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Vis<|fim_middle|> believe setting matters in novels as much as the plot and characters. What would Harry Potter novels be without Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade? Would we be so enthralled by Edith Wharton's House of Mirth without the descriptions of those lavish country houses? Could Lord of the Flies take place anywhere other than a lush tropical island?
When I wrote my newest novel, Folly Cove, I wanted the setting to be an historic New England inn like the one my grandmother worked in for many years. What would it be like, I wondered, to bring together three sisters whose legacy is that inn? What if that reunion happened at a time when each woman is in crisis, causing dark secrets to come tumbling out of family closets? It would be my own version of an island, where the inhabitants had no choice but to interact with each other.
Okay, I was going to write about an inn. Now, where should I put it?
For the larger setting, I wanted something claustrophobic, a beautiful but isolated place, so the clashes between the sisters would feel even more inevitable and inescapable. I chose to set the inn—and the book—at Folly Cove, a real place in the town of Rockport on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Cape Ann is a peninsula that extends northeast from the Massachusetts mainland; it's only about forty miles from Boston, but feels much farther because you have to travel on such narrow, winding roads to get there.
I loved Folly Cove's fascinating history. For example, I was intrigued by the Folly Cove Designers, a collective of women artists led by Virginia Lee Burton (an illustrator and author of many children's books, including Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel ). Setting the inn there also meant it was close to Dogtown and Halibut Point. These are two of my favorite places on Cape Ann and lend themselves well to dramatic descriptions that ramp up emotions in the novel.
Dogtown, for instance, is one of the most beautiful but creepiest places I've ever hiked with my dog, a densely wooded area with innumerable trails and the remains of stone cellar holes dug by 17th-century settlers. Once fishing proved more profitable than farming, most of the men moved to coastal areas, while widows of fishermen and soldiers who fought in the War of 1812 remained and kept dogs for protection. The dogs eventually became feral, giving the land its name.
Adding to the weird and wonderful nature of Dogtown is that some of the last women living there were rumored to be practicing witches. Plus, during the Depression, a millionaire named Roger Babson paid unemployed stone cutters to carve inspirational sayings on dozens of giant boulders around Dogtown, like, "Never Try, Never Win." You can still see those today.
There are boulders as big as houses in those woods, so it's no wonder granite quarrying was a profitable business in Rockport through the 19th century. Millions of granite paving stones were used in construction in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and other cities. You can see samples of huge granite blocks at Halibut Point—one of the places where my characters go to work out whether they can ever forgive each other for the secrets they've held through the years.
The next time you read a novel, think about what the setting contributes to the plot and what might change if the author had chosen a different place for the action. You may discover surprising new insights in the books you read, simply by considering the setting.
Holly Robinson
Holly Robinson is the author of the novels Chance Harbor, Haven Lake, Beach Plum Island, The Wishing Hill, Sleeping Tigers, and a memoir, The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter. She is an NPR commentator and a journalist whose work appears in publications such as the Huffington Post, More, Parents, Publishers Weekly, and Redbook.
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Sandy Klocinski
Choosing a place for your story can be as interesting as the story itself. Every place will have an impact on the story. I think of the setting as an archetype, with its own personality.
Meryl Baer
Reading the short descriptions of places in the novel make me eager to read more. I am sure I will be more conscious of setting in future readings. Thanks!
Christine G
I enjoy historic dramas placed in real locations. I like to read the book and imagine these locations as the writer describes them, then if I have the opportunity to, I like to visit these places live and in person to see the differences. Sort of like reading the novel and then seeing the movie. Since Cape Ann, Massachusetts is only 4 states away I will be able to make the short journey. Hope you pique my interest by awarding me the book. Please pick me.
Debbi Wellenstein
I will certainly be paying more attention to the settings in the novels I read-thanks for the insight!
Susan Rose Murray
I would love to read this book. Place definitely matters to me.
Nadine Stacy
When I know I am going to travel to a region, I try to find books to read on the trip that deal with that locale. Sometimes I am successful and enjoy the added "feel" of the place. The ultimate trip like this was going on a DaVinci Code trip from Rome to Scotland.
betty league
I agree that the setting of the story enhances the plot and makes the story more interesting. thanks
This books looks really good. I'm always looking for a good book to read.
sounds like a fun one
Lorena Keech
It sounds like the location is as much a character in your book as the three sisters. I look forward to reading it.
megan tilley
This looks like an incredible book, looking forward to seeing how the story unfolds.
susan smoaks
setting absolutely does contribute to the plot of the story. i love a good read.
I love reading books which not only have fascinating story-lines but also ones like this which have characters you can really get into.
jeremy mclaughlin
Looks like a interesting read.
Darlene Owen
This sounds like a fun place to live and play
Mentioning Edith Wharton, J.K. Rawlings and William Golding tells me we like the same writers so I'd like to read your writing.
This sounds like an amazing read! I know that I would enjoy it. Thank you for sharing!
Trisha McKee
The setting is important. I'm more about the characters and the chemistry and the dialogue. But setting does help me visualize the entire story.
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Visiting Plimoth Plantation to celebrate Thanksgiving | iting Folly Cove: Why place matters in novels – & a book giveaway (contest ended)
My friend and colleague, Holly Robinson, author of Folly Cove (Penguin, 2016) and other engaging novels, shares a guest post about why place and setting matters in novels.
Giveaway: Leave a comment below before November 15, 2016 to win a copy of Folly Cove.
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Storm Tracker Brandon Welles
Brandon is an Oklahoma native born and raised in Tulsa. He attributes his love of weather to his father and Travis Meyer, as well<|fim_middle|> He is married to Ashley who is also fascinated by storms. They reside in Broken Arrow with their 4-year-old son and their dog, Moose.
Brandon began his dream of being a storm tracker with KOTV in November 2015 and looks forward to being there in the years to come.
When he's not tracking severe or winter weather, Brandon likes to spend time with his wife and son enjoying the outdoors, grilling and going to the lake house. | as the wicked weather road show camps that came to his school at a young age. As a young child he would sit glued to the TV during severe weather coverage and watch Travis for hours on end. He also enjoyed reading books about weather, watching weather videos, learning about storm chasers through documentaries and, of course, was fascinated by the movie Twister.
Brandon experienced the April 24, 1993 tornado, which demolished Bruce's Truck Stop in Tulsa. He didn't know at the time that he had been standing under the mesocyclone as that tornado developed. That's when his love of and passion for weather took off.
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He believes it's truly an honor and privilege to be able to warn the residents of Green Country of impending severe weather and winter storms. He started chasing and capturing the beauty and fury of Mother Nature in 2002. He's documented tornadoes in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas.
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Story Behind the Song: Brothers Osborne, 'Shoot Me Straight'
"Shoot Me Straight," the first single to be released off Brothers Osborne's sophomore album Port Saint Joe, is an exercise in unpredictably. The duo, who've never been particularly well known for adhering to conventional formats and country blueprints to begin with, released the nearly seven-minutes-long two-parter at the beginning of January 2018.
TJ Osborne opens the song with an uptempo, brooding ode to alcohol and making bad decisions. Around the two-and-a-half-minute mark, the vocals fade out, and John Osborne's impressive guitarwork takes the spotlight.<|fim_middle|> and we thought we might wake up the next morning and find that no one wanted to play it. But, we knew the song was different, and we knew it was us who had recorded it, and we trusted that. We like difference. We like stirring up the pot.
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Read on to find out how "Shoot Me Straight" came to be, straight from Brothers Osborne.
TJ Osborne: It actually started off as a ballad. We thought the song was good, but not anything unique or memorable. [Separately,] there was this lick we'd been throwing around for several writes. John had the idea of just marrying the two together, and at that point, we knew instantly that would be a song we'd record.
John Osborne: We went down to Florida ... to a beach house. It wasn't even a studio. We were just like, "Well, we'll figure it out." [There was someone] in the kitchen that was attached to where we were playing in the living room, so we could hear pots and pans clanging. That's how we did it. Getting away from distractions allows you to focus in a much more creative way.
TJ Osborne: This song was probably the most risky single to lead the album with. I don't know why we were attracted to the hard road. I don't know why that happens -- maybe because I'm always a fan of an underdog.
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In Music Production, we will explore the technology and industry behind the music world. Students will study the technology and equipment used in recording, editing, and mixing sounds, and creating music videos. Students will also study and explore the various roles involved in producing a recording. This course will survey some of the recording technologies used in the music world, as well as some of the business aspects of producing music.
Youth Options - you take the class and we pay the bill! Earn both high school AND college credit. | , and articles. In each unit of the course, we explore a specific aspect of the human experience such as Laughter, Obstacles, Betrayal, and Fear. Through the study of literature, nonfiction, and life, we will explore what it means to be human, what it means to be fulfilled, triumphant, empowered, and transformed.
In this course, students will acquire the language, reading, writing, and speaking/listening skills necessary for success in college, career, and beyond. Students will become critical readers and thinkers as they dive deeply into the texts presented throughout this course. Students will learn how to effectively research and integrate their findings, as well as cite their sources.
Why do people do what they do? English IV you will give you a front row seat to study of the motives that have driven people's actions for centuries. Along the way you will encounter epic heroes defying danger, tormented minds succumbing to the power of greed and ambition, enlightened thinkers striving for individual rights and freedoms, sensitive souls attempting to capture human emotion, and determined debaters taking a stand on critical issues. You will read to analyze the way language is used to express human motivation and research to examine the results of actions in the real world.? The lessons in each module will give you the tools you need to gain insights from what you read and to use your knowledge in creative and analytical writing.
The AP Language and Composition course will provide high school students with college level instruction in studying and writing various kinds of analytic or persuasive essays on literary and nonliterary topics in language, rhetoric and expository writing. Students will become skilled readers of prose written in various periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts. Both their reading and writing should make students aware of the interactions among a writer's purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as the way writing conventions and language contribute to effectiveness in writing.
All of our core English classes also have Honors versions available, too.
This is a literary criticism course ("lit crit"). Lit crit is just the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. We study literature. Discuss literature. Evaluate literature. And interpret literature. So, what's the point? Why do we even study literary criticism? Because it's like taking a magnifying glass to a story (any kind of story - movie, novel, short story, poem, etc.) and dissecting it in order to decide which kind of critique will bring out the best possible qualities and lessons from that story.
Understanding the role of the free press in America helps students to be better informed and more able to analyze media. In this course, students explore the history of journalism in the United States from its inception in the colonies and its key role in the 1st Amendment, all the way up to present-day issues regarding right to know and the changing landscape of journalistic media in the 21st century. Students acquire the skills and information needed to actively participate in the consumption, analysis, and creation of news media and have the opportunity to investigate the constantly evolving career opportunities within the field of journalism.
Note: You can find free text online and audio files for all three novels and for the two Poe stories at http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ .
The Lord of the Rings is one of the most popular stories in the modern world. In this course, you will study the movie versions of J.R.R. Tolkein's novel and learn about the process of converting literature to film. You will explore fantasy literature as a genre and critique the three Lord of the Rings films.
Mighty heroes. Angry gods and goddesses. Cunning animals. Mythology and folklore have been used since the first people gathered around the fire as a way to make sense of humankind and our world. This course focuses on the many myths and legends woven into cultures around the world. Starting with an overview of mythology and the many kinds of folklore, the student will journey with ancient heroes as they slay dragons and outwit the gods, follow fearless warrior women into battle and watch as clever animals outwit those stronger than themselves. They will explore the universality and social significance of myths and folklore, and see how they are still used to shape society today.
Are you interested in becoming a more effective speaker, overcoming shyness, preparing for further schooling or a career, or just learning more about what public speaking is? If so, this course is for you! Learn about the history and elements of public speaking and rhetoric and the practice of public speaking, from research to performance. While this course is heavy on the theoretical aspects of public speaking and will require answering text and discussion questions, it will also involve evaluating actual speeches, working collaboratively, taking part in class presentations, and writing and presenting a speech. A working mic and camera are a must!
For struggling students; you work on what you need help with the most. Can be taken up to 4 times.
For those students needing a slower approach at learning Algebra. This course will be held in Acellus, a different website than Brain Honey. A recommendation from the teacher or guidance counselor is needed.
Algebra I is the foundation! The skills you'll acquire in this course contain the basic knowledge you'll need for all your high school math courses. Relax! This stuff is important, but everyone can do it. Everyone can have a good time solving the hundreds of real-world problems that are answered with algebra. Each module in this course is presented in a step-by-step way right on your computer screen. You won't have to stare at the board from the back of a classroom. There are even hands-on labs to make the numbers, graphs and equations more real. It's all tied to real-world applications like sports, travel, business and health. This course is designed to give you the skills and strategies for solving all kinds of mathematical problems. It will also give you the confidence that you can handle everything that high school math has in store for you. This class is taken over 4 quarter and earns 2 high school math credits when completed.
This course connects algebra to the real world. It also demystifies algebra, making it easier to understand and master. The goal is to create a foundation in math that will stay with you throughout high school.
One day in 2580 B.C., a very serious architect stood on a dusty desert with a set of plans. His plans called for creating a structure 480 feet, with a square base and triangular sides, using stone blocks weighing two tons each. The Pharaoh wanted the job done right. The better our architect understood geometry, the better were his chances for staying alive. Geometry is everywhere, not just in pyramids. Engineers use geometry to bank highways and build bridges. Artists use geometry to create perspective in their paintings, and mapmakers help travelers find things using the points located on a geometric grid. Throughout this course, we'll take you on a mathematical highway illuminated by spatial relationships, reasoning, connections, and problem solving. This course is all about points, lines and planes. Just as importantly, this course is about acquiring a basic tool for understanding and manipulating the real world around you.
Before studying calculus, all students should complete four year s of secondary mathematics designed for college-bound students: courses in which they study algebra, geometry, trigonometry, analytic geometry, and elementary functions.
An interactive text, graphing software and math symbol software combine with the exciting on-line course delivery to make Calculus an adventure. This course is designed to prepare the student for the AP Calculus AB exam given each year in May. With continuous enrollment, students can start the course and begin working on Calculus as early as spring of the previous year.
An interactive text, graphing software and math symbol software combine with the exciting on-line course delivery to make Calculus an adventure. This course is designed to prepare the student for the AP Calculus BC exam given each year in May. With continuous enrollment, students can start the course and begin working on Calculus as early as spring of the previous year.
Statistics are used everywhere from fast food businesses ordering hamburger patties to insurance companies setting rates to predicting a student's future success by the results of a test. Students will become familiar with the vocabulary, method, and meaning in the statistics which exist in the world around them. This is an applied course in which students actively construct their own understanding of the methods, interpretation, communication, and application of statistics. Each unit is framed by enduring understandings and essential questions designed to allow students a deep understanding of the concepts at hand rather than memorization and emulation. Students will also complete several performance tasks throughout the year consisting of relevant, open-ended tasks requiring students to connect multiple statistical topics together.
Course Rationale: This course will develop the student's mathematical concepts, improve logical thinking, and help to promote success. The course is offered for the students who desire to continue their study of mathematics. The course is needed for the students who wish to continue their education beyond high school in those fields that require a solid background in mathematics.
Course Description: Student will study relations, functions, graphs, trigonometry, polar coordinates, complex numbers, limits, and derivatives. The student will analyze and graph mathematical functions. There is an emphasis on verification of trigonometric identities using all of the basic trigonometric identities. Students will use graphing calculators in activities that are appropriate to the topics being studied.
Students in this course will walk in the footsteps of Newton and Leibnitz. An interactive text and graphing software combine with the exciting on-line course delivery to make calculus an adventure. The course includes a study of limits, continuity, differentiation, and integration of algebraic, trigonometric, and transcendental functions, and the applications of derivatives and integrals.
This course will review some of the fundamental math skills you learned in middle school, and then get you up to speed on the basic concepts of algebra. This course will be taught as a "blended" course. Students from the Grantsburg High School will be attending simultaneously as the teacher works with both traditional and online learners. Pre-approval is necessary to take this course. Call Mr. Beesley, Mr. Bettendorf, or Mr. Mark Johnson for more information.
For struggling math students; you work on what you need help with the most. Can be taken up to 4 times.
Teaches students how to do PE online.
Where do superheroes come from? They live in the action-filled pages of comic books. Who gives them their superpowers? It?s the creative artist who puts energy and excitement into every drawing. In this course, students learn how to create superheroes and discover the power in their pencils. Students learn the tools, tricks, and techniques of how professional artists create people and objects that leap off the page. Students begin with a sketchbook to learn how to visualize ideas and communicate those ideas using lines, colors, composition, and perspective. The end result is a portfolio of the student?s original artwork. In this one-segment course, students investigate the creative processes used by all artists; learn how to analyze, interpret, and evaluate art; and create portfolios of work that demonstrate their own skill and creativity as artists. To be successful in the course, students will need access to a scanner or a digital camera and basic art supplies.
This project-based course will offer a progressive set of lessons which will exposes learners to basic video and animation processes that build on important principles of art. Learners will work independently while learning specific skills, as well as, enjoy a collaborative learning atmosphere with their classmates. Students will be given multiple opportunities to demonstrate their understanding through the creation of short films. This course will introduce students to stop motion animation, videography, basic animation using GIMP, and the lost art of roto-scoping. Students enrolled in this course will explore video production processes while enjoying an original and energetic curriculum that will inspire patience, responsibility, organizational skills, collaboration and a work place level discipline. Students will need a digital camera or cell phone that has video making capabilities and access to GIMP, a free online graphic design program that comes preloaded on school computers or can be safely loaded with instruction from your teacher.
This course has been especially designed for iForward students in order to offer experiences that will help them better understand cultures throughout our world. This course allows students to work collaboratively with other learners that represent the diverse cultures that make up our incredible planet. Students who enroll in this class will learn skills in mutual respect while gaining a better understanding of other cultures and building respect for varied languages. Learners will gain a valuable awareness by enrolling in Art around the World as it will enable them to develop a well-informed world view through producing arts and crafts from a variety of different cultures.
This course is written for both middle school and high school students so that students at both levels of learning will succeed. Lessons will address similar standards but will allow several pathways for iForward students.
Art can empower students by nurturing self-esteem and confidence. Students who participate in the art course, Art and Mind will create works of art using traditional and digital skills that express their opinions through the art they create. Learners will see the work of other artists of the past and present who communicated a variety of influential messages through their work and also brought attention to the issues that affect our society. Art can speak louder than words and can be easily understood across a variety of cultures. Art connects us by presenting visual images that we can all relate to. It raises questions, fosters communication while playing a powerful role in our society. This course will touch the hearts and minds of our learners by showing them visual images that make them more aware of the human condition across the globe and ultimately move them to take action. Lessons will give students a voice which can be heard through their art and communicate the need for a more gentle and compassionate attitude toward humanity.
Would you love to take an art course but feel that you may not be artistic enough? Well, this is the class for you! This exciting project based course helps students understand that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Students learn to accept the fact that the people we meet will often have a difference of opinion and that fact truly will enrich your life. When this course is completed you probably won't be a famous artist. However, this course will offer you many opportunities for self-expression. You will increase your potential for creative thinking while you are exposed to a number of careers where art skills are valued. (There are a short list of materials that you might need inside the course.) Students who enroll in this course will gain a deeper respect for all that is beautiful while understanding that there are countless careers, that you can choose from, where creative thinking and art talent are valued.
This creative course is for both beginners and intermediate artists at the middle school and high school level of learning. Collaborative work, project based learning and individualized instruction will be the path to success for students who are enrolled in this exciting class.
'Drawing Beasts and Besties' will offer students the opportunity to develop the skills and the knowledge they need to draw a variety of different kinds of animals with confidence and skill. Course content will include understanding the anatomy of animal kingdom and learning techniques that support them in generating images of imaginary beasts (such as dragons) while improving their ability to render animals from nature and drawing our domesticated friends, the dog and the cat.
To succeed in this course students will need these materials: A sketch book, pencil, eraser, a cell phone (to take photos of their work in progress), colored pencils and a fine line black sharpie.
Graphic Design is all around you from the old shirt you pulled out of your dresser this morning to the billboard that was just put up along the highway. In this course, you will become the artist that creates these designs! You will have the opportunity to combine both Art and Technology to communicate your own ideas!
In this introductory course you will edit images, design logos, and even design a poster for your favorite band while learning to recognize the effects that design has on our society. Learn fundamental skills of graphic design while making choices that are sure to enhance other areas of your learning and your life.
This is a unique independent study art course that is set aside for students who have artistic talent and a deep interest in any area of the visual arts. Students who enroll in this course often have the high potential of going into a career in the area of visual arts in the future. Students who wish to enroll in this course will have to have successfully completed an art course with a grade of B or higher. This class will allow students to focus on an area of visual arts that they are passionate about. Learners in this course will design their own course by writing their own short and long term goals and meeting them independently with minimal guidance from their instructor. Students must be committed to daily live lessons! Learners will be highly organized and dedicated to the value of visual arts in their lives and will have to create a blog (or other social media format) where their work can be displayed and shared. Please contact your student guidance counselor to find out if you are a good candidate for this original course.
In this class, artists will be able to push their imaginations to places our space program has yet to explore. Our students will use digital design to create imaginary "Space Art" of planets and alien life while building on the scientific knowledge of space while cultivating ideas for a final mission patch design which, may be launched into space!
The unknown of space will offer endless solutions to artistic problems. I can't wait to work with your creative minds!
Helps students getting ready to take the ACT exam.
Students use an informative interactive process to explore career and life options in this one-semester elective. They begin with a thorough examination of their own interests, aptitudes, achievements, and personality styles. Instructional material then helps them match job market information, interview techniques, training requirements, and educational paths to potential careers that suit their strengths and personal priorities. Successfully completing this course gives students the ability to identify and describe their personal interests, aptitudes, and lifestyle goals; locate and evaluate information about different careers; identify the skills and knowledge needed for careers of interest and how to obtain them; and create an entrepreneurial business plan.
In this introductory course, students will become familiar with the basic principles of a personal computer, including the internal hardware, the operating system, and software applications. Students will gain practice in using key applications such | 3,758 |
Thotweb was created in 1997 by a group of fellow students in egyptology. Its aim is to help spreading egyptological information throughout the world and to stimulate international cooperation.
At the time being, most of it is in french, but it will be eventually translated into english, except for the research articles, which will remain in their original languages.
Its main divisions are :
Contents | Portal | Encyclopedia | Virtual tour | Professional | Forum | Library | News | Travel
Our "Portal" is one of the biggest of the egyptological web. Continuously updated, it features pages, that means that a web site can be listed several times according to its content. This thematic approach makes it very useful. The sub-divisions of our portal are:
Egyptological societies | Databases | Forums | News | Multimedia & softwares | Institutions and research centres | Ancient egyptian language and inscriptions | Publishing and bookshops | Excavations and sites | Museums | Top<|fim_middle|> remarks you might like to do.
Renaud de Spens, webmaster. (e-mail)
© Renaud de Spens, 2000 - | 5 | Personal pages
Our "Encyclopedia" is for the layman and the egyptologist alike. It has short notices and articles, with links to relevant egyptian inscriptions in adobat pdf format. For instance, someone interested in the reign of king Ahmose will be able to download its great inscription in Karnak, the autobiography of Ahmose, son of Abana, and the donation stela of queen Ahmose-Nefertary. It is like a virtual library at your disposal.
We also produce CD-Rom reeditions of ancient and useful egyptological books. They are in our "Library" section.
The aim of our "Virtual tour" is to provide photographs of archaelogical sites. They are rationnaly classified, according to the numerotation and the maps of the "Porter and Moss". It takes time to make it. If you want to share your photographs too, you are quite welcome.
The "Professional" section presents research works, interviews, and lists hundreds of academic researches. If you are writing a Ph.D which is not listed, please contact us.
We also host a "Forum", in fact a discussion list, and you are welcome to join.
Our "News" are also regularly updated, and provide information on discoveries and symposiums alike.
Lastly, our "Travel" section, still under development, will present some facts helping to arrange travels to Egypt.
I hope you will find Thotweb useful. Don't hesitate to let me know of any criticism or | 317 |
ORAFOL is one of the leading manufacturers of reflective garment tapes for workwear. The company offers an extensive range of reflective tapes for PPE, and is now extending the range to also include two segmented tape versions. The new ORALITE® GP 092 Segmented and ORALITE® GP<|fim_middle|>. | 097 Segmented are both glass bead tapes, and also offered in a normal standard version. The segmented versions will make the finished garment even more flexible, breathable and comfortable to wear, making them sure winners.
ORALITE® GP 092 Segmented is approved to EN ISO 20471 for use on regular high visibility work wear. ORALITE® GP 097 Segmented is approved not only to this standard but also to EN 469 and ISO 14116, making it the ideal choice for garments where a limited flame spread is needed (such as on e.g. PPE for welders). Both tapes can be industrially washed.
The ORALITE® GP 092 Segmented and GP 097 Segmented are supplied in 50 mm wide rolls | 174 |
The Eighteenth Century Reading Revolution
Happy New Year everyone. Over the holidays I have had chance to catch up on my reading, a pastime that most of us now take for granted. This was not always the case however. During the Seventeenth century only a few people could read and books were both extremely expensive and thin on choice. A licence was needed in order to run a press and punishment for printing without one was hanging!
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1678) became very popular and remains one of the world's most read books.
In 1688 King James II was deposed by William of Orange, the ruling monarch now not ruling absolutely but by consent of Parliament. This led to a new, modern, free-thinking country and also to a lapse in the Licencing Act which meant that booksellers could now introduce new works without fear and thus began the introduction of newspapers, magazines and works for entertainment. The Daily Courant was first published on March 11th 1702.
Discerning readers met at local coffee houses and gentlemen's debates became fashionable as was to own a smart library. Appearance became all important. Every village had a book binder, book covers could be personalised. To be portrayed in a painting with a book showed that you were<|fim_middle|> Edinburgh by Alan Ramsey and by 1740's most towns had their own library. Women began reading more and they had access to all the talking points that had been purely male-dominated. Elizabeth Montague founded a salon to discuss books and this helped to establish women as both writers and intellectuals. | very important. One of these collectors, William Beckford, built an ivory tower high above his house in order to keep his 11,000 books.
Samuel Johnson published his dictionary in 1755 - the Oxford English would not be available for another 100 years.
The British Library publishes more new titles than anyone else in the worls - there are 150 million books, 400 miles of shelving. In the Kings Library (George III) there are 65,000 books including maps, architecture, and drama - he even had his own bindery. Only the curators can enter this part of the library.
However, even though the Eighteenth century was an Age of Enlightenment, reading was still only available to the upper classes. Reading was seen in the lower classes as being unnecessary and was looked on by the rich as a skill that might give those below stairs ideas above their station. However public readings did become popular, Blue Coat/charity schools were introduced - Christ's Hospital in Sussex was one of these and is still fulfilling it's role today.
The demand came for cheaper books and travelling salesmen carried short stories, ballads and newspapers. The first circulating library was invented in | 256 |
Major Bug Called 'Heartbleed' Exposes Internet Data
Group Seeks to Align Curricula With Skills Needed in High-Demand Fields
Technology's Man Problem
Stanford Computer Scientists Learn to Predict Which Photos Will Go Viral on Facebook
'Unbreakable' Security Codes Inspired by Nature
Personal Touch Signature Makes Mobile Devices More Secure
Instrument Science Preps for Exascale Era
Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines
To Create a Pipeline of STEM Workers in Virginia, Program Starts With Littlest Learners
A Rainy Day Can Ruin an Online Restaurant Review
Off the Shelf, on the Skin: Stick-On Electronic Patches for Health Monitoring
Syracuse Amps Up Research Computing With Network Upgrade
Data Mining Uncovers 19th Century Britain's Fat Habit
The Washington Post (04/09/14) Lindsey Bever
Researchers at Google and Codenomicon say a security flaw dubbed Heartbleed has exposed millions of usernames, passwords, and potentially credit card numbers during the more than two years it went undetected. They say the flaw is particularly dangerous because it was found in OpenSSL software, which is used to secure at least 500,000 servers, and can access contents in a server's memory where private data is stored. Experts say Heartbleed could be the worst bug ever detected because it is embedded in code designed to keep servers secure. "We attacked ourselves from outside, without leaving a trace," write Codenomicon's researchers. "Without using any privileged information or credentials, we were able steal from ourselves the secret keys used for our X.509 certificates, user names and passwords, instant messages, emails, and business critical documents and communication." Although companies now are scrambling to fix the bug, it is not clear how much damage has been done. "You should care about this because--whether you realize it or not--a hell of a lot of the security infrastructure you rely on is dependent in some way on OpenSSL," says Johns Hopkins University professor Matthew Green. "And for better or for worse, industry's reliance on OpenSSL is only increasing."
The Chronicle of Higher Education (04/09/14) Katherine Mangan
The National STEM Consortium outlined a plan to offer five new training programs to colleges to close the gap between the skills employers need and those students are learning, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges. The consortium has been allocated a $20-million grant from the U.S. Labor Department to develop the program, which initially will concentrate on composites, mechatronics, environmental technology, cybertechnology, and electric vehicle technology. The customizable curricula are freely available to colleges online, and the one-year certificate programs require full-time attendance from students and give preference to veterans. Under the program, students reacquaint themselves with math, reading, and computer skills as part of their technical courses. The National STEM Consortium sifts through the numerous industry credential specifications to create curricula incorporating specific skills that are highly valued across a wide range of companies. Faculty members developing the curricula tour factories and interview employers, while national and local governing boards check to ensure the skills being taught align with local businesses' requirements.
The New York Times (04/06/14) Claire Cain Miller
Feelings of being underrepresented and ostracized are common among women in technology fields<|fim_middle|>, education levels, and population density also have a significant impact. For example, areas with higher education levels tend to have significantly more reviews, and restaurants in busy cities are not likely to get as many complaints about wait times. "Our findings could help consumers better understand online reviews and ratings and help review sites calibrate recommendations," says Georgia Tech professor Eric Gilbert. "Outside factors apparently introduce bias in online ratings of a highly reviewed restaurant in big cities compared to a similar place in a rural area."
University of Illinois News Bureau (04/03/14) Liz Ahlberg
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Northwestern University have developed thin, soft, stick-on patches that stretch and move with the skin and incorporate commercial, off-the-shelf chip-based electronics for sophisticated wireless health monitoring. The researchers say the patches could be used for daily health tracking, wirelessly sending updates to a cellphone or computer, and could revolutionize clinical monitoring such as EKG and EEG testing. "What is very important about this device is it is wirelessly powered and can send high-quality data about the human body to a computer, in real time," says Northwestern professor Yonggang Huang. During testing, the researchers found the wireless patch performed as well as conventional sensors, while being significantly more comfortable for patients. "There's a lot of value in complementing this specialized strategy with our new concepts in microfluidics and origami interconnects to enable compatibility with commercial off-the-shelf parts for accelerated development, reduced costs, and expanded options in device types," says UIUC professor John A. Rogers. The researchers note the integrated sensing systems could monitor health and help identify problems before the patient is aware of them.
Campus Technology (04/01/14) Rhea Kelly
Syracuse University has upgraded its network backbone from 10 GB to 40 GB and increased connectivity from the backbone to campus buildings from 1 GB to 10 GB. The university embarked on the project to support the expansion of a computing grid that taps the processing power of idle desktop computers from campus offices and labs and channels it into data-intensive research computing operations. OrangeGrid now provides more than 10,000 central-processing unit cores to researchers for overnight processing, nearly double the processing power available a year ago. The computing grid's power has contributed to research in protein folding, number factoring, drug molecular modeling and simulation, and long timescale dynamics. Syracuse uses the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing to contribute to public science projects when OrangeGrid's computing resources are not utilized locally. The network infrastructure upgrade also will benefit Syracuse's Academic Virtual Hosting Environment. The computing tool uses idle disaster recovery hardware resources to support smaller-scale research computing tasks in a customized cloud.
The Conversation (04/03/14)
The Trading Consequences project, which includes history and computer science researchers from the University of Edinburgh, York University, and the University of St Andrews, has produced new insight into the hunger for sugar, coffee, and rubber in the 19th century, as well as how fat became a worldwide commodity. The researchers used text mining to open up more than 200,000 historic documents to investigate the trading of goods since the 19th century. At the end of the 18th century, the British started importing different kinds of fat to supply the expanding soap, candle, margarine, and explosives industries. Text mining made it possible to identify links between commodities, locations, and dates to uncover how commodities were discussed in space and time. In addition, information visualization was used to make the information accessible and explorable. When the two techniques are combined, the researchers say they can build a picture of how trade developed over time, based on dates or places mentioned in the records of a trading company operating several hundred years ago. For example, a location cloud visualization provides an overview of the most frequent locations that were mentioned in relation to a selected commodity, such as coffee, which helps build an picture of how the coffee trade spread. | such as computer engineering, and the issue of persuading more women to choose tech careers is problematic. In 2012, only 18 percent of computer-science college graduates were female, versus 37 percent in 1985, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Harvard Business School research says more than half the women who join the computer engineering field exit by midcareer, and many computer engineering professionals blame this trend on a sexist, misogynist, alpha-male culture. The tech industry is concerned about the lack of female pros for several reasons, including a profound dearth of candidates to fill available computing jobs, as well as the limited appeal of industry products designed by men. "Women are increasingly consumers; they're not going to like products that don't work for them," warns Stanford University professor Londa Schiebinger. Google CEO Larry Page commented last year that prioritizing the recruitment of women will accelerate the rate of worldwide tech production by more than twofold. Making tech culture more amenable to women is an unsettled issue, and many stress the importance of hiring female engineers at a company's founding and including women in management and in all job interviews.
Stanford Report (CA) (04/03/14) Tom Abate
Stanford University researchers have developed a method for predicting which photos on Facebook will go viral. Their method involves studying cascades, the term used to describe photos or videos being shared multiple times. According to recent data provided by Facebook, only one in 20 photos posted on the social network gets shared even once, and just one in 4,000 gets more than 500 shares. The researchers were able to predict when a photo cascade would double in shares with 80-percent accuracy. The researchers began by analyzing 150,000 Facebook photos, each of which had been shared at least five times. The researchers initially found that, at any given point in a cascade, there was a 50-percent chance the number of shares would double. The researchers then looked for variables that might help them predict doubling events more accurately than a coin toss, including the rate and speed at which photos were shared, as well as the structure of sharing. The algorithm became more accurate the more times a photo was shared, as photos shared hundreds of times had an accuracy rate of 88 percent.
Lancaster University (04/03/14)
Scientists at Lancaster University have patented a new method of encrypting confidential information that was inspired by the time-varying nature of the cardio-respiratory coupling functions recently discovered in humans. The encryption method is based on a mathematical model of how the heart and lungs coordinate their rhythms by passing information between each other. "This promises an encryption scheme that is so nearly unbreakable that it will be equally unwelcome to Internet criminals and official eavesdroppers," says Lancaster's Peter McClintock. The approach offers an infinite number of choices for the secret encryption key shared between the sender and receiver, making it virtually impossible for hackers and eavesdroppers to crack the code. McClintock says the method also is resistant to interference from the random fluctuations or noise that affects all communications systems. Moreover, several different information streams can be sent simultaneously. The transmission capability would enable all digital devices in the home, for example, to operate on one encryption key instead of dozens of different ones.
Georgia Tech News Center (04/07/14) Jason Maderer
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed LatentGesture, a computer security system that continuously monitors how a user taps and swipes a mobile device. If the movements do not match the owner's tendencies, the system recognizes the differences and can be programmed to lock the device. During testing, the researchers found the system was nearly 98-percent accurate on a smartphone and 97-percent correct on tablets. "The system learns a person's 'touch signature,' then constantly compares it to how the current user is interacting with the device," says Georgia Tech professor Polo Chau. To test the system, the researchers set up a virtual form with a list of tasks for 20 volunteers. LatentGesture tracked their tendencies and created a profile for each user. The researchers then designated one user's signature as the "owner" of the device and repeated the tests. LatentGesture successfully matched the owner and flagged everyone else as unauthorized users. The researchers say LatentGesture's biggest advantage is that it can be programmed to run continuously in the background.
HPC Wire (04/03/14) Tiffany Trader
Computation Institute director Ian Foster presented a white paper at the recent Big Data and Extreme-scale Computing workshop in which he posited that data volumes and velocities in the experimental and observational science communities are in some instances exceeding Moore's law to such a degree that these communities will soon need exascale-class computational environments to be productive. He says integrating some of the analysis work into the scientific instruments themselves could "greatly expand the impact of exascale technologies." Foster, who received the ACM High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing Achievement Award in 2012, outlines a scenario in which the instruments are embedded within a simulation model where instrument output is used to direct experimentation, and under such conditions, "interesting" features can be flagged as data is being generated, and then that output is digested as the experiment is running, further maturing the simulation model. Foster cites three areas that tie in more directly to scientific knowledge, including knowledge management and fusion, rapid knowledge-based response, and human-centered science processes. "Computational simulations capture the best available, but imperfect, theoretical understanding of reality; data from instruments provide the best available, but imperfect, observations of reality," Foster notes. "Confronting one with the other can help advance knowledge in a variety of ways."
The New York Times (04/08/14) Nicole Perlroth
Companies are rushing to identify and close security flaws in unlikely places, because hackers are exploiting overlooked vulnerabilities in third-party access points ranging from online restaurant menus to soda machines to heating and cooling systems. "We constantly run into situations where outside service providers connected remotely have the keys to the castle," notes FlowTraq CEO Vincent Berk. Third-party negligence was responsible for 23 percent of data breaches, according to a 2013 Ponemon Institute survey. Security researchers say hackers often do not have to plan elaborate intrusions to take advantage of third-party vulnerabilities, since the management software of various devices links directly to corporate networks. "The beauty is no one is looking there," says Crowdstrike's George Kurtz. "So it's very easy for the adversary to hide in these places." Security researchers also say attackers frequently target vendors because they tend to run older, susceptible security systems, while the devices often have the security settings turned off by default. Experts say under ideal conditions, corporations should deploy networks so third-party systems cannot access sensitive data, and remotely monitor the networks with advanced passwords and technology capable of spotting suspicious traffic. However, detecting attacks also requires the presence of skilled security staff.
Capital Business (04/06/14) Sarah Halzack
SySTEMic Solutions aims to get young Northern Virginia students to become passionate about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and in doing so boost the region's future economy. A 2013 Brookings Institution study found that 27.1 percent of jobs in the Washington, D.C., area require STEM knowledge, which means STEM jobs comprise a larger share of positions in the region than in every other metropolitan area in the United States except Silicon Valley. Moreover, the Washington area is poised to add 50,000 net new STEM jobs between 2013 and 2018, according to George Mason University's Stephen S. Fuller. These trends have motivated SySTEMic Solutions to create a pipeline of STEM workers for Virginia, starting with elementary school children and working to keep them consistently interested in the subject matter until they finish school and enter the workforce. The program expects to have 40,000 students in the STEM pipeline by 2016. SySTEMic Solutions is a unified effort involving businesses, chambers of commerce, higher education, and K-12 schools, and its supporters say it can make a greater impact than a disparate group of well-intentioned but isolated programs. The curriculum is influenced by a task force of Northern Virginia Community College faculty, curriculum specialists from the school divisions, and volunteers from local companies.
The weather is the biggest outside factor on whether an online restaurant review will be positive or negative, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Yahoo Labs. The team came to the conclusion after analyzing 1.1 million online reviews for 840,000 restaurants in more than 32,000 cities across the United States. They discovered that reviews written on rainy or snowy days, or very cold or hot days, are more negative than those written on nice days. Demographic factors such as neighborhood diversity | 1,872 |
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Welcome to CBUC where hospitality and welcoming are an important part of our ministry.
We have several types of spaces available for rent, the availability of the space depends on the church's use of the space and prior rentals.
Sanctuary: The Sanctuary can hold 180-200 people sitting down. The chairs can be removed or moved around to suit your event's needs; however they must be returned to the configuration they were in when you rented the facility. No food is allowed in the sanctuary under any circumstances. Food and beverages can be served in the Narthex (foyer) or Hall, if you rent those spaces to do so. Beverages are allowed in the Sanctuary but the user group shall be responsible for any clean-up of spills.
Hall: The hall is 62.6ft by 66.8ft large and has a fire rated capacity of 351 people. We find that you can seat comfortably approximately 200 people with tables. The church can supply up to 120 chairs for use. We have 35 – 6ft tables that can be rented for use as well. This space is currently rented for things like ballroom dance, martial arts and children's birthday parties. If you're considering making a booking, contact the office as soon as possible to determine availability.
Lounge: The lounge is perfect for a meeting or<|fim_middle|> to cover the cost of cleaning the bathrooms, washing floors, etc. | seminar where there will be 20 people or fewer. You have use of the chairs and tables that are already in the lounge. The piano in the lounge is not for rental use.
Youth Room: The youth room is a bright room upstairs in the church. The space has a sink in it and a bathroom located downstairs from it. Currently the space is used for several yoga and meditation groups.
Narthex: The narthex is a bright open space and also the entry to the sanctuary. It is perfect for small workshops, luncheons or meeting space.
Restrictions: There is to be no smoking or alcohol without a permit on the premises. If you wish to decorate the hall for your event we ask that you use removable painter's tape instead of tacks or nails on the walls. Under no circumstance can anything be taped or nailed to the floor in the Hall. Decorating of the Sanctuary is to be discussed with the Administrator prior to your event. We ask that you pay close attention to "carrying" tables and chairs (not dragging) in order to preserve the life of the hall floor and to help us maintain our building. All our rental spaces are rented on a per hour basis and the cost of GST is additional. You are also required to obtain your own liability insurance (most times a rider can be acquired from your house insurance) and be advised that there is a custodial fee of $50 per rental | 290 |
On Wednesday 6th February<|fim_middle|> moment we surprised them here. | , the 40th winners of the Made in Bury Weekly £2,000 Draw were announced! Congratulations to both Louise Carroll and Jacqueline Summerscales from Bury Council!
All the funds raised from the Made in Bury Weekly £2,000 Draw go towards helping new businesses in the Bury borough. Entering costs just £2 a week and a winner is drawn every Wednesday!
The draw is open to all Bury residents, business owners and employees, including their friends and families. It's a great opportunity to win £2,000 while also helping the local business community. There are only 2,400 tickets available in the Made in Bury Weekly £2,000 Draw, giving everyone great odds of winning.
To enter, visit www.madeinbury.co.uk or contact Phil at info@madeinbury.co.uk or call 0161 447 8814. Good luck!
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Most college students will be expected to fulfill general education requirements for their college degrees. General education requirements, usually referred to as gen ed requirements, specify the disciplines outside of the student's major and the number of credit hours students should complete before graduation. General education requirements often aren't the same for every student in the school; departments will have their own set of requirements for the students in their majors.
Many colleges do require a certain amount of credit hours in classes that include writing assignments in the graded material for all students in the school, no matter the major. This is called the writing requirement.
Freshman classes or seminars have been added to the curriculum of many colleges. Not all colleges that offer the classes require them, however.
Another requirement may be quantitative reasoning, which is usually mathematics. Logic, a type of philosophy class, or statistics are other classes that may be offered as options for certain majors.
Sometimes college departments will specify the science courses and laboratories you are required to take, while others will only state that you need to take a certain number of credit hours.
Social science requirements generally operate the same as natural science requirements. Most do not have laboratory credits, though.
Humanities requirements can consist of courses such as literature, foreign languages or fine arts. These are | 279 |
Sustainable development continues to be the key idea around which environment and development are structured. This extensively revised third edition continues to provide a concise, accessible introduction<|fim_middle|> the notion of sustainable development with a particular focus on the developing world. The new edition has been extensively updated to highlight recent developments in both theory and practice. In particular, the theoretical framework underpinning the book has been strengthened, and recent activity regarding the developing indicators of sustainable development is comprehensively reviewed. Specific attention is now given to the significance of geography and place. Containing a wealth of new case studies from across the globe, discussion questions, guides for further reading and a detailed glossary, this text provides an invaluable introduction to the characteristics, challenges and opportunities of sustainable development. | to the ideas behind, and the practices flowing from | 10 |
The purpose of the South Salem Seniors is to promote a wide array of activities for the education, recreation, social and cultural needs of seniors 50 years of age and older. Our goal is to assist seniors to stay active and to make full use of their abilities.
I would like to welcome you to the South Salem Seniors, Inc. Our center has been around since 1989, over 29 years. Our desire is to provide individuals over age 50 with a place to socialize, to make friends, to engage in activities<|fim_middle|> involved in our organization by participating in our many program activities. One important operational aspect is the volunteers who serve as officers and Board Members. Please feel free to contact any of these individuals to help you find a way to join us and share in the joy of volunteering.
Thank you for your interest in joining the South Salem Seniors, Inc. | , and to volunteer, thus enriching their lives with knowledge and skills that they can share with other interested individuals.
We take special pride that our organization is totally self-sufficient. All of our funding is generated from volunteer activities and programs for the benefit of the organization. We do not receive funding from any local city, county, state or Federal sources. All staffing consists of member volunteers. No paid employees exist in the organization. It is our desire for you to consider this a home away from home. We are proud to say our building and its contents are completely paid for. Absolutely no debt. It would be fair to say we are member owned. Our members consist of all genders, nationalities, political preferences, and spiritual beliefs. So you see there is no issue making a friend and no reason not to come back.
SSS is a public charity non-profit organization or 501 (c)(3) and as such can receive donations from individuals, estates, and/or trusts to the benefit of the organization. Our fiscal year starts September 1 to the following August 31. The organization files annual returns, Form 990 to the Internal Revenue Service, and Form CT-12 to the Oregon Justice department, Charitable Activities.
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Herb McQuay (died June 29, 2005<|fim_middle|> 29, 2005, aged 56.
Discography
Film & television
References
1948 births
2005 deaths
American expatriates in New Zealand
American soul musicians
American jazz singers
20th-century African-American male singers | ) was a popular jazz and soul singer from New York who lived and worked in New Zealand during the late 1970s to the mid 1980s. He is remembered for his cover of the Edwin Starr song, "Oh How Happy", which was a minor hit for him.
Background
For a period of time, McQuay and his family resided in Auckland. While in New Zealand, he recorded an album and had a number of singles released. McQuay had also recorded radio jingles.
McQuay was born in New York. While in high school, he was a member of a street corner a cappella quartet. After high school, he studied music education at Shaw University. After he was drafted into the army in 1969.
Career
1970s
While in the Army, McQuay was a member of the Special Services Entertainment Division and went to Korea, Vietnam, Okinawa and Thailand and to Germany. Later after heading back to New York, he was in Germany and then went around Europe. He was later working cabaret as a result of getting a Managerial contact in Britain. His single "Runnin' Away From You", written by Colin Frechter and John Goodison, backed with his own composition "Storm Clouds" was released on the Bell label in 1974. He first arrived in New Zealand in 1975 or 1976. There he appeared at Auckland's Tanui Tavern By 1979, McQuay was hoping to settle in New Zealand permanently.
1980s
In 1980, his single "Oh How Happy" was released on the Ode label. In 1981, McQuay recorded his first album at Mandrill Studios. The album tracks included "Oh How Happy", "You Are The One", "Do Your Thing", "Hey Girl", "Mrs. Jones", "A Change Is Gonna Come, So You Win Again", "Unchained Melody Blues" and Storm Clouds". Towards the end of that year, on the 18th of December, Ernestine Anderson, with Blue Market Quintet appeared at His Majesty's Theatre in Auckland. McQuay also appeared at the event. Around 1982, he narrated the New Zealand made documentary Flying Light.... In a Sky of Our Own, a Graham McLean production which featured hang gliding champion, Graeme Bird piloting a microlight aircraft. Taj Mahal, provided music for the documentary. In 1983, his single "Night People" bw "Superstar was released. The record which was recorded at Mandrill Studios was produced by Richard Lush. On July 22, 1984, McQuay was appearing with his trio at the Auckland Art Gallery.
In 1986, after residing in New Zealand for four years, McQuay and his family left New Zealand for San Francisco.
Post New Zealand
In 1989, he was appearing at the Juniper Lounge at the High Sierra. He was there in May. Then he appeared later in the year. He was booked from the 26th of September to the first of October.
During the 80s, McQuay had worked with big names such as Smokey Robinson, Billy Dee Williams and The Brotherhood of Man. In New York, he appeared in productions such as Porgy and Bess and Bye Bye Birdie.
1990s onwards
He spent 10 years from 1995 to 2005 as a member of one of the versions of The Platters.
Death
He died on June | 782 |
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Last Saturday night I had the pleasure of attending a free live performance by Bear McCreary and his team of world class musicians perform his original scores from the Emmy-deserving television show, "Battlestar Galactica." It was the opening for this summer's Grand Performances in downtown Los Angeles, a consistently wonderful showcase of world music. We've been going for years. One of those hidden treasures of LA.
As indicated on these pages in January, I think "Battlestar Galactica" is fracken great. However, I didn't really understand how important the series was until I attended a panel last week hosted by Geoff Boucher (LA Times Hero Complex) as part of the LA Times "Envelope" Emmy screening series. Writer/creators Ronald D. Moore and David Eick were there, as well as stars Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, but the surprise was that they were joined by United Nations Senior Human Rights Official, Craig Mohkiber and United Nations Senior Political Affairs Officer, Stephen Siqueria. I guess last March, this same group sat in front of the United Nations (video links here) and discussed issues ranging from human rights accountability to peace and justice in the world. They not only talked about how these issues related to BSG, but what we as nations can learn from the decisions made in the show, both by<|fim_middle|> getting it out there, any way possible. In fact tonight, I'll be watching the pilot episode of "Caprica" on DVD that was rented from Netflix. I'm sure the hope is that as a fan. I'll like the new show as much as BSG and so when it airs, I'll tell my friends and it will become "must see TV." That's forward thinking and we need more writers, showrunners and filmmakers to be looking forward and to tell the stories that have important relevance to our lives, yet still are entertaining. And so say we all! | the military, demonstrated in the series by Admiral William Adama, played by Olmos, and, on the civilian side, by President Laura Roslin, played by Mary McDonnell.
If who haven't seen the show, tens of thousands of human survivors have escaped annihilation from the man-made Cylons by taking refuge aboard a group of spaceships, lead by the aging warship Galactica. They begin a search for a new home planet, the mythical 13th colony, called Earth, chased by the Cylons, many that look human. As President, Laura Roslin sacrifices thousands of innocent civilians, abolishes reproductive choice, executes enemy combatants without trial and nearly steals an election over the course of the series. That was the point of the UN event and the Los Angeles event billed as "TV – making global issues relevant." After showing clips from the series, the speakers shared how these shameful and violating acts continue for real across our world. As UN official, Craig Mokhiber said, "every nation on this planet has broken the rules of human rights," and talked about how part of the UN mandate was to safeguard the human rights of everyone, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, and station. This fictional series gave us all an opportunity to think and discuss human rights, justice versus revenge, punishing people who perpetrate crimes against humanity, by watching episodes that take place on a spaceship in the future.
Isn't that amazing? A fictional television show that carries significant political and world issue relevance. Most important, BSG was entertaining, I never felt like I was being preached too. That is the true genius of Ron Moore and David Eick. In addition, the contribution of director Michael Rymer, as Moore acknowledged that night as "the third creative force that contributed heavily to our vision." (It was fun to see the director get credit publicly for their creative input on a television series. It rarely happens.)
It doesn't have to be mindless, to be entertaining. That's why I got into filmmaking. To tell stories that make us think, react, research, formulate an educated opinion. We understand this to be true with documentaries, but as Basil Tsiokos reminds us in the terrific blog he wrote for indiewire,"8 Documentary Dos and Don'ts," no one needs another wrongly executed doc film that's only about message. Basil is a programming associate for the Sundance Film Festival and was Artistic Director for NewFest for twelve years. He screens a lot of films and knows that a documentary can be important and informative, but it still needs to be entertaining.
That was our goal for the documentary, "Houston We Have a Problem" directed by Nicole Torre. The film explores our dangerous addiction to oil through candid insights from the Barons, Wildcatters, CEO's and Roughnecks that comprise the world of Big Oil. An inside look into the culture of oil that explores the history of our dependency and how it has led us to the current energy crisis. I've written about this film before here, when it premiered at AFI-Dallas and it continues to play the festivals. The issues the film addresses are important, but I believe we presented them in a fun, sometimes humorous, never boring way.
However, I am no Ron Moore. I've tried to write screenplays with significance, usually with them ending up being obvious and heavy. I look forward to Mr. Moore's television movie "Virtuality" airing June 26 on Fox about a group of astronauts who pass the time in virtual reality modules as their interactions are beamed back to Earth as a reality TV show. The new BSG series "Caprica" starts in January, about the kind of people, think us, that would create Cylons in the first place. There is also "The Plan," the Battlestar Galactica story from the Cylons perspective airing on Sci-Fi in November. Directed by Edward James Olmos, a trailer was shown at the event and to quote Olmos, "it is breathtaking. It's fantastic… I couldn't have imagined this kind of a situation happening at the end of a show, where you would actually start at the beginning. That's a masterful piece of understanding, Ron is a genius. Because after you see 'The Plan,' you'll want to go back and view the whole series again."
In these days of Twitter informing the world of election protests in Iran before the news can cover the story, important stories, fact or fiction, WILL FIND an audience. Smart filmmakers are figuring out how to find that audience. BSG is just one of many, many great shows on television, so why go out and spend big bucks on a crappy studio remake. If you want your film seen, it's about | 974 |
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UMKC Researcher Receives $2.2 Million NIH Grant to Explore Expanded COVID-19 Testing
Trial is a continuation of Jannette Berkley-Patton's Faithful Response to COVID-19 project.
Jannette Berkley-Patton, Ph.D., director of the UMKC Health Equity Institute and a professor in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the School of Medicine, has received a nearly $2.2 million, two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health for a project designed to increase testing and treatment for COVID-19 by partnering with African American churches and health agencies.
The effort is part of an NIH initiative called Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-Up); a consortium of community-engaged research projects designed to increase access to COVID testing in underserved communities.
The randomized trial will study the effectiveness of a religiously tailored intervention in motivating adult African American church and community members to be tested and to seek treatment for COVID-19.
Working with 12 community churches in the Kansas City area, the program will engage the help of pastors to promote testing and demonstrate to their congregations how testing works. Among other services, the churches will also offer rapid COVID testing and provide support and referrals to treatment to those who test positive.
"Our project will examine whether people really want to get tested and seek treatment if we use a religiously tailored approach," Berkley-Patton said. "We will work collaboratively with our churches to encourage people to not only get the rapid COVID test, but to get treatment that could potentially help reduce their symptoms and likely keep them out of the hospital.
"We're hoping this approach can be informative not only for this study but for other types of rapid diagnostics that can lead to treatment, especially if the referral is made quickly and support is provided."
The new grant-funded study is a continuation of Berkley-Patton's Faithful Response to COVID-19 project, a two-year, NIH-backed clinical trial that started in January 2021 to promote COVID-19 testing with the African American community with the support of churches and other faith-based and community organizations.
Those efforts were so successful in testing and raising awareness that the Jackson County Legislature awarded a $5 million grant to support Our Healthy Kansas City Eastside, another UMKC Health Equity Institute project that administered nearly 13,000 COVID vaccinations to members of Kansas City's minority and underrepresented communities in just 18 months. The county recently extended that program as well with the support of an additional $5 million grant.
"In the early days of the pandemic, COVID testing was not available to everyone. Access to testing was particularly limited in underserved communities, which led to the NIH initiative RADxUP," Berkley-Patton said. "In the initial project, we are demonstrating that people will take the test at a church site – and even more so when the efforts are religiously and culturally tailored."
The new study will examine the beliefs and practices of those in underserved communities toward rapid COVID-19 self-testing. Researchers also will study the effectiveness of contact tracing as well as care services such as referrals to treatment, health insurance and community resources.
"With this model, many of our Faithful Response materials are packaged in an easy-to-use toolkit that our community partners helped to create, and can be disseminated in print or electronic formats," Berkley-Patton said. "We're hoping the toolkit can be widely disseminated across the country if we can show that the first Faithful Response project was effective and<|fim_middle|>UMKC Welcomes Public to $32 Million High-Tech Research Center
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Prof.Dr. Hakan Urey
Hakan U<|fim_middle|> joined Microvision Inc.-Seatt le as Research Engineer and he played a key role in the development of the Retinal Scanning Display technology. He was the Principal System Engineer when he left Microvision to join the faculty of engineering at Koç University in 2001. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and Professor in 2010.
He has more than 30 issued and pending patents, which have been licensed to five companies for commercialization and resulted in 2 spin-off companies. He published about 160 papers in international journals and conferences. He received the Werner Von Siemens faculty excellence award in 2006, TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) Distinguished Young Scientist award in 2007, Encouragement award from the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council (TUBITAK) in 2009, Outstanding Faculty award from Koc University in 2013, and European Research Council Advanced Grant (ERC-AdG) in 2013 to develop next generation wearable and 3D display technologies.
Personal Website <--- | rey is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. He was a visiting Professor at Boğaziçi University, Turkey and Cambridge University, UK during 2013. He received the BS degree from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, in 1992, and MS and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1996 and in 1997, all in Electrical Engineering. He worked for Bilkent University-Ankara and Georgia Tech Research Institute-Atlanta as a graduate research assistant, and Call/Recall Inc.-San Diego as a consultant during his graduate studies. After completing his PhD, he | 138 |
My family and I have been growing two different kinds of gardens.
First of all let me explain our aero garden. The aero garden is a device that lets you grow plants without soil<|fim_middle|> what stage of growth it is in (germination, initial growth, and mature growth).
We also have a regular garden inside. It's a joy to grow tomato plants provided by the Garden Club of New Milford.
Then my mom and I have grown flowers for years.
It is fun to watch your plants grow every day. It also is a great help to the environment.
My family started growing cucumber plants May 1. They were also provided by the Garden Club of New Milford.
We will also start an outside garden at my aunt's house with my brother, Gabriel, and cousin, Madeleine.
So why not start your own garden? It's never too late to start the excitement. | .
It has been working very well. It comes with three types of plants with seven packets. There are many more types of plants to order separately.
We started out growing herbs, which is a favorite of everyone. They came with seven packets: mint, parsley, Italian basil, purple basil, dill, chives and cilantro.
Then it also tells you | 73 |
Summer is such an amazing time of the year. It opens up so many doors for my family to have things to do. We love to take walks, go swimming, play games outside and so much more. This summer we get to enjoy looking up at the stars. However, Dominique my 10-year-old daughter gets to enjoy her very own Nancy B's Science Club MoonScope which comes with a Star Gazer's Activity Journal from Educational Insights.
Educational Insights offer items from brain-teasing, dice rolling games to ultra-imaginative, kid-powered dinosaur construction vehicle mashups. They got a little something for everyone.
My little girl was so excited when she got her Nancy B's Science Club MoonScope and Star Gazer's Activity Journal from Educational Insights. I know that this telescope is intended for children and it may even have the look of a toy. However, this telescope works amazing just as it should. The telescope does come in a few different pieces that do need put together but it only takes a few moments to assemble. The telescope came with several different items: a tripod, two different eyepieces a 20 mm & a 4 mm, a moon filter and an activity journal.
I have found the telescope very useful in several different occasions. I homeschool my children so this helps in making science class much more fun. My kids already enjoy the whole astronomy course but this allowed them to learn more than from just reading a book.
My daughter really enjoyed her telescope however, my little boy did not care one bit that it looked more girly. He was just happy that he could look through the telescope and see the moon and stars just like his big sister.
My oldest was able to find objects in the sky with ease, as she is older. However, my little boy did need some assistance in finding certain stars. You do have to work with the focusing on the telescope to see things, which is no different from other telescopes we have used in the past. This telescope offers just as much detail on a star and the moon as a bigger telescope.
The<|fim_middle|>. She wants to go camping bad and this would give her a little taste.
My daughter is really into cooking. She would like the Chet the Cat Chef Set!
I like the Dino Construction toys!
I love the Hot Dots for my children! That would be perfect to keep them thinking during the Summer months!
I like the aquascope. the kids in my family are all beach bums, and when they're not at the beach, they're in the pool! this would be a fun toy for them, either for looking at nature or just playing around!
We'd also love to have the Kanoodle Genius game....looks fun.
My grandkids enjoy board games so it's great when they have fun and learn at the same time. I know they would have fun with the Sneaky, Snack y Squirrel game and the Hot Dots Let's Master First Grade Math.
I would love the Hot Dots® Laugh It Up! Math Vocabulary Cards, Grades 4-6 for my son.He loves Hot Dots!
I like the drill it to me set.
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article tto him. Pretty syre hee will have a good read. | journal was very useful in helping us learn more about the moon and its phases. My little girl really enjoyed filling out her journal. The journal allows your kids to learn a little more and have a little extra fun while doing so.
I would suggest when using the telescope you either place it on a table or chair because the tripod on it is short. However, this makes it perfect to pack along with you on vacations.
About the company: Educational Insights is dedicated to producing and marketing the highest quality instructional materials for classroom teachers. Given that all of our products are developed by educators, you can rest assured that they'll match your children's needs and interests, while incorporating appropriate national teaching standards in a fun and motivating way. At Educational Insights, we prize our association with all of our customers, and we thank you for the trust that you place in us. It's a commitment we take very seriously!
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My 2nd to youngest granddaughter is a science buff and she would also love the Nancy B's Science Club Microscope and Activity Journal, Her first choice in the moonscope. What a generous giveaway.
I like their Design & Drill® Socket to Me™.
I would love to get the GeoSafari® Jr. Underwater Explorer Boat.
My daughter would love the camping grill set | 273 |
<|fim_middle|>. | Twitter hopes machine learning can save it from oblivion
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Twitter's latest earnings were an unmitigated disaster. There was a huge revenue miss, coupled with a weak outlook that freaked out investors, who drove the stock down more than 12 percent.
But part-time CEO Jack Dorsey insists that all is not lost. And to rally the troops and convince investors to give him more time, he tried his best yesterday to highlight the ways he believes the company's investments in machine learning offer reasons for optimism.
"As I look into 2017 and we look at what we can do, I just think the superpower we really provide the world is we can break news and get information to people faster than any other service in the world," Dorsey said on an earnings call with analysts. "And in order to do that, people have to do just a ton of work right now to dig through everything that may not matter to them to find something that really does. And that's why I am excited about really making sure that we apply artificial intelligence and machine learning in the right ways and that we really meet that superpower of being that little bird that told you something that you couldn't find anywhere else."
Twitter began making more noise about its machine learning investments last summer when it acquired Magic Pony Technology, which had developed image-reading technology. At the time, Twitter also highlighted two past acquisitions in this space: Madbits in July 2014 and Whetlab in June 2015.
During the call, Dorsey revealed that Twitter had hired Jan Pederson to oversee its "science efforts, all of our deep learning, all of our machine learning and artificial intelligence."
Dorsey pointed to the growth over the last three months in statistics like daily active users, engagement, and tweet impressions that people see. The company has been breaking away from its traditional firehose, real-time format to help users find more interesting tweets that they may have missed.
That seems to be paying off, at least in terms of getting more current users to engage more often. And Dorsey credited the company's machine learning efforts for that success. Now he hopes they can take that further, beyond just the timeline, and expand it to other parts of Twitter.
"The other thing that we're investing a lot in is making sure that we apply machine learning more broadly around our entire experience," Dorsey said. "We can get a lot smarter and provide more magical experiences for people around showing them what's breaking in real time and giving them a sense of what's going on without having to do as much work as they currently have to do on the platform."
The goal seems to be to use machine learning to pull away even farther from the real-time experience to a more relevant, curated one.
"We're looking at a lot of opportunities to organize all the tweets around relevance but also around the topics and the interest and the passions that people care about," Dorsey said. "We have a really unique differentiator in Twitter, and that people come to us because of interest and build interest networks around that, and we think there's a lot of room for new experiences around that."
In its letter to shareholders, the company also highlighted the way machine learning had helped it improve the Home timeline experience by emphasizing the "most important Tweets first."
Dorsey wrote in the letter:
We also improved the relevance of notifications to increase engagement and bring people back to Twitter.To build on this progress, we expect to apply machine learning more broadly across our service in 2017. Machine learning is critical for us to better identify and personalize content that people want to see and deliver it to them, faster. To strengthen our approach, we've combined our efforts under one leader who will help us build a foundation of machine learning across our consumer and revenue-generating products and create a more focused and data-driven approach to product development.
While this seems to have helped user metrics, it hasn't done much for advertising. At least, not yet. Dorsey insisted that after concentrating on the user experience in 2016, the company is now going to bring the same focus to advertising experiences in 2017 — including finding ways to apply machine learning.
Given that Twitter could at least point to some positive user growth in recent quarters, Dorsey probably still has a little time to see if he can indeed turn the company's declining ad business around. But Twitter's dangerously low stock price and market capitalization are also likely going to re-ignite questions about whether it's cheap enough for an acquisition.
Those machine learning bets need to pay off in the short term if they're going to keep investors at bay and help the company remain independent | 977 |
Curtis Martin of Savannah, NY, harvesting triticale in the spring. Having the mower deflector shield up helped spread the triticale for better drying.
Winter triticale has a massive root system that captures nutrients, adds organic matter to the soil, and with the top stubble greatly reduces or eliminates soil erosion.
Working a narrow zone in the winter forage stubble negates the effect of alleopathy on the following corn crop without resorting to working the entire soil surface.
Newswise — July 5, 2017 - Farming is risky business. There's a need to maximize the quality and quantity of production, within the strict realities of time and environmental health. Finding the right combination of crops is part of the gamble, and one that's important to keep farmers' livelihood going.
Triticale is a winter cover crop that limits the gamble with a trifecta of benefits. Triticale is a wheat-rye hybrid from the late 1800s. In New York State, 15 years of research finds triticale brings benefits to the field, the growers' pockets, and dairy cows' diets.
Kilcer is a private consultant with Advanced Ag Systems LLC. He and Cornell Cooperative Extension's Quirine Kettering collaborated to tease out the growing details.
Triticale is mostly used as forage for cattle, but you might also see it in breakfast cereal ingredient lists. It has both the high yield of wheat and the cold tolerance of rye. It is this ability to overwinter—and do it well--that sets triticale apart.
In the fall, many fields contain nitrogen fertilizer left over from the summer's crop growth. Manure or compost added during the warm months will continue to release nitrogen until slowed by the cold. Fields that are left empty lose that nitrogen back to the atmosphere - or worse, with the natural flow of water, through and off the field. The latter can contribute to poor water quality and algal blooms downstream. And since algae removes oxygen from the water, other aquatic life is unable to survive. Dead zones can be the tragic end. This is a huge loss for the environment and for the farmers that depend on it.
Instead, Kilcer suggests keeping the nitrogen local. "By planting a crop of winter triticale, we are able to capture and store that nitrogen," he says<|fim_middle|>omy.org/education/classroom/classes. It qualifies as a continuing education credit for Certified Crop Advisers. | . His goal is to plant the triticale so it can grow as much as possible between the harvest of the main summer crop and the arrival of forbidding winter cold. In fact, Kilcer has found that adding an extra kick of fertilizer in the fall brings more efficiency to the process, giving an extra growth spurt in triticale before the cold hits.
"What we have is a manure storage unit," he says, pointing out the strong green triticale in a wintry field. The new triticale growth picks up the leftover nitrogen from the previous crop as well as the added fertilizer. His research suggests 50-60 pounds of nitrogen is kept out of waterways.
In his area, near Albany, NY, planting a cover crop of triticale before mid-September is key. Planting it in October doesn't give enough growth time to the emerging triticale, and nutrients are lost.
The autumn growth of triticale has another benefit: soil health. Triticale's roots are tenacious, holding the soil in place through difficult winter and spring months. Further, when left in the field, the roots and top growth decompose. This returns more organic matter and nutrients to the soil.
For growers, an added attraction with triticale is the economic return. "Most cover crops cost money to establish and stop in the spring, without an immediate return to the farmer. Triticale, while having all the great benefits of cover crops, also gives a direct return in spring to the farmer's checkbook by producing forage," Kilcer says. This can lessen the economic impact if severe weather, such as drought, affects the primary summer crop.
Adding to this return is triticale's high quality as feed for cows—especially lactating cows who need easily digestible energy and fiber. "We are talking really good feed, nutritionally, that's more digestible for cows," Kilcer asserts. "It helps the cows keep producing milk even in summer's heat." That means more milk production, and economic security.
One word of caution from Kilcer: allelopathy. This term refers to a plant's ability to release natural chemicals that inhibit growth of another plant. Some might call it plant warfare. Not all plants can do this, but triticale can.
Triticale releases its natural chemicals to the soil to eliminate competitor plants. The result is corn, sorghum, teff, and some cool season grasses, as well as some weeds, will not grow at all or grow poorly. Kilcer found growth of these crops can still be successful by planting between the triticale rows. Legumes, including soy and alfalfa, are not affected and can be directly planted into the harvested triticale stubble.
Kilcer continues to push the timeline on how early to plant the triticale. This past winter, however, two of his three research sites had uninvited dinner guests: deer cleared the fields. Another winter, deer-free, will need to pass to refine the research further.
Kilcer's webinar about the soil, feed, and economic trifecta, "Winter Triticale - Maximizing Forage, Protect the Environment 365 Days a Year" can be viewed at https://www.agron | 673 |
Richard Pinhas (pseudonyme occasionnel : Richard Dunn) est un guitariste (et joueur de synthétiseur), producteur de disques et compositeur français né le . Il est l'un des pionniers de la musique industrielle en France.
Biographie
Adolescent, Richard Pinhas s'intéresse au blues et se joint au groupe Blues Convention où joue également Klaus Blasquiz, futur membre du groupe Magma. Avec ce dernier, il fonde l'éphémère Stuff, avant que Blasquiz ne rejoigne Christian Vander au sein de Magma.
Après le lycée, Pinhas commence des études de philosophie à la Sorbonne et, parallèlement, fonde le groupe Schizo. Le groupe enregistre un simple autoproduit en 1972 et se dissout la même année, Pinhas souhaitant se consacrer à ses études. Ce 45 tours, intitulé « Le Voyageur / Torcol », obtient un certain retentissement dans le milieu underground. On pouvait y entendre le philosophe Gilles Deleuze (dont Pinhas a suivi les cours à l'Université de Vincennes dans les années 1970, et dont la pensée a une influence considérable sur lui) dire de sa voix si particulière un texte du philosophe allemand Friedrich Nietzsche sur un accompagnement rock.
Pinhas soutient sa thèse de doctorat, intitulée « Le rapport entre la schizoanalyse et la science-fiction », sous la direction du philosophe Jean-François Lyotard.
En 1973, il rencontre pour la première fois l'écrivain de science fiction Norman Spinrad à Los Angeles. Ce dernier le présente à son confrère Philip K. Dick, que Pinhas interviewe pour le magazine Actuel.
En 1974, Richard Pinhas crée le groupe de rock électronique Heldon. Son nom est tirée d'une cité fictionnelle décrite dans le roman Rêve de fer de Norman Spinrad. Comme avec son précédent groupe Schizo, Pinhas produit lui-même ses nombreux enregistrements et les distribue sur son propre label, Disjuncta, un des prem<|fim_middle|> killer (Epic, 1981, producteur) avec Hervé Picart.
Paris / Tokyo (Tago-Mago, 1982 ) [compilation franco-japonaise].
Mark Jenkins, Mexico rising (AMP records, 1994).
Pascal Comelade, Musiques pour films, Vol. 2 (Wave / Delabel, 1996).
Peter Frohmader, Fossil Culture (Cuneiform, 1999).
Michel Houellebecq, Présence humaine (Tricatel, 2000).
Richard Pinhas, Psaumes [pièce de 20 minutes inclus dans le DVD plus accompagnant le livre Psaumes consacré à Hubert Selby (IMHO, 2005)].
Richard Pinhas in Berangère Maximin, No One is an Island (2012).
Étienne Jaumet, Vents Solaires (Versatile Records, 2013).
Rough & Wojtyla featuring Richard Pinhas (Bam Balam Records, 2018-Vinyl Lps Only).
Richard Pinhas - Impossible Don't Belong to French Language" in Dark Indicator album (Silent Records-October 2019)-USA
Richard Pinhas, "FLESH EMPIRE" illustration for Yann Legendre-Long Album avalaible on Bandcamp only.
Richard Pinhas/THX/Heldon/SCHIZO - Singles Collection -Remastered on Bandcamp, Digital RP/Heldon Only
Richard Pinhas/Makoto Kawabata/Manongo Mujica/JL Pereira/Hiroshi Higashi, ALTURAS (BuH Records,Lima,Peru),2020. Bandcamp and LP Vinyles.
Richard Pinhas with Palo Alto, "Les larmes de Nietzsche" @ Difference et Repetition- LPs/CDs/Digital @ SUB ROSA (Belgium)
Richard Pinhas et Pascal Comelade, "Le plan de Paris", editions STAUBGOLD-2020
Compilations
1984 : Perspective (compilation 1976-1982) (WEA)
2017 : Single Collection - Schizo, Heldon, THX, Richard Pinhas 1972-1980 ( Bam Balam Records - BBRP 050 2xLp)
Simples
Schizo, Schizo and the Little Girl / Paraphrenia Praecox (SFP, 1972).
Schizo, Le Voyageur / Torcol (Disjuncta, 1972).
Heldon, Soutien à la RAF (Disjuncta, 1975).
Heldon, Perspective 1 bis complément / Perspective 4 bis (Disjuncta Urus, 1976).
T.H.X., Telstar / Rhizosphère suite (Cobra, 1978).
Richard Dunn, Séquences / Modulations (RCA, 1978).
Richard Pinhas, Beautiful May / New York (CBS, 1980) [45T promo].
Richard Pinhas, West side / Houston 69 (Pulse, 1980).
Richard Pinhas, L'Éthique (WEA, 1982) [45T promo].
La plus grande partie des enregistrements de Richard Pinhas et d'Heldon a été rééditée en CD par les labels Spalax en France, King Records au Japon et Cuneiform Records aux États-Unis avec de nombreux bonus-tracks. Des rééditions en LP vinyle sont prévues par le label espagnol Wah Wah Records. Richard Pinhas et Heldon sont depuis 2017 rattachés au label allemand BUREAU B. Certaines collaborations sont prevues chez Bam Balam records(Fr). 2017 /2019 publications Vyniles de tous les Albums " historiques" (1973-1992) sur les labels Bureau B, Bam Balam Records et Souffle Continu.
Publications
Texte Notes synoptiques à propos d'un mal mystérieux dans Inconscience fiction de Boris Eizykman, Kesselring Editeur, 1979.
Les Larmes de Nietzsche : Deleuze et la musique, préface de Maurice G. Dantec, Paris, Flammarion, 2001 .
Avec André Bernold (éd.), Deleuze épars. Approches et portraits, tableau de Simon Hantaï, Paris, Hermann, 2005. En appendice : « Théorie des multiplicités chez Bergson » : extraits en fac-similé d'une conférence de Gilles Deleuze et une bibliographie raisonnée de Gilles Deleuze. Textes de Jean-Pierre Faye, Jean-Luc Nancy, René Schérer, Jeannette Colombel .
Coréalisation
Avec Claire Parnet (réal.), Leibniz : âme et damnation, conférence de Gilles Deleuze, Gallimard, « À voix haute », 2003.
Avec Claire Parnet (réal.), Gilles Deleuze, cinéma, coffret 6 CD, Gallimard, « À voix haute », 2006.
Notes et références
Voir aussi
Articles connexes
Heldon
Schizotrope
Mao-spontex
Liens externes
Site de Richard Pinhas
Page Myspace et morceau « Marie Zorn transmutation »
Vidéo d'un concert en 2004, vidéo 1 et vidéo 2 d'un concert en 2009
Entretien vidéo de Richard Pinhas par Magnetic Room
Richard Pinhas/Heldon chez Cuneiform Records
Heldon, Richard Spinhas et Schizotrope sur Néosphères
Texte 1 et texte 2 de Richard Pinhas sur le web-zine Heterophonie
Chroniques des disques sur le site Guts Of Darkness
Naissance en mai 1951
Musicien français de musique électronique
Compositeur français
Essayiste français du XXe siècle
Essayiste français du XXIe siècle
Guitariste français de rock
Producteur français de musique
Guitariste de rock progressif
Élève du collège-lycée Jacques-Decour | iers labels français indépendants. Marquée par les travaux de Robert Fripp et Brian Eno ((No Pussyfooting), 1973) autant que par ceux de King Crimson (Larks' Tongues in Aspic, 1973 ; Red, 1974) et Philip Glass, la musique de Heldon n'en reste pas moins profondément originale et novatrice dans sa façon de relier l'électronique et la puissance du son de la guitare électrique. Elle a, à son tour, exercé une influence dans le domaine du rock dit progressif et instrumental. De 1974 à 1979, le groupe sortira sept albums (parfois doubles, comme It's Always Rock and Roll, peut-être leur plus célèbre opus).
Après avoir publié une compilation (Perspective, 1984) regroupant différents extraits de ses travaux précédents, en solo ou avec Heldon, Richard Pinhas se retrouve à court d'inspiration. Refusant de se répéter, il cesse volontairement de faire de la musique pendant dix ans, de L'Éthique (1982) à Dww (1992). Il retourne à la philosophie et travaille à un livre sur Nietzsche.
Au début des années 1990, les rééditions des albums d'Heldon et de ses albums solo reçoivent un accueil très positif aux États-Unis, en Europe et au Japon. Ce regain d'intérêt pour son travail incite Richard Pinhas à se tourner de nouveau vers la musique. Il collabore alors avec plusieurs personnalités comme Pascal Comelade, Mark Jenkins, Peter Frohmader ou John Livengood (ex-Red Noise et Spacecraft) pour Cyborg Sally, disque fortement influencé par Nine Inch Nails. Il se lance aussi dans Schizotrope, un projet avec l'écrivain de science-fiction Maurice G. Dantec (auquel participe aussi Norman Spinrad), entre lectures de textes (de Gilles Deleuze) et musique, qu'ils qualifient de « Metatronic ».
En 2000, il participe aux Rencontres Trans Musicales de Rennes en compagnie de Norman Spinrad. Cette même année voit paraître Only chaos is real, album de la renaissance de Heldon, dans une nouvelle mouture à laquelle participent Dantec, Spinrad, Antoine Paganotti (chanteur chez Magma), Olivier Manchion (bassiste du groupe Ulan Bator), David Korn, mais aussi des anciens du groupe revenus pour célébrer sa dernière réincarnation, comme Alain Bellaïche et Georges Grunblatt, ou des proches comme Bernard Paganotti et Benoît Widemann (tous deux anciens membres de Magma). Le fils de Pinhas, Duncan Nilsson, joue sur le titre Holy Dolly. Il avait déjà participé à l'album De l'Un et du Multiple (1997).
En 2001, Richard Pinhas publie Les Larmes de Nietzsche : Deleuze et la musique chez Flammarion, avec une préface de Maurice G. Dantec. Pinhas a en outre écrit dans plusieurs revues, telles que Interférences dans les années 1970 et Cancer ! au début des années 2000.
En 2004, il est invité à jouer au NEARfest, festival international de rock progressif situé en Pennsylvanie (États-Unis).
En 2007 il publie le disque Metatron.
En 2008, Richard Pinhas inaugure une collaboration avec le musicien bruitiste japonais Masami Akita, plus connu sous le pseudonyme de Merzbow, avec l'album Keio line. La même année une compilation de singles est publiée.
En 2013 il publie Vents Solaires un maxi en compagnie d'Étienne Jaumet.
En 2014 il publie Tikkun, un disque en collaboration avec Oren Ambarchi et Welcome In The Void avec Yoshida Tatsuya.
Discographie
Avec Heldon
2022 : ANTELAST (Last HELDON album with 5 new Tracks)
Solo
1977 : Rhizosphère (Cobra - rééd. Cuneiform en 1994 avec en bonus Live, Paris 1982)
1978 : Chronolyse (Cobra)
1980 : Iceland (Polydor)
1980 : East West (CBS)
1982 : L'Éthique (Pulse)
1992 : DWW (Spalax)
1994 : Cyborg Sally, avec John Livengood (Tangram)
1997 : De l'Un et du Multiple (Spalax)
2002 : Event and Repetitions (Cuneiform)
2004 : Tranzition (Cuneiform)
2006 : Metatron (Cuneiform)
2010 : Metal / Crystal, with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow (Cuneiform)
2013 : Desolation Row (Cuneiform)
2014 : Tikkun (Cuneiform), with Oren Ambarchi
2014 : Welcome in The Void, with Yoshida Tatsuya (Cuneiform)
2016 : Mu, avec Barry Cleveland (Cuneiform)
2016 : Process and Reality, avec Masami Akita and Tatsuya Yoshida (Cuneiform)
2017 : Reverse (Bureau B)
2017 : Trax with Makoto Kawabata and Yoshida Tatsuya (Bam Balam Records)
2018 : Flux avec Kapital(Poland), Instant Classic Label.
2019 : Live at Bam Balam (Bam Balam records)
2019 : Ascencion avec Yoshida Tatsuya (Magaibutsu records MGC-56/Japon)
2020 : Quentin Compson Bam Balam records (Mixed by Stephen O'Malley). LP + Band camp 24 bits.
2020 : Live in London-1982 RP/Heldon (Bam Balam records)
2020 : Difference et Repetition with Palo Alto ( Sub Rosa Records)-Les Larmes de Nietzsche.
2021 : SOURCES duet with Duncan Pinhas-LP@ Bam Balam records(fr) + Digital@Bandcamp=)richardpinhas Heldon
2022 : Live in USA (Bam Balam Records)
Avec Schizotrope
1999 : Le Plan (Cuneiform)
2000 : The Life and Death of Marie Zorn - North American Tour 1999 (Cuneiform)
2001 : Le Pli (Schizotrope III) (Emma Production)
Avec Pascal Comelade
1999 : Obliques Sessions II (Les Disques du Soleil et de l'acier)
2012 : Flip Side (of the sophism) (G3G records)
Richard Pinhas & Merzbow
2008 : Keio line (Cuneiform)
2011 : Live in Paris 2008 (Cuneiform)
2011 : Rhizome (Cuneiform)
2012 : Richard Pinhas, Merzbow, Wolf Eyes : Victoriaville (Les disques Victo)
2019 : "The KOLN ConZert" , Richard Pinhas and MERZBOW(Bam Balam records-FR)-November 25 2019-FR
2022: "CODA" @ Bam Balam records
Richard Pinhas & Tatsuya Yoshida
2015 : Live in Japan 2014 (Magaibutsu)
2016 : Hakata Shibuya Live in Japan 2014 - Lp (Bam Balam records)
2016 : Live at Tusk Festival 2015 - Lp (Bam Balam records)
2021/2023 "ASCENCION" Magaibutsu (Japan) CD- LP at BAM BALAM 2023
Collaborations diverses
Lard Free, I'm around about midnight (Vamp, 1975).
Fluence, Fluence (Pôle / Tapioca, 1976) [Pascal Comelade].
Ose, Adonia (Egg, 1978) avec Hervé Picart.
Georges Grunblatt, K-Priss (Polydor, 1980).
Jean-Philippe Goude, Drones (Polydor, 1980).
Patrick Gauthier, Bébé Godzilla (Seventh, 1980).
Odeurs 1980 : No sex! (Polydor, 1980).
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Orange revolution strikes for academic freedom
According to a note in todays The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscribers only), Viktor Yushchenko is calling for the resignation of university<|fim_middle|> one or the other candidate, but almost without exception the beneficiary of their alleged actions was Mr. Yanukovich. He was backed by the president at the time, Leonid Kuchma, to whose administration many rectors owe their jobs.
There were reports that students who actively supported Yushchenko were being tossed out of university housing (in the winter months) and actively discouraged from Yushchenko rallies. There will be some question whether the new government is meddling in academic freedom. I would think, though, that since university rectors are presidential appointments, they probably don't enjoy the same freedoms as the faculty. | officials in Ukraine that tried to suppress students from participating in the Orange Revolution:
The president of Ukraine has told the nation's university rectors that he expects letters of resignation from those who abused their offices in the elections that brought him to power.
"This is my moral demand," Viktor A. Yushchenko said on Thursday in a speech at the Ministry of Education and Science in Kiev, the capital. "Everyone who allowed violations of the dignity of students must reflect thoroughly. Those who compromised themselves must leave the walls of the universities."
The government reportedly has investigated more than half of 186 complaints of abuses in the campaign last year between Mr. Yushchenko, who won in a runoff election, and Viktor F. Yanukovich, who initially was declared the victor in a vote widely regarded as rigged.
Some rectors allegedly forced their staff members and students to support | 177 |
This paper presents a novel methodological approach of<|fim_middle|> in the robot, including, on occasion, affect. | how to design, conduct and analyse robot-assisted play. This approach is inspired by non-directive play therapy. The experimenter participates in the experiments, but the child remains the main leader for play. Besides, beyond inspiration from non-directive play therapy, this approach enables the experimenter to regulate the interaction under specific conditions in order to guide the child or ask her questions about reasoning or affect related to the robot. This approach has been tested in a long-term study with six children with autism in a school setting. An autonomous robot with zoomorphic, dog-like appearance was used in the studies. The childrens progress was analyzed according to three dimensions, namely, Play, Reasoning and Affect. Results from the case-study evaluations have shown the capability of the method to meet each childs needs and abilities. Children who mainly played solitarily progressively experienced basic imitation games with the experimenter. Children who proactively played socially progressively experienced higher levels of play and constructed more reasoning related to the robot. They also expressed some interest | 209 |
Hockey Season is Coming Soon!, News (Orono Amateur Athletic Association)
Hockey Season is Coming Soon!
Submitted By Jeff Caplan on Thu 09 15, 22
The season start is coming soon!
Here is a mid-September update for the 2022/23 hockey season for those anxiously waiting to get out on the ice.
The arena has started the ice making process and we anticipate being able to get on the ice sometime in the first week of October. Please remember this is the normal start time for Orono Hockey and last season's early start was only because of the unfortunate canceling of the Orono Fair.
We hope to be on the ice for evaluation skates at the end of the first week of October. The teams will then be divided and we will start practices right away with games starting for most divisions (U11 & older) around October 15th.
Coaches who have stepped up to coach will hear from us this week. Watch your email!
If you have any questions please ask but understand that our registration team and hockey committee are working hard to get ready for the start of hockey<|fim_middle|> will showcase the top players from the league on Saturday January 14th at 4pm here at the Orono Arena!
Happy New Year from the OAAA! Wishing a healthy and Happy New Year to all our players, parents & families!
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We are proud to announce that Orono has been selected to host the 2023 Victoria Durham Hockey League's U18-REP All-Star Game! The game | 331 |
All cheeses are not created equal when it comes to cooking! Some cheeses are better suited to cooking for several reasons including chemical composition, texture and type of milk used to produce them. But which is which?
The reaction of cheese to cooking
The way cheese reacts to heat is very important. Cheese can become too runny or its consistency may become thready or crumbly. Cooking can also produce some chemical reactions that lead to browning, changes in flavour, or loss of aroma.
Milk protein, moisture content and fat content are factors that have to be taken into account when cooking with cheese. Some lactoserum proteins resist very well to variations in pH levels while others, like casein, are easily modified by acid or alkaline pH levels. When a protein is modified, its structure is destabilized, which can create lumps.
As a rule, cheeses with high moisture levels (60-80%) melt at low temperatures (30° C or 86° F) while cheeses with lower humidity level (30-35%) melt at higher temperatures (70-75° C or 158-167° F). The others will melt at between 40-45° C (104-113° F). As an example, a soft curd cheese will melt more quickly than a semi-firm curd cheese.
The concentration of sugar in milk plays an important role in the colour of cheese. Cheeses with a fat content greater than 24% tend to brown faster and more easily. Fat content will also affect how cheese melts and its consistency. For example, cheddar (31% fat) will not run; it will become rubbery. Emmental (28% fat) will not run and will keep its shape.
Cheese maturation (ageing) is also an important factor in the reaction to heat. A young cheese will immediately react to heat while an aged cheese will begin to run only under very high heat, which makes the fat separate from the solid elements.
Because of the nature of its proteins, cheese can also bind water and fat to form a homogenous mixture. Its mineral content is another asset as it gives cheese a stabilizing effect. These minerals will prevent sudden changes that could occur when adding acid or alkaline ingredients.
Melting temperatures of some of the more popular cheeses
Cream cheese 30° C (86° F)
Blue 45° C (113° F)
Brie 40° C (104° F)
Camembert 40° C (104° F)
Mild cheddar 50° C (122° F)
Aged cheddar 40° C (104° F)
Canadian Swiss 55° C (131° F)
Emmental 45° C (113° F)
Fontina 50° C (122° F)
Gouda 40<|fim_middle|> (122° F)
Noyan 45° C (113° F)
Oka 45° C (113° F)
Parmesan 70° C (158° F)
Raclette 40° C (104° F)
Romano 75° C (167° F)
Saint-Honoré 40° C (104° F)
Saint-Paulin 40° C (104° F)
Tomme 45° C (113° F)
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It seems as if we've been blessed with quite a few bumper<|fim_middle|> us now. | plum seasons in a row. Or is it my imagination?
The other weekend I visited my dad, who has a large garden on the outskirts of Cambridge. There is one particular tree in the garden that I've known since I was a boy, way back when Marc Bolan was funking up Top of the Pops.
This tree has borne Victoria plums faithfully for at least 35 years, though it is only since my mother's death eight years ago that I have truly come to appreciate it, for my weekend visits now entail cooking Sunday lunch. And, come August, that means making plum crumble.
Last weekend I wandered down to that tree and found its branches hanging down, laden with big bunches of ripe plums. The ground beneath was strewn with many windfalls, which were being enjoyed by opportunistic wasps.
I wonder how many more years this tree will continue to produce fruit. Its trunk has large holes in certain places, yet despite the ravages of age it carries on doggedly, faithfully producing prodigious quantities of fruit.
Such dependability is rare in this world. I was struck with a simple sense of wonder at this annual harvest, a symbol of continuity, and felt it deserved a picture.
Ripe Victoria plums are a sight to behold. In their oval, deep-roseate splendour, they are a most attractive fruit. To hold a ripe Victoria plum in the hand, to feel its flesh – firm yet yielding – is a sensory delight.
And then the taste of its sweet flesh: utterly delicious, whether raw with that thrilling tart kick from the skin, or stewed, or used as ingredients in a crumble (pictured, one I ate earlier).
Not until I started cooking did I truly appreciate that fruit, and marvel at how such flavour could come up out of the Cambridge clay.
Perhaps if Marc had felt the power of the prodigious plum tree he would still be with | 392 |
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Ford to invest $75M in autonomous vehicle sensor company
Ford and Chinese search engine company Baidu will invest $75 million each in Velodyne, a company that makes laser sensors that help guide self-driving cars
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Velodyne, based in Morgan Hill, California, says it will use the $150 million investment to expand design and production and reduce the cost of its sensors. The laser sensors are called Lidar, which stands for light, detection and ranging. They can also be used in conventional vehicles as part of driver assist systems such as automatic emergency braking.
Velodyne says that lower costs will allow the sensors to be used in all vehicles to make roads safer.
Ford says Velodyne's technology is a key enabler of self-driving vehicles. Baidu is testing autonomous vehicles in China, where it hopes to cut road congestion.
Ford CEO Mark Fields said on CNBC Tuesday that the announcement will help Ford transition to a mobility company. He says the next decade will be defined by automation of vehicles.
"Autonomous vehicles could have just as much significant impact on society as Ford's moving assembly line did 100 years ago," he said.
He also said the company plans to expand its presence in Silicon Valley. Details were to be announced later Tuesday.
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The ribbon-tailed astrapia, also known as Shaw Mayer's astrapia (Astrapia mayeri), is a species of bird-of-paradise.
The ribbon-tailed astrap<|fim_middle|>strapia, in the small area where their ranges overlap, have been named Barnes's astrapia.
One of the most spectacular birds-of-paradise, the male ribbon-tailed astrapia has the longest tail feathers in relation to body size of any bird, over three times the length of its body.
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Birds described in 1939
Endemic fauna of New Guinea | ia is distributed and endemic to subalpine forests in western part of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea. Like many other ornamental birds-of-paradise, the male is polygamous. The ribbon-tailed astrapia is the most recently discovered bird-of-paradise.
The ribbon-tailed astrapia is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES. The long tails of male birds add to the threat, being as though the tail makes it difficult for the species to escape from natural predators.
The scientific name commemorates the great naturalist and New Guinea explorer Fred Shaw Mayer, who was believed to have discovered the bird in 1938. However, it is now believed that explorer Jack Hides discovered the bird, while Mayer became interested in it later.
Description
The ribbon-tailed astrapia is medium-sized, up to 32 cm long (without including the tail of the male, which can be over 1 metre). Male ribbon-tailed astrapia are generally around 125 cm whereas females are around 35 cm. The body of males are velvet black. The male has an iridescent olive green and bronze plumage, and is adorned with ornamental "ball" plume above its bill and two extremely long, ribbon-like white tail feathers. The female has a much duller brown and black body with an iridescent head. Unlike males, females do not have the long white tails. Hybrids between this species and the Princess Stephanie's a | 326 |
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Good morning! It's an exciting one!
My little baby cousin Kelsey (who is actually a grown-up now), just gave birth to her first baby this morning and I am so thankful! I'm thankful for Kelsey, for her sweet and hilarious husband Scott, and for little Emmeline Rose, who is currently living her first day outside the womb!
It was strange to see Kelsey as a pregnant lady, because she's six years younger than me and in my mind she's always been an eight-year-old. I'm really thankful for her example, though, because she handled being pregnant (and from what I've heard, being in labor) like a champ.
Most of all, today I'm thankful for life. That in the midst of what<|fim_middle|> pretty incredible, if you ask me.
So welcome, little Emmeline. May God bless you, sweet girl. May you always know you are loved. | sometimes feels like a world none of us is meant to live in, God believes in us enough to give us new life. He trusts that we will learn to care for one another, and we get to delight in new babies. It's | 48 |
October turned out to be a month filled with photography, music, and family. Previously, I presented you with some of my first attempts at taking a star trail photo at Kinstone. Since then I went out a second time to try again, and I have to say I was very pleased with the outcome.
Musically, it was a wonderfully diverse month. Early in October, my musical buddy Fred Keller stopped through Rochester and performed a house concert. If you've never attended or hosted a house concert, look into it. It's a much different experience than a typical live performance at a concert hall, auditorium, or even a club. Fred was even nice enough to let me knock out a song or two with him.
Later, Janet and I heard an old college mate of mine, Dan Chouinard, performed Gershwin, Ellington, and Bernstein with the Rochester Symphony. We'll be sure to attend more Rochester Symphony<|fim_middle|> weekend, my parents came down to Rochester, and we took a trip to La Crosse to visit my son. On the way, we made another stop to Kinstone, my parents' first visit there.
We've been blessed with a mild October. We'll see what November has in store! | concerts this season. And at the end of the month, we saw my bluegrass hero and fiddler extraordinaire, Laurie Lewis. I've enjoyed Laurie's music since the early 1980s, and had the chance to spend a few days on the Tuolomne River on a rafting trip in 2004. She and her band, the Right Hands, played a gig in Minneapolis. It was great to see her again. Listening, I was struck by a flood of memories of all the times I've heard Laurie perform, and by the awareness of how much her music means to me.
Finally, we had some nice family time in October. We spent part of a weekend in Brainerd visiting Janet's family, and I managed to get some nice fall color shots along the Mississippi River. On another | 172 |
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the American credo that "you can make it if you try". The consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fueled populist protest and extreme polarization, and led to deep distrust of both government and our fellow citizens--leaving us morally unprepared to face the profound challenges of our time. World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success--more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility and solidarity, and more affirming of the dignity of work. The Tyranny of Merit points us toward a hopeful vision of a new politics of the common good.
Doing Justice
Author: Preet Bharara
By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society. Using case histories, personal experiences and his own inviting writing and teaching style, Preet Bharara shows the thought process we need to best achieve truth and justice in our daily lives and within our society. Preet Bharara has spent much of his life examining our legal system, pushing to make it better, and prosecuting those looking to subvert it. Bharara believes in our system and knows it must be protected, but to do so, we must also acknowledge and allow for flaws in the system and in human nature. The book is divided into four sections: Inquiry, Accusation, Judgment and Punishment. He shows why each step of this process is crucial to the legal system, but he also shows how we all need to think about each stage of the process to achieve truth and justice in our daily lives. Bharara uses anecdotes and case histories from his legal career--the successes as well as the failures--to illustrate the realities of the legal system, and the consequences of taking action (and in some cases, not taking action, which can be just as essential when trying to achieve a just result). Much of what Bharara discusses is inspiring--it gives us hope that rational and objective fact-based thinking, combined with compassion, can truly lead us on a path toward truth and justice. Some of what he writes about will be controversial and cause much discussion. Ultimately, it is a thought-provoking, entertaining book about the need to find the humanity in our legal system--and in our society.
The Tyranny Of The Meritocracy
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"Standing on the foundations of America's promise of equal opportunity, our universities purport to "serve as engines of social mobility" and "practitioners of democracy." But as acclaimed scholar and pioneering civil rights advocate Lani Guinier argues, the merit systems that dictate the admissions practices of these institutions are functioning to select and privilege elite individuals rather than create learning communities geared to advance democratic societies. Having studied and taught at schools such as Harvard University, Yale Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Guinier has spent years examining the experiences of ethnic minorities at the nation's top institutions of higher education, and here she lays bare the practices that impede the stated missions of these schools. Guinier argues for reformation, not only of the very premises of admissions practices but of the shape of higher education itself, and she offers many examples of new collaborative initiatives that prepare students for engaged citizenship in our increasingly multicultural society."--Publisher information.
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Genre: Social Science
Author: Daniel Markovits
A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding – reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream. But what if, both up and down the social ladder, merit<|fim_middle|> the Anywheres and Somewheres, now reveals the story of a cognitive takeover that has gathered pace in the past forty years. As recently as the 1970s most people left school without qualifications, now in the UK almost 40 per cent of jobs are graduate-only. He shows how we are now reaching 'Peak Head' as the knowledge economy needs fewer knowledge workers, yet there is a crisis of recruitment in caring jobs. A democratic society that wants to avoid widespread disaffection must respect and reward a broad range of achievement covering both cognitive and non-cognitive aptitudes, and must provide meaning and value for people who cannot, or do not want to, achieve in the classroom and professional career market. This is the story of the struggle for status and dignity in the 21st century.
Democracy And Its Crisis
Author: A. C. Grayling
The EU referendum in the UK and Trump's victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why it matters. First he considers those moments in history when the challenges we face today were first encountered and what solutions were found. Then he lays bare the specific threats facing democracy today. The paperback edition includes new material on the reforms that are needed to make our system truly democratic. | ocracy is a sham? Today, meritocracy has become exactly what it was conceived to resist: a mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Upward mobility has become a fantasy, and the embattled middle classes are now more likely to sink into the working poor than to rise into the professional elite. At the same time, meritocracy now ensnares even those who manage to claw their way to the top, requiring rich adults to work with crushing intensity, exploiting their expensive educations in order to extract a return. All this is not the result of deviations or retreats from meritocracy but rather stems directly from meritocracy's successes. This is the radical argument that Daniel Markovits prosecutes with rare force. Markovits is well placed to expose the sham of meritocracy. Having spent his life at elite universities, he knows from the inside the corrosive system we are trapped within. Markovits also knows that, if we understand that meritocratic inequality produces near-universal harm, we can cure it. When The Meritocracy Trap reveals the inner workings of the meritocratic machine, it also illuminates the first steps outward, towards a new world that might once again afford dignity and prosperity to the American people.
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Genre: Philosophy
Author: Michael J Sandel
Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature—to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. What is wrong with re-engineering our nature? The Case against Perfection explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery and dominion that fails to appreciate the gifted character of human powers and achievements. Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse, this book contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers discuss ethics and will force spiritual questions back onto the political agenda. In order to grapple with the ethics of enhancement, we need to confront questions largely lost from view in the modern world. Since these questions verge on theology, modern philosophers and political theorists tend to shrink from them. But our new powers of biotechnology make these questions unavoidable. Addressing them is the task of this book, by one of America's preeminent moral and political thinkers.
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Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?
In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the most prominent ideals in our political life--individual rights and freedom of choice--do not by themselves provide an adequate ethic for a democratic society. Sandel calls for a politics that gives greater emphasis to citizenship, community, and civic virtue, and that grapples more directly with questions of the good life. Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion. These essays respond to that concern by showing that substantive moral discourse is not at odds with progressive public purposes, and that a pluralist society need not shrink from engaging the moral and religious convictions that its citizens bring to public life.
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Author: Richard Hofstadter
Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of The Age of Reform, examines the role of social movements in the perception of intellect in American life. "As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success." --Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor
Head Hand Heart
Author: David Goodhart
A good society needs a balance between aptitudes relating to Head (cognitive), Hand (manual/craft) and Heart (caring/emotional). In recent decades in Western societies they have got out of kilter. One form of human aptitude -cognitive ability - has become the gold standard of human esteem. The cognitive class now shapes society, and largely in its own interests- in the knowledge economy, the over-expansion of higher education and in the very idea of a successful life. To put it bluntly- smart people have become too powerful. David Goodhart, who in his last book described the divide between the worldviews of | 1,332 |
My Name is E
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In the last year of the Second World War three deaf girls are born in the same north of England village. Miracle, coincidence, tragedy or omen? As children they discover each other on the shore and call each other sisters. One of them, Judith Salt, returns to the village aged sixty to tell the story of that first<|fim_middle|> Abigail Sempie, grade III deaf, who, with only a syllable at her disposal, called herself E and somehow impressed her identity on the world. Their story is about deafness, the senses, the struggle for language and recognition, but family feuds, lies and secrets lie at its heart.
In the last year of the Second World War three deaf girls are born in the same north of England village. Miracle, coincidence, tragedy or omen? As children they discover each other on the shore and call each other sisters. One of them, Judith Salt, returns to the village aged sixty to tell the story of that first meeting, and her later return, aged twenty-five, pregnant, and determined that someone was going to die. Payback for the fate of her sister, Abigail Sempie,… (more) | meeting, and her later return, aged twenty-five, pregnant, and determined that someone was going to die. Payback for the fate of her sister, | 31 |
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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
Title: Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
Subject: South Brooklyn, Red Hook, Brooklyn, National Register of Historic Places listings in Kings County, New York, Carroll Street (IND Culver Line), Brooklyn Community Board 6
Collection: Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, Little Italys in the United States, Neighborhoods in Brooklyn, South Brooklyn
The "Gardens" in Carroll Gardens comes from the large front gardens in the Historic District and elsewhere in the neighborhood
The "Carroll" in Carroll Gardens comes from Maryland's Charles Carroll, for whom Carroll Park, seen here, is also named
Carroll Gardens is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Taking up around 40 city blocks, it is bounded by Degraw and Warren Streets (north), Hoyt and Smith Streets (east), Ninth Street or the Gowanus Expressway (south) and the Brooklyn Queens (BQE) and Gowanus Expressways (west).[1][2][3] The neighborhoods that surround it are Cobble Hill to the northwest, Boerum Hill to the northeast, Gowanus to the east, Red Hook to the south and southwest, and the Columbia Street Waterfront District to the west.[4]
Originally considered to be part of South Brooklyn or, more specifically, Red Hook, the neighborhood started to have its own identity in the 1960s.[1][5] The new name came from Charles Carroll, an Irish immigrant who was the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence, and whose name was already attached to Carroll Street and Carroll Park.[6] The name also reflects the large front gardens of brownstones in the Carroll Gardens Historic District and elsewhere in the neighborhood.
Carroll Gardens is part of Brooklyn Community Board 6,[7] and receives police services from the New York City Police Department's 76th Precinct at 191 Union Street. The Fire Department of New York City's firehouses are located at 299 Degraw Street (Engine Company 204) and 187 Union Street (Engine Company 21<|fim_middle|> Manhattan, Staten Island
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Carroll Gardens was settled in the 19th century by immigrants from Ireland,[1] followed in the middle of the century by Norwegian immigrants,[8] who founded two churches, the Norwegian Seaman's Church (formerly the Westminster Presbyterian Church), now apartments, and the Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Church (formerly the Carroll Park Methodist Episcopal Church, no longer extant.[9]
The development of the South Brooklyn area, including Carroll Gardens, was aided by the foundation in 1846 by philanthropists Henry Pierrepont and Jacob E. Leroy of the Hamilton Avenue Ferry. Its purpose was to improve transportation to the newly created Green-Wood Cemetery, but horse car service, and later trolley lines, connecting to the ferry ran through Carroll Gardens, enabling businessmen who lived there to more easily commute to work in Manhattan.[5]
Houses with large front gardens on Second Place, laid out in 1846 by surveyor Richard Butt
In the late 1840s, Carroll Park, Brooklyn's third-oldest, a block-long area of playgrounds, walkways and sitting areas between Court, Smith, Carroll, and President Streets was built. Originally a private garden, it was purchased by the city in 1853, and was named after Charles Carroll in honor of his Maryland regiment, which had helped to defend the area during the Battle of Long Island in the American Revolutionary War.[5][6][10]
In 1846, surveyor Richard Butt planned gardens in front of the brownstone houses in the oldest section of the neighborhood when he developed it.[2] The homes are set further back from the street than is common in Brooklyn, and the large gardens became an iconic depiction of the neighborhood. The same year, a law was passed requiring that all buildings between Henry Street and Smith Street have 33 feet 5.25 inches (10.1918 m) between the building and the street for "courtyards".[11] The large gardens can be seen from First to Fourth Place between Henry and Smith Streets, as well as on President, Carroll and Second Streets between Smith and Hoyt Streets.[1]
Further development of the Carroll Gardens was aided by the draining in the late 1860s of the swampland which surrounded Gowanus Creek through the deepening and dredging of the Creek to create the Gowanus Canal. This provoked land speculation and a building boom throughout the area. It was during this period, from the late 1860s to the early 1880s, that the area which is now the Carroll Gardens Historic District began to be developed.[5]
Italian immigrants began coming to the neighborhood in the late 19th century – dock workers and workers in the Brooklyn Navy Yard[2] – continuing through the 1950s, which led to much of the Irish population of the area leaving beginning in the 1920s.[1] The rise of the Italian population provoked questions about the role of the Mafia in the neighborhood. One theory has it that Carroll Gardens, which lies between a territory traditionally controlled by the Gambino crime family and one controlled by the Colombo family, is considered to be neutral territory, and has been, for the most part, left alone.[2]
Apartment building on Third Place, dates from c. 1875...
Carroll Gardens had long been considered to be part of either the larger area referred to as South Brooklyn, or the neighborhood known as Red Hook. That neighborhood had an informal division in the 1930s and '40s along Hamilton Avenue, with kids from south of the avenue calling themselves "Hookers" after Red Hook, and kids north of the street in what would now be Carroll Gardens called "Creekers" after the now-drained Gowanus Creek.[2] This division became formalized beginning in the late 1940s by the building of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Gowanus Expressway, which started the process of the Carroll Gardens area taking on a separate and distinct character of its own. Still, it took a generation for that identity to be reflected in a distinctive name for the neighborhood; "Carroll Gardens" was named in the 1960s.[2] Today, Carroll Gardens is more middle class, while Red Hook, which had retained its working-class, waterfront ambiance, has only recently begun to feel the effects of gentrification.[12]
In the 1960s, young middle-class professionals began to be attracted to the Carroll Garden area due to its convenience to Manhattan, where many of them worked, and its growing reputation as a safe and quiet place to live. This began the gentrification of the neighborhood, and a response from older residents, who did not appreciate these "hippie" newcomers who had no ties to the community. Still, the Carroll Gardens Association was formed in 1964, and the decades-long control by a political machine was ended.[1][2]
The tradition of an annual Our Lady of Sorrows procession began in the 1940s as a celebration of the patron saint of immigrants from Mola di Bari
Carroll Gardens has seen some French immigration since the late 1990s, and Bastille Day celebrations are held on July 14 of each year.[13][14] One of the public schools in Carroll Gardens, the Carroll School, has one of the area's few French dual-language programs.[15][16]
Though still visible in local business and culture, the Italian segment of the community has decreased significantly from 52 percent of the population in 1980 to 22 percent in 2012.[17] Still, despite the decline in the Italian segment of the population and the effects of gentrification, the neighborhood remains a strongly Italian one. Italians in the neighborhood often play Bocce games, speak several dialects of Italian, and operate many Italian restaurants and shops, as well as join fraternal and benevolent associations attached to specific towns in Italy.[1] The Roman Catholicism of the Italian population is still evident in the many shrines, especially to the Virgin Mary, which can be seen in front gardens in the neighborhood, and the tradition of a procession celebrating Good Friday continues.[2] Adult children who had moved away from Carroll Gardens have started returning to the neighborhood to raise their children.[2]
Carroll Gardens Historic District
The development of what is now the Carroll Gardens Historic District began in the 1870s, due in part to its proximity to Carroll Park. The district was created by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1973. It includes houses located in a rough rectangle bounded by Carroll, President, Smith, and Hoyt Streets, as well as the western ends of the two blocks between President Street and First Street. The district includes some of the finest examples of brownstones with large front gardens.[5]
The John Rankin House, 440 Clinton Street, built c.1840 in the Greek Revival style. When Rankin, a wealthy merchant, built this house, which was one of the largest of the 1840s in Brooklyn, the area was still primarily farmland, and the house had a view of Upper New York Bay. The house was designated a New York City landmark in 1970 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[2][9][18][19]
The South Congregational Church Complex included the Early Romanesque Revival Church and Chapel at 358-366 Court Street, built in 1851 (chapel) and 1857 (church); the neo-Gothic Rectory at 255 President Street, built in 1893 and designed by Woodruff Leeming; and the Ladies Parlor at 257 President Street, built in 1889 and designed by F. Carles Merry in the Romanesque Revival style. At one time the chapel became the Calvary Baptist Church of Red Hook. All of the buildings have been converted to condominium apartments. The complex in a New York City landmark, designated in 1982.[2][9][18]
St. Paul's Episcopal Church at 199 Carroll Street. The congregation was founded in 1849, during the heyday of Brooklyn's industrialization, and the church was built in 1867-84 and was designed by the firm Richard Upjohn & Son in the Victorian Gothic style.[2][9]
The Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and St. Stephen's Church at Summit and Hicks Streets, was built c.1860 as St. Stephen's Church; the parish's name changed when it merged with another which lost its church in 1941 due to the building of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. This church was designed by Patrick Charles Keely in the Gothic Revival style.[2][9][20]
The Westminster Presbyterian Church at 450 Clinton Avenue at First Place was built c.1865 in the Romanesque Revival style. It became Den Norske Sjomannskirke (the Norwegian Seaman's Church), founded by Norwegian immigrants; it was once visited by the King of Norway during an official visit to the United States. The church has now been converted to condominium apartments.[2][8][9]
St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church, located at 471 Court Street between Luquer and Nelson Streets was built in 1853 and was designed by Patrick Charles Keely. Originally constructed to serve as a cathedral, the church was built with Italian and European stones and marble. The church was where Al Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin. A rectory and a girl's school – now the International School of Brooklyn – are also part of the church complex.[2][2][9][21][22]
Dennett Place is a short mews of residences running between Luquer and Nelson Streets in the block between Court and Smith Streets.[9]
Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and St. Stephen's Church
Westminster Presbyterian, later Norwegian Seamen's Church, now apartments
South Congregational Church, now apartments
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John Rankin House, now a funeral home
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Carroll Gardens branch of the Brooklyn Public Library
The New York City Department of Education operates a number of public schools in the neighborhood: Patrick F. Daly (P.S. 15), John M. Harrigan (P.S. 29), Carroll School (P.S. 58), Samuel Mills Sprole (P.S. 32), the Brooklyn New School (P.S. 146), Brooklyn School of Collaborative Studies (M.S. 448), and the School for Innovation (M.S. 442).
Also in the area are the New Dawn Charter High School, Hannah Senesh Community Day School, the Mary McDowell Friends Middle School, and St. Mary's School.
The Brooklyn Public Library operates the Carroll Gardens Branch at 396 Clinton Street and Union Street in Carroll Gardens. The library, originally the Carroll Park Branch, opened in 1901 in a rented facility. The library moved to its current Carnegie library facility, designed by William B. Tubby, in 1905. After extensive renovations, the library received its current name in response to a request from the community.[23]
The New York City Subway's Carroll Street and Smith–Ninth Streets stations service the F G trains.[24]
Bus service through the neighborhood is available from the B61 on 9th Street and the B57 on Court and Smith Streets.[24]
Notable residents
Stanley Crouch, poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist and biographer
Michelle Goldberg, journalist and author
Stacy London (b. 1969), fashion stylist and media personality[25]
Jim Neu (1943–2010), playwright.[26]
Joe Sarno (1921–2010), sexploitation film pioneer[27]
In the 1987 film Moonstruck, the characters played by Cher and Nicolas Cage met at the Cammarei Brothers Bakery on Henry Street in Carroll Gardens.[2]
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^ a b c d e f g Ellin, Nan. "Carroll Gardens" in Jackson, Kenneth T. (ed.), (2010) The Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd edition). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11465-2, p.107
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Carroll Gardens" in Jackson and Manbeck (2004), pp.54-57
^ "Carroll Gardens" on Google Maps. Accessed: February 20, 2015
^ Map at Jackson and Manbeck (2004), p.xxxi
^ a b c d e "Carroll Gardens Historic District Designation Report" New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (September 25, 1973)
^ a b "Carroll Park" on the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation website. Accessed October 1, 2007.
^ Neighborhoods, Brooklyn Community Board 6. Accessed October 1, 2007.
^ a b "Carroll Gardens, a Cozy Brooklyn Locale" Ctty (July 24, 2014)
^ a b c d e f g h "Carroll Gardens" in , pp.625-628
^ Donovan, Aaron. "If You're Thinking of Living In/Carroll Gardens; Area of Gardens and 19th-Century Charm", The New York Times(May 12, 2002). Accessed October 1, 2007
^ Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association website Accessed: June 6, 2014
^ "Red Hook" in Jackson and Manbeck (2004), pp.187-190
^ Szabla, Christopher. "The Italians, the French, and the Catholic Shrines of Brooklyn" Maisonneuve(December 6, 2011)
^ Hays, Elizabeth. "Brooklyn's old Italian stronghold is becoming more and more French" New York Daily News (March 9, 2009]
^ Mokha, Kavita (June 6, 2011). "Learning to Be French in Brooklyn".
^ Semple, Kirk (January 30, 2014). "A Big Advocate of French in New York's Schools: France".
^ Gill, John Freeman (March 11, 2014). "New Roots in Carroll Gardens".
^ a b "Carroll Gardens, Gowanus" in New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Postal, Matthew A. (ed. and text); Dolkart, Andrew S. (text). (2009) Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.) New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1, pp.247-249
^ "John Rankin House Designation Report" New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (July 14, 1970)
^ "A Brief History" on the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and St. Stephen's Church website
^ "Laying the Corner Stone of a Catholic Church" Brooklyn Daily Eagle (July 18, 1853)
^ "History" on the International School of Brooklyn website
^ "Carroll Gardens Branch" Brooklyn Public Library website. Retrieved on March 28, 2010.
^ a b "Brooklyn Bus Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
^ Velocci, Cristina; LeWinter, Rachel (September 7, 2010). "Most stylish New Yorkers: Stacy London".
^ Weber, Bruce. "Jim Neu, Creator of Wry Plays, Is Dead at 66", The New York Times, July 21, 2010. Accessed July 21, 2010.
^ Grimes, William. "Joseph Sarno, Sexploitation Film Director, Dies at 89" The New York Times (May 3, 2010)
Jackson, Kenneth T. (general ed.) and Manbeck, John B. (consulting ed.) (2004) The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn. (2nd edition) New Haven, Connecticut: Citizens for NYC and Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10310-7
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Since reuniting in 2005, the band has been featured on NBC's Today Show and by media across the country. They've played with groups like The Beach Boys, and rocked thousands at festivals and events from New York to Florida. Three of the four original members will rock on stage.
At Rochester's George Eastman House, the entire audience was dancing in a conga line. A spokesperson said "We haven't had this much excitement since the 60's."
At The Villages in Florida, The Invictas get thousands on their feet dancing and singing to songs like "Mustang Sally, Twist and Shout and I Can't Get No Satisfaction."
If you're looking for fun event that you'll remember for years to come, don't miss The Invictas Legend That Rocks show, Saturday July 13th 4:30 till 6 PM at the Cornhill Gazebo Stage.
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Time: Saturday, 4:25 pm – 6:00 pm | favorite songs of the 60's, 70's and 80's and the band's lead singer will be off stage dancing and singing right along with you.
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New UT Student Veterans Resource Center to Open
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With more than 475 veterans and more than 375 military spouses and dependents enrolled as students at UT, the university will open a resource center as a welcoming space<|fim_middle|> call home," said Jayetta Rogers, veteran student services coordinator.
As the university's veteran population continues to grow, the new space will allow the Office of Veteran Student Services to better support the needs of student veterans and military families.
"This is an important step for the university to continue serving our student veterans," said Kari Alldredge, associate provost and director of undergraduate admissions. "We are always looking for ways to better support this important part of our student body and with the larger space and dedicated study areas, student veterans will also be able to use the center for studying and meeting."
In 2015, UT was listed among the nation's top schools for providing support to veterans returning to school by U.S. News and World Report. The university was recognized for its comprehensive support services, including priority registration and participation in the GI Bill program.
Katherine Saxon (865-974-8365, ksaxon@utk.edu) | for military students and their families.
The Veterans Resource Center is scheduled to open during the 2016-2017 academic year on the ground floor of John C. Hodges Library.
While the location is being completed, a temporary space will open later this month in Dunford Hall Room 2417.
The idea for the center came as a recommendation from the Task Force in Support of Student Veterans, which included a student veteran advisory board and other faculty, staff, and student representatives. The task force was established in 2011 to acknowledge the sacrifices of veterans and provide resources and support for veterans at UT.
"Our campus serves more than 800 students who are using veteran education benefits. We hope that this space will provide them with the services they need to be successful and give them a place on campus to | 171 |
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CTV Montreal is Quebec's #1 English language television station. Known to generations of Montrealers by its call letters CFCF, it was the first private TV station in the province, and in 2021, will celebrate its 60th anniversary!
The station launched on January 20, 1961 and was one of the founding partners in the CTV network. From that day on it has been the top-rated English television station in the province.
Its award-winning flagship newscast, CTV News at 6,is hosted by veteran news anchor Mutsumi Takahashi, who has held the position for more than three decades. In 2016, she was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association of Canada.
In 2018 she was awarded the Order of Canada
The station prides itself on its close connection to the community, with on-air personalities and other staff members committed to a wide range of charitable activities and community work.
CTV Montreal broadcasts newscasts seven days a week from 5-6pm and 11:30pm-12am. Weekdays it also offers newscasts from 12-1pm and 5-6pm.
For live, local, breaking news coverage, Quebecers turn to CTV Montreal for reliable, credible and comprehensive.
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Sudanese rally in new anti-coup protests amid tight security
by: SAMY MAGDY, Associated Press
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The October military takeover upended a fragile planned transition to democratic rule and led to relentless street demonstrations across Sudan. At least 47 people were killed and hundreds wounded in protests triggered by the coup, according to a tally by a Sudanese medical group.
Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, a former U.N. official seen as the civilian face of Sudan's transitional government, was reinstated last month amid international pressure in a deal that calls for an independent technocratic Cabinet under military oversight led by him.
That deal, however, was rejected by the pro-democracy movement, which insists that power be handed over to a fully civilian government tasked with leading the transition.
The prime minister is continuing discussions on finding a way out of the political deadlock. He met Friday with leaders of the country's largest Umma Party, his office said.
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COVID-19 cases reach all-time high in Brookings | Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021. Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters as thousands rallied since earlier in the day, even as authorities tightened security across Khartoum, deploying troops and closing all bridges over the Nile River linking the capital with its twin city of Omdurman and the district of Bahri, the state-run SUNA news agency reported.(AP Photo/Marwan Ali)
CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Khartoum on Saturday as demonstrators once again took to the streets in the country's capital and elsewhere to denounce the October military coup.
Thousands rallied since earlier in the day, even as authorities tightened security across Khartoum, deploying troops and closing all bridges over the Nile River linking the capital with its twin city of Omdurman and the district of Bahri, the state-run SUNA news agency reported.
Authorities had warned protesters against approaching "sovereign and strategic" sites in central Khartoum — a reference to main government buildings and key institutions. The city's Security Committee said Sudanese forces would "deal with chaos and violations," SUNA had reported.
The marches started in different locations, with protesters meant to converge on the presidential palace. But security forces fired live ammunition and used tear gas and water cannons disperse those attempting to approach the palace, said activist Nazim Sirag. Other marches elsewhere in the capital were violently dispersed, he added.
At least five protesters were wounded by gunfire in Omdurman and Khartoum's East Nile neighborhood, he said. Many others suffered from breathing difficulties due to heave tear gas, he added.
Rallies were also underway in other cities, including Wad Madani and Atbara.
Last weekend, security forces violently dispersed demonstrators when they attempted to stage a sit-in near the presidential palace. At least three protesters were killed, and more than 300 were wounded on Sunday. There were also allegations of sexual violence, including rape and gang rape by security forces against female protesters, according to the United Nations.
Volker Perthes, the U.N. special envoy for Sudan, urged security forces to "protect" the planned protests, and refrain from arresting people for simply wanting to take part in the demonstrations.
"Freedom of expression is a human right. This includes full access to the internet. No one should be arrested for his or her intention to protest peacefully," he said in a Twitter post.
Ahead of the demonstrations Saturday, activists reported disruption of internet access on phones in Khartoum, a tactic that had been used by the generals when they seized power on Oct. 25.
Advocacy group NetBlocks said Sudan was experiencing mobile internet disruptions early Saturday. "The mechanism appears similar or identical to that used during the October post-coup blackout," Alp Toker, the group's director, told The Associated Press.
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31 July 2015 Meredith Clisby
Canberra has recorded the third highest increase in house prices of all capital cities in the past year a new report shows.
It is also the first time the ACT has recorded three consecutive quarters of growth since 2009 when the territory experienced a 14 per cent increase in the median house price.
The Domain Group house price report showed the median house price has increased by 5.4 per cent from the June quarter in 2014 to 2015.
Canberra's growth is behind only Sydney and Melbourne for the year.
Sydney has recorded an increase of 22.9 per cent in the past year and now has a median price of more than $1 million.
Melbourne house prices have increased by 10.3 per cent during the same time period.
According to the June quarter report Canberra's median house price was $584,684 in June 2014 and has increased 5.4 per cent to $616,313.
The median house price in the territory increased by 1.5 per cent during the June quarter, which was the fourth highest rise behind Sydney, Melbourne and Darwin.
The median price rose by 1.1 per cent over the March quarter and 1.4 per cent in the December quarter of 2014.
Domain Group senior economist Dr Andrew Wilson said restored<|fim_middle|> for the June quarter issued earlier this month also showed an increase in the median house price for the year but to a lesser extent.
It found the median price had increased by 3 per cent over the year and 0.9 per cent during the quarter.
Source: domain.com.au | confidence in the local housing market was likely to result in increased buyer activity over the remainder of the year.
He said high auction clearance rates so far in 2015 had been a forward indicator that the market was consolidating.
Domain Group data shows the auction clearance rate for June was 63.2 per cent, which was well above the 55.4 per cent recorded in June last year.
It was the highest June clearance rate for six years.
Dr Wilson said the higher priced properties had led the increase in price growth during the past three quarters and confidence was on the rise in the territory following a kinder federal budget.
"I think Canberra's on track to record its best year since 2009," he said.
But Dr Wilson said recent high levels of apartment construction continued to push supply ahead of demand.
Australian Bureau of Statistics data showed a surge in new units in April when 752 new dwellings were approved in the territory.
This dropped back to 164 in May.
Canberra's unit market has slumped by almost 7 per cent during the past year and fell by 6.3 per cent over the past quarter.
The median price for a unit in the territory has fallen from $410,203 to $382,350 in the past year.
Real Estate Institute of the ACT president Frank Pompeani said positivity had returned to the market and there was lots of activity from both buyers and sellers.
"I think the Canberra market is on the move, there appears to be signs of good stable, solid growth over the next two to five years," he said.
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Conversations on the Bench<|fim_middle|> compilation of some of Sebastian's greatest life lessons as presented through various conversations he and Robbie had over the years. I'm confident that Conversations on the Bench offers something for everyone and that everyone can find something they can relate to in the book.
This entry was posted in Blog and tagged author blog, Author Interview, authors, Blog. Bookmark the permalink. | is an inspirational book about two very good friends and some of the conversations they had that were pretty insightful and filled with simple life lessons that you have to pick up along the way in life. I wrote Conversations on the Bench as a tribute to Sebastian Peréy at the request of his friend and colleague from the think tank they had formed back in 2003. I only met Sebastian on one occasion, at a symposium hosted by their think tank, but over the course of a couple days, I had the privilege of getting to know him and hearing a little of his story. He was a larger than life type of guy in more ways than one. He was big in stature, weighing in at over 400 pounds, but he had this positive energy about him that was captivating. You met the guy and you felt like you had known him for a long time. You just wanted to get to know him and hear his story. It was as if you could tell he had something interesting to say. Sebastian was a truly inspirational figure to a lot of people, including Robbie, his friend and colleague at the think tank who actually encouraged me to write the book. I was intrigued by Robbie and Sebastian, and I ultimately decided that I needed to tell their story. So I learned as much as I could about Sebastian from Robbie through telephone conversations over the course of about five years. Now, we have Conversations on the Bench as a great tribute to Sebastian, a brilliant individual and just an all around good guy.
Sebastian and Robbie spent countless hours toiling over life and worldly problems. Wherever they went, whether it was a local pub, a restaurant, or the golf course, they would find a bench and they would sit and talk for hours on end. They would talk about problems, the economy, women, business challenges, you name it. And Sebastian was sure to share his own wit and wisdom, a wisdom that can only be gained through a collection of unique life experiences. Conversations on the Bench is a | 412 |
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What Is Flash IC?
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Advantages & Disadvantages of a Flash Memory Stick
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Difference Between Flash Memory & RAM
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The Function of Secondary Storage
By: Al Heurung | By: John Papiewski
First developed in the 1980s, flash memory has become an important technology for computers and consumer electronics. As with other kinds of solid-state memory, it comes as integrated circuits, or ICs, each having millions of tiny transistors on a silicon chip a few millimeters square. Flash saves data permanently, unlike other types of memory ICs, which retain data only as long as the power stays on.
Flash memory ICs permanently store billions of data bytes.
Integrated circuits are distinguished more by the electronics inside than their external packaging. Physically, ICs are rectangular plastic blocks roughly the size of hard candies. Depending on the package, they have from three metal pins or external wires to hundreds. The pins carry electrical power and data signals into and out of the IC. The plastic package protects the silicon chip inside. All the flash IC's electronic circuitry is in the chip.
RAM, ROM and Flash
Computers traditionally used two basic kinds of memory ICs: RAM and ROM. RAM, or random-access memory, serves as the computer's work area and temporary scratch pad. It stores and retrieves data in billionths of a second, but loses the information when you turn the computer's power off. Because of this, RAM is called "volatile memory." ROM, or read-only memory, contains important, basic computer instructions programmed at the factory. When you turn your computer on, the first thing it does is read its ROM instructions. Like RAM, ROM is fast. It is non-volatile, storing its data permanently, but, once programmed, traditional ROM chips cannot receive new programming. Flash occupies a middle ground between RAM and ROM. It is non-volatile, so data saved in it remains even without power. The computer can access the data on it at high speeds. Unlike conventional ROM, flash can be rewritten 100,000 to millions of times.
In 2011, the highest-capacity flash ICs store more than 100 billion bytes of data. This is enough to record more than 16 hours of high-definition video or keep millions of traditional text documents. Because of its high storage density, high speed and non-volatile memory retention, flash chips have been steadily replacing magnetic media, such as floppy disks and hard drives, for bulk data storage.
Small consumer electronics gadgets now use flash ICs to store factory default programming. If the manufacturer upgrades the software in the device, they can post a program on the Web to "re-flash" the item, replacing its old programming with something newer. All USB thumb drives use flash memory. Most MP3 players and many video recorders now use flash instead of small hard drives or tapes. Smartphones have typically from 4GB to 32GB of flash memory to store programming, videos, photos and music. SSDs, or solid-state data drives, use flash in place of a hard disk. Its lighter weight, higher performance and greater physical ruggedness benefit laptop computers.
Different Kinds of Computer Memory
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This product is vegan, cruelty-free, formulated without gluten, and made with certified USDA organic ingredients.
Great stuff!...Great cleanser...It's foamy, but not overly so....I only gave it 4 stars because I haven't seen a change in my complexion or feel that its removed more dirt and excess sebum over other gel cleansers.
A facial cleansing gel for complexions prone to oiliness and breakouts, particularly in the T-zone.
This luxurious gel works to balance the complexion, remove dirt, and dissolve excess sebum. The bio active extract of mayblossom provides skin with flavinoid nutrients as it works to decongest the skin.
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The Berenstain Bears' Holiday Cookbook by Mike Berenstain is filled with holiday inspired recipes for kids to make alongside an adult. When I first saw the book, and the cover, I assumed that "holiday" referred to the Christmas season. Although Christmas is included, it is so much more than that! This book takes you through all the most celebrated holidays of the year where food is usually a highlight! Beginning in February with scrumptious Valentine's Day treats, all the way to Christmas in December, this cookbook travels throughout the year stopping to spend time with six special holidays. Your child can cook up Tomato and Grilled<|fim_middle|> Panini also looks easy enough for him to try. The Forth of July is, of course, picnic time, so the Firework Fruit Explosion and Bear Country Pot of Beans look like the perfect recipes to share with a crowd. The Fall Festivities sections includes recipes with both fall and Halloween inspired treats. I don't personally celebrate Halloween but I feel fine sticking with the fallish recipes such as the Oven Roasted Corn on the Cob and Carmel Apple Nachos. Having Halloween included in this book certainly isn't a deal breaker since there are piles of other recipes that my children can enjoy trying. The last two holidays that are included are obviously Thanksgiving and Christmas. Again, filled with recipes that a child would enjoy making like Holiday Pinwheels and Cornbread and Honey Butter. If you know a child who loves to cook then this is the cookbook for them. It also has measurements in the back of the book for easy reference.
Disclaimer: This review is brought to you by Book Look. All opinions stated here are my own. | Cheese Sandwiches on Valentine's day for a fun, family lunch. To make the day even more special, have him surprise the rest of the family with a Sweetheart Chocolate Cake. Easter is another fabulous time for food! My son loves making shakes and I am certain he will be excited to make the Easter Bunny Shake. The Easter Ham | 68 |
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#SXSC3 Speaker profile: Ben Mawson
Benjamin Louis Mawson, Composer and Virtual Performance Developer. Working to make music composed in the digital studio come alive through motion-tracked real-time interactivity, using 3DBARE.
Ben's most recent work has included sound effects for a London stage production of Bulgakov's "Heart of a Dog" (simulating Moscow 1920s streets and domestic interiors) and the Cotswold Motoring Museum (vintage motor racing audio in surround sound in the new exhibition space).
He has composed extensively for chamber ensemble in addition to more recent acousmatic commissions including "ROOM" (2011), in the conceptual art show "Parallax" at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and "Dreaming at the Circular Ruins" (2012), South Bank Centre, London.
Recent compositional work and his PhD thesis are about how composition in the digital studio can be made to simulate acoustic music impossible for human hands: doing things that seem to be happening but aren't, creating music you can walk inside and investigate like a physical structure, augmenting the auditory reality of a place.
He is currently working on a commission from New Dimensions (funded by Hampshire County Council) to build a community-based immersive audio portrait of Gosport, South East Hampshire, interpreting, depicting, augmenting the acoustic history and present of this pivotal historic port town.
It uses noTours software to create a geo-located multi-layered musical composition that draws on the contributions of hundreds of speaking, singing and playing residents and visitors to the town and is connected by a complex web of structurally linked fragments of virtual sonic reality. The composition will cover several hundred acres of the town, accessible via noTours software for Android.
Recent guest presentations on immersive audio have included Cap Gemini and Google, schools in Southampton and the Landscape Institute.
Ben is working on ways to present music created in the digital studio so the experience is continually changeable, impossible to hear the same way twice. These include multi-room speaker installations, GPS-based tracking with noTours software and wireless head-tracking (3DBARE) for listeners in an interior space – Music You Can Walk Inside.
He has<|fim_middle|>ours at the Avenue campus 65 / 2149 10-4 on December 6:
"Annotating landscape with sound: an introduction to building geo-located audio sculpture." A practical session on building geo-located sound structures in the landscape. Learn how to use the (free) editor software, build soundmaps, publish your work and share it with listeners. "Let the Place Speak to You" | a monthly show on internet radio station Basic.fm (Broadcast Art, Sound & Independent Culture) and posts regular articles here
In this event for SXSC3, Ben Mawson will be presenting noTours and 3DBARE, two distinct tools for listeners to walk inside an audio landscape. 3DBARE (under development) is a revolutionary approach to the creation of 'digital liveness', making repeated experience of fixed output continually changeable:
Music You Can Walk Inside.
noTours software, by Spanish sound collective Escoitar.org is a means to annotate landscapes with audio via a GPS-enabled Android phone handset.
Ben will deliver a Master Class on Annotating Landscape with Sound, using GPS-based tool noT | 146 |
Just as the internet is growing dramatically, so is interest in solar sails. The last time I checked, I found 305,000 hits for<|fim_middle|>8 times. | "solar OR light OR space sail OR sails OR sailing" on Google.
Therefore, I will provide a selection of web pages, rather than attempt to link to everything.
Google search for "solar OR light OR space sail OR sails OR sailing"
Space Regatta Consortium - Znamya project - While not an actual solar sail, the Znamya project tested large lightweight mirrors in space. Solar sails are discussed as a variation of the design. Also see: Space Frontier Foundation - Znamya.
Solar Blade Solar Sail Project - A nanosatellite Heliogyro project at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute.
Robotics Institute: Solar Blade Solar Sail - Robotics Institute project page.
Columbus 500 Space Sail Cup Video - 58 MB, 12-minute video from 1991 showing animations of several of the solar sail designs intended to compete in the the Columbus 500 Space Sail Cup, as well as introduction to solar sailing. Also includes a news segment from NBC on the Znamya space mirror and solar sailing. Video prepared by Greg Granville, one of the original creators of the video.
NASA Living with a Star: Solar Sail Technology and Applications Conference agenda. The agenda and a selection of talks and videos from the September, 2004, conference.
Royal Astronomical Society - Solar Sail Mission Applications Seminar - May 10th, 2002. Contains a number of presentations about current work on solar sails.
Earth-to-Orbit Transportation Bibliography - See application 32 "Moon-Earth Momentum Exchange" for a solar sail application.
Solar Sails at Asteroids: Close Proximity Operations for Scientific Missions (Abstract) - by E. Morrow, D.J. Scheeres, and D. Lubin.
Prediction of wrinkle amplitudes in square solar sails - by Wong, Y. W., Pellegrino, S. and Park, K. C.
Multi-Bounce Laser-Based Sails - by Robert A. Metzger and Geoffrey Landis. Discusses the theory of recycling laser light by multiple reflections between a solar sail and reflector at the laser source. This would allow much smaller lasers to accelerate a sail.
The Interstellar Probe - an Introduction to, and Rationale for The Interstellar Probe.
RISE 2001 Summer Scholars - David Vasquez - "Conceptual Analysis of Solar Sails and Integration of Piezoelectric Ceramics as Sensors and Actuators"
NASA Heliophysics - Solar sails are identified as one of the highest priority technologies for this program.
Spin Stabilized Ring Solar Sail - by Robert van der Walle. Shows the Mirua-Ori folding technique applied to a ring-shaped sail.
Build Your Own Cosmos-1 Solar Sail Spacecraft Scale Model!
Warp Drive When: Ideas Based On What We Know - See "Robert Forward's interstellar laser sails"
Plasma Sail Concept Fundamentals by Peter Delamere and others. A NASA supported independant analysis of the physics of plasma sails.
Advanced Electric Propulsion - including plasma sails (or mini-magnetospheric plasma propulsion - M2P2).
Stellar Windjammers: The Magnetic Sail Space Drive - an article by Sean Barrett on magnetic sails for Roleplayer.
Light Race - painting by Pat Rawlings depicting solar sails in a race to the moon.
Solar Sail - an illustration by Joe Bergeron for the astronomy textbook The Cosmic Perspective.
Laser Light Sail - an illustration by Rick Sternbach of a lander leaving an interstellar multi-stage laser sail to explore an alien world. Scroll down to see it.
Solar Sail - a NASA Marshall Space Flight Center illustration of a solar sail on the Astronomy Picture of the Day site.
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It's 12/22, which means that about right now you're just a li<|fim_middle|> category and you can shop 'em online OR see them in person at the Corcoran today til 5 (ice skate indoors while there!).
Magazines. It's the gift that keeps on giving! I'm loving Cherry Bombe for fashion/food lovers, Modern Farmer magazine for foodie, small-town-wannabes, and Garden & Gun because it's awesome. Whatever the choice, buy one copy or some small item related to it, print out a card indicating the subscription and boom, instant gift.
Right now in DC: Try SWANK over at Wild Hand Workspace if you need hip jewelry in the "badass-but-elegant" category.
Also, speaking of swank: The Collection at Chevy Chase is hosting an adorable day with Santa (and his elves, and carolers) from 12 to 3. Kids and pets get free Polaroids of a visit with Santa, there's complimentary gift wrap for up to three packages, and complimentary food and drinks. Go! | iiiitle behind on the holiday shopping thing. Not to worry! Here are some shoppable options whether you're ordering from the comfort of your pajamas or venturing out into the streets of the city.
Corcoran Holiday Gift Guide. Obviously I'm biased, but there are some SERIOUSLY good items here, most under $50, including experiential suggestions (not everyone wants "stuff"). Gifts are curated by | 86 |
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Spikeball from Shark Tank Discuss Multichannel Retail Strategy [Webinar]
Spikeball is a sport, a community, a product, and a fast growing retail business. Best described as the love child of volleyball and four square, the sport has a community of over half a million players worldwide. As seen on the hit U.S. TV show Shark Tank, they were backed by Daymond John with a $500,000 investment to support the awe-inspiring<|fim_middle|> time venture from the kitchen table, but in 2013 things began to pick up steam. The company hit the $1 million mark with no full time employees. Then in 2014 the company reached a whopping $3.2M in revenue! This great story was expanded on in our webinar 'Spikeball from Shark Tank Discuss Multichannel Retail Strategy' which was hosted with our fulfillment partner ShipStation.
Spikeball now retails to over 3,000 retail locations (the likes of Dicks Sporting Goods, Modell's Sporting Goods, REI, and others), via five Shopify websites, three Amazon web stores, and on the eBay marketplace. They've gone from a kitchen table operation to one which ships from six warehouses all spread throughout the world. Getting there took smart technology like Shopify andShipStation but also a highly efficient team. They are now expecting to grow another five times, there really is no stopping these guys!
Scott Palmer is the Chief Operating Officer at Spikeball and has steered the company to its great success. Scott is a retail operations pioneer for small to mid-sized businesses. Before teaming up with Chris Ruder, the founder of Spikeball, to formalize the company and put the business on its high-growth trajectory, he was working as a consultant to startups. He has a wealth of business knowledge but specializes in operational data efficiencies and marketing strategy based on customer data.
The retail journey is a different story for every business depending on the industry you are in, the drive to succeed you have within your team, and the resources you have to play with. The picture below is a generalization of the retail journey we typically see at Brightpearl.
Scott identified that they implemented Brightpearl when the business was in between the 'Start up' and 'Growing' phase. This wasn't long before they appeared on Shark Tank, during the webinar he comments; "to ensure we could keep up with the expected demand after appearing on Shark Tank we heavily invested and relied upon Brightpearl, ShipStation, Shopify and the rest of our technology stack." Good job too, the tech held up against the influx of orders which came flurrying in once light had been shed on the game during the TV show.
Now Scott believes the company is in the 'Established' phase of the journey making its way well towards 'Enterprise'. Unlike the figures represented on the journey, all this has been achieved by a remote workforce of just 8 full-time employees. Which is what is meant by 'a highly efficient team' which Spikeball most certainly is.
Watch the 'Spikeball from Shark Tank Discuss Multichannel Retail Strategy' webinar today to find out more about the lean retail operation. This awe-inspiring story is set to continue with the support of great technology which can scale with the business. We're very proud to be a part of this amazing story, and watch this space as there are more great things to come!
If you have any questions you'd like to ask James, Scott or Cody who presented this webinar please ask them in the comments below.
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An important (if not the most important) aspect of running a successful fatherhood<|fim_middle|> pictures from events or recent "happenings".
Share short success stories or congrats moments with photos.
Share simple "needs" that participants may have - allows the community to help each other.
Short video clips you create.
Step 6: Measure success, rinse and repeat.
–Remember that engaged followers are more important than number of followers.
–Track the number of visits to your program website or other relevant links shared via social.
–Monitor the level of and watch for increasing participation in private Facebook groups.
Educate yourself: checkout Social Media Examiner's article, 10 Metrics to Track for Social Media Success.
Step 7: Learn about, test, and invest in Facebook Ads to recruit fathers and families into your programs.
I will blog in depth about this step later this week—stay tuned!
Do you have an idea of where you'd like to start with social media to enhance your program delivery?
Already using social media to enhance your program delivery? Visit each of the steps above to see how you can improve. | program is engaging participants. Whether it's existing clients or new clients, you need to meet them where they're at and engage with them beyond the doors of your center.
That's where social media can play an important role in your success. And we're not just talking recruiting and retaining dads, but also delivering and reinforcing program content. But where should you begin? Which social media channel should you use? And who in your organization will do it?
Recently I presented on this very subject during a session at the Biennial Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) Conference in D.C. along with NFI Board Member, Maggie Spain. I will share the 7 steps we covered in the presentation here.
Step 1: Know your organizations's "WHY".
Watch this 17 minute video from Simon Sinek's TED Talk on "Determining Your Organization's Why". Once you have determined a clear voice for your "why", you will be better equipped to move ahead with your social media strategy.
Step 2: Figure out which social media sites your clients use (and your target clients), then focus on learning about and planning for that social media channel(s).
You don't need to be on all of the social media sites! Check out this infographic about who's using which channels and for what.
Step 3: Decide who will be in charge of the social media strategy for your organization.
–Identify one person in your organization to manage social media.
–Make sure account usernames and passwords are stored in a safe place.
–Develop a social media cheat sheet.
Helps connect organization's voice to social media strategy.
Outlines what is OK to post, requires approval to post and is never OK to post.
Step 4: Educate yourself and create a social media strategy for your program (or organization).
This might sound scary, complicated, or too time consuming - but it's a VERY important step. If you side step the strategy and planning stage, your success in the social media space could be slim.
Educate yourself: here are two resources I recommend for learning about using social media, and for creating your social media strategy.
Step 4a: Determine if a closed Facebook Group would (also or instead) suit your needs.
–Allow programs to connect with participants via a digital platform they are already using.
–Require admission (have your social media manager approve new members).
–Encourage conversations and connections through the group.
Educate yourself: Again, we turn to Hootsuite for their expertise on Facebook Groups. Checkout their article Facebook Groups 101: Everything You Need to Know to determine if a Facebook group is right for your needs.
Step 5: Start posting on the social media site(s) of your choice.
–Start small. Just 1-2 posts per week is just fine.
–Use social media to supplement education you're providing in your programs. Share ideas or topics that relate to what you are already covering.
–Look for conversation starters. What are things that start conversations between you and your clients in person? Use some of those on social to do the same.
–Ask your followers questions. Almost everyone likes to share their opinion, so ask away!
–Be sure to use "Calls to Action": ASK your followers to DO something. Direct them to your website to fill out an interest form or to learn more about an upcoming event. You want them to take action!
Post a quote or phrase that is thought-provoking and ask what it means to your followers.
Share information on upcoming events or program sign-ups.
Share funny or cute family-related videos or commercials to keep things light-hearted.
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12 lessons of creativity for 2017
As a journalist, maintaining a healthy level of skepticism is a requirement. Sources routinely put their own actions in the best possible light, while undercutting the activities of rivals. I just can't take everything people say to me at face value. But every now and then, I get to engage in a project that is so inspiring, my wall of cynicism melts. That's the way I feel about our annual coverage of the Most Creative People in Business. Each year, our editorial team scours the globe to identify 100 allnew honorees whom we have not significantly covered in print before. This is how we initially introduced readers to Instagram founder Kevin Systrom—before his business was acquired by Facebook. It's where we first talked about Princess Reema Bint Bandar Al-Saud of Saudi…
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Updates from the MIC alumni SoulCycle In April, SoulCycle, the chain of boutique fitness studios with 78 locations in 15 markets, launched its first-ever brand campaign, featuring a two-minute spot starring actual sweaty, attractive class instructors. As the music swells, they explain that SoulCycle—and its cult following—is not about the bike but rather about the rider. With the company expecting to add another 15 studios this year, the ads target both newbies and veteran<|fim_middle|>. The timing of the buy wasn't accidental. Late spring and summer, when skiing and snowboarding drop off, are actually Vail's most important time of the year, because this is the moment when it starts to market next season's Epic Pass, which offers unlimited access to 45 ski areas around the world. Over the past few years, Vail has used the off-season to beef up the $859 Epic Pass, by acquiring Canada's Whistler Blackcomb in 2016 and Australia's Perisher Mountain in 2015. The Stowe purchase allows Vail, which is concentrated in the western half of the U.S., to make a compelling bid for the…
big conference, big ideas
Anyone who's ever organized and designed a conference knows how hard it can be to attract and engage attendees. And as the events space grows more crowded and more complex, the task is only getting harder. That's why some of the world's biggest companies seek a true hospitality partner to help them think outside the box—and the hotel ballroom. Take Amazon Web Services' (AWS) popular conference, re:Invent. In 2016, AWS hosted around 32,000 attendees across five days at the Venetian Las Vegas and the resort's adjoining conference facilities. As the five-year-old conference has grown by leaps and bounds, re:Invent has tapped the Venetian's expertise, working hand in hand to achieve the sort of creativity and innovation that has established re:Invent as a model event. "We're experts at serving and entertaining people," says… | cyclists in the company's biggest markets (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco), where there's almost always a trendy new fitness option. Despite the ad's vociferous stance regarding soul versus cycle, the campaign debuted just a month before the company introduced a major redesign of its signature Soul- Bike. "Our riders are getting stronger, physically and mentally," says CEO Melanie…
nintendo's newest gaming console switches things up
Nintendo The hottest new consumer-electronics device of 2017 has been a system that combines the on-thego nature of smartphone gaming with the power and detail of a home console. The Nintendo Switch, as it's known, sold a reported 1.5 million units in the first two weeks of launch, making it the fastestselling console in Nintendo history. Part of the Switch's beauty is its simple design. Users can undock the central, 6.2-inch touch screen and attach the two controllers to either side for an experience akin to Nintendo's handheld DS device. The other key component is the games themselves, particularly The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which players have lauded as the best addition to the Zelda franchise in years because of its open-world, discovery-based format. Nintendo needed to get the Switch…
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Vail Resorts This spring, Vail Resorts, one of the largest ski-area operators in the world, extended its colossal reach with its first East Coast acquisition, Vermont's Stowe Mountain | 301 |
The human brain is one of the p<|fim_middle|> and evolution of Homo sapiens, and the development of the human cerebral cortex, with the goal of reaching a multidimensional view and understanding of this fundamental issue. | innacles of natural evolution, which endows us with unmatched cognitive performance and was likely key for our success during natural selection over other species, including other hominids. Evolution relies on the innovation of genetic, molecular, cellular and histogenetic processes that take place during development. In the case of the brain, this innovation ultimately results in changes on the complexity and function of neural circuits, and animal behaviour.
Recent technological advances in genomics, stem cell biology, and cerebral organoid models, as well as newly discovered hominids, have led to an explosion of new information that bears on the issue of human cortex development and evolution. These discoveries are multidisciplinary and have occurred at multiple and complementary levels: genes, molecules, cells, tissues and biomechanics. With this burst of new information comes an opportunity to integrate the findings into an updated, modern view of human cortical evolution.
This Workshop aims to bring together a multidisciplinary team of scientists leading different but intersecting disciplines to exchange knowledge, hypotheses and arguments on the development | 208 |
DGS 30 Recap: Sylph Comics Editor-in-Chief Confirms DGS Manga
Posted byArria Cross November 9, 2017 October 26, 2017 2 Comments on DGS 30 Recap: Sylph Comics Editor-in-Chief Confirms DGS Manga
Dear Girl ~Stories~ Episode 30 Recap & Selected Translations
by Arria Cross
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Ep. 30 Title: オシリーナオシリーナ♪ �<|fim_middle|> blog via e-mail so you'll be updated when the next recap and selected translations come out. Thank you very much. I'll see you next time. Mosu!
-Arria
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Yay! Working on those episodes. Thanks for dropping by, Krystallina! | �レシーナウレシーナ♪ (Oshirii na Oshirii na♪ Ureshii na Ureshii na♪ / It's Oshirina It's Oshirina♪ So happy So happy♪)
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Opening Talk
The 30th episode starts. They talk about Nakamura Yuuichi (中村悠一) who previously guested two times in a row. (Refer to Episode 28 & Episode 29). There's a rumour floating around that he's guesting again in this episode. They talk about how if it was the two of them, they'll be told that they're not allowed to guest so frequently. They also reveal that Nakamura was only invited to guest one time on Episode 28, but then he still ended up guesting again on Episode 29.
HiroC: But we really have a wonderful guest over here today. Eh, uhm, it's Sylph Comics Editor-in-Chief!
Both: Ahahaha!
OnoD: Isn't this bad?
HiroC: It's bad!
OnoD: We're in trouble.
HiroC: She's here to confirm whether we're really the right people to work with Sylph Comics, isn't she?
OnoD: That's what we're thinking, right?
Both: Ahaha!
OnoD: I just realized why.
HiroC: Eh? No way.
OnoD: I think we're in deep trouble.
HiroC: We're in trouble?
OnoD: Didn't we mess up acting the lines from the comics? (Refer to Episode 22 and Episode 25)
HiroC: Aaaaaaah!!!
OnoD: Maybe it's about that…
HiroC: But aren't you the one who messed up, Ono-kun?
They're so adorable! They're wondering whether the Editor-in-Chief came to scold them. It's even funnier that HiroC places all the blame on OnoD for messing up. Ahahaha! OnoD shoots off one of his popular lines, a modification of "Ikkai tobaseba ii". This time saying "Isshuu tobaseba ii". Refer to DGS Glossary for the meaning.
HiroC: Ah, maybe that's why Uchida-Producer brought a baseball bat today.
OnoD: Ahahaha!
HiroC: So he brought it as a weapon for the Editor-in-Chief to use against us!
OnoD: Ahaha!
HiroC: No way.
OnoD: So this is a raid?
All: Ahahaha!
HiroC: Scary! So this is a raid episode. I already talked about this before when Nikumura-kun came, but let's talk for 30 minutes straight in the opening today. (Refer to Episode 28).
Official Title
OnoD: Oshirii na Oshirii na♪ Ureshii na Ureshii na♪ (It's Oshirina It's Oshirina♪ So happy So happy♪)
OnoD: Yay!
HiroC: She came, right?
OnoD: She did!
HiroC: I also wanted to see her…
OnoD: Her face was so small.
Oshirina (オシリーナ / Oshiriina) refers to Akiyama Rina (秋山 莉奈), an actress, TV personality, and gravure idol. That year in 2007, she was named "Best Butt in Japan". Hence, her Oshirina nickname. "Oshiri" means butt.
Futsu Sto
Sent by Ayato Haruka of Saitama Prefecture, read by HiroC:
Good evening HiroC-san & OnoD-san. I visited Ushiku Daibutsu the other day which OnoD said he wanted to visit.
OnoD: Ooooh. But I haven't even gone there yet.
It was as HiroC-san described it. I had a very enjoyable trip thanks to both of you. Anyway, I bought you some souvenirs.
Refer to Episode 23. They thank Ayato Haruka for actually sending them souvenirs. They open the souvenirs and got some sort of label which says "Ushiku Daibutsu" (牛久大仏), some sort of postcard, a strap and a T-shirt that says "I ♥ Ushiku Daibutsu" in the style of "I ♥ NY".
HiroC says that OnoD will use the Ushiku Daibutsu strap on his cellphone, which OnoD says is a little embarrassing to use. HiroC tells him that it's okay, saying that he'll be happy to see others use it because it's from his hometown. Then OnoD says that he's going to use the postcard to write something for HiroC. HiroC says that he doesn't need it. Ahaha!
Sent by Zetsubou name "I don't comment", read by OnoD:
HiroC: Don't send anything here using Zetsubou names!
Good morning-hello-good evening, Kamiya-san & Shintani-san!
HiroC: AHAHAHA!!! (clapping)
This is my first time sending a letter to you. I love you, Kamiya-san, but I love Shintani-san even more. Shintani-san, I love you. I love you so much! I love you with all my heart! Please marry me! I think that my feelings will reach you this way. And lastly, I request that you invite Nonaka Ai-san who plays Kafka as a guest. Please!
This is obviously a letter intended for HiroC's other radio show for the anime he stars in Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei (さよなら絶望先生). He hosts it with Shintani Ryoko (新谷良子) who voices the character Nami. Nonaka Ai (野中 藍) voices the character Kafka in the anime.
HiroC scolds the sender. A similar thing happened before in Episode 26. OnoD says that it must be intentional that this Zetsubou letter was sent to DGS because the e-mail address used is the DGS one. HiroC's other radio show obviously uses a different e-mail address. HiroC makes it clear to everyone that he doesn't want people sending any Zetsubou mail to DGS, even if he appreciates the thought. Regarding the mail, he says that he'll discuss the possibility of inviting Nonaka Ai as a guest in his other radio show. He'll also convey to Shintani Ryoko the sender's feelings.
Sent by Aiko, read by HiroC:
Good evening, Kamiya-san & Ono-san! I'm so looking forward to your upcoming public recording event. I have a question. Will you be playing with a huge rubber during the event?
Attached to the mail is a hand-drawn illustration showing a rubber stretching out of OnoD's mouth which HiroC is pulling while running away. It seems that she also wrote "I love Kamiya-san!" on it!
HiroC: Thank you very much!
OnoD: Oy! Oy!
HiroC: Ahaha!
OnoD: How about me? Dear Girl ~Stories~ has become all about Kamiya Hiroshi again.
It also seems that there's a postcard by Hoshino Lily-sensei.
OnoD repeats that their upcoming event "For Lovers Only" isn't about rubber but lovers. He scolds HiroC for coming up with the rubber idea and putting it into everyone's heads. Refer to Episode 27. HiroC retorts that it wasn't him, but "Kuro Megane" (Black Eyeglasses) referring to the show's writer Suwa Masaru, who connected it to rubbers when the title was first announced.
They promote the show's very first public recording as participant in Dengeki's 15th Anniversary Festival by MediaWorks in Makuhari Messe Hall in November 24-25, 2007.
They also reveal that they were shown print-outs of cosplay costumes based on Dirty Pair. OnoD was obsessed about him and HiroC cosplaying as Dirty Pair on their first event. OnoD says that he imagined them wearing either mini-skirts or hot pants, but then when Suwa showed them print-outs of how they would look like, OnoD eventually gave up the idea.
OnoD: It was so shocking!
HiroC: Ahahaha!
OnoD: I was like, so this is what it looks like for real!
OnoD: This doesn't look like hot pants anymore. What the heck is this supposed to be? Shorts?
HiroC: Yeah. It's more like a panty.
OnoD: Yeah. A panty.
HiroC: If Ono-kun wears this, it would be dreadful.
OnoD: True. I'm gonna be "dirty". Literally.
HiroC: Dirty. Dirty Ono.
Finally, OnoD gives up his idea to cosplay as Dirty Pair.
OnoD: I'm giving up Dirty.
HiroC: So no more Dirty?
HiroC: Don't look so heartbroken! It's not normal! If you think about it, you'll know it too! Are you an idiot?!
OnoD: Yes, I'm an idiot.
But it seems that OnoD hasn't given up on his idea of panty shots. HiroC says that OnoD will work hard on thinking up a cosplay costume that will fulfill his panty shot fantasies. OnoD retorts that since this is "Kamiya Hiroshi AND Ono Daisuke's Dear Girl ~Stories~", both of them will work hard on panty shots. Ahahaha!
Dear Girl Jouhou
This November, past odemukae voices will be made available again for a limited time, including HiroC's.
Sylph Danwashitsu
OnoD messes up reading the corner's intro. HiroC calls out his mistake, saying that it shouldn't have happened especially since the Sylph Comics Editor-in-Chief is present. OnoD quickly tries and reads again.
This time, they don't feature a manga but instead welcome the Editor-in-Chief of Sylph Comics.
Editor-in-Chief: Good evening. This is Comic Hylp—Ah!
Editor-in-Chief: I am Sylph Comics' editor-in-chief, Sugihara Chiaki.
They all greet each other.
HiroC: Uhm…We're wondering why you've come here….
Editor-in-Chief: The other day, you ate durian—
HiroC: Ah! The durian! Thank you very much for making us eat something so delicious!
OnoD: It was very delicious!
Editor-in-Chief: It seems that the manga artists who listened to that episode had so much fun.
HiroC: Ah, they enjoyed it?
Editor-in-Chief: Some even tried eating durian.
HiroC: Oh! Oooh.
Editor-in-Chief: They felt weak after eating it.
HiroC: Ah! Is that so?
Editor-in-Chief: They also said that they even had to stop working on their manuscripts because they couldn't take it.
OnoD: Ehh?!!
HiroC: Ah?!
OnoD: Seriously?!
Editor-in-Chief: Things like these happened to them because of that episode.
OnoD: All of these because of durian?
HiroC: So will Hoshino Lily-sensei still be on your line-up?
Editor-in-Chief: Yes, nothing has changed there.
HiroC: Ah, is that so?
OnoD: Thank goodness!
HiroC: Please excuse me, but I don't think we need to apologize for anything then.
OnoD: Wait a minute. It's all because of the durian…
HiroC: All of these terrible things that happened is the fault of…Hoshino Lily-sensei, am I right?
Suwa: Ahahaha!
OnoD: Yeah, it's all Lily's fault. So in short….
HiroC: So if we're not getting scolded…why have you come here, Editor-in-Chief?
OnoD reveals that the Editor-in-Chief brought them some cakes. They thank her for the delicious cakes.
Editor-in-Chief: I came here because of both of your plans for a Dear Girl ~Stories~ manga.
HiroC: Ah!
OnoD: Ah ha.
HiroC: What? Are you really serious about it?
Editor-in-Chief: (in a very serious tone) Yes, I'm serious.
OnoD: Ahaha.
They say that they somehow can't believe that they're being taken so seriously because they originally only voiced the idea as a joke. Now they have no choice but to seriously plan and work on it.
They ask the Editor-in-Chief if their manga would be able to make it for the Volume 5 line-up that coming December, but she says that the schedule is a little too tight for a December release. So perhaps they can include the DGS manga on Volume 6 the coming year.
The Editor-in-Chief reveals that final manuscripts should be ready and submitted about a month before the magazine's release date. They ask her if it's okay to be a little late. She says that there are times that they accept late submissions, but she doesn't advise it.
HiroC shares that they haven't even thought of a title for the manga yet. The Editor-in-Chief orders them to think about it right at that moment. HiroC says that no matter what, they should include "Dear Girl ~Stories~" in the title, and all they have to think about is the subtitle.
To get an idea, they refresh themselves with the premise: "Radio personalities by day, detectives by night." The Editor-in-Chief comments that it's a cool idea, and steers them to some title suggestions.
HiroC: Then let's go with this setting: "Seiyuu by day, jack of all trades by night."
They ask her what would be a better tone for the manga: cute or cool? She says that she prefers "cool" while still containing some gags.
The Editor-in-Chief says that they're already looking for artists to draw the manga for them. HiroC says that Suwa will ghostwrite the story for them, while the credit goes to the two of them on the actual publication. Ahahaha!
HiroC says that for the cover art of their manga, their characters need to have a signature pose. So he orders OnoD to stand up with him and actually try different poses that the artist can use as references. Ahaha!
The first pose is them standing back to back.
Editor-in-Chief: Hmm. It's so-so.
HiroC: Ah, just so-so? Then which of us will do the sideway glance? Then I'll do the sideway glance.
Editor-in-Chief: Look up a little.
HiroC: Ah, so I should look up a little? So we should be a bit closer together?
Editor-in-Chief: Yes.
HiroC: Standing so close together is a little lame….
HiroC orders OnoD to take it seriously because whatever pose they decide today might be chosen as the cover art of the entire magazine, which might be released as the first volume of the New Year. That's when OnoD realizes the gravity of what they're doing.
Editor-in-Chief: Do something ikemen-like.
HiroC: Ikemen-like… Well, I'm often told that I have a good-looking back.
OnoD: Good-looking back?
HiroC: That's why I'm thinking forget about my face and just show my back.
OnoD: No way!
Ahahaha! The Editor-in-Chief comments that HiroC looks very good in the pose. The problem is with OnoD. Ahahaha!
The next order of business is the title. They say that having "Seiyuu by day, jack of all trades by night" included in the actual title is too long and too descriptive.
Editor-in-Chief: We'll include "Dear Girl ~Stories~" in the title and something short as the subtitle. We don't want something long. If possible, just one kanji is good.
As usual, HiroC passes the responsibility to OnoD, ordering him to think up of a one-kanji title. They give him paper to write his ideas.
HiroC: We're seiyuu, so something to do with "voice".
OnoD: Ah, "voice".
HiroC: Yes, "voice".
OnoD: Something related to "voice", so how about "hibiku"? (響く = to resound or to be heard far away)
So one of their suggestions is the character 響 (hibiki) and the other one is "kyou" but I'm not sure which character they use. It might be 卿, which means "lord" or "sir" or 京 as in "Kyoto". There are lots of other characters with this reading, so I'm not sure which of them is the correct one.
Anyway, they thank the Editor-in-Chief, Sugihara Chiaki-san, for coming.
Ending Talk
OnoD apologizes for an earlier announcement mistake. It seems that while he was reading the promotion for the upcoming Dengeki 15th Anniversary Festival, he said "juugo shuunensai (15周年祭)" when the correct one is "juugo nensai" (15年祭). They basically mean the same thing with a subtle difference because of the one character. HiroC scolds OnoD for making such a big deal out of it, but OnoD insists that he might get into trouble for not reading it correctly.
They're also asking for suggestions for signature lines of their manga characters. OnoD's previous suggestion was: "Your body isn't just yours anymore." Refer to Episode 26.
They invite you to e-mail them at dgs@joqr.net
It's quite amazing that the editor-in-chief of Sylph Comics, Sugihara Chiaki, actually came to the studio to confirm their DGS manga. This is such a fun episode and as usual, both of them are hilarious. I hope that you enjoyed this episode as much as I did.
And that's it for the 30th episode of DGS.
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Depending on your personality type, you may enjoy having a lot of friends or a few friends. Typically if you enjoy having a lot of friends, your relationships aren't as deep as the person who enjoys just having a few friends. As a leader, you must be aware of your tendencies in this area because it directly relates to this leadership lesson from Jesus.
Jesus had three relational contexts in which he<|fim_middle|> the 12. When Jesus had something big going on, he would bring Peter, James and John with him. They were in the inner circle of the inner circle.
They had more access to Jesus than the other nine.
Here's a question: How many people have complete access to you?
You may find that no one has complete access to you. That's dangerous. Change it right away.
You may find that the many have complete access to you. That's dangerous as well. You can't be best friends, primary mentor, etc. to loads of people. It's not healthy. In fact, science says that you can really only have between six and 12 close friends.
In no way am I saying that you should turn down a potential friendship or mentorship opportunity. I'm not saying that you shouldn't minister to as many people as you possibly can. No. In fact, by adopting this leadership lesson, I believe that you'll be a better balanced leader. The crowd may get you accolades, but the 12 and the three will leave you a legacy.
The crowd may get you accolades, but the 12 and the three will leave you a legacy. | exemplified leadership.
Jesus spent time with the crowds, the 12 and the three.
Understanding that Jesus had more than just 12 people following him on a consistent basis, we will lump the extra people in with the crowds.
Here's the lesson: Minister to the many, invest in a few.
Jesus sets us an example in leadership: Minister to the many, invest in a few.
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The fair use of personal data is one of the defining issues of tomorrow's internet. AI and other technological developments rely on data generated by and about individuals, and MyData provides a paradigm for guiding those in a way that is based on trust and benefits people.
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Application for membership is open to all individuals and organisations who support the mission of MyData Global. | Global was one of nine organisations awarded by the European Commission with the the Next-Generation Internet award.
The award recognizes the most impactful European initiatives and individuals creating the human-centric, trustworthy and sustainable internet.
The award is given to MyData Global for its work on "Data as human right" in Barcelona, Spain at the 4YFN (4 Years from Now) conference, one of the largest startup events in Europe and part of the Mobile World Congress.
"In the last few years, we've been flooded by scandals regarding data leaks. The GDPR is a great starting point for improvement, but it alone is not enough. We want to see individuals given self-determination of their data and also want to see the development of new businesses and innovations based on personal data," explains MyData General Manager Teemu Ropponen.
"The time is now ripe for an organisation that seeks to enable a more sustainable and balanced digital society globally. The MyData movement is dedicated to placing the human at the heart of all this data talk. Personal data has enormous potential for making our lives easier and our societies better. And, when used in a way that is respectful of individuals and the standards of fairness, personal data also creates enormous opportunities for new business and innovations," illustrates MyData Global Chair Sarah Medjek.
MyData is an initiative to help individuals manage and reuse their personal data, currently controlled nearly exclusively by businesses and government agencies.
MyData is both an alternative vision and set of guiding technical principles for developing digital services that give individuals more control over how their personal data is used.
"In China, personal data is used by the state for surveillance of its citizens. Some Silicon Valley tech giants advance surveillance capitalism, in which personal data is used in ways often unknown to the user. We want to advance a European alternative, in which individuals decide how our data is used and benefit from sharing that data. We encourage European leaders and companies to lead the way towards more ethical practices", Ropponen demands.
The global community developing and promoting MyData was recently formalised as an international nonprofit organisation. Before the official establishment of the association, the community already had activities in more than 20 countries.
In just over 4 months, MyData Global has gotten well over 500 members, including 70 organisations, from over 40 countries on six continents. MyData Global headquarters are in Helsinki, Finland.
MyData Global's mission is to empower individuals by improving their right to self-determination regarding their personal data. The human-centric paradigm aims at a fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital society, where the sharing of personal data is based on trust as well as a balanced and fair relationship between individuals and organisations.
The mission is outlined in the MyData Declaration. Individuals and organisations interested in the mission are welcomed to join the movement and read more at mydata.org.
Photos and images are available upon request.
The founding of MyData Global is the result of several years of work. It has connected personal data experts and practitioners from all over the globe into a collaborative network, who have been gathering in annual conferences in Helsinki, Finland, since 2016. The fourth MyData 2019 conference, an associated event of the Finnish EU-presidency in the second half of 2019, will be organised in September 25-27, 2019.
The MyData initiative was recently awarded the NGI Culture Award (European commission's "Next Generation Internet" -initiative) as one of the most impactful European initiatives shaping a new culture around Next Generation Internet. The purpose of MyData Global is to empower individuals by improving their right to self-determination regarding their personal data. The human-centric paradigm aims at a fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital society, where the sharing of personal data is based on trust as well as a balanced and fair relationship between individuals and organisations.
"I am honored to be elected for the board of an organisation that I consider very important. Not only do I consider the principles and mindset of MyData to be a fundamental human right, I | 828 |
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As she watched across the activity across the street, Terrah couldn't help but smile. Her freshly dyed brown hair air-drying as she followed every movement closely. Headphones plugged in. White noise filtering through them. An occasional crackle and voices speaking but gone within a moment. Despite the mass of black vehicles in front of the run-down hotel, she had a perfect view of the action below.
The hotel room she had rented earlier in the week was strategically chosen. Three floors above ground level. The perfect height to see what was happening below but high enough to go unnoticed. The curtains pulled back just enough to see. Several individuals at the center of all the activity wore bulletproof vests with rifles as their preferred weapon of choice. A utility belt with an array of items secured around their waist. Several police officers in their standard uniforms and issued weapons stood near barricades placed—keeping the crowd of people from interfering with their activity.
Between the media and bystanders, every movement was captured. In the background, a sleek black SUV stood out from the armored vehicles and police cars. Two people stood near it, wearing finely tailored black suits. They looked out of place. Displeasure etched into their faces. Neither of them wanting to be there but required to. They were watching and waiting.
Noises sparked to life in her headphones. Commands bellowed and followed.
Terrah hummed and began to pack her suitcase. Items all gathered near the desk and chair by the window. Every item neatly folded and placed. Rustling filling the space.
The two in black suits perked up when several people started exiting the building. Those wearing street clothing were escorted by heavily armed law enforcement members. Most of those in handcuffs were minorities and male. Frequent reports of fights, drug use, and prostitution all lent to a high probability of police raids. The hotel wore its seedy reputation as a badge of honor. Anyone looking for illegal substances knew where to go. The city's police chief worked hard to shut it down entirely, but a final decision remained in limbo for years.
Today's activity, however, might be enough to shut the place down permanently. The police were the last thing the owners had to worry about. This organized operation had nothing to do with local law enforcement, but federal.
Throughout all the masses of drug dealers, arms dealers, and pimps—a blonde haired woman was escorted out of the front entrance. Skinny, pale, and eyes dilated. Her body shaking as she came off the high from her drug of choice. Instead of being put on the sidewalk like the rest, she was escorted to the black SUV. The agents in suits approached her and spoke.
She was placed in the back of their black SUV and taken away. The remaining FBI officials spent several more hours clearing the scene. The street reopened to traffic in the early hours of the afternoon. She watched. Waited.
Terrah sent a text message on a burner phone before picking up her pre-packed bag and exiting her luxurious hotel room. The conclusion of the raid would be on the news later.
Dressed in designer labels and a new hair color, Terrah looked vastly different than just 24 hours ago. With her shoulders back, head held high, she checked out of the room and thanked the staff for a wonderful stay.
She walked out of the hotel and began trekking across alleyways to reach her destination. By the time she arrived, Terrah was sweating due to the heat. The water bottle in her hand glistened with condensation as she took several large drinks for it. Behind her, an abandoned building. Windows boarded up. Debris lined up against the aging brick. The entry hidden from the streets. No security cameras were placed outside to capture transients or passersby.
Terrah leaned against the brick siding, her mind running through the next steps of her plan. Nausea bubbled in her stomach. So much was at stake—and not just for her.
Being so close to the end was surreal. Over a decade on the run with one survival story piled on top of another. The promise of it all coming to an end never felt within reach. Not like now. Anticipation continued to build with every passing second. Terrah hadn't seen Jaynes in months.
Her heart pounded at the mere thought of seeing him. While working, she could ignore the lingering ache of him being gone. Knowing he was getting closer pulled that feeling to the forefront. God, what would he look like? Changing appearances wasn't anything new between them.
Soon, there would be no need to hide who they really were.
A red sports car turned down the alleyway, Terrah tensed at the sight of an unfamiliar vehicle in her proximity. Within seconds<|fim_middle|> you think that I would start now?"
The stunned silence didn't last long. The female agent recovered much quicker than her male counterpart. She straightened her posture before speaking. "Terrah, let's be reasonable, you know what a danger your husband is to society. The people have been terrorized by his hands. Lives have been torn apart because of his actions. We can't let this continue."
She leaned forward, closing the gap between her and the agent. The other woman pulled away slightly to create more distance between them.
"Let me make one thing clear, Agent Corbin. I will never help you catch Jaynes McConnell. I'll die first before that happens, she growled.
The door to the small room opened. A flash went off followed by smoke. It covered the entire room. She coughed and tried to cover her nose and mouth. Then, several rounds went off. One of them hit her body, tearing through her body.
More shots were fired and soon all the sound that remained was the blare of a fire alarm.
Rylan Hart reckless revenge Leave a comment June 1, 2018 May 25, 2020 8 Minutes | , the car pulled up next to her, a man behind the wheel. Sandy hair and hazel eyes that could charm anyone.
"You look like you could use a ride."
The accent was unmistakable. British in origin and hadn't faded despite living in America for over ten years. Terrah rolled her eyes.
"I thought we were going to keep a low profile."
The man smiled. He was the textbook definition of a model. "This is a low profile. You're wearing Chanel. I'm in Michael Kors. I needed a car to match."
Terrah opened the back seat and threw her bag without regard. The duffle contained clothes mostly—ones that had been well-worn and ready to rip at the seams. They resembled nothing akin to her current outfit. The change was intentional for the time being.
Eventually though, she would need the practical outfits.
She got into the passenger seat and the man leaned in. Terrah gave him a quick kiss. "I've missed you."
"I've missed you too, Terrah." In that moment, the world stopped between them. Her heart longed to be closer, to hold on to him tight. The smile on his face softened to the one she was familiar with. The one only she was allowed to see.
He pulled her close once more and kissed her again. Every second of contact breathing new life into her. When they broke apart for the second time, his touch lingered. She leaned into his hand.
As much as she wanted to hold on to this moment, their lives wouldn't wait. "We better get going if we're going to make our next destination."
The boyish grin was back as the man shifted the car into gear. "Yet another reason why this car will come in handy."
The blonde woman sat in a bland-looking room. A faux mirror on one of the walls. She had been left alone for several hours now. The remaining drugs in her system finally wearing off, leaving her shaky and anxious. Her mind raced through the possibilities of what was to come. Nothing she conjured could even compare to what was about to happen.
The heavy door to the room opened, handle hitting the wall. A tactic of intimidation but she didn't even bat an eye at the noise. Two people in tailored black suits walked in. One a woman, the other a man. The woman had dark hair and eyes, athletic in nature, and sharp features. Her face severe as she carried herself with confidence.
The man slumped his shoulders slightly, but his beady eyes thinly veiled his contempt. His muscles were accentuated in the suit and were an obvious product of many hours at the gym. She would have been intimidated but it was mainly for show.
They glanced over her appearance, but neither of them addressed her current state. There wasn't much to say for someone whose clothes were stained and torn from repeated use. The crooks of her arms covered in needle marks, makeup smudged, and hair greasy.
She didn't give a damn what they thought.
After all, they only had one thing they wanted from her. Something they both knew was pointless, but here they were once again. Different room, same conversation. Their eyes met. She didn't back away.
"How is coming off your high treating you, Terrah?" the female agent asked. She didn't answer. Her legs shaking underneath the table. "You know, we hate doing this."
"We'll go over your rights once again—in case you forgot from the last time."
Who could forget?
The rights were recited. She consented to being recorded and to speak freely at the time.
"If you're back here, that means Jaynes is likely nearby. The two of you are never far from each other." She glared at the female agent. Mutual contempt held between them. Straight to the point as always. "Let me remind you that your cooperation is important, Terrah."
The woman scoffed at the statement. "There's nothing in it for me."
The air became colder. She smirked, knowing exactly that she had struck a nerve. Neither of the agents had much patience—let alone tolerance for dealing with someone like her.
Still, the female agent forced a smile. "Nothing could be further from the truth. There's a lot I can offer you. You're looking at years in prison for drug possession, drug paraphernalia, assault, conspiracy to commit murder, illegal possession of a firearm, and aiding and abetting a fugitive."
The smirk never left her face. "Those are serious charges to accuse someone who is speaking freely to you."
"For you Terrah, I'm willing to work out a deal to where you serve a reduced sentence along with entry into a cushy rehabilitation program. You could start fresh, leave this life behind, and become the person your family would be proud to have back in their lives."
"But only if I tell you where Jaynes is."
She fell silent, letting the time pass in effort to feign her contemplation of their offer. Of course, she had no intention of revealing that information. Not now. Not ever. It was the same song and dance over and over. Flat out refusal was her usual go-to. She decided to change things up a bit.
"I don't know where he is." If they were thrown by the answer, neither showed it through their expressions. The only sign that it had any effect was the long pause after her statement.
"My patience has grown thin, Terrah. I know he tells you everything. Now, tell me where your husband is."
Her eyes widened. "How do you know about that?"
"We have our sources. We've kept the information tight-lipped. We want to bring in Jaynes ourselves and can't do that if one of his many enemies comes after him first."
The woman didn't respond. The feds weren't supposed to know about their marriage. They had done it in secret and out of the country. No one was supposed to find out.
She let out a laugh in the small room. "And you think that because we're now married that I'd sell out my husband?" Her response caught the others off-guard. "I've never betrayed Jaynes in the twelve years I've known him. What made | 1,281 |
Last week I was thrilled to attend the 24th International Quality of Life Awards at the United Nations Delegates Dining Room in New York hosted by the College of Human Sciences at Auburn University, a public research university in Auburn, Alabama.
Honored that night for their outstanding philanthropic work were Tim Hudson, former professional baseball pitcher in the MLB, and his wife, Kim, through the Hudson Family Foundation; and Lauren Bush Lauren, CEO of FEED, who received the Laureate Award.
Previous awardees include Charles Barkley, an Auburn alum; and Rep. John Lewis, the esteemed civil rights leader and native Alabamian.
Begun in an attempt to broaden the horizons of its mostly Southern students, the IQLA was launched in partnership with the UN by Auburn's College of Human Sciences—the first academic partner of a UN agency.
Largely through the work of Dean June Henton, the college has developed several initiatives that support issues like sustainability, hunger alleviation around the world, and human sustainable development. Henton was recognized by the Obama White House as a Champion of<|fim_middle|>:48. "Our gifts are here to share with others," Tim Hudson said. Visit its website here.
Lauren Bush Lauren is a granddaughter of President George H.W. Bush and a niece of President George W. Bush. She is married to David Lauren of the Ralph Lauren Corp. Bush Lauren started FEED in 2007 to combat global hunger through the sale of high quality, sustainable jewelry, clothing, and accessories—attractive items that people are already interested in purchasing.
But each purchase provides meals for children in need around the world, including the U.S. Since 2007, FEED has already provided more than 100,000,000 meals to hungry children.
As a student at Princeton, Bush Lauren traveled to Africa, Asia, and Latin America as a student ambassador for the World Food Programme, where she saw firsthand the effects of chronic hunger. The experience led to the founding of FEED.
Nicolas Demey of the World Food Programme, which works closely with FEED, told me that students don't just eat at school. "If they attend school for the whole week, they are able to take home rations for the whole family." This policy incentivizes families to send their children to school every day.
To learn more about FEED, go here. | Change for Food Security in 2012.
Tim and Kim Hudson are founders of the Hudson Foundation, which has been helping to meet specific physical, emotional, or financial needs of children who have a genuine need since 2009. The retired baseball player and his wife, a lawyer, believe that they are responsible for sharing their blessings with others.
The Hudsons have helped to support such organizations as the Make-A-Wish Foundation and CURE Childhood Cancer. They have donated $1.2 million in scholarships of up to $3,000, and helped to feed 20,000 people at Thanksgiving.
The Hudsons quoted Scriptures that they said urged them on in their work: John 9.:41 and Luke 12 | 156 |
Blind Cambridgeshire WWII veteran to march on Remembrance Sunday with Blind Veterans UK
A registered blind ex-soldier from Cambridgeshire will be remembering friends and family when he takes part in the Remembrance Sunday march with Blind Veterans UK.
95 year old John Blackmore from Shudy Camps will be marching to the Cenotaph in London with more than 100 other representatives of Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision impaired ex-Service men and women.
John Blackmore first worked on a farm before joining the Royal Artillery in February 1939. He says "My brother and I joined the Territorial Army to see what army<|fim_middle|> the opportunity to go at all. It will be an amazing event for me and I am looking forward to it immensely."
Our No One Alone campaign aims to reach out to more veterans like John. More than 68,000 other veterans could be eligible for free help and support without realising it. If you know someone who served in the Armed Forces or National Service who now suffers with sight loss from any reason visit www.noonealone.org.uk or call 0800 389 7979.
Wiltshire blind veteran and her family taking on a
Michael Hammerton's 'Safe Area, Lighthouse Entranc | life was really like. While my brother only lasted two weeks, I had my mind made up for me in September 1939 when mobilisation was taking place. The 58th Regiment was equipped with 6-inch Howitzer type guns and as I was originally a tractor driver my ambition was to drive a gun tractor so I could show them how it should be done."
In March 1942 John was transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps and served in Eritrea, Sudan and Benghazi.
John says "In June 1942 I boarded the Q.E.2 and headed towards Egypt. We stayed in a tented camp overlooking the Great Bitter Lakes, then excitement as we were on the move again - two days on the Egyptian railway, two days on a paddle steamer on the Nile and two days on the Sudanese railway to Khartoum. We soon learnt about some of the horrors that the Sudanese had to put up with.
"In Eritrea the hospital advised us to keep out of the strong sun. We did try, but this came back to haunt me in my eighties when skin cancer cut out the bridge of my nose. The doctor thinks this was caused by the time spent out in the desert."
John was discharged from the Army in July 1946 and he returned to the farm in Shudy Camps which belonged to his father-in-law, and he worked there with his wife and family all his life. However, as an arable farm it was too small to remain economically efficient and the land was largely sold off.
John was officially registered blind in 2012 after losing his sight very quickly to macular degeneration. His loss of vision had a devastating impact on his day-to-day life "Before losing my sight I enjoyed reading and watching rugby. I also had to give up driving, and this of all things I missed the most as living out in the sticks means it's harder to get shopping and visit friends."
John's wife Mabel died on Christmas Day 2013 after 63 years of marriage. He says "I still live in the same house but it's a bit chaotic and because my sight isn't very good there are often disasters, like opening the wrong cans of food, spilling tea and biscuit crumbs. My family insist I would still see a five pound note on the floor though!"
Since November 2013, John has received free and comprehensive support from Blind Veterans UK to help him live independently with sight loss. He says "I found on my first assessment visit to the centre in Brighton that the people at Blind Veterans UK are friendly and patient especially as I can't hear too well either. I was given gadgets to help me and I was very pleased that they would transport me from my home to the centre.
"I have since been on short holidays with Blind Veterans UK including an adventure week in Wales where I went out on a jet boat, and on another day I went up Mount Snowdon in a Land Rover, coming down at 70 miles per hour on a zip wire - apparently the longest in northern Europe!
"The staff and volunteers at Blind Veterans UK have helped me to regain my confidence and it makes life better knowing I can have a break now and again and have all the support I need when I am away."
On Sunday 9 November, John will be one of over 100 vision impaired veterans supported by Blind Veterans UK who will take part in the national Remembrance Sunday commemorations at the Cenotaph in London.
John says "Being able to go to the Remembrance Day parade with Blind Veterans UK makes me feel proud and sad, as I don't suppose I will get many more opportunities to go. If it wasn't for the help and support of Blind Veterans UK I'm not sure I'd have | 785 |
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Whitacre Named D3soccer.com Defensive POTY; First Team All-American
Franklin & Marshall's Connor Whitacre was named D3soccer.com's Defender of the Year, as well as earning a place on the All-America First Team. Each accolade was the first of his career.
Season in Review: 2019 F&M Men's Soccer
Each year during the Franklin & Marshall men's soccer programs prolific run, the numbers that detail the Diplomats' current era of success continue their upsurge of impressiveness. The 2019 season carried on that trend as the Diplomats reached the NCAA Tournament for the seventh consecutive time – a record streak unmatched in the history of the Centennial Conference (CC).
Whitacre Named United Soccer Coaches First Team All-American
Franklin & Marshall's Connor Whitacre named a Division III United Soccer Coaches First Team All-American, announced on Thursday evening. The honor was the first of Whitacre's career as the senior defender became the 13th member in program history to claim the accolade.
Five Collect All-Region Accolades
Five Franklin & Marshall student-athletes earned spots on the United Soccer Coaches Men's All-Mid-Atlantic Region Team, announced Monday. Connor Whitacre and A.J. Kopacz garnered First Team honors, while Christopher Amoruso, J.T. Mogan, and Alex Lalovic all earned places on the Third Team.
Fifty-Eight Earn Spots on CC Fall AHR; Six Garner All-Centennial Honors
A record total of 58 Franklin & Marshall student-athletes, representing seven sports, earned a place on the 2019 Centennial Conference (CC) Fall Academic Honor Roll, announced by the league office on Tuesday.
No. 4 F&M Falls Short to Montclair in PKs
Franklin & Marshall's No. 4 men's soccer team suffered a heartbreaking loss to Montclair St. in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament, falling in PKs by a 4-2 tally on Sunday afternoon in Lancaster.
Brandt's Freekick Sends No. 4 Diplomats to Second Round
Jack Brandt's 89th-minute free-kick goal gave Franklin & Marshall's No. 4 ranked men's soccer team a memorable 1-0 shutout win over Penn St. – Harrisburg in the NCAA First Round on Saturday afternoon.
Six Land on All-CC List; Wagner Named Coach of the Year
Six members of the Franklin & Marshall men's soccer team earned All-Centennial Conference (CC) recognition, announced by the league office on Wednesday. Connor Whitacre landed on the First Team, while A.J. Kopacz, J.T. Mogan, and Christopher Amoruso all garnered Second Team accolades.
No. 4 F&M Begins Tournament Run – NCAA 1st/2nd Round Games Notes
The Diplomats qualified for their seventh-consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance – a streak unmatched in the history of the Centennial Conference. During that run, F&M reached four Sweet 16's and a pair of Elite Eights. Overall, the Diplomats have advanced the Tournament on 10 occasions, and hold a 12-9 all-time record in the Playoffs.
Men's Soccer Earns Hosting Rights for NCAA First and Second Rounds
Franklin & Marshall's men's soccer team earned an at-large bid into the 2019 NCAA Tournament and is set to host the First and Second Rounds at Tylus Field for the fifth time in the previous six years.
No. 4 F&M Falls in Narrow CC Championship Tilt
hard-fought clash between two of the nation's top teams resulted in a heartbreaking 3-2 loss for Franklin & Marshall's No. 4 men's soccer team against No. 3 Johns Hopkins in Sunday's Centennial Conference (CC) Championship.
No. 4 Diplomats Drop Gettysburg in CC Semifinals
A flurry of second-half scoring and a stringent defensive effort highlighted No. 4 Franklin & Marshall's 3-0 shutout win over Gettysburg in Saturday's Centennial Conference (CC) Semifinal.
No. 4 F&M Earns Hosting Rights – CC Tournament Game Notes
No. 4-ranked Franklin & Marshall (15-2) enters its 11th straight Centennial Conference (CC) Tournament, good for the second-longest active streak next to Hopkins' run of 18-consecutive appearances. The Diplomats earned weekend hosting rights for the third time CC Tournament history and for the first time since 2014. The last CC Title occurred in 2017 with a 1-0 win over Dickinson in Baltimore.
Men's Soccer - No. 4 F&M vs. McDaniel Video Highlights
No. 4 Franklin & Marshall clinched the top seed in the Centennial Conference (CC) tournament on Saturday after running up a 7-0 score on McDaniel.
Amoruso Garners CC Defensive POTW Honors
Franklin & Marshall goalkeeper Christopher Amoruso was named the Centennial Conference (CC) Defensive Player of the Week for men's soccer, announced by the league office on Tuesday. The honor was the second of the season and career for Amoruso.
No. 4 Diplomats Clinch CC Top Seed with Bashing of McDaniel
Franklin & Marshall's No. 4 ranked men's soccer team scored three goals in the opening 12 minutes, thrashing McDaniel by a 7-0 score on Saturday and locking up the No. 1 seed for next weekend's Centennial Conference (CC) Tournament.
Three Fall F&M Teams Earn CC Tournament Bids
Three of Franklin & Marshall's postseason-eligible fall teams have qualified for a place in this week's Centennial Conference (CC) Playoffs.
No. 4 F&M Blanks Bullets
Franklin & Marshall's No. 4 ranked men's soccer team rolled to a 2-0 shutout of Gettysburg on a rainy Wednesday evening in Centennial Conference (CC) competition.
Home Field Advantage on the Line for No. 4 Diplomats – Week 10 Game Notes
With just two Centennial Conference (CC) regular-season games remaining, Franklin & Marshall holds a two-point lead for the top spot entering the 2019 Tournament. Johns Hopkins is close behind with 16 points, followed by Dickinson with 15.
Kopacz Tabbed as CC Offensive POTW
Franklin & Marshall's A.J. Kopacz was named the Centennial Conference (CC) selection for Offensive Player of the Week for men's soccer, announced by the league office on Tuesday. The honor was Kopacz's second of the season and his career.
No. 6 F&M Gets Back on Track Against Washington
Three goals in the opening 10 minutes of play - including a pair of penalty-kick scores – highlighted the Franklin & Marshall No. 6 ranked men's soccer team's commanding 4-1 win over Washington College on the road Saturday afternoon.
Diplomats Looking to Bounce Back in Chestertown - Week 9 Game Notes
Franklin & Marshall (12-2, 5-1 Centennial Conference) heads into the second-to-last week of the regular season in the drivers' seat to host the Conference Tournament as the No. 1 seed. With just two games remaining, the Diplomats control their destiny as Johns Hopkins (4-1-1), and Gettysburg (4-1-1) are close behind.
No. 3 F&M Falls Short Against No. 15 Johns Hopkins
A late push from No. 3 Franklin & Marshall's offense nearly led to a late equalizer, but ultimately the feverish effort came up short in a heartbreaking 1-0 loss against No. 15 Johns Hopkins on Saturday in Centennial Conference (CC) men's soccer competition.
No. 3 F&M Set for Marquee Matchup Against No. 15 Hopkins – Week 8 Game Notes
The nation's eyes figure to be on Lancaster this Saturday when No. 15 Johns Hopkins (9-2-1, 3-1-1 CC) takes on No. 3 Franklin & Marshall (12-1, 5-0 CC). Last season, the series was split as Hopkins secured a 4-1 win in the regular season before the Diplomats responded with a 2-0 blanking in the Centennial Conference Semifinals.
<|fim_middle|>, 4-0 Centennial Conference) enters the week riding a nine-game winning streak that dates back to Sept. 7th. The Diplomats open against Eastern on Wednesday in a rematch of last year's NCAA Tournament contest. The Eagles have gotten the upper hand as of late with wins in the last two meetings, but F&M won the first three contests in the series.
No. 4 F&M Shuts Down Swarthmore
A dominant defensive effort that saw No. 4 Franklin & Marshall surrender just one shot on goal, propelled a 1-0 shutout of Swarthmore on Saturday. | Kopacz Lands CC Offensive POTW Honor
Franklin & Marshall's A.J. Kopacz was named the Centennial Conference (CC) Offensive Player of the Week for men's soccer, announced by the league office on Tuesday. The honor was the second of the season for a member of the Diplomats and the first of Kopacz's career.
Diplomats Battle Back to Down the Bears
Franklin & Marshall's No. 4 ranked men's soccer team battled back from an early first-half deficit to take down Ursinus by a 2-1 score on the road Saturday afternoon.
Men's Soccer - No. 4 F&M vs. Eastern Video Highlights
A.J. Kopacz scored twice as Franklin & Marshall's No. 4 ranked men's soccer team rolled past Eastern by a 4-1 score Wednesday evening on Tylus Field.
No. 4 F&M Topples Eastern
Franklin & Marshall's No. 4 ranked men's soccer team edged Eastern by a 4-1 score Wednesday evening on Tylus Field.
Diplomats Hosting Eastern Before Traveling to Collegeville – Week 7 Game Notes
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Q: Volume of a parallelepiped in $\mathbb{R}^4<|fim_middle|> defines some hyperplane in $\mathbb{R}^4$.
| $ Does there exist a parallelepiped $P$ in $\mathbb{R}^4$ has volume 1 and is spanned by the three vectors $v_1=(1,0,-1,2)^T$, $v_2=(-2,1,-1,1)^T$, $v_3=(1,0,1,1)^T$, and a fourth vector $v_4$? If the parallelepiped $P$ exists, determine the vector $v_4$.
I cannot find a formula for the volume of a parallelepiped in $\mathbb{R}^4$. Is it still the determinant so that I need to solve $$det\pmatrix{1&-2&1&x\\0&1&0&y\\-1&-1&1&z\\2&1&1&w}=1$$?
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A: Note that by rescaling your vector, you can find a solution for any fourth vector such that the determinant is nonzero. Therefore, a solution must exist if and only if the first three vectors are linearly independent. As noted by Berci's comment, there will be a translated hyperplane of all solutions, which will be parallel to the span of $v_1, v_2, v_3$.
A: Alternatively: computing the determinant will yield a polynomial that is linear, in $x,y,z,w$, i.e. you will be looking for points satisfying
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Goldman Sachs will face renewed pressure to cut costs even though the Wall Street bank is expected to deliver this week an increase in profits to $1.15bn for the third quarter.
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Collection: Black History – Civil Rights Movements
The modern Black Lives Matter movement continues the legacy of the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement. In the 20th century, Martin Luther King, Jr. and others led Black civil rights activists and their allies to take nonviolent action in the fight for voting rights, an end to segregation, and living wages. They marched, participated in sit-ins and boycotts, and traveled to register Black voters. Despite violent opposition, their efforts led to legislative victories that promoted a more equal society. Twenty-first century police brutality and discontent with systemic racial inequality has fueled new generations to protest civil rights violations and work for change through the Black Lives Matter movement. Though viral videos, online organizational efforts, and non-traditional leadership make today's civil rights movement different from that of the past, the Black Lives Matter movement's worldwide visibility and record-breaking protest attendance suggest that its demands for racial equity may be just as revolutionary. This audio story collection features stories about the events, efforts, and people involved in both the historic and contemporary Black civil rights movements.
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Civil Rights Activists Honored
Fifty years ago, on June 21, 1964, three young men went missing. They were part of Freedom Summer, an effort to register black residents to vote in segregated Mississippi. They were murdered by the local Ku Klux Klan. When their bodies were found a month later, the outrage led to the passage of civil rights protections. On November 24, 2014 President Obama posthumously awarded these three men the highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to honor their sacrifice and work towards equality.
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Fifty years ago, a bloody confrontation on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama exposed the nation to the racial injustice and brutality of the American South. This event paved the way for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, forcing all municipalities to allow black residents to register to vote. Listen to learn more about this historic event in the Civil Rights Movement from people who participated in Bloody Sunday.
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10 California counties see restrictions eased, risks remain
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ten California counties were cleared to<|fim_middle|> "when eating, drinking, or exercising outdoors." | ease coronavirus restrictions Tuesday, including some in the Central Valley that saw major case spikes over the summer, but the state's top health official warned that upcoming Halloween celebrations pose a risk for renewed spread.
Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state health secretary, said no counties moved backwards in California's color-coded, four-tiered system for reopening, but Riverside was on the verge of reverting to the most restrictive purple tier. The county of about 2.5 million residents has asked for a review of its data and will stay in the red tier until the state makes a decision on its status later this week.
"Moving back a tier is important," Ghaly said. "We don't want to do it without a significant degree of conversation and understanding."
Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser said the county hopes to persuade the state that it can maintain its current status while still slowing the spread of the virus. A slip back to the purple tier would adversely affect small businesses like restaurants and gyms, which could be forced to shut down indoor operations again, the county said in a statement.
Two San Francisco Bay Area counties, Alameda and Santa Clara, will advance to the less-restrictive orange tier, which allows for increased capacity at restaurants, movie theaters and houses of worship — all with modifications to require face coverings.
The lifting of some restrictions in counties that have shown improvement comes as California sees a continued drop in COVID-19 cases. The seven-day positivity rate was down to 2.7%, Ghaly said. The number of hospitalizations is about 2,225 — a significant drop from a peak of around 7,000 over the summer, he said.
Ghaly said overall trends are moving in the right direction, thanks in part to Californians' increased willingness to wear masks and avoid large gatherings.
"The more that that becomes widespread around the community, we're going to see these numbers stabilize and come down," Ghaly said.
But he added "we're not out of the woods, and we're seeing a number of increases across the country, and across the world in terms of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths."
Officials are urging families to skip trick-or-treating this Halloween and instead have costume contests and pumpkin carvings online.
"The whole act of going door-to-door in groups ringing doorbells, digging into buckets of delicious candy, create a risk of spreading spreading COVID-19," Ghaly said. But he stressed that it was a recommendation, not a rule, and trick-or-treaters will not see any enforcement.
California on Friday night also eased restrictions to allow up to three households to socialize outdoors, an expansion of rules aimed at people tempted to have even larger gatherings around Halloween, Thanksgiving and end-of-year holidays.
Meanwhile Tuesday, Fresno County stayed in the red tier and four other counties in the central part of the state — Kern, Colusa, Sutter and Stanislaus — advanced from purple to red. Those improvements were particularly gratifying after those counties experienced
California releases guidelines for private gatherings with friends
Ahead of the Halloween and Thanksgiving holidays, California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly addressed new guidelines the state released this week allowing private outdoor gatherings with friends if specific conditions are met.
Ghaly said attendees must be from no more than three separate households and gatherings should last no more than two hours.
Gatherings "should be and must be done outside," he added. People are also expected to take safety precautions, including wearing masks, practicing physical distancing and washing hands.
In the past, the state discouraged any gatherings outside of a single household.
Ghaly said the guidelines are meant to recognize that many close friends and relatives have been apart a long time and increasingly want to be together, especially with the holidays ahead.
The intention of the guidelines is not to encourage gatherings, but to inspire people to socialize safely when they do.
"Guidance here does not mean go," he said. "It does not mean that we're endorsing or suggesting small gatherings happen. We just want to provide important ways to reduce your risk, so you protect yourselves, your families and your communities."
"We believe and still really support the messaging that spending time with your household alone is the way we can reduce transmission the best," he said.
While much of the country and European nations are seeing a resurgence, coronavirus indicators in California are near their record lows. Hospitalizations are at their lowest level since early April and those in intensive care at their second-lowest level since officials began keeping track in late March. The rate of positive tests has been hovering at 2.6% for two weeks.
"We don't see the surge other parts of the country are experiencing and other parts of the globe," he said. "We don't want to see the spike that could rightfully happen."
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
California rules now allow for 3 households to socialize
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is easing its coronavirus restrictions to allow up to three households to socialize outdoors, an expansion of rules aimed at people tempted to have even larger gatherings around Halloween, Thanksgiving and end-of-year holidays, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.
Three households can gather so long as they wear masks and follow other safety precautions designed to stem the spread of the virus, under the new guidelines from the California Department of Public Health. State health officials previously discouraged gatherings outside of a single household.
The goal is not to encourage larger gatherings, Newsom said, but to recognize the increasing pressure for get-togethers and provide ways for people to act appropriately. There's no limit on the number of people within any three households, though state officials say smaller is better.
Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state's Health and Human Services secretary, said the guidelines are meant to recognize that many close friends and relatives have been apart a long time and want to be together.
All such gatherings should be outdoors, although it's OK for guests to use indoor restrooms as long as they are frequently sanitized.
California has recorded about 850,00 positive tests and has seen more than 16,500 deaths. The number of weekly cases has flattened after a precipitous drop from peak levels during the summer. Average daily deaths have been falling and were at 60 for the most recent seven days.
Newsom said officials want to keep the numbers low.
"We are entering into the holidays, but also we're entering into part of the year where things cool down and people are more likely to congregate back indoors in settings that put their physical proximity and likelihood of transmission and transmitting disease at higher risk," he said.
Even the less restrictive guidelines advise that it's best to stick to the same three households over time.
"Participating in multiple gatherings with different households or groups is strongly discouraged," the department said in the guidance released late Friday.
People can gather under awnings, roofs or shade structures so long as at least three sides are open to outdoor breezes. Gatherings should be two hours or less to reduce the risk of transmission.
Guests who aren't from the same household must socially distance and food should not be shared. Masks should be worn except when people are eating or drinking. Singing, chanting and shouting "are strongly discouraged" because those activities increase the release of respiratory droplets and fine aerosols. Hand sanitizer or a place to wash hands must be available.
People who are sick or medically vulnerable should not attend. Those who come down with coronavirus-like symptoms within
California regulators launch review of long, deadly delays in L.A. County specialty care
Majid Vatandoust died of colon cancer at age 52, three years after a request for a colonoscopy was denied by a specialist working for L.A. County despite tests that showed clear indicators of the disease. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
As current and former doctors in Los Angeles County's public hospital system condemn delays in providing specialist care, California regulators have launched a review of the long, sometimes deadly waits faced by patients who need treatment from one of the nation's largest public health systems.
The actions come in the wake of a Times investigation that found patients of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services face agonizing delays to see specialists after referrals from primary care providers, leaving many with intolerable pain, worsening illnesses and a growing sense of hopelessness. The Times report included several patients who died of the conditions they waited to have treated.
The California Department of Health Care Services will review whether any managed care plan that offers Medi-Cal — the government-subsidized program that covers low-income Californians and most county patients — violated its contract with the state to provide adequate access to care, an agency spokeswoman said.
"Any untimely death is a tragedy, and our hearts go out to the families suffering the loss of a loved one. The wait times outlined by The Times are unacceptable," Michelle Baass, undersecretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, said in a statement. "Timely access to care is a fundamental patient right."
The review is the second underway by the state. The California Department of Managed Health Care began an investigation of the county's wait times this year in response to questions from The Times about delays in specialist appointments.
Baass is overseeing both inquiries after her boss, state Health Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly, recused himself. Ghaly is married to the director of the Los Angeles County safety-net hospital system, Dr. Christina Ghaly.
The average wait to see a specialist in the L.A. County system was 89 days, according to a Times data analysis of more than 860,000 requests for specialty care at the county's Department of Health Services, which serves more than 2 million people, primarily the region's poorest and most vulnerable residents.
Even patients waiting to see doctors whose prompt care can mean the difference between life and death — neurologists, kidney specialists, cardiologists — endured delays that stretched on for months, according to the data, which consisted of nonemergency requests from primary care providers to specialists from 2016 through 2019.
Several doctors who now work for the county or recently left called for reform, including better communication between primary care providers and specialists as well as a dramatic increase in hiring of specialists.
Dr. Michael Hochman, a primary care physician and associate professor of clinical medicine at USC's Keck School of Medicine, who has practiced at safety-net health systems on both coasts, said Los Angeles County's is "the least effective system that I've worked at in my 14
Newsom formally allows social gatherings in California for first time during pandemic
California Gov. Gavin Newsom. | Jeff Chiu/AP Photo
SACRAMENTO — California health officials late Friday released rules allowing social gatherings for the first time since the pandemic began, enabling up to three households to get together outdoors.
Details: The new rules follow general guidance that has emerged over the last several months.
Participants must stay six feet apart and wear masks except while eating or drinking. Besides requiring gatherings outside, the California Department of Public Health encourages residents to stick to the same three households as much as possible, essentially forming a social bubble. Such occasions can occur at private homes or in parks.
The state says hosts should make sure to log the names of all attendees and their contact info in case of an infection. It says anyone with symptoms should not attend and that anyone who contracts Covid-19 within 48 hours should notify other attendees as soon as possible.
People attending gatherings can go inside to use the bathroom as long as it is regularly sanitized.
Such events should last no longer than two hours to limit exposure. And singing, chanting and shouting are "strongly discouraged," though if they occur, participants should wear masks and try to keep the volume down.
Context: The state until now has prohibited gatherings of households, though many have gotten together for months.
It comes as California infection rates are on the decline after a summer surge. Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration has steadily rolled out additional guidelines in the last few weeks for activities that had little clarity until now. In late September, the state released rules enabling playgrounds to reopen.
Newsom and health officials expressed concern this spring about gatherings after some Mother's Day and graduation get-togethers led to disease spread, particularly those that occurred indoors.
What's next: The biggest impact is laying out best practices when gathering. Many residents have already formed social bubbles or gotten together outside and faced little risk of enforcement.
The rules come as the weather begins to cool heading further into the fall and winter, potentially testing whether residents will heed the advice to keep social gatherings outdoors.
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Disney Locks Horns With California Over Theme Park Reopenings
Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) clashed today with California's governor Gavin Newsom about the reopening schedule of the state's theme parks and similar attractions.
Newsom stated that the California legislature feels "there's no hurry to put out guidelines" for park reopenings
She went on to say Disney's COVID-19 safety measures for its parks were worked out with epidemiologists and used guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other sources. Dr. Hymel added that Disney's other theme parks "have been allowed to open on the strength of our proven ability to operate with responsible health and safety protocols" both domestically and abroad.
California Attractions and Parks Association Executive Director Erin Guerrero also issued a statement: "California's amusement parks are ready to responsibly reopen." Guerrero called Gavin's statement "unreasonable," and said that his "'no big rush' approach is ruining businesses and livelihoods for thousands who could responsibly be back at work."
and that he doesn't "anticipate in the immediate term any of these larger parks opening until we see more stability in terms of the data," as reported by Hollywood news source Deadline.
Disney reacted strongly to the governor's commentary. Disney Parks Chief Medical Officer Dr. Pamela Hymel tweeted, "We absolutely reject the suggestion that reopening the Disneyland Resort is incompatible with a 'health-first' approach."
The backlash over Newsom's statements comes the same day Disney said it will lay off 8,800 part-time theme park workers. Last Wednesday, Disney said it would lay off 28,000 workers, but union negotiations have since limited the pink slips to part-time workers only and made even those layoffs potentially nonpermanent.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has tested negative for the coronavirus.
The governor's office said Newsom was tested on Wednesday after someone in the governor's office tested positive. The staff member who tested positive had not interacted with Newsom or anyone else who often sees the governor.
The governor's office said Newsom took the test out of "an abundance of caution."
Newsom said Wednesday that he has been tested many times and has always been negative. California has reported more than 834,000 coronavirus cases and more than 16,300 deaths.
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BEIJING __ China, which has four coronavirus vaccine candidates in the last stage of clinical trials, announced Friday that it is joining the COVID-19 vaccine alliance known as COVAX.
The country signed an agreement with GAVI, the co-leader of the alliance, on Thursday, China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Initially, China did not agree to join the alliance, missing the global deadline to join in September.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement that "we are taking this concrete step to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines, especially to developing countries and hope more capable countries will also join and support COVAX."
The alliance is designed so that richer countries agree to buy into potential vaccines and help finance access for poorer ones. The Trump administration in the U.S. had declined to join the alliance.
The exact terms of the agreement and how China will contribute are not yet clear. .
HARTFORD, Conn. — Dr. Deborah Birx of the White House coronavirus task force says she is concerned about the uptick in coronavirus cases in the Northeast.
She said Thursday at the University of Connecticut's Hartford campus that a "very different" kind of spread is happening now.
She says it's not happening in the workplace so much because people are taking precautions. She says more people are becoming infected because of indoor family gatherings and social events as the weather cools.
She says that was a lesson learned in the South during the summer when people went indoors for air conditioning.
BOISE, Idaho — The number of Idaho residents collecting unemployment dropped for the 22nd consecutive week as the state's reopened economy continues recovering, while at the same time coronavirus pandemic deaths hit 500.
The Idaho Department of Labor said Thursday that the number
Northern California evangelical school tied to 'very large' spike in virus cases
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California county will face greater restrictions as it grapples with a surge in coronavirus cases, many of them tied to an evangelical college where more than 120 students and staff have tested positive in the last two weeks, health officials said Tuesday.
Shasta County health officials say that an outbreak of cases among students and staff at the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry contributed to a recent spike in COVID-19 cases that bumped the county on Tuesday into a new level of regulations on restaurants, bars, theaters and businesses.
"We have been fortunate enough to have a relatively low number of cases throughout the course of the pandemic," said Kerri Schuette, spokeswoman for Shasta County Health and Human Services. "But we've had a very large increase in cases over the past two to three weeks, with 123 being associated with the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry."
A school spokesman declined to comment Tuesday but forwarded a statement from earlier this month saying that the school was aware its students and staff accounted for "a portion" of Shasta County's new cases and the school was taking "swift action" to minimize further spread.
In its statement the school said it shifted to online instruction last week and canceled in-person church services for Oct. 4 and Oct. 11 that have been held outdoors on a sports field. It also asked anyone who came in contact with someone who contracted COVID-19 to quarantine at home.
"This has led to a large number of people staying home as a precaution," the statement said, adding that staff and students have been required to wear face coverings, socially distance on campus and do daily temperature checks at the door since classes started in early September.
On its website, the school describes itself as "a ministry training center" that is not an accredited university "where our students embrace their royal identity, learn the values of the kingdom, and walk in the authority and power of the King."
The school does not provide housing for students, saying on its website that it welcomes hundreds of international and U.S. students each year and "it is our hope that our students 'infiltrate' the neighborhoods of Redding."
Shasta County recorded more than 500 new coronavirus cases in the past two weeks, pushing its total number of cases since March to 1,158.
Another cluster was traced to an assisted living facility, called the Windsor Care Facility, where 60 residents and 20 staff have tested positive for the virus since the start of the outbreak, with most of those cases occurring in the past three weeks, Schuette said.
State health officials announced Tuesday that Shasta County was getting bumped to the "red tier" of a color-coded framework for business and school reopenings. It means that restaurants, churches and other businesses can open with limits on the numbers of people allowed inside. Other nonessential businesses like bars must close.
Schuette said the county has been working closely with Bethel
California sees no link from school openings to virus spread
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has not seen a link between the reopening of K-12 schools for in-person learning and increased coronavirus transmission, the state's top public health official said Tuesday.
Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state's Health and Human Services secretary, told reporters that officials have been closely watching the return to classrooms in counties where it has been allowed. He said it can take time for trends to emerge, but so far, the results are encouraging.
"We have not seen a connection between increased transmission and school reopening or in-person learning," Ghaly said. "We're looking at the information to see if there is a connection, and so far we have not found one."
California requires counties to report coronavirus levels and infection rates below certain thresholds before they can allow K-12 schools to broadly reopen for in-person instruction. On Tuesday, 32 of the state's 58 counties were deemed eligible to do so — up from 28 a week earlier.
Counties must meet the threshold for at least two weeks before schools are allowed to reopen. Yuba County, about 140 miles northeast of San Francisco, met the threshold for the first time on Tuesday.
The county is preparing to reopen schools by limiting the number of students in each classroom to make sure people can stay at least 6 feet (1.8 meters) away from each other, Yuba County Superintendent of Schools Francisco Reveles said.
Reveles said students would likely come to school in groups, with some groups attending in the morning while others attend in the afternoon.
"We're in a different environment now," he said. "Even though we can open up, there's certain precautions we need to continue taking."
The state has seen a broad decline in the number of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in recent weeks. While some areas are seeing an increase in infections, the state's overall case numbers have fallen since a surge over the summer following the initial reopening of various business sectors.
California reported a seven-day average of 3,005 new virus cases on Tuesday and a seven-day positivity rate of 2.6%, Ghaly said.
The number of infections is thought to be far higher because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be infected with the virus without feeling sick.
Schools have been allowed to reopen in many smaller California counties as well as more populated ones such as Orange and San Diego. In those counties still barred from resuming broad in-person instruction, some schools have obtained special waivers from the state to let elementary students return to classrooms, and many campuses throughout the state have resumed in-person special education classes and day care programs.
Los Angeles County, which has the largest population in the state, still can't broadly allow for in-person instruction, but this week began taking applications for limited waivers to reopen transitional kindergarten through second grade classrooms.
For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to
California governor's office tells diners to wear masks "in between bites"
The California governor's office put out a tweet on Saturday advising that restaurant-goers keep their masks on while dining. "Going out to eat with members of your household this weekend?" the tweet reads. "Don't forget to keep your mask on in between bites. Do your part to keep those around you healthy."
In California, masks are required for anyone going outside their home, as well as workers in customer-facing businesses, offices, factories, and health care professionals, among others, according to the state's COVID-19 guidance.
Going out to eat with members of your household this weekend? Don't forget to keep your mask on in between bites.
Do your part to keep those around you healthy. #SlowtheSpreadhttps://t.co/snYe5v55Rw pic.twitter.com/Y4fcDO5Zke
— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) October 3, 2020
While children under 2 years old and those with breathing troubles or medical exemptions do not need to wear a mask, everyone else is required to wear them in all indoor public places — and also outdoors if keeping 6 feet of social distance with others isn't possible.
The official guidance does say that masks can be removed for a number of reasons, including eating or drinking. However, the tweet from Governor Gavin Newsom's office offered somewhat different advice, which confused some Twitter users.
"I'm very confused by this tweet. The image suggests you should only take your mask off once when you begin a meal but the text suggests you should put it back on between bites," journalist Matthew Fuhrman wrote, referring to the graphic shared in the tweet.
"Should we wash our hands after touching our mask each time we remove it between bites? What if I'm eating chips and salsa and I go for a double dip? Is that technically two bites since it's the same chip?" another person asked.
"This violates the @WHO 'Dont's of Mask wearing,'" another person tweeted, including a graphic from the World Health Organization which advises people to avoid touching their mask as much as possible, and to wash their hands before touching their mask and after discarding it.
CBS News has reached out to the governor's office for more information on the guidance in the tweet.
In California's published guidance for dining in restaurants, wearing a mask in between bites is not mentioned. Physical distancing to the maximum extent possible, the use of face coverings by workers and customers, frequent hand-washing and regular disinfecting are among the elements of the COVID-19 prevention plan. Many counties in California currently limit indoor restaurants to 25% of normal capacity, or are allowing outdoor dining only, depending on local infection rates.
In New York, which also has a statewide mask mandate and has reopened limited indoor and outdoor dining, the rule is to wear face coverings at all times — except while seated at a restaurants. In Georgia, where masks are "strongly encouraged" but not required, there is an exception | 5,619 |
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Dutch Pension Funding Ratios Drop By 5 Percent in January
The funding ratios of Dutch pension funds have fallen on average by 5 percentage points in January on the back of low interest rates, according to Mercer and Aon Hewitt.
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Average funding, according to estimates by Aon Hewitt and Mercer, fell by 5 percentage points over the period, due to persistently low interest rates, the criterion for discounting liabilities.
The consultancies also attributed the sudden drop in funding to a new accounting method for calculating coverage ratios.
Since 1 January, when the Netherlands introduced its new financial assessment framework (FTK), schemes' funding has been based on actual interest rates while applying the ultimate forward rate (UFR), rather than the three-month average of interest rates plus UFR.
In addition, the new FTK came with a 'policy funding ratio' – meant as a criterion for rights cuts and indexation – consisting of the average coverage of the previous 12 months.
According to Aon Hewitt, policy funding stood at 109% at January-end, while Mercer placed the figure at 109.6%.
[Aon Hewitt chief commercial officer for retirement and financial management Frank] Driessen said the ECB's recently announced quantitative-easing programme had led to a further slide of interest rates and predicted that rates would remain low for "a long time".
The average funding ratio of Dutch pensions stood at 103 percent at the end of January, according to Aon Hewitt.
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Canada Pension Buys Big Stake in San Francisco Office Tower
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is buying a major stake in a popular San Francisco office tower, the fund announced on Thursday.
The rest of the property is owned by Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc.
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board agreed to pay about $219.2 million for part of a San Francisco office building where ride-sharing company Uber Technologies Inc. and mobile-payment provider Square Inc. have their headquarters.
The pension fund plans to buy the 45 percent stake in 1455 Market St. from Hudson Pacific Properties Inc., the companies said today in a statement. Los Angeles-based Hudson Pacific has owned the 22-story tower since December 2010 and will continue to oversee management and leasing.
The purchase is the Canadian pension's first direct investment in San Francisco, where office rents have soared 88 percent in almost five years, according to Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. (JLL) Demand for office space has been buoyed by annual job growth of 3.6 percent in the city, outpacing the U.S. by one percentage point, the brokerage said in a report this week.
San Francisco is "one of the best-performing U.S. office markets and a key strategic market for CPPIB in that country," Peter Ballon, head of real estate investments in the Americas for the pension, said in today's statement.
The 1.03 million-square-foot (95,300-square-meter) property, formerly a Bank of America Corp. data center, was built in 1976 and has ground-floor retail.
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But that doesn't mean some pension funds aren't interested in learning the impact climate change could have on their investments in the future.
Several of the world's largest pension funds, including CalSTRS, have joined with Mercer to conduct a study forecasting the impact of climate change on markets over the next 40 years. From Chief Investment Officer:
The study aims to map out potential climate scenarios and their impacts on economies and markets, with forecasts stretching out to 2030 and 2050.
It follows a weekend of marches across the world calling for action on climate change, as the United Nations prepares to meet for a Climate Summit in New York on September 23.
Among the pension funds signed up to the study are the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), New Zealand Super, and Sweden's AP1. In total, Mercer said asset owners representing $1.5 trillion were backing the survey.
Jane Ambachtsheer, head of Mercer's global responsible investment team, said the survey's objective was "to help investors make robust, well–researched investment decisions that factor in a consideration of climate change".
"New data points and scientific evidence are now available, including the topical subject of the potential risk posed by so-called 'stranded' carbon assets," she added. "Ultimately, it's about enabling institutional investors to adapt over the longer-term."
Brian Rice, portfolio manager at CalSTRS, was among those welcoming the launch of the study. "The multi-scenario, forward looking approach to this study makes it unique," he said. "Investors will be able to consider allocation optimisation, based on the scenario they believe most probable, to help mitigate risk and improve investment returns."
A few days ago, CalSTRS announced plans to triple its investments in clean energy.
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Posted on September 22, 2014 September 22, 2014 Author Ted BallantineCategories Home, Pension NewsroomTags CalSTRS, clean energy investment, climate change, Climate Summit, fossil fuel divestment, fossil fuel-dependent companies, green investment, investment strategy, Mercer, state pension funds3 Comments |
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CalSTRS: Financial Risk of Climate Change "Very Real" For Institutional Investors
CalSTRS has been one of the most active (and vocal) pension funds in the world this year when it comes to exploring the financial risk of climate change.
The fund announced last month it was joining forces with Mercer and a handful of other pension funds to study the market impact of climate change.
Now, CalSTRS has commented on a new report showing the "profound lack of preparedness" for climate change among the nation's insurance companies.
The pension fund calls for institutional investors to be "more mindful of market exposures to environmental risks."
From a CalSTRS release:
The Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey Report & Scorecard: 2014 Findings & Recommendations was released today by Ceres, a nonprofit sustainability organization mobilizing business and investor leadership on climate change and other sustainability challenges, ranks property & casualty, health, and life & annuity insurers that represent about 87 percent of the total U.S. insurance market. Ceres found strong leadership on the issue in fewer than a dozen companies nationwide.
"Environmental, social and governance risks and issues such as climate change are very real for CalSTRS. This new report enables large institutional investors to be more mindful of market exposure to environmental risks through our insurance investments," said CalSTRS Chief Executive Officer Jack Ehnes. "More importantly, the report gives us better perspective on how well, or not, insurance companies are responding to climate change risk."
The report states, "… insurers are on the veritable 'front line' of climate change risks, and there is compelling evidence that those risks are growing. Rising sea levels and more pronounced extreme weather events will mean increasingly damaging storm surges and flooding. Hurricane Sandy alone resulted in over $29 billion in insured losses."
"Meaningful change in the recognition of climate risk to the investment portfolio will come from an alignment of interests, and who better to take leadership this effort than the insurance industry," added Ehnes. "The foundation of the insurance model is based on risk analysis, so ignoring the risk of climate changes seems most imprudent. Clearly, more action on the part of the insurance sector is needed."
Last month, CalSTRS announced plans to double down on its clean energy investments.
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CalSTRS, Others Bankroll Study on Economic Impact of Climate Change
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top three symptoms ranked as most distressing to patients, in order, were fatigue, pain, and nausea and vomiting. Similar to the 2008 ONS Research Priorities Survey, pain, neuropathy, and fatigue were identified as the top three priority symptoms. However, nausea and vomiting were ranked only 10th in level of importance, and psychological distress was not identified in the top 23 symptoms listed at that time. Interestingly, in the 2013 survey, eight symptoms were rated among the top 10 symptoms in both the categories of difficult to manage and distressing to patients. These included fatigue, neuropathy, psychological distress, cognitive impairment, depression, anxiety, pain, and sleep-wake disturbances. Oncology Nursing Forum • Vol. 41, No. 1, January 2014
Responses regarding symptom management also were examined based on education level of the respondents: doctoral (PhD/DNSc, DNP) and master's versus bachelor's, associate degree, or diploma. No major differences were noted related to educational preparation. Nurses with a doctoral degree did rank cognitive impairment as one of the top three most difficult symptoms to manage. In addition, nurses with doctoral or master's degrees ranked cognitive impairment as one of the top three most distressing symptoms to patients.
Evidence-Based Practice ONS has been a leader in evidence-based practice resources for oncology nurses primarily through more 71
Table 4. Rank Order of Symptom Managementa (N = 895) Difficult to Manage Characteristic Fatigue Neuropathy Psychological distress Cognitive impairment Depression Anorexia or appetite changes Anxiety Pain Sleep-wake disturbances Cachexia Lymphedema Functional status Sexual function Mucositis Infection Delirium Nausea and vomiting Skin changes or cutaneous symptoms Weight loss or gain Hot flashes Xerostomia Dyspnea Incontinence Diarrhea Bleeding Constipation Musculoskeletal a
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than a decade of development and ongoing updating of the Putting Evidence Into Practice (PEP) resources (Eaton & Tipton, 2009; Eaton, Tipton, & Irwin, 2011; Irwin, Brant, & Eaton, 2012; Irwin, Erb, Williams, Wilson, & Zitella, 2013; Irwin, Lee, Rodgers, Starr, & Ralph Webber, 2012). Despite these easily accessible and comprehensive resources, only 37% of the ONS survey respondents reported using PEP, whereas 55% used National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines. Respondents also identified using other resources, including 12% using the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) resources and 44% using the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Clinical Practice Guidelines. Master 's prepared respondents reported that they more frequently used the PEP resources from ONS (41%), NCCN (68%), MASCC (13%), and ASCO (47%) when compared to the doctorally prepared or bachelor's, associate, and diploma-prepared participants. Thirty-three percent of doctorally prepared respondents reported using PEP guidelines, 56% reported using NCCN, 15% reported using MASCC, and 34% reported using ASCO guidelines. Thirty-six percent of bachelor's, associate, and diploma-prepared participants reported using PEP guidelines, 51% reported 72
using NCCN, 11% reported using MASCC, and 44% reported using ASCO guidelines. The use of guidelines other than PEP may be related to accessibility and institution choice. When participants were asked to rank their opinion of the level of importance for strategies to improve clinician capacity for delivering evidence-based care, 87% ranked it as medium or high. Eighty-five percent of participants ranked the level of importance to the cost-effectiveness of the interventions at the high or medium level. Two questions queried respondents on interest in specific new topics for evidence-based resources. Respondent overall mean scores identified the need for evidence to address the prevention — of medication errors ( X = 2.7), central line-associated bloodstream infections — — (X = 2.69), and readmission (X = 2.68) as the most important areas. But, of note, the means of the remainder of the categories queried did not vary — greatly: other infections (X = 2.58), falls — (X = 2.55), catheter-associated urinary — tract infections (X = 2.51), and hospital— acquired pressure sores (X = 2.45).
Open-Ended Questions The survey contained one open-ended question. Respondents were asked about what problem in oncology nursing is most in need of research to support evidencebased practice. The responses were categorized into thematic groups (see Figure 1). If respondents gave multiple responses, only the first response was included in the analysis. The highest frequency of responses (N = 50) was in the broadly defined symptom management category. Specific symptoms also were endorsed by multiple respondents, including fatigue, neuropathy, mucositis, pain, cognitive function, and sleep. Palliative care and psychosocial issues also were frequently identified by respondents. Other major categories identified by many respondents were evidence-based practice and evaluation methods associated with nursing interventions. Adherence strategies, in particular, were noted as a priority. Healthcare delivery system variables were noted, including access to care, care delivery models, and issues related to staff nurses and caregivers. Cancer site-specific research and population-specific (gerontologic) research were noted by multiple respondents. Sexual health, nutrition, infections, genetics, exercise, falls, and selfmanagement received several responses. Vol. 41, No. 1, January 2014 • Oncology Nursing Forum
Discussion and Implications for Future Research The results of the 2013 ONS Research Priorities Survey offers ONS members and leadership a view of member perspectives toward a fundamental aspect of the ONS mission. The assessment of the organization's constituents at regular intervals provides the ONS leadership with information for the accomplishment of the ONS Strategic Plan core work, which includes identifying research and evidence-based practice priorities (ONS, 2011). In addition, the results from this survey will provide important guidance for the ONS Strategic Plan Quality Pillar objectives (ONS, 2011). Similar to the past three surveys (Berger et al., 2005; Doorenbos et al., 2008; Ropka et al., 2002), this survey required members to not only identify knowledge development, but also the application of knowledge into clinical practice. As the structure of the survey changed for 2013, some direct comparisons to past surveys could not be made, but interesting findings arose. A continued challenge to survey administration remains obtaining a representative sample. Although roughly 800 members are doctorally prepared, and those members were specifically targeted, fewer than 200 of those members responded to the survey. The respondents reported significant experience in nursing, reporting a mean of 18 years of oncology nursing practice, whereas the mean years of oncology nursing experience for the overall membership at the time of the survey was 16.5 years. The finding that the average years of oncology nursing in the respondents is greater than the average years of oncology experience of the membership demonstrates the commitment and ongoing involvement of ONS members in research priority settings. As in the 2008 survey, the majority of respondents were bachelor's and master's prepared, and the number was equal to the previous survey respondents for PhD/DNSc- and DNPeducated members. The number of years worked and age also were consistent with the overall membership. The top-ranked research priority identified was to develop and evaluate interventions to promote adherence. In the past decade, with the advances in the biologic understanding of cancer and the emergence of targeted agents, a dramatic increase has occurred in the indication for oral chemotherapy across many cancers (Barton, 2011). Adherence is multifactorial, and is influenced by patient, condition, therapy, and social and healthcare system factors (Schneider, Hess, & Gosselin, 2011). Regimens can be complex, and the symptom profiles can lead to discontinuation of therapy (Murphy, Bartholomew, Carpentier, Bluethmann, & Vernon, 2012). Older adults, a growing population in oncology, are at high risk for nonadherence because of comorbid illness, polypharmacy, and age-related physical and Oncology Nursing Forum • Vol. 41, No. 1, January 2014
psychosocial issues (Bond, Davis, & McEvoy, 2012; Maloney & Kagan, 2011). A significant concern related to adherence is response to therapy and survival. As an example, aromatase inhibitors, as adjuvant therapy for breast cancer, are frequently associated with symptoms of arthralgias and myalgias, and nonadherence or discontinuation can result in increased mortality (Hershman et al., 2011). Strategies to promote adherence have been identified (Schneider et al., 2011), but research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions for adherence across varied populations of patients with cancer. Late effects and survivorship reflect 8 of the top 20 ranked research priorities. Late effects, specifically neurologic/cognitive, cardiac, and pulmonary were ranked 2, 7, and 12. Neuropathy was ranked seventh in the 2008 survey (Doorenbos et al., 2008), and ranked second in the 2013 survey when respondents were asked to identify and rank their top three symptoms that were most difficult to manage and most distressful for patients. Persistent neuropathy can interfere with everyday function and can be associated with significant discomfort for which pharmacologic interventions have not been universally effective and, in addition, are associated with a unique and often unacceptable side effect profile (Bakitas, 2007; Paice, 2009). New approaches and research to test these are warranted (Argyriou, Koltzenburg, Polychronopoulos, Papapetropoulos, & Kalofonos, 2008). Similarly, changes in cognitive function have a major impact on everyday life (Myers, 2012; Von Ah, Habermann, Carpenter, & Schneider, 2013), are common during and after therapy, and evidence exists that changes in cognitive ability may persist in survivors for many years (Deprez et al., 2012; Kopplemans et al., 2012). 1. Symptom management 2. Symptoms, including psychosocial issues and distress, fatigue, pain, neuropathy, mucositis, cognitive impairment, infection, sleep, nutritional concerns, sexual health issues, and gastrointestinal 3. Carry delivery models, staff involvement, and evidencebased practice 4. Survivorship 5. Adherence 6. Access to care, including issues of uninsured and underinsured 7. Communication, decision making, and education 8. Caregiver issues and burden 9. Clinical trials 10. Gerontologic issues 11. Cancer site-specific research 12. Genetics and genomics 13. Exercise 14. Falls
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Knowledge Translation Strong support exists for future research on interventions and outcomes. Fatigue, neuropathy, and psychological distress remain important areas for research and practice. The focus of nursing research has moved from descriptive studies to studies on intervention and outcomes.
A limited number of intervention studies have been conducted, and research is needed with multidisciplinary approaches for management (Ahles, Root, & Ryan, 2012; Von Ah, Jansen, Allen, Schiavone, & Wulff, 2011). Five survivorship research priorities were listed in the top 20 ranked items in the current survey, including survivorship care plans, psychological adjustment, riskreduction interventions for stress management, diet and nutrition, and physical activity. Those five research priorities were similar to ranked topics from the 2008 survey, some of which were categorized under health promotion versus risk reduction (Doorenbos et al., 2008). Agreement was noted with the Institute of Medicine's recommendations for survivorship care (McCabe et al., 2013), but system barriers to implementation exist, as does a gap in research about the effectiveness of the recommendations on survivor outcomes (Salz, Oeffinger, McCabe, Layne, & Bach, 2012; Stricker et al., 2011). However, patients have clearly identified key elements that they desire in survivorship care beyond surveillance guidelines, specifically, preparation for and management of physical and psychological effects of cancer and its therapy and risk reduction lifestyle interventions (Smith, Singh-Carlson, Downie, Payeur, & Wai, 2011). In the 2013 survey, symptom intervention research, specifically the development of self-management interventions; the use of technology to improve screening, evaluation, and management of symptoms; and interventions to address symptom clusters, all were ranked as high priorities. This finding is consistent with prior surveys but, at the same time, reflects movement in the field toward greater sophistication in regard to symptom conceptualization (Kirkova, Aktas, Walsh, & Davis, 2011) and an emphasis on testing and refining interventions and on understanding how symptom management interventions, such as education and coaching, produce reductions in symptom burden (Porter, Keefe, Garst, McBride, & Baucom, 2008). Of note, the open-ended question identified themes mostly addressed in the survey. This convergence of the results is important because it confirms the importance of the identified priorities. Symptoms and 74
symptom management remains a key focal point for research and quality care initiatives. In addition, addressing both tobacco use and tobacco cessation is of increasing importance to members. Oncology nurses, as well as other disciplines, are now emphasizing its importance both to reduce the risk of cancer and as a strategy to reduce toxicity and other unfavorable outcomes in patients being treated for cancer (Petros, Younis, Ford, & Weed, 2012; Toll et al., 2013). Oncology nursing science can make important contributions to an interdisciplinary approach to this problem, and survey results suggest oncology nurses consider developing an interdisciplinary program of research addressing tobacco use cessation. The 2013 survey was the first to specifically assess the priority ranking given to knowledge development to address safety issues in oncology nursing, such as central line infection and medication errors. The current emphasis on safety and quality, and a greater recognition that central line-associated infections acquired in treatment settings are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, and are preventable, suggests that these topics will assume greater importance in oncology in the near future (Luckenbill et al., 2013), and this is an area of quality improvement and translational research where nurse researcher and APN collaboration may be particularly fruitful (Rinke et al., 2012). Also noteworthy is that readmissions were identified as an important priority area for oncology nursing research. Those findings need to be considered in light of the newly developed questions and format. This survey is the first to ask specifically about hospital-acquired problems; particularly important because a meta-analysis of cost and financial impact on the U.S. healthcare system (Zimlichman et al., 2013) found that, although quality improvement initiatives have decreased hospitalacquired infection, incidence and cost remain around $9 billion a year. The findings for all the survey questions limit the ability to generalize and arrive at specific conclusions because the rankings for all questions were very close and the standard deviations very narrow. In the future, it may be useful to use a modified Delphi technique to augment the results. Many of the topics queried have considerable research and guidelines available for practice. It was interesting to note that the NCCN guidelines were used more frequently than ONS's PEP resources. It may be that the linkage between knowledge and application needs to be further translated into useable practice. ONS's PEP resources, which are updated on a regular basis, offer a vehicle for dissemination of synthesized research evidence for practice. It would be interesting to assess the reasons why other guidelines are used more frequently and how to increase the use of ONS's PEP resources. Vol. 41, No. 1, January 2014 • Oncology Nursing Forum
Conclusions The 2013 ONS Research Priorities Survey obtained input from a wide range of ONS members. It provides a snapshot of responses from various clinical and academic perspectives. The survey results offered respondents the opportunity to identify priorities from a varied range of topics. These results, together with the updates of the ONS Research Agenda, can guide ONS and ONS Foundation research and evidence-based practice initiatives—all with the goal of providing the highest levels of care and quality for patients with cancer and their caregivers. Geri LoBiondo-Wood, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a professor and coordinator of the PhD Nursing Program in the School of Nursing at the University of Texas Health Science Center–Houston; Carlton G. Brown, PhD, RN, AOCN®, FAAN, is an adjunct assistant professor at New York University in New York; M. Tish Knobf, PhD, RN, AOCN®, FAAN, is a professor and chair of the Acute
Care and Health Systems Division at Yale University School of Nursing in New Haven, CT; Debra Lyon, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Judith B. Collins and Joseph Teefey Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean for Research at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond; Gail Mallory, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, is the director of research at the Oncology Nursing Society in Pittsburgh, PA; Sandra A. Mitchell, PhD, CRNP, AOCN®, is a research scientist in the Outcomes Research Branch, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD; Diane Von Ah, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor in the Department of Science of Nursing Care in the School of Nursing at Indiana University in Indianapolis; Susan Wesmiller, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Pittsburgh; and Bryan Fellman, MS, is a research statistical analyst in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Oncology Nursing Society. No financial relationships to disclose. LoBiondo-Wood can be reached at [email protected], with copy to editor at [email protected] (Submitted September 2013. Accepted October 24, 2013.) Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/14.ONF.67-76
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Priorities for Oncology Nursing Research: The 2013 National Survey Geri LoBiondo-Wood, PhD, RN, FAAN, Carlton G. Brown, PhD, RN, AOCN®, FAAN, M. Tish Knobf, PhD, RN, AOCN®, FAAN, Debra Lyon, PhD, RN, FAAN, Gail Mallory, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, Sandra A. Mitchell, PhD, CRNP, AOCN®, Diane Von Ah, PhD, RN, Susan Wesmiller, PhD, RN, and Bryan Fellman, MS
he cancer death rate in the United States has dropped 18% since the early 1990s, following decades of increase (Roth et al., 2013). Advances in understanding cancer biology, research, and implementation of new therapeutic options, such as targeted agents, have led to increased survival. Research on targeted agents for difficult-to-manage cancers and expanding their use to multiple cancers that share the same genetic alteration has had a noted impact on cancer care and treatment (Roth et al., 2013). As treatments change and increase in complexity, a need exists to identify the effects on patients and their families. In addition to specific therapy outcomes, disparities in care, prevention and screening, care of older adults with cancer, and yet undiscovered genetics contribute to the quality and quantity of survival. Significant progress has been made in research to guide the care of patients with cancer and their families. However, reflecting on how the past growth of knowledge can inform and define the dynamic nature of nursing's future contribution to cancer care research and practice is important. The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) has been a leader in quality cancer care, which is reflected in its mission: "To promote excellence in oncology nursing and quality cancer care" (ONS, n.d., p. 1). To advance the goals of evidence-based care delivery and prioritize the generation of new knowledge that addresses contemporary challenges in oncology nursing, ONS has conducted research priority surveys of its membership approximately every four years since 1980 (Berger et al., 2005; Doorenbos et al., 2008; Funkhouser & Grant, 1989; Grant & Stromberg, 1981; McGuire, FrankStromburg, & Varricchio, 1985; Mooney, Ferrell, Nail, Benedict, & Haberman, 1991; Ropka et al., 2002; Stetz, Haberman, Holcombe, & Jones, 1995). Survey results are used by oncology nursing leaders and ONS members, Oncology Nursing Forum • Vol. 41, No. 1, January 2014
Purpose/Objectives: To advance the goals of evidencebased care and prioritize the knowledge generation that addresses contemporary challenges in oncology nursing. Results are used to inform the development of the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Research Agenda and by the ONS Foundation to develop strategic research initiatives. Design: Descriptive, cross-sectional survey. Setting: Web-based survey. Sample: 8,554 ONS members from all levels of education. All doctorally prepared members were invited to participate. A random stratified sample was obtained from the remainder of the membership. Methods: The ONS Research Priorities Survey project team created the survey and analyzed and interpreted the results. Members received an email invitation and follow-up reminders for survey completion. Main Research Variables: Oncology nursing research and evidence-based practice topic questions. Findings: The response rate was 11%, which is comparable to previous surveys. Topics ranked included descriptive research on patient adherence; intervention studies to optimize adherence, achieve concordance with cancer screening guidelines in minority populations, manage neurologic and cardiovascular late effects, and manage symptoms and symptom clusters; and studies to identify optimal delivery models for survivorship care. These findings have direct implications for translating existing evidence into practice and underscore the need for intervention research focused on improving patient-centered outcomes. Conclusions: Results provide a broad assessment of member views regarding oncology research priorities. Given the response rate, additional strategies to encourage member participation will be considered. Implications for Nursing: The results, together with the updates of the ONS Research Agenda, can guide ONS and ONS Foundation research and evidence-based practice initiatives. Key Words: evidence-based practice, clinical practice
as they develop grant applications and programs of research, to inform the development of the ONS Research Agenda and for the ONS Foundation to develop strategic initiatives related to research. ONS has a diverse membership whose scope of practice is represented in all areas and settings of cancer care. Historically, ONS has sought the voice of the membership in all aspects of cancer care and cancer nursing. The ONS Research Priorities Survey has been a key mechanism for gathering data to assist the organization in defining a research agenda. The purpose of the 2013 survey, as in the past, was to provide information on priorities from the ONS membership for researchand evidence-based practice initiatives.
Methods Oncology Nursing Society Project Team The 2013 ONS Research Priorities Survey project team was recruited through a self-nominated call for project team applications. The project team leader, Geri LoBiondo-Wood, PhD, RN, FAAN, worked with Gail Mallory, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, the director of Research at ONS, to select team members that represented a diversity of research backgrounds. In addition, the newly appointed ONS Research Agenda leader, M. Tish Knobf, PhD, RN, AOCN®, FAAN, also was invited to the team to provide input and a linkage between the Research Priorities Survey project team and the Research Agenda team. A statistician provided statistical analysis. The work of the project team was accomplished with several phone conferences, electronic communication, and one in-person team meeting. Members of the project team were tasked with development and dissemination of the 2013 survey, analysis and interpretation of survey data, and dissemination of the survey findings.
Survey Development Prior to the in-person meeting, the team reviewed and discussed the 2008 survey. After review and lengthy discussion of changes in research and practice in the past four years, it was decided to revise the survey. The team used the 2009–2013 Research Agenda as an additional resource to develop and tailor survey items. Each member reviewed a section of the agenda's topic areas—health promotion, cancer symptoms and side effects, late effects of cancer treatment and long-term survivorship, end of life, psychosocial and family, nursing-sensitive patient outcomes, and translation science—and drafted questions reflecting these areas for the survey. The team refined the proposed questions and submitted them to individuals from the various institutions represented by the project team for wording clarity, content validity, and amount of time for survey completion. 68
Several noteworthy changes from the 2008 survey to the revised 2013 survey included the manner in which the survey assessed symptoms and the focus from general health promotion to risk reduction. A question in 2008 asked the importance of conducting research on a list of symptoms. The 2013 survey was revised, and asked participants to identify the top three symptoms that were the most difficult to manage and the top three that were most distressful for patients. The health promotion questions were revised to reflect a heightened interest (Kushi et al., 2012; Umar, Dunn, & Greenwald, 2012) in the development of intervention research for risk reduction in undiagnosed individuals and in patients and survivors (Wolin & Colditz, 2013). During the in-person meeting, the bank of questions was refined based on feedback and a final survey developed by the team for distribution.
Sample Survey participants were recruited from the full ONS membership (N = 37,165). The number represents diverse backgrounds in academic and practice settings. From this group, 8,554 members (23%) were invited to participate in the survey. Representation from all levels of education was sought. All PhD/DNSc and DNP prepared members (N = 570) were invited to participate. The PhD/DNSc and DNP groups were oversampled to provide representation of this educational demographic. A random sample of the remaining membership was obtained from those with master's, bachelor's, associate, and nursing diplomas. Stratified sampling methods were used to improve the representativeness of the sample and reduce sampling error.
Data Collection and Analysis The 2013 survey was distributed via Zarca® Interactive through the ONS website. The initial invitation for participation was followed by two additional requests via email about 1–2 weeks apart. As an incentive, respondents who completed the survey and were interested in being entered were included in a confidential random drawing for an iPad®. Those interested in being included in the random drawing were offered the opportunity to click on a link to a separate survey to enter their contact information. The survey remained open for five weeks. Data from the Zarca survey were imported into an analytic file and data analysis was performed using STATA, version 12. Each item in the survey was ranked from 1 (high) to 4 (not at all), and summarized using frequencies and percentages. Mean ratings for importance of questions were calculated by averaging overall responses. Weighted responses were used to adjust for unequal sampling of PhD/DNSc and DNP respondents. Sample weights were calculated by the total number of each Vol. 41, No. 1, January 2014 • Oncology Nursing Forum
degree group sampled and divided by the number of respondents in each degree category.
Table 1. Characteristics of 2013 Survey Respondents and Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Membership Survey (N = 895)
Results Of the 8,554 ONS members invited to take the survey, 895 members responded for an overall response rate of 11%. The overall response rate of 11% was slightly lower than the 2008 survey of 12%. In addition, for a population of 37,165 and a sample size of 895, this provided a 95% confidence and a sampling error of 3.2% (Dillman, 2007). Therefore, the sample size achieved is considered an adequate response rate and is suitable for generalizing to the whole population.
Sample Characteristics Demographic and professional characteristics of the respondents are detailed in Table 1. The average years worked in oncology nursing was 18.3 (range = 0–50). The majority of nurses reported working in ambulatory care and having a bachelor's or master's degree. In addition, respondent demographics were compared to the general membership for age, gender, and education. Employment variables of number of years worked in oncology nursing, primary work setting and if certified in oncology nursing also were gathered.
Rank Order of Mean Importance Ratings The top 20 ranked research priorities are listed in Table 2. Eleven of the 20 identified priorities were new topics introduced with the 2013 survey. For example, the development and evaluation of interventions to promote adherence was the top-ranked research priority in the 2013 survey. In addition, more focus was placed on interventions for risk reduction for patients with cancer and their families regarding diet, stress management, and tobacco use, as well as patient safety and prevention management of medication errors and infection. However, some common items also were noted between this and prior surveys. For example, the 2008 survey identified screening and early detection as priorities (Doorenbos et al., 2008), whereas respondents of the current survey focused specifically on screening and early detection in minority populations. Similarly, the 2008 survey identified late effects as the number two ranked research priority. The 2013 survey separated late effects by specific organ systems, and respondents identified neurologic, cardiac, and pulmonary late effects as priorities. Overall, the 2013 survey results suggest both new areas of importance as well as more specific areas of concentrated concern. Respondents also were asked to rank the symptoms that were the most difficult to manage. The top five were fatigue, neuropathy, psychological distress, cognitive impairment, and depression. However, when Oncology Nursing Forum • Vol. 41, No. 1, January 2014
Characteristic Years worked in oncology nursing Characteristic Primary work setting Ambulatory care Both inpatient and ambulatory care Hospice or home care Industry Inpatient School of nursing Other No response Certified in oncology No Yes No response Highest nursing degree Associate Bachelor's DNP Diploma Master's PhD/DNSc No response Highest non-nursing degree Associate Bachelor's Diploma Doctorate Master's None No response Age (years) 20–29 30–39 40–49 50–59 60–69 Older than 69 No response Gender Female Male No response
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2 2 22 12 7 1
504 992 11,933 668 136 926
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5 12 21 42 18 2 1
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asked what symptoms were the most distressing to patients, the top five were fatigue, pain, nausea, psychological distress, and neuropathy. Additional comparisons between the surveys are limited because of the revision and reconceptualization of priorities. Past surveys asked about discrete topics, such as individual symptoms and individual and family 69
psychosocial and behavioral topics. The current survey treated the research priorities more specifically and framed topics around aspects of nursing practice (e.g., interventions), concepts such as symptom clusters, and special populations such as the older adult and underserved and underinsured individuals. This shift reflects the growth of knowledge in the field and the current state of the evidence, together with an awareness that it is timely to move from predominantly descriptive approaches of problems and symptoms to interventions and outcomes. Symptom management remains an important research priority for oncology nurses, with the emphasis shifting toward self-management of symptoms, interventions to address multiple concurrent symptoms, and the potential uses of technology to improve screening, evaluation, and management of symptoms. Compared with 2008, research to improve the delivery of guideline-concordant cancer screening and early detection services specifically to minorities and those who are underserved or underinsured moved up the priority ranking. In 2013, screening and early detection activities were identified as among the top five research priorities. Similarly, research to develop effective interventions for those at risk for cancer and
for patients with cancer and their families was ranked within the top 15 research priorities in 2013, whereas it was considerably lower in priority ranking, relative to other priorities, in 2008. New items were introduced in the 2013 survey, addressing research related to patient safety and two topics (prevention of central line infections and prevention of medication errors) were ranked within the top 20 research priorities.
Educational Comparison
In the past, the responses of the PhD/DNSc members were compared to those of members with master's, BSN, diploma, and associate degrees. To determine whether respondents would select different priorities based on education level, and perhaps how they would use the results, those nurses with PhD/DNSc, DNP, and master's degrees were compared to respondents in the bachelor's, associate, and diploma group. Table 3 displays the top 20 priorities for each group. PhD/DNSc, DNP, and master's prepared respondents ranked six topics in the top 20 that were not represented in the overall rankings: functional impairment of older adults, intervention research on family and caregivers, physical activity for survivors, symptom experience of older adults, cost effectiveness of interventions, and biobehavioral mechanisms of symptoms. The response with the largest difference was biobehavioral mechanisms of symptoms, Table 2. Rank Order of Symptom Management Difficulty which was ranked seventh by the PhD/ a and Distress to Patients Across All Respondents (N = 895) DNSc, DNP, and master's prepared respon— Rank Topic X SD dents, but was ranked 62nd overall. Four of the top 20 priorities were exclusive to the 1 Develop and evaluate intervention: Adherencea 2.81 0.42 a bachelor's, associate degree, and diploma 2 Persistent and late effects: Neurocognitive 2.8 0.42 3 Screening research minorities 2.77 0.5 respondents: medication errors, central line 4 Symptom management: Self-management symptom 2.77 0.48 infections, pulmonary and cardiac effects control of treatment, and tobacco control for both 5 Screening early detection: Underserved or underinsured 2.76 0.5 patients and survivors. 6 Survivorship: Survivorship care plan 2.75 0.51 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Persistent and late effects: Cardiovascular Descriptive research factors: Adherence Interventions symptom clustersa Interventions risk reductions patients and survivors: Dieta Survivorship: Psychological adjustmenta Persistent and late effects: Pulmonary Intervention research to improve adherence to risk reduction for cancer patients and families: Tobaccoa Intervention research to improve adherence to risk reduction for populations at risk: Tobaccoa Medication errors: Prevention Risk reduction cancer patients and survivors: Stress managementa CLABSI prevention Use of technology: Symptoms Symptom management interventionsa Risk reductions patients and survivors: Physical activity and exercise
Asked in Doorenbos et al. (2008) CLABSI—central line-associated bloodstream infections a
Symptom Management Respondents were asked to select the top three symptoms most difficult to manage and the top three most distressing for patients from a list of 27 cancer and cancer treatment-related symptoms (see Table 4). Across all respondents, fatigue was rated as the most difficult to manage and the most distressing to the patient. Similarly, fatigue was ranked among the top three priority symptoms in both the 2004 and 2008 ONS Research Priorities Surveys (Berger et al., 2005; Doorenbos et al., 2008). Across respondents, the top three symptoms that were identified as most difficult to manage were fatigue, neuropathy, and psychological distress, in that order. The
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Table 3. Top 20 Research Priorities Ranked by Mean Importance by Degreea Rank
PhD/DNSc, DNP, or Master's
Bachelor's, Associate Degree, or Diploma
Self-management interventions to improve symptom control
Adherence improvement interventions
Symptom management interventions
Neurologic effects of cancer treatment
Management interventions of symptoms clusters
Screening and early detection for minorities and those at risk for poor outcomes
Screening and early detection for underserved and/or underinsured individuals
Interventions that use technology to address symptoms
Survivor care plans
Symptoms biobehavioral mechanisms
Cardiovascular effects of cancer treatment
Intervention cost effectiveness
Descriptive research on factors that influence treatment adherence
Survivors physical activity and exercise
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We all know about the power of protein in our diets, but the source doesn't have to be meat-based. Here are some plant based proteins you should be eating more of, plus some easy ways to add ground-grown grub to your plate.
With its deep-green hue and distinctive sweet, nutty flavour, spirulina, is protein rich. Just a tablespoon provides 4g of protein. Available here as an organic supplement powder simply add it to your smoothies for an extra-energy blend.
Beans, beans, good for… Well, you know the rest, and fibre certainly is important, but a cup of many types of cooked beans also offers around 15g of protein. Use them to make veggie meatballs or burgers, or as a substitute for a meat-based pasta sauce<|fim_middle|> for a stir-fry, grain-based salad or porridge. Try quinoa flour for gluten-free baking too.
Tempeh, tofu and edamame are soy superstars, packed with fibre, healthy fats and – you guessed it – plenty of protein. In fact a single half cup serving contains 20g! Seek out organic varieties and add to stir-fries and salads or marinate for extra flavour. | .
Considered a starchy protein, a cup of lentils provides 18g of protein along with plenty of fibre and carbohydrates. Add cooked, spiced lentils to rice or quinoa for an extra dimension to a tasty meal.
Almonds, cashews, walnuts and pistachios are rich in minerals, vitamin E and healthy fats, and offer 7-9g of protein per quarter cup. Top cereals or a salad with nuts for nutritional crunch, make your own nut butter or use as a 'flour' in gluten-free baking.
Seeds pack a nutritional punch and with a variety of flavours (sunflower, sesame, chia, hemp, flax and pumpkin), add them to your diet in the same way as nuts. Throw a handful on a salad and take green leaves to the next level with 30g of protein per 100g.
A gluten-free grain (and technically a seed), quinoa contains carbohydrates, fibre and 7-9g of protein in every half cooked cup. Use it as a base | 218 |
The Douglas Company Announces Completion of Stonecrest of Troy Assisted Living and Memory Care<|fim_middle|> | Community in Troy, Michigan
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The Douglas Company is proud to work with Northpoint Development as part of the project team to bring their vision to life, and a new option in senior living to the Troy area.
HOLLAND, OH, September 28, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — The Douglas Company, general contractor, is proud to announce the completion of Stonecrest of Troy assisted living and memory care community in Troy, Michigan. The $14.9 million luxury senior living community took 14 months for construction to be completed, and is the first of two projects The Douglas Company has completed with the developer, Northpoint Development.
The 75,630 square-foot assisted living and memory care community, includes a single-story, 32-unit memory care building, in addition to, a two-story residential building offering a total of 55 assisted living apartments.
The new, upscale community features amenities including an arts and crafts room, beauty salon, movie-theater, cyber cafe and exercise room. The exterior layout consists of three memory care courtyards, two assisted living courtyards, a putting green, and an outdoor grill, all complimented by the exterior finishes of Stone Veneer and Fiber-Cement siding. Stonecrest of Troy was designed by Pi Architects of Austin, Texas to be a luxurious and comfortable community for senior citizens.
"This community sets a new standard for senior living," said Dave Ender, Project Manager of The Douglas Company. "The Douglas Company is proud to work with Northpoint Development as part of the project team to bring their vision to life, and a new option in senior living to the Troy area."
The Douglas Company is an industry-leading general contractor, specializing in senior living and multi-family construction. For over 40 years, The Douglas Company has consistently completed projects under budget and ahead of schedule while contributing to the success of their clients and associates. The Douglas Company, on the INC. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies, is headquartered in Holland, Ohio with a second office located in Orlando, Florida.
For more information on this story or inquiries about The Douglas Company, please contact Bob Ritter, Director of Business Development, at 419-865-8600 or visit The Douglas Company website: www.douglascompany.com.
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High-profile event showcases pivotal role Environmental Intelligence plays on road to 'net-zero'
The pivotal role that Environmental Intelligence will play in delivering the UK's 'net zero' ambitions will be showcased in a high-profile special event, later this month.
The pioneering Joint Centre of Excellence in Environmental Intelligence (JCEEI) – a collaboration between the University of Exeter and the Met Office – will hold its celebrated annual conference on December 16/17th 2021.
The event will feature presentations from some of the world's leading experts in the crucial field of Environmental Intelligence, including Professor Paul Monks, Chief Scientific Adviser for BEIS, who will deliver the conference's keynote speech.
The online event, which will themed "'Beyond COP26: The Road to Net Zero', will showcase the use of transformative technologies to support the UK's Net Zero ambitions and explore opportunities to support the next generation of environmental and data scientists.
In addition to bringing together presentations from international leaders in the field, the conference will feature interactive sessions, including panel discussions, opportunities for Q&As and on-line poster sessions.
Professor Shaddick, who is also Chair in Data Science and Statistics at the University of Exeter, said: "We are very excited to be hosting the second annual EI conference. The potential for AI in helping us tackle environmental and climate change is enormous and the conference gives us a fantastic opportunity to bring together experts from across environmental science, AI, business and policy.
"Together, we will have the chance to showcase exciting research, and highlight the need for future research and innovation, to address the climate and biodiversity crises, and develop pathways to net zero across different sectors."
Environmental Intelligence is an exciting new field of research that sits at the interface of environmental and sustainability research, data science, artificial intelligence and digital technologies. It provides the information that is crucial to enhancing our resilience to environmental change and ensuring that our future interactions with the natural environment are sustainable.
Research in the Joint Centre will focus on utilising the power of data to transform our understanding of a changing environment and find solutions to the challenges that this presents. It creates and supports a global community in the application of data science and artificial intelligence to a wide range of environmentally related issues and challenges.
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Velocity Machine Inc. Launches Expanded, Updated Website
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Green Bay, Wisconsin, Contract Manufacturer Serves OEM Clients Worldwide
Velocity Machine Inc., a leader in contract manufacturing and engineered solutions for OEM clients worldwide, has launched an expanded and updated website that features its precision machining, mechanical assembly and other services.
The Green Bay, Wisconsin-based company is heavily invested in technology geared toward high-volume production excellence. Its robust systems and capabilities focus on quality and on-time delivery, supported by workforce talent and processes to back it up.
The website, found at velocitymachine.com, features descriptions of its expertise in Tier 1 program management, inventory management, domestic and global supply chain, sub-assembly, packaging, prototyping and other contract services.
"This updated website highlights the services and areas of expertise that separate us from many other fabricators and solution providers," said Kevin Fredrick, owner and CEO at Velocity Machine. "Our ability to take projects from engineering through machining, welding, quality assurance and delivery makes us the partner of choice for customers in a wide range of industries."
Velocity Machine has a fully staffed ISO 9001:2015 certified Quality Control department equipped with CMM capabilities and a range of quality management systems to ensure dimensional accuracy.
"Our comprehensive quality assurance program enables us to compete on a global scale," Fredrick said. "We can run low, medium or<|fim_middle|> Green Bay, Wisconsin. The company has received several awards, highlighted by the Lean Supplier of the Year Award from GE Energy in 2008. It is an active supporter of the Green Bay area's communities, schools and organizations, including MDA, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Boys and Girls Club, and the YMCA.
For more information or to discuss your project, please call (920) 494-7411, or visit velocitymachine.com.
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I've read a lot of books this year, just like I always do, but none of them were truly fantastic. Most fell into the mediocre to ok range. A few were good and a few were total duds.
That changed when I read Ink and Bone. It's easily my favorite book that I've read this year so far. I knew almost nothing about it going in except that I had liked some of the author's work before and by the end of the book I wanted to know what happened next! Rachel Caine does a great job kicking off a new series with Ink and Bone.
Ink and Bone is set in a world where the library of Alexandria never burned. It continued to grow in both scope and power until it controlled all knowledge in the world. All technological advancement had to come from the library and so this alternate timeline finds a much different world than the one we live in.
The printing press has been suppressed and instead people have to check out books into "blanks" that function similarly to a modern day kindle. The printed word is not widely available in any other form, so the library controls information throughout the world.
The main character in Ink and Bone is a book smuggler's son. He starts to learn the trade of smuggling real books in a world where it's illegal to own them. After realizing it's not the right fit for him his father pushes him to join the Library so they can have a member of the family on the inside.
The adventure takes off from there and never really lets up. I<|fim_middle|> soon as I finished Ink and Bone I immediately looked to see if there was another book in the series.
There was! So I bought and downloaded it immediately. Expect me to blast through that one as well and do a write up soon. | loved so much about this book. The pacing, the characters, the world-building, the writing style, the plot itself. Like I said, as | 30 |
How do you determine if a system is worth buying?
If you have purchased a system or have considered purchasing a system ...What would be the determining factor when deciding to purhcase? I saw an ad for a "winning system" posted online and there was an ATM withdrawal receipt posted to boost claims the system works. This person supposedly has been winning and has a bank account of over $300,000. This looks fake to me but you never know.
You never really know what you're looking at. Every time I think it has to be one of two things it turns out there was a third option. Who knows, maybe this guy started with a million and after hard work on his system has $300,000. left. Look, if the system worked, if it was a winner, he would NOT be selling it.
The problem isn't the $9.99 fraud, it's how much money you burn trying to win with it.
Part of the lure of these systems is, "What is it?" If reasonably priced you pay your $9.99 skim through it trying to find anything actionable, <sigh> then you see if the trash button still works.
Even when you know exactly how to win. Even when you can see how you could have won the previous draw with only a handful of tickets. It is still almost impossible to even come close because something will always come along to knock your play out of the park. Shouldn't stop you from trying.
I would never buy a system, I can't recall any of the big JP winners saying they had a system.
that ATM receipt would be easy to fake, and just a way to get your confidence !
Also, only an idiot would keep over $300,000.00 in a checking acct.
The best thing to do is try them for yourself.
Ask yourself this question: If a system is good, they why are they selling it?
Even if it was an actual receipt - was it his/her receipt???? Many times people are in a hurry - they take their money & leave the receipt behind. Either in the machine or in the waste basket next to the machine. Don't believe everything you see.
Any system or program that does what you want it to do is worth buying if you can afford it, but first you have decide what you need it to do to help you win. Predicting a random event(winning lottery numbers) is almost impossible but some players think if they know certain facts from previous drawings then it's easier so you'll probably want a program/system that provide that information for you.
"What would be the determining factor when deciding to purhcase?"
Is it free? If not they're charging more than it's worth.
"The problem isn't the $9.99 fraud, it's how much money you burn trying to win with it."
IMO the biggest problem with some of the systems we see on LP is the cost of play because most are daily play and with tweaking (add 1 and subtract 1, use mirrors, flip the 6 and 9, play straight/box, and yada yada yada) if all the combos are played, a box win can't cover the bet.
I was given a system for free and hit a pick-3 number straight on my first bet. But it was a spot play system and the same betting circumstances still hadn't reappeared six months later.
A good system probably involves an identifiable anomaly in the drawing statistics. It's more likely such a system would be for digit number games like pick- 3, pick-4 and possibly pick-5.
"Predicting a random event(winning lottery numbers) is almost impossible"
That depends on how close the random event is to the probability. I wouldn't give a pick-3 system that never included one of the digits from the previous drawing much credibility. I only know of one jackpot game system for a 5/37 game that won the jackpot, but the cost of guaranteeing a win using that method is much higher than most players would bet ($1122 per drawing). With some of the Steve Player systems that do work, the amount a player must bet is<|fim_middle|> money to ensure the correct hit to both recover and make money. Stack actually mirrored what I've been saying about players getting lucky that one good time on a str8 with very little money and then not being able to even come close to duplicating it again.
In fact, these situations are only going to be amplified in the coming days because people really believe that getting something for nothing in a game like this happens frequently. Luck happens, but not to the same person in the same fashion frequently. Luck is never consistent, but it's appreciated when it does visit...and people are satisfied with that. Problem is that you can't know when or if luck is coming back. Skill separates the men from the boys and the girls from the women...and also let's you know when it's time to play and win. Skill is extremely dependable. I say that with respect and within reason of the player's proficiency.
As I said before, if you really wanna know if something works, just follow the numbers: how many numbers, the cost, how many days played before a hit (if any), then subtract the amount of what has been spent from the amount won on the hit. This will let anyone know if what they're watching is worthwhile...everytime. I can tell you right now that based on the average amount of what 90% of people want to spend here, they better hit boxed within (4) plays. Numbers never lie.
If it sounds to good to be true, it usually is.
Create your own system, takes time and hold on to your cash until you get good at it.
1. Be based on actually drawn numbers.
2. Provide at least several statistical methods for predicting future numbers.
3. Track current trends in number appearance.
4. Allow to backtrack each prediction method BEFORE YOU PLAY to see which one is most effective NOW.
5. Allow to wheel numbers for playing.
6. Track stats for singles-to-doubles current ratios.
For me all these are A MUST in any system if you want REALISTICALLY increase your chances of winning. I don't expect to win all the time but frequently enough and at such cost that I could realistically expect to make a profit, not all the time, but prequently. My simulations indicate that this is possible - with appropriate tools USED properly. (and this may take some trial-and-error).
If I hit using that system and won more than the cost of the system, then yes I would buy that system.
My system costs less than one of the "Box" wins for a month of service so would it be worth it to buy? Just saying, since I also post a lot of stuff FREE here on the Lottery Post in the Pick-3/4 Forums and to my Blog. I will check the prediction board stats later on today to see if for the month of January 2014 I made a net profit in the Florida Pick-3.
There are several states where I am way ahead of the game, Maryland and Missouri just to name a few. You can check the stat page here on the Lottery Post for the information.
Should you wish to follow me in those games go to my forum post, "Quick Nickels (Pick-3), (Pick-4)" right here on the Lottery Post. You can follow along for FREE and if you wish to go from there then pease contact me by private messge for more details.
Both are right here on the Lottery Post and the information is FREE for all my friends here on the Lottery Post. | again too high for the average player.
I wouldn't suggest buying a system when played correctly, the cost of play is more than the player wants to bet.
In my opinion, the player must first be able to sufficiently identify with what the developer is explaining in their system in terms of why it must work. Every player sees something different from the next because all have different levels of understanding math in general and this is most of the problem. If the player can't fully interpret what to do, when to do it, why to do it, and how, then the system will always be a failure. Then, there's the money aspect which is the biggest problem of 'em all. Stack made a very good comment above on how playing all the combos will require more than a box hit to cover the money spent in the even of a hit.
I've been saying the exact same thing, Stack. Even more so, when not enough combos are played to secure a good boxed hit within a certain amount of plays, the player will still need a str8 hit to cover the real time money expenses. This is where the other thing called balance, which I've also been stressing, comes into play. When a player is truly on their game and understands full well what's going on, they have no problem spending the right | 265 |
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UK based New Medium Enterprises has announced a new optical disc format, called Versatile MultiLayer Disc (VMD) which can store between 20 and 100Gb of data on up to 10 layers and read using conventional red laser technology. The big breakthrough, however, is the increase in yield, which has always dogged multi-layer disc production, the technology pioneered by New Medium Enterprises could bring the cost of manufacture of these high capacity discs down to within a few cents of conventional single layer DVDs, and significantly cheaper than the warring Blu Ray and HD-DVD systems. The format has been designed to be compatible with all existing high-definition systems, gaming and data storage. Players have already been developed<|fim_middle|>Display Name not set)
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Husband and wife create 'hardscape' business
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As a little boy, Joshua Boucher loved playing in the dirt and rocks. Now, he makes a living doing that.
"Sometimes, I think it would be fun to get to go back and tell my young self that one day I would get paid to do what I was doing then — playing with dirt and stones," Joshua says.
Not only does Joshua do it almost daily, he also has a partner in his pastime/profession. Joshua and his wife, Stefanie, are owners and operators of Sandstone Creek LLC. Founded in 2007, the Boucher's landscape company specializes in hardscaping.
"We work with both natural stone and concrete paving and wall materials and wood," Joshua says. "We do landscape installs as well and cleanup and maintenance<|fim_middle|> to stay there and enjoy their new projects. "Most of the stuff we do is a long-term investment for people," Joshua says. "Hardscaping when done properly is not cheap."
But, oh, the beautiful difference a hardscape project can make to a home.
A terraced hillside with stone walls awaits the bloom of flowering plants. A circular brick paving leads to a fire pit centerpiece. Stones and larger rocks line the edges of a small pond. A stone surround applied to a mailbox at the end of a driveway adds an artistic touch to a necessary item. A client's leftover Belgard pavers combine with sandstone and limestone pieces for a seating area along a walking path.
When contacted by a client, the Bouchers say the initial consultation may be that the homeowner knows exactly what the project will be and may even supply photos of what is wanted. "Other times they may ask us for suggestions," Stefanie says.
"We always try to make sure the client gets what they want," she says. "It is their space, not ours, and we want to make sure we deliver what someone dreams and hopes to have. That is our goal."
For more information: Contact Sandstone Creek at SandstoneCreekLLC.com
Creating martial arts training equipment
When Stefanie Boucher was pregnant with her second child in 2016, she and her husband began taking martial arts training to stay fit. "We started training with Arlo Welty of Satori Integrated Martial Arts," Stefanie says.
Stefanie also began making handcrafted hardwood training weapons for Arlo's company, Satori Training Weapons in the fall of 2017. Putting her 15 years of woodworking experience to use seemed a natural extension, Stefanie says.
"I enjoy weapon-making for many reasons, including increasing my knowledge of martial art weapon history and use. I also enjoy the artistic expression of making custom blades."
Most blades are made from locally sourced ash wood which is also used for baseball bats. "It's a side project, something we hope to continue into our retirement," Stefanie says, adding that she also does other wood and metal projects.
Last year, Arlo Welty handed the business over to the Bouchers. The new company is called Dogan 19, LLC, doing business as Satori Training Weapons. "It is an outlet for creativity that I enjoy," Stefanie says.
For more information: Call 812-320-9890 or visit https://www.satoritrainingweapons.com/ or www.etsy.com/shop/Dogan19. | ."
The husband-wife team do all the work for Sandstone Creek and are deliberately keeping their business small enough for the two to handle. "Our reputation is always on the line and we always put 100 percent into every job," Stefanie says. "It is not just a job to us. When we finish a job, we want to be sure the client is happy with what we did."
Hardscape consists of the non-living elements of landscaping, such as a paver patio, stone or block wall, decks, fences and pergolas. Common examples of hardscape materials include concrete pavers, brick, stone and wood.
"Patios and stone walls are what we do the most of but each year is different," Joshua says. "Right now, I am finishing up a porcelain paver job. I'm putting porcelain pavers on a concrete pad."
The Bouchers work side by side year round. "Right now is the perfect time of year for me. I love spring," Joshua says. "Summer is my least favorite because of the heat. There are only so many clothes you can take off when you are working outside in the heat."
Summer is her favorite time to be working outside on client projects, Stefanie says, "although I do enjoy watching the seasons change."
Being together day and night may be difficult on some marriages but the Bouchers say the 24/7 togetherness works for them. "I like being with my wife all the time," Joshua says. "That's what I like best about our business. We are both very meticulous about our job. It's a passion that we share."
Adds Stefanie, "I like the fact that Joshua and I can work together to make people's dreams come true. That is very important to us and we never get tired of working together."
Bloomington offers community support
With two children — 3-year-old Drew and 6-year-old Lincoln — Harmony's Early Childhood Program is a tremendous asset when the Bouchers are working. "Harmony is more like a family," Joshua says. "It's not just a school, it's a community working together to take care of each other. You see a lot of that in Bloomington, which is why we love to live here."
Both Stefanie and Joshua were born and grew up in Marion. "Our families knew each other really well," Stefanie says. "We played on the same coaches-pitch baseball team and I was friends with Joshua's sister in high school."
However, the two didn't really connect until they were in their 20s. By then, Joshua had gone to Ball State for a degree in education and Stefanie attended Indiana University as a photojournalism major. Instead of becoming a teacher, Joshua decided hardscaping was his future.
"I worked for a general contractor in Muncie and that's where I learned hardscaping," Joshua says. "Then I found a job here with a local company because I knew Bloomington was where I wanted to live and hardscaping was what I wanted to do."
Since he was in Bloomington, Joshua's mother said he should look up Stefanie as she was here too, working for Monroe County Parks & Recreation. He did and the rest is history.
The couple bought 5 acres on a dead-end road north of town. Stefanie worked for two years as a photographer for the Bedford Times-Mail. The couple also worked for a local landscaping company until starting their own business.
The name — Sandstone Creek — is a tribute to the lovely body of water running by their home. "Actually, the name of that creek is Buck Creek but we ran that name by a few people and agreed that name could be trouble, it could be easily mispronounced," Joshua says. "Since Buck Creek is mostly made of sandstone, that's the name we picked."
Most of Sandstone Creek's clients are homeowners who want to fix up their property because they intend | 816 |
Like most good things, it was well worth waiting for.
Matt Derbyshire's first goal in open play for Rotherham United had been 17 games in the making.
And when it finally came it nearly lifted the roof off AESSEAL New York Stadium.
The striker broke forward against Bolton Wanderers on Tuesday night, calmly assessed his options and then crashed an unstoppable 20-yard shot with his 'wrong' left foot past Andy Lonergan in the Trotters' goal.
Evans, who normally informs his players of the starting line-up only an hour before kick-off, broke with tradition in the case of the forward whose only previous Rotherham goal had been a penalty against Fleetwood back in August in the Capital One Cup.
The stunning strike brought joy and relief in equal measure for the New York Stadium faithful who ch<|fim_middle|> goal threat.
Bolton manager Neil Lennon, who had kicked a water bottle in anger during the match, was gracious enough afterwards to admit Rotherham had deserved their victory.
It was the first time this season the Millers have scored four goals in a game.
Not only did the win give their hopes of Championship football next season a huge boost, it was also a matter of personal pride for ardent Celtic fan Evans.
Lennon was once manager of the Glasgow giants and is revered by the Rotherham boss.
"Neil Lennon is God to Steve Evans," said Sammon. | anted "Super Matt" and gave Derbyshire a standing ovation when he was substituted late on.
The goal and the confidence boost it will give the 28-year-old frontman might just ease the need for Evans to sign a proven scorer.
Often through his illustrious career Derbyshire's goals have come in spurts and who's to say he won't go on a prolific little run now?
He ran the Brentford defence ragged two and a half weeks ago and his partnership with new boy Conor Sammon - another scorer on a memorable night - was too much for Bolton to handle.
"I thought the front two were exceptional," said Evans.
Sammon, who impressed in only his second game for the Millers, said of his strike partner's effort: "It was an absolutely cracking goal.
"We struck up a good understanding and I think we can play well together. Matt's got good experience, and both of us like to run in from behind. We're judged on goals and I hope we can be a big | 207 |
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The war in the air : being the story of the part played in the great war by the Royal Air Force : Sir Walter A. Raleigh, H.A. Jones (Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1922-37)
Published in 6 volumes of text, plus a volume of appendices and a two volume Atlas, this magisterial work, started by Sir Walter A. Raleigh, and continued by his colleague Henry A. Jones represents many years of research into the facts surrounding the early days of the Royal Flying Corps, before it was merged with the Royal Naval Air Service on 1 April 1918 to become the Royal Air Force – the term retained by the authors for this authoritative history.
The history of the RAF 1939-1989 : Christopher Chant (London: Chevprime Ltd, 1990)
With well integrated text and images, this volume is an authoritative account of the fifty yoears of the Royal Air Force after | 245 |
4 Lies You Were Told About The Great Wall Of China
Can you separate fact from fiction about this most impressive structure?
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Greg Hill 9 Sep 2019 • 4 min read | on the wall is said to have started as early as 770 BC!
Today, much of the wall still stands, and there have been plenty of tales told about it over the years. But can you separate fact from fiction? Prepare to have your mind blown by these four lies you were told about the Great Wall of China.
It Was Built All at One Time
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The Great Wall of China was a huge undertaking. But it wasn't all constructed at one time. While it's commonly believed that the entire wall was constructed under the guidance of Emperor Quin Shi Huang during 259-210 BC, this isn't quite right. In fact, it was constructed over a wide span of years: between 770 BC and 1878 AD. That's a huge span of time!
The first phase of construction is said to have begun during the so-called Spring and Autumn Period, which lasted from 770-276 BC. The earliest portions of the wall were built during this time. However, it was added on to for years after, and what is considered the last major addition was added in 1878 by the Qing Dynasty.
It Has Always Defended the Border
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Plenty of people think that this highly-fortified wall has always been successful at keeping out attackers. But that hasn't been the case all of the time.
While the Great Wall acted as an effective barrier between the Chinese Empire and its neighbors to the north, invaders were able to get past it quite a few times.
Over the years, many tribes have been able to breach the border. For example, the Mongols of the 13th century were able to breach the wall following the lead of legendary warrior Genghis Khan. Several other breaches occurred over the years as well.
It Was Made With Regular Mortar
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When you think about constructing a wall, you probably think about traditional materials like brick and mortar. But the Great Wall of China was constructed way before places like Home Depot existed, so it was made with some unexpected materials.
The "ingredients" list for the Great Wall of China is somewhat unique. Yes, it features plenty of bricks, stones, and rocks that are closely packed. That may not sound odd, but you may be surprised by how they made these pieces stick together. Ancient builders didn't use the traditional mortar made from sand and cement that we use today. They used a mixture made with glutinous rice flour, which helped create an adhesive.
You Can See It From Space
Credit: NASA
It's a dazzling tale indeed: astronauts flying high above the earth can see the Great Wall of China from outer space. This is not true!
The wall is impressive in scale, but according to NASA, you're not going to see it from space.
In fact, Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei reported from space that he was unable to see the Great Wall. Other astronauts have reported similarly. As astronauts will tell you, it's not viewable with the naked eye but requires a telephoto lens.
A Great Wall Indeed
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The Great Wall of China is one of the most impressive structures in not just China but the entire world. With its incredible history and impressive size, there's no wonder it intrigues so many people. Now you have an idea of what's true and what's false about this incredible wall.
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Nail salon price list template, Pricing is one of the most critical elements of every level of business. Retailers will need to keep their prices competitive to attract customers. Wholesalers need<|fim_middle|>, due to the fact that you will find pricing factors other than competition. If the costs of production go up industry wide, businesses will have no choice but to increase their own rates. An industry heavily dependent on transportation, for instance, will have to raise its prices because of the high cost of gas. The current drought is driving up grain prices, which makes food more expensive across the board. Rates are also constrained by demand. If nobody is willing to pay a certain price, a company simply cannot charge that price. Have a look the sample of nail salon price list template below at the attachment page. | to offer prices in line with the industry standard in order to sell to retailers. Suppliers of raw materials have to keep their costs close to those of the competitors to remain viable with manufacturers. It's a very simple idea. Any business or individual is going to seek the lowest price unless there's a great reason not to do so, such as quality or prestige. If an equivalent or similar good is cheaper, you will get the sale.
Because sellers know buyers want the best price, one of the main pricing factors in our economy is competitive reaction to price. The purchase price for a similar good or service will gravitate to a certain point as a result of this. While consumers often suspect collusion, this is normally not the case. Competitors normally have similar inputs, and they are easily able to find out each other's prices as people are public information.
A company that knows its rivals are charging considerably more and getting away with it, they will raise their prices to benefit from that demand. On the other hand, if a company sees its competitors cutting prices and taking customers, it will drop its prices to maintain. A company might also employ an opposite competitive response to cost, like lowering prices when a competitor goes up. This would be done in the hopes of taking away customers that are unwilling or unable to pay the higher cost.
Of course, there are limitations to the ability of companies to adjust their prices to the competition | 284 |
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<|fim_middle|> slowly revealed Jesus and forgiveness. Most of the story purposefully barely leads to church. Its a seeking and finding. Of course, Italy is lovely too. You can follow the family through truffle hunts, wine pairings, pasta making, and painting. I enjoyed reading how our tortured restorer became who she had wanted to be through vulnerability and allowing herself to hurt. Pain is often a great gift and gives grand capacity for great joy.
Thank you to Thomas Nelson Publishers for graciously supplying this book for review. | I chose this book to review because it is about a woman who does restoration for a living. Restoring a one hundred year old house, that piqued my interest. In the beginning, I trudged through it somewhat. I do not like things that are designed to manipulate me emotionally and this felt like that typical romance novel. Sad girl gets swept off of her feet by an Italian man and moves to Italy with him. As the story went on, I started to embrace it more. It became about family and how loving people in all of their imperfection is part of our beautiful story. Sometimes we get stuck in a textbook version of life and forget to love people through and in their messes. . . and ours. It's how we grow.
I thought the end of the story was rich and powerful as it | 167 |
Ever since it was created, KeepCalling's Charity Committee has been very active, involving employees in all sorts of interesting fundraising activities. The latest addition to this list is a yard sale auction that took place<|fim_middle|> MC, who made a show out of every bid. The objects sold ranged from jewelry, clothes, and bags to gadgets, toys, and decorations. At the end of the day, our Charity Committee was $275 richer. The money was used to literally bring light into the life of a family with financial difficulties, since KC's Charity Committee paid for the initiation of an electricity contract for the family.
Looking forward to our next auction and our next good deed!
Celebrate the first Día del Corazón Latino!
Celebrating 3,000 LIKES on our Facebook page! | at KeepCalling's headquarters at the end of November. The concept behind this action was that employees willing to participate would bring items they no longer used in order for them to be sold at the auction. Some objects had starting prices set by their owners, while others had a standard minimum price. Any employee could bid for any object they liked.
The event meant 2 hours filled with fun and shopping, since over 100 objects were sold. The good mood and good laughs were ensured by our auction | 101 |
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LinkedIn Publishing Trends Every Marketer Must Know
If you want to get your content noticed, you need to pay more attention to one social network, and I'm not talking about Facebook.
LinkedIn has seen explosive growth in the number of articles published on the platform. It also plays an increasingly significant role in content distribution for articles published on other domains. For some topics, LinkedIn is the most important network for social shares.
The number of LinkedIn users also is growing, reaching over 430 million in 2016, as Business Insider reports.
LinkedIn has led the way among social networks offering the option to post blog-length content. According to data provided by BuzzSumo, at the beginning of 2014, users published approximately 1,000 articles each month. One year later, users published more than 80,000 articles monthly, and a year ago that number hit 130,000.
Our analysis of 228,000 articles published on LinkedIn and another 136,000 shared articles from other sites between 2012 through January 2017 shows:
LinkedIn's volume of growth may not have reached content shock.
LinkedIn was the primary content distribution network for some topics.
Long-form content is shared more than short posts are.
Official influencer recognition isn't necessary to earn a high-share volume (but it helps!).
Original content on LinkedIn earns few referral links.
Successful LinkedIn posts are:
Portray a path for change
Point toward peak experiences
No signs of content shock
The network isn't sending signals that users have more content than they want to interact with. Data from 2015 and 2016 shows that the total shares of content published on the platform has more than doubled, from 31 million to almost 73 million. And, the average number of shares per post has increased by 43%.
Average number of shares per #LinkedIn post increased 43% in 1 year via @BuzzSumo. @SusanCMoeller Click To Tweet
It's logical that LinkedIn will become saturated and shares will drop at some point. But, the relatively narrow focus of the network could work to accelerate or decelerate the process. Will the need for niche content less available elsewhere sustain growth? Or will the demand for a narrow set of articles be quickly met and rapidly curtail growth?
I'm not sure, and the data doesn't answer the question. But, in 2017, I plan to publish more on LinkedIn. After all, the key to marketing well is to see a wave and ride it, not pass on good opportunities because they won't last more than a year or two.
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More social shares for B2B content
LinkedIn surpasses Facebook and Twitter for social shares in many B2B areas even when the shared content is not published on LinkedIn.
[email protected] surpasses Facebook & Twitter for social shares in many B2B areas. @SusanCMoeller @BuzzSumo Click To Tweet
The data on B2B content sharing surprised me. There appears to be a substantial shift from B2B content primarily shared on Twitter to B2B content primarily shared on LinkedIn. Content on the topic of "content marketing" exemplifies the trend.
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Fewer links for original content
One caveat in the string of good news about LinkedIn is this: Content published on LinkedIn gets few referral or back links. And those low numbers have decreased since LinkedIn allowed all members to publish original content.
Content published on @LinkedIn gets few referral or backlinks, says @SusanCMoeller. Click To Tweet
In 2013, when publishing was limited to LinkedIn-selected influencers, the average number of links earned per post was three, with a median of zero. In 2015 and 2016, when publishing was available to all, the average earned link was less than one — between 0.3 and 0.5 on average — and the median was zero.
In this area, LinkedIn mirrors most sites. Our 2015 analysis of 1 million blog posts from many domains showed 75% didn't earn any referring domain links.
Long form works
Across the years we researched, short content — 1,000 words or less — dominated posts published on LinkedIn. But, longer posts — 1,000 to 3,000 words — were much more likely to be shared.
Longer posts (1,000-3,000 words) were more likely to be shared on @LinkedIn. @SusanCMoeller @BuzzSumo Click To Tweet
The length-vs.-share trend held steady each year as well.
Words rule
LinkedIn may be the last great word-nerd refuge from the pressure to add images and videos to perfectly good prose.
I sampled successful long-form posts from 2016, filtering out those with authors designated as LinkedIn Influencers. None of the posts had images beyond the initial banner. Some had text-based graphic elements like bullet points or non-traditional spacing, but none were rich in images, charts, or graphs.
One possible explanation is that LinkedIn sharing is based more on the perceived importance of the author, with impressive job titles grabbing attention as effectively as visual content. Another reason could be LinkedIn's structure and promotion as a professional network, which minimizes any expectation for entertaining content.
It will be interesting to see if the success of text-heavy posts will be replaced by more image-rich content in the months to come.
Personal, practical, professional
To determine the topics appealing to people who share content on LinkedIn, I looked at the headlines for content in the top 25% of social shares in 2015 and 2016, as well as for the cumulative content from 2012-2017.
In 2016, the phrase, "What I Learned," was in eight of the top headlines. Two of the posts were from LinkedIn Influencers, but the other six were from individuals who followed a simple formula – "I did X; I learned Y." These writers reflected on surprising topics: "I delivered pizza," "I lived with a Navy Seal," "I gave up social media," "I worked for billionaires."
How-to posts dominated the headlines for the most-shared content between 2012 and 2017. They focused on practical advice and many addressed work- and job-related issues. The most frequently used bigrams are noted in the chart. I was surprised at the use of personal pronouns, given that LinkedIn is a professional network.
How-to posts dominated the headlines for the most-shared content on @LinkedIn. @SusanCMoeller @BuzzSumo Click To Tweet
The effective headlines revealed a sense of collegiality in the heavily shared content. The personal elements helped the articles read more like advice from a mentor than a textbook.
In addition to advice topics, the most-shared posts were often explicitly about the world of work. Frequently used headline words included "success" and "business," "career" and "job," "boss" and "employee."
The most-shared articles also emphasize change and growth. They also rely heavily on superlative terms such as "most," "big," "every," "must," "all," and "never."
Lists, especially short lists, perform well on LinkedIn. The 500 most-shared articles in 2016 included 30 posts listing five or 10 items. Lists of longer than 20 items were less frequent.
Given our research, I recommend that you use the five Ps of publishing on LinkedIn. Write posts that are:
Influencer effect
To determine how much official LinkedIn Influencer status affected social shares, I looked at a list from BuzzSumo of the 30 most-shared authors publishing on LinkedIn during 2015 and 2016.
Only 12 (2015) and 13 (2016) were designated as LinkedIn Influencers. Users on the platform are a bit more democratic in their sharing preferences than I expected. The top-shared authors designated by BuzzSumo also didn't uniformly publish a lot. In some cases, they published only one or two articles on the platform. Others were more prolific.
Of the 10,000 most-shared content pieces in the last five years, only 6% (669) were written by those identified by LinkedIn as its most influential writers.
While it certainly helps to be officially designated as an influencer by LinkedIn, it's also possible to succeed on the platform without any special status. It's also not necessary to publish frequently or in English to have great success.
Given that shares from LinkedIn are growing, and the platform is accessible to everyone, now is the time to consider making it part of or expanding its role in your B2B content marketing strategy.
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Author: Susan Moeller
Susan Moeller, marketing partnerships manager at Tailwindapp, helps to build strong platform ecosystems that make it easier for business owners to create world-class marketing. An experienced communicator, Susan loves great messages and helping people create them. She firmly believes in the value of social media – to enrich lives, to sell products, and to make people laugh. Find her on Twitter @susancmoeller or connect on LinkedIn.
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Sheridan Expressway Removal Gets $97 Million Boost in State Budget
By David Meyer
In 2013, the city recommended converting the Sheridan Expressway to a surface road. Photo<|fim_middle|> a town hall meeting to revise their game plan. Although the long-term vision of removing the highway lives on, the discussion focused on other potential improvements along the Sheridan corridor. "We started […]
Mr. Gee, Tear Down This Highway
Here's a scenic shot of the Sheridan Expressway in the South Bronx during the evening "rush," courtesy of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and the advocates behind the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance. Even in the peak direction, reports Tri-State's Steven Higashide, the Moses-era relic is barely used at all: The gaps in the traffic weren't […]
$266 Million to Widen the Deegan. Crumbs for a More Livable Bronx River.
By Ben Fried | Nov 19, 2009
More lanes, or more housing and parks? Image of proposed Deegan Expressway widening: NYSDOT. Image of the community plan for a de-commissioned Sheridan Expressway: SBRWA. Last week we reported on the state DOT's expensive plan to widen part of the Major Deegan Expressway in the southwest Bronx, even as the agency fails to maintain upstate […] | : Stephen Miller
Last week's Albany budget deal includes $97 million for decommissioning the Sheridan Expressway and transforming it into a surface boulevard.
The Sheridan, a short Robert Moses-era highway connecting the Bruckner and Cross-Bronx expressways, cuts South Bronx neighborhoods off from the Bronx River waterfront and its growing network of parks and greenways. Community groups have been advocating for the removal of the Sheridan for almost two decades under the umbrella of the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance (SBRWA).
The campaign has gone through many ups and downs in the past few years, and there's still work to do to ensure that New York State DOT moves forward with the project, but with this allocation of state funds the teardown is closer to fruition than ever.
After the state DOT rejected a complete teardown in July 2010, activists refocused their efforts at the city level. That fall, four city agencies were awarded a $1.5 million TIGER grant from U.S. DOT to study how the highway removal might work. (At the time, current NYC Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg was a high-ranking federal DOT official closely involved with TIGER.)
The 2013 Sheridan study recommended making the Sheridan a smaller surface road, adding signalized crossings, and building new off-ramps connecting the Bruckner Expressway to the Hunts Point Produce Market. Image: DCP
In June 2013, the city released a study recommending the transformation of the highway into a surface-level boulevard. The concept reserved more space for the replacement road than SBRWA's vision had called for, but it still represented a huge improvement over the status quo: narrowing the roadway by nearly 100 feet, creating signalized intersections for walking and biking access to the riverfront, and opening up land for development.
The study also recommended new Bruckner Expressway off-ramps to provide trucks direct access to the huge Hunts Point Produce Market.
At the time, the cost of transforming the Sheridan was pegged at $45 million and the cost of the ramps $72 million.
The City Council endorsed that plan in March 2014, and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. lent his support in his state of the borough speech last year. But the state DOT had not moved to adopt the plan as its own.
Since then, the SBRWA has focused its efforts on the state legislature, working with Assembly Member Marcos Crespo and State Senator Jeff Klein. In 2014 and 2015, the State Senate budget proposal allocated $3 million for an Environmental Impact Study for the project, but the item did not make the final state budget.
Now for the first time the state has agreed to fund the project.
"The alliance has really worked with our elected officials to make sure there was a clear ask," said Veronica Vanterpool of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, an alliance member. "I think also one of the clear differences is the speaker of the Assembly hails from the Bronx."
"To finally have movement and a real investment on a portion of this overall vision is a good day and a really good thing for our neighborhoods," said Crespo. "It's not the EIS that we hoped to get, but it keeps that conversation ongoing with dollars that would go towards the efforts that are necessary to get us to that point."
While some funding for the Sheridan removal has now been secured, the state DOT still has to produce an actual plan. The project was mentioned in a Friday press release from the governor's office, but a timeline for implementation remains unclear.
The press release also announced $159 million for phase one and $129 million for phase two of the rehabilitation of the Bruckner Expressway viaduct, a portion of which advocates hope will go to building the off-ramps that will provide trucks a direct route from the highway to the Hunts Point market.
The full cost of those ramps exceeds the allocation in the budget, said Crespo, but $2 million has been set aside specifically to study their feasibility.
In a statement released this afternoon, the SBRWA said the state funding is a milestone for the neighborhoods around the Sheridan:
With these funds, the New York State Department of Transportation will advance the conversion of the Sheridan from concept to reality. This project will be transformative for the residents of the South Bronx, with quality of life being first and foremost. The Sheridan completely disconnects the Bronx River — NYC's only freshwater river — the South Bronx Greenway, Starlight and Concrete Parks from the surrounding neighborhoods. After conversion, residents and visitors will have easier access to these great amenities, similar to the West Side Highway in lower Manhattan today. Conversion is also an economic development project that will reinvigorate the community with new housing, safer streets, less pollution, more jobs, and new commercial opportunities that benefit businesses and residents alike.
Filed Under: Highway Removal, Hunts Point, South Bronx
One More Reason to Tear Down the Sheridan Expressway
By Ben Fried | Mar 4, 2009
The Post reported last week that the Cross-Bronx Expressway — perhaps the most infamous urban freeway on the planet — has earned the title "America's worst highway." According to traffic analysis firm INRIX, several of the nation's top bottlenecks are located on the Cross-Bronx: Westbound exits at the Sheridan Expressway rank third worst, White Plains […]
What Should Happen to the Sheridan Expressway? Share Your Ideas Tomorrow
By Ben Fried | Oct 14, 2011
The potential teardown of the lightly-trafficked Sheridan Expressway in the South Bronx is the most exciting street reclamation initiative in the works anywhere in NYC. For years, local advocates doggedly built the case for replacing the aging highway with housing, parks, and other uses. Recently we've seen some major breakthroughs that make the teardown an […]
Sheridan Alternatives Offer Hope for Surface Road in Place of Expressway
While the city's refusal to remove the Sheridan Expressway left South Bronx advocates frustrated, the fight to transform the under-used highway continues, with the city's federally-funded planning study on track for completion in June. A presentation to community partners last week [PDF] shed new light on options the city is considering, offering some hope that the highway's […]
Deferred, Not Defeated: Sheridan Teardown Advocates Move Ahead
By Stephen Miller | Dec 6, 2012
In the wake of the city's refusal to consider removing the Sheridan Expressway, advocates from the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance gathered last night at | 1,359 |
Hitech ready for season finale
Reigning British Formula 3 International Series champion Hitech Racing is gearing up for the final round of the championship at Donington Park next weekend. The team, which clinched the series last year with Marko Asmer, will be looking for a return to the podium as it makes its last appearance of 2008 on home soil with both rapid teenagers Walter Grubmüller and Max Chilton at the wheel.Both drivers have shown impressive speed during their first year with the Buckingham-based team with BRDC Superstar Chilton taking a podium in his first ever race appearance. The 17 year-old broke all records when he first competed in F3 last season, aged just 16 years and one day, and continued<|fim_middle|> 11 of the 22 races en route to the title, the team has two relatively inexperienced drivers in Max and Walter, who are both in only their second season in the top flight series.
For 19 year-old Grubmüller 2008 has had its ups and downs. A consistent pre-season testing performance put the Buckingham-domiciled Franks-backed driver firmly at the sharp end of the time sheets.
At the first rounds in April he converted that into two third place starts and a strong fifth place result. In subsequent tests, he, like Max, has regularly topped the time sheets in both wet and dry test sessions and now knows he needs to transfer that pace into the crucial qualifying sessions.
For Max, unfortunately he will start the event on the back foot having incurred a ten place penalty from his Bucharest collision with Sergio Perez. This means that no matter where he qualifies on Saturday, an additional ten places will be added to that position on the grid for the opening race.
The event will commence with two 45-minute tests at the track on Thursday prior to two all-important 30-minute qualifying sessions on Saturday. Race one will take place at 11.10 on Sunday with the second race due to start at 14.05 that afternoon. | the record-breaking form through into this year. The Reigate youngster became the youngest ever pole sitter at Monza and Rockingham, and now bids to become the youngest ever winner in the UK's premier single-seater championship.
Rapid Austrian Grubmüller has produced some remarkable performances in the races, his pace often putting him amongst the fastest on track. Unfortunately his qualifying performance has meant he has sometimes started down the order and left with it all to do in the races.
Formula 3 is renowned for being a series in which it is hard to overtake and both Walter and Max will be aiming to redress that disadvantage at the Leicestershire circuit this weekend when qualifying gets underway on Saturday 11 October.
Following a season in which the experienced Estonian Asmer dominated the championship, winning | 163 |
Energy Jobs: Rhodes to Replace Zibelman at NY PSC, Plus Enphase, Trina, Vivint, Moniz at Emerson
Executive and boardroom moves in cleantech, utilities, energy and venture capital.
Another week brings moves and shifts at the upper levels of renewable energy.
Jing Tian has been promoted to president of North American region at<|fim_middle|>ERC commissioner appears to make less sense.
Wellinghoff's LinkedIn page has him now at Policy/DER Consulting. The firm "assists energy tech companies from startups to fully commercialized enterprises to get to market and expand markets by addressing critical policy barriers to business success."
Wellinghoff was the longest-serving chair in FERC's history, leading efforts to fit PV and wind into wholesale electric markets, and to ensure that resources like demand response and distributed generation could participate. Wellinghoff also served as general counsel at the Nevada PUC. He was at SolarCity for one year and one month. We've reached out to him for a comment.
Steve Case joined the board of fuel-cell builder Bloom Energy in August 2014. Today, he's no longer on the board. He was replaced by Mary K. Bush at the turn of the year. Late last year, The Wall Street Journal reported that Bloom submitted a confidential registration for its IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The 15-year-old startup claims to have installed more than 200 megawatts of its Bloom boxes in the U.S.
jon wellinghoff | Trina Solar. Trina Solar CEO Gao Jifan was recently quoted in Handelsblatt Global as saying that European anti-dumping measures against solar companies are unfair, and that "SolarWorld is a company with no competitiveness," adding, "It has to drop out of the market sooner or later, and it will. You cannot rely on government protectionism or subsidies forever. SolarWorld will die; the only question is when."
Vivint Solar named Maggie Heile as VP of marketing for the residential solar specialist. Prior to Vivint, Heile led marketing for the retailer brands division of Sun Products, a laundry product manufacturer.
Microinverter and energy storage system builder Enphase named Badri Kothandaraman as its first COO. Kothandaraman started with Cypress Semiconductor in 1995 and worked in process technology and chip design before becoming a VP in 2008 and subsequently being promoted to executive VP of Cypress' data communications division. He will receive an annual base salary of $350,000, with a target bonus opportunity of 75 percent of his base salary. Kothandaraman will also receive an initial stock option grant of 1,000,000 shares. According to reports, Enphase shed four VP positions and consolidated operations under the new COO role. Enphase now has approximately 344 employees.
Dr. Ernest J. Moniz, former U.S. Secretary of Energy and founding director of the MIT Energy Initiative, has been named as the first distinguished fellow of Emerson Collective, a social impact effort headed by Laurene Powell Jobs (net worth: $19 billion). Moniz will focus on "equitable access to technology, workforce development, and clean energy innovations in communities across America in support of a low carbon future." Andy Karsner is a managing partner of Emerson Collective.
Hawaii-based Energy Excelerator, a prominent energy and infrastructure accelerator that has worked with a portfolio of 53 companies, also recently became a part of Emerson Collective. Under the new name Elemental Excelerator, EEx plans to expand beyond Hawaii to California and will broaden its reach into sectors other than energy, including water, transportation and agriculture.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will nominate New York State Energy Research and Development Authority CEO John Rhodes to chair New York's Public Service Commission. Rhodes would fill the position left by Audrey Zibelman, who departed last month to lead a large Australian grid operator.
Powin Energy, a provider of energy storage systems for utilities, C&I and microgrids, announced that Craig Eastwood joined the company in March 2017 as CFO and Jan Jacobson joined as VP of business development. Most recently, Eastwood was the corporate controller at Erickson. Prior to joining Powin Energy, Jacobson led technical business and project development at behind-the-meter energy storage developer Stem.
Karen Khamou was promoted to director of electric generation and load interconnection of electric asset management at Pacific Gas & Electric.
Melissa Nelson-Zucker was promoted to executive VP of people and workplace at PACE lender Renew Financial.
Yun Lee was promoted to director of U.S. solar at renewable developer Panasonic Eco Solutions.
Enertech Search Partners, an executive search firm with a dedicated cleantech practice, is the sponsor of the GTM jobs column.
Among its many active searches, Enertech is looking for an Enterprise Account Manager -- NE Operational Risk
The client is the world's leading provider of sustainability, EHS and Operational Risk Management Software. More than 1,000 global companies and 1 million users rely on the client's solutions to manage their environmental and social performance, minimize risks and improve profitability.
This client is seeking an Enterprise Account Manager who will be responsible for the sales of its software solutions. This candidate must have a consistent track record and experience with complex sales cycles and customer-facing deals, as well as possessing a strong hunter mentality.
Power Finance & Risk reports that there have been a "spate of departures" at Canadian Solar-owned Recurrent: "At least 10 senior employees who worked in areas including finance, development and procurement at Recurrent Energy have left the solar sponsor in a wave of departures in recent months."
American wind power added jobs over 9 times faster than the overall economy, according to the American Wind Energy Association's most recent annual market report. The U.S. industry installed more than 8,000 megawatts of new wind power for a second straight year, and invested over $14 billion in 2016 in new wind farms -- supporting a record-high 102,500 jobs.
Silver Lake, a private equity and venture debt firm that makes occasional forays into greentech, raised $15 billion for its latest fund. New Energy Capital Partners, an asset management firm, raised $325 million for its most recent fund. Obvious Ventures, an early-stage sustainable technology-focused VC firm, raised $178 million for its latest fund. We recently covered Congruent Ventures' recent fundraising activity as well.
From the previous jobs column:
Jon Wellinghoff, the chief policy officer at SolarCity, left the company now that it has merged with Tesla. It makes sense that Tesla is integrating its respective legislative and policy teams with SolarCity. Letting go of a skilled ex-F | 1,104 |
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