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Shu Qi as The Assassin
This 2015 Chinese martial arts film (trailer) had one showing in Princeton last night—sold out! Thankfully, I caught it. The movie has had mostly positive reviews and garnered a "best direction" award for Hou Hsiao-Hsien at Cannes in 2015. A lot appreciation is due him for the overall beauty of the film.
In 9th century China, a young girl's family sent her away to a convent for her protection. There she learned the martial arts and becomes a skilled assassin of corrupt local governors, although in one attempt, she instead showed mercy. Disgraced, she's sent home with a deadly mission: to kill her cousin, the<|fim_middle|> its ramifications. The most interesting and subtle battle was between Yinniang and another female assassin. Their confrontation concludes, and the two women walk away from each other. Only in the next shot do we find out what brought the fight to its decisive end.
Reviewer Alistair Harkness in The Scotsman, criticized Hou, saying he "seemingly has little energy or reverence for the form," whereas I come down on the side of reviewers who have called the film "mesmerizing." At its finest, this genre is a melding of cinematic beauty and heart-stopping action. Hou opted to emphasize the former, and that worked for me.
Rotten Tomatoes critics' rating: 77%; audiences 53% (a reflection of expectations?).
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Exactly why he's a candidate for murder was somewhat lost on me, because the dialog and subtitles were sparse. Weibo faces other threats as well. Externally, the Emperor has been expanding his dominion, and Weibo is likely his next target; internally, the governor's wife is playing by her own rules. Suffice it to say there's plenty of intrigue, and if a few of the motivations are murky, the action is clear.
Shu Qi plays Yinniang, the assassin, and Chang Chen her cousin Lord Tian (Tian Ji'an). Beautiful sets and cinematography, and I wouldn't mind having the costume budget, either. The soundtrack was spare, but compelling; no surprise that Lim Giong won a soundtrack award at Cannes.
People who appreciate the genre of period martial arts dramas like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, and House of Flying Daggers have come to expect exciting (and wholly unrealistic) one-sided battles. The Assassin contains fighting, too, though much less than these previous films. Nor does it depend on wires to the same extent. Yinniang is not just a killing tool; she thinks about what she's doing and | 284 |
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Our founders chose the Greek letters Delta and Gamma because of their desire to "Do Good." It remains Delta Gamma's motto today and a driving force in all we do. They wanted a sisterhood built on a commitment to making the world better through not only service, but also a deep appreciation for each individual and together they laid the foundation for a rich legacy built on the sound and tested principals of personal integrity, personal responsibility, and intellectual honesty. Now an international Fraternity with 151 collegiate chapters, over 250,000 members, and more than 220 alumnae groups. Delta Gamma's sisterhood continues to inspire women through these timeless values.
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The Rangers had runners at first and third with nobody out in the second and again with one out in the seventh but didnt score either time. Choice struck out ahead of Rougned Odors double-play grounder in the second, and Choice grounded into a double play to end the seventh. Texas right-hander Colby Lewis ended a streak of 13 straight starts without a quality start of at least six innings and three earned runs or fewer, which was tied for the major league record with Seattles Steve Trout from 1988. He gave up two runs in six innings and struck out eight. Lewis left in a 2-2 tie, remaining winless in seven career starts against the Twins. It was the second rough outing of the three-game series for Soria. He gave up four runs in the ninth inning of Texas 5-4 victory on Friday. The injury-riddled Rangers (37-44) hit the halfway mark of the season with their fewest wins since 2007 and are 14 games behind Oakland in the AL West. 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SAN FRANCISCO -- Except for about 30 friends and family in the stands, Sacramento native Vance Worley silenced the announced crowd of 41,794 at AT&T Park with the best performance of his career. Worley tossed a four-hitter for his first shutout, and the Pittsburgh Pirates pounded Madison Bumgarner early in a 5-0 win over the struggling Giants on Monday night. "Just glad I gave them something fun to watch," said Worley, who didnt grow up a Giants fan but heard "a lot of lip" from friends after coming up in the Phillies organization. Worley sure seems to bring his best against San Francisco. Worley (4-1) struck out three and walked one in an efficient 100-pitch outing. His only other complete game came in a 7-2 win over the Giants on July 26, 2011, in Philadelphia. Four players drove in a run off Bumgarner (12-8) in the first, and Josh Harrison hit his seventh homer in the second to provide all of Pittsburghs pop. Worley worked over batters the rest of the way to hand San Francisco its fifth straight loss and 12th shutout this season. The right-hander was acquired from Minnesota on March 25 for a player to be named or cash. He spent time in extended spring training and with Triple-A Indianapolis before being thrust into Pittsburghs rotation because of injuries. Worley has made the most of his opportunities in the majors. He has a 2.54 ERA in eight appearances this season, including seven starts. "He had to fight back. He had to make some adjustments," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "Hes been focused. Hes been prepared. Hes not doing anything he hasnt done before. His confidence is playing. The command is whats showing up." Worley didnt allow a baserunner until Pablo Sandoval singled for the first of his two hits. Gregor Blanco hit a swinging bunt single in the sixth before being nabbed trying to steal second. And Hunter Pences two-out triple in the ninth was the only other hit off Worley. The Giants, who were just swept in a three-game home series by the Dodgers to fall out of first place in the NL West, were counting on their All-Star pitcher to help wash away their woes. Instead, Bumgarner gave up five runs and six hits in four innings. He | 526 |
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A spokesman at Ontario International Airport, in in San Bernardino County, California, said that the stop "was initiated and rescinded within 3 minutes this afternoon so it never went into play."
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Some air traffic controllers in the western United States were heard ordering ground stops Monday around the same time North Korea fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile into its eastern sea.
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U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said it was "aware of the ballistic missile launch."
"While we have assessed that this event does not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel or territory, or to our allies, the missile launch highlights the destabilizing impact of (North Korea's) illicit weapons program," said the statement from U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. "The U.S. commitment to the defense of the Republic of Korea and Japan remains ironclad."
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Greenberg Traurig Germany's IT practice is 'recommended without reservation' not least due to its 'quick response times while consistently maintaining high quality'. The team stands out for its 'very good business sense taking into account economic considerations and a high degree of reliability' and advises both existing corporations on digitalisation and new companies that provide digital technologies themselves, resulting in a broad client base ranging from start-ups to listed companies. The firm expanded its portfolio by gaining several US, Chinese and Israeli technology companies as clients and handled matters in the MedTech, eHealth and fintech areas as well as internet, cloud and SaaS projects, which regularly involves advice at the intersection between technology and media. The practice also handles contentious IT matters. Viola Bensinger, who is frequently recommended by clients and not only<|fim_middle|> Christoph Enaux advises the Berlin housing association Gewobag on an outsourcing project for the implementation of a new cable network concept for 50,000 residential units and Stefan Lütje acted for a US IT outsourcing company, among others. Other clients include ZTE and Stadt und Land (Berlin's state-owned public housing company).
Greenberg Traurig Germany's PPP practice is headed by Dieter Neumann and is particularly well known in the market for representing the public sector in transport infrastructure projects. For example, the group is advising the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure on the introduction of the infrastructure levy for passenger cars, on the preparation and implementation of the award procedure for the infrastructure levy system and the automatic ISA control system as well as on the extension of the truck toll. The group also has a track record advising on PPP motorways, with the ream recently acting for the relevant supervising Federal Ministry on the A49, A10/A25 and A7 Süd projects. The client portfolio also includes Deges Deutsche Einheit Fernstraßenplanung und -bau, Niedersächsische Landesbehörde für Straßenbau und Verkehr and Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Stadt und Land.
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"Boston Whaler's 60-year legacy has always been about pushing the envelope and challenging ourselves to provide new ways for boaters to experience the water," said Whaler President Nick Stickler. "The Fort Lauderdale Boat Show draws attendees from around the world, making it the perfect stage for sharing our latest developments with the global Whaler community."
Among the models making their Fort Lauderdale debut are the new 130 and 160 Super Sport, redesigned from the keel up for model year 2019. Available with a variety of seating configurations, features and options, these family-friendly skiff models are remarkably spacious and easy to customize for favorite activities. The boats' shallow draft and highly efficient Mercury® engines empower boaters to navigate big lakes and small, hidden waterways with equal confidence.
"For decades, boaters have chosen the Super Sport because of its low-maintenance durability, unsinkable safety and incredible ease of use," said Jeff Vaughn, Boston Whaler's Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Service. "We're excited to give this popular series a fresh redesign that adds some great new features and brings the boats even more in line with consumer preferences."
In-water at the Bahia Mar, alongside large-boat models including the flagship 420 Outrage, the Innovation Award-winning 345 Conquest, 350 Realm and 320 Vantage, and many others, Boston Whaler's new 380 Realm will also make its first appearance in Fort Lauderdale. Like the 350 Realm, the 380 combines the best attributes of a cabin cruiser and a center console to form something truly unique. It features a remarkable amount of on-deck space and seating; the latest in propulsion, navigation, and remote-monitoring technology; all the conveniences of a modern cabin; and the incredibly smooth ride quality only a Whaler can deliver.
"The 380 Realm is designed to make any on-water goal possible," said Vaughn. "It's geared for impressive capability and total comfort, expanding the definition of 'all-day boat' into something that can go beyond the horizon and back. Truly expedition capable."
Another can't-miss aspect of the show: a new wave of outboard technology from Mercury Marine. Boston Whaler is proud to feature Mercury engines on every boat model. More than ever, this year's offerings reflect Mercury's advanced engineering and commitment to providing the highest quality propulsion on the water.
Further, Boston Whaler will announce a new partnership with NAUTIC-ON™, whose breakthrough remote-monitoring capabilities provide boaters with a remote view of their boat and provide a connection to services that will improve the boating experience. Whaler will offer demonstrations of the NAUTIC-ON mobile app and discuss the coming applications of NAUTIC-ON technology across the lineup.
"Boston Whaler's commitment to pushing the envelope has been a defining trait since the very beginning," said Stickler. "Innovation has been in our DNA for 60 years, and it will continue to fuel our success for many, many years to come."
The 2018 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show runs from October 31 to November 4. Boston Whaler's displays will be located indoors at the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center, Booth #2037; and on-water at the Bahia Mar, Lime Zone, Dock C #300-310. For more information, visit www.bostonwhaler.com. | 775 |
Cognitive quantification is a fancy term for being able to know without a doubt that people are paying attention to what you are saying. Everyone has to give speeches, reports, presentations, or memos and we do not always know if we got the message across with communication. By practicing and understanding cognitive quantification, you can add a level of maturity to your communication that we need to achieve in order to analyze how much attention is necessary to get the point across; considering, that nobody will pay attention for more than a few minutes to ANYTHING without having to be pulled back in.
Some great examples of engaging communication skills come from professional speech writers. They know that it is necessary to use sound bites to lock down whatever point is being made and add a joke or other break in between points to keep an audience's attention. Many times, these sound bites or jokes<|fim_middle|> good if an important memo is sent out and the email is so long that people do not read to the end to know the actual message. So, take a few minutes before your next meeting, you send a new email, or present and read it to quantify how long does someone need to pay attention to know what it is about. This will help you cut out any excess or negligible information to send out clear communications that anyone can read and comprehend. | will be the only thing that people can remember, so they have to make them count. With careful consideration, you can get people to remember what communication you put forth.
This is so important in the business world because you will be sending important emails to employees, making presentations for clients, or interacting with the higher-ups and in every conversation, you want to be remembered. It does no one any | 79 |
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In this age of cheat tracks, lip sync, plus one and the kind used by a big majority of the artists Al Mckay's Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) experience can say straight-faced that they still perform 100 percent live. When I met Al a decade ago, he was already a big favorite in the European and Asian touring circuit. Nowadays, demand for him is at its peak.
Al has been the major driving force of Earth, Wind & Fire writing hits like September, making the group's live and recorded arrangements and most importantly, playing lead guitar and singing vocals. Together with Earth, Wind & Fire, he has won six Grammy awards and American Music awards, and was inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
As solo producer and songwriter, Al wrote and produced several platinum hits for the Emotions, including the hit Best of My Love, which gave him his sixth Grammy (Note that Earth, Wind & Fire won all the<|fim_middle|> PRODUCTION. All Rights Reserved. | Grammy awards when Al was a member and had never won after he left). When Earth, Wind & Fire went on prolonged hiatus in the '80s, Al put together the All Stars band playing almost exclusively EWF songs to fill the void. Majority of the members even joined the group including Verdine and Freddy White, Andrew Woolfolk, Ralph Johnson, Johnny Graham, etc. The group has dropped the name All Stars and is currently billed as Al Mckay's Earth, Wind & Fire Experience, whose current members include a virtual who's who in the music industry. These include vocalists Devere Duckett who has worked with Stevie Wonder and Barry White; Tim Owens who has worked with KC & Jojo; Claude Woods; musicians Dean Gant who has worked with Madonna, Pink, TLC and Peabo Bryson; Ben Dowling who has worked with Michael Jackson and Freddie Hubbard; Ed Wynne who has worked with the Doobie Brothers, Frankie Valli, Ronnie Laws, Mary Wilson, Platters; Freddie Flewelen who has worked with Deniece Williams, the Emotions, Brian McKnight, Patti Austin, Natalie Cole, etc. Included in the line-up of EWF hits to be performed at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (Grand Ballroom), November 24, at 8 p.m. are the monster hits September, Reasons, After The Love Has Gone, Boogie Wonderland, Let's Groove, Singasong, In The Stone, Got To Get You Into My Life, Sun Goddess, Can't Hide Love and many more.
Tickets are available at Rajakarcis.com, Ibudibjo.com, loket.com, tiketapasaja.com. As I have advised my friends in the concerts of Al, better get ready to dance all night.
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Ekiti Christians defy rumour, as clerics debunk terror attack letter
A catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Cyril Ogunsusi has said that the Christian community in Oye and Ilupeju Ekiti did not receive notification of attacks from any terrorist group.
This came following the rumour that some members of Boko Haram had marked the churches in the axis for attacks.
Ogunsusi gave the information during his homily on Sunday at the SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Oye-Ekiti, saying that the rumour was to create fear and panic among Christians in the two communities.
Ogunsusi, who commended the turn-out of Christians to church services, urged them to keep striving for the kingdom of God against all odds and tribulations.
He, however, called on every citizen to be security cautious and report all suspicious movements to the appropriate authority.
Also, at the Sacred Cherubim and Seraphim, Oke Isegun Headquarters, Irare Estate, Oye-Ekiti, the Pastor of the church, Superintendent Apostle Olalekan Agboola and Reverend Apostolic Mother, Grace Bada focused on giving thanks to God in all situations.
The duo said God's blessing is for all who serve Him in holiness and truth, while encouraging Christians to continue in the journey of the kingdom of God<|fim_middle|> in Ekiti State and Nigeria in the churches visited.
It was reported that there were adequate security personnel in and around the churches. | .
There were prayers for peace | 6 |
Hotel Suvarna Regency in Hassan is located 38kms from Bellur. The hotel houses 69 tastefully designed rooms for accommodation across 3 floors. Guests can indulge in a scrumptious meal at the Suvarna Sagar Restaurant, chill out over drinks at the bar, take a refreshing dip in the pool and avail banquet facility. Guest amenities include a travel counter to help tour the place, a business centre, free WiFi access,<|fim_middle|> and your family with ample privacy and superb sense of luxury that you always longed for all that at an affordable price.Located at 200 km from Bangalore airport and five km from the Hassan known for its salubrious climate, Hoysala Village Resort combines the geometric disciplines of local Hoysala architectural tradition and the idyllic simplicity of Malnad villages. | a picnic area nearby and free parking for vehicles.
Ideally located in the prime touristic area of Thanniruhalla, Hotel Mayura International promises a relaxing and wonderful visit. Offering a variety of facilities and services, the hotel provides all you need for a good night's sleep. Take advantage of the hotel's 24-hour room service, free Wi-Fi in all rooms, 24-hour front desk, facilities for disabled guests, express check-in/check-out. Guestrooms are designed to provide an optimal level of comfort with welcoming decor and some offering convenient amenities like television LCD/plasma screen, linens, mirror, towels, closet. The hotel offers various recreational opportunities. Discover all Hassan has to offer by making Hotel Mayura International your base.
Stop at Hotel Southern Star - Hassan to discover the wonders of Hassan. The hotel has everything you need for a comfortable stay. 24-hour front desk, express check-in/check-out, car park, room service, car hire are there for guest's enjoyment. Some of the well-appointed guestrooms feature television LCD/plasma screen, internet access – wireless (complimentary), non smoking rooms, air conditioning, wake-up service. Entertain the hotel's recreational facilities, including massage. Friendly staff, great facilities and close proximity to all that Hassan has to offer are three great reasons you should stay at Hotel Southern Star - Hassan.
Ideally located in the prime touristic area of Hassan, Stay Simple Riverdale Hotel promises a relaxing and wonderful visit. The hotel offers a wide range of amenities and perks to ensure you have a great time. To be found at the hotel are room service, restaurant, airport transfer, laundry service/dry cleaning. Designed for comfort, guestrooms offer satellite/cable TV, fan, shower, television to ensure a restful night. Take a break from a long day and make use of outdoor pool. Friendly staff, great facilities and close proximity to all that Hassan has to offer are three great reasons you should stay at Stay Simple Riverdale Hotel.
The 4-star Hassan Ashok offers comfort and convenience whether you're on business or holiday in Hassan. Featuring a complete list of amenities, guests will find their stay at the property a comfortable one. All the necessary facilities, including 24-hour room service, free Wi-Fi in all rooms, 24-hour security, daily housekeeping, fax machine, are at hand. Guestrooms are designed to provide an optimal level of comfort with welcoming decor and some offering convenient amenities like television LCD/plasma screen, air conditioning, desk, mini bar, telephone. Recuperate from a full day of sightseeing in the comfort of your room or take advantage of the hotel's recreational facilities, including badminton court, outdoor pool, massage, children's playground, pool (kids). Hassan Ashok combines warm hospitality with a lovely ambiance to make your stay in Hassan unforgettable.
Hoysala village Resorts at Hassan (Karnataka, India), is a prime resort located at Hassan.It is located away from the bustle, foul air and cacophony of cities this Shangri-La is designed to enthrall you | 636 |
Abbott Eliot Kittredge (July 20, 1834 – December 17, 1912), best known as A. E. Kittredge, was an American leader of the<|fim_middle|> by his second wife and three daughters, including social worker Mabel Hyde Kittredge.
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Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Kittredge graduated from Williams College in 1854; taught in Wilton, Connecticut, for a year, and graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1859. He was ordained on September 14, 1859, as pastor of the Winthrop church, Charlestown, where he remained until 1863; he then led the Howard St. Presbyterian church in San Francisco, California, 1864 and was pastor of the Eleventh Presbyterian church of New York City from 1865 to 1870, and then of the Third Presbyterian church of Chicago, Illinois, from 1870 to 1886. His work in presiding over the Chicago congregation attracted nationwide attention. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Williams College in 1878.
In 1896 he returned to New York city to lead the Madison Avenue Reformed church, until 1896. He was relieved of work for a time on account of ill health, and later, after extended travel, he again assumed the responsibility of the services.
He was twice married, his first wife having died in the late 1870s, and was survived | 273 |
The anniversary celebrating 50 years of Medical Education at the Austin is a great opportunity to reflect and share stories of your time at university. This year we called out for past alumnus to share their 'Memories of The Austin'.
If you have a memorable moment or story you would like to include please email the MDHS Alumni Relations team.
I was appointed to the Austin Hospital in July 1967 at the age of 32, following the appointment of Professor Howard Eddey in February of that year. Until 1968, we constituted the University Department of Surgery. The first six months were quite hectic. A course for the incoming students (who started in October 1967) had to be planned. Lectures had to be arranged. Teaching rounds had to be scheduled. This was all in addition to the routine clinical work. Surgical teaching was done by Professor Eddey and me.
On the medical side, Professor Austin Doyle, Dr Bernard Sweet (who was in the same year as me as an undergraduate) and Dr Bill Louis arranged the medical lectures and ward rounds. At the Austin, pathology and microbiology were taught on the hospital campus, unlike the older teaching hospitals where these subjects were taught on the University of Melbourne campus. This meant that integrated teaching in these subjects was facilitated. I did joint sessions with the pathology staff and the microbiology staff. In particular, I did joint ward rounds with the senior lecturer in microbiology. This meant that the practical use of antibiotics on surgical patients was taught at the bedside. This was new to the University of Melbourne.
There was universal enthusiasm from all the new appointees and from the first student group. I think that all staff members recognised an incredible opportunity. The students did also. We were all pioneers. We did not have to follow the age-old traditions of the hospitals whence we came. We had worked overseas and seen the best in the world. We could do our own thing and we did. We did not aim to be as good as the Royal Melbourne Hospital or St Vincent's Hospital. We aimed to be better. Apart from the two professors the new clinical staff were all in their thirties. We transformed the hospital from "The Austin Hospital for Cancer and the Incurables" into a leading teaching hospital in Australia, which lead the world in several areas. The research output in those early years was incredible, largely due to the efforts of Austin Doyle (Professor of Medicine). Austin Doyle supported me personally as much as he did those in his own Department. My rabbits (on a high cholesterol diet) were housed in a tiny green corrugated tin shed behind a new two-storey brick building which had just been built for the University.
There was no vascular surgeon at the Austin when I was appointed and I was the only one for the next five years. In retrospect, being the sole vascular surgeon for five years gave me an unparalleled opportunity to develop vascular surgery at the Austin in the way I wished. There were no ICU units in Australia at that time although I had seen several in the USA. We had an excellent nurse in charge of our 3KZ block ward, Barbara Carson (she later became Matron of the Austin). I arranged with Sister Carson that a four bed section of the ward be set aside for vascular patients returning to the ward from the operating theatre. I thought that this was very important for my aneurysm patients in particular. The nursing staff in this section developed considerable expertise looking after these patients When Robin Smallwood was appointed Director of Anaesthesia in 1969 he soon set up an ICU adjacent to the operating theatres. My ward ICU became redundant, but I like to think that I started the ICU at the Austin.
I started a separate Vascular Surgery Outpatient clinic in 1970 and a Vascular Surgery Unit when Neil Johnson and Brian Buxton were appointed to the hospital in 1973. Our unit became one of the leading units in Australia. I had been taught in the Professorial unit at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, the importance of audit. I kept an audit of all my patients, public and private, throughout my surgical career. This enabled the publication of many papers. I employed a secretary to the vascular unit (at my own expense for several years) to ensure an accurate audit. Eventually, the hospital paid for the secretary.
During my extended visit to the USA in early 1967, I met several surgeons who were "Fellows in Vascular Surgery" in the units to which they were attached Some of these fellows were paid others, others were not. They were full time and the training they received was first class. In Australia there were no positions specifically for vascular surgery training, experience in vascular<|fim_middle|>, Mr Andy McLeish, Dr Louise Seward, Dr Areta Podhorodecki and Dr Greg Stewart.
Just wanted to share a memory of my last clinical exam as a medical student, held in the old Austin outpatient's clinic. With lots of adrenaline, I bumbled through all the stations - got to the last OSCE station - Brendan and Barbara opened the door, and inside, instead of another tricky scenario, there was a big plate of Tim Tams. Best ever! | surgery was part of general surgery training. We were the first in Australia to have a Fellow in vascular surgery. This was highly successful and eventually, this training was adopted throughout Australia, based on the model at the Austin.
We were the first to have a vascular laboratory attached to a vascular surgery unit in Australia. The initial laboratory was a former infant feeding preparation room adjacent to our ward in the 3KZ block. This facility was, of course, expanded with the building of the Harold Stokes block and again later with the Austin/Mercy redevelopment. In the late 1980's the Medicare fee schedule was to be expanded, a team came from Canberra to inspect our facilities, our staff and our costings as we were the leading Vascular Laboratory in the country. The work in our laboratory led to the publication of many papers. I was the first in the world to use ultrasound to interrogate varicose veins. Several of our fellows worked on this theme and of course, our laboratory did also.
An anecdote I well remember was as follows: In 1979, at an overseas meeting, I heard a presentation about OPG's (an oculoplethysmograph to measure delay in flow in the carotid artery for detection of carotid artery stenosis). I visited Wesley Moore in Tucson Arizona USA to see how this machine was used. I was most impressed. I purchased the machine with my own money. After return to the Austin, I applied to management for reimbursement of the cost ($8600). This was a lot of money in 1979. After a lot of haggling, the hospital agreed to reimburse me. But they clearly stated, "Never do that again", However, I had my machine.
My colleagues at the Austin had similar ambitions. When John Dawborn was appointed to the Austin in September 1967, he established a home dialysis program (the first in Australia). As the only vascular surgeon in the hospital, I did all the renal access surgery and so developed a close liaison with the renal unit. This liaison has continued since. When I was on my own, I developed a close liaison with the radiology department. This grew as the volume and complexity of vascular surgery advanced. I think that the liaison between the Radiology department and the vascular unit at the Austin became the best in Melbourne. A similar liaison was developed with the neurology unit. The stroke unit was the first such unit in Australia. Peter Bladin and I both became recognised internationally for our work on stroke patients. Such liaison between physicians and surgeons did not occur at the hospitals we had come from, and I think that this medical-surgical interaction was of great importance to the development of the Austin Hospital. This was seen later in the development of the liver transplant program.
A further anecdote I can remember was this: One morning we had completed the ward round of our patients in the 3KZ block. We were proceeding along the walkway on the first floor towards the main hospital. I looked down and saw two men dressed in black with balaclavas over their heads waving sawn-off shotguns around. They did not spot us as we were on a higher level. I quietly and quickly ushered everyone back into the ward. The NAB branch was in a solitary building immediately adjacent to the east end of the 3KZ block. It was being robbed. The ward clerk promptly phoned the police. She said, "The bank's being robbed". When she hung up we realised she had not told the bank, which bank. She was too excited. I do not know whether or not the culprits were caught. I had to take the bank manager to the operating theatre and stitch up a large gaping wound on his bald head, where he had been struck by one of the robbers.
My time spent at the Austin Hospital provided a vital clinical foundation for a most rewarding career that continues to evolve & flourish to this day.
One that really stands out for me was at the end of our training and I'll retell it as I remember it. I was in the class of 1977. That was 40 years ago now but I have never forgotten this most important piece of teaching I received at the Austin.
In my nearly 40 years of practicing medicine I've never forgotten this important piece of advice. It has helped me enormously and held me in good stead throughout my career. I've also passed this sage advice on to the many students and registrars I have had the privilege to teach over the years.
This is an example of what was so inspirational about the Austin Clinical School. We weren't just taught clinical medicine, we were also taught how to be good doctors.
From left to right Dr Bryan Winthrope, Dr Susan Russell | 987 |
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Fine politico repubblicano e mazziniano è stato storicamente la figura più rappresentativa a Caltanissetta della cultura mazziniana, prima e dopo l'unità d'Italia.
Ebbe una fitta corrispondenza con Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cairoli, Guerrazzi, Crispi ed altri democratici dell'epoca.
Biografia
Figlio di Diego Lanzirotti e di Nazzarena Russo, Antonio fu il primo di quattro fratelli. Guglielmo Luigi fu il più famoso terzogenito e Giovanni il quartogenito Antonio fu nobile per nascita essendo barone di Ganigazzeni, (poi Canicassé) del Regno delle due Sicilie e poi del Regno d'Italia.
Antonio Lanzirotti studiò presso il convitto San Giorgio di Castrogiovanni (oggi Enna) dove studiò diritto, scienze
sociali e storia.
Egli per brevi periodi fu decurione di Caltanissetta dal 28 luglio 1<|fim_middle|> storia italiana. 1859-1870
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Bibliografia
Antonio Vitellaro, I tempi lunghi delle vicende nissene. Riflessioni a margine dell'opera di Giovanni Mule Bertolo «Caltanissetta nei tempi che furono e nei tempi che sono», Lussografica, 2004. ISBN 978-88-8243-199-0
Giovanni Mulè Bertolo, Caltanissetta nei tempi che furono e nei tempi che sono: 1 (1º gen. 1900)
Giovanni Mulè Bertolo, Caltanissetta nei tempi che furono e nei tempi che sono: 2 di A. Vitellaro (1º nov. 2004)
Giuseppe Candura, Le 42 città demaniali nella storia di Sicilia, Caltanissetta, Lussografica, 2004.
Luigi Santagati, Fatti politici di Caltanissetta, Caltanissetta, Paruzzo Editore, 1993. | 846 al 4 novembre 1846 e dal 1º gennaio 1847 al 14 febbraio 1847. Poi partecipò ai moti rivoluzionari del 1848 come aiutante maggiore della Guardia nazionale. A conseguenza di ciò, durante la restaurazione borbonica, fu costretto a nascondersi diventando latitante per gli anni successivi. Successivamente partecipò all'insurrezione contro i borboni del 1860.
Rifiutò da Garibaldi il ruolo di primo prefetto, non condividendo le modalità con cui la monarchia sabauda aveva "conquistato" il regno delle due Sicilie. Preferì ritirarsi a vita privata in via dei Santi (oggi via Re d'Italia), in una modesta casa del centro di Caltanissetta.
Di quegli anni un suo testo librario ancora in attesa di prima pubblicazione: Un periodo di storia italiana. 1859-1870. In quegli anni egli fu anche uno dei primi sostenitori della costruenda Biblioteca Scarabelli.
Morì nel 1888; alle sue esequie partecipò con sincero e diffuso cordoglio in massa tutta la città di Caltanissetta, indipendentemente da ogni fede politica professata, a testimonianza del grande rispetto e della stima che aveva saputo raccogliere nella sua vita.
Oggi rimane di lui la sua corrispondenza con i personaggi storici del periodo, custodita nella biblioteca comunale Scarabelli.
Azione politica
I temi della sua azione politica di fervente repubblicano mazziniano furono rivolti a sostenere l'idea che i Plebisciti risorgimentali furono fatti in modo truffaldino.
Sostenne anche l'idea che lo statuto Albertino era imposto a tutti gli italiani senza che questi potessero scegliere con libertà tra la monarchia e la repubblica. Inoltre, egli fortemente criticò l'azione del governo post unitario per l'avidità con cui questi aveva "saccheggiato" le ricchezze e i beni dei siciliani per la sua azione di risanamento dei bilanci sabaudi. Governo questo, sostenne, che non era in grado di realizzare una vera riforma agraria, riforma tanto attesa quanto necessaria per il popolo siciliano.
Descrisse, infine, il problema del banditismo come un esempio di lotta di resistenza di un popolo contro un invasore.
Storicamente egli è rimasto meno noto rispetto al fratello secondogenito Guglielmo Luigi, e nei fatti può essere considerato come "uno che gridava fuori dal coro".
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Antonio Lanzirotti, Un periodo di | 688 |
Discover the idyllic rural life of the Mekong Delta on a 3-day tour that takes you by boat along the river and the region's natural canals<|fim_middle|>0. | . Visit villages and markets and marvel at the natural wonders and wildlife.
You'll depart Ho Chi Minh City, enjoying the scenic journey along the National Highway bordered by green rice fields. On arrival at My Tho, visit Vinh Trang pagoda, take a leisurely boat ride along the river, and take in the views of stilt houses, fruit plantations, and fishing villages along the riverbank. At Tortoise islet you'll stop for lunch at an orchard garden.
Next you'll take a boat to An Khanh, a less touristy destination, enjoying a cruise by hand-rowed sampan under the shade of coconut trees along the natural canals. Enjoy seasonal fruits and honey tea to the sounds of southern Vietnamese folk music performed by locals.
Visit a family business that epitomizes the idyllic rural lifestyle, taste delicious coconut candy, and roam through the fruit plantations and villages. Proceed to Can Tho, where you'll spend the night. Free time will be available to visit the bustling Can Tho market.
Take a leisurely boat trip to explore the picturesque tributaries of the Lower Mekong and then proceed to Cai Rang floating markets (Phong Dien is optional), which are the liveliest in the region. See how Vietnamese vermicelli soup is made and then take a walk around the village and meet the friendly locals. Experience crossing a monkey bridge, made from a single stem of bamboo. Visit an orchard garden and take a break for lunch.
From Chau Doc the tour continues to Tra Su Cajuput forest, where you'll visit the wild bird sanctuary by small boat. Travel along the network of canals deep into the forest, watching storks,cranes, and other tropical birds. On the way back you'll stop to visit Sam Mountain and the cave pagoda (time permitting). Overnight in Chau Doc.
After breakfast you'll enjoy a boat trip through a floating village to visit a fish farm. See how the local people raise fish in their floating houses. Stop to visit the Cham minority at their traditional weaving village, and visit a local mosque. Transfer to the pier for the final part of the journey to Phnom Penh, arriving at the Sisowath tourist dock in Phnom Penh. The boat to Phnom Penh departs from Chau Doc at 07:3 | 483 |
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We did things a little differently this year–KK flew into OKC from Richmond on Thursday, to drive out with Deanne and Jeanne on Saturday, and I arrived in Branson from DC the following Sunday. Didn't do much the first day–hit happy hour at the pool and played Chicken Foot that night.
On Monday, we rented a boat and cruised Table Rock Lake. Bill drove–proudly showing off his El Jefe hat.
If you like to fish<|fim_middle|> Fish House in Branson Landing. We had mostly fried catfish, with me just eating clam chowder, but it was all very good.
Thursday night was the Baldknobbers Show. This was mostly Country and Western, but it's one of the oldest shows in Branson. And about half the performers show it. The two two main singers can sing okay, but they're not dynamic and don't seem to be very enthused. There are a couple of duets, and along with the comedy acts, they save the show. And don't miss the discounted ice cream and apple pie at the restaurant next door after the show.
Sadly, the Titanic happened to sail through Branson the week we were there, and can you believe the luck–it was hit by an iceberg again. I happened to be on the spot and captured the moment of impact. It's just a gift I have.
You may have heard about the tornado that hit Branson a couple of months ago. There was very little damage, but the areas that it did hit were devastated. Only one or two theaters were put out of action but here's a sample of a few structures that didn't do so well. | and want a guarantee of catching something, be sure to hit the marina where I took this picture. I'm not sure what the purpose is, but there's a little pool built into the deck, where they're literally crammed into a small space. What a wonderful fishing experience that could be? Then, on to happy hour, round 2.
Tuesday afternoon, KK and I met an old friend friend from my previous days at Virginia Power. We had lunch with Amy and Tom Grubaugh. They've retired near Branson. We made an initial connection through FaceBook, and Amy found out we were coming to Branson through a Pinterest clip I had made of some Branson shows. What a great use of social media–without it, we would never have realized how close we were that week. The food at Cantina Laredo in Branson Landing was pretty awesome, too.
Tuesday evening, we actually got around to going to a show. We saw the Cat"s Pajamas, four singers who perform their entire act acapela. I thought the best songs were Duke of Earl and Stand by Me. One of the team, Skinner, created most of the background sound effects by virtue of his own voice. He did a solo, and it was unbelievable that all those sounds came out of his mouth. You would have sworn that the background beat was from a drum or bass.
Wednesday afternoon, We saw It–yes, that's the entire name of the show. It was basically the Hughes family, and if you saw my review last year, it was as good, or better, as the Duttons Show. There are five brothers–the youngest, Andy, did a very nice Spanish guitar number. All the wives sang and danced. With all the wives and children, there were probably 30 people on the stage, all at one time. Aaron is only 16, and did a fantastic song and dance solo–and played the violin later. The 14 year old gave us a drum solo. One of the brothers and his wife played a beautiful violin duet. The children treated us to a mass fast dance. I rate it the best show we saw this year.
We could not have possibly visited Branson without a trip to the White Oaks Exxon station for their gizzards. It would have been just my luck that they didn't serve them any more, but my luck held out. Now, what are the odds that a service station would serve one of my favorite (and very hard to find) foods? I think fate just has to be involved here. Or the Mayan calendar, or something.
Thursday was shopping and dinner at White River | 546 |
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This entry was posted in Hints and Tips, PM+M, Run My Business on August 14, 2018 by pmm-blog. | UK receive their highly anticipated A-Level results, which for many acted as a deciding factor of where they were going to spend the next three years at university.
Recent statistics however have shown that more and more students are opting for apprenticeships over university degrees, as a way of kickstarting their careers through work-based learning without the burden of debt.
As a firm committed to supporting the region's young people and producing home grown talent, PM+M recruits a number of apprentices each year. This year's intake of 7 apprentices was our largest to date. We are so pleased that the first 5 are settling in well and taking working life in their stride and are looking forward to the remaining 2 joining us in September.
Yesterday was a particularly eventful day for James Cocker, one of our new Run My Business team apprentices, who alongside receiving his own A-Level results, also made an appearance on Sky News discussing the benefits of apprenticeships compared to university tuition.
In his interview, James commented, "I know there's a chance I'm missing out on some of the social aspects of university, but I can easily visit my friends at uni and I'm already making new friends at work, so I'm definitely going to have a good social life.
We would like to offer our congratulations to James and our corporate services apprentice, Rebecca Nuttall, on their outstanding A-Level results, and a huge thank you to all of our apprentices for choosing to join us at PM+M.
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Wabash College invites you to a variety of public events scheduled during Homecoming Weekend, September 23-24. A musical concert, art exhibit, Alumni Chapel, and, of course, football are just some of the activities planned.
• Art Exhibit—Print Biennial I: An Exhibition of Traditional and Digital Printmaking and Photography. This exhibition is a national print invitational organized by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, which showcases contemporary currents in print media. The<|fim_middle|> named honorary alumni.
• The annual freshman decorations will be on display at fraternity houses and Martindale Hall all day. The fraternities will have floats, banners, and other homecoming ornamentation at their houses. Winners will be announced at halftime of the football game.
• The Homecoming Concert, featuring performances by several Wabash music ensembles at 8 p.m. in Salter Concert Hall in Fine Arts Center, located on Grant Avenue. The Concert is free and open to the public.
• The football game: The Little Giants, coached by Chris Creighton, will clash with the Earlham Quakers. The game will begin at 2 p.m. in the Byron P. Hollett Little Giant Stadium and features not only a good contest between the two schools, but also the fraternity pledge class cheer contest at halftime. Game tickets are $5 adults, $3 students, kids under 6 free. Available at the gates.
For further information about the weekend, please contact the Office of Public Affairs at 765-361-6396 or the Office of Alumni Affairs at 765-361-6369. | works selected for this touring exhibition include a range of traditional approaches to printmaking and photography, as well as works that reflect artists' incorporation of digital media into their print practices. The exhibit consists of 61 works by 33 artists who examine the changing directions of the contemporary print. The exhibition will run through Saturday, October 8. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9-5 p.m. and Saturday 10-2 p.m. Admission is free.
• The Homecoming Alumni Chapel at 11 a.m. in the Pioneer Chapel. Join the National Association of Wabash Men for a festive celebration of Wabash College and its honored graduates. A number of alumni awards will also be presented. In addition, two members of the Wabash College community, Malcolm "Mac" Petty and Robert Cooley, will be | 172 |
In just 5 years, Farrah Haines drove her 2013 Elantra 1 million miles. But most digital odometers stop before 1 million. So we joined her when she hit her milestone and created something special to mark her achievement: The Million Mile Emblem.
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Now she has proof of going 1 million miles, and she can keep driving.
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Safe Haven Sunday Launched in the Archdiocese of New Orleans
Source: Covenant Eyes
Author: Amanda Zurface
March 2, 2018 -- The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' 2015 statement Create in Me a Clean Heart: A Pastoral Response to Pornography has been an inspiration and guide to Catholic leaders as they seek to address the severity of pornography in today's internet age.
In the document, the U.S. bishops encourage clergy to embrace their sacred duty to protect children from pornography. As they explain, "The use of pornography by anyone in the home deprives the home of its role as a safe<|fim_middle|> that it's out there, but they had no idea where to turn for help or simply for reliable information. The books they received, Equipped, really provided families with an accessible resource they could use to begin to make intentional decisions on how to protect their families and homes from pornography."
Sixty-five parishes in the Archdiocese of New Orleans participated. Together, the parishes distributed 17,000 copies of the book Equipped.
Safe Haven Sunday achieved McCaffrey's goal to facilitate openness within the archdiocese about the topic of pornography and has actually sparked opportunities for their team to address pornography in other ways throughout the archdiocese as well. He shared,
"We were very pleased [with Safe Haven Sunday]. All-in-all, our goal and desire the entire time leading up to Safe Haven Sunday was simply to provide a forum in which the issue of pornography could be addressed openly, and in which individuals and families could be given resources that would help them take ownership in the fight to protect their homes and families against the evil of pornography. We feel as though those goals were achieved, and that the conversation was opened in a way that would have been difficult to achieve otherwise.
Very rapidly we began to receive phone calls and emails from church parishes asking us if we could schedule times to come to their parishes to give talks to parents' groups on addressing pornography and other sexuality-related issues in their homes. From the beginning, our plan has been to offer to all of our church parishes and schools the opportunity to schedule meetings like this. So we were excited to see that Safe Haven Sunday naturally moved people in this direction. It quickly fostered the desire for more information and the desire to do more."
Can We Hold Our Own Safe Haven Sunday?
We'd love to see more diocesan and parish communities help parishioners make their homes a safe haven. If you have any questions about Safe Haven Sunday or would like to hold a Safe Haven Sunday in your diocese or parish, please contact Ryan Foley, Catholic Business Development Director. | haven and has negative effects throughout a family's life and across generations." The bishops also challenge clergy to create safe environments in accord with the ongoing implementation of The Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.
In response to Create in Me a Clean Heart, Covenant Eyes created a Diocesan and Parish Implementation Guide that provides step-by-step instructions to assist clergy and Catholic leaders in fulfilling the bishops' recommendations. One of those suggestions is to designate a Safe Haven Sunday.
What Is Safe Haven Sunday?
At a very high level, Safe Haven Sunday is one weekend within the liturgical calendar dedicated to directly addressing the harms of pornography during Mass. Covenant Eyes created specific resources to help diocesan and parish leaders support individuals, marriages, and families in overcoming pornography and making their homes a safe haven.
Safe Haven Sunday is an annual initiative for dioceses and parishes. With a new theme and fresh materials from Covenant Eyes each year, diocesan and parish leaders are equipped to lead their communities in creating safe havens. This year's theme is Equipping the Family, Safeguarding Children.
The primary resource for the 2018 Safe Haven Sunday is the Covenant Eyes book, Equipped: Smart Catholic Parenting in a Sexualized Culture. In Equipped, parishioners will find simple instructions to join a seven-day text-to-opt-in email series. These emails contain easy instructional videos for turning their home into a safe haven. They explain the latest apps, Google Safe Search, YouTube Restricted Mode, social media risks, how to address online pornography, and more.
Providing the book is not required, but we do suggest that each parish order enough copies of Equipped to send one home with each family on the designated Safe Haven Sunday.
Safe Haven Sunday in the Archdiocese of New Orleans
On February 17-18, the Archdiocese of New Orleans was the first to launch the program to alert their 510,000 Catholics about the harm posed by pornography and provide them with the right tools.
I recently spoke with Timmy McCaffery, Associate Director for the Archdiocese of New Orleans Office of Marriage and Family Life and chairman of their Create in Me a Clean Heart committee, about why they decided to implement Safe Haven Sunday. Here is some of what he expressed,
"We had already brought the issue to our school and church parish administrators, and to the educators in our schools. Safe Haven Sunday seemed like the best and most fruitful way to really roll out the issue, as well as helpful resources, to the individuals and families in our church parishes.
We liked that the Safe Haven Sunday initiative provided our priests with a natural inroad for discussing a difficult topic. Many of our priests want to confront the issue directly but people aren't always receptive to that. As well, many are not prepared to discuss it or simply feel awkward or unqualified when doing so. Safe Haven Sunday provided a way to address the issue of pornography as a larger community, all at the same time. It also made it possible to ground the response to the problem in prayer."
Although it's still too early to measure the full impact of Safe Haven Sunday for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, the initial feedback has been extremely positive. McCaffery shared,
"The response [to Safe Haven Sunday] was great. For the most part, it was very well received across the board. The priests, who are really on the front lines of the fight against pornography, particularly in the sacrament of Reconciliation, were grateful to have solid resources at their fingertips. They were glad to be able to provide resources to their parishioners at no cost to the families and at a very low cost to the parish.
It's early still, but it seems like individuals and families were very happy to have it addressed. They were particularly happy to have resources available. Many of them, I think, know that there's a big problem, they know | 798 |
LISTS Where to Start Exploring the Dazzling World of Molly Nilsson By Ed Blair · Photos by Hjalmar Rechlin · January 24, 2022
"Sometimes I wonder if it's a little bit dangerous. When you name an album, it is a little bit like a spell, you know." Molly Nilsson is describing the process behind naming her most recent album Extreme, and the Berlin-by-way-of-Sweden synth-pop singer has reason to be wary. She named her last album Twenty Twenty, which ended up being a fairly tumultuous year here on Planet Earth. "I was thinking about the title Extreme right after I'd made Twenty Twenty," she says. "At the time, I just thought that it was kind of a fun title—a good working title to [remind myself to] be playful and not hold myself back." But the word took on new resonance as fascism and ocean levels continued to rise, and the global pandemic refused to cede center stage.
Molly Nilsson
Extreme Molly Nilsson .
"It turned into thinking of 'extremes' in this black-and-white, polarized society, and the struggles between all the different sides and all these different ways of thinking," she says. The sentiment evident from the second the record starts: Extreme opens with the sound of crashing guitars and Nilsson singing, "It's me versus the black hole at the centre of the galaxy/ Who we are versus who we'd like to be/ Get ready for the fight of the century." It's a call to arms, but it's also a recognition that revolution must start from within. "Those days of just 'not caring' are over," Nilsson says. "Because if you don't care today, I mean, that's still taking a stand. I'm trying to do my best, but at the same time, live my life. It's gonna be a small, slow process of re-learning how to do things better." That reassessment applies to all aspects of her role as an artist, from the environmental impact of touring ("There are just so many little things that nobody paid attention to before—like how many plastic bottles they have in the green room of a show, for example") to the way she approaches her audience and her work.
After the release of Twenty Twenty, Nilsson went through a period of what she calls "creative depression." "I had a running order of how things went, in terms of my years and my albums," she says. "I would work<|fim_middle|> it was really funny to sort of be like: 'This is it, this is the peak, this is everything,' you know? 'It's all downhill from here, this is my eternal sunset, I'm riding into it now.'" Thankfully, that was not the case. But if it had been? It would have been hard to imagine a stronger final statement. Zenith is Nilsson in peak form, laughing off the surveillance state alongside cigarette smoking angels in "H.O.P.E." and finding painful beauty in the metaphor of outliving a dead OS in "1995."
Zenith marks a sea change in the tenor of Nilsson's work; it's the first release where the singer's hope and optimism really takes center stage. On "Lovers are Losers," Nilsson proudly takes her place with the rest of the, well, lovers and losers, refuting the "neo-liberal bullshit" that positions relationships as games to be won. "Titanic," and "Tomorrow," are both touching odes to the power of being inebriated with people you dearly care for. "It's one of my favorite albums in so many different ways, because I think it sounds beautiful, it looks beautiful, feels beautiful," Nilsson says. "It represents such an important time in my life, when I left my 20s behind me, and I entered my 30s. It was just such a nice moment of shedding skin and moving into a new decade."
Twenty Twenty
Twenty Twenty Molly Nilsson .
"I was thinking more of like a feeling, or an atmosphere for Twenty Twenty. I wanted it to kind of feel like, I had this sort of feeling like it's been a hot day, and the sun is setting, and you kind of walk around on the street, and you just go into some store and you find a book you like, and you're just in the hypnotic feeling of being in the now," is how Nilsson describes Twenty Twenty's guiding principles, and it's an apt introduction to her 2018 album.
This is Nilsson at her most hazy, an album weighted with endings (friendships, the world, and everything in-between). "I also think I tried to not say anything explicitly, because my experience was that as soon as I said anything explicitly, people got really angry," she explains, "So my approach at that time was almost like I was trying to– like, I was a part of the resistance and in some dictatorship or something, where you have to name things other things to get away with it. At the time, it seemed like a strategy that helped me in some kind of creative way." Even with a little bit of metaphorical distance, songs like "A Slice of Lemon," push the listener to consider their own role in the world around them. Nilsson wraps up environmental/existential crisis in heightened romance; by the time you realize, you're already singing along.
A Little Further In
Follow The Light Molly Nilsson .
"I was a little bit disillusioned and confused about what I was going to do," Nilsson says of her 2010 record. "I think it's something about years that end with a nine; 2009 and 2019 were really difficult years—for me, at least. I think I'm always thinking of my life in years." Her previous record, Europa, had been her first release on vinyl and it hadn't sold as well as expected. "I had these huge boxes in my living room, just reminding me every day of all the records I didn't sell," Nilsson says. "I was a little bit traumatized by that."
On Follow the Light, Nilsson desperately grasps at memory, whether she's pouring through Google to find traces of an old friendship ("The Closest We'll Ever Get to Heaven") or wearing a lover's old jacket while watching a genetically modified rose outlast their love ("I'm Still Wearing His Jacket"). "I'm very critical of almost everything I do, but when I look back on that album, I do think it's a really fun one," she says, "I don't think there's one bad song on there."
History Molly Nilsson .
Nilsson cites 2011's History as a turning point in her career. People were starting to take notice of her work and, as a result, she was able to broaden her horizons. "I felt like there were some people who had just discovered what I'd done before, and there was a little bit of an expectation or something. That was really exciting for me," she recalls. "That was when I first started going out, playing shows around in Europe. I went to the States as well. I kind of came out more in the world, whereas before I had been, you know, much more in my bedroom."
You couldn't pick a better break-out record. The languorous ode to obsession, "I Hope You Die," quickly became a fan favorite. "In Real Life" and "Hotel Home," explore the ways technology functions in our relationships, a theme Nilsson would return to on later albums. History also boasts Nilsson's most danceable track, a raved-up "City of Atlantis" which pulls liberally from Eurodance.
The Travels
The Travels Molly Nilsson .
The Travels was Nilsson's first record with Night School Records, a partnership which would help free up Nilsson to focus solely on her music ("I'm happy if I can write more songs than emails, you know"), and also expose new listeners to her music through a diligent reissue program. Nilsson met Night School label head Michael Kasparis when he was still working as a buyer for Rough Trade Shops. When Kasparis started Night School, he reached out to Nilsson, and the rest was history. "I love being DIY, and I love doing everything myself, to a certain extent," Nilsson says, "but there's nothing as beautiful as having a partner in crime. I would wish for everyone in the whole world to have a Michael."
This is also the record where Nilsson states most plainly the tension at the heart of much of her recent work. In the chorus of "The Power Ballad," Nilsson repeats the phrase, "The power of love versus the love of power"—the two opposing forces that also drive Extreme.
Europa Molly Nilsson .
Nilsson's 2009 sophomore album, which marked the formation of her self-run record label Dark Skies Association. "It's kind of difficult," she says of the process of following up her debut. "You've made one thing, and then you're trying to make a new thing." Europa was written over the course of six months, which lent the album a more consistent tone than her debut. Nilsson calls Europa a transitional record, saying, "There's some songs on that album that I really love, but I kind of think of it as a stepping stone between the first album and Follow The Light. So it's a little bit like that middle child, you know?"
Imaginations Molly Nilsson .
Compact Disc (CD), Vinyl LP, Cassette
"Imaginations was sort of trying to follow up where Zenith ended," Nilsson says. "That was kind of difficult." It's also perhaps the most anthemic of Nilsson's work, an aspect that she struggled with at the time. "On that album, I was tense, and I just wanted to say all these things, and I wanted to be understood and I wanted to be really explicit, and maybe I got a bit lost there," she says. There are still highlights, like the money-and-sex-surrealism of "American Express," or the paen to liminal spaces, "Inner Cities." Ultimately, she chalks the album up as a learning experience. "Since then, I've told myself, 'OK, don't try to do everything on an album, you know,'" she says. "Just do one or two things and then have fun."
Read more in Pop → | on an album, then put it out, then go play shows, then come home and start working on a new album. That had almost become a routine." But it wasn't just that steady grind that was weighing on her. She says that while writing Extreme, "I tried to not think so much about what other people thought. Because I think that was maybe a part of my creative depression after Twenty Twenty. It felt like it was difficult to express myself the way I wanted to express myself and to be confident in what I was saying, because I kept thinking about how I would be misunderstood."
Directness suits Nilsson, as do some of the new musical ideas she explores on Extreme. The jazzy lounge stylings of "Take Me To Your Leader," show a more playful side of Nilsson than any of her previous releases, as does the punk sneer of "They Will Pay." These stylistic expansions were, in part, a consequence of not being on the road. "Because there was such a long break, I went through so many different phases," Nilsson says. "So the album is a little bit like somebody's going through 11 different ideas in 40 minutes. It's not all over the place, though, because it's all me. Obviously."
Nilsson is such an idiosyncratic talent that it's hard to imagine mistaking Extreme for anyone else. If you are interested in taking the plunge into exploring her expansive back catalog, we have a guide to help you get started.
Dipping a Toe In
These Things Take Time
These Things Take Time Molly Nilsson .
2 x Vinyl LP, Compact Disc (CD)
In some ways, Nilsson's debut (released in 2008 on hand-numbered CD-Rs) feels like a little bit of a birth-of-Athena moment, as many of the things that would come to define her music are already fully formed here: The wry humor, the catchy, repetitive synths, and the ache of wistful loneliness. It's a remarkably assured arrival. "These Things Take Time were songs that I'd written over maybe a year's time," Nilsson says. "But it was [made up of] ideas that I had collected my whole life." As with many of her album titles, These Things Take Time proved prophetic about the trajectory of Nilsson's life. "I was saying, 'Okay, patience. I want to make this love affair I have with music last a long time. I don't want to burn out or you know, throw it up in the air and just see where it lands.' So I think it was a very good starting point for me."
Nilsson had been writing songs for several years at this point and, as a result, was able to pick the strongest ones from a crowded field. "I was writing lots of songs—just, you know, three songs a day or something. They were obviously not all great. But I realized that's kind of how you get good at something: You just do it really fast. So you fail, and you start again; and then you fail, and you start again," she explains. That dedication paid off. Songs like the wistful "Hey Moon!" and the cocktail of sardonic wit and regret that is "Whiskey Sour," remain fan favorites more than a decade later.
Zenith Molly Nilsson .
"My prime! The peak of my career!" laughs Nilsson. "I thought | 714 |
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The Xiaomi Mi Band 3 comes with a replaceable silicone band, and you will need to take it out of that strap when it needs to be charged, though luckily, you won't have to do that for quite some time, as it sports a black and white display yet again, as was the case with the Mi Band 2. Xiaomi claims that it will offer you around 20 days of battery life on a single charge. The Mi Band 3 features a 0.78-inch (128 x 80) OLED display, and unlike the Mi Band 2's panel, this display is actually touch-sensitive. The Mi Band 3 also comes with a heart-rate sensor which is implemented on the bottom of the device, in more or less the same place it was included in the Mi Band 2. The device is waterproof, you can submerge it under a 50m of water. Just like the Mi Band 2, the Mi Band 3 will be able to measure your steps, track your sleep, and so on. It will also be able to show you weather info, notifications, caller ID, and so on. The device sports a 110mAh battery, and Bluetooth 4.2 BLE, while a variant of the device with an NFC chip will also be available in China it seems. The device itself is black-colored no matter what version you get, but version with different strap colors will be sold, so the device will be available with silicone straps in Black, Blue and Red colors, at least in the beginning, as Xiaomi will probably introduce some additional colors later on.
The Xiaomi Mi Band 3 is priced at 169 Yuan ($26) in China (199 Yuan for the NFC variant), which means | 402 |
The purpose of the Kingdom Christian Church New Members Ministry is to equip new members with the knowledge and understanding of our governing biblical principles in addition<|fim_middle|> pastor, network with other new members, meet church leadership, and ask questions. | to becoming acquainted with our pastor, Dr. Gabriel Rogers. Members are taught foundational ideologies regarding our vision, mission, the role and responsibility of our pastor, a biblical perspective of tithes and offering, and the duty of the member through the infallible Word of God. Every session is interactive, relevant, and explanatory. Additionally, it is vital that new members complete all four sessions offered prior to functioning in various auxiliaries within Kingdom Christian Church.
After completion, each New Members Class will have an opportunity to have dinner with the Pastor. This is a great opportunity to interact with our | 119 |
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McNabs Island is the largest island at the entrance of Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia. Part of the McNabs<|fim_middle|> history.
We invite you to read a historical overview prepared by Brian Kinsman. for the Parks and Recreation Division NS Department of the Environment in April 1995.
Meet the McNab family, read about the island pre and post Europeans, its fortifications, neighbouring islands and its strange and wonderful folklore. Start reading here!
Rather take in your history through galleries? Click through to our galleries of archeology, past residents, WW11 soldiers and structures. | and Lawlor Islands Provincial Park, McNabs Island is only a short boat ride from Halifax or Eastern Passage, but feels like a world away with its colorful past and unspoiled natural beauty.
Promoting and preserving McNabs Island's many historical and natural features is the Friends of McNabs Island Society, a volunteer, non-profit charity.
Beyond hosting events such as picnics, nature and historical tours, the Society produces informative newsletters, a guide book, maps and brochures. It also works with Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Parks Canada to upkeep and develop park infrastructure on the island.
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Shambles
The City of Mandith, called the City of Bones by outsiders, is a dour and foreboding place. Bones from animals big and small decorate the city—from the massive tusks that make a high arch into the city's main plaza to the little finger bones of a goblin hanging to chime in the wind outside a child's window. The people of Mandith are dark and dreary, though they would say they are more serious-minded than "those fools in Andath". A handful of druids tend a small grove in Upper Mandith, but they must refresh the dirt and topsoil regularly as it gives way to erosion.
The people of Mandith are not welcoming to outsiders, and greet them with cold stares disinterest. They welcome trade, insomuch as they need the things offered, but they ensure visitors feel no inclination to loiter. This coldness turns to indignation and possibly hostility in the face of those who claim orc blood.
The structures and buildings of Mandith are almost entirely made of bone. Much of the bone is from just after the Shambling, when the dead littered Vernlarum in the wake of the Shambles. Bone appears to be fortified on Mandith, becoming stronger and lasting longer than the some bones elsewhere. Those who trade food to Mandites usually trade the whole body of animals, because they know the people of Mandith will find some use for the bones.
Occasionally, one will see an animated skeleton walking the streets of Mandith. Mandites do not believe necromancy is to be avoided, nor do they believe animated a corpse has anything to do with creating Shambles. This can be quite a shock to visitors who often make no such distinction.
Shamble Mandith
Mandith is an imposing figure. His legs are the intertwining bones of colossal dragons, the skulls of four large forgotten beasts serve as his feet. And his body is a mass of bones of all shapes and sizes. Mandith's body surprises first time visitors who expect it to be full of holes; it is not. The bones have fused on the top of his body to make a solid sheet of bone with only vague lines and cracks where they used to be separate things.
Mandith is stoic and grim, as befits his visage, though the people of Mandith refuse to accept he, or any Shamble, has any sense of emotion or feeling about him. Acolytes disagree, but they disagree from a safe distance. Mandith's land is caught between the mountains and the sea, and has more rainfall that the domains of the other Shambles. Mandith follows weather patterns, and catches so much rain that people from around Vernlarum use the phrase "it'll be a dry day in Mandith" to mean something is unlikely.
City of Mandith
The Suzerain is the ruler of Mandith, and his rule is absolute. A small group, known as the Council, advises the Suzerain. Councilors are chosen by the Suzerain and hold their position for the rest of their lives, which, depending on the Suzerain could be fairly short.
The current Suzerain brooks no foolishness, and he is harsh to outsiders. He cares about ensuring the city is protected from outside threats, properly fed, and that his citizens all do their share for the city. For his protection and guidance, he demands service and obedience. Mandites respect this and gladly accept toil to be kept safe from a life in the Wastes.
When a Suzerain dies, a new one is chosen by the Council, and he leaves behind his old identity to become the Suzerain. The Council often chooses from among its members, but it doesn't always. Near the end of a Suzerain's life, being on the Council is an important step toward becoming the leader, so Council members and others from the small nobility on Mandith conspire against each other to have a Council filled with their allies when the time is right. No one, however, makes a direct attempt on the Suzerain's life.
The city of Mandith is a walled fortification atop the back of their Shamble. The city's Bone Port lies outside the walls, but everything else lies within the protection. The city is further divided into Upper Mandith and Lower Mandith by a second, smaller wall. Upper Mandith is closest to the front of Mandith and is much smaller than the sprawling Lower Mandith.
Bone Port
Bone Port rings the city's walls. Like other Shamble cities, Mandith's trade must be raised and lowered via gears, pulleys, and ropes. That happens here, though Mandites prefer to let Mandite merchants handle the interactions with visitors and then buy from the local merchants directly. It is uncommon for a visiting merchant to actually enter the city proper. All deals are expected to be done down in the Wastes or immediately upon landing in Bone Port. Only merchants with items they wish to sell directly to the nobility make a habit of coming into the city; even then they leave as quickly as they can.
A gnome child the locals have taken to calling Rena appeared in Bone Port a few months ago. Since she arrived, she hasn't spoken to anyone, but she wanders Bone Port finding and fixing various broken pieces of equipment. She often finds things that are about to wear out and replaces them without a word. When she first appeared and began tinkering with equipment, the Portmaster wanted her cast down to the Wastes, but when he went to carry out her sentence himself, she was busily replacing a frayed rope none of his paid hands had noticed. Since then, he has sets out food for her and even has begun setting aside wages, though he doubts she'll ever be of a mind to collect them.
Lower Mandith
Mandith provides safety and some level of certainty in an uncertain world. Yes, the people are dour and the rain is constant, but living on Mandith beats many of the alternatives. As such, the city of Lower Mandith is full, if not exactly bustling.
Anyone who wants to live in Mandith, may, as long as she contributes by working and paying taxes. The quarters in Lower Mandith have become increasingly cramped over the years, and there doesn't seem to be any relief. The crowding has gotten bad enough that rationing is instituted in the winter months, because there is not enough food for all.
What the people of Mandith lack in terms of obvious emotional expression, they have manifold in terms of artistic expression. The scrimshaw of the artisans of Mandith is storied throughout the known land. Statues of worked bone are highly sought after by nobles on other Shambles, not just for their beauty but for the implied bravery of obtaining the pieces.
One scrimshaw artist,<|fim_middle|> known fact is that one of the members of the order of druids in Mandith is the current Suzerain's son. Xymor joined the order of his own will when his father was raised to Suzerain to prevent nobles from fearing he would seek the title himself. This little bit of politics has drastically affected his life, but he seems at peace with being a druid. He tends the grove, and learns the ways of life and the forest. It has been years since he has stepped foot outside the grove, and many in the city have completely forgotten of his existence. Some have not, however, and even now people who wish to sway the Suzerain's plans for war consider if Xymor would be a useful pawn to possess.
War brews within Mandith. The Suzerain sees how crowded his city has become, and believes the only way to save his people is to expand. To facilitate this, the normally distant Suzerain has sent envoys to all of the Shambles in the vicinity of Mandith. The rulers of those cities have welcomed the overture, but they have also welcomed in Mandite spies who are assessing the weaknesses of each city.
The Suzerain has been training his military for such an invasion under the guise of defending the city from raiders. So far no other ruler has noted that raids against Mandith's territories are lower than they have been in years.
Magic-users are unwelcome in Mandith. The current Suzerain handles magic-users by sending a squad of guards to monitor them in the city. The black-clad Wards follow the mage at a short distance, and enter any building he does. This has the duel effect of informing everyone a person is a magic-user and further shortening the magic-user's visit to the city.
However, being a magic-user isn't a crime, per se, in Mandith, and a number of the Council members have at least dabbled in the magic arts. Rumors abound that Councilor Tatok is actually a deeply researched and powerful practitioner, and that he schools the Suzerain in the arts as well.
Day Off? | Vezel, is widely regarded in Mandith as the best, and her carvings will often spark a myriad of copies and similar works. Vezel maintains a small shop in an out of the way part of Lower Mandith. She has worn the same wedding gown, a velvet and lace affair, for decades now. Her fiancé disappeared on the day of their wedding, and she hasn't changed clothes since. No one knows where he went or what became of him, and no one ever asks Vezel about the situation. Some rumor that the fiancé didn't just leave. Instead, they say, she murdered him, and she wears the wedding gown as a symbol of her victory. Either way, no one disputes the beauty of her art.
In the center of Lower Mandith, there is a building known as the Wells. The Wells is a large structure with a open roof. Inside two large bowls have been carved into Mandith's back. These bowls collect rainwater for the citizens to use. Small gutters line the streets of Mandith and carry water to the Wells. Long ago, an enchantment was placed on the Wells to purify the water that is brought here. Access to the Wells is granted when one pays the city's taxes. Though rainwater collection is possible elsewhere in the city, few avoid paying their taxes—most Mandites would blanch at the suggestion.
An animated skeleton by the name of Disipon tends to the Wells. He claims to be the remains of the wizard who cast the original enchantment of purification on the Wells. He cleans up the place and makes small talk with any who come to gather water. To the rare visitor who finds her way here, Dispion may seem the most lively citizen of Mandith, with his relaxed nature and easy disposition. Lately, though, Dispion has caught a cough. He plays the new symptom off to any who enquire about it, but he worries something has gone wrong with the enchantments laid down to create him. If he encounters some adventurous looking people, Dispion may ask them to look into matters for him. He knows the location of his "life lair", and will direct them to it to see if it has been disturbed. He has little to compensate adventurers for their time, but has no use for many of the things he left in his lair centuries ago.
Upper Mandith
Upper Mandith's structures are sweeping and graceful. Only the thinest, most graceful looking bones are used in construction here, and the magic of Mandith makes even bird bones strong and able to support a fair amount of weight.
The small noble class lives in Upper Mandith, and the druidic order lives here as well, though they spend more time sleeping in their grove than in the bone structure that has been allotted to them. The nobles amuse themselves by hosting a regular number of parties and galas. These galas would be considered somber affairs in most other cities, but they are lively for where they are. The nobles use this time to discuss trade and to try and gain favor with sitting Councilors. Assassination attempts are considered gouache at these events, but that doesn't always prevent them.
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Broadway Musical Anastasia Sweeps Into Hippodrome
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Broadway musical Anastasia takes the stage at Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (12 North Eutaw Street Baltimore) beginning this Tuesday Dec 4 and continuing through Sunday Dec 9.
Performances of Anastasia take place Tuesday Dec 4 at 8 p.m., Wednesday Dec 5 at 8 p.m., Thursday Dec 6 at 8 p.m., Friday Dec 7 at 8 p.m., Saturday Dec 8 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday Dec 9 at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
The dazzling Broadway musical ANASTASIA transports us from the twilight of the Russian Empire to the euphoria of Paris in the 1920s, as a brave young woman sets out to discover the mystery of her past. Pursued by a ruthless Soviet officer determined to silence her, Anya enlists the aid of a dashing conman and a lovable ex-aristocrat. Together, they embark on an epic adventure to help her find home, love, and family.
From the Tony Award®-winning creators of the Broadway classic Ragtime, ANASTASIA features a book by celebrated playwright Terrence McNally, a lush new score by Stephen Flaherty (music) and Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) with direction by Tony Award® winner Darko Tresnjak.
The Wall Street Journal says, "ANASTASIA IS THE REAL THING! Fantastical, intelligent, well-crafted, and exhilarating, ANASTASIA deserves a coronation!"
Ticket prices vary and can be purchased online at https://www.ticketmaster.com/anastasia-touring-tickets/artist/ | 401 |
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Autonomy begins during the first conversation you have with a new team member. At Clover, Kris asks, "Now that you understand what we are trying to accomplish, you tell me. What should you be doing every day?" Team members are then asked to study the organization and come back with recommendations.
Encourage individuals to shape their roles and collaborate with others to improve your product or service.
Remember: Promoting autonomy doesn't indicate a lack of leadership. Leaders who master sustainable growth are obsessed with constantly repeating the company's mission and working closely with each team member to help them grow personally and professionally.
Repetition is especially important for hyper-growth startups that are adding team members weekly. In addition to the founders sharing the mission, team members should<|fim_middle|> build software that achieves your company's goals.
The presentations are done with a microphone to cultivate formal public speaking and presentation skills. These habits enable team members to grow in their roles, excel in the organization, and shape the future leadership team.
To find out how Kris helps his team members answer that question tune into his 33voices interview. | be billboards of your company values.
Assemble small groups to execute projects. This will decrease overhead, coordination, and management.
Make it a habit for engineers, designers, and product managers to go into the field with your team. Based on their observations, encourage them to build MVPs to test a new feature with a few on the ground employees. These experiments should be executed at the most basic level before being built in your software.
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Making Code Count at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
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Last week, 24 Flexport employees attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC), the world's largest gathering of women technologists. Named for the renowned computing pioneer Admiral Grace Hopper, the Grace Hopper Celebration offers sessions, resources, networking, and development opportunities for women in computing to advance their careers.
Flexporters in attendance at this year's Celebration included: Suzanne Ginsburg, Head of Design; Chien Chou, VP<|fim_middle|> Chain Survey." What's more, women account for 35% of leadership roles (Senior Directors, Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents and Heads of departments), dramatically higher than Gartner's reported 20% average of women in supply chain leadership roles.
Flexport is further investing in diversity and inclusion (D&I) by rolling out unconscious bias training for all U.S. employees, a diversity recruiting roadmap, and expanded partnerships at Grace Hopper, AfroTech and Lesbians Who Tech. We also sponsor employee-led resource groups such as BOLD (Black Organization for Leadership and Diversity at Flexport), Pride Alliance, and Freight Femmes.
Beyond sponsorships and training, Flexport has also implemented an 18-week fully-paid maternity leave and a full-pay phase-back program for new moms – not to mention 8-weeks paternity leave for dads.
Thank you to everyone who visited us at this year's GHC. If you'd like to learn more, please read about Flexport's commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.
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Tackling Big Challenges Together
Grace Hopper famously said, "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things." This quote holds incredible meaning and importance for everyone at Flexport. In fact, it was proudly displayed on the Flexport booth at GHC within a spirited illustration that honors Grace Hopper's legacy and was featured across all company materials at the conference this year.
At GHC, we shared our vision to transform an antiquated industry through technology and, in the process, create global impact – not just in business, but in supporting developing economies, improving quality of life, and lifting people out of poverty. In short, Flexport is a company where you can make your code count.
Making the Next Generation More Inclusive
Part and parcel of fostering tomorrow's logistics workforce is making Flexport a truly diverse and inclusive workplace – helping to inspire and drive further transformation industry-wide. And while there is always room for improvement, we're on the right track.
As of Flexport's Q2 company-wide audit, women currently comprise 43% of the organization's workforce, compared to the 37% industry average reported in Gartner's 2018 "Women in Supply | 315 |
The Junior League of Palo Alto-Mid Peninsula, Menlo Park Fire District, Stanford Park Hotel, and Menlo Grill Bistro & Bar are partnering to hold the 14th annual Pancake Breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Oct. 4 to benefit the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation.
Menlo Park firefighters will cook the pancakes at their Fire District headquarters, 300 Middlefield Road, in Menlo Park, and Junior League volunteers will serve the breakfast that will include Hobee's coffee cake and Peet's coffee.
Kids will enjoy several fun activities organized by the Junior League, and the Fire District will host a silent auction featuring many desirable items.
The Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation, a California-based nonprofit formed in 1971, is dedicated to preventing burns and fires and providing services to those who have been affected by a burn injury. The organization unites health care providers, firefighters, emergency workers, burn care professionals, burn survivors, and others to enhance the quality of life for burn survivors and to make burn injuries a thing of the past.
Alisa Ann Ruch was 8 years old when she was fatally injured in a backyard barbecue accident in Southern California. Her parents, local firefighters, and medical professionals partnered to create the Foundation with the goal of preventing burn injuries by teaching Stop, Drop and Roll. The staff and volunteers work with the community to host prevention programs, raise funds and provide services to burn survivors. As an example, in 2010, the foundation worked closely with local hospitals handling burn victims of the San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion.
The breakfast cost is a suggested donation of $10 per adult and $5 per child, payable at the door.
Capuchino High School is San Bruno has an immediate need for student internships and volunteer opportunities.
To provide work experience for students, either email Margarita Navarro, Capuchino assistant principal, at mnavarro@smuhsd.org or call 650-558-2703 or email Judith Puccini at jpuccini@sanbrunocable.com or call 650-737-6084.
Skyline College in San Bruno continues its dedicated efforts to meet the needs of both enrolled students and non-enrolled community members.
SparkPoint at the college and the Center for Legal Studies, with the support of the Skyline President's Council, have opened an on-campus, free legal clinic where students and the public can receive legal information on a host of pressing issues such as immigration, domestic violence, and tenant's rights.
The collaboration of William Watson, SparkPoint director; Melanie Espinueva, counselor; Sarah Perkins, vice president of instruction; Donna Bestock, dean of creative arts and social sciences; Maria Segarra Gaudio, supervising attorney; and Jesse W. Raskin, associate professor, resulted in the one-of-a-kind clinic.
The clinic will help bridge the justice gap by offering equal access to legal services and information for under-resourced community members. Concurrently, the clinic will serve as a hands-on classroom where, under the supervision of a licensed attorney, the students in the college's paralegal program will learn to provide client consultations, self-help support, and referrals.
Classes will be held weekly from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursdays in the SparkPoint Center, 3300 College Drive, Building 1, 2nd floor, room 1214, now through November. Appointments are preferred but drop-ins are welcome. For appointments and information, call <|fim_middle|> and stage performance spaces are already sold out.
The City of Millbrae and its Japanese Festival Committee, together with its lead sponsor, Millbrae Chamber of Commerce, hold this nonprofit event because of the wish of the Millbrae City Council to celebrate the diversity and unique cultures of Millbrae and its surrounding communities on the Peninsula.
Other sponsors and partners include Union Bank, Hansen Bridgett LLP, Comcast, Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Peninsula Healthcare District, Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco, JA Insurance Services, South San Francisco Scavenger Co., Tokyo Express Co. Inc., BaySpo, Sports J, Vivendi Navigation Inc., Mills High School Japanese Culture Club, and more.
For details, go to www.japaneseculturefest-millbrae.org or call 415-602-1660.
Pacifica Chamber of Commerce is holding the fourth annual Bootleggers Golf Tournament on Oct. 20 at the Sharp Park Golf Course, Highway 1 and Sharp Park Road, in Pacifica.
Check-in registration begins at 11 a.m. and the shotgun start and tee off starts at noon.
"Proceeds from the event will enable the Chamber to help support on-going efforts of the San Francisco Golf Alliance to save Sharp Park Golf Course which was developed in 1932," Chamber CEO Courtney Conlon wrote in an email. "This annual fundraiser additionally helps the Chamber provide products and services that further support and grow our membership and promote our community." Cost is $150 per person, which includes an 18-hole scramble, lunch, après golf buffet at Sharp Park Restaurant, raffle, silent auction, no-host beverages, and putting contest, or $725 for a foursome plus hole sponsor. Dinner only for guests is $30. Each hole sponsorship is $125. Registration and sponsorship deadline is Oct. 10.
To register and pay, call the Pacifica Chamber at 650-355-4122, email Jenny@PacificaChamber.com or go to www.pacificachamber.com or drop by, or mail to, the chamber office at 225 Rockaway Beach Ave., Suite 1, in Pacifica.
The event combines a free and exciting Horse Fair with activities for all ages from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Woodside Town Hall, 2955 Woodside Road, in Woodside, and a Progressive Trail Ride held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the town's unique trail system. Since the year 2014 celebrates Chinese Year of the Horse, it was only natural to choose this as the theme that inspires creative costumes for the riders and their horses.
The Horse Fair will feature free rides on the Wells Fargo stagecoach and free pony rides for children; information on local riding programs at the BITS (Back In The Saddle) booth; equestrian fun, music, and hands-on activities for both children and adults.
Watch a blacksmith in action, visit the petting zoo, decorate horse cookies, color equine art, and listen to a pony's heartbeat. Be sure to stop at the Mid-Peninsula Open Space District booth for informative displays, and a ranger to answer everyone's questions.
Entertainment and education will include performances by Grammy Award winners, The Okee Dokee Brothers, and visits to the Woodside History Museum. Food and souvenirs may be purchased at the Horse Fair.
Progressive Trail Ride participants ride and eat at trail stops throughout their ride, take part in the Blessing of the Horse, and are eligible to win one of 100 prizes — one each for 10 trail stops times 10 years of WHOA! Pre-registered trail riders will also receive a great goody bag filled with gifts for horse and rider. A small donation is requested of riders, but the public can watch the costumed riders for free as they travel the trails.
Raffle tickets will also be sold at the Horse Fair and at the Mounted Patrol grounds for great prizes, including the commissioned, exclusive artwork — "Woodside is Horse Country" — by artist Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey. As in past years, a giclee will be the grand prize. The drawing will be held the day of the event; entrants do not need to be present to win.
Woodside Day of the Horse is made possible by a public-private partnership created to keep alive the unique equestrian heritage of Woodside and the surrounding communities.
To date, WHOA! has donated more than $100,000 to myriad community projects that benefit all ages. For rider entries, fees, and more details, go to www.whoa94062.org.
Redwood City is holding Oktoberfest Redwood City, a Bier! Brezeln! Bratwurst! gala open to the public from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 11 at Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, in Redwood City.
A traditional German Oktoberfest tent setting (including more than 1,100 feet of "family-style" bench seating), music, dancing, contests, cold beer and other beverages, German food, and more will add to the day's merriment.
The extravaganza also offers live entertainment with AlpinersUSA — the Bay Area's premiere Oktoberfest show and dance band — at two different seating times: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 4:30 to 8:30 p.m., stein holding, a yodeling contest, skits with hand gestures to select songs, variations of the "international" chicken dance.
Redwood City Parks, Recreation and Community Services and the Redwood City Parks & Arts Foundation are supporters of the event, which is wheelchair accessible and welcomes all ages.
Tickets cost $15 for drinkers, which includes a commemorative stein and 1 drink ticket (beer or soda depending on ticket type); $10 for children and designated drivers. For tickets, go to https://www.mkt.com/repaf.
For more information, go to www.redwoodcity.org/events/oktoberfest.html.
Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA's Pick of the Litter is presenting Secondhand Chic — an afternoon tea, a fashion show, and silent auction — from 2 to 4 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Lantos Center for Compassion, 1450 Rollins Road, in Burlingame.
Models will wear fashions from Pick of the Litter, a resale store at 1127 Chula Vista in Burlingame. The clothing will be available for purchase after the show. Animals that are up for adoption will also walk the runway.
The silent auction items are also from the thrift shop, which features various secondhand treasures including a children's department, art, books, clothing, electronics, furniture, household items, jewelry, and vintage and costume clothing. The store is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
All proceeds will benefit the PHS/SPCA Hope Program, which gives injured, ill, unweaned and behaviorally challenged animals an opportunity to be made well and ready for adoption.
Tickets for the fundraiser cost $40 per person in advance and $50 at the door, if available. Tickets may be purchased online at www.PHS-SPCA.org/secondhandchic.
If questions, call Brian Probst, director of PHS-SPCA Volunteer and Retail Services, at 650-340-7022, ext. 328, or email Bprobst@PHS-SPCA.org.
The calendar will feature 12 colorful winning drawings — two from each grade level. The first place winner and the school or club the winner represents will be presented a $100 gift certificate. The second place winner and the school or club the winner represents will be gifted a $50 gift certificate. All other winning entries will receive a $25 gift certificate; however, schools or clubs are not included.
A committee will select the winners but the public can help select the cover drawing on HIP Housing's Facebook page the first week in November.
Every entry must be drawn on 8 ½ inch-by-11 inch white paper turned horizontally and be accompanied by two or three sentences about "what home means to me." The child's name must be written on the back of the drawing — not stapled — and an entry form must be completed by visiting HIP Housing's Web site at www.HIPhousing.org and clicking on Calendar Project.
One entry may be submitted per child. Entries must be sent or delivered to Calendar Contest, HIP Housing, 364 S. Railroad Ave., San Mateo, Calif., 94402. The child's drawing can be returned by attaching attach a self-addressed, stamped envelope. All entries will be posted on Facebook and the winners will be notified by Nov. 5.
For information, call Judy Fong at 650-348-6660 or email jfong@HIPhousing.org.
H2OpenDoors, a project of the Peninsula Sunrise Rotary Foundation in Redwood City, led an expedition of high school students, teachers, Rotarians, and friends from Aug. 30 to Sept. 6 to install a SunSpring water purification system in Cuidad Guzman, Jalisco State, in Mexico.
The expedition included four students and a teacher from Redwood High's Redwood Environmental Academy & Leadership program and six students and a teacher from Woodside High's Green Academy. Both programs are hands-on service learning programs where students take part in environmental projects in the local community, while learning about global issues (go to http://h2opendoors.org/3/miscellaneous8.htm).
During the first three days of the trip while the system was being installed in the poorest district of Cuidad Guzman, a sister city of Redwood City, the students painted a mural, with the guidance of a local artist, in the same courtyard.
"More than 1,000 families or about 4,000 people received water from the city water system that is highly chlorinated and not drinkable," Jon Kaufman, director of the project and a Peninsula Sunrise Rotarian, wrote in an email. "This population center was spending 10 pesos per liter on bottled water each day. That is about 77 cents, or more than US$1,000,000 per year.
SunSprings, which are manufactured in Rocky Ford, Colo., by Innovative Water Technologies, are solar- and wind-powered water purification plants that require no electricity or fuel, and remove all bacteria, viruses and other contaminants using membrane technology. Up and running within three hours, they have a design life of more than 10 years and require only one hour of downtime for simple maintenance procedures each month.
After the installation, the students, hosted by Mayor Jose Luis Orozco Aldana and his wife, were given a tour of the city government as well as the city's water treatment plant to understand the full systems for water. They also distributed clothing to the poor families in the district, and participated in a water fiesta held to celebrate the installation.
The last three days of the trip were spent at Centro Fox where the expedition attended a two-day private leadership academy with former Mexican President Vicente Fox. His staff also gave the group a tour of the state capital city of Guanajauato.
"We are delighted to have the opportunity to work with California high school students in support of H2OpenDoors and Rotary," said Fox, as stated in an email from Kaufman.
"The world needs to grow global citizens, people of high character who care about the poorest among us." "On deck is Guatemala in December, El Salvador in the spring, and a return to Mexico in the summer to install four more systems, including in a two-room school building made from old water bottles," wrote Kaufman.
San Mateo Credit Union, Katharine Beckwith, Peninsula Sunrise Rotary, and several other Rotary clubs were sponsors of this expedition.
To learn more, go to www.H2OpenDoors.org or call Jon Kaufman at 650-520-6873 or email jk595@aol.com.
The San Bruno American Youth Soccer Organization Region 249 — composed of 903 players and 81 teams — kicked off its 40th annual Soccerfest on Sept. 5 with a homemade team banner contest and a parade at the San Bruno soccer complex at Crestmoor Field in San Bruno.
• U6 and VIP Divisions: 1st place, Pinkalicious, Imperial Flooring Solutions; 2nd place, Blue Dolphins, Mazzetti's Bakery; 3rd place, Cheetahs, Alba Hair Design; and 4th place, Blue Snowflakes, FPBS Inc.
• U8 Division: 1st place, Ice Dragons, Metropolitan Electric Construction; 2nd place, Junior Godzilla (no sponsor); 3rd place, Gold Lightening Bolts, Severs Electric; and 4th place, Red Nijas, Serramonte Nissan.
• U10 Division: 1st place, Flamingos, Presidio Bowling Center; 2nd place, The Yetis (no sponsor); 3rd place, The Green Hornets, Peninsula Seafood; and 4th place, The Sharks, Plaza Insurance Sales Inc.
• U12 Division: 1st place, Phantoms (no sponsor); 2nd place, The Soccer Team, Carl Wind Photography; 3rd place, Ninja Turtles (no sponsor); and 4th place, Aftershocks, Image Auto Body.
The teams lined up at 5:30 p.m. for judging by Danielle Brewer, Laura Davis, Lorry Greenberg, Winfred Jew, Rico Medina, Kirsten Pinochi, Judy Puccini, Robert Riechel, and this columnist; followed by the parade at 6:30 p.m.
The next day — Sept. 6 — the opening day games began at 8 a.m. at Crestmoor Field and continued until 5:45 p.m. with a hot dog lunch provided for every player, coach, and referee by the San Bruno Lions Club.
"San Bruno AYSO Region 249 is one of five regions that make up Area 2-B, which encompasses the northern Peninsula and includes Region 145, Millbrae; Region 146, Daly City; Region 157, Pacifica, and Region 1344, Brisbane," Greg Pierce, AYSO volunteer whose wife Heidi is on the Section staff serving Northern California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington, wrote in an email. | 650-738-7035.
SparkPoint is also offering free financial education workshops once a month from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays in the Skyline College English Language Institute, Building 1, 2nd floor, room 1218, through Dec. 3. CashCourse and the Community Financial Institute are supporting the workshop.
The topics include building savings, money management and budgeting, and credit and identity theft. Learn to set financial goals, create budgets, identify attitudes towards money and savings, and explore predatory financial services. Certificates of completion are available for all attendees, who can also qualify for prizes and a chance to win $125.
SparkPoint, BBVA Compass, and the San Mateo Credit Union are conducting the workshops.
For more details, go to www.skylinecollege.edu/sparkpoint or www.skylinecollege.edu/sparkpoint or www.facebook.com/sparkpointskyline or call 650-738-7035.
Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, Contractors State License Board, and the City of San Carlos are inviting the public to a Senior Scam Stopper seminar being held from 9 to 11 a.m. Oct. 3 in the San Carlos Adult Community Center, 601 Chestnut St., in San Carlos.
Seniors, their families, caregivers, and others are welcome to attend this important, free event, which also has free street parking and parking at the nearby library available. This is an opportunity to learn how to protect yourself from various types of fraud such as financial, home repair, identity theft, insurance, mail, moving companies, telephone scams, unclaimed property, and more. Unfortunately, one in five seniors has been a victim of fraud as seniors are the most targeted group, and new scams are developed daily.
For information or to RSVP, call Mullin's office at 650-349-2200.
South San Francisco Cultural Arts Commission will open its two-day quilting and floral design exhibit — Quilting Under the Stars — with a reception and light refreshments from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 3 at the Municipal Services Building, 33 Arroyo Drive, in South San Francisco.
The public is welcome to the free exhibit, which will continue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 4, and will feature special exhibits by the Greenhouse Quilters and the Bay Area Floral Arranging Guild, door prizes, a handcrafted holiday gift boutique, and a drawing for the handcrafted, grand prize opportunity quilt.
The deadline for completed applications, fees, and delivery of quilts to the Betty Weber Gallery at the Municipal Services Building for Bay Area quilters, who wish to exhibit, is between 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 1.
For entry forms and guidelines, visit the Current Opportunities for Artists page at www.ssf.net; send a self-addressed and stamped envelope to SSF Cultural Arts Commission Art Show, P.O. Box 711, South San Francisco, Calif., 94083-0711l; or pick up at the Parks & Recreation Department at the Municipal Services Building.
For questions, call the Parks & Recreation Department at 650-829-3800.
Menlo Park author Nick Taylor, who also writes under the pen name T.T. Monday, will talk about his work at the free program being presented by Menlo Park Library at 11 a.m. Oct. 4 at the Menlo Park city council chambers, 701 Laurel St., in Menlo Park.
Author of the historical novels, "The Disagreement" (Simon & Schuster, 2008) and "Father Junipero's Confessor" (Heyday, 2013), Taylor's recent book, "The Setup Man," was written under the pseudonym T.T. Monday and published this year by Doubleday.
Taylor also serves as associate professor of English and director of the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studios at San Jose State University.
Books will be available for purchase and signing after the event. For free wheelchair accessible van service available for Menlo Park area seniors and people with disabilities, call 650-330-2512.
For more event details, go to www.menlopark.org/library or email John Weaver at weaver@plsinfo.org.
To learn about other events and services offered by the library, go to www.menlopark.org/library.
The Courthouse Docket, sponsored by the Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation, is continuing with authors Walter Vielbaum, of Burlingame, and Robert Townley, of Columbia, Calif., talking about their book, "San Francisco's Interurban to San Mateo (Images of Rail)," at 1 p.m. Oct. 4.
The event will be held at the San Mateo County History Museum, 2200 Broadway, in Redwood City.
During their photographic presentation, Vielbaum and Townley, who collaborated with Emiliano Echeverria, Don Holmgren, and Walter Rice to write the book, will discuss the history of the San Mateo Interurban, aka The 40 Line.
During the line's heyday, there was talk of extending it further to Palo Alto to connect with the Peninsula Railway to San Jose; however, the 1906 earthquake put this plan on hold. Following a similar route as today's Mission Street, El Camino, and Caltrain, the San Mateo Interurban carried more than four million passengers a year along its main and spur lines until 1949, when the system was shut down amidst much fanfare.
San Francisco Market Street Railway members Vielbaum and Townley have had a lifetime interest in Bay Area transit. As youths, both men used to walk the route of the 40 Line from San Mateo to Daly City when it was running.
Retired, Vielbaum was the owner of Pacific Auto Report, the oldest continuing auto shop in Burlingame, which is now owned by his son. Townley is a retired train control signal engineer who worked on many transit systems. His latest job was handling the train control for BART's extension to San Jose.
A book signing will follow their presentation, which is included with museum admission: $6 for adults and $4 for seniors and students. Admission is free for Association members and children under 5. Before or after the presentation, attendees are also invited to view the museum's "Journey to Work" exhibit gallery, which as a section devoted to the 40 Line.
For more information, call the museum at 650-299-0104 or go to www.historysmc.org.
College of San Mateo is holding Family Science & Astronomy Festival + Makerspace — a celebration of science for all ages — from 2 to 11 p.m. on Oct. 4 in CSM's Science Building 36, Building 19, Planetarium, and Library.
As part of National Astronomy Day, the free festival welcomes the public to learn more about astronomy, science and the wonders of the universe.
"A full schedule of activities is planned and will include planetarium shows, telescope viewing of the night sky, science demonstrations by CSM science faculty, and hands-on workshops for children and adults," Mohsen Janatpour, professor of astronomy, physics, and mathematics and coordinator of astronomy program, wrote in an email.
"The newest addition to this year's festival is Makerspace — hands-on projects and skill sharing in electronics, crafts, media, and much more — presented by CSM's Library." Patricia Burchat, Ph.D., Gabilan professor of physics at Stanford University, will also give a special presentation titled "The Dark Side of the Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy" at 7 p.m. She studies differences in the time evolution of matter and antimatter created at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park and the gravitational bending of light by massive clusters of galaxies in the universe.
As a result of popular demand, Burchat's talk will be held in CSM's Theatre, Building 3. Immediately following her presentation, a reception will be held for all guests.
For the full event schedule and more information, go to www.collegeofsanmateo.edu/calendar/events. For questions, email janatpour@smccd.edu or call 650-574-6272.
Acclaimed Bay Area naturalist Diane West-Bourke invites the public to join her from 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 4 for a leisurely autumn walk through a variety of habitats at Edgewood County Park and Natural Preserve.
After about 35 years of experience, West-Bourke will captivate you with her breadth of knowledge of plants and animals and how they relate to one another.
Bring water, a hat, sturdy shoes, and sunscreen for the walk, which will cover about 3 miles of trails and includes some uphill and downhill sections. This walk is geared to adults; however, capable, attentive children, 10 years and older, are welcome if accompanied by an adult.
Hosted by the Friends of Edgewood, the walk will begin at the Bill and Jean Lane Education Center, Edgewood County Park, 6 Old Stage Coach Road, in Redwood City.
The hike cost is $10 per person. Space is limited so register promptly at www.eventbrite.com/e/nature-walk-with-diane-west-bourke-tickets-10380194441.
For other events at Edgewood County Park, go to www.friendsofedgewood.org/.
Millbrae's Japanese Culture Festival Committee is presenting its ninth annual Japanese Culture Festival from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 5 in the Civic Center Plaza, 1 Library Ave., in Millbrae. Admission is free.
Live stage entertainment, good food — including beer and sake — exhibits, demonstrations, hands-on participation in a tea ceremony, calligraphy, origami, games and activities will provide plenty of fun for all ages. Vendor | 2,151 |
All four books, Future Fit, The Illusion of Separation , The Nature of Business and Regenerative Leadership have been blessed with great praise and endorsements from a wide range of people in business and beyond. Here is a sample of some of that praise:
Future Fit:
'Many books call for new ways of thinking for modern leaders but until Future Fit none have provided such wise, well researched and practical approaches to guide leaders facing deeply complex challenges. In this compelling workbook Giles Hutchins is at the forefront of synthesizing new logics for business with the natural rhythms of life and the human mind that will revolutionize business. Future Fit is a must-read for every leader who wants to continue being successful or to move beyond what currently feels like impossible challenges. As an experienced Chief Executive I cannot recommend this powerful work highly enough.' Dr Lynne Sedgmore CBE, Former Chief Executive of 157 Group, Centre for Excellence in Leadership UK, and ranked one of the UK's most influential people in Debretts 2015 List.
'Future Fit is a masterpiece of synthesis weaving together the emergent strands of wisdom from others with the author's own extraordinary insights. This is a must-read for any business seeking answers to a deep inner sense that something different is needed for them and their organization to stay relevant in the 21st century.' Mark Drewell, Senior Partner, The ForeSight Group, co-founder and former CEO of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative
'Future Fit is prescient and practical. It describes the future as it can and should be, by drawing on a breadth of knowledge rarely seen in business books. It also makes big, abstract ideas more concrete, by offering examples and advice. This book will help managers navigate a complex world for a more sustainable world. Giles Hutchins is one of the most broad-reaching, forward thinking writers in business.' Tima Bansal, Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability, Ivey Business School
'We see an emerging trend of moving from a mechanistic view of business to an organic, living organization framework, and Future Fit goes right to the heart of it. Packed full with practical insights to help activate and catalyze this transformation, this is a brilliant book that will help you wrap your head around the shifting paradigm at the vanguard of future business. Read it!' Norman Wolfe, CEO of Quantum Leaders and author of The Living Organization
'Hutchins offers lifesaving radical surgery for humanity and the business world. With breath-taking flair, he dismantles illusions and articulates a bold and sophisticated vision of organizational sanity.' Dr Malcolm Parlett, author of Future Sense, Five Explorations of Whole Intelligence for a World That's Waking Up.
'Future Fit is like an encyclopaedia of anecdotes, practical exercises, reflective questions and real life examples set in a very uplifting context to prepare us for the time to come…This book appeals and adds value to all aspects of my life; it will now be my first point of reference for all my personal and professional interventions.' Darshita Gillies, Coach, Consultant, Entrepreneur & Co-Founder of Blu Dot
'A treasure-trove of approaches, methods, models and living examples of ways of creating the regenerative organization of the future.' Peter Hawkins, Professor of Leadership, Henley Business School and author of Leadership Team Coaching and many other books
'If you are one of today's leaders who feels the pull toward shaping our emerging future for a better humanity, this book will be your guide.' Gina Hayden, Co-Founder of the Global Centre for Conscious Leadership
The Nature of Business:
In times, when business leaders are struggling with volatility and uncertainty about the future of their organizations, Giles Hutchins lays out a path for transformational change… The Nature of Business is not just a very entertaining read, but also a redoubtable sparring partner. A must read for everyone involved in the business of the future…. and aren't we all? Mick Bremans, Chairman, Ecover
For organizational leaders, The Nature of Business represents a compelling invitation and a comprehensive map for the journey not only toward sustainability but toward 'thrivability'. Thoroughly researched, with bite-sized but powerful case studies sprinkled throughout, it sparks insights and ideas at every turn. For the survival of our species, my greatest hope is that leaders everywhere will embark on the journey Giles describes in this important book. Michelle Holliday, Principal of Cambium Consulting and author of Humanity 4.0
A timely, paradigm-shifting book, reframing how business can thrive in the challenging times ahead whilst being a force for good…. This is a brave book and a must read for those seeking to make positive change happen in business and beyond. Hunter Lovins, President of Natural Capitalism Solutions and Co-Author of Natural Capitalism
This book not only brings together the current best practice and analysis of transformational business, but also seeks to find solutions. Giles has for many years been an innovative thinker based squarely in business and this book demonstrates that thought leadership; the book leaves me thinking much more clearly and feeling inspired to transform. Paul Drukman, CEO of The International Integrated Reporting Council
This book beautifully maps the transformative journey for today's and tomorrow's leaders. Dr. Monika Winn, Business Strategy and Sustainability Director, Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation, University of Victoria, Canada
Simply the best new book on business and management in many years! Hazel Henderson, President of Ethical Markets Media and author of Building A Win-Win World
The Illusion of Separation:
'A treasure of a book that I will share<|fim_middle|> are not keeping up with the pace of transformation. This book invites leaders to catalyze the necessary regeneration to not just catch up, but to lead the world into the 21st century." Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary UNFCCC 2010-2016
"This book is full of wisdom and determination! A book that will inspire leaders to pave the way towards practices in harmony with our inner nature and the ecosystems we depend on. Just what we need to succeed in the 21st Century." Tim Flannery, scientists & author of Weather Makers, Here on Earth
"Giles and Laura bring their vast experience and deep wisdom to create an evolutionary blueprint for a sustainable future for business, people and the planet" Richard Barrett, President of the Barrett Academy for the Advancement of Human Values
"Storm and Hutchins confront the challenge of redesigning the world to deliver a sustainable future with vision, energy, and creativity." Dan Esty, environmental Lawyer & Policymaker, author of best-selling Green to Gold
"A must read for anyone who wants to shape a regenerative organization." Jean-Claude Pierre, CEO Scott Bader
"Seeking inspiration in the natural world, the principles in Regenerative Leadership provide a framework for a more inspired path forward in business and life." Ryan Gellert, CEO EMEA Patagonia
"Hutchins' and Storm's Regenerative Leadership shines a bright light on one of the most critical, and least understood capacities required of anyone and any institution seeking to work regeneratively – understanding and living into the three-fold dynamics of what the book calls the DNA of regenerative leadership." Pamela Mang, co-founder of Regenesis and co-author of Regenerative Development and Design.
'Hutchins and Storm demonstrate that they are clearly at the forefront of a new leadership paradigm that maps an emerging model for sustainable organization in any institution that wishes to thrive. Regenerative Leadership is built upon developing awareness of self and system that embraces the wisdom of Nature alongside creative human consciousness." Kingsley L. Dennis, The Sacred Revival – Magic, Mind & Meaning in a Technological Age
"This book succinctly brings together the importance business leaders have in redefining and supporting their organisations and communities to do more good." Nigel Stansfield, President of Interface EAAA
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Companies that mimic nature out-perform those that do not « The Nature of Business « irwindesigned | widely; brilliantly written to uncover the truth about who we are and what we've done as a species. Should an intelligent extra-terrestrial arrive one day to ask, "what happened?", this insightful tour de force might well be the best guide available today.' Chris Laszlo, PhD, author of Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business
'This is a powerful and timely work that asks the most important question of all… Have we evolved from Homo sapiens sapiens (so good we named ourselves twice) into Homo Hubris – the ape that lost its nature.' Tim Smit, KBE, founder of The Eden Project
`This is a well-expressed book on a fearfully important topic. Read it!' Mary Midgley, Honorary PhD, author of Are you an Illusion?
'As the world cries out for the shift in perception we know is needed, this is a positive response to the deep seated crisis we face… As this book so ably demonstrates, it is our task is to make the turning possible. The brilliance of it is that it explains how.' Ian Skelly, broadcaster and writer, co-author of Harmony by HRH The Prince of Wales
'Giles Hutchins takes us on an amazing tour de force, the intellectual tour of our lives. With ease and incredible clarity, he reveals simultaneously the history and the philosophy and the implications of the dire plight Earth is now within…. Never before, that I know of, has the choice of life, true life, or the path of degradation been put before us with such clear equanimity.' Robert Sardello, Ph.D, author of Love and the Soul: Creating a Future for Earth.
'In this wonderful book, Giles Hutchins helps us to understand the cultural roots of the current crisis and suggests modes of leadership that can help us to find a more fruitful relationship with nature. Well written, well researched and full of insight, this book will open your heart and mind to a deeper way of being in the world.' Stephan Harding, Head of Holistic Science, Schumacher College, author of Animate Earth
"This is the must read book of 2019. I couldn't put it down. The clarity, inspiration, synergy and wisdom of this book is breath-taking" Dr Lynne Sedgmore CBE, former Chief Executive of 157 Group, Centre for Excellence in Leadership
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Property investing takes a lot of time and to be frank without good time management you will<|fim_middle|> small changes, whilst they might seem crazy will help you win back your time and suddenly a whole new range of opportunities are up for achieving.
I've spoken a lot in the past about the importance of setting goals, so why not set yourself a time table for the week and make things work in the times that suit you.
My business partner Al Lewison and I started a Telco business a few years ago (now sold). Around year two, we had a small team of half a dozen people working there and we were all ploughing away busting our butts and making a fair chunk of money. By the time we owned this business, Al and I had already built a reasonable property portfolio and we made more off that property portfolio in the same space of time, than we did working for a whole year in our business. That result proved to me that I could never work hard enough, to make as much money as my portfolio did (and I could make that money sitting on my bum).
Let's think about that further – if the median house price is around $500,000 and property grows at 10% a year, your property is worth an extra $50,000. What would you need to do to earn an extra $50,000 a year without a portfolio?
Remember that once you have spent that initial time, doing your research and finding the right process to follow, the time you have to spend making decisions will be minimilised.
Hopefully in today's blog I've provided some food for thought and some motivation to set aside some time to start building your portfolio. I built my portfolio so that I could spend more time with my family, find out what's important to you and make things work so you can enjoy life. | never be able to build a portfolio.
From most people I hear the same thing; "I want to be financially free, but I just don't have enough time in the day to spend researching the right properties to purchase." However you might find if you sat down at the start of each week and wrote down where you spend your time, I guarantee you'll be able to cut down on some TV, Facebook or Instagram time and boom – there are some free hours.
Seriously, think about it. Each week, every single year of your working life you dedicate (probably at a minimum) 40 hours to working for someone else. Yet, when it comes to spending some hours doing something that could mean you don't have to work anymore, or will make you very comfortable in retirement you can't find the time? Well today I'm going to help you.
Take a look at the structure of your work day. Normally you run around like a headless chook, constantly checking emails, making and taking calls. What about if at one point during the day you turn your emails off for two hours and dedicate yourself to getting all your work done (much easier when you aren't checking your emails every five minutes). Or what about instead of being available for every single call, you return phone calls in the afternoon. These | 266 |
Research: How does living together in a marriage improve<|fim_middle|> are good for you and your health. However, a generalized statement that married people are generally healthier is only fiction, the authors explain. Just because people are married doesn't automatically give them a stress-free and healthy life. The quality of the relationship is really important, regardless of whether you are married or not, the experts add. (as)
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Are married people generally healthier?
Do married people actually live healthier? According to a study, experts are now claiming that marriage does improve general health. But it is important that the marriage works well. The researchers found that married people have lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol compared to unmarried people or divorced spouses.
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University found in a study that married people generally carry less of the stress hormone cortisol in themselves. This leads to improved health for those affected because they are more effectively protected against psychological stress. The doctors published the results of their study in the journal "Psychoneuroendocrinology".
Study examines 572 adult subjects
The results of the study are quite exciting and interesting, say the experts. They could be a physiological reason that relationships improve health and prevent disease, says author Dr. Brian Chin from Carnegie Mellon University. For their study, the researchers took saliva samples from 572 adult volunteers between the ages of 21 and 55. The participants were either single, married or previously married. The saliva samples were taken over a period of 24 hours on three non-consecutive days, the doctors add.
Married people have faster decreases in cortisol
The results of the study showed that married people had lower cortisol levels compared to singles and divorced people, the scientists explain. Married people showed faster so-called cortisol decreases during the day. Such hormonal patterns have been associated with improved health effects.
A high cortisol level leads to considerable health problems
It is well researched that people with lower levels of cortisol are generally healthier, the researchers say. High cortisol levels promote inflammation, which in turn can increase the risk of a variety of health problems, including heart disease, autoimmune diseases, and depression.
Study shows general health benefits of social support in marriage
These and other results suggest that there is a connection between marriage and good health and mental well-being, the researchers explain. The study appears to show the general health benefits of social support from living together in a marriage. But does this also mean that the institution of marriage gives special health benefits?
Study does not examine the difference between married and long-lived couples
However, the study shows only a correlation, no causality, the authors say. It is possible that the improved health among married people simply reflects the fact that healthier people marry more often. In addition, the results do not take into account the differences between married couples and long-term cohabiting couples.
Marital disputes can be more harmful than stress at work
During a happy marriage, it is likely that overall health will be positively supported. But we shouldn't forget that many marriages don't go that way, the doctors say. Bad marriages are very common and can be linked to poorer health. For example, a study from 2010 found that family stress can contribute to poor immune function and high blood pressure. Marital disputes can be worse for your health than stress at work, experts suspect. The health effects of marital stress are comparable to those of traditional risk factors such as smoking and a sedentary lifestyle, the doctors add.
The decisive factor is the quality of the relationship
What can the bottom line now be said about the health effects of marriage? Well-running and harmonious marriages | 654 |
The following dataset is now available from the National Digital
Archive of Datasets:
CRDA/2/DS/9: Home Office: British Crime Survey: 2001 Survey (Type A
questionnaire)
The British Crime Survey (BCS) is a survey conducted by the Home Office
at periodic intervals since 1982, which asks a sample of the population
about their experiences as victims of crime in the previous year, and
about their attitudes towards crime and the criminal justice system.
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See the Series Catalogue http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/CRDA/2/detail.html
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the 2001 British Crime Survey compared with previous sweeps. The two
main changes introduced in 2001 were an increase in the sample size,
and a move towards continuous sampling fieldwork with a different
reference period from that used on previous sweeps. A 'spliced' design
was used during the first six months of 2001. About half of those
interviewed were sampled using the old BCS methodology and the
traditional recall period (Type A interviews), and half were sampled
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A Wrong Turn on the Way to the Forum?
By Dean Williams June 8, 2011 5
Comedy isn't easy. And making it look easy takes of great deal of careful preparation. It is, as they say, all in the timing.
Mounting a full-scale musical is a daunting task for any theater and the enormous cost for performance rights and music royalties this type of show demands can hamper a community theater's ability to do all they envision. Even so, the biggest challenge Riverfront's current run of "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" may have faced is time itself. Coordinating a large cast (19) as well as the various technical elements that make a show shine, takes a lot of time and hands. But, let's take a look first at what does shine.
At the center of this farce is the scheming slave Pseudolus, whipping the plot through its paces and driving the madness forward. Played by Jorin Antero-Towle in his Riverfront debut, his task is Herculean. Pseudolus must act as narrator and facilitator of the story, as well as conman and matchmaker, while infecting those around him with calculated hysteria. He sings well, on key and on time and zips deftly through his lines with the energy of a house full of courtesans. Oddly, at one point, Jorin comes out in tap shoes, but barely uses them.
Jon Narducci, during rehearsals for "Forum"
The music is handled perfectly by pianist Jon Narducci. He is a pro and keeps the show lively and moving along. And it's always great to have live music onstage for a musical. He sits within the set, in Roman costume, with a clear view of the actors so no one misses a beat. Yet in their second week of performance, some of the singers still seem a bit timid (smile, girls!) and others wander off key. The best number is definitely "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid," handled deftly by the four leading men: Jim Littier, Jorin Antero-Towle, Colin Peacock, and Ian Dalziel. Littier (Senex) has a good musical theater background and carries his part with ease and a strong voice.
A Roman soldier, during rehearsals
Costumer Evie Bishop does a colorful riff off of your basic toga, making the cast look bright and showy. She also toughens up those Roman soldiers with great detailing in armor and leather.
Now, there are too many characters to mention here, but I will say that small roles, even non-speaking roles, are nevertheless important. Small parts support larger ones and are written in for good reason. One wishes that more attention could have been spared for these potential character jewels because the Courtesans (ladies-for-hire) and the Proteans (who play citizens, soldiers, and slaves), look aimless, under-directed and lost. Both groups tended to drop out of character as soon as focus was off them.
The setting of course is ancient Rome. Whatever that conjures up in your mind, I'd guess it's not the grey box-like structures that seem lifted from a suburb of Glasgow. The cramped set is supposed to represent a Mediterranean street and the houses of Lycus, Senex, and Erronius, but the dreary mottled grey walls gave the play a strangely somber tone. Perhaps a quick googling for 'Roman architecture' could have provided some design ideas.
I noted there are no light cues in this production and that baffled me at first. After all, lighting is what makes theater theatrical and is so important in delineating mood and action. I also saw that the blocking, or the movement of actors, was very basic, consisting mostly of people in straight lines, facing front. But a look at the program yields up a clue to this lack of detail. Hard working Joe Cullis, who originally brought Forum to Riverfront, is listed as not only Technical Director, but Set Design, Lighting, and Sound. I know Joe and I know he did even more than what the program gives him credit for. I think that maybe he wore a few too many hats, even for his experienced and able hands. My point is, I think the show would have benefitted greatly by having a dedicated choreographer and lighting designer and taken some of the pressure off the directors. Doing a musical comedy is a huge juggling act. But as always, the show must, and did go on, is very lively and everyone appears to be having fun. "Forum" continues to play weekends through June 18.
The overall success of the original 1962 "Forum," aside from Sondheim's great tunes, was due to its style of comedy. This was the heyday, the early '60s, of the Borscht Belt comedians, the comics who worked the resorts in the Catskills in upstate New York. Guys like Shecky Greene, Jack E. Leonard, Sid Caesar, and Phil Silvers. That's the comedy of Forum — Jewish standup in togas. That's funny. Wise-cracking Jewish comedians as Romans? Say no more. It's that essence that I would have liked to see more of from Riverfront's production– that vaudevillian flavor, the yiddishness, the scheming, self-deprecating American-Jewish humor at the core of the show. The show's title is literally the set-up for a joke and the entire play is its punchline. Bada-boom, bada-bing. Perhaps with a little more time they can explore that essence. And a good joke, as any of those old timers will tell you, is all … in … the … timing. (Rimshot!)
What: Riverfront Playhouse's "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum"
When: Friday through Sunday (June 9-12) and June 16-18. Showtimes:
Thursday – Saturday: 7:30 p.m. (doors open 6:45 p.m.)
Sunday matinees: 2 p.m. (doors open 1:15 p.m.)
Where: 1620 East Cypress Ave, Redding, CA 96002
Cost: Opening/Closing Night: $27
Regular Evenings: $22
Matinees: $20
Tickets available at the door or in advance at:
Collectibles, Etc. (formerly Graphic Emporium), 1525 Pine Street, Redding, CA 96001
For reservations by phone, call (530) 241-4278 or (530) 246-7727.
For more information, call (530) 221-1028 or visit www.riverfrontplayhouse.net.
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Photos courtesy of Riverfront Playhouse.
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An actor, director, and artist, Dean Williams has appeared on Shasta County stages for over 25 years in nearly 100 different roles. He has collaborated with many theater groups and is co-founder of The Root Theatre Company. He has also voiced characters for Sega and Playstation video games, and acted for a number of radio, televison and independent film projects. Dean also compiles A News Cafe's Cafe Stage Manager list of live theater events. Reach him at cafestagemanager@gmail.com.
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Polly Baker says:
What a good, detailed review! I think you might be expecting a bit much from local theater, but at least people know exactly what to expect.
Jon Lewis says:
What a thoughtful review, Dean. It has a lot of the elements I like to see in a critique, including reasoned explanations to support your opinions and helpful (but not condescending) information on theatre in general.
I think we all (actors, directors, backstage crew, audience members) benefit from constructive criticism. Anybody can be catty and go for the cheap laugh but that doesn't help anything.
I agree that 'Forum' is a big undertaking. I haven't seen the show yet so I'll reserve judgment, but I did watch part of a dress rehearsal and I was favorably impressed by the energy.
Anyway, I'm glad you've started this 'Stage Manager' forum and I applaud A News Cafe for giving you the space to inform us all.
Thank you, Jon. I'd rather hold higher expectations of local theater than settle for lowered expectations.
Constructive criticism aside, our family of amateur theatre-goers really enjoyed this production last week and we've been humming "something familiar…a comedy tonight!" ever since! We were especially impressed by the energy of Jon Narducci and Jorin Antero-Towle, but we thought there was a lot of talent and experience evident in the cast. We liked the costumes….and I thought the cartoonish set was an appropriate canvas for the production. We were delighted by this comedy and recommend people check it out!
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Hi – I am definitely glad to find this. cool job!
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The varnish is applied much as is described for painting, except that excessive brushing must be avoided. Once the surface is covered with the right thickness it should be left. The theory of sound | 148 |
Landmarks board to consider 1963 City Light building on Queen Anne
Posted on May 3, 2016 May 3, 2016 by Nicole Demers-Changelo
Futuristic design echoes World's Fair aesthetic
In 1963, Seattle City Light built the Power Control Center, a modernist-style steel-reinforced concrete structure that has remained on Lower Queen Anne even as the neighborhood has changed.
But as new development gobbles up property, Nicole Demers-Changelo worries the oddly shaped relic could also be lost.
Demers-Changelo is an architect and transplant from New York, and has taken a liking to the former utility building. It's not sleek like the current modern architecture. It's more of a type, she said, a building that expresses the modern post-World War II ideal of showing its strength against the outside world.
It sits behind a fence at 157 Roy St. The landscaping is overgrown and there's no lighting to emphasize the dramatic form, Demers-Changelo said. "I can see how people might bypass it."
"But there is an elegance in the small scale of it," she said, "and how it does float off of the ground (plane)."
She is co-vice president of Queen Anne Historical Society, which filed an application to nominate the structure as a city landmark.
Seattle's Landmarks Preservation Board will consider the nomination at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow<|fim_middle|> Expedia moving its headquarters to the nearby waterfront.
Demers-Changelo moved to Seattle in 2012. She now works in real estate, selling houses and condos as well as lots for redevelopment. Each year, she organizes a tour of modern architecture on Queen Anne, and has championed the effort to get landmark status for the Power Control Center.
She said new development in South Lake Union is "marching on over" to Lower Queen Anne, so people should consider which buildings to preserve.
"We are at a point in modern architecture where we have to decide what's worth keeping," she said.
By Lynn Porter, Journal Staff Reporter
Lynn Porter can be reached by email or by phone at (206) 622-8272.
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Stroll 1: 100 Years on the Lake Washington Ship Canal | in Room L2-80 of City Hall at 600 Fourth Ave. The application is under "Current Nominations."
The building was designed by architect Harmon, Pray & Detrich, whose important commissions include King County Administration Building and Sieg Hall at the University of Washington, according to the application prepared by Michael J. Herschensohn, Ph.D., the historical society's president. He was assisted by Demers-Changelo and Leanne Olson of the society's board.
Seattle City Light no longer uses the 12,122-square-foot facility.
Scott Thomsen, a spokesperson for City Light, recently said he had not known the historical society was seeking landmark status for the structure. "When you look at it, it is a cool-looking building," he said.
Thomsen said it sat empty for some time before environmental remediation was done and the city rented it in 2015 as a homeless shelter. "We do not have plans, outside of its current use, for anything else," he said.
On Monday, Thomsen said City Light has not taken a position on the landmark application.
The former Power Control Center is one block north of Seattle Center and across from the popular Metropolitan Market.The one-story structure has two independent wings, notes Herschensohn, who is a former executive director of the Museum of History & Industry in Seattle.
The building started out as an octagon, with a large semicircular "pin board" diagram of the city's electric system. By 1985, City Light had moved its power control functions elsewhere, but added to the original western wing, converting it into an eight-sided polygon as part of making the building an Emergency Operations Center.
The adjacent six-sided office portion is cantilevered over eight concrete pilotis separating parking spaces below, according to the application.
Herschensohn writes, "The creative and unusual pairing of eight and six-sided forms is a noteworthy feature of the Power Control Center, which is not only an exceptional example of the modern movement, but also of the unique blend of European and American design traditions that flows from Louis Sullivan to Frank Lloyd Wright and which is clearly seen in the work of Bruce Goff such as the Japanese Pavilion at LACMA and other Southern California mid-century architects."
The building's stark precast concrete panels and octagonal form echo futuristic designs of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, he writes.
That austere form has generated an urban myth that the building was constructed as a bomb shelter to protect City Light workers from a nuclear disaster, but the application notes that neither architectural drawings nor City Light literature mentions this.
Leanne Olson said the structure was pretty radical for its time, with a space age feel, but it was intended to be utilitarian. City Light "could have thrown up a box — but they didn't," she said.
Olson said the building retains its architectural integrity. "The addition was so sympathetic that a lot of us didn't realize it had been added onto until we started doing the research," she said.
Lower Queen Anne has a mix of architectural styles, with low-rise brick apartments from the 1920s and 1930s, Craftsman bungalows converted to apartments, mid-century-modern structures and modern townhouses. Mixed-use multifamily buildings are being constructed on infill sites in the neighborhood, which is now home to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and in 2019 will feel the effects of | 720 |
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Making sense of our senses
Rebecca Blackburn May 22, 2017 July 24, 2017 Medical research, Neuroscience
Imagine you're driving a car. There are myriad sensations, from the noise of sirens, to vibrations from driving over a bump, to the colour of traffic lights. The brain constantly monitors these sensations and instantly works out what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Yet we know very little about how the brain does this, despite more than one hundred years of neuroscience research. But that is changing as Professor Ehsan Arabzadeh and his team from the Eccles Institute of Neuroscience at JCSMR investigate how neurons in the brain process sensory perception.
"A key goal in neuroscience is to understand how the brain generates a representation of the world around us. We call this the neural code," says Professor Arabzadeh.
"You would think after so many years we would know what the neural code is. But there are lots of gaps in knowledge in exactly how neurons generate perception and process sensory experience."
Professor Arabzadeh is exploring sensory perception by investigating how rats respond to changes in their environment such as rough or smooth surfaces, and changes in the amount of light.
As nocturnal animals, rodents rely heavily on their sense of touch through their array of whiskers. They move their whiskers back and forth to navigate their environment and to collect information about the objects around them.
Arabzadeh's research team found that the rodent brain does not process sensory information the same way all the time, it changes its priorities based on the context.
Professor Arabzadeh's group discovered this by developing a model for studying perception by changing a rat's experiences of vision or touch.
The rats were exposed to two types of sessions: a whisker session, which was primarily about detecting vibrations, and a light session, which was mostly about detecting flashes of light. In the whisker session, 80 per cent of trials involved a brief vibration to the rat's whiskers and the remaining 20<|fim_middle|> could also see increased neuronal activity in the part of the sensory cortex that processes whisker vibrations.
The reverse happened for the light sessions.
"The next step is to better understand the link between circuitry and behaviour in paradigms such as sensory prioritisation," says Professor Arabzadeh.
Professor Arabzadeh's work ultimately may prove to be useful in understanding brain disorders.
"If you understand what the properties of a healthy functioning circuit are, you can then understand diseases such as epilepsy or schizophrenia, where the circuits malfunction," says Professor Arabzadeh.
"In the long run it could have applications for prosthetic devices. If you understand the neuronal language you can bypass the part that is not functional. For example if a signal from the eye to the brain is broken, one could wire the visual signal directly to the brain."
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Professor Arabzadeh expected the rats to prioritise the whisker sensory pathway in the whisker session and the visual sensory pathway in the light session.
Not surprisingly, in the whisker session the rats were quicker to respond to vibrations than to light flashes. The researchers | 74 |
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A squeeze of a shotgun trigger at close range, and a big, beautiful, brown and gray owl falls from its high perch to the forest floor. Each carcass adds to a running tally: more than 1,600 deaths so far in a controversial experiment by the U.S. government to test whether the threatened northern spotted owl can be saved by killing its aggressive East Coast cousin, the barred owl. This is what it has come to. In a world where countless species are threatened by climate change and other human activity, we sometimes have to take desperate measures to save what can be saved. Is this a role we should play? Is it OK to kill some creatures to save others?
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A couple of months ago I went to SNAP, a blogging conference I have attended for the past few years. It was, as always, a lot of fun, and one of the best parts was a super fun flamingo/Palm Springs themed party thrown by the amazing Heidi Swapp and Fujifilm. I wanted to make myself a new tee for the party, and I thought it was a great time to use some neon heat transfer vinyl from Expressions Vinyl, which is truly my very favorite place to get my vinyl.
I wanted to do something a little bit different, and I remembered a cute "Veggies" pennant sweater that I had seen before, and I decided to create my own "Flamingos" version. And, of course, if you are making a flamingo tee, it should probably be in pink. Obvi.
I really loved the way it turned out, and I wanted to make more, so I whipped up a Yarn sweatshirt too because I'm totally on Team Yarn. If you are enthusiastic about flamingos or<|fim_middle|> hook to peel off anything you don't want.
When you have your two pieces weeded, it's time to transfer them to your shirt. Position the base piece first, cover it with a piece of cotton fabric, and iron it on using medium pressure for about 15-20 seconds.
Next, repeat the process for the other color. When that is transferred to the shirt, you are all done!
I really like the way neon goes with darker colors and neutrals – the contrast is great. I put the fluorescent raspberry vinyl with white on a gray tee and the fluorescent pink with burgundy vinyl on a gray sweatshirt.
So, what do you think? Guys. I really kind of love my yarn sweatshirt. Do you need a Pennant Shirt? What would yours say? | yarn (or anything really!), you can make your own pennant tee to show it off. Let's do this!
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Start by opening the file in the Silhouette Studio software. When you cut heat transfer vinyl, you cut on the back side, so you have to make sure the image is mirrored so it transfers properly.
There are a couple of different ways to layer heat transfer vinyl. You can simply just iron one layer right on top of another (as long as the base layer is smooth HTV or flocked) OR you can do what I did here, and cut a hole in the back layer for the top layer to fit into. I have a full post on how to layer heat transfer vinyl without extra bulk right HERE that walks you through the whole process.
Next, group the triangle portion of the pennant and the ties together (they will be cut from the same color) and group the pennant stripe and letters (they will also be the same color). Use the heat transfer material setting and cut the two groups one at a time. Just select no cut from the cut tab for the group not being cut at the moment. Place the heat transfer material shiny side down onto your cutting mat and load it into your Silhouette.
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An Israeli company has developed a product it says can detect if a mobile device connects to a fake cellular base station or Wi-Fi access point, potentially protecting critical data from falling into the hands of hackers.
Two large European carriers are testing the product, which is expected to come to market<|fim_middle|> the software needed to create a base station, OpenBTS, is open source, and the cost of the needed hardware has dropped dramatically, Liwer said.
In the U.S., there has been increasing concern over police departments using such devices, sometimes referred to as IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) catchers, without court approval.
A technically skilled person could probably build a fake cellular tower for around $350, while a non-technical person could assemble one for around $1,500, Liwer said. For enterprises with sensitive data, the lower barrier to intercepting mobile communications poses yet another risk to data.
CoroNet's software is a lightweight agent that runs on an Android or iOS device or on a laptop. It is programmed to detect behaviors and characteristics of a base station, as well as those of Wi-Fi networks.
It turns out that fake ones leave a lot of clues that they're probably bogus. Liwer said there are many signs, but was only willing to discuss a couple that CoroNet analyzes.
A fake base station will deauthorize a device from a legitimate network and then try to overpower it with its own signal to appear more attractive, which is a red flag, he said. CoroNet can also detect the "imprint" of an attacker, based on the pattern of radio waves in a certain location.
"Based on that pattern, we know that is probably suspicious behavior," Liwer said. "A safe network would never behave this way."
If a mobile network looks suspicious, CoroNet can cut off the connection to the fake base station and route the call to the legitimate one.
With Wi-Fi, if CoroNet detects a so-called evil twin network -- one that has the same SSID name as the legitimate one -- it can forbid a phone from connecting to it.
There are other projects and products designed to address this problem. SnoopSnitch is an Android app that also analyzes mobile networks to try to detect fake ones.
Companies including Boeing and Lockheed also sell special mobile phones with secure microchips that have an approved list of mobile networks that a device is allowed to connect to.
CoroNet doesn't plan to sell directly to consumers but rather through mobile carrier partners and managed security service providers, Liwer said. It will likely be priced per user per month, he said. There will be two plans: a basic one that covers data and an executive one that handles data and voice. | in early 2016, said Dror Liwer, chief security officer and co-founder of CoroNet, based in Be'er Sheva, Israel.
CoroNet's software addresses one type of attack that was long thought to be too expensive to conduct. It involves creating a fake base station that has a stronger signal than a real one. Mobile devices are designed to connect to the station with the strongest signal.
Once a device has connected, it's possible for a hacker to figure out a person's approximate location and possibly steal data or listen to calls.
Such attacks were thought to be only possible by governments and intelligence agencies, but | 130 |
Hans Erich (Eric) Hollmann (Sol<|fim_middle|> eu trois enfants. Il est mort à Los Angeles en 1960.
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Naissance en novembre 1899
Naissance à Solingen
Décès en novembre 1960
Pionnier du radar
Physicien allemand du XXe siècle
Docteur honoris causa de l'université technique de Dresde
Décès à Los Angeles | ingen, – Los Angeles, ) est un spécialiste allemand de l'électronique à qui l'on doit de grandes avancées dans la mise au point du radar.
Jeunesse
Hollmann est né à Solingen (Allemagne). Passionné par la radio, déjà adolescent il est abonné aux revues techniques de l'époque. À la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale les Français le font prisonnier de guerre et il ne retourne en Allemagne qu'en 1920. Il étudie alors à l'Université de technologie de Darmstadt jusqu'à ce qu'il obtienne son doctorat en 1928.
Travail sur le radar
En 1927, il met au point le premier émetteur-récepteur sur ondes ultracourtes opérant sur les bandes centimétriques et décimétriques. Ceci conduit à la réalisation du premier système de télécommunication sur micro-ondes. En 1930, Hollmann déménage à Berlin au Heinrich-Hertz Institute for Oscillatory Research. En plus de ses travaux sur les micro-ondes, il conduit également des recherches sur les tubes cathodiques, sur l'ionosphère et sur la radioastronomie. En 1933 il devient maître de conférence à l'Université technique de Berlin. Il est aussi consultant chez Telefunken.
Hans Hollmann, Hans-Karl von Willisen et Paul-Günther Erbslöh créent, en 1928, une société appelée GEMA (Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische und Mechanische Apparate, soit Société d'appareillages électro-acoustiques et mécaniques). À l'automne 1934, la Gema construit le premier radar à usage maritime. Il opère sur de longueur d'onde et peut détecter un navire jusqu'à une distance de . Dans le courant de 1935, ils développent la technique selon deux axes : maritime avec le Seetakt opérant sur de longueur d'onde, et terrestre avec une version sur de longueur d'onde comme le Freya.
En 1933, Telefunken développe son secteur radar à partir des travaux d'Hollmann et met au point un radar pour le pointage des batteries d'artillerie à portée beaucoup plus courte appelé « radar Würzburg ». En 1935, Hans Erich Hollmann rédige deux livres sur les micro-ondes — Physics and Technique of Ultrashort Waves et Seeing with Electromagnetic Waves — qui ont servi de modèles à d'autres pays dans leur recherche sur les radars centimétriques, et cela, malgré les coupes opérées par la censure. Le , il fait application pour un brevet pour le premier magnétron à cavités multiples. Il lui fut accordé le .
En 1937, Hollman applique ses connaissances des tubes cathodiques et développe un système d'affichage convivial des données radar pour GEMA, il l'appelle Panorama. Ce système sera connu plus tard sous le nom de PPI (de l'anglais Plan Position Indicator).
Deuxième Guerre mondiale
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale les radars Freya et Würzburg sont utilisés ensemble. Le radar Freya détecte l'avion entrant et le Würzburg calcule sa distance et son altitude. Hollman l'a breveté en 1940 et l'armée allemande l'a utilisé dans le radar « Jagdschloss » par la suite. C'est cependant au Telecommunications Research Establishment de Grande-Bretagne qu'il a été perfectionné et produit pour la première fois à grande échelle pour équiper le radar H2S des bombardiers durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Au cours de la guerre il supervise plusieurs instituts de recherche dans les pays occupés évitant ainsi à de nombreux scientifiques d'être déportés en Allemagne. Sa propre maison et son laboratoire de Berlin sont détruits pendant la guerre. Après la guerre, n'ayant plus le droit de travailler sur les micro-ondes, il s'oriente vers d'autres champs de recherche dans le domaine de l'électronique. Finalement il accepte de travailler pour le gouvernement des États-Unis en Californie.
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Emily Coker is a "multipotentialite<|fim_middle|> one person can inspire a movement. | " who is passionate about empowering herself and others through hands-on learning and making. When not creating projects for the masses, she can be spotted tinkering around in her shop futzing with electronics, robotics and the latest in tech and craft. She currently works at Google X.
It's always great to hear about young people doing good things for humanity. Easton LaChappelle not only blows my mind but is a huge inspiration. The 19 year old recently accepted a job with NASA after creating a 3D printed prosthetic arm that is controlled by your mind.
LaChappelle become interested in robotics and technology at age 14. (Yes, you're reading that right.) Noticing the high prices of prosthetics and the lack of technological advancement, he set out to create an affordable prosthetic arm for under $1,000. Working out of his home in a small town in Colorado, he taught himself 3D printing, robotics, and programming. It seems that nothing stands in his way with a goal! He has released the design for his current prototype (made for about $400) as open source, opening many doors to advancements in prosthetics and robotics.
LaChappelle is the subject of the first video in a series called Luminaries on UPROXX about some of the most influential individuals in science and technology.
You can also watch his TED Talk.
Easton LaChappelle is a prime example of how wonderful the world of making is and how | 307 |
Walmart announced it<|fim_middle|> the consumers making use of them.
Walmart is also testing a fleet of stock-monitoring machines.
Walmart's giving a peek at what it called a glimpse of a broader website redesign. | 's adding its 16-foot-tall Pickup Tower fulfilment machines to an additional 500 stores by the end of 2018, bringing the total number of locations to 700.
The towers can hold items as large as a microwave, and in response to consumer feedback, the chain is now pairing them with Pickup Lockers for larger items. Large items were previously brought out by a Walmart employee.
According to Walmart, over 500,000 orders have been retrieved through the towers since they were first introduced, and it estimated that they will now be available to nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population.
The lockers, of course, resemble those of Walmart's No. 1 competitor, Amazon. Recent research indicates that Amazon's lockers lead to increased brick-and-mortar sales thanks to the add-on purchases from | 178 |
This is a historic day for the people of Colombia. With the final<|fim_middle|> a sustained commitment to diplomacy and reconciliation can overcome even the most entrenched conflicts.
This accord is a tribute to the hard work and cooperation of countless Colombian leaders and citizens—across parties and administrations—who painstakingly laid the groundwork for this milestone. I especially want to commend President Juan Manuel Santos for his courageous leadership during four years of difficult negotiations. I likewise thank the government of Cuba for hosting these talks, its co-guarantor Norway, and the United States' Special Envoy, Bernie Aronson, for his contributions to the peace process.
Even as we mark the end of an era of war, we recognize that the work of achieving a just and lasting peace is only beginning. Yet just as the United States has been Colombia's partner in a time of war, we will be Colombia's partner in waging peace. It is in this spirit that I stood alongside President Santos earlier this year and announced a new chapter in our relationship, Peace Colombia, which will provide a framework to reinforce security gains, reintegrate former combatants into society and extend opportunity and the rule of law.
For generations, too many Colombians have known only a country ravaged by war. Many around the world have viewed Colombia only as a place of conflict. But as I saw when I visited Colombia four years ago, a remarkable transformation has occurred. Thanks to the strength and spirit of the Colombian people, today's Colombia is moving toward a future of optimism and hope. The United States is proud to stand with the Colombian people as they continue on the path to lasting peace and prosperity. | izing of a peace agreement between Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the longest-running war in the Western Hemisphere is coming to an end. We have witnessed, once again, that | 37 |
AMERICA #1 Explodes Into Comic Shops This March – Your First Look!
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Everyone's favorite no-nonsense, hard-hitting heroine – America Chavez – is now starring in her very own series! That's right, True Believer, it's dimension-punching, high-octane super hero action as only the fan-favorite character can supply.<|fim_middle|>AN170901)
Written by GABBY RIVERA
Art & Cover by JOE QUINONES
Variant Covers by CLIFF CHIANG (JAN170902), JAMIE MCKELVIE (JAN170903)
and SKOTTIE YOUNG (JAN170904)
Action Figure Variant by JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER (JAN170905)
Hip-Hop Variant by JEFFREY VEREGGE (JAN170906)
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To find a comic shop near you, visit www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook. | And Marvel is pleased to present your very first look inside the hotly anticipated AMERICA #1 – coming to comic shops everywhere on March 1st! Superstar YA writer Gabby Rivera (Juliet Takes a Breath) joins critically acclaimed artist Joe Quinones (Howard the Duck) to take Marvel's Latina powerhouse to the next level!
As the new leader of the Ultimates, America has cemented herself as the preeminent butt-kicker of the entire Marvel Universe. But when your punch is enough to shatter the barriers between worlds, sometimes being a super hero can get in the way of self-discovery. So what's a super powered teenager to do for a little fulfillment? She goes to college! …Right after she punches out a few interdimensional monsters and takes down a pesky alien cult.
She's stood side-by-side with some of the most powerful heroes in the Marvel Universe, but now it's time for her to fly solo. Be there as America plants her feet, punches her way through dimensions and faces off against an oncoming alien horde — all while managing a social life and a full class load. Don't miss the highly anticipated AMERICA #1 – coming to comic shops and digital devices everywhere on March 1st!
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Aurora Multimedia CEO Paul Harris Appointed Chairman of HDBaseT Alliance's AV Work Group
AV Work Group will continue mission of responding to market developments and working with HDBaseT Alliance members and installers with Paul Harris.
May 31<|fim_middle|> systems, especially in digital signage or applications that require the equivalent of matrixing."
The HDBaseT Alliance's AV Work Group is open to all contributor members. For more information, please contact Tzahi Madgar, HDBaseT Alliance Director of Business Development & Secretary of the Board. | , 2018 CI Staff Leave a Comment
The HDBaseT Alliance recently announced that Paul Harris, Aurora CEO and Alliance contributor, has been elected and appointed the new chairman of the AV Work Group.
The AV Work Group is tasked with "advancing the HDBaseT technology, to respond to market developments and demands from members and installers," according to the HDBaseT Alliance announcement.
"I am excited to lead the activities of the AV Work Group going forward, addressing the hot topics in the market today," said Harris in the press release.
"Our initial agenda and scope of work will focus on the development of HDBaseT networking and HDBaseT-IP, future native interface support, and standardization of control systems within HDBaseT systems.
"I look forward to working with the HDBaseT contributors and establish standards for a variety of Audio Visual, IP, and control protocols during my tenure," he said.
"We are happy to welcome Paul to this position, as we continue to forge ahead in the AV market," said Ariel Sobelman, president of the HDBaseT Alliance.
"The participation of leading Alliance members in the AV Work Group is essential to realize our goals of continuously expanding and developing the HDBaseT standard. I believe Paul can draw the top players in our market to contribute to this effort."
Harris is both the Aurora CEO and CTO and has been responsible for developing many of the company's products for the past 20 years. He brings extensive knowledge of HDMI, HDBaseT, AV over IP, IP control and much more.
Related: HDBaseT-IP vs. SDVoE: A Smackdown of AV over IP Standards
In an earlier interview with CI, Paul Harris talked about the future of HDBaseT, and in particular HDBaseT-IP. Harris believes HDBaseT-IP products won't be available for another two to three years.
"HDBaseT seemed like it was a technology that was on its way out, but maybe we're all wrong about that," Harris says. "Maybe we need this technology to be the fix for IP itself."
He also takes issue with those who say HDBaseT today is just a placeholder for tomorrow's IP-based distribution systems. There will still be a place for point-to-point HDBaseT, he insists.
"HDBaseT works wonderful for that. I wouldn't change it… it's cost-effective, low power, low heat, inexpensive, and easily distributed. IP solutions are best served for distributed | 524 |
The first episode of the six-part "Elevator" ends with Louie, on stage, asking a question that the rest of the arc looks to answer: "How do you know you love somebody?" Various types of love are explored, from that between a father and his child, to the embers of lost marriage. The answer to this question, in every context seems to be the same: you know that you love somebody when nature pushes, and you push back.
"Elevator" was the most quietly ambitious story Louie has ever told, extending the length and emotional language of the set-up throughout this exploration of love and communication. We begin with a scream; in the dark, Jane awakens from a nightmare, but believes herself to still be asleep. She holds to this truth the next day, and sets off events that lead to her divorced father and mother reconnecting, if only for a moment. Louie must deal with his daughter's cynicism that he himself gave to her. See the way she echoes his questions about her being angry when she asks if anyone is mad at her. Note how he shelters her, occasionally going against his own belief to let his children experience sadness. Parenthood is complicated, and Louie and Jane's relationship changes as she grows older and more jaded, and as he remembers the days before she was alive.
That flashback, in part four, is one of the greatest things Louie has ever done. The scene is tragic and poignant, showing how long Janet and Louie's relationship had been corroding before their split. The two connect here, in flashes, whether it be the first time he has made her laugh in years when leaving a therapist, or his carrying her to the car in the middle of a hurricane. There's no blind hope here for a true reunion, but as that therapist says, it is only important that they get along. For their children, and for themselves, they must learn to communicate.
At one point in that scene, a glass door separates the two. We, the audience, cannot see this at first, and believe young Janet's muted speech to be a diagnosis of Louie's inability to listen. And it is, to a certain extent. Then he opens the door, and they calmly agree to end whatever it is they have. Perhaps this would have worked, but their last sexual hurrah will lead to a child. A flash of communication collapsed by the events of life. Speaking openly is the key "Elevator", but something Louie struggles with, for reasons both his fault and fate's.
Amia, the woman who only speaks Hungarian and is only around for a month, captures Louie's attention quickly, and they have a variation on a whirlwind romance. They learn to interact through gestures and expressions, but a post-coitus look from Amia admits that this was all temporary and just barely not enough. There was a simultaneous trueness and falseness to their time together, the barriers of speech rubbing up against something innate in their feelings for one another. Louie never diminishes what this must have meant to them both, but in Amia's final note she says that this was something close to love, not that emotion itself. That fact does not make their closing stares any less honest, but it serves to answer the question that first episode posed.
In the end, when the hurricane arrived, there was only one place Louie could have found himself. It would have been horrific for him to abandon his children when the city was being submerged. But if that were the only point the show were trying to make, it could have easily placed them at his apartment. Lilly and Jane seem calm when he arrives, but Janet is in the throws of panic, and hugs him more powerfully than she likely has in over a decade. This may have been the story of Louie and Amia, but that is not who Louie choses in the climatic storm. His romantic love for Janet may be gone, but return to what the two say after leaving the therapists office. Their relationship has changed; being divorced parents has its ups and downs, same as a marriage.
So of course Louie winds up carrying Janet to safety. They have experienced greater challenges, but that means they know greater love. This is why Louie fears his<|fim_middle|> drives through the storm that killed LeBron James (and twelve million others) for, must know struggle.
And the rain will stop. And the arguments will resume. And Jane wakes up. The dream is over. We face the storm, and search for a dog with four legs. And if one cannot be found, three legs will do.
Many tremendous performances here, but Ellen Burstyn is astounding as Amia's aunt Evanka. Charles Grodin also continues his reign on this show, especially in his three-legged dog speech to Louie. And Susan Kelechi Watson has series best work in the post-therapy scene.
Louie taking Amia to eat raw fish at the market is a wonderful inversion of the usual "weird foreigner" clichés.
I couldn't find a natural way to fit it in above, but the violin duet between Jane and Amia may be the single best thing the show was ever given us. It's gorgeous, and speaks to the fact that those two are communicating more in that moment than Louie can manage to do with either. His childish clapping at the end only enhances that fact. | children failing to experience the real world: the worst parts of life inform the best. Real relationships are not built from miscommunication and games of charades. The true stuff, the stuff that one | 39 |
Tetra Pak to open new production facility in Thailand
Tetra Pakwill bebuilding a new plant<|fim_middle|> our fourth in southern Asia alone, our ability to serve customers in this exciting part of the world is growing stronger all the time."
The new production facility will be located within the company's existing Straws and Strips Plant in Rayong.
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Tetra Pak will be building a new plant at its Rayong site in Thailand, which will focus on the manufacture of closures for carton packaging.
The €24 million investment, which will create around 60 jobs when it opens early next year, will be capable of producing more than 3 billion closures per annum.
With demand for well-designed closures on beverage cartons rising and changing all the time, the new facility will provide much-needed local production and essential extra capacity.
Michael Zacka, Cluster Vice President, Tetra Pak South Asia, East Asia and Oceania (SAEA&O), said: "The new production facility will ensure faster delivery for customers across the region, offering a broad range of exciting closures that meet consumer demand for functionality and convenience.
"It's another sign of the confidence we have in this region, and our commitment to putting our customers' success at the heart of everything we do. Together with the packaging material factory that we will open in Vietnam in 2019, | 232 |
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Popular misconceptions 2: looking back at "Extending Choice"
Today we review a BBC document from 1992: Extending Choice, which looked forward to the age of digital broadcasting and took a look at CNN and Sky News with envious eyes.
Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV 4th September 2013 at 13:38
I'm going to start looking at "Extending Choice: The BBC's role in the new broadcasting age" at page 58. Compared to the dozen A5 pages, by 1992 the BBC wasn't alone in using Desktop Publishing software to provide verbose output, on high quality card.
This section, "Harnessing Technology" starts
The history of broadcasting has been characterised by extraordinary advances in technology. Each of these advances has expanded the range and enhanced the quality of broadcasting services to the viewer and listener.
Over the last decade, the pace of technological change has accelerated. Since the BBC's current Charter period began in 1981, we have seen the emergence of direct to home satellite broadcasting, of cable television and of the video cassette recorder as a mass market produce. These technological advances are so significant as to transform broadcasting supply and demand.
It is, of course, interesting to see that two of these new technologies (NICAM and teletext) have now expired:
The BBC has often made important contributions to the development of broadcasting technology. BBC engineers have played major roles in the progressive enhancement of sound and picture quality on television, in the development of FM stereo services on radio and in the creation of teletext services. More recently, they have been involved in the development of NICAM digital stereo sound on television.
The BBC's policy has always been to harness technology to the services of the public. The licence payer would not have been well served had the BBC remained a purely radio broadcaster unable to influence the quality of the emerging television medium; or if it had stuck resolutely to black and white television, when colour technology became available. No more would it not be appropriate for the BBC to limit itself to old technologies, which may or may not be eventually become as obsolete as valve radio and black and white television.
This document, which is now over 20 years old, now looks into the future:
The process of technological change in broadcasting is by no means complete. At least three major initiatives are underway, each of which could dramatically increase the number and enhance the quality of broadcasting services.
The move to widescreen TV happened over the last decade, but we are still waiting for 2014 for all of the BBC's output to being HD.
High definition/widescreen television. Broadcasters may soon be able to offer improved quality pictures, employing either high definition or widescreen technology. BBC engineers have played an active role in the development of HDTV systems. Many HDTV programmes have been produced by the BBC, including coverage of tennis from Wimbledon, the FA Cup Final, Mahler's Eighth Symphony and the drama series, 'The Ginger Tree'. Widescreen TV, which is especially beneficial to films and sport, is seen as a possible interim development prior to the instruction of HDTV in the longer term.
The question of digital TV is quite forward looking: this is five years before the first publication of the DVB-T standard in 1997. It was interesting to see how little was expected: four HD channels and "many more" SD ones:
Digital television. Parallel work is going on to develop the capability for digital compression of television signals. Digital transmission could dramatically increase the number and quality of services available to viewers. For instance, the spectrum currently used to provide four existing terrestrial television services might also be able to accommodate four digital HDTV services or many more digital TV services of a quality comparable with the existing services. Similar techniques could also be use to squeeze more services within each satellite TV channel.
At this point, DAB was seen as a way of putting several "CD quality" stereo signals into the place of one. The idea of putting radio services on digital satellite was mentioned, but was off-target.
Digital audio broadcasting. The application of digital compression to audio signals offers an equal, if not greater, potential for improvement in the delivery of radio services to listeners. It offers the possibility of much more efficient use of radio spectrum, with five or six stereo FM services occupying the space currently taken by one. It would also improve the convenience and reliably of radio reception for listeners using portable and car radios, as well as offering CD quality reception for listeners using hi-fi equipment. Digital audio broadcasting delivery by satellite direct to the listener also opens up new opportunities for the BBC in its international broadcasting role.
So, the BBC lays out the conditions for use of these systems:
As always, however, there is a high degree of uncertainty surrounding the likely pace of technological change. How quickly will new technologies be ready for market introduction? How rapidly will they be taken up in the marketplace? What impact will they have on the broadcasting environment? These are questions which can often only be answered with a well-educated guess.
For this reason, the ideas for the BBC's future role contained in this document primarily reflect the current state of broadcasting technology and anticipate the way in which the broadcasting environment will respond to proven technological advance.
Nevertheless, the BBC's thinking about the future is highly sensitive to the potential impact of technologies that are not yet fully developed, and certainly not proven.
The BBC's future approach to technology should continue to be driven by the objective of providing high quality, cost effective programmes and services to viewers and listeners. It should not view itself as primarily a research organization or a technological pioneer. But, like NHK in Japan, it should be prepared to play a leadership role in the advance of broadcasting technology to the service of the public. It will therefore have the following priorities.
To deliver its core services to viewers and listeners using known technology
Not to discontinue existing transmissions arrangements until new technology is widely in use to play its leadership role, either by offering new services or by simultaneously transmitting existing services on both old and new technology
Therefore, in the short term, to create services that apply existing satellite and cable technology. In the longer term, to provide selective support to the development of widescreen/high definition television, digital television and digital audio broadcasting.
In this way, the BBC can ensure that its services to the licence payer and to the international audience are always the product of the most modern and effective technology.
Looking at page 29, some plans were forming for the "Development of a continuous news service", with reference to CNN, Sky News and the BBC "Scud FM" service run during the first Gulf War.
It is becoming clear that regularly scheduled news bulletins and current affairs programmes alone cannot meet the increasing information needs and expectations of audiences. With partial expose to CNN and/or Sky news, as well as the BBC's on News FM radio service that ran during the Gulf War, the public now expects to be kept directly in touch with breaking news, particularly at times of crisis. Meeting these expectations should be a public services priority for the BBC. It can only do this by delivery continuous news channels on radio and television, applying the experience and skills of BBC journalist and the breadth of its newsgathering coverage to delivery truly distinctive services.
Even in 1992, the BBC had decided to launch Radio 5 Live:
It should therefore, be a strategic priority for the BBC to Deliver a continuous news service on radio building on and extending the news platform established by Radio 4. The BBC has announced that such as service will be launched in 1994.
But it would be over five years before it got to:
Participate In the development of a continuous news series on satellite and cable television, drawing on the setting journalistic resources of News and Current Affairs and the World Service.
And more specifically...
To create and establish a continuous news services. As we outlined earlier, the BBC can only fulfil its most critical role as the platform for national debate if it develops continuous news services on television and radio. The BBC is uniquely equipped to create such as service on radio - it can develop its existing bi-media news gathering capability, draw upon the World Services, and benefit for the experience of running News FM during the Gulf War. Such a service has been announced and will be a major priority for the BBC.
Moving on to page 49, most of these will eventually come to pass:
To take part in the development of commercially funded market for specialist channels on satellite and cable.
Subscription television is set to be the fastest growing sector of the broadcasting market thought the 1990s and beyond as new satellite and cables services rapidly gain household penetration and share
It is entirely consistent with the BBC's public service role and objectives for it to support or supply programming to satellite channels, which supplement and delivery greater depth than it is possible on the core licence fee funded services. These might include:
A continuous news channel,<|fim_middle|> They are the BBC's initial contributions to the full public discussion that will follow.
This document reflects the achievements and traditions of the BBC and if describes new developments underway. But above all, this document lays out our ideas for the future - out considered thoughts about the role and services that the BBC might offer to the British public in the 1990s and beyond. It is these ideas for the future - and not just the achievements of the past - which we believe that should underpin the case for the renewal of the BBC's Charter.
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My God! in 1992 The salaries at the BBC particularly of those behind this long winded 'book' - document seems inadequate - must have been far and above those ordinary senior executives in minor industries like banking simply to suggest that subscription TV (and radio?) were , on top of an ever increasing compulsory licence , a really splendid idea ..... The complicating changes involved at the introduction of terrestrial digital TV which only seems to have marginally increased our real 'choice' and added sellervision which was always a satellite pain but was simply not expected on normal TV, takes up channels which could and should be used for proper entertainment and information/education has actually limited our 'choice', when you consider whilst US and other countries have to suffer ever increasing advertising (like us) at least they don't pay the government/BBC £144 a year to simply own a TV then see in the news the obscene salaries BBC 'bosses' who decide our 'choices' for us .
DAB has been a singular failure and though whiz-kids say "what's a radio valve Dad?" they also frown when the Radio Crapo they are listening to goes off spluttering as they carry the ugly 'brick' into another room . Ok Luxy faded - but it did come hundreds of miles and was refused transmitters by the same type of folk advocating a system (DAB) where over 35 miles is called 'dx' these day if you hear anything at all that is.
Our fathers and granddads could hear stations from all over Europe and USA and Australia (on short-wave) until as recent as the 1960's on the old quaint 'valve' radios - whereas a 'brick' goes deaf.
So thanks 'Auntie' BBC for giving us the 'progress' of digital - now take you're mug of Ovaltine and bu**er off back to bed to count the £M s wasted on, DAB, moving to Salford, remodelling local radio back to semi-regional, putting two extra TV stations on starting at 7pm each day with 75% unwatchable programme content when they have a vast vault of splendid 1970's to 1990's programmes (dramas,shows,documentaries etc) gathering dust. Where on earth do they get the folk who man (dare I say that? - person) the BBC so called Trust do they know anything about broadcasting to the people of the UK? I don't think so - do you?
Watlingfen's 38 posts | of the kind we described earlier;
Channels which use the BBC archives. For example, the collaborative venture with Thames Television to launch UK Gold on the Astra satellite.
The BBC should work with partners to develop thee and other options which offer extended choice to potential subscribers. This will build of the experience the BBC already has in supplying programmes to, and collaborating with, specialist cable and satellite services.
I'm not going to post the whole of the document today - it's far too long - so I am providing the introduction here:
The BBC is seen by many people at home and abroad as the world's leading broadcasting organization. Over the last 70 years it has established a name for high quality broadcasting on both television and radio which has made a major contribution to British life. It has provided a national sense of shared experience, and it has played a major role in enabling the different groups within society to understand one another.
The BBC has become one of the nation's primary sources of news and information. As a broadcasting organization, it has entertained successive generations. Its programmes have become part of our culture. It has fostered the arts, encouraging new writers, composers, artists and performers. It has helped to educate millions of people in Britain and overseas. And it has brought credit to Britain though its international World Service broadcasts.
But British broadcasting is changing. New technology, new methods of funding and new regulation are transforming the environment for broadcasters and their audiences.
At the end of 1996, in the midst of all this change, the BBC's current Royal Charter expires. Over the last eighteen months, therefore, the BBC has conducted an extensive and fundamental review of its role and services. An effective organization cannot stand still: as the society it serves developers and the broadcasting market expands, the BBC must adapt - as it has done in the past - to these different circumstances. This document summarises the results of our reviews and outlines a vision for the BBC's place in the new broadcasting age.
Questions for the debate
The BBC has addresses the fundamental questions which will probably be the subject of public discussion in the Charter Renewal debate
Do we need publicly funded broadcasting in an expanding market?
Should it be provided by the BBC
If so, what should be the BBC's public purpose, role and objectives?
What kind of programmes should the BBC make and broadcast to fulfil this public purpose?
How should the BBC develop its international role?
Should the BBC be a single broadcasting organization and if so how should it shape its services to deliver programmes as effectively as possible to their audiences?
How should the BBC change the way it works as an organization to ensure that it delivers maximum value for money?
How should the BBC harness new broadcasting technologies which offer the prospect of expanded and enhanced services for the viewer and listener?
How should the BBC be funded?
How should the BBC be held accountable to the licence payer and Parliament for meeting its objectives?
In the chapters that follow, we outline our views on each of these questions. | 602 |
Ban congratulates Kyrgyzstan on results of 'positive' parliamentary elections
United Nations Secretary-General Ban<|fim_middle|> biggest challenges, including rapid urbanization, climate change and sustainable development, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in Shanghai on Sunday. | Ki-moon congratulated the people of Kyrgyzstan on the results of the 10 October parliamentary elections, which were released today and were assessed by observers as positive, transparent, and well organized.
"He encourages the timely formation of an inclusive Government that will ensure peace, stability, and prosperity," Mr. Ban's spokesperson, Martin Nesirky said in a statement.
The successful polls were held some four months after deadly June clashes between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks affected nearly half a million people, uprooting about 400,000 and sending many fleeing to neighbouring Uzbekistan.
On the sidelines of the General Assembly's annual high-level debate in September, Mr. Ban assured Kyrgyz President Rosa Otunbaeva of continued UN support for the Central Asian nation's rehabilitation, recovery and reconciliation following the clashes.
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White papers are not as widely used in the manufacturing sector as in other sectors. The use of white papers can separate you from your competitors. A well-written white paper is an excellent marketing tool for a manufacturing business because it can help optimize your lead generation efforts.
According to Wikipedia, a white paper is an "authoritative report or guide helping readers understand an issue, solve a problem, or make a decision. White papers are used in two main spheres: government and business-to-business marketing." A White Paper is an informational document that is used to promote the features of a solution, or a product or service offered by that company. White papers are used as a presale marketing tool, not as a post-sale support document. They educate potential customers on how your company's product or service can help solve their problems or needs. White papers are a good venue for explaining topics from a new manufacturing process, development of a new product or a cutting edge business solution, and shouldn't be confused with user manuals or technical documents, which are used to provide post-sale support for users.
White papers are used in the Business to Business (B2B) marketplace, while articles and blogs can be used in either the B2B or B2C (Business to Consumer) marketplace. White papers differ from blog posts and articles in tone, scope, length and audience. White papers are usually longer than an article but shorter than a research paper. The tone is more formal, similar to an educational or academic piece and less persuasive than sales materials. Blog posts typically have a conversational tone, and can even be an opinion, while white papers have a more formal tone and are based on facts and research.
The primary audience is senior management and CXO's, whereas articles and blogs target a more general audience. Additionally, the scope of a white paper is broader in nature than a blog or article. White papers go in-depth on a specific topic and are designed for the reader who is seeking information on how to solve a problem or make an important purchasing decision. Blogs and articles are frequently aimed at the casual reader. It is important to understand the nuances, so you can leverage the white paper content in your marketing efforts.
White papers are used by businesses for lead generation and to help move prospects along the purchase process. They can be used to obtain leads directly, as a leave-behind at a presales client meeting or as an authoritative piece on how to solve a problem. White papers are often made available for download on a website in exchange for the reader leaving contact details. When used as a "leave- behind" after a client meeting, they<|fim_middle|> of white papers will help position you ahead of your competition in your prospect's minds.
There are several key components of a white paper. The subject can vary over a broad range of topics. The key is to make sure that the subject is valuable to your target audience and that it offers answers and insights. The language and tone should be written on a level that your audience will find relatable.
A white paper should center on a key problem faced by your target audience. Make sure to explain the impact of the problem. Describe current approaches and solutions to the problems and point out the limitations and drawbacks. Finally, describe your solution and address how it is better or different from the other solutions. Make sure that you back up your view using research and statistics (where possible).
• The tone should be formal.
• Address a common problem, challenge or need of your target audience.
• Education (not sales) is the top priority.
• Focus on the benefits of your solution, not on features of your product.
• Include information that is useful to the reader.
• Include research from respected sources.
• Avoid a hard sales pitch.
• The length varies widely, but is usually in the range of 5-12 pages.
In summary, remember that white papers are relatively long documents, written in a formal and educational tone, include useful arguments and data, and center on a common problem.
You want to distribute the white paper as widely as possible to maximize its value. An email campaign can be developed around the white paper using a landing page to get contact information in exchange for a free download of the paper. Use popular social media outlets such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to help spread the word. Also, include a small, but meaningful, section of the white paper in the company newsletter then include a link to the white paper.
When done correctly, white papers can help in your lead generation efforts. They can build your credibility by making you a subject matter expert as well as increasing the number of qualified leads that will lead to a higher conversion rate. White papers require a significant amount of time to develop and promote, but they can help separate you from your competitors. | can help close existing prospects. White papers can also position you as the go-to expert in your field and increase your company credibility. CEOs and decision-makers will use white papers when they are researching solutions to their problems. Proper use | 45 |
Land and Water (<|fim_middle|> patterns in geomorphic and ecological zones;
2. Interpret how chemical, biological and physical processes influence the flow of nutrients and contaminants around the landscape;
3. Evaluate how a system may respond to change in the fundamental driving forces in catchment properties; and
4. Communicate with diverse groups in various contexts using a range of written, oral and visual means (ACEDD TLO 3.5).
11773 Applied Ecology OR 10231 Ecology
10224 Integrated Catchment Science
2023 UC - Canberra, Bruce Semester 2 31 July 2023 On-Campus Dr Duanne White | 11776.1)
0.125 3 Faculty Of Science And Technology
Academic Program Area - Science Level 2 - Undergraduate Intermediate Unit Band 2 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan 2021)
This unit provides a framework for how water, sediment and biota move around the landscape, and how these interactions create and modify the landscapes and waterways that we rely on. This integrated understanding is essential for addressing management issues at the catchment scale.
The unit covers topics of geomorphology, surface and groundwater hydrology, environmental chemistry and how these interact with soils and biota at the land surface. Practical activities, including field trips, focus on linkages between different parts of the landscape, and will highlight current themes relevant to industry and the community to connect the fundamental theory to applied issues. This unit addresses various Threshold Learning Outcomes (TLO) for environment and sustainability endorsed by the Australian Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (ACEDD).
1. Analyse evidence from spatial and temporal patterns the characteristics of soil, biota and water to determine the nature and activity of different environmental processes across the landscape, and how these influence | 244 |
Shoulder pain can develop from a variety of sources, such as tendinitis, arthritis, torn cartilage, and many other medical conditions and injuries. One other common cause of shoulder pain is a pinched nerve in the upper spine<|fim_middle|>.png nmortho2018-11-08 00:08:122018-11-08 00:08:12Is a Pinched Nerve Causing Your Shoulder Pain? | , also known as cervical radiculopathy.
A nerve can become pinched when bone spurs form around the spinal discs. These discs are the "shock absorbers" between the vertebrae in your spine. Bone spurs are new formations of bone that grow when discs start to weaken with age.
As you get older, the vertebrae become compressed and the discs become thinner. Bone spurs grow around the discs to strengthen them, but that new bone growth can put pressure on the nerve root in the spine.
If a pinched nerve is causing your shoulder pain, you'll need a thorough physical exam of your neck and shoulder to diagnose the problem. However, there are signs that may help steer you and your doctor in the right direction.
A pinched nerve usually causes pain in one shoulder only. It's also typically a sharp pain, as opposed to a dull ache or a strain that you might feel if you overworked your muscles. Pain may also worsen if you turn your head. Neck pain and headaches in the back of your head are also signs that the cause of all this discomfort is a pinched nerve.
A pinched nerve may also leave you with a feeling of "pins and needles" in your shoulder. The joint may also feel numb or weak when you try to lift something. In some cases, symptoms extend from the shoulder down the arm to the hand.
A spine specialist may be able to tell which nerve is being pinched based on the location of your symptoms. However, a comprehensive exam is also necessary. That includes a physical exam of the neck and shoulders.
Your doctor will probably test your reflexes, sensation, and strength. You may be asked to do certain stretches or movements to demonstrate what causes your symptoms, as well as what relieves them. It's also important that you provide details about your shoulder pain.
You should inform your doctor of when the pain first started and what causes your shoulder to hurt. Also explain or show what causes the pain to subside. Your doctor may want to know if you've started exercising more or increased other physical activities.
If you've injured your neck or shoulder, you'll need to provide details of the injury. Because nerves in the spine affect many aspects of your health, you should also tell your doctor if you've noticed a change in your bowel habits or bladder function.
A thorough exam may also include X-rays or MRI scan. An X-ray can provide details of the bones in the spine, but not the nerves and discs. However, an X-ray can tell a doctor how much narrowing has occurred between the vertebrae and whether bone spurs have developed.
An MRI is often more helpful at diagnosing a pinched nerve. That's because an MRI can reveal the health of nerves and discs. An MRI is painless and doesn't use radiation. For pain concentrated in the shoulder, an X-ray of the joint may be performed to look for signs of arthritis or injuries to the bones.
An MRI or ultrasound (another noninvasive imaging test) can show the soft tissue in the shoulder and can determine whether the pain is being caused by injured ligaments or tendons.
If the source of your shoulder pain is a pinched nerve, your doctor may recommend physical therapy to improve strength and flexibility in your neck and shoulder. You may also be advised to limit the movement of your neck. That may be done with traction or a soft collar worn around the neck for short periods of time.
Other treatments may include anti-inflammatory pain relievers or injections of steroids in the area of the affected nerve. Steroid injections can reduce pain and swelling. If the problem is severe enough, surgery may be an option to remove the bone spur pinching the nerve.
Because a pinched nerve is a problem that can be diagnosed and treated, you shouldn't hesitate to have that pain in your shoulder evaluated. If the pain is being caused by a different condition, you're better off knowing what it is so you can avoid further damage and discomfort.
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Also known as Lavandula (spp- intermedia, officinalis and angustifolia),<|fim_middle|> Lavender was used as an after-bath perfume by the Romans, who gave the herb its name from the Latin lavare, to wash.
Constituents Essential oil containing borneol, camphor, geraniol, and linalool, also coumarins, caryophyllene, tannins, and other antioxidant compounds.
Typical Preparations Teas, tinctures, and added to baked goods. Cosmetically it has a multitude of uses and can be included in ointments for pain and burn relief.
Summary The German Commission E commended lavender for treating insomnia, nervous stomach, and anxiety. The British Herbal Phamacopoeia lists lavender as a treatment for flatulence, colic, and depressive headaches, and many modern herbal practitioners use the herb to treat migraines in menopause. In Spain, lavender is added to teas to treat diabetes and insulin resistance.
Precautions For best results, avoid heating the herb directly with boiling water, although a simmer is fine.
This information courtesy of MOUNTAIN ROSE HERBS, with full, written permission for reuse. For further traditional information concerning Lavender, please visit this excellent resource from Botanical.com. Used with full, written permission. | English lavender, Broad-leaf Lavender, Grande Lavander and True Lavender.
Introduction Lavender is aromatic perennial evergreen shrub. Its woody stems bear lavender or purple flowers from late spring to early autumn, although there are varieties with blossoms of white or pink. Lavender is native to the Mediterranean, but now cultivated in cool-winter, dry-summer areas in Europe and the Western United States. | 84 |
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We Now Conclude our Broadcast Day
July 8, 2020 CG Thelen1 Comment
It's hard to believe in our connected and always on world that there was a time when television stations would end their broadcast day. It was kind of a cool thing when I was in grade school in the 1960s to be up late watching television and to see the station go off the air when the program ended. I did not get to stay up late that often, but when the station stopped broadcasting content I went to bed.
At that time there were no other options — no streaming service, no VCR tapes, no DVDs, no 24 hour news station, nothing. There was no Internet, no social media or You Tube. In fact, like many homes<|fim_middle|> flying with alternating images of American landmarks — as if it was flying across America protecting us. Other stations were more abrupt and would just tell you, "Hey! We're done for the day. Go to bed." Okay, so they said it a bit nicer than that. If you search the Internet for "end of television broadcast day," you'll find a sampling of videos with these sign offs.
Sometimes I get a bit nostalgic for that simpler time when broadcast media would sign off for the day; a time when the phone stayed home and didn't go with you everywhere. It seemed people accepted the fact that it was okay to be away from media for awhile; okay to be away from your phone. Sometimes I think we should have an "end of broadcast day" on social media where we sign off for the night and give everyone a break. Then again, maybe nostalgia is a sign of old age.
I'd love to hear your memories of "end of broadcast day" station sign-offs. You can share them by leaving a comment. Thanks for reading. I now conclude my blogging day. See you next week. | at the time, we only had one screen in the house — a black and white television in a cabinet that was heavy and not portable. The station would end their broadcast day then static would abruptly appear on the screen.
Some stations were more creative in how they signed off. They would tell you they were about to "end our broadcast day," then play a video recording of the American flag flapping in the breeze or some other patriotic sequence of images. The one I recall is of a fighter jet | 100 |
LaPorte CPAs & Business Advisors Named a 2011 Top 200 Accounting Firm by INSIDE Public Accounting
admin September 26, 2011 Newsworthy
LaPorte CPAs & Business Advisors has been named one of the Top 200 Accounting Firms in the country by INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA), an independent national industry newsletter, in its second annual combined ranking of firms.
Selection of the Top 200 Accounting Firms is based on firm revenue, including companies with minimum annual revenues of slightly under $13 million. LaPorte ranks as the 134th largest firm in the country.
"We are pleased to be selected as one of IPA's Top 200 Accounting Firms for 2011," states William 'Ted' Mason, president and CEO of LaPorte. "Our firm will continue its future growth based on delivering high quality technical skills, along with value-added consulting services in specific industry
areas," he adds.
In December, LaPorte merged with Houston accounting firm Hidalgo Banfill Zlotnik & Kermali PC, expanding the firm's service area beyond Louisiana where the firm has three offices. This merger created one of the largest independent accounting firms in the region.
For more than 20 years, IPA has published a list of the Top 100 Accounting Firms based on revenue and then separate lists for mid-size firms. Last year, INSIDE Public Accounting combined all the surveys into one ranking – the Top 200 Accounting Firms.
IPA published the Top 100 Accounting Firms in its August issue, followed by publication of the second part of the survey, Beyond the IPA 100 – the next 100 largest firms – in the current September issue.
LaPorte was selected as a Top 200 firm<|fim_middle|> Logo | by IPA in 2010 and has been previously named as one of IPA's All-Star Firms for 2008 and 2009. The firm has also been recognized as one of Accounting Today's 'Best Place to Work for' in 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2009, Practical Accountant named LaPorte one of the 2009 top 15 firms in the Southwest (ranked 10th).
Established in 1946, LaPorte is one of the leading accounting, tax and business consulting firms in Louisiana with more than 160 employees in four offices.
The firm is an independently owned member of The McGladrey Alliance. In addition to traditional accounting and tax services, the firm's specialty services and industry expertise include among others: financial institutions, law firm practices, healthcare, government, nonprofits, construction, oil & gas, entertainment, estate and business succession planning, real estate, property tax consulting, risk advisory services, and litigation services.
The McGladrey Alliance is a premier affiliation of independent accounting and consulting firms in the U.S., with more than 90 members in 42 states and Puerto Rico.
LaPorte has three Louisiana offices: New Orleans, 111 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 600, in Metairie; Baton Rouge, Town Hall West, 10000 Perkins Rowe, Suite 200; and Covington, 100 Village Walk, Suite 300. The Houston office is located at 1770 St. James Place, Suite 250. For more information, visit the LaPorte website at www.Laporte.com
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About Interact
The Color Run 5K
The Color Run for Clean Water is APRIL 9! Join us for a good time while supporting a worthy cause.
Service above self – this is the Rotary International motto. Rotary International is a worldwide organization of over 1.2 million leaders who come together to create positive, lasting change in their local communities and around the globe.
The Eradication of Polio
The Global Eradication Initiative is the stated mission of Rotary International to see the eradication of polio worldwide. Rotary, along with their parters, has reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent worldwide since the first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979. Rotarians have helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children against polio in 122 countries. They are close to eradicating polio and work tirelessly to protect children against polio forever.
The Athens Rotary Club has been a cornerstone for community partnership and civic service in Athens since its founding in 1937. Over 120 members strong today, Athens Rotary works to improve the lives of the people of Athens and Limestone County year after year.
The Athens City Schools Interact Club
In an effort to empower young people in our community to take action, become leaders and develop a global perspective<|fim_middle|>. The sky is the limit for these students and the projects they will develop. We look forward with great anticipation to see the good works of our new Interactors. Thank you for your service. | , our local Athens Rotary Club initiated the sponsorship of the Interact Club. Interact clubs are an extension of Rotary specifically designed for young people ages 12-18. There are 20,372 Interact clubs in 159 countries around the world. The Athens Interact club is brings together high school students to develop strong leadership skills while discovering the power of the Rotary motto, Service above Self.
After much work, many meetings and lots of planning on the part of sponsors Barry Hickman, Britley Brown and Shannon Carter, Interact was officially introduced. The club was presented as an option to the student body in the spring of 2018.
Interact Club Officers
The club benefits from the leadership of the Athens City Schools Interact Advisor, teacher Jacob Ricketts. The club members will be mentored and guided by the Interact Board of Directors. These are Rotarians who will guide Interactors as they carry out their projects.
The Four-Way Test
Directly from Rotary International comes The Four-Way Test. It speaks to the guiding principles of Rotary and, by extension, Interact. These principles have been developed over the years to provide a strong, common purpose and direction for members. They serve as a foundation for Rotary and Interact relationships with one another and the action the members pledged take in the world. While it is the unofficial oath of Rotarians, The Four-Way Test are truly words to live by for anyone who wishes to do good and be good in the world.
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships. The test has been translated into more than 100 languages, and Rotarians and Interactors recite it at club meetings:
Of the things we think, say or do:
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
What to look for from these Interactors
The Interact Club will organize at least two projects annually – one that helps Athens City Schools or the community and one that promotes international understanding | 452 |
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Here's when 'The Bob's Burgers Movie' will be available to stream in the UK and US
The feature-length animation has been well-received by fans and critics
By Chris Edwards
'The Bob's Burgers Movie' (Picture: Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo)
The Bob's Burgers Movie has received official release dates for streaming services in the UK and US.
The musical comedy, which is based on the hit animated series, arrived in cinemas last month and is now set to land on streaming services this July.
READ MORE: 'The Bob's Burgers Movie' review: a meaty treat for fans and newcomers alike
Following the adventures of the Belcher family, the feature-length animation will arrive on Disney+ in the UK on July 13. Those in the US will get to watch the film at home a day earlier, with it set to be released on HBO Max and Hulu on July 12.
Speaking of the TV show's availability on Hulu, director Loren Bouchard said: "We're so happy that the fans have been able to find us and watch us and binge us as much as they want."
Making reference to the days of physical media, he then joked: "Our fantasy is that<|fim_middle|> currently holds an 87% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes.
In NME's review, we wrote: "The Bob's Burgers Movie is substantial enough to justify its 102-minute runtime and manages to supersize the show's appealing recipe without diluting its flavour. It's a meaty treat that fans and newcomers alike can devour with relish."
Bob's burger | we have to send over a new copy of the Bob's movie to Hulu because their copy gets all worn out from people watching it so much."
'The Bob's Burgers Movie' (Picture: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection)
The story for the new movie kicks off "when a ruptured water main creates an enormous sinkhole right in front of Bob's Burgers, blocking the entrance indefinitely and ruining the Belchers' plans for a successful summer," as per the official synopsis.
"While Bob and Linda struggle to keep the business afloat, the kids try to solve a mystery that could save their family's restaurant. As the dangers mount, these underdogs help each other find hope and fight to get back behind the counter, where they belong."
The film sees the original cast members return to voice their respective characters, including H Jon Benjamin as Bob, John Roberts as Linda, Dan Mintz as Tina, Eugene Mirman as Gebe and Kristen Schaal as Louise.
The Bob's Burgers Movie has been well-received by fans and | 213 |
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The buyer real estate agent is actually usually a negative negotiator, making due dates, demands, and deadlines and discovering defects, discrepancies, and deficiencies and demonstrating a downer appearance, consistently showing up down and dismayed regarding the residence of the homeowner, and also displaying downright dissatisfaction, disillusionment, defeat, and discouragement. Certainly, this is an oversimplified description but I have seen it happen often times. I possess passion about the product I am marketing: the home is one-of-a-kind, it is actually very special. I present myself as, as well as genuinely feel that, I negotiate coming from power, never ever coming from weakness. The purchaser broker negotiates coming from severe weakness, never ever from an advantage. I am poised and polished, as well as will always seem to possess all the time in the world on my side.
I start with four Aces while the buyer real estate agent is only holding a pair of 2s. I recognize this, and the buyer real estate broker very soon apprehends this also. Obviously, I aid the buyer real estate broker to understand who possesses the power.
As completely a seller's agent, my skill is solely dedicated to | 498 |
Peter Sprague is the ultimate professional: When leading his various combos, the Encinit<|fim_middle|> to the material's style, bending his considerable talent to meet the song's strengths. It is a remarkable performance. | as-based jazz guitarist consistently deflects the spotlight to the rest of the band. While not arguing with that approach, for it's resulted in some stunningly lovely recordings and a lifetime of great live shows, getting to hear Sprague display some of his own wizardry is a real treat. A new solo guitar recording on his own SBE ("Strivin' to Break Even") Records reminds anew just how obscenely talented he is.
Whether playing some of his own sun-soaked beach jazz or a Beatles cover, whether tackling Pat Metheny's modern jazz or Gershwin's all-American approach, or whether paying homage to legends John Coltrane, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Frederic Chopin (!), Sprague's playing shows that his technical proficiency is leavened and warmed by his well-rounded background on acoustic guitar. From rock to Romantic to, of course, jazz, Sprague plays | 182 |
Many people create goals<|fim_middle|> your goals! | . Goals are great and goals are meant to be met, exceeded and set again. When I moved from a small town outside of Chicago to Phoenix, my only goal was to get a job, not talk baby talk all day long, make enough money to put my youngest child into a really good pre-school and pay for the car I needed.
During a day of frustration and stress, I sat on my living room floor with a yellow legal tablet and a #2 pencil and figured out that I am street-smart, tenacious, gutsy, intelligent, hard-working and ask a lot of questions with the expectation of getting great answers. That's the day my career took off.
In the beginning of my training I'd go home at night in tears because, "I didn't get it." I didn't understand accounting terms, construction schedules or pretty much anything. I thought to myself, "What am I gonna do?" Then I remembered what gave me the courage to apply in the first place. "I AM street-smart, tenacious, gutsy, intelligent, and hard working. I asked a lot of questions and expect great answers." Off to work I'd go, determined but still shaking all the way.
My next goal was to get results immediately. I wanted to learn, to grow and to not feel that same intense fear again. I knew that once I learned something that I could lock it in and then build on it. Finally, I got it!
That's when the Layered Learning style I use with my athletes was born. This simple system helps them go from where they are to where they want to go. It provides a strong foundation where you: Learn >Apply>See the Results >Tweak if Necessary >Then Learn More. It is so simple, yet extremely effective when followed. Having a system provides a concrete way to go beyond what's reasonable or possible. I've done it and so have my athletes!
Learn more from Deborah Dubree on how to help you gain mental toughnessto attain and exceed | 411 |
Ja'Quan Newton's 30-foot buzzer-beater helps Miami stun No. 9 North Carolina 91-88
By Aaron Beard
| Associated Press |
| CHAPEL HILL, N.C.
Miami's Ja'Quan Newton (0) shoots the game-winning shot as time expires while North Carolina's Joel Berry II (2) defends during the second half in Chapel Hill, N.C., Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018. (Gerry Broome / AP)
Ja'Quan Newton hit a running 30-footer at the horn to help Miami upset No. 9 North Carolina 91-88 in a wild finish Tuesday night.
Newton's heave off his left foot came immediately after UNC's Joel Berry II hit a tough 3 of his own to tie the game with 4.1 seconds left. Miami pushed the ball upcourt for Newton's shot over Berry, then the Hurricanes immediately mobbed Newton near midcourt.
Officials quickly determined the shot came<|fim_middle|>8 points to lead Miami, which shot 55 percent.
Berry matched his career high with 31 points for the Tar Heels (22-8, 11-6), who lost their final home game to snap a six-game winning streak. | in time.
It capped a game that saw Miami (21-8, 10-7 Atlantic Coast Conference) squander a 16-point second-half lead, only to come up with a huge win with the ACC Tournament just a week away.
Chris Lykes scored 1 | 59 |
April 1, 2015, Brevard County, Florida: Back in 1999, for the first time, a building earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) ENERGY STAR certification by outperforming at least 75 percent of its peers. Now, 15 years later, Brevard Public Schools is helping to mark the anniversary of this milestone event by earning ENERGY STAR certification for 28 of its properties.
Brevard<|fim_middle|> less energy than typical buildings and are responsible for 35 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
Brevard Public Schools improved its energy performance to ENERGY STAR levels by managing energy strategically across the entire organization and by making cost-effective improvements to its buildings.
Since 1999, more than 24,000 commercial buildings and industrial plants have earned EPA's ENERGY STAR for superior energy performance. As of the end of 2013, they've prevented more than 40 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions and saved more than $3 billion on utility bills.
Products, homes and buildings that earn the ENERGY STAR label prevent greenhouse gas emissions by meeting strict energy efficiency requirements set by the U.S. EPA. In 2013 alone, Americans, with the help of ENERGY STAR, saved an estimated $30 billion on their utility bills and prevented greenhouse gas emissions equal to the annual electricity use of more than 38 million homes. From the first ENERGY STAR qualified computer in 1992, the label can now be found on products in more than 70 different categories, 1.5 million new homes, and 24,000 commercial buildings and industrial plants. | Public Schools became involved with EPA's ENERGY STAR program back in 2006 and since then, has earned the ENERGY STAR for one third of its properties. Organizations and businesses across the country have been participating in an EPA campaign called "Certification Nation," which features stories, tips, and advice, as well as a blitz of certification activity across the country.
Commercial buildings that earn EPA's ENERGY STAR are verified to perform in the top 25 percent of similar facilities nationwide for energy efficiency. They use an average of 35 percent | 109 |
Iron Stock's smithy- it has a longer name but 'smithy' conveys what it is just as well- sits there, as it usually does, beside the boardwalk, there at the north end of the dock district. There's no sound of bangin' on metal coming from within, but the windows are lit and the steady huff, huff, huff of the bellows can be heard faintly from within.
Rising-Chaos trots up to the door to the smithy. She opens the door and walks up the counter. She has none of her excited looks from previous visits. "Winter? You here?" she calls. She looks impatiently around the smithy.
There's a bell on the door that rings as Rising enters, and not a moment later, Winter's head<|fim_middle|> up some watermelons with it? Wait, no, you're going. Yeah, I guess you got business. Ha! You got all kinds of business now! With a sword like that you can get up to all kinds of business in all kinds of dungeons! Or go fight monsters in the wild! Or go overthrow a corrupt king! I really better let you get going, you've got a lot to do, now!" The big mare prances about from hoof to hoof once more.
Rising-Chaos smiles and nods. "I'll be fine without a receipt, it's perfect Winter, thank you." She stop, almost embarrassed by Winter's show of excitement. "I'm afraid I won't be doing so cool. I'll probably take it home and rarely use it." She nods, thankful Winter won't stop her from going, she's good like that. "Though I can say that I'll be enchanting it with something very cool." She doesn't want to completely crush the mare's fantasy.
Winter-Solstice's grin brightens. "Cool! Make sure you show me when it's done, I can't wait to see!" She continues to prance in place, but makes no move to follow Rising out the door. "Have a good night!" | pops out of one of the doors leading off of the main shop floor, looking towards the entrance. The big mare brightens up immediately and bustles out, romping forward to meet Rising at the counter. "Rising! I knew you'd be here soon. Hello! Hello!" She seems clueless to Rising's lack of enthusiasm, at least for the moment, as she prances from hoof to hoof with a broad grin crossing her face. "Did you come to get your sword? Didja didja didja?"
Rising-Chaos can't help but smile at Winter's enthusiasm, it's infectious. "I have come for my sword Winter, thanks." She is wearing a hooded cloak which conceals her face partially, and shifts it back. She raises and eyebrow looking Winter up and down. "How did it turn out?"
Winter-Solstice's grin spreads even further. She's a big mare, with a big mouth, and she can grin pretty big, teeth all aglitter. "Soooo awesome! C'mere, c'mere!" She gestures around the counter and towards the forge, as she turns away and heads in that direction, romping through the tables and hanging pulleys. There doesn't seem to be much work going on right now, and no sign of Iron Stock, but the shutter on the forge is cranked open a few feet, letting orange light spill out across the open area before it. Winter hastens to a workbench nearby and turns to grin back at Rising, unable to help but glance more than once at a length of velvety cloth upon the bench, inside which is clearly folded an Object.
Rising-Chaos follows Winter through the shop. She gives Winter the satisfaction of showing her the obvious sword. "I have been looking forward to it very much Winter." She has been waiting for this moment for a long time. "I'm sure your work is increidble quality."
"It was me and Iron Stock both, actually," says Winter, cheerfully, as she turns towards the bundle and reaches out towards it. "She's better with finer stuff than I am. She usually does the jewelry and other ornamental stuff we do. Which isn't much, but still. She did most of the detail on the hilt and advised on the settings and stuff." Unfurling the fabric, she reveals the blade, just as described. Its shape is accurate, down to the swirls curling back from the hilt and around the grip- mahogany, laquered to a warm gleam- and the pommel, adorned with a diamond decoration of smokey hue. The blade has a faintly warm hue to its steel, which sets it in pleasant contrast with the oval-shaped sapphire set within its middle. The sapphire's color is soft, a cloudy sort of sky blue, but the warm tones of the rest of the blade help emphasize the cooler tones of the gem.
Winter runs a hoof adoringly along the length of the blade, grinning down at it. "It was a lot of fun to make. Should hold up pretty well. Iron Stock's good with metal- she knows a few tricks to reinforce even delicate decoratins like that little fiddly ribbon around the hilt you have there." Winter draws to the side, smiling back at Rising, but then narrows her eyes and braces a hoof over the hilt of the weapon. "It's yours… but you can't have it yet. Because it isn't completely finished yet. It still needs that last piece!"
Rising-Chaos widens her eyes at the sight of the blade. It's perfect, everything she had imagined. She moves towards it, entranced. "It's perfect Winter, thank you." She pulls her notebook out and flips to a page that has a list of names. "Ah, yes. It needs a name, doesn't it?"
Winter-Solstice nods briskly. "Yep." Her grin of excitement relaxes into a smile as she looks back to the sword. "There's a long tradition of metalwork in my hometown. It's said that a skilled craftspony can give life to a weapon made with care, but it takes a name to make that weapon whole and to let it awaken into its real identity. It has to be the final step, though! Name it before it is complete and the weapon will awaken unfinished and be brittle in body. Never name it, and it will be brittle in spirit." The big mare settles back on her haunches as she lifts the sword carefully in her hooves, balanced atop them. "So if it looks done to you, you can name it and make it whole." She flashes a grin back over her shoulder at Rising. "It's sort of an old story. It probably doesn't really make a difference. I'm not good with magic and I don't know how a sword could ever really have a spirit. It feels good to sort of honor those old ways, though, even if I'm like, I was never really more than an apprentice." Arching her eyebrows, she peers down at the book. "So whatcha got?"
Rising-Chaos nods, picking the sword up wiht her magic. Her eyes wander along the length of the blade, drinking it in. The notebook is ignored. "It makes sense to do that, everything has it's own spirit." She moves it away and looks at the whole thing. "It's Limit Edge."
Winter-Solstice is still admiring the blade and lost in a rush of memories of stories of the great works of past smiths, such that the levitation of the blade catches her off guard. The earth pony scrambles to catch the floating blade, clamping her hooves around the hilt and pulling it back. "Not yet! Hold on! I gotta do this right! I've never done it before!" She clutches the sword until she's sure it's not going to float away, then once more holds it aloft on her upraised hooves, towards Rising. Winter flashes the unicorn a brief squint before grinning broadly. "Then I name you, blade, Limit Edge." She pauses, breath held. If the sword awakens, it does so very quietly and does not move. Winter reaches out. "-Now- you may take it. It's yours!"
Rising-Chaos solemnly takes the blade back from Winter. "Perfect," she says under her breath. She twirls the blade around, admiring it. "It's perfect Winter." She steps back, grinning like mad. she pulls out a sheath and sheathes the blade. "It feels so much more, complete now wiht the name. You were right." Chaos bows hsallowly. "I should trust your judgement about these things."
Winter-Solstice bobs her head, watching. "Yes you should! I'm super good at cool stuff like sword naming ceremonies. I gotta admit, though, I was real tempted to name it myself. It was sitting there all pretty and finished, and I was sharpening the blade and kept thinking of lots of rad names. But it's yours, so I held off." She puffs her chest out. "I hope it does you some good! In fact, I know it will! You're my GOOD FRIEND, so I kept that in mind when I was making it. It's another bit of Bardington sword lore that says a blade made in good faith by one friend for another, and wielded with justice in mind towards that union, will always strike true! So as long as you use this for just causes and never to betray the trust your friends have put in you, the steel will be forever strong! And I know you're a good pony who would never ever do anything to hurt any of us so I'm not worried at all." Winter reaches out to pat Rising on the shoulder with a big pie plate hoof, and there is every indication she is 100% totally sincere with everything she is saying.
Rising-Chaos winces at Winter saying that she's a GOOD FRIEND. Then she winces again at the mention of using it for justice. Then winces again at the confidence winter is putting in her. She looks at the mare, and finds she just can't say a word. Instead, she smiles. "Thanks Winter, I appreciate it. I'll use it well," she replies quietly. she feels the sudden urge to be not-here. "I should probably be going, so much work to do today, right?" Chaos chuckles nervously, edging away.
Winter-Solstice beams a smile at Rising. "Yup! I can draw up a receipt if you want, but to be honest I think they're pretty boring. It all checks out, anyway. Well, I think it ran one stalleon over budget but it's cool. Or was it one stalleon under? Not sure." She stares up and past Rising towards the ceiling. "Not sure. Hey, wanna go chop | 1,868 |
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\section{Introduction}
Non-commutative geometry has been one of the contemporary issues in recent
research fields \cite{michael,calmet,pulak1,pulak2} in theoretical physics. The simplest non-commutativity one assumes is of the form
\begin{eqnarray}
[x_\mu,x_\nu]= i\theta_{\mu\nu}\,,
\label{non1}
\end{eqnarray}
where the real constant $\theta_{\mu\nu}$ is the strength of non-commutativity.
It is believed that the
effect of spacetime non-commutativity would be important in Plank length scale, i.e.,
$\theta_{\mu\nu}\sim l_P^2$, which is far from present day experiments. However one
may look into the low energy sector to find some form of non-commutativity.
The realization of non-commutative spatial geometry in quantum Hall effect \cite{my,big,BC,sus,nair,hor1} is one of them. The key ingredient in quantum Hall effect is the presence of landau levels. One can show
that the $2$-dimensional spatial geometry in the Lowest landau level becomes noncommutative.
The strength of non-commutativity is in general inversely proportional to the magnetic field
B applied in the system, implying
\begin{eqnarray}
[x,y]= i\frac{1}{B}\,.
\label{non2}
\end{eqnarray}
One can constrain the system in lowest landau level by taking the zero mass limit \cite{dunne1,dunne2}, $m\to 0$,
of the evolving particle or by making the magnetic field very large \cite{vei,my1}, $B\to \infty$.
In these limit the coordinates of a plane becomes conjugate to each other.
In this view interaction and/or boundary conditions does not seem to have any effect
on the non-commutative structure. However there is another way to achieve non-commutativity
in the Landau system. Instead of taking limit on the mass or the applied magnetic field one can
project the coordinates on the lowest or any specific Landau level. Then the projected coordinates $x_P, y_P$ becomes conjugate to each other \cite{mac} and in some units satisfy
\begin{eqnarray}
[x_P,y_P]= i\frac{1}{B}\,,
\label{non3}
\end{eqnarray}
This point of view is important for the study of fractional quantum Hall effect.
Because, if we take into account the interaction between the electrons then the non-commutative
structure will in general change. Suppose the interaction between the electrons are of the form
$V_I= \lambda^2\mathcal{F}(x)$ and suppose the Hamiltonian of the Landau problem remains
essentially self-adjoint with the introduction of the interaction. Then the commutator
of the projected coordinates will get modified as
\begin{eqnarray}
[x_P,y_P]= i\Theta(B,\lambda)\,,
\label{non4}
\end{eqnarray}
where the real number $\Theta(B,\lambda)$ is now the strength of non-commutativity which depends on the coupling constant $\lambda$ of the interaction and the magnetic field $B$ in a complicated way. The exact form of the non-commutativity have to be determined by explicitly solving the corresponding Schr\"odinger equation. Of course in the limit of vanishing interaction one may obtain
\begin{eqnarray}
\lim_{\lambda\to 0}\Theta(B,\lambda)= \frac{1}{B}\,,
\end{eqnarray}
which gives the familiar result (\ref{non3}). The effect of interaction on the non-commutativity may have importance in understanding the fractional quantum Hall effect. This can be understood as described in \cite{BC} by calculating the minimal area acquired by a particle in the non-commutative plane.
Note that the non-commutativity (\ref{non3}) implies that the minimal area in the projected space to be
\begin{eqnarray}
\Delta A\equiv\Delta x_P \Delta y_P\simeq \frac{1}{B}\,<|fim_middle|> \to 0} D_\alpha=\lim_{r \to 0}(\psi_W^+ + e^{i\alpha}\psi_W^-)
\end{eqnarray}
\begin{eqnarray}
\nonumber \lim_{r\to 0}\psi_W^{+} &=& Mr^{(\frac{1}{2}+ \sigma)}+Nr^{(\frac{1}{2}-\sigma)}\\
\lim_{r\to 0}\psi_W^{-} &=&M^*r^{(\frac{1}{2}+\sigma)}+N^*r^{(\frac{1}{2}-\sigma)}
\label{relation}
\end{eqnarray}
where
\begin{eqnarray}
\nonumber M&=&\frac{\pi}{\sin\pi(1+\sigma)}\frac{1}{\Gamma(\xi^+-\sigma)\Gamma(1+\sigma)}\\ N&=&\frac{\pi}{\sin\pi(1+\sigma)}\frac{1}{\Gamma(\xi^+)\Gamma(1-\sigma)}
\end{eqnarray}
and $M^*$ and $N^*$ are complex conjugates. Now
\begin{widetext}
\begin{eqnarray}
\lim_{r \to 0} D_\alpha \simeq ( M +e^{i\alpha} M^*)r^{(\frac{1}{2}
+ \sigma)}
+ (N +e^{i\alpha} N^*) r^{(\frac{1}{2}-\sigma)}\,,
\label{da}
\end{eqnarray}
\end{widetext}
Equating the coefficient of (\ref{psiw1}) with (\ref{da}) we get
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{A}{B}=\frac{M +e^{i\alpha}M^*}{N +e^{i\alpha}N^*}\in \mathbb{R}
\end{eqnarray}
This is the energy eigenvalue equation, which is now function of self-adjoint parameter $\alpha$. By setting a specific value of $\alpha$ we can get the energy spectrum of the system. For example, two extremum solutions can be analytically found. When the right hand side is zero,
\begin{eqnarray}
E=\omega_B(2n+1-\sqrt{l^2+\lambda^2}-l)\,, n \in \mathbb{N}^+
\end{eqnarray}
and when the right hand side is infinity
\begin{eqnarray}
E=\omega_B(2n+1+\sqrt{l^2+\lambda^2}-l)\,, n \in \mathbb{N}^+
\end{eqnarray}
Besides the spectrum, the existence of one parameter family of self adjoint extensions has far reaching implications. One possible implication which is important in the present context is the effect on the non-commutative spatial geometry and fractional quantum Hall effect.
The non-commutativity of the projected coordinates $x_P, y_P$ described in (\ref{non4}) will now becomes a family of non-commutative geometries defined by
\begin{eqnarray}
[x_P,y_P]_\alpha= i\Theta(B,\lambda;\alpha)\,,
\label{nonalpha}
\end{eqnarray}
which is our main result in this paper.
It is possible to explicitly evaluate the non-commutativity parameter $\Theta(B,\lambda;\alpha)$ for our case. To get the projected coordinates one need to construct projection operator. In a specific energy sector $n_0$
the projection operator is
\begin{eqnarray}
\mathcal{O}_P=\sum_{l=0}^{\infty}|n_{0},l\rangle\langle n_{0},l|
\end{eqnarray}
Then the two projected coordinates on a plane is given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\nonumber x_P &=&\mathcal{O}_Px{\mathcal{O}_P} =\sum_{l,l'=0}^{\infty}\langle n_{0},l'|x|n_{0},l\rangle |n_{0},l'\rangle\langle n_{0},l| \\
y_P &=&\mathcal{O}_Py{\mathcal{O}_P} =\sum_{l,l'=0}^{\infty}\langle n_{0},l'|y|n_{0},l\rangle |n_{0},l'\rangle\langle n_{0},l|
\end{eqnarray}
with
\begin{eqnarray}
\nonumber \langle n_{0},l'|x|n_{0},l\rangle &=&\Omega_{l',l}(\delta_{l',l+1}+\delta_{l',l-1}),\\
\langle n_{0},l'|y|n_{0},l\rangle &=& -i\Omega_{l',l}(\delta_{l',l+1}-\delta_{l',l-1})
\end{eqnarray}
\begin{eqnarray}
\Omega_{l',l}=C_{l'}C_{l}\pi \int dr r {\psi_W}^{*}_{n_{0},l'}{\psi_W}_{n_{0},l}
\end{eqnarray}
The commutator of the relative coordinates then yields
\begin{widetext}
\begin{eqnarray}
[x_P,y_P]_\alpha=\Theta(B,\lambda;\alpha)= 2\sum_{l=0}^{l=\infty}|\Omega_{l,l+1}|^{2}[|n_{0},l+1\rangle
\langle n_{0},l+1|-|n_{0},l\rangle\langle n_{0},l|]\,,
\end{eqnarray}
\end{widetext}
where $\Omega_{l,l+1}$ involves the eigenvalues and therefore in general depend on the self-adjoint extension parameter. The explicit form can be found as
\begin{widetext}
\begin{eqnarray}
\nonumber \Omega_{l,l+1} = C_{l+1}C_{l}\frac{\pi}{\omega_B}\times \hspace{14cm}\\
\left[\frac{\Gamma(1+\mu+\tilde{\mu}+\varrho)
\Gamma(1-\mu+\tilde{\mu}+\varrho)\Gamma(-2\tilde{\mu})}{\Gamma(\frac{1}{2}-\tilde{\kappa}-\tilde{\mu})
\Gamma(\frac{3}{2}-\kappa+\tilde{\mu}+\varrho)}
{_{3}F_{2}}(1+\mu+\tilde{\mu}+\varrho ,1-\mu+\tilde{\mu}+\varrho ,\frac{1}{2}-\tilde{\kappa}+\tilde{\mu} ;1+2\tilde{\mu},\frac{3}{2}-\kappa+\tilde{\mu}+\varrho ;1)\right. \nonumber \\
\left.+\frac{\Gamma(1+\mu-\tilde{\mu}+\varrho)\Gamma(1-\mu-\tilde{\mu}+\varrho)\Gamma(2\tilde{\mu})}
{\Gamma(\frac{1}{2}-\tilde{\kappa}+\tilde{\mu})\Gamma(\frac{3}{2}-\kappa-\tilde{\mu}+\varrho)}
{_{3}F_{2}}(1+\mu-\tilde{\mu}+\varrho ,1-\mu-\tilde{\mu}+\varrho ,\frac{1}{2}-\tilde{\kappa}-\tilde{\mu} ;1-2\tilde{\mu},\frac{3}{2}-\kappa-\tilde{\mu}+\varrho ;1)\right]
\end{eqnarray}
\end{widetext}
where $\kappa=\frac{E+\omega_B l}{2\omega}$,$\mu=\frac{\sqrt{l^{2}+\lambda^2}}{2}$,$\varrho=\frac{1}{2}$,$\tilde{\kappa}=
\frac{E+\omega_B(l+1)}{2\omega_B}$,$\tilde{\mu}=\frac{\sqrt{(l+1)^{2}+\lambda^2}}{2}$.
The explicit form of $\Theta(B,\lambda;\alpha)$ now depends on the self-adjoint extension parameter and the magnetic field for a fixed interaction strength between the electrons. This two degree of freedom can be exploited to explain fractional quantum Hall effect. We use the similar line of arguments as is done for the composite fermions \cite{jain,jain1}. We assume that the presence of interaction and therefore imposition of suitable boundary condition enforces the system paired electrons to have an integer filling fraction. The filling fraction for the paired system has a filling fraction
\begin{eqnarray}
\nu_\alpha = \frac{N}{M}= \Theta(B,\lambda,\alpha)\frac{N}{A}\,,
\label{fill3}
\end{eqnarray}
As assumed $\nu_\alpha$ is now some integer, say $\nu_\alpha =p$, which imply that the filling fraction for the quantum Hall system is
\begin{eqnarray}
\nu = \frac{N}{AB}= \frac{p}{B\Theta(B,\lambda,\alpha)}\,.
\label{fill3}
\end{eqnarray}
Now at a specific magnetic field $B$ the desired fraction could be obtained by tuning the self-adjoint extension parameter $\alpha$ and thereby making $B\Theta(B,\lambda,\alpha)$ to be the required integer or fraction.
To summarize, we discussed the problem of system of two electrons on a plane subjected to perpendicular magnetic field which is relevant for the study of quantum Hall effect. We introduced inverse square potential and studied its effect on the non-commutative structure of the projected coordinates. As a result of one parameter family of self-adjoint extensions of the Hamiltonian we obtained a one parameter family of noncommutative spatial geometry. Using the freedom of the self-adjoint extension parameter we may get the filling fraction of the fraction quantum Hall effects.
{\it Acknowledgement.---}
PRG acknowledges the hospitality of the department of theoretical sciences of Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India, where part of the work has been completed. We also thank B. Chakraborty for his comments on the manuscript.
PRG also acknowledges the hospitality of Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, during the visit. DS thanks the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research(C.S.I.R), Government of India, for financial support.
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\label{non5}
\end{eqnarray}
Then for an area $A$ number of states available to the electrons in a Landau level is
$M= \frac{A}{\Delta A}= AB$. The filling fraction for a system of $N$ number of electrons is given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\nu= \frac{N}{M}= \frac{1}{B}\frac{N}{A}\,,
\label{fill1}
\end{eqnarray}
For integral quantum Hall effect $\nu$ is some integer and can be described by noninteracting electrons.
However for fractional quantum Hall effect interactions between the electrons are important.
One should therefore consider the modified non-commutativity described by (\ref{non4}),
which then implies the filling fraction to be
\begin{eqnarray}
\nu= \frac{N}{M}= \Theta(B,\lambda)\frac{N}{A}\,,
\label{fill2}
\end{eqnarray}
Note that the above conclusion is based on the assumption that the Hamiltonian is essentially self-adjoint.
However in actual physical situation the interaction between the electrons may make the Hamiltonian
non-selfadjoint at least for the s-waves which is important for fractional quantum Hall effect.
We therefore in this article assumes that the addition of interaction makes the the Hamiltonian
\begin{eqnarray}
H_L= (\bold{p} +e\bold{A})^2/2m_e \,,
\label{ha1}
\end{eqnarray}
of the Landau problem non-selfadjoint but it has one parameter family of self-adjoint extensions.
Here $\bold{A}$ is the magnetic vector potential corresponding to the constant
magnetic field $B$ perpendicular to the plane and $m_e$ is the reduced mass of two electron system. The interaction potential between the electrons we consider
is of the form
\begin{eqnarray}
V_I= \frac{\lambda^2}{r^2}\,,
\label{pot1}
\end{eqnarray}
This interaction has a similarity with the gauge potential $A_i= -\frac{\lambda^2}{r^2}\epsilon_{ij}x^j$,
which corresponds to a singular flux tube situated at the origin of the coordinates.
This kind of singular potential is important to explain quantum Hall effects.
The eigenvalue equation
$H\psi=E\psi$ will govern the shifts of the Landau levels due to the interact potential $V_I$, where
\begin{eqnarray}
H= H_L + V_I\,.
\label{ham1}
\end{eqnarray}
The introduction of the potential $V_I$ changes
the short distance behavior of the wave-functions $\psi$,
which is responsible for making the Hamiltonian non-self-adjoint. This can be understood from Weyl's limit point-limit circle (LPLC) theory.
Before we actually study the Landau problem with interaction, we here give a brief discussion of the LPLC method. Elaborate discussion on it can be found in the book of Reed and Simon \cite{reed}. For an ordinary second order linear differential equation of the form
\begin{eqnarray}
H_W\psi_W\equiv \left(-\frac{d^2}{dx^2} + V_W\right)\psi_W=
E_W\psi_W\,,\label{limit1}
\end{eqnarray}
defined in $C^\infty_0(0,\infty)$, the potential $V_W$ has the following characteristics. It is said to be in the limit circle case at
zero or at infinity respectively, if for all $E_W$ all solutions of
(\ref{limit1}) are square-integrable at zero or at infinity
respectively. If $V_W$ is not in the limit circle
case at any of the two boundaries then it is in limit point case at
that boundary. The Hamiltonian $H_W$ is essentially self-adjoint
on $C^\infty_0(0,\infty)$ if and only if $V_W$ is in the limit
point case at both ends, zero and infinity.
It the potential $V_W$ is in the
limit circle case at both ends then the
deficiency indices of the Hamiltonian $H_W$ are both same,
$n_+=n_-=2$. Note that the deficiency indices $n_\pm$ are the number of
solutions $\psi^\pm_W$ of the deficiency equations
\begin{eqnarray}
\left(-\frac{d^2}{dx^2} + V_W\right)\psi^\pm_W=
\pm \beta\psi^\pm_W\,,
\end{eqnarray}
where $\beta$ is any complex numbers, but for calculation purpose we will take $\beta=i$. The
Hamiltonian, for which $n_+=n_-=2$, is not self-adjoint but admits $4$-parameter family of
self-adjoint extensions. Another situation is when $V_W$ is in the
limit point case at one boundary point but limit circle case at
another boundary point, then the deficiency space solutions are both
same. But this time they are all one, i.e., $n_+=n_-=1$. This time
however one can have a one parameter family of self-adjoint
extensions. Finally when $V_W$ is in limit point case at both ends, then the
deficiency space solutions are all zero, i.e., $n_+=n_-=0$ and the Hamiltonian is essentially self-adjoint.
Let us now return to our problem given by the Hamiltonian $H$. In order to apply the above method we identify the explicit form of the potential $V_W$ to be
\begin{eqnarray}
V_W= \frac{\sigma^2 -\frac{1}{4}}{r^{2}}+\frac{1}{4}\omega_B^{2}r^{2}\,,
\end{eqnarray}
in radial coordinates, where $\sigma^2= l^2+\lambda^2$ and $\omega_B=B/2$. The corresponding radial wave-function $\psi_W$ is part of the full
wave-function $\psi=\frac{1}{\sqrt{r}}\psi_W\exp(il\phi)$.
Note that the short distance behavior is dominated by the inverse square potential while the long distance behavior is dominated by the harmonic potential. The solutions at short distance is of the form
\begin{eqnarray}
\lim_{r\to 0}\psi_W \simeq r^{(1/2\pm \sigma)}\,.
\end{eqnarray}
Both the above solutions are square integrable at $r \to 0$ if $\sigma$ lies in the interval $\sigma \in (-1,+1)$, which then makes the potential $V_W$ in limit circle case at zero. Outside the interval the potential is in limit point case. The long distance $r\to \infty$ behavior is however unperturbed by the interacting potential $V_I$. One of the solutions is
square-integrable and behaves as
\begin{eqnarray}
\lim_{r\to \infty}\psi_W \simeq e^{-\frac{1}{4}\omega_B r^2}\,.
\end{eqnarray}
The other solution is not square-integrable, which is therefore not acceptable. The potential $V_W$ is therefore in the limit point case at $r\to \infty$. Outside the critical interval $\sigma \in (-1,+1)$ the potential is in the limit point case at both ends and therefore the the Hamiltonian is essentially self-adjoint. However in the critical interval, since one end is in limit circle case and other end is in limit point case, $H$ is not self-adjoint but has a one parameter family of self-adjoint extensions. Note that the deficiency space solutions in this case are
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi_W^\pm= r^{(\frac{1}{2}+ \sigma)}e^{-\frac{\omega_B}{4}r^2}U(\xi^\pm,1+ \sigma,\frac{\omega_B}{2}r^2)\,,
\end{eqnarray}
where $\xi^\pm =\mp \frac{i}{2\omega_B}+\frac{\sigma+1}{2}$ and $U$ is confluent hypergeometric function \cite{abr}. Existence of one square integrable solution of both kind gives the same conclusion that Hamiltonian has a one parameter family of self adjoint extensions when the coupling $\sigma$ is in the critical interval. The method of finding deficiency space solutions to construct self-adjoint extension is known as von Neumann method \cite{reed}. Some of the problems specifically inverse square problem, which is relevant in this case, have been performed in \cite{giri,giri1}.
Given the domain $D_W$ of the symmetric operator $H_W$ the self adjoint extensions,
characterized by $ e^{i\alpha}, \alpha \in [0,2\pi]$, is represented by the domain
\begin{eqnarray}
D_\alpha \equiv D_W +\psi_W^+ + e^{i\alpha}
\psi_W^-\,. \label{d6}
\end{eqnarray}
The radial solution $\psi_W$ explicitly can be written as
\begin{eqnarray}
\psi_W=C_l r^{(\frac{1}{2}+ \sigma)}e^{-\frac{\omega_B}{4}r^2}U(\xi,1+ \sigma,\frac{\omega_B}{2}r^2)\,,
\end{eqnarray}
where
\begin{eqnarray}
C_l=\sqrt{\sqrt{2\omega_B}\sin(\frac{E+\omega_Bl}{2\omega_B})
\frac{\Gamma(\xi)\Gamma(1-\xi)}{\Psi(\xi)-\Psi(1-\xi)}}\,,
\end{eqnarray}
is the normalization constant explicitly depends on the eigenvalue $E$ and $\xi =-\frac{E+\omega_Bl}{2\omega_B}+\frac{\sigma+1}{2} $. In order to find out the explicit form of the eigenvalue we need to match the behavior of the solution $\psi_W$ at $r\to 0$
\begin{eqnarray}
\lim_{r \to 0}\psi_W =A r^{(\frac{1}{2}+\sigma)}+B r^{(\frac{1}{2}-\sigma)}\,,
\label{psiw1}
\end{eqnarray}
where
\begin{eqnarray}
\nonumber A&=&\frac{\pi}{\sin\pi(1+\sigma)}\frac{1}{\Gamma(\xi-\sigma)\Gamma(1+\sigma)}\\
\nonumber B&=&\frac{\pi}{\sin\pi(1+\sigma)}\frac{1}{\Gamma(\xi)\Gamma(1-\sigma)}
\end{eqnarray}
with $D_\alpha$.
The behavior of any function, belonging to the domain $D_\alpha$, near singularity $r\rightarrow 0$ can be found from the behavior of $\psi_W^+ + e^{i\alpha}\phi_W^-$ at short distance, because near singularity the function belonging to the domain $D_W$ goes to zero. So,we can write
\begin{eqnarray}
\lim_{r | 2,542 |
The evolutionary progress of money
Progress in finance has facilitated the exchange of value to an automated process, but behind the scenes it has been a centuries' long process to get where we are today. Malta Independent on Sunday journalist Jeremy Micallef speaks with Grant Thornton Malta Partner Wayne Pisani about where we have come from, where we are and where we could potentially go.
The word used to describe the action of exchanging one object - whatever it may be - for another is 'barter'. Progress in finance has facilitated the exchange of value to an automated process, but behind the scenes it has been a centuries' long process to get to where we are today.
Going back to Roman times, Wayne Pisani, Grant Thornton Malta partner and President of the Malta Institute of Financial Services Practitioners explains the importance of appreciating the evolutionary progress of money in order to truly understand the moving gears in today's payment system.
'Money is implicitly a means of facilitating the barter of value. The term 'salary' is indicative of the origin of money - derived as it is from the word 'salarium', the Latin for 'salt' - which was the medium of payment to Roman soldiers,' he says.
Back then, soldiers were paid in salt and if they wanted to buy a simple cabbage, for example, they would need to find something of equal value that the seller needed in order to barter for that cabbage.
Meat would be a good example of this. Since electricity - and thus fridges - was centuries away from being discovered, it was more likely that butchers would need salt to preserve their meat. Assuming that the vegetable seller would have needed meat for a broth, soldiers would have had to go to the butcher and buy (barter) the meat with salt, and then buy (barter) the cabbage with that meat, unless the vegetable seller was willing to take the 'exchange' risk of accepting the salt based on an assumption that the butcher would have eventually agreed to barter the excess salt with its equivalent value in the meat he needed.
Wayne points out that whilst this made sense for bartering between parties and communities in reasonably immediate proximity, it became harder in a regional - and eventually globalised - economy.
Society then began to experience the evolution of commodity currency into minted units, the value of which was directly pegged to the commodity of which they were made - coins which represented their weight in whatever mineral they were made of.
After that came representative currency, reminiscent of the mediaeval banking system that would serve as a point of trust, tendering receipt for valuables such as art or gold.
'Trust shifted from a necessity-driven commodity such as salt, to a store of value commodity such as gold, to a receipt representing value issued by a single point of trust - the bank - run by affluent mediaeval families as the Medici's bank', adds Wayne.
Fast-forward a few centuries and we experienced the decoupling of money from precious valuables, typically gold, when in - 1971 - the United States Treasury resolved that it would no longer be necessary for the US dollar to be backed by gold: fiat money. Fiat money in circulation is accepted as a valuable unit of exchange on the basis of the trust placed in the governmental system issuing the respective coins and bank notes denominated in currencies in legal tender, typically backed by the economy.
We went from commodity to representative to today's fiat money, currency that a government has declared to be legal tender. Today's fiat money relies on a central point of trust.
Moving onto the present and the potential future, Wayne shows how a public blockchain could possibly<|fim_middle|> space, unless backed by a real world asset, for as long as the major economies do not embark on regulating the space, the trading value will continue to suffer high volatility driven by speculation and investor instinct.
Bitcoin's value rests on nothing but the trust investors place in it, just as the stock value of publicly-listed companies may change depending on how people perceive the company is performing.
A fast evolution
'Unfortunately, it came a little too late because what we're doing is reverse engineering,' says Pisani.
We are preconditioned by the use of money in material denominations as it has evolved throughout the ages. The instrument acting as a store of value, unit of account and medium of exchange can be backed by any asset carrying some form of value and should not be restricted to minted money. Issuing receipt notes in the form of bank notes for the valuables entrusted with the Medici's bank was the latest technology in the 14th century.
In the 21st century, we are resorting to distributed ledger technology (blockchain being a type of such technology) to issue digital instruments of payment. The concept is analogous and should follow the same model of directly issuing a digital receipt for the asset, rather than digitising the bank note which was issued as a representation of the value of the asset - as at present, we are receiving valuables, issuing paper and then converting paper to digital money.
Although side-stepping this central authority-controlled system, the bitcoin protocol lacks the very quality of money that ascribes its value. It showcases a technology solution that does not need a central point of trust because of a democratic protocol distributed on a number of ledgers amongst computers (nodes), creating a medium of exchange that is accepted by others.
'The flaw is that it is not backed by an asset, and typically, I want my gram of meat for its weight in salt' says Pisani.
Interview first published by the Malta Independent on Sunday on 9 December 2018.
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Fintech Fintech and Innovation April 2015 Read more | be a solution to do away with banks (the central points of trust). However, the concept of a cashless society is not contingent on blockchain. Money available on credit cards and debit cards is already in digital format without the use of blockchain.
'What is hindering us from moving to a cashless society is probably a cultural matter. I don't think it's a matter of trust.'
Locally speaking, merchants might not be willing to accept cashless payments because the transactional charges in order for them to accept such payments dent their profit margin, so it is likely that they would not accept a card payment for anything lower than €10 or €5 euro.
Technology and regulation are making it possible to reduce these intermediary charges or commissions. 'The consumer expects a secure, seamless automated payment experience, preferably with a small degree of human intervention to sign or input verification pin codes, where the payment is facilitated and packaged in software as a service (SaaS) format, a concept that is permeating the cashless society. Trust is placed in the system,' he says.
Wayne reasons that it is not a question of removing the point of trust, but a question of the trust point providing an easy to use, seamless and intuitive payment experience.
One world currency
'Theoretically speaking, it would make sense to have one common denominator as a currency,' says Wayne. Money has three qualities:
store of value, which means it is an asset that maintains its value without depreciating
unit of account, which means it has a nominal unit of currency used to represent the real value of any item (eg euro)
medium of exchange, which means it is an intermediary instrument used to facilitate barter.
'If we all agree that we are going to use one unit then, in theory, we do not need different currencies. A supranational body equivalent to the IMF or UN could potentially issue a globally accepted token over a blockchain. The reality is that society has evolved in so many directions that having one medium of exchange for all society is difficult; consider the difficulties faced in Europe to transition to the Euro. Hence, whilst theoretically possible, the problematic part of this would be the transitional process to a single accepted value-unit of exchange.'
Wayne insists that we should not wait for one unit of account that would facilitate exchange of value for the whole world if we want to move closer to a cashless society. The answer lies in facilitating the exchange of value in whichever medium and units it is represented.
Government steps in
'Personally, I think that the solution is quite simple: pull out all money in paper format and issue it in digital format,' says Wayne, and according to him, this process is already in motion. This is particularly the case in smaller countries or those countries that are in control of their currency, as is the case of Uruguay, where Uruguay's Central Bank issues digital notes rather than printing bank notes.
If we look back at the 1990s, and the advent of online commerce and the need to make electronic payments to buy something off the internet, we may recall the quest to figure out an online payment solution. It was not easy to use one's debit or credit card online. An electronic wallet solution was needed: PayPal possibly being the widely accepted precursor to today's electronic money issuers, payment services providers and online banks.
The money available through a debit or credit card is nothing more than dematerialised fiat money loaded onto a magnetic or chip card or stored in an electronic wallet: a digital representation of value called 'electronic money' - currency that a government has declared to be legal tender.
The aspect which is strange today, Wayne thinks, is that money starts off with being material and then we dematerialise it. 'If a central authority or bank were to resolve that more money in circulation ought to be issued, instead of printing bank notes or minting coins, it should just be a matter of issuing them in tamper-proof digital format which we would trust, exchanging value in digital money units.'
Society is used to relying on a central authority, possibly to have recourse against same. Hence, the skepticism on the use of public blockchain for financial applications to replace money may be driven by such sentiment. 'So long as it's backed by a central authority, we are trusting it,' says Wayne.
He explained that, because banks are not trusting public blockchains, then private blockchain solutions managed by a pool of trusted entities are being explored: a blockchain implementation by the banking system as a trusted medium.
Central Authority
Asked if he thinks this central authority will remain, Wayne adds that 'as things stand, it seems so, and as things are evolving, I think that we're going back to it.'
With bitcoin's value currently going down by the hour, investors may attribute this to the fact that it is not being backed by a point of trust. However, had it been backed by an asset, then its value would be automatically stabilised by the trust placed in the value of the underlying asset.
Were one to make a comparison - what is happening in the Initial Coin Offering space as well as the 'value' of bitcoin and ether is the same as the herd instinct occasionally experienced in capital markets and the stock value of companies listed on the stock exchange. The underlying asset or net asset value of the listed company, coupled with the monitoring in place by the stock exchange listing the respective financial instrument, mitigate the volatility of the trading value.
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When I come across a top that is classic but versatile, I tend to get it in a few colors right away. Such was the case with this blouse, because I love the little gathered detail in the front and the loose fit, but overall it is still simple and classic enough (plus, that windowpane pattern) that I know I can wear it with almost anything in my closet. I will layer it with a cute bra top underneath, I will wear it with jeans, office pants, a skirt, a pair<|fim_middle|>earing: Shein blouse (also in pink and baby blue); Mango jeans (similar Mango here; different brand here); Free People sandals (my color sold out, in red here; similar here and here); Anne Klein tote (almost identical here; similar one here); Swatch watch.
I love that pop of pink from your sandals. The top is perfect for fall. The shade is fab!!
Beautiful combination! Love your look! | of denim shorts… really, anything! So when I said before that in these situations I get an item in a few colors, I wasn't lying. I also got it in a blush pink, pale blue and sage green. I can't wait to also wear it in the fall with a cardigan over it for a layered look.
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U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey at a Resistance Summer rally on May 31, 2017, in Dallas. The Texas Democrat aims to reconnect the party with working-class voters. (Joyce Marshall/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/TNS)
Photo: Joyce Marshall/TNS
Veasey criticizes Democrats, sees himself as the party's future
Andrea Drusch, McClatchy Washington Bureau
FORT WORTH, TEXAS —
Rep. Marc Veasey of Texas thinks he's the future of the Democratic Party: Moderate, African-American and focused on helping Democrats reconnect with the working-class voters who abandoned them for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
In recent weeks, he's also joined a handful of other up-and-coming Democrats in criticizing his party's current leadership, suggesting Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's days as head of the party could be numbered. Democrats, he said, have abandoned the center of the country in<|fim_middle|>s," said Veasey, who is 46. Pelosi is 77. Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., is 78, and Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., is 77.
"When they get ready to leave I do think that we have a great group of people who are willing, able and ready to step up and lead the party," Veasey said, citing Florida Rep. Stephanie Murphy, Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty and Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos, as examples. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, challenged Pelosi for the top leadership post last year and lost badly.
But Veasey also has plenty of his own ambition and ideas.
After the 2016 election, he and Pennsylvania Rep. Brendan Boyle formed the Blue Collar Caucus, aimed at helping his party win back working-class voters. The group has met four times in 2017, and hosted leaders from major labor groups such as the AFL-CIO and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
He's also hosted nearly 50 "Marc Means Business" events in his district, where he joins local workers for manual labor jobs alongside the type of voters he said Democrats have overlooked in recent years.
Between planting ground cover and laying mulch at the International Harvest Christian Fellowship Church in Fort Worth on Wednesday, Veasey stressed the need for Democrats to take a hard look at why they lost the White House as well as control of both chambers of Congress in 2016.
"We're not just in an odd place in history," said Veasey. "We have a lot of work to do to get these voters to start believing in us again."
Citing the day's event as an example, Veasey said Democrats need to realize, "Working people are starting to say the Democratic Party doesn't care about my job anymore."
He got a taste of that attitude Wednesday. The owner of A&T Landscaping company working with Veasey, Allan Harris, suggested Democrats had lost his vote by marching left on social issues, instead of emphasizing jobs. Harris, who voted for President Barack Obama in 2008, said he wrote in Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, for president last year.
Veasey had other thoughts about his party, notably that it's too focused on winning on the coasts.
"We can't count on winning more seats in California and New York and thinking that's going to be enough," he said. "We have to start winning some of the areas we used to win and get people to start believing in us."
Asked whether Pelosi would hurt those chances, Veasey said, "No ... because most people know Donald Trump needs a backstop."
Veasey said he's not looking to break into House leadership while his son is in school, but said he'll be interested sometime in the future should he get re-elected.
He has an example to follow that he's seen up close. Veasey worked for former Fort Worth Rep. Martin Frost, who challenged Pelosi in 2002 for minority leader in a leadership battle that centered on many of the same intra-party tensions.
"I think I have some really good ideas and a good vision for the future of the Democratic Party, and I understand what it takes to be able to win," said Veasey.
"If you look at Martin's leadership style and what he kind of represented, he was very much a centrist Democrat, Jim Wright was a centrist Democrat," said Veasey, citing two of his predecessors representing Fort Worth. Wright was speaker of the House from 1987 to 1989.
"If Democrats are going to take back the House, the only way we're going to do it is by electing people who fit that mold," Veasey said.
That same outlook, though, could cost Veasey the opportunity to be in the House by the time he's ready for a promotion.
His district is majority-minority, but almost three times as Hispanic as it is black. Veasey won the seat against a more liberal Hispanic candidate, Domingo Garcia, in 2012. Garcia has toyed with the idea of running again, as Democrats in the state have focused on efforts to more effectively turn out Hispanic voters.
But Veasey has also managed to win over some unusual allies on the left, and other Democrats say that could insulate him.
"There's a way to be pro-business and pro-worker and pro-labor all at the same time and Marc reflects that," said Chuck Rocha, a Democratic pollster from Texas who specializes in Latino turnout and worked on Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign.
"The new American electorate is younger, more diverse, and more multiethnic," added Rocha. "People like Veasey are exactly who they're looking to vote for." | favor of coastal strongholds.
But those remarks could mean Veasey, who represents an overwhelmingly Democratic and minority-heavy district, could open himself up to a challenge from the left in 2018.
He also risks looking opportunistic in taking shots at Pelosi, who he campaigned alongside just three months ago in Dallas. And after his comments questioning her future, he wrote a Facebook post reinforcing his support for her.
At an interview in his office this week, Veasey said he fully expects Pelosi to stay in the leadership "as long as she wants," while he emphasized his vision of a party more focused on the country's geographic and political center.
"We do have some really great leaders in the House ... all of them are in their 70 | 152 |
Last night Mark and I went to see American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Beck perform at the Round<|fim_middle|> than singing. Meh. | house in London's slightly down at heel and anything-but glitzy Chalk Farm.
Performing as part of the iTunes Festival and decked in his trademark hat and jacket Beck treated us to a quite a few sing-a-longs including Loser, Black Tambourine and Devil's Haircut. It was a great show.
The first half of the set was a high energy performance with Beck throwing himself around the stage like a loon playing many of his hits. The highlight of this section for me though was the triumphant cover of Donna Summer's I Feel Love.
The a second half started off a tad more sedate as the slim one began to promote his recent folk-tinged album Morning Phase. As the finale drew close though the tempo picked up again and we were all dancing around with our arms in the air like we just didn't care to Sexx Laws and Where It's At.
As a support act we were also treated to Jenny Lewis, former frontwoman of cult indie-rock band Rilo Kiley. Lewis released her third solo album The Voyager in July this year, although we had a few Rilo Kiley tracks thrown in for good measure. It was typical West Coast rock - everyone wore white and there was more shouting | 252 |
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Rankin: 'Your voice matters'; Four phases of Climate Survey
October 23, 2012 Nicole Ferrito News 0
Addressing the issue of diversity at the College, Rankin & Associates — climate survey consultant of higher education — presented a Climate Survey Project, "Your Voice Matters: an Assessment of Learning, Living, and Working on Campus," in the Education Building, on Wednesday, Oct. 17.
Susan Rankin, a professor at Pennsylvania State University, discussed their plan to send out an extensive survey to all members of the College community including students, faculty and staff. The survey, Rankin explained, would consist of four parts:<|fim_middle|>1be3dfaa0d95718762b | demographics, experiences, institutional actions and perceptions.
The main purpose of the survey, as Rankin presented, is to analyze the current climate, or environment at the College, on social issues and interactions.
The next step after that deals with the development of a plan that would initiate positive adjustments using the information that's gathered.
She talked of "four layers of diversity," which discuss how we are defined as more than just race, gender and ethnicity. It encompasses everything, ranging from a person's income, job position or status, personal habits, religion, disabilities and personality. The survey touches upon many of these categories.
They are not only concerned with the success of students, but with that of faculty and staff as well, Rankin explained.
She believes their performance and how comfortable they are on campuses and in the classroom affect their relationship and interactions with the students. Diversity among faculty and staff may better the environment.
If enough people participate in the survey and a sufficient amount of data is collected, Rankin explained that she and her associates would analyze the information and suggest recommendations to the College.
These recommendations would address each group — students, faculty and staff, Rankin said.
For example, depending on the findings of the survey, one suggestion may be to create a first-year seminar program for students and incorporate teaching diversity into the curriculum.
Kerri Thompson Tillett, director of Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action and Diversity and director of Compliance at the College, wanted to stress the importance of participating in the survey.
"We are looking for everyone to participate," she said. The more people that participate the more accurate the information will reflect our college campus and will help to make a change, according to Tillett.
The survey took approximately nine months to develop, Rankin said. She explained how they used current data on the College to construct the questions.
The survey will only take about 20 to 30 minutes to be completed, informed Rankin, and is tailored specifically for the College.
When speaking about the importance of transformative change, Rankin said, "It has to be the people and institution that want that to happen."
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So you're in the market for a sportsbook. Maybe you're new to the game, sick of your existing book or just looking for another one to add to your line shopping list. Whatever the case, it can be very overwhelming if you don't know what to look for and are having a difficult time narrowing down your search. Here are some things I consider most important when trying to find the right sportsbook.
To start, you want an online sportsbook that has been around a while. A sportsbook with staying power is doing something right, because this day and age if they're not, you can be rest assured we will all know about it.
community resources and let everyone know their experience. This information can be devastating to an online book, and will almost undoubtedly lead to it being shut down.
There's nothing worse to a bettor than going on a hot streak, only to get shutout when requesting a payout. The good books all pay quickly and efficiently, and their longevity will prove it. Their reputation is always on the line, and it's not difficult to both get a bad one and be put out there for everyone to know it.
You may not consider this to be a big deal, but when most books are pretty even across the board, great customer service is something that will put a sportsbook ahead of the pack. When you need good customer service, you'll be happy you went with a book that has great customer service, believe me.
Do they make it easy to contact customer service, and then once you have them on the line, is the staff knowledgeable, friendly and have good communication skills? There's nothing worse than having an issue close to the start of a particular game you want to bet, and when you call customer service, you get the run around long enough that the game has already gone off. It's happened to me, and when your side wins, believe me, it's the height of frustration.
This is another very important aspect to finding the right sportsbook for me. I'm not your usual bettor, and like to have options not most are looking for. For example, I have a friend who plays in the Swedish Superettan League, and because of this, I follow it very closely. And because I follow it very closely, I like to wager on games within the league, and I do quite well. For me, having lines for this league is a must.
I have a buddy who loves to both bet the horses and play casino games while he is sitting on his couch watching games. He once won $115K while he was taking a crap pulling a few slots…no joke. He called me up yelling…guess what, guess what?!? Anyways, I digress. For him, having a racebook and an online casino are a must. Make sure you know what you want, and make sure your book has those options to meet your every need, because those books are out there, you just have to put the time in to find the right one that meets all your needs.
I wrote a full article yesterday on contests offered by various sportsbook, because these are quite possibly my favorite thing about my sportsbook. I'm basically getting something<|fim_middle|> me to pick one sportsbook over another, as long as they meet the rest of my requirements.
Bonuses are also something I will consider, but make sure you are aware of all the rollover regulations around your freeroll.
and go out and get those. Make sure the sportsbook you choose caters to you, and give them a call, ask questions and see if they truly are the right fit for you.
There will always be more than these 4 things, but this is a good start. Ask around, go online, talk to your friends…do whatever you can to gain an edge when finding the right book to choose. The options are near endless, so do your homework and get those bets in. Good luck guys. | for free, and well, who doesn't like free stuff?
chance to win money that will be automatically deposited into my account excites me, and it's something that will lead | 37 |
Start the year fresh with your favorite parenting magazine and our<|fim_middle|> Smart Parenting's January-February 2013 issue to find out how she does it. For more of the issue's highlights, browse through the e-magazine.
The real fun is discovering what went on behind the scenes – what they do in between takes, who was being (cute) grumpy, and how that perfect shot on the cover came about. Watch for it next week!
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Finally, check out our exclusive video interview with Daphne as she gives tips to fellow mom-bloggers, paints us a picture of what her usual schedule looks like, and how she manages to always look so put-together.
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Daphne Paez has got to be one of the busiest personalities in the industry. She's practically everywhere – hosting an event, endorsing a product, doing charity work, or making her thoughts known on Twitter, through her famous blog daphne.ph, or her TV show Cocktales – it's amazing how she still manages to keep a happy home with husband Patrick and their tres marias Sophia, Lily and Stella.
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The Perils and Adventures of Harry Skipwith By Land and Sea By: William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880)
The Perils and Adventures of Harry Skipwith, by W.H.G. Kingston.
MY FIRST ADVENTURE PROGRAMME OF TRAVEL OFF ACROSS THE ATLANTIC THE MISSISSIPPI HOW WE GOT SNAGGED I SAVE PETER ROBERTS THE CAYMAN'S COMPANY THE ISLAND REFUGE.
The love of travel was a family instinct, and was born with me. My maternal grandfather went to Central Africa at least, he left us intending to do so, but never came back again. I had a great uncle who voyaged three times round the world, and one sailor uncle who, half a century ago, spent a winter at the North Pole along with Parry and Franklin. Then I had a cousin who was very ambitious of reaching the moon, and spent his life in studying its maps and making preparations for the journey, which, however, he never accomplished. When asked when he was going to start<|fim_middle|> and that, therefore, he could dispense with them. I hinted that if such was the case he might hand me out a few more, for that where I was going they would be greatly in demand; but it proved that this was the only one of which he was possessed.
I had got a small portmanteau, into which I packed all my best clothes and valuables, with a few glass beads and knives which I had purchased to bestow on any savages I might encounter. I had a lance head brought home by my great uncle. With this I purposed manufacturing a lance for my defence. I knew that, as England is an island, I must cross the water. My idea, when on the other side, whether north, south, east, or west I did not care, was to purchase two steeds one for myself and another for my luggage and a squire, whom I intended to find. I was certain that he would turn up somewhere, and be very faithful and brave. The first, thing, however, was to get away from home. I wrote an affectionate letter to my father, telling him that I was going on my travels as my ancestor had done, and that I should be back, I hoped, by the end of the holidays; that if I was not, it could not much signify, as I should be gaining more information from my intercourse with the great world than I could possibly hope to reap from the instruction of Dr Bumpus... Continue reading book >>
Wikipedia – The Perils and Adventures of Harry Skipwith By Land and Sea | , he always replied that he had deferred his journey for six months circumstances requiring his longer sojourn on this planet Tellus; but he never expressed the slightest doubt about his being able ultimately to accomplish his proposed journey. I held him in great respect (which was more than any of the rest of the family did); but as my ambition never soared beyond an expedition round this sublunary globe, I resolved as soon as possible to commence my travels in the hopes of having the start of him.
My voluntary studies were of a character to feed my taste. The travels of the famed Baron Munchausen, "Gulliver's Travels," those of Sir John Mandeville and Marco Polo, were read by me over and over again. I procured others of a more modern date, and calculated to give more correct information regarding the present state of the world; but I stuck to my old friends, and pictured the globe to myself much in the condition in which they described it. Not having the patience to wait till I grew up, I resolved at the commencement of my summer holidays to start by myself, hoping to come back before their termination, having a full supply of adventures to narrate. I was some days maturing my plans and making preparations for my journey. I had denied myself such luxuries as had been brought to our school by the pieman, and had saved up my pocket money an exercise of self denial which proved the earnestness of my resolve. I had had too several presents made to me by relations and friends who happened to be in the house. I paid a visit also to my cousin, Booby Skipwith, as he was called. I did not confide to him all my plans; but I hinted that I had one of great importance in hand, and, to my great delight, he presented me with a five pound note, observing that he believed that such things were not current in the moon, | 393 |
'Hamilton' movie coming to Disney+ with original Broadway cast on July 3
'Hamilton' is coming to Disney+ on July 3
NEW YORK -- "Hamilton" is not throwing away its shot. Instead of a theatrical release, "Hamilton" will be released by The Walt Disney Studios on Disney+ July 3, 2020.
The 11-time Tony Award-winning musical was originally set to be released in theaters on Oct. 15, 2021. The musical features the original Broadway cast and was filmed in 2016.
The cast members reprising their roles in the film include Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton; Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson; Renée<|fim_middle|> nominees Christopher Jackson as George Washington; Jonathan Groff as King George; Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton; and Jasmine Cephas Jones as Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds; Okieriete Onaodowan as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison; and Anthony Ramos as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton.
The cast of "Hamilton" performing at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City.
The film is not like other movie musicals where the production is re-created on a set, but rather it is a filmed version of the show straight from the Richard Rodgers Theatre prior to the original cast leaving in 2016.
The movie will transport its audience into the world of the Broadway show in a uniquely intimate way, creating a new way to experience "Hamilton."
Lin-Manuel Miranda joined The Walt Disney Company Executive Chairman Bob Iger for the big announcement on GMA Tuesday morning and praised director Tommy Kail.
"He's giving everyone at home the best seat in the house, it's a thrilling experience, he really threads the needle between the cinematic closeups and widening out and seeing the show from the center aisle of the Richard Rogers Theatre, so I can't wait for you all to see it," Miranda said.
"I think it's brilliant in these times to tell a story of people coming together against forces of adversity is quite relevant and actually quite important," Iger said.
"Hamilton" debuted on Broadway in 2015 and has won numerous awards including 11 Tonys, a Grammy, an Olivier and a Pulitzer Prize.
"Hamilton" hits Disney+ on July 3, 2020.
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Recounting: Silk For The Starving by The Lounge Society
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"In what was a bleak period of time we found ourselves in the studio with the producer we had idolised, recording songs that we adore."
The Lounge Society are Cameron Davey (vocals/bass), Herbie May (guitar), Hani Paskin-Hussain (guitar), and Archie Dewis (drums). Last year the band's 2020 debut single for Speedy Wunderground, Generation Game, quickly became the fastest selling 7" for the label in the 8 years since its inception.
A year on, The Calder Valley quartet's EP Silk For The Starving is finally upon us. We asked the band to recount the recording of the Dan Carey-produced four-tracker - an articulate, enraged and energised debut, destined to inject hope into a disillusioned youth. Strap on your fancy footwear because not only will these songs restore faith in society, but a firm and determined rhythm to your feet.
Select photos of the band, Dan Carey, Dan's dog Feta and the recording space.
"Silk For The Starving started with the intent to give an explosive snapshot of who we are - a twelve minute prologue for what's to come. We worked hard on every note, every rhythm, and all pitched in together on the lyrics for every song. It brought the four of us together.
Although the EP feels like it's all come together really quickly, it has been a long process. The initial roots of tracks like Burn<|fim_middle|> Once we decided we were going to record and release an EP it became clear pretty quickly that these four tracks were the right songs for the record. We never wanted this EP to be experimental or slow or anything like that. In our eyes, it is four energetic, honest single-esque tracks. For us any of the four tracks could have been singles, the idea of releasing a record with two obvious singles and two fillers was exactly what we didn't want to do. In some ways Television and Valley Bottom Fever sum us up as a band better than the singles.
We made this record at quite a strange time, it was during lockdown but at a time when we could just about get away with going down to record. The feeling of the recordings is hard to put your finger on, to us there's a sense of hope. In what was a bleak period of time we found ourselves in the studio with the producer we had idolised recording songs that we adore, so that strange combination of the state of the world at that time and the elation at still being able to do what able to do what we love resulted in the feeling that Silk For The Starving has, whatever that feeling is to you."
The Lounge Society - Silk For The Starving
Photos by The Lounge Society, Holly Whitaker and Dan Carey
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Recounting: Monument by Portico Quartet
"We created this record in a hopeful frame of mind. Perhaps we even used it as a way to daydream a little, to imagine a more…
Recounting: Get up Sequences Part One by The Go! Team
"People often talk about the positivity of The Go! Team music and I think surrounding myself in this everyday was useful... It's strange how some…
Recounting: Terrain by Portico Quartet
"It's a world of changing landscapes and experiences that we traversed through June-November 2020, both emotionally and physically... It's also a dialogue between me… | The Heather were written about three years ago which is really bizarre to think about. It was a completely different track but had that same bassline and drum groove, we actually left that idea for a while and almost abandoned it but at the start of the lockdown we decided to try 're-working' some old ideas and Burn The Heather was one of the tracks that came out of it!
Burn The Heather also caused a little controversy due to its obvious middle finger to the Grouse Shooting culture. We revelled in that controversy.
Over the last few years we have spent the majority of our time locked away in our rehearsal space playing constantly. | 128 |
Staff at St Vincent College, Gosport shortlisted in Hampshire Education Awards
Lighthouse Learning Trust CEO Matt Atkinson and Transition & Progression Manager Alistair Lambon have been shortlisted in the Hampshire Education Awards
Simon Toft
Published: 00:00 Friday 28 June 2019
Promoted by St Vincent College
Two members of staff from St Vincent College in Gosport have recently been shortlisted in the Hampshire Education Awards.
Lighthouse Learning Trust CEO Matt Atkinson has been recognised for his Outstanding Contribution to Education and Transition & Progression Manager Alistair Lambon has been shortlisted in the Futures category.
They have both been invited to attend the awards ceremony on October 8.
The Hampshire Education Awards were established as a means of recognising and celebrating the contribution of staff and volunteers within Hampshire's education system.
The intention is to say thank you to all those involved in the county's schools and colleges through honouring nominees who make a real difference to the life opportunities of children and young people and, where appropriate, their families or communities.
Those shortlisted exhibit professional characteristics and knowledge, skills and understanding in their field that have a discernible impact on pupils and stand as professional models for others.
Earlier this year St Vincent College received a 'good' rating, with some areas of teaching and learning recognised as 'outstanding' following a visit from Ofsted inspectors.
The report also highlighted the key strengths of the college in supporting students to succeed and progress to higher education, training<|fim_middle|> college Andy Grant says: 'St Vincent is a college which values hard work, high standards and high achievement. Our students learn in a harmonious and mutually respectful environment and they are increasingly articulate and confident.
'We challenge all our students to aim high and stretch themselves academically and we also offer extensive additional opportunities, including a wide-ranging extra curriculum programme and a huge variety of trips and visits.'
To find out more, go to www.stvincent.ac.uk | and employment opportunities.
St Vincent College has been providing sixth form education for the Gosport, Fareham and wider communities for more than 30 years and has recently completed a period of campus development, which means students now benefit from improved access to state-of-the-art teaching, study and support facilities.
Students can pick from a wide range of A levels and high quality vocational courses at all levels, or combine the two - a unique option when compared to other local post-16 education providers.
The college also has an extensive array of adult education provision for part-time learners covering academic qualifications, skill development and recreation.
If you have a physical disability or learning difficulty, St Vincent is seen as a beacon of excellence in terms of offering the right support.
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Sons of Soul is the third album by American R&B band Tony! Toni! Toné!, released on June 22, 1993, by Wing Records and Mercury Records. It follows the success of their 1990 album The Revival, which had extended their popularity beyond R&B audiences and into the mainstream.
The band originally held recording sessions for Sons of Soul at several studios in California, including Westlake Recording Studios in Hollywood and Paradise Recording Studio in Sacramento. When they became jaded with the various people frequenting those studios, Tony! Toni! Toné! moved their sessions to Caribbean Sound Basin in Trinidad, where they ultimately wrote and recorded most of the album. It was produced entirely by the group, who worked with various session musicians and utilized both vintage and contemporary recording equipment.
Sons of Soul was recorded as an homage to Tony! Toni! Toné!'s musical influences—classic soul artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Its music incorporated live instrumentation, funk, and hip hop elements such as samples and scratches. Lead singer and bassist Raphael Wiggins handled most of the songwriting, which was characterized by quirky, flirtatious lyrics and reverent ballads.
A commercial success, Sons of Soul charted for 43 weeks on the Billboard 200 and earned a double platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). With the album, Tony! Toni! Toné! became one of the most popular R&B acts during the genre's commercial resurgence in the early 1990s. It was also a widespread critical success, ranking as one of 1993's best records in many critics' year-end lists.
Background
Inspired by live instrumentation, turntablism, and classic soul music, Tony! Toni! Toné! recorded and produced their second album, The Revival, mostly themselves and released it in 1990 to commercial success. The record broadened the group's exposure to fans beyond their initial R&B audience. However, they became ambivalent about their newfound mainstream success and their music being labeled "retro" by critics. In an interview for People magazine, lead singer and bassist Raphael Wiggins expressed his dissatisfaction with the music industry, saying that "every record company wants to get a group and put 'em in a Benz with a car phone and a beeper, show them dressing in three different outfits, put them in a video shot on a beach with lots of swinging bikinis. You won't ever see us on a beach. We're just down-to-earth, funky, like-to-play guys." Before considering a follow-up album, the band recorded several songs for film soundtracks, including "Me and You" for Boyz n the Hood (1991), "House Party (I Don't Know What You Come to Do)" for House Party 2 (1991), and "Waiting on You" for Poetic Justice (1993).
Having fulfilled their creative intentions with The Revival, Tony! Toni! Toné! wanted to pay homage to their musical influences with Sons of Soul. In a 1993 interview for The New York Times, Wiggins elaborated on their direction for the album, stating "We're paying homage to a lot of older artists who paved the way for us artists like the Temptations, Sly and the Family Stone, Earth, Wind and Fire. They're the people who inspired us when we were growing up, people like Aretha Franklin, James Brown. We feel we're the sons of everything and all those people who came before us." He also explained the album's title as a declaration of them being descendants of those artists, "not in a grandiose sense, but from the standpoint that we really are the musical offspring of all that's come before us ... paying homage to our past, but creating in a contemporary environment."
Recording
The group began recording Sons of Soul in 1993. They initially held sessions at several recording studios in California, including Air L.A. Studios, Paramount Recording Studios, and Westlake Recording Studios in Hollywood, Pajama Studios in Oakland, J.Jam Recording in Oakland Hills, and Paradise Recording Studio in Sacramento, where Raphael Wiggins resided at the time. Wiggins, his brother guitarist D'wayne Wiggins, and drummer Timothy Christian Riley each played several instruments for the album. Raphael and D'wayne came up with ideas for songs by playing guitar and a drum machine, and working them into compositions with Riley and Carl Wheeler, an unofficial member and in-studio keyboardist for the group. They also created drum loops at their homes, with Raphael using an Akai MPC60 and D'wayne using an E-mu SP-12, and the group improvised their respective instrumental parts for songs at the studio to a certain loop.
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Notes
"Leavin" contains a sample of "If the Papes Come" by A Tribe Called Quest.
"What Goes Around Comes Around" and "Dance Hall" feature raps by Trinidadian recording artist General Grant.
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.
Tony! Toni! Toné!
Timothy Christian Riley – drum programming, drums, horn synthesizer, keyboards, producer, programming, synthesizer
D'wayne Wiggins – bass, drum programming, drums, guitar, producer, programming
Raphael Wiggins – bass, bass synthesizer, drum programming, drums, keyboards, producer
Additional musicians
John Affoon – engineer
Gerald Albright – saxophone
Ray Brown – trumpet
Peter Corant – pedal steel, steel guitar
The Fat Lip Horns – horn
Clare Fischer – arranger, string arrangements
Earl Garner – trumpet
General Grant – guest rap
Nick Marach – acoustic guitar, guitar
Bill Ortiz – trumpet
Lenny Pickett – tenor saxophone
John "Jubu" Smith – guitar, upright bass
The SNL Horns – horn
Norbert Stachel – woodwind
Charles Veal – soloist, string arrangements, violin
Carl Wheeler – keyboards
Jon Williams – trumpet
Benjamin Wright – string arrangements
Frank Wright – arranger
George Young – alto saxophone
Reggie C. Young – trombone
Production
Ali Shaheed Muhammad – programming
Enrique Badulescu – photography
Gerry Brown – engineer, mixing
Joe Capers – engineer
Brian Carrigan – engineer
Ed Eckstine – executive producer
Andy Grassi – engineer
Dave Jahnsen – engineer
Anthony Jeffries – engineer
Ken Kessie – mixing
Kelle Kutsugeras – costume design
L.A. Jae – programming
Craig Long – engineer
Bill Malina – engineer
Neil Perry – engineer
Phase 5 – programming
Sean Pollard – engineer
Bob Power – mixing
Herb Powers – mastering
Aaron Rudden – engineer
Mike Scapelli – engineer
Kirt Shearer – engineer, programming
Maurice Stewart – programming
Mark Sullivan – production coordination, project coordinator
Terry T. – programming
Kenneth A. Van Druten – engineer
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
See also
Plantation Lullabies
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links
1993 albums
Albums produced by Raphael Saadiq
Mercury Records albums
Tony! Toni! Toné! albums
Wing Records albums | with various session musicians, including string arranger Benjamin Wright, saxophonists Gerald Albright and Lenny Pickett, trumpeter Ray Brown, arranger Clare Fischer, and audio engineer Gerry Brown. Brown engineered the group's previous albums, and later their subsequent output, including Raphael Wiggins' solo albums after Tony! Toni! Toné! Brown recommended for him to use a dynamic microphone when recording his vocals to thicken them with more bass, a practice Wiggins continued throughout his career. Wiggins sought after former Temptations vocalist Eddie Kendricks to sing on "Leavin'", but Kendricks died prior to the sessions. They also worked with two horn sections, The Fat Lip Horns and The SNL Horns, the horn section of the Saturday Night Live Band. Raphael and D'wayne Wiggins sang impromptu musical ideas to the SNL players, who in turn modelled their horn parts after their singing.
Trinidad sessions
Jaded with their lifestyles in California and the various people frequenting the studios, the group moved the sessions to Caribbean Sound Basin in Maraval, a suburb of Port of Spain, Trinidad. The studio complex was one of Trinidad's few high-end recording locations and was founded in 1990 by Trinidadian businessman Robert Amar, who wanted to attract both local and international recording artists with a state-of-the-art facility and the area's culture. The group intended to use to the studio only to polish their previous sessions' output, but ended up writing and recording what became most of the album for two months. D'wayne Wiggins said of the move in an interview for Musician, "the record company really wanted to put what we had out, but we ourselves didn't feel like the album was done."
Caribbean Sound Basin housed three separate studios and several amenities, including a swimming pool, gym, sauna, photographic studio, and bedroom suites. In contrast to most recording studios, its interior was spacious and exposed to natural light. At the studio complex, Raphael, D'wayne, and Riley recorded extensively into the night and went out to enjoy the nightlife, before returning to the studio. They often dimmed the lights, burned incense, and drank wine to set the mood when recording, which D'wayne explained in Musician, "We try to make it real calm and mellow. 'Cause you want to be able to get into what you're singing." They also immersed themselves in the local dancehall scene and attended late-night block parties that lasted until dawn. D'wayne later recalled his nightlife experiences with the group in Maravel:
Their subsequent recording for the album was influenced by their experiences in Trinidad and Caribbean musical styles, including the rhythms and festive atmosphere of the local music scene. They enlisted Trinidadian dancehall artist General Grant, a regular at Caribbean Sound Basin, to perform a ragga rap on "What Goes Around Comes Around" and "Dance Hall", songs they developed in Trinidad. Raphael Wiggins recalled this in an interview for the Toronto Star: "[Grant] was just hanging around the studio. We asked him to come freestyle on ['What Goes Around Comes Around']. After that, he just kept hanging around. Then we had the song 'Dance Hall' playing one night and he started again, so we just turned on the mic." "My Ex-Girlfriend" was also recorded there. According to D'wayne, they recorded "Tonyies! In the Wrong Key" in the studio at 3 a.m., and Raphael was "quite snookered" on an alcoholic beverage when delivering his vocals. Collectively, the group had written and recorded approximately 40 songs at the end of the sessions. In an interview for Billboard, D'wayne Wiggins said that they focused on the love songs when having to decide what songs would make the album.
Production
Unlike with their previous albums, the group produced Sons of Soul entirely themselves. They utilized both vintage and contemporary recording gear in the album's production, including a Hammond B-3, Clavinet, ARP String Ensemble, and Korg and Roland synthesizers. Riley viewed that hearing music played from the older instruments affected their songwriting. For his vocals, Raphael recorded with Neumann U 87 and AKG C12A condensor microphones, as well as a vintage RCA Type 77-DX microphone. He used a custom five-string bass from a guitar and bass repair shop in San Francisco, as well as a Minimoog analog synthesizer for other bass lines on the album. D'wayne used a Microtech Gefell UM70 for his lead vocals and an AKG 414 for his background vocals. He played a vintage Gibson L6-S and a Fender Coronado guitar, modified with Gibson burst bucker pickups. Aside from his drumming, Riley played both Wurlitzer and Fender Rhodes electric pianos.
Caribbean Sound Basin's main studio had both analog and digital equipment, a 60 ft x 70 ft x 18 ft live room, and three isolation booths, for vocals, piano, and drums. The group recorded original tracks using Studer 24- and 48-track recorders and transferred them to a Sony digital recorder. For most songs, MIDI keyboards were played live into a sequencer and left unquantized, while vintage keyboards were recorded to analog tape. Riley said of the process in an interview for Keyboard magazine, "even though we used a sequencer for some stuff, we'd still cut the song live from start to finish. See, the last record was all done with a Synclavier. But this time, we tried to keep it all live and raw."
Record producer and DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad, credited for programming on the album, assisted in its production. He cited the group's fusion of hip hop production and live instrumentation for Sons of Soul as the inspiration for his subsequent work as a member of A Tribe Called Quest and The Ummah. Muhammad discussed his experience recording Sons of Soul in a 1998 interview, saying that "I'd just hooked this beat up, and [the group] picked up their instruments and started playing. Raphael was singing, and as soon as he touched the bass, it just blew me away." Raphael Wiggins explained how they valued instrumentation when recording the album, saying that "We want everyone to have something to relate to; a drummer will get into the live drums and so on."
Tony! Toni! Toné! tracked the final mixes of the songs at Caribbean Sound Basin. Its main studio used a 64-channel SSL 4064 G mixing console, the secondary studio used a 48-track Neve console with flying faders, and its third studio used an Amek BC2 console. The group mostly used the older Neve console. In tracking the songs, they started with a drum machine groove as a basic track and recorded it. The parts recorded with live instrumentation were then added to the mix. Live drums and horn sections were included to attain the sound of performing live. Sons of Soul was subsequently mastered by engineer Herb Powers at his New York City studio P.M. Entertainment.
Music and lyrics
Sons of Soul expanded on the traditional R&B influences of The Revival, with upbeat funk and classic Motown styles. Songs such as "If I Had No Loot", "My Ex-Girlfriend", and "Tell Me Mama" incorporated lively tempos, strident harmonies, melodic hooks, and lead vocalist Raphael Wiggins' high tenor singing. Other songs were performed with funk grooves, including "I Couldn't Keep It to Myself", "Gangsta Groove", "Fun", and "Tonyies! In the Wrong Key". Rick Mitchell of the Houston Chronicle wrote that the songs' arrangements "cleverly ... integrate classic influences into contemporary grooves." Carl Allen of The Buffalo News claimed that the album "reconnected" black popular music "to its gospel/blues roots with hip-hop flair."
Along with older R&B, the album's music appropriated contemporary urban styles such as dancehall and hip hop, incorporating hip hop beats, turntable scratches, and samples, which were taken from both contemporary rap and older soul. Tony Green of the St. Petersburg Times viewed that Tony! Toni! Toné! incorporated musical aspects from their R&B and hip hop contemporaries, thereby "representing black pop's Generation X. Mid- to late-twentysomethings caught [at] the tail end of the heyday of acts like Earth, Wind & Fire and Stevie Wonder [and] found themselves getting smacked in the face by the rap revolution." The group reproduced what they sampled with live instrumentation, which Keyboard magazine interpreted as an analog approach to the principally digital hip hop genre.
The lyrics on Sons of Soul were described by Los Angeles Times critic Connie Johnson as often quirky, while Elysa Gardner from Vibe said they were flirtatious and tender, particularly on ballads such as "Slow Wine" and "(Lay Your Head on My) Pillow"; she felt the group's songwriting throughout the album possessed a "reverent" ethos. Raphael Wiggins was credited with the majority of the songwriting. Laura Zucker of The Sacramento Bee said most of the album was written "solidly in the R&B tradition of sweet talking and romancing." Unlike most contemporary R&B and hip hop music at the time, the album's lyrics lacked profane language, with the exception of "My Ex-Girlfriend", which featured the chorus "I couldn't believe it / They tried to tell me my ex-girlfriend is a ho!"
Songs
The album opens with "If I Had No Loot", which features a New jack swing beat, pronounced guitar licks, vocal samples from hip hop songs, and lyrics about fair-weather friends. The third track, "My Ex-Girlfriend", is a commentary on unfaithful partners, with lowbrow-humor lyrics scolding an ex-girlfriend for her promiscuity. It evolved from a concept D'wayne Wiggins came up with after driving past an Oakland hangout for prostitutes and recognized that one of them was an old friend. The upbeat ballad "Tell Me Mama" has surging dynamics, a horn-filled bridge, and lyrics about responsibility and regret. Phil Gallo of the Los Angeles Times writes that the song utilizes "Jackson 5 and Temptations vocal stylings, Earth, Wind & Fire horn charts and riffs from Sly & the Family Stone hits". According to Rolling Stone journalist Franklin Soults, the album's first five songs comprise a "tour de force that bounces from Motown to New Jack Swing and back before breaking for a series of ballads as sexy as they are sweet".
The first ballad, "Slow Wine", describes a Trinidadian slow grind dance, and the next, "(Lay Your Head on My) Pillow", features tender, seductive lyrics, with subtle come-ons, which according to Gil Griffin of The Washington Post "replace hip-hop braggadocio with soul music's promise." "I Couldn't Keep It to Myself" features lush strings and electric piano, which "create a jaunty atmosphere that harkens back to early Kool and the Gang and the Blackbyrds." Its narrator wants to brag to his friends about his new girlfriend's sexual abilities. "Gangsta Groove" adapts hip hop's "gangsta" trope in a humane story, in the vein of blaxploitation. It draws on the funk music of Parliament-Funkadelic, Cameo, and the Ohio Players. "Tonyies! In the Wrong Key" features a dreamy, dissonant soundscape, slurred vocals, swirling horns, and a James Brown sample. At its end, Raphael Wiggins sings the line "last night a DJ saved my life", a reference to the 1982 song of the same name. Wiggins found his impassive vocal style similar to Sly Stone's on "Family Affair" (1971).
"Dance Hall" is styled in the genre of the same name, and also incorporates funk. The segue track "Times Squares 2:30 A.M." was recorded by the group on the street with a tape recorder. "Fun" has a hip hop groove, jazz fusion tone, and irreverent, party theme similar to "Dance Hall". "Anniversary" is about mature, lasting love. Elysa Gardner of Vibe calls it "a grandly romantic, nine-minute bolero that lavishes its female subject with such warmth and respect that the cheeky misogyny of ['My Ex-Girlfriend'] seems instantly forgiveable." "Castleers" is a short vocal track and tribute to Raphael and D'wayne's Castlemont High School chorus group, Castleers Choir, in which they sang as students. Raphael said of its inspiration, "The high school choir was all about that classic R & B harmony, so I named the song after the choir. One of the great things about that experience at school was that it got us ready to go out in the professional world with our music."
Marketing and sales
Sons of Soul was released on June 22, 1993, by Wing Records and Mercury Records, who created a heavy promotional campaign seeking to capitalize on the success of The Revival. Sons of Soul opened to strong sales and became Tony! Toni! Toné!'s highest-charting album. It debuted at number 38 on the Billboard 200 chart in the week of July 10. On July 24, it peaked at number three on the Billboard Top R&B Albums, on which it charted for 56 weeks. In its first eight weeks of release, Sons of Soul sold 281,961 copies in the US. It charted for 43 weeks on the Billboard 200, and on September 18, it reached its peak position at number 24. By November, the album had sold almost one million copies in the US. Five singles were released in its promotion, including the Hot 100 chart hits "If I Had No Loot" and "Anniversary". On November 14, 1995, the album was certified double platinum by the RIAA, for shipments of two million copies in the US. By 1997, it had sold 1.2 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
To promote Sons of Soul, Tony! Toni! Toné! embarked on a supporting tour that broadened their audience and concert repertoire. Aside from national venues, they promoted the album with concerts in Europe, Australia, and Japan. They also performed on television shows such as Saturday Night Live, Late Show with David Letterman, and The Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame ceremony. In November 1993, the group joined singer Janet Jackson's high-profile Janet. World Tour as a supporting act. However, after a few performances, the band left in January 1994, expressing frustration over their limited time onstage and Jackson's frequent show cancellations. Riley said they were also forced to alter their set list for Jackson's more mainstream, pop audience, while a tour staffer recalled the group "left the tour with no advance notice" and "were extremely unprofessional." They were replaced by Mint Condition as Jackson's opening act. Tony! Toni! Toné! subsequently went on hiatus, as each member pursued his own musical projects, producing and writing for other recording artists, before reuniting to record their 1996 album House of Music.
Critical reception and legacy
Sons of Soul was met with widespread critical acclaim. Billboard praised the record's traditional influences and contemporary sensibilities, calling it "a prismatic record from a maturing group", and The New Yorker said Tony! Toni! Toné! easily transitioned from "irresistible dance tracks ... to lovely, sensuous ballads" on the album. In the Chicago Tribune, Greg Kot hailed Sons of Soul as "the most accomplished merger of hip-hop attitude with a '70s R&B aesthetic", deeming the group's funk and soul music savvy, particularly because of their incorporation of Memphis soul guitars and fashionable rhythms and turntable scratches. Kot compared Raphael Wiggins to Stevie Wonder as a singer, while USA Todays James T. Jones IV believed the record's groovy, catchy songs were comparable to Sly Stone. Reviewing the album in Time, Christopher John Farley found the music elegant and more innovative than the band's previous records. Michael Saunders from The Boston Globe believed even without a song as great as their 1990 hit "Feels Good", the record was "unquestionably better than nearly all of the formulaic soul/pop albums littering the charts", featuring ballads that sounded intimate without being overly sentimental.
Robert Christgau was less enthusiastic in his "Consumer Guide" column for The Village Voice, citing "If I Had No Loot" and "Anniversary" as highlights while jokingly calling the group "sexy liars of the year". In a more critical review, Spins Jonathan Bernstein felt that songs such as "If I Had No Loot" and "What Goes Around Comes Around" were derivative of Tony! Toni! Toné!'s past hits from The Revival, in an attempt to compete with contemporary R&B acts such as Silk, H-Town, and Intro.
At the end of 1993, Sons of Soul was voted the number 19th best album of the year in The Village Voices annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll. Q magazine included it on its list of the 50 Best Albums of 1993, while Time ranked the album number one on its year-end list; an accompanying blurb in the list stated: "The Tonyies are a real band, with real instruments, who have succeeded in bringing the art of R.-and-B. songwriting back to the future." It was also named the best album of the year by James T. Jones IV of USA Today, and The New York Times, while Newsday named it one of the year's best albums. In 1994, "Anniversary" was nominated for Grammy Awards for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The album also earned Tony! Toni! Toné! a 1994 critics' award for Best R&B Group from Rolling Stone. In 1995, Q included Sons of Soul in its publication "In Our Lifetime: Q's 100 Best Albums 1986–94", a list compiled to celebrate its 100th issue. In 2007, Vibe included the record in its list of the 150 Essential Albums of the Vibe Era (1992–2007).
Impact and reappraisal
Sons of Soul bridged the gap between commercial and critical success for Tony! Toni! Toné!, helping them become one of the most popular acts in R&B at the time. Its success exemplified the genre's commercial resurgence during the early 1990s, when hip hop became the predominant African-American music genre in the mainstream. In 1994, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune attributed its resurgence to younger artists' blend of live instrumentation and hip hop production values, and cited Sons of Soul as "the most accomplished merger of hip-hop attitude with a '70s R&B aesthetic." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution hailed it as "a gentle reminder of those glory days" and felt that the group having both vocal and musical talents is most indicative of a return to early R&B's aesthetics. Furthermore, they garnered mainstream attention in a year of several high-profile controversies with R&B and hip hop artists such as Michael Jackson and Snoop Dogg. David W. Brown of The Harvard Crimson wrote that Tony! Toni! Toné! is "known primarily for the quality of its music, not its extracurricular reputation, unlike other groups such as Jodeci who rely on a playa-gangsta-mack image to sell-records."
Along with acts such as Mint Condition and R. Kelly, Tony! Toni! Toné! played live instruments that complemented their hip hop sensibilities. Their concerts featured visual elements such as incense smoke and kaleidoscopic stage lighting, the group's eccentric wardrobe, and additional instrumentalists, including another guitarist, two drummers, two keyboardists, a violinist, a trumpeter, and a saxophonist. The Charlotte Observer remarked on the group in 1994: "[T]heir use of live instruments on record and onstage makes them an anomaly in the synthesized and sampled world of modern R&B." With the group's reliance on traditional soul and R&B values of songwriting and instrumentation, Sons of Soul was a precursor to the neo soul movement of the 1990s. Matt Weitz of The Dallas Morning News wrote in 1993 that the group had distinguished themselves from their New jack swing contemporaries with Sons of Soul and found them aesthetically akin to acts such as Prince and P.M. Dawn. Raphael Wiggins said of their success with the album:
D'wayne Wiggins cited Sons of Soul as his favorite album with the group. Vibe and the Philadelphia Daily News also viewed it as the group's best album; the latter wrote that "it may be the project that got the public's ears ready for all the similarly soulful artists yet to come." AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine felt that they "received their greatest chart success, without compromising their music", which "was still the finely crafted, highly eclectic and funky pop-soul that distinguished their first two albums," but with improved songwriting and playing. Rickey Wright of the Washington City Paper regarded the album as a "hyperactively brilliant" showcase for "deeply resourceful songwriters who kept up with their audience", adding that "hardly anything in '90s R&B has touched it". In The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Franklin Soults mostly credited Raphael Wiggins for the record's success and said his "high tenor glides as smoothly and confidently as his songwriting".
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Credit card: A credit card is a card that lets you borrow money and pay it back over time. What is a credit card?
Loan: A loan is where you borrow a cash lump sum and pay the money back in regular instalments. What is a loan?
Overdraft: An overdraft lets you borrow money from your bank account and go into a negative balance. What is an overdraft?
If you have bad credit, or the lender thinks you may be unable to afford the borrowing, your application could take longer, as they will often ask you to send extra information.
If you need to borrow a large amount a loan is likely to be the most suitable choice.
Loan: With a personal loan you could borrow<|fim_middle|> withdrawn at any time by your bank and any interest free period may only last a set period, for example one year.
Loans tend to be better for longer term borrowing, normally between one and seven years. There are short term loans that last for less than a year, but these can be very expensive.
Credit cards ask you to pay back a minimum payment each month but have no set end date. 0% deals on purchases and balance transfers only last a set number of months, currently up to around 40 months.
Whether you decide to go for a credit card, loan or overdraft you need to shop around to get the best deal because costs can vary substantially among all three.
You need to look for an overdraft that will cost the least amount of money and suits the way you will use it. | anywhere from £1,000 to £25,000 if you meet the criteria. If you choose a homeowner loan you could borrow much more.
Credit card: Limits start at a few hundred pounds, but can reach over £10,000. You will not know how much you can borrow up front because credit limits are based on your personal circumstances rather than you applying for a set amount.
Overdraft: They tend to offer the smallest borrowing, and base how much you can borrow on your personal circumstances. Overdrafts up to £1,000 are common, but they can be much larger if you have a high income and good credit record.
Overdrafts have no set repayment date, although they can be | 153 |
Factor B dishes on Dreamstate, what drives him artistically, and more [Q+A]
by: Christina Hernandez Nov 19, 2018
Few artists can say they've been booked at top festivals in their genre, signed to prolific labels, and made the leap to full-time production in under half a decade after making their entrance into dance music. Factor B falls into this minority category, lighting up the trance world with his burning passion for the music and careful attention to detail in both his sets and his original works and remixes. He's managed to do this all from scratch in his home country of Australia, which notably has a very small scene for this particular strain of dance music.
Talent and hard work are ultimately undeniable, as the burgeoning artist has proven to himself. Prior to taking up the art of creating and performing electronic music, Factor B clocked<|fim_middle|> the decks, which proved a natural fit for the young fan. He soon found himself taken under Solarstone's wing with a signing of "Sacrosanct" to Pure Trance — an uplifting anthem that established him as a force to be reckoned with. But this was only the beginning for Factor B. His clear skill and dedication to his craft landed him on other prolific imprints, like FSOE and Armada's WAO138?! branch, with constant plays from the likes of Armin Van Buuren, Super8 & Tab, Aly & Fila, and even his role model Ferry Corsten. Such widespread adoration led to his move to Amsterdam in 2017, where since then, Factor B has seen an even bigger explosion in success that has allowed him to make a living off his music.
Ahead of his return to Dreamstate — Insomniac's beloved trance brand whose flagship Southern California festival has become the genre's prime destination stateside — we talked to this legend-in-the-making about his drive, influences, recent developments, and what to expect for his second time at the festival.
How would you describe the "Factor B sound?
Uplifting, cinematic, energetic, emotional & my own
What are the most influential trance songs or mixes of your past that have helped guide what you make today?
I loved a lot of the early work from Lange, Airbase, Super8, Nitrous Oxide, Nu NRG, Ferry Corsten, Above & Beyond to name a few. In terms of compilations, The Global Underground series along with Gatecrasher, Slinky & Clubbers Guides were frequently in my CD players.
On that note, you've become known for your huge, multilayered uplifting pieces. What draws you to uplifting as opposed to say, psy trance or tech trance?
Even though I don't mind a bit of Psy & tech, I don't get the emotional connection to those styles the way I do with melodic trance.
When I write a record, it always has a storyline or a feeling behind it and I love translating that to an audience via sound.
You've been living in Amsterdam for a bit over a year now. What are some key career growth moments that have come to you as a result of moving to a trance hub?
I think just simply being closer to the action here in Europe / UK / USA has been highly beneficial for my growth. Not having to fly to & from Australia means more show opportunities and chances to showcase my music / DJing. Being on the tour circuit more often has been amazing as I've had the opportunity to get know more about the industry and learn from some of the really cool characters within it.
Tell us about some of the hardships you faced when taking the plunge to do music full time, and how you got over them.
I think for me it was about learning how to manage myself & my producing. Coming from a full time business background – a big challenge for me was learning to understand how to manage my creativity and not force things. I burnt out pretty quick when I first arrived in Amsterdam – I was producing non stop for 9 months, so after that happened, I learnt pretty quick to slow down, harness my inspiration and not to force it. I don't just sit in the studio because I feel I have to now. To help the process, I have learnt to step away from music for periods of time, focus on things that help clear my mind and then approach my studio sessions nice & fresh.
How does your studio process go? Do you have a starting point you like in a track or an area you feel you have to get 'just right' before finishing? How do you address writer's block?
For me it's all about the melodies. I tend to write melodies first and once I know it's got something special about it then I start expanding. Not all ideas make the cut. I've learnt to leave & come back to projects after a few days with 'fresh ears' so I can get a better perspective on where the track is at. If it dosent pass the goosebump test – it goes in the bin!
A good dose of exercise often helps clear the mind when things aren't going to plan in the studio, that or a glass of whiskey!
What's inspiring you to create the most these days?
I think it's still just the love of the music, it's thrilling to land a great melody and then see it grow. I love the process – the challenge, the rollercoaster that's associated with writing music. When it all comes together – it's difficult to find a better feeling.
Are there any specific goals you're looking to achieve musically, like starting a new label of your own, experimenting with a new sound, playing a certain place, etc?
Of course there are always aspirations and goals, but for me traveling the world and playing my music is still fresh and exciting. I don't want to try to do too much too soon. I love trance, I love performing – so for now I'm just focusing on keeping my music fresh and staying optimistic about whatever the future brings!
Sort of related, but since your international explosion, what have been some of your favorite places to play or prized trance memories?
No doubt Luminosity on the Beach is one of my favorite shows each year, along with any tour back home to Australia. The recent Subculture show in my home town of Melbourne in front of 7.5k people was probably one of the greatest moments of my life! The USA as a whole has been incredible for me this year. I've never really travelled the USA so to get to see so much of it in the last 12 months has been really exciting. Dreamstate is definitely one of the shows that launched my name in the USA so that's one in the calendar each year I get really excited for!
You're coming back to Dreamstate! With last year's set erring toward the 'producer's set' side, what do you have in store for us this year?
As dreamstate showcases so many great acts I think most artists sets tend to lean towards producer sets nowadays anyway but I have what I feel is some of my best work to date to playout / debut at DS this year so I really can't wait for it!
What are your thoughts in general on the American trance scene and Dreamstate?
As mentioned previously, it's been fantastic for me, I'm very grateful to have played so many shows around the states and for Dreamstate this year. The crowds are all great and seemingly really enjoy my uplifting style as I'm fairly fresh to the USA tour circuit. I can't compare it to anything prior but from my experience thus far it's healthy and growing!
Finally, what's next in the Factor B pipeline?
Well, firstly I have an abundance of new music to release in 2019 – First and foremost that's what excites me the most. On the show front, I have some very exciting announcements to make in the coming weeks, some big debuts and some big tours. Keep an eye on the socials! :)
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Efstratios Manousakis received his Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics, in 1985, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a Post-Doctoral Research position at the Center for Theoretical Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985-1987) and at the Supercomputer Computational Research Institute (1987-88), he joined the Florida State University physics faculty, where he is the Donald Robson Professor of Physics and holds the title of Distinguished Research Professor. | course in Quantum Mechanics.
Thorough and indpeth discussion of each subject.
Uses examples with solutions allowing the reader to accumulate a working knowledge.
Discusses many applications in active research problems.
Quantum mechanics forms the foundation of all modern physics, including atomic, nuclear, and molecular physics, the physics of the elementary particles, condensed matter physics. Modern astrophysics also relies heavily on quantum mechanics. Quantum theory is needed to understand the basis for new materials, new devices, the nature of light coming from stars, the laws which govern the atomic nucleus, and the physics of biological systems. As a result the subject of this book is a required course for most physics graduate students.
While there are many books on the subject, this book targets specifically graduate students and it is written with modern advances in various fields in mind. Many examples treated in the various chapters as well as the emphasis of the presentation in the book are designed from the perspective of such problems. For example, the book begins by putting the Schrodinger equation on a spatial discrete lattice and the continuum limit is also discussed, inspired by Hamiltonian lattice gauge theories. The latter and advances in quantum simulations motivated the inclusion of the path integral formulation. This formulation is applied to the imaginary-time evolution operator to project the exact ground state of the harmonic oscillator as is done in quantum simulations. As an example of how to take advantage of symmetry in quantum mechanics, one-dimensional periodic potentials are discussed, inspired by condensed matter physics. Atoms and molecules are discussed within mean-field like treatment (Hartree-Fock) and how to go beyond it. Motivated by the recent intense activity in condensed matter and atomic physics to study the Hubbard model, the electron correlations in the hydrogen molecule are taken into account by | 351 |
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Microsoft and Volvo's new HoloLens showroom is fascinating and frustrating
You could buy a car in mixed reality, but should you?
By Adi Robertson / @thedextriarchy
Nov 20, 2015, 5:19 AM UTC |
Cars have a long history with augmented and virtual reality. Designers rely on immersive systems, from CAVE rooms to augmented reality headsets, to visualize their work. Drivers have been using heads-up displays for decades, even if they're projected onto a windshield and not a pair of glasses.
Bringing Microsoft's HoloLens headset to the auto industry, though, feels much bigger. Unlike more specialized augmented reality tools, it's something that Microsoft eventually hopes ordinary people will buy and use. And the quality of its images is nearly unprecedented; you can almost suspend disbelief and imagine the objects it projects are real. That's what makes the company's latest partnership so potentially exciting — and, at the same time, so frustrating.
For about six months, says Volvo global marketing vice president Thomas Andersson, Microsoft and Volvo have been working on a way to incorporate what they call "mixed reality" into the process of choosing a<|fim_middle|>, we should start getting more experiments, fewer secrets, and more frank discussion of the device's potential.
For now, Volvo hopes to publicly unveil some kind of HoloLens experience next year, although the exact date and the details of what we'll see remain unclear. "We wouldn't be in this with Microsoft right now if we didn't believe in it," says Andersson. "It's a matter of time and maturity, of course, but I think we really want to put this in front of customers in 2016."
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Quick fixes: how to transfer iPhone videos to a Windows PC when it keeps disconnecting | car. The result, first seen today, is a virtual showroom straight out of science fiction. Located at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, it's a series of podiums and a fenced, raised platform clearly meant to support some shiny automotive prototype.
The catch, of course, is that they're all empty. Instead, a car dealer and potential buyer don HoloLens headsets, both of them seeing and interacting with the same holographic cars. The main stage holds a life-size projection of Volvo's unreleased S90 sedan, which buyers can see with different rims and paint jobs by using Microsoft's "air tap" gesture. Another demo strips away the outside of the car to reveal its engine and undercarriage, and another projects a short animation showing off some of the car's more unusual features, like a system that uses data from other cars to alert drivers about ice patches.
"People aren't reading car manuals anymore, and there's so much they miss."
Volvo has already experimented with virtual reality — last year, it released a Google Cardboard app that simulated driving its XC90 SUV. Now, it sees complementary applications for HoloLens. "People aren't reading car manuals or user manuals much anymore, and there's so much they miss," Volvo senior marketing VP Björn Annwall tells me. The demos are a "human, interactive," and undeniably novel replacement. A miniature holographic S90, for example, shows off its many sensors by lighting them up as viewers move around its sides and back. Like everything else in HoloLens, these models are astonishingly solid; I was faintly aware of real-world walls and floors, but only the way I might notice the screen behind a high-powered projector.
Microsoft dislikes the term "augmented reality," which immediately evokes visions of awkward smartphone apps and the lackluster Google Glass. As HoloLens senior director Scott Erickson says, augmented reality "blocks your view" with an overlay, while HoloLens can spatially map and respond to your surroundings. This is what lets its holographic car stay on that stage as you walk around it, without using special physical markers or external cameras. I noticed a little drift as I moved around the room, but not enough to be distracting.
But as with many HoloLens demos, objects are coherent only at a very specific distance and angle. The very thing you want to do with the showroom model — walk up close and get a sense of its scale — chops it into pieces or makes it disappear altogether. The headset's lenses are easy to adjust, they're just incredibly unforgiving. I couldn't quite find a fit that didn't have me craning my neck to see a whole object, even if it was a Volvo logo the size of a dinner plate. Maintaining the showroom's illusion requires unflagging concentration.
Microsoft has taken a lot of criticism (including a fair amount from me) for HoloLens' constricted field of view, but it's a problem that seems theoretically solvable, even if the company has suggested we won't see dramatic improvement in the near future. Likewise, developers can deal with the issue gracefully by showing small, self-contained objects; I'm particularly fond of an architectural modeling tool co-created by mapping company Trimble. But Microsoft has been consistently reluctant to talk about working within its prototype's limitations, or to acknowledge that those limits exist at all.
It's possible to work within HoloLens' limits, but Microsoft seems reluctant to acknowledge them
Volvo's miniatures are ingenious, but it's hard to say whether HoloLens, rather than a virtual reality headset, is the best option to look at a full-sized car. Microsoft and Volvo both make compelling arguments: it's wireless and doesn't block out the real world, rendering single objects is much less resource-intensive than creating a whole environment, and it can be deployed anywhere, not just spaces with tracking systems. But that doesn't change the fact that it fails to deliver something that you can seamlessly walk up to and explore, which is the one thing that really matters. It's actually easier for me to feel the scale and physicality of a complete object in a fake world than to examine parts of one in the real world.
HoloLens today feels like virtual reality headsets did two years ago: raw material that designers are trying to hammer into submission instead of testing for strengths and weaknesses. Many VR developers now tend to be unflinchingly honest about things that don't work, taking pride in describing the way they've adapted their games to minimize nausea or handle extremely simple controls. With HoloLens development kits becoming more widely available next year | 950 |
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import unittest
from tictactoe_symmetry import *
class testSymmetry(unittest.TestCase):
def testApplySymmetries(self):
boardString = 'XO '
canon_string = canonical_board(boardString)
self.assertEqual('XO ',<|fim_middle|>('X ')
assert is_canonical(board)
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self.assertEqual(' X O ', apply_symmetry(boardString, ROT90))
self.assertEqual(' OX', apply_symmetry(boardString, ROT180))
self.assertEqual(' O X ', apply_symmetry(boardString, ROT270))
self.assertEqual(' OX ', apply_symmetry(boardString, VERTICAL))
self.assertEqual(' XO ', apply_symmetry(boardString, HORIZONTAL))
self.assertEqual(' O X', apply_symmetry(boardString, LEFT_DIAGONAL))
self.assertEqual('X O ', apply_symmetry(boardString, RIGHT_DIAGONAL))
def testSymmetricBoards(self):
self.assertEqual([apply_symmetry('XO ', i) for i in range(8)], symmetric_boards('XO '))
def testCanonicalBoard(self):
self.assertEqual((' X', 2), canonical_board('X '))
self.assertEqual((' OX', 2), canonical_board('XO '))
def test_get_symm_index(self):
self.assertEqual(0, get_symm_index(0, 0))
self.assertEqual(6, get_symm_index(0, 1))
self.assertEqual(7, get_symm_index(1, 2))
def test_is_canonical(self):
board, symmetry = canonical_board | 295 |
When does it get hot in Northumbria?
A new water meter company is launching in Northumberland with the hope of being the first to offer customers the ability to tap into the water supply in their own backyard.
Water Meter International says it has already sold 2,000 units in the UK and has plans to expand to other parts of the country in the coming months.
The company, which was founded by two former IT workers, says it is aiming to sell the meters in every home in Northampton, Lincolnshire, Wrexham and Newcastle.
Water meter manufacturers and suppliers will be able to use the device, which is similar to a smartphone, to check if their home is in safe water and report any issues.
The company said it had received a lot of interest from customers.
But it said the technology was not yet ready for mass production.
It is aiming for a<|fim_middle|> fair to our customers.
"It's our job to give them the highest service."
3 water meter, adm water meter, northumbrian water meter, water meter knob, water meter manufacturers | launch in 2018 and will work through a limited supply of meters.
Water Meters UK chief executive Paul Smith said: "Northumbria is an important market for us, with an abundance of water and a high demand for water meters."
We are very excited about being able to bring this technology to a wider market.
"The company has set up a website to help people decide if they want to buy the new meter.
But Mr Smith said the company would not be making money off of the device."
This is an entirely separate business from our current business," he said."
The technology is not yet mature enough for us to make money off it.
"It's a very risky business."'
You'll be shocked'If you think you are being left out of the loop, Water Meter International has another reason for your concern.
"You'll have been shocked by how many people in the industry are not making any money from their water meters, " it says on its website.
"Our customers expect us to deliver the highest quality service, and we do."
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Our research focuses on the formative assessment practices from the study of interactions between the teacher and the students in the classroom. One of the main research areas in formative assessment is the quality of feedback,<|fim_middle|>.323-349). Mahwah, NJ:Erlbaum. | as it is thought to be an important way to enhance students' learning. Hattie and Timperley (2007) conclude, in their review of research on feedback, that it "is among the most critical influences on student learning". Results in this field of research has produced some general recommendations for teachers, but very few outcomes taking into account the context of production of teachers' feedback.
We are interested in specific moments of the classroom which correspond to moments where the students encounter difficulties in progressing in the task. We assume that these moments can provide information about the lack of appropriated feedback from the teacher. Our study integrates some elements of the context.
What characterizes most of the definitions of formative assessment is providing feedback to students and teacher about where the learners are in their learning, where they are going and what needs to be done to get them there (Carver & Scheier, 1999; Hattie & Timperley, 2007; Wiliam, 2010).These three processes are at stake also in students' self-regulation of learning.
Indeed self-regulation theory involves learners' questioning about (1) what is my goal? (2) Where I am right now? and (3) How to get there ? (Andrade, 2010; Carver & Scheier, 1999). Within the framework of formative assessment, the main purpose of feedback is to reduce discrepancies between the goal and the current state.
Self-regulation involves students in thinking about the quality of their own products and processes (Andrade, 2010). Many research shows that this process is positively connected to academic achievement. Indeed, self-regulated learners use a wide variety of strategy to promote learning (e.g. goal setting, selected adapting learning strategies, managing affect and motivation, monitoring progress, seeking feedback etc.). In contrast, less effective learners, have minimal self-regulation and depend much more on external factors (teachers, peers, or the task for guidance and feedback) (Pintrich, 2000; Zimmerman & Schunk, 2004).
According to Hattie & Timperley (2007) feedbacks that aim at improving students' strategies and improvements in the task are most powerful. Even though many researches have studied the quality of feedbacks, and their effects on students learning, very few took into account the context which could explain the production of feedbacks.
Our study aims at understanding what could entail the production, by the teacher, of a given feedback in a given context. More specifically we focus on the reasons why a teacher could give a poor feedback to students which encounter difficulties in progressing in the task.
Our data consists of a video recording of a physics lesson at grade 8 with an experienced teacher (more than fifteen years of teaching).The aim of the lesson was for the students to make an electric circuit and to do some tension measures of the different components of the circuit. From these measures they had to identify the characteristics of each component. One camera was pointing on a group of two students, and another one on the teacher enable us to grasp the context of the classroom. The teacher was also interviewed after the lesson. The aim of this interview was to clarify the learning objectives and the difficulties she came up with. The whole video data and the interview were transcribed. Our analysis consists on several steps: First the whole video data was coded using keywords corresponding to the categories mentioned in the theoretical framework (five key strategies). This enabled us to focus on a "privileged" moment concerning teacher/student interaction corresponding to an episode where the students show signs of demotivation, and where the teacher's feedbacks are very poor. What's more, the coding showed that students where engaging in the activity but did not seem to progress in the task. The second step was to go back to the video data to understand more deeply what is at stake in this episode. From the verbalization of the students and their actions, we inferred what was the difficulty they were facing (the students made a confusion between the generator and the voltmeter, and thus the voltmeter was plugged in series). From the teacher's verbalization and actions we inferred what was the difficulty she diagnosed (the students don't know how to plug in a voltmeter). It ended up that the teacher did not diagnose the correct difficulty the students were facing. The third step was to make some hypothesis about the reason why the teacher would do a wrong diagnosis. We based this inference from an analysis of the interaction between the teacher and students and from the interview.
The feedbacks which was given to the students was poor. Even though the teacher gives a feedback on the goal to be achieved (but not on the current state or the ways to achieve the goal), she gives a feedback according to a wrong diagnosis. The interview with the teacher shows that she is focused on the difficulty to plug in correctly the voltmeter: "[the aim of the lesson] was to see once more the functioning of the voltmeter as there is many [students] who do not know how to use them" From the teacher's interaction with other groups of students, we could also infer that the teacher is focused on this difficulty. The fact that the teacher was anticipating this specific difficulty for the students prevented her to diagnose the actual difficulty. The following feedback was given before she went to see other groups of students: "how is your device plugged in?" The students had plugged in the voltmeter as a generator, and therefore could not understand the feedback of the teacher. The students spent eight minutes trying to work out what was wrong in their circuit before the teacher returns and ends up giving the correct answer. The teacher had knowledge on students' difficulties in electricity from her previous experience. What could be seen from the video is that she doesn't ask the students to explain what they have done, but rather infers difficulties from their production. It seems that the teacher does not adapt her feedback to the particularity of the students. Thus some further research on teachers' diagnosis would be necessary. This study suggests that a feedback should always take into account all three processes (where the learners are in their learning, where they are going and what needs to be done to get them there).
Andrade, H. (2010). Students as the definitive source of formative assessment. Academic self-assessment and the self-regulation of learning. In H. A. Andrade & G. J. Cizek (Eds.), Handbook for formative assessment (pp.90-105). New York: Routledge. Carver, C. S., & Scheier, M. F. (1999). Themes and issues in the self-regulation of behavior. In R. S.Wyer, Jr. (Ed.), Advances in social cognition (Vol. 12, pp. 1–105). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Hattie, J., & Timperley, H. (2007). The power of feedback. Review of Educational Research, 77 (1), 81-112. Pintrich, P. (2000). The role of goal orientation in self-regulated learning. In M. Bokaerts, P. Pintrich, & M. Zeidner (Eds.), Handbook of self-regulation (pp. 452-502). San Diego, CA: Academic Wiliam, D. (2010). An integrative summary of the research literature and impicatios for a new theory of formative assessment. In H. A. Andrade & G. J. Cizek (Eds.), Handbook for formative assessment (pp.18-40). New York: Routledge. Wiliam, D., & Thompson, M. (2007). Integrating assessment with instruction: What will it take to make it work? In C. A. Dwyer (Ed.), The future of assessment: Shaping teaching and learning (pp. 53–82). Mahwah, NJ:Erlbaum. Zimmerman, B., & Schunk, D. (2004). Self-regulating intellectual processes and outcomes: A social cognitive perspective. In D. Dai & R. Sternberg (Eds.), Motivation, emotion, and cognition: Integrative perspectives on intellectual functioning and development (pp | 1,752 |
Earth gravity satellites end prolific science mission with climate change insights
Two satellites with more than 15 productive years in orbit have led to paradigm-shifting insights into the interactions of our planet's oceans, atmosphere and the human accelerant to global climate change.
The Gravity Recovery and Climate<|fim_middle|>ged climate change, global sea level rise, global warming, Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, NASA, polar ice meltBy Austin MontgomeryLeave a comment
← Complicated mammals standing on the wings of robots: Data from new telescope will open windows in time
Artificial intelligence helps NASA finds exoplanets in constellation Draco → | Experiment (GRACE), a German/U.S. partner mission, launched in 2002 to track the continuous movement of water, ice and the Earth's surface. End of life battery issues prompted the decommission. The mission was originally only scheduled for five years to study the gravity field, according to University of Texas at Austin principal investigator Byron Tapley.
But the satellites revealed how water, ice and solid Earth mass move on or near Earth's surface due to Earth's changing seasons, weather and climate processes, earthquakes and even human activities, such as from the depletion of large aquifers. It did this by sensing minute changes in the gravitational pull caused by local changes in Earth's mass, which are due mostly to changes in how water is constantly being redistributed around our planet.
"GRACE has provided paradigm-shifting insights into the interactions of our planet's ocean, atmosphere and solid Earth components," Tapley said. "It has advanced our understanding of the contribution of polar ice melt to global sea level rise and the amount of atmospheric heat absorbed by the ocean. Recent applications include monitoring and managing global water resources used for consumption, agriculture and industry; and assessing flood and earthquake hazards."
The planet's gravity field was calculated monthly using a microwave ranging system to measure the change in distance of each satellite to within a fraction of the diameter of a human hair at over a distance of 137 miles (220 km) apart. The range data was combined with global positioning system (GPS) tracking for timing; star trackers for altitude information and an accelerometer to account for solar radiation and atmospheric drag.
"GRACE was an excellent example of a research satellite mission that advanced science and also provided near-term societal benefits," said Michael Freilich, director of NASA's Earth Science Division at the agency's headquarters in Washington. "Using cutting-edge technology to make exquisitely precise distance measurements, GRACE improved our scientific understanding of our complex home planet, while at the same time providing information — such as measurements related to ground water, drought and aquifer water storage changes worldwide — that was used in the U.S. and internationally to improve the accuracy of environmental monitoring and forecasts."
Sadly, the satellites watched the loss of ice mace from Earth's ice sheets, but also provided a better understanding of the processes responsible for sea level rise and ocean circulation. The observations also provided insight into where global groundwater resources were depleting or expanding and where dry soils contributed to drought.
Users from over 100 countries routinely download GRACE data for analyses.
"GRACE was a pioneering mission that advanced our understanding across the Earth system — land, ocean and ice," said Mike Watkins, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the mission's original project scientist. "The entire mission team was creative and successful in its truly heroic efforts over the last few years, extending the science return of the mission to help minimize the gap between GRACE and its successor mission, GRACE Follow-On, scheduled to launch in early 2018."
GRACE is a joint NASA/Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR, the German Aerospace Center) mission led by Tapley and Co-principal Investigator Frank Flechtner at GFZ. GRACE ground segment operations are co-funded by GFZ, DLR and the European Space Agency. JPL manages GRACE for NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington. GRACE was the first mission launched under NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder program, designed to develop new measurement technologies for studying the Earth system.grace
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Google might be trying to take the file format world by storm with WebP, but an Israeli tech company, ICVT, would much rather that<|fim_middle|> a slow connection, well it's like pulling teeth. But the idea, that's very cool.
You can go have a play and squash some pictures over at JPEGmini, for free. Let me know what you think. | we took a look at their innovative JPEG-compressing technology, JPEGmini. It takes JPEG files and makes them smaller, without any perceptible loss of quality. As they put it, it's your photos on a diet. JPEGmini uses baseline JPEG technology, so provided that your device supports JPEG, it'll support JPEGmini, too.
There's a maximum of 80% compression achieveable, but in order to manage that, you have to be working with a file that's resolution in excess of eight megapixels. The smaller the file, the less compression is achievable.
JPEGmini works by assessing the photo to determine just how much compression it can get away with before the image quality becomes noticeably poorer. Then a unique JPEG encoder works its magic and creates the most compact version of the image that's possible under current JPEG standards.
For the developers – Sharon Carmel and Dror Gill – the idea is to save storage space, to speed up email transfers of photos, and to save money by reducing the time it takes to move data from one place to another. You know, it'd be even more effective and efficient if it weren't a web-based application and could be downloaded as a desktop app. Cos at the moment we're all uploading and downloading photos in order to compress them, and when you're on | 267 |
It's that time of year again! I share with you my personal recap of 2010. This year was much better than 20<|fim_middle|> another state.
Attended annual Christmas Party for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America with my little and her cousin. This is our third year in attendance!
Had hot pot on Christmas day twice. Lunch with Mary Ellen and her mom and her brother, and dinner with my own family. I did exactly this last year for Christmas!
Tomorrow's plan is to party on a rooftop downtown in celebration of a new and fresh year. A stretch Hummer may have been rented.
That was my year! I'm happy to have shared it with you and have your support, comments, and readership. It means an awful lot to me. Thank you!
Question: What are five highlights from your 2010? | 09 (which was much worse than my 2008). It was a year of recovery and regaining balance. I feel very fondly of 2010 but I'm ready to embrace 2011. Bring it!
Rung in the new year with Alan, Jen, and friends.
I finally organized my books.
An old high school and college classmate randomly invited me to Gourdough's. I've since had 13 of their donuts.
Made a cooking video with my mom. Significant because it's the most popular youtube video I've posted with over 10,000 views.
Will came to visit from Dallas.
Launched a separate food blog.
Sent out Valentine cards and socks.
Had a Valentine's Date with Alan at Joe DiMaggio's and received beautiful flowers from Cindy and a lovingly abusive voice mail from Jon.
Progressive meal in Houston that took us to three restaurants for one meal.
Organized a trip to San Antonio to eat a 42 inch pizza.
Spotted a car hoarder. This blog entry got a lot of Austin search hits.
First real book club meeting. Discussed The Shack.
Despite all of the above, it was still a tough month.
Watched An Education by myself.
Went to Austin's first annual Bacon Takedown!
Participated in a food blogger's workshop, called TechMunch during SXSW.
Celebrated two years with Alan.
I piped my first cake (disaster) and saw the famed albino squirrel at the University of Texas.
Posted my first video blog.
Learned to be more careful. More specifically, not to roam gas stations at night.
Treated Alan and myself to a date with Conan.
I ate a double down.
Austin Wine Festival with Brittany.
Went canoeing for the first time.
Moved out of my 2 bedroom apartment which I shared with Brandi and into a 1 bedroom by my lonesome. Meanwhile, Brandi moved to Dallas for culinary school.
Started a weekly writing exercise with my best friend.
Celebrated Brittany's birthday at a bingo hall.
I ran into the same cat, dog, and mouse that I had previously first seen in San Francisco the year prior.
Saw Anthony Bourdain speak for the second time this year. Also had the pleasure of meeting him. And touching his tricep.
Celebrated Fourth of July poolside and downtown.
Seriously started to write letters and my pen pals actually wrote back.
Hosted a girls' weekend. Alex and Hillary drove in from Houston and San Angelo and we ate, drank, and were merry.
Celebrated my 27th birthday with two celebrations. An one-on-one date at a fabulous new sushi restaurant and then a group birthday with a handful of friends.
Jon who flew down and was able to make it to my birthday dinner, was in town an extra day and we spent all day eating, drinking, and being merry.
Participated in VEDA and met some wonderful people.
I vlogged my scoliosis scar which was a difficult feat for me.
I had my heart broken by someone dear to me.
Participated in an attempt to set a world record of most amount of people icing cupcakes at one time.
Finished my 21st book of 2010 : A Man Without a Country. One of my favorites.
Went to Houston to celebrate Aishah's 27th birthday.
Alan took me to see Joe Rogan!
Went to the wedding of Alan's childhood friends.
Finished Reading Cook's Tour by Antony Bourdain. My 28th book of 2010.
Made Bucatini All' Amatriciana , my favorite recipe of the year.
I planned and organized a regional conference for work.
My dude turned 26! We celebrated for over a week.
My half sister whom I haven't seen in over ten years found me on Facebook.
Dressed up as a cop for Halloween.
Auditioned for a travel reality TV show after receiving an email from a casting director. I took Neville as possible partner and he totally outshone me.
A close friend's brother died unexpectedly. Being with her has been a top priority whenever I'm in Houston. I've grown deeper in love for and with her.
Tried out Breakfast Klub, a culinary highlight in 2010.
Went to Austin's first trailer park food festival.
I posted a blog post every day in November as part of Nablopomo.
Walked Race for the Cure with Brittany and raised over 500 dollars for breast cancer research.
Saw Louis C.K. thanks to lovely boyfriend.
Saw old friends in Houston over Thanksgiving.
I listed 100 things I am thankful for.
Road trip to Oklahoma! Why Oklahoma? To cross off | 992 |
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Home > At 'Landmark' Summit an 'Exasperated' Obama Succeeded in Proving GOP 'Party of No'
At 'Landmark' Summit an 'Exasperated' Obama Succeeded in Proving GOP 'Party of No<|fim_middle|> Good evening. It was a landmark event today, a televised political duel. Democrats and Republicans sitting face to face for nearly seven hours, debating health care in America. They had been summoned by the President and there was tension, there was anger. But there was genuine engagement. So, will there be action?...
SAWYER: In some sense today's meeting, as you know, was theater, as well, George. So, thumb's up, thumb's down, for whom?
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: I think it was probably an honorable draw. You say theater, it was also political chess, as well. And both sides, I think, gained something. I think the President reinforced his bipartisan bonafides, showed that he was reaching out. I think Republicans were able to show they had real substantive ideas, there are just differences about how to achieve health care reform in this country.
CBS Evening News:
KATIE COURIC: Good evening, everyone. Anyone tuning in to daytime television today saw something unprecedented - the President and members of Congress holding a summit before live cameras on a major piece of legislation, health care reform. But it was less negotiating than speech making, and as new as this was, you might have gotten the feeling you'd heard it all before. Republicans said let's start from scratch. Democrats said forget it. So where do they go from here?...
CHIP REID: The President often seemed exasperated with Republican arguments while his fellow Democrats vigorously defended the President's plan and accused Republicans of coddling insurance companies....
COURIC: Chip, did the President, in a way, accomplish what he needed to do today?
REID: Well, he really did, Katie. What he really wanted to do was convince the American people, and more importantly, wavering Democrats in Congress, that the Republicans are the party of no. They won't compromise and he now has no choice but to move ahead with Democrats alone.
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"The President often seemed exasperated with Republican arguments," CBS's Chip Reid empathetically conveyed in reporting on Thursday's health care policy summit before he declared that President Obama had achieved what he needed to accomplish:
Well, he really did, Katie. What he really wanted to do was convince the American people, and more importantly wavering Democrats in Congress, that the Republicans are the party of no. They won't compromise and he now has no choice but to move ahead with Democrats alone.
On ABC, anchor Diane Sawyer led with what she described as "a landmark event today, a televised political duel." Echoing Reid's assessment of Obama's "exasperation," Jake Tapper saw "from the Republicans, some old arguments and new frustrations for the President." George Stephanopoulos decided Obama had "reinforced his bipartisan bonafides, showed that he was reaching out."
Parting with Reid, however, Stephanopoulos considered it an "honorable draw" since "both sides...gained something" as "Republicans were able to show they had real substantive ideas, there are just differences about how to achieve health care reform in this country."
Brief excerpts from the ABC and CBS coverage on Thursday, February 25:
ABC's World News:
DIANE SAWYER: | 261 |
Residents of a north-east community said they feel "let down" by a government scheme to provide superfast broadband to rural areas.
In Kintore, residents are enjoying superfast broadband with speeds of 70 megabits per second (mbps).
However, one mile outside the town in areas such as Balbithan, Wester Fintray, Leylodge and<|fim_middle|>wen, who lives in Balbithan, said: "A number of residents feel very let down by the Scottish Government.
"In our area, superfast broadband has been brought to absolutely no one. In fact, some have said it is as slow if not slower than before.
Lorna Anderson, who also lives in Balbithan, added: "I have given up on my broadband and am now using unlimited data instead.
"It is very poor. Everyone who lives here was very optimistic and relieved when the Government unveiled these new plans.
A Scottish Government spokesman said:"Across Aberdeenshire, more than 90% of premises have access to fibre broadband thanks to Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband, including in the village of Kintore.
"Some properties that are too far from fibre cabinet connection and are experiencing less than two megabits per second (Mbps), may be eligible for the Better Broadband Scheme, where vouchers towards a satellite service are provided.
"In the longer term, despite telecoms being the UK Government's responsibility, we are investing 97% of the initial £600 million to extend superfast access. | Cottown, residents are only receiving average speeds of 1-3mbps.
Now they say the Scottish Government scheme Scotland Superfast has not delivered its pledge to bring superfast broadband to rural areas of Scotland.
Kintore and District Community Council member Ken McE | 55 |
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