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SPI 430: Passive Income Success Story: How Jacques Hopkins Finally Made (Significant) Money Online
It is rare to achieve overnight success. No one can attest to that better than my guest on today's podcast, Jacques Hopkins, who started six unsuccessful passive income business ventures (while working full time as an electrical engineer). When he finally discovered the perfect niche for him, it still took him years of work. But now, Jacques's (finally) had success with his course, Piano in 21 Days (affiliate link) and started to make significant money online—in fact, he's made over a million dollars with one funnel and that one course.
First, he was the piano guy, and now he's the Online Course Guy, with a website of the same name and a successful podcast called The Online Course Show. He helps people get started with their online courses and avoid the early mistakes he made.
Today's Guest
Jacques Hopkins
Jacques Hopkins worked as an engineer for eight years before quitting his job and turning his biggest hobby into a highly successful online piano course, which has now done over $1.5 million in sales over the years.
Today, he supports his family with the passive income from his course, while teaching others to do the same through his podcast, The Online Course Show. Jacques took the Power-Up Podcasting course when it first opened its doors and has now published over 100 episodes of the podcast.
Website: The Online Course Guy
Podcast: The Online Course Show Podcast
Website: Pianoin21Days (an affiliate link Jacques set up just for my listeners!)
Instagram: Pianoin21Days
YouTube: Pianoin21Days
Why it's important to know exactly what you want your customer's journey to be
How to move people from YouTube to your online course
Why implementing an evergreen funnel could be the breakthrough for your business
What's working well right now for online course creators
How big your audience needs to be before you launch a course
The value of getting feedback from customers
Will It Fly?
Power-Up Podcasting
Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek
Steve Nixon's success story on SPI Podcast session 52
Teachable [affiliate link]
YouTube: Learn Piano in 4 Minutes
David Siteman Garland on SPI Podcast session 136: "How to Build an Online Course That Sells"
Ryan Levesque's book Ask
Derek Halpern on SPI Podcast session 184
StoryBrand, Donald Miller on SPI Podcast session 393
SPI 427: Passive Income Success Story_ How Jacques Hopkins Finally Made (Significant) Money Online
Pat Flynn:
Can you relate to the following? You have an idea for a business, you put in the effort to try and make it work, and then you lose the momentum or you find another idea that might seem a little bit better, and then you focus on that idea. You work on it a little bit, things get a little tough, or you just don't see the results that you want, and then you put it aside. And you either go back to that first one or you try a third idea. And then you try that one, give it a little bit of effort, it starts to get a little bit hard, then you think maybe the second idea was actually the better one, but it was actually the first one. And then you go back and forth, and then there's this other new idea that came in. Can you relate to this scenario?
Pat:
I think a lot of us entrepreneurs can absolutely relate to this, because it's very difficult to find that niche to get into. And even when we find that niche, how do we know if we've given it enough time to success? How do we know if it's the right one? Now I've written books about selecting an idea. Will It Fly?, Which was published in 2016, How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money, nearly 1,000 reviews on Amazon, which is really cool. Thank you so much for supporting that, if you have already.
But that's not why I'm here. I'm here because I wanted to showcase a success story from somebody who is a part of the SPI community, who now has passive income, has generated over $1 million with an online course, but it was not his first idea. Definitely not his first idea. And I wanted to have Jacques Hopkins, from Piano in 21 Days, come on to share his story about how he found this niche, how he built it out, how he trudged through a lot of the failures that were there at the beginning. And there were a lot of things happening in his life at the same time that made it even more difficult.
But what has happened since, how his business has grown, and what he's doing in the online course space that's working really well. He's actually become known for how he's helping others in the online course space. You can find him at pianoin21days.com, on Piano in 21 Days, same channel name, and theonlinecourseguy.com. Great guy. Oh man. This is going to be awesome. And he has a podcast too, The Online Course Show, with over 100 episodes. He's a student of Power Up Podcasting. Just incredible success. Cannot wait to share it with you. He's going to give us all the things. But first, the intro.
Announcer:
Welcome to The Smart Passive Income Podcast, where it's all about working hard now so you can sit back and reap the benefits later. And now your host, he wants Tesla to design an electric DeLorean, Pat Flynn.
What's up everybody? Pat Flynn here, and welcome to session 427 of The Smart Passive Income Podcast. Very thankful you're here today. My name is Pat Flynn, here to help you make more money, save more time, and help more people too. Today we're talking with Jacques Hopkins from theonlinecourseguy.com. And his business, the one that succeeded, Piano In 21 Days.
Yes, he made over $1 million with a piano course. And he's going to give us the rundown: How this started. Was it $1 million overnight? Well in most cases it never happens overnight, and he's going to tell us exactly how it all happened, how long it took, the steps that he took, to hopefully inspire you to find that niche that will work for you too, just like he finally found one that worked for him. So here he is. Let's not wait any further. Jacques Hopkins.
Jacques, welcome to The Smart Passive Income Podcast. Thanks for being here today.
Jacques Hopkins:
Oh Pat, what an honor man. There's probably no other resource out there that has had such a positive impact on me and my business over the years than this very podcast. Such an honor on my side to be on here.
I'm thankful for that. How early on did you start listening? I'm curious. Do you remember?
Jacques:
I think it was about 2012. I read Four Hour Work Week back in 2008, and I've been working on some sort of online business ever since then. I think I found your podcast, I didn't know when you started it, but it was pretty early on. Probably 2012.
Yeah. Okay. Awesome. That's really cool. Before you discovered the podcast and then started doing all this amazing stuff online, which we'll get into in a moment, what were you doing beforehand?
Oh man, engineering. All my life everything pointed to be being an engineer. Ever since, I think it was first grade. I was maybe a little better at math than the other kids in class. And so even before I knew what that was, an engineer, my first grade teacher was like, "You know, you should be an engineer one day. You should be an engineer." So ever since then all my life pointed to me being an engineer.
So I went to college in electrical engineering. And up until my point in my life, until my senior year of college, picking up The Four Hour [Work] Week, I thought that to be an entrepreneur, that meant that you had to have a brick and mortar presence, you had to have a lot of employees, you had to probably take out a bunch of debt, some venture capital, something like that. It was a lot of things that had zero appeal to me.
But reading that book, around 2008, my senior year of college, getting my engineering degree, completely changed that paradigm for me as to what being an entrepreneur was. For the first time I realized, "Look at this guy, Tim Ferriss, he's got an online business. He does a lot of automation and outsourcing to where he's not working crazy hours. He's doing all these cool things all over the world." And so by reading that book, and I don't even know why I would've picked up that book, it just had this paradigm shift for me about what it meant to be an entrepreneur. And that was the first time in my life where I thought I could do that. And not only did I think I could do it, but I thought it was going to be the coolest life ever for me to be able to do that.
Now it took several years of failure to find something that actually did work for me. But that's how I got into entrepreneurship myself, get into online business. But I did go ahead and become an electrical engineer. I was an electrical engineer for eight years before what I do now allowed me to quit that.
Okay. So you still got inspiration, but yet still continued the path that you were thought to be on. While you were an engineer did you attempt to start something on the side? You've talked a little bit about these failures. I'm just curious about when those were and what you tried?
So the paradigm shift for me happened when I already had my engineering job lined up. So it wasn't like I wasn't going to go ahead and do that, go ahead and accept that high paying job, or pretty good paying job as an electrical engineer. So I went ahead and did that, all the while trying to start something on the side. There were six different things that I tried, while following your podcast and other things, trying to do some passive income type things. And I had six different failures. But fortunately I learned something from each one. And I never made a dollar from any of those.
I tried creating a physical product I could potentially sell. I tried blogs. I tried several different things and nothing worked until I tried an online course teaching piano, which was about 2013 when I got that idea.
So engineer to teaching piano.
Yeah, natural progression, right?
Totally natural progression. I guess there's math involved in that, of course with sound waves and frequencies and stuff. But anyway, curious—your biggest lessons learned from your failures? Before we dive into piano and all that great stuff.
Well at this point in my life, hindsight's 20/20, but I absolutely love online courses. I think it's one of the best businesses that you can start, because you literally just take something that you know, you're good at, that you can help other people. It's in your head. You package it up and sell it through the internet as a digital product. So a lot of my failures were things that I tried that I just realized were not for me.
So creating some sort of physical product, there was just way too many headaches with that. I had to get something designed and then manufactured and prototypes and inventory. And there's was just a lot of pieces and parts, and it's not as high of margins as something like an online course.
With blogging I learned that I just wasn't good at writing, and hated writing, to be honest with you. So I got into online courses. I realized that I actually did enjoy video. I enjoyed teaching over video and I enjoyed putting together step by step programs that actually transform people from wherever they were entering your course, to wherever they were going to be exiting your course.
Where does piano fit into this?
My parents put me in piano lessons when I was five years old. There's a lot of people that took piano lessons when they were a kid. That's just the thing you do. You put your kids in piano lessons, right.
Our kids are in piano lessons.
There you go. Do they like their piano lessons?
They didn't at first. But focusing on the little incremental improvements every week is getting them excited. So yes, they're starting to enjoy it now.
I am very left brain. I am very engineering, analytical. And so piano lessons never resonated for me, because I had these concert pianists, these classical trained pianists trying to teach me piano. And it just did not resonate with me. But at the same time, I was a good kid. I wanted to please my parents. They wanted me in piano lessons so I stuck with it even though I very rarely practiced between my piano lessons. But I stuck with it for twelve years, just to make my parents happy.
So I took piano lessons from five years old to seventeen years old. I look up at seventeen years old and I actually go on this retreat with my church up to Toronto, Canada. And we were staying at this school and there was a gym where everybody was hanging out one night. And there was a piano there, and somebody knew that I took piano lessons so they asked me to play a song. And so I got up, sat down, and played a song that I knew. It was a classical piece written hundreds of years ago. And nobody was very impressed. Because we're seventeen, nobody's super impressed by Mozart when you're seventeen years old.
When I finished they were like, "Do you know anything else?" So I played another song that was written like 300 years ago. And they were like, "Do you know anything else?" I realized for the first time, I was like, "Wow, I literally only know these two songs on the piano at this point in my life. And I don't even like these two songs." So it was at that point, that realization that I had taken twelve years, wasted all this time for very little to show for it. But at that point I didn't quit piano, I quit the piano lessons. And I used my engineering brain. I decided, okay this thing cannot be that complicated. There's eighty-eight keys. They're all just sitting here.
I know you're musical as well, Pat. And so I just reverse engineered the piano and the piano learning process a little bit, and figured out a better way to learn and play piano, at least for people that are not naturally gifted in music. So I broke it down. And I started playing that way for myself at seventeen- eighteen-years old. I wasn't very entrepreneurial at that time, so it took years and years later to realize, "Huh, I have this different way that I play piano in my spare time. I wonder if other people want to learn this way as well." So it wasn't until I had six failed ventures that I finally got the idea that worked for me, to take this unique way that I play piano and put it out there on the internet and see if other people wanted to learn this way as well.
And when you say you put it out there on the internet, what platform did you choose? And how did you get started with that?
Man, it was a mess. How much easier is it to create an online course today than it was back in 2013?
All the tools eventually get you to the point that you need to go. Back then, there was nothing. You had to code things yourself. It was the worst.
It was hard. It was very difficult. Lots of struggles. Lots of roadblocks. I want to tell one story about 2013, and one specific podcast episode that you released in 2013, from a guy who had an online piano course. Because that was one of the validating things for me with the idea. I came up with the idea because I was working on probably the sixth business at the time, that wasn't really working. And I was working my job as an electrical engineer. I would come home from work, and usually I had pretty stressful days at work. And instead of working on my side businesses, I found myself procrastinating on that by playing my piano.
This was early 2013. One day I'm sitting at my piano playing, and I realize, if this is what I want to come to when I don't really want to do anything else, I wonder if I could make a business out of this somehow. I wonder if I could make a business out of the piano. I didn't know exactly what that would look like, but I knew I had a unique spin on the piano. So that very night, I kid you not, that very night I was listening ... I had to look back to see what episode it was, but it was session fifty-two, way back when, when you had Steve Nixon on.
Steve, yeah.
Yeah, Steve Nixon. We're good friends today. But that episode and his story on that episode had a big impact, because I listened to that episode that very night that I had that realization. And listening to that episode was just validation for me that this was possible. Because I remember hearing his story. He played piano and he was teaching some piano. And then he got the idea for an online piano course and went to launch and he sold 100 copies. I was just so inspired. I was like, "Yes. This is it. This can work. I am going to make an online piano course."
To actually answer your question now, it wasn't super easy. It took me about eight months, while I was working my job, to go from idea to actually launching it. Because even something as simple as where do I put these videos behind a password protected wall, as an online course, hours and hours of research I had to spend doing that because I wasn't aware of tools that we have today like Teachable and Thinkific and Click Funnels and all that. A lot of those didn't even exist at the time.
That's crazy. And shout out to Steve, for sure. Episode 52. And that's incredible. It's one thing to create a course. It's another thing to find an audience to sell it to. I'm curious how you were able to go about finding people to get in front of?
I knew very little about this whole thing. Almost everything I knew about marketing I really learned from your podcast, and maybe a handful of other podcasts at the time. But my background was engineering. I didn't know much about this stuff. But I will say that one big misconception I had was that if I built it, it would be a success just by me building it. Because I heard Steve's story, and he built it and he launched it, sold 100 copies. I listened to other podcasts and there'd be success stories of these crazy launches. I just assumed that if I build a landing page, had an opt-in and so on, that I could build something, launch it, and it would be an instant success as well. Because that's the only stories I would hear.
That's certainly not how it happened for me. I launched. I didn't really make a sale that very first day. It was slow going for me, but eventually I found my audience and what to say to my audience through Piano in 21 Days. And YouTube was big for my early success, and is still my number one traffic driver, is just my organic traffic coming from Piano in 2<|fim_middle|>00 in revenue. So that was the point where it officially started working for me.
What happened? What, in the business, was the turning point for you?
The biggest thing, the biggest turning point was implementing an evergreen funnel. And to be honest with you, the core of what I learned about that was from another episode of Smart Passive Income. And that's one of the reasons I told you at the beginning how big of an impact has had on me and my business. You had on David Siteman Garland. And I know you probably had him on several times, so I didn't remember exactly which one it was. But it was one where he was sharing his exact evergreen webinar formula. And it was very much the three part video series, pre-launch, going into an open card and a closed card. And he shared in that episode exactly how he laid his out and how other people could too.
And I know you guys were pitching a webinar at the end, and his course and all that. I never even bought his course. I think I probably watched the webinar, but I was able to implement. A big shout out to David Siteman Garland. I don't know him personally, but you and he helped me tremendously with that one episode. Because I went to work and for the first time implemented an evergreen funnel into my business. And literally that took 10X-ed the business. Same course. Similar offer. It's just now I had a really nice evergreen funnel and that took me from $1,000 a month to $10,000. It was amazing.
That's crazy, dude. That's so cool. Thank you for all the love for the podcast, too. And definitely big shout out to David Siteman Garland. We'll link to all the stuff in the show notes for sure. And now you're all in on online courses, so much that you now help others with it too, because it's just made that much of a big impact. You have a website, thetheonlinecourseguy.com, which also has a podcast that's now something that you're getting involved with. So I'm curious, before we start to get into a few tips for online courses, what's it been like for you to transition from or add on, excuse me, a podcast? And how is it different than the YouTube stuff that you've been doing?
Yeah, totally. It started working for me in 2017. And I just remember going to my wife, "Babe, this is working. This is finally working. Four years of struggle, it's working." But I also found myself working like a crazy person again, because with all that success and core sales and all that, there was added customer support, and more demand for content and video production, and all this and that. So I was killing myself. So that's when I finally started to automate and outsource. And fortunately I stumbled on some excellent, excellent people that still work for me to this day. That's when I hired my executive assistant, and I really appreciated listening to the episode recently with you and Jess, your executive assistant. That was very, very insightful and definitely gave me some pointers for how I work and interact with my executive assistant.
How did you find yours? By the way, before we go on.
I got so lucky. I put a post on Upwork and I got a lot of stinkers, a lot of poor applications. And I was ready to close it down and at the last minute I got this glowing application. It was like, "Wow, this could be an amazing fit." And we did a little trial period and she just knocked it out of the park. And she has been knocking it out of the park ever since. I can not imagine my business without her today. Her name is Emily and she's been working with me for three years now, and she's just unbelievable.
That's awesome.
So I started outsourcing, doing a lot more automation, back then. And by the end of 2017 we're making good money with Piano In 21 Days, I've automated and outsourced to a point where I was working probably sixty to eighty hours a week on it, down to six or eight hours a week on it. So it was an incredible position I was in. For the first in my life really I'm like, "Okay, now what do I want to do with my life?" I've got things where I want them and. And I found that I just had this newfound passion for online courses. And I didn't really know what I wanted to do that. I just felt like I was even more passionate about online courses than even piano. And it's probably because I struggled for so long with my online course.
And I felt like I had something to share, because I had an online course that was being successful in a non money making niche. I'm just teaching people how to play piano, and I was able to make that successful. So I started a podcast. I was like, this is the podcast that I wish would've existed, other than Smart Passive Income of course. And I wanted to make it focused solely on online courses. And I wanted to interview other course creators and that was it. That would be my niche. So I signed up for Power Up Podcasting, because obviously you had built up a lot of trust with me, even though we didn't really know each other. And that's how I started my podcast back in, I guess it was late 2017. And so I've been doing the Online Course Show ever since, just interviewing other course creators, trying to provide motivations and ideas and tips out there. And over 100 episodes into that now, and I'm just having so much fun running both sides of my business now.
That's really cool. And I love that you're now running two, but you had to remove yourself, in a way, from the first one. A lot of people want to go into two or three at the same time, and you've done it the right way in my opinion, of getting one done. Yes, very manual, very much a lot of work. And then you hired, you've taken yourself out of that process and now you're devoting even more energy and more excitement into this new realm with something that you've just now experienced and can offer help with, which I think is fantastic. Thanks for the shout out for Power Up Podcasting by the way. A hundred episodes in, that's really fantastic. What's been the best thing that's happened since starting your show?
Oh man, it's just the connections. You know this, people will respond to you much better if you have an outlet like that. I'm not just reaching out to you because I'm Jacques and I created Piano In 21 Days. I'm reaching out to you because I respect you. I have this podcast called The Online Course Show, and I really want my listeners to hear your story. Most of the time when I send out pitches for people to come on my show, they're thrilled to do it. And fortunately I've been able to grow it to where it's a decent size and to where people know when they come on they're going to get some exposure. But just being able to talk to people that I would've been so scared to reach out to before.
I remember just very, very early on somebody told me that I should reach out to the creator of Deadline Funnel. Do you use Deadline Funnel?
Yeah, I do. Deadline Funnel, a great tool for evergreen.
It's a great tool for evergreen. I've been using it for years. And the creator, Jack Born, I remember somebody reached out to me really early on and was like, "You should have Jack Born on the show." And that scared me. I'm like, "Jack Born, are you serious. No. I'm not going to reach out to Jack Born." But fortunately several episodes behind me and starting to build up some clout there, and some brand recognition, I finally was able to reach out to Jack Born and he was on, I think, episode 96. And it was a fantastic conversation. It was one of my favorite episodes. And now Jack Born and I have a phenomenal relationship. He's such a good guy. And Deadline Funnel actually sponsors my podcast now.
No way. That's awesome, man.
So cool.
That's really incredible. Yeah, the relationship part is my favorite part too. Not just the relationship with the guest, but the relationship with your audience—it's completely different. You know this, retention time on YouTube versus retention time on podcasts is just unmatched.
It's insane. Yes.
Incredibly unmatched. But then there's also the ability to continue those relationships, and like you and Jack, turn them into partnerships. I know Jack, he and I have swapped emails before. He's great. His tool is fantastic, Deadline Funnel. And I'm sure you're an affiliate for these companies now, and you're making money through that way, whilst providing information, whilst building these relationships. It's an amazing win and I think that's huge.
In your experience as a course creator, plus all the course creators that you've interviewed, what are the things that are working right now for online course creators?
Audience first. You know this. You had an audience well before you launched your online course. The biggest mistake I say I see people do when they want to get into online courses, I get a lot of beginners coming to me, "Hey Jacques, I'm inspired by your story. I want to start an online course." The biggest make I see is they start right from the course creation process. And I'm like, "Guys, you have got to build an audience first. Don't do what I did and launch to crickets." That's the last thing you want to do because you put in all this hard work, you put it out there. And then if you don't make any sales it's so demoralizing. It feels like such wasted work. Plus, you don't really know what direction you should truly go with an online course. So really genuinely, authentically work on building that audience first.
I think starting a YouTube channel would be a great place to start for course creators in general. But it doesn't have to be a YouTube channel. It could be a podcast. I know you're a big fan of podcasts. It can be a blog. I've even had people that I've seen, there's one person I coached who is an artist who his entire following is on Instagram. And he's got over 100,000 Instagram followers and he puts out paintings every day on Instagram. And he launched his course just with Instagram. But what he did right was he built his audience first, on Instagram, posted consistent content, and then later down the road released a course and has been very, very successful with it. So building that audience first and putting out that authentic, free, really high quality content consistently is, I think, the very best place to start.
Follow up question, how big does the audience need to be, in your eyes, before we launch a course.
Well it depends on you and your niche. Everybody's conversion rates are going to be different. I know people that ... One of my good friends now, Abbey Ashley, she teaches people to be virtual assistants. I'm always blown away by her conversion rates, because her list is smaller than mine but she sells way more than I do. So her list didn't need to be very big to have success. Mine needed to be a little bigger. But when I first launched, my list was probably 200 people. And I did make a sale. And then the more my list grew, the more sales I was making. So as long as you're starting to build that audience, you're starting to get feedback from your audience ... That's one of the keys about building audience is you've got to continually monitor what they are most struggling with, so that you can provide those solutions, via courses or maybe other content, to them.
So once you start getting feedback, whether negative or positive, just as long as you're getting that feedback. I think that's when you know you have an audience big enough to start pitching courses to.
Yeah. Absolutely. I've been pretty bullish on courses lately. I finally started creating my own courses just a few years back. I know I should've done it sooner. And I'm so thankful for all the students, because a lot of them, in addition to investing in the course and in themselves, they come back and they go, "Okay. I finished this. I'm here. What do I do next? Tell me what I can buy next?" And it's the most incredible thing to me. They're almost automatic because when you give them those kinds of results and they see that, they want to go further with you.
And this is why one of my courses,Power Up Podcasting, led into the creation of essentially a 201 course called Amped-Up Podcasting, which has been doing very well too. And even some of those graduates are asking me, "Okay, is there a third one I can take now?" It's kind of incredible, your best customers are your existing customers. So you don't have to guess anymore. And when it comes to not guessing anymore, it's easier, obviously, when you have customers, because you can reach out to them, you've given them success and you can ask back, "Okay, what do you need next?" But how might you recommend when a person builds that audience, do they remove the guesswork as much as possible, in terms of what to create? Do you have a special process for validating courses or customer research?
Well it's just a matter of asking. I know you're familiar with Ryan Levesque, ASK Method.
For sure. Yeah.
That's what I've done. So even after the second version of ... Well after the very first version, maybe 10 people bought it. And I made sure to ask every one of them, "Hey, can you provide me any feedback?" And maybe only two of them responded, but you're darn right that I applied all of that feedback to version two. And version two was better than version one, but it wasn't near as good as version three, because I got even more feedback and more feedback. And it was probably after version three or so that I actually implemented the actual strategies from Ryan Levesque. He's got just phenomenal survey questions there.
And one thing that came out of that is I noticed that ... I polled my existing students and the people on my list that hadn't bought. Well one interesting thing that kept coming back from my existing students over and over again is even though they had been through my course and they were doing pretty well, they were struggling with this concept of hand coordination. And they were just struggling with doing something different in their left and their right hand. I was like, "Huh. That's a good point. I do address it a little bit in the course. I don't know how I would address it even further." But without asking, I didn't know that that was such a big struggle for my students.
So I was able to then go out and find another piano teacher who was very, very good at helping people with hand coordination, collaborate with him. And now that is a bonus inside of my offer, which people love. They love the hand coordination course, that's a big value add to the course. Now I'm curious, Pat, were you resistant to putting courses out there for a while?
I was, for the reason that I didn't feel I was qualified or that my course was just a copy of somebody else's. I was doing so well with affiliate marketing too. I felt like if I launched a course it would be like I'm just trying to squeeze as much money from my audience as possible. I do got to give a big shout out to Derek Halpern, who is the one who came to me one day and he said, "Pat, what are you doing? You're letting your audience down." And I said, "What are you talking about?" And he said, "Well they want to hear and learn from you, and you keep handing them off to these other people who yeah they're great, but they want to learn from you." And I knew he was right. I was just making up a lot of excuses and using my success from affiliate marketing to go, "Well I don't need to create an online course," when really I wasn't serving my audience in the best way that I could.
Yeah. I feel online courses are such a great way to serve your audience. Even higher price points. I've experimented with price points of my online piano course, and my most popular package that I sell today is $497. I don't know of another piano course out there that is that much or even close to that much. And I just get a higher quality student. I get a higher completion rate, a higher happiness rate overall. So I think there's so much to be shared, there's so much value there, especially at higher priced products.
And going back to what you were asking earlier, about when's the right time and what kind of audience should you have? What should you be listening from, from your audience? I have a good friend, Dr. Ryan Gray, who has a massive audience. He teaches people to get into medical school, college students to get into medical school with their applications and whatnot. Well he doesn't have a course. He's got podcasts. He's even written some books. But most of what he offers out there is free. He's got a few coaching products. He's relying a lot on affiliate income. I'm like, "Ryan, you're missing serving your audience in a whole new and possibly even better way by not offering a course to them." So I think a course just has something in and of itself. And obviously you agree, with how hard you've been hitting courses lately. That can just really serve people on a whole nother level.
Ryan's great. I see him at all the podcasting events. His podcast led to him quitting his job and helping other people get into medical school, like you said, which is cool. I'm surprised he didn't have a course before, but it was funny that his reservations were the same as mine. On your price point, $497, I'd love for you to answer this. How can you justify ... Not that I don't agree with the course, I'm just setting up the question here. How can you justify $497 for a piano course when there's a lot of others that are even under $100?
Oh yeah. Most piano courses are probably under $100. In fact, most courses where you're not directly teaching people to make money are more on the lower end. If you're teaching people to make money to start a business, start an online business, typically you can charge higher prices because you can convey the direct ROI on that.
What's the ROI of piano? Unless you're teaching them how to be an entertainer and make money off of that, right.
No I'm not. My main demographic, and I didn't really realize this when I started, but 80 percent of my students are above fifty years old. My main customer is somebody that has always wanted to learn piano. They are nearing retirement or maybe freshly retired, have some additional time on their hand. They've got a little extra money as well. And it's just something they've always wanted to do, but was always just so intimated by how long it would take and how complicated it would be. So that's why they're drawn to my product.
I think that having a very compelling offer, having a very good funnel, having great messaging. I've been through StoryBrand by Donald Miller. There's a lot of my messaging like that. A lot of that is how I'm able to charge such a high price point. But then once they get in, obviously I've got a thirty-day refund policy. So if they got in just because of my marketing and my pitch, well once they get in they could always request the refund. So then you actually have to have an amazing course, and also a lot of success stories too. I know this works because I get very positive feedback. I've got tons of video testimonials on my site. I think that's very important, that people can go see my students actually playing the piano on my site.
And so I'm able to charge a higher price for all those reasons. People can really see the value there. And on my site, like I said earlier, I get a higher quality student, I get a more motivated student. They've got more skin in the game. If I were charging $20 for the same course it would be so much easier to just set it aside and say, "I'll get to it one day. I only paid $20 for it." But because they paid $497 for a piano course, most people, you're darn right, are actually going to go through it.
Yeah. And you don't get the people who come in who expect magic to happen. They know it's going to be ... There's higher perceived value, right? This is like a university level education that I'm getting here, versus just some scrappy book that I found at the library or something like that. You had mentioned Donald Miller, he's been on the show before. One of the fan favorites in the last 100 episodes for sure. How are you, in your sales copy, in your messaging for this avatar that I think is fantastic and I think that's obviously something that's really important. Who is it that you're serving? How are you positioning your messaging so that they look like a hero? How are you selling this to that audience? What's the messaging? How do you use StoryBrand around that?
One of the biggest things I changed after reading that book is I really like to use this line in particular. In fact, you'll find it at the bottom of every page of my site and throughout my evergreen webinar as well. I say this, "You have the ability to play piano inside of you. I'm just the guy that's going to help you reach down and unlock it."
Oh that's good.
Yeah. And that never came to me until after I read StoryBrand. It's like, "You're right. I'm not the guy that's super special here. I need to empower other people to really believe that they're the hero in the story and that they have this inside of them." I'm just somebody that's been there and I know how to reach down and unlock what they already have inside of them. And I think that really resonates with people.
I just literally got goosebumps when you said that. I love that. You're the Yoda. You're making some Luke Skywalkers that can play the piano at the Star Wars bar apparently. This is cool man. Online courses are ... I'm all in on it, you are too. For people who want to learn more about that from you, where should they go?
Just The Online Course Show. That's my biggest platform as far as sharing this message that I love. The Online Course Show. You can find it on all the platforms or it's obviously on my site as well. Well I guess you recently changed the name of it, The Fusebox Plug-In, thetheonlinecourseguy.com/podcast will be where you can find the episodes there with your awesome plug-in as well.
Thanks man. Dude, I appreciate you. And then the piano recommendation one more time, in case now people are inspired to learn from you.
Yeah, excellent. It's pianoin21days.com. There's tons of testimonials on there, and then there's a free resource, the same free resource that's been up there since 2013, since Pat inspired me through the podcast to put up a lead magnet. I didn't know what that was before. But it's called Learn 36 Popular Songs in Five Days. It's essentially the first five days of my course, in a workbook, completely free. Been downloaded over 100,000 times, which just boggles my mind. But that's the free opt-in there at pianoin21days. So if anybody is interested, then check out the free resource. That might be good enough for you, alone, to learn piano without buying the $500 program.
Love it. And at least go there to see how Jacques does the thing to help people get inspired to take action with him. Check out his YouTube channel as well. And then also, of course, The Online Course Show, wherever you are listening to podcasts. Jacques, thanks so much for coming on, telling us some great advice and telling some great stories too. I appreciate you, and keep up the great work man. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Pat. It's been truly an honor.
All right. I hope you enjoyed that episode with Jacques Hopkins. You can check him out on his podcast really easily from where you're at right now, The Online Course Show. Go ahead and check that out. You can, of course, find him at theonlinecourseguy.com, and also Piano In 21 Days. Check out the show notes too, because he also gave me an affiliate link for pianoin21days if you want to check that out and perhaps try that. I get a little kickback for that, in case you want to tickle the ivories a little bit and impress your friends. Just head on over to smartpassiveincome.com/session427. You'll see all the links mentioned in this episode, including that affiliate link for Piano in 21 Days as well.
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So YouTube, yes. And pianoin21days is where to go to get more info related to your piano teachings. And I know YouTube's been huge for you too. I've been trying to dive into that a lot lately as well. And I think I randomly stumbled upon you by looking for piano information on YouTube at one point. And you have this really amazing video, I don't know if it was ever your top, top video, but it must be up there. It was how to learn piano in three minutes or five minutes or something.
Four minutes.
Four minutes. The one minute that I didn't choose. And going through the comments there, there's thousands of people who are like, "This actually works. Oh my gosh." Where did you get the idea for that video? And was it purposeful in creating just traffic to get to the course? I'd love your thinking about that, because little video's like that, that pop. Sometimes it's just those single videos alone that can do a lot of work for you. And obviously you've created several more since then that are grabbing more attention. I would love to talk about that video and how you put that together. You're giving people quick results so fast. And it was just so impressive what you were able to do.
Thank you. I'm a big fan of people having YouTube channels if they're also going to be selling an online course. Because the type of person looking for solutions inside of a YouTube video is also going to be a very similar type of person looking for solutions to pay for inside of an online course. Because it's teaching you something via video, both those things have that in common. So that's one of the reasons that YouTube has been so big for me.
But if you are going to start a YouTube channel, whether you're a course creator or not, I'm really big on consistency. Because you never know which ones are really going to blow up for you and create all that traffic. So yeah, that is a video I made three- four-years ago. It's called, Learn Piano in Four Minutes. You're not actually going to learn everything you could possibly learn about piano in four minutes. It's a little bit of a click-baity title, but there's really valuable content in there. And I provide most of my very best tips in there.
And like you said, if you look in the comments, a lot of the comments are, "Wow. I thought this was going to be click-bait, but it was actually amazing information." So like I said, it's a matter of that consistency, because I didn't necessarily know that that was going to be the one that really blew up. I think it's got over 1.3 million views at this point. And it's probably the single biggest traffic driver back to my course at this point.
Yeah. That's crazy. I was just doing some research and I popped up that Steve Nixon episode, 52. Episode 51 was Tim Ferriss.
Oh wow.
Interestingly enough. And it's funny, because you had mentioned Tim earlier. When it comes to YouTube and online courses, it's interesting because as I've dug deeper into YouTube the best practice for YouTube is keep people on YouTube. Keep them watching longer. Keep them watching more videos on YouTube. Do not get them off the platform, because that can hurt your algorithm and all that sort of stuff. Yet obviously if you're going to sell an online course you need to tell people to go somewhere. How are you moving people from YouTube to your online course?
Good question. And this is one thing that I think I learned very early on from your podcast. I had no idea what an email list was, a squeeze page, all that, until listening to your podcast. So early on I did set up just a very basic landing page, and put together the first few days of my course. My course is called, Piano In 21 Days. So it's twenty-one days worth of lessons. But I put together the first few days in a little downloadable PDF workbook that people could opt in for. So I put that up on the website in 2013, even before the full course was ready to launch.
I did a lot wrong at the beginning. But another thing I did right, and probably listening to your podcast, was every single YouTube video that I've ever put on my channel, I pitch that workbook at the end of the video. So every video it's like, "Hey guys. If you enjoyed this, you want to learn more, I've got this free workbook waiting for you. Learn the first five days absolutely free. Just click the link below this video and you can get that."
So you'll find that call to action at the end of every video. So that's how I'm pretty easily getting the traffic off of YouTube and on to my site. I don't have a ton of subscribers. I think in seven years I now have 60,000 subscribers. So it's definitely growing, even though the YouTube algorithm I'm sure sees that a lot of people leave YouTube and go over to my site.
Right. But you also have to think about what your purpose is on YouTube. And you're very good at knowing exactly what you want the customer journey to be. Versus I think a lot of people, myself included, are very confused on YouTube in terms of, "Well, I want my subscriber base to grow and I want people to watch all my videos, but I also want people to come to the website and get my courses too." So it's a different balance. And like you said, people are on YouTube to look for answers. And if you have the best answer in a video and then further information to help them with what they're looking for, the best customer journey would be to actually take them off of YouTube at that point and bring them into your email list and what have you.
So your course is pianoin21days. Just give us a sense of how its been going and the number of customers, whatever you're willing to share to just give us some perspective on what this has now done for you. Because a high paying engineer job is really good, but how does this compare?
Today it's far exceeded what I was making as an engineer, but it was certainly not an overnight success for me. At this point I've just crossed over 4,000 total students over the years. Last year I crossed over the seven figure mark, the two comma club, right Mark, last year.
Congrats, man.
Thank you so much. So revenue wise it's brought in about $1.4 million, which still blows my mind to think about something that I created and put together has generated that much in revenue. And of course, that's revenue, not profit. But that's how much its generated over the past seven years. But that very first year was probably $100. And then the next year was a few hundred dollars. So it's been very much an exponential growth over the time.
And it allowed me to quit my job back in ... my last day of work was December 31, 2015. It was an interesting time, because at the time I had a six-month old. My oldest daughter was six months old. My wife, she was also an electrical engineer as well. So we did a good job. We both had good incomes. We did a good job of saving and what not while we didn't have kids. But the plan was for her to always quit whenever we started having kids, so she could be a stay at home mom. So we're going through this. I had started Piano In 21 Days. Throughout that year I was making about $1,000 a month. But we both wanted me to be able to quit and just focus on it to make it work.
So what we did was we paid off our mortgage and we built up some savings. And we had a six month old at home. My wife wasn't working anymore. But we decided to just go for it. Piano In 21 Days was bringing in about $1,000 a month at the time and we had some savings. So that's when I quit my job, going into 2016, because it was kind of a Catch-22 situation. I felt like I needed that time to be able to focus on it and grow it. But I wasn't making enough to supplement my income. So fortunately we had the savings to live very, very, very frugally for an entire year.
I think learned this from Tim Ferriss, is he likes to look at things in a very best case/worst case scenario. He probably wrote that in the Four Hour Work Week. And the way I was looking at it is, if I do quit my job what's the worst case scenario? I've got an engineering degree. I've got some good experience. Worst case scenario, I go through this a year, never works, never makes more than the $1,000 a month, maybe it goes down, and I got to go back to work. I could probably find a job. That's worst case scenario. That's probably a five or six out of ten.
Well what's the best case scenario? Best case scenario it works, I'm doing something I absolutely love with my time and my life, I'm impacting other people all over the world. That's a ten out of ten. I can spend more time with my family. I can travel. All this. So it was worth, for me, risking a five or a six out of ten in order to possibly get a ten out of ten.
And it almost didn't work though. Month eight or nine into 2016 I was still at that $1,000 a month mark. It hadn't quite worked yet. And I remember like it was yesterday, my daughter, she was probably one and a half at the time, she comes to me. We're sitting in the living room, she comes to me with a book. And she probably wasn't speaking all that much at that point, but it was very clear that she wanted me to read this book. And she sits in my lap, we start reading it. And it was called Little Miss Big Sis. So we read two pages in. The book's all about being a big sister. And I looked at my wife starting to tear in my eye and I'm like, "Are you seriously pregnant and this is how you're telling me?" So we were officially pregnant with our second kid, and it was a big surprise because we struggled for a while to get pregnant the first time. And very much didn't struggle the second time.
So there was a lot of pressure on me at that point, and I actually started looking for jobs again. But fortunately there, toward the end of 2016, is when things started working. And there's some things I was able to implement in the business, finally. It's amazing how timing works out. So by the end of 2016, going into 2017 revenue for Piano In 21 Days in January of 2017 was $22,000. And since then it hasn't brought in below $20,0 | 2,360 |
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Madeline Olexy '24 performing "Nothing in Common" from the musical "Aucassin and Nicolette." // Photo courtesy of Madeline Olexy '24
The second student recital took place on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at the Recital Hall in the Baker Center for the Arts. Doors opened about 10 minutes before the show began at 6:30 p.m. and members of the audience were greeted at the door with programs detailing the five students set to perform for the evening. In contrast to the first student recital, which only highlighted two performances, there was an increased number of four performances this time and five student performers in total.
The recital began with soprano Madeline Olexy '24 delivering an enchanting rendition of "Nothing in Common" from the musical "Aucassin and Nicolette." The performance was captivating and beautiful, demanding full attention from the audience, which would be a common theme throughout the night. Following the beautiful delivery of Olexy's piece, Kiana Holmes '22, mezzo soprano, gave an animated performance of "Stars and the Moon" from the musical "Sages for A New World." While the mask mandate could have made it difficult for emotion to be conveyed through the music, this was not the case in Holmes' performance. Holmes accompanied her wonderful vocal performance with a series of animated and charming hand gestures that set the scene for the performance and engaged the audience. When asked about if COVID-19 affected the rehearsals or performances at all, Holmes stated, "It's not too bad to sing in a mask, and likewise, with our voice lessons, they've all been masked. And for the past year, all of our voice lessons have been online on Zoom, which has its own challenges."<|fim_middle|> that was a new challenge, but it really wasn't that much of a hindrance."
"I don't know. Of all the things, if I get to perform, I'll sing in a mask," said Austin.
The recital concluded with a laugh-inducing performance of "Duetto Buffo di Due Gatti," delivered by Isabella van der Weide '23, soprano, and Yael Beer '24, soprano. The song is about two cats fighting over a fish. This performance consisted of a single word, and yet evoked many laughs and chuckles from a very engaged audience. The single word is heard as "Miau," and through the performance, the word was repeated in different tones, and later, a paper prop fish was brought in to fully capture the audience. The fish served as a pivotal point of the performance, conveying the comedic argument the performers were delivering, as one kept snatching the fish away from the other. This concluding performance consisted of beautiful voices, which delivered an extremely engaging performance considering it was only one word, and a very important fish that drew out laughs from everyone in the audience.
"Each of the performances were so unique but still so interesting to watch."
– Ashely Kim '25
After the performances were finished, many performers were able to converse and connect with their friends who came to support them. The second student recital was a display of how important and dear the performing arts are to not only the performers, but to the audience as well. Much of the audience was engaged and delighted all throughout the recital, as performers were finally able to showcase themselves and their talent in person. For many performers, COVID-19 has been, and will continue to be a challenge they are continuously learning to navigate, however, as long as they are able to perform, they are content.
"Each of the performances were so unique but still so interesting to watch," continued Ashley Kim '25, an audience member of the recital. "The gestures and props in the last performance made the show for me."
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"I'm not used to performing in a mask in a solo recital like this, that was a new challenge, but it really wasn't that much of a hindrance."
– Hope Austin '25
The third performance contrasted the—at times—whimsical "Stars and the Moon" rendition, with Hope Austin '25, soprano, delivering a showstopping performance of "Abendlied," composed by Robert Shumann. Austin dazzled the crowd with a stunning delivery of the German song. Austin, did not express much nervousness over her performance at Muhlenberg. When asked how she felt leading up to the performance, Austin answered, "A little nervous, but mostly excited! It's just really good to be performing live!" Austin spoke enthusiastically about the choice of music, gushing, "Schumann is a great composer, but I could geek out about that forever!" Austin echoed Holmes' sentiments about masking saying, "I'm not used to performing in a mask in a solo recital like this, | 256 |
2002 has been a benchmark year for Praise & Worship music. You can hear it on the radio and see it in the sales charts, but most of all<|fim_middle|> back in full force with its sophomore release, Spoken For. Produced by Pete Kipley (who also directed last year's Almost There), Spoken For picks up several steps beyond where that project left off, showcasing a cohesive blend of guitar-driven roots rock and powerful ballads. This new batch of songs displays both a musical and spiritual growth, and lead singer Bart Millard shines as he sings each song with a passionate intensity and emotion. While these melodies are musically accessible, the lyrics are refreshingly deep, a combination that may broaden your definition of "worship" music. It's a rare and wonderful sophomore surprise.
The second installment one of the most notable original worship music series to date, City on a Hill: Sing Alleluia features some of Christian music's brightest and best. But beyond that, as with its predecessor, City on a Hill, Sing Alleluia stands out for its lyrical originality, its seamless production and musical symmetry and its artistic beauty. It's a thoughtful, original work of passion that fosters a worshipful spirit with powerfully simple songs that focus on the all-encompassing love of God for a fallen humanity.
Agree with our choices? Disagree? We'd like to hear your picks for the year. Go to the Songs4Worship.com discussion boards and post your 2002 Year-End Favorites. | you can see it in the lives of those who have renewed their desire to draw closer to God through worship. Here at Songs4Worship.com, we've combed through 2002's worship releases and landed on the following as our year-end picks. It was no easy task, given the plethora of albums that released this year, but we ruled out the compilations, to narrow the field.
We hope you've already got these in your collection, but if not, take another look at the year's best.
Okay, so there's such a thing as overkill, and we've certainly heard enough about this album to be tired of hearing it by now. Still, as the best selling worship album of the year, Worship Again isn't just a sales phenomenon. It is, as BarnesandNoble.com so aptly put it, "a monumental achievement from an enduring talent." Worship Again bested its predecessor, Worship, with an even stronger mix of the new with the classic, and kept worship at the center of Christian music...again.
Read the full Songs4Worship.com review of this album.
With pink hair and screaming guitars, Rock & Roll Worship Circus is anything but typical worship fare, but listeners and critics agree that this modern rock band deserves high marks for sound innovation and pure, undeniable passion. Christian Musician Magazine called the Circus' debut worship release, "Perhaps the most unique worship project ever released..." and we certainly agree. Welcome to the Rock & Roll Worship Circus is the once-in-a-blue moon kind of modern worship album that leaves an indelible mark.
We're blessed to live in an age where God is working mightily in the hearts of young men and women, calling them and gifting them to do great things for His kingdom. British-born Matt Redman is just one that God is using to cultivate passion among Christian youth, even lighting a flame in the hearts of those yet to believe. Where Angels Fear to Tread, Redman's solo return after a 2-year sabbatical, displays a reverence for the wonder and majesty of God that is rare, as well as an intimate, guitar-driven pop sound. He is and will continue to be a voice that stands out among the vast chorus. This album demonstrates why.
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GREEN IP: THE KEY TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
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Intellectual Property rights have been conceptualised as a protection and reward system for new innovations and discoveries. The term intellectual property is used to denote the intellectual ideation of humans and to quantify it as a property. Intellectual property rights hence ensure the rights of the creator of a product or innovation are protected from infringement and the originality of works are maintained. The common types of Intellectual Property include copyrights, patents, trademarks, geographical indicators, plant varieties etc.
Before moving to the issue at hand, it is prudent to understand the concept of green technology. With the acknowledgment of climate change and global warming by all the nations of the world in the last decade, much emphasis was placed on developing methods and techniques that would not incur any environmental cost in the form of carbon footprint or excessive resource depletion. Green Technology was considered as a step forward in this direction. Any technology that causes an appreciable reduction in the adverse impact on the environment resulting from any human activity simultaneously maintaining the same level of activity can be considered as green technology.
A few popular instances of green technology are methods of generating green and renewable energy, sustainable buildings and townships, waste management and recycling to name a few. Another offshoot of Green Technology is Environmentally Sound Technology (ESTs). The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has defined ESTs as, "Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs) are technologies that have the potential for significantly improved environmental performance relative to other technologies."
ESTs conserve and preserve the ecology, are less polluting, use resources in a sustainable manner, recycle more of their wastes and products, and handle all residual wastes in a more environmentally acceptable way than the technologies for which they are substitutes. ESTs are not just individual technologies. They can also be defined as total systems that include know-how, procedures, goods and services, and equipment, as well as organization nal and managerial procedures for promoting environmental sustainability. It can be considered as a subset of green technology.[i]
Green Intellectual Property is still a relatively budding and new concept. As the name indicates, Green IP is any intellectual creation which furthers the cause of sustainability and is in coherence with saving the environment from degradation and pollution. It includes any discovery, invention or technology which effectuates a considerable reduction in the ill-impacts on the environment that might be caused by a parallel yet unsustainable technology without any difference in the intended output. In layperson terms, Green IP is the ecologically balanced intellectual invention which helps keep the environment clean and green. Green innovation becomes the need of the hour today as such innovations creates a new set of goods and technologies which promote a far more sustainable and desirable pattern of consumerism.
Thus, Green intellectual property refers to the protection of innovations in the field of green technology. It is a concept where innovations which are helpful to environment in one or the other way are legally protected.
As elaborated, environmentally sound technologies constitute green intellectual property. Drawing on similar lines is term Green Innovation. However before defining green innovation it is important to discuss the concept of sustainable development. Coined by the Brundtland report, which was commissioned by the UN, sustainable development was defined as meeting "the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The concept of sustainable development does imply limits - not absolute limits but limitations imposed by the present state of technology and social organization on environmental resources and by the ability of the biosphere to absorb the effects of human activities"[ii]. The UNGA in 2015 adopted a resolution which laid down 17 sustainable development goals which the international community ought to achieve by 2030. Green innovation or eco-innovation is what emerged as the prime candidate to make these sustainable development goals a reality. Eco-innovation can be defined as a process of production, manufacturing or utilisation of a product that results in the lowering of social and environmental cost. This kind of innovation causes less harm to the environment as compared to an alternate means of production, manufacturing or utilisation.[iii] Green innovation is the only way forward to ensure sustainable development and hence its promotion is a key prerogative of the governments of different countries across the world. World Intellectual Property Organisation has introduced the concept of green intellectual property to ensure the protection and incentivization of eco-innovation.
WIPO also designated the World Intellectual Property Organisation Day 2020 with the theme of innovation for a green future. This corresponds with the efforts WIPO has been making to promote progress in the fields of sustainable technology such as WIPO Green. Green Innovation can only be incentivised and promoted if adequate intellectual property rights are provided to the innovation. Intellectual property rights grant the innovator the monopoly to use, sell or license his technology. Incentive to innovate depends on how lucrative the bundle of rights offered are. Longer patent holding, easier and faster paperwork processes are some ways to promote green innovation. Green intellectual property is primarily reflected in the concept of green patents.
A Green Patent is any product or invention which is beneficial to the environment in some way. It can include alternate and cleaner sources of energy or any technology to reduce the impacts of global warming. It is a recent development in the field of intellectual property which many countries around the world have come up with to counter environmental issues like climate change, global warming and promote ideas that have a significant ecological value. The idea behind green patent systems worldwide was to incentivise the ideas and technology from which the ecology could benefit and something that would also promote new eco-friendly models of business.
Businesses and enterprises have lately started adopting the sustainable model of innovation which includes employment of technologies that helps reduce carbon footprint and utilises renewable sources of energy. Their innovations are being recognised by the governments and the corporate social responsibility assessment agencies and they are being awarded with green patents for novel and sustainable inventions.[iv]
The Need for Green IP and Green patents:
1. Green IP incentivises innovations by rewarding ideas that help sustain the environment which is under immense degradation as a result of the precarious activities of human beings.
2. Green Intellectual Property gives an opportunity to the developing countries to also contribute to the development of sustainable technologies, a market which has been predominantly controlled by developed nations like China and the US.
3. Providing protection to environment innovations under Green IP and Green Patents gives rise to the production of eco-friendly goods and services such as bio-degradable plastic, wind, solar and hydroelectricity etc.
4<|fim_middle|>isation of green patents and technologies on WIPO Green is that it reduces the paperwork and makes the process of using these technologies on the real ground very quick and efficient.
There are many challenges in the path of promoting green innovation for a healthy and sustainable future. Underdeveloped third world countries are still struggling in providing their citizens with basic essentials. They lack the resources and skilled labour to carry out a shift towards green technology. Additionally, an important factor in ensuring a green future is the diffusion of the existing ESTs. Due to restrictive trade policies and limited foreign direct investment of many countries, it is next to impossible for them to reap benefits of innovations happening in the other parts of the world. Inadequate intellectual property protection in a country might deter foreign innovators from selling their technologies.[ix]
Green IP becomes extremely relevant today as an incentive to promote and accelerate the global campaign against climate change. With the rapid development of green technology, the prerogative shifts on the governments of the world to ensure the swift and effective implementation of protection of Green Intellectual Property. In addition, Corporate Social Responsibility dictates the corporate sector to use these green patents for technological development, international collaboration, technology diffusion which in turn shall hopefully lead to a sustainable present and a cleaner and greener tomorrow. Thus, only a collective, coordinated effort of both the corporate and the government sector can ensure that Green IP becomes a widely recognised instrument in the near future that helps fast-track the fight to conserve our environment.
[i] UNEP: https://www.unenvironment.org/regions/asia-and-pacific/regional-initiatives/supporting-resource-efficiency/environmentally-sound [ii] Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future, Transmitted to the General Assembly as an Annex to document A/42/427 - Development and International Cooperation: Environment [iii] René Kemp and Peter Pearson, Final report MEI project about measuring ecoinnovation, Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006) [iv] Using Green Patents to Create a More Sustainable Business, Ecovadis, (Apr. 7, 2017), https://resources.ecovadis.com/blog-ecovadis-9/using-green-patents-to-create-a-more-sustainable-business-2. [v] Singh and Associates, Green IP - a new way to blossom, (Sept. 29, 2012) https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=766fc345-be8c-4dab-ae6f-f152de0c472b [vi] Singh and Associates, Green IP - a new way to blossom, (Sep. 29, 2012) https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=766fc345-be8c-4dab-ae6f-f152de0c472b [vii] Fast-tracking Green Patent Applications: An Empirical Analysis by Antoine Dechezleprêtre, London School of Economics and Political Science, ICTSD Global Platform on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainable Energy: Issue Paper 37 [viii] https://www3.wipo.int/wipogreen/en/aboutus/ [ix] Anja von der Ropp, WIPO Green: Facilitating Dissemination of Green Technology, WIPO Magazine (June 2012) http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2012/03/article_0006.html
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UNBLOCKING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY : RELEVANCE IN IPR
Post Expiry Injunction in Patent Law | . Innovation is essential to establishing new patterns of production and consumption. It opens up markets and opportunities while at the same time addressing environmental risks and keeping the cost of such a transformation low.
5. By registering green patents separately, data analysts and researchers are able to estimate and quantify the scientific breakthroughs happening in the field of green technology. Patent data also serves as a measurement device for the results achieved through the implementation of these green patents around the globe.
6. It is pertinent to note that one of the primary motives of granting monopoly rights was to promote technological innovation and environmental benefit. Since green technologies tend to protect the environment by reducing the hazards caused to nature by the human intervention, it is essential to take an initiative for providing a fast track procedure for protection of Green Intellectual Property.[v]
In conclusion, a working and effective system of Green IP protection coupled with effective government policies and commercialization methodologies can provide the most efficient framework for the global diffusion of green technologies.[vi]
Fast Tracking Green Patent Applications: Since 2009, many patent offices, mainly in industrialized countries, have put in place schemes to fast track 'green' patent applications. These include the UK IP office, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Korean Patent Office, the Australian IP Office, the Japan Patent Office and the Canadian IP Office. In April 2012, the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) announced a pilot program to accelerate green patent applications. The objective is to encourage innovation in green technologies by bringing new products to the marketplace more quickly.[vii] It is advantageous to have a fast-track green patent system as it mitigates the duration of bringing the patent into the consumer's market to be used as a regular product. Fast-track patents also enhances the "diffusion of clean technologies".
One of the most prominent international steps to promote Green Intellectual Property was taken by World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) when it launched its initiative called WIPO Green. WIPO Green is an initiative of the World Intellectual Property Organisation which was launched in 2013 as an "interactive workplace that connects technology and service providers with those seeking innovative solutions." It is essentially a global marketplace that promotes green technology and diffusion. It includes an online database and network that interlinks stakeholders from different fields working under the broad umbrella of 'green technology innovation chain' and connects people who might be interested in retail of such green technologies or implementing it to further develop new green products. Thus, WIPO Green helps in accelerating innovations that are helpful against environmental problems like climate change etc. [viii]
WIPO Green in the recent years has developed technology databases for its partners which serves as a medium for these companies and players to store their green and ecological patents. With such a systemic listing out of the patents, it becomes very convenient for interested parties to browse through these patents. An advantage of digitalisation and compartmental | 590 |
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The NRA-certified range safety officer Susan Brenner wants to empower women who might be intimidated by the male-dominated gun culture and has established a local chapter of the national Well Armed Woman group. "It's turning more and more into a women's market, but it's kind of like women breaking into the good ol' boys club," Brenner said. "It's very male-dominated, and it's intimidating for a lot of women to even go into a gun store and start asking questions."
After an incident that occurred to her sister who was shot in the face with a gun pellet back in 2012, Brenner sought a concealed-carry license for self protection. Her sister recovered, but Brenner wondered what her sibling could've done to prevent becoming a target. "You need to have a healthy dose of self awareness and a potential way to stop an attack," Brenner said. As a court appointed special advocate for Stark County Family Court, Brenner visits families who live in neighborhoods of all kinds. She said her sister's ordeal and husband's concern for her safety at work prompted her to get a concealed carry license in January.
The number of female gun owners jumped from 13 percent to 23 percent between 2005 and 2011 while the percentage of male gun owners stayed in the upper 40s, according to Gallup polls. Whether for sport or self-protection, area gun club and business owners say it's become more socially acceptable for women to take up shooting. Mike Jones, owner of Midwest Gun Club in Canal Fulton, said their goals are often the same as men. "They're really looking at it as wanting to be able to protect themselves and their family," he said.
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The Pantone Color Institute's<|fim_middle|> years now, lol. But when I saw this was the color for 2017 I fell in love. I think there are going to be some really gorgeous green weddings. | picks have proven to influence culture, fashion, trends, decor, and of course, weddings. Each year Pantone predicts the top color that will dominate our lives for the next 12 months based on their research in determining the "mood and attitude" of global culture.
Last year's pick was a double-whammy, with Serenity Blue and Rose Quartz sharing the title. The pastel hues proved to be winners as rosey blush and dusty blue showed up everywhere from high fashion runways to bridesmaid's dresses. The emergence of green was really starting to happen within the wedding industry already, but I found the hue of 'Greenery' to be a bit of a surprise. I was expecting a shade closer to eucalyptus or even turquoise, but I'm not one of the experts.
"Greenery symbolizes the reconnection we seek with nature, one another, and a larger purpose." Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute.
We can expect to see 'Greenery' as a prominent wedding color for 2017, in decor, bouquets, and bridesmaid dresses.But since it's hue is that of the Peridot gemstone (my birthday gemstone!), perhaps we will see 'Greenery' turn up in more delicate forms as well, such as engagement rings, and bridal party gifts.
Pantone is labeling 'Greenery' as "nature's neutral" so I guess that means that green is the new black? What do you think of this color?
Funny thing is pastels have been in for so long and it's been my top wedding color pallet for a while. We're talking going on 4 | 343 |
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Presented by Coble Cravens, Downtown Arlington partners with Arlington Music Hall to host "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" movie night
Join King Arthur and his knights as they embark on a quest to the Arlington Music Hall in Downtown Arlington for a free screening of the classic comedy film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975).
The free event, presented by Coble Cravens in partnership with Downtown Arlington and AMH, takes place on Wednesday, January 25, 2023. Doors are at 6:00 p.m., showtime is at 7:00 p.m. A bar and concessions will be available. Bring your own coconuts.
Free tickets are available here:
downtownarlington.org/do/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-showing-at-arlington-music-hall
The free screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a part of a series called Downtown Knights. Downtown Knights, presented by Downtown Arlington in partnership with the Arlington Museum of Art, is a series of companion programming to A Knight's Tale, the museum's current exhibition. All Downtown Knights events, specials, and promotions can be found on a dedicated webpage on the Downtown Arlington website.
"Downtown Arlington and the Arlington Museum of Art collaborated very successfully last summer on their previous exhibition, Disney Art from Private Collections." said Maggie Campbell, President and CEO of Downtown Arlington. "The AMA continues to elevate the arts experience for our Arlington Cultural District, and A Knight's Tale coupled with Downtown Knights is another great example of how we in Downtown Arlington regularly come together to cross-promote all that our district has to offer."
Tickets and Information
Monty Python and the Holy Grail presented by Coble Cravens
Arlington Music Hall
224 N. Center Street
Tickets for A Knight's Tale
arlingtonmuseum.org/a-knights-tale-tickets (group rates are available)
Downtown Knights schedule of events
downtownarlington.org/events/downtown-knights
About A Knight's Tale
From the renowned Stibbert Museum in Florence, Italy, A Knight's Tale at the Arlington Museum of Art features full suits of armor, mounted equestrian figures, helmets, swords, shields, and other weaponry from Medieval and Renaissance Europe. A Knight's Tale will be open through February 12, 2023, then the collection will return to its permanent home in Italy.
"A Knight's Tale brings to life the art and customs of tournaments and jousting, the codes of chivalry, and the knight's iconic sword and armor," said Chris Hightower, President and CEO of the Arlington Museum of Art. "The craftsmanship in A Knight's Tale showcases the skills of the great metalsmiths who brought functionality and beauty to their craft. Knights as icons have stood the test of time because great artistry stands the test of time."
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Nervi è un quartiere residenziale di abitanti del comune di Genova, compreso nel Municipio IX Levante. Un tempo comune autonomo, nel 1926 venne aggregato alla Grande Genova.
Situato all'estrema periferia orientale del capoluogo genov<|fim_middle|> lungomare e corso Europa, la linea serale 607 e la notturna N2, che fanno capolinea nella delegazione. Tutte le autolinee urbane sono gestite dall'AMT.
Nel quartiere è presente anche una piccola ZTL.
In passato Nervi costituiva uno dei capilinea della rete tranviaria di Genova.
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Voci correlate
Golfo Paradiso
Passeggiata Anita Garibaldi
Hotel Marinella
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni
Quartieri di Genova
Comuni della città metropolitana di Genova soppressi | ese, dispone di un porto turistico, di una lunga scogliera sulla quale è stata costruita la lunga passeggiata intitolata ad Anita Garibaldi.
Il quartiere ospita, inoltre, gli omonimi Parchi di Nervi.
Geografia fisica
Territorio
Il territorio dell'ex comune di Nervi comprendeva il tratto di costa tra il Fosso della Pozzacqua, che scende dal monte Moro dove inizia via Gianelli, ed il Fosso Gattego che sfocia in mare poco a ponente della spiaggia di Capolungo (ex comune di Sant'Ilario Ligure).
All'interno il territorio comprende alcune alture: il monte Moro (412 m), la cresta del monte Moro (574 m) e culmina con la vetta del monte Croce (785 m).
Il territorio è attraversato dal torrente Nervi, che dopo alcuni chilometri sfocia in mare nei pressi del porticciolo.
Clima
Il territorio del comune di Genova compreso tra Quinto al Mare e Sant'Ilario presenta un microclima ben conosciuto ai genovesi: i monti Moro e Giugo costituiscono una barriera a strapiombo sul mare contro i venti freddi invernali che associandosi ad una completa esposizione a mezzogiorno della costa determina nel periodo invernale notevoli differenze termiche con il resto del territorio cittadino. Il territorio degli ex comuni di Quinto/Nervi/Sant'Ilario è tuttavia caratterizzato da 4 aree microclimatiche anche molto diverse tra loro, influenzate da 3 fattori fondamentali di differenziazione climatica: l'altezza sul livello del mare, la distanza dal mare e il soleggiamento; Le differenze climatiche tra queste aree sono molto significative.
La prima area è quella marina; quest'area è compresa nelle immediate vicinanze della linea costiera fino ad un'altezza inferiore ai 100 m s.l.m.: da levante fino a Quinto la zona risulta riparata dalla tramontana per la presenza dei monti Moro e Giugo, e presenta temperature autunnali ed invernali in grado di competere con quelle di città come Messina e Palermo; da viale Quartara la costa non è riparata dai venti freddi settentrionali e se in estate non presenta particolari differenze termiche con la zona a Levante, in inverno il clima risulta più freddo e ventoso di quello del vicino Levante.
La seconda microarea climatica è quella collinare; quest'area è compresa tra i 100/300 m sul livello mare con un clima con temperature minime leggermente inferiori rispetto alla fascia Marina e massime simili. La stazione meteo più significativa della zona è quella ubicata presso la l'istituto agrario "Marsano" di Sant'Ilario gestita dall'ARPAL.
La terza microarea è quella montana con un clima continentale anche assai rigido ed è compresa tra i 500 e i 900 m s.l.m.. In parte, lungo il corso del torrente Nervi, questa zona microclimatica scende a livelli altitudinali inferiori (anche sotto i 200/300 m). La stazione meteo più significativa della zona è quella ubicata in località Fontana Fresca a 791 m s.l.m. gestita dall'ARPAL.
La quarta microarea climatica è quella interna che comprende il territorio in gran parte boschivo che si estende sul versante Nord dei monti Fasce, Croce e Cordona fino al corso del torrente Lentro. Questa zona è caratterizzata da un clima umido ed escursioni diurne e annuali maggiori del resto del territorio.
STAZIONE METEO LIMET di via Murcarolo (m.20 slm) dal 2015 al 2022
Origini del nome
Il toponimo Nervi potrebbe derivare, secondo alcune ipotesi, dall'imperatore romano Marco Cocceio Nerva, al quale sarebbe stato dedicato in suo onore da un drappello di soldati a lui fedele che trovò rifugio nel borgo.
Un'altra ipotesi si basa sulla scritta in arvis (nei campi) che compare su una . Secondo questa teoria il nome della cittadina deriverebbe dalla storpiatura della frase.
Storia
Un primo insediamento urbano sorse nell'attuale zona tra il ponte romano e il porticciolo e già nei primi decenni dell'era cristiana è menzionata una stazione per la sosta e cambio dei cavalli in una zona considerata strategica e quale punto di imbarco da e per le merci dirette e provenienti dalle valli Bisagno e Fontanabuona. In questo periodo storico sorsero, oltre la plebana chiesa intitolata a san Siro, avente anticamente giurisdizione religiosa da Sturla a Sori, il castello come presidio militare e controllo dei traffici commerciali e il ponte romano, entrambi ricostruiti nel corso dei secoli.
Le principali attività economiche e per lo più di sostentamento degli abitanti nerviesi erano legate all'agricoltura, alla pesca e alle connesse attività legate al mare e alla marineria; storicamente è da ricordare il coinvolgimento di una flotta navale di Nervi che, assieme a Genova e ad altre località liguri, risultarono vittoriose nella battaglia della Meloria del 1284. Soggetta alla giurisdizione della Repubblica di Genova fin dall'epoca medievale, prima nella podesteria e poi nel capitaneato del Bisagno (1606), risale al XVI secolo l'edificazione di una torre d'avvistamento (detta anche "del fieno", conosciuta ora come "torre Groppallo") lungo la costa per la segnalazione delle imbarcazioni saracene. Tra la fine del secolo e gli inizi del successivo furono realizzati dai monaci dell'ordine dei Minimi il cenobio e, sul luogo di una precedente cappella dedicata a san Paolo, la chiesa di san Francesco di Paola (distrutta nel 1814 e ricostruita nel 1899 dai Padri somaschi dell'adiacente collegio di San Girolamo Emiliani).
Nel corso dei secoli il borgo conobbe diverse fasi ampliative, ancora lungo la costa ma anche nel primo crinale sfruttato ad uso agricolo. A cavallo dei secoli XVII-XVIII-XIX anche la nobiltà genovese e borghesia poi scelse questo territorio levantino di Genova quale dimora residenziale con l'edificazione di pregiate ville: tra le più celebre le ville Grimaldi, Gnecco, Serra e Croce.
Con gli avventi napoleonici di fine settecento, e la conseguente caduta della repubblica genovese, la costituita municipalità di Nervi fu inglobata nel dipartimento del Bisagno (1797) con capoluogo San Martino d'Albaro; l'anno successivo fu promossa sede del VI cantone omonimo della giurisdizione del Bisagno e ancora inserita, dal 1803, nel V cantone di San Martino d'Albaro nella I giurisdizione del Centro. Annesso al Primo Impero francese, dal 13 giugno 1805 al 1814 fu inserito nel Dipartimento di Genova.
Con la caduta di Napoleone I il Congresso di Vienna del 1814, invocato nel tentativo di ristabilire l'equilibro tra le nazioni dopo la dominazione napoleonica, stabilì l'annessione del territorio ligure nel Regno di Sardegna; a partire dal 1861 il comune di Nervi fu parte integrante del neo costituito Regno d'Italia. Dal 1859 al 1926 il territorio fu compreso nel II mandamento omonimo del circondario di Genova facente parte dell'allora provincia di Genova.
Nel 1926 fu uno dei 19 comuni soppressi e aggregati alla "Grande Genova".
Monumenti e luoghi d'interesse
Architetture religiose
Chiesa plebana parrocchiale di San Siro. Fu la prima chiesa parrocchiale di Nervi, che dell'epoca medioevale conserva il titolo di "plebana" e la facciata di dimensioni minori rispetto alle attuali, riscoperta in recenti restauri e lasciata in evidenza con le pietre a conci di grossa dimensione. All'interno opere scultoree del periodo neoclassico di vari artisti genovesi, legati all'Accademia ligustica di belle arti, tra i quali gli scultori Pasquale Bocciardo e Bernardo Mantero.
Chiesa parrocchiale di Santa Maria Assunta del XV secolo.
Chiesa della confraternita del Rosario. Tra i presepi più grandi ed ammirati del Genovesato vi è anche quello allestito presso la confraternita del Rosario in via alla Chiesa Plebana. Su una superficie di 30 m2 la scena della Natività è movimentata con suoni, giochi d'acqua e movimentazioni meccaniche, in un ambiente tipico di montagna: l'alba, il giorno, il tramonto si alternano alla notte illuminata dalla luna. Il presepe (dovuto all'impegno di Roberto Baldi e Maria Bevilacqua) è, eccetto che per le statuine, interamente fatto a mano con rametti e pietre di montagna e tutti i particolari sono resi in forma dettagliata a partire dall'angolo in cui è ricostruito il mercato, dove tutta la frutta è creata in pasta di mais.
Chiesa di Nostra Signora della Mercede e Sant'Erasmo in località Capolungo.
Architetture civili
Villa Gnecco si trova sul torrente Nervi, poco sopra il tratto attraversato dal ponte storico di Nervi. Costruita nel XVIII secolo, ha la caratteristica struttura a angoli rinforzati a corpi angolari avanzati, alla maniera delle fortificazioni, che racchiudono la loggia a tre arcate al centro.
Villa Gropallo, con il parco venne donata al Comune di Genova.
Villa Luxoro. All'estremità di levante del quartiere, realizzata all'inizio del Ottocento, è sede del museo omonimo che ospita le ricche collezioni di quadri e antiquariato dei proprietari, con le successive aggiunte. In essa sono alcune note tele di Alessandro Magnasco. Il parco si affaccia sulla scogliera a picco sul mare.
Villa Saluzzo Serra, acquistata dal Comune di Genova nel 1927 per farne la sede della Galleria d'arte moderna del capoluogo ligure che vi si inaugurò il 16 dicembre 1928. Chiusa tra il 1989 e il 2004, la Galleria riaprì al pubblico il 16 novembre 2004 dopo un radicale intervento di restauro e di riallestimento delle collezioni in un percorso cronologico che dalla fine del Settecento giunge alla fine del Novecento proponendo importantissimi artisti del Romanticismo e dell'impressionismo italiano, fino ai protagonisti del Simbolismo e del Divisionismo, del Futurismo e agli interpreti eccellenti delle diverse anime culturali del Novecento.
Villa Grimaldi Fassio, residenza della famiglia Fassio Tomellini dalla fine degli anni Cinquanta del Novecento, fu acquistata dal Comune di Genova nel 1979 e destinata a contenitore delle collezioni d'arte dei fratelli Lazzaro G. B. e Luigi Frugone. Il 21 marzo 1993 si inaugurò il museo delle Raccolte Frugone, un vero e proprio concentrato di dipinti e sculture della Belle Époque, ancora oggi aperto al pubblico coi suoi Fattori, Signorini, Lega, Fontanesi, Delleani, Cremona, Boldini, De Nittis, Segantini, Troubetzkoy, Ciardi, Milesi, Favretto, Fragiacomo, Tito, Palizzi, Mancini, Michetti, Sorolla y Bastida, Miller e così via.
Architetture militari
Castello di Nervi. Costruito nel XVI secolo a protezione dell'approdo, attuale porticciolo alla foce del torrente Nervi, dove inizia la passeggiata a mare Anita Garibaldi, dopo un accurato restauro conservativo è sede di spazi espositivi.
Torre Gropallo. Realizzata nella seconda metà del Cinquecento dopo la pesante incursione del corsaro turco Dragut (Thorgut, Turgut), prende il nome attuale dopo l'acquisto a metà dell'Ottocento da parte del marchese Gaetano Gropallo e che collegò l'edificio al suo parco omonimo. Collocata lungo la passeggiata Anita Garibaldi, è nota anche come "torre del fieno", per via del fieno bagnato che veniva bruciato sulla parte superiore della torre per produrre fumo e segnalare pericoli. Modificata e restaurata più volte nel corso dei secoli, nel 1936 venne acquistata dal Comune di Genova e successivamente ospitò la sede della Lega navale italiana e del gruppo di Nervi dell'Associazione Nazionale Alpini (presente ancora oggi).
Aree naturali
Nel territorio di Nervi è presente e preservato un sito di interesse comunitario, proposto dalla rete Natura 2000 della Liguria, per il suo particolare interesse naturale e geologico. Il sito è collocato tra i fondali delle delegazioni genovesi di Boccadasse, Sturla, Quarto dei Mille e Quinto al Mare dove è segnalato un particolare habitat formato da praterie di posidonia oceanica e formazioni coralline. Tra le specie animali sono presenti i pesci: Hippocampus hippocampus, Labrus merula, Parablennius gattoruggine, Parablennius tentacularis, Symphodus cinereus, Symphodus rostratus, Symphodus tinca.
Inseriti nel contesto urbano della delegazione si trovano i tre parchi conosciuti comunemente come Parchi di Nervi, nei cui due teatri allestiti all'aperto si è spesso tenuto un importante festival estivo del balletto e la manifestazione estiva Cinema nel Roseto.
La passeggiata, posta tra i parchi ed il mare, è stata intitolata ad Anita Garibaldi nel giugno 1945. La passeggiata attuale risale alla seconda metà del XIX e venne costruita in due tempi dal marchese Gropallo: la prima parte nel 1862, per collegare il porticciolo con la torre Gropallo, la seconda nel 1872 per collegare via Serra Gropallo (la strada che attraversa i parchi) con la zona di Capolungo, ma sembra che lungo il percorso esistesse già un sentiero, usato principalmente dai pescatori e contadini del luogo.
La passeggiata prevede diversi accessi alla scogliera sottostante (alcuni dei quali negli anni sono stati chiusi per motivi di sicurezza), sulla quale sono edificati degli stabilimenti balneari. La zona durante i mesi estivi è intensamente frequentata da bagnanti e da qualche pescatore.
Oltre alla scogliere che affianca la passeggiata la delegazione ha anche alcune spiagge di modeste dimensioni, che sono tuttavia frequentemente danneggiate dalle mareggiate. Ai due estremi della passeggiata sono presenti delle piccole spiagge con i relativi porticcioli, a levante Capolungo (ai piedi del quartiere di Sant'Ilario), a ponente la spiaggia detta del porticciolo, mentre, proseguendo ancora a ponente, sul confine tra Quinto e Nervi, vi è la spiaggia di Caprafico.
Cultura
Istruzione
Biblioteche
Presso il primo piano della villa Gropallo è ubicata dal 1979 la biblioteca civica di Nervi, che nel 1988 fu intitolata allo scrittore Virgilio Brocchi.
Musei
Nervi offre un'importante e ricco polo museale ospitato, in maggior parte, nelle antiche ville che si trovano nei parchi storici del borgo. I visitatori possono, nell'arco di circa un chilometro, apprezzare le magnifiche collezioni di arte moderna e contemporanea della città di Genova che vi sono esposte - dipinti, sculture, grafica, arredi e arti decorative - , oltre alla dimora-museo di villa Luxoro con importanti oggetti d'arte antichi.
Galleria d'arte moderna con opere della Collezione Wolfson - Villa Saluzzo Serra. Antico edificio costruito ed ampliato tra la fine del Cinquecento e l'Ottocento, presenta importanti collezioni d'arte dal XIX al XXI secolo relative alla produzione artistica in Liguria, con significative aperture sul contesto culturale italiano e straniero. Romanticismo, pittura di storia e di genere, ricerca sul vero e Impressionismo italiano, Simbolismo, Futurismo e le numerose correnti del Novecento italiane e straniere sono raccontati attraverso l'eccelsa qualità di opere firmate da artisti come Barabino, Baroni, Rayper, D'Andrade, Cabianca, Nomellini, Merello, Depero, Carena, Casorati, De Pisis, Ferrazzi, Fillia, Messina, Baroni, Martini, Guttuso, Mafai, Cagli, Pirandello, Sassu, Survage, Zao Wou Khi.
Raccolte Frugone - Villa Grimaldi Fassio. Conserva le collezioni d'arte italiana e straniera donate alla città dai fratelli G.B. e Luigi Frugone nel 1935 e nel 1953. Ritratti, pitture di genere, paesaggi e sculture databili tra il 1860 e 1930, raccolti secondo i criteri del collezionismo altoborghese di inizio Novecento. Opere dei più importanti artisti italiani e stranieri, legati alle esperienze della Belle Époque: Bistolfi, Boldini, Ciardi, Cremona, De Nittis, Fattori, Favretto, Fontanesi, Fragiacomo, Lega, Mancini, Messina, Michetti, Miller, Palizzi, Segantini, Signorini, Sorolla y Bastida, Troubetzkoy.
Museo Giannettino Luxoro – Villa Luxoro. Affacciate sulla scogliera di Nervi, le sale di una residenza signorile estiva del primo Novecento ospitano collezioni di dipinti italiani e stranieri, disegni, mobili, orologi notturni antichi, ceramiche, argenti e una straordinaria raccolta di statuine da presepio genovese, napoletano, siciliano e lombardo del XVII e XVIII secolo. Di particolare interesse le tele settecentesche di Alessandro Magnasco.
Wolfsoniana – Via Serra Gropallo. Specializzata principalmente sulle arti decorative e di propaganda del periodo 1880-1945, la Wolfsoniana, si snoda attraverso le principali correnti linguistiche e espressive della prima metà del XX secolo, dall'Art Nouveau al Déco, dal Novecento al Razionalismo. A documentare la complessità culturale dell'epoca contribuisce la straordinaria varietà di materiali esposti: dipinti, sculture, arredi, ceramiche, argenti, oggetti d'uso quotidiano e design industriale tra Bugatti, Chini, Cambellotti e Gio Ponti, tra Olbrich, Piacentini, Thayaht e Diulgheroff.
Geografia antropica
Capolungo
Il borgo di Capolungo è un sottoquartiere di Nervi, situato all'estrema propaggine orientale del comune di Genova, appena prima del comune di Bogliasco, con il quale il borgo confina; del borgo fanno parte l'antica stazione ferroviaria di Sant'Ilario, citata da Fabrizio De André nella celebre canzone Bocca di Rosa, uno scalo per le barche con spiaggia in ciottoli annessa, e l'inizio della passeggiata di Nervi "Anita Garibaldi" che conduce al porticciolo di Nervi passando lungo il mare. Capolungo fu per molto tempo meta di turisti abbienti, soprattutto provenienti dal Nord-Est Europa e dalla Russia che venivano a svernare sulle coste liguri nei periodi più freddi dell'anno nonché per curare la tubercolosi, sperando negli influssi benefici dell'aria di mare ricca di iodio.
A Capolungo appartengono alcuni dei parchi di Nervi, antichi giardini delle più belle ville nobiliari dei tempi passati.
Dal capolungo transita la strada statale 1 Via Aurelia.
Infrastrutture e trasporti
Ferrovie
Sul territorio nerviese è presente l'omonima stazione ferroviaria lungo la linea ferroviaria Genova-Pisa; la stazione è servita da tutti i treni regionali effettuati da Trenitalia nell'ambito del contratto di servizio con la Regione Liguria che prevedono un collegamento di tipo suburbano verso il centro cittadino.
Storicamente Nervi possedeva altri due impianti ferroviari:
la fermata di Genova Sant'Ilario, già "Sant'Ilario Ligure", chiusa all'esercizio il 1º maggio 1959 e nota perché citata in Bocca di Rosa di Fabrizio De André;
la fermata di via Cattaneo, in corrispondenza dell'ex passaggio a livello presso il porticciolo, soppressa il 15 gennaio 1948.
Un posteggio taxi si trova nella centrale piazza Pittaluga, raggiungibile dalla stazione ferroviaria tramite il viale delle Palme.
Mobilità urbana
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Contextualizing communities in an instructional improvement initiative: exploring STEM faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations
Ellen Marie Aster ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2379-20071,
Jana Bouwma-Gearhart2 &
Kathleen Quardokus Fisher3
Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research volume 3, Article number: 10 (2021) Cite this article
A frequently cited strategy for fostering science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instructional improvements is creating communities where faculty can share and learn evidence-based teaching practices. Despite research-documented benefits, little is known about why (and with whom) faculty engage in teaching-related conversations, including those fostered by initiative communities. We explored how STEM faculty engage in teaching-related conversations, via analysis of faculty interviews and discussion networks, to identify factors potentially influencing teaching-related conversations over the life of an initiative. Our results suggest aspects that might inhibit STEM faculty from engaging in teaching-related conversations, including: 1) faculty members' autonomy with teaching practices; 2) faculty members' varied interests in teaching improvements; 3) varied degrees of support to engage in teaching-related conversations; and 4) a lack of inclusive and non-judgmental spaces to talk about teaching. We suggest that those fostering STEM faculty communities consider working with others across the institution to map the instructional improvement opportunities faculty may already take part in and attend to areas lacking support. Initiative leaders and designers should also elicit and build off faculty members' teaching-related knowledge and concerns. We further suggest making conversational spaces inclusive and safe, to help faculty honestly share teaching-related challenges and insights. We recommend creating and fostering spaces that bring faculty together across department boundaries. Our study echoes prior research by drawing attention to administrative support for instructional improvement initiatives, which can foster and sustain opportunities for faculty to talk about teaching and learn instructional improvements.
Education researchers have called for improvements to STEM education at institutions of higher education, towards: a) better supporting undergraduate students' learning of STEM concepts and skills; b) making STEM learning environments more accessible and inclusive to diverse undergraduate students; and c) creating more STEM professionals by increasing STEM credential holders (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2018). In response to these charges, many institutions of higher education seek to increase the number of faculty who understand and incorporate evidence-based instructional practices. Evidence-based instructional practices consist of teaching techniques (e.g., engaging students in collaborative activities, conducting formative assessments on students' learning, and providing research experiences) which the literature has shown helps students learn.
STEM education improvement initiatives are numerous, differing in their strategies and underlying frameworks for improving teaching and learning. In a review of nearly 200 research articles on STEM improvement efforts at institutions of higher education, Henderson, Beach, and Finkelstein (2011) found that change strategies differ in terms of the outcomes they seek to create and the aspects they seek to change. Specifically, some initiatives intend prescribed outcomes, for example via 'top-down' policies to promote/enforce teaching changes or disseminating novel teaching techniques for educators to 'take up.' Other initiatives aspire to emergent outcomes, where leaders use educators' knowledge to inform the purpose, goal, and/or vision of the initiative. Initiatives also focus on changing different aspects of the system: Some initiatives seek to change the environment or structures educators work with while other initiatives seek to enhance educators' teaching-related knowledge and/or beliefs.
One frequently cited tactic for changing educators' teaching-related beliefs is engaging educators in 'learning communities' (Bouwma-Gearhart, 2012c; Bouwma-Gearhart & Adumat, 2011; Bouwma-Gearhart, Perry, & Presley, 2014; 2012; Henderson et al., 2011), 'faculty development networks' (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2016), or 'faculty teams' (Gast, Schildkamp, & van der Veen, 2017). This type of change strategy, which we broadly refer to as 'faculty communities,' focuses on creating opportunities for educators to collaboratively learn and "use their own knowledge/experience/skill to improve their instructional practices" (Henderson et al., 2011, p. 962). It is argued that creating opportunities for educators to connect will help them expand their teaching-related knowledge and change their teaching practices.
In fact, previous research has suggested that creating opportunities for STEM faculty to connect confers a variety of benefits. Fostering communities creates vital spaces for educators to share pedagogical techniques and perspectives (Coldron & Smith, 1999; Gast et al., 2017) and can foster changes to faculty members' pedagogical knowledge, teaching approaches, and teaching identity (Gast et al., 2017). Creating opportunities for STEM faculty to specifically connect with administrators can help create more 'congruent' units (e.g., departments, schools), where administrators and faculty share beliefs about teaching (Wright, 2008). Additionally, creating opportunities for STEM educators to connect with others has been shown to motivate faculty in large-scale (e.g., national) change initiatives "to continue to reform in the face of departments and institutions that may not be supportive" (Kezar, Gehrke, & Bernstein-Sierra, 2017, p. 232).
However, despite the prevalence of faculty communities as a change strategy and research-documented benefits, relatively little is known about how STEM faculty generally engage in teaching improvement activities (Bouwma-Gearhart, 2008). What brings these faculty to the table? What keeps them there? And what do they find meaningful? We know less about their teaching-related conversations specifically, including why and with whom they engage. In particular, STEM faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations at institutions undergoing instructional improvement initiatives is an emerging area of study. Such studies can help diagnose the need for instructional improvement efforts and guide the design and implementation of improvements in light of the complex professional contexts of faculty (Bouwma-Gearhart, Sitomer, Fisher, Smith, & Koretsky, 2016; Bouwma-Gearhart, Ivanovitch, Aster, & Bouwma, 2018).
Our exploratory study investigates STEM faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations, including during an ongoing instructional improvement initiative. We combine survey-based social network analysis with analysis of STEM faculty interviews to explore the changes to teaching-related discussion networks over the life of an initiative as well as identify factors potentially influencing STEM faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations. Our results have implications for stakeholders promoting and involved in the construction of communities, where faculty have the opportunity to collaboratively learn about teaching and instructional improvements.
Theoretical perspective
We employ second-generation cultural-historical activity theory (Engeström, 2009; Leont'ev, 1981), which orients our analysis to the 'activity' of teaching-related conversations. Activities are collective actions shaped and defined by the multivoicedness of those involved (Engeström, 2009; Foot, 2014). Activities are also shaped by culture, in that all human actions are affected by "cultural values and resources," as well as history, since "cultures are grounded in histories, and evolve over time" (Foot, 2014, p. 3). We employ second-generation cultural-historical activity theory as a heuristic tool for identifying factors potentially impacting STEM faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations and for interpreting an initiative's influence on teaching-related conversations.
The heart of second-generation cultural-historical activity theory is the activity system (Engeström, 2014). Activity systems have six interacting components that shape the activity (Fig. 1). Subjects, or the actors engaged in the activity, utilize tools to facilitate action towards the object of the activity system. The object can be described by different facets: It is "a thing-to-be-acted-upon," an objectified motive (which describes why the object is interacted with), and a desired outcome (which describes the intent from interacting with the object) (Foot, 2014, p. 10). For example, a STEM faculty member (i.e., a subject) might use Skype (i.e., a tool) to talk with colleagues to align content between courses (i.e., the desired outcome). The community of an activity system consists of the people who "share with the subject an interest in and involvement with the same object" (Foot, 2014, p. 6). For example, STEM faculty work with others in an institution of higher education, including administrators, faculty of various positions (e.g., associate professors, assistant professors, professors, and instructors), and students (e.g., undergraduate and graduate students). These community members have the potential to shape the 'activity' of teaching-related conversations, since they may have different motivations to engage in teaching-related conversations.
Activity system components and connections. This figure is based on conceptualizations of second-generation cultural-historical activity theory in Engeström (2014) and Engeström (2009)
Rules also shape action within an activity system. For example, STEM faculty may believe it is part of their job to publish and communicate disciplinary research but not part of their job to talk with others about teaching. This 'rule' might stem from official promotion and tenure guidelines that place an emphasis on research over teaching. It might also be more implicit, such as faculty perceiving that engaging in teaching-related conversations is out of the norm and, thus, should be a limited activity. Work is also divided differently among community members, resulting in a division of labor or different roles. For example, tenure-track STEM faculty might be expected to conduct discipline-specific research whereas tenure ineligible (e.g., fixed-term or instructional) faculty might be expected to deliver more teaching. Faculty who are assigned more teaching responsibilities may engage in more teaching-related conversations, since teaching is a larger portion of their formal position descriptions.
In an activity system, contradictions or tensions can occur when components, such rules and roles, are at odds (Engeström, 2014). For example, both tenure-track and fixed-term STEM faculty might want to engage in teaching-related conversations, but a department 'rule' excludes fixed-term faculty from meetings where teaching policies are discussed. Identifying contradictions provides opportunities to address tensions inhibiting activity (Foot, 2014). Cultural-historical activity theory helps us consider the components of the activity system that have the potential to influence faculty connections with community members in the 'activity' of teaching-related conversations -- and how those conversations might be affected by an institution-wide, instructional improvement initiative. When we locate possible tensions in the activity system, we can suggest improvements to support faculty members' engagement in teaching-related conversations.
Our research is guided by the question, How do STEM faculty engage in teaching-related conversations within the context of an institution of higher education with an ongoing instructional improvement initiative? We explore the following three subquestions:
Why do STEM faculty, at an institution of higher education, engage with community members around teaching-related topics? What components of the activity system potentially influence STEM faculty engagement in the 'activity' of talking about teaching-related topics?
How has an instructional improvement initiative influenced STEM faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations? How has an initiative influenced STEM faculty engagement in the 'activity' of talking about teaching-related topics?
How have STEM faculty networks, wherein faculty discuss teaching-related topics with community members, changed over the life of an initiative?
Participant sample and research setting
The participants in this study were fourteen STEM faculty working at an institution of higher education classified as a doctoral university with the highest research activity (Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, n.d.). The data in this paper are part of a larger, Institutional Review Board (IRB)-approved study to research and evaluate an instructional improvement initiative, which aimed to improve teaching in large-enrollment, first- and second-year STEM courses in seven units (i.e., departments or schools) across two colleges. For this paper, we use data from interviews with STEM faculty, concerning their teaching experiences and perceptions, as well as data from two social network surveys concerning STEM faculty members' conversations about teaching-related topics. Data from the fourteen STEM faculty who completed both interviews and two social network surveys (early- and late-project) form the basis for this study. Participants worked in both colleges and five of the seven units targeted by the initiative.
The initiative, which began in early 2014, intended to foster instructional changes by leveraging the distributed expertise of faculty across targeted STEM units. This included supporting and creating communities, both within and between units, where STEM faculty could share and learn evidence-based instructional practices. Evidence-based instructional practices encouraged by the initiative included interactive student engagement, student collaboration and cooperative learning, and frequent formative feedback to inform students' learning and instruction. Faculty were also encouraged to propose topics of interest in initiative-supported activities. Communities supported by the initiative included: a) an elective practitioner inquiry program, where STEM faculty conducted small scale (i.e., classroom-based) research projects to inform teaching improvements; b) a learning assistant program, where undergraduate students learned pedagogy and applied that understanding to help peers learn STEM concepts; c) larger socials three times a year, open to all faculty, to discuss and learn relevant teaching-related topics; and d) regular meetings between initiative designers/leaders and unit faculty. Table 1 lists participants' pseudonyms, professional positions, and the level of involvement they indicated they had in the initiative.
Table 1 List of Participants, Participants' Professional Positions, and Participants' Involvement in the Initiative
We collected both interview and survey data from STEM faculty participants. Interviews helped us explore why faculty engage in teaching-related conversations as well as how an initiative influenced engagement in teaching-related conversations. Survey data helped us understand with whom faculty talk about teaching and how this structure of ties (or social network) changed over time. Combined, these two methods generate an "understanding of how networks matter" and "what mechanisms and conditions figure in when producing certain network outcomes" (Hollstein, 2011, p. 408).
We developed a semi-structured interview protocol to understand STEM faculty members' professional lives related to teaching and the initiative. When determining which faculty to invite to interviews, we considered participation in initiative-related opportunities, participation in other on-campus, evidence-based instructional events, and involvement in unit teaching-related decisions. Nineteen of twenty-one invitees consented to interviews (90% response rate). Staff from a research corporation conducted interviews in the spring of 2017, approximately 3 years after the initiative was implemented.
STEM faculty (administrators, tenure-track faculty, and fixed-term faculty) who worked in units targeted by the initiative were identified via unit webpages and sent an invitation to participate in a five-scale surveyFootnote 1 asking questions related to their teaching profession. This included a social network section. A small amount of previous research suggests the usefulness of social network analysis for understanding STEM faculty members' discussion of teaching-related topics. For example, social network analysis can suggest how teaching-related ideas spread through STEM units targeted by improvement initiatives (Henderson et al., 2018) and can show with whom STEM faculty talk, towards identifying potential leaders of change efforts (Quardokus & Henderson, 2015; Knaub, Henderson, & Quardokus Fisher, 2018). Furthermore, social network analysis can show what teaching-related topics STEM faculty of different professional positions talk about (Quardokus Fisher, Sitomer, Bouwma-Gearhart, & Koretsky, 2019).
The first survey was completed in the fall of 2014, shortly after the initiative was first funded. The second survey was completed in the spring of 2017, approximately 3 years after the initiative started. The 2014 survey was completed by 141 of 262 faculty (response rate of 54%)Footnote 2 and the 2017 survey was completed by 123 of 329 facultyFootnote 3 (response rate of 37%). We used the data from the social network sections of these surveys, which asked faculty to list up to 10 people with whom they talk (hereafter referred to as 'discussion partners') about teaching-related topics, with follow-up questions about discussion partners and the nature of these conversations.
Interview and social network data were analyzed in iterations, allowing comparison of emerging inferences from the social network data and themes, or codes, from interview transcripts. The authors met regularly to discuss analyses, brainstorming how each set of data offered information on how participants engaged in teaching-related conversations.
Interview Analysis
To understand why STEM faculty engage with community members around teaching-related topics, the first author coded transcripts using the open coding methods described in Auerbach and Silverstein (2003). The first author shared emergent codes with the other authors for comments and edits. This peer debriefing allowed checking of codes, towards adding validity to the findings (Creswell, 2014). The first author conducted a second round of coding using the Dedoose analysis platform. Rereading interview transcripts and, keeping in mind the emergent codes constructed during the first round of coding, textual excerpts were re-sorted and grouped under previous codes. Codes were amended and new codes were created, as needed. Coauthors again discussed and resolved differing interpretations of codes. Finalized codes were considered in light of cultural-historical activity theory via memos and coauthor discussions. This illuminated how codes related to the components (i.e., rules, etc.) of second-generation cultural-historical activity theory. Cultural-historical activity theory was used as a heuristic tool to organize results and explore how activity system components (e.g., rules) potentially influence teaching-related conversations.
The final codebook included code names, definitions, and excerpts used to build and define codes. Three main decisions regarding what excerpts to include in the final codebook narrowed the focus to answer the research questions. First, excerpts related to teaching undergraduates, such as giving formative or summative feedback or helping students during office hours, were not included. While these activities might broadly constitute 'engaging in teaching-related conversations,' we dubbed them more akin to instructional tasks and, therefore, less useful in capturing how faculty talk about teaching-related topics, including instructional improvements, with community members. Second, participant comments about attending meetings, events, professional development opportunities, etc. were not included, unless participants explicitly stated or implied that these events served as opportunities to communicate with others around teaching-related topics. This is because some instructional improvement events may have sought more prescribed outcomes, for example via top-down dissemination of curriculum and pedagogy, and thus not have been spaces where faculty discussed teaching-related practices and beliefs. Third, excerpts where participants mentioned ways the initiative influenced teaching-related conversations were only included. In other words, we did not include participant perspectives about how the initiative generally impacted them professionally or personally, unless these impacts related to our focus on engagement in teaching-related conversations.
Social network responses from the 2014 and 2017 surveys were analyzed to understand how STEM faculty networks, representing discussions about teaching-related topics with community members, changed over the life of an initiative. We first created ego network sociograms using the 2017 and 2014 social network responses. Ego networks focus our analysis on the set of actors (i.e., STEM faculty) and the ties among them (i.e., the connections that represent teaching-related discussions) (Prell, 2012). Ego network actors only include faculty who were invited to take the survey, since we cannot make assumptions about network connections for those not invited.Footnote 4 That said, we noted one person who was not invited to complete a 2014 survey but who was still identified by five faculty as someone with whom they discuss teaching-related topics. Given the frequency with which this person was mentioned, we decided to include this person in our networks. In summation, our 2014 and 2017 ego networks include: 1) the fourteen faculty participants; 2) with whom participants reported talking about teaching and learning at this institution; 3) other faculty (participants of the larger study and evaluation of the initiative) who spoke with one or more of our fourteen participants; and 4) the relevant ties between these community members.
We assumed nondirectional ties between faculty and we represented a reported tie with a value of '1' and the absence of a tie with a value of '0.' Metrics are affected by network size and response rate, so we compared the 2014 and 2017 networks. We found that the two networks were similar in size: The 2014 network included 58 faculty and the 2017 network included 50 faculty. The response rates were also relatively similar: The 2014 network had a response rate of 86% and the 2017 network had a response rate of 78%. While 100% response rate is obviously preferred, around 80% response rate is the conventional 'low bar' for social network analysis (Henderson et al., 2018) and our networks are around this value. Due to the relatively close size of the networks and the reasonably high response rates, we determined that it was appropriate to compare the networks. However, size and response rate are still considered in our interpretation of results.
To understand how STEM faculty networks changed over the life of an initiative, we compared the 2014 and the 2017 networks. First, we looked for changes in network cohesiveness, or changes in the interconnectedness of the networks. Networks that are more cohesive are more likely to have a shared understanding of teaching-related topics (Quardokus & Henderson, 2015). Per Prell's (2012) recommendation, we calculated four metrics of network cohesiveness: density, centralization, diameter, and average distance (heretofore referred to as 'average path length'). Each metric provides a slightly different interpretation of interconnectedness. Density describes how many ties a network has compared to all possible ties. A high density score (maximum of '1') represents a more cohesive network and a low density score (minimum of '0') represents a less cohesive network. Centralization is a measure of the "extent to which one actor in a network is holding all the ties in that network" (Prell, 2012, p. 169). A network with a low centralization score has more equally distributed ties between faculty while a network with a high centralization score has ties mostly connected to one or a few faculty member(s). Next, we calculated average path length and diameter (Wasserman & Faust, 1994). Path length represents the number of ties by which two actors are separated. Average path length represents the average of the shortest path lengths between all pairs of actors. Diameter is similar to path length and average path length: It reports the longest of the shortest path lengths between any pairs of actors. We calculated each of these cohesiveness metrics for the 2014 and 2017 networks so we could compare the cohesiveness over time, or compare the extent faculty talked with others about teaching-related topics in 2014 and 2017. A network with consistent interpretations of cohesiveness across the four metrics suggests greater cohesiveness than one with inconsistent interpretations of cohesiveness across metrics.
We also compared the types of faculty ties for each participant, to explore changes in intra- and extra-unit discussion partners. Specifically, we counted the number of ties each participant had to faculty within their unit and outside of their unit in 2014 and 2017. Combined with the cohesiveness calculations, these analyses helped us interpret the extent participants' discussion partners (with whom they talk about teaching) changed over the life of an initiative.
We note limitations that define the boundaries of our research, towards inspiring future studies to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of STEM faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations and instructional improvement efforts. First, a limitation of the social network data is that some participants reported talking to partners or others outside of the institution, but these discussions are not incorporated into our networks because extra-institutional discussion partners did not participate in our study and because our focus is on STEM faculty engagement in conversations in the context of an institution of higher education. Future research could illuminate the larger landscape of faculty conversations concerning teaching, including those potentially happening at disciplinary conferences, in national professional development workshops, and with family. Our exploratory study also took place at one institution with one improvement initiative targeting a limited number of STEM disciplines. Future research may want to compare faculty experiences across institutions and initiatives to better diagnose the factors influencing faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations.
Additionally, we have more fixed-term than tenure-track faculty participants in our study. This was, in part, due to our criteria for participants who were involved in the initiative that explicitly targeted courses that fixed-term faculty most often teach at this institution, those being large-enrollment, first- and second-year STEM courses. We acknowledge that our study proportion of fixed-term to tenure track faculty may not be representative of STEM units, colleges, and the institution. Future research might compare the experiences of tenure-track and fixed-term faculty in instructional improvement initiatives and professional development opportunities, particularly those targeting involvement of faculty of different professional positions.
Last, the authors helped with the design of the initiative based on research data, with the third author specifically leading some initiative activities. While some may consider it a bias threat to work so closely with an initiative, we argue that this insider perspective gives vital, in-depth knowledge about the initiative and the participants targeted by the initiative. To adequately understand how an initiative is planned and implemented, as well as the experiences of those engaged in it, researchers may not have the luxury of being 'entirely removed' from influencing it.
We first present results related to our first two research subquestions, which were informed by analysis of interviews with STEM faculty. We then present results for our third research subquestion, which was informed by social network analysis.
Why Do Faculty Talk About Teaching-Related Topics?
Analysis of interviews with STEM faculty revealed factors that have the potential to shape the activity of teaching-related conversations at an institution of higher education (Fig. 2). Participants suggested that an objective of engaging in teaching-related conversations was to compare teaching practices as well as find support in comfortable and safe conversations. For example, Alexis explained that talking to faculty about teaching-related practices has been "one of the most fruitful things because we look at how the other person delivers something and we say why did you deliver it that way, I would have delivered it this way, and we have conversations that illuminate different ways to think about the delivery of content." Ellery found that this support created a "space for people to feel comfortable reflecting on their teaching." This suggests that faculty may be inclined to engage in teaching-related conversations to learn about a variety of teaching approaches within supportive spaces.
The components of the activity system that potentially influence STEM faculty engagement in the activity of talking about teaching-related topics. The number of participants who contributed interview excerpts to each code is given by n
Participants spoke of 'tools,' or opportunities to converse with others about teaching-related topics. These included organized events inside the institution (e.g., through the teaching and learning center) and events specifically related to their STEM program and/or unit (e.g., collaborating with others around unit courses). Participants also spoke of opportunities outside of the institution where teaching-related topics have the potential of being discussed, such as conferences or in professional organizations. Participants additionally discussed opportunities more difficult to locate with respect to the institution, where teaching-related topics might be discussed (e.g., education-related grant work). This suggests faculty may use or have access to a vast array of opportunities where they engage in teaching-related conversations and, potentially, learn about instructional improvements.
Participants also suggested 'rules' that might influence engagement in teaching-related conversations, including the extent the institution, unit, and/or academia supported talking about teaching with colleagues. For example, Charlie noted there being an "element of like we don't talk about our teaching at the higher ed, it's just something that we do. We don't necessarily talk about that at our faculty meetings." Blair offered a different perspective, describing an "overall picture [in their unit]" that faculty engage in best teaching practices and teaching improvements. While these views seem to be at odds with each other, Alexis provided an explanation for the variability:
...depends on what [unit] and what [institution] you're in as to what sort of motivations you have to have these kinds of conversations to make these kinds of changes. [This institution] in general, and I don't have a lot to compare it to, I think is very supportive in improving education and getting together having conversations and spending some of your time actually thinking carefully about how you teach and how you could improve on that, but you see some variability inside different [units].
Some participants indicated wanting more regulations, or policies, supporting teaching improvements and related conversations. For example, Charlie noted that they were busy and thought that a more cohesive, institutional vision regarding instructional improvement initiatives might help them use their time more effectively:
[W]e've got all these things and all these different people are working on it, but it's almost like we're not focused enough to really figure out what it is we really want to do. So I feel like there needs to be some sort of master plan about all these education initiatives and that kind of includes [this initiative] and how we think about where we as an institution are and how we as an institution move forward and I feel like a lot of it hasn't been an institutional think tank, it's been kind of from the bottom up, which has value, but I think at some point we've got to get to that institutional level think tank where we can make some sense of all this stuff. Honestly, I have a lot on my plate and sometimes it's just overwhelming.
Participants also talked about the varying degrees of autonomy they have with teaching-related tasks, which has potential to shape teaching-related conversations since areas of less autonomy may necessitate collaboration. Almost all participants spoke about having autonomy over how to teach, like Blake who explained, "[H] ow and what we teach is fairly decided [by] us, the instructors." Many participants also described little autonomy over what they teach (e.g., course content). As Blair explained:
[With the introductory courses], not much [autonomy] for the curriculum. We have content curriculum to cover, our preparation for students continuing in the [STEM disciplines], understanding key physical concepts, pretty much dictates the curriculum.
Relatedly, participants spoke about needing to coordinate course curriculum with other instructors. For example, when asked how much autonomy they have over what they teach and how they teach, Avery explained:
So basically what I teach very little [autonomy], because we discuss this and we have a lower division curriculum group that meets every 3 weeks and we talk about curriculum, what has to go on there, so basically we all agree on which parts go where.
Similarly, Alexis added that the curriculum they covered was constrained because a change would mean "about twelve or thirteen [institutions of higher educationFootnote 5] that would change and shift as well [...] So in that sense I can't make much changes as to what particular topics we cover."
Some participants also indicated having autonomy over course assignments, like Drew who explained they had "flexibility in what I get to teach, yeah, lots of flexibility." A couple of participants specifically talked about having autonomy when teaching upper-division and graduate courses, such as Drew who reflected, "For the most part like upper-division courses and graduate-level courses I feel like I have a lot of autonomy in what I teach and how I teach." Collectively, these excerpts suggest that STEM faculty may have great autonomy concerning how to teach, but not necessarily what content to teach (unless, as some participants suggested, they are teaching upper-division or graduate-level courses). Identifying areas where faculty have teaching-related autonomy helps us understand potential motivations for engaging in teaching-related conversations, such as needing to align course content with community members.
Ellery brought up another 'rule' that has the potential to shape teaching-related conversations. Specifically, Ellery spoke at length about how STEM faculty cannot openly need help with their teaching, or how it is challenging to earnestly lack teaching-related knowledge. Ellery viewed this as an existing "value judgment that can be implicit" in talking with others about evidence-based instructional practices. "[I] t seems to me," Ellery explained, "that telling someone there's a right way to do it and you're doing it the wrong way is anathema [inaudible] interaction, and it's a hard thing to balance." They elaborated that this vulnerability might stem from a lack of recognition, across the unit, of the complexity of teaching:
I think some of the disconnect is the imposter syndrome thing [inaudible] of you're younger or somehow a lower status it's really hard to believe that anyone else is as overwhelmed as you. You just, you know, do the [inaudible] job based on your research ability and that's great and then all of a sudden you find yourself in front of like four five college students you're supposed to teach [a STEM subject] and you're like oh shit, I don't know how to do this, and it's hard to admit. So acknowledging is a really hard thing and it's important to us, so much more important that we don't have time to...You know when you ask for directions and someone is like how did you end up here, and it's like come on dude, I admit it, I'm lost, help me. I'm not going to go through all the poor decisions I made [inaudible]. So really if you're a full professor [in this discipline] and you've been doing teaching for thirty years, traditional teaching, learning after thirty years that there's a full body of literature and research that kind of exists that could've made everything better is difficult.
Ellery's excerpts suggest that some STEM faculty may not want to be vulnerable in their lack of teaching-related knowledge: This may dissuade STEM faculty from participating in teaching-related conversations.
Dana suggested another implicit 'rule' related to gender identity and access to teaching-related conversations. Although Dana noted that they talk to other faculty about teaching-related topics, they admitted sometimes feeling dissuaded from contributing since others might not value their comments:
You have to realize too, I said I was a [tenure-track faculty member in a STEM discipline]. I have been here [a long time]. What do you think that makes me? You know, gender-wise, honestly, what do you think, okay, you know I've come into this profession and I've been an outsider. I'm not going to take something I do that's different than what other faculty members do and advertise it. I may be very successful at it, but if I advertise it there will be repercussions. I just don't want to go there anymore. I and the students know this is working really well, that's enough.
Dana's comments add further information on factors that may shape who participates in teaching-related conversations, including the extent faculty may feel able and comfortable to participate based on their identities.
Interviews also revealed community-related aspects that have the potential to influence teaching-related conversations. Specifically, participants described a diverse community, in terms of interests in teaching and making teaching improvements. Many stated or implied that engaging with people who are interested in teaching, value teaching, or want to know how to implement teaching improvements helped foster teaching-related conversations. Speaking to how teaching-related conversations benefit from intrinsically motivated faculty, Avery mused:
[Y] ou really need a group of people that themselves are interested and only when you have a critical mass there, and I think we do have a critical mass here, then more people will get on board. But if [the] administration says this is what you've got to do, people say sure, they'll do it for a little bit, then it disappears. So you really need this local interest and I think a lot of places have that, so I'm not worried about it, but if it's not there for some reason, you cannot build it by force.
Participants also mentioned community members who did not foster teaching-related conversations, such as "lecture-type people," "bullies," faculty who were perceived as having little teaching-related knowledge, and faculty who were uncollaborative. Briar summarized:
It's difficult to have those conversations with people who absolutely believe that standard lecture is the gold standard of teaching. So being open minded about different approaches is certainly encouraging it and the opposite is also true for those who are adamant that standard lecture is [...] it, it's difficult to have a conversation.
Working in a diverse community, with colleagues who are variably interested in teaching and instructional improvements, shapes teaching-related conversations. Our participants suggest that certain community members may be more open to and interested in talking about teaching than others.
Participants also suggested that the community was interested in a plethora of teaching-related topics, indicating that those interested in instructional improvements may want to engage in conversations drawing on a wide range of teaching topics (listed in detail in Fig. 2). "Need is the ultimate encouragement," explained Bowie, commenting on what motivates their conversations with others around course content. "If I don't know how to do something I have to figure out how to do it. So I'll engage resources at that point and people out here are some of my best resources."
Participants also offered information about histories with various community members, which explained some faculty members' teaching-related conversations. For example, Avery and Elliott credited their longevity at the institution as contributing to their teaching-related connections. "There's a whole bunch of history there," Avery explained, elaborating on their previous participation in a discipline-specific teaching preparation program and how this allowed them to become more aware of how "standing in front of the classroom and talk [ing] for fifty minutes is not very effective." Elliott also mentioned working at the institution for many years, in different units: "I've interfaced real closely [with people in these different units]," Elliott explained. "I've consulted a lot. I bring a lot of that into the classroom." This suggests that longevity at the institution as well as sharing teaching-related experiences with others explains some faculty members' engagement in teaching-related conversations.
Relating to the ways roles influence teaching-related conversations, participants mentioned nine education-specific jobs or positions they either engaged in or others held that potentially influence teaching-related conversations. For example, Dallas commented that "most of the [fixed-term faculty] are more interested in and apt to get involved" in collaborative, education-related grants since "particularly for [fixed-term faculty], we do focus on education often more than a lot of the tenure track people." Dane commented on how taking on the role of course coordinator afforded conversations, explaining, "This past year I've been the coordinator for [a STEM course] so I interact with people teaching [this course] in a particular term." A couple of faculty members also talked about how their roles as unit-wide professional development providers helped them work with faculty. For example, Charlie explained that they had "worked with faculty on their professional development, which also allows me to do my own professional development at the same time."
Other participants mentioned specific role-related duties that potentially motivate teaching-related conversations, like Bowie who meets with community members through "doing academic outreach with students." Avery mentioned that their unit hired a community member to do lower-division work who they had "interacted [with] a lot," implying that having a "separate person who's running the labs" helps foster conversations about lab needs. Elliott specifically mentioned talking with another community member about "what kinds of things work, what doesn't work" who was a "social justice leader" and commented on how the professional advancement of faculty committed to changing teaching practices encouraged teaching-related conversations. According to our participants, those in professional positions focused on education shape and potentially foster teaching-related conversations.
Faculty also mentioned role-related aspects that hinder teaching-related conversations, such as time constraints, the perception (held by some) that engaging in teaching-related conversations or improvements is not part of their jobs, and receiving late course assignments. Speaking to time restrictions, Bowie commented:
I don't think there's any villain out there trying to stop this [interactions with others around teaching-related topics] from happening, so there's no evil [inaudible] preventing these things [interactions] from happening, but I think the biggest factor impeding me is my teaching schedule.
Implying that some faculty may feel that engaging in teaching-related conversations is not part of the job, Charlie succinctly stated, "I think a lot of faculty work in isolation." Finally, Drew felt discouraged to engage in teaching-related conversations due to late course assignments:
...sometimes instructors aren't assigned to teach classes, like they don't know what class they're going to teach until like a week before classes start, sometimes 2 days before classes start. So with that, like how can you have meaningful conversations about the course before the term starts.
Finally, participants spoke about how administrative endorsement of improvement efforts or teaching-related conversations could help faculty talk about teaching and, potentially, learn about instructional improvements. As Avery commented, "There is a lot of encouragement from our dean to say 'hey teaching is important' and to support those objectives." Elliott took it one step further and noted needing institutional support, or "intentional university commitment rather than thinking of it as oh, yeah, they do [this discipline-specific education] research over there, they got millions of dollars, they're fine." These excerpts suggest that administrative support could positively influence teaching-related conversations and, optimally, faculty implementation of instructional improvements.
How has an Instructional Improvement Initiative Influenced Faculty Engagement in Teaching-Related Conversations?
Interviews help us understand how the instructional improvement initiative influenced faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations (Fig. 3). Participants offered information on their objectives for participating in initiative-related communities, speaking about how the initiative provided a vital opportunity to connect with interdisciplinary community members at the institution who were interested in education. "I really enjoy getting to know faculty outside my unit," commented Charlie. "That's been really great with [this initiative]." Similarly, Blake commented:
Ways an instructional improvement initiative influenced STEM faculty engagement in the activity of talking about teaching-related topics. The number of participants who contributed interview excerpts for each code is given by n
I certainly did meet new people or get a closer working relationship with a few people through the project and that certainly were here for a long time, so that gives us new people to talk to and perhaps collaborate with, perhaps write grants with, perhaps discuss things with. So that was another good thing.
Participants also spoke about wanting more initiative-related events, continued initiative-related events, and more units' involvement in the initiative. "My biggest suggestion," Dallas offered, "is more opportunities to just get together and talk about and share ideas about teaching and learning with other people in the [initiative]." Avery worried how the end of the initiative might affect these new connections: "Without [the initiative,] how are different [units], are they going to get isolated again, or keep working together, what can we do to keep that momentum going...." A couple of participants also spoke about wanting the initiative to include more units, such as Charlie who explained that "there are certainly a whole lot of other units out there that could benefit from participation in something like this." Talking about teaching with multi-unit community members who are interested in education seemed to motivate faculty participation in initiative events.
While many participants felt that the initiative complemented other teaching improvement efforts, some participants also expressed confusion/exhaustion with respect to the numerous available tools for teaching improvement. Talking about how the initiative had a synergy with other instructional improvement efforts, Charlie stated:
[T]here's been a lot of publicity around our really wonderful teachers and our [evidence-based instructional practices] and all that stuff and I think that's synergistic with some of the other things happening on campus. I think there is change happening across our campus and I think there is big chunks of it that are related to the way that [the initiative] has happened.
That said, Charlie also expressed exhaustion from numerous opportunities to meet with others around teaching improvements:
...maybe I just get involved with too many things, but there have been so many initiatives at [this institution] recently, which is really wonderful, but I feel like they're all like pieces I feel like should be tied together and hasn't yet been done, at least in my mind, and that may be some of the like what the research team of the [initiative] is working on, but that hasn't been transparent to the faculty part of that team. So for me I feel like the institution could use a plan that allows them to see here's all these initiatives and how they relate to each other and here's where we should now go onto target, because we can't just keep targeting large, lower division, high enrollment courses in every initiative that we have, because I can only do so many things. That's how I feel today.
An example of confusion comes from Bowie, who explained that some of the instructional improvement events "blur together, especially because there's so many of the same faces at many of these events." These excerpts suggest that while the initiative was generally thought of as a tool that complemented other instructional improvement efforts, numerous opportunities may have made it challenging for some faculty to want to engage in yet another initiative or differentiate their participation from other events with the same attendees.
Participants also suggested that the initiative may have changed some of the rules influencing engagement in teaching-related conversations. Specifically, a few participants suggested the initiative added value to STEM teaching and learning, like Avery who explained:
I think the strong point about [the initiative] was bringing people together from different disciplines, have them talk to each other and realizing, hey, we have a common goal and we can look to each other for support, even if sometimes, say chairs, might find it strange or why do it, it's working, so you can really help each other to value what you're doing that's the right thing to do, even though someone at the administrative level may say well we need to save money and so we shouldn't do it. So you get some support and say yes, this is important, we have to spend the money on it. It's always about money of course at some point, but it helps the students learn. So I think to me … It's a very important thing the community building part that [the initiative] has done.
However, Ellery commented on how faculty might feel uncomfortable exposing a lack of teaching-related knowledge, explaining that the initiative "had a bit of a chilling effect on some conversations because some people are uncomfortable with it or they have criticisms of it." Ellery said they felt like their unit was interested in talking more about "stuff" like "students and teaching and mentoring and some research and stuff," but that "[n] one of these people go to any of the [initiative] stuff." They speculated:
I'm not sure why that is, but my guess is just a real vulnerability and sensitivity to judgment, that for whatever reason, because of parallel positions or just I'm an amazing person, they don't feel judged in that smaller circle, so there's energy and motivation to engage. For some reason it doesn't transfer over to the large-scale thing. The only sense I can make of that is there's an association of uncomfortable exposure and judgment.
Ellery points to an unease at exposing a lack of teaching-related knowledge as a potential inhibitor to faculty participation in initiative-related events.
Participants also suggested the initiative helped community members meet others and consider, or make, teaching improvements. For example, Charlie explained, "[M] uch like the way science works, it's like by having a community of collaborative individuals we end up being more creative by the end of it, so I think it's an incredibly good way to do it." Avery noticed people in their unit making teaching improvements, inspired by a practitioner inquiry fellow's success:
If we look at our [unit] again, we want to look at our [unit] again, the one instructor who flipped his classroom, definitely there was a lot that was driven by what [the initiative] was doing and a lot of people that are much more traditional you can kind of see them listening, picking up things, and slowly moving in the same direction because they see how it works, you get this consensus which is slowly built and moving on there.
To these participants, the initiative brought faculty together so they could explore, implement, and, as Avery notes, inspire others to consider instructional improvements.
Even still, some participants suggested that the initiative did not influence, or had minimal influence on, some community members' conversations around teaching-related topics or teaching-related improvements. For example, Charlie explained, "I know people who think that's [learning about teaching in a community of collaborative individuals] not how they want to get engaged with this kind of stuff. So I don't know if that would engage everyone. It certainly is a great way to engage me." Alexis similarly confessed to knowing faculty who had attended an initiative-related event and "walked away and they're like, 'I don't feel like, I didn't walk away with one thing that now I know is going to make me a better teacher, so what did I get out of it.'" Dana suggested that the initiative could not influence teaching-related conversations in their unit because, "I don't teach lower-division [classes in my discipline, so] there isn't much communication about teaching at the [unit-]level and I think that's a big flaw of the [unit]. So because of that we're in this state for various reasons and I don't think the [initiative] is going to fix it." When asked if the initiative had any impact on their interactions around teaching, Dana simply noted they "had not noticed [the initiative] at all."Footnote 6 For some faculty, for various reasons, the initiative did not have an influence on their teaching practices or conversations about teaching.
Last, a few faculty members commented on how the initiative helped them efficiently learn about teaching by providing opportunities to collaborate with colleagues, suggesting that initiative-related opportunities catered to their busy roles as STEM faculty. For example, Blake commented on the efficiency of learning about instructional improvements by talking with colleagues: "I think that I myself and probably lots of people in my position are not going to the literature frequently to look at the next published methodology or whatever, so we're getting a lot of this through interacting with our colleagues." This suggests that making space and time to learn about teaching, amidst busy faculty roles, was a positive aspect of the initiative for some faculty.
How have STEM faculty networks, representing faculty discussions about teaching-related topics, changed over the life of an initiative?
To illuminate how teaching-related discussion networks changed over the life of an initiative, we used social network analysis to compare the cohesiveness of faculty networks in 2014 and 2017 (Fig. 4). To help us understand and compare network cohesiveness, we calculated four metrics of interconnectedness (density, centralization, diameter, and average path length) as well as the number of in-unit and out-of-unit ties for each participant. Density calculations indicated that the 2014 network contained 5.3% of the total potential ties and the 2017 network contained 6.2% of the total potential ties. Although we anticipate density might be most affected by the different network sizes, the densities of the 2014 and 2017 networks (0.053 with 58 faculty and 0.062 with 50 faculty, respectively) are very similar. For this reason, we conclude that density has not changed remarkably between the two networks, indicating no change in this dimension of cohesiveness. Next, the centralization was 0.127 in both the 2014 and 2017 networks, indicating no change in the extent ties centralized around any faculty member. Furthermore, the low centralization value indicates that ties were relatively distributed throughout the network, instead of centralized around one faculty member. Last, the diameter and average path length were 17 and 6.522 in 2014 and 9 and 3.96 in 2017, respectively. The 2017 diameter of 9 indicates that all pairs of faculty members were connected by a path with a length no greater than 9 ties and the average of all the paths between faculty pairs was 4. The decreases in diameter and average path length are also visually evident in Fig. 4, where it is apparent that the path lengths between any two faculty are shorter in 2017 than 2014. This indicates that the extent ties were interconnected increased over time.
The networks of teaching-related conversations amongst faculty using data from the 2014 (top) and 2017 (bottom) surveys. Symbols represent the fourteen participants in this study and participants not in this study but who were identified as part of the network of teaching-related conversations. Lines represent ties between faculty, meaning they connect faculty wherein one or both reported engaging in teaching-related conversations. Symbol shapes and colors represent different units in the institution of higher education
We pause here to consider each network's cohesiveness across all four measures. The density and centralization did not significantly change between 2014 and 2017. The diameter and average path length, however, noticeably changed between 2014 and 2017. These latter metrics suggest that the 2017 network is more cohesive than the 2014 network with respect to path length, since teaching-related social ties more closely connect community members in 2017 than in 2014. This suggests that teaching-related knowledge can be more efficiently shared throughout the community compared to when the initiative first started, since the path lengths between any two faculty are shorter than they were in 2014.
Last, we consider the unit affiliations of with whom participants reported talking in 2014 and 2017 (Table 2). We found that all participants, in 2014 and 2017, reported talking with more faculty in their units than outside of their units. In fact, six participants reported talking only with unit members in 2014 and 2017. Four participants reported talking with more faculty outside of their units in 2017 than in 2014, one participant reported talking with the same number of faculty outside of their unit in 2017 and 2014, and three participants reported talking with fewer faculty outside of their units in 2017 than 2014. This data suggests that although networks became more cohesive in 2017, this cohesiveness was not necessarily due to any obvious changes in discussion partners' unit affiliations.
Table 2 Number of Community Members with whom Participants Talked about Teaching in 2014 and 2017
Education researchers have called for greater opportunities for educators to learn about evidence-based instructional practices in collaboration with others in their institutional communities (Bouwma-Gearhart, 2012a; Henderson, Beach, & Finkelstein, 2011; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2016). We investigated how STEM faculty engage in teaching-related conversations within the context of an institution of higher education with an ongoing instructional improvement initiative, as well as the extent discussion partners changed over time. Participants communicated various rationales for engaging in teaching-related conversations, suggesting how rules for appropriate behavior, roles and associated duties, and community-related aspects might shape STEM faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations in general and in light of an instructional improvement initiative. We found that faculty were motivated to engage in teaching-related conversations to compare teaching practices and find teaching-related support in comfortable and safe conversations and that the initiative helped create an interdisciplinary, teaching-focused community they may have felt they lacked. Some participants even desired more initiative-related events, continued initiative-related events, and more units' involvement in the initiative, further suggesting that the initiative spoke to faculty desires to grow their knowledge of, and connect with, the teaching-interested community at their institution. We also learned that faculty were aware of many different tools they could use (and were using) to engage in teaching-related conversations, including those within STEM units, inside the institution, and outside the institution. Many participants felt the initiative complemented existing teaching/improvement efforts, although some felt confusion or expressed exhaustion with respect to the numerous available tools for teaching improvement.
To illuminate how teaching-related discussion networks changed over the life of an initiative, we used social network analysis to compare the cohesiveness, or interconnectedness, of faculty networks in 2014 (shortly after the initiative was implemented) and 2017 (about three years after the initiative was implemented). Results suggest that the 2017 network was more cohesive than the 2014 network, indicating that teaching-related knowledge could be more efficiently shared throughout the community compared to when the initiative was implemented. We also found that participants, in both 2014 and 2017, talked with more faculty in their units than outside of their units and that most participants experienced different changes in terms of with whom they talked about teaching. However, comparing changes in the unit affiliation of discussion partners showed no noticeable trends representing all faculty (e.g., not all participants reported talking to more discussion partners outside of their unit in 2017 than in 2014).
Salient system tensions potentially inhibiting teaching-related conversations
We now turn to a discussion of system tensions that might impact teaching-related conversations and propose recommendations for stakeholders.
STEM faculty have autonomy with respect to teaching practices
Many participants reported great autonomy with how to teach, which may be particularly true for those teaching upper-division/graduate-level courses. This reality may inhibit conversations specifically about teaching practices since there is not a need to discuss, learn, and implement specific pedagogy, such as evidence-based instructional practices. At the same time, some participants reported having little autonomy over what to teach, sometimes due to the need to coordinate courses with other instructors or institutions. This suggests that faculty might be more inclined to have teaching-related conversations when they feel that content needs to be aligned.
We speculate that conversations about teaching practices may also be more effort-intensive since they might necessitate faculty elucidate teaching rationales to explain or justify how they teach. Pedagogical training is likely varied amongst faculty and faculty may have different comfort levels in terms of engaging in conversations about teaching practices, particularly if they perceive threats to acknowledging a lack of adequate teaching-related knowledge. This might be particularly true for faculty whose perception of institution or unit climate, culture, or norms leads them to conclude that teaching-related conversations are not supported. Thus, talking with community members about aligning course content may be an easier conversation in which to engage STEM faculty since it may not or may limitedly involve discussion about how to teach course content.
This tension provides insight into our social network findings. In both 2017 and 2014, participants reported more discussions with community members within their units than outside of their units and we expect that intra-unit conversations might be focused on aligning content because faculty might have to coordinate curriculum and may be more comfortable having these types of conversations. Similar findings in previous research on the same initiative supports this interpretation: STEM faculty members tend to talk about day-to-day needs and not necessarily system-level topics that influence teaching practice (Quardokus Fisher, Sitomer, Bouwma-Gearhart, & Koretsky, 2019).
Community members have varying levels of interest in teaching-related improvements
Participants reported working in a community where colleagues were diversely interested in teaching-related improvements. Faculty spoke about engaging in teaching-related discussions with community members who were interested in teaching, valued teaching, or wanted to know how to implement teaching improvements. These types of community members, our participants suggested, seemed more approachable for teaching-related conversations. Also, those with a professional position focused on teaching might afford teaching-related conversations: If there are formal expectations that a faculty member's main efforts should be delivering quality teaching to students (e.g., as it might be for fixed-term faculty, faculty specifically coordinating courses, etc.), a faculty member may be more inclined to seek out and participate in teaching-related conversations. Conversely, some members in the community were perceived as only willing to lecture, possessing little teaching-related knowledge and, at times, unable to engage in civil conversations about teaching improvements. These types of community members, our participants suggested, generally inhibited teaching-related conversations.
Our 2014 and 2017 networks show with whom STEM faculty talk about teaching-related topics and may identify community members who generally welcome teaching-related conversations. Our 2014 and 2017 social network analyses (via decreases in average path length and diameter over time) suggest enhanced community interconnectedness and, thus, enhanced ability to expediently share teaching-related information among involved faculty. Considering these findings and the many participant excerpts on how the initiative helped create an interdisciplinary, teaching-focused community, we believe the initiative, amongst a variety of other instructional improvement efforts, helped faculty who wanted to engage in teaching-related conversations gain a better awareness of with whom they could connect.
Varying levels of support are typically given to STEM faculty to engage in teaching-related conversations
Participants had varied perceptions about the amount of support they felt to engage in teaching-related conversations, which likely influences engagement in teaching-related conversations. In some instances, participants generally indicated a 'culture' in academia affecting teaching-related conversations, although specific aspects of culture were not often specified. Others indicated more detailed and localized 'climate' or 'norms' (e.g., administrators supporting teaching-related conversations) that they felt influenced conversations. This nuance is worth considering because factors associated with climate (e.g., a current department chair) are potentially quicker and easier to change than those comprising organizational culture (e.g., faculty promotion and tenure-related norms) (Walter et al., 2014).
Relatedly, participants suggested that administrative support for teaching improvements and/or teaching-related conversations could help foster teaching discussions. This highlights the powerful role administrators play, in terms of supporting faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations. Our data suggest that if administrators promoted/implemented policies, or even informally supported educators' engagement in teaching-related conversations and instructional improvement efforts (e.g., a department head commending faculty efforts to incorporate evidence-based instructional practices during a department meeting), faculty might be more inclined to engage in teaching-related conversations.
Furthermore, some faculty perceived working in roles that did not support teaching-related conversations. For example, participants reported having too little time to spend on teaching, suggesting that other aspects of their roles might be privileged over teaching. Also, some faculty suggested that there may be a perception that teaching-related improvements and/or engaging in teaching-related conversations were simply not a part of, or not an important part of, their roles. Last, one faculty member commented on how late course assignments inhibited teaching-related conversations, suggesting that simply notifying faculty about teaching assignments earlier could support engagement in teaching-related conversations.
When we consider these findings in light of the social networks, we note how density and centralization did not change between 2014 and 2017. If density increased in 2017, it might suggest faculty increased their numbers of discussion partners. Little change in density might be likely because, as our interviewees indicated, STEM faculty are busy or prioritize other responsibilities, and thus might be limited in the number of community members with whom they connect. Additionally, STEM faculty might feel inhibited to increase their teaching-related discussion partners because some may believe that engaging in teaching-related improvements is unsupported by their roles and/or the culture/climate of their workplace.
STEM faculty may lack inclusive and judgment-free spaces to talk about teaching
A couple of participants indicated that not all opportunities to talk about teaching were inclusive and judgment-free. One of our participants hinted at feeling like an outsider, since they identify with a gender underrepresented in STEM/academia, explaining that this dissuaded them from contributing to conversations about teaching practices and experiences. Perhaps this should not be surprising, as previous research has noted that educators with identities underrepresented in STEM often face discrimination or hostile work environments (National Academies of Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering, 2018). Also, one participant suggested that STEM faculty might want to hide teaching-related issues or a lack of teaching experience. This participant further speculated that this might keep some community members from participating in the initiative. These perspectives suggest 'rules' inhibiting all community members from participating in teaching-related conversations and 'rules' describing the degree they can openly share teaching knowledge with community members.
Recommendations for stakeholders, towards fostering faculty communication around instruction
Looking across the results of our research questions and tensions potentially inhibiting teaching-related conversations helps us suggest recommendations for those designing and implementing instructional improvement initiatives as well as unit leaders and STEM faculty. This is particularly true for those attempting to foster instructional improvements via communities, where faculty can collaboratively share and learn about teaching practices and instructional improvements.
Uncover and leverage faculty members' interests in diverse teaching-related topics
Participants indicated that faculty are busy and have autonomy in terms of deciding how to teach, which might be a barrier to engaging them in instructional improvement work (including via faculty communities). Given these considerations, it is perhaps of great importance that initiative leaders, designers, and administrators cater to faculty members' teaching needs and interests, which our participants indicated are plentiful and diverse, when designing and implementing instructional improvement opportunities (as also noted in Bouwma-Gearhart, 2012b; Bouwma-Gearhart, Lenz, & Ivanovitch, 2019; Oleson & Hora, 2014). If faculty view learning communities as places where they can converse with others around teaching-related topics that are useful to their contexts and meet their interests, they might be more likely to engage. Additionally, STEM faculty might consider forming their own learning communities with others who are drawn to learning and discussing the same teaching topics.
Indeed, encouraging faculty to bring their teaching experiences and expertise to conversations can be important in helping them think about how to improve teaching. Specifically, scholars have pointed to the importance of helping STEM faculty realize a "dissatisfaction with the teaching and learning goals established for students, beliefs about students and how they learn, and beliefs about the effectiveness of instructional practices" (Gess- Newsome, Southerland, Johnson, & Woodbury, 2003, p. 762–763). Faculty might develop such awareness when they make explicit their teaching-related notions and broaden their knowledge of teaching through conversations with other educators. As we discuss below, it is important to elicit and respond to teaching-related experiences, beliefs, and interests with a sense of curiosity and non-judgement to help faculty comfortably and candidly share teaching knowledge.
Acknowledge that faculty may already be involved in opportunities where they engage with others around teaching-related topics
Our participants indicated faculty were involved in a diverse array of instructional improvement opportunities where they might engage in teaching-related conversations, including those within their units, in the institution, and outside of the institution. They also spoke of how the initiative contributed to the momentum of instructional improvement efforts at the institution, further suggesting that participants perceived many instructional improvements underway. One participant even indicated feeling exhausted per being involved in so many improvement opportunities and some participants expressed confusion about what improvement opportunities were part of this specific initiative. Given these findings, we assert that it is important for initiative leaders and designers, particularly those creating and fostering faculty communities, to consider synergizing with other teaching-related improvement efforts. For example, instructional improvement efforts might be coordinated so strategies target different populations of faculty (e.g., fixed-term, tenure-track, etc.) or different teaching foci (e.g., lower-division, upper-division, graduate, etc.).
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Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Ellen Marie Aster
Oregon State Univesity, Corvallis, USA
Jana Bouwma-Gearhart
Florida International University, Miami, USA
Kathleen Quardokus Fisher
EA helped design the study, analyze and interpret data, and write the manuscript. JBG helped design the study, interpret data, and write the manuscript. KQF helped design the study, analyze and interpret the data, and write the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Ellen Marie Aster.
Approval for this study was obtained by the Oregon State University Institutional Review Board.
Aster, E.M., Bouwma-Gearhart, J. & Fisher, K.Q. Contextualizing communities in an instructional improvement initiative: exploring STEM faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations. Discip Interdscip Sci Educ Res 3, 10 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43031-021-00038-7
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Faculty communities | wherein faculty might already invest parts of their limited time in teaching-related conversations. Administrators, instructional improvement designers and leaders, and STEM faculty should consider exchanging knowledge of these opportunities towards guiding additional efforts.
Relatedly, participants talked about wanting more regulations or policies supporting quality teaching, such as making explicit the institution's vision for instructional improvements. Explicit regulations or policies regarding teaching quality could help those creating and implementing instructional improvement initiatives focus efforts around organizational requirements. This would also help faculty see that instructional improvements are valued by the organization and perhaps increase motivation to engage in instructional improvements.
Create spaces where faculty can talk with community members about teaching-related topics
Many participants spoke about how engaging in teaching-related conversations helped them compare teaching practices and find teaching-related support. Additionally, many participants spoke about how they felt the initiative provided important opportunities for them to engage in a faculty community composed of members from across the STEM disciplines. This finding can be related to the decrease in network average path length and diameter, which suggests that faculty were more connected than before. Although we cannot directly link this finding back to the initiative, interview excerpts suggest the initiative was an important part of the STEM instructional improvement efforts that helped faculty meet and exchange teaching-related knowledge with community members across the institution. Our participants suggest that faculty want to have opportunities to connect with others about teaching-related topics and would be interested in engaging in these opportunities.
In fact, several faculty desired more initiative-related events and opportunities, with more units involved. The specific desire to talk with community members outside of one's unit may be a big draw for faculty on the part of their engagement in multidisciplinary, initiative-fostered communities. Relatedly, research has noted that creating opportunities for faculty to engage with others around teaching-related topics may be particularly important for faculty who feel departmentally isolated in terms of their interest in teaching-related topics. Participating in faculty communities can supply faculty with "energy, enthusiasm, encouragement, and affirmation" (Kezar et al., 2017, p. 253) that they may not get in their units. This suggests that initiative leaders and designers consider ways to build, sustain, and grow interdisciplinary faculty communities where educators can meet with STEM faculty across the institution who are interested in collaboratively learning teaching-related topics.
Some participants also offered statements about how initiative-related communities had either contributed to their or others' effective uptake of novel pedagogical practices towards improving student learning. These results mirror those found in Gehrke and Kezar (2016), who found that 70% of their study participants reported altering practices while involved in large-scale STEM communities. Engaging educators in faculty communities, where they might collaboratively learn instructional improvements, can be an effective way to improve postsecondary STEM education.
Also, as a few of our participants noted, engaging in teaching-related conversions could be an efficient way to learn about teaching, especially for busy faculty who do not have extra time to consult the literature. Marketing faculty communities as a way to efficiently learn about evidence-based instructional practices could be a useful way for initiative leaders, designers, and administrators to engage busy faculty in events. If faculty believe that communities can help them address their teaching needs and help them explore their teaching-related interests, they might be more inclined to participate.
Many participants' discussion partners changed in 2014 and 2017, in terms of whether those partners were within the participants' units or outside their units. Social network analysis, specifically diameter and average path length, showed that the networks changed in such a way that teaching-related information could travel through the community by 'going through' fewer people. This suggests that, as interested faculty participate in opportunities with other educators, the overall network of teaching-related discussions might increase in cohesiveness through decreases in diameter and average path length. In other words, with an overall shift of the network to conversations between units, teaching-related knowledge can be more expediently communicated across the institution.
Create spaces for sharing that are inclusive and safe, towards fostering faculty participation in teaching-related conversations
Our results also suggest that conversational opportunities for STEM faculty, where they might share and learn about teaching, must be inclusive and safe. This means any faculty member can air genuine teaching concerns to a respectful and helpful audience. Therefore, initiative leaders, designers, administrators, and STEM faculty constructing opportunities for teaching-related conversations should consider communicating explicit norms for sharing and reception. For example, one norm may be approaching others' comments and experiences with curiosity, not judgment. This may help faculty feel more comfortable sharing genuine teaching-related experiences and knowledge.
Another way to help faculty feel comfortable is to explicitly acknowledge the difficulty of teaching as well the norms for pedagogical training and support provided to some STEM faculty throughout their graduate student years and employment. The reality that pedagogical training is varied among STEM faculty is one to handle delicately so as not to cause push-back that might impede teaching improvement efforts. Faculty members who perceive a lack of teaching skills and knowledge as a professional failing, or perceive others judging these as failings, may be less motivated to engage in teaching improvement efforts. Like others (Bouwma-Gearhart, 2012a), we suggest initiative leaders, designers, and administrators acknowledge and address this norm in teaching-related communities. If faculty know that teaching requires learning, is difficult, and that struggling is part of an educator's growth, they might feel more comfortable admitting to and discussing teaching difficulties. Such explicit acknowledgments help serve as bases for safe professional development spaces for STEM faculty at institutions (Bouwma-Gearhart, 2012a) as well as STEM faculty engaged in large-scale reform efforts (Kezar et al., 2017).
Develop the administrative support that may be necessary to help foster and sustain opportunities for faculty to talk about teaching
Our participants suggested the importance of administrative endorsement of improvement efforts and teaching-related conversations. This suggests that getting buy-in from administrators, who have more powerful roles, is very important to foster and sustain instructional improvement opportunities for faculty to talk with others about teaching. This result echoes that found in previous studies, which have suggested the importance of engaging upper-level administrators in instructional improvement initiatives (Callahan, Pyke, Shadle, & Landrum, 2014; Gehrke & Kezar, 2016).
Specifically, administrators can help foster instructional improvement initiatives by offering support and recognition to STEM faculty working collaboratively to learn about teaching. This support might manifest as modifying environments and structures to allow (and encourage) time for faculty to engage in teaching-related conversations and teaching-related improvements. For example, administrators could explicitly clarify (e.g., include in position descriptions) that time participating in teaching-related conversations (e.g., departmental course meetings) is expected as part of faculty members' duties. This would likely necessitate alleviating faculty time from other tasks, since our participants also lamented being too busy to spend time on teaching. Another example is unit administrators working with instructional improvement leaders and designers to create required pedagogical professional development opportunities for new faculty. Through such administrative support, STEM faculty might feel more inclined to participate in teaching-related discussions and consider instructional improvements.
Studying STEM faculty experiences in instructional improvement efforts: reflections on combining social network and interview analysis
We close our discussion with brief but critical thought about using social network and interview analysis to understand how STEM faculty engage in teaching-related conversations. Analysis of social networks illuminated how the teaching-related connections STEM faculty had with discussion partners created a larger network, and how this network's cohesiveness changed over time. However, social network analysis did not illuminate STEM faculty members' rationales for engaging in teaching-related conversations. To understand this aspect, we analyzed interviews with STEM faculty. We argue that this combination of methods provided a more robust, yet effort-intensive, picture of how STEM faculty engage in teaching-related conversations at an institution of higher education with an ongoing instructional improvement initiative. If we had limited our study to social network analysis, we likely would have observed changes in cohesiveness due to path length but would not have been able to interpret this change. Our interviews help uncover the context STEM faculty work in, showing a diverse community with variable motivations and opportunities to participate in teaching-related conversations. Conversely, if we had only used interview data, we may not have known the extent the network of discussion partners changed over time.
Participants suggested they wanted to engage in teaching-related conversations to compare teaching practices and find support in comfortable and safe conversations. Our study suggests that the initiative helped them do this, via creating spaces for an interdisciplinary community of faculty to come together to talk about teaching-related topics. While it may not have influenced all faculty members' engagement in teaching-related conversations, those who participated in initiative-related events largely saw the initiative as very impactful towards adding value to STEM teaching and learning and helping community members meet others to consider and/or make teaching improvements. Furthermore, the network representing discussion partners (or, with whom faculty talked about teaching) grew more interconnected over the life of the initiative. This suggests that teaching-related knowledge can be more expediently distributed throughout the network. We suggest that combining social network analysis with interviews is a fruitful, albeit time-intensive method for the robust study of how STEM faculty engage in teaching-related conversations.
Our study explored STEM faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations at an institution of higher education with an ongoing teaching improvement initiative. We found tensions that may influence faculty engagement in teaching-related conversations and discussed these results in light of faculty members' discussion networks. We suggest initiative leaders and designers consider creating spaces where faculty can talk with colleagues, across the institution of higher education, about teaching. Discussions about teaching-related topics should be inclusive and safe to help faculty feel like they can air real teaching-related concerns and insights to respectful and responsive listeners. Our study also shows that STEM faculty have a diverse-array of teaching-related interests, which suggests it is particularly important for stakeholders hoping to engage faculty in teaching-related conversations to build off faculty interests and knowledge. Those hoping to foster new faculty communities might also consider working with members across the institution, such as administrators, staff, and STEM faculty, to understand the diverse instructional improvement opportunities STEM faculty may already take part in and focus instructional improvement efforts in areas lacking support. Our study echoes the results of prior research by drawing attention to the importance of administrative support towards fostering and sustaining opportunities for faculty to talk with others about teaching. This study contributes to the important and growing body of research on how to meaningfully engage STEM faculty in instructional improvement opportunities, towards enhancing undergraduate STEM education.
The data that support the findings of this study are available upon request from the corresponding author, EMA. The data are not publicly available due to containing information that could compromise research participant privacy/consent.
This article has been updated to correct the affiliation details of Jana Bouwma-Gearhart.
The first survey also invited three postdocs from one department, because they were instructors of record for lower-division STEM courses.
This count does not include the three postdocs, two of whom completed a 2014 survey and one who was invited, but did not complete, a 2014 survey.
In total, 129 surveys were completed in 2017. However, two surveys were not identifiable (i.e., participants indicated no affiliated unit and did not identify themselves) and three surveys were completed by a faculty member who had already completed a survey. Additionally, one survey was completed by a postdoc, and thus removed from this study.
For example, we cannot make assumptions about network connections to faculty members' partners or faculty at other institutions, since these people were not invited to complete a social network survey.
Although Alexis did not clarify, they might have been speaking to local institutions which students might transfer from.
Although Dane offered similar responses to Dana, not all participants who indicated little to no involvement in the initiative felt like it had no effect. For example, Bowie acknowledged that interactions were "catalyzed by the [initiative]" and explained that they were adapting some pedagogical practices that a colleague, who was involved in the initiative, had implemented. Elliott also commented on observing general instructional improvements at the institution, which they attributed to education research and "the kind of things that [two initiative designers/leaders] do."
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When we're in California, we sometimes always think about favorite meals in Puglia, especially those forever Sunday lunches that seem to stretch right up to the threshold of dinnertime. There's something about a leisurely, collaborative morning in the kitchen, surrounded by the people you love most, that puts a frame around the weekend, closing a chapter before starting a new one again on Monday. So last Sunday, we gathered up friends and family for a Pugliafornia-style Sunday, preparing some of our Pugliese favorites as we put finishing touches on our Pascarosa tour schedule in Puglia this fall.
Orecchiette with tomato sauce (Photo credit: Alyssa Twelker).
Our October 1-7, 2017 trip takes us to the epicenter of Puglia's grape-growing zones, with a particular emphasis on terroir and the relationship between Puglia's authentic, traditional cuisine and its wines. Through chefs, winemakers, butchers, cheese makers, bakers, fishing families and farmers, we'll dive deeply into Puglia's culinary scene. And we'll stay in restored manor homes that resemble small castles, one in the middle of a vineyard, the other with views of the Adriatic Sea. We'll explore Pugliese grape varietals, D.O.C. regions and characteristics and food and wine pairing up and down the boot of Italy. Our hands-on experiences, from handmade pasta making with local grandmothers to a tutorial in organic after-dinner liqueurs made from foraged herbs and flowers, will be led by locals who are passionate about their traditions and can't wait to share them.
Dandelion greens sauteed with olive oil, garlic and peperoncino (Photo credit: Alyssa Twelker).
Since she's co-leading our October 2017 wine-focused tour, Sommelier Alyssa Twelker joined us in the kitchen and behind the camera. Alyssa is a culinary school graduate and wine director at Soif in Santa Cruz, California. She's also a photographer and blogger, so we took advantage of her many talents as we chopped, stirred, fried, boiled, photographed and served our Sunday feast. And since we've planned the October trip to examine the ways Pugliese food and wine complement one another<|fim_middle|> some practical experimentation. Do try this at home.
Zucchini coins deep-fried in extra virgin olive oil with garlic and mint (Photo credit: Alyssa Twelker).
Food and Wine writer Anya von Bremzen calls her weekend adventure in Puglia " . . . one of the best gastronomic experiences of my life." We agree wholeheartedly. If you have even the slightest interest in joining us, learn more about the trip's itinerary and how to sign up. And in the meantime, why not plan your own Sunday lunch with family and friends? Start with polpette (meatballs), Puglia's iconic addition to Italy's all-day feast, then build the rest of menu with whatever is seasonal. We served our polpette with a classic tomato sauce, including orecchiette (naturally) as the first course. The polpette stole the show as the second course, not counting the many meatballs that somehow disappeared between the kitchen and service in the dining room. We rounded things out with another Pugliese classic, fave e cicoria (recipe here), zucchini fritti and a salad of bitter winter greens. And there was a lot of deep, dark Pugliese wine. Because Puglia.
Polpette della Nonna (Grandmother's Meatballs) with tomato sauce served as the second (of many) courses (Photo credit: Alyssa Twelker).
Raw ingredients for meatballs just before mixing with our hands.
Add all ingredients except the extra virgin olive oil to a mixing bowl. Using your hands and a very light touch, combine the meat, eggs, parsley, fresh breadcrumbs, cheeses, white wine, salt and pepper. Be careful not to mix too vigorously—the meatballs will be tough if they are overmixed.
Pour the olive oil into a saucepan to a depth of 1 inch. Heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. If you are uncertain about the meatballs' seasoning, test a small amount of the meat mixture in the olive oil by forming a tiny meatball. Once this test meatball is fried, taste it and adjust seasoning in the rest of the meat mixture accordingly. Then, with wet hands, form the mixture into meatballs no larger than a small walnut.
All of these bubbles in the hot olive oil indicate its temperature is just right.
If you are not accustomed to deep frying, use a candy/deep-fry thermometer that can read temperatures up to 400-450 degrees and wait until the temperature reaches 325°F. Without a thermometer, check the temperature by tossing in a ¼-inch crumb of soft bread. If it rises to the surface surrounded by lots of bubbles, the oil is sufficiently hot. If the crumb sinks in the oil with just a couple of little bubbles, wait a little bit before trying again.
After frying the meatballs, let them drain on paper towels before adding them to the tomato sauce.
Line a sheet pan with paper towels and position it close to the saucepan with the hot olive oil. Using a slotted spoon, lower meatballs into the saucepan, making sure there is ample room around each meatball. Fry the meatballs until they are golden brown on all sides. Since they will finish cooking in the tomato sauce, there is no need to ensure that they are cooked all the way through. Remove the meatballs with the slotted spoon, placing them on the paper-towel-lined sheet pan. Repeat until all of the meat mixture is used.
Sunday lunch means lots of courses, wine and a leisurely time at table. Along with the polpette, we ate fave e cicoria (fava bean purée and dandelion greens with red peppers, among other things (Photo credit: Alyssa Twelker).
Place the golden brown meatballs into the simmering tomato sauce. Cover and cook over medium-low heat for about 20 minutes, gently stirring the sauce to cover the meatballs. Serve the tomato sauce with pasta (in Puglia, only ear-shaped orecchiette or strascinate will do) as a first course, then serve the meatballs on their own gently napped with the remaining tomato sauce as the second course, perhaps accompanied by sautéed greens or a salad of bitter greens. | , we engaged in | 4 |
Chintapalli, Venkateswara Rao (2012) An integrative and systems biology approach to Drosophila melanogaster transcriptomes. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
The availability of fully sequenced genomes of the model organisms including Drosophila, and their subsequent annotation has afforded seamless opportunities for reverse genetics in a complex model organism. With the advent of DNA microarrays to assay the levels of tens of thousands of genes in a single sample, functional genomics has been significantly aided to understand the functions in systems context. These microarrays have been employed predominantly on the RNA samples that are extracted from the whole animals for example at different developmental stages or in response to external stimuli. However, these approaches relied on the expression patterns that represent the sum of transcription coming from all the organs, which do not estimate the tissue-specificity of transcription.
The purpose of this thesis is to provide tissue-specific transcriptomes of Drosophila melanogaster that were generated as part of the large FlyAtlas project using Affymetrix Drosophila GeneChips® (or microarrays). These chips, one at a time interrogate the levels of 18,500 transcripts (that represent all known genes) using 18,880 distinct probe sets in a single, total RNA sample. For each tissue, four biological replicates were analysed using the chips and the normalised signal intensities were obtained that represent the relative levels of mRNA expression. Using the transcriptomes, a general analysis was performed for potential novel insights into tissue-specific functions (Chintapalli et al., 2007) (Chapter 3). Then, a comparative analysis of epithelial tissues was performed to understand how the epithelia are organised in terms of their transcriptomes (Chapter 4).
The Malpighian tubules are the Drosophila epithelial counterparts of the human kidney. They show asymmetric organisation in the body cavity. FlyAtlas segment-specific tubule transcriptomes allowed the comparison of their potential functional similarities and differences, thus to understand the asymmetry in function (Chapter 5)(Chintapalli, 2012). This identified a human Best vitelliform macular dystrophy (BVMD) disease homolog, Best2 in only the anterior pair of tubules<|fim_middle|> function.
Peroxisomal localisation of Best2 in line with the implication that peroxisomes act as dynamic regulators of cell Ca2+ homeostasis led to another aspect of the project (Chapter 8). This study identified two peroxins that are most abundant in the tubules and play essential roles in the novel cyclic nucleotide-regulated peroxisomal Ca2+ sequestration and transport pathway and that are detrimental for peroxisome biogenesis and proliferation. | that have the morphologically and functionally distinct enlarged initial (or distal) segment, a storage organ for Ca2+. Bestrophins were accordingly selected as candidate genes to analyse organismal functions, and thus to validate previous two theories that implicated bestrophins as Ca2+-activated Clˉ channels and/or Ca2+ channel regulators (Chapter 6).
The confocal microscopy analysis of bestrophin YFP fusion proteins revealed interesting and novel localisations of bestrophins, in that Best1 was found in the apical plasma membranes, Best2 localised to peroxisomes, Best3 and Best4 were found intracellular. The salt survival analysis showed that Best1 is essential in regulating extra salt levels in the body. Furthermore, the fluid secretion analysis showed Best1's potential role in Ca2+-dependent Clˉ function. Interestingly, the flies with reduced levels of Best2 expression showed increased ability to survive on extra salt food; the basis for this was investigated further in Chapter 7. Best2 was also found abundant in the eyes than anywhere else in the head. A comparative analysis of anterior tubule- and eye-specific transcriptomes revealed a potential overlap of Ca2+ signaling components, in that the PLCβ signaling was one.
A neuropeptide Ca2+ agonist, capa1 evoked secondary cytosolic Ca2+ responses were found high in Best2 knockdowns. A quantitative PCR (qPCR) analysis of candidate Ca2+ signaling and homeostasis genes in Best2 mutants revealed their gene expression upregulation, under control-fed and salt-fed conditions than their wildtype controls, fed on similar diet regimes. The norpA that encodes PLCβ was found significantly enriched in the mutants. Cyp6a23 is another gene that was highly upregulated in Best2 mutants; it is a Drosophila homologue of human Cyp11b, a Ca2+-responsive gene implicated in renal salt wasting. Upon the downregulation of Cyp6a23, flies became sensitive to salt diet feeding. Other genes investigated and found to be upregulated in the mutants include transient-receptor-potential (trp) Ca2+ channel and retinal degeneration C (rdgC). Together, these results strongly suggest Best2 as a potential Ca2+ channel regulator, and provide fascinating insight into bestrophin | 483 |
J.E. (Jim) Hatch
Adjunct Research Professor,Professor Emeritus,Lecturer (part-time), Finance
Case Method of Teaching
Hatch has written over 170 cases and technical notes and is the coauthor of several case books. He has also written several books dealing with the capital markets, small business finance and commercial banking as well as a number of journal articles. He has served on the boards of a variety of academic, private sector and public service organizations.
In recent years Hatch has devoted his efforts toward understanding China and doing research in that geographic area. He is a frequent visitor to China. His research interests are also focused on the theory and practice of learning as well as the utilization of the case method in teaching. In the past three years this has resulted in two books (in Mandarin) dealing with the case method in China co-authored by Professor Fengli Mu of the China University of Politics and Law in Beijing. He is currently investigating the management talent gap in China.
China Study Trip
BCom, Saskatchewan
MBA, McMaster
PhD, Michigan
Mu, F.; Hatch, J. E., (Forthcoming), "Accelerating the introduction of the case method into Chinese business schools: an action research approach", Educational Action Research.
Abstract: This paper is unique in that it demonstrates how a national education department used action research to stimulate the use of the case method of teaching in business schools and other departments in universities in China. It illustrates how four different players; a teacher, her students, a government department in charge of setting education policy and selected faculty in Chinese universities were involved in the research. The research suggests that, contrary to widely held beliefs, given a well-trained and motivated Chinese instructor and careful course design Chinese students will readily accept the case method of teaching. Methods used in influencing potential adopters of the case method are discussed. Current faculty and institutional related barriers to the introduction of the case method are noted along with a proposal to institute the Scholarship of Teaching and<|fim_middle|> of Modern Education", Zhejiang Academic Journal, November 6(221): 24 - 29.
Abstract: Modern management education and especially the case method often incorporates the Socratic Method of learning. This paper discusses three aspects of Socrates' philosophy you must know yourself, merit comes from knowledge and learning is facilitated by intellectual midwifery. The paper introduces the idea of a mental set possessed by all people consisting of knowledge, skills and values and shows how learning occurs when the mental set is modified.
Hatch, J. E.; White, R. W., 1986, "A Canadian Perspective on Canadian and United States Capital Market Returns: 1950-1983", Financial Analysts Journal, December 42(3): 60 - 69.
Abstract: A study was conducted of the monthly rates of return available in the Canadian capital market during the years 1950-1983 compared with characteristics of returns available to a Canadian investor in the US for the same period. The return series include equities, Treasury bills, federal bonds, and industrial bonds in both Canada and the US and Canadian municipal and provincial bonds. US return series were adjusted for monthly changes in the value of the Canadian dollar. The return series characteristics studied include: 1. range, 2. standard deviation, 3. correlation, and 4. serial correlation. The statistical characteristics of the Canadian and US return series are very similar. However, the variance of monthly equity returns was higher in Canada in the 1980s than previously this was not true of the US data. US monthly returns are not a good leading indicator of Canadian returns.
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Health Sector MBA Stream | Learning as a potential solution. The paper also illustrates how videotapes of classroom processes can be used in multiple ways within an action research project.
Mu, F.; Hatch, J. E., (Forthcoming), "Grading and interim feedback processes for a case method course", Journal of Education for Business.
Abstract: The authors' purpose is to describe a grading system that reasonably assesses student performance relative to course goals while at the same time provides interim feedback that is accurate, facilitates learning and motivates students. This method has been effectively used in several iterations of a finance course. The authors explain how to design a course around the four categories of knowledge and six cognitive processes proposed by Bloom; design rubrics for a quiz, a final exam, and classroom contribution; and effectively utilize a spreadsheet to calculate grades and provide timely and transparent interim feedback to students.
Mu, F.; Hatch, J. E., 2016, "Exploring the Logic | 193 |
Director Rodrigo<|fim_middle|> motifs and iconography to creatively blend fable, drama, and spiritual quest while exploring the nature of enlightenment and perception. —H.C. | Garcia reimagines Christ's last days of fasting in the desert as he walks back to civilization. In the midst of the harsh landscape, fatigued and hallucinating, Christ is met by the Devil, who is eager to test and tempt the weary traveler. Their profound ruminations on faith and truth demonstrate Garcia's power as a screenwriter and McGregor's determination to portray Jesus in a different light. By focusing on Christ's fallibility and innocence, new dimensions of the prophet and the man create a fascinating character study. But Christ's real test comes when he befriends a family on his travels and is caught up in a dispute that forces a powerful confrontation with his own fate.
Exquisite cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity, 2013) not only submerges us into a classic cinematic metaphor for confrontation with the self but also transforms the desert into a formidable psychological adversary.
Garcia makes the most of minimalism in this thought-provoking piece that incorporates biblical | 203 |
The inmates are running the asylum, and an outsider has come knocking.
These are films of doubt, pretence, perception of reality, questions of the mind, and where exactly one draws the line between the sane and the insane. It's harder to draw comparisons between these two films than it is with others I've pitched against one another, as they address two very different perspectives on the insane – one archaic, one a little more modern – and there's one that very clearly succeeded in impressing the public where the other faded almost instantly vanished into obscurity.
Martin Scorsese brings the novel by Dennis Lehane to the screen in yet more proof that the Academy doesn't care how good an actor Leonardo DiCaprio is. 1954, an investigation into a missing inmate drags a US Marshal into a conspiracy of hidden truths, all the while his partner tries to keep him on the straight and narrow, driving his partner to talk about the arsonist who killed his family, a man who is apparently a patient on the island as well. The plot runs thick as the Marshal finds a woman hiding in a cliff-side cave on the island who tells him that the Asylum is being run as a testing facility for mind control methods.
DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo are simply as excellent as ever and Martin Scorsese directs a typically clean cut and cinematically brilliant piece that should have landed more awards than it received. It's a film that benefits greatly from a second watch as the truth makes details that pass<|fim_middle|>, first where those patients are also prisoners, second in a time where mental illness was beaten out, not healed.
It's from his perspective that I watch these films. One is clearly a better film than the other, but both are worth your time as an analysis of the nature of sanity and how it changes our perception, and indeed how our perception of sanity has changed. If you're in search of a film that gives you something to really think about and put fresh wrinkles in your brain then I can't recommend watching either of these films individually, but they compliment each other elegantly. Kind of a starter – main course mix, maybe take season 2 of American Horror Story for dessert.
This entry was posted on September 20, 2016 by terraphi. It was filed under Entertainment, Film and was tagged with asylum, ben kingsley, Brad Anderson, film, Martin Scorsese, mental institution, Review, sanity, Shutter Island, Stonehearst Asylum, versus.
Firstly I watched "Asylum" and then "Shutter Island". Such order of watching will make you completely confused about Ben Kingsly at the end of Shutter Island. | unnoticed on watch one, shine plainly on watch two once the grand twist has been revealed, and concludes on a question better left unanswered. Even more incredible on second watch the story reverses, from following one sane man going mad, to a mad man finding sanity.
Not a lot more to be said without giving the whole game away, moving on.
From the director of the Machinist, Brad Anderson, a tale loosely based on an Edgar Allan Poe short. A few days before the dawning of a new century, a fresh faced young doctor appears at the gates of a remote asylum where the staff seem almost as strange as the patients. Nothing seems right, in fact a great deal seems to be going wrong, and very quickly we learn that the actual staff are being held prisoner by some of the calmer lunatics while they run Stonehearst their own way.
Let me begin by highlighting the biggest failing of Stonehearst Asylum: the twist is given too early and doubt removed too quickly, and as a result all tension is lost. Well, one of the twists at any rate. With that gone, we are left with an exploration into how madmen can treat one another with greater humanity than so-called doctors. A study in how the mad were tortured towards sanity and treated like monsters, less than beasts in an effort to find the person who presumably lies beneath. It weakens what should be a stunning film, making it merely very good.
Stonehearst can boast a superb cast featuring some of the biggest British names, including Brendan Gleeson as an unnamed character used as part of a framing device, Michael Caine in a supporting role with less screen time than Alfred Pennyworth, and Kate Beckinsale as the second lead, and yet oddly enough the lead himself is a relative unknown, actor/singer/songwriter Jim Sturgess, whose biggest roles thus far were in Cloud Atlas and 21. The whole cast deliver good clean performances of well written characters – demonstrating a variety of mental illnesses – in a complex situation with no right or wrong to cling to, building to a conclusion that can't be called "happy" but perhaps satisfactory, and one that I at least never saw coming.
First major point of commonality, Ben Kingsley! He's actually a big part of why I drew these films together and Wikipedia editors have come to the same conclusion as Shutter Island appears under the See Also section citing Kingsley as the reason. In both cases he plays a warden who only seeks the best of care for his patients in cases where such an attitude is unusual | 522 |
Quarterly Canadian Dairy Update – Mar '18
Executive Summary Canadian milk sold off farm figures provided by Statistics Canada were recently updated with<|fim_middle|>.8% YOY decline in milk sold for fluid purposes. Over the past five years, the industrial milk market has accounted for just under two thirds of the total Canadian milk sold off farms. USDA is projecting a 3.7% YOY increase in Canadian milk production throughout the 2018 calendar year, aided by additional production quotas which were put in place in an attempt to meet increasing domestic dairy demand. Canadian milk production has increased significantly over recent years despite milk cow figures remaining at or near the lowest figures on record. The Canadian milk cow herd has plateaued over the last several years following significant declines experienced since the beginning of the Canadian dairy supply management system. USDA is projecting the Canadian milk cow herd to finish flat throughout 2018, remaining at the record low levels experienced throughout 2016 and 2017. Because of the close proximity of the two countries, the U.S. has been the largest trade partner for both Canadian exports and imports of dairy products over the past several years. Canada has traditionally been a net importer of dairy products, despite heavy import tariffs, with the majority of import volumes originating from within the United States. Overall, Canada has been the third largest importer of U.S. dairy products over recent years, trailing only Mexico and China. Throughout 2016, the U.S. accounted for over half of Canada's dairy import volumes, significantly outpacing import volumes originating from within New Zealand, several European countries and Argentina. Canadian net dairy imports have traditionally been led by butter and cheese, while Canada has remained a net exporter of skim milk powder/nonfat dry milk. Canadian SMP/NFDM export volumes increased significantly throughout 2017, aided by the introduction of newly created class of milk. In Mar '17, Canada created a Class 7 milk class to price products including protein concentrates, skim milk powder and whole milk powder. The newly created milk class is priced at the lower of skim milk powder or whole milk powder prices observed throughout major dairy exporting regions, effectively guaranteeing that Canadian product will always be competitive globally. USDA expects Canadian SMP/NFDM export volumes will continue to grow throughout 2018, breaking the record high levels reached throughout 2017. U.S. – Canada combined net trade of butter, cheese and SMP/NDFM has declined 35.2% throughout the first half of the '17-'18 production season, driven lower by reduced U.S. export volumes of butter and cheese destined to Canada. U.S. exports of butter destined to Canada reached record high levels throughout 2017 as additional Canadian butter import permits were issued in an attempt to ease the largest domestic butter deficit on record. Canadian butter markets are expected to be more balanced throughout 2018 as additional efforts to ramp up production have taken place. USDA projects Canadian butter production will increase 5.8% YOY throughout 2018, finishing 36.6% above 2016 levels. Strong Canadian exports of SMP/NFDM are expected to contribute to stocks being drawn down to an 11 year low throughout 2018, however 2018 Canadian ending stocks of butter and cheese are expected to reach record high levels according to USDA, driven higher by increased production volumes.
Chinese Dairy Imports Update – Mar '18
U.S. Dairy Cow Slaughter Update – Mar '18 | values spanning through the end of 2017. Highlights from the updated report include:
Canadian milk sold off farms has increased on a YOY basis over 43 consecutive months through the end of 2017. '17-'18 YTD sales are up 6.8% YOY throughout the first five months of the production season, on pace to reach a record high level for the fourth consecutive year.
Although Canada remains a net dairy importer, exports of skim milk powder/nonfat dry milk reached a record high level throughout 2017 while additional gains are expected throughout 2018 according to USDA. U.S. – Canada combined net trade of butter, cheese and nonfat dry milk has declined 35% throughout the first half of the '17-'18 production season, driven lower by reduced U.S. export volumes of butter and cheese destined to Canada.
Strong Canadian exports of skim milk powder/nonfat dry milk are expected to contribute to stocks being drawn down to an 11 year low throughout 2018, however 2018 Canadian ending stocks of butter and cheese are expected to reach record high levels according to USDA.
Additional Report Details According to Statistics Canada, Dec '17 Canadian milk sold off farms increased on a YOY basis for the 43rd consecutive month, finishing up 7.3% to a record seasonal high for the month of December. Milk sold off farm figures typically account for approximately 95% of the milk produced within Canada, while on-farm use is estimated to account for approximately five percent of total milk produced. Canadian milk production has been historically tempered by a supply management system up until recent years when additional production quotas were implemented in an attempt to meet increasing domestic dairy demand. Increased milk production quotas have resulted in production levels finishing at record annual highs throughout each of the past three years. Milk produced within Canada supplies two markets – the fluid milk market, which includes milk used for direct consumption, creams and flavored milks, and the industrial milk market, which includes milk used to make dairy products including butter, cheese, milk powder, yogurt and ice cream. Throughout the first five months of the '17-'18 production season, Canadian milk sold for industrial purposes increased 10.8% YOY, more than offsetting a 0 | 484 |
As Salsa's Marketing Director, Tammy Sproule is responsible for getting the word out (often in 140 characters<|fim_middle|> can offer. | or less!) about the company. She has held a variety of communications and public relations positions in the public and private sectors, and began her career as a graphic designer.
If all the latest studies are touting how useful social media is, then why aren't more nonprofits taking advantage of the benefits? According to 2014 M+R and NTEN's Benchmark Study, nonprofit social media audiences grew faster than nonprofit email or website audiences. Facebook fans were up 37 percent and Twitter followers were up 46 percent in 2013. Social media exponentially increases your cause's exposure. It expands your reach and increases awareness as well as your donations. So what is holding you back?
There are many different ways to approach how your organization can benefit from social media, but remember, you can't possibly be on every network, so don't set yourself up to fail. Here are a few tips on how social media can help your cause.
1) To join or not to join.
With hundreds of social media sites out there, how do you choose which one to use for your organization? Think back to what your Mom used to say, "Don't do it just because everyone else is doing it." That statement holds true for social media too. Pick two or three sites and approach them with passion. If you decide to join a new site, consider the audience and the content you'll be sharing with them, the times they are on the site most, and your end-goal for your presence. Spend time listening to what your supporters are saying and what topics they care about, and then engage accordingly. If you find a particular platform is not working for you, it's better to say goodbye than have a page that is neglected.
2) Know what you want to achieve.
You need a plan before you jump right in. Focus on a specific set of goals and objectives to help you decide what tools and tactics to try. It will make the process seem less overwhelming and it will make implementing and measuring your progress much easier to manage.
3) Engaging content will drive your success.
As with most things, be personal and authentic, but it is even more important for social media. People connect with other people, not with organizations. It is important to give your organization a clear personality. Sharing information on social media is great way to communicate your organization's needs. You can use status updates and tweets and pins to call attention to a current campaign. That kind of focus can make it a bit easier to craft updates and add a sense of urgency to your posts, but what do you do between campaigns? Those moments are just as important for maintaining interest because how you post when there's nothing urgent to say will help you define your social media personality. Just remember, what you say matters. No one cares what you do until they know why it matters. Social media is filled with people going on about WHAT they do. Be sure you communicate WHY you do it.
4) Test, test, and then test some more.
What's the best time to post? Should I post this type or that type of content? Don't beat yourself up. This isn't a time where you can call a friend and say, "what worked for you?" Their social media strategies might not work the same way for your organization. There's no easy answer because it is not possible to always predict what will work when it comes to social media. It all depends on your audience. Just remember, technology and the tools and tactics available are continuously changing so you need to be flexible. Always try new things. When you are not sure what is working and what isn't, then test, and test again. And, don't be afraid of failure.
Be funny/entertaining. Social media is a lot less formal; don't underestimate people's desire to just have fun.
Be touching. Tell a story that stirs an emotion.
Be educational. Teach others about your cause.
Take a poll. It is important to ask questions. You can find out so much about your audience.
Be controversial. Yes, push a few buttons to get people thinking. Maybe a recent event, ruling or other relevant topic.
– Customize when you can, it matters!
When posting a link on Facebook for example, the link preview title and description information can make a difference. It doesn't just affect that initial person's decision to share content, it also impacts every subsequent person's decision who sees that piece of content in their newsfeed to share (or not to share). It has an exponential impact. You can edit the link title and description before posting to take full advantage of the space available. To edit the title and description that goes along with the link before posting, simply click on the title or description and key in the information you want to see displayed.
Remember that each network has its own audience and demographics. Users of particular sites are on that platform because they expect specific content delivered in a certain way, i.e. interesting articles shared in 140 characters on Twitter or images with commentary in the form of hashtags on Instagram. With a little bit of planning your nonprofit will realize the many benefits social media | 1,047 |
Jennifer Hudson photographed on September 2<|fim_middle|> a Tony," she decides, shooting for the rare EGOT. "Those things are tough!" | 5, 2014 at Billboard's Chelsea, New York studio by Dustin Aksland.
JHUD, released Sept. 23, is currently sitting at No. 10 on the Billboard 200. Hudson calls it "an album full of colors," inspired by a desire "to bridge the old school with the new school" -- which she does effectively by merging a vintage, late-'70s feel with up-to-date production and guest verses from star rappers, including T.I. and Iggy Azalea. JHUD also contains "Moan," a ballad that Hudson says is a tribute to her mother. "'Moan' is probably the most personal, intimate song I've ever sang, written, recorded, all of that in one," the singer told Billboard. Hudson's mom, who was killed by her son-in-law in 2008, used to say, "If something hurts, if you moan, it'll make you feel better." This provided Hudson with an idea for a song; it also gave her an idea for a career. "Thats what I do," she said. "I moan, I sing... that's my go-to space."
To go with the new album, Hudson has been sporting a new haircut. It was apparently the result of a spur-of-the-moment decision. She found herself thinking, "I'm tired of the big long hair, the bangs in front...a bunch of hair that does not belong to me. Short hair is about presence," she declared. Like Hudson's newfound affinity for dance music, her haircut is "fresh and different."
Hudson isn't resting on her laurels after the album release. She wants to get out on tour and connect with her fans, but she's also hoping that "more film is next. And then I want to do theater too," she said. Hudson already has an Academy Award (for Best Supporting Actress in the film Dreamgirls) and a Grammy (for her debut album, Jennifer Hudson). "I have to get an Emmy and | 426 |
Кратер Грин (), не путать с кратером Грин на Марсе, — крупный ударный кратер на западе-юго-западе от огромного кратера Менделеев на обратной стороне Луны. Название присвоено в честь английского математика Джорджа Грина (1793—1841) и утверждено Международным астрономическим союзом в 1970 г. Образование кратера относится к раннеимбрийскому периоду.
Описание кратера
Ближайшими соседями кратера являются кратер Занстра на западе, кратер Ветчинкин на севере-северо-западе, кратер Бергман на северо-востоке, кратер Муассан на востоке-северо-<|fim_middle|>.E., and E.A. Whitaker, NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature, NASA Reference Publication 1097, October 1982.
Кратеры Луны | востоке, кратер Гартман на юго-востоке, кратер Прагер на юге-юго-западе, кратер Бечварж на юго-западе, кратер Грегори на западе-юго-западе. На юго-западе от кратера находится цепочка кратеров Грегори, на северо-востоке цепочка кратеров Менделеева. Селенографические координаты центра кратера , диаметр 68,3 км, глубина 2,7 км.
Кратер имеет циркулярную форму с выступом в восточной части, умеренно разрушен, вал перекрыт несколькими маленькими кратерами. Внутренний склон вала имеет следы террасовидной структуры особенно ярко выраженной в северо-восточной части. Высота вала над окружающей местностью составляет 1250 м, объем кратера составляет приблизительно 3700 км³. Дно чаши кратера сравнительно ровное в западной части, пересечено невысокими складками местности в восточной части. В центре чаши располагается хребет.
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The joints between adjoining pieces are usually v-shaped but flush jointed, reveal and radius joints are also available. The different joints and surface textures in tongue and groove siding combine to provide a range of | 112 |
The 2015 CMT Music Awards turned into Carrie Underwood's Comeback Special Wednesday night (June 10) at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, where she arrived in a glistening white dress and left toting three awards.
Underwood just returned to performing live the night before on<|fim_middle|> video, it felt like we were just playing," she said after the cheers of the fans died down.
"This video is very, very special to me. I love the song," she said after the buckle was presented to her by Little Big Town.
She also thanked her husband, Mike Fisher, the hockey player who as a Nashville Predator has made this same arena home, who was sitting happily enjoying his wife's honor.
Underwood said that the baby "is napping in the bus" parked by the arena, but he is already helping his mom.
"He already has inspired me," she said.
Underwood showed that new motherhood has not robbed her of her vocal power as she sang her current hit, "Little Toy Guns," as the night's final performance.
It was just minutes later that she was called back to center stage at the arena when a cowboy-hat-wearing Arnold Schwarzenegger and comic actor Tom Arnold presented her with the video of the year trophy.
First saying, "I don't know what to say," Underwood went on to collect herself, thinking about the fans' votes that made this the frosting on her big comeback cake of an evening.
"This is such an amazing blessing," she said. "I have the best fans in the world. Country music has the best fans in the world, but I have the best of the best.
Then she added "thank you, baby," as the camera played on a glowing Fisher while the other baby in her life no doubt continued to snooze on the bus.
Of course, Underwood wasn't the only one doing the celebrating Wednesday night, as the awards show is the "unofficial" beginning of the CMA Music Fest, which begins Thursday in the arena, out on Lower Broadway, at the Titans' home turf, LP Field and at other stages planted around the city's honky-tonk district.
After the first of Underwood's awards, the next honor was for breakthrough video of the year, which Sam Hunt won for "Leave the Night On," and that, too, seemed to please the fans crowding the arena.
Then he pointed into the on-their-feet audience near the stage.
That award was followed up by one for Florida Georgia Line, who were nominated twice in the duo video of the year category.
Nominated for both "Sun Daze" and "Dirt," they won the buckle for the latter.
"First of all, we got to thank God," said Brian Kelley.
It was a busy — and victorious — evening for Lady Antebellum. The trio opened the festivities with intertwined performances of "Long Stretch of Love" and "Beautiful Now" (performed with Zedd).
After being presented with the buckle by Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus, the trio joked about how much fun it was to make the video. Especially since supermodel Kate Upton is featured in it.
"Let this be a lesson: You have to put Kate Upton in a video if you want to win," said Charles Kelley, as the audience laughed. Hillary Scott joked that thanks to Upton's presence, both Kelley and Dave Haywood made it to rehearsals early for once.
"Thank you so much, fans and CMT. … 'Play It Again' was an unbelievable song for us," he said.
Then addressing the fans who have turned him into a stadium headliner, he said "You guys have fun. This is a good week.
Hope he didn't awaken Underwood's baby out there in the bus. | the Grand Ole Opry after taking maternity leave with her new son Isaiah, born in February. She took not only the night's biggest award — video of the year for "Something in the Water" – she also won female video of the year honors for the same title.
All in all, it was an Underwood show, as she began the awards presentations by picking up the collaborative video of the year buckle for "Somethin' Bad," her hit with friend Miranda Lambert.
While Lambert wasn't in attendance, she was in Underwood's thoughts as she mentioned her friend in the acceptance speech for "Somethin' Bad," adding that making that video was a career highlight.
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Library Operations incorporates RFID tags and barcodes
Farmington Community Library Director Beverly Papai obviously sees technology as opening new opportunities and not something to fear. Not only does she use it for the operation side of library management, but for a library's core business: providing information. The increase in the library's circulation, she says, isn't due just to a growing, educated population and a new facility. It's also due to the information technology Farmington Hills offers.
The Farmington Community Library system isn't your grandfather's library.
Dark, dinghy, stuffy went out long ago in libraries, but Farmington Community Library offers much more than well-lit facilities, including videos and CDs along with reference books and paperbacks.
It has borrowed operations and material handling ideas, as well as technologies, from industry to improve the service it offers customers and to keep its costs down.
Beverly Papai, director of the public library in Farmington Hills, MI., reasoned that if industry could gain tremendous material handling efficiencies from new technologies, libraries should be able to do the same.
Located in the growing Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, the library faces both a physically expanding situation and an increasing circulation, all without a comparative increase in staffing funds. Library circulation will top 1 million by June, Papai predicts, and<|fim_middle|> returned books, both from the outside drop-off box and those returned inside will go on a conveyor. The books will pass through readers that will send them to specific sections of library carts for eventual return to shelves by library staff.
"It will totally eliminate manual check in and sorting of books. That will be effective for 90% of materials that come back to us," says Papai.
"We're also considering applying this to more than books and library materials. Every organization has to be responsible for fixed assets. There's no reason we can't put tags on tables and chairs and then just walk through a room with an inventory reader. No more searching for tags on a table," says Papai.
As in industrial uses of bar-coded and RFID tagged systems, Papai would like to see the barcode label or RFID tag installed at the point of origin--when the book is published. She'd also like more information stored on each tag. Says she, "I'd like to see author, title, copyright date, ISN number and retail price stored on the tag. If I had all that information, then I wouldn't have to key it into my system. I'd save a tremendous amount of time."
Concludes Papai: "This is definitely one instance where public institutions can learn from industry and apply the same efficiency standards to a government operation."
And maybe, an instance where industry can learn from a visionary government institution once thought of as dark and stodgy.
Farmington Integrates Rfid And Barcode Labels To Reduce Checkout Time | will continue growing.
"We're fortunate to live in a community with a higher-thanaverage norm education level," says Papai.
Farmington Hills has a substantial number of professional/managerial and sales/technical workers. Ninety percent of its high school students go onto higher education. On top of that, the library serves close to 4,000 businesses without corporate libraries.
Eyeing all this, Papai says, "I know my public demand will substantially increase, possibly 25% to 50%, however, I will most likely not realize an equivalent increase in my staffing budget."
To resolve the issue, Farmington Community Library instituted an integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) tag and barcode system using a dozen printers from SATO America. Many industries use the two technologies to track products through production and equipment locations. The technological tools improve customer service and allow companies to expand while containing costs and employment levels.
"If employing new technology can change what the staff is required to do so that we can maintain or slightly increase staffing, than I have spent my money well. That's what we're looking at with this system," says Papai.
Halfway into the combined physical expansion and new library-automation project, Papai has already proven the truth of her belief in automation technologies. The growing library reduced checkout time at one of its branches by nearly 40% with the SATO-printed barcode labels integrated with the RFID system.
Creating the New System
Tri-State Tape & Label, Beverly, NJ., worked with Bill Bewlay at Leeming Management Systems, Somerset, NJ, and others to set up the system and integrate the barcode and RFID readers with the library's existing database.
First, the old barcode label in each book was scanned to pull up the data associated with that book. Then the book's new RFID tag was read, integrating its pre-programmed number with the book's database information and old barcode number. Simultaneously, reading the tag instructs the SATO printer to produce a new bar-coded label with the new RFID tag number in Codabar barcode symbology and in humanreadable characters.
The SATO CL408e thermal transfer printer produces the 14-digit Codabar barcode symbol on a white film label, along with the library's name and logo. TriState sales manager George Righter chose the SATO printer for the job because of its reliability.
"In my experience SATO products are the most reliable out there. When I put a SATO printer in a place, I don't have to worry about it. When it does need service, it is very easy to do. SATO printers are very user friendly and very durable," says Righter.
The price is right too, he says. " The pricing is very, very reasonable. They have the best value. I can go on and on about the value of SATO printers."
TriState selected white film for the label, rather than standard paper stock, for longevity and durability. The labels have an interior die cut 1/4 inch around the perimeter of the label allowing that portion of the liner to be pulled away to expose a special adhesive. This archival adhesive doesn't yellow, keeping the label appearance clean and sharp. The 2.5-inch square label is manually affixed over the RFID tag on the inside book cover. The label looks like any standard plate label on the inside cover of a book. It is difficult to remove and disguises the chip underneath.
From Standard Practice to Innovation
With the assistance of epixtech in Provo, UT, the RFID reader ties into an automated library system. Now, when a clerk passes a book over the RFID reader pad, it reads the same number encoded in the barcode on the SATO label. Simultaneously, the tag is turned off, to allow the book to pass through the exit reader, and the library's inventory is adjusted to record the item as checked out, to whom, the date and when it is due back.
"It typically takes 30-40% less time to check out materials now. People aren't opening and closing the book and reading the barcode with a wand. They are just moving the book over a pad. The movement is smoother, faster, very efficient and very accurate," says Papai.
So why is the barcode still on the label? While the branch has switched to the new RFID system, the main library is still using a bar-coded checkout method. Books can be exchanged between the different facilities, so both technologies must be used together until the main library is converted in 2001 or 2002, says Papai. It's a good example of two technologies and multiple vendors working side by side to assist each use.
"The different companies have been extraordinarily cooperative to resolve any problems," Papai says. While many libraries use an RFID system to make sure only checked out books leave the library, the Farmington Community Library system has added other applications. Soon, the library system will expand the RFID tag applications to inventory control use and for book returns.
Using an RFID wand, library workers can record what books are on its shelves just by walking down the aisles of books. "Typically, libraries do not have time to do inventory. It is tremendously time consuming. This is great, however, because instead of handling each book, you can just walk down a section of an aisle and the computer wand reads it. You don't have to point it because it's multidirectional, so it takes both sides of the aisle. It's just remarkable," says Papai.
The biggest test, however, will come by 2002, when the main branch is renovated, nearly doubling the size from 38,000 square feet to 74,000 square feet. Papai expects an automated material handling system to meet the anticipated increase in use with only minimal staff increases. When the main library's renovation is completed, | 1,209 |
In May 1784, shortly after completing the two piano concertos recorded here, Mozart described them in a letter to<|fim_middle|> a similar manner, the winds take the lead from the very beginning of the B flat major concerto, K 450 , with the strings answering. Throughout the movement, the woodwinds are absolutely vital to the narrative and Mozart playfully exploits the diverse colours of the winds, frequently featuring pairs of them playing in octaves: oboe/bassoon, oboe/horn or horn/bassoon. In the Andante the wind instruments are silent from start, but once they enter they again dominate in terms of colours. The delicacy of the piano writing throughout this movement adds to the very special quality of the concerto, in which Mozart seems to point the way towards Beethoven. Previous discs in this series have earned distinctions such as Editor's Choice ( Gramophone ), IRR Outstanding ( International Record Review ), '10' ( klassik-heute.de ) and Disco excepcional ( Scherzo ). On their eighth instalment, Ronald Brautigam and Die Kölner Akademie have chosen to close the programme with a Rondo in D major , originally intended as a replacement finale for the Piano Concerto No.5, K 175 . Offering a range of different moods and introducing a variety of quasi-operatic characters, the Rondo became greatly popular in Vienna and beyond, and was in fact sometimes published as a stand-alone work. | his father as 'concertos which are bound to make the player sweat.' In his correspondence he also pointed out the particular importance of the wind instruments in the two works. This is obvious already in the first movement of the Concerto in D major, K 451 , which opens the disc: for long stretches Mozart revels in the soloistic capabilities of the winds and elsewhere he builds up chordal textures in which the winds' distinctive colours dominate. In | 93 |
Shaman Ghost scary good in Marine score
TORONTO, May 16 – Stronach Stables homebred Shaman Ghost found his best stride late en route to a stirring victory in Saturday's $154,600 Grade 3 Marine Stakes, at Woodbine.
Trained by Brian Lynch, the Ghostzapper bay lacked running room at the top of the lane, but was deftly angled out by Rafael Hernandez in time to capture the 1 1/16-miles event for three-year-olds, while taking his first added-money score.
The Marine win boosts Shaman Ghost's Queen's Plate credentials as the talented colt continues a win streak that started with a maiden score at Gulfstream on March 14 and was followed by a neck victory in a Keeneland allowance route on April 9.
Bears Personality set a swift early pace in the Marine marking off splits of :24.37 and :48.37 as U S Marshal and Decision Day tracked from a length back. Shaman Ghost,<|fim_middle|>000 in victory, while improving his record to three wins from five starts.
He paid $28.30, $10.60 and $6.10, combining with Seventhfleethumor ($20.40, $10.40) for a $388.10 (7-2) exactor. A 7-2-5 triactor (Danish Dynaformer, $4.40 to show) was worth $2858.70, while a $1 Superfecta [7-2-5-6 (U S Marshal)] came back $5407.65. | settled in seventh position in the early running, launched his rally through the final turn following the run of an energetic Seventhfleethumor. Seventhfleethumor put away Bears Personality and held a brief advantage late in the lane, but Shaman Ghost overcame traffic trouble and unleashed a tremendous kick to secure a 1/2-length win. Seventhfleethumor held on for place by a 1/2-length over the rallying Danish Dynaformer. Shaman Ghost covered 1 1/16-miles in 1:43.35.
Hernandez was pleased with the trip, despite a little trouble in both turns.
"We were a little wide into the first turn as we were carried out a little bit," said Hernandez. "I wanted to make one run and turning for home I tried to go between horses I but had no room. It took me a little bit of kick, but this is a good horse. I took him out in the clear and he was gone."
Undefeated in three attempts around two turns on the main track, Shaman Ghost will now be among the favourites for the $1-million Queen's Plate, slated for Sunday, July 5.
"I think a mile and a quarter will be good for him," said Hernandez. "He was very relaxed behind horses and I think the farther he goes the better. He was very good in the stretch."
Shaman Ghost banked $90, | 293 |
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Distance: a 16-mile out-and-back or an 18.2-mile loop. Elevation gain: ~<|fim_middle|> across the park, deep into the Hoh River Rainforest, over the shimmering lakes of Seven Lakes Basin, and crowned by unobstructed views of Mt. Olympus and its oversized glacial cap.
Heart Lake and its adjacent campground lie at the southeast corner of the loop around mile 11 and is a prime place to spend the night or stop for lunch. The trail curls north here and becomes the Sol Duc River Trail, passes through Sol Duc Park (where additional camping is available) and follows Bridge Creek past an impressive waterfall to its junction with the Appleton Pass Trail around mile 14.5. The last 4 miles of trail follow the Sol Duc River on a long, steady descent through dense forest and completes the loop at the Sol Duc Falls.
Stop at the Sol Duc Hot Springs on your way back to US-101 to dip your aching legs into their soothing, mineral rich waters.
Although campsites dot the trail at regular intervals, this is a popular summer backpack and permits can be tough to come by. Reservations can be made for ½ the sites beginning March 15 of each year, while the other ½ are first-come, first-served. Permits can be obtained for $5 plus $2/camper at the main Visitor's Center in Port Angeles or the Quinault Ranger Station. For more information on permits and reservations, visit the Olympic National Park Wilderness Reservations page here
An entrance fee of $15 (good for one vehicle and its passengers for seven days) may be charged to enter the park
Bear cans are required for all overnight trips into the backcountry. They can be rented where you pick up your backcountry permit
Biting flies and mosquitos can be a nuisance along much of the trail, particularly around the many lakes, at any time of day throughout the warmer summer months
According to the NPS, snow often continues to blanket steep sections of the High Divide trail well into July. If hiking in earlier summer, an ice axe and self-arrest skills are highly recommended
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Andy Merkel
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Did this as a day hike!
What a great trail. Took approximately 10 hours total, 9 hours moving at a good pace. This trail has everything! I would suggest like everyone else, start early. Go toward the right (toward Deer Lake) and be rewarded with the best views first, and then continue down counter-clockwise back to the parking lot if you are planning on doing this in one day!
Emma Hainsworth
life-changing... and HARD
This was such a beautiful, beautiful trail with tons of different types of views and landscapes. It gets pretty steep and as a relatively inexperienced backpacker, I found it very difficult but completely worth it. I also saw two black bears foraging, which was amazing, as well as lots of other wildlife. Mountain goats ran right through our camp. We went in august and it was very cold up on the ridge, but not too bad down at the base. Overall, I loved it.
Madison Christensen
SO FUN!!
a group of us went backpacking and spent 3 days on this trail!! it was a total blast!! i would highly recommend. it's so beautiful and i want to go do it again asap.
Mike Quine
Though small by comparison, the Heart Lake was a highlight for me along this High Divide trail. I remember being very fortunate to settle along the ridge for the night during a full moon.
Michael Hilgendorf
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Awesome 2 Day Hike
We camped overnight at lunch lake. Very long first day. Lot of climbing. Saw a lot of wildlife, including a bear in the valley below. Breathtaking views.
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Hike to Sol Duc Falls and Deer Lake
5.6 mi / 1500 ft gain
The hike to Sol Duc Falls is a simple 0.8 mile walk to a roaring falls on the Sol Duc River. If you're up for more of a hike, continue on the trail to Deer Lake from Sol Duc Falls. At the fork in the trail, turn left and hike up away from the Love...
Explore Ancient Groves
Great little hike to explore while in the Sol Duc area. I would strongly recommend doing this hike near sunset as the sun will stream through the trees and light everything up in a beautiful glow. The hike will take you to a cliff edge to walk alo...
Hike the Old Growth Forest Trail, Olympic NP
About one mile past the Salmon Cascade Exhibit on Sol Duc - Hot Springs Road is a pull out for a .5 loop walk through an old growth forest. There is some signage before you get to the pull off which is on the right hand side when driving in from R...
Hike to Olympic Hot Springs
4.4 mi / 260 ft gain
A local favorite, this moderate day hike winds its way uphill from the Appleton Pass trailhead through old growth stands of fir, hemlock and cedar for 2.2 miles to a cluster of hot springs interspersed among the trees.Located in the Olympic Nation...
More Nearby Adventures | 3,050 feet. Duration: a long day hike or a two-day backpack. Unparalleled views of Mt. Olympus and the Bailey Range. Old-Growth forests and subalpine lakes. Abundant wildlife.
A day spent plying the trails of the High Divide in Olympic National Park changes an outdoorsman. This moderate to strenuous loop boasts the best views on the peninsula, a chance to see foraging black bears and abundant deer, stunning waterfalls and marvelous old growth forests. By the time you finish the loop, your quads may be cursing you, but your soul will be effusive with thanks.
Begin your trip at the trailhead for Sol Duc Falls Trail at the end of Sol Duc Hot Springs Road. Follow the well-trod path through the old-growth forest of the Sol Duc River Basin for just under a mile, where you'll encounter the impressive Sol Duc Falls. Cross the footbridge over the river and begin your steady climb up Deer Lake Trail, crossing Canyon Creek twice on established footbridges.
At mile 4.6, another small bridge crosses the Deer Lake outlet stream and you'll find yourself on the lake's emerald shores, just below 3,400 feet. Campsites surround the lake and chances are you'll happen upon a few fly fishermen taking advantage of the brook trout that often bite all day long. A ranger station can be found along the lake's eastern bank as well. Deer Lake is an area with a lot of traffic, be it the result of the abundant campsites or the ubiquitous huckleberry bushes that provide lush foraging options for black bears and deer.
Continuing past the lake, you'll emerge into the high country that makes this hike worth its weight in sweat. After crossing a crude boardwalk through the marshes at the south end of the lake, take the left fork of the trail towards the High Divide. A few switchbacks later the trail breaks out of the forest cover and traverses several broad subalpine meadows blanketed in wildflowers and dotted with iridescent tarns shifting from green to cerulean in the sunlight. Looking back west, the Pacific shimmers on the horizon, while the Straight of Juan de Fuca and the shores of Vancouver Island lie just to the north.
Up and over a steep ridge, the trail angles southeast and traverses a ridge along a steep basin that leads out to the Bogachiel River. After passing a grotesquely twisted grove of hemlocks, keep an eye out on towards the basin floor below for herds of Roosevelt Elk (on hot summer days, they congregate in huge groups to defend against biting insects—look for a hodgepodge pile of big brown bodies that look like logs dumped into the basin by an avalanche).
By now, the vistas really start coming into view. Glimpses of Olympus' glacial haunches can be had over the High Divide Ridge and, shortly before mile 8, a cutoff leads down into the potholed valley of the Seven Lakes Basin below. The Bailey Range is in full view from the west edge of the basin and Lunch Lake Campground is a great turnaround point.
To continue the loop, pass the Lunch Lake cutoff and you'll find yourself just below 5,474-foot Bogachiel Peak around mile 9. Take the left fork along the High Divide trail and soak in the glory of astounding 360-degree mountain vistas reaching far | 706 |
Showing appreciation for truck drivers is always a good idea but never more so than now, with east Texas still drying out after Hurricane Harvey and Florida bracing for the wrath of Irma.
For a number of years, people in trucking enjoyed reminding our fellow citizens, "Good Stuff. Trucks Bring<|fim_middle|> was started in 1988 by American Trucking Associations and others to give credit where credit is due.
Last month in Orlando, Fla., the country got to see at the National Truck Driving Championships how skilled drivers are and how seriously they take their jobs. It also was a great opportunity to meet a lot of really nice people.
Based on recent events, Americans are learning that the people who transport the components of their $18 trillion economy also are thoroughly decent, caring human beings. | It." That often called to mind images of desirable goods: clothes, electronics, sporting goods, ice cream.
Now, though, truck drivers are using their vehicles to haul the necessities of life. Suffering communities need lots of bottled water because clean drinking water becomes scarce. Trucks are bringing those bottles, plus warm, dry clothing, food and medical supplies, electric generators and bedding for shelters — or they are doing so as best they can.
Consider the case of Winston Mullings. After successfully hauling important supplies to Pineville, La., from Atlanta, he headed off to Beeville, Texas, with another Federal Emergency Management Agency load, but got caught on a Texas highway that turned into a river — at least 3 feet of water, he estimated.
Mullings, a driver for Applauze Transfer of Stone Mountain, Ga., wound up spending three days in a Red Cross shelter after he was rescued from his stranded rig by a boat.
Truck driving is a challenge on dry, sunny days, trying to meet precise delivery schedules while safely operating an 80,000-pound vehicle through heavy traffic over roads that, oftentimes, are in need of repair. Adding historic flooding to the mix makes this truly hazardous duty.
Therefore, National Truck Driver Appreciation Week couldn't come at better time than this year's stretch of Sept. 10-16.
Truck stops and dealerships are joining with the nation's fleets to offer a weeklong salute and thank you to drivers. Pilot Flying J, for example, will award prizes to more than 65,000 drivers.
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Back-to-back: St. Johns boys golf wins Division 2 state title once again
St. Johns' Zach Rosendale earns medalist honors in Division 2
Tom Lang
For the Lansing State Journal
ALLENDALE – Zach Rosendale recently earned the title Lansing State Journal Golfer of the Year, and then went out and validated the honor by winning the Division 2 state championship with a two-day score of 142 at Grand Valley State University.
Rosendale led St. Johns to a second consecutive team state title as well, as fellow senior Eric Nunn tied for third place with a 147.
Rosendale battled the 30-mph winds better than any other golfer in the field. His <|fim_middle|>Win another'
Sternburgh has coached the Red Wings for 37 years. He announced last year this would be his farewell tour.
"Great way to end senior year," said Rosendale, who will play at Michigan State next year. "And just the fact our team wins back-to-back and I win individually is just great. And that we would get it for our coach in his last year. I think everything is just very special."
Fuentes, playing in the same group with Rosendale, couldn't hold onto the lead but said it was a still an enjoyable way to end his high school career before heading off to Eastern Michigan.
"I felt really good Friday," he said about scoring 3-under par. "Today the wind kind of took over my game. I'm really happy though coming in second. I played the best I could.
"I wasn't trying to be too serious, just have some fun out there, my last high school tournament. Having fun was the main goal, and I did. I'm very happy with myself." | 2-under-par 70 Saturday allowed him to come from three strokes behind and win convincingly by four over first-day leader Tony Fuentes of East Lansing, who finished runner-up with a 146.
"The wind definitely played a factor in my game and how I played it," Rosendale said. "I came into the day knowing the wind was going to be very high. I feel that I'm a great wind player. I can control my trajectory very well, so I think my key to today was keeping the ball low. I know most kids don't really have that skill yet, controlling their shot shapes and such. So I knew if I just played my game, kept the ball low and out of the wind, I could compete."
Rosendale scored four birdies Saturday – two coming in the opening four holes – and two bogeys, including one on the 18th hole but had a three-shot lead on the tee at 18.
St. Johns' team total of 603 topped a distant Flint Powers (627), Grand Rapids Forest Hills Eastern (642), Grosse Ile (645) and Pontiac Notre Dame Prep (646). East Lansing finished in a tie for sixth with Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood at 648. Brendan Kahl of DeWitt shot a 153 for an eighth-place tie in the individual results.
St. Johns senior Nate Brown carded a 158 for the Red Wings. Zeke Ely shot 78 on Friday and Jack Bouck added a 78 on Saturday to the team totals.
"Zach's the anchor for the program, and because of him, Eric Nunn (Grand Valley State commit) challenges Zach and that's the best part," St. Johns coach Paul Sternburgh said. "They both challenged each other all year and when one was down the other was up. To have two Division 1 golfers in our program is just phenomenal, and Zach was so consistent."
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I must agree with Ken Burns that our National Parks are America's Best Idea. 100 years since the founding of the National Park Service (2016 is the centennial), more than 400 locations throughout the United States and its territories have become National Parks. Each one of these wonders offers citizens of the world the chance to explore nature, absorb the local history and marvel at amazing vistas.
For more than 100 years, Cabrillo National Monument has offered locals and visitors the chance to explore the natural, historical and cultural history of the San Diego area.
In honor of the Find Your Park initiative and National Park Week, I invite you and your family to spend a day wandering through San Diego's Cabrillo National Monument.
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Please be careful and respectful while you visit the tidepools. The intertidal area is a very sensitive ecosystem. Few animals in this ecosystem can harm humans, but many animals are delicate, and can even be killed, when handled or just touched by humans. Ask a ranger or volunteer how you can best explore the tidepools without harming them.
While National Parks are already a great deal, a few days and weekends a year the National Park Services opens the gates and invites everyone to explore the beauty and history of America's Best Idea for free.
This entry was posted in Attractions and tagged Point Loma by Brent Bernasconi. Bookmark the permalink. | Almost every National Park visit starts off with a stop into the Visitor Center for everything from park maps to tour registrations to souvenirs to the pre-hike restroom break.
Take some time to explore the world of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo by walking through the "Age of Exploration" exhibit. Inside the exhibit, you will find relics, replicas and information of everything from the tools used and uniforms worn by the men aboard the historic San Salvador ship to the local population of Kumeyaay Indians.
There are also a few short documentary films shown throughout the day covering Cabrillo, the park, and gray whales.
After your history lesson, head toward the statue of Cabrillo located behind the visitor center and take in the million dollar views of the bay, Coronado and Downtown San Diego. On a clear day, you can see all the way south to the mountains near Tijuana, Mexico. Make sure your camera is ready!
Next up is the Old Point Loma Lighthouse just west of the Visitor Center. The structure itself has been painstakingly restored to its 1880 appearance. Step inside and back in time to see how the family maintaining the lighthouse lived.
If you consider yourself a bit of a shutterfly, make sure to take a picture from the first floor of the winding stairs that lead up to the top floor of the lighthouse.
Learn more about the work required to maintain the lighthouse and get an up-close view of the actual light that guided ships into San Diego Bay in the lighthouse history exhibit located in the adjacent Assistant Keeper's Quarters.
Since you're spending the whole day exploring Cabrillo National Monument, make sure to enjoy the 2.5 mile roundtrip hike on the Bayside Trail. Along the trail you will encounter many of the same coastal sage scrub and flora that Cabrillo would have seen when he arrived in 1542. Also be on the lookout for World War I and II structures and bunkers built to protect San Diego Bay.
Don't worry if you or your little ones get tired, there are plenty of benches to relax upon while you take a break and bask in the views of the water and San Diego.
After you finished your hike along the Bayside Trail or are done exploring the lighthouse, walk on over to the beautiful Whale Overlook for a amazing vista of the Pacific Ocean. During the months of December and February (and sometimes through April), you can witness the majestic Pacific Grey Whales migrate past the shores of San Diego. There are a few coin-operated binoculars scattered throughout the overlook if you didn't bring your own.
When we visit with our son, this is our spot to break out the string cheese and enjoy some downtime while looking out over the water.
The old radio building now houses the "The Stood Watch" military exhibit. Photo courtesy of CNM.
Last stop on the list for the main Cabrillo National Monument area is the They Stood Watch military exhibit. Located in the historic radio station building, the exhibit shares the stories behind the remains of the now abandoned bunkers, fire control stations and gun batteries built around the peninsula to defend the bay starting in 1852 and continuing through World War II.
If you and/or your kids still have energy, take the short drive down to the western edge of the park for amazing tidepools. During periods of low tide, pools form along this shore in rocky depressions. You may see flowery anemones, elusive octopi, spongy deadman's | 714 |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After a nearly two-month break from competition, ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards competitor Gus Dean (@gusdean) and his Win-Tron Racing team seek their first win of the season in Saturday night's Music City 200 at Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville.
Dean, the Bluffton, S.C.-native has been eager to get back behind the wheel of his No. <|fim_middle|> Bluffton, S.C. driver Gus Dean in the No. 32 GREE | Baker Distributing Chevrolet. | 32 GREE Cooling Products | Baker Distributing Chevrolet after a strong performance at Daytona International Speedway in February was thwarted after a late-race incident.
With superspeedway racing in the rearview mirror, for now, Dean, 23, is set to hone his short track skills with his Mooresville, N.C.-based team and new crew chief Jamie Jones in the second race of the season.
Even though Dean, a former Talladega ARCA winner was confident in his GREE Racing car last spring, Dean and Jones recently tested at the historic short track and their results left them upbeat and hoping they're a serious contender in Saturday night's 200-lap fight.
"Our test went really, really good," added Dean, who finished fourth in the championship standings last year. "Jamie and I are really starting to gel, and he's focused on giving what I need behind the wheel of the race car and I'm determined to drive the wheels off our No. 32 GREE Chevrolet.
As quick as the GREE Racing team was at Nashville on Mar. 30, Dean realizes that rebounding from Daytona is one of the team's top priorities.
Trying to predict what will happen in Saturday night's race is nearly impossible, but the South Carolinian does know he'll have plenty of support from the grandstands.
"We're expecting over 100 people to come out and watch me race on Saturday night, that's huge for me," sounded Dean. "Tradewinds and Baker Distributing do a great job making sure we have a lot of support at these races and it's a blast to not only meet them all but race this No. 32 GREE Cooling Products | Baker Distributing Chevrolet for them.
In 28 career ARCA Racing Series starts, Dean captured his first career victory in his second ever start at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway after starting a career-best second in Apr. 2016. Overall, Dean has eight top-five and 17 top-10 finishes.
The Music City 200 (200 laps / 119.2 miles) is the second of 20 races on the 2018 ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards schedule. Practice begins Sat., Apr. 7 with an hour and a half practice session from 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. General Tire pole qualifying is set for later in the day at 4:15 p.m. The race is set to take the green flag shortly after 8:00 p.m. The event will be televised live on MAVTV, whileARCARacing.com will stream live timing and scoring throughout the entire weekend festivities. All times are local (Central).
Owned by former champion racer Kevin Cywinski, the team will compete for the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards championship in 2018 with | 610 |
UHV to host ribbon cutting for new library, first student center
UHV seniors Eli Juma, seated, and Sophia Solano explore one of the study spaces Friday on the second floor of the UHV Library inside University Commons. Juma and Solano are student workers for UHV Student Life and will be working in the new building. The university is hosting a public ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house from 3 to 5 p.m. Aug. 28.
University of Houston-Victoria seniors Eli Juma and Sophia Solano have watched the new UHV University Commons come together since its groundbreaking in April 2017. Now they are looking forward to an Aug. 28 ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house, when the public will<|fim_middle|>3 p.m. Aug. 28 at UHV University Commons, 3006 N. Ben Wilson St. The ceremony will begin with a presentation inside the lobby, followed by a ribbon cutting in front of the building. Afterward, the community is invited to take part in an open house until 5 p.m. to learn about the offices and services available in University Commons. Light refreshments will be available, and tours will be offered.
University Commons is the university's first student center in its 46-year history and was partially funded by a fee approved by students in spring 2015. The three-story, 80,124-square-foot building is on the east side of Ben Wilson Street, directly across from UHV University Center.
The building eventually will house a food court and a market with a coffee bar, which both will open in fall 2020. The university's new Jag Station bookstore is currently set up on the first floor of the UHV University Center, 3007 N. Ben Wilson St., and will move into its space on the first floor of University Commons in mid-September. University Commons also houses the new UHV Library, a multi-purpose room with seating for up to 250 people, study and lounge areas, the Center for Student Involvement, and a Student Services Suite. The Dr. Vic and Mary Jane Morgan Counseling Center, named after Vic Morgan, who served as the UHV president from 2014 to 2018, and his wife will be located on the second floor. This naming was made possible by the generous donations of community members.
"University Commons is the first of three new buildings at UHV," President Bob Glenn said. "This building will bring a new level of excitement to campus and give our students a wonderful, dedicated space where they can study, socialize and get important services. This is a great step forward for the university and the Victoria community."
For Solano, the new building is a representation of the growth taking place at the university. The San Antonio native and education major remembers thinking that UHV was a small university when she first came to Victoria, but now she thinks the university is growing at a fast pace.
"When I first saw the inside of the new building, I was shocked," Solano said. "Everything was so modern, shiny and nice. There's so much to see here, and it really shows what the university is capable of achieving."
Juma and Solano are student workers for UHV Student Life and were among the first people to move their workspaces into the new building. Now, as they prepare to welcome students back from summer vacation, they also get to turn the new office spaces into something that feels like home.
"I keep telling people it feels crazy to know we get the privilege of being the first to use this wonderful space," Juma said. "Between work, studying and just taking time to myself, I already know I'm going to be in this building every day from morning to night."
One of Juma's favorite things about University Commons is the library. With its new, convenient location, he will be able to go to the UHV Library right across the street from where he attends classes. Solano also has a new favorite spot on campus. She already is planning to have her senior and graduation pictures on the third-floor balcony of University Commons that overlooks UHV's campus.
"It's such an honor to be one of the first students to use this building," Solano said. "It feels like we're laying a foundation for students who come after us. I can't wait to see how the rest of the construction around campus will look once it's complete."
For more information about the ribbon cutting, contact Nancy Gresham, UHV special events coordinator, at 361-570-4351 or greshamn@uhv.edu. To RSVP for the ribbon cutting, email rsvp4@uhv.edu.
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"There's been so much anticipation about getting to this point," said Juma, an education major from Sabinal. "It's been a journey watching the building go up a little bit more every day as we went to classes. It's just mind-blowing to be one of the first students to use this new space."
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Alaska Left Shaken After 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake
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Alaska is one of America's natural beauties, filled with breathtaking sights of both the natural and man-made variety. However, many people forget that Alaska, like many other parts of the world, experiences earthquakes. While the state doesn't hold claim to many earthquakes on record, a tremor shook the state on Sunday around 7 a.m.
According to CBS News, the earthquake occurred near the remote North Slope. True to its name, the North Slope is located in the northernmost part of Alaska, and contains little besides its crude oil production. However, the region isn't unfamiliar with tremors, and has experienced earthquakes before.
The strongest recorded tremor in this area was just a 5.2 magnitude quake in 1995. On Sunday morning, they experienced the most serious one yet. It had a recorded magnitude of 6.4, making it the strongest earthquake in Alaskan history.
This raring makes it 15.8 times bigger and 63.1 times stronger than what this region has experienced before. While we are all familiar with the concept of quakes, it can be difficult to imagine how forceful they can be. When two tectonic plates sit and grind against one another, the effects are more than just a few vibrations. Strong earthquakes likes this one can destroy homes, open up the ground, and destabilize entire buildings.
Thirty minutes of ground motion data from seismic stations across<|fim_middle|> it could have been catastrophic for the citizens living there.
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— AK Earthquake Center (@AKearthquake) August 12, 2018
Luckily, this earthquake was located in an extremely remote area. There have been no reported loss of life or injury because of it, and most people aren't even aware that it happened. According to Fox News, the closest town to North Slope is Kaktovik, which only recorded a population around 241 people in 2016.
Despite the distance, workers in a nearby oil-production facility in Prudhoe Bay felt the shakes. While it didn't do any damage to the Trans-Alaskan pipeline or any other buildings, it's hard to ignore the implications of this event. Earthquakes aren't impossible, and we should be properly prepared to handle them.
Shortly after the first tremor, a second one hit. This one was far weaker, only ranking at a 5.1 magnitude, but it struck closer to home. It hit 340 miles northeast of Fairbanks, three miles closer than the previous quake. Many specialists are considering this tremor an aftershock of the larger one that came before it.
While there was no damage or loss of life, Alaskan citizens have still been left shaken by the event. Earthquakes caused over 1,000 deaths last year, even at lower magnitudes. If this tremor had occurred closer to civilization, | 349 |
A new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the planetary nebula NGC 3918, nicknamed the "Blue Planetary" or "The Southerner". Its shape in some ways reminds of an eye with special colors and seeing it is a lucky event because it will not last long in astronomical terms since this phase will end within a few tenth of millennia.
The expression planetary neb<|fim_middle|> vastly superior to the ones even conceivable two centuries ago such as the Hubble Space Telescope, which captured the details of the structure of the NGC 3918 nebula. The shape of a planetary nebula depends a lot on the processes under way inside it: in this case the peculiarity is given by the presence of two gas shells, a bright inner one and a more diffused outer one which extends into space.
Initially, astronomers thought that two separate ejections generated the two shells of the NGC 3918 nebula but further studies led to the hypothesis that they formed at the same time but were ejected from the progenitor star at different speeds. From the borders of that structure powerful jets of gas emerge that are shot outside at speeds that can reach 350,000 kph (217,500 mph). Probably there will be new attempts to measure the speeds of the various gas flows within NGC 3918 to better understand the processes underway.
This new image of the NGC 3918 nebula is the result of a composition of separate exposures obtained in the visible and infrared light of the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) instrument. Different hues were assigned to each monochromatic image associated with the various filters used to create the final result.
Planetary nebulae often offer great shows because the agony of the stars in their center goes through violent processes until they become white dwarfs. The interest of astronomers goes far beyond the aesthetic side because in about five billion years the Sun will also go through that kind of phase. | ula is the result of an error of interpretation by astronomers who had limited instruments available and mistook them for formations similar to the solar system's gas planets. Actually, they represent a short phase in the life of a star of mass similar to the Sun when it becomes a red giant and its outer layers get ejected. The intense ultraviolet emitted from the star's core ionize the layers of gas, which consequently emit electromagnetic radiation and that's why NGC 3918 glows.
The NGC 3918 nebula is about 4,900 light years away from the Earth according to estimates offered by NASA but other sources provide very different estimates. It was discovered in 1834 by the English astronomer John Herschel thanks to the fact that it's visible with small telescopes like those available at that time. It was Herschel who nicknamed it "Blue Planetary" for its color.
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Baslers couture collection Is to die for, as I've had the opportunity to see Brian's work up close. I wasn't sure what this particular dress was made of so I decided to reach out to Brian to ask. The Brian Rennie for Basler couture line is easily in the few thousands of dollars price point,but well worth every dollar. Basler can be found exclusively at Bloomingdales through out the United States and in Europe.
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Home National News RK Singh at ICOLD symposium on dams: India diversifying its energy basket
RK Singh at ICOLD symposium on dams: India diversifying its energy basket
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New Delhi: Speaking at the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) Symposium on Sustainable Development of Dams & River Basins, Power Minister RK Singh said that India is diversifying its energy basket with more non fossil fuels such as hydro, solar, wind, bio energy. He said that these sources of power are clean and cost-effective. He reinstated the commitments of India<|fim_middle|>Next articleReNew Power gets valued at $8 billion in SPAC deal for NASDAQ listing | to the Paris Climate Agreement. He further added that our per capita income is one third of world average despite that we are only major economy whose actions are on track to preventing the global temperature from rising above 2 degrees Celsius.
The symposium was inaugurated by Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Minister for Jal Shakti, who was the chief guest. And Singh presided over the opening ceremony on Wednesday.
Other dignitaries including Power Secretary Alok Kumar, Secretary of Ministry of Jal Shakti Pankaj Kumar, Central Electricity Authority Chairperson Prakash S Mhaske, and Central Water Commission Chairman SK Haldar.
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International Commission on Large Dams(INCOLD) in collaboration with Central Water Commission (CWC), Dam Rehabilitation Improvement Project (DRIP) and National Hydrology Project (NHP) is organising Symposium on "Sustainable Development of Dams and River Basins" under the aegis of ICOLD at New Delhi as Hybrid event from February 24-27. More than 300 delegates from across the country and abroad will participate in the Symposium.
The symposium is being organised to provide an excellent opportunity to Indian Dam Engineering Professionals and Agencies to share their experiences, ideas and latest developments in new materials and construction technologies, advancement in investigation techniques, best engineering practices, dam safety issues etc. Besides this offers opportunity to networking with the world renowned dam experts from different countries and global organizations involved in Dam Construction, management and operation and maintenance for mutual benefits.
The achievement of flagship programmes of Ministry of Jal Shakti namely Dam Rehabilitation Improvement Project (DRIP) to improve the safety and operational performance of large dams and its appurtenances structures in addition to institutional strengthening and National Hydrology Project (NHP) with the World Bank assistance will be the presented to the Global Dam Community who are keen and looking forward to India's development and successful implementation of DRIP as well as NHP. In addition, the Dam Safety Bill which has been approved by Lok Sabha, in order to put regulatory mechanism in place, to provide for proper surveillance, inspection, operation and maintenance of all dams in India, which has been enacted will be publicised.
From 43 countries, 285 full text of technical papers received from the national and international dam experts out of which 130 presentations will be presented during the 27 technical sessions besides more than 30 presentations in the seven workshops are being organized on 27th February 2021 on virtual platform., These presentations will be made to exchange the experiences and latest development related to the design, performance, rehabilitation and environmental aspects of dams which would certainly add new dimensions to the body of knowledge on the subject. More than 800 participants from 40 different countries are participating in the deliberations of the event.
There will also be a Special Sessions on "Innovative Financing in Dam Projects, Use of Geo-synthetics in Dam Engineering besides six workshops on Numerical Analysis of Dams, Roller Compacted Concrete Dams, Reservoir Operation for Handling of Extreme Events, Life Extension Technologies and Strategies for Aging Dams, Sedimentation Management in Reservoirs in Sustainable Development and Seismic Analysis of Dam Design and Safety Evaluation of Existing dams"
An exhibition is also being organized during the symposium as a technology showcase to meet the challenges of 21st century for the development of Dams and River basins. The central hub of ICOLD symposium will be multi-functional Exhibitions where products and services of interest to dam community will be on display. Delegates will visit the exhibition booth virtually and have networking with the agencies.
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GOODWILL: Swim for the Cure
It all started with a lump. Not a lump of her own, but<|fim_middle|> up, I can swim, and I feel okay to do that. Some days you hurt, but when I finish I'm done. They inspire me to swim."
If you are interested in participating in the 2015 Swim for the Cure as a solo or relay swimmer, as a crew member, or would like more information, visit swimforthecure.ca
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At the age of 10, while running around the yard, Debbie Bang accidentally elbowed her Nana in the chest. The resulting discomfort led to a doctor's appointment with the subsequent and unfortunate diagnosis of breast cancer. A chance collision that prompted an important discovery, it would not be the last time the family had a run-in with the disease.
At 17, Bang found a lump of her own, though it turned out to be just a cyst. Her aunt on the other hand was not so lucky. The second in the family to be diagnosed, her cancer metastasized after seven years moving from breast to brain and bone before it took her life.
Inspired by a friend who had asked her to participate in a swim at Lake Rosseau in support of children suffering with cancer, Bang set out to start her own fundraiser. "As much as we need to support children with cancer it's not as near and dear to my heart as breast cancer," says Bang. "Because of my history I'm much more at risk than others."
In 2000 Bang put on her swimming cap and set out on the inaugural Swim for the Cure.
"For that first swim, 14 years ago, I attempted to swim from Swift Rapids to Port Severn which is a 25.6 km swim." Making it all but 2.5 km from the end, she had to be pulled from the water as her body said enough was enough. "I was just done. I was very disappointed."
Realizing that this might be too tough for your average swimmer, Bang shortened it to a 12.8 km swim between two locks along the Severn River. This is approximately the same distance it would be to walk along Lakeshore Road from Brant Street in Burlington to Third Line in Oakville. Swimmers can choose to do a solo or relay swim with the option of completing it in full or doing a shortened 7.8 km lap.
"The distance sounds so doable," says Bang. "By midpoint, our bodies are communicating aches and often leg and toe cramps. By the 9 km point we are asking ourselves "˜whose stupid idea was it to swim this distance?'"
With the help and support of crew members "" volunteers who paddle alongside the swimmers aiding with direction, food and water breaks and general cheerleading "" swimmers will gain the strength to finish the swim. "They make sure that they are between us and the boats, that we swim straight"¦ they are our eyes and ears, the feeder, the encourager, and bottom line they put up with our grumpiness. We can't do this without the crew."
Now, at the age of 54, Bang has completed the 14th annual Swim for the Cure, each year raising more than the last.
This year 23 swimmers took to the Severn River on July 19 helping to raise more than $26,000 to fund breast cancer research through the Barrie Canadian Cancer Society. Since the swim started in 2000, the event has raised more than $208,000 for the cause.
The 12.8 km swim is no easy feat. Bang wakes up every morning to swim using whatever water source is available to her. In the cooler months, you can find her indoors training at either Centennial or White Oaks Pool in Oakville or, once the weather finally warms, in Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Gulliver's Lake or the Severn River. Bang suggests that those interested in taking part in the swim work their way up to swimming 12.8 km total every week until they are able to swim 6.4 km in two days back to back. "If you can do that," she says, "you know you're ready."
If you're looking for inspiration, Bang says it's the message of hope that makes her hop in the water every morning. "I don't have breast cancer, though I know people who do. Their journey with breast cancer is not a pleasant one," she says. "We cut, we burn and we poison. They're very, very sick and they're not sure whether or not they're going to live. There are some very dramatic things that happen to their bodies"¦ I don't deal with that every day. I can get | 934 |
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Oct 13 /// Kansas City, MO /// Arrowhead Stadium
Oct 17 /// Fargo, ND /// Fargodome
Oct 20 /// Minneapolis, MN /// US Bank Stadium
Oct 23 /// Milwaukee, WI /// Miller Park
Oct 27 /// Dallas, TX /// AT&T Stadium
Oct 31 /// New Orleans, LA /// Mercedes-Benz Stadium Superdome
Nov 3 /// Houston, TX /// Minute Maid Park
Nov 7 /// Tampa, FL /// Raymond James Stadium
Nov 10 /// Atlanta, GA /// Mercedes-Benz Stadium
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Dec 5 /// Newcastle, England /// Metro Radio Arena
Dec 7 /// Belfast, Northern Ireland /// The SSE Arena
Dec 11 /// Dublin, Ireland /// 3Arena
Jan 25 /// Birmingham, England /// Birmingham Arena
Jan 26 /// London, England /// O2 Arena
Jan 29 /// Leeds, England /// First Direct Arena
Jan 30 /// Manchester, England /// Manchester Arena
Jan 31 /// Glasgow, England /// The SSE Hydro
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Dr. Jennings prescribes simple, everyday actions we can take to stave off disease, promote vitality, and prevent dementia and late-onset Alzheimer's. "The choices we make now can help us to keep our minds sharp and maintain our independence as we age," says Jennings.
An easy-to-use guide to maintaining brain and body health throughout life, The Aging Brain is based on solid, up-to-date scientific research, and the interventions discussed can prevent progression toward dementia, even in those already showing signs of mild cognitive impairment. The recommendations also may help reduce disability and depression.
"This book isn't just for people hoping to slow the aging process," says Jennings. "It's also for anyone who is a caregiver to someone at risk of or already beginning to suffer from dementia. It offers a hopeful, healthy way forward."
Jennings, who maintains a private practice in Chattanooga, TN, has authored several books, including The God-Shaped Brain and The God-Shaped Heart. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Fellow of the Southern Psychiatric Association, and is president and founder of Come and Reason Ministries.
For more information about Dr. Jennings, please visit the website: https://www.agingbrainbook.com.
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Snow Patrol Debut Music Video for "Soon" confirms North American tour with Ed Sheeran &Headlining dates throughout the U.K. & Ireland. First Album in seven years Wilderness out now via Republic/Polydor Records.
"….a fantastically ambitious collection of songs, one more direct and intimate than many previous Snow Patrol offerings…"Wildness" signals a triumphant Snow Patrol return." -Associated Press
This morning, Snow Patrol debut the music video for their song "Soon," from their album Wildness. Directed by Brett Simon, who has helmed videos for every track on the album, 'Soon' is a poignant snapshot of Gary Lightbody and his father, who is suffering from dementia. Lightbody revealed: "Soon' is about my dad. Three years ago he was diagnosed with dementia. I wanted to write a song that connected us both and let him know I was with him and would be always. The video we made for this (directed by Brett Simon) is me and my dad sitting together watching old home movies. Filming it with him was one of the best days I ever spent with my dad and I'm so grateful he got to share in the day and spend some time in my world. It meant everything to me." Watch the video for "Soon" here. For more information about how music and technology can improve the lives of the elderly suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's, visit Music & Memory here.
Recently, Snow Patrol have confirmed 8 headlining dates in the UK and Ireland throughout December and January. The band will perform in cities including Dublin, London, and Belfast (full dates below), and tickets will go on sale on Friday, June 8th at 9am Local Time here. Snow Patrol has also confirmed that they will support Ed Sheeran on 24 North American stadium dates, which will kick off at Pasadena's Rose Bowl on Saturday August 18th. The tour will stop in cities including Seattle, Atlanta, Chicago, and Dallas (full dates below), and tickets for all dates are on sale now and available here.
Snow Patrol's album Wildness, their first album in seven years, is out now and available for purchase on all formats here. To celebrate the release of Wildness, Snow Patrol debuted new music videos for "A Youth Written In Fire," "Life and Death," "Wild Horses," and "A Dark Switch." The band has previously released music videos for "Empress" "What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get?," "Life On Earth," and "Don't Give In," and you can watch them all here. Additionally, Ed Sheeran showed his support in an Instagram video here.
Snow Patrol recently returned to "Later… With Jools Holland" where they debuted a live rendition of "Empress," along with performances of "Life On Earth," "Heal Me," and "Chasing Cars." Snow Patrol also appeared as musical guests on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on April 19th and The Late Late Show With James Corden on April 24th and performed "Don't Give In," the first single from the album.
Snow Patrol has launched a Spotify playlister website where fans around the world can create their own playlist of Snow Patrol songs throughout the band's catalogue and share these playlists with a friend. When sharing the playlist, the fan marks his/her location as well as the recipient's location on a global map. Check it out and create your own playlist at http://playlist.snowpatrol.com
Since their 1998 debut, Songs for Polarbears, Snow Patrol has racked up an impressive number of critical and commercial accolades, including 15 million global album sales, 1+ billion global track streams, five UK Platinum Albums, and are Grammy, BRIT Award and Mercury Music Prize nominated. After their Fallen Empires tour ended in 2012, band members —which also include multi-instrumentalist Johnny McDaid, guitarist Nathan Connolly, bassist Paul Wilson, and drummer Jonny Quinn — decided to take a step back from the band, and focus on their own projects. Gary Lightbody continued his work with his Tired Pony side project with members of Belle and Sebastian, R.E.M, Reindeer Section and Fresh Young Fellows and moved to Los Angeles to begin writing songs for movies (including "This Is How You Walk On" for 2017's Gifted), and doing a number of high-profile co-writes with Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Biffy Clyro, and One Direction. Taking this extended break from Snow Patrol proved to be a source of inspiration, and writing songs that were not pulled directly from his own psyche helped heal what Lightbody considered to be not so much writer's block as life block.
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01 Life On Earth
02 Don't Give In
03 Heal Me
04 Empress
05 A Dark Switch
06 What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get?
07 A Youth Written In Fire
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Science is built, enhanced, and developed through the open and structured sharing of knowledge. Yet some publishers charge so much for subscriptions to their academic journals that even the libraries of the world's wealthiest universities such as Harvard are no longer able to afford the prices. Those publishers' profit margins rival those of the most profitable companies in the world, even though research is largely underwritten by governments, and the publishers don't pay authors and researchers or the peer reviewers who evaluate those works. How is such an absurd structure able to sustain itself—and how might we change it?
When the World Wide Web emerged in the '90s, people began predicting a new, more robust era of scholarship based on access to knowledge for all. The internet, which started as a research network, now had an easy-to-use interface and a protocol to connect all of published knowledge, making each citation just a click away … in theory.
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A new voice phishing scam is going after iPhone users in a clever new way: by making calls seem like they are coming directly from Apple Support.
Brian Krebs reported today that a user, Jody Westby, got a call from Apple Support asking for her to call back. The contact information that came along with the number appeared to be Apple Inc.'s in the identity screen for the call. When she called the 866 number, however, something was clearly amiss.
KrebsOnSecurity called the number that the scam message asked Westby to contact (866-277-7794).
An automated system answered and said I'd reached Apple Support, and that my expected wait time was about one minute and 30 seconds. About a minute later, a man with an Indian accent answered and inquired as to the reason for my call.
New Year's has arrived, and for many people, that means an annual resolution to get in shape. If you'd like to get more active, buying an activity tracker in 2019 can be very helpful in your new fitness journey.
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La notizia, nelle indagini sui tragici scontri del 26 dicembre scorso prima della partita tra Inter e Napoli, era nell'aria: oggi la conferma. E' stato iscritto nel registro degli indagati per omicidio volontario l'ultrà del Napoli di 25 anni che era a bordo della Volvo B40 station wagon, sequestrata dalla Digos di Napoli su disposizione dei pm milanesi. L'auto è quella che avrebbe investito e ucciso l'ultrà di Varese Daniele Belardinelli. Per quanto riguarda uno degli altri indagati, il 21enne Luca Da Ros, invece, le porte di San Vittore si stanno per aprire. Al termine dell'interrogatorio, nel quale Da Ros ha ribadito le accuse al capo ultrà Piovella, la procura ha dato parere favorevole alla sua scar | 563 |
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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not<|fim_middle|> also freely available to seamen and others connected with shipping. In this connection he was an honorary member of the Merchant Service Guild and the Marine Engineers' Guild, and gave valuable service to both these organisations. In his later years, although he took occasional services for the Church of England, he was also interested in the Greek Orthodox Church and became their pastor for a time. He died at Wellington on 7 August 1954.
Although Bates did not have the extensive technical training possessed by those meteorologists who followed him, he was a colourful personality and did much to interest other scientists and the general public in meteorological work. He also served the community in a great many ways and is probably the best remembered of New Zealand's early weathermen.
by Jack William Hutchings, B.A., M.SC., Senior Principal Meteorologist, Meteorological Service, Wellington.
Evening Post, Aug 1954 (Obit).
Jack William Hutchings, B.A., M.SC., Senior Principal Meteorologist, Meteorological Service, Wellington.
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Clergyman and meteorologist.
Daniel Cross Bates was born on 9 June 1868 at Spalding, England, the son of N. Bates, a farmer, of Spalding. He was educated in England, first at Spalding Grammar School and then at Salisbury Cathedral School and St. Augustine's College. Later he spent some time in Australia and while there became a minister of the Anglican Church. He was ordained at Newcastle in 1892 and came to New Zealand in 1898, being for some time vicar at All Saints' Church, Invercargill. During 1902 Bates served with the 9th New Zealand Contingent in the Boer War, attaining the rank of Chaplain-Colonel. He was present at Vereeniging when peace was signed in May 1902 and was awarded the Queen's Medal for service in South Africa. On his return to New Zealand he retained his interest in military affairs and was later awarded the Officers' Territorial Decoration and the Long Service Medal.
Because of an illness contracted in South Africa, one of the more serious symptoms being a loss of voice, Bates was obliged to retire from the church in 1903. In the same year he joined the staff of the Colonial Museum relieving the director, A. Hamilton, of the large amount of climatological work which was at that time a museum responsibility. Weather forecasting was then carried out by the Weather Reporting Office under the direction of Captain R. A. Edwin. In 1906, however, Edwin, in addition to his forecasting duties, assumed responsibility for the climatological work and Bates became his assistant. He succeeded Edwin as Director of the Meteorological Office in 1909 and served in this capacity until his retirement in 1927. During this period he was also for a number of years the Director of Meteorology for the Army, being specially concerned with the meteorological requirements of military aviation. On retirement he was appointed consulting meteorologist to the New Zealand Government.
In addition to his meteorological interests Bates also participated actively in the life of the community. He played a considerable part in the discussions leading to the establishment of the Wellington Zoological Gardens at Newtown in 1905. He also helped to found the New Zealand Numismatic Society and was its first president. His time was | 552 |
Some business leaders worry that President Donald Trump is not adequately prepared for upcoming talks with China.
US businesses say they face more restrictions in China than Chinese businesses do in the US. They want Trump to negotiate better terms for them.
President Xi Jinping, however, has promised reforms.
BEIJING, Oct 31 (Reuters) - A top U.S. business lobby in China said on Tuesday it was concerned U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was not making sufficient preparation for talks on imbalances in the bilateral economic relationship ahead of his November visit.
Little advance work has been done for the visit, said William Zarit, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China. He was referring to meetings by working level officials to<|fim_middle|> Cook and Facebook Inc's Mark Zuckerberg.
China will make joint efforts with the United States to "take each other's interests and concerns into consideration, resolve disputes and contradictions, and engage in win-win cooperation", Xi said according to the official China Daily newspaper.
But such frequently made pledges have done little to assuage foreign companies' concerns over ownership caps in key sectors, such as autos, securities, insurance, and information technology.
U.S. business lobbies argue that their members are restricted in those industries while Chinese companies operate freely in the U.S. market. They have also criticized Beijing's "Made in China 2025" plan, which offers government backing for sectors the Chinese government deems strategic.
"Basically, when we look at that, what it boils down to for us is it's a company competing against a country," Zarit said. | negotiate outcomes on commercial issues for Trump's meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
"From what I understand, there really hasn't been much of that for this visit, which makes us a bit concerned that there may not be much discussion on the structural issues," Zarit told reporters in Beijing.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will bring a business delegation to Beijing during Trump's visit. Some in the U.S. business community are worried that deals announced on the trip could distract from solutions to long-standing complaints over discriminatory Chinese policies and market access restrictions.
Zarit said he hoped proposed deals from the business delegation "do not overshadow the real need for structural changes in the economic relationship".
U.S. officials were "still waiting" for a Chinese response to issues raised during the U.S.-China Comprehensive Economic Dialogue in July, Zarit said, though he did not give specifics.
He called Chinese officials "master negotiators" and said the U.S. government and business community had long suffered from a less strategic view of the economic relationship.
"And I think there is no exception with this administration," Zarit said.
He added that it was "not unreasonable" to expect more progress 10 months into Trump's presidency.
Ross, has said the United States will be looking for "immediate results" and "tangible agreements" during Trump's visit, but has acknowledged that market access, intellectual property rights, and tariffs are more complex and will take a longer time to negotiate.
Washington and Beijing launched a 100-day economic plan during Trump's first meeting with Xi in April, including some industry-specific announcements, such as the resumption of American beef sales in China. But U.S. business groups have expressed disappointment over the extent of the outcomes.
Business leaders will join President Trump during his visit to Beijing.
Xi vowed on Monday that China would take more measures to open up the economy. He made the remarks at a meeting with members of an advisory board to Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management, including Apple Inc chief executive Tim | 414 |
In 2010, I had a conversation with my friend Matthew in his kitchen; a conversation which would go on to change my life, my career and, I hope, the world.
The two of us were discussing Tourettes Syndrome, a neurological condition that I had recently been diagnosed with and which means that I make movements and noises that I can't control. At that time, these 'tics', as they are known, were having a big impact on my confidence and expectations.
Matthew and I had had conversations about Tourettes many times before, and they had always ended in tears.<|fim_middle|> that changing attitudes would be a long-drawn-out process, but Touretteshero has taught me that change can happen very quickly. It often starts with a conversation, a question, or a shared laugh. Creating change doesn't have to be a battle; it can be joyful, persuasive, discursive, and even silly. If we can get people to engage, we can get them to change. This is something that I believe applies everywhere.
In fact, when I read a survey describing how people in the UK use their time, I was shocked to discover that most people spend an average of only six minutes a day laughing. Thanks to Tourettes, my friends and I laugh a lot longer than this.
Touretteshero's taught me many things; one of the most important lessons is that if something's not working I can change it.
This isn't because I have any special super powers...it's because we all have the ability to create change.
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When Matthew described the condition as 'a crazy language-generating machine' and told me that 'not doing something creative with it would be wasteful', the idea took root and helped me recognise my tics as my power, not my problem. From there, we went on to co-found Touretteshero, an organisation that uses humour and creativity to increase understanding of difference, break down fear, and work to build a more inclusive society.
Tourettes is one of the most frequently misunderstood conditions on the planet. Lots of people have heard of it, but their knowledge is often based on myths and stereotypes. For example, it is often characterised as the 'swearing disease' when, in fact, only 10% of people with Tourettes have obscene tics; I am one of them but, even then, I am as likely to shout about domestic appliances, dinosaurs or b-list celebrities as I am to swear.
"It is the hippies of outrageous fortune that weigh heavy on the minds of dogs".
"Replace every chimney in London with a penguin".
"God's moving to Watford on Sunday".
We also invite people to make artwork in response - seeing tics transformed by other people's talents is incredibly exciting.
You see, Tourettes can be very funny.
When we started Touretteshero, this felt like a risky thing to say. Of course, the condition's not amusing in itself, but my tics are often so spontaneously funny that I only wish they had been intentional.
A few years ago, I watched a video of someone pretending to have Tourettes – it had had almost 30 million views. I remember thinking "Wow! Everyone watching this is being short-changed." The reality of life with Tourettes is much funnier than that.
Rather than complaining about what was already out there, we set about providing an alternative.
Since then, I've performed to diverse audiences on stages across the world. This has included giving a TEDx talk at the Royal Albert Hall, creating the Edinburgh Fringe Festival award-winning show Backstage In Biscuit Land, talking to comedian Russell Howard about "Jedi's in Dungarees", and giving Cambridge University's 2015 Annual Disability Lecture on the power of humour.
The subject is close to my heart; after many years of being afraid of other people's laughter, I've come to appreciate humour as one of the most powerful tools we have for connecting with each other.
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Parenting is not for sissies. And with today's kids facing challenges such as social media and the internet, in a complex social landscape where issues such as race, poverty and privilege are forever at the forefront, most moms and dads find themselves parenting in unchartered territory.
The Mommy Diaries came to be. Kona wanted to intentionally engage and hopefully equip their kids around issues of the heart, issues of faith and issues in their world.
As an intentionally value based and biblically response to issues and events in the world and social and emotion challenges today's parents and kids face, The Mommy Diaries focuses on equipping parents to develop in their kids a firm a foundation of the kind of faith and values that might nowadays be considered rare, such as integrity, courage, kindness, resilience, gratitude and more.
KONA BROWN – An earnest blogger (www.konabrown.co.za), enthusiastic exerciser, persistent prayer, fashion fanatic and closet artist, Kona Brown is your typical mom and wife next door. She is at her happiest when she has opportunities to inspire other women. She majored in Development Studies and Political Science at the University of Johannesburg (then RAU). After 7 years in banking as a business analyst, Kona left the corporate world to start a family. Her efforts in specifically assisting orphaned and vulnerable children played a major part<|fim_middle|> Kona being crowned Mrs United Nation SA 2012 and Mrs UN International for 2013.
As the sister and manager of popular platinum selling recording artist, Elvis Blue, Kona directs upwards of 100 gigs per year for Elvis, all the while juggling the school run and the dynamic home life of her husband and 2 sons. | in | 1 |
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Tonight! Amnesty takes on Brooklyn, Feb 5th! Madonna will introduce Pussy Riot
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On the eve of the 2014 Sochi Olympics in Russia, thousands of human rights supporters will descend upon the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NYC for an unforgettable night. Imagine Dragons, Flaming Lips, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Tegan and Sara, Cold War Kids, Colbie Caillat, The Fray, Cake and others will perform. Madonna will take the stage to announce members from Russian<|fim_middle|> sacrifices they have made in the name of freedom of expression and human rights."
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Stories will be told. Actions will be taken. Lives will be changed.
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"Amnesty's past concerts have featured some of the greatest artists of our generation and have been catalysts for real, measurable change. It's an honor to perform as part of this event and continue the cause of championing human rights around the world."
— Dan Reynolds, lead singer of Grammy-nominated rock band Imagine Dragons
"We are happy to support Amnesty International's work on behalf of human rights and political prisoners. We, more than anyone, understand how important Amnesty's work is in connecting activists to prisoners."
— Nadezhda "Nadya" Tolokonnikova and Maria "Masha" Alekhina, members of Pussy Riot who were jailed in 2012 for publicly criticizing Russian president Vladimir Putin in a church
"I am honored to introduce my fellow freedom fighters Masha and Nadya from Pussy Riot. I have admired their courage and have long supported their commitment and the | 247 |
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Posted by Amy Kunce-Martinez on Friday, January 26th, 2018 at 9:32<|fim_middle|>. They're trying to keep a roof over their heads," she said.
A rent increase of just 5 percent in some cities nationwide means hundreds or thousands more people end up homeless, she said.
The key to creating more homeownership is to think about it in "long game" terms, according to Bohutinsky.
"Think about how do we help those who can barely afford their rent [get] to a stable place so they can begin to save money and so that they can become the homeowners of the future," she said.
Things everyone can do include:
Volunteering time, i.e. building homes through a charity such as Habitat for Humanity
Raising money, i.e. organizing a 5K race for needy families
Using your knowledge to help educate people, i.e., hosting a homebuying seminar
Supporting victims of natural disasters, as Keller Williams and others did after Hurricane Harvey
In October, Zillow Group launched its first social impact program, "The Home Project, pledging $5 million to help those on the verge of homelessness.
Over the next year Zillow Group will expand the program so that "the entire industry" can participate, Bohutinsky told attendees.
"We know that Americans want to own homes. People believe in the American dream. The problem is so many of them can't," she said.
"Yet as an industry … so many millions of dollars and hours of our advocacy are spent on the short term, trying to convince people to want to own a home. These people want to own a home."
The expanded Home Project program will focus on "homeownership where it counts the most: playing the long game and to help people find stability and find a home in the future," she added.
"Because our hope if you join us … our hope for the future is that we can create story after story that is just like my family's story: where people in America can realize the American Dream … I hope you'll join us."
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NEW YORK — After fleeing Budapest, Hungary, during World War II, Amy Bohutinsky's grandparents and father — who was nine years old at the time — immigrated to the U.S. in 1949.
Her grandfather spoke no English and took a job as a dishwasher, then a second job to save money, and within a decade her grandparents were able to buy their first home. They saved more money and were eventually able to purchase two duplexes and a triplex to rent out.
"And soon my grandparents were making a healthy living on the back of real estate, my grandfather as a real estate investor and landlord," Bohutinsky, COO of real estate giant Zillow Group, told attendees at Inman Connect New Yorkthis morning. "They sent my dad to college. They were even able to buy a vacation home in the mountains that reminded them of Eastern Europe."
Her grandparents passed on the idea of the American Dream to her, Bohutinsky said.
"This idea that anyone here can work hard, buy a home, build wealth through that home, and with that wealth creation, create opportunity for generations to come. This is why every single one of us do what we do," she said.
But the American dream and what her family experienced hasn't always been available to everyone, Bohutinsky noted, pointing out disparate rates of homeownership among blacks and Hispanics compared to whites.
One reason for this is that mortgages in the post-war homeownership boom were often not available to minorities. From 1934 to 1962, minorities got less than 2 percent of $120 billion in housing financing underwritten by the government, Bohutinsky noted.
Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans for the Long Island, New York, model suburban development Levittown, for example, were exclusively available to "Members of the Caucasian Race."
Within a decade, Levittown grew from a potato field to a community with more than 70,000 residents — every single one of them white, Bohutinsky said.
"This played out in thousands of communities at the time across the United States," she said.
Such policies were outlawed as part of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, but they nonetheless stopped many families from being able to pass equity and wealth on to future generations, creating disparities that continue today.
"Today blacks bring home about 60 percent of the income of white families, but when you look at accumulated wealth, African American families have just 5 percent of accumulated wealth," she said.
But access to homeownership isn't just about race, according to Bohutinsky.
She noted that 10 million people lost their homes during the Great Recession and 5 million people are still underwater with no home equity. Between 2006 and 2017, the national homeownership rate fell from 69 percent to 64 percent.
"As people who build our businesses off of others owning homes and encouraging other people to buy homes … how do we as an industry and professionals impact this statistic?" she said. "How do we create a landscape where more people can be homeowners?"
An increasing number of renters across the country are "housing insecure" — just one emergency or lost paycheck away from homelessness, according to Bohutinsky.
While historically renters have paid a quarter of their income in rent (25 percent), that figure is now up to 29 percent nationwide and even higher in major cities like Los Angeles (48 percent), Miami (41 percent), and New York (39 percent).
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I hope everyone enjoys a beautiful Independence day as we remember the many men and women who serve to keep America Free.
We thank you for the sacrifices you make everyday so that we may enjoy a weekend of BBQ's and fun. God's Blessings be upon you and your families.
Enjoy the music of God Bless America as I share a few pics of the season from around our cottage home.
To welcome you, I have added to my urn of geraniums, this darling Grandma Mabel's Critters plaque sign ,gifted to me by my dear friend Julie Marie of Idyllhours. I love this so much and the meaning behind each design. Thank you Julie, I love it and you! The sentiment around the design is written on the back. Wonderful person Grandma Mabel was!
Let's walk outside while we have a little break in the rains. We finally are getting some much needed rain, moved up our way from the hurricane in the gulf. We sure need it.
First we are greeted by my Uncle Sam. I created him a very long time ago, nearly 25 years now. He is ready to greet you in his stern and patriotic look! He stands over 4 foot tall and waves his flag with a big heart for the Land that he Loves!
Recently I added a trelllis to the large pot I have on our patio to help my Potato Vine along. I think the vine loves it.
A little red, white, and blue among my flowers.
Let's go inside to make some lemonade or cup of tea with cupcakes and strawberries.
Thank you for stopping by today. I love having you here and sharing in the Indepdence of our nation. We may be able to BBQ later if the rain gives us a break. Whatever your plans, I wish for you a safe, happy and special 4th of July weekend.
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2014-019 There are forms of universal revelation and truth, but these do not take the form that human beings like to attribute a quality of universal to. We would say that God is love and truth, and that all things good and true from God is a universal truth. To say that only one human being or that<|fim_middle|> an error. | only one teaching can own this or give this as a gift, and that that is a universal truth, is an error. The laws of mathematics and physics and chemistry, these are observable, material, universal truths. But the error that many can make is because these have been found to be or understood as universal truth, is to confuse the source of universal truth with the material world. The error in the case of math and physics and chemistry is in the application, not in the knowledge. And we would say this pattern also exists for many who find spiritual knowledge, the error frequently is in the application. For something to be universally applied is | 128 |
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Last week, Huntington Ingalls Industries said that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division completed the third and final round of sea trials for the US Navy's Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Delbert D. Black (DDG 119).
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In February, the ship also wrapped up builder's trials after spending three days underway in the Gulf of Mexico.
DDG 119 is the first ship named in honor of Navy veteran Delbert D. Black, who served as a gunner's mate and was aboard the battleship USS Maryland (BB 46) during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Delbert D. Black is configured as a Flight IIA destroyer, which enables power projection, forward presence and escort operations at sea in support of Low Intensity Conflict/Coastal and Littoral Offshore Warfare as well as open ocean conflict. DDG 119 is equipped with the navy's Aegis Combat System, the world's foremost integrated naval weapon.
Ingalls has delivered 31 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to the US Navy. The shipyard currently has four DDGs under construction, including Delbert D. Black (DDG 119), Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121), Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) and Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), the navy's first Flight III destroyer.
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Easy Del<|fim_middle|>The real magic, however, is in combining those soft-and-sweet veggies with roasted delicata squash that just sort of melts in your mouth and tomatoes (anything from grape to heirloom, or your fave), and then topping that with roasted squash seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds, and an arugula garnish. "When you're making salads you want to feel satisfied—it's not just about this super dainty thing," Arrington says. "So, I tend to use nuts and seeds because they have a lot of texture to them."
The hearty mixture is then drenched with a lime vinaigrette that cuts the sweetness of the beets, squash, and tomato perfectly, so there are no one-note bites. Instead, each forkful encapsulates this very specific season perfectly, while making you maybe just a little bit excited about fall (pumpkin! squash! oh my!). "Fun, pretty things don't have to be hard," says Arrington of her Instagram-ready mix. "We made this in under 30 minutes." Watch the latest Cook with Us video to get some Top Chef tips on technique, the full recipe, and a healthy appetite.
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It can take a lot to get excited about a salad, and by a lot I mean the inclusion of a diverse array ingredients that mix bitter, sour, and sweet, soft and crunchy, and you know—just all the adjectives. I am fully down for some plain AF spinach with a little olive oil, salt, and pepper, but it's not going to be something I write home about. (I'm literally writing home about such things these days, because pandemic.)
In the latest episode of Cook with Us, chef Nyesha Arrington of Top Chef fame somehow manages to deliver a salad that is so complex on the palate and yet simple to assemble that I most certainly want to write home—or at least, online—about it. She achieves this using seasonal ingredients, which ensures that the vegetables included will likely be more nutrient-dense than they would be out of season, and that procuring them is better for the environment and your wallet. Plus, in-season produce just tastes so much better. "We're in this amazing time of late summer going into fall, so we're using hard squashes, tomatoes, and beets," she says.
Record scratch for, like, a good percentage of the population: beets are very polarizing (even though they're extremely good for you). But trust, the way they're prepared in this roasted beet and delicata squash salad with may just convert you. Arrington roasts her beets with salt, thyme, and olive oil, which is a beet delivery system of which I am personally a major fan. (Just wear gloves when peeling and chopping them, because beet juice can stain like none other.)
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In 1979 Miami Beach's Art Deco Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Art Deco District is the largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world and comprises hundreds of hotels, apartments and other structures erected between 1923 and 1943. Mediterranean, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco are all represented in the District. The Historic District is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the East, Lenox Court on the West, 6th Street on the South and Dade Boulevard along the Collins Canal to the North. The movement to preserve the Art Deco District's architectural heritage was led by former interior designer Barbara Capitman, who now has a street in the District named in her honor.
South Beach (also known as SoBe, or simply The Beach, the area from 1st street to about 25th street) is one of the more popular areas of Miami Beach. Toplesssunbathing is tolerated on certain designated areas of the beach. Before the TV show Miami Vice helped make the area popular, SoBe was under urban blight, with vacant buildings and a high crime rate. Today, it is considered one of the richest commercial areas on the beach, yet poverty and crime still remain in some places near the area.
The Miami Beach environs are home to a number of Orthodox Jewish communities with a network of well-established synagogues and yeshivas. It is also a magnet for Jewish families, retirees, and particularly snowbirds when the cold winter sets in to the north. They range from the Followers to the Modern Orthodox to the Haredi and Hasidic - including many rebbes who vacation there during the North American winter. There are a number of kosher restaurants and even kollels for post-graduate Talmudic scholars, such as the Miami Beach Community Kollel. Miami Beach had roughly 60,000 people in Jewish households, 62 percent of the total population, in 1982, but only 16,500, or 19 percent of the population, in 2004, said Ira Sheskin, a demographer at the University of Miami who conducts surveys once a decade.
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The Intex Challenger K1 is an affordable inflatable kayak crafted from durable PVC. Instantly recognizable by its distinctive safety graphics,<|fim_middle|> by a larger craft. It is also approved by the RWTUV.
The seams have a tendency to stick out; they aren't flush around the craft's rim. Their sharp edge may rub across your body as you paddle which can lead to slight discomfort.
The lack of an adjustable paddle can cause trouble for people with smaller hands, and the manual hand pump can be tiring – you'd do better to buy a separate electric pump. However, the low price of the product makes up for these small reservations.
The price of this vessel makes it perfect for the novice kayaker and coupled with its durability, reliability and mobility, you won't find a kayak anywhere better than this one to match a tight budget. Perfect for those who are starting out in the sport or have kids / relatives for whom an extra kayak is required. | this streamlined craft is great for use on calm waters and is roomy and comfortable enough for any kayaker.
This kayak, priced at approx $80 and with dimensions 30''x15''x108'', is meant for solo use and features an inflatable seat, floor and backrest. With a carrying capacity of 220 lbs. it can sustain the weight of even bulky individuals. The weight of the vessel itself is just 27.2 pounds making it easy to transport for anyone.
Crafted from highly durable 22 gauge PVC – this has been confirmed by multiple consumers who have used it for dozens of trips without any problems. Even at its low cost, you won't have to worry about buying another inflatable kayak anytime soon because of its reliable construction.
Easy to transport – fits into a 2' x 2' bag which can easily be stored in the trunk of your car and the low weight means you can easily take it from the car to the water when you get there.
Stability – the craft is perfectly stable on Class I and II waters and is also easy to leave and exit, making it ideal for beginners as well as kids.
Very cheap – Priced at $80, you can easily invest in this kayak. This makes it perfectly suitable for those kayakers who are just starting out and don't want to invest in a pricey vessel because they aren't sure about kayaking entirely.
Plenty of carrying capacity – the load carrying limit of 220 pounds makes it a completely dependable solo vessel (consider the intex challenger k2 kayak if you'd rather buy a tandem kayak). This has been confirmed by several kayakers. Additionally, several users over 6' tall have reported that the vessel performs perfectly fine for them too.
Repair kit included – in the unlikely event that your Intex does develop a leak, you can easily fix it without having to cancel your trip thanks to the repair kit and patch that comes with it. This is very thoughtful of the manufacturer, especially at the low price this product sells.
Safe design – The cockpit is made from five separate air chambers which means that a leak in one won't cause you to sink to the bottom. The sporty graphics ensure visibility in the water so you won't suffer a collision with or get splashed | 472 |
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The voestalpine Meincol S.A. "Transformar" Professional Education Center has been in operation since 2012 and offers professional training that lines up with the demand on the job market.
In each new course, 14 young people train to become industrial plant maintenance technicians. As a partner school of SENAI (the Brazilian National Service of Industrial Training), "Transformar" is regularly evaluated, explains Trainer Sandro Ricardo Visioli. "I see the great attention with which everyone treats the project, and this 'effort' is actually transforming the lives of our students in a positive direction. We are one step ahead with regards to 'Methodology'<|fim_middle|> seen before
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At present, voestalpine Meincol has its third class at the Transformar Educational Training Center. Fourteen young people are starting the Mechanical Maintenance program at the beginning of 2018, to prepare themselves for the professional market, and for life.
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"In addition to everything I learned and the practical work that was very important, my time at the training center helped me mature as a professional, increased my discipline and sense of responsibility," explains Luis Afonso Cavalheiro Pinto, who works in engineering at voestalpine Meincol and has been with the company for six years. "It also helped me choose my career path. I recommend that new students make the most of the training and do their best, because education opens the door to the job market."
According to Everaldo Oliveira da Silva Junior, who works in production at voestalpine Meincol 1 and has been with the company for four years, the program gives a good idea of what "professionalism" means since the program provides a real concept of the professional environment and interpersonal relationships: "It is important to take advantage of the opportunities made available.Additional knowledge, that stays with you forever!
"It is important to take advantage of the opportunities made available. Additional knowledge, that stays with you forever!"
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In addition to technical knowledge, noted Matheus William Cesa, who works in maintenance, experiencing the teamwork and mutual respect among classmates was one of the greatest things learned during the program, while Eduarda Tavares Macedo, who has been working in quality management at voestalpine Meincol for two years, advises:
"Be curious about the subjects being covered and take advantage of every possible opportunity to practice on the equipment you are learning to use. If you want to continue working in this area, the program that voestalpine Meincol offersis a very valuable foundation for future job opportunities."
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Sometimes I narrate my life in my head like I'm living my own personal reality show. Like "Kate Plus Eight" without all the kids, or "The Bachelorette" with considerably fewer hunks fighting to share a hot tub with me, or "Candid Camera". (You kids might have to Google that last one.) I watch alot of TV, so I know how these things work. The narrator always puts things in the very best light (unless it's one of those reality shows that you watch because the peoples' lives are such trainwrecks). Luckily, my show isn't a trainwreck. Or at least I don't think it is. You may disagree. Whichever, my internal narrator always tells the best story possible with the facts at hand.
Anyway, the "Not Talking to Myself" show is back from winter hiatus (aka, the time when I had serious writer's block and a nasty case of the procrastinations), and you might need a refresher | 221 |
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If you are a '90s child, then you cannot go without appreciating the turbulent comeback of the '90s trends we are currently witnessing. Although we have seen designers incorporate various styles from previous eras into the ongoing fashion streams on multiple occasions (sometimes it feels that's all that they are doing but shhh – don't tell them we said that), it feels like no decade ever has had such a strong impact on every possible sphere of our lives like the '90s, nor has any of those decades posed as inspiring to designers as the '90s have.
When you think about it, this is Season 02 of the '90s on the high and we don't feel like the trend is going to stop any time soon. If anything, it's only transforming rapidly, going through a metamorphosis if you will – from chokers, bell pants, dropped shoulders and Lennon sunnies to high-waist cuts, skyscraper platforms and dark makeup, everything we're wearing today is actually screaming trends from almost three decades ago. Jesus, we're old!
In the spirit of the paragraph above, let's discuss some of the '90s fashion staples that are currently dominating the scene (and you may not even be realizing it's the '90s that you are wearing):
'90s clothing
With its huge revival on the fashion scene, '90s are present in almost every segment of our fashion lives. Truthfully speaking, although some elements are more prominent than others, there is a feeling of accents rather than copying present, at least when we're talking about clothing elements. What we keep on seeing are modern pieces paired with prominent '90s elements; they move away from the slouchy kitsch and focus on the modern sleek with just a pinch of '90s ingredients working themselves into the 2017 outfits.
Flannel shirts tied around waist/hips, slogan T-shirts with popular '90s performers on them, crop tops, fried jean jackets, bodysuits, track pants, dresses layered over tops, army print, mom jeans, backpacks, bell jeans, slouchy jumpers, combat boots… you name it – it's all there, and it all looks beautiful paired with their sibling modern elements.
Is it safe to say that grunge is back? Yes, it is, at least judging by the '90s minimalism revival. Celebs like Rihanna, Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner, and plenty of others have been spotted surfing on the '90s wave and doing it superbly.
'90s shoes
Just like the clothing elements, '90s shoes have also seen a huge comeback with a slight androgynous feel to them. Lovers of the celebrated '90s grunge are born again thanks to current designers and their fashion visions, and they are all wearing heavy-duty, combat boots. They are gritty, tough and kind of very exciting, especially when paired with something as unexpected as silk slip dresses in florals, pink, milk white or any other delightfully gentle color.
Sneakers have also seen a major comeback, especially when paired with sporty bodycon dresses. And, where would the '90s be without their staple shoe wear – platforms! Although not a favorite of many, platforms do add a little kitsch drama into every outfit mix which, we'll guess, is the whole point with platforms, anyway – to juxtapose other, wisely-picked elements.
'90s accessories
Where would the '90s be if there wasn't a little goth action in its lines, right? Back in the day, when Madonna wore her famous Jean Paul Gaultier bra, she made such a revolutionary move that we'll never stop talking about it. Bold and exquisite, the bra makes for a mixture of something incredibly exotic but, at the same time, very dangerous. This is where the '90s have found its dangerous, goth-like style (we're speaking in strictly fashion terms here, though).
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These days, that element of danger and challenge is present in all the edgy women's gothic clothing in terms of dark clothing elements (dark lace, for instance), dark or darker makeup and jewelry that's also a bit on the dark side (like the famous chokers). Not all '90s accessories are goth, though; there are also hoop earrings (the bigger the better), Lennon sunnies, dark shades, tattoos and plenty of other elements that originate from the '90s era.
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Nigeria to Zimbabwe: Remembering Sam Moyo By David Johnson
As I write, hundreds are gathered in Harare to bid farewell to my brother Sam, one week after he joined the ancestors, sent there from a New Delhi hospital by one of those wheeled demons that have struck before, robbing usof Africa's finest. It's been a dread week coming to terms with this loss. We lived on different continents for most of the 34 years we have known each other, but each meeting, sometimes after long periods of sporadic communication, was a joyous reunion of family and intellect.
I remember well our first such meeting, in the staff club of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) in Nigeria, where we had both been teaching. To this newcomer he offered a drink, a real drink, but I the teetotaller passed. His disappointment soon evaporated as we discoveredcommon ground, such as schooling in the interventions of a golden generation of African thinkers – Samir Amin, Archie Mafeje, Walter Rodney, Amilcar Cabral, Cheik Anta Diop, to name a few. And there was the mutual interest in liming and parties, though Sam'szest for life made me question my own bona fides: I was supposed to be the representative of Trinidad, island of liming and fete. Sam had visited, and seemed to have retained more of Trinidad's spirit than I had. He introduced me to his favourite Calabar nightspot, where he would sit with beer, smoke and conversation at hand, discussing Nigeria and Africa's present and future, in between marvelling at the movements of Efik dancers on stage, the most graceful he had seen in West Africa. When we could sit no more to the Highlife music, we moved with others onto the dance floor.
Not much older than his students, Sam had an easy rapport with them,and was highly regarded for the sharp intellect and rigor he brought to the classroom. More than age he connected with humility and charm, loads of it, which extended his popularity well beyond the student body. Young and old, men, women, children, Sam was a welcomed presencewherever we journeyed. He was warm and kind, he went out of his way to assist, he made people feel good,and he loved laughter. I introduced him to a Trinidadian nurse in Calabar, who should have been a stand-up comic, and was harassed thereafter to take him on visits to her place, where he could curl up on the sofawith laughter, requesting another, and another joke, none of which I can repeat in this forum.
But amidst Sam's fun and laughter then there was sadness. A brilliant student, hewas part of a worldwide migration of Zimbabwe's brightest, forced out in search of higher education by the inequities of settler colonialism. He excelled with his first degree in Sierra Leone. Graduate school in Canada followed and fieldwork in geography took him to southeastern Nigeria. When research funding ran out, he found employment teaching at UNICAL, which superseded his research. It brought a second unhappiness, further compounded by the unhappiness of a life in exile.Exile from family and friends who nurtured and grew with him in Highfield, a Harare township, from the Ndebele and Shona languages that were his own, from a future in which he could feel invested, as the Nigerians around him felt, at that time. Sam made community wherever he went, but it was not home. He returned to Zimbabwe in 1983 and was never uprooted again, even when things looked dire and some abroad tried to entice with job offers.
Years after his return to Zimbabwe, a Nigerian colleague from Calabar days asked me: ah, ah, is this the same Sam Moyo who is writing all thosebooks and articles, the one from the staff club, the guy who liked pepper soup and beer? And it was indeed the same Sam, liberated by the liberation of Zimbabwe, and still drinking pepper soup and beer. He had found new purpose and energy in the determination of countrywomen and men to build new lives and institutions, and clung to his search for an alternative world when contemporaries faded, sometimes lured by the power and acquisitiveness that access to the state and/or capital made possible. At the newly established Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies (ZIDS), he carved a space for his interest in Zimbabwe's land question, long, long before it became the fashionable topic it is today, and never relented. In the years that followed, work became the glue that held Sam's life together; it was his religion.
Workaholic Sam researched, wrote, and helped build independent institutions, from Harare to Dakar, guided by a passion for furthering the mission of national liberation, and understanding, like those thinkers with whom he was grounded when first we met, that with the attainment of juridical independence, the work had only just begun. Whenever we met, in Zimbabwe or elsewhere, the conversations about his latest research and thinking around the land question resumed with energy, as did those about the difficulties and joys of developing institutions like ZIDS, ZERO, SAPES Trust, CODESRIA and his brain child, the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS). All efforts at creating spaces where Africans could set the agenda in the pursuit of thought and knowledge about the world in which they lived.
On the land question, Sam's voluminous scholarship revealed clear and consistent answers on the urgency of redistribution, and these weren't centred only on calls for reparative justice. With deep roots in agrarian studies, he saw land reform in Zimbabwe's agrarian based society as inextricably linked to issues of increased productivity, sustainable development, and popular democracy, in an age of global dispossessions by capital. From his perspective, the "willing seller, willing buyer" compromise of the Lancaster House Agreement that ushered in independence, and the intransigence of settler and foreign capital, weren't the only constraints on the slow pace of land reform in the first two decades of independence.
He and his collaborator, Paris Yeros, who survived the accident in New Delhi, did not shy away from exploring the class character of political leadership in Zimbabwe in relation to land reform. One observation in their scholarship was the way in which many an elite bought into a discourse that saw large-scale farming, white and black, as productive and peasant production as unproductive. It was not an outlook that was going to send them scrambling to find ways of redistributing land to the people, unless the people intervened in making another history. One pillar of Sam's scholarship was an abiding faith in the capacity of small producers, of ordinary people, to do seemingly miraculous things if provided the resources to do so. Land reform was a necessary beginning in bringing those resources to them.
In the heightened passions generated in Zimbabwe by a mix of fast track land reform, authoritarian politics, violence, and multifaceted interventions from the West, there were those who tried unsuccessfully to peg Sam as lackey to reigning power, often for not sounding like a human rights activist. But the Sam Moyo I knew was too unschooled in genuflecting to power and partisan politics for the label to stick. In Calabar, it was difficult to pin him firmly on a side in the fractious nationalist politics of ZANU-ZAPU. He debated as a Zimbabwean and was one of those who did not see support and critique as mutually exclusive exercises.
At home in Zimbabwe, he knew with certainty that he could not be part of an opposition platform that included the mobilization of settler capital in support of striking workers, and a conversation on land reform that was at best muted. And he also knew that while he was no trumpeter for ruling power, he was not going to let stand an argument on which right and left often converged: fast track land reform was nothing but a land grab by greedy and corrupt African elites, masked in anti-imperialist rhetoric.
The independent research of Sam and his AIAS blew that and other myths apart, revealing broad-based redistribution, with ordinary families charting new and improved lives on the land, in an economic climate that remains difficult. Now that researchers "from foreign" - as we say in the Caribbean - have begun to concur, the debate is shifting to the realities on the ground. Sam Moyo's name will continue to loom large as the debates are engaged, in Zimbabwe and beyond.
Walk tall my dear brother; you left a mighty legacy.
David Johnson is a historian of Africa.
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Dick Jensen — starting center on arguably the greatest team in Iowa men's basketball history — protected the ball like a newborn, releasing it only after the buzzer sounded to catch the cheerleader who leapt into his arms.
Coach Ralph Miller had directed his 1969-70 Iowa team to let Purdue's Rick Mount score a few seconds before time expired, a meaningless layup with the Hawkeyes up three on the road and the Boilermakers out of timeouts.
"Miller told me, 'Jensen, Mount is going to make that shot,'" recalls Jensen. "'Go out of bounds and hold that ball. Don't let anyone touch it.'"
He didn't, and the Hawkeyes won 108-107 to claim the outright Big Ten title 50 years ago this season, the last time an Iowa basketball team sat alone atop the league.
The Hawkeyes won their final two conference games to finish a perfect 14-0, the only Iowa squad ever to make it through the league without a loss. Winning the Big Ten meant an invitation to the NCAA Tournament, which then took just 25 teams. It was the first time since 1956 that an Iowa team would play in the tournament.
The 1969-70 Hawkeyes were exceptional in other ways, too. They scored an astonishing 102.9 points a game in conference play — an all-time Big Ten record — without the benefit of a shot clock or 3-point line. The team's star, John Johnson, still holds the school's high mark for most points scored in a game — 49, against Northwestern on Feb. 24, 1970. He also held the school record for the most points in a single season (699) for 50 years, until it was recently surpassed by Luka Garza in March 2020.
But perhaps as remarkable as the scoring records was the fact that the team found such smooth harmony on the court during an otherwise trying time in American history.
The Vietnam War was raging. A new draft lottery hung over the heads of graduating seniors. Racial turmoil divided communities across the U.S., including Iowa City.
Come game day, though, hippie students, crew-cut dads, fashionable coeds, and farm moms all gathered for two hours of peaceful coexistence in the University of Iowa's Field House. Thousands more huddled around radios and TV sets to support the Hawkeyes, which by then went by another nickname: J.J. and the Dealers, after their superstar Johnson and the team's smooth passing.
"I didn't quite know how enthusiastic to be about the team in light of all the serious issues going on back then," says Jensen, who grew up in Madrid, Iowa, and later became a top executive at DirectTV and Sirius Satellite Radio. "But that changed when you were in the game itself. It was a thrill to play on that team."
THE GREATEST DAY
When the Hawkeyes arrived back in Iowa City the night after the win at Purdue, more than 4,000 fans as jubilant as the Iowa cheerleader greeted them at the airport. Traffic was backed up for two miles, according to an account in the Des Moines Register.
As they had a few times that season, the Hawkeyes came from behind to win. Mount's final layup gave him an incredible 61 points, a Big Ten single-game scoring mark that still stands. His hot shooting (Mount took an astonishing 47 shots, making 27 of them) put Purdue up by nine with four-and-a-half minutes to go.
But leads in that game were, in the words of Register sportswriter Maury White, "as safe as a sombrero in a hurricane," and Iowa came roaring back.
A bucket by Johnson put Iowa up by one. Iowa forward Glenn "The Stick" Vidnovic was fouled after rebounding a Purdue miss. His two free throws sealed the win.
Chad Calabria, who had hit four clutch free throws down the stretch, recovered the ball after Jensen dispensed of the duty and presented it to the Hawkeyes' demanding coach in the visitors' locker room. He told Miller to frame the "gosh-darn" thing, according to a presumably cleaned-up account in the Register.
Gov. Bob Ray called that day the greatest in the history of Iowa basketball.
The fans at the airport seemed to agree. Or maybe they just welcomed a chance to express a collective euphoria at a time when crowds more typically formed in an act of protest.
Though political divisions today seem stark, the country was even more divided back then. Riots fueled by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and pent-up fury over decades of racial oppression had left dozens dead in cities across the U.S.
The players said Iowa City was generally a welcoming place, but it didn't escape racial division. The spring before the start of the basketball season, 16 black members of the Iowa football team — including Dennis Green, a tailback who later coached the Minnesota Vikings and the Arizona Cardinals—boycotted practice to push for more support from the university, such as an African American student center and improved academic counseling.
African American athletes also participated in similar boycotts that year on other campuses, including at Indiana University and perhaps most famously, the University of Wyoming, where 14<|fim_middle|> forwards" — tall players who can pass and handle the ball like a guard, such as Magic Johnson and LeBron James.
Off the court, Johnson's sense of humor kept players loose and built camaraderie, says Grabinski. On it, Calabria says Johnson brought a competitive will to win.
"If you tried to guard the guy, he'd put an elbow up where your face is supposed to go," says Hodge.
In a July 2007 interview with The Seattle Times, Johnson said his competitiveness was a consequence of a tough upbringing in a poor part of Milwaukee. "I've always had to fight," he said.
Johnson's competitive fire shone through after Iowa's 1970 win at Purdue. Mount — the eventual Big Ten Player of the Year — could shoot, Johnson acknowledged in a postgame comment to the Register. But Johnson told the paper he found the Purdue player's game limited in other ways: "He can't rebound, he can't assist, and he can't play defense."
Johnson was drafted No. 7 by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1970 and spent 12 years in the NBA, making the All-Star team twice. After his senior year with the Hawkeyes in 1971, Brown was picked No. 6 by the Seattle SuperSonics. Johnson and Brown won a championship together with the SuperSonics in 1979. Brown later had a successful business career, including an executive position at Bank of America.
THE TIP-IN THAT ENDED IT
Iowa was picked for the Mideast Regional in the 1970 NCAA Tournament, which meant a trip to Columbus, Ohio, to face the Associated Press' sixth-ranked team, Jacksonville University. The bracket also included future NBA stars Austin Carr of Notre Dame and Dan Issel of Kentucky.
Jacksonville also was laden with talent, like 7-foot-2 Artis Gilmore, who would go on to a long career with the Chicago Bulls. Gilmore, at least 6 inches taller than any of the Miller Six Pack, racked up 30 points and 17 rebounds before fouling out with more than eight minutes to play in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. McGilmer took the charge that sent Gilmore out, patting him on the shoulder as he left.
But Jacksonville had other skilled players. Iowa was still down by seven with less than five minutes to go.
Miller's attack-at-all-times philosophy again paid off. Iowa clawed back. A pair of free throws by Calabria tied the score at 100 with just over a minute to play. It was still tied when Iowa regained the ball and Brown was fouled. He made one of two to give Iowa a 101-100 lead.
Jacksonville guard Rex Morgan, who would play two years with the Boston Celtics, made a bucket to put the Dolphins on top with 35 seconds left. Iowa reclaimed the lead when Brown rebounded his own miss and scored his 26th and 27th points with just 18 seconds left. The largely Iowa crowd went wild, according to an account in the Register.
Then the Hawkeyes' luck ran out. As the seconds ticked away, Jacksonville guard Vaughn Wedeking heaved a shot from deep outside. He missed.
From that distance, the ball should have bounded far away from the bucket, says McGilmer. Instead, it fell straight down, where Jacksonville's second twin-tower, Pembrook Burrows III, was waiting.
"He was 7-feet high and could stick his arm up in the air, and some of us couldn't jump that high," says the 6-foot-1 Calabria.
Burrows' tip-in gave Jacksonville a 104-103 victory. The Dolphins then beat Kentucky in their next game and made it all the way to the finals, where they lost to John Wooden's UCLA Bruins.
Iowa was done in by a relatively poor performance by Johnson, who was battling a cold. He still scored 19 points. Poor free-throw shooting also hurt. An Iowa team that shot 78 percent from the line that season hit just 19-of-31, or 61 percent.
After the game, Hodge remembers Miller crying by himself in the corner of the locker room. "It was like watching Patton break down," he says.
There was a small shot at redemption. Back then, losing teams played consolation games. In theirs, the Hawkeyes were determined to win for Miller, who had — in an uncharacteristic show of sentimentality — told them at their final practice how sorry he was they wouldn't be advancing in the tournament. Calabria told the Register that he hadn't heard Miller talk like that in the four years he played for him.
The Hawkeyes responded by trouncing Carr's Notre Dame team, leading at halftime by the remarkable score of 75-42. They eventually set a then-NCAA Tournament record by scoring 121 points in the game. Johnson ended with 31 points, Calabria scored the same, Vidnovic had 24, Brown 16, and McGilmer 12.
Hodge, inserted late in the game, scored the final two points to set the record. The 149 points that Loyola-Marymount scored in a 1990 tournament game is now the record, although Iowa's 52 field goals mark still stands.
CAMPUS ERUPTS
Miller later told longtime Hawkeye broadcaster Ron Gonder that the 1969-70 team was not only the best passing team he'd ever coached, but maybe the best he'd ever seen. The Iowa players say Miller was convinced his team could have beaten even the mighty Bruins.
Miller left Iowa after the season to continue his hall of fame career at Oregon State University. He died in 2001.
Less than two months after the 1970 NCAA Tournament, four students were shot to death at Kent State University in Ohio during a spring of opposition to the Nixon administration's decision to invade Cambodia. Iowa's campus, like many others, erupted in protest. University president Willard "Sandy" Boyd gave students the option to leave campus early after a building burned down under suspicious circumstances.
Jensen says he didn't go to his graduation. Back then, he recalls, it seemed like there were stories published every day in The Daily Iowan about kids his age losing their lives in Vietnam. There were days when it was hard to walk downtown due to the protests over the war, he says.
But there were also those times of unity, such as when thousands of Iowans got together to see the Hawkeyes play. Warmed by their enthusiastic cheering, J.J. and the Dealers ran up and down the court, whipping the ball around to one another at a pace that has yet to be matched.
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The Iowa players, too, were immediately dismissed from the team. Seven of them, including Green, were reinstated that fall.
And then there was the war. The day after the Iowa basketball team began its historic Big Ten run in January 1970, a story in the Register tallied the number of Iowans who had been killed in Vietnam up to that point: 662.
Jim Hodge, a senior reserve guard from Danvers, Illinois, remembers frequent unrest on campus and his own recurring sense of dread about the draft. He had drawn number 39 in the December 1969 lottery, the first held for Vietnam. That meant he was certain to be drafted after his student deferment ended, he says.
So, instead of returning home with the team after a February 1970 win at Illinois, Hodge went with his father to a local recruiter to sign up for the National Guard, delaying law school but enabling him to avoid being sent to war after he graduated in the spring.
"It was an incredibly confusing time in my young life," says Hodge, who now works as a mortgage banker in Dallas.
A SLOW START
The season didn't start out in any way to suggest the heights the Hawkeyes were to reach. The team finished with a 20-5 record but were just 4-4 heading into the Big Ten.
Jensen and guard Fred Brown were sick to start the year. Jensen blamed his illness on frigid conditions the team practiced under. The Field House was a warm and welcoming place during games, when it was filled with more than 13,000 screaming fans. But empty, the former armory was impossible to heat. Jensen says he had to double layer to stay warm.
Team chemistry also lacked at the start. This was the first year Brown played with the team after spending the previous two years at Southeastern Community College in Burlington, Iowa. Quick and pass-oriented, Brown would become the "missing link," Miller later said. But it took time for the team to jell.
After a loss to Cincinnati early in the season, Johnson called a players-only meeting. The message — according to Ben McGilmer, a reserve forward on the team — was that it was time to get serious. No smoking. No drinking. No romantic distractions.
Eventually, Miller settled on a core group of six players: Johnson, Jensen, Calabria, McGilmer, Brown, and Vidnovic. They were known as the Miller Six Pack. Four players — Johnson, Brown, Calabria, and Vidnovic — would average more than 17 points a game. Five would be drafted in the NBA, with Brown and Johnson enjoying long professional careers.
In the 1970-71 Hawkeye basketball season, Brown would emerge as the clear star. He averaged 27.6 points a game at Iowa, second all-time only to the 27.9 points a game Johnson rang up during the 1969-70 season.
A FRANTIC FOLLOWING
Johnson's pep talk early in the season seemed to work. As victories piled up, articles on the team took up an increasing number of column inches in local papers. The Field House grew louder and louder.
Ken Grabinski, a reserve forward from Clear Lake, Iowa, says the fans made so much noise that they created a suction effect: "It felt like your ears were moving from north to south."
Fans "almost wore themselves out with standing ovations," Bill Bryson Sr., a Register sportswriter and father of the author of A Walk in the Woods, wrote in an account of the game against Wisconsin. A Sports Illustrated article after the Purdue game called state interest in the Iowa team "frantic."
News accounts describe half-court, behind-the-back passes from Johnson; full-game, full-court presses topped by the 6-foot-8 Jensen; and the "indomitable spirit" of a group that pulled off several come-from-behind victories, validating Miller's coaching philosophy that constant pressure leaves an opponent vulnerable for two- to three-minute stretches.
"It was like pouring syrup over melted butter on a pancake," says Hodge. "It was just perfect."
THE COMMANDING COACH
The cook in the kitchen was a tough Kansan who allegedly could finish an extra-long Tareyton cigarette in three drags. "The smoke would disappear," says Hodge, "It was like he ate it."
Miller came to Iowa in 1964 after 13 years at Wichita State, where he developed a reputation as a brilliant offensive basketball mind. He was said to resent the air in the ball because it encouraged players to dribble — a no-no in his fast-paced offense that placed an emphasis on getting a teammate a shot.
The players remember Miller as a demanding father figure whom they strove to please. Compliments were so rare that criticism became a sign of affection.
Grabinski, who after school started a successful small business outside of Chicago furnishing hotels, says he knew his position on the team was secure when, following a freshman game (first-year college students were ineligible to play varsity), Miller stormed into the locker room and told him he looked like a gosh darn — to borrow the contemporary newspaper euphemism — locomotive on the court.
"He was like a fifth-grader who just learned how to swear," Grabinski says, meaning Miller did it with frequency and fervor.
But Miller engendered a fierce loyalty for sticking up for his players against outside critics and by treating stars and subs alike. He also encouraged white and black players to room together at a time when the two groups didn't often mix.
Growing up in a small town in Iowa, Jensen says he hadn't played with or against a black player until college and was intimidated at the prospect. At Iowa, he roomed with reserve forward Omar Hazley on road trips. The two bonded over everything but music.
"It was an incredible learning experience for me," says Jensen. "Once you meet someone face to face, there's really no problem."
The players say they became a group of friends who, like young men everywhere, teased each other ceaselessly. Brown dubbed Hodge, who rarely played, "Big Ten" — as in "All Big-Ten," a status he was unlikely to achieve — and asked him to lead the team out during home games to the thundering applause that awaited.
McGilmer named his first son after Chris Phillips, a white teammate from an earlier year. "Sometimes sports transcends all that other BS," says McGilmer, who played basketball in Europe for 20 years, opened two basketball schools in Turkey, and now works as a substitute teacher in DeKalb County school district in Georgia. "We really were a team".
THE SUPERSONIC STAR
The team was heavy on talent. But the undisputed star was Johnson, a 6-foot-7 Milwaukee native who came to Iowa from a junior college in Wyoming. He led the team in scoring and rebounding in each of the two years he spent in Iowa City. In his senior season, he averaged 28 points and 10 rebounds a game.
"He was a great ball handler and a good shooter, but his passing was what made him special," says Lynn Rowat, a reserve guard from Des Moines who later served as a bank executive in Iowa City.
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State and territory governments can do more to improve the lives of Australians. A new Grattan Institute State Scorecard shows that outcomes vary between states across a broad range of areas. In many cases, states are different because their governments adopted better policies.
The scorecard is in a new publication from Grattan, the State Orange Book 2018, which draws on 10 years of Grattan reports to outline the policy priorities for state and territory governments to improve the lives of their residents.
The State Orange Book 2018 is designed to inform voters and influence policymakers across Australia, particularly in the lead-up to the Victorian state election in November 2018, and the NSW state election in March 2019.
For example, the Health Scorecard shows Victoria has relatively good outcomes – and has improved more – on a range of measures such as mortality, cost and waiting times, whereas<|fim_middle|> Government cooperates.
States could deliver services better. Other states should follow Victoria's lead and reduce the overall cost and the variation in cost between public hospitals. And they should develop more prevention programs to reduce the disparity between regional and urban health outcomes. States should lift progress for all students by identifying and spreading good teaching practices at the same time as strengthening the evidence base. They should also invest more in early learning for the most disadvantaged students.
Institutional reforms are needed as well. States need more visibility of their long-term budget positions. While institutional accountability is improving in many states, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory need to limit election spending, and make political donations and lobbying more transparent. | South Australia and the Northern Territory lag well behind. Other states and territories could learn from how Victoria has managed its hospitals.
Other policy areas require more difficult trade-offs. The Energy Scorecard shows that South Australia has more expensive electricity and more outages. But it has lower carbon emissions.
Launching the State Orange Book 2018, Grattan Institute CEO John Daley said: "The State Scorecard shows how state and territory governments are doing on the issues that matter to Australians.
"Unfortunately, the problems aren't hard to find.
The book is by no means all bad news.
"Many worthwhile reforms have been implemented over the past decade," Mr Daley said.
But every state and territory could learn from the others and do better.
State governments – particularly NSW and Victoria – face population pressures. They should resist political pressure to wind back planning reforms that have helped to increase housing supply, and instead should go further to ensure enough housing is built, particularly in established suburbs, to accommodate rapidly growing populations. NSW and Victoria should commission work to enable the introduction of time-of-day road and public transport pricing to manage congestion in Melbourne and Sydney. All states should stop announcing transport projects before they have been analysed rigorously, and they should evaluate completed projects properly.
There are other important priorities for economic reform. All states should follow the lead of the ACT and replace stamp duties with broad-based property taxes. States should reform electricity markets to encourage reliability and reduce emissions – whether or not the Commonwealth | 299 |
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Back in 1980, author Alvin Toffler in his book, The Third Wave, divided civilization's progress into three waves. The agricultural age was the first wave, followed by the industrial age, and the third is the information age, which is what we are moving into now as vestiges of the industrial age are gradually being replaced.
In payroll, I've similarly observed waves of change and transformation, and the third wave of change is happening now. Like the information age on overall society, this third wave will impact payroll much more than the other two. We need to be ready for that third wave.
Payroll's First Wave: Automated Timekeeping
It seems like ancient history, but working as a payroll clerk in the early 1980s, while in college, I witnessed the first wave of payroll transformation: the use of electronic time clocks to record time.
The old process involved department managers, on the last day of each weekly pay cycle, adding up employee hours from time card punch-ins/punch-outs, writing each day's total time worked and paid time off on large timesheets (that looked a lot like Excel spreadsheets, except they were paper), and totaling the amount at the end of each row.
Managers would then wrap all the time cards for their teams in their timesheet, put a rubber band around it, and drop it off at the payroll clerk's space (I didn't have an office, and hardly a desk).
I then had to double-check the accuracy of the time recorded on the sheet against each time card. Often there were addition and rounding issues that I had to resolve, and only then could we submit the time to a central facility that processed the payroll.
This process completely changed when the company became one of the first major clients of a new startup company that had developed automated time collection. Managers no longer calculated hours worked. The time clocks automatically calculated punches and hours worked, and stored that data as well.
There were a lot of issues with these early systems that had to be addressed — there was no employee self-service, for example — but in the end, these programs produced more accurate time submissions and produced great data for human capital management.
Fast forward to today, and according to a recent survey of payroll professionals by Bloomberg Tax & Accounting, more than 60% of respondents said they received all time submissions electronically, and more than 27% had a great majority of their time submissions received electronically.
That timekeeping company has now transformed itself into a big player in the HCM space.
Payroll's Second Wave: Direct Deposit
The history of post-1900 wage payments starts with cash. Employers used to have payday wagons and armored cars, some with clerks bearing firearms, to distribute each employee's wages in cash as they lined up on payday. Then, as the paper check became more accepted, employers moved away from cash envelopes to adopt this cleaner, less risky way of paying employees.
But printing all those checks on special stock was expensive, and paper checks could be faked, lost, stolen, and could otherwise burden employers in clearing accounts. As the banking system started automating payment transactions, payroll began adopting new applications to pay workers electronically directly into their bank accounts.
By the late 1980s, the process called direct deposit was proven to be faster, much cheaper, and less likely to be tampered with than any cash or paper check method of payment. Employers scrambled to adopt direct deposit and encourage all workers to use it, beginning the movement to an all-electronic payroll.
The advantages to employees were simple: no more paper check to run to the bank and deposit, and earned wages were guaranteed to be in the account on payday.
More than 99% of respondents to that recent survey of payroll professionals conducted by Bloomberg Tax & Accounting said they now offer direct deposit to their employees.
Payroll's Third Wave: Daily Pay
If the first wave dramatically transformed time collection, and the second wave almost completely changed how people got paid, the third wave is revolutionizing when people get paid.
According to the recent survey, nearly two-thirds of respondents said they paid some workers biweekly, and more than 16% said they paid monthly. Recognizing that employers may have different pay cycles for different sets of workers, the survey data showed more than 24% have weekly pay cycles and/or semimonthly pay cycles.
Employees wait an average of four days after the pay cycle ends to be paid.<|fim_middle|> Advisor, DailyPay
Michael Baer, with a career covering payroll issues for the past three decades, specializes in communication and compliance; he is an advocate to the payroll community for employees accessing pay when earned. Prior to DailyPay, Michael was managing editor at the Bloomberg subsidiary, Bloomberg Tax, where he was charged with overseeing BNA's Payroll Library, developing the Payroll Decision Support Network and International Payroll Decision Support Network. All these products are now consolidated into one payroll offering on the Bloomberg Tax platform. Michael is a Certified Payroll Professional.
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Contrast that with workers in the so-called gig industry, such as those in the ride-sharing business. These workers can get paid almost immediately after they provide their services.
While there is a debate about classification for gig workers, it is clear that those on an employer's payroll, classified as employees, must wait until payday to cash in on their earned wages. More people are saying this is unfair, especially when solutions exist to give employees their wages on demand.
This discrepancy is being addressed, and the remedy is turning what we know as payday upside down. This is payroll's third wave.
Employees can now get access to wages earned during the pay cycle, through a simple system when they want, and not as a loan through some web-based payday lender. Employees can benefit because they can leverage their earned income instead of putting more dollars on an interest-bearing credit card.
Earned wage access, done right, is helping employers retain workers in an economy of nearly full employment. Employers offering this benefit stand out to prospective employees as employers of choice.
But beware. Some providers claim to have a solution, but they are merely neo-payday lenders. Here are the characteristics of a legitimate daily pay benefit provider:
Any fees associated with accessing funds are fully transparent and established, like ATM fees. Some employers cover these ATM-like charges, which stay the same for each transaction regardless of the amount accessed.
There is no interest or debiting of end-user bank accounts.
Access to wages is not subject to a set, specific calendar day, but can be available as long as wages have been earned.
Employees can use this benefit to check their available balance, without making a transfer and without paying any fee.
No changes to payroll processes are needed, including the timing of funds and withholding of taxes.
Access to earned wages, on-demand, is here, and the benefits are clear. Payroll's third wave has arrived.
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This morning I took the 11 a.m. BC Ferry for Port Hardy on Vancouver Island which is a journey of about 22 hours. Since I was concerned that the prices of food might be steep on both the ferry and the island I called into the supermarket on the way for a big shop.
I arrived at the terminal with shopping bags hanging off the bike from everywhere. I was surprised to see another cycle tourist at the terminal. Patrick was from France and on his way back to Vancouver.
Camping on the BC Ferry is a little different from the Alaskan Ferries. No tents are allowed. I checked outside on the covered sun deck. But the deck was soaking wet so I found a spot inside on deck 7 on a large landing in the stairwell. It was a very quiet spot. I shared it with Patrick and one other guy.
Some of the locals were seasoned travellers and came well-prepared with electric pumps and huge double blow-up mattresses.
I went out on deck for our departure. Everybody was sent jumping when the ship marked it by sounding its horn. It was so good to see the sun. After so much rain, I appreciate it so much.
I went and set up base in the cafe. It was a good move because I soon had a young woman ask me where in New Zealand was I from. I am starting to run into a few Kiwis. Emma is from near Auckland and currently on a one-year Working Visa in Canada.
We had a fun time hanging out on the boat. I had planned to try and get my blog up-to-date. I blame Emma for the lack of productivity. I got about 4 lines done in 4 hours. Really, there were lots to see and we were making many trips to the deck to watch some humpback whales, waterfalls and some old towns along the way.
Most of the time it was fine……….later in the afternoon we got some rain which made for some great rainbows right next to the boat. They just followed us as we sailed along the inside passage of the marine highway. Some parts were very narrow and made it more beautiful looking.
Patrick the French cyclist very kindly invited me for dinner. After dinner Emma and I went to the theatre and watched a movie, Bernie, a bit of a comedy based on a true story.
It was so quiet on the ship last night. There were only 3 of us camping out on the floor on the 7th deck. But for some reason I didn't sleep very well. I got up and went for a walk around the ship around 4 a.m. Outside I could see nothing. It was so dark. The ship's cafe opened back up at 6 a.m. So I packed up and relocated there. I brought so much food with me on the boat…………I have hardly eaten any of it. I was able to make 4 cheese and tomato croissants for the road today.
The sun soon started to come up to reveal a stunning morning. The water was dead still. Birds were flying low and fast over the water. Lots of small islands soon came into sight.
It was 16 km just to get back to the main road and some of that was a climb with a 13% grade. But first I went and checked out the resort which is built on stilts around the edge of the cove.
Most of the buildings are the original ones from when the Canadian Air Force was here in the secondnd world war. They commandeered the sawmill for the war effort.
At breakfast we had 3 cheeky jays (birds) visit us for our crumbs. They had little fear.
For the first hour or so it wasn't looking good with the fog hanging around. But it did eventually lift for another lovely sunny day. We have gone inland to cross the mountains to get to Campbell River on the coast. Apart from a few lakes, the scenery is pretty average. It seems the pristine cleanliness of Vancouver Island is a myth because Highway 19 is the litter highway. $2000 litter fines are not working. It was sad to see so much rubbish everywhere.
Just outside Woss was a rest area next to a lake. After cooking dinner, the usual pasta, pepperoni, olive, onion, and courgette. We went down and set up our tent on the lake's edge in time to enjoy a very pleasant evening.
A slightly strange sight of a motorbike hanging up in the trees.
With the sun out. It was such a lovely day to be riding and the kilometres were coming very easy. By 12:30 p.m. I had done 90 km. Shortly after lunch I came across a long line of traffic. The road was blocked in both directions due to a fatal head-on collision between a SUV and a BC Ferries truck after the SUV crossed the centre line. On first accounts, the SUV was driving erratically, overtaking and that alcohol was involved. The two guys from the BC ferry truck walked away ok. The passenger of the SUV died and the driver was medivacked.
I cycled right up to the front of the line and talked to a few guys who were first on the scene. They said they came around the corner and were met by a cloud of dust and steam and bits of debris rolling around everywhere. First talk was the road was going to be closed for about 4-5 hours. I waited a little while till the driver had gone and a guy pushing a motor bike came through from the other side. I asked if he had just gone on his own accord or if he had asked. He said he had been given permission to cross the crime scene…………so I quickly took the opportunity to cross myself. I had to pass through a field of oil and debris. Was happy and lucky to be on my way again.
Pushing on I arrived in Campbell river at 3:40 p.m. after 124 km. Feeling like I had done a really good workout. I had kept up a good pace all day cycling at an average of 20 km hour.
I had Valerie and Rick as "Warm Shower" hosts this evening.
Valerie cooked a fantastic meal of pasta, chicken and asparagus. It's always nice to have something you don't often have. Despite my long day it was a really nice evening chatting about travel.
I wanted to stay 2 nights in Campbell river. Unfortunately Valerie and Rick are unable to host me tonight because they have another guest arriving. My departure was slightly delayed when I had to fix puncture number 15 this morning which was probably caused by something I picked up as I went through the crash scene yesterday. Valerie made me a lovely breakfast to start the day.
It was a gorgeous day to spend in Campbell River. I hung out on the waterfront. Walking around the marines and docks, watching a few seals and birds and always on the lookout for whales.
Late afternoon I headed a short way out of town to find somewhere to camp for free. I found a gorgeous spot a few km north at the end of a small peninsula. I had a wonderful time relaxing in the sun. I cooked some dinner and then at about 8pm when it was getting dark, I put my tent up. The peninsula was popular with dog walkers for good reason.
In the night I woke up at about 1 a.m. and could hear someone walking along the beach. Then I heard a huffing noise and realised it was a seal. There were a few of them around me.
It was so nice waking up on the point with such a lovely sunrise and a hype of activity with birds and boats passing by. I went into town for breakfast and<|fim_middle|>.
Soon after crossing the border I was back in the countryside. There was that strong country smell, lush green fields with mountains and a glacier in the background. It starts getting dark around 6:30 p.m.
I stopped just in time, finding a spot to camp on the outskirts of Bellingham behind a transmission tower just off the highway.
While I was cooking my dinner I had some deer creep up on me.
I didn't notice them till they were only about 15 metres away. I thought I am glad it wasn't a bear sneaking up! | it was midday before I started to head south. As soon as I rounded the corner I cycled straight into a thick sea of fog………..I was wondering what is going on here………..it stayed for most of the day. It made cycling a bit scary.
I spent tonight with "Warm Shower" hosts Debby and Tom who used to be a Bush Pilot, out at their semi-rural property about 14 km from town.
I saw my first deer on the Island as I headed into Courtnay.
Debby and Tom recommended a very nice river trail to take south. It went around an inlet passing a small airfield on one side and the river on the other. A lot of the towns along the coast were created to become ports for the export of coal and timber. I stopped at a couple of these along the way.
Not much really remains. Oyster farming seems popular along the coast. I called into one whard and there was an oyster boat and behind it was a floating pontoon with 50 seals or maybe sea-lions sunning themselves on it.
Tonight I stopped in Qualicum Beach, a bit of a posh seaside town. I had great "Warm Shower" hosts Diane and David who are very musically talented and even put on a little performance for me with the bass and a grand piano and some vocals. It was awesome.
The ride today was very coastal. I took the back roads along the water's edge in to Nanaimo 2nd biggest city on the island at 100 000, before finishing on the waterfront trail right into down town.
I arrived pretty early so I had time to wander along the waterfront before weaving through the old town.
So tonight, my "Warm showers" hosts are Tyler, Laura and their two boys. I would describe them in a good way as very earthy people.
With the sun out this morning I quickly went into Nanaimo to take a few photos with the nice light. Then I made the mistake of being tempted to have a hot breakfast. The eggs Benedict were slightly mini and seemed overpriced. I left feeling a little hard done by.
It was a pretty easy ride down to Duncan. I mixed the main highway with a few back roads. I am trying to make a point of calling in to visit the small towns along the way. Ladysmith was interesting. Old relics from the pioneering days were displayed up and down the street.
I passed a weigh station just before Duncan. It was closed. But I realised the scales were on. So I swung around and got on the scales. The bike and I was 150 km. I then left the bike on the scales and the total was 70 kg less 15 kg for the bike…………that is 55 kg for the luggage alone!
I am having a really good run with "Warm Shower" hosts. Last night I stayed with Alan and Sandy on their lovely semi-rural property.
This might sound funny…………I am actually starting to miss camping……….but hey there will be plenty of time for that.
I arranged to meet Emma who I meet on the boat from Prince Rupert. She is Wwoffing for a few weeks about 20 km away.
I cycled and she drove with her fellow wwoffer Ulysse from France/Canada and we met down at Cowichan Bay.
It was a gorgeous day down there; a really pretty seaside town. Calm water and all the shops and houses back onto the water, overlooking the marina full of boats and even 2 storey house boats on barges.
After coffee we walked around the Marina for a while.
My plan was to camp here for the night. In the afternoon I went down to the local park next to the water's edge. I was instantly invited to join a local family lunch. It was a very pleasant afternoon picnicking in the sun. I have now kindly been invited to camp in their yard for this evening.
First thing this morning I cycled up to Coble Hill to meet Emma for a coffee…………..before continuing on to Mill Bay to catch the ferry across the bay to Birchwood Bay. From here I had a good cycle on a 23 km loch side cycleway all the way into downtown; passing pumpkin farms, golf courses and the posh houses in town.
I have been lucky to find "Warm Shower" hosts Gordon and Ruth who live in a large nearly 100-year old house really close and handy to town.
It was so awesome this morning. I started walking into the city along the waterfront and came across a family of sea otters playing in the bay.
I went round as far as the houseboats and docks full of restaurants. There are about 5 friendly seals that hang out here waiting to be fed by the tourists.
The British Columbian legislative building stands out and can be seen from all round the waterfront. I did a self-guided tour and finished up visiting the debating chamber.
After 10 sunny days, sadly the rain is back for my last day on Vancouver Island. It is 33 km out to the Ferry terminal. The great thing is the loch side trail goes all the way from down town to the ferry through covered woods, over long periods of boardwalks and beside the coast.
I was pretty drenched when I got on the ferry for the 1 hour and 30 min crossing to the mainland. Its normally a very nice crossing as you pass between the Gulf islands. With the cloud and rain………you could see little.
Cool moment – cyclists were first off. Although it didn't do me any good because I teared off and ended up a bit lost. I got to the point thinking this isn't right if I go any further I will end up in Vancouver. After stopping for directions I ended up cycling back along the dike………..again too far. I asked for directions and was told if you go down there you will be in America. After about 1h 45 mins I made it to my "Warm Shower" host Diane and her English visitors Brenda and Roland. We had a fun evening. Eating, drinking and telling stories.
I had better luck cycling into Vancouver today. Diane gave me some good directions that took me away from the highway and along the river. There is a tunnel along the way. Cycling is banned through it. So I had to wait over an hour for the free shuttle bus to take me the 2 km to the other side.
Getting my bike off the back of the shuttle I noticed my rear wheelhad cracked. So it was a more cautious ride into the city, till at least I can get the wheel replaced.
The last 15 km into the city started on an old railway trail that took me up to Richmond. To cross the Fraser River there is a clip on bridge on the side of the sky train. Coming down the river was a tug pulling a raft of logs destined for the mill.
Getting into Vancouver was a lot easier than I thought. I am staying with friends from New Zealand, Hayley and Brett who I also stayed with in Singapore on my last trip.
They have an apartment near Camby……….just across the water from down town. On arriving, my first priority was to go straight out and find a bike shop to get the wheel fixed. I am lucky we are only 15 minutes away from a street full of bike shops. The first 3 couldn't help and I was getting a little concerned until I was directed to the Surly dealer. Glad they can do it at such short notice.
First day in Vancouver and I went out and watched the rugby New Zealand v Tonga, first game of the World Cup I have been able to see.
in an English Pub, full of Kiwis in to watch the game. 47-9 was a good result. Afterwards Hayley and I walked down to Granville Island a mixture of markets, boat yards, restaurants and parks, before continuing the sea wall walk along False Creek back to the apartment. On Saturday Hayley, Brett and the boys went to Seattle for the long weekend. They have very kindly let me stay in the apartment.
The rain finally stopped around 4 p.m. and I was able to get out for a huge walk along the sea wall. False Creek has been all redeveloped with Condos, parks, cycle and walking trails. The past history of some of the factories has been incorporated into this. The break in the weather brought lots of people out on to the sea wall. The light was good for taking photos. I walked all the way out to Stanley Park. Recently there had been a storm and two sailing boats had been wrecked on the rocks.
Sunday was a perfectly clear day. I took my loan bike out for a spin into the city. The chopper felt funny at first, single speed and I think I was a bit big for it. I picked my bike up in the afternoon $400 for two new wheels, brakes and bottom bracket – wasn't too bad a price. I ventured back out into the city. Gas town was cool with the steam clock. I came across Henderson Street which was out of this world. All along the sidewalk homeless people have set up camp. I was constantly been asked for money. In general, there are a lot of homeless people in Vancouver.
I had a shocking day trying to get myself out of Vancouver and South East to Mission to visit my friend Jessica and her family.
I got lost trying to take the cycle trails. Then when I got to Cochin I thought it would be nice to leave the highway to visit the town. I assumed you would be able to just rejoin the highway. Instead I found myself going up and when I stopped to ask was told I was heading to the mountains and needed to go all the way back the way I came. I finally got to Mission around 6 p.m. and was real close to Jessica's place, however when I asked for directions, nobody knew. It took me over an hour to finally find it.
I might have been a little late but I still got a huge welcome………..from Jessica, Andre and their 3 girls Ella, Harmony and Julia who had taken the time to make a welcome sign. I met Jessica back in 2003 when I was last travelling Canada. It's really nice to catch up after all these years.
A productive day with a visit to the bike shop to buy a few things with my last Canadian dollars, followed by a walk in the forest to visit a waterfall.
Finished the day by changing a slow puncture on the front tyre and Jessica helped sew on a new strap for my front pannier.
After a nice pancake breakfast. I got a good send-off from Jessica, Ella, Harmony and Julia who cycled with us for the first two blocks. After crossing the mighty Fraser River it was 24 km to the border. Too beat the long line I cycled straight up to the customs building and walked the bike through as if I was a foot passenger.
It was quick and easy. Although the customs officer was slightly alarmed and asked if I was carrying gas – it was a strong smell even I could smell it. I thought Oh Boy this could be trouble. It was coming from my bottle for my gas stove, the lid was a bit loose. I explained and he was okay about it | 2,346 |
Gunmen kidnap 10 boat passengers including a community chief in Rivers State
Unknown gunmen have kidnapped 10 boat passengers, including a community leader in Abonema waterways, Akuku-Toru local government area of Rivers State<|fim_middle|> the gunmen struck and whisked them to an unknown destination.
A relative of one of the occupants of the attacked boat told Dailypost that no contact had been established with the gunmen. He revealed that there had been tension in the community as other leaders of the community were currently in a meeting over the issue.
Efforts to reach the Chairman of Akuku Toru Local Government Area, Rowland Sekibo, has been difficult. However, when contacted, spokesman of the Rivers state Police Command, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, said he is yet to be briefed about the incident.
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The victims, including the Chief identified as Benibo, were said to be returning to Abonema from a neighboring community, Idama in the same LGA. They were said to be returning from a meeting called to resolve a leadership tussle in Idama community when | 56 |
ACM Recognizes Thomas Reps with Programming Languages Achievement Award
GrammaTech Co-Founder and President recognized for contributions in incremental computation, program slicing and dataflow analysis, shape analysis, and analysis of binary code.
GrammaTech, a leading developer of software-assurance tools and advanced cyber-security solutions, today announced that Thomas W. Reps, GrammaTech Co-Founder and President, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been awarded the prestigious Programming Languages Achievement Award at the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) annual symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.
The Programming Languages Achievement Award recognizes an individual or individuals who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of programming languages. Reps is recognized for his influence on a diverse range of topics that include incremental computation, program slicing and dataflow analysis, shape analysis, and analysis of binary code. Reps' research has become widely adopted and has resulted highly practical and industrial applications, including many of the underpinnings of GrammaTech's static analysis solutions for source and binary.
"I am greatly honored to receive this award, particularly because it comes from my main research community," says Reps. "When I looked at the list of past recipients, after getting over my initial awe, what came to mind was the pleasure of remembering the deep intellectual conversations – the exchange of ideas in their papers and mine – that I've been able to have with almost half of them."
The Programming<|fim_middle|> an ACM Fellow (2005), a foreign member of the Academia Europaea (2013), the Batra Chair in Computer Sciences (2015), and his citation impact is among the highest in the entire field of programming languages.
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ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. ACM strengthens the computing profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking.
By GrammaTech News - February 25, 2019 | Languages Achievement Award committee is comprised of Emery Berger (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Dan Grossman (University of Washington), Frank Tip (Northeastern University), Kathleen Fisher(Tufts University), and Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University).
In addition to the Programming Languages Achievement Award, Reps' other major honors in computer science include the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1986), Packard Fellowship (1988), Humboldt Research Award (2000) and Guggenheim Fellowship (2000). He is | 116 |
Satellite map of Hellinikon Olympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre
Map of Hellin<|fim_middle|> a total area of 27,000 square metres. The total land surface area consists of 288,000 square metres. The facility seats 7,600 spectators, though only 6,700 seats were made publicly available for the Olympics.
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Big Data for Big Ships
Under Maritime 4.0, big data will check in on large ships within commercial shipping.
While IIoT / Industry 4.0 continues to adopt specific forms for implementation in process automation environments, the first cyber-physical systems and cloud-based network structures for maritime operations still have a long way to go before they are ready for sea travel. While it is primarily European maritime equipment suppliers that are convinced Maritime 4.0 will enable them to achieve enormous gains in commercial shipping efficiency, the question remains as to what exactly big data actually offers the maritime sector, and what new challenges are linked to these massive data sets?
Automation Takes Hold in Shipping:
Energy-efficient operation by linking sub-systems
Reading ship data and control intervention thanks to remote access from shore
Cost Reductions due to Unmanned Shipping
Evaluation of weather data and adjusting route to save fuel
The advantages of cost reduction, environmental protection and increased efficiency are countered by a high risk of data abuse and cybercriminality.
It is said that you are in God's hands when you are on the high seas and in court. This adage has lost nothing of its significance in the 21st century. There is always an amount of uncertainty in the courtroom as to how the legal situation will be resolved, and similar uncertainties prevail on the high seas. Even when ships are following defined routes, they remain exposed to the forces of nature, the reliability of the technology or even pirates. While some discuss redundancies and reliability, others contemplate autonomous ships that could alleviate the risk of pirates, since pirates are more interested in the ransom they can extort for hostages than they are in the cargo itself. Will driverless transport systems, which are already used for logistics on land, change the image of the global seas?
Sector experts are convinced of the enormous potential of big data.
Remote-controlled cargo ships on international waters are currently only dreams; however, they are approaching reality as automation is increasingly incorporated into ship designs and enables that which was inconceivable a few years ago. Examples include the networking of subsystems, which allows the linking of systems for finer tuning and significantly more efficiency; or remote access from land to read ship data or engage in the ship's operation to control specific functions. Whether or not people remain on board, sector experts like Hauke Schlegel, director of the VDMA "Marine Equipment and Systems" department, are convinced that, "an unimaginable potential is concealed" in big data. The maritime sector, with the German maritime economy as the leading global supplier, stands to profit from big data – a fact that pleases Schlegel immensely.
Today, large-format monitors, rather than the view from the bridge, direct commercial and passenger ships.
While it appears that in the foreseeable future China, Japan and Korea will close shipyards due to overcapacity, the German mechanical engineers and system designers are traveling in calmer waters. And while their future may not be rosy, it appears to be stable. In 2016, sales are expected to exceed 12 billion euros. And now the digital revolution offers further opportunity? What can ships and shipping actually get from this new technology? Let us examine efficiency, environmental protection and security in the shipping industry more closely.
In general, cargo services suffer daily from high and ever-increasing cost pressures. The reason for this is simple: there is too much available shipping tonnage underway on the oceans – a result of speculation during the boom years between 2004 and 2009. Overcapacity and ongoing price erosion are the end result. Transport services are therefore attempting to retain their economic viability by reducing costs. And anywhere cost reductions are discussed, labor costs are always under consideration – even for shipping companies. For them, it specifically means a choice between quantity or quality. Companies either reduce the crew numbers on board, or the rely on a crew with lower electro-technical qualifications and correspondingly lower rates of pay.
From Oslo to Frederikshavn: in the narrow fjords of Norway, land-to-ship communication remains simple.
Both scenarios can be realized by implementing automation. Automated systems are capable of taking over many long-term tasks that were previously performed by humans. They also allow for remote functionality, which enable land-based experts to read ship's data in order to oversee maintenance people at sea. If the crew numbers on board fell to zero, there would be profitable benefit: small subsystems, such as, wastewater treatment systems, climate control and desalinization plants, would be eliminated if a ship were autonomously guided. Transport services could save approximately 10 % in fuel costs alone if they did not have to offer the amenities required to feed, house and entertain a crew.
Allocating Costs According to Their Sources
With or without a crew: On a ship, there are many applications that could be operated more efficiently, aside from crew amenities. Measuring, evaluating, formulating remedies – Maritime 4.0 holds tremendous promise for these specific areas. Consider building management for a moment: By employing data recording and networking, consumption and costs can be determined and optimized down to the individual room level. Comparable measurements do not occur on container ships. However, different containers contribute to different levels of transportation costs. This is due to the fact that, despite the standardized dimensions of a container, all cargo is not the same, which is abundantly clear when one considers "reefers."
Everything is tightly linked. The chart illustrates how important big data and close-knit networks are for modern shipping operations.
Reefer is the term used for refrigerated containers, which must either be cooled using the ship-side cargo cooling system or have their own cooling systems. These, in turn, draw energy from the onboard network. In both cases, the cooling directly impacts fuel consumption on the ship, because the generators have to provide electrical energy and the main engine consequently demands more output. It is obvious that refrigerated containers are responsible for higher shipping costs compared to other containers. In daily practice, however, infrastructure costs are uniformly distributed among all containers loaded on a ship. If integrative network technology could determine how high the energy demands of a reefer actually are, then the shipping costs could be allocated according to the source and individually calculated. Different cargo tariffs could be defined for different routes, because travel in the vicinity of the equator requires more electricity for cooling than cooler regions. Technologically, such tasks could be solved without a problem by currently available technology. WAGO's PFC200 Controller offers, for example, storage potential for monitoring data outside of the cloud in parallel to its own processor performance. Also, this monitoring is already required in order to document the uninterrupted cooling chain and thus the operational safety of a reefer.
Route Planning Instead of Full Steam across the Ocean
Another example of the advantages that result from closer data networking can be measured in fuel consumption. If routes are plotted around low-pressure zones, for example, fuel is saved. Consequently, it is advantageous to evaluate weather data with more than safety in mind. Additional processing of harbor information follows a similar path. Prof. Holger Watter, Dr.-Ing and president of the Technical University of Flensburg, recently enquired, "What is the use of traveling at full speed to a harbor, if I have to wait for a docking position?" When considering fuel consumption, it is substantially more efficient to adjust the traveling speed so that a cargo or container ship arrives punctually in a harbor that is logistically prepared to handle its freight.
Inconspicuous placement, but a serious outcome: if both buttons are pressed in case of a pirate attack, a comprehensive crisis management program will run in the background.
Experts have estimated the monetary rewards that could result from optimizing fuel consumption and idle times to be so great that the EU has launched the "Sea Traffic Management" project. This initiative seeks to precisely synchronize shipping operations using communication, networking and big data. The basic premise of the project is that ships' data, which can be coordinated with one another, is provided in the cloud where other ships can access it. This opens the path for safely passing one another along shipping routes, and arriving punctually in harbors in a sequence. The harbor operators would also profit from synchronized shipping. They could better prepare for the arrival of ships, which would thus lead to significantly less logistics space for intermediate storage and less capacity for transporting goods. Semis and trains wouldn't have to remain in long queues waiting for specific ships. Agreements of this type would pay off financially and environmentally. "In spite of this, it is not yet common in shipping," opines Professor Watter, who clarifies that in this context, it is still more important for ship operators to correctly interpret various scenarios. Watter wants ships' crews, "to be able to correctly read data and determine the correct measures," by which he means that automation systems need good human-machine interfaces.
Maritime 4.0 Requires Greater IT Security
In this context, ships' bridges have long served as automation control centers where information flows together. This includes navigation, communication and cargo information, as well as administrative data, like registration documents and cargo declarations. With electronic maps and automated identification systems (AIS), it is apparent on the bridge that digitalization is increasing on the high seas. The trend speaks loudly, and the described potentials agree: big data for large ships? It would certainly be worth it!
The AIS provides information about key data from other ships on the route.
However, cost reductions, environmental protection and increased efficiency also have their price: significantly increased demands on cybersecurity. The risk of data abuse and cybercrime increases alongside the digitization, networking and increasing land-to-ship communication. Anyone who talks about Maritime 4.0, has to discuss cybersecurity – and this means much more than securing a ship against cyberattack, it also involves operational safety of the very ship. It is imperative, in order to protect ship, crew and the environment with suitable technologies, that data transmitted between land and sea are reliably encrypted. An example: access points and access times are regulated, or controllers are used that include "IT security by design" and can also function as intermediate storage if the connection between land and sea is severed for any reason.
IT Security: An Ongoing Competition
In view of the serious effects caused by maritime accidents, it is surprising in this context that the current version of the IT Security Act does not include shipping operations among its critical infrastructures, which is a stark contrast to energy and water supply on land. Actually, cybersecurity should be considered a "competition," which occurs between producers, hackers and operators. In order to flexibly react to new threats, an open operating system is the first choice because open-source products are not dependent on just one manufacturer. Rather, open systems are simultaneously used by many programmers who recognize security gaps more quickly and collaborate on improvements. Therefore, WAGO's PFC family is based on Linux® with real-time expansion, which provides common functions for cybersecurity as defaults, regardless of manufacturer, and offers future possibilities for expansion.
Text: Thorsten Sienk, Norman Südekum and Eva Banholzer | WAGO
Photo: Thorsten Sienk | WAGO
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The supine profile of the Sleeping Giant (Nounou Mountain) lords over the length of Kauai's Coconut Coast (the east shore). Seen here from a lagoon at Smith's Tropical Plantation, the Giant resembles an Easter Island statue—his big nose is in the middle, with chin to the right.
Three trailheads will get you to the top, all coverging near the summit. That's his chinny chin chin (above) to the left, a dangerous side trip to a spot that is just a step from a free fall. But the main trail is not hazardous, even though hands are necessary for one short stretch, where the hiker is pictured above.
From the Giant's nose (the top) is a<|fim_middle|> feet. The third trailhead, on the west side, covers 5.5 miles round-trip with a gain of 925 feet—but the main reason to take this trail is to enjoy a bridge over Opakea'a Stream and the Vista Hale picnic pavilion, which is .75-mile from the trailhead. | 360-degree view, with Mount Waialeale inland and Kong (Anahola Mountains) to the east (pictured above).
The mountain-side trail is the shortest, and perhaps most-scenic route, if you appreciate tropical flora. The beginning traverses a grove of stately Norfolk Pines. This route is 3.25 miles round-trip, with a gain of some 775 | 85 |
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.2196/12410
Title: Evaluation of a technology-based peer-support intervention program for preventing postnatal depression (Part 1): Randomized controlled trial
Authors: Shorey, S.
Chee, C.Y.I.
Ng, E.D.
Lau, Y.
Dennis, C.-L.
Chan, Y.H.
Keywords: Anxiety
Peer-to-peer support
Publisher: JMIR Publications Inc.
Citation: Shorey, S., Chee, C.Y.I., Ng, E.D., Lau, Y., Dennis, C.-L., Chan, Y.H. (2019). Evaluation of a technology-based peer-support intervention program for preventing postnatal depression (Part 1): Randomized controlled trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research 21 (8) : e12410. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.2196/12410
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: Background: The frenzy of postbirth events often takes a toll on mothers' mental well-being, leaving them susceptible to postpartum psychological disorders such as postnatal depression (PND). Social support has been found to be effective in restoring the emotional well-being of new mothers. Therefore, mothers need to be supported during the crucial postpartum period to buffer the negative after effects of childbirth and to promote healthier maternal well-being. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a technology-based peer-support intervention program (PIP) on maternal outcomes during the early postpartum period. Methods: A randomized, parallel-armed controlled trial was conducted. The study recruited 138 mothers (69 in intervention group, 69 in control group) at risk of PND from a tertiary hospital in Singapore. To support these mothers, 20 peer volunteers were recruited by word of mouth and trained by a psychiatrist in social support skills before the intervention commenced. The 4-week-long intervention included a weekly follow-up with a peer volunteer through phone calls or text messages. The intervention group received peer support in addition<|fim_middle|> linear model was used to compare the groups for postpartum percentage changes in the outcome variables at first and third months, and the linear mixed model was used to compare the trend over the study period. Results: There was a statistically significant difference in Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale scores (d=-2.11; 95% CI -4.0 to -0.3; P=.03) between the intervention and control groups at 3 months postpartum after adjusting for covariates. The intervention group had a significant change over time compared with the control group. Conclusions: The technology-based PIP was found to be effective in reducing the risk of PND among new mothers and showed a generally positive trend in reducing PNA and loneliness and increasing perceived social support. This study highlights the importance of training paraprofessionals to provide needed support for new mothers postpartum. A further long-term evaluation of the PIP on maternal and family outcomes and its cost-effectiveness is needed to inform clinical practices. © 2019 Shefaly Shorey, Cornelia Yin Ing Chee, Esperanza Debby Ng, Ying Lau, Cindy-Lee Dennis, Yiong Huak Chan.
Source Title: Journal of Medical Internet Research
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/213257
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Netflix has given fans their first look at Henry Cavill in costume as Geralt of Rivia in their upcoming series The Witcher.
Netflix's US account posted a video of Henry Cavill suited up as Geralt himself, and his get up is surprisingly true to the source material. Don't worry, Witcher fans; he's even sporting a long white wig.
To be honest, Cavill looks about as good in the role as anyone would expect him to. The wig does look a bit strange, but those sort of things tend to look a lot better in the finished product than in these early behind the scenes teases. Cavill still looks a little too young for a character who's supposedly been around for a fair few decades, but I guess they can explain that away quite easily, given all the magical potions and enhancements needed to become a witcher. The show is set earlier in the timeline than the games are, so that would also explain the lack of a scar over his eye or facial hair.
We're still yet to get a look at Freya Allen and Anya Chalotra as Ciri and Yennefer, but seeing as we've already been given a look at Geralt so early in production, it can't be too long before we start getting a look at the series' other lead characters. Hopefully it won't be long before we get an announcement on who will be playing Dandelion, a character very important to Geralt in the books and video game series.
Meanwhile, it has been announced that Anna Schafer (Hollyoaks) will be playing Triss Merigold, another sorceress and sometimes love interest for Geralt. Schafer isn't the first former Hollyoaks star to land a role in a fantasy drama; Nathalie Emmanuel, who plays Missandei in Game of Thrones, also begun her acting career in the British soap opera.
Schafer wasn't the only new casting announced. Netflix also confirmed that Eamon Farren (Twin Peaks) will play Cahir aep Ceallach, Joey Batey (Knightfall) will play Jaskier, Royce Pierrson (Wanderlust) will play Istredd, Maciej Muslał will play Sir Lazlo, and Wilson Radjou-Pujalte (Hunter Street) will play Dara. Interestingly, Lars Mikkelsen of House of Cards and Star Wars Rebels<|fim_middle|> dark wizard with ties to Princess Renfri, who will be played by Millie Brady.
That just leaves Dandelion. Hopefully it won't be too long before we get that news too. What do you think of Henry Cavill all suited up as Geralt of Rivia? Let us know in the comments.
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What Makes a Great Gig? Part 2
October 24, 2011 CraigWilson
To me, a great garageband is a bunch of musicians who truly know their limitations. Their goal isn't even musicianship; it's making sure they take the party to an altered state—from attendees having a "nice time" to having a "friggin' GREAT time." And the best gigs are ones where the band had a great time as well. Therefore, I'd like to offer a list of my favorite gigs, which has nothing to do with best halls, best cities or largest crowds. It has to do with great times, emotions and experiences! And all of my gigs were weddings, reunions, bar mitzvahs, and even a circus act, all performed in the Chicagoland area. Some of these gigs were decades ago, and a few of the venues no longer exist—one notably burned down as a victim of Greek lighting. Nonetheless, each gig big I describe is forever burned into my mind as "life changing." Drum roll please:
1964: My first gig ever, performed at Niles Community Center in with Mick and the Marvels. I unveiled my new Ampeg amp and Gibson ES with this rag-tag 6th grade garage band. Come on! You ALWAYS cherish your first. And it was an official gig because: We had a logo on our bass drum; we caught a ride in Mrs. Alloisio's red Cadillac; we were paid $10 and complimentary lemonade and cookies afterward; AND we accumulated several fourth-grade groupies in front of the stage.
1967: The Nite Cap Experience, an all-greaser band where I was their "token Maine South duper". We had won a battle of the bands at Richwood High School in Norridge, Illinois, the prize being a paid gig at the Country Pub in Maywood. This "hole in the wall" bar didn't care about things like<|fim_middle|>, and maybe it was only coincidence, but Ricco missed his brother and sailed into the crowd. Luckily, no one was hurt.
Please feel free to sign up for my newsletter and let me know if you have any stories, comments or questions. I look forward to getting out my new book, "Gig," hopefully destined to be one of the best novels on music you will read! | checking ID cards, and our R&B band of juniors in high school had a coming-of-age evening thanks to an open bar. I had visions of a great run with this black leather jacket band until our bass player Howard stole a car and my mom made me quit the group.
1969: A high-school variety show act called the Chiquita Brass, band with a peel, picked up a two-week gig as a circus band for a summer promotion at Randhurst Shopping Mall in Mt. Prospect. We used our Herb Alpert playbook for all songs, accompanying a high-wire act, jugglers, and semi-dangerous teeterboard act called Ricco Vellenzo and the Flying Vellenzo's. Our drummer, Kent Wehman, couldn't make it to one gig and I filled in for him. At the climax of the show, Ricco would launch and throw a triple summersault in the air, landing on a human pyramid of his other three brothers. I flubbed the extended drum roll | 209 |
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Thank you for this post, John is an amazing example of the power in personal will and spirit.
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While Bramblitt's twenty-five years of visual experience provided him with mental images of what he wanted to paint, he was uncertain how to render these images on a canvas he couldn't see. Then he discovered 'puffy paint'. Puffy paint is typically used for decorating fabric and leaves a thin raised line, a line Bramblitt can touch. Using puffy paint allows Bramblitt to produce an initial outline of his subject on the canvas. He then feels his way across the raised lines with his left hand, as he fills-in the colors using a brush held in his right.
For color, Bramblitt uses oil paint, which has proven critical to the process. While oil paint is messier, more pungent, and dries much slower than acrylics, it offers something that no other paint can: idiosyncratic viscosity. According to Bramblitt, "White feels thicker on my fingers, almost like toothpaste, and black feels slicker and thinner. To mix a gray, I'll try to get the paint to have a feel of medium viscosity". In fact, he has learned to recognize and mix all the colors he uses by his sense of touch. And the colors are the first thing one notices about Bramblitt's work (www.Bramblitt.net). While the subjects of his paintings are immediately recognizable, proportioned, and smartly stylized, the colors are suprem | 338 |
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Pressure? What pressure? Derby County striker Chris Martin says he thrives on Rams responsibility
Scotland international gearing up for competitive return to Pride Park after loan spell at Fulham last season
Chris WatsonDigital football writer
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Chris Martin insists he does not feel under any extra pressure to score goals for Derby County this season.
Martin was the Rams' leading marksman for three years running, netting 61 times in the 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 campaigns.
However, 12 months ago, he controversially joined Fulham on loan after falling out of favour under manager Nigel Pearson.
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"That's what I'm paid to do and I like that responsibility, if anything. I'm sure most strikers will tell you the same.
"Perhaps there is pressure every now and again but I don't really think of it like that.
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"I'm looking forward to the challenge and thriving on the responsibility to be the person that is getting the goals and winning games for us, hopefully.
"Hopefully, I'm one of many that is able to do that for us this season. We can't just rely on one or two people to get goals. I think it has to be spread throughout the whole squad.
Chris Martin in action for Fulham last season
"It would be nice to have four, five, six or seven people scoring goals."
Martin has scored three goals in his previous two appearances for Derby against Wolves, including a brace in a 4-2 victory at Pride Park in October 2015. He could have had a hat-trick but was denied from the penalty spot.
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"I've had a bit of success against Wolves, so I'm hoping that the stars have aligned a little bit for me and I can hit the ground running back at Pride Park," he added.
"I think Wolves are a bit of an unknown quantity - but I expect them to be very good.
"They have signed some extremely good players but time will tell how the people they have brought in from abroad are going to adapt.
"They've got a foreign manager (Nuno Espirito Santo), also, and we've seen success with that recently.
"You never quite know how they are going to gel together but it should be an interesting game."
Gary Rowett
Pride Park | of Steve McClaren, Derby tried, unsuccessfully, to recall the striker in the January transfer window.
Having signed a new contract with the Rams, Martin went on to score 11 goals for Fulham as they reached the Championship play-offs - but is now back at Pride Park and hoping to help Gary Rowett's side challenge for promotion this term.
Chris Martin celebrates scoring in the pre-season friendly at Kidderminster (Image: Andy Clarke)
The Scotland international started last week's season opener at Sunderland and is preparing for Derby's first home game of the campaign against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday.
Although he scored twice in pre-season, his last competitive goal for the club was more than 16 months ago - in a 4-0 victory over Hull City at Pride Park in April 2016.
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But Martin is not worried - and reckons he thrives on any responsibility placed on his shoulders.
"Over the course of my career, I've not really felt pressure in that sort of respect, to be perfectly honest with you," he told the Derby Telegraph.
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by Julian Mitchell
Trafalgar Studios, London
There's a dreadful homogeneity that attracts public schools in England and Julian Mitchell's 1981 play, famously adapted into a 1984 film starring a young Rupert Everett and Colin Firth, remains a harsh reminder of the<|fim_middle|> play west end
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The setting is a fictional boys' public school in 1930s England and the spotlight is on two particular misfits: the suave, flighty and openly gay Bennett (Rob Callender) and the serious, academically-inclined Judd (Will Attenborough), whose Marxist views fly in the face of the wealth that confronts him.
Mitchell's theme is that English public schools were a prime breeding ground for the so-called generation of 'Cambridge spies' who betrayed their country during the war. The character of Judd certainly leaves us in no doubt that he would turn against the moneyed establishment he opposes. Even the carefree Bennett is quietly pulled away from apathy at the hypocrisy of the people he is surrounded with at school and the gradual realization that he will always be excluded from the world he desires to be a part of. Indeed, the homosexuality that causes a student to commit suicide early in the play is revealed to be tacitly accepted as a way of life by many of the students, despite the official line that such actions are to be condemned.
Another Country is also a sentimental study about friendships forged in a home away from home and the codes and rituals so common in public schools. There is a tender moment when Judd comforts a tearful junior rattled at the death of a fellow student, reminding us that many students look up to their seniors as role models and surrogate parents in the unfamiliar and often harsh boarding school environment. In an equally gripping sequence, the harsh strokes of Bennett being caned sound out, reminding us of the realities of corporal punishment for misdemeanours.
Jeremy Herrin's production, a Chichester Festival Theatre transfer, is buoyed by a young and energetic cast. Callender in particular turns in a superb performance as Bennett, bringing a perfect mix of sexy nonchalance and rakish charm that keeps one's eyes on him throughout his scenes. Attenborough provides an earnest though somewhat plodding presence as Judd with his constant devotion to books. There is also fantastic support by Julian Wadham as a flamboyant visiting academic.
Peter McKintosh's wooden set - which easily converts into a dormitory, office and cricket field - conveys the grandeur and tradition that comes with a venerable institution and the production is sensitively lit by Paul Pyant. We are reminded as ever of the pull of the outside world intruding upon the little space created by these individuals as they navigate their nascent ideological battles.
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Beschrijving
Ketting-schepjes zijn witte, ongeveer 5 mm kleine slakkjes met een dunne, transparante schelp die geheel onder de mantel verborgen zit. De schelp bestaat uit spiraalvormige rijen van regelmatige inkepingen, kettingvormig aan elkaar gekoppeld, ongeveer 10 rijen per mm. Het lichaam van een ketting-schepje kan een totale lengte van 7 mm bereiken, is crème of lichtbruin van kleur met kleine stipjes van donkerbruin, oranje en wit. Hierbij is het donkerbruine alleen op het dorsale oppervlak aanwezig. De algehele vorm is langwerpig en slank. Het natuurlijke dieet is niet bekend, maar het is bekend dat deze slakkensoort zelf wordt gegeten door platvissen.
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More proof that a new iPhone is on the way
Cody Lee on August 9, 2012
You've seen the leaked components, in fact, you've seen tons of them. You've seen the third-party cases and you've seen the tell-tale discounts popping up. It's pretty obvious that a new iPhone is on the way.
But just in case you needed more proof, a new report is out this morning claiming that component-makers in Apple's Taiwanese supply chain just posted record sales for the month of July…
AllThingsD reports:
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Not only are these numbers indicative that a new iPhone is on the way, but they could also reaffirm previous reports that Apple has multiple product launches planned for the fall.
Alongside its new handset, Apple has been rumored to be unveiling a smaller tablet — dubbed the 'iPad mini' by the media — and revamped iPod touches and nanos in Q4 of this year.
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Poisoning can happen anytime and is common to happen among children under 5 years old. Keep your home safe from this by removing medicines and household chemicals that may be poisonous to your child.
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Whitecaps FC sign international striker Robert Earnshaw
DH Vancouver Staff
Dec 19 2017, 10:32 pm
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"I'm very excited to officially join Whitecaps FC and be part of this great organization," Earnshaw said. "The club has treated me well since I've been here. I'm thrilled to help the team continue to progress, while bringing enjoyment and passion to my new team."
"First off, congratulations to Earnie on a fantastic international career," said Whitecaps FC head coach Carl Robinson. "I had the privilege of representing Wales together with Earnie and he always gives his all in everything he does. Not only is he a natural goalscorer, he will also bring great character and leadership to our locker room, while passing along his experience to our young group of forwards."
Earnshaw trialled with the 'Caps during the preseason and over the past two seasons in the MLS has scored 11 goals while starting in 24 of his 31 appearances. Last season, he scored three goals in 174 minutes with Chicago Fire and in 2013 scored eight goals in 26 appearances with Toronto FC.
Earnshaw made his professional debut in 1998 with Cardiff City, after being developed through the club's youth program. After six years with the club, he scored 105 in 201 appearances.
In 2004, Earnshaw joined with West Brom Albion in the English Premier League, scoring 12 goals in 43 matches. In 2006, he signed with Norwich City, scoring 27 goals in 45 matches before signing with Derby County the next year. He then played for Nottingham Forest from 2008 to 2011 scoring 43 goals in 98 appearances, before he rejoined Cardiff in 2011.
In 2012, Earnshaw was loaned to Maccabi Tel Aviv from the Israeli Premier League, where he made 10 appearances, scoring twice, before signing with Toronto FC. After leaving TFC, he made one appearance with Blackpool FC in England.
"I fell in love with football ever since I was a kid and went to my first Wales game," Earnshaw said. "It has been a dream come true to have the opportunity to walk out in front of the whole nation and represent Wales in so many important games."
Earnshaw is the only player to record a hat-trick in the Premier League, all three divisions of the English Football League, the League Cup, the FA Cup and for his country in an international match.
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Film Review: Tales Of Halloween (2015)
"Has a twinkle in its eye and a style that will undoubtedly make Tales of Halloween a firm Halloween favourite for many."
Aimed squarely at horror fans with a particular love of the likes of Creepshow, Tales From the Crypt and Trick 'r' Treat, a group of eleven directors bring us this new portmanteau movie of ten short stories all set in the same suburban area on a Halloween night. Contained within its own distinctive style that captures that 80s practical FX horror era, filled with twisted laughs, a mass<|fim_middle|>ansom of Rusty Rex in particular shining with their fantastic mix of horror and over-the-top humour, while The Weak and the Wicked doesn't hit the mark quite so much. The fact is though that none of the segments are actually bad, and indeed every one of them has a twinkle in its eye and a style that will undoubtedly make Tales of Halloween a firm Halloween favourite for many.
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Directors: Dave Parker, Darren Lynn Bousman, Adam Gierasch, Paul Solet, Axelle Carolyn, Lucky McKee, John Skipp, Andrew Kasch, Mike Mendez, Ryan Schifrin, Neil Marshall.
Starring: Barbara Crampton, John Landis, Joe Dante, Adrienne Barbeau, Pollyanna McIntosh, Alex Essoe, Lin Shaye.
Certificate: (UK) 15 TBC
Release date: VOD16 October 2015
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/film-review-tales-of-halloween-2015/ | of hidden nods to the horror greats, and featuring cameos from the likes of Barbara Crampton, John Landis, Joe Dante and a fantastic The Fog style narration from Adrienne Barbeau, there really isn't a great deal not to love here.
Let's run down the list of segments:
Dave Parker directs Sweet Tooth — a fun and bloody tale of a babysitter and her boyfriend who try their best to scare a kid out of eating all of the sweets from his trick or treat hoard by telling him the tale of the titular monster that will get you if you don't leave any for him, but end up unleashing something horrible instead.
Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II) directs hilarious standout segment The Night Billy Raised Hell. When Billy knocks on the door of the strange neighbourhood recluse Mr Abaddon, he ends up being taken out by him for a night of mayhem and destruction that neither he nor the townsfolk will forget. Director Adam Gierasch (writer of Toolbox Murders) brings us Trick — the pretty nasty story of a bunch of obnoxious grown up slackers who find themselves under attack by a particularly nasty gang of machete wielding trick-or-treaters.
Paul Solet (Grace) directs The Weak and the Wicked — A twisted urban-set spaghetti western where a masked killer attacks a gang who pick on the wrong kid, while Axelle Carolyn (Soulmate) directs Grim Grinning Ghost — another standout segment that finds Lin Shaye trying to terrify the skittish Alex Essoe (Starry Eyes) with a ghostly tale to chill the blood.
Director Lucky McKee (The Woman) brings on the laughs as he joins forces with Pollyanna McIntosh again for Ding Dong — the Hansel and Gretel referencing story of an eternally upbeat and utterly demented witch who is on the lookout for a cute trick-or-treater that she can have as her very own child.
This Means War sees directors John Skipp (writer: A Nightmare on Elm Street 5) and Andrew Kasch tell the tale of an escalating war between a pair of very different neighbours who do battle over old-fashioned vs. modern Halloween celebrations, while Mike Mendez (Big Ass Spider!) throws the idea of an unstoppable Friday The 13th style killer on its head as a hilariously bad stop-motion clay mini alien schools a hulking masked serial killer in a blood-splattered battle in Friday the 31st.
The Ransom of Rusty Rex from Ryan Schifrin (Abominable) sees the plans of two hapless kidnappers Sam Witwer and Jose Pablo Cantillo go horribly wrong when they snatch a child from a wealthy father (Landis), only to find that not only is the guy not going to pay a ransom, but is in fact glad to be rid of the child — for reasons that become hilariously apparent, while Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers) wraps things up in wonderfully dumb style with Bad Seed in which a killer mutant jack-o'-lantern is pursued by a police officer after it bites the head off of the man who carved it, before going on a rampage across town.
Much as is the case with most omnibus style movies, some segments of Tales of Halloween certainly work better than others; The Night Billy Raised Hell, Ding Dong, Friday the 31st and The R | 690 |
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2020
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Back in the '60s, the British Motor Corporation (which eventually became British Leyland) went racing. To design a flashy mobile garage to support the MGs, Minis, and other cars on the track, they called Pininfarina. And now one is for sale.
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Based on a Leyland bus chassis, the Pininfarina-penned lines were crafted in aluminum by coachbuilder Marshall's of Cambridge. Underneath, a 5.1- or 6.1-liter Perkins diesel engine kept things moving. This bus has the larger engine fitted, putting its power down through an Eaton five-speed transmission.
After these buses were built they were used for a short time as support vehicles for BMC's racing efforts. Originally painted red, around twenty of the machines were built and some of them even left the United Kingdom to support racing efforts abroad in the United States and Australia. One bus was even extended to fit two Mini race cars in the back and used to cart them from race to race all over Europe.
After their use in racing, the buses would find a new life refitted as mobile classrooms used to teach BMC dealers how to service the company's new Minis. It's then that this particular bus lost its red paint and gained the blue you see today.
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It might sound unusual to you that a BMC vehicle would get lines penned by Pininfarina but this actually wasn't the only collaboration between the two firms. The other example of a Pininfarina-designed BMC vehicle is the BMC 1800 Berlina from 1967, a few years after these buses were built. Though based on the rather pedestrian BMC ADO17 platform, better known as the Landcrab, the 1800 Berlina featured an aerodynamic body that evokes the Citroen CX and Rover SD1 that would follow more than seven and nine years later respectively.
The BMC 1800 Berlina, Pininfarina's other effort for the British conglomerate.
Photo: BMC
Bus or Berlina, Pininfarina's lines really do suit the BMC designs rather well. I wonder if more cooperation between the two might have helped both companies avoid the challenges they faced further down the line.
This particular bus was built in 1963. The seller says it has done around 33,000 miles and that it is mechanically complete, needing mostly cosmetic work. It's listed on eBay right here. If you're interested in what a restored one looks like, check out this write-up of one that sold at auction back in 2016.
I think this one would work great as an RV. The blue is beautiful but even if the moss and lichen add character, they probably will need to come off. A simple interior with just the bare | 739 |
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Headington history: Schools
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Here is a list of the known schools of Headington, past and present, linked to a brief page on their history. (For practical information on all current schools in Headington, see the Education page)
Original name of school
(with link to brief history)
Present name of school
(or date of closure)
Free School
Closed 1874
Miss Hanwell's Seminary
Mrs Butler's Boarding School for Young Ladies
Closed by 1846
Old Headington & Barton Infant School
Closed c.1908
Headington National School
Linden House School
Rookery Preparatory School for Eton and Harrow
Headington Quarry National School
St Aloysius' / St Joseph's School
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Day Scholars (per Quarter): £0 10 6.
Miss Edney's School at 84 (formerly 48) Old High Street in the late 1920s
Mr & Mrs Benjamin Francis Ward's School at 33 (formerly 5) Old High Street in the 1920s and 1930s. It is remembered in the reminiscences of Margaret Coppock Mayers
Miss Evett's School in Quarry Hollow: this was a Montessori school, also known as the Old Vicarage School, and was open from the 1930s. It closed in 1959 when one of the Miss Evett sisters died and the other gave up.
Miss Hammersley's School at Sandy Lodge in the Croft, in the 1930s
For information on the two small schools in Old High Street, see the reminiscences of Kathleen Eastes.
Headington Parish Magazine, July 1872:
It is very sad to see how many of our people neglect the education of their little ones, and allow them to run idle during the School hours about the streets of the Village. We beg the Parents in our Parish to consider this seriously,—that if they will not of their own accord send their children more regularly to School, the Government will compel the Parish to use severe measures for enforcing the regular attendance of all boys and girls who are between the ages of 3 and 13 years. We repeat what we have said before in speaking to the Parents, that we hope the good sense of our Headington poor will lead them to send their children regularly to School, and so prevent the introduction of anything like compulsion, which will fall very hard upon many of them and reflect no little disgrace upon the Parish generally. | Joseph's Primary School
New Headington Infant School
Miss Steff's School
Margaret Road/Headington
Council School
Headington School
Hunsdon House Nursery School
Hunsdon House
Ormerod School
Rye St Antony School
St Anne's School
Headington Senior Council School
Windmill Primary School
Headington Preparatory School
Barton Junior Mixed & Infant School (later Bernwood First School)
Barton Infant School
Bayswater Secondary
Modern School
Bayards Hill Primary School
Wood Farm Junior Mixed School
Wood Farm Primary School
Josca's
Moved to Frilford Heath 1970
Cheney School
Cheney Girls' School
See also Mrs Morrell's Training School for Servants
(also known as Headington Hill Hall School) in the "Headington Hill" section.
A History of Milham Ford School (PDF)
The names of the earliest Headington dames' schools have gone unrecorded. The Vicar of Headington mentions their existence in a letter to the Bishop of Oxford on 29 April 1808:
There are 3 little Village Schools besides [the Free School] which the Parents of the Children pay for themselves, the Number of scholars about 60, they are taught to read, write and plain work in general…. None of the Schools are kept by Dissenters.
Other very small private schools which did not survive for long include:
Mrs Bennett's Preparatory School, for which there is just one advertisement, in Jackson's Oxford Journal on 26 October 1822:
MRS. BENNETT begs leave to inform her friends in Oxford and its vicinity, that she has taken a commodious House at HEADINGTON, where she can receive a few YOUNG LADIES, as BOARDERS, and hopes, by every attention to their improvement, to merit the support of those parents who may please to intrust their children to her care.
Tuition of Needle-work, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic:
For Boarders, (per Annum): £16 0 0 | 441 |
Review of The Wire: The Complete Series DVD boxset
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If you're a media-savvy type, there's a good chance you've heard of The Wire, probably even read a bunch of rave reviews from hardened TV critics, but never actually seen it. And it's understandable, seeing as its BBFC 1<|fim_middle|> effects of news reporting and city budgets on policing. This on top of following the young men from season 4, the politicians, the teachers, the drug dealers, the drug addicts, the homeless, the police bosses, and the police, some of whom are desperately trying to build a case against the drug kings.
These summaries do not do the show justice, but hopefully they scratch the surface of how big, deep and complex is the world crafted by The Wire. The exploration of the city is careful and unbiased, the cast of characters large, with none painted as flawless hero or pantomime villain. Even the bad guys (be they drug dealers, lawyers or politicians) are human, the reasons for their nature examined without judgement.
It's possible that The Wire may never be shown on TV in a reliable slot, not while there are so many convenient slot-in crime dramas that are neatly wrapped up at the end of each episode. So if you want to learn what quality television looks like, do yourself a favour and buy The Wire: The Complete Series.
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Home | Sitemap | Privacy | 8 rating means that broadcasters, such as BBC Two, only show it very late in the evening, if they show it at all.
This is a crying shame, because The Wire is written and produced in a way that makes most other police and crime dramas look like children's television. People flock to watch the various flavours of CSI, despite the fact this wildly popular show looks like Murder She Wrote alongside the careful, detailed investigations portrayed in The Wire.
The Wire: The Complete Series is a DVD boxset containing all five series (or seasons as they prefer in the US). Season 1 introduces us to the police department of the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Parts of the city are blighted by drug addiction and drug-related murders, and when a judge demands action on a set of linked homicides a detail of officers is assembled to bring down the crime hierarchy suspected. But we are also shown the world through the eyes of the drug dealers, the drug addicts and the police bosses, all of them pulling in different directions. The world of narcotics is examined thoughtfully, though that's not to say there's ever a dull moment.
Season 2 adds to the mix the dying port industry in Baltimore, the dockers' unions, the theft of freight, and the smuggling of the drugs which supply the street dealers. Once again we learn about this part of the world a bit at a time, watching the police build up information and evidence gradually, but we also see the world from the point of view of a desperate union boss and those around him.
Season 3 feels at first like a continuation of season 1. While there's still a lot going on, it's not until later in the series that it becomes clear that a lot of threads are being tied off. Also added to the growing picture is the mayor's office, responsible for overseeing and directing the police department and its budget.
Season 4 introduces a group of boys who are becoming young men in a neighbourhood where drug dealers call to them a lot louder than the local schools, and follows them into class, and back out onto the street. At the same time we follow a mayoral election campaign, and the effects of crime stats and political interference on the police investigations into the drug gangs.
Season 5 takes us into a newsroom to examine modern journalism. It also covers the | 471 |
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ChampionsLeague results
Former champions Bayern Munich and Barcelona enjoyed straightforward wins in their Champions League third qualifying round first-leg ties, but for others, notably Manchester United, it was anything but a comfortable night.
United went down to Hungarian champions Zalaegerszegi courtesy of an injury-time goal from substitute Bela Koplarovics, leaving one of the competition favourites with an uphill battle when the sides<|fim_middle|> look well set for yet another Champions League campaign, while Rosenborg edged past Brondby by the same scoreline. Lokomotiv Moscow's 2-0 away win over Grazer AK puts the Russians in a strong position going into the second leg. | meet again at Old Trafford in a fortnight's time.
Fellow English side Newcastle United marked their return to Europe's premier competition with a hard-fought win over FK Zeljeznicar. Kieron Dyer was on target for the Magpies midway through the second half.
The champions of 2001, Bayern Munich, served a warning to their rivals with a consumate performance in their win at FK Partizan. Goals from Michael Tarnat, Jens Jeremies and Claudio Pizarro were enough to secure an easy win for the German side.
Equally impressive were Barcelona. New coach Louis Van Gaal wass grateful to compatriots Frank de Boer and Philip Cocu who struck for the Catalan side either side of a goal from new signing Juan Riquelme.
In Italy, the Milan giants have left themselves with work to do if theyare to progress to the Champions League proper. Milan, who rested new signing Rivaldo, were indebted to a Filippo Inzaghi goal midway through the second-half as they struggled to overcome Slovan Liberec. They travel to the Czech Republic in a fortnight's time with a narrow 1-0 lead.
Their arch-rivals Inter travelled to Portugal and were happy emerge with a goalless draw against Sporting.
Elsewhere, Club Brugge grabbed what could be a vital away goal in their 1-1 draw with FC Shakhtar Donetsk despite being reduced to ten men.
Former European champions Celtic should have done enough after coming back from an early scare to beat FC Basel 3-1 in Glasgow. Argentinian striker Christian Giminez stunned the home crowd by giving the vistors an early lead after just two minutes, but Celtic took the win with strikes from Henrik Larsson, Chris Sutton and Mohamed Sylla.
Dynamo Kyiv beat PFC Levski Sofia 1-0 away and | 386 |
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