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To Foster Dialogue, Stanford Should Focus On Freshman Dorms
Neel Guha
Stanford communities that don't self-select are most likely to be able to promote a culture of open debate.
This year has been plagued by a lack of civil and constructive discourse surrounding issues such as race, diversity, and identity. A significant portion of the blame is on us – the students. When given the chance to seriously engage with opposing viewpoints, we've chosen to preach to our base and reinforce damaging stereotypes. When faced with dissent, we've reacted with ad hominem attacks and cheap punches (see comments). The university administration has attempted to remedy this through OpenXChange – an initiative designed to bring the campus together to engage in dialogue over important issues of concern. Unfortunately, these efforts to improve the quality of dialogue have often fallen short. OpenXChange, for example, has been criticized by both the left and the right as shallow and placatory. Events hosted by student groups and community centers attempting to increase dialogue often cater to a small subset of the student population. In doing so they often implicitly support a single ideology and deter any dissent. For these reasons, it's unlikely that the administration or student groups will be able to reform campus discourse.
If we do want to foster constructive dialogue we must turn to the freshman dorms. The diversity of these residences and the incentives they create for disagreeing residents to maintain personal relationships enable the positive conversations students on this campus need to be having.
More often than not, attempts to promote dialogue on campus cater to self-selected, homogenous audiences. Because individuals must choose to participate in most opportunities, those who attend already share common views or perspectives regarding the issue at hand. True dialogue is an exchange of ideas. In order for dialogue to be valuable, these ideas must offer competing or alternate perspectives on an issue or problem. Without some measure of dissent, these conversations reinforce – rather than challenge – existing assumptions or opinions. By drawing together students that primarily agree with each other, these events and groups stifle meaningful discussion by advocating a single narrative under the pretense of dialogue. In such an imbalanced environment, it is impossible to question or debate. These spaces act as echo chambers – repeatedly exposing individuals to a similar set of opinions, narrowing their understanding of the world and diminishing their ability to empathize with alternate perspectives.
By contrast, freshman dorms are among the most heterogenous communities on campus – intentionally assembled to represent the fullest extent of Stanford's racial, socioeconomic, and ideological diversity. Unbiased and unexposed to campus ideologies, freshman bring a variety of unique experiences and new perspectives to their dorm communities. While their social lives, classes, and clubs introduce them to like-minded individuals, the dorm serves to bring them together with those they wouldn't otherwise meet or befriend. By living next to peers hailing from radically different backgrounds and walks of life, freshman are forced to interact and engage with alternate ways of thinking or approaching the world.
In such an environment, a singular ideology is unlikely to hold a monopoly over the community. For every resident with one opinion, there are almost certainly residents who hold opposing ones. The constant influx of new perspectives and thoughts can lead to formative conversations between residents. Many students would readily admit that they learned as much from their peers as their classes during their freshman year. Through this ideological diversity, the freshman dorms are able to create dialogue conducive environments not found elsewhere on campus.
Freshman dorms supplement this diversity by creating strong personal relationships between residents. Dialogue on campus suffers from its impersonality as it often occurs between individuals who aren't friends or between larger student groups. When two individuals define their relationship by conversations around contentious topics, it's easy for discourse<|fim_middle|> to have conversations about difficult subjects – such as race or identity – with our friends. The relationship, grounded in mutual interests, shared experiences, and compatible personalities, allows us to understand and see our friend as more than just their identity or politics. It creates empathy and enables us to understand alternative perspectives and put a human face to issues we'd otherwise see in the abstract. By engaging with an individual through a personal channel – and not a campus-wide one – we're forced to directly address their thoughts and sentiments. It becomes significantly harder to hide behind standard ideological rhetoric. With a friend – whom we respect and trust – we're more vulnerable, willing to make concessions and admit inconsistencies in our views. Friends can acknowledge core philosophical disagreements about an issue in a constructive and positive way.
If we want to improve the quality of campus discourse, we must start with Wilbur, Stern, Roble and FloMo. Though introducing divisive topics into a dorm community carries risks, the discord already present on campus necessitates these conversations. Events like "Crossing The Line" and dorm spotlights successfully introduce topics like race, identity, and diversity into dorm discussion. However, we need to go further and invest in more events that continue discussions about these issues: events that ask freshmen to consider hard questions about campus and national politics and encourage open discourse.
Stanford Residential Education aims to use residences as spaces to promote learning and exploration. Freshmen should have the chance to pursue these goals and enable their peers to help them better understand the world. In order to do so, there needs to be a more concerted and standardized effort across freshman residences to introduce such programming. Events that create opportunities for students to discuss important issues and their own personal experiences with them would go a long way in achieving this. By targeting dialogue on a "micro" level through personal conversations we can hope to have an effect on dialogue campus-wide. At the very least, facilitating discussion in freshman dorms would help Stanford produce more balanced, aware and informed students.
Hidden BDS Plot Against Israel Uncovered at Stanford
Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine plans an all-out attempt to instate a policy of Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions targeted at the state of Israel
70% of Stanford Students Oppose BDS, Bringing Into Question Why SJP Seeks Re-Vote
A poll emailed by the Stanford Review to freshmen, sophomores and juniors confirms that a significant majority of students oppose boycotts, divestment and sanctions targeted | to quickly sour. A lack of respect and the tendency to view someone as purely the compilation of their political beliefs can lead to personal attacks and tone-deaf statements. Once this line is crossed, it's incredibly difficult to return to a place of civility and respect.
In contrast, most individuals would agree that it is easier | 65 |
The first issue of 'The GJCians', a fortnightly newsletter run by the students of SYBA Mass Communication, was released by the auspicious hands of the Principal in -charge Dr. Kishor Sukhtankar. The programme took place on 5th of July . Dr. Atul Pitre, the Head of English Dept. and Vice Principal of Arts faculty, all the teachers of English Department and students of SYBA English who have opted for the subject Mass Communication were present for the function.
The programme was anchored by Miss. Sana Naik, a student of SYBA and the chief editor of the newsletter, who briefly introduced the objective and the nature of the whole activity. "Then aim is<|fim_middle|> provides them ample of experience.
Recently on 12th July, such students were interviewed and selected; among the 24 applicants, 15 were selected. These students work for about three hours of time, daily. This entire program is practiced under the guidance of Dr. P.B. Landge.
Urdu Department of our college holds every week a seminar of its regular students who study on a given theme and present a paper or power-point presentation every week. The first seminar session under this programme took place on Saturday 19th July, 2014 in the Department of Urdu.
The theme this time was 'Meri Pasandida Shakhsiyat' (My Favourite Personality) for which all the students from F.Y., S.Y. and T.Y.B.A. enthusiastically participated and enjoyed the seminar. Master Sufiyan Usman Haju of T.Y.B.A anchored the program. Atif Kadri of S.Y.B.A. did the reading of a ''Naat'' along with Miss Heena Dawt OF S.Y.B.A on 'Mothers'. Kausar Kamal Shaikh of S.Y.B.A shared her thoughts on 'Sir Sayyad Ahmad Khan'. Tehzeen Mukadam, the student of T.Y.B.A. gave a brilliant speech about 'Prophet Mohammad'.
At the end, Prof. Mohammad Danish Gani, Head of Urdu Dept, gave a speech appreciating the students for their efforts. Finally, master Sufiyan concluded the programme by presenting the vote of thanks.
Be Eco – Friendly Consumers!
A world famous misunderstanding has gained popularity that road rallies, plays, slogans and plantation of sapling on our birthday (every year in the same hole!) will save our earth. Efforts are good but going fruitless. Then what should actually be done?
Problem of environment can be overcome only when longer part of world's population will be employed in the production of Eco-friendly goods and services like organic food, energy saving appliances (solar water heater, earthen cooler pot), naturally disposable commodities like Bamboo Pen, other Bamboo and wooden substitutes of plastic and so on.
That is why we, as consumers, should change our attitude. 100% organic sugar is available in the markets at Rs. 70/Kg. Where normal (chemical mixed) sugar is for around Rs. 30-40. A regular consumer will purchase the cheaper one but if affordable, we should always purchase organic because we are contributing the extra price for the savage of earth. Thus, spending on eco- friendly products without considering the price will be the starting point of earth saving movement. | to give practical knowledge of journalistic skills to the students of Mass Communication who have to study print media and journalism as a part of their syllabus. The students, as reporters and newsmakers , are to cover all the major academic , co-curricular and extracurricular activities and achievements of various departments and individuals in Gogate Jogalekar College, mirroring the active and colourful life of the GJCians" said Sana .
Dr. Sukhtankar, after the publication of the newsletter expressed his good wishes for the endeavor of the students and teachers of the English Department. Miss. Shruti Salvi one of the co-editors delivered the vote of thanks. The students of Mass Communication will come with news issues of the newsletter after every fortnight. These issues will be displayed at the students' notice boards in the main and the new building, at the ladies hostel and the library of the college. The news updates will be available also on the blog i.e. thegjcians.blogspot.in.
The Lokmanya Tilak Post Graduation Center of our college conducted the entrance test for the students willing to enroll for PG courses in Arts faculty. The test was conducted on 15th July 2014 during 11.00 to 1.00 pm. Prof. Shraddha Rane conducted the exam successfully being the chief conductor and the Head of the PG Center. Prof. Shivraj Gopale and Mrs. Lala assisted her in the conduct of the exam.
The death anniversary of Gogate-Jogalekar college's first donor, Late Nanasaheb Gogate was observed in the college , on 8th July at 8 am. The programme was organized by the function committee of the college. The teaching and non-teaching staff and the students of the college were present in a large number on this occasion.
Dr. Kishor Sukhatankar, Principal in charge, was the chairperson of the programme. Dr. Sukhatankar briefly introduced the audience about the life of late Nanasaheb and offered a floral homage to Nanasaheb's portrait. "Born in Mavalange village near Ratnagiri, Nanasaheb completed his education against all odds; with his curiosity to gain knowledge, strong resolution and his never back down attitude. He successfully got a job in one of Mumbai's famous solicitor firms.", said Dr.Sukhtankar, presenting before the audience the inspirational journey of Nanasaheb. He acknowledged Nanasaheb's substantial donation of Rs.51, 000 which helped not only the college a lot during the early days of its advancement. "This has been Nanasaheb's inestimable contribution not only to the college but also to the educational growth of the whole Konkan region.", stated Dr. Sukhatankar concluding with an appeal to all the staff-members to work with total commitment to their profession, to fulfill Nanasaheb's dream of imparting quality education in Konkan and thus to pay a tribute to the generous and visionary donor in a real sense.
The college result of B.com exam held in April, 2014 has turned out to be 80% this year. According to the VI semester pattern, five of our students have achieved great success by getting 'A' grade, among which Madhura Madhav Palkar has stood 1st in the class with an aggregate score of 6.79 points. Master Pankaj Tushar Shetye stood 2nd with an aggregate of 6.69 points. The third place has been achieved by Miss Sneha Gajanan Limaye who has got total of 6.65 points. Miss Vaibhavi Bhalchandra Bane stood 4th with 6.49 points and was followed by Miss Anuja Vijay Khare with 6.47 points standing 5th in the class.
If the last semester marks are considered, four of the students got 'O' grade with 7 points. Miss Sneha Limaye stood 1st in this ranking. Miss Neha Farooq Dawt stood 2nd, Master Hemantkumar Mohanlal Khatik ranked 3rd while Master Swapnil Anil Bait and Miss Madhura Madhav Palkar stood 4th and 5th respectively.
All of our TYBcom students have passed out with flying colors making us all very proud and giving the next batch the motivation to do the same.
Hearty congrats to Madhura and all the successful candidates.
The Mathematics Dept. of our college has been organizing consistent visits to the R. E. Society's Godbole High School , Kelye, for the past 9 years. Students of T.Y.BSc. and M.Sc. visit the students of std.X of this high school every Sunday, in order to provide them with guidance in the subject of mathematics.
Similarly, this year the inauguration of this weekly visit guidance programme took place on Sunday, 29th June, during which the Vice Principal of Science faculty and Head of Mathematics Department, Prof. Rajiv Sapre, briefly introduced the students to the nature of the programme and its objective. His speech provided the students a motivation to think that Maths can be an interesting subject and they may score very well in it.
This Guidance programme will continue for all the year without charging any kind of fees and the beneficiary students will be taught some new, advanced and useful techniques that will make their study of Maths easier and will help them in gaining good marks in the board exams.
It is the moment of honour for our college that a GJCian Miss Ankita Mayekar, has qualified the selection round of the World Power Lifting Competition that took place recently at Tatanagar, Jamshedpur in Jharkhand. Now, as she has become a part of the Indian Powerlifting Team, Ankita will represent India at the international level for the competition that will be held in Las Vegas, America during 17th to 19th October, 2014.
Before this, Ankita has skillfully represented our college at the state and national level. She has achieved in total 13 medals, including 8 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze at the State level. Also she has received a total number of 11 medals including 8 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze at the national level. She has also represented our college at the All India Inter University Competition for 3 times. Ankita has been guided by the Sports Director Mr. Vinod Shinde and has been acknowledged and motivated by Mr. Chandrakant Ghawali, Mrs. Leena Ghadigaonkar and Mr. Patil at all times.
We the GJCians heartily congratulate this shining star of ours and wish her all the very best for the competition.
Despite the grave problem of global warming and heavy deforestation, the common people are still unaware of these environmental issues. Yet there are few eco-friendly groups that work for conservation and growth of our surrounding atmosphere. And it has been a long tradition of the NSS unit of our college to extend a helping hand to such groups and to take the lion's share in the endeavor to conserve the environment. Recently the NSS volunteers of our college worked for the cause, participating in the tree plantation programme in collaboration with 'Shree Charitable Trust' and 'Swarup Savali'. For the last few years, Shree charitable Trust has been conducting the activity of tree plantation along the Ratnagiri-Pavas Road. This noble activity was carried out on 27th and 28th of June which successfully achieved the target of planting 100 plants.
The inauguration was done by the hands of a senior pilgrim who was on his way to a group from ''Paud'', a remote place near the site of project. The founder of this trust, Mr. Shreenivas Gogate, personally participated along with the programme officers of our NSS unit, Prof. Vasudev Athalye and Dr. Sonali Kadam. Great emphasis was given on the selection of plants underlining the specific characteristics of producing maximum oxygen and rendering wide shadow. All the NSS volunteers of our unit who participated in the activity gave their hundred percent for the noble cause.
The well-known filmmaker Dr. Jabbar Patel's movie viz. 'Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar' was screened on 10th July for the students of Marathi MA II. This event was held in collaboration with Department of Marathi and the Film Club of the College so as to provide the students with the background information about the Dalit Literature. This movie was shown in particular as it depicts the life of Dr.Ambedkar, without whom the study of Dalit Sahitya is literally incomplete. The screening of this movie was done under the guidance of Prof. Gopale from Department of Marathi.
Another movie viz. 'Dance Like a Man' was screened by the Dept of English and the Film Club for the students of TYBA (English), as the movie is based on Mahesh Dattani's play of the same title which is a part of their syllabus. The movie, being a very fine work of art and giving the message that one should maintain balance both between their family life and their ambitions, was very much appreciated by all the students. Both the movies proved helpful for the students for the better understanding of the theories and the representative texts prescribed for them.
Every year the Cultural Department of our college organizes the Malhar Mahotsav to search fresh new talents to prepare them for the university, state and national level competitions. This year too, the festival took place from 5th to 8th July, 2014, in which the selection of students for various events like singing, elocution and fine arts was made. The other purpose of organizing this Mahotsav is to provide the students with a membership of our cultural department and to boost them up to participate and perform well in reputed competitions at different levels.
This whole event was held under the guidance of Prof. Uday Bodas, the co-ordiantor of Extracurricular Activities along with Prof. Anand Ambekar, the convenor of our Cultural Department.
The 'Earn and Learn scheme' is being run by our college for a long time. The volunteers interested in this scheme are interviewed and selected for their respective jobs and are given a chance to work in the college library, the NSS office, the main college office, the gymkhana, etc .
This 'Earn and Learn scheme' was first introduced by Karmveer Bhaurav Patil. By providing this scheme, our college does a great and important work of providing the needy and promising students with a chance of having a part-time job and some financial support. This also gives the students a sense of dignity of their work, boosts their confidence and | 2,269 |
The Slimeking's Tower is an action-roguelike game where you'll have to reach the upper floor of a tower where the grumpy king of the slimes is waiting for you to kick his sticky face and retrieve your people's moustaches back!
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The Slimeking's Tower allows you to acquire items as<|fim_middle|> Unlock different characters with unique abilities and equipment.
■ Five different gamemodes to master.
■ Prove yourself by beating 20 deadly challenges.
■ Slay over 100 different enemies and bosses.
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Jonathan Hardy, the voice of Farscape's Rygel, has passed away at the age of 71.
Jonathan Hardy at "Best of Both Worlds 16" convention, Sydney, July 27, 2002
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The distinguished Jonathan Hardy
His acting career spanned 37 years and included Moulin Rouge!, Mad Max, and a shirtload of Australian television including Farscape, where he not only performed the voice of Dominar Rygel XVI but also donned a toga to play Kahaynu, one of Moya's builders.
Jonathan was also a screenwriter who shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1981 for Breaker Morant, one of Australia's all-time best films.
He was a skilled raconteur who delighted in sharing anecdotes, meeting with fans, and lighting up every room he entered.
Born in New Zealand (on September 20, 1940), he particularly enjoyed telling ribald jokes concerning Kiwis and their sheep.
Because of his slight facial resemblance to Rygel (judge for yourself), there are some who claim that he served as the model for the puppet. However, if that's true, the Creature Shop must've been psychic, because Jonathan wasn't cast as the voice of Rygel until we were well into the shooting of Season One.
In fact, Jonathan wasn't even in the first group of voice actors who auditioned. A scene from the first episode where Rygel bargains/argues with an alien Proprietor (it's the scene where Rygel says, "There was a time when you would have been disembowelled with a dull Lashlan spade for half such an insult to me!") was shown to half a dozen Australian voice actors, and each took a crack at it.
David Kemper sent a copy of that tape—the same Rygel scene voiced six different ways by six different people—up to Los Angeles, where Rockne O'Bannon and I were writing scripts and breaking stories. Watching it, we couldn't decide whether to die laughing or die by hurling ourselves out a window. Every one of the voice actors—talented gentlemen to be sure—had played Rygel as a comic character… and tried to make him funny by using some weird comedic accent.
So we had Chico Marx Faux-Italian Rygel, we had Snidely Whiplash Rygel… and the most hilarious of all, Truly Outrageous Monty-Python-Holy-Grail-esque French Rygel.
(What I don't remember is whether DK had warned us in advance what we were about to behold… or whether he'd just sent the tape up without comment to give Rock and me the same coronary surprise that he must've gotten upon first watching.)
Anyway. Rock and DK were in complete agreement that the search had to continue, and that it must be made clear to the voice actors that Rygel was a serious character… clever, devious, prideful, conniving, conceited, vengeful, etc. etc. etc., but serious.
And then somebody found Jonathan Hardy, and that was that.
Jonathan not only had the commanding yet versatile voice and the dramatic chops needed, but he also understood Rygel from word one… and he always played him as a real character, not a buffoon or a cartoon. Jonathan gave him dignity, without which a Dominar is nothing.
Which was a tad ironic, because in person, Jonathan was a big, lovable goofball, a total party animal who never lost the twinkle in his eye.
It seems appropriate to end with the (premature) eulogy Rygel gave Crichton in "That Old Black Magic"…
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DONEGAL ATHLETES took part in competitions in Dublin & Belfast...
Date: 19-Sep-2021
Donegal athletes took part in competitions in Dublin and Belfast on Saturday last, The<|fim_middle|>Sommer Lecky finished third in the High Jump with a jump of with a jump of 1.73m beating Shannon Craig Lifford Strabane on count back. Finn Valleys Janine Boyle took silver in the women's 100m in 12.9 secs. Cranford duo Aoife Giles and cousin Orla Neely finished first and third in the senior discus, while Ross Henderson, Lifford Strabane was third in the men's discus. In the U/15 events Riona Doherty, Finn Valley was a most impressive winner of the 100m with Amy Cullen, Cranford in third. Coalan Mc Fadden, Cranford was just caught on the line by Enniskillen lad Ben Warnock running for Monaghan Phoenix, both athletes were given the same time but Warnock was adjudged to have won.
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Next: FINN VALLEY AC hosts the McGonagle Champions Cup this Sunday, September 26. | Irish schools Tailteann Games were held in Santry and following standout performances six Donegal girls were selected on the Irish team for the schools International in Derbyshire on Saturday week. Lucy Mc Glynn, Colaiste Colm, Ballyshannon was selected in both the long hurdles and 4 x 300m relay, Tori Murchan, Abbey Vocational School Donegal Town selected in the High Jump, Ellie Mc Curdy, Holy Cross, Strabane was selected in the Javelin, Adrienne Gallen, St Columba's Stranorlar, in the Hammer, Harriet Mc Crossan, St Cecelia's, Derry in the sprint relay and Hannah Murray, St Columba's Stranorlar in the 4 x 300m relay. The Ulster girls were victorious in the overall team competition with a total of 100 points and the Girls captain Adrienne Gallen accepted the trophy on behalf of the team. In what was another red-letter day for Adrienne she won the hammer with a monster throw of 62.80m beating the old record by over two metres and was selected as the Outstanding Female Athlete at the meeting.
Adrienne Gallen
St Columba's Stranorlar athletes in Santry on Saturday L to R Daniel Mc Hugh Hannah Murray, Adrienne Gallen, and Oisin Thompson
The end of season Belfast International took place also took place on Saturday and athletes from Cranford, Finn Valley, Lifford Strabane and Letterkenny took part. The big news coming from the meet was the new Donegal Senior Record in the Men's Javelin by Gareth Crawford. Gareth had a lifetime best throw of 68.88m and held the lead until the fifth round when English International Joe Dunderdale moved into the lead with a throw of 68.95m.
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Neuroscientists Study Real-Time Learning in Classroom Lab
First grader Ramsey Itani listens to a teacher at the Educational Neuropsychology Laboratory in Pullman, Wash., while hooked up to a functional near-infrared spectroscope.
—Jerome Pollos for Education Week
By Sarah D. Sparks
Pullman, Wash.
Ramsey Itani and a handful of other students from Pullman District 267 are wired, in every sense of<|fim_middle|> pull together student data from so many sources; a few minutes of fNIR data more than fills a 32-gig thumb drive. The lab also runs extensive security protocols to ensure students' health and education data can't be released or traced to them accidentally.
Alexis Grow, a 6th grader working in the lab, initially said it was "creepy" to see her own brain waves visualized by the electroencephalogram, or EEG, she wore, but by the end of the coding exercise, she "got used to it. The brain-thingy on my head, it just felt like a baseball cap."
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While their class at first appears to be just a basic row of computer desks, the students in it look like extras from a mad-science movie. As 1st grader Ramsey puzzles over a computer-coding exercise, a Karate Kid-style headband over his forehead records his brain activity, triggering flares of yellow and orange splotches on a purple band on a computer monitor behind him. His classroom neighbor adjusts a blood pressure sensor on her wrist as she types, and in the next row, a 3rd grader peers at her work from beneath a set of eye-tracking goggles. Pullman special-assignment teacher Laura Grant comes over to help, wearing a sensor on her cheek that monitors her stress levels.
The classroom is part of the Educational Neuropsychology Laboratory at Washington State University here. The brainchild of an interdisciplinary team supported by the National Science Foundation, the $200,000 lab—believed to be the only one of its kind in the United States—is designed to interweave behavioral, academic, social, and neurological data during live class sessions, to create a more complete picture of what's going on in the interplay between teachers and students in the classroom.
"The idea is that they all overlap in student learning," said Richard Lamb, an assistant professor of science education measurement at Washington State and the director of the lab. "We want to embed as much of the data collection in as natural an environment as possible. We have these tools, we know what they can do, so how do we translate what we find in these tools to what we can do in the classroom?"
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For perhaps as long as there have been education researchers, there have been educators frustrated that the careful confines of the lab don't produce the same results as the messy real world of the classroom.
Nowhere has that divide been greater than in developmental neuroscience. To guide classroom practice, the field must solve what University of Virginia psychologist Daniel Willingham calls the "horizontal" problem—matching neurological patterns to student behavior—and the "vertical" problem of interweaving many facets of learning typically studied by totally different disciplines.
"The information that education researchers most often try to import from neuroscience concerns a single cognitive process in isolation, but the interactions with other systems will be part of the educational context," Willingham said. "Neuroscientists usually cannot characterize these interactions."
Researchers from different disciplines often don't talk to each other and may even be testing the same questions on different groups of people.
In response, Lamb and his colleagues take a kitchen-sink approach to studying learning. Video cameras in the lab record speech and body language, while computer software collects students' work, and an array of instruments track what's happening in the bodies and brains of students and teachers. By recording so many types of information, researchers hope to bridge brain and behavior.
For example, Lamb is using brain imaging of teachers and students to evaluate the cognitive difficulty of math concepts in the Common Core State Standards for elementary mathematics. "We believe there's a disconnect between the cognitive demand the experts say these concepts require and the cognitive demand students experience learning them and teachers experience teaching them," Lamb said.
In a preliminary test, 60 4th graders were scanned using a functional near-infrared spectroscope—which measures changes in blood-oxygen levels in the brain associated with thinking—while completing a 13-item math test aligned to the common-core math standards for their grade. The fNIR readings showed the questions rated as difficult were indeed mentally demanding, but they activated phonological systems in the brain, not those associated with processing math operations. That suggests "the problems are hard because of the reading, not the numbers," Lamb said. He is now planning a larger study to understand how different tasks within test questions and relationships with teachers affect students' cognitive load.
More than 60 active studies have started in the lab since its launch this spring, with many of them focused on practical problems in schools. Of the lab's nine postgraduate researchers, four are elementary preservice teachers who plan to go into teaching after graduating.
"It's a lot of data to be collecting on children, but do I think it's powerful? Oh, my gosh, [it's] amazing information to be able to share with parents," said Grant, a 5th grade teacher and a math and science education postdoctoral student at Washington State.
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In a separate study, Joshua Premo, a biology doctoral researcher at Washington State and a former New York teacher, became interested in how classroom dynamics affect cognitive load after reading a study on species of ants that communicate via touch; small breakdowns in communication lead to insects moving wildly off course.
"It's really analogous to classrooms," Premo said. "You have a teacher who thinks he's giving correct information to students. The moment you don't have that correct information, and you start going on with the lesson, you've lost the students. It's happening with individual students and the teacher, and in the class as a whole. If you could see exactly where that breakdown was occurring, you could essentially halt class, bring everybody back together, and keep going."
Bob Maxwell, an assistant superintendent in the Pullman district, said such studies could help the district plan pedagogy. "It would be really valuable to [use the fNIR technology on a class] and have teachers use different questioning strategies to see which are more engaging them in cognitive thinking," Maxwell said. "If you were teaching and you could see that visual of the [student's] thinking starting to shut down, you could change your teaching strategy."
Lamb previously helped develop the Student Task and Cognition Model, an "artificial neural network," or a type of artificial-intelligence system that mimics human learning and pattern recognition based on thousands of high school students. The lab still uses an AI program that collects and analyzes information at every student work station.
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The university is planning a $1.9 million version of the lab in a building set for completion in 2018, but Lamb said it's unlikely similar technology will be used in regular classrooms anytime soon.
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Goodreads: Patrick Riordan always thougth that nothing could match the adrenaline rush he gets from his job. But this Christmas, Patrick's pulse is really racing . . .
Kritters Thoughts: If you have ever taken a visit to Virgin River with the fantastic characters that Robyn Carr has created,<|fim_middle|> anywhere in this series and not feel completely lost. | then this will be an extra special read to enjoy during the holidays. New characters are added - Angie and her special friend Megan - these two will make quite the impact in the small town of Virgin River. Angie has just survived a major car accident and needs to escape her parents home to recenter herself and find out what path she wants to go down next.
Although the reader is quite aware how this book will probably end - the journey is still worth the ride! I love how my favorite characters from books past show up, but it still feels like a new book. The one sore spot I had was the age difference between the lovebirds, it was a little on the large side, but sort of worked because they had quite a few things in common. I must say it again - it was just fun to revisit these characters and at a different time of the year as I haven't read any of the other Christmas books in this series.
I would absolutely recommend this book to readers of both the women's fiction and romance, it has enough for both sets of readers. It is also a book for new and old fans of the Virgin River series, you can start | 234 |
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Private-equity insiders at firms like Apollo, Carlyle, and Bain Capital say these tips are key for landing your dream job at their exclusive firms
In early December, Business Insider hosted an exclusive webinar featuring top private-equity recruiters, who broke down exactly what it takes to land a job at firms like Carlyle, Bain Capital, and Apollo.
Recruiters shared a variety of tips for how to stand out during the application and interview process, like using data and numbers on your resume to demonstrate past success at work, or being mindful about the kind of career you're aiming to forge as an investor.
You can watch our full webinar on private-equity recruiting here.
Whether or not you're able to carve out a career as a private-equity investor could boil down to six crucial seconds.
That was one insight shared by James Cherubim, head of talent acquisition for The Carlyle Group, during an exclusive webinar hosted by Business Insider last week in which top private-equity recruiters broke down exactly what it takes to land at firms like Carlyle, Bain Capital, and Apollo.
WATCH: Top talent execs at firms like Carlyle and Apollo reveal how to get hired in private equity. From getting through resume screens to nailing case studies, here's how to stand out.
"A recruiter, on average, looks at a CV for six seconds before they make a 'yes' or 'no' decision on your candidacy. That's not much time at all," Cherubim said. "Your goal as a candidate is to make sure that you're doing as much as possible to lengthen that time."
So, how do you grab and maintain a recruiter's interest in those brief, fleeting seconds? Cherubim's advice was simple: It's all in the numbers.
"If I don't see numbers on a resume, I usually assume, particularly for quantitative people, that they either aren't as quantitative as I thought, or they didn't transform things as much, or they didn't make an impact as much as possible," he said,
Careers website Monster.com has some advice for how, exactly, you can do that. One way is straightforward: Show me the money.
According to writer Julia Gaynor, who authored an article on Monster.com about to how to effectively use numbers on your resume, it's helpful to illustrate your impact in sales and volume, profitability, or even the number of people you managed or the size of the budget you oversaw in your past job.
The bottom line: Numbers can be an illustrative tool to catch a recruiter's eye.
"When I see numbers, my eyes generally go right to it and I read everything before and after it," Cherubim said.
'Do your homework' and be intentional about your goals
Two other recruiters on the panel — Sara Diniz, a vice president in human resources at Bain Capital, and Matt Breitfelder, the global head of human capital at Apollo Global Management — suggested being clear-eyed about your goals in private-equity.
"I think the most important thing is to set an intention for yourself and to think about what you want to get out of the process, and then to do your homework," Diniz said.
Bain Capital uses hypothetical cases to probe candidates' analytical thinking and reasoning skills, and make a determination as to whether they'd be a fit for the organization, she added.
One example she shared — a hypothetical case that an interviewer at Bain might present to a candidate to assess their dealmaking intuition — was about a movie theater.
In her example, the movie theater is facing tough decisions about which movies to run, factoring in data about market size, consumer demand, and ticket pricing to help inform its decisions. A candidate might be asked to solve some problems around profitability, she said, and walk the interviewer through the nuances of their decision-making process.
Read more: The typical cycle is changing for private-equity recruiting. Here are the new trends top hiring execs from firms like Apollo and Carlyle are seeing.
The four panelists shared a variety of other insights about private-equity recruiting, from recent trends in the private-equity recruiting cycle to the kinds of modeling exams to brush up on in advance of an interview.
In regard to the modeling tests, one of the most common is the leveraged buyout model, said Anthony Keizner, co-managing partner at Odyssey Search Partners, a firm that does recruiting work on behalf of private-equity companies. "If people are preparing, those are certain things they can study up on and get a sense of if they haven't done them at school," he said.
What's more, Keizner added, candidates should demonstrate a comfort level in creating a three statement model (which would draw on a company's income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement). Plus, they should also be familiar with the primary components of corporate accounting, he noted.
But the real differentiator, Keizner pointed out, is more qualitative: "Once you've got the<|fim_middle|>oralized junior bankers are contemplating ditching investment-banking altogether... | basic financial skills, do you have the critical thinking to have a business sense and a business curiosity to go beyond that?" he said.
And, for Breitfelder of Apollo Global Management, "mindfulness" is a critical tool to help candidates zoom in on the kind of career they want to have as investors, he said.
"I would suggest people be mindful about the fact that we're looking for great investors, he said, "so be mindful about what we're looking for: craftspeople who want to build a career in investing.
"Don't apply because everyone else is doing it," Breitfelder added. "Do it because you want to be a great investor, and put your whole heart and soul into this process with that intention."
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Nucleus Cyber is the AI-driven security solution for the intelligent workplace providing dynamic, granular data security that leverages existing infrastructure investments. The Security Sheriff platform dynamically adjusts file security based on real-time comparison of user context and file content to enforce data governance policies for more | 104 |
Swiss boat Ville de Genève Carrefour Prévention grabbed their second victory in the Tour de France à la Voile 2002. Etienne David and his crew came home first in today's coastal race off Paimpol.
Local boat Côtes d'Armor, skippered by Vincent Biarnes, crossed the finish line in second ahead of Nicolas Clément's Vitamine-Hyères-Coych.
British boat Panther Team GBR came home in 11th position with amateur boat Royal Thames finishing in 26th.
"We had a nice sail and a good course. We sailed extremely well and had a tough battle with Côtes d'Armor who made a small mistake that allowed us to pass and win", confessed Swiss skipper Etienne David.
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Tomorrow, the Swiss will board his friend's boat Ville de Genève Carrefour Prévention for the longest offshore race in the Tour de France à la Voile, 244 miles from Paimpol to St-Nazaire.
There is definitely a Swiss touch in the Tour de France à la Voile. Kiny Parade, watch captain onboard Christine Guillou's EF Educati n in the last Whitbread around the world race, will join Aussie Nick Moloney and Frenchman Bernard Mallaret onboard Cassis Maugio Carnon.
The boats will leave to start a particularly tricky race around Brittany at 08:00 tomorrow morning. This is an important leg as there will be lots of points to score with a 3,5 coefficient. | 15:15, high tide. The race started at 17:29. The second start was black flagged, as there had been a general recall on the first. The fleet of 40 Mumm 30's sailed off in 15 knots of wind from the southwest in a flat sea state.
Student boat Jacques Vabre-ESC Le Havre, which welcomes onboard several double-handed Transat Jacques Vabre winners, sailed this race with Stève Ravussin onboard.
The Swiss skipper, who won the last Transat Jacques Vabre with Franck Cammas onboard Groupama, was Guillaume Got and his crew's lucky charm. They came home in 7th position, their best result so far.
"I was sailing with a charming team who are all extremely motivated. It was good fun to sail with them. We had a good race | 183 |
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Ms. Lewis brings to her specialty a rich background of both personal experience and academic training. She has a BS in Communications from the State University of New York, an MA in Theater from New York<|fim_middle|>. Lewis is a member of the American Society of Trial Consultants, Screen Actors Guild—American Federation of TV and Radio Artists, and Actors Equity Association. She was married for 35 years to the late Norman Sheresky, a prominent trial attorney who both practiced and taught litigation techniques in New York City. She first prepared witnesses for her husband. The rest is history. | University, and another four years of math and physics from the City College of New York, where she majored in Meteorology.
Prior to specializing in the legal field she spent many years teaching people to communicate more effectively. Clients have included General Motors executives whom she coached for major speeches across the United States and Canada, and upper level managers working for the City of New York for whom she conducted oral presentation skills workshops.
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San Diego Christian College (SDCC) is a nationally ranked Christian college in the located in Southern California. SDCC provides an unrivaled education that challenges students and builds their faith in Jesus Christ. Founded in 1970, SDCC offers traditional, non-traditional and<|fim_middle|>
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Based in Santee, California (East County San Diego) San Diego Christian College offers more than 35 majors, minors and concentrations, and every student graduates with a biblical worldview minor. SDCC is committed to investing in students who are eager to learn, create, and grow as they find their purpose and pursue their passion.
San Diego Christian College (SDCC) exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of Scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.
San Diego Christian College (SDCC), as an academic and learning community, aims to prepare academically equipped, culturally and globally involved graduates with a biblical worldview and godly character to serve God.
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The San Diego Christian College Board is composed of a maximum of twenty-five members. Members are men and women committed to the mission and doctrinal position of the institution. They provide leadership, oversight, and support to the College to ensure fulfillment of its academic mission and purpose.
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MORGANTOWN — Two research organizations at West Virginia University plan to merge and focus on renewable energy projects.
James Wood, the interim director of the WVU Energy Institute, said Monday during WVU Academic Media Day in Morgantown that his organization is merging with the National Research Center for Coal and Energy.
Wood said he expected the integration of the two organizations to be completed sometime in May and be operational by July. Once the two are merged, Wood said the institute will shift its focus to clean energy technology.
Wood went on the detail some of the work the institute has been involved with clean coal technology and<|fim_middle|> gas "renewable"? Maybe the public relations department should take over this work, if so. | the struggles to get new innovations off the ground.
According to Wood, new technologies are rated on a scale called "Technology Readiness Level," or TRL. On a scale of one to nine, one means basic research design and nine means technology released for full-commercial applications.
Between 2009 and 2014, the U.S. Congress funded eight climate change projects that made it to TRL 5, meaning a large-scale prototype of pilot project tested in the field. Six of those pilot projects were related to coal and carbon storage, but only two were successful. One of the unsuccessful projects was the chilled ammonia carbon capture project at AEP Mountaineer Power Plant in New Haven.
The projects were funded at an 80/20 split, with the private sector chipping in 20 percent. Wood said these projects fail for multiple reasons.
Japan and Germany funded the two successful carbon capture projects, but the private sector investors are unable to help fund these projects completely.
One area of research the institute is working on is injecting carbon dioxide into old oil formations to make them viable again. Wood said estimates show there is still 50 percent of the original oil remaining in formations that have lost pressure.
The institute also continues to work on fracking research, including techniques that can reduce natural gas leakage from a well pad to near zero.
Very confusing. We see repeated use of the terms "renewable energy" and "clean energy" but ALL of the specifics are about coal, oil or gas. So apparently WVU has TWO energy labs dedicated to coal, basically, not counting the NETL, which is not connected to WVU but also in Morgantown, and also dedicated to fossil fuel energy.
Does this mean the labs at WVU will merge and then move into renewable energy, or that they're working on greenwashing, pretending that some dubious carbon capture scheme makes | 385 |
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Since the exciting election of Pope Francis, lots of people have been quoting the guidance attributed to St. Francis: Preach always, when necessary use words. By saying this, St. Francis would not have been deeming words unimportant. To the contrary, according to Catholic wisdom, we sometimes fast from things to show how important they are, to show that they should be valued and respected, not wasted or<|fim_middle|> words refer to both the mind and heart—to faith and reason, you might say—and so they're multi-dimensional just as people are. While precision is important in a communicator's choices of words to convey a message, I've always thought that the Catholic Church encourages a dynamic and vibrant vocabulary—not just a legalistic, technical jargon like some institutions—because it likes evocative words.
There are times to unleash the power of words. The Church has made the decision that the Mass, in its new Roman Missal translation, is one place where an abundance of words and their elaborate nature generate a sense of overflowing love and praise and thanksgiving. I anticipate that Pope Francis will help to lead the way in showing people the other side of Church wisdom–seeing the need to leave some room for sparse language, indeed for silence, so that actions can speak louder and listening can take place. As with so many Catholic insights, in this case taken from an insight of the Hebrew Scriptures, to everything there is a season. Sometimes words should gush with excitement, and sometimes they are more authentic and powerful in small quantities. They are one of the key tools of the New Evangelization, and their effectiveness in telling truth and giving life will depend partly on our wise choices about their use. | taken for granted.
That point is the perfect segue into my explaining the name of this blog, "Word." It's one of my favorite words–a word not to be taken lightly because it represents something properly valued by people, and by the Church in particular. Words have been rich in meaning to me from my grammar school days, instruments of learning and fun, vessels of potential power and influence, the common currency for building relationships and exercising one's reason and faith.
This helps to make Christ the perfect teacher, and indeed the mural also symbolizes Notre Dame's embrace of Christ the Teacher. It's an embrace reflected in the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE), where I'm privileged to be on the communications staff.
"Word" has not lost its power of authority and validation. The Urban Dictionary tells us that the word can be used to say, "I'm telling the truth," or "That's the way it is," or simply "Amen." It can also mean confirmation or affirmation more generally, as in "Good idea," or "That's okay." This "word" helps to build relationships of trust, and we need words like that. Such | 234 |
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Across the universe of time: Shakespeare's influence on 21st century society.
It is harder to imagine a more universal writer than William Shakespeare. Rarely if ever is one of his many plays not being performed somewhere in the world and similarly rare is the tertiary English student who has not examined his work at length. His plays, sonnets and poems are common fodder for high school English departments across the globe.
Shakespeare has perhaps contributed the most to the English language of any writer known to man - literally. Over 1000 words and phrases that he coined as part of his plays and prose are now in common use across the globe. He changed nouns into verbs, verbs into adjectives, added on previously unheard-of prefixes and suffixes and in some cases made words out of nothing. Even culturally sensitive words such as 'ode' (The ANZACS) and scientific jargon ('epileptic') are in fact products of Shakespeare. Bernard Levin probably summed this up best when he wrote: "If you cannot understand my argument, and declare "It's Greek to me", you are quoting Shakespeare; if you claim to be more sinned against than sinning, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you recall your salad days, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you act more in sorrow than in anger, if your wish is father to the thought, if your lost property has vanished into thin air, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you have ever refused to budge an inch or suffered from green-eyed jealousy, if you have played fast and loose, if you have been tongue-tied, a tower of strength, hoodwinked or in a pickle... had short shrift, cold comfort or too much of a good thing, ... - why, be that as it may, the more fool you, for it is a foregone conclusion that you are (as good luck would have it) quoting Shakespeare;..." (Bernard Levin. From The Story of English. Robert McCrum, William Cran and Robert MacNeil. Viking: 1986).
Shakespeare's influence continues even in the world of film, not invented until several hundreds of years after his death in 1616. As well as the inevitable BBC remakes of most of his plays, newer adaptation such as Kenneth Branagh's 'Much Ado About Nothing' (starring Keanu Reeves and Denzel Washington) and Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet' (featuring Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio) have met critical acclaim and can be credited with bringing Shakespeare to a new generation not inclined to visiting theatres. The very-loosely-biographical 'Shakespeare in Love' picked up several Academy Awards after its release
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Although there is access to more than 180km of marked ski slopes in this vast ski area, you will certainly miss out if you don't try at least one off-piste run here - it's legendary! The ski schools cater to a variety of skiing disciplines, and in Disentis area, your ski instructor could even be one of the trainers of the Swiss ski team! Given the great variety of runs here, all skiers can find complete satisfaction. The authentic ski resorts here are always sunny and deserve to be listed among the traditional Swiss ski resorts due to their charm, unpret<|fim_middle|> as many of the lifts give access to different coloured alternative runs. A vertical drop of 1700m from the highest point back down to the ski resort means this ski area is up there with the big players.
The information applies for the ski area of Disentis 3000. During the ski season information is updated daily. | entiousness and interesting history.
The Swiss ski resort of Disentis Sedrun has direct access to its ski area making for relaxed days on the slopes. With lifts taking you up to an altitude of over 2800m, there is certainly no concern here about snow conditions. The ski slopes are pretty equally spread out over blue, red and black meaning that every kind of skier and snowboarder gets their fair share of the mountain. This is a good area for mixed ability groups | 100 |
As you know we have some rules surrounding the booking and cancelling of classes linked to our strikes system, which are designed to ensure fairness for all of our members, and to maximise the use of spaces within our classes. These were covered in a previous blog, which can be viewed here.
The recent intense pressure on our classes in early January, has led to many different suggestions from our members on how to improve our system. These included reducing the booking window to less than 7 days, increasing the allowed cancellation window from 12 hours to 24 or 48 hours, etc. Many thanks for all of your comments and suggestions. We have looked at them all seriously and always keep our policies under review, but we have decided against these steps – at least for the time being.
However, the class congestion in the first two weeks of January, despite the addition of new classes, did make us take another close look at what has been happening in our booking system. What we found is that a significant number of members have been booking and then cancelling large numbers of classes, with many of the cancellations occurring very late, but outside the allowed 12 hour window – hence no strike was obtained. As an example, one member had cancelled 18 classes in a 2-week period. These are classes that were hence unavailable for others to book until very late in the day. Whilst this action is not outside the existing Club Rules, it does feel as though it is not within the spirit of the Club. This was not an isolated case, and there were many examples of members cancelling more than 10 classes in the same 2 week period. In total we had over 1700 class<|fim_middle|> feedback on this rule change, so please do let us know what you think. | cancellations in 2 weeks, which is a high proportion of our overall availability.
As a result of this, we plan to introduce a second layer to our penalty system on class bookings. This will limit the number of cancellations that any member can make to a maximum of 8 class cancellations in any rolling 4-week period (an average of 2 per week). This will continue to allow flexibility for members to cancel classes when they genuinely have a change of plans or when emergencies crop up, but will prevent members from booking multiple classes for a given day when they know in advance that they only plan to attend one or two (or none!) of them.
Our booking system is not capable of automatically policing this, and so we will be doing it manually at the end of each week. Members who fall foul of this rule will be warned initially, and will have their booking rights removed if they continue to cancel too many classes.
This very simple addition to our class booking and cancellation policy should provide greater availability and fairness for all of our members. It should also help to prevent what we call the "snowball effect" where members fear classes will not be available at short notice, and hence book multiple classes "on the off-chance", when they really have no idea whether they can attend or not.
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Cape Girardeau County History Center to Open in Jackson
Published on Monday, 19 January 2015 13:52
Jackson, MO<|fim_middle|>istry. Carla Jordon is the brains behind this operation. She has teamed up with Cape Girardeau Historical Society to make this project possible. The history center will be completely free, and will rely on area schools, churches, businesses, and local organizations to help provide and create exhibits that reveal the history of the region. The first couple of exhibits are already being planned; they will include a floral quilt collection from Lynn Taylor, and a "Hardware & Tool History in Cape Girardeau County" exhibit. There will also be a front window display which will change out four times a year. A 'Spring into History' theme will open the center with paper art flowers, historic scans, and a garden architectural piece to start. Jordan has several other plans for the center, including a Thursday coffee talk, and a bus tour of the area. She says that, "I want this to be the gem of Jackson. I want this to be a place where everybody can come and see what's going on in the region as far as cultural tourism goes." The center is scheduled to open mid-March, and is located at 102 S. High St. (formerly the Andrew Jackson store).
VIA: http://www.semissourian.com/story/2156810.html | will be the location for a Cape Girardeau County History Center, which will highlight area history through a series of rotating exhibitions, history books, and local art | 32 |
Not only is this a stunning Brazilian quartz cluster, but is dotted with golden fluorite cubes. Truly this is a rare formation, and a strikingly beautiful one. The cubes may be small, appearing mostly as flattened cubes. Under magnification you can see the clarity and the cleavage of the fluorite. The quartz points themselves are glittering beauties, filled with rainbows, exhibiting etchings, time links and more. The energy centers on the solar plexus. It has a gentle detoxing effect, working on the kidneys, liver, and stomach, helping to clear unwanted bacteria and infections. It also boosts the function of these organs too. On a emotional level, their energy<|fim_middle|> displaying phantom like formations. Fluorite often has awesome transparency, allowing the specimens to glow like jewels in the light. However fluorite is sensitive to bright light, so avoid prolonged exposure to sunlight. Many fluorites are fluorescent, and the phenomenon is named for this beautiful mineral. It is a relatively soft stone, although somewhat brittle, which makes it easy to polish into many shapes.
Fluorite is a versatile healer. Clearing negativity and infection it is an excellent choice for fighting off colds and flu. It also helps to strengthen bones and teeth, helping to repair the physical structure. In addition, fluorite can help dissolve arthritis crystals, especially purple fluorite. Its energy excels at the crown chakra bringing the mind into balance. It helps to dispel confusion and instability to foster coherent patterns. It also aids in concentration and memory. | helps resolve issues with conflicting emotions, helping to align "gut" reactions with what is known about a situation. This amazing cluster is from Brazil.
Fluorite is a stable mineral of calcium fluorite, which displays with a wide range of colors most commonly occurring in purple, green, blue, pink, and yellow. Due to this wide color range it has incredible flexibility when working on the physical body. It mostly commonly forms in cubes crystals, but forms in other multisided crystals such as dodecahedrons. It often displays fantastic color zoning with multiple colors occurring in a specimen, often | 121 |
Citizen of the Galaxy
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by Robert A. Heinlein
Genres: science fiction, young adult
A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generations.
Science Fiction Grand Master
In a distant galaxy, the atrocity of slavery was alive and well, and young Thorby was just another orphaned boy sold at auction. But his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be: adopting Thorby as his son, he fights relentlessly as an abolitionist spy.
When the authorities close in on Baslim, Thorby must ride with the Free Traders – a league of merchant princes – throughout the many worlds of a hostile galaxy, finding the courage to live by his wits and fight his way from society's lowest rung. But Thorby's destiny will be forever changed when he discovers the truth about his own identity...
About the Author :: Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (1907–1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre in his time. He set a standard for scientific and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality.
He was one of the first science fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. He was one of the best-selling science fiction novelists for many decades. He, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke are known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.
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Within the framework of his science fiction stories, Heinlein repeatedly addressed certain social themes: the importance of individual liberty and self-reliance, the obligation individuals owe to their societies, the influence of organized religion on culture and government, and the tendency of society to repress nonconformist thought. He also examined the relationship between physical and emotional love, explored various unorthodox family structures, and speculated on the influence of space travel on human cultural practices. His approach to these themes led to wildly divergent opinions on what views were being expounded via his fiction.
Heinlein won Hugo Awards for four of his novels; in addition, fifty years after publication, three of his works were awarded "Retro Hugos" — awards given retrospectively for years in which Hugo Awards had not been awarded. He also won the first Grand Master Award, given by the Science Fiction Writers of America, for his lifetime achievement. In his fiction Heinlein coined words that have become part of the English language, including "grok" and "waldo", and popularized the term "TANSTAAFL".
Robert A. Heinlein. | 265 |
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Aktuel side: Address by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen at Auschwitz Day, January 27, 2003
Address by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen at Auschwitz Day, January 27, 2003
Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Last year, the Government decided to introduce an annual day in commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust and genocide, as was agreed by the Heads of State and Government at a Holocaust Conference in Stockholm in 2000.
The Government decided that the commemoration should take place on 27 January, the day that marks the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and thus the beginning of the end of one of the very darkest chapters of European history. Therefore Auschwitz Day.
As is well known, Auschwitz was not the only extermination camp operated by the Nazis during World War II. However, to posterity, this concentration camp has become the symbol of ultimate evil, which resulted in the murder of millions of innocent people. To people today, the scope of the tragedy and of the atrocities is incomprehensible.
With Auschwitz Day, we wish to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and other cases of genocide<|fim_middle|> new challenges. Terrorism targeted at Western society's values and view of human rights has shaken the foundations of our society. We will not tolerate that terrorists decide the agenda. They must not be allowed to disrupt the peace and stability that our democratic society is based on.
It is my hope that we shall finally be able to put the dark periods of the 20th century behind us and embark on the 21st century with a common pledge that they must never occur again. We owe that to the millions of victims and we owe it to the generations to come.
It is our duty to ensure that the coming generations understand the causes of these events. It is also important that we through information about freedom, democracy and human rights ensure that history does not repeat itself.
This is the reason why we commemorate Auschwitz Day, today. | . Through schools, establishments of education and general public education, we wish to foster consciousness of the lesson we may learn from these tragedies.
On Auschwitz Day, we wish not only to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. It is also a day to commemorate the tragic cases of genocide that have taken place, and are still taking place in other parts of the world. As sad examples of where genocide has taken place, allow me to mention Cambodia and Rwanda as well as the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
I also wish to recall the heinous crimes and political mass murder in the Soviet Union. Historical consciousness has paid less attention to Gulag than to Auschwitz. However, millions of people died in Siberian prison camps. Stalin, the Communist, executed political opponents and exterminated entire population groups in the same ruthless, cruel and systematic manner as did Hitler, the Nazi.
The crimes committed by Stalin and Hitler have many characteristics in common, but the most common feature is their complete indifference to and contempt for the individual human being, which cost the lives of millions of innocent people.
In connection with the establishment of the United Nations after the War, there were hopes that global international co-operation would ensure peace and security in the world. However, in spite of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which proclaims every human being's right to life, freedom and personal safety, and in spite of what happened during World War II, the international community has not been able to prevent genocide in modern times.
What my parents witnessed in the first half of the 20th century has occurred again for my children to witness in the second half. It is alarming to recognise that history repeats itself, albeit in different parts of the world and in different forms. Nevertheless, history repeats itself in the exercise of atrocious barbarism on the basis of totalitarian ideologies and intolerance of people of another race, opinion, religion or ethnic origin.
For almost 50 years after the end of World War II, Europe had to live divided, and the fear of a new global war was allowed to dominate not only Europe, but the world at large. After the end of the Cold War and with the enlargement of NATO and the EU, there ought to be hope that war and outrages against innocent civilians in our continent belong to the past. However, we must be on our guard. Events reaching into our own time have demonstrated that nothing can be taken for granted. It is our duty to protect the values we believe in, including democracy and the individual human being's right to freedom and self-determination.
With the establishment of the UN International Criminal Court, which can prosecute the gravest international crimes such as genocide, war crimes and other crimes against humanity, hopes have been raised that the international community hereby will have a means to halt the most flagrant violations of human rights.
The Court is to be seen as an indication that the international community is on the right track. We will not tolerate dictators and totalitarian regimes' outrages against the civilian population. They must be brought to justice for their actions. A clear manifestation of this is the fact that today Slobodan Milosevic as the first Head of State in history is on trial in the Hague, indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity.
After 11 September 2001, the international community faces | 667 |
Mission accomplished— we have officially completed our WESTERN EDGE trip!! After seven weeks on the road, over 3,000 miles stretching from Tijuana to Vancouver, 40 studio visits, and an innum<|fim_middle|> to share. The knowledge that no words will do and that whatever words I fumble forth with will be inadequate often leaves me reluctant to try at all. Usually when I'm asked how a trip was, I opt out of the details and say something generic like, It was great! But I don't want to do that with WESTERN EDGE— I actually really want to try and explain just how wonderful, exhausting, and eye-opening our time on the road was.
I read somewhere that Joan Didion said, I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. I think this is very true of writing and, sometimes, of talking. Klea and I talked a lot on this trip— to each other, to artists, to waiters, shopkeepers, and hotel receptionists. Rarely was it idle chit-chat. The impulse to interview started to come over me even when we weren't in studio visits, and somehow even in the briefest of encounters I found myself asking perfect strangers about their lives. Perhaps sometimes my questions were a bit too personal, perhaps I caught people a little off guard. But they answered, and usually with generosity. With our work at IN THE MAKE I have found that curiosity is almost always met agreeably, and this truth was compounded on the road. I think if you ask just right, people want to share who they are, what they know, and also what they aren't sure of.
While on the road so many of the conversations Klea and I had with each other and many artists were about what we don't know– death, memory, familial bonds, the future, the winding corridors of psychology, the unrelenting force of time, and the wonders of the natural world. On freeways, with the sun in our eyes, the windows down, and the changing landscape streaking past, Klea and I rambled on and on… we'd spend hours dissecting just one statement an artist might have made, we considered each town we passed through and wondered what it would be like to live there, we talked about the romanticism of afternoon light, the Cleveland kidnapping story all over the news, the qualities of an enduring creative practice, and whose art work we'd love to have on our walls and why. We barely ever listened to music or the audio books we had bought in anticipation of our long drives. Our car rides, our mealtimes, our occasional walks, all seemed to become extensions of studio visits, but instead of interviewing artists we interviewed each other, and anyone else who made the mistake of standing nearby.
Because studio visits are so personal and we cover so much conversational territory, and because they can sometimes last up to two and half hours, they are exhausting. But they are also exhilarating. There is nothing like it. We are invited in to witness art work and processes intimately, to stand amongst textured materials and vibrant colors, to reach out and touch all that is beautiful and beguiling, to ask question after question to satiate our curiosity, and to confront different perspectives. Obviously our work at IN THE MAKE is about documenting and sharing the work of artists, but it's also about conversations, engagement, and queries. For me, the best part about our work is that essentially the studio visit is an opportunity to delve into someone else's questions about life. With each artist there are distinct lines of inquiry, particular obsessions and examinations that they are following, and when we come to visit, ultimately we are asked to grapple alongside the artist. For example…Julie Green's Last Supper series elicits heavy questions about the death penalty, Matthew Picton's map-like sculptures investigate the specifics of place and history, Taraneh Hemami's work considers the legacy and language of protest, and Marie Sivak's stone sculptures encounter the nature of memory and loss…. The list of artists we visited goes on and on… so it's no wonder that Klea and I couldn't stop talking; it was as if every time we left an artist's studio we had been passed the baton and now it was our turn to run with their questions.
I think that seeing the various ways people choose to live, the questions they ask themselves, and the grappling we did on the road has made Klea and I different— more wide-eyed, receptive, and I suppose less fixed in our opinions and the possibilities we envision for ourselves. One day while driving, maybe near Fort Bragg or perhaps it was further along in the trip and we were closer to Portland I blurted out to Klea, I don't even know who I am anymore! I like everything. I like everywhere. Everything seems possible!! I could become anything. We laughed wildly at my outburst, because it was unexpected and slightly absurd, but mostly because it was true. It's a weird thing to witness change in yourself while it is happening. Being on the road reminded us of how big the world really is, how many chapters one life can encompass, and how many opportunities for reinvention, reconsideration, and reinvigoration there are.
As our final days on the road drew near, Klea and I discussed what it would be like to be back home. We had gotten so used to driving and mapping, packing and unpacking, the constant companionship, hotel beds and breakfast diners, the smell of gas stations, late-night writing and editing sessions, and the general unpredictability of each day that it started to feel like we could go on forever doing this. Going home almost seemed weirder than continuing on. But it is true— all good things must come to an end. So we consulted Klea's tarot cards with pending questions, stared at the wild thrift store dresses we bought and wondered how we would incorporate them into real life attire, turned to each other for advice, watched and listened for recurring signs, and put everyone else's life that we had encountered under the magnifying glass to look for clues. I firmly believe there are lessons to learn everywhere, and often the most unexpected moment or person is the one to teach you.
Now that I'm back I can really see how important it was that Klea and I went on this trip together; we just couldn't have done it right without one another. And I see now how much every artist we visited and every IN THE MAKE reader has so fully been in this experience with us, too. James Turrell, renowned artist of the Southern California Light and Space movement, said, Art is a completed pass. You don't just throw it out into the world— someone has to catch it. I would like to believe our WESTERN EDGE journey is "a completed pass" because it has been a shared experience, something that artists have given themselves to and that readers have supported and contributed to. And as we publish the studio visits from the road, I hope we will be able to continue passing the baton and ask our readers to question and grapple along with us and all the artists we have visited.
The artist's studios pictured are (in this order): Trent Burkett, Marie Sivak and Kai Samuels-Davis. Over the coming months we'll be publishing full studio visits with each of them and many other artists we visited on the trip. Each week we'll publish a new studio visit from the Western Edge.
P.S. in case you couldn't tell, yes, we are joking in that last photo of us. | erable amount of unexpected moments, we have finally returned to San Francisco. I must say, it feels good to have achieved what we set out to do.
Returning from a trip, however, has never been easy. I come back home pensive and uneasy, with an all-too-familiar certainty thrashing about my chest like a panicked animal. The certainty is about two things: home marks a definitive end to a particular experience, and not only are those experiences now irretrievable they are also practically impossible to express…which makes them very difficult | 109 |
One of our family stories from my childhood is about a trip I made to Portland with my dad when I was just a little thing, maybe 3 or 4. I only have fuzzy memories of the trip. What I remember most is the retelling of the tale every time we crossed the Columbia River heading south into Portland.
The way my dad told the story, I was taking swimming lessons at the Y and they'd taught me to float by doing the Starfish. A Starfish was basically a dead man's float, where you put your<|fim_middle|> logically. I will use facts, data, and verifiable sources to ensure I am not a part of sharing propaganda. I will hold myself accountable to do my homework as I expect others to. I will not live in an echo chamber of my own making, but I will seek out information and make my own conclusions. I will Starfish the HELL out this thing and make it through.
I think about that little girl (most likely riding in the front seat with my dad, without a seat belt going 70 miles an hour on the interstate…) and I want to feel that kind of certainty and confidence. I can do this. I've always known I am capable and now is the time to practice what I preach and get busy.
This entry was posted in Anger, Family, General Rambling, politics, Support. Bookmark the permalink. | arms and legs out and float on top of the water. I was really proud of that accomplishment and I remember feeling competent and very grown up.
While we were going across the river, my dad asked me if I thought I could swim across that large stretch of water. As a fairly serious child, I looked down at it, gauging its size and considering the question. I said I wasn't sure I could swim it yet, but I was pretty sure I could starfish across it. In my dad's retelling, he always got a good laugh at my seriousness, my determination, and my strategy for how I would succeed. It made me both proud and a little embarrassed as he chuckled at my 4 year old confidence. To this day, I can't cross the Columbia River into Oregon without thinking about that story with a smile. It's a piece of my dad that lives on in my heart.
The other day, as I was determined to do something all by myself, my husband offered to help. I told him I just needed to prove that I could do it alone and he replied, "Of course you do, Starfish." And I stopped – he'd never called me that before, but somehow, in that moment it fit. And I smiled. And couldn't stop smiling. It was a link back to that childhood story that had been passed on to our kids, and it made me feel close to my father again.
The truth is, I am still that very determined little girl. I consider my strengths, my options, and my strategy when I take something on. I don't like to fail (see Random Facts About me here) and being careful about what I take on helps me ensure success. That doesn't mean I haven't take a run at some pretty wild things in the past, but for the most part, I utilize my very rational thought process as I approach something that seems to be difficult or unwieldy.
As I look at the future and the challenges ahead, I plan to continue to be a Starfish. It will be my warrior name as I take on the self-imposed role of truth teller, light shiner, and torch bearer for hope. I will be tenacious in my resolve to stand up for what is right, to protect those who need protecting, and to take action instead of being passive. I have been awakened from a state of comfort that I know is not going to return. And I intend to add my voice to the mix whenever I can, speaking up clearly and | 515 |
The Board<|fim_middle|>4x400 relay team of Jama, Torres, Suarez, and freshman Brennan Stratton placed fifth. Junior Nikitas Missos placed seventh in the discus, and freshman Frank Bero was seventh in the 1600. | man boys track team will sent two athletes to the 2018 OHSAA Regional Championship after finishing eighth overall at this year's District Championship at Fitch High School.
Spartan senior Steven Amstutz qualified to the regional meet by placing first overall to become the 2018 OHSAA NEO District Champion in the shot put with a throw of 53 feet 1.5 inches. Joining Amstutz will be sophomore Mitchel Dunham who qualified for the regional by becoming the 2018 OHSAA NEO District Runner-Up in the 1600 with a time of 4:31 .
The Spartans scored in a variety of events including the 110- and 300-meter hurdles with sophomore Brian Yauger placing sixth and eighth, respectively. The 4x200 relay team of seniors Billy Cammack and Justice Jama along with junior Josh Rodriguez, and sophomore Isaiah Suarez placed sixth. The 4x800 relay team of Dunham, senior Jason Fabian, junior Payton Torres and freshman Jonah Bacho placed sixth. The | 233 |
With all the applications that exist to bring us closer together, share our important life stories, and help us to communicate…. sometimes the sheer diversity of apps can ironically make it difficult to actually meet up. We'd rather socialise over the internet.
Calio, a calendar app that helps you integrate all your work and social engagements, calls itself a 'calendar for real life', as it removes the pressure of social media, with its straightforward functionality; and makes it easy to follow and gain advance notice of events from your favourite brands or influencers, and pop them instantly in a diary which is integrated with existing applications.
Calio is currently fundraising for £300k in seed capital to fund its expansion plan into a range of offerings for users, including importable sport and leisure events which can be integrated with your Outlook or Google Calendar. Among its interested parties is the US sports channel ESPN<|fim_middle|>, the affair started in the Netherlands, where the tax authorities have received documents showing the existence of hidden accounts for purposes of tax evasion, in the opinion of a Swiss bank.
According to the Zurich-based publication 'Tages Anzeiger,' the locals of Credit Suisse became the object of a 'raid' like paintings and gold ingots were seized in several countries. | .
Another area that Calio is looking to provide solutions for is travel; despite the popularity of discount holiday package sites like SecretEscapes.com and LastMinute.com, there are still 6k travel agents in the UK and millenials form a key part of their usership.
Calio users would be able to import event calendars and gain advance notification of when their favourite companies or brands announce new dates or release tickets. With an existing user base of 9k, on the back of considerable word of mouth and minimal advertising, its creators have an engaged community they can monetise through these and more traditional offerings such as ticketing and sponsored events for client companies. Brands and companies can personalise their events, and the team also wants to offer users the chance to personalise their calendar with different design themes.
The app aims to integrate with existing social apps to provide a platform which is just about meeting up.
Not about who can create the longest comment stream on Facebook.
You don't need a hashtag to publicise it.
For event promoters, it is difficult to gain a following on incumbent social media platforms saturated by content and dominated by better established — and better funded — competitors. According to this marketing blog organic reach for brands and pages on FB is just 2%, partly as they have changed the algorithm so the news feed reflects your social interactions, with less branded content.
So even if you have 2000 facebook friends and outwardly look a very well connected individual, only 200 of those will even bother paying attention to your facebook posts promoting the event. Granted, the organisers offer very cost-effective advertising you can target by interest or demographic, but it is not as effective as marketing to an audience with a demonstrated interest in your offering.
Facebook came under fire recently in a story broken by the Australian, where it was revealed it was profiling teenagers and sharing information with advertisers about their friend count, the frequency they accessed the platform with and how they expressed their emotions and varying emotional states throughout the week. Calio has gained a following partly through being the anti social media platform, commissioning a street art exhibition on the social evils of 'social' media. I reviewed the exhibition on my personal blog.
The Spotify team is also fond of using your private listening habits to build a psychological profile of you to more effectively target ads — apparently if you listen to Justin Bieber's 'What do you Mean?' you are statistically more likely to be a psychopath. Not entirely sure if this sort of activity is the use of my personal data I consented to under the GDPR…. I mean, I use the Hip Hop latest hits playlist to lift weights to but to the casual observer does that mean I'm into gangs, fast cars and abusive behaviour toward women?
If you have registered your interest in following an event — say, the Premier League, or gigs by a certain musician — you will be notified when it is occurring and it will be automatically added to your calendar. You can use Calio as a social diary, which unlike existing social media is personal to you and designed to suit your needs and preferences. Best of all, no one is mining your data and doing unqualified psychoanalytic profiling of you!
this was the defining image of the Social Paradox Exhibition, which took place on November 23rd at the Stolen Space Gallery in Shoreditch, sponsored by newly launched calendar app Calio.
'The Social Paradox' is an apt name for an apt name for a street art exhibition which sought to demonstrate how the tools we use to organise our social lives at the same time hold us enslaved to outdated popularity metrics which often serve to isolate more than connect.
One canvas by Iranian street artist Nafir displayed a girl jubilant about gaining 3 'followers', who were displayed as 3 flesh-eating zombies stalking behind her. Another by iHeart on the subject of VR showed a young boy wearing virtual reality goggles looking down at his hand dissolving in front of him. The real world had become less tangible than the virtual one.
Joe Iurrato's canvas displays a young boy and girl sitting in front of a sunset, arms around each other… taking selfies. 'Modern Love' is the piece's title. Sad, he implies, that we are so busy recording and curating our lives to enjoy them. The theme of the whole exhibition was neatly encapsulated in the piece by WordtoMother, called simply 'Social Media Mask'. The self-image we manifest for public viewing becomes so all-consuming it takes over our real identity.
I'm not going to step over into Freudian-style analysis of the conflict between the conscious, unconscious, the ego and the superego… but you get the idea. There is a dichotomy between how our upbringing and social norms state we should behave, and the need to play up to a social media audience which revels in the obscene, the disastrous and, on the flip side, over-idealised standards of perfection. It's no wonder so many people suffer from 'anxiety'.
Citrus-fruit IPA and boutique-label G&Ts were provided complimentary by a local brewer FourPure, the bartenders cheerfully admitting to having sneaked a drink or two or three and a bit giggly as a result. The ambience was pitch-perfect, and typically of Shoreditch everyone was striking an attitude or making clever conversation, an atmosphere which made it intimidating to take copious notes, so if my description of the exhibition is short on detail it's because I was having too much fun.
Calio, the tech venture behind the company, actually has its manifesto that our lives contain too much tech; that an app should serve a useful function that is rooted in reality. The calendar app they have designed is spartan in its simplicity. You can invite your friends to an event which you create; suggest several different times and locations which they can vote on. And all these are stored in your personal calendar. You can sync this calendar with friends and family.
To widen its commercial appeal, Brand Accounts are going to be introduced in January. Artists and event planners can create a business profile, and by following them you get updates about all their future events.
While the app doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles currently – though the makers say they are open to suggestions – by distancing itself from the ubiquitous 'share' culture, they provide an alternative platform to facebook, where there is an inbuilt tendency to constantly assess and reassess upcoming events by the number attending, 'maybe attending' and just 'interested'. And it has better functionality than Whatsapp, being designed specifically for events.
Calio has a bit of a cult following at the moment, and might accumulate a similar user base to that Whatsapp did when it first launched just by positioning itself as an alternative to the status quo. Calio does not share your data with third parties. In fact, they've made a solemn promise not even the app managers can view your personal calendar.
Will they, like Whatsapp, sell out to the highest corporate bidder? I asked co-founder Ramy Al Kadhi, and received a response of sound business sense, despite he and founding partner Latif Baluch's anti-establishment posturing.
"Obviously we know what the value of the company is, and as business people if someone came up with something higher than the valuation, we would have to take it seriously. But they would need to demonstrate a growth path for that.
I asked what inspired them to come up with the idea.
SFOX is an advanced crypto-currency trading platform, which aims to replicate the facilities offered to 'sophisticated investors' in traditional finance, allowing real-time price arbitration between the main and more minor digital currencies, such as itbit, gemini, bitfinex, bitstamp and more. 'Our algorithms love volatility', it declares proudly on its twitter page.
It offers similar styles of trades to the 'iceberg' trade offered by the big financial exchanges, where an order remains hidden until it is placed; this they call the 'Sniper' trade. The 'Gorilla' algorithm lets you break up a large order and distribute it in bite-size chunks throughout the day.
Chain has positioned itself as the market leader for integrating blockchain technology into financial services infrastructure. It was the chosen business partner for a joint venture between Citi and Nasdaq in May 2017, to use the blockchain to make and verify certain cross-border transactions.
It claims it can facilitate a development platform for all foreseeable asset types, and its blockchain technology was made open-source in 2016, making it easy for companies to install the Chain OS and build their own in-house solution. Its blockchain platform looks to become the Microsoft of the fintech world.
SABR.io describes itself as 'Palantir for the blockchain', and has been similarly gaining ground among law enforcers for its ability to do end-to-end analytics on blockchain applications and related locations; tracking payment services and identifying suspicious patterns and activity. Because while Distributed Ledger Technology is indelible and publicly accessible, the accounts by which it is accessed can be forged or faked.
SABR.io does an important job in ensuring those interacting with the technology are legal entities, enabling compliance with Anti Money Laundering obligations and prohibiting trading with sanctioned institutions or individuals.
To defend glyphosate, the firm has taken the issue to the United Nations Against Cancer, which has classed its flagship product cancerous. Second section of our inquiry.
It had promised "more inoffensive than the salt on the table", but that was just in its adverts. Glyphosate, the herbicide most widely used on the planet, the principal ingredient in its flagship product, the Roundup, on which it has based its business model, its fortune and reputation, sold for more than forty years and becoming a best-seller with the development of transgenic seeds called "Roundup ready", could be in reality cancerous.
On 20 March 2015, Monsanto was visibly affected. On that day, glyphosate was declared genetically toxic (it damages DNA), cancerous to animals and "likely cancerous" to people, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
The paper bore at its head the celebrated green branch surrounded by an orange rectangle: the Monsanto logo. "We seem to understand that the members of the CIRC have deliberately chosen to ignore the numerous studies and regulatory evaluations publicly available which support the conclusion that glyphosate does not present a risk to human health", accused Philip Miller, the vice president of Monsanto charged with regulatory affairs.
Picture the scenario : you are stranded suddenly with a dinner party emergency, or your boiler has exploded, and you need to consult an expert right away. But although google has managed to put the entire world at our fingertips, tracking down a professional to give their reassuringly expert opinion, face-to-face, is a little more difficult and time-consuming.
Or maybe you want some face time with your therapist while they are on holiday; maybe you want to get some legal advice without paying the prohibitive rates charged by a corporate firm. Plenty of paralegals are fully equipped to give an initial legal consultation.
Hence, 121with, the video conferencing platform with a difference. Seekers of services can upload their card details, before browsing the listed profiles of professional service-providers by their chosen keywords. 'Why, it's little more than a skype call that you have to pay for,' one invitee interjected at the launch event.
Well no, the founders patiently explained. On 121with, payment takes place automatically, almost immediately after the video call has finished. In a real-time payment system similar to Uber's, the transfer goes through, via Stripe at a rate of T+4 (seconds), which is the UK standard. Moreover, there is a minimum charge of 50p per second, incentivising service-providers to make sure every second counts.
The site is live now, and 121with is looking for 'affiliate' partners for initial profile listing, as the platform's pioneer professionals will be carefully screened for quality and value for money.
But it is hoped the system will become to an extent self-regulating through the organic growth of the market, as poor quality or overpriced offerings will attract negative customer reviews and fail to compete. There is also, naturally, an arbitration process offered between seeker and provider if a refund becomes necessary.
Right of asylum, immigration quotas, border controls.. a deep fracture has emerged between the candidates.
It's a record in French history: France has recorded 85, 700 requests for asylum in 2016. Even if it's small in relation to its neighbours Italy (121, 200) and Germany (722, 300), this influx of migrants, because of the war in Syria and historic conflicts or humanitarian situations (the Sudan, Afghanistan, Haiti), have forced the question of the welcome that France can or should reserve at the centre of the presidential campaign.
But if the questions about borders, integration or identity have gained an important place in the campaign, the responses that the candidates have raised in their programmes are sparse (a hundred proposals to more than three thousand in total) and very polarised. A France open or closed, here are the main promises of the 11 candidates for the presidential election.
According to the Schengen agreement, all citizens can move freely within the eponymous zone (26 states of which 22 are part of the European Union). And on the exterior, the agency Frontex tries to maintain surveillance faced with the influx of migrants.
The borders question is typically an embarrassing one for candidates, outside the extreme right, faced simultaneously with the humanitarian crisis of the migrants, but also by the high-stakes surveillance of terrorist movements.
On the extreme right, the positions have the merit of clarity: Nicolas Dupont-Aignan and Marine Le Pen think that control of immigration is no longer secured by Frontex and that they should exit Schengen to take back national borders, which would consequently be reinforced. They believe therefore six thousand customs posts should also be reinstated, according to the Front National candidate, which demands also the recall of the reservists.
Calling for a double layer of borders, Francois Fillon says he is in favour of staying in Schengen (and in tripling the budget of Frontex), but also to the "temporary reintroduction of controls on the interior borders" (an operation in reality already in place since the events of November 2015).
The extreme left believes to want to abolish all borders, both on the interior and exterior of the European Union – say Nathalie Arthaud and Philippe Poutou, in a spirit which is "internationalist" and "in solidarity".
Between these two opposing poles, two candidates declare they favour welcoming asylum-seekers, notably in instituting a humanitarian visa (Benoit Hamon) and in constructing welcome camps along international norms (Jean-Luc Melenchon). Three other candidates want to shorten the delay in the administrative response (Emmanuel Macron, Jacques Cheminade and Francois Fillon). It is therefore on the specific public services the refugees can access on which the majority of candidates have made promises.
In 2016, around 227 500 foreigners gained their first right to stay in France, an increase of 4.6% in relation to 2015. A rise which lies principally in admissions for humanitarian reasons. These permissions were not limited by quotas; France has never applied such a limitation, in contrast to the US for example. A majority of candidates are not in favour ( Nathalie Arthaud, Jacques Cheminade, Benoit Hamon, Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Luc Melenchon and Philippe Poutou).
Three candidates are in support of quotas. The most extreme position is, with no surprise, that of Marine Le Pen, who recommends "reducing legal immigration to an annual cap of 10 thousand (persons)." She is following on the platform of Francois Fillon, who wanted to inscribe it in the Constitution, and of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, who wants "to vote annually in Parliament an immigration ceiling" related to the unemployment rate.
In 2006, Nicolas Sarkozy had already fostered support for establishing quotas, but this ambition faced opposition, risking the censure of the constitutional council, and was adjourned.
The right of earth consists of conferring French nationality on children born in France More precisely, a child born in France of foreign parents becomes automatically French on their 18th year, if they are in our country and have been more than five years; this has been true since 1515. Certain candidates propose to limit this opportunity (Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Francois Fillon), or aim to remove it (Marine Le Pen).
On the other side, Jacques Cheminade, Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Luc Melenchon want to preserve the right of soil. Four candidates have no position on this prickly subject: Nathalie Arthaud, Benoit Hamon, Jean Lassale and Philippe Poutou.
A new breed of banker?
'Difficult but talented' replaced by 'Pedestrian but hard-working'.
A slew of regulatory reforms have made banks much safer places – Dodd-Frank in the US, and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifids 1 and 2, as they are affectionately known) – have made it harder for banks to market and sell risky securities to 'unsophisticated' investors, and regularised professional trading standards to combat volatility.
But now that over-the-counter derivatives and so-called 'dark pools', where large trades can be placed anonymously without the onerous reporting obligations of licensed exchanges, have been strait-jacketed by legislation, is there any place for the dashing, risk-loving daredevil of popular stereotype?
According to eFinancial careers, which keeps a close eye on trends in the industry, the typical banker has become almost… boring.
"A lot of people who had successful careers – the most talented people of my generation – have left the industry to do other things," Kerim Derhalli, the ex-Deutsche MD who himself has quit banking to head Invstr, a social network for amateur investors, told the recruitment firm.
It is certainly true that investment banking still pays the highest starting salary for graduate recruitments, according to a UK survey by graduate recruitment research company High Fliers. Their report, on 'The Graduate Market in 2016', put the welcome package at investment banking firms at £47,000, the top-ranking sector, with banking and finance ranked third at £36,000.
Though the number of positions at banking and finance companies did not increase by even a quarter of the increase seen within IT & Telecommunications, which went up 219% compared to just a 37% rise in finance positions.
Even banking interns, such as those enrolled in the Goldman Sachs 2016 'summer analyst class', which prepares those keen on a financial career in its inner workings before they have even graduated, have become less motivated by materialism.
Goldman Sachs, which has a spoof twitter account under the label 'GSElevator… Straight to Hell', reported on its blog that its interns were predominantly interested in saving to buy a house (46%), while just 3% wanted to own luxury items. I suppose it might come across as presumptuous before you'd even been offered the highly desired and competitive job to say 'I just want a Ferrari', but… the tone of the industry has definitely changed.
Perhaps this is partly due to the emergence of multiple sources of alternative finance like crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending platforms; and alternative payment systems such as Paypal and now blockchain-linked crypto-currency mechanisms.
The French justice department has demanded that the European Parliament lifts the parliamentary immunity of Marine Le Pen and of Marie-Christine Boutonnet, targets of an enquiry into suspected fictional employment of parliamentary assistants by the Front National (FN), Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned on Friday 14th April from a judiciary source.
The judges at the preliminary hearing addressed their demands to lift the parliamentary immunity of the FN European delegates on 29 and 30 March, specified this source, confirming the information relayed by Europe 1. These demands have been issued from the Paris Bench to the Bench General**, which transfers it, according to the procedure, to the chancellery before being sent to the European Parliament.
The extreme-right candidate in the presidential election has retreated behind her parliamentary immunity in order to block the judges' summons issued in February and in March. She promises to attend the judiciary hearing after the electoral period. Marie-Christine Boutonnet has not responded to the summons of the 'financial' judges at the beginning of March.
The demand to lift the immunity that the French justice? Has addressed to the European Parliament is 'standard procedure', Marine Le Pen said on Friday.
Examining this demand to lift their immunity could take several months as it needs to be the subject of a vote in open session of the European Parliament. A debate would therefore happen in session, on the issue of which each European Deputy would be called to place an individual vote.
"The European deputy will keep their seat, but they will lose their immunity," it is explained on the website of the European Parliament, reporting that the revocation of immunity is not a punishment but that "it simply authorises a national authority to investigate and pursue an inquiry.
"The preliminary hearing judges do not expect they will be successful before the presidential election," France Inter stated with assurance.
The preliminary hearing judges are not able to compel a European Deputy to stand before them like anyone else who is answerable to judiciary authority. For each coercive measure, they have to first achieve the lifting of the immunity granted by the European Parliament. This was the same issue in another case presided over by the preliminary hearing judges at Nanterre, where they reproached Mme Le Pen for having distributed over Twitter images of executions by the jihadist group Islamic State.
A preliminary hearing has been opened by the Paris bench, which follows a parliamentary inquiry underway since 2015. The presiding judges are trying to determine if the Front National has created a system to remunerate its executives and employees with public funds of the European Union through contracts for assistants to deputies.
Following a police search at the FN head office, in February 2017, investigators seized a document leading them to believe that the 'fraudulent' was thought to have been established since 2012, and known by Marine Le Pen.
The European Parliament, which plays a civilian part in this affair, had informed the French justice department about the 29 parliamentary assistants. The trigger was their presence in positions listed in the last information chart for France, which throws doubt on their effective employment at the assembly sitting at Strasbourg.
The tax authorities have returned to the second Helvetic bank at Paris, London and Amsterdam.
Credit Suisse announced, Friday 31 March in a statement, that its offices in Paris, London and Amsterdam had become the object of a tax investigation and had received 'the visit' from the tax authorities of the countries concerned.
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Movie subscription service MoviePass today confirmed that it will soon introduce surge pricing into its business model, charging customers from $2 and up for films that the company deems popular. The news comes from MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe, who confirmed to Business Insider that surge pricing will affect monthly subscribers while annual subscribers will be exempt from what he describes as "high-demand" pricing.
The change will appear for affected subscribers within the "coming weeks," according to Lowe. Surge pricing is a dynamic, time-based strategy that apps like Uber use when a large amount of customers are requesting rides in the app but there aren't enough drivers to taxi them around.
Now this will extend to MoviePass, so on opening weekends<|fim_middle|> mid-week and less-crowded weekends following the movie's opening weekend. It was also to "make sure that we can continue to offer a valuable service and support the whole enterprise," Lowe added.
For IMAX and 3D movies, users will be given the option to pay an added fee for the premium screenings, ranging from $2-$6 according to Lowe. As of now, one of MoviePass' detriments is that it only allows subscribers to watch regular 2D movies. At launch subscribers will have to choose one of these features or the other for a single film, but eventually they will be able to combine premium and bring-a-friend options for the same movie.
All of the new MoviePass features — including surge pricing — will appear in the MoviePass app by the end of August. | or at particularly busy late-night showings of popular movies, monthly subscribers should expect to pay a bit more above their locked-in $9.95/month subscription price. Because this is not a fee that the movie theater is charging, users can expect MoviePass to take the surge pricing fee from the credit cards associated with their account — although Lowe or any MoviePass spokesperson has yet to confirm this.
"At certain times for certain films — on opening weekend — there could be an additional charge for films," Lowe told Business Insider.
Lowe said this decision was a way to have its theaters partners see more traffic for big blockbusters in the | 127 |
November 17, 2015 Movies » Movie Reviews
Film Review: "Room"
And into the light
By Adam Lubitow @adamlubitow
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Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson in "Room."
"Room"
(R), Directed by Lenny Abrahamson
Opens Friday, December 4
If ever there was a perfect illustration of how a film is less what it's about than how it is about that thing, "Room" is it. Adapted by Emma Donoghue from her best-selling 2010 novel, "Room" is a gripping and deeply emotional story that nevertheless revolves around a nightmarish scenario of victimization. Taking inspiration from similar stories we hear with alarming frequency in the news -- young women abducted and held captive for years by some man (and it's inevitably a man in these occurrences) -- "Room" is similar to "Spotlight" in the way it takes some horrifying themes and drains them of all sensationalism. Director Lenny Abrahamson ("Frank") shows a sensitivity to the material that, when combined with two astonishing lead performances, transforms potentially grim subject matter into an uplifting and life-affirming experience.
Joy (Brie Larson) is a young mother raising her son, Jack (Jacob Tremblay), while forcibly confined to living in a 10-by-10-foot shed. With little hope of freedom, Joy has chosen to tell Jack that there is no world outside of "room," and its walls are all that separates them from the nothingness of "outer space." Joy is a great mother to Jack, despite never given a choice as to whether she ever wanted to become one. Working with cinematographer Danny Cohen, Abrahamson gives us a unique sense of the space in these early scenes. Room feels warm and lived-in, but we never lose the feeling the claustrophobia the characters face.
The film begins on the morning of Jack's 5th birthday. Knowing no other life but the one inside room, Jack is still relatively content. Joy shields her son from the nightly visits by their captor (referred to only as Old Nick, and played by Sean Bridgers), who slinks in to deliver essentials and to use her body as he sees fit. Joy has made "room" into as safe and nurturing an environment as humanly possible considering the circumstances; in one heartrending and quietly horrifying scene, we see how she's even made screaming for help into a game for Jack. But in her eyes we can see the toll the years have taken, the daily struggle to not sink into despair.
Now Jack has finally reached the age when he begins to ask questions that Joy doesn't know how to answer. She knows that something has to give, and when an opportunity seems to present itself, she begins to formulate a plan that may help them escape. Though told mostly from Jack's point of view, Donoghue's deeply empathetic script also puts us in Joy's shoes, allowing us to understand her frustration when she snaps at her son -- for reasons both reasonable and unreasonable -- as anyone would when living under such constant stress.
If you wish to remain spoiler-free, you may wish to skip ahead to the next paragraph -- though if you've seen any of the film's far-too-revealing trailers, you already know a major turning point of the story. Joy and Jack do manage to get free, and the second half of the film is devoted to their struggles acclimating to living once again in the real world. Jack is confronted with an alien world he has no understanding of -- here Donoghue demonstrates a deep understanding of children and the unique psychology that allows for their understanding and processing the world around them. Meanwhile Joy reunites with her parents (Joan Allen and William H. Macy), and finds it impossible to slip back into her role as their child after so much time spent raising her own. Jack, whom Joy cares about and loves deeply, will on some level always be a permanent reminder of the trauma she went through. Even if she's found a way to look past that, it's clear that others around her can't -- her father refuses to even look at the boy.
"Room" wouldn't work nearly as well as it does without its two astonishing lead performances; the film is nothing if not beautifully acted. Jacob Tremblay is a wonder, demonstrating a subtlety well beyond his years. Larson is one of the most versatile performers of her age, she's been delivering great performances for years, but has somehow remained under the radar. Playing a character who's been through far too much hardship for her relatively short time on earth, Larson has been justifiably earning quite a bit of Oscar talk for her exceptional performance.
Lenny Abrahamson has a remarkable way with actors, and he's skillful in the way that he allows us to understand Joy's victimization, while never dwelling on it. The film's sometimes shattering power comes from the way in which it confronts the darkest aspects of humanity, but by focusing on the nurturing love between mother and son, what we're left with is ultimately a sense of hopefulness.
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RHAM High<|fim_middle|> about recent budget negotiations at the State Capitol from the Hartford Courant here.
If you're interested in setting up a meeting with legislators in your district, contact CEA Political Action Coordinator Conor Casey. | School teacher Pete Joseph shares his concerns and ideas with Senator Cathy Osten (at left) and Representative Pam Sawyer.
Educators from around the state have been meeting with their legislators this spring to talk about the issues that matter to them. One issue that continues to be of concern to teachers is funding for the Retired Teachers' Health Insurance Fund.
Teachers from Regional Hebron, Andover, and Marlborough (RHAM) High School met with their legislators recently to explain why the Retired Teachers' Health Insurance fund needs to be funded properly. Senator Cathy Osten and Representative Pam Sawyer listed intently to the teachers, including Pete Joseph, Mary Rose, Amy Schiller, and Amy Farrior.
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Date of discovery Carbon has been known since ancient times.
Name origin From the Latin carbo.
Carbon is the sixth element in the periodic table of the elements. Its bonding structure, which is extremely conducive to the formation of polymers, along with its relative abundance and stability, make it integral to the formation of<|fim_middle|> much orbital overlap. Consequently, silicon-silicon bonds are weak and the corresponding multiple bonds are rarely stable. Si O bonds, in contrast are so stable that chains of alternating Si and O atoms are essentially inert. Phosphorus, being below N in the periodic table, forms even less stable chains of covalently bonded atoms.
This page was last modified on 14 July 2016, at 10:39. | life on Earth.
The predominance of carbon in living matter is no doubt a result of its tremendous chemical versatility compared with other elements. Carbon has the unique ability to form a virtually infinite number of compounds as a result of its capacity to make as many as four highly stable covalent bonds combined with its ability to form covalently lined carbon-carbon chains of unlimited extent. Thus, of the over 13 million chemical compounds that are presently known, nearly 90% are organic substances.
Only five elements, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Silicon, and Phosphorus, have the capacity to make three or more covalent bonds each and thus to form chains of covalently linked atoms that can also have pendant side chains. The other elements are either metals, which tend to form ions rather than covalent bonds; noble gases, which are essentially chemically inert; or atoms such as Hydrogen or Oxygen that can each make only one or two covalent bonds.
Although B, N, Si, and P can each participate in at least three covalent bonds, they are unsuitable as a basis of complex chemistry. Boron, having fewer valence electrons (three) than valence orbitals (four), is electron deficient. This severely limits the number of stable compounds that boron can form. Nitrogen has the opposite problem; its five valence electrons make it electron rich. The repulsions between the lone pairs of electrons on covalently bonded N atoms serve to greatly reduce the bond energy of a nitrogen-nitrogen bond relative to the unusually stable triple bond of the N2 molecule. Even short chains of covalently bonded N atoms therefore tend to decompose, usually violently, to N2. Silicon and carbon, being in the same column of the periodic table, might be expected to have similar chemical characteristics. Silicon's large atomic radius, however, prevents two Si atoms from approaching each other closely enough to gain | 398 |
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- Lucy Williams
STYLE IT LIKE LUCY
SHOP THE 1987 COLLECTION
HOW TO WEAR THE AXIOM | 7 collection campaign in Los Angeles. L.A. felt like the immediate choice for this shoot - it holds so many key memories for Lucy and captures the imagination and creativity that we see in this collection.
I remember driving from the airport to Venice beach on my first visit, looking up at the palm trees and the motel signs, and just feeling like I'd come home".
As well as being one of Lucy's favourite locations, L.A. offers so many different looks and vibes that we played with on this shoot. From vintage cars and tall palms to diners and delis, the changing backdrops retained the retro feel infused in all the designs.
We shot all over L.A and I wanted the shoot to truly reflect my personal relationship with the city as well as capturing iconic California without being too staged. I wanted it to be candid and relaxed and luckily Rhys, the photographer, and his crew were also very into this ad-hoc way of location hunting so we had the best time just playing around with spots we found and liked."
From the beaches of Santa Monica, the team shot the sights on the road to nostalgia-laden West Hollywood, and finishing up in Glendale, an out-of-town neighbourhood which photographer Rhys knows well. Killer donut shop, Faster Donuts, was one of the locations for the shoot. The grittier, authentic L.A. vibe worked perfectly with the chunky layered styling - plus, the team loved the apple fritters and filled donuts. Sunset swims in the pool were par for the course when shooting at a classic Hollywood villa - complete with an extremely over the top 'Los Angeles' bath that didn't quite make it into the final campaign images.
It was a non-stop week of work and play. We'd start at 6 A .M for hair and makeup, wrap shooting around 7.30 P.M, there was just enough time for a quick shower and then we'd head out"
Gracias Madre on Melrose was a favourite spot for dinner after shooting. The big sharing tables and low-key vibe are the perfect way to unwind over vegan mexican food and lots of margaritas. Another much-loved spot was Everleigh - tucked away on lively Sunset Boulevard, the rustic farm-to-table set up and candle-lit terrace is the perfect place to catch a magical L.A. sunset.
I wanted this shoot to feel like an old Vogue editorial from the early 90s and more refined and elegant than my more playful portion of the campaign."
Pastel-hued Malibu provided the backdrop for the final day's shooting. The location was unique - the foundations of a never-completed house by the Lloyd-Wright family, complete with the most insane views over Malibu.
The amazing architectural angles and the pink-tinged cement finished bathed everything in an incredible light to finish off the shoot with a bang.
All in all, it was the best week full of a lot of laughs, not much sleep and I couldn't be | 607 |
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Salman Rushdie to speak on liberal arts, digital scholarship and neuroscience
Emory Report | Feb. 27, 2012
University Distinguished Professor Salman Rushdie.
Author Rushdie, Indian Ambassador Rao to headline summit Feb. 27, 2012
Rushdie named to new position at Emory Aug. 31, 2011
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Salman Rushdie returns to campus this spring in a new role as University Distinguished Professor.
"A Conversation on Liberal Education" on<|fim_middle|> research on language and will present recent findings on relevant brain mechanisms. For more information visit the Center for Mind, Brain and Culture online.
In addition to meeting with various classes, Rushdie will make a guest appearance at an organized marathon reading of his children's book, "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" scheduled for Thursday, March 1 in the Dobbs University Center Coca-Cola Commons, organized by the English department. Students will take turns reading "Haroun" beginning at 1 p.m., with Rushdie appearing around 5:30 p.m. or so to read the conclusion. | Thursday, March 1 at 4 p.m. in the Jones Room of Woodruff Library will feature Rushdie in conversation with Emory College Dean Robin Forman in a "Life of the Mind" faculty discussion.
Other public events include a "Digital Scholarship Dialog and Discussion with Salman Rushdie," on Friday, March 2 from 11 a.m. to noon in the Research Commons of the Woodruff Library. In conversation with Erika Farr, digital archives coordinator in Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), Rushdie will discuss how technology affects his writing and creative process, and more. This event is hosted by MARBL and the Digital Scholarship Commons.
Among Rushdie's other activities will be participation in "Metaphors and the Mind," a daylong symposium Thursday, March 8 in Cox Hall Ballroom. Rushdie and two other innovative Emory writers, Jim Grimsley and Joseph Skibell, will read from their works and exchange ideas with three leading neuroscientists, Anjan Chatterjee, Seana Coulson and David Kemmerer, who do cutting edge | 232 |
Oil-field digital technology provider cuts costs to beats estimates.
RigNet Inc (NASDAQ:RNET) reported its second-quarter results after the market closed on Tuesday. While its revenue was affected by the downturn in the oil market, the company's bottom line improved as it cut costs. Because of that bottom-line improvement, as well as its strong balance sheet, the company believes it's well positioned to continue delivering solid results despite the near-term challenges in the energy marketplace.
RigNet reported second-quarter revenue of $75.1 million. That represented a 6.9% decline over the prior year and 3.3% over last quarter and missed analysts' estimates by roughly $1 million. Driving this decrease was the significant downturn in the oil market, which is shrinking drilling budgets and therefore RigNet's market opportunity.
Despite the weaker revenue, RigNet delivered a noticeable improvement on the bottom line, as it delivered cash earnings of $15.4 million, or $0.86 per share. That represents a 3.8% increase from the year-ago quarter and a 7.5% increase from last quarter. Meanwhile, GAAP earnings came in at $0.34 per share, which was a vast improvement from last quarter's $0.06-per-share loss while also beating the<|fim_middle|>ago quarter. This development resulted in a significant increase to the company's unlevered free cash flow, which surged 44.1% year over year to $10.4 million. As a result, the company's balance sheet remains very strong, with $61.5 million in cash against just $73.5 million in debt.
RigNet expects the market to remain challenging in the near term, as the continued weakness in the oil price is a big headwind for customer spending. That said, it maintains a very strong financial position, which will enable it to execute its long-term growth plans even under current market conditions. Further, the company has the capacity to pursue acquisitions if a compelling opportunity is available.
RigNet delivered a better-than-expected quarter thanks to come cost-cutting, which drove bottom-line growth even as the top line continues to shrink. The company will need to continue to keep its costs down as the oil market remains weak, with few signs of improvement especially after oil plunged 20% last month from its recent peak. Still, RigNet has the financial strength to weather this storm and wait for conditions to improve in the future. | consensus estimate by $0.08 per share. Driving this better-than-expected result were adjustments that RigNet made to its cost structure, as general and administrative expenses fell 23% quarter over quarter to $16.4 million.
The company also kept its capex spending at bay, spending only $8.1 million during the quarter, which is significantly lower than the $11.4 million it spent in the year- | 90 |
Sport relief effort calls in on Cherries
Football fans on charity mission will stop at AFC Bournemouth's Goldsands stadium
By Toby Wadey
Mike Harley, Raza Rizvi, Mike Ward and Cat Harley
A TEAM of football fans will be stopping off at Bournemouth's Goldsands Stadium as they aim to visit all 92 Football League grounds in 92 hours for charity.
The friends – Mike Harley, 31, Raza Rizvi, 32, Mike Ward, 32, and Cat Harley, 31 – all from Bristol, are<|fim_middle|>Mike said: "The idea is to reach the grounds at a time where we can give out information and maximise on raising the profile of ME, the need for research into the illness and the Invest in ME charity.
"It's going to be a gruelling challenge but one, as football fans, we're all looking forward to."
Find out more at 92in92.blogspot.co.uk or justgiving.com/teams/strobl. | doing the challenge in support of Invest in ME, an ME research charity, in April.
They are due to reach Bournemouth on the evening of Wednesday, April 16.
Their inspiration came from a childhood friend who has been battling the illness.
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Planted in 1999, Denner Vineyards is a winegrowing estate on the far western border of the Paso Robles AVA. Their 156 acres press up against the Santa Lucia Range, giving the site great diversity of elevation, aspect and soil. The estate is nestled into the Templeton Gap, an East/West corridor where the marine layer can reach the inland valleys. As a result, Denner Vineyard enjoys a near-perfect growing climate: extreme diurnal temperature swings with warm growing days and cool nights<|fim_middle|> even in the most challenging of vintages. Passive frost prevention from nearby hills opens cold air drains, moving cold air into the vineyard and out along the river. The Cuyama River contributes beneficial bench lands and alluvial soils to the wide array of soil types across the property, including everything from rocky sands to loamy clays. This broad spectrum of soils is highlighted in the wines: Lighter textures ripen fruit faster, giving jammy fruit flavors, while heavy clays mature fruit more slowly and show more spice and earth characteristics. | , adequate wind influence, and low moisture in the vineyard. The 108 acres under vine are comprised of 19 different varieties in 26 unique blocks. Each block is farmed with painstaking attention to detail, allowing only for the best possible grapes to reach the winery. Aron Nevarez, the vineyard manager, is committed to environmentally friendly farming practices, using only sustainable inputs and minimal irrigation.
Founded by Stevan and Christine Larner in 1997, the Larner Vineyard is located in the heart of Santa Barbara's most renowned grape-growing region: Ballard Canyon. The 134-acre ranch is planted to 34 acres of vine, including Rhône varieties Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre and Viognier.
Located only 4 miles from the Pacific Ocean, Les Galets Vineyard is one of the coolest wine-growing sites in the state. South-facing hillside blocks of calcareous and volcanic soils offer high drainage, while the constant marine influence, cold nights and warm afternoons combine to promote low-yielding, dark, and spicy Syrah that is equally intense, graceful, and lifted by natural acidity.
As part of their ongoing commitment to meticulous and sustainable farming practices, John Ahner and Jody McKellar received their CCOF organic certification in 2010. Luna Matta Vineyard is located on the west side of Paso Robles, and the characteristic warm days and cool nights influence the steep hillsides and limestone-laden soils with perfect growing conditions for Rhone varietals.
The Santa Barbara Highlands Vineyard is unlike any vineyard on California's Central Coast. Over 60 miles east of the Pacific Ocean, the property covers rolling hills and mountain plateaus at an elevation ranging from 2,800 to 3,200 feet above sea level. Cutting a path through the property is the Cuyama River, which supplies most of the property's water. The annual rainfall amounts to only 5-12 inches. This extreme aridity translates to excellent ripeness on a regular basis, | 431 |
Rereadings: Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey – a string quartet in four movements
Paul Levy on Lytton Strachey's masterwork, Eminent Victorians
Paul Levy
Fri<|fim_middle|> reader's enjoyment of the book.
The great American critic Edmund Wilson tackled the question of Strachey's legacy, writing in the New Republic of 21 September, 1932, not long after Strachey's death: "Lytton Strachey's chief mission, of course, was to take down once and for all the pretensions of the Victorian age to moral superiority... neither the Americans nor the English have ever, since Eminent Victorians appeared, been able to feel quite the same about the legends that had dominated their pasts. Something had been punctured for good."
And, he might have added, the form of biography had been changed for ever. Strachey gave posterity a licence to experiment.
· This is an edited version of the introduction to a new edition of Eminent Victorians published this month by Continuum | 19 Jul 2002 21.08 EDT First published on Fri 19 Jul 2002 21.08 EDT
Strachey (left), with his friend Roger Senhouse. Photograph: Dora Carrington/Getty Images
In 1912, Lytton Strachey, who was living on his occasional journalism (chiefly for his cousin St Loe Strachey's Spectator), and amusing himself and his Bloomsbury friends by writing plays and verse, got the idea for the book that would become Eminent Victorians.
He had decided, finally, to leave Hampstead (which though part of London, was inconveniently distant from theatres, concert halls and restaurants) and live in the country, so he accepted his fellow-Cambridge apostle Harry Norton's longstanding offer of a loan of £100. Influenced by his confidante Lady Ottoline Morrell, who had moved to a small farmhouse at Churn, Strachey found a similar house, The Chestnuts, in the village of East Isley, on the edge of the Berkshire Downs. He took it for three months in the autumn.
While finishing an 8,000-word essay on Madame du Deffand for the Edinburgh Review, he was inspired to write a book, then called Victorian Silhouettes, which would contain a dozen miniature lives of Victorian notables. Some, whom he expected to treat favourably, were men of learning; all the rest were people whom he did not admire as much as did popular opinion. The list included the four who made it through to the finals: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale (he had been offered the chance to write her official biography), Thomas Arnold and General Gordon.
The also-rans were Henry Sidgwick, the last truly great Cambridge philosopher to be troubled by religious doubts; GF Watts, the fine portrait painter who was better known for his sickly narrative paintings and was briefly married to the actress Ellen Terry; the eighth Duke of Devonshire, who was to figure (as Lord Hartington) as a comic butt in the final piece on Gordon; Charles Darwin; John Stuart Mill; Benjamin Jowett, the broad church master of Balliol, famous for his translations of Plato and for having the young AC Swinburne as his guest in the master's lodgings; Carlyle; and Lord Dalhousie, the "greatest of Indian proconsuls", who was responsible for much of the infrastructure of modern India.
To Virginia Woolf he wrote (on November 8 1912) that their Victorian predecessors "seem to me a set of mouth bungled hypocrites", but allowed that they could be said to have a "baroque charm about them which will be discovered by our great-great grandchildren".
He began by researching Cardinal Manning - he thought the many volumes of theology and ecclesiastical history with which he surrounded himself might cause his landlady to think he was contemplating going into the church, he joked in a letter to Lady Ottoline. It was this research, and the intractability of the subject, that made him realise that he could not possibly do all 12 subjects.
The next year he moved to The Lacket, a cottage in Wiltshire. He had some of Harry Norton's £100 left, and his mother topped it up with a further £100. He stayed there until the end of 1915 and wrote half the book. But now the war, and his anti-war, anti-conscription activities took up his time and changed his views. The Victorian worthies had not just been hypocrites, they had bequeathed to Strachey's generation the whole "profoundly evil" system "by which it is sought to settle international disputes by force". Strachey, however, was not a pacifist. Indeed, he risked being conscripted by insisting to the Hampstead tribunal that he was not against all wars, and sought exemption from this war on political, not religious or moral grounds.
The summer of 1917 found Strachey paying a series of visits to friends, especially to the Woolfs at Asheham, near Rodmell in Sussex, and to Charleston, the house Vanessa Bell had taken to enable Duncan Grant and David Garnett to do alternative war service by working on the land. It was Strachey's practice on these excursions to read the latest version of his four biographies to his friends, seeking both encouragement and criticism.
By the end of 1917 he had spent five years researching and writing the book, which was ready for the press - he had been tempted to add a fifth life, of the ecclesiastical historian Mandell Creighton, and flirted briefly again with Watts. But he saw, says his biographer Michael Holroyd, that these four pen portraits corresponded to the movements of a symphony, or perhaps more appropriately to the more intimate pattern of a string quartet: Cardinal Manning - allegro vivace; Florence Nightingale - andante; Dr Arnold - scherzo; The End of General Gordon - rondo.
In 1914, Strachey had had a couple of lunches with publishers, but the negotiations failed. His only previous published book was Landmarks in French Literature, first published in an inexpensive edition by the Home University Library in 1912. This time the financial aspect was important to him, as he had very little income and considerable debts.
Clive Bell introduced Strachey to his editor at Chatto, Geoffrey Whitworth, who read the typescript, and passed it to his colleague, the novelist and critic Frank Swinnerton. He began reading in his office just before Christmas 1917. The first few pages, he wrote, were so enchanting that, "I continued, and when night fell I could not leave the book, but took it carefully home... I had hardly taken the typescript up again after dinner when... there was an air raid by Germans. The whirring of aeroplanes overhead, the rattle of machine-gun fire, and finally the frightful thunder of a gun in the field at the bottom of our garden, would all have served to distract a mind less happily engaged; but as it was, with curtain closely drawn to prevent the escape of light, I consorted that evening with Cardinal Manning, Thomas Arnold, Florence Nightingale, and General Gordon. The 19th century had come alive again."
Though Strachey was a cult-figure to Cambridge undergraduates before and after the war, his fame had not spread to London publishing circles. Early in 1918, Strachey called at the offices and finally met his publisher-to-be. Swinnerton penned a detailed, lively portrait of his new author: "His excessive thinness, almost emaciation, caused him to appear endless. He had a rather bulbous nose, the spectacles of a British Museum bookworm, a large and straggly dark brown beard (with a curious rufous tinge); no voice at all. He drooped if he stood upright, and sagged if he sat down. He seemed entirely without vitality... Sad merriment was in his eye, and about him a perpetual air of sickness and debility."
Pleased though he was by his publisher's praise, Strachey began to suffer pre-publication nerves. He had doubts about his style and tone, and continued to read portions of his work aloud whenever he had a suitable audience. Virginia Woolf thought he was "painfully anxious", and suspected "that he is now inclined to question whether Eminent Victorians, 4 in number, & requiring 4 years for their production, are quite enough to show for his age and pretensions".
But she wrote reassuringly to Strachey, who had sent her the final section on The End of General Gordon: "It's amazing how from all these complications, you contrive to reel off such a straight and dashing story, and how you weave in every scrap - my God, what scraps - of interest to be had, like (you must pardon one metaphor) a snake insinuating himself through innumerable golden rings... I don't see how the skill could be carried further."
Strachey overstepped the mark, however, when he asked her to review it. She first tried to get out of it by saying she didn't like the idea of working "under surveillance", then told him that Bruce Richmond, editor of the TLS, "has to make it a rule that reviewers don't review their friends".
Strachey was enjoying the business of being published. He swanked to Lady Ottoline that "my life passes almost entirely among proof sheets, which now flow in upon me daily. It is rather exciting but also rather harassing. All sorts of tiresome details, and minor crises - about covers, illustrations, contracts, and so on - keep turning up; but my hope is that in about six weeks or so Eminent Victorians will burst upon an astonished world."
Strachey was still committed to leftwing activities - he was writing a good deal, including political reviews for War and Peace, then being edited by Leonard Woolf. When in London that winter he attended whenever possible Bertrand Russell's trial for writing an article that advocated acceptance of a German offer of peace.
It was while serving his sentence in Brixton prison that the philosopher read Eminent Victorians, which "caused me to laugh so loud that the officer came to my cell, saying I must remember that prison is a place of punishment". Eminent Victorians had, says Holroyd, begun "without a thesis, but acquired a theme" because of the war. Sigmund Freud, surely correctly, thought that the whole work comprised a treatise against religion.
At the time of writing Eminent Victorians, the country was more than usually certain that God was on its side. In 1915, the then Bishop of London went so far as to say that "this is the greatest fight ever made for the Christian religion". Eminent Victorians was Strachey's counter-assault.
On May 9 1918, the book was published. The reviews were almost uniformly enthusiastic. Chatto had published it at the price of 10/6 (equivalent to about £12 today). The terms were an advance against royalties of £50, a royalty of 15% on the first 1,000 copies and 20% thereafter. By February 1920 there had been nine printings of 1,000 copies each; in the summer of the next year, Chatto brought out a second edition with a print-run of 5,000.
The standard historian's complaint with the work has been that Strachey used only secondary sources, consulted no unpublished sources, and gave no references. Moreover, scholars have made specific complaints about the sources he did use. Modern scholarship holds that some of these objections are well-founded, others less so. But these are matters for specialists, providing them with gainful employment, and do not much affect the present-day | 2,328 |
Students make sense of patterns and relationships in observations and data through representation, analysis, and interpretation.
Students make sense of observations or collected data and determine how to represent the data. The presentation of data helps reveal patterns and relationships and allows results to be communicated with others. Student analysis of data helps bring out its meaning and relevance so that it may be used as evidence for the phenomenon or design problem. Interpretation of data helps students identify significant features and patterns, use mathematics to represent relationships between variables, and take into account sources of error.
Foregrounded Practices for ELE2
Student Use Continuum for ELE2
Foregrounded SEP
SEP4: Analyzing and interpreting data Students may record, but do not analyze data. Students work with data to organize or group the data in a table or graph. However, students do not recognize patterns or relationships in the natural world. Students work with data to organize or group the data in a table or graph. Students make sense of data by recognizing patterns or relationships in the natural world. Students make decisions about how to analyze data (e.g., table or graph) and work with the data to create the representation. Students make sense of the data by recognizing patterns or relationships in the natural world.
SEP5: Using mathematics and computational thinking Students do not use mathematical skills (i.e., measuring, estimating) or concepts (i.e., ratios). Students use mathematical skills or concepts but these are not connected to answering a scientific question. Students use mathematical skills or concepts to answer a scientific question. Students make decisions about what mathematical skills or concepts to use. Students use mathematical skills or concepts to answer a scientific question.
Note: The levels reflect increasingly sophisticated engagement in the practices and are not grade-level specific. Appendix F in the NGSS provides significantly more detail for each practice that should be integrated as both students and teachers develop greater fluency with each practice.
Sample Student Actions for ELE2
Analyze and Interpret Data (SEP4)
Students record information (observations, thoughts, and ideas).
Students use and share pictures, drawings, and/or writings of observations.
Students use observations (firsthand or from media) to describe patterns and/or relationships in the natural and designed world(s) in order to answer scientific questions and solve problems.
Students compare predictions (based on prior experiences) to what occurred (observable events).
Students represent data in tables and/or various graphical displays (bar graphs, pictographs, and/or pie charts) to reveal patterns that indicate relationships. [3-5]
Students analyze and interpret data to make sense of phenomena, using logical reasoning, mathematics, and/ or computation. [3-5]
Students compare and contrast data collected by different groups in order to discuss similarities and differences in their findings. [3-5]
Students analyze data from tests of an object or tool to determine if it works as intended.
Students analyze data to refine a problem statement or the design of a proposed object, tool, or process. [3-5]
Students use data to evaluate and refine design solutions. [3-5]
Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking (SEP5)
Students decide when to use qualitative vs. quantitative data.
Students decide if qualitative or quantitative data are best to determine whether a proposed object or tool meets criteria for success. [3-5]
Students use counting and numbers to identify and describe patterns in the natural and designed world(s).
Students organize simple data sets to reveal patterns that suggest relationships. [3-5]
Students describe, measure, and/or compare quantitative attributes of different objects and display the data using simple graphs.
Students describe, measure, estimate, and/or graph quantities such as area, volume, weight, and time to address scientific and engineering questions and problems. [3-5]
Students use quantitative data to compare two alternative solutions to a problem.
Students create and/or use graphs and/or charts generated from simple algorithms to compare alternative solutions to an engineering problem. [3-5]
Teacher Use Continuum for ELE2
SEP4: Analyzing and interpreting data Teacher does not provide opportunities for students to analyze data. Students may record data, but do not analyze it. Teacher provides opportunities for students to work with data, which could include organizing or grouping the data. However, these opportunities do not support students in recognizing patterns or relationships in the natural world. Teacher provides opportunities for students to work with data to organize or group the data in a table or graph. These opportunities support students in making sense of data by recognizing patterns or relationships in the natural world. Teacher provides opportunities for students to make decisions about how to analyze data (e.g., table or graph) and work with the data to create the representation. Students make sense of data by recognizing patterns or relationships in the natural world.
SEP5: Using mathematics and computational thinking Teacher does not provide opportunities for students to use mathematical skills (i.e., measuring, comparing, estimating) or concepts (i.e., ratios). Teacher provides opportunities for students to use mathematical skills or concepts but these are not connected to answering a scientific question. Teacher provides opportunities for students to use mathematical skills or concepts that are connected to answering a scientific question. Teacher provides opportunities for students to make decisions about what mathematical skills or concepts to use. Students use mathematical skills or concepts to answer a scientific question.
Sample Teacher Actions and Instructional Strategies for ELE2
To practice figuring out patterns in the data or graphs give groups of students a data table and sentence strips with various statements about the patterns in the data. Have students decide whether each statement is accurate or inaccurate based on the data table.1
Model for students how to construct a graph. Talk about what decisions must be made when creating a graph (e.g. bar graph vs. line graph) and the reasons for one choice or another. Point out aspects of graphs that enable others to comprehend patterns in the graph (e.g. reasonable intervals on the axes).1
Ask students to graph their data to visually represent the patterns in the data. Provide checklists for students to use to ensure their graphs contain key components, such as labels on the axes and a title.1
Hang posters in the classroom with examples of different types of graphs (bar, line, etc.) that students can reference as they decide what type of graph to construct and as they make their graphs.1
After students construct a graph for data, ask them to defend their choice of that type of graph. Facilitate a discussion about the differences in how each graph type shows the patterns in the data.1
Conduct a gallery walk for students to view and critique each other's data tables or graphs. Encourage students to use sticky notes to ask questions and provide feedback about how well their data tables show the patterns in the data. Give students time to use the feedback to improve their work.1
Encourage students to support and justify their ideas by referring to the data. Have students not only communicate their opinions and arguments, but also back them up with data.
Encourage students to look at different aspects of the data displayed in graphs and charts.
Guide students in evaluating graphs to see if they answer the questions for which they were designed.
Ask students to vote (thumbs up/thumbs down) whether they agree with a fellow student's interpretation of the patterns in data.1
Have students write 1-2 sentences that summarize the pattern(s) in a graph. Provide sentence starters such as "My graph shows..." and "Over time, plant A...".1
Provide sentence starters such as "As the amount of ________ increases..." and "We saw that changing _______ caused..."1
Provide opportunities for students to perform calculations on their gathered data, such as finding the mean (average) of several trials of data.1
Engage older students in using computer programs such as excel to analyze large data sets from scientific organization (e.g. NASA, NOAA).1
Create activities in which students are given a scientific question and must decide how to use mathematical or computational thinking to address the question.1
Use various tools to gather data such as graduated cylinders, thermometers, balances, etc.1
Have older students decide whether to represent their data in different ways such as using ratios, percents, etc.1
Engage students in investigations that require them to use mathematical operations (e.g. subtract quantities to determine the volume of an object).1
Teach students the skills they can use to summarize data such as determining the measures of center (mean, median, and mode), identifying range, outliers, quartiles, and so on, as they are appropriate.
Teach students the correct statistical terms so they have the words necessary to clearly convey their thinking; terms such as axis, range, median, correlation, interval, and so on, should become part of their vocabulary.
Questions to Promote the Use of the SEP and CCC in ELE2
Trends and Patterns
Are there places where the data are concentrated or clumped?
What trends are visible in the data?
Are there data points that have unusual values?
Which two values are being compared?
What are we seeing in the data? (CCC Patterns)
What patterns do you see in the data or graph? (CCC Patterns)
Is there a pattern to this data? How can I organize and display my data to show this pattern? (CCC Patterns)
Statistical Calculations
What is the range, mean, median, mode, and so on? How does it help you understand the the data?
What level of accuracy is required in your analysis?
How confident are you in the precision or accuracy of your data?
Validity and Potential Bias
How confident are you in the data and why?
Was this a valid sample of the population?
Would the data be the same if the sample was…?
How might we reduce sources of error in future iterations?
Sense Making (Meaning of Data)/Data Interpretation (What is the data saying? What does it mean?)
Do you have enough background information to analyze this data?
What additional data might we need to collect?
Is there extra, unnecessary data?
Are these values consistent with your predictions?
Why might there be an increase/decrease in the data?
How might this data change if...? (CCC Cause and Effect)
What is the most appropriate way to summarize your findings?
Based on this data, what will happen in the future? (CCC Cause and Effect)
For what other data sample might you use a similar graph?
What is the relationship between the data sets? Why do you think there is a relationship?
What can you infer or conclude from the data? Why?
Does our data support this cause and effect relationship? (CCC Cause and Effect)
What does the data tell us about how nature works at this scale? What does the data tell us about how the system changes at different scales? (CCC Scale, Proportion, and Quantity)
What kind of data can help us understand this system? What does the data tell us about the system? (CCC System and System Models)
What does the data tell us about the effect of energy on this system? What does the data tell us about the matter in this system? (CCC Energy and Matter)
What does the data tell us about how changes to this structure affect its function? (CCC Structure and Function)
What does the data tell us about what affects the stability of this system? (CCC Stability and Change)
How can we use mathematics to measure the rate of change in this system? Can mathematics describe the balance that keeps it stable? (CCC Stability and Change)
How can computers be used to analyze stability and change in this system? (CCC Stability and Change)
How can we use math to measure and describe the function? (CCC Structure and Function)
How can computers be used to study how the structure affects the function? (CCC Structure and Function)
How can we use math to quantify the energy and matter in this system? (CCC Matter and Energy: Flows, Cycles, and Conservation)
How can computers be used to track matter or energy in this system? (CCC Matter and Energy: Flows, Cycles, and Conservation)
How can we use math to model how this system works? (CCC System and System Models)
How can we use computer models to understand this system? (CCC System and System Models)
How can we use mathematics to describe and measure this scale? How does mathematics help us understand what happens if this gets bigger or smaller (or increases or decreases)? (CCC Scale and Proportion)
How can we use computers to see how this changes as it gets bigger or smaller? (CCC Scale and Proportion)
How can we measure the relationship between the cause and effect? How can we model it with mathematics? (CCC Cause and Effect)
How can we make a computer model of this cause and effect relationship? (CCC Cause and Effect)
How can we use mathematics to represent this pattern? (CCC Patterns)
How can we use a computer to find or visualize patterns in the data? (CCC Patterns)
Assessment Task Formats for ELE2
Potential Task Formats: Analyzing and Interpreting Data (SEP4)
Relevant definitions:
A pattern of evidence from data is what the data say ("<|fim_middle|> the experiment or simulation, then
Ask students to decide whether the data presented provide causal or correlational evidence, and
Ask students to assess whether the data are consistent with the causal explanation presented.
Describe an investigation, the phenomenon under investigation, one or more recorded observations from the investigation, the results of analyses, and an interpretation of the data, then
Ask students to assess whether the interpretation is consistent with the data and the analysis, or
Ask students to evaluate how the interpretation is affected by variation or uncertainty in the data.
Potential Task Formats: Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking (SEP5)
Present students with multiple objects, then
Ask students to construct quantitative attributes (e.g., measurements of heights) of the objects, and
Display the data using simple graphs.
Present students with a dataset from an investigation, the question the investigation is intended to answer, then
Ask students to identify features of the dataset (e.g., range, average) that should be analyzed in order to answer the question.
Present students with a textual description and measured quantities of an observable scientific phenomenon, then
Ask students to develop a grade-level appropriate equation or algorithm that corresponds to the textual description, and
Explain how the equation or algorithm represents the textual description.
Present students with a textual description, measured quantities of data, and a grade-level appropriate mathematical equation of an observable scientific phenomenon, then
Ask students to make a prediction about the state of the phenomenon in the future that the equation can be used to support, and
Ask students to write an explanation for the prediction, using the mathematical model as supporting evidence.
Engage students in using a simulation of an observable scientific phenomenon, then
Ask students to compare the simulation results with real-world data, and
Write an argument for whether or not the simulation makes sense using the comparison as supporting evidence.
Present students with a large data set from an investigation, the question the data are intended to answer, and computer tools (e.g., a spreadsheet) for analyzing the data set, then
Ask students to develop statistical summaries of the data set that help them answer the question about the dataset. | The population of white-colored moths disappeared in cities," or "The birds' tail feathers are whiter in the mountains than in the city")
Present students with recorded observations of the natural world, then
Ask them to describe a pattern or relationship they can infer from the observations.
Describe an investigation, the phenomenon under investigation, and one or more recorded observations from the investigation, then
Ask students to organize, represent, and analyze the data in at least two different ways, and
Ask students to compare how the representations and analyses help them to identify patterns in the data.
Ask students to use grade-level appropriate mathematics and/or statistics to analyze patterns the data, and
Ask students to draw conclusions supported by their mathematical analysis.
Describe an investigation, the phenomenon under investigation, and recorded observations from the investigation that are directly relevant to explaining the phenomenon, then
Ask students to organize the data and describe how this organization helps them to analyze the data, and
Ask students to identify and describe the patterns they see in the organized data, and/or
Ask students to student to describe how the patterns of evidence in the data help to explain the phenomenon.
Describe an investigation, the phenomenon under investigation, a hypothesis about the phenomenon that the investigation was intended to test, and multiple recorded observations from the investigation, then
Ask students to organize the data and describe how this organization helps them to see whether the evidence supports the hypothesis, and
Draw a conclusion about whether the data are consistent with the hypothesis.
Describe an investigation, the phenomenon under investigation, and recorded observations from the investigation from multiple groups of investigators, then
Ask students to organize (e.g., tabulate, graph, or statistically summarize) the data, and
Ask students to identify outliers in the different data sets, and
Develop hypotheses about what sources of error might have caused the outliers.
Present a causal explanation of a phenomenon developed from either an experiment or from a simulation, empirical data from | 389 |
I struggled and was treated for years for depression. I was<|fim_middle|> your OCD and Depression. It sounds like you worked hard throughout the therapy and I am delighted that your life changed and you felt so positive as a result.
I will share your story with all of the CBT team and I have no doubt that they will find your story very encouraging and appreciate your feedback. I wish you well for the future.
Have you experienced something like lovelife did, here or elsewhere? | extremely anxious, had terrible panic attacks and I did not want to live. My GP was very efficient and referred me to the Mental health department, wow how my life changed! ! ! I met a CBT therapist in Markievcz house and she turned my whole life around, I found out I had OCD which had taken over my life and led to depression. The CBT therapist worked with me for I think 10 sessions, and with hard work, mindfulness and truthfulness I came out the other end positively.
Today I am a totally different person and I owe all this to that lady that was professional and determined to help me. I cannot remember her name and I think she has left the service herself now but I feel I have to mention the good work these professionals do and thank them from the bottom of my heart for their dedication.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience of attending Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). I am glad that you found the treatment beneficial for | 203 |
Magic Auto Center is the fourth family generation owned business, that offers a complete domestic and foreign auto repair service. We service anyone living in the Santa Clarita Valley: Valencia, Saugus, Newhall, Canyon Country, Soledad Canyon, Acton and Castaic. Since 1997, we<|fim_middle|> the only person I trust with my BMW. He is honest, reliable, and has the best prices in the SCV. I am so glad with the opening of his new Auto Repair Shop.
I was fortunate to find a mechanic shop in town that is owned by an HONEST person, Moe trained and worked for a large dealerships. I can always count on him to find issues quickly and give me direct feedback.
A trustworthy and honest mechanic but I am very glad to have found that shop. HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! I will be coming back for all my auto service and repair needs in the future.
I have recommended them to many people and will continue to do so because they are the BEST of what Santa Clarita has to offer when it comes to cars.
These guys are the best, they know what they are doing and are honest and fair in their estimates. Will not take my car anywhere else. | 've been serving these areas along with multiple fleets and dealerships, body shop, mechanic repair and pre-owned vehicles.
Our mission is to serve our community with the highest quality auto repairs and maintenance with affordable and competitive prices, plus we get the job done right the first time! Your satisfaction is our goal by offering honest, quick and reliable repair.
Additionally, Magic Auto Center attains to the Gold Shield Level certification. We are technologically advanced with a full range of computerized equipment. Our experienced mechanics have the knowledge and skill to undergo any auto repair or maintenance service. We are knowledgeable and skilled with all types of advanced car engines and systems. We strive to better serve your auto repair and maintenance needs.
I found Magic Auto Center on a whim after moving to the Santa Clarita area. I have been a client of theirs for 5 years now, and I would not trust anyone else!!!
Moe and Karen are just fantastic! Honest and hard working folks that do wonderful work with autos. I can not praise them enough!! Best of luck in your new venture!!
This shop is one of the most honest places I have taken both my BMW M3(s) to. They are very experienced and humble. Keep up the good work guys!
Moe is ASE certified, which is posted visably as soon as you walk in the door. He's been in business for years, provides pick up, drop you off service, and calls you BEFORE he turns a wrench.
I have known Moe for many years and he is | 306 |
We had a good trip. The guides were very nice and informative. Lots of history and magnificent architecture. Good experiences with food. Didn't spend enough time in each city. Next time.
The weather was sunny and cool. Toledo was the coldest<|fim_middle|> miscommunication. The restaurant was closed...having to search out another place to eat. And, Hotel Catalonia in Barcelona. A popular hotel, yes, in a good location, yes.. but a little rough around the edges. Needs updating, in my opinion. Floor boards were short in certain walking areas in our room. Easy to stub your toes...splinters. A big leak from the floor above that had not been repaired...left to sit...mold present. Not good, could make a person sick. After a couple days, they offered to move us to the room next door, which was a lot smaller than the room we were in...cramped, no room for Josh, or a room comparable offered for $15 Euros more each day. The breakfast was just okay, compared to the other delicious breakfasts we had in other cities.. We were spoiled early on with great food.
Couldn't believe how crowded it was in Madrid and Barcelona for the holidays. People visiting from other parts of Spain. People from France and Italy. Hustle and bustle. Did not have any problems with pick pockets, since we carried our wallets and purses smart. The two bus trips in one day took a toll on George, but we worked through it. He got some much-needed rest. Not too many people spoke English, but we managed. For the most part, everyone was very nice. Oh, one more thing, the food was reasonably priced...inexpensive compared to other places, including Our city, Tucson. Our New Year's Eve dinner was not worth the price. The owner and location of the venue were great. A strange food selection. We did meet some nice people that were sitting next to us though. Meeting them was a nice highlight. We brought in the New Year!
Would have been nice to know about the process of getting reimbursed as far as taxes on purchases. We will be a little more prepared next time.
I took lots of pictures, so have lots of nice memories. Thank you for your efforts and providing with a nice memorable trip. | .. 3 degrees, otherwise, 40's, mid-50's and low 60's. We were dressed appropriately.
We learned a lot about traveling in the future. Brushing up on our Spanish would be a good thing. We were grateful to our son, Josh could remember his Spanish. Next trip to Spain will be more relaxed, although, I really like the way we did it this time. Our first adventure.
Getting tickets to major sites ahead of time because of the lines was a smart thing..especially during such a busy season...having English speaking native guides on each tour was a very good thing. Our drivers couldn't speak or understand English, but they were very accommodating AND everyone was on time.
The only things I could say were a little off, was arriving Christmas Day. Our meal. A | 168 |
Students meet to conquer addiction
News October 3, 2012 / 8:10 PM August 13, 2013
For 11 years, Matt Glover was held hostage by his addiction to alcohol. Now, 32 years old and two and a half years sober, he's helping others fight their own battles.
Glover is a social work student who plans to work as an addiction counselor after he graduates from Youngstown State University.
With the help of Joy Polkabla-Byers, director of campus recreation and student programming, Glover will get an early start on his prospective career by leading the first 12-step meetings on campus in more than a decade.
"It's my duty to spread the word of recovery," Glover said. "I thought there was a need to bring students in this circumstance together."
The meetings, which are anonymous,<|fim_middle|> meetings might be important to students who live on campus.
"They may feel they have nowhere else to go, and now we can provide this for them," Glover said.
Both Polkabla-Byers and Glover said they wanted to bring attention to the misconception that 12-step meetings focus on healing through religious beliefs.
"The 12 steps are just a basis for recovery from addiction that has been used [for decades]," Polkabla-Byers said.
Though part of the 12-step program is spirituality, Glover stressed that it is not required to participate.
"The 12-step method makes you take a look at yourself, your addiction and your surroundings," Glover said. "Some people think you have to believe in God to recover from addiction, and it's not like that."
The meetings have been marketed to Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic in Austintown and Meridian Community Care in Youngstown. Students who are involved in those rehabilitation facilities may be referred to the on-campus meetings or vice versa.
Alcohol Awareness Week starts Oct. 22. Ryan McNicholas, coordinator of fitness and wellness programs at YSU, said the meetings will be promoted at events throughout the week. | will be held through the remainder of the semester every Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. in Kilcawley Center's Bresnahan Room 3.
"The first couple of weeks, we'll be looking at responses as far as group size and what times work best for them," Glover said. "We're open to having more than one time slot to accommodate their needs as much as we possibly can."
Glover said the | 90 |
Recent advances in artificial intelligence, especially in deep learning and other machine learning approaches, are really exciting for the future of security. In the rush to roll out AI in security technology, it is easy to forget that machine learning is just a tool, and that like any tool, is the most effective when used by an expert.
We don't have autonomous systems capable of the kind of learning and decision-making that we typically associate with AI, Marty said. AI can beat humans playing Go, help scientists design more effective drugs, and make virtual assistants such as Siri smarter. A common mistake is to conflate machine learning, deep learning, and data mining, or to just lump them all into the AI bucket. Machine learning refers to a program that can describe the data, and deep learning is a newer kind of machine learning algorithm. Data mining lets analysts explore the data.
"Just calling something AI doesn't make it AI," Marty said.
There are two main ways to use machine learning to identify malicious behavior or entities: supervised and unsupervised. Supervised machine learning is great at classifying data as good and bad, such as malware identification and spam detection. Unsupervised machine learning is more suited to making large data sets easier to analyze and understand, such as analyzing DNS traffic, curating threat intelligence feeds, and handling lower-severity security events so that threat analysts can focus on high-severity incidents.
It's increasingly easy to implement "AI" into security because machine learning algorithms are readily available. Think<|fim_middle|> use machine learning if there isn't enough labeled data, of if there aren't well-trained domain experts and data scientists to engineer good features. Cleaning the data set, training the algorithm, and making sure the features being used are appropriate, are all important.
You need to be able to engineer good features and understand what was actually learned. "This isn't just something you roll out of the box," Marty said.
While unsupervised machine learning is great for data exploration, they require careful attention. Using clustering and association rules can help group related pieces of information together, but are limited when it comes to detecting anomalies. Some types of information don't work well with distance functions. For example, port numbers, IP addresses, and process IDs look like numerical features, but they are all very different.Perhaps the results are influenced by a misconfigured system and not an attack. Analysts need context and domain knowledge to understand the algorithm's results.
"Stop throwing algorithms on the wall [and see what sticks]. They are not spaghetti," Marty said.
Marty offered some advice for security practitioners trying to solve security challenges. Work with the domain experts to gather the right data and identify the right approach, he said. Use machine learning only if there is a large volume of well-labeled data. Use visualization tools or other methods to verify the models, and have feedback loops to collect information from users. Experts should be able to supervise the algorithm.
"Start with the problem at hand and choose the right approach. It's hardly ever machine learning," Marty said. "Don't start with algorithms.
Header image by Jehyun Sung on Unsplash. | TensorFlow, an open source machine learning framework, and Torch, an open source machine learning library. Amazon Machine Learning is a managed service for building machine learning models in Amazon Web Services. But if we don't have experts who understand the data and know how to use the algorithm, we wind up with lots of results and very little insights.
There are many examples of machine learning where the algorithm learned something, but not quite what it was supposed to learn. Beauty.AI was supposed to be the first international beauty contest "judged by machines," but algorithms were biased against contestants with dark skin. A study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers found that online ad algorithms were gender biased, as significantly fewer women were shown online ads for jobs paying more than $200,000.
"Algorithms can be dangerous if you just download the library," Marty warned.
The bias didn't come from the algorithm itself, but in the data. Doing supervised machine learning well requires a large collection of training data. Algorithms tend to make assumptions about the data and how they are distributed. The assumption is that the input data source is providing clean data, and that there are enough representative data. They don't do well with outliers. If the data collection isn't big enough, then there's no guarantee the algorithm learned correctly.
Machine learning is effective in finding spam and malware because there are millions of good and bad samples to train the algorithm. This is also why Marty advises against using machine learning on network traffic to detect attacks. There are no good training data sets for these problems, and without good training data, there is no way to train the algorithms.
The process is just as important as the algorithm, if not more. Don't | 343 |
This first comprehensive monograph on the architecture of Gunter Beh<|fim_middle|> adaptability of the firm and its capacity for growth and change, and to accomodate evolving social and cultural requirements. Such notable buildings include the Fachhochschule Ulm the first large, entirely pre-fabricated public building in Germany; the Olympia Park in Munich; the famous Hysolar Institute Building, Stuttgart; the new Parliament Building in Bonn and a large number of new buildings, several of which, including the Bristol Centre for the Performing Arts are published for the first time. There are also numerous texts written by Gunter Behnisch for this book, as well as excerpts from his lectures and writings, which clarify the design method and teaching approach of Behnisch within his overall philosophy of architecture. | nisch, his partners and co-workers, gives an analysis of his architecture and the special way in which the office has always been organised, from its establishment in 1952 to the most recent buildings. A selection of 42 buildings and projects, drawn from this half century of practice, reveal the remarkable | 64 |
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I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.
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"I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation."
― Jerry West ―
Player, Occupation, Lakers
"I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player."
― Bill Walton ―
Respect, Player, Legends<|fim_middle|> than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson."
― Oscar Robertson ―
Nature, Team, Years, Two
"I have season tickets to the Lakers and the Clippers."
― Penny Marshall ―
Tickets, Lakers
"I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts."
― Jeremy Lin ―
Faster, Thunder, Spurs, Lakers
"An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game."
― Larry King ―
Seeing, Nba, Lakers
"Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden."
― Jason Kidd ―
Way, Play, Stuff, Games
"I've been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown's finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I've still got to stick with the Lakers."
― Matt Kemp ―
Growing, Exciting, Growing Up, Hometown
― Malcolm David Kelley ―
Huge, Grew, Lakers
"I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself."
― Magic Johnson ―
Work, People, Wonderful, Talking
"Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant."
― Tito Jackson ―
Trying, Losing, Championship, Lakers
"Michael Jackson, the 49ers and the Lakers - that's what I know about the '80s."
― Dule Hill ―
"Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer."
― Chick Hearn ―
Want, Fool, Lakers
"When I was 17, I was a Lakers Girl; I was the youngest girl on the squad."
― Moon Bloodgood ―
Girl, Squad, Lakers | , Lakers
"It was really an easy decision for me to be a part of the Lakers. It's priceless. It is one of the few places where I truly get lost in the joy of the moment of that game. All of the stresses and all the responsibilities are gone."
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Easy, Lost, Gone, Joy
"There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge."
― Bill Simmons ―
Best, Play, Happens, Passing
"Lakers are my boys! I'm 100 percent the biggest Kobe fan on the planet. I text him after every game to tell him what's up."
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Percent, Lakers
"I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger | 225 |
American and Comparative Environmental Policy
Environmental Politics and Policy in Industrialized Countries
Edited by Uday Desai
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The world's industrialized nations are the major consumers of the Earth's resources and major sources of environmental pollution. Environmental protection plays an important role in the politics of most of these nations. Although a large and growing body of literature exists on environmental problems and policies in the developed world, most of it focuses on government policy in individual nations<|fim_middle|>Uday Desai is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and the editor of Policy Studies Journal.
A sophisticated, comprehensive, and informative analysis of the role of business in shaping American environmental policy. This collection of essays makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the complex political, legal, and institutional dynamics that underlie the making and implementation of environmental regulation, as well as the political role and influence of business in American politics.
David Vogel, Haas School of Business and Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
This is the first really useful book for teaching comparative environmental politics. The country studies are comprehenisve and well-written, and Desai reaches facinating comparative conclusions. I recommend it highly.
Norman Vig, Bean Professor of Science,Technology and Society, Carelton College
A timely overview of contemporary environmental developments in seven major industrial economies. This book provides an excellent introduction to the comparative study of environmental policy.
David Vogel, Haas School of Business and Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Please note: Slight change in endorser's affiliation | . A smaller body of literature compares specific environmental policies in two or more nations. Taking a broader approach, this book examines the environmental policy process in seven major industrialized nations: Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Each chapter discusses one country's major environmental problems and determinants of its environmental politics and policy. It also analyzes the interplay between politics and policy and offers suggesions for developing effective policy.
The book analyzes the role of institutions, interests, and values in shaping policies in each of the seven countries. An institutional perspective provides a common framework, focusing on three kinds of institutions: business and industry; federal and provincial governments; and international organizations. The final chapter offers hypotheses concerning institutions and environmental policy as a basis for further research.
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This book is amazing. Heather, between your classes (YES, I'm that fortunate), creative bug classes and your just wonderful new book — i think I MAY just be getting better at color selection. Math? still need your help. And, thanks also for sending me to the Pellon blog – picked up many great tutorials and<|fim_middle|>, quiet beach on Long Island Sound. It is heaven on earth! | OMG fusible vinyl?? love it.
I love the forest. So much quiet beauty and inspiration.
The sky is one of my sources of inspirations. The cloud formations and sunsets especially during monsoon season are beautiful. Thank you!
I live in North Carolina and I love that I have both the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains, and the beaches of the Outer Banks within a few hours' drive from me. My inlaws live on Roanoke Island and on my next trip, I am planning to take some fun shots of my quilts at Bodie Island lighthouse!
There is a gorgeous waterfall near where my husband and I went to college. We still go back there sometimes — the hike through the woods to get there is wonderful and then there is the fabulous waterfall at the end. I am always inspired by nature.
Big Bend TX. TOTAL beauty in only ways a Texan can really understand.
A place near me that I find inspiring is Cleveland's University Circle.
I love going for walks in the woods, especially at this time of year. There are also a few parks with lakes that are near by and very inspiring.
Traveling on 77 south in Virginia towards North Carolina, you see the overlook and it is absolutely gorgeous. The trees are just about to change. Going to go back in 2 weeks just to see the new colors.
Hello. We live in the Rocky Mts. Need I say more ! God has Blessed us with awesome surroundings for sure !
I'm always inspired when I ride my bike home from work, but really, when I remind myself to see what I'm looking at (rather than just passing by) I can find inspiration everywhere.
While it is not nearby, we just visited Yosemite and the view of Half Dome was just awe inspiring!
Lake Tahoe is an awesome inspiration. So fortunate to live so close!
In 2008 we moved to the Texas – Oklahoma area, "Texoma". For five years we lived near Lake Texoma, a man made lake built to harness the power of the Red River. Not only is it teaming with wildlife and surrounded by a beautiful forest but it inspires me with awe at what man can build. It opens my imagination and reminds me that the only thing that limits me is me.
The colors of the trees and the chill in the air is inspiring for me this time of year. Yesterday, I went to a local nursery and the beautiful array of mums motivated me to purchase 10 of them for planting today. I love how they perk up the yard. One of these days, I am going to design a quilt based on the riot of color in the fall.
Venice beach…the ocean, the local artists and the tourists…people watching & quilt inspiration at its finest.
This time of year is so inspiring for me. I live in the country, the air is crisp, and everything is changing colors, in my own front yard.
I'd have to agree with coastal Maine being inspirational. I immediately recognized where those picture were from! Nothing compares to the colors at sunrise and sunset on the water!
I love just looking out my windows and seeing trees!
-I can't wait to try the new fusible Flex foam…just waiting for stores to get it!
Just walking outside in the woods is inspirational!
I'm lucky enough to live on a lake (temporarily) and the different textures of the water are amazing.
garner state park here in texas inspires me. such beauty.
My front porch is my retreat and source of inspiration. I am lucky enough to have near my porch plwnty of wooded areas and neighbors fields and plenty of wildlife . If not just to "watch the grass grow", I can begin life again with renewed inspiration.
Love looking at the light play on the fields and hills around here for inspiration.
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There is a definite shift in one area, and that is what operators will use real-time functionality for in two years' time. Last year, the majority said that 'OTT collaboration' was top priority. This year, in perhaps a more positive or combative stance, the priority was collaboration with third parties (non OTT), VoLTE, IoT and Carrier Billing. It seems that<|fim_middle|> after customers is hard. But it is deal breaker if it does not happen. If operators cannot do that, then they must leave the consumer end of the market to others and concentrate on the wholesale market. This is not a criticism but a strategy well worth considering. | operators' strategies are becoming clearer, which is good news.
Hopefully, this means that operators have finally realised that they must avoid commoditising data. Hopefully, also, it means that they are seriously thinking along the same lines as discussed in a recent paper from real-time specialist, Openet. If operators are implementing real-time functionality, they should be looking at how best to create personalised offers. And whatever the pressures within operators 'not to impose' on customers with personalised offers, it is, according to Openet's paper, exactly what 63 percent of all age groups want.
Operators should, as we pointed out before, take the 'Google stance' and try things. Customers expect their service provider to know what they are doing and where they are, so make use of that knowledge. Make use of their habits, their historical data, think like retailers, think like digital service providers. Rebuild the business around the customer, not the network.
Real-time functionality and responsiveness will allow operators to become pro-active in how they engage with their customers. But it is not easy. As well as the business case, the planning, the procurement and the implementation, there is the issue of culture. Changing the attitudes of people who, for years, have gone to the office to look after the network into people who go to the office to look | 270 |
We are the canoe section of a friendly rowing and canoeing club based in the beautiful and historic town of Bradford on Avon and as the photo shows we have been around a while !
Both the rowing and<|fim_middle|> events and an annual dinner dances.
and we hold come and try it taster sessions occasionally where you will have the opportunity to talk to members of the club and try paddling one of our kayaks. Details of these will be published here.
During the warmer months we hold a time trial . This year (2019) it will usually be the first Wednesday evening of the month. | canoeing sections have active men's and women's squads. We cater for all ages from juniors to veterans and for all levels of experience from beginners upwards. Training takes place on a scenic stretch of the River Avon between Bradford on Avon and Avoncliffe. The club regularly competes at events throughout the UK and abroad, all year round.
As well as training and racing, the club is also very sociable, with regular events from BBQs to training | 94 |
Wael El Mahallawy's teaching, academic and professional activities focus on<|fim_middle|> performance. | Arab music theory, qanoun performance and music technology. Balance is what he strives to achieve in his career as a sound engineer, academic and qanounperformer, believing that each role enriches the other, and nourishes his students' classroom experience.
El Mahallawy has been active as a sound engineer since 1996, having studied sound engineering and Pro Tools in Egypt, Canada and the United States. He is also the first and only licensed Pro Tools HD 9 Operator in Egypt, and his work as a sound engineer encompasses recording albums and soundtracks for video productions, in addition to live recording. His contributions as a qanoun performer range from participation in international folk festivals and performances in opera productions and soundtracks for films to recitals, ensembles and showcases.
In the academic realm, he is the director of the music program and the newly established Institute of Music Technology at AUC's Department of the Arts. He is also associate professor of music technology, qanoun and Arab music theory at AUC. His research interests revolve around the utilization of music technology to serve Arab music theory and performance, especially in light of the lack of recordings and documentation of Arab music heritage. His works and recordings of albums featuring instruments like oud, qanoun, accordion, kawala and mizmar include classic and popular Arab songs performed solo by each of these instruments, thus highlighting the different performance techniques pertaining to each of them.
His most recent works include recording different forms of Arab music such as lungas, muwashahat and samai, which all serve as important references to global scholars of ethnomusicology, as well as Arab music theory and | 341 |
5-10 minutes<|fim_middle|> and are there structures by which these kinds of practices can be supported in our cities and public spaces? | presentation each then facilitated discussion.
Here we are interested to look at the role of artists in 'giving pause', as a both social and civic act for engaging with the city. Creative acts such as thinking about your mood and that of the city, or participating in works that provide a portal to other viewpoints, or co-creating a networked city-wide park, all invite us to be a part of the city in different ways.
Within these forms of practice, what can you see are the decisions being made towards the long term health of the city? How important is discovering the layers of a place for forming a sense of civic concern for its wellbeing?
Rather than the quantitative data of sensor arrays, artists might choose to engage with the impossible, and the immeasurable data of our lives. In this way are the artists able to create a methodology for amassing the more ephemeral data more commonly associated with the social scientist (ie Happiness Index)?
Increasingly creative practices may involve working long-term with a group or community. When are these most appropriate | 210 |
RAPID by ACOM Health (a subsidiary of ACOM) is one of the most trusted chiropractic EHR and practice management software solutions on the market.
Backed by ACOM Solutions, a technology company with a 30+ year track record of developing high quality software, ACOM Health's certified RAPID software for chiropractors has a substantial tech and support team working to constantly improve the product and stay on top of regulatory changes. Most notably, the team has already added all of the functionality needed to satisfy Medicare's MACRA/MIPS requirements, which took effect in early 2017.
Is RAPID the right software for you?
Developed specifically for chiropractic practices, RAPID (by ACOM Health) provides all of the necessary features to run your practice, including a patient kiosk to simplify patient registration and check-ins, as well as an optional end-to-end billing and collection service. RAPID can be installed locally or on the cloud, but the cloud installation is most recommended. With the cloud option, you won't need to worry about backing up your data, and you can rest assured that your data is stored in a HIPAA-compliant fashion.
Can be installed locally, or on the cloud.
Feature-rich, and fully integrated software.
Strong reporting capabilities, including custom reports.
ACOM has a track record of delivering high-quality software for over 30 years.
Local installation is only supported by Windows OS.
Incremental fees for optional modules, such as Appointment Reminders.
Marketed only towards chiropractors in North America.
$199 - $299/month depending on which package you choose. Month to month subscription pricing, so no contract.
RAPID by ACOM Health has grown to become one of the most popular chiropractic software solutions on the market. In 2011, when the Meaningful Use requirement began, RAPID was one of the first solutions to help chiropractors satisfy the Meaningful Use requirement. As a result, many chiropractors were drawn to RAPID's EHR system which, at the time, was a separate module from its practice management solution. Since then, RAPID has combined these modules into a fully integrated practice management and EHR solution.
Below, we discuss the key features of RAPID, and how they can benefit your practice.
The touchscreen kiosk eliminates the need for clipboards and paperwork, giving your practice a more professional look and feel. This is one of the most important ways that RAPID saves time for both patients and chiropractors. Patients can check in through the touchscreen, and update their most recent medical complaints based on their previous visits. The touchscreen will then walk patients through each complaint, and have them update the status of each complaint. This information gets directly transferred to the chiropractor's notes. New patients can register either through the touchscreen kiosk, or online, which greatly simplifies new patient registration. Any information entered through the kiosk or online will automatically get stored in the patient dashboard.
The patient dashboard organizes the patient's information into one central location. You can organize your dashboard into several screens, each consisting of up to 6 panels. The dashboard is also customizable, which makes it easy to select what information goes into each panel. You can also store alerts for each patient so that whenever you open the patient's dashboard, the alerts will pop up and remind you about important information about the patient. The dashboard stores information about the patient's visit history, so you can monitor their progress across visits, which is important for outcomes assessment and for proving medical necessity.
With RAPID, chiropractors can create daily notes in under a minute just by clicking or tapping the touchscreen. The software has a library of all of the ICD-10 codes, and maintains a shortlist of the relevant codes for chiropractors. If you tap on any particular section of the body diagram, the relevant ICD-10 codes for that area of the body will pop up.
After the patient has updated their subjective complaints through the touchscreen kiosk, the information immediately gets transferred to the doctor's notes. The software will automatically populate the daily note with all of the information from the patient's previous visit, which means that to complete the note, the doctor only has to update the progress for the objective findings of each complaint.
The software also outputs the full report, which you can review and modify as needed. A unique feature of RAPID is that the software will create an alert if a note is missing required documentation, and will make sure that the note is PQRS-compliant and has all of the necessary G-codes.
Since the software is fully integrated, the diagnosis & CPT codes can be sent directly to the billing module without any double-data entry from a staff member. The notes drive the billing, which protect your practice from post-payment audit threat.
RAPID makes scheduling easy, with its color-coded scheduler that enables you to specify the provider each patient will be seeing, and the reason for the visit (which comes from a customizable dropdown menu). When the patient arrives at the office, the front desk staff can easily check in the patient from the scheduler, just by clicking on the appointment. Alternatively, patients can check themselves in using the touchscreen kiosk, which is a nice feature that frees up time for your front desk staff. When checking themselves in, patients can fill out their subjective complaints, and this information will be transferred directly to the doctor's notes.
Patients can be scheduled for single appointments and treatment plan visits. The software also enables you to send automated appointment reminders, which can be a helpful way to reduce no-shows. You can also reach out to patients for marketing purposes to promote services/ products, and ask them for referrals in an effort to increase your patient base. RAPID also has an Email blast, which can send emails out to all your patients, and is a great tool to alert patients if you will be closed, or if you wish to promote services or products to everyone at one time.
If your practice doesn't have experienced billers on staff to handle non-cash claims and to manage your rejected insurance claims, you may want to consider using ACOM's end-to-end billing and collection service. Roughly 20% of RAPID's user base takes advantage of this service. The service comes at an additional cost, but can be a worthwhile investment given the additional revenue that it will bring in, and the corresponding reduction in write-offs. Outsourcing your billing can also save your staff turnover, and the associated stress and cash-flow interruptions. ACOM claims that by using their end-to-end billing service, you can attain initial claim submission payment rates of over 98%.
If your practice prefers to manage its own billing, RAPID's billing module is still able to streamline the process and make sure that claims get sent out promptly with the proper codes attached. After a patient finishes their session, as soon as the doctor selects the treatment and billing code in the notes, the information will flow directly to the billing module. This enables the patient to check out immediately -- the doctor doesn't even need to finish their notes before allowing the patient to check out, which helps both the front desk and billers move more quickly. Since RAPID is a fully integrated software solution, documentation gets sent directly to the billing module, making it easy to send out claims to insurance. One nice feature is that the collections module has hyperlinks to each claim, so in the event that there are any issues with a claim, the biller can resolve the issues directly from the billing dashboard. As soon as<|fim_middle|> her documentation process, and by helping her with the Meaningful Use attestation process. | claims are paid by the insurance company, the payments will get posted into the ledger.
The software includes a suite of standardized reports, which help you track your finances and identify areas of improvement for your practice. For example, you can identify the most profitable sources of referrals, or the amount of insurance claims sent to specific insurance providers vs the amount that gets reimbursed. The most commonly requested reports are all part of the suite of standardized reports. However the software also allows users to create custom reports. As long as the data is tracked by the software, you can use it to create your own custom report.
If you're looking for a complete chiropractic practice management solution that can be hosted either locally or on the cloud, then ACOM is one of the top solutions on the market to consider. The software offers benefits to everyone involved in your practice, and is developed by a trusted technology company with a track record of delivering high-quality software. We've found the software UI to be very intuitive, so it should be easy for less tech-savvy users to learn quickly. However, if you're looking for a solution that will run locally on a Mac, RAPID would not be appropriate for you, since the software only runs on Windows when installed locally. However, many of ACOM Health's clients prefer using Windows Tablet PCs with a stylus, so they can just point-and-click to generate their notes in real time, and move from room-to-room while providing patient care.
We also like that if your practice doesn't have an experienced biller on staff, you have the option to outsource end-to-end billing and collections to ACOM Health's team of experienced billers. With exceptional software and customer support, we highly recommend ACOM Health's RAPID Complete chiropractic solution.
To learn more about ACOM Health, you can visit their site here.
You can also read our interview with Dr. Jennifer Finn, owner of Finn Chiropractic, to learn more about why she chose to use RAPID, and how it's helped her practice by streamlining | 418 |
We often take over the care and maintenance of a new<|fim_middle|> discuss how an intensive care visit might benefit you. | instrument to find that it has been the victim of years of neglect. Many clients struggle to raise funds for total rebuilds and are often misquoted or mislead as to the necessity and subsequent costs of works.
After an initial assessment of the instrument we will compile a report detailing major faults (if any), areas of concern and a suggestion of future works, as well as a list of issues that can be dealt with in the interim period. We will then spend a number of days (to be agreed beforehand) on site, rectifying faults, making repairs and giving the instrument a thorough tuning- things which are often enough to get the instrument back in top form. These have become increasingly popular over the last few years and we offer one-, two- and three-day intensive care packages to suit most budgets.
If you have an instrument that hasn't worked properly for years or you have been advised that nothing other than a full rebuild will do, we urge you to contact us to | 195 |
Nashotah House is an Anglican seminary in Nashotah, Wisconsin. The seminary opened in 1842 and received its official charter in 1847. The institution is independent and generally regarded as one of the more theologically conservative seminaries in the Episcopal Church (United States). It is also officially recognized by the Anglican Church in North America. Its campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
History
Nashotah House was founded by three young deacons of the Episcopal Church: James Lloyd Breck, William Adams, and John Henry Hobart, Jr., who were all recent graduates of the General Theological Seminary in New York City, at the bidding of Bishop Jackson Kemper. Gustaf Unonius was the first graduate.
Nashotah House was, from the beginning, a center for High Church thought and discipline. Breck, the first dean, was highly committed to the principles of the Oxford Movement. Later, noted professors such as James DeKoven would bring Anglo-Catholic worship and practice to the seminary. This began with the daily celebration of the Eucharist as well as the use of vestments, candles, and incense.
Nashotah House considers itself to be within the orthodox Anglo-Catholic tradition. Overall, the faculty support traditional theology and conceptions of Christian doctrine in opposition to liberal theologies. Graduates themselves come from a variety of jurisdictions both inside and outside of the Episcopal Church. Nashotah House sees its mission to form priests and church leaders from all over the Anglican Communion.
In February 2014, Bishop Edward L. Salmon, Jr. invited Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, to preach at the school. The decision was condemned by the seminary's largely conservative supporters who cited Schori's tactics of suing parishes that left the EC<|fim_middle|>796-1857), first superior of Nashotah House
James DeKoven (1831-1879), faculty member
Walter C. Klein, (1904-1980) Dean-President 1959-63, Bishop of Northern Indiana
Donald J. Parsons, (1922-2016), Professor, Dean-President 1950-1973, Bishop of Quincy
Harry Boone Porter (1923–1999), professor, editor of The Living Church
Michael Ramsey (1904-1988), Archbishop of Canterbury, adjunct professor
Edward L. Salmon, Jr. (1934-2016) Dean-President 2011-15, bishop of South Carolina
Arthur Anton Vogel (1924-2012), professor, bishop of West Missouri
William C. Wantland (born 1934), faculty member, bishop of Eau Claire
William Walter Webb (1857-1933), professor, president, bishop of Milwaukee
Louis Weil (1935-2022), professor of liturgics
Royden Yerkes (1881-1964)
References
External links
Official website
Historical resources on Nashotah House from Project Canterbury
Anglo-Catholic educational establishments
Episcopal Church (United States)
Seminaries and theological colleges in Wisconsin
Anglican Church in North America
Anglican seminaries and theological colleges
Education in Waukesha County, Wisconsin
Episcopal Church in Wisconsin
Educational institutions established in 1842
Buildings and structures in Waukesha County, Wisconsin
1842 establishments in Wisconsin Territory
National Register of Historic Places in Waukesha County, Wisconsin | USA over doctrinal matters, as well as what they considered her heretical views. In response, two bishops who were members of the Nashotah House Board of Trustees resigned or distanced themselves from the school.
Academics
Nashotah House offers degree and certificate programs aimed at training clergy and lay leaders for ministries in the Anglican Communion:
Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.)
Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.)
Master of Divinity (M.Div.)
Master of Pastoral Ministry (M.P.M.)
Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S.)
Master of Arts in Ministry (M.A. in Ministry)
It also offers a one-year certificate program in Anglican studies, geared toward students who have received an M.Div. from a non-Anglican institution and wish to be ordained within the Anglican tradition. The Master of Pastoral Ministry and the M.A. in Ministry degree may be earned through a combination of residential and online study.
The D.Min., S.T.M., M.Div., M.P.M., M.T.S. and M.A. in Ministry degrees are accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.
Campus
The property of the Nashotah House Theological Seminary covers 365 acres (148 ha) of land.
The main buildings of the seminary include, from oldest:
Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin, designed by James Douglas in Gothic Revival style and built in 1862.
Webb Hall (faculty and guest housing, the Chapel of Saints Peter and Paul), Gothic Revival style, built 1865 and added to in 1926 and 1950.
Shelton Hall (student housing), Gothic Revival style, built in 1869. Photo in box above.
Sabine Hall (faculty offices, student housing), designed by Alexander Eschweiler in Gothic Revival style, built in 1892, and expanded in 1910.
Lewis Hall (administration and faculty offices, the Saint Francis Oratory), designed by Eschweiler in Gothic Revival style and built in 1892.
Frances Donaldson Memorial Library, designed by John B. Sutcliffe in Collegiate Gothic style, built in 1911, and expanded in 1982.
Kemper Hall (classrooms, student housing, gymnasium), designed by Eschweiler & Eschweiler in Neogothic Revival style and built in 1956.
James Lloyd Breck Refectory, designed by Eschweiler & Eschweiler and built in 1965.
There are also apartments for both single and married students, and several houses for the dean and other faculty, as well as maintenance facilities.
Construction has been completed on a substantial addition to the refectory. The newly dubbed Adams Hall includes a large meeting hall and additional classrooms.
Student life
Nashotah began as a community inspired by traditional monastic life of prayer, work, and study. James Lloyd Breck's vision was to create a center for Christian formation in the (then) wilderness that would also be movement to propagate other communities for the purpose of evangelizing the frontier. Today, much of this vision remains intact and students still live a Benedictine cycle of prayer, work, and study. The life of the Seminary seeks to form the character of priests and leaders into the image of Christ. Various students have been involved in mission work around the Anglican Communion as well.
"Seminarians are invited to participate in an ascetic, disciplined, prayerful season of spiritual growth in Christ" in which they "practice the Benedictine Rule of daily prayer, labor, and study." All students have work crew assignments - cleaning bathrooms, mowing lawns, sweeping floors and taking other chores. Daily routine includes Morning Prayer, Mass, breakfast, classes, lunch, and Solemn Evensong. Always anticipated on the campus is the annual
St. Laurence Cup, a flag football game played against students from Sacred Heart School of Theology and St. Francis Seminary (Wisconsin). The formerly annual Lavabo Bowl game was played against Seabury-Western Theological Seminary which stopped granting residential Master of Divinity degrees in 2010 after ceasing to accept new M.Div. seminarians in 2008
Notable alumni
Keith Ackerman (born 1946), Bishop of Quincy
Robert Duncan (born 1948), archbishop, Anglican Church in North America; honorary doctorate
Louis Falk (born 1935), bishop, Anglican Church in America
Richard F. Grein (born 1934) bishop of Kansas and New York
Daniel W. Herzog (born 1941), Bishop of Albany
William Wallace Horstick (1902-1973), Bishop of Eau Claire
Benjamin Franklin Price Ivins (1884-1962), Bishop of Milwaukee
Russell Jacobus (born 1944), Bishop of Fond du Lac
Charles Jenkins (1951–2021), Bishop of Louisiana
Hiram Kano (1889-1989), Japanese American priest
Greg Kerr-Wilson, archbishop of the Diocese of Calgary, metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land, Anglican Church of Canada
Christopher Kovacevich (1928–2010), metropolitan of Chicago, Serbian Orthodox Church
William Jay Lambert III (born 1948), bishop of Eau Claire
Jeffrey Lee, bishop of Chicago
Charles Wesley Leffingwell (1840-1928), editor of The Living Church
Edwin M. Leidel, Jr. (1938-2022), provisional bishop of Eau Claire
William H. Love (born 1957), bishop of Albany
Taylor Marshall, Catholic convert, spiritual writer
Esau McCaulley, African American biblical scholar at Wheaton College (Illinois)
John McKim (1852-1936), bishop of North Tokyo
Don Moon (born 1936), physicist, president of Shimer College
James Orin Mote (1922-2006), bishop in the Anglican Catholic Church
C. Wallis Ohl, Jr. (born 1943), provisional bishop of Fort Worth
Alan M. Olson (born 1939), philosopher
Mark Pae (born 1926), bishop of Taejong
Scott Seely (born 1981), bishop suffragan of All Nations
William C. R. Sheridan (1917–2005), bishop of Northern Indiana
Dabney Tyler Smith (born 1953), bishop
Harwood Sturtevant (1888-1977), bishop of Fond du Lac
Gustaf Unonius (1810-1902), priest, author
Reginald Heber Weller (1857-1935), bishop of Fond du Lac
Keith Bernard Whitmore (born 1945), bishop of Eau Claire
Gary Wilde (born 1952), priest, author
Notable faculty
Hans Boersma (born 1961), Chair to the Order of St. Benedict Servants of Christ Endowed Professorship in Ascetical Theology
Richard Fish Cadle (1 | 1,610 |
90 % of your behavior is habitual. Did you realize it's that much? Think about when you wake in the morning and what you automatically do? You do these things without thinking about it…you're on autopilot.
Over the years you have developed a set a firmly engrained habits that determine how well every area of your life will work. We call these paradigms. These paradigms were created when you were small and the problem is that they stay with you until you break them. How are they working for you today? How well is your life working? Do you have one area that is pretty good and another area that is lacking?
It's proven that repetition is one of the keys to shifting past old habits. You've heard that it takes 21 days to form a new habit. Well research shows that if you can stick with the same thing for 40 days (90 even better) then you have a better chance of not falling back into old ways.
Are you ready to take 40 days to do something different from what you've always done? If what you want is a big enough desire, you will do it.
Now the awesome thing about our habits is they free us up to essentially multi-task. When you are showering you can make your to-do lists at the same time, right? You simply do it automatically, you don't have to think about it, just like taking a shower.
Now, I'm not suggesting you do this regularly as it takes you away from being present with whatever it is you're doing. You get the idea that your habits are automatic, they just happen. This is why it takes effort to change the bad ones to good ones.
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The Laundromat Project - Media & Storytelling Manager
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The Laundromat Project (The LP) is seeking a Media & Storytelling Manager. This individual will oversee the development and execution of digital content and campaigns that build greater awareness of the ways in which The LP advances its mission to support artists and neighbors creating change in their own communities. This includes marketing and promotion of day-to-day programmatic activities, seasonal fundraising appeals, and the launch of new organizational initiatives. The individual in this role will also develop strategies for the co-creation of unique editorial content (long-form and social media friendly) that affirms The LP's position as a leading organization shaping the fields of art, social justice, and community building. The Media & Storytelling Manager will play an integral role in helping to shape The LP's approach to preserving and amplifying self-determined narratives as we write our own histories (a key LP value).
Reporting Structure
Reports to Interim Director of External Affairs
Manages the Media & Storytelling Coordinator
Lead Responsibilities:
Map and keep track of The LP's growing content ecosystem and identify opportunities for expansion into key stakeholder audiences with strategic and meaningful content development
Guide the development and execution of a comprehensive content strategy––as established by the (Interim) Director of External Affairs––highlighting the mission, vision, values, programs, and strategic goals of The LP within a cohesive and inspiring brand identity
Guide the development of a cohesive, multi-platform, and metrics-based social media strategy with community growth in mind, that promotes knowledge building and engagement across The LP's social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn
Commissioning & curating new, innovative, and multimodal content (digital, editorial, and video) that connects the stories of LP artists and neighbors with a wider audience
Oversee an editorial calendar for effective promotion of The LP's programs, events, public programs, and campaigns
Oversee the management of The LP's website to consistently reflect The LP's messaging and brand identity. Liaise with web developers on website updates including flagging technical issues
Copywriting for social media, blogs, newsletters, press releases and website content
Establish trackable metrics to increase online engagement, serve programmatic and fundraising goals, and inform The LP's use of traditional, non-traditional, and digital media
Maintain effective internal communications to ensure that all relevant LP departments are kept informed of and engaged with marketing and communications objectives
Support Responsibilities:
With support from (Interim) Director of External Affairs, regularly assess, identify and lead activation of new and existing platforms (conferences, publications, and digital) to deliver thought leadership in support of The LP's expanding goals and objectives
Support the (Interim) Director of External Affairs and external strategic communications consultants to create and execute a thoughtful media relations strategy designed to increase press coverage on a local, regional, and national level
Work with (Interim) Director of External Affairs to create The LP's Annual Report
Support the design of digital and print marketing collateral to promote programs and events
Ensure that The LP's external communications meet a variety of accessibility needs
Additional responsibilities as The LP's programming demands
This position is ideal for a highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-directed individual who believes in the power of art as a tool for advocacy and community-led transformation. The ideal candidate has a demonstrated understanding of The LP, our brand and organizational objectives.
Minimum of 5 years marketing and communications experience in a fast-paced and goal-driven environment
Excellent editorial judgment, writing, and verbal communication skills
Deep commitment to social justice, equity, and values-based work
Experience with writing content around The LP's issues such as gentrification, displacement, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ community needs and demands
Enjoys communicating a complex message concisely and creatively
Superb attention to detail and organizational management
Proven success in developing and executing creative communications, editorial, and marketing strategies to achieve measurable goals
Strong graphic design proficiency and familiarity with Adobe Suite and Mailchimp
Expertise with social media management, copywriting, and marketing
Passionate, energetic, and open to building a thriving community
While not required, we encourage bi/multilingual candidates and candidates with a strong interest in language justice to apply
The salary for this role is $78,000.
We offer excellent benefits including health, dental, vision insurance, a retirement savings plan (401k) with a 4% employer contribution, a wellness fund for personal development and self-care, and funds for professional membership and development opportunities. Time off includes vacation, holidays, personal time off, and a collective week off during the Summer and year end.
Anticipated Start Date: March 2023
Position: Full time, with some weekends and evenings required
Reports to: Interim Director of External Affairs
Office Location: 1476 Fulton St. Brooklyn, NY (Work time includes both regularly scheduled in-office hours and virtual / remote hours)
Geographic Reach: Citywide, with particular focus on Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
About The Laundromat Project
Locally relevant and nationally recognized, The Laundromat Project advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities. We envision a world in which artists and neighbors in communities of color work together to unleash the power of creativity to transform their lives and surroundings. We make sustained investments in a community of multiracial, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary artists and neighbors committed to societal change by supporting their artmaking, community building, and leadership development.
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Experience with budgeting and reporting functionalities of Multiview financial software or similar is a plus.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Ability to sit for long periods of time. Ability to lift up to 15 pounds. This role will require some movement within the office when we return to in-person operations.
Brooklyn Academy of Music is an equal-opportunity employer. BAM is currently undergoing an anti-oppression process. BAM recognizes that historic institutional practices lead to a non-inclusive environment and is working to address diversity and inclusion in all forms. Individuals in BAM are experiencing their own pace during this process, which is not uncommon when addressing power and privilege. The Finance department supports and continues to take part in this process. | , multigenerational, and multidisciplinary artists and 83 innovative community art projects, while engaging over 48,000 New Yorkers. This is an especially exciting time to join our team as we make our new home into a creative community hub on Fulton Street in the heart of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. To learn more about The LP, please visit: laundromatproject.org/
The LP values and centers the voices, cultures, imaginations, knowledge, and leadership of people of color in all of our work and operations. To learn more about The LP, please visit: laundromatproject.org.
The LP strives to be a positive, fulfilling, and healthy place to work by providing professional development opportunities, generous benefits, and a reasonable work schedule that allows staff to have greater wellbeing both in and outside of work. We are a POC-centered learning organization committed to working together as a staff to further our collective understanding around the many intersecting cultures, histories, and experiences that inform our work.
Please Note: Newly hired employees are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 (i.e., have received both doses of a two-dose vaccine or a single dose of a one-dose vaccine) and must provide proof of vaccination upon request by the organization. Requests for potential accommodation shall be considered in accordance with applicable law if and at such time as a conditional offer of employment is extended to a candidate. Applicants should not provide any medical or genetic information with their application.
We cannot respond to all inquiries—only candidates for consideration will be contacted. We will not accept reference letters or phone calls.
The Laundromat Project is an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women, immigrants, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and others who may contribute to a rich diversity of perspectives and ideas are especially welcome and encouraged to apply.
Assistant Carpenter - Opera House
Submitted on Tue, 01/24/2023 - 23:44
Assistant Carpenter
Theatre and Arena Rigging
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-disciplinary arts center located in Brooklyn, New York. For more than 150 years, BAM has been the home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas—engaging both global and local communities. With world-renowned programming in theater, dance, music, opera, film, and much more, BAM showcases the work of emerging artists and innovative modern masters.
BAM's Production department is looking for an Assistant Carpenter who will work with the Head Carpenter in managing carpentry and rigging elements for both presented and produced works, including managing BAM's manual fly system. The selected candidate will be able to collaborate with BAM and Visiting Company Production Staff with advance planning for a show or event by interpreting ground plans, scenic drawings, rigging plots and fly cue run sheets. The selected candidate will exemplify strong leadership and communication skills to successfully operate independently and collaboratively as part of a larger team. Ideally, the selected candidate will be available to begin work as soon as possible due to our current timeline of upcoming performances.
Responsible for performing and supervising carpentry and rigging work for all performances in BAM Opera House.
Assist Head Carpenter in working and managing all load-ins, load outs, rehearsals, performances and work calls.
Responsible for performing and supervising carpentry rigging maintenance in the Opera House as a working member of the crew, including operation of Opera House manual fly system and motors
Collaborate with all stagehands, departments, and production management to work with artists and companies to present cutting-edge, internationally renowned performances and art.
Work with Head Carpenter to identify crewing needs for productions and events in conjunction with BAM Production Staff, and the Crew Chief.
Work with Crew Chief and BAM Production to ensure crew consists of a diverse workforce
Enforce standards of operation in carpentry and rigging that are safe for both personnel and equipment.
Represent the Carpentry Department in production meetings.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) work and comfortable with DEI concepts, programs and initiatives
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
7 years' experience working in related theatre/stage work in carpentry and rigging departments
Experience and knowledge of theatrical and arena rigging.
Experience and knowledge of manual single and double purchase fly system.
Experience interpreting ground plans, scenic drawings and rigging plots.
ETCP Theater and Arena Rigging Certification within 364 days of hire date. This certification must be kept up-to-date.
Must be flexible and adaptable in relation to the work and scheduling
Union Affiliation: If not currently a member, the selected candidate will be required to join IATSE Local 4.
Working Conditions: Ability to stand for prolonged periods and ability to move throughout the facilities as required daily. Ability to lift up to 50 pounds with the assistance of a team.
Compensation: Salary and Benefits will be provided per the IATSE Local 4 CBA (union) specifications, includes:
40-week contracted year at 40 hours/week, with frequent additional hours and weeks required
Weekly salary of $1,910.52, with significant additional OT
Fully funded Local 4 Healthcare Plan
Paid Vacation (4 weeks) in addition to Paid Sick Time per CBA
Contributions to Local 4 Pension and Annuity
Perks include comp tickets, neighborhood discounts and more
Application Instructions: Must complete an online application through BAM's website - no phone calls, emails or walk ins, please.
Internal Applicants must apply via the Internal Job Portal by the application deadline. Applications not submitted by the deadline may not be considered. Employees must meet all of the following criteria to be considered for an interview:
Completed at least 1 year of continuous, active service in current position. (Positions excluded include, but are not limited to, temporary assignments, and probationary employees);
Meet the experience and skills requirement as outlined in the job post;
Be employed in current position for at least one year:
Performed in a satisfactory manner without any corrective actions in the last 12 months
Brooklyn Academy of Music is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BAM recognizes that historic institutional practices lead to a non-inclusive environment and is working to address diversity and inclusion in all forms. Individuals in BAM are experiencing their own pace during this process, which is not uncommon when addressing power and privilege. The Production Department supports and continues to take part in this process.
Director of Human Rescources
Submitted on Fri, 01/13/2023 - 00:10
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Director / Executive
$115,000.00/yr -$140,000.00/yr
HRIS management
employee relations performance appraisals
policy creation and revision
special initiatives and payroll processing
Human Rescources
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) is a home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas—engaging both global and local communities with world-renowned programming in theater, dance, music, opera, film, and much more. With an annual operating budget of approximately $50 million —the majority dedicated directly or indirectly to programming—BAM is a leading presenter of emerging and contemporary artists.
The HR Director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music will be the "right hand" to the Chief People Officer and is a key leader on a cohesive HR team supporting 200 full-time and 600 part-time/seasonal employees working in our internationally renowned performance spaces and cinemas.
The HR Director role require the ability to:
Oversee a team of two Human Resources Generalists, one Recruiter and one Payroll Manager.
Provide tactical and strategic support for our program leaders throughout the organization using a relationship-oriented, collaborative approach.
Work with management and employees to improve work relationships and morale, increase productivity and reduce turnover.
Foster an inclusive and equitable work environment for our staff and promote a harassment and discrimination free workplace.
Primary leader of BAM's DEI program, including setting objectives, facilitating cross-organizational collaboration and measuring the progress and success of the program.
Ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the HR Department including:
performance appraisals
Oversees the administration of human resource programs including, but not limited to, disciplinary matters and terminations; disputes and investigations; performance and talent management; productivity; recognition and morale; occupational health and safety; and training and development
Monitors and ensures the organization's compliance with federal, state and local employment laws and regulations and recommended best practices; reviews and modifies policies and practices to maintain compliance.
Maintains knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management and employment law; applies this knowledge to communicate changes in policy, practice and resources to upper management.
Ensures the integrity of HR data sets; conducts regular audits of HR data to ensure accuracy; provides data analysis and data-based insights as needed
Oversees the organizations DEI and anti-oppression program; research, develops, recommends and executes strategies to foster the organization's diversity goals.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Bachelor's degree (Human Resources, Management or Business Administration) or equivalent work experience
3+ years' experience managing a Human Resources team
Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills including a collaborative approach
Experience working with both union and non-union employees
Experience managing Human Resources Information Systems
Passionate about BAM's programming
SPHR or SHRM-CP
non-profit experience
Experience working with Paycom
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Ability to sit for long periods of time. Ability to lift up to 15 pounds. This role will require some movement within the office.
COMPENSATION: Salary will range between $115,000 - $140,000 annually commensurate with years of experience. This position is full-time exempt and eligible for benefits. This is a hybrid position with three days at our Brooklyn location per week required.
Budget Manager
$75,000/yr - $80,000/yr
The Budget Manager role supports and plays a key role in managing BAM's organizational budgets and is responsible for the administration, analysis, and reporting of assigned budgets.
The Budget Manager role requires the ability to:
Analyze BAM's budget and financial reporting and ensure the accuracy and timeliness of assigned components of BAM's operating budget throughout the budget cycle.
Improve operational efficiencies and effectiveness of budgeting and reporting procedures and systems in line with best practices.
Maintain BAM's capital projects budgets and manage the process with construction managers, architects, and funding agencies.
Ability to think critically and solve problems proactively.
Collaborate and diffuse conflict and strive to achieve shared goals.
Facilitate annual budgeting process to develop an operating budget.
Perform monthly review and analysis of departmental budgets, including explanations provided by departmental heads for departmental budget-actual variances.
Analyze the budget, identify risks and opportunities and make recommendations.
Prepare monthly financial reports comparing budgeted and actual financial data of BAM's operating activities.
Improve operational efficiencies and effectiveness in the area of financial reporting, budget planning, and budget control, including business process improvements and financial system functionality enhancements.
Respond to inquiries from internal stakeholders across the organization regarding budgets and spending. Troubleshoot and resolve problems and issues.
Analyze labor budgets for collective bargaining negotiations by creating multiple budget scenarios for various labor strategies, examine the effect of differing work rules on the budget, investigate the impact of various potential labor changes to wages and benefits (healthcare, retirement, etc.), evaluate the labor strategy and make recommendations.
Respond to requests for ad-hoc budget reporting, financial analysis, special projects, and other similar duties as required or directed.
Manage budget and supplemental schedules for BAM's capital projects and reconcile actual costs against budgets and prepare fiscal year-end accruals for the capital projects.
Manage process for payment applications including their review and reconciliation and any supporting documents from construction managers and architects.
Manage the process of BAM's requisition requests to funding agencies.
Review, reconcile and close the assigned program and departmental budgets while adhering to a budget close-out schedule.
Perform journal entries for cost allocations and revenue re-classifications, set up project codes, and enter budget modifications in Multiview financial software.
Develop and conduct budget training sessions for internal stakeholders across the organization.
Complete quarterly trial balance review for assigned accounts.
Prepare PBC schedules for assigned accounts for an annual financial audit.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES
A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration, or equivalent work experience.
A minimum of three plus years of relevant work experience with budgets and financial analysis. Experience with managing capital project budgets is a plus.
Exceptional interpersonal communication with the ability to build effective relationships and work with colleagues at all levels across different functions.
Capable of managing multiple work streams under pressure with tight timelines in a fast-paced environment. Including the ability to manage stressful situations.
Excellent analytic and quantitative skills, including working with complex data sets.
Excellent attention to detail and organization.
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Compuware release new project management system
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"Changepoint 2010 brings a real improvement for company's road warriors," said Tukun Chatterjee, Compuware's EMEA sales director. "Given that it's vital for companies who have road warriors. The mantra is for them to be out of on the road, billing all the time, but they also need to access to timesheets.
The new product has also been upgraded to offer enhanced service desk support. The 2010 release offers a utility that enables better analysis and faster resolution of support issues, as well delivering support for templates associated with specific request-based business objectives.
In addition, the software also offers closer collaboration between different departments and organisations, including customers, sub-contractors and industry partners.
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History
The dish, based on the Piedmont speciality carne cruda all'albese, was invented in 1963 by Giuseppe Cipriani, founder of Harry's Bar in Venice. He originally prepared the dish for countess Amalia Nani Mocenigo when he learned that her doctors had recommended that she eat raw meat. The dish was named carpaccio after Vittore Carpaccio, the Venetian painter known for the characteristic red and white tones of his work.
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Ceviche
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Crudo
Gored gored
Kibbeh nayyeh
Kitfo
Kuai
Mett
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Yukhoe
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Uncooked fish dishes | 1963 by Giuseppe Cipriani from Harry's Bar in Venice, Italy and popularised during the second half of the twentieth century. The beef was served with lemon, olive oil, and white truffle or Parmesan cheese. Later, the term was extended to dishes containing other raw meats or fish, thinly sliced and served with lemon or vinegar, olive oil, | 78 |
Why It's So Important To Take Full Advantage of Your Gym Membership. – The Capital Athletic Club | The Capital Athletic Club is Downtown Sacramento, California's Premier Full-Service Athletic Club that provides a variety of amenities including cardio and weight equipment, fitness classes, training, swimming pools, basketball courts, and services to help you be fit, healthy, and happy.
Everyone has their own fitness interests that typically involve investing in a gym membership. Unless you're outside the reach of a gym or health Club, even the outdoor enthusiasts find that they will need to supplement their hiking, swimming, paddling, and running adventures with resistance training and fitness instruction. It will be inevitable that you will eventually cave in and start shopping for a gym that<|fim_middle|> has invested in a gym/club membership, please take advantage of your options that your gym provides! | 's right for you.
Invest in Yourself: Depending on your budget, your gym should be a place that you spend the most time at beside home and work. Invest in a gym that you enjoy. You should enjoy the atmosphere, the people, the equipment, and the group classes if you are a Group Exercise student.
Improved Self-Esteem and Confidence: Although it may be scary to start working out at a new gym, especially if you are not completely confident in a gym, the more you utilize your gym membership and participate in the amenities, the more you will start to appreciate your progress physically and mentally. Results drive the mind and your progress doesn't go unnoticed. Connect with a trainer to receive an orientation of the equipment. They will be happy to explain how the equipment is used and what may benefit your fitness program.
Connection & Camaraderie: Making connections with other gym members in group class or in the weight room can result in new friendships. It is proven that connections with other members at your gym may increase your attendance and overall experience.
Spark New Fitness Interests: Try a new class that you are considering, meet with a personal trainer to start a new fitness program, or maybe jump in the pool for lap swim! Your gym membership shouldn't be limited to the amenities that you are only comfortable with. Your fitness awareness will improve when you experience new ways to exercise like a HIIT class or Pilates Reformer. Who knows, you may find a new activity that you fall in love with!
Reliable Fitness Instruction: Personal trainers, group class instructors, and coaches are here to help you. They have been carefully selected to provide a standard level of fitness programming that we can't always create by ourselves. Many gyms include personal training in the membership to create an initial program. The Capital Athletic Club includes 3 initial one-hour sessions for members to meet with a trainer and create a workout routine that matches their fitness interests and goals. Classes provide the same kind of structured exercise in a group, so you can join in on a workout that you can follow along to with others to encourage you!
Increased Healthy Habits Outside of the Gym: It has been proven many times over that increased physical activity improves quality of life and promotes healthier habits. If you are consistently using your gym membership, you are more likely to be happier, have a better attitude at work and home, eat healthier, experience better sleep, be more productive, and increase more outdoor activity.
Many fitness professionals believe in different fitness ideologies, but we are certain that anyone with a passion for fitness believes in variety and consistent change. If you are an individual that | 530 |
Our Place Community of Hope
A welcoming, supportive and safe environment where people
living with mental illness can find community and joy
Support Our Place
Income from donations is used directly towards programming. Your donation allows Our Place to constantly improve the programs that are offered in a way that is responsive to the changing needs of its membership.
Your donations could support the following essential elements to the work of Our Place:
You will be redirected to the
St. Michael's Homes donation page
$15 buys a hat, gloves and scarf included in one person's Christmas present.
$50<|fim_middle|> make a donation directly to Our Place Community of Hope or to St. Michael's Homes. To make a donation for the Our Place program, select Our Place Community of Hope in the drop down menu on the donation page.
Payroll Contribution
Does your workplace have a charitable payroll contribution system? Whether United Way, or any other payroll giving, you can direct that giving (or a portion) to Our Place, via St. Michael's Homes - registered charity # 107949893 RR0001
A planned gift is a charitable donation provided during a donor's lifetime but the payments are not received until sometime in the future. The Planned Giving program encourages donors to consider the possibility of supporting Our Place Community of Hope through, for example, a will or as a beneficiary of life insurance.
The work of Our Place has benefited substantially from a number of individuals who have remembered us in their wills. We thank them and their families greatly.
Registered Charity # 107949893 RR0001 | covers the costs to facilitate weekly sessions such as our Mental Health Peer Discussion Groups.
$150 buys a week of dinners - 250 meals - supporting good eating habits.
$500 buys six months' worth of supplies for the art program.
Many people also support Our Place by generously donating their time. Please visit our web site to find out about volunteer opportunities.
Our Place Community of Hope, a program of St. Michael's Homes, is a Catholic Charities Member Agency supported by ShareLife. We also receive support from a variety of foundations and donations in-kind from Second Harvest and other charities.
Direct Giving - Mail
Send a donation to St. Michael's Homes at 262 Gerrard St. East. Identify that the donation is for the Our Place Community of Hope program in the note on the cheque and the funds will be used for Our Place. A charitable donation tax receipt will be sent to you for any amount over $5.00.
Direct Giving - Online
Click here to be redirected to the St. Michael's Homes' donation page that will allow you to | 225 |
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Outfest LA 2022 Proves Anything's Possible in the Queer Community
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It's almost hard to believe it's been 40 years since Outfest LA became a force for LGBTQ+ themed expression on film. We've made a lot of progress in terms of positive representation, but clearly, there is always more to said, done and shown. As the rights of queer people seem at risk now more than ever, stories reflecting the breadth of this experience are also more important than ever. Outfest is still going strong after four decades in its quest to do it, and do it right.
Held from July 14 – 24, this year's festival features over 200 films from around the globe and 42 premieres at various L.A. locales throughout the week, including Directors Guild of America, The Orpheum Theatre, The Theatre at Ace Hotel, The Ford, Harmony Gold<|fim_middle|> 2023
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Get our latest news straight into your inbox. | , Plaza de la Raza and REDCAT. Several films will be available to screen virtually at home as well. Billy Porter's directorial debut Anything's Possible (about a high school age trans girl finding romance and herself during senior year) is getting tons of a buzz. It will premiere during the event's opening gala at the Orpheum on July 14. Porter will also be presented with 2022 Outfest Annual Achievement Award.
Other highlights include the 20th Anniversary screening of Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, which will offer Haynes, producer Christine Vachon, and Julianne Moore discussing the film afterward; Unidentified Objects, a road trip-driven buddy comedy; Mama Bears, a doc exploring Christian mothers who give love and support to their LGBTQIA+ children; HeBGB TV, an avant garde tribute to late night horror TV embellished by "a spooky, live-action immersive experience"; Chrissy Judy, a dark comedy about the relationship between a 30-something drag queen and his best friend, Chrissy; and a closing night screening of John Logan's new film They/Them, which stars Kevin Bacon, and is positioned as an "LGBTQIA+ empowerment tale set at a gay conversion camp."
And there's more: putting many of the films shown into more enlightened context, a Trans, Nonbinary & Intersex Summit at the Directors Guild of America (Sat., July 23) will offer programs and discussion with everyone from activists to filmmakers to comedians; trans actor and artist Lio Mehiel presents a three-part pop-up art presentation "Ancient Futures" also at the DGA, aimed at affirming and revering TGNC bodies via video, photo and sculpture (from British multidisciplinary artist Holly Silius); Big Freedia brings the bounce to Outfest's Platinum Alchemy Bash at Catch One along with Moor Mother's 700 Bliss, Seth Bogart, Commando, and more, on July 17. There's a whole lot more to watch and engage in, from music and dance to networking and education.
"OUTFEST has always been a life-line for those of us queer folk who had no place to go," says Porter about the event. "To have a queer film festival that's 40-years-old is a testament to the fierceness of our community. Build it — and they will come. "
See the full schedule and more info here.
Susan Rodriguez July 12, 2022
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See the premeet checklist below. Pack your bag tonight, including your lunch, water, and other healthy snacks. Save the sodas, candy, etc for after the meet. If you need to buy food at school, do this during break.
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In class this week we continued learning the meaning of the pledge, 'We know our responsibilities – give us the ability and courage to fulfil them'. We learnt the secret behind being responsible – it is to act with courage. We brainstormed what courage is. Courage is to be brave and not be afraid to do things. We heard the story of a little kite that saw his big Mommy kite flying and thought to himself that he would never be able to do it. But Mommy kite told him to be brave and try his best and assured him that God will help him if he tried. The little kite gathered courage<|fim_middle|> willed judgment they are called the intellect.
The bliss sheath is the innermost of the five sheaths consisting of vasanas. This sheath is only experienced when we are in deep sleep. It is aptly named the bliss sheath as when we are in our deep sleep, our financial, social and health status do not matter as we experience the undisturbed peace and bliss due to the cessation of agitation experiences in the state of consciousness.
The subtlest of all the sheaths is known as the Atman. This is the core of the five sheath structure. To better understand the sheaths, imagine them to just be layers of clothes worn by a person, which is totally different from the wearer. The sheaths are known to be within each other, as the vital air sheath is within the food sheath and the mental sheath within the vital air sheath and so on.
Another good example that Kindle Life provides is the analogy of a piece of ice. When the ice melts it forms water and when the water is boiled it forms steam. In this example ice is the food sheath, it is the body and cannot expand and is very subtle. When you melt the ice, you get water, which is like a river and more subtle than ice. The river is like the mind and where we choose to take it is the intellect. So, the water is like the intellect and is more pervasive than the food sheath as its perceptions go beyond the boundaries of the physical body. Then, once you boil that water, you get steam. The steam is the bliss sheath and is the subtlest of the layers. The steam spreads the most hence having the most impact.
Next week we will look more closely at the Atman.
Sadhana: To reflect on these attributes and integrate them in to our daily lives by constant practice.
Chanting: To revise up to Verse 27 of Chapter 2 of the Gita. | and started to fly. As he flew higher and higher he was so happy and said,' I am glad I was brave and tried – it is a lot of fun!' We also learnt how courage is needed when we are facing a competition. But we also realised how more courage is needed if we do not win the competition. We need to be brave to 1. Smile even when we lose the competition, 2. Understand that we did our best and 3. Say 'Well Done' to the winner.
Homework: To continue to revise the pledge.
This week, we continued learning about more qualities of our superhero Hanuman – humble, reliever, saviour and brave. We talked about Sita mata giving Hanuman the boon to grant anyone the 8 siddhis (supernatural powers) and 9 nidhis (wealth). The 8 siddhis are Anima (power to become small), Mahi-mahi (power to become big), Garima (power to become heavy), Laghima (power to become very light), Praptih (power to attain whatever one wants), Prakasyam (ability to go anywhere), Isitvam (power to rule over the world) and Vasitvam (power to control everyone). The 9 nidhis are precious jewels of Lord Kubera, the Lord of wealth. However, greatest wealth that Hanuman gives us is the love for Lord Rama, as we surrender to Him. When one bows down in Sastanga pranaam, one bows down with chest, head, vision, mind, speech, two feet and knees and two hands touching the ground, in total surrender.
We then brainstormed the different names of Hanuman, and what does "Haribhakta" or true devotee mean. We heard 3 tales to understand this. Tale 1 (Detachment): Once upon a time there was a saint, who visited a village and all people who met him, became devotees of the Lord. When the king heard this, he was very happy and built a palace just like his for the saint. One day on their walk, the king asked the sage what was the difference between both of them, now that the saint lived in a palace too. The saint promised he would tell him after walking for some more time. Soon, the saint said, "We don't want to go back home. Let's walk to the other town." The kind immediately said that he couldn't leave as he had his wife, children and kingdom waiting for him! While the saint could leave all the worldly pleasures without any regret! Tale 2 (Self-control): One saint always said, "One who doesn't succumb to one's desire, is always happy. One who desires, alone is unhappy in the world. ". One day, he really felt like eating rice pudding and asked his devotee to make it. On being offered the rice pudding, the saint refused to eat it! This was his way of doing tapas or practising self-control. To progress in life, tapas is very important. Tale 3 (Gratitude/attitude): An old woman always talked about how nice she was and how she did all the right things – helped others, gave donations, offered puja in temple, but God was not happy with her and He did not give her a grandchild. Her neighbour rightly reminded her that she could do all this as God had given her so much more than she needed. She should indeed be grateful instead of complaining! Whatever we do, we should do with right attitude. We then played the "It" game, where all the children enacted Haribhakta deeds (singing glories, making garland, watering plants, cleaning desk,…), while one child ("It") guessed what the action was.
Next, we heard a story of "ask and you shall receive". A little boy was building castles on the beach. As he was almost finishing building the wall, a huge rock stuck in the way. He tried hard to remove it but was unable to, and so started crying. His father saw his frustration and asked him "Son, did you use all the strength you possess?" Still in tears, the son said yes. To which the father said, "No, you didn't. You didn't use all the strength you have – you didn't ask me. Ask and you shall receive." And the father unstuck the rock and removed it. When we are stuck in life, just ask Hanumanji. Like a kind father, He will help and make us happy.
A little girl Tess was counting her piggy bank money. Full two dollars! That will be enough to buy a miracle for my sick brother, she thought. So off she went to the pharmacist. The pharmacist hardly noticed her presence as he was too busy talking to his brother who he hadn't met in four years. She finally mustered courage to say she had come to buy a miracle to save her really, really sick brother. The pharmacist's brother offered to help, as he was a neurosurgeon named Dr Carlton Armstrong. He saved the brother, Andrew, without charging the family a cent. Miracle is not the suspension of natural law but the operation of higher law, when there is faith in the Lord. Faith is all it takes. Faith in the Lord makes us brave so we can face anything in the world.
Children enacted this story to share the summary with the rest of the Balavihar family.
Mother Janaki bestowed upon You the boon that You may grant the eight siddhis (supernatural powers) and nine kinds of wealth (to anyone You like).
The elixir of devotion to Lord Rama is with You, who always stays at the feet of Lord Rama as His servant (with utmost humility).
Singing Your praise makes Lord Rama bless and relieves one of all miseries of previous births.
Even though a devotee does not think of any other deity but Sri Hanuman, he will (surely) enjoy all happiness.
All miseries and torments vanish when one remembers the brave Sri Hanuman.
Homework: Practise chanting of the chalisa till caupais learnt. Share the stories and the morals learnt. Remember to bring your books to class next week.
This week we looked at the sheaths (kośas) that envelop the Atman. There are five distinct sheaths: They are the food sheath, vital air sheath, mental sheath, intellectual sheath, and the bliss sheath.
The food sheath is the physical body; it is called the food sheath as it is emerged from the essence of food. This sheath consists of the five sense organs and five organs of action.
The vital air sheath is the functions of our body. It is generalised in five sections, they are the faculty of: perception, excretion, digestion, circulation, and thinking. This sheath regulates the food sheath.
The mental sheath regulates and orders the vital air sheath. And is controlled by the intellectual sheath. An example how the mental and intellectual sheaths are connected is: the mind is like a receiving and dispatching clerk who mechanically receives the office mails and dispatches as per the officer in charge. The intellect is compared to the officer sitting in judgment over the disposal of the papers received from the clerk and directing to a type of action to be taken.
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Javi Martinez reacts after receiving the 3rd goal during the match between Bayern Munich and Fortuna Duesseldorf at Allianz Arena on November 24, 2018 in Munich, Germany.
Bayern Munich's troubled Bundesliga season went from bad to worse on Saturday after a late collapse saw it draw 3-3 with Fortuna Duesseldorf, whose forward Dodi Lukebakio scored a hat trick.
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Losing its opening five games of the season put Schalke in the relegation zone even as it plays Champions League football, but it continued a recent recovery with a 4-2 win over Nuremberg. Two goals from Steven Skrzybski helped seal the win for Schalke, while Nuremburg finished without right back Robert Bauer, who was sent off after collecting two yellow cards. | dropped nine points behind league leader Borussia Dortmund, which beat Mainz 2-1, while Leipzig's 10-game unbeaten run ended in defeat at Wolfsburg.
Bayern coach Niko Kovac said he was "anything but happy" to see two late goals from second-from-bottom Duesseldorf, which last played Bayern in the Bundesliga back in 2013.
"I simply can't grasp how we failed to take the chances which we had, but what's much worse is the way we defended all three of the goals we conceded," he said. "It doesn't matter then whether you're facing a newly promoted team or a Champions League team. These mistakes get punished."
Bayern seemed to be cruising after scoring twice in the opening 20 minutes, but Duesseldorf came back from 2-0 and 3-1 down thanks to Lukebakio's brilliance and Bayern's defensive frailties.
On loan from Watford, Lukebakio started the comeback when he scored in the 44th minute after Jean Zimmer's botched overhead kick bounced off Jerome Boateng. Thomas Mueller made it 3-1 with his second goal of the game in the 58th, but Lukebakio wasn't finished.
The Belgian scored again in the 77th and leveled in stoppage time, latching onto Rouwen Hennings' pass and holding off Niklas Suele before applying a calm finish.
The international break has done little to fix Bayern's defensive vulnerabilities. Kovac's team has conceded in eight consecutive Bundesliga games going back to September.
A day after making his loan deal from Barcelona permanent, Paco Alcacer scored his ninth Bundesliga goal in seven games for leader Dortmund.
The Spain striker came off the bench just two minutes before scoring the opening goal against Mainz. Robin Quaison made it 1-1 shortly after but Lukas Piszczek's curling shot secured all three points for Dortmund.
Chasing its first title in seven years, Dortmund leads by seven points from Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Moenchengladbach, though the latter has one more game to play.
Undefeated since the opening weekend, Leipzig was undone by Jerome Roussillon at Wolfsburg. The French player scored his first goal of the season, and the only goal of the game, in the 50th minute.
Leipzig stayed fourth, one point off second place and one ahead of Bayern.
Second-placed Frankfurt's surprise title challenge continued in a 3-1 win at Augsburg as Jonathan de Guzman got Frankfurt rolling with a goal after just 53 seconds.
Hoffenheim could have overtaken Bayern with a win but let a 3-1 lead slip in similar fashion to the reigning champion, as goals from Mathew Leckie and Valentino Lazaro helped Hertha Berlin rescue a 3-3 | 591 |
CHARLES V. BOULTON and DOROTHY F. BOULTON vs. MADELINE P. ARMESON, WILHELMINA BEARSE, Administratrix, MARION L. KENDRICK, DAVID G. BEARSE, ROBERT V. BARBARISI, MARYAN BARBARISI, ROBERT F. RODA, Trustee, SALLY S. RODA, Trustee, REED S. MATHEWS, JARVIS HUNT, JR., JUDITH N. HUNT, FRED B. BYERS, MARGUERITE BYERS, MARY ANN ROTAR, ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST, and THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Barnstable, ss.
SULLIVAN, C. J.
Louise E. Wanamaker, predecessor in title to the present plaintiffs, Charles V. Boulton and Dorothy F. Boulton, husband and wife, as tenants by the entirety (the substituted plaintiffs) commenced this action to register her title to a large tract of land on Cape Cod Bay in Orleans in the County of Barnstable, by filing a complaint in the Land Court pursuant to the provisions of G.L. c. 185, §1(a) on April 7, 1967. For a myriad of reasons too numerous to outline here, the progress of the registration proceedings continually was delayed until finally on May 26, 1987 the trial commenced, continued on August 28 and October 23 and concluded on October 26, 1987. At each session a stenographer was appointed to record and transcribe the testimony. All exhibits introduced into evidence are incorporated herein for the purpose of any appeal. Witnesses for the substituted plaintiffs included: Mr. Boulton; Henry H. Thayer, a well-known conveyancer throughout the Commonwealth and a Land Court Examiner; and Anne Gainey, a neighbor. Those for the defendants included: Mr. Barbarisi; Madeline Wi1Cox; Robin Wi1Cox, a registered land surveyor; and James H. Quirk, Jr., a Cape Cod conveyancer and Land Court Examiner. The original Land Court Examiner has died and under the circumstances the Court was not required officially to appoint a successor to act. Both Messrs. Thayer and Quirk testified as expert witnesses. A view was taken by the Court in the presence of counsel on December 3, 1987.
The area which the substituted plaintiffs Boulton and other substituted plaintiffs in part claiming under Mr. and Mrs. Boulton, seek to bring within the operation of Chapter 185 is shown outlined in green on the A3 plan entitled "Plan of Land in Orleans, Mass. to be filed in the Land Court, Land Court, Case No. 35018" dated April 14, 1981 by Schofield Brothers, Inc. (Exhibit No. 2B), a reduced copy of which is attached hereto as Appendix A (the "Plan"). The only area as to which there is a contest concerns that marked 1C on the Plan although certain of the defendants do claim rights to use in common with others entitled, Beach Plum Lane and Cranberry Lane as shown on the Plan. As to those portions of the locus not in dispute, title thereto may be registered subject to such matters as appear in the abstract and are not contested and to such additional evidence, if any, as the Court may require in entering orders for decree and the drafting thereof and of the final decree.
As noted above it is the title only to Parcel 1C which is in contention in this, the contested part of the registration proceedings. A stipulation has been entered into between the plaintiffs and the Orleans Conservation Trust to which the plaintiffs' title will be subject and a stipulation is anticipated also with The Commonwealth of Massachusetts so that there remain two classes of defendants who contest the registration of title in the name of the substituted plaintiffs. Title to Parcel 1C is claimed by Madeline Armeson who was allowed to answer late. Earlier in the longrunning saga of the case her husband, George E. Armeson, had appeared and answered not only for her, but also for David G. Bearse, Wilhelmina Bearse and Marion L. Kendrick. The latter three defendants also were allowed to answer late but took no active part in the trial, and their present status as defendants is not clear; however, their interests in large part track those of Mrs. Armeson and in ruling on her claims their claims also will be determined. Appearances also were filed on behalf of Ruth Melore and Myra H. Malcolmson who claimed, as the heirs of E. H. Linnell, to be among the owners of record of an undivided one-half interest held in common with the plaintiffs in parcel 1C, but neither defendant appeared at the trial, and both have been defaulted. The other defendants who seriously contested the plaintiffs' title were Robert B. Barbarisi, Maryan Barbarisi, Robert F. Roda and Sally S. Roda, Trustees, Reed S. Mathews, Jarvis Hunt, Jr., Judith N. Hunt, Fred B. Byers, Marguerite Byers and Marianne Rotar, who were allowed to intervene in the proceedings. This category of defendants is comprised of owners of homes in the so-called "Unity Acres" Subdivision ("Unity Acres") who claim certain rights to cross parcel 1C and to use rights of way in the Unity Acres Subdivision as well as separate rights of way not involved in this litigation and which do not affect any parcels shown on the Plan. To the extent that either Mrs. Armeson or these defendants cast doubt on the plaintiffs' title, then the Unity Acres defendants apparently hoped to be able to forge an agreement which would allow them to cross the causeway and bridge located on Parcel 1C to reach the beach on Cape Cod Bay.
At the trial the plaintiffs took the position that, absent abuses by the general public, they do not bar people from using the beach which forms part of parcel 1C above high water mark or indeed between high and low water marks where the public does have rights but not such as would allow them to use the beach without the Boultons' concurrence, but that they do object to third parties crossing parcel 1C either to reach the beach or to exit from it.
On all the evidence I find and rule as follows:
1. The plaintiffs hold title of record to an undivided one-half interest in parcel 1C by virtue of a deed dated December 30, 1861 but not recorded until January 8, 1925, with Barnstable County Registry of Deeds in Book 384, Page 202 (all recording references herein being to said Registry), from the heirs of Seth Knowles, Barnstable Probate No. 43196 to Phebe Freeman (Exhibit No. 5A). The description in this deed is inartistic, and it recites that it lies in common and undivided with E. H. Linnell. No instrument of record from Captain Linnell or those claiming under him was found by the Land Court Title Examiner, nor by any of the parties. Title then passed by deed of Phebe Freeman to her daughters Phebe B. Freeman and Lucinda K. Freeman, dated April 18, 1891 and recorded in Book 195 at Page 122 (Exhibit No. 5B). Thereafter followed the deed of Phebe B. Freeman, Lucinda K. Freeman and Seth K. Freeman, their brother, to Henry Fletcher Hall, dated November 7, 1<|fim_middle|>62 , 68 (1930), "[a]ctual possession of a part of a large tract, when proved, is not limited to the part so possessed but gives constructive possession of the entire parcel when the entry was made under color of title." (citation omitted). Activities carried on before Mrs. Wanamaker acquired title to parcel 1C are unclear although the Land Court records show title was claimed from at least 1937 forward. Activities on the locus which can be documented began about 1960 and have continued to the present. Entry clearly was made under color of title. Twenty years had not run prior to the filing of an answer on behalf of the Atwood heirs in 1976, but this did not stop the running of the period as would have been the case if it were the defendants who had filed the registration complaint. Nor did the 1980 dismissal for failure to prosecute affect the merits of the transaction. During this entire period the substituted plaintiffs continued to bar third parties from the causeway and bridge, kept signs posted to bar access, maintained a gate across the path, completed the mid-seventy repairs and took steps to gain permission to repeat repairs at the present time, and paid the real estate taxes. There were no significant steps taken by any defendant or third party to interrupt the running of the twenty year period. The fact that the Boultons had the same difficulties as they would have had with a registered title in keeping trespassers off the causeway and bridge should not, in the light of the general picture here, be determinative. Accordingly, I therefore find and rule on all the evidence that the substituted plaintiffs, Boulton, have borne their burden of establishing title both on the record and by adverse possession to parcel 1C free from any easements or claims of the defendants, other than the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, title, of course, being subject to the rights of the public in the tidal creek and below mean high water mark.
The defendant Armeson filed requests for twenty-seven rulings of law, but since I have made my own extensive findings of fact and rulings of law I decline to do so.
Judgment accordingly.
[Note 1] Ruth Melore and Myra H. Malcolmson.
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2. It would be difficult today to place the description in the deed to Henry Fletcher Hall if Mr. Hall had not brought a petition in the Land Court to register his title to what is now parcel 1C, together with certain adjoining land. The land which was sought to be brought within chapter 185 is shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Land in Orleans, Mass. Property Of Henry Fletcher Hall" dated May 1937 and filed with the Land Court as Plan No. 15539B (Exhibit No. 3). Lots A and B which show on said plan indeed were registered in that case and they are shown on the official plan also bearing the number 15539B (Exhibit No. 19). Parcel 1 also shown on this filed plan (Exhibit No. 3) as containing 13.72 acres was also registered in part as shown on Land Court Plan 15539A (Exhibit Nos. 18 and 65) as Parcel 1 containing 10.10 acres. This parcel, having since been subdivided, now appears on Land Court Plans 15539C, D, E and F as the lots which abut the land sought to here be registered on the north and east (See Exhibit No. 28). Parcel 2 shown on Exhibit No. 3 as containing approximately 3.23 acres was not registered until 1967 in Case No. 31767 (Exhibit No. 63). The remainder of the land shown on this plan (Exhibit No. 3) as Parcel 3 and the unregistered portion of Parcel 1 (salt marsh) is Parcel 1C, which is the subject of this litigation.
3. The interest held in common with E. H. Linnell was not defined in the earlier recorded instruments, and the deeds in the chain of title after the deed to Mr. Hall (Exhibit Nos. 5D-5I) dropped the reference to the Linnell interest until the deed from the original plaintiff, Louise E. Wanamaker, to the substituted plaintiffs wherein the covenants are stated to relate only to an undivided one-half interest in parcel 1C. This deed is dated September 20, 1971 and recorded in Book 1530, Page 207 (Exhibit No. 5I).
4. The substituted plaintiffs also claim title to parcel 1C through adverse possession, both as to the Linnell interests and as to others. Parcel 1C consists of a large area of salt marsh and upland barrier (dune) as shown on the filed plan (Exhibit Nos. 11C-11F). A tidal creek runs through the parcel in a general northeasterly direction from Namskaket Creek. There is a causeway which runs from parcel 1A on a virtually straight line to Cape Cod Bay which was originally constructed by the Wanamakers (Exhibit No. 11B). The causeway is generally raised over the level of the marsh and provides access to the beach along Cape Cod Bay. An earlier bridge across the tidal creek was constructed by the Wanamakers, and substantial repairs to the bridge were made by Mr. and Mrs. Boulton about 1975, and they presently are preparing to do further work on the bridge with permission having been sought from the appropriate regulatory authorities. As to the earlier work, in February of 1975, the plaintiffs filed a notice of their intent to repair the bridge across the tidal creek (Exhibit No. 13C) as shown on a plan entitled "Bridge and Access Maintenance" (Exhibits No. 7 and 13D) pursuant to G.L. c. 131, §40 the "Wetlands Protection Act" so-called. The hearing thereon was held March 19, 1975 pursuant to a notice duly published (Exhibit No. 13B) and an Order of Conditions was issued by the Orleans Conservation Commission (Exhibit No. 13A).
5. The present plans of the Boultons to maintain the bridge and its access are subject to a current order of conditions dated December 2, 1986 and recorded in Book 5513, Page 34 (Abstract, Exhibit No. 1, s. S5-4). A special permit also has been issued for work on the bridge and recorded in Book 5524, Page 190 (Abstract, Exhibit No. 1, s. S5-5).
6. The work on the causeway was commenced and mainly completed in 1960 or 1961 although work continued for a number of years. A road was cut through, a pipe was put in the first year, then rocks, some weighing as much as a ton, were put around it, then about 6,700 truck loads of fill were brought in by the Wanamakers. Nonetheless, the winter tides worked their mischief, and the crossing of the creek again was a problem so a bridge was built. Twenty-four or twenty-five telephone poles were sunk in the creek with huge half-ton rocks in some cases pushing them down, then laced together with other poles and a bridge bolted on top of that. The completion of the project was celebrated by a large party.
7. Signs have been posted by both Wanamakers and Boultons at each end of the causeway admonishing third parties not to trespass or to keep off, but the "mortality" rate of such literature was great (Exhibit Nos. 6-1-6-3). Those at the beach end of the causeway were and still are the particular objects of vandalism. People continue to attempt to use the causeway and bridge who walk down the shore from the town beach to the northeast and seek a shorter route back on foot or even on horseback across the marsh. Others such as the residents of Unity Acres have followed Beach Plum Lane to the west, then turned right and crossed parcel 1B, the Boultons' title to which is not contested, to reach parcel 1C and the causeway. There is a double gate in the rear of the Boultons' house which has a chain lock (Exhibit No. 6-3). The gate preceded the Boultons' ownership.
8. The Wanamakers for a year or two had a farm for clams and oysters in the bed of the tidal creek, but the project was not able to survive the buffeting of natural forces. They and the Boultons have walked the causeway and beach, watched the birds on the Atlantic flyway, and in the case of the Boultons granted permission to certain neighbors to use the causeway and bridge to reach the beach. The Boultons have kept a sunfish on the beach.
9. The plaintiff and substituted plaintiffs have believed they were paying taxes on parcel 1C over the years in question (Exhibit No. 10), and the valuation lists of the Orleans assessors, beginning in 1949 with Mrs. Hall, continually show parties in the Boulton chain of title assessed for salt marsh or marshland although the boundaries of the assessed parcels are not clearly fixed.
10. The Hall registration proceedings of 1937 constituted a claim of ownership to parcel 1C. The present case filed in 1967 by his successors in title is a continuation of that claim.
11. Title to parcel 1A, on which the substituted plaintiffs' home is located, comes through the Unity Acres subdivision. Title thereto was acquired by the developer, Millard H. Tibbetts, an Orleans attorney, from Clarence E. Knowles and Laura Knowles as executors of the will of Julia A. Atwood by deed dated July 16, 1948 and recorded in Book 699, Page 6 (Exhibit No. 45). It is to this source that Mrs. Armeson also looks for her claim of title to Parcel 1C. The deeds delivered pursuant to the Unity Acres development (See Exhibit No. 23 for plan) granted rights to use Beach Plum Lane and the other streets and roads shown on the Unity Acres plan. As abstracted by the Land Court Examiner, they also included the right to use the beach to the west of Beach Plum Lane and "the present existing foot bridge to the beach, but without any obligation on the part of the grantor, his heirs and assigns, to maintain said bridge or any liability for damage suffered thereon by any person for any cause." (See Exhibit No. 20). Similar language appears in the deeds to the defendant Unity Acres lot owners (See Exhibit Nos. 24 and 26 to 30, inclusive). The language granted rights to those within the subdivision to proceed westerly from the end of Beach Plum Lane across non-locus land and a tidal creek, by the bridge then in that location, while it remained. Now, the bridge having for practical purposes been destroyed, its former locus can be found by walking at low tide, to the beach adjacent to land formerly of Tibbetts, from the end of Beach Plum Lane as extended from its terminus near the "private parking area" (as shown on the A3 plan) westerly toward Cape Cod Bay. This is not the bridge constructed by the Wanamakers and repaired by the Boultons.
12. Mrs. Armeson testified to her childhood use of the beach in the area of locus, sporadic use thereof as she reached high school and college age and occasional use in recent months. None of it was such as to constitute adverse possession nor do I understand that she claims otherwise. Rather she bases her argument that she has record title upon several deeds to her ancestors the Atwoods. As an aid in identifying where the descriptions in earlier deeds fall on the ground, Mrs. Armeson testified as to artifacts found on the beach which might constitute the remains of a salt works (Exhibit Nos. 32A-E). It is clear that members of Mrs. Armeson's family did indeed own land in the vicinity of locus for the adjoining Unity Acres subdivision is situated on land formerly of her great aunt Julia A. Atwood. Claims have also been made on behalf of Mrs. Armeson's family both in registration proceedings across Namskaket Creek in Brewster brought by Tonn, Inc., Registration Case No. 36915, and in those by G. Douglas Hofe, Jr. in Registration Case No. 38315. Nevertheless in this matter, no witness testified who could place any of the deeds into Julia A. Atwood or her predecessors in the location of parcel 1C; indeed no deed was introduced in the Atwood chain which bounded by Cape Cod Bay.
The findings which I have made compel the conclusion that the substituted plaintiffs have shown sufficient title to register parcel 1C. While the description in the deeds in the chain of title is sketchy and perhaps inaccurate in describing the granted premises as sedge land, it generally fits the area of locus. The earlier registration case placed the parcel in the same location, and the claim has continued to the present. Both the decree plan in Registration Case No. 15539 and in Registration Case No. 31767 give the owner of the land in the position of locus as of the substituted plaintiffs' predecessors in title. While abutters are not adjudicated in a registration proceeding, their names, as shown by a registered land surveyor or by the assessors, is evidence at least of a claim made on behalf of the abutter. It is true that in 1861 there was indication of an outstanding interest in E. H. Linnell. Nearly one hundred thirty years have elapsed, however, since that reference, and no such claim ever materialized. Two parties to which the Land Court sent notices of this case as heirs of Linnell did appear, [Note 1] but they failed to participate further in the case and had been defaulted by the time of trial.
On all the evidence I therefore find and rule that the Linnell claim has been abandoned, and that the substituted plaintiffs Boulton hold record title to parcel 1C. Additionally, it seems clear that the activities of the substituted plaintiffs and their predecessors have been such as to establish their title to the Linnell interest, whatever it may have been, by adverse possession, even though as to co-tenants the burden of proof is greater than as against third parties. Kabat v. Shawmut First Bank, Conf. No. 41288 (Cauchon, J.; August 5, 1987) citing Allen v. Batchelder, 17 Mass. App. Ct. 453 , 455-456 (1984).
The defendants argue that the plaintiffs' record title is imperfect since no deed into the party said to own it in the 1800's can be found; moreover, it is argued, the description lacks a boundary, does not accurately suggest the size of locus and wrongly describes the granted premises as sedge. Those infirmities do indeed appear in the Boulton chain, but they are characteristic of Cape Cod titles. Moreover, they have shown title as well by adverse possession. The substituted plaintiffs must, of course, bear the burden of establishing that they have sufficient title to bring the land which they claim within the operation of chapter 185 of the General Laws. Allen v. Wood, 256 Mass. 343 , 349 (1926) citing Bessey v. Ollman, 242 Mass. 89 , 91 (1922). And to show title by adverse possession they must establish that they have used the land openly, notoriously and exclusively under a claim of right for at least twenty (20) years. Holmes v. Johnson, 324 Mass. 450 , 453 (1949); Ryan v. Stavros, 348 Mass. 251 , 262 (1964). This does not mean, however, that they must occupy each portion of the locus for the requisite period, but they may rely on the doctrine of color of title to shoulder a portion of the burden. "Color of Title" is explained by Justice Kass in Norton v. West, 8 Mass. App. Ct. 348 , 350-351 (1979) as follows:
Color of title, in the context of an adverse possession claim, is an assertion of a claim of ownership based on an instrument of title, such as a deed or lease, even though that instrument does not pass a valid title. See Attorney Gen. v. Ellis, 198 Mass. 91 , 97-98 (1908). The advantage which a person may gain from that doctrine is that the activities relied upon to establish adverse possession reach not only the part of the premises actually occupied, but the entire premises described in a deed to the claimant. Dow v. Dow, 243 Mass. 587 , 590 (1923). For example, if the act of adverse possession were cultivating a half acre parcel of land, but the claimant held an invalid deed describing three acres, the claimant would have constructive possession of the three acres for the reason that it is the presumed intention of the grantee of the deed to assert such possession.
Or as more succinctly stated in Nantucket v. Mitchell, 271 Mass. | 3,517 |
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Change My Life Blogaday - Day Eleven
2:26 AM. Late, but dang happy about it.
Today went well. On a lot of fronts. There were a few fronts that didn't go well, but today was definitely better than it was worse. That's for a lot of reasons.
I got my calc test back today. I got 93/100. There were only 10 people above 90. The class has 40 people, so that looks pretty good. I lost two points on an easy arithmetic I just screwed up. The other five points came from the limit definition of a derivative, like I knew they would. But still, I was very very happy about it. Cannon (my professor, who is a stud) doesn't test very hard, but it still felt great to know that I understood stuff. That's more what it's about than anything. Yeah, having a good score is awesome, but this is actually proof that this college thing can work. It's hard to get to calculus on time, it's hard to do my homework before midnight, but I am learning. Maybe I can make it happen after all.
I slept through physics, again. Today was especially bad in there. I didn't stay awake for more than 10 minutes before I started dozing off. I was out for a few, and when I came back to I was all hot and uncomfortable. The right side of my chest was feeling tight and a little hurty. Not heart attack style. It kinda felt like my lungs do after I sleep in too long on a saturday and take a very deep breath. It wasn't any cause for alarm, but it made me uncomfortable. I wanted more than anything to just stand up and leave.
I could actually get a lot from the lectures if I'd read the chapters beforehand. That's hard to do. But it'd change things. Right now that's the class that I'm doing the worst in. More news on that later. But if I was going to focus on changing one class, I should probably focus on physics.
Creative Arts test today, I got an 88. That was more good news. That was only slightly above average, but I'm happy with it. Definitely a safe score. I really like creative arts. It's an honors class, so there's only 40 of us in there. Dr. Peterson is incredible. He knows who I am. It's insane. He knows I'm chris and he knows that I play halo and carry about Lawrence (or is it Laurence? I'm a terrible father!) six. After tonight, he knows about the jello story.
We had a "Creative Expo" for that class tonight. Since it's an honors class someone decided that'd be a cool idea. In theory, we all got together at six at the family life building and showed off our talents. In reality I showed up at 6:45 to something a whole lot cooler. We had had to move the room because the one we were planning on being in wouldn't work. That threw a lot of the talents out the window, since half the people wanted to play piano. But I showed up 45 minutes later to lots of pizza left and Dr. Peterson just chilling with all the kids that showed up. Just having a cool discussion, asking questions, just hanging out. It was so dang cool.
After a while we actually started sharing talents, and that was a lot of fun. One guy showed off some sick woodwork he did. Another girl read some poetry of hers. She prefaced it by saying that her writing was very personal, and that it didn't rhyme, because he worries more about conveying one emotion at one specific time. Jaron has spoiled me, that's for sure. He's got skills. Her poetry was a ton rougher than his, didn't have the polish. But there was something incredible about the first poem she read. Her words weren't really beautiful, but what she was saying was amazing. It was titled thunderstorm or something like that. Once again, not showing the poetic maturity I've come to expect from my friends, but still. She progressed from talking about a thunderstorm brewing inside of her to a teardrop that escaped to a ray of hope and light that got refracted off of that teardrop into a rainbow that promised the sun would come out another day. I'm not doing it justice, but the progression was just incredible. It was one of those things that hit me and made me remember that some people really are like me. I really related to it and loved it.
A few more talents were shared. Highlights include some cool artwork one guy did that I didn't get to see and chocolate zucchini muffins. Dr. Peterson asked if I had one, and since I hadn't prepared anything, I said no. When I saw that we still had lots of time and that things would be way chill, I decided to stand up and share my jello story. It was a cool environment to share it in, and I really appreciated how it went. I stood in front of the very casual and friendly group and just told my awesome jello story. They were really good listeners, and I think they liked it. Someone asked if I was going to ever recreate it, and I said, "Probably not. It was only cool because we did it so fast. If I recreated it I'd have all the time in the world, which wouldn't make it as cool." Dr. Peterson, being the stud he is, said, "No, it was cool because you had a reason to do it." I dunno why I thought that was so cool, but I really did. Actually, no, I do know why I think that's so cool. And I agree with him.
I did my physics tonight. It feels so good. I came home from the honors doober and read my chapter and then did the work. I finished the work at about 1:35 ish<|fim_middle|> means that I can't go too far from where I was yesterday or a minute ago. The important part of the graph, I think, will be the general slope of the line from point a to point b at the end of the game. Derivatives at any given point aren't incredibly significant at the end. I mean, they're important because they get us where we are. But where will I be at the end? Higher? I certainly hope so.
There are only a few things that could make this night any better. My apartment smelling like girls I care about would be one of them. Not sure why I threw that out there, but it's 2:59 AM, give me a break. I'm allowed to wish this place smelled a little better, right?
As a note, my apartment does smell good. I cleaned up in here last week, and me and Andrew have kept it looking nice. It just doesn't smell as nice as it could.
Okay, this is probably where I should stop. I'm glad I got to write tonight. Things have fallen into place tonight- not even close to mostly my fault. But for what it's worth, I feel like today was good. Tomorrow has a very valid shot at being good too.
I hope that you're all doing well. One day down. Not sure how many left, but that's one important day that we made it through. Here's to one more.
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Change My Life Blogaday - Day Ten | . I had done perfect until the last problem, which I got 0% on. So I did a few extra credit problems to make up for it and called it good. The material this time was really pretty easy. I love reading the chapter because then I actually understand it. I didn't read the last time, and it kicked my butt.
There's another assignment due Friday night, and I'd love nothing more than to just get it done tomorrow evening. The chapter is shorter than the one I did today, and so is the assignment. The material will be a little bit newer, but I think that I should be able to do it. That'd be great. Get that assignment done before it's actually due. That'd make friday sweet.
So that's the plan. Wake up before noon tomorrow and read the chapter. At least start it. It's late now, but I took a nap today. It was a strategic nap. I've been shying away from those lately, in an attempt to change my life. But it worked out today pretty well I think.
The news: Life feels better when I do my physics homework. Life also feels better when I'm with people, being friendly. Life feels good when I remember good things that have happened before.
That is one thing I've noticed. I think that coming to a completely new environment like this sort of shocked me into a hard reboot. I came back with the same hardware and software, but I felt like I was totally different, that I didn't have anything that I had worked so dang hard at to get before I came up. Telling the Jello story tonight made me remember the past. Made me remember some of the stuff that I'm good at and some of the cool stuff that I've accomplished. I know I can't ride off of high school successes anymore, but it's important that I don't forget them. They're still part of me. It's important. I believe, and I've said it here a lot, that as people we're the sum total of all the choices that we make. I've made a lot of choices. Lots of them before I moved to Logan. I can't forget those. I can't pretend those haven't changed me and taken me places. This isn't high school. But what happened back there still matters. I need to remember that. And I think I can.
So today was good. Still had moments of serious sleepiness. Still had moments of self-doubt and dreary outlook. But things came together. Hard work makes me feel good. Tests came back today that show I'm not a big retard. We're getting there. Still a lot to do.
Changing my life- it's not going to be a flash. I said that before. Back in the Logan blogaday I remember saying that I've been looking for easy answers. That I wanted to fall asleep and have a dream that would make everything make sense. It'd make me want to work harder and it'd tell me what to do about stuff. I knew it wouldn't come.
Changing my life, it sorta feels like that's what I've been looking for again. Something to come and change me in a flash. But that's not going to happen. I want to do my physics tomorrow. Will accomplishing that mean I've changed? It'll mean two good days in a row, but it won't mean that the quest is over. I don't stay at the same value for too long. I'm constantly progressing and regressing. If we can determine anything about the graph of my life, we can certifiably say that it's continuous. No jumps, no breaks, and certainly no asymptotes. But continuous, that | 764 |
Biography : Alice Thornton Mott
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Biography : Henry Hart Boley
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Henry Hart Boley was born in Pennsylvania, and his parents came from Berlin, Germany. The family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. He accidenally shot himself in 1843. Henry Boley came to Uah in 1849 and later settled in American Fork. He had twelve children and died in 1876 from the "lingering affects of the gun wound inflicted while standing guard at the Temple of...
Biography : Isaac Binns and wife Ellen Singleton Binns, pioneers 1862
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Ellen Singleton was born in 1849 in St. Louis, Missouri, and Isaac Binns was born in England in 1829. They were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They migrated to Utah in 1862 and settled in American Fork. They married in 1866. Ellen died in 1895, and Issac died in 1917.
Biography : Joseph and Elizabeth Hobson Robinson
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Joseph Robinson was born in 1827 in England and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1840. Joseph migrated to the United States and married Elizabeth Hobson in 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri. Elizabeth was born in 1830 in England. They came to Utah and lived for a time in Tooele, but they settled in American Fork. Elizabeth died in 1908 and Joseph died in 1917.
Biography : Lois Russell Harrington
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Biography of Benjamin Young Greenwood and Sarah Jane Julian Greenwood : pioneers came to Utah in 1850
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Biography : Elizabeth Arsena Davis Boley
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Biography : George Heber Robinson
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South Broadway Cultural Center
1025 Broadway Blvd SE
Albuquerque, NM 87102-4403
Catch a screening of the children's film. Reservations required.
It's Elastigirl who gets the assignment from philanthropist Winston Deavor (Bob Odenkirk) and his tech-genius sister, Evelyn (Catherine Keener), to fight crime with body cameras to help change public perception and reverse the anti-super laws. Mr. Incredible is tasked with minding the home.
A Free popcorn and water will be given to each attendee.
Limited space so please call the office at 505-848-1320 to reserve your seat!
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Elastigirl en Español
By Devin D. O'Le<|fim_middle|> the public. | ary
The South Broadway Cultural Center (1025 Broadway Blvd. SE) presents a bilingual double feature on Thursday, June 20. At 10am there's a screening of Los Incredibles 2. (Yup, that's The Incredibles 2 in Spanish.) That's followed by—what else?—The Incredibles 2! (Yup, that's Los Incredibles 2 in English.) Feel free to watch one or both of these Pixar animated superhero flicks. Double-featured Spanish/English films continue on Thursday mornings throughout the summer. For a complete schedule, go to cabq.gov/south-broadway-cultural-center. Admission is free and open to | 147 |
Fiat ready to roll with 500X
The subcompact Fiat 500X gives Fiat a cute crossover in a hot end of the car market.
Fiat ready to roll with 500X The subcompact Fiat 500X gives Fiat a cute crossover in a hot end of the car market. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/1qZcoeV
Brent Snavely, Detroit Free Press Published 12:01 a.m. ET Nov. 20, 2014 | Updated 12:20 a.m. ET Nov. 20, 2014
The 2016 Fiat 500X, a smart-looking subcompact crossover, will make its North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show.(Photo: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles)
Fiat Chrysler hopes 500X will help to broaden appeal of Fiat brand.
The Fiat 500X will compete with Honda HR-V, Chevrolet Trax, Kia Soul, and Nissan Juke.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is hoping that its second attempt to add a vehicle to its Fiat brand in the U.S. will be more successful than its first.
Today, the 2016 Fiat 500X, a smart-looking subcompact crossover, will make its North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
The 500X is the first Fiat model that was designed with the U.S. market in mind. It will have more space and utility than the standard Fiat 500 coupe while still reflecting the traditional Fiat design.
Design elements like double headlamps, the trapezoidal front and the rounded clamshell hood make the crossover immediately recognizable as a Fiat.
Both the 500X and the subcompact Jeep Renegade that will arrive in the U.S. next year, were designed to appeal to Americans and other global markets.
Jason Stoicevich, head of the Fiat Brand North America, said the automaker believes sales of small crossovers will continue to increase in the coming years, both in the U.S. and globally.
"We are seeing a ton of consumers that are willing to come downstream as long as they have their creature comforts they had in larger vehicles that were, in most cases, more expensive," Stoicevich said.
This year, sales of small and mid-sized crossovers have been among the hottest vehicles in the U.S., making the timing of the 500X's arrival good for the brand.
<|fim_middle|> the U.S. as the market drifts away from small cars toward SUVs," said Karl Brauer, senior analyst at Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com. "The 500X should bridge this gap, helping the Italian automaker resonate with buyers looking for a low-cost crossover offering unique exterior styling and engaging driving dynamics."
Built in Fiat's Melfi assembly plant in Italy, the Fiat 500X will arrive in North America in the first half of 2015.
The car made its global debut earlier this year at the Geneva Motor Show.
"The car was clearly designed with our market in mind," Stoicevich said. "This is a true global car. It is going to be sold in 100 countries."
The Fiat brand, introduced in 2011, is in need of a true second model. Fiat's 200 or so U.S. dealers have only sold 9,800 500L's over the first 10 months of this year.
The Fiat brand has sold a total of 39,226 cars so far this year, a 7.7% increase over the same period last year.
The Fiat 500X will be available with the fuel-efficient 1.4-liter MultiAir Turbo engine paired with a six-speed manual transmission, with an output of 160 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque. A optional 2.4-liter Tigershark engine produces 180 horsepower and 175 pound-feet of torque.
The small crossover will be available in five trim levels: Pop, Easy, Lounge, and for a more rugged look, Trekking and Trekking Plus.
Fiat Chrysler has not yet announced the price of the car.
Contact Brent Snavely: 313-222-6512 or bsnavely@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @BrentSnavely.
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2021 GMC Yukon's new sliding storage option is pure gold | The 500X will compete with other new, small crossovers including the Honda HR-V and the Chevrolet Trax that those automakers are introducing next year as well as the Buick Encore, Kia Soul, Mini Countryman and Nissan Juke.
Interior of the Fiat 500X (Photo: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles)
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<|fim_middle|> | 1 second and 1 penalty stop Bears from getting 1st win.
The Leetonia Bears lost a heartbreaking nail bitter on Friday to the Chalker Wildcats 17-14. The game started off hot for the Bears, with Roman Ferry scoring on the opening kick, rumbling for 85 yards after receiving the reverse pitch from Derrick Grossen. The extra point was missed by Duke and the rest of the first half would all Wildcats on the scoreboard.
A good drive led by QB Trystan Mollohan would end in a 4 yard score by the Defensive Lineman Logan Rhodes, taking the lead 7-6 after a Johnston XP. The Wildcats would score on an 8 play series after forcing Leetonia QB Brock Simpson to throw an Interception deep in Wildcat territory. Mollohan would take the QB keeper 4 yards for the score. After the extra point the Wildcats took a 14-6 lead into half.
Each team would have 2 possessions in the third quarter, neither able to score. This was a quarter littered with miscues and penalties on both sides. This set up a very exciting 4th quarter.
In the fourth, the Bears made two 4th down stops, 1st stuffing a run and 2nd an injury to the Wildcats punter, Michael Vacca, making him unable to get the kick off in time. The Bears 1st series in the 4th ended in heartbreaking fashion. On a play starting on the Chalker 45, Simpson failed to pitch the ball to his target Ferry, having the ball go back to their own 40. Ferry would recover, break 3 tackles and race away from the Cats defense for the score but there was laundry on the field. A block in the back penalty would drop the Bears to a 2nd and 40 instead of scoring their 2nd touchdown of the evening, eventually forcing Leetonia to punt.
After a Wildcats punt, the Bears would take over deep in their own territory with under 7 remaining. After failed run attempts, Brock Simpson would drop back to pass, tossing a 15 yard ball to freshman Marco Ferry who would do the rest of the dirty work. Ferry broke 4 tackles on his way to endzone on the 75 yard pass play, the most impressive was the jumping spin move at the 10 to make a Chalker defended lose grip of the tackle. Leetonia would complete the 2 point conversion and with under 4 to play, the game was knotted at 14.
The Wildcats would finally get their chance on offense. After 3 first down runs by WR Joey Meyers, Chalker would be in a 3 and long situation. QB Trystan Mollohan would air it out to Meyers for a 20 yard gain to get into the Redzone. Leetonia defense stood firm on the goal line, stopping 3 rush attempts to set up a 21 yard field goal with under 45 seconds on the clock. K Ryan Johnston would kick it through the uprights for the 17-14 lead.
With 31 seconds left, the Bears offense would take over on the Wildcats 45 after an impressive return by Roman Ferry. After a quick completion and a strong run, the Bears were in the 25 with 25 to play. After two plays and two false start penalties on the LT Sanders the Bears would be left with 1 second to attempt a Hail Mary. Simpson would role to the right and throw it deep to Grossen but Wildcat CB Joey Meyers would knock the ball down on the 2 yard line to end an exciting game in Southington.
The Bears fall to 0-3 and will travel to Columbiana on Friday. The game can be heard right here, LIVE on YSNLive.com! | 801 |
Phone Home: Denver Airport Offers Free Global Calls
Darren Booth | @FrequentlyFlyin
Published 8:45 AM ET Wed, 28 Nov 2012 CNBC.com
In a worldwide first, Denver International Airport now offers travelers free global phone calls from more than 200 landline phones located throughout the concourses.
The free, ad-supported calling service — called RMT Free Phone — launched this month in a partnership between the airport's advertising concessionaire, Clear Channel Airports, and RMES Communications. Clear Channel Airports' parent is Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings .
Travelers have access to unlimited local and national calls. International calls are free for the first 10 minutes, with the option to continue the call at the rate of $0.25 per minute, plus a 15 percent tax.
"While mobile phone usage has increased over the years, there is still a significant population who may not have access to a mobile phone because they do not own one, are traveling abroad, or their phone<|fim_middle|> an operator or rate information, press zero."
I haven't used a public phone at an airport in years and didn't see anyone else using the free phones in Denver. But it's still a unique amenity and will certainly be useful for anyone without a phone or whose battery needs charging.
For more information on services and facilities at Denver International Airport, click here.
Darren BoothWriter for CNBC.com | needs to be recharged," said John Ackerman, Denver International Airport's chief commercial officer, in a release.
To support the free service, the phones are equipped with high definition 17-inch LCD screens used for digital advertising. It allows advertisers to promote their products airport-wide with 15-second digital advertisements, and offers passengers digital coupons via QR codes as well as opt-in SMS-advertising.
Trying the Service Out
I traveled through Denver on Friday and decided to give the service a try, calling a friend in Australia. The phones are plentiful in United's B-concourse and situated in both gate areas and along the terminal walls. You simply pick up the receiver and dial like any landline. Before my call was connected, a recording advised the free call would last 10 minutes with options to continue the call at a rate of $0.25 per minute at the end of the grace period.
The connection was surprisingly clear, though occasional airport announcements were a bit distracting in the background. There was no option to raise the volume on the phone that I could tell. At eight minutes into the call, a recording temporarily interrupted, providing a two-minute warning. Another 30-second warning occurred near the end of the call. Both times my friend said she simply heard silence, so it's only the caller who receives the verbal warning.
At the 10-minute mark, the call abruptly ends with a recording, "Your 10-minute call has been disconnected. To redial this same number, enter a calling card or credit card number, or for | 318 |
JIM VIBERT: It was inconceivable in Nova Scotia, until Sunday
Jim Vibert ([email protected])
Published: Apr 22, 2020 at 6:36 a.m.
Trina Norman, president of the Windsor Hockey Heritage Society, places a hockey stick at a memorial to Const. Heidi Stevenson outside the Enfield RCMP detachment on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The blade of the stick says: "With the deepest of gratitude and respect for your service, Cst. Heidi Stevenson - End of watch."
Nova Scotia's great big beautiful heart is broken.
Since the coronavirus arrived in our province, we've been telling one another — quite rightly — that we are all in this together and we'll get through this together.
Now Nova Scotians are united by another, yet more awful tragedy, and somehow we will have to find our way through it, together even as the virus forces us to stand apart.
At least 20 families will never be the same. Will any of us? As we learn more about the lovely souls lost, we can't help but recognize that what was taken from us is exactly what makes us who we are. They were good neighbours, great friends, loving parents, kind, generous, funny, talented Nova Scotians by birth and Nova Scotians by choice.
Disease is something we can understand, even when it's new, unexpected and deadly, as is COVID-19. But the evil visited upon Nova Scotia on Saturday night and well into Sunday is something alien and — before it came — inconceivable in places like Portapique, Wentworth, Debert and Enfield, where it finally ended.
Until Sunday, it was inconceivable in Nova Scotia.
Today, and for many days to come, Nova Scotians are joined in our shock, grief and anger over the deaths of so many of our friends, our neighbours, our fellow Nova Scotians. That they died from wanton acts of senseless violence sharpens the pain. It offends our sense of who we are and where we live.
If six decades in this place has taught me anything, it is that Nova Scotians are giving, caring, warm and friendly folk. There is a sense of community here that's even more pronounced and vital in the little villages where this madness and mayhem was inflicted.
In the days, weeks and even months to come, the RCMP will piece together what happened at 16 separate scenes where horrendous crimes were perpetrated.
Their investigations may even shed light on why it happened, beyond the obvious. That is, that one crazed man was so filled with vile hatred that he unleased unspeakable acts of evil, killing the innocent and stealing a piece of every one of us.
As they do their painstaking work, the Mounties themselves mourn the loss of one of their own, killed trying to bring the carnage to an end. Constable Heidi Stevenson died a hero, and we can only hope — or pray — that some day that will bring some comfort to her children and the rest of the family she leaves behind.
Even as I write these inadequate words, more than 48 hours after the killer was stopped, we're still unsure how many other Nova Scotian families were shattered, how many other wonderful, loving souls were lost.
As the full measure of the tragedy was still unfolding this week, Premier Stephen McNeil told Nova Scotians that we can't let this horror define us.
"This is not who we are," he said.
In those few words<|fim_middle|>, to an inner city crowd in Indianapolis, the terrible news that Dr. Martin Luther King had been killed. Kennedy ended his brief speech by calling for his nation to dedicate itself to what, he said, the ancient Greeks wrote more than 2,400 years before: "To tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."
Fifty-two years later, those words seem to hold some meaning for the brokenhearted little province that we love.
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Published Jan 15, 2021 at 7:41 a.m. | we find a simple affirmation that what is good in Nova Scotia lasts, and a defiant declaration that, even in the face of unspeakable evil, the good will prevail.
It is a sentiment to hold in our hearts and let it help to carry us through.
Across the country, our fellow Canadians share our grief and send their love, support and strength. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, "this week, all Canadians are Nova Scotians."
On the Facebook page Colchester — Supporting our Communities condolences, remembrances, tributes, words and pictures to honour those lost and comfort those left to mourn flow in so fast it's impossible to keep up. They come from people who care about one another, from around the
Bay, and across the province, the country, and the world.
It's a way to grieve together when the hugs we so desperately need aren't permitted. It helps.
The police will search, and eventually find answers to many of our questions. Coming to terms with this atrocity is a long way off, and complicated because we can't gather the way that people should, to share our sorrow and by sharing, slowly, over time, lessen the pain.
On an April night more than 50 years ago, Robert Kennedy delivered | 256 |
From childhood I have been making and designing clothes and jewellery, first<|fim_middle|> | for my dolls and then for myself. Major influences were my grandmother's and mother's clothes and jewellery, the styles of Coco Chanel and Jacqueline Kennedy. I ran a interior design company for several years but after moving to a smallholding in Cornwall, I wanted to make individual jewellery designs, inspired by my surroundings, for myself and others to wear. I take photographs constantly of what I see - as a piece of art, a diary or a visual reminder of something I want to translate into a physical piece of jewellery. Copper is a material that I particularly like to use, as it is was mined in the Tamar Valley. Its warm colour adds a richness to designs. Now that copper wire is coated there isn't as problem with it going green when worn. I also like to combine different materials, particularly sterling silver and copper. Found objects such as shells, driftwood, leaves and stones that I discover when out walking my two lively dogs are also incorporated into my work. | 195 |
Inhaled furosemide for dyspnoea relief in advanced heart failure
Prospectively registered
No longer recruiting
Background and study aims
Patients with heart failure often feel breathless ('dyspnoea') which limit their daily activities. Furosemide is a prescription drug taken as a tablet or as an injection which makes kidneys produce more urine to remove fluid build-up in heart failure. Over time a third of patients will need more furosemide to get the same response from the kidneys but high level of furosemide can lead to kidney failure. If furosemide is inhaled instead this is known to stop coughing, protect the airways from collapsing, and can ease breathlessness by tricking the brain into thinking that more breathing is happening than is the case. This direct action may result<|fim_middle|> in patients with heart failure" following a request from the NIHR. 16/04/2019: The following changes were made to the trial record: 1. The recruitment end date was changed from 09/10/2018 to 31/08/2019 2. The overall end date was changed from 01/12/2018 to 28/02/2020 3. The intention to publish date was changed from 01/12/2019 to 31/08/2020 | in lower doses of furosemide which better protects the kidneys. This study will assess the effect of inhaled furosemide on breathlessness in patients with chronic advanced heart failure.
Patients aged and over with advanced heart failure
What does the study involve?
Participants visit the hospital on five separate occasions and should complete their participation within 5 weeks. At each visit they are asked to do a breathing test and an exercise test before and after mist inhalation. The two treatments are mists containing either furosemide or placebo (dummy drug). Between visits participants are asked to inhale mist morning and evening at home. Each mist takes around 15 minutes to inhale. During Period 1 (days 1 to 8) participants are randomly allocated to one of the two mists. During Period 2 (days 15 to 22) participants use the other mist. Between Period 1 and Period 2 there is a break of at least 7 days. All participants are followed up at Day 8 (Visit 3), and for example, Day 15 (Visit 4) and Day 22 (Visit 5). The minimum total duration of treatment is 22 days.
What are the possible benefits and risks of participating?
Patients will not directly benefit from taking part in this study, although the results of this study may lead to improvements in the way in which heart failure is managed and treated so that patients with heart failure might experience fewer symptoms. It is possible that patients may experience a side effect to furosemide. It is currently unknown whether furosemide is safe during pregnancy and no problems have been identified in women taking furosemide to date, but because experience is limited female participants of childbearing potential are required to use an effective form of contraception during the course of the study.
Where is the study run from?
Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility, University of Oxford situated within John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (UK)
When is the study starting and how long is it expected to run for?
December 2017 to November 2020
Who is funding the study?
British Heart Foundation (UK)
Who is the main contact?
Dr Joanna Grogono
Headington Campus
Randomised controlled crossover trial of Inhaled Furosemide for Dyspnoea relief in advanced Heart Failure
INFOD-HF V1.0
Patients with heart failure often feel breathless (dyspnoea) which limits their daily activities. Furosemide is a prescription drug taken as a tablet or as an injection which makes kidneys produce more urine to remove fluid build-up in heart failure. Over time a third of patients will need more furosemide to get the same response from the kidneys but high level of furosemide can lead to kidney failure. If furosemide is inhaled instead this is known to stop coughing, protect the airways from collapsing and can ease breathlessness by tricking the brain into thinking that more breathing is happening than is the case. This direct action may result in lower doses of furosemide which better protects the kidneys. This study will assess the effect of inhaled furosemide on breathlessness in patients with chronic advanced heart failure.
South Central – Oxford B Research Ethics Committee, 13/12/2017, ref: 17/SC/0580
Randomised; Interventional; Design type: Treatment, Drug
Randomised controlled trial
Not available in web format, please use the contact details to request a patient information sheet – Dr Joanna Grogono, Joanna.grogono@ouh.nhs.uk
Dyspnoea in patients with heart failure
All tests will be done at the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility, University of Oxford situated within John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. 40 patients with advanced heart failure will visit the hospital on five separate occasions and should complete their participation within 5 weeks. At each visit patients will be asked to do a breathing test and an exercise test before and after mist inhalation. The two treatments are Mist A and B (furosemide or placebo). Period 1 consists of administering IMP on days 1 to 8 where participants will receive either Mist A and B. Period 2 consists of administering IMP on, for example, days 15 to 22 where participants will receive the opposite mist to what they received in Period 1. Patients are asked to inhale the mist morning and evening at home, and each mist takes around 15 minutes to inhale. Between Period 1 and Period 2, there will be a washout period for a minimum of 7 days.
Both arms will start administering the IMP from Day 1 (Visit 2) and be followed up at Day 8 (Visit 3), and for example, Day 15 (Visit 4) and Day 22 (Visit 5). The minimum total duration of treatment is 22 days.
'Air hunger (AH)' rated using a visual analogue scale (VAS) during experimentally induced breathlessness. The VAS is a 10cm line with one end marked as 'no breathlessness at all' and the other end marked as 'worst possible breathlessness.' The participant marks across the line to indicate the level of breathlessness experienced during a test that is designed to make participants feel breathless (air hunger); Timepoint(s): End of the study
1. Breathlessness measured using the Dyspnoea 12 questionnaire at visits 2-5
2. Breathlessness during exercise assessed during the CPET test or 6 minute walk test (observing peak workload, heart rate and oxygen consumption) and also measured using the VAS and/or Borg scale at Visits 2-5
3. Blood biomarkers of heart failure measured at visits 2-5
4. Health related quality of life measured using the MLHFQ questionnaire at Visits 2-5
5. Trait anxiety, depression and fatigue in correlation to breathlessness measured using the trait anxiety questionnaire and center for the epidemiological studies depression scale at Visit 1. The state anxiety questionnaire and fatigue severity score will be measured at Visits 1-5
6. Activity levels assessed using a wearable watch at Visits 2-5
1. Participant is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the trial
2. Male or female, aged 18 years or above (there is no upper age limit although the investigator will ensure they have the capacity to understand, consent and have the ability to perform the studies required)
3. Diagnosed with heart failure more than 3 months ago
4. Diagnosed with heart failure with a documented reduced ejection fraction <40%
5. Significant breathlessness that limits what they are able to do. MRC Dyspnoea Scale ≥2
6. In the Investigator's opinion, is able and willing to comply with all trial requirements
7. Female participants of childbearing potential must be willing to ensure that they use effective contraception during the period they are taking the IMP/placebo and for 48 hours after Visit 5
8. Prescribed regular furosemide or bumetanide tablets for at least 1 month
Planned Sample Size: 40; UK Sample Size: 40
1. Those unable to consent for themselves
2. History of allergic reaction (hypersensitive) to furosemide and/or any of the other ingredients of furosemide or amiloride, sulfonamides or sulphonamide derivatives, such as sulfadiazine or co-trimoxazole
3. Unplanned heart failure related hospital admission within the last month (unstable heart failure).
4. Patients diagnosed with heart failure within the last 3 months (unstable heart failure)
5. Individuals who are dehydrated or have significant symptomatic postural hypotension
6. Significant renal impairment (eGFR < 15) or anuric
7. Potassium < 3.0 or > 5.9 or Sodium < 130 or > 150 over the preceding month prior the screening visit.
8. Significant hepatic impairment/cirrhosis (Child-Pugh class C)
9. Addison's disease
10. Digitalis intoxication
11. Porphyria
12. Individuals who are immunocompromised
13. Patient with life expectancy < 6 months
14. Co-existent history of significant chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma or interstitial lung disease or nasal polyps
15. Patients on inhaled B2 agonist therapy
16. Any other significant disease or disorder which, in the opinion of the Investigator, may either put the patients at risk because of participation in the trial, or may influence the result of the trial, or the patient's ability to participate in the trial
17. Have participated in another research trial involving investigational product in the past 4 weeks
18. Female patients who are pregnant, lactating or planning pregnancy over the course of trial
Headley Way, Headington
Oxford Health Community Team
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Warneford Hospital Warneford Lane Headington
OX3 7JX
Clinical Trials and Research Governance
Joint Research Office
2nd Floor Boundary Brook House
Churchill Drive
OX3 7LQ
British Heart Foundation (BHF); Grant Codes: PG/13/84/30486
private sector organisation
Trusts, charities, foundations (both public and private)
Planned publication in a high-impact peer reviewed journal.
The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study will be stored in a publically available repository called "Radar" (https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar). The data that will be shared will be the data that supports the publication. The data will be available once the data has been analysed and within 1 year of the end of the trial. It will be stored for a minimum of 10 years, and for 10 years since the last access. All data will be anonymised. The data will be open access with no restrictions. Consent was obtained for use of anonymised data collected during this study to be used in reports, publications and as part of an educational project and that the information collected may be used in an anonymous form to support other research in the future.
23/03/2020: The overall trial end date was changed from 28/02/2020 to 04/11/2020 and the plain English summary has been updated to reflect this. 25/04/2019: The condition has been changed from "Specialty: Cardiovascular disease, Primary sub-specialty: Heart Failure; UKCRC code/ Disease: Cardiovascular/ Other forms of heart disease" to "Dyspnoea | 2,291 |
Let me start out by saying that Key West is an awesome place. It's every bit as funky, cool and relaxed as<|fim_middle|> of which remains an unsolved mystery.
I was pretty successful with my fishing for this episode (except for a snapped rod) so I wanted to show off my catch of two vermillion snappers by shooting a segment delivering the catch to our chef. I mounted the camera to face backwards on my bike and set off. The chef was eagerly awaiting my catch when I arrived, and I was pumped to show off my fish. I reached down to grab the bigger of the two fish (ready to brag), but to my surprise, there was only one fish on my bike. The larger of the two fish somehow vanished! But I wasn't too worried — I had recorded the whole event.
As I played back the footage from the ride, the moment the fish slid off into the road was captured clear as day. I quickly circled back to the exact spot where the fish had landed. But here's the mystery: There were zero signs of the missing fish. There was not a person, bird, cat or any other type of fish eater in sight. And no fish! I had some explaining to do to the crew, and still had to cook with the chef. Luckily, we nailed the banana-wrapped snapper on the first try.
As for the second unusual occurrence, I'm going to let that be a surprise for when you tune in. I will tell you that during filming, I was visited by a very large sea creature. It was an amazing moment that almost scared both me and the cameraman to death. It's a moment I'll remember for the rest of my life.
Tune in tonight to see what happens and to draw your own conclusions about what happened to my fish.
Thank you, Key West. Thank you!
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Roses are red,Violets are Blue, Hopefully our daffodils, Will bring some sunshine to you!
Louie has 16<|fim_middle|>ie to give out on Valentine's Day." | p11.2 micro-deletion which causes him to have some Autistic tendencies and anxieties around certain situations but he LOVES to bring joy into peoples lives.
On Valentine's Day Louie and his mum Rachel have ordered 100 bunches of daffodils for Louie to hand out to the lovely ladies (and gents) of Lytham!
Rachel and Louie were delighted when Lytham Round Table heard what Louie was looking to achive and stepped in to purchase the daffodils for Louie.
Louie's mum Rachel said: "We have a high elderly count locally and having worked previously in the care sector it is very upsetting to know how many elderly people are lonely even when the are given the best of care."
"We will be dropping by our local care home, Hedges house and gifting a bunch of flowers to each resident living there. I previously worked here and Louie loves to stop by every now and then to pinch a few biscuits off their tea round."
"I need to say a huge thank you to Lytham round table who contacted me and have generously paid for all 100 daffodil bunches for Lou | 243 |
Community Level. A public/private water treatment facility aims to make water safe to consume and pleasant to taste, as well as ensuring there is enough water to deliver the demands of town.
Raw, untreated water comes from an underground aquifer (via wells) or surface streams just like a river or lake. It flows or perhaps pumped with a rehab facility. The second it can be there, the river is treated beforehand to<|fim_middle|> to reach the drying lagoons. The sedimentation state just isn't included in Direct Filtration and thus, the floc is taken off through filtration.
Filtration. Water experiences a filter intended to remove water particles. Filters contain layers of gravel and sand, plus other cases, crushed anthracite. Filtration gathers the suspended water impurities and improves the efficacy of disinfection. The filters are cleaned regularly by using backwashing.
Disinfection. Before water switches into the distribution system, it is disinfected to ensure that bacteria that triggers diseases, parasites and viruses is eliminated. Chlorine is used since it a great in disinfecting and looking after residual concentration to safeguard from possible biological contamination within it water distribution.
More information about sistemy vodopodgotovki i vodoochistki please visit net page: click to read more. | remove debris - like leaves and silt. That goes thru a number of treatment processes, that include disinfection and filtration using chemicals or physical processes, eliminating microorganisms that induce diseases. When the treatment solutions are completed, water flows out by having a system of pumps and pipes, which are often called the distribution system.
You will find there's slight difference water course of treatment at various places, based on the technology from the plant and water needed to be processed, nevertheless the fundamental principles are typically the same.
Coagulation / Flocculation. In the coagulation state, liquid aluminium sulfate or alum, and also at times polymer, lies in untreated/raw water. The amalgamation causes tiny dirt particles in water to become fastened together or coagulated. Then, collections of dirt particles join together to make bigger, heavier particles - known as flocs - that are easily removed through filtration/settling.
Sedimentation. When water and floc particles have the treatment process, they flow into sedimentation basins where water moves slowly, letting heavy floc particles dip for the bottom. Floc collected for the lowermost part of the basin is termed sludge. This holds through pipes | 242 |
\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
The 35 most proton-rich, stable isotopes between Se and Hg are called
{\it p} nuclei. Contrary to the synthesis of most nuclei above Fe through
neutron captures in the {\it s} and {\it r} process \cite{Burb57}, the
production of the {\it p} nuclei proceeds mainly via photon--induced
reactions at temperatures around a few GK \cite{Woos78,Lang01}. Seed nuclei
already present in the stellar plasma and originating from the {\it s} and
{\it r} process are disintegrated mainly by ($\gamma$,n), ($\gamma$,p)\ and ($\gamma$,$\alpha$)\
reactions in the thermal photon bath of the corresponding explosive
astrophysical event. Due to persisting problems in the reproduction of
the observed {\it p} abundances, a definite conclusion on the actual
site of this nucleosynthesis process -- usually called {\it p} or
$\gamma$ process -- cannot be drawn yet, however, the commonly
most favored site providing the required conditions is explosive Ne/O burning
in type II supernovae \cite{Woos78,Raus02,Arno03}. Recently,
consistent studies of {\it p} nucleosynthesis have become available,
employing theoretical reaction rates in large reaction
networks \cite{Arno03,Raus02,Cost00}. For heavy nuclei (140 $\lesssim
A \lesssim$ 200), ($\gamma$,n)\ and ($\gamma$,$\alpha$)\ reactions play the dominant role while other
photon-induced reactions are practically negligible. This is not the
case for lighter nuclei where captures and photodisintegrations
involving neutrons, protons, and $\alpha$ particles have to be
considered \cite{Rapp04,Raus05}. Finally, neutrino-induced reactions
may have some importance for selected isotopes because of the high
neutrino-flux stemming from the core collapse triggering the type II
supernova explosion \cite{Arno03,Raus02}.
The cross sections used to calculate the required astrophysical reaction
rates in network studies are based on the statistical model
(Hauser-Feshbach) \cite{Haus52,Raus98,Gori00,Raus01,Raus04}. Global optical
potentials are considered in these calculations encompassing many
hundreds of nuclei and several thousand reactions. Experimental data
is scarce due to the sub-Coulomb energies and the large number of
unstable nuclei relevant for astrophysical applications. Only
recently, a number of experiments has been devoted to the study of
cross sections at astrophysically relevant energies. However, there is
still a lack of relevant experimental data for ($\gamma$,$\alpha$)\ and ($\alpha$,$\gamma$)\
reactions because of the high Coulomb barriers. Recent
$\alpha$ capture experiments on heavy nuclei at astrophysically relevant
energies were performed on $^{70}$Ge \cite{Fulo96}, $^{96}$Ru
\cite{Rapp02}, $^{112}$Sn\ \cite{Ozka02} and $^{144}$Sm \cite{Somo98}. No
experimental data for ($\gamma$,$\alpha$)\ cross sections are available at
astrophysically interesting energies.
In general, ($\alpha$,$\gamma$)\ and ($\gamma$,$\alpha$)\ reaction cross sections are very sensitive
to the choice of the $\alpha$--nucleus potential, as has been observed in the
huge uncertainties for the prediction of the $^{144}$Sm($\alpha$,$\gamma$) $^{148}$Gd cross
section \cite{Somo98,Mohr97,Raus95}. Elastic $\alpha$ scattering at
low energies (close to the Coulomb barrier) should provide an
additional test for the $\alpha$--nucleus potentials\ considered in {\it p} process
network calculations. High precision data are needed for a clear
determination of the optical potential properties at the measured energies.
In this work the cross sections for the reactions $^{112,124}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$) $^{112,124}$Sn\ at
energies above and below the Coulomb barrier are presented. The new
experimental data provide a test for the global parameterizations
considered in {\it p} process network calculations. Furthermore, the
study of both proton- and neutron-rich stable tin isotopes provides
important information about the variation of $\alpha$--nucleus potentials\ along an
isotopic chain. A local $\alpha$--nucleus potential\ is derived for both
neutron--deficient ($^{112}$Sn) and neutron--rich ($^{124}$Sn) nuclei.
In this paper we first present the experimental procedure
(Sec.~\ref{sec:exp_proc}) and compare the results to existing global $\alpha$--nucleus potentials\
(Sec.~\ref{subsec:ang_theo}). The determination of the potential for
the tin isotopes is performed within the Optical Model (OM) framework
(Sec.~\ref{subsec:ang_pres}), and the results are compared to previous
experimental data (Secs.~\ref{subsec:ang_dist}--D). In
addition, the derived potential for $^{112}$Sn\ is used for a prediction
of the $^{112}$Sn ($\<|fim_middle|>reac_rate}, where the ratios
of rates with respect to the rate obtained using \cite{Raus03} are
presented. All other ingredients of the
statistical model calculations have been kept fixed as in \cite{Raus00a}.
\begin{table}
\caption{
Ratio between the reaction rates obtained from the different $\alpha$--nucleus potentials\
compared to the reaction rate of \cite{Raus03}, $\langle \sigma v
\rangle ^*_{[i]}$/$\langle \sigma v \rangle^*_{[25]}$, as a function
of the temperature $T_9$. The typical temperature range for {\it p}
process nucleosynthesis (2.0 $\leq T_9 \leq$ 3.0) is shown.
}
\vspace{0.5cm}
{
\begin{tabular}{c|cccc}
$T_9$ & \multicolumn{4}{c}{$\langle \sigma v \rangle ^*_{[i]} /
\langle \sigma v \rangle^*_{[25]}$} \\
& \cite{McFa66} & \cite{Deme02} & \cite{Avri03} & This work \\
\hline \hline
\, 0.2 \, & \, 0.784 \, & \, 0.126 \, & \, 4.760 \, & \, 0.672 \, \\
\, 0.4 \, & \, 0.794 \, & \, 0.130 \, & \, 4.719 \, & \, 0.681 \, \\
\, 0.6 \, & \, 0.844 \, & \, 0.167 \, & \, 4.726 \, & \, 0.722 \, \\
\, 0.8 \, & \, 0.915 \, & \, 0.311 \, & \, 4.664 \, & \, 0.786 \, \\
\, 1.0 \, & \, 0.993 \, & \, 0.483 \, & \, 4.610 \, & \, 0.855 \, \\
\, 1.5 \, & \, 1.187 \, & \, 0.542 \, & \, 4.479 \, & \, 1.044 \, \\
\hline
\, 2.0 \, & \, 1.397 \, & \, 0.621 \, & \, 4.327 \, & \, 1.262 \, \\
\, 2.5 \, & \, 1.605 \, & \, 0.846 \, & \, 4.169 \, & \, 1.495 \, \\
\, 3.0 \, & \, 1.795 \, & \, 1.142 \, & \, 4.035 \, & \, 1.714 \, \\
\hline
\, 3.5 \, & \, 1.961 \, & \, 1.453 \, & \, 3.941 \, & \, 1.927 \, \\
\, 4.0 \, & \, 2.106 \, & \, 1.735 \, & \, 3.868 \, & \, 2.106 \, \\
\, 5.0 \, & \, 2.343 \, & \, 2.217 \, & \, 3.809 \, & \, 2.422 \, \\
\, 6.0 \, & \, 2.500 \, & \, 2.515 \, & \, 3.804 \, & \, 2.638 \, \\
\, 8.0 \, & \, 2.664 \, & \, 2.808 \, & \, 3.821 \, & \, 2.856 \, \\
\, 10.0 \, & \, 2.752 \, & \, 2.962 \, & \, 3.800 \, & \, 2.981 \, \\
\end{tabular}
}
\label{tab:reac_rate}
\end{table}
The different potentials predict reaction
rates which deviate up to a factor of 8. In the typical temperature
window for the {\it p} process, the reaction rates obtained by using
the optical potential derived from the elastic scattering predict in average a
rate which is around 50\% higher than that of \cite{Raus03}, remaining
very close to the values from McFadden and Satchler~\cite{McFa66}.
\section{Summary}
\label{sec:summary}
We have measured the elastic scattering cross section of $^{112,124}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$)
$^{112,124}$Sn\ at energies $E_\alpha$\,=\,19.5\,MeV and 14.4\,MeV. The data have
been compared to various global $\alpha$--nucleus potentials\ . The potentials from
\cite{Deme02} and \cite{Avri03} provide a satisfactory description of
the elastic scattering data, in contrast to the potentials from
\cite{McFa66} and \cite{Raus03}, which deviate considerably from the
measured angular distributions. None of the global potentials is able to
reproduce the ratio between the cross sections on the
proton- and neutron-rich tin isotopes. Consequently, any extrapolation
to $\alpha$--nucleus potentials\ for unstable neutron--deficient nuclei on the {\it p}
process path remains uncertain.
The present analysis performed within the OM framework provided a remarkable
reproduction of the measured angular distributions. It has been
used in the analysis of literature data at different energies
\cite{Burt90,Besp92,Bada78}. The results fit well with the systematic
behavior of $\alpha$--nucleus folding potentials.
Most of the global $\alpha$--nucleus potentials\ (with the exception of \cite{Avri03}),
as well as the potential obtained from the OM analysis, describe the
few existing $^{112}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\gamma$) $^{116}$Te cross section data points well; however,
the energy dependence of the astrophysical S-factor is not well
determined from the theoretical predictions. The resulting
stellar rates for the $^{112}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\gamma$) $^{116}$Te as well as $^{116}$Te\,($\gamma$,$\alpha$)
$^{112}$Sn\ reactions deviate in the energy region
considered for {\it p} process calculations by up to a factor of 8.
The present data provide an excellent tool to test the behaviour of
global $\alpha$--nucleus potentials . Additional elastic scattering experiments are
needed in the {\it p} process mass range at energies around the
Coulomb barrier.
\begin{acknowledgments}
We would like to thank the cyclotron team of ATOMKI for the excellent
beam during the experiment. Two of us (D.~G., P.~M.) gratefully
acknowledge the kind hospitality at ATOMKI. We thank N.\ T.\
Burtebayev and O.\ Bespalova for providing the numerical data for
Refs.~\cite{Burt90} and \cite{Besp92}, respectively. We also thank M.\
Howard for reading the manuscript carefully. This work was
supported by DFG (SFB634 and FOR\,272/2-2) and OTKA (T034259, T042733,
F043408, D048283). T.\ R.\ is supported by the Swiss NSF (grants
2024-067428.01, 2000-061031.02, 2000-105328). Zs.\ F.\ and Gy.\ Gy.\
acknowledge support from a Bolyai grant.
\end{acknowledgments}
| alpha$,$\gamma$) $^{116}$Te cross section which has been recently
measured using the activation technique \cite{Ozka02}
(Sec.~\ref{sec:sn_ag_te}).
\section{Experimental procedure and results}
\label{sec:exp_proc}
The scattering experiments were performed at the cyclotron laboratory of
ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary, where $^4$He$^{2+}$ beams are available up
to energies of about $E_\alpha$\,=\,20\,MeV. Angular distributions
were measured for $^{112}$Sn at $E_\alpha$\,=\,19.5\,MeV and 14.4\,MeV,
and for $^{124}$Sn at $E_\alpha$\,=\,19.5\,MeV. The beam intensity was
approximately 300~nA. The
experimental setup was similar to the one used in our previous
experiments on $^{144}$Sm \cite{Mohr97} and $^{92}$Mo
\cite{Fulo01}. Further experimental details on the setup can be found in
\cite{Mate89}. Here we briefly summarize the most important features
of the setup.
The angular distributions were measured using four silicon
surface-barrier detectors mounted on two turntables. The
solid angles varied between $1.55 \times 10^{-4}$\,sr and $1.63 \times
10^{-4}$\,sr. Two additional detectors placed at $15^\circ$ left
and right to the incoming beam axis with solid angles of $8.1 \times
10^{-6}$\,sr are used to normalize the angular distributions and to
determine the beam position on the target with high precision. Note that small
horizontal deviations of about 1\,mm lead to corrections of the
cross section of the order of 1\,\% at very forward angles. These
corrections can be precisely determined from the ratio of the count
rates in the two monitor detectors.
The targets consisted of highly enriched $^{112}$Sn (99.6\,\%) and
$^{124}$Sn (97.4\,\%) deposited onto thin carbon backings. The target
thicknesses of 200\,$\mu$g/cm$^2$ for both isotopes were confirmed by
the measured Rutherford cross sections during the experiment. The
absolute normalization was obtained from the Rutherford cross section
at very forward angles~\cite{Mohr97,Fulo01}.
A precise dead time correction is necessary especially at forward angles
where the cross sections are huge. Therefore, the dead
time was monitored using pulse generators in all spectra. Typical
spectra of the $^{112}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$) $^{112}$Sn\ and $^{124}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$) $^{124}$Sn\ reactions are shown
in Fig.~\ref{fig:spec}.
\begin{figure}[hbt]
\includegraphics[ width = 85 mm, clip]{snfig1.eps}
\caption{
\label{fig:spec}
Spectra of the $^{112}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$) $^{112}$Sn\ and $^{124}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$) $^{124}$Sn\ reactions at
$E_\alpha$\,=\,19.5\,MeV at forward ($\vartheta_{\rm{lab}} = 40^\circ$)
and backward ($\vartheta_{\rm{lab}} = 125^\circ$) angles,
respectively. Elastic scattering on target contaminations (mainly
$^{12}$C from the carbon backing) and inelastically scattered events
are clearly separated from the elastic peak. A small target
contamination with $A \approx 200$ which is visible
only in the spectra at backward angles remains below 1\,\%
contribution to the elastic peaks. The pulser signals used for dead
time correction are not seen in the spectra, as they lay above the
shown energy region.
}
\end{figure}
From a kinematic coincidence between the $\alpha$ particles scattered
on a 20 $\mu$g/cm$^2$ carbon backing foil and the $^{12}$C recoil nuclei, we
calibrated the position of the silicon detectors with a precision of
$\Delta \vartheta$ = 0.07$^\circ$. The scattered $\alpha$ particles
were measured using one detector placed at $\vartheta_{lab}$ =
70$^\circ$ (right side relative to beam axis). The recoil $^{12}$C
nuclei from the elastic ($^{12}$C$_{gs}$) and inelastic ($^{12}$C$_{2^+}$,
E$_x$=4.44~MeV) scattering were measured with another detector (left
side) which was moved around the expected positions,
$\vartheta_{lab,el.}$ = 45.83$^\circ$ and
$\vartheta_{lab,inel.}$ = 38.89$^\circ$. The results are shown in
Fig.~\ref{fig:ang_calib}. The maximum recoil rate is observed at the
expected position within the statistical uncertainties.
\begin{figure}[hbt]
\includegraphics[ width = 85 mm, clip]{snfig2.eps}
\caption{
\label{fig:ang_calib}
Relative yield of $^{12}$C recoil nuclei in coincidence with
a) elastically and b) inelastically scattered $\alpha$ particles. A
Gaussian fit to the experimental data (solid line) is shown to guide
the eye. The shaded area presents the angle and the uncertainty
expected from the measured reaction kinematics.
}
\end{figure}
From the yield in the elastic peaks, the elastic scattering
cross section is calculated. The data is
normalized to the Rutherford cross section of point-like charged
particles. The experimental results are shown in
Fig.~\ref{fig:sigma}. Note that the measured cross
sections cover more than four orders of magnitude in the whole angular
range. Nevertheless, typical uncertainties remain below 3--4 \% for
all measured data points, including systematic and statistical
uncertainties.
\begin{figure}[hbt]
\includegraphics[ width = 85 mm, clip]{snfig3.eps}
\caption{
\label{fig:sigma}
(Color online) Ratio of the measured scattering cross sections of $^{112}$Sn
($\alpha$,$\alpha$) $^{112}$Sn\ at 14.4\,MeV (lower diagram) and 19.5\,MeV (middle) and
$^{124}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$) $^{124}$Sn\ at 19.5\,MeV (upper) to the Rutherford cross
section. The predictions from the global $\alpha$--nucleus potentials\ from \cite{McFa66}
(short dashed line), potential I from \cite{Deme02} (short dash-dotted
line), \cite{Avri03} (long dashed line) and \cite{Raus03} (long
dash-dotted line) are also shown. The overlap of the lines,
mainly at forward angles, complicates their distinction. Note
the logarithmic scale for the upper and middle diagrams
(E$_\alpha$\,=\,19.5\,MeV) and the linear scale for the lower diagram
(E$_\alpha$\,=\,14.4\,MeV).
}
\end{figure}
\section{Optical model analysis}
\label{sec:opt_mod}
\subsection{Angular distributions: comparison to theory}
\label{subsec:ang_theo}
The theoretical analysis of the angular distributions is performed
within the OM framework. The elastic scattering
cross section can be calculated from the Schr\"odinger equation with
the complex nuclear potential $U(r)$ given by
\begin{equation}
U(r) = V_{\rm{C}}(r) + V(r) + iW(r)
\label{eq:pot}
\end{equation}
with the Coulomb potential $V_{\rm{C}}(r)$, the real part $V(r)$, and
the imaginary part $W(r)$ of the nuclear potential.
The calculated differential cross sections for four different global
$\alpha$--nucleus potentials\ are also presented in Fig.~\ref{fig:sigma}. The
four--parameter Woods-Saxon potential from McFadden and Satchler
\cite{McFa66} provides a rough description of the experimental data,
overestimating the cross section in all three cases for backward
angles. Potential I from Demetriou {\it et al.}~\cite{Deme02} presents
a good reproduction of the measured angular distributions, with a
slight overestimation of the scattering cross sections at backward
angles for the reaction $^{112}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$) $^{112}$Sn\ at
E$_\alpha$\,=\,19.5\,MeV. This potential, based on a double folding
parameterization in its real part and a volume Woods-Saxon potential
in its imaginary part, provides a good description of previous ($\alpha$,$\alpha$),
($\alpha$,n)\ and ($\alpha$,$\gamma$)\ cross section data.
The potential of Avrigeanu {\it et al.}~\cite{Avri03}, resulting from
the investigation of $\alpha$ scattering data at energies around the
Coulomb barrier for $A \approx$ 100 nuclei, is also compared to the
measured angular distributions. The potential is consistent with the
experimental data, although the corresponding cross section presents a
diffraction pattern at backward angles which is not observed in the
measured data. Finally, the potential presented by Fr\"ohlich and
Rauscher \cite{Raus03}, overestimates the cross section in all
cases. This potential is an expansion of the McFadden and Satchler's
potential to include ($\alpha$,n)\ and ($\alpha$,$\gamma$)\ cross section data at energies
close to the astrophysically relevant region.
The depiction of the scattering cross section given by the different global
potentials (Fig.~\ref{fig:sigma}) makes very difficult to state which
potential provides the correct description of the experimental data. A
global $\alpha$--nucleus potential\ must be able to describe the scattering cross section
data along an isotopic chain, in order to demonstrate its reliability when
extrapolating to unstable nuclei of interest for astrophysical
applications. Despite the striking qualitative
similarities, the elastic scattering cross sections of $^{112}$Sn\ and $^{124}$Sn\
at E$_\alpha$\,=\,19.5\,MeV differ by roughly 30\% at very backward
angles. In Fig.~\ref{fig:ratio}, which shows the ratio of the two
cross sections (divided by the Rutherford cross section) as a function
of angle, all global $\alpha$--nucleus potentials\ of~\cite{McFa66,Deme02,Avri03,Raus03}
fail to reproduce either the strength or the oscillation pattern for
backward angles. Thus, the use of these potentials in the extrapolation to
more proton--rich species (of interest in {\it p} process
nucleosynthesis) should be questioned.
The following section studies the angular distributions, extracting a
local optical potential from the experimental data available.
\begin{figure}[hbt]
\includegraphics[ width = 85 mm, clip]{snfig4.eps}
\caption{
\label{fig:ratio}
(Color online) Ratio of the scattering cross sections
$(\sigma/\sigma_{\rm{Ruth}})_{\rm{^{112}Sn}}/(\sigma/\sigma_{\rm{Ruth}})_{\rm{^{124}Sn}}$
at E$_\alpha$\,=\,19.5\,MeV versus the angle in the center-of-mass
frame. The predictions of the considered global $\alpha$--nucleus potentials\ are also
shown. Minor differences for the c.m. angle (below 0.2$^\circ$) in the
transformation to c.m. angles due to the different masses of $^{112}$Sn\ and
$^{124}$Sn\ are neglected.
}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Angular distributions: present experiment}
\label{subsec:ang_pres}
In the present analysis, the real part of the potential is derived from a
double-folding procedure with two adjustable parameters:
\begin{equation}
V(r) = \lambda \cdot V_{\rm F}(r/w)
\end{equation}
where $V_{\rm{F}}(r)$ is the double-folding potential which is calculated
according to \cite{Kobo84,Satc79,Abel93,Atzr96} using the computer code
DFOLD. The required density distributions of the $\alpha$
particle and the $^{112,124}$Sn nuclei were derived from measured
charge density distributions \cite{Vrie87}. We vary the strength of the
double-folding potential by the parameter $\lambda$,
adopting values around 1.2 and 1.4 (similar to previous
works \cite{Atzr96,Mohr97,Fulo01}). This reduces the
so-called {\it family problem} of $\alpha$--nucleus potentials\ at low energies (see
Refs. \cite{Mohr97,Fulo01} for detailed discussion). The width of the
potential is adjusted using the parameter width $w$. We find values
close to 1 for our data.
The different optical potentials can be compared through their total
strengths or volume integrals, normalized to the number of interacting
nucleon pairs ($A_{\rm P} A_{\rm T}$), defined for both real and
imaginary parts of the nuclear potential:
\begin{eqnarray}
J_{\rm{R}} & = &
\frac{1}{A_{\rm P} A_{\rm T}} \, \int V(r) \, d^3r
\label{eq:vol_r} \\
J_{\rm{I}} & = &
\frac{1}{A_{\rm P} A_{\rm T}} \, \int W(r) \, d^3r
\label{eq:vol_i}
\end{eqnarray}
Both volume integrals are negative. In this work, we will only
consider their absolute values.
The strength parameter $\lambda$ has been adopted to take the linear
form
\begin{eqnarray}
\lambda~=~\frac{a^* + b^* \cdot E_{\rm{c.m.}}}{J_{\rm{R,0}}}
\end{eqnarray}
where $J_0$ is the volume integral of the double folding
potential $V_{\rm F}(r/w)$. The values for the parameters
$a^*$, $b^*$ and $J_{\rm{R,0}}$, as extracted from the scattering
data, are listed in Table~\ref{tab:real_param}. The linear
energy dependence adopted for $^{112}$Sn\ has been applied also for $^{124}$Sn\ ,
although we have measurements for only one energy for this
nucleus. We check the validity of this linear dependence in
Sect.~\ref{subsec:ang_dist}, by analyzing the scattering data at
higher energies. The parameter $w$ allows a fine-tuning of the
potential width; it remains very close to unity. A significant
deviation of $w$ from unity for stable nuclei, where the neutron and
proton densities are very similar, would indicate that the
nucleon-nucleon interaction is not well chosen. However, for nuclei
with extremely high neutron-to-proton ratio one may expect the
formation of neutron skins; in this case, such a deviation of $w$ from
unity should be found for nucleon density distributions derived from
the proton density only.
\begin{table}
\caption{
Optical potential parameters for the real ($a^*$, $b^*$,
$J_{\rm{R,0}}$, $w$) and imaginary parts of the nuclear
potential. The parameters of the volume (V) and surface (S)
Woods-Saxon potentials ($W$, $R$, $a$) used in the imaginary part of
the nuclear potential are shown together with the volume integral
$J_{\rm{I}}$.
}
\vspace{0.5cm}
{
\begin{tabular}{c|cccc|ccccccc}
Isotope & $a^*$ & $b^*$ & $J_{\rm{R,0}}$ & $w$ & $W_{\rm{{V}}}$ &
$R_{\rm{V}}$ & $a_{\rm{V}}$ & $W_{\rm{S}}$ & $R_{\rm{S}}$ &
$a_{\rm{S}}$ & $J_{\rm{I}}$ \\
& (MeV$\cdot$fm$^3$) & (fm$^3$) & (MeV$\cdot$fm$^3$) & & (MeV)
& (fm) & (fm) & (MeV) & (fm) & (fm) & (MeV$\cdot$fm$^3$) \\
\hline\hline
$^{112}$Sn & 352.92 & -0.652 & 277.85 & 1.004 & -3.137 & 1.737 & 0.341 &
356.36 & 1.252 & 0.218 & 97.16 \\
$^{124}$Sn & 355.12 & -0.652 & 274.90 & 1.006 & -2.467 & 1.723 & 0.296 &
212.22 & 1.230 & 0.299 & 74.29 \\
\end{tabular}
}
\label{tab:real_param}
\end{table}
The volume integral $J_{\rm{R}}$ for the real part of the nuclear potential
adopted for the tin isotopes are shown in
Figure~\ref{fig:vol_int_jr}, together with the values derived from the
analysis of elastic scattering data on several doubly-magic and
semi-magic nuclei in the energy range up to 140 MeV
\cite{Atzr96,Mohr97,Fulo01}. The data show a systematic smooth linear
decrease at higher energies, in good agreement with the
parameterization adopted for the $^{112}$Sn\ and $^{124}$Sn\ isotopes (solid
line). The Gaussian parameterization, first suggested
by~\cite{Mohr00c} and modified in \cite{Fulo01,Deme02}, is shown as a
dotted line up to 50 MeV, which they proposed for astrophysical energies.
\begin{figure}[hbt]
\includegraphics[ width = 85 mm, clip]{snfig5.eps}
\caption{
\label{fig:vol_int_jr}
Volume integral values $J_{\rm{R}}$ from the analysis of the
measured data, together with values obtained in the study of elastic
scattering data on doubly-magic and semi-magic nuclei
\cite{Atzr96,Mohr97,Fulo01}. The solid line shows a linear
parameterization of $J_{\rm{R}}$ extracted from the data. The Gauss
parameterization proposed by \cite{Deme02} for the description of low
energy data (dotted line) is also shown below 50 MeV. The
astrophysically relevant energy region for {\it p} process
nucleosynthesis is shown by the grey area.
}
\end{figure}
The imaginary part of the nuclear potential has been chosen as a sum
of volume and surface Woods-Saxon potentials. The potential parameters
(potential depth $W_i$, radius $r_i=R_i \cdot A^{1/3}$ and
diffuseness $a_i$, with $i$=V,S) are listed in
Table~\ref{tab:real_param}. The relative weight between the volume and the
surface terms of the imaginary part of the nuclear potential is
$J_{\rm{I,V}}$ = 0.22 $\cdot J_{\rm{I,S}}$, as found in a study of the
elastic scattering data in the $A \approx$ 100 mass region
\cite{Gala04}. This dominance of the surface Woods-Saxon term at
energies close to the Coulomb barrier provides a better description of
$\alpha$ capture data at the astrophysically
interesting energy window \cite{Raus00b}.
The results of the OM analysis are compared in Fig.~\ref{fig:sigma_dgr}
to the experimental data from the three measured angular
distributions. An excellent agreement is observed. An average value of
$\chi^2_{red}$\,=\,1.1 results from the analysis. Unlike other
potentials, the ratio of the cross sections for the tin
isotopes is reproduced with higher accuracy, as shown in
Fig.~\ref{fig:ratio_dgr}.
\begin{figure}[hbt]
\includegraphics[ width = 85 mm, clip]{snfig6.eps}
\caption{
\label{fig:sigma_dgr}
Ratio of the measured scattering cross sections to the Rutherford cross
section (same as in Fig.~\ref{fig:sigma}) including the results of the
OM analysis performed for both tin nuclei (solid line).
}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[hbt]
\includegraphics[ width = 85 mm, clip]{snfig7.eps}
\caption{
\label{fig:ratio_dgr}
Ratio of the scattering cross sections
$(\sigma/\sigma_{\rm{Ruth}})_{\rm{^{112}Sn}}/(\sigma/\sigma_{\rm{Ruth}})_{\rm{^{124}Sn}}$
at E$_\alpha$\,=\,19.5\,MeV versus the angle in the center-of-mass
frame including the results
of the OM analysis performed in both tin nuclei (solid line). A
significant improvement of the description of the experimental data
is achieved.
}
\end{figure}
In order to test the reliability of the obtained optical potentials,
and observe its possible energy dependence, the following section
compares the results of the OM analysis to other elastic scattering data
measured at higher energies.
\subsection{Angular distributions: comparison to other experiments}
\label{subsec:ang_dist}
The angular distribution of elastically scattered $\alpha$ particles
on the tin isotopes $^{112}$Sn\ \cite{Burt90} and $^{124}$Sn\ \cite{Besp92} has
been measured at energies far above the Coulomb barrier. These data
are shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:liter_aa} for the reactions
$^{112}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$) $^{112}$Sn\ at E$_\alpha \approx$ 50 MeV (left part of the
Figure) and $^{124}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$) $^{124}$Sn\ at E$_\alpha \approx$ 25 MeV (right part
of the Figure). In addition, the predictions from the optical
potentials derived from the analysis of our elastic scattering data
are shown.
The reproduction of the data from the reaction $^{124}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$) $^{124}$Sn\
\cite{Besp92} is satisfactory. The diffraction pattern shown by the
experimental data from the reaction $^{112}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$) $^{112}$Sn\ \cite{Burt90},
measured at energies far above from the Coulomb barrier, is not
described well. However, a minor variation of the potential
parameters (solid line) in which the contribution of the volume term to the
imaginary part of the nuclear potential is increased
($J_{\rm{I,V}}$= 0.79 $J_{\rm{I,S}}$) provides an improved description of
the scattering data from \cite{Burt90}. In the case of the scattering data
from \cite{Besp92}, closer to the energy region measured in this
work, a renormalization of the scattering data with a factor of 1.2
would provide a better agreement between the experimental data and the
calculated cross section.
\begin{figure}[hbt]
\includegraphics[ width = 105 mm, clip]{snfig8.eps}
\caption{
\label{fig:liter_aa}
(Color online) Elastic scattering data from the reactions $^{112}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$)
$^{112}$Sn\ at E$_\alpha \approx$ 50 MeV \cite{Burt90} (left part of the
Figure) and $^{124}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\alpha$) $^{124}$Sn\ at E$_\alpha \approx$ 25 MeV \cite{Besp92}
(right part of the Figure). The predictions from the derived
potentials from the elastic scattering data presented in this work are
also shown (dashed line). Results from a readjustment of the
potential parameters (left) and a normalization of the cross section
(right) are shown as a solid line. For details see text.
}
\end{figure}
From this analysis, the imaginary part of the nuclear potential shows a
stronger energy dependence at energies higher than those considered in
this work. Without more experimental data for the nuclei
studied, it is not possible to predict the possible energy dependence
of both terms in the imaginary part of the nuclear potential.
\subsection{Excitation function: comparison to other experiments}
\label{subsec:exc_func}
The excitation function of the elastically scattered $\alpha$
particles on the nucleus $^{112}$Sn\ at very backward angles
($\vartheta_{\rm{c.m.}}$ = 178$^\circ$) was measured by Badawy {\it et
al.}~\cite{Bada78} at different energies below and above the Coulomb
barrier. The experimental data are shown in
Fig.~\ref{fig:exc_funct}. The successful reproduction of the
experimental data confirms the good knowledge of the $\alpha$--nucleus potential\ (solid
line) in the considered energy region.
\begin{figure}[hbt]
\includegraphics[ width = 85 mm, clip]{snfig9.eps}
\caption{
\label{fig:exc_funct}
Excitation function of the nucleus $^{112}$Sn\ at $\vartheta_{\rm{c.m.}}$ =
178$^\circ$ \cite{Bada78}. The results from the derived $\alpha$--nucleus potential\
are also shown (solid line). The nice reproduction of the
experimental data confirms the good knowledge of the $\alpha$--nucleus potential\ in this
energy region.
}
\end{figure}
\section{The $^{112}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\gamma$) $^{116}$Te reaction}
\label{sec:sn_ag_te}
A relevant test of the potentials for astrophysical purposes consists
of the reproduction of the ($\alpha$,$\gamma$)\ reaction cross sections at energies close
to the Gamow window. In this section, the main features of the
statistical model are presented, followed by a comparison of existing
experimental data from the reaction $^{112}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\gamma$) $^{116}$Te to the
predictions from the different $\alpha$--nucleus potentials.
The main ingredients of the statistical model (Hauser-Feshbach
approach)~\cite{Haus52} in the calculation of reaction rates under
astrophysical conditions are transmission coefficients (particle and
radiative), nuclear level densities and optical potentials
~\cite{Raus00a}. These elements allow the calculation of the reaction
cross section in astrophysical scenarios. Once $\sigma^* (E)$ is
calculated, considering the case of the $\alpha$ capture
reaction, the reaction rate per particle pair at a given stellar
temperature $T^*$ is defined by \cite{Raus00a}:
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eqn:rate}
\langle \sigma v \rangle^*~=~\biggl(\frac{8}{\pi\mu}\biggr)^{1/2}
\frac{1}{(kT^*)^{3/2}} \int_0^\infty \sigma_{(\alpha,\gamma)}^*(E)~
E ~ \exp \biggl(-\frac{E}{kT^*}\biggr) ~ dE
\end{eqnarray}
\noindent
by folding the stellar reaction cross section
$\sigma_{(\alpha,\gamma)}^*(E)$ with the Maxwell-Boltzmann velocity
distribution of the incident particles. $\mu$ is the reduced
mass of the system. In a stellar plasma, nuclei are in thermal
equilibrium with the environment and therefore can be found also in
excited states. The stellar reaction cross section
$\sigma^*=\sum_{\lambda \nu} \sigma^{\lambda \nu}$ includes
transitions from all populated target states $\lambda$ to all
energetically reachable final states $\nu$ whereas a laboratory cross
section $\sigma^\mathrm{lab}=\sum_\nu \sigma^{0 \nu}$ only accounts
for transitions from the ground state of the target. However, for the case of
$^{112}$Sn($\alpha$,$\gamma$) the stellar enhancement
$\sigma^*/\sigma^\mathrm{lab}$ is negligible in the {\it p} process
temperature range because no low-lying excited states in $^{112}$Sn\ are
available for population. The product in the integrand of
Eq.~\ref{eqn:rate} leads to a maximum, defining an effective energy
window (the so-called {\it Gamow window}) where most of the reactions
occur. The reaction cross section should be determined in this
energy region. The photo-disintegration rate is then derived from the
capture rate applying detailed balance (see e.g. \cite{Raus00a}).
During {\it p} process nucleosynthesis, typical temperatures of
2.0 $\leq T_9 \leq$ 3.0 are reached (where $T_9$ is the temperature in
GK). This corresponds to an energy
window between 5.1 and 9.6 MeV for the $\alpha$ capture reaction, or
between 4.2 and 8.7 MeV for the photon-induced ($\gamma$,$\alpha$)\ reaction
($Q_\alpha (^{116}$Te) = 930 keV)~\cite{Mohr03b}.
Due to the astrophysical interest, the laboratory ($\alpha$,$\gamma$)\ reaction cross
section on the nucleus $^{112}$Sn\ has been measured \cite{Ozka02} at
energies close to the Gamow window. The astrophysical S-factor of the reaction
$^{112}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\gamma$)$^{116}$Te is shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:alpha_gamma}. In
addition, the predictions from the global $\alpha$--nucleus potentials\ and the optical
potential derived in this work are also plotted. Because of the scarce
experimental data available on the $^{112}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\gamma$)$^{116}$Te reaction, we
can only perform a very limited comparison.
\begin{figure}[hbt]
\includegraphics[ width = 85 mm, clip]{snfig10.eps}
\caption{
\label{fig:alpha_gamma}
(Color online) Astrophysical S-factor of the $^{112}$Sn ($\alpha$,$\gamma$) $^{116}$Te capture
reaction. The experimental data from \cite{Ozka02} are compared
to the predictions from the global $\alpha$--nucleus potentials\ and the optical potential
obtained from the analysis of the elastic scattering data. The
potential from \cite{Raus03} presents the best reproduction of the
experimental data. The prediction from the optical potential derived
in this work presents a satisfactory description of the measured cross
sections, similar to the potential from \cite{McFa66}.
}
\end{figure}
The global parameterization from \cite{Raus03} provides a satisfactory
description of the few experimental data, in contrast to its poor
agreement with the elastic scattering data. The other potentials, with
the exception of \cite{Avri03}, reproduce the cross section data
well. The potential obtained from the analysis of the elastic
scattering data presented in this work (Sec.~\ref{subsec:ang_pres})
provides a satisfactory description of the ($\alpha$,$\gamma$)\ data, very similar to
that of \cite{McFa66}. However, further $\alpha$ capture experiments on the
nucleus $^{112}$Sn\ should be performed in order to cover the whole {\it
Gamow window}. Experiments are under
way~\cite{Rapp}. These data should help to determine the experimental
energy dependence of the astrophysical S-factor.
As mentioned, once the astrophysical ($\alpha$,$\gamma$)\ capture cross section has
been calculated, it is possible to derive the corresponding
astrophysical capture and photo-disintegration
rates~\cite{Raus01,Raus00a}. For a comparison of the results provided
by the different parameterizations
of~\cite{McFa66,Deme02,Avri03,Raus03}, the variation of the obtained
reaction rates is shown in Table~\ref{tab: | 7,756 |
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Among the core issues that were discussed during the visit were the condition of workers in term of health and safety, types of contract, pension related matters, remuneration and gender mainstreaming.
In respect of performance, Hon. Ignatius Baffour Awuah was impressed with the health and safety measures practiced by most of the companies visited, adding that safety precaution should be an integral component of operations for workers and visitors. As part of their practices, Management indicated that workers were taken through the company's health and safety procedures on regular and routine basis.
The Minister observed that most of the companies in Western Region were practicing a type of contract engagement known as 'fixed term contract'. This type of contract ranges between two (2) weeks and two (2) years in some of the companies which is subject to renewal upon expiration. The Minister stated that the prevalence of fixed term contract has made it impossible for most workers in some start-up companies such as Wangkang Ceramics Company, KEDA (Twyford) Ceramics Company, as well as some existing companies such as Ghana Rubber Estates Limited and Ghana Bauxite Company to be unionized. This was of a great concern to the Minister, such that he noted there was the need for the National Tripartite Committee to review and dialogue with Employers on the issue of fixed term contract to ensure job security and to avoid situation whereby workers welfare and wellbeing are not improved during and after their working lives. This was underscored by the fact that job sustainability for the worker is a cardinal requirement for ensuring that the country meets the decent work agenda requirements by International Labour Organization.
He added that the right of the workers to form unions and access to information through improved social dialogue and engagement of the workplace was a priority to the Ministry. Consequently, the Hon. Minister bemoaned that the fixed term contract does not give room for job security and formation of union and must be regulated to ensure job security and sustainability. "My responsibility as the Employment Minister is to protect the right of a worker so I will not sit down and watch if workers are not allowed to unionize" he stated.
The Minister commended Management of the various companies for paying workers above the National Daily Minimum Wage in addition to other benefits such as free accommodation, overtime payment, health insurance etc. He however revealed that the salary range for fixed term contract workers which is between GH¢400.00 and GH¢700.00 was woefully inadequate and implored Management of such companies to ensure that workers' salaries and conditions of service are improved through the engagement of workers and their representatives
to ensure a harmonious labour relations environment.
On the issues of Gender Mainstreaming, Mr. Baffour Awuah noted that Management of the companies were mostly male dominated. He therefore advised them to improve upon the recruitment and selective method to ensure that females are given opportunities and support in some of these areas that are dominated by males.
The Minister described the visit as am eye opening experience for him and his Ministry. He admonished Employers to operate within the remits of the laws of Ghana especially the Labour Acts, 2003 (Act 651).
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TRAVEL: The Pink Sands Beach on Harbour Island, Bahamas
Harbour Island is famous for its pink sand beaches some 3 plus miles long from 50 to 100 feet wide – considered one of the very best pink sand beaches in the world, which are found all along the east side of the island. The sand is a composition of bits of coral, broken shells, minute rocks and calcium carbonate from tiny marine invertebrates.
The pink hue comes from Foraminifera, a tiny microscopic shelled animals that actually has a reddish-pink shell. This animal has a bright pink or red shell full of holes through which it extends a footing, called "pseudopodia", which it uses to attach itself and feed. They live in the underside of the reefs, on the sea floors, beneath rocks and in waves. They are washed up on shore as a result of waves or fish who knock them loose as they feed on them. Foraminifera are among the most abundant single cell organisms in the ocean and play a significant role in the environment. Snorkeling and swimming are made safe and easy by outlying reefs. These reefs provide large areas of relatively calm and shallow waters.
Harbour Island is an island and administrative district in the Bahamas and is located off the northeast coast of Eleuthera Island. It has a population of 1,762 (2010 census).
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The only town on the island is Dunmore Town, named after the governor of the Bahamas from 1786 to 1798, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, who had a summer residence on Harbour Island.
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In the middle 1960s, the American actor Brett King and his wife, Sharon, established the Coral Sands Hotel in Harbour Island.
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For many years, marine scientists Robert and Alice Jane Lippson have traveled the internal Coast—the rivers, backwaters, sounds, bays, lagoons, and inlets stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Florida Keys—aboard their trawler, Odyssey . The end result in their leisurely trips, existence alongside the interior Coast is a guidebook to the vegetation, animals, and habitats present in some of the most biologically various areas on the earth.
Sixteen pages of color plates to help identificationOnly released textual content to be had the place all proper fabric is referenced togtherThis guide allows the isolation and identity of micro organism which are present in aquatic animals (particularly fish). The emphasis is on micro organism from farmed aquatic animals (fish,molluscs and crustacea) yet a few awareness can also be given to different marine and freshwater animals equivalent to mammals and birds, either captive (as in zoos) or wild, in addition to aquarium fish.
"The monetary significance of fishes and their societal and cultural relevance offer robust incentives for large-scale, sustained stories in their dynamics" the EditorsThe total objective of this publication is to offer an image of the current use of data on fish reproductive biology in review and administration and its strength for making improvements to administration of those assets.
Because the web site the place lifestyles first shaped in the world, a key portion of the weather, and a continuous yet fragile source, oceans are of important significance to our planet. From the geological and actual procedures that have an effect on the sea flooring to the foremost habitat zones, flowers, and fauna, this can be the definitive connection with the world's oceans for the whole relatives.
2). In a typical Atlantic salmon population, juveniles will rear for a number of years Atlantic Salmon Ecology, First Edition, edited by Øystein Aas<|fim_middle|>). 2 Marine post-smolt migration The migration of Atlantic salmon smolts through estuaries, from fresh water to the sea, is characterised by active swimming and is a continuous movement, usually with no apparent period of acclimation to adjust to saltwater osmotic and ionic conditions (Moore et al. | , Sigurd Einum, Anders Klemetsen and Jostein Skurdal © 2011 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 1 Humans have exploited fish during their migrations for several thousand years, and fish migrations have historically played an important role in the settlement of human populations (Lucas & Baras 2001). Today, many migrating species have a high economic value, including the Atlantic salmon.
2007), and the majority of individuals within a population may migrate within a relatively short period (1–2 weeks). Smolts often migrate downstream in groups or 'shoals' (Hvidsten et al. 1995; Riley 2007), and it has even been suggested that smolts may migrate in kin-structured groups (Olsen et al. 2004). Shoaling may confer an anti-predator advantage. Autumn smolt (sometimes termed pre-smolt) migrations are reported from both North American and European rivers (Riddell & Leggett 1981; Huntingford et al.
Such differences may Aquatic Nomads: The Life and Migrations of the Atlantic Salmon 11 affect migration timing and patterns of the hatchery-reared smolts, as well as their preparedness to survive in the wild (NRC 2004). The time and site of release also affect the homing abilities of the adult fish (Finstad & Jonsson 2001 | 308 |
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The establishment of the Methodist church, here, antedates that of any other religious society. Three quarters of a century ago, this denomination had already developed that spirit of energy and religious enterprise, which has not only made it the pioneer church, and forerunner of other denominations, but has caused it to become the most powerful church organization in America. We have quoted elsewhere, from the Rev. Mr. Quinn, an account of a missionary tour, which he made up the Hockhocking valley in 1800, when he preached at Athens. The Methodists have had a society here from that time, and during the early as well as later years of their church history here, have numbered<|fim_middle|> Prof. W. H. Young, and in 1825, they erected a brick parsonage adjoining. The church building, having been used as such nearly thirty years, fell into decay, and was then used for some years as a foundry; it has now disappeared. The parsonage forms a part of Prof. Young's present house. The present Methodist church was built in 1837. It is to be regretted that a continuous sketch of the Methodist society at Athens can not be furnished; its early establishment and long career of usefulness entitle it to a more extended history than we are able to offer.
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Back to: Athens County, Ohio | among their preachers some very able, earnest, and useful men. In 1805, the Rev. Jacob Young preached on this circuit. The Rev. Geo. C. Light preached here about the same time. In 1806, Peter Cartwright, who afterward became celebrated in the church, visited Athens and Alexander townships, preaching and forming societies. About 1815, the Rev. Thomas Morris (now Bishop Morris), was on this circuit, and preached stately at Athens. Among the early Methodist preachers here were the Rev. Cornelius Springer, the Rev. Daniel Limerick, the Rev. Curtis Goddard, the Rev. Abraham Lippett, the Rev. John Ferree, the Rev. Abraham Baker, the Rev. Henry S. Fernandez, the 'Rev. Absalom Fox, the Rev. Asa Stroud, and the Rev. Robert 0. Spencer-some of them being on the Muskingum and some on the Athens circuit.
During the early years of this century, the Methodists held their meetings at different houses, but in 1812 or '13, they built a brick church on the lot now owned and occupied by | 251 |
Army field experiments to incorporate commercial satellite constellations
By CCDC C5ISR Center Public AffairsJune 4, 2020
1 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – The Army is incorporating emerging commercial satellite constellations into upcoming field experiments to better understand their potential applications. (Photo Credit: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) VIEW ORIGINAL
2 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – The CCDC C5ISR Center will use the experiments to understand requirements for developing integrated SATCOM terminals that will operate across the constellations autonomously, keeping operation simple. (Photo Credit: CCDC C5ISR Center) VIEW ORIGINAL
3 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Commercial satellite constellations could enhance SATCOM on-the-move capabilities. The CCDC C5ISR Center is experimenting with these emerging technologies to learn how they could make the Army's tactical network more robust and resilient. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
4 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – The CCDC C5ISR Center uses field experimentation events, such as its annual Network Modernization Experiment (NetModX), to evaluate the maturity of DoD and industry technologies early in the R&D cycle and in a relevant, threat-based environment. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (June 4, 2020) — Army Futures Command (AFC) is incorporating emerging commercial satellite constellations and technologies into its upcoming field experiments to enable the Army's Network community to better understand their potential applications.
The Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center (C5ISR) Center – a component of AFC's Combat Capabilities Development Command – is leading the Army's experimentation efforts for Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and Geosynchronous (GEO) High Throughput satellite systems to learn how these technologies could make the tactical network more robust and resilient.
The Army relies heavily on GEO Satellite Communications (SATCOM) for beyond-line-of-sight communications in tactical environments. They follow the Earth's orbit and appear fixed in the sky, so they are easy for SATCOM ground terminals to locate and track. However, they are more than 22,000 miles away, which delays communications and increases the power requirements needed to transmit data from the ground to the satellite.
Emerging LEO and MEO constellations are closer to Earth and offer potential advantages in scalability and throughput with less delay; however, they are more difficult to track as they move quickly across the sky and require ground terminals to transition between satellites to support continuous operation.
"There is no silver bullet solution, so we need to incorporate capabilities to enable multiple paths for our tactical network. Resiliency through diversity is our end state," said Michael Monteleone, the Center's director for Space and Terrestrial Communications.
"We are working across the whole sphere of connectivity to address the varying needs of units at different echelons. Commercial constellations are going to put up massive amounts of satellites or massive capacity within their satellites. We have to understand what the strengths and weaknesses are of these commercial systems, how we can leverage them for best possible use in a military environment and what would be needed to integrate them into the Army's network architecture," he said.
To better understand the best-use cases for integrating commercial satellite constellations with the Army's Tactical Network, the C5ISR Center will focus on assessing performance – such as bandwidth, delay and resiliency in contested environments – and size, weight and power requirements. These will be measured under different conditions, using Army networks and applications, and tactical scenarios applicable to Army ground and air platforms.
The Center will also use the experiments to understand requirements for its efforts to develop integrated, on-the-move and at-the-halt SATCOM terminals. The integrated terminals will operate across the constellations autonomously, keeping operation simple.
"We do not want to have specialized terminals for each of those capabilities, and we don't want our Soldiers playing the old telephone operator game of plugging and unplugging cords every time they need to change connections," said Rich Hoffmann, the Center's lead for Protected SATCOM.
"We're looking to provide a seamless autonomous capability so all our Soldiers have to do is set up the equipment and turn it on. An integrated terminal will make their lives easier, and give them more flexibility, as opposed to having to decide what's available or what's too bulky to take with them that day," he said.
The Center is working numerous cooperative research and development (R&D) agreements (CRADAs) with industry to mutually pursue the research, development, integration, experimentation and assessment of integrated SATCOM terminals. The partnerships are helping to build a focused technology roadmap in support of the acquisition community.
"Every commercial provider is doing something differently. We try to partner with as many as companies as possible that are service providers or are building integrated technologies or enablers that help bring other capabilities to bear," said Monteleone.
"With our CRADA relationships, we are able to share a lot more information with those vendors in a controlled environment; we're able to work with them in our labs and field experimentation venues to better explain the nuances of bringing an emerging capability into the Army network. The end result is some very mature technologies as the vendors have incorporated those lessons learned. Now, we have a more competitive marketplace that has a better understanding of the Army environment and its operational challenges," he said.
The C5ISR Center is performing experiments and CRADA activities at its Joint Satellite Engineering Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and will leverage the multi-domain environment of its field experimentation facilities at the C5ISR Flight and Ground Activities at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.
The Center uses field experimentation events, such as its annual Network Modernization Experiment (NetModX), to evaluate the maturity of DoD and industry technologies early in the R&D cycle and in a relevant, threat-based environment. The assessments establish baseline knowledge in understanding operational requirements and science and technology investments, drive development and support a coordinated acquisition strategy, according to Monteleone.
"Our science and technology efforts do not get to sit in our labs for years to be polished. We execute field experimentation events such as NetModX to hold ourselves accountable to the Army. We go after learning demands and assess how well we are maturing the technologies under our S&T efforts. We use operational scenarios and Soldier feedback to learn the 'so what' of the capability. We set up an environment that is OK to stumble and fail because we're learning, developing and growing together and we're getting better products as a result of it," Monteleone said.
The C5ISR Center's lab and field experiments are supporting the Army's Network Modernization Strategy of delivering network capability enhancements every two years, beginning in fiscal year 20<|fim_middle|> systems, the center develops and matures capabilities that support all six Army modernization priorities, enabling information dominance and tactical overmatch for the Joint Warfighter.
The C5ISR Center is an element of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command. Through collaboration across the command's core technical competencies, CCDC leads in the discovery, development and delivery of the technology-based capabilities required to make Soldiers more lethal to win our nation's wars and come home safely. CCDC is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Futures Command.
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The lessons learned will help inform the Network Cross Functional Team and program of record decisions regarding potential technologies being considered for inclusion in the Army's Tactical Network Capability Sets 23, 25 and 27.
"I think we're well postured to deliver data-based analysis in a unique way because we're looking at the network holistically. We've been working very hard within the C5ISR Center to pull the key competencies together from across all the tactical network spaces. We have engineers who understand next-gen antennas, amplifier technology, modems, spectrum and cryptography. All that brainpower comes together during our experimentation, and that's what's going to deliver the goodness," Monteleone said.
For more information, contact the C5ISR Center Public Affairs Office: usarmy.apg.ccdc-c5isr.mbx.pao@mail.mil.
The C5ISR Center is the Army's applied research and advanced technology development center for C5ISR capabilities. As the Army's primary integrator of C5ISR technologies and | 212 |
Neurosci Biobehav<|fim_middle|> univariate analysis of neuroimaging data has revealed a host of neuroanatomical and functional differences between healthy individuals and patients suffering a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Significant only at group level however these findings have had limited clinical translation, and recent attention has turned toward alternative forms of analysis, including Support-Vector-Machine (SVM). A type of machine learning, SVM allows categorisation of an individual's previously unseen data into a predefined group using a classification algorithm, developed on a training data set. In recent years, SVM has been successfully applied in the context of disease diagnosis, transition prediction and treatment prognosis, using both structural and functional neuroimaging data. Here we provide a brief overview of the method and review those studies that applied it to the investigation of Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, presymptomatic Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease and autistic spectrum disorder. We conclude by discussing the main theoretical and practical challenges associated with the implementation of this method into the clinic and possible future directions. | Rev. 2012 Apr;36(4):1140-52. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.01.004. Epub 2012 Jan 28.
Using Support Vector Machine to identify imaging biomarkers of neurological and psychiatric disease: a critical review.
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Facebook's Trending Topics now offer you a choice of what publisher you want to read
The embattled and oft-changed feature received another update on Wednesday, introducing a "carousel" of stories related to news of the day.
By Jason Abbruzzese<|fim_middle|> these markets and impacting consumers. Prior to working at Mashable, Jason served as Markets Reporter and Web Producer at the Financial Times. Jason holds a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University and an M.A. in International Affairs from Australian National University. | on May 24, 2017
Obviously, you're a Mashable reader.
But you probably also enjoy the occasional New York Times article. Maybe you're in more of a The Atlantic mood. Just occasionally, you're in the market for a Vox post.
You'll have the option now, in Facebook's Trending Topics.
When users click on a topic, they'll be presented with stories from numerous publications, which they can swipe through.
"By making it easier to see what other news outlets are saying about each topic, we hope that people will feel more informed about the news in their region," product manager Ali Ahmadi and product designer John Angelo wrote in a Facebook blog post(Opens in a new window).
Facebook is picking the stories by popularity, including article engagement, publisher engagement, and if other articles link back.
Facebook stressed there is no list of publishers for the feature.
In addition to the carousel, Facebook said it is experimenting with putting Trending into the News Feed — a first for the feature, which until now had been relatively hidden on mobile.
"We're soon beginning a test in News Feed that will show people the top three Trending stories, which they can click on to see the full list of Trending topics and explore what people are discussing on Facebook," the blog reads.
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Keeping a construction jobsite clean of dust, dirt, and debris plays a large part in delivering a successful finished product, and contractors should develop and adhere to a detailed environmental plan on every project. Strict cleanliness is particularly important in operating facilities where personnel are present in adjacent areas, which is frequently the case on selective demolition, plant relocation, interior demolition, and equipment relocation and dismantling projects.
Plastic dust barriers can be used to enclose a workspace to contain dust and debris and prevent it from escaping into clean areas. HEPA air cleaners can be used to contain or filter construction dust, and filters can also be installed on outside air handling units. To capture particles from footwear, adhesive mats may be placed at work area entrances and exits, or stations can be set up for workers to put on shoe covers and Tyvek suits. When work in a particular section has been completed, signs and barriers can be used to route workers around the area. Washdown and wipedown stations may be set up to remove dirt and contaminants from equipment before it is moved through clean areas. Crews should perform thorough cleanup of the work area on a daily basis at minimum. Surfaces should be wiped down, floors, stairs, wall cavities, etc., can be cleaned with a HEPA vacuum, sweeper or scrubber.
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Icelandair To Resume Seasonal Service from Washington-Dulles
Quincy, MA, February 28, 2012 - As part of Icelandair's 2012 schedule, service from Washington-Dulles will resume starting March 29th. Flight # 644 from the nation's capital will commence with four flights per week, increasing up to 5 flights per week starting May 23rd and 6 flights per week beginning June 11th. Service is scheduled to continue until January 2013 and resume again in the spring.
Service from Washington-Dulles began in 2011 with a successful launch and due to the demand was extended through 2012 shortly after<|fim_middle|> on March 28th, Minneapolis on May 15th and Halifax on June 7th. Icelandair will also launch year-round service from their newest gateway, Denver on May 11th.
In addition to seasonal service from Washington, D.C., Icelandair offers service to Iceland from Boston, New York-JFK, Seattle, and Denver with seasonal service from Minneapolis - St. Paul, Orlando Sanford, Halifax and Toronto. Connections through Icelandair's hub at Keflavik International Airport are available to over 20 destinations in Scandinavia, the U.K. and Continental Europe. Only Icelandair allows passengers to stopover in Iceland at no additional airfare.
Additional information about Icelandair fares and packages to Iceland and beyond is available at www.icelandair.com or by calling (877) I-FLY-ICE. | being announced.
This year Icelandair celebrates 75 years of aviation with the largest network in its distinguished history and the most convenient flight path to Europe.
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