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The joining operators joins the two sequences (collections) and produce a result.
Join The Join operator joins two sequences (collections) based on a key and returns a resulted sequence.
GroupJoin The GroupJoin operator joins two sequences based on keys and returns groups of sequences. It is like Left Outer Join of SQL.
The Join operator operates on two collections, inner collection & outer collection. It returns a new collection that contains elements from both the collections which satisfies specified expression. It is the same as inner join of SQL.
The Join extension method has two overloads as shown below.
As you can see in the first overload method takes five input parameters (except the first 'this' parameter): 1) outer 2) inner 3) outerKeySelector 4) innerKeySelector 5) resultSelector.
Let's take a simple example. The following example joins two string collection and return new collection that includes matching strings in both the collection.
Now, let's understand join metohod using following Student and Standard class where Student class includes StandardID that matches with StandardID of Standard class.
The following example demonstrates LINQ Join query.
The following image illustrate the parts of Join operator in the above example.
In the above<|fim_middle|> parameter of Join method is used to specify a field whose value should be match using lambda expression in order to include element in the result. The key selector for the outer sequence student => student.StandardID indicates that take StandardID field of each elements of studentList should be match with the key of inner sequence standard => standard.StandardID. If value of both the key field is matched then include that element into result.
The last parameter in Join method is an expression to formulate the result. In the above example, result selector includes StudentName and StandardName property of both the sequence.
The following example demonstrates the Join operator in method syntax in VB.Net.
Join operator in query syntax works slightly different than method syntax. It requires outer sequence, inner sequence, key selector and result selector. 'on' keyword is used for key selector where left side of 'equals' operator is outerKeySelector and right side of 'equals' is innerKeySelector.
The following example of Join operator in query syntax returns a collection of elements from studentList and standardList if their Student.StandardID and Standard.StandardID is match.
Use the equals operator to match key selector in query syntax. == is not valid.
Join and GroupJoin are joining operators.
Join is like inner join of SQL. It returns a new collection that contains common elements from two collections whosh keys matches.
Join operates on two sequences inner sequence and outer sequence and produces a result sequence. | example of join query, studentList is outer sequence because query starts from it. First parameter in Join method is used to specify the inner sequence which is standardList in the above example. Second and third | 40 |
Do You Have Boundless Curiosity?
A noticeable attribute of anyone in my Master's Elite coaching program — our best of the best — is their boundless curiosity. They are always in a position of learning. They avoid coming across as a know-it-all expert, busy telling everyone their business. Experts tend to "pontificate" not from success, but from insecurity. You must always be in a position of "What can I learn<|fim_middle|> therefore, you stop growing. You need to be able to see new opportunities so that you can react immediately. If you believe that you have all the answers, that overconfidence will ultimately jeopardize your business. You'll become closed off to the changes in the mark et around you, as you'll care more about being right than being successful. | from this person?" or "How can I perceive the problem from their perspective?" because that will give you an edge. Again, the minute you think you're an expert on something and your ego comes out, then you're at the tail-end of your experience. Why? You stop seeing, stop listening and stop learning; | 65 |
So I wore my new black Splendid Fold Over Pencil Skirt that I ordered from Shopbop. This is probably the most comfortable pencil skirt<|fim_middle|> the Week!
Great pics, love those shoes!
That just looks relaxing! I love those striped shoes with the little tassels!
This is my first time too—I love this look and I'd wear it in a heartbeat!!
Such a cute and pretty look, love those flats.
Black and white is always great combo. Lovely pictures from the beach.
Perfect combo and I love the beach pictures. ENjoy!
You look effortless chic, casual, and most importantly, comfortable. Fabulous outfit and great photos. Thank you for adding your post to my Fine-Whatever link up. | I have ever owned! It fits great and it looks great! I paired it with plain simple H&M top and a pair of River Island striped wedges.
Beautiful pics by the beach, it looks so relaxing and I want to be there!
This outfit looks great. So simple and classic and easy, but so fantastic! I love the striped shoes, too. Great look! Remember to come link up On the Edge of | 85 |
keeping up with<|fim_middle|> days after his birth, he was photographed with his great-grandparents Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip (as well as his grandma, Doria Ragland). It's also been reported that the infant has met Lady Jane Fellowes, the late Princess Diana's sister. And while he apparently still has yet to meet Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, that formal meeting is expected to happen within the week.
So many royals to meet, so little time. (He's a baby.)
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Kate and Will Have Finally Met Baby Archie
By Lisa Ryan@lisarya
Kate Middleton, Prince William, Meghan Markle, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, and Prince Harry. Photo: Getty Images
Last week, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor entered this world and also the British royal family. And now, one week later (or several lifetimes for mayflies if we're being specific) the first child of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry has reportedly finally met his royal aunt and uncle, Kate Middleton and Prince William. How royal of him.
Baby Archie — who may or may not be named after the Duchess of Sussex's old cat (now deceased) or possibly his cousin Prince George — apparently met Aunt Kate and Uncle Wills (as we assume they are called) at his home of Frogmore Cottage, located on the Windsor Castle estate of course, on Tuesday. According to the Daily Mail, the meeting was a "private affair," so take from that what you will. And given just how private it was, it's unclear whether his royal cousins — including Princess Charlotte and the elusive Prince Louis — were also in attendance.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge aren't the first high-profile family members young Archie has met; two | 267 |
The Petit Palais which houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts is holding an exhibition dedicated to Belgian painter Fernand Khnopff.
Born in 1858 and died in 1921, Fernand Knopff contributed to the great upheaval of the<|fim_middle|> he is a central figure of Symbolism. His creative approach is pervaded by reverie, fantasy, dreams and phantasmagoria with prevailing poetry and colour blue. Being an engraver, a sculptor, a painter and a draftsman, Fernand Khnopff was a consummate artist. He was one of the pioneers to use photography as a medium in his work. This large retrospective devoted to Fernand Khnopff includes over 150 works. It is both a strange and familiar reality, a stroll peppered with Fernand Khnopff's enigmatic dreams, a possible journey until March 17, 2019. Please note that a second exhibition presents a set of a hundred drawings by Jean-Jacques Lequeu "le bâtisseur de fantasmes" for the first time. For more information, click on "Learn more" | classical art movements. Indeed, | 6 |
14 theater productions to see in Southern…
14 theater productions to see in Southern California this week, July 19-25
These are some of the theater productions happening around Southern California this week.
Christianne Holly Santiago, Yunga Webb, Jake Burnett, Glenn Koppel, Sarah Pierce, and Rachel Oliveros Catalano perform in "Ragtime," playing through Aug. 11 at Chance Theater in Anaheim. (Photo by Doug Catiller, True Image Studio)
'Apple Season'
A play by E.M. Lewis about a woman who returns to her childhood home following a death in the family and is forced to confront past trauma.
When: 8 p.m. July 19. Show runs 8 p.m. Friday; 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 4 p.m. Sunday; 8 p.m. Monday through Aug. 5.
Where: Atwater Village Theatre, 3269 Casitas Ave.
Tickets: $24.
Information: 323-472-5646. www.movingarts.org
'The Caucasian Chalk Circle'
Antaeus Theatre Co. presents the play by Bertolt Brecht about justice and love.
When: 8 p.m. July 19. Show runs 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; 8 p.m. Monday through Aug. 26.
Where: Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center, 110 East Broadway, Glendale.
Information: 818-506-1983. www.antaeus.org
'Into the Woods'
The dark and humorous musical by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim about storybook characters living happily ever after – or not.
When: 8 p.m. July 26-27; 7:30 p.m. July 28.
Where: Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood.
Tickets: $14 and up.
Information: 323-850-2000. bit.ly/30uQEzY
'Twelve Angry Men'
A reading of Reginald Rose's play set in a tense jury room by twelve local attorneys.
When: 8 p.m. July 20.
Where: Fundraiser for Theatre West. Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga Blvd. W., Los Angeles.
Information: 323-851-7977. www.theatrewest.org
'The Moth Los Angeles Grand<|fim_middle|> Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" to mid-20th century New York City, is staged by One More Productions.
When: 8 p.m. Friday, July 19, 2 and 8 p.m Saturday, July 20, 8 p.m. Thursday, July 25 and other dates through Aug. 11.
Where: GEM Theatre, 12852 Main St., Garden Grove
Information: 714-741-9550, ext. 221; onemoreprodutions.com
'The Who's Tommy in Concert'
Based on the Who's seminal 1969 concept album, this musical tells the story of a deaf, dumb and blind boy who becomes a messianic figure through his mastery of pinball.
When: 8 p.m. Friday, July 19 and Saturday, July 20, 2 p.m. Sunday, July 21 and other dates through July 28.
Where: Costa Mesa Playhouse, 661 Hamilton St., Costa Mesa
Information: 949-650-5269; costamesaplayhouse.com
'Richard III'
The Bard's tale of this king's bloody and manipulative reign is described by the theater as "William Shakespeare's Game of Thrones."
When: 8 p.m. Friday, July 19 and Saturday, July 20, 6 p.m. Sunday, July 21 and other dates through Aug. 17.
Where: Maverick Theater, 110 E. Walnut Ave., Fullerton
Tickets: $20 ($10 for students with ID)
Information: 714-526-7070; mavericktheater.com
'Peter and the Starcatcher'
Camino Real Playhouse presents this winner of 5 Tony Awards in a special outdoor staging.
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Aug. 4.
Where: Historical Town Center Park, 31872 El Camino Real, San Juan Capistrano
Information: caminorealplayhouse.org
'Ragtime'
This 13-time Tony-nominated musical combines famous historical characters and memorable songs to recreate turn-of-the-20th-century New York. Recommended for ages 13 and up because of mature themes and strong language.
When: 8 p.m. Friday, July 19, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday, July 20, 3 p.m. Sunday, July 21 and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 25. Run has been extended through Aug. 11
Where: Chance Theater, 5522 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim
Tickets: $39 for previews; $49 for regular performances. Discounts for military, students, educators and seniors.
Information: chancetheater.com; 888-455-4212
'Measure for Measure'
Shakespeare in the Vines's second production of the season is one of Shakespeare's plays that isn't quite a comedy and isn't quite a tragedy. Angelo wants to clean up his city overrun with sin and then a nun has to get him to change his ways in order to spare her brother's life. Michael Shane Eastman directs.
When: 7:30 p.m. July 19-21, 25-27. (Seating begins an hour earlier.)
Where: Baily Vineyard & Winery, 33440 La Serena Way, Temecula
Tickets: $22 general admission; $30 reserved seating; $17 for seniors (55 and older), students and military with valid photo ID.
Information: shakespeareinthevines.org; 951-402-7488
'Bonnie & Clyde'
The Rialto Community Players put on this production of the musical based on the notorious criminal couple.
When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday through Aug. 11.
Where: Sandra R. Courtney Community Theatre, 150 E. San Bernardino Ave., Rialto.
Tickets: $18.50 general admission; $15.50 seniors and students with ID.
Information: 909-873-8514; rialtocommunityplayers.com
'Singing in the Rain'
The classic musical is the Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival's theatrical production for this season and even if there isn't a cloud in the sky, there will be a rainstorm on stage. There is a dress rehearsal open to the public Tuesday, July 23, and performances start Thursday, July 25. The July 27 performance will include an American Sign Language interpreter.
When: 8 p.m. July 23 (dress rehearsal); 8 p.m. July 26-28.
Where: Redlands Bowl, 25 Grant St. Redlands
Tickets: Free, but donations accepted.
Information: 909-793-7316; redlandsbowl.org
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True personal stories from 10 StorySLAM winners.
When: 8 p.m. July 22. Minimum age 18. Doors open, 7 p.m.
Where: The Regent Theater, 448 S. Main St., Los Angeles.
Information: bit.ly/30vDSB7
'West Side Story'
The musical by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim.
When: Opens 8 p.m. July 26. Show runs 7:30 p.m. Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday (except 1 p.m. Aug. 4).
Where: Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Kavli Theatre, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd.
Tickets: $35-$83.
Information: 805-449-2787. www.5startheatricals.com
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Fabric sensors in a field change colour, indicating the arrival of pathogens. Tiny wireless electronic sensors in grain bins detect incipient spoilage, alert the farmer via mobile phone, and begin specific remediation. Specially formulated fertilizers and pesticides act with greater efficacy, allowing less product to be applied.
Fabric made of cellulose and poly-lactic acid nanofibres slowly degrades, releasing agricultural pesticides held within the pores. Scanning electron microscope images courtesy of Dr. Chunhui Xiang, Fiber Science and Apparel Design, Cornell University.
These are just some of the potential applications of nanotechnology in agriculture that are being explored. "Nanotechnology is the concept of working with materials at a very small scale," explains Dr. Nils Petersen, director general of the National Institute for Nanotechnology in Edmonton, Alberta. To get an idea of just how small this scale is, one nanometre is one-millionth of a millimetre, or half the width of a strand of DNA. A strand of hair is roughly 100,000 nanometres wide. "At this scale, the properties of materials change tremendously because of the large surface-to-volume ratio and changes in the quantum mechanical behaviour of materials," says Petersen.
The enormous surface area of nanomaterials facilitates their interaction with other substances, giving the nanomaterials unique properties such as exceptional strength or greater chemical activity. Researchers are exploring new applications for these unique properties, and the field of nanotechnology is expanding rapidly, with applications in areas of medicine, electronics, engineering, computers, energy, environment, plastics, and food science, to name a few. Although discoveries in these areas may be of relevance for agriculture, there is also some direct interest in nanotechnology to aid agricultural production.
The sensor also measures changes in carbon dioxide to detect incipient and ongoing deterioration of stored grains. Once the cause of spoilage is identified, a specific treatment can be used to correct the problem. "We are also looking at building the sensor to be wireless," says Neethir<|fim_middle|> in the environment and on human health have prompted Health Canada and Environment Canada to develop some ground rules for nanomaterials under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. At the international level, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are developing standards to facilitate an international regulatory framework for nanotechnology.
Nanomaterials have unique properties and behave differently from typical common materials, so it is unknown how their effects might depend on the mass, number, size and shape of particles. Thus, it is necessary to determine if current toxicological evaluations will apply to these materials or if modifications or new methods are required. As a first step, the Canadian government is collecting industry data on nanomaterials' use, properties, health and ecological toxicity, and water solubility under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
"We recognize as a scientific community and as an industrial community that there are issues that we have to face and identify before we get a lot of technology into the marketplace. We don't fully understand yet what parameters we need to measure when we look at the effects of nanomaterials," says Dr. Nils Petersen, director general of the National Institute for Nanotechnology in Edmonton, Alberta.
This is an active area of investigation that is receiving attention globally. | ajan. He envisions that multiple sensors would be distributed throughout the grain to pinpoint problem areas and would communicate with a central hub. The central hub would automatically update a household computer, website, or personal mobile device such as a cellphone so that a farmer could monitor the grain on a daily basis without having to visit the grain bin. By catching and treating spoilage before it becomes severe, additional benefits might include reduced chemical usage and better grain quality.
Neethirajan thinks that this technology could be available to farmers within two to three years. "We have demonstrated that our sensor works, and we are now focusing on commercializing the technology," he says. A patent is being obtained, and several companies have expressed interest in licensing the technology.
In another application, nonwoven fabrics made from nanofibres are being used as a platform for controlled-release technology. The nanofibres are made by electrospinning, which uses an electrical charge to pull a very fine, long fibre from a droplet of liquid polymer. The fibre twists upon itself, creating a fabric. "The high surface area, high porosity and small pore size of the fabric all contribute to its absorption and release performance," says Dr. Margaret Frey, associate professor in the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Frey and colleagues are using cellulose and polylactic acid, a polymer made from cornstarch, to create a biodegradable fabric. The fibres can hold up to 50 percent of their weight in agricultural chemicals such as pesticides; the chemical is gradually released as the fabric biodegrades. In experiments, gradual release was obtained during a four-month period, and the timing of release depended on the fibre's composition. In greenhouse tests, 4 x 4 mm squares of pesticide-containing fabric placed in the soil successfully controlled whiteflies on bean plants.
Special techniques and equipment and ultra-clean facilities are required to create nanoparticles such as these. Scanning electron microscope images courtesy of Anastasia Elias, Anne Cooper, and Jillian Buriak, National Institute for Nanotechnology, Edmonton.
Similar nanofibre-based fabrics are being used as a detection technology platform to capture and isolate pathogens. Frey's research is currently focused on medical and food applications such as detecting Salmonella or Escherichia coli, but in future, the technology may be extended to include other pathogens and diseases. The nanofibres in this fabric are embedded with antibodies against specific pathogens. The fabric can be wiped across a surface and tested to determine whether the pathogens are present, perhaps indicating their presence by a change in colour.
These and other agricultural applications of nanotechnology may be the next step in increasing farming efficiency.
Concerns over the effects of nanoparticles | 560 |
Rugby 06 challenges gamers to compete in a host of the World's most prestigious rugby competitions including the Six Nations, Lions Tour, Tri Nations, Guinness Premiership and the Super 14. The game's exhilarating gameplay now mirrors the real thing closer than ever before, with new moves such as off-load passes, quick line-outs and quick penalties that encourage attacking, momentum-driven rugby. Gamers can also dictate play with their star Impact Players and can choose from a legion of new set plays to pile on the pressure<|fim_middle|>Comprehensive Commentary: Legendary former All Black's star Grant Fox provides all new commentary along with updated commentary by Ian Robertson. A combination of the two creates an authentic and realistic sounding in-game commentary.
Enhanced Stadiums and Conditions: Improved stadium visuals include rolling banners, improved textures, 3D grass accompanied by different pitch patterns and team specific animated flags. The stadiums are complimented by new weather conditions such as snow and fog, with visible player breath and steam off the packs in cold weather conditions.
World League Mode: Rugby 06 incorporates a number of career mode enhancements to give a more compelling world league experience. Users can try to build a super team by making use of the in depth transfer market at their disposal. With all new club objectives and performance based offers from rival clubs, only the best managers will survive.
Quick Penalties & Lineouts: Users can now execute quick penalties immediately after it has been called. This feature if used in right situations is designed to continue the games objective on improved and freer flowing gameplay. The same principle has been applied to the all new quick lineouts which users can utilize, in order to maintain the pace or flow of an attack. | and keep their opponents firmly on the back foot. Get into the game with TV-style presentation, stadiums from all over the world, including Twickenham, Lansdowne Road, the Millennium stadium and Murrayfield and commentary from the respected commentator Ian Robertson and All Black legend Grant Fox.
Impact Players: Rugby 06 captures the abilities of world's finest Rugby stars. Users can utilize these abilities and if called upon in the right situation, the star player can have a key "Impact" on the outcome of the match.
Increased Tactical Plays: Over 25 tactical set plays can be mapped to the controller. This allows the user the option of choosing/changing the plays in accordance to what they believe to be the most effective or that which best suits their playing style.
Off-Loading Passing: Players can pass out of a tackle. By being able to off load the ball once the defender has been drawn into the tackle, users can exploit the gaps that will be left by those defenders. This feature will also allow for a more flowing game.
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Cell biology of spinocerebellar ataxia
Harry T. Orr
Ataxia is a neurological disorder characterized by loss of control of body movements. Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA), previously known as autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia, is a biologically robust group of close to 30 progressive neurodegenerative<|fim_middle|>. Journal of Cell Biology. 2012 Apr 1;197(2):167-177. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201105092
Orr, Harry T. / Cell biology of spinocerebellar ataxia. In: Journal of Cell Biology. 2012 ; Vol. 197, No. 2. pp. 167-177.
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The World Wide Wrestling League has a Scottish wrestling training program with the W3L Action Academy @ Unit 85, Flexspace, Mitchelston Industrial Estate in Kirkcaldy, Fife (KY1 3NB). The gym contains a professional wrestling ring and matted area.
The regular trainer at the Action Academy is Mike Musso, who has been wrestling around the UK since 2001 and has a wealth of experience passed on by the veterans of the British wrestling circuit that Mike has worked with and experiences picked up from<|fim_middle|> will learn basic techniques and develop skills that will give W3L Juniors a fantastic base of core skills to join the Action Academy when they turn 16.
Please use the contact form below for any further questions you may have.
If you have questions about the Action Academy and out Scottish wrestling training program fill in the form below and a representative will get back to you as soon as possible. | high profile career opportunities such as try outs for large American wrestling organisations. Mike has had a hand in training many of todays Scottish wrestling stars through W3L's Scottish wrestling training program.
Mike is joined by other experienced trainers including many of the current wrestling stars that appear on W3L live events. W3L regularly looks to invite special guests to provide seminars and add further dimensions to students training experiences. Seminars W3L has organised in recent years include – WWE / Impact Wrestling star Joe E Legend, WWE NXT trainer Robbie Brookside, Impact Wrestling star Doug Williams and ITV World of Sport legends such as Johnny Kidd and Blondie Barratt.
Since the W3L began it's training classes we have helped kick start the careers of many of Scotland's most promising wrestlers on the circuit today. Successful students can progress to gain work as active members of the W3L's touring roster and many have also benefited by being recommended to other promoters across the country as well as gaining try outs for American Wrestling organisations.
The Action Academy is also able to negotiate rental of our space and facilities to other groups. Please contact us via W3Lwrestling.com to discuss.
The W3L Action Academy is located at Unit 85, FlexSpace, Mitchelston Industrial Estate in Kirkcaldy, Fife (KY1 3NB). . Kirkcaldy is well connected by train and bus from all major towns and cities. From Kirkcaldy Bus Station multiple services run to Mitchelston Industrial Estate and Asda (a 5 minute walk from the Estate). The W3L Action Academy is located around the right hand side of the Flexspace complex (past the FlexSpace front and turn left as if you were entering the "Arena Gym" (also located at the front of the FlexSpace building). After turning left continue to the end of the building past car parks on your left and right. You will be facing a yard containing wooden pallets, take a left and we are accessible from the first entrance you come to past the security barrier). If you arrive late you will need to call to be "buzzed in" – call 07886021022.
Wednesdays 6PM – 7.15PM – W3L Juniors, 7.30PM – 10PM – W3L Action Academy. Additional access for Action Academy members can be arranged by request as long as an experienced professional is supervising.
W3L Juniors is for ages 10 – 15. The W3L Action Academy accepts students from 16 up, both male and female applicants accepted. All fitness levels are accepted as long as the applicant displays a desire to learn and improve.
When can I attend my first class and what should I wear?
It's advisable to email ahead just to ensure that there have been no changes to the training schedule on your first week as sometimes live event dates can cause training times to be reshuffled. Wear comfortable gym clothing with clean trainers. Knee pads are non essential for a first session however will be required after a few weeks of the training.
What can I expect from W3L Juniors?
W3L Juniors is designed both as a fun / keep fit experience and also to prepare for the W3L Action Academy. Under 16's should not be partaking in the high impact drills and techniques practised at the Academy but | 704 |
VLSI design company Open-Silicon launched evaluation board with 28 nm test chip integrating 28Gbps Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) for quickly designing silicon and systems for 100G networks. The test semiconductor chip features 28Gbps SerDes quad macro, using physical layer (PHY) IP from Semtech, and meets the compliance needs of the CEI-28G-VSR, CEI-25-LR and CEI-28G-SR specifications.
"Silicon-proven IP, such as the advanced 28Gbps SerDes PHY developed by Semtech, is central to our success as a leading ASIC solutions supplier," said Taher Madraswala, president of Open-Silicon. "In selecting IP and IP partners, we take into account not only the overall functionality within the IP and its compatibility with other IP blocks, but also its interoperability within the ASIC tool flow and how reliably it can be manufactured in a high-volume process technology. The Semtech 28Gbps IP satisfies our stringent third-party IP requirements, and provides our ASIC customers with a reliable path to meeting the needs of 100G networks."
"Having silicon results at this important 25G+ threshold is essential for customers to move forward with their plans to develop ASICs for the 100G network build-out," said Kevin Walsh, director of worldwide marketing, Semtech Snowbush IP Group. "With Open-Silicon, we have a partner that can develop these complicated chips. We have worked closely with Open-Silicon and our joint customers on all aspects of design – from concept through to fully, manufactured and tested parts, and with that experience, we can now<|fim_middle|> minimize reflections in vertical transitions, says Open-Silicon .
The 28Gbps SerDes evaluation platform is expected to be available by the end of Q3 from Open-Silicon. | provide a fast track to the delivery of chips and systems for 100G networks and beyond."
The Semtech SBMULTC2T28HPM28G PHY has an analog front end (AFE) that includes the transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) path circuitry along with auxiliary blocks for clock generation, test and biasing. The Tx driver is a highly programmable block including multiple registers to allow adjustment of TX amplitude, de-emphasis and pre-emphasis. The PHY can be programmed to support multiple standards each with specific electrical performance characteristics. The area, power and latency have been optimized for use in SOCs, ASICs or ASSPs. A post-silicon tuning capability allows customers to adapt the performance of the PHY to different operating environments, explains Open Silicon.
"Until now, network systems manufacturers have had limited access to fully tested and proven third-party 28G SerDes IP – especially at the 28-nm node," said Richard Wawrzyniak, IP analyst with Semico. "Evaluation platforms are key to enabling advanced network ASICs and SoCs that can handle growing bandwidth requirements in data centers, driven primarily by increased demand for cloud storage and Internet of Things applications."
28G SerDes is suggested for ASIC and SoC deployment in high-data-rate, chip-to-chip and chip-to-module applications.
The 28-nm test chip has been packaged in a 19mm x 19mm, 324-ball high performance Low Temperature Co-Fired Ceramic (LTCC) Flipchip substrate. This package material was selected for its relatively wider trace characteristics, low loss tangent, and superior uniform via arrangements that | 345 |
"Периодичната система" () е сборник кратки разкази от Примо Леви, публикуван през 1975 година, по името на периодичната система на Дмитрий Менделеев в химията. На български език книгата е преведена от Нева Мичева и издадена като част от поредицата "Кратки разкази завинаги" на издателство "Жанет 45", художник на корицата е Люба Халева.
Въпреки че разказите в сборника имат автобиографичен характер, през 2006 година, Кралската институция на Великобритания обявява книгата за най-добрата научна книга на всички времена, изпреварв<|fim_middle|>чена в 12 епизода с гласовете на Хенри Гудман и Акбар Курта като Примо Леви.
Източници
Книги от 1975 година
Италиански книги | айки книги като "Себичният ген" на Ричард Докинс, "Соломоновият пръстен" на Конрад Лоренц, "Пътешествие около света с кораба "Бигъл"" на Чарлз Дарвин и "Гьодел, Ешер, Бах" на Дъглас Хофстатър.
Съдържание
Разказите представляват автобиографични епизоди от преживяванията на автора Примо Леви, италиански химик от еврейски произход, по време на фашисткия режим и след края му. Включват разнообразни теми, подредени в сборника хронологично: предците на Леви, обучението му по химия и военновременната му заетост, две измислени приказки, които пише по това време, преживяванията му като партизанин-антифашист, ареста и затворничеството му, интернирането в концентрационните лагери Фосоли ди Карпи и Аушвиц и следвоенния му живот като химик в производството. Всяка от историите в сборника, общо 21 на брой, е озаглавена по името на химичен елемент, който е свързан с историята по някакъв начин:
"Аргон" – детските години на Леви, общността на пиемонтските евреи и техния език
"Водород" – две деца експериментират с електролизата
"Цинк" – лабораторни експерименти в университета
"Желязо" – юношеството на автора между расовите закони и Алпите
"Калий" – експеримент в лабораторията с неочаквани резултати
"Никел" – химическите лаборатории в една мина
"Олово" – приказката за един примитивен металург (измислена от автора)
"Живак" – приказката за населването на един отдалечен и изоставен остров (измислена от автора)
"Фосфор" – опитът от работата в химическата индустрия
"Злато" – история за затворническия период
"Церий" – оцеляване в лагера Аушвиц
"Хром" – възстановяването на една рецепта за лак
"Сяра" – опит от работата в химическата промишленост (очевидно измислена)
"Титан" – сцена от ежедневието (очевидно измислена)
"Арсеник" – консултация относно бучка захар
"Азот" – опит за производство на козметика от изстърганото от пода на кокошарник
"Калай" – история за домашната химическа лаборатория
"Уран" – консултация относно парче метал
"Сребро" – история с няколко неподходящи фотографски плаки
"Ванадий" – откриването на германски химик след войната
"Въглерод" – история на въглеродния атом
Адаптации
Книгата е драматизирана за радиослушатели от BBC Radio 4 през 2016 г. Драматизацията е излъ | 959 |
Nowadays, it seems like all of us are on the quest of finding flawless and younger looking skin. Unfortunately, we haven<|fim_middle|> million dollar question, when should you actually start incorporating anti-ageing in your skincare routine.
To be very honest, there's no one age consensus that everyone sticks to – in Asia, women start as early as the age of 18, whereas in America most start by the age of 35. However, it is recommended that in your mid to late 20's you begin to add elements of anti-ageing into your regime.
Start small with a good night-time routine in place. A retinol based moisturiser will do the trick before you go to bed. You don't really need to go all out with the collagen content if you're in your 20's, since your skin doesn't require it yet. If you want to go the extra mile, add an under-eye cream to help with dark circles. For your daytime routine, make sure to incorporate a moisturiser that has SPF present in it. In case you need an extra layer of protection, be sure to apply a sunscreen over and above that. Exposure to UV rays is one of the most common causes of early ageing, so that's where you essentially need to start.
If you're more concerned about fine lines around your eyes and mouth, then a serum or a face oil will help tighten the skin. If you're someone who has active breakouts, make sure to exfoliate with a chemical peel once in a while. This will beat the signs of ageing and help clear out your skin. Obviously this needs to be done professionally, but that shouldn't stop you from using a gentle scrub on your face too. Just make sure you don't overdo both a peel and a scrub, as I'll be highly aggressive on your skin. | 't come across the infamous fountain of youth, but we've got the next best thing and that's anti-ageing skincare products. Formulated to help with early signs of ageing, the works of the anti-ageing world is rather fascinating. But then it brings us to the | 55 |
2016 NCAA Men's Tournament Down to the Final Four
By James Pratt :: April 1, 2016
After watching the Irish try to run out the clock even while they were losing to<|fim_middle|>
Tatum Leads Duke to ACC Title over Irish | March 12, 2017
Inside Irish: Interview with Coach Denson | November 10, 2016 | the Tar Heels in the Elite Eight game last Sunday, it is not much of a surprise that Notre Dame fans will not be cheering for their basketball team in a Final Four matchup this weekend.
However, there are still two incredible Final Four matchups lined up for basketball fans everywhere. Villanova is facing Oklahoma in a second-seed showdown, and North Carolina, the only remaining number one seed, will take on the dark horse of the tournament, 10-seed Syracuse.
The Villanova Wildcats have a brilliant 33-5 record this year, and they are coming off a huge win against Kansas, the number one seed of the South.
Averaging 77.5 points per game, Villanova has a lot to work with from behind the arc. Their three leading scorers, Josh Hart, Kris Jenkins, and Ryan Arcidiacono all shot better than 35 percent from the three-point line, and each has attempted 150 or more three pointers this season. Hart is averaging 15.3 points per game, Jenkins, 13.5 points, and Arcidiacono, 12.3 points.
However, they are still efficient inside with Daniel Ochefu, who is averaging more than 10 points per game and has 266 rebounds and 54 blocks on the season. Ochefu's inside game could be important against a team like Oklahoma, another three-point shooting team.
The important thing to remember, however, is that it's the Final Four. In a tournament known for madness, anything can happen.
Jay Wright, the Villanova head coach, is well aware of the emotion and the pressure that will accompany his players all the way to their competition this weekend. "When you get to the Final Four, it's off the charts," he said. "Thank God we were there once before so we have a little bit of a feel, and we can hopefully help the players handle it."
The Oklahoma Sooners are currently 25-7, and coming into the NCAA tournament they ranked as a strong number three in the Big 12 conference. For the Sooners, senior guard Buddy Hield is undoubtedly the key to their success during the season and throughout the tournament.
In the 32 games leading up to and during the tournament, Hield has drained a total of 297 field goals, 146 three-pointers, and 176 free-throws, and he has tallied up 205 rebounds, 73 assists, and 40 steals. He has scored more than 30 percent of Oklahoma's total points this season.
If Buddy Hield shows up to the game on Saturday, the Wildcats had better watch out. However, if he has a bad day, a bad day it will be for the Sooners. Either way, the Oklahoma players are excited to be competing for a spot in the National Championship.
After all, the loss to Michigan State in the Sweet Sixteen last year was a tough one. This year, Hield and his teammates are more motivated than ever before. "We had a bad taste in our mouth last spring, and we wanted to work hard," Hield said. "Guys really wanted to get to this point."
On the other side of the tournament bracket, the North Carolina Tar Heels will take on the Syracuse Orange in one of the most unlikely Final Four matchups. Barely making into the tournament, the Orange successfully executed upset after upset, and they now find themselves in one of the most coveted games of the year.
While basketball fanatics are still wondering how the Orange qualified for the tournament, the Syracuse nation is hyped as never before because they have an opportunity to tally yet another upset against what seems to be an unstoppable North Carolina offense.
However, some critics have asked whether Syracuse even deserves to be called a Cinderella team. As for the Syracuse players themselves, they would prefer not to make that call. "That's for you guys to tell," Syracuse senior Michael Gbinije said. "I'm just enjoying the moment."
And so it is for the fans to decide, but whether Syracuse wins or loses to North Carolina, and whether they are in fact a Cinderella team or not, the important thing to remember is that they are a tenth-seed playing in the Final Four. That is something special.
James Pratt is a junior studying political science. Contact him at jpratt@nd.edu.
Journal Holds Symposium On Sports Law | April 7, 2017 | 929 |
Member of National NESA and want to be a Chapter member?
If you became an Eagle Scout, or are an Eagle Scout living or working in Nassau County, NY you are welcome to join us. Our only requirement is that you belong to the National NESA organization, which is a good idea in any case. You can join national NESA at www.nesa.org .The Chapter has no dues - all you have to do is come to meetings.
We typically meet the 3rd Monday every odd month except July..
Our Chapter meetings typically are a tour of a facility followed by a short business meeting. The facilities are frequently places the general public doesn't see. We've been backstage at theaters and arenas, inside air traffic control facilities, going through UPS facilities and medivac helicopters, and watching Underwriters Labs blow things up. You don't want to miss our Chapter activities.
Our March meeting will be on March 18 at 7:30PM at the Nassau County Police Arson and Bomb Squad. They'll be giving us a presentation on what they do followed by a question and answer period. We'll also have our usual short business meeting where we will discuss the preliminary arrangements for the Eagle Recognition Dinner plus some exciting changes.
The address for the<|fim_middle|>912, he had completed the last of 21 merit badges required for Eagle. To make sure that Arthur Eldred was worthy of the Boy Scouts of America's first Eagle Badge, he was reviewed not only by his own troop's board of review, but by a special board composed of the three major founders of Scouting - Chief Scout Executive James E. West, Chief Scout Ernest Thompson Seton, and National Scout Commissioner Dan Beard. In a letter dated August 21, 1912, West formally notified Eldred that he was the first Eagle. Because the die had not yet been cut for the Eagle badge, Arthur Eldred had to wait until Labor Day to get his emblem of honor. | meeting is 1194 Prospect Avenue, Westbury NY. This is the same building that we visited several years ago when we had a tour of the 911 operations center.
Have an Eagle Court of Honor coming up?
Would you like us to present the new Eagle with a certificate from our Chapter recognizing their accomplishment, or borrow our Eagle badge stand (see photo)? Send an email to eagle386@scouting.org.
Need help planning a Court of Honor?
We've been to a lot of Courts of Honor, and can help you in your planning. Send an email to eagle386@scouting.org.
The National Eagle Scout Association exists to identify Eagle Scouts and to provide a manpower resource for local councils. The primary objective of local chapters is to guide Eagle Scouts of all ages into service within the local council. All BSA councils have membership enrolled in the National Eagle Scout Association.
NESA is young men searching for a dynamic and challenging leadership roles. NESA is older Eagle Scouts who desire using their efforts and influence toward forming the kind of young men America needs for leadership. The objective of NESA is to serve—to serve Eagle Scouts and through them, the entire movement of Scouting.
For those Eagles who are college bound, NESA also offers a wide range of scholarships to its members. For more information, go to www.nesa.org.
Arthur R. Eldred, for whom the Theodore Roosevelt Council's National Eagle Scout Association Chapter is named, holds the distinction of being the first Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. Arthur Eldred was born in Brooklyn, New York, August 16, 1895. His father died when he was a young boy, and he was raised by his mother on a small farm on Long Island. He became a member of Troop 1, Rockville Centre, Long Island in November 1910, just eight months after the incorporation of the Boy Scouts of America.
Arthur Eldred advanced rapidly through the ranks, becoming a First Class Scout by March 1911 and by April 1 | 426 |
US7363003B2 - Mobile communication network using mobile station with relay-function and method for rewarding relay activities of mobile station - Google Patents
Mobile communication network using mobile station with relay-function and method for rewarding relay activities of mobile station Download PDF
Yukihiro Takatani
Naomichi Nonaka
Masato Hayashi
2001-12-21 Priority to PCT/EP2001/015395 priority Critical patent/WO2003055246A1/en
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A GSM network (1) includes a base station (2). A first mobile terminal (5) is outside a region of coverage. Using Bluetooth network, a second terminal (6) relays signals between the first terminal and the base station. The second terminal is awarded credit for relaying the signals.
The present invention relates to a mobile communications network.
A fixed communication network generally allows data or voice to be communicated between fixed terminals. An example of such a network is a public switched telephone network (PSTN) in which subscribers communicate using fixed telephone sets. Other examples include wired local-area networks (LANs) and wide-area networks (WANs), which are mainly used for transmission of data between computers. Fixed communication networks tend to restrict mobility of the users. If the user moves, they often have little choice but to disconnect their terminal from the network and reconnect at a different location. This is inconvenient for the user since network connection is temporarily lost. Moreover, network reconnection is not without its problems, particularly as it requires a connection point at the new location.
A mobile communication network helps to overcome these problems. An example of such a network is a public land mobile network (PLMN) such as the global system for mobile communication (GSM) network. Mobile terminals exchange signals with geographically-spaced base stations included in the network using radio signals. This allows the user to make and receive calls within a large area, even while moving. Mobility is achieved not only because wireless connections are used, but also because the mobile terminal is dynamically allocated a suitable base station. Thus, if the user is moving, a connection to one base station can be dropped and a new connection to another base station can established automatically so as to provide seamless coverage.
Mobile communication networks and mobile terminals are becoming increasingly common. For example, so-called 2nd generation mobile telecommunication systems, such as GSM networks, are being replaced by 3rd generation systems, such as universal mobile telecommunications standard (UMTS) networks. Moreover, users are becoming more reliant on their mobile terminals. Therefore, it is important that users are able to access the mobile communications network freely.
However, access can be restricted by the connections provided by base stations. For example, at a physical level, a radio link between the terminal and the base station may be of poor quality. This can happen when the user is located indoors. Alternatively, at a resource level, the base station may not be able to provide sufficient channels to mobile terminals requiring service. This often occurs when a large number of people gather at one place, for example at a sports stadium.
A solution to this problem is to provide additional base stations. However, this solution is expensive and relies upon being able to find suitable sites for the additional base stations.
Another solution is to employ mobile terminals as relays. For example, "On the Relaying Capability of Next-Generation GSM Cellular Networks" by George Neonakis Aggélou and Rahim Tafazolli, pp. 40-47, IEEE Personal Communications (February 2001) describes a terminal which is able to relay data using an ad-hoc GSM (A-GSM) network.
The present invention seeks to provide an improved mobile communications network for mobile terminals.
According to the present invention there is provided a mobile communications network for mobile terminals including a fixed station for exchanging signals with a first mobile terminal, a second mobile terminal configured to relay signals between said fixed station and said first mobile terminal wherein the network is configured to store information relating to use of the second mobile terminal as a relay.
This has the advantage that use of the second mobile as a relay may be monitored and rewarded.
The network may be configured to store or continue to store said information subsequent to completion of said relay. The network may include a server wherein said information is stored at said server. The information may be stored at the second mobile terminal.
The information may include a value of credit for relaying said signals. The credit may be redeemable. The network may be configured to provide said second mobile terminal with a service in response to redemption of said credit.
The network may include a subsidiary mobile communications network for relaying said signals between the fixed station and said first mobile network. The second mobile terminal may include a router for forwarding signals between said fixed station and said first mobile terminal. The router may be configured to operate according to Internet Protocol.
The network may include a third mobile terminal configured to relay signals between said fixed station and said first mobile terminal.
The network may be configured to store information relating to previous use of said second mobile as a relay. The network may be configured to accumulate information relating to use of said second mobile as a relay.
According to the present invention there is also provided a method of mobile communication in a mobile communications network including a fixed station for exchanging signals with a first mobile terminal, the method comprising using a second mobile terminal to relay signals between said fixed station and said first mobile terminal and storing information relating to use of the second mobile as a relay.
According to the present invention there is still further provided a mobile terminal for communication with a fixed station included in a mobile communications network, said mobile terminal being configured to relay signals between said fixed station and another mobile terminal and to provide information to said network relating to its use as a relay.
The terminal may include a first wireless interface for communicating with said fixed station. The terminal may include a second, different wireless interface for communicating with said other mobile terminal.
According to the present invention there is yet further provided a server associated with a mobile communications network for storing information relating to mobile terminals, said server configured to store relay information in response to a first mobile terminal exchanging signals with a fixed station included in said network via a second mobile terminal.
According to the present invention there is still further provided a method, in a mobile communications network, of rewarding a first mobile terminal for relaying signals between a second mobile terminal and either a third mobile terminal or a fixed station, the method comprising awarding credit to said first mobile terminal, wherein said credit is exchangeable for money or money's worth.
The money's worth may include provision of communication service.
According to the present invention there is also provided a mobile communications network for mobile terminals including a first mobile terminal for relaying signals between a second mobile terminal and either a third mobile terminal or a fixed station, the network being configured to award credit to said first mobile terminal, wherein said credit is exchangeable for money or money's worth, so as to reward said first mobile terminal for relaying said signals.
The network may be configured to store information relating to said credit awarded.
According to the present invention there is further provided a server associated with a mobile communications network which includes a first mobile terminal for relaying signals between a second mobile terminal and either a third mobile terminal or a fixed station, the server being configured to award credit to said first mobile terminal, wherein said credit is exchangeable for money or money's worth, so as to reward said first mobile terminal for relaying said signals.
According to the present invention there is also provided a mobile terminal for use in mobile communications network and for relaying signals between another mobile terminal and either yet another mobile terminal or a fixed station, said terminal being configured to award itself or be awarded credit for relaying said signals, wherein said credit is exchangeable for money or money's worth.
According to the present invention there is provided a method, in a mobile communications network, of rewarding a first mobile terminal for relaying signals between a second mobile terminal and either a third mobile terminal or a fixed station, the method comprising extending call-time of said first mobile terminal.
According to the present invention there is provided a method of operating a mobile communications network including a first mobile terminal for relaying signals between a second mobile terminal and either a third mobile terminal or a fixed station, the method comprising rewarding the first mobile terminal for relaying said signals with increased network access.
The rewarding of the first mobile terminal with increased network access may comprise increasing call-time or data volume available to the first mobile terminal.
Embodiments of the present invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 shows a mobile communications network and mobile terminals according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a mobile terminal shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of a server shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 illustrates a first type of table held by the server of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 illustrates a second type of table held by the server of FIG. 1;
FIG. 6 is a process flow diagram showing a first procedure by which a first terminal, using a second terminal as a relay, is connected to a third terminal;
FIG. 7 is a process flow diagram showing a second connection procedure;
FIG. 8 is a process flow diagram showing a first procedure by which communication is terminated;
FIG. 9 is a process flow diagram showing a second termination procedure;
FIG. 10 is a process flow diagram showing a third termination procedure;
FIG. 11 shows a display of a mobile terminal whose signals are being relayed by another terminal;
FIG. 12 shows a mobile communications network and mobile terminals according to a second embodiment of the present invention and
FIG. 13 is a process flow diagram showing a procedure by which a first terminal, using two terminals as relays, is connected to another terminal.
PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION
Referring to FIG. 1, in a first embodiment of the present invention, a mobile communications network 1 includes first and second base stations 2, 3. In this example, the network 1 is a public land mobile network (PLMN), such as a GSM network. The network 1 includes a server 4 for logging network use and will be described in more detail later.
A description of a GSM network can be found in "The GSM System for Mobile Communications" by Michel Mouly and Marie-Bernadette Pautet (Cell & Sys, Palaiseau, 1992).
First, second, third and fourth mobile terminals 5, 6, 7, 8 are suitable for use with the network 1. Each terminal 5, 6, 7, 8 can be used to communicate with other mobile terminals or, via an additional fixed communications network (not shown), with fixed terminals (not shown). For example, the fixed communications network can be a public switched telephone network.
A problem can sometimes arise that the first mobile terminal 5 is temporarily unable to use the communications network 1. There may be two reasons for this:
Firstly, the terminal 5 may be unable to use the network 1 because wireless signals received at the terminal 5 from a base station or those received at a base station from the terminal 5 are too weak. This usually occurs if the terminal 5 is located outside an area of coverage provided by the communications network's base stations or if the terminal 5 is located inside a building. Interference from another source can also render wireless signals unusable, i.e. the signals are too noisy.
Secondly, the terminal 5 may not be able to use the network 1 in that, despite there being strong enough signals, there is no communication channel available. For example, the terminal 5 may be located within an area of coverage provided by a third base station (not shown) which has already allocated all its communications channels to other mobile terminals. This often occurs if there is a high density of mobile terminals.
A solution to this problem is to employ the second mobile terminal 6 as a relay. The second terminal 6 effectively expands coverage provided by the network 1. The first mobile terminal 5 benefits from this arrangement since it is provided with service that it would otherwise not have. The second mobile terminal 6 can also benefit from this arrangement by being "paid" for use of its resources. As will be explained in more detail later, more than one mobile terminal can be used as a relay.
Referring to FIG. 2, each mobile terminal 5, 6, 7, 8 includes a CPU 9, memory 10, display 11, first wireless interface 12 which comprises a modulator 13 and an antenna 14, second wireless interface 15, which comprises a modulator 16 and an antenna 17 and a routing module 18 for routing data to one of the wireless interfaces 12, 15. The terminals 5, 6, 7, 8 may also include an input/output 19 for exchanging data over wired networks (not shown), a data input 20, such as keypad or touch sensitive screen, a microphone 21 and a speaker 22. Data is exchanged between these elements 10, 11, 13, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22 using a bus 23.
The first wireless interface 12 is configured to exchange signals with the mobile communications network 1, which in this case is a GSM network. The second wireless interface 14 is configured to exchange signals through a subsidiary mobile communications network (not shown). In this example, the subsidiary network is an ad-hoc wireless network according to the Bluetooth™ specification. Thus, the subsidiary wireless interface may comprise a Bluetooth transceiver chip. In this example, coverage provided by the network 1 is greater than the subsidiary network. For example, a GSM base station may provide coverage in a cell with a radius of a few kilometers provided there are no obstacles. Bluetooth transceiver chips typically have a range less than a hundred meters. However, users often are located indoors where GSM network coverage is poor, but connection to at least one Bluetooth chip is possible. Routing is conducted according to Internet Protocol (IP).
It will be appreciated that other wireless networks and corresponding interfaces can be used. However, the network 1 and the subsidiary network can be one and the same and so a single wireless interface could be used.
Details relating to GSM can be found in "The GSM System for Mobile Communications" supra.
A system specification (Version 1.0) and a system overview may be found on the world-wide web at www.bluetooth.org or obtained from Bluetooth SIG, c/o Daniel Edlund, facsimile number +46 70 615 9049.
Referring to FIG. 3, the server 4 monitors and records use of terminals 5, 6, 7, 8 as and when they are used to relay signals. The server 4 includes a CPU 24, memory 25, storage 26, such as a hard-disk drive, and a network controller 28, which exchange data through a bus 29.
Referring to FIG. 4, storage 26 holds a user database 30 including information relating to each user registered to use the network 1. The user information includes user ID 30, communications charges incurred 32 and credit 33 accumulated arising from use of the mobile terminal as a relay. Credit may be awarded according to different criteria, such as the length of time of a terminal is used as a relay, a number of packets passing through the terminal, a number of times the terminal is used as a relay and/or power consumed. Credit 33 may be offset against charges, used for increased network access, used to obtain gifts or acquire some other benefit. Network access may be increased according to time and/or volume. It includes providing free calls, increased call-time and increased data volume. Charge offset includes providing rate discounts. Thus, there is an incentive for a user to allow their mobile terminal to be used as a relay.
Credit information 33 may also be held in memory 10 (FIG. 2) of each respective mobile terminal 5, 6, 7, 8. Credit information 33 can be updated periodically, following a relay or on-demand. This allows the user to find out how many points 33 have been accumulated.
Referring to FIG. 5, storage 26 also holds a relay information table 34 including information relating to communication sessions in which one or more mobile terminals are used as a relay. The session information includes a session number 35, the identities of the terminals 36, 37, start and end times 38, 39 and identities of mobile terminals used as relays 40, 41. It will be appreciated that other information may be stored.
A process by which the second mobile terminal 6 is used to relay signals between the first mobile terminal 5 and the first base station 2 will now be described.
Referring to FIG. 6, the first mobile terminal 5 attempts to establish contact with the third mobile terminal 7 through the mobile communications network 1. Thus, in this case the first mobile terminal 5 is deemed to be a source terminal and the third mobile terminal 7 is taken to be a destination terminal. The first terminal 5 establishes whether a base station 2, 3 is contactable and, if so, whether a communication channel is available (step S1). If either limb of this test fails, then the first mobile terminal 5 establishes whether another mobile terminal 6, 7, 8 is prepared and able to act as a relay. Using the subsidiary communications network (not shown), the first mobile terminal 5 establishes a connection with the second mobile terminal 6 and sends a relay request (step S2). The second mobile terminal 6 establishes whether a base station 2, 3 is contactable and, if so, whether a communication channel is available (step S3). In this case, the second mobile terminal 6 is provided with service by the first base station 2. Therefore, the second terminal 6 replies to the first mobile terminal 5 indicating that it is prepared to relay signals between the first terminal 5 and the first base station 2 (step S4).
The first terminal 5 sends information relating to the identity of the source and destination terminals, namely the first and third terminals 5, 7 respectively, to the second terminal 6 over the subsidiary network (step S5). The second terminal 6 sends a message to the server 4, through the first base station 2 (FIG. 1) via the network 1 (FIG. 1) (step S6). The message includes information relating to the identity of the source and destination terminals and the identity of the relay terminal. The server 4 sends a message to the third terminal 7 indicating that the first terminal 5 wishes to establish a connection (step S7). In this example, it is assumes that<|fim_middle|> to establish contact with the first mobile terminal 5 through the network 1. Thus, in this case the third mobile terminal 7 is deemed to be the source terminal and the first mobile terminal 5 is deemed to be the destination terminal. The third terminal 7 transmits a message including information relating to the identity of the source and destination terminals to the server 4 using the network 1 (step S18). The server 4 looks-up who is relaying signals to the first terminal 5 in the relay information table 34. The sewer 4 thereafter sends a message, indicating that the third terminal 7 wishes to establish a connection with the first terminal 5, to the second terminal 5, through the network 1 (step S19). The second terminal 6 relays the message to the first terminal 5 using the subsidiary network (step S20).
If the first terminal 5 agrees to the connection with the third terminal 7, it sends an acknowledgement to the server 4 via the second terminal (steps S21 & S22). The server 4 starts a timer (step S23) and transmits the acknowledgement to the third terminal 7 (step S24). A channel between the first and third terminals 5, 7 is opened allowing the terminals 5, 7 to communicate (step S25).
The processes described earlier are concerned with establishing a communication between the first and third terminals 5, 7. Processes by which communication is ended by any of the terminals 5, 6, 7 involved will now be described.
Referring to FIG. 8, if the first terminal 5 ends communications, it sends an end notification message to the second terminal 6 over the subsidiary network (step S26). The second terminal 6 passes on this message to the server 4 (step S27). The second terminal 6 can also send other information relating to its use as a relay, such as time spent relaying, number of packets relayed, amount of power consumed etc. The server 4 stops it timer and notifies the third terminal that communication has ended (step S29).
Referring to FIG. 9, if the third terminal 7 ends communication, it sends an end notification message to the server 4 (step S30). The server 4 stops its timer and passes on this message to the second terminal 6 (step S31). The second terminal 6 then notifies the first terminal 31 that communication has ended (step S32). Optionally, the second terminal 6 can return a message to the server 4 with information relating to its use as a relay.
Referring to FIG. 10, if the second terminal 6 ends communication, it sends an end notification message to the first terminal 5 (step S34) and also to the server 4 (step S35). As above, the second terminal 6 can include information in the message relating to its use as a relay.
When the server 4 stops its timer or receives information relating to a relay terminal it updates the user database 30 (FIG. 4), for example adding communication charges to the first terminal's account and adding relay points to the second terminal's account.
Referring to FIG. 11, whenever a terminal 5, 6, 7, 8 uses another terminal as a relay, the display 10 indicates this fact. The relay terminal may also indicate that it is being used as a relay.
Referring again to FIG. 2, each mobile terminal 5, 6, 7, 8 may optionally be provided with a relay management module (not shown). This allows either the user or the terminal itself to choose whether the terminal can be used as a relay. For example, the user can select an option in a menu indicating that they are prepared to allow their terminal to be used. In another example, relay may be permitted provided there is sufficient battery charge.
In the embodiment described earlier, only one terminal is used as a relay. However, more than one terminal can be used.
A process by which the second and fourth mobile terminals 6, 8 are used to relay signals between the first mobile terminal 5 and the first base station 2 will now be described.
Referring to FIGS. 12 and 13, the first mobile terminal 5 attempts to establish contact with the third mobile terminal 7 through the mobile communications network 1. The first terminal 5 establishes whether a base station 2, 3 is contactable and, if so, whether a communication channel is available (step S38). If either limb of this test fails, then the first mobile terminal 5 establishes whether another mobile terminal 6, 7, 8 is prepared and able to act as a relay. Using the second mobile communications network (not shown), the first mobile terminal 5 establishes a connection with the fourth mobile terminal 8 and sends a relay request (step S39). The fourth mobile terminal 8 establishes whether a base station 2, 3 is contactable and, if so, whether a communication channel is available (step S40). In this case, the fourth mobile terminal 8 is not provided with service. Therefore, still using the second mobile communications network (not shown), the fourth mobile terminal 8 establishes a connection with the second mobile terminal 7 and sends a relay request (step S41). The second mobile terminal 6 establishes whether a base station 2, 3 is contactable and, if so, whether a communication channel is available (step S42). In this case, the second mobile terminal 6 is provided with service by the first base station 2. The second terminal 6 replies to the fourth mobile terminal 8 indicating that it is prepared to relay signals between it and the first base station 2 (step S43). In turn, the fourth terminal 8 replies to the first terminal 5 indicating that it is able to relay signals between it and the first base station (step S44).
The first terminal 5 sends information relating to the identity of the source and destination terminals, namely the first and third terminals 5, 7 respectively, to the fourth terminal 6 (step S45). The fourth terminal 6 sends a message to the second terminal 6 (step S46). The message includes information relating to the identity of the source and destination terminals and the identity of a first relay terminal, namely the fourth terminal 8. The second terminal 8 sends a message to the server 4 (step S47). The message includes information relating to the identity of the source and destination terminals, the identity of the first relay terminal and identifies itself as a second relay terminal.
The server 4 sends a message to the third terminal 7 indicating that the first terminal 5 wishes to establish a connection (step S48). If the third terminal 7 agrees to the connection with the first terminal 5, it sends an acknowledgement to the server 4 (step S49). The server 4 thereafter starts a timer (step S50). The acknowledgement is transmitted through the network 1 to the second terminal 6 (step S51), which in turn transmits the acknowledgement through the second network (not shown) to the first terminal 5, via the fourth terminal 6 (steps S52 & 53). A channel between the first and third terminals 5, 7 is opened allowing the terminals 5, 7 to communicate (step S54).
Thus, the first and third terminals 5, 7 communicate using the second and fourth terminals 6, 8 as a relay. The server 4 not only records use of the second terminal 6 as a relay, but also use of the fourth terminal 8.
It will be appreciated that the terminals may be configured to operate according to protocols designed to handle conflicts between two terminals which receive a relay request and which compete to be the relay, for example on a "first come-first served" basis. The terminal may be configured to search for the shortest route between a terminal and a base station.
If two or more relay routes are available to a terminal, then the terminal can store these routes, including information regarding the identity of relays, in a routing table. The terminal chooses a route and communicates with a base station. However, should transmission through the chosen route fail, for example due to relocation of the relay or introduction of an obstacle, the terminal can select another route.
It will be appreciated that both the source and destination terminals may benefit from using relays. Thus, coverage may be extended to the source terminal by one or more relay terminals, while coverage may also be extended to an intended destination terminal by one or more other relay terminals.
It will be appreciated that many modifications may be made to the embodiment hereinbefore described. For example, any type of mobile communications networks may be used.
1. A mobile communication network comprising a first, a second and a third mobile terminals, a server for storing communication charge information for each user of said mobile terminals, and a first mobile communication network for relaying communication signals between mobile terminals, wherein:
each of said first, second and third mobile terminals has a first wireless interface for exchanging communication signals with said first mobile communication network,
each of said first and second mobile terminals has a second wireless interface for exchanging communication signals with each other through a second mobile communication network different in communication protocol from said first mobile communication network, and
wherein said second mobile terminal operates as a relay for relaying communication signals between said first and third mobile terminals when the first mobile terminal cannot directly communicate with said first mobile communication network and the second mobile terminal is able to communicate with both the first mobile terminal and said first mobile communication network, and
said server includes a memory configured to store, in association with a user identifier of a user of said second mobile terminal, communications charges to be charged to the user and a credit value accumulated arising from use of the second mobile terminal as a relay, and adds to the stored credit value a service point which is awarded to the second mobile terminal for relaying the communication signals between said first and third mobile terminals and calculated based on a predetermined criterion.
2. The mobile communication network according to the claim 1, wherein said credit value accumulated in said memory by said server is usable to offset against said communication charges or to increase network access from said second mobile terminal to said first mobile communication network.
3. The mobile communication network according to claim 1, wherein said server has a timer for measuring the use time of a mobile terminal as a relay,
the server starts the timer when said third mobile terminal acknowledged a communication request having been transmitted from said first mobile terminal and forwarded to the third mobile terminal through said second mobile terminal and said first mobile communication network, and
the server stops the timer when the communication between said first and third mobile terminals was terminated, thereby to calculate said service point to be awarded to said second mobile terminal in accordance with the use time measured with the timer.
4. The mobile communication network according to claim 3, wherein said sever stops said timer when a communication end notification issued by one of said first and second mobile terminals was received or a communication end notification issued by said first mobile terminal and relayed by said second mobile terminal was received.
5. The mobile communication network according to claim 1, wherein said second mobile terminal transmits contribution information relating to its use as a relay to said server when the communication between said first and second mobile terminals is terminated, and
said server calculates said service point to be awarded to said second mobile terminal in accordance with the contribution information.
6. The mobile communication network according to claim 5, wherein said contribution information transmitted from said second mobile terminal includes at least one of the length of time the terminal was used as a relay, a number of packets relayed by the terminal, a number of times the terminal was used as a relay, and the amount of power consumed in the relay operation.
7. The mobile communication network according to claim 5, wherein said second mobile terminal transmits said contribution information to said server, in time of forwarding a communication end notification issued by said first mobile terminal to said server, responding to a communication end notification received from said server, or issuing a communication end notification for terminating operation as a relay by itself.
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If the third terminal 7 agrees to the connection with the first terminal 5, it sends an acknowledgement to the server 4 (step S8). The server 4 thereafter starts a timer (step S9). The acknowledgement is transmitted through the network 1 to the second terminal 6 (step S10), which in turn transmits the acknowledgement through the subsidiary network to the first terminal (step S11). A channel between the first and third terminals 5, 7 is opened allowing the terminals 5, 7 to communicate (step S12).
Thus, the first and third terminals 5, 7 communicate using the second terminal 6 as a relay. The routing module 18 of the second terminal 6 is responsible for directing data received by the first wireless interface 12 and feeding it to the second wireless interface 15 and vice versa.
The user of the second terminal 6 may still able to make and receive calls or send and receive data even while being used as a relay by the first terminal 5. This can be achieved using time division multiple access (TDMA), wherein TDMA slots are allocated for the terminal's own use and different TDMA slots are allocated for use by another terminal. It will be appreciated that the second terminal 6 may be able to relay signals for a plurality of terminals simultaneously.
Another process by which the second mobile terminal 6 is used to relay signals between the first mobile terminal 5 and the first base station 2 will now be described. In this case, a connection is initiated by the third terminal 7.
Referring to FIG. 7, the first mobile terminal 5 checks whether it is can be serviced by the mobile communications network 1. The first terminal 5 establishes whether a base station 2, 3 is contactable. It may also check whether a communication channel is available (step S13). If no base station 2, 3 is contactable, the first mobile terminal 5 establishes whether another mobile terminal 6, 7, 8 is prepared and able to act as a potential relay. Using the subsidiary mobile communications network (not shown), the first mobile terminal 5 establishes a connection with the second mobile terminal 6 and sends a relay request (step S14). The second mobile terminal 6 establishes whether a base station 2, 3 is contactable and, if so, whether a communication channel is available (step S15). In this case, the second mobile terminal 6 is provided with service by the first base station 2. Therefore, the second terminal 6 replies to the first mobile terminal 5 indicating that it is prepared to relay signals between the first terminal 5 and the first base station 2 (step S16). The second terminal 6 notifies the server 4 that signals intended for the first terminal 5 can be directed through the second terminal 6 (step S17). This is stored in the relay information table 34 (FIG. 5).
The first terminal 5 can perform this check periodically, for example every few seconds. Alternatively, the terminal 5 can send a relay request through the subsidiary network as soon as it detects that it is no longer provided with service by the network 1.
The third mobile terminal 7 attempts | 696 |
The Arts Society Presents — Get North!
Coinciding with the Great Exhibition of the North, The Arts Society will present a series of talks at Tyneside Cinema. Hear expert lect<|fim_middle|> artistic heritage. Enjoy a complimentary drink in the stylish surroundings of Tyneside Cinema, and learn more about titles such as 'Renaissance Sugar Sculpture to 3D Printing', 'The Magical Art of Hollywood' and 'Conceptual Art – Whatever were they thinking about?'. | urers share their specialist knowledge on the arts, with fascinating insights into the contributions from the North.
This summer, to coincide with the Great Exhibition of the North, join leading arts educational charity, The Arts Society for a series of outstanding talks by specialist lecturers in the fields of art, design and culture. The eclectic programme of talks will showcase the depth and breadth of the speakers and their topics, with fascinating insights into the contributions from the North of England to our | 92 |
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Nov. 29, 2021 - PRLog -- Yours Humanly, a global nonprofit that transforms the lives of children in need around the world by providing access to quality education and equitable resources, has named a Northern California teen a 2021 recipient of its Children Have the Power to Empower® Award, which recognizes children for their outstanding acts of goodness that make a significant difference in the lives of others.
Seena Farhadi, 17, of Walnut Creek, California, received the Children Have the Power to Empower® Award for the outstanding acts of goodness he performs on behalf of children in need through LEAP, the Learning Enrichment and Assistance Program he founded in January 2021. The high school senior works with organizations such as Homeless Outreach Program for Education and Foster Youth Services to pair tutors with homeless and foster youth in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District (Contra Costa County) who are struggling academically and in need of support and mentoring. In so doing, he is giving these students access to resources and opportunities they would not otherwise have. He has plans to expand the program to include a summer camp for homeless youth and a speaker series tackling topics relevant to both homelessness and the foster care system, kickstarting an important community dialogue about educational equity and the needs of homeless and foster youth.
"We commend Seena for his compassion and extraordinary efforts on behalf of others," says Yours Humanly Founder & CEO Sunny Singh. "Our Children Have the Power to Empower award recipients are making a profound difference in the lives of others and we must encourage them to continue to do what they can to ease life's journey for those who struggle."
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Howell home owned by Civil War leader of Black soldiers could be saved for just $20K
Jerry Carino
HOWELL - Every history lover knows the movie "Glory," which depicts the true story of a white colonel leading a Black regiment in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Capt. William Prickitt wasn't the inspiration for it, but the longtime Howell resident's story is nearly as impressive.
Prickitt was leading the 25th Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops in defense of two Florida forts during the Civil War when he fell critically ill with dysentery. His soldiers nursed him back to health, and a grateful Prickitt commemorated their efforts in a photo album depicting 17 of them identified by name.
"It was rare to have Civil War pictures of colored troops,<|fim_middle|>ride on bringing John Brown to Showtime in 2020
The place is a repository of fascinating artifacts, including a replica of the town's original one-room schoolhouse built in 1855, a set of embossed-writing Bibles from the 19th century, an original coal stove, a two-seat outhouse and a portrait of Capt. Prickitt.
The oldest section of the house dates to around 1800, with an addition built in 1854.
"It began as a one-and-a-half story miller's house," Novak said. "Over time as industry grew, families grew, and the miller had a big family and needed a bigger house."
Prickitt purchased the property in the early 1870s. He died in 1929 and is buried nearby in Evergreen Cemetery.
George Washington couldn't stand him:Historic Philip Freneau house for sale in Matawan
The Howell Heritage and Historical Society bought the house from the township in February, but it's hard to raise money for repairs when the building is closed to visitors. It's a catch-22, and with government funds scarce as the economy staggers along, the cavalry isn't coming.
"We, the people of New Jersey, need to save this," Meyer said. "Places like this get pushed to the side. When they deteriorate beyond repair, we can't save them. I think it's important to save this."
For more information on the MacKenzie House's restoration, visit www.howellheritagehistoricalsociety.org. For information on Rescue New Jersey, email RescueNewJersey@gmail.com or visit the Facebook page Rescue New Jersey!
Jerry Carino is community columnist for the Asbury Park Press, focusing on the Jersey Shore's interesting people, inspiring stories and pressing issues. Contact him at jcarino@gannettnj.com. | and even more rare that you had names associated with them," said Bob Novak, president of the Howell Heritage and Historical Society.
Related:Farmhouse that survived Battle of Monmouth is crumbling
The pocket-sized album is now with the Smithsonian, guaranteeing its preservation. The fate of the 200-year-old house once owned by Prickitt on Lakewood Farmingdale Road is less certain. Known as the MacKenzie House after its last citizen-owner, the two-and-a-half story Georgian edifice — a longtime museum destination for school trips and fans of historic homes — has been closed for the past few years because the chimney is deteriorating.
"The bricks and mortar are turning back to dust, literally dust," Novak said. "And it's collapsing on itself. Time has not served it well."
Civil War:Desecrated cemetery, lost grave of 18-year-old war hero getting restored in Hazlet
Unlike many old houses, the cost of fixing this one is not astronomical: $7,000 to remove the old chimney and another $7,000 to install a historically accurate replacement. Throw in some work needed to shore up the foundation, and "this house could be brought back and opened up as a museum and a library once again for under $20,000," Robert Meyer said.
Meyer would know. The Aberdeen resident, who is president of the New Jersey Society of Sons of the American Revolution, recently launched Rescue New Jersey, a nonprofit dedicated to saving New Jersey's crumbling historic properties. He has added the MacKenzie House to its list of projects.
"There's 50,000 residents in Howell," Meyer said. "If every resident donated a dollar, we'd have more than enough money for this home."
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I find that each time I cook dougnuts, as I slide them off the tray into the oil pan, they deflate a fair bit, and sometimes crinkle up. How do<|fim_middle|> is a link to a video showing how it's done with crullers.You can skip the first 3 minutes that shows the mixing and piping of the crullers.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged baking non-stick or ask your own question. | I effectively prevent this, and keep them gorgeous and fluffy?
I imagine the problem is twofold - not making them stick in the first place, and also maybe using a specific implement to slide them off. Any ideas are appreciated, and will be tested!
Edit for details: I use a non-stick tray - they come off it easily, but the deflation is the real problem.
I suspect @Stephie is correct in thinking they may be over proofed. Having said that, you could try the method that is used when making crullers.
Place shaped donuts on parchment paper that has been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
Cut the paper into individual squares (each donut should have enough space to raise without expanding off the paper). Let raise.
When ready to fry, just slip the paper with donut into your oil, it should release right away and you can remove the paper from the oil with tongs.
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wonder why, things like candle-lights, enigma, yo yo ma, scorpions, nirvana, dark chocolate, flock of geese across the sky, clear blue sky or vermilion sky, rains and after rain look, warm shower, zero watt orange light .... always manage to connect... the inexplicable soul connection???
from not being allowed even a bus seat to tyra banks to 20th Jan, 2009, 12:00 noon!!
"... today, we need to pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off... "... mr.obama, you rock... !
Morning gathers up on the glass like blue and white fuzz; fog hangs pointedly against the dusty rosy pale of dawn. Day has come too soon all week. I breathe in and my breath catches the sharp cold air, the room temperature control has given up sometime during the night. My limbs uncoil and the ligaments all are taut. Awareness scattering like chickadees and then narrowing back in towards the oval blue of quiet thought. A treat of sorts for the insomniac in me!
Then I'm bundle of helter-skelter around the house, finishing the chore and willing this thin frame against the cold. We've had a lot of cold draft of wind and it seems like a miracle that it does not snow here. The whole jagged edge of the city is lit with the bright gold of day, fog slowly vanished like a conjurer's trick and the pale sky stretches up and up and up above it, the clouds like discarded garments hanging tattered at the cusp where world meets air.
I'm like a dancer now or a magician, the multi tasking never stops. I'm bending to lift a tea cup while listening to office story about a deal that should have come, am busy with the laundry while answering a question about where that particular shade of grey tie is kept and then am taking an official conf call while dusting around the house. My mind becomes pocketed, punctuated, and perceptive. I am no longer aware of my breath or the back pain that began as tingle but now is demanding full attention.
If I stand still I can almost feel it vibrating. I crave solitude, but something else needs attention. I make tea and we sit down to sip it… together.
Life post marriage, life post willingly accepting someone, with all the fanfare, into your life is both weird and wonderful. "And, it gets weirder and weirder". It seems like a long play and everyone seems to forgotten to rehearse the end at all… and the curtain never seems to go down.
We heat drinking water, hang a heat lamp, wrap insulation over ourselves and generally go on living the honeymoon. The extended and the un-clichéd one! No exotic locales or overdone romantic setups. Just a plain simple, at home, making a home – honeymoon! And, trust me this rocks! And, yes I definitely love the classic things but the un-classic sometimes is so in.
Amidst the crowded days and overflowing moments of new avatar; I can still see the glimpse of my<|fim_middle|> am standing still right now… in my mind. Trying to train it to silence, to empty it … to fill again with something else and this time around… there would only be space for magic and god.
Have a Blessed 2009, Cyberverse! | old life; through some translucent veil. And, am caught in the wanderlust of them; I miss them not in some sad melancholy but more like an after taste of tiramisu!
My sis and my brother! The name calling and the fight and the getting up in the afternoon and chatting till wee hours of morning and dozens of cups of coffee and the match-point of grey cells.
The sunset is beautiful here, actually the sunset is beautiful any where; in fact the sun is beautiful – both in its full morning glory and the lights out sensuality! Am trying to be it. This Calendar Year, that's my wish. Just be.
On the terrace, I sit and watch the sun vermillion red – perfect globe and birds. House Sparrows, Cardinals, nuthatches, jays, woodpeckers even. Fighting for the fallen seed, grackles come with iridescent speckled backs. The air is now one of receding warmth and smells like wet grass and wood smoke.
I still manage to sneak in, some quickie with my books and this space here. Too much to catch up, too much happening … and me, like in a music video, | 243 |
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Providing an exciting learning environment where young people feel safe, happy and valued. We will meet the educational and social needs of all our young people, regardless of ability, ethnic background or disability
Assisting our young people to become confident, creative and questioning individuals who are strong leaders and equally effective team players
Ensuring our staff are an inspirational, dedicated and well supported team who provided exceptional teaching experience for our young people
Investing in the high quality professional development of all our staff
Promoting high standards of achievement and attainment – our young people will be academically well qualified with a breadth of experience that has maximised all their talents and aptitudes
Giving our young people access to a challenging, broad and balanced curriculum, including regular and frequent opportunities to participate in high quality extracurricular enrichment experiences
Managing resources effectively and efficiently, ensuring value for money
Building trusting and informed relationship with parents/ carers and the local community through working in a true partnership
On the 27th November 2017, the UK Government published a policy paper: 'Industrial Strategy: the 5 foundations'. The strategy sets out the national approach for creating the environment in which the country can build a thriving and sustainable economy and society that our pupils will grow into and contribute to. One of those foundations, 'People', identifies how education must play a pivotal role in preparing and equipping our young people to thrive in a new industrial and digital era. One of the greatest barriers to the delivery of the industrial strategy is the acute shortage of people skilled in science, technology, engineering, art and maths (STEAM).
Three key policies have been set out nationally to address this barrier: establish a technical education system that rivals the best in the world, to stand alongside our excellent higher education system; invest in maths, digital and technical education, helping to address the shortage of STEAM skills; and create a National Retraining Scheme that supports people to re-skill. Landau Forte Charitable Trust is committed to making a contribution to ensuring that our pupils are prepared to engage fully with learning in STEAM and for those for whom it is appropriate can thrive as the creative scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians of the future. For those young people whose aspirations lay in other directions, our curriculum will be rich and broad in order that they can excel in fields where their passions and interests take them.
Landau Forte Charitable Trust is an established yet still developing Multi Academy Trust (MAT). In order to secure our educational vision for the future, we will develop and grow a sustainable, effective and efficient organisation.
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Deliberation and inclusion: vehicles for increasing trust in UK public governance?
Bloomfield, D.; Collins, K.; Fry, C. and Munton, R. (200<|fim_middle|> economic and political interests devote sufficient resources for them to be effective.
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Pat Shah | 1). Deliberation and inclusion: vehicles for increasing trust in UK public governance? Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 19(4) pp. 501–513.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1068/c6s
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Arguments in favour of participative democratic practices have been promoted stridently in recent years as trust in existing political institutions has receded. These arguments assume the declining ability of elected members to represent increasingly diverse constituencies in a period of rapid change, and a sense of powerlessness among citizens in the face of distant economic and political forces. There have been few attempts to review the available empirical evidence on whether deliberative and inclusionary processes lead to 'better' decisions. For the United Kingdom, evidence is limited, except in the land-use planning field, and we argue that in present circumstances their primary role should be to stimulate wider civil engagement as a means of restoring trust. 'Better' decisions will then follow. However, barriers to their acceptance remain, not least in the need to create sufficient incentive for citizens to participate and in the requirement that established | 246 |
This position is responsible for assistance with all weddings and events at Purgatory Resort. The wedding and event assistant will be expected to help with aspects leading up to as well as the day of the wedding/ event. Duties include behind the scenes office work, assistance with rehearsals, weddings, and events, managing weddings when there is more than one wedding, directing the wedding party, and other duties as assigned.
This position will attain knowledge of Purgatory<|fim_middle|> mandatory. Must be able to work as a team but also be able to function autonomously.
Must be able to lift objects up to 20 pounds. Good vision, hearing and manual dexterity required. Must have valid driver's license. Must be able to work 10+ hour days. | Resort lodging, venues, as well as wedding and event planning. Flexible schedule, access to personal transportation, organizational skills, and communication skills are a must.
Exceptional organization skills. Ability to multitask and communicate with both the internal customer (other employees) and external customer (client).
Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a large team.
Support Wedding/ Event Sales Manager and Conference/ Group Sales Manager as needed.
Setup and breakdown for all weddings and events. Includes heavy lifting, moving chairs and tables, and assistance with decorations.
Position requires the ability to work on weekends, evenings and some holidays.
Attend regular meetings to discuss upcoming events/weddings.
Ability to deliver exceptional customer service and work in ever changing environment.
Resolve complaints and problems to client's satisfaction, while protecting company's interest.
Assist other resort departments when needed.
Other duties as assigned in support of the sales & marketing team.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: Must possess excellent oral communication, organization and written communication skills. Must have solid command of Word and Excel. Attention to details vital. Ability to identify, analyze and solve problems on a daily basis. Sales and marketing skills a plus.
Experience: Knowledge of the wedding/event business is extremely beneficial. Catering experience is a plus. Good communications skills are | 258 |
Study Finds New Approach to Estimating HCV Burden in At-Risk Populations
Use of this new approach suggests that HCV infection burden in New York City has been underestimated in populations considered high-risk for HCV, and that HCV transmission has increased among young adults in the city.
It's often difficult for healthcare researchers and epidemiologists to obtain accurate data on disease prevalence, particularly among underserved, and hard-to-reach populations.
A study published in Epidemics has outlined the use of a new approach to estimating disease prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in New York<|fim_middle|>ESM) to improve estimates of HCV prevalence. Tan wrote that their model utilized 10 sources of data on IDU and HCV. Among the data sources, investigators gathered from the US Census Bureau, the New York Metropolitan Statistical Area (NYMSA), the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services, and Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HANES) household surveys.
The BESM, according to the investigators, "falls under the broader category of static, non-mechanistic models of infectious diseases" which works in contrast to traditionally employed models by culling data from multiple sources of partial information. Applying BESM to different data sources covering a range of NYC subpopulations, recognizing the biases inherent in those data sources, and adjusting for that bias creates a clearer picture of HCV burden as a whole.
Tan wrote that drug use history variables can help relate "data-scarce quantities to data-rich quantities" to estimate factors like proportion of current IDUs to ex-IDUs, which can affect accuracy of estimations.
The new approach stratifies the NYC population first into 3 IDU risk groups (current, ex, non-IDU), and then further stratifies those groups into 4 age level groups (20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59 years of age). Tan writes that the two-level stratification creates 12 groups in total with varying levels of risk, since "both injection drug use and HCV prevalence vary by age."
HCV relevance, Tan wrote, can be estimated as a weighted average of 2 factor: HCV prevalence among age and type of IDU, and the proportion of type of IDU by age, weighted by the population size of those age groups in NYC.
The BESM-based estimates showed that "an estimated 0.29% (13,000 individuals) of the NYC population aged 20-59 are currently injection drug users and are HCV positive." Tan wrote that these individuals make up 50.2% (95% CI; 47.9%-53.4%) of the 27,600 current IDUs in NYC and that the group most affected by HCV burden is ex-IDUs aged 50-59, with 29,100 individuals.
The BESM-based model revealed that the HCV prevalence in NYC is currently underestimated by existing models, particularly in current- and ex-IDU populations. The BESM-based estimates also suggest that HCV transmission has increased in specific populations, primarily among young IDUs in NYC.
Tan and colleagues wrote that local prevalence estimates of HCV are "increasingly important" in order to better allocate funding for treatments, interventions, educational programs, and services. Researchers warn that underestimates of HCV burden could affect treatment of individuals and even lead to increases in HCV.
The study, "A Bayesian evidence synthesis approach to estimate disease prevalence in hard-to-reach populations: hepatitis C in New York City" was published online in Epidemics.
News | Infectious Disease | Hepatitis C | Gastroenterology | City (NYC), which takes into account the limitations of existing methods. The new Bayesian evidence synthesis model, according to researchers, accounts for bias in data sources.
Use of this new approach suggests that HCV infection burden in NYC has been underestimated in populations considered high-risk for HCV, and that HCV transmission has increased among young adults in NYC.
Lead author of the study and PhD candidate Sarah Tan, of Cornell University's Department of Statistical Science, noted that estimating the prevalence of chronic hepatitis C (HCV) in the general population presents "numerous challenges" due to the asymptomatic nature of the disease, and the sub-demographics of those populations at greatest risk for HCV infection including current injection drug users (IDUs), the incarcerated, and the homeless."
Alternative sampling strategies in use to capture data on HCV burden in correctional facilities, and among IDUs, those approaches invite additional challenge, as some subpopulation sizes are "not easily measured, and estimates, when available, are subject to considerable uncertainty."
Other approaches to estimating HCV prevalence use nationwide data, but fail to capture the inherent spatial-temporal aspects of disease transmission which underserves populations in large cities where estimates for HCV prevalence is greater, Tan noted.
The approach designed by Tan and colleagues uses a Bayesian evidence synthesis model (B | 264 |
Are you a seasoned result driven IT Project Manager and would you like to be a part of a Portfolio Management Office in a fast growing, rapidly changing international automotive BtB organization? Then apply for Project Manager at Sator in Schiedam.
Sator is recruiting an IT Project Manager with an international track record in implementing large scale back office IT projects with the aim to deliver strategic benefits across Europe. The Project Manager has full responsibility for initiating, defining and delivery of the projects. The project portfolio consists of several programs like ERP, Logistics, Procurement and IT. As a Project Manager you have the capability to involve and mobilize business stakeholders, liaise with senior management and track delivery of execution progress against plan.
What is your challenge as a Project Manager at Sator?
• Manages cross functional project teams to meet project objectives agreed with the project executive and within a set of defined criteria of costs, quality, time and communication.
• Leads delivery teams to successfully implement the agreed solution and is accountable for delivery quality.
• Work proactively with business stakeholders across the Benelux.
For this position of IT Project Manager we are looking for a senior professional who is result driven and makes sure projects are successfully delivered. You have the experience with back end development projects. Preferred domains are; ERP, WMS, OMS systems and IT Infrastructure. As a Project Manager you will be part of the Sator PMO. You have the drive and skills to help Sator to professionalize project based working.
• 7+ years' experience of working within IT project delivery environment of which you worked 3 years as a Project Manager of complex and international projects.
• Knowledge of and demonstrated experience in project management processes and methodologies, including the project lifecycle, Prince2, and within an Agile environment.
• A naturally positive attitude and an inclusive approach to building partnerships, well organized and self-motivated.
LKQ is a global distributor of vehicle products, including replacement parts,<|fim_middle|>, Europe now represents around €5bn of LKQ's total revenue of €10bn. Further growth in Europe will continue to be a combination organic growth and acquisitions. Focus is now on delivering European synergies in several business domains.
As an IT Project Manager you have the opportunity to work for a €10 billion company with operations in over 15 countries. Moreover, our ambition continues.
Enthusiastic about this job? Please send us your resume and motivation through the application button 'Solliciteer'. First more information about the function? Please contact Sylvester Nieuwe Weme (LKQ Europe PMO Director) +31 6 51392702. | components and systems for the automotive aftermarket. Margins and overall profitability are excellent and we have ambitious targets to improve this even further. Globally LKQ employs 45.000 people.
• Expanding into related product lines and businesses.
• Building and maintaining a strong distribution network with a broad inventory of quality alternative products.
• Having high fulfilment rates.
• Offering superior customer service.
Sator is part of LKQ and the leading provider of replacement parts and maintenance products in major Benelux aftermarkets. Following strong growth of LKQ in North America approx. 5 years ago the Company embarked on an international expansion plan. As a result of a substantial program of acquisitions over the last 5 years | 147 |
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Die Erstauflage des TriStar Salzkammergut fand in einer der atemberaubendsten Gegenden Österreichs – rund um den Attersee – statt. Das Profifeld lieferte eines der schnellsten Rennen der TriStar Serie, aus dem der Italiener Alberto Casadei und die Deutsche Britta Martin als Gewinner hervorgingen.
Die Rennentwicklung hätte aber bei den beiden Rennen unterschiedlicher nicht sein können. Alberto Casadei übernahm gleich zu Beginn des Rennens die Führung und behielt sie während des gesamten Rennens bei. Er beendete das Rennen 4 min. 38 vor dem anderen Teilnehmerfeld. Britta Martin musste beim Radfahren die Spitze im Frauenfeld immer wieder aufs Neue verteidigen. Sie konnte die anderen dann aber auf der Laufstrecke abhängen und einen ruhigen Zieleinlauf darlegen. Lisa Hütthaler, die vor wenigen Wochen beim TriStar Cannes den zweiten Platz belegte, gelangte 1 min. 23 nach Britta Martin ins Ziel.
Bei den Männern gab es zahlreiche potenzielle Gewinner. Casadei stieg schon nach 14 min. 18 als Erster nach dem 1 km Schwimmen aus dem Wasser des Attersees. Er übernahm die sofortige Führung auf dem Rad und nach 10 km auf der Radstrecke hatte er bereits einen Vorsprung von 1 min. 40. Als Casadei zurück in die zweite Wechselzone kam, hatte er bereits einen Vorsprung von fast 5 Minuten und einen guten Lauf bei den beiden 5 km Laufrunden zur Ziellinie. Casadei gewann die Erstauflage des TriStar Salzkammergut – Attersee in 3:19:27, während Zoltan Enczyszyn aus Deutschland als Zweiter mit 3:24:05 und Daniel Niederreiter aus Österreich als Dritter den Lauf beendete.
"Heute herrschten die perfekten Bedingungen für solch ein Rennen und als ich 30 km auf dem Rad zurückgelegt hatte, fühlte ich mich sehr wohl. Mir wurde gesagt, ich hätte einen Vorsprung von 2 ½ Minuten herausgeholt und zum Ende der Radstrecke hin fast 5 Minuten, also ich konnte einen netten Lauf genießen. Ich bin glücklich heute meinen ersten TriStar Wettbewerb zu gewinnen!" gab Alberto Casadei im Zielbereich glücklich von sich.
Britta Martin war heute beim TriStar 111 die schnellste Frau mit 3:31:30. Die Deutsche lebt in Neuseeland und flüchtet dort vor dem kalten Winter um am ersten TriStar Rennen in Österreich teilzunehmen. Sie kannte bereits dieses Rennformat und gewann letztes Jahr auch den TriStar in Worms. "Ich mag den Radsport sehr gerne, aber es brauchte einige Zeit um die anderen Frauen abzuhängen. Als ich den Anstieg bewältigt hatte, war das `Heimkommen´ das Einzige, das ich in im Sinn hatte. Es war ein großartiges Rennen; wenn ich nur einen Teil ändern könnte, um es perfekt für mich zu machen, hätte ich mehr Anstiege auf der Radstrecke hinzugefügt." sagte Martin erheitert im Zielbereich. Die Österreicherinnen Lisa Hütthaler und Katrin Lang beendeten das Rennen in 3:32:53 und 3:34:59.
Beide Gewinner des TriStar 55.5 sind Österreicher: Mario Siller gewann bei den Männern mit 1:40:32 und Sonja Schibich war die Gewinnerin der Frauenwertung mit 2:03:23.
TriStar Salzkammergut wird von Star Production SARL organisiert, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem ASC-Attersee Triathlonclub und des Österreichischen Triathlonverbandes sowie des oberösterreichischen Triathlonverbandes. TriStar Salzkammergut wird von der Tourismusregion Salzkammergut – Attersee, dem Sportland Oberösterreich, Landschaften für Leidenschaften, Zoot und Linsinger Austria.
The inaugural edition of the TriStar Salzkammergut took place in one of the most stunning landscapes in Austria, around the unique Attersee lake, and the strong pro field showed a great performance right from the start. The first winners were Italian Alberto Casadei and German Britta Martin, in one of the fastest TriStar races ever.
The stories in both categories unfolded pretty differently, though. Alberto Casadei took the lead right at the beginning of the race and kept it till the Finish Line at all times, and finished 4min38 before the rest of the field. Britta Martin, however, had to make sure to get a lead on the bike where the first five women did not want to let her go easily. She could pull away on the run in order to have a smooth victory at the Finishline, followed 1min23 by Lisa Hütthaler, who was second a few weeks ago at the TriStar Cannes.
In the male category there were many potential winners, and Casadei emerged from the water first in 14:18 after the 1km swim. He pulled away on the bike immediately and had a lead of 1:40 already after 10km on the bike. When coming back to transition 2, Casadei had opened the gap to almost 5 minutes already, and had a good run on the two identical loops of 5km to the Finishline. Casadei won the inaugural TriStar Salzkammergut – Attersee in 3:19:27. Zoltan Enczyszyn (GER) finished second in 3:24:05, and Austrian Daniel Niederreiter completed the podium in 3:24:33.
"There were perfect race conditions today, and once I was 30km into the bike, I started to feel very comfortable. I was told I had a lead of two and a half minutes, and by the end of the bike almost 5 minutes, so I enjoyed a nice run. I am happy to have won my first TriStar race today!" said a happy Alberto Casadei at the Finishline.
Britta Martin was the fastest women at the TriStar111 Salzkammergut today in 3:31:30. The German lives in New Zealand and escaped the winter there to participate in her first TriStar race in Austria. She's already acquainted with the race's format as she also won TriStar Worms last year. "I like cycling a lot and still it took some work to get away from the girls. Once I was over the climb on the run, the only thing I had on my mind was 'to run home'. It was a great race, if I could change one element, I would just add some more climbs on the bike to make it fit perfectly for me," Martin laughed at the Finishline. Austrians Lisa Hütthaler and Katrin Lang finished in 3:32:53 and 3:34:59 respectively.
Both winners of the TriStar55.5 competitions are Austrians: Mario Siller won the male competition in 1:40:32 and Sonja Schibich the female category in 2:03:23.
Britta Martin took the victory!
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High 5 products for race day!
High5 is the official nutrition partner for TriStar Salzkammergut 2012. These are some of the products you could get in the Energy Stations!
The first edition of the StarKids Salzkammergut starts at 11:00 to 12:00. They need your huge support!!!
From 15:00-18h00, the bikes and bags check in will take place, while the Star&CO Village will be open from 10-18h00 for on spot check-in and race package pick up.
The Briefing for only TriStar111 athletes will be held on Saturday evening (18:30) - actually we're quite confident that all information has been given in the online Briefings already, so rather than an hour of tiring infos, we'll have an "Energy Party" to recharge batteries, have decent conversations with friends and idols - and we'll highlight the most dangerous parts of the race to watch out for. The rest can be checked online.
Athletes are picking up their start number!
The Eybl-Charity Run Friday, June 1st and the Eybl-Children's Run Saturday, June 2nd.
The second project which had been selected is the one of the former cycling pro Peter Luttenberger, the United World Tour.
All running aficionados and children are very welcome to participate with friends and colleges while at the same time supporting a charitable cause. All revenues from the inscription fees will be donated to our charity partners.
For more information on the Childrens's Run and the Charity Run please click here.
You cannot wait to see the Race Booklet!? Check it out today!!!
Alle Ampeln auf Grün für den TriStar Salzkammergut!
Das Salzkammergut, eine der schönsten Naturregionen in Oberösterreich ist für den aller ersten TriStar Triathlon bereit. Heute wurde die Veranstaltung offiziell im Gemeindeamt Attersee im Beisein von Geli Eichhorn, Obmann Tourismus Region Salzkammergut, Christian Schirlbauer, Geschäftsführer Tourismusbüro Attersee-Salzkammergut, Wolfgang Köck, TriStar Salzkammergut Renndirektor, Paco Wrolich, Geschäftsführer Star Events Central Europe, Peter Luttenberger, United World Tour Initiator und die Profi Athleten Monika Stadlmann, Christian Troger, Johannes Moldan und Lothar Leder präsentiert. Der TriStar55.5 und der TriStar111 Salzkammergut wird am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2012 in Seewalchen mit mehr als 500 Triathleten über die Bühne gehen. Der TriStar111 Salzkammergut führt das internationale Starterfeld durch atemberaubende Landschaften, über die Distanz von 1000 m Schwimmen, 100 km Radfahren und 10 km Laufen, bei dem das Strandbad Litzlberg, in der Gemeinde Seewalchen, der zentrale Mittelpunkt ist.
Der Start zu einem hoch brisanten Triathlon Rennen erfolgt am Sonntag um 7 Uhr. Das Format, das eine schnelle Erholung garantiert, besticht außerdem durch ein großes und internationales Profi Starterfeld: Andi Fuchs (AUT), Johannes Moldan, Jens Kaiser und Till Schramm (GER), Dejan Patrcevic (CRO), Massimo Cigana und Alberto Casadei (ITA), unteranderem, werden für Spannung bis zum Schluss sorgen. Die Starterinnen unter den Profis sind Heike Priess, Heidi Sessner und Britta Martin (GER), und die Lokalmatadoren Monika Stadlmann and Barbara Tesar (AUT).
Der TriStar111 Salzkammergut ist natürlich sowohl für Einzelstarter als auch Staffel Teams von Firmen und Freunden, eine ausgezeichnete Gelegenheit den Teamgeist zu vertiefen. Während der TriStar111 über die Gesamtlänge von 111 km geht, führt der TriStar55.5 (500m Schwimmen, 50km Radfahren, 5km Laufen), das innovative Format der Firma Star Events, über die Hälfte dieser Distanz. Mit dem TriStar Salzkammergut am malerischen Attersee, gibt es nun auch in Österreich eine TriStar Veranstaltung ganz nach dem Motto – zurück zur Natur!
Der TriStar Salzkammergut wird von Star Production SARL in Zusammenarbeit mit dem ASC-Attersee Triathlon Club, dem österreichischen und lokalen Triathlon Verband, wie auch mit der Unterstützung der Sponsoren Tourismusregion Attersee-Salzkammergut, dem Sportland Oberösterreich – Landschaften für Leidenschaften, Zoot und Linsinger Austria, organisiert.
Der EYBL-Charity Lauf heute Abend unterstützt das Landeskrankenhaus Vöcklabruck, welches auf Onkologie spezialisiert ist und die United World Tour vom ehemaligen Radprofi Peter Luttenberger.
Coming up: TriStar Salzkammergut Live Coverage this weekend!
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the TriStar Salzkammergut 2012! The next live Event covered on TriStarLive.com will be TriStar Salzkammergut this weekend!
Enjoy the race, have fun!
Today it's three athlete's birthday! Alles Gute zum Geburtstag! | TriStar111 Salzkammergut!
The Run course of TriStar Salzkammergut is pretty nice! The first 2 km of each laps are tough, more demanding, but the last 2 km you will run downhill! Watch out climbing up and going down the tall bridge crossing the road just before entering the Finish Line.
Sonja Schibich (AUT #628) is the female winner of TriStar55.5 Salzkammergut. Eva-Maria Kerschenbauer (AUT) was second and Veronika Stadler, third.
Mario Siller wins inaugural edition of the TriStar55.5 Salzkammergut!
Austrian Mario Siller wins inaugural edition of the TriStar55.5 Salzkammergut!!! More than 2 minutes ahead of his competitors!. Second was Peter Labmayer, and Italian Stefano Rossi got the third position!
Peter Hornburg, from Australia, is going to race this year 6 TriStar European races in a row! He is cycling all over Europe having fun, racing triathlons and enjoying a great experience, on his own bike.
Two Austrian Triathletes are third and fourth!
Local Daniel Niederreiter (Austria) is third after 50km cycling (see him in action!), following by Andi Fuchs (1 minute ahead), also from Austria and official TriStar Ambassador!
Awesome Women TriStar111 race! top-5 women compiting in 1 minute! It's going to be a thrilling run segment!!!
Casadei is still leading #tristarsalzkammergut at the 20km of the bike. See him in action! Thanks to our Spotter Team in Austria!
The Swim starts at Attersee lake from the water. Tha participants start from the water with the pros ahead - they wear differently colored swimcaps so they are easier to distinguish.
1000m for the TriStar111 athletes and half the distance for the 55.5, with the same start and exit areas.
thanks and Good luck athletes and supporters!
The bike park is opened for the 111 athletes, and they will pump their tyres, prepare the bikes and get ready for the race while wishing each other a good day.
The inaugural edition of TriStar Salzkammergut on June 3rd will be one of the most exciting European races this triathlon season. One reason will be the extraordinary start list, which reveals names of great professional triathletes who will fight for the PRO prize purse of € 10,000. Jens Kaiser, Andi Fuchs, Johannes Moldan, Dejan Patrcevic, Andrej Vistica, Massimo Cigana and Alberto Casadei, among many others, will ensure a fascinating and thrilling race for the victory in the male category until the finishline. Some of the female PROs who are already registered are Heike Priess, Heidi Sessner, Monika Stadlmann, Barbara Tesar and Britta Martin.
After a real boom in the Croatian triathlon scene it is the two Croatian triathletes Andreaj Vistica (3rd in the Croatian Championship 2011) and Dejan Patrcevic (3rd Challenge Copanhagen) who will face the two Italian triathletes Massimo Ciagana (former pro cyclist with Marco Pantani in the Team Mercatone Uno) and Alberto Casadei (2nd at Laguna Phuket Triathlon 2011). Although not from the southern part of Europe, however, not to forget the German triathletes Johannes Moldan (TriStar Monaco 2011 champion and 3rd at TriStar Mallorca 2012) and Jens Kaiser (a real long distance specialist) as well as the Austrian TriStar Ambassador Andi Fuchs (TriStar Split 2011 champion) who will definitely not give away his home TriStar race just like that.
The TriStar111 Salzkammergut will also see the Austrian PRO Christian Troger who just won the silver medal at the European Championship the ETU Paratriathlon 2012 in Eilat (Israel). Christian is an exceptional athlete who has worn an above-knee prosthesis from his birth on and will nevertheless take part in the TriStar Format 111.
The race in the female competition will rather be Germany vs. Austria. Heidi Sessner who said will try to attack right from the beginning and wants to be on the very top of the podium. However, her compatriots Heike Priess (expert on the longdistance), Britta Martin (winner of TriStar Germany111 2011) as well as the Austrians Monika Stadlmann (3 times Austrian Federal Champion) and Barbara Tesar (3rd at Ironman Austria 2010) who will definitely fight hard for this very special place on the podium on June 3rd.
Time to look at some mottos!
Austrian Andi Fuchs is ready to race TriStar Salzkammergut!
TriStar's philosophy is based on three elements. All of our events especially focus on the fun and pleasure when being involved with triathlon sports and we support the environmental sustainability as well as the health aspect of sport. The third element is the participation in social activities.
The organization of an event involves many different people, this is why we, together with our athletes, want to make a sustainable contribution to the social environment. We do not only want to speak about it but actively participate.
It is crucial to us to checkthe projects we support because the athletes put their trust in us to help the right and important ones. The major focus stays on local projects that have the possibility to present themselves publicly during our events. With these projects we want to collaborate, establish a long lasting partnership and give them our support.
The Eybl-Charity Run Friday, June 1st and the Eybl-Kids Run Saturday, June 2nd.
All revenue which is generated during these events will be directly forwarded to the projects. Intersport Eybl is a very important partner helping support them. We would like to give them special thanks for their precious aid!
The first project is the Landeskrankenhaus Vöcklabruck, with its main focus on oncology. This involves not only diagnostics and therapy however also dignified attendance and Palliative Care Nursing.
The second project which had been selected is the one of the former cycling pro Peter Luttenberger. Already in 2009 he had the idea to go on a World Tour by bike and only with the help of his friends and Facebook and Twitter contacts.
Peter had often been in contact with the poor of the countries he travelled to either on vacation, at cycling competitions or trainings camps and back packing adventures. This is why he decided he wanted to add the aspect of charity to his World Tour. He started his journey crossing the South-eastern part of Europe heading to Israel, the West B ank and Egypt. From where continued to Kenya and Tanzania.
Only with the help of his Social Media contacts he was able to collect some donations and distribute them among the poor living in the countries he travelled to. There is no doubt about the money arriving directly where the help is needed most because Peter decides about it directly during his journey.
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Byron Katie quotes on love and her other sayings. The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
Love quotes by Bruce Lee and his other sayings. Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole – two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!
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Riverplay & Skinner Butte park. Tons of fun play areas for all different ages. To get away from the kid chaos, cross the street and find a nice little trail to hike through the woods and up to the top of Skinner Butte. Look for the nesting Eagles (generally January-March). You can also ride up the road if you're feeling really energetic (or electric assisted).
Head upriver to the EWEB fountain. On a hot day a fun little spot to bike right through.
Cross the river on the DeFazio bridge to Alton Baker Park. No play structure there but nice big fields to play in, a duck pond, and even a disc golf course if you or the kids are into that. One fun & educational feature starts here too; A large sphere representing the sun begins a scale model of the solar system that you can explore along the path system. Signs at each stop show where the planets are located.
Go farther upriver to discover the Nearby Nature park host site, the UO Autzen Stadium, and one of the most beautiful narrow, windy sections of the riverbank trail system. This was one of the first off-street bike path sections built in Eugene in the 1970's. You can pull over in various spots along the way to swim, pick blackberries, or just enjoy the natural area.
If you keep going upriver you'll eventually get into Springfield, which though it has a reputation as 'just a mill town' has several really cool things happening. Come back another time to explore here. For now tool around and find Pre's Trail, the Canoe Canal path, and the Whilamut Natural Area, then head back downriver.
You can take the East Bank path all the way up to the Owosso Bridge and explore the Delta Ponds area (herons, turtles, ducks, and loads of cool wetland wildlife) before turning back to head upriver again on the West Bank Path.
Stop by Maurie Jacobs Park for a nice little playground near some redwoods. If you want a mainstream movie break, need a Mac store, or just feel the need to feel like your back in Anytown USA you can go across the river to Valley River Center, our downtown killing, parking lot sprawl mall with a great riverfront waste of space. But hey, it's easy to get to by bike!
Keep rolling upriver to the Owen Rose Garden. Your kids might find it boring or have fun exploring the paths and watching a wedding. It's a great spot to turn off the path and head up into the Whitaker to find some local brews. Oakshire, Hop Valley, Ninkasi, Sam Bonds, and Falling Sky are all breweries easily accessible in this area.
Falling Sky at Monroe and 8th has a covered outdoor seating area with a small sand box and toys and is probably the most kid friendly of the bunch. Though the Ninkasi courtyard also can be an okay place for kids to be without causing too much turmoil to others. Food at Ninkasi rotates with a food truck though so it's more hit/miss on options. Falling Sky also has a cool little bike share system and really great covered bike parking.
Okay, so now you've explored the Riverbank path system and it's main highlights. What else?!
Washington-Jefferson Skatepark– Right next to CAT at 1st and Washington this is brand new skatepark is the largest lit and covered skatepark in the US. No two ways about it this place is cool. Get here early in the morning and the kids can have more space to play. It gets packed during the day (and night) but people have also seemed very respectful with allowing kids in to play too. There are some good small hills and spaces for the littles here and plenty for them to watch!
Bounce– The go-to place for days when parent need the kids to get their ya-ya's out by going crazy on trampolines, tumbling mats,<|fim_middle|> of some good bike facilities you can follow this google map. | and other fun and crazy tools. Bike racks aren't covered but there's a good covered snacking spot along 3rd.
On the way to Bike Friday the NAAG (National Academy of Artistic Gymnastics) is another good "bounce" alternative. They have a pretty awesome pirate ship kids can jump off of (into a foam pit). Don't think there was good bike parking here…need to check into that.
The Science Factory– Made for the bigger kids really (older than 6?) so we don't have a lot of experience here. It's no Portland Children's Museum but it has some good exhibits and is worth a visit, especially the star shows and dome movies. Right in Alton Baker Park near Autzen Stadium. Good bike parking.
Cascades Raptor Center– I'm kind of embarrassed to say our family hasn't made it here yet, I've heard such great things. We really should go. You should too. "Nature center and wildlife hospital specializing in birds of prey. Visit over 60 birds of 33 species." There is a bit of a climb to get up there.
Amazon Pool– Awesome outdoor pool (so only summertime in Eugene). It gets crowded but lot's of space for really different levels. From a big sandpit, bubbling water, and one foot wading pool to a big water slide there's something for everyone. Oh, and the food is the best! Since they changed vendors to Ume Grill there are still hot dogs and pretzels but there are also yummy bento boxes, rice balls, and other healthy and yummy goodies. Check the website or call for recreation swim times; note there are "Parent/Child Swims" where only the kiddie pools are open and a good less busy time for those with smaller kiddos. Park along the railing in the front, or if you want a real inverted-u they are on the east side of the building. Stand-up bike lockers are on the west side.
Other great parks…Monroe park– It's where our Kidical Mass rides generally leave from and can have a sort of Country Fair feel to it with all the hula-hoops, juggling, public drinking and general alternative lifestyle happenings. Washington Park– With a nice spray play area, the big cheese sculpture, and lots of fun play space this a great neighborhood park.
Laughing Planet (Monroe and 8th & Willamette & 29th)- They have plastic dinosaurs that can cause chaos or keep the piece depending on the day. Awesome food for adults and kids. Beer, smoothies, juice, and giant cookies. Descent bike parking at both locations.
Turtles (S. Willamette & 26th)- Right across the street from Arriving by Bike and a small toy section makes it a pretty great stop. Some standard kid food but also a descent variety to it. Not really great bike parking. Usually park across the street at the shop and walk across. Dang that S. Willamette needs bike lanes. Trial run comes in 2015!
Off the Waffle (S. Willamette/25th & Willamette/8th)- Waffles for lunch or dinner. Trust me, these things rock! Fuel up.
Pizza…. How can I pick one? Mezza Luna, Sizzle Pie, Pegasus, Whirled Pies… Okay, Whirled Pies does have happy hour 3-6 with $1 cheese slices that you can top for extra. Pretty good for choosing a pizza just like your kids like (1 cheese and 2 olive for us please). Descent bike parking out front…think they need a bike corral.
Eugene has a load of good bike shops. Each one kind of has it's focus. Blue Heron servicing the UO crowd with some great retro rides, Hutch's for the roadie crowd, Life Cycle for the Mountain Bike crew, Paul's for the all-arounders…of course these are gross stereotypes but generally close enough. As for family bike shops? That would be Arriving by Bike. Hands down the best family bike shop in town. Great family bike options? Check. Friendly non-judgmental staff? Check. Even some women staff? Check. Toy area? Check. Functional and fashionable clothes (that are good on the bike but not necessarily "bike clothes")? Check. An insane amount of bags, baskets, helmets, lights & gear? Check. Kid reflective vests? Check. Dang this place rocks.
Besides the Riverbank bike path the other main family-friendly connectors are Amazon Path and Pearl/High (N/S), Alder Street (N/S), Monroe/Friendly (N/S), Fern Ridge Path and 15th Ave. (E/W), 12th Ave. (bike boulevard, E/W), 5th Ave. (buffered bike lane, E/W).
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The morning after Holly and Stan ran the New Orleans Marathon we started walking down Toulouse toward Decatur (again<|fim_middle|> got your food was dated beyond being quaint. The actual inside of the building had layers of throwback all over the place. We had some time to kill before we had to leave town so we stopped in for a final sampling of southern beers at Chartes House. This was a place that we would always pass on the way to another location and we'd say something like "that looks like a cool little place for a beer". All the windows slid open to give it an open-air feel and with temperatures near 70 that day it was a perfect way to say goodbye to New Orleans. | ). We wanted breakfast and figured Monday's lines at Cafe Du Monde would be shorter than a weekend's line. This was true, but our group wanted more of a real breakfast vs just fried dough. After huddling up around Yelp! and adding a pedicab driver into our mix, we determined breakfast would be had a block away at Stanley. We didn't know this until now but many publications rave about their breakfasts. We all agreed it would be a great way to start the day.
We walked-off the huge breakfast by heading over to The French Market. This is an open-air pavilion that houses a food court of-sorts (think South Street Seaport or The Reading Market) and a flea market. You can pick up Cajun food items, hand-crafts, t-shirts, CDs, sunglasses, and other assorted junk. Dave was kept at-bay from buying the Pakistani stone cups (looked great for Tequila).
Once we finished touring the market we figured we could finally tour Lafitte's properly. Let's face it, this was really an excuse to get a beer before noon. We took Rue Royal over before crossing up to Bourbon. We took our time to take-in the decent weather and classic French Quarter architecture. Many of the residents were gearing up for Mardi Gras by decorating in similar fashion as one would do for Christmas.
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is dank. It was built in 1722 and is believed to be the oldest building hosting a bar in America. At 11:30 in the morning it was bright enough to be able to take in the history and the decor of the building.
After finishing our drinks (again, we forgot about to-go options) we went down a block to continue our tour of Rue Royal. After a few blocks we headed back down to Decatur and into Cafe Du Monde for coffees and beignets. These were hands-down better than Cafe Beignet.
After the snack we toured the Jackson Square area and St. Louis Cathedral before continuing our Rue Royal trek. We stepped into a couple of galleries and souvenir shops along the way. One of the cooler locations we stopped in was Cohen Antiques: home of antique maps, currency, and weapons. A lot of history in that store.
Time to eat again. We headed to our 2pm reservation at Nola, an Emeril LaGasse restaurant in The Quarter. Holly and Dave ate here 17 years ago and came away with great memories. Today it is still just as good. Three of us had the BBQ Shrimp and grits and the other salmon. That is bacon with the shrimp.....it's getting a big picture.
A familiar activity this trip was walking off our meal. We headed down to Decatur to see what that part of the street looked like. As we got closer to downtown the feel of The Quarter was shifting to a city feel. We turned up one of the streets so we could see the Carousel Bar in the Hotel Monteleone. The intention was to have a drink at the revolving bar, but all the seats were full. We admired from afar and left the building (after using their very nice restrooms) to wrap up the Rue Royal tour. One of our final stops was Bevolo: makers of fine hand-crafted brass lamps. We got to tour the showroom and talk with the craftsmen. The conversation centered around food.
It had been at least an hour since we consumed anything so it was time to grab a beer. We walked down Toulouse and headed towards Crescent City Brewhouse. In the timeline of the craft beer movement CCB was on the scene very early. They had the formula of an early brewpub: Nice food and a few beers made in-house. Nothing experimental or on-trend. They may have had the same offerings when we were last there 17 years ago.
We headed over to Pat O'Brien's for a final few rounds of hurricanes. The weather wasn't horrid so we spent our time in the patio section (but still under heat lamps). Since we hadn't eaten for at least 180 minutes (except for free bags of popcorn at Pat's) we formulated a dinner plan. Not too far away was The Gumbo Shop. We were entertained by Jerome, a very pleasant waiter, and treated to an excellent meal of varying gumbos and BBQ shrimp. After the meal we were served a killer bread pudding.
We walked back to the hotel and spent a final few moments together in the hotel bar. Stan and Pam were leaving very early in the morning while we had an early evening flight out the next day. After parting ways Holly and Dave crossed the street to Tropical Isle for some live music. At first we started listening to the rock band, but then moved to the next room for the Cajun band. It really was nice to be in The Quarter where music was ever-present between the bars and high-caliber street performers.
We spent the next morning lazily packing, watching TV, and having some bench time in Jackson Square. We had a short walk to our brunch location: The Court of Two Sisters. Brunch is a buffet served in the courtyard while a jazz trio plays. Very pleasant location but the food needed a little help. The buffet area where you | 1,085 |
Another great chance to put us on<|fim_middle|> the event "TechCrunch Disrupt" is supported by Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA). | the radar of potential customers! We're exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt in London on December 7-8.
TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the world's leading fields for revolutionary startups, game-changing technologies, and discussions on what's hot in the tech industry. It brings together the best and brightest entrepreneurs, investors, hackers, and tech fans for exhibitions, competitions and conferences.
The ZoomCharts team will exhibit at the Startup Alley, the heart of the event. Startup and Hardware Alley gathers hundreds of startup companies showcasing their talent and technology to attendees, investors and members of the press.
Are you visiting the Disrupt? Come and see us in the Startup Alley! We'd love to meet you in person and show you our newest features. Or email us at [email protected] to book an online meeting with us.
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Whether you frequent the gaming tables in Cleveland, Las Vegas, or elsewhere, you probably give little thought to the symbols and history associated<|fim_middle|>, that would ultimately become the United States Playing Card Company. Today, that company holds the number-one market position in terms of U.S. sales, and its Bicycle brand has become synonymous with playing cards.
As playing cards evolved, the depiction of the four suits and face cards evolved as well, often according to individual, regional, and cultural tastes. For instance, the Italians depicted the forerunner of the modern spade as a sword, while playing cards produced in Germanic countries used a leaf standing on its stem.
In order to simplify the design of playing-card suits, the French used the silhouette of the Germanic upturned leaf, which resembles the modern spade, but the symbol likely retained its association with war, killing, and death. In Latin, the word spatha, the root of the modern English word spade, refers to a "broad, flat weapon or tool." In addition, the French referred to this suit as piques, meaning pikes. A pike was a two-handed weapon composed of a long wooden shaft and a flat, pointed blade. It's not difficult to see the shape of a pike in our modern spade.
Just as linguistically significant, however, is the fact that a spade also refers to a type of shovel with a wide, flat, thin blade, often used to dig a grave. Even in today's era of mechanical excavators, spades are still used by cemetery workers to crisply cut the grave outline in sod and/or to finish the sides and floor of the grave.
What forever sealed the association of the ace of spades as the "death card," however, occurred during the Vietnam War. According to the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC), a pair of American lieutenants serving overseas wrote the company in February 1966 and asked USPCC to send them entire decks consisting of the ace of spades. The Viet Cong allegedly feared this card because of the superstitions surrounding it as a harbinger of death. In addition, the Bicycle brand uses Lady Liberty within its ace of spades symbol, which the enemy reportedly considered the "goddess of death."
The USPCC shipped thousands of these specialty decks overseas, where American troops used them as a form of psychological warfare against enemy forces in Vietnam. (The packaging of each deck was even labeled "Bicycle Secret Weapon.") Scattering these death cards in real or suspected hostile areas reportedly caused the Viet Cong to flee. In addition, some American troops would leave a single ace of spades card on the body of an enemy kill to indicate "We were here" or "We're coming for you."
"Our History." Bicycle Cards, 21 Nov. 2018. | with the playing cards in your hand. Yet many of these cards are loaded with symbolism, including the ace of spades, which is also known as the death card.
In order to understand how the ace of spades became the death card, it's necessary to know a little about the origin of playing cards. While the history is somewhat murky, it's generally accepted that the Chinese started using "paper dominoes" sometime in the 10th century in their recreational games. Eventually, as trade spread westward, imported playing cards appeared in Europe.
Sometime around the start of the 19th century, Americans began producing their own playing cards. Over the years, they continued to refine and standardize the decks, producing innovations such as rounded corners that were much more resistant to wear and tear. In 1867, three men founded a printing business in Cincinnati, Ohio | 181 |
International Women's Day Derby
Derby Celebrated International Women's Day on March 11th in Market Sq. The annual event is organised and hosted by Women's Day Derby. Hundreds of people milled in and out of the various marquis enjoying a programme of on stage entertainment, talks and workshops across the Square (including at the Quad).
The large marquis which was central to the event housed a myriad of over 40 diverse stalls from charity and other Third Sector organisations and small business sellers, Yoga Yurt, local HERstory Derby exhibition (100 Years of International Woman's Day in Derby, Scallywags Playbus, food and gift stalls and a fee crèche.
Vox Feminarum: Women's Voices was very much present, showcasing all its programmes and fundraising but the emphasis was on The Deeds Not Words Towards Liberation Project.
Our Stall
PussyHat being modelled by Julie
More PussyHats.....symbols of defiance worn with joy
We especially encouraged people to cast their vote for Derby and Derbyshire woman of a century.
The shortlisted nominees (see bios in the Derbyshire 100 Women List) are:
Barbara Castle
Hannah Mitchell
Alice Wheeldon
Olave St Clair Baden-Powell
and an open option where individuals could add a woman of their choice
The vote opens online on March 8th and will end on October 15th 2017
More than 353 votes were cast in just over 4 hours!
Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Hardyal Dhindsa casts his vote for Derby and Derbyshire Woman of a Century
The second main focus for VF was to network with individuals and organisations about the Deeds Not Words Towards Liberation Project and to encourage contributions to the Commemorative Quilt. Hundreds of votes were cast and we managed to add to the growing list of<|fim_middle|> and a very busy day of ourtreach for the team. Thank you to Vanessa Boon and the Women's Day Derby Team (especially for the lovely tribute paid to the VF Team) xx
See More pics from the Women's Day Derby Celebration below: | poetential contributors to the quilt.
It was a wonderful celebratory event | 14 |
Kuroda says signal for stimulus exit would be change in target rate
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks during a forum at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Nusa Dua, on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, on Sunday. | AFP-JIJI
Bloomberg, Reuters
NUSA DUA, INDONESIA – When the Bank of Japan is finally ready to signal the start of an exit from its massive monetary stimulus, the shift will be seen in its target rate, Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said in an interview.
While he stressed that policy settings will remain at their current rock bottom levels for now, the comments on what an exit will one day look like were among his clearest yet.
"When two percent inflation target is met or is close to be met, of course we can change the target, the monetary operating target of interest rate," Kuroda said when asked in an interview with Bloomberg television how the central bank would signal an exit. "At this moment, inflation is only one percent, so we will continue the current yield curve control at the current level of interest."
Asked in a follow-up question to confirm if a change in the interest rate would be a definite signal of a policy shift, he said: "That's right."
Kuroda has generally been reluctant to give details of how the bank might go about exiting policy. Previous comments by the governor on the bank's exit plans have caused sharp movements in the yen and bond prices.
In March, Kuroda's comments saying that the BOJ may find itself thinking about exiting monetary stimulus in the year starting in April 2019 caused the yen to surge. Economists have also continued to highlight the sharp slide in the bank's bond purchases as a sign the bank has normalization of policy in sight.
In July, Kuroda and his board made the most significant tweaks to their policy framework in two years in a bid to give them more flexibility as they continue their stimulus. The bank also said it would keep interest rates extremely low for an extended period of time, helping calm speculation that a policy change could be on the horizon amid rate hikes in the U.S. and moves toward tighter policy in Europe.
Most economists now don't expect the BOJ to change policy until at least 2020, but they are still keen to know how the bank will signal its intentions.
Kuroda said that people should focus on the bank<|fim_middle|> Secretary Steven Mnuchin has called for a currency clause that would prevent competitive devaluations to be included in any trade agreement with Japan.
Kuroda said Japan's sales-tax increase scheduled for next October wouldn't have the same effect on the economy as the hike in 2014. The rise set for next year would be only two percentage points and food would be excluded, he noted, so the impact could be as little as one third or a quarter of that from the 2014 tax hike.
The government's planned spending on free education and care for young children should also help, he said.
China, U.S., BOJ, trade, World Bank, Haruhiko Kuroda, IMF, Donald Trump | 's yield curve control and not the amount of bonds the bank is buying as a potential signal for an exit.
"It's only yield curve control," he said. "The amount of JGB purchases is no more the monetary operating target."
The central bank controls short and long term interest rates by applying a minus 0.1 percent rate on specific deposits held by commercial banks at the BOJ and by buying bonds to keep the yield on 10-year Japanese government debt at about zero. Through these rates the bank ensures yields across a wide range of time frames remain incredibly low.
Kuroda's comments further underscored that a promise by the bank to buy ¥80 trillion of Japanese government bonds each year was now only a symbolic commitment to buy a large amount. The bank's purchases are now close to half that pace.
Sporting a batik shirt on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund's annual meetings in Bali, Indonesia, Kuroda said a continuation of recent wage gains would be 'critical' in the BOJ's quest to reach its inflation target of two percent.
"Basically I think wages would be the main sustainable factor for inflation," he said, noting that wage growth had been accelerating in recent months. 'Whether this continues or not is very critical for the tow percent inflation target."
Speaking on some of the big issues discussed at the IMF meetings in Bali, Kuroda said trade conflicts were a frequent topic, though no clear conclusions were reached about how to resolve them. Still, he said he expected the U.S. and China to eventually reach a compromise, as trade wars tend to hurt all countries involved.
In the face of growing protectionism, it is essential to continue international dialogue with renewed recognition of the importance of free trade, Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said.
The global economy has continued to expand but if trade tensions are prolonged or intensify they could hurt the real economy and financial markets, not only through trade activities but also through deterioration in sentiment among businesses and households, Kuroda said.
When he spoke at the same event a year earlier, the global economy was quite rosy and the biggest risk was complacency, Kuroda said.
"The recent rise of protectionist moves and tightening of financial conditions in some economies remind policymakers of the importance of being vigilant at all times," Kuroda said.
"We should pay more attention to protectionist moves as global economies have become increasingly interdependent through global value chains," he said.
Touching on currencies, Kuroda said the dollar, yen and euro were at levels not far from those justified by economic fundamentals. U.S. Treasury | 532 |
Alex and Sasha are twin sisters, physically identical down to their freckles. But the resemblance is only skin deep-Sasha is profoundly autistic, while Alex is not. Sasha can't communicate and acts bizarrely, and the family revolves around her and her intense needs.
Yet the aged, wealthy, and mysterious Aunt Nana seems to have a particular interest in both girls. Offering a helping hand, she encourages the family to move to San Francisco to be near her. And when the young twins discover a tunnel in Nana's tool shed, it leads them on a journey across the world and back 100 years in time. The tunnel is a pathway to the Firebird Estate, the home of their ancestors, located in rural Russia<|fim_middle|>volution, 20th century Russia background and character-driven plot. This is a great read for YA and adult readers. | at the beginning of the twentieth century. Even more remarkable, through the effect that twisting time has on cognition, Sasha is not autistic when she's at the Firebird Estate.
Now, growing up in two strikingly different times and places, the twins must face their separate destinies among the ravages of the incipient Russian Revolution. Can they save their families on both sides of the tunnel? Can they simultaneously stay true to their own hearts, to each other, and to the people they left behind? Each sister must face her own personal challenge-but only together can they discover their own future within their family's past.
Twin Time 5 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 1 reviews.
Reviewed by Lit Amri for Readers' Favorite "There are doors to stride through with purpose, and doors to peek through with trepidation. But maybe once in a lifetime there is a door to another reality, a door that connects worlds within multiverses." In Twin Time by Olga and Christopher Werby, nineteen-year-old Alex and Sasha Orlov are identical twins, but different at the same time. While Alex is a vibrant university student, Sasha is autistic. In 2019, a fire burnt down their great-aunt's home. Nadezhda Orlova, affectionately known as Aunt Nana, is badly hurt and Sasha is missing. When Aunt Nana's personal attorney, Boris Blackburg, insists on talking to Alex, she's about to find out that the important clues on Sasha's whereabouts are in the past. The Orlovs' secret time tunnel paves the way for an interesting plot. The story has different time settings and is also told from different characters' points of view. That said, I find that these aspects are well-handled and that the narrative isn't overwhelming. I gravitated towards Sasha right from the start and rooted for her when she decided that Russia would be her home. I love how her character changes and she is able to express herself freely compared to her restrictive nature and environment back in the present time. Personally, I find it hard to empathize with Alex and her mother, Emma - most of their attitude toward Sasha is unacceptable to me. Overall, Twin Time is a refreshing time travel-themed story with its vivid pre-re | 466 |
Archaeological Heritage and Contemporary Society
dr. H. van Londen & dr. G.J. van Wijngaarden
dr. C. Cavallo
prof.dr. J. Eidem
prof.dr. J.H.G. Gawronski
prof.dr. M. Gnade
dr. S. Heeren
dr. J.R. Hilditch
dr. A.M.J.H. Huijbers
dr. A. Kotsonas
dr. H. van Londen
dr. P.S. Lulof
dr. C.W. Neeft
dr. R.G.A.M. Panhuijsen
dr. W.D.J. v.d. Put
dr. E. Smits
prof.dr. V.V. Stissi
dr. L.L. Therkorn
dr. A.A.A. Verhoeven
dr. G.J.M. van Wijngaarden
J. Waagen
drs N. Vossen (private: pro-erfgoed & public NVVA [ Nederlandse Vereniging van Archeologen])
drs T. Hermans (public: Dutch National Heritage Agency [Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed])
prof. dr. A. Marciniak (public: Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Poland)
dr. G. McGregor (public: University of Glasgow, UK)
dr. W. Hupperetz (Allard Pierson Museum);
The research in this research group is closely related to that in the groups titled Material culture and the past and Archaeology of Cultural landscapes and natural environments. The research programme "Archaeological Heritage & Contemporary Society" addresses the varied role of archaeological remains in contemporary societies. On a general level, this research group concerns itself with the processes by which meanings are assigned to material remains of the past. In particular, important fields of study are archaeological heritage management (including innovation techniques), public archaeology (including innovation by New Media), Museum archaeology, education and historical culture in archaeology.
The material past plays a vital role in contemporary societies. People identify with local and regional archaeological heritage, but also in a national and international context. In each of these interrelated scales of heritage, material remains and context are contested and actively appropriated by a variety of stakeholders. Meaning transgresses through time and cannot be seen outside societal contexts, such as identity creation, the creation of collective memory, social binding/out casting and/or commercialisation.
Archaeological Heritage Management: policy, research & the public
International treaties and national policies<|fim_middle|>, have a restricted time schedule. While each member of the group is individually engaged in specific projects (including exhibitions and publications) we will meet on a regular basis to share results and develop collective discursive projects.
> Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2012-2014 (Leonardo da Vinci Programme): 2012-2014
> Application for external funding Joint Initiative Programme "Cultural Heritage and Global Change: a new challenge for Europe" (JPICH): " Between Valletta and Faro: The meaning of archaeology for society" (in prep): 2013-2015
> Zakynthos Archaeology Project: sections on local contexts and Tourism will be published in 2015
> Satricum Research Project: The opening of the Satricum museum and archaeological park is due for 2013/2014; the exhibition in the wine factory "Casale del Giglio" is planned for 2014.
Integrating the archaeological-historical landscape into spatial planning is a growing trend leading to increase and accentuation of historic monuments in public space. Archaeological heritage is part and parcel of the modern landscape and its development. Understanding the structuration of meaning - by groups, institutions or sometimes individuals - attached to and derived from archaeological heritage delivers intrinsic important knowledge about society and is of relevance in the discussion about public support and sustainability. | form a framework from which central concepts, practices and regulations are implemented. This framework calls for an European comparative approach in research. Research topics may cover all aspects of the existing order in which archaeological heritage management is organised, effectiveness of rules and regulations, integration into other disciplines such as spatial planning, development of concepts, instruments and techniques as well as all aspects of public archaeology and education. The ways in which archaeology is presented in museum settings, in particular in archaeological museums, is changing very fast. In cooperation with the Allard Pierson Museum, museum archaeology is very much part of this research.
One of the central points of departure is the clear conceptualisation of essentialism and constructivism which refers to the way archaeological remains are perceived; as material culture passed on to us from generations before us which we need to study and preserve (essentialism) versus the heritage paradigm in which contemporary meaning and processes of selection and structuration determine what is and is not heritage (constructivism). Further development of ethics in heritage archaeology may help to elaborate on these fundamental paradigms in order to break their apparent conflicting nature.
So far, the programme consists of the following projects:
> Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2012-2014 (Leonardo da Vinci Programme)
> Architecture of Identities and the 4D-Lab/Biographies of Cultural Heritage: Virtual Futures for our Cultural Past
> Zakynthos Archaeology Project
> Satricum Research Project
> Museum projects in Allard Pierson Museum
In general this programme will result in books and articles, a local museum and archaeological park, thematic museum exhibitions, digital reconstructions and Apps, expert meetings, workshops, funding applications, lecture series. Several of these will be developed in close collaborations with cultural institutions in the Netherlands and abroad.
> Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2012-2014 (Leonardo da Vinci Programme);
This project will result in a database, and each country draws a national report that will form the basis for a transnational analysis.
Zakynthos Archaeology Project
> Within the Zakynthos Archaeology project much attention has been paid to the conflict between local interests in archaeology and the effects of tourism. This research will be published in the final publication of the project, which is scheduled for 2015.
This project will result in the opening of the Satricum museum in Le Ferriere (Satricum) integrated with an archaeological park on the acropolis of the site. A smaller exhibition is planned in the local wine factory "Casale del Giglio".
> Application for external funding Joint Initiative Programme "Cultural Heritage and Global Change: a new challenge for Europe" (JPICH): " Between Valletta and Faro: The meaning of archaeology for society"
The programme will initiate projects for the long-term. Individual projects, however | 588 |
For schizophrenia treatment and recovery, the love and support from friends and family is vital.
If someone close to you has schizophrenia, you may struggle with a mixture of difficult emotions. You will often feel fear, guilt, anger, frustration and sometimes hopeless.
Your friend or family member needs to feel better, happy and<|fim_middle|> visiting our fact-sheet.
View the original Help Guide article. | enjoy their life – do your best to help them achieve that but pay the same attention to your own health.
Educate yourself – Researching the condition and the treatment available will help you make informed decisions about managing the illness.
Set realistic expectations – It is important to be realistic about the challenges your friend will face. Help them set achievable goals and be patient.
Reduce stress – Stress can cause symptoms to flare up so a structured, supportive environment is important. Try not to put pressure on your friend.
Empower them – Support them, but encourage independence. They are still capable of doing things so try not to limit them.
As mentioned above, is it important to take care of yourself when supporting someone with schizophrenia. Keeping a positive, optimistic outlook on the situation is much easier when you also have a support network.
Look after your health. Make sure you get enough sleep and exercise.
Make time for yourself, don't forget to make time for the things you enjoy.
Join a support group. Share your experiences with others who know what you are going through and can offer advice.
Maintain relationships. Don't forget about your other friends and family, they are there to support you and hold you up when you are down.
Schizophrenia is thought to affect around 26 million people worldwide. Art therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) are commonly used to treat the disorder. Find out more by | 282 |
Are you looking for a venue to host a Baby Shower? Look no further than the 4* star Abbey Hotel<|fim_middle|> needed anything the whole experience was excellent would definitely recommend it to everyone. | in Redditch, Worcestershire, just South of Birmingham.
The Abbey Hotel is a perfect venue to celebrate an impending arrival. We believe a baby shower is a fabulous excuse for a party and a great way to treat a mum-to-be. We allow you to completely tailor make your event to suit your requirements. Whether it be the food, layout or decorations etc. We offer flexibility to allow you to create the very best baby shower.
A popular option for a baby shower is afternoon tea. You have the option to reserve a private room* allowing you to decorate the room, should you wish to.
Another option for a baby shower could be to enjoy our lovely spa. We have many spa day packages and we do have maternity treatments available for expectant mums. Perfect to relax before baby arrives.
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I arranged afternoon tea for my sisters baby shower for 13 people the staff were all so help full through out the whole booking could not fault any of the staff. The afternoon tea was beautiful the sandwiches and scones were presented very nice and tasted great too the staff kept coming and checking we had drinks and asking if we | 268 |
<|fim_middle|>. | Where is the Osteoporosis Center located? I can't find it!
You can access a map of the location and see more information here.
Please call us at 423.439.8830 if you have any trouble locating the Osteoporosis Center.
Why can't I take a calcium supplement before my scan?
You may continue taking your usual calcium supplement up until the day before your scan, but DO NOT take it on the day you are scheduled to be scanned. Taking a calcium supplement before the DXA scan can lead to false results and provide an inaccurate portrayal of the bone mineral density. You may be rescheduled if you have taken a calcium supplement on the morning of your scan, so remember to wait until afterward to take it.
How long will the scan take? Does it hurt? Is there anything special I need to do to prepare for the scan?
The DXA scan is non-invasive and painless. It only takes a few minutes to complete. You will not have to lie in a metal tube or remain still for an extended period of time. You do not have to fast before the scan. You do not have to remove clothing for the scan.
The most important things you need to do to prepare for your DXA scan are to forego taking a calcium supplement on the day of the scan, and wear comfortable clothing without metal buttons or zippers. A more detailed description on preparing for the scan can be found here.
I heard that women are far more likely to develop osteoporosis than men, and I'm a man. Do I need to worry about getting a bone scan?
Osteoporosis isn't just a women's disease; men can develop it, too. All men over the age of 70 and women over the age of 65 should be scanned for osteoporosis | 376 |
Under most circumstances an 11% increase sounds pretty good. Most people would be psyched about an 11% increase in their salary.<|fim_middle|> want to spend some money improving their newly purchased homes.
And for now, that's a good thing for the broader housing market. As long as new home sales remain low, buying is focused on exhausting the still-growing inventory of existing homes. Once defaults, short sales, and foreclosures begin to slow, more new homes will follow. But until then, consumers can get great deals on homes that they can just fix up and make feel like new instead. | If the nation's GDP increased by 11%, there would be partying in the streets. But similar euphoria isn't likely being felt today by builders hearing about an 11% increase in the annualized rate of new home sales in March over February. At just 300,000, they remain very, very low on a historical basis.
The annual pace of new home sales is down by more than one million compared to the height of the housing boom. To put March's number of 300,000 into context, it was an 11.1% increase over February, but that month marked an all-time low for the pace of new home sales. March failed to make up the ground lost in February from January, when sales were 312,000. New home sales were also down by 21.9% last month compared to March 2010, when the home buyer credit was still in effect.
This change isn't particularly shocking, as we know housing permits and starts have remained at relatively low levels over the past several months as well. Still, today's data shows that there's little reason for home builders to be optimistic about a recovery in their industry anytime soon. For now, most must focus on renovation work, which will likely keep some busy as Americans focus their restrained home buying on the vast inventory of existing homes. Since many of those are distressed sales including foreclosures, a number of buyers will | 306 |
Dima from Ukraine is planning to use his 120-hour certificate from ITTT to teach English to children in China<|fim_middle|>/future, and past of auxiliary verbs. | . In this TEFL review, Dima recommends the course for those who want to learn how to teach English professionally around the world. ITTT's online TEFL and TESOL courses will give you the skills you need to teach English successfully. Our certificates are internationally recognised and enable you to find work as an English teacher almost anywhere in the world.
This unit the four present tenses. Although I'm already familiar with most of the points laid down here, I thought it was useful to learn some specifics that I didn't know before. The differences in use between the present perfect tense and the present perfect continuous tense as explained here gave me ideas on how to explain them to my own learners.In this unit I learnt about basic rules regarding modals and that they can be utilized to voice a number of different ideas including the following: obligation, possibility/probability, permission/prohibition, ability, and advice. The chart displayed in the lesson assisted in gaining knowledge of the uses, present | 198 |
Part two of the T-12 walk with Theo<|fim_middle|> The document, parts one through three, and other Syndication School series can be found at SyndicationSchool.com. | . You'll want to listen in to learn even more details about the trailing 12. It's important to understand this statement so you don't make a bad decision on a deal that costs you money. If you enjoyed today's episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review!
Each week we air two-part podcast series about a specific aspect of the apartment syndication investment strategy. Typically, these series are four, six, to eight parts, so the entire series is over multiple weeks… But for the majority of these series we offer some sort of document, or spreadsheet, or resource for you to download for free.
All these free documents, as well as the past Syndication School series can be found at SyndicationSchool.com. Today is Thursday, so this is going to be a continuation of what will likely be a six-part series entitled "Breaking down the apartment financials." In part one and two we broke down the rent roll, and in part three and four – which includes today's episode – we're gonna break down the T-12.
Yesterday, or in part three, we talked about what a T-12 actually is, when you use it – during underwriting, and then when you're executing your business plan. We kind of took a big picture look at how the T-12 flows, how you find the T-12 and what you should do with the T-12 more specifically during the underwriting process and when you're executing the business plan, and then we actually walked through a sample T-12 from a deal that Joe did, and we got through the first major section, which is the Income section, which consists of the rental revenue and the Other Tenant Income. Below the rental revenue there were 10-15 line items, and then under the Other Tenant Income there were another 13 or so line items that we went through and defined, and mentioned what to look for when you're underwriting, and what to look for on an ongoing basis for each of those.
In this episode we're going to move on to the expenses. These are going to be the operating expenses, the non-operating expenses, and really any other expenses that the property incurs. We're gonna go ahead and go through all those and define those, so by the end of this two-part series you should be able to look at a rent roll and a T-12 and be able to find essentially every single metric that's on those documents.
Let's jump right in. For the overall Expense section, the first category is going to be the Operating Expenses. The operating expenses are the variable expenses associated with running your apartment community. These are things that aren't going to be the same every single month. They're going to fluctuate based on how the property performs, what happens to the property etc. So when I define each of these terms, I'm going to provide you with a market cost per unit per year for each of these different operating expenses. These dollar per unit per years are going to be for apartment communities that are located in major markets that are 200 units or more.
If you're working with a smaller property, or if you're working in a secondary or tertiary market – this probably applies to secondary markets, but probably not tertiary markets. If that's the case, you're gonna want to talk to your property management company and the broker to help you determine these accurate market cost ranges for your specific market… But for now, since most of you are likely investing in major markets, we're gonna focus on that. The grey areas – you're gonna have to speak with a management company.
Generally, the operating expenses are gonna be broken into nine major categories. These are the nine categories you should have on your cashflow calculator, and in the next series and the series after that, when we start going over underwriting and we give away the free, simplified cashflow calculator, you'll see that there are nine different categories for operating expenses.
So if you come across a T-12 that is not broken down in these nine categories, then you're gonna have to do some rearranging, which is why it's gonna be very important for you to download this and see "Okay, for utilities, what is considered a utility? What is considered a contract service? What is considered maintenance repairs?" Because you might come across a T-12 where all the maintenance repairs, all the contract services and all the turnkey make-ready costs are all within the same category, and you're gonna have to pull out what is what and break apart that one category into three categories. So this portion of the podcast is gonna be very important to listen closely.
First we're gonna have the utilities. That's gonna be the cost of the utilities of the property. You'll see that there is the electric for the vacant units; if a unit is vacant, you're gonna have to pay for those utilities. There's the house electric – that's mostly serialized electricity for your amenities like your gym, your pool, your lights for your barbecue area, lights for your pet park, things like that.
You're obviously gonna have the electric for the clubhouse or your office, and then you're most likely gonna be paying for gas and heating oil overall, for the entire property… So whether it's gas for the grill, or if you have a boiler, gas for your boiler… You're paying for utilities and water for the entire property. Cable – cable for the office, or your model unit. Telephone and internet for your office, as well as any waste disposal that you have – kind of a one-off waste disposal if you're doing renovations… Because you typically have this when you're doing renovations, or just trash collection in general. So those are gonna be utilities.
When you're underwriting a deal, again, you're using this T-12 as a guide to set your stabilized expense assumptions… So when you are underwriting a deal, you're gonna wanna set your stabilized expense assumption to the same annual cost on the T-12. Right here, the annual utilities are approximately $230,000, so if I was underwriting this deal, I'd be like "Okay, well my annual utilities are also likely going to be $230,000", and then if total utility cost is outside the range of $750 to $900 per unit per year – so take that total number, divide it by the total number of units, if that is over $750 to $900, outside that range, then just make a note, because likely either utilities are really low, or they're too high. And for anything that's outside of this market cost per unit per year range, then you're gonna wanna mark that down and ask the management company "Okay, why are the utilities really low? Are tenants paying for parts of the utilities?" or "Why are the utilities really high? Are there water leaks somewhere? Is the electric really high for some reason?" And if it is too high, it's not a deal-breaker, because it is an opportunity for you to add value.
The next category is the contract services. These are the costs or expenses associated with ongoing contracts that you have with vendors… Those are gonna be landscaping, anything related to security – patrols, alarm monitoring, emergency phone… A key maintenance person, pest control, and other upkeep-related contracts that you have. These are contracts that you have with vendors, not one-off maintenance repair issues; it's going to be things that are on a consistent basis.
As I've mentioned, you've got your landscaping contract, you've got your security patrol contract, alarm monitoring contract, emergency phone contract, key maintenance person contract, pest control contract, and then just a contract with probably a paraservices company which is on-call if you've got something small that happens and you need to be able to take care of it, and you don't wanna have your key maintenance person do it.
As I've mentioned, a lot of times these contract services will be lumped in with repairs and maintenance, so make sure that when you're underwriting you take a look at the individual line items and make sure that something that's in Repairs and Maintenance isn't actually a contract service.
So when you're underwriting, you're gonna want to set your stabilized expense assumptions for contract services to the T-12 amount, and making note if it is outside $200 to $400 per unit per year. If it's above that or below that and you're looking at a 200+ unit apartment community in a major market, then it's either too low or too high and you wanna make a note to ask the broker why.
Next we've got Repairs and Maintenance. These are going to be costs associated with the ongoing repairs of interiors and exteriors, including supplies but excluding capital expenditure. So you do not want to include your cap-ex costs in repairs and maintenance, and when you're reviewing deals, you wanna make sure that they're not including those in there. If there's a line item that says "New roof" and it's $250,000, that's gonna throw off your repairs and maintenance.
For Repairs and Maintenance let's just kind of go through these… There are some that are pretty self-explanatory. You've got equipment repairs, you've got HVAC repairs and supplies, pool supplies, you've got paint service and supplies, you've got [unintelligible [00:11:31].00] repairs, supplies for landscaping, supplies and repairs for plumbing, supplies and repairs for electrical, you've got general maintenance supplies, small tools, supplies that are broken or replaced, parking lot repair maintenance – again, this is not you going in there and restriping the entire parking lot; these are one-off, smaller repairs to your parking lot.
Same with the roof repairs and building exterior repairs, windows and door repairs – maybe you're replacing one door, but not replacing every door, every window… Fire safety supplies, new locks and keys, new light bulbs, floor repairs, cleaning for your office or the clubhouse, cleaning supplies, pest control products, appliance repairs and parts, general exterior repairs, water extraction, and fitness room repairs and supplies. So really anything that's a supply or a repair will go under this line item, but not anything that's like a brand new cap-ex type of budget.
And when you're underwriting, you're gonna wanna go ahead and set Stabilized Expense to the same annual number as the T-12, and make a note if that number falls outside the $250 to $350 per unit per year range.
Next we have the Turnover, or it might be called Turn, or it might be called Make-ready, or Turn Make-Ready… These are gonna be costs that are associated with repairing a unit for a new resident. Again, just like contract services, this might be included in the maintenance and repairs, so make sure that you are, again, looking through the maintenance or repairs line items every single time, to make sure that it's only including maintenance or repairs and not including things like contract services and turnover.
So this is gonna include things like painting units and cleaning units, and again, it's not going to include capital expenditures. If a unit is turned and then you are doing your value-add renovation of 6k-7k, you're not gonna include that here. These are gonna be costs associated with repairing a unit for a new resident, not renovating a unit for a new resident. These are gonna be repainting the units, cleaning the units, resurfacing the countertops or the floors, cleaning the carpets, things like that.
When you're underwriting, you're gonna wanna go ahead and assume that it'll be approximately $150 to $300 per unit per year. So if the current number is $400 per unit per year, then you've reduced your assumption to $300, and then make a note to ask the broker why their turn costs are so high. Likely, high turn costs is a reflection of a poor demographic and/or a high turnover, which is kind of also a sign of poor renter demographic.
Next we have Payroll. These are gonna be the costs associated with paying the salaries of your full-time employees. This is different from the contracts that you have. These are gonna be people that are full-time employees at your property, so these are gonna be things like the payroll for your main maintenance person, payroll for people that work the admin jobs in your office – these could be leasing agents, the person at the front desk… You're also gonna want to account for any bonuses that are paid, or temporary salaries to temporary leasing agents, as well as payroll taxes, any insurance you have… Right here we've got group health insurance, the key man life insurance… So health insurance, life insurance, any compensation that's paid out, and then your payroll processing fees if you have those.
Next we've got the taxes and insurance category. On your cashflow calculator these are actually broken into two different categories. First we wanna take a look at insurance — but I'm sorry, before we go to that I've gotta go back to Payroll and explain what the market rate is. So when you're underwriting, you're gonna wanna go ahead and assume a stabilized expense of $1,000 to $1,200 per unit per year for the payroll. For example, if the current payroll is $800, you'll set it to $1,000; if it's $400, you'll set it to $1,200, and making note that it's too low or too high, and then ask the management company why that is.
This is one of those things that you might not even see if you're looking at a building that's got less than 50 units, because you don't have any on-site management, you don't have any on-site people working there. Maybe you just contract out a leasing service to fill the units, so this might be way lower than $1,000 to $1,200 range, and it might actually be zero when you're dealing with a four-unit, a ten-unit, a 20-unit.
Now we can move on to the Taxes and Insurance. Insurance is the property insurance, pretty self-explanatory. For insurance, the minimum amount that you'll see is about $225 per unit per year. Typically, you'll see somewhere around $250 to $300 per unit per year for property insurance, so just set your stabilized expense assumption for insurance to the same as the T-12, just for a good place to start, and then get a quote from someone; you need a ballpark quote for the property, to get a more accurate assumption.
Then for taxes, you've got your property taxes, and then on this T-12 there's also a property tax consultant. You'll see at the end of the year, in November, they pay about $2,700 to talk to a tax consultant to help reduce their taxes… But overall, this is very important. So when you're underwriting a deal, you're gonna see an annual tax on the T-12, but that's gonna be based on whatever the property was valued last, it's gonna be based on that number. So if you plan on buying the property, and let's say you buy the property for five million dollars more than what the current tax rate is based off of, and you use the current tax rate, then you're gonna be surprised when your tax rate goes up by 100k or 200k. So when you are underwriting deals, make sure you go to the auditor's site or the appraiser's site and figure out what the tax rate is. Usually, it will be like 85% of the value, times 0.142435, some random tax rate number… And they'll determine what your annual taxes will be.
Make sure you calculate your stabilized tax assumption using that method, don't just copy and paste the current taxes, because they're most likely going to be different.
Next we've got Management Fees, pretty self-explanatory. This is the fee paid to the management company for managing the property. So what you wanna do here for the T-12 – you're gonna want to divide the annual management fees paid to buy the annual total collected income, because typically the management fee is based on the total collected income. Get a percentage, so you can see what rate the current management company is charging. Then for your stabilized assumption, you want to ask your property management company, "Hey, I've got this 200-unit deal in this market. What percentage of the collected rents would you charge to manage this property, and what will I get in return for that?" Then you wanna know if that percentage includes everything, or if there are gonna be other fees that you have to pay, and you wanna know what those are, so you can make sure you add those in, as well.
Resident screening – costs associated with screening out residents. This could be background checks, things like that. Fees, Dues and Subscriptions – any newspaper or online business article, or any type of group that your company or your property manager is a part of, and they've got monthly or yearly fees, or subscriptions, or dues – that's here.
You've got your Banks Fees – these are fees charged by the bank to you for essentially being able to collect rent via direct deposit, things like that. Payment Processing – payment processors might charge you a percentage of the money you collect using their service. Blue Moon – that is actually the property management software that they use, so you'll see that there's an annual fee of about $900 to use that.
Office Supplies & Equipment – pretty self-explanatory. Answering Service, Uniform. Payment Reversal Fees – so if your tenant submits a payment, and the payment is reversed and not accepted, then you're charged for that.
Property Management Software – that's the secondary software used with Blue Moon. Any IT support, costs associated with maintaining or updating the website. Postage, Courier and Freight – basically, Post and stamps.
Any meetings or trainings that you have for your employees. Training shop – same thing. Any legal services that you use, talking to a lawyer… Permanent registration – if you need to pull a permit from the city, there's a cost associated with that. Mileage Reimbursement to your employees, and then Meals and Entertainment for your employees.
When you're underwriting, you'll wanna go ahead and just simply set your stabilized expense assumption to the same annual expense on the T-12, and making note if that number is outside of the $150 to $250 per unit per year range.
And the last operating expense on here is going to be Marketing. It might also be referred to as Advertising. These will be the costs associated with marketing your apartment community to fill the units. So here we've got "Marketing – others", so really anything that doesn't fall into the Other categories or what they go over.
You've got Printing – printing out fliers to hand out to local businesses… Resident Party and Functions – if you host a Halloween party, Christmas party. Locator Fees – a locator is essentially a company where all they do is they work with properties and they help properties find tenants, so they're kind of the middle man.
Marketing Events & Gifts – if you make gift baskets and drop them off at local companies. Referral Fees – if you have a referral program, where if your tenants refer someone, they get $300 off their rent. Promotional Fee – pretty self-explanatory. Intermittent Ads & Listings, Web Analytics, Lead Tracking, Office Hospitality… Anything related to marketing or advertising your property to prospective tenants will be included here.
When you're underwriting, you're gonna want to set your stabilized expense assumption for marketing to whatever the amount is on the T-12, and making note if it is outside of the $100 to $200 per unit per year range. Similar to Payroll, and probably even Administrative too, those numbers will be much lower, or potentially even zero for those small apartments. And for Marketing in particular, this should be tied to rent, loss to lease, and vacancy loss. So if the market rent is low, or the loss to lease is high, or if the vacancy is high, then these marketing expenses should be going up.
Now, as I mentioned, you have your Total Operating Expense, which is a sum of all nine of those categories. Then you've got your Total Expense, which here is the exact same as the Total Operating Expense.
Then you've got your Net Operating Income. Net Operating Income is gonna be the Total Income minus the Total Operating Expenses, and this is what's used to actually determine the value of a property. So when you're underwriting a deal, the Net Operating Income is as important, although is what your lender will use to underwrite your deal, so that's what they'll base the debt they'll provide on, is what's the current Net Operating Income.
Typically, what I would do is I'll take the Net Operating Income and the asking price, or the Net Operating Income and the cap rate that the listing broker claims the market is at or the property will trade at, and that can be found by looking at the recent sales comps that the broker included, just to get an idea of what the owner thinks they should be getting for this property. That will determine, okay, if they wanna get 10 million dollars for this property, and based on the current NOI that's a 4% cap rate, but I know that the lender is gonna underwrite at a 6% cap rate, then I'm gonna have trouble getting the property at that price.
Then when you own the property, you wanna take a look at that Variance column for the net operating income. Essentially, you compare what's actually happening to your budget on a monthly basis, and if that variance is high, you wanna work with your property management company as quickly as possible to identify whatever is causing that variance, and brainstorm ways to increase the net operating income.
Above net operating income there's over 160 different line items, so you've got 160 different potential causes for why the net operating income is not what it's supposed to be, which is why it's important to know what each of those line items actually mean, as I said earlier. Now at this point you should be a master on all of those.
Below the net operating income you've got a few other expense line items that aren't accounted for in the net operating income. You've got kind of miscellaneous expense – this is anything that is not an operating expense, that doesn't fit into another category. The asset management fee – that's the fee charged by you, the syndicator, for managing the property. Any professional or legal fees — right here you've got Legal Fees and Accounting Services, so consulting with your lawyer, consulting with your accountant, bookkeeping from your accountant, things like that. That will give a total Other Expense, and then the next is going to be the Non-Operating Expense, which typically is just going to be the debt service and the interest. This is the principal and interest paid by you to the lender.
From there, you'll get your total non-operating expense, and then you'll get your total net income. This total net income is the total income minus the operating expenses minus the other expenses minus the non-operating expenses. This right here is also referred to as the cashflow. This is going to be at the end of the day how much money is this property actually cash-flowing.
Then you can look at it and be like, "Okay, well the payroll is not actually gonna be $1,600, it's actually gonna be a little bit lower", whereas if you didn't do that, you might have just set it to $1,600 or $1,800 and might have lost on the deal, because as expenses go up, the net operating income goes down, which means that you need to offer a lower price in order to get the returns that you want.
So multiply that by 160 different line items and you're talking about a huge difference in how much money you'll be offering for the property. So if you see anything that falls outside that market range, make sure you're digging into the individual line items that make up that overarching category. I use that payroll as an example, but it could be applied to any of these categories.
Besides that, I recommend downloading this T-12 and walking through each of these line items just to make sure you're familiar with them. I also recommend doing the same thing for the rent roll in parts one and two. From there, we will also be doing parts five and six next week, where we will be diving into the third piece of information that you will need for underwriting a deal, assuming it's off-market, and that's going to be the offering memorandum.
Until then, listen to part one, two and three, listen to the other Syndication School series about the how-to's of apartment syndication, and download your free document this week, which is gonna be the sample T-12 as a guide; but it's still very helpful, because I'm not sure if you guys have downloaded one of these online somewhere. | 5,323 |
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You'll find a 3.5mm headphone jack in the side of the H6, which allows you to daisy chain headphones together if you want to share what you are listening to with a friend and there is also an in-line remote and microphone for hands-free smartphone use.
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The headphones have been released in a number of special editions in the past, including a green pair last October and a Pepsi Live for Now custom edition in May earlier this year. The latest additions joining the H6 party are in Blue Stone, Bronzed Hazel and Graphite Blush.
We got the chance to see the new limited edition models that will be available alongside the Classic Black and Natural versions during a Christmas in July event and we loved them. The new colours are rich and fantastic, featuring the same soft leather and metallic metal finish found on the current and previous BeoPlay H6 headphones and they look as good as you would expect.
The BeoPlay H6 headphones are designed to bring maximum comfort and audio quality while providing a decent level of sound isolation, but the key is that they mix BeoPlay with B&O's premium headphone range.
The cowhide leather from New Zealand is beautiful, comfortable and it oozes a premium feel, while the coloured aluminium discs on the outside of the cups are subtly etched with the B&O logo and make you feel proud to have them on your head.
As the special edition headphones offer the exact same design, except for the colours, as the previous BeoPlay H6 headphones that have gone before them, we have the same Jakob Wagner to thank for their beauty. However, although we have been big fans of the past models, the new additions really stand out from the crowd - especially the Blue Stone and Graphite Blush. The colours work seamlessly together and they really are some special-looking headphones.
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As a 4A school district Rose Hill metes out education to more than 1800 student located in South Central Kansas. Located in the southern most edge of Rose Hill, Rose Hill High School is attended by over six hundred students. This school has a top notch general education program along with an excellent college related curriculum. This school aims at developing leaders of tomorrow and thus provides students an enormous array of possibilities to further this purpose. A brand new facility was designed for this school which they moved into in 2005 | 216 |
That was nearly five years ago, and while Las Vegas-based professional poker player Brad Owen has learned a thing or two about playing within his bankroll and dealing with the swings that come with a life as a poker pro, it's still not always easy. In addition to grinding out on-the-felt gains, Owen is one poker's top-tier vloggers, constantly documenting his exploits as a real-life $2/$5 reg in Sin City and that comes with its own learning curve.
When Owen first started to vlog, in December of 2016, he thought no one would even watch. He had seen the beginnings of fellow grinder Andrew Neeme's vlog and, while not trying to compete per se, he thought he could offer a different perspective. A perspective he hoped would help him bridge a gap between him and his family.
Owen's parents were not always completely on board with his efforts to be a poker pro, despite him having played the game for so long. Owen recalls starting to play around the age of 14, mostly with his older brother Matt and his friends. That extended into high school and, eventually, when Owen<|fim_middle|> Owen sees a wide variety of possibilities including branching out into streaming poker online, seeing more parts of the world and continuing to support Off The Felt, the online poker forums he and his brother Matt created.
In the meantime, Owen plans to continue sharing his experience. | went to college in San Diego, he got his first taste of playing in a casino. He started grinding the $3/$6 limit games and playing $40 tournaments.
In 2010, he played the largest tournament he'd ever played to that point – a $100 satellite to the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. He won the seat, and by the conclusion of his WSOP Main Event opening flight, Owen became hooked.
Although he busted in the middle of Day 2, he set about learning. Some of it, the hard way. In 2012 he made his first foray into trying to play professionally. He first moved to Las Vegas, then to Los Angeles and it ended up with his crashing with his, then, disapproving parents back in Santa Rosa, CA.
Broke and living with his parents he needed a new direction. He decided to study to become a CPA. After passing all the tests though he found getting employed difficult because firms tended to only hire out of colleges. It was the middle of summer and he could only find one master's program still accepting applications. It just so happened to be UNLV.
Owen finished his Masters, got a job at a top-flight accounting firm and was put to work. He was crunching number sometimes 70-80 hours a week.
Times are better now, and part of that is in thanks to his vlog. His parents are his #1 fans, watching every episode and his siblings both follow the vlog closely. They aren't the only ones. His vlog on YouTube has over 32,000 subscribers who tune in to Owen's adventures.
At first, Owen thought of his vlog as a growing experience for his poker career. Hoping there'd be some back and forth on how he played specific hands. Nowadays he finds that while there's a little of that, there are a lot of beginning poker players who tune in to learn. So, in order to keep things fresh for himself, Owen, who is a fan of comedy, tried to keep his videos light and loaded with humor.
In his videos Owens is quick to deliver punchlines in the same cadence that he's describing a check-raise, giving viewers a taste of his dry and affable sense of humor and personality. It's that personality, and the poker, that people tune in to see and, of course, Owen's on-screen foil, his "talking" cat Cosmo.
While he's got his style down, it took him a while to get the process down. He says that when he first started building the videos it would take him 25-30 hours to complete a 15-minute clip. The effort was so laborious that if it weren't for the encouragement of the Las Vegas poker community he may have stopped. Even now, though he's better at the process, he's still spending a ton of time editing on the laptop.
"It's becoming a second job now. The vlogging is starting to pay pretty well and so I'm putting a lot more hours into that than I am playing poker. I played maybe 700-800 hours last year and I probably worked on videos for like 1000 or 1200 hours," Owen estimates acknowledging that as a pro player one would like to get in about 1500 hours a year.
All of Owen's effort seems to be paying off. He had the ability to play poker and create content while making a living at both, all the while his audience continues to grow.
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First, we need to decide what we're writing and where it will be published. Different parts of the template are relevant to different types of content, so after we decide what we're going to write and where it'll go, lets remove the parts of the template that we don't need.
You would use this option if you're writing content for your website. For example; your services pages, product pages, or landing page content for specific campaigns.
Tip: Delete the email newsletter, guest blog post, and social promotion sections of the content template.
The topics here could be anything relevant to your audience's interest. It may tell them how to solve their own problems. Blog posts are usually helpful, but at times may simply express a viewpoint or opinion.
Tip: Delete the email newsletter and guest blog post sections of the content template..
Notice that there is no option to write a newsletter that isn't also a blog post. Newsletters are just email invitations to read your blog post. Never put the full text of an article into an email. You won't drive any traffic!
Tip: Delete the guest blog post section of the content template..
Here, our focus is on the audience and requirements of the host blog. But for search engine optimization reasons, we also want to consider which blogs will give us the best search engine optimization benefits.
Tip: Delete the keyphrase research and email newsletter sections of the content template.
Now that you've removed the parts of the template that aren't relevant, we're ready to research.
Here's the trick to writing for web: create content with your content promotion strategy in mind. A little research and planning up front can lead to lots more traffic in the long run.
This is the purpose of the content template – to remind you to do all the little things that will help your writing get traction.
This is the key to ranking and search engine traffic. Find a phrase that balances search volume (how many people are searching for it?) with competition (do I have a realistic chance of ranking?). If you're not sure how, read our post How to Research Keywords. Next, use the keyphrase in the title, meta description, and URL.
Plan your subject line and teaser text up front. Remember, the subject isn't necessarily the same as the title and header. It's all about open rates.Be specific about the value of the post, but leave room for curiosity.
Examples: The 7 Secrets to Growing Tomatoes or What to Ask Your Financial Planner about Taxes: 3 Questions.The teaser text in the email isn't necessarily the first paragraph of the post. It's all about clickthrough rates. Give a taste that will make the subscriber want more.
Don't keep all that content to yourself. Writing for other blogs is great for inbound links and for social media. It's also a lot of fun. I've written dozens of guest posts already this year!To get the best SEO value from a guest post, use OpenSiteExplorer.org to check the domain authority of the host blog before you submit. As a general rule, you should guest blog on sites with a higher domain authority than your site.
Yes, it's time to write. The template includes writing tips for keyphrase usage, social mentions, calls-to-action, images, and links. Above all, pay attention to formatting, length and tone.
Designers know that white space is good, but most writers didn't get the memo. Long, blocky paragraphs get skipped. Use sections with sub-headers. Use bullet lists. Use bolding, italics, and internal links.
Although sentences and paragraphs should be short, the blog post doesn't have to be. Longer posts show expertise and perform well in search engines. Every post should be long enough to convey the meaning and not a word longer.
An easy tone makes for engaged visitors. Write as if you're talking to your mom: courteous but informal. Be direct, get to the point, and avoid jargon.
You'll also find sample HTML for your author bio.
…does not fit all. Everyone has a different approach for collecting ideas, writing, editing, and publishing. Some use paper; others write directly into the content management system. If you like this template, but want to change it or use these ideas in other ways, go for it!
Adapt it. Make it yours. Or if you have another approach you'd like to share with fellow readers, let us know with a comment below.
Perfect timing, I was just sharing the content template with my teammates yesterday. Nice to get this succinct run-down of the creation process.
Thanks so much for sharing this updated version of the content template, Andy. Great I had the chance to come across it and talk to you about it. Super useful!
So simple, yet genius. I'm going to try this!
This is a great blog post, Andy! Good and clear advice for creating a post…like it.
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Twenty-first century protectionism is a slippery concept. With the introduction of digital trade, it is important for scholars and policymakers to rethink how they define, measure, and address protectionism. This is most clear in the United States where attitudes towards digital trade and digital protectionism have been murky at best.
While the digital is important to all countries<|fim_middle|> the scope and breadth of U.S. claims about digital protectionism. For example, Canadian and Australian policymakers are determined to protect the privacy of their citizens' health records and require such information to be stored on local servers to an extent that tends to outpace U.S. standards. Adding to the confusion, U.S. arguments against digital protectionism are often inconsistent. For example, in a 2013 report on foreign trade barriers, U.S. officials complained about Japan's uneven, and Vietnam's unclear, approach to consumer privacy. At the same time, the United States has argued that China's failure to enforce its privacy laws is harmful to digital trade.
Despite the importance of digital trade and digital protectionism, the United States has not thought out its stance on questions like: Is a policy truly protectionist? How harmful are these policies to U.S. interests? Are trade sanctions an appropriate response, and which agency should be responsible for making these decisions? As digital trade takes up a bigger portion of the global economy, policymakers and companies will need clarity. Given the stakes, it is important that the United States takes a leading role in defining digital protectionism. | , it is particularly important to the United States, where digital trade represents nearly 55 percent of U.S. service exports and has generated an annual trade surplus of over $150 billion. In a principal effort to limit digital protectionism and maintain an open internet for the advancement of the free flow of information, the United States made the move to create binding rules to govern trade in the Trans-Pacific Partnership and was the first country to call out digital protectionism in other nations. Policymakers now understand that information, whether it is created or altered within their county, is an asset. Therefore, measures that restrict content, limit the flow of data, or impose standards that keep out foreign competition could threaten the generativity of the internet as a whole.
However, many governments disagree with | 158 |
Most Christian parents dream of raising children who will love God with their whole being and seek to serve Christ with their very lives. However, sometimes parents feel they lack solid Christian role models for their children outside of their family. Our kids need Christian heroes. Courageous Christians, by Joyce Brown, is just the family reader we need to fill this gap! The vast array of men, women, and children profiled in this book give everyone<|fim_middle|> reader will teach children and parents alike what truly makes a Christian hero. | someone with whom to identify. These personalities are from different parts of the world and different time periods. These are people who have moved mountains with their faith, had courage beyond belief, and have demonstrated selfless, sacrificial love. Courageous Christians is a book that can be used by families with children of all ages. Joyce Brown provides clear, simple, well-explained stories of various Christian heroes. With sixty daily readings, this book will provide a perfect format for family devotions. This delightful family | 101 |
Cannabis industry is one of the areas that is developing at an incredible pace. In order to keep with the latest trends, you need to know and understand what this market will be all about in 2019.
Cannabis flower at the moment constitutes the largest percentage of sales of all cannabis products. But this will not always be the case. The current share of concentrates is beginning to grow throughout the market. The leaders of course are vape cartridges, disposable vape pens, refills and so on. There is rapid growth of vaping overall throughout the globe as well. In addition, there are also trending flavors, such as Meyer Lemon and Blood Orange.
The next actively expanding niche is edibles. And their growing popularity is due to the wide range of products. It's not just cookies and brownies. Donuts are<|fim_middle|> and useful analytical articles. | back. You got exquisite chocolates and a huge variety of them – it has even reached the Oscars . And a separate subcategory of the edibles is beverages. Marijuana infused drinks are the most growing category. The market is being overwhelmed with teas, cocktails, infused pops and solubles and others.
The general data without categorization shows the gaining popularity of low-dose products and people are beginning to prefer cannabis instead of alcohol. The preparation of topicals, edibles and so on involves derived molecules of the THC-V, CBG, THC-A, delta-8-THC types since the consumer is already spoiled and requires new tastes and sensations. Conventional THC and CBD no longer surprise a connoisseur with years of experience.
There will be a lot of work on the packaging in order to avoid misuse.
On the legislative level there will be the following – cannabis will not reach the federal legalization in 2019 and probably still remain a Schedule 1 drug, the same category as heroin is in. But THC molecules obtained from cannabis have already transferred to Schedule 3.
As you can see, the industry is actively developing, and you need to keep a finger on the pulse in order to keep track of all the latest innovations. Visit Silver Stem Fine Cannabis website and subscribe to the newsletter for the most up-to-date information, discounts | 271 |
Can't seem to get yourself to do what you need to do?
Even worse, you<|fim_middle|> work yet. | can't seem to do what you love?
Maybe you're like Frances, who got so tired of not having time for her song-writing career that she took three months off and rented a house at the beach to really work on her next album. After a few months enjoying days at the beach, all she had to show for it was a great collection of sea shells. Or maybe you're like Kathy, who walked by the piles of papers on her desk day after day, turning her head away, and finally shoved them into a desk drawer so she wouldn't have to see them.
I remember so well the torment of being someone who just didn't do what I needed to do. The more important a task was, the less likely I was to do it. The experts in organizing people say: "Start your day by doing your most important project." Oh, yeah? For me, the most important was the last thing I'd be likely to do.
Writing is the worst. If someone asks me to write something, a letter, a proposal, an article, I am in deep trouble. First, I will cheerfully say, "Sure, no problem." Then I won't do it. Day after day, not doing it, thinking I should, feeling bad about not doing it, hearing the voice of shame and blame in my head get louder and louder, until I'm avoiding the whole topic because I don't want to hear that voice.
And the funny thing is, I really want to write. I want to write a book, to be an author. I've wanted to be a writer for the longest time. So what I most wanted was the very thing I wasn't doing.
Isn't this a strange phenomena? And also a mystery, isn't it? How is it, that we don't do what we want to do? Self-sabotage? Fear? Those are the obvious answers. But this doesn't really help to get me unstuck!
Calling the problem self-sabotage or fear doesn't help me in the slightest, either.
Criticizing myself doesn't work at all.
What is it that can help?
Because I teach and coach others to learn how to release, I pretty much work on practicing what I teach…so now I can get things done, when I need to. I still procrastinate—like tonight, I am turning in assignments at the last minute…but they are DONE! Check. I feel grateful to get it done and checked off my list.
I cannot say that now I write easily, it's still an effort for me…but I do my best, and my best just has to be good enough!
Ironically, I am the co-author of two books, one a bestseller. I've written countless articles, and client emails that go out every week…I am much better when I am on a deadline, it seems that's when things get done in twenty minutes. And I now teach workshops and classes in Releasing Barriers, Letting Go, and Getting Unstuck! Another irony for you.
Let Go of Your Assumptions. What are you assuming? The biggest block to getting unstuck is thinking you already know "why" you're stuck. Frances thought the reason she wasn't working on her album was that she was scared of being a failure. It turned out to be something quite different.
Get into your body. Your conscious mind holds about one-tenth of your intelligence. Your whole body, including your mind, holds all of it. Most of us cut off the full power of our brilliance by walking around cut off from our bodies. Take some time to feel your feet, your seat, your breathing.
Don't judge it; get curious instead. The first temptation is to judge: "It's just the lazy part of me that doesn't want to." But wait—don't judge! Being judgmental is going to shut down the lines of communication that we need to have open. Instead of judging, get curious. The truth is, you don't know what or why this part of you is not doing the action. Let your genuine curiosity awaken and LISTEN!
If you're in a bind, and you really need help getting unstuck, sit down, get quiet and become willing to be transformed.
When she finally got quiet and brought her awareness into her body, she could feel the not-wanting-to-write in her chest, like a drawstring pulling tight. I guided her in a process of sensing what it was worried about, and what it was trying to help her understand. After about fifteen minutes, she felt a shift. Her breathing deepened and the feeling in her chest released. "Wow," she said. "It says it feels I have something precious inside, and it doesn't want that to get trampled on." I suggested she let it know she heard it. "Yes, I can do that," she said, smiling.
Frances' whole body posture changed. Her shoulders were up and her eyes were bright and relaxed. "This feels really different," she said. Later I found out she had finished writing her album, and it feels like her most powerful, vulnerable | 1,051 |
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J Consult Clin Psychol. 2012 Feb;80(1):116-127. doi: 10.1037/a0026304. Epub 2011 Dec 12.
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Analysis of Variance
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
Child Behavior/psychology
Child Behavior Disorders/psychology
Child Behavior Disorders/therapy*
Community Mental Health Services/methods*
Parenting/psychology*
Parents/education*
Parents/psychology
Poverty/psychology
Poverty/statistics & numerical data
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Vulnerable Populations/psychology*
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Parenting - MedlinePlus Health Information | parenting intervention for childhood behavioral problems: a randomized controlled trial in disadvantaged community-based settings.
McGilloway S1, Mhaille GN1, Bywater T2, Furlong M1, Leckey Y1, Kelly P1, Comiskey C3, Donnelly M4.
Department of Psychology, National University of Ireland.
Institute for Effective Education, University of York.
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin.
Centre of Excellence in Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast.
A community-based randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted in urban areas characterized by high levels of disadvantage to test the effectiveness of the Incredible Years BASIC parent training program (IYBP) for children with behavioral problems. Potential moderators of intervention effects on child behavioral outcomes were also explored.
Families were included if the child (aged 32-88 months) scored above a clinical cutoff on the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI). Participants (n = 149) were randomly allocated on a 2:1 ratio to an intervention group (n = 103) or a waiting-list control group (n = 46). Child behavior, parenting skills, and parent well-being were assessed at baseline and 6 months later using parent-report and independent observations. An intention-to-treat analysis of covariance was used to examine postintervention differences between groups.
Statistically significant differences in child disordered behavior favored the intervention group on the ECBI Intensity (effect size = 0.7, p < .001) and Problem subscales (effect size = 0.75, p < .001). Intervention effects on child hyperactive-inattentive behaviors and social competence, as well as parent competencies and well-being, were also found. Moderator analyses showed that the effects of the IYBP intervention on the primary child outcomes were not moderated by child or family demographic characteristics or risk factors.
The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the IYBP in alleviating problem behavior among children and in improving well-being among families living in disadvantaged areas. The findings also highlight the importance of parental intervention in early childhood for parents and children most in need of support.
(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
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Where you live it may have warmed up weeks ago, but our leaves just turned green and we've been flocking outdoors in droves to take advantage of temperatures in the 70's. Woo hoo!
I think it's really healthy to experience a change in our routines, a greater sense of freedom, and the luxury of different choices. But there is a potential risk that we might throw the baby out with the bath. Let me explain . . .
Having structure in our lives can help us to make consistently healthy choices. For example, if you usually go to the gym before work three days a week, the structure makes it easy to be consistent. Then, if you're on vacation for a few weeks, your exercise routine is disrupted. You have to make a special effort to get your exercise. And if you decide to take a vacation from your exercise, it's so easy to make that a permanent vacation and so hard to get back on track.
Picnics can reawaken childhood memories. Was it hot dogs for you? Or fried chicken? If your old traditions come alive in your mind when you begin to pack for your picnic, it can be challenging to remember that you have really<|fim_middle|> people committed to eating a plant-based diet and sample some really good food.
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What are some of your favorite summer activities, and what are some ways you can keep them healthy?
I love hearing your ideas and learn a lot from each of you! | good reasons to pack healthy foods.
Vacations really interrupt our patterns. Whether you're eating in different restaurants than usual or visiting friends or family who eat differently from you, summer mind might convince you to just go with the flow rather than staying with your commitment to your own health.
Remember that you want to be healthy every day, not only in the winter!
Plan ahead: there are wonderful substitutes for steak on the grill, such as veggie burgers, marinated portabella mushrooms, and grilled veggies. Yum!
If you like hot dogs at your picnic, try veggie hot dogs. You can make delicious vegan potato salad — just leave out the eggs and use a vegan mayo. Wraps are always easy and delicious. And hummus or other bean spreads make a great dip for all sorts of veggies.
When you're traveling, do a little research before you go. Happycow.net provides information about restaurants that offer healthy, plant-based meals.
When visiting relatives and friends, be sure to take some of your favorite recipes with you and offer to do some of the cooking. They'll probably be very impressed with how great your healthy food tastes!
When summer comes to an end, you'll feel so grateful that you let your summer mind be fun-loving and creative in healthy ways, rather than getting way off track and then having to make the supreme effort to get back on track next fall.
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Hearing From God – Through Journaling | Ripple Effect of A Transformed Life
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"People have three needs: to be heard, to be understood and to valued. If you listen well and are fully present with the person your with, then you access their heart and you can sew a seed. That has been my mission and my calling for 20 years, but it all began at No Longer Bound."
The road Rand Eberhard traveled to that realization was a rocky one.
In seventh grade, Rand started drinking and using drugs. For the next ten years, his life spiraled out of control.
"The facades I developed as a teenager—funny guy, tough guy—became my false foundation. I set aside all my moral boundaries and said, I'm going to run this thing and do what I want to do."
In Rand's final semester at Milton High School, he was kicked out.
"I was chemically dependent and emotionally a wreck. All of my income was going toward my substance abuse. I even lived homeless on the side of the Chattahoochee River for a time, so I could use drugs."
A 2002 NLB grad, Rand Eberhard.
Rand's heart began to change when a young mother came to buy drugs from him and brought along her children. "At that point, I became troubled," Rand said. "Even in my party world, I knew I was dividing a home."
Soon after, while working at a grocery store, a customer shared a Bible verse with Rand.
"For the first time in my life, I believed it," he said. "It cut me to the core and exposed my brokenness and my selfishness. But instead of condemning me, it gave me hope."
As Rand considered changing his life, his probation officer gave him the opportunity to interview at No Longer Bound, and then enroll. "It was there I began taking an honest look at myself and my addictions and, most importantly, at God."
At No Longer Bound, Rand learned his addiction was a response to a deeper issue. He began keeping a prayer journal. For the first time, he developed empathy for the needs of others and a calling to be like the men who spoke the word of God into his life.
But Rand's newly developed passion lacked formal credentials.
"When I graduated No Longer Bound, the only education I had was a certificate from DUI school," he indicated. "But I got my GED then attended Bible college, graduating in three-and-a-half years with a degree in Biblical studies. I knew I wanted to work in the ministry of reconciliation, and I knew I wanted to work in prevention with young people."
The transformed life was initiating its ripple effect, starting to transform others.
First God gave Rand the opportunity to work in urban ministry in Atlanta, then He opened the door for Rand to join the staff at The Church of the Apostles, which was founded by Dr. Michael Youssef. After years working with hundreds of students in downtown Atlanta, Rand ultimately earned his Master's degree from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Rand acknowledged the consequences of his early life.
"Some of the drugs I used took a toll on my mind. I am now dependent on a continual connection with the spirit of God. Without that, it wouldn't be possible for me to be a dad, a husband, or a person who is about the Lord's work."
Today, Rand is Associate Director of Congregational Care at the Church of the Apostles. He says the theme of his work is hope, healing and harvest.
"My goal is to affect people for hope, so they can find pathways to peace, all so they become restoration workers and sowers of the Gospel."
That is the ripple effect of a transformed life.
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SMCM Archaeologists Featured in Archaeology Magazine
Professor of Anthropology Julia King and adjunct instructor of anthropology Scott Strickland '08 are featured along with Chief Anne Richardson of the Rappahannock Tribe in the January/February edition of Archaeology Magazine. The article, "Return to the River," focuses on their work tracing the history and development of the Rappahannock Indians in early American history. The anthropology department at St. Mary's College first began studying the Rappahannock River valley's history in 2016 at the request of the National Park Service Chesapeake Bay Office and the Chesapeake Conservancy. The work was undertaken to provide interpretive support for the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail and led to the Rappahannock Indians' return to the river when former Senator John Warner and his daughter, Virginia Warner, donated land to the Rappahannock in their ancestral homeland. The survey of the greater river valley has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Filed Under: Anthropology, Current Sponsored Research Tagged With: anthropology, archaeology, king, research, smcm
Assistant Professor Brownlee Awarded Collaborative Research Grant from NSF
Assistant Professor of Biology Emily Brownlee was recently awarded a $21,840 grant from the National Science Foundation for her project titled: Collaborative Research FSML: PhytoChop: An estuarine phytoplankton observatory (Award Number: 2022966). The two-year award began August 1, and will help fund Brownlee's collaborative research with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES- Horn Point Laboratory).
With this grant, the researchers will establish the PhytoChop Coastal Observatory, an advanced autonomous instrument array designed to monitor the composition and photosynthetic activity of the phytoplankton community, together with water column nutrient and optical properties. The PhytoChop Coastal Observatory will be housed at Horn Point Laboratory's research pier situated on the Choptank River, a tidal sub-estuary of the Chesapeake Bay.
Brownlee will be responsible for setting up and analyzing instrumentation data, and will help curate and expand the imaging library. Furthermore, Brownlee will coordinate with her collaborators at UMCES to synthesize results from the integration of Imaging FlowCytobot data with other PhytoChop instrumentation.
I'm excited to be a part of founding one of the first observatories to combine high-resolution plankton imaging and plankton health measurements at very small timescales. Along with measuring environmental parameters, this can provide unprecedented insight into how phytoplankton, such as those contributing to harmful algal blooms, are responding to long-term environmental and climate change. To have such an observatory on the Chesapeake Bay is a long-time dream of mine and I look forward to integrating observatory data into my courses and supplying St. Mary's Project students with a lot of data in years to come!
Filed Under: Awards, Biology, Current Sponsored Research Tagged With: awards, biology, nsf, research, smcm
Professor Julia King Awarded Archeology Grant from National Park Service
Professor of Anthropology, Julia (Julie) King, was recently awarded a $110,000 grant from the National Park Service to fund a complete archeological overview and assessment of Piscataway Park in Prince George's County, Maryland. This project will be conducted through a Cooperative Agreement under the Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit. The Cooperative Agreement was signed August 14, 2020 and the project is expected to be completed by December 31, 2021.
Piscataway Park is a unit of the National Park Service administered by National Capital Parks—East. The park is located in Southern Maryland along the banks of the Potomac River. This park is significant because of the rich archeological resources located within the park and their impact on our modern understanding of Native American societies in the Eastern Middle Atlantic. Situated approximately 25 miles downriver from Washington D.C., lands within the park were home to the Potomac Valley's indigenous inhabitants for thousands of years—dating as far back as 6,000 years ago and through the 1500s. Among the occupants were the Piscataway Indians of Southern Maryland whose ancestors still live nearby today.
Piscataway Park is the greatest resource of pre-contact and contact period American Indian archeological resources in the National Capital Region of the National Park Service. The park has been the subject of several archeological investigations, but there has never been a synthetic report of this work or a formal organization of this material for management needs. The scope and breadth of existing archeological collections also lend themselves to addressing future research questions related not only to the history of Piscataway Park, but also the Native American communities that once lived there.
The archeological overview and assessment will describe and assess the known and potential archeological resources at Piscataway Park. The overview reviews, summarizes and synthesizes existing archeological data in detail, assesses past work, identifies gaps in our understanding of the archeological data, and determines the need for and recommendations for future studies. The document will be a core baseline archeological resources management reference for the National Capital Parks—East unit. This project will also critically examine and evaluate museum collections from archeological sites in the park to assist in understanding the history of the park. Furthermore, this work will develop recommendations for future research for management of park resources and public education. Julie King is the Principal Investigator for the project, with Scott Strickland ('08) serving as Research and GIS Coordinator. The grant also includes funding for an assistant archaeologist, likely to be an SMCM alum, and two student assistants.
Pending available funding, King and NPS may continue the project into 2022 and beyond with a new cooperative agreement. Additional work will likely entail reviewing and assessing archaeological collections, completion of updating state site forms, and updating archeological site condition assessments for the National Park System's online Cultural Resources Inventory System. Further work may also involve the production of a publicly accessible document (excluding sensitive archeological information) that will provide a detailed history of the Native American experience as linked to Piscataway Park, along with a Finding Aid/Collections Assessment document to complement the Archeological Overview and Assessment Document.
Filed Under: Anthropology, Awards, Current Sponsored Research Tagged With: anthropology, archaeology, awards, research, smcm, undergraduate research
St. Mary's College of Maryland Receives Scientific Equipment Grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation
St. Mary's College of Maryland announces a SEP Phase XV Scientific Equipment grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation to support, improve and broaden the access and impact of undergraduate science education at the College.
This grant will supply the equipment to establish two new laboratory spaces on campus, a fabrication laboratory and an imaging center, as well as the acquisition of observational astronomy and chemical imaging equipment that will support and expand current curricular and research offerings to both science and non-science majors.
Engaging students through experiential learning is a major component of the College's new Learning through Experiential and Applied Discovery (LEAD) initiative. Through LEAD, faculty work across disciplines to blend together a thoughtful and purposeful academic experience for students with hands-on learning opportunities intertwined with credit-bearing professional skill development courses.
"We are grateful to the Sherman Fairchild Foundation for investing in St. Mary's College of Maryland as we continue to work toward integrating practical and professional skills for students through our LEAD initiative promoting success beyond college," said President Tuajuanda C. Jordan.
Scientific equipment like that provided through the grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation also enables the College to recruit and retain more talented high school students to the College by increasing and diversifying undergraduate research and hands-on learning opportunities for both science and non-science majors.
The St. Mary's College of Maryland Foundation is a private, nonprofit organization that supports the College through sound fiscal management of a growing endowment portfolio. It is governed by a board of directors that gives its expertise and time in service to the College without compensation.
St. Mary's College of Maryland, the National Public Honors College, is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education through 2024-2025. St. Mary's College is ranked one of the best public liberal arts schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Approximately 1,600 students attend the college, nestled on the St. Mary's River in Southern Maryland.
Filed Under: Awards, Biochemistry & Chemistry, Biology, Current Sponsored Research, Institutional, Math & Computer Science, Physics, Psychology Tagged With: awards, biology, chemistry, grants, math, physics, psychology, research, smcm
Assistant Professor Kohl Awarded Grant from Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Ellen Kohl was recently awarded a $14,117 grant from the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) for her project titled: Implications of Trump Administration policies on Environmental Justice Activists. The award is part of a larger project sponsored by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation.
Kohl will lead a team of EDGI scholars to draw on interview data to research the responses of environmental justice activists to the actions of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Trump Administration. EDGI researchers have begun and continue to conduct interviews with environmental justice activists across the United States. During the funding period, Kohl will use the time allotted to her by a course release to:
use qualitative research methods to analyze interview data and documents received through an ongoing Freedom of Information Act request, and
spearhead an EDGI white paper and a peer reviewed manuscript.
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Calvert Hall 109 | policy project leads have done extensive research, interviews, and writing on the impact that Trump administration policies have on EPA, EPA employees, and how these changes have impacted implementation of environmental policies. This project complements EDGI's ongoing research by examining how changes within the EPA impact those on the ground who are most vulnerable to the changes brought about by the Trump administration. By analyzing interview data from environmental justice activists, this research can contribute to EDGI's goal of centering justice and equity in environmental, climate, and data governance. The grant began August 1, 2020.
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Assistant Professor Gurbisz Awarded Grant from the Ferry Cove Project
Cassie Gurbisz, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, has received a grant for $19,073 from the Ferry Cove Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding the Chesapeake Bay oyster aquaculture industry. Partnering with Dr. Jeremy Testa from University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Dr. Gurbisz will collect measurements in the waterways around Tilghman Island, MD to quantify the effects of a new oyster hatchery on the local coastal environment.
The hatchery, to be located on an 80-acre farm with several hundred feet of shoreline, will include a floating oyster conditioning area and a 400-foot oyster reef breakwater. Measurements in and around the conditioning area, which includes floating oyster cages to be installed atop beds of submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV), provide an excellent opportunity to investigate the ways in which oyster aquaculture interacts with SAV. This has recently become a hot topic as both SAV abundance and aquaculture leases expand and therefore compete for space in shallow regions of the Chesapeake Bay. Data collected prior to and after the construction of the oyster breakwater and the adjacent marsh will generate information about the ways in which this increasingly popular but understudied shoreline defense structure modifies physical and ecological processes at the land-water interface. While each of these objectives is valuable individually, together they will constitute a unique case study of how the coastal environment responds to multiple human uses from a holistic, integrated perspective.
The goal of the current project is to collect baseline environmental data before hatchery construction begins. Over the next several years, Gurbisz and Testa hope to continue the project to collect post-construction data and make more detailed measurements. This project complements Gurbisz and Testa's ongoing work funded by Maryland Sea Grant to study the effects of bottom cage oyster aquaculture on SAV. Ultimately, their goal is to provide scientifically sound information to guide regional environmental policy and management decisions related to SAV-oyster aquaculture interactions.
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Associate Professor Muchnick Collaborating on NSF Grant to Develop Interdisciplinary Systems Thinking Assessment Tool
Barry Muchnick, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, was recently awarded a three-year, $18,110 subaward as part of a $1.077 million National Science Foundation grant for a project titled: Developing a Next Generation Concept Inventory to Help Environmental Programs Evaluate Student Knowledge of Complex Food-Energy-Water Systems (NSF award number 2013373). The collaborative research project brings together researchers from University of Northern Colorado, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and nine other higher-education institutions across the country to develop a machine-learning program to assess students' understanding of the connections among food-energy-water concepts in their classes. Their ultimate goal is to improve teaching in college-level environmental studies courses by helping instructors make evidence-based decisions on how to best shape their students' understanding of complex systems thinking and sustainability concepts.
The 11 colleges and universities participating in the concept inventory development research. Graphic used with permission from University of Northern Colorado.
"Big data and the power of machine learning drive this project," Muchnick said, "but ultimately we are interested in how best to reinforce interdisciplinary connections, especially with regard to food, energy, and water systems." "I'm thrilled that St. Mary's College of Maryland environmental studies students are part of a national research effort to more effectively train the next generation of environmental leaders."
Muchnick's teaching and scholarship is concerned with how natural and cultural systems interact to form our ecosystems, experiences, institutions, and imaginations.
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Professor of Biology Karen Crawford featured on NPR's "All Things Considered"
Professor of Biology Karen Crawford's milestone study on achieving the first gene knockout in a cephalopod using the squid Doryteuthis pealeii was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered." Crawford, who was the Whitman Scientist this summer on a team at Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, is first author of the study reported in the July 30 issue of Current Biology. The NPR story is available online.
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Professor of Anthropology Julia King and Collaborators Continue Archaeological Research Along Rappahannock River
Professor of Anthropology Julia King, Instructor of Anthropology Scott Strickland and SMCM students Caitlin Hall, Sarah Kifer and Danielle Harris-Burnett are featured in a July 25, 2020 Fredericksburg.com article focusing on their Rappahannock Tribe project called "Indigenous Borderlands of the Chesapeake." The team is doing historical archaeology in Virginia to find spots where Native American villages existed along the Rappahannock River.
King and her crew have been working recently at a land tract above the Rappahannock River called Fones Cliffs. The site had been considered for development but was acquired instead in 2019 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Fones Cliffs has a rich cultural history, as well as important ecological habitat and a beautiful white cliff landscape.
The team of archaeologists has found clues of Native Americans at Fones Cliffs and King said the main objective will continue to be finding evidence of the three large villages that exist in both the Rappahannock Tribe's oral histories and in Captain John Smith's journals, describing his journey up the river in 1608. King notes that an earlier round of exploration on the Fones Cliffs site was funded by The Conservation Fund, while this year's two weeks of digging and exploration were paid for by the refuge.
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Assistant Professor of Psychology Gili Freedman Receives Collaborative Grant from the National Science Foundation
Assistant Professor of Psychology at St. Mary's College of Maryland Gili Freedman and colleague Jennifer Beer (University of Texas at Austin) recently received a collaborative, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation for a total of $465,222 ($75,102 of which will go to SMCM).
In the project titled "Collaborative Research: Lessening the Blow of Social Rejection," Freedman and Beer will investigate the language of social rejection and how power and concern for one's reputation shape the way that individuals reject others. A central aim of the project is to develop empirically supported training that teaches individuals how to be less hurtful when they engage in social rejection. Starting this fall, Freedman will be working with SMCM collaborative research students on the first stages of the grant.
Read the award abstract (Award Number 2017043) on NSF's website.
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Today is all about catching<|fim_middle|>sigh). And of course, the usual dust accumulates over time.
My daughter was curious about my activity, so I took the opportunity to explain that our altars are like special chairs and tables for our spirit friends. It's a place where we can get together and talk easily. It's where we put their food, drink, and other gifts. Just like we have to clean up after our own meals, we need to clean up the altar so the spirits have a nice space to visit. Even if such earthly concerns are ultimately of little consequence to them, cleaning shows respect and is part of our reciprocity. It helps us maintain our relationships and our discipline. | up with housework and relaxing before a busy week. As part of that, I decided our main altars were in some serious need of cleaning. It's the less glamorous side of my Druid practice, but a necessary chore. The altar gets very dirty from burning incense. The cats sometimes go up there to say hello and have a sip of holy water ( | 73 |
I finished my classes with Alt for Everyone on Saturday, and came away with some inspiration and a lot to think about, too. For the admission price, I signed up for five classes, one keynote address, and a meet-up, all held over the course of three days. It was a really great value,<|fim_middle|> insightful and I might just implement a few of Laurie's suggestions.
Friday afternoon, Amy Christie of This Heart of Mine spoke about "Being a Contributor." Her talk was incredibly relevant to me and I took a ton of notes that I need to review soon. Amy works as a freelancer and contributor and shared her experiences and some practical tips, too.
Saturday afternoon, Kelly Beall of Design Crush shared her thoughts on "Growing Your Blog," and I really appreciated her honesty. She presented her own blogging experience as a case study and highlighted the things she has learned throughout the process. When asked if she thought blogs are dying, she said she thinks they are evolving, so bloggers have to be ready to roll with the punches. too. When Pinterest launched in 2012, her blog took a major hit, and she adapted to gain back her readership. I came away from Kelly's talk with a lot of things to think about.
And finally, Susan Brinson of House of Brinson taught "Photo Styling 101" for my last class of the weekend. She and her husband run a very successful photography and styling blog and business, and I admire their work very much. She gave a lot of great tips and showed concrete examples of her work. She encourages bloggers to study stylists like artists we admire, and to create a style statement and guide to define a blog's overall aesthetics. I really enjoyed her talk and it was a great way to end the conference.
I was really pleased with my Alt for Everyone experience and I feel excited to try the things I learned. It's such a great value for the price, and I can definitely recommend it!
Thank you for sharing this! It sounds like it was an overall good experience. | and since I found my first Alt Summit completely overwhelming, I thought I would enjoy this virtual conference much more. Plus, the classes were spread throughout the weekend, so I was still able to hang out with Ryan and the boys. I opted to skip the morning meet-up Saturday, choosing brunch with my guys instead, but I attended all of my other classes and took a ton of notes.
Thursday afternoon, my first class was "Working with Brands," sponsored by Bing, and taught by a Bing employee. That should have been a huge red flag, but for some reason, I didn't think about it until I was already in the class. I don't use Bing as a search engine, so I don't really know much about it, and my blog is way too small for a sponsor that large to even look at me. Those were my two takeaways from the class, and I left feeling a little annoyed and deflated. But there will always be hits and misses at a large conference, so it's no big deal.
Thursday evening, I took "Setting Up Shop" with Melanie Burk of Caravan Shoppe and that class was interesting and enjoyable. I don't have plans to open a shop online, but since I do offer editing and writing services, I thought I might benefit from her talk. Her thoughts on perfection (or lack of it) and charging the right price were very helpful.
Friday morning, Laurie Smithwick of Leap Design gave the keynote address and she was really amazing and inspiring. Laurie is a successful graphic designer, wife, and mom to twins, and she had a lot of great advice for balancing family and life while trying to find personal fulfillment, too. Her passion these days is a project called "Step Away from the Screen," and she believes that boredom contributes to our best ideas. I felt a real kinship with Laurie and signed up to learn more about her new project, which encourages creativity in real life, away from your computer and phone.
Next, I listened to "Pinterest Strategies," presented by Rachel Faucett of Handmade Charlotte. She is serious about her business and uses Pinterest to enhance her interactions with her readers and customers. I realized that I don't use Pinterest the way a lot of other bloggers do, and while some things rubbed me the wrong way (the idea of following people with a certain amount of pins and following everyone who follows you), I did come away with a few new ideas to try. Laurie encourages all bloggers to switch to a Pinterest business account to see your analytics, and to use rich pins, which I need to investigate more. I found the class | 527 |
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Arran Fernandez, world famous mathematics prodigy, to be at East Mediterranean University
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According to a press release by the University, the world famous mathematics prodigy Arran Fernandez has been added to their list of lecturers for the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Fernandez will be delivering courses at the university as a guest assistant professor. He will also be carrying out work on a "Fractural Digit Analysis" project with EMU Arts and Sciences Faculty Dean Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Özarslan.
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Manalapan, NJ artist Johnny Oak has a tough row to hoe in his songwriting choice of three-minute pop rock served up by his band Cascadence. Their "sounds like" influences include Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Fall Out Boy, Journey and Nickelback. These are all choices I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole in my quest for modern credibility but that's where the listener gets to choose for him or herself and actually witness the metamorphic stages of a rock band and the tiny spark that fires them to greater places. Out of the corniest band crushes comes the best developmental phase of the rock and roll writer's career.
Cascadence are a combination of the words cascade and cadence, both chosen and united to reflect their talent at creating hook-laden music infused with a superb rhythmic attack. The music is reflected in the band's motto; "Easy to remember and difficult to forget." Dar Franks (drums/vocals) and Bryan Vitalo (bass/vocals) are the other key members that turn Cascadence into a curious and powerful rock and roll machine. Their personal influences are as diverse as their approach to playing. Favorites include Jimmy Eat World, Racer X and even good ole' Phil Collins and his greatest hits.
However they make it work, Cascadence has come fast and furious out of the gate, garnishing a top slot on ReverbNation's Microsoft Windows 7 promotion with over 14,000 downloads in a single month. They've also maintained steady airplay on Jersey rock radio icons 105.5 WDHA, 95.9 WRAT, as well as nice scores of "Top Rock Band" and "Top Drummer" in the 2011 Asbury Music Awards. The band also hit the road with a direct support slot on Faster Pussycat's national summer tour. Add the additional perk of sponsors such as SIT Strings, WB Gear, Intune and others, and you have the makings of a band with solid, upward momentum.
The band is working on their full-length disc as of this writing, but in the meantime, they have gone ahead and released an EP for the impatient fan. The more I sat and listened to the music, the more I saw where this band was coming from.
Produced by Johnny Oak, the self-titled disc is clean, crisp and centered in their passion for hair metal composition. But don't think about that in a negative way because Oak and company are extremely cunning hook writers. Johnny Oak knows exactly where and when to pull punches and the choruses he comes up with will get even the most stoic hipster tapping their all-star covered toes in seconds.
The EP is a quick, five-song platter coming in at a total runtime of 16:10. What they lack in content they make up for in construction brilliance. The disc explodes with "Let's Get Ready," a Def Leppard-influenced rallying cry to action. Oak wastes no time as he kicks off the song with the namesake chorus chant. Guitars chop and cut behind the four-on-the-floor muscle of Franks and Vitalo as they push this song like a bulldozer. Oak definitely has the right pipes for this style and his voice runs the full gamut of range on the disc opener. I also took note that the band chose to stay grounded in this recording, sticking with true, three-piece ingenuity instead of<|fim_middle|> The chorus is strong here as it is on all cuts, but it doesn't really lift this tune out of the inattention bin.
The bridge leads are a welcome high point and so over the top they would make for a really edgy rock guitar battle with the Schenker brothers. And with the amount of harmony riff work involved here, Michael and Rudolf would probably lose. By the way, those guys are from a band called Scorpions—just in case that joke threw you off course.
"Break Out" closes the CD and once again, I get the feeling that Cascadence really believes in what they do. Their infusion of technique and enthusiastic attitude drives this song hard. I love the heavy duty rhythms that Franks and Vitalo nail to the proverbial floor as Oak slashes crunchy, Marshall-driven chords and distorted blues riffs in and out of the song with surgeon-like precision. The harmonies stick like crazy glue as Oak reaches all the way to the top of his wide range on this grunge covered nugget.
Cascadence are an anomaly in the current music scene. At times sounding retro, they also come across as a band that possess fresh ideas and genuine buzz that's lacking from many "jaded" rockers out there today.
I recently watched them play at the Seaside Music Festival and their presence kept the crowded Aztec Lounge focused on the stage and on their music, which is as tight live as it is on disc.
Popular music trends switch constantly and Cascadence are a band that has enough diversity and crossover appeal to actually have some measure of success in the confusing world of pop music. | grandiose overdubs and unnecessary clutter. "Let's Get Ready" has a great traditional hook and I caught myself replaying it several times.
"Never Thought" features funky synth pads and glistening pianos that made me feel like I could be right in the middle of a Night Ranger video before the band shifted gears and kicked into a smart, power chord-dominated chorus that had me going back to listen more than once. This is a band that knows how to go out on a limb and climb back without falling. Their skill at knowing what puzzle piece fits best and putting the right dynamic color into a body of music is something that every band looking to be successful should be watching closely.
"The First Time" is the score of the disc. Ultra poppy and filled with a hundred hooks, you couldn't hate this song if they smacked you in the face with it. Dar Franks pounds this radio-friendly gem all the way to the bank as Oak chugs thick bar chords before rolling out a doubled pentatonic blitzkrieg that would send Jake E. Lee straight to the showers. Remnants of The Cult and Matthew Sweet rise within the structure of this bona-fide hit song.
If you like Enuff Z'Nuff and Winger you're gonna love "Jaded." Johnny fires from the leather-clad hip on this ode to a time before Nirvana snuffed the life out of spandex. While the song is decent, verses are fairly nondescript, as the band members take turns throwing their signature sounds and style into the warm up stages. | 318 |
Satya is seven years old and likes to draw in her free time.
In June, I went to Nantucket with my grandma. In Nantucket, we have our own house and share one wall of the house with another family. It happened to be my birthday when we went to Nantucket, and I had a party where we ate cupcakes with jelly beans on top. I like having my birthday in Nantucket because there are lots of fun things to do there. I went to Children's Beach, and I saw Moana. I liked that we watched Moana outside with all the nature. There was a playground on the beach and wet, nice grass. I put my chair on the grass and sat in it. My toes felt wet, and I felt peaceful. I saw boys on their bicycles doing crazy tricks and flipping upside down. One of the boy's bike fell down, and he fell onto the grass. Thankfully, he was not hurt and got back up. After Moana, I<|fim_middle|> it was delayed. When it finally came, we took an airplane from there to New York City. We took a taxi from the airport to our house. When we got home, we unpacked everything. I was happy to be home because my friends were home. I was also sad because Nantucket had bike riding and beaches. I only have my balance bike at home, not a regular bike. At Nantucket, there were bikes that had training wheels and weren't balance bikes, so I could ride them and go down a very big hill at the park. I like going down the big hills because I can go very fast without pedaling very hard. Nantucket was really fun, and I cannot wait to go back! | took our Jeep home. The next morning, I went to a beach that we could drive on. Then, I went to watch the sunset, but my mom said we had to move because there was a sewage pipe, and there were too many clams. We went to a different beach where you can also drive your car. At the beach, we watched the sunset. The sunset was a pink and orange color, and it was really pretty. I was happy that we were there to watch the sunset.
After the sunset, we went home. I went outside our house, and I saw a bunny. The bunny was chubby and was eating clovers. I chased it, and it went all the way to my neighbor's house across the street. I crossed the street to chase the bunny, but it ran away from me. Then, I found another bunny, and I chased that bunny too. It went across the street and ran away. Later that night, I had tofu and noodles for dinner. For dessert, I had chocolate chip ice cream. It was my favorite dinner. The next morning, my daddy went to buy Lucky Charms from Costco. Then, I asked my dad when we were leaving Nantucket. He said tomorrow.
The next day, we packed everything because we had to leave. We took our Jeep to the airport. The airplane got very frustrating because | 278 |
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Super Retroid: Full Throttle
Author: Nick2930 Published Date: 02/07/2009
Once upon a time, way back in the mid-90s to be less than exact, Lucas Arts was known for putting out some of the most enjoyable PC games that ever graced the shelves of video game retailers. These games, now part of a bygone gaming age, still<|fim_middle|> making motorcycles to, in Corley's words, "start making mini vans! Ya understand me? Mini vans!" It's a brief moment of humor in what would be too serious a scene for a game like this, but it still manages to impart the scene's importance to the player.
What also made Full Throttle a quality gaming experience is how the puzzles were arranged. A lot of adventure games these days seem to necessitate some highly specialized knowledge to get through them. Knowledge of fields such as chemistry, biology, and electronics have to be applied to solving these puzzles. That's not true for all games, but it is true for quite a lot of them and often leaves me feeling drained and thinking "Gosh, thank God that's over." With Full Throttle, however, it wasn't like that. All you needed to work out the puzzles in that game were careful timing, information gathering, and a certain amount of out-of-the box thinking to work your way along, It's a thing that can rarely be said about games today, where before the game itself has even started, I'll have a walkthrough for it standing by that, more often than not, I'll need to figure out what the heck is going on.
These adventures were all backed up by an amusing and colorful cast of characters which ranged from the nose ring-wearing bartender Quahog, to the duplicitous long-haul truck driver Emmet, and the priest-turned-biker Father Torque. All of these characters were woven through the brightly colored tapestry of the game, which had, at it's beginning and ending, two of the most memorable in-game movie sequences that I've ever seen. Indeed, the start of Full Throttle, with it's well timed rock music and dramatic kick off, is still one of the best opening sequences I've seen in any adventure game or indeed any game at all.
Full Throttle may have led to sequences that couldn't hold a candle to the original but it still stands today in my mind, and hopefully in the minds of other adventure game fans, as one of most original and most fun games ever to grace the genre. For me, though, I'd say that the lasting contribution that Full Throttle gave to me was an important life lesson that I've never forgotten and still regard as one of the most useful pieces of advice I've ever heard.
"Just remember, son, it's not about muscle…it's about timing."
Author: Nick2930
I am a 33 year old librarian, part time writer, all time gamer, and what my cousin refers to as an intellectual badasss. Normally I wouldn't brag, but I like that so much I feel compelled to.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Shipping February 8 – 15 → | linger in the minds of many gamers, even as they make their way through the new adventures offered by next-gen technology. I'm here today to talk about one of my favorite Lucas Arts titles, Full Throttle, which was released back in 1995 and featured Roy Conrad as the rugged Ben Whatisname and Mark Hamill as the nefarious but sharply dressed Adrian Ripburger.
Full Throttle was in many ways a game that was unique while still holding true to the Lucas Arts style of gaming. The game's story was certainly a first for me, as while many motorcycle games are out there, none (or at least very few) of them ever focused on the characters of the games like Full Throttle did. What also made the game special was the way in which the game avoided focusing too much on the grimmer angles of the story while not diminishing their impact on the player. The death scene of Malcom Corley, the aged and amiable CEO of Corley Motors, is a good example of this. Once the man has been mortally wounded by his number 2 man in an attempted coup, Ben comes along to hear Corley's dying words. Corley begins to speak urgently, saying that he wishes his company to be saved, before Ripburger takes control and stops | 262 |
With global attention on the gender pay gap over the past three years, has progress been made to close the gap? Today, Glassdoor in the USA has published a new multi-country study on the state of the gender pay<|fim_middle|>You can read the Glassdoor press release in full here.
This entry was posted in Business news, Payroll and Pensions by admin. Bookmark the permalink. | gap. The report, Progress on the Gender Pay Gap: 2019, reveals that although significant pay gaps remain between men and women, the pay gap has narrowed slightly in the U.S., UK, France and Australia, showing improvement since Glassdoor's 2016 study.
Today, the unadjusted pay gap between men and women in the U.S. is 21.4%, meaning women earn, on average, $0.79 for every $1.00 men earn. This represents a 2.7 % reduction in the unadjusted pay gap from three years ago.
"Over the past three years, company leaders, politicians, celebrities and more have called for an end to the gender pay gap. Though a promising sign, it should not detract from the larger fact that significant pay gaps remain around the world, even after controlling for workplace and job factors," said Glassdoor Chief Economist Dr. Andrew Chamberlain.
The study also reveals the unadjusted and adjusted pay gaps, and how they've changed since 2016, in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Australia, along with new pay gap data in Canada, the Netherlands and Singapore. Findings in each of these markets are similar to the US: a larger unadjusted pay gap that shrinks, but does not disappear, when additional factors such as worker experience, age, location and job title are considered. Similar to the U.S., pay gaps have slightly improved over the past three years in the UK and Australia, but not in Germany. Of the eight countries in the 2019 study, Germany has the largest unadjusted pay gap (22.3%), while France has the smallest unadjusted pay gap (11.6 %).
The 2019 study, which offers new gender pay gap data on Canada, the Netherlands and Singapore, is based on more than half a million salary reports shared on Glassdoor by employees over the past three years(1), and includes pay data down to specific job title and industry. This specificity enabled Glassdoor to understand both the "unadjusted" and "adjusted" pay gap in each country. The unadjusted pay gap explains the overall difference between pay for men and women, while applying statistical controls for a more apples-to-apples comparison is known as the adjusted pay gap.
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On this page you can check the availability of DSL services in Berryville with instant, real<|fim_middle|>ville T-1 Line. Keywords are placed here to provide a quick summary of the services specifically offered by DSL Shopper in Berryville. | time results. By filling in the short form below, you will be pre-qualifying for a fast DSL service from all the top local and nationwide DSL service providers available in Berryville. Your DSL pricing is heavily influenced by the distance between your local phone office (called the 'POP' or 'CO') and your business. This distance, called the 'local loop', helps determine which of the providers in Berryville will be able to cost-effectively service your location.
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Double Hitler
By Johnny123 | July 7, 2014
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First of all, let's just be clear that Damian Schloter's new game, Double Hitler, does not endorse or glorify Nazis in any way. It's satire in the vein of Mel Brooks or Monty Python, tweaking the nose of one of history's greatest monsters. If you're not offended by the idea, you'll find an exceedingly silly and well-crafted comedy game bearing a strong resemblance to QWOP or a 2D OctoDad. You play as the Schicklgruber brothers, two young boys with dreams of exploring the world of art, politics and adulthood. They don a trenchcoat and silly mustache and set out on their quest to achieve greatness, accidentally triggering a little mishap called World War II in the process. Gameplay revolves around completing simple tasks such as drawing or delivering a speech without falling over. Move the feet with [WASD] and balance the upper body with the [arrows], using the [spacebar] and mouse to point your paintbrush. Like many comedy games, it's just as much fun to watch yourself fail as it is to succeed.
The controls are intentionally sluggish... the Schicklgrubers are no great shakes at balancing and the little faces of shame they make when they tumble to the ground is just adorable. There's a point system but this is less a game about winning and more about losing the least. There's a charming little storybook act structure that adds to the absurdity of it all, bolstered by a somber piano soundtrack that could have been lifted straight out of a Tchaikovsky ballad as well as a gorgeous art style. The game doesn't overstay its welcome, ending just as the joke starts to wear thin. There might be some hair pulling around the extremely difficult third act but rest assured it's all doable. If nothing else, it's a lot of fun watching "Hitler" stumble and flail his way through history. For an extra challenge, get a friend to operate the feet while you do the arms. Mr. Schloter's Double Hitler offers a silly, weird and extremely well-crafted example of gaming satire. Here's hoping there<|fim_middle|>I quit at the 3rd troop movement.
Still it is a neat premise and the game looked great and was responsive.
Controls were not difficult to grasp, but when leaning with the paintbrush and moving sideways while adjusting for the static bounce of your arms it was tough. Much like it would be in real life.
Collin David Farrell • July 9, 2014 12:19 PM
Cool idea, but I quit the first level... I think I'd rather just watch someone else play. Youtube anyone?
shjack180 • July 12, 2014 7:42 PM
This game is going to make me rage quit. I can't get past the third and final drawing of the troops movement towards the enemy. The mechanics are absolutely ridiculous! >:( >:( | 's more to come from the developer in the future.
Play Double Hitler
chapel204 • July 7, 2014 2:01 PM
Having trouble on a Mac as right click brings up the Unity menu.
Seems like an interesting concept, but unplayable for me.
Dora • July 7, 2014 2:33 PM replied to chapel204
Hello! I've disabled the right-click context menu. :) Please try again!
Xindaris • July 7, 2014 5:44 PM
"There is a wall there" part is completely impossible to do.
QWjroQ • July 8, 2014 1:23 AM
I'm Hitler! If I want tanks to go there, they better go there!
chapel204 • July 8, 2014 2:56 PM replied to Dora
Thanks Dora,
It works now.
I found the extremely floppy nature of the boys amusing but also annoying. You were essentially managing two mouse buttons, two keys and the mouse all with little room for error.
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To grow FTA's influence within the multimodal space
FTA has announced the appointment of Zoe McLernon as its Multimodal Policy Manager, a newly created role to strengthen FTA's position as the only business organisation representing all aspects of the UK logistics sector.
Miss McLernon will join FTA's 17-strong policy team to speak on behalf of its multimodal members to stakeholders and government; she will work tirelessly to ensure their interests are represented and their views heard and acted upon.
Alex Veitch, FTA's Head of Multimodal Policy, comments:
"FTA's membership is growing larger and more varied each year – we now have 18,000 member businesses across the logistics spectrum – so it is important our policy team reflects this diversity. With her extensive experience in UK transport policy, Zoe is perfectly placed to grow FTA's influence within the multimodal space. Her appointment will cement FTA's position as the only business organisation representing all aspects of the logistics sector: rail, road, sea and air, as well as buyers of freight services. We are thrilled she has decided<|fim_middle|> team and discuss new service enhancements
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This food seems to be the antithesis of what dieting culture tells you to eat.
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9 Easy Spaghetti Squash Recipes | In a recent special edition, National Geographic did a deep-dive into the Blue Zones. The Blue Zones include five different communities across the globe that are known for having the highest concentration of residents living to be over 100. These zones, researched in-depth by author Dan Buettner, include Ikaria in Greece, Okinawa in Japan, Sardinia in Italy, Loma Linda in California, and the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica.
What's particularly interesting about Buettner's research is the breakdown of different diets consumed in each region. While there isn't one specific type of diet each Blue Zone follows (they eat a variety of fiber-rich foods, vegetables, fruits, dairy, and a small amount of meat, and fish), it was easy to determine a few general themes in the types of diets these people follow. Specifically, the more common foods that are consumed.
It was clear that a majority of Blue Zone residents commonly eat a combination of healthy starches. These starches include whole grains, legumes, and potatoes. Vegetables came in a close second for each zone, along with fruit—all foods that are high in fiber and rich in plant-based nutrients.6254a4d1642c605c54bf1cab17d50f1e
Carbs…really?
First, it's important to note the types of carbs that are being consumed by these communities. Whole grains like oats, barley, and brown rice are commonly consumed. Bread products typically have whole grains and most of the time are made from scratch. This includes loaves of sourdough, tortillas, flatbreads, and even pasta.
Sweet potatoes are a staple for the community in Okinawa. Legumes—such as beans, chickpeas, and lentils—are also considered staples for many of the other communities. In Loma Linda, legumes and soy products are more commonly consumed, along with vegetables, while the percentage of grains in their diet is much smaller.
In a dieting world where eating ultra-low-carb is met with such high praise, these communities are welcoming healthy starches with open arms—and living the longest.
High-fiber diets linked with longevity
While the longevity of these communities is linked to all kinds of other factors (genetics, exercise, community outreach, and more), research continues to prove the link between eating a high-fiber diet and living a long life.
One study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that diets rich in dietary fiber can reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular, respiratory, and infectious diseases.
Another meta-analysis of 17 studies from the American Journal of Epidemiology found that, for every 10 grams of fiber consumed, it cut the mortality risk for almost one million participants by 10%.
Lastly, a 2019 study in The Lancet concluded that diets high in fiber (consuming between 25 and 29 grams of fiber a day) reduced the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, colorectal cancer, and also helped with significantly lowering total cholesterol, blood pressure, and even bodyweight.
The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans says more than 90% of women and 97% of men do not get their recommended intake of fiber a day and should consume more whole grains, fruits, and vegetables to reach their goals. The USDA recommends adults up to the age of 50 to consume 25 grams of fiber for women and 38 | 729 |
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News, Reviews and Features 'It's not all dancing around fairy rings': IOLANTHE – Touring ★★★★
'It's not all dancing around fairy rings': IOLANTHE – Touring ★★★★
In London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by Jonathan Baz 26th July 2018 Leave a Comment
Touring – reviewed at Greenwich Theatre, London
This wonderful production of Sasha Regan's all-male Iolanthe is now in the final leg of its UK tour. As such, the cast – who, reviews have suggested, were excellent to begin with – have now matured into a perfect company, enchanting in both voice and movement.
Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta has that everyday backstory of Lord meets Fairy and they have a child (half sprite/half mortal). Twenty-five years pass and we join the story as it offers up a string of romances and dalliances, peers mingling with fairies, mortality taken to its very limits and everything being wrapped up into a deliriously happy ending.
The genius of taking yet another of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic scores and playing it men-only, lies in exploiting the wit of Gilbert's libretto. The verve and cheek of his rhymes lend themselves to camp-ness at the best of times. Here, however, a company of men taking to the stage as a chorus of perfectly drilled fairies creates sets a new altitude record for high-camp. If it wasn't so damn good it would be downright ridiculous.
But Regan (in this, the third revival of her interpretation) directs acutely. She teases out the timeless genius of the songs, while Mark Smith choreographs with a meticulous imaginative detail that is as witty as it is inspired. The company of 16 are all, to a man, excellent – memorable moments of sharpened satire coming from Duncan Sandilands and Alastair Hill. In a show that will have lent itself well to a road trip (Kingsley Hall's design work being minimal in extremis), Musical Director Richard Baker, provides the sole musical support on piano, puts in a heroic and faultless shift<|fim_middle|> worth a trip to Greenwich.
Runs until 28th JulyPhoto credit: Harriet Buckingham
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Tags: 4*, alastair hill, Duncan Sandilands, Gilbert and Sullivan, Greenwich Theatre, IOLANTHE, Jonathan Baz, Kingsley Hall, Mark Smith, Musical, SASHA REGAN | leading his cast and entertaining the audience through the classic melodies.
It's not all dancing around fairy rings though. Gilbert and Sullivan's verses poked merciless fun at parliament and the judiciary and remember too that the show was written way back in the pre-EU days of the last century. A time when parliament, then still sovereign as opposed to its shambolic present, merited affectionate mockery.
As London swelters gloriously, its hard to justify an evening in a hazy and (for the second half at least) hot auditorium. But Iolanthe is simply marvellous theatre, and well | 123 |
Expected Heavy Rains Draw Flood Watch For Western Montana
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Dickerson said he expects very minor flooding, but the levels will rise rapidly once the rain storms arrive.
"Over the next 36 to 48 hours we can expect to see some increases in water levels due to the increase water flows over the next few days," he said. "When we get into this situation, it's mainly the creeks and streams that will see the most aggressive response. Fortunately, it's a little early in the year to be floating the rivers, but if folks will be near the water, be cognizant that the rain will be pushing those up a bit. Rivers will be swift with lots of debris."
Dickerson said the fast moving storms will cause rapid changes in conditions near creeks and streams.
"This amount if rain in this short a time is going to cause a pretty quick change, and it could push some of those streams briefly out of their banks, and maybe overwhelm culverts for a period of time where the water goes under the roads," he said. "It's localized and more specific than main stem flooding."
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A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company (1922 - 1980s): Work with Soy
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This chapter from the Unpublished Manuscript, History of Soybeans and
The great majority of the world's soybeans are crushed as the first step in their utilization. Crushing yields two basic products: unrefined soy oil and defatted soybean meal. The oil is then typically refined, and often hydrogenated to make products such as margarine or shortening. Most of the meal is used as livestock feed, but some is used to make modern soy protein products such as soy flour, soy protein isolates and concentrates, and textured soy protein products. The soybean crushing industry dominates soybean processing in America and worldwide. Five US companies and the cooperative soybean crushers have pioneered in the development of this mighty industry.
A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company
The A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company (referred to henceforth as "Staley") was the first major company existing today to begin crushing soybeans to yield oil and meal; they started in 1922. Indeed Mr. A.E. Staley was one of the first Americans to see the great potential of the soybean as a source of oil, meal, and flour. He was a true pioneer in the days when the soybean was so little known that national production and acreage records were not yet kept. He is generally regarded as the father of the soybean crushing industry. In 1981?? Staley was the third largest soybean crusher in America.
Augustus Eugene (Gene) Staley was born on 25 February 1867 in a log cabin in Randolph County near Julian, North Carolina, on his father's 265-acre red clay farm. When he was 6 or 7 years old, his father attended a Methodist conference in North Carolina. A church missionary who had returned from China attended the conference and brought with her roughly a bushel of Chinese soybeans. She told of their great food and commercial value, and gave Gene's father a handful. He took them home and repeated the story to his family. The father did not want to be bothered with the new beans, but Gene was interested so he planted them in two rows in the family vegetable garden, weeded them, picked them, and saved the seed for planting the next year . . . which he did. The missionary had said they would be good for the soil; young Gene believed this, even if his father did not. According to Dies (1942), "for a time, soy was added to the family diet." (In the 1930s, when Gene Staley recalled his youthful experience with the soybeans, he added, "There are still some soybeans in North Carolina parented by that original handful from China which I planted when I was a boy" (Forrestal 1982; Soybean Digest 1941; Staley Mfg. Co. 1947??).
Busy with farm work, Gene dropped out of primary school after a few years. At age 14 he successfully sold a wagon load of his father's produce in the nearest town. Soon he decided he liked selling better than farming, so he left the farm in 1883 (at age 16) and went on the road selling food products, including starch, for various companies. In 1898 he founded his own company, A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company?? in Baltimore, Maryland, and began packaging and selling "Cream" corn starch. In 1906 he incorporated the company in Baltimore. In 1909, wanting to manufacture his own corn starch, he bought a plant in Decatur, Illinois. In March 1912 the plant started production; he was a married man with 5 children, doing well. After a difficult period from 1913 to 1916, in which Staley had to shut down his plant and almost went bankrupt, he recovered skillfully and soon had built one of the largest corn refining businesses in America. Always eager to explore new vistas, in 1920 he pioneered the idea of professional football in America, founding the first league. His Decatur Staleys, men that both worked in his plant and played semi-pro football, went on to become the famous Chicago Bears.
By 1916 Staley was concerned that the Midwest was being slowly "corned" to death by successive plantings of corn. As he watched corn yields drop, he realized (recalling his childhood experiences) that soybeans might be just the crop needed to rebuild the land through crop rotation. At the same time, Staley had been watching how the growing of soybeans had been spreading westward from the Carolinas into Illinois and other Corn Belt states. He realized that if a soybean processing plant were established in Illinois it could serve as a market for these soybeans, provide a supply of locally produced oil and meal, and help America become less dependent on oils from East Asia. Staley's further investigations at the University of Illinois and other research centers firmly convinced him that the soybean was a crop with great potential, and moreover one that could help his company achieve growth and profit through corporate diversification. He also felt that the soybean's great potential had been overlooked. It needed someone to champion its cause in America. A true missionary at heart, Gene Staley decided to become that person. His trusted "sixth sense" told him he was on the right track.
The immediate problem, however, was to find a way to build up local soybean production to the scale that could support a commercial processing plant. So from 1916-1922 Staley had many representatives of his company travel throughout the Midwest; they passed out leaflets to farmers,<|fim_middle|>950s, the company let the soybean business slip through its fingers.
By 1960 soybean processing was considered a minor and relatively unprofitable part of Staley's total business. Soybean earnings were the lowest since 1922. Also in 1960 a new $4.2 million research center was dedicated. In 1963 the company decided to get into manufacture of crystalline dextrose; a big plant was built in Decatur. The same year the company's stock was first traded on the New York Stock Exchange. In the late 1960s, partly because of new research capabilities, Staley got into the new field of modern soy protein products, such as isolates and concentrates. In 1969 Staley acquired Gunther Products, a pioneer in this field.
By the 1970s Cargill was America's leading soybean crusher, followed by ADM, with Staley in third place. By the mid-1970s Staley had slipped to the undistinguished position of crushing only 2% of the nation's soybeans--in an old Decatur plant. But then a change began. Gus Staley passed away in 1975 and Don Nordlund took over the leadership position. In 1975 Staley introduced textured soy protein concentrates. In March 1976 Staley announced that it was making a big move into soybeans; the company had purchased four soybean processing plants from Swift & Co. for $45 million in Des Moines, Iowa; Champaign, Illinois; Frankfurt, Indiana; and Fostoria, Ohio. In 3 years, earnings from these plants had paid for their purchase. By 1981 the company was thinking of buying a sixth soy plant at Memphis, Tennessee. For the first time ever their market share in soybean processing started to increase (Fig. ??.?).
Staley's basic business had always been moving massive shipments, often entire train loads, of soy and corn products to major processors in a host of industries. By the 1970s, this generated 95% of the cumulative earnings. They also had a small retail business selling food and laundry starches, corn syrups, and fabric softeners. In some years, these were more profitable than all soybean products. During the 1970s corn sweeteners became big business for Staley. The company had made corn syrup by acid hydrolysis since just after World War I, and Sweetose (50% as sweet as sugar) with enzymes since just before World War II. From the mid-1960s they made dextrose (75% as sweet as sugar) with enzymes. Then in 1971 they developed and pioneered IsoSweet, a high fructose corn syrup that was as sweet as sugar. In 1974 major soft drink companies started to use Staley's corn syrups in soft drinks, but the breakthrough came in 1978 when they started to be used in Coca-Cola. Staley became the leader in this burgeoning field. In 1980 the company took another bold step by building a large plant to manufacture ethanol for gasahol. That year total corporate sales topped $2,000 million. In 1981 the company celebrated its 75th anniversary and commissioned a book to be written about its history titled The Kernel & the Bean by Dan J. Forrestal. Our chapter has drawn heavily on the material provided in that book.
By 1980, in addition to its basic soybean meal and soy oil, the company had a full line of soybean products including defatted soy flour, grits, flakes, soy protein concentrates (Procon and textured Procon), textured soy flour (Mira-Tex), Gunther's whipping proteins and soy albumin, hydrolyzed vegetable proteins (granules, seasoning powder, and HVP powders), and lecithin (concentrates and compounds). The protein concentrates were increasingly popular as a fortifier and extender in processed meats and baked goods; the US Army had become a major customer. | extolled the virtues of the soybean, and encouraged farmers to try growing soybeans in rotation with corn (Staley 1947). In 1920 to prove that he was serious about getting into soybean processing, Staley ordered two Anderson expellers. Then in June 1922, after 2 years of equipment and plant construction, the company published and circulated an historic announcement:
The A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company announces that in response to the general and urgent desire on the part of the farmers of central Illinois, it has been decided to install a soybean plant in conjunction with the Decatur starch and glucose manufactory.
A satisfactory building is now in readiness. Several expellers have been purchased and delivered. Bean dryers are under construction. Storage for 150,000 bushels of beans is ready for use. The plant is planned so that large increases in capacity may be had without expensive changes. The first unit will have a capacity of about 800 bushels [13.6 tonnes] a day. It will be finished in ample time for the 1922 harvested crop (Forrestal 1982).
At about the time of this announcement, Gene Staley made a prediction, which would later come true: "The day will come when our plant will produce more soybeans than corn."
On 30 September 1922 Staley's new soybean crushing plant went into operation. His first actual purchase of beans occurred on September 28, from Andrews Grain Company of Walker, Illinois; 1,547 bushels at $0.9975 a bushel. Subsequently 5,674 bushels were purchased from various sources. However after operating for only 16 days and producing 209,300 pounds of meal and 42,036 pounds of oil, the expellers ran out of beans and had to be shut down. Later more beans were found, but the new mill was in operation for a total of only 74 days in 1922 and 57 days in early 1923. When the 1924 season approached beans were rather plentiful, but at $1.50 a bushel. Although soybean production and acreage in Illinois were now growing rapidly, times were still hard. A letter written by Gene Staley in May, 1924, in response to an inquiry from West Virginia, said, in part: "The result of our experience in the soybean industry so far has been both unprofitable and discouraging, but it is our intention to leave the machinery in our plant for another year. If the operations are not profitable, we'll dismantle the plant and discontinue the soybean business altogether."
Fortunately 1925 was a good year. The company bought almost 70,000 bushels of soybeans for $1.30 a bushel and stayed in operation for 7 months. This increased to 8 months in 1926. Staley continued to buy all the soybeans that farmers brought him.
Starting in the mid-1920s Staley began to put a lot of effort into expanding the markets for his soy oil and soybean meal. He was convinced that the oil, which had formerly been widely used in soaps and paints, had great potential, if properly refined, in food uses. Staley led the way in refining soy oil (when start??) and in proving its value in margarines and shortenings. In 1930 he sold the first tank car of soy oil to a margarine manufacturer. By 1927 he was also manufacturing soy flour (Horvath 1927). Staley was also concerned that farmers would not be farsighted enough to plant enough soybeans to keep up with his ambitious expansion plans. So he decided to conduct a massive education program throughout central Illinois by hiring a train! He announced that "the newest thing on rails will be the Soybean Special" (Ref??). Working together with the Illinois Central Railroad Company, the University of Illinois College of Agriculture, and Southern Illinois Normal University, Staley put together a promotional marvel. When the Soybean Special rolled out for inspection on March 28, 1927 in Decatur, it was "whistle-tooting proof that Gene Staley was a salesman, an `operator,' an entrepreneurial innovator, and an evangelistic crusader for the lowly bean" (Forrestal 1982). The six-car train contained exhibits and displays on soybean planting, cultivation, processing, and utilization, prepared with the help of Professor J.C. Hackleman of the University of Illinois. It also had two cars converted into motion picture theaters and a lecture car. Between March 28 and April 17, a total of 33,939 people passed through the train as it traveled 2,478 miles and made 105 scheduled stops. Prizes were awarded and Gene Staley even went aboard for some parts of the trip. When a reporter asked Staley if he had any hobbies, the latter replied, "Soybeans--just soybeans." (Forrestal 1982).
The company was thriving by 1930 and in April of that year it moved into a new building, a towering 14-story, 206-foot-high "Castle in the Cornfields." By far the biggest building in Decatur, some said it looked like the state capital!
In 1927-28 the extremely important Peoria Plan was established to help expand soybean production, gain acceptance of soy oil and meal among users, and reduce processing costs (see Chapter 40). Gene Staley was one of the initiators of this idea and a driving force behind its implementation.
In the early 1930s soy meal suddenly became accepted as a livestock feed. Staley developed soybean meal pellets, each the diameter of a broom handle and about 2 inches long, bound together with a little molasses. They were meant to be scattered over the snow across the fields in the wintertime.
In 1932 Gus Staley, (A.E. Staley, Jr.), Gene's oldest son, took over as president of the company, as his father began to retire. Inevitably some comparisons were made. Gene, a giant of a man (who weighed as much as 278 lb) was a natural mixer, gifted with a memory for names and faces; adjectives used to describe him by those who knew him well were "approachable, confident, daring, enthusiastic, friendly, gregarious, honorable, intuitive, outgoing, persuasive, stubborn, trustworthy, visionary, and warm. Moreover, he thought, ate, and slept corn and soybeans" (Forrestal 1982). Gus was almost the opposite, aloof and cautious, though also an excellent businessman. And Gus was never very enthusiastic about soybeans. The profits, he felt, were in corn refining, and the company's share of the soybean processing market was steadily declining, from a high 39% in 1927 (Fig. ??.?).
By the end of the 1930s corn starches and corn syrup were the company's money makers; soy oil, meal, and flour (started by 1933) had to struggle to stay in the black. In 1933 Staley added soy sauce to its product line. The fact that the company had a "fundamental product line centering on food" helped it through the Depression years. In 1936 Time magazine (Ref?? at Ford??) cited A.E. Staley and Henry Ford as the nation's leading champions of soybeans. Ford was the most publicized promoter but Staley was the pioneer, long-time processor. In 1939 or 1940 the company purchased a plant site at Paynesville, Ohio, for crushing soybean. This was the first move toward processing away from Decatur.
The August 15, 1940 issue of Forbes magazine ran a story about A.E. Staley headlined "Soybean Pioneer;" it was subsequently reprinted in condensed form in Reader's Digest. Said Forbes: "Curiously, a man who hated farming has done more for the American farmer than almost any other man alive. A.E. Staley is the great salesman of the soybean, the only new crop of importance in many years."
On 26 December 1940 an era came to an end; A.E. Staley, Sr. passed away of a heart attack in Florida at the age of 73. Described as "a workaholic on a 7-day beat," who loved cigars and was increasingly bothered by diabetes, this non-stop dynamo, risk-taking and picturesque, had founded one of the nation's foremost agriculture-based corporations and helped make "soybeans" a household word in the Midwest (Ref??).
In 1941 Gus Staley got his company out of the soy flour business; although the flour was widely used by bakers and meat packers, it was not profitable. Shortly thereafter, however, World War II began and demand for soy flour skyrocketed. A new plant went into operation in March 1942, producing soy flour?? By 1946 the soy oil and meal were manufactured in a new $2 million solvent extraction plant with a capacity of 550 tons a day. The old expeller system was slowly phased out. During the war the US government bought thousands of tons of Staley soy flour for shipment to European allies for use in bakery products and prepared meats. However the fact that the government insisted that huge amounts of soy flour be produced in a hurry led to overproduction. Warehouses were filled with soy flour. One summer, some of the flour became contaminated by weevils; after deweeviling, it was purchased by the USDA for cattle feed. Because of the soy flour glut, the company decided to try to package the good fresh product in several sizes for national retail sale at grocery stores. They trade-named it Stoy in 1943 and published a 21-page soy flour recipe book to go with it. But American housewives were not very interested and the soy flour, though of good quality, was poorly marketed, so it just sat on the shelves; eventually it got wormy, and had to be recalled. Retail soy flour was, for Staley, a postwar casualty, further increasing the drag soybeans were seen as making on the company's earnings.
Another embarrassing incident in the soyfoods line occurred in 1947. The maker of La Choy soy sauce in Los Angeles was Staley's biggest customer for hydrolyzed vegetable protein liquid. La Choy would buy the liquid in 8,000 gallon tank cars, add corn syrup, caramel coloring, salt and water, then bottle and sell. Through no fault of Staley's (who says??), a small amount of weed killer from a chemical container got mixed into Staley's basic liquid. La Choy's soy sauce had to be recalled. There were many suits and, fortunately, no fatalities.
And still another. In 1952, Staley, the only major soybean processor that was not vertically integrated, tried to diversify into mixed feeds or formula feeds for livestock. Other major processors had already established a strong foothold in this market. Staley purchased several small milling companies but by 1954 the effort was considered unsuccessful; it ended up costing the company several million dollars.
In 1922 A.E. Staley, Sr. had predicted that "our plant will produce more soybeans than corn." By 1950 that prophesy had come true; the company boasted of being the world's largest in soybeans and No. 2 (behind Corn Products Corp.) in corn, using 50 railroad carloads of soybeans and 30 carloads of corn kernels a day. It took 3,500 acres of soybeans to keep the company operating for one day. Decatur began to call itself the "soybean capital of the world." But soybean profits for Staley were poor. In fact, during the 1 | 2,604 |
Relatively few farmers today actively maintain crop biodiversity, but for most of the history of agriculture this was the norm. Archaeobotanical analyses can reveal the processes that led<|fim_middle|> the staff at the University of Arkansas Museum, the National Museum of Natural History, the Illinois State Museum, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey, the Missouri Department of Transportation, and the William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology for helping me gain access to these archaeological assemblages. Jim Solomon of the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium and Rusty Russell of the National Herbarium granted me access to herbarium specimens. Paul Krautman and Michelle Vogel allowed me access to their property to sample from living plants, and I have also benefited greatly from their enormous plant knowledge. Special thanks to Gayle Fritz, and to T.R. Kidder, Xinyi Liu, Ken Olsen, Fiona Marshall and the members of the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies for their invaluable comments on earlier version of this paper. Elizabeth Horton, Kelsey Nordine, and Andrew Flachs assisted me in the search for erect knotweed, and our conversations on these expeditions and at other times contributed substantially to the content of this paper. Finally, I would like to acknowledge Nancy Asch Sidell and David Asch, whose meticulous research on erect knotweed sparked this entire project.
Wales, N., Akman, M., Watson, R., Sanchez-Barreiro, F., Smith, B. D., Gremillion, K. J., Gilbert, T. P., & Blackman, B. K. (2018). Ancient DNA reveals the timing and persistence of organellar genetric bottlenecks over 3000 years of sunflower domestication and improvement. Evolutionary Applications. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12594. | to the evolution of crop biodiversity throughout the Holocene, an issue of critical importance in an era of climate change and agrobiodiversity loss. Indigenous eastern North Americans domesticated several annual seed crops, called the Eastern Agricultural Complex, beginning c. 1800 BC. Using population morphometrics, this paper reports new evidence for the evolution of a domesticated sub-species of one of these crops, erect knotweed (Polyongum erectum L.), and its subsequent diversification under cultivation. Morphometric analyses were conducted on archaeological erect knotweed populations spanning its ancient cultivated range, and these were directly dated to c. 1–1350 AD, anchoring the evolution of this crop in both time and space. Domesticated erect knotweed first appears c. 1 AD in the Middle Ohio Valley. A diachronic series of populations from western Illinois shows that this species was domesticated again c. 150–1000 AD. This study shows how agricultural knowledge and material were maintained and shared (or not) by communities during an important era in eastern North America's history: when small communities were aggregating to form the earliest urban center at Cahokia, in the American Bottom floodplain. A distinctive landrace was developed by farmers in the American Bottom which is significantly different from cultivated populations in other regions. Subsequent Mississippian assemblages (c. 1000–1350 AD) indicate divergent agricultural communities of practice, and possibly the eventual feralization of erect knotweed. Archaeobotanical studies have a vast untapped potential to reveal interaction between communities, or their isolation, and to investigate the evolution of crops after initial domestication.
Funding for this research was provided by US National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant #58292. I would like to acknowledge the many people who contributed to this project by giving me access to collections under their care, and by sharing their knowledge with me through the wonderful communities of practice that are Eastern North American botany and archaeology. I would like to thank Bruce Smith, Mary Suter, Mary Simon, David Pollack, Jack Rossen, Neal Lopinot, Michael Meinkoth, Dee Ann Watt and John Kelly and | 460 |
Seton's Bane plays for NIT title
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Coming from one of the smallest schools in the state of Indiana, Desmond Bane was first scouted by Division II basketball schools, then smaller Division I schools.
Once he met recently-hired head coach Jamie Dixon, Bane was sold on Texas Christian University – even if it meant possibly sacrificing some playing time to help re-build a program.
"It came down to Miami Ohio and TCU and the coaching situation at Miami wasn't that stable," Bane told the Palladium-Item by phone Wednesday. "... When TCU offered me – they're in the Big 12, have a National Coach of the Year in Jamie Dixon, Jaylen Fisher had just signed – so I thought, 'I'll go check it out with an open mind.'"
Bane waited his turn, and following an injury to Fisher's wrist, his hard work has paid off.
Bane, a Seton Catholic High School graduate, has been in the starting lineup as the Horned Frogs make a run at the NCAA's National Invitational Tournament Championship.
TCU plays Georgia Tech in the NIT championship Thursday at 8 p.m.
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"It's amazing to be able to see a kid that used to play for you playing at that level," Seton head coach Josh Jurgens said. "It's been a heck of a ride for him."
Bane has played in all 38 of TCU's games and started 12 of them. He averages 7.1 points and 2.9 rebounds per game, and has 37 assists and 12 steals for the 23-15 Horned Frogs.
The game will air on ESPN and Seton<|fim_middle|> (84 percent) and single-game 3-point percentage (6-for-6), while tying the tournament record with 16 total 3-pointers.
Bane was the second Seton athlete to sign to a Division I school, and the first ever to play college basketball at any level.
"The thing that gets me, there's people in Texas they have no clue what he went through as far as taking one of the smallest schools in Indiana and making them one of the top schools in 1A," Jurgens said.
Bane hit the decisive three free throws that gave TCU a victory over top-ranked Kansas during the Big 12 Conference Tournament.
"It's great," he said. "I want to thank the whole Richmond community and Seton Catholic for all the support they've given me; the Fort Worth Community for welcoming me, being around other guys that love basketball and come from big high schools. It's just great."
What: NCAA NIT Championship game
When/where: 8 p.m. Thursday at Madison Square Garden
Teams: Georgia Tech (21-15) vs. TCU (23-15), 8 p.m.
Who: Desmond Bane of Seton Catholic plays for TCU
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"It's amazing," athletic director Trent Tremain said. "Just last night seeing him take the floor starting last night at Madison Square Garden was really unreal.
"We had so much confidence in him that he could do it, but just to see the progression and to see where he's at now, it was just a really neat moment when you see him on the floor at Madison Square Garden. He played well, too."
Bane scored five points in TCU's 68-53 win over Central Florida in Tuesday's NIT semifinal.
Since joining the starting lineup, he scored 13 against both Iowa and against Richmond.
"After what the seniors – Brandon Parrish, Michael Williams, Karviar Shepherd, Chris Washburn – what they've been through since they've been here at TCU, to give them a run like this to cap off their careers as Horned Frogs like this, is truly amazing," Bane said.
Bane was named an Indiana All-Star after graduating as the all-time leading scorer in Wayne County. His total of 1,991 surpassed Richmond's Woody Austin's 1,990.
Bane helped Seton win three straight sectional championships and go 71-27 in his four years – the first four winning seasons in program history.
He was named the Bob Wettig Tournament's Most Outstanding Player as a senior and set records for total points (130), points per game (32.5), total rebounds (50), rebounds per game (12.5), 3-point shooting percentage | 337 |
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Cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets
"The HKMA encourages the development of virtual banks"
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Disingenuity: Facebook's claims with regard to Libre are unsupportable.
An article published by CNBC ("Here's why regulators are so worried about Facebook's digital currency") says in its teaser "Facebook's argument is that it won't be minting new money with its digital currency."
That is absolutely untrue. This is why.
Basel Committee's mistaken view of Cryptoassets
On 13 March, the Bank for International Settlements Basel Committee issued a statement regarding "crypto-assets." Some of its basic assumptions are wrong and fundamentally misleading.
Crypto-currencies, block chain and distributed ledgers.
This ultra-simplified explanation clarifies the absolute basics of a subject that has become shrouded in myth and mystery.
The blockchain, crypto-currencies (or cryptocurrencies) like bitcoin, distributed ledgers and smart contracts are, actually, stuff you already know..
Don't talk balls: cryptocurrencies are not dead
It's almost impossible to open a website or blog with even a peripheral interest in financial matters and not see a headline saying something like "The Death of Bitcoin." Total tosh. So are the click-bait headlines in the style of "is blockchain dead?"
ASIC acts against misleading Initial Coin Offerings and crypto-asset funds targeted at retail investors
ASIC has taken action to stop several proposed initial coin offerings or token-generation events (together, "ICO"s), targeting retail investors.
Singapore's financial regulator warns of bitcoin investment fraud
It takes something of a cheek to solicit investment in a fraudulent scheme and to publish a website with comments falsely attributed to the Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore who also happens to be the country's deputy prime minister. But as MAS has warned, that's exactly what someone is doing...
This bitcoin account is collecting criminal funds
This morning, I received, in one of my corporate mailboxes, a spam which is disturbing on several levels, none of which are relevant to the core arguments in this piece so I've added the text in a footnote for readers' information.
What is relevant, and not disturbing, is that it demands payment to a specific bitcoin account.
This is it: 1JXuMq6sbL95XnrcDEsrZTCvvRjB52RCAD.
Governments and others are focussed on the person behind the account. There is another way, says Nigel Morris-Cotterill
If it sounds too good to be true.....
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OFAC adds cryptocurrency data to subject information
On 19th March, the USA's Office of Foreign Assets Control, a division of the US Treasury, which publishes lists of persons sanctioned under trade and economic policies, under policies that are political including but not limited to national security plus those under the USA PATRIOT Act announced that it was to include, where it has it, cryptocurrency data relating to subjects. Just what are they planning and what will it mean for crypto-currency holders and exchanges and businesses such as online auctions and advertising platforms?
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Geeks for Greeks - solving the Greek Debt Crisis
Yanis Varoufakis, has resigned. In one of his last pronouncements as Greek Finance Minister, Varoufakis said the idea that Greece could print Drachmas was a fallacy. He is reported as having said "we destroyed all the presses."
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Lotte Food Pasteur and Spring Sheep Milk Co. sign Korea MOU
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The company said sheep milk contains up to 60% more calcium and 50% more protein than cow's milk, is naturally richer in many essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids; and its unique protein and fat structure allows for easier digestion and absorption.
It also said early studies indicate sheep dairy operations are gentler on the environment with lower methane emissions and less nitrogen impact.
Managing director of Lotte Food Pasteur, YongKi Kim, said he is, "very happy with the partnership between a premium dairy product brand such as Pasteur in Korea, and Spring Sheep - a trustworthy partner from New Zealand, a country renowned for producing quality milk."
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Korean food company Lotte Foods Co., Ltd. has announced it has signed an MOU with New Zealand sheep milk nutrition company, Spring Sheep Milk Co.
Lotte Food Pasteur plans to introduce a new sheep-milk product line for children, which it expects to launch in 2019. Long-term plans are in development to expand into China with infant formula and early life nutrition products in 2020.
Spring Sheep CEO Scottie Chapman said, "We're excited about partnering with Lotte Food Pasteur, and working with them to bring the goodness of New Zealand sheep milk to Korean consumers."
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There are hundreds of marketing tactics. A marketing strategy will help you choose.
Strategy is a matter of charting your course between a beginning and an end point; thinking about what will take you from point A to point B — from where you are now (current status) to where you want to go (objective). A strategy should be efficient and effective. It will help you make the most of your marketing resources, whether that's money, time, labor or skills. Every marketing action you take should be based on a rational decision made at the strategic level. That's how you maximize your marketing resources.
A marketing strategy can take into account a whole business model, or it may be applied to a specific area of marketing, such as pricing strategy, distribution strategy, campaign strategy; even social media marketing strategy.
Think about the timing of the end results you want to achieve. It will help you set priorities in terms of available resources within that period of time. For example, if you only have so much money for the next 3 months, determine what is achievable in the next 3 months. It also will help you align other aspects of your business with your marketing strategy.
These questions are difficult to answer with any certainty without a clear strategy. Deciding on a tactic first, without understanding the audience, what they care about, and what needs to be communicated, is like a shot in the dark. It's often why small businesses waste a lot of money on advertising that gets no results, thousands of misdirected pieces of mail (yes, you've probably been the recipient of several<|fim_middle|>argeted"), participation in expensive trade shows, proposals lost, unread emails, etc.
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Veterans breakfast: 9 a.m., McElroy's, 705 Bienville Blvd., Ocean Springs. Free to veterans. Presented by Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home. Details: 872-2699.
Technology at your Fingertips: 10 a.m. tablets for seniors and 1 p.m. Facebook events and ads, Pass Christian Public Library, 111 Hiern Ave. Class size is limited. Details: 452-4596.
Homeschool Clay Play: 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. or 1:30-3 p.m., Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Ceramics Studio, 386 Beach Blvd., Biloxi. Cost: $12 per child/per project. Designed for ages 6 years old and older. Class size limit will be 15 students per session. Theme: Mixed Media Robot Sculptures. Details: 374-5547.
Celebration of Partnership ceremony: 2 p.m., VT Halter Marine Pascagoula operations, 900 Bayou Casotte Parkway. Keynote speaker: Sen. Roger Wicker. Guest speaker: Rear Adm. Timothy C. Gallaudet, U.S. Navy oceanographer.
Julia Reed and William Dunlap book signing: 5-6:30 p.m., Pass Books/Cat Island Coffeehouse, 300 E. Scenic Drive, Pass Christian. Features Reed's "South: Spirited Entertaining and High Style Fun All Year Long" and Dunlap's "Short Mean Fiction: Words and Pictures." Details: 222-4827.
Crime Prevention and Awareness Workshop: 6 p.m., Kreole Primary School, 6312 Martin Luther King Blvd., Moss Point. For East Moss Point residents. Details: 474-2345.
Science Cafe: 6-7:30 p.m., Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Dining Hall, 703 E. Beach Drive, Ocean Springs. Refreshments. Theme: A Life Among the Dolphins. Presenter: Jeff Siegel, scientist, author, musician, teacher and marine biologist. Details: 872-4213.
Mexican Cooking class with Melissa Cooper Brumfield: 6-8:30 p.m., Lynn Meadows Discovery Center, 246 Dolan Ave., Gulfport. Cost: $30-35. Details: 897-6039.
Hand-building class with extruded clay (class one of eight): 6-9 p.m., Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Ceramics Studio, 386 Beach Blvd., Biloxi. Cost: $35 members and $38.50 nonmembers. Designed for beginners ages 14 years old and older. Class size limited to 10. Details: 374-5547.
Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra Guild's annual luncheon: 11 a.m., Pass Christian Yacht Club, 120 S. Market St., Pass Christian. Lunch followed by awards and installation of officers for 2016-17. Cost: $25. Details: 896-9347.
Think Like an Entrepreneur: 6-8 p.m., The Innovation Center, 1636 Popp's Ferry Road, Biloxi. Details: 396-8661.
Sons of the American Legion meeting: 6:30-7:30 p.m., American Legion Post 1992, 3824 Old Spanish Trail, Gautier. Details: 497-6422.
Summer Library Program kickoff event: 11 a.m., East Central Public Library, 21801 Slider Road, Hurley. Face painting, popcorn, storytime, games and more. Details: 588-6263.
Yoga with Moira: 6-7:30 p.m., Walter Anderson Museum of Art, 510 Washington Ave., Ocean Springs. Led by Moira Anderson, owner and director of River Rock Yoga and Pilates. Cost: $5. Bring your own mat. Details: 872-3164.
Sizzlin Sopranos concert: 7 p.m., Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center, 1600 Government St., Ocean Springs. Features Kate<|fim_middle|>10 person before May 31 and $15 person after May 31 or at the door. Casual attire. Must be 21 years old and older, BYOB, bring a snack to share with others. Details: 392-1939.
Casino Royale: 6-10 p.m., Frank Gruich Community Center, 591 Howard Ave., Biloxi. Cost: $25 per person. Musical entertainment, food, games and door prizes. Must be 21 years and older. Proceeds benefit the Women's Center for Nonviolence. Details: 436-3809.
Hancock North Central High School 30-year reunion: 7 p.m., Long Fellow Center, Bay St. Louis. Details: 332-1638.
Pre-Father's Day and Juneteenth Edition -- Spoken Word and Poetry: 8 p.m. doors open and 8:45 p.m. showtime, Da Wall, 3370 C. Ave., Gulfport. Details: 669-5668.
Iron Vix meets Fiercely Fit: 8:30 p.m., Jones Park, Gulfport. Led by Nisha Skeith and Nikita McInnis. No equipment needed. Free evening fitness meet-up.
Full breakfast: 9-11 a.m., Ocean Springs Elks, 2501 Beachview Drive, Ocean Springs. Cost: $7.
Student Appreciation Party: 4:30 p.m. dinner and 5:30-6 p.m. minging among friends, 6-7:30 p.m. ballroom dancing, Amour Danzar Ballroom, 9355 County Farm Road, Gulfport. All former students are invited to attend free fish fry and dance. Call the information number for attendance details. Details: 324-3730.
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Harrison County Utility Authority Board meeting: 9 a.m., Intraplex Industrial Park, 10271 Express Drive, Gulfport.
Coffee with Friends -- Audubon Coastal Bird Stewardship program: 10 a.m., Pass Christian Public Library, 111 Hiern Ave. Details: 452-4596.
What's in your Medicine Cabinet?: 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Moss Point River Front Community Center, 4500 Denny St. Presented by Jackson County Triad and the City of Moss Point. Speaker: Clarence Dubose, We Care Hospice and Pharmacy. Discussing diabetes, immunizations, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, arthritis and Alzheimer's. Continental breakfast, door prizes and lunch provided. Free. Details: 205-0907.
Lunch and Learn: Noon-1 p.m., Jubilee Center, 4322 Popp's Ferry Road, Biloxi. Cost: $10 per person and includes lunch. Speaker: Jeff Taylor, city of D'Iberville economic development director. Details: 392-4288.
Our Love Affair with Baseball exhibit: Noon, Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, 386 Beach Blvd., Biloxi. Features Barry Lyons of Biloxi, a World Series champion player, manager and broadcaster who was instrumental in bringing minor league baseball to Biloxi. Make reservations at georgeohr.org or call 374-5547. Reservations must be made by 5 p.m. the Thursday before each luncheon.
"Reflections of the Gulf Coast" art exhibition: 5 p.m., Gallery 782, 782 Water St., Biloxi. Features local photographer George Perina. Details: 436-7782.
Family Movie Night: 6:30 p.m., St. James Catholic Church, Parish Center, 366 Cowan Road, Gulfport. Theme: God is not Dead.
Grilled steak dinners: 6:30-8 p.m., Ocean Springs Elks, 2501 Beachview Drive. Cost: $18 grilled steaks and $12 grilled fish.
Fifth annual Words and Music Community Culture Series Concert: 7 p.m., Pass Christian City Hall Courtyard, 111 Hiern Ave. Features Crooked Creek String Band, four-piece that plays bluegrass and variety of other musical genres on guitar, banjo, mandolin, Dobro and bass. Details: 452-4596.
Friday Night Dinner: 7:30 p.m. dinner, Amour Danzar Ballroom, 9355 County Farm Road, Gulfport. Casual dress dance will follow the dinner. Cost: $6 dinner and $10 dance. Details: 324-3730.
"Night of the Living Dead": 7:30 p.m. June 3, all-you-can-eat concession stand, 7:30 p.m. June 4 and 3 p.m. June 5, Lynn Meadows Discovery Center, 246 Dolan Ave., Gulfport. Details: 897-6039.
Open registration for Classic Car, Bike and Truck Show: 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church, Bay St. Louis. Pre-registration: $20 early bird. Registration: $25. Silent auction, 50/50 raffle, prizes, music and more. Vendor booth are available for crafts. Details: 344-0358.
Long Beach Farmers Market: 8:30 a.m.-noon, June 4, 11, 18 and 25, downtown at corner of Church Avenue and First Street. Features sustainably grown local produce, artisan breads, honey, dairy, eggs and more. Details: 234-8732.
Miles for Mary C: 8:30 a.m. 5K run begins, one-mile run 9:30 a.m., bike ride 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. food, Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center, 1600 Government St., Ocean Springs. Kid activities, raffles and more. Details: 818-2878.
Shoreline Dreams: 10 a.m., Ocean Springs Municipal Library. Paint an iconic coastal scene using mixed media with artist Laurie Brenden.
Gulf Coast Spiders: 10-11:30 a.m., Pascagoula River Audubon Center, 5107 Arthur St., Moss Point. Led by Mark LaSalle, center director. Details: 475-0825.
Red, White and Blueberry Festival: 10 a.m.-2 p.m., L&N Depot Plaza, downtown Ocean Springs. Free vanilla ice cream, cooking demonstrations, blueberry recipes, dishes and more. Details: 875-4424.
Book signing: 5-6:30 p.m., Pass Books/Cat Island Coffeehouse, 300 E. Scenic Drive, Pass Christian. Features Martha Ertman, author of "Love's Promises: How Formal and Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of Families." Details: 222-4827.
Summer concert series: 5 p.m.-until, Rosetti Park, located between Church Avenue and Cox Avenue, downtown Ocean Springs. Features Ocean Springs Live and Blackwater Brass.
St. Martin Reunion Social: 6-9 p.m. social and 9 p.m.-midnight, dance, Lemoyne Boulevard, Biloxi. Designed for classes from 1940 to 2013. Cost: $ | 1,283 |
People v. Sam Nelson
People v. Ray
A material variance in the description of the property embezzled is fatal. (10 Cal. Jur. 262; 20 Corpus Juris…
People v. McFarlan
"This is the test used to determine the validity of a plea of once in jeopardy interposed to a subsequent…
Full title:THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. SAM NELSON, Appellant
Date published: Dec 31, 1924
70 Cal.App. 476 (Cal. Ct. App. 1924)
Docket No. 1133.
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Russ Avery, Judge. Affirmed.
William M. Morse, Jr., for Appellant.
U.S. Webb, Attorney-General, and H.H. Linney, Deputy Attorney-General, for Respondent.
CRAIG, J.
Appeal is here taken from verdicts rendered on April 11, 1924, convicting appellant of embezzlement, and finding for the People upon plea of former jeopardy.
Two informations were formerly filed in the superior court. One charged appellant with having embezzled and appropriated to his own use certain jewelry entrusted to him by one E.A. Miller. The other charged that on or about the twenty-eighth day of June, 1923, appellant came into possession of $1,500, lawful money of the United States of the value of $1,500 in gold coin of the United States, of the personal property of one D.S. Maiman, which appellant on the last-mentioned date embezzled and converted to his own use. The two cases were consolidated and tried together, and a jury found him guilty upon the first charge of embezzlement under $50; with that case we are not concerned on this appeal. This opinion deals with the Maiman case only.
In the trial upon the information containing the charge of embezzlement of money the People offered in evidence a receipt, reading as follows:
"Los Angeles, Calif., June 26th, 1923.
"Received of D.S. Maiman on memorandum, one brilliant, 2.05-100 karat at $450.00 per karat, one brill. 1.83-100 at $350.00 per karat and will report same not later than June 27th, 1923. Sam Nelson, 433 Centennial.
"July 2nd, 1923, also in addition to above received on memorandum 3 platinum diamond rings karat No. 11173-443500, 11643, at $235.00 No. 3564-16093, 443425-11163 at $250.00, No. 419-439350-11633 at $225.00. One scarf pin No. 1900-4155500 at $100. Sam Nelson, 74544."
It appeared that Nelson obtained from Maiman the two diamonds first mentioned in the memorandum for the purpose of selling them; that he returned them, but that later, on July 2d, he represented to Maiman that he had customers at Long Beach and Los Angeles who would buy all of the jewelry described above; that Maiman thereupon delivered to Nelson the two diamonds and the other jewelry which was then added to the memorandum. It is admitted that appellant received the jewelry, and that he agreed to sell it and pay the proceeds to Maiman or return the property. On July 4th appellant telephoned Maiman that he had been held up and robbed on the night before, and that the jewelry had been taken from him.
When the foregoing facts were presented, the trial court stated that if there had been any embezzlement it was of property, rather than of money, and remarked that at the conclusion of the case it would direct the jury to return a verdict of acquittal on account of the variance. He then instructed the district attorney to prepare a new information conforming to the facts. It does not appear that the court instructed the jury as promised, but a general verdict was returned, in the following language: "We, the jury in the above-entitled action, find the defendant not guilty of embezzlement." Following that trial the appellant apparently remained in custody, a new complaint was sworn to and filed in the justice's court, and following a preliminary examination thereon he was again held to answer to the superior court, this time charged with having embezzled the jewelry of Maiman. A new information charging embezzlement of the jewelry was later filed, and the defendant was tried thereunder, upon the same evidence, and convicted.
On this appeal the principal grounds relied upon are alleged former jeopardy, that the verdict of not guilty returned in the former trial was not rendered specifically upon the ground of variance as required by section 1151 of the Penal Code, and that the trial court erred in its instructions to the jury in this connection.
In support of the plea of once in jeopardy, appellant contends that there was an identity of time, facts, evidence, and of criminal act or omission in the two Maiman cases. He does not nor could he successfully contend that the second information charged the same offense as that alleged in the first one. [1] It has repeatedly been held that one test applicable to determine the identity of the offense is to ascertain if the evidence which is necessary to support the second information was admissible under the former, and was sufficient if believed by the jury to have warranted a conviction of that crime. (16 Cor. Jur., p. 265, sec. 445; People v. Cummings, 123 Cal. 269 [55 P. 898]; People v. Bentley, 77 Cal. 7 [11 Am. St. Rep. 224, 18 P. 799].) [2] It is obvious that the evidence offered in the case in which this defendant was convicted would not have stood this test as applied to the prosecution of the case in which the jury found the defendant not guilty. Indeed, it was objected by appellant's own counsel upon the first trial that all of the testimony offered by the prosecution was irrelevant, incompetent, and immaterial, and that it<|fim_middle|>ibly account for the missing diamonds. If his own testimony be rejected, which the jury were authorized to do, there is ample evidence to support the verdict and judgment.
No other points are attempted to be raised which require attention.
The judgment is affirmed.
Finlayson, P.J., and Works, J., concurred.
A petition for a rehearing of this cause was denied by the district court of appeal on January 30, 1925, and a petition by appellant to have the cause heard in the supreme court, after judgment in the district court of appeal, was denied by the supreme court on February 26, 1925.
All the Justices concurred. | did not tend in any manner to prove any issue in that case. Whether or not this objection was well taken, it is certain that the evidence which the People presented did not sustain the charge of an embezzlement of money, for it showed that if the defendant was guilty of any offense it was of having embezzled jewelry.
It was held in People v. Orneilus, 79 Cal. 178 [21 P. 724], that an allegation of assault with a deadly weapon upon a person who had never been known by the name alleged was not the same offense as that charged in a subsequent information containing the correct name and the same facts; and in People v. Meseros, 16 Cal.App. 277 [ 116 P. 679], it was said that "proof of the embezzlement or larceny of a check will not support a charge of embezzlement of money." It has been established in other jurisdictions that an indictment charging embezzlement of money will not sustain a conviction upon proof of the embezzlement of horses, potatoes, or stocks, and that each is a separate and distinct offense. ( State v. Dodson, 72 Mo. 283; State v. Crosswhite, 130 Mo. 359 [51 Am. St. Rep. 571, 32 S.W. 991]; State v. Peck, 299 Mo. 454 [ 253 S.W. 1019].) [3] It follows, therefore, that appellant was not tried in the first instance for the same offense with which he was charged in this case; and since the offenses were not the same, his plea of having formerly been in jeopardy is without merit.
[4] The contention that this judgment should be reversed because the verdict in the first trial did not read "Not guilty by reason of variance between indictment and proof" as required by section 1151 of the Penal Code, is clearly untenable. It may be granted that the verdict which was rendered is an acquittal not merely upon the ground of variance between the information, and the facts proved, but upon the merits of the charge. The charge itself was embezzlement of $1,500, and the evidence did not sustain it. As pointed out in the discussion of the contention that the plea of former jeopardy should have been sustained, the charge contained in the second information and of which the defendant was convicted is entirely different from that of which he was acquitted. Section 1151 reads, in part: "A general verdict upon a plea of not guilty is either `Guilty,' or `Not Guilty,' which imports a conviction or acquittal of the offense charged in the indictment." From this language it follows that the verdict of "Not Guilty" which was rendered merely imports an acquittal of the identical offense charged in the first information, which was a different and distinct offense from that charged in the information upon which the defendant was convicted.
[5] It is also argued that since the trial court did not instruct the jury to acquit on the ground of variance in the first case, or direct that the defendant be held upon the other charge pending the filing of a new information, it committed error, and that he was then entitled to his discharge. Appellant cites section 1165 of the Penal Code as authority for this point. Conceding for the purposes of argument that the defendant should have been discharged upon the rendition of the verdict of acquittal, the fact remains that he was detained in custody. It might be that he would have been entitled to his discharge upon a writ of habeas corpus at any time prior to the eighteenth day of December, when the justice's court bound him over a second time to the superior court. However, if this second prosecution was legal, the fact that for a brief period of time between the termination of the first trial and the filing of the complaint which instituted the second prosecution he might have been at liberty can have no bearing upon the legality of the filing of the second information and the conviction of the defendant thereunder.
The jury were instructed in this case that if they believed beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was acquitted in the former case upon the ground of variance between the information and the proof, and that such variance was material and that the court ordered a new information to be filed because thereof, they must find the defendant not once in jeopardy. Appellant insists that this instruction was erroneous, in that it stated that the former verdict was founded upon a variance and that they must find whether or not the variance was material; that the determination of the nature of the verdict was a question of law for the court, and that the jury should find only whether appellant had or had not been once in jeopardy and acquitted of the same offense. In People v. Ammerman, 118 Cal. 23 [50 P. 15], it was said: "It is true also, as a general proposition, that questions of fact are exclusively with the jury, and that jeopardy is a question of fact; but where, as here, the information failed to charge any offense, it was not error to charge the jury `that the plea of once in jeopardy is not sustained by the evidence, and your verdict on that issue will be for the people,' and so as to the issue of former acquittal. ( People v. Varnum, 53 Cal. 630; People v. Helbing, 61 Cal. 620; People v. Clark, 67 Cal. 99 [7 P. 178].)
[6] It is apparent that the trial court would have been authorized in directing a verdict against appellant upon the question of former jeopardy; but having submitted the question to the jury, exception is taken to its action in permitting them to determine whether or not such variance was material. We do not perceive how appellant could have been prejudiced by the instruction given. The entire record in the former trial was introduced in evidence, and became a part of the proof in this case, from which the only conclusion possible was that the embezzlement consisted, if at all, of jewelry, and that the information alleged an embezzlement of coin. This being true, if the trial court committed any error it was favorable to appellant in so instructing the jury as to permit it to find that such variance was immaterial and that jeopardy had attached. Appellant is not in position to raise this objection. ( People v. Wilkinson, 30 Cal.App. 473 [ 158 P. 1067].)
[7] It is further contended that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the judgment; that appellant had formerly borne a good reputation, and that his testimony was direct and credible, whereas that of the witnesses for the People was circumstantial, conjectural, and unworthy of preference to his positive statements. It was admitted that he received the jewelry, and that he did not return it, or any proceeds of a sale; it appears that he became confused, or attempted to confuse the officers, in locating the corner of the street where he claimed to have been robbed; he told Maiman that he had not had time to go to Long Beach, or to see the other customer in Los Angeles, but he told the officers that he had been to Long Beach; at one time he stated that the men who held him up were white, and at another time he stated that they were negroes; he did not know the name, address, or telephone number of the Long Beach customer, and finally stated that he was to meet him at Second and Spring Streets in Los Angeles, at a barber-shop, at 1 o'clock in the morning. A police officer testified that appellant offered him $50 to let him go. There are other discrepancies in his testimony, and from all the evidence adduced the jury may well have concluded that it was unworthy of belief, and that he had utterly failed to plaus | 1,695 |
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Joaquín Fargas and Eden Community Awarded Mars Residencies
Posted by the Thoughtworks Arts Team
Parallel residencies have been awarded for projects to take place at Mars College in Bombay Beach, California. The residencies will run simultaneously during January through March 2023.
Residents will be on-site participating alongside other Mars College community members, associating virtually with Thoughtworks employees globally to support their project ambitions.
Joaquín Fargas: "Speculative Futures"
The first award will support Latin American based Joaquín Fargas under the "Speculative Futures" track, designed to empower urban communities through research done in the desert.
As an artist and industrial engineer, Fargas integrates biological materials and technological media centered on possible or utopian proposals related to life, its preservation and the interrelationship between living beings and the future.
For the last 20 years Fargas has worked at the crossroads of art, science and technology, creating work including site specific installations, performances and technologically-sound speculative works which examine an era of climate crisis.
The Rabdomante
In his Rabdomante project, Fargas' robots comb desert areas, capturing drinkable water produced as a byproduct of solar energy generation. In his Biosphere project, miniature ecosystems are posited within small encapsulated spheres, capable of producing food via bioponic crop generation.
Projects such as these set the stage for public dialog around consequences of depletion of natural resources. Fargas runs school workshops teaching the workings of technological processes underpinning his work and their relationships with environmental sustainability.
The Biosphere project (left) and Joaquín inspecting the Rabdomante (right)
Fargas is the founder of the BioArtLab at Maimonides University in Buenos Aires, now hosted as Latinamerican BioArt Lab by Universidad Abierta Interamericana, where<|fim_middle|> the international technical and creative community of Thoughtworks. Community members will work either individually or in group projects to expand horizons for use in visual AI art.
Sponsoring a democratized, non-hierarchical collaborative will facilitate new possibilities between toolkit creators and the artists who use these developing technologies.
The Martian Experience
Mars College is a nomadic educational program, R&D Lab and residential community in the desert area of Bombay Beach, California. Artists will arrive in Southern California in preparation for their time in the desert at the end of 2022. Time on site will take place during the three month period from January 1 through to March 31, 2023.
Mars is geographically remote but digitally connected, cultivating a low-cost, high-tech lifestyle exploring emerging technologies. While working on site in the desert, residents will have regular access not only to the surrounding Mars community, but to support from Thoughtworks Arts and facilitated access to Thoughtworks' global community of technical and creative professionals.
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Sign up for news by email: | he is professor of Art and Technology. Between 2010 and 2013 Fargas was the Executive Director of the Network for the Popularization of Science and Technology from UNESCO. Fargas is a TED speaker, and his work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and biennials worldwide.
The Eden Community: "Creative AI Infrastructures"
The second residency has been awarded to the community at Mars developing Project Eden, under the "Creative AI Infrastructures" track of the open call. Eden is an infrastructure of AI entities, semi-automated bots and web applications which are interacted with through text-to-image or text-to-text media generation systems.
This award brings together Eden's technical platform creators, artists and plug-in software developers, to create an artist centric platform enabling work with visual representations and tools in artificial intelligence.
Garden of Eden image created by the Abraham bot
The award allocates financial resources to the Eden project, including the possibility for team members and artists to interact with and gain support from | 209 |
When you're doing any sort of interior painting, it's great to understand exactly what kind of paint you're going to be applying. Likewise, understanding the sorts of interior painting saves you from losing more money and time, otherwise with a trial and error, you tend to lose both. So allow me to help you today, with some good suggestions to make things less frustrating than it is.
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Built on<|fim_middle|>. | land that was known for many years as "Haymarket Square" a Village commons that was used by area auctioneers and traders, the Deerleap building began its life as a one-story clapboard garage erected in approximately 1920. The original building was 20 ft. by 32 ft., and had a hip roof which was screened in the front by a low, rectangular, false front capped by a molded cornice. This type of façade was seen mostly in the American west. The front of the building had a large garage door centered between double windows, and doors at the corners.
The building was extensively renovated in 1990 to take on a neo-colonial style, and the cupola was added. Further renovations were made by Wells Mountain, LLC in 1996, when the present bay windows and multi-light doors were added on the porch area. The building has enjoyed its school-house red color since this period. Wells Mountain, over time, also renovated the rear (formerly warehouse area), into commercial suites. In 2004, the alley next to the building was developed by the Bristol Friends of the Arts into what is now known as Artists Alley, which features local large murals by local artists and benches made by elementary school classes. The Bristol Clay Studio and kiln are across the alley.
Present tenants in the building are Art on Main, Yarn & Yoga, NEATV, Wells Mountain Foundation, and Wells Mountain LLC.
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One of Chicago's Best Southern Chefs Will Open a Fried Chicken Restaurant in Bucktown
The man behind Luella's Southern Kitchen is bringing Luella's Gospel Bird to Damen Avenue
by Ashok Selvam@Shokdiesel Aug 3, 2018, 1:26pm CDT
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Luella's chicken and waffles is coming to Bucktown.
Luella's Southern Kitchen [Official Photo]
More than three years after he opened his first restaurant, chef Darnell Reed — the owner of Luella's Southern Kitchen in Lincoln Square — has signed a lease to open a second restaurant with a fried chicken focus. Reed plans on opening Luella's Gospel Bird sometime between October and November in Bucktown. It's at the former Sublime Sushi spot at 2009 N. Damen Avenue.
The "Soul Food Scholar" Adrian Miller wrote a book, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, that inspired Reed. The book details how fried chicken became a special occasion meal for African Americans living in the South. The labor-intensive item was often served on Sunday after church and Southerners began calling it a "gospel bird." Reed liked the sound of that and intends to reach out to Miller to thank him for the inspiration.
When Reed's new restaurant opens he'll have three types of chicken available. There's his traditional buttermilk fried chicken that he serves at Luella's. He'll also have a smoked jerk chicken. Then there's the restaurant's namesake: the Gospel Bird. Reed will take his traditional fried chicken and drench it with a creole sauce made of Crystal hot sauce, creole seasoning, and Worcestershire sauce. The recipe's not from a particular state, it's just about bold flavors.
"It will have a certain level of spice, but not overpowering," Reed said.
Luella's has been a hit since opening in 2015, serving a mix of Southern food — from gumbo, to tamales, to fried chicken — at 4609 N. Lincoln Avenue. Reed financed his first restaurant by himself. An investor, who prefers to stay silent, approached Reed and asked if he had a scalable concept, and thus Luella's Gospel Bird was born. More locations and restaurants could open. Reed has an idea for "Luella's Low and Slow." It would feature braised and smoked meats.
Just like at Luella's in Lincoln Square, he'll serve chicken and waffles at Gospel Bird. Reed's also working on a Georgia-style shrimp and grits that will differ from the New Orleans-inspired shrimp and grits he serves on Lincoln Avenue. This new dish features Slagel Farms bacon, cheddar, and house-milled grits.
The Damen Avenue space is small, but weekend brunch will be a specialty<|fim_middle|> then deep fry the meat and crisp it. Side dishes include maple candied yams, mac and cheese, and more.
Just after Luella's Southern Kitchen opened, Reed and his girlfriend welcomed their first child. Their second child was born last month. Now comes news of a second restaurant. Reed senses a pattern developing.
"I do have other ideas," Reed said with a laugh. "Let's wait and see if it all works out."
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selecting appropriate functions to represent unique kinds of mathematical difficulties. There was an attractive method to assist with that issue, however.
The end result is that lots of developers may have difficulty finding the very best technique for their problem. Even such machines are constructed, the legislation isn't clear, how does law compensate an individual that's affected by means of an algorithm. By that moment, it may easily have spread to other locations," Drane states.
Thus two sets are identical if and only as long as they have the exact elements. Perhaps you only need to have the ability to spell out a couple regular algorithms at a dinner party. Finally, the model needs to be used or served somehow.
Developing insight can be difficult. The target of RF isn't to come across any latent structure or pattern except to make the most of the long-term reward. All you have to do is to learn how to love its concepts and memorize the fundamentals.
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with regard to the primitives. The probability density feature, also referred to as PDF is a function which you actually know better than you might imagine if you've taken a basic statistics course. The values produced by the function is the range.
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Since donning a caterpillar/unibrow is never an option - unless you really like that look - tweezing/plucking, waxing, and threading are all possible options to tame those unruly hairs. Perhaps you're not sure which is the best method for you?
Waxing removes the eyebrow hair using hot wax and fabric strips carefully placed and pulled off the eyebrow area. A licensed and trained aesthetician does this beautifully with little discomfort to the client. After waxing the area, a gel or lotion is applied to soothe the inflamed skin. During your appointment talk to your aesthetician about your desired eyebrow shape as well as the eyebrow shape that best suits your face to get the most out of your visit as well as achieve eyebrow perfection. Waxing is recommended every 3 to 6 weeks to maintain shape/clean up regrowth hairs.
Outline your desired shape<|fim_middle|> growth on my own and being careful to not over pluck.
Eyebrow maintenance is one of the most important things as the eyebrows frame the face. Well groomed eyebrows are the best thing you can wear! With well groomed eyebrows very little, if any, product is needed and always makes you look polished and put together - even when you're not!
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Tweeze the hairs that are not in the pencil outline.
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Do a search for places offering threading as not all salons offer this service. While this is an ancient technique it has resurfaced as "new" and not offered as widely as the other two options. This method uses threads that intertwine to remove hairs in a scissor like fashion. Youtube has videos of how-to thread - great to see how the process works, if you're curious. I have not, yet, had my eyebrows threaded. This is, as I've heard, a low pain technique. Results last about 3 to 6 weeks depending on your personal growth rate.
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286 – Email Marketing With Andre Chaperon
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Discover the real power behind learning to monetize and leverage your own style as an email marketer. In this podcast, learn how you can effectively connect with your audience through emails.
Andre Chaperon and James Schramko
01:32 – The unusual style of Andre Chaperon
02:45 – Email as the perfect platform
04:25 – Effective storytelling
06:22 – Learning from Hollywood's storyboards
08:15 – How people's viewing habits change
08:55 – Do you have to be a great writer?
09:35 – Should your emails be conversational?
10:10 – Autoresponders or broadcasts?
11:33 – Hybrid email strategies
12:18 – Follow-up sequence is the spinal cord
13:15 – Most popular solutions from Andre
14:00 – The introvert as entrepreneur
15:30 – Monetizing and leveraging your own style
16:05 – Common mistakes of email marketers
16:58 – Researching techniques
18:46 – Should you do segmentation?
20:40 – The power of the "from" address
21;22 – Subject lines that lead to more opens
22:25 – Why you need to set up filters in your email
23:11 – Tweaking messages
24:25 – Creating your email system
26:12 – Taking the stress away with autoresponders
27:27 – Email service provision
28:50 – Why James left Aweber
29:26 – Wrapping things up
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James: James Schramko here, welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. And I've tracked down one of the earliest people who I can remember from when I went online who was publishing good stuff back then and flies pretty close to the radar, in fact a little bit under it. And you won't hear too much from my next guest out there in the public, because he's quietly just doing his thing, making good revenue, and I guess he's built up quite a reputation for just a few products that have made it out publicly.
I'd love to welcome to the call, Andre Chaperon. How are you going, mate?
Andre: Hey, mate. Top of the world. I'm doing good. It's a lovely sunny day here in Spain.
James: Yeah, it's great that you're in a different place than when you started out. I think, back in maybe 2006 you were in London?
Andre: Yeah, I was. I started this craziness in 2003 and I was in London, living just outside of London, so doing the whole commute. And then it all started in 2003. We moved to Spain in '07, so..
James: Gotcha. So I think I started around 2006 was my real sort of first year. And by then, you'd already figured out a lot of stuff. You had a pretty powerful WordPress blog.
Andre: Yeah.
The "Soap Opera" Technique
James: You had an unusual style. It was very different to the American style. You actually had well-written content, and you used to publish case studies of actual results, and I remember you were posting your campaigns and I'm pretty sure that's where I got a hold of the idea that you should track the results. And you were using tracking IDs and ClickBank.
And I was very interested in what you were doing there. I picked up some ideas from that. I recall about that time was when I started messing around with WordPress and knew that I had to track stuff. And then you went on of course to be quite the specialist in email writing autoresponders and you had a very famous course, Autoresponder Madness, which again when I bought that the first time around, you used to email your list occasionally and say, oh, you know, there's something coming, keep your eye out for it.
And you'd do this with affiliate offers from time to time, and then you'd do it with your own products. But you have this very seductive email technique, and I think you call it "soap opera." But I'd love it if you could just give it a little bit of a window into how this style of email marketing works.
Andre: Sure. I'm a shy, reclusive dude, which is why I don't do these things because it just scares the life out of me, so when I was trying all sorts of things in the very beginning because I didn't know what I was doing and I didn't know what to do, I was just trying all sorts of stuff. And one of the things that really clicked with me, it felt so comfortable and right, was emails. I guess it's the perfect medium for someone like me to communicate with a massive audience with.
You know, I don't have to jump on video or on an audio thing, I just have to write emails. So yeah, I started writing emails early on and out of all the different things I tried, it was the one thing that I really enjoyed doing. And I just used to write stories. It just seemed intuitive to me to – I mean, I wasn't any good at them back then, but I noticed that when I was telling stories about what I was doing and my experiences and family and whatever and people were just bonding and connecting with that, so that's how the whole story thing started.
James: Well, of course stories are extremely popular these days. A lot more people have figured out that storytelling is what's it about, whether it's the great fraud, Lance Armstrong.. and he had like the ultimate comeback story, and you know, it draws people in, they're fascinated by it, everywhere from Hollywood through to your humble email marketer. And certainly, I've been toying with this a lot, dialling in more personality, behind the scenes stuff.
I think it's super compelling. You did get onto it nice and early, but one of the specific techniques you seem to do is to hold back parts of the story for future episodes, much like a TV series, so that you create that maintained interest.
Andre: Yeah. I mean, over time, I grow better at creating the stories and putting them out there. As I was learning more about what I was doing and honing the skill and the more I was connecting with the right people and reading the right stuff and you know, there was also an element of I used to enjoy watching TV series like "Lost" and "24," and it just seemed to make sense that you tell stories across multiple emails. So nothing's written in isolation, so you know, typically marketers write emails and it's just like, one email is essentially the whole story, and typically, it's blind as well.
You know, they just want people to click on a link and then go somewhere. I just took a different approach, and yeah, telling stories across multiple emails just seems perfect, and I use some of the techniques that they use in Hollywood, using the open loops and…Through the day, people want to be teased and it builds tension and people will enjoy… when there's no tension and anticipation, people lose interest.
I mean, that's just human nature with everything. It's the reason why those launches, that whole product launch stuff works so well. It's because it teases and there's tension and all the cool stuff that us humans get drawn to.
Multiple notepads for storyboards
James: So would you say that it's a good technique for someone listening to this to start thinking about how they could tie their emails together more or their communication is, you said, not in isolation. I did hear someone credit you with a technique of opening up a whole bunch of different notes all at once, and then writing your email series across multiple notepads so you could then transfer the story, much like you would a book with chapters.
Andre: Yeah. In Hollywood they use these things called storyboards, so I just borrowed that technique. I mean I don't necessarily do it any more, though I still teach it because when you're still new to writing emails in a certain way, it's just easier to stretch out a whole bunch of blank notepads across your computer screen and then you can just start writing and the story will just flow across those things and you can visually see and cut and paste different elements from the emails between all the different windows, each notepad representing an email.
So you can just visually see the whole thing. So yeah, that's a technique that I used, and it's the one I still teach, because people can visually see what they're doing and it's easy.
James: It does make sense. I guess at the very least, I've been thinking about how can I mention what's coming in my next video, to at least think about more than just the one email, kind of like a game of snooker, where you're thinking about the next shot after – where will the white ball be after this one, so that you can line up for the next one.
Andre: Right. Yeah, yeah. I mean, all the good TV shows do that. I don't know if you get E! Entertainment over there…
James: No, we don't. There's no TV in Australia, I probably forgot to mention that, just prior to your trip here for SuperFastBusiness Live.
Andre: (Laughs)
James: No. We get a lot of American and UK TV here, as well as local content. It's quite a mixed bag, because we're such a small country, we don't really have huge resources.
Andre: Yeah. You're still using CRT computer screens there, no doubt?
James: No doubt. Yeah. No, actually, we're fairly early adapters for stuff, but we are a pretty small market, so things that cost a lot like television production, we're not so big into. We steal content from other countries. We license it.
So we get all the famous American TV shows coming here, but on a little bit of a delay. And it's really interesting watching<|fim_middle|> a brand new follow-up sequence, you would write five emails that would span five days or a week, and you load them up there, and you create a system that once a week, you would write emails, and just add them to the end of all your sequences.
So you write an email in a day and you just load it onto the back of one of your sequences some way, over time, those things are growing. So you don't have to move everything out the gate and have this perfect thing. It's just over time, all your follow-up sequences become longer and more involved, and as people enter in your various funnels, they get exposed to these things.
James: So how many segments or lists would you actually be having in your system now? Have you got like hundreds of them?
Andre: No, I've got a handful of them I'd say. And there's a whole bunch of funnels that I've removed the opt-in from them while I redo them for this year, just freshen them up a bit. So while I'm doing that, I just removed the opt-in form on those funnels and then I'll have a link that goes somewhere, so there's no way for them to add themselves to that list.
James: Nice. And then so you update them, I guess you freshen up some of the references and…
Andre: Yeah. And you know, stories change over time and you get new stories that you want to tell that are more relevant so, yeah.
James: Do you keep a story clipboard or something, an inventory of stories in your Evernote like I do?
Andre: You know, I probably should, but I'm not a very structured person like that. My wife's the one that's a lot more structured. I'm more creative so, yeah, I just have little sticky notes everywhere and try to remember stuff.
James: I believe that.
Andre: Yeah. I could be far more organized if I just had a decent system, like you.
James: Well it's because you've got these autoresponders in the background that takes a bit of strain off of the here and the now, doesn't it?
James: It's a clever thing. The discipline is to keep growing it and doing it when you don't have to, and that's really interesting.
Andre: Yeah, I know it is. I still get emails from.. and then it hits the customer support and then Anita wanders over to me and says that "Someone's emailed you about a certain thing," and I'm thinking to myself, that's a follow-up sequence or a funnel from that I didn't even know existed still. I mean, these things are out there.
James: That's funny. I get some bizarre old inquiries as well, like people find old pages or whatever, and no matter how hard you try… You know, it's such an interesting topic, but having been around for a few years now, I think no one talks about this but there's such a requirement to actually clean up and delete and roll up your old tail and refresh. You know? You've got to redirect domains and delete old sites and update stuff. It's quite a big task to keep house on your inventory of stuff.
Looking into Email Provision
Now a couple of other things. In terms of email systems and sending reputations and stuff, I know you're doing some stuff in the background around email service provision. Is that something you want to talk about?
Andre: Yeah, I guess I can talk about that. I've been an AWeber customer for nine years now, since 2004, I think. And I don't know, I've got a love-hate relationship with AWeber. Their system's simple but it's really… if you want to do the stuff like you're supposed to do, it's really a very restrictive system. And I've used a whole bunch of other systems.
There's no one autoresponder out there or ASP out there that really is the best of everything. Everything has their issues. I hate InfusionSoft for many reasons. And then there's also things that they do that are really amazing. I was lucky enough to meet this German dude at the last Awesomeness Fest with MindValley and he's got this amazing system in the German space.
And he showed me this thing and it just blew my mind. I was speechless for a little while. Yeah, it's the best of everything. So we've partnered up and we're going to be bringing his system to the English market and so, yeah, in the next few months we're going to have a complete product out and yeah, it's going to be pretty bad ass.
James: It's something you're excited about. Very cool. Yeah, I long left Aweber. It's hard for me that they kept getting hacked, which was a pain in the ass. The really inefficient thing was this idea that they would store people in lists but not as an individual record. And as soon as I moved to a system that has tags, and has a one record per person, it's really opened up a world of possibility.
And most importantly for me, it allows me to follow someone up upon unsubscribe, and I wasn't able to do that before, because it was ridiculous that they would have to double-opt-in to receive their email about why they left my service. That wasn't practical, and that feature alone has just made such a difference. So I wish you success with that.
I'm looking forward to catching up with you shortly, when you come and visit me here in Manly, and I'll see if I can figure out a way for you to share some great ideas without being uncomfortable at our event, so I'm looking forward to that.
Andre: I'll drink beer first.
James: Yeah, we have beer. There's plenty of beer here, and I'll get you doing some surfing lessons as well.
Andre: Oh, yeah, I'm looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to the surfing and I'm not looking forward to the flight. It'll be the longest flight I've ever done, so…
James: Oh, don't worry about it. I just flew back from New Orleans yesterday or the day before, and really if you think about it, it's just, watch a couple of movies, have a few meals, and maybe a little sleep, and then you're here. Just like that.
Andre: OK.
James: Well, great to catch up, Andre, and thank you so much for being a pivotal influence in my online career and for publishing really good information that was factual and instructive and for putting out what is the most famous course in the email marketing space, because it's good, and inspiring a lot of other marketers. I'm very grateful for that.
Andre: Oh, you're welcome, man, and yeah, it's been a good chat this morning. I haven't felt uncomfortable yet.
James: There you go. That's soothing to hear. Well, catch you later.
Andre: Good, mate, take care.
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Do you need to be a great writer?
James: So let's just continue on, then. We've got the idea that we can loop stories around. Some of the things that come to mind are, do you have to be a great writer to be able to write great emails?
Andre: Well, one thing's for damn sure, and that is I wasn't a great writer when I started. I mean, English is my first language, but I still joke I can barely speak English. It was the one subject I almost failed back in school. I'm dyslexic, so I'm rigged not to be able to write really well.
James: So you don't have to be an English major.
Andre: No.
James: Would you say that your emails fall under the category of conversational? So they're not like formal English, they're more just the way that you would speak to a friend?
Andre: Oh yeah. I mean, if would show the way that I write now to any English teacher, they'd fail me on the spot. And the only way to write better is two things: is to read more and write more. It's the only way to get better.
Autoresponders vs. Broadcast Emails
James: Well, I've noticed you do some cool stuff too, like you share book recommendations with your audience, and you involve people in… I remember you sold off some of your old info products. I remember these things, they're really quite unusual compared to your typical affiliate blast. This leads me to a few sort of related questions.
Are you doing a lot of autoresponders for your house lists, or are you a broadcaster?
Andre: No, I don't do broadcasts very much. Well, yeah. I mean, follow-up sequences just are perfect for the type of stuff I do. And also the way that I see it is, when I write an email, I want it to… I don't want it just to be used once. It needs to be used over time, so every piece of asset, every asset that I create, there's an evergreen element to it.
And it can be used forever, over time, so loading up all these emails into a follow-up sequence that are essentially going to be there for years if I choose to leave them there, it's just perfect. And then, every single person that comes into my sphere of influence is going to be exposed to those emails, and obviously those emails are all sequenced out in a certain way so it tells a story and it moves people along a predefined line, and it's all very predictable.
When you're doing broadcast, I mean, Ben Settle does daily broadcast emails, and again there's nothing wrong with the different methods that…they all work, it's just for me, I don't want to write an email and hit the Send button and it goes out to X thousand people and that's it. You know, the person that gets added to my list or adds themselves to my list the next day wasn't exposed to an email that was potentially a really good one or something that could move the needle for somebody.
James: Yeah, I guess in my boat I'm a hybrid, because I send broadcast emails every day or two, but I also have a bunch of behavioral-based autoresponders that are fired… you know, the trigger or the sequence will happen when someone visits a page on my site, or they purchase a product, then they will be added to a sequence where they start receiving information that has been leveraged and structured. I wish there was a way that I could leverage a lot of my broadcast stuff, but I guess it ties in with my fresh videos.
Andre: I mean the hybrid of both works really well as well. It's not that I don't send broadcasts; I do, but follow-up sequences basically is the spinal cord of everything. So like you said, when the people visit a certain page or they trigger a certain event, it can launch a series of emails and you can't do that any other way. And obviously, things that are more time-sensitive, you can send a broadcast over the top, and that works good. That works well.
James: Why do you think you have been held up as such a great email marketer? What sort of qualities do you think people keep talking about when they come back to you? Anywhere you go, any Facebook group, any forum, when the topic of email marketing comes up, you get Andre Chaperon, Ben Settle, and then some of the proteges are coming through.
You know, like the people who study the material and get sort of public out there, like John McIntyre. What are the things that you think people really admire the most about the stuff you've been doing?
Andre: I think the stuff that I'm known for the most is the soap opera sequences. It's just the name I gave to sequencing of emails. I just call them soap opera sequences, because that's kind of what it feels like. I think that's the thing that I'm most well-known for.
James: Yeah. So there's really a lot to be said for naming a process in your industry.
James: Get in there early with your name. I do it too. You know, I've got Own The Racecourse, and people refer to that when I'm not around. And that's really one of the goals, I guess.
An unusual introvert
James: But it is kind of remarkable to me, because you have been very under the radar. You hardly ever pop out. But then you do some unusual stuff for an introvert. Like you'll tell people when you're going to an event or wherever and encourage them to meet you and have drinks. So I think you're really making an effort as a… maybe you're reforming.
Andre: Yeah. I'm actually strange. I actually do enjoy meeting people. It's not like I need to hide in a cupboard all day long. It's just meeting people in a little setting in a bar setting or whatever, that's great and I love chatting to people and helping them out like that. It's just when there's a setting like this, I guess, I'm doing OK at the moment but yeah, if I were to jump on stage I wouldn't know where to start and I kind of, I don't know.
For me, I can articulate my thoughts when I'm writing. And as I'm writing, I get this clarity that happens. And I can't get that any other way, so when I'm just talking and ad libbing, I don't have that level of clarity. I can't articulate my thoughts in the same way, so things come out a bit jumbled, which is why I love writing, because it just, yeah, it's cool. It works well.
James: Well, I think the real message in that is this is probably very encouraging for someone who doesn't feel like they want to be on camera and upfront and center like a lot of the marketers out there. I'll put myself in that bucket. My preferred medium is to just create a video or an audio off the bat and record it and then just leverage it. That way, I tend not to write much at all.
I hardly write anything. The real takeaway is that it really doesn't matter what your style is. There is a way to monetize that, and to leverage it, and I think when you combine a few of them, that's got some real power as well.
Andre: Yeah, absolutely.
A common blunder
James: You said you meet a couple of people, you help them out. I know you're in small group sort of mastermind with some very interesting people. I'm really quite interested in the sort of examples of things that you've helped people with in terms of… what are the common mistakes people make, that when you look at, you go, "Aww, OK, so if you change this you'll get a better result"?
Andre: You know, the biggest one is, the most simplest one, sometimes people think it's too simple, I guess. But it's just understanding the market, understanding your audience. People seem to, in my experience, anyway, they kind of just presume a lot, and they have these assumptions that this is what the audience wants, and it's typically not the case.
So I do a huge amount of research upfront and it makes writing emails, whether you're writing emails or talking on an audio interview, if you don't know much about the people out there that are listening to your stuff, you've got a very little chance of saying the right things that are going to move that person in the right direction. So yeah, typically, that's where they fall short, right there in the beginning stages.
James: Give me an idea or sense of some of the researching techniques that you do. Does it involve surveys, does it involve you reading and finding out stuff?
Andre: Yes, if they already have an asset, a list, it's easy enough to send out questions, send a survey out to their audience. Typically when you meet people live, you get a feel for what they're about. If you've been in that position yourself, which I think most marketers have, we've all started out doing, coming into this space as a nobody and figuring it all out, so we've all been there to some extent.
It's not like we've just appeared in the marketing space and knew exactly what we were doing. So we can kind of connect with that audience, as long as you don't forget that. I was speaking to a friend and client the other day and he was following what we teach about doing all this crazy research stuff.
And he said he was speaking to one of his clients in the golf space and he asked his client, "So tell me about your audience. Who's the actual ideal golfer?" And his client said, "Well, every single golfer that swings a golf club," which obviously wasn't the right answer, because being a golfer, you're already different and you can't have one thing fits all.
So that golfer's got his whole campaign redone based on doing all this research, figuring out who his ideal golfer is, which is an elderly, high handicapper person which, when you're talking to that audience segment, it's going to have a completely different effect to thinking that you're going to just talk to everybody and help everybody that swings a golf club.
James: Yes, so it's really zooming in on your market. I'm curious, do you do much segmentation of your email list?
Segmenting your email list
Andre: Yeah, that's one of the biggest things. If you don't segment your list, and you just stick with one big house list, it's very difficult to figure out what to do. So yeah, I segment a lot, and there's certain platforms that make it really easy to segment and some that make it really difficult, but, it's something that you have got to do.
That's one of the key things that I do is whenever I send out any, well not every email, but certain emails that say certain things, I will then code the link, that if somebody clicks that link, it tells me that they've raised a hand and they're interested in a certain thing. Or if they purchase certain product within a certain category, I know that that person is obviously really interested in a certain thing. And then I can, you know, when I send out offers later on, or stuff later on, I can target the right people in it, and ignore the ones that aren't interested in certain things.
So I certainly don't hit everybody over the head, whenever I send out emails.
James: Yeah I've seen you sub-segment many, many times. I even remember you pretty much tried to take everyone off your list at some point. You're like doing it full-on Howard Hughes. You really only want people to be there if they're actually interested in getting your stuff. I wonder what sort of effect that has when you do that.
Andre: Yeah. It conditions people to pay attention.
Important parts of the email
James: Right. Now, let's talk about other stuff like for example, how important are subject lines and the first line of the email and the send address?
Andre: Yeah. So, I don't know if my response is going to be the typical response but for me, it's because of the way that I write emails and I nurtured that relationship over time, the most important thing for me is the from address. I mean, when I send email, and I don't mean for this to come out all conceited or whatever but yeah, when an email comes out with my name on it, it's almost irrelevant what the subject line is, obviously the subject line is important but..
James: So you're saying that the "send from" person is really important.
Andre: Yeah, it's the most important factor in my book. I mean when a Frank Kern sends an email at you, you know, he can have any clever subject line. It's really irrelevant. People that are following Frank Kern, when the email comes out and they see it's Frank Kern they're going to read it right?
James: Gotcha! And then there's quite a different schools of thought on the subject line. I know there's a lot of tricky subject lines that force people to open it. And then there's the very factual, codified ones, that sort of make it very organized, it's clear what it's about, what category, even in brackets sometimes, and then a very factual headline, you know like, episode 40, topic of help, or whatever. Have you found a particular preference?
Andre: For me it just depends on the context. So if I have a customer list and people have come in, they've purchased a certain thing, then those next sequence of emails are more, they'll be more structured, that will be in square brackets, the abbreviation of the product that they've purchased or whatever, and then it will be a subject line, and then in brackets at the end, it'll say something like, email 1 of 10. So it just gives people an understanding and some clarity of what they can expect.
And again, I do that because it subscribed to lists as well. And it just makes things easy to set up filters from a client's perspective, from a customer's perspective, to set up filters in your emails, so then, you know, when the subject lines are predictable, it allows you to be able to set up these filters, and I know that my customers want the same thing. So you know, I hold them out by by creating some sort of clarity with the emails.
If I'm just sending out a broadcast or whatever email that I need to filter per se, yeah then it will just be my name and subject line, nothing clever.
James: Very cool. Alright, so, you've been very generous already with your time and I know how difficult these are for you. So let's just recap here. You've got this great formula that involves sole properties, which more or less means, you're thinking about emails over a whole sequence, you're leveraging them because you've pre-loading them up and getting to use them over and over again. Do you actually go in and tweak some of the messages if they're not getting their appropriate open or response rate, or flowing through to the next one?
Tweaking messages
Andre: I do. But I don't stress out and get crazy over every single individual email. I mean there's just too many emails to have to stress out about every single one, because the way I write these emails, you know, they all work together. Again, the emails are under isolation. It's typically a story that happens over, I don't know, let's say two weeks.
So it's that block of emails are going to have a certain result. And it's no, no one individual email is going to mess up that system. Obviously, if I say something or swear in an email, and those customers aren't into bad language, yes, then there could be a drop off. But that's easy enough to see.
But for the most parts, I just write these blocks of emails and I'll then measure the results, more or less. And yeah, I will really go back and tweak something because it isn't working.
James: So how many emails would you have in your system pre-loaded? Have you ever counted them?
Pre-loading emails
Andre: It just depends on the funnel, because every funnel has the end sequence of emails, and what I do is, that's the nice thing with follow-up sequences, you don't have to write a million emails. If you have | 3,575 |
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Woo hoo! It's done! It's done!
The culmination of two years of blood, sweat and tears, and one big fundraising campaign, the Be Who You Are album is now "out there" joining the children's music conversation! You can buy the digital album download everywhere you buy music including iTunes, CDBaby and more. The physical CD is available here at our website, www.bewhoyouare.tv.
I'm so thrilled with this collection of songs and spoken word pieces that promote the power of kids to change the world, and the importance of raising good people!
The infectious pop-rock title track "Be Who You Are" says it all – the lyrics encourage kids to stick to their beliefs, opinions and tastes, no matter what others say. And it's not always easy. When the pressure is on to decide how to act or dress, other people's opinions can be overwhelmingly persuasive. But asserting your own style and living comfortably in your own skin is the key to personal success, better mental health, and overall freedom. That's why being yourself is the lynchpin of the Be Who You Are movement!
But there are lots of other crucial concepts we're getting across here. One of my personal favorites is the message of critical thinking in the rocker "Question Everything," sung by Ron Reyes, formerly of Black Flag. He said yes immediately when we asked him if he would sing the song, a punk anthem for not letting the status quo stand. He's an old school rebel, and a great dad. Originally I wanted to call the song Question Authority, but Richard pointed out that parents might not want to have their authority questioned, and then wouldn't buy the album! Point taken.
"Free" is a ballad sure to get stuck in your head. It's a straight up pop song that describes the way we should all feel every day – free to create the world we want to see, with nothing in our way. Kids are really good at conjuring up this type of pure joy, and we really wanted to celebrate that with this song. Life drags you down in so many ways as an adult that it can be a struggle to feel this way even part time! So maybe if kids can appreciate it while they've got it, they'll be able to hang on to it a little bit better as they get older.
There's a touch of the 1950's with the Jerry Lee Lewis style to Tara's "Fear of Love" (featuring Meher Steinberg on grand piano) and an ode to a little girl that rivals the Beach Boys layered style called "Into The Garden" with beautiful harmonies and miraculous music by Richard. He likes to tell the story that I poo-poohed his vocals on this one originally, thinking his voice was too masculine and gruff to pull off lines like "the butterflies are free to fly and the bees just buzz on by…." but I'll deny it to the grave. Ok, I did think so at first, but now I love the way he sings it, and it still makes me cry.
"Perfectly Imperfect" is an experimental<|fim_middle|> my awesome sister Valerie!!! It's all about how fun it is to go traveling, which to me is an absolute necessity for real life education. If Americans traveled more, we wouldn't be so stereotyped around the world for our embarrassing ethnocentrism. Plus, learning about new cultures infuses your brain with a heady mix of new sounds, smells, tastes and more. Kids need to know it's possible, if not necessary.
"It's Not Fair" is a hilarious redemption song by Krista Sutton, about a kid who thinks she owns all the sand in the sandbox, only to discover it's not so fun to play on your own. Krista plays a mean kazoo, people! Also in this vein, "How to Fly" gives kids permission to let a group dynamic become its own thing – encouraging the joy of cooperation and synthesizing ideas. "Share What You Find" suggests lots of amazing things that can be done in the world and why it's fun to share experiences. Our excellent friend and photographer Ellen Rehak came up with the lyrics for this one, and it was really fun to collaborate on what ended up being one of my favorite pieces on the album.
Finally, there are three spoken word pieces that parents can play as bedtime stories, or teachable moments. "Rosalind Peacock" is the hilarious rambling stream of consciousness of a young student who idolizes one of his classmates and then has a big realization at the end, wonderfully narrated by actor / painter Jon Rannells. Then actress Kathryn Winslow will make you weep with empathy listening to "Cojak the Cactus with no Needles", the tale of a not-so-prickly pear cactus who becomes emotionally hardened to ward off predators. Will he find his gooey center again?
Lastly, "Speak Up" is an homage to a famous poem that's I've always loved, called "First They Came" by Pastor Niemoller. It's set in 1940s Nazi Germany, and hits home the perils of not standing up for other people – because if you don't, eventually there is no one left to stand up for you. Our play is set in a modern classroom where kids are learning the poem at the same time as bullying is affecting the their lives directly.
Oh, I have so much more to say!! We have a lot of plans, with a school play in the works that teaches character, a teacher's guide for the album itself and more! But I'll have to save it for future blogs.
Meanwhile please check out the album! You can listen to clips here or here, and if you like it – buy it! We're going to use the first album proceeds to make freakin' awesome T-shirts. You know you want one. | dance style track by actress Cara Pifko, which has a message about messing up and how important it is to make mistakes! A critical message! It has recently become more popular to teach children that mistakes are the key to success, and I'm glad. When you walk through life on eggshells, you never get to eat the damn omelet.
And what kids' album would be complete without a ukulele? Check out "Postcard from Hawaii" performed by | 97 |
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Startup entrepreneurs from Lithuania and Israel will get new opportunities for growth and development thanks to an agreement signed this week between leading tech parks in the two countries.
The deal, made between Sapiegos Tech Park in Vilnius and Hubanana tech hub in Ra'nana, will create an ongoing startup exchange programme between the two hubs. The partnership, signed during a joint Lithuania-Israel panel at the Tech 2016 conference in Ra'nana on June 28, also includes measures for connecting the Israeli and Lithuanian startup ecosystems.
The partnership is an acknowledgment of Vilnius' rapidly growing startup scene. The deal is a sign that for entrepreneurs, the Lithuanian capital represents the perfect spot for expansion into continental Europe thanks to its convenient location and favourable business environment.
The exchange agreement creates a wealth of opportunities for companies from both communities.
The agreement sees Israeli startups able to stay at Sapiegos Tech Park, where they will get a free working space for up to two weeks plus use of the parks' vast business development infrastructure. This includes bespoke consultancy on legal issues, HR, communications, and European Union<|fim_middle|>, making it one of the most business friendly countries globally," he said. "It is also a global leader for internet speeds and its population is considered to be amongst the most IT-literate in Europe.
The most prominent Israeli tech company so far to have spotted Lithuania's potential is Wix.com, and Judes believes many others will soon be following them to Vilnius.
With Lithuania planning to introduce a new startup visa for innovative SMEs this autumn, he feels this is a trend that could rapidly develop.
Idan Meir, Manager of Hubanana, believes that thanks to the new partnership with Sapiegos, Lithuania can become a first step for Israeli startups into the EU market.
"A lot of our members are looking for new opportunities and to grow into the EU market," he added. "This can be a challenging step for a small company, but I am confident that our partnership with Sapiegos will make it easier for these talented entrepreneurs.
"They can simply go, establish connections and take further steps in confidence.
For Darius Zakaitis, Managing Director at Sapiegos Tech Park in Vilnius, this partnership is a natural step in growing the business connections between Israel and Lithuania.
"We have a dual role at Sapiegos Tech Park," he added. "We help local startups to grow internationally and we are a focal point for innovative companies entering the EU.
This new partnership is ideal for meeting both of these objectives. It will open up new opportunities for our community to learn from the most advanced startup ecosystem globally and to create valuable new business connections. Furthermore, it enables us to assist Israeli startups in their exciting journeys into Europe," he concluded.
The connection between the two tech hubs is not going to stop at exchanges.
A plan for holding annual joint events for both communities is currently being discussed, with the Lithuanian panel's presence at June Tech being the start of this tradition. In the following months, both organisations will draw up the criteria for startups to participate in the exchange programme, which will then be launched as part of Sapiegos Tech Park in Vilnius' official opening in autumn 2016.
The Sapiegos tech park in Vilnius aims to attract and unite innovative talent from game development, big data, cyber security, smart solutions, fintech and digital design.
Its will also receive exclusive services from the its main partners, Startup Highway, TEO and Omnitel, IMI.VC, Game Insight and DNB Bank.
*Editor's note: This story was adapted from a press release provided by Vilnius Techpark. | 'Horizon 2020' funding for SME's, plus many additional services, all at exclusive community rates.
With more than 700 startuppers set to be working in the park's renovated 19th Century buildings plus regular onsite events, the exchange will also give Israeli startups a unique opportunity to network and establish valuable business connections within the EU.
In return, members of the Sapiegos community will be able to stay in Hubanana tech hub and make use of the infrastructure and connections it offers to improve their ideas, look for investors or grow and develop their business. For Lithuania-based startups, this represents a unique opportunity to evaluate their business potential in one of the most developed startup ecosystems globally.
According to Len Judes, founder of the Israel-Lithuania Technology Hub, which initiated and facilitated the partnership, it is natural that business connections between Israel and Lithuania are growing.
"Lithuania has recently reached 13th position in the Index of Economic freedom | 199 |
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ASCAP Announces Four Virtual Award Shows for 2020
by Press Release May 28, 2020, 2:21 pm
ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, today announced it will honor the songwriters and publishers behind its most performed songs of the past year with four virtual celebrations for ASCAP Pop, Screen, Latin and Rhythm & Soul Music Award winners. Beginning in June and continuing through mid-July, the innovative format will, for the first time, allow more friends and fans to join the online festivities, with three days of dedicated content for each genre on ASCAP's social media channels including livestreamed performances, special celebrity appearances, winner spotlights and interviews.
The ASCAP Virtual Awards will take place on the following dates:
● ASCAP Pop Music Awards: June 17 – 19
● ASCAP Screen Music Awards: June 23 – 25
● ASCAP Latin Music Awards: July 7 – 9
● ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards: July 15 – 17
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The Cerny Brothers Ready for a Return to Normalcy, The Road | members are the heart and soul of ASCAP and every year we look forward to the chance to reunite in person and celebrate their outstanding contributions to music," said ASCAP Chairman of the Board and President Paul Williams. "Even though we can't be together 'in real life' this time, we are so excited to honor them virtually so that we can all connect and share our collective love of music. We invite music fans everywhere to join us in toasting their music and what their creative work adds to our lives."
The ASCAP Virtual Awards will feature exclusive photos, videos, acceptance speeches and more from some of ASCAP's top members and publishers posted with the hashtag #ASCAPAwards to @ASCAP, @ASCAPScreen, @ASCAPUrban and @ASCAPLatino on Instagram as well as special programming as part of ASCAP Experience: Home Edition. Spotlight award show moments including Songwriter of the Year, Songwriter-Artist of the Year, Publisher of the Year, Independent Publisher of the Year and Song of the Year will remain
major highlights during the online festivities. And ASCAP will unveil the winners of its annual Composers' Choice Awards, which allow ASCAP composer members to vote for their top Film Score of the Year, TV Composer of the Year and Video Game Score of the Year.
Specific times, winners and additional program details will be announced in the future.
About ASCAP The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers of every kind of music. ASCAP's mission is to license and promote the music of its members and foreign affiliates, obtain fair compensation for the public performance of their works and to distribute the royalties that it collects based upon those performances. ASCAP members write the world's best-loved music and ASCAP has pioneered the efficient licensing of that music to hundreds of thousands of enterprises who use it to add value to their business – from bars, restaurants and retail, to radio, TV and cable, to Internet, mobile services and more. The ASCAP license offers an efficient solution for businesses to legally perform ASCAP music while respecting the right of songwriters and composers to be paid fairly. With more than 750,000 members representing more than 11.5 million copyrighted works, ASCAP is the worldwide leader in performance royalties, service and advocacy for songwriters and composers, and the only American performing rights organization (PRO) owned and governed by its writer and publisher members. Learn more and stay in touch at www.ascap.com, on Twitter and Instagram @ | 530 |
Sam Kendricks enjoyed a flawless 2017 season winning the world title, Diamond League trophy and also gained admission to the six-metre club. Here the US pole vaulter talks about his background in the sport and why he has a zeal for vaulting.
"I tell two stories about now I got into vaulting; one is the true one and the other is the funny one and the joke is they are one and the same. In the US the Title IX law states that for every male sport there must be an equivalent opportunity for the girl to compete. My father (Scott) was a high school track coach and the school was the first in Mississippi to add a girls' pole vault. What was cool about this was it allowed me, a scrawny little soccer player who would never have been allowed me to join the guys programme to at least jump with the girls to train. At that time the girls used to beat my brains out – I never did beat those girls – but what<|fim_middle|>. I taught myself never to say no when Coach K (Scott Kendricks) said we are ready to jump.
"My father allowed me to love the event because he always had total faith in me. I was by no means a sterling athlete. I'm not a great physical specimen but my father's faith gave me the time and the benefit of his expertise to do with it what I will. | it did do was it gave me the opportunity to try the event.
"Competing in pole vault gave me a lot of quiet pride. I could never run the hurdles or the 4x400m but when I went to an event and vaulted people would say,"look at that little guy jump", and it made me feel good. I was also doing a cool event which gave me a genuine spot on my father's track team. It allowed me to progress as a young athlete.
"I loved vaulting because it was so frustrating and such a challenge. It made me stronger and I met some of my best friends through the sport. I loved training and preparing to jump higher | 139 |
The Rt Hon Mark Drakeford, First Minister, abandoned his pre-planned speech at yesterday's gofod3 to issue a call to action to the third sector, telling it to put aside normal activities, and plan for a No Deal Brexit.
Some no-deal plans are already being activated across the country such as Kent County Council's traffic management plan Operation Fennel, with a decision on whether to implement Operation Yellowhammer, the national contingencies for food, medicine and banking due to be made in the next few days.
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"Because it will be the resilience of our civil society, of those organisations that work on the ground and who know where vulnerable people live, and are able to turn up on doorsteps, and check they are okay, and do things that they are unable immediately to manage for themselves. Those will be the resources that we will rely on, in those days that follow from a Brexit of the sort that I have described.
"And this is a very good opportunity today, to have everybody together, to test again the strength of the movement that we know we are lucky enough to have, here in Wales. And to say in all seriousness that, over the next week, we all have to be thinking and planning and putting to one side the things we normally would be doing in order to make sure, if that contribution is needed, the voluntary and the third sector here in Wales will do what it has done so many times in the past, and step up to the challenge we will have to face together.
"Even if we find a different way through […] provided the Prime Minister is willing, even at this final hour, to pivot towards it, to talk to other parties in a genuine way of seeking a different solution. Even if we manage that, the stresses and strains that Brexit has created in our society will not easily evaporate.
"If we have a transition period, if we have a different destination, the healing process will need to begin as soon as we are able to make it. And in that healing process, as I say, we have to find respectful language for people who have taken a different view. And to find a way of having a conversation with them that brings them and others back around that single table.
"And make sure that they have a voice, alongside others, in shaping the sort of Wales we want to see. A Wales that is open. A Wales that is tolerant. A Wales that welcomes people from other parts of the globe. A Wales that is determined that we continue to be a European country. In the European mainstream.
"Working even harder than we have in recent years to get that message across to those many friends we have in other parts of Europe. And the third sector has played such an important part in this: informing those networks, in creating those friendships. But those people know that, for Wales at least, we will go on making the effort to sustain those relationships beyond Brexit and into the future. | discussion by Wales Civil Society Forum on Brexit – a partnership between WCVA, which runs gofod3, and the Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University.
"In the short run, the chaos on our roads, in our airports, in supplies of food, in the way that we keep water safe, all of these things which we never imagined we would see in our lifetimes, all of those are real and substantial risks.
"There is a week still to go. We have worn the patience of our partners in the European Union, as thin as you can imagine. But we may still be having to rely on their willingness to help us find a way out of the hole that has been dug for us here at home.
"In those circumstances, we will have to mobilise every resource that we have in Wales, to help those who are the most vulnerable in our society, not to be overwhelmed by the difficulties that they may face. And that means Government, of course, it means our public services, of course, but it means all of the organisations that are represented in this room | 216 |
Guy's Oscar nomination dream becomes reality
Wednesday 30th January 2019 7:00 am
Guy Thompson with Tansy and Elodie Martin ()
A DREAM has come true for Chiddingfold resident Guy Thompson after a film he worked on was officially nominated last week for an Oscar in the best short documentary category at this year's awards.
The nominations for the 91st Academy Awards on February 25 were announced by Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross last Tuesday morning from the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, California, in an announcement that was live streamed globally.
Guy, who grew up in Chiddingfold and attended Grayswood school and St Bart's, was art director of Black Sheep, a film directed by Ed Perkins and produced by Simon and Jonathan Ch<|fim_middle|>, fearing for Cornelius' safety, moved the family out of London to a housing estate in Essex. Walker suddenly found himself living on a white estate among racists. He confronted a gang of local racists and, after first fighting back, went to extraordinary lengths to fit in and gain their friendship.
The film features interviews with Walker looking back 15 years on from the events he describes, which are re-enacted with Kai Francis Lewis playing Walker. Responding to the nomination, Walker said: "I'm humbled and proud. I worked on this film to tell my story and hoped that it would resonate with people."
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The documentary will be up against four other contenders End Game, Lifeboat, A Night at the Garden and Period. End of Sentence.
The 27-minute film explores questions about ethnicity and identity and the compromises people make to fit in. It won the best short documentary award at the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival in June.
Guy, who started at the bottom of the film industry making teas, has spent ten years working his way up to head of department making music videos and commercials. He is currently making short films and pilots and hopes to move into feature films.
He's now booking his tickets for Hollywood and will be at the ceremony hoping Black Sheep is a winner. Even if it doesn't get an Oscar, being nominated and being able to network with Hollywood's movers and shakers will be a huge boost to his career – quite apart from all the red carpet excitement on the night.
"I'm thrilled Black Sheep is in the official selection," Guy said.
"I'll definitely be making the most of it.
"To be going to the actual ceremony is just crazy. It's been a whirlwind.
"Everyone in the family is so pleased and I've already been signed up by Camelsdale Primary School, where my nieces Tansy and Elodie Martin go, to give a talk about it.
"It's obviously a dream come true to be considered among the best films in the world and have your work recognised in this way.
"I really hope this can be a stepping stone to the world of feature films for me.
"Because we were dramatising a real and very sensitive story I had to be extra diligent when creating the right environment.
"I was very careful to consult on the types of things Cornelius had in the year 2000 in his house and bedroom and even on his person such as the posters on his walls or his personal stereo. Alongside this, me and my team did extensive research into the area and the community at that time to get an accurate representation of the place. Being a docu-drama there is a fine balance between aesthetic and authenticity.
"We made the film in Chadwell St Mary, a small town near Tilbury, in the exact same area where the story took place almost 20 years ago.
"The background cast that we used were kids from the local area, and it was a real honour to be able to speak to these guys and explain what we were doing and engage with them.
"Most of them had no idea that you could actually work in the film industry or how to get into it. They particularly liked my foam bricks and sugar glass bottles which they all wanted to play with. It was really rewarding to see how far the area had come in terms of diversity since the story that we were telling took place.
"It was a fun job for props, I particularly enjoyed using the smoke and mist maker which we used for the last scene in a big open field, and the sugar glass bottles and foam bricks always attract a lot of attention."
Directed by Ed Perkins, Black Sheep follows the story of Cornelius Walker after the murder of 11-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor in November 2000. Cornelius, also aged 11 and with Nigerian parents, lived nearby. His mother | 660 |
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