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The Visitor Safety in the Countryside Group undertakes work in a variety of environments. We have included some of our work in a selection of online case studies. All of them have Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF versions available for download.
How 'soft engineering' techniques applied to the landscape can be used to discourage unwanted behaviour.
Control of risk at a popular coastal site, including consideration of the need for cliff edge fencing.
How to provide a wide range of leisure and recreation facilities with minimum disturbance to the landscape.
Dealing with unguarded drops in a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Safety Management in a very busy urban waterfront environment.
Reducing risk from mountain biking in a country park.
<|fim_middle|>ing risk using management controls, rather than physical intervention, to avoid damaging the exceptional heritage asset value of a site.
Risk assessment helps to turn an historic fort from a liability to an asset.
Creating a marked path around the perimeter of a prehistoric village to reduce the risk of visitors falling.
Visitor risk management of a wild, remote and undeveloped island that is also a World Heritage Site.
Risk assessment on a well visited coastal path leads to a decision not to erect cliff edge fencing.
How the Forestry Commission encourages families to experience trees through hands-on nature play.
English Heritage's approach to visitor safety at a remote ruined castle, restored in its natural ruinous state, without the normal safety infrastructure. | Why signs have been erected in a mountain landscape to ensure walkers are aware of specially high risk from rock falls.
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Klô Pelgag back in Belgium with her new album Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Brussels On Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Garou on tour in Belgium and in Luxembourg Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Mondorf-les-Bains and Malmedy From Wednesday, February 2, 2022 to Friday, February 4, 2022
La Galerie by Machine de Cirque on tour in the Netherlands and in Belgium Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Tilburg, Amersfoort, Turnhout and Charleroi From Tuesday, February 8, 2022 to Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Les Cowboys Fringants in concert at Forest National with Les Trois Accords in opening act Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Brussels On Saturday, February 12, 2022
Hypersensoriel by Messmer on tour in Belgium Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Malmedy and Brussels From Thursday, February 24, 2022 to Saturday, February 26, 2022
Garou in concert in Belgium with his show Soul City Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Charleroi and Mons From Friday, March 4, 2022 to Saturday, March 5, 2022
Lou-Adriane Cassidy in concert in Arlon Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Arlon On Thursday, March 10, 2022
Roch Voisine on tour in Belgium with his show Acoustic Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Brussels, Mons and Liège From Thursday, March 10, 2022 to Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Nicolas Gémus,<|fim_middle|>égation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Luxembourg On Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Ghostly Kisses in Antwerp Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Antwerp On Friday, April 22, 2022
Yannick Nézet-Séguin : Das Rheingold with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Rotterdam On Friday, April 22, 2022
Helena Deland on tour in Benelux (support act) Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Esch-sur-Alzette, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Brussels and Genk From Saturday, April 23, 2022 to Saturday, May 7, 2022
Saxophonist Colin Stetson on tour in Belgium Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Brugge and Brussels From Wednesday, April 27, 2022 to Thursday, May 5, 2022 | winner of the Prix RIDEAU 2020, presents his first album Hiboux in Belgium Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Brussels and Arlon From Friday, March 11, 2022 to Saturday, March 12, 2022
Basia Bulat in concert in Belgium and Netherlands Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Bruxelles and Amsterdam From Thursday, March 17, 2022 to Friday, March 18, 2022
Rufus Wainwright on tour in Belgium and in the Netherlands with his album Unfollow the rules Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Antwerpen, Amsterdam and Nijmegen From Thursday, March 24, 2022 to Saturday, March 26, 2022
Pierre Michaud in concert in Mons Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Mons On Friday, March 25, 2022
Charlotte Cardin in concert in Amsterdam and in Brussels Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Amsterdam and Brussels From Wednesday, April 6, 2022 to Monday, April 11, 2022
The Besnard Lakes on tour in Belgium and in the Netherlands Délégation générale du Québec à Bruxelles Gent, Utrecht, Groningen and Antwerp From Tuesday, April 19, 2022 to Friday, April 29, 2022
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October 25 - Serving Cabbagetown & the downtown east area
The death of Nighisti Semret
Cabbagetown residents are deeply distressed by the horrible attack on Nighisti Semret this week. Her death is an awful tragedy – made more so as we learn more about her quiet, dignified life.
As you can see in the photograph, individual people have been leaving small mementos in her honour in the lane where she was killed.
There's a memorial service being organized for tonight, Thursday October 25, at the laneway at Winchester and Ontario at 6:30 pm. A tree will be planted nearby in her memory.
The Toronto Star's Rosie Dimanno has written a profile of Ms Semret's life in Thursday's Star which you can read here. The CBC has a report about police findings and descriptions of the suspected killer here. Toronto Police quickly released a short video of the suspect following Ms Semret which you can see here.
Finally, Toronto Police have issued a press release urging residents to use extra caution until the suspect is caught. They ask that "Anyone with information … contact police at 416-808-7400, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637), or Leave A Tip on Facebook. Download the free Crime Stoppers Mobile App on iTunes, Google Play or Blackberry App World."
The Don Vale Cabbagetown Residents Association is now spearheading a Town Hall meeting in the near future with officers from 51 Division. They plan to include representatives from all of our community and business groups as well as the general public. When details are known, we'll announce them here.
The news for this week.
Fine Italian Wines at JAMcafe
Av Atikian has a few spaces left for tonight's tasting event featuring 25 rare Italian varietals. You can see the full list of wines at his website. http://www.jamcafe.net/events This is a rare opportunity to taste wines that are seldom found here – from Calabria, Friuli, Emilia Romagna, Piemonte, Puglia, Sicily, Toscana, Sardegna, and Veneto. As always, Av will offer complimentary hors d'oeuvres. Call (416) 921-1255 to reserve. 6 to 9:30 pm. $40. 195 Carlton.
Don't miss your chance
Riverdale Farm (Winchester &<|fim_middle|>The Berkeley Street Theatre's 2012-2013 season is listed on its website. The first play, Speaking in Tongues – "an intriguing and intelligent thriller about lust, infidelity and a mysterious stiletto" - runs from October 29 to November 24. (I have to admit that a blurb like that really turns my crank.) A link to the theatre's site will be attached in our left-hand column for your convenience. For details about the shows, availability and prices, visit the website. 26 Berkeley Street.
A new project for this Newsletter
Lots of people in Cabbagetown have small, very personal, business enterprises. A couple of them were listed last week – Lucy DeLuca's 25Hours (a bookkeeping and administrative service) and Penn Lewis's photography. And there's another photographer and a tailor who're waiting in the wings for their turn. These are usually creative, interesting and effective businesses.
We're issuing an invitation. If you have a small business without a storefront or office space and you're focused on our community – please contact us at cabbagetownreview@gmail.com and we'll list you. Free of charge. And we're setting up a special page with a direct link to this one to give you a spot where you can announce your project.
Spiffy sidewalks
Have you ever noticed how smooth and clean our sidewalks are? It's not a mystery. The City of Toronto simply doesn't let them get old! As soon as a new sidewalk is finished, some City department or utility starts to plan how it can be dug up.
Current construction on our sidewalks at Parliament and Wellesley is courtesy of the gas company. A few years ago, they dug up our (new) pavement on Parliament Street and our (new) sidewalks to install those grey spidery pipes outside every building. Now they're back – this time to repair the damage that they did back then.
Serving Cabbagetown & the downtown east area - October 4
Congratulations to four Cabbagetown writers
Four finalists from Cabbagetown are in the running for the prestigious 2012 Governor General's literary awards. Congratulations to each of them for their achievements. They join a very prestigious group of writers from Cabbagetown whose works have won awards and shaped our lives including Hugh Garner, Josef Skvorecky and Michael Ondaatje.
Linda Spalding is one of five novelists nominated for the English-language fiction award for her book, The Purchase.
Carol Bishop-Gywn is nominated in English non-fiction for her biography, Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca.
Noah Richler's What We Talk About When We Talk About War has a nomination for the English non-fiction award.
A F Moritz's collection, The New Measures, has earned a poetry nomination.
Find out more about these and the other nominees at the Canada Council's website and while you're there, you can conveniently purchase them (in large quantities!) through Indigo's online system.
Congrat's to the CYC
A week ago, representatives from Jays Care Foundation and from MLSE Team Up Foundation helped with the official unveiling of the newly renovated gym at the Cabbagetown Youth Centre (2 Lancaster). The two sports foundations made generous financial contributions to the project and they also contributed baseball gloves and basketballs to the CYC's inventory. The gym renovations have been a big project for the CYC and they're now proving their value.
Cabbagetown publisher Ron Hume wants to contact people who experience periodic episodes of life-sapping depression. The folks at InfoMedic.com have worked with some of North America's leading psychiatrists to develop a self-help patient education program that teaches those with major depression and anxiety how to manage their condition to avoid the frequency and intensity of future episodes. This program is now being field tested and ─ for a limited time ─ you can enroll at no cost. This is an online program you take at home, on your owntime. To enroll, or get further information contact r.hume@infomedic.com. For more information, go to their website.
Cards by Penn Lewis
Penn is a local photographer who's built up a remarkable collection of pictures depicting our gardens, homes and local landmarks. He mounts these on high-quality stock as greeting cards. He'll tailor his photos to create your own personalized cards – for seasonal and Christmas greetings, general purposes and special occasions. Check out his catalogue at his website www.pennlewis.ca
Rescue yourself from mountains of paperwork
Lucy De Luca operates 25 Hours, a bookkeeping and admin-services company located right here in Cabbagetown. She's now taking new clients. Pull out those shoeboxes full of receipts and get your books organized. Whether you're looking to gain control of your business finances or need help organizing your office paperwork and busy schedule, Lucy is here to help. 25 Hours will add an extra hour to your day. Visit www.25hours.ca.
Ron James at Dominion on Queen
Ron James headlines the East End Comedy Revue this Saturday, 8:30 pm, at Dominion on Queen (500 Queen at Sumach). Also appearing - Frank Spadone, Rebecca Kohler, Dave Merheje, Alex Nussbaum and host Dave Martin. Sean Fisher on piano.
Special Thanksgiving dinners
Peartree's menu (507 Parliament) opens with salad or roasted butternut squash soup, followed by roast turkey with apple, onion and sage stuffing, mashed potatoes, fresh vegetables and gravy and then finished with pumpkin pie. $21.99. Saturday from 5 to 11 pm, Sunday and Monday from noon to 11 pm.
Cranberries (601 Parliament) has a three course traditional Thanksgiving meal for $24.95. Starters include caramelized cream of butternut squash soup with apple and bacon or mixed greens. The main course, naturally, is roast turkey with mashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables, gravy and cranberry sauce. Pumpkin pie with whipped cream or warm apple pie with ice cream for your dessert. Sunday and Monday dinner
House on Parliament (454 Parliament) is offering regular Sunday evening fare. They've added their legendary Thanksgiving traditional turkey dinner to the menu along with pumpkin bread pudding and Citrouille pumpkin ale from St Ambroise for Sunday and Monday evening
JAMcafe (195 Carlton) has a "tiny turkey" festive dinner on the menu – Rock Cornish hens with all the trimmings. Don't forget that you can bring your own wine on Sunday and there'll be no corkage fees. Closed on Monday and Tuesday.
Theatre news
This weekend marks the final two performances of Arthur Miller's The Crucible and Death of a Salesman at Soulpepper (50 Tank House Lane, The Distillery). Watch for details about Alligator Pie and Endgame, the next two plays being staged in late October through November. The Alumnae Theatre (70 Berkeley) also finishes Lisa Moore's February on Saturday. Their next offering is The Drowning Girls which runs from November 16 to December 1. Check the boxes in the left column and click on the images to get times, ticket prices and order information.
Oktoberfest happens at Stout Irish Pub (221 Carlton) from October 7 to October 12. Enjoy a Creemore and a German-inspired menu throughout the week. Creemore's Kellerbier and urBock in 473 cans for $7.95, 12 oz of Creemore Premier Lager for $7.95 and 20 oz for $12 (and keep the stein.) On Friday October 12 from 7 pm, join the Oktoberfest party – prizes, giveaways and Creemore samplings.
MJG Gallery
Mark at MJG Gallery (555 Parliament) has a new show called "Duality" that runs to the end of the month. Among the highlights is "Mark & John", a real two-headed calf taxidermy! Reception on Thursday Oct 11th. Please RSVP with Mark at the gallery or call 416.923.4031
CYC at the Neighbourhood Challenge
Every year, Scotiabank's Toronto Waterfront Marathon includes a Neighbourhood Challenge as part of its program – the group with the biggest and loudest crowd wins a $6000 prize. Four people are the CYC's champions in the marathon: Heather Hopkins, Angela Jonsson, Sylvie Andrew and Nancy Horvath. The CYC always sends an enthusiastic gang to cheer on their runners. You can help by being a financial sponsor, by donating food, drinks, decorations and noisemakers, and by lending a hand to set up and operate the cheering site. The CYC area is located at Trinity and Front Streets, Sunday October 14 from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm. For more information, click here.
Two wine tastings at JAMcafe
Thursday October 18, 6:30 pm – featuring wines from Oakridge Winery in Australia's Yarra Valley. Winemaker and CEO David Bicknell will present four wines and Av will prepare a four-course meal to accompany the tastings. $50
St James Town artists
Community Matters Toronto is hosting three evening talks by artists who live and work in St James Town. Artist and educator Paul Byron is the first speaker. He plans to talk about the way his art has grown and the influences on him that brought changes into his work. His focus is local, based on his experiences in St James Town. Wednesday, October 24, 7 pm, Community Matters Toronto office, Suite 102 - 260 Wellesley St E (buzz 8605).
Thanks Toni and Elaine
On October 1, Toni and Elaine closed their coffee shop, Mylk Uncookies, on Gerrard Street. They've sold the business and now they're concentrating on their wholesale ventures. Their efforts helped to change the small retail strip on Gerrard. Their store gave the area a relaxed place where people could drop in and be comfortable. It was always a pleasure to work with them and we wish them well in their future endeavours.
Cabbagetown survey
A quick reminder – the Cabbagetown Preservation Association wants your ideas about its future programs and contributions to our community. Anne Pastuszak has organized an online survey that you can complete by clicking here. The deadline is October 26. Please take a moment to share your thoughts.
Tania's photo of the Festival
Tania Waldock from the House on Parliament caught this beautiful rainbow late Saturday afternoon during this year's Festival. True to its promise, the rainbow brought the end of the rain and the rest of the event was a dry success.
October 25 - Serving Cabbagetown & the downtown ea...
Serving Cabbagetown & the downtown east area - Oct... | Sumach) hosts its last Farmer's Market of the season on Tuesday from 3 pm. Next Wednesday is also the deadline for replies for the CPA's survey seeking your opinions about their future policies and plans.
Welcome Cabbagetown Brew
For over a year, we've watched as work progressed at 552 Parliament. The renovations to this building were done nicely and we knew that a small café was planned as part of the job.
Pat and Steve Catucci are operating Cabbagetown Brew, a café with a definite Italian menu. We don't have this kind of relaxed, informal café elsewhere so they've brought us a unique idea that looks like a promising addition to our neighbourhood. They have lots of coffee choices plus several panini, seven kinds of gelato, pastries and cakes. The room is done in white tile and equipped with big arm chairs and lots of cushions. Very comfy.
Scary-oke at Alice's Place
Alice's Place (554 Parliament) has been open and successfully running for a year on November 1. Be sure to drop in for her Hallowe'en Scary-oke party on Wednesday, October 31, any time after 9 pm – she's got treats and prizes for people who comes in a costume. No cover. She's also got a busy schedule ahead – karaoke every Wednesday from 9 pm to 2 am and Sundays from 4 to 9 pm. On Fridays, she's hosting Scotch tastings with four different beverages each week. Her kitchen has light snacks and pub food available including fish 'n chips and chicken fingers. Thursdays are her wing special days – a pound of chicken wings plus 20 oz of beer for $12.50. You can learn more and follow all of this on Facebook
Congratulations again to Linda Spalding
Ms Spalding's novel, The Purchase, has been shortlisted for the 2012 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. This is her second big nomination for her book – she's also been listed for a 2012 Governor General's Literary Award. A Cabbagetown resident, Ms Spalding is a member of Brick magazine's editorial board and the author of The Follow.
Wow – a chili cook-off
Wonderful idea! Save the date – Sunday November 4, 1 to 4 pm, 204 Seaton (between Gerrard and Dundas.) You can take part in this outstanding event in two ways – be a cook or be a judge. For $10, you register, taste the good stuff and enjoy an adult (or non-adult) beverage. The money goes to the sponsors, the Cabbagetown South Residents Association. There are guidelines that must be followed by all chili chefs. Each chef gets a unique number, a food station and cups, spoons and paper towels. To register and to learn the rules, contact Jennifer Walker here.
Hallowe'en reminders
Carve a pumpkin at the HOP
The House on Parliament (454 Parliament) invites everyone to a pumpkin carving on Thursday October 25 from 3 pm. Bring you kids. Enjoy some yummy munchies and a pleasant adult beverage.
Stout's Hallowe'en party
Spin the wheel of misfortune. Play the games. Win a prize for your costume. All the Great Lakes beer brands at $5. It all happens at Stout Irish Pub (221 Carlton) on Saturday October 27 from 8 pm. Tickets are $10.
Pumpkin carving & Cavalcade of Jack O'Lanterns
Cabbagetown South is going to have a busy Hallowe'en season.
Carve a pumpkin to get ready for the big night - Sunday October 28 from 1 to 4 pm at 204 Seaton Street. It's a fun family event with carving, crafts, games, loot bags and more. Wear a costume. Please register so they know how many pumpkins to order. $5 per carver to cover the cost of the pumpkins.
Put your carving masterpiece on your doorstep on Hallowe'en evening and let your neighbours soak up your good work. The best of the best will be photographed and used as an inspiration for next year's event. No red tape, no big deal – just put our your pumpkin and enjoy yourself. Cabbagetown South is organizing the Cavalcade and you can get more info here.
Boo Barn at Riverdale Farm
A Hallowe'en treat for kids ages 3 to 10. It includes a haunted barn, a pumpkin patch and a chance to buy and carve your own pumpkin right on the spot. Wear a costume to make it even better. Saturday October 27 and Sunday October 28, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. Bring a non-perishable food gift for a food bank donation.
Congrat's to the CYC dancers
Here are three little videos celebrating the CYC's cheering team that took part in the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon. They won an honourable mention and the $1000 prize for the CYC in the Neighbourhood Challenge for their efforts supporting the runners.
Happening this week …
The Absolutely Vintage Sale
The sale features carefully selected men and women's clothing from the 1890s to the 1970s plus antique jewellery, ephemera, accessories and textiles. Eclectisaurus (249 Gerrard) is again joining her friends Angela McCool and Gadabout on Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm at Maple Cottage (62 Laing St, south off Queen, east of Leslie). Don't miss it. See more details at Eclectisaurus' website.
Robert Hawke's book signing
Pet Valu (240 Carlton) is hosting a book signing over the weekend with Robert Hawke. His new book, Vampire Dogs, the Rise of Thrasher, is based in Cabbagetown (of course, where else?) and it's a comedy-horror story featuring Thrasher's battles with vampires, squirrels and the other horrors that humans don't see. Meet the author, buy a book and get it signed – Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 3 pm. Find out more here.
Whiskey Jack
Duncan Fremlin and his pals in Whiskey Jack are playing at the Silver Dollar (486 Spadina, just north of College) on Saturday. Starting at 7 pm, they're joined by an amazing group of musicians – Randy Morrison (two-time Fiddle Player of the Year from the Canadian Bluegrass Association), and Douglas John Cameron with Juno award winner Danny Greenspoon. Whiskey Jack is one of the most celebrated roots country, bluegrass bands in Canadian music.
Fall Tree Tour in the Necropolis
Arborist Jack Radecki is guiding a walk through the Necropolis to explore its collection of trees and to discuss the care that's needed for them. He'll also look at problems caused by climate change and by pests like the emerald borer and fire blight. Meet at the cemetery office (Winchester Street east of Sumach) for 11 am, Sunday. Free.
St Jamestown artists
Wednesday October 24, 7 pm - Community Matters Toronto is hosting three evening talks by artists who live and work in St James Town. Artist and educator Paul Byron is the first speaker. He plans to talk about the way his art has grown and the influences on him that brought changes into his work. His focus is local, based on his experiences in St James Town. Community Matters Toronto office, Suite 102 - 260 Wellesley St E (buzz 8605).
Another wine tasting at JAMcafe
Twenty five wines – all rare Italian varietals. Served with complimentary hors d'oeuvres. Thursday October 25, 6 to 9:30 pm. Save the date – details will follow soon on JAM's website. $40 per person. 195 Carlton
Congrat's to Av – JAM's Australian wine tasting on Thursday October 18 is a "sold out" event.
In the news …
XL Foods
Carol Culhane at International Food Focus www.foodfocus.on.ca has followed up on our story about St Jamestown Steak & Chops (516 Parliament) - you may remember that Mark buys his beef from PEI's Atlantic Signature Beef and has not been affected by the problems at XL. Carol sent along a bulletin from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency about the retail locations where XL products are sold. They include three major local retailers, No Frills, Valu Mart and Sobeys and you should ask the store staff about any of your favourite products that might be listed.
Welcome … It's Jenny
The lovely café at 253 Gerrard is now being operated by Jenny Kim and her family. They're introducing new menu ideas and testing our reactions to find the ones that we favour. Last Tuesday, for example, the specials included "taste of Toscana" – bocconcini and tomato on a multigrain baguette with a pesto spread - or a Greek pita with a grilled chicken breast, red onion, feta and kalamata olives. Both items at $5.99 each. There was also a Swiss cheese sandwich on multigrain with fresh veggies or a baby arugula and mango salad with pine nuts and balsamic orange dressing.
Wow – those are really nice tests! Our research team who scouted out the place also had a peanut butter cookie and reported that it's out of this world. Check out the catering menus as well.
Catering at Merryberry
Cyril has started up Merryberry's Fall catering and party schedules. This week, he's handling four events at George Brown College for groups ranging from 20 to 50 people. He's also booked a private party on site at Merryberry. He's happy to discuss your event ideas with you – he's got a wide menu and he can offer either catering in your home or a private booking in the café. You can see the menu and contact info on his website. 559 Parliament
Construction at Gerrard and River Street
There's a major construction project underway as the City of Toronto builds new east-west watermains between River Street and Spadina. Most of the work is done by tunneling. Part of the work will include surface construction for the next eight months on River just north of Gerrard (where earlier work was done last Spring). There will be lane and turning restrictions south of the Spruce Street exit at the Gerrard intersection. For details, click here.
Hallowe'en is coming …
The House on Parliament (454 Parliament) invites everyone to a pumpkin carving on Thursday October 25 from 3 pm. Bring your kids. Enjoy some yummy munchies and a pleasant adult beverage.
Spin the wheel of misfortune. Play the games. Win a prize for your costume. All the Great Lakes beer brands at $5. It all happens at StoutIrish Pub (221 Carlton) on Saturday October 27 from 8 pm. Tickets are $10.
Cabbagetown South
You can carve a pumpkin to get ready for the big night and then stroll the neighbourhood to see all the lanterns. Everyone is invited to put their masterpiece creations on the porch for the neighbours' enjoyment. The one that's judged to be the best will become next year's inspiration. Both events are being organized by the Cabbagetown South Association.
The pumpkin carving happens on Sunday October 28 from 1 to 4 pm at 204 Seaton Street. It's a fun family event with carving, crafts, games, loot bags and more. Please register so they know how many pumpkins to order. $5 per carver to cover the cost of the pumpkins.
Here's a Hallowe'en treat for kids ages 3 to 10. It includes a haunted barn, a pumpkin patch and a chance to buy and carve your own pumpkin right on the spot. Wear a costume to make it even better. Saturday October 27 and Sunday October 28, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. Bring a non-perishable food gift for a food bank donation.
Last thoughts …
Congrat's to the HOP
blogTO has just published its "Best gastropubs" list and House on Parliament (454 Parliament) is one of their top ten choices. There's a good review here. This carries on the long list of favourable reviews that have accumulated over the years for the HOP. Congrat's to everyone for these continued successes. The HOP is on Facebook and their site is easy to read and enjoyable.
The original Regent Park
There's a great exchange on blogto about the original Regent Park development.
Today, after decades of neglect, we think of the area as derelict and badly in need of demolition. The current renewal is welcome. But when Regent Park opened in the 1940s and 1950s, it was greeted with enthusiasm by its new residents.
Agatha Barc wrote her essay about this in November 2010. Remarkably, it's still collecting comments, mainly from people whose families left despairing and rundown houses to move into these new apartments.
In those days, Regent Park was Cabbagetown and Don Vale north of Gerrard was the area that many residents were escaping. The comments give wonderful colour to the history of our neighbourhood.
Serving Cabbagetown & the downtown east area - October 11
Thanks to our new advertisers
Many thanks to Duncan Fremlin, James Metcalfe and Richard Silver. You'll see their pictures here and in the Open House section. They've agreed to advertise with us to support our Newsletter. If you need real estate advice or if you want to list or buy a home, please include them in your plans. Click on their pictures, go to their websites and contact them.
We've added a separate page for our Open House real estate feature. To see this week's list, click here.
Save these dates
Tsingory dance workshop
Thursday October 11, 7:30 pm - Contemporary and traditional dances from Madagascar. The company is holding a public workshop and demonstrations by the musicians of their various Malagasy instruments. CCDT Theatre (509 Parliament), $15.
MJG Gallery Duality Show
Thursday October 11, 6 to 10 pm – an informal opening night reception for a new show called "Duality", featuring original artwork by 20+ artists as well as a real two-headed calf taxidermy named "Mark & John". 555 Parliament.
Oktoberfest at Stout
Oktoberfest at Stout Irish Pub (221 Carlton) throughout this week. Enjoy a Creemore and a German-inspired menu. Creemore's Kellerbier and urBock in 473 cans for $7.95, 12 oz of Creemore Premier Lager for $7.95 and 20 oz for $12 (and keep the stein.) On Friday October 12 from 7 pm, join the Oktoberfest party – prizes, giveaways and Creemore samplings.
CYC at the Marathon
On Sunday, Scotiabank's Toronto Waterfront Marathon rolls through town. Four people are entered as the CYC's champions: Heather Hopkins, Angela Jonsson, Sylvie Andrew and Nancy Horvath. The program includes a Neighbourhood Challenge – the group with the biggest and loudest crowd wins a $6000 prize. The CYC always sends an enthusiastic gang. You can help by being a financial sponsor, by donating food, drinks, decorations and noisemakers, and by lending a hand to set up and operate the cheering site. The CYC area is located at Trinity and Front Streets, Sunday October 14 from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm. For more information, click here.
Wine tastings at JAMcafe
Av Atikian is back with two more of his very popular wine tasting evenings at JAMcafe (195 Carlton). Save both dates.
Next Thursday October 18, 6:30 pm – featuring wines from Oakridge Winery, one of five Australian wineries highlighted in this week's LCBO Vintages magazine. Winemaker and CEO David Bicknell will present four wines and Av will prepare a four-course meal to accompany the tastings. $50.
Thursday October 25, 6:30 pm – Rare Italian varietals. 25 wines available for tasting. Details to come soon. $40.
Reservations are a very good idea for both events – call (416) 921-1255.
Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre
Thursday October 18, 7 pm – A Taste for the Arts. A moveable feast. Food, wine and music set in three historic homes and catered by Qi Sushi and Catering 4U. Only 120 tickets available - $125 each.. Proceeds support the CCAC's program of music and art lessons for disadvantaged inner city children. For reservations, call 416-925-7222. For more information, click here. CCAC, 422 Parliament.
Sunday October 28, 1 to 4 pm - The Cabbagetown South Association is having a pumpkin carving afternoon. Dress up if you dare! It's a safe, fun event for people of all ages. Please register here in advance so a pumpkin can be ordered for you. $5 for each pumpkin. 204 Seaton Street.
Beef at St Jamestown
Mark at St Jamestown Steak & Chops (516 Parliament) has received some queries about his suppliers. In the light of the XL Food scandals, people are naturally worried about what they're buying. Mark buys his meats and poultry from people who have smaller, higher quality operations. His beef comes from Atlantic Signature Beef from Prince Edward Island. Click here to see more details.
Cabbagetown Pet Clinic
Our local veterinarian, Dr Jennifer Day at Cabbagetown Pet Clinic (239 Gerrard), has produced a video tour about her clinic. When you're watching it, you might also want to watch a couple of related ones that she's done about senior cat care, dentistry and parasite prevention. If you give her your email address, you'll be on her list and receive regular bulletins about your pet's health care - info@cabbagetownpetclinic.com. You can also check out her practice at www.cabbagetownpetclinic.com
Reviews for Kibo
Our new sushi restaurant, Kibo (533 Parliament) is starting to get a nice buzz among neighbourhood customers. We've been encouraged to tell you that the food and prices are very good. The young girl in the photo, for example, pronounced her lunch as "amazing". Kibo now has a Facebook page so you can keep in touch.
New art at Peartree
Peartree (507 Parliament) regularly hangs works by local artists along their walls. It's a nice touch in a restaurant – the customers enjoy the work, the interior is regularly freshened up and the artist benefits from the exposure. For the next month, Peartree is featuring watercolours by Ron Harris – well worth the visit. He's a member of the Beach Guild of Fine Art and you can see samples of his work here.
Menagerie Pet Shop
Menagerie Pet Shop (549-553 Parliament) has a sale underway on their raw pet food supplies. You can save 20% on specially marked frozen food and bones. Levana gave me a quick introduction to the benefits of a raw food diet – sweeter breath, no gas, cleaner teeth, better skin conditions, higher energy levels - to list just a few advantages. Menagerie is highly regarded for its bird and fish supplies. She hopes to be just as well known for the store's selection of natural, healthy foods for cats and dogs. You can check out the details on their website.
Berkeley Street Theatre
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Access Control systems are used to manage people's movements across a site, using either swipe cards<|fim_middle|> for example allowing trades services such as postal services and waste collectors access only between the hours of 6.30 am and 10.00am.
The proximity readers we use allow easy access through any door on the system with a quick presentation of your tag to a reader fitted by the door or alternatively we can now supply hands free proximity devices which automatically release the door as soon as you approach the door with your hands free tag in your pocket. | , proximity tags, coded keypads and long range radio triggers, or a combination of any of these. For very high security sites we offer a range of Biometric technology such as finger print recognition or retina scanners.
The benefits to using access control systems are that you can track the movements of everyone on site and restrict access to any door on the system. There are many functions that can be programmed such as time zones, which can be set up to only allow access between certain times of the day, | 101 |
City presents 100th historical marker to 1932 Southside home
(L-R): Councilwoman Linda Harvell, HPC Chairman Gerald Burgner, Emily Jane Cowen, Chris Cowen, Councilman Dennis Maloney, and Mayor Karl Mooney.
Let's face it: Plenty of College Station residents were born before our city was officially incorporated in 1938. Still, honoring our history — albeit a relatively brief one — is essential.
That's why College Station's Historic Preservation Committee had the vision to launch its Historical Marker Program in 1991. The effort recognizes qualifying homes, buildings, sites, events and other classifications significant to College Station's earliest days.
The College Station City Council on Thursday honored the 100th residence to receive a marker: 603 Guernsey Street, which is owned by Chris and Emily Jane Cowen. The Cowens purchased their beautiful 1932 home in 2012 and later renovated the entire structure. They now have a numbered, cast-aluminum plaque bearing the likeness of an old College Station railroad depot to display on their home with pride. (more…)
January 11, 2019 | Categories: City Secretary, Historic Preservation, Public Communications | Tags: Cowen, Heritage Programs, historical markers, jay socol | Leave a comment
Celebrating 80 years as the best place in Texas
By Lacey Lively, Marketing Manager
Friday marks the 80th anniversary of College Station's incorporation as a city. What started as a tiny community of about 2,000 residents has grown into one of the country's most desirable and fastest-growing cities.
College Station's estimated population now exceeds 119,000, but it has found a way to maintain its small-town feel and charm. We're widely recognized as one of the nation's top places for business, jobs, families, and retirees.
Everyone is invited to celebrate our community's birthday on Sunday from 2-4 p.m. at Richard Carter Park, located at 1800 Brazoswood Drive. The event will take place, rain or shine. Local organizations will have booths, activities, and tours for all ages that will focus on historic preservation, community service, and education.
Organizations joining the City of College Station include the College Station Historic Preservation Committee, A&M Garden Club, Daughters of the American Revolution: La Villita Chapter, Monarch Gateway, Texas Master Naturalist: Brazos Valley Chapter, Brazos Heritage Society, Texas Research Ramblers Genealogical Society, Wreaths Across America, and the Children's Museum of the Brazos Valley.
Richard Carter Park is the homestead site of College Station's earliest settler and was designated as an official state historical site in 1984. Carter's original land grant from the Mexican government consisted of 4,428 acres and covered most of what College Station is today.
The park features an interpretive center with displays and a reconstruction of the original water well. A bronze sculpture by Albert Pedulla was installed in 1986 and symbolizes the staking of the claim by Carter, which resulted in the settlement of College Station and the Brazos Valley.
In 1991, the graves of Carter, his wife, and family members were relocated to the park from a nearby site.
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The item on the left from The Eagle on Nov. 20, 1952 tells of the planned open house and dedication ceremony to take place the following days for the new Masonic Lodge Hall.
The photos on the right were taken a few months ago, when I noticed the Masonic cornerstone of the building on North Texas Avenue at 18th Street. The cornerstone is carved "Laid October 20, 1952," but apparently things didn't go on schedule and the ceremony was delayed one month.
November 19, 2013 | Categories: Historic Preservation, Public Communications | Tags: 75th, history, Texas A&M | Leave a comment | about the anniversary celebration and College Station's history at cstx.gov/heritage.
Marketing Manager Lacey Lively has been with the City of College Station's Public Communications Office since 2011. She previously worked as an internet marketing consultant for the Bryan-College Station Eagle and as a web designer. A native of Beaumont, Lacey earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural journalism and communications from Texas A&M in 2009.
October 18, 2018 | Categories: Historic Preservation, Public Communications | Tags: 80th anniversary, Historic Preservation Committee, history | Leave a comment
Proud history moves Lincoln Center "forever forward"
By Kelli Nesbitt, Parks & Recreation Marketing Coordinator
People of all ages filter through the Lincoln Recreation Center for various activities and programs, but many don't realize the building's historical significance. With February being African American History Month, it's a perfect time to take a look back at the proud history of Lincoln High School.
More than 2,000 people arrived in Brazos County as slaves. Formal education didn't exist until the Public Schools Act of 1871. By 1923, 127 African-American students were enrolled in the A&M Consolidated School District. The district accommodated only elementary school students until it began busing pupils to Kemp High School in Bryan.
February 2, 2016 | Categories: Historic Preservation, Parks and Recreation, Public Communications | Tags: Afrrican-American History Month, history, Lincoln High School, Lincoln Recreation Center | Leave a comment
Digging into College Station's past at Carter Park
By Ben Gracia, Heritage Programs Intern
College Station has an abundance of beautiful parks with playgrounds, athletic fields, and other amenities. Some also have interesting historical aspects, but one has particular significance for local history buffs.
November 5, 2015 | Categories: Historic Preservation, Parks and Recreation | Tags: history, Richard Carter, Richard Carter Park | Leave a comment
CS's oral history project preserves veterans' stories
You probably know the City of College Station has a lot of its history preserved in the form of documents, maps and photos. But it may surprise you that we've also preserved our history by recording the stories of the people who lived it.
The city's online historic database, Project HOLD, has a large collection of stories gathered through interviews with people who remember the city's early days. The oral history collection focuses on the stories of our community's veterans.
July 14, 2014 | Categories: City Secretary, Historic Preservation | Tags: history, oral history project, veterans | Leave a comment
History Blog: Masonic Lodge Hall, Rudder Center Dedications
NOTE: 2013 marks the City of College Station's 75th year as an incorporated city. In recognition, we've highlighted some interesting moments from our past.
This blog was authored by Henry Mayo, a surveyor and long-time resident of the Bryan-College Station area. As a surveyor and historian, Henry retrieves information from local, state and national resources to assemble history-themed messages for email subscribers in a series titled "This Week in Brazos County History." To subscribe to Henry's email series, click here.
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A summary of the April Drawings 2015. Displayed below are eight of my personal favourites, which have been selected from the original set of thirty works. The complete set are available to view on my Facebook page.
Edward Oscar White born 2:53pm, weighing 4lb 11oz, followed by his younger brother Bruce Harold White, born 2:54pm and weighing 5lb 4oz on Thursday 8th January 2015. So far it's been an incredibly busy start to 2015, both mother and babies are doing very well indeed. Jasmine Maisy<|fim_middle|> beast of an egg dominates the page.
Many thanks to Leftlion for asking me to lay this egg!
As you can see, I've been very busy in 2013!
The year 2013 has been incredible and with it has come many positive changes.
The year kicked off with the birth of our daughter Jasmine Maisy, she is doing very well and in as little as three weeks time we shall be celebrating her first birthday. Along with a new life comes the sense of new direction and working towards fulfilling creative projects, it is time to get to grips with new challenges in 2014 and make fresh headway. I start this with the launch of a new web site to showcase my creative portfolio.
I hope that you enjoy looking through the new site, it has been a bit of a trial putting it together. Many thanks to my brother (aka Uncle Rich) for helping out on occasion with the really geeky stuff! | their loving if slightly bossy older sister, turned two on Monday 2nd March, so as you can imagine, our hands are slightly full at this present time and art and creativity has taken the back seat as we adjust to our new sleep deprived routines.
The good news is, we're all happy and well!
The mugs are sourced and manufactured in the UK and printed by www.clubmugs.co.uk of Belfast. The brilliant colour and high quality finish is produced using the dye-sublimation printing process at their Belfast studio, the mugs are also guaranteed dishwasher safe.
- White ceramic Durham style mug.
- 350ml (12oz) capacity approx.
- 9.5cm height x 8cm diameter approx.
After much procrastination, having a family, rebuilding his house, chopping firewood, cooking his favourite dal and generally being busy, Rob has now decided to open his first online shop. The aim is to bring to you his work in a high quality format, wherever you live and straight to your door.
The shop was launched on 19th November 2014, it initially carried stock of ceramic mugs. The aim now is to bring to you a wider range of quality products with similar embellishments. It is important that this process is not hurried, as great care is taken to find the finest producers and printers from across the land. Each and every product has been carefully crafted, he uses the finest quality papers and blanks and every item is personally handled and checked over by Rob prior to being shipped, so as to guarantee that what you receive is of the utmost quality.
Future stock will include: limited prints, original drawings, paintings, ceramic mugs, china mugs, t-shirts, postcards, greeting cards and much more.
Poster Design promoting the A Book About Death show, held at The Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy, Wales.
The above artwork depicts a barren landscape, devoid of life, colour or any defining detail. This ethereal landscape of death is exploring the notion that once we depart this mortal coil, we embark on a journey into the unknown. Unknown in the fact that every living creature, every single human that has ever lived, has had to undertake the same journey into a landscape for which no map has been drawn. Even if there were a map to navigate through this barren terrain, the person or soul making this journey wouldn't be able to retract their steps in order to reveal the way for us, therefore each of us has to face this journey alone. Hopefully something wonderful awaits the other side.
BOOK: Post-Traumatic Sketch Disorder Vol.1 (2012) is an 80 page full colour hardback book, that is packed full of Rob's drawings. Below are some photographs featuring the front and back covers and some inside spreads to give you an idea of what to expect in the finished publication.
Book specification: 80 Pages / 25cm x 21cm / Hardback ImageWrap / Premium Matte Finish / 148gsm Paper.
Flying Egg Machine adorns magazine front cover!
For the Easter 2014 edition of Nottingham's Leftlion Magazine, I was simply asked by their editor to go crazy along the theme of eggs!
This is exactly what I did and the Flying Egg Machine was born. A monstrous iron clad four-thousand ton, steam powered, propeller driven flying egg, hovers while ousing eggs from its birthing canal across a barren ashen grey landscape. Numerous otherworldly 'egg headed' beings scamper around with spears, defending the new born egg matter from the reader. Set on a backdrop of dense grey cross hatching this | 753 |
🎧 The Experiencing Data Podcast Presents:
030 – Using AI to Recommend Personalized Medical Treatment Options with Joost Zeeuw of Pacmed
Experiencing Data with Brian T. O'Neill
030 - Using AI to Recommend Personalized Medical Treatment Options with Joost Zeeuw of Pacmed
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Joost Zeeuw is a data scientist and product owner at Pacmed, a data-driven healthcare and AI startup in Amsterdam that combines medical expertise and machine learning to create stronger patient outcomes and improve healthcare experiences. He's also taught a number of different subjects—like physics, chemistry, and mathematics—at Lyceo, an online education service, and Luzac College in the Netherlands.
Join Brian and Joost as they discuss the role of design and user experience within the context of providing personalized medical treatments using AI. Plus:
The role data has in influencing doctors' decisions—without making the decisions
The questions Joost's product team asks before designing any AI solution at Pacmed
How people's familiarity with iPhones and ease-of-use has influenced expectations around simplicity—and the challenges this poses when there is machine learning under the hood
Why Brian thinks Pacmed's abnormal approach to design is great—and what that approach looks like
The simple, non-technical, but critical thing Pacmed did early on to help them define their AI product strategy and avoid going down the wrong path
An example of an unexpected treatment prediction that Pacmed's algorithm detected—which ended up being something that a specific field of medicine had been studying with classical research techniques 10,000 km away
Where Joost believes Western medicine falls short with respect to new drug trials
Joost on LinkedIn
Pacmed.ai on LinkedIn
Quotes for Today's Episode
"Pacmed in that has a three-fold mission, which is, first of all, to try to make sure that every single patient gets the treatment that has proven to work for him or her based on prior data analysis. And next to that we say, 'well, if an algorithm can learn all these awesome insights generated by thousands and thousands of doctors, then a doctor using one of those products is also very capable of learning more and more things from the lessons that are incorporated in this algorithm and this product.' And finally, healthcare is very expensive. We are trying to maximize the efficiency and the effectiveness of that spend by making sure everybody gets a treatment that has the highest probability of working for him or her." — Joost
"Offering a data product like this is really another tool in that toolbox that allows the doctor to pierce through this insane amount of complexity that there is in giving care to a patient." — Joost
"Before designing anything, we ask ourselves this: Does it fit into the workflow of people that already have maybe one of the most demanding jobs in the world?" — Joost
"There's a very big gap between what is scientifically medically interesting and what's practical in a healthcare system." — Joost
"When I talk about design here, I'm talking kind of about capital D design. So product design, user experience, looking at the whole business and the outcomes we're trying to drive, it's kind of that larger picture here." — Brian
"I don't think this is 'normal' for a lot of people coming from the engineering side or from the data science side to be going out and talking to customers, thinking about like how does this person do their job and how does my work fit into you know a bigger picture solution of what this person needs to do all day, and what are the health outcomes we're going for? That part of this product development process is not about data science, right? It's about the human factors piece, about how does our solution fit into this world." — Brian
"I think that the impact of bringing people out into the field—whatever that is, that could be a corporate cubicle somewhere, a hospital, outside in a farm field—usually there's a really positive thing that happens because I think people are able to connect their work with an actual human being that's going to potentially use this solution. And when we look at software all day, it's very easy to disconnect from any sense of human connection with someone else." — Brian
"If you're a product owner or even if you're more on the analytics side, but you're responsible for delivering decision support, it's really important to go get a feel for what people are doing all day." — Brian
Brian: Hello everybody. Welcome back to Experiencing Data. And today I've got Joost Zeeuw on the line from Amsterdam. You're not from Amsterdam, but that's where you're calling in from today, is that right?
Joost: Yeah, that's right.
Brian: Nice.
Joost: We all moved to Amsterdam for work at some point. It's our version of the brain drain.
Brian: Excellent. Excellent. Well, I'm really happy to have you on the show here. We met briefly in the hallway after your talk at predictive analytics world in London and I enjoyed your talk there. And so just to give some context, you're the product owner of primary care and medical data scientists at Pacmed. So tell us about what Pacmed is and what does that mean? What's your role like day to day over there?
Joost: Yeah, correct. Well, first of all, maybe Pacmed, the company that I work at and we are a startup in Amsterdam, moving towards being a skill up depending on your definition of course, and we make a data driven decision support systems for in the healthcare system and we really focus on really making medical products. So really supporting and helping out physicians, doctors, nurses in-taking the best possible decision by analyzing vast amounts of data. And Pacmed in that has a three-fold mission, which is first of all try to make sure that every single patient gets the treatment that has proven to work for him or her based on prior data analysis.
Joost: And next to that we then say, well if an algorithm can learn all these awesome insights generated by thousands and thousands of doctors, then a doctor using one of those products is also very capable of learning more and more things from the lessons that are incorporated in this algorithm and this product. And finally of course healthcare is a very expensive part of the world. I think in most developed Western countries it's the biggest expenditure for government and we are trying to maximize the efficiency and the effectivity of that budget by making sure everybody gets a treatment that has the highest probability of working for him or her.
Brian: One thing I wanted to ask you already here was you mentioned if I heard this right, you talked about you know the multitude of doctors out there. Also looking at a system like this, a decision support solution like this as a way of learning about what prescriptions, what treatments may make sense. Do you think that they're going into this with the perception that they might have something to learn from this? Just as much like as it's kind of like we probably look at it like the tool or the product is subordinate to the doctor's decision making and there's that perception there, right? That this tool is kind of subordinate and as you said, decision support, which I also love that you mentioned that because that's really what it's about, right?
Joost: Yeah.
Brian: But at the same time, do you think they're coming in at looking at it like I might find a treatment that I haven't thought about or maybe I didn't realize it was as effective as apparently it has been historically. Are they coming in the door with that perception?
Joost: Well, I think that's a very difficult question.
Brian: Uh huh.
Joost: Because at the moment, I don't really know whether they would have that perception from the get go,
Brian: Mmhmm.
Joost: At some point it should be like that and say for example, the analogy that I really like to use is that back in the day at the university I did a program on the nuclear technology. So you learn all this stuff about MRI scanners and PET scanners and all this sort of radiology stuff. And basically what those things do, what those technologies do is they allow the doctor to do or see something that they themselves cannot see. Right? They allow you to look into the body, if you go to a laboratory in a hospital, they analyze basically every bodily fluid that there is, which gives you information as a doctor that you would never, ever have been able to get by yourself. And I think that offering a data product like this is really another tool in that toolbox that allows the doctor to pierce through this insane amount of complexity that there is in giving care to a patient.
Joost: So really what we want to do is, well I'm given the situation with the patients and given this let's say five different treatment options, we predict that these will be the probabilities of success for those different treatment options given these reasons.
Brian: Mmhm.
Joost: And in such a scenario it's still going to be up to the doctor of course to make a decision on this. So to really say, well I agree with this or maybe I don't for that for reasons that are launched into our expertise. And we really see these machine learning systems as an extra help and technological help to allow the doctor to see something that's a normal human being can't do,
Joost: Which is seeing through a vast amount of complexity and historical data and really get the lessons from that.
Brian: Mmhm. You used some language here just a second ago, and you mentioned giving a probability for an outcome and then the reasons for that recommendation that came from the machine learning that you're doing is that correct summary so far?
Brian: So tell me, I feel like this is an interesting thing to juggle because I'm curious, did the design and the experience, which requires you for various reasons to want and or need or perhaps legally require you to explain why the model chose this, not chose but it thinks that there's an 82% chance that this particular remedy is right. And here's why. Was there a discussion about balancing the fact that it's only 82% accurate and it gave four different possible remedies? But this model gives us the transparency into why it recommended those four different treatment paths versus some other model that perhaps was more accurate, but it was more black box and it didn't explain why. It just said, you know wrap the arm in a cast, send patient home, five days of sleep with no explanation of why.
Brian: Did you have to juggle that or that end user experience that you wanted, was that a factor in the algorithm design and the model choice or it wasn't like that?
Joost: Well of course that is always a question comes to mind. However, practically we don't really experience this problem because actually the perspective that we choose from the beginning is we are going to make it a non black box.
Brian: Right.
Joost: So you're going to make a transparent system because we believe that that is going to be the best tool that we can give to doctors so that we can create a synergy between the medical expert and the technology that we offer. Also, indeed legally isn't really, I don't know, whether legally is a proper word but let's stick with legally.
Brian: Compliance or something.
Joost: Yeah. If we would take compliance and the States, you guys at the FDA and in Europe we have what you call a CE certification. Getting compliance with those regulations is way more easy when you have an insightful model. And that is actually one of the biggest factors in this consideration, that when we look at healthcare data, we generally don't have a very large amount of data. So from a person perspective, we are very lucky that not a lot of people end up in hospital. From a data perspective, that's too bad because it means that we don't have for a certain disease area, for example, millions and millions and millions of data points
Joost: That would allow us to make a very complex and deep neural networks, for example. So we haven't really gotten to the point yet where we had a medical problem, a disease area where we had to take into account, well using a black box model really increases accuracy significantly. What should we do?
Brian: Got it. Got it. So it sounds like in some ways, fortunately it wasn't a factor in other ways it makes some of the technical work a little bit more difficult because your prediction accuracy isn't going to be as high, but as I always say you know it's like, well you could get really high, but if you have a low customer adoption then does it matter that you found a really high accuracy
Brian: If no one's using the service because they don't trust it. So we have to look beyond the technical precision and kind of consider the factor that there's no decision support happening and is that a valid outcome if there's no decision support occuring? You know? So, and that kind of ties into your talk, right?
Brian: So part of the reason I wanted you on the show, is because you mentioned that kind of one of the core factors as you guys build out and Pacmed is still building out this product we should say.
Brian: So you're kind of in this, I don't know if you self identify as like really in the core startup phase or a little bit more mature than that. But I thought it was funny you had these four quadrants, you know the data scientists make the awesome model, the data engineer models in isolation are useless, the medical experts saying how will this increase the quality of care? And then the designer is talking about, how the hell can anybody use that.
Joost: Yep.
Brian: And that these things have to come together to produce a product or an outcome that's actually first of all worth. It's actually going to increase health outcomes but also is a viable commercial product that you know can function. So tell me about this design piece. Like how does this factor into how you're approaching Pacmed's solution here? Like what does it mean to factor design into data science like this?
Joost: Well, I wouldn't necessarily say that it's pure to design part.
Joost: Well it is of course a part of the user interaction at the UI part.
Joost: Where we have to say this model has to be used by healthcare professionals on a daily basis. And as I also mentioned in my talk briefly, all these healthcare professionals at home will have an iPhone, this and that and are used to working with basically all modern technology, which works perfectly and seamlessly. And it's like it's an extension of your arm and you will understand how it works within a second. And that's setting the bar very, very high for new software developers,
Joost: Especially if there's such a complex system like machine learning that's working under the hood.
Joost: So what we have to do in that is make it in such a way that it fits into the workflow of the user. I've seen multiple projects that we consider doing and then after visiting the hospital for example and just job shadowing for a day, you very quickly come to the conclusion this is not going to work here.
Joost: So it's an interesting problem to predict, but it's impossible that these doctors will take a couple of minutes to walk to a screen somewhere, punch in some information and then get a prediction on something that's just not how, for example, emergency medicine works. So our design parts really comes even before designing anything is, does it fit into the workflow of people that already have, well maybe one of the most demanding jobs in the world. And part of them really the user interaction sort of design, it has to be clear instantly what it is, what we do and what we say.
Joost: And this is also ready to regulatory parts and the compliance part comes in the end. It also really has to be clear that for example, if our model says, "Well we think that this person has a say an increased probability of dying within the next couple of days."
Joost: And one of the features that predict this as the fact that, I don't know, they did a certain blood test two days ago. So medical doctors said they are all scientifically educated so you think much more in terms of causal relations. So then a very sensible conclusion is, "Okay, so if I stopped doing this blood test on the second day, I will improve the health outcomes of my patients.
Joost: And so it's really important and difficult for us to really show them this is the prediction, these are the features, this is how we explain this prediction. However, that does not mean that if you would start to tinker with some of these predictors, that there's a causal relation to the health outcome that we will find.
Joost: And that's really a difficult landscape to be in.
Brian: Mmhm. Can you take us back? So you just mentioned like you went out and shadowed some, you know it sounded like you, some healthcare professionals or doctors in their normal job routine. Is that correct?
Joost: Yeah, definitely.
Brian: Yeah. So right there, first of all, I think that's awesome behavior do when you're in the process of figuring out what the solution should be and that's not normal. So was this abnormal for you to do? Or like what made you think that you needed to go do that or what was the impetus for that? And I'm curious, was there one particular insight that you gleaned that really stuck with you? Like wow, I never would have factored that into anything we're doing with this product. Did you have a particular thing you can remember?
Joost: Yeah. Yeah. Most definitely more things than we have time to discuss on this show I guess. Honestly, those job shadowing days have been some of the most insanely exciting and just awesome experiences that you have being a non-doctor and being allowed to go through, for example, in emergency department for a full day and seeing what goes on there, that's just incredible.
Joost: But I have two or three examples. The first one is indeed say from this emergency departments, and we were thinking there whether we could make a product that could predict if a patient comes into the emergency departments, then the nursing staff does what you call a triage. Don't know whether I'm pronouncing it correctly in English.
Brian: Yes. Uh huh.
Joost: So basically they estimate how severe or how bad is the medical situation of this patient, and therefore how long can he or she wait until he or she gets medical attention, right? If it's a swollen foot, then somebody that comes in with a heart attack has priority over that person.
Joost: However, what you see in practice is that these are very difficult estimations and they don't always get it right and there is some optimization to be gained in assigning the right level of urgency to these patients coming in. And we had experience with doing such a classification from another product that we were building and we said, "Well it's very comparable. Maybe we can do that in the ER, the emergency room as well." So we went for a day of job shadowing and we realized patients come in and if it's somewhat urgent or somebody has some time on their hands, they will just go along with the process of monitoring or diagnosing or treating that patient.
Joost: And maybe in hindsight they will fill in some of the information that they got in a computer. So the data set that we would get of this is the intake of this patient, really half of that could have been gathered by after the patient has already left the emergency room and yeah, that's something that you can know upfront.
Joost: Another example, and that's way more user centered actually, is that we were looking at building a product that could help to get a better estimation of what doses of a certain medication different patients would need,
Joost: Which sounds really interesting and nice. And then we talked to the people that were giving this dose, and then did some user research and they said, "Yeah, it sounds very nice that you guys would make something that would make this more accurate for us.
Joost: However, we also have to do 2,000 patients per person per day. So we don't have 10 or 20 extra seconds on these patients to fiddle around with this nice little tool that you guys are making."
Joost: And that's really not the information or the insights that you get when you talk to, for example, say the medical manager of such a facility because they are not like in the trenches doing this day by day.
Brian: Right. And so what was your outcome from that? Did you kind of abandoned work on that product because you realized they weren't going to spend the time to get the insight from it or what change did you make with that information, if any?
Joost: Well, for the first example the emergency room products, we said, "Yeah, this is just not going to be possible for the very simple reason that to feed an algorithm, to get a prediction from it, you need the input data.
Joost: And if the input data is actually not present at the moment where you need the prediction, that's really the end of the line."
Joost: For the other products or the second one we noticed and we learned that actually say 90% of the patients out of these 2000 that they do go on a very high pace. But there's 200 of them that are very difficult to get a proper doses for, and that might actually be the ones that need most help.
Joost: And that is something that a product like ours could help with.
Joost: But that of course it does falsely change your proposition.
Joost: So here you learn and you adapt by this and you change what you're expected impact would be because now you only look at 10% of the patient population for example,
Joost: And then you'll have to reconsider well, is that still worth it for us but mainly also for the healthcare organization that's giving this care.
Joost: So yeah, you narrow down basically. And we decided to focus on the subgroup of patients that where they do have a longer time period to treat them.
Brian: Got it. Got it. So it sounds like you agree that it's time well spent even if the answer is let's stop working on this idea because it's not feasible, for whatever reason it's not going to be used or it's not valuable or it's not going to drive the health outcome. It sounds like you feel like that was still a good use of time and resource to go do this shadowing. Is that right?
Joost: For every single product that we started working on where we did not do this, we really bashed our heads against the walls because we found these problems later, where we already have invested and spent time and energy and effort and money on making these products and then you realize, "Ah, actually this might not see the rate of adoption that we hoped it would get."
Brian: Mmhm. And it sounds like a light switch went on or someone said, "Wait a second, instead of building the product and then going out and seeing if it's going to be used and it's going to create the value that we want it to."
Brian: How did it change at Pacmed? Like what was the driver to say, "Wait a second, let's talk to some doctors, let's go shadow their work, and see how do we build a solution that fits naturally into the work of a healthcare provider?" Where did that come from, that drive?
Joost: I think... Well the drive really has always been there, but you also need to be able as a company to do this.
Brian: Yeah.
Joost: And so I think the two main things are, one, the number of project proposals that we received really exploded,
Joost: Which meant that yeah, we had the luxury of saying, "Okay, we don't have to do every single project proposal because we need to generate the revenue,
Joost: To be able to keep our heads afloat." So at the end that gave us some, yeah, some time to really assess these problems.
Joost: And the second one, and I think that's just been a lesson that we learned over time in terms of experience. The people or the organizations that would come to you as a developer with a medical problem are probably going to be academic researchers. So they're doctors who are linked to university hospitals and they have an expertise in this area.
Joost: And they say, "Well this will be interesting to have as a tool that would help in this part of the healthcare system."
Joost: What we however did not realize in the beginning and what we do realize very, very well now is that these are definitely not the people that treat these patients on a day to day basis. So the fact that a university researcher or as somebody from a hospital who is an expert in cardiology is interested in building some model, but then it turns out that for example, the nurse in a primary care facility is the one that's eventually going to use this product. And he or she would say, "Yeah, that does not fit.
Joost: My workflow does not really top of mind, that's not really worth the effort here."
Joost: There's a very big gap between what is scientifically medically interesting and what's practically and as a healthcare system interesting.
Brian: Sure. Sure.
Joost: So yeah, we really shifted that focus from starting a product development only when we were really, really sure that it also came from the end users who are usually not the ones that are doing the scientific research in universities on this topic.
Brian: Mmhm. And as the kind of product owner, are you the one that primarily does this or do you bring your engineers or data scientists or designers out? And by the way, when I talk about design here, I'm talking kind of about capital D design. So product design, user experience, looking at the whole business and the outcomes we're trying to drive, it's kind of that larger picture here. So, but I'm curious like literally who are the bodies that got in the car that drove to the hospital that did the shadowing. Was that all you or did you have a team or multiple sessions? Like tell me more about that.
Joost: Yeah. In most of these cases it's the product owners at our company,
Joost: We have different product owners for the different types of products that we build. And luckily most of them are medical doctors themselves. So they can also rely on some experience and knowledge from their years in the clinic. But indeed, especially in the earlier days it would mainly be the product owner going there. But now these days we really also focus on getting the data scientists to tag along with the product owner as well. So I said you can have a shared vision and a shared of the idea of what's going on at the site.
Brian: Got it. So what's it like bringing in the... So, part of the reason I'm asking this question is as, I don't think this is "normal" for a lot of people coming from the engineering side or from the data science side to be going out and talking to customers, thinking about like how does this person do their job and how does my work fit into you know a bigger picture solution of what this person needs to do all day, and what are the health outcomes we're going for? That part of this product development process is not about data science, right? It's about the human factors piece, about how does our solution fit into this world. So I'm curious like what's it like when you bring a data scientist out with you into the hospital setting? Is that something where they feel like, "Wow, this really changes the way I look at my work?" Or is it like, "Oh, I kind of have to do this and I really just want to like you know work on my models in the closet by myself and like just leave me alone to work technical stuff?" Like have you seen a culture change at Pacmed or what's that dynamic like?
Joost: So that's also a bit of a difficult question.
Joost: Because I would like to say, yeah, the moment we started doing this that we changed the culture, but I think that our hiring policy is very clear, which is that we of course need the best technical talents, which is scarce as probably most of the listeners will also know.
Brian: Sure.
Joost: However, we also have a very, very big outer boundary condition, which is that the people that we bring in, have this societal drive in making something that will make the world better.
Joost: And we've had quite a number of very talented applicants for whom this factor wasn't present enough, and that we had to let go, which from a technical perspective is really too bad. But we are of course making things that have at least an influence on the lives of patients.
Joost: And as one part of your question being, what happens when you bring a data scientist to one of these places? It's, yeah it's really amazing. As I said, for everybody going to a hospital, that's not a medical student or a doctor, it's a wow experience.
Joost: But we imagine working on the intensive care data problem for example, and you go for all this data and you look at it every single day. And then at some point you go to a hospital and you are at the intensive care and you see all these patients lying there, there's tubes and pipes and drains and wires everywhere and there's alarms going off every minute, everywhere from patients that are going into whatever medical emergency state that has a huge impact on how people see the work that they're really doing.
Brian: In your situation where we were talking about life and death situations and that's not necessarily common, but I think that the impact of bringing people out into the field, whatever that is, that could be a corporate cubicle somewhere. It could be a hospital, it could be outside in a farm field as we had on a previous episode. But the point is, usually there's a really positive that happens because I think people are able to connect their work with an actual human being that's going to potentially use this solution. And when we look at software all day, as you know, most of us here obviously working in the software space, it's very easy to kind of like disconnect from any sense of human connection with someone else.
Brian: And it's just like users, you know it's kind of like this field of faceless people that are out there. But when you actually know like Dr. Joost, or someone that's working at this hospital and you're picturing this person with you know someone on a you know on a gurney, you know that's just the bleeding gunshot wound or whatever the heck it is.
Brian: And you're thinking about like your iPad application, you're like, "Oh my gosh, like how does this fit in?" Like you know he's juggling all these different things. It really changes your perspective on how do I fit into that big picture of developing something that matters.
Brian: It's no longer your little world. I think it really can turn a light on. So it's something that I advocate for you know at least doing a part of the time. If you're touching the solution, you know your staff and you, if you're a product owner or even if you're more on the analytics side, but you're responsible for delivering decision support, it's really important to go get a feel for what people are doing all day.
Brian: Like what is their job?
Brian: Whether insurance or you know even if it's something not as visceral as the medical field, it's really important to have that perspective if you really want to deliver something that's not based on a lot of guessing and assumptions or falling back on the, "It's their problem." Like I don't... Well, if they don't understand what this means, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that the math is right. You know, that perspective doesn't work. And especially in your case, in this situation. Not only does it not work, but it's not safe like there's potentially lives and health outcomes at risk, right? I mean.
Joost: Yeah, yeah. Most definitely.
Brian: Yep. Let's move on to something else. You had a funny slide in your presentation. Sometimes it works because modern Western medicine is like Donald Trump. That was really funny, you had this great comic, a little graphic illustration there. What does that mean in the context of developing decision support software?
Joost: I'm a bit worried that my answer's going to be dangerous because I presume that he listens to your show.
Brian: I have a feeling Donald Trump is not listening to this particular podcast.
Joost: I think I might agree with you there. So yeah, it's an idea that we got, well actually some time ago already and it's a bit of a difficult statement. So I'll, I'll add a bit of nuance after explaining it. So what happens in modern Western medicine, so if you look in the States or Europe for example, you are treated in all fields of medicine according to a certain guidelines. And those guidelines are based on clinical medical research and a randomized controlled trials.
Joost: So they get very pure research outcomes as you would call them, saying well given somebody has an infection, a urinary tract infection for example, these randomized controlled trials have shown that this antibiotic, say antibiotic number two works best, so give that. And that's very nice, but the problem is, and this is where the Donald Trump statement comes in, it's that had this modern Western medicine, this a randomized controlled trials, they are incredibly sexist and racist and they discriminate against the sick and the elderly and the young and basically anybody who isn't incredibly healthy, young and present. Because what happens is to do a study like this, you need to have a study population and well let's ask you a question in between. Would you test the new drug on an eighty year old person?
Brian: Would I personally test a drug on an 80 year old person?
Joost: Say you're a doctor allowed to test drugs on you on people?
Brian: I'm not sure I have enough information to know yet. I'd be afraid to test anything on a human being without having a little bit more information I guess. So, I'm going to deflect your question.
Joost: Good call, good call. So yeah, if we have a medication or a treatment that we're going to test, You can't really test it on groups who are at a higher risk of negative side effects.
Joost: So you won't treat it on for example pregnant women, on the elderly, you won't test something new on very young children for example. And also you're going to get a study population from the people that have this certain disease map predominantly. So, and I'll just get to an example because I think that will make it a lot clearer. We developed a product that helps, well it's a decision support tool but it gives advice on which type of antibiotic, and there's say eight of them for this particular problem, which antibiotics should you give for a urinary tract infection. And what we saw there is that these decisions are now based on medical guidelines and those medical guidelines are based on say a 30-year span of doing medical research.
Joost: And when we read those papers on which is that art is of medical research, we saw that approximately 5,000 young Caucasian healthy, non-pregnant women were included, some 70 pregnant women, zero patients with like a severe a urinary tract infections, zero patients with what you call co-morbidities or co medication. So that has auto diseases or taking auto medications,
Joost: And as is not often the case in other parts of world no man included. And that is of course a bit of a problem because then you're going to base the guidelines on that study population, but you are then also going to extrapolate its results on patients that were never included.
Joost: And we know from research that drugs, they have a different effect on different types of people. So we know there's a big difference between Asian people and European people for example, and how they metabolize certain drugs.
Joost: So not to have the idea that's an antibiotic that would work for, say 25-year olds, a young Caucasian woman would work equally well for an Asian man of 70 years old who was overweight and is taking heart medication, that's just not the case.
Joost: So what we did to build this product is we got the actual data from say free 300 thousand patients who went to a GP with a urinary tract infection. And indeed what you see in the data is that these people that are included, and the original study population, that's indeed 50% or so of the population, I sort of the majority, but the remaining 50% is types of patients that are not included in this original study. So we make a machine learning model out of this.
Joost: And basically what you get from that is you get personalized individual guidelines as stating which medication to prescribe and guidelines that also can be used for patients that you are not able to include in classical scientific medical research. That's of course not saying that there is something wrong with how this classical medical research being done. This is, as I explained, you can't include these types of patients in a study,
Joost: But you do got a gap because of that between the study population and reality.
Brian: I'm curious, so in the interfaces then that you provide, did you find that you need to present like a recommendation that's based on the original trials or studies that were done in addition to a recommendation that's based on your algorithms so that it's almost like there's an itch there, and I imagine when you start showing a treatment recommendation that feels foreign to a healthcare practitioner who's always done it based on the research, there's some friction there, right? Like maybe there's a trust issue. So do you have to show both of them? And then there's some explanation of like why the personalized recommendation is this. The historical generalized study says this and here's why we recommend the personal one is because X, Y, and Z and you know the trial didn't factor in overweight men who are Asians. Like can you talk to me a little bit about that?
Joost: Yeah, yeah. So actually you did most of the explaining because that is indeed exactly what we did. So we build them as this is an important thing to state. So also in this case we make decision support, so we don't say take antibiotic number two,
Joost: We say these are the eight possible antibiotics. And we say these are the probabilities of them curing the disease.
Joost: So indeed you see the different probabilities of success. And then also we say in that graphical interface, well these are for example, the two antibiotics that the current guidelines would recommend.
Joost: And so of course this is<|fim_middle|> worked in 90% of the cases and that's why we recommend this.
Joost: What is interesting here I think is that as you stated there is some friction but, and I have to see whether I can remember the phrase but there are these medical guidelines but everybody knows that they are at, it's in the name, they are guidelines.
Joost: So if you have a grounded reason to deviate from those guidelines then that is actually, well it's not really expected but that's good practice.
Joost: So of course there will be some friction in terms of doctors who say well I don't really know what to do with something else then these guidelines but especially the more and the somewhat older and the more experienced doctors, they are very used to deviating from the guidelines based on their own experience.
Joost: So they might actually see that and those prior deviations that I did are now also what would come from a model predicting something.
Brian: Mmhm. I think it's fascinating to see, you know during the process of validating a tool or application like this to see how doctors, I'm totally self-reflecting here. Like if I was working on this, how it would be really interesting to see how doctors react to new treatments or a path that they hadn't really thought about or maybe they were suspicious about, but the tool provided a level of evidence or clarity that really turned them onto it and made them kind of reevaluate maybe their past methodologies for treating a situation like that. I could see there's a really cool educational aspect there that could be fun to, to monitor if you were testing the product out with someone. I don't know if you guys have done much of that yet to kind of see how they react to you know a surprising probability recommendation or whatever. I know you don't call it a recommendation, but a you know a probability for a particular you know remedy.
Brian: So I know this sounds like a really interesting place to be.
Joost: Yeah, most definitely. I think a very interesting example in that feel is of course, the very interesting thing from machine learning on medical data is that you could get that the model find something that the doctors don't know yet.
Joost: Where did they don't recognize and then hopefully they say, "We don't recognize this, this is wrong." And then we are challenged to really worked through it and validate that it is indeed correct.
Joost: And if it then still holds, then it means that we've found something new that's very interesting.
Joost: So we did a project, we didn't really make a product out of it, but on a an analysis project where we worked in a psychiatry department where we looked at the effectiveness of antidepressants combined with sedatives, is sedatives a proper word here in English?
Brian: Yes. Mmhm.
Joost: Yeah. So they are very often given in combination. However, this is also what psychiatrist would say. If you would ask 10 different psychiatrists to treat one patient, you would get 10 different treatments. So there's a lot of intuition going in there as well.
Joost: And at some point we found in our data analysis that we showed well for this type of patients who part of their depression laid in fact that they had insomnia and trouble sleeping, which is a severe driver of depression. If they were given a certain type of antidepressants combined with a certain type of sedatives, that did not work or it worked way less effectively than it should.
Joost: So we identified there that we said, "well, all of these different, this combination works on the sleeping capabilities of this patient, we think." And that that was all very new, and we presented this to a group of psychiatrists when we wrapped up the project. And one of the psychiatrists stood up and he said, "I was at a conference last week in the United States and they presented a paper here, that they just published that talked about this correlation."
Brian: Wow.
Joost: So that was very interesting that our model was able to pick up on something like this that then, and luckily in that case was also found in more classical medical research 10,000 kilometers away.
Joost: So those are of course the very, very cool things. If you could find something new like that.
Brian: Yeah, that sounds, that sounds exciting. Like it's got to be really fun when you guys land on these little gold nuggets here. You know? Even if they do need more research, right?
Brian: Like if they don't become you know necessarily the status quo, but they feed a new line of inquiry or research to go out and really do a deeper study to dig into some causality. Right? Like something beyond a correlation.
Joost: Yeah, that is of course I have a little bit, the models that we build are, they will mainly be a correlation driven.
Joost: We have with impact matter research group that looks into causal inference. But as for now it's mainly correlation, but of course in there, there will be hidden some, some causal relations. So if you could provide a nice starting point to do a more classical scientific research project and indeed prove or disprove a causal relation somewhere in there, then that's of course a very cool starting point.
Brian: Yeah. Yeah. Well Joost this has been a great conversation. I've been really enjoying listening to kind of your experience here, working with medical you know professionals and figuring out how to improve health outcomes here. I wanted to ask one last question here. Again, kind of thinking about the user experience piece here, and I think we covered this in our call a little bit, like our little planning call, but was it correct that you said that unfortunately or maybe fortunately depending on the situation, you don't take any input data after a suggested course of action is presented? Like here are five different scenarios and the probabilities that they may treat this patient successfully. The doctor doesn't input the treatment that was used and you don't then go and see did that actually work and then feed that back into the model and then that becomes part of the product, and the recommendations, is that correct? Because there's either GDPR or there's health regulations that the model can't be trained on any new information except what was disclosed at the time that you got your approval. Did I say that right?
Joost: Yeah, Indeed. So what we do is, because we work under this CE certification, in the States FDA regulation,
Joost: To be able to have on the market a medical technology, you'd need to have an incredibly detailed technical file that explains every single yeah detail of this product,
Joost: Which means that you also, until a deep level of detail have to explain what's your training data looks like. And so that means that this life continuous optimization of your models whilst they are running isn't really possible in our scenario.
Joost: That doesn't really have to be the biggest problem because you can simply just say, "Okay, we will collect the data that's being generated in practice and retrain a model every three or six or 12 months or something like that.
Joost: But I think that a lot of the data science, because you're making algorithms or you're coding stuff really adheres to this lean startup methodology rides where you can very quickly iterate and test and retrain and test again.
Joost: Those sort of timelines and development speeds aren't really possible in the medical realm.
Brian: Right. Yeah. Well the risk factors are obviously different, right?
Joost: Yeah, and it's-
Brian: Just a software bug.
Joost: Yeah, definitely. And it's [inaudible 00:49:24]. Luckily it is heavily regulated,
Joost: Actually in terms of what you stated that the treatment that was chosen and then what happens that they can't put that in the data actually that's one of the biggest challenges that there is in medical machine learning is that the outcome measure in general often isn't in the data.
Joost: Nobody checks a box that says treatment worked, yes or no.
Joost: So really determining and defining and refining an outcome measure in our data that is an insanely large amount of the work that we do,
Joost: Which is both interesting and challenging.
Brian: Yeah. I can imagine. Well, thanks again. Yeah. This has been great. Tell the listeners where they could follow you is like following you on LinkedIn or are you on social media at all? Like if people wanted to keep in touch with what you're doing?
Joost: Yeah, definitely. So I think you can follow us on LinkedIn, which is a Pacmed, which is P-A-C-M-E-D. Not to be confused with Pacmed means Pacific medical center. We get about a couple of thousands of new colleagues every month from people that get a job at the Pacific medical center and subscribed to our LinkedIn.
Brian: It's pacmed.ai is that correct?
Joost: Yeah. That's our website pacmed.ai, which offers all our cool new developments and all our new stories. So yeah, if you're interested, definitely, have a look at the website.
Brian: Cool. And you're also on LinkedIn, is that correct?
Brian: Cool. All right. Yeah, I'll find your LinkedIn and put you on there. And this has been a really great conversation. So thanks for sharing some information about what's happening with machine learning and data science in the medical field. So this is great.
Joost: Yeah. Cool. Likewise, thank you so much for having me.
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Доннел Фостер Хьюэтт (; 1881—1971) — американский геолог и минералог. Исследовал ванадиевые месторождения Минасрагра (Minasragra), Перу. В честь него назван минерал хьюэттит.
Член Национальной академии наук США (1937).
Его отец был горным инженером и менеджером в угольной промышленности. Он вырос в Вашингтоне, округ Колумбия и Атланте. Он изучал металлургию в университете Лихай, где возник его интерес к минералогии и экономической геологии. Будучи студентом, он работал инженером на железной дороге. В 1902 году он окончил университет и работал с 1903 года в тестовой лаборатории для горнодобывающей промышленности в Питтсбурге, основной задачей которой было оценить все возможные руды и полезные ископаемые для инвесторов. Он много путешествовал в Соединенных Штатах, в Канаде, Мексике, Южной Америке и Европе. Он признал важность месторождения ванадия в Mina Ragra в Перу среди других. В 1909 году он женился и учился в течение двух лет в Йельском университете для его докторской диссертации, но только в 1924 году она была защищена. С 1911 г. работал в Геологической службе США.
Источники
Малая горная энциклопедия : в 3 т. / за ред. В. С. Билецкого<|fim_middle|>льной академии наук США | . — Д. : Восточный издательский дом, 2004-2013.
Hewettite Mineral Data
Richard Jahns, Memorial to Donnel Foster Hewett, Geological Society of America, pdf
Примечания
Геологи США
Члены Национа | 66 |
Huize Immaculata is een voormalig klooster te Rijckholt, gelegen aan<|fim_middle|>usters, die actief waren in het onderwijs en de ziekenzorg. Huize Immaculata diende om zieke zusters op te vangen. In 1937 werd het uitgebreid en in 1960 werd Huize Sint-Jozef toegevoegd als kloosterverzorgingshuis om bejaarde zusters op te vangen. In 1961 werden hier al 120 zusters verpleegd. Tot Huize Sint-Jozef behoorde ook een kapel. Vanaf de jaren '80 van de 20e eeuw werden de gebouwen steeds minder gebruikt en in 2002 werd het complex, na een periode van leegstand, verkocht aan een woningcorporatie.
Gebouw
Het oudste kloosterdeel betreft een gebouw van meerdere verdiepingen, gekenmerkt door trapgevels.
Bouwwerk in Eijsden-Margraten
Immaculata | Voerenweg 17-19.
Geschiedenis
Nadat in 1882 een groep Dominicanen uit Frankrijk was uitgeweken en zich vestigde te Rijckholt, volgde in 1912 de vestiging van een groep Franse Dominicanessen. Dezen vervaardigden onder meer kerkelijke borduurwerken en leefden verder als slotzusters.
Zij waren, ten gevolge van de Franse seculariseringspolitiek, uitgeweken naar België en vestigden zich in 1903 te Herk-de-Stad in het kasteeltje Het Hof, eigendom van de familie De Pierpont. Weldra werd dit kasteeltje te klein en het raakte ook steeds meer in verval. De zusters besloten een nieuw klooster in Nederland, en wel in Rijckholt, te bouwen. De nabijheid van het Dominicanenklooster speelde hierbij een rol.
Val-Sainte-Marie
Het klooster werd gebouwd onder de naam Val-Sainte-Marie (Mariadal) en werd aanvankelijk bewoond door 26 zusters.
In 1918 bood het klooster onderdak aan Franse vluchtelingen. In 1923 keerden de zusters terug naar Frankrijk en werd het klooster verkocht. 34 slotzusters vertrokken naar Nantes. Een aantal uit Nederland afkomstige zusters keerden naar hun land terug, en wel naar het klooster Mariadal te Venlo.
Huize Immaculata
Omstreeks dezelfde tijd werd het kloostergebouw verkocht aan de Liefdezusters van de Heilige Carolus Borromeus uit Maastricht, die zich hier vestigden en het klooster omdoopten tot Huize Immaculata. Het betrof wereldz | 438 |
Toronto, Canada, April 4, 2016 – Learn-To-Trade.com Inc. (www.Learn-To-Trade.com), Toronto's leading provider of professional stock market trading courses designed to create successful traders on the financial market, is weighing<|fim_middle|> on Tuesday, April 12 or Thursday, April 14 can register online at www.Learn-To-Trade.com, by e-mail at info@learn-to-trade.com, by calling 416-510-5560, or by visiting the Learn-To-Trade.com Inc. offices at 885 Don Mills Road, Suite 200, Toronto. | in on the stock market and announcing Tuesday, April 12 and Thursday, April 14 as the next dates for its free two-hour stock market trading workshops.
The first free two-hour stock market trading workshop presented by Learn-To-Trade.com Inc. will occur on Tuesday, April 12, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Learn to Trade.com Inc. head office at 885 Don Mills Road, Suite 200 in Toronto. The second complimentary two-hour stock market trading workshop takes place on Thursday, April 14 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Humber College's North Campus, located at the corners of Finch Avenue West and Highway 27.
Karpouzis explains that while North American equities have rebounded and consumer confidence levels are up, the stock market remains volatile. That said, there are investing strategies investors can use that will help them make money regardless of whether the stock market is bullish, bearish, going sideways, or jumping up and down.
Those who attend either of the free two-hour stock market trading workshops will learn how to rent stocks to others to create monthly cash flow and speculate on stocks using options, as well as about trading currencies (forex), risk management, and capital preservation. Attendees will also hear about the Learn-To-Trade.com Inc. Lifetime Membership, which lets Members re-attend any part of the program as often as they like.
Anyone interested in attending the free two-hour Learn-To-Trade.com Inc. stock market trading workshop | 333 |
Tactical Strategic Missile Guidance (3 days)
This three-day course will help you understand and appreciate the unique challenges of both tactical and strategic missile guidance. So everyone can clearly understand the principles of missile guidance<|fim_middle|> both the time and frequency domain of different methods for providing the main guidance signal input.
Theater Missile Defense. Why ballistic targets are challenging- even if they don't maneuver. How guidance laws can be developed to shape the trajectory and influence the impact angle.
Differential Game Guidance. Showing how differential game guidance can be used to improve system performance under conditions in which there is a low missile to target acceleration advantage.
If this course is not on the current schedule of open enrollment courses and you are interested in attending this or another course as an open enrollment, please contact us at (410)956-8805 or ati@aticourses.com. Please indicate the course name, number of students who wish to participate. and a preferred time frame. ATI typically schedules open enrollment courses with a 3-5 month lead time. For on-site pricing, you can use the request an on-site quoteform, call us at (410)956-8805, or email us at ati@aticourses.com.
Paul Zarchan has more than 40 years of experience designing, analyzing, and evaluating missile guidance systems. He has worked as Principal Engineer for Raytheon Missile Systems Division, has served as Senior Research Engineer with the Israel Ministry of Defense (Rafael), was a Principal Member of the Technical Staff for C.S. Draper Laboratory and was also a Member of the Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he worked on problems related to missile defense. He is the author of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, Sixth Edition, the co-author of Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering: A Practical Approach, Fourth Edition, and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics. | , concepts are derived mathematically, explained from a heuristic perspective, and illustrated with numerical examples and computer animations. Course mathematics and examples are nonintimidating. MATLAB source code is displayed so interested participants and duplicate the examples presented and explore issues beyond the scope of the course.
Interceptor guidance system technology.
How subsystems influence total system performance.
Useful design relationships for rapid guidance system sizing.
Using adjoints to analyze missile guidance systems.
Innovative methods for improving system performance.
Common design pitfalls and their engineering fixes.
This course will benefit managers, engineers, and programmers at all levels who work with or need to learn about interceptor guidance system technology. The heuristic arguments and numerous examples will give managers an appreciation for guidance so that they can interact effectively with specialists. Engineers and programmers will find the detailed course material and many source code listings in MATLAB invaluable for both learning and reference.
Numerical Techniques. Review of all numerical techniques used in the course so that all material will be easy to understand. Simulation examples, with source code.
Fundamentals of Tactical Missile Guidance. How proportional navigation works and why it is an effective guidance law. Illustration of important closed-form solutions and their utility. Development of simplified engagement simulation and computer animation illustrating effectiveness of proportional navigation.
Method of Adjoints and the Homing Loop. Show how to construct an adjoint and how method of adjoints are used to analyze missile guidance systems and develop system error budgets
Noise Analysis. Illustrating computerized numerical techniques for simulating noise. Using the Monte Carlo technique for getting statistical performance projections by making many computer runs. How to use stochastic adjoints to get statistical performance projections in one computer run
Proportional Navigation and Miss Distance. Developing useful design relationships for rapid guidance system sizing. Showing how system dynamics, acceleration saturation and radome effects limit system performance.
Digital Noise Filters in the Homing Loop.Properties of simple digital noise filters (i.e., alpha-beta and alpha-beta gamma filters) and how they can work in a missile guidance system. How target maneuver can be estimated with range and line-of-sight information.
Advanced Guidance Laws. Deriving optimal guidance laws without optimal control theory. How missile acceleration requirements can be relaxed with augmented proportional navigation. How to compensate for system dynamics with optimal guidance.
Kalman Filters and the Homing Loop.Introducing the Kalman filter and showing how it is related to alpha-beta and alpha-beta gamma filters. Combining Kalman filters with optimal guidance. Showing how radome effects and time to go errors limit system performance.
Endoatmospheric Ballistic Targets. The importance of speed, re-entry angle, and ballistic coefficient in determining the deceleration of a ballistic target. Why decelerating targets are difficult to hit and guidance laws for dealing with them.
Extended Kalman Filtering. Performance comparisons of linear, linearized, and extended Kalman filters for estimating the ballistic coefficient of a decelerating ballistic target.
Tactical Zones. Introduction to the rocket equation and how drag limits system performance.
Strategic Considerations. Why the flat earth, constant gravity approximation is not appropriate for long range missiles. How Newton's law of universal gravitation can be used and its impact on performance. Useful closed-form solutions for the required velocity and time of flight for strategic missiles.
Boosters. Using the rocket equation for booster sizing and an introduction to gravity turn steering for boosters.
Lambert Guidance. Why the solution to Lambert's problem is fundamental to steering a booster so that it will arrive at a desired location at a certain time. How to guide liquid fueled boosters with Lambert guidance and solid fueled boosters with GEM guidance.
Strategic Intercepts. How classical guidance concepts can be used to explain strategic interceptor performance against ballistic and boosting targets.
Radome Slope Estimation. What happens if a guidance and control engineer has lunch with a signal processing engineer. Using dither signals and bandpass filtering to extract radome slope estimates within a missile guidance system.
Multiple Target Problem. How two targets falling within seeker field of view can lead to enormous miss distances. Rules of thumb will be developed relating the necessary ratio of time left after seeker resolution to the guidance system time constant, the missile acceleration limit and the apparent shift in target location.
Weaving Targets. How proportional navigation system performance is related to guidance system time constant and target weave frequency. How very large miss distances due to weaving targets can be induced unless special actions are taken.
Weave Guidance. Improving performance of missile guidance system to weaving targets using optimal guidance techniques
Filter Banks. How a bank of linear Kalman filters can be used to estimate target weave frequency
Airframe Linearization. Deriving force and moment equations based on geometry of missile airframe. Linearizing to find aerodynamic transfer functions.
Introduction to Flight Control System Design. Designing simple flight control systems to improve damping of bare airframe.
The Three-Loop Autopilot. Designing a flight control system to satisfy both time domain and frequency domain constraints.
Potential Problems With Modern Control and Autopilot Design. Showing how disaster can result if the frequency domain method of analysis is neglected during preliminary autopilot design.
Line-of-Sight Reconstruction for Faster Homing Guidance. A comparison in | 1,046 |
Ask the famous basketball player Larry Bird about what constitutes a winner and he says, "A winner is someone who recognises his god-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." But how often do we provide such an environment to our growing children who seem to be drowning under the conventional educational system?
The Indian educational schemes are designed to prep students only for their respective jobs. More often than not, the system doesn't deal with other important modules of a child's overall development. Life skills, for example. Life skills are those attributes that focus on prepping young minds for a social and fruitful life and deserve an equal amount of attention. Mind you, life skills are not livelihood skills but they are the qualities that make a responsible citizen.
Not just technical aspectsThe primary goal of education is to<|fim_middle|> us out of tricky situations.
A happy and stress-free mind translates to a healthy life. So, get started on these life-saving skills and pave a strong path for the future citizens of the world. | impart knowledge. But knowledge alone will not take you places. The apt utilisation of the gained knowledge in real life scenarios is what matters. Always remember, academic success does not guarantee success in life. Keeping this in mind, all CBSE schools have been instructed to appoint life skill trainers by the CBSE Board. While some engage a specialised counsellor, other utilise the multi-faceted skills of their existing teachers.
themselves sitting in the comfort of their own homes. To make the learning experience more enjoyable, such organisations also collaborate with schools and conduct regular classes of educational games and activities.
One of the major life skills needed right now is the art of managing stress. Sportspersons, specially, are perfect examples of the pressure of performing well in stressful situations. It is times like these that decide the winner and the loser. In situations like these, emotional intelligence matters more than technical intelligence. A cool and calm mind will help you sail through many difficult hurdles.
Another area that young minds need to work on is self awareness. Ignorance of our own strengths and weaknesses gives rise to many unwanted situations where we end being a round peg in a square hole. By the time we realise this misfit, it would already have cost us our precious time and personal resources. If we are aware of our own personality, we could become more empowered and thus, more successful.
Success in workplace unlike the success in school is dependent mostly on team work, interpersonal relationships and good communication skills. At a time when gadgets rule the world, dealing with people directly is more of a challenge than a pleasure.
With no exposure on interpersonal relationships, kids are more comfortable with machines than with people. Human interactions are complex and demand a sense of dedication and communication skills. To be effective in this field is to learn to talk and listen. Hence, communication is another life skill that can take you places.
decision making, creative thinking.Social skills: Effective communication, empathy and interpersonal relationships.
Emotional Skills: Dealing with emotions and coping with stress.Imparting life skills to students early in their lives will aid them in taking decisions related to their careers. Whether it is deciding what to do after 10th or learning to deal with difficult classmates or exploring new relationships, these growing kids will get to apply their personal skills and gain valuable experience. Having said that, life skills are not applicable to students only. In fact, they are applicable to every individual who aspires for a good life. So many scenarios crop up everyday in our lives, to which we have no answers. Life skills bridge that gap and help | 525 |
Comparing lansoprazole and omeprazole in onset of heartburn relief: Results of a randomized, controlled trial in erosive esophagitis patients
Joel E. Richter*, Peter J. Kahrilas, Stephen J. Sontag, Thomas O G Kovacs, Bidan Huang, Jennifer L. Pencyla
Medicine, Gastroenterology Division
OBJECTIVE: This randomized<|fim_middle|> trial in erosive esophagitis patients', American Journal of Gastroenterology, vol. 96, no. 11, pp. 3089-3098. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0002-9270(01)03825-4
Comparing lansoprazole and omeprazole in onset of heartburn relief : Results of a randomized, controlled trial in erosive esophagitis patients. / Richter, Joel E.; Kahrilas, Peter J.; Sontag, Stephen J. et al.
In: American Journal of Gastroenterology, Vol. 96, No. 11, 2001, p. 3089-3098.
T1 - Comparing lansoprazole and omeprazole in onset of heartburn relief
T2 - Results of a randomized, controlled trial in erosive esophagitis patients
AU - Richter, Joel E.
AU - Kahrilas, Peter J.
AU - Sontag, Stephen J.
AU - Kovacs, Thomas O G
AU - Huang, Bidan
AU - Pencyla, Jennifer L.
N1 - Funding Information: This study was supported by a grant from TAP Pharmaceutical Products (Lake Forest, IL). We thank the participating investigators (listed in the Appendix ) for their contribution to the study and TAP Pharmaceutical Products for their support.
N2 - OBJECTIVE: This randomized, double-blind, multicenter study was conducted to confirm a previous finding that lansoprazole relieves heartburn faster than omeprazole in patients with erosive esophagitis. METHODS: A total of 3510 patients with erosive esophagitis and at least one episode of moderate to very severe daytime and/or nighttime heartburn during the 3 days immediately before the screening visit were randomized to lansoprazole 30 mg once daily or omeprazole 20 mg once daily for 8 wk. Patients recorded the presence and severity of daytime and nighttime heartburn in daily diaries. On treatment days 1-4, patients were telephoned to confirm the completion of their daily diary. The primary efficacy parameters were the percentage of heartburn-free days and heartburn-free nights, as well as the average severity of daytime and nighttime heartburn. RESULTS: During treatment day 1 and all evaluation time points including the entire 8-wk treatment period, significantly (p < 0.05) higher percentages of patients treated with lansoprazole than those treated with omeprazole did not experience a single episode of heartburn. Onset of heartburn relief was more rapid in lansoprazole-treated versus omeprazole-treated patients: on day 1, 33% versus 25% of lansoprazole- versus omeprazole-treated patients were heartburn-free. The percentages of heartburn-free days and heartburn-free nights were also significantly (p < 0.01) greater for patients treated with lansoprazole at all evaluation time points. Heartburn severity was significantly less among those treated with lansoprazole compared with omeprazole. Both treatments were safe and well tolerated. CONCLUSIONS: Over 8 wk, lansoprazole 30 mg once daily relieved heartburn symptoms faster and more effectively than omeprazole 20 mg once daily in patients with erosive esophagitis.
AB - OBJECTIVE: This randomized, double-blind, multicenter study was conducted to confirm a previous finding that lansoprazole relieves heartburn faster than omeprazole in patients with erosive esophagitis. METHODS: A total of 3510 patients with erosive esophagitis and at least one episode of moderate to very severe daytime and/or nighttime heartburn during the 3 days immediately before the screening visit were randomized to lansoprazole 30 mg once daily or omeprazole 20 mg once daily for 8 wk. Patients recorded the presence and severity of daytime and nighttime heartburn in daily diaries. On treatment days 1-4, patients were telephoned to confirm the completion of their daily diary. The primary efficacy parameters were the percentage of heartburn-free days and heartburn-free nights, as well as the average severity of daytime and nighttime heartburn. RESULTS: During treatment day 1 and all evaluation time points including the entire 8-wk treatment period, significantly (p < 0.05) higher percentages of patients treated with lansoprazole than those treated with omeprazole did not experience a single episode of heartburn. Onset of heartburn relief was more rapid in lansoprazole-treated versus omeprazole-treated patients: on day 1, 33% versus 25% of lansoprazole- versus omeprazole-treated patients were heartburn-free. The percentages of heartburn-free days and heartburn-free nights were also significantly (p < 0.01) greater for patients treated with lansoprazole at all evaluation time points. Heartburn severity was significantly less among those treated with lansoprazole compared with omeprazole. Both treatments were safe and well tolerated. CONCLUSIONS: Over 8 wk, lansoprazole 30 mg once daily relieved heartburn symptoms faster and more effectively than omeprazole 20 mg once daily in patients with erosive esophagitis.
JO - American Journal of Gastroenterology
JF - American Journal of Gastroenterology
Richter JE, Kahrilas PJ, Sontag SJ, Kovacs TOG, Huang B, Pencyla JL. Comparing lansoprazole and omeprazole in onset of heartburn relief: Results of a randomized, controlled trial in erosive esophagitis patients. American Journal of Gastroenterology. 2001;96(11):3089-3098. doi: 10.1016/S0002-9270(01)03825-4 | , double-blind, multicenter study was conducted to confirm a previous finding that lansoprazole relieves heartburn faster than omeprazole in patients with erosive esophagitis. METHODS: A total of 3510 patients with erosive esophagitis and at least one episode of moderate to very severe daytime and/or nighttime heartburn during the 3 days immediately before the screening visit were randomized to lansoprazole 30 mg once daily or omeprazole 20 mg once daily for 8 wk. Patients recorded the presence and severity of daytime and nighttime heartburn in daily diaries. On treatment days 1-4, patients were telephoned to confirm the completion of their daily diary. The primary efficacy parameters were the percentage of heartburn-free days and heartburn-free nights, as well as the average severity of daytime and nighttime heartburn. RESULTS: During treatment day 1 and all evaluation time points including the entire 8-wk treatment period, significantly (p < 0.05) higher percentages of patients treated with lansoprazole than those treated with omeprazole did not experience a single episode of heartburn. Onset of heartburn relief was more rapid in lansoprazole-treated versus omeprazole-treated patients: on day 1, 33% versus 25% of lansoprazole- versus omeprazole-treated patients were heartburn-free. The percentages of heartburn-free days and heartburn-free nights were also significantly (p < 0.01) greater for patients treated with lansoprazole at all evaluation time points. Heartburn severity was significantly less among those treated with lansoprazole compared with omeprazole. Both treatments were safe and well tolerated. CONCLUSIONS: Over 8 wk, lansoprazole 30 mg once daily relieved heartburn symptoms faster and more effectively than omeprazole 20 mg once daily in patients with erosive esophagitis.
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Richter, J. E., Kahrilas, P. J., Sontag, S. J., Kovacs, T. O. G., Huang, B., & Pencyla, J. L. (2001). Comparing lansoprazole and omeprazole in onset of heartburn relief: Results of a randomized, controlled trial in erosive esophagitis patients. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 96(11), 3089-3098. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0002-9270(01)03825-4
Richter, Joel E. ; Kahrilas, Peter J. ; Sontag, Stephen J. et al. / Comparing lansoprazole and omeprazole in onset of heartburn relief : Results of a randomized, controlled trial in erosive esophagitis patients. In: American Journal of Gastroenterology. 2001 ; Vol. 96, No. 11. pp. 3089-3098.
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Radio systems offer voice communication and data communication, and also emergency communication such as notification of a general alarm, between ground<|fim_middle|> provides services such as train information displays.
The radio system offers private call, group call and data communication as call types; and trunk mode and direct mode as call modes with TDMA (4 channels per frequency) as the communication method.
The PA system offers functions such as regular announcements, scheduled announcements, and broadcasts from the Operation Control Center (OCC) as announcement types; as well as selectable announcement zones based on pre-defined zone allocation.
The PIS system offers functions such as train approach information, stopping station information, and a query terminal for train operation information.
Performs direct communication between hand-held terminals outside of a base station coverage area by using direct mode operation. Eliminates blind zones such as underground tunnel areas by applying LCX.
Links with the fire alarm panel in case of fire, and executes broadcasts for fire evacuation.
Shows commercial contents and introduction of the railway operator by using part of the PIS screen. | and train. And, the Public Address (PA) system performs regular announcements for passenger information and also emergency announcements for passenger evacuation. And the Passenger Information System (PIS) | 35 |
I'm using PPPoE. What settings should I use?
I'm using PPPoE. What settings should I use?
If you are using PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol connection through an Ethernet network adapter) you<|fim_middle|> a list of other problems (like this one with MTU). | have a special circumstance which may require some experimentation. You can confirm with your ISP if yours is a PPPoE connection, but generally this applies to broadband connections like DSL or cable where you must logon with a password (unlike "always on" broadband connections).
If this applies you you, you should check the box in the TweakMASTER wizard which says "I need a username/password to connect." This will set your MTU to 1492 which is a good starting point for PPPoE connections. Note that using the standard 1500 MTU recommended for regular broadband connections, will often result in a total loss of connectivity.
PPPoE requires that, on all client computers, you lower the setting for maximum transmission unit (MTU) size to a value no higher than 1492 (the default is 1500). In some cases, a value lower than 1492 may be necessary.
Start a command prompt, and then determine the default gateway by running the Ipconfig utility.
Start with an MTU size of 1454.
If an error message indicates that the message must be fragmented, decrease the MTU size, and then run the command again. Repeat this process until the ping command succeeds.
After you determine the largest MTU size that is supported, manually set the MTU.
PPPoE is described in RFC 2516. Like PPTP, it is used by service providers because it's much cheaper for them. It lets them connect their old systems directly to DSL redbacks, simplifies billing, etc. But it's a pain for the user, decreases network bandwidth, and has | 345 |
Adult education centres offer high-quality music tuition for complete beginners and more accomplished musicians alike. Music makes up approximately 19 per cent of all tuition. The teaching offered may be designed to establish<|fim_middle|> vary according to demand. Some courses are well established, with the same groups re-convening year after year. Choirs and orchestras, many of them well-known in their local area, also often operate under the tutelage of the centres. At times, tutors will have knowledge of a highly specialised area, which allows the centre to offer tuition in more unusual topics.
As a rule, courses are offered either on an individual basis or to smaller and larger groups. Some adult education centres also offer tuition that conforms to the requirements of the so-called basic education in the arts, a goal-oriented qualification, supported by a national curriculum. It is designed to offer a basis for a life-long and independent enjoyment of music. Some centres also offer early years education in music for pre-school children. | basic skills, improve technique, foster your own creative expression or enhance your confidence as a performer. Playing music with like-minded people is fun and a brilliant energy boost.
Both vocal and instrumental lessons are available and the courses are designed to cater for all tastes. The exact offering will | 55 |
This week in PDF: Office PDF widget released
Posted by Dan Shea September 13, 2006 in enterprise
As Microsoft takes the next step to make PDF creation available directly from Microsoft Office, this week in PDF has seen a personnel move, the release of a new portable PDF viewer and an update to an optical character recognition (OCR) product.
First up, Microsoft has recently made its PDF creation widget for Office for free download. Planet PDF editor Richard Crocker's piece has more on this development, which has this industry observer pondering Adobe's response to the move. Thus far, Microsoft has been as good as its word on this topic, going so far as to include XPS export in similar downloadable widgets rather than in the core product. Microsoft has even offered the download in three flavors, allowing users to choose between specialized widgets that only save to either PDF or XPS and a third that allows for both outputs. Despite being free, offering the functionality in separate downloads renders accusations of monopolistic behavior weaker than had they been included in the core product. If Adobe still doesn't like the<|fim_middle|> and seasoned speaker Martin Bailey has been elevated to the position of Global Graphics' chief technology officer. Formerly a senior technical consultant, Bailey will be responsible for developing the Company's technology plan and will oversee the specification, design and implementation of technology across all Global Graphics' software solutions. These include the Harlequin and Jaws RIPs, Jaws PDF technologies and the Company's broad spectrum of implementation options for XPS (XML Paper Specification) the new print and document format for the upcoming release of Windows Vista.
Back to product releases, and Picsel has now launched its PDF Viewer product for the Palm Treo 700wx, a high-end mobile device. Picsel's PDF Viewer makes it possible to access and navigate PDF documents on the Treo 700wx similar to viewing a PDF on a personal computer, but enables intuitive Zoom and Pan interaction to enhance viewing on the small screen. For more information, check out the Picsel Web site.
Last but not least, Prime Recognition has announced a new version of its OCR product, PrimeOCR. Version 4.3 supports PDF/A-1b output, automatic document language identification, increased accuracy for both auto-rotate and deskew functions, PDF text extraction and extended support for Windows 2003 Server. To find out more, visit the company Web site.
That's it for this week! Until next time…
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About the Author: Dan Shea | new-look offering — which is more than likely — then it will need to approach the problem from a different angle or risk surrendering the 'openness' tag of PDF. One thing's for sure: there are interesting times ahead.
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Grace Ruth-Irene Rudd is currently a sophomore at Hillgrove High school. Grace grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania where she discovered her love for musical theatre. Grace's mother, a director herself, took<|fim_middle|> that by opening Dame Productions, young women, like herself, will find their voices through working and performing with her company. She wants to inspire the girls and boys around her to spread love and support each other through this beautiful art form we call "theatre."
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Bay Path and Its President Take a Lead Role in Homeland Security
By BusinessWest Staff November 15, 2016 1405
Joining the Fight
Carol Leary says women can, and must, play a lead role in efforts to stem violent extremism.
At first, Carol Leary thought the e-mail she received in September was spam, and was wondering why it didn't go into that particular folder.
It was from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), she said, and was essentially an inquiry, with the sender alerting Leary, the long-time president of Bay Path University in Longmeadow, that she had been nominated for a position on the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council, or HSAAC, and asking if she was interested in learning more and possibly serving.
This was an acronym that Leary admits she had never heard of — "I didn't know this panel existed" — but now rattles off with great frequency and ease.
Indeed, after determining that the e-mail was, in fact, legitimate, and not junk or, worse, a virus spreader, Le ary did apply for that panel — because she immediately grasped the importance of its broad mission and the fact that sitting on it would be a great honor not only for her, but the school she's led since 1994.
She was chosen to join seven others as the latest members of a panel that is essentially parked at the intersection of academia and DHS, which is becoming an ever-more-important spot on the map.
Through its six subcommittees, the HSAAC focuses on such matters as campus resilience, cybersecurity, international students, homeland-security academic programs, academic research and faculty exchange, and student and recent-graduate recruitment, and that list of assignments certainly helps explain why Leary received that e-mail mentioned earlier.
Indeed, Bay Path has put itself at the forefront of such issues and concerns, said Leary, through both graduate and undergraduate degree programs in cybersecurity and specific courses such as "An Introduction to Terrorism and Counterterrorism" and "The Path to Violent Extremism," both offered by the American Women's College and the One Day Program at Bay Path.
"I think these programs are what really attracted Homeland Security," she told BusinessWest, "because the newest area they will focus on is countering violent extremism, and when they saw we had classes taught by someone with a great reputation in Great Britain on this subject, they knew we had an expert."
That would be Bob Milton. He's the retired commander of the London Metropolitan Police Service, New Scotland Yard; director of his own consulting company that specializes in counterterrorism consulting; and, as noted, professor of Criminal Justice and lead faculty for Counterterrorism at Bay Path.
He blueprinted many of the courses at the college, including the two mentioned above, and recently delivered a talk at the school, as part of its Kaleidoscope series, called "Countering Terrorism: The New Role of Women."
This is a subject of particular interest to Leary — and the rest of the HSAAC, for that matter — because it represents an important, but far from fully tapped resource in the battle to identify and possibly defuse developing violent extremism.
"As we know, in our own country we have young people being radicalized," she told BusinessWest. "Mothers are probably going to be the first to recognize this. The question then becomes, how do we reach women, not only in all communities, but particularly Muslim communities across our world, probably woman to woman? I think this is going to be a very important role for women to play in the field of countering extreme violence.
As we know, in our own country we have young people being radicalized. Mothers are probably going to be the first to recognize this."
"We need to give them the tools, the techniques, and the impetus to do this," she went on. "We need to show them they will be helping our country and helping the families in which students are being radicalized."
Milton agrees. "You could say that the biggest threat to the U.S. is coming from within; the last few attacks have both come from within," he said, citing incidents in Florida and California. "We need to put much more effort into identifying those people who are becoming radicalized and then putting in place measures to try and carry out intervention. And women can play a big role in this."
For this issue, BusinessWest looks at Leary's appointment to the Homeland Security panel, but also the developments that led to it — specifically the school's rise to prominence in this field — and the many issues involved with combating violent extremism.
Front of Mind
As he talked about the many issues involved with countering radicalism and the importance of doing so on many levels, Milton recited a statement issued by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army after it executed a nearly successful attempt on the life of then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984 at the Grand Hotel in Brighton.
"It said, 'you need to be lucky all the time — we only need to be lucky once,'" he recalled, adding that the note was received after Thatcher narrowly escaped the blast of a long-delay time bomb that left a gaping hole in the façade of the hotel. (Five others were killed in the attack, and 31 were injured).
Milton told BusinessWest that he recites that IRA message often in the talks and lectures that he gives in cities around the world, and probably not in the context that most people might think. Instead of agreeing with the gist of the missive, he says its thinking is inherently flawed.
To get his point across, he summons a quote often attributed to golfing legend Gary Player, among others, which goes something like, "the more I practice, the luckier I become."
Whatever the exact quote is, and regardless of who actually said it, the message is clear, said Milton: the harder individuals, groups, and countries work to counter terrorism and violent radicalism, the more successful they will be.
This, in essence, goes a long way toward explaining the existence (and the mission) of not only the DHS, but the HSAAC as well — which is, in part, to practice hard at the work of recognizing and stemming radicalization.
"We need to work harder so we're lucky," said Milton, adding that this work constitutes a large, complex fight, started long ago and now waged on many fronts and in many ways. And it focuses on everything from working with, rather than isolating, underprivileged communities, to teaching others how to spot the many warning signs of someone being radicalized.
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But spotting the signs is only part of the equation, he went on, adding that people, and especially mothers, need to know what to do when they see those signs.
Bob Milton says individuals, agencies, and nations need to work hard to counter radicalization and essentially make their own luck.
"It's my experience that it's the families, and the women in the families, who are more likely to see the signs of radicalization earlier than anyone else," he explained. "There have been so many cases in the U.K., particularly, where young women or men have become radicalized, and in some cases have gone off to fight and die in Syria, and yet their families — and particularly the women in those families — knew there was something going on and had nowhere to go."
In short, he went on, women — especially those who are, for some reason, be it language issues or something else, isolated within their community — need to become less isolated and, therefore, more empowered to effectively deal with these situations.
And women, as noted, can play a huge role in this effort, said Leary, who, as she talked about this, drew an effective, even poetic analogy to the work carried out by women at Bletchley Park, the headquarters for Britain's fabled code breakers during World War II, immortalized in countless books, TV series, and movies such as the recent The Imitation Game.
"The word we would use for it today is cybersecurity," she said of those efforts to break the codes enciphered on Germany's Enigma machines. "All the men were off fighting the war; it was the women trying to decode messages sent all across Europe. Fast-forward 70 years, and it's clear that we again need more women in this field."
Bay Path is certainly doing its part in this effort, she went on, adding that roughly 80 students are enrolled in its cybersecurity programs, and the number is growing every year.
The master's-degree program in cybersecurity management graduated its first class in 2014, and there are now 30 (17 of which are women) currently enrolled in that program. Meanwhile, there are 50 students (almost all of them women) enrolled in the undergraduate program, which features concentrations in digital forensics and information assurance.
As noted earlier, though, the role to be played by women moving forward is multi-faceted and goes much deeper than taking jobs in this growing field. It entails work within and for the community to intervene and hopefully prevent individuals from resorting to violence in support of a cause or faith.
Getting the Message
Leary, named by BusinessWest as one of its Difference Makers for 2016 for her work at the college and in the community, acknowledged that she had more than enough to keep her busy before that e-mail arrived in September.
And while she has, indeed, learned to say 'no' over the years due to the sheer volume of requests she receives to donate her time, energy, and talent to a group or cause, that word never entered her mind when the DHS enlisted her help.
That's because the group's mission is so important, and also because Bay Path has made major investments — and major strides — toward become a recognized leader in cybersecurity and related programs.
And those investments can and will yield dividends at this critical juncture for the country — and the world.
George O'Brien can be reached at [email protected]
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Flags / Central America, economy, flags, geography, history, North America, political
2.1Pre-Columbian Period:
2.2Independence:
2.119th Century:
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Upon independence, Costa Rican authorities faced the issue of officially deciding the future of the country. Two bands formed, the Imperialists, defended by Cartago and Heredia cities which were in favor of joining the Mexican Empire, and the Republicans, represented by the cities of San José and Alajuela who defended full independence. Because of the lack of agreement on these two possible outcomes, the first civil war of Costa Rica occurred. The Battle of Ochomogo took place on the Hill of Ochomogo, located in the Central Valley in 1823. The conflict was won by the Republicans and, as a consequence<|fim_middle|> uprising in the wake of a disputed presidential election between Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (who had been president between 1940 and 1944) and Otilio Ulate Blanco. With more than 2,000 dead, the resulting 44-day Costa Rican Civil War was the bloodiest event in Costa Rica during the 20th century.
removing roof stains remover | , the city of Cartago lost its status as the capital, which moved to San José.
Gregorio José Ramírez, the Republican Leader
In 1838, long after the Federal Republic of Central America ceased to function in practice, Costa Rica formally withdrew and proclaimed itself sovereign. The considerable distance and poor communication routes between Guatemala City and the Central Plateau, where most of the Costa Rican population lived then and still lives now, meant the local population had little allegiance to the federal government in Guatemala. From colonial times to now, Costa Rica's reluctance to become economically tied with the rest of Central America has been a major obstacle to efforts for greater regional integration.
19th Century:
Coffee was first planted in Costa Rica in 1808, and by the 1820s, it surpassed tobacco, sugar, and cacao as a primary export. Coffee production remained Costa Rica's principal source of wealth well into the 20th century, creating a wealthy class of growers, the so-called Coffee Barons. The revenue helped to modernize the country.
Most of the coffee exported was grown around the main centers of population in the Central Plateau and then transported by oxcart to the Pacific port of Puntarenas after the main road was built in 1846. By the mid-1850s the main market for coffee was Britain. It soon became a high priority to develop an effective transportation route from the Central Plateau to the Atlantic Ocean. For this purpose, in the 1870s, the Costa Rican government contracted with U.S. businessman Minor C. Keith to build a railroad from San José to the Caribbean port of Limón. Despite enormous difficulties with construction, disease, and financing, the railroad was completed in 1890.
First Postage Stamp 1862
Most Afro-Costa Ricans descend from Jamaican immigrants who worked in the construction of that railway and now make up about 3% of Costa Rica's population. U.S. convicts, Italians and Chinese immigrants also participated in the construction project. In exchange for completing the railroad, the Costa Rican government granted Keith large tracts of land and a lease on the train route, which he used to produce bananas and export them to the United States. As a result, bananas came to rival coffee as the principal Costa Rican export, while foreign-owned corporations (including the United Fruit Company later) began to hold a major role in the national economy and eventually became a symbol of the exploitative export economy. The major labor dispute between the peasants and the United Fruit Company (The Great Banana Strike) was a major event in the country's history and was an important step that would eventually lead to the formation of effective trade unions in Costa Rica, as the company was required to sign a collective agreement with its workers in 1938.
Historically, Costa Rica has generally enjoyed greater peace and more consistent political stability than many of its fellow Latin American nations. Since the late 19th century, however, Costa Rica has experienced two significant periods of violence. In 1917–19, General Federico Tinoco Granados ruled as a military dictator until he was overthrown and forced into exile. The unpopularity of Tinoco's regime led, after he was overthrown, to a considerable decline in the size, wealth, and political influence of the Costa Rican military. In 1948, José Figueres Ferrer led an armed | 717 |
FOX has announced that it is launching a new celebrity dating game show called The Choice, which is set to premiere this summer.
The show, which will be hosted by model and So You Think You Can Dance host Cat Deeley, will feature the world's most eligible celebrities in a competition to find true love out of a group of fellow single people.
The show's twist is that the celebrities can't see their prospective dates and, much like the singing show The Voice, the single celebrities will be sitting on rotating chairs with their backs turned to the contestants.
The rules hold that if the celebrity bachelor likes the information that a given contestant shares about their life, he pulls the "love handle" to swivel his chair around to bring him in visual contact with his prospective mate.
After the b<|fim_middle|> Broadcasting Company.
The Choice is currently slated to premiere June 7th on FOX. | achelors makes their selections, a "Speed Choice" round occurs in which each woman has to make a quick case to convince the bachelor to bring them into the final round.
In the final round, host Cat Deeley will prompt the final two ladies with a challenge question after which the celebrities then make "the choice" as to which woman they will select to take on a dream date.
"We wanted to put a new spin on the dating game show that gives celebrities 'the choice' of a lifetime and the chance to prove you really shouldn't judge a book by its cover," said Mike Darnell, President of Alternative Entertainment, Fox | 128 |
Spire View Housing Association prides itself in upholding strong community bonds throughout the area of Roystonhill, and that is something that can be seen by our local partnerships. Take a look below to find out more about the different organisations in Royston and how we work with them on a daily basis:
Royston Youth Action
Royston Youth Action is committed to enabling the people of Royston to identify and meet their own needs through setting up a dialogue and<|fim_middle|> Rhymer Street, G21 2NF
Partnership working is a huge part of our success story. We are very much a school community and I would like all members of our community to be involved in influencing and shaping the future direction of the school – for all of us to work together to keep this school great and try to make it even better. | self-help. This community organisation was set up with the needs of the local community's young people in mind. The vision is to have a strong organisation that builds on its successes and supports the development of young individuals through empowerment of education and experience. Royston Youth Action's strength is with the young people and the volunteers who make the organisation run, alongside the fantastic management committee.
Find out more about Royston Youth Action by visiting their website.
Keep up to date with everything Royston Youth Action on their Facebook page.
Rosemount Lifelong Learning
Rosemount Lifelong Learning was established as an organisation in 1998 with a mission to improve life chances through learning for children, young people and adults in the Royston and wider North Glasgow area.
Rosemount are passionate about supporting local people to reach their full potential. Their services encourage participants to raise aspirations, develop confidence and life skills not only for themselves but also their wider family and community.
Rosemount has a range of fantastic services from a Family Links project, Young Parents support, ESOL classes and literacy & numeracy as well as much more.
To find out more about Rosemount Lifelong Learning visit their website.
Keep up to date with everything Rosemount Lifelong Learning by following their Facebook page.
Rosemount Development Trust
Rosemount Development Trust was formed in 1989 by a group of residents who were concerned by the high levels of unemployment and poverty in the Royston area of Glasgow.
They provide high quality rental space while supporting the community - they are owned and managed by Rosemount Workspace LTD. (a subsidiary of Rosemount development Trust).
To keep up to date with everything Rosemount Development Trust check out their Facebook page.
Spire View Housing Assocaition works closely with all of the local primary and secondary school(s). Royston is an incredibly close-knit community and this is something we have fostered by keeping up-to-date with everything the schools are up to and supporting them in the best possible way we can. We have the local schools take part in our community clean-ups and litter picking events, and host Christmas and Summer fun day events for the children.
Royston Primary School
102 Royston Road, G21 2NU
In Royston Primary we wish to promote in children a positive attitude to work, self, others and the environment. We will provide a quality service for you and your child and, through close partnership with you, strive to make your child a successful learner, confident individual, responsible citizen and effective contributor.
St Roch's Primary & Hearing Impaired School
267 Royston Road, G21 2BS
In St Roch's Primary & Deaf School, we will provide a welcoming and friendly environment, which celebrates the diversity of our community. We are a nurturing school where everyone feels safe, happy and valued and all children are supported to reach their full potential. This is achieved through working together with children, their families and the community, based on a shared sense of direction.
St Mungos Primary School
45 Parson Street, G4 0PX
Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves; a saying that we hope rings true for all who walk through the St Mungo's doors. Whether you are with us for a short time or from our Nursery Class through to Primary 7, your child will be cherished and supported to grow as individuals.
Saint Rochs Secondary School
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Location: Bassett Way, Ramona. From the intersection of highway 67 and 78 in downtown Ramona (19 miles east of Escondido and <|fim_middle|> start, you reach the high point, marked by a bench where you can sit and enjoy a 360-degree view, relatively unobstructed by the power lines. From here, the simplest choice is to retrace your steps, although you can extend the hike in a number of ways. One option is to continue briefly to the north and loop back on a trail following an adjacent ridge. | 22 miles west of Julian) head south on 10th St., which almost immediately becomes San Vicente Rd., for a total of 5.6 miles. Turn left onto Arena Drive and take a quick left onto Spangler Peak Road. Go 0.4 mile and turn right onto Bassett Way. Park where available on the street near the dog park.
Ramona Peak (elevation 2,128) is the highest point in the 650-acre Simon County Preserve. This post describes the quickest approach to the summit, although additional trails can be explored for those who want a longer hike. Unfortunately this trip loses points due to its proximity to power lines and broken glass on the summit, but it's still a worthwhile stop if you're in the area.
From the east side of dog park on Bassett Way, follow a walking path north to the signed entrance to the preserve. The trail continues past some houses to an intersection about half a mile from the start. Make a hard left and begin climbing, picking up the majority of the hike's elevation gain (about 400 feet) in the next 0.6 mile. Despite the power lines, the views are impressive, notably Cuyamaca Peak in the distance to the east. You also get a nice aerial perspective on the San Diego Country Estates neighborhood. A final steep push brings you to the top of a ridge. Here your work gets easier as you turn right and head north. Now the views include almost all of western San Diego County. Mt. Woodson, with its trademark pyramid shape, is hard to miss.
At 1.8 miles from the | 338 |
Your leaders are a gift from God to you, according to Ephesians 4. Through leadership God intends to bring order, purpose, opportunity, discipline & approval. Leaders provide cohesion to community, purpose to people groups.
So it is no wonder that the enemy knows full well, to steal God's best blessings & plans from God's people he doesn't<|fim_middle|> them when they are weak, carry the load when they are weary. You are in each other's lives for a reason, so bless yourself by blessing your leader today. | need to attack everyone; just take out the leader.
In the verse above Ahithophel is advising Absalom's rebellion against King David, "Attack him while he is weary and weak… Then all those with him will flee." Strike the shepherd & the sheep will scatter.
"All those with him" it says, "will flee". Who are you with? Everyone should have some leader they are "with". Who is yours? If you haven't got one, then perhaps you're not in community as God has designed it.
Realise the enemy will try to steal from you, by attacking your leader when they are weak & weary. Pray for your leader today. Encourage them. Cover | 141 |
Accounts receivable loans are the selling of outstanding invoices or receivables at a lower price to a finance company. The rate at which a company can sell their invoices will be<|fim_middle|> thousand dollars, while others have the financial resources to support your business invoices up to ten million dollars. These are all important options to weigh when choosing a factoring service.
The use of an accounts receivable financing company can be a very advantageous. Such a service allows the business to focus on sales and operations, without having to worry about invoices getting paid on time. | anywhere from 70-90% of the original value of the available invoices.
The finance or factoring company will complete a credit analysis on the account debtors (Pryor), whose invoices the business plans to factor, and credit limits are assigned on a per account debtor basis. The advance rate that is assigned to the customer's account will depend on the age of the receivable and the account debtor's credit rating. Any accounts receivables that are over 90 days old are typically not financed. An adequate advance based on the unpaid invoices can provide substantial cash for the necessary bills and other costs assumed with running the supplier's business.
When a business takes the opportunity to outsource their accounts receivables to a financial company, it frees up their own resources, enabling the business to focus on more productive activities such as selling the company's products and services.
1. Is the immediate cash-on-hand really necessary for the survival of the company?
2. How does this action match the company's business plan?
3. How can the company take advantage of the opportunity in more ways than one?
4. Is the business ready for more cash and growth expansion?
5. Have other possible sources of business financing been explored?
6. What are the current trends in the industry? Is there a weak or dry spell on the horizon?
7. Is it really a favorable time to finance?
Carefully consider all options and reasons. For some businesses, the discount rate could mean the difference between survival of the business and going bankrupt. Spend the necessary time to dig deep to investigate the factoring companies being considered and their costs.
Using accounts receivable financing or factoring can buy a business time to eventually qualify for a regular line of credit from a financial institution. It can also give the business the necessary time and cash flow to boost income, so that the business can grow and thrive.
Be careful when selecting a receivables-finance agency. Pay close attention to the fine print of the contract; the factoring company's contract might include invoice minimums, monthly minimums, regular audits, facility fees, and other hidden fees. The business manager should make sure to notice and understand any excess or assumed costs or fees, when utilizing a receivables factoring company.
Once the facts of the various offers are known, the decision maker will be better prepared to know a good factoring company when they see one. With some receivable loan agencies, an account will be set up within three- to five- working days, while other providers may take up to 30 days. Some factoring companies can only finance your invoices up to a few | 535 |
When "retro" goes "video" everyone<|fim_middle|> Damron | 's akid again
I can remember the blurry-eyed euphoria of staring into a flat, two-dimensional screen, fighting vast minions of alien invaders and saving the civilized world from destruction. I even had the warrior calluses to prove I was one of the few, the proud, the new breed of escapist – I was a video game junkie.
Thankfully, through the use of beer and sex, I was able to kick my habit.
Occasionally, when that familiar desire (my tolerance to beer and sex increasing with age) to do heroically mighty deeds in the land of mini-pixels posses me, I have to journey to a special, magical land. That land sits in the murky mists of the past, of a youth long, long gone.
The first step to the past is by simply walking through the doors at 610 S.W. 12th. This is the bastion of classic video games, forefathers to Cruisin' U.S.A., Virtua Fighter and Area 51, this is Ground Kontrol Retrocade.
Ground Kontrol is a perfect mix of retro and street grunge. Games packed side by side in a semi-dark space – a perfect synergy for optimal game playing.
As their name suggests, Ground Kontrol Retrocade has all the classics.
Name it they've got it – Joust, Defender, Centipede, Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Missile Command, Paper Boy and Tron just to name a few.
So whether you want to climb tall buildings as a gorilla or be a knight riding a flying ostrich(?), Ground Kontrol's got the game for you.
They also don't just carry the fabulous retro video games, they've got pinball too, the classics of course.
And for the true fanatic, or a large group of them, Ground Kontrol can be rented. Prices are $375 a night weekdays, $575 a weekend or $150 hour anytime during the week.
They even have a stage and sound system, so if you're a band that wants to crank it up over some hot video action, this might be the spot for you.
If you need to take something home to remind you of the time when you had the high score on Missile Command, they've also got a full range of games and music for sale.
For information about games or renting the facilities call 503-796-9364. Store hours are Sunday through Thursday noon to 10 p.m. and Fri/Sat noon to midnight. There's another Ground Kontrol Retrocade located at 3409 S.E. Hawthorne, 503-235-3729.
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Changes in sensitivity patterns to selected antibiotics in Clostridium difficile in geriatric in-patients over an 18-month period
Lisa J. Drummond, Jodie McCoubrey, David George Emslie Smith, John M. Starr, Ian R. Poxton
School of Engineering & Physical Sciences
Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering
Clostridium difficile-associated disease continues to be a major problem in hospitals and long-term care facilities throughout the developed world. Administration of certain antibiotics such as<|fim_middle|> different times, showed changes in susceptibility patterns over time. The only major change in susceptibility over the time-period was in clindamycin resistance; some strains appeared to become more resistant while others became less resistant. No differences were seen in the MIC(50) and MIC(90) of the different S-types of C. difficile identified, although some S-types were present in very small numbers. There was no correlation between the antibiotics prescribed and susceptibility.
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KW - Anti-Bacterial Agents
KW - Clostridium difficile
KW - Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
KW - Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous
KW - Inpatients
KW - Microbial Sensitivity Tests
KW - Time Factors
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DO - 10.1099/jmm.0.05037-0
JO - Journal of Medical Microbiology
JF - Journal of Medical Microbiology
Drummond LJ, McCoubrey J, Smith DGE, Starr JM, Poxton IR. Changes in sensitivity patterns to selected antibiotics in Clostridium difficile in geriatric in-patients over an 18-month period. Journal of Medical Microbiology. 2003 Mar;52(3):259-263. https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.05037-0 | amoxycillin, oral cephalosporins and clindamycin is associated with the greatest risk of developing C. difficile disease. The two antibiotics used for treatment of C. difficile disease are vancomycin and metronidazole, to which there is currently very little resistance. Randomly selected isolates (186) from 90 patients being investigated during an 18-month epidemiological study into the disease were tested for their susceptibility to vancomycin, metronidazole, amoxycillin, clindamycin, cefoxitin and ceftriaxone by the NCCLS agar dilution method. There was a narrow range of MIC for the two treatment agents (vancomycin and metronidazole), from 0.5 to 4 microg ml(-1), with no evidence of resistance. All strains were resistant to cefoxitin (MIC 64-256 microg ml(-1)), the antibiotic used in most selective media. All strains were of similar sensitivity to amoxycillin (MIC(90)= 4 microg ml(-1)). Most strains were resistant to ceftriaxone (MIC > or = 64 microg ml(-1)) or of intermediate resistance (MIC > or = 32 microg ml(-1)), with only two sensitive strains (MIC 16 microg ml(-1)). Clindamycin resistance was common, with 67 % of strains resistant (MIC > or = 8 microg ml(-1)), 25 % with intermediate resistance (MIC > or = 4 microg ml(-1)) and only 8 % sensitive (MIC < or = 2 microg ml(-1)). Twelve isolates from six different patients had very high resistance to clindamycin (MIC > or = 128 microg ml(-1)). Multiple isolates from the same patient, taken at different times, showed changes in susceptibility patterns over time. The only major change in susceptibility over the time-period was in clindamycin resistance; some strains appeared to become more resistant while others became less resistant. No differences were seen in the MIC(50) and MIC(90) of the different S-types of C. difficile identified, although some S-types were present in very small numbers. There was no correlation between the antibiotics prescribed and susceptibility.
https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.05037-0
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
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abstract = "Clostridium difficile-associated disease continues to be a major problem in hospitals and long-term care facilities throughout the developed world. Administration of certain antibiotics such as amoxycillin, oral cephalosporins and clindamycin is associated with the greatest risk of developing C. difficile disease. The two antibiotics used for treatment of C. difficile disease are vancomycin and metronidazole, to which there is currently very little resistance. Randomly selected isolates (186) from 90 patients being investigated during an 18-month epidemiological study into the disease were tested for their susceptibility to vancomycin, metronidazole, amoxycillin, clindamycin, cefoxitin and ceftriaxone by the NCCLS agar dilution method. There was a narrow range of MIC for the two treatment agents (vancomycin and metronidazole), from 0.5 to 4 microg ml(-1), with no evidence of resistance. All strains were resistant to cefoxitin (MIC 64-256 microg ml(-1)), the antibiotic used in most selective media. All strains were of similar sensitivity to amoxycillin (MIC(90)= 4 microg ml(-1)). Most strains were resistant to ceftriaxone (MIC > or = 64 microg ml(-1)) or of intermediate resistance (MIC > or = 32 microg ml(-1)), with only two sensitive strains (MIC 16 microg ml(-1)). Clindamycin resistance was common, with 67 % of strains resistant (MIC > or = 8 microg ml(-1)), 25 % with intermediate resistance (MIC > or = 4 microg ml(-1)) and only 8 % sensitive (MIC < or = 2 microg ml(-1)). Twelve isolates from six different patients had very high resistance to clindamycin (MIC > or = 128 microg ml(-1)). Multiple isolates from the same patient, taken at different times, showed changes in susceptibility patterns over time. The only major change in susceptibility over the time-period was in clindamycin resistance; some strains appeared to become more resistant while others became less resistant. No differences were seen in the MIC(50) and MIC(90) of the different S-types of C. difficile identified, although some S-types were present in very small numbers. There was no correlation between the antibiotics prescribed and susceptibility.",
keywords = "Aged, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Clostridium difficile, Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial, Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous, Female, Humans, Inpatients, Male, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Time Factors",
author = "Drummond, {Lisa J.} and Jodie McCoubrey and Smith, {David George Emslie} and Starr, {John M.} and Poxton, {Ian R.}",
doi = "10.1099/jmm.0.05037-0",
journal = "Journal of Medical Microbiology",
publisher = "Society for General Microbiology",
Drummond, LJ, McCoubrey, J, Smith, DGE, Starr, JM & Poxton, IR 2003, 'Changes in sensitivity patterns to selected antibiotics in Clostridium difficile in geriatric in-patients over an 18-month period', Journal of Medical Microbiology, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 259-263. https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.05037-0
Changes in sensitivity patterns to selected antibiotics in Clostridium difficile in geriatric in-patients over an 18-month period. / Drummond, Lisa J.; McCoubrey, Jodie; Smith, David George Emslie; Starr, John M.; Poxton, Ian R.
In: Journal of Medical Microbiology, Vol. 52, No. 3, 03.2003, p. 259-263.
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Thursday, Oct 21 2021
Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed
Each week, KHN finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week's selections include stories on breast cancer, Graves' disease, toxic oil syndrome, covid and more.
The New York Times: For Some Breast Cancer Survivors, October Is The Cruelest Month
There's a quote from "Anne of Green Gables" that I'm already sick of hearing. "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers," said Anne. "It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?" No disrespect to one of literature's most beloved protagonists, but actually, that sounds pretty great. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I am a person who's had breast cancer, which means for me October is basically 31 days of low-key PTSD. My inbox is crammed with marketing emails featuring other survivors' stories. My hummus suddenly has a pink lid. I appreciate the focus on fund-raising, but the spotlight is a double-edged sword. And with 3.8 million breast cancer survivors in the United States, I'm not alone. (Burns, 10/15)
The Washington Post: What Is An 'Emotional Push-Up'? Exploring The Concept Of Mental Health Gyms
For a long time, Olivia Bowser relied on exercise to manage her mental health. Throughout college, and after moving to Los Angeles for her first job managing digital and e-commerce for a consumer packaged goods start-up, Bowser, 27, wrestled with anxiety, stress and feelings of loneliness. She tried to find a sense of calm and happiness by going to Pilates, Barry's Bootcamp and SoulCycle six days a week. It didn't work. ... Looking for answers, Bowser started attending yoga classes at night, using a meditation app and Googling journal prompts. As she began to find relief through these practices, she had an idea. What if she could take what she loved about her fitness classes and focus on strengthening the mind? (Achauer, 10/19)
The Washington Post: Her Unexplained Jitteriness And Weight Loss Were Telling Clues
For nearly a decade, Sherrill Franklin battled an elusive foe. She lost 22 pounds without trying. Her face was flushed, her neck felt sweaty and clammy, and she felt inexplicably jittery. At times Franklin, who lives in a rural community an hour west of Philadelphia, endured bouts of dizziness. It wasn't until a worrisome new problem landed her in the hospital that a specialist, one of nearly two dozen doctors she consulted, ordered a blood test that revealed the reason she felt so sick. (Boodman, 10/16)
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The Washington<|fim_middle|> both scientists and the lay press, fell quite a bit short of the ideal.Again, at the outset, we underscore that we are not "anti-mask." Rather, we are in favor of wearing the most protective type of facepiece for the setting—such as a non-fit tested respirator when spending more than a few minutes in a crowded, indoor space—and only in combination with other interventions. (Brosseau et al, 10/15)
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Trying to figure out if you're pregnant is probably as old as humanity itself. People had some pretty weird methods, like urinating on wheat and barley seeds (which kind of worked!), or mixing urine with wine for divination by a "wine prophet," or shoving an onion into a patient's vagina to see if it gave her bad breath. (This does NOT work, Gwyneth Paltrow. Do not recommend this.) These days, people who think they might be pregnant can pee on testing sticks that check for the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG). But nearly a century ago, when reliable HCG testing was being developed, it looked about as bizarre as the "wine prophet" and was so expensive only wealthy people could afford it. (Brockell, 10/17)
The New York Times: Ancient-DNA Researchers Set Ethics Guidelines For Their Work
In 2017, a team of scientists successfully extracted the DNA of members of a Pueblo community who were buried starting around 1,300 years ago in what is now Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. The DNA suggested that these people had lived in a matrilineal society, with power passed down through generations of mothers. The paper was a powerful example of how ancient DNA could illuminate the lives of people who died long ago. It was also a case study in poor ethics, some researchers contended at the time. They alleged that the scientists had failed to consult with local tribes and used culturally insensitive terms, such as referring to a tribal ancestor as "cranium 14." (Imbler, 10/20)
The Washington Post: Victims Of A 1981 Mass Cooking-Oil Poisoning Occupy Madrid Museum, Threaten Suicide
When a previously unrecorded illness erupted in Madrid in 1981, many people in Spain panicked. It took five weeks and dozens of deaths to understand the cause: adulterated cooking oil. The illness — which came to be known as "toxic oil syndrome" — killed hundreds and left thousands with chronic conditions, many severe. Four decades later, feeling that their grievances were not being heard, a few of those victims occupied a premier Madrid art museum, the Prado. If their demands were not met, they said, they would kill themselves within hours by ingesting pills. Six protesters were seen Tuesday standing before Diego Velázquez's famous painting "Las Meninas"; they held a sign that read: "40 years poisoned and condemned to live as in 1981 because of the abandonment of the government." (Westfall, 10/19)
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Looking Back on 25 Years of Service in Low-Resource Regions
By Allison Kozicharow; Edited by Staff
Vukovar, Croatia, was the the first place WiRED set up a computer network for use by students, teachers and local medical staff. (1997)
Two and a half decades ago, we installed our first computer network in Vukovar, Croatia, and connected the system through a primitive dial-up modem. At the time, we never imagined that this would launch an organization that, over the years, would provide computer-delivered health education programs to communities around the world. Since those early days, WiRED has provided technology-delivered health education programs in Africa, Central and South America, the Middle East and Eurasia. Our training material has been used extensively in East and South Asia, Oceana and other regions throughout the world.
We believe that our work has endured because our small, flexible organization has adapted processes and programs to deliver health content that effectively addresses community health needs in the low-income regions we serve. That has allowed our non-profit to address such diverse environments as conflict zones, communities in extreme poverty, populations facing deadly health conditions and in some cases locations so remote that villagers live today much as their ancestors have for centuries.
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Update from WiRED's Community Health Workers in Kenya⟶ | we will run Web stories from WiRED's archives, and, in this display of articles, demonstrate the capacity of our volunteers to pool their talents to improve community health conditions for people halfway around the world whom they likely will never meet.
In our search of the archives to select stories for this 25th year, we came across a bit of wisdom posted years ago on our first website. It now seems prescient. The view expressed in this statement has quietly guided our work from the very beginning.
"We at WiRED have learned that assistance programs are like ropes: you cannot push them, the people must pull them for themselves. Give the people the tools, the training, the ongoing help when and where they need it, and they will take the programs to places you could not have imagined for them."
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Studies have shown that meditation can change your neural circuitry in ways that make you more compassionate.
Are we morally obligated to meditate?
A growing body of neuroscience research shows that meditation can make us better to each other.
By Sigal Samuel Jan 10, 2020, 8:00am EST
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Eight weeks ago, I started meditating every day.
I knew I'd be going home to visit my family at the end of December, and well, I have a bad habit of regressing into a 13-year-old whenever I'm around them. All my old immaturities and anxieties get activated. I become a more reactive, less compassionate version of myself.
But this holiday season, I was determined to avoid fighting with my family. I would be kind and even-tempered throughout the visit. I knew that in order to have a chance in hell of achieving this, I'd need a secret weapon.
That's where the meditation came in.
Starting in 2005, Harvard neuroscientist Sara Lazar began to publish some mind-blowing findings: Meditation can literally change the structure of your brain, thickening key areas of the cortex that help you control your attention and emotions. Your brain — and possibly, by extension, your behavior — can reap the benefits if you practice meditation for half an hour a day over eight weeks.
Just eight weeks? I thought when I read the research. This seems too good to be true!
I was intrigued, if skeptical. Above all, I was curious to know more. And I wasn't the only one. By 2014, there had been enough follow-up studies to warrant a meta-analysis, which showed that meditators' brains tend to be enlarged in a bunch of regions, including the insula (involved in emotional self-awareness), parts of the cingulate cortex and orbitofrontal cortex (involved in self-regulation), and parts of the prefrontal cortex (involved in attention).
A host of other studies showed that meditation can also change your neural circuitry in ways that make you more compassionate, as well as more inclined to have positive feelings toward a victim of suffering and to see things from their perspective.
Further research suggested that meditation can change not only your internal emotional states but also your actual behavior. One study found that people made charitable donations at a higher rate after being trained in meditation for just two weeks. Another study found that people who get that same measly amount of meditation training are about three times more likely than non-meditators to give up their chair when they see someone on crutches and in pain.
Still skeptical, I fell down an internet rabbit hole and soon found many more neuroscientific studies. Looking closely at them, I did find that a fair number are methodologically flawed (more on that below). But there were many others that seemed sound. Taken together, the literature on meditation suggested that the practice can help us get better at relating to one another. It confronted me with evidence that a few weeks of meditation can improve me as a person.
I say "confronted" because the evidence really did feel like a challenge, even a dare. If it takes such a small amount of time and effort to get better at regulating my emotions, paying attention to other people, seeing things from their point of view, and acting altruistically, then … well … am I not morally obligated to do it?
The science behind mindfulness meditation and how we pay attention to others
The word "meditation" actually refers to many different practices. In the West, the most well-known set of practices is "mindfulness meditation." When people talk about that, they're typically thinking of a practice for training our attention.
Here's how Jon Kabat-Zinn, a scientist who helped popularize mindfulness in the West, defines it: "Mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally."
And here's what mindfulness meditation practice often involves: You sit down, close your eyes, and focus on feeling your breath go in and out. When you feel your attention drifting to the thoughts that inevitably arise, you notice, and then gently bring your attention back to your breath.
Meditators show reduced activity in a crucial brain region: the amygdala.
This combination of attention training and direct observation is the basic practice. Sounds simple, right? But according to some studies, it can have profound effects on your brain.
In a 2012 study, people who were new to meditation underwent eight weeks of mindful attention training, practicing for around four hours each week. Before the training, they got fMRIs, scans that show where brain activity is occurring. While they were in the MRI scanner, they viewed a series of pictures, some of which were upsetting (like a photo of a burn victim). After eight weeks of mindfulness meditation, when they viewed the upsetting pictures in the scanner again, they showed reduced activity in a crucial brain region: the amygdala.
The amygdala is our brain's threat detector. It scans our environment for danger, and when it perceives a threat, it sets off our fight-flight-freeze response, which includes releasing stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. It glues our attention to the threat, making it hard for us to focus on anything else.
What's striking about the study is that the reduced amygdala activity lasted even when the participants were in their ordinary baseline state — in other words, not actively practicing mindfulness. This suggests the effects of meditation "may result in enduring changes in mental function," as the authors wrote. A control<|fim_middle|> decades studying meditation in the lab, told me. "But empathy by itself can be toxic."
Amazingly, compassion — because it fosters positive feelings — actually attenuates the empathetic distress that can cause burnout, as neuroscientist Tania Singer has demonstrated in her lab.
In other words, practicing compassion or loving-kindness doesn't just help us make other people happier; it makes us happier, too.
"Loving-kindness also boosts the connections between the brain's circuits for joy and happiness and the prefrontal cortex, a zone critical for guiding behavior," Davidson writes in Altered Traits, his authoritative 2017 book on the neuroscience of meditation, which he co-authored with Daniel Goleman. "And the greater the increase in the connection between these regions, the more altruistic a person becomes following compassion meditation training."
In fact, one fMRI study showed that in very experienced practitioners (think Tibetan yogis), compassion meditation actually triggers activity in the brain's motor centers, preparing their bodies to physically move in order to help whoever is suffering, even as they're still lying in the brain scanner.
Given such evidence, Jinpa believes it's clear that we can strengthen our compassion through concrete practices, just as we strengthen our muscles through exercise. Working out of Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education in 2009, he created the Compassion Cultivation Training, an eight-week course designed with input from neuroscientists and psychologists. Blending formal meditation with other contemplative practices, the course is now taught around the world.
Why thinking in terms of "moral obligation" may not be appropriate here
After I started wondering if we're morally obligated to meditate, I soon realized that's a very Western and Judeo-Christian way of thinking about it. Growing up, I'd had to memorize the Ten Commandments and a long litany of sins, and my mind is still conditioned to think in terms of commandments and obligations.
But Eastern traditions like Buddhism or Confucianism aren't grounded in commandments that come from a divine being. Among Buddhists, you're more likely to hear about "skillful" and "unskillful" means for minimizing suffering and maximizing the possibility for liberation.
"The 'everybody ought' language — that wouldn't be the language they'd use," Evan Thompson, a University of British Columbia professor who specializes in Asian philosophical traditions, told me. "The idea is that in order to lead a good life, we need to engage in certain self-cultivation practices," such as training our minds to calm down so we can pay attention to the present.
Practicing compassion or loving-kindness doesn't just help us make other people happier; it makes us happier, too.
Plus, whereas the language of oughts and obligations suggests a prescriptive or proselytizing attitude, Buddhist tradition has generally been more interested in inviting people to try meditation and discover its benefits for themselves, rather than in mandating adherence. (Not all people who identify as Buddhist practice meditation.)
Jinpa said it would be naive to think someone could get everyone to meditate. "That won't happen," he told me. "So I'm interested in promoting the idea of compassion training that wouldn't necessarily involve formal sitting meditation." He pointed to his Compassion Cultivation Training as an example, saying it's likelier to be widely adopted in part because it's presented as secular.
Meanwhile, to Davidson, the neuroscientist, the virtues you cultivate by meditating are so crucial as to make the practice feel almost obligatory.
"I see this as a public health need," he told me, using the analogy of brushing our teeth — something that takes only a few minutes a day, and something that virtually everyone does because we see it as important for our physical hygiene.
"I think most people would agree their minds are just as important as their teeth. If we spent such a short time on our mind as we do on brushing our teeth, this world would be a different place," Davidson said, because our emotional well-being would be improved. "So there is some sense of a moral obligation, almost."
But there's a caveat: For a small minority of people, meditation can actually provoke adverse effects, like intense mental distress or impaired physical functioning. Brown University psychologist Willoughby Britton is studying these cases in a project called "Varieties of Contemplative Experience." More research is still needed, but given that meditation practices might precipitate or exacerbate challenging conditions in some people, it would be wrong to say that absolutely everyone would do well to meditate.
Is meditation really better than other activities at making us better people?
Scientists are publishing more and more studies on meditation each year. But many of these studies are beset by methodological flaws, leading to overhyped results. Davidson calls this "neuromythology."
Some studies fail to replicate in other labs. Others fail to include active controls — they don't test the potential benefits of a meditation regimen against those of a different regimen, like exercise or health education classes. Still others fail to disaggregate the data of participants who are relatively inexperienced with meditation and those who've had enough hours of practice to be considered experts.
Even though there are methodological issues with some of the studies, others do hold up. And when you consider the hundreds of studies altogether, there is substantial evidence that meditation can help us become better people.
So, the next question is: How much better? Is it worth spending hours on meditation when you could just get out there and start volunteering?
"My response to that is, why pose it as an either/or question? I think both are important," Davidson said. "I'd say the biggest bang for your buck would be to engage in a compassion meditation practice in your mind while you're volunteering."
"If we spent such a short time on our mind as we do on brushing our teeth, this world would be a different place."
When we think about meditation, we often picture ourselves sitting on a cushion with our eyes closed. But it doesn't have to look that way. It can just be a state of mind with which we do whatever else it is we're doing: volunteering, commuting to work, drinking a cup of tea, washing the dishes.
In fact, the Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh is fond of saying, "Washing the dishes is like bathing a baby Buddha. The profane is the sacred. Everyday mind is Buddha's mind."
As for me, I've found that I have enough bandwidth at the end of the day to sit down and close my eyes for a few minutes. So, for eight weeks, I sat in meditation every night.
Then I went home to visit my family.
I'm happy to report that we had our best, calmest visit in years. By the end of the holiday break, the number of fights I'd gotten into was a glorious, miraculous zero.
It's not that all of my reactive or unkind impulses magically disappeared. But whenever I felt myself starting to get snippy, I went into my old childhood bedroom and closed the door. I took a deep breath, and recalling the heaps of scientific evidence that had confronted me, I did what seemed to me like the reasonable response, a response so easy and so beneficial that it felt like a no-brainer.
Reader, I meditated.
Reporting for this article was supported by Public Theologies of Technology and Presence, a journalism and research initiative based at the Institute of Buddhist Studies and funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.
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In another, similarly designed study, participants showed reduced amygdala activity in response to upsetting pictures after practicing mindfulness for 20 minutes per day over just one week. However, the lessened amygdala reactivity only showed while they were engaged in mindfulness, suggesting we need more continued practice if we want the changes to be permanent.
"Mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally," says scientist Jon Kabat-Zinn.
To see why attention-training can be helpful when it comes to treating others better, think back to a time when you saw someone in distress. Maybe it was a friend who wanted to talk about his painful breakup, or a colleague who was caught in a swirl of anxiety, or a homeless person who needed something to eat.
If you were distracted by your own distressing thoughts — if your amygdala was activating like crazy — you may have had a hard time putting your issues aside long enough to deal with theirs. You may not have even noticed that they needed something from you until it was too late.
But if your mind is undisturbed, you'll probably have an easier time paying attention to what the present moment asks of you: to help this person who's in front of you, right here, right now.
"That's common sense," said Thupten Jinpa, a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and the main English translator to the Dalai Lama. "I grew up as a monk, so for me, the most powerful evidence is really the anecdotal evidence in my own personal life."
But as an academic with a PhD in religion, Jinpa doesn't rely only on common sense or personal experience — he also works with psychologists on scientific research. In 2015, he co-authored a study titled "A wandering mind is a less caring mind," which found that reducing mind-wandering through meditation was associated with increased caring behavior, both for oneself and for others.
Although Jinpa believes mindfulness is important, he told me that when it comes to making us more altruistic, there's another type of practice that's even more effective: loving-kindness or compassion meditation.
The science behind loving-kindness and compassion meditation and their effects on altruism
Two other meditation practices — loving-kindness meditation and its close cousin, compassion meditation — have interesting science behind them, too. These practices, which involve concentrated attention to cultivate certain qualities, have been growing in popularity in the West over the past couple of decades thanks to American teachers like Sharon Salzberg. And evidence shows they can change your neural circuitry even faster than mindfulness meditation.
The meditation for loving-kindness typically looks like this: You repeat certain phrases in your head, such as "may I be safe," "may I be healthy," or "may my life unfold with ease." After you've wished these things for yourself, you widen the circle of caring, wishing the same things for the people you love, then for people you feel neutrally about, and then for all living beings — including those who get on your nerves or have hurt you. (One compassion meditation works much the same way, except instead of wishing that people be safe and healthy and full of ease, you wish that they be free from suffering.)
So, how does loving-kindness or compassion meditation affect the brain, and in turn, affect our behavior?
Before we answer that question, it's important to note that loving-kindness and compassion meditation — which involve cultivating love for people who are suffering — are not the same thing as empathy, even though we often conflate these concepts.
"A little empathy is important. But empathy by itself can be toxic."
Empathy is when you share the feelings of other people. If other people are feeling pain, you feel pain, too — literally.
Not so with compassion. In a 2013 study at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, researchers put volunteers in a brain scanner, showed them gruesome videos of people suffering, and asked them to empathize with the sufferers. The fMRI showed activated neural circuits centered around the insula — exactly the circuits that get activated when we're in pain ourselves.
Compare that with what happened when the researchers took a different group of volunteers and gave them eight hours of training in compassion, then showed them the graphic videos. A totally different set of brain circuits lit up: those for love and warmth, the sort a parent feels for a child.
When we feel empathy, we feel like we're suffering, and that's upsetting. In the short term, it can cause us to tune out to help alleviate our own feelings of distress. And in the long term, it can cause serious burnout, as many a nurse and social worker can attest.
"A little bit of empathy is important, because we need to be able to detect another person's suffering in order to be helpful," Richard Davidson, a prominent University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist who's spent | 1,014 |
Seychelles, Mauritius Look for Ways to Amplify Each Other's Voices On Climate Change
Mauritius and Seychelles will look at ways both island nations can protect their marine resources and speak in one voice on climate change issues, a Mauritian minister said on Monday.
The Minister of Housing, Land Use Planning of Mauritius, Steven Obeegadoo, who is in Seychelles on a working visit, paid a courtesy call to President Danny Faure at State House in Victoria, the capital.
Obeegadoo and Faure talked about different subjects especially with regards to the sea and its resources, given that both countries are situated in the Indian Ocean.
"As islanders, we look to the sea for sustenance. It is important that we find common grounds to protect our marine resources for the future generation. We should at all cost prevent over-exploitation of our marine resources," the Mauritian minister told reporters.
Another subject touched upon during the meeting was the issue of climate change, and Obeegadoo said being surrounded by vast waters, both countries are vulnerable to climate change.
"Often our voice is not heard properly, but if we come together as one, we can help to convince the world about the danger of climate change," he said.
The Mauritian minister and Faure also talked about land and housing and how both countries have similar problems.
"With limited access to land, it is always a challenge to allocate land and houses to the<|fim_middle|> Modern and Sustainable Mauritius for 2020, Says Prime Minister Jugnauth
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The visit was also an opportunity for Obeegadoo to convey his best wishes to Faure on behalf of the Mauritian Prime Minister Pravin Jugnauth and convey the hope to strengthen the good relationship that exists between both countries.
Obeegadoo told reporters that President Faure and himself met when they were both Minister of Education in their respective countries.
"Since then we have built a good friendship and we have worked alongside each other on several international platforms namely the Commonwealth and those related to education. Thus, it is with immense pleasure for us to meet again to catch up on all that we have achieved over the years," he said.
Obeegadoo said he will also take time on this visit to explore the islands of Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean.
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The Page 99 Test: Foreigners and Their Food. | 99: David Freidenreich's "Foreigners and Their Food"
The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law by David M. Freidenreich.
Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize "us" and "them" through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. David M. Freidenreich analyzes the significance of food to religious formation, elucidating the ways ancient and medieval scholars use food restrictions to think about the "other." Freidenreich illuminates the subtly different ways Jews, Christians, and Muslims perceive themselves, and he demonstrates how these distinctive self-conceptions shape ideas about religious foreigners and communal boundaries. This work, the first to analyze change over time across the legal literatures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, makes pathbreaking contributions to the history of interreligious intolerance and to the comparative study of religion.
Read more about Foreigners and Their Food at the University of California Press website.
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Q: Create common SQL operations in Java? Is there a way of creating a sheet cheat in the form of an array of Strings in Java?
This array will hold all the queries to be executed later on, for CRUD operations.
I know in javascript we can do this :
export default queryArray = {
"INSERT" : "INSERT<|fim_middle|> which has the key as enum constant.
I remind the Solution 2 even easier, You can use just enum which will hold appropriate value per each constant.
The code will look something like:
import java.util.EnumMap;
import java.util.Map;
enum SqlCommands {
SELECT("SELECT * FROM ?"),
INSERT("INSERT INTO ?() VALUES()"),
UPDATE("UPDATE ? SET ?=? WHERE ?"),
DELETE("DELETE FROM ? WHERE ?");
private String sqlOperation;
SqlCommands(String sqlOperation) {
this.sqlOperation = sqlOperation;
}
public String getSqlOperation() {
return sqlOperation;
}
}
public class SqlTemplatesDemo {
public static final EnumMap<SqlCommands, String> map = new EnumMap<>(SqlCommands.class);
static {
map.put(SqlCommands.SELECT, "SELECT * FROM ?");
map.put(SqlCommands.INSERT, "INSERT INTO ?() VALUES()");
map.put(SqlCommands.UPDATE, "UPDATE ? SET ?=? WHERE ?");
map.put(SqlCommands.DELETE, "DELETE FROM ? WHERE ?");
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Solution 1:");
for (Map.Entry<SqlCommands, String> entry : map.entrySet()) {
System.out.printf("Key: [%s] for value: [%s]\n", entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
}
System.out.println("\nSolution 2:");
for (SqlCommands sqlCommand : SqlCommands.values()) {
System.out.printf("Enum key: [%s], and value: [%s]\n", sqlCommand, sqlCommand.getSqlOperation());
}
}
}
With output:
Solution 1:
Key: [SELECT] for value: [SELECT * FROM ?]
Key: [INSERT] for value: [INSERT INTO ?() VALUES()]
Key: [UPDATE] for value: [UPDATE ? SET ?=? WHERE ?]
Key: [DELETE] for value: [DELETE FROM ? WHERE ?]
Solution 2:
Enum key: [SELECT], and value: [SELECT * FROM ?]
Enum key: [INSERT], and value: [INSERT INTO ?() VALUES()]
Enum key: [UPDATE], and value: [UPDATE ? SET ?=? WHERE ?]
Enum key: [DELETE], and value: [DELETE FROM ? WHERE ?]
A: Just for the sake of completeness, I'd like to mention that java 9+ provides a convenient way to build a map that looks similar to your js snippet:
static final Map<String, String> SQL_CHEAT_SHEET = Map.of(
"INSERT", "INSERT INTO ...",
"SELECT", "SELECT FROM ..."
);
| INTO TABLE (id,name,age) VALUES (NULL,"alex",23)",
"SELECT" : "SELECT * FROM TABLE"
}
And then We can use it like so:
queryArray["INSERT"]...
Is this achievable in Java?
A: The data structure you use is a map and Java provides an implementation with the HashMap class. In combination with static fields you might achieve that.
A: Java doesn't have something like an example from your JS snippet.
However, Solution 1 for your question is possible to do with a Map<Key, Value>.
Where Key will be CRUD operation and value appropriate SQL command.
For convenience, I will suggest creating enum for your SQL keys.
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UMD's Justin Richards Signs with New York Rangers
Since 2007, Richards is the 21st Bulldog to leave UMD early to go pro.
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NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. – In his freshman year, Justin Richards scored a grand total of zero goals. Two years later, he's become a<|fim_middle|>Duluth Armory Left Out Of Gov. Walz's Bonding Recommendations
St. Mary's Medical Center to Be Demolished When Vision Northland Completed | two-time NCHC Defensive Forward of the Year and now, his career will continue in the pros.
Richards has signed an entry-level contract with the New York Rangers. He says the team reached out to him last week and after talking with the head coach and general manager, he decided that New York was the best fit.
"Every player kind of just dreams of this opportunity ever since they were young. I never really gave up on my dream. Yes there were some setbacks. I think I learned some valuable things along the way and the championships and the team success definitely helped with that, too," Richards said.
This past season, Richards served as the assistant team captain, racking up a career-high 14 goals. The Columbus, Ohio native says the thing he will miss the most is the people who made it fun to go to school, play hockey and live in Duluth.
"Two championships in two years and we're kind of right on pace for a third one there. Definitely a very hard decision, but I just felt that it was time for me to move on. I'll forever cherish my time in Duluth and I'll be a Bulldog forever," said Richards.
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– Mississauga's Scott MacHattie named Canada's Best Speed Skating Story –
After five weeks and over 35,000 online votes from across the country, the title of Canada's Best Speed Skating Story was awarded to Scott MacHattie for his story entitled, "Speed Skating – The Inclusive Sport," at a gala evening hosted by Catriona Le May Doan.
Overwhelmed by the appreciation of the audience, Scott made his way up to the stage with his coach Kelly Brennan close behind to accept his award from Catriona.
With over 50 members of Canada's national speed skating team in attendance, including Guest Judges Jeremy Wotherspoon and Jessica Gregg along with last year's winner Alastair Starke, the second annual ING Video Awards Party was an opportunity to bring Canada's best speed skaters together with Canada's best speed skating stories.
"When we began the search for Canada's best speed skating story, the goal was to provide young skaters from across the country with a voice – a way of building a speed skating community by sharing their love for the sport. I can see why Scott's story resonated with Canadians – he's an inspiring young athlete with Down Syndrome who has become a real trail blazer in the sport of speed skating," said Catriona.
Following the announcement, World Champion speed skater Jeremy Wotherspoon, who sat beside Scott during the awards party, commented on Scott's winning story.
"I really enjoyed Scott's video. His message that speed skating is an inclusive sport proves anyone of any age or ability can enjoy speed skating, even at the competitive level, like he has. He's a great kid and I'm proud of him."
Scott took home prizes from Timex, General Mills, Bell and Canon along with a brand new pair of speed skates, while his coach Kelly Brennan accepted a $5,000 cheque from ING for Scott's home club, the Oakville Speed Skating Association.
Tori Spence and her story, "Owen's Oval," about her late father's work to create a speed skating legacy in Kamloops was also a deserving finalist and garnered Runner-Up recognition.
"Tori was deserving of the title as well. The simplicity of her story about her father's vision – seeing inukshuks and long track ovals in BC's future long before the Olympics – was deeply moving," said Catriona. "It represents the best of what the sport of speed skating can do for a community."
Catriona Le May Doan also announced the recipient of her Most Inspirational Story.
"Brigitte Patenaude's story, 'Age is Just a Number,' really shows that you're never too old to skate fast and turn left," added Catriona.
The final ING Speed Skating Challenge award winners are now online at www.INGSpeedSkatingChallenge.com.
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• Club: Oakville Speed Skating Association
• Story title: Speed Skating – The Inclusive Sport
• This son, brother, teammate and friend has a truly inspiring story to share with Canada in "Speed Skating – The Inclusive Sport." Scott is an athlete with Down Syndrome and his story demonstrates that speed skating is one of the true inclusive sports.
Runner-up: Tori Spence
• Club: Kamloops River City Racers Speed Skating Club
• Story title: Owen's Oval
• Her video, "Owen's Oval," is about her father: a man with a vision, seeing inukshuks and long track ovals in BC's future well before the 2010 Games were on their way. His inspiring work to create a speed skating legacy in his community will never be forgotten.
Catriona's Most Inspirational: Brigitte Patenaude
• Club: Ottawa Pacers Speed Speed Skating Club
• Story title: Age is Just a Number
• She may have had a late entry into the sport of speed skating, but Brigitte has experienced just as much fun and comraderie during her short time in the sport, proving that "Age is Just a Number."
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Patients' views of priority setting in health care: an interview survey in one practice
BMJ 1995; 311 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.311.7013.1137 (Published 28 October 1995) Cite this as: BMJ 1995;311:1137
Andrew Dicker, general practitionera,
David Armstrong, reader in sociology as applied to medicineb
a93 Cambridge Street, London SW1V 4PY
bDepartment of Public Health Medicine, United Medical and Dental School of Guy's and St Thomas's, Guy's Campus, London SE1 9RT
Correspondence to: Dr Dicker.
Objectives: To explore the assumptions underlying consumers' responses to questions of resource priorities in the NHS.
Design: Qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with a heterogeneous sample of 16 patients drawn from a general practice.
Results: Interviewees were not persuaded that they had a legitimate role to play in the prioritisation of services. They supported the principle of equity and were reluctant to use their own personal needs as a basis for resource allocation; instead they argued from what they perceived to be the needs of others.
Conclusions: Paradoxically, surveys of consumers' views on health care priorities probably do not elicit the personal ideas of respondents but tap into a more general ideological position closer to an earlier collectivist notion of health care.
Determining how health care resources should be allocated--often termed rationing or priority setting--has traditionally been carried out by health care personnel, usually doctors but increasingly managers. Because priority setting entails assigning value to different outcomes, however, the consumers of health care have a legitimate claim to be involved in the process of allocating resources.1
Mechanisms for involving local people in purchasing decisions are still evolving. The commonest approach has been to use surveys in which questionnaires invite respondents to choose between listed services.2 3 Questionnaires assume, however, that the meaning of any question is the same for everyone, researchers and researched alike, yet there is no evidence that the general public shares a community of meaning about priority setting, never mind differences in views about specific services. Indeed, Bowling and her colleagues recognised these limitations of questionnaire surveys and suggested that the only valid way of hearing the voice of the public may be by one to one interviews.3
Developing some understanding about how the public approaches the problem of determining priorities is therefore important. Accordingly, semistructured interviews were held with a small smaple of the patients of one inner city general practice. The interviews focused on the source and content of the information that helps shape the thoughts, beliefs and values that in their turn help to determine individuals' opinions about the priorities within health services.
The study was carried out in a two handed inner city practice. The practice list covers an ethnically mixed population, about a quarter of whom attract Jarman deprivation allowances. The practice has an annual patient turnover of 30%, the stable 70% tending to be long term Pimlico residents, often with several generations of family locally. A sample of 20 patients were invited to take part in a semistructured interview about their views on how health services should be determined. The sample was chosen to reflect the broad heterogeneity of the practice population. In keeping with sampling strategies in qualitative research there was no attempt to obtain a representative population but rather a range of types of patient attending the surgery. In the event, the sample chosen ranged in age from 20 to 73, with a cross section of local ethnic and social class characteristics. Four patients declined to take part, one phoned in unwell, one said she was too busy, one simply failed to attend, and the last was a male drug addict who "forgot" about the appointment.
The invitation to the interview included a copy of a handout that explained the objectives of the interview together with a ranked list of nine different services available in hospital and the community (derived from a study by Bowling et al3). The handout emphasised that the task would be to talk about why the interviewee thought that one service deserved greater priority than another. The interviewees were asked to return between two and three days later. The interviews took place at the surgery during the first six months of 1994. They were tape recorded and subsequently transcribed. Each interview<|fim_middle|> more a perceived social ethos of equity rather than a personal view. Consumers may have an important part to play in the more consumer oriented NHS of the 1990s but until they can accept that this role requires them to express personal preferences public consultation exercises are, ironically, likely to reflect a collectivist approach to health care provision.
This paper is based on work submitted for the masters degree in general practice at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, University of London (AD). The Royal Society of Medicine kindly contributed a bursary which defrayed the costs of secretarial time.
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To identify important recurring themes in the interviews the transcripts were indexed numerically and analysed line by line. Themes identified from the transcripts were recorded on the vertical axis of a large grid with the transcript index on the horizontal axis so that recurrent themes from the whole sample could be identified. This form of analysis enables the concerns of the interviewees to emerge, rather than those of the researcher.4
Although all respondents attempted to engage in the task of discussing their own priorities in relation to the list provided, they found it difficult. The list provided a point of departure and reference point for the interview but the main issues that emerged, and the ones reported here, related to the ways in which the task of priority setting was approached. For example, despite the initial request to think about how the list of services should be ordered, no interviewee was fully persuaded that the process of rationing or allocating priorities to health services should happen at all.
"Well for starters there shouldn't have to be these decisions to be made! For a start they should be able to put enough money in instead of spending it all on them other things, like going to war in the different countries."
On the other hand, there was a feeling that if it had to be done, it was not a job for themselves, but perhaps for someone else.
"Where I come from it's a working class area and you find that people aren't interested in what's going on around them at all. All they're interested in is getting through the daily grind of life and anything else outside, they'd just rather keep it outside, because they're having such a bad time anyway of getting through life and you find that they don't want to be bothered by it."
Doctors in general, and general practitioners in particular, were seen as useful advocates for the public. An unemployed school teacher believed that general practitioners were the focal point of their communities and therefore in the best position to reflect the needs of their patients. There was little support for the involvement of politicians in the process as they were judged too distant from the issues to be informed, and neither did they listen to the public.
"Yes, but the government doesn't listen to what the public think, that's the awful thing, you know, I mean because otherwise the health service wouldn't have become this 'shopping ground.'"
The notion of equity in prioritising services received widespread support. The idea that any individual or group within society could be more deserving than another was consistently denied; however, some age discrimination was evident. Paediatric services received wide support, but needs of the elderly received little sympathy. This was supported by the observation that most people's grandmothers would prefer resources to be spent on the young rather than the old.
"Services for the elderly and chronically ill, that's a complete drain on the National Health 'innit really, and doesn't actually get you anywhere 'cause it doesn't…."
Interviewees were very reluctant to justify their views on the basis of personal needs. In answer to a question about the influence of her own needs a middle aged woman with arterial disease said:
"No, I didn't even think of it that way. I guess because I am not half dying … I suppose maybe if I was … if I had suffered some way … but for me whatever I have needed I have got. But that doesn't mean everybody else does … I have seen people around me who have had to wait. I never even thought of myself there."
Equally, an elderly woman who felt threatened by the absence of local nursing homes, of which she was convinced she would have a need in due course, was apologetic in expressing her own needs:
"That's selfish probably, but it is very important as there aren't the residential homes … unfortunately there are so many of us … I think they are living so long … people living so long, it's dreadful."
The only time that a "personal" view was expressed was with reference to unsatisfactory experiences of a particular service. For example, when individuals felt personally let down or had witnessed other people not receiving a service for which they felt they had a need (particularly community services), then this was seen as a priority area. The corollary of this was that if a particular service was perceived to be fulfilling its current expectations then it became less of a priority. On the subject of community nursing a 20 year old pregnant woman said:
"I mean I'm not sure, 'cause I haven't really had much to do with that, but that seems to be a pretty good service already … obviously they could do with more money, and that, but like I think they do a pretty good job."
The single most important attribution that interviewees identified as a determinant of their opinions was contact with visible unmet need. This was expressed most frequently in the context of encounters in the community with people who were psychiatrically ill, abusers of alcohol and those who were homeless and begging. Consequently there was a heightened awareness of the inadequacy of the provision of services to cope with inner city problems, including mental illness and local hospital closures.
Prioritising health services: recurring themes
Difficulty of engaging with the task
Lack of acceptance that prioritisation should be necessary
Belief that doctors should act as the public's advocates
No faith in politicians' views on priorities
Bias against provision for elderly (not good value for money)
Reluctance or inability to voice personal needs
Importance of personal experience of a service
Importance of contact with visible unmet need
Importance of perceived needs of others
In general, interviewees were more comfortable justifying their opinions on the basis of the needs of others. The apparent unacceptability of expressing priorities according to personal need seemed to be resolved by the altruistic consideration of others' immediate and potential needs. Even consideration of a personal need for a specific service in the future was usually expressed in the second or third person.
"If you happened to develop breast cancer or something and you hadn't been screened properly, then you would think that was probably more important at the time … everyone isn't completely selfless …"
The box summarises the recurring themes from the interviews.
Despite published reports of how respondents would and would not allocate priorities to certain services, this qualitative study shows the difficulties surrounding the evaluative process. In part people seem to lack the confidence to make such judgments, but there also seems a strong scepticism about the need for choosing priorities in health care. This may be a result of the long history in Britain of health care being outside the market and therefore not subjected to its discipline of opportunity costs. Moreover, the paternalism inherent in the way health care has traditionally been provided may account for the belief that doctors remain the best equipped to make these difficult decisions--if they have to be made at all. (The confidence expressed by these respondents that general practitioners could make these decisions on their behalf may, however, simply reflect the particular circumstances of this study.)
The respondents' reluctance to use their own needs as a basis for determining preferences was balanced by the use of others' needs as justification for service priorities. This may be a rhetorical device to avoid appearing selfish or a genuine concern for the welfare of others, particularly friends and relatives. At the very least the unwillingness to claim personal needs as the basis of service preferences seems to reflect a continuing element of "social welfare" in thinking about health care. The internal market may be a reality, but these interviewees were reluctant to see themselves as direct consumers in that marketplace.
The importance of the needs of others was further brought out in the way that local salience influenced views. Certainly the needs of friends and relatives are likely to be known, but it is difficult to identify the needs of others other than through everyday contacts and experiences "on the street." This emphasis on the local environment also found expression in the way that local hospital closures coloured assessments about health service priorities.
Overall, these findings challenge the idea that local voices should have great prominence in decisions about health resource allocations. These interviewees felt ill equipped to become involved in the process and were reluctant to give opinions based on self interest. This broad position might reflect the legacy of a paternalistic health service in which patients were disempowered, but it also means that consumer consultation exercises that use highly structured questionnaires must have doubtful validity. Although it might be possible to persuade respondents to tick a preference box, such a judgment seems to reflect | 1,716 |
This October we<|fim_middle|> surprises and activities. We started the weekend with a welcome dinner in a very special location in the city by the girls of La Casa del Vacío. The menu was a tasty pumpkin soup, filled roasted peppers with fish, olives, cheeses, etc., all accompanied with great wines of the region and wonderful music played by a local guitarist.
After that, the days went by with a mix of early mornings of Vinyasa yoga followed with healthy organic breakfasts, strolls around the city and the beach, more pintxos, and some shopping for the participants of the retreat.
Finally we closed this weekend with an amazing pintxo tour in the city leaded by Alex of San Sebastian trips.
Here's a couple of pics of those days!!
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Fuego, a taqueria situated among one of Cape Town's most frequented food hub districts, provides more than just decadent, dreamy interiors – which is what probably first grabs your attention. After a few rounds of overwhelming mouthfuls of amazing foods, it's this delicious taste of Latin cuisine that will have us shortly returning again, and again. Fuego is a place where two people can happily spend an hour or two simply enjoying each other's company, while bonding over their shared fulfillment of great food and unique ambiance. With the soft, but welcomed sounds of Spanish lyrics and ambient melodies softly belting out in the background, this evocation of Latin culture is alluring to say the least.
For starters, we tried the respective Carne and Vegetales tacos; deciding shortly thereafter to try one more round to completely satisfy us (at which point we ordered the Pollo tacos). Immediately it seemed we had both chosen our favorite; our mutual top pick was the Pollo, both for its rich flavor and complexity, whilst the Carne went head-to-head with the avocado and black bean Vegetales – a delight thanks to the delicious toppings of seasoned crispy potatoes and charred corn.
If you simply cannot go without that decadent final act to close off your eating experience (yes, I know that's just a<|fim_middle|> Churros (served with your choice of either chocolate or caramel dipping sauce). Before the enticing aroma of caffeine begins to fill up the quaint taqueria, be sure to pair you churros with one of their caffeine offerings.
The final verdict? A food experience that transcends its surroundings while completely delighting the senses. | long-winded way of saying "dessert" but it's apt given the experience we've had here), then try their sugar and cinnamon | 28 |
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – City officials revealed final renderings for Patten Parkway renovations in Chattanooga on Monday at The Camp House.
The renderings showed what the area will look like when<|fim_middle|> And it's also, as I said, more in keeping with the historic intention of the original space that was used as a market," CDOT Administrator Blythe Bailey said.
The next step is for the city council to vote on a contract for construction.
Construction could be an inconvenience for businesses.
There will be a meeting for the general contractor and businesses on May 15th at 5pm at The Camp House. | the project is finished.
There are three military and veteran monuments currently on the site.
The city got approval from the state historical commission and will be moving those to another undetermined location.
"We basically are taking a small public space currently and the sidewalk spaces against the building and consolidating that on the outside and focusing on the day to day vehicular circulation in the middle, which gives us a flat continuous surface, which is more useful for special events. | 90 |
In 1995, French chef Roland Gaujac brought his family, culinary education and years of experience in public and private dining rooms to New Haven, where they thrill traveling and local palates at Roland's Place.
A chef's talent lies in taking high-quality ingredients and combining them in a way that will please the palate. Chef Roland Gaujac has taken the culture of his native France, an excellent culinary education, years of experience in hotels and private dining rooms around the world, and a historic and scenic location and combined them with imagination, seasoned with his own charming personality, and created The 1796 House at Roland's Place in New Haven.
Since 1995, Roland, his wife, Lisa, and their three children have lived in the 210-year-old stately home with the signature cupola, bringing new life to a landmark that began life as a tavern and then a popular stagecoach stop in the early 1800s. For more than a century and a half, its commercial roots were dormant as it was home to the Stow and Doud families, dairy farmers.
It was only recently revived in its early hospitality persona — first as a restaurant and bar by a retired New Jersey policeman and then, with three-quarters of a million dollars in restoration and additions, by Robert G. Hodson and his wife, who operated the restaurant for about three years. When Mrs. Hodson became ill, they closed the doors in 1989, and the historic building sat empty for over four years.
Enter Roland and Lisa Goujac.
Roland was born in 1955 in Lyon, France. While he admits, laughing, that his mother was not a great cook, and he and his sister often helped to cook when they came home from school, the French love for food and pride in good cooking was all around them. Roland's aunt was private chef for a countess, and his grandfather loved to make special Mardi Gras cookies.
Roland went to the culinary school in Grenoble, and then, still a teenager, worked in a hotel in Geneva and as assistant chef on a cruise ship. When he was drafted into the French Navy, he was private chef to the commandant.
Family members pitch in at Roland's Place. Daughters Emeline (left) and Celine help their mother, who also works at Christ the King School in Burlington, with weddings. In the restaurant, Emeline buses tables, and Celine is a hostess.
The bad luck didn't last for long. Roland met Lisa. "I was only 20 when I met Roland, and we eloped six weeks later," Lisa says. A short time back in France confirmed that the United States was where Roland wanted to be, and they returned, with baby son, Gatien, to a series of successes as chef in new, large hotels in Newport Beach, Le Biarritz and Le Pavilion Four Seasons, a four-star restaurant.
Then came an opportunity right out of the movies (or maybe a chef's wildest dreams): a very wealthy businessman who dined in the restaurant liked Roland's food and invited him to interview for the job as his personal chef. For the next 10 years, the Gaujacs lived a peripatetic life filled with wonderful food, glamorous houses and famous people as he worked for the Taubman family at their summer home in Michigan. Winters, he had the opportunity to visit the best<|fim_middle|> Lisa admits, they thought the south was warmer, but nothing fitted the needs of the Gaujac family. Typical properties were designed for an-inn owning couple, not a couple with three children and a dog.
"Then we saw this huge property, but it was much too expensive. The Realtor said, 'Wait. Don't say no until you've met the owner.' So we drove out to see him near Basin Harbor and talked to him." The owner was Robert Hodson, whom Lisa describes as "a giving, wonderful man. He fell in love with our family and said, 'Write me a business plan that proves that it's not worth my price.'" The Gaujacs wrote the plan and bought the historic inn.
Hodson continued to be very supportive, calling his friends and promoting the new restaurant. The Gaujacs — Roland, Lisa and their children, Gatien, Celine and Emeline — moved into the 1796 House, which they christened the 1796 House at Roland's Place.
A rustic bar near the front of the house greets visitors. Fresh from the kitchen, Roland (left) poses with waitress Sarah Manieri and line cook Ryan Creed.
They also learned after a few years to ease up on themselves by closing the restaurant on Monday and Tuesday, and they don't serve breakfast, except to the guests in the three bed and breakfast rooms and to special parties. They are open for Sunday brunch.
An interesting quirk of timing was that Roland opened his restaurant just as the Vermont Fresh Network was beginning. His tradition of French cuisine with its strong regional and local themes, plus his experience in West Africa where local produce was the focus, made him an early supporter of the Network's plan to bring local farmers and local restaurateurs together.
Loyal local customers have made Roland's Place a part of their lives, for quiet suppers, big family get-togethers, reunions, club and committee meetings and the historic moments such as birthdays, graduations and weddings. Marilyn McLaughlin of Shoreham who dines at Roland's Place frequently with her husband, Mac, and friends and family, says they enjoy the excellent food and Lisa's warm welcomes.
For many families in Addison County and beyond, including Gov. Jim Douglas, Roland's Place has been a perfect location for family weddings — Lisa's focus in the business these days. With views of the Adirondacks and Green Mountains, the large deck, with seating for 200, is a beautiful spot for a wedding. Daughters Celine and Emeline, now 16 and 14, help their mother with the preparations — Celine as a gracious hostess and Emeline using her artistic talents to decorate the cakes.
The establishment has always been a family project, with the children ready to pitch in when called upon. Gatien is a student at St. Michael's college, but tends bar and helps with catering when he's home. Celine is a junior at Rice Memorial High School and is studying sports medicine at Burlington Technical Center, with thoughts of a career in physiotherapy. Emeline is auditing courses at Rice this semester after returning from spending the fall studying in France. "They all have great work ethics. We work hard, but it's easier having family time," says Lisa. | hotels and restaurants in the country, learning new techniques and honing his skills.
It was an exciting life, the Gaujacs agree, but there was always the tyranny of the beeper, the call for a bagel at 4 o'clock in the morning, and after 10 years, they began to seriously look for a restaurant of their own. They thought about Michigan, but were concerned about the sporadic automotive-based economy, and looked at Cape Cod, but realized that the short season there did not fit with their vision of a more settled family life.
"We had heard about Vermont through friends in Palm Beach," Lisa says. "We looked at seven properties and then the Realtor talked us into looking at this property." Their search had been in southern Vermont because, | 158 |
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England opener Jason Roy escapes World Cup final ban after fiery explosion at umpire
By Matthew Taylor
England opener Jason Roy was in danger of being sanctioned for his reaction to being given out in the World Cup semi final, but luckily the batsman escaped with just a fine.
Wide World Of Sports' Mark Taylor and Ian Healy categorically described the ugly on-field incident as 'dissent'.
Roy was given two demerit points, equalling the heaviest penalty for dissent handed down since the International Cricket Council (ICC) adopted its current system in 2016, and fined 30 per cent of his match fee.
Roy has now collected three demerit points at the event. He was booked for an audible obscenity during a clash with Pakistan and fined 15 per cent of that match fee.
With England in control of their clash with Australia, Roy was given out on 85 attempting to hook a bouncer from Marcus Stoinis. After a long appeal, umpire Kumar Dharmasena raised his finger, setting off an angry reaction from the batsman who believed he had not edged it to wicket keeper Alex Carey.
The 28-year-old eventually accepted his marching orders but continued to vent, seemingly describing the incorrect decision as a "f---ing embarrassment".
Taylor, Healy slam Roy's 'dissent'
Roy first appeared bemused with the decision, rhetorically suggesting, "He's not given that out," before accusing Dharmasena of beginning to signal a wide before changing his mind and raising his finger.
Making matters worse, Roy was unable to review, after Jonny Bairstow bizarrely reviewed a plumb LBW two overs prior which handed Mitchell Starc the World Cup wickets record for a single tournament.
After Roy continued to question the decision, he was ushered towards the dressing room by fellow umpire Marais Erasmus.
His furious reaction was only amplified on his return to the dressing room as replays<|fim_middle|> right the way through the pavilion. He's in trouble."
Taylor concurred, suggesting ICC Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle faced a difficult decision following the match.
"It will be a tough one for the match referee. That's absolute dissent," Taylor said.
Roy hat-trick of sixes off Smith
However, the former Australian captain wasn't too sympathetic towards Roy and England's plight, given the nature of Bairstow's earlier review.
"It's not a good decision, you can see from the UltraEdge there was no edge in it, but that's the problem of players wasting reviews," Taylor continued.
"Jonny Baristow, his opening partner and good mate, has cost him.
"The review is in there for that situation (Roy dismissal), not for blatant LBWs that shouldn't be reviewed. I don't have a lot of sympathy."
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"I was on the toilet, ironically. So I've heard what happened, but I can't imagine he would be (at risk of being suspended)," England captain Eoin Morgan said, when asked about the incident on Thursday.
Morgan was keen to keep a lid on things after England stormed into their first World Cup final in 27 years.
"If you had offered us the position to play in a final the day after we were knocked out of 2015 World Cup, I would have laughed at you," the Irishman said.
"I wouldn't get too carried away yet. It is obviously a very exciting time for everybody.
"New Zealand throughout the whole tournament has been probably the hardest side to beat and the best side in the group stages."
England through to Cricket World Cup final
Morgan also downplayed fears about Bairstow, who required ongoing treatment after appearing to tweak his hamstring or quad while batting during the comfortable chase.
"I'm not sure what it was but he seemed to move alright after it, so it is not very concerning," Morgan said
"It might be a niggle, we don't know until he is scanned.
"But after it, he seemed to move well, so that's a good sign."
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Dharmasena appeared initially hesitant when upholding Stoinis' appeal, but that mattered little to Healy who initially suggested Roy's place in England's final date with New Zealand on Sunday was in jeopardy.
"He's going to be worse on Saturday night when he gets suspended for the final," Healy suggested when discussing Roy's demeanour.
"That's no good. That was a thing called dissent in our day. He has openly argued with an umpiring decision then carried it on | 364 |
10 Remakes That Were Better Than the Original
The Coen Brothers' Christmas remake of True Grit hits DVD and Blu-ray today (finally), flush off the success off 10 Oscar nominations and a domestic box office haul of over $170 million (making it, by a long shot, the Coens biggest hit to date). Its runaway success and high quality gave us pause, since we spend quite a bit of time deriding the overload of remakes in the moviemaking business today — yet another example (along with the endless stream of sequels, TV show adaptations, and even board game movies) of nervous suits who are only comfortable giving the green light to the familiar. But every once in a while, a remake comes along that not only matches its predecessor, but tops it. After the jump, check out our list of ten remakes that were better than the original.
(And before we get started: yes, semanticists, some of these were based on movies that were based on books, so they're technically another adaptation of the book, rather than a remake of the movie. But c'mon. Last fall, nobody was saying, "The Coen Brothers did another adaptation of Charles Portis's novel!" They were saying "The Coen Brothers did a remake of a John Wayne movie!")
Film fans were hesitant when word got out that the Coen Brothers were working up a new take on True Grit. After all, the original was one of John Wayne's most iconic films, the one that had finally won him an Oscar, and their only previous attempt at a remake had been their 2004 adaptation of The Ladykillers — which has its defenders (this writer among them), but was certainly no match for the original Ealing comedy. But the Coens were ultimately a good fit for the tale not only because of their eyes, but their ears; Marshall Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn may be one of the Duke's most recognizable characters, but as imagined in their adaptation (and played, expertly, by Jeff Bridges), he's the latest in a long line of the Coens' wonderfully loquacious heroes. Their films have always revealed a love of language, of its poetic possibilities and expositional powers; they are partial to men, from H.I. McDonnough to Charlie Meadows to Everett McGill to Professor G.H. Dorr, who take pleasure in the mere act of conversation — who talk, as it were, to hear themselves talk. Their True Grit gives Cogburn the freedom and the space to be weird and a bit more comic than the original did, and if Bridges matches Wayne (which we think he did), the 2010 version consistently tops the original in its supporting roles; Hailee Steinfeld stomps through the proceedings with force and gall, a tougher and more engaging heroine than Kim Darby, while Matt Damon plays the background with alternating notes of irritation and amusement that are more keenly underplayed (and thus more effective) than Glen Campbell.
There's no questioning the cool factor of the 1960 original: it starred the five original members of the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop), after all. Trouble is, it works better as a movie poster than as a movie: the gang's half-assed cinematic aspirations and director Lewis Mileston's glacial pacing keep the picture from ever truly taking flight. No such complaints with Steven Soderbergh's snazzy, elegant 2001 remake. Adopting a similar all-star cast approach (Clooney, Pitt, Damon, Cheadle, Roberts, Garcia, etc.), but sharing little beyond that, the title, and the general plot — a big heist in Sin City — Ocean's redux benefitted from a clever, intricate screenplay by Ted Griffin, the ingenuity of Soderbergh's direction (it was his first film off the triumph of his Best Director win for Traffic, a contest in which one of his competitors was himself, for Erin Brokovich), and the whiz-bang chemistry of its cast (Clooney and Pitt bat around their rat-tat-tat dialogue like a vaudeville duo). Critics raved and audiences agreed; it begat two sequels, which were also superior to later Rat Pack movies like Robin and the Seven Hoods and Sergeant's 3.
In all fairness to Roger Corman, who made the original 1960 film, Frank Oz had a few more resources at his disposal when he made the 1986 version of Little Shop of Horrors: things like a studio budget, and real sets, and a shooting schedule with more than two days on it. Yes, Little Shop was one of Corman's "weekend specials," shot in a compressed timeframe (often with multiple cameras in long takes with a general lighting wash), thrown together quickly to take advantage of a pre-existing set that was about to be torn down. That set became the film's primary location, a Skid Row flower shop where Seymour pines for Audrey and develops a plant which he names after her — a plant which, come to find out, requires human blood to thrive. Corman's low-budget horror/comedy gained some cult success in the years that followed — partially because<|fim_middle|> and sang what became her signature number, "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," which won the Oscar for Best Song. So which was better? Let's go to the filmmaker himself, from his wonderful book-length interview with Francois Truffaut: "Let's say that the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional."
The Maltese Falcon
Along with Casablanca and To Have and Have Not , John Huston's 1941 film The Maltese Falcon is one of Humphrey Bogart's most immortal roles; as no-nonsense private eye Sam Spade, Bogie is all tough cool in this taut, smart film noir. What few realize is that Dashiell Hammett's book had been filmed not once, but twice before: in 1931, under its original title, and again in 1936 as Satan Met a Lady (all three versions are on the 1941 version's special edition DVD). So not only was Huston's film the third version of The Maltese Falcon — it was the third one in only ten years. But it was the definitive version; though the 1931 film has its charms (it was part of the so-called "pre-Code" era of looser content restrictions, and is therefore a bit more openly sexy than the latter version) and the lighter 1936 film has Bette Davis, neither can approach the gritty intensity and rapier wit of Huston's adaptation.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The 1964 film Bedtime Story had a clever central idea (competing con artists working the French Riviera) and the great David Niven in its leading role, but it paired him with Marlon Brando — a brilliant actor, of course, but not exactly one renowned for his comic acumen. That issue was corrected in the 1988 remake Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, directed by Frank Oz (welcome back to the list, Frank), which placed Michael Caine in the Niven role and Steve Martin in Brando's shoes. Working from a tightly plotted yet uproarious screenplay by Dale Launer (who was coming off the similarly clever Ruthless People ), Oz crafted a cheerfully rude, charmingly vulgar, and ultimately satisfying seaside caper.
3:10 to Yuma
Delmer Daves's 1957 film was itself based on an Elmore Leonard short story that first appeared in (no kidding) Dime Western Magazine. It was a decent oater, with strong starring turns by Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, but James Mangold's 2007 remake cast Christian Bale and Russell Crowe as the leads and locked the two notably intense actors into an intense yet nuanced psychological battle — as much about their consciences as about their six-shooters. That's mostly subtext, though; one of the pleasures of Mangold's workmanlike western is that it doesn't seek to demystify the genre (like McCabe and Mrs. Miller) or turn it on his head (like Unforgiven), but to pay homage by doing the damn thing right.
Those are a few of our favorites — agree? Disagree? Which remakes do you think topped their predecessors? | of its admittedly clever script, partially because of the presence of a very young Jack Nicholson in a small role, and mostly because it fell out of copyright and into the "public domain," so television stations and revival houses could run it for free. In the early 1980s, composer Alan Menken and book writer/lyricist Howard Ashman saw the film and adapted it into an off-beat musical comedy, which ran Off-Broadway in 1982 and then, in a nice bit of circularity, was adapted into Oz's feature film. The music is memorable (Ashman and Menken went on to write songs for The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, among others), the performances are terrific (Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene were never better), and the comic turns are uproarious (in addition to Steve Martin as a sadomasochistic dentist, the film also includes appearances by Bill Murray, John Candy, and Christopher Guest).
Norman Jewison's original 1968 film certainly has its virtues: Faye Dunaway at her sexiest, Steve McQueen at his Steve McQueen-iest, that hot chess game, and some fun sequences. But it uneasily mixes studio shimmer with gritty antihero leanings, and throws way too much split-screen and Michael Legrand music into the mix (both of which date the picture pretty severely). John McTiernan's 1999 remake, while sharing the same central conflict, is closer to Hitchcock than Jewison — specifically the elegance and grace of To Catch a Thief. McTiernan reimagines corporate titan and gentleman thief Thomas Crown as an art enthusiast rather than a bank robber, and amps up the considerable sexual tension with thicker psychological subtext (some of it thanks to Dunaway herself, this time playing Crown's dry-witted therapist). Plus, he ends it with one of the great caper climaxes in all of film, a beautifully prepared, marvelously executed "reverse-heist." You lean forward in your seat, the sequence — with its snazzy editing, slick photography, and sounds of Nina Simone warbling "Sinnerman" — is so deliciously done.
This one may very well be blasphemy, but this writer finds the original Italian Job to be a pretty dry affair, though Michael Caine is fun to watch (as he always is) and the Mini Cooper climax is, as reputation has it, a crackerjack chase. But then again, so is the Mini Cooper chase/armored car heist in F. Gary Gray's 2003 remake — expertly staged and cut within an inch of its life, the sequence plays primarily thanks to Gray's insistence on old-school technique — stunt drivers, ingenious cinematography, and tight editing over bad CG. It's thrilling, suspenseful, and smart, and (for the most part) the film is too. Sure, it's slavishly faithful to the modern heist movie template, and Edward Norton is pretty much sleepwalking through his paycheck role, but The Italian Job has a sense of style, a sense of humor, and a rich gallery of supporting actors (including Mos Def, Jason Statham, and Seth Green) to keep things lively.
This 1991 suspense thriller was Martin Scorsese's first remake (his 2006 film The Departed , based on the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs , would've made this list had we not just talked about it), a twisted take on J. Lee Thompson's 1962 Robert Mitchum-Gregory Peck picture. It's a decent little potboiler, with a wonderfully oily villainous turn by Mitchum, but Peck is might stiff and the conflict is fairly cut-and-dried. Scorsese and screenwriter Wesley Strick took pains to color in the black-and-white story with many shades of grey — Nick Nolte, in the Peck role, is now a philanderer who concealed evidence to ensure his client (Robert DeNiro, in the Mitchum role) went to jail, and his wife (Jessica Lange) and daughter (Juliette Lewis) are all screwed up too. In reimagining the tale, Scorsese makes Nolte's struggle against DeNiro infinitely more complex and more rewarding, while keeping much of what made the first film great (including Bernard Herrmann's original score and the original stars, employed here in supporting roles).
Several filmmakers have taken a crack at remaking Hitchcock (including, most notoriously, Gus Van Sant and his shot-for-shot 1998 remake of Psycho ), but there was probably only one man who was up to the task: Hitch himself. In 1954, well-established as Hollywood's preeminent genre director, Hitchcock decided to go back and remake his 1934 British thriller. This time he had a bigger budget and one of his favorite leading men, Jimmy Stewart, to star; Doris Day co-starred, | 1,033 |
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[toc]Skin cancer nowadays has become a very common form of disease. A lot of health surveys reveal that at least a half of Americans acquire this disease once in their lifetime. The first signs of skin cancer will actually come from a person's age. There are three types of skin cancer. The majority of the population suffers from basal cell carcinoma. This is a non-spreading and least dangerous form of skin cancer.
The second type of skin cancer is squamous cell carcinoma. This form of cancer originates in the squamous cells that are found in the tissue of the skin of human body. Both of these types of skin cancer do not spread to the rest of the parts of the human body. The third type of skin cancer is melanoma. Although rare, this is a dangerous form of cancer and it does spread through your body.
If you find an unusual bump on your skin then you must visit a dermatologist to determine if it is<|fim_middle|> spice and its chemical name is Curcuma longa. This spice is widely used in herbal medicine for the treatment of a variety of diseases. This is also used widely to prepare facial oil by the Asian women. Turmeric is a rich anti-inflammatory herb.
It is also a powerful antioxidant. This herb enhances the immunity of the human body and kills the cancer cell properties. Yu can make your oil by mixing turmeric powder in olive oil for several weeks before pressing it and straining it again for personal use.
Ester C is a kind of vitamin C that gets absorbed in the skin directly. Vitamins C in the skin will aid in prevent the skin from the harmful effects of the UV rays of the sun and it will also protect human body from skin cancer. There are a lot of topical creams and lotions in the market that contain Ester C.
Vitamin E is a very powerful antioxidant and just like vitamin C this also helps our skin from the harmful UV rays of the sun. This particular vitamin has become a common ingredient in most of the topical anti-aging creams and other skin lotions etc. This vitamin is used as a medicine in many home remedies for the treatment of a variety of diseases. If this vitamin is applied on the burns directly it will help in prevent scars on the skin.
There are a lot of topical creams and lotions in the market and the number of these cosmetics keeps increasing due to research advances day after day. The essential oils like calendula, sandalwood, rose, chamomile, helichrysum etc have all got anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties. Aloe, comfrey, sea buckthorn are some other herbs that are also popular in the cosmetic industry these days due to their moisturizing and anti-cancer properties.
You must wear a sunscreen daily. You should always choose a sunscreen with an SPF 50. When outside working in the yard, on the beach or simply working in the sun, you must always be well protected. There are a lot of people who shop for sunscreen lotions and creams by the brand name.
But, this is one mistake that you must avoid. You should shop for a sunscreen looking at the SPF. If you will be out in the sun for a long time then you must choose and SPF that is 50. The higher SPF will ensure that your sunscreen gives an effective protection from UV rays and skin cancer.
If you want to avoid a deadly disease from attacking your body then the basic step for prevention is a healthy and balanced diet. There are certain vitamins and minerals which contribute a lot to the good skin health. In general, all the vitamins and minerals promote a healthy skin. But, a daily intake of vitamin D is very important if you want to keep skin cancer at bay. This particular vitamin is found in milk, and cod liver oil. Green tea is rich in antioxidants and helps in getting rid of the free radicals in the human body.
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You must remember that virgin coconut oil is extremely good for your skin and overall body. This oil can also treat skin cancer. Virgin coconut oil promotes good health of the skin and also protects it from harmful diseases. Coconut oil is a natural skin sunscreen and will protect you all the time from the harmful UV rays of the sun. This is the reason why you can use virgin coconut oil on your body as a moisturizer. You must never use skin products that have harmful chemicals.
Tanning beds these days have become very popular among the women and girls of all ages. These tanning beds provide women a much desired golden glow on their skin. But what most women forget is that these beds contain harmful ultraviolet rays. When this radiation penetrates the skin, it causes skin lesions.
This is the reason why tanning beds take people a step nearer towards skin cancer especially the deadly disease "Melanoma". Melanoma has caused a lot of deaths in today's world. Therefore, you should try and get a tan naturally and not use these harmful machines for your desire. | cancerous. Proper skin care is not only important for a better physical appearance but it is also important for a proper health of a person. There are a lot of ways to prevent skin cancer and promote good health.
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Sorry to begin the title of this post with a sort of "non-word". However, with all the talk about the troubled economic state of our nation I have been hearing the term "recession-proofing" in relation to many things: recession-proofing your relationship, your business, your budget, your IRA<|fim_middle|> change in your life, and focus on how you can use your personal strengths to accomplish this. It is also important to remember that there are many things in our lives that are not under our control, and sometimes all we can do is "weather the storm" until the next inspiration or solution comes along. But focusing on how our personal talents and assets can assist us in taking an active role in shaping our lives, and appreciating the aspects of our lives that we are happy with and grateful for, can provide an increased sense of control and self-efficacy. | /401K, and the list goes on and on. I am sure that there are several more articles and pieces of advice out there about recession-proofing your happiness, so here is my take on the matter.
I thought that this would be a very important topic to address due to the sheer magnitude of the effect that this recession has had on people in every sector of our society. As a therapist, I have seen the emotional toll that this challenging time has taken on my patients from all walks of life. It seems that individuals from all socioeconomic levels have been affected in some way, be it in loss of savings or employment, increased stress in marriages and relationships, loss of role identification in relation to being the "breadwinner", and multiple other ways. So, no matter who you are or where you are in your life or your career, it is likely that this recession has affected you in some way too. In my opinion, a major contributor to this atmosphere of (seeming) hopelessness and limitation has been the extremely negative focus that seems to be present in most of the media coverage related to this topic. Of course, I am not advocating that we all "put our heads in the sand" and pretend that this situation is not serious and challenging, because it is. But I think that there must be a way to achieve a balance between realistically appraising the situation so that we can all take steps to ensure the protection of our families and futures, and identifying how this difficult time may facilitate our personal growth and looking towards a more optimistic and hopeful future. Because the problem is that when all you hear from the media is negative feedback about how horrible the world is, and how it will continue to get even more horrible before it gets any better, it is very difficult to hold on to a positive attitude. And, having an optimistic outlook not only improves the quality of our lives (i.e., increasing life satisfaction and happiness, contributing to better health and more effective management of stress), but the absence of optimism can make it more difficult to navigate some of the disastrous effects of this recession. In my experience, having a negative or hopeless attitude makes it more difficult to obtain employment, communicate effectively in relationships, be supportive of others, and make choices in life that will result in positive outcomes. Also, I have observed that being hopeless about life increases stress and causes other physical health problems, which can exacerbate financial or other issues that are already existent.
In light of all of this, I have come up with a few simple suggestions that may assist you in maintaining a positive attitude despite the hopeless atmosphere that is present all around us at this time.
Surround yourself with positive people as much as possible. Attitudes are usually "contagious", so if you are spending most of your time with individuals who have a persistently negative attitude it will be much more difficult for you to maintain a hopeful outlook.
Don't be afraid to change the subject when you are having a conversation with someone who is bringing you down. Of course we all need to vent from time to time, especially during these troubled times, and being a "shoulder to cry on" for loved ones is usually appreciated and reciprocated. But if you find yourself having discussions with a particular person that always seem to deteriorate into negativity, exercise your freedom to change the topic to something that is more conducive to your own well-being. Each person has the right to choose what information they would like to take in, and to limit conversational topics that make them feel bad or uncomfortable.
Meditation, exercise, and yoga have helped many people to relieve stress and achieve a more balanced and calm state of mind. However, since each person is different choose an activity that is helpful to you in reducing stress and increasing peace; the most important thing is that you take some time, no matter how little, to do something exclusively for and about yourself. It may not seem easy to take time out of your extremely busy day for the luxury of self-focused time. Try to do this as much as possible, and of course do not beat yourself up for not doing it as much as you think you should because this defeats the whole purpose!
Acknowledge the real difficulties that this time in history has caused you. Pretending that our problems do not exist usually makes it even more difficult to stop thinking about them, and makes it impossible to gather our internal resources to effectively find solutions. You can think about your problems as things that you would like to see | 908 |
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The XinXian Inn Hotel is located in the centre of Beijing, the Dongcheng District around the corner of Galaxy Soho on the eastern 2nd Ring road. The low-budget Hotel is neighbouring the Xinxian Hutong, a large area with traditional Chinese courtyard houses, which entrances are now mostly blocked by newly constructed commercial buildings. Throughout Beijing, the rich culture and vivid life-style of the Hutong areas are mostly getting replaced by high-profitable and shallow real-estate blocks. With the XinXian Inn Hotel, we tried to incorporate the atmosphere and history of the Hutong areas into a hospitality design.
The client was intrigued by this idea to focus on the traditional forms and materials of the surrounding neighbourhood for several reasons. As every young entrepreneur he was on a small budget for the hotel. And throughout his life he liked the Beijing Hutong areas and this was one reason he chose this location. "I remember, one day in late 2016 a young guy knocked our Office Door and came in with an idea to revive a former traditional guesthouse. He also had written down 4000 Chinese characters that emphasised on his vision and on the history and rich culture of the district. This impressed me deeply, so we got started right away." recalled Dayong Sun.
The 1.000 sqm building was a former traditional guesthouse stretched over 2 floors, with small rooms and limited daylight. On the hotel's main facade we integrated a reversed view of a traditional Hutong<|fim_middle|> into the new layout to break the monotony on one hand and offer working and meeting spaces for the guests. The idea to create gathering spaces, public areas or a neighbourhood atmosphere is a topic throughout the hotel. For the hallway, we also chose dark bricks on the walls to intensify the atmosphere of walking in an alleyway through a Hutong.
The wooden shelters are in a strong contrast to the haptic walls and should feel like little gazebos placed along the path. The hotel was designed on one main theme: "Retrieving Memories." Although Hutongs are an integral part of the "old" Beijing, we want them to serve as a cultural reminder in the city's presence. An architectural heritage and culture of a place is shaped over centuries and should be a constant valuable companion in a future developments of the city.
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"Seeing guests chatting and relaxing, reflects in a way the traditional image Beijing, where the streets of a Hutong area was a public space and people would discuss, take a rest, dance or play cards in front of their houses. I also reminded me when I first came to Beijing before the Olympic Games. A lot has changed since then," says Chris Precht. The original space was composed of a hall on the first floor, not very large, mainly for reception, and guest rooms on the second floor. Due to the absence of elevator, the client wished to add a room on the first floor for guests who have problems walking stairs.
Being close to Beijing Railway Station and key hospitals, the hotel was and would still be frequented by elder tourists and patients from afar looking for better treatment in the capital. Now, the first floor also features the public areas of the hotel, like the lobby and a lounge for visitors. All of the main functions are in a separate, wooden shelter. Walking into the hotel, the hallway seems like an alley wending through a neighbourhood of little houses. We placed a lot of plants along the way, so the atmosphere between inside and outside fades and the hotel creates a little Hutong by itself.
On the second floor, the existing layout had a 50m long tedious corridor with rooms on left and right. We reduced the amount of rooms to 50 and offered public areas | 357 |
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Greek Prime Minister Papandreou Speaks of Inequality and Peace
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by Claire Jasper
Greece's former Prime Minister George Papandreou spoke on Wednesday at the 19th Clough Colloquium in Robsham Theatre about human justice and our duty as citizens of the world. He spoke about globalization, the Eurozone crisis and worldwide democracy.
Papandreou and his family fled from Greece when he was a child after a dictatorship forced his father, a prime minster as well, to resign from office. Growing up in America and attending Amherst College allowed Papandreou to look at the world and Greece in particular in a unique way; he earned an invaluable new perspective. Papandreou also credited the optimism that America has as a great asset to being able to change the world.
Since seeing the horrors of dictatorships, Papandreou has been fighting for democracy. He cited the urgent need for collective action, such as the quick response necessary in ending the current Ebola outbreak. During the Greek government debt crisis in 2008, Papandreou recognized the urgency of quick action in order to save the country, using the slogan "Either we change or<|fim_middle|> and a collective response, Papandreou explained.
He went on to say that a creeping epidemic of fear and speculation is no way to create solutions. Papandreou called for a necessity of globalization and interdependence, with proper global governance. "No man or woman is an island," he defended.
A question that the Prime Minster raised that went beyond the realm of strictly ruling countries, but also for companies and organizations, is a big one: how do you put into effect meaningful change? He explained that instilling long-term change within an organization is like saving someone from a heart attack. The first few hours of emergency room medicine are very systematic and quick response; however, the hardest part of the recovery is instilling new, healthier lifestyle choices and changing the entire mindset of the patient. In order for the Greeks to grow from their crisis, there needed to be a change in the mindset and goals of the Greek nation.
Papandreou also emphasized the imperative need for democracy, a structure of government taken for granted in America, yet sparsely seen throughout the world. In the long term, he wishes to see a united, stronger Europe, where the citizens can take initiative of the peace process and integrate into a global community and combat the injustices occurring, especially in the Middle East. He sees a world where citizens can be stewards of a common place and a place where we can reject stereotypes, citing Pope Francis in saying that the root cause of social ills is inequality.
Papandreou highlighted the need for interdependent, engaged societies, with citizens that would be active in participation. We must take initiatives and play key roles in our government. At a place like Boston College, he explained, we are called to use our valuable education to help other human beings, going along with the ideal, Men and Women for Others.
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He explained that this time was a critical test of his leadership, and stated that his honesty, no matter how painful, was necessary in order to bring change to the country. Papandreou highlighted that the problems that occurred in Greece were parallel to any issue. To deal with problems of the world, there needs to be cooperation | 74 |
The Yompers (ePub)
With 45 Commando in the Falklands War
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'Yomping' was revealed by the journalist Charles Laurence in 1982 as the word which the Royal Marines used to describe carrying heavy loads long distances on foot. Given the intense public interest in the dramatic events then unfolding in the South Atlantic, it caught on and is now in common usage. The Yompers is the first account to be written by a company commander who fought in the Falklands War. Called to action from their beds early on 2 April 1982, the author along with the rest of 45 Commando Royal Marines, sailed 8,000 miles to play a key role in the recovery of the Falkland Islands from Argentine occupation. Lacking helicopters and short of food, they 'yomped' in appalling weather carrying overloaded rucksacks, across ground which threatened to break legs and ankles at every step. Despite extreme hardship, their morale and training ensured they remained a cohesive fighting-fit body of men. They went on to fight the crucial night battle for Two Sisters, the twin 1,000 foot high peaks which were keys to the defensive positions around Stanley.
The author paints an illuminating picture of the Royal Marines Commandos at war. Gritty and moving, and at moments wryly amusing, The Yompers provides penetrating, original first-hand insights into wider aspects of the Falklands War as well as conflict in general.
Pathfinder International, August 2017
The Falklands Task Force carried the Marine Commando, the Parachute Regiment, the SBS and the SAS 8,000 miles, together with other British Army units to give the Argentine bandits a thorough thrashing. This is a fabulous, moving, entertaining, thoughtful, emotional read and reminder that other countries still under estimate Great Britain to their cost. – Most Highly Recommended.
Read the complete review here<|fim_middle|> in described in great detail; the confusion of being summoned to war from the comfort of your own bed, the organized chaos of the logistics operation for the 8,000 mile trip down south and on to war and the aftermath.
What sets the book apart is Gardiner's ability to combine a broad strategic overview with the reality of life in the trenches. Gardiner walked, smoked, dug, slept and fought with his men. He endured the hardships they did with the added burden of having men's lives in his hands.
In the context of the campaign 45 Commando's casualties were mercifully light, thanks to the constant planning and probing. Gardiner lost none of his men and to bring them all home "was a privilege and a joy which has abided with me all my life, and barely a day passes without a humble, grateful thought."
Gardiner reflects on the honours and awards, and makes a few observations on 5 Infantry Brigade
There will be more comprehensive books on the Falklands, but for elegance and humanity "The Yompers" has no equals.
Peter Weedon
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"This is one of the finest accounts by a front line officer ever written."
As featured in footnote 5 of article: The Falklands – Lessons Learned
Prof. Eric Grove, The Phoenix Think Tank
As featured in.
Gardner's narrative and reflections are clear, exciting, extensive and valuable.
Navy Today (New Zealand)
A cerebral Scot who retired as a brigadier, the author is as brilliant at explaining the strategic complexities of the campaign as he is at allowing the reader to experience what it really felt like to be invloved in an unending battle with the elements and against an enemy whose will needed to be broken if the war was to be won. He is generous in his praise of other units, where praise is due, but never shirks from criticism where it is needed. This book maintains the extremely high standards of detail, interest and readability that the author achieved in his first two books.
Guards Magazine
Ian paints an illuminating picture of RN Commandos at war and provides penetrating first-hand insights into wider aspects of the Falklands War and conflict in general.
Association of Royal Navy Officers Yearbook
The Yompers should be required reading in every service institute. Put simply, it is a masterpiece of narrative on the challenges as well as the risks of the profession of arms and the best yet to emerge from the Falklands War of thirty years ago.
RUSI Journal
This book is compelling, witty and and enjoyable.
Royal Marines Museum Website
Ian Gardiner provides a vivid insight into the conflict and not just into strategy, tactics and the actual fighting. What are most revealing are the human touches – the small things that made life miserable or bearable. In his book Ian Gardiner paints a fascinating picture of the Royal Marines at a pivitol point in their history. This is an excellently written volume which I strongly recommend.
Warship World
This wise, beautifully written book has many excellent photographs. Highly recommended.
The Naval Review
An illuminating picture of the Royal Marines in action. Gritty and moving and at moments wryly amusing. Gives a penetrating insight into wider aspects of the war as well as armed conflict in general.
Both revealing and pacey, The Yompers is a well told tribute.
Scottish Legion News
Ian, whose book book The Yompers was published in February, will describe the little known but highly successful action.
The Journal (Newcastle)
The Yompers: With 45 Commando in the Falklands War by Ian Gardiner is another keeper, in spades. His discussion of command in combat is so good that I wish I could quote it in full.
It's an extraordinary journey, which Gardiner describes so brilliantly you feel as if you are part of the exhausting experience, sharing the pain and discomfort. It's a tale of endurance that ends in a raw fight to the death in a harsh environment. As such it's an account that shows how tough and professional those who wear the hard-won green beret really are. Their performance was outstanding, and so is TheYompers.
Warships Magazine
This new book, by retired Brigadier RM, Ian Gardiner, marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Falkland war. It provides the best account of the Battle for Two Sisters I have read anywhere. The details of the night action and the determination and skill at the arms of the young marines under his command, fighting their way up into enemy trenches with "butt, boot and bayonet"' are vividly described. The late Professor Richard Holmes, the doyen of Modern military historians, wrote of Ian Gardiner previous book, In the Service of the Sultan, his account of his service in the Dhofar Campain, that it was 'one of the best books about soldiering I have ever read. Its all about making the most of what you have, rather than dwelling on what you lack. It is highly recommended to all who care to learn from experience but listening to the voice of one who was at the sharp end and has reflected throughout his military career on what his experiences meant, then and now, personally and professionally.
Desmond Woods, Headmark Magazine
When the Argentinians invaded the Falkland Islands 30 Years ago this month, Ian Gardiner was a newly married Royal Marines captain, age 32, and commander of one of the three rifle companies in 45 Commando. Here is an adaptation of his new book The Yompers, he recalls some vivid moments from the grinding, heroic weeks of battle that ensued.
Saga Magazine
The Yompers is a good, very amusing, first-hand account of the practical difficulties the Commandos had to endure, and overcome, in their arduous campaign in the Falklands. Book of the month.
Britain at War
Ian Gardiner has produced an excellent account of the service of 45 Royal Marine Command during the Falklands War. His vivid account covers all aspects of this short brutal little war. His account is articulate, poignant and precise, even though 30 years have now elapsed since the events he describes. This book comes with excellent black and white photographs. It is highly recommended to anyone with an interest in Britain's last successful war.
Absolutely authentic, magnificent Marines!
Martin Middlebrook
This book is quite a bit more serious than its populist title would indicate. Ian Gardiner left the Royal Marines in 2001 in the rank of brigadier; his first book, In the Service of the Sultan: A First Hand Account of the Dhofar Insurgency was described by the late Professor Richard Holmes as 'one of the best books about soldiering I have ever read'.
Amidst the numerous books about the Falklands conflict, this is the first from a company commander – in this case X Ray Company, 45 Commando, Royal Marines. As 'man of the match' Major-General Julian Thompson says in his foreword, 'a rifle company is the sharp end of the spear thrust into the antagonist's flesh……..surprisingly few men actually close with and kill the enemy; the spearhead is small compared with the haft'. Thompson notes that in just under four weeks, his Brigade had 90 killed and 186 wounded, with another 132 non-battle injuries from cold, wet and broken bones.
Gardiner opens with the remarks; 'A soldier knows he can't choose his enemies. His enemies are the Queen's enemies and so he gets on with it because he is with his friends….. a soldier will endure to death itself in order to retain the good opinion of his fellows'. In an aphorism-rich introduction, he analyses the causes of the war: 'So the British were fighting for their credibility, the Argentines for their pride'. 'If fighting for the self-determination of peoples is futile, then this was a futile war, but we who fought did not think it so'.
He covers the contemporary position of the Royal Marines – perennially under threat of extinction – and the circumstances that allowed the British to deploy successfully an amphibious capability that their Naval Headquarters had no experience in deploying and was overdue for the Government scrap heap while, despite the experience of many operations and exercises, using unsuitable command and control arrangements which led to misunderstandings that compounded the normal friction of war.
Clauswitz's friction obtained all the way from UK to the Falklands, despite the opportunity to re-pack everything at Ascension –'the unsung masterpiece of the operation'. Gardiner's account of the preparations, training and the eventual assault landing is gripping and his judgements about the surrounding events – South Georgia, the Belgrano – are extremely well-informed and balanced. Of course, the landing plan went awry from the start, but one of Gardiner's themes frequently projected to his people is that this is what happens to plans in war. He has some pretty direct remarks to make about the composition and battle-worthiness of 5 Infantry Brigade, comparing the 'years of expensive, assiduous, rigorous preparation to make 3 Commando Brigade ready for this sort of operation'. 'Not so for 5 Infantry Brigade, and to pitch the men of this semi-trained, improvisatory, ill-supported, unready formation into an amphibious, high intensity conflict at no notice … was to ask a very great deal of all the people in it'. The bold but unilateral move forward, as a result of a telephone conversation, to Fitzroy and Bluff Cove by 2 Para in the Chinook is shown as unbalancing logistics and having all sorts of unfortunate consequences, including Sir Galahad.
My God, those marines must have been tough! Here I must telescope the account of how the loss of the Atlantic Conveyor forced 45 Commando to walk over rocky or soggy terrain from Port San Carlos to Douglas Settlement to Teal Settlement to Bluff Cove Peak and finally to their attack objective, Two Sisters, while carrying an astonishing weight in their packs, decorated here and there with radio kit, Milan anti-tank bunker busters and associated missiles, light and heavy machine guns – and ammunition. On the map it looks like 60 miles, but on the ground probably further.
The sheer complexity of infantry operations comes as a surprise to this writer – Gardiner in no way blows his own trumpet but is proud of the fact that as a result of his leadership, his company took their Sisters peak against a determined defence without a fatal casualty and this was clearly the result of the most careful planning, briefing and rehearsal for exhausted men, taking into account the terrain, naval gunfire support, likely Argentine defences, what to do if things went wrong and a host of other factors.
'All wars are started and finished by politicians. This one was no different, and it was started by gross British political failure, a failure of deterrence'.
Admiral Guy Liardet
You don't have to be a military man to enjoy Ian Gardiner's The Yompers, the first memoir of the Falklands War to be written from behind the gun sights by a career Royal Marine. There is plenty of unique material for the arm chair generals and military historians who relish the details of how a battle can turn on the setting of a bomb fuse or the structure of a combat boot, that last being of particular concern to a yomper. But it is something extra that makes Gardiner not just a retired brigadier with a story to tell, but a writer.
"Yomping, they call it in the Royal Marine Commandos…it means marching, humping up to 120 lbs of equipment," I wrote as an "embedded" reporter for the Daily Telegraph on a borrowed typewriter in the manager's office at Douglas Settlement, midway through the great yomp. The story reached the London press on June 3rd, thirty long years ago, and introduced the world to both commando slang that has never ceased to reverberate, and a glimpse of the extraordinary qualities of men who included one Captain Ian Gardiner, CO of X Ray Company, 45 Commando.
Gardiner brings to life those men and their war as never before. Who knew that the commando went into battle to the sounds of the movie The Blues Brothers? Gardiner begins his story in the messes of the cramped troop ship as officers and men watch the classic rebel comedy over and over again. Jake and Elwood, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin take over from Tipperary or anything from Elgar as the warriors' theme song, and Gardiner gives us an understanding of his troops far, far from the routine clichés of the fighting man.
Then came the yomp and, as Gardiner writes: "This was where the fun stopped." The yomp was an anachronism in the age of helicopters and mechanised infantry, but Britain's success depended on the ability of young men to make up for the lack of "assets" which should have been brought to the battlefield. Heart warming stuff. But the yomp and the fight at the end of it was a hellish experience, and Gardiner's vivid, honest descriptions do justice at last to those who suffered it.
Gardiner is enough of an officer to make clear that every word of The Yompers is dedicated to honouring his comrades and their families. But he is also enough of a writer to create a vivid, unflinching portrait that does them true justice.
Charles Laurence, correspondent for The Daily Telegraph in 1982, attached to 45 Commando, East Falkland
Ian Gardiner is a raconteur and one of the finest story tellers of military history. Few other authors can match Gardiner's narrative and his range of language. I suspect that even the most well educated reader will be scurrying for the dictionary at some stage.
Gardiner tells the story of 45 Commando during the Falklands War, "the point of the spear" as Julian Thompson states in the foreword. 45's journey from Arbroath to the South Atlantic | 2,677 |
Can AI help Smoking Cessation Problems?
With news about vaping illnesses and deaths commanding (and rightly so) our attention, the overall ecosystem and interrelationships that helped create this trend are coming under greater scrutiny.
So where did the vaping craze start? For many, vaping is a step-off point for cigarettes, and is one of several tools for smoking cessation, along with gum, patches, inhalers and behavioral therapy.
Vaping has physical actions similar to smoking, (lifting the device to the mouth, inhaling, etc.) which act as a mental surrogate for the act of smoking a cigarette, without the tar or heat. This 'mental' element has become a point of import as vapers look to minimize or even quit the habit in light of increased health risk data.
But before we can really talk about the 'mental' implications that vaping holds over vapers, we need to understand Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT, which aims to challenge and change destructive thought and emotional patterns, has been shown to be effective in helping people quit as part of a comprehensive cessation program. A key element in implementing CBT is identifying and managing triggers so that new, healthy behaviors can be created and smoking related urges can be controlled.
Enter ZiRO, a K8 portfolio company. While I can't divulge the details on exactly WHAT this exciting new product does, I can hint that it's going to be a transformative application of artificial intelligence that will help us understand and address behaviors around vaping. Although ZiRO can ultimately help vapers manage and even quit their habit, its technology is really representative of how AI can help us further understand and address complex human issues.
A keystone tenet of ZiRO's technology and efficacy, is that identifying and breaking key triggers is essential<|fim_middle|> the intersection of what makes quitting so difficult — by revealing hidden triggers and habits. ZiRO gives its users clarity and insight that they can use to change their lives, breath by breath.
As mentioned in earlier blogs, K8 is building a 'skill tree' where each company we create builds our expertise and ability to unlock new opportunities. With ZiRO we're leveraging the AI expertise we earned in P3rceive (which is looking for beta customers now- shameless plug), and developing new skills in IoT, manufacturing, packaging and branding. Our partners on this journey are mHub, Stevens and Tate, and Devscale.
ZiRO will be available in 2020.
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Can We Nurture Early Stage Technology Companies? K8 Looks to the New Decade for Growth and Answers | to cessation. To that end, ZiRO incorporates a state of the art deep learning algorithm to automatically understand users' habit patterns and adapt to changes in those patterns over time. Specifically our implementation of AI uses a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) to recognize these habits and triggers, and then distill and present them to ZiRO's users so they can obtain better insight into the why of their cravings and urges. LSTM allows ZiRO's RNN to gather data (prior behaviors like how many puffs, when puffed, etc.), think about them in aggregate, and identify correlations between elements, that when taken together, are a trigger for vaping.
Time, for instance, may be a latent trigger leading to a habit. Let's say the amount of time that passes between puffs throughout the morning leads to a vaper's greater puff-count density later in the day. A user that takes a series of five puffs every 15 minutes in the morning, may be likely to take 50 puffs every 15 minutes, six hours later. The morning puffs, in this example, act as a trigger for the habit that occurs later in the day. ZiRO's model would identify this correlation, due to the time series nature of the LSTM, it utilizes. Therefore, the morning puffs would be analyzed as the features that predict the habit later in the day, giving the vaper insight into how their habits are formed on a more macro level.
Armed with this insight, ZiRO users are in a position to manage their own behavior. If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it. We want to go beyond that adage, by visualizing habits to provide ZiRO users with measurement, synthesis and, most importantly, control.
Technology, if judiciously applied, is a force of good. Will ZiRO be the panacea for smoking and vaping abatement? Definitely not- there are very few silver bullets in life, mostly because what ails us isn't a result of one single thing, but rather a confluence of multiple factors. So the solution cannot be one thing, but a convergence of multiple capabilities. So, no, ZiRO, won't be a simple, one stop solution to quit vaping. But that's not it's purpose. ZiRO is intended to find | 480 |
State and Private Museums Chaplet museum
In April 1998, the first and possibly the only Chaplet Museum were born in Nafplio, founded by Evaggelinos couple, who study and collect strings of beads from 1958. They were initiated and taught the secrets of the chaplet in Alexandria, Egypt, where the grandfather of Mr Evaggelinos used to live.
The grand journey to the "chaplet roads" dates back to 1963 and is still an ongoing one. The couple collects chaplets from all over the world- Hindu, Buddhists, Muslims, Catholics and Greeks- all the places where Hellenism found the steady and fertile ground to flourish and develop. (Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt and more).
This is how they got hold<|fim_middle|>io, on 5, Staikopoulou St, on a two-floor privately owned building.
The exhibition area is on the first floor. The ground floor serves as the Museum's workshop, preserving older pieces and making their replicas from handmade beads which are manufactured in privately owned workshops on the East. The Museum holds the courtesy of preserving older pieces-relics of families without any charge.
There is also a Museum shop at work on the ground floor, which sells the chaplets being made there. A Museum as such operates under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Culture.
VISITING HOURS: Monday to Sunday: 09.30-20.30 (except Tuesdays)
Address: 5 Staikopoulou St. Nafplio P.C:21100, Argolida prefecture
(Lat: 37.56548379239976, Long: 22.798122167558063 )
The exact location of the Museum can be tracked in the section: Map
Telephone Number: 27520 21618
For any further information, please do not hesitate to visit our website on: www.komboloi.gr | of a unique collection of chaplets (1000 app.) which date from 1700 to 1950, made of pure amber, amber-mastic tree, amber- faturan, black (giousouri) and red coral stone, ivory, bone, antler, ebony.
The museum exhibits chaplets from collections in four small compartments:
A: Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim
B: Catholic and Christian rosaries
C&D: Greek chaplets
The Museum has welcomed and demonstrated its items on more than 75.000 visitors from the day it has first started to operate.
The aim as well as the mission of this museum is to preserve the chaplet and familiarize the public with its history.
It is situated on the old part of the city of Nafpl | 168 |
A Universidade Real do Butão (em dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་འཛིན་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་; na transliteração Wylie: 'brug rgyal-'dzin gtsug-lag-slob-sde) é uma instituição de ensino superior pública do Butão, fundada em 2 de junho de 2003 por um decreto real.
Faculdades
A universidade foi criada para consolidar a gestão do ensino superior no Butão. É uma universidade descentralizada com nove faculdades constituintes e duas faculdades afiliadas espalh<|fim_middle|>ar uma instituição membro da universidade, manteve seu status autônomo.
Universidades do Butão | adas por todo o reino. O princípio que influenciou o desenvolvimento de um sistema universitário foi a prioridade do governo para o desenvolvimento equitativo. As faculdades da Universidade são:
Faculdade de Recursos Naturais (CNR) em Lobesa, Punakha
Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia (CST) em Rinchhending, Phuntsholing
Faculdade de Estudos Empresariais Gaeddu (GCBS) em Gedu, Chukha
Faculdade de Estudos de Língua e Cultura (CLCS) em Taktse, Trongsa
Faculdade de Engenharia Jigme Namgyel (JNEC) em Dewathang, Samdrup Jongkhar
Faculdade de Educação Paro (PCE) em Paro
Faculdade Real de Thimphu (RTC) em Ngabiphu, Thimphu (faculdade afiliada)
Faculdade Norbuling Rigter, paro (faculdade afiliada)
Faculdade de Educação Samtse (SCE) em Samtse
Faculdade Sherubtse em Kanglung, Trashigang
Faculdade de Tecnologia e Informação Gyalpozhing em Gyalpozhing, Mongar
A universidade mantém uma conexão com outras universidades que incluem a Universidade do Novo Brunswick no Canadá, a Universidade Naropa e a Escola de Treinamento Internacional nos Estados Unidos, a Universidade de Salzburgo na Áustria e a Universidade de Delhi na Índia, nas áreas de pesquisa, intercâmbio estudantil e programas de estágio para alunos e professores.
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, o Quinto Rei do Butão, é o chanceler. Dasho Nedip Dorji, formado em Oxford, é o atual vice-chanceler e lida com a administração diária do sistema universitário.
O Centro de Estudos do Butão (CBS) em Thimphu, originalmente programado para se torn | 469 |
Where Life Happens Generation Small Groups, "G-Groups," provide a place for you to make new friends, grow together in faith, and have fun with others. No matter who you are, there's a group that will be better once you're in it. G-Groups meet all over the city: in homes, restaurants, and at the Rex. Are you interested in leading a G-Group? It's simple, all you need is an idea, and "you plus two" more people. If you have an idea and want to find out about starting a group, contact us and we'll help you get started!
The Switch 18<|fim_middle|>acola, FL 32526. We meet at 6:30 pm, and we always have a great time together. Hope you can make it, and be sure to bring a friend!
Got a question or a prayer request? Want more information? We'd love to talk to you! Our office phone is (850) 479-7210 and our e-mail is office@generationpensacola.com. | 0 mission is to spread the message of Jesus Christ to local youth, equipping them with a better understanding of Him and helping them connect with others. We execute this mission through live worship and relevant teaching every Wednesday night at Pastor Adam and Chelsey Sexton's house, located at 2048 Pin High Dr, Pens | 66 |
Frieze Los Angeles will feature a site-specific program of talks, music and commissioned artist projects organized in collaboration with leading curators.
Joining them is the newly announced curator of F<|fim_middle|> York, Frieze London and Frieze Masters at the forefront of the international art fair calendar, celebrating Los Angeles' position as a global arts center and destination.
The full program will be available in the coming months. | rieze Talks and Music is Hamza Walker. Walker is Executive Director of LAXART and co-curated, along with Aram Moshayedi, the "Made in L.A." biennial at the Hammer Museum in 2016.
Taking place daily in the Sherry Lansing Theater of Paramount Pictures Studios, and throughout Los Angeles, Walker's program of conversations and music will highlight Los Angeles as a place of interdisciplinary experimentation that extends into the mediums of sound, poetry and performance.
Opening at Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood from February 15 through February 17, 2019, Frieze Los Angeles will join Frieze New | 135 |
Nearly a quarter-century later, why is C++ still so popular?
July 29, 2021July 29, 2021Agile Actors #learning
Originally posted on sdtimes.
Despite C++'s downward trend on the TIOBE Programming Community index since 2001, the language's fall from the coveted top two slots in 2020, vociferous and persistent claims that C++ is "dead like COBOL," and the inroads the Rust is making in developer circles – C++ is still as viable, vital and relevant as ever.
There's no arguing with the language's<|fim_middle|> a bottleneck, C++ is still used to create some of the fastest software on the market.
Maturity – Although this may seem obvious, the fact that C++ has been around for nearly 40 years means that most software problems have already been addressed.
Ecosystem – C++ is a core part of most programming curricula, and boasts a huge collection of dev tools, third party components, libraries, manuals, and more.
Embedded – Most embedded systems, not to mention IoT devices, are powered by firmware written in C/C++.
Not just legacy
It's true that there is also a strong element of legacy usage powering the continued relevance of C++. Many C++ projects that started decades ago (or projects that started in C++ precursors like C) are still running today. And we're not talking about trivial stuff. For example, UNIX, Oracle's MySQL, the Linux Kernel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, and even some of Apple's OS X – all were written in C++.
Yet beyond legacy projects, C++ dominates much of today's greenfields (new development projects), as well.
C++ is the predominant language of gaming – powering the Unreal Engine and many of today's biggest and most popular games. C++ also dominates IoT, defense software, and manufacturing applications – pretty much everything that's considered real time is in C++.
C++ is also still used for new development in performance-intensive workstation applications like CAD/CAM software or compute-intensive server-based applications like high-frequency trading. It's used for virtual machines, device drivers, runtime interpreters and tooling. C++ also does the heavy lifting in developments of AI-driven applications, and remains a core part of Google's Android OS. And the list goes on…
C++ in its fourth decade is only gaining in popularity. Newer languages like C# and Java will continue to lead the market in the years to come, yet C++ will remain right alongside.
C++ is a powerful and continuously-evolving language that helped and continues to help create the foundations of computing as we know it. With its next update set for 2023, a massive developer community, and huge knowledge base – not to mention best practices, external libraries, components and tools that would take decades to mature in newer languages – C++ is too entrenched in modern computing to fade away.
Source: sdtimes
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Want to get started in functional programming? Enter Scala. | ongoing popularity. The numbers are clear in the June 2021 TIOBE index – C++ is the fourth most popular programming language on the planet, grabbing almost 7.5% on the index, and nipping at the heels of C, Java and Python. While it's true that this is a drop from the language's TIOBE peak of nearly 18% in 2003, C++'s popularity remains undeniable.
How and why can a programming language standardized nearly a decade before the first iPhone was released remain relevant in the age of cloud and high-performance computing? Let's take a look…
Still popular, still relevant
What are the core reasons behind C++'s continuing mass-market relevance? Performance, speed, maturity, and more:
Performance – C++ remains the gold standard for high-performance software. Adobe uses it, the Unreal Engine is based on it, and so are Chrome and Firefox.
Speed – At a time when processing speed remains | 201 |
Making your own fruit preserves and jams can be an extremely rewarding experience, once you get past the fear of the process itself- which is often over complicated by old world approaches. Use this simple method to make quick and easy jam that can be adapted to most any fruit you can think of. Experiment with your favorite summer fruit combos to find what you and your family like best!
1. Place a small plate in the freezer for testing if jam is ready later on.
2. Add prepped fruit, sugar, and lemon juice to a large pot .
3. Turn the heat on to medium high, and bring jam to a rolling boil for one minute. While waiting for jam to come to a boil, make sure that all sugar crystals are dissolved from the sides of the pot using a pastry brush that has been dipped in water.
4. Reduce heat, and<|fim_middle|> to seal, it can be removed, reclosed, and processed once again in the water bath within 24 hours.
12. Label and share with family and friends! | let the jam simmer gently for approximately 30 minutes (This process could take longer for fruit that naturally contains less pectin.) Skim off any foam that rises to the surface with a ladle.
NOTE: Jam continues to set as it cools, so a jam that is ready will appear thickened, yet it will not be nearly as thick as the final product.
5. While the jam is simmering, place washed and dried jars (without the lids) on a lined baking tray, and heat at 350°F (175°C) for 10 minutes. This is done to kill off any lingering bacteria that could cause jam to spoil later on.
6. When the jam has visibly thickened and appears gelled, turn the flame off, and place a spoonful of jam on the frozen plate. Return the plate to the freezer or fridge for a couple of minutes until cooled. Run finger through the cooled jam, or drop off of a spoon to check for the desired consistency.
7. If you feel the jam is done, you are ready to fill your still warm sterilized jars with the hot jam (with oven mitts, and over your paper-lined tray!), fit with lids, and process. If it is not ready, cook for a couple more minutes and repeat the test.
9. Place on a high flame and bring to a boil. Once boiling, turn down to a gentle simmer, and carefully add up to 4 jars at a time with tongs. The water should cover the jars completely.
10. Let the filled jars simmer for 5-6 minutes to pasteurize, and help the vacuum lids form their seal.
11. After 5-6 minutes, carefully remove the jars from the water, and place on your counter. Let sit until cool. During the cooling process the lids should make a loud popping sound as they seal. If one of the lids fails | 394 |
Paparazzi Purge can be one of the<|fim_middle|> the left.
Just go back to the original notification email and click adjust your settings. Or sign up again and then edit. | more frustrating missions in the game, but as ever there are a few tips to help you complete it.
In this mission Asuka asks you to take our a photographer who has been snooping on her interests. He is on a boat to the east of her house and will take off as soon as you engage him leading to a tricky chase which you can avoid with a little forward planning.
Get into the boat on the marina to the east of Asuka's house and make sure you jump into a police boat. Better still head one pontoon south and you'll find a faster police boat which will also give you more of the element of surprise and a chance to get close to him early on.
You'll then need to get close enough to his boat to do damage and then fire at it until it catches fire. You may have to play this a few times to get used to the route the photographer takes, so you can line him up to do maximum damage as he turns into your path.
Beware as he will throw grenades at you. As often as not, you will not do enough damage before he lands and runs off at which point you'll need to exit your boat as fast as you can and take him out, so make sure you've pre-selected an appropriate weapon before you get into your boat – the Uzi is a good mix of firepower and mobility.
With a little research you can improve your chances by watching where he exits the boat and then going back and restarting the mission and blocking his exit with a vehicle, although we found the vehicle sometimes disappears.
If you're lucky enough to have a rocket launcher, then you can climb onto the wall and fire at the boat. However, it will take two shots to destroy his boat and he will set off after the first shot, so you'll need to be accurate to take him out. Fail to do so and he'll have escaped.
Alternatively you can try with a M-16 by going down onto the marina to get closer but again you'll need two successful hits.
You can get hold of the M-16 either by shooting the mafia in the previous Sayonara Salvatore mission or by visiting the Projects area (as per our close-up of the map).
On the left of the main street entrance is a staircase with an underground car park on your left. Go up the stairs, go left and jump up onto the ledge. Then you'll need to time your jump perfectly to jump over the alleyway. Here you'll find armour on the right and a M-16 on | 518 |
MONACANTHIDAE
Acanthaluteres
vittiger
Toothbrush Leatherjacket, Acanthaluteres vittiger (Castelnau 1873)
Other Names: Brown Leatherjacket, Pale Brown Leatherjacket
A male Toothbrush Leatherjacket, Acanthaluteres vittiger, on the Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania. Source: Rick Stuart-Smith / Reef Life Survey. License: CC BY Attribution
Males are blackish-blue to brown with many blue lines and spots, and a broad pale band from the eye to a large toothbrush-like patch of bristles on the side. Females are yellowish-brown to brown usually with scattered pale blotches and darker brown spots on the sides. The caudal peduncle lacks spines.
Bray, D.J. 2020, Acanthaluteres vittiger in Fishes of Australia, accessed 18 Jan 2021, http://136.154.202.208/home/species/788
Endemic to southern Australia, from about Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, to north of Leeman, Western Australia, including Tasmania. The species is abundant in coastal waters of Victoria and Tasmania.
Juvenile toothbrush leatherjackets inhabit shallow sheltered seagrass beds, and generally move to rocky reefs as they grow. Adults are more common on deeper reefs.
Prior to settlement, larvae and small juveniles often shelter under floating seaweed before settling in seagrass beds.
Dorsal fin II + 30-35 (second spine tiny); Anal fin 27-34; Caudal fin 12; Pectoral fin 11-13; Vertebrae 20.
Body rather elongate in males, oblong, of moderate depth, somewhat deeper in females, very compressed, with ventral flap of moderate size; caudal peduncle shallow. Head large, acutely pointed; eyes small; mouth very small; teeth large, central pair in upper jaw truncate, those opposite in lower jaw somewhat more pointed; gill openings in form of small slit mostly above each pectoral fin base. Skin rather coarse to touch; midside of body in males with toothbrush-like patch of bristles, bristles poorly developed in females and juveniles; lateral line difficult to detect.
Two dorsal fins, first dorsal above eyes, consisting of prominent four-edged spine with row of strong downward-directed barbs along each edge, spine wholly received into deep groove when depressed, second dorsal widely separated from first, of moderate length, moderately elevated anteriorly in males, outer margin slightly convex and not elevated anteriorly in females; anal fin similar to and opposing second dorsal; caudal fin truncate. Pectoral fins moderately small, rounded. Pelvic fins rudimentary, rudiment prominent, immovably attached to rear end of pelvis.
To 32 cm.
Males brown to blackish blue, with numerous blue lines and spots; prominent white to pale blue band from each eye to toothbrush-like patch of bristles on side, similarly coloured blotch near pectoral fin; caudal fin dusky with pale rear border. Females yellowish brown to brown, usually with scattered pale blotches and dark brown spots on side of body. Juveniles similar to females but usually with broad white stripe extending from chin to caudal peduncle as well.
Taken and discarded as bycatch in the prawn trawl fishery of the Spencer Gulf, South Australia.
Monacanthus vittiger Castelnau 1873, Australia. 4. Fishes of South Australia<|fim_middle|>es of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp.
Hyndes, G.A., Kendrick, A.J., MacArthur, L.D. & Stewart, E. 2003. Differences in the species- and size-composition of fish assemblages in three distinct seagrass habitats with differing plant and meadow structure. Marine Biology 142: 1195-1206.
Hyndes, G., Platell, M., Potter, I. & Lenanton, R. 1999. Does the composition of the demersal fish assemblages in temperate coastal water change with depth and undergo consistent seasonal changes? Journal of Marine Biology 134(1): 335-352.
Kuiter, R. & Kuiter, S. 2018. Coastal sea-fishes of south-eastern Australia. Seaford, Victoria : Aquatic Photographics, 371 pp.
Last, P.R., Scott, E.O.G. & Talbot, F.H. 1983. Fishes of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority 563 pp. figs.
Macleay, W.J. 1881. Descriptive catalogue of the fishes of Australia. Part 4. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 6(2): 202-387 (p. 314, as Monacanthus guntheri).
Matsuura, K., Motomura, H. & Khan, M. 2019. Acanthaluteres vittiger. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T79800500A79800507. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T79800500A79800507.en. Downloaded on 27 September 2020.
May, J.L. & Maxwell, J.G.H. 1986. Field Guide to Trawl Fish from Temperate Waters of Australia. Hobart : CSIRO Division of Marine Research 492 pp.
Smith, T., Jenkins, G. & Hutchinson, N. 2012. Seagrass edge effects on fish assemblages in deep and shallow habitats. Estuarine, coastal and Shelf Science 115(10): 291-299.
Whitley, G.P. 1947. New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 3. The Australian Zoologist 11(2): 129-150 figs 1-3 pl. 11 (described as Penicipelta guntheri)
MONACANTHIDAE Leatherjackets
Habitat:Rocky reefs, seagrass beds | . Proc. Zool. Acclim. Soc. Vict. 2: .81. Type locality: Gulf St Vincent, South Australia.
Barrett, N. 1995. Short- and long-term movement patterns of six temperate reef fishes (families Labridae and Monacanthidae). Marine and Freshwater Research 46(5): 853-860.
Castelnau, F.L. de 1873. Contribution to the ichthyology of Australia. 4. Fishes of South Australia.Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria 2: 59-82.
Coleman, N. 1980. Australian Sea Fishes South of 30ºS. Lane Cove, NSW : Doubleday Australia Pty Ltd 309 pp.
Edgar, G.J. 2008. Australian Marine Life: the plants and animals of temperate waters. Sydney : Reed New Holland 2, 624 pp.
Edgar, G.J. & Shaw, C. 1995. The production and tropic ecology of shallow-water fish assemblages in southern Australia. III. General relationships between sediments, seagrasses, invertebrates and fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 194: 107-131.
Harvey, E., Cappo, M., Kendrick, G. & McLean, D. 2013. Coastal fish assemblages reflect geological and oceanographic gradients within an Australian zootone. PLoS ONE 8(11): e80955. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080955
Hoschke, A., Whisson, G. & Moore, G.I. 2019. Complete list of fishes from Rottnest Island. pp. 150-161 in Whisson, G. & Hoschke, A. (eds) The Rottnest Island fish book. 2nd ed. Perth : Aqua Research and Monitoring Services.
Hutchins, J.B. 1977. Descriptions of three new genera and eight new species of monacanthid fishes from Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 5(1): 3-58 figs 1-13 (as Penicipelta vittiger)
Hutchins, J.B. 1994. Family Monacanthidae. pp. 866-891 figs 767-787 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs.
Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Biodiversity of shallow reef fish assemblages in Western Australia using a rapid censusing technique. Records of the Western Australian Museum 20: 247-270
Hutchins, J.B. 2008. Family Monacanthidae. pp. 822-841 in Gomon. M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H (eds). Fish | 721 |
Online shopping for Underscore 66" x 32" Soaking Bathtub Finish: White is the most effective idea for furniture shopping currently. There are many important things about buying furniture online. Though we are not here to talk about those<|fim_middle|> a lot of opinions on your shopping. It is you you who're going to use that furniture so no one aside from you can judge precisely what is best for you. Also, you realize your home greater than anyone else so that you can choose the top thing for this.
Search for a good website: Most of the furniture manufacturers have their own websites online. You can easily find a very good web site to buy furniture from. Also, it is possible to search on the internet and find additional information about online furniture shopping.
Search for reviews: There are also websites and forums online where users discuss particular furniture items and share their reviews and experience. You can use those reviews to learn about any particular furniture manufacturer or perhaps a product.
Compare the cost: Once you have chosen a product, you ought to do some searching online to match its cost on various websites. You will find much difference in the price range of the particular item on different websites. You should also not go along with the most affordable item. It is the quality that matters. You should prefer quality over the retail price.
Look for the warranty: Almost all quality furniture items include certain a guarantee. Warranty is extremely necessary especially with shopping on the web so that it is possible to claim for exchange if you realise any mistake or complain within the product once delivered. Also, you must take good care while doing online transactions. Security and safety of your passwords is incredibly important and that means you must take proper care.
All the above mentioned tips will help you when you get a great furniture deal online. Many people fear from internet shopping for Underscore 66" x 32" Soaking Bathtub Finish: White, but I assure you that online furniture shopping can be a completely secure and beneficial way of furniture shopping with health care and follow above steps. | benefits, I am going to talk about some tips that can make your internet shopping experience better.
Do not buy in a rush: Furniture is quite a while and expensive investment, so that you should have serious amounts of do your homework to find the most effective for your house. Each person has different requirements and desires which means you must buy furniture to be aware of all the requirements.
Measure the room properly: Before going in the market to purchase the furniture, you have to know about the area where you stand planning to put that furniture item. You should appraise the dimensions properly using inch tape then only you should buy furniture.
Do not ask too many people: You need not to look at | 138 |
The IB Learner Profile consists of 10 attributes that we would like our school community to strive to become. Starting in TK and continuing through 5th-grade students are taught each attribute and acknowledged for showing these attributes in their actions. Teachers read books to help children see concrete examples of<|fim_middle|> In the Sargeant Families Blog, we will include the attribute of the month as well as how families can support the development of the attribute at home.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate, and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences can also be right.
Encouraging global awareness through learning opportunities by being involved in their community and world.
Collaborating with staff to provide a supportive environment that embraces all strengths and learning challenges. | these attributes in action. | 5 |
Cooking Grains
What Is the Benefit of Tapioca Starch?
Tammy Dray
Tapioca starch is made from the root of the cassava plant. Although it can be used as a flour for baking, its mainly used as a thickener. Tapioca is widely used in Asian cuisine, especially in Thai recipes. In India, tapioca starch is sometimes boiled and flavored with spices to eat as a side dish.
The most obvious benefit of tapioca starch is that it is gluten free and wheat free. This makes it an appropriate option for people who have gluten intolerances but still want to bake or add thickeners to their recipes.
Wide Cooking Uses
Tapioca starch works well in a number of recipes, making it an appropriate choice for baking pies, making flat breads and creating snacks such as chips and wafers. Because tapioca starch is also a thickener, many cooks use it to thicken soups, puddings and gravies. Tapioca adds chewiness to a recipe, so it's not a good choice if you're looking for a harder, crumbling texture for cookies or muffins.
Bland Taste
Tapioca starch has a bland, neutral taste. This is an advantage when cooking, as adding tapioca starch won't affect the flavor of a recipe. Because of its neutral taste, tapioca starch can be used in both sweet and salty dishes without problem. Other gluten-free starches and flours, such as buckwheat flour, potato starch and brown rice flour, will change the flavor, color or texture of dishes. Tapioca starch will not.
Tapioca starch contains no protein, making it a good choice for those trying to cut their protein intake. Most other types of starches and flours contain at least some protein. For example<|fim_middle|>What Are the Health Benefits of Coconut Flour?
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What Can I Use Instead of Eggs for Baking a Cake? | , wheat flour contains 16 g of protein per 120 g serving, which equals about one cup. According to Fine Cooking, low-protein starches are good for cooking soft –rather than crusty, crunchy-- breads, cakes and biscuits.
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The Einstein Foundation Berlin was founded in 2009 by the State of Berlin. The Foundation aims to promote science and research of top international calibre in Berlin and to establish the city as a centre of scientific excellence. In addition to its endowment, the Foundation also receives state funding. An independent scientific commission of the highest standard selects projects for funding. Financial support and donations are welcome.
To promote excellent cross-institutional research projects in Berlin.
To raise the visibility of Berlin as a centre of research excellence.
To enable new forms of cooperation between universities and non-university research institutions.
To evaluate new fields of research, to give strategic advice on identifying focuses of future research.
To encourage top international scientists to collaborate with Berlin institutions.
The Foundation honours the work of Albert<|fim_middle|> foundation under German civil law. The Foundation's constitution can be viewed here.
The constitution of the Einstein Foundation Berlin. | Einstein and its immense significance for science and society in Berlin and across the globe. We are grateful to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, responsible for preserving the legacy of Albert Einstein, for its valued cooperation and participation in the Foundation Council and the Research Board.
The Einstein Foundation Berlin is a lean, independent and science-driven nonprofit institution, which has been established as a | 71 |
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Fox says no Super Bowl ads for candidates
Ira Teinowitz, tvweek.com
There may be ads for beer, cars and computers on the Super Bowl, but there won't be any for presidential candidates.
Fox has put an end to speculation that one or more of the presidential candidates might use the highest-rated TV broadcast of the year to air a national campaign spot two days before more than 20 states hold presidential primary and caucus votes.
While no candidate has yet requested time, the network has declared it won't sell Super Bowl spots to their campaigns.
The reasons: The show is sold out and equal opportunities couldn't be provided to all candidates, even if some additional time could be found for one to buy in.
"We comply<|fim_middle|> $2.6 million and $3 million for Super Bowl spots—a pretty high price for any commercial, let alone a political spot—some political experts and media watchers had suggested that a buy might be worth it because of the buzz and publicity a candidate could generate.
"If I were Mitt Romney, I would buy a Super Bowl spot, which would be two days before Super Tuesday, produce something very creative and get tons of free press out of it," said Matthew Dowd, a political consultant. "No campaign has done that before."
The Super Bowl, which airs Feb. 3, pits the undefeated New England Patriots against the New York Giants.
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Sponsored Content: Northwell tackles women's health issues during Covid-19 crisis | with all legal requirements when it comes to selling time to candidates, including any requirements that might apply to a unique broadcast like the Super Bowl," the network said.
Sources close to the situation cited an Federal Communications Commission rulings that say a network can reasonably refuse to sell political time in "unique, one-time-only" broadcasts where equal ad time can't be offered to all candidates. Additionally, candidates are not entitled to a particular placement of their ads on a station's broadcast schedule.
Though Fox is asking between | 100 |
Lauren Tannehill Bio & Everything About Ryan Tannehill's Wife
Lauren Tannehill's bio reveals that she was born on 12th October 1988...has two brothers named Jordan and Dillon...married her college sweetheart Ryan Tannehill in January 2012...her husband is an American football quarterback for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League...
Lauren Tannehill is a cardiology assistant. On the other hand, she is a former model, who had signed with Houston's 713 Model and Talent Agency in 2008.
Later, she got media attention after she<|fim_middle|> Super Bowl-bound Patrick Mahomes, and on 1st February, he was named the NFL Comeback Player of the year.
Lauren's birth sign in Libra and her husband's birth sign is Leo.
Her husband stands at the height of 6 feet, 4 inches (1.93 meters).
Lauren celebrated her daughter's first birthday on 29th September 2019.
Lauren and her husband celebrated their anniversary on 14th January 2020. | married an American football quarterback Ryan Timothy Tannehill III. And by now, Lauren has also gained over 29.2K thousand followers on Twitter and 51.1 thousand followers on Instagram.
Lauren Tannehill's Bio
Lauren Tannehill was born on 12th October 1988, in Georgia, the US, to Nancy Ufer and John Ufer. Her father, John, unexpectedly passed away one day after his 55th birthday in October 2019. With a caption, Lauren shared a picture of her father.
"Yesterday the Lord unexpectedly took my Daddy home. He was such a special man to all of us! We loved him so deeply! I miss and love you, Daddy! So broken!"
In the family, Lauren has two brothers named Jordan and Dillon.
Married Details
Lauren Tannehill is married to Ryan Tannehill, an American football quarterback.
They both attended school at Texas A & M but met during their spring break in Panama City in 2009. When they first crossed their path, Lauren was unaware that Ryan played football for their college. Speaking with 4 CBS Miami, she said,
"I didn't know for a good couple of days until they were all playing football in the yard and I was like 'you're really good," "And that's when I kind of put that together."
A year later, in May 2011, they engaged, and in January 2012, they got into marital bliss. Lauren and Ryan spent the first three months of their married life in Bradenton, where Ryan was in training.
Lauren Tannehill with her husband Ryan Tannehill on 3rd February 2020 (Photo: Lauren Tannehill's Instagram)
Now, the duo is blessed with two children; a son Steel and a daughter Stella.
Husband Ryan
Lauren's husband Ryan is an American football quarterback for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). During his college days, he played football at Texas A&M following his draft at the Miami Dolphins in 2012. There, he spent six of seven years as the primary starting quarterback before being traded to Tennessee after the 2018 season.
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Convergent Performers
The four partners of Convergent Performance, LLC founded the company with one simple goal in mind: to combine their unique ideas and diverse experience to create rigorous human factors programs which would be years ahead of their contemporaries in any given high-risk industry, and create lasting improvements in human performance and potential.
Tony Kern, B.A, M.A., Ed.D., Command Pilot (USAF, Ret.)
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Learning Officer
My quest for understanding human performance began in tragedy, when two of my former students crashed a perfectly functioning B-1 Bomber into a ridgeline on a moonless night in 1992.
For the next several years, I studied and wrote tirelessly as a way to come to grips with where I might have had failed them. Ten years and three books later, I received a phone call from a senior military officer asking if I could help them with a human performance problem they were experiencing—and Convergent Performance was born.
I'm not a very smart guy, but I am a slow-and-steady learner. What I lack in innate intelligence is compensated for by an insatiable appetite to know why well-intended, well-trained people sometimes fail tragically, or never reach their full potential. I've written nearly 3,000 published pages on this topic, and feel that the more I learn, the less I know for sure. What I do know for certain is that we need a reawakening of the human spirit when it comes to personal accountability and responsibility for our own performance. Over the years, we have discovered several keys that make this awakening happen, and we seek to share them with you. It's our passion, our mission, and our reason for being.
Reading Recommendations: The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations, by Dietrich Dörner; The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed our Minds, by Michael Lewis; The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara.
Tony's Full Bio
Dr. Tony Kern is one of the world's leading authorities on human performance in time-constrained, error-intolerant environments, and has written and lectured on the subject around the globe for nearly two decades.
Dr. Kern has received multiple awards for his work, including Aviation Week & Space Technology 2002 Laurels Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government and Military, the University Aviation Association's John K. Lauber Safety Award (2015), and the Flight Safety Foundation-Airbus Human Factors in Aviation Safety Award (2015). While Tony is grateful to have won these and other awards, it's a completely different honor to have an award named after you. In 2015, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) announced the creation of the Dr. Tony Kern Professionalism in Aviation award, and at the NBAA National Safety Forum in 2016, NBAA President Ed Bolan announced the first 19 award recipients.
Dr. Kern has authored nine books on human performance, and is a featured columnist and contributing editor for Canadian Skies, Vertical, and Vertical 911 magazines. Over the past decade, he has broadened his approach beyond aviation. In his latest book, The Ghost of Nathan Hale (North Slope Publications, 2016) he details how declining public trust in government is an existential threat to America and the world itself, and provides strong motivation and a step-by-step path for restoring the integrity of government.
Dr. Kern served in the U.S. Air Force as a command pilot and flight examiner in the B-1B bomber, in diverse senior staff and leadership roles, and as Chairman of the U.S. Air Force Human Factors Steering Group. He is also a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute and the U.S. Federal Government Senior Executive Service Development Program.
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Captain Chris Lutat, B.A., ATP (DA-20, MD-11)
Being a founding member of Convergent Performance has been one of the most interesting and rewarding aspects of my career in aviation.
Right from the founding of our Company in 2003, Convergent Performance has allowed me to pursue contemporary aviation issues alongside some of the best thinkers and support staff in the Aviation Safety community. And as a former Coast Guard aviator, I've always associated aviation with saving lives. At Convergent Performance, we don't operate airplanes but we provide services that save lives—allowing me to combine two passions in the service of the broader aviation industry. I don't know of any other company in our category that has as much experience or know-how when it comes to addressing the complexity of the human-machine relationship, or that does it with the same rigor.
Reading Recommendations: When I share literature recommendations with fellow professionals, always at the top of the list are two authors who have taught me much about the human-machine relationship: Gary Klein and Henry Petroski. Their rigorous exploration of contemporary safety issues is inspirational and instructional, and every edition that I own written by each of these researchers is full of highlights and notes written in the margin.
Christopher's Full Bio
Chris Lutat is a graduate of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy and served the Coast Guard as a Search and Rescue Pilot and Instructor Pilot.
Prior to his designation as a Coast Guard aviator, he served aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Evergreen as a Deck Watch Officer, Communications Officer and Boarding Officer. He served as a Falcon 20G "Guardian" Aircraft Commander and instructor and was among the initial cadre of U. S. Coast Guard human factors facilitators. He holds an Air Transport Pilot certificate and type ratings in several commercial aircraft, and currently operates the Boeing MD11 family of aircraft. He has been a pioneer in bringing advanced technology procedures, interfaces, CRM and airmanship to organizations around the world.
Chris has led Convergent's Advanced and Emerging Technology team for over ten years. He has been guiding organizations of all sizes through the transition from legacy aircraft to advanced fleets through developing policies, procedures and practices associated with safe, smooth, efficient operation of advanced aircraft. Both his extensive field work and research have made him a popular speaker on the subject of human-machine interface, and he has addressed military and civilian audiences at a variety of forums around the world.
Chris is the co-author of "Automation Airmanship: Nine Principles for Operating Glass Cockpit Aircraft" (in press, McGraw-Hill Professional). Chris is also a Captain, Check Airman and Instructor Pilot for a major global airline, operating wide-bodied, glass cockpit aircraft on world-wide routes. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
Kenneth D. Stahl, M.D., F.A.C.S.
President of Healthcare
I learned how to fly airplanes right along with learning how to do surgery, and these two parallel loves came together the day my three partners and I started Convergent Performance in the dining room of my house.
Although I've never flown for any of the flag carriers, I fly my own airplane for charity missions and medical transportation. I've spent about as much time in the cockpit as in the operating room, where I perform heart surgery and train residents to do procedures, as well as how to think about problem solving and avoiding errors.
Our work at Convergent Performance has made two of my career goals possible: I have taken the safety science from my Airline Transport Pilot certificate training right into the hospital to develop a mindset and training curriculum for healthcare providers to mitigate small mistakes before they end up as patient tragedies. I look back at the residents and medical students I have trained as force multipliers for my own surgical skills and error avoidance methods. I may never know who they help in their future careers, but I know they take my lessons along with them. The same is true for our work in aviation; while I don't fly with most of the pilots I train, I know they hear my voice in the back of their heads as they make their own flight safety decisions.
Reading Recommendations: Two of my favorite authors are Laurence Gonzales and Malcolm Gladwell. They both encapsulate one of my favorite mental exercises, called "metacognition," or thinking about the way we think about things. Gonzales' book, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, is a must-read, and I've gifted it to my kids and everyone else who wants to avoid life threatening situations. Another of his great books is, Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience. Gladwell has numerous books that are great reads, but two lesser known books, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, are particularly worthwhile.
Kenneths's Full Bio
Dr. Ken Stahl is an internationally recognized expert in adapting principles of aviation safety to the healthcare industry to increase patient safety.
Dr. Stahl is board-certified in cardiothoracic surgery as well as surgical critical care and general surgery. He has been involved in many aspects of clinical medicine and medical research for over 20 years. He is also an FAA certified airline transport pilot (ATP) and has logged thousands of hours in the cockpit. He is the author of over 75 textbook chapters, peer-reviewed publications and presentations on a variety of clinical and systems topics that include surgical teamwork and team training, patient safety and the High Reliability Mindset.
Dr. Stahl has been one of the pioneers in the role of robotics and computer-assisted surgery in modern operating rooms and has taught numerous courses on robotic-assisted surgery as well as performed surgical procedures all over the world. He has developed simulator models to teach surgeons robotic and endoscopic techniques. As a pilot, he has type ratings in various complex, high performance aircraft and has additional experience in acrobatic flying. He continues to practice surgery full-time.
Pat Daily, M.S.
"It'll end up being more about the people than the tile or the foam." I still remember those words from a mentor of mine. I was working for Honeywell at NASA's Johnson Space Center when the Columbia disintegrated on reentry. He was right. In the aftermath of the tragedy, we learned more about the flawed decisions that cost America seven astronauts and a shuttle.
I'd been a test pilot in the USAF, an airline pilot, and an engineer—all fairly technical fields, but the words of my mentor echoed in my mind as I made the decision to quit a stable and satisfying career to found Convergent. It was time to turn my professional efforts to improving people's performance, particularly in those endeavors where mistakes can easily cost lives.
Fifteen years later, in January of 2019, I retired from Convergent Performance and returned to my flight test roots.
Reading recommendations: Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, by Richard P. Feynman, and Tools Of Titans by Tim Ferriss are the books I've most frequently given as gifts. Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl is profound and took the longest to read, as I would put it down for a week at a time while I thought about the content.
Doug Downey, B.S., MBA, Lt. Col. (USAF, Ret.)
As a human reliability company with unique strategies, Convergent Performance is more than a global leader of Human Factors research, education, and training for high-risk industries.
In simple terms, we enable individuals to self-identify personal limitations, errors, and untapped potential. Despite having a successful career in the Air Force—where I conducted high-risk activities daily—when I reflect on that time, I realize I could have been much better and achieved so much more. Not through extra effort, but through increased self-awareness of my personal error patterns and the potential I was leaving on the table each and every day.
Working at this incredible company motivates me to ensure our recipe for success is translated and delivered to every individual and organization in every high-risk industry where tolerances for error are small and overall collective potential can be vastly improved. Once these life skills are mastered, they easily translate to any job, and high performance becomes normalized in the form of safer operations and higher levels of compliance.
Reading Recommendations: Think, by Malcom Gladwell; Nuts, by Jackie and Kevin Freiberg; The Iliad, by Homer; Uncommon, by Tony Dungy.
Doug's Full Bio
Doug Downey is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and served over 24 years as a college instructor, Combat Logistician, Commander, and as a Fighter Pilot qualified in the F-16 Viper and F-117 Stealth.
He served as an instructor pilot, functional check pilot, and air show demonstration pilot. He is a career Safety Officer qualified in Crew Resource Management, Safety Management Systems, Root Cause Analysis and accident investigations with experience as an Investigator, Analyst, Chief of Safety, and Aircraft Mishap Board President. He also served as a as an Advance Agent for Air Force One and President G.W. Bush for five years, and later as a Diplomat to Pakistan. In Pakistan he directly consulted the Government on the redesign of F-16 tactical operations, national airspace use, and safety program management and enterprise risk management for the entire Pakistani Air Force.
Doug joined the Convergent Performance team in 2014, and brought with him a breadth of experience in leadership, training, risk mitigation, safety management systems, and process improvement. He has a Bachelor's Degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a Master's Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Aviation from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. In addition to instructing cadets how to fly T-52s (Diamond) and T-53s (Cirrus), he was the Deputy Director of Cadet Training & Education responsible for all curriculum development and strategic planning of assessment and tactical training of over 4,0<|fim_middle|> of the school PTO.
Marcie Miller, A.A., B.A.
Director of Creative Services
Convergent Performance provides me the support and tools in my professional development as the Graphic Designer and more recently, the lead in creative services. Everyone has a niche in the company, but the owners and managers know it's our company as much as theirs. They care about us and help us to grow, strive to learn new skill sets, and appreciate us.
Reading recommendations: The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas; Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank
Marcie's Full Bio
Marcie is a team-oriented, self-directed executive support professional with over 20 years of experience, and has been with Convergent Performance since 2009.
In 2007, Marcie graduated Summa Cum Laude from Buffalo State University of New York College with a B.A. in Communications and a writing minor. During her time there, she received the Academic Excellence Award, Outstanding Student in Communication Studies Award, and was a member of the Student Honor Society of the National Communication Association. She also holds an A.A. in Interior Design from Bryant & Stratton College. Since graduating, Marcie has developed her expertise in graphic design, offering her creative eye and software skills to Convergent Performance's growing design needs. As Director of Creative Services, she oversees the concept, design, and production of all creative projects for multiple business products and programs. Additionally, as Graphic Designer, she conceptualizes, designs, and produces most of our visual materials, along with designing custom content for our clients. During her free time, Marcie enjoys photography, art, and spending time with her family.
Craig L. Prichard, B.S., MBA, Lt. Col.(USAF, Ret), CFII
Convergent Performance has allowed me to explore new ways to manage and mitigate risk, not only in a professional capacity, but in my personal life as well. Having the opportunity to go out amongst aviation enthusiasts and interact with mechanics, pilots, and management personnel has expanded my appreciation and respect for this dynamic profession. Finding ways to enhance individual, group, social/cultural behavior is an incredible challenge and one that brings immense satisfaction when genuinely and passionately pursued.
Reading Recommendations: The Moral Compass, by William J. Bennet; 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, by Jordan Peterson.
Craig's Full Bio
Craig is a 20-year military aviator with a primary background as an instructor pilot in the T-6, T-37, B-1B, and T-41/52/53 platforms.
He has spent over 3,000 flight hours trying to figure out how to maximize performance in himself and others—from the youngest aviators (Academy Cadets & invincible 2nd Lieuts.) to seasoned combat veterans. Most recently, Craig served as a flight instructor for the Air Force's Initial Flight Training School in Pueblo, Colorado.
Starting as a Certified Instructor for Convergent Performance in 2015, and now as Director of Operations, Craig continues his pursuit of perfection. His five children and beautiful wife have no difficulty in reminding him that he has a very long way to go—in a wide range of areas. But he remains undeterred, and will continue the fight, because the price for giving in, or giving up, is much too high. He is honored and excited to be a part of the United Moving Ahead—As One program.
Paul Miller, B.A.
Technical Writer/Editor, IT Manager
Convergent Performance provides me the opportunity to work in a dynamic and ever-changing small business environment, where one moment I can be editing an emergency procedure checklist, the next I'm reviewing cutting-edge training videos, and then I'm troubleshooting a computer issue or researching the latest cyber threat. More importantly, I work at Convergent Performance because I believe that the content we offer makes people safer and even saves lives.
Reading Recommendations: The Miracle Morning, by Hal Elrod; The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell.
Paul's Full Bio
Paul has been writing and editing documents for Convergent Performance since 2010. His love for—and innate ability with—all things technology quickly made him the "IT guy" at the company.
As lead technical writer and editor, he is instrumental in creating, formatting, and editing most of the written materials that Convergent creates. Past projects include rewriting all aircraft flight manuals for the C-27J aircraft, updating the Forest Service Manual (FSM 5700) and Forest Service Handbook (FSH 5709.16), and many more. As IT Manager, he creates and implements Convergent's IT policy and procures all necessary technology and services, plus he occasionally gets to fix a computer. Paul graduated with a bachelor's degree in Professional Writing from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, where he also minored in communication. In his free time, Paul enjoys playing mini golf with his family, writing fiction, and reading anything he can get his hands on.
Becky Young
I wear many hats at Convergent Performance (as all of us do), but I especially like to crunch numbers—and there are a lot of numbers to crunch here! As the primary administrator, I get to play a vital role keeping the small business machine running: answering phones, ordering office supplies, keeping the company calendar, researching financial and tax issues, verifying payroll, and so much more. My favorite part of the job is saving the company money. What we do is important, because by putting together the right tools and the right people, we help organizations in many industries develop safer work environments. Our end goal is to save lives, and by helping Convergent Performance be successful, I have a small part in that.
Reading Recommendations: Churchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts; Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis.
Becky's Full Bio
Becky is a motivated support professional with over 34 years of diverse experience who joined Convergent Performance in May 2018.
Becky has a background in administrative and financial support roles, as well as being an avid community volunteer for local schools and churches, serving as a Volunteer Coordinator for several all-service type ministries.
Becky is a native of Missouri and moved to Colorado with her husband and daughter in 1988. She has five children and one granddaughter, and in her free time enjoys spending time with her family, reading, watching sporting events, cooking, hiking, and running trails in Colorado.
Darryl Dellarossa
Certified Instructor and QA SME
I grew up in Montana near an Air Force base, and loved to watch the F106 fighters flying around. My 5th grade teacher warned me: "Darryl, look up here, you won't make a living looking out the window at airplanes!" Boy, was she wrong—I was a military, FAA, and contract air traffic controller for 38 years. I have spent my life in military and civilian aviation pursuits: ATC, unmanned systems, and instruction. Convergent performance allows me to realize my true passion: being on the podium and training others to achieve their potential.
Reading Recommendations: An Army at Dawn, by Rick Atkinson; A Soldier of the Great War, by Mark Helprin; and The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
Darryl's Full Bio
Darryl says he owes everything to the training he received in the Air Force.
He continued his military service with 27 years in the Colorado Army National Guard. During that time, he did 2 combat tours in Iraq, completed his Bachelors in Economics, graduated Army Warrant Officer School, the Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems Officers Course, and the Army Aviation Safety Officers Course. During Darryl's last 3 years in the Guard, he was the lead instructor at the Colorado Army National Guard's Officer Candidate School. Before joining Convergent Performance, Darryl did a 15-month tour in Herat, Afghanistan as the airfield safety officer and air traffic controller.
His true passion is being with his 16-year-old daughter Elaina, and watching her play volleyball.
Greg Sundgaard, M.S., B.S., Capt. (USCG, Ret.)
As a helicopter pilot privileged to 'wear the cloth of our country' as a 27-year veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, I had the opportunity to be part of a wide variety of missions that challenged us. I use the word us deliberately—because, as I've said many times over the years, the greatest accomplishments of my life and career have been as part of a team. These teams helped make an impact in the lives of the individuals and the families we were privileged to serve—and the same goes for the team here at Convergent. I see and feel the same dedication and passion to give a maximum effort in order to be there for our customers and clients when they need us most. It's not hyperbole to say that we're saving lives here at Convergent, because we know that we have the opportunity to do just that—maybe not today, or tomorrow—but the impact we may have in helping prevent a mishap down the road, helping save a family from being on the receiving end of a call or visit no family ever wants to get, is an endeavor worthy of the best we have to offer. That's what the team here does day-in and day-out. It's why I was drawn to Convergent, and why I'm excited to be part of this fantastic team of passionate professionals who are dedicated to making a difference in the lives of the people we're fortunate enough to serve.
Reading Recommendations: Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul, by John Eldredge; Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West, by Stephen E. Ambrose; Character in Action: The U.S. Coast Guard on Leadership, by Donald T. Phillips and James M. Loy; Exemplary Performance: Driving Business Results by Benchmarking Your Star Performers, by Paul Elliott and Al Folsom; First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis; by Allison Rossett.
Greg's Full Bio
Greg is an experienced organizational change leader with a passion for developing people.
He builds teams and programs that improve the way an organization operates and gives people the tools they need to do their jobs better. The systems he's built have improved operational effectiveness and safety for the U.S. Coast Guard across the spectrum of aviation, surface, and shore-based operations. He's helped shape policy and align maritime security, international affairs and Arctic operations with the State Department, Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense.
After transitioning into the corporate community, Greg had the opportunity to bring his passion to the oil and gas industry, first as a qualified Rig Move Excellence consultant with Check-6 Logistics Solutions, and then as the Director of Training and Standardization for a startup drilling contracting firm, Travis Drilling. He also worked as the Director of Training and Standardization and Director of Operations for Dropped Object Management Services International LLC, a firm dedicated to decreasing the incidence of dropped objects, one of the leading causes of injury and death in industrial operations world-wide. Greg joined the team at Convergent Performance in 2019, bringing his passion and dedication to improvement to the company known for being at the forefront of lasting culture change efforts and human error reduction.
Rod Dorsey B.S., MBA, Col (USAF, Ret.)
I am very excited to be returning to Convergent Performance and their mission. After three decades in the military and subsequent work in the high-risk/high-performance professions of oil and gas and aviation, I'm honored to be back to focusing on improving the human element so necessary in high performing teams. I am fully committed to helping programs accomplish complex things in a way that not only attains greatness in the achievement itself, but the process by which the thing was done.
There is so much data in our daily lives that it is easy to be distracted, taken off-task, and made less effective and safe. I am intent on helping teams build trust and effective communications, clear and efficient processes, and maintain new standards for their industry and profession. I believe that this is a task worthy of my best efforts and one to which I am all-in.
The Platinum Rule, by Michael O'Conner and Tony Alessandra; The First 20 Hours – How to Learn Anything Fast, by Josh Kaufman; The Signal and the Noise, by Nate Silver; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Marcus Aurelius.
Rod's Full Bio
Rod Dorsey is an accomplished senior leader with more than 35 years of experience leading organizations, teams, projects, and programs.
A highly successful strategic planner with broad experience, his career has taken him all across the U.S. and overseas in positions with both the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of State. A leader and an organizer, he built and sustained cooperative relationships with executive management, government agencies, and command staffs at international, regional, and local levels. He is also an accomplished writer and public speaker skilled at training that both informs and persuades.
In the private sector, Rod worked as a Safety and High-Risk Performance Coach and a Multi-Function Engineering and Science Manager. He has recently served as an Operational SME solving complex technical program issues in a challenging overseas work environment. He was also selected as Release Manager for system training delivering technical lessons and training in the middle east.
Rod is a natural diplomat who excels at nurturing quality relationships with peers, team members, customers, and leadership. In his time off, Rod is an active civic volunteer who champions STEM activities in his community.
Jim Bridwell A.A., B.A., ATP (727, 737, Be1900, SW4)
Working for Convergent Performance is a great way to keep my mind active, and it allows me to give back to the aviation industry as a human factors instructor. Human factors training is constantly evolving, and I feel privileged to contribute to its growth and have an impact on improving aviation safety. Every time I teach, I marvel at the ways our curriculum both contributes to industry safety, while also showing people their personal growth potential, both on and off the job. I wish I had been exposed to this type of training early in my own career.
Reading Recommendations: Band of Brothers, by Ernest K. Gann (Not the D-day story); Captain Cook in Alaska and the North Pacific, by James K. Barnett; The Art of War, by Sun Tzu; Lifetime Plan for Success, by Dale Carnegie.
Jim's Full Bio
Following military experience as an intelligence case officer in Washington, D.C., Jim taught math and science in a public school while building his flying experience.
His aviation career "officially" started as a flight instructor and charter pilot based at Boeing Field in Seattle, and progressed to bank mail pilot and commuter airline pilot in the Pacific Northwest, to Airbus A300 instructor for Eastern Airlines in Miami, and to Director of Training for Ozark Airlines in St. Louis. For the past 4 years Jim has been associated with Convergent Performance and Blue Threat Enterprises, instructing the concepts of the Global War on Error at FedEx, an Alaska Christian missionary aviation department, and the Boeing executive flight department. He has over 20,000 hours of flight experience, and has type ratings in SW4, Be1900, Be300, B727 and B737 aircraft.
Doug Pratt, B.S., Lt. Col. (USAF, Ret.)
Convergent Performance challenges me to understand myself better, realize where my weak points are, and give my best every time I step in the cockpit. It creates a deeper sense of humility about my own shortcomings, and how to best mitigate them. Every day that I fly I wonder, "Will today be the day that I lose the engine, or hit a flock of birds, or have the captain with the heart attack? Am I ready?" I think it is vital that as aviators we don't let our guard down both professionally and personally.
Reading Recommendations: David and Goliath and Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell; 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, by Jordan Peterson.
Doug is a 20-year military aviator and 4-year civilian flyer with a major airline.
He has over 5,000 hours of flying time in multiple aircraft, including T-37, T-38, F-15C, C-5A/B/C, DA-20, and Airbus 319/320/321. He has flown in challenging combat environments, instructed students in both 750,000 C-5 Galaxies and 2,000-pound Diamond 20s, and is currently piloting for a commercial airline. Doug also served the Director of Presidential Flight Operations at the Pentagon for both Bush and Obama, where he directed logistical operations for all Air Force One flights and crew. His beautiful wife, Cher, is a Colorado Springs physician, and they have two teenage children who challenge him almost more than flying does. He is very excited to be a part of the Convergent team, and is looking forward to upcoming challenges.
Michelle C. Ruehl, M.A., B.S., Lt. Col. (USAF, Ret.), ATP, CFII
When I was in Afghanistan, we faced an aircraft accident—a tragedy. We lost four crew members and friends. It could have been prevented. After the crash, many of our squadron mates wondered what we could do to stop this from happening. We turned to Tony's book Redefining Airmanship. My husband was an evaluator pilot at the time, and he made copies of the performance pillars and handed them out to all the young pilots. We were desperate to start a cultural movement: awareness of our human factors, limitations, and challenges, and how to improve judgment both in the air and on the ground. As Aeschylus wrote in Agamemnon, "Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble with its memories of pain, drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, so men against their will, learn to practice moderation." Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could learn to practice moderation and avoid some of that suffering?
Years later, I had the opportunity to work with members of Convergent on other projects and I noticed that each one had incredible self-awareness and passion for teaching human factors. I realized most of the things I do as an English teacher, flight instructor, equine therapeutic riding instructor, and mother all have the same things in common—helping people reflect inward and grow outward. Convergent Performance provides a space where I can continue this work and help others reach their personal and professional goals.
Reading Recommendations: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T.E. Lawrence; The Conscious Parent, by Shefali Tsabary; When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi; Agamemnon, by Aeschylus
Michelle's Full Bio
Michelle has spent 16 years as an Air Force officer, where she served as both an English instructor and Flight Instructor at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
She has a background flying the T-34, C-130, MC-12W, and T-53 and has earned her ATP and CFII. She amassed 191 combat missions over Afghanistan. When Michelle was deployed, she spent time teaching local students using music and education to connect across their cultures. To honor the lives of the lost aircrew Independence 08, she founded a Non-Profit that uses horses, aviation, and sports to put on camps that teach empathy, active listening, and servant leadership to military children.
Michelle lives in Colorado with her airline husband and their two little ones, who already love to climb around in airplanes. She is a professional speaker and writer, a theater director, and an equine specialist in mental health, as well as an assault victim advocate for people who have survived trauma. Michelle has two M.A. degrees (one in Psychology and one in Rhetoric). She joined Convergent Performance in 2019 because she believes that only humans can solve the problem of human error. People can overcome difficult personal and professional challenges by learning how and why they respond to stressful situations. It requires doing some self-reflection and admitting we are all a work in progress.
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Doug is recognized as an industry expert in Risk Management, Safety Management Systems, Safety Program Management, and Aviation Accident and Mishap Investigations. He is a successful author of industry research studies and periodical columns. He also is certified by the International Society of Safety Professionals (ISSP) as a Registered Safety Professional.
Andy Kay
Media Development Specialist
I believe that Convergent Performance offers innovative and dynamic solutions to all high-risk industries, and a unique synergistic partnership approach with all of our clients. We are not experts in what you do—you are the experts. However, with our actionable and engaging solutions, we can help to encourage a more professional environment at your company, where the employees are safer in everything they do. This, along with the team of people I work with every day, is what energizes me to continually strive for more.
Reading Recommendations: Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglass Bader, by Paul Brickhill; Fate is the Hunter, by Ernest K. Gann.
Andy's Full Bio
Andy has been with Convergent Performance since November 2006 when he helped set up the Quantico, Virginia office with Tony Kern, specifically to manage the eLearning portion of the successful U.S. Marine Corps G-WOE program.
Originally from England, Andy came to us with a background in eLearning development and web design, and brings with him his own aviation experience serving in the British Royal Air Force, followed by a number of years with the Air Force of the Sultanate of Oman. Andy continues to manage our Learning Management System and develop eLearning courses, and also handles our video projects, both shooting and editing. He met and married his wife in London where she was stationed at the American Embassy with the U.S. Navy, and they have one son currently attending college in Kentucky. They made the move out to Colorado Springs in 2011 to be part of the Convergent family here.
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I feel privileged to work for a company that helps high-risk industries improve their culture by advancing individual performance and efficiency. The programs we offer not only help companies save time and money on insurance claims, but more importantly the work we do saves lives. I love having the opportunity to truly get to know the individuals that make each company we work with a safer, better place.
Reading Recommendation: Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge, by Daniel A. Sjursen.
Shae's Full Bio
Shae is originally from Bemus Point, NY, and is a 1996 graduate of Baldwin Wallace University, where she majored in Communications.
She moved to Colorado Springs in 2003 and worked in local radio, television, and internet marketing & sales. Her early career was on air in both television and as a radio DJ. In her spare time you can find her with her husband and kids doing many running races across El Paso County with the Pikes Peak Road Runners. For the past 12 years she has been the President of the Colorado Springs Buffalo Bills Backers chapter and a member | 644 |
Tha Chang (, ) is a district (amphoe) in the southern part of Sing Buri province, central Thailand.
History
Three tambons of Phrom Buri district were separated to create the minor district (king amphoe) Tha Chang in 1960. It was upgraded to a full district in 1963.
Geography
The Noi river is the main water resource of the district. It is a fertile river and has a wide river sand beach. The area was previously used to feed royal elephants.
Neighboring districts are (from the west clockwise) Khai Bang Rachan, Mueang Sing Buri and Phrom Buri of Sing B<|fim_middle|> a subdistrict municipality (thesaban tambon) which covers most of the tambon Thon Samo and Phikun Thong. There are further 2 Tambon administrative organizations (TAO).
References
External links
amphoe.com (Thai)
Tha Chang | uri Province, and Chaiyo and Pho Thong of Ang Thong province.
Administration
The district is subdivided into 4 subdistricts (tambon), which are further subdivided into 23 villages (muban). Thon Samo is | 57 |
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Dean's instructions for creating a stand-up routine provide our "tale," showing us how to style the blog invention of a concept for conducting theory online. The blog is not a finished routine, but a "rehearsal," the backstage planning and preparations. For mnemonic purposes, Dean's advice is to locate our bits within a fully imagined situation. The principle is that a bit is a particular situation and our response to it, dramatized as<|fim_middle|> is that most families do not get along. This assumption is just as familiar as the normative behavior, but violates decorum. Freud might say this violation releases the energy used to repress this attitude, and so we laugh. Zupancic noted that the unofficial attitude is familiar, and yet suprising when it appears. The comedic stand, she says, is that when a husband returns home unexpectedly, one may assume that there is a lover hiding in the wife's closet. In tragedy the husband (Othello) assumes this as well, but is wrong.
The relevant point for our concept concerns its purpose of an inference leading to the unthought. The unthought here must include the unofficial as well as the official expectations; that is, the attitude of our persona must itself be surprised. The contribution of Analogy (Appropriation art) is responsible for producing this effect. We learn about "appropriate" (noun) by appropriate (verb). The potential addition to the mechanism is already sited when we note that Dean's mechanism relies primarily on fallacies of ambiguity (the connector is open to multiple interpretations). The other major class of fallacy is that of relevance (red herring, ad hominem and the like). The key point to note for now in documenting the rehearsal is this instruction to apply the generative mechanism not only to the expectations or assumptions of the policy debate, but also to the assumptions motivating your attitude to the debate. | our own experience. The heuretic rule is to substitute our own policy problem for the joke situation. The joke mechanism, and the mining procedures for filling the slots of the mechanism, constitute inferential steps for thinking the unthought.
The joke mechanism consists of two stories, two interpretations of one situation. To use a Margaret Smith version of one of Dean's examples, take the situation of Smith visiting her parents. The parents wonder why she doesn't visit more often. The cultural expectation guiding the first story concerns what is appropriate according to norms, etiquette, values: families should respect and care for and about one another. The connector (pivot, switch, hinge) prompting this norm (expectation) is "visit." Dean's advice is to locate a connector open to a second interpretation, a different assumption. This second assumption is Smith's ATTITUDE, the assumption of her persona, which is hostile to her family. She tells a second story expressing this assumption: "I would visit more often, but I can't get Delta to have its plane wait in my yard while I run in." The mechanism as a whole is this conjunction of two stories around a shared term. The instruction is to translate the family visit situation into the situation of our policy problem, in which we imagine ourselves as a participant with an attitude.
Here is where we modify Dean, to fit his advice into our CATTt. A context is Virno, in that Dean's first story exemplifies practical reason, the application of rules to cases to guide judgment. In fact the joke takes a Machiavellian approach to the cultural rules/expectations, one that is more cynical. The second assumption in Smith's bit | 340 |
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As I strolled around the lake, I came upon a persimmon tree all weighted down with waxy, scarlet fruit. The just ripening persimmons clung to their stems. The ground beneath the limbs was still clean; any fallen fruit had been gathered by the deer that too freely roam the property. Each brilliant, slightly firm persimmon fruit was unbearably beautiful.
I picked one of the autumnal attired apricots and broke open its skin. Seeds, dark and woody, guarded by a filmy shield, stood out against the plum-like flesh.
My children wanted to take the seeds home, dry them and plant them. I thought of our merciless soil. I knew no persimmon could abide that soil. But, I humored their request and washed and wrapped a few for ferrying home.
When we were not too far down the road, my mother called, we had forsaken our seeds, left them on the countertop. The kids gave no redress to my suggestion that Mama keep them, drying, until we returned in November. I drove on, still thinking about the persimmons.
There are no Persimmon in my new world. No acrid Quince, no wormy Apple, no Pear – not<|fim_middle|> we wove through towering willows I once bounced and flipped beneath, swinging up my legs and pulling hard against fist fulls of the willow's long shaggy locks. And as we grew silent, our circuit nearly over, we heard the hushed crunching of leaves which lay on layer after layer of long fallen friends.
It gets harder and harder to leave.
The persimmons probably started letting go today.
I don't think I ever will.
Our trip to Athens this past weekend was, as it always is, especially in October, bittersweet. We took all the cousins to a homecoming party on north campus. The food was good and plenty, the town's top caterer was in his usual form. My favorite local band played Motown music. The children danced and joined in on the instruments. I felt suspended in time as I sat on the steps of Brooks Hall.
Afterwards, we had to walk back to our car, now parked at the other end of campus. The guys let us all out behind Brooks before the party. They left us at the party to go on to the game. Laura and I have long had our fill of games, especially with children who get bored about 10 minutes into them. So, we volunteered to walk the kiddos back to the car. I volunteered, because I love that walk home, well, back to south campus, my home for so many blissful years.
As we started south, a bright breeze blew all but the blue from the sky. The sun shone warm and golden. The trees paraded their fall garments. We descended steps that I had helped to wear away. We crossed the long bridge that now spans the creek and valley which cradle the stadium. Then we climbed the rocky stair paths to the "sciences" and everything south.
As we made the rise, giant Magnolia and Ginko flanked our path. The girls asked about the old ladies's ages. I betrayed no confidence, but assured them they had appeared not long after the Yankees. We bent low under grandfather Deodor Cedars which don't even drop cones until they are seventy-five. As I crossed tracts of grass that my feet know awake, asleep or during darkness, my heart ballooned at the site of each of these old friends, in so many ways just the same.
Soon, we came to what is not the same. That fool coliseum which they pour unlimited dollars into fancying – though not enlarging. It looks to be growing flashier yet, lots of new glass. Too bad our team is still no better. We walked to a parking deck on the site where I used to pet the ponies when the rodeo came.
Everything is not the same. Much is different, some of it better. But it is, in every way, home.
Not my life eternal in heaven ( whatever that may be), but what all these years have been preparing me to do. Sometimes, I have flashes. Sometimes, my safe suburban world is more than I can stand. Sometimes, my soul craves more…more satisfaction, more danger, more importance, more relationship, more risk, more shared suffering, more LIFE.
Sometimes, I cannot pacify it with necessities and normality.
That gives me hope, hope that life is not over for me.
I have fewer years to rear my children than I have fingers, only 6 until my baby graduates from high school. I have no real attachments: no land, no beloved homestead, no business, no parent as yet unable to care for themselves.
I am 44. My grandmother whose body, build and health I share was 101 when she died. I may well have another life before me.
50: it is the year of jubilee.
I have to admit I have been running the live feed of the Chilean rescue on my computer. I have been working on other things all day. I am not glued to it, but time to time I bring it to the foreground to check on the egress of the miners. Every time that capsule appears, I cry.
I cannot help it. I know what it is like to feel hemmed in, closed off, afraid that you are forgotten. I know that these men must have felt all of those things until they knew that their rescuers were on their way…and, that in time, sky and sea would be theirs again.
Thank you, God for the spacious place that is now theirs again, and mine.
I read a very fine writer's post yesterday. Tender, funny words brought a familiar burn to my heart. You know that sensation in your chest that feels like all of your emotions are firing at once? Half a sentence in, that sensation came on me. I swallowed and prepared for the tears that for me, always accompany that burn.
Honestly, the writer's talent scares me. Not that I see her as competition, I am none for her. What I fear is that brokenness brought the beauty of those words forth. I have come near that place, brokenness, a time or two. I covet no return.
Her words, their gain costly for her, are beautiful… burn in your chest, tears down your face, beautiful.
Let me count that cost.
I fear that this season is going to get by me.
Hopefully, my children feel otherwise. Hopefully, their lives have been enriched. Hopefully my effort and attention and actions have gained them something, some things to hold dear and to hold them some day.
Today, I watched the wind play upon my wall, leaves dancing like music upon my blinds' shadowy clefs. Fall always seems to be about movement for me. It is the time that things, unseen, like wind, happen.
Yet, my spirit seems stuck in summer's stagnancy, I have yet to find the breeze that accompanies the shifting sky.
Help, God. Please, show Yourself. | that produce anything edible, no messy Cherry, no bee attracting Fig, no switch producing Peach, heck, no Redbud – the kids asked me about their strange seed-pods which we once dispersed like the other animals as we played. None of those are my neighbors.
I miss my home: the bulbs that return every year, it's nearly time to split and replant them, that would be my job 'bout now. I miss the the zinias and roses that are faithfully laying down. I pain for the Verbena and Ageratum standing strong for the butterflies last fill-up, for all the flowering things shining their last shine, frost is coming soon enough. I miss my shrubs, now nearly trees: Elsie's Snowball and Wild Azalea that Daddy dug from the woods at the lake, Motnie's Camelias which I brought back in buckets and Nana's Sweetheart Rose, now big as a Volkwagon bug. I miss our Magnolia and my Pecan and the once Christmas Cedar, the good for climbing White Pine, the lookout post Redbud and our popsicle eating perch, the Dogwood.
As we marched round the water, our one quick time, | 245 |
After spending a night or two in Pakse and sampling every Indian restaurant the town had to offer, we decided to embark on another motorbike excursion. Pakse is located on the Bolaven Plateau, which is in southern Laos. Place is dope. Dope. After quite a bit of searching for a reputable motorbike vendor, we settled on the only one that didn't<|fim_middle|>'s true beauty.
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We took one of two routes out of town and flew like bats out of hell down the Pakse-Paksong road, taking pictures of everything that we had fled only days before. Once we passed the "city" limits, the countryside was gorgeous. Nearly every plot of land had a big tarp lain out in front covered in coffee beans. These beans were typically the favored lounge area for the neighborhood dogs. Do you know where your coffee roasts?
We strayed from the path a few times to check out the local villages set-back from the main road and damn was it worth it. If you've ever been the face on a fake ID, you know the feeling of novelty. We were greeted with bright eyes and big smiles, as if we were the only outsiders that had ever set foot on the trails-beyond-the-trail.
The Bolaven Plateau loop took us two days to travel – we took the shorter of the two loops, the other being a three day trek. We found ourselves traversing small streams on our automatic motorbikes (hint:Not Recommended), wandering through rows upon rows of rubber trees (think of maple syrup…but glue-like), and praying that we saw Glove resurface after his leaps-of-faith into uncharted waterfalls.
The rubber trees were marvelous. I had never seen anything like it, they seemed to go on for miles. We pulled over to get a closer look, not knowing what the white, glue-like substance coming from them was. We recently learned that it's rubber! The man working there was nice enough to let us get a closer look, but he language barrier prevented us from learning much.
The first waterfall we stopped at was by far my favorite waterfall we've seen. I forget the name at the moment, but I will check in. The rocks were smooth and vast, clearly having lived there for hundreds, if not thousands of years. The boys went on exploring and I sat with my limp knee taking pictures, a common theme.
The dirt roads between each of our destinations were just as beautiful as the waterfalls themselves. Being the tree-hugger that I am, I was in heaven. I took pictures of all the trees we passed, from all angles, of all shapes and sizes. Trees FTW.
I call this my dirty biker chic look. It really suits me. I'm actually covered in dirt, if you look closely (only if you dare) you can see.
Our trek around the plateau embodied the livelihood of the area. We got a glimpse of the coffee- and peanut-roasting that brings backpackers like us to the region, were able to watch the "manufacturing" of the charcoal that powers so many local kitchens, and see some of the most beautiful landscapes in the entire world. This is a land untouched by tourism as of yet and we gave it a two thumbs up.
Tad Lo is where we stopped for the night. It's a quaint little town with not much to offer in terms of activities, but provided an amazing resting spot for us to play Hearts and drink all the beer in the fridge.
We drove through plenty of villages on the final stretch, each one more amazing than the last. Of course, this meant more waterfalls. The last one was the tallest I've ever seen! Like most of what I've documented, it was even more amazing in person, but I snapped away regardless. If only Glover could jump off THIS one!
For me, the Bolaven Plateau was the highlight of Laos. It offered a completely uncharted view into the lives of the locals and a spectacular glimpse of the country | 738 |
<|fim_middle|> not be subject to "vet stress" which can increase glucose levels artificially. | An invaluable tool for the monitoring of feline diabetes is the glucometer. This is a device designed so that human diabetics can test their own blood. It is very useful for cats as well. Many people question the use of them as they are designed for human blood, but in reality, the devices cannot read DNA and tell that it is a cats blood :). Glucose is glucose.
The technique involves pricking the cats ear and getting a blood droplet. This goes onto a test strip that gets drawn into a glucometer. There are many types of glucometers on the market. We are using the Accucheck Advantage. If you are considering a glucometer, I would recommend one that has sipping strips (although I don't know if you can even get the other type anymore).
In this instance, we are getting some overlap where the beginning of the next cycle is lower than the previous. Overlap can be very good where you get some time before the next insulin shot kicks in and the old one wears off. It can also be very bad, if it is too much and you can't schedule shots due to their unpredictability.
The glucose is important because it can also tell you how low your cat is going. Most veterinarians consider a cat regulated if their numbers range from 18-8 or so. Therefore, if your cat drops very low very quickly, you will need to take some action. Conversely, if your cat doesn't drop at all, you may need to consider whether they need more insulin or are perhaps experiencing somogyi.
One of the best benefits of doing curves at home is that your cat will | 337 |
Bottled teas are often either too sweet or too bitter, or too sweet and too bitter. We were pretty impressed, though, by the Whole Foods 365 organic line of bottled teas.
The Lemon Black Tea has a pretty natural-tasting lemon flavor, not like the loads of citrus oil in lots of lemon-flavored things. This tea is lightly sweet without being overwhelming. Not a lot of black-tea bitterness, just a smooth, juicy drink. We were pretty impressed with this tea's balance, and though we might wish for a touch less sugar, that's just personal preference.
The Peach Oolong tea is quite peachy, sweet and ripe up front, with a bit of tartness to balance. There's no smoky oolong flavor here, but hints of mellow tea keep it from being too sugary. This one seems<|fim_middle|> tea flavor. It's light and refreshing, though, and leaves your mouth feeling clean! | picnic-ready, and we liked it.
The Mango Acai White Tea is delicately flavored with tropical fruit, but it doesn't overshadow the white tea, which we appreciated. Some felt that it tasted a bit too watered down, but others found it refreshing.
If you're a spearmint lover, the Mint Green Tea will please you; some of our tasters found it just a bit on the toothpastey side, but appreciated the mellow green | 93 |
ANNUAL MEETING: Tales of Croton Point: A Colorful History
Sunday, April 7, 2019 - 2:00pm
Croton Point, now the site of Croton Point Park, was once one of the largest tidal marshes on the Hudson River. Its human history dates back 7,000 years to the time of the first Native American settlements. Today you can find oyster middens on the northern tip, abundant evidence of a major<|fim_middle|>Sun Jul 28, 10:00am | brickmaking operation, and vaulted wine cellars from an early commercial vineyard. There are tales of Captain Kidd's buried treasure and links to the capture of Major John Andre during the Revolution.
Join us as Marc Cheshire, Village Historian of Croton-on-Hudson, and Carl Oechsner, "backyard historian" and a founding member of Croton Friends of History, present one of their popular illustrated talks recounting these stories and more of a major feature on the Hudson.
Date: Sunday April 7 Time: 2pm Location: The Warner Library Tarrytown 121 North Broadway, Tarrytown
BY TRAIN: Metro-North's Tarrytown Station
Additional parking in nearby public lot, south of library on Rte. 9.
Turn up McKeel Ave., enter on your left. Free on Sundays.
Inquiries? 914.693.0529 • THE TALK WILL BE PRECEDED BY A BRIEF BUSINESS MEETING.
• FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
• LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
Walk the High Bridge & Explore Nearby
Sat Jul 20, 10:00am
Tibbetts Brook Park Loop
Sun Jul 21, 2:00pm
Weir Tour
Croton Reservoir & Dam Hike
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Directional Speaker Creates Full Television Experience in Restaurants Nationwide
When was the last time you enjoyed a high-quality viewing and listening experience in a place other than your own living room? Probably never, but that's changing. indoorDIRECT has partnered with Brown Innovations to create an intimate, high-quality audio experience in thousands of restaurant locations across the country. For the first time, a dining experience combines the comforts of home and the convenience of dining out.
Creating a home-like television experience with audio in a fast-paced environment was no easy task. Initially, restaurants used traditional in-ceiling speakers, but store employees bothered by sound bleed continuously tampered with volume levels. A working solution was needed.
After researching all options, indoorDIRECT selected Brown Innovations' Maestro™ system. This directional speaker keeps an even coverage of high-quality sound contained to the dining area only, leaving employees undisturbed. Appropriate sound levels are maintained by a built-in volume leveling system which auto adjusts as ambient noise fluctuates – meaning patrons hear content and advertising perfectly at the busiest and quietest times.
Additionally, the system includes an interface to communicate with the brains of the Maestro through a USB connection. This feature eliminates the need for costly site visits to troubleshoot and fix problems resulting from sabotage. Now indoorDIRECT easily monitors and manages settings across its entire network from an offsite computer. "Being able to monitor and adjust the sound in any restaurant anywhere in the country, from a remote computer, enables us to ensure diners are hearing our programming and advertising in the way it was meant to be heard", said indoorDIRECT's Director of Operations, Dave Caruso.
"This advancement in audio technology will assist us in ensuring that we deliver the highest quality television viewing experience to viewers, a goal we share with all of our restaurant partners and advertisers," says Michael Winton, President and Co-Founder of indoorDIRECT. "We are in the business of entertaining guests and creating an enjoyable environment for our restaurant partners and their diners. Brown's audio solutions have enabled us to create a custom audio system that remotely controls the volume of our televisions in the dining room with ambient noise sensors and directional audio."
Retrofits in key advertising locations began a couple years ago. Due to the overwhelming success, Maestros have been included in the current roll-out of over 700 locations by the end<|fim_middle|> Digital Signage Directional Speaker IndoorDIRECT Kiosk
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About indoorDIRECT
Indoor Direct, Inc. ("indoorDIRECT") produces "theBITE", a national in-store television show that delivers short clips of sports, music, entertainment, and lifestyle content to over 150 million consumers annually. "theBITE" is currently distributed in the nation's top 30 DMAs to more than one thousand major quick-service restaurants nationwide including; Taco Bell, Wendy's, Denny's, Carl's Jr., Hardee's, McDonald's, KFC and Arby's. Free Wi-Fi is currently being provided to customers in select locations and plans are underway to expand free Wi-Fi access nationwide. www.indoordirect.com
About Brown Innovations
Brown Innovations develops and deploys directional speaker and focused audio technologies for digital signage, kiosk, museum, retail and tradeshow applications. For more information visit www.BrownInnovations.com.
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Engaging in sport has many benefits, and it's not all physical. When it comes to kids, engaging in sport can help to create habits and health benefits that last long into adulthood.
According to Australia's Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines children aged 5–12 years should accumulate at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity every day. Some of this will occur at school each day, but it's important to<|fim_middle|>. Trying out a range of different sports can help your child find one that suits them. Make sure your child has plenty of opportunity to try activities out before settling on one.
Sport has many benefits for kids. It improves physical fitness, teaches important life skills and increases the chances they will become active adults. Be a role model and encourage your children to get active as much as possible. | remember that the more physical activity kids engage in the better.
Keeping active through physical activity and sport has many benefits for the body. Some of these benefits include increased cardiovascular fitness, bone health, decreased risk of obesity, improved sleep, and better coordination and balance.
Reducing the amount of time spent in sedentary activities such as watching TV or playing computer games is also recommended and can be just as important as increasing physical activity. Setting time limits for your kids when it comes to sedentary activities can help with this.
Engaging in sport is important for more than just physical fitness. Playing sport often means being part of a team and this allows for building skills in a whole range of areas. As well as learning all of the techniques involved in the sport, children can also develop their life skills. Playing team sports encourages cooperation and sharing, resilience, goal setting and building relationships. Learning to lose is also an important skill that's often uncovered through playing sport.
Parents can encourage their kids to play sport in many ways, including through role modelling. It's not just parents and carers that are role models for children though. Kids often look to teachers, sports coaches and before and after school care employees to be inspired and encouraged when it comes to sport.
Keeping active is a skill for life. Active kids are more likely to become active adults so encourage your kids to get involved in physical activity and sport from a young age and ensure you're being a role model when it comes to sport.
Kids can find their sporting team through their local school, sports centre, holiday program or before and after school care service | 322 |
ISU Project: Prairie Strips Yield Big Environmental Benefits
Plant Production
A long-term research project at Iowa State University is marking a major milestone by publishing 10 years of data on the various benefits provided by planting strips of prairie among corn and soybean fields.
STRIPS, which stands for Science-based Trials of Rowcrops Integrated with Prairie Strips, is a group of scientists researching the benefits that may be derived from integrating prairie into crop production systems.
The team published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed academic journal, outlining a wide range of findings, including how a relatively small amount of prairie on certain farmland can deliver major environmental benefits.
"This study puts everything we've worked on together," said Lisa Schulte Moore, a professor of natural resource ecology and management and lead author of the paper. "It's 10 years of data generated by an interdisciplinary team focused on one goal. That's a considerable achievement."
The study includes findings from 12 watersheds at the Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge near Prairie City. The experimental areas featured corn and soybean fields with strips of prairie integrated into the land at various positions and percentages on the row-crop landscape. Each prairie strip contained a diverse range of perennial grass and wildflower species in order to slow the movement of water and ensure that plants would be in bloom the entire growing season to provide habitat to pollinating insects.
The researchers gathered data on dozens of ecosystem performance metrics. The results show prairie strips offer a range of environmental benefits at a lower cost than many other conservation techniques, Schult<|fim_middle|> State University South Dakota State University North Dakota State University University of Missouri University of Minnesota
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Social survey results also presented in the paper portray Iowans' support for agricultural policies that produce outcomes such as those provided by prairie strips.
The prairie strips reduce soil and nutrient loss from steep ground, provide habitat for wildlife and improve water infiltration. According to the study published by PNAS, converting as little as 10 percent of the cropped area to prairie conservation strips reduced soil loss by 95 percent, phosphorus losses in surface runoff by 77 percent, nitrate concentrations in groundwater by 72 percent and total nitrogen losses in surface runoff by 70 percent, compared with all-crop watersheds. Pollinator and bird abundance more than doubled.
"The strips are designed to act as a speed bump to slow water down and give it time to infiltrate the soil," Schulte Moore said.
The study found that 40 percent of Iowa land currently devoted to row crops could realize significant benefits from growing prairie on approximately 10 percent of the area. Most of the land in question features steep inclines where soil erodes easily.
The study's economic analysis found the prairie strips cost less than terraces and compare similarly to the cost of planting cover crops. But prairie strips pose different management considerations compared to cover crops, making them more amenable to some farming operations, Schulte Moore said. The study also found that the benefits derived from prairie strips are considerable compared to the land used to support them.
"We found that a little prairie yields big benefits," Schulte Moore said. "The benefits are disproportionate to the area taken out of crop production."
The STRIPS project began in the fall of 2003 at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge site. Initiating institutions included Iowa State, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The new paper also includes scientists from the USDA Agricultural Research Service and a private farmer who worked with the team.
Project personnel and collaborators have helped 47 farmers in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Wisconsin install native prairie on their fields, and the team is now working to gather data on a subset of those sites as well. The STRIPS team is planning installations at 11 additional farms in the next few months. The next phase of the project will involve adding new layers to the prairie strip formula, including testing how strips interact with varying soil types and how they work in conjunction with other conservation practices, Schulte Moore said.
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Denver households with non-traditional families may be able to buy pool passes at a discount next year.
At its June 27 meeting, borough council debated adding a household rate to its pool pass options. A family pass is currently limited to a mother, father and children under 18 living at the same address.
But borough manager Mike Hession took the expanded pass option to the borough's recreation committee after several non-traditional families asked if a pass could accommodate adult children or grandparents living in one home.
"The time is probably (here) to recognize that families come in all shapes and sizes," said council president Kevin Brandt. "I think the idea would be to get as many people to the pool as we can."
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But others, including Mayor Adam Webber, said allowing too many people on one pass would be like giving away entrance fees. Others worried that non-Denver residents might take advantage of the pass and sign on with extended family members.
"We're still supposed to be responsible and fund the cost of the pool," said Rodney Redcay.
Alternatives discussed included requiring extra adults to show proof of residency to join, or simply expanding the current family pass to include adult children up to age 21.
Council will continue to debate the issue with a decision expected before 2012 pool passes go on sale.
In other news, Lancaster County Emergency Management Coordinator Randy Gockley presented the borough's own emergency coordinator with a certificate on the completion of basic training. Andy Boyer must now complete advanced certification within the next two years. Each municipality within the county is required to have a trained coordinator, who acts as a liaison between emergency crews and elected officials.
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Remembering Bob Murdoch: The 98-Year-Old Alta Ski Area, UT, Legend
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Bob Murdoch skis powder at Alta on his 94th birthday. | Photo courtesy of Alta Ski Area
Months after celebrating his 98th birthday, longtime Alta community member Bob Murdoch passes away, leaving behind a legacy of skiing at the world<|fim_middle|> our sport will live on with the future generations of Alta skiers.
The Wild Old Bunch celebrates Bob Murdoch's 95th birthday party at the Albion Grill | Photo: Iz La Motte
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Alta Ski Area shared Murdoch's passing in a blog post this morning and detailed his remarkable life. Alta shared,
Bob was born in Salt Lake City and learned to ski at an early age, even skiing the slopes of Alta before there were chairlifts. In fact, Bob rode the Collins lift the day it opened—January 15th, 1939. In an interview for the Deseret News in 2006, Bob claimed,
He rode the lift at least 30 times that first day. "It wasn't crowded," he recalled. "You could just ski down and get back on and keep going. We never stopped." That philosophy more or less sums up Bob's lifetime approach to skiing. He hasn't skied all his life — World War II got in the way for a time and there were several years when his five children were young that he and Alta weren't on a first-name basis — but he's skied most of it. – Deseret News | January 18th, 2009.
After graduating from East High School, Bob served in the Navy during WWII. While serving, he married Delores Reeve Murdoch and returned to Salt Lake City to attend the University of Utah. He enjoyed a long career, raised a family and started skiing again. Bob was a longtime member of Alta's famed Wild Old Bunch.
Bob was Happily skiing until the age of ninety-seven. Alta loved him just as much, naming two runs after him. He was part of the ski group called the Wild Old Bunch. – Salt Lake Tribune | May 10th, 2022.
Bob was close friends with Harriet Wallis, a local ski journalist and the communications director for the Wild Old Bunch. She referred to Bob as a "senior's senior skier". After Bob celebrated his 96th birthday on the slopes of Alta, Harriet shared a little piece of Bob Murdoch's Alta story for SeniorsSkiing.com.
Bob has a long history of skiing Alta. He tells of his early years when he had to hike up the mountain so that he could ski down. Those were the days before 1938 when Alta was founded as a ski area with just a single chair lift that hung so low it often had to be dug out of the snow. Alta reveres its history. Alta also reveres its older skiers because they add depth to Alta's ski family. – SeniorsSkiing.com | March 26th, 2018
Jim Tipton first met Bob Murdoch at Alta. Despite being a couple of decades younger than Bob, he could barely keep up on the slopes.
An older gentleman {…} asked if I would like to ski with him that morning. I looked at Bob and I really did not want to ski with a man that old but I did not want to hurt his feelings, so I said yes. He then told me he had a buddy skiing with us and he looked older.
The 3 of us got on the lift for Crooked Mile. I am thinking I will take a couple of runs with them and then excuse myself. We got off the lift {…} I was quickly in shock as I almost had to point my ski's straight down the hill to keep up with them.
I asked again and Bob gave me some advice. He told me that the older you get the faster you should ski. I couldn't believe my ears and told him that was the craziest thing I had heard. Bob said listen to my advice, if you follow it, it will cut the amount of time you have to spend in the nursing home. I said sign me up. I am glad Bob escaped the long stay in a nursing home. – Jim Tipton
Bob's older ski buddy that day was none other than Geroge Jedenoff, the centenarian powder hound that skied powder at Alta until the age of 102.5 years young. George's days on skis may be behind him (at age 103.5, he skied at Sugar Bowl in California), but he and Bob enjoyed some great times together on and off the slopes.
Bob was one of my greatest skiing friends and we were both active members of the Wild Old Bunch of Alta Utah. For at least 25 years we skied together, whenever I had the opportunity of visiting Alta from my home in the San Francisco bay area. Until his passing, we skied together with Bob Marshall for many years and always had a great time together.
Although age has now crept up on me and I can no longer ski at Alta I am so grateful for the many wonderful memories I have of the two of us skiing together. Thanks for these wonderful memories and for the pleasure of knowing Robert and having him as such a great friend.
We were fortunate to host Bob Murdoch's 95th and 96th birthdays in the Albion Grill. In 2021, we helped Bob celebrate his 97th birthday in a socially-distanced BBQ in the Albion lot. Unfortunately, that would be the last time we were able to celebrate with Bob at Alta.
Bob Murdoch was an Alta skier who loved the ski area and the Alta community. He also loved powder skiing. He discussed his love of skiing and Alta for a Seattle Times story about the Wild Old Bunch in 2006:
"It helps keep you young. Without sounding corny about it, when you're skiing through fresh powder and the trees, there's almost a spiritual quality to it. It's something special that keeps us coming back year after year. And you never want to lose that."
– Bob Murdoch
Thank you Bob for sharing so many winter days at our beloved Alta. His history runs deep—not only did Bob grace Alta's slopes on our opening day in January of 1939, he also earned his turns and hiked uphill before the first chairlift ever turned on. Thank you for your contributions to our community and the many cups of hot chocolate and stories shared amongst the Wild Old Bunch. Your love for | 1,273 |
Sarah - Theodora's Older Sister #2: Has he proposed?
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It's great to have this film back after 84 years! It's only a pity it couldn't have been rediscovered while Gloria Swanson was still alive (in her autobiography she named it as one of the three films of hers the "loss" of which she regretted most, along with "Madame Sans-Gêne" and the last reel of "Sadie Thompson"). Elinor Glyn's story is horribly contrived — I can't think of another movie until the Beatles' "Help!" that moved its characters so extensively around the world to so little effect —<|fim_middle|>ber and effective, though I could have done without the sound effects and crowd noises and it seems odd to watch a silent film with music whose primary instruments are a flute and a Miles Davis-style trumpet. | and the love scenes are a bit disappointing (Swanson recalled that the Fatty Arbuckle and William Desmond Taylor scandals both broke just before this film started shooting, with the result that the script was given a last-minute rewrite to tone down the adulterous passions of her and Valentino's characters) — but what makes this movie truly great is the marvelously understated acting. This is the film to show someone who thinks all silent-film actors swooned, waved their arms like windmills and reacted to traumas like the Statue of Liberty collapsing in an earthquake: the people in "Beyond the Rocks" use simple, economical gestures and facial expressions to get their emotions across. I credit director Sam Wood — who made the transition to sound quite successfully and had a long career in the talkies — with getting these marvelously realistic performances from his cast. Henny Vrienten's musical score for the restored print is som | 186 |
HP ProLiant Servers Set Price/Performance Milestone - First Ever to Break $2 Transaction per Minute Ratio
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Share this Story: Oil pipeline developer ends private security in North Dakota
Oil pipeline developer ends private security in North Dakota
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BISMARCK, N.D. — The developer of the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline said Wednesday that it no longer has private security personnel in North Dakota, including a firm that state regulators say operated illegally without a license.
"We continue to have security measures in place in North Dakota, just no<|fim_middle|>'t know TigerSwan been operating in the state without a license. Officials said the board did not have an obligation under state law to inform anyone about the issue.
The Morton County sheriff's department, which led the law enforcement response to the protests, was left out of the loop, spokeswoman Maxine Herr said.
"We did our job," Herr said. "It would have been nice to know if they weren't supposed to be there."
Liberals' tens of billions in planned stimulus spending no longer needed, watchdog says | longer need boots on the ground," Energy Transfer Partners spokeswoman Vicki Granado said in an email to The Associated Press.
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North Dakota's Private Investigative and Security Board last week asked a state judge to block North Carolina-based TigerSwan's armed workers from continuing to monitor the pipeline system. The board said TigerSwan had no license during the height of the protests and continued operating after being denied one.
Granado said in her email that TigerSwan stopped providing security services in the "last couple of weeks."
TigerSwan said it ended work with Dallas-based ETP near the end of June.
TigerSwan was founded by retired military special forces members. The regulatory board alleges in court documents that TigerSwan employees with semi-automatic rifles and handguns protected workers and equipment at construction sites, conducted intelligence on protesters including placing or trying to place undercover agents within the protest groups, and even monitored traffic on a state highway. The board also said TigerSwan continued to provide round-the-clock security along the pipeline in the state.
The board has requested administrative fines be levied against the company and its president, James Reese, for operating without a license, a misdemeanour carrying a potential sentence of 30 days in jail and a $1,500 fine.
According to the board, it notified TigerSwan in September that the company wasn't properly licensed, and the company denied conducting private security in the state but at the same time applied for a license. The board denied the request in December, citing in court documents Reese's alleged criminal history without specifying the offences. The board said Reese told the group he had never been convicted of a crime. A month later, the board rejected the application again, saying it was incomplete.
Monte Rogneby, an attorney for the board, said a court hearing has yet to be scheduled in state district court in Bismarck.
"Right now, it's very much in the preliminary stages," he said. "We're still sorting out the facts."
North Dakota's governor, its military leader, and law enforcement said they didn | 435 |
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These days, the IoT-connected business ecosystem is often called Industry 4.0. The term refers to the fourth industrial revolution, which is being fueled by an AI-driven digital transformation.
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But, as a recent study by Intel's Internet of Things Group notes, Industry 4.0 is about more than just integrating smart machines into production environments. It's about completely transforming the workplace as part of a "co-evolution" of workers and manufacturing operations.
The "eye of manufacturing" in the future is going to reflect a composite of human and machine vision. While technology is driving this evolution, it is ultimately people who will be at the heart of both the transition process and the factory of the future.
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Dr Finkel gave the 2018 Samuel Alexander Lecture<|fim_middle|> not listen to our words, but they do pay attention to our behaviour.
So they will be guided by the way they see adults bringing artificial intelligence into the classroom.
Technology for technology sake's is far worse than no technology at all.
Either we don't use it, and it gets discarded.
Or we do use it, and it becomes a distraction.
I look around this room, and I see people of different generations.
But irrespective of the year you graduated, I can promise you that when you look back to your school days, you remember not a technology, but a teacher.
A person who held your attention not with a screen, but with the thrill of discovering that yes, I can learn. Yes, I can get better if I practice. Yes, I have a brain and I'm going to use it.
You fell in love with learning because a teacher believed you could.
I think back to the times as a parent I observed the Wesley Big Band practicing and performing, when the musical director Mr Peter Foley oozed so much musicality, enthusiasm and joy that it infused into every student in the band and they exceeded their own dreams.
I can promise you, human beings have not evolved since you went to school.
So let's not be dazzled by the claims of AI developers. Let's show our children how responsible humans assess those claims, and make intelligent choices.
But Alan, you say, I'm just an adult. What do I know about technology?
I'm here to tell you: don't be dissuaded.
As parents, we have to grapple with things beyond our expertise all the time.
Think about all the times when your children were sick with mystery illnesses.
You took them to doctors, and then you had to decide what to do with the doctors' advice.
At those moments, you couldn't plead ignorance: life doesn't care if you failed biology in Year 10.
You still had to make a decision and take responsibility.
And you knew enough about doctors to remember the Hippocratic Oath, penned by Hippocrates in the third century BC.
That Oath told you what it means for a doctor to be worthy of your trust.
I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgement.
Whatsoever I see or hear in the course of my profession, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.
In the modern context this basically says: Never share personal information without the patient's explicit permission.
You can think in exactly the same way about the standards you should expect for AI in the classroom.
First, do no harm. If educational AI is undermining the relationship between the teacher and the student it is doing harm.
Second, ensure that all decisions are for the good of the student. The Secretary of the Federal Department of Home Affairs, Michael Pezzullo, recently proposed a Golden Rule that says that no one should be deprived of their fundamental rights, privileges or entitlements by a computer rather than an accountable human being.
Apply the same rule in schools: when a decision affects a student, we need to insist that there will always be a human in the loop.
And third, educational AI should always respect the privacy of the student so that the relationship between the students and teacher is a trusted one.
One, two, three: you can remember those three ancient standards.
And we can all do something else as well, every one of us.
As a community, we can keep investing all our energies in human intelligence: in education.
Because nothing says that humans are special more clearly than the effort we put into the development of human talents, human passions and human skills.
There are people who will tell you that technology is a substitute for education.
If you've got a calculator, you don't need maths!
If you've got audiobooks, you don't need to read!
If you've got the internet, you don't need to teach any content, whatsoever, to little humans!
Everyone here today, your duty is to disregard the people who say those things.
For all time, education has been the path out of poverty and dependence.
Parents trapped by their circumstances have found in education their child's only route to a better life.
And they have fought for that opportunity.
Technology is not a solution for ignorance.
It makes the opportunities for the educated even greater.
And it demands that all of us – and remember, we're the humans, with the choices – all of us need to have the knowledge in our heads to make those choices wisely.
So the answer is not to lower the bar in education. It's to raise it, and help all our children to clear it.
And I am sure Samuel Alexander would agree.
Just remember what it's like to watch a newborn baby learn.
Human intelligence: the original, and still the best.
One that takes responsibility for nurturing that fledgling human intelligence.
See IBM Project Debater in action at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y8NwmzKsbc.
SPEECH: Human Intelligence 2.0: How will we get there? | at Wesley College on Monday 13 August, discussing the ethics and opportunities of increasing technology in the education space.
I have promised you a lecture in the tradition of Samuel Alexander.
On reflection, I might want to lower the bar – because Samuel Alexander excelled in pretty much everything.
His genius encompassed almost every conceivable branch of scholarship. And he was charming, handsome and popular to boot.
In short: he was an excellent advertisement for his old school, Wesley College.
But his greatest gift was undoubtedly his philosophy.
Samuel Alexander's phenomenal brain could hoover up the strands from thousands of years of human thought – and knit them into a vision of stupendous breadth.
Language. Logic. The art of persuasion.
The very pinnacle of human intelligence.
And heights that only an exceptional human brain could ever reach.
Or at least, so we think.
The company IBM has other ideas.
It likes to pit humans against technology in tests of intelligence.
And it's been picking off, one by one, the skills that humans have only mastered over tens of thousands of years.
We said that robots couldn't play chess. That's strategy. That's logic. That's human.
IBM's Deep Blue beat grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 2004.
We said that robots couldn't interpret complex questions and sift through multiple lines of evidence to come up with a meaningful answer. That's language and reasoning. That's human.
IBM Watson beat the humans at the quiz show Jeopardy! in 2011.
What's next on the intelligence scale?
Only the most Wesleyan challenge of all – the challenge at which Samuel Alexander excelled: debating.
And here it is: IBM's Project Debater.
Now I watched that video you just saw, and I was greatly impressed, not only by the fact that IBM chose to make Project Debater look like a monolith from the movie 2001, but by the arguments Project Debater articulated.
But I'm a scientist: when it comes to debating, I'm not an expert.
I needed a qualified adjudicator.
And as good luck would have it, I've got one who usually takes my telephone calls. Eventually.
And that's my son, Victor, another graduate of Wesley College, and one half of the winning team at the 2011 World Debating Championships.
I can tell you, as his father, that this college put enormous effort into developing his teenage instinct to answer back. In a civilised way.
Victor was drilled in the discipline of debating: matter, manner, method; principle, practice, performance. Again, and again, and again.
He carried those skills to Monash University… to the World Championships… to Oxford… and then to his current position at McKinsey & Company.
So I sent Victor the link to the video of Project Debater.
He called me almost immediately. And he was rattled.
… but for both of us, I suspect the disquiet was more fundamental.
We had walked straight into what's known as the "Uncanny Valley": where technologies are human enough to be familiar… and yet robotic enough to be creepy.
Now Victor and I are separated by a gap of about thirty years. But we have something in common: we're immigrants to the Uncanny Valley.
We both grew up in the period called the AI Winter. AI for Artificial Intelligence.
It was called winter because progress in the technologies – at least on the surface – appeared to be frozen.
We had the name "artificial intelligence": it was coined at an academic conference in 1956.
Well, think about an ATM. That's automation – but it's not what we would consider to be intelligence.
An ATM is programmed to respond in a specific way to a specific instruction.
Intelligence, on the other hand, means something more akin to the human brain.
How do humans reason, and learn?
We're born with innate capability: a brain.
We take in content: knowledge.
And we have teachers: training.
With those three things – brain, knowledge, training – we find patterns and come up with rules that help us to understand how the world works, and make predictions.
AI can be broadly understood the same way.
It's basically a combination of the same three things.
A large quantity of high-quality data.
That's how AI can be said to "learn" and "think" – or perform tasks that would otherwise require a human.
During the AI winter, no one could look at a computer and see anything even remotely comparable to a human brain.
When I was a child, the pride of Australian computing was a machine called CSIRAC. A child today would probably struggle to recognise that it was, in fact, a computer.
It filled a room. It had no display screen. It would spit out long strips of paper with punched holes that had to be fed into another machine to be translated to text.
But very few children like me ever saw that computer, or any computer, because they were incredibly expensive and extremely rare.
By the time my sons Victor and Alex arrived, computers were becoming standard features in family homes.
And arguments about computers were also becoming standard features in family homes.
Now, for the first time, the everyday consumer could actually see from year to year that computers were getting better.
They were still a long way from closing the gap.
And so the AI Winter dragged on.
It's been clear for some time now that the ice was beginning to crack.
And Project Debater is just one of the green shoots showing the whole world: spring has arrived.
Let's think about how that might look and feel from the perspective of a child born today.
Say that you're the son or daughter of fairly typical millennials. Your parents have a home assistant, perhaps Amazon's Alexa. It was there when you were brought home from the hospital.
So you grow up in a world where it's perfectly normal for adults to talk to machines. And it's perfectly normal for the machines to talk back.
As you grow, you join in. At your command, Alexa can play songs, or practice spelling, or suggest new games. You might consider her to be your friend.
But perhaps your parents like to think of themselves as early adopters: ahead of the curve. They might be interested in a product such as the Aristotle, announced by Mattel last year.
It begins with Aristotle in Baby mode.
What could be more hectic than a crying baby?
Then, when Aristotle determines the child is ready, we progress to Aristotle Toddler.
Now if you've got an Aristotle at home, your parents are probably attentive to the AI enhancing your learning at school.
They might be excited by the possibilities of facial recognition in the classroom.
Consider a system being trialled in China, and widely reported in Western media.
It's called the "Intelligent Classroom Behaviour Management System".
According to the reports, there's a camera mounted on a blackboard behind the teacher. It scans the room every thirty seconds logging facial expressions and behaviour, such as reading, writing, raising a hand, or leaning on the desk.
And if this sounds far-fetched, it's worth noting that similar platforms are already marketed in Australia.
They're used in industry to monitor the concentration levels of people operating heavy equipment, or to make sure people are actually paying attention in corporate training.
In the trial site in China, they seem to be making a difference.
A quote from a student: "Previously when I had classes that I didn't like very much, I would be lazy and maybe take a nap on the desk or flick through other textbooks. But I don't dare be distracted since the cameras were installed in the classrooms. It's like a pair of mystery eyes are constantly watching me".
The dawn of the AI Spring, indeed.
But take note. As in all things technology, the promises made by the developers of these platforms should never be taken at face value.
We will continue to see stories in the media about the bugs and limitations.
Last month it was Amazon's facial recognition technology. A civil liberties group in the United States scanned the images of 535 members of Congress looking for matches against a database of known criminals. It generated 28 matches.
And we all know the frustration of talking to voice-activated assistants that seem incapable of recognising Australian as an acceptable form of English.
What matters is the trend.
We will see more and more products from more and more companies, relentlessly combing through every aspect of being a parent that strikes us as messy, or dull, or simply inconvenient… and presenting their answer.
The question for all of us is how to respond.
There are many things about the concept of automated child-raising that makes people cringe – but we can distil it down to two.
Worry Number One, the fear that children soothed to sleep by AI lullabies will be incapable of meaningful relationships with human beings.
If you grew up with an AI companion who was always happy, always helpful, always obliging… then you might get very good at giving orders.
And you might be very intolerant of the human needs and foibles of the children who might otherwise be your friends.
Worry Number Two, the fear that children will be trapped in a web of surveillance, never free to be simply… unobserved.
Imagine an unblinking eye, trained on you from birth.
No escape from your mistakes.
No leeway to test the rules.
It's a terrifying thought to those of us who have lived long enough to cherish the moments when it's OK to just be yourself: less than perfect.
Together, these two worries lead some to the conclusion that it's simply impossible to raise a good and happy human in the year 2018.
But I refuse to accept that view. And I refuse to pass that fatalism to my children.
The picture that I've painted thus far is the negative – or at the very least, the concerning.
For every troubling application of AI, we could just as easily find the same technology harnessed for good.
Let's go back to AI in the classroom in a fresh light.
We know that in every cohort of students, there'll be students who race ahead and students who fall behind. But we know it's important to keep children together with other children their own age.
So we respond by teaching to the middle.
And teachers do their best to give the faster learners an extra challenge, and the slower learners extra support.
That's an enormous thing to ask of a single teacher.
AI can help to shoulder that task. In the hands of a gifted teacher, it can tailor the level of the challenge to the learning needs of the individual.
And that's the way it's being used in Australian schools: not as a substitute teacher, as a teaching tool.
Or consider the needs of students with disabilities.
AI can convert spoken words into text.
AI can help children with autism to recognise facial expressions.
AI can tell a child with vision impairment that his mother has entered the room, and she's smiling.
Would we throw the opportunities for all those children away?
And would we throw away the even greater promise of AI in all our lives?
The faster and more reliable medical tests?
The robots that get you in and out of surgery, same day?
The self-driving cars that I, for one, see as a brilliant alternative to self-driving teenagers?
And in science, the fact that we can do things in days that just a decade ago would be the work of an entire PhD?
The task as I see it is not to resist artificial intelligence, but to work out how humans and technologies can play nice and get along, always prioritising the human.
I have hope because I look to our history.
How many times have we been told that a new technology would destroy human relationships… only to find that it simply connects us to humans in hitherto unimagined ways?
I fell into that trap about a decade ago, when I was asked to imagine the future of the university.
No doubt about it, I said: bricks and mortar campuses were old school. The future was all online: about ten global mega-universities, on the scale of Google or Facebook.
Then we saw the reality of online classes: the poor completion rates, the disengagement of students, and the hunger for exactly what universities have been doing for hundreds of years.
Today those bricks and mortar universities are thriving, alongside the online courses.
And why are they thriving?
Why do we keep going to gyms when we can watch fitness videos on YouTube?
Why are sales of old-fashioned board games and children's books booming?
Why do we pay for barista-made coffee, in a café, when we can have a similar precisely engineered Nespresso equivalent at home for about a fifth of the price?
It comes down to the same basic fact about human beings: we thrive on human connection.
And we've always been capable of taking the benefits of a technology without seeing those benefits as in any way a substitute for actual human beings.
I look at the young people I know: that hasn't changed.
Along with our history, I look to the present.
And I see humans encountering new technologies and actually stopping to think about what's right.
Take the home assistant Alexa. Parents complained to Amazon that she was turning their children into horrible little tyrants.
Now you can program your Alexa to thank a child for saying "please" and "thank you".
A very human response to a human concern.
Then there's Aristotle. 17,000 people signed a petition asking Mattel to cancel it. The Aristotle was promptly shelved.
We have choices. We decide.
We need to answer that question at the level of public policy – but even more urgently, we need to answer it in the classroom and in the home.
The future we end up with is ultimately the sum total of all our choices.
So the question should be at the forefront of our minds, every time we come to a decision point.
What kind of parent do I want to be?
We can give Alexa the job of purchasing nappies – but we cannot delegate our individual duty to ask and answer these questions.
In my mind, that means instilling in every child the fundamental principle that humans are special, to be respected and cherished.
And that will be true no matter what human-like abilities we might have to share with robots.
I've been reflecting in recent months on how we might teach that principle, on a deeper level than a prompt from Alexa to say "thank you".
And I know from my own experience: children may or may | 2,973 |
Heather Lawson, Julie Symons, and Ashley Escobar join me to talk about how they handle it when their dogs are stuck indoors for an extended time... and what they train when limited to a small(er) training space.
Melissa Breau: This is Melissa Breau, and you're listening to the Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast, brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy, an online school dedicated to providing high quality instruction for competitive dog sports, using only the most current and progressive training methods. Today I have Heather Lawson, Julie Symons, and Ashley Escobar here with me to talk about small space skills for dog sports in honor of FDSA's upcoming one-day conference, Cabin Fever: Small Space Skills for Dog Sports!
Melissa Breau: Hi all. Welcome back to the podcast. We're here. I'm so glad you're here. So, to start us out, I wanna just have you each kinda introduce yourself, share a little bit about your background and maybe your crews. That way folks can kinda match names to voices. Heather, you wanna start us off?
Heather Lawson: Okay. Obviously, you've said my name Heather Lawson. My background pre-dog was corporate HR and business management, retail management. And then I jumped into dogs and have been teaching for, oh, I guess 25 years now. And my dog breed of choice is German Shepherd, currently down to one lovely little girl called Piper, who if anybody's taking any of my classes, you'll see Piper quite often in all my videos. She's my chief demo dog and gets me into a lot of trouble. But she's a good girl. She participates nicely. And in addition to that, I own my own business training business and I am an instructor for Fenzi Dog Sport Academy.
Melissa Breau: Awesome. Julie.
Julie Symons: Hi. It's interesting looking at the new year and it's 2023 reminds me that is like 30 years for me of being in dog sports cuz my first dog as an adult was in, I got in 1992 and by the time, you know, a year later we probably were doing like fly ball. So that was my first dog sport and trying to do some of the, I forget the organization name, but the obedience for, for mixed breeds. And so yeah, so almost three years in, in dog sports, probably didn't start teaching. So probably five years later, during most of that time I did work at Xerox for 30 years. Some people don't realize that or remember that I was a software engineer and left the corporate world about four years ago.
And I own my own business: Savvy Dog Sports and I'm also a full-time faculty member right at FDSA. And I have three dogs right now. I have Moxie who's four years old, she's a Belgian Tervuren. I have Drac who is seven, he's a Belgian Malinois and I have Savvy, who's the dog that most people know me from at the beginning of FDSA.
She's gonna be turning 15 next month.
Melissa Breau: Oh my.
Julie Symons: Which she's just doing fantastic, but she's a dog that went through a lot of those early FDSA classes when I started with the Academy. So they, the three keep me really busy and just great to be here and share, you know, what I, what I have to share with you guys.
Melissa Breau: Awesome. Ashley?
Ashley Escobar: I am Ashley Escobar and I've been participating in dog sports since I was a junior in four H and AKC Juniors, conformation and agility mostly. And I have had my own business since 2000 when I graduated college and was a college math professor for a short bit before having children. And then I retired from that and started my own business, full-time dog training, mostly focusing on rehab with the canine conditioning and fitness. That's my passion with the animal sports. I've been doing some guest presenter for Fenzi dog sports and super excited.
Melissa Breau: Awesome. So I mentioned in the intro, the conference coming up is about cabin fever, so it kind of only seemed fair that we kind of start out our conversation by talking about maybe what that kinda looks like in your dogs. So what are some signs that you guys see when your dogs are starting to, you know, suffer kinda signs that they're telling you that maybe it's been too many days in a row kind of inside? Julie, you wanna start us off?
Julie Symons: Yeah, you know, my dogs get along really, really well. But<|fim_middle|>. The external, which is really a fun one, is when the dogs can modify and take a look at something and determine whether it's big or small based on the number of objects that are in front of them.
And that changes relative to the small one. So if I have a lineup of four or five objects say, so say you've got an orange cone in, in five different sizes from small to large, if I ask for the small one, Piper will pick out small. But if I take the smallest one out and I take the largest one out and I ask her for small, she'll look at what's left or what's there relative to what she's looking at, and she will pick then the next smallest one or the next largest one, whichever I'm doing. So, but I'm focusing strictly on internal modifiers left and right. And what I've done is just broken it down to all the stages of pre-planning and there's a lot of pre-planning and, and then we've got the workstation, how to set it up, the training and then finally the testing and the troubleshooting and you know, showing people the benefits of it. Because within the modifier training, what I've got is a default station and the dog, when they don't know what to do, they have the choice to default to that station. And I've got a really great example from one of my students, Sarah and and Ripley, and it was, it's a fabulous example as to as to why this default station works because he started out really barky and really rangy and you see his transition, his transformation basically to how he is then very controlled and focused and makes no mistakes at all. And he, because he's listening and he's had that opportunity to go back to that start station whenever he didn't know what to do, he went back to that and he did it. And then we also show how, how to interrupt a behavior error loop and re restart. So rather than saying no, no, no and trying to get the dog to do it correctly, we get him to go back to their station, ask them to do a couple of known behaviors and then ask for that modifier again and then they're able to do it. So it's quite interesting and just sort of little things that I've found out as I'm going through and yeah, that's what it's all about.
Melissa Breau: Very cool. They are awesome. Like absolutely fascinating topics and you know, super interesting stuff to listen in on and be able to work on over the next couple months while we're all kind of dealing with short days and, you know, yucky weather.
Heather Lawson: No kidding. It's pouring rain at my end today, so.
Melissa Breau: Oh man.
Julie Symons: So wanna watch that one, Heather. It sounds so fascinating. It's one area I haven't gotten into with training yet, so.
Heather Lawson: Well, I was introduced, I think I've been going to, you know, Clicker Expo for probably however long it's been going like 20 years or something like that. I went to the, you know, the very first one and then I went one year and Ken Ramirez was there and he introduced concept training. I'm like, ah-ha, this is cool. And so I've been on it for, for quite some years ever since the first time he introduced it at, at Clicker Expo. And it's, it's really a lot of fun because you have to really let the dog do their thing because you can't be their eyes really. It's their eyes and it's their, you know, their nose, it's their internal response and you definitely have to know you're left and right versus the dogs. So if the dog's facing you and you say left and you wanted them to go to their right, but you said the wrong, you really screw the dogs up. But, so it takes a lot of concentration on the trainer as well as the dog, but it's a really great way to increase your timing and your mechanical skills and everything cuz you gotta try everything out before you start, before you add the dog. That's all the pre-planning stage that I'll visit in the lecture when I go through and as I said, it's a very, very brief, brief, brief look at modifiers because it's, it's a little bit, it's a little bit more complicated but it's, it's so much fun.
Melissa Breau: But that's how people are gonna get interested in it when they are just introduced to a topic. So yeah.
Heather Lawson: Yeah.
Melissa Breau: So three kind of very different angles at dealing with "cabin fever," but I think they all totally kind of make sense for the topic. I did wanna just kind of have you each kind of address what we're talking about when we say small space for like the types of exercises you're including in your presentation. So what size space do you need for kind of the pieces that you'll be looking at in the conference? Ashley, you wanna take this one first?
Ashley Escobar: I also, I did six exercises in my presentation and all six of them can easily be done in a 10 x 10 area–like a small space. Most of them could potentially be done in a 6 x 10 cuz I had some mats that I rolled out to measure cuz I did it in my studio, but I wanted to shrink it down and really like, just use–if I only had a hallway or something to do it in. So really small space for sure. And I gave examples of how to condense if they felt like they didn't have as much space as what they were seeing in the presentation, but not, not a ton of room for sure.
Melissa Breau: Awesome. Heather?
Heather Lawson: For me, again, it's very small space. 10 x 10. You'll see in one of my videos somebody's doing it in their, I guess their living room and they push the coffee table out of the way and you're good to go, you know, you can do it, I do show some jumps and you know, kennels and things like that, but those are just some ideas for how, you know what to add a left and a right to, but you could do, had one student that did just a simple paws up or table and you know, she could do, she did it in a small, small, I think it was her bedroom that she did it in. So it was a very small area. So it, it does, you don't require a lot of space, sort of, kind of dependent on your dog too. If your dog's a big, huge, Great Dane and you're gonna use more space, but…
Heather Lawson: The smaller dogs, you know, you can get away with it. You know, it's not like they have to do a full jump or anything like that. They just have to pop over to that bar or go into that kennel, right. Or put their paws up on that perch, you know, or sit there and, you know, wave their left paw, wave their right paw. It can be as simple as that.
Julie Symons: So small space. Yeah, I mean the same thing, you know, most of my drills are just right in your living room, you know, easily. We're just doing, like you mentioned the shell game. I do a lot of, you know, just shuffling boxes, containers around, sitting on the ground with my dog and working. There is one on air scenting that I wanted to address for indoor work, which, you know, if you have the bigger room in your house would be great to use. And I did kinda sneak one example that was in my training building. It wasn't a large space, but it's just where I happened to have set up this training with a fan. So there's some, some areas where you're using a thing, want a little bit more safe to have your dog and you'll be forever away from store.
But other than that, it's very, you know, things you should have around your house you can get creative with. Very, very, yeah, very, very small things.
Melissa Breau: Awesome. All right, so I wanna kind of round things out with one last question, which is just kind of giving each a chance to kind of give us a last thought or something you really want kind of be able to walk away from this conversation with. So if I was to ask you for one key piece of information you really want folks to understand or kind of leave this thinking about, what would that be? Heather?
Heather Lawson: Just have fun with your dog. Geek out and have some fun, you know, cabin fever's hard enough. You know, we get ourselves, we get tired of the dull, dreary days and so just sitting there and having fun and saying, okay, let's see what we can do together is, for me, what it's all about. I'll save all of the other more, you know, advanced or more intricate work or maybe even more precise work for those times when, you know, you're maybe feeling a little bit better with the sunshine out and you can, you know, put the effort in and you get out with fresh air and, and work outside, but you know, just have fun really.
Julie Symons: Well that's a hard one to follow. But besides thinking that everybody should try nosework, I do want people to start to really observe their dogs, you know, they're scenting dogs. It's how we view the world and in just everyday life. And just like, I remember being on a walk with my dogs and we were just out on a walk on a trail and they all turned in unison so they had passed some scent and they all, I wish I had it on video, they all just turned and went to this one spot to sniff. And it was just so fascinating. And that's something that's been circulating on social media right now is that picture of a, like a snowy or dirt grass trail or something and they color code all the different tracks, whether it's a human, fox, rabbit, whatever, and they color code it, you could see what the dog's world is. It's just a ton of scents that's out there that they're always processing and you can just learn a lot about your dog and how they're using their nose, whether it's gonna be involved in a sense or not. It's just, it's how they explore their world and it's just such a fascinating thing.
Ashley Escobar: I would like for everyone to take away to set some goals. Like it's a great downtime where we're not as pressed usually because we are kind of stuck indoors a little more. So it's such a good time to just kind of reevaluate where you are and what you want and just simple goals, just something, just put something on paper so that you can manage it and it's just a great starting point. I think it's a good time of year.
Heather Lawson: Really good points. Yeah, it's just, you know, reevaluate your, the dog, your dog's fitness, are they where they need to be in order to do the dog sport that I want to do this summer? You know, or like Julie says, it's like, you know, paying attention to what your dogs are actually sort of, I guess for a different word is they're viewing in their world like, you know, it's fun to watch them definitely go along and all of a sudden then you get that head snap and they're, they're gone.
You know, and I'm wondering, you know, I let Piper out to go, you know, do her potty at night and she goes down and all of a sudden she's like, she catches something and she's gone and she takes her little tour around the backyard and then it's like, oh yeah, right. I was out here for a purpose,gotta go potty. And then she, you know, comes back in and, and it's kind of fun to, you know, to be able to pay attention to our dogs on that more minute microscopic level and this is when we're stuck inside. It's the perfect time to do that. Right. And to, and to reassess where you are with your training and like Ashley said, set your goals as to where you wanna be and then the steps you're gonna have to take to get there.
Julie Symons: You know, what I've also noticed is how my dogs observe the other dogs. So like if one of 'em is sniffing something they note, they're like, oh they found something over there. I gotta go see what's over there so that they can read the body language of them, you know, sourcing something or at something and it's, it's like something that they weren't even paying attention to but they see the body language of that dog so they join in on that. It's just, it's just really fascinating if we can slow down everything that we're doing and just observe our dog in their natural way of being.
Melissa Breau: Awesome.
Ashley Escobar: That that's exactly what chickens do, right? One chicken starts pecking and the whole flock of hens run over cuz they are certain that one hen has found something.
Heather Lawson: Oh I didn't know.
Melissa Breau: That's Pretty cool. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. Well, thank you all for coming on the podcast. This was excellent.
Heather Lawson Yeah, You're more than welcome. Happy to do it.
Julie Symons: This was a great time. I love doing this.
Melissa Breau: Awesome. All right. And thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in. We will be back next week for a conversation on working with a dog sports coach. If you haven't already subscribed to our podcast in iTunes, the podcast app of your choice to our next episode automatically downloaded to your phone as soon as it becomes available.
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Melissa is FDSA's resident marketing geek. She teaches two classes here at FDSA: Marketing for Pet Professionals & Building a Wordpress Website.
In addition to teaching, she hosts the Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast, coordinates webinars, helps maintain the FDSA facebook page, runs the Ripple Effect group for dog trainers using Fenzi Principles, and other random odds and ends as needed. She is currently owned by a GSD with a championship in Treibball (and who is now learning obedience), a English Cocker Spaniel, and a small tuxedo kitty.
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Friday, 06 January 2023 E295: Laura Donaldson - "Stop and Smell the Pee Mail" | when they have been cooped up, they tend to have a lot less patience and they get a lot of grouchier with each other and they'll resource guard their bones that I'm giving them to like enrich them and supplement their, their activity. But that's basically it. They, they're generally pretty good, you know, I have off switches, but that's what I noticed. They, they're, they're more grouchy and gonna bark at each other or growl or something like that, but it's tough.
Melissa Breau: Yeah. Yeah. Ashley.
Ashley Escobar: My, so my Aussies are they just start to wrestle and get very restless and just roughhousing, I guess you would call it in the house, which they normally don't do cause it's not allowed. The Border Collie goes shopping, she gets into bags, purses, she'll take them off the hooks, she wants to get toys and leashes and she's certain that we've just lost all of the things that, you know, are her keys to outdoors. So she, she goes shopping and the others just start roughhousing.
Heather Lawson: Yeah, I, I know with, with mine now that I'm down to one, she's kind of like at a loss for what to do. So it, it's basically it's all eyes on mom and dad, what's happening next. And normally with, you know, herding breed there and German Shepherd especially, they're like, you move, I move too. And it's even that much more emphasized because it, and it's like instead of just like, oh okay, we're going, it's just like yippee and it's four off the floor and it's around, you know, and running to the garage door and then running back and running to the garage door and running back as you're trying to make your way to the garage door. So it's just a little bit more excitement and keeping an eye on mom and dad cuz something interesting might end up happening. So that's how I know that she's just like, yeah, okay, too many too long days inside–need to get out.
Julie Symons: I would say I've noticed that too. Like they're more uber aware of our movements or if I just have to go outside, I put my coat on and think we're going somewhere and then they're like, no, we're not going anywhere. And yeah, they're very aware of what we're doing at that point.
Heather Lawson: Yeah, it's like just a minor trip out to the food recycling bin, you know, becomes a whole like, ooh, we're going on an escapade. And then you get there and you turn around and come back. It's like you can literally see her kind of go, huh. Okay. Not happening.
Melissa Breau: You can tell I'm talking to dog trainers though. Cause I can tell you in my house when things start to get too cooped up, everybody starts shredding everything.
Suddenly I have paper on the house, I have counters surfing, I have rolls of toilet paper that are no longer on the roll.
Heather Lawson: That was, that was puppy-dom that would, that would happen with puppy do, but it, not so much now with the, you know, with the, the adult dogs, you know, if they have a different way of, they're a bit more controlled if you will, if you don't wanna call that.
Melissa Breau: Yeah, fair enough.
Heather Lawson: You know, it's, it, it's just like you gotta find something to do. So yeah.
Melissa Breau: Joys of a 13 month old dog.
So folks listening to this almost certainly, like they hear "cabin fever" and they think like enrichment, right? So we're totally gonna talk about training as a form of enrichment in just a moment, but kind of before we do, I wanted to just ask if any of you have like fun games or things you do that maybe aren't training but that you like to, you know, play or things that you like to do to kinda help keep your dogs from feeling it when you're stuck indoors for a while. Ashley?
Ashley: So I do, I do a lot of fitness obviously, so that's my one go-to. But that is kind of training-ish. But I do play musical platforms with my dogs. So I have a ridiculous amount of climbs in my house and we will set them on different levels and the kids get involved because they get cooped up too and we play releasing them to their name and then they get to the auto treat or a toy or something and then they have to return back to their platform so the dogs fully know the game and they know once they get off and get their thing, they rush back because then they get whoever gets back to it fastest if they let two off the first one gets the cookie. So that's, that's a fun game that kind of my kids have sort of invented because it gives them something to do and it wears out the dogs too. So that's been fun. We've done that since the raining season started and when we just had this really cold weather, like we, we've been doing that too.
Heather Lawson: I classify, that's what I call it. My couch training is I'll just sit on the couch and, and if Piper moves or does something, I'll, I'll just click and then she goes, Ooh, game on, what do you want? And then it's like, it becomes a game of this, not that or that, not this. And so that's how some of our little minor tricks came about. And then if I wanna get sort of trainee-ish in the whole thing, then I'll go down and, and I'll play some of my, my concept games and things like that with her and just let her focus on that type of thing. Cuz I don't do it as training particularly. And if I'm gonna do anything, I'm gonna probably focus on things that aren't going to require a lot of precision maybe, but just fun things that I can enroll into my regular everyday training, if that makes any sense to anybody.
Melissa Breau: Yeah, yeah, I think it does. Yeah.
Julie Symons: For my dogs, you know, they just really just like the social interaction and attention. It's like Heather mentioned earlier, they just, all of our dogs, they want, they love, you know, they're social animals. And I might even just do some of my cooperative care or grooming that are way overdue. So I'm, sometimes I might just brush them, which they don't like and just get some of them, maybe their nail clipping. But I also will play with my dogs on the ground, which get the dogs also playing with each other cause they really, like my two young dogs would love to play together. I have a picture I took when we were opening presents on Christmas, they were in the background like playing with each other while we were opening presents.
And I also like to hide and seek around the house. And my, our son is home from college, he's 18 and he's always done that while he runs and hides and we would have the dogs to hunt for him. So that's a really fun game. Cause I think that's such a nice like a recall game, you know, just to find us and it makes it crazy barking and everything. So those are some of the stuff I do. I also would, when they were younger, would give them my junk mail and give them my paper towel rolls, but they don't as much chew them, shred them now. Cause they're, they're older. But…
Heather Lawson: Yeah, actually that reminds me of the recall game too. It's one that my husband and I started doing is that he'd distract the dogs with cookies. He'd just walk over the cookie jar and then of course they're gonna follow. And then I would go and hide and then he'd, he'd turn around and he'd, he'd say, where did she go? And then it was like, she left, where'd she go? We gotta find her. And they go traipes all over the house and, and it's quite, it's quite hilarious.
Julie Symons: A fun game.
Heather Lawson: We missed out. We missed out. Right. So it's a really good game to play and it's a, it, like you said, Julie, it gives you a really good sort of recall in a way, right? Because then I, if, if you're not sure if they're coming, you could just do this little like whistle, like…
Julie Symons: You do a little noise and then they'll find you.
Heather Lawson: Their heads whip back and they're tilting their heads and they're trying to figure out where it came from and then they end up eventually coming to you and obviously I got cookies for them when they get there. But yeah, recall games in the house is good.
Melissa Breau: Awesome. Lots of fun stuff. So to dive a little more into kinda that training thing, right? Like I'm pretty sure we've all all been there. I know Ashley mentioned kind of the cold front that just kind of went through, I think lots of listeners probably dealt with that here in the states where we get kind of stuck indoors for whatever crappy weather or like just life does not lead to lots of outdoor dog time for a couple of days. And the dog gets to that point where they're like, okay, do something now please. So let's talk about fun training games. So what are your favorite games to pull out to do with them? Heather, I'll let you start us off.
Heather Lawson: Okay, for me again, I'll have to refer back to sort of my brain games and, and my brain–I call 'em my brain brain bender. If I get that out, spit it out. It's a tongue bender too.
Melissa Breau: Yeah, exactly.
Heather Lawson: And it's, I'm just starting to do that concept training "Do As I Do" from Claudia Fugaza. So I'm pulling that out and I do another one that's called the Shell game. So basically the dog has to know, they, they watch you put the cookie under, under one cup. So you got three cups and you just kind of move 'em around and first off I start with two and then I add, add more and then they have to guess which one it it's in and if they make the wrong guess, you show them the right guess, but you take the cookie away so then they start to pay more attention.
So that's kind of fun. And again, I'm increasing the match to sample class. I think we're up to, with Piper, I am up to five different items that she'll pick out if I hold one up and she can go out to the bin. I'm trying now just to switch them into a pile so that she has to go and pick out the individual one that I've got that I'm showing her that I want.
And at the same time I'm starting to name those objects so that she has a little bit more of a repertoire on object names. So just basic sort of concept games that doesn't necessarily require a lot of room, but it still makes her brain work. And if I can tire her brain out, then her body usually follows suit. And then of course Julie will like this one cuz you do nosework. I'll do nosework in and around the house as well.
Melissa Breau: So just to–because the match to sample you have like a bunch of things out and you hold up one and they have to find the one that matches it. Is that?
Heather Lawson: Yep, so basically when I'm teaching it in a class format, like at Fenzi, we do it like on a workstation. So I start out with the workstation and then I've got, I teach her, I go through all the process of teaching the match. And so right now she's up to up to five ones that she knows and then I'm now introducing a new unknown object she's never dealt with before. So say a water bottle, right? So she's, oh so water bottle, can you pick out that water bottle from which one matches the one that I've got in my hand and then she goes as long as she picks it out. So that's what your Match To Sample is and basically sort of match the sample. That's the visual match to sample–your olfactory match sample is your utility articles, right? Or your nosework or your tracking that you teach the dog to match the sample of what you're looking for and that's how they go and find it. Right? So they know that that sample pays off and sort of the same thing you do when you're doing, you know, like cancer cells and that that's a match to sample.
Melissa Breau: Very cool. Julie, what about you? What do you play?
Julie Symons: Well, so separate from my presentation, I like to work on cue discrimination, you know, rotate my dogs through this. They're well known behaviors, sit down, spin, understand. And it's a great time to work on those location and reward specific markers. Cause I really want those on to discriminate them well, you know, so that it makes sense to them when I'm using them.
If it is a nosework game, I love my go to source, which is gonna be in my presentation. It's just a simple example would be, you know, get over from work or when you're tired you don't have a lot of time you're gonna do something and you don't wanna set up stuff as you just put a hide in one place on an object that can be moved and you just have 'em find it and you move, you rotate the object, you have 'em go back and find it again and they have to actually go to source and you know, not remember where it was before. And it's just a really simple game. But I have many variations of a go to source game. So if I wanna do nosework, that's kind of some of the stuff I would work on.
Melissa Breau: That sounds cool.
Julie Symons: Yeah, cuz you don't have to like keep moving the hide or adjust the heights someone is playing. So then you'll just move the object or I've used a shoe cubby hole where I'll put it in one of the cubby holes in the shoebox and then I'll just rotate it and then they just have to find which cubby hole it's in. So things like that.
Melissa Breau: Very cool.
Julie Symons: Yeah.
Melissa Breau: What about you Ashley?
Ashley Escobar: My go-to for this last month and a half has been just maybe three set ups and I have the platforms on one side of the room with the dogs and then they take turns wrapping a cone left or right and then going through the cavaletti poles and then returning to their platform. So it really wears them out though because they're having to patiently wait their turn and then they get to go through some physical motion and it doesn't require a ton of space.
So I can easily just pull out two or three poles and put up a little cone or a trashcan or a chair or something to have them wrap around. And it, I think that I've figured it out that with the combination of musical platforms really seems to be the sweet spot where they just, their brains can just be like, oh, okay, I can, I can just, I'm good, I can settle again. It's great. I have three working Aussies and the Border Collie, so we're in high drive mode all the time. It's so fun.
Melissa Breau: I'm sure.
Ashley Escobar: Yes. And two kids, it's fun.
Ashley Escobar: You know, it's true when you have like a younger dog or a puppy, I have a million things to work on. I find when they're a little bit older, I mean, definitely it could be the maintenance stuff, but you kind of are like, you know, in a small space maybe you can't, you know, you know, what can you do? But definitely if you have a young dog, there's unlimited stuff to work on in a small space.
Melissa Breau: Yep.
Ashley Escobar: And they're so willing to just do any little thing. And my dogs are so happy. Just even if they're doing stands, they're just, you know, it, it doesn't have to be anything fancy.
Melissa Breau: Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff. All right, so all three of you are presenting for the Cabin Fever Conference. That's the reason that we had everybody on today. So I wanted to just have you each kind of talk a little bit about your presentation, kind of what you plan to cover. You know, just give people a little sample so that they can decide to show up for your talk. So Julie, do you wanna go first?
Julie Symons: Yeah, I start off by going over why sniffing is so valuable for dogs and, and their overwhelm, wellbeing and competence. Every time I present something on this topic, I learn more about the seeking system, which is a, you know, part of the, a function of the brain. And then so once I go over that and then, you know, talk about how we can use that function to help lower arousal when you're doing some other sports, just I wanted to touch on that a little bit cuz those are easy fun things to do, like with stuff and things like that. And then of course I have, you know, about I, I dunno, five or six nosework games that I go over and, and then what I, what I, my presentation ends with is how to teach handler scent because I find that tends to be a kind of a hard, you know, behavior skill to start for someone who's never done that. So I just kind of introduced how you might teach handler scent, whether it's scent articles or the AKC handler Scent nosework category where you're searching for a scent of cotton glove or sock. So I thought that was a really nice variety so it would apply to many people who, if you don't do nosework you can play rounds of handler scent but then also have some things that are just about some food sniffing and sourcing and not just nose. So I'm really excited, you know, for the presentation.
Melissa Breau: Sounds like fun. So lots of good stuff in there. Ashley, you wanna go next?
Ashley Escobar: Yes, so my presentation is about conditioning and fitness and just gonna talk a little bit about why it's important, especially during their off winter months or summer months depending on where you live. But all things that you can do inside in a small space. So I've put together six exercises that you can do and inside your home somewhere and just kind of going over the benefits and then how to build a conditioning plan for your dog depending on your sport of choice and what you want to work on with your dog. And it wraps up with some do-it-yourself conditioning equipment hacks to make it easy so you don't feel like you have to go out and buy name brand conditioning equipment.
Melissa Breau: You mean buying the conditioning equipment is not part of the fun?
Ashley Escobar: Oh, It is, it's definitely for me, if you saw my other wall, it's certainly not required. And so unfortunately most of the things that I use are things that I've just kind of built myself to make it, you know, so I try, I try to keep it like that, that way people don't feel like they have to spend.
Melissa Breau: Yeah, super accessible. Yeah.
Ashley Escobar: Yeah, it's nice when you go, I never, I never go into a Home Depot or a Lowe's looking for the thing that is actually meant to be used for. It's always gonna be like how can I change this into something that I need for dog training? It's just, it's like my husband just goes, he goes, okay, I'll see you in about half an hour, just go and do your thing and I'll see you. So yeah.
Melissa Breau: Heather, what about you? What's your presentation on?
Heather Lawson: My presentation is a little bit, it's concept training. So it's a very, very, very brief introduction to concept training and what makes the particular type of training,
whether it be match sample modifiers, aduction, the copy, the like the mimicry, what makes it an actual concept and why it's different than just the strict behaviors that we're teaching. And then I zero in on one particular concept and that's modifiers. And within modifiers we're just taking, because there's two different types of modifiers. There's an internal modifier and an external, and by that what I mean is internal is the dogs left and right. That will never change. Right. So that's internal to you, same as up and down for the dog doing an up or down, it will never change. It's relative to the dog | 4,520 |
26 Jobs that Require Chemistry
Posted on Published: October 22, 2021 - Last updated: August 18, 2022
Perhaps you love chemistry, achieve excellent grades in all your chemistry exams, and are considering studying it at university. It is important to consider how you can earn a living doing something you love. You need to contemplate all the opportunities to use chemistry in various professions and choose one that suits you best.
Chemistry jobs:
Metallurgist
Chemical engineer
Forensic scientist
Molecular Gastronomist
Archeologist
Organic chemist
Nuclear chemist
Water chemist
Geochemist
When you look through this list of jobs that use chemistry, always keep in mind that you must enjoy the nature of the job and the environment in which you will work. It takes pleasure in both aspects to make you a happy worker. Chemistry is a fascinating subject and plays an essential role in the functioning of our bodies, the cycle of life on earth, and almost every living or non-living interaction that occurs.
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Chemistry is critical knowledge if you want to go into the field of pharmacy. Pharmacists must understand the interactions of chemicals in medicine and how that impacts the body. Although most pharmacists do not mix their formulations these days, they must have a thorough knowledge of the drugs they supply.
Some pharmacists work at formularies where they compound the medicines. Others work at big pharmaceutical companies where new drugs are developed. These two pharmacy jobs use chemistry in practice every day.
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If you choose to study pharmacy at university, you will need to study chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical pharmacokinetics. These subjects relate to
the way the human body's chemistry works
the interaction with pharmaceuticals
how medicine is dispersed, used, and eliminated from the body
If you do not want the responsibility of being a pharmacist, you can opt to be a pharmacological assistant.
A metallurgist is someone who studies metals and metal alloys. They are involved in
the extraction process of metal and the production of alloys
testing the strength and properties of metals or alloys
producing useful objects from metal
This critical job allows us to advance in scientific discovery and safely use the many devices we have access to. Your school subjects should include chemistry to assist in securing a place in a metallurgy engineering course.
At university, you will study varying chemistry subjects throughout the degree. Several different colleges and universities offer metallurgical engineering courses.
Chemical engineers are sometimes referred to as materials engineers or materials scientists. Chemistry is a cornerstone in this profession and will form a large part of your studies. Chemical or materials engineers develop new materials and advise on how these materials can be used to create products.
They can be involved in many different products. For example
developing new bricks
safe paint for the inside of your microwave
electrical conductors
creating rubber that allows for more robust car tires to be produced
improving the durability of tarmac roads
designing a coffee cup that does not burn your fingers
developing transparent burglar bars
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Chemical engineering is a varied field with a lot of scopes for you to explore areas of chemistry you may not have even thought of.
A pathologist is a medical healthcare specialist responsible for examining bodies, tissues, and cells. You will not find pathologists at your hospital bedside as their work is done in laboratories. Pathologists also test for bacterial, viral, and fungal infections in living organisms.
They play a critical role in disease diagnosis and monitoring of body functioning. Pathologists submit biological samples to various chemicals and observe the results. Pathologists are also responsible for completing postmortems. They must understand the biochemical processes in the body and the chemical reactions which cause decomposition.
Pathologists are assisted by pathology or laboratory technicians who also work daily with chemistry and the body.
Forensic science has become a well-known field of study with the advent of crime television programs and movies. It is fascinating if a somewhat macabre occupation that requires a sound understanding of chemistry. Forensic scientists often have a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with some specialized courses in forensics.
Forensic scientists can work in the field and in the laboratory, which helps to provide variety in the job.
Chemistry does not immediately spring to mind when you think of horticulture. Horticulture falls into agricultural sciences as it addresses the best way to grow, produce, process, store, and ship fruit, vegetables, and flowers.
Chemistry plays a vital role in understanding the chemical processes in plants and facilitating the maximum growth and production of plants. Processing fruit, vegetables, and flowers involve using chemistry to extend shelf life and prevent decay.
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A farmer must be a jack-of-all-trades, and chemistry is no exception to the knowledge base needed in farming. Farmer's use chemistry to
fertilize and manage crops
manage pest infestations with the correct use of pesticides
monitor the quality of their water
understand the mechanisms of rusting and other processes on farm machines
produce and store food products
If you want to combine chemistry with a love of animals, this would be a good career choice for you. Veterinarians must understand biochemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry to do their jobs.
Animals cannot speak to report problems, and veterinarians are often called on to diagnose conditions in which they must observe the animal's environment for clues. Chemical reactions in the environment may be causing the problem, and veterinarians must have enough knowledge to spot these issues.
Animals may be exposed to or ingest toxic substances. The vet must understand the chemical mechanism of the poison and the biochemical response to treat the animal efficiently.
A medical doctor uses chemistry every day to evaluate, diagnose and treat patients. Most medical degree courses include at least one year of general chemistry studies. Other chemistry subjects include biochemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, and pharmacokinetics.
Neurologists must understand brain chemistry as every electrical signal in the brain is a result of neurochemical transmitters.
Anesthetists must carefully balance pharmaceutical chemistry and the interaction with the brain and other vital body functions to keep patients adequately anesthetized and alive throughout the surgery.
Geneticists use different aspects of chemistry in their investigation into genetics. They must understand biochemistry and the use of chemicals to isolate and test tissues, cells, and genetic material. There is a complex field of study known as chemical genetics.
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Geneticists can work in diverse fields such as agriculture and medicine. They are also employed by pharmaceutical companies, crop and livestock research companies, and even some government agricultural departments.
A virologist is someone that studies viruses. Viruses still flummox doctors, veterinarians, and horticulturalists as they are challenging to manage, and treatment is often only symptomatic. Virologists are essential in the fight against viruses.
Virologists work in laboratories and use chemicals to isolate, identify and study viruses. They can be involved in the development of vaccines, which requires an in-depth knowledge of chemistry and biochemistry.
Molecular gastronomy employs physics and chemistry to study the culinary processes and their effect on food. For example, why a souffle rises or mayonnaise thickens.
Molecular gastronomy has given rise to molecular cuisine, which has become a novelty with new dishes created from alternative culinary methods. There are even restaurants that only do this form of cuisine. Solid knowledge of chemistry could allow you to open a restaurant or become famous as a molecular gastronomist.
Molecular cuisine is creative, alternative, and often mind-blowing. Some examples are
creating an apple that tastes like meat
creating apple caviar
making beer that tastes smoky
making a tomato mousse that appears to be a whole tomato
Archeologists are not usually linked with chemistry in our minds. Archeology uses carbon dating and other techniques to determine the age and composition of artifacts. Archeologists must have chemistry knowledge to understand which methods to use and how to use them.
Decay and deterioration result from chemical processes. As a result, archeologists need to understand these processes to fill in the missing parts of their discoveries.
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Organic chemistry is the study of matter that contains carbon. Organic chemists evaluate and dissect material that contains carbon. They aim to manipulate organic material to create valuable products or influence change in other products. Archeologists and organic chemists will often work closely together when examining artifacts.
Organic chemistry can create new compounds that are better, safer, and more durable for use than previously used materials. Some products that organic chemists may work on are:
Medicines, bandages, sterilizing procedures
Agrichemicals
Nuclear chemists work with only the nucleus of an atom. They must have detailed knowledge of radiation chemistry and radiation biology. Their work can involve radiation disposal, developing radiation treatment programs for cancer, and using radioactive tracers in substances.
Another example of work done by nuclear chemists is nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy which is used to study the chemical, biological and physical properties of matter.
Water chemists are critical for the health and well-being of life on earth. They study the chemicals present in water. This has significant implications for health and sanitation. Water chemists are instrumental in:
ensuring we have clean drinking water
detecting harmful pathogens in water and designing water rehabilitation programs
Assisting governments and municipalities to establish rules to govern waste disposal so that rivers and groundwater are not polluted.
If you have a major in chemistry and are passionate about passing on your knowledge, you could choose to be a chemistry teacher. Teaching could be at a school or college level. You would probably need to add a teaching diploma to your chemistry qualification.
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Many people in the western world do not value teachers as they should. Teaching chemistry can make an invaluable contribution to the world. You could inspire students to love chemistry, and one of them could be the next Marie Curie.
Encouraging future<|fim_middle|> inorganic chemistry to investigate minerals and fossil fuels. An essential subject in the coursework for geochemistry is analytical chemistry.
Geochemists can have jobs that:
Help mining companies decide where to find deposits of oil or minerals
Assist with appropriate places to dispose of waste
Design programs to clean up toxic waste dumps
Predict geological events such as earthquakes
Geochemists are highly qualified people that typically have a master's degree or doctorate.
Oceanographers study everything in the ocean, including:
Currents and water circulation
The geology of the seabed
All life forms are essentially made up of chemical interactions, and all life forms interact chemically with their environment. When that environment is salty, such as the ocean, there are even more chemical interactions.
Many other jobs use chemistry, and providing an exhaustive list would be beyond the scope of this article. Some others to consider are:
Toxicology – the study of poisons, drugs, and alcohol in blood and tissues.
Laboratory technicians can work in laboratories doing a whole host of different chemical testing and assist with research.
Biomedical engineers grow organs and skin for transplants.
Quality control chemists that check the quality of products used in production lines.
Crime scene cleaners use chemicals to remove stains.
Laundromat operators use chemicals to dry clean clothes and eliminate stains.
Perfume makers combine chemical elements to create scents.
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Chemistry is a valuable field of study that can provide you with the opportunity to apply for many different job types. If you are considering a career and would like to use chemistry in your job, you can choose one of the many jobs mentioned here and train specifically for that job.
You can also do a general Bachelor Of Science degree with a chemistry major and consider the job opportunities when you have completed your studies.
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A geochemist studies the chemical compounds present in the earth's crust. They examine the composition of the chemicals and chemical movement through water relocation and geological events such as volcanoes or earthquakes.
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Oh thank you SO very much for your help! Exactly the info I was wanting and needing! I have the manure, several tons in a large pile here already…with a little horse mixed in. It is nice and black. I am going to take several bags with me and re-do all the flower bed areas with it.
I have never smelled a rose quite like the Firefighter and it's blooms are magnificent as well.
I must also thank Kathy Linton of Arbor and Vine for recommending you!!!
thanks for this fall checklist for the roses. I don't have but a few roses and am still learning about them.
Whether you have one shrub or a hundred, roses bring such joy to our lives! Thanks for visiting my blog.
Fabulous advice! I am a big proponent of doing a good fall clean up to curtail a disease and insects next spring.
Thanks Elena! It is essential in my garden.
I just found your site by way of The Grumpy Gardener, and I am so glad I did. This info speaks to the Houston area too (although we are in zone 9a, so we wait to plant our roses until February). I have two Dame du Coeur reds, and just hate them! They are scraggly and thorny (I have the scars to prove it!) and have no fragrance at all, so they are coming OUT this year. I like the antiques/heritages best, so am looking for recommendations for the February planting. My Katy Road Pinks (okay, okay — Carefree Beauty) are doing well and have great fragrance. They're already starting to set hips.
Hey! Thanks for stopping by. So glad you found me. The Apothecary Rose, Maggie (bourbon), Cramoisi Superieur (China) comes to mind for reds.
Belinda's dream and also mutabilis are awesome Earth Kind varieties. Hope this helps! Happy Holidays to yoU!
Great info!!! Just what I needed going into fall! Thanks Chris!
We all need to be reminded of these tip during fall. Thank you!
I have a couple of hybrid tea roses but have decided to prepare an area in my yard specifically for roses. Since it is now December when should I plant new roses?
Hey Norma . What part of the country do you live in? Tyically in the deep south you can plant roses until late December.
I loved your blog. This was my first time here but I will be back!
My knockout roses are planted in a container/pot. How would you suggest I prepare for winter?
I'm in zone 7. I've been told not to prune at all until spring and to move them inside to a dark area. What do you think?
Thanks for the reminder. I must get out there and trim some of those long canes so that the roots will not get winter damage. | cause damage. Trim roses that have grown tall by 1/3 to prevent winter wind damage.
Clear garden beds of debris – especially any diseased leaves that may have fallen from your roses. This practice will help curb problems in spring. fungal disease will over winter in your garden and will be there to greet you is your don't remove it…. Once the temps fall below freezing on a regular basis, you can apply a dormant spray. I use lime sulfur. It will kill fungus on contact. I spray it on the ground and on every inch of the shrub. I have found that this one thing can help you start off the year with a disease free rose bed. Also, never place diseased rose leaves in your compost bin. They should be removed all together from your gardens space.
Fungal disease will remain in your garden until you remove it.
Allow your roses to form hips. Hips provide color in the garden, are a good source of vitamin C for birds and like many plants that produce fruit, the formation of rose hips send is a signal to the rose to go dormant for the season.
By fall, the mulch you applied in spring needs to be reapplied. I add about an additional one inch layer to my beds. In colder climates, your roses may need additional protection. Mounding up mulch around the base of the rose will help. Throughout the year, mulch keeps weeds down and holds moisture in at the base of the plant where it's needed.
Fall is an excellent time to remove any roses that are not healthy. Roses are a resilliant lot. If a particular shrub requires a lot of care, remove it. You and your garden will be happier.
Thanks for all the tips! What a wonderful blog and wonderful rose-filled life.
Thank you so much for visiting my blog and your kind words. Hope to see you in these parts again soon!
Thanks Stan. Like your new profile pic.
I live in KS and wondered if moving my roses from my current residence to my new residence would be ok this time of year?
yes, you should be good to move them now.
Thank you. Are there any particular specific things I should be aware of? How far out from the base of the plants should I start and how deep? If I clip a root or two will it hurt them? The ones I want to move were planted by my husband and I. They are called fire fighter reds and he has since passed and he was also a fire fighter, so they hold very special sentimental value to me.
Rita, Firefighter is a beautiful rose and I can imagine how much it means to you. I would prune the rose back quite a bit. You want the plant to concentrate on settling into a new space rather than producing blooms. I would dig out the root ball at least 12- | 577 |
Malidoma Patrice Somé is a master teacher for our times. For the past two decades he has been opening a trove of indigenous knowledge from the Dagara tribe as he offers unifying wisdom to Western people looking to reconnect with the richness of life when it is imbued with spirit and community.
Malidoma has faced many daunting challenges since<|fim_middle|> basically an opportunity to understand the relationship between cosmology and ritual. We end up doing the ritual as a better way of understanding this relationship.
I just present it as is; that is to say, the five-fold way of the Dagara incorporating five elements — fire, water, earth, nature, and mineral. And although in the course of four days, we can't do all these rituals — they're very time-consuming — at least we get to do the most important ones: the fire, the water, and the earth.
The second meeting is basically on ancestors. This is a therapeutic subject matter in the West, reconnecting with ancestors. We spend four days dealing with the dead, the lost one, the forbearers, and find a way to engage and interact with them in a way that provides a deeper sense of community, since from a Dagara perspective, it's hard to conceive of a community if we don't include the other worlds.
The third session is centered on the subject of having conversation with the other world, with a subheading, which is divination. In the course of that, I remind people that since time immemorial, divination has been the human way to satisfy thirst for knowing the hidden. From the Greek traditions of the diviner as a blind person who ends up seeing better than those with capacity to see; down to all these indigenous oracle readers who are always interested in coming across like the gatekeeper, with a capacity to peek into the other world and report whatever they see.
We get into Dagara divination prophecies, involving in this case cowry shells, the shells from the ocean; which when put together form a certain kind of pattern that translates, or writes down what is going on with a person. So divination becomes the opportunity for people to test this psychic awareness.
In Dagara culture, not everybody's supposed to be a diviner, but everybody's supposed to understand divination. So in that case, those who have a calling all of a sudden find themselves really driven to the practice of it, whereas the others end up understanding its structure. The fourth one is mostly what we call talismanic medicine, my favorite of all the indigenous technologies. The talismanic is the one that takes us into a deeper understanding of nature and the structure of the natural world, what is in there — the causality of nature and its capacity to transcend matter, as well as opening gateways to new dimensions. All of that is encapsulated in the apparently 'chaotic' look of nature.
So in this session, we explore at least the basics that consist of figuring out how to put elements from nature together to create a device capable of enhancing a person's energy as well as forming a protective shield around the person. So that becomes the most exciting part, because in the end people make talismans for each other, and they even make talismans for their loved ones.
The last session is usually celebratory. We gather together to review all the things we've been through and just congratulate ourselves for having made it through.
Donna: Because it is its own initiation, is it not?
Malidoma: Yeah. It is. It is an initiation. It allows for a kind of transition from one state, which is the mundane, into another one, which is the otherworldly sense of reality; which, when incorporated into this mundane sense of reality, can add another dimension, allowing people to be more alert, more aware, and more perceptive.
Donna: Do you find that people feel like they're living in a more meaningful way if they have that aspect added into their lives? What have you noticed?
Malidoma: Absolutely. The most immediate responses I've gotten from people have always been how their lives have changed as a result of partaking in an event. For instance, some people have found their profession, and this profoundly improved and deepened their life experience as a result of the indigenous components being brought to bear.
Also, realizing this tool has helped people to understand certain realities in life that they didn't have an immediate way of deciphering or understanding, particularly challenges such as how to make sense out of a vision or a dream, an intriguing dream that has visited a person. This has helped people to understand ritualistically an issue that is presented to them, like a person in relational crisis, or a person who is also looking for an occupation in life as a way of sustaining themselves. The list is expansive.
Donna: May I mention — I read a piece in which you were talking about how in your culture, that instead of just thinking of a dream as an interesting kind of phenomenon that's separate, you should interact with spirit about it. I thought that was remarkable because so many people in the West are into writing down their dreams and analyzing them, but you were suggesting much more, because again, it's about relationship.
Malidoma: Well, it is relationship, as with everything else. Information that comes to us through the dream channel is part of the natural interaction that every living being has with the other world. Those who don't dream are people who don't have a relationship. But I don't know anybody who doesn't dream.
The point about it is, well, in the West, yes; people have an insufficient initiative in reaction to dreaming. By recording a dream, we don't satisfy the intention of the dream or the purpose of it. It is important when we understand that a dream is a message from the other world that was lodged into our consciousness while we were resting.
It is an indigenous belief that we are more cooperative when we're sleeping because we let our defenses go. And that's when spirit takes that moment to come to us and talk to us convincingly through dreams.
So instead of waking up and recording it, which is not a bad idea, it is important to voice to spirits how you have received the dream. There might be a difference between the transmission of the dream and the receiver's awareness of the content at the other end of the line.
If there is something programmatic about the dream, it means that somehow our intention is being directed toward something that is urgent, and if we happen to not have a clear idea as to what we're supposed to do, then this is a good time to ask the sender to give us more detail. Some dreams may appear incomplete, and in this case it is a good idea to tell the senders, look, there seems to be missing pieces in the information, at least from where I am as a receiver. What happens then is that the other world takes it into consideration and eventually corrects or elaborates more on what has been transmitted.
Donna: Okay, and this might be expressed in events you notice in daily life as some kind of further transmission, not just in a dream?
Malidoma: Absolutely. Because a dream doesn't just happen when we're asleep. What we call a dream is assisting a person's instinct, a person's intuition, and the kind of awareness of sudden insight that we have about something. You may be walking somewhere and then all of a sudden you make a u-turn and can't explain why you made the turn but you were really sure that this was the right thing to do.
You may never find out what was ahead of you that prompted the loving spirits to find a way to get you to make that u-turn. So it is important to stretch the concept of dream to include phenomena that happens while we're wide awake.
Donna: I see. When you were talking about talismanic medicine and understanding more about the causality of nature, I wanted to relate the nudges we are getting from spirit to develop more relationships with other members of creation and the healing involved with that, by working with nature.
Malidoma: Very well noted, yes indeed. There seems to be an increasing call that we pay attention, not just to the immediate geography of our existence, but to make an effort to see the degree to which the immediate geography is connected to other geographies that eventually stretch out and beyond this planet to other unknown areas that know nature, the places that are hosting us down here.
The issue is this, the intelligence of nature is of such sophistication that it keeps an open channel to subspace consciousness, wherein all kinds of sustainable energies are offered, on our behalf and on behalf of the other species.
Consequently, we're being urged to quit being local and to begin to see the way that anything we do or don't do affects the cosmic plane. When we start thinking that way, we are not only honoring our own cosmic relationship, but we're showing the kind of awareness that is really a contribution to human wellness. It is the kind of awareness that we try to get into by creating sacred space and inviting spirits to join us in an effort to take care of something that is of prime importance to us.
Donna: Speaking of healing, I've never known so many people in what I would call healing crisis. Having been involved as a healing practitioner, I don't see healing crisis as inherently a negative thing, even though it's doing a lot to get your attention. But I'm wondering what you would say about this — is it a big call from spirit?
Malidoma: Well, there are many ways of looking at it. And your way is pretty good. I like to look at it that way. A crisis is not necessarily something bad. It could be a fairly profound blessing disguised like that. At least in Dagara culture, what is clear is that ancestors always get our attention in a way that feels like they're grabbing a stick and hitting our head with it. It hurts. But also, it gets our attention.
And so in a way, this is a good thing, to be hit in the head like this because we tend to be so easily distracted by other preoccupations. And in the same manner, the deepest crisis can also carry inside of it the biggest blessing ever.
It is perhaps one of the things that we demand, through various behavioral patterns. One thing we may call the self-destructive pattern can be a way for us to call on change from the other world in that particular way. Catastrophe, whether it is man-made or not, oftentimes comes simply because the sum total of human energies combined tend to send a signal that feels like a statement, inviting awakening.
Therefore, we can see that every step we take is a message we send to the other world. Our demeanor is a language. And more than not, it's a language directed to the other world, and the other world responds. More often than not, the way it gets our attention is quite radical. This is why crisis cannot be labeled in this definitive fashion as something evil or something unfortunate or anything. Maybe fortune is lodged inside, and in that case, every time we feel ourselves stuck somewhere we may wonder what kind of blessing is hiding behind this darkness.
It is not something we should call for or invite. It's just that at this juncture, we're still growing as a species. I don't know; maybe we're not qualified yet for even the high school of consciousness. The way we learn is rather sensory. So when one of the sensors gets hit, all of a sudden we pay attention, you know? It should not be dismissed because if it can help us move forward above and beyond the tendency for pettiness, then there's something good about that.
Donna: I get it. One of the things I have had a lot of personal experience with is the call and response between the human realm and the spirit realm.
Malidoma: Wow. This is perfect, the way you say it — the call and response. As long as this is going on, it means that somehow we can move, and though we can take ourselves away from spirit, we can't take spirit away from us.
Malidoma: You know? The dance is only happening between this world and the other world of spirit. So we can run, but we cannot shake the other world off of us. Even the most hardheaded person is constantly sending messages forward that are echoed by the other world in a way that looks rather tough. But in the end, it's a great melody.
Donna: You are quite a diviner; you have quite an ability to see beyond circumstances, I want you to know that.
Malidoma: Oh, yes. Yes. We are part of the whole tribal village. The global village is indeed the place where every so-called individual personal crisis is the business of everybody. The day when nothing is personal will be the day when we will see each one of us as carriers of something that is deemed beneficial to the rest of the community.
Donna: May I ask one little question on that? What are you seeing emerge in people you're working with, related to 'being the carriers of the beneficial'?
Malidoma: They call it their life's purpose. They call it their gifts. People all of a sudden become lit with a sense of belonging, a sense of worth in which the fire that was rather dim in their system starts to go ablaze. It is something very beautiful and stylistically colorful to look at, and where it takes them is down the rabbit hole of creativity and imagination.
To see someone all of a sudden burst into life, realizing that they are worth something and to begin dispensing their gift is, in itself, a blessing really. | he was born into the Dano village of Dagara peoples living in Bur-kina Faso, West Africa more than fifty years ago. He was only four when a French Jesuit priest abducted him from his village.
Like countless other children from indigenous cultures around the globe, he was sent off against his will to a school run by foreigners and forced to adopt other worldviews in order to survive. Malidoma grew up with the confusion and conflict of living in a stranger's world.
While his life has been quite complex, Malidoma has realized considerable life achievement in finding mastery in two very disparate worlds — as both an initiated elder Dagara medicine man, and a Western trained scholar with two doctorates, one from the Sorbonne and the other from Brandeis.
Having found his own purpose as a teacher who knows how to bridge from the subtle to the material realms, he is an effective diviner able to guide others to greater meaning and fulfillment. His intensives and workshops offer people the opportunity to experience a deep healing of the psyche, through connecting and communicating with the physical world of nature and the unseen world of spirit allies and ancestors.
Donna Strong: So I wanted to begin with a question about the work you do, bringing forth indigenous technology and spirituality through the intensives you are offering in Ojai.
Malidoma: Oh. It's very intensive. (Laughter.) It's one of the most concentrated ways for me to try and cover as much as possible in the African indigenous medicine, which I refer to as indigenous technology.
The intensive is actually a course that goes on chapter by chapter. The first one, called "Elemental," is | 338 |
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Jim Torrey's passion for studying and playing the drums started at the age of nine years old, and has grown even stronger over the past forty years. He had been teaching privately for sixteen years, and has been on the teaching staff at Infinity Visual & Performing Arts, Inc for many years.
Jim studied under Mr. Nelson Kass for several years. Mr. Kass was a student of Al Miller, who is a very prominent drummer and teacher from Long Island. Due to Jim's hard work, commitment and dedication, he has had many achievements. One of them being the first drummer to ever win the Outstanding Musicianship Award while he attended Jamestown Community College.
Jim has been involved in several local bands over the years such as: Joint Effort, Mindchoir, Cold Shot and Deep Water. He is currently the drummer for the band Planet Fred, who is presently in the recording studio working on a CD.
Jim feels that it is an honor and a privilege to teach so many talented children and adults. His students can attest to one of Jim's favorite mottos, "Perfect practice makes perfect."
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Solar Minimum Facts
Solar Minimum coming early, per NASA.
Something strange happened on the sun last week: all the sunspots vanished. This is a sign, say scientists, that solar minimum is coming sooner than expected. Solar physicist David Hathaway has been checking the sun every day since 1998, and every day for six years there have been sunspots. Sunspots are planet-sized "islands" on the surface of the sun. They are dark, cool, powerfully magnetized, and fleeting: a typical sunspot lasts only a few days or weeks before it breaks up. As soon as one disappears, however, another emerges to take its place. Even during the lowest ebb of solar activity, you can usually find one or two spots on the sun. But when Hathaway looked on Jan. 28, 2004, there were none. The sun was utterly blank. It happened again last week, twice, on Oct. 11th and 12th. There were no sunspots."This is a sign," says Hathaway, "that the solar minimum is coming, and it's coming sooner than we expected."
Solar Cycle Update
<|fim_middle|>led to major storm levels on Nov 9 due to the arrival of a CME associated with the X2.0 flare observed on Nov 7. Nov 9 an M-Class Flare, Nov 10 an X-Class Flare. http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/ | http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/18oct_solarminimum.htm
Solar Minimum defined as the period of minimum sunspot activity.
Solar Minimum: A period of decreased solar activity when the number of sunspots reaches a minimum in the 11-year solar cycle.
And in November, the early Solar Minimum hypothesis proved otherwise. Which is why the ZetaTalk on this issue was titled Solar Minimum?
Signs of the Times #1230
Sunspot 696 has produced two more big explosions: an M8-flare on Nov 9 and an X2-flare on Nov 10. At least one CME is heading for Earth as a result of the blasts. Stay tuned for more auroras! A strong geomagnetic storm is in progress. It began on Nov. 9th after a coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetic field. http://www.spaceweather.com/ [and from another source] Geophysical Activity Forecast: The Geomagnetic field is expected to be unsett | 213 |
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Healing is a process. We may think we're "alone" in this, but above it all, God is for us. Yes<|fim_middle|>.
Wherever you are, may God bless and protect you from all evil. | , the Almighty Lord, He's waiting for your decision. He's waiting for your first step. He's waiting for you to forgive yourself, He's waiting for you to believe more in Him, and less in people's opinions.
Things won't happen overnight, but the change begins within yourself, the self love grows inside your heart, and you'll be free. I promise you, you'll be truly free!
The choice is ours. We decide.
I wish I could give you the tightest hug right now. Be a listener, be your closest friend. But for now, I'm just here, miles away from you, but somehow close to your heart while you read this post.
I wrote this, because I have faith in God and this process. I believe. I care because I know how precious your soul is. You're gonna find this purpose, I know. I have faith | 181 |
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Cottage accommodation in New Quay is available for small or large groups, with spring and summer being the best times to visit to catch the seaside festivals held around the Cardigan Bay area.
There are 55 cottages near New Quay (Ceinewydd). | wildlife, romantic history and picturesque views, New Quay in west Wales is a holiday destination that is inspiring more and more people each year.
Visitors to New Quay are charmed by the spectacular outlook of Cardigan Bay from the pier, with dolphins jumping in the bay and fishing boats bobbing in and out of the harbour.
As well as dolphins, wildlife lovers can see grey seals in the bay and further inland there are opportunities to spot rare birds such as the chough and the red kite.
Exploring New Quay and its surrounding coastline and countryside can be done in many ways, with popular choices including mountain biking, kayaking, sailing and even paragliding. Activity holidays in New Quay are popular all year round.
New Quay's history is in shipbuilding and visitors can learn about the days when fishing and smuggling were the main activities at the port by visiting the town hall. Another important feature of New Quay's history are the plays of Dylan Thomas, who grew up in the area in the early 20th Century, taking inspiration from the scenery when writing plays such as `Under | 225 |
The Resort at Pelican Hill® along the coast of Newport Beach in Southern California presents holiday traditions for locals and Resort guests. New celebrations this year include a Thanksgiving Ballroom Brunch and Breakfast with Santa, in addition to a wide variety of returning Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year's dining events.
Returning again to Pelican Hill this holiday season, special dining events include a Children's Gingerbread House Decorating, Nutcracker Holiday Tea Party, Christmas Day Ballroom Brunch and live New Year's entertainment throughout the Resort's restaurants and lounges.
Pelican Hill's Pastry Chef highlights a favorite holiday tradition in this culinary class from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., when children will enjoy lunch and create a masterpiece to take home. Classes are available for children ages 5 and up, with parent supervision required throughout the class for all children ages 10 and younger.
Children and their families are invited to enjoy an enchanting Holiday Season tradition, featuring a delightful Nutcracker ballet performance and holiday tea in the Resort's elegant ballroom from 12 to 3:30 p.m. Tea sandwiches, pastries and scones will be served. Parent supervision is required throughout the tea and performance.
Come and tell Santa your holiday wishes from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Mar Vista Ballroom. Children and their families will enjoy seasonal music and a traditional breakfast buffet, featuring favorites such as scrambled eggs, chicken apple sausages and French toast. A to-go candy buffet and Santa photo souvenir are included. Parent supervision is required throughout Santa visits and breakfast.
Andrea's Chef creates a special rustic Tuscan holiday menu available from noon to 10 p.m., accompanied by a classical guitar player. For parties up to 30 guests, the Andrea Chef dedicates special selections for the Andrea Private Dining Room with a traditional and festive Italian menu.
Chef Chang presents a delectable all-day California grill menu available from 11:30 am to 10 p.m. Entertainment includes a pianist, bass player and vocalist. For parties up to 52 guests, Chef Chang creates a special California Grill menu in the Pelican Grill Private Dining Room.
Chef Marc designs a classic California breakfast buffet available from 7 to 11 a.m. From 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., a Thanksgiving buffet is served. A limited a la carte dinner menu, including turkey specials, is available from 4 to 9 p.m.
Breakfast Buffet: $40* per adult, $20* per child. Brunch Buffet: $60* per adult, $30* per child.
Throughout November and December, Resort-made holiday gelatos, pastries, panettone, seasonal treats and other holiday desserts are prepared fresh and featured daily. Custom cakes and desserts may be ordered in advance for holiday entertaining. For holiday shoppers, the Caffé features traditional culinary accessories and gourmet goods.
Special lunch and dinner menus are available at Coliseum Pool & Grill and through in-room dining. Does not include kosher cuisine.
A Christmas celebration with traditional offerings accompanied by a classical harpist is available from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Children's activities include Santa Claus photos, cupcake decorating and a puppet marionette show at noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Reservations recommended.
Andrea's talented Chef brings an Italian holiday festa to the Resort on Christmas Eve, available from noon to 10 p.m. On Christmas Day, an all-day special menu is available from noon to 10 p.m. with a variety of holiday dishes and an acoustic guitar accompanying the dining experience.
Chef Chang creates a California grill three-course Christmas Eve Dinner with a variety of course options available from 5 to 10 p.m. A special menu for children under age five is also available and live entertainers perform in the lounge from 6:30 to 10 p.m. On Christmas Day, a California grill three-course menu is available from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. A limited regular menu and special lounge menu will also be offered.
Chef Marc creates a California classic Christmas Eve three-course menu with a variety of course options available from 5 to 10 p.m. A breakfast buffet is available from 7 to 10 a.m. and a Christmas buffet is available from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Breakfast Buffet: $40* per adult; $20* per child. Brunch Buffet: $60* per adult; $30* per child.
On Christmas Eve, traditional Christmas fare from a special holiday menu is available a la carte from 5 to 10 p.m. The regular in-room dining menu is also available. On Christmas Day, a special Christmas a la carte menu through in-room dining is offered from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Our Andrea Chef brings "Il Cenone," the Italian Gala, to Newport Coast with a four-course menu featuring multiple course choices and two dinner seating options, from 5 to 7 p.m. or from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.
5 – 7 p.m. seating: $130* per adult without wine pairing. 8:30 p.m. – 1 a.m. seating: $170* per adult without wine pairing.
Chef Chang creates a California grill four-course prix fixe menu with a choice of dishes available from 5 to 10 p.m. Dancing and entertainment by a five-piece band and singer is offered from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. A balloon drop will mark the New Year at midnight in the lounge, with a complimentary glass of Prosecco for each guest!
Chef Marc creates a New Year's Eve three-course prix-fixe menu with California classic cuisine, offered from 5 to 10 p.m. An a la carte dinner menu and a festive bar menu are available from 10 p.m. to midnight. Live entertainment with a three-piece band plays from 7 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. and guests enjoy a complimentary glass of Prose<|fim_middle|>0 or visit pelicanhill.com.
Set on 504 acres by the Pacific Ocean in Newport Beach, Pelican Hill features: 128 two-, three- and four-bedroom villas with magnificent coastal views and an unparalleled array of appointments, immersing guests in the absolute finest of everything; 204 luxuriously appointed bungalow guest rooms and suites with private terraces; a rejuvenating Five-Star spa with a menu of the world's most celebrated therapies; world-class restaurants, including Andrea serving authentic Northern Italian cuisine; an iconic "Coliseum Pool," one of the largest circular pools anywhere with tiered decks and luxurious cabanas; and Pelican Hill Golf Club with 36 dramatic holes by Tom Fazio, nearly all with ocean panoramas. A Five-Diamond destination, Pelican Hill has earned acclaim as the 2012 Grand Resort selected by Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report, as Condé Nast Traveler's #1 U.S. Resort, Top-Rated Golf Resort Worldwide and Top-Rated California Resort Spa (2011 Readers' Choice Awards), in Travel Leisure's "Top 100" World's Best Hotels (2011 Readers' Poll), and with two courses ranked among Golf Digest's America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses (2011). | cco to toast at midnight.
From 6 p.m. – midnight, ring in 2013 with a private cabana party, as you view the evening's celebrations on a flat-screen TV. Enjoy an a la carte New Year's Eve celebration menu and a complimentary Prosecco toast at midnight. Live music is available nearby at Coliseum Pool & Grill.
Celebrate with live music, a balloon drop and a complimentary Prosecco toast in the Great Room. An a la carte New Year's Eve celebration menu is available from 6 p.m. – midnight.
Complimentary for Resort guests, or $35 cover charge per non-resort guest.
For overnight Bungalow and Villa guests, a festive a la carte menu is available from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. On New Year's Day, a pre-ordered Champagne Breakfast-in-Bed includes a split bottle of Veuve Clicquot and a la carte menu options.
On New Year's Day, an a la carte brunch menu is available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and a Rustic Tuscan dinner menu is served from 5 to 8 p.m., and the Andrea Bar is open.
On New Year's Day, Chef Chang creates traditional lunch menu available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. A special New Year's Day Football Bowl Games Menu is also offered in the Pelican Grill Lounge from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
For reservations and more information, please call 800.820.680 | 334 |
The shift is a women's most intimate garment, worn closest to her body and most often made by herself. Worn during the day under her clothing and at night to sleep in, it is her most laundered article of clothing made with care to withstand this constant use. Made most often of linen for its durability. Linen is stronger when it is wet than cotton. The shifts were cut most economically with little waste of the yardage. Shifts were white, a most practical consideration with their frequent washings. In New England we would be using the England term 'shift' for this garment.
Fabric When making your shift choosing a fabric is your first decision. Linen is a durable fiber that will give you years of use. Today's linen is often more expensive than cotton fabric. This garment by its very nature will show little of itself. A fabric of either material is acceptable. Choosing a light to mid-weight linen or 100% cotton would be a good all round choice for a country women's everyday wear. Finer fabrics would represent one's best or a person of wealth. You will see references to shifts made of muslin when looking at original sources. Eighteenth century muslin was made of flax (linen) and of various qualities, some of which were very fine and desirably sheer.
Patterns Several options for patterns are available for making your own shift but one is not necessary. Beth Gilgun's book, Tidings from the 18th Century gives very clear directions for cutting and constructing your own. Not ready to try one without a pattern? I would suggest the Kannik's Korner shift pattern because of its documentation and clear instruction of the details. It has a fixed neckline, as often the extant garments were. The reenactor has tended to use a drawstring neck opening and it is a convenience for a less exacting fit. You can adapt the neck in this pattern to a drawstring by cutting the neck opening a little larger, turning a 1/2" in seam and drawing a 1/4' tie through it.
Construction details When considering the shift's length it would be wise to keep in mind that this garment is also a night gown and may well be yours if you're a weekend re-enactor. Mid-calf length is a good choice for<|fim_middle|> good story. Lace was more often removed and kept by it's original owner. It would be better to save lace for those events where everyone is upper class and then spend your time trying to find one that is reasonably appropriate.
Sewing Tip: Before cutting your fabric look to see if you have a fine salvage. If so, cut about two inches off the fabric along this selvage edge and use this for your ruffles on shifts or caps as its finished edge will save you hemming time and is most attractive and accurate. | two reasons. It seems to stay in place and not ride up while worn and it allows for any additional shrinkage after the first washing.
The sleeves generally come to a comfortable length below the elbow. This length, or lack of it, keeps them from sliding down when the ties loosen and out of the way while working. The edge may be a casing with a drawstring or you can add sleeve bands with 'link holes' on either side. You would then use "button-links' as today we think of cuff links, to close the band or each cuff could be tied with a ribbon. Simply attach two buttons together back to back with thread or wire to make you own. The fullness or lack of, in the sleeve is a way to show off your intended social station. The fuller cut and finer fabric showing wealth and higher social standing.
The person you represent might choose to 'fancy up' her better shift with ruffles added to the sleeve edges and/or the neck edge. This would be done using fabric, either self-fabric or a finer fabric. Lace was an imported and expensive item during this period and would be worn generally only by someone representing a women of wealth. A maid servant may have a case for a simple lace if she is seen with her employer, possibly, you'd better have a | 266 |
<|fim_middle|> It says it has its own technologies related to inkjet, materials, and powder. Additive 3D printing is the most well-known type of 3D printing – with this technology, the printer lays down successive layers of material, usually plastic, in a manner similar to how inkjet printers deploy drops of ink, in order to create 3D objects. With another type of 3D printing, subtractive 3D printing, the printer removes excess from a block of material to create a 3D object. | Ricoh Company of Tokyo has officially launched an additive manufacturing business (AM Business) centered on 3D printers. Through this new business, Ricoh says it will sell 3D printers and its associated output service directly to manufacturing customers, as well as provide consulting services to these customers.
To support its launch, Ricoh will open two "RICOH Rapid Fab" facilities dedicated to advancing innovation in manufacturing, in Yokohama and Atsugi, in the Kanagawa prefecture. Ricoh will first focus sales in the Japanese market through Ricoh Japan Corporation. Ricoh is also looking to develop this business globally.
The firm notes that the manufacturing industry has seen a significant increase in the interest of 3D printers as they provide key time- and cost-saving prototyping capabilities for manufacturers. It says the move into 3D printing is a natural step for it, and that it already has a number of technologies for providing prototyping and molding, in addition to its accumulated experience using 3D printers for its product design over the past 20 years. With the launch of the AM business, the firm says it'll apply this experience and knowledge to accelerate innovation directly with its manufacturing customers.
RICOH Rapid Fabs will be tasked with researching and developing manufacturing innovations using 3D printers, primarily for design and manufacturing businesses. Customers can use the Fab as a showroom to experience 3D printing products, and also take advantage of the 3D-printer output service using their own data. The Fabs facilities will also offer Ricoh consulting services.
The RICOH Rapid Fab in Shin-Yokohama opened on September 8th and is located inside the Ricoh's Shin-Yokohama office in the Kanagawa prefecture, while the Fab in Atsugi will open in late September and will be within Ricoh's Atsugi plant, which is also in the Kanagawa prefecture.
The firm notes that there are a number of 3D printing methods, including inkjet, material extrusion, and laser sintering. | 423 |
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