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There are flying machines hovering over our planet that can turn on a dime, making rapid 90-degree turns. Their instruments process images ten times faster than we can, and possess precision gyros that tell them how fast they are rotating in space – yet their computers are smaller than the head of a pin. They're not UFOs; these are quite well identified, if not completely understood. They are called fruit flies.
Michael Dickinson at Caltech is using a $4.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to figure out how they do it, reported National Geographic News. He discussed his work recently on their program Pulse of the Planet. Why go to the trouble? "The more things you take apart, the more intuition you gain about the natural world," the professor of bioengineering said. It's not just about learning how flies work. Who cares, after all, about a teensy fruit fly? "In figuring out how something as complex as a fly is put together, you gain insight into many complicated processes," Dickinson explained.
For a more detailed entry on what Dickinson's Caltech lab has learned about fruit flies, revisit our 12/08/2003 story, "The fruit fly in the flight simulator." Dickinson describes more of the hardware and software systems in mind-boggling detail.
Reverse engineering is scientific research based on intelligent-design (ID) principles. Whether stated or not, the assumption is obvious: a scientist detects a sophisticated system that functions superbly, and wants to figure it out. He applies his intelligently-designed resources to tackle an engineering problem. The subject selected for study has a large number of parts that work together as a system for a function: in this case, flight. Performing this kind of research is no different than reverse-engineering a robot or a watch upon a heath. The fact that this robot is biological makes no difference. Just like ID philosophers keep explaining, the question of who designed it does not need to be a factor in the actual lab work. It is sufficient to be able to sense design and then do science on that basis. Evolutionary naturalism contributes nothing.
It's interesting that the substance of the National Geographic article says nothing about evolution, but weirdly, John Roach inserted this parenthesis right after Dickinson's "insight into many complicated processes" quote: "(Read a related National Geographic magazine feature on limb evolution.)" Related? How? Limb evolution – any evolution – has nothing to do with fruit fly flight (say that five times real fast). This is like telling Nebuchadnezzar to check the<|fim_middle|>-bearing message.
Carrying this comparison further, you recall from the story in Daniel 2 that the charlatans couldn't fake their answer without additional information. They knew that if they had to try telling and interpreting the dream by chance, mean ol' King Neb would discern that they were fakes. Similarly, Darwinian explanations are non-starters if randomness is the only input. They can only proceed by sneaking information and design principles in the side door, making it sound like evolution, like some personified entity, orchestrates the stochastic inputs into place. The evolutionists thus plagiarize design to perform their magic tricks.
So keep your klepto hands off this science project, Darwin Party; it belongs to intelligent design, inc. Trying to steal credit for any of it is a violation of intellectual property ethics.
For more on the National Geographic "limb evolution" story, see our 10/22/2006 entry. Despite its staunchly pro-Darwin title, the article discussed issues that support intelligent design, argued Casey Luskin in a series for Evolution News: #1, #2, #3. | "related feature on Chaldean astrology charts" right after Daniel has interpreted the king's dream. Daniel did just fine without their help (and in spite of their help), because he knew the one who had designed that particular information | 47 |
Found on the western coast of Phuket, Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort is located on its own exclusive beach. The water is only a few steps away. The hotel is also close to many of the tourist attractions, some of which are within walking distance and some of which require a short drive. Guests will find temples, shopping, and more. Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort is only a 45 minute ride from the airport, and only five minutes from the tourist center of Phuket. Guests will be able to find public transportation to take them anywhere in the city they wish to travel. The hotel contains 417 guestrooms and 53 luxury suites. Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort features the modern amenities that guests would associate with a hotel of its class.<|fim_middle|> design and elegance with a modern flair. Some of the amenities included at the hotel are two swimming pools, a fitness center, massages, mini golf, and more than ten restaurants and bars. | Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort is a combination of traditional Thai | 15 |
Th<|fim_middle|> want to be an STAA Member | ayer joins Nebraska's KCSR
Jon Chelesnik
(October 28, 2011) Nebraska native John Thayer's sportscasting career might one day take him from his home state, but not yet. An STAA client since January 2009, Thayer has been hired as Sports Director at KCSR/ KBPY Radio in Chadron, NE.
Among other things, Thayer will be broadcasting a variety of play-by-play, anchoring daily sports updates and hosting a weekly coaches show. "What was really attractive is there is a lot of opportunity," Thayer says.
Another attraction for Thayer is station management's receptiveness to new ideas. "When I interviewed with Dennis Brown, the owner, he flat out told me 'if you have an idea, tell me about it. We can try it,'" Thayer says. "They're really open to allowing you to try a bunch of different things. I thought that was really cool."
Once Thayer learned of the job, he emailed his cover letter and the link to his STAA Talent Page. "The Talent Page was definitely good," says Thayer. "It make it really easy to get my information to the people who needed it quickly. It really helped the process, no doubt about it. Many thanks to STAA for providing the service. It really helped me in getting this job."
A graduate of Doane College in Nebraska, Thayer's career has taken him through Crete, Fairbury, Fort Morgan, Hastings and Grand Island. The only time he has left the Cornhusker state was for a yearlong stint in Holyoke, CO. For the past year, he has done a variety of freelance play-by-play while searching for his next full-time opportunity. He admits the job market was often frustrating.
"It can be very discouraging at times," Thayer says. "I was getting to the point where I was thinking maybe I should do something else for a while."
During his job search, Thayer kept busy with a variety of freelance play-by-play. It was enough to remind him that sports broadcasting is what he really wants to do. "Those freelance opportunities probably kept me from pursuing other career opportunities," he says.
Now, Thayer's newest opportunity is right in his own backyard.
"I've lived in Nebraska all but one year of my life. I get to stay in Nebraska and live in an area [of the state] I haven't lived yet," he grins.
(Visit John's STAA Talent Page).
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For most of us, the thought of washing someone's feet is repulsive unless it is someone we know really, really well and even then we are not very willing.
A few years ago, I served as the camp pastor at a youth camp at Ricks Institute, which is sixteen miles outside Monrovia, Liberia. We ended our time together with a foot washing. My son John and one of the camp counselors helped me wash the feet of the campers and the leaders.
It didn't take long before the clean well water turned the color of chocolate from the dust everyone collected from walking the dirt trails on the campus. Most of the students and the campers wore sandals or flip-flops.
It reminded me of the dirty job Jesus had washing the disciples' feet in the Upper Room the night he was betrayed. He assumed the role of a servant who typically did that foot washing task as people entered a room for a customary meal. But on that night, there was no servant and no one volunteered for the job.
The disciples were taken aback that Jesus would lower himself to do that job. Peter protested vehemently. But Jesus told Peter unless he washed his feet he could have not any part of his life.
After that, Peter was all in.
It's almost as difficult to allow someone to wash our feet as it is to wash someone's feet. We are proud. We are afraid of intimacy. We don't like people knowing that we might smell or be dirty. We don't like for people to know that we have issues. We don't like to admit that we have weaknesses. We don't like to acknowledge that we are not self-sufficient. We keep people at arm's length. Even Jesus.
So here we are. It's Maundy Thursday. Will you let Jesus serve you? Will you allow Jesus to reach out and touch your life because if you don't, how can you have your sins washed away?
It is the night that Jesus washed the feet of his disciples. It is the night that Jesus was betrayed. Within twenty-four hours Jesus would be hanging on a cross.
It is also the night that Jesus gave the disciples a New Commandment.
"As I have loved you, so you must love one another," John 13:34.
Jesus said that if we live like this, others will know that we are his disciples.
Tonight, many will receive the<|fim_middle|> night, give thanks that Jesus came to serve and not to be served. Thank God for the gift of Jesus who gave of His life on the cross for you, and me, and the world.
Secondly, contemplate what you are doing to wash the feet of others. It's a nasty, dirty job, sure. It can be unpleasant, I know. However, serving others is joyful and fulfilling. It is amazing to see God at work and even more amazing when God does something good through us, as flawed as we are.
Thirdly, be humble. Allow others to wash your feet. Submit yourself to those who are wise and skilled in helping you journey through this life. Share your burdens. Confess your sins to trusted people. Pray with others. Sunday is coming. Gather with a community and worship with the resurrected Lord. Amen. | Lord's Supper and reflect on this command of Jesus.
On this | 14 |
Benerib (auch Bener-ib) war gemäß Walter Bryan Emery die Tochter des altägyptischen Königs (Pharao) Narmer und die Gemahlin des Königs Aha während der 1. Dynastie.
Benerib ist vor allem auf Elfenbeinetiketten und Gefäßfragmenten aus dem Grab des Königs Aha in Abydos belegt. Ihr Name ist Gegenstand von Kontroversen, er wird oft auch als Imaib (auch Ima-ib) gelesen. Über ihre familiäre Position herrscht Unsicherheit, da ihrem Namen keinerlei Titulaturen beigefügt sind. Daher ist noch zu klären, ob sie nicht eher Narmers und Ahas Ehefrau oder auch nur Ahas Tochter war. Allgemein aber wird Benerib als Gemahlin von König Aha gef<|fim_middle|>) | ührt. Peter Kaplony liest den Namen als Ima(t)-ib und hält sie für eine Tochter des Aha.
Literatur
Joyce Tyldesley: Die Königinnen des Alten Ägypten. Von den frühen Dynastien bis zum Tod Kleopatras. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-7338-0358-2, S. 29.
Einzelnachweise
Königin (Ägypten)
Geboren im 4. oder 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.
Gestorben im 4. oder 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.
Frau
1. Dynastie (Ägypten | 168 |
Beaches was nice to be at for a while, and observe from a distance, but he wasn't going into the water unless he had to. Salt water specifically wasn't on his list of things he loved. Far from there, actually. In general though, water activities didn't hold his attention well. He could swim for a while, but he'd be bored real fast. It didn't have a whole lot of charm, and getting all wet only contributed to the activity being a hassle. Perhaps he just wasn't made to be a water person. Not that the fact even truly bothered him.
Regardless, it was absolutely clear that he had next to no intention of getting into the water, as he had remained dressed in casual clothes, resigning himself to simply watching any and all events unfold. Getting a good vantage point, he would seat himself on the edge of a fairly long sea dock that decorated the area they were at, enjoying the sea breeze while he was out there. Now that was much better than trying to become a fish and digging into the bottom of the ocean. Really, if he wanted to see underwater creatures so badly, he could just find some nice video someone else took, and still get a moderate level of satisfaction. He wasn't a marine biologist or such, that it would require him to get up close and personal with sea life on purpose.
Resting his elbows on his legs and his chin on one of his hands, he would stare down into the water, detecting a bit of splashing happening here and there. He would narrow his eyes at the odd disturbances, a little wary<|fim_middle|> glare at the culprit, his face now dripping wet. | . Honestly….if anybody decided it would be funny to drag him down into the vast waters under him, he was seriously going to make killing somebody a goal for today. He wouldn't even care if it turned the sea red with blood. He did not approve of shenanigans like that, and he was very willing to make his point clear….
….and yes, that included being generously splashed with said water as well.
Had it been physically possible, he'd definitely have a vein popping on his forehead as he proceeded to | 107 |
Balvant Parekh, chairman of Pidilite Industries, died on January 25, 2013, at the age of 88. His legacy: Single-handedly building Fevicol into a household brand through memorable advertising campaigns. In fact<|fim_middle|> on Carmichael Road, as Dhirubhai Ambani; the two Gujarati businessmen were said to be friends. But, unlike Ambani, Balvant, as he was known within the company, was never a workaholic. According to Madhukar, he is remembered as someone who took people along with him; guided rather than ordered them around. He was considered a father figure by his employees—hugely respected and always around when needed. People often bounced ideas off him to get a different perspective. His people skills only enhanced his business success. Last year, Forbes India had placed him 45th on its annual rich list rankings—his family's 70 percent stake in Pidilite totalled $1.36 billion. This year, Madhukar Parekh is 42nd on the rich list with a net worth of $1.52 billion. | , he redefined the concept of marketing a staid adhesive.
Parekh, who was born in the small town of Mahuva in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat, studied at Government Law College in Mumbai. But he did not practice law; he was more interested in business. He got his first major break while working for a firm that represented Hoechst in India. Later, in 1954, he finally set up shop with Parekh Dyechem Industries in Mumbai's Jacob Circle.
Pidilite was born later, in 1959, as an industrial chemicals company, as adhesives were sold unbranded at the time. According to son Madhukar, who took over Pidilite as managing director in 1992, the company's consumer-facing persona only started developing in the 1970s. It was then that the company made a tentative move towards advertising its adhesives under the Fevicol brand, he says, describing the journey as a two-stage process. The first was in the 1970s, when some ads were shown on Doordarshan. Also, the elephant symbol of the brand was created under the guidance of advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather (O&M). "These were basic steps; they were not innovative or path-breaking," says Madhukar.
The campaigns that Pidilite is now known for came into shape in the late 1980s; Piyush Pandey at O&M was instrumental in helping the company craft a sharper identity.
Not surprisingly, Fevicol eventually spawned dozens of me-toos. Always a believer in the power of advertising and innovative packaging, Parekh spent liberally on ad campaigns. It is a philosophy the company has stood by over the years, as it branched into brands like Fevikwik, Dr. Fixit and M-Seal.
Two decades ago, Parekh stepped aside from a day-to-day role and handed over charge to his son. It was a seamless transition as the company, which was listed in 1993, continued to expand rapidly and even went overseas. A total of 14 subsidiaries were set up with manufacturing plants in the US, Thailand and Singapore. In the last five years, Pidilite has seen sales double to Rs 3,442 crore. During the same period, net profit has more than trebled to Rs 460 crore.
Parekh once lived in the same apartment block, Usha Kiran | 526 |
What Makes a Good Book?
September 4, 2014 justinalcala 9 Comments
What makes a good book? Is it well-developed characters or a strong story arc? Is it a specific genre or a<|fim_middle|>leen Hoover, "All the Light We Can Not See" by Anthony Doerr, and "The Shoemaker's Wife" by Adriana Trigiani. All three books are titans in their genre, yet none of them are excessively intricate. Instead, they deal with human characters and the challenges they have, whether it's dealing with the devastation of World War II or multigenerational love. They are, for lack of better words, "human-books."
So the next time you're looking for a new paperback to take on your flight, or downloadable story to read during your lunch break, remember that no matter what reviews may say, no matter how many copies are sold, books are reflections of what makes us human. Think about what you'd like to get out of a story before making your selection. After all, it's what you are as a human that makes you like the great books that you do, not the other way around.
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liisur says:
WeaverGrace says:
"the author's ability to connect with the reader" That is what I aim for, and expect from other authors. That is much of what I appreciate about feedback from my readers: it verifies whether I met my goal.
"what you are as a human that makes you like the great books that you do" Great thought that moves me to ponder…
M-R says:
Speaking as a writer of a memoir singularly unsupported by my publishers, I heartily endorse this ! Many of the people who read my blog have come to my aid and read it because of my exhortations, and I've had not a single negative review.
But the reading world at large is never going to know about it, regardless of how much they might enjoy it, because the publishing company's marketing people had no faith in it – in spite of its being about what made me a person.
This is a thoughtful and considered post; and you're to be congratulated for it, Justin.
Thanks so much for the kinds words M-R. Much appreciated, and good luck in your writing career.
Oh, that's over. I had only the one story to tell, and I told it. 🙂
jannatwrites says:
As you noted, there are many things that make a good book. Relatable characters and interesting dialogue capture my interest, but a good plot keeps me reading way past my bedtime 🙂
ellenbest24 says:
The ability to share the madness in ones head, in such a way it makes readers feel. All the rest is luck. Good post thank you.
dmswriter says:
I agree with your thoughts, Justin. When I identify with the plot and the dilemma the characters face, I'm much more invested in the story. The quality of the characters makes a difference, too. When the character shares a higher moral code, I feel something different for them vs. a character that lives more "in the mud" of life. Both are important to advance a plot line.
Great point dmswriter- plot, dilemma and characters are a must. Everyone feels a need to provide a new, innovative plot hook, etc., but you need a strong foundation first.
Please come back with more great insight anytime. | certain writing style? Don't Google the question unless you're prepared to sort through hundreds of slapdash opinions. Everyone has an answer, and none of them are the same. But perhaps that's exactly what makes a good book? Maybe it's not poetic hyperboles, dramatic irony or well-placed flashbacks as much as the author's ability to connect with the reader as a whole- an ability to take them places through alluring and comprehensive thoughts.
"The Alchemist", by Portuguese author Paulo Coelho, is an international best seller that has been published in 56 different languages, with over 65 million copies sold. Its captivating plot is about a shepherd boy who experiences mysterious dreams that take him on a journey to fulfill a greater destiny. The story is simple and charming. The writing style is very humble, so humble that it is one of the most translatable novels of all time, and the characters are basic, but captivating. There is no complex storyline, no unexpected ending or hidden agenda. Yet, according to the AFP and Guinness Book of World Records, The Alchemist is one of the best selling books in history. But why?
It's easy to comprehend once you understand the author. Believe it or not, it took Paulo Coelho only two weeks to write the book in 1987, and as he explains it, it's because the story was already written in his soul.
"When you really want something to happen," he explains through an old king in the book, "the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true." This core value of the novel is something that all readers can relate to. It's something that nearly everyone understands and associates with. We all have hopes, dreams and destinies that we chase. Coelho just makes it relatable through a great story.
So why then do some readers put so much value in cerebral plots or structurally complex stories? Why do they like speculative metaphysics or multiple narrators and storylines? Well, that can be like asking why do people like certain colors or types of food? For some readers, it's the relationship that they build with the book. Larger, more complicated stories keep readers on their toes, creating a literature-romance that has them constantly thinking about where the story might go next. For others, its not so much a story they're into, but the addictive characters that they can revisit in books with thousands of pages and multiple sequels (I know that I'm not as worried about what magical creature Harry is chasing in "The Dresden Files " as much as what will happen to Michael, Murphy, Butters, and the slew of other side characters). Or perhaps, just like anything, some people just want a book that tailors to their lifestyle. Logical thinkers prefer intelligently written books, while dreamers enjoy stories that some might consider a bit unordinary.
Regardless what the reason, more than any other article I've read or theory that I can muster, there's one element that always seems to stand out in every great book. It's not its complexity, multifaceted worlds or innovative ideas. Then again, its not its straightforwardness or minimalism either. A great book, compared to an average one, knows how to connect with what makes readers human. Well-written settings and descriptions are a perfect compliment to a tale, but they can never take the place of identifiable plots and characters in a story.
According to the NY Times "Best Seller List," the top three books as of 2014 thus far are "Hopeless" by Col | 723 |
Training in palliative care is frequently requested by health care professionals. However, little is known in detail about the subject matters and the educational preferences of physicians and staff or assistant nurses in this field.
All 897 registered GPs and all 933 registered home care nurses in the district of Steiermark/Austria were sent postal questionnaires.
Results from 546 (30%) respondents revealed that GPs prefer evening courses and weekend seminars, whereas staff and assistant nurses prefer one-day courses. Multidisciplinary sessions are preferred by almost 80% of all professional groups. GPs preferred multi disciplinary groups most frequently when addressing psychosocial needs (88.8%) and ethical questions (85.8%). Staff and assistant nurses preferred multidisciplinary groups most frequently in the area of pain management (88%) and opted for multi disciplinary learning to a significantly higher extent than GPs (69%; p < 0.01). Those topics were ranked first which are not only deepening, but supplementing the professional training. On average, GPs were willing to spend a maximum amount of € 400 per year for training seminars in palliative care, whereas nurses would spend approximately € 190 for such classes.
The results provide a detailed analysis of the preferences of GPs and nurses and offer guidance for the organisation of training seminars in palliative care.
Medical and nursing education programs often pursue separate paths. Yet our findings indicate that in palliative care multidisciplinary training seminars are favoured by both, doctors and nurses. Also, both groups prefer topics that are not only deepening, but supplementing their professional knowledge.
For most European countries - except for the United Kingdom, where palliative medicine has been a medical speciality since 1987 , palliative care is a relatively new and developing medical speciality. In Austria, the hospice and palliative care movement emerged comparatively late in the early nineties of the last century, but now it shows a rapid development. In recent years, Austria has established a comprehensive palliative and hospice care service concept which is well integrated in the Austrian health care system. By implication, there is an increasing awareness on education and training in palliative care and a high need for undergraduate and postgraduate education and advanced training seminars for health care professionals. In addition, a fundamental training in palliative care should be integrated<|fim_middle|> we collected an amount of data. We decided to write two different papers both based on this large survey in order to present the results in a clear and manageable fashion. In our first publication we investigated if there is a correlation between factors like professional education, years of professional life, number of attended specialised training sessions on the one hand and the self assessment of competency and educational needs on the other hand and if there are significant differences between the different professional groups. In the present paper we want to offer some guidance for the concrete organisation of training seminars in palliative care.
GB participated in the study design, interpretation of data and drafted the manuscript. FM made substantial contributions to statistical analysis and helped draft the manuscript. PD made substantial contributions to the interpretation of the data and critically revised the manuscript. CX made substantial contributions to the interpretation of the data, she participated in drafting and revising the manuscript. AG participated in the study design, in the acquisition and interpretation of data and she contributed to the revision of the manuscript. BW performed statistical analysis, made substantial contributions to the interpretation of the data and to the revision of the manuscript. JB developed the idea and the design of the study, participated in the acquisition and interpretation of the data and in revising the manuscript. | in the education of all medical professionals [2, 3].
But education and training in palliative care still faces a number of significant difficulties. Although there have been considerable advances in pain management and symptom control, palliative care is under represented in medical education [4, 5]. General practitioners and community nurses still feel insufficiently trained when they start to work in the field of palliative care [6–8]. Palliative care is important in general practice because the final year of a patients' life is usually spent at home under the care of a general practitioner (GP) and a primary health care team [9–11]. Research indicated that training in symptom control, communication, counselling and bereavement support is frequently requested by GPs and nurses [12–14]. Numerous reports document inadequate knowledge and education of healthcare professionals in symptom management and other palliative care skills [15–18].
Although a gradual expansion of palliative care education for health care professionals has taken place over the last few years, recent reports have shown that even in countries with a long lasting 'palliative care tradition' like the UK, efforts to further improve the education of health care professionals in palliative care are still falling short. . The effectiveness of different methods of continuing professional education of GPs has been examined [20–22]. Research shows that traditional forms of education may not be effective in delivering positive changes in clinical behaviour; case-based education seems to be more effective [23–25]. To meet the interests and the needs of health care professionals in the field of primary palliative care, more information is needed on what kind of training in palliative care is required. Little is known in detail about the preferences of GPs and nurses regarding the specific design of training seminars in palliative care.
Against the background of the favourable development of palliative care in Austria we undertook this survey to identify the preferences of the GPs' and nurses' regarding the specific design of training seminars in palliative care. We wanted to gain a better insight into which educational topics, timeframe, location and group designs are likely to attract a majority of different professional groups. In addition, we are convinced that similar questions concerning the education in palliative care will arise in other countries in continental or eastern Europe which are currently working on the development of palliative and hospice care concepts.
Structured postal questionnaires were sent to all 897 registered GPs and to all 933 registered home care nurses in the district of Steiermark/Austria. Overall, 1830 questionnaires were sent out. After a waiting period of 3 weeks, the database was closed and we started the data entries and the analysis. The questionnaires were developed by drawing on literature research [7, 8, 26, 27]; they were pre-tested by GPs and nurses for face and content validity. Four-point Likert scales were used. In accordance with their job descriptions, questionnaires for GPs differed from those of the nurses. To collect information on the doctors' and nurses' preferences regarding the design of training seminars in palliative care, detailed questions were developed to gather more information on their preferred topics, time-frame, location, group design and own contribution to fees. Respondents also provided personal data and listed palliative care training sessions which they had attended in the last two years before the survey. A distinction was made between staff nurses and assistant nurses.
The comparison of frequencies was carried out by chi-square testing. Linear coherence was analysed by using the Spearman coefficient. To analyse differences between central tendencies, the Kruskal-Wallis-H-Test and Mann-Whitney-U-Test were used, which substituted parametric variance-analyses. P-values were corrected according to Bonferoni. The two-sided testing of hypotheses was carried out at a significance level of α = 0.05.
The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University Medical Center Freiburg.
The overall response rate to the questionnaire was 30% (546/1830), 25% of the GPs (228/897) and 34% (318/933) of the nursing staff members responded. The demographic characteristics of the respondents are shown in table 1.
When asked about their priority topics for training seminars in palliative care, the respondents ranked pain management first (mean rank 2.3). Detailed results about preferred seminar topics grouped by profession are depicted in figure 1.
Ranking of topics for training seminars in palliative care.
The respondents were asked to rank six different time-frames for training courses in palliative care (figure 2). General practitioners preferred evening courses and weekend courses, whereas nurses preferred afternoon and one-day courses. All groups ranked 7-day courses (Monday - Sunday) lowest.
Preferred time frames for training seminars in palliative care; Significance *: p < 0.01.
18.9% (102/539 respondents) agreed to pay all fees for training seminars completely by themselves, 63.8% (344 respondents) agreed to contribute partially and 17.3% (93 respondents) refused any cost sharing. Specified results of the three professional groups are shown in figure 3. The majority of respondents would be prepared to spend a maximum amount of € 750 for palliative care trainings per year. The analysis on the professional groups showed that the most favoured amount that GPs are willing to pay on average is about € 410, staff and assistant nurses would favour to spend an amount of approximately € 190 (significant difference: p < 0.01) for palliative care trainings per year. Neither the span of professional life nor the self-estimated educational need in palliative care influenced these results.
Training seminars in palliative care: readiness to contribute to fees; Significance *: p < 0.01.
Staff and assistant nurses were also asked about their willingness to attend training seminars during their leisure time. 52.7% of the staff nurses and 51.7% of the assistant nurses were disposed to do so.
89.7% of respondents agreed to take part in training seminars in their home region and 76.8% agreed to attend training seminars anywhere in the district. Statistically, there were no significant differences between the professional groups. 42.2% of all respondents agreed to attend seminars anywhere in their home country. 20.2% agreed to attend seminars abroad. General practitioners were significantly more often disposed to travel for seminars than nurses (p < 0.05).
Respondents were also asked if they preferred courses with members of their own occupational group only or whether they favoured multidisciplinary training courses. Overall assessment shows that multidisciplinary seminars are preferred by all professional groups irrespective of the topics.
Detailed analysis on the different topics is given in figure 4. GPs preferred multidisciplinary groups most frequently in addressing psychosocial needs (88.8%) and in ethical questions (85.8%). Staff and assistant nurses preferred multi disciplinary groups most frequently in the area of pain management and opted for multidisciplinary learning significantly more often than GPs (p < 0.01).
Preferred group design for seminars; Significance: *: p < 0.01.
Overall assessment showed that nearly 70% of all respondents had attended at least one training seminar in the last two years before the survey was conducted (Tab. 1). There was no statistically significant difference between the three occupational groups. Training courses in pain management were mostly attended. The analysis on the different professional groups and their years of professional life showed that no significant differences existed in the time spent in training seminars in palliative care.
Palliative care issues seem to be of increasing importance in the field of daily medical practice. The majority of the health professionals doing our survey had attended at least one training seminar on palliative care topics in the last two years before the survey was conducted (69%, cf. table 1).
Regarding the ranking of priority topics in palliative care, all professional groups considered pain management and symptom control to be of prime importance, whereas ethical questions was considered to be the least relevant (figure 1).
GPs chose addressing psychosocial needs of patients and their families as the subject of highest priority, whereas staff nurses and assistant nurses ranked pain management and symptom control to be the most important educational issue in palliative care. These results are quite interesting, insofar as GPs did not prefer typical medical topics, and staff or assistant nurses did not favour typical nursing topics. These findings are concordant with previous smaller studies. Wakefield et al. found that the management of symptoms was an area of concern for many Australian GPs whereas pain management and the management of patients' and carers' psychological distress were not . Trollor reported that Australian rural GPs felt competent to manage physical symptoms, but considered the psychological manifestations of palliative care very hard to cope with . These findings were corroborated in American family physicians . A Spanish study investigating the educational needs of primary health care professionals regarding the management of terminal cancer patients showed that doctors rated a training session in the area of emotional support higher than improving their handling of symptoms . On the other side, a questionnaire survey in the UK found that community nurses rated pain control education a major issue . These findings indicate the importance of choosing topics that are not only deepening, but supplementing professional education in advanced training sessions in palliative care.
In comparison to other fields in medicine, palliative medicine is a discipline which involves many emotional issues. In addition to physical difficulties, psychological, social and spiritual sufferings need to be assessed and treated. Although palliative care physicians are constantly dealing with sensitive and straining issues, surveys and self-ratings have highlighted deficiencies in end-of-life care in postgraduate medical training [31–33]. According to international reports [19, 34–39], doctors and nurses appear to be inadequately trained in the field of palliative care which poses a serious problem for several countries.
Regarding the planning of future training seminars, our findings indicate that block seminars are not favoured, particularly when they take place longer than one week (figure 2). One-day or afternoon courses are most preferred by nurses, whereas GPs prefer evening and weekend courses. This is concordant with the findings of a questionnaire survey by Samaroo who found that nurses preferred one day-courses for training seminars in palliative care, whereas GPs preferred half day courses .
GPs are willing to pay significantly higher amounts for their further education than other professional groups; e.g. they would pay the complete fees for training seminars. GPs were also significantly more often disposed to attend seminars abroad than staff or assistant nurses. This is probably due to the fact that the average income of GPs is higher. An additional explanation might be that still the nurses are mainly female and that possibly women still might be involved in family obligations to a higher extent than their male colleagues.
Concerning the design of the educational settings, GPs as well as nurses prefer multidisciplinary groups in training seminars for palliative care. A multidisciplinary approach and participants from different disciplines seem to be important; especially for the teaching of psychosocial and ethical topics because these are important to all professional groups. But about 75% of the nurses and two-thirds of the GPs favour multidisciplinary group designs even in seminars on issues which are quite group-specific, for example issues like symptom management for GPs or special palliative care techniques for nurses.
Concerning seminars on pain management, our results show that nurses favour significantly more often a multidisciplinary group design than GPs.
In reality, medical and nursing education programs still often pursue separate paths.
Inter-professional relationships may be difficult due to the different philosophic approaches of care and other constraints imposed by time and funding imperatives . Nevertheless, specialist palliative care depends particularly on effective multidisciplinary teamwork. Our findings indicate that in the field of palliative care multidisciplinary training seminars are favoured by both, doctors and nurses. Curriculum planners should be aware of these preferences.
Due to the cost of our survey, no reminder was sent and the questionnaire was comparatively long (Please find the translated questionnaires as additional file 1 and additional file 2). Consistent with literature [41–43] we suppose that these factors diminished the response rate and thus may have introduced a non-respondent bias. It is possible that the samples consist mainly of GPs and nurses with the greatest interest in palliative care. However, age, gender and the duration of the professional activity of the respondents in this survey are similar to that of the practicing GPs and nurses in Austria in 2003-2004 . Therefore, in spite of the low response rate, results might be judged as representative and permit inferences from the study sample to the whole population. Our survey, involving three different occupational groups, allows a detailed comparison of GPs, staff and assistant nurses and helps to plan future training seminars in palliative care. Results provide a detailed understanding of the needs and preferences and may help target goals for better organisation of training seminars in palliative care.
Training in palliative care is frequently requested by health professionals. Medical and nursing education programs often pursue separate paths, but our findings indicate that in palliative care multidisciplinary training seminars are favoured by both, doctors and nurses. Topics which are not deepening, but supplementing professional training are required and wished-for by GPs and nurses. One-day or afternoon courses are preferred by nurses, whereas GPs prefer evening or weekend courses. The maximum amount that health professionals are willing to pay for depends upon the profession: GPS would pay approxiamtely € 400 per year and nurses would pay € 190. A suggestion for further research is to conduct longitudinal follow-ups in which the long-term effect of health professionals who are properly trained in palliative care programs is evaluated.
We undertook this survey in order to get better insights how GPs' and nurses' themselves rate the competency and educational needs of their own professional group in palliative care and to target goals for training courses in palliative care. Therefore the questionnaire was comparatively long covering 16 different domains and asking a total of 76 items. Altogether 1830 persons were polled. In this way, | 2,976 |
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This book offers a new standpoint to understanding tolerance to human diversity by approaching it from the perspectives of cognitive, developmental and prosocial psychology. Emphasising the positive aspects of social perception and behaviour, it invites readers to re-consider 'tolerance' not simply as the opposite of prejudice, but as something that can in fact coexist with prejudice and intolerance. Drawing on original empirical research conducted with children, adolescents and young adults, the book maps the response | 163 |
Ringle employs familiar fairy tale tropes but turns them on their heads<|fim_middle|> answer to his whistle, a few notes on a pipe floated down from the trees. Then someone blew a raspberry from a hundred feet up, and someone else cackled.
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With not quite enough gold in his pocket, Kit Sylvain trudged through the underbrush, trampling salal and fern under his hiking boots. The sun had set, and the light was fading. Not that there had been much light to begin with. It was a Wednesday in early December, and here on the western side of Puget Sound, clouds generally socked everything in for the whole winter, and a good deal of fall and spring too. Tonight the sky hung pewter gray between the swaying fir branches high above, and on the forest floor the colors were washed out to a greenish black. Kit couldn't see the rising full moon what with the thick forest and all the clouds, but he knew it was there.
By now he didn't even bother with a flashlight. He knew where to go. He wouldn't recommend anyone else wander out here alone after dark, though.
He weaseled between close-growing trunks and stopped in a tiny clearing wedged in by six thick trees. Only dead fir needles lay under his feet here; no other plants could take the constant lack of sunlight. Except mushrooms, of course. Never any shortage of mushrooms.
Kit ran his hand through his hair and pulled the slim gold necklace from the pocket of his leather jacket. Another full moon, another offering.
He lifted his face toward the treetops and whistled a few notes of one of the tribe's songs. None were tunes you'd hear on the radio, though Kit would have sworn one of them had stolen riffs from a Bowie song. No surprise. Goblins stole stuff every chance they got.
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Everyone knows that if you venture around the world to the Galapagos Islands, that inhospitable little volcanic archipelago made famous by Charles Darwin, you're going to have extraordinary encounters with famously hospitable animals.
But what no one tells you is this: some of those animals actually met the great man. The astonishing notion emerged as my daughter Daisy and I sat next to a group of six giant tortoises.
As we watched them, with their strange antediluvian heads and vast shells buffed with age, and they watched us with their fierce little beady eyes, we contemplated Darwin's visit in 1835.
The then governor, an Englishman named Lawson, told him that he could tell which island a tortoise came from by the shape of its shell. It was one of the first pointers that put the young Darwin on the road to understanding the theory of evolution, via natural selection: over the millennia, for example, the saddlebacks' shells have curved upwards behind their heads, allowing their extended necks to reach vegetation from hanging branches.
They also live to an astonishing age. No one really seems to know exactly how old they can get - between 150 to 200 is a reasonable guess. Which means the chances were that one of these extraordinary creatures carefully eyeing us now over its midday meal did precisely the same with Darwin.
It's this kind of extraordinary thought that makes the Galapagos so magical, and that sets them so very far apart from your average holiday. I've wanted to go there since I was a teenager; the idea of these unspoilt islands, where animals know no fear of humans, had captured my imagination.
Of course, I wasn't sure you really could swim with sea lions, or walk over lazy iguanas, or watch blue-footed boobies dance from a distance of a couple of feet. Frankly, it all sounded a little too good to be true.
But now I was there, along with my favourite travelling companion, my 22-year-old daughter Daisy. And from the moment we first went ashore on a deserted Galapagos beach, it was clear that the rumours hadn't been exaggerated one bit.
Sea lions lay on rocks and on the sand, sleeping, playing, quite oblivious to our presence; sometimes we literally had to walk over them to negotiate a path.
Pups with umbilical cords still hanging from their tummies barked pitifully as they snuffled their mother's bellies in search of milk. While swimming, youngsters tumbled and swerved around us, heading straight at us, their cow-like eyes large and soulful, only to turn away at the last minute to demonstrate their superior diving skills. Penguins floated alongside in the sea while pelicans dived, hurtling downwards in search of dinner.
Ashore, what has to be the world's tamest bird of prey, the Galapagos hawk, perched contentedly on low branches. The boobies (think of a large white bird wearing sky blue Wellingtons and you might get an inkling of just how wonderful they are) engaged in their solemn mating ritual, stamping their fabulous feet at each other, while the male whistled and the female answered with a throaty honk.
Marine iguanas sprawled in undignified piles on the rocks. Like all reptiles, they are cold-blooded. To feed on the algae found in the sea, they need to absorb enough warmth from the sun to keep them going while they dive for food.
Daisy had been reading Darwin's Galapagos diary and, as we negotiated our way between long black tails and spiky heads, she told me that Darwin was so puzzled by their lack of fear that he repeatedly threw the same iguana back in the water every time it tried to land. He wanted to see if it would change its pattern; but it never stopped swimming straight back to him, refusing to find a different place to come ashore.
Darwin was forced to conclude that the reptiles were either very stupid or had absolutely no sense of fear from anything attached to the land. In water, mind, it's a different matter. Iguanas are a tasty snack for sharks and fun for mischievous sea lions, who grab their tails as they're about to come ashore and yank them back to sea.
The Galapagos Islands, which lie 570 miles west of Ecuador out in the Pacific, were declared a national park in 1959. Only four of them are inhabited and the only hotels to be found are in the two small towns. Most visitors live on one of the 84 licensed tourist boats, by far the best way to see the islands. But first you have to get to one of them.
I say but - you can make the business quite a straightforward one; sadly we didn't, because we flew to Ecuador via Miami. This may sound innocuous, but it is a horror. Since 9/11, no one 'transits' America.
You have to go through customs, give fingerprints and eyeball identification, enter the airport proper and then start all over again at yet another check-in desk. Then it's more searches and more queues until you're finally back on board. Madness.
What we should have done is fly first to Madrid and then directly to Quito, Ecuador's capital. We stayed in Quito for two nights and did a one-day tour of the city, visiting splendid churches and the equator, where you can stand with one foot in each hemisphere.
Then we flew for three hours out into the Pacific, and to our boat, the Xpedition, a luxurious small cruise ship<|fim_middle|> a bit of flirting. When trying to attract a lady, males fling back their heads, gulp several mouthfuls of air and emit a weird and wonderful sort of honk.
Here, the single male was making moves on the two attached females. The flirt honked and was sharply pushed into the sea by the first male. He scrambled back, waddled over to the other female and honked some more. He was pushed in again, and so it went on for a full 30 minutes.
Finally, he scrambled back on the rock, his little flipper-like wings hanging tiredly at his side; he seemed to admit defeat. The first male then waddled behind his 'lady' and wrapped his flippers round her, beating them lightly against her tummy. It was enough to make you cry.
Travelfacts Celebrity Cruises operates the Celebrity Xpeditions ship on an 11-night fly/cruise to the Galapagos Islands from Quito, Ecuador. Prices start at £3,079 per person and include flights from the UK, two nights in Quito, seven nights on board, all shore excursions and a last night in Quito. 0800 018 2927, www.celebritycruises.co.uk. | which carries up to 90 passengers. In Galapagos terms, this means very large: most boats take only 10 to 16 people, but there were, as we found, advantages to being on board a bigger ship.
Cabins (rather pompously referred to as 'staterooms') were small but there was plenty of space for our gear. The hot water was endless, there was an extremely efficient same-day laundry service and the maids popped in and out clearing things up every time we went out. All the rooms had TVs; fun to slouch in front of after a hard morning's hike, but not a patch on the stunning, and endlessly interesting, real-life movie unfolding outside.
Daisy and I were cruise virgins in every sense of the word. We were bemused to find, for instance, that the overwhelmingly American clientele seemed to cruise as their primary form of travelling. On the first day we boarded, an American woman expressed surprise that we had chosen such a 'rough one' as our first experience. I looked around at our sumptuous surroundings and wondered what on earth she was talking about.
Even after a week, I still didn't know - unless you count the sometimes slightly tricky landings that we made every day from one of the ship's fleet of Zodiac boats that took us ashore to commune with the animals.
Having been on safaris to Africa together, Daisy and I found the rhythm of the days familiar: up at seven, ready to depart the ship by eight. Snorkelling and walking, return to the ship, lunch and lazy time while we sailed to another location, then a final expedition in the late afternoon.
Dinner, which consisted of five courses, started at 8pm. Places were allocated on the first night and we were seated with the non-American, non-Spanish speaking contingent: Lynn, a teacher, and Paul, a wind power electrician, from Cumbria, and two delightful Italians who spoke absolutely no English at all.
They were clearly besotted by each other and spent every mealtime snuggled up, alternating bites of food with cuddles.
Lynn and Paul were, like Daisy and I, completely fascinated by the wild life. But the same couldn't be said for everyone on board, and it puzzled us. Why would anyone go all that way, and spend all that money, only to stay glued to the latest Harry Potter for the week?
After dinner, the variety of human life on board came into its own. Daisy and I chummed up with two delightful American families, with children of Daisy's age.
The three bars on board served non-stop free drinks and cocktails and the Jacuzzi on the top deck gurgled away until the small hours - a fabulous place for sipping a drink and watching the stars slide by under the equatorial sky. On a couple of nights, I lay on a sun lounger while a guide pointed out the stars with the aid of a laser beam. There on the equator, floating amid the total blackness of the night at sea, the stars really do come down to the horizon.
Poised as we were on the cusp of the northern and southern hemisphere, the Southern Cross was partially visible above the horizon, while in the other direction the North Star was hidden below the level of the ocean. As the boat moved languorously with the swell of the waves, it seemed as though the dome of the densely starry sky was leaning down towards us.
There was a range of night-time entertainments on the ship, such as traditional dancing and panpipe concerts - including a slightly off-key rendition of the House of the Rising Sun and the ever popular El Condor Pasa.
But we found the best way to extend the hours of wildlife watching was to sit on the deck observing wily pelicans using the ship's floodlights for successful nocturnal fishing, while shoals of flying fish shimmered past. Most thrillingly, one night a group of six foot white-tipped reef sharks circled the boat hoping for a midnight feast of their own. During the day, local fishermen sailed out to the boat to offer us their catch. Cooks would descend to the rear of the boat and inspect the still flip-flopping creatures, which usually appeared on the lunchtime barbecue.
Personally, I found the emphasis on endless eating a bit overwhelming: meals lasted for hours. Most people on board - veteran cruisers - always seemed to appear in new outfits with carefully applied make-up. Daisy and I felt woefully inadequate in the fashion stakes.
Still, the animals didn't seem to mind. More than 80 per cent of the land-based creatures on the Galapagos are unique to the islands; and many are unique to a particular island - the Waved Albatross, a fantastic bird with enormous wing span, only breeds on one. And it is this singularity of lifestyle that has made the Galapagos the world's best living museum of evolution.
It also means a little knowledge of the process is necessary to get maximum enjoyment out of a visit; which is why your guide (and it's law that everyone must have a guide to go ashore at all) becomes so important.
Until Darwin arrived on the islands in 1835, the general belief was that the world and everything in it was created by God in a single divine act. Darwin realised that the animals in the Galapagos, which had arrived from South America via vegetation rafts, or flight, were all different from their mainland ancestors. More importantly, he realised they differed from island to island.
When he studied the 13 varieties of island finches, all with subtly different beaks adapted to the particular needs of their terrain, he realised they had descended from a common ancestor, but changed over time to take advantage of their surroundings.
As he later explained, an animal born with a variation which helps it flourish is more likely to survive and breed. Everything in our world today, he argued, results from this process. Even now, there are those who still argue for the creationist view of the world and according to Jason, chief naturalist on the Xpedition, it makes for a lively trip when one is on board. But there was no argument about the wonders of the wildlife.
Galapagos waters can support a truly amazing range of both cold water and tropical fish, one of which, the multi-coloured parrot fish, ingests shells as it eats. The remains are excreted as the finest, whitest sand you will find on Earth.
The day we landed on Bachas Beach in the north of Santa Cruz island, our eyes were literally dazzled by its shimmering whiteness, suspended between the streaked blues and turquoises of the sea and the pale green of the low lying mangrove swamps which run inland from the sand. Some 30ft from the water's edge, Carinna, our fun, well-informed Ecuadorian guide, pointed out the deep depressions left by the female green turtles after laying their eggs.
Up to 80 at a time are laid in a smaller hatching chamber at the bottom and then left to incubate for about 60 days. Then it's every baby for itself as they make the most perilous journey of their lives from the nest down to the sea, prey to the waiting ghost crabs, frigate birds, hawks, and, once in the water, the open jaws of a passing shark.
Only the blackness of night protects them: for every 80 eggs laid, only three turtles will survive. They had left deep tracks, rather like small tractor marks, in the sand. It's impossible not to think how hard it must be for them to labour through the soft, fine sand, and there is something very moving about these giant creatures' efforts.
Just inland from the nests, we sat down beside a brackish pond to watch a flamingo fishing. They're not born with pink feathers: these result from their diet of tiny, shocking pink marine prawns.
As we sat there in the sunshine, a marine iguana came swimming by through the shallow water, running aground in the sand before he reached the bank beside us.
Like a truck stuck in mud, he revved backwards and forwards, kicking up clouds of sand and only succeeding in burying himself deeper. Just as Daisy and I were beginning to wonder if he needed a hand, he turned to one side and came ashore with ease.
The following day, snorkelling at Tagus cove off Isabela Island, Daisy suddenly pointed downwards. There was a great, green turtle a few feet below us, gently nibbling soft seaweeds on a rock. We followed it for 20 minutes as it moved slowly and gracefully through the water. At times, it was so close we could have reached out to stroke its shell.
Later that day, while Daisy went for a walk to the top of Isabela Island to catch one of the Galapagos' most famous views, I boarded a Zodiac to search for penguins. Galapagos penguins are the smallest of the breed: they don't need a fatty layer to keep warm.
They also left me with my most endearing memory: a group of two females and three males having what seemed to be a spot of domestic bother on a rock at the water's edge.
Penguins mate for life, but they're not above | 1,934 |
He was drifting alone among the stars.
Or the anger holding ground in his heart.
His roots were tangled in my own.
Away from the girl I'd left behind.
Could you be my ghost?
Could you let me know?
Could you let me go without a fight this time?
I will wither away to nothing in your light.
Could you leave me in your memory tonight?
Spinning back towards familiar shores.
Lonely nights turned into deep regret.
Without a voice to carry in the wind.
Words left to muddle into lines.
Will you be my ghost?
Will you let me try to find myself this time?
Or just fade away to nothing in the light.
Will you leave me in your memories tonight?
But mine had long since shattered in your charge.
Pages from a book I'd left behind.
When there's nothing left to<|fim_middle|> Jin-Hee. | say to make it right.
I will weather every storm you leave behind.
And I will leave you as a memory tonight.
I hope you don't regret those memories tonight.
© 2018 Cheryn Jin-Hee Couter. All rights reserved.
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Community Garden Transformations
Since 1979, GrowNYC's Gardens program has helped build 100 new community gardens, and rebuild and support countless more! Here are some of our best garden transformations!
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100 Gardens - Remembering Kevin Shank
Kevin C. Shank in the Miracle Garden on the Lower East side, Manhattan, 1987.
The AIDS Memorial quilt for Kevin Shank displayed in Washington, D.C.
A well-traveled plantsman with an extensive background in horticulture, Kevin C. Shank left his mark on the NYC community gardening scene. He served as GrowNYC's Gardens Director from 1985-88, and was Vice Chairman of the Green Guerillas, with a heroic dedication towards revitalizing NYC through community gardening. After graduating from SUNY Delhi and Cornell University, Kevin was the Founding Horticulturist at the Pinkerton Garden for the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club in Manhattan. This intergenerational community garden included a state<|fim_middle|> to the 100 community gardens GrowNYC has built from the ground up, we've also lent our support to hundreds more.
To celebrate this milestone, we will be sharing photos and stories from GrowNYC gardening history every week until the 100th garden opening in October!
Though we have built 100 community gardens since 1975, 43 of those gardens have been built since 2013, thanks in part to a growing recognition of their importance for the health of NYC residents like you!
This story is far from over and WE NEED YOUR HELP TO KEEP THIS INCREDIBLE MOMENTUM GOING!!
Please keep NYC healthy and green by contributing to GrowNYC's New Garden Fund at http://www.grownyc.org/100-gardens.
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NY Times covers GrowNYC S. Bronx Garden
The New York Times recently profiled several Bronx community gardeners as part of an article about immigrant gardeners and their influence on the increasing number of community gardens being built across the City.
The Bronx gardeners profiled are all from United We Stand Community Garden, a garden GrowNYC rebuilt in 2016.
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Greenmarket Summer Resolutions
Making New Year's resolutions is a relatively easy thing to do; keeping them, on the other hand, is not always a piece of cake (especially when you resolved to give up cake). If you're a little chagrined by your follow-through this year, fret not. You get another chance!
At GrowNYC, we believe in Summer Resolutions. There's so much inspiration to be found at the Greenmarkets in the dog days of summer. Here are a few of our favorite Summer Resolutions:
New Market Adventure: Visit a Greenmarket you've never been to before. There are 51 of them throughout NYC. You may just find your favorite new farmer!
Take a Chance: Try a new (to you!) vegetable. Maybe it's a tomatillo, a pattypan squash, or epazote—just something new. You could also experiment with a local grain from the GrowNYC Grainstand that you've never cooked with before. (Related hot tip: keep an eye out for naked barley).
Gear Up for Winter: Connect with your inner squirrel and prepare for winter. All those beautiful fruits and vegetables at market now can be enjoyed year-round…with a little planning. Here are some tips for freezing, jamming, and pickling.
Many Greenmarket farmers welcome visitors for wine tastings, apple picking, and tours - head out of town to visit them.
Fertilizing Fervor: With more and more compost drop-off sites popping up all around the city, now's the perfect time to make good on that vow to start composing. It's like nature's way of recycling, and it feels great.
This list could go on and on--Cook more fish! Make it Locally-Sourced Fish! Consistently Pack a Lunch!--but we've got just over 60 days of summer left. We hope you enjoy it!
Read more about Greenmarket Summer Resolutions | -of-the-art greenhouse and a rigorous after-school program for inner-city kids. After this, Kevin moved on to the Group Live-In Experience Farms, which was the talk of the town in the late 80s in NYC. Growing and packaging fresh herbs for high-end restaurants in a state-of-the-art greenhouses in the South Bronx was unheard of then. Kevin went on to put his expert plantsmanship to good use in his final days as Senior Horticulturist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, on the Upper West Side. He will be forever remembered as one of the great contributors to the NYC community gardening community.
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100 Gardens - Marian Heiskell, GrowNYC's "Living Landmark"
Marian S. Heiskell (center holding bouquet), along with parents, students, and representatives of the Salvation Army, GrowNYC and the Midtown West School.
Marian S. Heiskell Garden, 315 West 48th Street, completed in 1997.
It's been almost 50 years since Marian Heiskell accepted Mayor Lindsay's nomination to become Chair of GrowNYC! A forward-thinking conservationist who didn't believe "urban environment" was an oxymoron but an opportunity, she worked tirelessly to convince fellow New Yorkers of the same. Since that time, Marian has made countless efforts to preserve New York's green space, earning the honor of the title "Living Landmark" and a park named after her! Today she serves as Honorary Chairman on the board of GrowNYC.
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100 Gardens - Thank you to Richard Abrons
Richard Abrons, Liz Christy, and former Mayor Ed Koch (holding a zucchini) at a Plant-A-Lot Garden opening in the early 1981.
Richard Abrons has been one of GrowNYC's gardens' greatest supporters.
In 1978, Richard and Liz Christy founded Plant-A-Lot (PAL), a material and technical resource for underserved neighborhoods where volunteers devoted years of sweat equity to convert vacant lots into community gardens. Richard and Liz partnered on 17 projects before Liz passed away in 1989.
PAL is active today and leveraged millions of dollars of private funding for many of the community gardens and park playgrounds known as Lots-for-Tots throughout the five boroughs. A New York City treasure, Richard is a generous philanthropist, serves on the board of GrowNYC, and is also an author and playwright! Thank you, Richard!
This fall GrowNYC will build its 100th community garden. To celebrate, we are sharing stories from GrowNYC gardening history! We are so honored to have Liz Christy as part of our story.
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Announcing the Third Annual JetBlue BlueBud Mentoring Program
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JetBlue is partnering with GrowNYC for the selection process to connect with food and beverage businesses focused on sustainable sourcing and social responsibility. The company selected for this year's BlueBud mentoring program will participate in a mentorship initiative that includes:
Access to JetBlue teams including Strategic Sourcing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Communications and Marketing, Brand and Onboard Product
A trip to JetBlue's orientation in Orlando to understand JetBlue's culture and values
A speaker and taste-testing event opportunity for JetBlue crewmembers at the airline's Queens, NY Support Center
Travel certificates for travel to and from New York City for sessions with relevant JetBlue leaders and business partners
A tour of JetBlue's Long Island City, NY Support Center, JetBlue's home terminal – T5 at JFK Airport, and an airline catering station to understand how food gets onboard
Applications are now open: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/bluebud2017
Previous winners were The Bronx Hot Sauce and Hot Bread Kitchen. Full information on the opportunity can be found on the JetBlue website: http://www.mediaroom.jetblue.com/investor-relations/press-releases/2017/07-27-2017-201536570
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100 Gardens - Celebrating Liz Christy
This week, we are highlighting the amazing contributions of Liz Christy. Liz Christy was a fierce advocate for neighborhood revitalization through community gardening her entire life. She founded the Gardens program at GrowNYC (formerly the Council on the Environment), where she worked from 1975-1984.
In addition to her work at GrowNYC, Liz founded the Green Guerillas in the 1970s, an urban community garden group that fought urban decay head on by planting seeds anywhere possible - vacant lots, street meridians, abandoned buildings. She helped create the Bowery-Houston Community Farm and Garden (since renamed the Liz Christy Garden) and many other community gardens, and was the first winner of the American Forestry Association's Urban Forestry Award. Liz came to be known as NYC's "Mother of Gardens."
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Greenmarket Holiday Schedule - Labor Day Weekend & High Holidays
Saturday Greenmarkets: ALL OPEN
Sunday Greenmarkets: ALL OPEN
Labor Day: Union Square Greenmarket OPEN (Food Scrap Collections: YES / Clothing Collections: NONE)
High Holiday Market Schedule Changes
Thursday, September 21 (Rosh Hashanah): The South Williamsburg and Boro Park Greenmarkets will be rescheduled for Tuesday, September 19
Thursday, October 5 (Sukkot): The South Williamsburg and Boro Park Greenmarkets will be rescheduled for Tuesday, October 3
Thursday, October 12 (Shemini Atzeret): The South Williamsburg and Boro Park Greenmarkets will be rescheduled for Tuesday, October 10
All other Greenmarkets will be open on their regularly scheduled day.
Find out details about each market at Our Markets.
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Help Us Celebrate 100 Gardens!
All People's Garden, 1979 Governors Island Teaching Garden, 2017
We are thrilled to announce that this fall GrowNYC will build our 100th new community garden!
We opened our first garden, All People's Garden, in the East Village in 1979. It takes a village: over the years we've worked with community residents, neighborhood associations, corporate volunteers, community partners, and city agencies. In addition | 1,421 |
<|fim_middle|>7e eeuw | Jacobus Lassonius of Jacob Lasson of Jacob van der Heyden (Antwerpen, 2e helft 16e eeuw - Delft, begin 17e eeuw) was een classicus.
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Lassonius ontvluchtte Antwerpen, Spaanse Nederlanden, op het eind van de 16e eeuw omwille van zijn lidmaatschap van de Nederduits Gereformeerde kerk. Hij was klassiek opgeleid en schreef vlot Latijn. Van 1592 tot 1594 was hij rector van de Latijnse school in Harderwijk. In 1594 verhuisde Lassonius naar Leiden, met als doel rector te worden van de Latijnse school aldaar. De curator van de Latijnse school, Everhard Bronchorst, verhinderde evenwel deze aanstelling. Lassonius bleef in Leiden wonen en kocht een grote woning aan de Hooglandse Kerkgracht. Van de woning met negen haardsteden maakte hij een studentenhuis. Het studentenhuis droeg de naam In Graeckenlandt. De latere jurist Hugo de Groot, zelf ook een classicus, was een van zijn studenten in Leiden.
In 1596 verhuisde Lassonius naar Delft, waar hij tot rector benoemd was van de Latijnse school. Dit bleef Lassonius tot zijn dood. Hij correspondeerde met rectoren van de Latijnse school in Amsterdam en Den Haag. In Delft hertrouwde hij op 25 februari 1601.
Van hem zijn twee brieven, in het Latijn en deels in het Grieks, bewaard gebleven gericht aan de rechtsgeleerde Hugo de Groot (1615, 1621).
Zuid-Nederlands classicus (voor 1830)
Neolatijns schrijver
Nederlands onderwijsbestuurder
Persoon in de Nederlanden in de 16e eeuw
Persoon in de Nederlanden in de 1 | 506 |
The line-ups were back outside Maple Leaf Gardens yesterday. I arrived at 7:15am for the Loblaws grand opening, shocked to be greeted by a cue of people winding from Church Street back towards Yonge. Loblaws employees were handing out muffins and tea and media were huddled outside the entrance waiting to witness the reveal of what one photographer referred to as an "airport-size" grocery store.
For nostalgia's sake, here is centre ice (check out the funky orange grocery carts, might help the sadness melt away). At least canned tuna is puck sized.
I don't know if it's cool or uncool to like this store. But, I liked it. I would like shopping here–it's a grocery store, has all the same products you expect (from detergent to Cambpell's soup) but caters to foodies without the price tag of Whole Foods. So, certain products are more luxurious…..look at the dried mushrooms on offer (the fresh mushrooms were also amazing).
Realistically many of the shoppers here will be Ryerson students who can still find KD, diet coke and Mr. Noodle. And maybe pick up a caramel cupcake at the cupcake wall (they're big on the food walls here<|fim_middle|> It looked droolingly delicious.
Living in the east end, I'll probably be sticking to my hood for the groceries but with a large parking lot beneath the store I might just head over from time to time to stroll the aisles. There's a Joe Fresh and LCBO upstairs too. Eat, dress, drink.
No word yet if you can bring in a hockey stick for a quick face-off with some canned salmon. | ). I should mention they make their own donuts in the bakery. Apparently the recipe began at Zehrs and word is they are pretty good for dunkin'.
Another nice touch is the ability to pay for items in each section of the store. You can buy a juice at the juice bar, pay for your cheese at the cheese counter. Makes shopping more efficient and if you forget an item (and I always forget an item) you don't have to go back through checkout at the front of the store.
The aisles are wide–here's a shot of the produce department from the upstairs kitchen (where all the "to go" food is prepared daily. The chef told us that their goal -though they do work with Second Harvest–is to only make as much food as they will sell in a day.) There is a butcher and fishmonger off to the left.
In a first impression I tweeted that the space was like a loft– it's open, industrial, when you walk in they've kept part of the original wall from the Gardens. There's a sculpture made from the chairs in the original stadium in the shape of a Maple Leaf. But— let's get to that cheese wall.
Pretty impressive, right? I kind of imagined it more open–like maybe I could actually climb it, finding toeholds amongst wedges of Gruyere and Comte. But, this will do.
What is actually most impressive (and I hope this is kept up) is the quality of the cheese. In the display case across from "the wall" were many soft and semi-soft cheese, all looking very ripe but the rinds still intact and in great shape. This is tricky at a large retailer when often you have to prepackage this type of cheese in unbreathable saran wrap.
The cheese department here will cut cheese on demand. You can still reach into the fridges (those are sliding doors in the picture) and quickly grab a pre-cut piece of Mimolette (yes, they have Mimolette. SCORE!) or cheddar. But you can also turn around and have wedges cut smaller or request a taste.
On opening day Gurth Purdy (the cheese buyer and passionate supporter of artisinal cheese) and his team were cracking full parmesan wheels in the traditional way. Check out this short demo from Whole Foods. Quite an art.
They also are the exclusive Ontario carrier of a soft washed-rind, raw milk, Quebec cheese called Pied-de-Vent. it used to be snuck into the province years ago but was not federally licensed. | 529 |
Today was my big shopping day for the week and I got a few nice deals at Kroger. One of the best deals was on Kroger cheese. They have 8-ounce packages on sale for $1.25 each with a limit of eight packages. I bought eight of them for $10.00. But, I also had two store coupons; one for 70¢ off 2 packages of Kroger cheese and another one for 50¢ off a $2.00 cheese purchase. That brought the price per package down to $1.11 each. I'm pretty sure that the regular price is about $2.59.
They also had 12-ounce packages of different kinds of Kroger brand frozen fish on sale for 20% off. The Swai fillets were $2.39 on sale and I had a store coupon for $1.00 any Kroger frozen fish. Not bad for $1.39 after the coupon.
I needed some dill pickle relish and they were out of the kind I usually buy at Walmart today. But, Kroger's store brand was on sale for $1.00 per jar. The regular price is $1.19. This week they have 30-ounce jars of Hellmann's mayonnaise on sale for $2.99 and I had a dollar off coupon. $1.99 is a very good price for Hellmann's and was even cheaper than the Kroger brand mayo.
The best deal of the day was on Reynold's baking cups which I use when I make my Basic Almond Flour Muffins. Those are usually 75¢ per package but they were on sale this week for 65¢. I had a coupon for $1.00 off so I got them FREE. You sure can't beat free, can you?
I got a nice deal on some marked down ground beef this morning at a local store called Food Town. They had large packages priced at $1.29lb so I bought about 12 pounds. I divided half of it in six 1-pound<|fim_middle|> frozen pizzas, cookies, tortillas, flour and Bisquick. And, of course, our other food will go farther when we've only got the two of us to feed instead of three. Mind you, it's no hardship having our son living with us. He's a good kid. Besides paying us room and board, he's also been paying our cable TV bill all these years. I won't miss that much after he's gone but I think that Jerry will. I've got so many other things to do with my time that TV isn't a high priority for me.
Please let me know what you think of my new blog and also tell me if there's anything in particular that you'd like me to write about. | portions and froze them to use in recipes. The rest I browned with some seasonings and onion. I'll freeze it in plastic storage containers and thaw them as needed. I like to have ground beef for breakfast and one container will feed me for about four or five days.
For tonight's dinner I microwaved some Trader Joe's frozen Brussels sprouts that I bought a while back to go with some broiled tilapia. This is the first time I've used their frozen ones and they're very good. You get a 16 ounce bag for $1.19, which I think is a very reasonable price. I do recommend cooking them less than the time suggested on the label. It says to microwave them on HIGH for 5-6 minutes but 3-4 minutes was more than enough. They would have been overcooked had I done them as directed. I served them with browned butter.
I did my weekly grocery shopping today and Kroger had a few good deals this week. If you spend at least $10, you can get 18 large eggs for $1.50. They also have their butter for $1.99 per pound and 16 ounce bags or chunks of their store brand cheese for $2.99. I stocked up on butter, got two cartons of the eggs and a bag of shredded mozzarella.
Also, while I was at Walmart today, I noticed that they have small packets of xanthan gum near the gluten free products. It's Hodgson Mill brand and you get .32 ounces (9 grams) for 48¢. I haven't calculated it to see if that's a good deal compared to buying the large bags of Bob's Red Mill or not but it's very handy, and cheap, for those who won't use it all that often.
It seems like I've been eating a lot of hamburger lately but I'm not complaining because I do like hamburger. Yesterday all three of my meals contained ground beef in some form. I had some of the Cheesy Burger Bake for my breakfast, I finished off the last of the Italian Casserole for lunch and for dinner I cooked burgers for the whole family. I ate mine bun-less, of course, topped with American cheese, chopped onion and tomato, mustard, homemade low carb ketchup, dill pickle relish and mayonnaise. Yum!
Today I've had hamburger again, twice. I had the Cheesy Burger Bake for breakfast, topped with salsa this time, and we went to a local burger place for lunch. They have excellent half pound burgers at JAX. Mine was bun-less again, topped with sautéed onions, mushrooms and cheese. I don't know yet what I'll eat later tonight but I think I'll take a break from ground beef, LOL.
Well, here I am. I thought I'd just go ahead and post something today and see how it goes, this blogging thing. I hope you won't find this boring, reading about my cooking and shopping lists and all the hum-drum of my day-to-day low carb life. I'm not sure if I'll post something every day but I will pop in whenever I've got something to write about.
I baked a ham and cheese quiche this morning. Even though my husband isn't really eating low carb, he likes having some kind of quiche for his breakfasts. Quiches are handy because for half an hour's work, you get a few days worth of breakfasts all ready to reheat in the morning. For the quiche I made today, I basically followed this recipe: Ham & Swiss Cheese Quiche. Walmart has lately had packages of about a pound and a half of honey-baked ham scraps for a very good price. I split the package into three portions and freeze them to use in this quiche. I add 8 ounces of cheddar cheese, or whatever cheese I have on hand, usually 4 eggs and 1/2 cup of heavy cream. For extra flavor, I add a squeeze of Dijon mustard. Jerry says this is his favorite quiche so I make it every couple of weeks.
I also cooked up a package of poblano cheddar sausage links that I found marked down at HEB (a local grocery chain). They'd been in the freezer for quite some time and it was about time to use them. The label said there were 3 carbs per link but they must be from the chiles and the cheese because there was no sugar added.
I've been enjoying the leftovers of the Italian Casserole that I made on Thursday. There are still two or three servings left and it's one of my favorites. I was planning to make Spinach Lasagna but realized that I'd forgotten to buy the spinach earlier in the week. Oops! In any case, both casseroles are favorites so I wasn't disappointed.
This morning I had an unexpected experience with a carton of heavy cream, also from HEB. The carton hadn't been opened yet and it's the kind that has a little pour spout on the side of it and you need to pull out a plastic plug before using it the first time. Imagine my surprise when I started to tug on the pull tab and the whole spout came out in my hand. First thing tomorrow morning I will call HEB and let them know about the problem. Luckily I still had the empty carton that I'd just finished off and poured the new cream into it. I couldn't very well store the cream in a carton with a gaping hole in the side of it.
Earlier today I compiled a quick list of food items, and a few other things, that I won't have to spend my grocery money on once our son moves out. Milk and cold cereal are probably my biggest expenses every week. I stock up on dry cereal whenever I see a good sale on it. Luckily, my son doesn't mind eating the store brands because those are often on sale for the best price. Some other things that I won't need to buy anymore are orange juice, ice cream, chips, bread, pasta, rice, soda, | 1,261 |
Carriera
Giocatore
Club
Cresciuto nella Coneglianese, nel 1968 approdò al , che dopo due stagioni lo cedette in prestito al Verbania in Serie C.
Ritornato nella squadra lombarda dopo solo un anno, fece il suo esordio in Serie A nella stagione 1971-1972,il 24 ottobre del 1971 conquistando presto il posto in prima squadra.
Rimase titolare per altre quattro stagioni riconquistando la Serie A nel 1974-1975. Nel 1972-1973 costituì coppia difensiva con Claudio Gentile.
Nel 1975-1976 venne acquistato dal Bologna, dove collezionò 37 presenze in campionato nell'arco di tre stagioni.
Da Bologna si trasferì al , senza mai giocarvi, e da lì passò in Serie C nel per concludere la carriera nelle serie minori.
Nazionale
Ha preso parte a una gara con la nazionale Under-21 contro i pari età della Jugoslavia, ad Ascoli Piceno il 23 febbraio 1972, conclusasi con la vittoria degli ospiti per 2-1.
Dopo il ritiro
Conclusa la carriera di calciatore, e laureatosi in farmacia, è divenuto tit<|fim_middle|>4
Bibliografia
Davide Rota, Dizionario illustrato dei giocatori genoani, De Ferrari, 2008.
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni | olare di una farmacia a Longare, un comune della provincia di Vicenza.
Palmarès
Club
Varese: 1973-197 | 37 |
NOTS move into a whole new level of potency on their upcoming Cruel Friend / Violence 7″ due out on Goner later this month. "Violence" creepy crawls without guitars<|fim_middle|> Charlotte Watson beating drums, and Meredith Lones steering a solid path through the chaos on bass, NOTS are neither content with the smug "stare at your shoes" approach of bands from both coasts, nor an Earth-hugging "we need to get back to nature" hippie copout. | in a synthier, stealthier attack. "Cruel Friend" combines excellent riffage with near-Hawkwind levels of linear soarage and soak from the synths, with Natalie Hoffmann's dominating presence on vocals intact. NOTS deal in speed, aggression and slow-motion menace.
NOTS are still a wild guitar band, but above and below the guitar, bass and drum pound, Alexandra Eastburn's analog synth blurps melodies and nonsense, teasing squiggles of freedom which defy the false grid of modern life. With Hoffmann on guitar and vocals, Eastburn on synth, | 120 |
"Believe in the best version of yourself"
... if<|fim_middle|> and great grandmother all excelled in handiwork - embroidery, knitting, crocheting, quiltmaking, weaving, tatting and lacemaking. My mother's gift to me was the love of working with my hands. And today, I'm still compelled by it." Judy's parents displayed an unflinching lifelong tradition of volunteerism and philanthropy - principles she reverently puts into practice because of their example.
True success requires a sixth sense. | we could ALL do just that, what an incredible world it would be!
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Georgia Power places CA01 module at Unit 3 expansion site
by Power News Wire Reports | Tuesday, Aug 11, 201<|fim_middle|> are expected to have an electrical output of 1,100 megawatts each. With the project's completion, the facility will become the leading nuclear generation facility in the U.S. capable of producing enough power for approximately 1 million businesses and residences, the company said.
Southern Nuclear is overseeing the construction of the new reactor units and will be tasked with their operation once completed. Georgia Power will own 45.7 percent of the new units with the remaining ownership falling under the Oglethorpe Power Corp., Dalton Utilities and the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia.
Georgia Power recently completed multiple transmission upgrades and installations at the site in preparation to connect the new units to Georgia's power grid.
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The Vogtle Unit 3 Module is moved into place. | Courtesy of Georgia Power
Georgia Power recently placed the CA01 module for Unit 3 into place at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Waynesboro, Georgia as part of an expansion project.
The CA01 module was the project's heaviest lift to date, weighing in at approximately 1,140 tons. It measures 70 feet in height and 80 feet wide.
The Vogtle expansion project includes the addition of two nuclear reactors. Currently the plant has two reactors in operation. The new reactors | 129 |
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35th Annual New Music Guild Festival, May 24<|fim_middle|>ia Orchestra, Woodstock Mozart Festival, and Illinois Chamber Symphony. Ecuadorian composer Eduardo Florencia's Fantasia Para orquesta de cuerdas, Op. 39 will receive its American premiere by the Festival Chamber Orchestra at the Friday night Gala. It is a charming piece containing folk music elements.
Cleveland Composers Guild member Ryan Charles Ramer's Cat & Mouse for string orchestra will receive its string orchestra version premiere by the Orchestra. YSU Professor Emeritus, Robert Rollin's Eli Ata, A Chassidic Song, an original contrapuntal setting, will have its world premiere.
There will be catered receptions after each free evening concert in honor of Thomas Osuga, Galo Arboleda Solorzano, and Dan Fackler.
New Music Guild Inc, Board Meeting
7:00 p.m. Monday, May 20th, 2019
We'll assemble in Sts. Peter and Paul basement 7:00 p.m. Monday, May
20th for our final meeting of the year in preparation for the 35th Festival, May 24-25,
2019. I'll provide refreshments:)
Give to the NMS
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Follow @dananewmusic | -25, 2019, with Dana Alumni Pianist Thomas Osuga, & Ecuadorian Violinist Galo Arboleda Solorzano
On Friday, May 24th Osuga and Arboleda will kick off the 35th annual Festival by playing three School Children's Concerts. At 10:00 a.m. they will perform at St. Joseph the Provider School in Brier Hill; and at 1:00 p.m. they will visit Holy Family School in Poland. The third school concert will be announced.
Osuga has delighted area school children with his inventive and imaginative programs for the past six years and frequently plays children's concerts in metropolitan New York. Arboleda has his own arrangements of Ecuadorian folk music to share with the students. They will also play music by Japanese and American composers and pieces from the virtuoso violin and piano literature.
They will highlight the Festival Gala at Sts. Peter & Paul Church, Holy Apostles Parish, on Friday evening, and play a duo recital on Saturday night at Jefferson Congregational Church in Jefferson, Ohio, both at 7:00p.m. Admission is free.
Thomas Osuga has been a respected teacher on the Piano Preparatory Department Faculty at New York's Mannes College of Music since 1994. He performs new works on concerts in major New York venues. He maintains a large private piano studio in upper Manhattan. This year he is also directing musical performances at Hunter Elementary, a school for gifted children. His facility at the piano is legendary.
Kent State graduate, Galo Arboleda Solorzano is no stranger to Youngstown. Last year the Festival Chamber Orchestra premiered his Adagietto for Strings, a beautiful slow, lyrical piece. He has played in the orchestra for several years. He has performed the Sibelius and Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos with the Stow Ohio Orchestra, and appeared as soloist in tandem with renowned violinist Schlomo Mince on the Bach Double Concerto with the National Symphony in Quito, Ecuador. He often pays solo recitals in Quito.
Arboleda has composed a new piece entitled Elegy for French Horn and Strings for the Festival Chamber Orchestra. Dan Fackler will be soloist. Fackler has served as horn with the Woody Hermann Thundering Horde in the group's Silver Anniversary Tour and with other popular groups. He also was Principal Horn of the Elgin and Elmhurst Symphonies, New Philharmon | 530 |
Due to the early releasing of Ocarina of Time 3D in Australia, as we pointed out earlier in this article, Nintendo has cancelled the Ocarina of Time<|fim_middle|> Legend of Zelda – Ocarina of Time 3D launches 30th June only on the Nintendo 3DS.
I personally think that it isn't fair that here in America, we got some awesome parties like our own Trevor was able to attend. It also certainly isn't fair that they cancelled a party that was already scheduled and made official. However, Nintendo is correct with their decision, as it isn't necessary for them to throw a party for something that people already have. Even though this is fair and probably the most correct path to take, Nintendo should still throw a party for their fanbase in Australia anyway. If it weren't for GameTraders, there would still be plenty of reason for Nintendo of Australia to throw the party, as Australia always gets things much later than Nintendo and Europe.
So, what do you think about Nintendo's decision? Would you have continued the party, or would you have saved the money to spend on other things? Do you think that GameTraders is partially to blame, or do you think that there were other types of unforseen circumstances? Let us know in the comments! | 3D release party that was to take place in Swanston Street. As the game was released by GameTraders earlier than Nintendo had planned, many people had bought their copies of Ocarina of Time 3D as soon as they could, and as a result, Nintendo felt no need to continue the plans for a launch party. Well, at least what everyone thinks is the reason for the cancellation. Nintendo released an official statement that stated that it was cancelled for "unforeseen circumstances." Head inside for Nintendo's Official Statement and some of my own comments.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. We hope you all enjoy The Legend of Zelda – Ocarina of Time 3D in breathtaking glasses free 3D.
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By: Glenna Thomson
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Greer O'Reilly needs to start over<|fim_middle|>. Margie is prickly and demanding, with bitter memories of the past. When Margie needs help recovering from a major operation, she reluctantly returns to the family farm, where for decades, until Stella's arrival, she was the one in charge. But the two women gradually form an unlikely bond, as the ambitions, secrets, and tragedies that have shaped their lives are slowly uncovered....
By Annabelle on 22-08-2019 | . Her partner of 12 years has left her, and she's moved to a blueberry orchard in the Victorian hills. When she and daughter Sophie arrive to take possession, the former owner, 81-year-old jazz lover Charlie Chandler, refuses to move out. Dying and desperate to spend his last days in his old home, the unlikely pair soon form a close bond - one that will offer the strength and inspiration Greer needs.
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Stella & Margie
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CranioSacral Therapies for Babies | CranioSacral Methods Soothe Babies' Colic, Sleeplessness, and More
by Eva Norlyk Herriott
Craniosacral therapy suits the delicate physiology of babies, offering relief for such problems as colic and nursing difficulties, and helping with learning disabilities.
The baby had been crying day and night for more than four weeks. His Amish mother was beside herself, having tried everything to comfort her newborn child—but nothing seemed to make a difference. Finally, some friends suggested that she call on chiropractor Dr. Deborah Peters to get a cranial treatment for the baby.
"When I checked him, I immediately observed that his cervical vertebrae C1 and C2 were shifted far to the left. I had never felt anything quite like it," recalls Dr. Peters. "Most chiropractors would have adjusted this chiropractically, but with small babies, that can be a risky procedure. I had had great results using cranial therapy in similar situations, and it is a safer and gentler approach."
So, for the entire duration of the treatment, Dr. Peters simply sat holding the baby's head and neck, using intention and gentle touch to facilitate the realignment of the vertebrae. After the treatment, he was about 50 percent better, and when Dr. Peters returned for his second treatment after four days, the mother reported that he already was sleeping better and crying less.
"Some time during that second treatment, I finally felt the C1 and C2 slip back into place," Dr. Peters recalls. "When I returned a week later, he had completely stopped crying and was no longer fussy. Ever since then, he has been a normal, happy baby."
Deborah Peters, DC, first became fascinated by cranial therapies shortly after she graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic West and started her own practice in Palo Alto, California. In working with her patients, she became aware that often a subtly targeted touch could affect more profound and lasting change than traditional spinal manipulation.
"In chiropractic school, we mainly focused on treating subluxations, or lack of mobility, in the spine," Dr. Peters says. "But in my experience, spinal adjustments often are not enough. You have to be able to unwind the distortional patterns in the membranes of the cranium and other bony structures. These are often involved in causing vertebral subluxations in the first place. Unless you get at this underlying imbalance you may not get permanent results."
To find a way to work with these distortional patterns, Dr. Peters began studying craniosacral therapy through Dr. John Upledger's Institute and continued studying with several doctors through the years. In 1992, she moved to Iowa and opened a clinic in Fairfield.
An Amish Synergy
Her work with the Amish began when two Amish women sought her out for treatments, and then invited her to come treat their family and<|fim_middle|> evidence of respiratory or circulatory difficulty. The study was performed by Viola M. Frymann, DO, founder of the Osteopathic Center for Children (OCC) in San Diego and a lifelong leader in the use of cranial osteopathy for infants and children
"There is no way to overstate the importance of this work for babies," Dr. Peters notes. "The more I do this work, the more I am amazed at how transformative it is. Babies suffer needlessly. I have seen extremely fussy babies become peaceful and happy in a very short period of time. If we don't address the structural issues that are creating problems in infancy, children will suffer needlessly into adulthood. The more I practice, the more I see how Cranial Methods can help prevent a whole lifetime of pain and discomfort."
For more information about Dr. Deborah Peters' work, see www.CranialMethods.com or call (641) 680-7474.
Eva Norlyk Herriott, Ph.D., is a massage and yoga therapist in Southeast Iowa. Visit her website: www.YogaforaHealthyBack.com.
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Eva Norlyk Herriott April 30, 2008 | friends at their home in Bloomfield. That became the beginning of a decade-long relationship with the Amish communities. Since 2002, Dr. Peters has spent two days a week in Bloomfield and Kalona, where she sees her Amish patients in their homes, and two days a week in her Fairfield practice.
"The Amish culture is much more oriented towards natural methods of healing," Dr. Peters observes. "When something is wrong, most Amish turn to healing practices like chiropractic, osteopathy, cranial work, herbs, essential oils, and other types of natural remedies. So the interest in cranial work was natural for them."
As her reputation among the Amish grew, so did her patient base. Dr. Peters is called on when newborns and infants are experiencing difficulties. Over the years, she has done thousands of baby treatments for conditions such as colic, difficulty nursing, ear infections, not sleeping through the night, and learning difficulties.
Freeing the Breath of Life
The two great traditions of manual therapy, Chiropractic and Osteopathy, both had their first home in the Midwest, inexplicably founded within five years and within a hundred miles of each other. Palmer College of Chiropractic was founded in Davenport in 1897 by David D. Palmer, a magnetic healer who practiced in Burlington and Davenport. Just five years earlier, in 1892, Andrew Taylor Still, M.D., had founded his American School of Osteopathy (now the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine) in Kirksville, Missouri.
Both Palmer and Still believed that structure and function are interrelated. Structural imbalances restrict the flow of blood and nerve impulses through the body, thereby disrupting normal bodily functions and potentially giving rise to numerous types of disease. They held that once structural health is restored, the body's own self-healing abilities will remove dysfunctional patterns, as structural impediments to the flow of blood and nervous impulses are removed.
Like Palmer, Still viewed the bones (osteo, hence the term "osteopathy") as the key to restoring structural balance. The two, however, differed in the approaches they developed to restore structural integrity. Chiropractic techniques focus on manipulating bones to remove spinal subluxations. Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment, on the other hand, primarily focuses on releasing restrictions in the soft tissues, including muscles, tendons, and connective tissue, in order to facilitate greater structural integration of the bones.
The cranial concept was introduced to the osteopathic profession in the 1930s by William Sutherland, a student of Still's, after more than 30 years of study and practice. Sutherland was the first to note that the cranial sutures of the skull were mobile and not fixed in place, as was commonly believed at the time. He discovered that the cranial bones move in a subtle rhythm, which involves not just the skull, but a network of tissues and fluids at the core of the body. He described a distinct cyclic "breathing" movement caused by the pulsing of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), a clear fluid around and inside the brain, which offers mechanical protection for the brain inside the skull. This subtle pulsing of the CSF involves not only the cranial bones, but the membranes that surround the brain and the central nervous system through the entire length of the spine down to the sacrum.
Dr. Sutherland viewed this rhythmic motion of the central nervous system as a "primary respiratory mechanism," an expression of the body's inherent intelligence, which pervades every cell of the body and influences all bodily functions. Like Still and Palmer, Sutherland viewed restrictions to flow as a main cause of dis-ease; his great contribution was the discovery that these restrictions extend not just to the flow of blood and nerve impulses, but also to the subtle flow of this primary "breath of life," as he termed it.
Any kind of structural trauma to the body, such as falls, accidents, general nervous tension—and in babies, birth trauma—can restrict the flow of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and cause physiological dysfunction. During a cranial treatment, the practitioner facilitates the release of these restrictions. As the movement of the CSF is freed up, the body's self-healing mechanisms are able to unwind residual effects of past trauma in the tissues and restore functional balance to the system.
While cranial osteopathy initially was taught only as part of the osteopathic training, the training was made more broadly available in the 1980s by osteopathic physician John E. Upledger, DO. A student of Sutherland's, Upledger had developed his own approach to cranial work, and he generated the term CranioSacral therapy when he started to teach his work to students who were not osteopaths, including massage therapists and physical therapists.
"Every practitioner who uses manual therapy develops his or her own emphases along the way," says Dr. Peters. She calls her integrated method Cranial Methods, and she also teaches practitioners of many types all over the country.
"Babies Suffer Needlessly"
Cranial therapy is an extremely gentle and soothing therapy. During the treatment, the therapist places his or her hands very lightly on the client's body, quietly tuning in to the cranial rhythm. An extremely light pressure—oftentimes communicated as merely an intention—is then used to free restrictions or tension patterns in the cranial structures or the flow of the cerebrospinal fluid. Cranial therapy has been used with great results in treating chronic neck and back pain, migraines, TMJ syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, stress, and tension-related problems.
In babies, cranial therapy has proven particularly useful for treating colic, autism, nursing difficulties, learning disabilities, emotional difficulties, and more. Babies are exposed to a great deal of trauma during the birth process; and while many babies recover fully on their own, some exhibit lasting distortional patterns in the craniosacral mechanism. In a 1966 study of 1,250 infants five days old or less, only 145, or 11.6 percent, were whole and healthy structurally and functionally. The rest, or 89.4 percent, exhibited some type of structural strain pattern in the craniosacral mechanism. At the time of the study, one third of the babies with disturbances in the craniosacral flow already exhibited various symptoms of irritation to the central nervous system or | 1,345 |
This is the blog post I was hoping to find four years ago. This is the blog post where I share with you how to do your laundry in an apartment when you don't have hookups.
Once upon a time, we lived in an apartment without laundry hookups and were determined to use cloth diapers. Since we didn't want to lug around a basket of stinky diapers around to the laundromat, or sit there with an infant for hours on end, we got creative.
First, we got a laundry pod. This thing looks like a giant salad spinner, fits about 3 diapers at a time, but it does work pretty well. Of course, this process takes pretty much all day if you have more than 3 things to wash. We hung them to dry on folding dryer racks. I usually did laundry every night to keep up with the cloth diaper demand. I did get a pretty good arm workout in, though.
After a few months of hand cranking my child's cloth diapers, I decided we needed a different option. I did hours of research. Surely, someone had to have come up with a solution, right?
This portable washing machine became my new favorite appliance. At 2.5 cubit feet of space, it was big enough to fit our queen comforter, but small enough that I was able to maneuver it around with ease. It also had standard hookup capability, so we were able to use the same machine when we moved to a place with actual washer hookups. We did diapers in what felt like a flash, and hung them to dry. We bought more dryer racks because we could now do all our own laundry in our home. It was so exciting!
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As you might imagine, it is less expensive to purchase a portable washer and portable dryer than a standard set. The savings are especially high when you consider the time, effort, and money spent per load doing laundry at a laundromat. I love that our portable washer and dryer allowed us to do laundry and continue on with our lives, without the need to go back and forth to a laundromat/apartment laundry center or try to entertain little people for hours on end while doing laundry.
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Last Friday, Carmelo Anthony responded to the news about the Alton Sterling and Philando Castile shootings by posting a strongly worded message on his web site and Instagram. He talked at length about why he believes more athletes need to "step up" and address important social issues rather than shying away from doing it because of their endorsement deals.
In three weeks I'll travel to Rio with the United States' Olympic team to perform on a global stage. I haven't spoken with my team-mates yet about the opportunity before us and how we can take advantage of it, because at the end of the day, I want it to be genuine. If you don't feel like you want to make a statement or make a stand, then don't do it. You shouldn't feel forced to do it. You have to want to do that. For me, I do feel like this is a platform where we should—we as athletes, we as Americans—use it for something. Whether we make a statement out there or send a message, we can show the world that we're united. Whatever way we want to do it, this is a chance to do something meaningful before an audience of billions. I don't know what that something is yet, but we still have time to figure it out.
We all know our history, especially when it comes to sports and activism. We know Ali. We know Jim Brown. We know Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. But over the years as athletes started making more money, they started thinking: I don't want people to talk bad about me for talking politics. But this is not really about politics. There's nothing political about taking a stand and speaking on what you believe in. The teams and the support systems around athletes urge them to stay away from politics, stay away from religion, stay away from this,<|fim_middle|> just got to put all of that aside and be a human being. That time is now.
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In the United States, an idea cannot be patented. In order to qualify for a patent, you must have a product model or very detailed drawing. The patent process can be complicated and expensive, depending on what you are trying to patent. You likely will find it worth the cost to hire a patent attorney, who can make sure the patent paperwork is filled out correctly and your product idea is well protected.
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How fatalities at Santa Anita are changing racing
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As the Kentucky Derby approaches on May 4th, the most talked about issue in horse racing is not who will win the prestigious race. Rather, it's what's been happening at Santa Anita. Twenty-three race horses have died at the Santa Anita racetrack since the end of December 2018, mostly due to injuries from racing or training. The track closed for most of March while a task force looked into the issue, but with no definitive answer, the resulting discussions have brought into public discussion a full host of the issues that plague horse racing in the US. The problems outlined range from the track surface, to the drugs used by trainers, to over training. The overall picture is not a pretty one for the future of racing.
Today, let's look at what for me, is the most immediately obvious problem: the track surface. Since these breakdowns have been happening at Santa Anita, and not across the country, it makes sense to me that there's something wrong with the track itself.
The controversy over track surfaces has spanned decades. Dirt tracks are consistent, but hard. The Equine Injury Database shows that over the last decade, their catastrophic injury rate has averaged 64% greater than that of synthetic tracks.
During the 2006-07 Santa Anita meeting, the last dirt surface before Santa Anita converted to a synthetic surface, there were 12 racing and 10 training fatalities on the main track.
So, in 2006, the California Racing Board spearheaded a movement to rip up traditional dirt tracks and replace them with synthetic compounds, which, in theory had more cushioning. When a horse's foot hits the ground, it needs to slide forward a little to help dissipate the force of impact. The caveat is, too much cushioning or slide can result in soft-tissue injuries such as tendon and ligament damage.
Polytrack surfaces sounded good in principal, but in practice, they worked better at tracks where the weather was consistently cool, such as Golden Gate Fields. At Santa Anita, where surface temperatures rose above 100 degrees on hot days, there were drainage problems and clouds of particulates were stirred up. Whether it was the polytrack or the drainage that caused the problems is up for debate, but Santa Anita decided to change back to dirt in 2011.
In March 2011, seven horses died on the Santa Anita track. The track had recently been upgraded to a surface which initially consisted of 86% sand, 8% clay, and 6% silt. Ultimately, it was deemed difficult to work with because it was "inconsistent".
Investigators test the track surface at Santa Anita. Measures will include utilizing an Orono Biomechanical Surface Tester, a device that mimics the impacts of a horse running at full gallop, allowing engineers to see how the track holds up. Thetest results will be evaluated to ensure track consistency and uniformity for both training and racing.
In 2014, the surface of the Santa Anita track was redone with "El Segundo" sand, which is coveted for its uniformity . . . but which is also considered to be a good "drought resistant" surface. That's fine until California had one of the wettest winters in memory. Sealing the track repeatedly may help when it's wet, but once the rain is over, the track can be left too hard, so that even after the track is harrowed, the footing still clumps. Some people also belive that the top layer of sand has filtered down further and when the track is harrowed, it doesn't touch the harder, thicker base at the bottom. The result? The surface is may not be<|fim_middle|> Healing is Happening Here
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Some people don't believe it's the surface at all, but blame the breakdowns on trainers' overreliance on drugs. More on that tomorrow.
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2 thoughts on "How fatalities at Santa Anita are changing racing"
DawnSeeker / DawnHoof says:
The fatalities at Santa Anita have brought up more horse questions from non-horse people that I've heard since Barbaro died. Good analysis here. Dawn
Liz Goldsmith says:
I think that the problems at Santa Anita will go a long way toward helping to clean up racing — especially when it comes to race day drugs. But I've always wondered about the impact of different track surfaces on breakdowns and Santa Anita has tried so many of them! What I don't understand are the people who say it can't be the track. If it were only Lasix, for example, then it would be happening all over the country.
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A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has hit near the South Island resort town of Wanaka, with one resident saying it seemed to "go and go and go".
The quake hit at 2.29pm and was centred 30km north-west of Wanaka, in the Matukituki Valley, at a depth of just 5km, GeoNet said.
Within minutes of the quake hundreds of people across the country had left messages on GeoNet indicating they had felt the jolt.
Former Wellington man Kieren Drabble said the quake was "a goody".
"It's certainly one of the biggest I can remember," he said.
"It wasn't really sharp, just very, very rolly. It just seemed to go and go and go."
Mr Drabble sheltered in a doorway during the quake and had just started moving away when an aftershock hit.
Mr Drabble and his family moved to Wanaka from Wellington only a few months ago, and the irony of a quake hitting there did not escape him.
"I moved out of Wellington to get away from earthquakes," Mr Drabble said.
@ebryantnz We felt it here in #Oamaru! Can't imagine what it must've been like in Wanaka!
A police spokesperson said there had been no major reported damage, although a few windows had been broken.
Wanaka Four Square manager Cam Sinclair said everyone in the store got a fright, and there were wine bottles and shelves in the store.
"Kept rocking for about 40-off seconds I suppose, or a bit longer, and then knocked stuff off the shelves," Mr Sinclair said.
"Everyone evacuated the premises. Most of the other buildings in the nearby block, everyone had evacuated as well.
"It just gave everyone a hell of a fright, I think."
Children at Hawea Flat School, just a few kilometres from the epicentre of the quake, dived under their tables when the shaking started.
School administrator Leanne Harling said she was struck by how noisy it was.
"Well I'm in an office with metal filing systems and, even though they're attached to the wall, the noise because they were shaking was pretty loud," she said.
"It felt like it went on for about a minute. We've got big trees in the school grounds and there was no wind at the time so it was really weird seeing them swaying."
The earthquake was particularly upsetting for two children who had moved to the area following the Christchurch earthquakes, Ms Harling said.
Aspiring Holiday Park receptionist Lauren Roney said the only damage was to a picture frame, which fell down.
However, her guests had been left rattled.
"Some people staying with us have not been in an earthquake before so they came running down to see what was going on as it was still<|fim_middle|> lucky". | rumbling," she said.
"But everyone's safe and okay and some are a bit shocked."
Ms Roney said it was the biggest quake she had felt in her 18 years' living in Wanaka.
Wanaka resident Jocelyn Toomey said she was at home up a ladder painting when the quake struck.
"It felt like a big rumble and a rolling movement, and it went on for quite a while," she said.
"The lights are on pendulums and they were swinging quite dramatically.
"Nothing fell down but you could feel it inside you and it was rolling, and then it calmed down and then it went again, it was like there was another one."
Glenis Palmer was at work in a jewellery shop when the quake hit.
"We felt the building shake and it sounded like someone had dropped something upstairs."
Jess Harkins said the quake was a "roller" in Arrowtown.
"The mountains sounded like a freight train," she said.
Ally, who lives 17km from Wanaka, said the quake rattled through the valley.
"We were standing outside and heard this kind of train kind of sound, or maybe a big lorry, and it just got louder and louder and louder and came down the valley," she said.
"Really violent shuddering and shaking. It seemed to go on forever but probably only a minute."
Wanaka District Councillor Calum MacLeod said the rock-and-rolly quake started with an audible crack and sounded like a freight train.
The quake was the biggest in the area for six or eight years but did not do any damage to his wooden house or to the town's cinema, where there were bottles of wine on racks, he said.
The quake was also felt in Timaru and Greymouth, where it was "real gentle but quite a long shake".
"I kept wondering if it was going to be the big one," Maryanne said.
Wanaka community board chairperson Rachel Brown said the town felt like they had a lucky escape after the quake.
She was in Wanaka's Mitre 10 store car park when the quake struck and for the first few seconds she thought someone was pranking her by jumping on her bumper bar.
Ms Brown said people then poured out of the hardware store, but there seemed to have been little damage.
When she went to pick her children up shortly after from the Hawea Flats School she said there were more parents than usual and a kind of "this could have been bad but it wasn't" euphoria in the air.
She said the quake made her think of the situation in Nepal, but said in the end "the mountains hiccupped and we're all very | 553 |
<|fim_middle|>idago Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Excelsior Wilderness Study Area, Fish Slough Wilderness Study Area, Granite Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Hoover Wilderness, John Muir Wilderness, Volcanic Tablelands Wilderness Study Area, Walford Springs Wilderness Study Area, Wheeler Ridge Wilderness Study Area, Yosemite Wilderness. | Zone X9a regulates hunting opportunities for deer in California and covers 1,949 square miles. Public lands comprise 1,821 square miles (94%) of the total land covered by this hunt zone. The greater region is best serviced by Conway Summit. The elevation of the region ranges from a low of 3,400 feet to a high of 13,600 feet above sea level. Wildfires have burned nearly 9,048 acres here in the last two years, providing opportunities for new vegetation and attracting a variety of wildlife. There are 40 trailheads that provide public gateways to these forested and wilderness areas: Inyo National Forest, Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area, Toiyabe National Forest, Ansel Adams Wilderness, Benton Range Wilderness Study Area, Casa Diablo Wilderness Study Area, Ch | 178 |
Legendary Saints announcer Jerry Romig dies
Legendary Saints announcer Jerry Romig dies Legendary Saints announcer Jerry Romig dies Check out this story on dailyworld.com: https://on.wwlt<|fim_middle|>better known as Jay) is administrative director for the Saints, and is one of the organization's longest-tenured employees.
In 2004, Romig joined Peter A. Mayer Advertising and Public Relations as senior counsel, and remained active as a public relations person and program host for various clients and causes.
In July 2013, Jerry Romig was honored by the Press Club of New Orleans with a special award recognizing his 50 years of service to the club, which he served as president in the 1960s and one of the founders of the Gridiron Show annual fundraiser and satirical review. He was also inducted into the New Orleans Broadcasting Hall of Fame by the Greater New Orleans Broadcasters Association. In 2009, Romig received the Joe Gemelli Fleur De Lis award from the Saints Hall of Fame, an award given to a person who has contributed to the betterment of the New Orleans Saints organization.
Romig and his wife of nearly 60 years, Janice, lost their Lakeview home in the post-Katrina flood. They were the parents of 7 children; and had 11 grandchildren. Romig and his wife also served as foster parents for nearly two dozen children, as far back as 1964.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, Dec. 26 at St. Agnes Catholic Church, 3310 Jefferson Highway. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. followed by a funeral Mass at noon. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Goodwill Industries, Brother Martin High School or St. Mary's Dominican High School. | v.com/1OoYe7x
Dominic Massa / WWL-TV Published 8:51 p.m. CT Dec. 23, 2015 | Updated 11:18 a.m. CT Dec. 24, 2015
Jerry Romig, the pioneering broadcaster, civic booster and public relations executive best known as voice of the New Orleans Saints as public address announcer for an incredible 44 seasons.(Photo: New Orleans Saints)
NEW ORLEANS -- Jerry Romig, the pioneering broadcaster, civic booster and public relations executive best known as voice of the New Orleans Saints as public address announcer for an incredible 44 seasons, has died. He was 86.
His son Mark confirmed the news to WWL-TV Wednesday night. "There were three loves in his life - Jan, his wife; his seven children and the Saints," Mark Romig said.
Romig had been in failing health for some months, and cited health concerns, including injuries suffered in a fall at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, as one reason for his retirement in August 2013 from his post as Saints stadium announcer. Romig's son Mark replaced him in the position.
"It's been fun. Good night, I love you," were Romig's last words as he shut off his microphone for the last time in August 2013. That ended a stint with the Saints that began with the team's third season in 1969, when games were played at Tulane Stadium. He continued in the position for 445 games, proudly never missing a matchup, even during the post-Hurricane Katrina season when the Saints played in Baton Rouge and San Antonio, where he traveled each week.
In a statement Wednesday, team spokesman Greg Bensel said owner Tom Benson and his wife Gayle offered their condolences to the Romig family. "Jerry Romig was a part of our team, part of our family. One of my favorite days was putting a Super Bowl ring on his finger."
When Romig retired, Benson said in a statement that the longtime announcer's voice was "embedded in our game experience." Romig's voice – including the memorable lines "First down, Saints!" and "It's good!" - accompanied more than four decades of memorable moments inside the Superdome throughout Saints history – from losing seasons to shining moments. Three of Romig's favorites involved Tom Dempsey's record-setting kick, Steve Gleason's blocked punt, and Garrett Hartley's kick sending the team to their first and only Super Bowl.
"It has been such a great honor. I have been honored by the leadership of this community, the Superdome and the Saints organization to be the voice of the Superdome," said Romig when he retired. "I've enjoyed every moment – there have been some great moments. I'm a fan and I like to keep that in mind all the time. I've been blessed - somebody has been watching over me for along to have kept me in front of that microphone for such a long time."
To honor Romig, the Saints and Superdome renamed the house control booth inside the facility, where Romig called 44 seasons' worth of games, the "Jerry Romig House Control Booth." The team also presented Romig with a Super Bowl XLIV ring during the Saints' 2013 home opener against the Atlanta Falcons.
In addition to his son Mark, two of Romig's children worked alongside him for his 44 years as Saints announcer, including daughter Mary Beth and son Jay, who served as his spotter and play-clock operator, respectively.
Romig began his career as a public address announcer when he was hired by Tulane University in 1968 to work Green Wave games. He replaced Jack Dolan, who called the first season for the Saints. A year later, former Saints general manager Vic Schwenk hired Romig to replace Buddy Diliberto as stadium announcer. In addition to Saints games, Romig announced four Super Bowl games in New Orleans, as well as countless Sugar Bowls, Bayou Classics, Tulane and high school football games.
The Holy Cross High School graduate is a legend in local public relations, journalism and broadcasting circles as well, as a former vice president and program director at WDSU-TV, where he also worked in the news, public affairs and programming departments during the founding years of local TV in the 1950s and 1960s. Later, he helped establish WLAE-TV, the city's second public television station, where he also served as president/general manager and program host.
He began his sports career in 1945 at The Times-Picayune at the age of 16, covering prep football games. After attending Loyola University and serving in the military during the Korean War, he worked at the States newspaper, D.H. Holmes department store and Lykes Brothers. In 1974, he joined the Archdiocese of New Orleans as director of development, where he established and supervised the development office and Catholic Foundation.
In 1990, Romig joined the Daughters of Charity to create an office of development for Hotel Dieu Hospital, which later became University Hospital. He served the state in the dual positions of Director of Communications for the entire state public hospital system and Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the Medical Center of Louisiana. Tied to his post with the hospitals, Romig hosted a weekly WLAE call-in show "Health Call," taking viewer calls and questions about health care. The program ran for more than a decade.
Romig was a tireless civic booster, serving dozens of non-profit and community organizations over the years, including as president of the Sugar Bowl and president or board member of Goodwill Industries, the New Orleans Rotary Club, Children's Bureau, Chamber of Commerce and United Way. He was also affiliated with the Krewe of Endymion for decades, serving as announcer for the krewe's coronation ball and post-parade Extravaganza since 1968.
(Photo: New Orleans Saints)
He also led the way for his children, many of whom are familiar faces in charitable and civic affairs, including son Mark, now president of the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corp.; and daughter Mary Beth, a former spokeswoman for Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the Convention and Visitors Bureau, and now for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority. His son Jerry Jr. ( | 1,347 |
"Do you not feel foolish for resisting me, when you clearly know that you're not my match?" Mephisto placed his greatsword over his shoulder and asked.
Brendel informed Orthlyss there was an area of safety similar to a Sanctuary in the Dark Forest. There were three spots discovered in the game, all of them located past the Blockade of Wolves, and the White Cliffs of Divinity was the nearest spot.
Amandina looked at her lord and nodded, uncertain of the details but not asking for a further explanation. Mephisto released his grip on the greatsword's hilt and tightened it again. He could capture the contents of their conversation with his high perception, but he did not interrupt them since he did not think the youth would be able to escape far away from him.
His target was Veronica, and Brendel was all that he needed to control.
"It doesn't matter what petty tricks you're trying to make, you can scheme openly if you want to," he said.
Orthlyss turned to Mephisto and raised the sword in her hands.
"Oh? Are you done?" He asked.
"You are truly confident of yourself." She replied.
Mephisto's arrogance also drew out the ire of the female heroic knight of the past. The Sword Saint of Ashes thrust his weapon to the ground and beckoned with his hand.
Come and find out how confident I am.
Orthlyss scoffed through her nose as she returned Halran Gaia to its sheath. Six green wings of shimmering light suddenly spawned from the youth's back.
"This is!" Mephisto's expression crumbled.
Orthlyss hopped into the sky and seemed to glide in the air. But the seemingly slow flight in the air was an afterimage, and the youth was already near the forest's edge. The Sword Saint of Ashes snarled and pursued after him, his movements resembling a black dragon. His speed was indeed slower by a sliver, and the chase would be a contest of stamina.
Orthlyss changed direction once she entered the forest.
"How far do you want me to take him to?" She asked.
"One or two miles would do," Brendel replied.
The wings extended upwards, causing Brendel's body to glide upwards above the trees. Orthlyss turned around and saw Mephisto was a second away from her.
His weakness was his speed, but that hardly mattered against Brendel.
"Don't you have some special move to strike at him? It wouldn't be a problem if you delay him a little," she asked.
"No, the Holy Sword spell requires a certain condition." Brendel shook his head. He had spent all his Earth EP long ago when he led everyone to the Blockade of Wolves. It only lasted two hours before he ran out.
Mephisto did not idle during their exchange and attacked Orthlyss. Three blasts of Sword Energy struck at her in a beautiful arc, and the Heroic Spirit dodged behind an ancient tree, allowing them to cut through it. The Sword Energy rampaged through the wood, causing wood fragments to fly everywhere and broke the tree in the middle, felling it.
Orthlyss hurriedly escaped from the explosion of wood splinters.
"Use the Charge ability." Brendel reminded her.
The two continued to exchange pointers.
Mephisto was currently listening to the movements of the surroundings. Orthlyss was shrouded due to the fragments and leaves from the fallen tree, and he could not determine where she was.
A green blur streaked past him, causing him to flinch and cut it down with his greatsword. The heavy blade cleaved the Wind Spirit Spider that jumped at him into two halves. The air elemental creature exploded, and Orthlyss charged out the instant when he was distracted. It was perfectly timed, and even though the Sword Saint of Ashes reacted quickly, he only saw Brendel's shadow leaving.
Mephisto put away his sword on his back and started following Brendel. He was not afraid of an ambush, and he even welcomed the idea of Veronica attacking him; he could get her if she dared to appear.
Brendel's army and the Tree Elves heard loud cracking noises, and they turned around to see a gigantic tree deep in the forest crashing to the ground. Everyone could only guess a battle happened there, but they did not know the details.
Scarlett gripped her weapon tightly to the point where her fingers were numb and white, staring at the fallen tree.
"Lady Amandina, what are your orders?" Quinn walked over to her and asked. Brendel's words to her appeared like he had handed the role of the leader to her.
"We will head down this valley and wait for my lord at the White Cliffs of Divinity." She answered in a calm voice.
He nodded, gestured to his men and ordered them to advance. He did not show any signs of worry, but he glanced at the forest one final time before marching off. Kodan did not waste any time and also commanded the youths to move, and they marched slowly in the snow, though the group of nobles from Aouine were still confused.
Silence filled the area after the tree was felled. There were no signs of Brendel or Mephisto.
Scarlett was still in a daze. There was only worry in her heart, causing it to beat painfully and quickly. What if she discovered Brendel's lifeless corpse at the felled tree? The sudden lack of movements caused her to be at a loss. She rebuked herself for thinking the worst all the time, but she was unable to feel at ease.
"Scarlett? We need to leave." Amandina walked right in front of Scarlett, blocking her view of the forest. Her white fur coat fluttered against the wind, while her hide boots dug into the thin snow. Her calm demeanor made people feel relaxed.
"I wish I was as strong as you Amandina," Scarlett said, her face showing signs of exhaustion.
"It is why I hate being weak," Scarlett answered miserably.
Amandina did not answer and merely nudged the red-haired girl along. She was just as unsettled. The men trudged on in the silent snowing winds. But her worry was soon replaced by another issue. There was a sudden clamor amongst the Tree Elves, and half the group had stopped moving.
"What's wrong?" She asked, only to<|fim_middle|> latter to pale. Did no one realize the commander of Kirrlutz's imperial army was this close to them?
The Goddess of Combat, Veronica.
She pursued Brendel all the way to the Blockade of Wolves by following the wolves' endless corpses, but did not realize that someone had managed to get there before her. Her eyes swept through the remaining group of people still alive.
And that step seemed to bypass time and space. It was as if she had turned into a gust of wind and traveled over a hundred meters to reach them.
Amandina was shocked and took a step back, but the cold blade was already placed across her white slender neck. Quinn was the fastest person to react, but he merely managed to raise his bow. Scarlett and Kodan did not even lift up their weapons in time.
Veronica was taller than her, and she looked down on the pretty girl's black hair and eyes, which were unlike Aouine's noble lineage. There was a short pause while she stared at them as though there was something unbelievable about it.
She had used her full strength in order to get to one of them because she was completely on edge over Faena's disappearance, not realizing the person she attacked had no weapons. It would not be surprising if someone amongst Brendel's men who could resist her attack appeared, but here was someone who probably had never held a weapon in her life.
Still, the hesitation disappeared quickly.
Three important nobles of the Kirrlutz Empire were missing. It was especially so for the daughter of the Duke of Flowers; nothing must happen to her.
"Lady Veronica, what are you doing!" Quinn notched an arrow and aimed directly at her. Kodan discreetly placed his hand on his sword's hilt, prepared to move at any time. However, they were dismayed to see Kirrlutz's men appearing from the direction of the Blockade of Wolves.
"I don't know where they are. They left us a long time ago." Amandina said.
"Hmph! Then where is your lord?" Veronica said as she sheathed her sword.
Threatening the girl was apparently her bottom line.
"What? Where is he? No, I want you to bring me to him now." Veronica was too distracted to detect the Amandina's strange behavior.
"Fine, then have that girl bring me to him." Veronica suddenly pointed at Scarlett.
The latter jumped up like a startled cat, took a step back and brought her halberd up as though she wanted to protect herself. She stared at Veronica like a wary beast.
Amandina could see all the muscles on Scarlett tense up. It was clear that the red-haired girl would fight to the death once Veronica made a move; she would never betray Brendel's location willingly.
"Scarlett, stop this foolish act now!" Amandina cried out.
Scarlett looked back at Amandina in confusion.
"Bring Lady Veronica to where Brendel is. This is an order!" Amandina put emphasis into every word.
i got to say it. 100% plot armor going down here.
Ya this isn't going to cause more problems for Brendel. ¬_¬ Who knows, maybe it'll work out.
Thanks for yet another chapter.
At this point the 100% plit armor 200% luck from the author is impossible to hide.
Btw this Veronica is the worst guard and Knight ever. | discover the men dividing in front of her.
A woman wearing a green robe came out from the trees and marched quickly with large strides, making her way towards Amandina, and she caused the | 39 |
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www.roadsmile.com 2021 | as the 2014 model. According to car reviews the vehicle has been given minor makeovers such as LED daytime running lights, sharp focusing head lights and sturdy and prominent bumpers. The rear tail lamps are modestly designed and all models feature the standard side skirts. The rear decoration is completed with two chrome plated exhaust tips and a brand new bumper.
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Buyers have a huge 12 body color choice which also include 5 two-tone patterns and choice of 5 designs on the 16 to 18 inches alloy wheels. For the interiors Delta is given fresh trim to the center console and the dashboard and two colors of upholstery has been added. The trim levels include Bluetooth which is also standard for all models and by spending a little extra the Delta can be armed with a touchscreen information and entertainment system.
Mechanical specifications of Delta according to the news source include the 1.6 ltre 4-cylinder MultiJet engine which is capable of producing either 105 or 120hp and has a 6-speed manual transmission gearbox. Delta is capable of climbing a top speed of 121mph and it can achieve 0-62 mph in just 9.8 seconds. For economical buyers the Delta offers the option of converting the 120-hp engine to LPG and a customer can order it done at the factory itself.
Photo 2: Lancia of Fiat gets a face lift for the 2014 model year
However the conversion does not in any way affect the normal performance of the car. The 2014 model of Lancia Delta will be base priced at $31, | 347 |
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New Orleans Hosts "Start It Up" National Entrepreneur Summit
Posted By Marie Hernan On February 27, 2011 @ 6:00 pm In Small Business Press Releases | No Comments
New Orleans (PRESS RELEASE – February 27, 2011) – Heeding President Obama's call to 'Startup America,' the nation's greatest entrepreneurial minds will gather in New Orleans for the 3rd annual New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW), March 19-25, 2011. The event will serve as a manifestation of a movement that is sweeping the globe.
Driven by the entrepreneurial momentum that has fueled the city's rebirth, NOEW, an initiative of The Idea Village, will feature a unique program of world-class activities including over 45 business workshops, investment pitches, networking events, keynote speeches and interactive discussion sessions. This high-impact week of service, networking and collaboration redefines New Orleans as a laboratory of innovation and a model for national best practices by connecting students, entrepreneurs and thought leaders.
"I am thrilled about the potential of New Orleans Entrepreneur Week. The New Orleans community has come together to support and grow entrepreneurial talent," said Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Honorary Chair of NOEW 2011. "NOEW illustrates that New Orleans is a model city for innovation and entrepreneurship. With smart investments in innovation and partnerships like the one we have with The Idea Village, we can set the course for growth and renewal in America."
Joining The Idea Village as Premier Partners for NOEW are Penny & Jim Coulter, Downtown Development District of New Orleans, Economic Development Administration, Goldman Sachs, Google, Greater New Orleans Foundation, HP, Jones Walker, Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, Louisiana Recovery Authority, Kevin Clifford Family, NakedPizza, and Tulane University.
"NOEW is a physical manifestation of the entrepreneurial ecosystem that has evolved over the last 10 years in New Orleans," said Tim Williamson, co-founder and CEO of The Idea Village. "During this week, New Orleans will engage a global community of change makers to provide direct resources to the local entrepreneurial community, and in doing so position New Orleans at the forefront of what is becoming a national movement."
The idea behind NOEW was hatched in 2006 when ambitious MBA students seized the opportunity to spend their spring break in New Orleans working with early-stage, high-growth entrepreneurs. In 2009, led by investment from the Economic Development Administration, The Idea Village decided to increase the impact on the community by inviting national and local corporations, universities, investors, and individuals to spend a week in New Orleans. NOEW 2010 brought over 150 of the nation's top MBA students and corporate volunteers together with 329 local entrepreneurs to provide over 9,121 hours of direct service to entrepreneurs at 37 events throughout downtown New Orleans.
"What initially started as a philanthropic partnership in the wake of Katrina has evolved into a more strategic initiative for the company," says Tara Canobbio of Google's Talent and Outreach Programs, K-12. "We have found it invaluable to be surrounded by so many driven people that share the same passion for entrepreneurship and New Orleans, and it's amazing to see the tangible impact that energy is having on the city."
"The Goldman Sachs 10,0<|fim_middle|>, capital, mentors and networks," said Dina Habib Powell, President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation.
Google and Goldman Sachs, along with other global corporations such as Cisco, will join a network of professional service providers to host public educational sessions for the local entrepreneurial community on an array of topics critical to startups and entrepreneurs, including alternative and traditional financing, communication and social media strategy, franchising, and legal issues. There are 1,000 slots available to local entrepreneurs on a first come – first served basis. For more information on all the events, please visit www.noew.org.
"It is inspiring to interact with the kind of talent that The Idea Village assembles together for NOEW. Not only are Cisco employees able to support local entrepreneurs, but they walk away having learned something too," said Luke Stewart of Cisco.
NOEW 2011 will feature MBA IDEAcorps teams from Berkeley, Cornell, University of Chicago Booth, Stanford, Northwestern Kellogg, Tulane and Loyola (New Orleans). Each student team will work closely with entrepreneurs from The Idea Village's 2011 Entrepreneur Challenge (IVEC) class to provide strategic consulting on a catalytic business challenge. The entrepreneurs include Bideo, The Durationator Company, NOLA Brewing Company, Rare Cuts, Rebirth Financial, Spa Workshop and SensPac.
Additionally, NOEW 2011 offers a world-class investment pitch opportunity called IDEApitch led by Jim Coulter, founding partner of TPG Capital. IDEApitch will offer 5 local entrepreneurs the opportunity to present their ventures to leading investors from TPG, Bain Venture Capital, Redpoint, Prism, IBM Ventures, and American Funds.
"This is a special and important moment for the city of New Orleans," said Jim Coulter. "The Coulter Challenge IDEApitch specifically identifies five of Louisiana's most scalable ventures and gives them the opportunity to pitch their plans to some of the world's leading growth capital firms."
2011 IDEApitch entrepreneurs include Federated Sample, Naked Pizza, Spa Workshop, Mini Vax and NOvate Medical Technologies, LLC.
Additionally, NOEW will feature a $50,000 'Water Challenge' to promote innovative water management solutions through entrepreneurship.
NOEW 2011 will offer interactive roundtable discussions on seeding and growing entrepreneurial ecosystems led by national luminaries such as Jim Coulter, Senator Mary Landrieu D-La, James Carville, Mary Matalin, Amy Cosper, Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, and leading business entities such as McKinsey & Company, Bain Venture Capital and IBM.
Featured Speakers and Panelists for NOEW 2011:
Jim Coulter, Founding Partner, TPG Capital
John Turner, President , Whitney Bank
Dr. Patti Greene, President's Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, Babson College
Rick Aubry, Founder, New Foundry Ventures/Associate Provost, Tulane University
Kris Licht and Eric Harmon, Partners, McKinsey & Co.
Amy Cosper, Editor in Chief, Entrepreneur Magazine
Jeff Schwartz, Managing Director, Bain Capital
Kevin Clifford, President and CEO, American Funds
Wendy Lung, Partner, IBM Venture Capital
Jeff Brody, Founding Partner, Redpoint Ventures
Jim Counihan, Partner, Prism Venture Works
Gene Zelazny, Director of Visual Communications, McKinsey & Co.
Jennifer Aaker, General Atlantic Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Chris Gergen , Executive Director, Bull City Forward, Life Entrepreneurs
Jessica Jackley, Founder, Kiva and Profounder
Robbie Vitrano, Naked Pizza
David Waggonner, FAIA, Waggoner & Ball Architects
Mark Davis, Director, Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy
For more information, including a full schedule of events, please visit www.NOEW.org.
About the Idea Village
The Idea Village was founded in 2000 as an independent 501(c) (3) non-profit organization with a mission to identify, support and retain entrepreneurial talent in New Orleans by providing business resources to high-impact ventures. To date, The Idea Village has supported over 590 local entrepreneurs by engaging 890 professionals and allocating over 56,000 consulting hours and $2.5 million in capital. This portfolio generates over $87 million in annual revenue and has created 1,000 jobs for the community.
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Theater group staging sensory friendly performance
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — The College of the Albemarle's theater performances of "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" will feel a bit different from its typical productions.
For the first time the production will be sensory friendly to provide a supportive environment for audience members with autism and other sensory processing disorders.
Audiences will notice changes to the lighting in the house and on stage, as well as reduction to loud stage noise. There's even a wiggle room for audience members who might be overwhelmed, need a break or to stretch.
"We chose to<|fim_middle|> and she began theater here and College of the Albemarle, but she was kind of misunderstood and got into a lot of trouble. … It became something she absolutely thrives in," Wilson said.
Although this is the first sensory friendly show, they hope to incorporate the changes into future performances. For more information on upcoming shows visit here.
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She and co-director Mariah Shirer chose the show because of its representation of a group of misunderstood children.
"The Herdmans were these crazy, bullied, unaccepted kids, and I thought to myself that would be a great show." Wilson said.
The theater department has tried to be intentional about including all types of people and subject matter in the choices of productions this year.
"We wanted to include as many of those societal issues as possible. Our first show that we opened with was 'Once on the Island,' and we decided to cast an entire cast of people of color … for our second show of the season we chose Harvey to address mental health," Wilson said.
Although theater can have a special effect on the audience, it also holds special meaning for the actors on stage.
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Harvard MBA Explains How To Make A Career Switch
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An MBA, for many, can act as a ticket to a new career.
"Career switchers" often pursue an MBA degree in order to switch industries or disciplines.
"I think the MBA is a great way to get an introduction generally to business," Idie Kesner, Dean of the Kelley School of Business, tells P&Q. "You get a chance to explore a variety of different functional areas, sometimes without the deep dive that you would necessarily get in an MS program, a customized or specialized MS program. And when you're changing your career, you need that breadth of perspective."
A former engineering manager at Etsy, Adam Palay, who'll be earning his MBA from Harvard Business School in 2021, recently offered a few pieces of advice for career switchers pursuing an MBA in a blog post for Harvard Business School's MBA Voices.
Palay, who joined the MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Program, wanted to learn about how entrepreneurs and investors are coming up with solutions to climate change.
Yet, Palay recalls not having much experience or knowledge of climate change. He tells MBA Voices that he was "a career-switcher coming in from scratch; I didn't know the industry terminology or how the energy grid worked, let alone the organizations and roles I should target."
So Palay did his research and attended Career & Professional Development (CPD) industry education programs, company presentations, and company conversation events in pursuit of the right internship for his goals.
"Hearing what companies had to say about their business and their impact gave me a sense of what I could learn in an internship," Adam tells MBA Voices. "Those observations helped me focus my internship interests and inform my search strategy."
Palay ultimately landed an internship in VC as a Portfolio Greenhouse Gas Impact Analysis Intern at Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV).
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Palay also highlights how helpful the resources and wider alumni network at HBS were in helping him career switch.
"Through the School's Business & Environment Initiative, which runs a mentorship program connecting students with alumni, I was able to speak to alumni in venture and at technology start-ups that have an environmental impact," Palay tells MBA Voices. "Those conversations shed light on the different career paths in venture and cleantech, which proved valuable as I prepared to discuss my transferable skillset in interviews."
Ultimately, Palay says, the MBA path is a journey that can open doors to new paths, careers, and findings.
"When I came to business school and this journey started, I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do, and that is completely okay," he tells MBA Voices. "I knew HBS would open a lot of doors, but I didn't know just how many different doors there were out there; I'm glad I took the time to figure things out."
Sources: HBS MBA Voices, P&Q
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Projects designed, manufactured and installed a series of triangular, frameless roof lights to the new law building at the Hatfield campus of Hertford<|fim_middle|> shaped upstands for a flat, flush exterior design to the frameless roof lights.
The angles of the shaped upstands and the construction of the flat roof mean that the frameless roof lights are not visible from the outside of the building but the triangular roof lights within the roof create dramatic natural lighting throughout the new law building lobby and walkways. | shire University.
Each triangular roof light was built onto a sloped upstand within the flat roof bringing light into the large stairway and lobby at many different angles. Metal ventilation panels were also built into the angled up stands for minimal and discrete ventilation through the space without the need to add framed ventilation elements into the glass structure itself.
The structural glass roof lights were made from multiple glass panels silicone jointed together. Frameless glass beams in low iron glasswere chosen to support these glass joints, maintaining a frameless glass roof light design.
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33rd Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts to kick off Thursday
Schedule includes several concerts by renowned Jordanian, Arab and international musicians
By JT - Jul 15,2018 - Last updated at Jul 15,2018
The<|fim_middle|> the importance of the event and the stability and security of the Kingdom, Mohammad Abu Sumaqa, the festival's executive director said.
Abu Sumaqa underscored the importance of the partnerships with the public institutions, private sector and local community, stressing the administration's keenness on supporting the local community and enhancing their participation.
The festival's schedule includes several concerts by renowned Jordanians, as well as Arab and international singers and troupes, said Abu Sumaqa, adding that this year some events will be held in Irbid, Zarqa, Salt and Karak, in addition to Jerash and Amman.
The 33-year-old festival will also include exhibitions of productions of local community and women societies such as handicrafts and local foodstuff.
It will also have events for poetry recitals by a number of Jordanian and Arab poets. | Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts' 33rd iteration is scheduled to kick off on Thursday, July 19, and run until July 28 at the ancient city of Jerash, and from July 29 till August 4 in Amman (Photo by Ahmed Bani Mustafa)
AMMAN — The Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts' administration on Saturday organised a tour for media outlets to acquaint them with the preparations for the 33rd iteration of the festival.
Under the Patronage of His Majesty King Abdullah, the festival is scheduled to kick off on Thursday, July 19, and run until July 28 at the ancient city of Jerash, and from July 29 till August 4 in Amman, according to a statement from the festival's administration.
The journalists toured the site, 45km north of Amman, and took a firsthand look at the festival's main locations such as the Southern and the Northern Theatres, the Oval Piazza (the main square), and the colonnaded street (the Cardo).
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Karameh Battle and the 72nd anniversary of the Kingdom's independence, the opening ceremony (Thursday at 7pm) will include a national song performed by a number of Jordanian singers written by Jordanian poet and former minister of culture Haidar Mahmoud.
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Bechtel Project Earns Energy Department's Highest Safety Award
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Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Awarded "Star of Excellence" in Recognition of Safety Efforts
For the second consecutive year, the Department of Energy has awarded the Bechtel-led Waste Treatment Plant project its highest level of recognition for worker safety achievements: the Voluntary Protection Program "Star of Excellence." The award is given to contractors who achieve an injury rate at least 75 percent below the Bureau of Labor Statistics national average for its respective industry.
"Once again, our employees have exceeded expectations and have taken ownership of their safety and that of their coworkers," said<|fim_middle|> testing, the plant's first facility will begin operations as soon as 2022.
Bechtel is an industry leader in the environmental cleanup and restoration of former nuclear weapons production sites dating back nearly 40 years. The company has led the cleanup, remediation, and closure of nuclear waste facilities in Washington state, Idaho, New Mexico, Tennessee, Nevada, and South Carolina.
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Fred deSousa | Peggy McCullough, Bechtel's Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) project director. "The exceptional commitment to each other's well-being is paramount in achieving the level of safety necessary at a construction site of this size."
Laureen Smith, head of Environment, Safety, and Health for Bechtel's government services business added, "Safety isn't just a requirement; it's one of Bechtel's core values. This award represents the engagement between our employees and managers to improve and maintain an effective safety culture."
Close to 3,000 workers are employed at the construction project on the Hanford Site near the Columbia River in Washington state. When completed, WTP will safely treat Cold War-era radioactive waste stored in 177 underground tanks. Following extensive commissioning and | 161 |
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Timo Meier, Connor McDavid helps 2015 Draft NHL is still hype
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SAN JOSE – Timo Meier was the constant media of Connor McDavid.
The sharks winger played with the Edmonton Oilers center in the CHL forecast game in 2015. They were two of the best players in the bigger Canada in front of the draft of that year, number 12 and No. 1 respectively , at NHL Central Scouting Midseason rankings of skateboards play in North America.
Yet, it was clear to Meier that McDavid was breaking over the rest.
"You could say that McDavid," said Meier Monday at the Sharks exercise facility, "and [eventual No. 2 pick Jack Eichel] ready to be highest men in the NHL. You could see that straight away. "
Meier Sharks will play McDavid's Oilers for the first time this March, and the two players are underway for career years. McDavid scored<|fim_middle|> there are young men [on their entry-level contracts]. I believe that that has opened the door for teams to be more thinking about putting some people looking earlier than the past. "
2015 draft class rises to the occasion. Five players were drafted in 2015, including McDavid and Eichel, the All-Star team before this year. That group does not include Marner, Rantanen, the winner of Mathew Barzal or Thomas Chabot as the winner of the Calder Trophy, the second highest NHL scoring defender.
DeBoer considers the 2003 draft class the best it has seen in the last 20 years. He trained, or trained against, many of them in younger children and later in NHL. It is not alone in its assessment either, as there are 28 players – including the current Sharks Brent Burns and Joe Pavelski – from that class they have made an All-Star team of some kind.
It can still be seen whether the 2015 class will reach that height, as the most experienced players are only in their fourth season. However, their impact early in the 2018-19 campaign is impractical.
Meier said that she has not followed her draft methods of peers too close. Occasionally keep tabs, however, and said that seeing their success could be a strong motivation.
"You're trying to push you when you see male guys doing so well," said Meier. "So I think it's an incentive to see that, and you obviously want to compare them with those men and push their game to improve."
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They are not alone, either.
On Tuesday morning, three of the NHL's top scorers this season were the 2015 trials. Winger Mikko Rantanen, who chose Colorado Avalanche, chose a fan after Meier in number 10 in general, leading the league with 32 points. Toronto Maple Leafs, the winner of Mitch Marner – ranked No. 4 tied for a third with McDavid.
Indeed, nine of the 64 players who scored at least 18 points were drafted by 2015. That was more than any other draft class, and matched the two previous draft together.
Of those nine, McDavid and Eichel were the only ones who play on their second contracts.
"Everyone is looking for cheap talent," says Peter DeBoer, Sharks coach, on Monday, "and the only cheap talent | 227 |
Day 254 in Beijing: Happy Valentine's Day!
This is the first Valentine's Day with my darling, Jill.
We will be spending it, somewhere, in Beijing.
It will a Friday night here, and a day before<|fim_middle|>I would learn more empathy for them and understanding of what they are trying to achieve and how hard it is. I have done, and continue to do this, and I find more evidence, each time, for the method I use and the responses my clients get to heal themselves with an amazing amount joy.
I look at my past and wonder how much easier life would be if I could just learn, adapt and discard illogical, useless and harmful information and feelings instead of holding onto them and causing damage to myself, others and the universe.
I am doing that more and more each day and can quantify exactly how much better my life is now.
I welcome you to do the same on this, the first day of the Chinese New Year and Year of the Horse. | you experience it, so we will probably go out to dinner, hang out with some friends, and just see what the day brings us.
I work on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays so we will have the whole day to relax, lounge around, and just kick back.
I used to be a pretty reactive and emotional guy.
I dealt with my own depression and anxiety for many years.
I then learned about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and found that both depression and anxiety are primarily lies that I'm telling myself about me.
They are either cognitive distortions or just flat out mistaken beliefs that perpetuate the problems that I'm causing.
It really did come down to the fact that I'm making my own problems and causing them to occur each and every time I had a thought, had a feeling, or did an action.
The joy of this realization is that it also gives me the ability to change all of the beliefs, emotions and actions that I take and become a truly happy and content person.
I think back to the years of pain and anguish I felt and wonder what would have happened if I had learned about this therapy, and began practicing it with my clients, when I was 20 years old or younger.
I know it doesn't really matter because one can't change the past and yet I think that is one of the reasons that I practice Cognitive Behavioral Therapy now: It can cure issues very quickly and is far better than any other therapy out there as shown by any evidence-based studies.
Freedom to live your life is in your hands at this very moment.
I did and I am glad I choose never to go back to those patterns again.
My parents, my society, and my peer group no longer defines what I do. It is up to me to live the life I want and no make excuses for my thoughts, emotions or behaviors.
This is where Valentine's Day fits in.
I met Jill 8 days before I left for China.
We met at the San Francisco Carnaval parade.
We spent the next 8 days together and I invited her to come with me to China.
She had been living in Airbnb apartments for the last 2.5 years, and, when her agreement ran out, she came over.
That was 6.5 months ago.
We both take responsibility for our actions, thoughts and behaviors and try to treat each other as well as possible. There is almost no drama or disagreements because we are open, fair and try to anticipate what the other wants and we make sure each person has their needs met to the best of our abilities.
The way I see it is if we can make it, living in Beijing, and building a brand new life here, everything else will be a breeze.
Happy Valentine's Day to my darling Jill!
Day 249 in Beijing: Matching Shirts.
We love our little motorcycle and sidecar shirt!
Jill and I went out to dinner with our friend, Brian, a few months ago.
He introduced us to one of his friends, Laurie Burkitt, who writes for the Wall Street Journal.
She did a piece on couples that wear the same shirt to show love and affection since there isn't a lot of public displays between people in China.
Well, Jill and I took it one step further.
As we were walking around Maleka, with our friend Dipesh, we actually found shirts that are a "combined" cartoon when we wear them side-by-side.
Yes, we really are that dorky.
We have worn them a few times in Beijing and our friends laugh and think they are pretty cool.
I'm glad we bought them so we can show affection to each other while not offending anyone.
Actually we do hold hands and kiss in public.
Day 246 in Beijing: Cute Car!
Cute car for two…or three!
Jill, our roommate, Gulzar, and I were walking home a few nights ago.
We happened to walk by this absurdly cute little car.
I didn't get a picture of the side, but amazingly, this is a 4 door car.
The car is shorter than any other 4 door car I've ever seen, and is shorter than almost any other 2 door car I've seen also.
If you notice, the front seat is just that: A single front seat that only accommodates the driver of the car.
There are two back seats and they are basically like a bench seat as they are connected and if you lay one down, they both have to be laid down.
The steering mechanism looked like something from a motorcycle and then adjusted for 2 wheels in the front. I'm guessing that this automobile company took the guts of a motorcycle, strengthened it, and then put a very lightweight body on the frame.
This is about all Jill and I would need to be more mobile in Beijing and I'm guessing it probably costs about 1000 USD at most.
Day 239 in Beijing: Pondering the Past, Present and Future.
Jill and me at the Forbidden City.
Chinese New Year is tonight.
I sit and ponder what culture, family, and happiness is today.
I look to the past and see how different we are compared to when extended families were the norm and most people lived with 3 or possibly 4 generations under the same roof. In the West, this is pretty rare but, in China, this still occurs.
Then again, in China, there are kids living with their grandparents, and parents having to live hundreds, and possibly thousands, of miles away, to make ends meet.
As I sit in Beijing, with Jill, and we are getting ready to go out to a hotel and watch hours of fireworks and firecrackers (Beijing's Chinese New Year's fireworks are the world's largest unorganized fireworks display every year) I realize how lucky I am. In fact, at 8 am the day of Chinese New Year's, as I'm writing this, firecrackers are already going off.
This will last for 10 days straight. I has been recommended by friends that live in Beijing that we would be smart to buy earplugs so we can sleep.
My life, in almost every way, is exactly the life I want to live. The only problematic issue is being apart from my family and friends back home. This becomes quite obvious when someone passes away or a wonderful occurrence happens like a wedding that I will miss because of the distance.
Jill's grandmother died this week, at the age of 97. She wasn't able to go home because of the long flights, then long drives, and the timing of everything. So we celebrated Grandma Helen with a few of other dear friends and talked about her life.
I believe that this way of of "family" that expatriates learn to accept and master if they want to stay stable and content living far from people they love.
Some people don't like being this far from their "family" and yet others love it.
That is all there is, in a way, yet there is so much more. My family includes my father, Michael, my mother, Judy, my sister Stacy, and my brothers, Robert and David.
If you extend it a little farther it also includes my step-father, Phillip and his son, Kody.
If you then extend it farther it includes my aunts and uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, brother in laws, sister in laws and other people that continue outward into the human race.
Do I include my friends?
Do I include my enemies?
Do I include people I have never met?
Do I include people that I will never meet?
I think of the Buddhist belief that we are all tied together and there is no self in regards to caring about, and connecting with, others.
Strangely enough this is often mistaken for Buddhist lore but it was stated by an MIT meteorologist named Edward Lorenz in 1906.
I love how science and Buddhism are like cousins, far removed from each other, but actually closely intertwined.
Most of us, at least in the Western World, think of ourselves as more individual and fairly limited to a family connection. I would suggest otherwise. I believe that we are all connected. If you trace my DNA and your DNA back to a certain point, we most likely all merge at some place.
According to the story of Adam and Eve, all humanity descends from two people. Other religions have similar ideas.
As we progress scientifically, I am interested to see what science finds out about our genetics and our connections to each other.
As noted before, I work as a behavioral therapist. This belief is one of the reasons that behavioral therapy is so useful to my clients.
I also use behavioral therapy on myself for the same reason. One of the tenets I learned from David Burns, MD, and my supervisor Brac Selph, PhD, was that I had to go through all of the interventions that I would ask my clients to go through.
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Public memorial planned for Parkland school school victims
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A foundation dedicated to the 17 people killed in the Parkland school shooting has begun raising money and seeking designs for a public memorial to the victims on a nature preserve near Florida's Everglades.
The Parkland 17 Memorial Foundation said the memorial will offer the public a place to reflect on<|fim_middle|> in November, victims' families spent two days berating him as evil, a coward, a monster and a subhuman who deserves a painful death.
Cruz, now 24, had attended Stoneman Douglas. He had been been housed in the Broward County Jail since his arrest hours after the shooting. He is now an inmate in Florida's prison system.
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The Parkland 17 Memorial Foundation said the memorial will offer the public a place to reflect on the victims of the shooting, which occurred just before the school day ended at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day in 2018.
"It is a way to memorialize those that were taken from us that terrible day almost five years ago," said Tony Montalto, whose 14-year-old daughter Gina was killed. Montalto is vice-chairman of the foundation and a liaison to the families of the other victims.
The preserve is on the border of Parkland and Coral Springs, near the high school in suburban Fort Lauderdale.
"This foundation was established to build the official public memorial to the victims of the Parkland massacre to ensure they are forever remembered as the people they were, as innocent children with vibrant, bright futures ahead of them – educators and coaches who gave so much of themselves to their students," Montalto said.
The project is being overseen by the foundation, and proposals for its design will be reviewed by the victims' families.
Montalto said they have put out a national call to artists for ideas for the project.
"We're not putting a budget on it because we want people to dream big," Montalto said.
In November, Nikolas Cruz was sentenced to life in prison without parole following a three-month trial in Fort Lauderdale. The jury voted 9-3 on Oct. 13 to sentence Cruz to death, but Florida law requires unanimity for that sentence to be imposed.
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Anderson University offers more than 50 majors with experiential and service-learning experiences. Notably unique majors include engineering, national security studies, and sport marketing.
AU helps shape students' academic experiences, while allowing them to explore their spiritual growth and create lasting friendships through more than 130 campus activities.
Campus Ministries connect students to the local community through volunteer opportunities at places such as local shelters, prison ministry, and nursing homes. Additionally, students can travel the world through the Tri-S (Study, Share, Serve) program. Thanks to the vast number of service opportunities available through Anderson University, more than 400 people participate in trips both in the United States and abroad each year.
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At Anderson University, students don't just study in a classroom; they fully experience their majors. So many aspects of its campus collectively make AU a special place to learn and discover.
"My time at AU helped me to grow into the person I am today, through faculty, Tri-S trips, and deep friendships. AU gave me space to learn about public relations and Christian ministries, in an environment where I never felt like the two were in conflict. I loved my experiences when traveling with Tri-S, because they allowed me to experience so much more of the world with others who were also excited about travel and culture! Many of those trips also led to deep friendships that have shaped me so deeply." — Christina Nesslage BA '18, MDiv candidate at Duke Divinity School
Undergraduate research and internships are intrinsic to every major at AU. Each spring, students work closely with faculty for a scholars' day research project to be presented on campus. These projects showcase the in-depth process of organizing abstracts, hypotheses, research, focus groups, and surveys.
The honors program's senior seminar serves as a project-based capstone course, driving students to produce intensive, original research under the direction of academic mentors.
Students studying nursing, social work, criminal justice, and ministry are encouraged to immerse themselves in other cultures, whether they travel internationally to countries across the world or locally to diverse communities in the Indianapolis area. For example, nursing students have travelled to Calcutta, India, to work in the Missionaries of Charity Home for the Dying, while social work students have spent full semesters at the Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture.
Students in Anderson University's School of Education have the opportunity to practice student teaching near Anderson, in the Indianapolis area, and even overseas. Furthermore, AU is also one of the few colleges to offer year-round student teaching experiences.
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It is part of Anderson University's mission to educate its students for lives of faith and service to both the church and their society. Founded in 1964, the Tri-S program (Study, Serve, Share) is designed to let students learn from other cultures while serving in communities around the world. Through Tri-S, students explore other cultures while participating in work camps, service, or ministry projects. Destinations have included Trinidad, Greece, the Dominican Republic, London, Zambia, Scotland, China, and New Zealand.
Tri-S also offers domestic opportunities to serve, hauling students around the United States for meaningful service. Examples of American Tri-S projects have included urban ministry in cities such as Philadelphia and New York City as well as work projects in the Native American communities of South Dakota and Oklahoma.
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"Every day I am interacting with students and meeting them where they are in life. We always talk about their faith relationship and how we can help them continue to grow in their relationship with Christ. Even in some of the really hard conduct conversations, it is so evident that the Holy Spirit is at work and bringing restoration to each student as they lean into the Holy Spirit's leading and guiding in their lives." — Dr. Chris Confer BA '01 MDiv '04, Assistant Provost and Dean of Students
"The faculty and staff at Anderson are phenomenal individuals. They believed in me with more strength than I did myself. There is something powerful about walking around campus and staff members taking the time to say hello to you by name. It gives students the confidence that they are worth the investment of higher education. My professors often spoke higher of me than I thought they ought to; however, with time their words took root and I was able to dream bigger with a new confidence. Staff and faculty taught me that no question is too silly, scary, or simple to be asked. They showed me that the path to success is through authenticity and kindness." — Jessica Thaman BA '17, global studies major
Anderson University's faculty are highly invested in all of their students. They love seeing students deepen their learning, grow in their faith, and prepare for lives of service.
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Anderson University's liberal arts education requires students not only to master their chosen fields of study but also to gain a broad understanding of the world around them.
The liberal arts core curriculum sharpens students' skills in written communication, speaking and listening, quantitative reasoning, Biblical literacy, and personal wellness.
AU is committed to offering leadership-building courses that complement every area of study. In addition to their core requirements, students choose between six categories of courses, which include:
Christian Ways of Knowing
Scientific Ways of Knowing
Civic Ways of Knowing
Aesthetic Ways of Knowing
Social and Behavioral Ways of Knowing
Global/Intercultural Ways of Knowing
"I believe in AU and want students to come here because they will receive an education for a lifetime of engagement and employment, develop meaningful and lasting relationships, and further discover who they are, what they believe, and what difference they can make in the world." — Marie Morris, Anderson University Provost
Anderson University's First-Year Experience introduces students to well-rounded liberal arts curriculum through a series of engaging activities. Every first-year student builds upon a sturdy foundation that consists of Raven 101 (a registration and advising event), new student orientation, and<|fim_middle|>1 million, with Ascension Information Services (AIS) serving as the generous lead sponsor.
The Situation Room is modeled after the same room in the White House. This room gives security studies students classroom space to respond to mock crises and a video conferencing setup to allow more opportunities to hear from National Security experts. Speakers brought to campus through the National Security Studies Fellows have included Eric Holder, former U.S. Attorney General; John Brennan, former director of CIA; Matthew Olsen, former director of National Counterterrorism; Robert Mueller, former director of the FBI; and James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence.
The Falls School of Business features its own financial stock trading room, which serves as a real-time, high-tech laboratory classroom that simulates a realistic Wall Street environment, made possible by the STAR Financial Bank. AU finance majors are responsible for managing the university's Raven Fund, valued at $1.5 million.
The School of Nursing and Kinesiology features state-of-the-art facilities, including a Swim Ex rehabilitation pool, a sports medicine center, and a human performance center. The nursing lab is also home to hospital equipment such as Pyxis® MedStation® System, Mega Code Kelly®, and SimMan®.
Students in the School of Science and Engineering are learning to maintain and enhance AU's first solar car, preparing for an exciting race against some of the highest-ranking universities in the United States American Solar Challenge. Computer science students also have the opportunity to study in a one-of-a-kind training center that pairs students with a Genesys supervisor right on campus.
AU students have many outlets through which to be active, including an array of 15 intramural sports programs and several extracurricular club sports that range from rugby, men's volleyball, cheerleading, and lacrosse. The 132,000-square-foot Kardatzke Wellness Center features a natatorium, a weight room, and a cardio area. Additionally, students have daily access to indoor courts for volleyball, floor hockey, basketball, and indoor soccer for intramural and recreational use.
"I've been a sports fanatic all my life, so naturally I wanted to jump right into the intramural program here at Anderson. What began as a way for me to continue my hobby quickly became a way to meet new people and to also get away from the stresses of life. There's a sport for everybody, and you don't have to be good to play. It's a great way to have a great time with your friends." — Kyle Fawcett BA '16, marketing major
Anderson University is home to 20 NCAA Division III sports. Raven fans love to cheer on student-athletes at their games, and the campus enjoys celebrating their accomplishments both on the court and in the classroom. Sports at AU include football, volleyball, baseball, softball, men's and women's basketball, cross country, track and field, golf, soccer. swimming, tennis, and new in 2018 is men's and women's lacrosse.
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To ensure that students are as successful as possible right from the beginning of their college careers, the First-Year Experience peer-mentoring program divides students into small groups that are led by teams of faculty and student mentors.
During their time at college, Anderson University students stroll through the Valley, play laser tag in the library, explore their faith, and learn from the best faculty. They enjoy a variety of activities after hours through the Campus Activities Board, service clubs, student organizations, fine arts events, and athletics. There is plenty of fun to be had, but those who want to stretch their thinking after class also have countless opportunities to learn from others on campus, AU alumni, and nationally known speakers.
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Through campus speaker series and chapel speakers, AU students have the opportunity to witness valuable, real-world applications to their studies, hearing from experts in multiple fields, and from successful AU alums. Other renowned, annual lecture series conferences hosted by Anderson University include the Newell Lectures in Biblical Studies, the Indiana Faith Writing Conference, and the York Children's Literature Festival.
The School of Music, Theatre, and Dance presents concerts, dance performances, and theatre productions that feature both students and guest artists. Anderson University has three performance venues on campus that proudly host student- and guest-created exhibits. Currently, the university is hosting a special three-year exhibit to celebrate the life and legacy of alums Bill and Gloria Gaither. The university also owns artwork by Warner Sallman, painter of the famous Head of Christ. A collection of Sallman's work is permanently on display on the second floor of AU's York Recital Hall and Galleries.
The School of Theology and Christian Ministry is home to the Gustav Jeeninga Museum of Bible and Near Eastern Studies. Its holdings include original artifacts from many periods of the Ancient Near East, such as the Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Israelite Periods. The Nicholson University Library also houses a large collection of children's literature and a substantial collection of hymnals.
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During the 2017-18 school year, AU opened the Cybersecurity Engineering Laboratory, and the Situation Room. The Cybersecurity Engineering Laboratory allows for state of the art learning opportunities, and houses several servers including a blade chassis, a set of enterprise access switches, core routers, and more. Students and faculty can run complex code or work on research using the high-capacity servers, which have more than 20 physical cores. The value of the room and equipment is nearly $ | 537 |
<|fim_middle|> in Biologics in a collaboration project with Astra Zeneca.
Jens Nielsen has been appointed as Honorary Professor at Jiangnan University, which is the leading university in China in the area of Food Science and in Fermentation Technology.
The biennial Advanced Course on Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology will be held at SysBio in August 2019. This course is intended for PhD students, postdocs and industrial researchers and registration is open now!
Nature has just featured a correspondence piece on SysBio core values as an example of actively building a working culture based on mutual cooperation, communication and respect. "Congratulations to our Core Values Team, and all SysBio members for adopting and supporting our core values", says Ivan Mijakovic.
Read the article "Define working culture, don't leave it to chance".
The full article "Yeast more efficient as cell factory" is available on Chalmers website.
About 10 years anniversary of the SysBio group read on Chalmers website.
The full article "Spikes of graphene can kill bacteria on implants" is available on Chalmers website. | Florian David and Verena Siewers received a Vinnova Grant for Protein Research | 18 |
Can you talk to us more about your latest single "Streaks"?
Even though "Streaks" is one of my shortest songs, it is one of my most personal ones that actually took me the longest to write. I wanted every lyric to match the mood and color of the chords intricately.
This song was inspired by looking inside of myself before, during,<|fim_middle|> background as well, which has been a factor in the way I can appeal to an audience more and more as I grow.
What aspect of Summer did you get to explore on this record?
I got to explore much of what has changed through time, but more importantly, what has remained consistent. There are sunny, beautiful days, but then there are also rainy days. The long Summer nights are what really brought out my ability to experience and create.
I do hope and plan to go on tour in the immediate future with my band— but as of now, I just relocated from being in New Orleans for two years back to Miami.
What else is happening next in Carolena's world?
I'm currently finalizing my next few projects that will be released seasonally as well. Singles, EP's, visuals, and even live performances! | and after being in a particular relationship. It stemmed from being aware of the changes I went through as well as how certain events and people effected and effected how I came out of it.
"Every Summer" revolves around recurring events that I would experience every time I came home for the Summer. No matter where I was throughout the course of the previous year, certain emotions and encounters would surface and evoke these songs. Wherever I was, I found myself enamored and writing about it. The songs have a "beachy" vibe, but are also raw and introspective.
The writing process was sporadic, but all the songs were all created in extremely random instances. I wrote "Adore Ya" in my car when someone canceled plans on me last minute and I thought about what I would say to a person that wouldn't do that to me. "The Last Thing" was written at the beach at night surrounded by a group of friends and "Every Summer (Since You Left)" started off as a poem that I eventually structured into a song one night with my guitarist. This song was written based off of the way I found myself feeling every time Summer would roll around and what I knew I would probably feel every Summer after that.
The recording process was pretty smooth— I recorded all of these songs in New Orleans with a recording and mixing engineer. I wanted the production to embody an authentic, yet modern tone and having reference tracks made the process a lot more detailed and intimate.
I started taking music seriously at a young age. The most important factor has been the support I receive from loved ones while continuing to pursue my passion. My experiences have kept me driven and motivated to improve with every project/release I am apart of. Another element that has shaped me is keeping faith at the core of all that I've done musically, which has allowed me to stay in tune with myself when writing/playing music.
What role does Miami play in your writing?
Being in Miami has definitely influenced a lot of the natural rhythmic choices I make when writing my music— weather it's melodically or instrumentally. I do come from a Latin | 429 |
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Kings Canyon National Park announces that the park will close to all visitors due to significant smoke impacts and hazardous air quality throughout the park. The park entrance station, facilities and parking lots will close beginning at 5:00 p.m. tonight, Thursday, September 17, 2020. Sequoia National Park closed on Tuesday, September 15.
With air quality projected to be in the unhealthy to hazardous range over the next several days, the park anticipates the closure to be in effect at least through the weekend. The park will continue to assess the smoke impacts, air quality index, and fire activity throughout the region. Kings Canyon National Park will reopen to visitors when conditions improve, and it is safe for visitors and employees.
Kings Canyon National Park's closure is in alignment with the closure of Yosemite National Park and the surrounding national forests.
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Maynard Durr by his son, Randy Durr
Dad was full of life and he always seemed to live life to the fullest especially when he was younger. Dad came from a generation where work was important. In fact, a lot of people from Grinnell probably knew dad from the Standard station down by the interstate, car washes in Grinnell and Newton, delivering dirt, crop farming, hog and cattle producer, stock market investor, sales of different products like pit cleaners and fireplaces and so on...! Father's Day is a special day for a man who wanted to support his family. One thing that took me 50 years to figure out was why my dad was nicknamed Monk. The truth came out when his buddies told me that before Dad went to the war, he and his buddies got so drunk that dad climbed a tree and was acting like a monkey so all his friends started calling him Monk! It is always nice to sit and visit about the old times.
Jerry Davis by his daughter, Kelly Sieck
My dad has been a wonderful and funny father for 56 years. He has two daughters, four grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren who refer to him as Grandpa Jerry or Wampus Cat. My dad's main hobby over the years was owning multiple restaurants and businesses and often recruiting my sister and me to help. One of my memories of those working days was going to the donut shop with him at 3:00 AM and crawling under the back counter where I slept while he made the donuts. But we always got all the donuts we could eat! He often worked 2-3 jobs at a time which left little time for other hobbies. I have many memories of summer vacations and camping. He was always a jokester and kept us all laughing with his stories. He is definitely a people person. Dad has always been a storyteller and is on his third generation of Wampus Cat stories. Now in his retirement, Dad enjoys spending time with family and especially his great-grandchildren. To this day, he is still a positive and loving | 431 |
I discovered that I could, in fact, walk. As long as I breathed carefully and kept my hand pressed against my side—which was fine, I wasn't ready to know more about the wound anyway. I followed the soldiers to the alley and considered sheathing Shiharr but the movement to reach my back was far too much. The dagger stayed in my hand, useful for nothing but catching the light of the moon.
I realized suddenly that I was still supposed to be leading, so I started down the alley. My ambitious steps were quickly tempered by the pain in my left side and my shoulders hunched. But I kept moving. The men followed, trailing behind us like the train of a gown…only louder and more grim. By the time we reached the end of the alley I'd sort of found my stride, perfecting the art of moving around whatever blasted betrayal was going on down there. "Hoods up, fall in formation, best you can," I tossed the command over my shoulder, and was aware of it being passed behind me. Then I stepped into the deserted street and marched. Or. Tried to march. Shiharr still bare in my hand.
"Yes," I replied. But the word came out like a gasp.
He did not remove his hand, and I didn't say anything else. Talking would only mean having to refill my lungs sooner. I hoped Quill was right that the garrison would divide its forces between the city and the land directly outside the city walls. We had exited quite close to a city wall, but instead of making a break for the countryside we were wending through the city, toward the slums near the warehouse district and the river. We had a head start, of course, but were moving more slowly than a search party ought. And a few of the soldiers were being carried, which was certainly not very search party like. I tried not to think of how much walking we had to do. Instead, I wondered how things were going for Namal: Had the Bandui River been agreeable, and had he been able to persuade any of the prominent nymphs to trust him? Though, I didn't know what he could possibly gain by lying to them. We were relying on the nymphs to find us a safe place in the slums, and also to start spreading the word to get out before the Nether Queen could take her revenge. Had the ravens reached our father and Ayglos? Would the messenger birds even be discovered before morning? Would that be soon enough? It would have to be. Just like my hand holding my side was enough. One foot in front of the other—not too fast. Breathe, not too deep—not too fast.
The prison bell grew faint behind us, and the city grew less fine. Dogs barked here and there, and there were undoubtedly legitimate squads of soldiers pouring out from the garrison to search the surrounding area. I struggled to keep caring.
"Oy!" a voice stage whispered behind us.
Quill stiffened and I slowed hesitantly.
I ventured to look over my shoulder. The speaker was the bearded thief. I couldn't see anything behind us, but if he was right we needed to hide. I didn't<|fim_middle|>oped and gathered something off the ground and started chucking things at the windows. A light flickered to life inside.
"Zare!" Quill sounded far away.
I tried to say I was alright, but the air just slipped away and I wasn't sure where my legs were anymore. They couldn't have gone far, though. Could they?
I heard Quill curse, and was vaguely aware of his arms around me. Then everything got very peaceful. | want to fight again—one, everything hurt already, and two, I didn't want them to know we'd stayed in the city, or which direction we'd gone.
"Alright." I inclined my head. I was certain Quill would disagree, but he said nothing.
The thief didn't hesitate. He took the lead and turned us down an alley so narrow we had to pass single file. On the other side, he turned right and trotted directly to the third house on the left and knocked. Nothing happened. He knocked again. When there was still no answer he stepped back and started eyeing the window. My feet slowed to a halt in front of the house. I could feel myself losing will. I wouldn't mind going back to that alley and laying down.
Or maybe just laying down here.
I could lay down right here.
The thief sto | 174 |
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"Downtown Living with a View. From the considerable balcony of this 1483SF residence, enjoy views of the amenities deck, northeast Tampa Bay, and the city skyline. This 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo also has a good sized den, two parking spaces, and separate storage. An open plan kitchen has Quartz countertops, tile backsplash, and spacious cabinetry. Bosch SS appliances include gas range, drawer microwave, and range vent. Sleek hardwood flooring presents open, clean lines in the entire living area and a spacious flow throughout this condo. The Master suite is generous in size and the master bathroom has a lovely freestanding tub, separate shower stall, water closet, and dual sinks. The unit has a dedicated laundry closet with washer/dryer included and a truly special feature, a water conditioning system. Amenities at The Salvador include a pool, spa, fitness center, social room, grilling station, Gated Dog Park area with dog washing station, sculpture garden and outdoor fire pit area. This state of the art building also has a CONCIERGE and onsite management for the convenience of the owners. It's just steps away from Publix, Starbucks, USFSP, Dali Museum, and the Mahaffey theater that produces an abundance of concerts and shows."
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A bit close to owner's house for privacy. House stocked with copious amounts of Edwardian delph. At least 30 glasses but not tone wine glass.Nice gesture welcome pack of processed meats that we don't use.Can this be the only Sykes Cottage with 4 ticks where the landlord doesn't provide a hairdryer? There was a broken one in the drawer which the owner said was left by a previous occupant but he didn't supply one. Had to purchase a hairdryer . Could have brought our own had we known. Wifi only available in the corner of an end bedroom.This could be a 9.9 premises if these niggles were ironed out and the landlord developed better inter-personal skills.
Suzie and Michael provide comfort and all facilities; and even kindly provide a Breakfast Pack and Scones on arrival. We had a wonderful time, and coming back to the comfort of the cottage in the late afternoon, to relax in the Garden overlooking the Bay was the icing on the cake.
We were greeted at the cottage by the welcoming owners who live nearby, with a lit fire & a fridge full of food which was a great start. This is a beautiful holiday home with every possible amenity we needed for our stay. Perfect location, just by the water with scenic views, but only a minutes walk from the local shops & restaurants. This is the first cottage we've rented in Dungloe and it will be the one that we'll return to every time we visit. Only thing we didn't like was leaving! Thanks for a great stay, it couldn't have been better.
Resting on the water's edge along the quay road in Dungloe, County Donegal, is a well-presented, detached cottage, just a 20 minute drive from Donegal Airport.
This homely cottage has been lovingly decorated and offers comfortable, quality accommodation with superb access to the amenities in Dungloe.
Boasting two delightful double bedrooms, this Dungloe cottage is ideal for couples or friends looking for a coastal getaway being less than half an hour from the Blue Flag beaches of Narin, Portnoo and Carrickfinn.
Guests with reduced mobility can take advantage of the wheelchair ramp to the rear of this Dungloe cottage, and also a fully wheelchair accessible wet room, an en-suite in one of the bedrooms.
The open plan living area, with sliding doors leading to the front, is where guests will spend most of their time, cooking up a storm, wining, dining and enjoying one another's company by the warmth of the stove.
There is also a separate sitting room, with an open fire, where you can retire to and enjoy a bit of quiet time with your book or newspaper after a fun-filled day discovering this unspoilt and beautiful region.
Outside this Dungloe cottage is a lawned garden, which enjoys sea views, and a very short walk will take you to the water's edge where there is also a picturesque picnic area.
Dungloe is situated in<|fim_middle|> can be found in the bogs and reed beds, while golfers will love the variety of golf courses found in the surrounding area.
With hills and mountains to explore, the dramatic coastline to enjoy and so much to see and do, this is sure to make the perfect base for your Donegal holiday..
Note: Property not suitable for children under 6 years. | the Rosses region, famed for its great selection of pubs, shops and restaurants, not to mention its traditional music.
A paradise for walkers and fishermen, Dungloe and the surrounding area is scattered with rugged seascapes, lakes and sandy beaches, including Cloughglass Beach.
For the more experienced hiker, the challenge of Donegal's highest peak, Mount Errigal awaits.
Further afield, why not take a boat trip from Burtonport and discover the wild island of Aranmore, or hop on your bike and take in the views and landscape of the Glenveagh National Park?
Whatever the time of year, you will be sure to have a wonderful holiday from the comfort of this Dungloe cottage!
All ground floor. Two bedrooms: 2 x double (one with en-suite wet room with disabled access). Bathroom with bath, hand-held shower, basin and WC. Open plan living area with kitchen, dining area and sitting area with multi-fuel stove. Utility. Sitting room with open fire.
Up until 1762, entry into the town of Dungloe in Donegal was only possible via the stepping stones dotted over the river.
Thankfully, now visitors from all over the world can take the much easier route over Donegal Bridge and enjoy this charming town in County Donegal with ease.
Dungloe is known locally as 'The Capital of The Rosses', the name given to this region of the county.
The town, which has become recognised as a centre for traditional Irish music, has a selection of shops, bars and eating places, as well as events taking place throughout the year, including the annual 'Mary from Dungloe' festival.
A fisherman's paradise, the area has over 130 lakes and rivers and is renowned for its fishing and great sea angling, with several charter boats available in nearby Burtonport, from where diving can also be enjoyed.
There are also daily boat trips from the harbour to Arranmore and Rutland Island.
Wonderful wildlife | 411 |
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The sacrament of Baptism isn't a good luck charm but a gift from God that enables Christians to overcome evil, Pope Francis said.
Those who receive the sacrament are given the strength to overcome "the temptation to separate from God, from His will, from communion with Him (and) fall into the snares of worldly seductions<|fim_middle|> pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square for the general audience despite the day being a national holiday commemorating Italy's liberation from Nazi occupation.
Pope Francis, however, chose to reflect on the spiritual liberation from evil offered to men and women who receive the sacrament of Baptism.
"At the baptismal font, no one ever goes alone, but is accompanied by the prayer of the whole Church," the pope said.
Another important and symbolic gesture, he explained, is anointing with oil the chest of the person about to be baptized.
Like the ancient gladiators who used oil to tone their muscles and slip through the clutches of their adversary, Christians are anointed as a sign of Christ's power "that strengthens us to fight against evil and overcome it," the pope said.
"Strengthened by the risen Christ, who conquered the prince of this world, we too can say with faith like St. Paul: 'I can do all things through Him who gives me strength,'" the pope said. | ," the pope said April 25 during his weekly general audience.
"Baptism is not a magic spell but a gift of the Holy Spirit that allows those who receive it to fight against the spirit of evil, believing that God sent His Son into the world to destroy the power of Satan and bring men and women from the darkness to His kingdom of infinite light," he said.
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With an estimated population of 1,406,630 as of July 1, 2016. San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. It is part of the San Diego–Tijuana conurbation, the second-largest trans-border agglomeration between the US and a bordering country after Detroit–Windsor. The city is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, and extensive beaches.
San Diego "the birthplace of California". Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, it was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded in<|fim_middle|>50.
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Porto Vista - 1835 Columbia St, San Diego, CA 92101 | 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of the newly independent Mexico, which reformed as the First Mexican Republic two years later. California became part of the United States in 1848 following the Mexican–American War and was admitted to the union as a state in 18 | 78 |
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July 30th, 2013, 12:00AM Written by Sarah Motherwell, Southern Gazette Southern Gazette
Mary Ridley has put her computer skills to good use at Belmont Senior Citizens Club.
The 78-year-old is the treasurer and<|fim_middle|> computers but was proud that her programs had resulted in saving days of work by streamlining arduous tasks.
Win tickets to The Public | secretary for Belmont Senior Citizens Club where she has used her computing expertise to help the centre move from a manual to an automated system.
Ms Ridley learned her computer skills while working as an insurance officer for T&G Insurance after its merger with Colonial Insurance in the early 1980s where she was responsible for transferring data between the companies and across Australia.
'Once I learned how to use the computer I made personal programs for people,' Ms Ridley said.
'I honestly didn't think I could do it and when they came to me with what they wanted it just grew and grew.'
Rotary recognised Ms Ridley for her 18 years of contribution to the club, during which she has held a number of executive positions and assisted in operating its computer system.
Ms Ridley said she did not consider herself an expert on | 163 |
My love of clay continues. I'm thinking of writing a<|fim_middle|>Test the Roblox process needs. Can I Run it? | pop up disclaimer for the blog. "Warning. High percentage of clay based projects alert. Proceed with caution." After this polymer clay tutorial today we have an air dry clay tutorial coming up on Thursday and then I promise I will be mixing up the materials for a few DIYs I'm pretty excited about!
Once you've made the beads then prepare the glaze mixing a small amount of colour with the glaze in a separate container. The consistence will vary depending on the strength of colour but with this dark blue I've gone for about 10 parts varnish to one part paint. Roughly mix together but let the two parts begin to separate slightly before painting onto the bead. This is how you can achieve a seamless variation in colour as you would with a glaze.
Leave the beads to dry on skewers turning them to stop the varnish from congregating on one side. Once they are dry you can thread them onto the cord! Make the necklace long enough to fit over your head and tie the ends together.
I added that cheeky little white one in the mix it up with an unglazed bead. I really like the contrast it brings and I think that it evens up the necklace nicely.
These are so beautiful! I need to give it a try!
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Our Fun RE day was led by Gill Vaisey, Early Years specialist & author of the Puddles books.
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The exhibition Battered and Berthed in Princes Quay, gave visitors the opportunity to reflect on the Hull's maritime heritage, its relationship with the sea, to respond to being battered by storms, the wind and waves, and to challenge ideas of home – finding a berth.
Works by well-known artists such as Graham Sutherland, Eric Gill, Elisabeth Fr<|fim_middle|> offer basic half-day sessions How to Plan from the Agreed Syllabus and others linked to subject leadership, pedagogy and British Values. Please let us know how we can help support your teaching and pupils' learning.
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Old Braeswood
11-Story Apartment Midrise Planned for N. Braeswood at Main Preceded by This Less-Than-1-Story Trial Piece
by Christine Gerbode
Old Braeswood, South Main, Texas Medical Center
The little swatch of test facade tilted up at 7551 Main St. north of Brays Bayou earlier this spring is still standing, a reader's drive-by snap attests this week. The piece, which shows off the look of a handful of warmer and cooler beige-and-brown pairings, is likely related to the much taller project planned on the site by Allen Harrison Company, which bought the land last year. The developer has the spot marked for an 11-story residential building (the top 7 of which'll hold 186 apartments, and the bottom 4 of which'll hold 285 parked cars). A reader over on HAIF also spotted the recently completed review of the building by the Federal Aviation Administration folks, who okayed the plans for the 125-ft.-tall structure as not a flight hazard.
Photos: Swamplot inbox
Beiges of Brays
77030, Apartments, Brays-Bayou, Main St. Plaza, Midrises, Old Braeswood, Proposed Developments, Texas Medical Center
For $2.6 Million, You Could Be the Newest Owner of the Oldest Home on Braeswood Ct.
Homes for Sale, Interiors, Old Braeswood, Uncategorized
Per historian Steven Fox's telling, the 1933 home at what's now 2330 N. Braeswood Blvd. is the work of architect Joseph Finger (a few years after the Lancaster Hotel was built, and a few years before Finger went on to design City Hall). The 4-bedroom house sits on 1.13 acres and was the first one built along Braeswood Ct. (which loops off of N. Braeswood just west of S. Main St.). The exterior railings shown above are copper, and the enthusiastically tropical painted tile mural on the chimney reportedly dates back to the 1930s as well.
The Old Braeswood Property Owners Association traces the house's Houston-history-heavy ownership record in a 2013 newsletter; the article follows the trail from a mysterious associate of Spindletop oilman T.P. Lee, to friends of future Texas governor Ross Sterling, to the son of Meyerland namesake Frank Meyer and beyond.
Want to add your name to the list? The current asking price is $2.6 million. Look around below:
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77030, Architecture, Home Listings, Homes for Sale, Houston History, Old Braeswood
A Not-So-Modern Midcentury and Its Late-Century Addition in Old Braeswood Are Now Looking for $1.29 Million
by CALwords
Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Old Braeswood
At the newer end of Old Braeswood, where the housing is typically more fifties vintage than stately prewar stock, there's an updated stoney-faced original home with a smooth-sided seventies addition. The latter blocks the large corner lot's interior from cross street Kirby Dr., 3 blocks north of Brays Bayou and the Rice School. Some of the added space rocks on, including the family room with its sturdy stone fireplace (top). A contract on the property fell through in May 2014, when the asking price was $1.15 million. After a brief timeout, the home reappeared in July with a fresh price tag that's still in effect: $1.29 million.
No Stone Unturned
77030, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Old Braeswood, Swimming Pools
1929 Estate Showing Off 'How Braeswood Was Supposed To Have Looked' Now Available 'As-Is'
Home Design, Homes for Sale, Houston Architects, Interiors, Old Braeswood
Minus the air conditioning and other newfangled add-ons, an old Old Braeswood property looks every bit the manorial English estate architect Carl Mulvey intended when he designed it back in 1929. The property, located in a section of the neighborhood falling east of Greenbriar Dr., was listed "as is" last week with a $1.15 million asking price. Inside, there's plenty of time-burnished woodwork.
Carl Mulvey's Gables Galore
77030, Homes for Sale, Houston Architects, Interiors, Old Braeswood
Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Following the Herd
Homes for Sale, Interiors, Old Braeswood
2535 Glen Haven Blvd. [HAR]
77030, Crit<|fim_middle|> the St. Nicholas School along the northern bank of Brays Bayou, southwest of the Texas Medical Center. A reader alerts Swamplot that a variance sign has gone up on the now-vacant 8.5-acre parcel (at right) that surrounds the school and extends along S. Main up to Pressler St., and which used to house the Stables, the Red Lion restaurant, and the Bermuda Apartments. The variance lists 7200 Main and Springwoods Realty Company as the developers of the site, but doesn't announce what the development is. Springwoods Realty is best known in Houston as the developers Springwoods Village, the curious 1,800-acre eco-themed development also of possible Aristotle Onassis origin whose announcement preceded that of the adjacent new ExxonMobil campus south of The Woodlands. And 7200 Main shares the New York address of Springwoods Village's somewhat mysterious developer, Coventry Development Corp. The variance asks for permission not to extend North Braeswood or terminate it in a cul-de-sac, as would normally be required:
What's up at Greenbriar and S. Main?
77030, Old Braeswood, Texas Medical Center, Variances
Devon Estates
Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Converting to Digital
2518 Underwood St. [HAR]
77030, Devon Estates, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Libraries
Comment of the Day: Can You Hear It Now?
by Allyn West
Old Braeswood, Quicklink
COMMENT OF THE DAY: CAN YOU HEAR IT NOW? "On a related note, a number of years ago I lived across the street from a condo complex. For no apparent reason, their dumpster started getting picked up in the middle of the night. After the second or third time this happened, I looked up the company president's name in the public records; as luck would have it he had a listed phone number. The next time it happened I called and woke him up while the racket was going on. That was the last 3 AM pickup." [mollusk, commenting on Arriving Late and Departing Early in Old Braeswood] Illustration: Lulu
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Arriving Late and Departing Early in Old Braeswood
"At 11:20 pm last night, my husband and I heard the sound of heavy scraping, metal on concrete," reports a neighbor of the recently sold teardown at 2530 Maroneal in Old Braeswood. "It is an odd sound to hear at that time of night. It was at least 8 hours too early for trash pick-up, and it went on for a long time. After about five minutes of listening to this my curiosity and frustration drove me to get out of bed, robe up, grab my eye glasses and see what I could see. The back of my property was dark but that's where the noise was coming from. We called the police. By the time we finished giving the police our information, the sound shifted to that of a large truck driving away. I'd guess whatever they were doing back there took about 15 minutes to execute."
Morning light revealed 2 new neighbors: the Dumpster pictured above and this machine:
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Long on the Market in Old Braeswood: The Sock Monkeys Can't Wait
Home Decor, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Old Braeswood
In exile now from artist Gloria Becker's home now for almost 9 months, her sock monkeys are likely getting a tad restless. But still: no sale!
In October, Becker dropped the price on her scrubbed and staged Old Braeswood stuffed-animal planet another $45.5K.
7309 Greenbriar St. [HAR]
Sock Monkey Palace: Spiffed Up for Sale [Swamplot]
Sock Monkey Palace Special: $53K Socked Off [Swamplot]
77030, Art, Braeswood, Home Decor, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Price Reductions, Staging
Neighborhood Guessing Game Over: At a 90
Homes for Sale, Interiors, Neighborhood Guessing Game, Old Braeswood, Renovations
But first, your guesses for this week's contest: River Oaks and Southampton each attracted 3 of you. There were 2 votes each for Tanglewood, Memorial and the Museum District. The rest: Spring Branch, West University, "along Kirby and west," near the Ashby Highrise, Southgate, Castle Court, Boulevard Oaks, Montrose "between Richmond and Alabama, maybe between Hazard and Dunlavy," Garden Oaks, Riverside Terrace, the First Ward, Old Braeswood, Bellaire, Rivercrest, Lynn Park, . . . and Heaven.
John (the first one, not the second) knew what to look for, and nailed it:
The built-in bookcases and day-bed thingy look exactly like those in my Ayrshire ranch house, and since this one fairly old and two stories, I'm going with Old Braeswood.
A very strong honorable mention goes to movocelot, who figured out the house's age and came extremely close to deducing the precise geometry of its recent expansion:
This house is old enough & well-situated enough to have been remodeled – seriously – twice. I see various windows, elec outlets and cabinetry.
Guess the newish family room pushed out from the kitchen has the newish master bath on top, for a new ridge at a 90 to the main house. (The original roof has the lavender office under it. Circa 1930.)
(Actually, it's the Kitchen that has the Master Bath on top of it — saves on plumbing costs!)
Commenter karen, who was already familiar with the house, gets a special mention for trying to stir things up . . . with this wonderfully misleading entry:
Oh, this is totally southhampton! 1940's construction, and beautifully updated. No professor in southgate could afford to do that. and it can't be river oaks or old braeswood because the lot's just not big enough. there are neighbors all but peeking in the windows!
Ready for the real tell-all?
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Inside an Expanded Old Braeswood Spread Now Looking for $2.4 Million
The half-an-acre lot in Old Braeswood, down Main Street from the Texas Medical Center, means there's a yard left despite additions and expansions over the years to a 1938 home. Relisted a week ago, the stately property is trying again with another price reduction: $2.399 million. Its initial listing in April 2013 held out hopes for just under $3 million. A couple adjustments by $200K and $300K took it down to $2.499 million before a holiday hiatus.
Minding Manors
77030, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Old Braeswood
Developers of Springwoods Village Working Out Kinks for Something Near the Med Center
Old Braeswood, Texas Medical Center
There's a stub end of North Braeswood Blvd. that extends just east of where the Stables Restaurant (pictured above) stood until 2007 at the corner of Greenbriar Dr. and South Main St. It leads to | 254 |
Truckin' June 7, 2010
Argentine Truck Will Bring 'Empanada Paradise' to Union Square
By Daniel Maurer
Photo: Daniel Maurer
Even the most fiendish of flea freaks may not realize that on summer Saturdays and Sundays, there's a massive flea market in Aqueduct Racetrack's parking lot, and while the goods may not be as chic as at Brooklyn Flea, Hester Street Fair, and Artists & Fleas (imagine a giant outdoor discount store), the food scene is certainly thriving. There's a fried-chicken cart that sells watermelon and passion-fruit juice, a Chinese fish<|fim_middle|>, or grilled chicken with rice, beans, and salad) to Brooklynites as well as at the flea, but we're told that this week, it will start parking on 14th Street and University Place during the day and move over to the meatpacking district at night. The empanadas are stuffed with cheese, beef, or chicken. They're on the greasy side, but that should do meatpackers just fine. The truck also specializes in homemade sausages, barbecued ribs, and more. It has no web presence, but you can reach it the old-fashioned way, at 347-245-6301 or 347-659-5515.
aqueduct flea market
el paraiso de las empanadas
empanada paradise
argentine (ny) | and chips cart, a mozzarepa cart doling out tamarind juice and fruit punch, a couple of halal carts, a zeppole stand, and an imposing grill turning out roasted corn. One Parika Sancho sells tasty plantain chips in a bag, and there are a handful of food trucks, including Staten Island's Sin Fronteras (tacos, tortas, and sopes) and the El Paraiso de las Empanadas (Empanada Paradise).
That last truck has been serving Argentine platters (bisteak, chicken cutlets | 120 |
Pilot Gary Kraft of the Aspen-based conservation group EcoFlight banks his Cessna 210 to the north of the Bears Ears — two distinct buttes in southeastern Utah that are sacred to Native American tribes and the namesake features of a national monument created by former President Obama.
It's a crystal-clear morning in December where the colors jump out — the deep green of subalpine firs give way to the browns of dried grasses and the red sandstone of the Bears Ears buttes. Far to the south are multi-colored cliffs and deep gorges cut into Cedar Mesa.
A three-member team from the British Broadcasting Corp. occupies half the plane. They ask for and receive permission from Kraft to open the windows so they get clear video and still pictures of the spectacular scenery unfolding from a bird's-eye view at 10,500 feet in elevation. Wind roars into the passenger compartment, making speech impossible and forcing the passengers to zip their jackets tighter.
Kraft ends up making three passes over the national monument that morning with three different groups of journalists, not only the BBC but also Outside Magazine, Yale News and a German TV station, among others. (Fox News and Wall Street Journal reporters participated in a flyover earlier in the year.) In addition to filing their own report, the BBC reporters created coverage that would be used by National Public Radio and PBS the next day when President Donald Trump announced a decision to drastically reduce the acreage of the national monument.
Thanks to the work of the BBC team and other journalists, Americans caught a glimpse of the magnificent setting that Trump decided wasn't worthy of monument designation. While the outcome wasn't what EcoFlight and its allies wanted, the footage and photography will be used in multiple news reports as a court battle unfolds over the legality of Trump eviscerating the monuments.
EcoFlight celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2017. Over that time it has whisked thousands of journalists, policymakers of both political parties and stakeholders such as ranchers, scientists and environmentalists up in aircraft for an aerial perspective of landscapes at the center of one environmental debate or another.
"The airplane is such an incredible tool," said Bruce Gordon, who founded EcoFlight and serves as executive director and its other primary pilot. The advantage is people in a plane have a 360-degree view. They aren't trying to absorb the vast Western landscape by looking left and right out a car windshield. That creates a unique, broader perspective and often results in greater understanding of issues.
Gordon calls it conservation in the cockpit. EcoFlight, he said, is the environmental air force.
"We can give the land a voice," Gordon said.
Basalt-based photographer Peter McBride learned the value of the bird's-eye view when he enlisted EcoFlight's help on his project tracing the Colorado River and what happens to it before it reaches the Sea of Cortez.
"In general, they offer a perspective on water and natural resources that we don't get on the ground," he said.
He recalled he once gained a new perspective on the effects of logging in a national forest via the air. A 50-yard-wide swath of trees was left untouched next to a highway but beyond that the forest was clear-cut. The perspective wouldn't have been possible without the flight.
McBride was so impressed with EcoFlight's mission that he started volunteering a few years ago on its board of directors.
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In other cases, EcoFlight takes the initiative to offer flights, such as with the Thompson Divide oil and gas controversy west and southwest of Carbondale (see related story). It aims to help direct policy in those cases.
"What stokes my passion and fire is the people I work with, the donors, and the scientists and activists, the people on the ground," Gordon said.
The groups accomplish more by working together. "All of these conservation groups are a piece of the puzzle," he said.
Josh Ewing is executive director of Friends of Cedar Mesa, a conservation organization fighting to preserve Bears Ears National Monument. It was in the thick of the campaign to create the monument, then the effort to try to save it and now to restore it. Ewing tries to educate people on why Bears Ears would be a national park anywhere else on Earth. Getting people up in the air in EcoFlight flyovers have proved invaluable.
"The fastest way to demonstrate the scenic beauty of the monument is from the air. You can't help but be impressed flying over the sinuous canyons of Cedar Mesa, the verdant Elk Ridge, and the dramatic towers in Valley of the Gods," Ewing said. "Nothing makes an impression more powerfully than a personal experience, and EcoFlight makes possible a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that leaves a lasting impression on everyone who has the opportunity to fly with them."
Gordon's partner in life and at EcoFlight is Jane Pargiter, who joined the organization in 2004 and is vice president. Pargiter grew up in South Africa and was a lecturer at a university when she got involved in the anti-apartheid movement. She got blacklisted for her activism and moved to the U.S. for safety at the urging of her father. She ended up in Aspen and found her activism spirit renewed by EcoFlight.
"What it did was it enabled me to have the kind of passion I had when I was fighting the end of apartheid. It's the same sort of thing where you are using your soul and your heart but you're also using your mind," Pargiter said.
EcoFlight averages about 400 hours of flying with people per year but 2017 was particularly busy. The number of flights jumped 40 percent.
Journalists were present in 63 percent of the flights last year. The influence of news coverage that results from taking reporters up in the air is incalculable. EcoFlight also has multiple files of still photography and video of imperiled Western landscapes that media outlets can use simply by giving credit.
The organization also takes a large number of high school and university students up in the air each year to study environmental issues. The nonprofit organization's budget for 2017 was about $480,000.
Just as rewarding as the media coverage and work with students, Pargiter said, is taking up elected officials and policymakers on different sides of issues and seeing a meeting of the minds unfold.
"The plane happens to provide a really great platform for that because you're putting people from different backgrounds into this tiny little bubble of a cockpit together where they're physically touching, they're all nervous, they're all excited," she said. "So they're sharing similar emotions even though they could be from opposite sides of the aisle politically or morally even, but they find that they have a lot in common so it allows them to suddenly see the landscape in a different way."
Once on the ground, parties often discuss what they saw and that's when the value of the flights becomes evident.
"They learn that they're really not that far apart," Pargiter said.
In this national political climate, that's more important than ever, she said. | EcoFlight works with about 300 conservation groups on efforts such as preservation of national forests from oil and gas development, opposition to uranium mining on the rim of the Grand Canyon, expansion of coal mines in Wyoming and various effects of climate change.
In many cases, its conservation partners ask EcoFlight for assistance getting people up in the air for a different perspective.
"People now see this as a tool they try to factor into their (pl | 89 |
Half a billion trees gone? January 14 2014
There is more heartbreak in the ongoing saga surrounding the<|fim_middle|>.
"During this time of year, it's difficult to tell in some cases if a tree is truly dead. And keep in mind that the drought is ongoing," Sustainable Forestry department head Burl Carraway said in a statement. "We fully expect mortality percentages to increase if the drought continues." | Lone Star State's trees. The Texas Forest Service is reporting that a minimum of 100 million and as many as 500 million trees — between two and 10 percent of Texas' estimated 4.9 billion — have died as a result of the epic drought of 2011. That's only including trees with a diameter of five inches or larger on forested land, and doesn't touch the approximate four million acres burned by drought-induced wildfires that raged across the state.
Concern on the part of state officials and citizens alike prompted this preliminary survey, taken by localized forestry service professionals and compiled by the agency's Forest Inventory & Analysis program. CultureMap was first to report that the greater Houston area is expected to lose at least 66 million trees due to the drought.
The Texas Forest Service notes three specific multi-county regions that were hardest hit: Chief among them are the Houston-area counties of Harris, Montgomery, Grimes, Madison and Leon, which "saw extensive mortality among loblolly pines."
Those pines, which are commercially valuable for their timber, are being put to good use as lumber, pulp, paper mill chips or biomass. But that does little to assuage the pain of a diminished canopy, nor the financial burden associated with chopping and hauling the dead trees, then revitalizing the forested areas with new saplings.
Also heavily affected were Ashe junipers in West Texas, as well as cedars and post oaks in Bastrop and Caldwell counties.
The agency claims that a more comprehensive and verifiable census will be taken aerially in the spring, when budding leaves will indicate whether trees are truly dead or simply went dormant early this year to protect themselves from the extreme environmental factors | 355 |
As this guided holiday departs at 7:30 AM, accommodation will need to be pre-booked for the previous night. Welcome to Sydney! Travel to the Hunter Valley for an exclusive wine tasting and get to know your fellow travellers over a delicious lunch at a local winery. Continue north to picturesque seaside Port Macquarie. This evening join your Travel Director for a welcome reception.
Journey to Cape Byron Lighthouse and enjoy superb views over the Pacific Ocean from Australia's eastern-most point. At the right time of year you may be lucky enough to spot migrating whales frolicking off the coast. For lunch we recommend fresh fish and chips on the beach at Byron Bay – there's nothing more Australian! Continue to the famous holiday destination, the Gold Coast, where you'll stay for<|fim_middle|> up to it, take a walk to a lookout for views over the beautiful waters and islands of the Coral Sea. This afternoon you're free to enjoy paradise.
This morning you'll board a ferry back to the mainland and continue north along the Bruce Highway for a stop at lunchtime in Townsville, when you'll have the opportunity to take a stroll along the Strand with views to Magnetic Island. Your destination for the night is Mission Beach where you'll stay with views over the ocean. Magic.
This morning there will be time to take a walk along the shore and feel the golden sand between your toes before you depart Mission Beach. Today you'll travel through the high tropical plateau known as the Atherton Tablelands, where lush rainforests, waterfalls and lakes abound. Visit Millaa Millaa Falls and see the famous Curtain Fig Tree. Keep an eye out for the spectacular Ulysses Butterfly while you're there. Continue to Kuranda where you'll stop around lunch time. Enjoy some free time to explore 'the village in the rainforest'. You may choose to journey to Cairns on the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway.
Board a high speed catamaran and cruise out to the Great Barrier Reef. The world heritage listed reef is the only living organism you can see from the moon. Imagine that! You'll have the opportunity to go snorkelling and view this natural living wonder up-close (equipment provided) and view the spectacular coral and tropical fish from the underwater observatory and the semi-submersible craft. Enjoy a tropical buffet lunch before you return to Cairns in the late afternoon. This evening join your fellow travellers for a farewell dinner at a local restaurant, where you'll get the opportunity to taste traditional Australian bush flavours.
Package Includes: 12 nights of accommodation, Travel by luxury coach, Airport transfers, sightseeing and attractions as listed below. | the next two nights.
After a short tour of buzzing Brisbane, visit Australia Zoo made famous by the Crocodile Hunter, the late Steve Irwin and his family. Enjoy a sneak peek into the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital and see how AAT Kings works with the Wildlife Warriors to support the koala rehabilitation project at the hospital, the country's largest and busiest wildlife facility. Catch one of the many shows and wander through the zoo's fascinating grounds. Later travel to the resort town of Noosa for a relaxing stay. This evening join your fellow travellers for dinner at a restaurant with views over the beach.
Take time out to discover Noosa for yourself. Swim at Noosa Main Beach or venture a little further with an easy, spectacular walk along the headland through Noosa National Park. If you're feeling adventurous, you may like to hire a stand-up paddle board or even take a boat ride through the incredible Noosa Everglades, one of Australia's most beautiful wilderness areas. You'll love the dark waterways and myriad of wildlife along the Noosa River – it's truly spectacular! This evening choose one of the town's eateries and dine on inspiring local delights.
A day of discovery lies ahead as you cross by ferry to explore World Heritage listed Fraser Island. Your 4WD tour takes you to the coloured sands of Rainbow Beach (tidal) and beyond. Visit Lake McKenzie, ringed with magnificent white sandy beaches. Walk through the ancient rainforest at Central Station with its huge satiny, scribbly gum and kauri trees and enjoy a delicious lunch before arriving in Hervey Bay.
Stop at Langmorn Station, a fully operational cattle station. A member of the Creed family will treat you to a guided tour of the property including their original family homestead, built in 1873. Enjoy afternoon tea in the garden in the company of the pet kangaroo! Cross the Tropic of Capricorn as you arrive in Rockhampton, the beef capital of Australia. Your night is free so why not try some local beef at one of the town's steakhouses.
Take a cruise to explore famous Whitehaven Beach, voted Australia's best! Feel the sand between your toes and if you're | 451 |
<|fim_middle|>! | Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings: Obviously.
Astrix Ominbus: I figure with all the Tintin love floating around this house, it's a sure thing, right?
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Since I scared the crap out of my son all the way through my very dramatic reading of The Hobbit, I thought we'd move forward and start getting to know the rest of Middle Earth.
Birds of Feather - You know my son is a bird freak, and this lovely lift-the-flap and flip-over-the-colors book is a perfect match for him. Goodness, it's lovely.
Gentleman Jim: Everybody loves Raymond.
Bone Volume 2: My son was afraid of these books for so long, but now he's jumped right in and loving them. Begging for more incessantly. I am going back and filling in what books we have missing chronologically. This should keep him quiet for about a day and a half.
Cartoon History of the Universe Part III: Book I and II have been huge hits in our house. But then again, anything in cartoon form makes my son go nuts.
That's about it. If you happen to run into the sweet pea, please don't give the surprises away. :) I can't believe we are headed into the home stretch already!
I love Pittau et Gervais. I just bought the gorgeous Axinamu, but since my grown children unfortunately don't appreciate anymore, it's just for me!
This is awesome post with great insight | 314 |
Cole JC, Sumnall HR, O'Shea E, Marsden CA.
"Effects of MDMA exposure on the conditioned place<|fim_middle|> an increase in risks associated with alcohol abuse. | preference produced by other drugs of abuse".
Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2003 Mar 26;166(4):383-90.
Cole JC, Sumnall HR, O'Shea E, Marsden CA. "Effects of MDMA exposure on the conditioned place preference produced by other drugs of abuse" Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2003 Mar 26;166(4):383-90.
Cole JC
Sumnall HR
O'Shea E
Marsden CA
RATIONALE. MDMA is a serotonergic neurotoxin but few pre-clinical studies have found long-term behavioural consequences. As human users of MDMA are polydrug users, it is important to investigate whether the behavioural effects of other drugs are modulated by prior exposure to MDMA. OBJECTIVES. This study investigated whether pretreatment with a multiple high dose regimen of MDMA altered the rewarding effects of other drugs of abuse. METHODS. Adult male Lister Hooded rats ( n=10/group) were pretreated with 10 mg/kg MDMA or 1 ml/kg saline vehicle IP every 2 h for 6 h. Fourteen days later, conditioned place preference (CPP) to d-amphetamine (3 mg/kg), cocaine (20 mg/kg), ethanol (2.0 g/kg), heroin (0.5 mg/kg), or MDMA (10 mg/kg) was assessed. RESULTS. In general, MDMA pretreatment had no effect on drug reward or habituation to the place conditioning apparatus. However, in contrast to saline pretreated rats, those animals receiving MDMA failed to show CPP after ethanol. CONCLUSION. MDMA pretreatment reduced the rewarding properties of ethanol. This finding may represent a functional consequence of MDMA-induced neurotoxicity. By extrapolation, human users of MDMA may be exposed to | 387 |
Rice / Engineering / Computer Science / Kuldeep Meel: the New CS Professor
Kuldeep Meel: the New CS Professor
Rice University alumnus Kuldeep Meel (Ph.D. '17) is an assistant professor of computer science at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was also recently appointed the Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professorship. He still recalls the first lesson his Rice adviser unknowingly taught him about working with students.
"In my second meeting with Moshe Vardi, there was a scheduling snafu, and he profusely apologized multiple times for the few minutes that I probably lost in waiting for him," said Meel. "Now I was used to giving respect to<|fim_middle|>"When Moshe traveled, he offered his grad students the chance to fill in for him. I had several opportunities to teach COMP 409 in 2014, and by the end of the semester, three of those students had approached Moshe about working in his research group, and I like to think that my lectures played an epsilon part in their decision making. I realized not only how much I enjoyed teaching but also that I could get people excited about diving deeply into problems. That is when I recognized the power of teaching," he said.
Meel's undergraduate peers and professors might be surprised at his interest in teaching, particularly since he was not an avid listener in class.
"I'd never been a good student. As an undergrad, I probably slept through most of my classes. Then I signed up for an Optimization Theory course with Richard Tapia at Rice. He showed me how to get people excited about solving a problem. If I'd had that kind of professor before, I would have gone into research a lot earlier.
"Richard Tapia has been using the same book for the last 30 years, and it is full of typos. Even his slides have typos, even in inequalities. For example, I would not be shocked if there was a typo like 5 > 7. But Tapia teaches 'it is all about understanding, not memorizing facts.' You don't need to remember 5 is less than 7, you need to understand the concept of 5 and 7 -- and the typos disappear in your memory."
Vardi encouraged him to take Tapia's course, and Meel did so without any background in optimization or knowledge of Tapia's teaching style.
"I don't think there is any other course where I learned so much, but was initially posed to fail. For one project, I asked if we could use the example from the book and he said, 'Yes, but if there's a typo it's your fault.' By the final exam, I realized everything I used in that course, I knew it.
"As a professor, I may not purposely leave typos on my lecture notes, but I do want my students to understand the concepts –and not just whether something is inefficient or efficient, but WHY. Being forced to understand 'why' is the big difference in Tapia's approach to teaching. You had to be in class and working through the problems to be able to tackle the questions on an exam. You can't just synthesize his prepared lecture notes because if they might (probably) have errors in them."
At NUS, Meel startled students in his first course by not using slides in his class. Instead, he outlined problems on a whiteboard at the beginning of class and introduced the students to discussion-based learning.
"I told them, 'In this course, you will learn only a few things, but you will learn them very deeply.' And I explained that we would be learning by diving into some open-ended projects. They shouldn't come to class expecting to be fed but expecting to engage with each other.
"In fact, once I got the students to become comfortable asking questions and suggesting answers, then I encouraged them to try and convince each other. That is when they began to realize where their gaps were. It's back to Tapia's style of teaching – once the student discovers the final answer on their own, they have examined it thoroughly and really know it."
At the end of his first semester as an assistant professor, Meel felt pleased with his results. In addition to seeing his PhD and Masters advisees increasingly show signs of independence, he was happy to get students in his course engage deeply with the course materials.
"One of the evaluations I read at the end of my first semester at NUS really made my day. 'Your way of teaching has allowed me to sit down and distill my goals in both academia and personal life, and I would like to thank you for that,' wrote the student. Similarly, the other day one of my advisees walked in and told me that he is unable to do anything except to think of the proof that we are working on. And moments like these make me realize what a privilege it is to be a Professor."
Note: Kuldeep Meel is looking for postdocs and research assistants for his group at NUS: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~meel/ | professors, but to have a professor value my time, and value it as highly as Moshe did, really stuck with me. By showing me --a then undergraduate exchange student—his respect, Moshe made me realize he was the kind of person I'd want to work with on research projects."
In addition to respect, Vardi gave his graduate students a wide latitude of freedom. Meel joked that his adviser gave students a long rope and they could either climb up as high as they were able, or use it to strangle themselves.
Meel said, "At NUS, I want to incorporate Moshe's philosophy of letting students and postdocs drive their projects. For example, I remember after my first semester, Moshe suggested a change of direction. I asked for some more time to think about changing directions, and he readily agreed. For a month and a half, I was stuck at an approach to the problem of sampling over high dimensions but then something clicked, and pieces fell in place. Moshe gave me more than time. He gave me confidence that I could figure hard problems out on my own."
Meel is thankful to Vardi for giving him the opportunity to teach.
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Research Study on Risks in English Premier League/European Football
Risks in English Premier League/European Football
By Aquib Patankar and Aditya Sai Kanaparthy, PGDRM Jan'21-22
European football is one of the most popular sporting events across the world. It includes some of most the watched football leagues in the world like English Premier League, LaLiga, bundesliga, Ligue 1 & the Italian Serie A. Champions league organised by UEFA is the one which garners one of the most views across sporting events worldwide.
UEFA also organises UEFA Europa league and the Conference League which are there, particularly to ensure participation for clubs that miss out champions league qualification. Out of all the League competitions English Premier league continues to be the most watched and the leader in overall money being generated with 5 clubs being included in the top 10 highest valued clubs across the world.
TOP 5 biggest leagues and their finances
Notes: Commercial revenue is not disaggregated into 'sponsorship' and 'other commercial' for clubs in England, Spain, Italy.
2019/20 average attendances and utilisation are upto the point of suspension of each respective league.
Source: Leagues, Deloitte Analysis
Transfer Market and player valuation
Player evaluationIn the history of football, 10 transfers have been made for at least 100 million EUR, including the highest one for 220 million EUR (Neymar to Paris SG in 2017). It should be added that players of a club are not only acquired by transfers. A club can also have players from their youth academy, players that joined the club by a free transition (as they were not bound by a contract with any other club), or players that are loaned from another club. Obtaining a good economic valuation of football players is highly valuable because allows, to some extent, the valuation of the club, budget planning, and remuneration.
Some key factors while evaluating economic value of a transfer are:
Player ́s playing position (i.e. goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, forward);
Age and nationality;
Contract: assessment of a player ́s contractual situation with his current club;
Individual sports performance: assessment of the player ́s on-pitch performance (e.g. goals, assists, minutes played, dribbles, tackles);
Disciplinary actions (i.e. number of fouls, number of red and yellow cards);
Assessment of the player ́s performance with his national team (e.g. number of international matches, international goals);
Assessment of the player ́s media and commercial potential
Team performance and characteristics: sporting results, league competitiveness, economic and financial aspects of the club, etc.;
Team dependence: evaluation of the importance of a given player in his playing team;
Timing of player ́s transfer and economic profiles of potential recruiting and selling clubs.
Risk Mitigation and European Super League
Big 12 clubs in Europe came together in Europe to mitigate some of the biggest risks facing football world. Though the implementation flopped , it raised some very important question about some of the biggest Risks facing European football:
Increasing crystallisation and polarisation of various clubs economic power.
Media landscape and evolution through digitalisation. The Gen Z football fans are more tech savvy and expect top end end digital entertainment and connect.
The rise of player power over a clubs pull , this continues to be a major risk top three followed football players have more Instagram followers top 5 clubs combined for example. Retaining such players and maintaining the<|fim_middle|> sporting success. A model granting financial stability based on past performance would help mitigate the uncertainty of under performance on sporting side for shorter term.
Better insurance coverage
The pandemic was something no club planned, for lots of clubs had epidemic insurance in place but did not anticipate the possibility of a pandemic .Clubs and governing will have to ensure a coverage on a wide variety of scenarios to avoid the repetition of such events.
https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/sport/football/954435/newcastle-saudi-takeover-what-is-sportswashing
https://footballbenchmark.com/home
https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/sports-business-group/articles/annual-review-of-football-finance.html
https://www.transfermarkt.co.in/
Get the full study here: Risks in EPL
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Saskatchewan's provincial auditor found hand hygiene practices are falling short in her review of hospital acquired infections.
Judy Ferguson examined the Regina General Hospital and Pasqua Hospital over a 12 month period ending Aug, 31, 2018.
Overall, Ferguson found there were generally good hygiene practices in place, but hand hygiene and general cleaning were falling short.
The Ministry of Health target for hand hygiene compliance is 100 per cent, but Ferguson said compliance rates may actually be lower than reported, fluctuating between 80 and 85 per cent.
In May 2017 a blind audit was conducted, so employees were not aware they were being monitored.
The auditor found some units had a 60 to 70 per cent decline in hand hygiene compliance rates compared to the June 2017 direct observation audit.
Ministry of Health guidelines recommend a blind audit in order to provide a better representation of hand-hygiene practices.
Ferguson noted the importance of proper hand-hygiene procedures, reporting this is one of the primary ways to prevent hospital-acquired infections.
According to the report, these infections result in one third of unexpected hospital deaths.
"The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) should rethink its approach to monitoring compliance with hand-hygiene policies to collect more accurate data on its hand-hygiene compliance rates," Ferguson said.
The hospital hand-hygiene compliance policy states hands should be sanitized before entering or leaving any facility or unit, before client/client environment contact, after client contact, before aseptic tasks (e.g. sterilizing equipment), and after bodily fluid exposure risk.
"Up to 70 per cent of hospital-acquired infections are preventable; hospital acquired infections can unnecessarily extend a patient's hospital stay, and lead to increased complications and costs," Ferguson said.
Ferguson also found labs in Regina and Saskatoon took considerably longer than good practice to analyze surgical biopsies. At the end of September 2018 there were around 1,300 backlogged biopsies.
Surgical biopsies are tissues removed from a patient to help provide a diagnosis for a variety of health problems, including cancer.
In 2017-18 the average wait for a surgical biopsy report out of Saskatoon was 12.1 days, and 18.7 days in Regina.
Ferguson said good practices suggest routine biopsies take five business days, with more complex biopsies taking six to 15 business days.
She also found shortcomings in the in the tracking process, noting neither city's labs tracked biopsies through the entire process.
Saskatoon plans to introduce better tracking through a new IT system expected to be in place this month. The Regina lab did not have similar plans.
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Biografia
Wilfrido fu un nobile longobardo, indicato come il capostipite della famiglia pisana che verrà successivamente conosciuta come Della Gherardesca. Suo padre, il gastaldo di Pisa Ratchauso, venne inviato dal re Liutprando a liberare le coste della Maremma dai Saraceni, ottenendone come premio il possesso; suo nonno era il duca del Friuli Pemmone e suoi zii i re dei Longobardi Astolfo e Rachis.
Era sposato con Tesia e avevano cinque figli. Ma nel luglio 754, durante la guerra tra Franchi e Longobardi, Wilfrido (d'accordo con la moglie e insieme a due compagni, Forte nobile della Corsica e Guidoaldo di Lucca un suo parente) decise di farsi monaco e fondare nelle terre di suo possesso in Maremma, precisamente nell'alta Val di Cornia in una zona chiamata Palazzuolo in Acquaviva, presso il borgo di Monteverdi (l'attuale Monteverdi Marittimo), un'abbazia con monastero dedicato a san Pietro, donando le sue proprietà al monastero medesimo. Per edificare il monastero di San Pietro in Palazzuolo, chiamò dal ducato di<|fim_middle|> Pietrasanta.
Wilfrido diresse il monastero di San Pietro per dieci anni e dette esempio di osservanza e umiltà.
Uno dei figli di Wilfrido, Ginfrido, dopo essere stato ordinato prete, fuggì dal monastero. Il padre profetizzò una punizione, che colse il giovane figlio con l'amputazione della falange di un dito, tanto da farlo ritornare al monastero pentito e, alla morte del padre, il 15 febbraio 756, fu chiamato a succedergli.
Culto
Dal Martirologio Romano: «A Palazzolo in Toscana, san Valfredo, abate, che, dopo aver generato cinque figli, decise di condurre con la moglie vita monastica.»
Avvennero molti miracoli e prodigi nei pressi della tomba di Wilfrido, così da far scaturire ben presto un culto che si diffuse in tutta la Toscana.
Il suo culto fu confermato nel 1861.
Viene celebrato e ricordato il 15 febbraio nelle diocesi di Pisa e di Massa Marittima, e nel Calendario Benedettino.
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Alban Butler, Il primo grande dizionario dei santi secondo il calendario, edizioni Piemme, 2001.
Emanuele Repetti, Dizionario Geografico Fisico della Toscana, Firenzelibri (collana Memorie italiane. Studi e testi), 2005.
Lodovico Antonio Muratori, Dissertazioni sopra le antichità italiane Volume 5
Ugolino della Gherardesca, "I della Gherardesca, dai Longobardi alle soglie del 2.000", Edizioni ETS, 1995.
Collegamenti esterni
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Santi italiani dell'VIII secolo | Benevento il monaco benedettino Magno dall'Abbazia di San Vincenzo al Volturno, per apprendere e diffondere la regola benedettina: infatti lui stesso e i suoi cinque figli andarono ad abitare nel monastero seguendo la Regola di San Benedetto.
Questo tipo di donazioni, avvenute durante lo scontro con i Franchi, servivano alla nobiltà longobarda per tutelarsi dalle pretese patrimoniali dei nuovi conquistatori: l'unione dei loro interessi a quelli della Chiesa metteva così al riparo i loro possedimenti terrieri.
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Two large and powerful players dominate today's digital advertising world: Facebook, which owns social advertising and has emerged as a big fish in mobile app advertising, and Google, a leader in search advertising and a major player in the display space.
Beyond those two big guns are hundreds of smaller but rapidly growing ad tech players fighting for display, search and social budgets. The last five years have been lucrative to everyone involved as the ability to serve the right message at the right time has improved thanks to increased inventory, open exchanges and better targeting capabilities.
Facebook's recent moves however, suggest a digital advertising shake-up is on the way.
Earlier this month, Facebook announced the launch of Facebook Product Ads. According to social-media giant, Product Ads are designed to help businesses promote their entire product catalog across all consumer devices.
In isolation, the move is fairly innocuous, but when placed into context with the expulsion of more than a dozen FBX partners, the<|fim_middle|> your post have really put it in perspective for me. So I thank you for that. I'm now looking forward to see where this goes.
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I'm glad the post has been helpful for you Sundra, interesting times indeed! | slow demise of the cookie, and other recent moves by the company, the stage is clearly set for upheaval in the world of ad tech.
Search No More?
Facebook's advertising innovations since going public – including retargeting, custom audiences and now product-level ad units – suggest the company is coming to terms with the fact that direct response matters. Retail advertisers like Fab and affiliate platforms like Teepspring have shown us that direct response campaigns on social not only work, but also they can scale if managed effectively.
This means that search's dominance as the channel du jour for direct response is likely to come under pressure as advertisers reallocate budget and look to leverage these new tools to support ROI-driven advertising campaigns.
Third-Party Platforms Become Less Vital
Ad tech companies such as Criteo and AdRoll that have long relied on a service-plus-media arbitrage model to increase revenue will likely face increased margin pressure as the growth of the arbitrage piece of their business decelerates.
Some people have suggested that these companies' rapid growth was due in large part to being aggressive in leveraging their FBX partner status and capability to target small and medium-size businesses by helping them retarget Facebook users when Facebook did not provide this ability natively.
It's been just over a year since Facebook released a first-party retargeting pixel, leading many retailers to question the continued value of advertising via third-party platforms.
The introduction of native product-level-inventory ad units by Facebook removes another unique differentiator from ad tech companies that do not own their own networks, while at the same time challenging Google's dominance as the leader in inventory-driven advertising campaigns for retailers.
Cross-Device Tracking Scramble
The slow but eventual death of the cookie, coupled with the continued growth of mobile, means that companies must develop a new cross-device tracking method or they will be hard-pressed to follow users across devices at all. The best cookie-dependent companies can hope for is that a white knight, in the form of Twitter, Apple or Microsoft, will emerge as a data layer or exchange that ties web-browsing behavior to individuals across devices.
That said, none of these players have as large a cross-browser user base as Google or Facebook limiting their potential reach.
Beyond Facebook's Walled Garden
The once-neatly drawn battle lines of search and social are not nearly so neat any more. Google+ may have lost as a social network, but the effort and the updated privacy policy that swept in behind it gave Google a unified data layer to connect search and YouTube behavior with desktop and mobile-device identities, allowing Google to strengthen its display-publisher network across devices. I speculated early last year that Facebook would eventually look outside of its walled garden to monetize, and it has taken baby steps with toward that with its Audience Network on mobile, which has seen impressive growth in its first year.
Facebook has come a long way since boldly proclaiming that Beacon and frictionless sharing would transform advertising by themselves. Other factors signal an increasingly aggressive social juggernaut, including Facebook's longstanding reluctance to publicly certify DoubleClick as an FBX partner in spite of statements by Google announcing the partnership, the re-release of Atlas in the fall of 2014 and the decertification of more than a dozen smaller ad tech companies from FBX this month. All of these moves hint at a future where Facebook will unabashedly compete for the right to serve ad inventory beyond its corner of the web to advertisers on desktop, mobile and applications, putting Facebook in direct competition with Google and many of the ad tech players it helped to jumpstart.
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MIAMI (AP) -- Joel Embiid is done with Philadelphia's latest process.
Embiid participated in the team's morning shootaround, and apparently coach<|fim_middle|>' medical staff collaborated with the league's independent medical experts on the makeup and design of the mask, all that work done with the hope that Embiid won't be re-injured if struck in the face.
''We're just trying to move forward in a positive way,'' Brown said. | Brett Brown saw enough from his All-Star center to approve his return.
''We like what we have seen over the past few days,'' Brown said.
Translated: Embiid was declaring himself ready to play, and now the 76ers agree. So does the NBA, in the sense that the league needed to approve the style of mask that Embiid will wear to protect his face. It's composed of both polycarbonate and carbon-fiber material and is shaded dark but still is translucent enough to meet league guidelines.
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Make no mistake – you are looking to start a business, no matter how lost or intimidated you might feel. The bad news is that it's going to grow increasingly intimidating for quite some time. The good news is that a business plan can provide you with focus and relief, something invaluable in your business's inception. A clear business plan can help you determine what you want to sell, the amounts you'll need, how niche your target is, where you're going to get the supplies and, most importantly, it will help you determine the cost and the appropriate marketing methods.
Market research is perhaps the most important aspect of the initial stages of your business. What retail method will you choose: opening a physical store, opting for eCommerce, or both? A physical store depends hugely on location – it needs to be close to a busy area, but distant enough from the competition. Why? Well, people tend to 'stumble upon' craft stores, rather than 'intentionally look for them'. On the other hand, if you want to start an online-only business, you need to start thinking about social media advertising – this is perhaps the best form of marketing for craft businesses.
The stores that keep offering the same thing to their customers and succeed are very rare and usually aren't in the business of crafts. This is why you should always leave some space for getting into new, related fields. Collaborate with similar businesses, in fact, collaborate with everyone! For example, you can try pitching an idea for a local indie musician – make a custom version of your product for them and ask them if they'd like to try pitching your craft with their brand new album to their fans.
Branding is extremely important when it comes to the crafts business – you are pitching (hopefully) something that is unique and special, and this is exactly what is going to bring you success. You need to think broader than in terms of printed or engraved logos on your products – think shape and size depending on the function of your items. When it comes to crafts, people should be able to identify your handiwork from a distance. However, some crafts simply have to succumb to a specific mold, and in these cases, engravings and prints are perfectly acceptable. Nonetheless, regardless of your product's type, always think in terms of unique shape and size, if possible! Even the boxes you use for shipping/packing your product(s) are perfectly suitable for a unique sticker or customized label. Convenient Dymo Labels, for example, are durable and offer a variety of options.
You'd be amazed at what you can do using social media. Everyone who has liked or follows your business page is likely looking forward to the grand opening, especially if you offer enticing discounts. Most people love trying out new things and being the first to buy something that isn't incredibly expensive. Make the grand opening an interesting event – keep in mind that "hey, do you want to learn more about how I make the stuff that you're slowly falling in love with" beats "hey, how about you buy my stuff" any day of the week. Offer classes in a variety of crafts that you do and do this only during your grand opening for now – this will allow you to suss out whether this is a viable future option, as well as get people coming in through your door (virtual or physical).
These basics of starting a craft store business will hopefully help you get on the road of uniqueness and collaboration that leads to success. Coming up with a business plan and market research are essential in the business world, and crafting is no exception. Always think in terms of branching out, extending your reach and establishing new partnerships, consider branding your bread and butter, and do everything in your power to make sure | 836 |
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Design: The site design is simple and straightforward. The process for creating an account and a Wish List is just like that of any other site requiring registration—users fill in fields and receive a confirmation email. The Wish Lists themselves are easy to follow, if not overly dynamic.
Review: ClassWish offers a variety of ways for groups or individuals to help the school of their choice. Donors can choose to give monetary gifts, or purchase supplies specifically requested by their school. Additionally, they can donate actual supplies via ClassWish. Groups or companies can offer matching programs where they pledge to match any donations made to a given school or class. The diversity of available ways to help is what sets ClassWish apart.
Using the site is reasonably simple. Teachers, administrators and officers of teacher-parent organizations create a Wish List of the supplies they need for their students. They can spread the word to parents and others in the community with ClassWish tools including emails and printable flyers.
Through the site, supporters not only find ways to help, but also get a receipt for their tax-deductible contribution. ClassWish also does the work of reviewing educator requests, purchasing the supplies, and shipping them to the school.
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Shows like Fleabag: Best Dramedies
The ancient Greeks divided their plays into comedies and tragedies, but the smiling and frowning masks are more extremes of a spectrum than binary variables, and some of the best TV shows of the past two decades, like Fleabag, Atlanta, Succession, and Shameless, find humor in deep pain and poignancy in funny situations.
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ajh_davis a posé une question le 5 avr.
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Is there a mini-fridge in the room?
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Initiated by The Human Situation, the signature course of the Honors College, our curriculum gives students a firm grounding in the intellectual heritage of the West, its great works, fundamental questions, disputes and challenges. We want students to transcend the shallow and divisive debates of today by taking "the long view"—by understanding the philosophical, historical, and religious traditions in which those debates are grounded.
Students wrestle with demanding teachers, such as Homer and Virgil; Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; Cicero and Polybius; Augustine and Aquinas; Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. They grapple with hard questions: What is justice? What is the relation of freedom and authority? Can there be moral responsibility in a determined world? What is the significance of moral and cultural diversity?
Phronesis also allows students think through controversial contemporary issues, such as abortion, the death penalty, euthanasia. They undertake their study with the rich resources of thinkers and texts that articulate, even as they disagree, the fundamental alternatives and principles involved in these issues. We welcome controversy, but only of the well-informed, well-thought-out, and reflective kind.
The Program also invites outside scholars, public intellectuals, and members of the community to campus to speak about their scholarship and expertise, the texts students are reading, and the | 386 |
SEIA Commends NY Gov. Cuomo for Boosting the State's Investments in Solar Energy
WASHINGTON and ALBANY, N.Y., Jan. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) commended New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for his announcement that the state is doubling the NY Sun solar goal to 6 GW by 2025, extending the state's existing incentive program and launching a new round of large-scale solar awards. Following is a statement from Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association:
"We commend Governor Cuomo for continuing to move New York ahead on solar energy. His plan to double the NY Sun goal and extend the incentive program will provide much needed certainty for the distributed solar market. Furthermore, the announcement of 16 new large-scale solar awards builds on the 22 solar projects selected last spring.
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SEIA Expands Leadership Team, Adding Vice President of... | bring clean and affordable energy to the residents of New York state. We look forward to working with the Governor's Office and the Legislature to bring New Yorkers all the benefits that solar has to offer."
About SEIA®:
Celebrating its 45th anniversary in 2019, the Solar Energy Industries Association® is the national trade association of the U.S. solar energy industry, which now employs more than 250,000 Americans. Through advocacy and education, SEIA® is building a strong solar industry to power America. SEIA works with its 1,000 member companies to build jobs and diversity, champion the use of cost-competitive solar in America, remove market barriers and educate the public on the benefits | 152 |
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Dr. Beasley enjoys flying his WWII-era Luscombe airplane and riding vintage bicycles in his spare time.
Dr. Jessica MaHaffey Holt is a licensed audiologist with experience in Auditory Brainstem Response, vestibular diagnostics, amplification and programming hearing aids from many manufacturers. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of South Alabama and a doctorate in audiology from the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. MaHaffey Holt holds a certificate of clinical competence in audiology from the American Speech Language Hearing Association and a fellow of the American Academy of Audiology.
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Dr. Bergeron enjoys the performing arts, traveling and rooting for the LSU Tigers.
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U.S. faces half a million COVID-19 deaths by<|fim_middle|>The modelling study, which mapped out various scenarios and their projected impact on the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States, found that universal mask-wearing could have a major impact on death rates, potentially saving 130,000 lives.
Current mask use in the United States varies widely. While some states, like New York, set strict rules on when to wear masks, others have no requirements. The issue has become political, in which some supporters have taken their cues from Trump, who is often seen without a mask and has repeatedly questioned their usefulness.
"Expanding mask use is one of the easy wins for the United States ... and can save many lives," Murray said.
He added that, just as parts of Europe and some local U.S. areas of high transmission are doing now, many U.S. states would need to re-introduce social distancing measures to curb the winter surge.
Reporting by Kate Kelland, additional reporting by Caroline Humer, editing by Steve Orlofsky and Cynthia Osterman | end-February, study finds
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - More than a half million people in the United States could die from COVID-19 by the end of February, but around 130,000 of those lives could be saved if everybody were to wear masks, according to estimates from a modelling study on Friday.
FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective masks queue to enter a polling site at the Milwaukee Public Library?s Washington Park location in Milwaukee, on the first day of in-person voting in Wisconsin, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan
The estimates by researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation showed that with few effective COVID-19 treatment options and no vaccines yet available, the United States faces "a continued COVID-19 public health challenge through the winter."
"We are heading into a very substantial fall/winter surge," said IHME Director Chris Murray, who co-led the research.
He said the projections, as well as currently rising infection rates and deaths, showed there is no basis to "the idea that the pandemic is going away," adding: "We do not believe that is true."
President Donald Trump said in Thursday's election debate of the pandemic: "It's going away."
The Friday update was the first time the IHME has projected deaths beyond Feb. 1. Its current forecast on its website is for 386,000 deaths as of Feb 1.
Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 221,000 Americans so far, has become the top issue for him and Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 election. Polls have shown that Americans trust Biden more than Trump to handle the crisis.
The IHME study forecast that large, populous states such as California, Texas and Florida will likely face particularly high levels of illness, deaths and demands on hospital resources.
"We expect the surge to steadily grow across different states and at the national level, and to continue to increase as we head towards high levels of daily deaths in late December and in January," Murray said.
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Why Can't All Zooms Look Like Tod's Spring 2021 Show?
As Zoom calls continue to take up space in our new day-to-day reality, it was only a matter of time before a major luxury brand referenced one of this year's most downloaded apps in a fashion week presentation.
Tod's, which normally shows on the runway in Milan, opted to go digital this season with a fashion film featuring nods to Zoom's grid functions. Influencers like Bryanboy, Cole Sprouse, Tamu McPherson and Olivia Palermo all tuned in remotely to participate in the show, which was shot in Milan's private residence-turned-museum Villa Necchi.
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A cast including Mariacarla Boscono, Irina Shayk and<|fim_middle|> bags with the T Timeless motif.
"A song — a harmony of a voice and several instruments — materializes as we discover Villa Necchi room by room," read the show notes. "Bringing the casual and outdoorsy nonchalance of a collection that captures the spirit of an ideal grand tour through easy shapes and washed, worn out textures."
Check out the full Tod's Spring 2021 film, "The Song," as well as some looks from the collection in the gallery, below.
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Tod's (@tods) • Instagram photos and videos › | Karen Elson donned looks from the brand's Spring 2021 collection designed by new creative director Walter Chiapponi. The trio played with the cameras' angles and screens as they and other models strode around the mansion's lavish rooms and corridors. (Sounds of email notifications in the background were a cheeky touch.)
The collection. Tod's Spring-Summer 2021 Men's and Women's Collection by creative director @walterchiapponi. #TodsSS21 @okay.kaya
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Retrospective analysis of North West London healthcare utilisation by children during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Rohan Mongru1,
Danielle F Rose2,
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3475-7525Ceire Costelloe2,
Aubrey Cunnington1,3,
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9671-8161Ruud G Nijman1,3,4
1Section of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, UK
2Global Digital Health Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
3Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health, Imperial College, London, UK
4Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, St. Mary's Hospital - Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
Correspondence to Dr Ruud G Nijman; r.nijman{at}imperial.ac.uk
Objective To explore the impact of the measures taken to combat COVID-19 on the patterns of acute illness in children presenting to primary and secondary care for North West London.
Design/setting/participants Retrospective analysis of 8 309 358 primary and secondary healthcare episodes of children <16 years registered with a North West London primary care practice between 2015 and 2021.
Main outcome measures Numbers of primary care consultations, emergency department (ED) attendances and emergency admissions during the pandemic were compared with those in the preceding 5 years. Trends were examined by age and for International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision-coded diagnoses of: infectious diseases, and injuries and poisonings for admitted children.
Results Comparing 2020 to the 2015–2019 mean, primary care consultations were 22% lower, ED attendances were 38% lower and admissions 35% lower. Following the first national lockdown in April 2020, primary care consultations were 39% lower compared with the April 2015–2019 mean, ED attendances were 72% lower and unscheduled hospital admissions were 63% lower. Admissions >48 hours were on average 13% lower overall during 2020, and 36% lower during April 2020. The reduction in admissions for infections (61% lower than 2015–2019 mean) between April and August 2020 was greater than for injuries (31% lower).
Conclusion The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with an overall reduction in childhood illness presentations to health services in North West London, most prominent during periods of national lockdown, and with a greater impact on infections than injuries. These reductions demonstrate the impact on children of measures taken to combat COVID-19 across the health system.
Data are available on reasonable request. The data used for this manuscript are available upon reasonable request. Access to the original data in the virtual data environment will be conditional on the permission from the COVID-19 NWL Data Prioritisation Group.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2021-001363
What is known about the subject?
Healthcare usage declined as a response to social distancing measures taken to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Non-COVID-19 infections may have declined due to these same measures.
Public Health England and clinicians were concerned about delayed care seeking for serious paediatric conditions, and a disproportionate increase in admissions for serious illness.
What this study adds?
The number of paediatric consultations reduced in both primary and secondary care during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The proportion of consultations taking place in primary care changed very little from prepandemic levels.
Monthly hospital admissions for infections (excluding COVID-19) and injury were substantially lower than expected across the first lockdown in 2020, and there was no overall increase in admissions lasting 48 hours or more.
In London, between January 2020 and 12 July 2021, there were 801 718 confirmed cases of infection with SARS-CoV-2, 74 612 SARS-CoV-2 positive patients admitted to hospital and 19 265 deaths with COVID-19 listed as a cause on the death certificate.1 To prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed and to protect key workers and vulnerable people, a number of coronavirus restrictions were put in place by the government (figure 1).2 While the vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 infections in children are asymptomatic or mild, children were also subject to coronavirus restrictions. Changes in healthcare consultations for acute childhood illness associated with these restrictions have been examined in several studies.3–8 At the start of lockdown, primary care consultations dropped by 30% in a sample of 84 practices across England, and routine referrals were 74% lower.9 In England, emergency departments (ED) attendances decreased across all ages with the largest reduction (65% fall) seen in children aged 5–14 years.10 In Scotland, emergency medical paediatric admissions reduced by almost 50% but surgical admissions did not decrease.11 As no studies in children have assessed primary and secondary care as a whole, we cannot determine whether apparent changes in consultations reflect redistribution of consultations between primary and secondary care, or whether delays in presentation or true reductions in acute childhood illness occurred.
Timeline of COVID-19-related events in England during the study period. Ages for each year group are given in brackets. The first national 'lockdown' was announced on 23 March 2020.38 A second month-long lockdown was implemented on 5 November 2020 in response to a surge in cases and rising reproduction number, followed by a third lockdown on 4 January 2021, primarily to combat a new variant of the virus. Schools were initially closed on 18 March 2020, excepting the children of keyworkers and those with special educational needs and disabilities. Classes for reception, year 1 (aged 5 or 6 years) and year 6 (aged 10 or 11 years) pupils were reopened on June first with some secondary school pupils returning on 15 June until the end of the summer terms in mid-late July. Schools, colleges and nurseries were opened to all children for the start of the new school year in September 2020. Schools were asked to keep children in class or year-group 'bubbles' alongside non-pharmaceutical interventions that included regular cleaning, handwashing and testing.39Schools closed for the Christmas break around 17 December 2020 and plans to return to school were aborted when England entered a third national lockdown on 6 January 2021. RCPCH, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
The Whole Systems Integrated Care (WSIC) database for North West London (NWL) provides linked primary and secondary care electronic patient records for 2.3 million general practice (GP)-registered patients across the eight Clinical Commissioning Groups spanning the region, representing 95% of the NWL population and including 547 542 children.12 Patients may opt out if they only want their records to be used for direct care. Records of primary care consultations and ED visits cover most acute healthcare-seeking episodes in this population and allow changes in healthcare utilisation to be tracked over time. We used the WSIC database to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown measures on children under 16 years presenting to primary and secondary care across NWL.
Study design and data source
This was a retrospective observational study using the WSIC database in NWL. The target population was patients under the age of 16 registered with a GP practice in NWL between 1 January 2015 and 5 February 2021. Anonymised data from children was used in the study until they turned 16; the child died (date of deregistration from their GP); they ceased their registration with an NWL GP; or the study period ended. Contributing primary care practices provide appointment details and WSIC is also linked to Secondary User Services (SUS) data providing secondary care utilisation records for the NHS hospitals in the same area.12 The COVID-19 NWL Data Prioritisation Group approved this study on 7 August 2020 permitting access to the deidentified data set. Dates of the national lockdowns and changes to the school year during the study period are summarised in figure 1.
Healthcare utilisation
First, four categories of healthcare utilisation were defined spanning the care pathways for the study period: (1) primary care appointments, defined as consultations in one of the participating GP practices: these were extracted from WSIC data environment on the 3 March 2021, and included both face-to-face and virtual consultations; (2) ED attendances: these were obtained through WSIC's linkage to SUS Accident and Emergency data, were extracted on 25 February 2021 and (3) inpatient admissions: WSIC's linkage of SUS admitted patient care records provided data for emergency (or unscheduled) inpatient admissions corresponding to a unique inpatient spell. An inpatient spell covers the total duration of an admission even if this includes a transfer to a different department or another inpatient healthcare facility. Stays with missing start or end dates were excluded. Admissions to any level of care neonatal unit were excluded and these were identified where child age on admission was unavailable but the variables: 'neonatal level of care' and 'treatment function code' (corresponding to midwifery, neonatology or well babies) was recorded using SUS data records. Elective admissions were not included in this analysis; (4) Admissions lasting over 48 hours, or resulting in a death within hospital at any stage, were used as a proxy for severe illness. This category was considered as including paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admissions: 2 days was the median duration in a study of eight US PICUs before returning to the ward.13 All hospital activities, including ED attendances and unscheduled inpatient admission were defined as secondary care for the purposes of this study. In order to understand how patients accessed healthcare, we examined the relative proportions of primary care and ED consultations for each month in 2020 compared with the 5-year average.
Second, two diagnostic groups were selected from the secondary care admissions cohort using their codes listed in the corresponding chapters from the WHO International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10).14 The infectious and parasitic diseases category (chapter I) contained respiratory infection codes but COVID-19 (U07.1) was omitted. Chapter XIX is defined by inclusion of injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.
Data analysis was conducted using R V.4.0.2. Each cohort was arranged into counts per month for 1 January 2015 to 31 January 2021. Using counts provided absolute event numbers for each month, or 5-year mean of each month, allowing direct comparison to primary and secondary care consultations and attendances. ED, inpatient and severe admission datasets were subdivided into five age bands: 0–1; >1–2; >2–5; >5–11 and >11–16 years. The inpatient and severe admission cohorts were stratified by each of the two diagnostic groups. Counts for the period January 2020 to January 2021 were compared with the 5-year mean with 95% CIs of the corresponding month for the years 2015–2019. If the value during the study period was found to be outside of the 95% CI of the 5-year mean, then this difference was quantified by the percentage difference between the count and 5-year mean.
Between 1 January 2015 and 31 January 2021, there were 7 306 887 primary care appointments and 1 002 471 ED attendances for children aged under 16 years. A total of 4 248 575 (51%) episodes were for male children. A total of 92 607 (9%) of ED attendances resulted in admission to hospital of ≤48 hours and 13 101 (1%) of these ED attendances were admitted for >48 hours. One-third of unscheduled hospital admissions of any duration were diagnosed as infections (35 084; 33%) (table 1).
Summary of numbers of ED attendances and hospital admissions from January 2015 to January 2021, stratified by age and diagnosis group
Each lockdown was associated with lower than expected numbers of presentations and admissions (figure 2A–C). The lowest consultation and admission counts occurred during the first national lockdown in April 2020 with 39% fewer primary care consultations compared with the mean in 2015–2019 (table 2): consultations dropped from a mean of 94 379–57 769 during this single month. There were also 72% (9039) fewer ED attendances and 63% (737) fewer admissions to hospital. The reduction was smaller in patients admitted >48 hours: 36% (56) fewer admissions (figure 2D). Fewer presentations and admissions were observed during the second and third lockdowns as well, although the declines in presentations and inpatient admissions were less severe during second lockdown period compared with the first and third lockdown periods.
Comparisons of healthcare presentations for each month of 2020/2021 with mean from the corresponding month of 2015–2019. The shaded area illustrates the 95% CI for 2015–2019. LD—start date of period of national lockdown. (A) Primary care consultation. (B) ED attendances. (C) Emergency inpatient admissions. (D) Admissions lasting >48 hours. ED, emergency department.
Table of changes in healthcare presentations for each month of 2020/2021 compared with mean from the corresponding month of 2015–2019
Primary care, ED attendances and inpatient admissions returned close to expected levels by August 2020 when some restriction measures were relaxed. Admissions >48 hours returned to seasonal average levels by June 2020.
The observed trends were consistent across different age-groups (online supplemental figure 1). ED visits were most reduced for the >5–11 years (73% lower) and >11–16 years (77% lower) groups in April 2020; the former group remaining below average through the end of the year. Notably, inpatient admission reductions were seen in all age groups with the greatest percentage reductions in April and May 2020 in the 0–1 year (63%), >1–2 years (73% in May) and >2–5 years (73%) groups. Only the >11–16 years age group exceeded the 5-year average admissions at any time during 2020 (in August 2020). In the >5–11 years old group, patients admitted for more than 48 hours returned to expected levels by May, while in the >11–16 years old group, there were higher than expected case numbers between July and September 2020, when schools were mostly closed to pupils not taking exams (online supplemental figure 1).
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Before 2020, the ratio of primary care: ED visits was 90:10, while in 2020 it was 88:12 (online supplemental figure 2). In April 2020, after implementation of the first national lockdown, 93% of consultations were in primary care, compared with the 5-year average for April of 88%.
Reasons for hospital admission
We examined unscheduled admissions for the two of the most common categories of illness: infection and injury. These categories together made up 44 485 (48%) of admissions lasting ≤48 hours, and 7803 (60%) of admissions lasting >48 hours, over the course of the study.
For all ages combined (online supplemental figure 3AB, online supplemental table 1), infections accounted for an average of 514 admissions per month during 2015–2019. Between April and August 2020, cases of infection were an average of 61.2% (225 cases per month) lower than the 5-year mean among inpatient admissions, and 23.3% (16 cases per month) lower for severe admissions (online supplemental table 1). Stratifying by age group (online supplemental figure 4), the greatest decline in admissions was seen in >1–2 years old, with a 74% (48 admissions) reduction each month.
Over the same period, injuries and poisoning admissions fell by an average 21% (50 admissions per month) between April and August 2020. However, there was little change in admissions over 48 hours: an average of 31 cases per month between April and August 2020 vs 32 cases per month for the 5-year average over the same period (online supplemental table 1). Schoolchildren were most affected when schools were first closed: between March and June 2020, inpatient admissions in >5–11 years old were lower by a monthly average of 39% (28 admissions per month) and >11–16 dropped by an average of 31% (24 admissions per month) (online supplemental figure 4).
Children have been relatively spared from the direct health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there has been significant concern about the indirect effects on their health and well-being.15 A drop in primary and secondary care attendances at the start of lockdown, and reports of delayed presentation of serious illness, prompted the National Health Service and The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to remind patients to seek medical care when required.16–18 Therefore, it is important to use large-scale data to quantify the impact of the pandemic and the periods of national lockdown on the presentations of children to healthcare providers. By analysing integrated primary and secondary care data on children across NWL from January 2015 to January 2021 we were able to identify changes in patterns of presentation and utilisation of healthcare and changes in severity of illness.
We found that primary care consultations, ED attendances and emergency hospital admissions were substantially below 5-year averages during periods of lockdown. The proportion of consultations taking place in primary care changed very little from prepandemic levels. Attendances due to infections fell the most during lockdowns, while injuries and poisonings were lowest in schoolchildren (5–16 years) when schools were shut between March and June 2020.
Numbers of admissions >48 hours decreased to a lesser extent. This is consistent with a study of 23 paediatric EDs in North-Western Italy: low priority admissions decreased almost twice as much as critical presentations. The authors suggested that non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and fear of infection lowered non-urgent use of ED facilities but that this reticence was overcome by recognition of children with urgent symptoms, especially in those with significant comorbidities.19 The higher than expected admissions>48 hours observed in the >11–16 years group between July and September 2020 may be partly explained by the pandemic's impact on mental health.20 Increases have been recorded in behavioural and attentional difficulties, eating disorders, depression and anxiety.21 22 In England, the first lockdown period was not associated with excess mortality in children.23
Multiple factors are likely to have contributed to the observed changes in healthcare utilisation and hospital admissions. These may include changing behaviours of parents and carers, changes in the availability of different routes for healthcare consultation, and changes in disease incidence.24 At the same time, use of information technology for health expanded greatly: virtual consultations (telemedicine) rose from 15%–20% prior to the pandemic to 50%–60%, calls to the NHS 111 helpline (and the 999 emergency services number) rose by over 143 000 calls during March 2020 (a 12.2% increase on the previous year), and use of the online 111 app averaged over half a million users every day during the same month.25
The NPIs put in place to control COVID-19 may have attenuated the normal seasonal increases in transmission of respiratory viral diseases,26–28 and contributing to lower numbers of admissions for infectious diseases in general.29 While NPIs reduce the stress on healthcare systems in the short-term, exposure to many common pathogens leads to acquisition immunity, and limited exposure may increase the susceptible population and hence size of future epidemics.30 31 Yet, the observed impact of NPIs can inform future policy making when considering the use of, sometimes simple to introduce, NPIs to reduce the burden of acute childhood illness, balancing the advantages of doing so against the potential harms and impact on broader child health.
We observed reductions in injury admissions during the first lockdown which returned to seasonal averages when schools partially reopened in June 2020. Other studies suggesting a fivefold rise in the number of domestic accidents32 and increases in child abuse and neglect leading to large increases in head trauma, and increased calls to child support lines.33–35
This study has several limitations inherent from the methodology and nature of the data available. First, our data represent a multicultural, urban population of a major metropolitan city with widely ranging levels of wealth and deprivation, and these might not be reflective of other geographical areas (online supplemental figure 5) for comparative child health profiles for London vs England). A small number of NWL general practices are not part of the WSIC network and hence children registered with these practices would not be part of our database. However; as of June 2019, WSIC collects the data of 365 participating general practices accounting for 95% of the total NWL population.12 Children who are not registered with any general practice would also not be included. Our approach of analysing ICD-coding groups did not account for more subtle epidemiological changes within these overarching coding groups. For example, studies reported relative unchanged ED attendance rates for urinary tract infections,3 5 and changes in the number of admissions for relatively infrequent safeguarding related injuries will have gone unnoticed. Likewise, our study would have benefited from more detailed information on mental health issues to verify the reported rise of mental health issues in primary and secondary care elsewhere.36 37 We were not able to reliably differentiate between face-to-face and virtual appointments in primary care, nor to assess comorbidities or vaccination status.
In conclusion, mandated lockdowns and NPIs were associated with a reduction in primary and secondary healthcare usage for children in NWL. These decreases were seen directly after these measures were instigated indicating that their rapid deployment reduced the burden on the health system. NPIs against COVID-19 also reduced consultations and admissions for other infections. Using a database compiled of both primary and secondary care data provided a 'whole system' view showing that the net effect of the pandemic on acute non-COVID-19 childhood illness and injury in NWL was not the feared increase, but actually a substantial reduction.
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The COVID-19 NWL Data Prioritisation Group approved this study (7 August 2020): no reference numbers are given by this committee.
The authors would like to thank Eamon O'Doherty of the WSIC Team for his assistance in this study.
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Contributors All authors contributed significantly to the design of the study and writing of the manuscript. All authors critically reviewed and have approved of the final draft version of this manuscript as submitted. AC and RN were responsible for funding acquisition. AC, RN and CC were responsible for obtaining study approval and the relevant permissions. RN, AC, DFR, RM and CC were responsible for the data collection, data analyses and data interpretation. All authors agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. RN is the guarantor and accepts full responsibility for the work and/or the conduct of the study, had access to the data, and controlled the decision to publish.
Funding This research was funded by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). RN was awarded an NIHR academic lectureship award (ACL-2018-021-007) which enabled him to do this work. The authors acknowledge the support of the NIHR Applied Research Collaborative North West London.
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Conversion Program: OT T.J. Clemmings by Eric Stoner
By Matt Waldman February 23, 2015 ( 2 )
Footwork is essential for quality offensive line play. Photo of Steve Hutchinson by Rick Burtzel
Eric Stoner gives an excellent primer of o-line footwork while profiling his pet project in this year's draft, a former defensive lineman converted to offensive tackle.
Who is T.J. Clemmings And What Does He Mean to You?
My first exposure to T.J. Clemmings came from listening to Josh Norris' podcast Process the Process. He and Lance Zierlein discussed the Pitt offensive tackle – a defensive line convert with arms that are over 35" long – and go into tremendous detail about his strengths and weaknesses in pass protection.
If you've watched Lance in the RSP Film Room series, you know that his insight on offensive line prospects is tremendous, so be sure to check out that episode of Process the Process if you enjoyed Lance's Brandon Scherff breakdown.
Josh and Lance both agreed that Clemmings' needed some work in pass protection, and that some of his flaws were magnified at the Senior Bowl. However, they also agreed that he had the lateral agility, athletic ability, and length to play offensive tackle.
He lacked patience and trust in his kick step, causing him to rush out and either get his shoulders turned or get beat back inside after over-setting. I don't have much to add on Clemmings as a pass blocker, other than to say I think these issues can be (quickly) corrected, and they're more comfort and confidence related than anything else.
He has elite length and has a good understanding of how to time his punch up. Combine that with good lateral agility for his size, and you're looking at a player who can be a high-level pass blocker on the edge fairly quickly.
While I'm optimistic on Clemmings' ability to be good in pass protection relatively early, I have reservations about him in the run game. I've seen him described as a "mauler" in the run game, but I feel like a lot of those instances come from him bullying an off-balance/pursuing linebacker on the second level–although I will give him credit, he is very good at getting downfield and tracking moving targets.
A Four-Step Primer on O-Line Footwork: Clemmings' Path
An offensive lineman's run-block will usually result in a success or failure based on the execution of his first two steps. He must gain ground with both steps while maintaining bend in his hips, knees, and ankles. There are four specific steps an offensive lineman is taught to execute depending on his assignment and where the defender is aligned against him:
Drive – a fire off step straight ahead. Whichever foot is leading should gain at least six inches of ground. The get-off step is used in two instances: when an offensive linemen is covered and needs to drive block the defensive lineman straight off the ball.
J-Step – The J-Step is most often used on backside combination blocks by an uncovered offensive lineman who needs to get to the second level. He should make six-inch step laterally with the playside foot, followed by the opposite foot stepping inside and then upfield in one motion (the second step makes the letter "J," hence the name). A punch inside accompanies the first jab step if the lineman needs to help secure inside help. However, he needs to not bury himself inside and turn his shoulders on the double – his shoulders should stay square to the line of scrimmage through both steps and as he works to his downfield target. As the linebacker flows inside, the offensive lineman's straight ahead path should intersect the linebacker's pursuit – you want offensive linemen to understand that their steps will take them to where a linebacker is going not to where he starts the play off. The J-Step can also be used on inside zone plays when the defender is head up against the offensive lineman, resulting in what's kind of a "quick-reach" block.
Trap-step – Where the Drive step is straight ahead, and the J-Step begins with a lateral movement, the 45 degree angle of the Trap Step is usually the most difficult step for offensive lineman to apply the concept of "gaining ground" to. It doesn't feel natural, and the most common response for an offensive lineman who hasn't repetitively practiced this step is to pick his foot up, place it right back down in the same spot it started, pivot the foot and lean with his upper body, and then not actually start moving until the second step.
This is especially problematic, because the Trap-step is the one needed most often. It's named after the Trap play – where a guard will pull and come down the line of scrimmage to kick out (or "trap") an unblocked defensive lineman. The 45 degree angle step keeps him on a path to work slightly downfield in case the unblocked defensive lineman stays at the line of scrimmage and doesn't penetrate upfield. The Trap-step isn't just used for traps though. Since most defensive linemen play shaded, or in the gaps between linemen (as opposed to straight across from them), angle steps are absolutely critical to seal those gaps off quickly and prevent penetration. The Trap-step is used for downblocking a defender to the inside, combo-blocking to the playside, for uncovered offensive linemen who need to cut off a second level player who they know will flow quickly – when in doubt, you Trap-block to your assignment, which is why it's so critical for young linemen to master.
Bucket-Step – The Bucket-Step's most common and important use is when the offensive lineman needs to reach a defender with a slight outside shade (whether on toss or outside zone plays – this is also a baseline blocking skill needed<|fim_middle|> driving the defender towards the sideline.
The Bucket-Step is also used for when a pulling lineman leads a running back through the hole. Where the Trap-Step is used for a short pull-and-kickout block, a pull-and-lead block must travel a longer distance, and the act of stepping backwards first (losing ground to gain ground) helps in case any of the playside blockers get driven backwards. Once again, these steps are critical and help the player to keep his shoulders square and his eyes on his moving second level target in case he needs to adjust his path.
These descriptions will make more sense to you and be easier to notice when watching if you actually get up and try them yourself. You don't need to get in a three-point stance or anything – just stand with your feet shoulder width apart and try walking out the first three steps below, with an emphasis on gaining ground with each step and not picking your foot up and putting it right back down in the same spot.
These take practice because they're not natural movements, especially when moving full speed. However, they can be improved through repetition and by picking up little tricks – like curling the toes of the non-stepping foot, which creates a natural push-off or springing effect (seriously, try it).
Clemmings' Trap-Step (No.68)
This gives a pretty clear shot of Clemmings trying to make a Trap-Step and take a 45 degree angle up to the second level. The good is that he understands the path he needs to take to intersect the linebacker. But note how the first step with the left foot isn't a step at all. He pivots it backwards, pops up and turns his shoulders, then crosses over with his right foot to make his initial "gaining ground" movement.
He makes the block, but arrives a split second late, can't get a square hit, and lets the linebacker cross his face to make the tackle. Getting up to the backside linebacker on an isolation play like this is a key, key block – arguably more important than the fullback's lead block on the playside linebacker – because the backside linebacker is the one who the defense funnels the ball to in their run fits vs isolation and inside zone plays. He's responsible for making the actual tackle on the play the majority of the time.
Again, this play is a "success" – it results in a first down. But we're talking about the difference between a two-yard gain vs a six or seven-yard gain. Or, in a worse scenario, we're talking about him trying to make that block against an NFL linebacker like Lavonte David, who's going to make that read and arrive in the backfield while Clemmings is still crossing his feet over.
Clemmings' J-Step
The good news is that Clemmings showed vast improvement in his run game footwork just a month later in Pitt's game against Miami. Clemmings and the right guard have a combination block on the 3-technique defensive tackle to the playside linebacker. You can see Clemmings execute a J-Step, gaining ground, and keeping his shoulders square.
Even as the defensive tackle stunts outside of him, Clemmings square shoulders and balanced base allow him to adjust to his moving target and simply use his length to ride the defender upfield. If he had used the footwork similar to what he displayed in the Virginia Tech game, the unbalanced weight of him leaning and burying his shoulders inside would have allowed the defensive tackle to loop around him without giving him a chance to recover.
That isn't to say Clemmings' run game footwork is permanently fixed, as the issue popped up again even in this Miami game. It will take thousands of repetitions for him to consistently gain ground with his first two steps – and he might even face setbacks with his feet as he adjusts to the speed of the NFL.
The second thing that may prevent Clemmings from being a functional run blocker early in his career is that he hasn't learned to involve his hips in his movement. Unlike footwork, which can usually be improved through repetition, a lack of hip range of motion usually is the result of a physical limitation (some players simply don't have the flexibility to sink and/or roll their hips – their range of motion comes totally from their waist instead of their hips, knees, and ankles).
What makes it tricky with Clemmings, however, is that he's only played offensive tackle for two years. Again, we're talking about very unnatural stances and movements, so it could simply be a matter of comfort and experience as opposed to inflexibility.
The Hip Roll
The above video outlines the "hip roll" in regards to tackling, but the exact same drill and mechanics are used once contact is established in run blocking. Rolling the hips up under the defender gives the blocker power and leverage to maintain and finish the block. Establishing contact is only part of the job, the offensive lineman must create movement against the defensive lineman.
While Clemmings shows a quick get-off here, he pops up early at the waist. Not only does he lose the leverage battle immediately off the snap, but he miss-times his punch and gets caught with his hands outside. His defender is able to easily stand him up, toss him aside, and make the tackle at the line of scrimmage.
This particular two-play sequence is perfect, because you see Clemmings execute a hip roll well and then poorly on back-to-back plays. The first play ends in him getting movement on the defender after an initial stalemate at the line of scrimmage – the result of getting underneath the defender and rolling the hips through initial contact. The very next play, he loses his technique. He false-steps, lunges his upper body, and ends up on the ground.
Despite my belief that Clemmings needs a lot of work before he can become functional in the run game, I still like him a lot as a prospect. I don't mind inconsistency, especially from a player who is more or less new to the position. I just want to see that the player has the prerequisite ability, and Clemmings definitely shows the physical ability to play offensive tackle in the NFL. I'm more worried about his hip flexibility, especially because even in the "good play" example where he got his hips involved, he still didn't generate a ton of power.
Clemmings' prospects as a pro largely come down to whether he starts trusting his own feet. So much of playing offensive line is having confidence in your technique. The temptation will be there for a team to play him early, especially because his length gives him the recovery ability to survive as a pass protector until his footwork catches up. If he plays early however, I think he'll be a liability in the run game, and you also run the risk of him developing bad habits as he tries to survive against the speed of the NFL game.
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