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And Voila you have a funky and attractive nail art for your short nails! Here is how it looks! Hope you will surely try this nail art design and don't forget to tell us all about it. | to do your nails, creating fun and different nail designs is a great way to sport some lovely nail art. There are various kinds of nail art that you can try out to give the nails a stylish yet different look. Nail art will mostly suit all kinds of nails, long or clipped, as well as girls and ladies of most ages.
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This $2.75 Billion Company Employs Only Remote Workers. Here's How It Works
San Francisco-based tech startup GitLab has grown dramatically in recent years. CEO Sid Sijbrandij says his all-remote policy is a big reason why.
By Cameron Albert-Deitch@c_albertdeitch
Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder and CEO of GitLab.
Courtesy GitLab
GitLab was never intended to be an all-remote company. Things just worked out that way.
When it launched in 2012, the tech business comprised only CEO Sid Sijbrandij, working at home on his computer in the Netherlands. His first hire was in Serbia, and GitLab engineering fellow Dmitriy Zaporozhets, based in Ukraine, later joined as a co-founder. Soon everyone recognized the efficacy of esch<|fim_middle|> GitLab nearly moved away from the all-remote setup four years ago, when investors insisted that operations like marketing and finance required an office. In April 2015, the company set up shop in San Francisco above a bicycle store. "People came in," Sijbrandij says. "We had all these desks. And then they kind of stopped showing up after a while." When the lease expired, the company chose not to renew it--and the investors relented.
Here are Sijbrandij's top three lessons for building a strong remote work culture at your own company:
1. Prioritize results over hours.
It's a classic argument against remote work: How can you guarantee that your workers are working? Sijbrandij responds with one of GitLab's core values: Measure results, not hours. "We can't measure how long you work," he says. "We don't want to measure it. We don't want your manager to even talk about it with you unless they think you work too much."
The results he refers to can take any form. Workers are encouraged to offer suggestions and critiques across departments, which they can do by submitting online "merge requests." The requests are quickly upvoted or downvoted by peers, and reviewed by the applicable department's personnel. They can be accepted or rejected without explanation, which Sijbrandij says increases accountability: You own your decisions, for better or for worse.
That's especially the case because those decisions are publicly viewable, thanks to GitLab's emphasis on transparency. Each employee has a profile page on the company's website, which features a list of every contribution that person has made to GitLab. Sijbrandij's profile, for example, shows time-stamped breakdowns of the daily actions he takes, from commenting on discussion threads to accepting merge requests and pushing new code.
"Most companies fear that level of transparency is just going to create complete chaos," says Darren Murph, a senior manager on GitLab's culture curation team. "But the truth of the matter is: With great power comes great responsibility. The people here recognize that it's a privilege."
2. Document everything.
Another classic argument against remote work: How do you coordinate and communicate effectively across time zones? GitLab's answer is to document everything.
Seriously, everything. In addition to the publicly viewable merge requests, meetings and presentations get uploaded to YouTube. When employees have questions, they're encouraged to search the company's massive online handbook--more than 1,000 pages long when printed--before waking up co-workers in different time zones. Still, "large, coordinated efforts do happen when there is no other alternative," Murph says. "These efforts are planned as far in advance as possible."
Documentation does have its limits--specifically, when it bumps up against employees' autonomy. Sijbrandij describes his fight against micromanaging with a metaphor: "If you're going to travel to Europe, you should tell a lot of people. If you're walking to the end of the hallway, you don't have to coordinate with anybody. Nobody cares. And if you're walking the wrong way, somebody will see it and tell you."
Murph notes that aggressive documentation is the kind of time-consuming activity many entrepreneurs avoid in a company's early days. But "it's just so vital to do it as it happens," he warns. "If you try to recapture everything a year in, you're going to miss everything."
3. Use challenges as learning opportunities.
Hiring only remote workers brings unexpected challenges. Some new employees, for example, join the company in spite of the all-remote policy rather than because of it. Murph says one recent hire kept talking about how much she missed the social aspect of offices--from workplace activities to happy hours--until she realized how much money she'd saved on new clothes, thanks to GitLab's nonexistent dress code.
Another surprising challenge: It doesn't make sense to invest time and resources incorporating your company in a country where you only have one employee; GitLab currently has that situation in 20 different countries, according to the company's website. Instead of keeping track of each locality's unique hiring laws and restrictions, GitLab works with local staffing firms that hire employees on the company's behalf. Yes, it costs money--how much depends on where you're trying to hire--but Murph says it's worth keeping the company's hiring pool as deep as possible.
Predictably, each time the company encounters a new challenge, someone documents it--and quickly makes the new policy viewable online. "We want to walk the talk," Murph says. | ewing a centralized workforce. "I hired a few people in the Netherlands, and they came to my house," Sijbrandij says. "But then they stopped, because why do the commute?"
Now, GitLab is well-known for its all-remote policy. While it's officially based in San Francisco, the company has 850 employees across more than 55 countries, all of whom work from home. Sijbrandij says access to such a huge talent pool has been instrumental to GitLab's dramatic business growth: The company, which offers tools for software developers, announced a $268 million funding round in September, raising its valuation to $2.75 billion. Its "freemium" model--free limited access for individual developers and paid full access for businesses--has led to revenue that's "more than doubling" year over year, Sijbrandij? says.
Company culture, of course, can be difficult to maintain when everyone is remote. GitLab workers stay connected through daily team calls and watercooler chats on Zoom and Slack, where employees often gab about non-work activities. "Visiting grants" help cover costs when staffers travel to regions where other employees are located. Sijbrandij says his business has cracked the code, and his employees agree: In June, GitLab made its first appearance on Inc.'s annual Best Workplaces list, which is compiled from employee surveys.
GitLab's seasoned remote workers put a lot of thought into their home offices, from the placement of their webcams to their ergonomic chairs. Sijbrandij's workspace features a high-quality podcast microphone and green-screen backdrop, which he'll occasionally use to quietly swap backgrounds mid-meeting.
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It felt so good to wake up and not feel hung over! I<|fim_middle|> a plain tonkotsu broth ramen which I really want to try next time. The service was also great. The staff was very friendly and helpful, and always checked to see how we were doing.
Thanks Shalini, for pointing me this way!
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Cute, little restaurant with pretty lanterns and a sake display!
Shop-Ashiya is a cute clothing store and had a cat living there. The lady who worked there was intimidating at first, but she was actually very nice and gave great fashion advice!
I bought a few dresses.
came up that night… It was… entertaining.
Awesome vanilla caffe latte from Cafe Dulce. The best lattes I've ever had!
Pork! I mean PIG art!
The Honda Plaza has paid parking and can get pretty crowded on a Friday night.
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1 Response to Oh Man! Men Oh!! | have to point that out because you know how things get every time I hang out with Michelle. I have to stop getting us into trouble! But last night was a sober yet enjoyable evening.
After work, Michelle met with me in Downtown again. Shalini, who I had mentioned before, recommended another ramen joint in Little Tokyo called Men Oh Tokushima Ramen. I had not been to Little Tokyo in a while and it was such a nice afternoon to go for a walk.
Caltrans District 7 Headquarters. I've walked past this building so many times at night that I never knew how cool it looked during the day!
We arrived 20 minutes before the restaurant opened at 5:30. At first it concerned me that no one was waiting outside with us. But I looked them up and found that they have only been around for 4 months. They also had very good ratings on Yelp so I was very excited to try their ramen.
The restaurant was small, with one side of regular seating and the other side with bar seating. We seated ourselves at the bar like usual but I was disappointed to find that the kitchen was not behind the bar, but behind a wall, so we couldn't see them in action with the ramen! We could only see them scoop up rice from the bar. I noticed that the staff were either Japanese or Japanese-American. We were the only ones at the restaurant for a good 20 minutes, but people started pouring in quickly after that. There were Japanese customers there and that was a good sign!
The restaurant looked huge from the outside but that was because of this mirrored wall!
We started off with some green tea and chicken karaage. Their karaage was very moist and tasty with a touch of ginger. It was a little difficult to eat though because they were huge chunks of chicken! I'm not a ginger fan but this was pretty good.
Men Oh's specialty is their Tonkotsu-Shoyo broth so I ordered the Tokushima ramen, which included a slice of chashu, butabara (fried pork belly strips), half of a seasoned soft-boiled egg, green onions and menma (which I asked not to include). Michelle ordered the same with deluxe toppings of seaweed, kimchee, spinach, bean sprouts and sliced mushrooms.
Michelle told me that I should not be too nice when reviewing ramen places. She's right though, I am guilty of being too nice. But oh man, this place is really good! Seriously, I'm not just being nice.
The broth had a clean taste to it. It was light in texture, but rich in flavor. It was very porky compared to other places that serve tonkotsu, but it was not overbearing and you can still taste the shoyu flavor. I liked that there was very little oil and I'm pretty sure it did not have MSG. Some ramen places leave a strange after taste that took a while to get out of your mouth, like Tatsu Ramen, but Tokushima's broth had a nice, subtle consistency. I wasn't too crazy about the noodle texture though. It was cooked firmly, but it was a little too doughy. The seasoned soft-boiled egg had a good flavor and was cooked perfectly, with a little goo in the middle. I wish they gave the whole egg! The chashu was tender with a great flavor but they give you a thin slice. I normally don't like pork belly, but their thins slices were actually very good and I enjoyed the flavor. And the best part was, they remembered not to include the menma!
Overall, I really like Men Oh. I think I would choose to go here over Daikokuya any day. Daikokuya has become overrated anyway. They're still good, but I think Men Oh's broth is way better and not that oily. They also have just | 804 |
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With the first month of 2020 already having come and gone, social media still remains a prime source for product and service marketing. In the past few years, many marketing experts have predicted the latest trends in social media that would yield the most success. With this continuous shift of promoting in social media, it is important to be aware of the trends that have been proven to be beneficial in digital marketing. Here are some important trends to remember in order to maximize a brand's presence on social media.
1. Expansion of Consumer Generated Content
Before defining what consumer generated content is, it is important to emphasize that content created by a brand should be posted on different social media outlets to ensure that a wide-set of audiences are reached. Consumer generated content refers to creations that are made by the designated target audience with a company's own products or services. This is an innovative idea<|fim_middle|> inclusion, this refers to the idea of representing a diverse audience through its selection of actors who are featured in ad campaigns. According to the Journal of Business Research, there is a concept called "ethnic marketing" which is effective in targeting certain audiences from different areas.
Accessibility on the other hand, is another important consideration with how social media ads are optimized to be accessible. For instance, some ads are created to include captions for those who may have hearing difficulties. Understanding the importance of inclusion and accessibility in digital marketing is important in ensuring that a wide-array of audiences can be engaged with.
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2. Social E-Commerce
With social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook allowing the promotion of advertisements, this opens up the opportunity for brands to use this as a marketing tactic to sell products. Online advertising is not new, however, given the extensive reach of social media platforms, it is an effective way in promoting a brand's product or service. As SproutSocial noted, social e-commerce opens up the opportunity to create personalized ad experiences where individuals are given ads that would likely cater to their purchasing interest. This is due to algorithms that have been collected from a user's search history, and from a marketing perspective, it is an excellent tool in adding sales.
3. Influencers and Collaborations
One of the reasons why some brands become instantly recognizable is due to the association with an influencer, a person who has a large social media following. As Influencer Marketing Hub reports, it is no surprise that many brands choose to opt for paid promotions as it is usually effective in reaching a wide audience to promote a product. Influencers and celebrities play an important role, where campaigns that feature famous people often make them the "face" of the brand. This is beneficial in boosting a brand's recognition, which in turn increases the popularity of a brand.
4. Personalization
As brands continue to aggressively market on social media, it is important to take a step back and understand who the target audience is. Personalization and authenticity is vital for a brand because some audiences may feel more inclined to purchase from a brand that wants to create a personal connection with its consumers. When brands are simply associated as a corporate entity that wants to drive sales, customers may not feel as valued which may turn customers away. When it comes to marketing, it is important to satisfy the demands of customers, but also taking careful steps in keeping customer retention.
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When it comes to advertising, a brand takes careful consideration in how they want their brand to be represented through the selection of actors, settings and themes. But what some brands fail to consider is the importance of inclusion, as well as accessibility in its social media advertising. With | 458 |
Community honors Bozeman helicopter pilot who died in a crash
By: Annie Johnson - MTN News
BOZEMAN — It was a tragic accident that ended the life of Tom Duffy, a helicopter pilot from Bozeman. But instead of focusing on his death, his loved ones and the community are remembering him with laughter and fond memories.
Duffy died in a helicopter crash on Monday while fighting a wildfire in Oregon. The Bozeman community gathered to honor and say their final farewells on Thursday.
"When God opened a door, Tom walked through it, which led him to many adventures and skills," said a news release from<|fim_middle|>Beth of Great Falls died in January when his plane crashed as he was battling huge fires in Australia; click here to read more. | the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office. "In addition to flying, he was a husband, father, business owner, and church member. He went big in everything he did and will be deeply missed in the GCSAR community and beyond."
"What we'll all remember about Tom is him squeezing himself into helicopters and then being able to fly those helicopters like nobody else can," said Jason Jarrett with the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office.
"He's such a great pilot. I mean I flown with him, he was just incredible up there," said Pat Koelzer, a close friend.
"I'm here just to pay my respects and say goodbye… just say goodbye," Koelzer said with tears in his eyes.
Duffy used his skills as a pilot serving various organizations including Gallatin County search and rescue.
Gallatin County Sheriff Brian Gootkin said Duffy was the third generation of the Duffy family to fly rescue missions for SAR. He has flown SAR rescue missions for 20 years and his most recent missions was on August 15, when he flew three times for the SAR team. "He was a big man with a big heart who brought calm and skill to every mission," Gootkin said.
"It's a sad day for us all. We're certainly going to miss Tom and his skill as a rescue pilot here in Gallatin County. The things he's done for the community here have certainly been invaluable," Jarrett said.
And he'll be remembered not only for his efforts to his community, but also his heart for others. "Just a great guy. A pillar of the community, generosity, a big heart. He'll be missed," Koelzer said.
Duffy's funeral service and burial will be held privately and only open to close friends and family.
This marks the second time that a Montana pilot has died this year fighting wildfires. Ian Mc | 381 |
Time for the weekly early-season talk-down off the ledge.
In fantasy football, there's a fine line between prudence and panic.
There comes a time when under-producing players have to be shown the door. The problem is knowing when to say when—the only thing worse than hanging on to a guy too long is panic-dropping a player who turns it around and winds up a star…for your opponent.
We're just two weeks into the 2018 season, and already some IDP owners are freaking…out. It's understandable—after a long offseason of anticipation no one wants their season to spiral into the sewer before the end of September.
No one wants to be a tomato can.
However, at this early juncture in the season patience is a virtue. Sure, in shallower leagues players like Deone Bucannon and Budda Baker of the Arizona Cardinals are "droppable". Bucannon's been relegated to a sub-package role, and Baker's playing more slot corner than strong safety. As things stand right now, the big things expected of them in 2018 aren't happening.
But if you're in a deeper format and can spare the spot, don't throw in the towel just yet. There's a long way to go this season. A lot can change between now and Halloween. Halloween and Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Staple under-performers to the bench. The time will soon come (when the byes arrive) when some will have to be let go. But we aren't there yet. Situations like these are why you have depth, after all.
Now, it's just a matter of figuring out which player(s) you drafted as reserves can step up and do the job as a starter in Week 3.
Smith's performance is showing up in the box score as well—he has tallied 14 total tackles and a sack in two games, including 10 total stops in last week's win over the Giants. With Sean Lee looking iffy to play Sunday with a bad hammy (yes, Sean Lee is hurt…stunner), Smith could be on the verge of his best game yet in a plus matchup with the Seahawks.
Randy Gregory – DE, Dallas Cowboys (at SEA) (32): Pay<|fim_middle|> a Giants team averaging four sacks allowed per game in 2018.
Anthony Hitchens – ILB, Kansas City Chiefs (vs SFO) (7): Hitchens has been piling up the tackles this year—he's second in the NFL with 26 through two games. He should do so a third week in a row in a favorable fantasy matchup with the 49ers.
Cory Littleton – ILB, Los Angeles Rams (vs. LAC) (8): After a huge Week 1, Littleton's numbers cratered in Week 2 against a miserable Cardinals team. Now that the level of opposition is improved, his production will be as well.
Benardrick McKinney – ILB, Houston Texans (vs. NYG) (3): McKinney didn't have great numbers in Week 2, but he was on the field for 100 percent of the defensive snaps. That bodes well Sunday against the Giants—Saquon Barkley's about all that's working for Big Blue right now.
Ricardo Allen – S, Atlanta Falcons (vs. NOS) (1): It's Allen who took over at strong safety in Atlanta for the injured Keanu Neal, and he's set up for a good game in this NFC South showdown with the Drew Brees and the Saints. Shootout, anyone?
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Jason Pierre-Paul – DE, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (vs. PIT) (8): Pierre-Paul had a good game in Week 2, picking up his first sack as a member of the Buccaneers. The good times keep rolling on Monday night against a struggling Steelers offensive line.
J.J. Watt – DE, Houston Texans (vs. NYG) (4): Watt's last sack(s) came over two full calendar years ago in a Week 2 matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs. That long dry spell ends on Sunday against | 159 |
Over twenty years ago, my dad died from lung cancer. Last year, I lost my boyfriend Cliff to bladder cancer. I've witnessed friends and family lose parents or siblings to cancer. It touches so many of us in so many ways. I am proud to be part of an organization in which everything we do is to prepare and empower people to fully live life with cancer and beyond.
The experts, specialists and programs at Wellness House focus on the individual needs of people through every step of cancer -- before, during and after treatment. We use a psychosoical approach based on research, addressing the whole person -- socially, emotionally, physically, spiritually and psychologically.
This year, I honor my dad, Cliff, and all the parents and siblings of my friends and family who are battling<|fim_middle|> have lost to cancer. Through the funds we raise as part of this walk, I am confident we will make the journey lighter for others (those diagnosed and their loved ones) facing this journey.
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2018 ARCHIVES: Special Symposia
The following organized symposia will be offered as part of the technical program at the 2018 US-IALE Annual Meeting.
S-01. CONSERVATION AND COLLABORATION WITHIN THE URBAN MATRIX: LESSONS FROM CHICAGO WILDERNESS AND BEYOND
MONDAY, APRIL 9 | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Organizers: Primary: Daniel Suarez, Stewardship Program Associate, Audubon Great Lakes (dsuarez@audubon.org); Nat Miller, Director of Conservation, Audubon Great Lakes; Stephanie Beilke, Conservation Science Associate, Audubon Great Lakes
Overview: This symposium will focus on the diverse conservation and restoration work happening across the urban grasslands of the Chicago Wilderness region and beyond. We will strive to show the importance, often overlooked, of urban habitats and the role they can play in the conservation of declining species of flora and fauna. Examples will be given through the lens of the Chicago Wilderness Priority Species initiative, an ambitious, collaborative effort involving many public and private landowners, NGOs, and volunteers. In an effort to streamline and focus conservation efforts, Chicago Wilderness partners have selected twelve species representing various habitat types to focus conservation efforts and public outreach efforts on. These species are: Monarch Butterfly Blanding's Turtle Red-headed Woodpecker Little Brown Bat Rusty-Patched Bumblebee Mottled Sculpin Blue-spotted Salamander Smooth Green Snake Regal Fritillary Ellipse Henslow's Sparrow Bobolink This symposium will touch on the efforts surrounding several of these species, and will provide novel examples of ways that urban areas can prioritize conservation action within fragmented<|fim_middle|> ecology community as well as practitioners and teachers. As an early adopter of the ecosystem goods and services framework, EPA researchers and partners have gained valuable insights into data development and display, spatio-temporal modelling and stakeholder outreach related to ecosystem services (ES) and human health at national and local scales. With our broad mandate we touch on various domains related to monitoring and securing the health of the environment and US citizens. Presentations in this session will cover themes related to 'big data', linking ecosystem services supply and demand, and developing relevant ES indicators related to human health and quality of life. Our presenters will showcase methodologies and results being produced under the umbrella of the EnviroAtlas project covering the national assessment of cultural ecosystem services, ecosystem markets, biodiversity and invasive species mapping, flood risk mapping, extreme weather and landscape change on erosion, ground water recharge, water budget, and temperature increase impacts on fish habitat.
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Regional Level Sponsor | , urbanized landscapes. As urban areas will continue to grow in size and population throughout the 21st century, finding ways to maximize conservation impacts will become critical.
S-02. TELECOUPLING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION ACROSS LOCAL TO GLOBAL SCALES
Organizers: Jianguo (Jack) Liu, Michigan State University (liuji@msu.edu); Yue Dou, Michigan State University; Kelly Kapsar, Michigan State University; Hongbo Yang, Michigan State University
Overview: The world is increasingly telecoupled through distant flows of information, matter, energy, organisms, people, money, and technology. Such telecouplings (socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances) can drastically influence sustainable development and conservation across local to global scales. The integrated telecoupling framework offers novel perspectives on how human-nature interactions in one place can have enormous effects on those far away, and on how distant feedbacks affect people and landscapes. It treats landscapes and people in each place as a coupled human and natural system, and those in different places jointly as telecoupled human and natural systems. It also provides a systematic analytic lens to uncover and understand invisible mechanisms behind landscape dynamics and socioeconomic changes. The goal of this symposium is to showcase applications of the telecoupling framework to address important issues relevant to sustainable development and conservation, such as distant supply of and demand for ecosystem services and natural resources, international trade, and tourism. The presenters from around the world highlight a wide range of topics, such as water, food, energy, biodiversity, soil, fisheries, forests, microorganisms, and large mammals. The presentations enhance fundamental understanding of landscape sustainability and human well-being, and provide useful information for effective governance in the Anthropocene.
S-03. DESCRIBING AND ANALYZING LANDSCAPE PATTERNS: WHERE ARE WE NOW, AND WHERE ARE WE GOING?
Organizers: Kurt Riitters, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (kriitters@fs.fed.us); Peter Vogt, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy; Jim Wickham, US Environmental Protection Agency; Jennifer Costanza, North Carolina State University
Overview: This symposium is motivated by the continuing lack of agreement on the meaning of pattern and how to measure it. Much of landscape ecology is concerned with the reciprocal relationships between pattern and process (Turner 2005, doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.36.102003.152614). Unambiguous measures of pattern are pre-requisite not only for robust analyses of pattern/process relationships (Bogaert 2003, url: www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol7/iss1/resp6/) but also for meaningful assessments of patterns per se. Hypothesis testing assumes that independent variables (e.g., patterns) are measured without error; are we really measuring what we think we are? Despite a plethora of available metrics, new ones are invented every year, and many questionable metrics remain in general usage. This symposium has two distinct but related goals – first, to achieve a vibrant discussion of the essential elements and descriptors of pattern per se, and second, to provide a venue for "pattern-oriented" ecologists (sensu Fisher & Lindenmayer 2007, doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00287.x) to present new concepts and methods for measuring pattern without having to "prove" their contribution in a specific pattern/process context. It is anticipated that this symposium will draw many contributed presentations from pattern-oriented landscape ecologists who are interested in patterns per se.
S-04. BEHAVIORAL LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: UNDERSTANDING HOW ANIMAL BEHAVIOR IS INFLUENCED BY THE LANDSCAPE
Organizers: Laura E. D'Acunto, Purdue University (ldacunto@purdue.edu); Daniel Bampoh, Purdue University; Patrick A. Zollner, Purdue University
Overview: Behavioral landscape ecology explores theoretical and applied questions of how the behavior of species including their movement patterns, habitat selection, perception, and decisions interact with ecological landscapes. Over the past 20 years, the analytical (e.g. Bayesian analysis, spatial capture-recapture, individual-based modeling, genetics) and field technology advances (e.g. GPS collar and radio-transmitter size & longevity, remote sensing, and landscape-scale experiments) have allowed the study of behavioral landscape ecology to answer previously unresolvable questions, but has also led to the development of new and interesting ecological questions. This symposium will feature theoretical and applied talks across a wide range of taxa, environments, localities, and methodologies to provide an overview of the field of behavioral landscape ecology and to pose new avenues of investigation going forward.
S-05. RIPARIAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: PATTERNS, PROCESSES, AND MANAGEMENT OF DYNAMIC ECOSYSTEMS
MONDAY, APRIL 9 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Organizer: Jessica Salo, University of Northern Colorado (jessica.salo@unco.edu)
Overview: Riparian ecosystems are valued natural resources that provide critical ecosystem services such as wildlife habitat, water quality enhancement, flood mitigation, and recreation opportunities. Riparian ecosystems are naturally dynamic, experiencing ecological disturbances typical of uplands as well as those associated with the river flow regime (e.g., erosion, sedimentation, and inundation). Thus, riparian ecosystems are complex ecosystems to understand, evaluate, and manage.In this symposium, presentations will address the challenges and advancements in characterizing patterns and processes in riparian ecosystems, drawing from research conducted in a variety of river systems spanning gradients of basin size, physiography, hydrology, climatology, and anthropogenic influence. Topics will include ecological applications of hydrologic and hydraulic models, vegetation response and recovery following flood disturbances, quantifying vegetation and channel change in relation to management and disturbance events, characterizing biophysical and ecological dynamics, and linkages to conservation and restoration planning at and across multiple spatio-temporal scales. This session highlights ongoing research and developments in riparian ecosystems across spatio-temporal scales, with a specific emphasis on understanding patterns, processes, and implications for management decisions.
S-06. GEOSPATIAL CITIZEN SCIENCE INITIATIVES FOR UNDERSTANDING LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
MONDAY, APRIL 9 | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Organizers: Stephanie Tomscha, Department of Biodiversity and Restoration Ecology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington New Zealand (stephanie.tomscha@vuw.ac.nz); Sarah Gergel, Department of Conservation and Forest Science, University of British Columbia, Canada
Overview: Drawing on this rich and varied spatial knowledge of people, participatory mapping is a powerful tool for examining the spatial patterns of human-environment interactions. Participatory mapping is increasingly used to understand both biophysical locations and human values for ecosystem services. Key benefits of participatory mapping is that it can be used in locations where data are scarce, as well as to create congruent social and ecological datasets. Additionally, participatory mapping can encourage communal negotiation of land stewardship, foster connections among participants, and document long-term ecological knowledge held by community members. This symposium explores the diverse ways participatory mapping has been used to understand the spatial patterns of ecosystems and landscape values. We connect researchers who work in the interdisciplinary space of social-ecological systems with a focus on participatory mapping approaches for understanding the spatial locations of ecosystems, human values, and their interactions.
S-07. VISUALIZING ECOSYSTEM FUTURES – LIVE!
Organizers: Robert Scheller, Erica Smithwick, Ross Meentemeyer, Melissa Lucash, Alex Klippel
Overview: Ecosystem management increasingly depends on management decisions that sustain human well-being and embrace ecological change. We often advocate sophisticated model approaches to mediate the requisite choices yet the tools we use produce forecasts that are difficult for stakeholders to engage. Similarly, we expect our students to engage with sophisticated models and concepts and yet teach using outmoded delivery styles. Visualization tools have emerged that enable more a direct interface between our audience (decision-makers such as tribes, agencies, etc. and students) and necessary forecasting tools. Qualitative and quantitative data (interviews, focus groups, ecological models, climate scenarios, and decision analytics) can be bundled into virtual reality representations of ecosystems that aid decision-making and that also assist with deep understanding of coupled-natural human system dynamics. For our symposium, we invite visualization demonstrations that demonstrate how immersive experiences can engage participants, quantify human values, and aid in learning about landscape futures. We particularly emphasize a 'live' component that show cases the latest technologies and with optional audience participation. A prize to the team that can really wows the audience! Collectively, visualization offers both a means of understanding and communicating values, knowledge, uncertainties, and trade-offs in human well-being and ecological change. As an emerging sub-discipline in landscape ecology, we will offer a venue for broad sampling by attendees.
S-08. MONITORING & RESTORATION OF THE NATION'S LARGEST URBAN NATURAL AREA: LESSONS FROM LANDSCAPE AND LONG-TERM VEGETATION STUDIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES
Organizer: Greg Spyreas, Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois (spyreas@illinois.edu)
Overview: Cook County, Illinois harbors perhaps the largest urban natural areas system in the United States. Recently it has planned an ambitious habitat restoration program over its 70,000 acres. Restoration and management is ramping up and being implemented up over these natural areas that will coincide with a massive vegetation-monitoring program to inform and guide this work. Ecologists with accomplished research programs, overseeing unique datasets, and with expertise in either long-term and/or landscape scale plant ecology, will be given the Cook County vegetation sampling design and monitoring protocols and asked several questions. While the Cook Co. sampling/monitoring is primarily intended to guide/the habitat restoration and management, these researchers will be asked to weigh in broadly on what their experience and expertise has taught regarding fundamental and applied ecology that could inform the Cook County project. Questions speakers will address include: What is one question your research program/dataset has tried to, but never sufficiently answered, that the Cook Co. project could address? What is one newer or emerging question/issue the Cook Co. project should address? What is one sampling/design/data issue you have addressed/changed in your project of relevance? What might you change about Cook Co.'s proposed project?
S-09. CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF CROWD-SOURCED AND SOCIAL MEDIA DATA FOR SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH
TUESDAY, APRIL 10 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Organizers: Bianca Lopez, SESYNC (blopez@sesync.org); Ginger Allington, SESYNC
Overview: Many questions in landscape ecology involve interactions and feedbacks between humans and their environment. Considering both of these key factors in socio-environmental research is challenging, in part because environmental and social data are often collected at very different spatial grains and extents. However, data from non-authoritative sources (i.e., citizens) also provide information on what's happening in the world, often with precise geo-locations and broad extents that more closely match the scale of remotely sensed environmental and land cover data. Spatially referenced non-authoritative data includes crowd-sourced data to address particular goals, such as adding photos to maps, identifying land use features, or recording observations of species; in addition, with the widespread adoption of social media platforms, there is a new source of publicly available geo-referenced data on people's attitudes, interests, and behavior. This symposium brings together researchers who are using social media and other crowd-sourced data to study socio-environmental systems in a spatial context. The participating researchers study topics ranging from people's responses to environmental hazards to cultural ecosystem services provided by parks.
S-10. ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES ON URBAN VACANT LOTS
Organizers: Elsa Anderson, University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Biological Sciences (eholden2@uic.edu); Paul Gobster, US Forest Service; William Stewart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Recreation, Sports, and Tourism
Overview: Vacant land has become a significant part of the urban landscape in many cities across the US and globally, and is often a result of disinvestment in low-income neighborhoods. Recently, there have been various efforts to revitalize this land, with the goals of promoting urban greening and reducing the burden of land blight on neighborhoods. These programs take many forms. For example, the Large Lot Program in Chicago sells vacant lots to block residents for $1, and the Parks and People mission in Baltimore restreams demolition of vacant row houses to create large, public greenspaces. These programs, along with others like them and independent empirical research, have generated rich social and ecological data, but the interdisciplinary cross-talk is still preliminary. This session will bring together social and natural scientists to present their work and findings on the ecology and dynamic social context of vacant lots in cities. We will culminate the session with a discussion geared at synthesizing data across cities and disciplines with the goal of generalizing our knowledge on this socio-environmental system to-date.
S-11. HOW ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON THE URBAN LANDSCAPE AFFECT POLLINATOR HABITAT AND SPECIES DIVERSITY
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Organizers: Abigail Derby Lewis, The Field Museum (aderby@fieldmuseum.org); Emily Minor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Overview: The role cities can play in providing habitat for pollinators and other wildlife is more important than previously recognized. Recent studies suggest that urban landscapes can provide meaningful biological and ecological value with respect to pollinators, and this has implications for biodiversity conservation. Cities are diverse and complex landscapes, filled with many social groups, widely varying land uses, and differing interest groups. As such, opportunities abound in urban areas to put nectar and host plants on the ground, from schoolyards, churchyards and parkways to cultural institutions, corporate campuses and vacant lots. In order to be strategic in where and how we create urban habitat, we need to focus on the different factors and actions that go into creating pollinator habitat at the local urban scale and gain a better understanding of the best practices for habitat design and engagement strategies for different stakeholder groups in these efforts. This symposium will explore how the complexity of the urban landscape can contribute to pollinator diversity, where opportunities exist to create pollinator habitat and how effective these may be, and how community interests can align with conservation goals of creating habitat.
S-12. THE LONG-TERM AGROECOLOGICAL RESEARCH NETWORK
Organizers: Sarah Goslee, USDA-ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit, University Park, PA (sarah.goslee@ars.usda.gov); Alisa Coffin, USDA-ARS Southeast Watershed Research Lab, Tifton, GA
Overview: Providing a growing population with food, fuel, and fiber cannot come at the cost of environmental degradation. Given the finite area of agricultural land available, land use intensification is a currently-feasible way to advance agriculture that is economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable. The Long-Term Agroecological Research Network (LTAR) currently comprises 18 ARS and university research sites across the United States with the mission to, "Enable understanding and forecasting of regional landscape capacities to provide agricultural commodities and ecosystem services under changing conditions." Each site is conducting research on regionally-appropriate "business as usual" and "aspirational" scenarios, to better understand where US agriculture is today, and where sustainable intensification strategies could lead in the future. Landscape is an explicit part of the LTAR mission: the tools and techniques of landscape ecology are being applied to research questions linking ecosystem services to agricultural management options and opportunities at both regional and national scales. Integrated long-term agricultural research is critical to addressing the challenges presented by the century ahead. This symposium will present specific case studies of LTAR research as well as cross-cutting syntheses of research from multiple sites.
S-13. STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNIQUES FOR REMOTE SENSING OF DISTURBED LANDSCAPES
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Organizers: Steve Norman, US Forest Service (stevenorman@fs.fed.us); William Hargrove, US Forest Service; Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Overview: Remote sensing offers a frequent and extensive method for observing, monitoring and assessing landscape disturbances, including mapping of potential extent and severity of disturbance effects, and rates of recovery from those disturbances. Landscape disturbances are diverse, and include deforestation, drought, wildfire, insects and diseases, frost, urbanization, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other wind storms, hail, and agriculture/fallow cycles. Remote observations can take the form of pre- and post-disturbance comparisons, comparisons of current observations to expected baselines, or simple post-disturbance observations, and may include sophisticated techniques to account for the trajectory of expected changes like seasonal phenology and/or succession. Ironically, the development of a defensible conceptual baseline which quantifies behavior that would have been expected in the absence of the disturbance may represent a greater challenge than obtaining the current post-disturbance view itself. Ensuring the most appropriate and commensurable comparison isolates, partitions and quantifies the effects of the disturbance. Remote Sensing efforts can be aimed at producing rapid, first-order or near-real-time immediate results, more intermediate effects, or full final accounting of outcomes from particular disturbances. This Symposium will review the breadth of remote sensing methods for assaying landscape disturbances of many types, using a broad array of conceptual approaches.
S-14. WATERBIRD HABITAT MODELING AND CONSERVATION: SPATIAL DYNAMICS, MANAGEMENT, AND CITIZEN SCIENCE
Organizers: Janet Silbernagel, University of Wisconsin-Madison (jmsilber@wisc.edu); Sulong Zhou
Overview: Cranes and other waterbirds, some of our most iconic species of concern, often have specialized roosting and foraging habitat requirements related to dynamics of water depth, food availability, and local aquacultural practices, which present unique challenges to map and model. These presentations feature studies that capture the spatial dynamics of waterbird habitat for conservation. We will hear of studies in the US and Asia that involve mapping wetland habitats and landscape change, modeling hydrological alterations, surveying local fishers, and engaging Earthwatch volunteers in crane habitat sampling. We propose a half-day symposium and have invited several speakers to participate, but also have room for 1-3 other speakers from the general pool of abstract submissions.
S-15. UNDERSTANDING AND PROMOTING RESILIENCE OF METROPOLITAN-REGION FOREST SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Organizers: Robert T. Fahey, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut (robert.fahey@uconn.edu); Anita Morzillo, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut
Overview: Tree and forests are an important component of urbanized landscapes, providing a wide array of ecosystem services. Although forests everywhere are under threat from factors such as climate change and invasive pests, the vulnerability of forests is exacerbated in urbanized regions where these impacts may be more acute and additional stressors are present, such as development and fragmentation. Metropolitan region forests are a highly integrated socio-ecological system, where ecosystem structure and population dynamics are driven concurrently by ecological factors and human decisions. Promoting resilience in these systems will require a deep understanding of this complex adaptive socio-ecological system. This will necessarily include how changes to the spatially and temporally interconnected components of the system will affect the functioning of the system as a whole. This session will bring together researchers who are addressing topics that could inform our understanding of how to promote resilience in metropolitan region forests. The symposium includes presentations from across the socio-ecological spectrum and will include a panel discussion focused on next steps for better understanding the dynamics of metropolitan region forest socio-ecological system.
S-16. GENETICISTS HAVE DROSOPHILA, BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHERS HAVE LAB RATS. CAN WE EXPERIMENT WITH LANDSCAPES?
Organizer: Yolanda Wiersma, Department of Biology, Memorial University (ywiersma@mun.ca)
Overview: Experimentation in landscape ecology has used various tools and strategies, including, but not limited to mesocosms, micro landscapes, cross-scale studies, and in silo experiments. However, a challenge can be robust replication of experimental units given that many of our studies are on real-world, kilometers-extent landscapes. One further tool includes model systems. These were defined by Peter Vitousek as "a system... that displays a general process or property of interest, in a way that makes it understandable". Researchers in biomedical science and molecular biology have used model organisms extensively to understand physiological and genetic processes. In this symposium we will highlight talks from researchers who have used a variety of strategies to address the challenges of replication and manipulative experiments in landscape ecology. The may not have been designed explicitly with the concept of model systems in mind, however by presenting this diverse array of research tools, we hope to develop a productive discussion about the concept of model systems. Through synthesis across the papers, we hope to address questions of whether model systems are useful for landscape ecology, and if so, what might they look like and what might guidelines for their development be?
S-17. TAKING A LOOK UNDER THE HOOD OF EPA'S ENVIROATLAS: ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, DATA AND TOOLS
Organizers: Derek Van Berkel (van-berkel.derek@epa.gov); Megan Mehaffey (Mehaffey.Megan@epa.gov); Anne Neale (Neale.Anne@epa.gov) – US Environmental Protection Agency
Overview: Over recent decades the government has made a wealth of information publicly available as part of the Federal Open Data Policy. The research, web and mobile applications, data, and visualization tools are all aimed at helping decision makers such as businesses, non-profit organizations, and local and state agencies improve our environment, health, urban planning, and disaster preparedness across the United States. This session will showcase recent contributions that we believe are of high relevance for the landscape | 4,846 |
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If you thought millennials were spending their cash on some curious stuff, you may be right.
In a typical day, they're paying for food, Uber rides and fantasy football, according to a Venmo spending analysis by the student loan refinancing marketplace LendEDU.
Venmo, a mobile payment app owned by PayPal, is increasingly popular among 18-to-34-year-olds. Venmo processed about $4 billion in person-to-person payments in the second quarter of 2016, up 141 percent from a year earlier, according to PayPal's most recent report.
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What Chance Will America's Youth Have In A Changing Global Economy?
The first STEM EXPO Fair held at Edmonds School District's new STEM Magnet School at MountLake Terrace HS in Washington State. This rocket club student is caring a rocket, which was used earlier in a group presentation at the fair.
Multimedia eLearning program by: David Anthony Johanson © All Rights
The author is a multimedia specialist, CTE instructor and a former Boeing scientific photographer. For an alternative graphic view of this program, please visit: https://bigpictureone.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/what-chance-will-americas-youth-have-in-a-changing-global-economy/
A big question asked by concerned people and industry leaders across the Nation is waiting for an answer… How will current and future generations stay competitive in an increasingly, complex, global economy? A high-performance education program involving a blend of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) — is promising solutions as its building momentum within post-secondary and kindergarten-through-grade 12 (K-12) education.
STEM Robotics team project is demonstrated for an enthusiastic audience of all ages.
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One of my first jobs after graduating from college was with KREM-TV (King Broadcasting) in Spokane. A few years after I moved on from working with the station a tragic accident occurred with its news helicopter. The helicopter had just picked up Gary Brown —an outstanding KREM videographer (who I remembered as always being upbeat, positive and friendly) — when its rotor blades struck the guy wires supporting the station's transmitter tower. Both the photographer and pilot were killed instantly.
I've included a link below, which has an article with a photo of the accident scene from the Spokane, Spokesman Review – May 7, 1985 edition. The story has comments from a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA ) official coordinating the accident's investigation. Ironically at the same page is a syndicated, New York Times story of a larger helicopter accident, which occurred on the following day of May 6. That tragedy was of the loss of 17 Marines in a large Sikorsky, CH-53 Sea Stallion off the southwestern coast of Japan. A joint operations helicopter reported witnessing the CH-53 suddenly lost power and dropped 500 feet into the sea.
About ten years ago a friend of mine survived a helicopter crash, with only a few scratches. He had bought a used helicopter from a sheriff's department to State his own flight service business. Over time, parts needed to be replaced with upgrades and he was sold a defective fuel-line, which was installed and failed while in flight. He was approximately 100 feet in the air with two clients when the helicopter's engine shuttered to a stop. Fortunately he got his helicopter into ↑ auto rotation (emergency helicopter procedure, which shifts rotor blade's pitch to use stored kinetic energy for making a "soft landing") and as they began descending, the helicopter's skid caught the center of a tree and its branches helped them slow the descent even more.
Education and Training Is the Key to Helicopter Safety
Overall, if you consider how many hours and flights in a day helicopters perform flawlessly — they are safe and reliable. What these specialized aircraft can achieve in vertical maneuverability and performance is nothing short of marvelous and amazing. To ensure engines and structural frames are safely maintained the FAA certifies aviation mechanics using two certifications. Helicopter mechanics are required to have: an airframe mechanic and or a power plant mechanic certification. Most employers prefer their mechanics having both certifications, which requires 1,900 hours of coursework in order to pass oral and written exams that prove their skills.
Both videos demonstrate the essential level of professionalism required for helicopter operations during a high volume of jet and helicopters landings and takeoffs at Boeing Field.
Now, just sit back and enjoy the ride!
QUESTIONS FOR CONTINUOUS LEARNING AND TO TEST YOUR RECALL?
1.) What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a helicopter for aerial photography?
2.) Name one of the first skyscrapers, which also was the tallest building on the West Coast until 1962?
3.) What is the most important overall requirement for flying helicopters?
4.) What is the name of the emergency procedure for when a helicopter's engine fails inflight and what process takes place for a soft landing?
5.) Name the FAA requirements for being a helicopter mechanic and why are they necessary?
6.) Describe the multimedia enhancements on the video, which were used to promote greater learning.
Integrated Learning Color/Symbol Key for Career Technical Education:
↑Navy Blue — Aerospace Engineering related including: aerodynamics, structural dynamics & avionics
Ξ Dark Green — Multimedia & graphic design techniques used for Integrated learning
Θ Maroon — Historical structures, locations and or districts
◊ Indigo – Professional photography & video production
↔ Purple — Civil engineering related
REFERENCES: (Click on these sites to learn more on the subject)
The Kopp-Etchells Effect: Eerie Halo of a Helicopter's Rotor Blades in a Dust Cloud – Neatorama
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD0282087
The Spokesman-Review – Google News Archive Search
Robinson Helicopter Co.
Helicopters Northwest – Boeing Field
Intersting facts about the historic Smith Tower
Smith Tower – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walking Tours (Self-Guided) – Visiting Seattle – Seattle.gov
http://www.soundtransit.org/Documents/pdf/about/Chronology.pdf
Downtown (Central Business District) guide, moving to Seattle | StreetAdvisor
Columbia Helicopters
CH-47JA Helicopter | Helicopters | Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. Aerospace Company
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
Boeing: History — Products – Boeing CH-47 Chinook Rotorcraft
MD Helicopters MD 500 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boeing: History — Products – Hughes OH-6 Cayuse/500 Military and Civilian Helicopter
Helicopter Safety | Flight Safety Foundation
http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/1900/1/umi-umd-1880.pdf
King County International Airport/Boeing Field
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The World Event Which launched Seattle into a Postmodern Orbit, 50 Years Ago Today.
Seattle panorama with Space Needle in foreground and Mt Rainier in background.
Multimedia eLearning essay by: David Johanson Vasquez © All Rights – Third Edition
Content includes: Blended learning, critical think, Seattle Postmodern History, (Video Links – MGM film segments with Elvis Presley at Seattle's World Fair, postmodern video of early NASA rocket launches & spacewalks, video defining "postmodernism") (Web links, history org feature of Century 21 Seattle's World's Fair & Architect Japanese American Minoru Yamasaki)
Century 21 World's Fair logo.
On this day, April 21st, 1962, Seattle's Century 21 World's Fair opened the doors for its national and international visitors. Eventually, almost 10 million guests would attend the entire event to—imagine a futuristic tomorrow, which promised technological wonders for improved living and for promoting world harmony.
In the previous century's, 1851 London World's Fair, taking place at the Crystal Palace, it was a first of its kind event . The industrial age was in a mature stage of development, offering new forms of emerging technologies. In this era, people became aware of time speeding-up, caused by steam-powered's ability to hasten the speed of long-distance travel with locomotives and steamships. The dimensions of time and space were being reduced by these transportation developments… which brought distant nations and cultures together, allowing for— the creation of World's fairs for promoting industrial development and international exhibits. Seattle's first World's fair, the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, in 1909, took place near the peak of the modern industrial age.
The Space Needle, an iconic landmark from Seattle's 1962 Century 21 Worlds Fair.
Significantly, the Century 21 World's Fair was successful with a number of tangible results— it was one of the few world's fairs, which made a profit and most importantly, it lifted Seattle out of its perceived provincial setting, while placing it on a world stage. The timing was ideal for the city's economic and development trajectory. With Boeing Aerospace as a prime Seattle-based company, it benefited from the international exposure, right when the postmodern world began embracing jet travel for enhanced global access.
Aerial view of Seattle Center, part of the original site: Century 21 World's Fair.
Optimism and enthusiasm associated with the 1962 Worlds Fair was authentic, however, in the big picture, a dark shadow was growing in super-power tension as the cold war thermometer was reaching a boiling point. President Kennedy's excuse of having a cold for not attending the Century 21 closing ceremony in October was a ruse, actually his efforts for de-escalating the Cuban Missile Crisis were urgently required. As a result of averting a nuclear war over Cuba, President Kennedy successfully presided over the United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union's signing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in the following year of 1963.
Ironically, it was the Soviet Union, which created the theme of "science" for Seattle's Century 21 Worlds Fair. On October 4, 1957 the Russians launched Sputnik, the first orbiting satellite, which gave them an edge in space development. With the Soviet's apparent satellite success, Americans feared they were falling behind in science and technology; as a result, the theme of "science" became the framework for Seattle's Worlds Fair. From this time forward, the U.S. set goals to be leaders in space exploration and development.
The shock-wave effect created by Sputnik, awoke America from its idealistic complacency of the 1950's. Now a sense of urgency was created in looking for optimism within future technology of tomorrow. This quest for all things technological— was the fuel which Seattle used for launching its World's Fair. Late in 1957, the title: Seattle Century 21 World's Fair was selected as the brand name—to help promote America's vision of optimism for a technological future. To champion this cause, Albert Rossellini, Washington State Governor from 1956 to 1965— selected an exceptional group of business and civic leaders for a commission, which successfully acquired financing for the World's Fair.
Governor Albert Rossellini on Veteran's Day 1961.
Governor Rossellini, a Pacific Northwest civic titan, had a vision, which helped develop the region into a world-class economic dynamo. The World's Fair, along with a modern transportation infrastructure, and post secondary education developments are just a few examples of the legacy Rossellini created. One more fascinating contribution from Governor Rossellini was his success at bringing the of "King of Rock and Roll" to Seattle's World Fair.
Albert Rossellini pitched the idea to MGM, for making a movie with Elvis Presley (click on the video link →) It Happened at the World's Fair — (Movie Clip) Happy Ending Enlisting Elvis, a mega superstar, to help promote the Fair in a movie was a brilliant marketing move, with true creative vision!
Most impressive icons of the Century 21 Fair are the Space Needle and Monorail, both went on to become revered Seattle landmarks and preferred tourist attractions. Internationally, the Space Needle is more recognizable as a reference to Seattle, than the city's actual spoken name.
The ever-popular Seattle Monorail glides into view.
Low angle view of a futuristic Space Needle.
The Inspiration for the "Space Tower" as it was initially called, came from a napkin sketch by C21 chairman, Eddie Carlson. The chairman was motivated by his visit to a 400' TV tower, complete with an observation deck and restaurant in Stuttgart, Germany. The idea of a tower with a "flying-saucer" shaped restaurant at the top, was presented to architect John Graham, who added the concept of a rotating restaurant to allow viewers a continuous change of panoramic views. Victor Steinbrueck, professor of architecture at the University of Washington and architect John Ridley produced concept sketches which featured an elegant tripod, crowned with a saucer structure, observation deck.
Minoru Yamasaki, a first-generation, Japanese American, born in Seattle, was the lead architect— along with Seattle's NBBJ Architects chosen for designing the U.S. Science Pavilion, today's Pacific Science Center.
Originally titled the U.S. Science Center, now the Pacific Science Center, was designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, using his "Gothic Modernism" style.
Yamasaki's innovative, graceful style was also used in Seattle's most daring piece of architecture, the Rainier Tower— supported by a gravity defying inverted pedestal!
Yamasaki's dynamic Rainier Tower architectural design in Seattle.
Another of Minoru's Emerald City designs is the IBM Building, used as a model for the New York City twin tower design (destroyed in the 9/11, 2001 terrorist attacks.)
Seattle IBM Building designed by Minoru Yamasaki, was used as the model for NYC WTC Twin Towers. An example of Yamasaki's "gothic modernism" style.
The Pacific Science and NYC twin towers architectural style is "gothic modernism," which is a signature feature found in most of Minoru's designs (please see examples of gothic modernism elements in the photographs below.)
Yamasaki's iconic Twin Towers, Once part of NYC World Trade Center.
NYC Twin Towers designed by Minoru Yamasaki.
The futuristic Century 21 Monorail, gracefully gliding above the busy streets of Seattle. One of the City's most popular tourist attractions.
During the summer of the World's Fair opening, my parents took me to experience the exposition. Although I was very young while attending, the images and feelings of wonder from seeing the futuristic architecture and exhibits are still with me. The theme of life in the 21st century, awoke my imagination and interest in science technology at an early age, which still continues to this day. ~
Twilight view of Seattle Space Needle and Pacific Science Center.
A must see postmodern era video featuring the beginnings of the space race. Click on link below. ↓
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfVfRWv7igg
What is postmodernism video (click on video link below ↓)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL8MhYq9owo
HistoryLink to Century 21 — The 1962 Seattle World's Fair, Part 1 ( Click on link below ↓)
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=2290
Links to Seattle Architect Minoru Yamasaki ↓
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Yamasaki
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19630118,00.html
What can be more important than reaching for excellence in education, still not sure? Read what one of the greatest storytellers of our time is saying about the importance of education. Iconic filmmaker, George Lucas is true to his word regarding support for education. Please read what he wrote this week in his Eductopia.org. Site, regarding the importance of teaching. My written response to Mr. Lucas's article is how I use web-based multimedia experiences to share passion for learning. I wonder if GL took a look at what I had to say?
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/importance-of-education-george-lucas
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/importance-of-education-george-lucas
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Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Historic First Flight From Paine Field, Everett, WA.
My video camera kit had been prepared months in advance, ready in a moment's notice for the first maiden flight of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner—21st Century entry airliner. Finally, Dave Waggoner, the director of Paine Field Airport, queued me into the date to witness an evolutionary advance in commercial aviation.
Cameras Packed And Ready To Go
My home is only a short drive from Boeing's production facilities at Paine Field, Everett; so I was motivated to video record this "making of 21st century aviation history." Due to initial production delays, an entire year went by before I received reliable news of the 787-8 wide-body, long-range airliner was ready for her much-anticipated maiden flight. The 787 Dreamliner's first flight was at 10:27 a.m. PST, December 15, 2009.
Experienced As A Boeing Scientific Photographer
The 787 first flight ,video project brought back some great memories from my former career as an aerospace photographer with the Boeing Company. When first hired on by the iconic, aviation leader, my assignment involved providing video support for the Everett plant's test engineering groups, who were conducting bulkhead fatigue test on airline fuselages. In preceding years, some airlines began experiencing inflight catastrophic failures related to metal fatigue. Tragically the determined cause was from the age of the aircraft, specifically, stresses created when interior cabins went through an excessive number of pressurization cycles.
An event in the 1980s, of a Boeing 737 was dramatically documented as it safely landed with a massive section of the fuselage missing. The Aloha Airlines, 737 jetliner experienced a catastrophic failure due to metal fatigue. The metal fatigue issues caused from pressurization cycles on aircraft were not clearly understood, so the FAA required engineering test to research the potential safety threat.
A series of highly documented Test were conducted over a period of months; going through thousands of pressurized cycles. The purpose was to recreate what a jet airliner physically experiences when the cabin is repeatedly pressured and unpressurized — as in every-time an airliner takes-off, gains altitude and eventually returns for its landing. Our team of scientific photographers had series of video cameras, strategically placed within the test bulkhead, which sat shrouded inside layers of protective coatings, in a remote section of the Everett facilities. Over-pressurizing the bulkhead eventually caused the anticipated failure, announced by a thunderous sound of cracking metal. The bulkhead test was well documented using various engineering test methods and imaging equipment. Valuable test data gathered was immediately analyzed, studied and put to methodical use for redesigning, engineering and manufacturing safer jet airlines.
Examining a fuselage section of the 787 which uses composite carbon fiber materials.
Boeing's Traditional Practice Of Over-Engineering
It's been my experience, which confirms for me, what commercial pilots and engineers claim regarding Boeing's reputation with its conservative practice of "over-engineering" their aircraft. Historically, an over-engineering approach has proven itself as a life saving benefit — with countless Boeing aircraft surviving horrific damage… yet, still landing safely. Documentaries on WWII aircraft feature shot-up Boeing aircraft returning safely, is an example of over-engineering.
For teams performing test monitoring, with elaborate configured structures, attached string gauges and actuators trying to force a break of an airplane part — the aerospace test may go on for days, or even months — the experience feels like sitting in bleachers for hours while watching slow-motion glacier races in progress. All the invested resources of time and effort, which goes into these aerospace component test, helps to assure the flying public's safety and the airlines performance records.
Engineers enjoy seeing how much torturous abuse their designed support systems will take before they bend, crack or break. At the instant a component does finally fail [normally after far exceeding the range of what it was designed to do] you'll hear a loud noise caused from a test-object going beyond its limit. The sound of the breaking part, ends the tension of monitoring a test for hours or days — in an instant, the team of test engineers and technicians start cheering like a goal was scored by a home team in a stadium full of their fans.
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner taxiing for its historic, maiden flight on December 15, 2009 from Paine Field Airport, Everett, WA.
Carbon Fiber Future In Aviation
One of many significant technological improvements for the new long-range, wide-body 787 Dreamliner, is a high percentage of composite, carbon fiber materials used in its construction. The amount of composite, materials employed in today's aircraft have substantially increased from when it was initially developed and used in military aircraft. I recall, how amazingly light wing spares made of carbon fiber composite materials are, when moving them under lighting setups at Boeing's Gateway studio. It was fascinating observing and photographing the manufacturing of composite materials, as the process involves using massive heated autoclaves to form predesigned sections for aircraft structures.
Now, remember the bulkhead test from a previous paragraph? Carbon fiber composites eliminates the issue of metal fatigue associated with pressurizing passenger cabin space. Less concerns over metal fatigue allows for more pressurization in the cabin for passenger comfort — more importantly, the integrated use of composite materials ensures greater safety, with substantially less risk to the structural integrity of the airliner.
Is Boeing's Reliance On Outsourcing The Main Culprit For The 787 Dreamliner Being Grounded In A Global Lockdown?
In the past 15 years, Boeing's upper management has broke formation from its traditional engineering leadership and replaced it by promoting executives with business and marketing backgrounds. The current Boeing regime embraces an outsourcing strategy, unfortunately, this trend of maximizing profits for shareholders has been on going with U.S. companies for the past two decades. Negative consequences of replacing an engineering management with a business one is clearly apparent in the power transmission industry — deregulation & marketing-driven-management in the electric power industry has significantly placed this essential infrastructure at risk [overstretched power grid, vulnerable outdated high-power transformers.] Please see my multimedia essay – Will the Last People Remaining In America, Turn the Lights Back On? : https://sciencetechtablet.wordpress.com/tag/solar-storm-testimony-to-u-s-senate/
A heavy dependence on foreign outsourcing is sighted as a cause for unforeseen 787 production delays. Consistent, quality control monitoring becomes problematic when components are manufactured offsite, as result these issues can sometimes lead to extended, unanticipated problems.
Outside vendors are capable of producing equal, if not superior quality components to that of Boeing in some technical areas. In fact, there are legions of aerospace companies in the Puget Sound region, which supply critical parts to the 787 Dreamliner's manufacturer. Some outsourcing is absolutely necessary for Boeing to compete with Airbus. The concern is outsourcing critical components in a new airplane program, which is attempting to use technology never used in a commercial airliner. It's ironic, li-ion batteries are at the center of the 787's grounding — lithium batteries have been a concern for over a decade to the FAA, TSA & NTSB, even leading to bans & restrictions for passenger's to bring on commercial flights. It's almost hubris or a form of high-risk gambling, to "initially" rely so heavily on outside vendors [GS Yuasa, the Japanese firm making the li-ion & Thales, the French corporation making the batteries' control systems] for producing an unproven, prototype system.
While working as a Boeing employee in the 1990s, I recall an incident with a vendor supplying thousands of counterfeit aircraft quality fasteners made in China. Fortunately, the fiasco was caught early — but not before many hours and dollars were lost, going back to inspect wings on the production line, to remove & replace the defective fasteners.
Unless solid metrics are emplace to assure critical standards are met for each component, it's only a matter of time before a failure will occur. Boeing has traditionally been an aerospace company, which "over engineers" it airplanes & errors on the side of safety. Hopefully the company has maintained & continues to practice these quality assurances
Outsourcing is practical both economically and politically for companies with international sells. It's a successful strategy Boeing has used for many years; outsourcing has proven to provide incentives for foreign airline companies to buy Boeing aircraft, in order to support their own domestic aerospace industries.
The American auto manufacture Tesla, had similar "thermal runaway" issues when first using li-ion batteries to power its Roadster. Tesla Motors, benefited from its learning curve by switching to Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries, which run at cooler temperatures. The innovative auto manufacture also developed its own battery pack architecture, with proprietary liquid cooling system packs — for controlling battery cell temperatures within self-contained, metal lined enclosures. The nontoxic, Tesla battery packs are manufactured domestically in Northern California. Perhaps Boeing should be considering manufacturing all critical systems in-house and domestically as Tesla has done.
Again, it's to early to know the exact extent of the problem with the 787's battery systems. There's no doubt, the issues will be isolated and corrected, as Boeing has long history of thoroughly testing and over-engineering its aircraft systems. One thing is certain, it's rare for Boeing to experience a new aircraft being grounded simultaneously by Japan's transport ministry and by the FAA.
Ultimately, A Bright Future Awaits The 787 Dreamliner
Gaining profitable fuel savings by developing a lighter, wide-body aircraft, combined with the fuel-efficient, GE or Rolls Royce engines, produces a major advance for airliner capabilities. The tangible benefits in comfort, interior lighting and convenience contribute to a remarkable passenger experience. All the evolutionary, technical advances in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, creates a remarkable new development for commercial aviation. ~
Mount Rainier & Paine Field in background Everett, WA
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Maiden Flight – December 15, 2009 – Paine Field, Everett, WA. Video by: David Johanson Vasquez © All Rights Reserved
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Paine Field in the Pacific Northwest is becoming an aviation mecca.
General Aviation Day 2013, is on, Saturday, May 18th, Hours: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. For details please visit: http://www.painefield.com/
Most of the following photo/video essays can be seen in another format which features an alternative graphic style and a black background, please see: http://bigpictureone.wordpress.com
General Aviation Day 2012 is on Saturday, May 19th. Admission is $5. or $10. per family. For details please visit: http://www.painefield.com/
Paine Field's, General Aviation Day takes place in mid-May, located next to a vast aviation center; including the world largest building (by volume), where Boeing/MacDonald assembles most of it's commercial aircraft, along with an ultramodern Future of Flight museum, all clustered around an international airport.
Photos & essay by: David Johanson Vasquez © All Rights
—Wow, I knew to expect a great event from the warbirds appearing at the General Aviation Day, but I had known idea it would be so fantastic! This dynamic annual aircraft exhibition held at Paine Field in Everett, WA has one of the best settings for such an event and is becoming a major aviation mecca."
A surprise appearance of a Boeing Dreamlifter has photographers scrambling to get a shot.
Aerial view of Paine Field Airport looking north.
Paine Field's, General Aviation Day takes place in mid May, located next to a vast aviation center; including the world largest building, where Boeing/MacDonald assembles most of it's commercial aircraft, along with an ultramodern Future of Flight museum, all clustered around an international airport. Located next to these aviation assets are Paul Allen's, (cofounder of Microsoft and commercial space visionary/developer) Flying Heritage Collection and John T. Session's (Seattle attorney and entrepreneur) Historic Flight Foundation.
It's remarkable this quality of event has such minimal admission fees, yet it offers the public a rare opportunity to walk right next to these historic World War II airplanes; to look inside at flight controls and touch the aircraft aluminum skin of these fierce flying machines. Only minutes later these same vintage World War II fighters, bombers and scout planes are beginning to fire up their inline and radial engines; which sounds like a monstrous dragon clearing it's throat until there's just a steady roar that grabs everyone's attention. As one airplane after another takes off and returns making multiple passes, spectators are lining the edge of the airfield and to watch in awe.
Formation flying over a navy blue warbird with her mighty wings folded.
At midday the participating, Historic Flight Foundation open house began. Within the Foundation's grounds were scores of World War II aircraft, along with dozens of people in army uniforms of the era; I had to remind myself… this was not a movie I was watching, nor a dream, but an actual live event. Even Steven Spielberg couldn't have outdone the staging for this assortment of warbirds, soldiers in uniform and military equipment of the era.
Is that Steven Spielberg wearing an aviation hat in the background? No, it's John T Sessions, founder of Historic Flight Foundation.
Having taught history of photography courses, I had some fun adding postmodern sepia to the photos taken at the event.
Constructed in 1936, Paine Field was a works progress administration project during the great depression. Most of the vintage collections began flying shortly after the Field started operating, so it's fitting the warbirds are now roosting here. Inspired by history and the original purpose for these aircraft; I employed digital post production techniques for the images in an attempt to recreate a photographic "look" of the 1930's and 1940's. In particular, sepia-tone as well as early Kodachrome transparencies inspired my recreated images.
This image looks so authentic, as if it could've been taken 60 years ago.
Another birds-eye view of the warbirds.
It's rare to see such multigenerational enthusiasm for a public event. Especially seen within children and adolescent's eyes were genuine looks of awe and wonder from what these aircraft inspire. Seeing the kids excitement resonated with my own memories about aviation when I was a youth. The fact that these historic fighters and bombers were not just static displays — but actually flying at "tree-top-levels" — whose roaring, rumbling engines you could feel, hear, and smell –captivated every age-group's attention.
Cub Scouts enjoying the day, viewing vintage aircraft making fly-overs.
Being that my house is only minutes away by car, I enjoy taking photos from my backyard of visiting warbirds in the days before and after the event. Within easy reach is my ever-ready camera with a telephoto lens mounted, so I'm always ready when that rare vintage aircraft makes a surprise appearance overhead.
I look forward to the coming years to see how this show will grow and receive even greater support from the public.
A beautiful day for a vintage air show.
One particular image in the photomontage series below, captures the wonder within faces of a group of youth standing underneath the wing of a Historic Flight Foundation bomber, just as an aircraft roars nearby. The adage –"a picture, tells a thousand words" applies to this one; but also simply put… a face can sum it up with just one… wow!
Hope for the future, by remembering the past.
Female pilot inspects the B25 she's ready to take into the sky.
Here's my flying quote of the day — "Both optimist and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute." ~ Gil Ster
Look, up in the sky it's a tight formation of warbirds.
Yes, that tough cat really does have claws.
"Navy blue" ready for takeoff with a ribbon of Cascade Mountains in background.
Looking and touching is encouraged for a great live interactive experience.
An awesome flyby with two fighters accompanying a B25 bomber.
Up close and personal views of warbird taxing for takeoff.
Plane spotting groupie at Paine Field's GAD vintage airshow.
This warbird isn't shy and knows how to be a crowd pleaser!
Never a dull moment for a full house, and plenty of flybys to see.
For over three generations these warbirds still inspire awe on the faces of youth and elders alike.
Something for the entire family to enjoy.
Another target rich environment for a photographer.
Inspired by the wings of flight.
A target rich environment for airplane spotting photographers.
This vintage navy warbird gets ready to fly by modern Boeing airliners.
Mom and dad with kids in tow to see a great show.
A sunshine halo encircles vintage warbirds returning home from a successful flight.
Father and son with a birds-eye view from top of the world.
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Enthusiasm and excitement was experienced by those viewing students' technology project presentations.
A Basic Overview Of A STEM Magnet Program
By the 21st century, digital technology had transformed global industry and commerce by accelerating STEM related industries. The skill-sets, training and knowledge of entry-level applicants was falling behind. Standards for learning, used in our public educational system, were now becoming outdated. Nationally, educators needed a new, comprehensive learning approach to inspire, explore and motivate students' achievement in the global dynamics of STEM.
Today, the Nation's public schools place greater emphasis on introducing STEM related content to both teachers and students starting as early as grade school. This program strategy allows all students of varied backgrounds, ethnicities and socio-economic levels to gain access to learning projects associated with science and technology.
By presenting young students with thoughtful STEM lesson plans, they are more likely to engage in the discovery process of even the most technical subject matters. Entering middle school, students are learning accelerated levels of science and technology content, which helps them decide if they wish to enroll in a high school, offering a focused curriculum. The STEM Magnet Program pulls in a diversified population of students, engaged and motivated by their earlier learning experiences.
Evolution And Development Of STEM Education
Richard Blais, Chairman of the technology department for the Shenendehowa Central School District in Upstate New York, developed a curriculum in 1986, to support students' interest in studying engineering. To enable enthusiasm and confidence in students, core courses included; pre-engineering and digital electronics, infused with energetic and interactive learning environments. The curriculum's proven a success, attracted philanthropist, Richard Liebich, who partnered with Blais to set up, Project Lead the Way (PLTW.)
Greg Schwab – Principal, Mountlake Terrace High School, greets students at the STEM EXPO Fair
Dr. Nick Brossoit Superintendent, Edmonds School District
Within 10 years of PLTW's founding, a dozen high schools in New York State adopted the program. Within the next few years high schools in 30 states were using PLTW's "Pathway to Engineering Program." Soon after, PLTW was a major national program, which used innovative activities of project and problem-based assignments. Further adding to PLTW's momentum and success was the enthusiastic support corporations showed by endorsing and contributing financial resources towards the program.
Mark Madison
Director, Career & Technical Education for Edmonds SD
STEM Education incorporated many successful PLTW learning strategies and programs. PLTW is still active in high schools today and plays an active role in STEM Education.
STEM EXPO Keynote Speaker – Dr. Elaine Scott, Director of Science & Technology Program, UW Bothell
Mark Sanders', 2009 STEMmania article in The Technology Teacher, cites the STEM acronym first being used in the 1990's. The National Science Foundation (NSF) started using "SMET" as a reference for "science, mathematics, engineering and technology." A department, program officer complained "SMET" sounded similar to "smut," so "STEM" became the suitable replacement. It would take more than a decade for the public to recognize STEM's referenced meaning.
The support and enthusiasm for STEM Education is displayed by an impressive turnout for the District's first STEM EXPO Fair.
The Challenge Of Integrative Education: Transcending Barriers And Perceived Domains Found Within Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematic Education
Perhaps the greatest test for a STEM Magnet Program will involve achieving the goal, of course/subject integration. As a career, technical and education (CTE) instructor, I've heard this complaint more than any other from students — 'why do I have to learn this subject, it doesn't relate to other things I'm learning or anything I'll ever need to know!?' In truth, all subjects and courses taught in school share dynamic connections, we as educators need to do more in helping students see their associations.
Core sciences and engineering education have traditionally maintained strict disciplinary lines, known as silos. This shortsighted disconnect is generally not found in industry, where the imperative is to find solutions which will "payoff" in the shortest amount of time. Industry's necessity to cut through process for realizing greater profits is an important lesson plan for all STEM Programs. The realized profit for a student is — being taught how to quickly adapt new, comprehensive and sometimes-unconventional learning strategies to gain a competitive advantage.
The STEM Expo Robotics team takes a break from their demonstration for a group photo. Teamwork builds confidence and trust in the students themselves as well as other team members.
Benefits/Advantages For Both Students And The Schools They Attend
Developing a STEM magnet program helps a school district align its resources towards assisting students preparing for college and universities, which specialize in related technical studies. An additional advantage the program offers a student pursuing a post secondary education is — an institution will most likely accept the applicant's enrollment request based on the knowledge and technical skills achieved through a STEM Magnet Program.
U.S. industries have increasingly cited the lack of qualified technical applicants they need as a reason not to hire more employees. The shortage of people with necessary STEM skills has motivated corporations to contribute their resources of funding, mentoring and sponsorship towards public education's technology learning programs.
Community exhibitors at the STEM EXPO Fair include corporate sponsors of STEM education.
Aerospace giant Boeing is a big sponsor of the STEM Magnet Program.
Parents and community groups have eagerly supported STEM programs. Student's parents are critical stakeholders who quickly realized the impact the program was having — seeing impressive scholastic and attitude improvements with their children.
STEM Education Uses Progressive Learning Strategies To Develop Critical Learning And Self-Discipline Within Students
STEM Education attempts to accelerate student development by modifying the standard teacher-centered classroom with more independent learning. The curriculum encourages project-based learning, problem solving and discovery, which empower the students to engage their cognitive skills to find solutions. This form of learning develops greater self-confidence in students and it opens channels among the students themselves to interact thru peer-to-peer learning. These spontaneous collaborative activities are self-organized learning events and they naturally promote leadership within the group. It has been well documented, knowledge transferred from experience in peer-to-peer activities are highly successful forms of learning.
Students enrolled in STEM Programs are encouraged to engage and connect with others by refining their presentation skills.
Tangible Returns In Personal Development Through Teamwork And Leadership
Over the past five years I've had the opportunity to teach in a variety of classroom environments using a CTE curriculum. It's remarkable seeing how engaged students are with learning their STEM subject matter. These same students are much more likely to openly contribute and share their ideas in a classroom discussion using the critical thinking skills they've learned to develop.
Most often, STEM classes are more like being in a college environment, requiring a minimum amount of classroom management, as the students are self-motivated to complete their assignments and move on to the next project. Generally the level of leadership development and volunteerism is noticeably higher in STEM classes due to the program's emphasis on teamwork, self-confidence and academic achievement. These personal development qualities are valuable assets for students applying for college admission and later — when entering the career of their choice.
Craig DeVine – pre-engineering instructor, talks with his students near a 3-D printer
Improving Forecast For Employment Opportunities Using STEM Education
As STEM Magnet Schools continue to place their graduates into secondary education, followed by the students' successful careers in STEM related industries — STEM Education will help transform the American education landscape. If STEM Education can sustain its momentum, the future horizon looks bright for our youth to achieve economic opportunities on a global leveled playing field.
Entrance to Mountlake Terrace High School -Edmonds School District's first STEM Magnet School
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STEM Education Terms & Definitions
CTE = Career Technical Education NSF – National Science Foundation PD&I = pedagogy referring to – purposeful design and inquiry PLTW = Project Lead The Way STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics STEM Magnet School = A school with a concentration of STEM classes, which attracts students throughout a school district interested in enrolling in a STEM Program
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A Full Throttle Multimedia Video of Seattle From the R22 Beta II helicopter – Part 1 of 2.
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The Robinson R22 helicopter is often described as a sports car version of helicopters — ultra light in weight, it takes off quickly and is so responsive it will literally make your head spin. Weighing in at only 1200 pounds fully fueled, it often feels like you're wearing the helicopter like a "jet-pack" rather than riding in it. As a thrilling life experience, helicopter flights are at the top of the list, however, it requires the highest level of professionalism to safely fly and be involved with helicopter operations.
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As a multimedia specialist who produces stories supported by photography and video content, I've used a variety of helicopters for an image capture platform. Everything from the compact , high – performance Huey 500D up to the large tandem rotor Kawasaki KV 107 (a licensed version of the Boeing Vertol BV107 "Chinook" helicopter.) It's the R22's light weight, which in my opinion, gives you the most thrill for getting from point A to point B.
The Robinson R22 Beta II Helicopter was arranged for me to use as part of ◊ a six-month photography contract with the Port of Seattle. In between locations photographed for the Port, I shot video content for multimedia educational applications.
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This multimedia video includes graphic overlays, lower third titles and an integrated color key, which indicate: ΘSeattle historic architecture (Smith Tower), ↔ municipal, transportation and industry infrastructure along with the ↑ R22's performance ratings. The style of writing for this multimedia essay structures information using bold and italicized text to optimize key content for quick scanning by readers. For accessing your recall and comprehension a quiz is included at the end of this essay. You're also invited to explore provided web links related to the essay's content for learning more about subjects of interest. Your opinions and insights on how to enrich this multimedia experience is valued, so a comment section is included for suggestions and feedback.
Advantages & Challenges For Image Capture from Helicopters
The advantages of using a helicopter over an urban setting are many including: multiple low angle views, which are unavailable when using fixed winged aircraft, hovering over specific areas, an efficiency in reaching desired altitudes for a variety of perspective views.
Ξ Aerial photography and especially video are challenging to produce in a helicopter compared with using fixed winged aircraft. Two major issues, which can hamper imaging are: ↑ vibrations and noise caused from the engine next to the cab and rotor vibrations caused from elastic torsion deformations while flying. Aerospace companies such as Boeing and big budget feature film projects will occasionally use high-end aerial photography companies, which have specialized cameras mounted into their aircraft. This specialization can reduce some aerial photography vibration issues associated with hand-held cameras, but it requires a large budget to justify the expense. The R22 helicopter is a very light craft and the summer afternoon, which was used to shoot these aerials, had strong turbulence, so some scenes will have some unavoidable vibration and noise in them.
This is the first of two videos, which features aerial views of Seattle provided by Helicopters Northwest out of Θ Boeing Field. The second video, soon to be posted, shows the return for refueling and includes initial mechanical issues getting the helicopter back in the air. ↑ In regards to refueling, it's critical a helicopter has been properly grounded before operations begin. Helicopter rotor blades are capable of generating large amounts of static electricity —especially in dry, dusty environments, which can pose a serious threat to both flight and ground crews.
Outcomes From Infrequent Helicopter Accidents Are Usually Tragic… But There | 3,230 |
OK, I didn't really go to Paris. But Joe and I did get to have a date night on our 8th anniversary in Franklin, Tenn., at the Viking Cooking School. On the menu with Chef Jamie: Coc au vin, salad with chevre, tomato tartlet and crepes suzzette.
As is often the case in these Viking classes (Joe and I have Thai cooking, Morroccan and Superfoods under our apron strings) I was completely lost for most of it. The recipes in the packets barely coincided with what the instructor was doing. The droplets of oil leaping from the pans stung my hands. And it was sometimes hard to tell the little ramekins of salt from the sugar or the walnut oil from the honey... a mistep that could have be disasterous, or at least a little disgusting!
For those of you that keep up<|fim_middle|> really that long, but Stephen was again up to his worst restaurant behavior so it seemed like an eternity. Thankfully, there's a great fresh market with an extensive Indian food section a couple doors down from Saffron, and it served as a good diversion for fussy baby and frazzled parents.
The food was a mix of what I can only assume is authentic- like the peppery hot birani rice dish- and east meets west like "Tandoori pizza" which was actually one of my favorite dishes. The samosas were great... but had more black pepper than my tongue could handle. I've got a pretty decent tolerance for chili pepper hot and wasabi hot, but black pepper really does me in. Munchie also turned bright red when we tried to let him sample some chicken from the pizza. Poor kid! | with the Daily Munchie, this post is going to be old hat. But I had some photos from our trip (beginning of the month) to Chicago and some opinions as well.
Sushi Ya- a newer Japanese restaurant close to the Schaumburg Township District Library, where my mom works.
He was being a bit of a pill trying to escape his high chair and stuffing too big of pieces of chicken in his mouth when no one was watching, but I think he enjoyed it too.
And we ordered the "Schaumburg Roll" just because I think it's cool to order sushi rolls named after towns. It was good- no cream cheese or anything gross. Just softshell crab, eel, avocado etc.
Saffron - An Indian restaurant in Schaumburg off Wise Road.
Despite the exotic sounding name, Saffron's decor was kind of like a hotdog place or a sub shop. It also seemed to be run by one person (maybe there was someone else hiding in the back) and our food took a long time to arrive. Or maybe it wasn't | 223 |
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This story appears as an on-going series in the "Gilroy Dispatch", "Morgan Hill Times" and "Hollister Freelance".
June 2016: Swainson's Hawk
By Colleen Grzan
werc@werc-ca.org
Even after 13 years of rehabilitating countless songbirds, r<|fim_middle|> hawk up to 8 small rodents a day, we were surprised to learn that Swainson's also eat insects. Though ground squirrels, gophers, mice, and rabbits make up the main part of their diet during breeding season, they thrive almost exclusively on insect prey during non-breeding months. Crickets, grasshoppers (Swainson's are sometimes called grasshopper hawks), dragonflies, butterflies, moths, and beetles provide a banquet of protein and the hawks catch them "on the wing", by running on the ground, or by hovering in the sky and scanning fields for prey.
There's a good reason why we weren't able to identify this hawk at first. It wasn't until 2013 that a Swainson's chick hatched for the first known time since 1894 in Santa Clara County's Coyote Valley. This year marks the fourth time that the pair of hawks has returned to this area to nest. In 1979, only 350 pairs existed in the entire state and the bird was listed as "threatened" under the California Endangered Species Act. Now there are 2,250 pairs in the state. The resurgence can be credited to state protection, pesticide bans and protected habitat, according to De Anza College raptor biologist Ryan Phillips.
The exact location of the Coyote Valley pair is secret but there are hiking trails in the area where you might be lucky enough to catch sight of them and/or their offspring. Your best bet for observing Swainson's hawks is during summer in open country. They can be seen perching on utility poles, fence posts, and in trees. In April and September, watch for soaring flocks of raptors—which can number in the hundreds—over open country, hitching a ride on the thermals. We are thrilled to report that WERC's Swainson's, in a perfect release near a wildlife refuge in Los Banos in June, will be joining them. | aptors, reptiles, and assorted mammals, there are still some "mystery critters". Sometimes it's because they're too young to identify, other times because it's such an unusual animal (to me or to our locality). This hawk was found early in April by a rancher who saw the raptor on the ground in his field for several days, unable to fly. He was finally able to capture it and transported it to the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center in Morgan Hill. The hawk was given an exam and treatment for a large swelling on its left wrist (fortunately not a fracture).
As we were filling out the acquisition form's "species" line, our first impression was that it was a juvenile red-tailed hawk, a common bird in rehab and in the wild. But this hawk was just a little bit different, being somewhat smaller and with atypical coloring. Our bird identification books showed variances among hawks but none fit exactly this bird. Photos were sent to an expert birder and the bird-of-prey was identified it as a Swainson's, a hawk rarely seen in Morgan Hill.
With medication, the hawk's swelling subsided and he was placed in the 100'foot aviary to exercise and improve his strength. For a while, we were unsure of his flight capability, as one wing drooped slightly. We always ensure that a bird has perfect flight before being released, but it was especially important for this hawk because Swainson's migrate to South America for the winter, a distant of 6000 miles.
While we fed the | 323 |
In discussions about the Nordic countries, many mention social democracy, as social democrats rules the three Scandinavian countries for decades<|fim_middle|>08 bank collapse. | in the 20th century. However, there is indeed a strong liberal tradition in the Nordic countries, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson argued in a paper he read 6 April 2019 at the annual conference of APEE, Association of Private Enterprise Education, on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Gissurarson recalled that Swedish-Finnish priest Anders Chydenius had advanced a theory about the harmony of private interests and the public good before Adam Smith; and that Swedish statesman Johan August Gripenstedt had in mid-19th century contributed greatly to the first Swedish Model of economic freedom and enterprise. This first model led to tremendous progress: In 1870–1936, economic growth in Sweden was the most rapid in the world. The second Swedish Model was pursued by the Social Democrats in 1970–1990, with high taxes and extensive redistribution, but it proved to be unsustainable, and the Swedes are now following the third Swedish Model, reducing taxation and providing more scope for private enterprise, even if they have not abandoned generous welfare provisions.
Gissurarson pointed out that Jon Sigurdsson, the leader of Iceland's struggle for independence, was a classical liberal, as was clear from his many magazine articles. The authors of the two first books on economics in Icelandic, Arnljotur Olafsson and Jon Thorlaksson, also were committed classical liberals. Gissurarson gave an account of the extensive liberal reforms in Iceland in 1991–2004, privatisation, tax cuts, strengthening of pension funds and an opening up of the economy as a result of membership of the EEA, European Economic Area. He argued that the success of these reforms was best demonstrated by the fact that Iceland recovered quickly from the severe blow of the 20 | 385 |
Tekton Becomes Running Sponsor of Indy's Race for Vocations
Tekton Ministries Catholic Pilgrimages, Media and Non Profit Management became a permanent sponsor of the popular Archdiocesan Race for Vocations in Indianapolis which occurs during the One America Festival Mini-Marathon and 5k each May.
In a recent press release, Chris Weldon, PR Associate for Tekton Ministries wrote,
Richard Sontag, director of Tekton Ministries, saw this as a prime place to establish sponsorship and further the mission of Tekton<|fim_middle|> a great way to pray for vocations, evangelize and support our priests and religious. We wanted to participate however we could and that meant becoming a permanent sponsor of the Race for Vocations."
Embracing the new evangelization is something Tekton Ministries seeks to accomplish through Catholic media. "At the same time, old methods work as well," Sontag commented when talking about how the runners and walkers witness to their faith.
To read more, click here. | Ministries, which is to serve people on their journey of faith, he said.
"I'm not a runner." Sontag laughed, "Running is a penance for me. So what | 39 |
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Asked if the Prime Minister was concerned about the fall in global stock markets, the PMS replied that what we had seen in relation to the volatility in the financial markets was clearly a global phenomenon originating in the US. The fundamentals of the British economy have remained sound, inflation was low, we had had 61 consecutive quarters of economic growth, and employment was at record highs. So both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor were clear that the Government would do everything in its power to maintain economic stability. That was why we had intervened for example to prevent the problems associated with Northern Rock spreading to other parts of the financial sector. It was also why for example we had taken some tough decisions in relation to public sector pay in order to keep inflation down.
Asked if there had been any concerted action with European partners, or was any being planned, the PMS replied that questions of that nature should be directed to the Treasury or the Bank of England.
Asked if the instability was still a cause for ongoing major concern, the PMS replied that we were seeing volatility in financial markets, but this was a global phenomenon and something that originated in the US. The fundamentals of the British economy remained sound, as the Prime Minister and Chancellor had made clear on numerous occasions, Britain remained well placed to withstand this uncertainty in the global economy. But of course we had to remain vigilant, and that was why the Government would take whatever action was necessary to maintain stability.
Asked on Northern Rock if the Chancellor informed Cabinet of anything beyond his statement to the Stock Market, the PMS replied that it was just an update of where we were.
Asked if the Prime Minister shared the view of the City that we should be urging cuts in<|fim_middle|> view that the turmoil was not essentially based in the UK economy, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister's view, and the Chancellor's, was that this was a phenomenon that originated in the United States. In Britain the fundamentals of our economy remained sound. | interest rates, given that he had said previously that he expected them to be cut, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister had never made any forecast in relation to interest rates, or had ever commented on what the independent Bank of England should do. The Prime Minister thought that these were clearly matters for the Bank of England.
Asked if the Chancellor and Prime Minister had not gone as far to say that Britain was not going into recession, the PMS replied that what they were saying was that Britain was well placed to withstand global economic turbulence of this kind. We had seen events such as this in the past decade – the Asian crisis, the Russian crisis, the bursting of the dot.com bubble, and Britain unique among the major economies, continued to experience growth through that period.
Asked if it was the Prime Minister's | 163 |
Acclaimed winelands restaurant Terroir has welcomed the arrival of winter with a special menu offer that is sure to make this award-winning Stellenbosch eatery the hottest table in town as the cold sets in. This year Chef Michael Broughton and his dream team focus on encouraging both locals and visitors to indulge in the true Terroir experience by offering a taste of the full à la carte menu at an extremely pocket-friendly price.
From May to September guests can enjoy their choice of two dishes (starter/main or main/dessert) from Terroir's French-inspired chalkboard menu for only R295 per person. This price also includes a glass of Kleine Zalze Vineyard Selection wine.
Due to the success of the multi-course tasting menu offered last winter Chef Michael Broughton has come up with an additional offer of a chef's choice of four courses at R<|fim_middle|> 2 May to 30 September, at both lunch and dinner. Individual à la carte orders can still be made and will be charged at the listed menu price.
Dining at Terroir never fails to be a memorable experience, whether seated out on the dappled terrace or indoors next to the roaring fireplace. With Broughton's considerable talent buoyed by a youthful new energy in the kitchen, Terroir is certainly set to shine a spotlight on winelands cuisine this winter.
Terroir is open for lunch from Tuesdays to Sundays from 12h00 – 14h30. Dinner is served from Tuesdays to Saturdays from 18h30 – 21h00. | 450 p/p including a glass of Kleine Zalze's award-winning wine.
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Below is an open letter to B2B salespeople and technology buyers explaining why sellers can come across as pushy, especially at venture-backed startups. TL;DR — it's not all their fault. Just follow the money.
Dear B2B Sales Rep/B2B Technology Buyer,
If you work at a tech company, you probably have a B2B sales team. And as such, you are all too familiar with the mythical, heralded "Closing Week."
Closing Week: The high-stress, intense sprint at the end of each month (or quarter) where sales teams work tirelessly day and night, calling every prospect in their pipeline to scramble and hit "Quota."
Quota: The only metric by which every salesperson's work product over the course of a month (or quarter) is measured.
A salesperson can be on vacation for ¾ of the month. They can leave at 2 PM every Friday to hit the golf course. They can even fracture their hard-earned relationships with buyers by pressuring them to sign a contract by end of the month, ruining their reputation by coming across as yet another pushy salesperson… but if they get enough people to say yes and hit quota, they are a winner. And if they don't? Well, salespeople are only as good as the money they bring in, right? Fire them and hire ones who will hit quota. Right??
This is all bullshit. All of it. The stress. The pressure. The artificial deadlines. Just step back for a minute and think about it: Startups<|fim_middle|>, every publicly traded company has a revenue forecast that they set with Wall Street and their investors. Which is why every quarter they have an earnings report, where they either "exceed", "meet", or "miss" their target. If they miss their revenue target, the stock price of a company goes down and investors are not happy. CEO gets pressure to "right the ship" or is fired.
There is more to the story than this. There are micro-examples of salespeople who are pushy because that's just how they are. I'm neither saying that all salespeople are angelic beings nor that there aren't many great sellers who have a consultative, kind approach. What I am saying is that the average salesperson is just another normal human being with a job like the rest of us. Salespeople are not inherently pushy. They are forced to be because of the dynamics that go into building a company, particularly a venture-backed one. It is often at the Board level with the VC, the CEO, and the Executive Team, where revenue targets are set and inflated goals promised, that leads to the stress of Closing Week.
So the next time a salesperson is badgering you on the last day of the month to sign a contract, know that it's probably not because they want to do so. The system itself is broken. Salespeople are not inherently pushy; they are just part of a system that casts them as such. So be kind to each other!
Sahil Mansuri
Background: I have played musical chairs over my 10-year career in the Bay Area. I started out as an inside sales rep, was promoted to sales manager/director/VP Sales at multiple venture-backed startups, then left sales entirely and moved to run product. I went from technology seller to technology buyer, and in the process got to experience sales from both sides of the table.
PS — Just in case my opinion on this wasn't clear enough: This is not the way sales is supposed to be done. And it will have to change because buyers are sick and tired of this game. All the cold calls/emails, the pressure tactics to close deals every month. This must end. Here at Bravado, we are building the future of B2B sales. One powered by referrals and reputation, not cold calls and spammy emails.
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25% Based on # of clients listed in your client wall | are trying to build scalable, long-term businesses. CEOs pitch investors on the vision of how StartupCo is going to become the next Uber for Google by 2022. You are also, personally, in it for the long haul: you have a 4-year vesting schedule and are taking below-market compensation in exchange for that equity because you believe that the company is going to be successful in the future. Then, along comes "Closing Week" and the sales team hasn't hit quota yet. VP Sales starts demanding that everyone call every opportunity and PUSH PUSH PUSH!!! CEO starts sending out "inspirational" emails to "motivate" the team! Herds of salespeople are chain-smoking cigarettes and "feeling the heat". CLOSING WEEK!!
But what if you are a salesperson who is ahead of the game and have already hit quota? While the rest of the sales team stresses, you have already done your job and are now just trying to help your coworkers. Then along comes a buyer, with whom you've built a long-term relationship over the past 3 months, willing to sign a $100,000 contract in the 2nd week of January. But the VP Sales is pushing you to "get that deal in December! Call and ask again! Email their boss!! Do WHATEVER IT TAKES!" … why?
Will your company no longer be open for business in 10 days?
Will you no longer need revenue to fuel the company the next year?
Is pricing actually going to change? (Hint: it's not, and every buyer knows that already because every seller uses the same tricks over and over again.)
Why are salespeople are willing to come across as pushy and selfish, willing to pester a potential customer with emails and calls ad nauseam, even willing to risk the deal entirely, just to squeeze more revenue into a false construct that has no bearing on the long-term success of the company?
What motivations are pressuring sellers to strong arm buyers to the point where they are publicly shaming reps on platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn?
Why do sales teams have a quota-based compensation system in the first place? The answer is notably complex, and yet, surprisingly obvious. Just follow the money.
Most SaaS startups have a similar founding story: CEO builds a product that gets some traction, pitches StartupCo to a few VCs, and raises capital in order to scale the business. What I never understood when I was a sales rep (and heck, didn't really even understand until I actually raised our seed round… and I'm married to a VC!) is the concept of VC Math.
I could spend the next few paragraphs explaining how VCs vet the companies that they meet, but I recently read a fantastic explainer on VC Math by Homan Yuen, a former entrepreneur turned VC, that does a much better job than I could. (After you finish reading this article, I'd highly recommend you read his detailed explanation revealing the mechanics that make the below true.)
To summarize the point that Homan makes, VCs require extreme outliers in order to make money. Two examples to illustrate the point:
Scenario 1: VC invests in 20 startups at a $10M valuation. All 20 of them have moderately successful exits at between $50M-$100M. (Odds of this happening: 0.00000%)
Scenario 2: VC invests in 20 startups at a $10M valuation. 19 of them go bankrupt, but 1 of them is a huge success and exits at $5B. (Odds of this happening: ~5%)
Which scenario do you think a VC prefers? Well on the human side, having 20 CEOs that you invested in all have successful exits and make a few million dollars for their hard work seems like a great win! Unfortunately for the VC (and for founders, as it turns out), Scenario 1 leads to a poor return and decent odds that the VC might be out of a job. Sorry Ms. VC.
On the other hand, Scenario 2 leads to an incredible return of the fund and odds that the VC is heralded as the next Queen Midas!! Who cares about the 19 failed startups… you picked the big winner and that's ALL that matters in venture capital! The VC actually makes almost 4x as much money in
Scenario 2 as in Scenario 1. Counterintuitive, and yet so important in understanding why salespeople have a reputation for being pushy.
Stay with me … Let me finish connecting the dots, and you'll see how one leads directly to the other.
Let's go back to StartupCo. When that CEO initially built her product and went to raise VC money, she had to convince those investors to put their money in her company. VCs have the pick of the litter — they are pitched by thousands of founders each year and invest in a small handful. Knowing what you now know to be true about VC Math, you can understand that a VC is always thinking about two things in parallel:
What is the likelihood that StartupCo will win their market?
And even if they do win their market, can this company actually scale to $5B+ or is it "only" a $500M company?
That 2nd point is the dangerous one. In order to raise venture capital, a founder has to convince their VC that they will be able to scale a company to incredible heights. In order to do that, they need to build a financial model that shows revenue growth at a staggering pace. Founders know this is critical to getting a VC to say yes, which is why there is so much emphasis on the "TAM" (Total Addressable Market) slide. VCs only want to invest in companies that are going to be absolute monsters if they succeed, so it is part of the job of a founder to convince their VC that they are in that category. This often means presenting an inflated growth plan that is nearly impossible to hit.
Now the picture comes into focus:
VC demands outliers and crazy growth in order to invest. CEO needs money in order to scale a company.
CEO promises VC crazy revenue growth, and VC agrees to fund the company. The first-born is signed away :)
CEO now has to actually hit these crazy revenue goals, hires VP of Sales and gives them an astronomical target to hit.
VP of Sales feels pressure to hit insane numbers, quickly hires a bunch of sales reps and gives them inflated quotas with compensation plans that create even more pressure.
Reps with inflated quotas feel pressure, push that pressure onto buyers.
Buyers get annoyed with salespeople for being pushy.
That's it. That's how salespeople have gotten this reputation.
Now wait a minute! you might proclaim. What about publicly traded companies? Their sales teams pressure us, buyers, too, but they don't have VCs to appease!
True… but as you know | 1,435 |
Summary: Dykema developed a multi-channel alumni program focused on business development with the goal of maintaining sustainable relationships with departed lawyers. Its strategy included creating an alumni network on LinkedIn, producing an engaging alumni newsletter and hosting alumni events. The objectives were to achieve at least 200 members in the LinkedIn group, create a biannual newsletter to keep alumni informed of updates, and host alumni events to record over 150 registration touchpoints.
Coordinating with HR, Dykema generated a comprehensive alumni list and undertook extensive research to update contact information, recording approximately 640 updated records. It researched various alumni network directory platforms and surveyed its alumni, and determined a private LinkedIn group was the best strategy. Dykema launched the LinkedIn network via an electronic mailing that coincided with its main alumni event in May 2017. It developed Directions, a newsletter featuring alumni news, firm updates and alumni spotlight articles. The alumni spotlight interviews and articles serve as business development tools for the firm's attorneys. By interviewing alumni for the stories, Dykema's attorneys have the opportunity to get to know a client and/or prospective client, and vice versa. To connect alumni with the firm's current attorneys, Dykema organized social events throughout the country. It created branded, themed email invitations, and tracked responses through the use of Cvent.
Conducted an alumni feedback survey, revealing a private LinkedIn group was the preferred platform for an alumni directory. The LinkedIn group replaced an outdated and expensive alumni portal on Dykema.com resulting in $2,400 in cost savings.
More than 200 have joined the firm's LinkedIn Alumni Network Group.
The first edition of Directions, launched in August 2017, was distributed to more than 800 alumni via email and had the highest open rate (39 percent) of any firm mailing -- ever!
Hosted five events with a combined total of more than 165 registrants.
Generated new business from two Chicago alumni from outreach efforts, including one in the banking industry and one at a consumer products company.
Summary: The Milwaukee Business Journal's Book of Lists event theme in 2017 was Early America. Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren's booth recreated an early American tavern, and required a give-away item for each visitor. The firm's solution was to partner with a local craft brewer to develop its own "Reinhart Ale." By opting for cans with custom labels, the firm was able to create powerful branding while telling a very specific story. Reinhart Ale was also meant to highlight the firm's recently launched Craft Brewing practice area.
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren located a Milwaukee brewer called MobCraft that had recently launched a custom program. It is important to note that the firm was not looking to merely have a small logo or sticker placed on an existing label - it wanted something that looked like genuine Reinhart Ale.<|fim_middle|>.
Thompson Hine's campaign strategy was to go beyond generating interest and use unconventional messaging and design to create intrigue. The technical and rarely exercised rules of popular sports served as the lure with ads presenting exceptionally bizarre circumstances in baseball, golf, football and basketball where rulings would be in question. The answer was then offered on a page located on the firm's website. These once-in-a-blue-moon scenarios offered the perfect analogy, representing Thompson Hine's highly technical knowledge base when it comes to legal field of play. The firm's position of "experts at the technicalities" was further reinforced with schematic-like drawings depicting the sport in question. For optimal visibility, full-page color ads were placed on the inside back cover of Cleveland's leading business publication, Crain's Cleveland. Roughly 80 percent of readers hold C-level or executive positions. Thompson Hine's direction was further informed by Cleveland's exceptionally passionate fan base.
With approximately 20,000 subscribers spanning an eight-county area (of which 74 percent read three out of every four issues), Thompson Hine's target market was effectively blanketed by its Crain's Cleveland campaign in 2017. The firm's tracking platforms confirmed that its website's "answer page" was visited by hundreds of Cleveland's most reputable businesses and organizations, spanning financial, manufacturing, consumer goods, technology, media, academia, real estate, healthcare and retail. As a law firm sized in Cleveland's top four, Thompson Hine once again looked the part across a breath of vertical markets. Equally important, but hard to quantify, was the spike in employee morale generated from the campaign's consistently high visibility in a reputable publication.
Summary: Graydon rebranded in October 2016 with the vision of being "Cincinnati's most innovative and vibrant law firm." That's a strong statement for any company to aspire to, let alone a 145-year-old law firm. The new brand raised the bar in the legal industry. With a new set of standards in place, Graydon set out to bring a fresh, innovative perspective to a brand built on deep connections to clients, community and each other.
On October 3, 2016, Graydon launched a new brand and new website, and moved into new, modern offices. This provided an opportunity to hit the reset button on all marketing collateral, as everything with the old brand had to be replaced. A couple notable projects were Graydon's unique approach to business cards and a powerful recruiting video by Brandflick. The business card project presented an opportunity to bring a personal touch previously unseen in the legal industry. The cards featured different branded backs, including one with an artfully cropped portion of that employee's signature. Believing every employee should feel empowered and equipped to develop business, Graydon gave every employee, including administrative assistants, a set of business cards. Graydon engaged the company, Brandflick, to create a recruiting video with the goal of attracting talent to the firm. This recruiting tool was posted to the website and promoted on via social media.
The Graydon collateral project was imperative to bringing the Graydon brand to life. All the marketing collateral was done by high-end vendors, and no expenses were spared. The business card project was so well received that Graydon employees are routinely asked for all three branded cards – almost like collecting baseball cards. Empowering all levels of employees with the resources to embrace the aggressive business development culture, the firm has resulted in 11 new clients (including one with five figures in revenue), specifically because Graydon armed their employees with the tools to develop business. The Brandflick video was also a raging success. By numbers alone, the video was the most viewed in the history of the firm. | Once the firm selected a style of beer to be brewed for it, it turned the project over to its talented in-house graphic designer who created a custom label that captured the feel of the law firm. The design was filled with interesting detail: a scale of justice made from barley and hops, "Since 1894" referencing the longevity of the firm, and a play on an old, well-known Milwaukee brewery slogan. Most importantly, Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren was able to use the reverse side of the can for a short narrative launching its newly revised brand messaging and "Clients First" tagline. The cans were handed out at the firm's Book of Lists event booth by marketing staff wearing period costume. Reinhart Ale was a huge hit with all who attended.
This project seized on an opportunity to stretch the boundaries of creativity and execution that most law firms impose upon themselves. By leveraging an event theme, it allowed Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren to produce something memorable, effective and on-strategy while breaking free of the "run of the mill" branded items. The response was overwhelmingly positive. Representatives of the Business Journal and attendees alike gave Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren feedback that its booth — and especially the Reinhart Ale — was the hit of the event. It sparked multiple conversations about the firm and, very importantly, its Craft Brewery practice area. As an added bonus, the brewer that produced the Reinhart Ale became a client of the firm's midway through the brewing process. The firm was able to further utilize the remaining Reinhart Ale for subsequent seminars/mixers targeting the craft brewing and food and beverage industries, where it was equally well received.
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Summary: Following many years of low visibility in the marketing space, 106-year-old Thompson Hine set out to re-establish its name and brand position with a campaign of high visibility that could also drive engagement. The firm's goals were to speak directly to its Cleveland C-level constituency and general counsels, create buzz in the industry, feature its SmartPathTM project management solution, build internal pride among employees and use an awareness-building channel to drive traffic to its website | 455 |
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This paper examines the theoretical relationship between intra-cultural variation and managerial discretion. Research into the degree of discretion, or latitude of actions, has primarily focused on the individual-, organizational-, and industry-level factors, which either allow or constrain executives to take strategic actions. Despite, the recent attempt to discover the impact of national culture, mainly values, on managerial discretion, culture has been studied on an aggregate level by assuming spatial homogeneity within a country. However, recent evidences have<|fim_middle|> strong relationship between intra-cultural variation and managerial discretion. Therefore, our study contributes to the strategic management and culture literature by providing a more nuanced understanding of such relationship and most importantly by introducing a new national construct that could play an important role in the strategic decision making of business executives. | shown that intra-cultural variation could be as salient as or sometimes even more than inter-country variation, yet there has been no discussion on its potential association with managerial discretion. As such, we address this gap and investigate the relationship of this cultural aspect with managerial discretion. Using institutional, stakeholder and upper echelons theories, our study proposes a | 69 |
Atonement Film Review - 24th August 2007
I finished filming as an extra in the blockbuster movie Atonement on August 22nd 2006. I didn't realise I'd have to wait a full 12 months and 1 day to see the end result on screen. Well was it worth the wait? The answer is yes. The movie has the meticulous detail you would expect from a director of Joe Wright's calibre.
Richard Brooks (writing in the Sunday Times) said he would be amazed if the jury finds a better film than Atonement to take first place at the Venice film<|fim_middle|> Gala performance at Hartlepool, last night. Pam Ainsley (the Atonement photographer) was also present and she was extremely impressed with the production. I'm sure it will help her Atonement book sales next month.
I will definitely see it again, this time at the Regent Cinema in Redcar, where the building is one of the cornerstones of the great set.
And finally did I see myself? Well possibly, the jury's still out, until I get my hands on the DVD next year. Enjoy it. | festival on August 29th. He said, "I cannot think of a better British movie in years. Unlike most of our home-grown efforts, it is big scale, yet intimate when it needs to be."
I would agree. The story unfolds and the audience is drawn into the plot from the start. It begins in pre-war England in a large country house with James McAvoy's character (Robbie Turner) being wrongly accused of rape and being imprisoned and thus separated from Keira Knightley. He is released from prison on condition he joins the army.
This is a love story and more, with the back drop of the Second World War. Although it is not a war film as such, the scenes of the Dunkirk evacuation are some of the best of their type ever executed in cinema history.
The scene that everyone locally will be waiting to see is towards the end of the film. Joe Wright shot the Dunkirk scene in Redcar in one complete take, with no edits. It looks amazing, maybe being part of it made me slightly biased, but the human tableau that McAvoy's character walks through engulfs your senses and I can't wait to see it again. My only regret is that it wasn't longer.
Apart from this, Atonement doesn't disappoint in any department, the acting is first class and the story is engaging and I certainly didn't guess the ending. I was lucky enough to be one of the 150 people to see a | 303 |
Postgres searchable release notes—one page with all versions
By Greg Sabino Mullane
The inability to easily search the Postgres release notes has been a long-standing annoyance of mine, and a recent thread on the pgsql-general mailing list showed that others share the same frustration. One common example when a new client comes to End Point with a mysterious Postgres problem. Since it is rare that a client is running the latest Postgres revision (sad but true), the first order of business is to walk through all the revisions to see if a simple Postgres update will cure the problem. Currently<|fim_middle|> be of use to others. It's a very large page, but not remarkably wasteful of space, like many HTML pages these days. Perhaps some of the changes will make their way to the official docs over time.
database postgres | , the release notes are arranged on the postgresql.org web site as a series of individual HTML pages, one per version. Reading through them can be very painful—especially if you are trying to search for a specific item. I whipped up a Perl script to gather all of the information, reformat it, clean it up, and summarize everything on one giant HTML page. This is the result: https://bucardo.org/postgres_all_versions.html
Please feel free to use this page however you like. It will be updated as new versions are released. You may notice there are some differences from the original separate pages:
All 270 versions are now on a single page. Create a local greppable version with: links -dump https://bucardo.org/postgres_all_versions.html > postgres_all_versions.txt
All version numbers are written clearly. The confusing "E.x.y" notation was stripped out
A table of contents at the top allows for jumping to each version (which has the release date next to it).
Every bulleted feature has the version number written right before it, so you never have to scroll up or down to see what version you are currently reading.
If a feature was applied to more than one version, all the versions are listed (the current version always appears first).
All CVE references are hyperlinks now.
All "mailtos" were removed, and other minor cleanups.
Replaced single-word names with the full names (e.g. "Massimo Dal Zotto" instead of "Massimo") (see below)
Here's a screenshot showing the bottom of the table of contents, and some of the items for Postgres 9.4:
The name replacements took the most time, as some required a good bit of detective work. Most were unambiguous: "Tom" became "Tom Lane", "Bruce" became "Bruce Momjian", and so on. For the final document, 3781 name replacements were performed! Some of the trickier ones were "Greg"—both myself ("Greg Sabino Mullane") and "Greg Stark" had single-name entries. Similar problems popped up with "Ryan", and with "Peter" not being the familiar Peter Eisentraut (but Peter T. Mount) threw me off for a second. The only one I was never able to figure out was "Clark", who is attributed (via Bruce) with "Fix tutorial code" in version 6.5. Pointers or corrections welcome.
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Advanced Cryo<|fim_middle|>: Wisconsin's leadership on cryo-EM imaging | -EM reveals viral RNA replication complex structure in stunning detail
by Mariel Mohns | July 20, 2020
Paul Ahlquist
For the first time, scientists at the Morgridge Institute for Research have generated near atomic resolution images of a major viral protein complex responsible for replicating the RNA genome of a member of the positive-strand RNA viruses, the large class of viruses that includes coronaviruses and many other pathogens.
The results should aid development of new types of antivirals and provide mechanistic insights into the virus life cycle.
"The rapidly advancing ability to visualize such crucial structures is game changing," says Paul Ahlquist, director of the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Center for Virology Research at the Morgridge Institute and professor of oncology and molecular virology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Other authors of the study included Nuruddin Unchwaniwala, Hong Zhan, Janice Pennington, Mark Horswill and Johan den Boon.
Using an advanced technique called cryoelectron microscope (cryo-EM) tomography, Ahlquist and his team built upon their previous work, which first revealed the existence of this crown-like viral RNA replication complex.
The new research, published July 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), shows the replication crown complex at a dramatically improved resolution of approximately 8.5 angstroms, which corresponds to the spacing of a few atoms.
"Cryo-EM has recently gone through a quantum leap in its capabilities," Ahlquist says. "In this study our research group combined multiple advances to greatly improve sample preparation, image acquisition and image processing, and to map the position of specific protein domains in the complex."
Advanced Cryo-EM imaging shows an approximate fourfold increase in resolution from prior imaging, revealing the three major subdomains that make up the viral RNA replication crown complex.
The positive-strand RNA viruses addressed in this work are the largest of six genetic classes of viruses and include many important pathogens such as the Zika, dengue and chikungunya viruses, as well as coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-2, cause of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
In each positive-strand RNA virus, most of the viral genes are devoted to a single process: replicating the viral RNA genome.
"Given this massive investment of resources, viral RNA genome replication is arguably one of the most important processes in infection, and It is already a major target for virus control," Ahlquist says.
Within an infected cell, viral RNA replication occurs at modified cellular membranes, often in association with spherules, virus-induced vesicles approximately 50–100 nanometers in size. Ahlquist and his team previously showed that in each such genome replication complex, a copy of the viral RNA genome or chromosome is protected inside the spherule vesicle to function as a replication template. The replication complex repeatedly copies this archival viral RNA chromosome to produce new progeny genomes that are released through a membranous neck on the vesicle into the cytoplasm, where they are incorporated as the payload of new infectious virions.
This prior work further showed that the key viral protein that induces the replication vesicles and copies the viral RNA resides in a striking ring or crown structure that sits atop the cytoplasmic side of the spherule neck that connects with the cytoplasm.
The new higher resolution cryo-EM images and complementary results show that the crown is composed of twelve copies of the key viral RNA replication protein arranged like staves in a barrel. Additionally, the images revealed zipper-like interactions that act like hoops on a barrel to join adjacent segments together to form the ring-like crown. These zippering interactions correspond well with multimerizing interactions that the Ahlquist group has previously mapped in this protein.
The twelve copies of the viral RNA replication protein are arranged in a ring like staves in a barrel. The inset shows mapped domains, with polymerase oriented at the C-terminus end positioned at the apex of the crown.
The viral RNA replication protein that forms the crown is an extremely large, multi-domain, multi-functional protein,nearly 1000 amino acids in size. This protein contains RNA polymerase and RNA capping domains— two enzymatic domains that are conserved across numerous positive-strand RNA viruses for synthesizing new viral genome copies—plus other domains for multimerizing, binding membranes and other functions.
How these domains are physically organized in the crown structure is one of the most important issues for understanding how the replication complex functions, and was one of several strong motivations for defining the high-resolution crown structure.
Using an approach that combined a genetically engineered, site-specific tag with labeling by nanoscale gold particles visible in cryo-EM, the researchers found that the C-terminal polymerase end of the viral RNA replication protein is positioned at the apex of the crown, leaving the N-terminal capping domain at the bottom of the structure to interact with the membrane.
This apical position of the polymerase has important mechanistic implications for early steps in the replication process that recruit the starting viral RNA template into the complex and form the replication vesicle, as well as for later steps in which the template is copied to make new progeny genomes to be packaged into infectious virus particles. These results provide a strong foundation for further experiments to define the replication complex structure and function at even higher levels.
"We hope to continue to improve the RNA replication complex crown structure to provide additional important refinements in future," Ahlquist says. "We also hope to address growing indications from our work that conformational changes in these proteins are critical to their multiple functions."
"Such advances will reveal in increasing detail how these complexes assemble and operate, and thus how they might be best attacked," he adds. "These insights should provide the basis for novel, stronger antiviral mechanisms."
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"Forest School" is based on a Scandinavian idea that considers children's contact with nature to be extremely important from an early age. A study trip from Somerset to Denmark in 1995 decided that the approach was appropriate for use in Britain. Since then Forest School has spread to many areas as educationalists have witnessed the impact that it can have on children.
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All website content copyright © Rowandale Integrated Primary School | classes in Rowandale complete one Forest School lesson in Moira Demesne each half term.
Characteristics of Forest School
The setting is rigorously checked before every session.
Clear boundaries are established for the children to stay within.
Learning can be linked to the National Curriculum
By incorporating innovative approaches to learning (such as undertaking small and easily achievable tasks) children are encouraged to develop their curiosity and motivation to learn. This is particularly important for those who find it difficult to assimilate knowledge in a strictly classroom situation.
Multisensory
The freedom to explore using multiple senses is fundamental for encouraging creative, diverse and imaginative play.
The focus is on the "whole child" (not just their academic ability).
Regular contact
Regular contact for the children over a period of time (e.g. all year round, in all weathers).
Adult supervision
A high adult to pupil ratio that allows for children to undertake tasks and play activities that challenge them but do not put them at undue risk of harm.
It also allows practitioners quickly to get to know the individual learning styles, abilities and characteristics of the children in their charge.
Forest School sessions are led by qualified Forest School Leaders with a recognised Level 3 Forest School Award.
Risk Taking
Children are encouraged to undertake an element of risk.
Benefits of Forest School
The benefits of Forest Schools for children and society are well documented.
Increased confidence and independence of the child.
Development of their language skills by providing a real context for language.
Ability to take risks and to become more open to new experiences.
The forest school program evolves from the needs of the child and includes the child's interests.
Provides the practitioner with an alternative view of the child and further insights into a child's development.
Beneficial to a child's all-round development, particularly in the areas of personal, social and emotional, language and communication.
Underpins the principles laid down in the foundation stage guidelines.
The forest school experience has been very well received by all those involved in it.
Provides opportunities for the children to take risks, problem solve and use thinking skills.
Complements learning in the classroom and can be transferred.
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"This is one of the few projects that truly integrates all elements of the revised curriculum. It incorporates aspects of history, geography and science, delivers an opportunity to develop thinking skills and personal capabilities, and has a strong emphasis on promoting numeracy and literacy. Even more importantly than this, the initiative connects children to their outdoor environment, stimulating curiosity and inspiring a love of the natural world that is likely to remain long after the end of primary school. Teachers participating | 545 |
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UNM doctor, writer dives into Rio Arriba for online literary journal
By Mark Oswald / Journal Staff Writer
Published: Friday, November 27th, 2015 at 12:02am
Updated: Sunday, December 6th, 2015 at 9:04pm
Dr. Ben Daitz
SANTA FE, N.M. — Dr. Ben Daitz, a professor of medicine at the University of New Mexico, has written a beautiful and sad love letter to Rio Arriba County and the weekly newspaper that chronicles its history for Eclectica, one of the longest-running online magazines.
In the latest edition of the quarterly literary publication, Daitz describes first coming to Rio Arriba to help out at a Tierra Amarilla clinic when he was a young med school faculty member at UNM. The piece by Daitz, also a novelist, documentary filmmaker and contributor to the New York<|fim_middle|> is located next to the state's most affluent county, Los Alamos, adding: "The fact that neighboring counties can have such great health disparities is further proof of the differences that race, income, education, and geography make – that your zip code may be as important as your genetic code."
Check out the full article at eclectica.org. | Times, is called "Rio Arriba Journal: A County, its Health, and its Newspaper."
Daitz tells about a middle-of-the-night encounter with no less than Emilio Naranjo – the legendary Rio Arriba patrón whose various roles in the political life of the county included state senator, Democratic Party chairman, county manager and, when Daitz first met him, county sheriff.
Naranjo knocks on Daitz's door about 1 a.m. and asks, "Did they tell you you're also the medical examiner for the county?", then proceeds to take Daitz on a two-hour ride descending through canyons to find a frozen-stiff, snow-covered man's body "with a bullet hole right in the middle of his forehead." Naranjo, with a chuckle, asks Daitz if the man is dead.
Emilio Naranjo, the northern New Mexico political powerhouse who died in 2008, is shown here during his tenure as Rio Arriba County sheriff in the 1960s and 1970s. As sheriff, Naranjo provided a window into Rio Arriba for the author of an article recently published in the online literary journal Eclectica.
"I remember thinking I'd never seen anybody more dead – but I figured Sheriff Emilio Naranjo probably had," Daitz writes. The next night, Naranjo hauled Daitz to the scene of a midnight bar shooting.
That's the starting point for an essay on a huge county with "hard-working farmers, ranchers and tradespeople," vintage low-riders and a host of problems that amount to "an infectious disease" for many patients "worn down by poverty, racism, depression and violence."
"Northern New Mexico has remained a frontier – an isolated, beautiful, but hard land that seems visually and palpably unique. Historically, people who live on frontiers often endure poverty and stress; there tends to be more alcohol and drug use … and violence," Daitz writes. He recalls treating a heroin abscess "square in the belly of a tattooed Virgin of Guadalupe on a patient's forearm."
It was by reading the award-winning, muckracking Rio Grande Sun that he came to know that incidents like those he encountered during his first two nights with Naranjo were routine and that, "for a rural community that I both loved and lived in, the Sun's police blotter was a weekly study in social dysfunction."
"I soon realized that I was reading about a pattern – the signs and symptoms of an endemic health problem, reported not by the medical community, nor the county and state governments, but by a community newspaper."
Daitz praises the Sun for staying on the case, annually summarizing overdose deaths in detail and reporting on the mismanagement of rehab programs and "the lack of community leadership, vision and jobs, and the paucity of social support systems."
Daitz believes "good community journalism provides an important cultural context, a social history of place and people, a backstory that can help in assessing a community's health."
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Vapourer moth caterpillar - why are you wearing those ridiculous shaving brushes?
Elephant hawk moth caterpillar - Oops!
Pale tussock moth caterpillar - dig that dude!
Caterpillars (the larvae of moths and butterflies) come in the most wacky guises, unlikely shapes and colours. Three of the images show caterpillars of the Vapourer, the Pale Tussock and Elephant Hawk moths. These are all relatively common moth species, which might well live in your back garden, but how often do you come across them at any stage of their lifecycle?
The Vapourer and Pale Tussock caterpillars look for all the world like punk rockers plucked from the King's Road in the late 1970s. The Elephant Hawk caterpillar is far more effectively camouflaged and despite its large size is much harder to spot.
So why have these different species evolved in such drastically different ways and how do they stay one step ahead of their predators?
These creatures may fall victim to any one of a large variety of predators - from birds, reptiles and small mammals to spiders, wasps, ichneumon flies, ants and lacewings.
Camouflage is one of the most effective and obvious techniques to avoid detection, but bear in mind that many of the above-mentioned creepies are able to locate their victims by pheromone smell detection, so camouflage alone is not an adequate defence. This begins to explain why the first two larvae are 'dressed' so eccentrically as they clearly use a different method of defence.
Insects like ichneumon flies and wasps inject their eggs into their prey, which after hatching, eat their victims alive from inside - nice! Spiders inject venom into their victims to paralyse them. What a choice!
If you are a caterpillar with a very dense growth of hair it will be much harder for a predator to penetrate it and attack you. Another trick up your sleeve (or fur coat) is to have glands which secrete toxins on to your hairy exterior that will cause severe irritation to anyone who tries to mess with you. Some of these toxins can even cause acute allergic reactions in humans. Alternatively it helps to be highly coloured as this is a universal sign in nature that you are extremely unpalatable, although having said that you can double-bluff your prey by being brightly coloured and not poisonous! Being very hairy and having strange 'shaving brush' like structures sticking up in the middle of your back are helpful to you if you happen to be casting a shadow in strong sun light thus revealing your profile for all to see. Your shadow will be greatly defused by your hairiness and your shaving brushes will probably confuse your prey sufficiently that he won't suspect that you are his lunch at all!
If these tactics seem slightly eccentric, how about mimicking a piece of bird poo, as the larva of the Comma butterfly does! The Elephant Hawk caterpillar is able to inflate its front end which has realistic eye markings, giving it the appearance of a scary serpent, inflicting the need for an immediate change of underpants on any unsuspecting, hungry bird.
The more I study insects the more I am inspired by the innate genius of natural selection and its infinite adaptations within the insect kingdom. Just stand still and look closely at a hedgerow in spring or summer (preferably one that hasn't been 'nuked' with herbicide and or pesticide.) It is a hive of activity, attracting all sorts of creatures: bees, wasps, flies, beetles, bugs, grasshoppers and crickets all going about their business<|fim_middle|> defending territory. Some creatures even go to the trouble of pretending to be somebody else: like a fly mimicking a wasp as a method of self-defence.
The more you look, the more you will see! | of basking, feeding, nectar-gathering, hunting, mating and establishing or | 17 |
Big & Rich Are 'Lovin' Lately'
Country duo Big & Rich are preparing for their 2016 summer tour. In anticipation of the tour, they recently released their latest single and video for the song 'Lovin' Lately.' The guys talk about going on the road, being a successful duo, songwriting, and working with Tim McGraw.
While they tour year round, the duo spends the summer months performing at the outdoor venues. With stops at festivals like the Taste of Country Festival in New York and the Faster Horses Festival in Michigan, Big Kenny says Big & Rich and outdoor festivals go together like "sunshine and blue skies." John said when it comes to touring and they get a call for a show they are pumped because they've worked their whole career to build that audience and "when they give you the call and want you to show up, man it's always an honor."
When it comes to songwriting, John says, "We've written, between the two of us, several thousand songs and you can only put eleven or twelve songs on a record. So what do you do with all these other songs? Over the years artists have come and asked 'hey you got any songs that would fit my sound?'" They've had songs recorded by artists like Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Gret<|fim_middle|> he ended up losing. He went back to his hotel room, sat down on the edge of the bed, and went to take his boots off when the heel came right off the bottom. Kenny said he lay down on the bed and asked, "What next Lord?"
Within thirty minutes he came up with, "I'm down to my last dollar. I've walked right through my shoes, a friendly small reminder of all the hell that I've been through, but look at me still smiling cause I'm wondering what I'll do. But since I ain't got nothin' I've got nothing to lose, so one, two, three like a bird I sing, cause you've given me such a beautiful set of wings." That was in 2002, but two years later Big & Rich were recording and McGraw happened to hear 'Last Dollar' and he asked "You gonna let me cut that?" In 2007 it was the lead single off Tim's album and went to number one. Kenny said he loves that story and "I will never get tired of telling it. It's an absolute blessing."
Their current single, 'Lovin' Lately,' features their friend McGraw. Big & Rich toured with him back in the early 2000's and Big Kenny said "he really helped break us to his entire audience. He helped break Big & Rich to the world. It's so awesome to have that come full circle." John said they have a great friendship with Tim to be able to record a song like 'Lovin' Lately' and get it on the radio. To see the fan reaction to the song is "a high five every time we get around Tim."
"Duos are probably the toughest act combination you can have." Unlike duos, bands can have a minority and a majority. "Duos on the other hand, especially when you are like Big & Rich and you have two really distinct personalities, if we don't both agree on it, it generally doesn't happen. Or if we both agree on it, it happens no matter what anyone says." They heard a lot of people say they would never play 'Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy' because "that is not country music and we will not play it." It is country music to them, and the fact that they are so like-minded about their music really helped them to be successful. Big Kenny said of being a duo, "It's just more fun, it makes it even richer, it makes the music even deeper. It's just fun to be on stage together. I can't tell you how many times I've looked forward to hitting that stage and how many times we've come off of it both of us looking at each other just drenched, wet, worn out and just knowing we had the biggest time we could possibly have and everyone at the show did too."
Big & Rich is going to be busy this summer touring. If you haven't already be sure to check out their single 'Lovin' Lately' feat. Tim McGraw.
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A favorite songwriting memory for John was one night John and Kenny were out at a bar in Nashville and the bartender got up on stage and sang. "Can you believe this girl's voice?" That bartender ended up being Gretchen Wilson and the two became good friends with her. John went on to co-write 'Redneck Woman' with Gretchen and later, the three of them co-wrote 'Here For the Party.'
For Big Kenny, his favorite songwriting memory came when he was in Vegas for New Years. He was down to his last couple of hundred dollars before heading back to Nashville, and he went to play blackjack. After being up for ten rounds in a row, | 145 |
First, I'm in love with the details on these Sung by Alfred Sung ankle boots. The gold strip on the heel immediately<|fim_middle|>?
Ooh I love them all! I've been on the lookout for new winter boots and the second and third pair would be perfect. Thusbus for sharing these ❤ great post love! | caught my eye and I knew I had to have them! The thing I love most about a classic black ankle boot is that they are just SO wearable with just about anything. These particular ones have the perfect heel height in my opinion, so they are more conducive to long-term wear. You can style them with a casual skinny jean or dress them up with tights and a dress – and they always look great!
The next boot I added to my collection is this Kodiak Fleece Boot which is perfect for anyone who loves the outdoors! When I think "fall" I also think about long walks or hikes in chilly air, and generally spending time in the great outdoors! Now, I will say I'm definitely not the MOST outdoorsy type of person when it's cold outside – I do appreciate it from time to time! – but I love that these boots are not only warm and practical, they are also really cute! The two-toned leather and suede exterior really drew my attention to this particular pair. They are also completely waterproof and VERY comfortable. Big pluses for fall and winter weather!
Finally, I introduce to you the warmest boot of the bunch: the Bridgette HD2 Mid-Cut Boot. Although this type of boot would be more closely associated with the winter season (which is fast approaching, mind you!) if you live in Canada, you will probably be needing a warmer boot even in our so-called "fall" as well. I actually have never owned a pair of boots like this before, and I can honestly say I love how they look and feel! Although quite casual, they can easily be worn with something a bit dressy (especially to get you from point A to point B without freezing your toes in the process!). They also have a buckle which allows you to adjust the fit, and are water resistant and very breathable.
I love fashion that is easily extendable into new seasons, and I think these styles (clothing and footwear!) are just that for fall and winter! What are your favourite fall fashion staples | 414 |
For anyone who's ever seen the Los Angeles based singer Jonneine Zapata play a live show, her<|fim_middle|> repetitious songs seem to be just enough to get Zapata's concepts across and allowing for the occasionally stagnant track.
What eventually makes Cast The Demons Out so fascinating is precisely what its title commands: the end of the record is hopeful, seeming to indicate that the emotional journey therein has been successful rather than simply self-indulgent brooding. "And the winter is a beast/rest is what we need/come again, spring/with a new family…" leads us to believe that all the fighting with these particular demons was worth it. This time around, the tone was bleak and cold, very much an album for the winter months. But spring is around the corner, and whether Zapata handles that as eloquently as she handled the gloominess before it will undoubtedly decide her future as either a good singer/songwriter or a great one. | presence can be daunting. As if she's channeling the very ghost of Jim Morrison, she has a stare that will cut through an audience as she plays with an intensity that is noticeable from the beginning and that lasts right up to the final notes of the performance. This goes hand in hand with the kind of music she writes and plays, and her debut album Cast The Demons Out, an intensive, bluesy cycle of songs, each of which seem to be an attempt at casting out the aforementioned demons.
Zapata opens the record with an adjuration for love, and a later admission of "I'm good looking, you're good looking, what are we gonna do?" over tight drums and a quiet electric guitar. The instrumentals are sparse but don't feel incomplete, and the themes of betrayal, insecurity and sadness as well as attempts to confront and address these things line up with the tones of the minimal percussion, withdrawn guitars and pleading vocals. The easy comparison here is PJ Harvey, more so for the visceral songwriting and smoky vocals than the actual construction of the songs.
The album is consistent throughout, what you hear from the beginning is what you get all the way through to the bonus track at the end of the record: Zapata's gorgeous singing lead by a strong-willed guitar. For a moment it almost teeters on the edge of being too slow and drab, the momentum comes to a stand-still just over half way through on the trifling "Bandit" and towards the end on the elongated "Cowboy", but it recaptures its husky spirit on "Out In The Woods" before it's finished. Eleven mostly | 337 |
When they saw the star, they<|fim_middle|>MAS! | rejoiced with exceeding joy. Mathew 2:10 (KJV) Fans of Doug Anderson know his favorite pastimes are making harmony and banging out on the back porch with family and friends. As a matter of fact, this is a weekly occurrence at the Anderson home in Lapel, Indiana. Many times neighbors are encouraged to bring their families (as well as their musical instruments) and before long, a neighborhood concert breaks out. This local phenomenon launched a recording and even a national tour appropriately titled the Back Porch Sessions. When plans for a recording of Christmas music were being made, Doug immediately knew he wanted to create an atmosphere of celebration and community. So he invited some of his best friends (and favorite singers) to come join the party. Country powerhouse band, 4th & Main joins Doug for this once-in-a-lifetime recording by providing the backing vocals for this homespun effort. Back Porch Christmas manifests every emotion tied to this holiest of holidays from the tender Peace On Earth, to the classic Ill Be Home For Christmas, the fun-filled title cut to the new Gaither composition, The Manger and the Cross, so grab a guitar, call some friends and sing along with Doug and the guys. Fa La Lalets have a BACK PORCH CHRIST | 259 |
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On this stellar new double album, journey<|fim_middle|> underground co-ed school of rock. The sound is shimmering, layered and ragged–resigned to dark unrelenting forces but ultimately redeemed by spirit and light. In Joseph's words: "My point was not to write 'war' songs. I wanted to write about magic and God and humans being human." Recorded at TRI Studios, produced by Dave Schools (J Mascis and the Fog, Hard Working Americans, Stockholm Syndrome), mixed by Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Wilco), mastered by Don Fury and featuring Joseph's full band (Steve Drizos on drums, Steven James Wright on bass and Jeff Crosby on guitar) plus special guests. | man songwriter and performer Jerry Joseph delves into some of the most challenging territory of his 30+ year career. The songs were penned in Paris, Ireland and during or shortly after Joseph's recent trip to Afghanistan, where he volunteered as a music teacher at an | 53 |
In<|fim_middle|>, and a great Italian painter (Artemisia Gentileschi), among others. Of course, the stories of these women come down to us because they were exceptional, and most women lived lives that left few if any records.
But we could say that the early modern world was reeling from vast changes in the global economy, international politics, technology, and social structures. For most women, personal opportunities were severely constrained. But some were able to take advantage of the changes to fashion new roles, and often to accomplish remarkable things. Most of the women I profile fit into this category.
Chapter 16: "A great many people were on the move in 1616," you write. We meet tourists, ambassadors, merchants, slaves, and others whose lives straddle boundaries of nation and culture. What was the impact of all this travel? How can individual stories illuminate a global history?
Christensen: There are a lot of ways to "do history." I'm a great admirer of researchers who are able to collect new data and analyze it to draw conclusions about distant times. But history began as storytelling, and people everywhere seem to have an innate predilection for narrative. We learn with stories and shape our understanding of the world through them. We talked earlier about object-oriented history. The stories of individual people are like that on the level of narrative. They are particular cases that stand as specimens of life in their time.
Of course, it's worth remembering that the stories that have come down to us are those of individuals who were exceptional in some way. History is also made by those who remain nameless, or who are little more than names to us. In some ways they are the most important. But my book is inevitably skewed to those who were exceptional, and their stories can be inspiring, unsettling, and enlightening.
Historians call the early seventeenth century the "early modern" age. Its dynamics set the course for the world we know. All this travel made the world both larger and smaller. People were forced to have a greater awareness of distant peoples and places. New connections caused new understandings, and new misunderstandings. But the world also shrank. The shadowy fantastic fringe that had been thought the home of unicorns, dwarves, two-headed people, and other marvels shriveled in the light of experience. The whole world was becoming mapped and known.
Aram Goudsouzian chairs the history department at the University of Memphis. His most recent book is Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear.
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See More from Aram Goudsouzian | 1616 Thomas Christensen collects enchanting stories and striking art to describe a world in motion
By Aram Goudsouzian | April 15, 2016
Reading 1616: The World in Motion is like feasting at a banquet in an old, lavish castle—you get overwhelmed by all the delights. In it, Thomas Christensen uses one year to frame a rich series of narratives about a new, more modern world. He writes of a developing global economy, of changing roles for women and artists, and of travelers who connect Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Packed with illustrations selected and arranged by the author, the book is visually lush and full of surprises.
The accomplished historian, editor, translator, and illustrator recently answered questions via email from Chapter 16 in advance of two Memphis events. Christensen will deliver the keynote address of the 1616 Symposium at Rhodes College, when scholars from across the liberal arts will explore the global developments that occurred in the same year that William Shakespeare died. He will also speak at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library in connection with Bookstock 2016:
Chapter 16: Why focus on 1616? At first glance the year does not have the iconic resonance of, say, 1492 or 1968.
Thomas Christensen: The year chose me. I woke up one morning with that date in my head and the resolution to write about it already formed. After publishing 1616 I toyed with doing a follow-up on another year, but it just wasn't the same.
In years with decisive events like the ones you mention, those events tend to be so overwhelming that they color everything, and it is hard to see beyond them. Those are hinge years, but their great events are nearly always the result of forces that had been building up in previous years. There are plenty of momentous events in 1616, but none that overwhelms the narrative. It's a good year to see what is going on globally during this period of history.
Looking at things in isolation, our knowledge can get siloed. We might read Shakespeare, for example, but have only a dim understanding of events in the Americas, Central and West Asia, or East Asia that informed his work and his world. There's a reason his company chose "The Globe" as the name of their theater: the world was newly global, and many people were keenly aware of that. Focusing on a single year helped me to keep a global perspective.
And the year 1616 is full of great stories. It was a time of unsettling change. With the new maritime globalism connecting far-flung places, there were many marvelous encounters and discoveries. It was a bold and extravagant time, marked by grand gestures. It turned out to be a Goldilocks year for me: not too early, not too late, just right.
Chapter 16: Although you explore important themes in global history, this book seems less driven by a thesis than by your own curiosity and enthusiasm for stories. Is that a fair characterization?
Christensen: Yes, that is fair. This is not a particularly didactic or argumentative work. I happily confess to "curiosity and enthusiasm." That said, the main point that I think emerges from the book and all of its stories is that the world of 1616 was a highly connected one: global connectivity was greater than is often realized or acknowledged. Most of the stories in the book underscore this theme.
I started by collecting the stories. I tried to use the best sources and to bring something new to each of the stories. At one point I had a twelve-chapter plan that revolved around one event from each month of the year. But the stories resisted that. They called for fewer topics that would allow more amplitude to each. They sorted themselves into the five of the final book: the silver-and-silk economy, the changing roles of women, new directions in the visual arts, emerging science, travel and cross-cultural exchange. I wanted to give the flavor of the time. It was a world, like ours, that was recoiling from the shock of the new, while also setting off in brave and unprecedented directions. It was a world in motion.
Chapter 16: Art is central to 1616: A World in Motion. You describe an ascending generation of artists who embrace the role of social critic, and you use a huge array of gorgeous, intriguing, and/or quirky historical images. What can art reveal to the historian?
Christensen: Having worked for many years at an art museum, I'm a believer in object-oriented history. So much about a particular place and time can be learned from just looking closely at a single object. Gradually a sense of the moment unfolds, and connections ripple outward.
Certainly the way that we see things changes over time. Still, a historical object can offer a very nearly unmediated presence of its moment. In itself it's a tangible thing, unlayered by prior interpretations. Of course you want to be informed about the context of the objects you're looking at, but there is also a level on which you respond directly, not dependent on the interpretations of others and not, in many cases, hindered by language differences that can impede you when working with texts. Images also punctuate and bring relief to what would otherwise be a rather unrelenting narrative.
Chapter 16: You illustrate the rise of a true network of global trade during this era, centered in some respects around the city of Acapulco, Mexico. Why Acapulco?
Christensen: Early modern maritime globalism relied on enormous vessels called galleons. These great ships weighed one to two thousand tons. The galleons, departing from Acapulco, carried silver from the Americas—in the form of Spanish dollars, the model for our own currency—to Manila in the Philippines. From there the silver was taken to China, where it was used as the official currency of the late Ming dynasty. In exchange, luxury goods, especially silks, were returned to the Americas, to Acapulco. From there most of the goods were transported across Mexico to Veracruz to be taken to markets in Europe.
Because these ships were so large, there were few ports capable of accepting them. Acapulco was considered one of the best because the land drops off so sharply that the port waters were deep enough for the galleons to approach quite close to shore. Also, Acapulco bay is sheltered, protected from storms and defensible against pirates.
The galleon trade was strictly regulated by the Spanish crown. To keep a close eye on that trade the authorities made it illegal to use any other port than Acapulco for the trans-Pacific trade. It's pretty hard to hide a galleon, so the sea captains were obliged to comply. The global economy was based on silver, and eighty percent of it came from the Americas. Acapulco by all accounts was a pretty miserable place, and yet it was one of the most important spots in the world, because the bulk of the world's wealth passed through it.
Chapter 16: You profile women of many stations and backgrounds, from rulers to prostitutes to witches. What, if anything, unites their experiences?
Christensen: Take another year: we might ask, what unites women's experiences in 2016? It's difficult to generalize about such a large number of people in such a variety of circumstances. What I do in the book is look at a kind of cross-section: a Native American "princess," some English royal ladies, a Puritan woman, a French midwife, a Mughal queen, prostitutes in Edo and elsewhere, various women accused of witchcraft, a carousing Londoner known as the Roaring Girl, a Basque woman who passed as a man and served in combat | 1,647 |
Innovation Awards 2018:<|fim_middle|> the Norte2020 – Regional Operational Program of the North, and the European Union, through the European Regional Development Fund. | CCG promotes entrepreneurship and creativity in national companies
The Center for Computer Graphics (CCG) is promoting entrepreneurship, creativity and national entrepreneurial innovation with two prizes:
Innovative Product Award
Innovative Idea Award
As part of the actions to celebrate the 25 years of the CCG, and in the context of transferring scientific and technological knowledge to the business sectors, these prizes are aimed at Portuguese startups.
The window of entries in the two innovation awards closes on November 8, 2018. Applications are made online.
The Innovative Product Award wants to recognize national business innovation by rewarding and promoting companies that have developed and introduced an innovative product or service in the areas of Research and Technological Development in which the CCG operates.
The winner will receive the "Innovative Product 2018" award and a set of 50 hours of technical consulting, by the CCG, to be used in a period of 12 months.
The Innovative Idea Award aims to foster entrepreneurship, creativity and national innovation.
This prize is intended for Portuguese startups under 3 years old who have an idea, prototype or MVP (minimum viable product) of a product or service, within Communication and Electronic Information Technologies, in the fields of applied research of the CCG.
With the 2018 Innovative Idea Prize, the three best-ranked applications will be awarded. The first will receive € 3,000 and 30 hours of technical consulting; the second € 2,000 and 30 hours of consulting; the third € 1,000 and 30 hours of consulting.
CCG Innovation Awards 2018
The presentation of the winners and the delivery of the prizes will take place November 23, 2018, in time of the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of CCG – Center of Computer Graphics.
The Innovative Idea 2018 and Innovative Product 2018 awards, promoted by the CCG, are co-financed by | 419 |
Here are two great places to gather with your friends for an afternoon of Super Bowl fun that can easily roll into the late post-win hours!
The Fitzroy is a sprawling sports bar on the Plateau that's perfect for events like the Super Bowl. This year the guys have planned a great menu and a few surprises exclusively for Super Bowl Sunday. For $40 dollars you have access to an all you can eat buffet, 2 pints and 2 chances to win a great prize during the evening. Event starts at 6:30pm. Check out the Facebook event here for more!
If you're on the North Shore and you don't want to stray too far from home<|fim_middle|>, a wings pyramid, a cheese fountain, nachos and so much more food! You also have your name entered in two draws during the evening. Get all your details right here!
IF STAYING IN IS MORE YOUR THING CLICK HERE FOR SOME PRETTY GREAT FOOD RECOMMENDATIONS! | , General Sherman proposes you pay them a visit on Super Bowl Sunday! Starting at 6:00pm and for only $20 you have access to an all you can eat buffet | 38 |
Currently in a phase of expansion following its recent acquisition by a large multinational organisation, our client is a successful next generation medical device technology company. Due to recent breakthroughs and a burgeoning project portfolio, the organisation is looking to recruit a talented R&D Engineer with a specialty in Mechatronics.
Developing, improving and extending the company's existing technology and intellectual property portfolio.
Get a full grasp of the clinical needs and understand the disease state, keeping up-to-date with the latest in medical devices and technoloiges.
Design, build and operate computer controlled electro-mechanical test equipment.
Draft, review and execute technical procedures and reports.
Identify and contact vendors to acquire materials and equipment.
Subscribe to personal development and continuous improvement opportunities, building technical skillsets.
An engineering<|fim_middle|> is required.
To find out more about this opportunity apply online or call Aidan Toner directly for a confidential chat on +353 91 782110. | or scientific Bachelor's degree or higher in relevant discipline with a focus particulartu on electronics and mechanical theory.
A drive to complete tasks as part of a team but also independantly as required, is a must.
A knowledge of SolidWorks, CAD, MatLab, Labview and MS Office.
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Miss Piggy's Bo Derek look
Christine Cooper (ca. 1949-2008[1]) worked with the New York Muppet Workshop. By 1980, was the official hairstylist to Miss Piggy. She received screen credit for the task in The Great Muppet Caper and The<|fim_middle|>Pig Tales." People. Feb. 25, 1980
Retrieved from "https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Christine_Cooper?oldid=1141643" | Muppets Take Manhattan. She was also credited with the Muppet designers on the special The Muppets Go Hollywood.
One of Cooper's creations was Miss Piggy's Bo Derek-inspired braid, created with Calista Hendrickson, originally for a proposed Harper's Bzarrae spread. Cooper described it to People magazine: "It's got a soft, fluffy fringe to be more feminine and to show off her exquisite ears."[2] The look also surfaced in Miss Piggy's Guide to Life. She was also responsible for Piggy's many and varied styles in The Miss Piggy Calendar 1982, mimicking the locks of famous screen actresses and characters.
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The Central Bank of Nigeria has named Access Bank the 'Most Sustainable Bank of the Year' in the 2018 edition of<|fim_middle|> Recognised for Sustainability Efforts" | its annual awards for sustainability.
Access Bank said in a statement that the recognition validated the commitment of the bank to position sustainability at the core of its operations and service delivery.
"It follows several successes recorded by the bank in the year under review, especially in the areas of sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility," it added.
According to the statement, the bank also received the top prize in Excellence in Women Economic Empowerment and Sustainable Transaction of the Year categories for its achievements in the oil and gas and power sectors.
The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe, dedicated the victory to the staff and customers of the bank, while appreciating them for their continued trust in its policies.
According to him, receiving such accolades from the CBN is an indication that the bank is on the right path with its sustainability efforts.
Wigwe said, "We are very excited to have been done this honour by the Central Bank of Nigeria. We see it as more than an award but an indicator that our efforts are been recognised and a challenge for us to keep at it.
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Linear spatial pyramid matching using sparse coding for image classification
by Jianchao Yang, Kai Yu, Yihong Gong, Thomas Huang - in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR , 2009
"... Recently SVMs using spatial pyramid matching (SPM) kernel have been highly successful in image classification. Despite its popularity, these nonlinear SVMs have a complexity O(n 2 ∼ n 3) in training and O(n) in testing, where n is the training size, implying that it is nontrivial to scaleup the algo ..."
the algorithms to handle more than thousands of training images. In this paper we develop an extension of the SPM method, by generalizing vector quantization to sparse coding followed by multi-scale spatial max pooling, and propose a linear SPM kernel based on SIFT sparse codes. This new approach remarkably
A Robot Exploration and Mapping Strategy Based on a Semantic Hierarchy of Spatial Representations
by Benjamin Kuipers, Yung-Tai Byun - JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS , 1991
FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets
by Christos Faloutsos, King-Ip (David) Lin , 1995
"... A very promising idea for fast searching in traditional and multimedia databases is to map objects into points in k-d space, using k feature-extraction functions, provided by a domain expert [25]. Thus, we can subsequently use highly fine-tuned spatial access methods (SAMs), to answer several types ..."
A very promising idea for fast searching in traditional and multimedia databases is to map objects into points in k-d space, using k feature-extraction functions, provided by a domain expert [25]. Thus, we<|fim_middle|>. Gerkey, Richard T. Vaughan, Andrew Howard - In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics , 2003
"... This paper describes the Player/Stage software tools applied to multi-robot, distributed-robot and sensor network systems. Player is a robot device server that provides network transparent robot control. Player seeks to constrain controller design as little as possible; it is device independent, non ..."
This paper describes the Player/Stage software tools applied to multi-robot, distributed-robot and sensor network systems. Player is a robot device server that provides network transparent robot control. Player seeks to constrain controller design as little as possible; it is device independent
Bandera: Extracting Finite-state Models from Java Source Code
by James C. Corbett, Matthew B. Dwyer, John Hatcliff, Shawn Laubach, Corina S. Pasareanu, Hongjun Zheng - IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 22ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING , 2000
"... Finite-state verification techniques, such as model checking, have shown promise as a cost-effective means for finding defects in hardware designs. To date, the application of these techniques to software has been hindered by several obstacles. Chief among these is the problem of constructing a fini ..."
Finite-state verification techniques, such as model checking, have shown promise as a cost-effective means for finding defects in hardware designs. To date, the application of these techniques to software has been hindered by several obstacles. Chief among these is the problem of constructing a finite-state model that approximates the executable behavior of the software system of interest. Current best-practice involves handconstruction of models which is expensive (prohibitive for all but the smallest systems), prone to errors (which can result in misleading verification results), and difficult to optimize (which is necessary to combat the exponential complexity of verification algorithms). In this paper, we describe an integrated collection of program analysis and transformation components, called Bandera, that enables the automatic extraction of safe, compact finite-state models from program source code. Bandera takes as input Java source code and generates a program model in the input language of one of several existing verification tools; Bandera also maps verifier outputs back to the original source code. We discuss the major components of Bandera and give an overview of how it can be used to model check correctness properties of Java programs. | can subsequently use highly fine-tuned spatial access methods (SAMs), to answer several
VLFeat -- An open and portable library of computer vision algorithms
by Andrea Vedaldi, et al. , 2010
Ontologies: Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce
by Dieter Fensel , 2007
"... Currently computers are changing from single isolated devices to entry points into a world wide network of information exchange and business transactions called the World Wide Web (WWW). Therefore support in the exchange of data, information, and knowledge exchange is becoming the key issue in cur ..."
Currently computers are changing from single isolated devices to entry points into a world wide network of information exchange and business transactions called the World Wide Web (WWW). Therefore support in the exchange of data, information, and knowledge exchange is becoming the key issue in current computer technology. Ontologies provide a shared and common understanding of a domain that can be communicated between people and application systems. Therefore, they may play a major role in supporting information exchange processes in various areas. This book discusses the role ontologies will play in knowledge management and in electronic commerce. In addition, I show how arising web standards such as RDF and XML can be used as
A Survey of Computer Vision-Based Human Motion Capture
by Thomas B. Moeslund, Erik Granum - Computer Vision and Image Understanding , 2001
"... A comprehensive survey of computer vision-based human motion capture literature from the past two decades is presented. The focus is on a general overview based on a taxonomy of system functionalities, broken down into four processes: initialization, tracking, pose estimation, and recognition. Each ..."
A comprehensive survey of computer vision-based human motion capture literature from the past two decades is presented. The focus is on a general overview based on a taxonomy of system functionalities, broken down into four processes: initialization, tracking, pose estimation, and recognition. Each process is discussed and divided into subprocesses and/or categories of methods to provide a reference to describe and compare the more than 130 publications covered by the survey. References are included throughout the paper to exemplify important issues and their relations to the various methods. A number of general assumptions used in this research field are identified and the character of these assumptions indicates that the research field is still in an early stage of development. To evaluate the state of the art, the major application areas are identified and performances are analyzed in light of the methods
Directed Diffusion for Wireless Sensor Networking
by Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Ramesh Govindan, Deborah Estrin, John Heidemann, Fabio Silva - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , 2003
"... Advances in processor, memory and radio technology will enable small and cheap nodes capable of sensing, communication and computation. Networks of such nodes can coordinate to perform distributed sensing of environmental phenomena. In this paper, we explore the directed diffusion paradigm for such ..."
Advances in processor, memory and radio technology will enable small and cheap nodes capable of sensing, communication and computation. Networks of such nodes can coordinate to perform distributed sensing of environmental phenomena. In this paper, we explore the directed diffusion paradigm for such coordination. Directed diffusion is datacentric in that all communication is for named data. All nodes in a directed diffusion-based network are application-aware. This enables diffusion to achieve energy savings by selecting empirically good paths and by caching and processing data in-network (e.g., data aggregation). We explore and evaluate the use of directed diffusion for a simple remote-surveillance sensor network analytically and experimentally. Our evaluation indicates that directed diffusion can achieve significant energy savings and can outperform idealized traditional schemes (e.g., omniscient multicast) under the investigated scenarios.
Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D
by Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, Richard Szeliski - In Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH , 2006
"... Figure 1: Our system takes unstructured collections of photographs such as those from online image searches (a) and reconstructs 3D points and viewpoints (b) to enable novel ways of browsing the photos (c). We present a system for interactively browsing and exploring large unstructured collections o ..."
Figure 1: Our system takes unstructured collections of photographs such as those from online image searches (a) and reconstructs 3D points and viewpoints (b) to enable novel ways of browsing the photos (c). We present a system for interactively browsing and exploring large unstructured collections of photographs of a scene using a novel 3D interface. Our system consists of an image-based modeling front end that automatically computes the viewpoint of each photograph as well as a sparse 3D model of the scene and image to model correspondences. Our photo explorer uses image-based rendering techniques to smoothly transition between photographs, while also enabling full 3D navigation and exploration of the set of images and world geometry, along with auxiliary information such as overhead maps. Our system also makes it easy to construct photo tours of scenic or historic locations, and to annotate image details, which are automatically transferred to other relevant images. We demonstrate our system on several large personal photo collections as well as images gathered from Internet photo sharing sites.
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Ellie Goulding 'feels strong' after deflecting a few insults.
The 28-year-old released her debut LP Lights in 2010 with follow-up album Halcyon hitting shelves in 2012 and both records sold millions of copies worldwide.
Ellie is active on social media and even though she's highly successful and respected, the star reveals cruel people love to send insults her way.
"I Instagram and<|fim_middle|> UK magazine.
"So when you see a nasty comment, you don't think, 'That's not fair'. It just kind of turns into a blur. I feel strong. I mean, physically I'm strong but I feel like it does add to me being a bit stronger and being able to deflect things easier.
In February it was confirmed Ellie is currently in a romantic relationship with fellow musician Dougie Poynter, who plays in pop rock band McBusted.
The songstress is absolutely in love with her 27-year-old beau, as he provides Ellie with a lot of positivity and inspiration. | I tweet and I perform in whatever I want and if you accept that you're always going to get negativity then you can overcome it," she explained in the June issue of Women's Health | 37 |
Q: Mapping a list in hibernate by ordering instead of an index-field This works:
<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="Train" table="Trains">
<id column="id" name="id" type="java.lang.String" length="4">
<generator class="assigned" />
</id>
<set name="trips" cascade="all">
<key column="trainId"/>
<one-to-many class="Trip"/>
</set>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping<|fim_middle|> Hibernate, and then sort it myself in code? Seems unnecessary when we already have it ordered by the DB.
A: Actually, this can be done with <bag>, <set> or <map> mappings. <bag> uses java.util.List semantics but does not maintain element indexes. By specifying it's order-by attribute, its elements will be ordered as part of SELECT:
<bag name="trips" cascade="all" order-by="scheduledDate">
<key column="trainId"/>
<one-to-many class="Trip"/>
</bag>
Note that order-by attribute needs to specify column name(s), not property name. The above can be mapped to java.util.List, you can do the same with java.util.Set by using <set> mapping. No need for comparators :-)
Details are here
A: I realized that using a List is not the correct way to store a collection of naturally ordered items.
The solution is to use a SortedSet (like a TreeSet) with a Comparator.
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But my trips are all naturally ordered by their scheduledDate. I would like to replace the Set with a List. Changing the collection to:
<list name="trips" cascade="all" order-by="scheduledDate">
<key column="trainId"/>
<one-to-many class="Trip"/>
</list>
does not work, since it now requires an <index/>. I don't want to add an index to my table, because the ordering is given by the date.
Any way this can be done? Or should I just get the Set from | 116 |
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If the Rebels beat SDSU this week, it might make up for that nail-biting loss to Boise State.
Runnin<|fim_middle|> local honey are pure bliss, but you must sidecar those suckers with the apple rings, sweet battered fruit loops deep-fried and drenched in cinnamon-sugar icing. 500 S. Main St. | ' Rebels vs. San Diego State UNLV's up-and-down season took another tough turn last weekend, when an apparent buzzer-beater got waved off in a loss to Boise State. A Wednesday-night home win against the rival Aztecs, ranked 13th nationally, would take some of that sting away, and then some. March 5, 8 p.m., $25-$135, Thomas & Mack Center.
Miley Cyrus Let's be real, the tongue and twerk antics are why you'll go. Just remember to show up early for the super-solid openers: "I Love It" duo Icona Pop and on-the-rise synth-pop star Sky Ferreira. March 1, 7:30 p.m., $20-$94, MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Georgia on My Mind: Celebrating Ray Charles Paying homage to Ray and his incomparable sound takes a musical village, ranging from Grammy winners Take 6 and Kirk Whalum to local icon Clint Holmes and the Las Vegas Mass Choir, among others. February 28, 7:30 p.m., $29-$125, Smith Center's Reynolds Hall.
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Haven't had your fill of Russia quite yet? This renowned orchestra performs works by Rossini, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff (Second Symphony) at the Smith Center. March 1, 7:30 p.m., $39-$150, Reynolds Hall.
A Harold Ramis film From Second City to Analyze This, Ramis, who died on Monday, left his mark on comedy in a way few ever have. Whether he wrote it (Animal House), directed it (Caddyshack) or starred in it (Ghostbusters), you really can't go wrong. We'd recommend watching Groundhog Day … and then rewatching it.
Iron Chef America: Sosa vs. Flay Two Vegas(ish) chefs battle to see whose cuisine reigns supreme when challenger Angelo Sosa (of Poppy Den and Top Chef) takes on Iron Chef Bobby Flay (of Mesa Grill and Bobby's Burger Palace). Eat up the action at home, or reserve a seat at Poppy Den's viewing party. March 2, 9 p.m., Food Network; viewing party 8-10 p.m., 907-5227.
Donuts at MTO Cafe These spheres of fried dough bedazzled in powdered sugar and | 515 |
Aerojet Rocketdyne Supplies New Lithium-ion Batteries to the International Space Station
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 20, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A payload of six lithium-ion batteries, designed and developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc., a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD), has been delivered to the International Space Station to give astronauts the power they need to continue important research aboard the station. Once installed on the space station, the batteries will become part of the most sophisticated, high-power space Electrical Power System (EPS) on orbit today. Aerojet Rocketdyne made key contributions to the space station's EPS design, which includes the batteries, solar arrays and power distribution system.
"Efficient, reliable and safe electrical power systems are absolutely critical for the astronauts who live on the International Space Station. It's also important for the research they conduct to better understand life in space and here on Earth," said Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO and President Eileen Drake. "It's a privilege to know our lithium-ion batteries are helping to make that possible."
The safety features incorporated into the lithium-ion batteries include voltage, temperature and cell-overcharge monitoring, making them a safe, reliable and efficient power source for the space station. The six lithium-ion batteries will replace 1<|fim_middle|> of energy storage. They are designed to operate at least 10 years. Eighteen more Aerojet Rocketdyne lithium-ion batteries will be launched to the space station in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Aerojet Rocketdyne built a total of 31 lithium-ion Orbital Replacement Units that include two engineering units, two qualification units and 27 flight units. Twenty-four of the Aerojet Rocketdyne lithium-ion batteries will replace all 48 existing Ni-H2 batteries, and will be installed on the EPS which supplies power to the space station. The batteries will result in nearly one-half of the launch mass and about 1.5 times more energy storage capability.
Aerojet Rocketdyne is an innovative company delivering solutions that create value for its customers in the aerospace and defense markets. The company is a world-recognized aerospace and defense leader that provides propulsion and energetics to the space, missile defense and strategic systems, tactical systems and armaments areas, in support of domestic and international markets. Additional information about Aerojet Rocketdyne can be obtained by visiting our websites at www.Rocket.com and www.AerojetRocketdyne.com.
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This golden granola reminds me of summertime! The combination of chopped and chunky dried apricots and golden raisins taste great together. Apricot-Honey Granola has a lot of other good things that I often add to my homemade granolas: sunflower kernels, coconut flakes, wheat germ or flaxseed, and chopped nuts. It's sweetened mostly with honey and a bit of brown sugar. You can serve it as a cereal with milk, in yogurt parfaits, or just as it is, for a snack.
Preheat oven to 325˚F. Line two 10×15″ rimmed cookie sheets or one 13×18″ rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside.
In large bowl, toss the oats, sunflower kernels, coconut flakes, wheat germ or flaxseed, and chopped pecans; set aside.
In small microwaveable bowl, heat honey for 20 to 30 seconds to make the consistency thinner. Then, in medium size bowl, blend honey,<|fim_middle|> (for even baking). Return to oven and bake an additional 15 minutes, until granola is golden.
Remove from oven and add the golden raisins and chopped dried apricots to the mixture on the pan; toss to combine everything well. Let mixture cool completely on pan (the mixture will get crunchier as it cools), then store in a tightly-sealed container for 2 to 3 weeks.
When I make granola in the summer, I usually do it early in the morning, when it's still cool. I try to avoid using the oven later in the day because my place gets so hot! But it's worth making this yummy granola, even if you do have to get up extra early to do it! 🙂 Have you made any granola lately? What do you like to add to yours?
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This entry was posted in Breakfast/Brunch, Food and Recipes, Healthy Eating and tagged Apricot-Honey Granola, dried apricots, granola, honey on August 5, 2017 by nancyc. | brown sugar, olive oil, and salt, blending everything well.
Pour the honey mixture over the oat mixture and toss until the oat mixture is well-coated.
Spread this mixture onto the prepared baking sheet(s) and bake at 325˚F for 20 minutes; remove pan from oven to stir and toss the mixture | 67 |
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British Fashion Council Links With Oxford Street for Outdoor Campaign
The 17-day initiative will see the shopping thoroughfare festooned with 75 flags featuring catwalk images from the fall 2013 collections of five designers.
By Julia Neel on August 23, 2013
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FLYING THE FLAG: The British Fashion Council has partnered with<|fim_middle|>. It includes a number of events, experiences and activities in the world of national and international fashion for consumers that will be held at the street's flagship stores, including Selfridges, River Island, John Lewis and H&M — giving it a similarity to Fashion's Night Out, which is being held in Manchester this year.
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The campaign was created to celebrate London Fashion Week, which runs for five days from Sept. 13 | 106 |
Fall 2019 - Narrative Reflections
Beyond First Impressions
<a href="https://www.jhrehab.org/author/jake-raecker-spt-cscs/" title="See all aricles by Jake Raecker, SPT, CSCS" rel="author external">Jake Raecker, SPT, CSCS</a>
A Shock and a Challenge
Relief and a Revelation
A Deeper Approach to Care
By Jake Raecker, SPT, CSCS
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Please see the Submissions Guidelines page for details on formatting, referencing and the peer review process for The Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation. The managing editor of the journal will keep all authors informed as to the status of their submissions throughout the process. Published items will not be affiliated with a volume or issue but will be identified by date of publication. | to Washington University Doctor of Physical Therapy Program graduate student Jake Raecker, a finalist in the physical therapy student essay contest co-sponsored by the ACAPT Consortium for the Humanities, Ethics, and Professionalism (CHEP) and JHR! This writing competition is designed to encourage deep thinking by students about the role and value of humanities, ethics, and professionalism in academic training and professional life. The second in an annual series, the CHEP-JHR essay contest offers a creative opportunity to ignite critical reflection in PT students across the nation, to support holistic approaches to patient care. This year's prompt addressed the often perplexing and difficult situations in clinical care where we are pressed to make value judgments of what is right or wrong, or good or bad. Students were asked to write about a clinical situation or experience that contained an ethical issue that was unsettling, or may have resulted in making an ethical judgment, detailing their thoughts, feelings, and responses. In his essay, "Beyond First Impressions," Mr. Raecker recalls a patient he encountered during his first clinical rotation who gave him quite a shock—but, with care and attention, taught him a valuable lesson about looking beyond first impressions.
During my first clinical rotation, I spent eight weeks at a publicly-funded county hospital; the experience opened my eyes to a patient population that truly deserves the care of physical therapists. The patients I saw at the hospital weren't as straightforward as the case studies presented in my first two semesters of physical therapy school. Many didn't have social or economic fortune on their side, had low health literacy, and felt powerless as chronic pain controlled their lives.
As many of these patients feel the healthcare system has let them fall through the cracks, I've found it imperative to express my genuine care in order to gain their trust and find footing on common ground. I do this by asking patients what adds value to their lives, talking to family or friends if there are multiple people in the treatment room, or asking about the patient's tattoos; all thing to help me connect with what is important to them.
But, in that first rotation, when I began evaluating a patient for chronic back and shoulder pain, I discovered two powerful symbols of hate permanently inked across his forearms. I was initially shocked and felt it best to not ask about the tattoos' importance.
"Am I even capable of caring for this patient?" I wondered as he went through his subjective history. "I'm just trying to learn about how to treat back and shoulder pain; I never thought I would find myself interacting with somebody whose views are so different from mine."
As he continued recounting his story, I remembered that character counts, and that it is easy to be compassionate and kind to those who are vulnerable and need help, but having empathy for those with whom you don't agree is where our character is tested. Keeping this in mind, I tried to apply what I learned during my first year: to focus on the examination, to put my concern about the tattoos in the back of my mind, and instead address the patient's sway-back posture and elevated shoulders.
Depending on the patient, postural modifications can be a dead end if the link between position and pain can't be established—or they can provide immediate relief if the modifications "click." With this patient, simply pulling the shoulders back and down from his ears brought tears of relief.
"Just by moving differently, you can change your pain. Now you are in control of your symptoms instead of your pain controlling you," I said, trying to empower him. "You must have been carrying a lot of stress in your shoulders and neck and it's great this makes you feel better!" After wiping his eyes, with a smile he turned stoic and shared a story that stopped me in my tracks.
"I've been carrying so much stress in my neck because…" he paused for a few moments to compose himself. "Because I was just released from prison." I stood frozen in place as he described the transformative incident that put him behind bars. "It was an accident. I was high on pain killers and don't remember anything."
"I went through a lot, some dark times in there," he continued, gesturing to the tattoos. "I'm getting counseling and I'm learning to forgive myself mentally, and you're helping me heal physically."
I am seldom at a loss for words, but after hearing that, I could not speak. Thankfully, the physical therapist who was overseeing the evaluation said something—I can't remember what—that got us back on track. I tried to regain my composure and work through the rest of the treatment, even though I could only think of this man's story. When our time was up, he was excited about our first meeting and asked to be scheduled for another appointment.
My patient steadily returned for more treatments. With a complete plan of care and all of our goals met, he told me he felt I was a valuable part of his road to recovery: "I'm moving like a new man and feel I've regained control of the physical part of my life," he said. He gave me a sincere thank-you and handshake as he exited the clinic pain-free.
As healthcare practitioners, letting first impressions and preconceived notions dominate our thinking can be a barrier on the patient's path to recovery. By seeing beyond first impressions, we can best serve all people who need and deserve our care.
Learning how to weave a patient's unique biopsychosocial makeup of depression, homelessness, pain, and violence into effective care not only pushed me to the limit as a student during that first rotation, but it gave me opportunities to practice compassion as a human being.
This was a valuable lesson I'm fortunate to have learned early in my career: No matter my patients' backgrounds, views, or ways of life, it's my duty to put all of that aside and give them the high-quality care I was trained to provide.
Jake Raecker, SPT, CSCS
Jake Raecker, SPT, CSCS is a third year DPT student in the class of 2020 at Washington University in St. Louis. He values genuine connections with others above all else, and feels most himself when doing anything outdoors with his wife, Emily, or when taking deep dives into physical therapy or Iowa Hawkeyes athletics. Jake serves on the Nominating Committee of the APTA Student Assembly Board of Directors and is also a member of the Private Practice, Geriatrics, Orthopedics, and Research sections of the APTA.
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Climate and Earth processes are<|fim_middle|> | two of the most rapidly expanding areas in the geosciences. Research in
these areas seeks to understand the character and dynamics of Earth's habitable zone, especially the com-
plex interactions of its biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere coupled with human-induced
perturbations of these natural systems. It embraces studies of Earth's climate and its connections operating
on multiple spatial and temporal scales with the hydrologic and biogeochemical cycles that are influenced by
pervasive surficial processes.
Knowledge of these systems, especially their drivers and sensitivities to change, is integral to informed use of
energy, mineral, water, and land resources and the environmental consequences of human activities. These
advances permit understanding of paleoclimates and ancient environments from key proxies preserved in the
rock record that have been verified in the modern world. The critical zone that lies as the interface of the natu-
ral and anthropogenic worlds urgently needs improved understanding. Bridges between sub-disciplines of the
geosciences that focus on problems such as the role of fluids in Earth systems and controls on the movement
of dissolved and suspended materials can help.
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Indiana University possess research expertise in these important do-
mains. Research that incorporates observation, analyses, experiments, and modeling has achieved critical in-
sights into these geological and biogeochemical pathways, from molecular processes and chemical reactions,
to local- and regional-scale water and sediment budgets, and ultimately to global dynamics of atmospheric
composition and oceanic temperature.
The department is a key player in IU's Integrated Program in the Environment.
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This year our Christmas Event took place on December 16, on our last school day. Again the teachers and students organized a phenomenal event in the theatre in front parents, family members and friends.
Parallel to the performance in the theatre the board had organized a vendors bazaar with lots of German related goods.
After the first song "Kling Glöckchen Klingeling" of the choir, president Gisela Schulte and principal Axel Rechlin welcomed the visitors and gave a brief overview. The Language Diploma Certificates to the successful DSD 1 students were presented by Natascha Daiminger of the German Consulate in Vancouver.
The class performances started with the Christmas song "<|fim_middle|> of the Adult class.
A short video of the G3/4 class performing "Zünd ein Licht an".
This year our Christmas Bazaar included the following vendors. Thank you all for making our Christmas Event special this year. | Ihr Kinderlein kommet" by the E1/2 class, the poem "Es ist Advent" by the E3/4 class and the funny German/English song "Christmas is im Eimer" by the E5/6 class.
The performance continued with the "Weihnachtliche Zungenbrecher" of the E7/8 class. Then the G1/2 class performed the short sketch of "Die vier Kerzen", followed by the G5/6 with the reciting and performance of a humorous Christmas poem.
The G7/8 class had a special game for the teachers prepared. They created German Christmas Monsterwords for the teachers to read. After that the DSD 1 class read the Christmas Story of "Die Weihnachtsmaus". Then we showed a Christmas school video from 2013, the students looked so different after 4 years!
The special song of the G3/4 class "Zünd ein Licht an" was a very touching performance with lots of candle lights.
The annual Christmas Party closed with the songs "O Tannenbaum" and "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht", accompanied by the instrumental Quartett | 243 |
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edited by alexander yan<|fim_middle|>ia and the legend of Indian cinema for 98 years... And the Prime Minister tells him.
Death of Oscar-winning American actress Olympia Dukakis, 89
"Cinemana for Arab Film 2" jury continues to watch the films participating to announce the results next May 27 | ixana
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Silk Road film festival opens in NW China
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XI'AN, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- The 9th Silk Road International Film Festival opened Sunday in Xi'an, the capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
A total of 1,598 films from 90 countries and regions signed up for the festival, and 19 films entered the final race, according to the festival organizers.
Ten awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress, will be announced at the closing ceremony of the festival on Jan. 3.
Films are screened online and offline for five days from Dec. 30. Films from 51 countries and regions, including 24 Belt and Road countries and regions, are shown offline.
First held in 2014, the film festival this year is hosted by the China Media Group and the provincial governments of Shaanxi and Fujian.
Avatar" revenue rises to one billion dollars globally in near-record time
The film "Avatar" "Avatar: The Way of Water" grossed almost 82.4 million dollars at the weekend in North America, bringing its total revenue to one billion dollars globally in near record time, according to the company xpeter relations.
To celebrate the Year of Egyptian-Tunisian Culture.. Tunisia "Guest of Honour" Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries
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This weeks edition of Radia allows us to eavesdrop as a father and<|fim_middle|>ix 130 in 1 Electronic Lab Kit. | his 10-year-old son bond over a succession of increasingly fiddly electronic experiments – at the behest of the manual they connect wires, transistors, capacitors and diodes to create an array of weird and wonderful crackles, beeps, buzzes and other electronic noises. Harking back to the bygone days of the BBCs Radiophonic Workshop in feel, variations on these sounds form the basis of the musical score that underpins the piece, playfully oscillating between real and imaginary spaces. As improbable as it seems, the outwardly dull schematics and diagrams open the doorway to a world of fun, exploration and the joy of discovery.
Voice of the manual: Anne Marie Copestake.
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1. Live Die Repeat and Repeat
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Pre-production
Plot unknown. A follow-up to the 2014 sci-fi film, 'Edge of Tomorrow'.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt
2. Not Fade Away
Drama | Pre-production
A woman born with a rare genetic mutation which caused her to lose her sight and hearing over time, beat the odds and expectations of her prognosis.
Star: Emily Blunt
3. Jungle Cruise (2020)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy | Post-production
Based on Disneyland's theme park ride where a small riverboat takes a group of travelers through a jungle filled with dangerous animals and reptiles, but with a supernatural element.
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons
4. A Quiet Place 2 (2020)
Horror, Thriller | Filming
Plot<|fim_middle|>unt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw
27. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003– )
Episode: Emily Blunt/Taron Egerton/Kane Brown (2018)
TV-14 | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
Actress Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns (2018) and A Quiet Place (2018)); actor Taron Egerton (Robin Hood (2018)); Kane Brown performs;
Director: Maureen Bharoocha | Stars: Jimmy Kimmel, Emily Blunt, Taron Egerton, Kane Brown
28. Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014– )
Episode: Emily Blunt/Zazie Beetz/Ryan Reiss/Steve Smith (2018)
TV-14 | Comedy, Talk-Show
Actress Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place (2018)); actress Zazie Beetz (Atlanta (2016)); comic Ryan Reiss; Steve Smith sits in with the 8G Band;
Stars: Seth Meyers, Emily Blunt, Zazie Beetz, Ryan Reiss
29. The IMDb Show (2017– )
Episode: Ep. 121: Patton Oswalt (2018)
Not Rated | 13 min | Talk-Show
Patton Oswalt celebrates the awkwardness of high school in his new comedy "A.P. Bio." The cast of 'A Quiet Place' talks about surviving the apocalypse, and we quiz you on some of the greatest celebrity yearbook photos.
Stars: Emily Blunt, Kerri Doherty, Noah Jupe, Tim Kash
30. Sociedade Recreativa (2015–2019)
Episode: Episode #1.110 (2018)
Stars: Sílvia Alberto, Cláudia Semedo, Inês Lopes Gonçalves, Pedro Granger
31. Access Hollywood (1996– )
Episode: Episode #22.172 (2018)
An interview with dancer Julianne Hough and her husband, hockey player Brooks Laich; an interview with husband-and-wife actors John Krasinski and Emily Blunt;
Stars: Natalie Morales, Kit Hoover, Emily Blunt, Julianne Hough
Episode: Episode #23.70 (2018)
Interviews with Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda (Mary Poppins Returns (2018));
Stars: Natalie Morales, Kit Hoover, Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda
33. Extra (1994– )
Ed Helms, Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Byron Allen (Chappaquiddick (2017)); John Krakinski and Emily Blunt ("A Quiet Place"); Mandy Moore ("The Darkest Minds"); Marcia Clark ("Marcia Clark ... See full summary »
Stars: Mario Lopez, Tanika Ray, Renee Bargh, A.J. Calloway
Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, couples, couture, and candid moments at the 53rd Academy of Country Music Awards; Tina Fey, Alicia Keys and Emily Blunt talk about hot topics;
Bradley Cooper; the stars of "Mary Poppins Returns";
"Mary Poppins Returns"; Steve Carell; Hugh Jackman; Diane Kruger;
37. Celebrity Page (2013– )
Actors John Krasinski and Emily Blunt ("A Quiet Place"); actress Helen Hunt ("The Miracle Season"); actress Taraji P. Henson; singer Dua Lipa; Olympian Gus Kenworthy; "Autopsy" looks at Natalie Cole's death;
Stars: Sonia Isabelle, Jaymes Vaughan, Arthur Kade, Scott Carty
38. Entertainment Tonight (1981– )
Fred Savage accused of sexual harassment; Blake Shelton's fatherly instincts; Kate Middleton's due date; Justin Bieber's mystery blonde; Kristen Bell shares her favorite parenting hacks; ... See full summary »
Stars: Nancy O'Dell, Kevin Frazier, Nischelle Turner, Keltie Knight
Kaley Cuoco with the scoop on "The Big Bang Theory"; the cast of "Young Sheldon" reveals a surprise guest; actress Emily Blunt and actor James McAvoy ("Sherlock Gnomes"); on the set of "... See full summary »
Stars: Nancy O'Dell, Kevin Frazier, Cameron Mathison, Carly Steel
Chrissy Metz (book, "This Is Me"); Meghan Markle's royal fashion; Sean Penn's interview; Chris Evans' Broadway debut; Chip and Joanna Gaines' new restaurant; red carpet for Steven ... See full summary »
Stars: Nancy O'Dell, Kevin Frazier, Keltie Knight, Nischelle Turner
Emily Blunt and John Krasinski ("A Quiet Place"); Tyra Banks and her mother team up on a new book ("Perfect Is Boring"); Tracy Morgan, Tiffany Haddish and Cedric the Entertainer ("The Last OG"); "Fixer Upper"; Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Tatum separate;
Stars: Nancy O'Dell, Kevin Frazier, Nischelle Turner, Cameron Mathison
Dwayne Johnson spills baby news; the return of "Trading Spaces"; the estate of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor; John Krasinski and Emily Blunt ("A Quiet Place"); the "American Idol" judges; John ... See full summary »
Stars: Nancy O'Dell, Kevin Frazier, Nischelle Turner, Carly Steel
Dwayne Johnson ("The Titan Games"); John Cena and Hailee Steinfeld ("Bumblebee"); the "Rent: Live" photoshoot with Vanessa Hudgens and Jordan Fisher;
Ellen DeGeneres returns to standup; Sandra Bullock ("Bird Box"); Nicole Kidman ("Destroyer"); Julie Bowen helping students in need;
Stars: Nancy O'Dell, Kevin Frazier, Nischelle Turner, Emily Blunt
Episode: Episode #4.46 (2018)
John Krasinski; Emily Blunt; Terry O'Quinn ("Patriot"); Hugh Jackman; Maggie Gyllenhaal; Sarah Jessica Parker and Jacqueline Bisset ("Here and Now"); Robert Pattinson;
Emily Blunt; Claire Foy; Eva Longoria; Wilmer Valderrama; Gina Rodriguez; Danay Garcia;
Stars: Sonia Isabelle, Jaymes Vaughan, Arthur Kade, Emily Blunt
Ariana Grande; Emily Blunt ("The Quiet Place"); Jane Fonda; Sandra Bullock and Sarah Paulson ("Bird Box");
Stars: Sonia Isabelle, Jaymes Vaughan, Arthur Kade, Rob Shuter
Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Peter Hedges, and Courtney B. Vance ("Ben Is Back"); Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw and Dick Van Dyke ("Mary Poppins Returns"); Rachel Brosnahan ... See full summary »
Christian Bale and Amy Adams ("Vice"); premiere of "Mary Poppins Returns"; "Murder Made Me Famous" looks at Jeffrey Dahmer; Britney Spears;
Stars: Sonia Isabelle, Jaymes Vaughan, Arthur Kade, Rachel Smith
TV-PG | News
The history of department store Sears; fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi; famed newspaper editorial, "Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus"; actress Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns (2018)); ... See full summary »
Stars: Jane Pauley, Emily Blunt, Michael Bublé, Isaac Mizrahi | unknown. Sequel to the 2018 film, 'A Quiet Place'.
Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Brian Tyree Henry, Noah Jupe
5. 76th Golden Globe Awards (2019 TV Special)
TV-14 | 145 min | Comedy, Music, Reality-TV
An awards ceremony hosted by Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg that celebrates the best performances in television and film.
Director: Louis J. Horvitz | Stars: Yvonne Strahovski, Taron Egerton, Rami Malek, Emily Blunt
6. The 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2019 TV Special)
TV-14 | 93 min | News
An annual awards ceremony where actors celebrate and honor the outstanding performances of their peers. This year's ceremony is hosted by Megan Mullally.
Director: Alan Carter | Stars: Tom Hanks, Awkwafina, Richard Madden, Bradley Cooper
7. Sunday Today with Willie Geist (2016– )
Episode: Emily Blunt #2 (2019)
News, Reality-TV
Actress Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns (2018));
Stars: Willie Geist, Dylan Dreyer, Emily Blunt, Kristen Dahlgren
8. Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014– )
Episode: Episode #9.2 (2019)
Melissa McCarthy and Lupita Nyong'o, Timothée Chalamet and Emma Stone, Emily Blunt and Hugh Jackman.
Stars: Emily Blunt, Timothée Chalamet, Hugh Jackman, Melissa McCarthy
9. Everything Wrong with... (2012– )
Episode: Everything Wrong With Mary Poppins Returns (2019)
Mary Poppins Returns is a movie that someone felt the need to make. It's full of sins.
Directors: Chris Atkinson, Jeremy Scott, Barrett Share | Star: Jeremy Scott
10. Nostalgia Critic (2007– )
Episode: Mary Poppins Returns (2019)
Kidnapping wolves, evil bankers, and yet somehow it's the exact same story. Nostalgia Critic takes a look at how this sequel/reboot is less than practically perfect in every way. Let's take a look at Mary Poppins Returns.
Director: Doug Walker | Stars: Doug Walker, Tamara Chambers, Aiyanna Wade, Malcolm Ray
11. Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
PG | 130 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.
Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer
13. Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
Garden gnomes, Gnomeo and Juliet, recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
Director: John Stevenson | Stars: Johnny Depp, James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Kelly Asbury
14. The Oscars (2018 TV Special)
TV-14 | 187 min | Comedy, Music
The 90th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, celebrates the film industry's biggest achievements for the year 2017.
Director: Glenn Weiss | Stars: Zendaya, Tom Holland, Margot Robbie, Eiza González
15. Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade (2018 TV Special)
TV-G | 86 min | Family, Musical, News
This Christmas, Disney Parks celebrates the joy of the season as hosts Jordan Fisher and Sarah Hyland share this magical holiday tradition with families around the globe. Co-hosted by Jesse... See full summary »
Director: Joe DeMaio | Stars: Carrie Beck, Aloe Blacc, Emily Blunt, Andrea Bocelli
16. A Reason for Silence: The Visual Effects of 'A Quiet Place' (2018 Video)
8 min | Documentary, Short
Designing the alien creature: influences, evolution, and biological specifics. It also looks at motion capture support.
Stars: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski
17. Reading the Quiet: Behind the Scenes of 'A Quiet Place' (2018 Video)
15 min | Documentary, Short
A discussion of the original script, the film's construction around a general absence of dialogue, shooting locations, the benefits of Krasinski's work as both actor and director, ... See full summary »
Stars: Emily Blunt, Noah Jupe, John Krasinski
18. The Sound of Darkness: Editing Sound for 'A Quiet Place' (2018 Video)
Dealing with the challenges of making a movie with minimal dialogue and the importance of sound design, silence on the set, the technical challenges in the mixing booth, alien sound effects... See full summary »
Stars: Scott Beck, Marco Beltrami, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski
19. CBS News Sunday Morning (1979– )
Episode: Brain Drain/In Harmony/True Colors/Co-Stars/The Perfect Touch/Testimony (2018)
TV-PG | 90 min | News
The effect of technology on brains; "Frozen" songwriters; author Ernest Cline (Ready Player One (2018)); stained glass windows; actor John Krasinki and actress Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place (... See full summary »
Director: Nora Gerard | Stars: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Ernest Cline, Mo Rocca
20. Sunday Today with Willie Geist (2016– )
Episode: Emily Blunt (2018)
60 min | News, Reality-TV
Actress Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place (2018) and Sherlock Gnomes (2018)).
Stars: Emily Blunt, Fred Rogers, Savannah Guthrie, Dylan Dreyer
21. Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003– )
Episode: Emily Blunt and Backstreet Boys (2018)
TV-G | Comedy, Talk-Show
Actress Emily Blunt ("Mary Poppins Returns"); Backstreet Boys chat and perform;
Director: Liz Patrick | Stars: Ellen DeGeneres, Emily Blunt, Backstreet Boys
22. Live! with Kelly (1988– )
Episode: Emily Blunt/January Jones/Guy Fieri (2018)
TV-PG | Talk-Show
Emily Blunt ("A Quiet Place"); January Jones ("the Last Man on Earth"); chef Guy Fieri whips up a recipe for a "Fiesta Friday the 13th"
Stars: Kelly Ripa, Ryan Seacrest, Emily Blunt, January Jones
23. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015– )
Episode: Emily Blunt/Jeff Flake/St. Paul and the Broken Bones (2018)
TV-PG | Comedy, Talk-Show
Actress Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns (2018)); Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.); a musical performance by St. Paul & the Broken Bones.
Stars: Stephen Colbert, Emily Blunt, Jeff Flake, St. Paul & the Broken Bones
Episode: Emily Blunt/John Heilemann & Alex Wagner/Kacey Musgraves (2018)
TV-PG | 41 min | Comedy, Talk-Show
Actress Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place (2018) and Sherlock Gnomes (2018)); journalist John Heilemann and TV hostess Alex Wagner (CBS This Morning: Saturday (2012)); Kacey Musgraves performs.
Stars: Stephen Colbert, Emily Blunt, John Heilemann, Alex Wagner
25. The Graham Norton Show (2007– )
Episode: Emily Blunt/John Krasinski/Tom Holland/Kylie Minogue (2018)
Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
Graham is joined by The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and The Girl on the Train (2016) star Emily Blunt and American The Office (2005) star John Krasinski, who appear together in new horror ... See full summary »
Stars: Graham Norton, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Tom Holland
Episode: Emily Blunt/Lin-Manuel Miranda/Ben Whishaw/Emily Mortimer/Boy George and Culture Club (2018)
Stars: Graham Norton, Emily Bl | 1,849 |
In ministry,<|fim_middle|> natural disasters, storms often take the form of moral failure, poor planning, or insufficient preparation. If you are not prepared, they can leave lasting damage. Planning for these threats is often referred to as risk management.
If you're like most church leaders, the words 'risk management' make you think of businesses — not church. Since you've been called to ministry by God, it's easy to dismiss risk management as unnecessary because God will protect you. Sadly, a quick Google search of 'church scandal' will uncover hundreds of stories of churches and ministries that have been destroyed by issues they could have avoided if only they'd planned ahead with the right accountability systems. The fact is, ministries are full of human beings, and human beings are not infallible. There is always going to be risk.
Reason 1: As church leaders, we represent God to the community around us.
Church scandals hurt more than just church leaders. Congregants who held those leaders in respect can feel betrayed or disillusioned, sometimes leading them to question the church and even God. The surrounding community, too, looks to the church for a picture of God. When a church's or church leader's reputation is tarnished, so is the name of God in many eyes.
It is absolutely vital that we are wise to the risks surrounding our ministries and take steps to prevent them. Care and accountability don't show a lack of trust toward our people; they show a respect for the fact that we represent God to the world around us!
Reason 2: Churches are particularly susceptible to certain types of risk.
Take theft or financial mismanagement. Without systems in place to minimize the opportunity someone has to mismanage donated funds, church coffers are a constant temptation at best and an easy target at worst. Or take security precautions — no one thinks their church, their school, their community can be the site of an attack or a natural disaster until it happens, and by then it's too late. And then there is the ever-present possibility of a moral failure on the part of senior leadership.
Moral failures are all too common in ministry today, and can absolutely devastate not only the minister and his or her family, but the entire church or ministry he or she leads. These are risks that every church faces … and every church can prepare for.
Reason 3: There are concrete steps you can take to minimize the damage — or even prevent it entirely.
The reason it's important to be aware of all these risks is simply that you have to know about something before you can plan to mitigate it. Financial mismanagement can be protected against by segregating financial duties, so the person who enters invoices isn't the person who signs the checks, and so on, building accountability systems into the church's financial management.
Having staff and volunteers trained in what to do in case of an emergency can save lives. And transparency and accountability among all church leadership can help leaders lean on each other and find strength before a stumbling block becomes an all-out moral failing.
Deborah Ike of Velocity Ministry Management and I recently co-authored an ebook called, Are You Putting Your Church at Risk? 10 Potential Threats That Can Derail Your Ministry. If you're interested in learning more about these ten threats that churches are susceptible to, why they matter, and what you can do to minimize their damage or prevent them entirely, you can download the ebook for free. | storms will come. While they may be | 8 |
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A simple science lesson and fun video on the solar system for kids in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade!
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STAR DEFINITION
A star is an exploding ball of burning gas held together by gravity. Our sun is a star! It produces great amounts of energy in the form of light and heat that provide the perfect conditions for life on Earth.
To better understand how our sun and stars work….
LET'S BREAK IT DOWN!
What is the definition of a star and how does it work?
When you look at the night sky, the dots of light you see are stars! They are millions of miles away. Billions of stars exist in the universe, but many are too far away from Earth to see, even with a telescope.
Stars are huge balls of burning gases, most of which are made of hydrogen. As the hydrogen gas in a star is squeezed due to gravity, it produces huge amounts of energy, which make it glow. The size, temperature, brightness, and color of stars vary.
The color of a star is determined by its temperature. Red stars are cooler in temperature, blue stars are hottest, and other stars like ours (which is yellow) are an in-between temperature.
Stars come in different sizes and distances from Earth.
Stars are really far away from Earth. With a strong telescope, we can see stars that are millions of light years away.
A light year is how far light can travel in one year. Since light travels at 186,000 miles per second, it takes 8 minutes for light from the sun to reach the Earth.
The next closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri, which is a little over 4 light years away from Earth. That is 250,000 times farther away than the sun.
The brightest star in the night sky is Sirius, located 500,000 times further away than the sun. Sirius is also 20 times brighter than the sun, which is why it is so easy to see at night.
Our sun is a medium star of average size and brightness.
Our star, the sun, is average in terms of size and brightness. However, our star is extraordinarily important! Earth is the perfect distance from the sun.
The sun provides heat and light to our planet, supporting life on Earth. Earth is in the habitable zone of the sun. We are close enough to the sun to benefit from the light and heat, but far enough away to prevent Earth from being too hot and vaporizing all the water.
The sun is much larger than Earth. By comparison, if the sun were the size of a basketball, the Earth would be the size of a pencil point.
Stars that are farther away appear smaller and dimmer.
Because the sun is so much closer than other stars, it looks much bigger and brighter. Objects that are closer to you seem larger than objects that are farther away.
If you were to light two candles, hold one and have a friend hold the other on the opposite side of a room, the candle you are holding would appear brighter and bigger. The same is true of stars.
EXAMPLES OF THE SUN AND STARS
Solar flares interfere with cell phone reception, satellites and radio broadcasts. Solar flares are bursts of high energy radiation from the surface of a star that can travel to Earth.
Stars were used for centuries to navigate the sea. Using measurements taken between the stars and the horizon, sailors were able to calculate where in the world they were.
Orion is on the most recognized constellation. It was named after a hunter in Greek mythology. There are about 88 official constellations and each one has a different meaning based on your culture.
SUN AND STARS VOCABULARY
An exploding ball of burning gas held together by gravity.
How far light can travel in 1 year. Light travels at 186,000 miles each second.
It is a reddish star about 1000 times bigger than the sun and more than 600 light years away. It is also the ninth-brightest star in the night sky and second-brightest in the constellation of Orion.
An area around a star that is approximately the right distance to support liquid water on the surface of a planet.
The brightest star in the night sky. It is also 500,000 times further from us than the sun.
A blue-white star in the constellation Orion. It is also one of the brightest stars in the night sky. It's 40,000 times brighter than our sun but it is also 864 light years away.
A reddish star that is 700 times larger than our sun. It is one of the largest known stars and is about 600 light years away from us<|fim_middle|> Things
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Light Reflection & Vision
Genes & Mutations
Classification of Materials
Particle Nature of Matter
Weather vs. Climate
Photosynthesis & Respiration
Changing the Shape of Land
Animal Group Behavior
Rocks & Minerals (Including Rock Cycle)
Reducing Our Impact on Earth
Information Transfer
Rock Layers (Geologic Time)
External Animal Parts
Earth's Landscapes
Heat: Transfer of Thermal Energy
Living Things Change Their Environment
Animal & Plant Life Cycles
Timescale of Earth's Events
Water Quality & Distribution
Maintaining Biodiversity
Animals Need Food
Predicting Natural Disasters
Digital vs. Analog Signals
Newton's Laws of Motion
Climate Zones & Ocean Currents
Air Masses & Weather Fronts
Intro to Climate Change
Natural Resource Distribution
Human Impacts on the Environment
The Fossil Record
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I first found out about this via... -Other | . It is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius.
A burst of high energy radiation made by the sun that can travel to Earth and interfere with cell phone reception and satellite communications.
A huge telescope in space launched in 2009 that is searching for planets outside our solar system. It looks for planets that are around the same size as Earth in the "habitable zone" of a star.
Planisphere
A device used to show what stars are visible at any given time of year.
SUN AND STARS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Why should you never look directly at the sun?
Looking directly at the sun can damage your eyes. It is very bright!
What are stars made out of?
Stars are gigantic balls of exploding gas held together by gravity.
What do stars produce?
Stars produce light and heat.
What is a light year and what is it used to measure?
A light year is the distance light travels in a year. Since light can travel at 186,000 miles per second, it can travel very far in one year. Light years are used to measure very large distances in space, such as distances between stars.
How long does it take sunlight to travel to the Earth?
Sunlight travels 93 million miles from the sun to the earth in about 8 minutes.
Why did Zoe's candle appear brighter than Izzy's candle even though they are the same size?
Zoe and Izzy's candles are the same size, but Zoe's candle is much closer to the camera than Izzy's so it appears larger and brighter.
Why does Dr. Jeff's large flame appear to be the same size as Izzy's even though it was larger?
When Dr. Jeff moves his large flame far away from the camera, it appears to be the same size as Izzy's flame, which is much closer.
What do you think might happen to Earth's water if it were closer to the sun? Further away?
Earth's distance from the sun puts it in a perfect position to support life. Life as we know it needs liquid water. If Earth were closer to the sun our water might dry up. If Earth were further from the sun our water might freeze.
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We Cover All Major Science Standards in Grades 3-5
Four Seasons and Day Length
Chemical vs. Physical Changes
Bacteria & Viruses
Patterns in the Sky
Variation of Traits
Multicellular Organisms
Introduction to Sound
Balanced & Unbalanced Forces
Atoms & Molecules
Weathering & Erosion
Tectonic Plates
Structure of Living Things
Solar & Lunar Eclipses
Introduction to Weather
Water Cycle (3-5 Version)
Oceans, Lakes and Rivers
Earth's Orbit & Rotation
Electricity & Circuits
Living vs. Non-Living Things
Fossils & Extinction
Energy Transfer
Plant & Animal Cells
Inspired by Nature (Biomimicry)
Sun and Other Stars
Causes of Seasons
Introduction to Light
Brain Processing of Senses
Symbiosis (Interactions Between Organisms)
Pollination and Seed Dispersal
Adaptations and the Environment
Electric & Magnetic Fields
Material Properties and Purposes
Collisions
Classification of Living Things
Gravity Pulls Things Down
Magnets & Static Electricity
Gravitational Forces Between Objects
Pushes and Pulls
Introduction to Traits
Conservation of Matter
Competition in Ecosystems
Plant Growth Conditions
Wave Reflection, Absorption & Transmittance
Patterns of Motion & Friction
Comparative Anatomy
Animals Help Their Babies Survive
Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources
Solids, Liquids and Gases
Plants Need Water And Light
Human Body Systems
What is Science? (6-8 Version)
Biodiversity of Life on Earth
Intro to Thermal Energy
Sunlight Warms the Earth
Extreme Weather Solutions
Food Webs: Cycling of Matter & Flow of Energy
How Do We Use Food
Properties of Elements
Wave Properties
Communication Over Distances
Moon & Its Phases
Potential vs. Kinetic Energy
Maps of Landforms
Interactions of Earth's Spheres
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Marie-Clémence David
Marie-Clémence David is a photographer who lives in Paris.
She's been passionate since her childhood by pictures, cinema and art in general and received her first camera at age 12. Since then, it has never stopped being a part of her and goes along in her daily routine.
After her photography studies, she decided to become a professional artist in 2013. After several shows in North of France, from where she grew up, she moved to Paris in 2014 and evolved her art and practice of photography in the cultural sector, especially focused on portraiture and photo documentary. She has collaborated with many theater companies since then.
The camera is an instrument that gives her a way of understanding reality and celebrating everyday details. Always attracted by light and by life, she photographs as if to have a grip on the passing of<|fim_middle|>ev from Russia has been named the winner of the New East Photo Prize 2020 for his project Sakhawood. The prize is presented by Calvert 22 Foundation and The Calvert Journal (more…)
On the Periphery
by Sinziana Velicescu
Forward by Matthew Hong
Sinziana Velicescu's work is a minimalist and abstract approach, a modern chronicling of a quiet land surveyor, completely separated of sentimentality. The publication of her series is a documentation of time, bracketed in images of framed surfaces of space.
Sean Scully is one of the most important painters of his generation. While known primarily for his large-scale abstract paintings, Scully also works in a variety of diverse media, including printmaking, sculpture, watercolor and pastel. | time.
Her personal and often autobiographical work is about such different themes as loss, solitude, memories, death and awareness of human condition in today's society.
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Marc Lagrange (1957-2015) was born in Kinshasa, Congo. His career path led him from engineering to photography, and his creativity from fashion to art. (more…)
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We're honored to have Emily Nielsen as part of our yoga studio community. This March Emily is our student of the month. Here's a little about why we think she's so special. Emily wrote this response to some questions we asked to get to know her better. Thank you Emily for being you!
"I practice yoga for a lot of reasons: it makes me feel alive, energized, centered, better connected to myself and others and more ready to handle life's challenges and celebrate its joys<|fim_middle|> running, gardening, and generally appreciating the beauty of Vermont. | . Yoga is also incredibly dynamic and complex, so I am constantly learning all kinds of new things as I practice.
I took my first yoga "class" with my roommate in our shared bedroom about twelve years ago while we were living abroad in Australia. Our class consisted of playing a Baron Baptiste CD and trying to follow along with no mats or props. While I didn't immediately dive into a consistent practice, I never forgot how good I felt afterwards. I also walked away inspired that I could practice yoga virtually anywhere, anytime. Since then my practice has waxed and waned, though it has been a very large part of my life for the past 5 years.
I continue to choose LRY to practice and for YTT because the studio challenges me to grow on many levels without being intimidating or competitive. LRY promotes positive change in its students by helping us develop our relationships to ourselves on and off the mat and by fostering community. I have practiced most with Emily and Sofi; both are incredibly skilled teachers, who take their work seriously, but maintain a sense of humor and lightness that makes me feel at ease and more receptive to change. I also truly appreciate the wide range of ages, body-types, yoga styles and interests among those who practice at LRY. I drive all the way from Hyde Park to practice at LRY, which is a pretty good indication of my feelings about the studio!
I work with college students at Johnson State College, supporting students through their first year in college, programming arts and cultural events and adjunct teaching in the English department. When I'm not working, I'm often found outside, in motion, with my husband and friends. Recently, I've been doing a good deal of skiing, hiking, and playing in the snow with our husky, Klauss. In the summer, I can often be found paddle boarding, | 377 |
You don't need to rely on one static income now that online businesses are available (and possible for anyone to start).<|fim_middle|> your own terms. With an online business, you can stay at home and still make the income that you want and need.
There is no limit to the number of business opportunities that exist online. Internet usage is growing steadily, and the customer base now encompasses virtually every possible demographic. Your business ideas should incorporate some way to fill online needs that are either unfulfilled or that have room for more businesses to compete.
Many people choose an online information business in order to fulfill the constant need for online information. To start an information business, think about the expertise you have that may be of help to people who are looking for information online. It may be professional experience that you can turn into an ebook or an ecourse, or it may be personal information that you have developed through raising a child or solving household problems.
It may take some time before you find one specific business idea that you want to use to boost your income. Many new entrepreneurs try several different online business ideas to see which ones are most profitable and enjoyable. You may find that you enjoy online publishing and want to create more infomration products. Or, you may find that you don't enjoy it and want to persue online sales of physical ites instead.
To get started, make a list of three to five business ideas that interest you. One may be eBay sales, one may be a self-published how-to book, one may be designing business cards and one may be writing resumes or anything else that uses your own skill sets. Put some effort into pursuing each online opportunity in order to discover your best option.
The income boost that you need should be calculated before you start pursuing your business ideas. Calculate the amount of extra income you need in order to meet extra bills, provide your family with extras or to save for special occasions. That amount should be a monthly online income that you will strive for in your online ventures. Keep track of how much you earn from your online business ideas, dropping the ones that don't provide you with the income boost that you want. Eventually, you will be left with one or two business ideas that are performing well for you, earning that extra income that you need from your online pursuits. | By coming up with online business ideas, you can give yourself an income raise and do it on | 19 |
Chiggin hatched in July of 2016 in Syracuse NY. With a lineage of musical collaboration as far back as 2012<|fim_middle|>man Ethan Wojcik, organ extraordinaire Brian Caswell, and most recently the au naturale Jacob Penner on alto and tenor sax.
Rehearsing frequently, arranging tunes up and down, learning a book of covers, and tightening up, the bird soared at some stellar shows in 2017. And wouldn't you guess we flew right into a studio? MoreSound Studios's Jose Varona and Jocko Randall brought the bird to market.
Chiggin clucked at Sterling Stage's Last Daze of Summer featuring Max Creek, The Werks, and so many more. The bird opened for incredible artists like Zach Deputy and Paa Kow, and has begun touring the state of New York and beyond.
Most recently, Chiggin laid some fresh eggs, releasing the debut EP "Original Recipe". The four song rager is the perfect bite, balancing versatile stylistic flavors and exciting you for a second course with an exclusive taste of Chiggin's one of a kind, raucous rockin' funk sound.
Chiggin is ready for dinner with our forthcoming original EP, "Original Recipe" fresh out the kitchen. Take a bite.
"With every [Sterling Stage] festival, I always walk away excited by a new discovery. My greatest discovery and band a I like A LOT is Chiggin. They are a funk drenched pile of fun from Syracuse, fronted by Max Puglisi. Their horn section allows them to dive into really fun covers... so great to hear wailing through festival grounds. I was extremely excited to have found these guys."
"and then there was Chiggin... I had never seen Chiggin before, though I've wanted to for quite some time. I watched their set and I don't know how to explain it. I don't dance, like, ever, but I'm pretty sure my brain was dancing inside my skull. I had goosebumps and reverse goosebumps at the same time..."
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Don't like it? Go Funk Yourself. | , the band formed as a funky foursome, with Max Puglisi, Sam Roux, and Gavin George, spotlighting Matt Kingsley as a featured lead guitarist.
Chiggin quickly spread it's wings through Syracuse, becoming known for their fun stage show and their untamed musicality. Becoming a favorite at local club Funk 'N Waffles, they shared the stage with such national acts as Swift Technique, Roxy Roca, Joe Driscoll, and Faergolzia's Multibird.
At the year mark, Matt Kingsley's move to Nashville severed an important piece of the bird's wing. To fill the void of the wizard, Chiggin re-armed itself as a more recognizable funk outfit, bringing aboard trumpet genius Nick Fields, trombonefunk | 161 |
The Maple Run subdivision if one of many areas in southwestern Austin that comprise the region we know as Oak Hill. Essentially there are two distinctive developments within the entire neighborhood: the older Maple Run which was built in the early to mid- 1980s and the newer Deer Park at Maple Run of the mid to late 1990s. Winding streets lead from one area to the other and you can easily find yourself in<|fim_middle|> The Texas Cave Management Association and the City of Austin have combined forces to protect the caves and their inhabitants. If you're interested in learning more about the aquifer system, Karst Preserve offers Cave Day each year in mid-March. | the older Maple to the north of Alexandria Drive or the Deer Park at Maple Run which is south to Deer Lane. The entire area is situated between Brodie Lane and South Mopac Expressway.
Homes in Maple Run vary between the smaller single and two-story structures of the older neighborhood to larger brick and stone homes in Deer Park at Maple Run. Typical of both areas is modest front and back yards with privacy fencing and mature landscaping. Pricing also varies between the two neighborhoods with homes available in Maple Run averaging $180K and 1,600 square feet. At Deer Park at Maple Run you will find homes averaging 2,000 square feet and costing closer to $230K – $250K. Larger homes up to 3,000 and 4,000 square feet can also be found along greenbelts.
Like much of southwest Austin, the Maple Run homes sit on top of the environmentally sensitive Edwards Aquifer. This underground water-collection region is critical to the health of the entire region and services water from Austin to San Antonio. The nearby Karst Preserve is part of this underground cave network and rock formation that allows water to be filtered into the huge reservoir. | 250 |
Wonderful and exciting – Penedés !!
I lived in paradise for many years – believe me, California is breathtakingly beautiful – but having been here in Penedés for almost two years now, I am blown away by the natural wonder of this place. Sometimes it upsets me that this beautiful region, shock full of delicious wine, sparkling and otherwise, is not more acknowledged, famous, hip, god-I-have-to-visit- kind of place in every wine lovers mind!! But you'll all get here, sooner or later! Just keep reading my blog and it will happen to you, too!!
I just visited one of the fabulous cava bodegas – and there are more then 300 bodegas in this area- and it made me realize how versatile and unique Penedés is! Walking in to Jaume Giro' i Giro' in the pueblo of Sant Sadurni d'Anoya is<|fim_middle|> this wonderful part of the world of wine! | like walking into a hundred years ago – today! We were greeted by a good natured, all around winery guy, Josep, who showed us around and poured some of the best of the house, cavas that have garnered 90+ points from Robert Parker. My favorites were Bombonetta (Rose') and Brut Gran Reserva Montanya, and most of the cavas were €15 or less..just saying!
Jaume Giro' i Giro' will be pouring at the Cava Tast, the grand Cava street festival that runs for three days, Oct 5-7, in Sant Sadurni' d'Anoia, the capital of Cava!
Come visit, come taste, come discover | 152 |
Running backs star in Mobile
MOBILE, Ala. – The Texans have not been shy about their needs at the running back position. General manager Rick Smith<|fim_middle|>ee
All-Pro WR DeAndre Hopkins shared his early impressions of rookie WR Keke Coutee
Breakfast: Mathieu's expectations are changed
Tyrann Mathieu's been able to narrow his focus in his time with the Texans.
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Drew Dougherty answered fan questions about a variety of topics. | said the team is considering carrying three elite rushers on the roster next season.
That means Smith and his crew are on the lookout at the 2008 Senior Bowl for shifty prospects who can change games with breakaway plays.
They probably liked what they saw when East Carolina's Chris Johnson took the field for the North team's second practice.
Johnson (5-11, 198 pounds) has been compared to Philadelphia's Brian Westbrook because of his exceptional speed and strength. The senior found holes, caught balls and returned kicks on special teams.
"My second day of practice went really well," Johnson said. "I hit the holes well and I caught the ball well."
Cal's Justin Forsett and USC's Chauncey Washington also turned in noteworthy performances on the ground. Forsett, who backed up current Buffalo Bills running back Marshawn Lynch until last year, found an extra gear when breaking through the line of scrimmage.
"It was just a blessing to learn from those guys, Marshawn Lynch and J.J. Arrington, who are both in the league now," Forsett said. "It was just about being patient and waiting my time.
"I'm going to give it my all every day, show people that I can catch the ball and block."
Meanwhile, Washington did an excellent job of grabbing balls out of the backfield during seven-on-seven and team sessions. The Troy product has been criticized for being careless with the football, but he did not make that mistake on Tuesday.
Perhaps the biggest attraction in the North practice was fullback/running back Owen Schmitt, who walked on to the West Virginia team as a transfer student. Schmitt is not a natural pass catcher, but he made solid grabs as a dump-off option and put up physical blocks.
"I would play water boy if they wanted to draft me," Schmitt said. "I don't care. I'd punt if they really wanted me to punt. I just want to impress some people and show them what I can do."
{QUOTE}During the South's practice, Tulane running back Matt Forte showcased versatility and speed for his size. The 222-pound back proved to be an effective between-the-tackles runner and was tough to bring down.
He even impressed with his receiving skills, making crisp cuts and creating separation from linebackers during one-on-one drills. Forte might be the highest-rated running back behind Arkansas' Darren McFadden and Illinois' Rashard Mendenhall.
"It will be interesting to see how he does during the week," South coach Mike Nolan, of the San Francisco 49ers, said of Forte. "He caught my eye today and I was asking our scouts about him. But it's too early to say where a player like that will go."
Another South back garnering attention was Rafael Little from Kentucky. Little looked quick breaking through seams up the middle, but he will have to work on his blocking and sideline running.
"You never know where you could go (in the draft)," Little said. "It could go from fourth to first, so you have to go hard the whole time."
Breakfast: DeAndre Hopkins' on Keke Cout | 646 |
Something profound shifted over the past <|fim_middle|>iness and self-doubt. You and I, along with many others, can show this generation and all future generations that entrepreneurial success is not about blood, sweat, and tears. It's about Love, gratitude, and collaboration. | 48-hours. I can feel it. You can feel it as well. We all do. It's part of the beautiful and powerful magick of Light that is weaving a tapestry of Divine synchronicities across the global and galactic grid at this very moment.
These synchronicities are ushering in new opportunities for inner growth and are setting the stage for profitably growing our businesses and manifesting our dreams into reality on a whole new and awesome level. Why, then, are we so afraid of the new opportunities that we're being gifted with?
Why is it that we spend more time grieving what we had to let go of than gratefully welcoming in what we have made room for in our lives? And what is it that keeps us from fully embracing the essence and presence of our Soul's purpose, when we work so damn hard to be blessed with the opportunities to fulfill it?
The answer to these questions may be different for each of us, but there are some glaring and very common themes we can all relate to, and help one another break free from.
At the top of the list is the addiction to unworthiness, which is the primary through-line and theme of our past. While we've been learning how to Love ourselves and working hard to create opportunities for more abundance, we've been unknowingly sabotaging our best efforts with stories of a very traumatic past.
It's time, then, for the seeds we've been sowing for the growth of our Soul's purpose to manifest into a beautiful and abundant new physical reality. You and I know this. But we also know we can't do this alone.
We've been traipsing through the darkness of unworthiness for so long that it requires more than just new technologies, yoga poses, positive affirmations, and marketing funnels to step into our full power and unleash our inspired voice. If it takes a village to raise a child, then it takes a village of conscious-minded, heart-centered entrepreneurs to raise the consciousness of our planet.
We may practice Self-Love, and we may help others to do the same through our businesses, but the stories of our past taught us to fear our creative power. But that's not all it conditioned us to fear.
We also feared the creative power of others, and as a result, perceived threats where there were none, fostering jealousy and unhealthy competition in the spiritual community. This has gone on for so long that we convinced ourselves other people or so-called entities had power over us. We forgot how Divinely powerful we really are.
With that in mind, raising the consciousness of the planet through your business does not start outside of you. It begins from within. If you're wondering how this translates in the outside world, look no further than how you can leverage your skills, gifts, and talents to create a better life for you and your family. Now, look beyond just you and your family and see where this can be done for others.
If this is all too much and you're stuck in the old story of struggle, betrayal, imposter syndrome, and drowning in the quicksand of anxiety, you're not alone. On some level, we're all dealing with this. That's what these new, elevated energies are here to help us transmute. And this is where the real calling of your sacred work comes in.
Each of us is here to support one another through the process of joyously scaling our consciousness while profitably scaling our businesses. In other words, we're here to serve humanity as a beacon of Light by fulfilling our Soul's purpose. This doesn't happen when we perceive one another as a threat and we stick to our story that struggling to survive financially is spiritual integrity. It isn't.
Our success and our collective presence as a unified community is a Divine demonstration for other conscious-minded, heart-centered entrepreneurs to see a way out of the old story of unworth | 788 |
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Some 3.6 million Haitians or 700,000 families are affected by food insecurity, including 1.5 million who are in a serious situation, according to a report from the Government.
The study, carried out every year by the National Food Security Coordinator (CNSA), noted that the most vulnerable households are using negative survival strategies.
Over the past<|fim_middle|>ial approach that integrates local production to increase the availability of food and their nutritional content.
It also reinforces the availability and access to food and stable supplies through appropriate social policies. | three years, a severe drought has affected Haiti, thus damaging crops that represent more than 60 percent of the country's annual production, so the prospects for households to recover from this crisis are limited, the report added.
In that scenario, small producers are more vulnerable than ever to food insecurity, the CNSA pointed out.
Last February, the Haitian Government and the European Union (EU) launched a Food and Nutritional Security program in the northwestern region, Artibonite and Grande-Anse.
The initiative aims to improve those indicators in the most vulnerable populations in a sustainable manner, and strengthen their resilience and capacities to counter and overcome the crises.
The program is based on a multi-sector | 141 |
Dare è il terzo album del gruppo britannico The Human League, pubblicato dalla Virgin Records nel 1981.
Nel mercato statunitense è stato pubblicato con il titolo Dare!
Il disco
Lo stile dell'album è il risultato della rapida evoluzione degli Human League da gruppo d'avanguardia sperimentale a band di pop elettronico commerciale sotto la guida creativa di Philip Oakey a seguito della dipartita dal gruppo dei membri fondatori Martyn Ware e Ian Craig Marsh. Dare venne ben accolto dalla critica e si rivelò album di capitale importanza per lo sviluppo di generi quali il pop elettronico, risultando influente in molte altre aree musical<|fim_middle|>ene, diazepam e NyQuil. Quando spirò stava ascoltando l'album Dare degli Human League.
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Collegamenti esterni | i. Il disco e i quattro singoli da esso estratti, in particolare Don't You Want Me, riscossero enorme successo, con l'album che si piazzò in vetta alla classifica in Gran Bretagna venendo certificato successivamente triplo disco di platino dalla British Phonographic Industry.
L'album diede vita anche all'album remix Love and Dancing, pubblicato dal gruppo sotto il nome di The League Unlimited Orchestra nel 1982. L'album, uno dei primi del genere, consiste in versioni rimixate di vari brani di Dare più Hard Times, il lato B del singolo Love Action (I Believe in Love). I due album furono pubblicati insieme su un unico compact disc nel 2002.
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Il celebre giornalista rock Lester Bangs morì nel 1982, a 33 anni, per un'overdose accidentale di destropropossif | 253 |
Here we go. Flyner is open!<|fim_middle|> get the word out. So if you bring your friends to sign up right now, you might even have your own Flyner party. You will also get an early adopter status, which, in all probability, will have special perks later on.
The idea for Flyner came about back in the fall of 2010. One might think of it as a different kind of Omegle alternative. The thinking was similar to what is described on the About page. What if you could write a note and someone somewhere would be able to read it. Like a message in a bottle, but faster and with the possibility of writing back. What's more, you could send out a lot of notes, catch a bunch as well, and have many conversations going.
Now Flyner is finally here. In some ways it's like a chat, in others like a blog, and perhaps a bit like a social network. But really, it is quite unique and has its own interesting dynamics. We certainly hope you will enjoy it.
It's early days. At times you might have to wait to receive a response to your note. That's normal and will tend to happen until more people join in. You can still reply, even if you weren't online when the message came in. Eventually most conversations start out in real time. And you will be able to say you were here when it all started. | There will not be a whole lot of people online in the beginning as we still need to | 18 |
Ways In Which Big Data Analytics Can Boost Your Business | Blog | Ms. JD | Determined to Rise.
The good thing about doing business in this era is that you can efficiently collect data from your clients. The data may include social media interactions, mobile application usage, and digital clicks. Because clients' social norms have changed, their expectations have escalated. In this article, you will learn how big data analytics can help optimize business operations.
1. Proactivity and ability to anticipate needs.
Businesses are experiencing competitive pressure to not only win new clients but also understand what they need and make their experience better and perfect. Since customers can share their data, it is up to you as the business owner to collect that data and use to build a great relationship and offer the best services. Customers are using so many channels to interact with businesses in so many ways. It is essential to bring all data sources together to understand customers' behaviors. All in all, your customers expect you to deliver high-quality services.
2. Big data analytics reduce risks.
Most people who are successful in business are not afraid of taking risks. Fraud and security analytics focus on guarding all your physical and financial assets against any internal and external threats. Once your company has dynamic data analytics capabilities, you are likely to have optimum levels of fraud prevention. You will be able to identify all risks and solve them before they blow up and become a problem.
For your company to win clients and keep them, the products and services you offer have to be the best in the market. The product management team in your organization has the leading role of knowing all the latest trends in the market. Efficient data collection from various sources where clients share their thoughts and opinions helps your company stay relevant when it comes to competition since you will offer your clients exactly what they want. In some cases, you might be able to provide products before they are requested.
Nowadays everyone is involved in digital technology. You will find that most of your clients are on social media, or somewhat active on the internet. Responding to any questions asked by your clients in real time makes them feel valued. To achieve that, you need advanced analytics. Having big data offers the chance to interact with all your clients based on their personalities, location,<|fim_middle|>ight such as Hadoop and Spark.
Poorly managing your business operations can lead to severe repercussions in the future including ruining customer experience. If you are in business, you need to understand that your client is your most important resource and you need to make him happy all the time. Application of analytics for controlling and designing the business operations in the production sector will ensure that you meet all your clients' expectations. Nowadays, clients expect you, as the business owner to know what they want. Therefore, it is up to you to go out on the field and get all the data from your clients and analyze it in a way that will help you retain all your clients.
Each of the points in this article tells business owners the importance of making data-based decisions instead of doing what they think is right. Most marketers have not been able to grasp the significance of correctly handling big data and the benefits of doing that. Adoption of big data analytics is something that will be big in the future. Therefore, do not wait until the last minute, be wise enough and start doing it as early as now, your business will be a success. All the best. | and attitude. The problem most companies are experiencing is the issue of processing vast amounts of data in a fast and efficient way. Therefore, if you want to give your business an edge over your competitors, consider using Azure HDIns | 45 |
How many wonder? How can any human being bounce back after such set back and compete let alone win one of the hardest sporting events possible? Why, others will ask? Why would a man want to put is mind and body through such tests? Is it a new lease on life? Is it a second chance, or is an obsession in the soul?
Many who live to compete in sporting events marvel at those who consistently rise to the occasion. But, all of us like a story. A story of triumph, especially when it has to do with human will power.
1. Passion: You have to be sold out to doing what you want to accomplish. You understand at the start that you will have good days and not so good days.
2. Respect for the sport: You understand that the sport is much larger than you. You have the attitude each day that it is you chancing the sport not the sport living for you.
3. Willingness to learn: Each day will be an opportunity to learn something about you, the sport and the process.
4. Work smarter not harder attitude: It is not the one who necessarily works the hardest day in and day out. It is the one who continues to learn how to be more efficient in their craft.
5. Master the mental game first: The biggest and most challenging events, courses and obstacles are not the ones we run on but the ones we think upon. You must first win over the events in your head before you can win on the paths to victory.
6. Know when to quit: Winning has a lot to do with how you bow<|fim_middle|>.
10. When others say no, you say yes: Refuse to be normal. Be the best you can be. Never settle for less than you can give.
We all may never accomplish what Lance Armstrong has overcome; however, we all have our own journey's to pursue. Achieving them is maybe more of a matter of will rather than what each of us are dealt with. For today you may say, how come? Tomorrow you may think how far? | out as much as it does to entering your first event. Compete for the sport, not for your ego!
7. Learn from the best: Always have someone to whom you can learn more things about your sport from.
8. Surround yourself with winners: You are only as good as those around you. Develop a good support team around you.
9. Eat to Win: Practice great nutritional habits. To be at your best, you must fuel the system that will take you there | 97 |
Vèlia o Èlea (, en ; gentilici: , en , en català elèata o velienc) era una ciutat de la Magna Grècia, una de les principals colònies gregues d'Itàlia a la vora de la mar Tirrena, entre Posidònia i Pixos. Fou una colònia focea fundada el , i va acollir una de les grans escoles filosòfiques presocràtiques, l'escola d'Elea.
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Segons que diuen Estrabó i Diògenes Laerci, la ciutat va ser fundada com a («Hyélē»), i efectivament aquesta grafia és corroborada per les monedes batudes a la ciutat. No obstant això, la forma més corrent en els texts és («Eléa»), que dóna nom a l'escola d'Elea, i que és la que es va imposar amb el temps en l'àmbit hel·lènic. Per la seva banda, de bon començament els romans l'anomenaren , que esdevengué la forma més comuna quan, amb el canvi d'era, el llatí substituí el grec com a llengua habitual a tota la Magna Grècia.
La cosa més probable és que la forma Ὑέλη en realitat sigui una manera tardana de representar el so de la digamma que encara persistia en eòlic (per tant, *Ϝέλ-, /wél-/). Èlea era una colònia dels foceus, que es trobaven a la frontera entre Eòlia i Jònia, i, per tant, el seu dialecte, tot i que de base jònica, tenia molts d'elements d'influència eòlica, com ara la retenció de la digamma, almenys en posició inicial. Al costat d'aquesta forma eòlica es degué desenvolupar una forma jònica amb elisió de la digamma, , que és la que es va popularitzar entre els escriptors àtics. La forma eòlica, però, degué persistir encara un bon grapat d'anys, perquè el nom llatí de la ciutat, , reté el so de la digamma inicial, que els romans escrivien amb la V.
Pel que fa a l'origen del nom, és possible que derivi del nom de l'actual riu Alento, al qual Ciceró dona el nom de Hales però Estrabó l'anomena Ἐλέης («Eléēs») i Esteve de Bizanci, Βελέα («Beléa» o «Veléa»). Altres autors feien derivar el seu nom de ἕλος («hélos») 'aiguamoll', per la zona humida situada a la boca del riu.
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La fundació d'Èlea està totalment vinculada a la batalla d'Alàlia: els grecs de Focea havien abandonat la seva ciutat perquè volien evitar el domini persa però volien evitar el setge per part del general Hàrpag cap al 545 aC, i s'havien establert a Alàlia. Cap al 540 aC s'enfrontaren a un contingent etrusc i fenici a Alàlia, i després de perdre més de la meitat de les naus abandonaren Còrsega, i tot seguit s'establiren a la costa de Lucània per fundar Èlea, segurament en un empori preexistent. Èlea es fundava, doncs, cap al , datació confirmada per les troballes arqueològiques duites a terme a l'antiga ciutat. Concretament, els arqueòlegs han trobat un dipòsit ritual fundacional amb trofeus de guerra consistents en armament etrusc de la batalla d'Alàlia, que es pot datar efectivament entorn del .
Al cap d'un temps, la ciutat, dedicada al cultiu de la terra i al comerç, es va fer pròspera. S'han trobat moltes monedes de plata, i el fet que es convertís en la seu d'una escola de filosofia que establerta durant diverses generacions indica que la ciutat era un centre cultural important. Però de la seva història interna hom no en coneix gairebé res.
Estrabó diu que era coneguda pel seu bon govern. És sabut que Parmènides li va donar un codi de lleis que els magistrats juraven anualment. Però la confusa història de la mort de Zenó d'Elea, deixeble de Parmènides, de qui es diu que va ser assassinat per un tirà anomenat Nearc o Diomedont, sembla indicar que la ciutat va tenir també períodes de violència interna. Estrabó informa que els elèates van guanyar en un enfrontament amb Posidònia, i també que es varen enfrontar i varen derrotar els lucans. L'escola de filosofia eleàtica la va fundar Xenòfanes, nascut a Colofó i establert a la ciutat; la va continuar Parmènides, autor del codi de lleis, i més<|fim_middle|>utat com a substituta de Baies. Gai Trebaci Testa, amic de Ciceró, hi va tenir una vil·la. No se'n parla durant la resta de l'Imperi i ja no apareix als Itineraris, però va continuar d'existir. Al Liber Coloniarum figura com a una de les prefectures de Lucània i com a municipi, categoria que també es coneix per inscripcions trobades. El era seu d'un bisbat, i encara ho era el 599, en temps de Gregori el Gran. Probablement no es va abandonar definitivament fins al , a causa de les incursions dels sarraïns.
A l'edat mitjana, es va construir al lloc una fortalesa que es va dir Castell' a Mare della Brucca. Les ruïnes de la ciutat són al seu entorn, a uns tres km de la desembocadura del riu Alento, on es forma una espaiosa badia entre la punta Porticello i el cap Monte della Stella. En resten part de les muralles i alguns edificis ensorrats, a més de l'aqüeducte i algunes cisternes.
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Les restes de Vèlia | tard Zenó, ambdós nascuts a la ciutat. Natural de la ciutat es creu que podia ser també Leucip, fundador de la teoria atòmica, que d'altres fan natural d'Abdera o de Melos. Els atomistes pensaven que el moviment existia en si mateix, mentre que els eleàtics no acceptaven el moviment com a realitat sinó com a fenomen.
La ciutat no va tardar a esdevenir aliada de Roma. Ciceró l'anomena foederata civitas, i durant la Segona Guerra Púnica va ser una de les ciutats que es va veure obligada a aportar la seva quota de naus a la flota romana, segons Titus Livi. Segurament amb la Lex Julia de civitate italis danda va romandre afranquida i convertida en un Municipi romà l'any 90 aC.
Sota domini romà va continuar sent una ciutat pròspera, i destacava pel seu clima suau i saludable. Emili Paule hi va viure per causa de la salut, i Horaci es va interessar per la ci | 279 |
Q: I'm saving for my mortgage and have approximately £7,000 saved as a deposit. I also have<|fim_middle|> lenders have online affordability calculators that might help you see how it could affect you, but it would really make sense to take advice on your own circumstances, especially given the fact that different lenders have different affordability criteria. | £7,000 on a credit card which charges 0% interest for the next 18 months. I have seen conflicting advice - some saying it's not advisable to have no credit at all on a credit card, whilst others say it will affect the amount I'll be allowed to borrow.
The two approaches that you have seen are actually both correct in their own way and that's because they effectively answer two different questions.
When a lender receives a mortgage application, most will check the credit file and credit score the applicant. Checking the credit file will reveal how well the applicant manages any credit. That's why you will have seen that having some credit is not a bad thing, as it gives a lender a track record to look at in order to help profile and score a potential borrower.
Assuming that a borrower has an appropriate score and a clean credit history, the lender will also have to assess how much they may be prepared to lend. Each lender will have its own affordability criteria but lenders will ask questions around not just the level of income but also expenditure.
Ongoing committed expenditure will therefore be factored into that calculation. Loans and credit card payments will feed into that calculation, so could certainly impact on the maximum borrowing amount.
In other words, having a reasonable, well managed credit card debt should not in itself result in an application being declined. However, if you are running an ongoing balance there could be some reduction in the amount of borrowing available depending on affordability.
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Singer Semeli Papavasileiou is one of Greece's current rising stars. Having collaborated with big names such as Antonis Apergis, she brings her quartet to the Global Sound Sessions, travelling with the sounds from the Greek rebetiko tradition and the folk music of Minor Asia. Her quartet features upcoming musicians from the Athenian rebetiko and folk music scenes with Glafkos Smarianakis on the violin, Alexand<|fim_middle|>, GREECE | ros Kentris on the Greek bouzouki and UK based Thodoris Ziarkas on the double bass. Together, they bring to life what is known as the blues of Greece, with songs depicting urban scenes from the early pre-war years, ranging from unrequited love to the harsh reality of drug-ridden poverty.
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At that time, operators were used to manually switch or route a session from one terminal to another. At the beginning of 20th century, the telecommunications industry had already been exposed to a number of important issues, which played different roles, culminating in the emergence of modern wireless networks. Among these important issues were analog versus digital, voice versus data, wireless versus wired, local versus long haul communications, and personal versus group services.
It took 28 years for telegraphy to provide transoceanic services after the first on-land service.
On the other hand, it took only three years for wireless telegraphy to become transoceanic after a local installation. This reflects the disadvantages of laying cables for wired communications compared with wireless services. To install a wireline in a town, one needs to get wiring permits which take extremely long processing times; conduct expensive, long, and laborious digging to lay the wire; and maintain a service organization for wiring maintenance. The PSTN has emerged as the expert of these details, and as we will later discuss, all networks that emerged use this expertise in one way or another for developing their own network infrastructure.
The telephone service providers have the requisite knowledge for laying wires of three types: first, they know how to connect long-haul networks; second, they know how to provide a twisted pair line to homes and offices; and last, they know how to wire a home or office. Wiring of homes and offices is an expertise shared between telephone companies and electricians.
The telegraph infrastructure evolved as a private network not directly accessible to the public user. Each end terminal of a telegraph network supported a community whereas the telephone end terminals supported a home or an office with at most a few users. As a result, the number and the usage periods of the telephone terminal were orders of a magnitude larger than the telegraph network, resulting in a far more prosperous telephone industry.
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By the s, the PSTN had more than 10 million customers in the United States, and those interested in long-haul communication issues also needed PSTN services to solve their problems. Although end users are still mostly connected to the PSTN with twisted-pair analog lines, to provide flexibility and ease of maintenance and operation of the PSTN, the core network gradually changed to digital switches and digital wired lines connecting switches together.
A hierarchy of digital lines the T-carriers in the United States evolved as trunks to connect switches of different sizes together. Another advancement in the PSTN was the development of private branch exchanges PBXs as privately owned local telephone networks for large offices. A PBX is a voice-oriented local area network owned by the end organization itself, rather than the telephone service provider.
This small switch allows the telephone company to reduce the number of wires that are needed to connect all the lines in an office to the local office of the PSTN. This way, the service provider reduces the number of wires to be laid to a small area where large offices with many subscribers are located. The end user also pays less to the telephone company. The organization thus has an opportunity to enhance services to the end users connected to the PBX.
In this experiment the possibility of using analog telephone lines for transferring transoceanic telegrams was examined. Researchers involved in this project discovered several key issues that included the sampling theorem and effects of phase distortion on digital communications. However, these discoveries did not affect applications until after World War II when Bell Laboratories developed voice band modems for communication among air force computers in air bases that were geographically separated by large distances [PAH98].
These modems soon found their way into commercial airlines and banking industries, resulting in the associated private long-haul data networks. These pioneering computer communications networks consisted of a central computer and a bank of modems operating over four-wire commercial grade leased telephone lines to connect several terminals to the computer.
In late s, the highest data rate for commercial modems was 4, bps. By the early s, with the invention of quadrature amplitude modulation QAM , the data rate of four-wire voice band modems reached 9, bps. In the early s, trellis-coded modulation TCM was invented which increased data rates to In parallel with the commercial four-wire modems used in early long haul computer networks, two-wire modems emerged for distance connection of computer terminals.
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<|fim_middle|>ire modems operate over standard two-wire telephone lines, and they are equipped with dialing procedures to initiate a call and establish a POTS line during the session. These modems started at data rates of bps. By the early s, they reached 1, bps, and by the mid s, they were running at 9, bps. These two-wire voice band modems would allow users in the home and office to have access to a regular telephone to develop a data link connection with a distant modem also having access to the PSTN.
Voice band modems using two-wire telephone connections soon found a large market in residential and small office remote computer access telnet , and the technology soon spread to a number of popular applications such as operating a facsimile machine or credit card verification device. With the popularity of Internet access, a new gold rush for higher speed modems began, which resulted in The 56 kbps modems use dialing procedures and operate within the 4 kHz voice band, but they directly connect to the core pulse code modulated PCM digital network of the PSTN that is similar to digital subscriber lines DSLs.
DSLs use the frequency band between 2. More recently cellular telephone services evolved. To connect a cellular telephone to the PSTN, the cellular operators developed their own infrastructure to support mobility. This infrastructure was connected to the PSTN to allow mobile-to-fixed telephone conversations. The addition of new services to the PSTN demanded increases in the intelligence of the core network to support these services.
As this intelligence advanced, the telephone service provider added value features such as voice mail, autodialing through network operators, call forwarding, and caller identification to the basic POTS service traditionally supported. Figure 1A. Data networks that evolved around voice band modems connected a variety of applications in a semiprivate manner. The core of the network was still the PSTN, but the application was for specific corporate use and was not offered privately to individual users.
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These networks were private data networks designed for specific applications, and they did not have standard transport protocols to allow them to interconnect with one another. Another irony of this operation was that the digital data was first converted to analog to be transmitted over the telephone network; then within the telephone network, it was again converted to digital format for transmission over long distances using the digital subcarrier system.
To avoid this situation, starting in the mid s, telephone companies started to introduce digital data services DDS which provided a 56 kbps digital service directly delivered to the end user. The idea was great because at that time the maximum data rate for voice band modems was 9, bps. However, like many other good and new ideas in telecommunications, this idea did not become popular.
A large amount of capital was already invested in the existing voice band based data networks. It was not practical to replace them at once, and DDS services were not interoperable with the analog modems. The DDS services later emerged as integrated services digital network ISDN services providing two 64 kbps voice channels and a 16 kbps data channel to individual users. Penetration rates of ISDN services were not as expected, but laid a foundation for digital cellular services. Digital cellular systems can be viewed as a sort of wireless ISDN technology that integrates basic digital voice with a number of data services at the terminal.
The major cost for operation of a computer network over the four-wire lines was the cost of leasing lines from the telephone company. To reduce the operation cost, multiplexers were used to connect several lower speed modems and carry all of them at once over a higher speed modem operating over a long distance line. The next generation of multiplexers consisted of statistical multiplexers that multiplexed flows of data rather than multiplexing individual modem connections. Statistical multiplexer technology later evolved into router technology, which are generalized packet data switches.
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In the early s, the rapid increase in the number of terminals at the offices and manufacturing floors was the force behind the emergence of LANs. LANs provided high-speed connections greater than 1 Mbps among terminals facilitating the sharing of printers or mainframes from different locations.
LANs provided a local medium specifically designed for data communication that was completely independent from the PSTN. By the mid s, several successful LAN topologies and protocols were standardized, and LANs were installed in most large offices and manufacturing floors connecting their computing facilities.
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Fantastical is one of the best calendar apps on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, and the latest version brings new features for iOS 12 and watchOS 5. Fantastical has also been optimized for the iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR, and the new update includes lots of customization options on the new Apple Watch Series 4.
Have a new Apple Watch Series 4? Fantastical is now optimized for the new 40mm and 44mm display sizes so you can see more appointments and reminders on-screen. Fantastical also now has complications for the new Infograph and Infograph Modular watch faces.
Infograph Modular complications include both the new large center option and the new circle options. These can show data like the day and date, upcoming and current appointments, and progress through your day<|fim_middle|> the apps section of the Shortcuts app.
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Fantastical lets you customize how Apple Watch complications appear depending on what data is important to you. Adjust this in the Apple Watch category of the settings section on Fantastical for iPhone.
Note that the corner complications around the analog Infograph clock are considered large complications. If you want to have a corner complication for the day and date on Infograph, adjust the large complication to date.
Fantastical can also now appear on the Siri watch face as a data source. This works for calendar appointments as well as reminders based on when they're relevant for which time of day.
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What has been Revealed by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Wmap Launched in 2001
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The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) was launched in June of 2001. At the time, cosmologists hoped it would add to the knowledge gained by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) that had been launched in November of 1989. Little did they know it would revolutionize the human idea of the universe and its origin. WMAP collected data for nine years before being decommissioned in October, 2010. The results of the probe have just been released.
It began with COBE, which revealed views of the universe as it looked 389,000 years ago. It was at that time that everything had cooled sufficiently for the first neutral atoms to be formed and light to move freely. COBE discovered evidence of the afterglow from the Big Bang, thereby supporting that theory of origins. Both COBE and WMAP examined what is known as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). This is the background radiation that was left over from the Big Bang. The fluctuations within the CMB can be measured and they reveal much about how the universe was formed.
The difference between COBE and WMAP was the degree of sensitivity of the equipment. WMAP received better reception, producing much more detailed maps of the fluctuations. The goal was to describe the geometry of the universe and answer questions about its structure, composition and age. They hoped to learn how galaxies and galactic clusters were formed.
The results answered those questions and many more. It turns out that the universe is 13.7 billion years old, give or take 1 percent. WMAP demonstrated the irregularities that caused the stars and galaxies to group together. The modern universe is composed of 72 percent dark energy, 23 percent dark matter and only 4.6 percent atoms. Only 380,000 years ago, the universe had a very different composition. It was 63 percent dark matter, 15 percent photons, 12 percent atoms, and 10 percent neutrinos. Dark energy did not exist in any quantifiable amount at that time.
The first generation of stars ignited only 200 million years after the Big Bang. These stars took more than 500 million years to create cosmic fog. WMAP also found evidence that a sea of cosmic neutrinos permeates the universe and that the universe is flat with a cosmological constant. The first direct detection of pre-stellar helium, another important piece of evidence that supports the Big Bang theory, was also found.
Combined data from COBE and WMAP demonstrate that gravity in conjunction with the initial material from the Big Bang could have formed the structures of the universe, such as galaxies and galactic clusters. The implications of this for future research and understanding of the universe are immense. Although WMAP is now over, the research is being continued on the Planck mission.
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Photo: Jules Annan ~ The competition winners singing Let It Goin front of hundreds just before the big switch on
We all know that it really is the start of the festive season when it gets to the annual Hereford Christmas Light Switch on. This year's switch on was organised by<|fim_middle|> joyous way."
The light switch on really was a huge success and had entertainment for all ages, we just have to wait to see what's in store for next year, but it has been promised that it is only going to get bigger and better… | Sunshine Radio and had lots going on. With entertainment from the early afternoon all the way through to the evening, hundreds of people braved the cold weather to witness the event, making this year a huge success.
The highlight of the event had to be the entertainment with girl band Stooshe headlining as well as performances by 2Faced Dance Company and Sandi Thom and guest appearances from Santa, Dalek Sec and Elsa and Anna. Local company, Endless Entertainment Events who organised much of the entertainment for the event, even ran a competition in the weeks leading up to the event giving children the opportunity to submit a Christmas themed drawing to have a chance to sing Let It Go on stage with Anna and Elsa (also from Endless Entertainment), a prize any child could only dream of.
The lights were switched on by the city's mayor, Charles Nicholls, who later said "It was a fabulous night for Hereford, I can't ever remember seeing so many people in High Town for the switch on. It was a good event for the city as it really does bring people together in a | 221 |
We are carrying the cross now in the Hebrides Islands. We<|fim_middle|> rainy and windy but just got dressed for the road in my wet weather cloths. Little did I know what was before me. Denise and Sophia were to drive out and find me later.
As I walked out of the parking lot and turned to go down the highway I was hit by strong winds. Now I have carried the cross around the world so I have walked in the wind and rain before but this was something else.
Soon the wind became so strong it was difficult to move forward and the rain as it hit my face burned the skin. It was about freezing cold. The walk became more difficult by the step! Soon I came to a causeway over the water. The water was crashing into the stones and spraying me with even more water. I was almost lifted off my feet as the cross was like a sail in the wind. Like a drunk man I staggered side to side trying to stay on the walkway beside the road. Then the walkway ended. The paved road became single lane with passing places to park. No way could I stay along side the road without getting blown into the passing cars.
I felt it right to turn back to keep from getting hit by a car and hurting myself or someone else. It was a battle! The wind was stronger and stronger. At long last I got back to the hotel having gone a total of about two miles.
Denise was getting Sophia ready to leave when I arrived back exhausted! She said she say on TV that there were Gale force winds in our area. Last night we saw on TV that the winds were up to 69 mph! Almost a Florida Hurricane!
Now what is the point of this story?
This morning I carried the cross out of the same hotel in calm weather. The storm had passed and that water did not even have a ripple of a wave. I took off my coat and enjoyed the very wonderful weather and cross walk.
Many people stopped their cars to talk and we were on the front page of "The Hebridean".
My point is on that stormy day…hang on! It may be cold and wet and windy and impossible to move forward but…today the storm is passed and it is beautiful and calm and wonderful.
Don't let the storms of life stop you. Oh, yes you may need to wait a day or week or month but in God's time and will, things will change and you can enjoy and smile.
God bless you. Just thought I would let you know a bit of life on the road. Oh, and by the way. I enjoyed yesterday's walk so much. It was glorious to feel the wind and cold and wet! I was shouting and laughing as I staggered along. I loved it! I praised the Lord Jesus all the time.
God willing I will e mail this column again from the road somewhere next week.
P.S. Denise did not get to edit this. ha So I am responsible for all errors. | are in the southern islands now.
Yesterday I got ready to carry the cross from the hotel where we spent the night. I could see it was | 29 |
Tennessee Distillers Guild Announces Official Launch of the Tennessee Whiskey Trail Tennessee distillers<|fim_middle|> history buffs alike. | come together to unveil a 25-stop whiskey tour across the state. Three launch celebrations planned throughout the year in East, Middle and West Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Distillers Guild, a membership organization consisting of 25 Tennessee distilleries, is proud to announce the official launch of the Tennessee Whiskey Trail, a 25-stop distillery tour across the state of Tennessee.
The Trail's official launch will be feted by three statewide celebrations in East, Middle and West Tennessee throughout the course of its inaugural year. The first celebration will take place at the Little Brick Theatre at the Factory in Franklin on June 19, 2017. The second celebration will coincide with the Tennessee Distillers Guild's annual Grains and Grits Festival in Townsend, TN on Nov. 3-4, 2017, and the third and final celebration will take place in Memphis in May 2018.
To embark on the Trail, visitors can get their free passport booklet on tnwhiskeytrail.com or pick them up at select distillery locations and collect stamps at each distillery en route. Those who collect all 25 stamps will receive a commemorative gift to mark their achievement. The Trail can be completed distillery-by-distillery or in regions at a time. Serious whiskey enthusiasts who hope to complete the entire Trail in a single trip can find a 10-day itinerary on tnwhiskeytrail.com. To get your free passport booklet or to plan your trip, visit www.tnwhiskeytrail.com.
Come join us and see why Adventures Run on Tennessee Whiskey.
About Tennessee Whiskey Trail: The Tennessee Whiskey Trail consists of 25 distilleries across the state of Tennessee ranging from boutique-sized operations to well-known distilleries that have been making good ol' fashioned Tennessee whiskey for ages. Along the Trail, visitors can get a taste of the history, tradition and novelty of Tennessee whiskey, as well as experience the rich landscapes, must-see landmarks, and genuine Southern hospitality that embody the great state of Tennessee. From the rolling hills of Appalachia to the lively blues-filled streets of Memphis, the Tennessee Whiskey Trail is a journey through time, a rich experiential adventure through Tennessee's picturesque countryside and lively cities, and a memorable experience for whiskey connoisseurs, adventurous travelers, and | 486 |
Five<|fim_middle|> is 5 miles away- many amenities to be found there. | miles south of Clayton on SH-271.
This restful hideaway offers a place to get away that features 54 campsites, picnic tables (5 group picnic shelters), comfort stations with showers, 2 boat ramps (one lighted ramp), a lighted boat dock, a lighted fishing dock, a playground, and a swimming beach.
Park Office: In Season 8AM to 5PM, 7 days a week; Off season 8AM to 5PM Monday through Friday// Campgrounds open 24 hours year round except Areas 3-A & 4A, which are closed December through mid-March.
Average peak season campsite prices range from $6 per night for primitive and unimproved camping (no utilities) to $15 per night for preferred RV campsites with water and electric. Groups renting multiple campsites may receive a discount. Discounts, site location, # of people, season, etc. will cause rates to vary. Group picnic shelters with water, grills, and electricity are available for $30 to $40 per day -- 2 shelters w/ no utilities are available at no charge.
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Philosophy as a Way of Life
Article By Julian Scott
posted by UK, October 19, 2017
The other day I heard a memorable phrase from the mouth of a Yorkshire farmer: "Farming is a way of life." And it occurred to me that anything which is done properly must be a way of life. The same is true of philosophy.
"Generally speaking, university philosophy is mere fencing in front of a mirror… And yet, if there is one thing desirable in this world, it is to see a ray of light fall onto the darkness of our lives, shedding some kind of light on the mysterious enigma of our existence." – Schopenhauer
According to Pierre Hadot, a French philosopher of the 20th century, it is a long time since philosophy was seen as a way of life. With some exceptions, he said, "modern philosophy is first and foremost a discourse developed in the classroom and then consigned to books."
In the ancient world, however, for example in Greece and Rome, a philosophical system was seen as merely the necessary framework for a fairly small number of maxims by which the philosopher could live his life. A practical example of one of these philosophical maxims is the following by the Stoic philosopher Epictetus: "Learn how to put up with insults, and tolerate other people." Philosophy in this sense is an art of living and the aim of philosophy is to master that art: to become a master of the art of life. We could say that it is the supreme art, which justifies all others.
Hadot shows that in antiquity there were 'spiritual exercises' that were practised by all philosophers: meditation on one's experiences culminating in the 'examination of conscience' at the end of each day and the planning for the next; the contemplation of Nature to understand the laws of life and to induce a state of inner joy and serenity; the contemplation of one's own mortality, resulting in a contempt for death and a realization of the unimportance of human affairs within the greater scheme of things.
Still today, we have the concept of 'a philosophical attitude to life' which implies a certain stoicism and acceptance of things as they are. It implies being able to remain calm and contented even in the greatest adversity. This really sums up the philosophical ideal. How can philosophy help us attain it? By making us feel connected with a greater reality, which we may call Nature, Life or God, according to<|fim_middle|> metaphysical truths. If we are all one, we have to try to live in harmony with our fellow human beings and ultimately to cease to think in terms of 'me' and to think instead in terms of 'us'. If you are a painter or a musician, you have to practise in order to perfect your art; so with philosophy, the art of living, it is impossible to be satisfied with the theory alone. To be a philosopher is to make the effort to perfect ourselves in the art of living.
It is interesting to note that every philosopher of antiquity sought to have a positive effect on the world around him. For example, many of the Pre-socratic philosophers were also statesmen; Plato tried to change the world with his political ideas; and Epicurus said that "vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man."
Is it not time that true philosophy returned to our world to play its important part in unifying human beings, bringing them back into union with themselves, with Nature and with others?
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Copyright 2019 New Acropolis International Organization | our preference. Philosophy is, on the one hand, to grasp some fundamental truths, such as 'the universe is one' or 'unity in multiplicity'. We come into contact with these truths by reading the works of great philosophers and by using our thinking and intuitive faculties. But after the realization must come the constant effort to live a life in accordance with these | 72 |
However, if the situation is recognized and caught early and appropriate therapy is instituted, most dogs that get hypoglycemia will do fine, he added, unless the particular dog is elderly, has epilepsy, diabetes, or some other pre-existing condition that might complicate things. Other common household products containing xylitol that dogs may ingest are sugarless gum, mints, chewable vitamins, toothpastes and mouthwashes, and sugar-free baked goods. "If a 20-pound dog gets into some Advil or something, we know what the dosage is. With xylitol in<|fim_middle|>'s not advisable to give nut butters to a dog that's overweight, or to one that has a sensitive stomach, due to the risk of pancreatitis and obesity. He said the best advice for a pet owner is to carefully read ingredient labels and not to assume that what is safe for humans is also safe for pets. | a product like this, we don't know and have to assume the worst," Nicholas noted. The worst can involve thousands of dollars in vet bills because a dog had to be hospitalized for treatment. But if the pet owner called a poison control center or a vet within an hour of the dog ingesting a xylitol-containing product, it's possible that the situation might be averted. Krush Nutrition has posted this warning on its website: "Xylitol, which is a natural sugar alcohol, is safe in humans. We ask that you please keep all xylitol and xylitol-containing food products out of reach from dogs. Even small amounts can be toxic to dogs. If you do, however, suspect your dog has ingested a xylitol-containing food, we suggest you immediately contact your local veterinarian." Nicholas said it shows the company is aware of the problem and "is at least doing something." However, he said it won't do much good for people shopping in a store. His hope is that such manufacturers, whether under a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirement or not, will put a warning on their products to show that they care about pets. FDA issued a consumer warning about the issue in 2011, and Nicholas said it would be good if label warnings were required "now that more products are having xylitol in them." Generally, he said it's OK to give peanut butter to dogs in small amounts as an occasional treat. "Every now and again, if I'm making a peanut butter sandwich and my dog comes over, I might give her what's left on the knife — not with xylitol, though," Nicholas said. However, it | 347 |
Private benefit for the Rumson Country Day School. Guests, besides friends and family, were parents<|fim_middle|> the school for admission, and teachers from the school, who were reportedly invited for free. Springsteen announced his contribution a couple of months previous at a private fundraising event for the school.
"Wonderful World" (occasionally referred to as "(What A) Wonderful World") is a song by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Released on April 14, 1960, by Keen Records, it had been recorded during an impromptu session the previous year, Cooke's last recording session at Keen. He signed with RCA Victor in 1960 and "Wonderful World," then unreleased, was issued as a single in competition. The song was mainly composed by songwriting team Lou Adler and Herb Alpert, but Cooke revised the lyrics to mention the subject of education more. " | and school supporters, who contributed $1,000 per couple to | 15 |
America's deep interest in automotive industry is well<|fim_middle|> to compete to take this award. In today's video, we're checking out the great winner of the 2018 Detroit Autorama while it was on display at SEMA Show. It's 1957 Chevrolet that looks exquisite in every way.
Watch the video to see how this '57 Chevy stuns the attendees of SEMA Show! | -known by many. This interest is why there are countless custom car shows in almost every city of the country. Detroit Autorama is the coolest of them!
This special event dedicated to custom vehicles, mostly hot rods and concept cars, appeals those who own competition cars, specialty vehicles and those who aim to owe one. Held in different places, including Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Houston, Dallas, Indianapolis and of course Detroit, this great event is the gathering place of the country's most skillful custom builders and auto-enthusiasts. Apart from fantastic customs and breathtaking shows, there's something another that earned reputation with this cool show. It is the Ridler Award! Presented by Meguiar's, Don Ridler Memorial Award is given to the show's simply best vehicle. There are, however, certain obligations about the attendance. The vehicle, for example, must take its first public showing at the Detroit Autorama and it must be operable | 192 |
Are you familiar with Elsa's Wholesome Life? If so, you probably already know today's darlings: Ellie Bullen + Alex Watson. As Ellie is known for being a vegan food blogger and cookbook author, food naturally played an important role for the big day…just wait until you see the grazing table spread and all the bohemian delights!
Ellie shared a little bit more about the inspiration for the styling of their big day: Since we have travelled to so many amazing places, we wanted to bring back some of our<|fim_middle|> like a few of these pieces for our home.
Our favorite moment would definitely be having dinner away from all the guests. Our planner and caterers set us a table of food overlooking the party and sunset. The one piece of advice we were given was to have a moment where it's just the two of you to soak up the day. This moment was really special because we got to enjoy the incredible food, have a private conversation and look back on all of our guests at our wedding reception.
Food played such a big part in our wedding! We chose one of our favorite vegan restaurants on the Gold Coast, Greenhouse Canteen, to cater our wedding. We chose to do a banquet-style dining rather than sit down, so that guests could mingle and use the different seating areas. Standout dishes were the pulled jackfruit sliders, eggplant parmigiana, DIY nachos, and buffalo cauliflower wings.
Love the idea of having a grazing table of sorts? We've got all the inspiration you need for epic grazing tables here! The Poor Girls Pantry was responsible for these delicious platters.
For the florals, E+A wanted something with natural tones—cream, dusty pink, wine red and deep greens. Bower Botanicals nailed the look and created a wild and organic sort of feeling that totally captured the romantic bohemian spirit.
For the reception, I wore the Coco Gown by Grace Loves Lace. I loved the star details in the dress, and matching star choker. The Coco Gown doesn't have a train, so it was perfect for dancing during the party.
We asked Ellie what marriage means to her, and she left us with this sweet reply: Getting to celebrate your love with everyone that you love on what will be the best day of our lives!
Now that was a celebration! Congratulations to the two of you! | travels to inspire the wedding. Our theme was inspired by our trip to Cappadocia in Turkey. With the otherworldly location in mind, a sort of romantic bohemian vibe evolved and The Events Lounge helped them bring it to fruition at Orchard Estate in Byron Bay.
We're dishing up more about their engagement story and all the darling details of their wedding, so elegantly captured by Lilly Red. Let's find out more, shall we?
Emma Kate Co created this moody + luxe invitation suite. We're all about the dimension on the background and those sweet brush strokes!
How darling are all those hairstyles Alan Buki Hair created?
Ellie said that the floral arrangement at the ceremony, particularly the one under the fig tree was their favorite design element.
Luciana Rose kept the ladies looking glam throughout the day with natural yet glowing makeup.
Diggin' the bridesmaids in white look? We've seen quite a few weddings on GWS with a similar look! Check them out here for more ideas.
Ellie rocked the Luca Gown by Rue de Seine for the ceremony.
She tells us: I think I tried on about 6 of their gowns, all were unbelievably beautiful, however Luca was the first I tried on and when I put it on I knew right away it was the dress I would walk down the aisle in. We also customized the train on this dress because I wanted some more drama for this moment. I love the intricacy and detail, the low back and long sleeves in this dress.
Alex shared a little about the proposal with us: It was my 3rd attempt with the two pervious not working out due to bad weather and then some unfortunate news from back home (while we were in Greece). But it was 3 months later in Joshua Tree in California in the desert watching the sun set out the front of our little airstream, we had a picnic and put a Fleetwood Mac record on the record player. It wasn't planned, but the moment had just felt right. Luckily I had packed the ring in my suitcase ever since Greece, just waiting for the perfect moment.
Ellie shares this adorable anecdote: Alex is an extremely punctual man and I knew I couldn't be late to the ceremony. With some road closures nearby our bridal party accommodation, there was a delay to our hair and makeup and so there was some last-minute rushing. To get to the venue it was another 25-minute drive, of which we drove ourselves (my sister at the wheel).
How much fun is this photo with all her gals?!
And then there was the Turkish-inspired reception… If you've seen pictures of Cappadocia, you might be familiar with some of their design inspo: a plethora of patterned rugs and comfy poufs.
Can we hang out here all day?! Lovestruck Weddings provided many of these darling accoutrements…and we definitely would | 596 |
Translating Research Into Policy
S. T. Hillsman
The record of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) in conducting criminal justice research and in translating research into policy and practice was examined at a 1996 conference held in San<|fim_middle|>wear Randomly Distributed?
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The presentation noted significant accomplishments of the NIJ, particularly in conducting research on police procedures, spousal assault, career criminals, forensic sciences, and drug treatment for offenders. The presentation also identified ways in which the traditional research paradigm limits the utility of research for policy and program development, limitations of research findings, and obstacles associated with translating research into policy and practice. In addition, the presentation discussed ways in which research and evaluation are changing to meet the needs of decisionmakers; partnerships between government and private researchers, for example, between police departments and the academic community; and research focused on problem- solving. Finally, the presentation considered steps that need to be taken to improve the utility of criminal justice research to policymakers and emphasized the importance of research in an environment where crime is becoming more globalized. 19 notes
Date Published: January 1, 1996
Research Forensic sciences Criminal justice research Career criminal Habitual offenders
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Toyota Camry Length: Originally launched as a four-door variation of the Celica in 1979, the Camry became a stand-alone nameplate in 1982. Ever since, it has advanced into among one of the most trusted and preferred cars on the market, particularly in the U.S., where Toyota has<|fim_middle|> at $32,250 prior to alternatives. | provided greater than 200,000 devices a year given that 1988 as well as in excess of 350,000 instances given that 1996. Currently the best-selling passenger car in North America, the Camry drove into a brand-new generation for the 2018 model year.
While almost all new-generation vehicles get redesigns both throughout, the brand-new Camry is a large separation from its predecessor. Not just provided a make over, it's also sleeker, sportier, and much more elegant than its predecessor. It appears the new Camry was created to bridge the gap between the dull Toyota cars and trucks and the premium Lexus offerings. And that's not a negative idea. Customarily, the revamped exterior is jointed by a revamped interior with brand-new designing and also updated modern technology. Toyota also took care of the drivetrain department by introducing 3 brand-new engines, consisting of a hybrid. So how excellent is the new Camry? Allow's discover the response to this huge concern in the evaluation below.
Update 6/21/2017: Toyota has announced pricing for the 2018 Toyota Camry, and also the entry-level cost enhanced by simply $425. Have a look at the costs section below to find out all about it.
The first thing that catches the eye when looking at the brand-new car is the company vast position that arises from the reduced center of gravity. To achieve the latter, Toyota made the Camry bigger, while decreasing the engine hood by 1.6 inches as well as the roof by one inch. By contrast, the wheelbase is two inches much longer.
Conforming to what makes the brand-new four-door a lot more emotional and also gives it a flashy as well as high end image, Toyota utilized its Lexus brand name as ideas for the Camry. In advance, we can see much more aggressive headlamps that are quite just like those seen on the brand-new Lexus LX, minus the reduced LED strip that offers the latter a Z-shaped format. The grille is broader as well as larger, as well as though it's no place near as enormous as Lexus' "Spindle" element, the reduced section is sportier compared to ever.
The top grille area and symbol are now mounted in a body-colored component, while the side vents are considerably larger. The muscular lines of the brand-new engine hood rounds up a front fascia that's finally attracting more youthful vehicle drivers, me included.
While the brand-new outside is sportier, fancier, yet transformative, the cabin is a substantial separation from the previous layout. While the outward bound Camry's inside is a collection of straight lines disrupted just by the center pile, the new sedan is a more organic recommendation on the inside.
The new dashboard, which really feels contemporary and a lot more upscale compared to previously, was developed with 2 important things in mind. First, it's supposed to give the vehicle driver the sensation that he's actually being in a sports car. This is achieved through a cockpit-type area with the determines as well as the facility pile tilted towards the driver. This is more aided by the distinct character line that streams below the instrument collection and also bisects the facility console, thus isolating the equipment shifter from the traveler side. On the other hand, the passenger obtains a different environment, highlighted by a sense of visibility and the soft-touch surface areas as well as the veneer in the dashboard.
Although it was initially believed that Toyota will certainly terminate the age-old 3.5-liter V-6 and select a turbocharged four-cylinder instead, the midsize sedan remains to use a normally aspirated six-cylinder. The 2.5-liter four-cylinder was likewise kept, as was the hybrid drivetrain based on the exact same four-pot system.
However, all 3 drivetrains have actually been upgraded with a huge focus on enhancing gas economic situation.
There allows news in the suspension division as well, where the brand-new TNGA architecture made it possible for Toyota to make use of a sportier setup. Especially, the Camry trips on a brand-new dual wishbone rear suspension system that offers the framework a lot more responsive handling as well as precise guiding, while also supplying a comfy flight around the city. However the suspension setup is the only point responsible for the flashy handling and also improved flight quality. Toyota made use of significantly more ultra-high-tensile steel in this new framework, hence increasing the Camry's overall rigidness. Toyota is so confident regarding the Camry's new stylish flight that reached to say that chauffeurs "will discover the dramatic enhancements within the first few secs of driving."
The new Camry is rather strong in regards to security, showing off 10 common airbags as well as the company's Celebrity Safety System, which includes Improved Automobile Stability Control, Traction Control, Electronic Brake-force Distribution, Brake Help, Anti-lock Braking System, as well as Smart Stop Innovation. The Toyota Safety And Security Sense P (TSS-P) system additionally comes requirement, including a collection of energetic security technologies. The package includes Pre-Collision System with Pedestrian Discovery (COMPUTER w/PD), Full-Speed Variety Dynamic Radar Cruise Control (DRCC), Lane Departure Alert with Guiding Help (LDA w/SA), and also Automatic High Beams (AHB). The a lot more expensive trims feature standard Dead spot Monitor (BSM) with Rear Cross Web Traffic Alert (RCTA).
As anticipated, pricing increased with the redesign, however the premium is just symbolic. Particularly, the brand-new Camry retails from $23,495, which adds just $425 to the previous sticker label. For this quantity, you get the base L version, yet an additional $505 will obtain you the LE cut at $24,000. Successive is the SE, valued from $25,000, while the XLE and XSE cost $28,450 as well as $29,000 before alternatives, specifically.
The XLE as well as XSE are highlighted by a toned rocker panel, new 19-inch black machined-finish alloy wheels (XSE only) a subtle back spoiler lip, aggressive front bumper, and back bumper with an incorporated reduced diffuser. The front fascia sporting activities bigger side intakes flanking the reduced bumper, a high and slim top consumption around the central Toyota badge, and a different mesh grille. A revised back bumper as well as smoke-tinted taillights settle the adjustments at the rear.
Selecting the XLE with the V-6 engine enhances the sticker to $34,400, while the XSE with the very same engine begins with $34,950.
Moving over to hybrid designs, there's three trim levels to choose from. The HV LE is one of the most economical at $27,800, while the HV SE comes in at $29,500. Lastly, there's the HV XLE | 1,470 |
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You Tube will open in a new window and then you'll have to go back to my blog to read while you listen. Not sure how to make that transition seamless. Of course, you can skip the music and just read the blog….but the music makes it so much better.
I've lost myself. In this present season of political change, wondering who to vote for, what to vote for, listening to bombastic front runners, hoping for change and enduring possibly the busiest time of my life in graphic design. I've gotten distracted. I've paid attention for a little while to political news and pundits, and comments from friends and family….and all of sudden the noise got too loud.
Time to shut it down and listen to "Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria! In Excesis Deo! Time to soar above the heavenlies….
I was raised in choir and trained as an alto. I learned how to read notes and music and join my voice in a united way with tenors, bass, sopranos, other altos….to become one with an amalgamated group of 20 to 40 people who somehow knew how to read both words and notes, turn pages at the same time whilst raising their voices in four-to-five part harmony…AND keep their eyes on the conductor ahead who was waving his baton over this section and that. I stood shoulder to shoulder with the altos lowering their voices and coming in at just the right point to carry that magical lower range<|fim_middle|> that I'm also holding others up…Do you remember the story of Moses who had to hold his arms up in order that the Israelites would prevail in battle? His arms got tired, and then his brother Aaron and a couple others stepped in, held his arms up and the battle turned in their favor. If he let his arms down, the enemy got the upper hand.
Oh, my goodness, I love this – it combines so many things I love – music, and the story of Moses, Aaron & Hur.
I've often shared how that story is the picture to me of our role in being THE BODY to one another. Paul Atkins taught me about holding one another up when I was going through complications from my first brain surgery. Then later I saw the correlation in this OT Story and it just means so much to me because I've experienced it and want to be the Body for others as well.
This post was just beautiful, Sheryl.
You made me laugh out loud when you mentioned Garrison Keillor and "singing with the Lutherans." Ha Ha Ha! There's just nothing like it! And Bethany made me appreciate it even more! I will NEVER forget Pastor Brokke's funeral. Bethany was packed to the rafters and then we all sang together (in four part harmony!) I myself was surrounded by at least one bass, one tenor and three other altos. And did we sing? Yes! A big shout out to Gary Johnson with his unflappable demeanor, teaching us how to sing Handel's Messiah. That alto part was harder than anyone else's, I'm convinced! Thanks, Joyce!!! Thanks for the smile today!
Thank you, Sheryl! Love what you write! "unflappable demeanor" perfect! | of balance. The result was an artistic experience that no one but musicians can explain, but the entire world can understand. I am glad I got to be a part of it. No one gets to be the rock star in a choir. This is group therapy.
Let him go. Let God create his own passion in him because that will be his fuel.
For me, to have a fine conductor, to hear the blending of all the voices in those choirs, AND to have the privilege of singing ….there is just no getting past that.
In London, I attended Sunday morning service at both St. Paul's Cathedral on the first Sunday and Westminster Abbey on the next. In both locations, of course, I wasn't part of their chorale, I was merely an attendee in one of the three or four sections hacked off for the public. I stood without gloves but wishing I had them, trying to keep my neck from craning upwards to peer at the arching galleries high above with amazing art dating back centuries. I was in church…in CHURCH…at both St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey! I was supposed to be listening to the bishop, vicar—whoever the Church of England calls their clergy—but I couldn't concentrate! I would hear something about "loving thy neighbor," and then my neck would snap back from the upward gaping position I had slipped into as I stared up at all that was towering above me.
To my left were the consecrated singers whose voices soared out, over, up and through the enormous cathedral…completely beyond anything I had grown up with in my small Lutheran basement in the midwest. But even if you grew up in a small town in the midwest, you learned how to "sing with the Lutherans," as Garrison Keillor so fondly described, Norwegian sweaters and all. I confess, I never had a Norwegian sweater, but I did have a handmade Finnish one given to me by one of my college classmates, and a real Finnish Laplander hat made by Finns in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Warmest hat I ever had and I pulled it out on every -20 degree day I suffered through in Minnesota.
At both St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey they offered communion, so I cued in single file with the other parishioners in a line which extended back through the choir galleries. Nobody was singing at this point but it would have been really wonderful if they had. Can you imagine if during a communion service, everyone broke out singing "Gloria! Gloria! In Excelsis Deo!" in four part harmony as they shuffled up to receive their wafer and wine?
At Westminster Abbey, I stood in the very place Princess Diana had stood as the boys choirs regaled her. I walked around the same obstacles she did on that otherwise straight path down to the traditional place of matrimony. I walked over the graves of Sir Isaac Newton, 26 monks who lost their lives to the Black Death in 1348, writers and poets like Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling and Edward Lear. I filed past the raised tombs of Queen Elizabeth 1 resting only a couple feet away from her sister and blood rival, Queen Mary. So much history. I'm glad I had a good breakfast because otherwise I might have fainted dead away.
In my life, I took piano and flute lessons, I sang Vivaldi and Handel, took band lessons, argued with first chair flute. If I had been a little more attentive, I probably would have beaten her, moving from second chair to first. But I was more interested in Led Zeppelin at the time. Over time, I've even learned to run sound…a technological shift from using my embouchures to turning knobs and listening with my ear. It was always about following my passion. Music was first. Art was second.
I was talking with my friend today about how to return to your passion. At some point, God spoke to you and told you what He had in mind about your life, your vision, your passion. Then life happened and perhaps you lost track of that vision, but it was very real to you at the time. This is where other people come in. They remind you of your vision, your passion. They call you back.
So I recap my night with Vivaldi. I rest in the love of my family. I soak in their wisdom. I am grateful beyond words for a good family who loves me and holds me up. And I am grateful for Vivaldi.
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What the new Man United boss can learn from David Moyes!
Van Gaal has to do with Manchester United what David Moyes achieved with Everton!
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Previous PostIs Holland's Mr. versatile Daley Blind perfect Man United transfer target?Next PostWho needs to impress Man United boss in pre-season? | Van Gaal taking over at Manchester United from David Moyes is a scenario where the Dutchman will have to manage a United side that is clueless, wounded and looking for stability. It's not the side that won the title in 2012/13, and there's a lack of clarity as to how you deem the current lot in the Manchester United setup. Yes, there are three world-class players in Wayne Rooney, Van Persie and Juan Mata, but when you look beyond the aforementioned trio, it's hard to recognize anyone who can be deemed anywhere close to the quality you would expect from a Manchester United player. And that's the worrying thing of all.
Consequently, the pressure on Van Gaal to conjure up an immediate turnaround can be a bit unfair – more so with the aura he carries and the reputation he brings with his past managerial experiences. And hence I say that the Dutchman will have to do with Manchester United what his predecessor, David Moyes achieved with Everton.
Manchester United can splash the cash and scout the top stars out there, but the brutal truth is whether you can attract top talent who want to be part of a club that's involved in the Champions League. So Van Gaal has to do with minimal resources at hand and try to get the best out of the prevalent players in the squad. Intending to revamp the entire setup can be a bit suicidal, and not plausible on the look of it.
Going by reports yesterday, the 62-year old has come up with the saying that, at least 10 players in the current United squad could be on their way out and that is not encouraging in itself. With just over 6 weeks to go before the summer transfer window slams shut, can he bring in able replacements and get them working to his methods?
You can't help but realize that Van Gaal has to do with the current Manchester United side what Moyes did with Everton until 2013. Limited resources, no big names and no big budget either, but the way he manipulated with whatever he had at hand, and year upon year kept dishing out top-half finishes was a commendable effort.
When all said and done, excelling in the Premier League is all about striking a rhythm and continuing to play the same brand of football week upon week, without tinkering with your system. If Van Gaal can achieve that at Old Trafford, with the personnel he has at his tutelage, Manchester United and their purebred faithful can look forward to an intriguing season, and a new era under Van Gaal. But as the headline reads, the Dutchman has to do the same thing that Moyes did with Everton. Manipulate with the resources to the best of | 557 |
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A version of this article originally appeared on Shape.
'Tis the season to make — and eventually break — your New Year's resolutions. Whether or not you buy into that tradition, wouldn't it be great if there was a way to actually stick to your goals year-round? Luckily, Science has found a few tricks to keep you motivated, Shape reports.
Researchers at New York University found that we're actually less likely to accomplish our goals if we share<|fim_middle|> to do something, you probably won't come close to finishing it any time soon. Fun can be a powerful motivator.
Of course, if these tricks don't get the job done, don't feel discouraged — your motivational hack might be as simple as keeping a post-it on your mirror or setting a reminder in your phone. You've got all year to find what works best for you. | them with others. Specifically, they noted that people feel less motivated if their friends point out small improvements right away, and don't see their goals through to the end. In other words, try keeping your projects to yourself until they're done — then feel free to post a self-congratulatory insta.
This might sound obvious, but motivation is a matter of perspective. In fact, a study from the University of Zurich and Stanford University found that students who viewed willpower as an infinite resource actually performed better than those who viewed it as a finite resource. The former group made fewer impulse purchases, procrastinated less, and earned higher grades than the latter. So, when the going gets tough, just remind yourself you've got more to give — you can do it.
A study from Frontiers in Psychology found that people who enjoyed their workouts were more likely to exercise than those who didn't. That makes a lot of sense, especially in the context of going to the gym, but try applying it to goals that have nothing to do with fitness, too. Chances are, if you have to force yourself | 224 |
Letters to the editor, April 1<|fim_middle|> Day and beyond:
1. Know your carbon footprint: We all want to be "greener" in our daily lives, but in order to do that effectively, we each need to know our carbon footprint.
Take five minutes and use The Nature Conservancy's online tool at www.nature.org/carboncalculator. Then, commit to using just a little less carbon.
2. Time your shower: With the warmer months ahead of us, now is the time to start thinking about conserving our water. The next time you take a shower, time it. The next day, reduce that time by a minute or two.
3. Go for a walk: Even if it's just around the block, getting outside is one of the best things you can do to connect to nature. Bring your kids, too.
A growing body of research suggests that a lack of exposure to nature is linked to rises in obesity, attention-deficit disorder and depression in children.
4. Speak up on climate change: Sens. John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman have introduced national legislation to reduce U.S. emissions. This is a critically important step in the fight against climate change. Let your legislators know you support it.
5. Find a farmers' market: Farmers' markets selling locally made fare abound in summer and fall. Find one near you and pick a day to check it out.
Michael Tetreault
Energy issues include wind, nuclear, warming
A recent article said that "GE looks to build wind turbines in Britain," and suggests the United Kingdom was the only big player on the European offshore wind energy scene.
Actually, Denmark has a slightly higher installed offshore capacity (635 megawatts versus 607 megawatts). However, the offshore wind energy capacity planned by the United Kingdom is indeed immense and is included in a project dubbed the North Seas Counties' Offshore Grid, with the London Array the largest in the world.
To this end, energy ministers of 9 European counties have signed an agreement in Brussels to easily share the grid's energy.
To illuminate the importance of offshore wind energy as a renewable energy source, one might want to put it in context with land-based wind energy. As of the end of 2009, the United Kingdom had a combined installed wind energy capacity of 4,051 megawatts. Some other European Union countries for comparison: France 4,492; Italy 4,850; Spain 19,149; and Germany 25,777.
Meanwhile, Maine's figure is 175. Let's go to work!
Wolfgang Wendler
My grandfather invested heavily in the Seabrook nuclear plant and lost his shirt when environmental fanatics shut the project down. That is why there has been no private investment in nuclear power for 36 years, not because private investors believe that nuclear plants are inherently unsafe or a poor investment.
Au contraire, as the French would say. They power most of their electrical grid with nuclear power and recycle the waste. There have been technological breakthroughs since the last time a nuclear plant was built in the United States.
As for living near one? For 23 years I lived 15 miles from the nuclear plant in Plymouth, Mass. Relatives and friends lived within 5 miles of it (and still do) with nary a lost night's sleep. I knew people who worked there and others who wanted to because it was good work at a great wage.
But wait, this is Maine. Why would we want such things here?
We are enlightened. We want a pristine wilderness besmirched by only a few destructive wind farms, and some spry geriatrics to provide tourist services, not proven safe green power providing good-paying jobs to young people raising families here.
Who needs them?
Dianne McGill
I am writing in response to the article, "Vets group pushes for clean energy legislation," which makes a good point of linking our energy dependence overseas to our soldiers' safety. Pushing for clean energy would also help returning soldiers find quality jobs when they return from their time in service.
Mainers across the state are counting on Washington to set our country on a path to a cleaner energy and more secure job future.
Naysayers have complained that the recession is the worst time to tackle global warming. On the contrary, transitioning to clean sources of energy will spur new investments and innovation, incubating technologies that we can export and creating jobs here at home.
In June the House took a critical first step by passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H. 2454). This clean energy bill will now move through the U.S. Senate.
We urge Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe to support the bill and deliver on the promise that clean energy holds to recharge our economy, put thousands of Maine's residents back to work and protect future generations from global warming.
Grant Harris
Field Associate, Environment Maine
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Deering freshman Elsa Freeman reaches national soccer stage | 9, 2010Earth Day has lessons for us all
Because the 40th anniversary of Earth Day is approaching on Thursday, I felt it appropriate to highlight its history and importance to Mainers and all Americans. The first Earth Day in 1970 sprang out of America's reaction to environmental degradation that had reached unacceptable levels. Ohio's Cuyahoga River caught fire in June 1969 and focused […]
Because the 40th anniversary of Earth Day is approaching on Thursday, I felt it appropriate to highlight its history and importance to Mainers and all Americans.
The first Earth Day in 1970 sprang out of America's reaction to environmental degradation that had reached unacceptable levels.
Ohio's Cuyahoga River caught fire in June 1969 and focused national attention on the scale of our environmental problems, which set the stage for national mobilization.
On the first Earth Day 40 years ago, over 20 million Americans came together to stand up for common sense environmental protection. America's rivers no longer catch fire. But other problems, and new opportunities, have developed.
Our current moment presents not just an environmental turning point, but a huge economic opportunity. As in 1970, we are still heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Whether it's the gas we put in our gas tanks or the coal we burn in our power plants, our over-reliance on fossil fuels has America in a stranglehold.
We leave our communities vulnerable to coal ash spills like the one that happened in Tennessee in 2008, to arsenic and mercury in the water supply, and to the uncertainties of climate change.
The economic opportunity comes with the wide-scale deployment of clean, renewable, home-grown energy in the form of wind, solar, tidal and efficiency. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin served the American people well by spearheading the first Earth Day in 1970.
This April 22, the 40th anniversary of the Earth Day, we need to see that kind of leadership again. The question is, do our senators have the political will to turn the corner?
Brian Leonard
April 22 marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. If you think you can't make a difference, think again.
Often it's the smallest changes — multiplied by millions of people — that have the biggest impact. Here are five simple things that we all can do on Earth | 508 |
Read lots of books about different topics, fiction, non-fiction, newspapers, websites, blogs, magazines, comics. It helps you find a style or genre you like and improves your vocabulary and knowledge base like nothing else.
Don't worry about editing as you write, just let your pen/keyboard flow and then once you are finished, write a bit more, and then finally you can read over it and begin the editing process.
Your dictionary and thesaurus should be your best friend, sometimes I read them just for fun. Trust me, this is not as lame as it may sound it's really interesting if you have a good, thick dictionary with pictures!
Writing is a very personal thing and you can choose the purpose for your words. If you just write them for yourself to help you think through things, or get through a tough time or to remember happy events then that is just fine. You don't have to show<|fim_middle|> over it and realise they must get hundreds of people sending them things and only a few people can get picked for publication or awards. It doesn't mean your writing isn't any good, it just wasn't what they were looking for at that time. Don't. Give. Up. | your work to anyone if you don't want to.
If you do send work off to competitions or publications like newspapers or magazines, cross your fingers, but try not to take the rejection personally. I have sent things off for over 30 years and mostly don't hear back from people. Sometimes I feel hurt or angry or just plain ticked off, then I get | 75 |
Movies with true organic sounds, imagined futuristic electronic audio, and even the everyday noises around us, aren't complete without good sound effects.
The spacecraft has crashed into a swamp and as Luke and his droid inspect their new environment, a landscape of sounds surrounds them.<|fim_middle|> SFX wizards who share their creativity on the big screen.
Hal Robertson is a digital media producer and technology consultant.
I recently worked on an independent movie called Breaking Ten. As the sole tech guy, I was responsible for shooting, lighting and audio. Working on tight schedules barely got some scenes shot, so I had to return later to record sound effects. Unfortunately, it was many months later and now the restaurant was out of business, the field with all the crickets had been mowed, and the creek was much lower than the day of the shoot. I know better. Lesson learned: save yourself time, gas and stress by recording sound effects while on location. | Strange noises come from everywhere. Unseen creatures from above and below the water each leave their sonic fingerprints on the scene. Unless you've been living in a cave for the past 25 years or so, you've seen and heard this scene from The Empire Strikes Back. Watching the movie, it's easy to believe it's all real, even though the swamp was manufactured on a soundstage and the environmental sounds were gathered from around the globe. The sound effects sell the scene and connect the viewer to the action. And you don't need a Star Wars budget to spice up your productions with sound effects. All you need is a little effort, creativity and some patience. Let's get started.
The term "sound effects" or SFX covers a broad range of noises, including ambience, one-shots, human, electronic and mechanical sounds. With our digital editing tools, we can also repurpose sounds by shifting, reversing and other forms of manipulation. You may be wondering why we should go to the trouble of recording our own sound effects when there are so many good libraries out there. It's a fair question. When you have a tight deadline or need a sound that lives on the other side of the world, sound effects libraries are the perfect choice. But sometimes, a project needs a specific atmosphere or sound that isn't in the library. It's also quicker and easier to record the actual sound during the shoot instead of digging through a set of 250,000 sound effects.
Scene #27 in our movie has the main characters, Bob and Rhonda, discussing recent events at the edge of the woods. After a heated argument, Rhonda storms off with the car, leaving poor Bob stranded. You've got your gear together and a list of sounds to record, and there's a perfect place just outside of town. Scout the location with your ears, listening for good and bad sounds. Is there traffic in the background? Depending on the area, aircraft is a possibility too. This location is clean, so we'll set up our equipment. Since this is ambience for our video, stereo recording is the way to go. There's plenty of wildlife and water sound, so we'll use the built-in stereo mic on the camera. For a completely natural feel, position the camera just as you would to shoot video. Slate the recording with a short description of the setting or scene number and let the tape roll for a few minutes.
Next on the list is a car door slam and tires throwing gravel as the car speeds away. For this setup, we'll use a handheld or shotgun microphone to isolate the sounds. We'll also record each element separately so we can get the timing just right in post. The door slam is easy -- just point the mic at the door and slam it a few times, we can pick the best one later. Don't forget to record the opening sound too. For the drive-off, we'll set the microphone near the car, pointed in the direction it will drive. With safety in mind, we should locate the camera and people to the side of any flying gravel. A long mic cable and some safety glasses wouldn't hurt either. We'll record several takes of this one too, for more flexibility later.
Once you've recorded your sound effects and dumped them into the computer, you need to mold them on your timeline. First, we find the perfect version of each sound. Next, let's drop the stereo ambience on the timeline to establish the feel of the scene. The recording of the woods should enhance the feel without overpowering the dialog. Adjust the volume with track sliders or rubber bands to create the right balance. Now we'll add the car noises. Scrub the timeline to the point where Rhonda opens the car door. Add that sound effect on its own track and then do the same for the car door slam, nudging each sound until it matches the action perfectly. For the drive off, we'll do the same thing, but add a keyframed pan to the mix. The car drives from right to left, so set a keyframe at the beginning of the clip and adjust the pan 50% right. Now, go to the end of the clip, set another keyframe and adjust the pan for 50% left. Tweak for maximum effect.
We've saved the footsteps for last since they're the most difficult. Play the scene and count how many footsteps you'll need. If the feet aren't in the shot, watch for body movement to determine their locations. Drop a variety of left footfall sound effects on one audio track and then add the right footfalls on another. Slide the sound effects around until you've created a convincing walking sound. If necessary, mute the other audio tracks to improve clarity as you're editing. To help with timing, it may be possible to reference the dialog track for actual footfalls. Once you're happy with the edit, play it a few times, listening for balance and realism. The sound effects should enhance the scene rather than call attention to themselves.
Now, it's up to you to experiment with these techniques on your own projects. Adding your own sound effects to a video is a creatively rewarding process. It's extra work, but you'll gain valuable experience and a newfound respect for the | 1,078 |
CWS Highlights: Mississippi St. 5 – Indiana 4
OMAHA, NE – Mississippi State rallied for three runs in the 8th inning to defeat Indiana 5-4 on Monday night at the College World Series and now the Bulldogs are just a win away from a trip to the best-of-three championship series.
Trey Porter's two-run single broke a 3-3 tie in the 8th, before the Bulldogs held on with the tying run on third and two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
Mississippi State is off until Friday; Indiana will play Oregon State in an elimination game on Wednesday night.
Kevin Kugler and John Bishop called the action.
(Indiana's Casey Smith singles to tie the game at 1-1)
(Sam Travis makes it 2-1 Hoosiers)
(Wes Rea cuts the Indiana lead to 3-2 in the 6th inning)
(Demarcus Henderson singles to tie the game at 3-3)
(Trey Porter's two-run single makes it 5-3 Bulldogs)
(Jonathan Holder gets the final out and Mississippi St. wins)
Tags: College World Series
Categories: Baseball, NCAA
Announcers: Kevin Kugler, John Bishop
Teams: Indiana Hoosiers, Mississippi State Bulldogs
Game: Mississippi St. vs. Indiana
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