy schools across the world have a working papers series, and quite a few of them offer these documents online at no charge. The Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago has offered their working papers on this site for several years now, and visitors with a penchant for national and international policy issues will probably want to make several return visits to this site. Visitors can conduct a full document keyword search or also browse the series by author, date, or subject. Some recent papers of note include "Consumption and Income Poverty for those 65 and Over" and "Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance, and the Safety Net". [KMG]
http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11896
What does privacy mean in a digital age? Is there any effective and proven way for governments, businesses, and individuals to safeguard their stores of information? These are important and timely questions, and they are but a few of those addressed in this recent release from The National Academies Press. This volume was edited by James Waldo, Herbert S. Lin, and Lynnette I. Millett, and it contains findings gleaned through the work of the Committee on Privacy in the Information Age, which was convened by the National Research Council. All told, the document is 452 pages long, and the chapter titles include "Health and Medical Privacy", "The Legal Landscape in the United States", and "Libraries and Privacy". Along with three substantial appendices, the report also includes an executive summary and a podcast. [KMG]
http://allpsych.com/
For instructors or students looking for material on many aspects of psychology, the AllPsych Online site may prove to be indispensable. The site was started in 1999, and it contains eight primary sections which cover everything from classic psychology studies to an extensive reference area. First-time visitors may wish to start by looking through the "Reference" area, which features an expanded timeline of psychology through the ages, a dictionary, and biographies of prominent persons in the field. People interested in entering the field of psychology will want to click on over to the "Careers and Education in Psychology" section for the materials on various academic programs in clinical, counseling, and school psychology. For a bit of a diversion, the site also has a "Fun and Games" area where visitors can take a look at some optical illusions and crossword puzzles. [KMG]
The Educational Multimedia Visualization Center [Quick Time]
http://emvc.geol.ucsb.edu/
Teachers looking for ways to incorporate dynamic visuals into their earth science courses need look no further than this fine site. Created by staff members at the department of earth science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the site contains dozens of interactive animations and visualization tools that can be used in the classroom to demonstrate various processes. These resources are contained within the "Downloads" section, and visitors can peruse the table of contents for specific features. The table of contents includes global tectonics, regional plate tectonics, Ice Age earth, and four other chapters. Some of these animations include the deglaciation of North America, the South Atlantic spreading, and the Himalayan collision. [KMG]
BioEd Online: Food and Fitness [pdf, Real Player]
http://www.bioedonline.org/workshops/workshop.cfm?cme_activityid=72&cmepage=cme_info#cmeinfo
BioEd Online continues in their fine tradition on online teaching resources with the release of the Food and Fitness professional development workshop for teachers and other interested parties. Created with funding from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, the workshop provides "an opportunity to explore research that uncovers ways to reduce space-related health problems through diet, exercises or rehabilitation." The materials include seven classroom activities which are designed to help students examine techniques to make life-long healthy meal and activity choices. Additionally, users of the site can learn about the workshop's educational objectives, their peer review board, and also examine their disclaimers and disclosures. [KMG]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/archaeology/
It's a fairly difficult endeavor to reconstruct an Iron Age roundhouse, what with all of the archaeology training required and such. Persons with such interests who lack the necessary training need worry no longer, as the BBC has created a rather fine site that lets users take in many facets of archaeology, including the aforementioned roundhouse. From their homepage, visitors can delve into the latest archaeology news or go straight away to the "Excavations and Techniques" section. Within this section, visitors will find more detailed subsections, including "Techniques", "Recording Finds", "Types of Archaeology" and "Reconstructions". The "Types" section includes overviews of various fields of archaeology, complete with first-hand commentaries and photographs. The "Techniques" area includes a feature titled "The Story of Carbon Dating" and a piece on the relationship between archaeology and metal detecting. The site is rounded out by the "Reconstructions" area, where visitors can view that roundhouse and also look into the reconstruction of an Iron Age chariot. [KMG]
Small Business Administration: Free Online Courses [Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.sba.gov/services/training/onlinecourses/index.html
The failure rate of small businesses continues to remain quite high, so those individuals wishing to start such an enterprise may wish to consult some of these free online courses. Offered as a service by the Small Business Administration (SBA), these courses come from a variety of organizations, including Kutztown University and the South-West Texas Small Business Development Corporation. Most of the courses take approximately 30 minutes to complete, and they include such offerings as "Starting Your Small Business", "Developing a Successful Business Plan", and "Building Your Brand". Other courses cover such timely matters as government contracting, risk management, and e-commerce. The site also features links to relevant resources offered by the SBA and courses available in Spanish. [KMG]
Science NOW: The Latest News Headlines from the Scientific World [Last reviewed in the Scout Report on October 29, 1997]
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/
Keeping tabs on important developments in the world of science can be rather exhausting, especially considering the number of websites dedicated to various fields of scientific endeavor. One very helpful way to do this is through the ScienceNOW site, which features daily news items from both ScienceNow and weekly news from Science magazine. First-time visitors should spend a few minutes just looking at some of the recent postings, which could include items on the use of genetically modified crops to land reclamation schemes in South Africa. Visitors can access all news items from the previous four weeks at no charge, and they may also wish to sign up to receive email alerts and RSS feeds. [KMG]
http://content.lib.washington.edu/jacksonweb/index.html
Henry M. Jackson served for over three decades in the U.S. Senate. First elected in 1941, Jackson was a strong supporter of the defense industries located in Washington and also found time to run for President in 1972 and 1976. Recently, the University of Washington Digital Collections program created the Henry M. Jackson digital collection for the use of scholars and anyone with an interest in political and state history. First-time visitors should read the essay about Jackson titled "A Legacy of Public Service" and then begin looking over the nice archive of photos. The photos are contained within fifteen different sections, such as "Atomic Energy and Hanford", "In Washington State", and "With the Kennedys". [KMG]
http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/
Added after its initial publication, the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray allowed Oscar Wilde to directly address some of the initial criticism of his rather controversial novel. Perhaps one of the most well-known epigrams offered in that statement is "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." Visitors to this site can read this preface (and the complete novel), along with many other works by Wilde. These works include "The Happy Prince and Other Stories", "A House of Pomegranates", and plays like "An Ideal Husband" and "The Importance of Being Earnest". Of course, visitors should not overlook his masterful poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol". [KMG]
The March King: John Philip Sousa [Real Player]
http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/sousa/sousa-home.html
Arguably the most well-known marching band leader of all time, John Philip Sousa's music can be found in a number of likely places, such as 4th of July parades, and a number of less likely places, including the humorous introduction to Monty Python's flying circus. During his long life, Sousa composed hundreds of marches, fifteen operettas, and seventy other separate vocal works. This prodigious amount of work fits with Sousa's work ethic, which he summed up by saying, "When you hear of Sousa retiring, you will hear of Sousa dead." His work and legacy can be explored in this rather lovely online digital collection created from materials held by the Library of Congress. Visitors can browse over 100 photos, vocal scores, instrumental parts, librettos, and other printed materials on the site. The site also features 57 audio recordings, and visitors should listen in to such lesser-known works like the "Ye Boston Tea Party" march, performed by Sousa's own band. Finally, the site also includes a Sousa timeline, a discography of the Sousa Band, and several articles on Sousa's work and contributions to American culture. [KMG]
http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.00o
When the Battle of the Somme ended in November 1916, over one million people were dead as a result of the intense fighting that had dominated the long battle front along the River Somme. Through the use of diaries, letters, maps, and photographs, this compelling online exhibit from the Imperial War Museum examines that long and difficult World War I land battle. These items are all contained within three sections: "The Battle", "Personal Stories", and "The Somme Revisited". In "The Battle", visitors can learn about the various aspects of this military endeavor and read essays on the German and Commonwealth armies. Moving on, "Personal Stories" features the recollections of 21 different persons involved in this conflict, including the first-hand memories of Robert Graves, who would go on to author the moving memoir, "Goodbye to All That". Finally, "The Somme Revisited" offers up some insights into the modern interpretations of this epic battle and a few short film clips of cameramen who were present along the Western Front. [KMG]
Georges Seurat: The Drawings [Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader]
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2007/seurat/
This Web exhibition from MoMA accompanies Georges Seurat: The Drawings, currently on view at the Museum, a major show including 4 sketchbooks, around a dozen oil sketches and paintings, and over 120 single sheet drawings. While only a few examples of all these artworks are included at the Web site, the value of the online format is proven with the sketchbooks - it is possible to page through the sketchbooks and look at 9 or 10 selections from each - far more than can be shown at the Museum, where the sketch books are displayed open to only one particular page, at least on any given day. It's also easier to display background information in context on the Web, as evidenced by the lengthy section on conservation, which explains how the handmade paper that Seurat used to draw on was made as well as how the paper affected the look of his drawings. [DS]
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/downloads-products/us/crp/0?prd=triavw
While some things come and go in the world of computers, viruses are pretty much guaranteed to be around forever. Anti-virus programs are a "must have" in today's online world, and this helpful free edition of the AVG Anti-Virus program is worth a look. The features of this latest release include real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, along with free virus updates. This version is compatible with computers running Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, and Vista. [KMG]
http://tamsys.sourceforge.net/osxtams/
Anyone who has tried to perform qualitative analyses of various texts, interviews, and other documents knows how difficult it can be. Researchers who do this type of work will be glad to learn about the Text Analysis Markup System (TAMS) Analyzer 3.50b14. With this program, users can assign ethnographic codes to text passages by selecting the relevant text and double clicking the name of the code of a list. This version is compatible with computers running Mac OS X 10.4 and newer. [KMG]
U.S. Prison system a costly and harmful failure
http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=19050
California a leader in number of youths in prison for life
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/scotus/la-me-juvenile19nov19,1,231437.story?coll=la-news-politics-supreme_court
Crack cocaine sentence cut is stalled by retroactivity
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07323/835088-85.stm
NPR: Should Sentencing Reform Be Retroactive? [Real Player]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16327095
Unlocking America [pdf]
http://www.jfa-associates.com/publications/srs/UnlockingAmerica.pdf
Bureau of Justice Statistics [pdf]
http://ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/welcome.html
Within the vast world of pressing policy problems, system-wide prison reform in the United States has been a subject that has vexed even the most dedicated experts and committed activists. Over the past four decades, the prison population has risen eight-fold, and people have laid the blame on everything from mandatory sentencing laws to economic restructuring in America's manufacturing regions. This week, the JFA Institute released a report which contains a number of thoughtful policy recommendations which have generated comments from criminologists, politicians, and judges. Some of these findings may prove to be controversial, as they include recommendations for shorter sentences, and alternative punishments. The long-term effects of the current sentencing guidelines may have a deleterious effect on certain communities, as the report notes: "The massive incarceration of young male from mostly poor-and working-class neighborhoods, and the taking of women from their families and jobs, has crippled their potential for forming healthy families and achieving economic gains." [KMG]
The first link will take users to an article from this Monday's Macon Daily which discusses the release of the report from the JFA Institute. The second link leads to a nice piece of reporting from the Los Angeles Times on California juveniles sentenced to life in prison. In terms of thinking about sentencing reform, the third link offers some interesting commentary from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the federal sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine. The fourth link provides an additional perspective on changing sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenders via an interview with Chuck Canterbury, the national president of the Fraternal Order of Police. The fifth link will take visitors to the complete text of the recent report published by the JFA Institute. The final link will take visitors to the Bureau of Justice Statistics site. Here, visitors can browse through hundreds of crime datasets and read press releases. [KMG]
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Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing Services. Present in over 40 countries with almost 145.000 employees, the Capgemini Group helps its clients<|fim_middle|> outsourcing. | transform in order to improve their performance and competitive positioning. We offer an array of integrated services that combine top-of-the-range technology with deep sector expertise and a strong command of our four key businesses.
In Iasi we specialize in IT Outsourcing Services and we provide a wide range of activities, starting from First Line, Second and 3rd level IT Help Desk Support, Project Management, Process management and technical assistance.
We nurture our employees' potential by constantly organizing trainings in different business relevant areas (Leadership, Coaching, Time management, Customer Care, Team performance etc.), helping them certify themselves as IT professionals (ITIL, PRINCE, EM) and improve their language skills through foreign languages academies. We support our employees' development in multiple areas starting from education sponsorship for their university and post university studies and helping them build a successful career in an international environment.
At Capgemini, we live and breathe the philosophy that people matter and results count. Therefore we take every opportunity to engage our colleagues in different fun events also: "Funny T-shirt Day", "Tea day", "Fruits Day", Volleyball Championships, Christmas Party, Halloween and many others.
We have a long lasting partnership with the universities, which consists of many events dedicated to students such as Master of Business (soft skills training program), SAP Academy, Open Doors Day – all great opportunities for them to develop skills and prepare for a career in | 286 |
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When Larry Alston started looking at colleges, cost was definitely a deciding factor.
"With me being on my own and having a limited income at that time, I found CCBC to be the most affordable college for me to attend," said Alston, a Computer Science major who started CCBC in 2019.
Alston received a Baltimore County College Promise scholarship, and that along with other scholarships and grants has helped him take classes at CCBC stress-free.
"I didn't have to worry about how I would pay for my books, and I do not have to go into debt paying for my education," he said.
And the flexibility of CCBC allows him to take classes around his work schedule, allowed him to continue his part-time job.
Alston chose to major in Computer Science because he has been interested in technology from an early age. He feels that he is received a high quality education at CCBC, and CCBC is also enabled him to make<|fim_middle|>2021 and intends to earn a bachelor's degree at a four-year university. He also plans to obtain multiple certifications in the IT field, which will help him reach his ultimate goal of starting his own IT business. | connections in the community, which has helped build his confidence.
"The faculty is always willing to help you to the next level," he said. "If you're not sure about what the next step is in your life, you can always go to them to talk and work on options to help you succeed."
Alston was one of CCBC's Fresh Faces student ambassadors, which allowed him to meet new people and encourage others to take advantage of all of the educational and social opportunities at CCBC.
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This free program encourages you to read 1000 books with your child before he or she enters Kindergarten. This goal was set by experts who say children need to hear at least 1000 books to help them learn to read for themselves. One of the best ways to encourage learning is to spend time sharing books each and every day. Reading together helps develop important pre-reading skills that provide a solid reading foundation — a key to school success. Plus reading together is fun and a great way to bond and relax. The program has no end date except for when your child starts school, so don't feel rushed—just enjoy the experience! Take every chance to read with your child. You will share many special moments along the way. Click here for more information about 1000 Books Before Kindergarten.
Once a month on a Thursday evening, the West Bend Library hosts a<|fim_middle|> a variety of youth-oriented community programs. Their focus is to make West Bend, Wisconsin a better place to live. Wherever there's a need, Kiwanians will be there – as they have for over 100 years, making a difference for children and for their communities.
Find out more about the West Bend Kiwanis here!
Contact Terika at the library for more information regarding Family Night programs.
We provide the Legos, you provide the imagination. Children of all ages, genders and experience levels come and build a creation of their choosing. The completed creations are displayed at the library on our Lego Display Area until the next Lego Club meeting. Lego Club meets once a month - check our calendar or our children's events brochure for upcoming dates - and no registration or signup is necessary.
What do you get when you bring children, dogs and books together? You get happy, confident children who love to read! It's simple, it's fun, and it works!
The West Bend Library partners with the Washington County Humane Society to put on this program, which provides a weekly opportunity for kids who can read independently to practice reading aloud to trained dogs. Our canine friends listen patiently and without judgment for 15 minutes.
1. In person on the clipboard in the children's area, near the Information Desk.
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Do you have a dog you think would make a great reading companion? Contact the Washington County Humane Society to get involved! | fun, family-friendly special performer. Music, magic, comedy, and more come to the West Bend community for free thanks to the Kiwanis Early Risers. Programs start at 6:30 p.m. and typically run about 45 minutes. Check our calendar to see more information about what's coming soon!
Kiwanis International is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time. The Kiwanians of The West Bend Early Risers work together to achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. Early Riser fund raising events - including the Souper Bowl Saturday Soup and Chili Cook Off, the Duck Derby, and Go-Kart racing - help support | 143 |
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Congratulations to Pixar on Three Oscar Nominations!
Animation, Awards, Josh Cooley, Oscars, Randy Newman, Short Film, Shorts, SparkShorts, Toy Story 4
Posted by Nia • January 13, 2020
This morning storytellers and film aficionados alike gathered around their TVs, cradled their smartphones, and hunched over their computer monitors awaiting the announcement of this year's Oscar nominations. Despite some obvious snubs and a few shockers, the broadcast concluded with a solid list of nominations, including THREE for Disney/Pixar.
The studio snagged a nomination in the Best Animated Feature category for Toy Story 4, the Best Original Song category for Toy Story 4, and in the Best Animated Short category for Kitbull.
THANK YOU @TheAcademy for 2 Toy Story 4 nominations!
(Toy Story 4×2=8)
8 nominations?!
(Turn 8 sideways = ♾)
Congrats to our Toy Story 4 cast and crew for INFINITY and beyond nominations!! pic.twitter.com/aVarCtr6jM
— Josh Cooley (@CooleyUrFaceOff) January 13, 2020
Kitbull received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short. Congratulations! pic.twitter.com/2SXknSAeKt
— Pixar (@Pixar) January 13, 2020
A lot of time and hard work goes into making any kind of animated content and we wanted to congratulate EVERYONE who was involved in Toy Story 4 and Kitbull. Great work!
Now… it's time to begin the official award show countdown. We can't wait for the Oscars, which airs on Sunday 9th of February!
Grab Your New Toy Story 4 Interactive Talking Action Figures This Week!
Disney, Josh Cooley, Toy Story 4
Posted by Nia • June 17, 2019
With only four days to go until Toy Story 4 is finally released in cinemas, there's no better time than now to peruse your local Disney Store or check out Shop Disney Online and pick up your own interactive action figures of your favorite Toy Story characters!
The ol' gang is definitely back and ready to play! You'll be able to find action figures of Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, Rex, and Bullseye in stores. The exclusive line-up also features the new and improved Bo Peep and the loveable Forky, which you can see in the gallery above. The interactive action figures each have 10 unique expressions when they're playing alone but when they're paired with another figure, they unlock special phrases with their new interactive features. The toys are even able to sense when another interactive figure is nearby and they instantly start "talking" to each other, making you believe you're right in the middle of a Toy Story film.
Has anyone bought their own figures yet? What are some of the special sayings you've heard when putting the toys together?
I don't know about you, but I'm bringing all of mine to the cinema this Friday to watch Toy Story 4! We hope to see you there!
Toy Story 4 "Takeover" Is Coming to a Disney Store Near You
Disney, Events, Toy Story 4
Posted by Nia • May 30, 2019
Good news, Toy Story fans! On June 1st Disney Stores around the U.S. and Canada will be transforming their locations and giving guests the opportunity to enjoy an immersive shopping experience, putting them right into the world of Disney/Pixar's upcoming film Toy Story 4. Not only will there be loads of games and trivia for the whole family to enjoy, but new Toy Story 4 inspired toys, accessories, and clothing will also be available to purchase in stores.
If you have the chance to visit a Disney Store, you'll be able to delight in the following activities:
Free Toy Story themed events and trivia
A new game called "Star Adventurer" where you'll be able to practice your tossing skills to help fuel a rocket's engine for take-off
Two new Toy Story 4 interactive digital games that will showcase all of your favorite characters from the film
In New York at the Times Square Disney Store, you can score a limited-edition pin if you decide to opt in for a paid photo experience on the Disney Store Times Square Spectacular screen
And if you decide to participate in any of the events, you'll get a free sticker and have the opportunity to purchase special edition Ducky and Bunny figurines
Luckily you have the entire month of June to explore all of the fun and games at a Disney Store near you. And don't forget to check out Toy Story 4 when it hits cinemas on June 21st!
10 Years Later Up's Opening Sequence Still Packs An Emotional Punch
Anniversary, UP
It feels like it was only yesterday that Up premiered in cinemas and we fell in love with some of Pixar's most iconic characters: Carl and Ellie Fredricksen, Russell, Dug, and of course, Kevin. It's unfathomable to think it's been 10 years since we all laughed, cried, and went on one of the biggest adventures of our lives as we followed Carl on his epic quest to reach Paradise Falls.
There are obviously a lot of amazing things about Up that still hold the test of time: the breathtaking reveal of Carl's balloon house as it soars out of the city for the first time; the sweet depiction of Dug and his adoration for his humans; even the delicious villainy of Charles F. Muntz. But the greatest part about Up, and one of the finest moments in animation history, is the opening sequence, otherwise known as Married Life.
What makes the sequence so special is the fact that Up's director, Pete Docter, decided to tell the story of Carl and Ellie's relationship without dialogue. I've always been a firm believer that you don't need dialogue to tell a story – so much can be achieved with a subtle glance or the character's body language, how they carry themselves across the screen or interact with the world around them, that 10+ pages of dialogue can never achieve.
The Married Life opening depicts the entirety of the couple's relationship without words but through images of their life together, little snippets of the good and the bad parts of any relationship – starting from Carl and Ellie's wedding and ending with Ellie's funeral. Their relationship could've spanned at least half of the film, there's even a feature length film in there somewhere about the duo, but it was told brilliantly in less than five minutes. We didn't need dialogue to tell us that Carl and Ellie were in love and what they went through in the course of their time together. Instead, with the clever way the talented folks at Pixar animated the sequence, we saw their love for each other in the brief glimpses of their relationship as they built their dream home and worked at the zoo. We saw their hopes about the future and their goals of traveling to South America and starting a family. We saw how they were able to overcome adult problems like home-owning and having a flat tire, and we even saw their struggles with infertility and how that affected them both in different ways.
Another reason why Married Life works so well is because of Michael Giacchino's heartbreaking score; the sequence simply wouldn't be the same without it. If you closed your eyes while listening to Giacchino's Married Life theme, you could almost picture the story, scene by scene, in your head. The melodies that follow Carl and Ellie on their journey together are simple and just as unique as the old-fashioned couple; the score perfectly follows the ups and downs of their relationship, giving us some lighthearted and catchy tunes while also pulling at our heartstrings at the more somber moments. Michael Giacchino even went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on Up at the 82nd Academy Awards.
I have no doubt in another 10, 20, or even 30 years, the Married Life sequence in Up will still break our hearts and fill us with as much joy and devastation as it did the very first time we watched it. The opening sequence is a testament to the brilliance of animation and that with this art form, there are SO many ways to tell a story; not everything has to involve dialogue or spelling it out for the audience.
So, happy 10 Year Anniversary, Up! And congratulations again to all the amazing and incredibly talented people who worked on the project many moons ago. Adventure is out there!
New Toy Story 4 Goodies – From Cereal to Books to Topiaries!
Round-Ups, Toy Story 4
Posted by Nia • May 9, 2019
Well folks, Toy Story 4 is coming to cinemas June 21st, which is NEXT month! And that only means one thing: we're going to be showered with numerous campaigns and merchandise and all things Toy Story 4 related for the next 43 days and honestly, we cannot be more excited.
Here's a round-up of some charming Toy Story 4 centred events and products you can pick-up in stores:
If you're going to be visiting Orlando anytime in the near future, check out the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival at Walt Disney World – where you'll see stunning Toy Story 4 topiary set-ups like the one of Bo Peep below:
.@WaltDisneyWorld's toying around with topiaries at Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival! 🌼🐑 https://t.co/Y9NcTt7gZk #ToyStory4 pic.twitter.com/mk3N62OFs3
— Pixar (@Pixar) May 1, 2019
Do you love cereal? And most importantly, are you a Toy Story fan? (I mean, you have to be, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this). Well, you're in luck, because Kellogg's has released their own Toy Story 4 cereal in preparation for the film's release. They're calling their new product "Carnival Berry" which is Kellogg's spin on the delicious and sugary berry Froot Loops taste.
And finally, there's a new set of adorable Toy Story 4 books on the market focused on 3-6 year olds. The books are called, Toy Story 4 Toy Box: Words to Play By and there are 5 books that focus on the famous Toy Story characters while highlighting their most inspirational and hilarious "words of wisdom." The books were written by Suzanne Francis and illustrated by Jerrod Maruyama.
Available today! I had the pleasure of illustrating this set of books for Toy Story 4. It was a dream project to work on & I'm so grateful for the opportunity. I love these characters & hope you'll pick up a copy! @pixar @disney @toystory #toystory4 #toystory #pixar pic.twitter.com/TxKLhjcBte
— Jerrod Maruyama (@jmaruyama) May 7, 2019
It's safe to say we'll definitely be buying ALL the Toy Story 4 cereal boxes and picking up copies of Words to Play By for all of our friends and loved ones. We can't wait to see what new merchandise products Disney/Pixar release soon. To infinity, and beyond!
Meet Your New Favorite Toy Story 4 Character: Duke Caboom
Jonas Rivera, Josh Cooley, teaser, teasers, Toy Story 4
Just like Trixie, we have a lot of questions about Pixar's new teaser trailer introducing the Canadian daredevil Duke Caboom. Watch below and prepare to be blown away with awesomeness:
First of all, how many poses can Duke Caboom really do? Is he Canada's only daredevil? How does he style his goatee so perfectly? And why is he so freakin' cool?
In the teaser, we watch a vintage style advert showcase Duke riding his motorcycle, doing dangerous jumps through hoops, and somehow managing to pose on his ride as he soars through the sky. The trailer then cuts to a child playing with a Duke Caboom toy as she attempts to replicate his famous jumps through a hoop set. We quickly find out, a la typical Toy Story fashion, that these toys can't do what they're advertised for. Just like in the original Toy Story, Buzz discovers he can't really fly but Duke Caboom already seems to know that everything's all a facade, as he utters the line: "It's a commercial, it's not real! I can't jump that far!" It will definitely be interesting to see how Duke interacts with Buzz, Woody, and the rest of the gang and what role he has in this new adventure. Duke Caboom is also voiced by real life action star Keanu Reeves, so we're all definitely in for a massive treat.
In addition to the teaser, Pixar also released some stunning new character posters that show Buzz, Woody, and Bo Peep giving their best action hero pose as we near even closer to Toy Story 4's June 21st release. It seems like everyone is inspired by Duke…
In 50 days, reunite with old friends and meet some new faces. #ToyStory4 pic.twitter.com/UWfFWJ7DUe
Can you say, "Caboom?!"
Collect The New 'Toy Story Shufflerz' Before They're Gone
Disney, Merchandise, Pixar, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4
Posted by Nia • February 23, 2019
The Disney store and shopDisney have released new Toy Story Shufflerz collectibles. The limited edition toys feature your favorite characters from the beloved Toy Story films: Woody, Buzz, Rex, Bo Peep and Alien. On the 4th Saturday of each month Disney/Pixar will be celebrating a different Toy Story film in anticipation for Toy Story 4, which comes to cinemas June 21, 2019.
The Toy Story Shufflerz are compact, adorable, and filled with energy that will keep you and your loved ones entertained for days. Not only do they perfectly depict the iconic characters from the films, but when you press the top of the toys 10 times, they suddenly become alive as they aptly "shuffle" away from you.
Check out the toys below, and be sure to collect yours soon at a Disney Store near you or online at shopDisney.
Pixar Heroines: A Spotlight on Dot from A Bug's Life
A Bug's Life, Andrew Stanton, Behind The Scenes, Pixar Heroines
Posted by Nia • February 7, 2019
In honor of Little Bo Peep's fabulous new look in Pixar's upcoming Toy Story 4, we're starting a new series dedicated to the countless Pixar heroines who've graced the silver screen. From Elastigirl to Merida, we want to highlight them all; not only focusing on their strengths, but their weaknesses too; it's every little bit about these heroines that makes them so empathetic, so powerful, and why they mean so much to us.
We're starting off the series by focusing on Dot from the often overlooked and severely underrated A Bug's Life. Dot is rut of the family, the young princess ant, and sister to Princess Atta. She's small and she hates it. Because of her size, and her position in the royal family, she's often overlooked and made fun of. It's also established early on in the film that Dot is trying to fly, but she can't quite grasp how her wings work yet; it might be her obvious inexperience or her lack of confidence, but either way, that's one obstacle she struggles to overcome throughout the film.
It also doesn't help that Dot is constantly punished for her lack of flying and her failed attempts are deemed dangerous; she feels distraught and her free spirit is crushed under the pressures of her family. No wonder she finally feels at home, at peace with herself, when she meets Flick. She finds his inventions fascinating, even when the other ants in the community think they're ridiculous and a waste of time. Flick ends up giving Dot some stellar advice about her size and how it doesn't matter how small she is, "you might not feel like you can do much now, but that's just because, well, you're not a tree yet. You just have to give yourself some time; you're still a seed."
Dot stays loyal to Flick, even when the other ants in the community show their obvious distaste for him after he knocks the food they spent months gathering, for the villainous grasshoppers, into a stream. When Flick decides to leave the colony in search for bigger and tougher bugs to help protect the colony against the grasshoppers, Dot eagerly awaits his return, using his telescope invention to keep watch for him. Dot's friends make fun of her for using his inventions and siding with Flick, but she has tough skin and ignores their mockeries. She'll do anything for Flick.
Why Dot is inspiring:
It's safe to say Dot is the sole ant who helps save the day in A Bug's Life. She's a cutie that packs a punch, despite her youth she's wise and optimistic and helps move the main cast of characters through even the darkest moments in the film. Her determination alone is inspiring; not once does she give up and sulk at the fact that she can't fly or that she's small and incompetent. She has her bad days, but she keeps on moving forward. She keeps trying, again and again, and doesn't stop until she gets the results she's satisfied with.
Dot also isn't afraid to speak her mind, even if it means hurting someone else's feelings in the process. She doesn't let her age or her size get in the way when the people she loves are in danger, even when she knows it could be a risk. Despite being part of the royal family, she doesn't hesitate to put herself out there and to show initiative; she is at her bravest while her sister and Queen Mother are in hiding.
After the grasshoppers return to the ant colony and take over their land, demanding the extra food that they weren't given on their last visit, Dot goes into hiding with the other young ants. When she hears that Hopper, the ruthless leader of the grasshoppers, is going to murder her mother, she comes up with a plan: find Flick and get him to help. As soon as she leaves the hiding spot, she's chased down by Thumper; the ravenous grasshopper who nearly tore her to shreds at the beginning of the film. Thumper chases Dot and she escapes only when she falls off a nearby cliff. For an instant, we think it's over for Dot, but she suddenly reappears on screen – her eyes shut tight and her wings finally fluttering, albeit frantically. She uses her newfound ability to track down Flick where she gets him to return to the colony just in time to help save her family.
Dot continues to grow during the final beat of the film, constantly learning and moving out of her comfort zone to get her colony to safety. She works with Flick, gathering the other young ants on to a fake bird that they built in order to scare off the Grasshoppers. As Flick drives it, Dot gives instructions and even makes fake bird cries. She steps into more of an adult roll, accepting her duties and putting herself last to save everyone else. Even when she is captured by Hopper again after their failed attempts at scaring him away, she never backs down or even hints at surrendering; as everyone looks on in horror, she looks back with fire in her eyes and is ready for a fight. As Thumper confronts her at the end, ready to start where they last left off after their chase, she shouts at him and slaps him, treating him like a bad dog.
At the end of the film, Dot is a changed ant. When Atta, her sister, is crowned the new Queen of the colony, Dot receives her tiara and has officially moved up the ranks in her royal family. (Honestly, after Dot's bravery, she's the one who deserves to wear the crown at the end, but I'm willing to let that go…) Regardless, the tiara is a much earned badge after her triumphant display of courage.
Some behind-the-scenes fact about Dot:
Andrew Stanton, who worked on the story of A Bug's Life, discussed creating Dot because his daughter had just been born at the time of production. He was inspired by his daughter and wanted to have a little girl character depicted in the film.
Dot was voiced by Hayden Panettiere, but Ashley Tisdale originally tried out for the part.
You can find Dot, along with the other characters from A Bug's Life, in Toy Story 2; they're all on Al's abstract painting that's on the wall of his living room.
Toy Story That Time Forgot – The Pixar Special Of The Week
Short Film, Shorts, Toy Story, Toy Story That Time Forgot
Posted by Nia • December 21, 2018
Christmas is in a matter of days, so naturally it's time to delve back into Toy Story That Time Forgot, one of the most underrated Pixar projects. The holiday special aired back on December 2nd, 2014 on ABC.
Although this is a Christmas special, the film starts off post-Christmas as we open with Bonnie playing with her toys, a comforting and familiar sight. We're immediately re-introduced to Trixie the Triceratops but we quickly find out she's constantly disappointed Bonnie never lets her play as the true dinosaur she is; instead she takes on other random roles during playtime. Jessie, Rex, and Mr. Potato Head are quick to offer support for Trixie, mentioning she will get her chance to be a dinosaur soon (as there will be many more opportunities) but that doesn't lift Trixie's spirits. Shortly after, Bonnie attends a play-date at her best friend Mason's house. Luckily for us Bonnie brings along a few of our other favorite toys from the Toy Story universe: Woody, Buzz, and Rex. She even brings Trixie along and a new ornament named Angel Kitty.
As soon as Bonnie arrives she notices Mason enjoying his new video game and before she joins him, she dumps the toys into Mason's playroom. The video game wasn't the only thing Mason got for Christmas; he also got a slew of new warrior dinosaur toys called the Battlesaurs. The gang is quickly introduced to Reptillus Maximus and the Cleric, who are in control of the Battlesa<|fim_middle|> swallows Woody, Buzz, and Angel Kitty. As Trixie tries to free her friends from Goliathon, she's knocked over and reveals Bonnie's name written on her hand. To these Battlesaurs, that's a sign of weakness and equivalent to someone waving a white flag. Suddenly Trixie is no longer welcome as one of them.
The biggest twist of this special is that the Cleric has known the Battlesaurs were toys the entire time. It was the Cleric's motivation to keep the toys oblivious to this fact so he can continue basking in his power and ruling over them. Now that Woody, Buzz, and Angel Kitty know that information, he takes them off to be shredded in a nearby ventilation fan.
As Woody and Buzz are trying to escape the Cleric, Trixie nearly unplugs Mason's video game, in an attempt to thwart his attention and get him to play with the other Battlesaurs. Reptillus intervenes and tries to stop her but Trixie has an epiphany of her own. She manages to persuade Reptillus that it's almost a blessing being a toy; she speaks to him about how important and meaningful it's been to be a toy and play with Bonnie every day. She even shows Reptillus the box he came in, which changes his whole perspective.
Reptillus turns off Mason's video game and "surrenders" to the humans. Soon Bonnie and Mason find Reptillus, and the children agree to go to Mason's playroom to continue their play-date. The duo arrive just in time, saving Woody and Buzz from being destroyed in the ventilation fan.
Reptillus and the other Battlesaurs are changed by their play-date with Bonnie and Mason; they're quick to accept their fate as toys and learn to enjoy a calmer life in Mason's home.
Towards the end of the special, Trixie realizes how important she is in Bonnie's life and she professes to Woody, Buzz, and the other toys how she would be anything Bonnie wants her to be during playtime, even if that never is a dinosaur.
One of the most impressive elements about this film is the fact it delves deep into the toys existence. It touches the surface of their psychology and how they view their lives when it comes to interacting with characters like Bonnie and Mason. The toys obviously realize they're toys and figure out their purpose in life, but through that they learn the importance of their existence and that they have these unique gifts; each toy offers something different to children. It's also interesting to see the differences in how a toy acts before they've had the opportunity to be played with or to have a child "mark" them with their name – the Battlesaurs were almost savage, like untrained cats, before they were played with for the first time. I'm curious to see how they will continue this theme in the upcoming Toy Story 4 film, especially with Forky.
Some fun facts about Toy Story That Time Forgot:
When it comes to the Toy Story timeline, this film is set before the story that's going to be depicted in the upcoming Toy Story 4 film.
This film was initially set to be a 6-minute short, but it was John Lasseter who suggested it be a holiday special because he loved the story so much and wanted to explore the themes and characters more.
It took 3 years to create; 2 of those years were spent on story development.
The special was the last time Don Rickles voiced the iconic Mr. Potato Head; he died in 2017.
This was Pixar's second Toy Story-esque TV special; the first one was Toy Story of Terror!
Don't forget that in the first Toy Story film, Buzz was the one who first refused to believe he was a toy. It's funny seeing that shift in this special; he was almost outraged that the Battlesaurs didn't know they were toys.
There is a reference to Star Wars in Toy Story That Time Forgot, when the Cleric says the line, "I find their lack of armor disturbing." Can you Star Wars fans figure out the line it's referring to?
Presto – The Pixar Short Of The Week
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Posted by Nia • November 23, 2018
This week's Pixar Short that was hand picked by Twitter followers in our latest poll is the underrated "Presto"! The short premiered in front of WALL-E back in 2008.
The film tells a simple story of famed and ever-so-dapper magician named Presto Digiotagione and his gorgeous white rabbit Alec Azam. The short starts in Preto's dressing room as we're introduced to Alec, who is unfortunately locked in his cage. His stomach begins to roar like a tiger; it's clear he's famished and eyeing the carrot that's obviously out of reach. After several failed attempts to scoot his cage in the direction of the carrot and finally get his snack, Presto enters the dressing room and foils Alec's plans of satisfying his hunger.
When Presto realizes it's almost time for him to be on stage, he quickly starts preparing for his magic show. He makes sure all the locks are shut on his door and eyes his dressing room suspiciously before unlocking his dresser revealing his, drum-roll please, magic hats. His act is based off two hats that are linked to each other, one that is shaped like Sorcerer Mickey's hat from Fantasia and the other like your standard black magicians's hat. Whoever, or whatever, is wearing the sorcerer hat, Presto can reach his hand through his magician's hat to pull the object or animal through, thus completing his bit. It's clear when the show starts, Alec is fed up and just wants his snack. This causes Presto's act to not go as planned as he desperately tries to get Alec to put the sorcerer's hat on so he can pull Alec through his magician's hat. Instead, what proceeds is a slew of comical bits where instead of Alec coming through the magician's hat it's an egg to Presto's face, Presto's hand stuck in a mouse trap, a ladder flying through and hitting Presto where it hurts, and even Presto himself as he survives a death defying stunt at the end resulting in Alec's refusal to listen to him. Albeit his show looking like a disaster for Presto he ends up delivering one of the most exhilarating magic acts of his career. In the end, despite things going awry, Alec gets his carrot and Presto gets even more acclaim.
This short is one of my all-time favorites. What draws me to it each time is the fact that it pays homage to all the great shorts that came before it; from Looney Tunes to the classic Tom and Jerry episodes, the inspiration is obvious in the gags that pull the story from beginning to end. You could even say that Alec, with his motivations and character design, is a modern day Bugs Bunny. "Presto" thrives in gags that bring the plot forward and help carry the story; it's clear that the set-up is going to be Alec wanting his carrot and doing anything to get it, even if it means embarrassing Presto and ruining his career. Each gag is escalated the more that Alec doesn't get what he wants and in return there is never a dull moment.
Some fun tidbits about "Presto":
I love the fact that Presto himself was modeled after my favorite actor William Powell. His physicality and charm (even at Presto's worse moments) throughout the short is based off the actor. You could even see a little bit of Nick Charles from The Thin Man in Presto's mannerisms throughout the short.
Pete Docter and his team actually re-used the theater that's seen in Presto for the newsreel in the opening of Up. The stage that Charles Muntz reveals the skeleton on is the same one seen in the short.
If you look on the second balcony all the way on the left you will be able to see two iconic characters from the Muppets watching Presto's magic show: Satler and Waldorf. I wonder what they thought of the performance…
"Presto" was nominated for Best Animated Short Subject at the 36th Annie Awards and was also nominated for Best Animated Short Film. Despite Presto not winning any awards, it was still well received and is even more beloved today.
If you haven't seen "Presto" before or you would like a well deserved re-watch, you can check out the short below:
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© 2021 Pixar Planet. All Rights Reserved. | urs army. Naturally, Rex and Trixie are welcomed as part of the clan by Reptillus and shown around their Batteopolis but the Cleric secretly takes Woody, Buzz, and Angel Kitty away as his prisoners.
Trixie and Reptillus quickly bond (naturally). Since Trixie is finally around other toys like her and it's easy to see why she's so quick to fall head over heels for Reptillus. Trixie can't help but praise the Battlesaurs and how they've made their life work in Mason's toy room. Reptillus is even captivated by Trixie's world of make believe. Soon the two dinosaurs are called to the aptly named "Arena of Woe," where to Trixie's dismay, this world of dinosaurs isn't as perfect or as nice as she thought. In the arena, its Mason's toys against Reptillus; we soon see that Reptillus completely destroys the other toys in combat. No one has a chance against him.
Things soon get worse when Woody and Buzz enter the arena; it turns out the Cleric wanted Woody and Buzz destroyed from the get-go and it's the reason why they were taken away so abruptly at the start. Buzz and Woody barely escape their fight against Reptillus before Trixie jumps in to help her friends. It turns out, the Battlesaurs are so hostile because they haven't had the opportunity to play with Mason yet, since Mason has been too caught up in his new video game. Despite Trixie pleading for the dinosaurs to stop fighting her friends, they bring in another massive Battlesaur named Goliathon, who | 340 |
National Trails Day, the nation's biggest celebration of trails, is this Saturday, June 7th. Are you planning to take<|fim_middle|> Photo courtesy Maine Trail Finder. | part in this big day of outdoor fun? Hope so!
According to the American Hiking Society, the primary sponsor, there will be something like 1,000 events going on all around the country, from hikes, biking, horseback rides and paddling trips to bird watching, geocaching, gear demos, stewardship projects and much more.
Here in Maine, at last count there were 15 NTD events happening from Freeport to Frenchman Bay, Rumford to Skowhegan.
Get a good look at these goings-on in my latest column in the Maine Sunday Telegram Outdoors section, "Schedule packed for National Trails Day". Then make a plan, gear up and get out outside this Saturday to show your all-important support for our precious trails.
Hike the Ovens Mouth Preserve in Boothbay with Boothbay Region Land Trust. Photo © Carey Kish.
The Cliff Trail in Harpswell is part of the Harpswell Hiking Challenge. Photo © Carey Kish.
Help with trail maintenance on Rumford Whitecap Mtn. Photo courtesy Maine Trail Finder.
Hike the wonderful 5-mile Whiskeag Trail in Bath. Photo © Carey Kish.
Take a nature walk on the pretty trails at the LC Bates Museum. Photo courtesy Steve Vose/ The Maine Outdoorsman.
Hike the new multiuse Westside Trail across Yarmouth. | 284 |
<|fim_middle|>,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern (IUCN, 2012). | Radjah shelducks are native to Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. They were introduced to Singapore and vagrant to Timor-Leste.
The species prefers the brackish waters of mangrove flats and paperbark tree swamps, but will visit freshwater swamps, lagoons, and billabongs further inland during the wet season. The diet consists mainly of mollusks, insects, sedge materials and algae. Pairs start searching for nesting sites during the months of January and February. They nest close to their primary food source, often in the hollow limbs of trees, which makes habitat destruction a particular issue.
This species has a very large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size may be moderately small to large, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10 | 270 |
One of the Princeton Review practice tests for the SAT is broken! Bob must have felt really ill after drinking all those cookies!
At least he split it with Max. I wonder what Max thought.
He's a man on the go. He can't sit around and eat all those cookies individually.
I had a Princeton Review program a while ago where one of the practice tests had a problem involving determining the length of one of the sides of the triangle shown in the accompanying figure.
None! Bob didn't drink any cookies!
You know how lots of things do their best to diversify their pictures, questions, etc? I think it'd be interesting if that were the case with SATs. Imagine having this same problem, but instead of Bob, Mary, Dolly, and Max, we had Pierre, Muhammad, Sir Charles Rielly, and Pocahontas. It'd make the SATs a lot more interesting, for one thign.
I have got to try the cookie shake, it must taste like Oreo shakes.
Even ignoring the drink/eat error, it's still a horrible question. Depending on how you read the last part of it, the answer is either 15 percent (if each eat half of what was left in succession), 30 percent (if they shared half of what was left), or zero (if they each ate half of what was left, as the question says).
I'm studying for the GMAT and noted a few problems in their book and study exams.
(LONG) The question is even more broken than that: you can solve it without really understanding it, and this is true of a lot of SAT questions.
SATs in general are broken, as are IQ tests. What both measure, primarily, is test-taking ability, something that is eminently coachable and largely independent of intelligence or any meaningful skill or ability.
A well-coached SATist would reason like this: well, the answer can't be 50% or 60% because Max ate as much as Bob, so choosing one of those two immediately puts the answer over 100%. So now we're down to just 3 responses. Even if we can get no further, we've got an improved guess.
Next our well-coached SATist rules out 27.5% because its the kind of "obvious" misleading answer SAT writers love (subtract 20% and 25% from 100%, get 55% and divide by 2: Wrong!). So now you have a 1 in 2 shot of being right and you still know nothing about the math<|fim_middle|>, students are required to show their reasoning and working; and in the best math tests, you get credit for working the problem correctly, even if you make an arithmetical error along the way. Unfortunately, marking such tests requires actual human beings to read the work, you can't just shove it through an optical reader. If you put ease of marking as your primary concern, you get exactly the college entrants you deserve. (Draw your own analogy to elections in the space provided below, if you wish).
P.S. For the truly dedicated test debunker, there's an even quicker route to the right answer.
Suppose its late in the test, and you only have 60 seconds left. You don't even have time to read the question properly. But you know two things: Max and Bob ate the same amount, and SAT setters love to include answers that are half, double, or the reciprocal of the right answer to catch careless math or logic errors. Quick now, 30 seconds left: are there two answers that look like the right answer and a trick answer? Yes! 30% and 60%! Which one is right? It can't be 60% (Bob and Max can't both eat over 50%) so it must be 30%. Congratulations! You just got one more SAT point without even understanding the question!
This question is broken, SATs are broken, life is not a multiple choice test.
For my GMAT some years ago I bought practice books by Princeton and by Barrons. The Princeton book was terrible - their grammar section had (ahem) grammar errors. I was loathe to try the exercises in the math section - by then I had completely lost trust in the book.
The Barrons book was excellent - the exercises reflected the range of questions that I was asked during the actual test. The explanations by the Barrons writers were very instructive as well.
Stay away from Princeton books!
Getting credit for a wrong answer based on mostly-correct work feels great in school, but I'd hate to drive across a bridge built by the "good work but wrong answer" student.
It has already been said that life is not multiple-choice. There are also few cases for "partial credit."
Can anyone help me? I can't figure out the right answer.
My brother took this test that had that question. And i don't know how you can drink cookies.
Carl Zetie, there is something they do on standardized tests that renders your long explanation of SAT skills mostly useless. | the question supposedly tests.
But our SATist can do better. Consider: at the most, Mary and Dolly ate 20%+25%=45% (actually they ate less) leaving at least 55% for Max and Bob - so Bob ate at least 27.5%, which rules out 20%. That leaves just one answer, which miraculously is the right one: 30%.
In other words, a middle-class kid whose family can afford a good SAT tutor can get this question right by pure "test logic", without ever having to understand either the math supposedly required nor the implications of the tricky "what was left" wording!
And before anybody says "well, that was just one question", remember that this is one question chosen ENTIRELY AT RANDOM by somebody else, not by me, for totally different reasons - and I was able to reason my way through it without math. In fact, many many SAT questions are like this (the infamous donut question for instance), and even if you can't get to the right answer you can enormously improve your odds of guessing right.
Now somebody might say, "wow Carl, that was some pretty clever reasoning - isn't that a useful skill in its own right?". And I would say no, for the simple reason that it only worked because I knew the answer had to be one of the the 5 on offer. Life is not a multiple choice test.
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Q: Horrible performance loss when using Opengl FBO I have successfully implemented a simple 2-d game using lwjgl (opengl) where objects fade away as they get further away from the player. This fading was initially implemented by computing distance to origin of each object from the player and using this to scale the objects alpha/opacity.
However when using larger objects, this approach appears a bit too rough. My solution was to implement alpha/opacity scaling for every pixel in the object. Not only would this look better, but it would also move computation time from CPU to GPU.
I figured I could<|fim_middle|>, I now no longer have a performance bottleneck, so further optimizations should wait till it is found to be required.
Also, I am very grateful for the all the help, suggestions and comments I received :-)
| implement it using an FBO and a temporary texture.
By drawing to the FBO and masking it with a precomputed distance map (a texture) using a special blend mode, I intended to achieve the effect.
The algorithm is like so:
0) Initialize opengl and setup FBO
1) Render background to standard buffer
2) Switch to custom FBO and clear it
3) Render objects (to FBO)
4) Mask FBO using distance-texture
5) Switch to standard buffer
6) Render FBO temporary texture (to standard buffer)
7) Render hud elements
A bit of extra info:
*
*The temporary texture has the same size as the window (and thus standard buffer)
*Step 4 uses a special blend mode to achieve the desired effect:
GL11.glBlendFunc( GL11.GL_ZERO, GL11.GL_SRC_ALPHA );
*My temporary texture is created with min/mag filters: GL11.GL_NEAREST
*The data is allocated using: org.lwjgl.BufferUtils.createByteBuffer(4 * width * height);
*The texture is initialized using:
GL11.glTexImage2D( GL11.GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL11.GL_RGBA, width, height, 0, GL11.GL_RGBA, GL11.GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, dataBuffer);
*There are no GL errors in my code.
This does indeed achieve the desired results.
However when I did a bit of performance testing I found that my FBO approach cripples performance. I tested by requesting 1000 successive renders and measuring the time. The results were as following:
In 512x512 resolution:
*
*Normal: ~1.7s
*FBO: ~2.5s
*(FBO -step 6: ~1.7s)
*(FBO -step 4: ~1.7s)
In 1680x1050 resolution:
*
*Normal: ~1.7s
*FBO: ~7s
*(FBO -step 6: ~3.5s)
*(FBO -step 4: ~6.0s)
As you can see, this scales really badly. To make it even worse, I'm intending to do a second pass of this type. The machine I tested on is supposed to be high end in terms of my target audience, so I can expect people to have far below 60 fps with this approach, which is hardly acceptable for a game this simple.
What can I do to salvage my performance?
A: As suggested by Damon and sidewinderguy I successfully implemented a similar solution using a fragment shader (and vertex shader). My performance is little bit better than my initial cpu-run object-based computation, which is MUCH faster than my FBO-approach. At the same time it provides visual results much closer to the FBO-approach (Overlapping objects behave a bit different).
For anyone interested the fragment shader basically transforms the gl_FragCoord.xy and does a texture lookup. I am not sure this gives the best performance, but with only 1 other texture activated I do not expect performance to increase by omitting the lookup and computing the texture value directly. Also | 675 |
Formal methods are used to increase the reliability of software and hardware systems. Methods such as model checking, verification and testing are used to search for design and coding<|fim_middle|> whether a system satisfies a particular specification, we may want to measure some of its quantitative properties. Earlier works on system measurements suggest extending model checking techniques to measure quantitative artifacts, based on weights associated with the transitions of a transition system. Other works allow counting while performing model checking or runtime verification. This paper presents a simple and efficient compositional measuring framework based on quantitative state testers. The framework allows combining multiple measures, such as distance and power consumption, using a variety of functions, such as min, max, and average. This supports calculation of interesting compound measures that quantitatively characterize a system's behavior. | errors, integrated in the process of system design. Beyond checking | 12 |
Are you paying enough attention to data engineering tasks?
By Ivor G. Moan on Hidden Insights 4 July 2018 Topics | Advanced Analytics Data Management
Data science is hot. Being a data scientist has been described as one of the world's sexiest careers – though that may say more about the people coining the description than data science – and data scientists are both in high demand and increasingly well-paid. It is, in fact, highly lucrative to be able to use statistical techniques to manipulate data and generate insights. If you can present and explain those insights to others, you are very definitely able to name your own price.
A new energy to data management
Increasingly, however, those in the data business are noticing another term emerging. Data engineering is mentioned more and more often as an essential adjunct to data science. It may not be quite as sexy, but it is often given equal weight in terms of importance. But what does it mean?
There is no absolutely agreed single definition of data engineering, perhaps because it is such a new discipline, but it seems clear that it is about data management. Data engineers, in other words, deliver the data to data scientists in a form and way that allows the<|fim_middle|> Ivor held various senior positions in companies such as ICW AG (an electronic healthcare company operating in partnership with SAP) and Verivox (Germany's leading price comparison portal). Ivor worked as a technologist and architect in the Data Management domain supporting sales initiatives and both pre-sales and post-sales engagements. Ivor holds a degree in Computer Science and a diploma in Industrial Studies. | data scientists to generate insights. They are, for example, responsible for data collection, storage and cleaning. They are also, in many organisations, the people chiefly responsible for assets such as data lakes and analytics platforms.
Data engineers, in other words, deliver the data to data scientists in a form and way that allows the data scientists to generate insights
Defining the role of a data engineer
A data engineer's role might include:
Building massive reservoirs for big data.
A good platform now offers far more data processing power than has ever been possible before. This means that analytics processes can draw on more data – but only if it is available and stored in a form in which it can be used.
Managing data and developing data set processes
Data lakes need ongoing engineering and management to prevent them from becoming swamps, which can happen extremely quickly. Reliable data set processes and other engineering work ensure that data is available and in a usable form. It is much harder to drain a swamp than flood a reservoir!
Managing and monitoring data quality
Data engineers are the primary people responsible for data quality in the organisation, and at both the macro (data lake) and micro (individual data) levels. Their role is to ensure that data is ready for use – which means clean, in a suitable format, and reliable. A good platform will assist in this, because it will provide reliable and efficient access to data, and also allow continuous cleaning and other management.
Data engineers are the primary people responsible for data quality in the organisation, and at both the macro (data lake) and micro (individual data) levels.
Developing, constructing, testing and maintaining highly scalable architectures
The best platforms offer scalability as standard, and can expand as and when required. Data engineers ensure that the platform is maintained in such a way that it operates efficiently and effectively at whatever level is required.
Researching data acquisition and finding new uses for existing data
As more and more sensors and devices are connected to the Internet of Things, there is more and more data available. New sources often bring new opportunities, but existing data can also be combined in new ways to generate new insights, if it is made available.
Ongoing integration of new and improved data management tools
A good platform will not just allow, but actively provide, new data management capabilities, ensuring that they are integrated and work well with existing tools and capabilities. They will also work across a variety of languages for maximum flexibility and to bring different technologies together. Data engineers have a key role in maintaining this open architecture.
Actively managing risks to data, and ensuring that there is a recovery plan
Good data engineers are active risk managers, looking ahead and putting contingency plans in place to mitigate any disaster. They also ensure that recovery plans are clear and easy to kick-start if the worst should happen.
Working closely with data architects, data scientists and those responsible for modelling
The best way to ensure that data is fit for purpose is to work closely with those who use it, which means data scientists and modelers. A good platform will provide an environment for close collaboration, but the best engineers will actively seek out feedback on this issue.
This is only the beginning
This list of tasks, which is by no means exhaustive, goes some way towards explaining why data engineering is increasingly seen as essential. Some estimates suggest that a data science project needs at least one data engineer to each data scientist, and I think this may be an underestimate. Expect to see much more about this group in future, as data engineering rapidly becomes the new hot topic.
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Ivor G. Moan has worked in the Data Management industry for almost 20 years. Ivor has a strong technology and systems background which have often been developed at the bleeding edge of the exploitation of IT across a variety of industries. Ivor's primary aim is to drive the adoption of Data Management technology in organizations in a way that yields power through simplification and abstraction of complex technology combinations. The goal is ultimately to find synergy and align with the needs of the business. Prior to joining the Analytical Platform Center of Excellence, | 840 |
Cantor, Stanford incubating Kahlil Joseph's BLKNWS
A creative collaboration between<|fim_middle|> and censorship in the arts.
New exhibition marks centenary of 1917 Russian Revolution
A joint exhibition at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives and the Cantor Arts Center highlights Stanford's rich collections of materials on the history of late imperial and early Soviet Russia.
Stanford's fall quarter guest artists
Stanford creates opportunities for meaningful engagement with the arts for students and the university community by inviting over 100 artists each year to campus to create, perform and discuss their work.
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Gift from the Capital Group Foundation includes funding for curatorial fellow position to oversee vast collection of works by Ansel Adams, Gordon Parks, Edward Weston and others.
Cantor, Stanford Libraries make Warhol photography archives publicly available
Searchable databases allow researchers and Andy Warhol fans worldwide to examine over 130,000 photographs taken by the iconic artist.
Andy Warhol photos on display at the Cantor
In an interactive element of the photo exhibit at the Cantor Arts Center, visitors can zoom in on the artist's contact sheets and create their own Warhol-inspired digital prints on screen.
Resurfacing a tabloid from the Vietnam War
A new exhibition at the Hoover Institution highlights Overseas Weekly, a civilian-run, women-led newspaper for American GIs abroad that defied top military brass and defended freedom of the press during the Korean and Vietnam wars.
New exhibition highlights Stanford's collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts
The Stanford Archaeology Center showcases ancient Egyptian stone tools, parts of a mummy case and other artifacts that were collected by Jane Stanford; her son, Leland Stanford Jr.; and other university affiliates.
At Stanford in Washington, arts are inside and outside the classroom
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Bus Travel in Aintree
The home of the Grand National horse race
Aintree is a large village on the outskirts of Liverpool and it's best known for Aintree Racecourse, home of the Grand National. The racecourse has a 9-hole golf course at its centre, a driving range plus an equestrian centre. Check out the village with its traditional pubs or take some time to shop at the Aintree Shopping Park and its many retail outlets.
We offer several bus routes which travel in and around Aintree and<|fim_middle|> Avenue to Liverpool Queen Square Bus Station | connect the village with destinations such as Southport, Bootle, Ormskirk and Crosby. Travellers can even hop on a bus and head for the bright lights of Liverpool too.
Bus services in Aintree
63 from Bootle Bus Station to Bootle New Strand Station
300 from Liverpool Queen Square Bus Station to Southport Leicester Street
310 from Skelmersdale Concourse to Liverpool Queen Square Bus Station
345 from Waddicar Andrew | 99 |
I'm sweating. Since arriving in Vietnam, in fact, I have been in a state of perpetual perspiration. It's a hot and humid land, and I am an Englishman not used to such hot and humid lands. But this particular sweat is a unique type of sweat — one induced by pho. And not just any pho, no. I'm in the midst of the best bowl of pho I've ever tasted.
Beside me sits Luong, my 25-year-old Urban Adventures guide from the previous day. We're hanging out now because she wanted to bring me here,<|fim_middle|>'s because I've just walked 25 minutes in the scorching Hoi An heat to take Luong up on her recommendation of Banh Mi Phuong. As I take my first bite of the impossibly crunchy pork-stuffed baguette, I become acutely aware that I'm in the midst of the best banh mi I have ever tasted. I email Luong to tell her how much I enjoyed it (I ended up eating two that night).
"I told you it was good," she replies.
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what is the name of the pho place you went to? how does one find it?
I found the Pho and it was probably the best thing I had to eat on my 2 week stay in Hoian.
The place is called either 'Hai Chen' or 'Hang', both names are there and I am not sure, but just look for the screen shots from YouTube of Anthony Bourdain, her and Hostile Living. | to this tiny Anthony Bourdain-approved pho stall in Hoi An's central market. There isn't another tourist in sight. It must be obvious by the kind of noises I'm making that this humble bowl of soup is blowing my mind.
"I told you it was good." She smiles.
Luong grew up close to Hoi An, in Thang Binh district. So she knows the town well. She's been an Urban Adventures guide here for close to seven months, after spending seven years in Ho Chi Minh (where she studied English language and literature for four years, and worked as a tour guide for three).
I keep slurping. I don't want this meal to end. It doesn't taste like any other bowl of pho I've ever slurped before. The broth tastes more complex and is somehow peppery, hot, and smooth all at the same time. Pickled shallots and peanuts are sprinkled on top. It's a next level dish, there's no doubt. And it only cost around AUD 2.
Apparently, American celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain came to this exact stall while filming for his show No Reservations and slurped himself silly. Aside from a photograph of Bourdain pinned to the wall behind the counter, the owner doesn't seem too fussed about marketing the fact. A couple of tourists enter the market, walk straight past us, and sit at the next stall along. To the untrained eye, all of the stalls in this market are identical. There's no reason you'd pick one over the other — a fact that makes me all the more thankful for Luong's expert guidance.
"There's good banh mi outside too," she tells me. "That's where Anthony Bourdain went as well. He enjoyed the bread there — it's very famous." In fact, so famous did Banh Mi Phuong become after Bourdain paid a visit, they had to open a new store in the town's ancient quarter.
Luong moved back to Hoi An after marrying her husband, a high school friend, in Ho Chi Minh City almost a year ago. Their families live just six kilometres apart and they had two huge wedding parties — as is customary for Vietnamese weddings — upon their return. Luong's family's party pulled in some 300 people whilst the RSVP list for her husband's came in at 400.
Despite moving back in order to spend time together and with their families, the demands of their respective jobs means Luong and her husband don't get to see each other too often. The previous month, she told me, they saw each other on just two occasions. They own a house in Da Nang, which is a 45-minute drive north up the coast, but Luong — who works six days a week and often leads two tours a day — tends to stay at her parents' place near Hoi An as it's closer to her work. Her husband, a construction engineer, works long hours some 120 kilometres away. This month, however, because the bad weather has meant her husband can't work as much, they've seen each other more.
Hoi An was largely untouched by what the Vietnamese called 'The American War.' It's a beautiful and well-preserved example of a traditional Vietnamese trading port which, over the years, has seen trade and influence arrive from many parts of the world. The Chinese (Hoi An was the site of the first Chinese settlement in southern Vietnam) and Japanese influences are both the most permeating and most noticeable, but Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Filipino, Indonesian, French, British, Thai, and American ships passed through between the 15th and 19th centuries.
She gets her caffeine fix from Café Mia, just a stone's throw from the market. She recommends a restaurant called Old Garden for cau lao and Ms. Duong — in the market — for the best banh xeo (pork and prawn-stuffed pancakes). For some quiet drinks with the locals, she says there's nothing better than pulling up a plastic chair and grabbing a cold beer at one of the many riverside carts. That's my next couple of days in Hoi An sorted then.
It's easy to look at the volume of tourists in Hoi An — and Vietnam in general — and think about the negative impact all these extra people must be having on the landscapes and towns they visit. But Luong is thankful.
The following day, I find myself sweating again. This time, it | 923 |
My friend Parker Gallant has written on my updated estimates of annual curtailment in Wind waste should<|fim_middle|> and to compare 2017 results I've made all years' data the total as of the end of November. | worry Ontario ratepayers. Producing the estimates doesn't take me nearly the effort Parker puts into writing on them, so I felt compelled to add a new view of the data just to make our contributions a little more equitable.
Des résidents en Ontario vivent un cauchemar depuis l'installation d'éoliennes proches de leur domicile. I assume it's best read in French, but the Google translation to English sufficed for me. As the journalism at Radio-Canada is more focused on the impacts to people of turbine construction of the North Kent wind farm, I decided today's show of data will be on the performance of individual industrial wind turbine facilities.
Capacity Factor is the output of a generator divided by the theoretical maximum (full output in all hours). To estimate costs I need to estimate curtailment, but just viewing the history of capacity factors has the benefit of allowing the cynical reader (ie. the good ones) to verify my claims just by adding up columns from the IESO's wind file. I won't make it easy to do though, because for fairness I limit results to years where a facility was in commercial operation throughout, | 235 |
NASHVILLE – (For Immediate Release) – Necessity may indeed be the "mother of<|fim_middle|> backdrop to Currington's hard driving hits like "Drinkin' Town With a Football Problem" from his Summer Forever album. "The Nexus fixtures are amazing, and we used them to accentuate some big musical moments with some hits and flash," said Lisle.
Lisle controlled the Nexus panels via DMX with a grandMA2 console and did some "console-based mapping with them as well." The Chauvet fixtures' versatility helped him expand the looks he could create without sacrificing the efficiency required of an opening act rig.
"We wanted to make everything easy, so figuring out how to mount everything (and cable it) in a way that it would be able to come off stage quickly was a big key," said the LD. "As a support act on a major tour, we want to be as accommodating as we can and make sure that the headliner's staff/crew are happy with how quickly and efficiently everything moves." The Nexus panels helped Lisle do that and much more for one of country music's brightest young stars. | invention," as the old saying goes, but it can also kick off some very cool lighting looks when it encounters a talented LD like Chris Lisle. Recently, Lisle designed for up-and-coming country star Billy Currington on tour supporting the iconic Tim McGraw.
As an opening act, Currington's rig had to be moved on an off the stage quickly, which made it necessary to use backline carts for the sake of efficiency. Lisle turned these "practical" carts into a commanding visual element by using an array of fixtures provided by Bandit Lites. Anchoring this eye-searing collection were nine Nexus 4x4 LED panels from CHAUVET Professional.
"We based the design off utilizing the existing backline carts that Billy was already using, and incorporating lighting on them," said Lisle, who placed the carts upstage over the band's heads. The Nexus panels and moving heads were used for eye candy and effects. Other movers were mounted to the front of the band risers to round out the design.
With their intense output and pixel mapped breakout patterns, the Nexus panels delivered the desired effect and provided a dramatic | 233 |
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A famous line from a famous movie. But for the thousands upon thousands of U.S. veterans who have returned home over the decades, it's far, far more. For them, "no place like home" is the beaming smile of a child, the loving embrace of a spouse, the happy camaraderie of friends. It's the warmth and solace one can only find in the return to a regular life.
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For many returning veterans-maybe even yours-coming home can be a whole new kind of battle. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD, as many as 20% of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and 30% of Vietnam veterans suffer from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.[i]
And finding the proper medications that work for individuals with PTSD and depression can be a struggle.
Studies show that:
Fewer than 50% of patients with depression respond to their first medication [ii]
Over 70% of patients who have found no relief from one or more antidepressants are taking a suboptimal medication.[iii]
The bottom line: medications don't work the same way for everyone.
However, there's an emerging field of study within the rapidly-growing arena of personalized medicine through which veterans suffering from PTSD and other mental health conditions may finally find relief.
Pharmacogenomics is the study of how an individual's genetic variations affect his or her response to medications. This new field combines pharmacology (the study of medications), and genomics (the study of genes and their functions), to predict which medications could be the most effective for individuals based on their genetic profile.
One of the companies leading the way in the field of pharmacogenomics is Assurex Health, based in Mason, OH. Their GeneSight test is administered with a simple cheek swab. The sample is then sent to the company's laboratory where the individual's genetic variations are analyzed. Within 36 hours, a report is sent to the healthcare provider detailing which medications are most likely to be effective for that specific patient based on his or her genes.
The good news is, it really works.
Multiple clinical studies have shown that when doctors used GeneSight to help guide their treatment decisions:
Patients were twice as likely to respond to the selected medication
Patients experienced a 70% reduction in depressive symptoms.[iv]
Even better news? The GeneSight test has now been made available for use at all 1,400 VA facilities and clinics serving veterans nationwide.
When is GeneSight Genetic Testing Most Appropriate?
GeneSight genetic testing is most appropriate when a medication just isn't working (or is causing side effects) or when multiple medications are being taken. As always, it's recommended to talk with your healthcare provider.
Finding the right medications for returning veterans with PTSD and depression can be a struggle. But now, through the science of GeneSight's combinatorial pharmacogenomics test, perhaps for returning veterans "back home" can finally mean, "back to being themselves."
For more information regarding GeneSight, please visit, https://genesight.com/veterans-life-realized.
[i] PTSD: National Center for PTSD. (n.d.). Retrieved October 10, 2014, from https://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/PTSD-overview/basics/how-common-is-ptsd.asp
[ii] Trivedi MH, et al. Evaluation of the outcomes with citalopram for depression using measurement-based care in STAR*D: implications for clinical practice. Am J Psychiatry. 2006 Jan;163(1):28-40. [PMID: 16390886].
[iii] Winner JG, et al. A prospective, randomized double-blind study assessing the clinical impact of integrated pharmacogenomic testing for major depressive disorder. Discov Med. 2013 Nov;16(89):219-27. [PMID: 24229738].
[iv] Hall-Flavin DK, et al. Utility of integrated pharmacogenomic testing to support the treatment of major depressive disorder in a psychiatric outpatient setting. Pharmacogenet Genomics. 2013 Oct;23(10):535-48. [PMID: 24018772].
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Savannah in the Spotlight: The Savannah Film Festival
Watch unique films at SCAD's annual Savannah Film Festival
Bring Out Your Inner Film Buff For the Savannah Film Festival:
Are you a fan of the silver screen? Do you love all that goes into film-making? Or, do you just enjoy a great movie? Well, Savannah is the place for you! As a destination for filming, as well as home to Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah is no stranger to movie crews and film. So, pack your bags, make your plans, and buy your tickets for the Savannah Film Festival!
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Founded in 1998, the Savannah Film Festival, hosted by Savannah College of Art & Design, has brought filmmakers, actors, and educators to the city for eight days of film viewings, lectures, and conferences. Each year more than 40,000 people attend the eight day Savannah Film Festival. Channel your inner film buff and enjoy the cinematic creativity from SCAD film students and award-winning professionals! There will be over 90 premiere film screenings this year, providing ample opportunities to see amazing independent films.
Catch unique movies, discussions with filmmakers and actors, and more!
You can find big names within many of the films that will be shown this year, and often, some of these actors, directors, and writers will be hosting Q&A sessions after screenings. Names have not been announced yet, but keep on the look out! Catch the screening of "The Homesman", a film that tells the story of the harsh pioneer life, featuring Hilary Swank, Meryl Streep, James Spader, and Tommy Lee Jones. Or, watch the popular Benedict Cumberbatch in his intense performance as Alan Turning in "The Imitation Game." Interested in something spooky? Well, the Savannah Film Festival will host a series call "After Dark." This series includes thriller, supernatural, and horror genres, with screenings of "Creep", Horns", and "The Badabook." Whatever genre you prefer, there are plenty of unique films this year at the festival, so don't miss out!
Star Searching:
Keep your eyes out for famous faces! The Savannah Film Festival brings famous writers, directors, and actors to the Hostess City. Jeremy Irons, Norman Reedus, Alec Baldwin, and Abigail Breslin are just a few actors that have received awards and discussed films with audiences at the Savannah Film Festival. Many actors have come to Savannah for this festival and to film movies, such as Forrest Gump and Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil. You can find celebrities hanging out at 45 Bistro, or attending the after parties happening each night. Purchase tickets to these after parties and feel like a star on the red carpet! You'll surely be surrounded by them!
Make Your Plans Today to Attend the Savannah Film Festival
Savannah College of Art & Design will be hosting their 16th annual Savannah Film Festival from October 25through November 1. Enjoy unique and intriguing films, star searching, and more at this year's event. Tickets are on sale now, and are going fast, as are rooms! So, grab your tickets, and book your room at Azalea Inn & Villas for the Savannah Film Festival.
Azalea Inn and Villas, a Savannah GA bed and breakfast inn, invites you to reserve a room today to begin enjoying the best experiences in our city, which Travel + Leisure Magazine acclaimed | 587 |
Mary Nation joined back in 1997 as a Conveyancing Solicitor and became a Partner in 2006. She went on to be responsible for both the Property and Probate departments at the firm dealing with all sorts of legal matters with a particular speciality in agricultural property.
Marius was born in London but grew up in South Africa. Before getting into law he spent three years travelling across the globe. He was admitted as a solicitor in 2001 and gained experience in the areas of residential, commercial and agricultural property law.
QualitySolicitors Charlesworth Nicholl are a successful, friendly and established firm of solicitors based on Crediton High Street with a reputation for first class legal advice at an affordable cost.
Their philosophy is to provide their clients with a high quality personal legal service tailored<|fim_middle|> working environment, whilst maintaining a rewarding work/life balance.
They were one of the first firms in the region to achieve Law Society's Lexcel quality mark. They also have received the Conveyancing Quality Scheme accreditation and Investors in People award. | to suit their individual needs. They are clear and direct in our approach and in explaining what we can do and how. They seek to ensure that all of their lawyers and staff are able to meet the demands of a busy and challenging | 46 |
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND), or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a specific disease which causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles. Some also use the term motor neuron disease for a group of conditions of which ALS is the most common. ALS is characterized by stiff muscles, muscle twitching, and gradually worsening weakness due to muscles decreasing in size. This results in difficulty speaking, swallowing, and eventually breathing.
Sarcoidosis is a disease involving abnormal collections of inflammatory cells that form lumps known as granulomas. The disease usually begins in the lungs, skin, or lymph nodes. Less commonly affected are the eyes, liver, heart, and brain. Any organ, however, can be affected. The signs and symptoms depend on the organ involved. Often there are no, or only mild, symptoms. When it affects the lungs there may be wheezing, coughing<|fim_middle|> or early osteoarthritis.
Porphyria is a group of diseases in which substances called porphyrins build up, negatively affecting the skin or nervous system. The types that affect the nervous system are also known as acute porphyria, as symptoms are rapid in onset and last a short time. Symptoms of an attack include abdominal pain, chest pain, vomiting, confusion, constipation, fever, high blood pressure, and high heart rate. The attacks usually last for days to weeks. Complications may include paralysis, low blood sodium levels, and seizures. Attacks may be triggered by alcohol, smoking, hormonal changes, fasting, stress, or certain medications. If the skin is affected, blisters or itching may occur with sunlight exposure.
Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is a type of brain inflammation due to antibodies. Early symptoms may include fever, headache, and feeling tired. This is then typically followed by psychosis which presents with false beliefs (delusions) and seeing or hearing things that others do not see or hear (hallucinations). People are also often agitated or confused. Over time seizures, decreased breathing, and blood pressure and heart rate variability typically occur.
Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a genetic disorder in which there is a decreased ability to repair DNA damage such as that caused by ultraviolet (UV) light. Symptoms may include a severe sunburn after only a few minutes in the sun, freckling in sun exposed areas, dry skin, and changes in skin pigmentation. Nervous system problems, such as hearing loss, poor coordination, loss of intellectual function, and seizures, may also occur. Complications include a high risk of skin cancer, with about half having skin cancer by age 10 without preventive efforts, and cataracts. The risk of other cancers such as brain cancers also occurs. | , shortness of breath, or chest pain. Some may have Löfgren syndrome in which there is fever, large lymph nodes, arthritis, and a rash known as erythema nodosum.
Ehlers–Danlos syndromes (EDSs) are a group of genetic connective tissue disorders. Symptoms may include loose joints, stretchy skin, and abnormal scar formation. These can be noticed at birth or in early childhood. Complications may include aortic dissection, joint dislocations, scoliosis, chronic pain, | 111 |
This collection of guided meditations and meditation music is quite simply, the Ultimate Stress Relief Download. It includes a great selection of meditations that help to eliminate stress on all three levels - emotional<|fim_middle|> life. | , mental and physical. It also includes a rapid relaxation MP3 for people on the go, and an hour of relaxing meditation music to soothe you at any time of day.
Stress affects our emotions in many destructive ways and can lead to feelings of fatigue, irritation, depression, anxiety, negativity and disconnectedness from others. Deep Inner Stillness is a guided imagery meditation that will help you completely unwind. This soothing recording will guide you to a place of total stillness, where mental and emotional turbulence simply fades away. The sensation of deep relaxation and relief that comes from listening to Deep Inner Stillness can be addictive (in a really good way!).
Set Yourself Free is a Guided Meditation for experiencing deep relaxation, mental clarity, expanded awareness and joyous freedom. This soothing guided meditation eliminates the psychological effects of stress by relaxing the mind while encouraging light-heartedness and a more carefree, positive attitude. Using carefully crafted visualizations and meditative music, Set Yourself Free will take you on a relaxing journey to a place of mental stillness and will help you to develop a more relaxed "big picture" perspective on life.
Progressive muscles relaxation is one of the most effective stress relaxation techniques you will ever experience. It's also one of the most important. Even if you are only slightly stressed, you may not realize how much tension you build up in your physical body. This progressive muscle relaxation will guide you with simple exercises that help to release stress from your physical body. It relaxes your muscles, it helps to balance your blood pressure and heart rate, it will oxygenate your entire body, and it will bring you an overall sense of relief and deep rest.
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These three major types of stress all interact with and reinforce each other, leading to a vicious cycle of stress symptoms that can be very difficult to break. Mental stress can quickly lead to emotional and physical stress, and the resulting frustration and tension that this causes leads to even more mental stress . . . around and around the cycle goes. It's exhausting!
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The Ultimate Stress Relief Download is a wonderful program for addressing stress on every level. Download these high resolution mp3's and within minutes you'll be on your way to a healthier, happier, stress free | 688 |
At the show, I discovered an 18-month-old "embedded communications"<|fim_middle|> already taken. A person actually familiar with the product you're evaluating and isn't going to ask you irrelevant questions or provide unhelpful information.
But maybe talking to the dress expert in the retailer's call center isn't enough for you. Kandy can connect you, via video, with a personal shopper in one of that retailer's stores. Then, you can see the dress draped in front of you and described by a person who's holding it and who's well-positioned to pull complementary items.
Baublebar talks a lot about doing video chat from its jewelry showroom. That's not even embedded communications, which I also can see working well for both beauty and home improvement. Toy Genius, a small chain in New Jersey, uses toy store staff in white lab coats to make "ingenious" toy recommendations to customers in front of them. Through Kandy, the same brand story is activated through e-commerce when stores are open.
Sounds like an optimal customer experience. I particularly appreciate how it leverages people. People who are likely trained, passionate and should be enabled - not replaced - by technology. They're also people who may have extra time if store traffic has dropped more than labor hours should be cut. So this is a productivity add and maybe even a call center payroll savings.
I learned about what Kandy's doing with Toy Genius after the toy stores were closed for the day so I haven't yet seen it in action. The Kandy sales rep couldn't share other clients employing a similar strategy but tells me there will be more publicly announced in the next 12 months. If anyone has seen this type of service in action, please comment and let everyone know your observations.
One question I didn't get a chance to ask: Does all this work on mobile and through messaging? I hope so. From what I've seen, embedded communications is natural, contextual, and quite likely the future.
Whether it's through Kandy or someone else, I think and hope we'll once again talk about human intelligence as much as artificial intelligence and thoughtful recommendations as much as algorithmic ones. | company called Kandy. It lives in the cloud and its functionality is built on top of the existing enterprise software that powers call center operations.
Embedded communications is natural, contextual, and quite seamless.
Imagine being logged into a site and initiating live chat via text. You don't have to provide further identifying details. Maybe you're signed into your wireless carrier and you're browsing international data plans when you get stuck. Maybe you're on a retailer's product page and you're zooming in on a dress to determine its weave. The agent chatting with you can see where you are in the process and doesn't ask you to repeat steps you've already taken.
Now imagine having your live chat picked up not by a catch-all agent, but by someone at the call center who's seen the steps you've | 160 |
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using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
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/// Returns a <see cref="Vector4"/> with ones in all component values.
/// </summary>
public static Vector4 One { get { return new Vector4(1.0f); } }
/// <summary>
/// Returns a x unit <see cref="Vector4"/>
/// </summary>
public static Vector4 UnitX { get { return new Vector4(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f); } }
/// <summary>
/// Returns a y unit <see cref="Vector4"/>
/// </summary>
public static Vector4 UnitY { get { return new Vector4(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); } }
/// <summary>
/// Returns a z unit <see cref="Vector4"/>
/// </summary>
public static Vector4 UnitZ { get { return new Vector4(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f); } }
/// <summary>
/// Returns a w unit <see cref="Vector4"/>
/// </summary>
public static Vector4 UnitW { get { return new Vector4(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f); } }
/// <summary>
/// Adds two vectors.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <returns>The addition of the two vectors (a.x+b.x, a.y+b.y, a.z+b.z, a.w+b.w)</returns>
public static Vector4 Add(Vector4 a, Vector4 b)
{
Vector4 result;
Vector4.Add(ref a, ref b, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Adds two vectors.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <param name="result">The addition of the two vectors (a.x+b.x, a.y+b.y, a.z+b.z, a.w+b.w)</param>
#if !COMPAT
[MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
#endif
public static void Add(ref Vector4 a, ref Vector4 b, out Vector4 result)
{
result = new Vector4(a.x + b.x, a.y + b.y, a.z + b.z, a.w + b.w);
}
/// <summary>
/// Subtracts two vectors.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <returns>The subtraction of the two vectors (a.x-b.x, a.y-b.y, a.z-b.z, a.w-b.w)</returns>
public static Vector4 Subtract(Vector4 a, Vector4 b)
{
Vector4 result;
Vector4.Subtract(ref a, ref b, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Subtracts two vectors.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <param name="result">The subtraction of the two vectors (a.x-b.x, a.y-b.y, a.z-b.z, a.w-b.w)</param>
#if !COMPAT
[MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
#endif
public static void Subtract(ref Vector4 a, ref Vector4 b, out Vector4 result)
{
result = new Vector4(a.x - b.x, a.y - b.y, a.z - b.z, a.w - b.w);
}
/// <summary>
/// Multiply vector components by scalar.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="vector">The vector to scale.</param>
/// <param name="scalar">The value you want to scale the vector by.</param>
/// <returns>The multiplication of the vector (v.x*s, v.y*s, v.z*s, v.w*s)</returns>
public static Vector4 Multiply(Vector4 vector, float scalar)
{
Vector4 result;
Vector4.Multiply(ref vector, scalar, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Multiply vector components by scalar.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="vector">The vector to scale.</param>
/// <param name="scalar">The value you want to scale the vector by.</param>
/// <param name="result">The multiplication of the vector (v.x*s, v.y*s, v.z*s, v.w*s)</param>
#if !COMPAT
[MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
#endif
public static void Multiply(ref Vector4 vector, float scalar, out Vector4 result)
{
result = new Vector4(vector.x * scalar, vector.y * scalar, vector.z * scalar, vector.w * scalar);
}
/// <summary>
/// Divide vector components by scalar.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="vector">The vector to scale.</param>
/// <param name="scalar">The value you want to scale the vector by.</param>
/// <returns>The division of the vector (v.x/s, v.y/s, v.z/s, v.w/s)</returns>
public static Vector4 Divide(Vector4 vector, float scalar)
{
Vector4 result;
Vector4.Divide(ref vector, scalar, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Divide vector components by scalar.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="vector">The vector to scale.</param>
/// <param name="scalar">The value you want to scale the vector by.</param>
/// <param name="result">The division of the vector (v.x/s, v.y/s, v.z/s, v.w/s)</param>
#if !COMPAT
[MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
#endif
public static void Divide(ref Vector4 vector, float scalar, out Vector4 result)
{
result = new Vector4(vector.x / scalar, vector.y / scalar, vector.z / scalar, vector.w / scalar);
}
/// <summary>
/// Calculates the dot product of two vectors.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <returns>The dot product of the two vectors (a.x*b.x + a.y*b.y + a.z*b.z + a.w*b.w)</returns>
public static float Dot(Vector4 a, Vector4 b)
{
float result;
Vector4.Dot(ref a, ref b, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Calculates the dot product of two vectors.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <param name="result">The dot product of the two vectors (a.x*b.x + a.y*b.y + a.z*b.z + a.w*b.w)</param>
#if !COMPAT
[MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
#endif
public static void Dot(ref Vector4 a, ref Vector4 b, out float result)
{
result = (a.x * b.x) + (a.y * b.y) + (a.z * b.z) + (a.w * b.w);
}
/// <summary>
/// Normalise passed in vector
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">The vector to normalise</param>
/// <returns>The normalised vector.</returns>
public static Vector4 Normalise(Vector4 a)
{
Vector4 result;
Normalise(ref a, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Normalise passed in vector
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">The vector to normalise</param>
/// <param name="result">The normalised vector.</param>
#if !COMPAT
[MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
#endif
public static void Normalise(ref Vector4 a, out Vector4 result)
{
float length = a.LengthSquared;
if (length > 1e-6f)
{
float inv = 1.0f / a.Length;
float x = a.x * inv;
float y = a.y * inv;
float z = a.z * inv;
float w = a.w * inv;
result = new Vector4(x, y, z, w);
}
else
{
// If the length is greater than the tolerance then we just force a return of a unit vector.
result = new Vector4(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Normalise this vector
/// </summary>
public void Normalise()
{
Vector4 result;
Vector4.Normalise(ref this, out result);
this = result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Linearly interpolate between two vectors.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <param name="t">The interpolation weighting applied in the range 0 to 1, where 0 is Vector A and 1 is Vector B</param>
/// <returns>A linear combination: a when t=0 or b when t=1 else a point between.</returns>
public static Vector4 Lerp(Vector4 a, Vector4 b, float t)
{
Vector4 result;
Vector4.Lerp(ref a, ref b, t, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Linearly interpolate between two vectors.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <param name="t">The interpolation weighting applied in the range 0 to 1, where 0 is Vector A and 1 is Vector B</param>
/// <param name="result">A linear combination: a when t=0 or b when t=1 else a point between.</param>
#if !COMPAT
[MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
#endif
public static void Lerp(ref Vector4 a, ref Vector4 b, float t, out Vector4 result)
{
float x = a.x + (b.x - a.x) * t;
float y = a.y + (b.y - a.y) * t;
float z = a.z + (b.z - a.z) * t;
float w = a.w + (b.w - a.w) * t;
result = new Vector4(x, y, z, w);
}
/// <summary>
/// Linearly interpolate between this and another vector.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="vector">Vector to interpolate with.</param>
/// <param name="t">The interpolation weighting applied in the range 0 to 1, where 0 is this and 1 is Vector B</param>
/// <returns>A linear combination: a when t=0 or b when t=1 else a point between.</returns>
public Vector4 Lerp(Vector4 vector, float t)
{
return Vector4.Lerp(this, vector, t);
}
/// <summary>
/// Get the distance between two vectors.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <returns>The euclidean distance between a and b, you can also consider this the length of the distance (displacement) vector (a-b).Length.</returns>
public static float Distance(Vector4 a, Vector4 b)
{
float result;
Vector4.Distance(ref a, ref b, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Get the distance between two vectors.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <param name="result">The euclidean distance between a and b, you can also consider this the length of the distance (displacement) vector (a-b).Length.</param>
#if !COMPAT
[MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
#endif
public static void Distance(ref Vector4 a, ref Vector4 b, out float result)
{
float x = a.x - b.x;
float y = a.y - b.y;
float z = a.z - b.z;
float w = a.w - b.w;
result = (float)Math.Sqrt((x * x) + (y * y) + (z * z) + (w * w));
}
/// <summary>
/// Distance between this vector and specified vector.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="vector">Vector to calculate distance against.</param>
/// <returns>The euclidean distance between a and b, you can also consider this the length of the distance (displacement) vector (a-b).Length.</returns>
public float Distance(Vector4 vector)
{
float result;
Vector4.Distance(ref this, ref vector, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Get the squared distance between two vectors.
/// This is slightly faster as we avoid the square root, use this if you're just comparing distances.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <returns>The squared distance between a and b</returns>
public static float DistanceSquared(Vector4 a, Vector4 b)
{
float result;
Vector4.DistanceSquared(ref a, ref b, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Get the squared distance between two vectors.
/// This is slightly faster as we avoid the square root, use this if you're just comparing distances.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <param name="result">The squared distance between a and b</param>
#if !COMPAT
[MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
#endif
public static void DistanceSquared(ref Vector4 a, ref Vector4 b, out float result)
{
float x = a.x - b.x;
float y = a.y - b.y;
float z = a.z - b.z;
float w = a.w - b.w;
result = (float)(x * x) + (y * y) + (z * z) + (w * w);
}
/// <summary>
/// Get the squared distance between this vector and specified vector.
/// This is slightly faster as we avoid the square root, use this if you're just comparing distances.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="vector">Vector to calculate distance against.</param>
/// <returns>The squared distance between a and b</returns>
public float DistanceSquared(Vector4 vector)
{
float result;
Vector4.DistanceSquared(ref this, ref vector, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Reverse the direction of a given vector.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="vector">Vector to negate.</param>
/// <param name="result">The vector in the opposite direction.</param>
public static void Negate(ref Vector4 vector, out Vector4 result)
{
result = new Vector4(-vector.x, -vector.y, -vector.z, -vector.w);
}
/// <summary>
/// Reverse the direction of a given vector.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="vector">Vector to negate.</param>
/// <returns>The vector in the opposite direction.</returns>
public static Vector4 Negate(Vector4 vector)
{
Vector4 result;
Vector4.Negate(ref vector, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Reverse the direction of a given vector.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="vector">Vector to negate.</param>
/// <returns>The vector in the opposite direction.</returns>
public static Vector4 operator -(Vector4 vector)
{
return new Vector4(-vector.x, -vector.y, -vector.z, -vector.w);
}
/// <summary>
/// Multiply vector components by scalar.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="vector">The vector to scale.</param>
/// <param name="scalar">The value you want to scale the vector by.</param>
/// <returns>The multiplication of the vector (v.x*s, v.y*s, v.z*s, v.w*s)</returns>
public static Vector4 operator *(Vector4 vector, float scalar)
{
Vector4 result;
Vector4.Multiply(ref vector, scalar, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Divide vector components by scalar.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="vector">The vector to scale.</param>
/// <param name="scalar">The value you want to scale the vector by.</param>
/// <returns>The division of the vector (v.x/s, v.y/s, v.z*s, v.w*s)</returns>
public static Vector4 operator /(Vector4 vector, float scalar)
{
Vector4 result;
Vector4.Divide(ref vector, scalar, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Subtracts two vectors.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <returns>The subtraction of the two vectors (a.x-b.x, a.y-b.y, a.z-b.z, a.w-b.w)</returns>
public static Vector4 operator -(Vector4 a, Vector4 b)
{
Vector4 result;
Vector4.Subtract(ref a, ref b, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Adds two vectors.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <returns>The addition of the two vectors (a.x+b.x, a.y+b.y, a.z+b.z, a.w+b.w)</returns>
public static Vector4 operator +(Vector4 a, Vector4 b)
{
Vector4 result;
Vector4.Add(ref a, ref b, out result);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Determines whether the specified <see cref="Vector4"/> is exactly equal to this instance.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <returns><c>true</c> if the two vectors are equal <c>false</c> otherwise.</returns>
public static bool operator ==(Vector4 a, Vector4 b)
{
return a.Equals(b);
}
/// <summary>
/// Determines whether the specified <see cref="Vector4"/> is not equal to this instance.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="a">First vector.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second vector.</param>
/// <returns><c>true</c> if the two vectors are not equal <c>false</c> otherwise.</returns>
public static bool operator !=(Vector4 a, Vector4 b)
{
return !(a.Equals(b));
}
/// <summary>
/// Returns the components of a vector in an array.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>An array with the components of the vector.</returns>
public float[] ToArray()
{
return new float[] { x, y, z, w };
}
/// <summary>
/// Return a string representation of the vector.
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
public override string ToString()
{
return base.ToString() + String.Format(": ({0}, {1}, {2}, {3})", x, y, z, w);
}
/// <summary>
/// Determines whether the specified <see cref="System.Object"/> is equal to this instance.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="obj">The <see cref="System.Object"/> to compare.</param>
/// <returns><c>true</c> if the objects are equal <c>false</c> otherwise.</returns>
public override bool Equals(System.Object obj)
{
if (obj == null)
return false;
if (obj.GetType() != GetType())
return false;
return Equals((Vector4)obj);
}
/// <summary>
/// Determines whether the specified <see cref="Vector4"/> is exactly equal to this instance.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="other">The <see cref="Vector4"/> to compare with.</param>
/// <returns><c>true</c> if the two vectors are equal <c>false</c> otherwise.</returns>
public bool Equals(Vector4 other)
{
return (this.x == other.x) && (this.y == other.y) && (this.z == other.z) && (this.w == other.w);
}
/// <summary>
/// Determines whether the specified <see cref="Vector4"/> is equal to this instance up to the given precision.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="other">The <see cref="Vector4"/> to compare with.</param>
/// <param name="epsilon">The precision.</param>
/// <returns><c>true</c> if the two vectors are equal <c>false</c> otherwise.</returns>
public bool Equals(Vector4 other, float epsilon)
{
return (Math.Abs(this.x - other.x) < epsilon) &&
(Math.Abs(this.y - other.y) < epsilon) &&
(Math.Abs(this.z - other.z) < epsilon) &&
(Math.Abs(this.w - other.w) < epsilon);
}
/// <summary>
/// Returns a hash code.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>
/// A hash code for this instance.
/// </returns>
public override int GetHashCode()
{
return x.GetHashCode() ^ y.GetHashCode() ^ z.GetHashCode() ^ w.GetHashCode();
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the component of the vector
/// </summary>
/// <param name="index">The | 5,737 |
My heart is full of joy and gratitude as I contemplate this unique gathering of women throughout the world. What a privilege it is to be part of this great sisterhood, united in our desire to strengthen our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and build up His kingdom. I pray that I may be guided by the Spirit as I speak to you on the very sacred subject of temple worship.
I will address the deep significance of building temples, why the ordinances performed in temples are essential to our salvation, and how to prepare to enter the temple.
I have witnessed and been greatly impressed by the sacrifices many members endure to get to the temple. Let me share one such story.
In 1976, when we were living in Costa Rica, the mission president asked my husband to help organize the first trip from the mission to a temple. The Central America Mission then included Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua,<|fim_middle|> on condition of our faithfulness to the covenants we make.
The sealing ordinances, such as temple marriage, bind families eternally.
The covenants we make with the associated ordinances we receive in the temple become our credentials for admission into God's presence. These covenants elevate us beyond the limits of our own power and perspective. We make covenants to show our devotion to build up the kingdom. We become covenant people as we are placed under covenant to God. All the promised blessings are ours through our faithfulness to these covenants.
The temple is a house of learning. Much of the instruction imparted in the temple is symbolic and learned by the Spirit. This means we are taught from on high. Temple covenants and ordinances are a powerful symbol of Christ and His Atonement. We all receive the same instruction, but our understanding of the meaning of the ordinances and covenants will increase as we return to the temple often with the attitude of learning and contemplating the eternal truths taught.
Temple worship provides opportunities to serve the dead by performing vicarious ordinances for them. Family history research may be done by anyone outside the temple walls, but the sacred ordinances our dead ancestors need for their exaltation can be administered only in the temple.
The temple is the house of the Lord. He directs the conditions under which it may be used, the ordinances that should be administered, and the standards that qualify us to enter and participate in temple worship.
The Lord told Moses, "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground."7 In Psalms we read: "Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
The Lord has designated the bishop and stake president to be responsible for determining the worthiness of individuals to receive a recommend to enter His holy house. We have to be completely honest with our bishop and stake president when they interview us before issuing a temple recommend. The gift we bring to the altar is a pure heart and a contrite spirit. Personal worthiness is an essential requirement to enjoy the blessings of the temple.
We prepare by obeying the commandments and seeking to do God's will. If you have not gone to the temple, start preparing now, for when the opportunity presents itself you will be ready and worthy.
When we go to the temple, we clear our minds and hearts of thoughts and feelings which may not be in harmony with the sacred experiences of the temple. We also dress in a modest, proper, and dignified manner. Our dress and grooming for this sacred occasion are signs of reverence and respect for the Lord and His holy house. Once inside the temple, we change into white clothing, which symbolizes cleanliness and purity. We are then ready to participate in the quiet reverence of temple worship. This eternal blessing is available to all who are worthy to receive it.
What can the women of the Church do to claim the blessings of the temple?
Through His prophets, the Lord invites those who have not yet received the blessings of the temple to do whatever may be necessary to qualify to receive them. He invites those who have already received these blessings to return as often as possible to enjoy again the experience, to increase their vision and understanding of His eternal plan.
Let us be worthy to have a current temple recommend. Let us go to the temple to seal our families eternally. Let us return to the temple as often as our circumstances will permit. Let us give our kindred dead the opportunity to receive the ordinances of exaltation. Let us enjoy the spiritual strength and the revelation we receive as we attend the temple regularly. Let us be faithful and make and keep temple covenants to receive the full blessings of the Atonement.
I testify to you that the temples are sacred, holy places. They are a source of spiritual power and strength. They are a place of revelation. They are the house of the Lord. In the sacred name of our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, amen.
2. See 1 Kings 5:5-18; 6.
3. See 3 Nephi 11:1.
6. Discourses of Brigham Young, sel. John A. Widtsoe (1971), 416. | and Honduras. The closest temple was the Mesa Arizona Temple. The trip required us to travel five days each way, crossing six borders. The financial sacrifice for most of those who went was great. They sold their television sets, bikes, skates, and anything else they could sell. We traveled in two uncomfortable buses day and night. Some of the members had used all their money to pay for the bus fare and had taken only crackers and margarine to eat on the way.
Why do members of the Church so willingly and happily make such great sacrifices to go to the temple?
I have never forgotten the great outpouring of the Spirit we experienced during the three days we spent at the Mesa Temple. I was deeply touched as I watched family members embrace each other with tears streaming down their faces after being sealed for the eternities.
Twenty-four years later the temple in San Jose, Costa Rica, was dedicated. Among those present at the session I attended were many of the families who had gone on that first temple excursion. They had waited faithfully and worthily for this sacred moment. They all can now attend the temple often because a temple in Panama was recently dedicated, and a temple in Honduras has been announced.
The Lord has always asked His people to build temples. The Lord commanded Moses: "Let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them."1 The portable tabernacle they built served as the central place of Israel's worship during their pilgrimage to the promised land. Its pattern and structure were revealed by the Lord to Moses. It was to be the Lord's holy house.
During His earthly ministry, the Lord regarded the temple as a sacred place and taught reverence for it.
At present, there are 128 temples in operation throughout the world, and many more are being built.
We have been instructed to build temples so that holy ordinances may be performed for both the living and the dead. These ordinances include initiatory ordinances, endowments, marriages, sealings, baptisms for the dead, and ordinations.
The initiatory ordinances provide us with specific immediate and future blessings.
The endowment embodies sacred covenants. It includes receiving instruction, power from on high, and the promise of blessings | 450 |
Always when buying a travel mug, you should not choose an accessory just because it comes from<|fim_middle|> coffee. It's a double-walled stainless steel travel mug with a tapered design meaning it can fit in different cup holder sizes.
Moreover, the travel mug has a transparent acrylic lid, so you can see just how much of your coffee is left in the mug. Unlike the Contigo Autoseal West Loop stainless steel mug we have shared above, this one will keep your cold drink up to 24 hours. However, if you buy this travel mug, you will need to buy a spill-proof lid separately.
The Thermos stainless travel mug is handheld and can carry coffee up to 16 oz. This type of travel mug is available in five different colors and can keep your coffee hot up to 5 hours and cold drinks up to 9 hours since it is designed with double-walled stainless steel. However, if you prefer dishwasher-safe travel mugs, then this would not be your best option since it must be hand washed.
The TOMIC travel mug is a product from a UK-based company that boasts the production of high-quality household accessories. This double-walled vacuum insulated travel mug has eight layers with an outer layer covered by rubber electrolytic grinding. The TOMIC double-walled vacuum insulated travel mug can keep your coffee hot up to 12 hours. What's more, it can withstand rust and mold and you can get it in four different colors.
The main purpose of buying a travel mug is to keep your coffee hotter longer. For that reason, you must invest in a vacuum-insulated travel mug. From these five, you can't miss one for yourself. | a trendy brand or how beautiful it is. The purpose of carrying coffee in a specially designed container is to ensure that you can finish drinking your tea or coffee before it gets cold.
Not only that, but you also do not want to waste your brewed coffee because it has lost its taste. Therefore, a travel mug that can keep your coffee hot for longer would be the best option for you.
Whether the travel mug comes from a trendy brand, or it is beautifully designed or it can fit well in your car's cup holder, if it cannot keep your coffee hot for long enough you better throw it away and choose from the five we are about to share below.
Remember, with the best insulated tumbler, you rest assured to drink a hot coffee even if you have a long commute or you have long working hours.
That said, here are the five best travel mugs to keep your coffee hot.
The Zojirushi travel mug perfectly designed with stainless steel insulation and in addition to that, it has a locking lid that won't allow your shirt to get dirty as a result of wasteful coffee spills.
The good thing about the locking lid of this travel mug is that it has a two-step release mechanism. That is to prevent coffee from splashing in your face when you open your tumbler for a drink.
Well, cleanliness is nearer to God but it is also healthy and with the Zojirushi travel mug, cleaning is not a hassle at all since you can take apart the stopper to clean it thoroughly. Moreover, the interior of the mug is also coated with a nonstick material. With this travel mug, you can enjoy a hot coffee for up to 6 hours.
The Zojirushi stainless steel travel mug can keep your coffee hot for up to 6 hours but here, is another crazy mug that can extend the duration up to 7 hours.
What's more, it is solid and leak-proof.
The 20 oz stainless steel travel mug comes with AUTOSEAL lid mechanism- other mugs have sliding lids that could leak easily but this one has a push lid button, so you just push the button to open the vacuum seal when you want to drink your coffee and when you release the button the lid closes automatically.
Did we mention that this is a vacuum-insulated stainless steel mug? This travel mug can also keep your cold drink for up to 18 hours.
The RTIC is a 20 oz travel mug capable of keeping your coffee hot for the time you intend to drink your | 513 |
Andrew Feinstein is Executive Director of Corruption Watch, an NGO that details<|fim_middle|> Blair, "Shadow World" reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade, the only business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives. Based on "The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade", the acclaimed book by Andrew Feinstein, the film explores how governments, their militaries and intelligence agencies, defense contractors, arms dealers and agents are inextricably intertwined with the international trade in weapons, and how that trade fosters corruption, determines economic and foreign policies, undermines democracies and creates human suffering.
Feinstein points out that since George W. Bush declared the War on Terror shortly after 9/11, it has become even easier to justify extreme government expenditures on defence and weaponry. One recent example of weapons systems costs running rampant is the F-35 jet fighter the U.S. is currently bringing into operation. The jets will cost US$94.6 million each.
Image: F-35. Caption: In 2012, the Auditor General of Canada Michael Ferguson published a report outlining problems with Canada's procurement of the F-35, including misinformation over the final cost. According to the Auditor General, the Conservative government knowingly understated the final price of the 65 jets Canada will buy by $10 billion. Photo: U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen. | and exposes the impact of bribery and corruption on democracy, governance and development. Along with two colleagues, he was voted South Africa's anti-corruption hero of 2014.
In the late 1990s, Andrew Feinstein, then-ANC Member of Parliament for South Africa's first-ever democratic government led by Nelson Mandela, hit upon some information that would change the trajectory of his life.
South Africa was negotiating a deal to buy jet fighter aircraft, but was paying 35 percent more than Australia had paid for the same model. Feinstein, who was on the chair of the ANC's study group on public accounts and official spokesperson of the National Assembly's public accounts committee, discovered the discrepancy was due to bribes that were being paid by weapons companies on the deal. When the ANC government refused to conduct a full investigation into the matter, Feinstein subsequently resigned.
Skip ahead to 2011 when Feinstein released, The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade. At almost 600 pages, the book details the veiled world of the weapons trade that liberal democracies engage in. In The Shadow World, Feinstein exposes—through myriad examples of arms deals spanning decades—the culture of corruption that represents the status quo in many Western countries. Feinstein reveals the intricacies of how arms deals happen, and why it's so easy for governments to get away with murder, either by their own hand, or indirectly through wars fought by other countries.
At the Wall Exchange lecture on November 7th at The Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, Andrew Feinstein will draw back the curtain on the shadow world of the global trade in weapons—its systemic corruption, highly technical nature, and the pervasive secrecy in which deals are concluded.
The shadow world refers to the relationship that exists in the grey area between weapons companies and the state. This bond tends to be extremely close due to the role that arms manufacturers play in both national defence and in determining economic and foreign policies through these arms trades. Feinstein points out that many of these companies were at one time state-owned companies, or in some cases still are. He cites France as an example, which owns two large weapons companies: DCNS, France's main naval shipbuilder, and the Nexter Group, a vehicle, artillery and weapons system manufacturer. The close relationship between arms suppliers and governments is reinforced by the continuous flow of people among positions in governments, big defence companies, the military, and intelligence agencies.
While writing Shadow World, Feinstein calculated along with Wall Associate James Stewart, a faculty member of the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC, that there have been roughly 502 instances where governments, companies or individuals had sold weapons into countries or regions in violation of UN arms embargoes. Only two have ever resulted in legal action; one of them ending in a conviction with a small fine. Prof. Stewart will moderate the Wall Exchange lecture.
"In many parts of the world people are feeling quite alienated from the political process, from the electoral process, and feeling that the nature of accountability between citizens and political leaders is somehow out of kilter," Feinstein says. This may be in part why from the beginning Feinstein envisaged his book giving way to a film. Since the documentary Shadow World premiered in 2016 at the Tribeca Film Festival, Feinstein has been touring the award-winning film to engage with audiences and prompt others to ask important questions, not only about the nature of the arms trade, but also about the nature and structure of our politics, or more precisely, the role of money in politics.
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Movie Makeover: Andrew Garfield, Spider-Man
Note: Sony has released the first image of Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man for the new series reboot. Thoughts below. – Dean Trippe
Looks like it's been knocked around a bit, but otherwise seems pretty cool to me. Fairly standard Spidey design, but you can see a few subtle details changed, like the spider emblem's legs bending into the red torso shape, the glove stripes, and the sectioned "belt" element. I kind of like how the costume looks like it's been modifed with red and blue paint rather than custom created by a mystical superhero seamstress.
Some folks have already noted the bumps on the wrists, possibly indicating mechanical webshooters. I'm cool either way on that, I suppose, though since we haven't seen the tech ones on the big screen yet, I'd like to see 'em. I look forward to seeing the mask and the back-spider, as well as a less battle-damaged shot, but so far, I dig it just fine. Garfield looks very Spider-Manish to me.
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21 comments to "Movie Makeover: Andrew Garfield, Spider-Man"
At first I thought "if it's not broke, don't fix it" but I must say I am digging the DIY aesthetic. It reminds me of the scenes in Kick-Ass where he orders the suit online, then modifies it.
Can't wait to see the mask. I hope it looks Ditko!
Bobby2889
I think they are really trying to go back to Lee and Kirby roots which is the right way to go and when the costume was first seen it was this gangly kinda creepy costume that was gaudy but spidery and a tad macabre and I think they've got that actually. Lee and Kirby suit was the same as current 616 is now but it came from nowhere. it came at the time of briefs and capes and you have a hero all crouched and spidery with these weird webs and it was new and different. Garfield looks like Spidey all lean and arachnidy
I love it! The darker colours and thinner, more detailed webbing remind me of Todd McFarlane's artwork. I hope they give him nice big eyes on the mask this time, too! The gloves look odd though….
dnwilliams
I really dislike it in comparison with the Raimi one, which was obviously a lot more faithful to the original Ditko design (that hasn't been wildly deviated from in the comics).
I don't like that gloves<|fim_middle|> be really cool to see.
Andrew Kilian
It looks like Peter Parker, but how long you want to bet before they do a third remake? A fourth? How about a fifth? Maybe they'll start filming the remake the same time they're filming this one. Ridiculous! There's no reason they couldn't just do another sequel.
Troy Carlson
I hadn't realized until I saw this, but Toby McGuire was a little too beefy for Spider-Man. I LOVE the slimmer, less "buff" figure he cuts here. Can't wait to see a less beat up costume shot.
Even if I wind up not liking the costume as much as the Raimi version, I'm looking for something else in this film. I really hope they make Spider-Man a little funnier in the remake. Hollywood is famous for forcing one-liners into movies where they don't belong, and here they get the ultimate smart-ass character and I can't recall one bit of banter from any of the three films, outside of some lame lines where Peter calls Osborn "Gobby".
CRAAAAWLING IN MY SKIIIIN, THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEEEAAL
I really, really like this! Garfield has the look of Peter Parker down pat! Oh the suit, right.
I really, really like this! Though I get the feeling that this might actually be some kinda proto-type for ol' Webhead's wrestling cage duds. I don't know why though. Still it's an awesome design that streamlines the classic nicely.
Can't wait to see the mask.
First off, Andrew Garfield looks brilliant. As much as I knew he'd make a good Peter Parker, I was skeptical he could still convincingly play high school, but this shot is an incredible evocation of Ultimate Spider-Man, which I think is their model.
The costume itself? Pretty good in macro, but it's a shame about all the unnecessary noodling. I think they've made enough changes to the palette and texture to distinguish themselves from the Raimi era without nonsensical stuff like the missing glove sections and belt. The latter looks really awkward, and reminds me of an Alex Ross crotch-arrow.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I see no DIY aesthetic or evidence of paint. It looks just as bespoke and "how'd a kid made that?" as the previous.
Hoylus
Andrew Kilian: There's no reason they couldn't just do another sequel.
apart from the fact that the third stunk!
I like the new costume, from what we can see. I also like the fact he's a skinny guy adds to the parker at school look.
Toom
There's no reason they COULDN'T have done another Batman sequel either, Andrew, but it turns out that discarding the continuity of a thoroughly buggered franchise is sometimes the best way to go. After the disaster of Spider-Man 3 I for one am looking forward to a new take on the character.
Those glove stripes seem a little…contrived, maybe, like they're just there for the sake of altering the design. Liking the DIY aesthetic and the texturing though.
I don't really buy the "Spider-Man 3 sucked, they HAD to reboot" argument. There were plenty of James Bond duds prior to Casino Royale, and they continued the same continuity until Die Another Day. That reboot made sense due to the 40-year history, but that's another debate.
Spider-Man 3 wasn't nearly the abomination Batman & Robin was. Was it a good movie? Not particularly. Did it have a lot of poor decisions? Sure thing. But it wasn't the nail-in-the-coffin that B&R was. People still would have seen a Raimi Spider-Man 4. I don't think that many people would have turned out for Batman Triumphant or whatever they would have called it.
That said, I like and dislike things about the costume. The gloves don't bother me, in fact I think they're my favorite thing about it. The costume is damaged, so I think the belt section is missing and hasn't been omitted. The backpack and/or lighting obscures his right side, so it's hard to confirm that. But the chest/torso webbing is what bothers me. If they don't continue it all the way, it just looks and feels lazy to me.
Kid Vorpal
I'm thinking this is his wrestling costume, and that he's on his way home after a bevy of bouts in the ring. I can't see them making such dramatic changes to what is a pretty iconic super-suit – just too big a departure, in my opinion.
Mike Lake
Wow… it's… wow. First I would like to call attention to the build of Spidey this time around… Perfect! This kid has the potential to pull this off nicley.
But to the business at hand, I really dig the special flares and touches that have made the suit something out of a young Spidey's league… I feel it is a very grown version of the high school web head. The first suit is supposed to be embarassing, and this is bad assery!
I like the gloves for the purpose of extending the design into a new modern twist (that I would assume is repeated somewhere i.e. boots) but it wouldn't work as well in a illustrated sence. I can't say too much more beyond the awesome insignia then that brings us to the almost indistinguishable fade of red to blue at the belt line. I think the webbing fades too quickly, but it may be a lighting thing. I agree with the point made about the addition of a belt piece but I doubt we'll see one.
NEED TO SEE THE MASK! That will determine everything…
Daniel Heard
So far, so good. I love the color treatment and the texture. The beltless torso makes the emphasis verticle and slim, acsentuating the lanky build of Garfield.
INSET WEBBING! This is fantastic. The embossed webbing was a nightmare for the skilled rubber suit makers to achieve, impossible for a novice like Peter. This looks like Peter took a dremel tool to a hand painted wetsuit and etched out the web and spider patern. Great Idea.
http://danielheard.squarespace.com/blog/2010/2/28/spider-man-movie-reboot-costume-concept.html
I wonder if they'lluse my painted hockey mask idea as well?
tbolt
Cool, love to see it with facemask in place. The actor has the skinny Ditko look that was missing from Toby's Spidey.
DannyIndeed
Amazingly enough, everywhere I look I seem to be in the minority. I really hope that the mask is awesome, because I reallllly dislike almost every aspect of this new costume:
1) The gloves are hideous. A glorious example of "overdesign."
2) The web pattern? Alex said it best earlier – "lazy." There's a larger version of this pic on other sites, and it's more noticeable there. And the way the coloring and texture have been applied to the red portions of the costume make me think of an old basketball.
3) Man, whoever built this suit really likes seams.
1) I like the spider symbol that blends into the outlines of the red portions.
2) I think the belt is "missing", but I like the implications. You can see a small point of red on his hip – so I'm guessing that the suit has a red "belt" section on the back that's part of the tights, and on the front it meets up with a separate piece that continues the pattern, such as additional web cartridges. Which indicates why he's walking home in his costume, as opposed to swinging home…
3) I like the brass ports on the wrist for the web-shooters.
I'm 99.9.% that this isn't a "prototype" or just the "wrestling suit." Mainly because I don't see how he would have gotten that type of battle damage in the wrestling ring, and it doesn't look all that "thrown together," especially with the custom web-shooter inserts.
DannyIndeed:
Hot truth.
DannyIndeed: 2) I think the belt is "missing", but I like the implications. You can see a small point of red on his hip – so I'm guessing that the suit has a red "belt" section on the back that's part of the tights, and on the front it meets up with a separate piece that continues the pattern, such as additional web cartridges. Which indicates why he's walking home in his costume, as opposed to swinging home…
I'd filed all the suggestions that the belt just wasn't in this shot under "wishful thinking" and came to the opposite conclusion about the red stripe that appears to go around the back, but looking closer the spider-legs terminate and the texture changes at the exact point a belt would go, so maybe.
DannyIndeed: I'm 99.9.% that this isn't a "prototype" or just the "wrestling suit." Mainly because I don't see how he would have gotten that type of battle damage in the wrestling ring
Yo: scratches on face = Lizard fight.
After taking a closer look at the pic, it would seem to me that the "belt" isn't gone from the design, just maybe ripped off in battle? You can see the style lines for where the belt should be, and see a bit of red on his hip where the front would meet up to the back.
I could be wrong, just an observation.
Looks like there may not be a "missing belt" — check it out: http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/archives/20930
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The belt missing is weird. I can't tell if it's a design choice, ifthe belt has been torn because of battle-damage (there looks like a shadow of it there and part of it remaining on the right hand side) or if there's going to be some kind of web-cartridge belt and he's just out of webbing.
I miss the thick, raised, silver webbing too. That was one of the modifications that Raimi made I liked. Super-curious to see the mask.
I really love this design. I especially love the backpack hung over the shoulder, and the more slender build which is what I've always imagined for spider-man. It really looks like instead of going just straight Ultimate Spider-man they're doing pretty much everything that Sam Raimi Didn't do. Which will probably make a really good franchise.
I do hope that Norman Osborn turns up in this movie which I think is pretty possible.
At first this picture made it look like the tone of the film may be more dark, but I'm thinking from what Andrew Garfield has said that it's really just going to capture the basic tragedies of Spider-man.
I'm super excited for this. I really wonder if they'll go for the big huge eyes. I haven't actually seen that on film so that might | 288 |
Have you noticed that a lot of things in your life have become complicated over the past few years? Do you find it difficult to get on with your life because of a traumatic experience or a major heartbreak? Is it a challenge to connect with the people surrounding you? Are you tired of feeling all these things over and over again<|fim_middle|> to take a step back from what is going on in your life and face all the issues head-on. You cannot keep on running away from your problems and concerns. Unfortunately, there are times when even you cannot pinpoint the significant issues that you have.
A counselor can help you with this matter. Through the counseling sessions, you will begin to understand what makes you feel certain emotions. At the same time, it can enable you to think clearly so that you can determine the issues in your life. In the long run, it can help you deal with the problems maturely and smartly.
When there are tons of things going on in your life, you may feel overwhelmed to the point that you will no longer know what to do next. At the same time, having too many priorities can also cause stress and anxiety. As you probably know by now, these two mental health concerns can be crucial.
The moment you continuously feel stress and anxiety, the more you will have difficulty in understanding yourself. To solve this, all you have to do is get in touch with a counselor who can help in clearing your mind. Having a clear and de-cluttered mind can help you think of smarter strategies to take hold of the wheel in your life.
Did you know that one of the several reasons why you always feel down and depressed is because you keep on thinking that everything is out of your control? As such, it is imperative on your part to turn your life around for the better. Do not fret because of the assistance of an effective counselor can make things happen. All that needs to be done is to find the right counselor and start from there.
Having a sense of control as to some aspects of your life will make you feel better. As such, you have to find the right professional who can keep you on track with all the complicated things going on in your life. You have to take it slow so that you will not feel any pressure from the counseling sessions. Enjoy every moment and understand the reality that you cannot see the benefits of counseling overnight. There is a necessity to do it regularly.
Another significant advantage of counseling is that it can give you a sense of relief since you can have someone to talk to. You can say anything you want to the said counselor so that you can unload yourself from the burdens of your thoughts and emotions. Sometimes, all it takes is to discuss your issues and problems with someone so that you can be free from negativity.
A great counselor is someone who will never judge you for your words and actions. He is a professional mental health expert who has a high level of empathy and communication skills. Having conversations with the counselor can help you process your thoughts and feelings. As a result, your mood will improve, and you can start having a better outlook on life. | ? If you answered yes to these inquiries, then maybe it is about time to think of the proper treatment that you can do to combat these problems such as counseling.
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Profile, cruise POL7004 on the Juan de Fuca ridge. The scale is by longitude; the cruise sailed along<|fim_middle|>0.25, and is Anomaly 1. It will often not be perfectly symmetrical.
Jaramillo event--half the magnitude for the ridge, and very short.
Marine magnetic profile interpretation. Includes time scale and anomaly names. | a parallel from west to east.
The ridge may or may not be easy to pick out.
Export the profile to Paint.
Enlarge the overall canvas in Paint so you can put a second profile below it. You may also want to add white space on either side of the profile, so you can move the reversed profile back and forth.
Reverse the x axis on the profile, on the right click, modify graph form.
Export a second version of the profile below the first.
Perform a flip horizontal on one profile. This gives a mirror image of the profile, and in geology legend, the accidental creation of a mirrored profile by looking at a clear overlay from the back led to recognition of the symmetrical anomalies.
Select the reversed profile, and move it to locate the best match.
Best match, with matching anomalies marked.
Ridge crest is at -13 | 173 |
Each arena is different and requires a different groomer. On the Level works with a select group of suppliers of grooming equipment. Our experience with grooming arenas covers the full range of arenas<|fim_middle|> only dust-control and freeze-proofing chloride that does not generate heat while controlling dust and keeping northern indoor arenas from freezing. Liquid magnesium chloride reduces year-round water consumption by up to 50% while keeping footing moisture content at 8-12%.
Depending on your geographical location, weather can play a big role on how well your arena surface performs over time. As a result of in climate weather, dust & freeze can often become an issue. We work closely with dust and freeze control suppliers to keep your arena performing at its best at all times. Most importantly, the products that we use and have built our reputation on are completely safe for your horses.
Another benefit of using the OTTO system is better drainage for your arena. Water will drain through the holes in the mat into its stone bed which then will carry that water into a drain away from the arena. This system allows water to drain immediately. This system is unique in that you don't have to wait for all the water to leave your arena to start riding, you can be riding while the mats and stone base are draining all the absorbed water from your footing.
One other additional benefit of the OTTO system is that the thickness of your base layer can be significantly reduced. As some of the pictures below illustrate, these mats can be used for both indoor & outdoor arenas alike.
Adding fiber to an arena not only helps cushion the footing, but it also increases the stability and reduces the shearing effect that sand alone can have. One characteristic of fiber is that it tends to join together and overlay one another. When this process happens, it helps stabilizing your arena footing. In addition to adding cushioning to your footing, the moisture retention of the fibers reduces the amount of watering needed and helps trap small dust particles.
On The Level understands that your horse's wellbeing is important to you. How important is the weight of your horse weight? Do you know how much your horse weights? When was the last time your horse got weighed? Why Weigh?
Weighing a horse helps to determine dietary requirements and horse characteristics such as age, metabolism, breed and weight. By weighing, you not only know how much your horse is getting daily, but also if your horse is receiving a balanced diet and meeting requirements for forage and nutrients that are important for development and performance. Besides daily requirements, regular weighing can also help to determine the exact weight of horses prior to any anesthetic, tetanus, vaccine, medication or wormer is administered. One other key reason that is often overlooked is stress. Weighing allows you to monitor the stress level during competition and the travel associated. It also helps with analyzing recovery rate. | . These Groomers are used from backyards to international showgrounds.
On the Level understands how important it is to have excellent footing. We also understand that sometimes budgets can be limited. On the Level works with Precision EQ crumb rubber to provide a superior quality footing that is safe for your horse's performance and makes your horse very happy.
Something that is very important when using rubber footing is the particle size. Precision EQ has the perfect combination which creates a top-layer that absorbs impact from your horses but it also creates a bottom layer of rubber that blends well with sand. By using Precision EQ rubber and mixing it properly, the life of your footing will increase. Long term benefits such as low maintenance cost, improved porosity, improved shock absorption and decreased glare are also realized.
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Wait until you see these iCarly Party Supplies they are great! And I really like the iCarly message camera, it will be like a party game all by itself. It's going to be so much fun, if I were you, I'd buy a couple of them.
First let's talk about the iCarly party kits. There are two different party kits, one is the basic and the other is the deluxe. The basic has all the basic stuff you need for an iCarly party for a total of 8 guests.(that includes the birthday girl). The deluxe kit has a few extas, like invites and thank you cards...an iCarly tablecloth and balloons<|fim_middle|>!
Just pick and choose the items you need for your iCarly party ideas. If you want more information about a party item, just click right on the picture and it will direct you to our iCarly online party supplies catalog. Enjoy your online party shopping! | , even a cake candle.
The party favor kit is cute. It is filled with goodies for all your BFF's. The box itself is purple with blue stars and in it you will find an iCarly notepad, compact mirror, sticker sheet plus a pair of stick-on stone earrings, a lipstick-shaped pen, assorted-color feather ring. Now, that's full of fun!
The Camera...I am so glad we finally got to the camera! This is an iCarly message camera...take a picture and when you get the photo you will be with the kids from the cast of iCarly! I love these message cameras. They are so much fun!
You can also find a purple star pinata, get the pull string conversion kit to make sure it's a safe and a fun party game. Fill the pinata with some goodies and let each girl pull a string until someone finds the string that breaks open the pinata and lets the goodies spill out.
There are removeable wall decorations that will make any room look like an iCarly party room. Combine that with a deluxe party pack and some fun party favors and your party will be well on it's way to being the best birthday party ever | 246 |
Norwegian Dawn is a ship you love despite its flaws. Built in 2002 as the third ship in the Norwegian fleet to accommodate the line's Freestyle Cruising concept (lots of choices for restaurants, bars and entertainment), the ship has stayed modern with several refurbishments, the latest being a 2016 refresh of public spaces and cabin decor and the addition of new restaurants and bars. Its old bones do create some minor hassles, but the "let's have fun" mentality of passengers and crew and a plethora of options to accommodate all tastes means that nearly everyone has a great time onboard.
With 2,340 passengers, Dawn feels neither too big nor too small. The ship succeeds by offering so much choice. At dinner, you can choose from 11 restaurants, including no-charge Asian and pub food options and extra-fee steak, Italian, French and Mexican venues. The food is generally quite good, though a la carte pricing in most specialty restaurants takes away some of the carefree fun of trying out multiple dishes. Entertainment, day and night, is plentiful and varied. We especially appreciated matinee shows on sea days that spotlighted Second City comedians and the onboard magician, and the use of the Bliss Lounge, atrium<|fim_middle|> (or to be tempted by so many extra-fee dining venues). For others, Dawn's reasonable cruise fares -- many people on our trip took advantage of last-minute sales -- means they can afford to come onboard and then only pay for the things they really want. Many passengers mitigate the constant charging by taking advantage of booking offers, like free beverages or dining packages and shore excursion credit.
But, really, cruising freestyle means you shouldn't worry on your vacation. There's no dress code to make packing a hassle. You can try out four restaurants -- plus some extra poolside grills and buffets and continental rooms service breakfast -- without paying an extra cent. You will never be bored. Whether you're a first-time cruiser who lives near the homeport, a repeater enjoying the high life in a suite, a gambler looking to hit the jackpot or earn points toward a free cruise or a 9-to-5er looking for a warm-weather getaway from the daily grind, Norwegian Dawn has a place for you.
The shipboard crowd ranges from toddlers to seniors, with many in the middle range. Norwegian's "Freestyle Cruising" appeals to a mostly unpretentious clientele, and the overall vibe is super-casual and fun-filled. Expect a local crowd; for example, when the ship sails out of Boston, the passengers are predominantly from New England, New York and New Jersey. Norwegian Dawn is also a popular ship with members of Norwegian's Casinos at Sea Players Club and hosts several invitation-only casino tournament cruises each year. Repositioning and Canada/New England sailings do attract a generally older crowd who are less active at night.
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The rule of "Freestyle" is a relaxed dress code. Shorts, jeans and sneakers can be worn in all restaurants except Le Bistro for dinner, though many people do dress a little nicer at night. The only prohibitions are tank tops for men, flip-flops, baseball caps, visors, overly ripped-up jeans and swimwear. These are permitted in the Garden Cafe, though cover-ups or shirts and shorts must be worn over swimsuits and bare feet are not allowed. One formal-optional night, called Norwegian's Night Out, is when some passengers do choose to get decked out and take formal portraits. Smart casual is requested in Le Bistro; this means jeans or slacks, collared shirts and closed-toe shoes for men, and a dressy outfit for women (including jeans, slacks, dresses or skirts). Kids under 12 can wear nice shorts.
Passengers are also encouraged to bring a white outfit for the once-per-cruise White Hot Party. We were surprised just how many people chose to dress for the event. | and pool deck as secondary venues for evening events.
Perhaps it's the mainly Caribbean and Bermuda itineraries (read: fun in the sun destinations), but passengers onboard Norwegian Dawn are ready to have a good time. You'll find packed shows, dancing in the atrium, a hopping casino and even enthusiastic beanbag tossing. The lively vibe makes everything seem more exuberant, and you never have to worry about the "dead at 10" phenomenon you find on ships where everyone just wants to sleep after the second showing in the theater. The crew, too, are among the friendliest we've encountered, from the smiling "washy washy" folks at the buffet to the hardworking room stewards who never fail to say hello as you pass.
Unfortunately for Dawn, the ship can't shake its outdated layout and old finishings. The galley on Deck 6 means passengers can't walk from the Venetian Restaurant aft through the midship Gatsby's Bar and surrounding restaurants to the casino and theater forward. We never failed to go down the wrong set of elevators or stairs when looking for the Deck 6 main dining venues. On the upper levels, partial decks and added venues also add to the "you can't get there from here" confusion; the spa entrance is tucked away, the kids' pool is most easily accessed via the arcade one deck above and Los Lobos is so well hidden that we had to ask several people where it was before we found it.
The refit did a wonderful job of replacing garish decor with a more modern look, but be prepared for cabin furniture that's showing wear and tear, bathroom fixtures that might need a call to maintenance and elevator lights that never work. (We heard several tales of the elevators themselves getting stuck between floors, as well.) The most heard -- and experienced -- complaint was bathrooms that were out of order or in dire need of cleaning.
The last thing to be aware of is the rampant nickel-and-diming onboard. For some, it's an annoyance to be hit up for instant win game and raffle ticket purchases before every show or charged a la carte pricing at onboard restaurants that used to charge a flat cover | 444 |
Plaque: First state-aided housing in Islington
Erection date: 8/1/1921
This stone was erected the 8th of January 1921 in the Mayoralty of E H King Esq., J.P. to commemorate the first state-aided housing scheme commenced in the Borough of Islington.
CGE Fletcher, C.B.E. Town Clerk
ECP Monson, F.R.I.B.A., architect
Rice and Son, builders.
Commentary: No, we can't explain the purple bucket, but we do believe it to be a temporary embellishment.
Site: First state-aided housing in Islington (1 memorial)
N1, Halton Road, Halton Mansions
First state-aided housing in Islington
Halton Mansions was the first state-aided scheme in Islington, built in 1922-...
Rice<|fim_middle|> of the Uni...
Quakers - Memorial Buildings
To the left of this huge plaque there is a small, simple and extremely well-m...
Sir John Milsom Rees
Sir John Milsom Rees, GCVO, 1866 - 1952, surgeon, lived here, 1914 - 1939.Cit...
King's Cross fire - names
{On the top plaque:} King's Cross Disaster Fund In memory of the 31 people wh... | and Son
C. G. E. Fletcher
Islington Town Clerk in 1921, the year the photo was taken. Andrew Behan has...
E. H. King, Mayor
Mayor of Islington in 1921
E. C. P. Monson
Architect. Born Edward Charles Philip Monson, son of architect Edward Monson,...
Spitfire factory
{At the centre around a winged wheel with laurel wreath:}Palmer Hatton Street...
Rainbow Corner
RAINBOW CORNERThis plaque is placed here as a tribute to all ranks | 126 |
The duo of Everything But the Girl is composed of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. EBTG has a long history (going back<|fim_middle|>, I heard the song "Hatfield 1980" from the 1999 album Temperamental. I was so struck by the song (a dub-influenced downtempo track with a gripping beat and haunting lyrics) that, in order to listen to the end, I stayed in my car several minutes after reaching my destination.
It turned out that without knowing, I'd already heard the vocals of Tracey Thorn in such Massive Attack songs as "Protection." Further intrigued, I bought an EBTG best-of album and began to look into the EBTG back catalog. I discovered a band that seemed to be ahead of its time; for example, with "Before Today" and other songs from the 1996 album Walking Wounded, EBTG seemed to be anticipating what is currently called "intelligent drum'n'bass."
Official Everything But the Girl site - Everything but the navigation strategy, it seems. The main page leads to a mostly text-filled page that describes the site's rationale but does little to help the user figure out where to click next. A much more user-friendly starting point is the page named "Front of House Pass."
Lazy Dog - Site for Ben Watt's side project as a DJ. | to the early 1980s), and for most of that history I paid no attention to them. I think it was because I thought their name was stupid--why were they calling themselves "Everything But the Girl" when there was obviously a girl in the band?
Then, while driving | 60 |
The Priors Quarters
The Priors Quarters were inhabited by the Prior, the head of the monastery. This cell holds a private Oratorium, Library, Audience<|fim_middle|>sacartoixa
Your ticket for the: | Room, Bedroom, Dining room, Ave Maria and Garden, identical in all the cells.
The Chapel is presided over by a Gothic sculpture and served as the Prior's own private oratorium. Here the politician and man of letters, G. Jovellanos, used to hear mass while in exile at the monastery. In the antechamber to this chapel you can see a stone plaque commemorating his stay and another in memory of the priors who had lived here.
There are also some references to Saint Catherine Thomas, the only Mallorcan saint, who was born in Valldemossa and devoutly worshipped by the Carthusian monks.
The Library contains the monks' books and manuscripts. Each monk could only take two items to his cell to read at any time. The monks used to meet here, as a chapter, to talk during the half an hour a week permitted by their Order. There is a notable marble triptych from the 15th century representing the marriage between Marie de Montpellier (fleur de lys) and Pedro II (or Peter II) of Aragon (bars), the parents of Jaime I El Conquistador (James I the Conqueror); opposite is a chest with Our Lady of Sorrows and, in the central cloth, another triptych from the 16th-century Flemish school, showing the Adoration of the Wise Men. The ceramic covering the top of the shelves is from Alcora, Teruel and Catalonia.
The Audience Room was where the Prior would receive frequent visitors. The central glass cabinet contains royal letters, books on astronomy and an incunabulum by Ramón Llull El Árbol de la Ciencia (Tree of Knowledge), as well as two Papal Bulls from Pope Luna of Avignon, Benedict XIII (the antipope). Of note among the canvases hanging on the walls is Saint Andrew by Herrera, under the influence of the El Greco school. Opposite this is the Flight of the Israelites from Egypt, by Bassano.
Here we can go into the garden, where the foundation stone of the new monastery has now been placed. Each monk used to cultivate their own garden as they wished, being able to grow fruit and vegetables in combination with flowers.
The Dining Room was only used by visitors as the monks would eat alone. On the table is a map of the Carthusian monasteries established and, on the wall, another with the present-day monasteries. There is also a collection of Hispano-Arab pottery, easy to identify thanks to its metallic glints, as well as examples from Savona and Catalonia. On the left of the cabinet is the letter from King Martín I of Aragon (the Human), donating his palace at Valldemossa to found this Carthusian monastery, dated the 14th of June, 1399. To the right is the invoice from the Catalan sculptor, Adrià Ferran, for the sculptures of the saints he created for the new church.
The Ave Maria is a small vestibule, used by the monks to offer a Hail Mary whenever they entered or left their cell. An image of the Divine Shepherdess presides over this space.
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Many times I have heard that the best advice to new teachers is to be flexible. This is such excellent advice. So many times, there have been all kinds of unexpected events that have disrupted learning: fire alarms, field trips, assemblies that I didn't find out about, all manner of useless announcements over the PA system that cut you<|fim_middle|> sure if the latter one will be back to take finals.
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On a similar story, a student I had in the Fall had a family emergency so I cleared him to redo stuff and catch up. However, I don't think he ever really did and his coursework suffered. He's back this quarter in another section, but looking over his grades he's one of the top students. | off right when you're getting to the punch line at the end of the lesson, etc. Then of course, there are the issues that students bring.
I'll be administering finals over the next few days. Students invariably have all kinds of excuses and last minute issues and there is nothing else to do than to just roll with the punches. Some students told me they are going to skip school on Friday because of the World Cup. I told them it's their decision if they want to fail their math class.
Other students have very legitimate issues. One student's father passed away last week (and I know that this student would definitely not lie like this) and will miss school because of funeral preparations. Another student told me that her mother was sent to jail last week and she'll be skipping school to take care of younger siblings. I'm not | 169 |
Student to be intern in D.C.
Since he was 14 years old, Andrew Kress of La Verne knew his calling was to serve in government and politics.
The 22-year-old<|fim_middle|> politics. Once chosen, they undergo a two-week training session at the Panetta Institute.
Leon Panetta, a former California congressman, is now the director of the CIA.
During the training, Kress attended seminars on government policy with administration personnel, including former and current cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, senators and representatives.
"We touched on just about every major issue in those two weeks," Kress said.
After training, the group was sent on its way to the nation's capital.
The interns receive a stipend during their stay, as well as 20 academic credits upon completing the program.
"It's a very unique experience. It's much different than the vast majority of internships where you show up on the first day and can kind of fumble around a little bit. Whereas we were able to hit the ground running," said Kress, who hopes to pursue a career in public service, maybe in the international realm. | man is one of 25 college students who will spend their fall semester in Washington, D.C., participating in the Panetta Institute's Congressional Internship Program.
"It's kind of given me a perspective on politics and government that I could never get in a classroom," Kress said.
For 11 weeks, the group will work in the offices of California's House delegation and receive hands-on experience in democracy.
Kress will intern with Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Gold River. His duties include tasks such as sorting mail, giving tours, attending committee hearings and conducting legislative research.
"It's my understanding here that everyone has the same basic goal of making this country a better place," he said.
Kress will returns home in mid-November, and finish his final year at Cal State Long Beach.
Kress hopes to gain a greater appreciation for the policy-making process and a better appreciation of politics.
The program, sponsored by the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, chooses interns based on scholastic achievements and interest in | 211 |
Topaz Energy and Marine secured a contract with a unit of BP (BP.L) to supply 14 offshore support vessels in the Caspian Sea for up to seven years, the Dubai-based oilfield services firm said in a statement on Thursday.
According to the information spread by Topaz Energy and Marine.
The contract with BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Limited runs for five years, with two one-year extensions at current market terms, and will primarily support the A<|fim_middle|> added. | CG and Shah Deniz II fields offshore Azerbaijan, it said.
No value for the contract was given in the statement. However, based on the company's average day rate for its core fleet disclosed in its third-quarter results, it would be worth around 541 million USD if both extensions are exercised, according to Reuters calculations.
Topaz will supply large anchor-handlers, platform supply vessels and emergency response and recovery vessels under the contract, the statement | 91 |
So, in some of the latest watercolour artworks, his childhood locations seems to be filtered by space and time, in a dremy dimension, such as in "La piana / The plain" (2013), where the water turns – passing by a dreamlike thick stripe of blurry vegetation – in a foggy sky, or in "Luci autunnali / Autumnal lights" (2010), for example, a landscape with dark brown/grey and grey/blue shades, river's and fogs' lights that come from the wetty plain up to a high sky.
In the end, "Notturno / Night" is a bold composition made with a mixed technique, where the entire painting is occupied by a completely clear plot of land which appears as a perfect abstract artwork.
Luigi Meregalli uses very sophisticated and refined techniques, but they're never shown off. We can also understand that, in the obsession of the noises and the stunning screams, he goes looking for these places, which are those of his childhood and even a little of our: mankind's childhood places.
Luigi Meregalli has always been involved in a complicated and patient artistic research that has found in the watercolour technique the ideal means of expressivity; his latest artworks are intense, full of pathos and with a thick and heart breaking melancholy for the colours and the heal of life.
A painting technique that has been inspected for a long time also by the great masters of the past, really complicated and often ungrateful or, as the artist himself likes to highlight, watercolour is a real discipline, that leaves nothing to chance, but everything allows those that with perseverance and dedication investigates for many years its time and secrets.
Only a continuous and enthusiastic research, easy and seductive flattery-resistant, always curious and open to new, original and unexpected technical solutions, today guarantees Meregalli effective tools to recover the ancient art transforming it in a dry language of contemporaneity.
Weak beloved countryside's and sweet native Lombard locations' mnemonic traces, or the intimate and secret poetry of glimpses of the Garda lake and Venice, are projected in a dreamlike and alienating dimension, where every real fact is patiently reported, but almost magically sublimated.
every reference dissolves, details and outlines come together and confuse themselves in the<|fim_middle|> the mind well before the eye, and by the mind filtered till they became the works that, one day after the other, take shape from the artist's strokes. Every work is a unique breath of life, in which light is a valuable aid. Bystander is placed facing but also living inside the work. And the work is an eyes wide open dream. Water can melt every border, makes it pervious. It's allowed to get in the work and what's inside it can easily get out. Everything is played on a stage that allows imagination to take place as the same time with factual reality. It is a tough technique to master, but Luigi Meregalli proves to be at home with it, taking us to a trip through ever changing worlds. Nowadays he performs gentle forays into the world of acrylic, using strong and emotional landscapes to achieve and fullfill his works.
In the silent-wrapped paints of Luigi Meregalli everything seems to be still, stopped in an eternal moment by a sensitive hand. However, the look slowly runs along the brush strokes' rail that wraps and marks the irrepressibly time passing, which consumes that instant and multiplies it "ad libitum", as if it was an highly imaginative musical score, where dense and deeply engaging colouristic notations take place of the sheet music.
Everything, in the artworks of this artist, becomes poetry by image; poetry that speaks through colours that are composing variously in front of the pleasantly fascinated observer's gaze.
Luigi Meregalli's poetic represent solid reality with its organic style, creating a rhythmic weaving using nature's colours and season's changings, generating compelling colloquial compositions instead of using extreme colours in twine just to bring simply visual effects.
The leitmotif of the poetry that puts the "look beyond the horizon", borrowing the title of a master's artwork, is given in the works made with acrylic paints as well as with the watercolor technique, by the stroke clearness and from imaginative plasticity, both in perspective and, above all, in argumentative choice levels.
In other words, you can understand that "beyond", that works as an ideal "mark" for both our and the artist's introspective dimension, where the look lose itself.
So, it's really worth getting lost, and then found, in Luigi Meregalli's art, letting ourselves being pleasantly enchanted by his original atmospheres.
With an immediate and irresistible power, Luigi Meregalli's work is able to contact the observer: as a poem where the wise signs, as allusive words, reveal atmospheres, thoughts, moods. We don't find in the works only a nostalgic lyricism, that sometimes seems the only tone, people ascribe to the watercolour. There're, in Meregalli's painting, outstanding, suspending atmospheres and slight instants, those seem to dissolve every clot of concreteness. There're the peaceful beauty too, in bright landscapes and open skies or in secret foreshortenings and corners, those tell about moments of melancholy. But other works (especially the most recent ones) strike us with a dramatic strenght, with a sense of oppression, that shows through views of suburbs or trees, those burn and lighten towards anguished skies. This evolution doesn't appear in a more expert technic (it always has been refined), but in the inquiry about a new, true and more dramatic way to communicate. New colours, reinterpreted signs tell us about a restless soul, an uninterrupted testing of unusual methods, original codes to construct a deep dialogue: as the artist wants to tell us his emotion looking at what he has seen, not to describe it. To express more than to display.
Luigi Meregalli has travelled throughout all watercolour fields and has uncovered a heart capable of perceiving all the nuances which stem from the blending of water and colour, transparency and reflection. Meregalli can be said to have explored every path watercolours can lead to. Watercolours have told the artist all their secrets and potentials. He has experienced the mist of the plain of Lombardy and the warmth of the verdant Garda Lake. He has walked the narrow streets and wards of Venice and has always searched for the poetic and evocative nature of all these places. Meregalli has woven a thick weft resembling a precious lace made of images and of what his colours weave, invent and re-create. Our eyes perceive a new world to discover with the artist's same astonishment and wonder because his paintings invite us to enter a visual suggestion which expands into emotions and becomes history. Luigi Meregalli has enriched the spectrum of his colour nuances and has extended the perimeter of the painting to the meanders of liquidity. He has laid stress on the image depth, thus achieving seductive results and is now ready to set off for a new creative journey into his "visual Poetry".
Meregalli's works, beside their figurative approach, do not merely dwell upon descriptions. Evoking and informal poetry is the result of the artist's mastery of his watercolours.
Luigi Meregalli takes us by the hand and leads us into a world made of tangled bushes and trees, clear waters, paths across the country. Every Meregalli's work is a journey into a friendly and serene nature moulded by the man. Contrary to what may happen in a city or in a forest, getting lost in this nature is almost impossible. "Losing oneself in a city the same as in a forest is hard to learn since the names of the streets need to sound as the creaking of dead wood to the wanderer's ear and the inner lanes need to clearly beat the time of the hours passing by just as gorges do." Walter Benjamin, in "infanzia berlinese". Even though the destination is unknown, the artist offers the certainty of a safe journey thanks to the encouraging and gentle atmosphere of the landscapes. The public walks at a light step staring widely and deeply and breathes the air of the heart of life. These gently modelled landscapes arouse questions and subtle uneasiness, yet they do not cause anxiety. They just spur the sharp desire to perceive. It took Meregalli long years and patience to create this poetic world and to refine his knowledge of watercolouring.
…Meregalli is really a watercolourist of ancient touch, his expressive key is borrowed from far readings. His touch is absorbed and impressive where the colour should remain impressed on the surface, while it's unstrained and pale where the atmospherical background suggests to enlarge the tone-masses. Meregalli knows his figurative role very well and he moves away from its borders toward a shrewd abstraction.
…Luigi Meregalli is in love with nature and his lyrical images unwind on the soft notes of watercolours. The country is lived from the depth with a gentle and romantic soul in a lyric dimension. The technique is very fine and its shades and marblings are fresh also in the most difficult backlights and in some chromatic efflorescences. Everything becomes tenderly sentimental: melancholy is really the effusion of a dreaming and crepuscular soul.
…nature is narrated with the trembling and elegant touch of watercolours through quiet assonances and sweet colour's vibrations. Luigi Meregalli turns landscape-views into pale outlines that change their chromatic aspect according to the atmospheric light. Tonalities wind on the paper and spread in a multitude of shades, dimming images and dissolving their structure. The most restless soul calms down in these paintings; the sensation of tranquillity and peace shrouds everything.
…Luigi Meregalli is an artist who has found the starting point for a research of the emotional dimension in nature, its rhythms and its colours. He usually paints with watercolours and he's able to dominate this technique with skill, obtaining communicative, tender and intangible results, similar to the atmospheres from which he takes inspiration.
…his painting is built and compact and it reveals a pure atmosphere balanced by search and achievement. Besides the natural references, Meregalli's experience wants to build up nature, his inspirer, through an inner introspection and a search of essentials. | elegant, unforgettable visions created by the artist and the relentless fog of the oblivion that everything envelopes suspending everything in space and time.
Nature's colours and shades turn into moving, sensitive, emotional vibrations which open to the observer, without any secret, the intimate feeling of the restless painter.
A really rare and surprising technical mastery, result of daily patient experimentation, allows Meregalli to combine the immediacy of the creative act, particular of the painting technique chosen by the artist, with the ability of blending colours and atmospheres, joking with light to make places and memories become untouchable, playing dangerously at the same time with water to catch and control the air.
This is how the recent, fascinating and with a vague taste of minimalism artworks of Luigi Meregalli are born, lacking of any human presence, but ideal and silent scenic design for the intense, unanimous and desperate humanity's chant, today always more lonely and shaken, eager of certainty and peace.
It's in the water's nature to flow, to slip untouchable and impossible to circumscribe. And when, finally, it stands still, water changes showing its emptiness and vagueness to the eye. For such a behaviour and status pheraps it's seen as the cradle of life, the way to achieve purification and a centre of regeneration. When the water meets the color, the alliance is as hardest as it could ever be. Few can manage and follow water's temper and fully understand its faint frontiers, indistincted as they are with the whole horizon. Luigi Meregalli is a watercolour master. His landscapes and shapes take form from the soft brush's sediments on the paper. Landscapes and shapes lose their physical firmness, to almost became unreal. They are life's settings seized from | 365 |
Wardell Armstong + GIA JV brings wind analysis to VU.CITY
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More cranes than ever before are appearing in our expanding skylines. In September, Manchester reached its highest number ever recorded with 64 cranes on site at schemes dotted throughout the 'capital of the North', with tall buildings soon to be scattered across the skyline. As a result, in the planning process these developments would have had to go through wind microclimate assessments.
Test, rebuild, test, rebuild, test. That's the traditional and monotonous routine of assessing buildings in wind tunnels.
A traditional wind tunnel and model which usually has 10-20 data points
Invented towards the end of the 19th century, the UK has around 17 tunnels spread across 7 universities as part of the National Wind Tunnel Facility initiative. The tunnels are often used to test aerodynamics of planes, cars, as well as buildings, which means slots are in demand and costly.
Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD, modelling, which uses numerical analysis to predict movement, has reduced the demand for wind tunnel testing. However historically, for some, it was viewed as not being absolutely reliable and wind tunnels are still often used to verify predictions. Developments in software and processing speeds are changing that view though, and the advantages to programmes and budgets are clear.
<|fim_middle|> we can provide a really high standard service to clients without a high cost base that will lead to large fees."
"CFD is being used alongside wind tunnels, however what we want to do is take CFD all the way through the process and we want to do it with local expertise and at a local base cost."
Currently, if the development is already within an existing VU.CITY baseline model, clients can get reports instantaneously. If it's not, it takes a couple of days to input and to run the model, 5-6 days to get the data and 1-2 weeks for reporting time.
"The key to this service is the flexibility because wind tunnels are very expensive and with them are fixed dates that can't be moved," added Sam.
Adrian Rigby, partnerships director at Wardell Armstrong, added: "This can be treated as a design tool in its own right, with this software any design amendment can be incorporated into the 3D model very quickly.
"There's a limitation on the amount of data you actually get from a wind tunnel assessment because the data points amount to half a dozen to a dozen realistically. In a 3D computer model the number of monitoring points are effectively infinite."
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The service is available now and the cost varies depending on the size of the development.
For queries on the service contact Adrian Rigby at arigby@wardell-armstrong.com or Sam Wallis at sam.wallis@gia.uk.com. | A joint venture between engineering consultancy, Wardell Armstrong, and rights of light specialist surveyor, GIA, will see Wardell Armstrong's wind microclimate software, which uses CFD, integrated with GIA's VU.CITY 3D digital city models to create a new layer and provide accurate wind measurements.
The wind microclimate software was developed by Paul Evans, technical director of energy and climate change at Wardell Armstrong, who manipulated an open source piece of code to make it useful for modelling in an urban environment.
Tall buildings have the potential to alter their local environment and affect the microclimate. They can influence how wind travels across a site and potentially can make it unpleasant at ground level
VU.CITY provides interactive digital city models aimed at those in planning or development into which users can import their own 3D model, placing proposals in context to assess their likely visual impact, gauging scale and massing. GIA currently uses VU.CITY to assess daylight and sunlight models and the wind service will sit alongside that.
Key to service is flexibility
The pair of companies hope the service becomes a more cost effective, viable alternative to wind tunnels whilst also speeding up the testing process and enabling designs to be updated more quickly to provide wind mitigation options.
Sam Wallis, managing partner of GIA, explained how for GIA this joint venture is a perfect fit: "We can bring our existing products and infrastructure together to form something that suits both our businesses really well. We're excited about it because we feel like | 310 |
This deliciously moist Orange Drizzle Cake is so easy to make. Loaded with a Pimms drizzle and piles of fruit, it's a must make summer bake.
I'm such a bit advocate of just getting into the kitchen and baking. We can spend heaps of time thinking about making something perfect, but sometimes, you just need to whip something up in a few minutes, that's super delicious. Right? Oh hello Orange Drizzle Cake with Pimms!
This is the perfect cake to take with you to a summer<|fim_middle|> into the cake, so you may need to add it slowly.
Allow to cool in the tin, then turn out, and top with the fruit just before serving. | party, a barbecue or make as a gift for a friend.
We all love a drizzle cake, what could be better than an Orange Drizzle Cake.. with a taste of summer!
How do you make an Orange Drizzle Cake?
This easy Orange Drizzle cake recipe is based on a lemon drizzle cake recipe. It's a simple sponge cake, with orange zest and some added Pimms (yesss!). It's baked in a loaf tin, for a nice, simple, one pan cake.
Whilst it's still hot, you simply add a sugar syrup mixture, an easy way of icing really. It sinks in to make a gorgeous moist Orange Drizzle Cake.
Serve this sponge cake as fresh as possible. No more than two days after baking for it to taste as good as possible.
Use the zest of your oranges in the cake batter and save them to use the juice in the drizzle icing.
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Skewers – These are SO useful for so many little jobs in the kitchen! Testing cakes are cooked, pricking things (like this cake), testing vegetables. Once you've bought a set, you'll wonder how you lived without them. I like these Metal Skewers Set on Amazon.
Good Quality Loaf Tin – A sturdy tin that conducts the heat evenly will really make a different to your bakes. This Non Stick Loaf tin on Amazon is a good buy.
Fancy some other easy cake recipes? How about my Gin and Tonic Cake Bars or my Nutella Cake?
Hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do. I'd love to know how you got on and what you thought of it if you make this Easy Orange Drizzle Cake with Pimms recipe. Please rate the recipe and leave me a comment below if you do.
This deliciously moist Orange Drizzle Cake is so easy to make. Loaded with a Pimms drizzle and piles of fruit, it's a must make summer bake.
Beat in the eggs one by one until combined. Wipe down the sides of the bowl between each addition.
Add the flour, orange zest and Pimms, and stir in until totally combined.
Pour the batter into a loaf tin, lined with baking paper.
Bake for 35 - 45 until a skewer comes out clean.
Whilst the cake is still hot and in the tin, prick it all over with a skewer (or thin knife).
Mix the sugar, Pimms and orange juice in a small bowl and drizzle over the cake. It may take a while to sink | 588 |
One of the most important, and yet fun parts of buying an electric bike is taking the models you are most interested in out for a test ride. Just like buying a car, once you have narrowed the selection down a test ride will help you finalize your decision.
Visiting several bicycle shops that carry the e-bike brands you are most interested in will allow you to put aside skeptics, reviews, and research. Helping you answer the most basic question, which e-bike do I love the most?
So put on your bike shorts and helmet and go for a ride. Check your list and get a feel for which electric bike is best for you. Also, don't forget to bring your driver's license and a credit card along. Some shops may require you to leave your identification card with them. Or, they may want to swipe your credit card in case some damage happens on your test ride.
Does the electric bike you are looking at climb hills, haul cargo, or help you keep up with freinds the way you expect?
And finally, while riding, is the quality and functionality what you expected?
Now that you are back from your test ride, does the e-bike you like the best fit into your budget and is there a warranty? Buying an electric bike is a big investment, regardless if it is $1,500 or $<|fim_middle|> warranty on parts, motor, and battery (with no exclusions for normal use) is reasonable to expect from most electric bike manufacturers with bikes selling for over $1,500.
Most of the questions above can be answered at a bike shop that carries the model you are interested in. Or, they can easily be answered by the experts at the E-bike Challenge Minneapolis, March 23-24, 2019, see video below.
So, make your list of question and come prepared to test ride some of the best e-bikes available in the market.
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A rare opportunity to purchase a fine five bedroom detached individual house standing in a<|fim_middle|>. As such, Waterside Properties have not inspected the property, and are therefore not able to verify the correctness of any of the statements of fact contained herewith. | wide plot that extends to over a third of an acre (0.39) at the head of Bosham harbour, about fifty metres from the harbour front. Little Orchard has views across the harbour to one side from the first floor and offers enormous potential for improvement and extension, subject to the appropriate local authority consent. The present accommodation includes on the ground floor an entrance hall, cloakroom, a bright sitting room with a shallow bay window, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, study, studio/music room and ground floor double bedroom with en suite bathroom. On the first floor there is a master bedroom with en suite bathroom, three further bedrooms and family bathroom. The gardens are predominantly arranged to three sides of the property and are attractively landscaped with an outdoor swimming pool and a double garage.
The delightful waterside village of Bosham is a conservation area and a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty; a paradise for sailing enthusiasts and a haven for wildlife. Within the village there is a vibrant sailing club, a meandering narrow high street with tea rooms, village pub and a charming Saxon church. Bosham Walk Arts and Crafts centre hosts a range of independent shops. The cathedral city of Chichester is about four miles and offers excellent high street shopping, many fashionable restaurants, cafes and bars, Festival Theatre and a mainline station to London Victoria.
PLEASE NOTE: This property is being offered directly for sale by Waterside Network affiliated agents Henry Adams LLP of Chichester, and all information and photographs have been provided by them | 308 |
Would Your Company Sign<|fim_middle|> investors and other stakeholders about the outcomes. | the Davos Compact? Tell me why or why not.
The World Economic Forum in Davos just completed their winter conference. One hundred leading businesses signed a compact as a framework for the role of their business in society. The Forum's International Business Council will now work on a way to measure long term progress.
I'm greatly encouraged about the positive vision these companies are embracing for the future. CEOs are investing in meaningful ways to not have government be the answer to some of our greatest challenges. Instead, business must take the lead in partnership with many stakeholders, including government. I believe it's the only way we can adapt to the dramatic changes ahead.
One quick illustration. McKinsey & Company had a great concern with youth unemployment. They began a work called "Generation," making a $75 million philanthropic commitment to help get unemployed youth into jobs. They are working across five countries, providing youth training – 10,000 now have jobs. They developed a successful methodology, and corporations are partnering with them. Their goal is to train one million youth to get jobs!
As the CEO of Philips said, "We need a True North - a mind set shift." It's all about leadership and leaders being responsive to all of their stakeholders. It's about investing in a long term future and not being seduced by short termism.
So please reflect on the Compact below. Would you sign it? If not, why? Perhaps you know if you did sign, there is no way you could get your board's support? I want to hear your voice! If you would sign it, what do you especially like? Should anything be added or modified? I plan to collect your comments and publish them in a future blog post. We as leaders can learn together. If you want your name deleted from your comment, I will do so.
Society is best served by corporations that have aligned their goals to serve the long-term goals of society.
Encourage periodic review of corporate governance, long-term objectives and strategies at the board level as well as clear communication between corporations, | 418 |
Houndsmoor is a mid 17th century property, extensively refurbished in the late 19th century and now kitted out as an excellent<|fim_middle|> no near neighbours. Listed Grade II, it is constructed of local stone with a tiled roof.
Inside there are outstanding, well-proportioned reception rooms and many period features add character throughout the house, including mullion windows, open fireplaces and a superb barrelled ceiling in the master bedroom. The bright drawing room in particular has a wonderful open fireplace. Upstairs, in addition to the master suite are three further bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Outside is a very good range of traditional barns – the property was once a farm house on the Huntsham Estate – as well as a courtyard swimming pool by an open-fronted Linhay with a summer kitchen and a loft above. An open workshop and a tractor barn complete the outbuildings. The delightful gardens include a pond and an orchard. Total grounds come to around three acres.
Houndsmoor occupies this very private position which is still just 1.5 miles from the hamlet of Uplowman and six miles from Tiverton, which provides local amenities and has trains to London Paddington. | family house in a very private position with | 8 |
Scots get above-inflation rise
The UHI Millennium Institute, which hopes to become a university in 2007, has topped this year's Scottish funding allocations for higher education with a cash increase of 5 per cent.
This is the first time that UHI, a partnership of 14 colleges and research institutes in the Highlands and Islands, has come fully under the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's funding formula.
It was put on transitional funding after being designated a higher education institution in 2001, pending an audit by the Quality Assurance Agency. UHI has done well because of its success in widening access, including attracting part-time students, and its increasing focus on research - in particular, work geared to the needs of the local community.
Overall, Scottish funding will rise substantially next year in the wake of Scotland's spending review.
There are no shocks in this funding round. Every institution wins a cash increase, and the average rise is an inflation-beating 3.4 per cent - marginally better than the 3.1 per cent rise in England.<|fim_middle|> supporting new and developing areas of research has risen by 2.5 per cent to £2.8 million.
This year's package also includes the first £25 million tranche of a three-year, £150 million capital fund for learning and teaching facilities.
Shefc believes that this, combined with £103 million for research facilities from the Science Research Investment Fund, will help ensure that Scottish institutions remain competitive nationally and internationally.
Roger McClure, Shefc's chief executive, welcomed the new capital funding.
He said: "Good fit-for-purpose facilities are simply essential to support students' learning and international research. They also encourage business to work with the sector to develop a buoyant, modern economy."
olga.wojtas@thes.co.uk
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Scottish teaching and research grants 2005-06 | Student numbers in initial teacher education, the allied health professions and dentistry are to rise, but these will be funded by the Scottish Executive's education and health departments.
Shefc is keeping its own student numbers steady, raising the funding per student by 2.5 per cent to meet inflation. It has significantly expanded the budget for wider access and disabled students.
Shefc's main research grant has risen by 4.4 per cent to nearly £156 million. The bulk goes to 5 and 5* departments, but every institution has been given at least 2.5 per cent to cover inflation.
Ministers believe that all higher education institutions should do research, and Shefc has boosted other funding streams.
Its knowledge transfer grant rises by 32 per cent to £12.5 million.
It has earmarked £10 million for research that shores up national government strategies, and its fund | 185 |
Home » District Of<|fim_middle|> building area covered annually by benchmarking policies across U.S. jurisdictions.
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This graphic compares commercial building policies across the U.S. Download the PDF to see both pages of the full graphic. | Columbia
District of Columbia's Clean & Affordable Energy Act
The Clean and Affordable Energy Act of 2008 (CAEA) was passed unanimously by the DC Council on July 15, 2008, and signed into law by District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty on Aug. 4, 2008. Among other energy conservation and efficiency initiatives, the bill required for the first time in any U.S. jurisdiction that the energy performance of commercial buildings be annually rated and disclosed to the marketplace. Roughly 75 percent of DC's greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings. Additionally, energy is the largest operating cost for office buildings in downtown DC, accounting for 32 percent of operating expenses -- 10 percent more than the next highest expense -- according to data from the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International. Public buildings were benchmarked beginning in 2010 and disclosed thereafter via an online database (link below). Private buildings must submit benchmarking scores every year, with the size threshold phased in over time. Annual disclosure, requiring the posting of an ENERGY STAR Statement of Performance, will occur via an online database open to the public and administered by the District of Columbia.
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Washington, D.C. Dethrones L.A. for Top ENERGY STAR City
Blog post by Chris Potter, Senior Communications Associate at IMT.
D.C. Releases Energy Data for Large Private Buildings
The 2013 data shows DC's private buildings to be highly efficient.
Beyond the Gridlock: How DC Is Creating a Sustainable Future
Post by Cliff Majersik, Executive Director of IMT.
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Avengers – Self-titled deluxe reissue
A reissue more than two decades in the making of this seminal punk album. One of the best punk albums of all time and a true classic in a nicely packaged reissue that only loses points<|fim_middle|> (or even the old, short-lived CD version), and if you don't have it you can finally remedy that without paying a fortune or settling for an inferior sounding bootleg.
Spokanarchy! DVD
Public Image Limited – Live at Rockpalast 1983 DVD
Lew says:
I bought a copy of this CD at Punk Rock Bowling. Penelope signed the front cover for me after they played their set. | for not including the lyrics in the fancy booklet.
Avengers – Self Titled deluxe reissue – 2CD
Water Records
In the late 1970s, seminal San Francisco punk rock band, The Avengers released their first single on the legendary Dangerhouse Records as well as a four-song 12″ EP on White Noise records. Both records made a pretty good splash and the band, though short-lived, became hugely influential on countless generations of punk rock that followed. Before disbanding the band had recorded an album's worth of material that was released posthumously on the CD Presents label as a self-titled LP, affectionately referred to as the "pink album". That album went out of print by the very early 1990s and remained unavailable for two decades on any format except in the form of bootlegs. The rights to the album were something of a controversy between the band and their former label which only added to the delay in any kind of reissue happening. Eventually whatever issues that existed were all ironed out and the result is the album is finally available again in a remastered and expanded edition that gives the album and the band the respect that is rightly deserves.
The Avengers was easily one of the best, if not the best female-fronted punk rock bands of all time. They were also one of the first in America (along with X). The music was what could now be viewed as classic 70's punk rock, but it was faster and harder than the bands that came before them (such as the Sex Pistols) but not so fast that they were hardcore (which really hadn't happened yet when they were around). For as energetic and hard-edged as their music was, it was still quite tuneful. The LP became one of those all-time classic punk albums that either is, or should be a staple of any respectable punk rock record collection. Everyone I knew who was into punk rock back in the early 1980s loved The Avengers LP and nearly everyone I knew had a copy. It is a perfect album from start to finish of young, energetic punk rock with good lyrics and great tunes. It is also a timeless album that sounds as good today as when it was first released three decades ago.
It wasn't enough just to reissue the album by itself, instead they went all out and made this a deluxe package. Disc one contains the original 14 song album that was remastered for this release. The original CD version of this album sounded pretty poor and was vastly inferior sounding to its vinyl counterpart. This has been remedied and the album sounds as good as ever and is nice, loud, and clear and packs the punch it always had but was lost in the mastering on that original CD. The second disc has 17 songs that are demos, outtakes and live recordings. The sound quality on the live recordings varies in quality but is mostly quite good and a few of the tracks were recorded at their show at Winterland opening up for the Sex Pistols final show. The historical merit alone justifies their inclusion, it is a bonus that the sound was good on these recordings.
This 2CD set is packaged in a standard jewel case. It has a nice booklet with good liner notes and a ton of photos and flyer scans. The only glaring omission of this package is that they didn't include the lyrics to the songs inside the booklet. The photos are great, as are the flyers, but it's a shame they didn't spring to make the booklet an extra couple pages longer so they could print the lyrics too (at one time back in the day you could buy an Avengers lyric booklet for a dollar via mail order).
This reissue was a long time in the making and for years it looked like this album was never going to see the light of day again. It is wonderful that this important and influential album has now been made available again and a bonus that it is in such an attractive package, and that a lot of care went into its presentation. This is well worth double-dipping for if you still are holding onto your original vinyl | 837 |
Q: Oracle Sql CASE statement returning data based on row count I want<|fim_middle|>100) FROM ode WHERE ode.parentid = ode.childid) ), ml.someotherID)
Note: Oracle prefers varchar2() to varchar(), so you should use that unless you have a good reason for not using it.
| to select one id in my query as orderid which is based on a condition.
If it is present in another table ode with condition parentid=childid. then i should return that child id. Else i will be picking the id from another table ml
For that i have written this query and is returning data as expected.
CASE
WHEN (SELECT COUNT(childid) FROM ode WHERE ode.parentid= ode.childid)>0
THEN CAST((SELECT ode.childid FROM ode WHERE ode.parentid= ode.childid) AS VARCHAR(100))
ELSE ml.someotherID
END AS orderid
Is there any better way to rewrite this query? instead of repeating the select statement again (once for count and then for value)
A: Usually, it is better to put such logic in the from clause rather than in the select clause. However, without the rest of the query, it is hard to see whether that it the best method.
For your approach, you should use exists rather than select count() in the subquery:
(CASE WHEN EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM ode WHERE ode.parentid = ode.childid)
THEN (SELECT CAST(ode.childid as VARCHAR2(100) FROM ode WHERE ode.parentid = ode.childid) )
ELSE ml.someotherID
END) AS orderid
You could also simplify this to COALESCE():
COALESCE( (SELECT CAST(ode.childid as VARCHAR2( | 304 |
Marlow Cowan, whose playful piano duet in our Mayo Clinic atrium with his wife, Frances, became a YouTube sensation and led to national and international TV appearances, has passed away at age 97.
One of the last questions a week ago my Dad asked me was, "Do you think there will be a piano in heaven I can play?" (Of course our Dad could never pass up a piano without playing it). I told him I was certain there was something similar to a piano but much more glorious and that I was sure he would be joining with the angels playing it for the Lord.
So if you happen to hear some rag-time music floating through<|fim_middle|> So with DeDe's permission, I want to share some memories of Marlow and also let you remember (or see for the first time) for yourself. Read the rest of Lee Aase's: Memories of Marlow Cowan. | the air, smile....cause it's just our dad playing the piano as he brings joy to those who have gone before him.
Mr. Cowan certainly brought joy to millions while he was here. | 40 |
There are nights like last Tuesday night, when anything that can go wrong, does.
The Shelton High boys basketball team was down 11-0 three minutes into the game, 19-3 five-plus minutes into the game, and were never able to recover in falling 77-63 to host Cheshire High in a Southern Connecticut Conference Housatonic Division match up.
"We got off to a bad start, and it unfortunately took us out of our game plan," said Shelton coach Brian Gardiner, whose team also lost to Amity of Woodbridge, 50-36, on Friday night, and stands at 5-6 overall, and 1-3 in the Housy.
Cheshire shot an incredible 14-of-21 from the floor to start the game, including 5-of-8 from three-point range.
"They're a good team," said Gardiner of the Rams, who are 6-4 overall and 3-1 in the Housy and has wins over traditional SCC powers Xavier and Career.
By the time Shelton scored its first point against Cheshire on a Christian Federici free throw 3:37 into the game, the Rams were already up 11.
Casey Belade notched the Gaels' first field goal after seven misses one minute later, but Shelton was still down 14-3.
Cheshire added five straight points to take a 19-3 lead, and still led 22-6 with 2:17 left in the first quarter.
Shelton showed signs of life with a 7-0 run, highlighted by a Pat Murphy trey to cut the Cheshire lead to single digits, 22-13.
Cheshire answered with three straight points before Mike Davis hit a running 3-pointer at the buzzer to pull Shelton back within nine points, 25-16 after one quarter.
Cheshire scored the first four points of the second period.
Davis (13 points) had an<|fim_middle|> 14 points over that last stretch, including two 3-pointers.
The second of the two was set up by an assist from Chris Berritto.
Jake Camp made a pair of free throws and Matt Brouilette put back his own miss.
Sophomore Mark Piccirillo capped Shelton's scoring with a 3-pointer, cutting Cheshire final margin of victory to 14 points, 77-63.
On Friday night, the Gaels struggled offensively against division-leading Amity (9-2, 4-0) in a 50-36 loss.
Murphy was the only Gael in double-figures with 11 points, including three treys.
Malay and Belade each added eight.
Shelton hits the road this week looking to right the ship with games at Lyman Hall of Wallingford on Tuesday and East Haven on Friday.
The Gaels defeated both teams earlier this season. | answer, using the backboard to make a pair of shots and cut the Ram lead back to nine.
But Cheshire responded with back-to-back treys, extending its lead to 35-20 with six minutes left in the first half.
Cheshire cooled off, going 2-for-9 from the floor, and Shelton used the opportunity to get back within 40-30 at halftime.
Ben Malay had five points in the run and finished the night with 12 points.
Malay opened the second half with an 18-footer to pull the Gaels within eight points.
The Rams sandwiched two of their nine 3-pointers on the night around a Federici (11 points, six rebounds) bucket, then scored two more straight baskets to extend its lead to 50-34 midway through the third quarter.
Malay made a trey to stop Cheshire's momentum and Davis added a driving layup to cut the Ram lead to 50-39, and keep Shelton's faint hopes of a comeback alive.
But it did not last for long. The Cheshire offense continued to virtually score at will against the Shelton defense, always seeming to be at least a step or a pass ahead of the Gaels on this night.
The Rams went on a back-breaking 12-3 run spanning the end of the third and beginning of the fourth quarters to go up by 20 points, 64-44, and put the game on ice.
If there was one bright spot for Shelton on an otherwise disappointing effort, it was the play of the reserves.
Down 22 points with four-plus minutes remaining, Gardiner exclusively played his bench the rest of the game, and his reserves didn't disappoint.
Playing hard, aggressive basketball on both ends of the court, the Shelton bench outscored Cheshire 17-9 to end the game.
Belade led the way, scoring 10 of his team-high | 410 |
We've long been used to talking to our technology. Apple's Siri first launched six years ago, after all. But industry experts say that entirely voice-controlled gadgets, like Amazon's Echo smart speakers, are getting us more comfortable than ever with bossing around our tech.
The Echo works like this: You put one in your home and connect it to your Wi-Fi network. Then, after a bit of customization, you're able to order it to do certain tasks<|fim_middle|> says Andy Huntwork, who co-created Magic Door with his wife Laura Huntwork.
Taken together, these changes could help Amazon achieve its goal of making the Echo and Alexa the ultimate home assistant. And they would satisfy outside developers, whose contributions can make or break a platform — just think of how many non-Apple or non-Google smartphone apps you use and love. But more importantly, they would make the Echo and Alexa more useful, and better products overall. | using one of several "wake words," like "Alexa." You might ask the Echo for the latest news or weather, for instance. Third-party Echo apps, which Amazon calls "Skills," make it possible to order a pizza from Domino's or request a ride from Uber.
Following the success of the Echo, Amazon is bringing its voice-activated assistant to all manner of devices, from refrigerators to cars. Meanwhile, companies like Google and Microsoft are embedding their own virtual helpers in speakers. But it's still Amazon's Echo speakers and artificial intelligence software, called Alexa, that many experts consider to be leading the pack.
Alexa developer Jonathon Myers, who designed an interactive storytelling app called EarPlay, says users and programmers alike are still figuring out the best ways to use devices like the Echo. He likened the current state of affairs as similar to the early state of the Internet. "You would find a lot of pages that were just very confusing that you couldn't get through," he says.
How can Amazon make life easier for developers, and help them make better Echo skills? Here's a look at four improvements that developers want.
Right now, hailing an Uber or ordering a Starbucks coffee through the Echo sounds like this: "Alexa, ask Uber for a ride," or "Alexa, tell Starbucks to start my order." Justin Kovac, founder of Pargee, which makes a 7 Minute Workout skill for Alexa, believes giving developers more flexibility when choosing the phrase needed to activate their skills could make interacting with the Echo easier. For example, the Domino's app might benefit from users being able to say "Alexa, order pizza" rather than "Alexa, open Dominos and place my Easy Order" to get a pie.
"When you have to remember a script, you're an actor now," says Kovac.
Some apps already benefit from such simple voice controls. It's possible, for instance, to use the Echo to activate Internet-connected lights by saying, "Alexa, turn on my living room lights." But this type of functionality is currently limited to smart home devices and music playback. A spokesperson for Amazon says the company is exploring ways to improve this.
A potential drawback here is that allowing multiple trigger phrases would increase the chance of overlap between apps. If you have both Pizza Hut and Domino's Echo apps installed, for instance, they might confuse one another when you ask to order a pizza. "Just trying to avoid everyone stepping on each other's toes is another challenge," says Kovac. But he argues that users could be allowed to pick default choices for certain requests.
If you've got an Echo in your living room or kitchen, you're probably used to sharing it with your roommates or family members. And while it's possible to play multiplayer games like trivia challenges, the device is really designed as a single-person experience. Some developers would like to see this change. "Being able to have several people in a room together interacting with the device, that's a feature I think very much is in demand," says Myers.
One way to make the Echo more social: Enable it to distinguish between different people's voices. TIME exclusively reported last month that Amazon has been developing such a feature, known internally as Voice ID. While the company hasn't confirmed any plans to bring new social-focused capabilities to the Echo, reports from The Wall Street Journal and Recode also indicate that phone calling and an intercom system could be coming to Amazon's speaker in the future. When contacted by TIME about these features and others mentioned in this story, an Amazon spokesperson said she could not speculate on the company's future plans.
Numerous industry experts have called voice interaction the next evolution of the way we use computers. Still, the Echo is missing a feature that's been a monumental part of the smartphone experience: notifications. The Echo doesn't speak or provide information unless it hears a trigger phrase. A report from The Information suggests Amazon is working on adding audio notifications to the Echo, but the company hasn't yet announced any official plans to introduce such a feature.
Some Echo skills, like The Magic Door, a story-driven interactive game, feature voice actors who play the roles of various characters. But Amazon currently allows pre-recorded audio to play for only 90 seconds, which restricts the apps' writers. "We have done a lot with that, but it's a limitation," | 889 |
Levi F. Johnson. As it was only about sixty years ago that the first permanent settlements were made in Kansas, there are a number of the real pioneers still alive, men who can recount their experiences when the plains were covered with buffaloes, when Indians made camp along the creeks, when the prairie fires raged across the high grass, and when the woods were filled with game, the creeks with fish, and when everything was new and primitive.
Now living retired at a comfortable home in Winfield Levi F. Johnson had his share in the early making of Kansas, particularly of Cowley County. He made his first trip to Kansas in 1860 when he bought eighty acres of wild land near Frankfort, Marshall County. The unsettled conditions of the frontier made a permanent residence at that time undesirable, and it was not until after the war in which he fought bravely and gallantly as a Union soldier that he returned to Kansas, then a state, and entered upon his real work as a builder and homemaker. Mr. Johnson recalls many trips which he made years ago with parties to hunt buffalo, which could be still found in large herds. He had many exciting experiences on such expeditions, and he is one of the comparatively few men who can recall the actual taste of buffalo steak and the methods of hunting an animal which is now all but extinct.
Levi F. Johnson was born in Harrison County, Ohio, October 28, 1837, and has lived almost fourscore years. His parents were Aaron and Hannah (Feaster) Johnson. His father was born in Harrison County, Ohio, and died at Marion, Kansas, at the age of sixty-three. The mother's parents were Pennsylvania Dutch people. Levi F. Johnson was one of five children, the others being Rhoda, Daniel, Samuel and Mary. Of these Samuel and Levi are the only survivors. All the sons served in the Civil war. Daniel was killed at the battle of Chickamauga while fighting with the Fifty-first Ohio. Samuel was a member of the Forty-first Ohio Regiment.
Reared and educated in his native county, Levi F. Johnson after his first trip to Kansas and his return to his native state, was aroused by the news of the disaster at Bull Run, and hastened to enlist to defend the Union. He became a member of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and his early service was under General Grant. He participated in the capture of Fort Donelson, in the battle of Shiloh, at Corinth, and was in many of those battles leading up to the siege and capture of Vicksburg. He fought at Jackson, Champion Hill, and spent many days in the slow and steady approach to the Mississippi stronghold. Mr. Johnson says that during the siege of Vicksburg and contrary to the orders of the officers he and his Union comrades frequently visited with the rebels and traded tobacco and other supplies, and however bitterly they fought when time for battle arrived they were friends during the lulls of fighting. About the time Vicksburg fell Mr. Johnson was detailed to service in the Freedman<|fim_middle|> let the contract on his own responsibility for $2,800. The law then permitted commissioners to make appropriations in such cases if they saw fit, and in this instance he was reimbursed to the extent of $2,000. He also contracted for and built the first schoolhouse in District No. 61. This schoolhouse became the center of all neighborhood religious and social gatherings, a church and Sunday school having been started in a year or two after the house was put up. Mrs. Johnson was largely instrumental in these movements, and was one of the first Sunday school teachers in this neighborhood.
In November, 1910, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson removed to Winfield, the operation of the old homestead having been turned over to their son Robert C. The other children are: Minnie, wife of the Winfield hardware merchant, Thomas Backus; Eva, widow of Ed Sidel, living with her parents; and Rhoda, who has proven herself a very capable assistant to her father in general oversight of his extensive interests. Mr. Johnson is an active member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. | 's Bureau. He was placed in charge of a camp of refugee negroes at the Joe Davis plantation twenty-eight miles below Vicksburg. There efforts were made to render the negroes self-supporting. They were trained to grow cotton, and Mr. Johnson had the task of allotting lands, maintaining a general supervision over the former slaves, and distributing rations and mules supplied by the bureau. While in that work he received a discharge from the army, but was kept in his position until after the close of the war. During part of the time he had the management of about 2,000 negroes.
For three years after the war he remained in the South and was engaged in cotton growing. In a short time the price of cotton fell so that the growing of the staple became unprofitable, and after realizing only a few hundred dollars from his venture he returned to Kansas in 1868.
The next three years he spent on his eighty acres of land in Marshall County. Selling that to advantage in the spring of 1871 he sought what was reported as government land on the Osage Indian strip in what is now Cowley County. He paid the regular government price of $1.25 per acre and received his deed from President Grant. His purchase was in Beaver Township, west of the Arkansas River and six miles south and six miles west of Winfield. It was mostly bottom lands. Mr. Johnson had driven a span of horses and at once set to work to break up the ground, which he planted in corn. After the planting was made his crop received no further cultivation, but such was the fertility of the soil and the excellence of the season that the land produced one of the best crops of corn he ever saw. It also proved wonderfully productive of melons, potatoes and other crops. For his first dwelling there Mr. Johnson had a log cabin with a dirt floor.
In the meantime on June 12, 1870, in Marshall County he married Miss Dora Biggs, who was then a young lady of nineteen. She entered heartily into the pioneer spirit of living and helping, and a great share of the credit for the success which he has accomplished is due to this sensible and practical woman, who was not only a wife and mother but also a partner and sharer in all his undertakings.
Not far from their pioneer home was a little saw mill owned by a neighbor, and that produced the lumber needed for building purposes. Along the river grew many large trees, principally cottonwood and walnut, and the logs from these were worked up into the lumber which went into the early buildings in that section of Cowley County. In 1873 a larger mill was started and that mill sawed the timbers for the residence which Mr. Johnson still has on his farm. He also showed foresight and was not content merely with the crops raised from the virgin soil. He set out fifteen acres to fruit, and in a few years had an abundance of plums and apples not only for his own use and to supply his neighbors but also for the general market. He frequently sold as high as $180 worth of apples.
Besides general farming Mr. Johnson gave his attention to stock raising and by working on this diversified plan he got ahead rapidly and was able to buy other land when values were low. At the present time his ownership extends to 1,500 acres in that vicinity. Besides the old homestead he has 640 acres in a body five miles southeast of Winfield. He paid less than $8 an acre for that section of land and some of his land was bought at $13 an acre. He has also bought some valuable pieces of centrally located business property in Winfield, and that has proved a wise investment and insures a permanent income. Mr. Johnson is a director in the First National Bank of Winfield.
While he has always voted the republican ticket he has never been an office seeker. His public spirited efforts have been directed in a practical fashion to the improvement of his home locality. A number of years ago a bridge was badly needed over the Arkansas River. Appropriations for that purpose [p.1746] had twice been voted down, and he then personally assumed the risk and | 877 |
Il castello di Proh (pronuncia locale: prü) sorge in pianura nell'omonima frazione del comune di Briona, al limitare dei primi pendii delle colline novaresi. Fu edificato per volere di Francesco Sforza verso la metà del XV secolo probabilmente non per scopi militari in quanto a breve distanza esistevano già i castelli strategici di Briona, Barengo e Castellazzo Novarese.
Già all'inizio del XII secolo Corrado III di Svevia aveva concesso il feudo ai conti di Biandrate che eressero il cosiddetto "castellaccio" sulle alture retrostanti, andato distrutto nel 1362 durante la guerra tra il marchese del Monferrato e Galeazzo Visconti.
Come il vicino castello di Briona, a metà del Quattrocento passò in feudo ai Tornielli, seguendone le stesse sorti. Nel <|fim_middle|>ani della fondazione stessa coordinati dal giornalista e regista Gianni Dal Bello, inerenti alla storia, al paesaggio rurale, all'ambiente e all'evoluzione del territorio.
Nel 2021, con il permesso della Soprintendenza, è stata abbattuto un edificio fatiscente attiguo al Castello senza rilievo storico alcuno, che era pericolante e toglieva visibilità al lato Ovest alla fortezza.
Sul piano dei restauri, la Fondazione UniversiCà ha già sostituito un centinaio di serramenti ammalorati, ripassato il tetto ammalorato del pollaio attiguo, creato di vie d'accesso e spazi di sosta per consentire le future visite. Ulteriori interventi in programma riguardano la riqualificazione del parco attiguo al Castello e l'edificio stesso grazie ai fondi PNRR.
Per avvicinare il pubblico e valorizzare il bene e l'area limitrofa, l'UniversiCà ha avviato attività divulgative e walking tour che partono dalla fortezza detti "Smart Walking".
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Tornielli (famiglia) | 1495 fu occupato dall'esercito di Ludovico il Moro.
Nel 1597 passò ai Caccia mentre nel 1672 fu acquistato dai fratelli Cattaneo di Novara. Nell'Ottocento fu trasformato in cascina dalla famiglia Fantoni e, sul finire del secolo, venduto al conte Arese Lucini. Dal 1917 è di proprietà della famiglia Marelli di Milano. Nel 2020 i Marelli hanno affidato la gestione del Castello alla Fondazione UniversiCà che si occupa della creazione di musei multimediali.
Il castello ha subito nei secoli molteplici sistemazioni. Si presenta a pianta rettangolare asimmetrica con due torri circolari agli angoli nord-est e sud-ovest. In passato era circondato da un fossato, oggi scomparso, e presentava due ingressi dotati di ponte levatoio: una pusterla sul lato est ed una porta carraia ad ovest. Tutto l'edificio presenta un apparato a sporgere con lunghe caditoie decorate a dente di sega e ha un'altezza uniforme, ad esclusione del tratto di cortina tra la torricella d'ingresso e l'inizio del primo fabbricato sul lato orientale.
Come indicato dalla targa apposta all'ingresso, il castello, ormai in rovina, fu restaurato nel 1960, rispettando le forme originarie e ripristinando la torre più alta al lato dell'ingresso principale.
Degli affreschi che decoravano un tempo l'edificio sopravvivono solo un trittico sbiadito sulla parete est del cortile, raffigurante la Madonna col Bambino tra i santi, e lo stemma dei Cattaneo sulla torre sud-ovest.
La nuova vita del Castello: i restauri e la fruibilità
Dal 2020 l'area del Castello di Proh è interessata da un progetto di rivitalizzazione a cura della Fondazione UniversiCà che ha già dato vita al Museo UniversiCà di Druogno in Valle Vigezzo e al Museo Meina sul Lago Maggiore. La famiglia Marelli ha concesso in comodato il Castello per 25 anni alla fondazione. È in corso il restauro del castello per quello che è già stato denominato "cultural park delle Colline Novaresi". Il comodato è stato sottoscritto dall'ing. Carlo Marelli e dalla dott.sa Anna Belfiore presidente della Fondazione. Si intende aprire al pubblico il Castello con percorsi di visita che propongano anche contenuti multimediali, curati dallo staff di giov | 658 |
Rendezvous Music Festival, presented by Be Live Events, is returning to Beaver Creek, Colorado for a second year September 11 - 12, 2015. An intimate two-day fall music experience, it offers yet another dynamic lineup comprised of legends and new breakout artists from many genres including singer/songwriters, pop, country and Americana. The complete lineup is below.
Blending music, food, wine and entertainment to create a one-of-a-kind event for attendees in one of the world's most vibrant mountain settings, the first Rendezvous Music Festival received rave reviews from media and fans alike. The event is centered<|fim_middle|> memorable experience.
Tickets are available now via rendezvousbc.com or at the Vilar Performing Arts Center Box Office, VilarPAC.org or by phone 970-845-TIXS (8497). The official non-profit partner of the event is NSCD (National Sports Center for the Disabled), nscd.org, who receives a portion of all VIP ticket sales..
Be Live Events is a division of Be Music and Entertainment/LBK in Nashville, Tenn. Be Music and Entertainment is an artist development company that focuses on artist management, production, publishing and live events. For more information on Be Live, visit www.bemusicentertainment.com, and follow them on Facebook(https://www.facebook.com/bemusicentertainment) and Twitter(@BeMusicEnt). | in the heart of the Rockies and features outdoor stages, the Vilar PAC, in-home concerts, food and wine, all enjoyed among the breathtaking fall backdrop. Combining musical performances with friendly crowds, the Rendezvous Music Festival is certain to once again provide a unique and | 55 |
Mexico (Km 116,923)
I arrived in Mexico with my spirit on the floor. My escapade to Europe served no purpose but to unbalance all these years of travel, this project to which, inadvertently, I am giving my life. And so in the end, three months later, after 3,000 kilometers, I found myself feeling energetic. I don't know if I should pin it on the route itself, the warmth of Mexican people or the great mayan chaman lady who did a deep-cleanse healing to me.
Mexico – Km 116,923
After my trip to Argentina to make the documentary I traveled to Spain to give a talk at the XVII Jornadas: "El mundo en bicicleta" (The World in a Bicycle), organized by the municipality of Burgos. Each March this town encourages bicycle use, with audiovisual talks by long-distance bikers. It was a new experience and, even while I prepared during weeks, I was nervous at times; that day there were over 600 people in the audience.
After the speech, which I hope to develop further and to bring to organizations in the future, I traveled again. I went to Italy, to meet with Clara, from Sicilia, who basically travelled by my side between 2006 and 2009. Though we had never lost touch, we had not seen each other for more than 3 years. The production of the doc and her participation through and interview brought us together once more.
Not just because she had asked me, but also because I really wanted to see her again I did not hesitate to visit. It was smart from my side to talk with Luis Markina, a faithful follower of my trip, and ask him to be one of the hosts in Burgos in March, 2013. That way I could cover the costs of my trip to Europe.
This talk in Spain also made me relive the Sicilian history more than ever. And because over the years, every time we talked, we felt that our history was still alive, I began to wonder if we really did love each other, or if we were cowards seeking to please only ourselves …
So I thought that if we really desired, we had to do something for us, and therefore we had to act…
But something went wrong. Finally my trip to Italy did not help much, or perhaps it did?
Once back at San Diego, United States, I crossed over to Tijuana, where I thought I would start the last stage of my trip: Latin America. But Mexico would receive me with my spirit destroyed. My reunion with the Sicilian served no purpose but to unbalance all these years of travel, this project to which, inadvertently, I am giving my life. For the first time in all these years I came to consider ending the trip in a matter of months. "My life is wearing out", Clara would tell me in a tone of rage and disappointment, my same tone each time we argued.
For four weeks I biked down Baja California, heading to Guadalajara, with a defeated soul. Not even the warmth Mexican hospitality nor the new Argentinean friends I made on the road could make me forget the crossroad I was caught in.
Weather was starting to suffocate in Baja, and everything entailed an extreme effort from me. I was lacking strength to pedal, I did not feel like waking up in the mornings, nor was I hungry at lunchtime. I lost some weight and did not take advantage of many nice places I passed by. I was continuously thinking about cycling again with the Sicilian in Latin-America.
The route to La Paz stretches throughout 1700 kilometers. West to the peninsula, it runs by the Pacific Ocean, and the Sea of Cortes in the East. In the center there are chains of mountains that are over 1500 meters in altitude, fertile farmed valleys and long stretches of desert with cacti that were over three meters tall. The distance between villages oftentimes surpasses the distance that I could cover by bicycle in one day, and so on several occasions I had to resort to urban buses to ask for water.
During my tour in Baja I almost always camped; most of the time in solitude, on the beach, on the field or the desert, but also at the homes of the country dwellers, who received me hospitably in the villages. People in Mexico gave me first-class treatment.
The cost of life in Baja is way higher than in the rest of the country. The simplest room in a hotel is priced at a minimum of 30 USD, and a plate of food can be three times the price of other places. This is why it was such a blessing when Victor received me in Guerrero Negro. He organized a chat about my travels with the managers of the salt export company, and arranged for my stay at the company's hotel, with all costs covered.
Exportadora de Sal is the biggest salt exporting company in the world, producing over 7 million tons yearly. Both the Mexican government and Mitsubishi are associates in this company.
Ensenada, Lazaro Cárdenas, Mulege, Vizcaino, Rosarito and Constitucion were some of the places that I visited in Baja. I experienced some awful rising slopes there, as well as a road in very poor conditions, dangerous for not having a shoulder. One day at a rest stop in Santa Rita, I met Ernesto. He is one of the many truck drivers who drives up and down Baja California once a week. "From Tijuana we have less than 48 hours to get to Cabos," he told me. "One day to unload and reload, if needed, and again less than 48 hours to return to unload and leave again. It is risky, we work under pressure and barely make a wage that goes from 300 to 400 USD a week. We have less than a day of rest."
Days later, after taking the ferry to Mazatlán and heading to Guadalajara, I heard the terrible news about the Italian Mauro Talini, who had started in Ushuaia, Argentina, his bicycle trip towards Alaska. On a TV interview he told how his goal was to send a message to people who suffer from diabetes: despite the illness, one can achieve all goals and a better tomorrow. At that time, the Italian was pedaling through the Mexican state of Sonora, died after being hit by a truck, which never stopped to assist him but fled instead. My condolences to the people close to him.
In shock by the news, every time I had to take a highway without a shoulder, I told myself once and again: This is wild Mexico; people here have no cycling culture. In the city of Guadalajara groups of cyclists carry on the white bike program (la bici blanca), a citizen initiative that counts and retrieves the stories of the cyclists who die in public road accidents victims of motor vehicles. Bernardo, who hosted me in the city, is a member of the GDL en bici group. He says that in less than 3 years, they have hung up more than 100 white bicycles up trees or light posts in the city of Guadalajara alone.
I have not felt as vulnerable as I felt there even in India, Cairo or Indonesia, the worst places in the world to bike.
Luckily in Mexico one can also bike in the toll highway, when there is one; it has a good shoulder and less traffic. However, the distances between city and exit are long, so the charm of seeing the village and people are almost always absent from the tour.
I arrived in Guadalajara the day before the bicycle exhibit ExpoBici 2013. Days before, I had called the organizer, Helder. He had provided me with a stand to showcase my bicycle and sell mi documentary which, since months ago, is the only financing for my trip.
Many people email me asking about sponsors and how to contact them. I tell them that there is no formula nor contacts I can share. My sponsors have made a one-time contribution when I visit their country and they are the result of the thousand doors I have knocked. While most of those times I have been on the press mentioning them, I would dare say that almost always, the people and organizations that have helped me have done so out of solidarity more than commercial reasons, because they identified with my dream or simply empathized with me and wanted to help.
I would also like to turn to them again at certain times on my trip, but don´t allow myself to out of ethical reasons.
Guadalajara is not just one more city; there are several groups of cyclists and over 35,000 affiliated members. It is likely that due to this passion for biking it was not difficult to get the support that I needed. The Vazher bicycle shop provided me with the spare parts I needed, and kind people as Paco and Jose invited me to rest in their Motel: Ibiza. My most sincere thank you to them…
I left Guadalajara happy about the treatment I received from its people, but hurt because during my stay there, my Sicilian woman decided to give up our projects; "our story is over," she said. This tore me apart, because deep down I always thought that we would end up together. I hoped we would. While it hurts, I understand her. Even though it may seem that living traveling is wonderful, truthfully living this way is harder that it seems. She knows from experience.
When you travel under a tight Budget, there are a lot of limitations and you can get tired of it. It gets old to depend on people to open their doors, not to have your own bathroom, eating rice or 10 times a week, or biking uphill forever under an unbearable heat or a damn cold that gets deep under your bones. I understand clearly that what tires the most is not having the person you love by your side.
My next stop was beautiful Guanajuato; according to my friend Paco, the prettiest one in Mexico. It was deemed Patrimony of Humankind by UNESCO.
Guanajuato is a colonial city surrounded by mountains. The historical downtown has hundreds of stoned alleys that go up and down the slopes. The plazas are bordered by trees, full of outdoor cafes, museums, theatres, markets and historical monuments. But what makes it unique is a net of underground tunnels that runs under the city and allows vehicle flow. The tunnels can be several kilometers long.
Another main attraction in Guanajuato is the Museum of Mummies, and which holds the highest number of natural mummies in the world. As I was explained, the clay crypts and the combination of temperature and humidity at the place avoids larvae and insects intervening in the process of putrefaction in the body. This phenomenon makes this museum a unique one in the world, which attracts hundreds of million tourists per year.
Headed to Mexico City the route went uphill and weather wasn't forgiving. The rainy season had already begun. During the summer, storms are almost constant and streets get flooded in minutes.
Camping was not a good option anymore. Since then, I started rigorously contacting people online to receive me at each stop. When I couldn't find any, I turned to hostels or to the firefighters, who never denied me a place to sleep.
Those days Mexicans showed me truly how hospitable they are. Not only them, but also Fabio Alicante, an Argentine expatriate who hosted me royal style in Tepeji del Río; big roast with friends and all. Both Fabio and his friend Manolo and the Pyme de México, S.A. de C.V. contributed so that I would be able to continue my trip. My most sincere thank you to them.
I arrived in Mexico City under the rain, and I have remained under the rain so far. It was two weeks where I got tired of seeing so much rain. It was not the best moment to head to the Caribbean nor to Central America. The forecast was calling for 18 cyclones in the Atlantic coast, among which there would be nine tropical storms, four intense hurricanes and five moderate ones, in the 2013 season. It became obvious that I had to come up with an alternative.
Luckily, in Mexico City I was hosted by Victor, a traveler and motorcycle enthusiast who has been following my travels online for a while. Victor works at the management office of a building that rents out furnished apartments. As a good Mexican, in hopes of helping me he spoke to the owner of the place and offered me an apartment to rest on my own, free of charge, during my two-week stay. Great man!
During those days, I visited the historical downtown, the monument to the Mexican Revolution, the best neighbourhoods in the city and the Teotihuacan pyramids. But in the Aztec capital there is no bigger adventure or odyssey than taking the subway (el metro). Not even in London, Hong Kong nor Beijing are people this brave.
The day I visited the pyramids of Teotihuacan, I hopped on the subway towards Indios Verdes at 7 am. I had to take a couple of wagon exchanges and for that I had to push as if I were a pillar in a rugby team.
As I was reaching the city's outskirts, the subway wagon I was traveling in started emptying down close to the end of the route, but the incoming wagons on the other side showed a terrifying reality: mobs awaiting as I've never seen before, empty wagons from different stations filling up at each one of them every minute. The most moving thing was arriving at Indios Verdes: exiting the wagon I found thousands of people contained by the safety team, waiting for the subway to go to work.
Days later, I joined my friend Tenoch, a Mexican taco salesman, to deliver his orders to the city suburbs, and during the promenade, he told me: "Mexico City is chaos. It has a population of 9 million people, but during office hours there are 12 million people who arrive from the outskirts. The Mexican subway is deemed one of the most efficient and safest in the world, not only because of the 5 million people it carries every day, but because it is one of the longest ones in extension: more than 200 kilometers and the cheapest one in the world: 0.25 USD the ticket".
I finally understood that I am a free man and that our love was no more. And in the end I bought a flight to Toronto, so I would escape the rain season. This way I would be able to get to know what was pending for me: the East coast of North America.
But before I left Mexico, I decided to visit a chaman woman.
Visiting a Mayan chaman woman
During my Mexican tour I was not feeling right. I have been nervous and have had a lot of stomach and abdominal pain. This is why I visited some doctors. The last one: a gastroenterologist who gave me a cocktail of 3 drugs, some against parasites, but others to calm me down.
Once I arrived in Mexico City I was done my treatment but was still not feeling great. This is why when someone mentioned visiting a renowned old mayan chaman woman, I did not hesitate.
According to the Mexican belief, chamans are knowledgeable people who have the gifts of healing, communicating with spirits, and who also have visionary clairvoyant abilities. But they also work towards harmonizing people's minds and bodies. Their gift is passed on by inheritance through generations. They are chosen by their families and spirits, and they have to endure rigorous training.
Three days before traveling to Canada I took a bus to Puebla, and then to a small village in the outskirts of this city. That day was a special day, because they would perform a deep cleansing treatment.
When I arrived there were several people who were part of the team that worked weekly with the chaman woman, and who would also get the deep cleanse healing. Some of them were participating in this ceremony for the first time. "You're lucky to be here; not just anyone can attend this ritual", one of them told me. At sunset they started a bonfire, greeted me and during two hours we did prayers and requests to their gods, while we smoked cigars. As per explained to me, the smoke helps us connect with deities. That evening, they gave me three cigars and I had to smoke them entirely, one after the other. It was not easy, as I had never smoked one.
Afterwards I was given a rope so that I would tie a knot for each wrongdoing I had or for each person I thought I had hurt. When I finished I made a ball of it and, tying the rope well, I requested to the Mayan gods they would free me of all those obstacles and clean me forever. The next day, the chaman woman told me: "the act of tying a knot transforms an idea or abstract though into a physical shape. But as you are tying them, you have to bear in mind why you are doing this and what you intend. The rope acts as the recipient of the energy of those thoughts, and burning it helps to destroy them. In a ritual level, the magic of knots can be used to make your life easier, but also to do harm."
That night, all of us posed semi-naked in a circle around the bonfire. Suddenly, the chaman woman came up from behind me and started spitting all over me with a liquid; from behind me, in front of me, on the sides. I wouldn't be able to tell what that was. Then she passed a torch all around my body, and she moved on to do the same to everyone present. Afterwards, we grabbed a piece of raw pork meat and we had to scrub it all over us, as if we<|fim_middle|> our armpits, between our legs and even in the plant of our feet; all along she continued to spit on us and yelling out to clean ourselves well. Then we repeated the whole ordeal but this time with a piece of raw beef, and we went to clean up. I was grossed out.
Later it was explained to me that the meat served to pull out all the worms from the body.
Lastly, we took the stones that we had been heating in the fire for hours, and which were red with heat. With some shovels we brought them to a small cave-like hole called temazcal. Crawling, all 15 of us entered and sat by each other's side, quite squeezed. It was hotter than a sauna in there, and it turned into hell every time the chaman woman spilled the infusion of plants on the stones. The vapor penetrated our bones. People yelled and pleaded; me included. "Mamacita", some of them complained, while the chaman woman fanned with soft movements a bouquet of herbs to ease the environment. They say the temperature at a temazcal can rise to 100 degrees centigrades.
As I was explained, the Temazcal is a vapor bath that was originated in Mesoamerica (the flatlands in central Mexico) and works towards the healing and cleansing of the mind, the body and the spirit. The Temazcal activates the immune system, cleanses the airways and the digestive system, eliminating toxins, toning the nervous system and improving blood circulation. It is also believed to improve muscular and bone problems, among other properties.
When I left the Temazcal I had cuts in my hands and ears. My skin was blushed but soft as a baby's. I was completely sedated and could not feel the slightest trouble in my stomach. I could not ensure how long we were inside: according to the chaman woman it was almost an hour, although it seemed to me like 20 or 30 minutes. "When one communicates with the gods, one loses the sense of time", she said the next day. "Once you enter the Temazcal, you go back to the motherly womb of mother nature. The entrance is tight, dark, hot and humid, much like the motherly uterus, temporarily cutting out the outside world to give us the chance of watching ourselves internally and feel what we truly are to find ourselves again. When we exit it is like we are re born and find the same world again, but with a clearer vision.
Once I had showered in cold water and got dressed, I looked at the time. It was midnight, and hard to believe that 6 hours had gone by. That night I slept at the chaman woman's office, unlike most times deeply, and the morning after I got some pointers to improve my eating.
Two days later I flew to Toronto, Canada, to bike all the North American East coast to Miami, and to be able to visit Montreal, Boston and New York. And then, once more in the dry season, I would continue what I had left pending: Yucatan, the Caribbean islands and Central America.
I don't know if it was the Temazcal, the tied rope burning or some Mexican fling I had on the way, but I left Mexico completely renewed and with an energy that I hope stays with me for the rest of the trip. Over and done with was the chapter with the Sicilian, which has always been troublesome.
Who knows what my future holds. Viva Mexico!!! | were bathing with it: our head, our face, | 11 |
Even after the publication of Ofwat's final PR14 methodology, a good deal of guesswork is still going on, writes Anthony Legg.
how will the cost allowances for building, maintaining and operating the network be set?
how will finance ability tests be carried out and any<|fim_middle|> the range of the "cost corridors" Ofwat has proposed to use to benchmark companies' expenditures. | identified problems solved?
how should allowed revenues be converted into actual tariffs and charges?
how will Ofwat assess business plans?
Cost allowances: Ofwat has confirmed that cost allowances will be based on an assessment of total expenditure (totex) at PR14, but it is uncertain just how an appropriate amount of totex will be determined. While Ofwat has now signaled that it will assess costs based on a range of econometric models, not just totex, the absence of any clear guidance from the regulator as to the models it will consider, and how the results from the different models will be combined, throws up a hornet's nest of possibilities.
For example, while Ofwat has watered down the emphasis it intends to place on totex models (compared with its original position in January where these models were the centre piece of its approach), the weight Ofwat will afford these models is unclear. Other models could be used simply as cross-checks, but might also be used to directly generate | 202 |
Bertram v. Cremon († 5. Januar 1377 in Lübeck) war Domherr in Hamburg und ab 1350 Bischof von Lübeck.
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Der vierzehnte Bischof von Lübeck entstammte dem mecklenburgischen Adelsgeschlecht Cremon (Cramon). Er war vor seiner Ernennung zum Bischof um 1329 Kirchherr zu Damshagen und danach Domherr zu Hamburg und Pfarrherr in Boizenburg. Bertram Cremon hatte sich mit Steno Berg um Eutin auseinanderzusetzen, da dieser behauptete, dass seine Vorfahren den Ort nur pfandweise überlassen hätten. Es kam zu einer Schlichtung, wobei der Graf Heinrich II. von Holstein und die beiden Herzöge Albrecht und Johann von Mecklenburg als Schiedsrichter fungierten. Sie wiesen die Ausführungen jedoch als falsch ab und König Karl IV. erteilte dem Bischof<|fim_middle|>1852), S. 141–144
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Römisch-katholischer Bischof (14. Jahrhundert)
Bischof von Lübeck
Domherr (Hamburg)
Geboren im 13. oder 14. Jahrhundert
Gestorben 1377
Mann
Person (Mecklenburg)
Domherr (14. Jahrhundert) | und dem Domkapitel am 5. Januar 1354 einen Schutzbrief. Cremon bemühte sich besonders um die Vermehrung der bischöflichen Landgüter. Er kaufte den Hof Hobbersdorf, die Dörfer Horsdorf und Ratekau, das Gut Ruppersdorf nebst See und Mühle, sowie Neuhof aus dem Erlös des verkauften Dorfes Pronstorf. Weiter Rotensande nebst der Mühle, Torchow, Offendorf und Timmdorf. Holm verkaufte er nebst 15 Mark jährlicher Rente dem Rat in Lütjenburg. Dem Lübecker Dom schenkte er kostbare Gerätschaften. Das Katharinenkloster wurde zu seiner Zeit repariert und erweitert (1353). Am 22. Oktober 1375 empfing er Kaiser Karl IV. in Lübeck.
Sein Sekretsiegel der Jahre 1351–1371 zeigt ihn kniend mit betend erhobenen Händen unter einer Darstellung der Heiligen Katharina von Alexandrien, die unter einem Baldachin thront. Es nimmt damit deutlich die in der Adelsfamilie von Cramon schon im Familienwappen durch das Katharinenrad ausgedrückte Katharinenverehrung dieser Familie wieder auf.
Seine Grabplatte im Lübecker Dom misst 308 × 198 cm. Die Messingeinlagen sind aufwendig graviert und allein sein Abbild besteht aus zehn einzelnen, zur Figur zusammengesetzten Messingplatten. In den vier Eckmedaillons sind Evangelisten dargestellt. Die Grabplatte befand sich ehemals im inneren Chorraum und wurde 1886 an der nordwestlichen Wand des Querschiffs angebracht.
Literatur
Georg Wilhelm Dittmer: Genealogische und biographische Nachrichten über Lückeckische Familien aus älterer Zeit, Dittmer, 1859, S. 24 (Digitalisat)
Johannes Baltzer, Friedrich Bruns: Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Freien und Hansestadt Lübeck. Herausgegeben von der Baubehörde. Band III: Kirche zu Alt-Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Ägidienkirche. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, S. 242–243 Unveränderter Nachdruck 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: Die deutschen Bischöfe bis zum Ende des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts – Biographisch, literarisch, historisch und kirchenstatistisch dargestellt. 1. Band, Leipzig 1858, S. 562–589.
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Yahoo Song Premiere: Ryan Beaver Debuts 'Fast'
by Team Beaver on February 11, 2016 February 11, 2016
Texas native Ryan Beaver began his musical career while still attending college in the Lone Star State, eventually bringing his country<|fim_middle|>Prev Post: Rolling Stone – New Artists You Need to Know
Next Post: Ryan Beaver Launches Album Pre-Order; Shares New Song "Fast" | chops to Nashville and gaining a solid fan base for his music. He's opened up for Ashley Monroe on her Blade tour and this month will be supporting Lee Ann Womack on a string of dates.
Beaver is also poised to release his latest record, Rx, on May 6. Yahoo Music is excited to debut a new tune from the upcoming set, "Fast," for fans to get a taste of his latest direction.
"I couldn't be more thrilled to drop my new record, Rx," says Beaver of the new album. "So much time, heart, and thought went into the making of this album. It's a chapter out of my life and I look forward to going out and playing these songs for anyone who wants to hear them."
Regarding his new single, Beaver is equally enthusiastic: "It's all about the energy and dynamics with 'Fast.' It's a song that I see play out every Friday and Saturday night while I'm on stage singing."
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Hi Paul, Been playing around with the VibePads Under my powerstrip. I first took the VibePad and put under the VibraPod. Then I switched so that the VibraPod was under the VibePad to hear the difference – I can tell you the first method was better!! Micro differences, but still better! The conclusion is the VibePads compliments anything that is on top!
The sound now is more calm and that makes more space for the micro details to be more easy heard. On the end of the tones is more rolled off. The sound is also deeper, so it is a improvement to double up on the VibePads.
The sound is more extended, more detailed and micro-dynamics is more prominent. Its REALLY good sound in this configuration. A bit brighter and clearer as the higher frequencies is more fleshed out so to speak Nice!! The feel/atmosphere of the music is very important in ambient music<|fim_middle|>softens the edges in the music and this is amazing to hear. Thank you – Robertas. | . And I can say, the immersiveness is tota. With what I have accomplished, this is now the best performance I have heard from my system.
Hi Paul – Therse pads are brilliant mate My speakers have gotten more focused and sounds more at ease/calm, more air and result are better sounding speakers!! Yes, defined!! Absolutely magic – best monet ever spenty – Cheers again man – Rommy.
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Harvey is active in the music documentary and TV/film world. In 2020 Kubernik served as Consultant on "Laurel Canyon: A Place In Time" documentary directed by Alison Ellwood which debuted in 2020 on the EPIX/MGM television channel. Kubernik's writings are in several book anthologies, most notably "The Rolling Stone Book Of The Beats" and "Drinking With Bukowski."
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The highlight of the trip was here. This is the first time I've ever<|fim_middle|> my fear of roller coasters, I knew it was a matter of time I'd take on this challenge. Huge water slides look daunting to me, but my mindset has completely changed.
All these photos were taken at the end of the day when it was closing, which explains why it looks gloomy and empty XD We didn't want to waste any time and went straight for the queues. We even skipped lunch!
Firstly, we floated around in these soft tubes as a warm up for the big rides. This was pretty relaxing, though it's very shallow so you have to be careful not to scrape yourself.
We went to Surfers Paradise Beach several times during our trip since it's so close. What a beautiful endless beach!! | been to Wet'n'Wild or to any water park really. I've never been a huge fan of being under the sun all day and my fear of heights didn't help either. But ever since 2009 when I overcame | 49 |
Nothing says cold-weather comfort food quite like a hearty soup enjoyed in front of a fire. But topping it with crispy Prosciutto di Parma takes it to a whole new level. If you need a simple and delicious soup for a quiet night in or for the perfect sandwich combination, this creamy soup is the one to make. The sweetness from the<|fim_middle|> vegetables are very tender, about 20 minutes.
Using an immersion blender, puree the soup mixture. Stir in half and half, beer and cheese and cook over medium heat until cheese is melted and soup is heated through.
Garnish with reserved crispy prosciutto, sage sprigs, and apple slices or sour cream drizzle, if desired. | butternut squash and apples is complemented by the crispy Prosciutto di Parma, while the sage and ale add the perfect bit of warmth. Garnish with your choice of a drizzle of sour cream or apple slices for even more flavor your taste buds will thank you for.
Heat saucepot over medium-high heat and cook chopped prosciutto until crispy; reserve.
Melt butter in same saucepot and cook fresh sage sprigs until crispy; reserve.
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Pilgrimage to Nonviolence
The Class of Nonviolence
Lesson 4, Reading 4
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
excerpted from "Stride Toward Freedom", 1958
Often the question has arisen concerning my own intellectual pilgrimage to nonviolence. In order to get at this question it is necessary to go back to my early teens in Atlanta. I had grown up abhorring not only segregation but also the oppressive and barbarous acts that grew out of it. I had passed spots where Negroes had been savagely lynched, and had watched the Ku Klux Klan on its rides at night. I had seen police brutality with my own eyes, and watched Negroes receive the most tragic injustice in the courts. All of these things had done something to my growing personality. I had come perilously close to resenting all white people.
I had also learned that the inseparable twin of racial injustice was economic injustice. Although I came from a home of economic security and relative comfort, I could never get out of my mind the economic insecurity of many of my playmates and the tragic poverty of those living around me. During my late teens I worked two summers, against my father's wishes-he never wanted my brother and me to work around white people because of the oppressive conditions-in a plant that hired both Negroes and whites. Here I saw economic injustice firsthand, and realized that the poor white was exploited just as much as the Negro. Through these early experiences I grew up deeply conscious of the varieties of injustice in our society.
So when I went to Atlanta's Morehouse College as a freshman in 1944 my concern for racial and economic justice was already substantial. During my student days at Morehouse I read Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience for the first time. Fascinated by the idea of refusing to cooperate with an evil system, I was so deeply moved that I reread the work several times. This was my first intellectual contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance.
Not until I entered Crozer Theological Seminary in 1948, however, did I begin a serious intellectual quest for a method to eliminate social evil. Although my major interest was in the fields of theology and philosophy, I spent a great deal of time reading the works of the great social philosophers. I came early to Walter Rauschenbusch's Christianity and the Social Crisis, which left an indelible imprint on my thinking by giving me a theological basis for the social concern which had already grown up in me as a result of my early experiences. Of course there were points at which I differed with Rauschenbusch. I felt that he had fallen victim to the nineteenth century "cult of inevitable progress" which led him to a superficial optimism concerning man's nature. Moreover, he came perilously close to identifying the Kingdom of God with a particular social and economic system-a tendency which should never befall the Church. But in spite of these shortcomings Rauschenbusch had done a great service for the Christian Church by insisting that the gospel deals with the whole man, not only his soul but his body; not only his spiritual well-being but his material well-being. It has been my conviction ever since reading Rauschenbusch that any religion which professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the social and economic conditions that scar the soul, is a spiritually moribund religion only waiting for the day to be buried. It well has been said: "A religion that ends with the individual, ends."
After reading Rauschenbusch, I turned to a serious study of the social and ethical theories of the great philosophers, from Plato and Aristotle down to Rousseau, Hobbes, Bentham, Mill and Locke. All of these masters stimulated my thinking-such as it was-and, while finding things to question in each of them, I nevertheless learned a great deal from their study.
The Challenge of Marxism
During the Christmas holidays of 1949 I decided to spend my spare time reading Karl Marx to try to understand the appeal of communism for many people. For the first time I carefully scrutinized Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto. I also read some interpretive works on the thinking of Marx and Lenin. In reading such Communist writings I drew certain conclusions that have remained with me to this day.
First I rejected their materialistic interpretation of history. Communism, avowedly secularistic and materialistic, has no place for God. This I could never accept, for as a Christian I believe that there is a creative personal power in this universe who is the ground and essence of all reality-a power that cannot be explained in materialistic terms. History is ultimately guided by spirit, not matter.
Second, I strongly disagreed with communism's ethical relativism. Since for the Communist there is no divine government, no absolute moral order, there are no fixed, immutable principles; consequently almost anything-force, violence, murder, lying-is a justifiable means to the "millennial" end. This type of relativism was abhorrent to me. Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means, because in the final analysis the end is preexistent in the mean.
Third, I opposed communism's political totalitarianism. In communism the individual ends up in subjection to the state. True, the Marxist would argue that the state is an "interim" reality which is to be eliminated when the classless society emerges; but the state is the end while it lasts, and man only a means to that end. And if any man's so-called rights or liberties stand in the way of that end, they are simply swept aside. His liberties of expression, his freedom to vote, his freedom to listen to what news he likes or to choose his books are all restricted. Man becomes hardly more, in communism, than a depersonalized cog in the turning wheel of the state.
This deprecation of individual freedom was objectionable to me. I am convinced now, as I was then, that man is an end because he is a child of God. Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
Yet, in spite of the fact that my response to communism was and is negative, and I considered it basically evil, there were points at which I found it challenging. The late Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple, referred to communism as a Christian heresy. By this he meant that communism had laid hold of certain truths which are essential parts of the Christian view of things, but that it had bound up with them concepts and practices which no Christian could ever accept or profess. Communism challenged the late Archbishop and it should challenge every Christian-as it challenged me-to a growing concern about social justice. With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice. The Christian ought always to be challenged by any protest against unfair treatment of the poor, for Christianity is itself such a protest, nowhere expressed more eloquently than in Jesus' words: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord."
I also sought systematic answers to Marx's critique of modern bourgeois culture. He presented capitalism as essentially a struggle between the owners of the productive resources and the workers, whom Marx regarded as the real producers. Marx interpreted economic forces as the dialectical process by which society moved from feudalism through capitalism to socialism, with the primary mechanism of this historical movement being the struggle between economic classes whose interests were irreconcilable. Obviously this theory left out of account the numerous and significant complexities-political, economic moral, religious and psychological-which played a vital role in shaping the constellation of institutions and ideas known today as Western civilization. Moreover, it was dated in the sense that the capitalism Marx wrote about bore only a partial resemblance to the capitalism we know in this country today.
Toward a New Social Synthesis
But in spite of the shortcomings of his analysis, Marx had raised some basic questions. I was deeply concerned from my early teen days about the gulf between superfluous wealth and abject poverty, and my reading of Marx made me ever more conscious of this gulf. Although modern American capitalism had greatly reduced the gap through social reforms, there was still need for a better distribution of wealth. Moreover, Marx had revealed the danger of the profit motive as the sole basis of an economic system; capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.
In short, I read Marx as I read all of the influential historical thinkers-from a dialectical point of view, combining a partial "yes" and a partial "no." In so far as Marx posited a metaphysical materialism, an ethical relativism, and a strangulating totalitarianism, I responded with an unambiguous "no"; but in so far as he pointed to weaknesses of traditional capitalism, contributed to the growth of a definite self-consciousness in the masses, and challenged the social conscience of<|fim_middle|> read the works of Reinhold Niebuhr. The prophetic and realistic elements in Niebuhr's passionate style and profound thought were appealing to me, and I became so enamored of his social ethics that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything he wrote.
About this time I read Niebuhr's critique of the pacifist position. Niebuhr had himself once been a member of the pacifist ranks. For several years, he had been national chairman of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. His break with pacifism came in the early thirties, and the first full statement of his criticism of pacifism was in Moral Man and Immoral Society. Here he argued that there was no intrinsic moral difference between violent and nonviolent resistance. The social consequences of the two methods were different, he contended, but the differences were in degree rather than kind. Later Niebuhr began emphasizing the irresponsibility of relying on nonviolent resistance when there was no ground for believing that it would be successful in preventing the spread of totalitarian tyranny. It could only be successful, he argued, if the groups against whom the resistance was taking place had some degree of moral conscience, as was the case in Gandhi's struggle against the British. Niebuhr's ultimate rejection of pacifism was based primarily on the doctrine of man. He argued that pacifism failed to do justice to the reformation doctrine of justification by faith, substituting for it a sectarian perfectionism which believes "that divine grace actually lifts man out of the sinful contradictions of history and establishes him above the sins of the world."
At first, Niebuhr's critique of pacifism left me in a state of confusion. As I continued to read, however, I came to see more and more the shortcomings of his position. For instance, many of his statements revealed that he interpreted pacifism as a sort of passive nonresistance to evil expressing naive trust in the power of love. But this was a serious distortion. My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but he resisted with love instead of hate. True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power, as Niebuhr contends. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplied the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.
The next stage of my intellectual pilgrimage to nonviolence came during my doctoral studies at Boston University. Here I had the opportunity to talk to many exponents of nonviolence, both students and visitors to the campus. Boston University School of Theology under the influence of Dean Walter Muelder and Professor Allan Knight Chalmers, had a deep sympathy for pacifism. Both Dean Muelder and Dr. Chalmers had a passion for social justice that stemmed, not from a superficial optimism, but from a deep faith in the possibilities of human beings when they allowed themselves to become co-workers with God. It was at Boston University that I came to see that Niebuhr had overemphasized the corruption of human nature. His pessimism concerning human nature was not balanced by an optimism concerning divine nature. He was so involved in diagnosing man's sickness of sin that he overlooked the cure of grace.
I studied philosophy and theology at Boston University under Edgar S. Brightman and L. Harold DeWolf. Both men greatly stimulated my thinking. It was mainly under these teachers that I studied personalistic philosophy-the theory that the clue to the meaning of ultimate reality is found in personality. This personal idealism remains today my basic philosophical position. Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.
Just before Dr. Brightman's death, I began studying the philosophy of Hegel with him. Although the course was mainly a study of Hegel's monumental work, Phenomenology of Mind, I spent my spare time reading his Philosophy of History and Philosophy of Right. There were points in Hegel's philosophy that I strongly disagreed with. For instance, his absolute idealism was rationally unsound to me because it tended to swallow up the many in the one. But there were other aspects of his thinking that I found stimulating. His contention that "truth is the whole" led me to a philosophical method of rational coherence. His analysis of the dialectical process, in spite of its shortcomings, helped me to see that growth comes through struggle.
In 1954 I ended my formal training with all of these relative divergent intellectual forces converging into a positive social philosophy. One of the main tenets of this philosophy was the conviction that nonviolent resistance was one of the most potent weapons available to oppressed people in their quest for social justice. At this time, however, I had merely an intellectual understanding and appreciation of the position, with no firm determination to organize it in a socially effective situation.
When I went to Montgomery as a pastor, I had not the slightest idea that I would later become involved in a crisis in which nonviolent resistance would be applicable. I neither started the protest nor suggested it. I simply responded to the call of the people for a spokesman. When the protest began, my mind, consciously or unconsciously, was driven back to the Sermon on the Mount, with its sublime teachings on love, and the Gandhian method of nonviolent resistance. As the days unfolded, I came to see the power of nonviolence more and more. Living through the actual experience of the protest, nonviolence became more than a method to which I gave intellectual assent; it became a commitment to a way of life. Many of the things that I had not cleared up intellectually concerning nonviolence were now solved in the sphere of practical action.
The philosophy of nonviolence
Since the philosophy of nonviolence played such a positive role in the Montgomery movement, it may be wise to turn to a brief discussion of some basic aspects of this philosophy.
First, it must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one used this method because he is afraid, he is not truly nonviolent. That is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight. He made this statement conscious of the fact that there is always another alternative: no individual or group need ever submit to any wrong, nor need they use violence to right the wrong; there is the way of nonviolent resistance. This is ultimately the way for the strong man. It is not a method of stagnant passivity. The phrase "passive resistance" often gives the false impression that this is a sort of "do-nothing method" in which the resister quietly and passively accepts evil. But nothing is further from the truth. For while the nonviolent resister is passive in the sense that he is not physically aggressive toward his opponent, his mind and emotions are always active, constantly seeking to persuade his opponents that he is wrong. The method is passive physically, but strongly active spiritually. It is not passive resistance to evil, it is active nonviolent resistant to evil.
A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that is does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding. The nonviolent resister may often express his protest through noncooperation or boycotts, but he realizes that these are not ends in themselves; they are merely means to awaken a sense of moral shame in the opponent. The end is redemption and reconciliation. The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, while the aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness.
A third characteristic of this method is that the attack is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the person victimized by the evil. If he is opposing racial injustice, the nonviolent resister has the vision to see that the basic tension is not between races. As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in the city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. And if there is a victory, it will be a victory not merely for 50,000 Negroes, but a victory for justice and the forces of light. We are out there to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust."
A fourth point that characterizes nonviolent resistance is a willingness to accept suffering without retaliation, to accept blows from the opponent without striking back. "Rivers of blood may have to flow before we gain our freedom, but is must be our blood," Gandhi said to his countrymen. The nonviolent resister is willing to accept violence if necessary, but never to inflict it. He does not seek to dodge jail. If going to jail is necessary, he enters it "as a bridegroom enters the bride's chamber."
One may well ask: "What is the nonviolent resister's justification for this ordeal to which he invites men, for this mass political application of the ancient doctrine of turning the other cheek?" The answer is found in the realization that unearned suffering is redemptive. Suffering, the nonviolent resister realizes, has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities. "Things of fundamental importance to people are not secured by reason alone, but have to be purchased with their suffering," said Gandhi. He continued: "Suffering is infinitely more powerful than the law of the jungle for converting the opponent and opening his ears which are otherwise shut to the voice of reason."
A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him. At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love. The nonviolent resister would contend that in the struggle for human dignity, the oppressed people of the world must not succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter or indulging in hate campaigns. To retaliate in kind would do nothing but intensify the existence of hate in the universe. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of lour lives.
In speaking of love at this point, we are not referring to some sentimental or affectionate emotion. It would be nonsense to urge men to love their oppressors in an affectionate sense. Love in this connection means understanding, redemptive good will. Here the Greek language comes to our aid. There are three words for love in the Greek New testament. First, there is eros. In Platonic philosophy eros meant the yearning of the soul for the realm of the divine. It has come now to mean a sort of aesthetic or romantic love. Second, there is philia which means intimate affection between personal friends. Philia denotes a sort of reciprocal love; the person loves because he is loved. When we speak of loving those who oppose us, we refer to neither eros nor philia; we speak of love which is expressed in the Greek word Agape. Agape means understanding, redeeming good will for all men. It is an overflowing love which is purely spontaneous, unmotivated, groundless, and creative. It is not set in motion by any quality or function of its object. It is the love of God operating in the human heart.
Agape is disinterested love. It is a love in which the individual seeks not his own good, but the good of his neighbor (1 Cor. 10-24). 'Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. It is an entirely "neighbor-regarding concern for others," which discovers the neighbor in every man it meets. Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both. If one loves an individual merely on account of his friendliness, he loves him for the sake of benefits to be gained from the friendship, rather than for the friend's sake. Consequently, the best way to assure oneself that love is disinterested is to have love for the enemy-neighbor from whom you can expect no good in return, but only hostility and persecution.
Another basic point about agape is that it springs from the need of the other person – his need for belonging to the best of the human family. The Samaritan who helped the Jew in the Jericho Road was "good" because he responded to the human need that he was presented with. God's love is eternal and fails not because man needs his love. St. Paul assures us that the loving act of redemption was done "while we were yet sinners" – that is, at the point of our greatest need for love. Since the white man's personality is greatly distorted by segregation, and his soul is greatly scarred, he needs the love of the Negro. The Negro must love the white man, because the white man needs his love to remove his tensions, insecurities and fears. Agape is not a weak, passive love. It is love in action. Agape is love seeking to preserve and create community. It is insistence on community even when one seeks to break it. Agape is a willingness to sacrifice in the interest of mutuality. Agape is a willingness to go to any length to restore community. It doesn't stop at the first mile, but goes the second mile to restore community. The cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go in order to restore broken community. The resurrection is a symbol of God's triumph over all the forces that that seek to block community. The Holy Spirit is the continuing community creating reality that moves through history. He who works against community is working against the whole of creation. Therefore, if I respond to hate with a reciprocal hate I do nothing but intensify the cleavage in broken community. I can only close the gap in broken community by meeting hate with love. If I meet hate with hate, I become depersonalized, because creation is so designed that my personality can only be fulfilled in the context of community. Booker T. Washington was right:"Let no man pull you so low that he makes you hate him." When he pulls you that low he brings you to the point of working against community; he drags you to the point of defying creation, and thereby becoming depersonalized.
In the final analysis, agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself. For example, white men often refuse federal aid to education in order to avoid giving the Negro his rights; but because all men are brothers they cannot deny Negro children without harming their own. They end, all efforts to the contrary, by hurting themselves. Why is this? Because men are brothers. If you harm me, you harm yourself.
Love, agape, is the only cement that can hold this broken community together. When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, to meet the needs of my brothers.
A sixth basic fact about nonviolent resistance is that it is based on the conviction that the universe is on the side of justice. Consequently, the believer in nonviolence has deep faith in the future. This faith is another reason why the nonviolent resister can accept suffering without retaliation. For he knows that in his struggle for justice he has cosmic companionship. It is true that there are devout believers in nonviolence who find it difficult to believe in a personal God. But even these persons believe in the existence of some creative force that works for universal wholeness. Whether we call it an unconscious process, an impersonal Brahman, or a Personal Being of matchless power and infinite love, there is a creative force in this universe that works to bring the disconnected aspects of reality into a harmonious whole.
This reading is from The Class of Nonviolence, prepared by Colman McCarthy of the Center for Teaching Peace, 4501 Van Ness Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20016 202.537.1372 | the Christian churches, I responded with a definite "yes."
My reading of Marx also convinced me that truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth in collective enterprise, and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. Nineteenth century capitalism failed to see that life is social and Marxism failed and still fails to see that life is individual and personal. The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both.
Muste, Nietzsche and Gandhi
During my stay at Crozer, I was also exposed for the first time to the pacifist position in a lecture by A. J. Muste. I was deeply moved by Mr. Muste's talk, but far from convinced of the practicability of his position. Like most of the students of Crozer, I felt that while war could never be a positive or absolute good, it could serve as a negative good in the sense of preventing the spread and growth of an evil force. War, horrible as it is, might be preferable to surrender to a totalitarian system-Nazi, Fascist, or Communist.
During this period I had about despaired of the power of love in solving social problems. Perhaps my faith in love was temporarily shaken by the philosophy of Nietzsche. I had been reading parts of The Genealogy of Morals and the whole of The Will to Power. Nietzsche's glorification of power-in his theory all life expressed the will to power-was an outgrowth of his contempt for ordinary morals. He attacked the whole of the Hebraic-Christian morality-with its virtues of piety and humility, its otherworldliness and its attitude toward suffering-as the glorification of weakness, as making virtues out of necessity and impotence. He looked to the development of a superman who would surpass man as man surpassed the ape.
Then one Sunday afternoon I traveled to Philadelphia to hear a sermon by Dr. Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard University. He was there to preach for the Fellowship House of Philadelphia. Dr. Johnson had just returned from a trip to India, and, to my great interest, he spoke of the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. His message was so profound and electrifying that I left the meeting and bought a half dozen books on Gandhi's life and works.
Like most people, I had heard of Gandhi, but I had never studied him seriously. As I read I became deeply fascinated by his campaigns of nonviolent resistance. I was particularly moved by the Salt March to the Sea and his numerous fasts. The whole concept of "Satyagraha" (Satya is truth which equals love, and agraha is force; "Satyagraha," therefore, means truth-force or loveforce) was profoundly significant to me. As I delved deeper into the philosophy of Gandhi my skepticism concerning the power of love gradually diminished, and I came to see for the first rime its potency in the area of social reform. Prior to reading Gandhi, I had about concluded that the ethics of Jesus were only effective in individual relationship. The "turn the other cheek" philosophy and the "love your enemies" philosophy were only valid, I felt, when individuals were in conflict with other individuals; when racial groups and nations were in conflict a more realistic approach seemed necessary. But after reading Gandhi, I saw how utterly mistaken I was.
Gandhi was probably the first person in history to lift the love ethic of Jesus above mere interaction between individuals to a powerful and effective social force on a large scale. Love, for Gandhi, was a potent instrument for social and collective transformation. It was in this Gandhian emphasis on love and nonviolence that I discovered the method for social reform that I had been seeking for so many months. The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social-contracts theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau. the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.
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But my intellectual odyssey to nonviolence did not end here. During my last year in theological school, I began to | 911 |
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Making Lemonade From a Lemon-Level Rate Picture
Phil Hall
The latest mortgage rate data from Freddie Mac is anything but sweet. And while there is little evidence that the picture will substantially improve in the immediate future, there is some movement across the industry to find other ways to successfully expand bottom lines. According to Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), average fixed mortgage rates remained largely unchanged for the week ending August 28. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.10 percent with an average 0.5 point, unchanged from last week. A year ago at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 4.51 percent. The 15-year FRM this week averaged 3.25 percent with an average 0.6 point, up from last week when it averaged 3.23 percent. A year ago at this time, the 15-year FRM averaged 3.54 percent. Furthermore, the five-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) averaged 2.97 percent this week with an average 0.5 point, up from last week when it averaged 2.95 percent.<|fim_middle|> to tap into their equity with HELOCs." Other mortgage companies seeking to expand their bottom lines might consider expanding their B2B offerings. Dan Hastings, executive vice president at Houston-based Envoy Mortgage, noted that some companies have been exploring the opportunities within correspondent lending. "A lot of people exited the correspondent lending business," Hastings said. "The major aggregators have scaled back. We've seen a lot of people enter the correspondent space on the wholesale side. More people will exit the business, which will open the doors for more people to get into the correspondent lending business." But one area where few residential originators have been eager to tread in search of new business is commercial real estate. "The only residential guys I've seen try to dabble in commercial are a few local banks," said Jake Clopton, president of Chicago-based Clopton Capital. "I've not often seen it done successfully." Clopton pointed out that while it might appear there could synergy between the practices, each has its own very different protocols and considerations. "Commercial real estate is really its own animal," Clopton continued. "Oftentimes, residential guys try to cross the border, but don't understand how complex it is. Residential brokers are used to making two percent to three percent on a deal, but it's not like that in commercial–they would make one percent at most." | A year ago, the five-year ARM averaged 3.24 percent. And the one-year Treasury-indexed ARM averaged 2.39 percent this week with an average 0.5 point, up from last week when it averaged 2.38 percent. At this time last year, the one-year ARM averaged 2.64 percent. The ongoing stagnation in the rates is discouraging to many. However, some industry figures believe the current environment offers an opportunity to follow the popular recipe of making lemonade from lemons. For example, Rob Katz, executive vice president at San Diego-based ReverseVision, has been fielding multiple inquiries from mortgage professionals looking to expand their business via the introduction of reverse mortgages. "I've had the pleasure of recently attending three or four regional trade shows, and that gave me the chance to talk to hundreds of originators," Katz said. "Almost every forward-traditional broker I talked to commented that their business was way down and they were interested in finding products to help them rebuild their bottom line." Katz observed that his company was fielding inquiries from 50 to 60 brokers each month to learn more about the product, and he expects more inquiries to arrive in the coming months. "The traditional refi market is gone and originators are looking for ways to supplement their income," he added. Another new revenue-building business channel originators is the return of the home equity line of credit (HELOC), which is poised to see new activity as a new wave of home remodeling and repairs is underway. "We are seeing a lot of folks looking to renovate their home and obtain home improvement loans, rather tha moving up in their housing decisions," said Rick Seehausen, CEO of Glendale, Colo.-based LenderLive Network Inc. "We're seeing homeowners wanting | 374 |
Many a times we repent on our decisions.
We repent just because we have to.
We close our eyes and run away from our mistakes, knowing that its not just a mistake but a blunder.
We hide ourselves and kill our emotions.
But if you look at the very positive side of life...there is nothing much to say sorry for.
Many of us do mistakes unknowingly...and knowingly we hurt ourselves.
There is always a solution for your problem, however big it is.
Its better to accept your present situation whether in your social or family life and work for best in future.
And its even better to solve your own problem.
Remember: A Sea is made up of little drops of water... and serene.
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Posted on February 28, 2019 by Sunbury News
Opioid situation "not hopeless"
By Glenn Battishill - gbattishill@aimmediamidwest.com
Despite reporting an increase in drug overdoses and overdose deaths in 2018, the Delaware County Sheriff's Office wants the community to know there are a variety of support services and resources available in the county, and "it's never too late to take that first step."
Delaware County Sheriff Russell Martin said the county saw a 25 percent increase in drug overdoses from 114 in 2017 to 143 in 2018, and<|fim_middle|>enn Battishill can be reached at 740-413-0903 or on Twitter @BattishillDG.
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Hi! A visitor to our site felt the following article might be of interest to you: Opioid situation "not hopeless". Here is a link to that story: https://www.sunburynews.com/news/26368/opioid-situation-not-hopeless | he reported that the number of overdose deaths also increased in 2018 to 22 from 19 in 2017.
"These drugs became more lethal in 2018 than we've ever seen," he said.
However, Martin said Narcan, a medication used by medics and law enforcement in the county to treat drug overdoses, is partially responsible for stemming the tide of overdose deaths.
"Narcan has had an impact," Martin said. "And if you look nationwide, too, the interdiction efforts and the law enforcement efforts are making a difference."
Martin praised the work of the county's drug task force and said it seized 7,314 grams of heroin in 2018, enough to kill 40 people on average. He added the group's fluidity allows them to address trends as they arise.
"A nimble response means you quickly try to adapt to what you are seeing on the street, and I think the Delaware County Drug Task Force has done a good job of that," Martin said. "Heroin began to show itself, and we hit it. These attempts at interdicting drugs before they hit the consumer is a game of whack-a-mole. Once you begin to target, isolate, and take enforcement actions on one particular type of drugs then another rears its head."
Martin said the drug market is constantly changing, and drug dealers will change and push whatever drug is cheaper and easier. The drug task force works to analyze trends to stop dealers.
"I can't say enough about the current work of our drug task force," Martin said. "It has almost doubled in size and participants. We now have federal law enforcement and state partners who collaborate with our Delaware County Drug Task Force."
Julie Krupp, the drug liaison at the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, said anyone who is struggling with drug abuse or knows someone who is addicted can contact her to be put in connection with the right resources and support services in the county.
"The sheriff has stated before that we can't arrest our way out of this problem," Krupp said. "My position as drug liaison is a true example of that. I serve as a civilian with the office, and there are no punitive outcomes as a result of working with me. Our preference is to surround people with resources and support, not handcuffs and jail cells. Please reach out to me with any questions or concerns you have; it would be my honor and pleasure to work with you."
Krupp said no situation is hopeless.
"The best advice I can give is: Trust your instinct," she said. "If something doesn't feel right about yourself or someone you are close to, then it probably isn't. Your job is to reach out and ask for help and support. Let me help you figure out those next steps. The sooner you can get help for you or someone close to you the better; but no matter when you reach out, it is never too late or too hopeless to take that first step."
Krupp can be reached at 740-833-2829 or via email at jkrupp@co.delaware.oh.us.
Other county substance abuse resources include:
• The anonymous drug tip line, 740-833-2790 or drugtaskforce@co.delaware.oh.us
• Helpline: 24-hour crisis hotline, Resources and Information can be reached by calling 211, texting the word "HelpLine" to 898211 or via email at helplinedelmor.org
• The Delaware General Health District: Naloxone Access 740-203-2040
• Maryhaven: 740-428-3800 or on Maryhaven.com
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Gl | 916 |
For the morning, "late" was the name of the day. The bus and the train were both very late. If it tells you anything, I read my entire Express while standing on the platform. Then I was also feeling a little self-conscious about video-blogging in public on a subway train. I was a little concerned that people would think<|fim_middle|> with lots of graffiti as wall decor in their upstairs room. There, the Fire-Lite BG-12 pull stations were all at the right height, and, interestingly enough, they all had Stopper covers on them. I guess for a bar, that's not a bad idea, with people getting a little tipsy and accidentally causing loud noises and flashing lights.
So there you go. And by the way, I ended up taking a taxi home. The $9.50(!) was well worth it to not have to wait for once.
Song: "It's A Most Unusual Day" | I was crazy, talking to myself with a laptop in front of me. After all, there is one guy that I sometimes see who gets on at Wheaton who talks to himself the entire way to his stop (Metro Center). Except unlike that guy, who really is talking to himself, I'm talking to the camera, communicating with you all. Still, I felt a bit self-conscious.
Then during the day, I did the whole work thing, and then afterwards, we headed over to the U Street area to look at a few bar venues for a Christmas party. We went to Eatonville in DC, where the fire alarm pull stations were remarkably high up on the wall for a restaurant established in 2009 with a new Simplex system. Really, the pull station by the entrance was like old-school halfway-up-the-wall level. Not waist-level like they are now since the ADA lowered the height of pull stations. That was kind of a weird place anyway – they had a set of glass doors that had a railing in front of them because the restaurant didn't use them, and despite a six-foot vertical drop from the door to the floor inside, the door had a pull station next to it – and positioned as if the floor was at the level of the door. I don't get it. Very weird.
Then we also went to a place called Policy just off of U Street, again just to look. That place was nice, | 293 |
Amy Lee Grant (born November 25, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, author and media personality. She is known for performing contemporary Christian music (CCM) and for a successful crossover to pop music in the 1980s and 1990s. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop".As of 2009, she had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, won six Grammy Awards and 22 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and had the first Christian album to go Platinum. She was honored with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 for<|fim_middle|> something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.
Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.
If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.
I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.
Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning. | her contributions to the entertainment industry. She made her debut as a teenager, and gained fame in Christian music during the 1980s with such hits as "Father's Eyes", "El Shaddai", and "Angels". In the mid-1980s, she began broadening her audience and soon became one of the first CCM artists to cross over into mainstream pop on the heels of her successful albums Unguarded and Lead Me On. In 1986, she scored her first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 song in a duet with Peter Cetera, "The Next Time I Fall". In 1991, she released the blockbuster album Heart in Motion which became her best-selling album to date, topping the Billboard Christian album chart for 32 weeks, selling five million copies in the U.S., and producing her second No. 1 pop single "Baby Baby". She is the author of several books, including a memoir, Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far, and a book based on the popular Christmas song "Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)" which she co-wrote.
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The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.
I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.
It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer | 366 |
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Die Alte Dorfstraße führt von Westen kommend in östlicher Richtung auf den historischen Dorfanger zu.<|fim_middle|> Lehnin und 1542 an das königliche Domänenamt über. Der Pfarre waren zu dieser Zeit zwei Hufen zugewiesen. Im Ort gab es eine Feldsteinkirche mit einem Westturm, der im 18. Jahrhundert einen quadratischen Aufsatz mit Turmhaube erhalten hatte. In dieser Zeit wuchs die Kirchengemeinde stark an und so kam der Wunsch nach einer Erweiterung des Sakralbaus auf. Hinzu kam, dass der Turm 1856 repariert werden musste. Erste Pläne des Bauinspektors Schneider aus den Jahren 1857 und 1859 sahen den Anbau von Kreuzarmen vor, wurden aber verworfen. 1862 nahm Schneider gemeinsam mit dem Bauführer Lorenz einen neuen Anlauf. Sie reichten Zeichnungen für einen Neubau des Kirchenschiffs ein, die im gleichen Jahr jedoch von Friedrich August Stüler revidiert wurden. Ein Jahr später legte Schneider neue Zeichnungen vor, die nach einer weiteren Revision durch Stüler schließlich in den Jahren 1865 bis 1867 zur Umsetzung kamen. Der erst kürzlich reparierte Kirchturm wurde dabei in den Neubau mit einbezogen. Er erhielt ein neues Westportal. Die Steine des abgebrochenen Schiffs verwendeten die Handwerker für den Neubau. Die Kirchweihe fand am 28. September 1866 im Beisein des Generalsuperintendenten Hoffmann statt. Ein Jahr später konnte die Orgel feierlich eingeweiht und damit der Neubau vollendet werden. Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts stellten Experten fest, dass die Verbretterung des Turmaufsatzes schadhaft war. In den Jahren 1903 bis 1906 wurde diese ausgetauscht und mit Schiefer verkleidet. In der Zeit der DDR ließ die Kirchengemeinde unterhalb der Empore eine Winterkirche einbauen. In den Jahren 2001 bis 2005 erfolgte eine umfassende Sanierung.
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Das Bauwerk wurde im Wesentlichen aus Feldsteinen und rötlichem Mauerstein errichtet. Die halbrunde, fensterlose Apsis entstand dabei zu drei Vierteln aus unbehauenen und nur wenig lagig geschichteten Feldsteinen. Oberhalb verwendeten die Handwerker rötlichen Mauerstein und setzten eine umlaufende Reihe gekuppelter Blendarkaden vor die Fassade. Am Übergang zum Dach brachten sie einen nach unten geöffneten Rundbogenfries aus Werkstein an.
Das Kirchenschiff hat einen rechteckigen Grundriss. Die untere Hälfte entstand aus Feldsteinen, die obere aus Mauersteinen. Die Ostwand ist ebenfalls geschlossen; der gemauerte Bereich sowie der Giebel werden durch Lisenen betont. An der Nordseite des Kirchenschiffs wechseln sich fünf Rundbogenfenster mit vier Blenden jeweils ab. Sie reichen vom Feldsteinsockel bis annähernd unter den umlaufenden Rundbogenfries. Die Fenster sind dabei dreifach getreppt, die Blenden zweifach. Die Südseite ist identisch aufgebaut. An der Westseite sind im unteren Bereich neben dem Turm je zwei Rundbogenfenster.
Der Kirchturm ist in seinem Grundriss quadratisch und gegenüber dem Schiff eingezogen. An seiner Westseite ist ein großes, dreifach getrepptes Portal von 1865/1867 mit einem betonten Kämpfer und Giebel mit Kreuzblume. An der Nord- und Südseite ist jeweils ein kleines Rundbogenfenster mit einer Laibung aus Mauerstein. Im mittleren Geschoss ist je eine hochrechteckige Öffnung, gefolgt vom Glockengeschoss. Dort sind an der Westseite zwei, an der Nord- und Südseite jeweils eine Klangarkade. Darüber ist ein Pyramidendach, das in einen verschieferten Aufsatz mit weiteren Klangarkaden führt. Er schließt mit einer geschwungenen Haube und einer Spitze ab; darauf sitzt eine Turmkugel mit Wetterfahne und Stern.
Ausstattung
Die Kirchenausstattung ist einheitlich und entstand in den Jahren 1865 bis 1867 durch den Potsdamer Bildhauer Friedrich Wilhelm Koch. Er verwendete für den Altar, die Kanzel sowie Fünte einen grau gestrichenen Kunststein. Daraus erbaute er einen neogotischen Altar, dessen Tisch von Säulen getragen wird; die Vorderseite ist mit Maßwerk verziert. Die Fünte besteht aus einem achteckigen Becken, das wiederum auf einem achteckigen Fuß ruht, der mit Maßwerk und zusätzlich mit Putten verziert ist. Die neoromanische Kanzel steht auf einem achteckigen Fuß; der Kanzelkorb ist durch gedrehte Säulchen in Nischen unterteilt, in denen Figuren von Jesus Christus und den Evangelisten stehen. Zur weiteren Ausstattung gehört ein bauzeitliches Gemeindegestühl mit geschwungenen Wangen.
Die Empore steht auf achteckigen Säulen und ist mit einer hölzernen Brüstung verkleidet. Deren Anstrich wurde 2005 wiederhergestellt. Darauf errichtete 1867 Gottfried Wilhelm Baer eine Orgel mit einem Prospekt im Rundbogenstil. Das Instrument hat 12 Register, ein Manual sowie ein Pedal und wurde 2006 instand gesetzt.
Die Kirchengemeinde musste die drei vorhandenen Glocken aus Bronze im Ersten Weltkrieg im Zuge einer Metallspende des deutschen Volkes abgeben. Sie wurden 1928 durch drei Stahlglocken ersetzt, die von der Firma Schillung und Lattermann hergestellt wurden. Das Dachwerk ist zum Schiff hin geöffnet, so dass das Gebälk sichtbar ist. Die Säulen sind mit verzierten Zapfen versehen. Im Turm sind Reste des barocken Aufsatzes erkennbar, während in der Apsis ein dunkelblauer Sternenhimmel freigelegt wurde, der 2005 restauriert werden konnte.
An der südlichen Außenwand des Kirchturms erinnert ein Epitaph an den Oberstleutnant Ernst-Friedrich von Seydlitz, der am 13. April 1722 geboren wurde und am 18. April 1789 starb. Er diente 42 Jahre lang dem Preußenkönig Friedrich dem Großen.
Literatur
Georg Dehio (Bearb. Gerhard Vinken u. a.): Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler – Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, München/Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4.
Weblinks
Webauftritt des Pfarrbereichs auf der Website des Kirchenkreises
Einzelnachweise
Kirchengebäude in Kloster Lehnin (Gemeinde)
Baudenkmal in Kloster Lehnin (Gemeinde)
Kirchengebäude des Evangelischen Kirchenkreises Mittelmark-Brandenburg
Neuromanisches Kirchengebäude
Neuromanisches Bauwerk in Brandenburg
Feldsteinkirche
Saalkirche
Erbaut in den 1860er Jahren
Kirchengebäude in Europa | Dort steht das Bauwerk auf einer leicht erhöhten Fläche, die mit einer Mauer aus unbehauenen und nicht lagig geschichteten Feldsteinen eingefriedet ist.
Geschichte
Das genaue Baudatum eines Vorgängerbaus ist bislang nicht bekannt. Sicher ist, dass um 1420 Wichard von Rochow den Ort an das Kloster Lehnin verkaufte. Aus der Zeit vor 1459 gibt es erstmals einen gesicherten Nachweis für einen Vorgängerbau, als Göhlsdorf Filialkirche von Bochow war. Das Kirchenpatronat lag bei den Zisterzienserinnen aus dem Kloster Ziesar. Von dort ging es 1429 als Schenkung an das Kloster | 175 |
Researchers test how well people make decisions in outer space and other stressful spots
UCalgary prof Kent Hecker part of team at Mars Habitat to test mobile gear to monitor brain waves
Jennifer Allford, for the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Kent Hecker is part of a team doing research at Hawaii's Mars Habitat.
When you're an astronaut on Mars, a doctor in an emergency department or veterinarian performing emergency surgery, does fatigue affect your ability to make critical life-or-death decisions? Canadian researchers are heading to the remote Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) Mars Habitat to test new mobile electroencephalography (EEG) technologies to see whether they can reliably monitor astronauts' brain function and fatigue during missions in outer space.
"It's a neural headband," says Dr. Kent Hecker, PhD (above). Hecker is associate professor and health professions education researcher in the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the Cumming School of Medicine, and a member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute<|fim_middle|> way that is as non-invasive as possible to the people that go on these missions?"
The research project is co-led by Hecker along with Dr. Olav Krigolson, PhD, a neuroscientist at the University of Victoria, Dr. Gordon Binsted, PhD, at UBC's Okanagan Campus and Dr. Michaela Musilova, PhD, at the University of Hawaii and International MoonBase Alliance. The team also includes two UVic PhD students, Tom Ferguson and Chad Williams.
The researchers' findings could have wide-ranging impacts for astronauts on long missions in outer space and others who work long, stressful hours here on the ground, including emergency room physicians, urgent care veterinarians and pilots.
"Being fully immersed in an environment will allow us to determine how best to use these technologies," says Hecker, who studies performance in health professions education. "I'm interested in bringing these types of technologies back and seeing if they could be used in health professions environments such as operating or emergency rooms to help people better understand decisions that were made rightly or wrongly along the way."
The EEG equipment consists of hardware MUSE EEG and software from Suva Technologies, both Canadian companies. The team of scientists will be on Mauna Loa side of the Big Island of Hawaii from Dec. 1 to 9, and they will post daily reports and their own brain performance data.
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"You put it on and we can measure your brain activity through Bluetooth on an iPad or an iPhone," he says. "We're using them to assess decision-making, learning, attention and perception in potentially extreme or stressful environments."
During a week at the physically isolated Mars Habitat, the scientists will wear the EEG devices for 10 minutes at different times during the day and perform certain tasks to track changes in their decision-making, learning, attention and perception.
"The idea is can we use mobile EEG technology in order to assess cognitive fatigue and decision-making in these extreme environments, and can we do it in such a | 123 |
Coldwell Banker Realty Leader Named to HousingWire 2021 Women of Influence
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MADISON, N.J., Aug. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Coldwell Banker Realty is proud to announce Laura Rittenberg, president of both Coldwell Banker Realty in Atlanta and Coldwell Banker Realty in the Carolinas, has been named to HousingWire's 2021 Women of Influence list.
HousingWire, a source of news and information for the U.S. mortgage and housing markets, named 100 women in the mortgage and housing industry to the annual list. The Women of Influence program recognizes the outstanding efforts of women in driving the U.S. housing economy forward. The honors are given to individuals who are making notable contributions to both their businesses and to the industry at-large, with a specific focus on contributions made in the most recent 12 months.
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PERSONAL-SERVICES | CONSUMER CYCLICAL | is a testament to the high standards she applies to her business operations and the impact she has within the real estate industry and at Coldwell Banker," said Kate Rossi, regional executive vice president of the eastern region for Coldwell Banker Realty. "We're tremendously proud of her achievements and congratulate Laura on this well-deserved honor."
Rittenberg was recognized for her leadership overseeing the sales operation of a combined 29 sales offices and nearly 2,600 affiliated agents in Atlanta and the Carolinas. She joined the Coldwell Banker executive team in 2000 when she sold her Denver-based company to Coldwell Banker. After spending years in various markets throughout the country, she took the helm of Coldwell Banker Realty in Atlanta in 2017 and her role was expanded to include oversight of the company's operations in North and South Carolina in 2019.
In response to the challenges that the real estate industry faced in 2020, Rittenberg helped implement the shift to virtual learning, marketing and conducting business utilizing technology to show homes, work with clients, secure listings and manage transactions. She firmly believes that it is essential for agents to be equipped with the skills and resources to organically generate listing leads to manage their business and generate consistent income. Her goal for each agent is for them to live an exceptional life and she's personally involved in her companies on every level, regularly conducting workshops and overseeing business planning sessions with the agents and leadership.
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Coldwell Banker Realty in Atlanta is a leading residential real estate brokerage company with approximately 11 offices and 1,000 affiliated sales associates. Coldwell Banker Realty in the Carolinas is a leading residential real estate brokerage company with approximately 18 offices and 1,600 affiliated sales associates. Coldwell Banker Realty is owned by a | 387 |
Community Employment Group
Interview with the new General Manager
from The Jobs Letter No.133 / 30 October, 2000
CEG, the government's major resource for guiding and supporting local employment initiatives, has now moved from Winz back into the Labour Department.
The new General Manager, CHARLIE MOORE, talks with The Jobs Letter editor Vivian Hutchinson.
The Jobs Letter: Welcome to the job. You've had a month to settle in ... what are you seeing in front of you?
Charlie Moore: It's certainly been an exciting month, and a chance for me to become familiar with the fieldwork operation, and to do some thinking about where CEG needs to go and develop over the next couple of years. It has also been a chance for me to get some input from the people we're working with in terms of the communities and a range of other stakeholders.
The Jobs Letter: Your Chief Executive, John Chetwin, argued strongly to have CEG brought back into the Labour Department. What do you think is the special contribution the Labour Department brings to CEG? How will it be different from how it was under Winz?
Charlie Moore: It is being established as a separate entity, so it will have its own unique identity. That's no reflection on Work and Income, but it reflects the fact that it is a different kind of business, it has a different set of competencies, and it requires a different style of management. The whole rationale of the Community Employment Group is that it has got the competencies and<|fim_middle|>4 million, next year $2.5 million and in then the third year building up to $4.6 million. Work and Income is also an integral part of the CEO initiative and they will have wage subsidy money available to support people working within those.
The CEOs will be undertaking a wide range of things. They sit, I guess, between the for-profit private sector business operation and a work scheme. We will provide establishment costs and some wage support if that's required, and this will be mixed with or matched with contributions from the organisation and from other stakeholders, so that they can develop activities which have the potential to actually generate income. So they aren't a work scheme. I think the key difference is that it's not project-based, or it doesn't have to be project-based. We want them to be ongoing, and to get a foothold in the marketplace.
Artworks is a relatively small sum of money — on an annual basis it's a matter of just under $200,000. So, in a sense, it is really both a pilot and a chance to provide a little additional support to some of groups that are focussed around developing employment opportunities in the arts. It can provide some startup costs, support costs targeted in that particular sector.
All these new initiatives will be developed through the fieldworker operations. We're trying to stay true to our core philosophy, if you like. We've prepared information and guidelines for fieldworkers, and pamphlets so that people are aware of what's available. But the proposals will come back to us through the fieldworkers, the same way that any other proposal will.
The Jobs Letter: What would you say to community leaders about their future partnerships with CEG?
Charlie Moore: I guess I would say we are absolutely committed to working very closely with the communities. We are striving to build ourselves as an organisation that will have the capacity and the capability to be of real value to the groups that we work with. We clearly see our role not to tell communities what they should be doing, but to facilitate a process whereby communities can identify what their goals and aspirations are ... and CEG can provide some contribution to making that happen.
I would want the characteristic of CEG to be that we can be flexible, and that we can respond to where people are at with some sort of innovation that ultimately has an employment outcome. We're an organisation that needs to be about learning and not about knowing. We want to build an open organisation, so that people have an opportunity to give us feedback and to have a relationship with us which has got mutual respect and an opportunity for us to grow together.
Source — 20th October 2000 Vivian Hutchinson interview with Charlie Moore, General Manager of the Community Employment Group.
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The other linkage, which is quite valuable, is the fact that the Department of Labour is responsible for employment policy. I think there are real opportunities to actually make a linkage between the employment issues that are coming through from communities — barriers to jobs, opportunities that they see — and how that interacts with policy.
The Jobs Letter: The Department of Labour, in it's briefing to the incoming government, talked of "capacity building" as one of its major emphasises. What does this mean, and how will this be reflected in the activities of CEG?
Charlie Moore: Capacity building is core business for CEG. One of the things it means is starting where people are at, and accepting that there is a goal that employment opportunities will grow in that area. It implies a bottom-up approach, which is a much-used phrase, but has a lot of implications. It involves asking: What are the connections that that group needs to make? What are the abilities and the resources that need to be available? It might mean something as pragmatic as help with a payroll system for the purpose of employing people, or it might mean participating in a process of community-based strategic planning that will create concrete steps on the road towards that vision.
I guess that one point I would say is that CEG is not about programmes as such. The core of what we're about is a process really — it is a developmental activity within communities. We're not about programmes, we're about fieldworkers, about people working in communities to help make a difference.
We do have grant money, obviously, and we have resources that are available. But I think it is really important that we all understand that the process doesn't start with a grant. The process begins with the identification of what people are trying to achieve and what resources there are and what the strengths and challenges and risks involved. Somewhere along that journey, money will be needed ...but if the point of the journey becomes the money and the grant, then I think we're starting from the wrong place.
" We're not about programmes, we're about fieldworkers, about people working in communities to help make a difference. "
— Charlie Moore
The Jobs Letter: Do you expect to have more staff or different programmes? How will CEG look different from what its been in the last couple of years?
Charlie Moore: I think one of the things people will start to see is that there can be a lot of flexibility. Because it is a national organisation, we will have the ability to both provide a generic service located within communities throughout New Zealand, as well as have people that can play to their strengths. We will be able to move resources, or specialist people with particular experience and talents, to work throughout the country.
Currently have a network of 67 fieldworkers and following the recent Budget funding initiatives there is the opportunity to increase that slightly, but not by a substantial amount at this stage.
In addition to the operational resources which provides for and supports the network of fieldworkers, in the current year, we have about $19 million of funding available to support that field operation through grants and capacity-building initiatives for the groups that we're working with.
What we are building are regional and national support structures for that network, and that's the work that is inevitably occupying a certain amount of our attention. Our plan is to do the strategic planning work by Christmas. We are about to engage in the next fortnight in quite an intensive process of consultation with both internal and external stakeholders of CEG as part of that process. We are planning to have a completed organisational design by the end of January, and in place by the end of March. So that's a very challenging time-frame.
The Jobs Letter: What special qualities do you bring to the job?
Charlie Moore: I do believe that I bring an open, facilitative and consultative approach. I don't believe that I personally have all of the answers. I guess I'm not a great believer in the "Hero CEO" management model.
I believe that there is an enormous amount of experience, insights and common sense in this organization, and in the communities that it works in. The trick is actually to provide a leadership which allows people to have the confidence and the vision to see that for themselves, to identify what they bring, to agree about what it is that we're here to do. That's what I'm working really hard to make happen.
" I would want the characteristic of CEG to be that we can be flexible... We clearly see our role not to tell communities what they should be doing, but to facilitate a process whereby communities can identify what their goals and aspirations are ... and CEG can provide some contribution to making that happen." "
The Jobs Letter: You've mentioned the new initiatives that were announced in the Budget. A lot of these have been to do with "capacity building" and are aimed at the Maori Community. Do you see the overall nature of CEG moving more towards supporting Maori organisations, with the emphasis on "Closing the Gaps"?
Charlie Moore: I think CEG will always have a core, generic community support role. At the moment the Government has a focus on the "Closing the Gaps" strategy and we've got some additional specific resources to help contribute to that. So clearly our work will reflect that, but I would hasten to say that it is additional resource _ it's not a reprioritisation of our current resource.
The "Closing the Gaps" work is very much building on the kind of work that CEG has been doing over the years. There was an increase in the support available for land development projects _ to take multiple-owned land and identify and build on opportunities there. Similarly, we have been working with both Maori and Pacific organizations, getting people to the point where they can deliver services themselves, or develop employment opportunities. Similarly, the money for Maori women's development is again an area that we have focused on, but we'll now be able to do a bit more.
The Jobs Letter: What will the CEOs (Community Employment Organisations) and the Artworks programme involve?
Charlie Moore: The Community Employment Organisations are a more generic project, if you like. In the current year, we're talking about $1. | 1,306 |
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Lawson Named Best Early Childhood School in the State
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Lawson Early Childhood School has earned the 2020 H-E-B Excellence in Education Award for Early Childhood Education. They were chosen from among five finalist schools located across the state.
McKinney, Texas – When Susie Towber introduces herself in a video by saying, "I'm the luckiest person. I'm the principal at Lawson Early Childhood School in McKinney, Texas," she absolutely means it.
Click here to view the H-E-B feature video on Lawson Early Childhood School.
If<|fim_middle|> easy; a special skill set is required. These children are not babies, but little people with big personalities, big feelings and enormous and curious minds. Many of them live in difficult circumstances and have experienced trauma at a young age. At Lawson there is an intentional focus on building academic, social and emotional needs to prepare students for their first day in kindergarten and beyond. Our culture promotes learning, safety and love for all students, regardless of ability and background.
"Despite the overwhelming research showing the critical importance of quality learning for children from birth to age five, entire communities continue to see early childhood as unimportant. The reality is that the labor Lawson does is exceptional and it impacts student lives. Hopefully, through recognition like this and laws promoting and supporting early childhood education, more students will enjoy the benefits of a school like ours, and we will change more lives." — Iliana Gonzalez, Assistant Principal, Lawson ECS
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News Archive » | anybody has found their dream job, it's Susie Towber and her Lawson staff because, in spite of the challenges inherent in the work, they wholeheartedly love what they do. And, while that love drives them forward, it's their talent, expertise and unrelenting commitment to their students that have propelled their work to stratospheric levels of excellence.
So much so that H-E-B has named McKinney ISD's Lawson Early Childhood School the 2020 H-E-B Excellence in Education winner in the Early Childhood School category, choosing them from among five finalist schools from across the state. The announcement came during a virtual version of H-E-B's award ceremony held Tuesday, May 5. In addition to the recognition, Lawson will receive $25,000 for their school. Lawson was a finalist in 2018.
Students at Lawson Early Childhood school take part in STEAM lab activities prior to the current school closure.
Since the program's inception, H-E-B has awarded more than $11.5 million in funding to benefit outstanding Texas public schools. To determine overall statewide winners, a panel of judges visits each early childhood facility, tours campuses and talks with administration, staff, parents and community members.
"Lawson Early Childhood is, without question, one of the shining stars in our wonderful district," says MISD Superintendent Dr. Rick McDaniel. "The leadership of Mrs. Towber, combined with the enthusiasm and love for kids expressed by all Lawson faculty and staff, are the primary reasons for them receiving this award. I could not be more proud of their efforts, and I am extremely happy that they are receiving this outstanding, well-deserved recognition."
Towber and her staff have been over the moon since the announcement, but Towber is quick to deflect the recognition toward her teachers.
"I want it to be about them," she says, "because this is celebrating early childhood schools, and our teachers put their heart and soul into it. They are so passionate about early childhood education, and they're all there for a reason. It's about them."
Lawson Principal Susie Towber joins students as they work their way through the school's Sensory Pathway prior to the school closure.
Lawson is home to the district's youngest learners—from 3 years old to 5 years old—who participate in Early Head Start, Head Start (Bilingual, ESL, Monolingual), Pre-K (Bilingual, ESL, Monolingual), Early Childhood Special Education, Low Ratio Early Childhood Education and Preschool Language Program.
At the beginning of 2019-2020, Lawson changed its half-day Pre-K program to a full day program, allowing more students to attend. Inspired by the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, the school has implemented a "House System" this year featuring the Houses of Kindness, Courage and Friendship, which serve to foster a more tightly knit community within the school.
The school's STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) Lab, which was introduced three years ago, provides a place for students to engage in open-ended, hands-on experiences focused on specific concepts such as energy or transportation. The Lawson team designed a teaching cycle (thinking, planning, doing and reflecting) to ensure success in the lab as students engage with higher order questions, visuals, "I can" statements and reflective questions that help them grasp essential academic and social vocabulary.
This year, through a grant, Lawson added a Sensory Path that builds neural pathways and helps students develop balance and gross motor skills, while at the same time offering an option for students experiencing strong emotions to de-escalate through self-regulation. That is coupled with breathing techniques that help them learn to understand and process their emotions in healthy ways.
The Lawson team build engagement and community with parents through home visits, the Sidewalk Librarian initiative and IMPACT nights (IMportance of Parents and Children Together), which bring Lawson families to the campus for a carnival-like atmosphere and activities that reinforce critical skills. Families leave with lessons they can use at home, and every child leaves with a book.
Lawson students take part in a music activity prior to the school closure.
During the school closure, some of this has been different, of course, but Lawson's teachers have taken their efforts to new levels to provide as much uninterrupted learning as possible for MISD's youngest students.
"Our teachers are working 24/7," says Towber. "They're teaching online. They create amazing videos and lessons and Zoom with their kids. They create group lessons, individual lessons. Our teachers are working so hard to do the best they can to meet the needs of our students."
And, that reveals the heart of Lawson Early Childhood School—the devotion they feel toward their students that reaches far beyond obligation.
Towber thinks she's lucky to work at Lawson. Based on the remarkable work taking place at the school, one is tempted to believe that the students and parents of Lawson feel pretty lucky that she—and her staff—are there, too.
We asked Lawson staff members for their response to the H-E-B award. Here's what some of them had to say:
"What the H-E-B award means for me is truly the importance of early childhood education. We are building the foundation for the littlest learners here in McKinney, and for H-E-B to recognize how important that is means the world. We want the success of our students to carry them through kindergarten, to college, and beyond. McKinney ISD and H-E-B both value the importance of what Lawson does, and for that I am truly thankful." — Justin Bourgeois-Delgado, Head Start Teacher, Lawson ECS
"What a wonderful way to start a new day of teaching! Teaching from a distance is emotionally so difficult, and the validation of this award is just what we needed in this challenging time! I'm so blessed and proud to be a part of this special campus as it is recognized for the excellence it represents." — Alyssa Works, PPCD Teacher, Lawson ECS
"Earning this recognition validates the exceptional teaching that our Lawson staff delivers every day. We are the first face of MISD schools for many families. Our focus on helping our district's youngest learners begin to recognize and regulate their emotions and behaviors is critical. Combining that social growth with rigorous academic instruction ensures that our students have life-long opportunities for success. This is challenging work, and we are gratified to have our passion and commitment recognized." — Kelly McKee, Librarian, Lawson ECS
"Not only am I extremely thrilled that Lawson ECS was selected by H-E-B as the early childhood school of the year, I am honored to be one of the members of the staff of this prestigious campus. Yes, we strive for excellence on a daily basis, but the joy of Lawson is that every day on this campus is a new day, an opportunity to make the day better than the day before. As a teacher, I often wonder if I am doing enough. With this age group, it is not often that these precious learners will remember us personally in the future but I do know and hope they will remember the difference we made to inspire their love of learning, their curiosity, and that there is never only one way to explore, communicate, or play. To receive this award is a confirmation that not only do our precious learners receive the benefits of a campus such as Lawson but also serves as confirmation to visitors outside of our campus to recognize that what we do is meaningful, important, and that we are laying the foundation for life long learners. Our students are not only good friends, they are important, and they are Lawson Sea Lions!" — Elizabeth Lopez, ECSE, Lawson ECS
"Loving children well is at the very core of our mission at Lawson. We have come to understand that we have to first capture the hearts of our children to be able to teach their minds. This is accomplished by creating a classroom family that can celebrate, learn, make mistakes, and forgive. We can then use play, imagination, literature, music and movement to open up a world of learning opportunities. Our building has a palpable soul that thrives on the success and joy of the most diverse population of youngest learners in McKinney ISD. We are both humbled and grateful that H-E-B could sense this in our school and graciously presented us with this award." — Brandy Wirstrom, Head Start Teacher, Lawson ECS
"Lawson Early Childhood School School is honored to be recognized by H-E-B as early childhood school of the year. At Lawson, we put a strong focus on social and emotional learning. We believe that students who can recognize emotions, calm their bodies, and express their feelings are not only going to be better students academically, but also strong and successful members of society. H-E-B recognizes the importance of social and emotional learning from an early age. Many lives will be touched by this award." — Jen Mitchell, School Counselor, Lawson ECS
"We are beyond thrilled that H-E-B has honored Lawson with the 2020 Excellence in Early Childhood Education Award! We are incredibly grateful that H-E-B and McKinney ISD recognize and invest in the importance of an exemplary early childhood education. I am so proud to be a part of such a passionate and caring team committed to delivering highly effective learning experiences for our Sea Lions. What we do at Lawson truly matters!" — Veronica Muizers Assistant Principal, Lawson ECS
"As a parent and as part of the most wonderful educators of early childhood, this recognition means the world to me. I am so grateful to be part of Lawson and witness first hand the passion, care, and love that every individual pours into everything they do for our Lawson Sea Lions. To have the opportunity to help our students grow academically and, most importantly, emotionally, is a huge challenge, but with support from our parents and the right tools, we are showing our community that it is possible. We are proud to teach our students that we can do anything we set our minds to. The sky is the limit when you dream big and do everything with kindness, courage and friendship." — Silvana Galdos, Special Education Clerical Aide, Lawson ECS
"Before I was part of the amazing Lawson staff, I was a parent of a Sea Lion. I could not have been more lucky to witness first hand the hard work and dedication that our administration and teachers provide to the Lawson Community. Our students are always encouraged to be unique and be confident in themselves and their abilities. I know that each and every one of these students goes home with a new way of thinking and knowing that they are loved and cared for." — Marcela Mora, Pre-K Bilingual Teacher, Lawson ECS
"The staff of Lawson Early Childhood School is honored to represent McKinney ISD and share the importance of providing wholesome early childhood education. Lawson's mission is to foster student growth by providing support in academics, social and emotional learning, and the idea of living kind. Winning the 2020 Excellence in Early Childhood Education Award aids us to embark on the new adventure of being a leader in innovation for surrounding early childhood schools. We are thrilled to be able to share our growth and learning with all." — Zulema Lujan Flores, Bilingual Head Start Teacher, Lawson ECS
"The first time I came to Lawson was in 2013 when I was offered an opportunity to teach summer school. Before then, I had never thought about leaving the elementary school where I worked, but Lawson was truly special. That was the first time I considered becoming an early childhood teacher. Here, I was in a place conceived of and built just for early learners and equipped with expert and passionate teachers who understood the uniqueness and challenges of educating young minds. Three years ago, I joined the Lawson team, and I have learned a lot about the outstanding work teachers of 3 and 4 and year olds get to do everyday. Teaching little ones is not | 2,447 |
Index on Censorship opens nominations for the 2017 Freedom of Expression Awards and Fellowship
Beginning today, nominations for the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowship are open. Now in<|fim_middle|> available in: Russian, German, Italian, Portuguese (Portugal),Portuguese (Brazil), French , Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic languages.
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EPC's 2016 GLOBAL MEDIA TRENDS BOOK TELLS STORY OF SEISMIC CHANGE IN NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE PUBLISHING | their 17th year, the awards honour some of the world's most remarkable free expression heroes. Previous winners include Chinese digital activists GreatFire, Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat and Angolan investigative journalist Rafael Marques de Morais.
Awards honour journalists, campaigners, digital activists and artists fighting censorship globally;
Nominate at indexoncensorship.org/nominations;
Nominations are open from 12 September to 2 October 2016.
Index invites the general public, civil society organisations, non-profit groups and media organisations to nominate anyone (individuals or organisations) who they believe should celebrated and supported in their work tackling censorship worldwide.
There are four categories in Index on Censorship's Freedom of Expression Awards:
• Arts for artists (any form) and arts producers whose work challenges repression and injustice and celebrates artistic free expression.
• Campaigning for activists and campaigners who have had a marked impact in fighting censorship and promoting freedom of expression.
• Digital Activism for innovative uses of technology to circumvent censorship and enable free and independent exchange of information.
• Journalism for courageous, high impact and determined journalism (any form) that exposes censorship and threats to free expression.
Relevant nominees are also eligible for the Music in Exile Fellowship, which supports musicians whose work is under threat.
As awards fellows, all winners receive one residential week of networking, advanced training and consultancy in London (April 2017) followed by 12 months of bespoke support to amplify and sustain their valuable work for free expression worldwide.
Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of Index, said: "The Freedom of Expression Awards not only showcase but also strengthen groups and individuals doing brave and brilliant work to enhance freedom of expression around the world. These are true heroes – people who often have to overcome immense obstacles and face great danger just for the right to express themselves. I urge everyone to nominate their free expression champion – make sure their voice is heard."
The 2017 awards shortlist will be announced in late January. The winners will be announced in London at a gala ceremony on 19 April 2017 at The Unicorn Theatre.
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After more than <|fim_middle|> ongoing concern of all modern dairymen. | 30 years of research and development, Animat continues to seek ways to improve cow comfort and productivity by producing the highest quality rubber flooring. Over the years, Animat has invested millions of dollars developing and manufacturing cow mats that meet the specific requirements of today's dairymen and all the technological advances in the industry today.
Animal's exclusive non-slip surface offers increased traction and superior cowcomfort, even when wet, to allow your cows to maintain a natural sure-footed gait.
Animal cow mats are non-porous and made of 100% recycled rubber, making it very stable and easy to clean and disinfect for a healthy environment. Unlike concrete and sand bed, stall mats don't absorb liquid or promote the development of bacteria and adapts well to all existing cleaning methods like flushing, alley scrapers, rubber tire scraping and more.
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As Henry's daughter, Evangeline Lilly can certainly handle the action, as proven in The Hobbit and is given room to create a tough, independent woman in Hope. Corey Stoll makes for an impressive villain as Darren Cross, while Michael Pena is the biggest thief, stealing every scene he is in as Scott's partner-in-crime.
Marvel's Phase 2 of their cinematic universe looks a bleak and dark place, yet Ant-Man is a delicious slice of fun, with the audience I saw it with lapping up every minute, applauding the film every chance they got. It's a terrific new entry in this world and I get the feeling this isn't the flop that everyone predicted it would be. A real blast and you'll never look at Thomas The Tank Engine in the same way. | , Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stroll, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Michael Pena, T.I.
The signs for Ant-Man didn't look great. A director who was removed under mysterious circumstances, only to be replaced by a director known more for rom-coms. A leading man who is also known mainly for frat boy comedies and rom-coms, who took over writing duties along with the co-creator of Anchorman. Could this be the film that finally proves that Marvel are not indestructible? Absolutely not! In fact, not only the biggest surprise of the year but can we say Guardians of The Galaxy in the same breath? I think we can!
Dr Hank Pym needs help. He needs someone to infiltrate his own company to steal a tiny suit that is being developed by his protegé, Darren Cross. This suit is a weapon that, if Cross can find the right formula, while be able to shrink a man to a tiny size to wear the suit. Pym turns to cat burglar and recently released from prison, Scott Lang. Desperate to go straight, Lang is set up to steal from Pym's house, only to find Pym wanted him there and for him to steal from Cross, as Ant-Man.
This is a very different Marvel production, in every sense of the word. Having original script writers and story creators, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, with re-writes by Paul Rudd and Adam McKay, this is not just another action superhero movie. This is a comedy with a costume. It is laugh-out-loud funny. Then even the feel, the tone, the whole rhythm has changed. Even though this is big, blockbuster stuff, it feels, excuse the pun, small.
There aren't as many set pieces and when they do happen, they aren't of the grand scale of previous outings. While the Avengers maybe destroying New York or some eastern European country, Ant-Man's denouement occurs in a little girl's bedroom. Yes, it's that small. Yet even though it isn't crash, bang, wallop like past films, it still is incredibly exciting and still incredibly funny.
The real strength of the film is the casting. Paul Rudd might not sound the ideal choice for a superhero movie, yet it works. With his charm, everyman quality and comic approach, he balances the humour with the pathos, while proving he can handle the action well. Michael Douglas brings a huge amount of gravitas with him as Henry Pym. Sporting goatee and distinguished grey hair, he still has that Gordon Gekko quality about him, that even the most complex techno-b | 542 |
My first encounter with art song, and song cycles, was in high school. I was taking music history lessons to prepare for an RCM exam, and our textbook included "Ich grolle nicht," from Schumann's Dichterliebe. Although classically-trained voices still sounded alien to me at that time, something about the piece made me want to get to know it better. I sat down and played the piano part (which felt and sounded wonderful under the fingers), and read the words: lovely, angsty break-up lyrics that appealed immediately to my teenaged sensibilities. As I saw how perfectly the music expressed the text's emotions, and felt how fun that piano part was to play, I began to fall in love.
As I developed as a composer, however, I didn't write very many art songs. I was lucky enough to have commissions and requests to write music in many other genres, but received very few art song commissions. When Steven and Lance asked me to write a song cycle for the winner of the 2016-2017 Jeunesses Musicales Maureen Forrester Tour (soprano Magali Simard-Galdès), therefore, I jumped at the chance.
The parameters of the commission were clear: the piece needed to support CASP's mission to create a repertoire of Canadian art song that could be adopted by singers who aren't new music specialists (as well as those who are). The total duration needed to be between ten and fifteen minutes, to fit Magali's recital programme, and I needed to choose Canadian texts. I didn't have to think long or hard about whose poetry I would set; I'd wanted to work with Lorri Neilsen Glenn's poems for years, ever since I read her Lost Gospels (Brick Books, <|fim_middle|> three that made it into the cycle: Dusk, Hubbards Cove, and Daybreak.
Each of these poems, in its own way, expresses what it's like to be a mortal being who exists in time. Dusk and Daybreak each present a different kind of looking back, and Hubbards Cove is about a kind of joyful being-in-the-moment. The cycle as a whole moves backward temporally, from sunset to mid-day to dawn. In each song I attempted to capture the emotions the poem evokes in me, and I couldn't resist using sound to suggest images from each poem, too: birdsong and the irregular whir of a sewing machine in Dusk, dripping icicles in Hubbards Cove, the sun rising and cumulonimbus blooming in Daybreak. The three movements share a common musical language. Dusk and Daybreak, which are most closely related in terms of their extramusical ideas, are most closely related in their structure, too. Both move through the same sequence of hexachords (that is, collections of six pitches), which are transposed so that the end of Daybreak returns, finally, to the pitch center used at Dusk's opening.
Composing this piece was meaningful in ways I find difficult to put into words; in part, I think, because I put what I most wanted to say into the music itself. It was thrilling finally to write a song cycle of my own. It was fun to write music that would allow Magali to show the audience her incredible musicality and lovely voice, and Olivier Hébert-Bouchard, her pianist, to show off his virtuosity, too. Most of all, it was deeply rewarding to get to share my love of these poems and what they have to say. All through the music I am saying to the listener: look at this! Isn't this beautiful? Isn't this profound? | 2010).
I love a lot of things about Lorri's works: her unflinching, unsentimental confrontation with mortality, her playful approach to structure, the alchemy by which she transforms mundane objects and activities into opportunities to contemplate what it means to be human. It took several months of reading and pondering, but eventually I winnowed down the poems that spoke to me to the | 84 |
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Think Yourself Slim and Fit – Being slim and fit is within your grasp if you have the right frame of mind. Eating properly and being in shape is as much a mental process as a physical one. This audio CD is the tool you need to bridge the gap between your mind and body. The positive hypnotic affirmations in this audio CD may well be the missing link that you need to achieve your goals | 127 |
If you want to learn more about how Blissymbolics is structured, you can watch a series of workshops called The structure<|fim_middle|> added, and throughout, tips will be given regarding teaching Bliss to those who use it for their face-to-face communication and their Blisslnternet communication.
This page is just a brief overview. For more and updated information and a deeper understanding, we recommend that you read this document on Proceedings Characteristics of Blissymbolics.
Please trfer to the Fundamental Rules of Blissymbolics document for more detailed information about the making of Bliss. | of Blissymbolics, produced by Margareta Jennische at Uppsala University, Sweden.
If you are interested in learning more about Blissymbols, introductory online courses can be found at this Introductory Web Training - Bliss 101.
Blissymbolics makes use of core symbols (Bliss-characters), many of which are intuitive and pictographic. They can be arranged to produce Bliss-words that can represent complex and abstract, yet easy-to-understand meanings. There are around 100 basic symbols, which can be combined endlessly to form new concepts. Nouns can be changed into verbs or adjectives with the addition of an indicator, and there are also simple past and future tenses. Bliss has simple, elegant, logically based rules, that make it ideal as a non-phonetically based language.
Welcome to the Bliss Workshop! This workshop is for those who wish to teach Bliss to others. From time to time a new session will be | 196 |
I have two teenage daughters, ages 14 and 13. Yeah, I know. That's a lot of drama in my life. And I need to state clearly for the record that I hate mornings as much as they do. I work nights so getting up at 5:44 to get them out the door is brutal. But I do it because it's actually my favorite time of the day. (Ugh. I never thought I'd say that.) I still hate getting up, but in that crazy 64 minutes between alarm blaring and the bus pulling up, a lot of great stuff happens!
1 | They're sleepy and their guard is down.
There's something about the way their faces are relaxed or not yet steeled for the day; I can sometimes see my little girl in a nose wrinkle or an old familiar movement or look. My little sweet three- and four-year-old girls are back for just a moment – mostly in the early mornings.
2 | The slate is pretty clean.
Their sister bond is strongest before they've had time to annoy each other. They are connected to each other and it shows most in those early morning moments. There's a familiarity and comfort that they feel. I like to think they get a helpful dose of family before they head out to face the incredible dramas of teenage life.
3 | Every once in a while they do each other's hair.
When this happens, they're talking and touching each other in a nurturing way – not dodging a thrown item, knocking each other over, shoving, hitting, or grabbing. It's a good kind of physical contact. They mostly insult each other's hair – in pretty amazingly mean ways – but sometimes they do each other's hair and that makes me smile.
4 | They talk about mutual friends and classmates.
They make observations and share interactions with each other. I sip my coffee and act casual, but I hear their impressions, thoughts, attitudes and observations about others. I hear some<|fim_middle|> human beings they are growing into.
5 | They're in a hurry, and in that rush and hustle, they need me.
Not so much in an, "I can't let go," kind of way, but in a, "We're a family and we work together," kind of way. They need a check written, or a notebook signed, or to know if we have another gallon of milk, but they also need a steady, solid presence in their morning to let them know that no matter what happens the rest of the day, they are loved and cared for. In the early mornings, they let me show them that. They let me love them and don't fight me every step of the way.
6 | I know it will be over in a blink.
They're growing up quickly and I can almost count the number of regular early morning breakfasts we have left to share, so I'm bound and determined to be up and sipping coffee. I will continue to make them change clothes when their outfits barely cover their bodies (even though they look at me like I'm either dumb as rocks or straight up crazy); I will referee the rude and uncalled-for grumpy comments to each other (and to me, occasionally); I will offer food and drink that will be rejected for unpredictable reasons; and I will keep looking for the rare, delightful moments amid the chaos. | juicy stuff, but I mostly get a read on what kind of | 13 |
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In September last year, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (Alliance) and the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM) agreed with the Automotive Service Association (ASA) to provide independent repairer access to service information and diagnostic tools. It's now a done deal, all three bodies report, without recourse to legislation.
Under the agreement, automakers committed to providing independent repair shops with the same service and training information related to vehicle repair as is available to franchised dealerships by August 31, 2003. The three associations are pleased to report that the terms of the agreement have been satisfied.
"Alliance member companies recognize how important this information is to independent repairers," said Josephine S. Cooper, Alliance President and CEO. "Access to this information will guarantee that independent repairers have the same repair capabilities as dealer operated repair facilities and will benefit consumers, repairers and manufacturers."
In accordance with the agreement, all manufacturers have launched service information websites that provide factory service information dating back to the 1996 model year. Factory diagnostic tools (the identical tools used by dealerships) are now available from every manufacturer and factory-training materials are available either online or via an 800 number. In addition, automakers are working with the Equipment and Tool Institute (ETI) to provide information so that third-party tool manufacturers can develop diagnostic tools that contain the same features as the factory diagnostic tools.
Tim MacCarthy, President and CEO of the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, added that "manufacturers are to be congratulated for establishing a workable, on-going process where repair technicians can easily obtain the thousands of pages of new technical and repair information generated each year as cars and trucks are introduced in the marketplace." "Our next challenge is to ensure that independent technicians are both aware of this information and motivated to use it to provide the best possible service to our mutual customers."
ASA President Ron Pyle said the agreement is working "exceptionally well" and complete service information is available to independent repair professionals. Rather than pursuing legislation to coerce manufacturers to share technical information, Pyle said the amicable agreement puts information in the hands of repair professionals | 448 |
Grand Design Test For Pupils
Primary school pupils in Pembrokeshire were recently given a taste of the construction industry.
Eleven schools<|fim_middle|> pride.
"It would be beneficial to challenge Secondary School Pupils in the same way!
"Good Event - well organised - totally worthwhile." | were invited to take part in a Grand Design challenge held at Prendergast primary school in Haverfordwest. Organised by Pembrokeshire County Council and Construction Skills and supported by Costain, the schools were set the challenge to construct a four meter high tetrahedron and the designing and building of a crane jib. The event aimed to give pupils a practical taste of construction skills, an insight of the industry and helped develop links between the community, businesses and schools.
Phil Baker, Costain Public Liaison Officer based at the A40 improvement project in Pembrokeshire, was on hand to give a presentation of the scheme to the youngsters and as a Construction Ambassador led the tetrahedron challenge. Phil commented that the children were eager to take part and listened intently to the safety instructions and the construction methods.
The crane challenge had been developed by Cambridge University and encouraged pupils to design, build and test a crane jib using rolled paper components, bolted together and tested on a rig. The testing of the jib was the highlight of the day with one kilogram bags of sugar used to load the construction.
This is the only event of its kind in Wales and was supported by a number of Construction Ambassadors, Cllr Huw George Pembrokeshire Cabinet member for Children, Young People, Learning and Welsh Language, said:
"The Grand Designs Event at Prendergast School was a challenging yet enjoyable day for all the pupils (and their teachers).
"The young peoples' determination shone through enabling many of them to complete the test successfully. They learnt so much as individuals and as teams and I know that they returned to their respective Schools with great | 342 |
Djurgården ( o ) es una isla y un parque de Est<|fim_middle|> de la arquitectura tradicional sueca, además del único zoológico de Estocolmo, con fauna escandinava (lobos, linces, osos). Su tradicional mercado navideño atrae a decenas de miles de personas todos los años.
El Museo Vasa, dedicado al barco Vasa que se hundió en el puerto de Estocolmo el día de su botadura.
Nordiska museet, un museo dedicado a las tradiciones y la cultura sueca.
Gröna Lund, parque de atracciones más antiguo de Suecia, abierto en 1883.
Junibacken, un museo y lugar de entretenimiento infantil dedicado a las creaciones de Astrid Lindgren.
Palacio de Rosendal, construido entre 1823 y 1827 para el Rey Carlos XIV Juan, abierto en los meses de verano ofreciendo visitas guiadas.
Rosendals Trädgård, jardín público que destaca por su selección de rosas.
Aquaria Vattenmuseum (museo del agua), es un museo dedicado a las formas de vida acuática, con grandes acuarios y recreaciones de distintos medios ambientes (en particular, tropicales).
El rompehielos Sankt Erik, un barco museo (todavía en uso) que se encuentra muy cercano al muelle del Vasa Museum.
Véase también
Djurgårdens IF, uno de los club de fútbol de Estocolmo.
Referencias
Enlaces externos
Islas de Estocolmo
Parques de Suecia
Urbanismo de Estocolmo | ocolmo en Suecia, situada al este de la ciudad. Cuenta con alrededor de 800 habitantes y tiene una superficie de 279 hectáreas para 10 200 metros de orillas.
Es un lugar apreciado por los turistas, que además de un gran parque, agrupa varios museos, un parque zoológico y el parque de atracciones Gröna Lund. Acoge cada año más de 10 millones de visitantes.
El príncipe Carlos Felipe de Suecia reside con su esposa, la princesa Sofía Cristina de Suecia, en un apartamento en este barrio.
Lugares de interés
ABBA: The Museum, un museo sobre el grupo de música sueco ABBA.
Museo de biología, edificio construido en madera tallada en 1893, inspirado en las iglesias noruegas de los siglos XII y XIII (Stavkirke). En su interior se muestran en dioramas escenas de la fauna escandinava, con aves y mamíferos disecados.
Skansen, el museo al aire libre más antiguo en el mundo, muestra ejemplos | 267 |
Holter Graham's soothing yet authoritative tone possesses an almost Gandalf-ian quality that will entrance young listeners from the first line in his majestic performance of Patrick Carman's prequel to the Land of Elyon trilogy, which chronicles the adventures of Thomas<|fim_middle|> new mysteries, new challenges, and magical creatures that will change the course of their fate...and the fate of their land.
From a humble and unexplained childhood in a very strange orphanage to a series of fearless escapes to a quest full of riddles and exploration, Thomas and Roland find that their identity - and the mysterious tattoos on their knees - are linked to a much greater history than they ever would have guessed. One brother, Thomas, is destined for adventure on land, while the ohter brother, Roland is destined for adventure on sea. But before this happens, they must journey into the mist...and find the truth about both their past and their future.
©2007 Patrick Carman; (P)2007 Scholastic Inc. | Warvold and his brother Roland on their courageous trek from a Dickensian orphanage into the titular mist while discovering cryptic clues along the way that illuminate their mysterious past, foreshadow their heroic future, and place them front and center in an epic battle between good and evil.
Before the walls went up...there were adventures. Follow young Thomas Warvold and his brother, Roland, as they journey through Elyon, discovering | 88 |
This course teaches you how to develop engaging e-Learning by outlining the steps needed to create an instructionally sound course. It is directed to anyone who wants to build an e-Learning course but who is not an eLearning expert: teachers, trainers, and subject matter experts. This course contains content, questions and and all the components typically included in an e-Learning course. The principles presented here apply to eLearning courses created in any authoring tool. However, we will use easygenerator so you'll be able to build courses in easygenerator after you finish the course. It will take about 30 minutes to complete this course.
We will use the development process of this course as an example. In this course some sections are marked with this logo. They describe the process easygenerator used when we created this course.
Our problem: Many non e-Learning experts use easygenerator. However, the quality of their courses are not at the highest level. We wanted to fix this problem.
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All six elements are part of the solution. Not one of them is the whole solution.
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Our customer service staff don't know enough about our product to answer customers' questions. Our customer service staff can answer 95% of all customer questions.
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Once you have defined your goal think about solutions to reach it. Most of the time multiple solutions are needed to achieve your goal. We will illustrate this in the example below.
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Once you've identified the problem, goal and possible solutions, you can begin working on the solution part of the course. First we need to define the goal of the eLearning course and then add details of how we'll reach the goal. These details are captured in the 'learning objectives'.
After defining learning objectives you need to write questions and content that support the learning objectives and the goal of the course. Please restrict yourselves to two levels of objectives: The overall goal (in the title) and the learning objectives. As the course author you need to work out the details of the objectives for yourself, but the learner may not always<|fim_middle|> to answer this question, additional content that explains the 5 steps is needed. Again, we decided to split this up and created two pages. The first page includes steps 1,2 and 3, and the second page has steps 4 and 5. These questions are not an exam, they are part of the learning. Therefore we will give the correct answer feedback if you answer the question incorrectly.
This objective is to ensure that you as the learner know and understand the 7 steps of course creation. This content was broken down into two components -- the first 5 steps and then the last 2 steps. Therefore, two questions are required -- one about the first 5 steps, and one about the entire process that includes all 7 steps.
The next step is introducing the verbs connected to the levels of Bloom's taxonomy. It is important you are aware of the connection between the verbs and the levels. We decided a Text Matching question and an introduction (table with levels and verbs) would be the most helpful.
The learning goal was 'express the why, what and how'. The best assessment of this goal, is for you to explain it to someone. So as the learner, you have the assignment to give a short presentation to someone about design principles and Bloom's taxonomy. We will precede this page with an explanation on how we adapted our objectives using this knowledge.
Because the verbs are so helpful in creating correct objectives, we want to show it to you again to be sure you pay attention to it. To achieve this, we used a Drag and Drop question, where you have to drag multiple verbs to the correct level. Since you can't know the entire table of verbs by heart, we will add the table, forcing you to review it multiple times.
Bloom's taxonomy is an important tool and reference to use when creating learning objectives. The six levels of learning are especially important to explain to the learner how they will be able to use the information. There are two versions of Bloom's taxonomy which may cause some confusion. We will use the updated version. This assessment uses a Single Choice Image question with an explanation added to the question.
The second objective is about learning objectives. The first step is to understand why learning objectives are important. We will start with a multiple choice question with correct and incorrect answer options. The explanation text is added directly to the question.
Step two is the What. We will assess this using a single choice question, asking the learner to identify the correct definition. Of course we will add the explanation to it.
And we want you to show us that you can apply all this. Therefore we want you to share your course with easygenerator. We will review it and comment on it. The last page of this course outlines this assignment.
The final objective of the course is that you, as the learner, are able to apply the principles of course design to creating a course in easygenerator. Before we ask you to complete this assignment, we will repeat some the the information in this course. Repetition is key to learning. This course has only one statement question that you need to identify the correct answers. You will find that statement question on the next page.
It is difficult to create a course with easygenerator.
Since the goal of this objective is that you apply this new knowledge in easygenerator, we ask you to do just that. Create a course in easygenerator and apply these principles. When you finish the course, send it to us at easygenerator and we will review it and give you feedback on it.
Click on the review tab at the right side of the screen.
You can also use that email address for any question you might have on easygenerator! | need that detail. You can use a simplified version of the learning objectives in the course.
Before creating any learning solutions you need clarity on the problemgoalsolutionscourse goallearning objective you're trying to solve. Once you've identified the problem you can define your problemsolutionscourse goallearning objectivesgoal . As a third step you need to identify possible solutionsproblemgoalcourse goallearning objectives that can help the learner reach the goal. The course will probably only be a part of the solution. Now you can define the solutionsproblemgoalcourse goallearning objectives and create learning objectivesproblemsolutionscourse goallearning objectives that support the goal in more detail.
Which steps to take and in what order?
The quality of a course's learning objectives determines the quality of the course. Learning objectives also drive course design and structure and play a major role if a course is co-authored. Finally, they support the learner to meet course goals and show how learning goals are tied to business goals.
Design Learning objectives support the design process. They provide a structure for the course and help drive and define development of appropriate questions for assessments.
Co-authoring Courses are often created by more than one author. Easygenerator facilitates the co-authoring process. Learning objectives ensure all team members are aligned to the course goal.
From the learners perspective When learners see objectives at the beginning of a course they know what is expected of them. Learning objectives help the learner decide whether or not to take the course, and in doing so, make a connection between one's own learning goals and the objectives of the course.
From the organization's perspective A learning objective is derived from a business need or goal so there is a direct connection. Easygenerator reports learners' results of correctly answered questions per objective. This shows that a direct correlation of learning objectives to business goals can be made. Objectives help connect the learning to the business and provide a measurable outcome to show and report on that contribution.
It's time to define learning objectives: they are "brief statements that describe what the learner will be expected to learn (or do) by the end of a course". It is not just acquiring knowledge: the goal of learning is to be able to do something new or do something in a different way than before. Learning is about changing behavior. A good learning objective describes the context in which the behavior needs to take place and it has to describe a measurable level of the performance.
1. Remember: Students can use knowledge and facts from long term memory.
2. Understand: Students can make sense of what has been learned.
3. Apply: Students can use new knowledge or information in a similar situation.
4. Analyse: Students can break down knowledge to see how it all relates.
5. Evaluate: Students are able to judge based on standards.
6. Create. Students can use what was learned and create something new.
Select the image with the six levels of learning from Bloom's taxonomy. You can enlarge the images by clicking on the button. The button appears when you hover over the image with your mouse.
Bloom's learning levels are valuable because they help you state your goals more clearly and write them more succinctly. For each level there is a family of verbs appropriate to describe a behavior for that level. If you have selected a level of learning, you can choose a verb from this table and use it to create a learning objective. Here is a list of the levels and the verbs associated with them.
Match the verbs to the correct level of learning.
Repetition in eLearning is important. Here is a second question on the levels of learning and their associated verbs. To help you with this question the table is again shown below.
Lets review them. The first two objectives use "understand" which is level two of Bloom's taxonomy, but isn't measurable. So we can rewrite them using the verbs Explain and Express which are clearer and measurable.
Express the why, the what and the how of learning objectives.
apply these principles in an easygenerator eLearning course.
Present the 7 steps for course design and Bloom's 6 levels of learning to someone. Ask that person to grade your presentation on a scale from 1 to 10.
The final section of this course is about question (assessment) and content creation. After the course learning objectives have been defined, the next step is to create questions to assess objectives, and create assignments for learner completion. Writing course content doesn't start until after you've created assessments and assignments. Be sure to add only the content necessary for the learner to answer the questions and do the assignments. Less is better; don't create a content heavy course.
In this chapter we will go through this course and explain why we have created the questions as they are and the reasons for adding the content pages. There is a short introduction before every question and an image of that question so you don't have to go back and forth.
The second question covers all seven steps. It is important to remember the steps and their correct order, which is a crucial part of the approach. We created an ordering question using Drag and Drop question type. It repeats and you have to think about the order of the steps.
Before we can use this question we need to explain steps 6 and 7. Because this content is tied to this specific question, we decided to create this content in the content area of the question. The template automatically arranges this content as an introduction before the learner will see the question.
The goal of the first question is to have the learner repeat and check the first 5 steps. We decided to use a fill-in-the blank question that both tests the learner's learning and summarizes at the same time. To do this, we created a short text recap and left out the 5 key words.
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