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Reflecting on 100 days of creativity
September 4, 2014 Amanda Lee 1 Comment 100 creative days, Emma Kates-Shaw, exploration, jewelry, media
Photo by Sadie Rittman
Sometimes creativity comes in small spurts. Other times, it takes dedication and a lot of time — 100 days, to be exact. Emma Kates-Shaw '16 discovered her strengths making an amazing range of art in pursuit of 100 creative days, displaying the bounds of imagination and expanding her abilities as a creator.
One hundred-day projects, most notably #100happydays and #100daysofgratitude, have recently flooded social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. The phenomenon, sparked by Ukrainian-born Dmitry Golubnichy, has expanded a personal project into a world-wide invitation at 100happydays.com, with the anchors of the Today show and many netizens of Twitter joining its ranks.
Kates-Shaw found the hashtag trending on her own accounts and decided to jump in. She said via e-mail, "I was taking a semester off, came to visit Swat and had a really great time making a huge cardboard star with my friend Isaac, and it kind of just came to me." This spontaneity would spark a summer's worth of creativity. "I wanted to challenge myself to be creative for a hundred days," she stated. "I started the hashtag that night, and kept going every day since!"
Her inspiration often stemmed from the creative sides of the Internet. She cites online stores and websites like Etsy, which pushed her to recreate objects she saw with her own style. She said, "I would look for items that were interesting and unique, and then use the idea as a jumpstart to whatever I made that day … I'd see something and think, 'I can make that.' And then I would." On busier days, the people around her put in suggestions for her art, creating uniquely collaborative pieces. She explained, "I would ask, 'What should I make?,' listen to everyone's suggestions and then do something I couldn't have thought up on my own."
While some artists focus on one medium or theme, Kates-Shaw delved into the depths of different styles and materials, from her traditional drawing to new things such as sticker-making. Although her formal art training started in college, the adventure granted her the freedom to let her inborn inventive drive run wild. "I kind of allowed myself to be pulled into whatever it was I felt like doing or learning how to do," she said. "I explored so much because of this project, every medium from paper-making to macramé to song recording."
Despite the daunting timespan of 100 days, she never doubted that she was going to finish. It provided a means to express the agitation of living at home and refocus on her passions. "There was one day when I made a road sign out of cardboard, like the ones that are green with white writing," she explained. "Where the name of a town usually is, I just put the word "somewhere". That project was definitely the most upfront in terms of my frustrations with living at home. But the act of making things in itself was really where those frustrations got worked out. It centered me, and calmed me down. It made me focus on pursuing the things I love, the most important of which is creating." The liberation provided by doing art also fueled her courage in pursuing a creative career. "It's easy to doubt yourself as an artist, and very easy to dismiss making things as a hobby rather than a serious career path. But this project definitely served counter to those tendencies. I feel really excited about where my creativity will take me in the future!"
However, the project consumed a lot of time and space. Kates-Shaw said, "The hardest thing<|fim_middle|> got incredibly crowded with all of the new art objects taking up space each day, so I had to start giving things away."
With the completion of the project, the push to be resourceful artistically inspired the establish artist to pursue the freedom to experiment. Kates-Shaw's training mostly focused in sketching human figures and life drawing, but this opportunity allowed for fruition in illustration and design-based projects. "It was really exciting to experiment with different ways of drawing," she said, "whether it was writing out a phrase or making a zine." From her explorations, she discovered marketable art, which she now sells on Etsy. The ability to create actually became easier at the end. "My creativity kicked into high gear by the end, and it was almost impossible to not make a few things a day. Right after the project ended was when I really got to making things for my Etsy shop. I was making probably three to four items for the shop every day."
Perhaps the most rewarding part of doing the project was the community support. Kates-Shaw was happily surprised that people were checking up on her progress and following her work. "Sometimes it felt like I was chronicling my restlessness with living at home and the projects were all over the place, so all of the encouragement I received was really surprising and wonderful," she said.
Although her 100 days are up, she plans to keep creating all kinds of things all the time. With newfound confidence, she plans to explore new mediums and to take on bigger projects. She said, "I have some big, crazy ideas and I definitely want to find ways of carrying them out. But I'm not going to give away any details."
You can find Kates-Shaw's pieces on sale at https://www.etsy.com/shop/MakerByNature.
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LINGOs Partner Spotlight: Delivering Learning Everywhere with NetDimensions
For international NGOs working in multiple regions, the ties that bind are often virtual. "eLearning is the biggest component of our learning and development approach," says Pauline Rooney, operations systems officer at GOAL Global, a humanitarian organization currently working in 17 countries. "And our learning management system is at the center of our eLearning, where we gather, measure, and share information."
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August 18, 2016 August 25, 2016 community, courses, eLearning, Learning, member, partnerLeave a comment
Principled Technologies Develops New Course Templates for LINGOs Members
LINGOs, a learning consortium of 80+ international development, aid, and conservation organizations, and Principled Technologies, an award-winning provider of custom learning solutions and fact-based marketing, are excited to announce the release of several specialized elearning course templates for LINGOs members.
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July 5, 2016 August 25, 2016 community, courses, eLearning, Instructional Design, member, partner, partnership, Principled TechnologiesLeave a comment
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Partner Spotlight: Bridging the Language Divide with Speexx
Like other multinational organizations, NGOs working in multiple countries face a major challenge to their productivity and success: the language divide between staff in various national offices. Take ChildFund for instance, which works to support vulnerable children worldwide: "English is the great unifying language of our business," says Leslie Crudele, ChildFund's International HR Business Partner. "We have staff around the world that are non-native English speakers, and they're asked to use English in their business communications."
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June 21, 2016 August 25, 2016 capacity building, community, courses, language, member, SpeexxLeave a comment
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Partner Spotlight: Building Global Classrooms with eCornell
A cross between the founding principles of eCornell, Cornell University's online-learning arm, and LINGOs, a global development capacity-building consortium, might sound<|fim_middle|> a popular – and global – credential. Certificate programs, usually comprised of five or six courses in a given subject (although master certificates can require twice as many courses, or more) culminate in most disciplines in a certificate from Cornell University. In the past five years, the University has awarded over 700 certificates to the staff of LINGOs Member organizations.
For Francis Rogers, a capacity building coordinator at ACDI/VOCA who recently earned a certificate in HR, eCornell bridged the distance between Ithaca and Liberia, where he's based. "I do not know whether I would have had the opportunity to attend an Ivy League university had ACDI/VOCA not provided that means," he writes. To Ross Coxon, Director of LINGOs' Learning Collaborative, eCornell's generosity gives LINGOs Member NGOs another way to invest in their own top talent, and more: "The effects of high-quality learning reach not only the staff of LINGOs Members, but also the communities they serve," he says.
Sergey Hayrapetyan, Senior Advisor (Operational Excellence) at Catholic Relief Services, has completed ten certificates and master certificates through eCornell. In many cases, he says, his coursework has been a lens for approaching his concurrent work with CRS. In a course on scenario planning, for example, he used the homework exercise to develop and apply real strategic objectives for his country program at CRS. "So I was not making anything up," he says. "I was doing the real thing." Not only that, but his class discussions and projects incorporated the new perspectives of classmates who came mainly, he says, from the for-profit world.
The Global Classroom
In addition to developing individuals, eCornell is also impacting NGO learning at an organizational level. While the skills training offered by eCornell might not be specific to the non-profit sector, "we're still an organization. We still have to have people well-versed in skills like HR, management, and accounting, whether they're HR professionals, or senior leaders, or project staff," says Bridgett Horn, Learning Manager at The Nature Conservancy.
For NGOs operating between far-flung offices, eCornell can provide a creative means of fusing teambuilding with learning. Catholic Relief Services offers its staff some dedicated eCornell sessions – courses just for CRS learners. Jean Marie Adrian, Senior Advisor (Leadership and Career Development) at CRS, notes that for LINGOs Members facing the cost of gathering staff for trainings in Nairobi or Dubai, eCornell is a clear alternative: "For the price of one airfare, you can train everyone in-depth [through a dedicated session] for two weeks." Adrian also notes that the cross-section of CRS learners is larger and richer in the eCornell sessions than is often feasible in an onsite: "You have mid-level managers taking a course with country representatives, or higher-level managers," he says. "The mix is very, very interesting."
Chris Proulx, LINGOs' CEO (and formerly of eCornell), is not surprised by the positives that CRS and other LINGOs Members are seeing. He says that "eCornell has had a model for now 15 years that has always been social in its construction, yet it's not what people normally think about when they think about social learning."
And although the type of social learning happening with eCornell "isn't taking place in 140 characters," Proulx continues, "it's helping people to exchange knowledge with peers and colleagues who they may not otherwise have had an opportunity to connect with."
February 29, 2016 February 29, 2016 community, courses, LINGOs, member1 Comment
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Sneak Peak at a Global Giveback Resource for LINGOs Members
Posted by Gus Curran, LINGOs Member Services Manager
The LINGOs Member Services and Last Mile Learning teams are thrilled to give you a sneak peak of a new course "Influencing without Authority."
As you know, 'Influencing without authority' is a key skill for project-workers in the field, who often have to deal with delicate situations. Professional instructional designers and developers from Unicorn Training in the UK worked with Last Mile Learning to bring this content to life, contextualizing it for our sector. Samantha Yates of Unicorn Training recently posted about her experience creating a course for LINGOs through the Global Giveback program a the Unicorn Training Blog.
Click on the image of Katoa to access course demo
Samantha brought great creativity, interactivity and context to the scenario-driven course. On arrival in the fictional province of Katoa, the learner is immediately immersed in the story of Maria, an aid project worker attempting to find her way through the maze of politics, conflicts and challenges associated with her development project.
Using an interactive map, the learner follows Maria through four topics, helping her to make decisions along the way so that her project can be completed successfully. You can read more about and access a sneak peak of the course via the Unicorn Training Blog.
LINGOs Members, stay tuned for an announcement of the release of this fabulous course by Sam Yates of Unicorn Training.
July 9, 2013 courses, Global Giveback, Volunteer3 Comments
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The Power of Volunteers
What comes to mind when you think volunteers?
Non-profits reach out to volunteers on a regular basis for all kinds of projects and tasks, from stuffing envelopes to helping out at events to doing field work, even building houses.
What could you accomplish if you asked highly skilled learning professionals to volunteer their talents for you and your organization?
If you are Mike Culligan ,Director of LINGOs' Last Mile Learning Program, the answer to that question is that volunteers can get incredible things done. During the last year, Mike worked with over 80 volunteers to create the Last Mile Learning portal and courses. He recently posted on the Global Giveback LinkedIn Group the following list of accomplishments, completed almost entirely by a team of volunteers.
– 1 website built
– 2 Learning paths created
– 4 Last Mile Learning curriculum guides published (self-led, face-to-face, blended synchronous, blended asynchronous)
– 7 courses translated to Spanish, French and Portuguese
– 13 face to face training packages completed
– 15 eLearning modules developed, and
– 21 additional eLearning modules currently under development
Thanks to the support of volunteers, a library of professional development courses is available, FREE OF CHARGE to anybody working to improve the lives poor communities around the world via http://www.LastMileLearning.org.
No Job is too small!
I recently reached out to volunteers on the Global Giveback Group on LinkedIn, asking them to test Last Mile Learning courses. Highly skilled learning professionals responded quickly, and I was moved and humbled by their generosity. As you can imagine, testing courses is not the most glamorous assignment, but volunteers stepped up and did the testing, offering great feedback on the courses and helping to make Last Mile learning even better. One volunteer took my basic Word document reporting forms and improved them, converting them to forms on Google Docs and setting it up so that all the feedback was aggregated and easy to review. I hadn't even thought of this, and a volunteer saw the need and reached out to me and offered to help.
No Job is too big!
Did you know that volunteers help LINGOs members learn on a regular basis? Greg Davis of Precision eLearning volunteers his time and skills quarterly to lead the Virtual Training Mastery Series, a popular and engaging course which is helping staff of LINGOs member organizations to design and deliver better training online. He designed the workshop pro-bono for LINGOs, and LINGOs being LINGOs, asked him if would be willing to also deliver the workshop. He said yes. He's lead over 500 people through this course.
Pam Thomas, owner and certified coach at What's Within U, LLC,, is a key volunteer for LINGOs from Coaching Out of the Box®. With help from her colleagues, Pam gives several hours of her time each quarter to guide members through a two part online workshop to help them to develop their coaching skills.
Greg and Pam don't just donate time and experience- both of these volunteers are giving members their materials, as well.
Learning professionals are willing and ready to volunteer
Learning professionals are eager to help. They are lining up on the Global Giveback LinkedIn group, seeking NGOs whose needs and projects match their interests and skills. All you have to do is reach out to them. Visit the Global Giveback LinkedIn Group to review posts by potential volunteers. Review the helpful handouts on the LINGOs Global Giveback site to start planning your project with your volunteer.
Optional Competition
In the past, a highlight of Global Giveback has been its element of competition. This year the competition is optional. Non-profits may enter eLearning courses into the competition (with the volunteer's consent, of course). A panel of judges for the competition will review courses based on a set of requirements, as in years past. However, it is not required that a project be submitted to the competition. This means that all projects should be considered as potential Global Giveback opportunities, as long as they are related to learning for nonprofit organizations working to improve people's lives in the developing world. This includes internal courses such as orientations, or converting live workshops into blended courses or elearning.
Learn More at the Global Giveback Webinar
I encourage NGO learning staff to join us for a webinar on May 9 at 11:00AM EDT (click here to register) to learn more about how to use Global Giveback harness the power of volunteers. The webinar will also feature LINGOs members who successfully developed courses with volunteer developers in previous years of Global Giveback, and you can ask them your questions. We look forward to seeing you there.
Read this recent post on the Global Giveback
April 29, 2013 April 26, 2013 courses, Global Giveback, Last Mile Learning, VolunteerLeave a comment
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5 Ways Last Mile Learning will Change the way LINGOS Member Agencies Learn
Posted by Mike Culligan, Director of Last Mile Learning
About a year ago, LINGOS member agencies first heard rumbling of the Last Mile Learning initiative and how it will "change the way their organizations learn." Now it's time to see for yourself! The Last Mile Learning Open Portal www.lastmilelearning.org is live and ready to share with your staff, your partners, your implementing agencies, your trainers and anyone else that is working to improve the lives of communities around the world.
By now, as a frequent reader of the LINGOs Blog, you probably know the basics of Last Mile Learning. The initiative provides free learning resources to anyone working in the development and relief sector. All the courses are organized into learning paths and are available in three formats (self-led e-learning, face-to-face, and blended on-line.)
For LINGOS member agencies, Last Mile Learning provides an especially exciting opportunity to move learning to the next level in five ways:
#5 Content is contextualized to our sector!
The Last Mile Learning catalog is designed specifically for development and relief professionals. Take for example, the Project Management Learning Path. Each of the seven courses was designed and developed for development professionals. The case studies include scenarios of health, conservation and water projects located in rural communities. The tools examined include log frames, problem trees, monitoring/evaluation plans and other indispensable tools that are critical to our sector. Furthermore, all the project management content is aligned with the PMDPro certification which, as of last month, over 5,000 development professionals globally have completed.
#4 Resources are available for learners AND facilitators!
Yes, Last Mile Learning will complement LINGOs member agency eLearning libraries with contextualized courses organized into learning paths. And, for the first time, Last Mile Learning ALSO provides facilitation packages for trainers who would like to lead courses in face-to-face or blended on-line environments. This means that organizations now have access to resources that allow them to deploy an integrated and comprehensive learning strategy – reaching learners via whatever approach (eLearning, face-to-face, blended on-line) is most appropriate for their context.
#3 Translated content for your global workforce!
Over 80% of the staff of international NGOs is located outside of the United States. For most, English is not their first language. That is why Last Mile Learning is committed to translating its content into multiple languages. The Project Management learning path is available to LINGOs members in Spanish, French, and Portuguese, as well as English; and available on the Last Mile Learning Open Portal in English and Spanish. Other learning paths will be translated over the coming year. These resources will allow organizations to share learning content with the ENTIRE global workforce – not just those who are fluent in English.
#2 It's time to "expand the we"!
International organizations don't work alone. Their work depends on a vibrant network of implementing partners, local NGOs, in-country consortia, government ministries and community based organizations. Now an organization can develop a professional development strategy for all of the stakeholders involved in its activities. This can be done via two options:
Organizations can direct stakeholders to the Last Mile Learning open portal where they can access resources directly;
Organizations can deploy an LMS Lite where they can directly manage the learning of everyone involved in implementing the organization's mission.
#1 Adapt resources to your context… …and your brand!
And, finally, LINGOs members can access the source document files for all of the resources in the Last Mile Learning catalog. These resources, regardless of whether they are self-led e-learning, face-to-face facilitation packages, or blended on-line content, can be edited to address the unique needs of your organization and the context in which it works. All LINGOS member agencies have full access to the source files so that they can swap out logos, insert new case studies, revise the learning objectives, or include organization-specific policies for their staff members.
So what's next? Help us share the news of the Last Mile Learning launch! Visit the open portal, access the resources, and (most importantly) be sure to help us get the word out!
LINGOs is asking that each of its member agency contacts to identify ten people you feel will benefit from free, hi-quality learning resources for professionals in the sector. This could include:
– Individual Learners – Who can access eLearning courses on topics like Project Identification and Design, Project Planning, Delegation, Performance Management and much more;
– Trainers – Who can download facilitation guides that allow them to lead face-to-face workshops on all of the topics in the Last Mile Learning catalog;
– Organizations – Who can acquire a Learning Management portal and manage the learning of their stakeholders… …assigning courses, tracking completion status and managing learning paths.
LINGOs Member Agencies desiring to add Last Mile Learning self-paced courses to their existing Learning Management System Catalog may do so. Designated LMS Administrators can request addition of Last Mile Learning Course titles.
April 15, 2013 adaptable, contextualized, courses, facilitators, Last Mile Learning, learner, translationLeave a comment
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International development NGOs – don't miss Global Giveback 2013!
100+ eLearning courses created for international NGOs at no cost… Global Giveback 2013 is now open, get involved
Through the Global Giveback, highly skilled learning professionals volunteer their highest talent, creativity and experience to support global development non-profit organizations. In the first four Global Giveback events, volunteer instructional designers and eLearning developers have created over 100 eLearning courses for LINGOs and its 75 international NGO member agencies.
All international NGOs provide training
"International NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that provide training for their global staff or to an audience with access to the internet should get involved," said LINGOs Executive Director, Eric Berg. The Global Giveback allows NGOs to leverage their existing content, dramatically expanding the audience to their global staff and implementing partners. Last year alone, LINGOs worked with over 60 volunteers to create courses available not only the global staff of our 75+ international member agencies, but they will also be available free to anyone working to improve people's lives in the developing world.
3 Reasons to get involved
Expand your agency's training reach: Many learners have access to the internet, and you can reach more via technology-enabled learning than by face-to-face training.
Use limited resources wisely: save on scarce travel, trainer, and time resources associated with each and every face-to-face training event, by working with a volunteer to develop eLearning that can be used by many learners around the world.
Learn new skills: Agencies participating in past Global Givebacks have learned about eLearning design and project management through working with volunteer learning professionals.
2013 Global Giveback marks the fifth time LINGOs and the eLearning Guild have organized a vehicle through which learning professionals have donated their expertise and time to create eLearning resources for the global community. In years' past, the resource was limited to agencies that are already members of LINGOs (Learning in NGOs), a not-for-profit consortium of humanitarian relief and international development agencies. This year marks the first time that Global Giveback is open to all non-profits working in the international development sector.
NEW in the 2013 Global Giveback
Open to any not-for-profit organization working to improve people's lives in the developing world
Includes all learning formats: eLearning, Face-to-Face, Blended Learning modalities
Optional eLearning competition: Non-profit agencies may enter eLearning developed by pro-bono volunteers in 2013.
Learning professionals want to make a difference in the world
Volunteering in the Global Giveback provides a unique opportunity for learning professionals to make a difference in the world. Many volunteers have already signed up in the Global Giveback group on LinkedIn and are eager to get started.
eLearning developer Amanda Warner, who participated in the first three Global Givebacks, winning twice with courses created for the public for Acción and FHI 360, notes "It's so motivating to see the course in action," said Warner, who estimates she spent between 180 and 210 hours developing Acción's winning course "Build, Manage and Improve Credit" which is publically available.
"It was great to play with different ideas, and work on a totally different type of content from my day job," she said. Warner took reams of ACCION's existing face-to-face course materials, spread sheets, word documents, published guides and other resources and developed a proposal for an engaging, interactive simulation.
Your agency can get involved
It's easy! You can get involved through the Global Giveback Group on LinkedIn or through your own network. Connect and interview those with interests, skills, timing, and approach to the work that best match your needs.
Projects can include: design and/or development of learning and training resources to be deployed in a variety of ways, including face to face, blended, and self-paced eLearning.
Identify the course material you want to adapt into a new format of learning
Join the Global Giveback Group on LinkedIn
Post your request for a volunteer Be sure to include
Your agency name
Course Topic
Scope of Work (describe what the volunteer will develop, for what audience, with whom the volunteer will work, the resources s/he will have to work with, ie pre-approved content, subject matter experts whom s/he can consult during the project, etc)
Timeline(when you will be ready to start, your target date for completion and launch of your resource)
That there is an Identified staff-member who will work with the volunteer
Respond to all volunteers who indicate interest. Interview those whose skills match your needs, and keep others apprised of your plans so they can work with another project if your needs and timing don't match their skills and time-frame.
Global Giveback organizers do not review or manage relationships between agencies and volunteers. Each party should research each other and interact in professionally, clearly defining success for the interaction before agreeing to collaborate.
eLearning Competition
An optional part of the Global Giveback is a competition among eLearning courses. Participation is not required, but may be motivating to some volunteers.
Not-for-profit development agencies may enter any eLearning course created on a volunteer (pro-bono) basis for any non-profit working globally to improve people's lives in the developing world in 2013 can be entered in the eLearning Global Giveback competition.
Judges will evaluate courses submitted by non-profit global development agencies in two categories based on whether they were developed by individual developers or corporate teams, on ten criteria:
Meets stated learning objectives
Ease of use for the learner
Graphical content
Ease of update (for the non-profit sponsor)
Holds the learner's interest
Ease of working with the developer (rated by the non-profit agency)
Potential impact of the course (assessed by the non-profit agency based on topic and potential audience)
Volunteer Developers and International Non Profit agencies may use the Global Giveback Group on LinkedIn as a means of finding each other. However, any international non-profit working with a non-staff volunteer on a pro-bono basis may submit courses created in 2013 for competition. Submissions must be received by 5:00PM EST on Jan 10, 2014. Submission instructions will be posted in the second half of 2013.
Recognition & awards will be announced at the eLearning Guild's Learning Solutions 2014 conference in Orlando, FL.
Learn More: http://bit.ly/LINGOsGG
Read about past Global Giveback events
Global Giveback 3 Results
3 Ways to Identify Inspiring Ideas from Global Giveback 3
Coaching for Results and Consumer Protection & Financial Education in Microfinance Courses Win in 2nd eLearning Global Giveback Competition
3 Inspiring Ideas from Global Giveback 2
April 1, 2013 blended learning, courses, Global Giveback, VolunteerLeave a comment
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Last Mile Learning Releases its first Learning Path: Project Management
Posted by Marian Abernathy, LINGOs Director of Member Services & Communications
For years, LINGOs member agencies have asked us, "How can we train our staff around the world on the contextualized Project Management skills promoted in the Guide to the PMD Pro?" Well, here you are!!
As the new year gets under way, LINGOs is pleased to offer new series of seven Project Management courses ready for deployment. These courses, which were developed in collaboration with PM4NGOs and Virginia Tech University, are the first of four learning paths that will be released by Last Mile Learning over the coming months.
As with all the courses made available to LINGOS members through the work of Last Mile Learning, the project management courses have the following unique features:
Multiple Languages: Each course is available in multiple languages. Last Mile Learning courses will be available in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. Note that this first release includes English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The French courses are coming soon.
Contextualized to the Development Sector: Courses are contextualized for people working in international development, with examples, case studies, and images reflecting realities of this sector rather than of the corporate world.
Fully modifiable: LINGOs member agencies who wish to update these courses need only ask LINGOs for the source files to the content. Modules can be updated to include member agency logos, customized information about organization-specific project management processes, or any other unique text that a member agency would like to include. And, in the case of this learning path,
PMD Pro-Ready – The learning in this course sequence is fully aligned with the PM4NGOs newly revised Guide to the PMD Pro. An additional bonus for those who complete the Project Management Course Path is that they will be prepared for the PMD Pro Level 1 exam.
Courses Available in Learning Paths
The seven project management courses now available to LINGOs members comprise the first Learning Path that the Last Mile Learning team is developing. Expect to see the second Learning Path, People Management, released in February. Courses from the third and fourth learning paths (Self-Management and Team Management) will follow.
If you would like to learn more about Last Mile Learning, be sure to view Mike Culligan's closing session at the LINGOs 2012 Member Meeting, "Are You Ready for Last Mile Learning?"
Available to LINGOs members now
Course Path
Project Management Module 1: Introduction to Project Management Eng, Span, Port
Project Management Module 2: Project Identification & Design Eng, Span, Port
Project Management Module 3: Project Set Up Eng, Span, Port
Project Management Module 4: Project Planning Eng, Span, Port
Project Management Module 5: Project Implementation Eng, Span, Port
Project Management Module 6: Project Monitoring, Evaluation & Control Eng, Span, Port
Project Management Module 7: End of Project Transition Eng, Span, Port
Project Management Project Management Learning Path Assessment Coming soon!
These courses are now available on the LINGOs catalog and Level 1 member portals. Level 2 and Enterprise Members who would like to add them to their portals should follow standard process as outlined on the LINGOs LMS Administrator Community site to request they be added.
I can't end this post without expressing immense gratitude to the 100+ individual volunteers as well as academic and corporate teams of volunteers who have worked with us, to the leading LINGOs member agencies that have stepped up, and the leadership of Mike Culligan to transform content so that it can be deployed not just for LINGOs members, but also in coming months, for anyone who is working to improve lives in the developing world. Last Mile Learning will include appropriate content that is accessible in multiple formats and multiple languages, at little or no cost to a global audience.
For more information about Project Management, see:
What's your product?
What's Project Management got to do with International Women's Day?
On the Road from Training to Application
For those who want to learn PMD Pro in a different learning format, please note that LINGOs is offering several 4-week, blended learning courses, similar to the PMD Pro course offered last fall. Registration is open for the Spanish-language course in February , and will open at the end of the month for an English language course scheduled for March. See Current Events on the LINGOs Member site for more information, including links to register.
For more on Last Mile Learning, see:
Three ways Last Mile Learning Makes your Organization More Strategic
Sneak Preview at Last Mile Learning
January 7, 2013 January 17, 2013 courses, Last Mile Learning, PMD Pro, project management2 Comments
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What does YOUR learning data tell you?
Well, it can tell you a lot of things – besides reminding me of the importance of MS Excel® skills, the data from the first quarter of 2012 illustrates some key inputs that LINGOs member agencies are putting to use. Let me share with you the report on courses completed by staff of LINGOs member agencies in the first quarter of 2012.
Some highlights covering the usage by 75 member agencies:
Almost 10,000 courses completed
About 17,500 courses opened
75% increase in eCornell course completion over previous quarter
Top source of completed courses – member agency developed courses
Courses Completed Q1-2012 by Developer
Check out the report, and think about what your data tells you about your agency usage… and what questions or concerns it raises. Please share your thoughts in the comments section here (or in the LINGOs group on LinkedIn) on what your learning data tells you!
While you are at it… take a look at the previous post in the blog about some the new Health Logistics Courses – sure to be a data-changer for many LINGOs member agencies involved in health!
May 15, 2012 courses, Data, Q1-2012Leave a comment | something like "All the world is a classroom." For NGO staff working around the world, however, learning can be impacted by issues of internet accessibility and dangerous working environments, not to mention distance between offices. As LINGOs' longtime partner, eCornell is changing the stakes by affordably delivering eCornell courses to NGO learners wherever they work. In the last five years, over 2,200 NGO staff in 120 countries have furthered their professional educations through eCornell, and their numbers are only growing.
eCornell's generous partnership gives LINGOs' 80+ Members – all development, humanitarian, or conservation organizations – access to eCornell courses at highly discounted rates. With courses in topics ranging from management to accounting, human resources to plant-based nutrition, eCornell has spurred an enthusiastic response from LINGOs Members, whose staff have taken over 10,800 courses since 2010, at a combined retail savings to their non-profits of over $6,000,000. For Paul Krause, eCornell's CEO, the partnership "has been a great way for us to provide premium Cornell courses and professional certificate programs to those engaged in the important work of NGOs."
Learning for a Stronger Sector
TechnoServe, a new member of the LINGOs community, began offering eCornell courses to its staff in May 2015. Since then, enrollment has accelerated. "It's a combination of a huge demand for learning and just the right type of courses," says Agnieszka Zieminska Yank, Vice President of Human Resources at TechnoServe. By the end of 2015, more than one hundred TechnoServe staffers had already enrolled in over 460 courses, in topics like "Project Teams: Mining Collective Intelligence" and "Dealing with Difference." In all, over 90% of TechnoServe staffers surveyed reported that the courses met their expectations "very" or "extremely" well.
"It's the design of the courses that sells them," says Libba Ingram, Senior Learning Specialist at Management Sciences for Health. eCornell courses are rigorous and short (most take just two weeks to complete), with no fixed class times, so learners can easily jump into discussions and submit project work from any time zone. Katie Taylor, a Talent Development Specialist at MSH, adds that eCornell is covered as a benefit in employee onboarding, but says word-of-mouth has been a major driver of its success at the organization. Case in point? "Nigeria," she says. As it turns out, although MSH works in over 65 countries, approximately half of its eCornell enrollments in 2015 came from staff in Nigeria – the result, Ingram and Taylor surmise, of a communication line between colleagues.
For staff looking to deepen their perspective or shift to new roles, eCornell's certificate programs have proven to be | 620 |
Meremere – A Multimedia Jam
by Aaron Compton | Sep 18, 2019 | Arts, Stories
Choreographer Malia Johnston is all about collaboration.
She's the director of Meremere, a multimedia performance that tells deeply personal stories from the life of dancer Rodney Bell (Ngāti Maniapoto). The show is sometimes seen as a dance performance but there's much more to it, Malia says "it's actually theatre, a new way of telling a story, and as such it draws a more diverse crowd than traditional dance".
Rodney performs in his wheelchair but he isn't defined by his disability rather, it's his ability to sustain a career in the performing arts. Malia says there are not many dancers still dancing in their late 40s – he's had the longest career of any dancer that she has known, "The opportunities for dancers with access needs might be more limited but that doesn't seem to be the case for Rodney."
Joining Rodney onstage is a live band (front<|fim_middle|>'s come across in his life – which are many – but they're very funny as well, we have a lot of fun working with him."
He's also very generous as a performer, answering questions from the audience after each show. People often ask about being a dancer who is in a wheelchair, which, Malia says, is an extension of his body "An able bodied person probably perceives the problem with it and the emotional relationship to what that means, but from his perspective he sees it as this highly engineered piece of equipment that enables him to do what he wants to do." As a choreographer Malia describes the chair as a "fantastic manoeuvring device – it's fantastic for choreography because it glides, it's got beautiful movement in terms of what's possible, like skateboarding or rollerblading."
Each show is slightly different because of the live music and because the projection has to be mapped to each new venue they play in, essentially collaborating with the architecture as well. Years ago it was expensive to hire a projector but it is becoming cheaper and cheaper. The technology is becoming more accessible and Malia encourages young people who are working with technology to collaborate with people in other disciplines.
"If you're learning to master one discipline it's really good to play with that skill set in relation to others in many territories… when you're collaborating with people it teaches you more about what you can do in your own field, it opens up opportunities. We can add value to other people's environments."
Meremere will play at the War Memorial Theatre on October 12 and 13. Get your tickets here: https://tetairawhitiartsfestival.nz/events/meremere
Rodney Bell will also be doing a movement workshop at the YMCA on October 13. | ed by Eden Mulholland, who wrote the songs) and live projection designed by Rowan Pierce. This is where the collaboration comes in. "It's like jamming with a band," Malia says about the way they created this show, "everyone throws in their ideas and we pull out the cool stuff."
During the creative jams Rodney would tell them stories and Eden would respond intuitively with music. Malia says "Rodney is very funny. And engaging, when he tells stories about his life living on the street (in San Francisco), or his dancing stories, his stories of predicaments he | 122 |
by Colin Binnie
Home Railway Models Casting Drawings Droodles Centrifugal Casting Form Tools Plastic Moulding Silver Solder Slate Wagons Card Coaches Workshop Tips Drill Sharpening LB&SCR D2 Persephone Puffing Billy Lilliputian Southern 225 Taff Vale 267
Simple Press Tools for the home workshop
The press tool simply consists of two pieces of metal or other material between which the workpiece is placed and pressed into shape. The female part is usually called the die and the other part the punch. Fig. 1 illustrates the parts of a simple piercing tool and shows, in addition to the punch and die, the other two essential components.
These are a guide to ensure that the punch is accurately centred over the die aperture and a stripper for removing the work from the punch. All piercing tools have these four elements either separately or in combinations even when the stripper is only the operators fingers. Turning from the theoretical to the practical, the first tool to be considered is a very neat unit which Trevor Wilkinson of Crawley was kind enough to show me.
It was intended to produce small circular blanks and is shown in Fig. 2. It consists of a piece of silver steel with a drilled and reamed hole through the centre which has a saw cut or notch cut almost through it. (Fig. 2). This forms in one piece the die, guide and stripper. The punch is formed of a second piece of silver steel which is a sliding fit in the first.
The material is placed in the saw cut, the punch inserted in the upper hole and given a sharp tap with a hammer. The punch is withdrawn, the material moved on and the process repeated.
Locomotive headboards or metallic confetti can be produced in profusion but it is difficult to extend this construction to pierce other than round holes.
To tackle more complicated shapes we need to consider a built-up die and stripper assembly as in Fig. 3. The die itself is a piece of gauge plate in which a hole of the appropriate shape is cut. This shape is repeated through the mild steel stripper which acts as a guide to the punch. And now the problem begins; the punch must be a close fit in the die, not just here and there but all around the cutting edge.
The clearance between the<|fim_middle|> thick marine plywood just outlines the first sleeper and pierces the four holes; the strip is then eased forward over the stop, drawn back against it and the blow repeated, this punches out the gap between the sleepers and puts in the next four holes. The process is repeated as fast as the strip can be moved.
For wagon or coach w/irons the holes are put in first and the outer profile follows. There are several ways of locating the strip as it moves forward, the hook type where the strip is pushed forward over the sloping back of the stop and pulled back so that the stop engages in the edge of an aperture has already been shown in the sleeper strip. Similarly, the use of an end stop is shown in the `W` iron example (Fig.11.)
There is one other type of indexing location worth considering for our purposes and this is the edge notching location shown in Fig.12. Each time the tool is operated, a piece is removed from the side of the strip allowing the strip to move forward again when the tool is released.
We have discussed the piercing and blanking type of press tool sufficiently, so I would like to move to simple tools for drawing the metal. As an example of what I mean, consider a Stroudley cab roof. For those ignorant and misguided readers who do not realise that all that is worthwhile in railway engineering took place at Brighton before 1889, I give a drawing of that magnificent cab, Fig.13. Re-reading the foregoing I suspect I may be accused of prejudice, but did anyone but Stroudley realise that a cab roof like the one illustrated would not rattle or drum? Anyhow I do apologise to students of any of the other lesser railways if I have caused offence.
But to keep to the subject, that lovely cab roof is a perfect —— to make, unless we press it out.
The tool I made for doing this is shown in Fig.14 and is made from hardwood. The thing to note is that the metal will wrap itself very nicely around any male contour, so all that is needed is a plug and shaped hole. The metal, brass, or nickel silver as in this case is heated to redness and dropped into water to anneal it. I hasten to add that it is the heating and not the water that does the annealing but the gas stove is usually close to the sink and the scouring powder soon brightens up the metal again!
If the draw required is a deep one then it is best to do it in two or three stages re-annealing the metal between each, for each drawing operation will re-harden the material.
If an open ended shape like the back of a firebox is required (Fig.15) extend the bottom edge to make a complete draw of it and remove the surplus after drawing.
While steel can be drawn quite easily it does require somewhat stronger tools than annealed brass, copper, nickel silver or aluminum.
Note: Anneal copper, brass and nickel silver as described above. For aluminum rub the surface of the sheet with soap and heat the underside gently until the soap turns black and quench immediately.
The rapidly increasing number of modellers using styrene sheet as a basic raw material will find all the foregoing apposite to their endeavours. To soften the plastic, hot water is substituted for fire, of course. | punch and die for the thicknesses of metal with which we work should be approx. 0-001 in. Don`t be alarmed! This is not as difficult to achieve as one might think, if the following procedure is employed.
First file out the shape of the punch from gauge plate as in Fig. 4.
The edges should be given a slight but definite taper as shown. The plate is then hardened and tempered and the cutting face rubbed lightly across an oilstone to give a good sharp edge. The die and stripper assembly is then made up and dowel pins (pieces of silver steel) inserted to enable it to be stripped and assembled accurately.
The aperture in the stripper plate is carefully marked out and filed to shape leaving it just a fraction undersize. The hardened punch is then placed in position over the half finished hole and the whole lot squeezed in the vice. If the hole is only slightly under the size of the punch, the punch will impress its shape into the softer metal of the stripper (Fig. 5), and it is then an easy matter to file away most of the obstructing metal and try again.
Each time this is done the punch will shear its way further into the stripper until, at last, it will go right through. Very gentle touches with the file and constant examination of the assembled punch and stripper will soon achieve a nice sliding fit. Over enthusiastic use of the file resulting in a sloppy fit can often be corrected by closing up the edge of the stripper with a centre punch, Fig. 6.
The die may now be tackled. The die aperture can be marked out by assembling the stripper directly to the die without the intermediate packing piece, filing it up just undersize and then squeezing the die into it through the stripper. in this case, however, the die does not have to be squeezed right through. As soon as it has gone through the first sixteenth of an inch of the die plate it can be backed off or tapered away from the hole.
The die is now hardened and tempered and the die tried in place. It promptly fails to fit! But don`t worry, for this is caused by the distortion of the die plate during hardening, the amount of which is very small and the easiest way of dealing with it is to gently stone the sides of the punch until a fit is achieved.
Another way of dealing with the distortion problem is to leave the die unhardened, but this reduces the number of parts that can be made from it— say, from five thousand to two hundred.
The die spacer and stripper can now be reassembled and the punch once again tried for size. If all is well, place a piece of your chosen material in the gap, put the punch in the stripper and squeeze the whole lot in the vice. The result should be a cleanly punched aperture. If there should be an unacceptable burr on the punched edge the punch is too loose a fit in the die. There is no easy cure for this short of remaking either punch or die. All is not lost however, as we can usually use a harder grade of material for our workpiece. Hard brass or nickel silver is far easier to pierce successfully than the very soft variety.
I apologies in advance to those highly skilled tool makers whose sensibilities are offended by Bodger Binnies approach to the craft of toolmaking, but I have yet to see the factory where at least a couple of press tools on the rack did not bear signs of having had the edge of the die peened up.
Clapper Tool
A further variant upon the press tool theme is the `clapper tool`. This consists, as is shown in Fig.7, of a top and bottom plate of comparatively thin metal held apart at one end by a spacer. The top plate carries the punch and the bottom plate carries the die. In use the work piece is placed between the punch and die and the whole assembly squeezed in the vice causing the thin top and bottom plates to flex, forcing the punch through the work into the die.
If the spacer block is screwed and dowelled between the top and bottom plates so that the tool can be stripped down during construction it will be found a very simple tool to make. A dissertation upon the construction of such a tool would seem to be in order, so here we go.
As mentioned above, the first thing to do is to make up the top and bottom plates. These should be about 16 swg (1/16 inch. or 1.5 mm) thick and proportioned so that the distance between the edge of the spacer and the edge of the punch is three inches at least. (Dimension `A`- Fig. 8)
If the punch is small, or a number of punches are being used in a multiple tool then they should be backed up by a local stiffening plate in the punch area. If this is done it is essential that the punches are moved further away from the spacer so that the width of the flexible strip between the spacer and the edge of the stiffener is maintained. (Dimension `A` again.)
The spacer, which is merely a strip of metal of suitable thickness, is then screwed and dowelled between the plates. The thickness of the spacer (Dimension B of Fig.8) is determined by the thickness of the punch and die plus any backing plates that may be needed. The essential point is that there should be approximately 1/16 inch. clearance over the top of the material to be punched when the tool is at rest.
The top and bottom plates are assembled to the spacer, the edges of the plates filed up neatly to size and the plates marked so that they can be stripped and reassembled in the same order.
The punch and die can now be made up as before, with the exception that this time both the punch and die must have countersunk holes for securing them in position put in before they are hardened. l know that`s obvious, but just wait till you have a hardened punch and die with no holes in them and see if you think so then. Make sure they are countersunk on the right side too!
Clamp the die in place on the bottom plate and drill the fixing holes through the plate. Mark out the die aperture on the bottom plate, remove the die and make a hole through the bottom plate slightly larger than the die aperture. Secure die and bottom plate together. Assemble the spacer and top plate to the bottom plate.
Put a clamp on the open end of the assembly (Fig. 9) and squeeze together until the punch, when placed in the die aperture does not fall right through. Now lay a couple of strips of paper across the die aperture to take up the punch/die clearance, put the punch in the aperture and drill through the punch fixing holes into the top plate.
Screw or rivet the punch into place, remove the clamp and the paper strips and check that the punch does enter the die when the assembly is squeezed gently in the vice.
So much for the basic tool but we should have a stripper to remove the work from the punch. This may be of the type described previously, or may take the form of a rubber pad.
This is a very simple and effective form of stripper and consists merely of a piece of fairly hard rubber with a hole cut to fit around the punch closely and which projects beyond the face of the punch by approximately 1/32 inch. It is best secured to the top plate by an impact adhesive.
The subject of press tools is large and some tools are very complex indeed but I have no intention of giving a full professional treatment of the subject here. However I would just like to indicate the way in which some of the more complex tools work.
Any complex press tool is, in fact, an assembly of simple ones in which the work is moved forward a set distance so that a given part is acted upon successively by each tool.
A typical example is shown diagrammatically in Fig. 10 which is a tool for knocking out sleeper strip. The first bite through the 1/32 inch. | 1,645 |
The Parents Council was<|fim_middle|> | established in 1974, and provides support for the Board Of Management, Staff and Pupils. Our aim is to have each district in the town and surrounding areas represented by one or more parents.
The purpose of our Parents Council is to assist in providing a structure through which the Parents/Guardians can work together with the school. Effective communication between home and school is crucial for the ongoing development and education success of our children, and, as such, we work in co-operation with the B.O.M., Principal, Teachers and Students.
To help all parents feel they have a part to play in the school and a contribution in helping to make their daughters' years in the school a positive time.
To represent interests and views of parents.
Inform parents of developments and changes in education (now rapidly changing).
Promote good relationships between the Principal, Teachers and B.O.M.
To help with the provision of lockers, gym equipment etc through fund-raising events.
Flag days (2) ensuring that children who go out come back!
As a member you also can contribute and participate in discussions with the Principal and or Deputy Principal on school policies or even changes that may be taking place, at the meeting and/or assist and organise events.
The current council would actively encourage new members, particularly those who are new to the school (Dads especially welcome). Meetings are held roughly each month but you don't even have to come to them all! | 291 |
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My order was carried out in a very efficient manner. I have no hesitation in recommending Blokes Bags.
The bag supplied is just right for my needs. A really different configuration of zipped pockets and beautifully designed leather outer.
Excellent. Order arrived promptly next day and in immaculate condition.
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The friendly staff at Blokes made every effort to get the bag to me in time to give as a Christmas present. In addition, I must mention in this regard the exceptional service off the courier company Blokes use. They put the bag on a special "bespoke" delivery to me when I called them with my worry that it would not arrive in time. It was delivered by a cheerful driver at 7.30am on Christmas Eve, very securely packaged and in perfect condition ! Compliments to BLOKES and to the courier they work with.
Not used the bag yet but I'm confident it will do the job admirably for travel proposed.
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made the online purchase on Sunday night and it was delivered to New Zealand on Friday midday. That's good service. The box was way too big for the product. Perhaps a little more attention to over packing would be good.
Unfortunately I very nearly didn't make a purchase due to the website being down, fortunately a day later it was back up. The actual purchase was simple and fault free, the bag I ordered wasn't in stock, but I was offered a replacement that was better than my original order, so great service. Be careful with the sizes, some of the bags are for tablets not laptops which makes them considerably smaller than they appear. Order was dispatched quickly and was well packaged. Overall 3/5 Peace ????
Promptly delivered and superbly packaged.
Order attended to without delay, Goods well packaged and received the following day. Job done!
Very pleased with the prompt and efficient service.
Prompt service, quality item, no problems occurred at all. Many thanks for such efficiency!
Great service from BlokesBags, fast delivery and good comms on what was happening with my order.
Delivery was quick & although I have only use the bag for two days the design seems to be excellent & the quality is fine.
This was the type of wallet I was looking for that holds more than 5 cards. The leather appears good quality and is very soft. The zipped pocket now means I have a safe location for my driving licence. Despite being a quality product I do feel the price tag is expensive but meets all my requirements.
The product arrived promptly and in perfect condition.
Emailed straight away that the choice of bag was discontinued but the response was quick and friendly and I have still received an excellent bag.
Service very good from BlokesBags - speedy delivery.
Great service, with very quick delivery.
Well if the husband doesn't like it, I'm having it. Beautiful soft, perfect size.
Just what I need. Great as cabin luggage on flights. Good site which responds quickly; easy to order. Well packaged and delivered on time. No negatives!
Only slight disappointment is the main zipped compartment is just a bit shorter than A4. Otherwise perfect.
I already have a black bsa wallet.The brown one is even better.They are the best.
The website, delivery and packing are all good.
Really happy with the service the bag arrived promptly and in good packaging well protected.
Website is easy to use. Measurements of the bag are very useful and my item arrived swiftly. Very happy with the service.
... and arrived very quickly.
Bought these bags as Christmas gifts. The quality is excellent.
Good communication and prompt delivery.
Ordering the item on the website was simple and easy to do, item arrived a couple of days later and on time. website was clear and easy to navigate and the item was packed well and was as per the picture. Customer service on the whole was great.
I found the site clear, straight forward and easy to navigate. Product arrived promptly.
Great product and lovely personal service from this great little company.
Goods arrived as described within two days.
Good colour, great design, lots of nifty pockets and provides great security for phone, etc.
It was simple to find something suitable on the website, and the bag I ordered was well displayed and described. Delivery was speedy, and the bag was well protected inside bubble wrap and a box.
Lovely product made to a high standard. Really impressed.
Having ordered my bag, I was told that it was out of stock and I'd have to wait another 2-3 weeks. The bag arrived four weeks after I'd ordered it. However, customer services were excellent and kept me updated throughout the wait.
The service was very good. However, courier left parcel at front gate rather than at front door which is private and secluded.
Very impressed with this company. Website easy to navigate, ordering was easy and the product arrived next day! Very impressed.
No complaints in the service department.
Very efficient service as the bag wasn't in stock but was e-mailed as soon as it was and delivered within 2 days in time for Christmas. I was so delighted. Thank you!
Beautifully made leather man bag for husband's Christmas present. I am delighted with the quality and the price too. Very quick delivery and well packed. Many thanks!
Great bag. Really pleased with look and quality.
Item arrived very quickly and was extremely well packed. I would definitely use again.
I can get all of my cards in my new wallet. Plus my money no problems.
Excellent small bag, exactly what I wanted, very good service.
Website is clean and clear and easy to use - delivery was really quick and the product was packaged well.
They even contacted me on Easter Monday to let me know about delivery after an issue with parcel force. Highly recommend these guys.
I must write to tell you how delighted I am with the bag which I ordered yesterday. I certainly was not expecting to receive it a mere nineteen hours after ordering which was such a surprise. I would definitely not hesitate to recommend your company to anyone. Thank you so much for your outstanding service.
Delighted with this bag - perfect - good quality, exactly as described and arrived promptly with no hassle whatsoever.
Just what my husband has been looking for.
Great present for my girlfriend who wanted a small cross body bag that wasn't girly!
Plenty of choice and arrived quickly.
Well made and well finished. Have examined the bag but not used yet.
Website was easy to use, order arrived quickly. Good quality product.
Top rate service. I was kept informed of progress and it arrived well on time.
Great bag, good quality, well packaged and fast delivery.
Great service and responsive to enquiries and comments.
Product arrived a little after 1 pm, although it was supposed to be with me by then. I had to go out and a neighbour took it in. Packaging was good and I was very pleased with the purchase.
My shopping experience was a good one. Even though I had to wait for my product to arrive, I found it was as it was described. I would certainly recommend the website to anyone.
Came in time, packaged nice,quality product rare these days!
the bag as described was spot-on & no complaints about that, but it just did'nt suit me which is no fault of yours. Your follow up when delivery was a bit delayed was very considerate & appreciated.
Thoughtful, prompt and reliable service.
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Quality item, really pleased with it and delivered super fast!
A very quick and efficient service. Thank you. Would definitely use this site again.
Yery Yery good and i well be getting 1 more.
This was a gift for my partner as he needed a laptop bag that brought him up to date!! It's a really nice sturdy bag and looks trendy too!!
hassle free, great communication, top notch service.
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We ordered this a little late so paid for postage and it arrive the next morning by courier. We were thrilled with the look of it but ,disappointingly , it didn't have the hanger with it although a quick phone call resolved this and the hanger arrived a few days later in time for Christmas. I did feel that as I'd paid for fast post, bearing in mind the time of year, the hanger would also have been sent that way, but fortunately it arrived in time so this was forgiven.
Quick delivery, quick help via mail. I was very satisfied.
Very good service , Bag arrived within a few days.
Great service, efficient and fast postage.
Good quality bag. Arrived quickly.
The bag I ordered was not in stock and I was offered the next size up for the same price. No complaints!
Came quicker than I expected!
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I cannot thank you enough for all the hard work you have personally put in to ensure my complete satisfaction, for a bag to suit my specific needs. The product is excellent, smart and well made, just what I wanted. I wish all companies had your wonderful level of customer service and excellence of product. I have no hesitation in thoroughly recommending your company to all and sundry.
Bag arrived beautifully packed looks lovely.
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Bag ordered late on a Sunday and it arrived early Tuesday morning. Great service. Packaging was perfect. Will certainly order again at some point in the future.
I keep returning to Blokesbags because their prices are competitive, their delivery is prompt and reliable, and their customer service is spot on.
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Stephen Hawking Is Building Thousands Of Tiny Spaceships To Find Intelligent Life
When asked what extraterrestrial intelligent life might look like, Hawking answered, "Judging from the election campaign, definitely not like us."
By Ema O'Connor
Ema O'Connor BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on April 12, 2016, at 2:35 p.m. ET
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World-famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced Tuesday their newest attempt to find extraterrestrial life: a project called Breakthrough Starshot.
"Today we commit to the next great leap in the cosmos," Hawking told reporters at the top of the World Trade Center in New York City. "Because we are human and our nature is to fly."
Hawking said the goal of Breakthrough Starshot was to<|fim_middle|>," Loeb assured the crowd of reporters, "there are no deal-breakers in the physics behind this project."
"This is really cool," former NASA researcher and leader of Breakthrough Starshot Pete Worden said with a smile. "From these hard challenges, onto the stars."
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The panel of scientists involved with the project also includes physicist Freeman Dyson, founder of Cosmos Studios Ann Druyan, and astronaut Mae Jemison.
Hawking told the crowd that the probability of the nanocrafts finding life within the next 20 years was very low — "probably," he added, to laughter from the audience.
But he said research has suggested that "there are livable planets in our galaxy alone, and billions more in the rest of the universe," which suggests there are "others out there."
The award-wining physicist also warned the crowd that it is "unwise to keep all our eggs in one fragile basket," referring to Earth.
"Life on Earth faces danger from asteroids and supernovas, another danger from ourselves," he said.
Though the nanocrafts will potentially have the ability to find, target, and destroy asteroids heading toward our planet, "If we want to continue to exist as a species, we must find life outside ourselves," Hawking said.
In answer to a question about what intelligent life might look like Hawking joked, "Judging from the election campaign, definitely not like us."
Ema O'Connor is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Contact Ema O'Connor at ema.oconnor@buzzfeed.com. | reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to us, within a generation by using thousands of tiny spaceships.
Astronomers believe an Earth-like planet could exist within the "habitable zones" of Alpha Centauri, located 25 trillion miles away. It is therefore the most likely place to find life or even, as Hawking said, a possible new home for future humans.
Breakthrough Starshot's spacecrafts, which they call "nanocrafts," will be gram-scale computer chips that will include "cameras, photon thrusters, power supply, navigation and communication equipment," Avi Loeb, a Harvard scientist involved in the operation, told reporters.
A rocket would deliver a "mother ship" carrying a thousand or so of the nanocrafts into space. Once in orbit, the crafts would be propelled with thin sails and hyper-powerful laser beams shot from Earth into the universe to explore and discover. There the crafts would take pictures of their surroundings, which would take around four years to be sent back to Earth.
The nanocrafts would travel at around 20% of the speed of light, Loeb said. At that rate it would be possible to reach Alpha Centauri in around 20 years, and the potentially habitable planets within 70. Using the best currently existing technology, it would take some 78,000 years.
It is estimated the project could cost $5 billion to $10 billion, but Milner is initially investing $100 million for research and development.
Each nanocraft will cost roughly the same to make as a high-end smartphone, allowing a massive number to be sent on the journey.
There are still a number of challenges facing the creation of the nanocrafts, including the creation of the hyper-powerful laser beam — which, in order to launch the crafts, must generate the same amount of power needed for launching a large space shuttle — as well as making the crafts resistant to space accidents, such as impact with dust particles and space debris.
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How People Change Their Mind
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How did you make your mind up about which brand of toothpaste to buy? In this photo, Crest toothpaste fills the shelves of a grocery store in Aventura, Fla. (Brynn Anderson/AP)
With the midterm elections fast approaching, political campaigns are in full swing, trying to convince people to vote for one candidate over another.
But how often do people change their minds about major issues, like politics, or about small things, like what brand of toothpaste to use?
Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with Hugo Mercier (@hugoreasoning), cognitive scientist at the<|fim_middle|> | French National Center for Scientific Research and co-author of "The Enigma of Reason," about how people make up their minds — and how they change them.
On how we're constantly changing our minds
"Whenever you read the newspaper, you're going to learn a lot of information, you're going to some extent change your mind on many of the issues you read about. So there was, for instance, a recent article showing that that op-eds are quite persuasive on the whole. When you read an op-ed people tend to change their minds in the direction of the of the op-ed's arguments."
"On issues for which the social value of our beliefs matters a lot, that can make it harder to change our minds."
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On what we're stubborn about when it comes to changing our minds
"It will depend really, to some extent, on the things that are socially valuable for you. So if you're embedded in an environment in which, let's say, everybody is deeply religious, or everybody is a very committed Democrat or Republican, it's going to make it more costly for you to either to change your mind or at least to express your change of mind. So on issues for which the social value of our beliefs matters a lot, that can make it harder to change our minds.
"It doesn't really stop you completely from changing your mind, but it does create some dissonance. So on the one hand, you want to have accurate beliefs, so you might encounter a good argument that changes your position, but you also don't want to annoy or maybe be respected less by the people you care about."
On changing your mind when it comes to political beliefs
"It is largely true that political campaigns, especially for high stakes elections for which people have a lot of prior beliefs and prior preferences, ... have very little role, which can be surprising, given the huge amounts of money that are spent on political campaigns, in the U.S. in particular. But it seems as if it makes very little difference, partly because most voters are set on one party."
"To some extent, changing your mind can appear to be losing face."
On the biases that keep people with one party
"Part of it is laziness. So you've made the decision at some point to say, 'Well, you know, I've thought about it, and I've considered what people around me think, and what are the broad platforms of the two parties, and I'm going to be a Republican.' And that's it.
"Political scientists have argued that, given that your own vote is obviously extremely unlikely to make a difference, it's not necessarily that irrational to be quite lazy when you're making political decisions. It might be a bad thing for society. I mean, people would like to have a society in which citizens are more enlightened, and take more time to think about these decisions. But it's not necessarily irrational to be quite lazy when making political decisions."
On how it's harder to change your mind in public
"To some extent, changing your mind can appear to be losing face. That's one of the reasons why you'll never see one of the two presidential candidates openly change their minds during the presidential debates. They really have no incentive whatsoever to do this. Likewise, in a more local scale, if you're having an argument with one of your friends, or you see one of your friends put something that you dislike with them on social media, you might be more likely to convince them if instead of challenging them openly on Twitter or Facebook, you message them or you try to talk to them directly. It may be easier for them to change their mind if they do it less publicly."
On whether or not you should try to change anyone's mind
"Yes, very much so indeed. I mean it would be very depressing if it weren't the case. So then again, on the vast majority of issues, argumentation works pretty well. If you think of everyday issues about practical decisions, where to go for dinner, what car to buy, what decision to make at work, in all of these cases arguing with people tends to work relatively well.
"And even in politics, and people who've looked at debates taking place between citizens, in particular the political scientists who work on deliberative democracy in which they bring in a bunch of citizens together on both sides of the political spectrum and they have them talk about issues, talk about policies, and on the whole you see people having constructive arguments, and they tend to converge towards some kinds of middle ground. I mean they don't go all the way, but there is some convergence. So even though we have the intuition that we've never managed to change people's minds about politics, on more specific issues, and in some contexts, these things work quite smoothly."
One something he's changed his mind about
"Progressively, I guess have become less of a leftist than I was. I'm French, and I was a French student in psychology. So it's hard to imagine for an American how much of a leftist I was, and I've become much more in the middle of the ground in many respects progressively by encountering myriad arguments in newspapers, with friends, in books. And I think if we look at, most of us if we look at our views, you know, they're not identical to the views we had when we were 18, for the people who are, you know, older than 18. And it is quite likely that arguments have played a significant role in these changes of mind."
This segment aired on September 21, 2018.
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After D-Day the French resistance rose to sabotage the Nazi conflict attempt. Germany rutghlessly assaulted a French stronghold with Fallschirmjaeger airborne troops.
Fighting insurgents has continuously been one of many maximum demanding situations for normal military throughout the twentieth century. From Malaya via Algeria and Vietnam to the continuing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the record is lengthy. The warfare among the Germans and the French resistance, also known as FFI (Forces Françaises d'Intérieur) or Maquis, in the course of international struggle II has remained a near-forgotten bankruptcy within the historical past of those 'Small Wars', really within the English-speaking international. this is often the entire extra stunning as firms just like the British SOE (Special Operations govt) and the yankee OSS (Office of Strategic providers) pumped a very good quantity in their assets into the help of the French resistance stream. by way of diversionary assaults on German forces within the occupied hinterland the Allies was hoping the FFI may provide assistance in disrupting German offer strains in addition to crumbling their morale. The mountain plateau of the Vercors south-west of Grenoble was once the most stronghold of the French Maquis and in July 1944 a few 8,000 German squaddies fixed an operation at the plateau and destroyed the rebel teams there. The conflict of the Vercors used to be the biggest operation opposed to the FFI in the course of international struggle II and the German's quick and crushing victory has triggered demanding thoughts for the French that persist to the current day.
Following D-Day the FFI totally mobilised on orders given from London and posed a true possibility to the German strains of communications. working from their sanctuaries within the mountains and armed with British and US guns from Allied air drops, the Maquis descended into the valleys and attempted to problem the German troops of career. through mid-June the Germans introduced a sequence of significant counter-operations within the mountains which, conducted through the Gebirgsjäger, dispersed the French resistance from the Massif des Bauges and the French Jura. at the mountain plateau of the Vercors the FFI made the error of trying to carry their flooring opposed to normal German forces, and have been encircled and destroyed, followed through negative reprisals opposed to the neighborhood inhabitants. British and US liaison groups may possibly do little to aid. A month later, the same operation placed paid to the resistance at the Tarentaise. besides<|fim_middle|> started essentially the most impressive odysseys of the second one international War.
The lieutenant's identify was once Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a crafty and incorrigible antisocial, breaking into homes, brawling, and fleeing his domestic to experience the rails. As undefined, he had channeled his defiance into working, learning a prodigious expertise that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and nearby of the four-minute mile. But whilst warfare had come, the athlete had turn into an airman, embarking on a trip that resulted in his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a go with the flow into the unknown.
Ahead of Zamperini lay millions of miles of open ocean, jumping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and hunger, enemy airplane, and, past, an ordeal even larger. Driven to the bounds of persistence, Zamperini may resolution desperation with ingenuity; agony with desire, get to the bottom of, and humor; brutality with uprising. His destiny, even if triumph or tragedy, will be suspended at the fraying twine of his will.
In her long-awaited new booklet, Laura Hillenbrand writes with an analogous wealthy and vibrant narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit. Telling an unforgettable tale of a man's trip into extremity, Unbroken is a testomony to the resilience of the human brain, physique, and spirit.
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The I-15, I-16 and I-153 opponents have been the world's first industrially produced warring parties. a complete of 17,000 Polikarpov warring parties have been synthetic by the point their sequence creation was once terminated in 1941. airplane of the 1st sequence effectively operated in Spain with the Republicans throughout the civil battle (1936-39), in chinese language fingers opposed to the japanese (1937-38), after which with the Soviet crimson Air strength back opposed to the japanese in Mongolia in the course of the Nomonhan Incident (1939). Russian-flown fighter additionally observed motion opposed to the Finns in 1939-40 in the course of the wintry weather warfare.
By the time the Wehrmacht introduced its shock assault at the USSR on 22 June 1941, greater than 20 Soviet pilots had made ace in Polikarpov combatants in the course of those quite a few conflicts. nonetheless extra aces have been created within the first months of the German invasion, even supposing losses suffered through the Soviet Air Force's 5 borderline army district devices outfitted with a few 4000 I-15bis, I-153s, and I-16s have been astronomical. regardless of being completely outclassed by means of the Bf 109E/F, the Polikarpov combatants constituted the spine of Soviet fighter aviation for the 1st six month's of the conflict within the east. Many destiny aces begun their wrestle careers in Polikarpov combatants, and newly-winged pilots endured to coach at the I-15 UTI-4 two-seater till 1944. I-153s and I-16s actively participated in campaigns all through 1942 and, in yes sectors of the frontline, into 1943. Amazingly, a handful of Polikarpov warring parties remained in carrier via to 1945.
This is a vital identify that is helping inform the tale of fighter evolution 'between the wars', because the Polikarpov kin of airplane successfully bridged the space among the biplane combatants of WW1 and the monoplane combatants of WW2. in addition they observed wrestle in all the 'smaller' conflicts of the Thirties top as much as WW2. This e-book additionally encompasses a major chew of Spanish Civil conflict fabric, in addition to operations opposed to the japanese within the past due Thirties - either parts are extremely popular with aviation historians and hobbyists alike.
Throughout the moment global warfare, flotillas of the Royal Navy's Motor Torpedo Boats and different coastal forces fought a perilous conflict for keep watch over of the English Channel and the North Sea. those small, quickly boats attacked enemy convoys, escorted freighters, landed mystery brokers or even raided enemy ports. Unsung heroes, those craft and their tiny crews helped stave off defeat at midnight days of 1940. an analogous vessels then took the struggle to different waters, and via the top of the conflict, British MTB's had visible provider within the Mediterranean, the Baltic and the a ways East. This ebook examines the advance and operation of those frail, modern little warships, and describes the way in which they have been manned and the way they fought.
Poland used to be the 1st of the Allied international locations to succumb to German aggression within the moment international warfare, yet by means of the main tortuous of routes her military controlled to stay within the box via all 5 years of bloody combating. Polish squaddies fought in approximately each significant crusade within the ecu theatre, and their story is a classy and tragic one. This richly distinctive textual content through Steven Zaloga relates the tale of the Polish military throughout the moment global battle, from the 1st wave of Stukas in 1939 to its eventual end. | the fact that, the Germans have been too wanting manpower to take advantage of those tactical victories and have been consistently pressured to withdraw, letting the French resistance re-appear and take keep watch over back. German tactical victories didn't translate into strategic luck. by way of their consistent harassment the FFI finally fragmented the German forces. whilst after the landings on the French Riviera on 15 August 1944 US troops complicated rapidly to the north, German troops couldn't supply a coherent line of defence within the Alps and needed to withdraw from French territory through the tip of the month.
The armour clashes in might 1940 have been the largest the area had but obvious, because the sweeping German advances of that interval got here to epitomize Blitzkrieg. The Wehrmacht's Panzer III used to be like minded through the French Somua S35 tanks, the 2 representing very diverse layout philosophies and but either rating among the finest on the earth on the time. absolutely illustrated with in particular commissioned color paintings, this paintings attracts upon the newest learn to supply a definitive research of the conflict among those top of the range, state of the art tank designs. It describes one of many key duels on the center of a brand new form of conflict, within the epic battles on the outset of Hitler's conquest of France and the Low international locations.
At instances, even his admirers appeared not sure of what to do with basic Douglas MacArthur. Imperious, headstrong, and useless, MacArthur matched an indisputable army genius with an important ego and a rebellious streak that regularly looked as if it would destine him for the dustbin of background. but regardless of his flaws, MacArthur is remembered as a super commander whose combined-arms operation within the Pacific—the first within the heritage of warfare—secured America's triumph in global struggle II and adjusted the process heritage.
In The most deadly guy in America, celebrated historian Mark Perry examines how this paradox of a guy overcame own demanding situations to steer his countrymen of their darkest hour. As Perry exhibits, Franklin Roosevelt and a handful of MacArthur's subordinates made this feat attainable, taming MacArthur, making him helpful, and at last making him positive. A gripping, authoritative biography of the Pacific Theater's such a lot celebrated and misunderstood commander, The most threatening guy in America finds the secrets and techniques of Douglas MacArthur's success—and the fantastic efforts of the lads who made it possible.
The Nuremberg Trials have been held by means of the 4 effective Allied forces of serious Britain, the united states, France and the USSR within the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg from November 1945 to October 1946. recognized for prosecuting the key German conflict criminals, additionally they attempted a number of the teams and businesses that have been on the middle of Nazi Germany.
This attention-grabbing quantity is worried with the trial of the SS and comprises the entire testimony from the Nuremberg Trials concerning this huge, immense corporation, together with the unique indictment, the legal case recommend for the SS, the last speeches by means of the prosecution and defence and the ultimate judgment.
Former SS participants frequently puzzled why they have been charged as battle criminals once they simply played their "normal" accountability. the army Tribunal at Nuremberg used to be to aim to reply to that question.
The witnesses referred to as for the trial of the SS contain Freidrich Karl von Eberstein, an early member of the Nazi get together, the SA, and the SS, Paul Hausser, probably the most eminent leaders of the Waffen-SS who vehemently defended their army function within the warfare, Georg Konrad Morgen, a former SS pass judgement on, and Wolfram Sievers, the Reich supervisor of the Ahnenerbe.
Features forty struggle time pictures and charts.
Following the conflict of the Bulge within the Ardennes, the Allies all started steps for the ultimate attack into Germany. The long-delayed US military thrust over the Roer River, Operation Lumberjack, ultimately happened in February, putting the united states military alongside the Rhine. The Rhine represented the final significant geographical barrier to the Allied develop into Germany. The plan was once for Montgomery's twenty first military team to jump the Rhine into the Ruhr in a delicately choreographed assault known as Operation Plunder. within the occasion, fortune smiled at the US military while the ninth Armored all at once came upon that the Ludendorff bridge at Remagen had no longer but been demolished via the Wehrmacht, leaving this one significant crossing over the Rhine intact. An armored infantry workforce supported by way of the recent Pershing tanks stormed the bridge, seized it in fierce combating and disarmed the costs put on it. They then held it opposed to various counterattacks during which the Germans used traditional strategies and unconventional, together with jet bombers, V-2 missiles, and frogmen.
Remagen was once now not the single impromptu Rhine crossing made by means of the U.S. military in relevant Germany however it used to be the main dramatic and toughest fought. The irrepressible George Patton, inspite of directions to stick positioned, snuck an infantry department around the Rhine within the south, environment the level for the race into Germany. After reinforcing their significant Rhine crossings, the USA military introduced its late-March offensive, encircling Frankfurt, and atmosphere the level for the defeat of the Wehrmacht within the West. it is a gripping, authoritative account of a very important conflict over the past significant set-piece operation of global warfare II (1939-1945).
On a might afternoon in 1943, a military Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving just a spray of particles and a slick of oil, gas, and blood. Then, at the ocean floor, a face seemed. It used to be that of a tender lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was once suffering to a lifestyles raft and pulling himself aboard. So all | 1,252 |
You have just received a non-renewal notice from your Michigan car insurance provider. Chances are pretty good you have a few things going through your mind. What the heck is a non-renewal notice? How does it differ from a cancellation? What should you be doing about it?
You can have slight peace of mind in knowing that a non-renewal notice is slightly less awful than receiving a cancellation notice. However, neither are ideal situations to be in.
A non-renewal notice means that your insurance provider is no longer accepting you (or another driver in some cases) on your insurance policy. This means that when your insurance policy is due to be renewed, you will need to find another insurance policy. The only reason why a non-renewal notice is slightly less awful than a cancellation notice is because you have more time to find new insurance. When you receive a cancellation notice, it means they have cancelled your insurance policy and you only have about 30 days to find another insurance home.
You are probably asking yourself why your insurance provider would have sent you a non-renewal notice in the first place. There are a few different reasons why insurance companies decide they no longer wish to cover a specific driver.
Your Driving Record – If you have a lot of speeding tickets or you have a DUI, you should not be surprised if your insurance provider sends you a non-renewal notice. Multiple traffic citations and/or a DUI make you a high-risk driver and some insurance providers do not want the burden of having to cover you.
Multiple Claims – If you get in a lot of<|fim_middle|> light on what is going on. It is very possible that the insurance provider you currently have would still offer you a policy, they just may want to revisit the terms because you are now a high risk for them to insure. In the worse situation where your insurance provider no longer wants to cover you under any terms, you would need your insurance agent to help you find another provider to get coverage through.
You want to find a replacement for your insurance policy as soon as you know that your current policy is not being renewed. This is because it is illegal for you to drive around without insurance. You could face jail time and end up paying an arm and a leg in repair fees; possibly even a hefty lawsuit from a bad auto accident.
From the very moment you open that non-renewal notice, you should get on your phone and start calling providers and agents to find another form of coverage. | accidents (your fault or not your fault), you are going to be making a lot of claims with your insurance provider. Your insurance provider could decide they don't want to renew your insurance policy because you are costing them too much money. Most preferred insurance providers have a rule that you should not have more than one at-fault claim a year. If you file a second (and especially the third) at-fault claim, you can expect to receive a non-renewal notice in the mail.
You Moved Out of the State – If you move out of state and you never inform your insurance, if they can't find your mailing address, the policy will eventually cancel. Or, maybe you have a local insurance carrier, and they can't cover you in your new state. You should just work on switching to a new provider as soon as you know you are moving and where you are moving.
Call an insurance agent as soon as possible to shed some | 191 |
and will now be known as MaiZy with a 'Z' for the rest of her life. Maizy's story is something out of a storybook. She came to Safe Place for Pets via her aunt after her mother passed away after a long illness. Her mom told her daughter before dying that she wanted to have her Daisy euthanized because she was sure that no 14-year-old cat would ever find another loving home. Fortunately, Maizy's aunt, who works with German Shepherds, took Maizy to her personal vet, Dr. Rachel Fitzgerald, who told her that she could find nothing wrong with her other than a need for a couple of teeth to be extracted. What a tragedy it would be to euthanize a loving, healthy cat just because of her age! Moreover, she knew of Safe Place for Pets and directed Maizy's aunt to us. When she called Safe Place, she herself was somewhat concerned and asked us if we thought it was possible for a cat that age to be adopted. Was she ever wrong!
Maizy was in the Safe Place for<|fim_middle|>y's life!
Hi, I'm Daisy Maisy! Of course my official name is just Daisy, but Daisy Maisy is what my mom always called me. I am a 14 year-old female spayed tortoiseshell domestic medium hair with claws.
You might think that Daisy is an old-fashioned name, but if you look at my sweet face you'll see that it suits me perfectly! And I'm an old-fashioned kind of girl anyhow, not one of those pushy types. Don't get me wrong, I like people just fine, but I am a lady through and through, and I'm the choosy type! So I tend to hang back just a bit and get to know people before I decide whether they are worthy of my friendship. But once I decide to give my heart, I give it completely. I used to like to snuggle up next to my mom on the couch and sleep with her at night and I love being petted, especially in that wonderful spot under my ears. Heaven…. I also like to play with my toys, especially that long stick with the feathers on a string. And I just love to look out of windows and lie in front of them in the sun. I'm really good at following the sun around from window to window during the day. After all, flowers need the sun!
I've been feeling really confused for a long time now with my mom being sick, and now she's gone forever, and I'm lonely! Could you be that someone special that I could give my heart to? Won't you come by the Safe Place for Pets Welcome Center at 1141 Manitou Avenue and meet me so that we could find out? The nice folks here would be happy to make an appointment to introduce us! | Pets cattery for barely three weeks before her new mom, Deborah, called and said that she wanted her. (Of course by then she had stolen all our hearts.) She had seen her on the SP4P website (safeplacepets.org) and fallen in love with her sweet face. She also liked the idea that she was an older cat who would not have to be trained. So much for age being a problem! Maizy now has a small core family (her mom and dad), but a large extended family! There are 9 grandchildren in and out of the house. Maizy loves everybody, but has formed a special bond with the 6-year-old grandson. The first day that she met him, Daisy curled up on the pillow behind his head and refused to budge. She loves to be petted and loved, and when she hears her name while her mom is talking on the phone, she immediately jumps up into her lap to find out what is being said about her. She loves laps, head butts, and kisses, and there is no doubt in her mind as to who rules the roost. She likes to sleep in the linen closet and has no qualms about shoving the towels off the shelf to make room. She also loves to chitter at the birds on the balcony just outside Deborah's bedroom. Also, she thinks that the computer is a great toy. Deborah enjoys playing "Words with Friends," and Maizy thinks that she ought to play along. So periodically Deborah has to tell her friends that the crazy mixture of letters that just showed up on their screen was Maizy's word, not hers. How wonderful for Maizy and her new family that a caring vet and aunt kept this sweet cat from an untimely death. She has indeed found her forever home, and those of us at Safe Place for Pets wish both Daisy and all her family many, many years of love and companionship.
Many thanks to Maizy's aunt for her generous payment of all of Abby's vet bills and to her adopter for her donation! And many thanks as well to Cook Animal Hospital (a Safe Place for Pets veterinary partner) for ensuring Daisy's good health and readiness for her new forever home! Thank you too to Shandra and the other Safe Place volunteers for the Snuggly blanket for Maizy to enjoy. And a huge, huge thank you for Dr. Fitzgerald and for saving Maiz | 498 |
Danish Satire Group Offers to Sell Denmark's Fourth Largest Island in a Song
August 23, 2019 By domani spero in Foreign Affairs, Social Media, State Department, Trends, Trump, US Presidents, Video of the Week Tags: Denmark, Facebook, Greenland, satire
Since Greenland is not for sale, the Danish satire group, MAGT, sings a "Welcome Dear Mr. Trump" song offering to sell him instead the island of Lolland (the fourth largest island in Denmark located in the Baltic Sea; also known as "pancake island"), the Danish football national team, the little mermaid, and the queen.
Well, somebody better go check out Lolland!!
Via FB:
U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Gets the Spotlight After Absurd Greenland Offer Failed
August 23, 2019 By domani spero in Ambassadors, Chaos, Diplomatic Life, EUR|Europe, Foreign Affairs, Hotspots, Political Appointees, Realities of the FS, Social Media, Trends, Trump, U.S. Missions Tags: Carla Sands, Donald Trump, Greenland, US Embassy Copenhagen, US Embassy Denmark
Trump's ambassador to Denmark, who has now been handed a diplomatic mess, is a conspiracy-minded, climate change denying, former actress, turned private chiropractor, turned GOP donor. https://t.co/c8xdTtQXVF
With @willsommer
— Sam Stein (@samstein) August 22, 2019
Cushy ambassadorships go to donors, so now a chiropractor is handling the fallout over Greenland, @DennisCJett writes https://t.co/l5lxOkUPWY
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) August 22, 2019
The U.S. ambassador to Denmark starred in a movie mocked by MST3K, so that's reassuring https://t.co/EPXem<|fim_middle|> should aspire. It has both the personal character standard and an organizational set of understandings, and we hope that that will become something that's foundational and part of the DNA of everyone who works here at the State Department."
Secretary Mike Pompeo
State Magazine, July 2019
Note: We should note here that USAID (created with the passage of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (pdf) by Congress) is not/not part of the Department of State. Despite a recent effort to merge USAID into the State Department, it remains an independent agency with its own Senate-confirmed administrator, Mark Green.
New report: Review of Allegations of Politicized and Other Improper Personnel Practices in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs | https://t.co/z75C05QwCC pic.twitter.com/BpBojnJioP
— State OIG (@StateOIG) August 15, 2019
KittyLeaks: @StateDept Personnel May Not Direct Subordinates to Create Content For Personal and Related Accounts
August 23, 2019 By domani spero in Foreign Service, Huh? News, KittyLeaks, Political Appointees, Realities of the FS, Regulations, Social Media, Spouses, State Department, Technology and Work Tags: KittyLeaks, personal gain, personal social media accounts, Social Media | OaauK pic.twitter.com/j9Ef3LBGup
— The A.V. Club (@TheAVClub) August 22, 2019
https://t.co/QB5v6cR6pF #Trump #Denmark #Greenland
— Leif Östman (@loestman) August 21, 2019
Ydmyget af Trump – ambassadør tweetede "Danmark er klar" få timer før aflysning https://t.co/DhR9wrfSb3 pic.twitter.com/vBxnYABELR
— TV 2 NYHEDERNE (@tv2nyhederne) August 21, 2019
Komikere vil sælge Lolland til Donald Trump https://t.co/AeBqwzT6Ll pic.twitter.com/9IOiN5NQ7z
@StateDept Releases Statement on Rudy's Ukraine Project
August 23, 2019 By domani spero in Elections, Hotspots, Politics, Special Envoys and Reps, State Department, Top Ranks, Trump, U.S. Missions Tags: Kurt Volker, Rudy Giuliani, Ukraine
Kurt Volker, the State Department's envoy to settlement talks in the eastern Ukraine war, helped set up a meeting between Rudy Giuliani and a senior Ukrainian official. Mr. Giuliani wanted to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden. https://t.co/jvHc3iEcWu
— Andrew E. Kramer (@AndrewKramerNYT) August 21, 2019
Rudy Giuliani just confirmed that the State Department helped facilitate his efforts to pressure Ukrainian government to probe Biden and DNC, NBC reports.
No comment from State yet.
Giuliani won't say whether he and Trump have discussed this.https://t.co/giXPF886LZ
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) August 22, 2019
JUST IN: The @StateDept, which facilitated @RudyGiuliani's communications with the Ukrainian gov't (during which he urged an investigation of @JoeBiden), says Giuliani "acts in a personal capacity as a lawyer for President TRUMP. He does not speak on behalf of the US Government." pic.twitter.com/PSJHTCyd7A
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) August 22, 2019
Pompeo: "you will treat every human being with the dignity and respect …" (except when senior leaders don't)
August 23, 2019 By domani spero in Functional Bureaus, Funnies, Hotspots, Leadership and Management, Mike Pompeo, Org Life, Political Appointees, Pompeo, Secretary of State, Spectacular, State Department, Top Ranks, USAID Tags: Mark Green, Mike Pompeo, State/IO, State/OIG
…"[I]t's an imperative that senior leaders set the culture right on that. That we make sure that every team member, whether they're a Foreign Service Office, or a Civil Servant, or part of our locally-employed teams in the field, understands that you will treat every human being with the dignity and respect they deserve by the nature of their humanness. And so I've said that from the moment I walked in the building on C Street the first day, and I say it in every gathering that I have. We have to do that. The team has to do that. The leadership must lead on that issue, but everyone who comes through here must understand it is one team, one mission.
And the second thing we've tried to do is set a professional standard of excellence that isn't unique to any one group. It's not unique to Western Hem. It's not unique to our cyber folks. It's not unique to Foreign Service Officers. We did this with something that we've called the Ethos that we've put forward, which says these are the characteristics of people who will be part of America's diplomatic corps, the team that is out delivering on behalf of the United States of America. So if you work with USAID, or you work in another part of our organization, this is the standard to which you | 903 |
The Globalization Reader By Frank J. Lechner
The Globalization Reader
by Frank J. Lechner
Globalization effectively captures the growth of linkages across national boundaries, the global expansion of a market economy and the rise of a complex but integrated world society. "The Globalization Reader" makes sense of a term that has become an all-purpose catchword in contemporary debates.
The Globalization Reader Summary
Globalization effectively captures the growth of linkages across national boundaries, the global expansion of a market economy and the rise of a complex but integrated world society. The Globalization Reader makes sense of a term that has become an all-purpose catchword in contemporary debates. The editors have compiled the most relevant literature into a highly readable and accessible format. With its broad coverage of political, economic, cultural, and individual dimensions, this volume provides readers with a deeper understanding of the globalization process. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with thirty new essays and a new section on anti-globalization movements. The editors have replaced several abstract articles from the first edition with livelier, more accessible essays that reflect the current scholarship. With new case studies, and a more international focus, this second edition is an even better introduction to globalization studies.
Customer Reviews - The Globalization Reader
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"An excellent core text for undergraduate and graduate courses on globalization, and would be an excellent starting point for anyone thinking of working in this area." George Ritzer, University of Maryland, author of The McDonaldization of Society "The Globalization Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the literature and an authoritative definition of the field, but it also judiciously resolves the conceptual confusion that has surrounded the debate. An indispensable resource." Bryan Turner, Cambridge University "An extremely accesible and useful source of information" The British Journal of Sociology "The second edition of Lechner and Boli's The Globalization Reader remains one of the best collections of writings in this timely and important subject ... Lechner and Boli have brought together a large collection of important and worthwhile readings placed within a clear and effective organizational scheme." Teaching Sociology "A very good resource for students who want a wide-ranging introduction to this topic and for those interested in the global processes shaping the world today." Choice
About Frank J. Lechner
Frank J. Lechner is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. He has published numerous papers on global change, fundamentalism, secularization, and sociological theory. He is co-editor, with L. van Vucht-Tijssen and J. Berting, of The Search for Fundamentals (1995). John Boli is Professor of Sociology at Emory University. He has published extensively on<|fim_middle|> Declaration On Environment And Development: United Nations Conference On Environment And Development 49. Greenpeace And Political Globalism: Paul Wapner 50. Environmental Advocacy Networks: Margaret E. Keck And Kathryn Sikkink 51. The Amungme, Kamaro & Freeport: How Indigenous Papuans Have Resisted The World's Largest Copper Mine: Abigail Abrash 52. Globalization And Sustainability: Wolfgang Sachs Questions Part X: Resisting Globalization: Critique And Action: Introduction 53. From Global To Local: Beyond Neoliberalism To The International Of Hope: Gustavo Esteva And Madhu Suri Prakash 54. Counter-Capitalism: Globalisation's Children Strike Back: James Harding 55. Ecological Balance In An Era Of Globalization: Vandana Shiva 56. Tomorrow Begins Today: Subcomandante Marcos 57. Porto Alegre Call For Mobilization: World Social Forum 58. A Better World Is Possible: International Forum On Globalization Questions
Frank J. Lechner | global culture and organizations, education, citizenship, and
Sources and Acknowledgments Preface to the Second Edition General Introduction Part I: Debating Globalization: Introduction 1. The Hidden Promise: Liberty Renewed: John Micklethwait And Adrian Wooldridge 2. How To Judge Globalism: Amartya Sen 3. From The Great Transformation To The Global Free Market: John Gray 4. Jihad Vs. Mcworld: Benjamin Barber 5. The Clash Of Civilizations? Samuel P. Huntington 6. A Global Ethic As A Foundation For Global Society: Hans Kung Questions Part II: Explaining Globalization: Introduction 7. The World Unified: E.J. Hobsbawm 8. The Rise And Future Demise Of The World Capitalist System: Immanuel Wallerstein 9. Sociology Of The Global System: Leslie Sklair 10. Realism And Complex Interdependence: Robert O. Keohane And Joseph S. Nye 11. World Society And The Nation-State: John W. Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, And Francisco O. Ramirez 12. Globalization As A Problem: Roland Robertson 13. Disjuncture And Difference In The Global Cultural Economy: Arjun Appadurai 14. The Global Ecumene: Ulf Hannerz Questions Part III: Experiencing Globalization: Introduction 15. Mcdonald's In Hong Kong: James L. Watson 16. Travelling Beyond Local Cultures: Martin Albrow 17. Strong States, Strong Teachers: Bruce Fuller 18. Strategic Inauthenticity: Timothy Taylor Questions Part IV: Economic Globalization: Introduction 19. Wawasan 2020: William Greider 20. Commodity Chains And Marketing Strategies: Nike And The Global Athletic Footwear Industry: Miguel Korzeniewicz 21. Growth Is Good For The Poor: David Dollar And Aart Kraay 22. Growth With Equity Is Good For The Poor: Oxfam 23. Beyond Good Intentions: Corporate Citizenship For A New Century: Mary Robinson 24. The Case Against 'Corporate Social Responsibility': David Henderson 25. Globalism's Discontents: Joseph E. Stiglitz Questions Part V: Political Globalization I: The Demise Of The Nation-State? Introduction 26. The End Of The Nation State: Kenichi Ohmae 27. The Declining Authority Of States: Susan Strange 28. Has Globalization Gone Too Far? Dani Rodrik 29. Partisan Politics In The Global Economy: Geoffrey Garrett 30. The Role Of The State In The Age Of Globalisation: Kofi Annan Questions Part VI: Political Globalization II: Reorganizing The World: Introduction 31. The Emergence And Transformation Of The International Women's Movement: Nitza Berkovitch 32. Beijing Declaration: United Nations Fourth World Conference On Women 33. World Culture In The World Polity: A Century Of International Non-Governmental Organization: John Boli And George M. Thomas 34. Closing The Corruption Casino: The Imperatives Of A Multilateral Approach: Peter Eigen 35. Power Shift: Jessica Mathews 36. The Backlash Against Ngos: Michael Bond Questions Part VII: Cultural Globalization I: The Role Of Media: Introduction 37. The New International Information Order: Sean Macbride And Colleen Roach 38. Peripheral Vision: John Sinclair, Elizabeth Jacka, And Stuart Cunningham 39. Cultural Imperialism: John Tomlinson 40. Bollywood Versus Hollywood: Battle Of The Dream Factories: Heather Tyrrell Questions Part VIII: Cultural Globalization II: Fundamentalist Responses: Introduction 41. Global Fundamentalism: Frank J. Lechner 42. Globalization, Islam And Resistance: Mustapha Kemal Pasha 43. The Challenge Of Fundamentalism: Bassam Tibi 44. The Fundamentalist Impact On Law, Politics, And Constitutions In Iran: Ann Elizabeth Meyer 45. Obedience Versus Autonomy: Women And Fundamentalism In Iran And Pakistan: Shahla Haeri 46. Yes, This Is About Islam: Salman Rushdie Questions Part IX: Changing World Society: Environmentalism And The Globalization Of Social Problems: Introduction 47. From One Earth To One World: World Commission On Environment And Development 48. Rio | 942 |
They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation. They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for their future. They got married, had a child, and skated through all the small calamities of family life. But then, slowly,<|fim_middle|>cker om när författare provar nya stilistiska grepp. Alltid intressant men tyvärr fastnade jag inte för historien.
JENNY OFFILL is the author of Last Things (Bloomsbury, 1999) which was chosen as notable or best book of the year by the Guardian, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and was a finalist for the LA Times First Fiction Prize. She teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University, and is on the faculty at Brooklyn College and Queens University of Charlotte. | quietly something changes. As the years rush by, fears creep in and doubts accumulate until finally their life as they know it cracks apart and they find themselves forced to reassess what they have lost, what is left, and what they want now. Written with the dazzling lucidity of poetry, Dept. of Speculation navigates the jagged edges of a modern marriage to tell a story that is darkly funny, surprising and wise.
De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt Last Things av Jenny Offill (häftad).
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I recently read a blog<|fim_middle|>? Make sure you're conveying a compelling but focused message with a press release that highlights your key story points and guides members of the press toward the story you want to tell. | post, tweeted by Mark Ragan, Publisher of PR Daily, titled "Why is PR writing so atrocious?" In it, Ragan laments the sad state of writing in the PR industry – so bad that he has to "sit down with a jug of Jack Daniels and a bottle of Advil" when he reviews press releases.
Ragan makes some good points – an overabundant use of buzz words, write-by-template releases, and publicists who don't really understand the topic or industry about which they're writing.
But here's the really important question – how can PR writing be good? Here are my answers – 7 tips to make your writing, and your overall media relations work, better.
Know Your Client: The biggest recurring issue I see in the PR industry is publicists not taking the time to understand what they're representing. You must research and understand the client, their work and their industry in order to write about and pitch them effectively. And the good news is – this can be a lot of fun! I think of my work in PR and marketing as being a perpetual student.
At Canary Promotion, we work with arts, culture, entertainment, and mission-driven clients. We have researched such far-flung topics as the work of famed children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, Anton Chekhov and the history of Russian society, Arctic Exploration, and even 1970s horror literature and movies. Do your research, and you'll start to see how your client fits into the bigger picture.
Know Your Audience: Sending personalized pitches, tailored to each press contact will always garner better results than blasting out the same pitch and press release to a big list of unnamed contacts. You may need to write slightly different versions of your pitch and press release, depending on the type of media outlet you're contacting. Think about what aspect of the story will most appeal to the editor or reporter in question and lead with that angle.
Read, Read, Read: How do you learn about your audience and your client's industry? Read as much as you can on relevant topics. How is the media covering the industry? You may find that your client has a great companion story to a previously published article. Contact the writer of that article with a well-written pitch and let them know about it.
Be a Journalist, Conduct Interviews: The best way to find great story angles is to sit down and interview your clients, their collaborators, and maybe even their audiences or customers. At the beginning of any new client engagement, we meet with key people at an organization to talk about their mission, their vision and their goals. This immediately gives us a more personal connection to the work. It provides insight into the client's identity and how we can shape their message in our writing.
Make Outlines: Have a bit of writer's block? Start with an outline. While filling in the blanks of a template can produce a pretty bland and poorly written release, mapping out the flow of your release and the main points you want to hit upon can help keep your writing more focused.
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May 19th – May 23rd: This week children house#1 kids worked with alphabet "z" along with its phonic sound. They traced this letter on sand paper letter. Our kids learned some words like zip, zebra, zip-lock, zoo, zero, as these words start with the letter "z". We had practical life activity "zip-up the lunch bag". Look at the picture: Kennedy is trying hard to zip-up his lunch bag. We also colored the picture of zebra.
May 26th – May 30th: This week we assessed our students progress for 2013 – 14 school year. We also had Parent Teacher Conference on May 29th<|fim_middle|> | and May 30th. We had wonderful conversations with our parents. May 30th was also the last day for Marley in CH#1. We will miss her but we are happy to announce that she is moving up to CH#2.
June 2nd – June 6th: This week is the last week for 2013 – 14 school year. We are happy with our kids' progress up to this moment. We also hope that we will have a wonderful 2014 – 15 school year.
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Friendly staff and comfortable surroundings welcomed us to the Forester Pub and Grill in Camino.
A few customers played a game of cards while others watched a baseball play-off game on three large-screen televisions. A few kids entertained themselves with video arcade games in an adjoining room and, despite all the activity taking place, the cozy restaurant provided a relaxed atmosphere for dinner conversation.
The Forester's menu reflects the hominess of the place with a variety of hearty "comfort foods" like meat loaf, pot roast, sirloin steak, venison chili, breaded pork chops, and chicken and mushroom stew. Assorted seafood offerings include a fish and shrimp combo, shrimp scampi, fish and chips, and tempura shrimp. There's even a sandwich sure to delight anyone's taste buds from the Forester's famous Buffalo Burger to a fried eggplant sandwich.
After dining on a light fare of breaded calamari steak, brown rice, peas and green salad, I treated myself to a delicious piece of Fore<|fim_middle|> suit just about anyone, right down to its kid's menu. Specials are also served daily, including appetizers and homemade soups. Additionally, the pub carries a selection of El Dorado County wines along with local and domestic beers. The Forester Pub and Grill serves lunch and dinner daily from 11:30 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. | ster's Chocolate Port Cake, soaked in cherry Port sauce and served warm with whipped cream. My beef-loving partner, finding little room for dessert following a tasty bowl of chicken noodle soup, juicy sirloin steak and several lightly–battered onion rings, tried a rich and decadent slice of their Chocolate Obsession Cake. The Forester's dessert menu entices the sweet tooth with other temptations like pear strudel and dark rum cake with baked pecans.
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Take a virtual swooping tour over Norfolk's planned new £7m primary school
Images have been released showing what a new school on the North Denes site in Great Yarmouth could look like. Photo: Nps Group - Credit: Nps<|fim_middle|>.
Questions ranged from the number of classrooms (14), to whether there would be a youth club and rooms for after school clubs (it's up to the teachers) and what would happen to the wildlife (it would all be fine and probably have more new habitat to explore).
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Other concerns covered the length of the build (12 months), how they would get around the site (safely with lots of protection around) and if it would be noisy (sometimes, but they aimed to do the loudest work out of school hours or in the holidays).
One child asked if it would mean any days off (no).
Building work on the new school will start this time next year and should be ready by September 2020, or possibly sooner.
A planning application for the temporary buildings will go in soon.
Demolition of the 1930's built school will only happen when the new school is finished.
Mrs Horner said it was the biggest school project for the town in some years although many other schools had benefited from new building and extensions following re-organisation in 2015.
The project involves the controversial closure of Alderman Swindell Primary School.
Parents there have protested angrily saying their children are happy and enjoy the ethos of the smaller school community.
The school is staging a celebration day and school fayre on June 23 and is appealing for memorabilia to display.
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There was stunned silence as children saw for the first time an animated image of their new £7m school.
Pupils at North Denes Primary School in Great Yarmouth gathered in the hall to view the film which saw a camera swoop over the virtual vision.
Taking the perspective of a soaring drone the flyover footage travelled along the Jellicoe Road approach to the school revealing new marked-out pitches and the position of the buildings on the sizeable footprint.
Youngsters then had the chance to quiz Norfolk County Council's capital programme manager Isabel Horner about the changes.
She explained the timescale of the project, why they were doing it and if there would be any effect on wildlife in the area.
With so many hands up Mrs Horner and headteacher Debbie Whiting decided to take questions in order, saying they were impressed by the level of inquiry shown by the young audience made up of school council members and "golden tie" students | 193 |
If there was a wine he would want to drink every night, according to JC van Staden, the winemaker at Lodi's Peltier Station, it would be one like the 2006 Peltier Station Reserve Lodi Teroldego ($35).
Peltier Station's Teroldego is, as Old World wine enthusiasts might say, a "banker" – meaning solid, stolid, and dry as a miser's heart – and as such, one that combines award winning charms (garnering a gold and "Best of Class" at this past January's 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition) with some serious caveats.
The charms: a deep ruby color, as dark as blood, followed by a concentrated nose of dried trail mix (dates and berries) and notes of leather straps and steeping mocha espresso wrapped up in a densely textured, upbeat, full bodied taste.
Says van Staden –<|fim_middle|> as a grape born in Italy, but perfected in Lodi," beams von Staden.
Three-quarters of an acre of the grape went into the ground in 2002 at the entrance to Peltier Station, alongside the railroad tracks paralleling Kennefick at Peltier Rd., just north of the winding Mokelumne River in a deep pocket of Tokay sandy loam. "Teroldego is a big buncher and heavy yielder," says van Staden, "capable of giving 10 tons even after thinning.
"The '06 was our second vintage – we've been making it every year, and if anything, as the years go by the wines get darker and even more intense." As evidence, van Staden pulls out a 2011 from barrel for us to taste: a wine so thick and black – like essence of grape skins and seeds without the watery pulp – that you swear it could lubricate a Hemi. | a rough cut of a vigneron himself, originally from South Africa, and who has been at Peltier Station since its start-up ten years ago, following a stint at Michael-David – "growing and making Teroldego is unusual enough, but I don't think there's one even in Italy that comes close to the strength of ours." While normally made into a dark, sturdy, zesty red wine in its native Northern Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Peltier Station's interpretation definitely walks a wild side.
Why grow Teroldego in the first place? The grape is all about Peltier Station owner/grower Rodney Schatz. Says von Staden, "Rod likes to do the Kansas City Shuffle – when everyone looks left, he looks right." Schatz also revels in "chancy" Italian grapes like Teroldego and Vermentino (much of the latter, a minerally fresh white wine grape, bottled under Jim Moore's Uvaggio label) because his family on his mother's side hails from Italy. "I like to think of Teroldego | 236 |
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Issue 3/1993 | Archives online, Fiction, Prose
An extract from the novel Vieras ('The stranger', Otava 1992). Introduction by Pekka Tarkka
I lay there for a moment, motionless, eyes closed.
The bunk was damp. It felt damp around my thighs; I slid down lower – and there, it was really wet.
My sleeping bag was obviously soaked, and that meant that the mattress was soaked, too. Oh, rats. I couldn't imagine having wet myself. Or – worse – had the boat sprung a leak, the water already rising up to the floorboards? I bounded to my feet: the rugs were dry. So was the cabin floor. I raised the boards, peered down: two fingers of water in the forward bilge, as usual. So, where the –? In the course of yesterday's rough sailing, some water had seeped in below the windowframe. No more than a cupful, but it had trickled down inside the panel and then onto the mattress. I tried the other side of the bunk. It was dry. Well, I would just have to pick up the mattress and set it on its side.
'What's all this rummaging?'
'I'm drying these.'
He made a face.
'Just wait and see what happens when we change tack,' I said.
'It's so fucking damp anyway,' he complained. 'And it's getting close to freezing outside.'
'It may come to that,' I said.
He tapped his head with his index finger.
Through the water one could see rocks on the bottom and seaweed growing on them, slanting toward the surface, swaying in the waves. He stood in the bows, pointing out the shallow places. Slowly we chugged past the cliffs that stretched in a row across the inlet. It was scary. There were traces of paint on the sides of the larger ones, indicating that quite a few vessels had scraped against them I motioned to him to undo the rubber loops around the sails. He took them off, tucked them under his arm, slapped water out of the folds of the foresail. As he started raising the main sail, it slipped out of its profile and pulled the forward bolt rope out of the groove. Now it had to be pulled down again, by brute force. It was a familiar problem. Either the bolt rope is too thick and gets stuck, and when it gets wet, it is almost impossible to pull it back down again. Or the rope is too thin and keeps sliding out of the groove. Why in hell doesn't the sailmaker keep at least a half-meter long piece of profile in his workshop on which to test that forward edge? Damn.
I lowered the sail and used both hands to squeeze the edge into its groove. The water was choppy, one had to consider every move.
And I was worried about the engine. It started at the push of a button, or had done at least until now. It was a necessary item in tight spots, and it charged the batteries that ran the instruments and appliances.
Once a day, I would take a surreptitious look at it to make sure that everything was in working order, at least as far as I could tell. A mechanic had replaced some part and had told me that something else needed to be replaced soon. I checked the gauges, touched the casing. The machine was chugging along, I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. The oil was circulating, the cooling spray looked normal. And, I thought, it does have that alarm buzzer.
'There you go again, gazing at that thing,' he said.
'I beg your pardon?'
'You know about as much about engines as a mouse knows about a washing machine.'
'You're quite mistaken,' I told him.
'And you wouldn't know how to fix it anymore than that mouse would.'
'Save those kinds of jokes for your hitchhiking buddies.'
'Give me a break!'
'Listen, I'm the skipper here. We'll change course now. It is deep enough now, but watch out for nets.'
'What's that, over there?'
It was a drift net, anchored underwater to the north side of a rock. It was a long one, two hundred meters at least. A black swallowtail pennant fluttered at the far end. We had to tack close and I saw that the current had raised the styrofoam floats to the surface. The net was full of seaweed and pieces of driftwood swept back from the shores.
We circumnavigated the net, found the leading marks, took our bearings. In the daylight, the gas flames looked like dim sparks. We had to pass close to the rock.
Behind the spit, right in the middle of the channel, stood a vessel. Its engines had been turned off. It was a large, multi-storied cabin cruiser, its roof covered with antennas. There was time to think that the shape of the vessel was due to those American laws that taxed boats according to length but not height; time to worry whether or not there was enough room to get around it; time to get rather beside oneself before a man in a white peaked cap appeared in the upper steering cabin and slammed the hatch open. We passed at a distance of two boat-lengths.
'Where is Jurmo Rock?' he shouted and pushed his head out the hatch.
'Oh shit. Goddamn it to hell,' I said.
'Let's get the fuck out of here,' my companion said.
'No. We have to help him if something's wrong. What?' I shouted back.
'Let's just zip behind those islands. Then they won't see us anymore,' my companion suggested.
'That would land us in maritime court for abandonment,' I told him. 'What's wrong?'
'JURMO ROCK,' the man shouted above the noise of the waves.
'What do you mean?'
'JURMO ROCK.'
'Is he drunk?' I wondered. From some lower level a woman appeared, holding another piece of maritime headgear. She put it on before stepping up to the same hatch.
'They must have broken their propeller,' I said. 'We'll be in trouble if we leave. Lower the main.' I turned into the wind, loosened the main sheet traveler and let the foresail flap. Now the other vessel used one of its engines, and we drifted to within hailing distance.
'I tried the radio, but you weren't receiving,' the man shouted, clearly now and stressing every word.
'Broken propeller?' I shouted back.
'No, lost.'
'You lost your propeller?'
'No, we are lost,' he roared, framing his mouth with his hands.
'They're lost,' I said. 'Let's try to get closer and show them on the chart where we are. Get the fenders ready, and be ready to push. Not there, higher up,' I said when he started tying them to the gunwale. I shouted to the people in the cruiser to get out their sea charts. They turned up their palms: no charts.
'Crazies. They have to be taken to some harbor, or else they'll drown themselves,' I said. 'Let them call the Coast Guard. They're not far away.'
'So you don't think we should –'
'No. They have at least one working propeller. Let them ride around in a circle. We can't do any more for them.'
I went up to the bows and told them to use the emergency channel. They'd get help in half an hour.
We raised the sails again and turned north-east toward Kökar. We had sailed free for about two hundred meters when the cruiser gave chase. It followed us with a mighty bow-wave. We waved our arms, trying to tell it to stay put, but it did not pay any attention. It kept on coming, its array of antennas waving and the radar turning.
'Are they hard of hearing or out of their minds" I wondered.
'Let's lose them. Shit, let's just cruise in there,' he said. 'In among the islands.'
'We have to tell them how to get to Utö,' I said. 'Can't be helped.' We adjusted our course and put about. The wind blew straight at us and seemed to have grown several degrees colder. A narrow sliver of sun shone through the sail and the clouds, the water glittered a cold blue. The rocks seemed to be moving toward the northeast, the more distant ones faster than the ones closer to us. It took a while before we reached a spot where we could drift without danger. We lowered the sails. After a moment, the cruiser came up to our stern. Close up, it looked even bigger. A door slammed open, the skipper came on deck and lowered a gangway.
'Come with me,' I said. 'In case there's things I won't believe or understand.'
Fenders down, the ropes fastened, we boarded the cruiser. Its interior was full of chrome and upholstery. It looked like a disco. The skipper and a woman stood waiting for us in the steering cabin. Behind them, the dials and gauges on the panel blinked and the radio burbled into the void. From the saloon below came the whistles and squeals of a tape being wound back and forward. We introduced ourselves. They gave us their full names.
'Seems like we're having a bit of trouble,' the man said. 'We came from Gotland.'
'Well, almost,' the woman said.
'But then you must have some charts,' I said.
'We have a navigator,' the woman said. Tight curls showed under the cap which had a big badge on it with a picture of a flag.
'Two of them,' the man said. 'Neither one's working.'
'Why haven<|fim_middle|>,' the skipper said. 'Why don't you go and comb Hartikainen's hair. Better still, see if you can't get him to sack out in the forward cabin.' 'Bye,' I said.
'Have a really great trip. You can trust us,' the woman shouted from the upper deck and waved her white cap. There was no flag on the pole on the aft deck; they'd probably lost that, too.
We had to make such a tight turn that we had to use the engine.
'To Maarianhamina, eh?' he said. 'As far as I can see, Maarianhamina is sort of west of here. And we're pointing south.'
I didn't say anything.
'What a mess.'
'Don't worry.'
He opened the bottom drawer which was used for plastic bags and empty bottles that should have been disposed of or returned. He checked the bottles against the light, tested the caps, spun one on the table, let it come to a stop and observed which way it pointed. He tore off a piece of masking tape, stuck it to the side of the bottle, wrote some Roman numerals on it.
I watched his actions with interest.
'A document for posterity?' I asked.
'I've got my fucking privacy of correspondence, don't I,' he said, pushed a note into the bottle, screwed the cap on tight and tossed it overboard.
The bottle disappeared into the waves, reappeared after a moment in the foam, and then vanished quickly from view.
The cruiser, too, got going. In ten minutes, we were so far away that we could no longer tell whether it was coming or going.
Translated by Anselm Hollo
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Tytti Parras (born 1943) has published six novels and two radio plays; her first, Jojo (1968), was a description of student life in Tampere, her native city. Parras received the J.H. Erkko Prize for the best first novel that year. Her most recent novel, Vieras ('The stranger') was published in 1992. | 't you called the coast guard?' I asked.
'Well, that's why,' the woman said.
'The batteries went dead, or at least, we thought they did. And our pilot is sick.'
'We drove all over Maarianhamina looking for replacement batteries, but it's really the goddamn satellite that's screwed up. They changed the co-ordinates. According to those, Turku is two hundred miles out to sea, and Maarianhamina just a suburb of Stockholm. They must have known this at Philips', but they kept it to themselves.'
'And Mauno has really taken this hard,' the woman said. 'He's about to demolish the sound system, down there.'
We went downstairs, single file. In the saloon, a large man sat or reclined on a plush couch. He was wearing a shirt and tie and a thick knit cardigan. Buttoning it, he had missed the first buttonhole.
'Mussu is going to sue Philips for libel, isn't he,' the woman said and him a hug.
'Captain Mauno Hartikainen. Air Force, retired, chief navigator of the Linda Bella,' the skipper said by way of introduction. The man looked at us with the world-weary eyes of a drunk.
'Shit, man, I can't find that there Call of the Pains, I mean plains,' he said. 'It's on this tape, I know it is, but I can't find it.' He pushed the buttons of the tape player. His hair fell over his face. The tape player sounded like The Chipmunks.
'Yes, it is a pain, isn't it,' the woman said. She reached out and brushed his hair back. That seemed to irritate him no end. 'If there was a chart, one could draw the route on it,' I said.
'Mussu knows how to do that,' the woman said and patted him on the back.
'He sure does, but when goddamn women…,' the skipper said. The woman hastened to explain how she had wanted to sweep some bread crumbs off the chart: when she had opened the ceiling hatch to do so, and the wind had ripped the chart out of her hand. They had tried to retrieve it but there hadn't been room to maneuver. They did have plenty of other charts, all the way to Gotland and down the Swedish coast. 'But then Mauno here got teed off and decided to pack it in,' the skipper said. 'So we thought it over for a while. I'm an old boy scout, and Sari and I agreed that we should just go. Checked the map and let 'er rip. At twenty knots, so we figured it would take us a little over nine hours from Maarianhamina. We had good weather, visibility almost all the way to Denmark. We left around noon and sighted land in the evening. It was just foggy enough so we couldn't get a clear view of the shore. We started looking for a harbor, but then this boat appears, full of guys in uniform shouting and waving their arms, telling us to get lost.'
'And Mussu was asleep. He's our interpreter, too,' the woman said.
'So I thought we had reached Gotland, the north end, where I've heard they have a military installation, and these guys must be from there. But we didn't really feel like turning around again, in the middle of the night. So they took us in tow, mad as hell. Finally we got Mauno to open his eyes, and it turned out that we had missed our destination by three hundred kilometers. We were on the south coast of Sweden, some sort of wildlife preserve. And I've been using a compass all my life.'
'These things happen,' the woman said. 'Much worse things, too.'
'It's that goddamn deviation,' the skipper said.
'You lost the deviation again?' The man in the cardigan came to, jumped to his feet. 'Hell, we've just run into somebody,' he said, looking out the window.
'No, we met these folks on the way and decided to have a little chat,' the skipper said. 'Is there any coffee? Let's have some. Why don't you make some.'
The woman picked up a tall thermos bottle and set it on the table next to a stack of disposable cups. She pumped coffee out of the bottle. It steamed and was good and hot. We had to help ourselves to some coffee cake and pretzel-shaped cookies that left crumbs on your fingers and lips. The man in the cardigan leaned against the window and looked out.
'I know that boat. Bought in Glasgow, or was it Holland,' he said.
'Come again?' the skipper said. 'Have some coffee, Mauno.'
'That one right there. Your husband's with Apple. Has an import business.'
'No,' I said.
He swayed back on his heels, brushed his hair out of his eyes.
'Last year, at the restaurant on Nötö. We were trying to order some bullhead, but there was none to be had for love or money.'
'You're mistaking me for someone else,' I said.
'You've changed your hairdo, but that's the boat all right. Remember it from that bowsprit and the name. Your old man had sailed it over by himself, from Holland or Lübeck or someplace. The customs guys never caught on.'
I laughed and shook my head.
'Mussu, you're not remembering that right,' the woman said.
'You weren't even around yet, Sari, so shut up. This girl here,' he said, pushing a cup of coffee towards me, 'is a dentist. She takes care of all the teeth in Lauttasaari.'
'Do I look like a dentist?' I said.
He straightened his back, glared at me with glazed eyes.
'I don't take care of anybody's teeth except for my own,' I said. 'And that boat belongs to his father.' I nodded in the direction of my companion. 'This is my first trip on it. My first sailing trip, altogether. He's promised to take me to Maarianhamina. So, I think we better get going before it gets dark.'
'Yes, of course,' the woman said.
'We saw a coast guard vessel back there, a couple of miles away. You'll be able to call them.'
'Why don't you come up with me, and we'll try that,' the skipper said to my companion. 'And you can see what those goddamn hi-tech electronics did to us.'
They disappeared upstairs, my companion's blue-jeaned legs last. 'They said on the radio that it's going to get quite a bit colder,' the woman said. 'And awfully windy.'
'That's what I'm afraid of,' I said.
'But you have a good navigator,' the woman said. 'I mean, really.' She stacked the used cups, picked up some cigarette ash with a fingertip.
'We've had a nice trip so far.'
'And you didn't get lost,' the woman said. 'As for you, Mussu, it's closing time. You don't want to embarrass us in front of those coast guards.' She bent down and hugged him. 'They'll guide us back to civilization.'
'If anyone asks – please don't say anything about us,' I said.
'I understand,' she said, and smiled.
'Some people aren't so understanding.'
'A woman's got a right, just the same as a man,' she said. 'It's not the Dark Ages anymore. Vesa and I haven't seen you, and Mauno here won't remember even if someone asks.'
We went upstairs. The skipper was still holding the receiver.
'They heard us, they'll be here within a half-hour,' he said. 'Well, thank you, and goodbye.'
'Ships that pass in the fog,' the woman said.
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We also modify the basic distance requirement for all classes of underlying when we are in the "sweet stop" with respect to limited time remaining until expiration.
More "breathing room" confers safety and makes a successful trade much more likely, but we need to strike a balance between distance-from-the-market and premium. Therefore we want to set a minimum distance between the current price of the underlying and our credit spread's strike prices.
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This exceptional final-year FJ60 was sold new at Big Horn Toyota in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. It has had just three total owners from new, the first and second in the famous Aspen / Snowmass Village area, and the 3rd who relocated this FJ60 to Nevada, the gentleman who sold it to us in 2017. Considering most FJ60s of this vintage have well over 200k miles (and some even over 300k!) this example's 147k miles means it is just getting broken it.
As Cruiser aficionados know 1987 is the final<|fim_middle|> for a modern car. Not to mention they possessing that legendary 1980s Toyota build quality and reliability. So no matter what your intended use may be, if you've ever wanted a great FJ60 I'd love to have you visit and check this one out. I think you'll be impressed with it just as much as this life-long Cruiser guy is. | year of the FJ60 and the legendary carbureted 2F engine, 4-speed manual transmission, and classic round headlights. 1988 saw the introduction of the FJ62 with the 4.0L EFI engine and automatic transmission, much to the dismay of many purists. Not that they aren't a fine truck, because what Land Cruiser isn't, but there is just something about pulling that manual choke out and the lovely "click-click" action of the 4-speed in these FJ60s that makes the experience that much more charming. And, the styling has certainly aged better than that of the FJ62s.
The 1986 and 1987 model years are also sought after for being the most refined of the FJ60s, and incorporating all of the running changes that Toyota had put in place by the end of the FJ60 run, such as a beefier transfer case.
Speaking from experience, and as somebody who has lived with FJ60s continuously since my parents bought our first one new in 1985, these are magnificent vehicles. Capable of conquering almost anything you can throw at them they are also quite comfortable and livable as daily drivers. Unlike the FJ40, the FJ60's longer wheelbase lends a smooth ride and stable handling. The standard factory power steering and air conditioning, plus front and rear heaters, makes the cabin a pleasant place no matter the season, as does the wonderful greenhouse with virtually no blind spots. And let's not forget that the rear seat folds flat making a cavernous cargo area that betters just about any modern SUV, as well as a lot of minivans!
But the trick with finding an FJ60 today is finding a good one. Like any modern car many were simply seen as disposable, used up and then left for dead. Plus it is no secret that just like most cars of their era, without proper care, and especially in the wrong climate, they can have serious rust issues. Add to that the standard "used car" concerns such as accident damage, worn out interiors, and multiple owners (each caring less than the previous one in most cases) and the odds of snagging a 31-year old FJ60 in great shape with low miles are obviously poor. Plus, any one you find, no matter how nice it is, will likely have a big list of deferred maintenance required.
Which is why the example I'm offering here is one to seriously consider. It is rust-free, with an outstanding body and chassis, even in all of the common problem areas. Its original interior is extremely nice, another rarity with these trucks. Trust me, I know. I watched my sister ruin at least a couple of them when she was younger. Also note it still has the original Toyota radio in the dash, along with a super-cool dealer installed cassette deck in the proper location. Both the outside and inside of this truck instantly bring you back to what a new one would look like in 1987. No lift kits, big tires, custom interior or other "upgrades" to spoil the experience here.
And, since my purchase of this FJ60 I've performed all of the needed maintenance as well as items that go above and beyond but are known to help preserve these trucks for generations to come. It has had all of its fluids changed, a full 60k service with valve adjustment, a new custom aluminum radiator installed, a new OE Toyota exhaust, four new tires and a proper alignment, the braking system fully flushed and serviced, a new A/C compressor and conversion to R134A refrigerant so the A/C blows ice-cold, and many other items to insure it is as close to new mechanically as possible. I've also cleaned the chassis and treated all surfaces with Boeing "Boeshield," a rust-preventative coating that will protect it for a long time, as well as had the inside of all of the doors, rocker panels, and other accessible areas sprayed with Waxoyl Cavity Wax, a creeping, non-hardening, self-sealing coating that will keep rust away for decades if not forever. It is the same procedure I've used on all of my Western FJs for years after relocating them to the humid Midwest!
Vintage SUVs are gaining in popularity every day, and with good reason. They are fun, simple, and quite practical. But few live up to the promise as well as an FJ60. They are in the small minority of vintage SUVs that are actually enjoyable to live with and can be used as a substitute | 963 |
The spring/summer period in Amsterdam has been truly amazing for weddings this year. Amsterdam, and most of europe have been bathing in warmth for months. However, when we can't always guarantee perfect weather, a location like The Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam is unmatched, when you want to have the feeling of being right in nature<|fim_middle|>ly, let's just think about what it would be like walking down an entrance like this, following an aisle of summer white florals, toward a towering archway of white and green. Guests from around the world were transported into another world for an evening of love and celebration.
Dining between the white cloud roses, tulips and peonies, was also a feast for the senses. | . It's essentially taking all the beauty of the outdoors, and placing them indoors for everyone to enjoy. And we kind of thought we would take that concept an extra mile... and bring the whole flower field inside too!
The theme was classic whites with a modern, sophisticated, sleek and elegant edge, so we chose peonies, hortensia, tulips, agapanthus, and delphiniums. The flowers bathed in the afternoon sunlight that filtered through the transparent ceilings and walls, onto the international guests, to create a truly magical atmosphere, like floating on a white cloud.
The Palm Greenhouse (Palmenkas, as it is referred to here in The Netherlands), is a big beautiful glass room featuring a famous 350-year-old Eastern Cape giant cycad tree (Encephalartos altensteinii), and was filled edge-to-edge with beauty. After the ceremony, the room was converted into a dining hall, and the flower field was moved to suit the new surroundings.
Cassandra & Ben chose to marry in this magical sanctuary, far away from their homeland of Indonesia, to tie the knot. Seasoned wedding planners Flying Bride, together with Over The Moon Weddings orchestrated the occasion to perfection, to give the couple and their guests a truly memorable event they will always remember. Hoping to break the mold of a 'one size fits all' wedding, an utterly unique concept was planned. And it was a head m-to-toe white wonderland!
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A camera-based target detection and positioning UAV system for search and rescue (SAR) purposes
Jingxuan Sun, Boyang Li, Yifan Jiang, Chih-yung Wen
Wilderness search and rescue entails performing a wide-range of work in complex environments and large regions. Given the concerns inherent in large regions due to limited rescue distribution, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based frameworks are a promising platform for providing aerial imaging. In recent years, technological advances in areas such as micro-technology, sensors and navigation have influenced the various applications of UAVs. In this study, an all-in-one camera-based target detection and positioning system is developed and integrated into a fully autonomous fixed-wing UAV. The system presented in this paper is capable of on-board, real-time target identification, post-target identification and location and aerial image collection for further mapping applications. Its performance is examined using several simulated search and rescue missions, and the test results demonstrate its reliability and efficiency.
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Yes, Photographs tell stories, convey emotion and make us laugh. They make us smile and<|fim_middle|> of something – not about something. | sometimes, they make us cry. Photographs, moments in time, spur us into action and urge us to learn more. The photographer's imagination in creating an image, will, hopefully, spark curiosity in the viewer. This curiosity is what makes us want to know more, understand more and receive the message more clearly. In today's world of answers being just one mouse click away, I am seeing a generation no longer interested in visiting a library or going through the shelves at a bookstore – imagination and curiosity are receding quickly as we no longer seek to be exposed to a diversity of information other than that which can be displayed on the screens of our phones.
Curiosity is the engine that drives us to learn — it's what drives us to keep asking questions, keep seeking answers, to keep imagining things and pushing ourselves to develop our ideas. Curiosity is what drove me to seek out the Puerto Rico Door, pictured above, metaphorically peeling back the curtains to discover its identity, origins and meaning – isn't that what we photographers do? We strive to find our clients personality and capture it in an image. These personalities hide once the camera makes an appearance and we have to coax them back out into the open. It is what I, as a journalist, do – what is the backstory? The meaning? Photography is the tool I use to help my viewer see what I see, learn what I know and realize what I am saying – I want them to say: "what am I seeing?", "what does this mean?" – I want them to take that intellectual journey and find the answer – the hidden truth.
I had just finished shooting on the Esplanade in front of the Castillo San Felipe del Morro or just "El Morro" as it is known to everyone (The Esplanade is a favorite place for families to picnic and fly kites). I was strolling the streets, hopping back and forth from one side to the other staying in the shade, sheltered from the strong Caribbean sun, toward my favorite lunch spot in Old San Juan – Callee Fortaleza has sidewalk seating for restaurants, music pouring out of open doors and laughter abounds everywhere. If you've never been to Old San Juan, it's small, very small – only about 7 blocks square, laid out as a grid. It is known as "La Cuidad Amurallada" – the walled city. San Juan is ringed by a defensive wall 20 feet thick in places.
Damage from Hurricane Irma was still also evident and it did not take a great effort to find it, but for the most part and due to its tourist value – everything appeared to be normal. The remainder of the island, its mountains, El Yunque National Forest and remote villages remain without power and proper utilities. Recovery operations are still underway here – progressing at a snail's pace.
Following the blue cobblestones in the streets, I turned onto Callee San José and approached the Puerto Rico Door. Known as "La Puerta de la Bandera," (Gate of the Flag) this 10 foot tall door and accompanying mural boldly asserts its presence on the side of an abandoned building dating from about 1700.
First painted by local artist Rosenda Álvarez with permission from the building's owner, La Puerta has emerged as an emblematic fixture of Old San Juan and a symbol of Puerto Rican national identity. In 2016, the artist revisited her mural in the dark of night to paint out the colors of the Puerto Rican flag in favor of black stripes.
of merciless destruction through the Caribbean.
It was the appointment of fiscal oversight board, that urged Alvarez out into the night with her paint brush to protest alongside the dark shadow of patriotic mourning now hovering over the island. As a journalist, I am usually in the middle of an event, not on the perimeter. I hear the cries, sense the emotion and experience all of the elements. I imagine what residents feel – perhaps powerless under the auspices of the board. PROMESA, many feel, revokes the Puerto Rican people's basic and fundamental right to democratic self-governance with a federally-appointed (not elected) oversight board for the island.
Puerto Rico remains a territory of the United States, not a state and is not allowed to restructure any of its debt under Chapter 9 the way states are allowed. This only adds salt to an open wound for many on the island.
into where those answers may lay.
color spoke of hope – I switched my camera to color from monochrome.
Many Puerto Ricans feel the black door is an act of vandalism, many want it changed back to color and many more may not understand the message of the artist. There were a few tourists on the street that day – one asked me what I was photographing. We spoke about the door and Old San Juan. He was hurrying to his next stop on a short visit – he did not even notice the blue cobblestones. La Puerta de la Bandera may not even be in his memory now.
Without imagination, we have no curiosity. Without a curiosity, the images we make and moments we collect are merely photographs | 1,055 |
Home > Self Employed > Business Resources for Self Employed Women
By: Sarah Clark (ILEX) - Updated: 9 Jul 2013 | *Discuss
You'd think that being a female entrepreneur, starting your own business and going it alone would be exactly the same for women as it is for men - but many women would disagree with you. With that in mind, what resources do female business owners need, and what support do they have, other than the general business resources available to everyone?
The online world is awash with programmes, social networks and groups specifically created to support women who are setting up their own<|fim_middle|> Biz and Star Workshop. She may sound off the wall, but Leonie really knows her stuff when it comes to business.
Blogs and websites
There are some excellent blogs and websites for women who want to build their own business but don't know how to go about it, and it seems that the 'urge to share' is one way that women are helping each other with everything from marketing, blogging and creativity to the nitty gritty of actually setting up a business.
If you yearn to escape the nine to five and set up a business that can fit around you, and your lifestyle, the Free Range Humans approach might be one worth investigating. Marianne Cantwell did just that, and now runs her very own courses, helping other people escape the drudgery too. She has also written a book on her journey and how to escape the rat race yourself - it's called 'Be a Free Range Human' and it's a guide for anyone who has had enough of the office job and wants to get out there and live a bit. The website has oodles of freebies and you can even sample the first chapter of the book totally free, as well as listen to inspirational audio recordings.
Offline support
If you're not a fan of the online world and would prefer to get your support elsewhere, there are networking groups set up specifically for women in business.
One of the best known female business networking organisations is the Women in Business Network. The network has been around since 2005, and like most mixed gender networking groups, they tend to only invite one member of any profession to their meetings so that there's always one of 'everything' to talk to and no competition. This means that if you're a PR guru, you'll hopefully be the first choice for any other members of your particular group, helping you get more business through direct approaches from other women business owners and referrals from the women in your area.
It's a tried and tested approach which has been working for many years in the business sector, and there are a lot of women who find it very useful. Monthly meetings give women a chance to meet up, talk about the things that have been affecting their business and showcase their own work, as well as getting advice from women entrepreneurs such as Jennie Bond, and taking part in events and training sessions.
Women tend to love social media, and it's a great place to look for advice, inspiration and support. If you're thinking of setting up in business yourself, a social media presence is a must-have.There are as many ways to find like-minded businesswomen on social networking sites as there are businesses, so what works for you might not work for everyone. Most are free to join, so dive in with a LinkedIn profile and start connecting with people there.
You can connect with people you know through an existing business or past jobs, and another great feature is the free networking groups. LinkedIn helpfully provides groups you might like to join where you can get chatting to people about blog posts, business ideas and industry gossip.
Once you've joined a few blogs and made some connections, you can use their blogs to find Twitter and Facebook details. Following a fellow inspirational businesswoman on Twitter and joining her Facebook group are two ways to get advice and support free of charge as well as usually providing a platform for you to promote your own business, and get honest feedback about things before you actually commit yourself. You could find a great recommendation for an accountant through this type of networking, or barter services, perhaps you would be able to give someone free products and they write you a press release?
Other sites worth a mention are Pinterest, which is fantastic for showcasing products and images, and Instagram which is much the same. If you're in business making a product, Etsy is a wonderful marketplace for goods and anything you want to sell online.
There are free resources and paid-for support networks all over the Internet and in 'real life' too, designed to give women the support and guidance they need to be successful in business. There's nothing to stop you taking advantage of as many as you like, so just dip in and out and find what suits you. | businesses.
Girls mean business
Claire Mitchell, business coach and owner of The Girls Mean Business, passionately believes that when it comes to business, women really benefit from a different type of support to men. She explained in an interview with Businesszone: "Women need to share. Whether it's the fact we don't know where to turn next, we've had a row with the kids or we can't figure out a piece of software - we prefer to ask for help and receive support."
It's not just a desire to share that's a women-only trait, either. Some women are also prone to self-sabotage, something that Claire describes as 'Mind Monkeys'.
"Mind monkeys are the voices in your head that tell you: "You're not good enough, you'll never make any money, and you'll never make a go of this business, when what they need to hear is: "Keep going - you're doing great."
Entrepreneurial women support the economy
Claire believes that with numbers of female-owned businesses rising dramatically, it's vitally important to ensure that all the right support networks are in place to help entrepreneurial women doing their bit to support the economy. She adds, "The days of generic one-size-fits-all advice from government support agencies are over. Better, surely, to play to our strengths and help build our businesses in a way that works for us - and as women that means business advice tailored for female entrepreneurs, combined with peer support."
'The Girls Mean Business' is a blog, website and fully-fledged support network for women setting up their own businesses. Claire provides one on one coaching and mentoring services, daily tips via email and also useful downloadable guides which help with aspects of running a business successfully.
Inspirational women in business
Any woman setting up her own business knows that there's more to it than just following all the right legislation and securing a business loan - there's often a whole long list of other issues that come into play.
Is the business compatible with childcare?
How can I do this without burning out?
How do I manage to nurture my creativity?
How can I get people to read my blogs and buy my products?
One fabulous online resource for women (which will be opening to the male of the species soon, but is currently steadfastly a place for the girls) is the Amazing Biz and Life Academy run by Australian powerhouse Leonie Dawson.
Leonie's own story is well documented on the website and in her very entertaining blog. She managed to set up a business while working part time in a cubicle job in Australia, read every business book she could get her hands on and within a few years had managed to give up her dull government job to run a six figure business, working a few hours a day and creating prolific amounts of e-books, courses, guides and a massively popular online gathering place for women who come from all types of business and personal backgrounds.
There's a dedicated business academy - but the absolute beauty of the idea is that you can take as much as you like from the academy - whether you want to get into your spiritual side, talk about the trials of motherhood or simply dive in and compare notes with other women about marketing, exchanging Twitter and Facebook likes or commenting on blogs and websites.
If you join the Academy, everything that Leonie has produced is available to download free of charge - and you get to talk to tens of thousands of other women all over the world, get tips and hints and just chat about anything you like. She is so infectiously enthusiastic that even if you don't want to sign up for the whole thing, you can read her blog for free and download a free resource - the Blogging | 750 |
What to listen to during the summer break
The podcast is currently on a summer break until August or September. The summer break is a great time to re-listen to the episodes you want to learn more from. Here's some of our favorite picks.
Risto Siilasmaa
Risto Siilasmaa is the founder and former CEO of cybersecurity company F-Secure. His current role in the company is Chairman of the Board. Risto is also Chairman of the Board at Nokia. He took on the role in 2012 when Nokia was in a very difficult situation and actually one topics we discuss is how he came to accept the offer. Full episode: Risto Si<|fim_middle|> failure demand, incentives, system conditions, budgeting and how the system drives behavior.
Nitor: http://nitor.fi
Talented: http://talented.fi
The Vanguard Method
Freedom From Command and Control
The Whitehall Effect
Author Sami HonkonenCategories Season 4Posted on June 6, 2017 June 6, 2017 | ilasmaa, the paranoid optimist
John Seddon
John Seddon is the inventor of The Vanguard Method. The Vanguard Method is a way of helping organizations move from command and control towards systems design. Seddon is the author of books such as Freedom from Command and Control and The Whitehall Effect. He's currently working on a book titled Beyond Command and Control. We talk about organizations as systems, value and failure demand, incentives, system conditions, budgeting and how the system drives behavior. Full episode: John Seddon and freedom from command and control
Stan McChrystal is a retired four-star US general. Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates described McChrystal as "perhaps the finest warrior and leader of men in combat". McChrystal took command of an elite military organization, Joint Special Operations Task Force, and transformed it from a rigid hierarchy to a network of autonomous teams. Full episode: General Stan McChrystal and a Team of Teams
Jim Benson is the creator of Personal Kanban and Lean Coffee. We delve into Personal Kanban, which is an approach to dealing with the overload of stuff you need to deal with. We dig into into its two simple rules, visualizing work and limiting work in progress. We then walk through Lean Coffee, which is a simple and effective way to run your meetings. In the end we discuss Jim's lessons on collaboration from his years in working to improve it in organizations. Full episode: Jim Benson on Personal Kanban, Lean Coffee and collaboration
If you've enjoyed Boss Level Podcast so far, don't forget to write a review on iTunes and to share the episodes with friends. Have a great summer everyone!
Author Sami HonkonenCategories Season 4Posted on June 28, 2017
Sara Öhrvall and the impact of digital technologies
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Today, I'm chatting with Sara Öhrvall. Sara is the Co-founder and Senior Advisor at Mindmill Network. Mindmill helps companies understand how digital technologies impact their business. Before Mindmill Sara was the Senior Vice President of R&D at the Bonnier Group.
Sara sits on several boards. For example, she's on the board of SEB, a Nordic corporate bank and Investor, the leading owner of Nordic-based international companies.
She also writes a column for Dagens Industri, which is the financial daily of Sweden.
In 2017 Sara was selected for Wired's list of 50 most inspiring female influencers from across Europe. She's one of the best and brightest women in technology.
We talk about the impact technology will have on people and businesses and how our companies should adapt to that change.
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Talented: http://www.talented.fi
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Mindmill Network
Author Sami HonkonenCategories Season 4Posted on June 20, 2017 June 22, 2017
John Seddon and freedom from command and control
John Seddon is the inventor of The Vanguard Method. The Vanguard Method is a way of helping organizations move from command and control towards systems design. Seddon is the author of books such as Freedom from Command and Control and The Whitehall Effect. He's currently working on a book titled Beyond Command and Control. Seddon's work has provoked a lot of thought and has significantly deepened my understanding of how organizations function.
We talk about organizations as systems, value and | 729 |
If anyone thought the revolution to overthrow establishment candidates had lost its steam after the 2010 midterms, recent events seem to demonstrate that the movement is far from over.
"The real lesson is that independent voters continue to vote against, rather than for, established candidates and parties. And they are in exactly as fickle and suspicious and contrary a mood as they've been for the past decade, which is to say very." said Bruce Gyrory in his piece assessing not only the New York election but also what candidates across the country face at this point in time.
Gyrory describes the group of Independents in the electorate, defined more by what they dislike and as being moderate in ideology, pretty accurately. They are neither Democrats or Republicans, instead swinging their vote between Republicans and Democrats in the last few elections since 2006. Issues that concerned them have ranged from the<|fim_middle|> primary system in California's 36th congressional district demonstrated this well.
What we see at this point in time seems to a spontaneous fire, popping up here and there, on a bigger political landscape just waiting to flare up into a major conflagration. Don't be surprised to see more Independents taking the nation by storm come 2012. | Iraq War to various economic issues.
This very notion of Independents voting based on what they didn't like reared its ugly head in the special election between Hochul and Corwin. The election wasn't necessarily a full affirmation of the Democratic agenda. Hochul's victory was in large part helped by voters who supported third party candidate Jack Davis and gave him 9% of the vote (which would have otherwise gone to Corwin and would have helped her defeat Hochul).
While there might be some question as to whether he was a plant by Democrats to alter the special election, the fact of the matter remains that he was a third party candidate whose presence directly threatened a main party candidate. It also goes to show what kind of impact that third party candidates could have around the country in 2012. If more Independents come forward with a convincing message that resonates with voters, then what happened in New York 26 this past week can have a nationwide ripple effect.
Even though a Republican lost in what was thought to be a safe New York 26, the potential for establishment candidates to be rejected isn't confined to one party. The first election under the new top two open | 241 |
Not Jeb Bush's GOP
Does the Republican hero and former Florida governor have a place in his own party?
By John Dickerson
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on June 1, 2012 in Washington, D.C.
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
Jeb Bush does not want to be vice president. That's what he says when he's asked directly, but he really proves it when he's talking about everything else. On issues from budget policy to leadership style to immigration, Bush, one of the most popular national Republicans, is a man out of step with his party. This does not mean he likes President Obama. He wants him out of office. He'd shove him if he could, for his repeated attacks on his brother if nothing else. But after listening to the two-term Florida governor talk to a group of reporters at a breakfast hosted by Bloomberg View on Monday morning, it's not clear how Bush could ever be the nominee of a party he says would no longer support his father or Ronald Reagan.
It's not just that Bush's policy prescriptions on topics like immigration and tackling the deficit are a challenge to party orthodoxy. He also describes a more pragmatic vision of leadership—where accomplishments are valued over ideological purity—that seems deeply at odds with conservative calls for maximum constancy. This is perhaps the freedom enjoyed by those who are not running for president. But the formula Bush offers does reflect on the man who is running: Jeb Bush is describing a hole in American politics, and Mitt Romney is not necessarily the man to fill it.
"We're in decline which distinguishes us historically from where we've been," says Bush, who sees the economy shuffling along with anemic growth for the next year, no matter who wins in November. His solutions for getting out of the rut are less policy-specific—he doesn't have a grand plan about Medicare vouchers or getting rid of the home mortgage interest deduction. He's more focused on the temperament of governing.
As a former governor, it's not surprising where he finds the best examples of leaders who are free of Washington orthodoxy and getting things done: "Just about any statehouse in the country." He singles out Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels and Colorado Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper for their effectiveness. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also gets praise. Among his qualities: He knows how to "cut a deal." Bush is not making a pitch for moderation or watered-down conservative principles, but for conservatism that goes beyond a talking point.
"Ronald Reagan would have … a hard time if you define the Republican Party—and I don't—as having an orthodoxy that doesn't allow for disagreement, doesn't allow for finding some common ground," Bush said, adding that he views the partisan sclerosis as "temporary."
"Back to my dad's time and Ronald Reagan's time—they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support," he said. Today Reagan "would be criticized for doing the things that he did."
If Bush is critical of his party, he is contemptuous of the Democrats. While he's vague about the GOP, he drills down to specifics about Democrats. In every detail, you can hear how they eat at him—from the Democratic members of the House budget committee "who just read what some 20- or 25-year-old has handed them" to the Senate's inability to come up with a budget.
President Obama's big failing, says Bush, was his refusal to embrace the Simpson-Bowles commission he set up to find a way to reduce budget deficits. It was a failure of leadership, says Bush<|fim_middle|> is in the Grover Norquist camp. (He has signed Norquist's pledge.)
So Bush would appear to be at odds with his nominee's worldview, except that Romney has also used support for the Bush budget deal as a signature test of leadership. When attacking Newt Gingrich during the primary, he singled out Gingrich's opposition to the Bush budget deal as a key Gingrich failure. Former Bush Chief of Staff John Sununu held a press conference to highlight Gingrich's lack of support. George H.W. Bush also cited Gingrich's opposition to the deal in his support of Romney. But according to the Norquist pledge that Romney has signed, Gingrich's opposition should be seen as an act of anti-tax heroism.
In the hourlong discussion of leadership attributes, Mitt Romney was not among the ready examples Bush cited when talking about effective leadership. For a period of Romney's career, the former Massachusetts governor presented himself as just the kind of pragmatic, results-oriented politician that Bush describes. His signature accomplishment as governor, health care reform, is exactly what Bush was describing: a hard-fought deal that achieved something even though it meant working with Democrats. "He was incredibly impressive, with his intellect, his ability," MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, a Democrat who worked with Romney on the plan, told Karen Tumulty. "If there is anything that qualifies him to be president of the United States, it is his leadership on this issue."
When Bush did talk about Romney at length, it was about Romney's tough stance against illegal immigration. "Governor Romney has used [his immigration position] to connect with a group of voters who were quite angry, and it was effective," says Bush, "but now he's in somewhat of a box." While Bush said the angry portion of the GOP electorate that's scared about porous borders has a legitimate point, Romney's task now is to appeal to different voters, namely Hispanics. Bush's prescription for political recovery is for Romney to pitch a broader economic message to Hispanic voters.
Bush, who supported an in-state tuition plan similar to the one Mitt Romney attacked Rick Perry for promoting, says that he feels "out of step with my party" on immigration. He also has a larger complaint about the purity tests that rule politics today. "I would hope that we don't just all have to march [in lock step.] If I'm a conservative and someone else is a liberal, we're sent a little book that says you must not veer. You have to embrace the orthodoxy of the moment." Bush is not marching in line. The question is whether he's off on his own or whether the GOP nominee will take the party in a similar direction. | , who argues that had the president fought for the plan and lost, he would not have suffered politically. "Presidents matter, and this president lost his chance to be a transcendent figure." Leadership, he argues, would have been the president's own political reward. "Had he tried with sincerity and tried hard, he could make a compelling case 'Conservatives are against me, they're not for advancing the broader interests of this country.' "
This is a common complaint about Obama's leadership, and it doesn't seem to take into account that Obama showed just that kind of leadership pushing for health care reform.
Asked to offer a bold example of presidential leadership, Bush pointed to his father's 1990 budget deal. It was undeniably an act of political bravery; the elder Bush betrayed his conservative base in order to reach a deal to reduce the deficit. "It created the spending restraint of the '90s more than anything else that was helpful in creating a climate of more sustained economic growth."
This is where the tension over leadership attributes becomes acute. Where Jeb Bush sees a signature act of political leadership and bravery, conservative Republicans see a great apostasy. This isn't just some passing historical moment. It is a signature betrayal that Republicans point to again and again. Bush is doing something akin to a Red Sox fan cheering for Babe Ruth's trade to the Yankees. Grover Norquist, the Republican anti-tax advocate, dismissed Bush. "He's just agreed to walk down the same alley his dad did with the same gang," he told Talking Points Memo. "And he thinks he's smart. You walk down that alley, you don't come out."
The Bush 1990 budget deal makes for an interesting historical test. Mitt Romney's campaign won't say whether he has an opinion on this historical turning point. During the primary, Romney said he would not vote for a hypothetical budget deal that included $1 in tax increases for every $10 in spending cuts. (Bush and Daniels said they would.) That would suggest Romney | 415 |
Q: Chain rule in multivariable calculus<|fim_middle|> compute $f'_x$ and $f'_y$ and then $y'_x=-\frac {f'_x} {f'_y}$.
In your case, $f'_x=y e^{x y}$, $f'_y=x e^{x y}+2 y+\cos (y)$. At $[2,0]$ which is along the curve, you then have $f'_x=1$ and $f'_y=3$; so, at this point, $y'_x=-\frac {1} {3}$.
Is this clarifying things to you ? If not, just post.
| I am studying notes from seminar and I don't quite understand some steps. We were evaluating implicit function $f(x,y)=e^{xy}+\sin y +y^2 =1 $ at point $[2,0]$. After checking the conditions we reached the conclusion that such function $y= \varphi(x)$ exists. And now comes the problem, I don't know how the derivative of such function is taken. I know there is chain rule $$\frac{\partial h}{\partial x_k}(\vec{a})=\sum_{j=1}^{p}\frac{\partial f}{\partial y_j}(\vec{b})\frac{\partial g_j}{\partial x_k}(\vec{a}).$$ But I am still struggling with the application of this rule. In this case that for $f(x,\varphi(x))=1$ we would get $$\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\cdot1+\frac {\partial f}{\partial y}\cdot \varphi'(x)=0.$$ How did the number 1 appear there and same with $\varphi'(x)$? The second derivative is even more overwhelming for me.
A: Consider the general case. You have $f: \mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}$ with $f(h(x),g(x))$. This can be viewed as a one-variable function $y: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$, therefore $y(x) = f(h(x),g(x))$. Differentiating: $$\frac{dy}{dx} = \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_1} \frac{dh}{dx} + \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_2} \frac{dg}{dx} = \frac{\partial f}{\partial x} h'(x) + \frac{\partial f}{\partial y} g'(x),$$ where I've briefly denoted the first coordinate by $x_1$ and the second by $x_2$. When you take $h(x) = x$ you get $h'(x) =1$, obtaining that expression.
A: If I rpoperly understand your question, you have $$f(x,y)=e^{xy}+\sin y +y^2 =1$$ This obviously define an implict relation between $x$ and $y$; so, $y=\varphi(x)$.
Now, comes the problem of the derivative. What you must write is the total derivative of $f(x,y)$ (which is zero). For this, you need to | 547 |
With many young vets struggling to find purchase after graduation mentoring programs are on the rise.
Research by the Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) found a lot of grads are feeling isolated and stressed. A group of universities are now implementing a plan to challenge these issues and help young vets get on their feet.
Murdoch University, University of Queensland, University of Adelaide and University of Sydney in Australia,<|fim_middle|> balance the wellbeing of young vets, strengthening their resilience, development of continuing employable skill sets.
"We plan to ensure the capabilities that most influence employability are more explicit in education, to help students better prepare for the challenges they will encounter in transition to practice," said Prof Cake.
Due to the large post graduation drop out numbers of young vets the project will also look at the role of resilience in the continuation of veterinary work in young vets.
Is ketamine an essential medicine or a dangerous drug? | University of the Edinburgh and University of Nottingham in the UK, and Washington State University in the US are planning out the international project: VetSet2Go's research taking place over the coming two years.
The project intends to create a framework for employability that can bridge the gap for students between study and employment.
The projects leader Associate Professor Martin Cake, from Murdoch's School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, intends the research to help | 85 |
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VETERAN TO CLASSIC - VSCC CROIX-EN-TERNOIS
Having lost the use of Oulton Park and Cadwell Park from its regular calendar of race meetings, the VSCC has sought to fill the voids and maintain its programme of six race events by using Pembrey and, for the first time, travelling to the continent in the tracks of the HSCC and 750 Motor Club, hosting a meeting at the twisty, 1.19-mile circuit at Coix-en-Ternois, close to Arras in north-eastern...
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Tyrrell stars at the 'Ring
Bob Berridge won round four of the FIA cup, for Thoroughbred Grand Prix Cars series at the Nurburgring on July 13, but it was1995 champion Martin Stretton in Simon Bull's ex-Jackie Stewart Tyrrell 005 who astounded 90,000 spectators at the ADAC Truck Grand Prix meeting. In a air engineered by its original designer, Derek Gardner, Stretton was closest to Berridge's 1983 RAM 01 in qualifying and...
Page 56, November 1995
Curtain-Raiser
British and Czech interests got together on 30 September/1 October to present a new development in historic racing — a major race meeting on the other side of the old Iron Curtain. The venue was the ultra-modern Brno autodrome in the Czech Republic, which hosted the final 1995 rounds of both the FIA Cup for Thoroughbred Grand Prix Cars and the International Super Sports Cup. Champion-elect Martin...
Page 85, April 1999
1999 - The essential guide to the season
From Coys to Goodwood, Le Mans to Monza, this season's historic calendar is packed with thrills. Marcus Pye previews the best action. From ignominious failure to heroic Formula One World Championship success, engineering folly to mechanical wizardry, the story of British Racing Motors is a compelling one. Back in 1949, when the shattering sound of the first supercharged V16 engine roused the...
Page 68, May 1996
Silverstone VSCC
Although 'new' cars were thin on the ground at the VSCC's traditional April season-opener at Silverstone, there was a healthy entry for the eleven-race programme and some close-fought finishes. And after Friday's wash-out test day it was a relief to find Saturday 13th calm and sunny all day. A capacity field of 34 starters contested the Brooks 1950's Sports Car Race, with the front row of Frank...
Page 79, August 1994
Hannen fodder
The traditional June Silverstone VSCC meeting was the penultimate event to be held on the old club circuit, prior to the various F1-instigated revisions, and featured an all-ERA (or ERA-engined) race to commemorate the Bourne marques 60th anniversary. The opening event, for the Bill Phillips Trophy proved some consolation for Martin Stretton. Having suffered an engine failure at the wheel of...
Page 5, March 1998
Coming soon - the patter of tiny Goodyears
Who can forget the six-wheeled Tyrrell P34 Grand Prix cars which Jody Scheckter, Patrick Depailler and Ronnie Peterson raced in 1976 and 1977? Well, two examples are being prepared to race again, by Simon Bull in Britain and Bud Bennett in the USA. If new 10in tyres can be made, they could be out this year. The reduced drag of four small front wheels was abandoned when tyre technology for the...
Page 70, October 1993
Mallory Park VSCC
In only its third visit to Mallory, the VSCC has proved that it has found an excellent home for the Williams Monaco Trophy race, formerly based at Cadwell Park, and this year's event on the 18th July produced a superb battle for the meeting's title race. In recent years the race, for two-seater Grand Prix cars, has struggled to attract a representative entry and although this year saw only ten...
Page 5, November 2000
Stretton wins war, eyre the battle
Martin Stretton clinched his second FIA thoroughbred Grand Prix Championship with fifth place at a wet Nürburgring on October 1, his success in the ex-Ronnie Peterson Tyrrell P34 six-wheeler of 1977 supplementing the 1995 title, which he won in a Tyrrell 005. Both cars are owned by Simon Bull, engineered by their designer Derek Gardner and prepared by Stretton's own crew in Worcestershire. "It's...
Flying sparks
The VSCC continued its racing season by hosting the 28th Hawthorn Trophy meeting at Silverstone on the 12th June, the day being favoured with weather which ranged from indifferent to treacherous. Albert Sparrowhawk held a brief lead in the Bill Phillips Trophy race in his fleet Alvis Special, before Ian Bentall's 4 1/2-litre Bentley took control on the second lap and was never headed, despite the...
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I've heard of the wolves on Wall Street, but the coyotes at Columbia were a new one.
It's hard to believe, but at least 3 coyotes have been spotted recently in Manhattan. They were seen in Central Park, and on the nearby campus of Columbia University.
The theory is that they walked along the Amtrak right-of-way, which goes along the Hudson River from the northern suburbs, through the Bronx, and over a railroad bridge onto the island of Manhattan.
From there, Amtrak continues along the Hudson, next to a series of parks. Then the tracks go underground, near Grant's Tomb in Riverside Park. The wandering coyotes would want to leave the right-of-way there rather than entering the tunnel, putting them only a couple of blocks from Columbia's campus.
After scaring a few students as they cut through campus, it is across the street<|fim_middle|> match various events as well as locations. If you wish to go to official occasions, you will find steel wrist watches that you could put on. Sporting activities will require the sports activities view in order to endure the actual strength as well as the type of exercise that the sports activities guy will. Wrist watches function being an phrase of the character. These people help to make an effect as well as make an impression on on the general public the hublot replica uk concerning the person. These people are available in types as well as occasionally likely to the shop to find the greatest watch with regard to you may be mind-boggling. The actual racks may meet a person along with wrist watches that can come in several dimensions, designs, calls, supplies, rings as well as uses : additionally from various expenses, obviously. Additionally, you will hublot replica sale various manufacturers or even can make. | to Morningside Park. From there, it is just 1 block cater-corner to Central Park. Finally, 843 acres of nature. I hope they have roadrunners!
For more about the coyotes, and links to photos, check out the New York City wildlife blog Out Walking the Dog. For even more, including an earlier visit in 2006, check out the blog of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Here's a comment on the Gothamist blog from someone who spotted one of the coyotes as late as this past Friday (2/19/10). The best photo is here, at the NY Times.
The photo above, by the way, is not from Manhattan. It is from Wikimedia.
Great round-up on the coyote. I'm so glad to hear of the most recent sighting in Central Park. And thank you for the link! My theory is that the city must be focusing its wildlife attention on trapping and vaccinating its raccoons to control the rabies epidemic, allowing the coyotes to operate under the radar for a little while. Rabid raccoons pose a real danger, which the coyotes don't - at least, right now. This will be a fascinating story to follow!
Yes, this is definitely a interesting story. I agree the rabid racoons are a bigger threat - until they bite the coyotes, that is! Did you see the movie Cujo based on the book by Stephen King?
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The 2,620-passenger RMS Queen Mary 2<|fim_middle|> awakening after you have been cosseted in the arms of QM2. Were it not for one of the world's great cities being at our disposal, I might be tempted to turn around and head back on board for crossing number 158. | , launched in 2004, is still the largest ocean liner (as opposed to cruise ship) ever built, and a destination in its own right. Measuring 148,000 gross tons, it dwarves its smaller half-sisters Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria at 90,000 tons – not to mention the ill-fated Titanic at a comparative lightweight 46,000 tons. At 1,132 feet, it is as long as 36 double-decker buses, has a top speed of 30 knots and is the only ship to be officially licensed to carry the British Royal Mail, hence the correct title of RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Queen Mary 2.
Sailing on a real ocean liner like this is the only way to cross the Atlantic. Why? Because the weather can prove unpredictable at times, and you need a ship with a purpose-designed thick hull that can withstand the pressures of stormy seas.
Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria are both designed for warm-weather cruising, and in their interior decor there is a nod to former Cunard ocean liners. They are also slower, and have more compact cabins than QM2, but each has its own character.
There are some other "normal" cruise ships that offer a transatlantic cruise twice each year, when repositioning between winter cruises in the Caribbean and summer cruising in Europe (typically in May and October). However, they usually take the southern route – from embarkation ports such as Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Port Canaveral, San Juan, Antigua and Barbados – whereas the Queen Mary 2 sails from New York, taking the northern and most direct route.
The days spent at sea give passengers time to enjoy the ship's overt Britishness, the maritime history and traditions, such as the ship's whistle at noon (which can be heard up to 10 miles away), and the white-glove afternoon-tea service. Refreshingly – in my opinion – you dress for dinner, a Cunard tradition mostly lost on land.
The days at sea allow you to adjust to the time difference, too. Savvy travellers go from Southampton to New York, gaining an hour each day, while those sailing from New York to Southampton lose one (westward gain, eastward pain). When you fly, by contrast, jet lag slaps you in the face all in one go.
Transatlantic crossings are voyages, not cruises, and their passenger lists tend to be a mixed salad bowl of nationalities. It was no different when we stepped aboard in late June.
On our first night, a family at an adjacent Princess Grill table consisted of eight-year-old Andrew and his parents, Lauren (Italian) and George (Colombian). It was Andrew's first transatlantic crossing by ship and he was looking forward to his adventure, to spending time in the Play Zone – with its abundant toys, games and activities organised by the specially trained staff – and to returning to New York, his birthplace. Cautious at first, we were all soon exchanging stories and travel experiences.
Transatlantic crossings are about life at a slower, grander, stress-free pace. The plus points include premium mattresses, high-quality bed linens and good cabin soundproofing, while the double-height main hallways and wide stairways provide grandeur. You can also take as much luggage as you want on board, even dogs and cats.
The 12 kennels are overseen by a full-time kennel master whose responsibilities include feeding, walking and cleaning the animals. An adjacent walking area (indoors and out) means owners can spend time with their pets. On our crossing, six dogs and two cats were being given the royal treatment.
QM2 is also as serene as a Bentley, with no vibration, even when at maximum speed of 30 knots or in poor weather .
The ship has fine furnishings, Art Deco paintings, chandeliers, richly coloured carpets (all 280,000 square yards of them) and upholstery, dark-wood finishes, sweeping staircases and fresh floral arrangements. Finding your way around is made easy by four major stairways that run vertically through the ship, each with a differently coloured carpet. There's always a cosy chair to curl up on to read or stare out across the high seas, and if the weather's decent, you can take a swim or a stroll outside.
During our regular walks around the wide outdoor promenade deck, we noticed fellow travellers of every socio-economic type: couples holding hands, parents walking their children in a backpack or with baby strollers, young solo travellers welded to their headphones, wheelchair occupants rolling along – even people we thought we knew.
Although senior management tries hard to retain its maritime heritage, Cunard itself is in fact little more than a brand and logo within the giant Miami-based Carnival Corporation. Some American touches prevail, such as the accent of the voices that announce deck numbers in the lifts and that feature on the in-cabin telephone message service. American bingo is played, in which numbers go only to 75 – instead of the 99 in British bingo.
On formal nights, trestle tables are placed outside the shops and piled with tacky items typical of market stalls: unbecoming of an ocean liner, but it's one of the drawbacks of being owned by a giant corporation. Fortunately, the ship is large enough to ensure that you can avoid these areas.
Payments are made in dollars, not pounds; something feels wrong about ordering a drink charged in dollars aboard a "British" ship. Worse is the 15 per cent automatic "gratuity", with room on the bill for "an additional gratuity".
Our weather was mixed – a little sunshine (when the open decks fill with sporting types), a little rain, and a couple of misty days when the foghorn would sound every few minutes. But it just wouldn't be British if one didn't complain about the climate.
There are two ways to travel aboard QM2: in Grill Class (well-appointed, spacious suites) or in Britannia Class (basic, compact accommodation). At embarkation in Southampton, Grill-Class passengers board faster and are escorted to their suite, while Britannia-Class passengers are assigned a boarding number and wait in the terminal lounge for their number to be called before being pointed in the right direction – no Cunard-advertised "White-Star" service here, then.
Occupants of Grill-Class accommodation get extra perks, such as a choice of nine pillow types, invitations to special cocktail parties, a private concierge lounge, private lounge/bar, priority reservations for spa treatments and other niceties (pay more, get more). Queens-Grill (the premium class) occupants also have butlers.
The problem is, even in seven days, there's simply not enough time to take part in all the things on offer, so you should plan your day after looking at the daily programme, deciding what to experience between meals.
A popular lecture series brings film and TV stars, authors and political commentators on board. Fine performances of Shakespeare are presented in the Royal Theatre or Illuminations, in conjunction with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), with large-scale productions and international cabaret acts.
The ship boasts a cinema where we enjoyed our first 3D film, a superb Royal Opera House production of Carmen. The 20-minute shows, narrated by Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks and Robert Redford, created in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, are superb – but there are just 120 special reclining seats, so you need to book early.
Don't miss Maritime Quest, a 50-panel wall display about Cunard's 171-year history and the film stars that have graced its decks (think Elizabeth Taylor and Charlie Chaplin). Audio sets are provided for self-guided tours.
Also well patronised is the Canyon Ranch Spa. Prices are high, but the treatments, including use of a large AquaSpa pool, steam room, sauna and relaxation area, are first-class and popular (book from home online). Spa staff also run exercise classes and the gymnasium.
The most used and valued venue is the library, which holds some 9,000 books in several different languages in its 132 cabinets, plus a book shop.
QM2 is good for families with children, too. They make new friends, learn crafts, go on scavenger hunts, have pizza-and-pyjama parties, visit the bridge and even watch the chefs prepare food. After-hours babysitting is also available for a fee.
When the weather is good, passengers flock outdoors to take advantage of the swimming and sports facilities or simply to top up their tan on deck.
For the best cuisine, it is worth booking accommodation that gives you more intimate Grill-Class dining rather than the larger Britannia Restaurant, which, although handsome, is a glorified banquet room. But the food and service are acceptable, and most passengers we spoke to were quite satisfied.
Grill-Class (Queen's Grill, Princess Grill) passengers have access to smaller, more intimate restaurants, with gourmet food and superior service, including table-side carving, flambé desserts and cheese trolleys.
You can also eat informally in the King's Court, a huge self-service buffet venue that could only have been designed and laid out by someone with absolutely no feel for the sea and ships.
No matter, each evening decorative panels slice the huge area into four venues. Three are self-service, with themed cuisine: La Piazza (Italian), Lotus (Asian), The Carvery (roast meats), and Chef's Galley, where passengers watch their meals prepared to order. All have an evening "dining" charge.
There's also Todd English: the feted chef's Mediterranean cuisine is heavily accented with herbs and spices from the Middle East (think grilled calamari with ginger-flavoured crème fraîche).
The lively and noisy Golden Lion pub offers classic British lunchtime favourites such as fish and chips, bangers and mash, cottage pie, curry and ploughman's lunch. Next door is the more upmarket Champagne Bar, which is buzzing each evening.
After seven nights of nothing but ocean, it's a thrill to see the New York skyline at dawn. Gliding serenely past the Statue of Liberty (if you are in a port-side cabin) and the restored Ellis Island (immigrant-processing centre of yesteryear) in the early-morning light, you will see Manhattan looming into view after the ship passes under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge linking Brooklyn to Staten Island. Arriving into Southampton on the reverse trip just doesn't have the same cachet.
Your luggage will be ready and waiting for you in the terminal in colour-coded batches – far more user-friendly than at most airports.
Customs inspection happens in the terminal (it used to be during the crossing), and is conducted in an orderly, if noisy, fashion. It comes as a rude | 2,274 |
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Microfinance institutions' failure to address poverty: A narrative critical literature review
This critical literature review begins<|fim_middle|> equality, while on the other hand it should be of use to academics, who can research MFIs in relation to gender; further studies of gender in MFIs are encouraged.
Microfinance; gender; women; corporate governance; dual performance; outreach; financial sustainability.
M1; M14 | by giving a short introduction to the microfinance industry. Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are explained and an account is given of their dual performance goals of financial performance ('financial sustainability') and social performance ('outreach'). While MFIs' social performance is directly aimed at poverty reduction, it is noteworthy that often they fail to address poverty (i.e., they fail to deliver outreach). The aim of the paper is to answer the following research question: Why have microfinance institutions (MFIs) failed to address poverty? In order to establish the reason, the first step is to look at how the MFIs are managed and controlled, i.e. to examine MFIs' corporate governance literature. This critical literature review was conducted using systematic on-line searches in the databases Scopus and Web of Knowledge; the main key words used were microfinance, gender, corporate governance and performance. The unconvincing nature of the findings of a review of the corporate governance literature suggests that another factor should be taken into consideration: that of gender; after all, MFIs are mainly used by women. The findings from reviewing the microfinance literature suggests that microfinance gender literature may explain why MFIs have not adequately addressed poverty, but this literature consists of a few studies only and further studies are needed. The literature on gender in general is more substantial, however. Some account of it will be given in this literature review. The findings of this literature review should benefit policymakers on the one hand, who are in a position to advance gender | 304 |
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Our core production is either BRC or IFS accredited.
After implementing a quality management system into our daily work, we applied for certification and obtained the certificate according to International Featured Standard (IFS) Broker. The certification was assigned at a "higher level".
We believe in the importance of protecting and safeguarding the environment.
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Our goal is to measure, control and reduce the environmental impact of our activities.
We use the available resources in accordance with sustainable development principles, so that new technologies and product packaging can reduce the impact on the environment.
Our INFUSED FRUITS are fresh fruits (typically berries) whose cells have been infused with a high brix solution (typically a fruit juice concentrate) and then dried. As such they are clean label and 100% fruit; freeze and bake stable; free-flowing; of long shelf-life (12 months); allergen and artificial additives free.
Typical infused fruits we can offer are: raspberry, strawberry; cranberry, lingonberry, sour cherry; rhubarb; redcurrant; blackcurrant; blueberry (wild-picked); blueberry (cultivated); blackberry; pomegranate and mango cubes. Other products on request. Our standard offer are fruits in whole or sliced formats (although a diced or crumbed format is possible with some fruits). These products, therefore, have application as a superb inclusion and / or decoration within the snacking, bakery, dairy and confectionery sectors.
Our Puree Nuggets are QUICK FROZEN PUREE CUBES (QFPC) – (+/- 30g per piece) of unpasteurised, frozen, puree of FRUIT or VEGETABLE. As such they have the very best colour and flavour characteristics. They are, moreover, easily handled and quick | 388 |
Scripture Truth Book Company is a Christian book, Bible and merchandise retail business that was established in 1956 by M.V. Brodsky in Roanoke, Virginia. Mr. Brodsky founded the company to provide fellow believers with Christian merchandise at discounted prices - a need that first became evident to him during his days at Moody Bible Institute in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
After returning from military service in World War II, he and his family eventually moved to Roanoke, Virginia. Mr. Brodsky supported his growing family with several jobs in Roanoke, even as he continued to sell books part time. In 1956, after much prayer, he decided to devote all of his time to selling Bibles and books. The business moved to its current home at 35 Huff Road in Fincastle<|fim_middle|> family have been blessed to work together at Scripture Truth. In addition, we have had the privilege of working with many fine people over the years as the need for help has arisen.
It has been a joy to serve so many Christians for more than 5 decades. It is our prayer that our work has been a blessing to many, and that we have been in some small way, salt and light in this world. Some of our customers have become dear friends, many more have been an encouragement to us, and we are so thankful for each one.
M.V. Brodsky went to be with the Lord on January 23, 2007 at age 88. Our family continues to honor his original vision of providing believers with Christian materials at the lowest possible prices. We do our best to glorify God through the business Mr. Brodsky founded, and to select Christ-centered books that spread the gospel of our Lord, Jesus Christ. | , Virginia in 1960.
Initially the business occupied part of the basement of the family home. Most orders came through the annual catalog and a monthly product list that was mailed to subscribers. The business increased until it eventually required the entire basement, and later, with the family's children grown and a need for still more room, the main office was moved upstairs. When greater storage was needed, God graciously provided a warehouse in the town of Fincastle for Scripture Truth to buy. Two additions have been built to provide space for merchandise.
Three generations of the Brodsky | 118 |
Good food in lovely surroundings with staff who are there just for you – moments to remember! Umeå offers many<|fim_middle|> bar. Out at the beautiful Rovögerns fishing village Kvarkenfisk has its own smokehouse and where the supply of fish is important for what's on the menu. Last but not least, Bistro Le Garage, with its rustic French-Swedish cuisine, is well worth its place in the Guide.
Umeå has lots of pubs with an unusually wide range of beers and whiskies. Some even offer truly great food. Lottas Krog & Pub is long established and continues to serve classics such as fish and chips, shellfish au gratin and well-marbled rib steak. Bishop's Arms keeps a little more to the main stream with club sandwiches and a wide range of grilled dishes. Pipes of Scotland lives up to its name, proudly guarding Scottish traditions in the fields of food, drink and atmosphere. Sports fans are well catered for with O'Learys.
Nya Konditoriet, known simply as NK by Umeå's residents, is the city's oldest refreshment spot selling excellent pastries (made just over the road in its own bakery). Gamla Bibliotekscaféet has many regulars, a good atmosphere and newspapers for the customers' use. Next to the SF cinema, Kafé Station is one of Umeå's largest cafés and is a popular meeting point for young families. Mekka is a classic coffee shop with long traditions and excellent cinnamon buns (and much else to match). Costas is the place for coffee connoisseurs. Kulturbageriet is located on the indoor square between Stora Hotellet and Väven. Here you can enjoy stone oven baked bread, coffee, soups, fresh squeezed juices, culture and good company. Rost Kaffe offers wide variety of delicious pastries from their own oven. Espresso House in the shopping centre Utopia make their own coffee roasts and bakes bread and pastries at their own bakery. Kafé Anno 1762 is in an old school building in Olofsfors. In a rustic environment you can taste organic coffee and pastries. As many other Scandinavian towns, Umeå has a Wayne's Coffee. It also has a large number of locally owned cafés with their own particular profiles.
Some of the county's cafés are in the White Guide: Café Anno 1762, Kafé Museum, Kulturbageriet, Nya Konditoriet, Costas of Sweden and Rost Kaffe. | such moments. Enjoy!
Umeå's culinary offerings have both depth and breadth. While you are here, would you like well-made traditional Swedish food or something that has the particular touch of Norrland? Are you, perhaps, in the mood for something Japanese? Not tonight? Italian, Greek, French, American, Indian, Chinese, vegetarian, ecological...? No matter what you choose, Umeå has the answer.
Whatever the cuisine, most of Umeå's many restaurants love to use regional ingredients such as reindeer, elk, Arctic charr, bleak roe, cloudberries, lingonberries, Arctic raspberries, chanterelles, almond potatoes, meat raised on farms around Umeå... Perhaps it is only to be expected that, in some form or other, Västerbotten cheese is present on nearly all menus, even dessert lists.
No fewer than nine of the city's restaurants have established themselves in the White Guide, the country's top publication for restaurant recommendations. Hunger & Törst serves the best here and now, given that the seasons are changing and ingredients with them. Also in the Guide are Rex a popular bistro with a bar area that has a tasteful, turn of the previous century décor and Köksbaren, is a restaurant in Umeå and they are specializes in hung and tenderized meat. Traditional Spanish tapas are served, of course, at Tapas Bar Deli. Tapas also has one of the best wine selections in town. Brunch, lunch, dinner, snacks , you'll get on Gotthard's, which is located in the prestigious Stora Hotellet. A short bike trip from the city center you find Ävtået naturvinbar & ekokrog, a family-run organic restaurant and coffee | 365 |
The energy sector is a source of potentially deleterious sulfate impacts in surface soils. Various practices in the up-stream oil and gas industry can result in subsoil<|fim_middle|>ilibrium with various sulphate risk assessments for the oil and gas industry. In-kind support from Exova via preferred analytical rates is also available.
Industry would benefit from this project in terms of improved ability to estimate the current and future risks from sulphates in or near the root-zone. This could lead to improved sulphate management practices and be an important step toward sulphate guidelines for root-zone soils. It would also help estimate the potential effectiveness of sulphate-based (eg, gypsum) remediation techniques for SAR which rely on the solubilisation of and transport of sulphate through soil. This could ultimately reduce both investigation and remediation costs and improve environmental performance. | sulfate salts being brought to the surface where increased salinity can cause impairment of vegetative growth. Sulfate redistribution occurs after site remediation activities such as excavation of produced-water impacted soil followed by soil replacement, when excavation depths or the quality of backfill are inadequate. Commonly, calcium sulfate is used as an amendment to soil to reduce high sodium levels at produced water releases, or as part of the oilsands consolidated tailings process, increasing sulfate concentrations. Drilling muds can contain high levels of soluble sulfate salts and historical applications of large quantities at drill sumps have resulted in many sites experiencing deteriorated soil quality and reductions in vegetation growth. Another example is the blocks of elemental sulfur from processing natural gas, crude oil, or bitumen. These sulphur blocks are typically stored outdoors where they are exposed to rainfall and erosion from wind.
Relocated sulphates may subsequently leach out of the root-zone though the rate may be influenced by sorption/desorption properties and may be slower than the predominantly non-sorptive chloride ion. In some cases, sulphate may also migrate upwards due to groundwater discharge or redistribute upwards into clean backfill following excavation of chloride impacts in soil with elevated background sulphate. In all cases, an understanding of sulphate sorption/desorption soils would be useful for transport modeling and leaching. There are numerous literature references to sulphate adsorption and desorption, though data is limited for Alberta clayey soils and the relatively high sulphate concentrations often found therein. This project proposes to perform sulphate adsorption / desorption experiments on a range of Alberta soils to estimate effective distribution coefficients as an aid to transport modeling. Equilibrium has a large library of soil cores collected from across the province which may be used for the sorption/desorption experiments. This project builds on previous sulphate research performed by Equ | 372 |
At the risk of stating the obvious: the New Testament is mostly letters. So is much of what remains from the writing of the Church Fathers. In the theological-philosophical synthesis that defined much of the medieval era, letter writing became as much an art as a science. The Protestant Reformation spread with the help of letters. In French Catholicism, substantial correspondence remains from a baffling number of luminaries: Francis de Sales, Jeanne de Chantal, Vincent de Paul, Louise de Marillac, Marie de l'Incarnation, Thérèse de Lisieux, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, and Simone Weil, among others. These few examples offer a hint of the riches left behind. Many believers have established their legacies through letters, especially letters to friends.
In many ways, it has never been easier to communicate. There are ample tools available. And the problem is not that we do not write enough; quite the opposite. Words come and go easily, contributing to the noisiness of modern life. "Too much information" often yields too little wisdom, for few of us choose our words wisely. All too often we utter careless nothings into the void.
Many of us post on our facebook walls. Some of us blog or tweet. By such means, we speak into the cloud, perhaps to our friends in general, but less frequently to anyone in particular. For all of our technology, many of us struggle to hone the patient and difficult skills of listening and discussing face-to-face, or at least person-to-person from afar.
Genuine friendship and community are possible online, but for a great many of us this is elusive. Even for those with the gift, of those who send heartfelt online messages, few of them have made arrangements for these letters to be retrieved or shared to a broader audience once they have departed. Previously, much of our knowledge of past people of faith stemmed from such once-personal documents; but now we are in danger of creating a present that has little future as a documented past.
Let us keep blogging, tweeting, facebooking, and pursuing whatever is next. Let us rejoice at the opportunities now afforded to us to speak truth to power, to the people, and to each other. But let us not neglect the discipline of writing thoughtful paragraphs several<|fim_middle|> you have left—if there is anything of value for others. The tools are many. Let us use them wisely. | at a time, rather than in mere 140 character blurbs. A tweet can hint at but cannot truly reveal much of substance, for tweets, by definition, deprive text of significant context.
When we write to each other, let us do so in ways that are retrievable. Dear writers, you know who you are. Keep a file folder on your computer that your spiritual/literary executor can find and access. Maybe you have written some things that a broader audience can benefit from. Maybe not. Let future generations decide, but give them options.
Make your online correspondence findable. Keep copies of meaningful messages as .doc files or some equivalent. Facebook messages are barely searchable and retrievable by their own authors, so this may be one of the worse options. Some email providers, such as Gmail, make it easy to tag one's own messages, marking the emails into which you have invested much time and thought. Then when your flesh goes the way of all flesh (as it shall, should the Lord tarry), if there is any email left to be emailed (should civilization cohere), those who love you can decide what to do with what | 236 |
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The first event of "Refusing to Pay for War," the National War Tax Resistance Strategy Conference, October 7-9, was a press conference held Friday morning in Manhattan. Although the media snubbed us and followed a false terror alert in the subways, those in attendance listened to powerful testimonies from five presenters.
Daniel Woodham reported that he began resisting war taxes in 1990 because of the Gulf War and continues because the government "hasn't changed its warlike ways and imperialistic tendencies even slightly."
Lee Gough, a new mother concerned for "other mothers' children who are devastated by war" said that through war tax resistance she is "making my actions match my beliefs."
Susan Quinlan talked about choosing between conscience and the law. Karl Meyer said, "If the United States had spent money assisting people in developing a sustainable way of life, we'd be the most loved people on earth."
By late afternoon Friday, war tax resisters were exploring the school and rectory guest rooms of St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Brooklyn, thanks to the hospitality of Father Coman Brady and staff member Mary Anne Muller.
That evening we were joined by performance artist Bill Talen, in the guise of Rev. Billy, and members of the Stop War Taxing Choir. They gave a rousing evangelistic call to "refuse to pay for someone to pick up a gun." Some conference participants also shared WTR stories. John and Pat Schwiebert of Portland, Oregon, told about a creative way they redirected income taxes. One year they converted their war tax debt into five-dollar bills, which they gave to individuals waiting in line at the city unemployment office. They included a letter with each donation telling why they were doing this, and they notified media beforehand. Their actions garnered them an interview on NPR, and they received letters and cards from around the world.
Larry Dansinger said his WTR led to meeting his life partner (former NWTRCC coordinator Karen Marysdaughter). Two other former coordinators, Mary Loehr and Carolyn Stevens, also met their partners through WTR.
In the first activity Saturday, participants stepped into a timeline based on when they had started war tax resistance. The line stretched from the 1940s (with Juanita Nelson and Joffre Stewart) to the current decade. Over the years war tax resistance has been linked with resistance to the draft and nuclear proliferation, Ban the Bomb campaigns, living a Catholic Worker lifestyle, the Reagan presidency and policies, opposition to racism, sexism and homophobia, and opposition to each overt and covert war fought with American money during this time.
Next, five young adults (under 30) offered their observations on war tax resistance and how to improve our organizing and outreach to better reach their age group. They pointed out that many are already antiwar but are not interested in joining another group. Instead, WTRs should go to their groups to talk about WTR or dispense information and stories electronically. Some feel that marches are fun, but not effective, and that organizing people around you, like inviting friends to join you in WTR, might be more effective. Redirecting war tax dollars is especially appealing. Compared to an older generation they said, "We haven't seen a 'good war.' The government hasn't done anything for us. Representatives have never listened to us."
Young adults said they might not consider WTR because they'd like to have the option down the line to buy a house, and WTR feels like a lifelong commitment. The "all or nothing" pressure of WTR is intimidating, and they question, "What will make real change?"
Small groups met to discuss the presentations and come up with new organizing ideas, and each group presented their top suggestions to the whole group. My small group addressed David Waters' challenge, "Where are your children?" (David and Oliver Waters were the only father/son duo at the conference.) We acknowledged that our youth need mentors in addition to their parents. (Though that doesn't get parents off the hook!) Military recruiters try to mentor youth in order to recruit them. We should do better. Racism also enters into the picture-people who have white privilege feel safer in disobeying laws such as those requiring payment of war taxes. Those of us in the middle ages admitted that we need to leave our own comfort zones in order to communicate better with young adults.
Another session brought out different organizing models, and small groups met on each topic: organizing with youth through counter-recruitment and as conscientious objectors; using technology better; a multi-year campaign starting with a survey of peace activists and leading to a one-year war tax boycott; Peace Tax Campaign work and the legislative effort in Rhode Island; support targeted outreach to intentional communities.
Our final session of the conference on Sunday involved a process to narrow down all the ideas generated into some workable priorities for NWTRCC. Everyone in the room looked over the lists and wrote down<|fim_middle|> the lists of names and addresses in each issue ensured that imprisoned activists would know that their actions were appreciated well beyond the immediate witnesses.
While putting out 138 issues over these years, Jack and Felice have raised a daughter and son, Emma and Cassidy, and eked out a living suitable to a war tax resisting lifestyle. They've been NWTRCC contacts in Arizona for at least 20 years and war tax resisters living below the taxable income all of that time. In addition they have thrown their full support into particular cases, like that of Mordecai Vanunu in Israel, and issues like banning the use of depleted uranium.
If you would like to learn more about the publication, contact The Nuclear Resister, PO Box 43383, Tucson, AZ 85733, (520) 323-8697. Email: nukeresister@igc.org; Website: www.serve.com/nukeresister. | their top three priorities. Then each person presented their three ideas in small groups. The small group task was to come up with three final priorities. This interesting exercise led us to about 18 ideas grouped into 6 different categories that were sent to the business meeting for deciding the next steps. Local activists can choose to implement them right away.
looking into a proposal for a field organizer who would travel and speak on war tax resistance.
Despite a busy conference weekend, about 30 people stayed for the Counselors' Training on Monday, facilitated by Ruth Benn, Robert Randall, Peter Goldberger, and Ed Hedemann. Instead of distilling my nine pages of notes, I give you this advice: Whenever you have an opportunity to take a WTR counselor training, do it! We can learn so much from our aggregate experience and research.
On a more personal note, I had arrived in New York City a day before the conference, my first time there since my high school senior trip quite a few years ago. I visited "Ground Zero" and the nearby St. Paul's Chapel where rescue workers could rest, eat, pray, and receive counseling and massages as they coped with the horrific tragedy. Hearing the stories helped me grasp not only how terror affected so many New Yorkers, but also how dedicated people worked selflessly to bring healing to their neighbors. Being there showed me the similarity in the responses of big city people to those of my small town neighbors after the Hesston tornado. And, I thought, if only our President would have chosen to help instead of creating more unnatural disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq. Our country's energy and money could help build and heal rather than kill and destroy.
Our NYC hosts deserve much gratitude for their hospitality and hard work. We from sunshiny states, such as Kansas, forgive them for the humid, rainy weather on the days we were together!
Susan Balzer is active with the Heartland Peace Tax Fund in Kansas and is a member of NWTRCC's Administrative Committee.
There are organized groups that advocate non-payment of the 3% Federal Excise Tax (FET) on telecommunications charges, based on opposition to war. Many of the organized groups (e.g. including groups like the War Resister's League) have prepared forms for telecommunications customers to submit as an official request not to be charged the FET. The war protest organization literature may include a reference stating that the IRS requires telecommunications companies to permit customers to be excluded from the FET. This is somewhat misleading. The actual rules are as follows.
No Exemption: IRS does not recognize such forms nor does it grant any type of exemption to war protesters. Cingular therefore has no responsibility to exempt or to otherwise not charge FET to a customer making such a request.
Refusal to Pay FET: Cingular cannot exempt the war protest customer from FET, but it is possible that the customer may refuse to pay the FET portion of their bill. If this should occur, Cingular is not required to pursue collection on behalf of the government. Cingular's only responsibility at that point is to report to the IRS any customers who refuse to pay based on war protester status. Cingular has therefore developed the following procedure to address war protester requests.
FET War Protest Scenario Procedures: Customer submits a completed form from one of the war protest organizations, or otherwise submits a request in writing, to be exempted from the FET based on their position as a war protester. Form or correspondence is then forwarded to the appropriate Tax Exemption Group for handling.
For those of you who are listed as war tax resistance counselors on the NWTRCC network list, we will try to find a way to share with you some of the topics and information from the Counselors' Training in October. It was a very useful session, which was both audio- and videotaped. Given that it was 4-5 hours long, we will try to produce transcripts or an edited version of the tapes soon.
Experienced resisters who would like to participate in a training, please be in touch with the NWTRCC office. If we can pull together a critical mass of potential counselors, we would like to offer another session "somewhere in the country" in the not-so-distant future.
A special thanks to everyone who came to and contributed to the Strategy Conference, and to the planning committee: Rick Bickhart, Suzanne Day, Eszter Freeman, Ed Hedemann, Susan Quinlan, and especially to Daniel Woodham, who coordinated our planning meetings.
The "Counselors and Contacts" list on the NWTRCC website, www.nwtrcc.org/contactN2.htm, has been updated, as has the printed version, which is available from the NWTRCC office. Anyone on the network list who would like a copy of the nationwide list, which includes contacts who choose not to be listed on the internet, please contact the office.
The national affiliate list plus the appropriate regional list are sent to people who request information from NWTRCC. It is, of course, essential for referring inquiries to the contact or counselor nearest to them.
NWTRCC honored Marian Franz for her leadership of the Peace Tax Fund Campaign during the Strategy Conference in October. Ruth Benn, NWTRCC Coordinator, along with two former Coordinators, Mary Loehr and Carolyn Stevens, presented Franz with a bouquet of flowers and a book of congratulatory notes from conference attendees.
In their role as Coordinators, Benn, Loehr, and Stevens have worked with and alongside Franz during her 22-year tenure as Executive Director of the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund (NCPTF). Franz is retiring as director in the coming months, but plans to continue lobbying on a part-time basis.
Marian Franz has been a national and international leader in pursuing legislation giving conscientious objectors the right to refrain from paying for war. She heads the NCPTF office in Washington, DC, and is a founding Board member of Conscience and Peace Tax International, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations. Franz has attended most of the international conferences of peace tax campaigns and war tax resisters. She worked with Marysdaughter, Loehr, PFT founder David Bassett, and Susan Balzer to plan and lead the 8th International Conference, which was held in Washington, DC, in 2000.
In her response to the applause in her honor, Franz said, "No witness for conscience is ever lost. Conscientious objection to military taxation does not mean that we won't pay for war, but we can't." Franz concluded by noting how much she enjoys lobbying: "You all can go to whatever mission fields you want; give me the United States Congress!"
Thank you, Marian, for all of your work in bringing refusal to pay war taxes so much attention for so many years. Readers who would like to send their own congratulatory notes can write to Marian at NCPTF, 2121 Decatur Pl., NW, Washington, DC, 20008.
In October 20, 2005, the Council of the City of Providence, Rhode Island, voted unanimously for a resolution supporting the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act, making it the first city in the United States to pass such a measure. All 15 members of the Council voted for the resolution, which cites the necessity of religious freedom and the high cost of war as reasons to support this legislation.
The Providence vote is part of a new Rhode Island-wide campaign for the Peace Tax Fund. The full text of the Resolution and other information is available from: The Rhode Island Campaign for Conscience, 33 Chestnut Street, Providence, RI 02903, (401) 521-2187, http://ri.peacetaxfund.org.
The group is holding a public hearing on the Peace Tax Fund on Monday, December 12, 2005, 9 am - 11 am, in the State Room at the Rhode Island State House in Providence. Call the Campaign for directions and details.
If you are interested in starting a resolution campaign in your town or city, please contact Tim Godshall at the NCPTF office in Washington, 1-888-PEACETAX, or send an email to: timgodshall@peacetaxfund.org.
End the war in Iraq! was the call for the mass demonstration in Washington, DC, on September 24. The action included a rally, march, concert, along with a Peace Fair on the 24th and 25th on the Washington Monument grounds. United for Peace and Justice sponsored Fair, and NWTRCC had a table in the Direct Action Tent (one of many tents arranged along two sides of the gathering space). Melissa Jameson (NY) and Rick Bickhart (VA) helped staff the table. We got to talk with a lot of people since we were situated beneath a sign that read "Direct Action." We were especially happy to meet many of you.
The headquarters of the IRS was near the end of the march route, and Robert Randall from Georgia and I stood out in front of the building to be on view for those that made it to the last leg of the march. We held a very bold "We Refuse To Pay For War" banner provided by the DC WTR group, along with 4,000 flyer strips announcing our table and the NWTRCC website. We were joined by Mary Regan from Massachusetts and New Yorker Nadette Stasa, and a few others from time to time who helped with the leafleting. We pointed out to the marchers that they were passing the IRS, telling them to "Watch their pockets," and encouraging them to learn how to stop paying for war.
It took more than three hours for the entire march to pass by us, and we had no problem giving out the flyers. (Crowd estimates varied widely, as usual, but 150,000 seemed about right.) The tabling continued on into the evening and resumed the next day while hundreds of activists visited the Peace Fair and participated in trainings for the civil disobedience at the White House and Pentagon on Monday.
The WTR movement has been busy these last few months. One might say the movement's cogs are well greased and running smoothly with the good responses we've been getting!
In November 7, 2005, The Los Angeles Times, reported that one of the largest churches in Southern California, the All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, had been warned by the IRS that its tax-exempt status is in danger. In October 2004, the IRS learned about a sermon preached by the church's former rector. The timing was shortly before the presidential election.
Rev. George Regas had offered a guest sermon that "imagined Jesus participating in a political debate with then-candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry." The sermon did not tell people how to vote, but it had a strong antiwar message.
In June the church received a letter from the IRS questioning its tax exempt status, and after some back and forth the IRS has since launched an investigation. The IRS was willing to drop the case if All Saints would make a public admission of wrongdoing, which they declined.
Support for the church has formed and action steps can be found at www.progressivechristiansuniting.org. The church's website has updated information and an audio link to Regas's sermon: www.allsaints-pas.org.
Letters of support can be send to All Saints Church, 132 North Euclid Avenue, Pasadena, California 91101, or fax: (626) 796-4749.
The NCPTF Board of Directors seeks applicants to fill its Executive Director position. The ideal candidate is an organizational leader who will nurture and support the work of being an articulate voice and witness on the issue of conscientious objection to military taxation. The Executive Director works with a small, dedicated staff and should be seasoned and skilled in communication, supervision, coordination, organizational development, and networking. If you have a strong commitment to the Peace Tax Fund and seek a challenge in your professional work, we would like to hear from you.
Bay-Area Military Out of Our Schools, Oakland, CA; $750 for its campaign, On The Frontlines: Options for Youth in Times of War.
The Center for Justice, Peace, and the Environment, Fort Collins, CO; $625 for general operating expenses.
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, Poulsbo, WA; $1,000 to help rebuild its Community House, which burned down in August.
NOVA-Kay-Rala Sister School Project, Seattle, WA; $625 for its ongoing efforts to pay reparations to the people of East Timor.
Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities, Encinitas, CA; $2,000 to enable it to respond to the enormous increase in requests for its services.
Riseup Networks, Seattle, WA; $1,000 for its Tech Collective Incubator Project.
South Dakota Peace & Justice Center, Watertown, SD; $750 for its Eyes Wide Open! campaign.
Whatcom Peace & Justice Center, Bellingham, WA; $750 for a two-day Nonviolence and Direct Action training.
Congratulations to the recipients, and, of course, many thanks to the Escrow Account holders and NACC donors who make the granting program possible.
The 2005 application and general information are online at http://seanacc.org/grants.htm, for those interested in getting a feel for what next year's will look like. Anybody who would like to be added to our Grant Info Notifications email list, simply get in touch with the NACC office, and we'll see to it!
NACC, 4554 12th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98105, (206) 547-0952, nacc@drizzle.com.
A new version of the Peace Tax Return for the coming tax season is now available from the NWTRCC office. The Peace Tax Return is designed to capture the anger about the war in Iraq and the billions of dollars being wasted there. Users send one section to the IRS, either for protest or resistance, and a section to NWTRCC so that we can track how many participate. We already have an order for 50 copies from someone who plans to send it out with each of his holiday cards.
The Peace Tax Form can be ordered from NWTRCC (bulk copies 8¢ each, or send a stamped, self addressed envelope for single copies) or downloaded from the NWTRCC website, www.nwtrcc.org/peacetaxreturn.htm.
The Rosenberg Fund for Children provides for the educational and emotional needs of children of targeted progressive activists, and youth (to age 24) who are targeted activists themselves. Since 1990, the RFC has awarded over $2 million to its beneficiaries, and they are seeking out others who qualify for similar help.
If you have knowledge of or direct contact with any activists who have been targeted, please inform them of the RFC or send their contact information to the RFC. One of the objectives of the Fund is to let activists know there is a growing community of support out there for them. RFC is continually trying to expand that support.
For more information, visit the website at www.rfc.org. For downloadable application forms go to http://www.rfc.org/application.htm. The Fund can also be contacted at Rosenberg Fund for Children, 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 3312, Easthampton, MA 01027, (413) 529-0063.
Schedule: New members from nominations will be selected at the May 2006 meeting; terms start after the meeting.
Time commitment: AdCom meetings are the full day Friday before the two weekend gathering, occasional emails and phone calls during the year, and some willingness to volunteer for an extra project according to interest and availability.
*These members complete their terms in May 2006.
NWTRCC's business meeting was held on Sunday afternoon, October 9, after the Strategy Conference ended. Much of the time was spent on discussing how to follow up on the conference and act on at least some of the many great ideas that were discussed. The conference article in this issue lists the primary ideas that are being pursued on the national level, but local activists and groups will also pick up on whatever they choose. At the May meeting we will continue with the follow-up work.
Other important items on the fall business agenda are setting objectives and a budget for the new year. NWTRCC's fiscal year runs from December 1 through November 30, and a balanced budget of $34,500 was approved. The approved objectives include some of the new items and ongoing activities such as publishing this newsletter, holding the two meetings a year, promoting war tax resistance through radio public service announcements, tabling at conferences of allies and potential allies, adding contacts to our network list, and adding a discussion board to the Hang Up On War website.
NWTRCC will send a representative to the international conference in Germany October 26-29, 2006, with travel and expenses covered up to $1,000. The delegate will be chosen at our May meeting, and anyone interested may throw their hat into the ring (self-nomination is fine). Send a short write up describing your interest in going and anything else you think relevant to the Administrative Committee c/o the NWTRCC office. The deadline to apply is April 7, 2006.
The full meeting minutes are on the web at www.nwtrcc.org/oct05conf.htm along with the budget, objectives, and more complete lists of ideas that came up at the Strategy Conference.
The next NWTRCC gathering and meeting will be held May 5-7, 2006, in Seattle, hosted by the Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia. Mark your calendars and watch for more information in the next issue.
If you or your group would like to host a NWTRCC gathering, we'd love to come your way, and we will help with the organizing too. Please contact the office for more information.
The issues of the day were about hostages in Iran, Ronald Reagan and the Cold War, nuclear power protests, Cruise and Pershing missiles headed to Europe.
The editors didn't dream of email, fax machines, computer desktop publishing, or digital printing.
Their first feature was about the arrest of Catholic activists in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, who took the name The Plowshares Eight.
NWTRCC congratulates our friends Felice and Jack Cohen-Joppa for their 25 years and counting as editors and publishers of the Nuclear Resister. They have offered a unique and important service to the antinuclear and peace movements by keeping us posted on the thousands of actions and thousands of individuals who have spent days, weeks, months, and years in jails and prisons because they refuse to accept that we must live on this earth with nuclear weapons and war.
In 1980 The Nuclear Resister began by covering arrests for antinuclear actions, and in 1990 they expanded the reporting to include antiwar arrests in North America and similar arrests in civil resistance actions overseas.
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By Garrett Reim2020-10-12T06:00:00+01:00
Some will feel a slight tingling sensation. Others will feel nothing at all.
The electrode placed inside the ear canal is not designed to shock. Rather, the US Air Force Research Laboratory (ARFL) believes the earbud-like device, when placed next to the brain's vagus nerve, will have more of an intellectually stimulating effect. It ought to create moments of super learning, controllable periods of focus that allow pilots to soak up their flight training faster than previously humanly possible.
Source: AFRL
Subjects' brain activity was observed during prior experiment
In August, the AFRL's 711th Human Performance Wing launched its Individualized Neural Learning System (iNeuraLS) project, an effort to speed up pilot training through brain stimulation. The US Air Force (USAF) has been dogged for years by a pilot shortage and hopes the technology can help it quickly refill its ranks.
But more than quickly onboarding new pilots, the USAF is interested in brain stimulation, known as neuromodulation, as a means to help pilots constantly add new skills. As the pace of change within aerial warfare continues to accelerate – for example, with the addition of artificially intelligent loyal wingman air vehicles – air forces that can readily learn new skills and technologies will have an edge over their adversaries.
"We're thinking about making our workforce adaptable to change," says Nathaniel Bridges, AFRL research biomedical engineer and neural interface team lead. "The goal is to develop and to deliver a technology that's going to allow them to apply that [new] knowledge as quickly as possible."
STIMULATE AND OBSERVE
Neuromodulation is used for a wide variety of medical applications including treating chronic pain, Parkinson's disease and traumatic brain injuries. Cochlear implants, which use electrodes to transmit signals to a deaf person's cochlear nerve, are perhaps the best-known example of the technology.
Cochlear implants rely on the surgical implant of electrodes under the skin behind a person's ear and are considered invasive. Elon Musk's Neuralink, which aims to help people with paralysis via on-the-brain electrodes, is another example of invasive neuromodulation.
For its part, the AFRL does not believe drilling into a pilot's skull is necessary. The laboratory's electrode earbud will instead stimulate a branch of the vagus nerve that extends to the human ear.
"It injects a small amount of current in your brain through your scalp, through your skull," Gaurav Sharma, senior technical lead for cognitive neurocience at AFRL. "It can change brain connectivity or stimulate a particular area in the brain."
While the earbud is pushing milliamps worth of electrical current into a subject's brain, the AFRL will attempt to teach piloting skills using a virtual reality headset with flight controls such as a joystick, throttle and rudders. Later, the subject will be asked to demonstrate what they have learned. "We can pull out different measures, like, 'How accurately did you perform that manoeuvre?'" says Bridges.
The AFRL plans to compare a subject's mastery of piloting skills to electric and magnetic field activity in their brain using a cap or a helmet that contains an array of special sensors. The laboratory will look for patterns during different stages of learning, as well as watch for<|fim_middle|> to learning, and then to deliver the content."
The AFRL believes use of realistic training tools, such as a virtual reality headset, coupled with neuromodulation, will lead to leaps in skill development. "A combination of these technologies can lead to a multiplicative increase, and not an incremental increase, in the training rate", says Sharma.
INDIVIDUALISED LEARNING
Overtime, the AFRL expects to find individual patterns of learning. Knowing those particularities, it believes one day it could tailor electrical stimulus and curriculum to improve the training of each particular pilot.
"A lot of technologies today are one size fits all," says Bridges. "The reality is, we're all different as individuals. And so, the more information we can use and acquire that relates to those individual differences, the better we can tailor the technology and learning to that individual."
During its experiment the AFRL plans to closely control and track what is the optimal electrical frequency and amplitude for brain stimulation, and how long the effects of the neuromodulation last.
"It depends on the task that you are doing," says Sharma. "In some of the studies, we found that when we did stimulation for two hours the effect lasted for like 16 days." In another clinical setting that aimed at treating a bleeding disorder the effect lasted six months, he adds.
The scientists say past experience with neuromodulation experiments and strict procedures will keep subjects safe from harm.
"In case we see something bad happening, which I don't think we will, we will have the ability to shut it off because it is controlled in a closed-loop fashion," says Sharma, noting the real-time brain activity measurements. "We have implemented a number of these technologies in our past projects on similar ideas of improving performance, so their safety is very well established."
The iNeuraLS experiment is to culminate in 2023 with a demonstration where participants will train to perform different flight manoeuvres with a virtual reality-enabled flight simulator. The ultimate aim is to show a reduction in the amount of time it takes for the participants to learn the skills compared to a control group, says Bridges.
The AFRL team also plans to create an integrated brain stimulus and mapping device by the end of the project.
"Ultimately, we will be able to translate this technology into something that can be used in an operationally relevant environment, like in an aircraft," says Sharma. "However, there are different things that we need to consider, for example, are these materials going to hold in the high-g environment that an aircraft has to go through."
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Magnetoencephalography scanner with patient from National Institute of Mental Health
Current systems for mapping the brain's magnetic fields, called magnetoencephalography systems, are large throne-like devices with massive, bulbous helmets that descend over a patient's head and restrict movement. The equipment also has to be chilled and stored inside special rooms that stop the earth's magnetic field from interfering with measurements of the brain's magnetic fields.
To shrink the technology, the 711th Human Performance Wing is working with the AFRL's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate and start-up Sonera Magnetics to develop a new compact sensor array for mapping the brain's magnetic fields.
"They are coming up with new materials that will allow us to get the immediate signal with good spatial and temporal resolution, but still in a wearable, portable format, which may not require that kind of a shielded room to record that activity," says Sharma.
The 711th Human Performance Wing is also partnering with Microsoft, which will manage content delivery and will provide guidance on changes in virtual and augmented reality platforms and hardware. Teledyne Technologies will integrate the brain mapping and stimulating components into one device.
Ultimately, AFRL scientists hope the iNeuraLS project is a stepping stone toward a mind meld between man and machine, a futuristic application which might enable a pilot to control loyal wingmen using his brain.
"If we can validate some of the core components of the technology that we are pursuing in the project, that can have applications beyond training," says Sharma. "Can this improve the communication or the symbiotic [relationship] between the man and machine?"
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"Early stage learning is often characterised by more rapid performance improvements while we see more gradual performance improvements that eventually plateau in the late phase," says Bridges. "We anticipate that iNeuraLS will help individuals move between these phases more quickly."
A series of experiments are planned to take place over the next three years using groups of 20 to 30 non-pilot volunteers at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. "The intent is to illustrate the capability to accelerate learning in individuals who have little to no flight experience," says Bridges.
The 711th Human Performance Wing believes the technology could also be applied for training unrelated to piloting, for example, for personnel within the Space Force, as well as workers within intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, maintenance and medical communities.
Using information gathered, the laboratory plans to use algorithms to correlate certain patterns of brain activity to the optimal development of piloting skills . The experiment's machine learning algorithms will be pioneered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory, a federally funded research and development centre for national security technologies.
Eventually, the AFRL wants to determine the most-effective means of boosting learning, either via neuromodulation or altering the surrounding environment using immersive technologies such as virtual reality or augmented reality headsets.
"If they are in a state where they are most receptive to the new information that has been provided to them, then use an immersive environment to deliver the content," says Sharma. "If they are not, then we use neuromodulation to drive the brain in the optimal state where they are more receptive | 328 |
Chicago is a food city in every sense of the term: we have Michelin-starred and James Beard Award-winning restaurants and chefs, a vast and ever-evolving dining scene, and locals who will passionately argue that no one does pizza or hot dogs like we do. And yet, if there's one microcosm of our food-fueled identity that's woefully underappreciated, it's the dessert-y items that we bring to the table. To remedy that, we're shining the spotlight on 11 of Chicago's sweetest indulgences.
Between their molten centers and inevitable scoops of ice cream on top, skillet cookies, by their very nature, are a no-fail hot-meets-cold dessert option. And while any skillet cookie is better than no skillet cookie at all, the drool-inducing iteration at this comfort food-driven bar and lounge has managed to shift from great to irresistible thanks to crushed Heath bar baked into the dough and dusted over a heaping scoop of vanilla ice cream.
With a lighter, brighter aesthetic and cuisine, and newly minted executive chef Stephen Wambach at the helm, this Randolph St favorite is better than ever, but one important thing has remained constant in spite of so much change: its lauded chocolate layer cake. The fudge-y showstopper boasts layer upon layer of cake, chocolate pudding frosting, and hazelnut praline, and is coated in chocolate ganache and finished with a veritable lava-flow of chocolate glaze.
Summer House Santa Monica's sophisticated twist on the humble rice crispy treat will make you forget every prepackaged variety<|fim_middle|>, as well as a tiered tray stacked with an array of accoutrements like salted caramel whipped cream, candied coconut, sprinkles, seasonal fruit, and more for a DIY experience.
The impeccably moist chocolate cake at this Chicago-based hot dog joint is undeniably the chain's most iconic dessert, but we're willing to argue that its lesser-known frozen counterpart is actually even better. The creamy concoction features generous chunks of the signature cake blended into a masterfully spun milkshake, and is best teamed with a Chicago dog with all the proper trimmings.
We don't mean to sound judge-y here, but dining at Bar Siena and not ending your meal with one of its famous bomboloni isn't just wrong; it's sacrilegious. The pillowy, sugar-encrusted Italian doughnuts are stuffed with everything from chocolate to maple buttercream, and are a can't-miss part of dining here. Pro tip: for a bombo fix on the go, swing by the walk-up window around the side of the building and place your order.
The enticing lineup of pies at this kitschy bakeshop and cafe changes based on the seasonal availability of ingredients, but frequently showcases flavors like chocolate pecan with a maple filling, lemon meringue on a shortbread crust, and coffee custard with vanilla bean cream. Pro tip: pies baked fresh and are available in limited quantities daily; call ahead to reserve a whole pie.
This Italian joint backed by Chef Tony Mantuano is known for its wood-fired pizzas, and the dessert-ready s'mores pie is no exception. A thick layer of Nutella coats the restaurant's browned and bubbly house-made crust, and is crowned with a mass of toasted marshmallows and drizzle of chocolate.
A delightfully greasy county fair delicacy gets a restaurant-approved twist at this seafood-centric spot oozing with Southern charm. Instead of the usual pancake-like fry batter, these Oreos get dunked in a Rice Krispies cereal dredge before plunging into piping hot oil. The result: a crispy golden exterior that yields a gentle "snap, crackle, pop" with every indulgent bite. | Mom used to put in your lunchbox. Each bite of the colossal square packs a punch of nutty, buttery flavor, and just enough of a salt factor to keep it from erring on the overly sweet side. Pro tip: to really walk on the wild side, try the chocolate chip cookie studded with brown butter rice crispy treat chunks.
No dessert roundup is complete without something sweet crafted by Meg Galus, Chicago's resident star pastry chef who helms the pastry programs at Michelin-starred BOKA, lauded Momotaro, and steak-centric Swift & Sons. Her perfectly balanced S & S Cracker Jack has been a menu favorite since the steakhouse opened last fall, and features peanut butter mousse, salted caramel, caramel corn, and popcorn sherbet.
Stop by Rick Bayless' counter-service concept for impossibly airy, sugar and cinnamon-dusted churros that simultaneously satisfy a sweet tooth and leave you hungry for more. Fortunately, three of these bad boys will run you less than $5; for the proper experience, splurge on an optional shot of bean-to-cup chocolate for some always-necessary dipping action.
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Pork scallopini with mushrooms and a delicious wine sauce – absolutely delicious!
The other day I found something really great in the pork section of the meat department. The package was marked Pork Scallopini and it contained beautiful 1/4 inch thick slices of pork loin. They were just gorgeous! I had never thought of pork scallopini. When I hear the word "scallopini", veal is the meat that comes to mind. The meat was beautifully cut and the perfect thickness but it would be easy enough to have butterflied and pounded a pork chop to the proper thickness with my rolling pin. I served it with fettuccine and some fresh steamed asparagus and carrots. Supper was a real hit with the family-clean plates and no leftovers!
Tasty and tender, we really enjoyed this and it was so easy to make!
Dredge the pork slices in flour.
Melt butter and olive oil in large sauté pan or skillet.
Saute about<|fim_middle|> pork from the pan and keep warm.
Deglaze pan with white wine. Be sure to scrape up all the tasty brown bits from the bottom of the pan as these give outstanding flavor to the sauce.
Add chicken stock or water to pan.
Add onion to pan and cook until translucent.
Add garlic, thyme, oregano, and rosemary to pan and simmer for 2 mins.
Cover pork with mushroom slices and put cover on sauté pan.
Cook over low heat or place in a 350 degree oven for 15 – 20 mins.
Serve over a bed of fettuccine.
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This looks delicious. What a great way to cook pork loin. Thanks for sharing on Snickerdoodle Sunday!
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Hi and welcome back to this segment of the Leap newsletter where I share with you simple and easy to follow steps you can add to your daily lives to bring more health and wellness to you and the family. Hopefully you had the chance to read and personally experience the information I shared in the previous post. If not, it is available in the Blog section and can be easily accessed there for future reference.
I thought it would be good to build upon that simple preparation of lightly sautéed vegetables I discussed prior and add a small but significant dimension, specifically to the arugula, in the form of protein. Amongst the main food groups, protein and its healthy consumption can be problematic for a number of people. What we should keep in mind is that there are other healthy sources besides the animal ones we're all<|fim_middle|> with the beans and give the two a chance to come together with their own unique flavors. Stirring occasionally, allow another 10 mins. or so of cooking time. And there you are, a great combination where two distinct flavors are joined to make a tasty and healthy side dish, good with just about any main course! I know and believe that the simplest and most nutritious cooking is possible and accessible to everyone, as is evident in more remote, less-westernized regions throughout the world.
Now before I wave you on till next time, I want us all to go nuts! That is, to bring in the nutrient rich components of raw nuts to our daily eating habits. It's preferable to buy them in the shell. That natural protective covering helps to keep the nuts fresher longer. At the top of the list are walnuts, along with almonds and pistachios. All 3 are a good source of heart-healthy nutrients, and another source of non-animal protein. They can be eaten as is, or adding raisins or other minimally processed dried fruits can create your own trail mix, and have handy as a healthy snack throughout the day. Nuts can also be a great complement to salads, again adding a good source of protein and healthy fats to the mix. As a snack or as part of a meal, nuts can help to stave off those hunger pangs and keep your appetite satisfied for longer periods of time. And of course, you can also enjoy them as nut butters, making sure they're without any added unnecessary ingredients, and preferably raw. Enjoy and feel good about eating more healthy!!!
Holy Basil or Tulsi-another adaptogenic herb from the Ayurvedic tradition, this herb has been used extensively for centuries because of its wide-range of medicinal qualities beneficial for the entire body. It can be taken in supplement form, or as a tea. It has a mild flavor, and can be consumed any time of day. Look into it and seriously consider making it a part of your everyday drinking or supplementing habits. I've included a link below to get a good idea of its far-reaching merits.
Until next time, healthy eating, and with it, healthy living!
← Friday Night Kirtan with Wah! | too familiar with. In the case of this simple arugula side dish, we're going to add white beans, which can be the Great Northern or Cannellini variety; either work well, and both are a good source of nutrients including protein and fiber.
The method of cooking will be the same. Once the arugula has been sautéed, it is put aside and the beans will be added to the same pan where garlic has been lightly cooking in olive oil. Leaving some of the natural juices created from the arugula in the pan will only add to the flavor. Cover with a lid, but cooking time is quick, so you'll want to keep an eye on the pan, stirring frequently and adding salt to taste. I usually use a good organic brand of canned beans, checking that BPA was not used in the lining of the can. But if you prefer, you can use dry beans, soaking overnight and afterward following the proper steps.
Once the beans have softened and taken on the flavor of the garlic/olive oil mix after 20-30 mins. of light heat, they are ready to be joined with the cooked arugula. Just toss it in | 244 |
The rec players made the trip to loughmoss carryduff for this home match and early morning kick off against st James, a must win match for the comber lads if they are to have any chance of finishing there league campaign off with some silverware.
Injury had seen the rec make the trip without farmer joe ,Owen John gill and Patrick Mack who was missing due to another commitment other than that it was very much the same squad in there usual 4-5-1 formation .
Conditions for the match where not too bad however the referee did have concerns about one of the goalmouths but after consultation with both team managers he decided that the game would go ahead but he would monitor the conditions as we went along .
Upon arrival the rec's 03 's b team who where also playing at loughmoss where short on players and Ben chambers willing with drew from the squad to help them out many thanks to Ben for his help .
Due to a clash in kit colour the rec boys as the home team had to change there kit and played in the red away kit of the seniors thanks again to the seniors for there help .
The u17's took to the pitch with some of there players carrying injures with doubts on the beast from the east Alex Hamilton who was carrying a hamstring injury hopefully the big centre half would make it through the match .
The referee got the game under way with rec defending the goal which the ref had concerns about .
Play flowed from end to end with the rec players playing some nice football everything st James through at them the Recs defence was more than comfortable with young Benjamin Hamilton having another impressive match at left back ,Callum the ' doc' McKay playing as a right back instead of his more familiar role was also having a steady game and together<|fim_middle|> DREAM OF BECOMING SOUTH BELFAST YOUTH FOOTBALL DIVISION TWO CHAMPIONS. | with the beast from the east Alex Hamilton and Brandon ' the dancer ' cromie the back four had a determination to give nothing away .
Tom ' David De Gea lappin ' was producing some great saves for the rec and confidence was spreading through the team ,forwards Cameron 'the kebab king ' Haslam along with ' tattooed jack ' sadayu where proving a real handful for the st James back four .
Sadayu kept getting through the defence but choice of final ball was letting him down no 11 Cameron was becoming more and more frustrated as he found himself free on occasions but was not getting the ball .
22mins in and the kebab king Cameron goes down with a foot injury and following some treatment carry's on playing ,the rec's midfield with 'cool hand' Luke Johnston controlling the centre of the pitch along with the midfield power house captain Matty 'sore toes ' Gibson keeping the game going at a high tempo surely it was only a matter of time before the rec boys open the scoring ,26 mins in and right on cue a lovely ball played through from midfield maestro Luke Johnston finds the ever running Cameron Haslam who fires the ball pasted the st James keeper Goalllll. 1-0 to the rec .
The st James players where becoming more and more frustrated which was leading to them talking themselves into trouble with the ref . The referee wasn't taking any nonsense and issued 3 cards for descent and warned the management team on the sidelines . Play continued and totally against the run of play 6 mins before the break st James are awarded a free kick on the edge of the recs box keeper lappin lined up is wall and up stepped st James no 8 who put the ball wide of big toms left hand and into the bottom of the net big Tom very unlucky not to get a hand to it .
With a rallying call from ' Paul scholes' look alike Jonny Jackson the rec lads pressed for another goal a sweeping move following an interception at a st James corner sees captain Matty Gibson power his way up field plays the ball to Adam 'bestie' Martin who fires in a cross to captain Gibson who is very unlucky not to finish a great move with a goal which would have been thoroughly deserved. The referee blows up to bring a great 1st half to an end .
The ref gets the 2nd half under way with the rec having made no changes right from the kick off the st James players are pressing and putting the rec under some pressure ,although they are again having difficulty breaking through the rec's back 4 .
With the st James players continually challenging the referees decisions yet another booking this time it's the no 9 booked for dissent and this is followed by a booking for the st James coach .
The rec players continue to press for a goal and a through ball from Cameron the kebab king Haslam finds sadayu who skips past the st James centre half to fire home and put the rec into the lead goallllll 2-1 to the rec , a deserved lead through great support play and better communication that has been missing the last few matches ,you could see how much the rec players wanted this result .
12 minutes to go st James get a free kick about 20 yards out from goal the no 8 steps up hits one and up rises big Tom lappin like a phionex rising from the ashes to tip the ball over the bar a great save from the big keeper .
Corner to st James over it comes and when needed the big no 1 jumps and clutches the ball a great job done by the big keeper .
St James are becoming more and more frustrated as they have no answer to the comber players fight and determination to come of the pitch with nothing more than a win ,7 minutes to go captain Matty Gibson picks up a yellow card for time wasting very harsh to say the least ,free kick to the rec with 4 mins to go can the free kick specialist the beast from the east that is Alex Hamilton finish the game off the big defender fires one in and the keeper pulls of a great save .
Play continues with the ref playing 5 mins additional time due to stoppages the rec boys defend in no's and at last the ref blows up to make it a final score of 2-1 to the comber lads .
MAN OT THE MATCH .THE WHOLE SQUAD COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN MAN OF THE MATCH ,WITH SOME EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCES FROM ALEX HAMILTON ,BENJI HAMILTON ,MATTY GIBSON ETC BUT ON THIS OCCASION IT HAS TO BE THE GOALKEEPER TOM LAPPIN A GREAT PERFORMANCE FROM THE BIG NO 1.
ALL SUPPORT WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED TO HELP THE BOYS ACHIEVE THERE | 991 |
Terry Morgan officially out as former Atkins chair takes HS2 top job
Rumours first surfaced last week that engineer's days in charge of HS2<|fim_middle|> favour of other schemes
McAleer & Rushe lands £47m Leeds office
Construction to start this May | and Crossrail were numbered
Sir Terry Morgan has officially been ousted from his roles at both Crossrail and HS2 days after reports leaked to the media revealed transport secretary Chris Grayling and chancellor Philip Hammond had been lobbying for his removal.
Announcing his departure, the government said: "The transport secretary and mayor of London have today (5 December) accepted the resignation of Sir Terry Morgan as chairman of Crossrail Ltd. The transport secretary has also accepted his resignation as chairman of HS2."
Morgan (pictured), who joined HS2 as chair in July, was chairman of Crossrail Ltd for almost a decade, guiding the project through construction towards completion.
At the same time the government has announced it had lined up Allan Cook, who was the chairman of Atkins between 2009 and 2017, as the new chair of HS2 Ltd, while Morgan's successor at Crossrail is yet to be named.
Transport secretary Chris Grayling, who praised Morgan for his "world-class leadership" when appointing him to the HS2 job just four months ago, said: "Sir Terry has been an integral part of Crossrail for almost a decade and I would like to thank him for his dedication and the expertise he brought to the role. I am also grateful to him for his work as chair of HS2 Ltd.
"HS2 is the country's biggest infrastructure project and, with his wealth of experience, Allan Cook is the right person to oversee the project as it progresses towards full construction."
When he appointed Morgan in July, Grayling said: "His wealth of experience and expertise, demonstrated in numerous leading roles including overseeing the ambitious Crossrail project, as well as his respected reputation and enthusiasm, will be invaluable in the project's continued success."
But Crossrail has since been hit by cost overruns and news that it will be up to a year late with Morgan admitting last weekend: "I can only presume, as I have not yet been told, that because HS2 is such a critically important programme and with a sense of disappointment around the performance of Crossrail that it was considered to be too risky for a programme like HS2 to continue in my role as chairman."
In addition to his role at Atkins, Cook, who is a chartered engineer, is a former lead non-executive director for the then-Department of Business, Innovation and Skills under the coalition government and served as the chief executive of manufacturing company Cobham from 2000 to 2009.
Terry Morgan
HS2 chief confirms cutting trains' speed is being looked at to save project money
But Mark Thurston tells Tory MP he is working to the original budget and timeline
Theresa May forced to stand up for 'deeply unpopular' HS2
Tory MP Dame Cheryl Gillan called for the prime minister to can the project in | 576 |
Q: Possible Intersection Multiplicities of a curve and hyperplanes Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field with positive characteristic $p>0$ and let $1<q_1<q_2<q_3$ be its powers. Let $X\subset \mathbb{P}^4$ be given by $(1:t:t^{q_1}:t^{q<|fim_middle|>_1})$ which has length $q_1$.
*$V(x_3)$ gives $\mathcal{O}_{C,c}/(t^{q_2})$ which has length $q_2$.
*$V(x_4)$ gives $\mathcal{O}_{C,c}/(t^{q_2+1}+t^{q_1+q_2})$ which has length $q_2+1$.
Note that these are local invariants associated to a specific point in a specific embedding - at other points or under different embeddings of the same abstract curve, you might get different numbers.
| _2}:t^{q_2+1}+t^{q_1+q_3})$. Then $X$ has orders $0,1,q_1,q_2,q_2+1$ i.e. there exist hyperplanes that have this intersection multiplicity with the curve.
The fact that the orders $0,1$ are correct comes from the fact that every curve has such intersection multiplicities. My problem is that I am unable to prove the rest formally. My guess would be that the hyperplane $X_2=0$ has intersection multiplicity $q_1$ with $X$ at the point $(1:0:0:0:0)$, however, I can't come up with a proof.
I would greatly appreciate your help!
A: The intersection multiplicity of a curve $C\subset\Bbb P^n$ and a hyperplane $H$ at a point $c\in C$ is defined to be the length of $\mathcal{O}_{C,c}/(h|_C)$ as a module over the local ring $\mathcal{O}_{C,c}$, where $h$ is a local equation for $H$ and $h|_C$ is its restriction to $C$. In your case, taking $c$ to be the point corresponding to $t=0$, the local ring $\mathcal{O}_{C,c}$ is a DVR with uniformizer $t$, and the hyperplane $V(x_i)$ restricts to the $i$th coordinate of your embedding. This means you can just read off the length from the lowest exponent present in each coordinate:
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*$V(x_0)$ gives $\mathcal{O}_{C,c}/(1)$ which has length 0.
*$V(x_1)$ gives $\mathcal{O}_{C,c}/(t)$ which has length 1.
*$V(x_2)$ gives $\mathcal{O}_{C,c}/(t^{q | 412 |
What Are The Best Jobsite Radios?
It's time to skip the garbage Bluetooth speaker and go for these professional-grade jobsite radios. In this article, we'll go over everything you need to know about the best jobsite radios.
Make your work day fly by with some tunes throughout your day. Proudly made in the USA and conveniently priced, the DEWALT DCR018 18V/12V/20V MAX Compact Worksite Radio is the perfect portable worksite radio that is easy to use on the jobsite! The small size and light weight allows you to take it with you from workplace to workplace. You won't be limited with this jobsite radio.<|fim_middle|> a 2.1A USB charging port, all at the same time! Store your smart phone in the special onboard compartment and protect it from the common jobsite debris.
With the ability to store up to 10 presets on this radio, you and your work crew can take turns listening to your favorite stations! Don't waste any time searching for stations! All you will need are some M18 18v lithium ion Milwaukee batteries to enjoy good music all day long.
This jobsite radio is designed with your convenience in mind. The stackable design allows it to be packed away in boxes, cars, and bags, with the ability to stack other tools and supplies on top! Don't worry about damaging this device, the shock absorbing rubberized end caps are designed to withhold daily jobsite impacts.
As a well-known and trusted brand that is made in the USA, DEWALT DCR025 20V MAX / 60V MAX Lithium-Ion Bluetooth Jobsite Radio / Charger is a radio you can bring with you to all of your upscale jobsites with confidence.
Reasonably priced at $199.00, it has the ability to connect to Bluetooth up to 100 ft away from the device, allowing you to listen to your music while you take your smart phone with you to the other side of the job site. For your convenience, the DEWALT DCR025 20V MAX / 60V MAX Lithium-Ion Bluetooth Jobsite Radio / Charger can be plugged into an AC with the power cord, or powered by 20V/60V FLEXVOLT Dewalt batteries. When the unit is plugged into the AC power, the batteries are charged by 3 AMP.
Equipped with 2 additional AC power outlets, an auxiliary port and a 2.1 AMP USB charging port, you have the ability to charge all of your important devices in the same section of the workplace.
If you are looking for a powerful jobsite radio with stereo like sound quality, you might be interested in the Bosch Bluetooth Power Box Jobsite AM/FM Radio/Charger/Digital Media Stereo PB360C. Reasonably priced, you are really making a steal for your money! The Bosch PB360C Jobsite Radio has the ability to connect your smart devices via Bluetooth, enabling you to stream internet radio as well as music you have stored on the device within a range of 150-feet. This gives you the space and freedom to roam the jobsite, while still hearing your favorite music.
You may forget that you are actually at work and not at a concert with the four-way speakers and subwoofer! Don't forget about the separate bass, treble and equalizer custom controls! It is able to run on Bosch 18-Volt batteries, or you can plug it into a 120-Volt AC outlet for your convenience. A built-in battery charger is included, as well as four 120-Volt power outlets for additional device connections, making it easy to use all of your tools in the same place.
Take the Bosch PB360C Power Box with you anywhere. It's a sturdy weight of 24 lbs., compact in size and has a protective aluminum shell and rubber roll cage. The outside is made with a weather and dust-resistant design for protection too!
Gone are the days where dealing with fuzzy radio static ruin your favorite tune. With Bluetooth connectivity, even at long ranges, you don't ever have to worry about having your phone off you. Just get your favorite playlist ready and you'll forget you were even at work in the first place! | It can be powered by AC for your convenience, as well as 12V MAX/18V/20V MAX DeWalt power tool batteries.
This radio is USB-compatible, allowing you to charge it through a general USB plug and wall outlet. Connect to digital audio devices with the auxiliary port as well! Link to CD, MP3, portable satellite receivers and any other digital audio device with the 3.5 mm Auxiliary input! Equipped with a built-in device storage box, confidently protect your electronics from all of the worksite debris.
You might find yourself surprised at the fact that this jobsite radio is priced as low as it is! You can listen to your favorite tunes, and charge your ssmartphonewith | 150 |
Valkerij (Frans: Fauconnerie) is een tram- en bushalte van de Brusselse vervoersmaatschappij MIVB, gelegen in de gemeente Watermaal-Bosvoorde.
Geschiedenis
De halte Valkerij werd in dienst genomen op 4 september 2006 ter gelegenheid van de verlenging van tramlijn 94 van Wiener tot Herrmann-Debroux. De aansluiting met buslijn 95 kwam er pas enkele jaren n<|fim_middle|>ener. Sinds 29 september 2018 bedienen de trams de halte niet meer als halte van de voormalige tramlijn 94 maar als onderdeel van de verlengde tramlijn 8.
Situering
Beide tramsporen en perrons zijn gelegen op de Vorstlaan ter hoogte van het kruispunt met de Valkerijlaan en de Charles-Albertlaan. De tramsporen werden er gebouwd aan beide richtingen van het het derde rijvak van het autogedeelte van de Vorstlaan. Dit zorgt ervoor dat de tram centraal gelegen is, aan beide zijden van de rijen bomen en het fietspad. Logischerwijze werden de perrons ook op de middenberm aangelegd, voor het verkeerslicht richting Herrmann-Debroux, en na het verkeerslicht richting Wiener. Bij de bouw van de verlenging van Wiener tot Herrmann-Debroux werden tijdelijke wachthokjes geplaatst, die nagenoeg niet over elektriciteit en verlichting beschikken. Deze werden echter nooit vervangen door definitieve wachthokjes.
De bushalte van lijn 95 is gelegen in de afdaling van de Valkerijlaan, net voor het kruispunt met de Vorstlaan. Aangezien buslijn 95 zijn eindpunt en wachtzone heeft op de Vorstlaan ter hoogte van het kruispunt met de Majoor Nicolas-Rémy Brückstraat, is de halte Valkerij een eenrichtingshalte. Op deze manier vormt de doortocht via Valkerij een soort van keerlus, en komen de bussen terug op hun normale traject (in de twee richtingen bediend) ter hoogte van de halte Drie Linden.
Brusselse tramhalte | adien toen buslijn 95 beperkt werd van Heiligenborre tot Wi | 21 |
How Bain destroyed the South African revenue authority
Mzukisi Qobo
Stephen York
Stephen York, Bain's Managing Partner in South Africa, recently published a defiant "Appeal for Constructive Dialogue" in various newspapers in South Africa. This came on the back of the UK government's ban of Bain from bidding for state contracts for 3 years due to its involvement in South Africa's state capture project. South African public institutions should follow suit.
In its qualified public apology, Bain sets out to split hair over what was true and not true in the accusations levelled at it for its role in state capture. York, the company's managing director, seeks the company's atonement without taking full responsibility for its ethical failures. Even his reference to improvement of internal controls and governance system is too vague to be believable. If Bain does not think it colluded with politicians and the SARS commissioner to weaken the revenue authority, then whatever measures it has put in place are merely cosmetic.
York, and by extension Bain, seem not to gasp the gravity of the actions of the consulting firm in the destruction of value at SARS, and how just how bad a name this gives to global consulting companies and businesses. He confidently states that Bain's business was about helping 'South African organisations grow, innovate, and excel' –<|fim_middle|> can be destroyed in an instant.
Companies should be a force for good and help enrich public value than sow bad practices, which take years if not decades to weed out. Rather than projecting hubris, Bain should take seriously its responsibilities to stakeholders and be genuine about its journey to renewal. Its appeal for constructive dialogue is not an evidence of a contrite spirit.
This article appeared in the Mail and Guardian on the 26 August 2022
https://mg.co.za/opinion/2022-08-26-apology-be-damned-bain-colluded-with-tom-moyane-to-capture-the-south-african-revenue-service/
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Bain's letter casts SARS leadership as duplicitous while framing the consultancy as a deceived rather than a colluding party, despite the fact that Bain was dancing with politicians even before Moyane's appointment at SARS was confirmed.
In his ponderous letter, York blandly offers that Bain 'regrets in playing any role in the damage to this critical institution'. It is not just that Bain played any role, but actively colluded with the then SARS commissioner in destroying governance, in flouting procurement rules in a self-serving manner, and fermenting a culture of fear and mistrust in that institution which set off a skills exodus. Bain may have repaid the fees with interest, but that does not fully compensate for value destruction whose effects will be long-lasting.
The Zondo Commission is clear in its portrayal of the precise role of Bain in state capture, and no amount of white-washing will change the facts about the company's role in the reversal of South Africa's fortunes. In discussing the relationship between SARS and Bain during that sordid state capture era, the Zondo Commission report notes that 'The actors in question weakened and misdirected the revenue gathering function of SARS'.
The Zondo Report categorically states that 'there was collusion between SARS, the Executive (including President Zuma) and the management consultancy, Bain and Company, with a planned and coordinated agenda to seize and restructure SARS, well in advance of the appointment of either Bain or Mr Tom Moyane, the former SARS commissioner'. This is serious stuff.
Given the fraught political climate in the country at that time, any consulting company doing work for sensitive state agencies should have put its guards up, ask tough questions, or walk away from the 'opportunity'. Bain enjoyed proximity to political power and it stood to benefit financially. It thought the music would go on forever.
The SARS contract grew from just over R2 million to over R160 million inexplicably, and a way had to be found to corrupt the procurement processes even though the Bain team working at SARS had no demonstrable experience in working on tax issues. Bain's executives had politicians in their pockets; they had met with President Zuma about 17 times, according to the Zondo Report.
No doubt, at this point Bain saw itself as having captured a crucial state account and with more business to flow in its direction. It could not be outshone by its erstwhile competitor Mckinsey and Company, also implicated in the state capture report, which had seized the account of Transnet and Eskom. Bain saw SARS as a stepping stone to much wider access across various state-owned enterprises and to reshape ICT, energy and infrastructure.
In 2008 SARS was recognised as one of the best and efficient tax administration services in the world. Even by 2013 it was still winning accolades. SARS needed no intervention of a quasi-management doctor in the form of Bain whose role would turn poisonous.
Usually management consultancies come to fix broken institution: in this case Bain did the opposite. It found an efficient and well-respected organisation and rendered it dysfunctional. Management consultancies exist to breathe life to organisations rather than to act vampire-like, as Bain did. They promise to offer ailing companies turn around strategies, to fix bad management practices, and to support leadership teams. It is the practices of companies like Bain that gives consultancy firms a bad name and that cast a shadow on business ethics. Businesses are agencies that are supposed to create value in society.
When reading Bain's non-apology by York, it still beggars belief that companies would take the sorts of risk Bain took in cultivating politicians and doing something that is outrightly unethical, if not criminal, in participating in the state capture project. There is the perverse idea among some businesses that "when you are in Rome do as the Romans do", which is often taken to mean you must adapt to the temperature of values that exist in a country you operate in. According to this paradigm, if corruption is a prevailing norm, adapt rather than maintain a high standard. There is a higher way.
Multinational firms like Bain see the African continent as a hive of corruption and if they can get a piece of the action of the state account through surreptitious means, they can coin it quickly. To hedge, they use intermediaries to broker high level political relationships as Bain did through a shadowy company, Ambrobrite, which had no trading history, and was run by two creative artists from whom Bain believed could obtain "strategic advice" on the positioning of SOEs in South Africa. In return, Bain paid these brokers millions of rands.
There are important lessons for companies doing businesses in countries that are manifesting institutional voids and corrupt practices. It is important that companies do all they can to defend their values and guard against the lure of short-term success. Ill-gotten fame does not last, and a reputation that took years to cultivate | 1,033 |
Abstract: The main thesis of this paper is that Freire's original experience in Angicos anticipated a grand design for social transformation of educational systems. As such it brought together two key concepts that formulated the basis of his educational system: popular culture as an counter-hegemonic project and popular education, more particularly what was later called citizen schools or public popular education as keystone of his new educational system. I use the term Paulo Freire System to show that his original attempts were not only to challenge pedagogical the prevailing banking education system that was so pervasive in Brazil and Latin American at the time. In challenging the hegemony of banking education, its narrative, theoretical foundations, epistemology and methodology, Freire and his team sought to create a new system that could replace the old one. They saw banking education not only as obsolete in terms of modernization of systems but also oppressive in gnoseological, epistemological and political terms. In the conclusion of this<|fim_middle|> conceived in the Angicos experience and its aftermath was a much larger and comprehensive system that originally considered, even by his critics. | paper I will discuss the twins obsessions of Freire, already present in the Angicos experience and that will stay with him throughout his life: the relationship between democracy, citizenship and education, and education as a postcolonial ethical act of social transformation. I would like to emphasize therefore that the Paulo Freire system, as | 65 |
Omar M. Y<|fim_middle|>na länkar
Amerikanska kemister under 2000-talet
Födda 1965
Män
Levande personer
Personer från Amman | aghi, född 9 februari 1965 i Amman i Jordanien, är en jordansk-amerikansk kemist, verksam som professor vid University of California, Berkeley. I sin forskning har Yaghi och hans forskargrupp utvecklat nya material, Metallorganiska ramverksföreningar, MOF:ar och kovalenta organiska ramverksföreningar COF:ar. Dessa har breda tillämpningsområden från koldioxidinfångning till energieffektiv vattenutvinning från ökenluft.
Biografi
Yaghi föddes i en flyktingfamilj, ursprungligen från Palestina. Han växte upp i ett hushåll med många barn, men hade bara begränsad tillgång till rent vatten och el. Vid 15 års ålder flyttade han till USA på uppmuntran av sin far, började på Hudson Valley Community College, och fortsatte sinia studier till kandidatexamen. vid State University of New York at Albany.. Han disputerade 1990 under handledning av Walter G. Klemperer vid University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign och var sedan postdoktor vid Harvard University (1990–1992) under professor Richard H. Holm.
Karriär
Yaghi arbetade på fakulteterna vid Arizona State University (1992-1998) som biträdande professor, University of Michigan (1999-2006) som Robert W. Parry-professor i kemi, och University of California, Los Angeles (2007-2012) samt Christopher S. Foote-professor i kemi. Han innehar också Irving och Jean Stone-stolen i fysiska vetenskaper.
År 2012 flyttade Yaghi till University of California, Berkeley där han nu är James och Neeltje Tretter-professor i kemi. Han var chef för Molecular Foundry vid Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory från 2012 till 2013 och är grundare av Berkeley Global Science Institute. Han är också co-director av Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute vid University of California, Berkeley och Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, samt Kaliforniens forskningallians vid the California Research Alliance by BASF.
Vetenskapligt arbete
Yaghi banade väg för retikulär kemi, ett nytt kemiområde som handlar om att sammanställa molekylära byggstenar med starka bindningar för att framställa öppna ramverk. Hans mest kända arbete är utformningen och produktionen av nya klasser av föreningar kända som metallbelagda organiska ramverk (MOFs), zeolitiska imidazolaramar (ZIFs), och kovalent organiska ramverk (COFs). MOFs noteras för deras extremt kick ytbehandlar (5640 m2/g för MOF-177) och mycket låg kristalldensitet (0,17 g/cm3 för COF-108). Yaghi banade också väg för molekylär vävning och syntetiserade världens första material vävt på atom- och molekylär nivå (COF-505).
Han har lett arbetet med att använda dessa material i ren energiteknik, såsom väte- och metanlagring, avskiljning och lagring av koldioxid, samt skörd av vatten från ökenluft.
Enligt en analys av Thomson Reuters var Yaghi den näst mest citerade kemisten i världen mellan 2000 och 2010.
Utmärkelser och hedersbetygelser
Referenser
Noter
Exter | 895 |
I spent hours cutting and<|fim_middle|> They are beyond delicious.
I filled the rest of the sweets table with lollies, mashmellows, popcorn and of course fairy bread. I was really happy with how it turned out. Especially after spending hours cutting out those triangles.
Would have to be the triangle buntings I made myself. Oh and of course the cookies and cupcakes, because I love food!
Pick a theme and stick with it - things work so well when they all tie together. | folding tissue paper to make a big pom pom installment over our dining table. The day before the party just flew and I wasn't getting it done. My sister in laws came to the rescue and put this together – Looked great. Talented ladies they are.
I made the cake myself – since my usual cake maker is interstate. I am certainly no great baker – so I grabbed 4 supermarket uniced sponge cakes and smothered them in buttercream. I made Harvey's "smash" cake the same way – it's such a simple way to make an impressive looking cake. If I can do it anyone can! We displayed Harvey's cake smash photos above the sweets table.
Thank goodness I was able to get my usual cake maker at Nicki's Cake Design (located in Sydney) to make me some cupcakes and send down with my mum. They were, as always, a massive hit. She made the cake topper too – Loved it!
Another massive hit was the triangle and "1″ cookies from You're My Hero Bakes (located in Doreen) | 219 |
WASHINGTON — Recession? Bailout? Stimulus? Deficit? Not at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
The Sunlight Foundation, a watchdog group that tracks the language of congressional debates, reports that thus far in this year of our economic agony, none of those words was among the 30 most frequently uttered terms.
The big four of constituent concern and media coverage were seldom heard: "Stimulus" came up only 3,961 times, good for 116th most-mentioned.
Others were: "deficits," 1,996 mentions, 361st; "recession," 1,309, or 630th; and "bailout," 824, way down at 1,090th place. Another popular controversy, earmarks, was cited only 938 times, for No. 948<|fim_middle|> University in North Carolina.
The public caught on long ago. Congress tried to call tax increases "revenue enhancements" in the 1980s, and welfare programs "temporary assistance to needy families" in the 1990s.
Republicans also have been able to re-brand the estate tax — which sounds like a tax on rich people — as the "death tax." That tax is scheduled to end next year, though President Barack Obama wants to keep it on estates of the very wealthy.
Although the media often tone down the euphemism mania by reporting in plain language, lawmakers still love their verbal comfort food. | on the list.
None of this is happening by accident.
Politicians conduct studies and polls to see what words voters will find soothing and what will be grating.
"Recession," for instance, "carries a resonance for older people. They may remember the recessions of the 1970s or even the Great Depression," said David Johnson, an executive at Strategic Vision, an Atlanta-based consulting firm.
The same lawmakers used the word "care" 10,739 times this year, "services" another 10,377 times and "children" 8,153 times. "Water" was mentioned on 9,864 occasions.
William Allison, Sunlight Foundation senior fellow, blamed this passion for euphemism in part on capital insiders feeding on themselves. Elected officials too often rely on consultants, polls and staff to parse their sentences so closely that "they end up speaking this artificial language," he said.
Ironically, such caution often hurts their public standing.
"Congress is protecting itself and creating more cynicism at the same time," said Allan Louden, a communications expert at Wake Forest | 236 |
Brian and Charles – Sundance Review
In the Welsh valley, Brian and Charles tell the story of an inventor named Brian who lives alone in his cottage alongside his numerous inventions and contr<|fim_middle|> world he is spontaneously made into but the people and places that surround him. The real heart of Brian and Charles is between, well, Brian and Charles themselves. David Earl brings a ton of heart and subdued yet practical emotion to his performance as Brian. If he didn't fully commit to the routine, I don't think the film would work at all. The same can also be said for Chris Hayward's performances as Charles, who gives a hilarious routine blends in heart and nuance.
As I said, the film wouldn't work if not for these two individual performances – but the film soars because they have fantastic chemistry with one another. A handful of moments with Brian teaching Charles about the world had me laughing hysterically. Still, it's the moments in between where you see Charles longing to explore this newfound world of his where the film's heart shines – especially when it's juxtaposed with Brian terrified to live his life himself.
The film is a small-budget feature with minimal locations and a very modest runtime of 90 minutes. However, I found the short running time and minimalist scale/style part of the charm. It hurries with jokes that almost entirely all land but nails the heartfelt moments perfectly. And for a character-based dramedy – that's all you can ask for.
Girl Picture – Sundance Review
FRESH -Sundance Review | aptions. There's an immediate charm and wit to the film as it starts with a rapid mockumentary-esque style with biting, quick humor – but there's also a level of melancholy to the character of Brian as we see how lonely his life is how these inventions fill the void for him. However, this doesn't last long as Brian comes across a bunch of spare parts, including a mannequin head and a used washing machine.
With all these various scraps, Brian creates Charles – an artificially intelligent robot who immediately has an urge to learn not only about the | 115 |
Have Championship Latin Ballroom Dancers at your next event and you will be adding pizzazz and class! Noel and Victoria are creative, talented, charismatic, energetic and fun. They incorporate familiar tunes with classic ballroom dancing and comedy to create that movie dancing style into a live performance. From Latin to Standard, they can assemble a program to match the style you are looking for with the glitz, glamour and rhinestones included. Whether it be cabaret style or a full show performance, Noel and Victoria can deliver as they have experience entertaining the hotel, resort and cruise industry for over 10 years. Do you want to add more to your event? Have a Group Dance<|fim_middle|> By the age of 19, Noel was in several local dance competitions before joining a 5-man hip-hop formation team which eventually got him on television doing backup dancing for performances. Victoria is originally from southern Russia and began her dancing as a small girl at the age of 6 with her local ballet school. She continued her ballet until she came to the U.S. to study at Virginia Commonwealth University where she studied modern dancing for three years as well as starting her career in ballroom dancing. Eventually they met and Victoria convinced Noel to switch to ballroom dancing. They have since been competing and training for 10 years together forming a very successful partnership. In addition to their competition schedule, they have also made special appearances and performances on television in the U.S. (such as ABC's "Good Morning America" as well as on CBS) and abroad to spread the excitement of ballroom dancing to the world. They have been seen performing for some of the best resorts and hotels such as Marriott Renaissance, Ritz-Carlton, Hyatt, and Sandals Beaches Resorts. In 2005 Noel and Victoria began entertaining the cruising industry with their Ballroom performances on such lines as SilverSea, Crystal, NYK Cruises, Regent, Royal Caribbean, Princess and Holland America.
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Noel and Victoria are International Latin Ballroom Champions and are also 2006 U.S. Ballroom Cabaret finalists. Some of their achievements include: Asian Open Dance Championship Finalist, USISTD Championship Finalists, NDCA US National Championship Finalists, as well as many regional titles. They have trained with the world's best coaches for many years and are well known by many in the community. Noel and Victoria are currently from Miami, Florida, but are originally from very different areas and backgrounds. Noel is originally from Richmond, VA having started dancing at the age of 15 in the local clubs. | 196 |
Imagine skiing right up to the world's first ski-in, gastro-distillery to experience après-ski during the winter, and then watching a spectacular sunset from 7,452 feet with a completely unique bloody mary in hand. That is exactly what bar life is like in Park City, and you don't have to look far to find it. We've made your bar choices easy and comprised a list of our favorite bars in Park City.
The High West Saloon located on Park Avenue, one street over from Main Street, is a local hotspot and visitor favorite. Opening in 2006, High West Saloon is a branch of High West Distillery, located in Wanship, just 20 minutes outside Park City. The distillery offers tastings and tours Wed-Sun, and now offers Sunday brunch. The saloon in Park City offers outdoor patio seating, a traditional Old West bar area, and dining room. Boasting<|fim_middle|> inside the Park City Peak's Hotel, away from the hustle and bustle of Main Street, Versante offers handcrafted pizzas, burgers and pastas paired with local craft beers and cocktails. Versante is a great pick if you're looking to avoid the crowds, and cost, of Main Street, or if you're looking for a quiet bar atmosphere that serves great food! Don't forget to ask about their current 20% off deal! | the title of the world's first ski-in, gastro-distillery, High West Saloon is the perfect place to stop in for après-ski during the winter, and a sunset drink during the summer. Drink favorites include the High Noon Punch, Saint Serra's Fizz and the High West Lemonade with either whiskey or vodka.
Located mid-way up Main Street, the No Name Saloon has been a staple among Park City locals and visitors for years. With a rustic design and an interior filled with antiques and other interesting items to look at, you can relax in front of a fire, play shuffleboard, watch your favorite sports team on TV, or head up to the roof-top patio to mingle with locals and enjoy the high view of Main Street. If you're also hungry during your trip to the No Name, you can order off their menu which consists of traditional bar-appetizers, burgers, salads and sandwiches.
One of the more unique establishments on Main Street, Flanagan's offers traditional Irish fayre and good beer. The pub itself was handcrafted and designed to mirror a true Irish pub with a cottage feel, transporting guests to another time and place. Guests can come in to enjoy dinner, play old board games at their tables, pound Irish car bombs at the bar or visit the Underground Tavern downstairs, which houses a live music series during the winter, and Tuesday bingo nights and a DJ on Fridays during the summer.
OP Rockwell is a hidden gem on Main Street, tucked into a historic, underground space that is rich with history and character. The interior exudes outlaw mystique, described as a speakeasy feel with the intersection of western-frontier and Victorian-luxe. Here visitors can come to see live music play or simply enjoy some of the best craft cocktails in Park City. Don't know what drink you want to order or aren't cocktail-savvy? No problem! The staff at OP Rockwell will make you a custom drink based on your tastes and preferences, only resulting in nothing short of heavenly.
You come for the sunset view, but stay for the drinks. The St. Regis Bar offers visitors to Park City and Deer Valley a more luxurious and classic bar experience. If you're looking for great views at 7,452 feet and world-class drink, the St. Regis is the spot to be. During the winter season you can experience a daily champagne sabrage by the fire pits, signaling the end of a work day. All guests present will receive a free glass of champagne. The signature drink of St. Regis hotels is the bloody mary, custom to each location. The bloody mary in Park City is no exception, made with oat-distilled Vodka 7000 from local High West Distillery and served with a touch of black lava salt on the rim and finished with a Wasabi-Celery foam and pipette of Worcestershire sauce.
Known by locals and visitors alike to have one of the best cocktail menus in all of Park City, Fletcher's provides an atmosphere for everyone. Those looking to enjoy a nice sit-down dinner will enjoy the restaurant dining room, while après-ski seekers and summer sunset-drinkers will find solace in the downstairs lounge, The Library. A mixture of reclaimed wood, brick and raw materials fused with vintage and modern elements create an eclectic and hip vibe in Park City, and when it comes to cocktails, Fletcher's has mastered both classic drinks and the blending of traditional drinks with non-traditional flavors; guest favorites include the Maple Manhattan and Melon Moscow Mule.
Recently opened in January 2017, and located | 737 |
Earlier today, I had a great chance to talk with a number of faculty here getting started on blogging. They're part of a terrific week-long workshop being run by the Center for Teaching and Learning here at UVM.
I talked a bit about how I've been using blogs in my courses, particularly English 086 and 180 and also about some of the sites I think are great models of what can be done. I focused especially on Miriam Jones' fab blog scribblingwoman to<|fim_middle|>fire could also be a great tool for students keeping up on blog postings and also for the faculty themselves to monitor what's going on in the blogosphere.
For me, reading and writing blogs are indelibly connected and I hope the faculty to whom I spoke are able to take some time to see what they can find in terms of blogs connected to their own interests and subject areas.
Academic Blogging is a Must: an interesting posting from the always great tech ronin blog that gives important food for thought for those of us in academe. | show what one might do for their own personal blog. Her course blogs like this one are also great examples of what can be done with blogs in teaching.
I also told them today about how RSS feeds and newsreaders such as NetNewsWire Lite (scroll down that page to find the link to the free Lite version of NetNewsWire) and News | 71 |
Hello, weekend! 6 podcasts to stream over the next few days
round up October 8, 2021
Podsauce is happy to help set your podcast queue for this weekend with our listening guide. If you have a long weekend, some free time for listening, or looking for new shows to catch up on, look no further!
On our round-up, we've included a four-part podcast honoring Professor Anita Hill and a series interviewing luminaries. Also topping our list is a show exploring lithium as a solution to the world's climate crisis, and the issues faced when mining this "White Gold." This week, Seth Rogen launched a unique storytelling podcast featuring celeb guests, and there's a new series about Britney Spears' conservatorship. We're listening to the latest installment of a show that investigates life-changing events, "what-ifs," and paths not chosen.
Listen to 'How We Survive'
Host and tech reporter Molly Wood investigates the climate crisis and what solutions can be made to create a more sustainable future. Season 1 of "How We Survive" investigates lithium, aka "White Gold," as the key to transitioning to clean energy, since the planet is reliant on carbon-emitting fossil fuels. While this sounds good in theory, the world doesn't have enough lithium yet, and the race is on to mine and extract it. This process raises further issues of businesses, costliness, land use, ownership, Native Americans being forced from their land, and wildlife interference, all of which Molly investigates in the first season. Tune in weekly for new episodes.
Molly Wood investigates the key to 'How We Survive' the climate crisis
Because of Anita
Listen to 'Because of Anita'
"Because of Anita" honors Professor Anita Hill on the 30th anniversary of her brave testimony. In front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Prof. Hill explained the sexual harassment she faced from Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas when they worked together in two different jobs. By taking a stand, Anita changed the world. This four-part series dives into the impact Anita's testimony continues to have on politics, conversations, gender, safety, journalism, race, and violence. Anita will speak with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford about their painful pasts. This podcast is brought to you by Pineapple Street Studios and The Meteor.
Anita Hill and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford open up about their painful pasts on 'Because of Anita'
Storytime with Seth Rogen
Listen to 'Storytime with Seth Rogen'
Every week, Seth Rogen asks his guests to tell him a story, and boy, do they deliver. This series is unlike any comedy storytelling podcast of its kind since it takes a more documentarian approach and interweaves parts of interviews. The first episode features Paul Rudd and Dan Wilson. In upcoming episodes, Seth will be joined by filmmaker Ava DuVern<|fim_middle|> will explore Britney Spears' conservatorship and interview people who played a role, investigating how the media, her family, and the public contributed to Britney's situation.
'The TMZ Podcast' dishes on #FreeBritney and more hot topics
Weekend Guides | ay, musician David Crosby, and friends. This podcast is an Earwolf presentation, with new episodes updated weekly.
The 2021 Tribeca Film Festival featured podcasts this year, and we're hooking you up with the best ones
Listen to 'Heavyweight'
Ever wondered about the impact of your life's decisions? And what if you had done something else at any given time? This podcast helps guests revisit those moments. Host Jonathan Goldstein asks these questions to guests on Gimlet Media's podcast, "Heavyweight," and sometimes provides closure for parties involved. The latest season premiered this week, and its newest episode featured author John Green. Before writing, John dedicated his life to God and worked as a hospital chaplain while grappling with mental health issues. One evening, John encountered a patient who would change the course of his life forever and helped John hold on to hope. On this episode, John reunites with this individual, and they have a heartfelt conversation.
Wisdom From the Top
Listen to 'Wisdom From the Top'
Luminary and NPR present "Wisdom From the Top," a show interviewing business leaders, creators, and visionaries about their work. We'll hear about their successes, failures, turnarounds, and secrets from their journey on the way to the top. Hosted by Guy Raz from "How I Built This," guests so far have included Lego's Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, and how he created a plan that saved the brand and raised its profits. Business writer Jim Collins explored the impact his work has made, his background, and how he started writing his books including Good to Great and Built to Last.
Listen to 'Unpacked'
The internet applauded the recent court decision to release Britney from her father's conservatorship role. Nova Podcasts' "Unpacked" dives into complex topics. The first season | 382 |
Home » News » EAUC Board Member Eunice Simmons appointed Vice Chancellor at University of Chester
EAUC Board Member Eunice Simmons appointed Vice Chancellor at University of Chester
EAUC board member Eunice Simmons has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of University of Chester from January 2020.
Professor Simmons is currently the Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), where she leads the Academic and Student Affairs directorate, encompassing the student journey from primary school through university to graduate employment. Her leadership has been instrumental in creating an outstanding student experience at NTU, recognised with three successive 'University of the Year' titles; a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold award; and a rise up The Guardian University Guide league table to 12th in the 2020 rankings.
Professor Simmons (Eunice) gained an Honours degree in Biology at the<|fim_middle|> supporting the student experience – several of which have been recognised with national awards.
As the recipient of a 'Green Gown' award for leadership, Eunice has led many community and environmental projects including chairing the North West's regional forestry framework steering group. She is committed to broadening access to university and the types of course on offer and has championed the development of online and degree apprenticeship portfolios, working with hundreds of companies.
Eunice is a trustee and board member of Advance HE, the Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges (EAUC), and the new Transforming Access and Student Outcomes Centre (TASO-HE). As a member of Southwell Cathedral Council she has strengthened links between the Minster and NTU's students through ceremonial events, heritage projects and sharing of expertise.
She is married with two sons at university and is a keen gardener, ecologist and walker in her spare time.
She said: "I am thrilled to be taking up the role of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Chester in 2020 and am very much looking forward to visiting all the University sites and meeting students, staff and partner organisations. Chester's values and its educational heritage and ambition resonate strongly with me and I am eager to help the University grow its offer to students and increase its impact in the region and beyond."
Canon Dr Jeff Turnbull, President of University Council and Pro-Chancellor, said: "On behalf of the University Council, I am delighted to announce the appointment of the new Vice-Chancellor, who will start in post on January 1, 2020. We are looking forward to working with her in taking the University into the next stage, continuing to strive for the best for our students and staff."
Professor Tim Wheeler, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Chester, said: "I am delighted that someone of Eunice's immense talent and experience is taking on the role of Vice-Chancellor of the University. As she takes on the stewardship of this wonderful institution, she will undoubtedly bring her flair and energy in taking it still further in meeting the needs of students and the communities we serve. I wish her every success and will be working with her to ensure a smooth transition."
Dr Gyles Brandreth, Chancellor of the University of Chester, said: "The University of Chester is a very special University, so it's exciting to welcome someone with the special gifts and experience of Eunice Simmons as our new Vice-Chancellor. She is going to be stepping in to big shoes – Professor Tim Wheeler's contribution as the University's first Vice-Chancellor has been unique - but Professor Simmons has all the qualities, qualifications and experience for the job. I am looking forward hugely to working with her as she leads the University in the challenging and exciting years that lie ahead." | University of Manchester and PGCE at Roehampton Institute. She taught secondary school science before obtaining a scholarship to the University of Kent for an MSc. This was followed by a research post with the University of London and the Forestry Commission, surveying sites throughout England and Wales, leading to a PhD in forest ecology and conservation in 1992. Her Professorship in Sustainable Environments was awarded for research and teaching in landuse and environmental habitats, ranging from Malaysian rainforest to Kent downland.
Eunice has worked in five diverse institutions including two in the North West: University of London's Wye and Imperial Colleges; UCLan; University of Cumbria and at Nottingham Trent since 2010. Her academic leadership roles have included Course Leader, MSc Director, Head of School, Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor and she has significant experience as a residential warden. Eunice has managed many professional service teams | 192 |
Sophia Genetics S.A.. (3/18/11). "Press Release: Sophia Genetics SA Is Founded on the Innovation Park of the<|fim_middle|>metz found Sophia Genetics SA in Switzerland in March 2011. The company is based in the canton of Vaud, in the scientific incubator called the Innovation Park, at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Expert in medical bioinformatics, Sophia Genetics SA provides an integrated Clinical NGS Dry Lab service to health professionals carrying out genetic medical diagnostics.
The service includes bioinformatic analysis, quality assurance, visualisation and banking of patients' DNA sequences obtained through Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). The company also aims to help laboratories reduce costs, overcome complexity and respect the constraints of data quality and security inherent in the use of NGS in routine diagnostics.
At the outset, there are three staff members. | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – Lausanne (EPFL)".
Drs Jurgi Camblong, Pierre Hutter and Lars Stein | 29 |
Peter Drucker Quotes
Best Quotations by Peter Drucker
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
— Peter Drucker
Things Leadership
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Responsibility Imposes Confer
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Thing Hearing Communication
Plans are only good intentions<|fim_middle|>. This is a dangerous mistake.
Discussions Most Decision Making
About Peter Drucker
Profession: Businessman
Born: November 19, 1909
Died: November 11, 2005
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The Wall Street Journal researched several of his lectures in 1987 and reported that he was sometimes loose with the facts. For his article "What Makes an Effective Executive" Harvard Business Review honored Drucker in the June 2004 with his seventh McKinsey Award — the most awarded to one person.
He was also a leader in the development of management education and he invented the concept known as management by objectives. | unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Good Work Degenerate
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Happiness Never
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
Out Most Turn
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Create Business Purpose
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
New Information Information Technology E-Mail
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
Change Got
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
Predict Country Looking
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter | 178 |
Weird Stuff | Updated July 11, 2014
10 Incredible Stories About Blind People
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According to the World Health Organization, there were 39 million blind people on the planet in 2<|fim_middle|> years after the stroke, a group of researchers confirmed that the part of Channing's brain that processed motion was still intact. Instead of sending signals to her visual cortex, her eyes were routing information to the region in charge of interpreting movement. Fortunately, with the help of Dr. Dutton, Channing has slowly started seeing things more clearly. She still cannot make out the faces of those around her, as the part of her brain dedicated to that process no longer functions, but the fact that she can see anything at all is nothing short of amazing.
6The Painter Who Can't See His Own Art
Born in Istanbul in 1953, Esref Armagan had two strikes against him before he even took his first breath. Not only was his family poor, his eyes were completely worthless. One was the size of a lentil, while the other just didn't work.
Despite his bad breaks, Armagan was a curious kid. Wanting to explore, he started touching everything he could get his hands on, and eventually, he started drawing. Starting at age six, he eventually graduated from butterflies and colored pencils to portraits and oil paints. Working in total silence, Armagan visualizes an image and then makes an outline with a Braille stylus. Next, he traces the etching with a pencil, checking his work with his sensitive left hand. Afterward, he uses his fingers to dab on the paint until he has a windmill, a villa, or even a Volvo.
In 2009, the Swedish car company hired Armagan to paint their new S60. After tracing the car's outline with his fingers, he whipped up a rather impressive painting, especially considering he couldn't see his subject. In addition to commissioned work, Armagan's paintings have shown up in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the US, and China. He's even appeared in an episode of Discovery's The Real Superhumans.
However, the strangest thing about Armagan is his very unusual brain. Harvard researchers asked the Turk to draw a few sketches from the inside of an MRI scanner. As Esref doodled away, scientists were shocked by what they saw. Usually, a blind person's visual cortex shows up in scans as a black blob. That's what Armagan's looked like when he wasn't drawing, but when neurologists gave the artist a pen and paper, his visual cortex lit up like a Christmas tree. It looked like he was using his eyes. Scientists are still trying to figure out Armagan's mysterious brain, but whatever is happening in his head, it's working wonders on his canvases.
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5The Man Who Hacked The Phone System
Joe Engressia was a very "phreaky" guy. Born blind in 1949, this precocious kid spent his days playing with phones, calling random numbers, and listening to recordings for fun. It was the only way a visually challenged geek could entertain himself back in the '50s. He was also one of those kids who enjoyed whistling, and it was the combination of these weird hobbies that led Engressia to discover the secret world of the telephone system.
When he was just eight years old, Engressia was making a call and whistling when the recording suddenly stopped. He tried it again and realized that whenever he whistled at 2,600 Hz, the message would cut off. Thanks to his songbird powers, he could fool the tone-based system into thinking he was an operator. From there, the possibilities were endless. He could place long-distance calls for free or chat with multiple people on conference calls. Eventually, he got so good that he routed a call all the way around the globe and back to himself on a separate receiver.
Obviously, this was very illegal, and Engressia was arrested twice. Instead of scaring him straight, though, the notoriety thrust him into the center of a bizarre subculture. As it turned out, Joe wasn't the only one to figure out the phone lines. In the 1970s, "phreaking" (the term for tinkering with the phone system) was a regular hacker activity, and Engressia became one of their leaders. Some of these tech-savvy kids, like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, went onto greatness. Engressia, on the other hand, wasn't so lucky.
Though he had an IQ of 172, a rough home life coupled with sexual abuse by a teacher totally messed with his mind. During his later life, Engressia changed his name to "Joybubbles" and insisted he was five years old. Joybubbles listened to Mr. Rogers tapes religiously, collected toys, talked to imaginary friends, and lived off Social Security checks. Sadly, Engressia passed away in 2007, leaving behind an impressive but depressing legacy.
4The Inventor Who Created Cruise Control
Anyone who's ever driven a car owes a debt of gratitude to Ralph Teetor. During the 1940s, he invented one of the most useful features in your automobile: cruise control. That's extremely impressive, considering that Teetor went blind at age five. He lost his vision in a shop accident, but that didn't stop him from tinkering and building things.
In fact, it gave him an edge that sighted inventors lack. Not only could he better concentrate on his tasks, he wasn't constrained by what his eyes told him was standard or acceptable. He was free to create whatever he saw in his mind, and he created quite a few cool things in his day. In 1902, the 12-year-old built a car out of spare parts. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1912, he developed a new kind of fishing rod and reel, a locking mechanism, and a method of balancing steam turbine rotors in torpedo boat destroyers.
Eventually, he opened his own corporation, which specialized in piston rings, but his greatest achievement came during World War II, when he was riding in a car driven by his lawyer. As the story goes, the attorney couldn't talk and drive at the same time. Whenever he started talking, he eased off the breaks. When he stopped, he stepped on the gas. This erratic driving quickly nauseated his blind passenger. Frustrated with his friend's inability to drive, Teetor came up with the concept of cruise control. Ten years later, he was applying for a patent, and soon after, it started showing up in Chrysler automobiles. Today, nearly every car on the road has cruise control, all thanks to a blind inventor and a lousy driver.
3The Most Famous Blind Girl In The World
Have you ever heard of Laura Bridgman? There was a time when she was one of the most famous people on the planet. Born in 1829, Bridgman lost four of her five senses at age two after a bout of scarlet fever. Left only with the sense of touch, the young girl ended up at the Peterson's Institute in Boston, an asylum run by a man named Samuel Gridley Howe. While he was an unpleasant person, Howe was fascinated with Bridgman's case, and by her seventh birthday, he had taught Laura how to communicate with the outside world.
Forty years before Helen Keller was even born, Bridgman was learning to form letters with her fingers and press the shapes into a receiver's palm, slowly spelling out words and sentences. She also learned to read by running her hands over raised type. Thanks to her hard work and Howe's detailed reports, Bridgman became an international celebrity, attracting thousands of fans who clamored for her autograph and locks of her hair. People came from all around to watch her read and write, and little girls plucked glass eyes from their dolls, renaming them "Laura." She even met Charles Dickens, who wrote about her in one of his books, making her even more famous.
Of course, life was still difficult for the young teen. As she grew older, she suffered from anorexia because she couldn't taste or smell any food. She also became the center of a strange experiment. Curious what would happen if someone was cut off from all religious influence, Howe forbade anyone to speak to Laura about spiritual matters. When a group of evangelicals converted her to Christianity anyway, a furious Howe gave up on his pupil. He even went so far as to claim blind people were mentally inferior to the rest of the world. Disowned by her teacher, Bridgman spent the rest of her life living at the Perkins Institute, a forgotten figure abandoned by the world.
2The World's First Blind Doctor
Jacob Bolotin holds a special place in medical history. The son of impoverished Polish immigrants, the good doctor was born in 1888 in Chicago. Unfortunately, congenital blindness ran in the family, and three out of the seven Bolotin children were born blind, including Jacob. Due to his disability, he quickly developed his other senses. Before long, he could recognize people by their scents and comprehend Braille through several layers of cloth.
After graduating from a school for the blind, Bolotin worked as a salesman, peddling brushes and typewriters on Chicago streetcars. His big dream was to become a doctor, but most colleges weren't willing to accept a blind student. After relentlessly hounding university boards, he eventually made it into the Chicago College of Medicine. When he finally graduated at 24, he became the first congenitally blind person to become a licensed physician.
Bolotin's specialty was studying diseases of the heart and lungs. Since he couldn't see his patients, he relied on his fingers and ears to diagnose a patient's ailments. During his internship at Frances Willard Hospital, he diagnosed a young woman with an obstructed heart valve just by feeling her skin and listing to her heartbeat. In addition to his medical work, he traveled across the Midwest giving lectures on blindness and started the first all-blind Boy Scout troop. Sadly, Bolotin passed away at age 36, but his funeral drew 5,000 people whose lives were touched by the blind doctor.
1The Blind Schindler
Otto Weidt hated the Nazis. As an anarchist and all-around good guy, he knew Hitler was trouble the moment the tyrant seized power. As Hitler's anti-Semitic policies started playing out in the streets of Berlin, Weidt knew he had to act. Similar to the more famous Oskar Schindler, Weidt ran a shop that mostly employed Jews. The difference was that Weidt's workers were all disabled. He regularly hired deaf, mute, and blind workers from the Jewish Home for the Blind and paid them to make horsehair brushes and brooms. Weidt knew what it was like to go through life without vision and wanted to help others who had the same problem.
Now that Adolf was calling the shots, Weidt had to defend his workers from the Gestapo. He first tried to convince officials that his employees were essential to the war effort. When that didn't work, he resorted to bribery, giving away rare items like champagne, cigars, and perfume. Things became more difficult when the Nazis decided to exile the Jewish population of Berlin. Once the crackdown started, Weidt tried to hide his workers, but when a few were caught and dragged to a loading station, Weidt talked officials into letting them go right before the train took off.
On another occasion, a worker named Alice Licht was arrested and thrown into a cattle car bound for Auschwitz. Fortunately, she shoved a postcard through the floor, and the note made its way back to Weidt. Despite his blindness, he hurried to Poland and rented a safe house stocked with cash and clothing for the young woman. Weidt fell madly in love with Licht, but tragically, she left for America after the Reich fell and never saw her blind benefactor again. While no consolation for a broken heart, Weidt was posthumously recognized by Yad Veshem as "Righteous Among the Nations," a non-Jew who risked everything to save his fellow man.
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Top 10 Conspiracy Theories That Were Actually True | 013. These are the people who wake up every day and stare down life without the help of their eyes. Truthfully, anyone who lives with this disability has an amazing story to tell, but some have achieved incredible things or had incredible things thrust upon them.
10The Blind Movie Critic
By its nature, film is a visual medium. You would think an art form intended primarily for the eyes wouldn't interest a blind person, but you would be wrong. Not only does Tommy Edison watch movies, he reviews them on YouTube. Even though he was born without vision, Edison has always loved film, and when he started posting reviews three years ago, his videos attracted thousands of viewers. Even Roger Ebert gave Tommy two thumbs up.
Edison has given his take on everything from The Hunger Games to Reservoir Dogs, but he approaches movies differently from most film fans. "I'm not distracted by all the beautiful shots and attractive people," he once said. "I watch a movie for the writing and acting." Since he only judges what he can hear, Edison doesn't care for CGI-heavy action blockbusters. On the other hand, he's a big fan of Die Hard.
Even more fascinating than his reviews are the videos on his second channel, where he answers interesting questions from his viewers, such as how a blind person learns to smile, whether blind people can understand descriptions of color, and whether Edison would want to see if he was granted the ability. Simple yet profound, Edison's personal vlogs give an amazing insight into the world of the blind.
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9The Soldier Who Sees With His Tongue
Craig Lundberg was a 24-year-old lance corporal serving in Basra, Iraq when his life changed forever. In 2007, the young soldier found himself on the wrong end of an RPG, receiving serious wounds to his head, face, and arms. Even worse, the attack left him completely blind. Doctors were forced to remove his left eye, leaving him with a right eyeball that was totally useless. Suddenly, Lance Corporal Lundberg was lost in the dark.
Lundberg was prepared to spend his life relying on his guide dog when he was chosen by the Ministry of Defense to test a crazy piece of sci-fi technology called the BrainPort. After donning a pair of sunglasses equipped with a video camera, images from the camera were converted into electrical pulses and sent to the "lollipop," a device sitting on Lundberg's tongue. Scientists aren't sure what happened next—the signals coursed through his tongue and ended up either in the visual cortex or the somatosensory cortex (the part that processes touch). Either way, Lundberg could now see—sort of.
While the lollipop felt like "licking a nine-volt battery," Lundberg could suddenly make out two-dimensional images. He could identify simple shapes, didn't need help moving, and could pick up objects without fumbling around. Even more surprising, he could make out letters, giving him the ability to read. While the device is still in development, it promises to give Lundberg a completely new life, although he says he's never getting rid of his faithful guide dog.
8The Explorer Who Trekked To The South Pole
We've already told you about Erik Weihenmayer, the blind adventurer who scaled Mount Everest, but he isn't the only visually challenged superhuman laughing in Mother Nature's face. Meet former Royal Navy sailor Alan Lock. Growing up, Lock dreamed of becoming a submarine officer, but during training, he lost his eyesight in six short weeks to macular degeneration. Lock views the world through "frosted glass with blind spots" dotting his vision, but he wasn't going to let a little thing like blindness bring him down. Inspired by his disability, Lock set out to conquer the world.
Between 2003 and 2012, he competed in 18 marathons, climbed Mount Elbrus, and became the first blind person to row across the Atlantic Ocean. Still not satisfied with his list of awesome achievements, Lock decided to try something even cooler—literally. With the help of two sighted friends and a guide, the 31-year-old set off from the Antarctic coast, determined to ski to the South Pole. Hauling a 60-kilogram (130 lb) sled around his waist and battling freezing winds, Lock and his companions traveled 960 kilometers (600 mi) over 39 days, snacking on dehydrated foods and chunks of butter. Not only did he became the first blind person to reach the South Pole, he earned over $25,000 for charities that help the visually challenged.
7The Blind Woman Who Can See Movement
In 2000, 29-year-old Milena Channing suffered a stroke that wiped out her primary visual cortex. This should have left her completely blind, but Channing swore she saw rain as it fell to Earth. She saw cars whizzing past her window and even saw her daughter running and playing. When doctors analyzed Channing's brain, they thought she must have been mistaken. It was neurologically impossible for her to see anything other than a big, empty void. They believed she may have been suffering from Charles Bonnet Syndrome, a bizarre affliction that causes blind people to experience hallucinations.
Convinced these flashes were real, Channing met up with Gordon Dutton, the only physician who believed her story. The Glasgow ophthalmologist suspected Channing was instead experiencing Riddoch's phenomenon, a strange syndrome that allows people to see moving shapes but nothing else. To test his theory, the doctor had Channing sit in a rocking chair and move back and forth. Suddenly, she could see the world moving past her.
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Circumcision, uncircumcision, and blood. These words all seem very abstract and not part of our cultural fabric.
The blood of Jesus is an important theological concept; but the phrase weirds people out. Talking about circumcision does not immediately imply something about one's status as part of the people of God. People think hospital and current debates about whether it's child<|fim_middle|> humanity, but to do so through the people Israel.
The circumcision and the uncircumcision are two separate groups within humanity according to our author. One group was considered outsiders, the other insiders with regard to covenant with God (and it was not only that Jews saw Gentiles as outsiders; from the perspective of Gentile life and religiosity, Jews were equally ignorant of God as defined by their history and tradition). This separation between the two groups was not limited to theological disposition -- to "belief"; it played out in very real ways in terms of human social relations. While it would be incorrect to say these groups of people had no interaction, it is important to understand that they did not sit at the same table together; they were not interested in sharing life. They were opposed.
This passage trumpets the good news that God has brought uncircumcision and circumcision together. One radical element of this message is that God's unification of the two groups does not mean "uniformity." One group does not fall under the power of the more dominant group. Rather, Paul says that God in Christ has made one humanity of the two. Gentiles do not become Jews; Jews do not become Gentiles. Rather, both Jews and Gentiles become united in Christ as Jew and Gentile. The uncircumcision are welcomed into the story of God played out through the people of the circumcision, to play their own part in the continuing story of redemption.
The point is that God's reconciliation and transformation of humanity finds expression in a unity marked by welcoming and hospitality. Consider areas of divisiveness within the church, or even within culture. We even in the church should not presume that those outsiders need to become like us. The church should be a light that paves the way by welcoming both Jew and Gentile and uniting them into God's mission in Christ (consider "conservative" and "liberal" [as useless as these phrases are, they remain very much in the vernacular of most churchgoers]; homosexual and heterosexual -- not simply the people so identified, but even those who hold positions on both sides; American and Muslim; the list goes on).
This reconciliation comes through the blood of Christ. Behind this statement lies the upside-down idea that such uniting of humanity was won not through the blood of conquest and victory, but through (in the eyes of the world still enslaved to the spirit of the air) the blood of defeat. Where the unity sought in the Roman world came through conquest and uniformity to Rome's ways, the victory of God comes so differently that it is unrecognizable to the world. "The powers' triumph over Christ was their own defeat."2 It's not that Christ defeated them, it's that in their defeat of Christ, they show themselves still remaining under the ways that lead to death and have always led to death since Genesis 4. Through death to the ways that lead to death -- in blood -- God in Christ has brought an end to those ways and raised up a people who die with Christ to witness to reconciliation and unity in Christ.
1 I am unpersuaded by arguments against Pauline authorship of Ephesians.
2 Timothy Gombis, The Drama of Ephesians: Participating in the Triumph of God (Downers Grove: IVP Academic) 88.
Discussion on texts for Eighth Sunday after Pentecost (Ordinary 16; July 19, 2015): (Gospel) Mark 6:30-34, 53-56; (First Reading) Jeremiah 23:1-6; (Semicontinuous First Reading) 2 Samuel 7:1-14a; Psalm 23; (Second Reading) Ephesians 2:11-22.
Sheep in paradise, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, Tenn. Original source. | abuse. The words don't connect with the vast seas of non-seminary grads (and sometimes even for seminary grads) as we often assume it will. People are either confused by such churchy words, or they fit the words into oversimplified categories of Christian theology. If we are to communicate this passage effectively, we need to get past the words.
Rhetorically, Ephesians 2 lays very important groundwork for the rest of the letter. It's helpful to see the argument in terms of concentric circles. The outer circle in 2:1-10 communicates God's cosmic transformation of humanity from being dead in sin to alive in Christ. The inner circle in 2:11-22 begins with a "therefore" (dio), suggesting that everything said issues from 2:1-10. Here Paul1 focuses on the reconciliation of Jew and Gentile, which falls within God's bigger move of reconciling humanity from sin and death to life. This social, on-the-ground-relational transformation cannot be divorced from the greater cosmic move of transferring humanity from the house of the old aeon to the new house under the lordship of Jesus Christ. God's reconciliation does not stop with me and my own sinfulness; it aims to resurrect humanity from the palpable widespread systemic brokenness of a world caught under sin and death.
These verses provide opportunity to go in two directions. First, they provide a doorway to reorient the idea of God's salvation. Being saved is not just "getting a ticket out of hell," or positively put, assurance of heaven. It is a movement from one sphere of life to another. These verses remind us: salvation involves more than forgiveness of the individual sinful self; it is the integration into God's work of redemption and reconciliation, which is strongly implied in the following verses (see also 2 Corinthians 5).
From the perspective of the author, humanity outside of God's reconciliation exists as hopeless wanderers. It's not that humanity apart from God has no identity or home. Humanity apart from God's mission would not see themselves this way. But human identity outside of God's working of redemption is about as lasting as the fog in the San Francisco bay. Sure, it's thick and dense and a force to be reckoned with; but it will pass, revealing it was only a mist with no substance. It's not that God has called humanity from nothingness; God has called humanity from the illusion that our stubborn insistence that we and our manufactured ways can actually bring into actualization our full identity as those made in the image of God.
Second, and related, these verses provide an opportunity to reorient hearers in our congregations to the importance of God's historic people Israel and their story in the Old Testament -- the "circumcision." God's salvation cannot properly be understood apart from the overarching trajectory of the unfolding mission of God through the people of Israel. And this is more than just finding the moral of the story in the various stories of Old Testament characters. It's common to see Israel as incomplete apart from Christ, to minimize their place, seeing them as a "waiting room people," to ask "what's the moral of the story of David and Goliath?" Israel's story is more significant than this. Scripture's witness sets Israel as witnesses to God's creational intentions in the world, an alternative people who witness to the promises of God to restore, and the ones through whom God would accomplish this. In spite of their humanity and struggles with God, their story remains the central witness to God and God's ways, as well as to God's faithfulness to not only redeem | 745 |
Tell Your Friends! Disney+ Launches GroupWatch Feature Allowing Users to Stream Together
While watching, viewers can react in real-time with different emojis that are then displayed to each participant
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Published on September 29, 2020 11:11 AM
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Watch parties are no longer a thing of the past thanks to Disney+.
As people continue to limit social gatherings due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Disney+ has released a new feature that allows friends and family to watch their favorite television shows and movies together — even if they are physically apart.
Called ″GroupWatch," the new extension allows up to seven people to watch any piece of content in sync together across their individual devices, including web, mobile, connected TV devices and Smart TVs.
Once a user selects a program to watch, they can send a link to friends to "invite" them to watch the show or movie with them.
While watching, viewers can react in real-time with different emojis that are then displayed to each participant.
"Storytelling comes alive when you're able to share and enjoy it with others, and in this moment when many are still apart from their friends and family, GroupWatch offers a way to safely connect virtually by co-viewing your favorite Disney+ stories with your favorite people from the comfort of your living room," said Jerrell B Jimerson, SVP Product Management for Disney+.
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The new feature comes just in time for the premiere of The Mandalorian season 2 on Oct. 30. The new season picks up where the first left off, with Mando (Pedro Pascal) and The Child (a.k.a. "Baby Yoda") traveling the galaxy together.
The Mandalorian takes place in the time between the end of the original Star Wars trilogy and The Force Awakens. It stars Pascal, Gina Carano, Carl Weathers, Giancarlo Esposito, Werner Herzog, Nick Nolte, Emily Swallow and Omid Abtahi.
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The winner of last week's Great Wednesday Compare (Hermione Granger VERSUS Ron Weasley), with a final score of 4-3 was Hermione Granger.
Interesting voting process last week. Hermione fans burst out the gate, then<|fim_middle|> becos I have written couple of poems about her and the big bad wolf. She is more than what meets the eye.
At first, I was going to vote for Little Red. She's been around for ages and will likely continue to be introduced to children. However, after reading everyone's comments on Hermione, I'm going to have to stick with her. Smart girls all the way! | either Ron fans were slow to follow or he picked up sympathy votes. I agree that Ron comes across as a very human character and that his family is pretty interesting. I was somewhat intrigued that a couple of Ron's fans said they were voting for Ron from the books, not the movie. I wonder why. How do you feel about Rupert Grint's portrayal?
Vote in the comment section below before August 31st: Who is the better character?
I have to complain that this isn't a very fair comparison. My vote is going to go to Hermoine Granger, but only because over the course of 7 (long) novels, her character is so much more developed than that of LRRH. Who knows what LRRH could have become, had she been given 7 novels?
I'm voting for Hermione for the same reason.
I voted for Ron last week, but am changing to Hermione this week. Can't go with LRRH. Not the brightest bulb in the lamp. Hermione would've figured out in an instant that it was the wolf and not her grandmother in the bed, even though that creep was wearing granny's nightcap and nightgown.
This one is hard to pick, John. I'm going with Little Red. She's been around for centuries and has been reincarnated in so many different guises. She's come a long way from the naive little girl used to frighten children not to wander off into the forest, though she served her purpose then. I think she'll continue to inspire writers for many more centuries to come.
Going with Hermione on this one. Mainly for the same reasons as Kate.
I'm going with Red. She's an enigma. Was she really going to Grandma's house? And just what was in that 'basket of goodies'? And why the red hood, hm?
LRRH had no clue, in fact she must have been a stereotypical blond. LoL!
I have to go with Hermione, she would have figured out it was the Wolf right away and cast a spell on him.
Definitely Hermione! Red was little more then a pawn.
I am with Little Red Riding Hood. Mainly, | 446 |
An unusual thing happened recently at the nursing home. I guess we have all heard stories about residents being unresponsive until a visit from a pet therapy dog perks them up and grabs their attention. Well, my dog Lotto, and I have never seen this in any of our visits, and I had never talked to anyone that it happened to; I had only heard the stories.
The other night we were visiting rooms one by one when a woman we have seen on most visits, pushing her mother in a wheelchair, stopped us. She had seen us go by and searched around the nursing home until she found us. We stopped for<|fim_middle|> and we strive to do a good job for our folks. Thank you for this opportunity. | a bit to spend time with her as she and her mother pet Lotto, and they both seemed to enjoy visiting with him. We continued on our rounds and got ready to leave, and the woman we met with earlier was leaving at the same time. I asked how her Mom was doing and she said not well as she had cancer and was probably going to need hospice. She said she had hunted us down because her mother had been quiet and almost non-responsive until she saw Lotto. Her mother perked up and said "There goes Lotto" as soon as we walked by. I guess we really never know how our visits help other, but that sure got my attention. Lotto got an extra treat when we got home. I don't know her name, but when I see her again I will ask.
She was telling me all of this as we walked out into the cold to go home. I did tell her that I volunteered for hospice | 190 |
La Cellule en verre (titre original : ) est un film allemand réalisé par Hans W. Geissendörfer sorti en 1<|fim_middle|>ages allemands proposés à l'Oscar du meilleur film en langue étrangère
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Film allemand sorti en 1978
Film portugais sorti en 1978
Film policier allemand
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Film dramatique allemand
Film dramatique portugais
Adaptation d'un roman américain au cinéma
Film tiré d'une œuvre de Patricia Highsmith
Film nommé aux Oscars
Film en allemand
Film tourné aux Bavaria Filmstudios
Film réalisé par Hans W. Geißendörfer | 978. Le film fut nommé à l'Oscar du meilleur film en langue étrangère.
Synopsis
Phillip Braun est relâché après plusieurs années d'emprisonnement. Pourtant, il se sait innocent de ce dont on l'accuse et dès sa sortie, il se met en tête de retrouver le véritable coupable. Sa femme Lisa Braun l'aide dans son enquête.
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Titre : La Cellule en verre ou La Cellule de verre
Titre original :
Réalisation : Hans W. Geissendörfer
Scénario : Hans W. Geissendörfer et Klaus Bädekerl d'après le roman de Patricia Highsmith
Photographie : Robby Müller
Musique : Niels Janette Walen
Producteur : Luggi Waldleitner
Pays d'origine : ,
Format : Couleurs
Genre : Policier et drame
Durée : 93 minutes
Date de sortie : 1978
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Brigitte Fossey : Lisa Braun
Helmut Griem : Phillip Braun
Dieter Laser : David Reinalt
Walter Kohut : Lasky
Bernhard Wicki : Commissaire de police
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Furtherial - Liberation Path (2021)
Style: Melodic Death Metal
Release Date: 1 Jan 2021
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I've been enjoying the diversity of Turkish music here at Apocalypse Later, with bands like Forgotten, Uluru and Metalium alike only in nationality and quality, given that they play doom/death metal, a hybrid of psychedelic/space rock and thrash metal respectively. Here's another style played with some real panache, melodic death metal, courtesy of Istanbul's Furtherial, though there are other elements here too, most overtly progressive metal but also some thrash and power metal. Liberation is their third studio album, though they also put out a two part EP in 2017 and 2018 that could easily count as another.
Including a few years as Extinction, they've been around since 2007 and they've only had a single line-up change in that entire time, Önder Işkın replacing Ozan Murat Özfen on bass in 2014. They're just as tight as that history suggests, which is essential because songs with as much staccato riffing as Dusk Above and Back to the Ocean kind of require it. Had they been less tight, this wouldn't remotely have worked. That it does speaks volumes.
I liked the opener, Tailor of Dreams, which boasts a neat intro, but it was Dusk Above that sold me on the band. Lethean follows it and may be even better. These songs are technical and complex, but they have a bounce to them that's infectious. Başer Çelebi's voice even ventures into power metal for the chorus. Estranged is<|fim_middle|>Tuatha de Danann - In Nomine Éireann (2020)
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Spirit Adrift - Enlightened in Eternity (2020) | bouncier still and its insanely simple three note rising riff reminded me a lot of Toranaga. They slayed live and I'd love to see if Furtherial do too.
I'm not quite as sold on the slower, deeper section, because it feels like Furtherial always want to keep the pedal down unless they're getting soft and introspective. Going for a doomy vibe doesn't work as well, but it's capably performed and Çelebi's vocal tone stays as rich as the guitars, just a tad deeper. He covers a lot more ground on the next song, Clashing Stories, including a section where he shifts to a clean voice. He does that particularly well midway through The Old Man too, so it's fair to say that he certainly doesn't feel married to one particular style and that's always promising.
Surely the best thing about this album is that the standard never drops across eight tracks and forty minutes of music, even if my favourite tracks tend to be early ones. The eight and a half minute song, Truth in Existence, doesn't feel longer than anything else, even if the average song here merely runs four or five. There are parts that elevate each song, many of them softer, intricate guitar passages. To prove the exception to every rule, I love the build to a crescendo late in Back to the Ocean, as well as the final thrashy blitz to the finish, which is over too soon.
I should point out that Çelebi isn't just the vocalist in this band, he also contributes a rhythm guitar to back up Bora İnce's lead. They complement each other well, so it rarely seems like one is taking care of the riffs while the other solos. Işkın's bass is perfectly placed in the excellent mix, making it easy to follow, which I always appreciate. Versatile drummer Berkay Yıldırım fills out the line-up but is really the backbone to this band. It was obvious that he was reliable, just listening to a couple of songs, but finishing up the album and especially playing it through again highlights just how much he does.
It's not even a week into the new year, but I think I've found my first 8/10 for 2021 and I think it's fair to say, given the rise of prog rock over the last year, that I wasn't expecting it to be a Turkish melodic death metal album. But hey, discovery is what Apocalypse Later is all about. My highly recommended list for 2021 is now one album long. Let's see how much and how soon it grows!
By Hal C. F. Astell at January 06, 2021
Labels: melodic death metal, progressive metal, Turkey
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China's metals curb plan seen risking shortages in biggest user
China's proposal to halt some metals production to fight air pollution over the winter would create shortages of alumina but have a more limited impact on aluminum supply, according to China's top industry body, which has been consulted on the plan.
The proposal involves an alumina suspension in three provinces that would affect about a fifth of the nation's operating capacity producing the raw material for aluminum. The halts to aluminum, which is used in everything from cans to window frames, would be less severe — about a tenth of the country's operating capacity would be targeted, across four provinces, according to the plan.
A draft was circulated by the Ministry of Environmental Protection earlier this month and is subject to change pending industry feedback, according to a person with knowledge of plan, who asked not to be identified because it's confidential. The period targeted runs from November to March, when pollution peaks due to coal-fired heating. While the intention is to implement the plan next winter, it hasn't been decided whether it would come into force over the remainder of this season, the person said.
The impact on aluminum production would likely be limited at about 1 million metric tons, the deputy chairman of the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, Wen Xianjun, said by phone on Wednesday. For alumina, the impact would be bigger and create an imbalance in supply and demand, he said, without giving figures.
If the plan materializes, it would lead to a 12 percent production loss for alumina and a 4 percent loss for aluminum, Citigroup Inc. analysts including Jack Shang and Ada Gao said in a note on Wednesday.
China churns out more than half the world's aluminum and produced a record volume last year of almost 32 million tons, according to the statistics bureau. It had been expected to boost output further to put the global market into surplus in 2017. Alumina production in 2015, the latest for which figures are available, was 56 million tons, according to state-backed researcher Antaike Information Development Co.
News of the proposal pushed aluminum prices in London to their highest level in 20 months on Tuesday, while on Wednesday the nation's biggest smelter China Hongqiao Group Ltd. surged as much as 8.4 percent in Hong Kong; the No. 2, Aluminum Corp of China Ltd., or Chalco, rose as much as 5.1 percent.
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Researcher SMM Information & Technology Co. said in a note Tuesday it doubts the proposal will be implemented, as the halt would cost aluminum smelters about 2.25 billion yuan ($327 million) to stop and resume production, and risks other capacity coming online to fill the supply gap.
Under the proposal, 30 percent of running capacity at some aluminum smelters in Hebei, Shandong, Henan and Shanxi provinces would be ordered to halt over the period, according to the person. The operations targeted account for more than 11 million tons, or about 30 percent of the nation's total. For alumina, 50 percent of running capacity in Shandong, Henan and Shanxi provinces would be affected, operations which accounts for about 28 million tons, or 40 percent of the nation's total.
Nobody responded to a fax requesting comment from the Ministry of Environmental Protection's news department. An official at China Hongqiao, which also producers alumina, declined to comment. An e-mail to Chalco didn't get a response.
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Saturday, September 25, 2021 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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The student program offers an inside look at the architectural profession, highlighting the varied and creative career paths open to graduates of architecture school.
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this fall's Student Program will be held entirely online. Registration is open to students at participating schools and will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Space permitting, students from any architecture school across the country are welcome to participate.
The day opens with a virtual panel discussion featuring:
Delma Palma, Deputy Director of Architecture and Urban Planning, New York City Housing Authority
Todd Palmer, Director of the Diversity in Design Collaborative
Bo Liu and Andreas Kostopoulos, Associates at Diller Scofidio + Renfro
In the afternoon, each student will choose one of the following studios to tour virtually:
Body Lawson Associates (BLA)
LEVENBETTS
Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU)
sageandcoombearchitects
Stephen Yablon Architecture
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Delma Palma
Delma Palma is the deputy director of architecture<|fim_middle|> DS+R, Andreas worked at offices including Van Wyck and Van Wyck and HWKN Architecture. His independent work outside of the studio includes the design of the Self-Portrait flagship store in Beijing; the Self-Portrait pop-up shop in New York; and the design for The North Face Black Label show during Paris Fashion Week 2020.
Andreas studied computational structural engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and earned his post-professional master's in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and the Architectural Association.
VIRTUAL STUDIO VISITS
Founded in 2000 by David Adjaye, Adjaye Associates has studios in New York, London, and Accra, with completed work across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Projects range in scale from private houses, bespoke furniture collections, product design, exhibitions, and pavilions to major arts centers, civic buildings, and master plans. Renowned for an eclectic material and color palette and a capacity to offer a rich civic experience, the buildings differ in form and style, yet are unified by their ability "to generate new typologies and to reference a wide cultural discourse," according to the firm.
Completed projects include the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, Sugar Hill Mixed-Use Development in Harlem, New York, and the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in Moscow, Russia. Current projects include The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, the Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library in Johannesburg, South Africa, and The Africa Institute in Sharjah, UAE.
LEVENBETTS is an award-winning New York City-based architecture practice founded by David Leven and Stella Betts in 1997. The practice focuses on design at a range of scales: urban design, public architecture, houses and housing, commercial workspaces, exhibitions, and furniture. LEVENBETTS' publications include Pattern Recognition, a monograph documenting the firm's first ten years, and the forthcoming Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House, which contextualizes thirteen of the firm's residential projects within the current discourse on the architecture of the house.
Completed projects include Cornell University Rhodes Hall in Ithaca, New York; SQUARE House in Stone Ridge, New York; and the Wisdom Traveling Exhibition in New York, New York and Sydney, Australia. Current projects include Red Hook Library in Brooklyn, New York; TAYSTEE Building in New York, New York; and ZOID Pavilion in Ghent, New York.
Body Lawson Associates
Since its founding by Victor Body-Lawson in 1993, New York City-based Body Lawson Associates (BLA) has successfully completed projects for a wide range of clients in the corporate, private, institutional, public, and not-for-profit sectors. BLA is a 100% minority-owned firm, and has gained particular recognition for its innovative affordable housing designs. Its portfolio ranges from small interior and residential commissions to multifamily housing, public and private academic buildings, facilities for health and recreation, commercial projects, the rehabilitation of historically significant structures, and urban design and planning projects.
Completed projects include Union Baptist Church in Greenburgh, New York, Home Street Residences in New York, New York, and Dr. Murial Petioni Plaza Senior Apartments (Erbograph Apartments) in New York, New York. Current projects include La Peninsula in the Bronx, New York, Lagree Baptist Church in the Bronx, New York, and Baruch College's Field Building in New York, New York.
Founded in 2013, Marvel brings together architecture, landscape architecture, planning, urban design, and interiors professionals, "creating intentionally timeless design solutions that integrate nature and context," according to the firm. Its portfolio spans affordable housing, commercial, cultural institutions, schools and higher education, civic and public works, hospitality, high-end residential, recreational projects, workspaces, and parks and public spaces. From its offices in New York City and San Juan, Puerto Rico, Marvel develops "big ideas to solve big problems, accelerates discussions among stakeholders—including policymakers, community and business leaders, clients, activists, and citizens—and co-authors long-term visions for buildings, places, and people."
Completed projects include TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Pierhouse and 1 Hotel in Brooklyn, New York, and the Naval Cemetery Memorial Landscape in Brooklyn, New York. Current projects include the Northeast Bronx YMCA in the Bronx, New York, One Clinton in Brooklyn, New York, and ENLACE Landscape Architecture in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Founded in 2012 by Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem, MODU is an interdisciplinary design studio creating architecture, urban spaces, and interiors. MODU works in a collaborative framework, directing a think tank that links diverse experts in culture, technology, and industry. From its office in Brooklyn, New York, the studio designs environments that connect people to urban nature. At the intersection of design, urban ecology, and data analytics, MODU seeks to define a new sustainability—strengthening the environment while "elevating the experience of being between indoors and outdoors, city and room," according to the firm.
Completed projects include Cloud Seeding in Tel Aviv, Israel, Intake in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Indoor City in Rome, Italy. Current projects include Promenade in Houston, Texas, Second Life in New York, New York, and Mini Tower One in Brooklyn, New York.
Founded in New York in 2015, PAU embraces architecture and city planning as allied fields, advancing strategic urbanism projects, typically with an embedded architectural component, in the form of master planning, tactical project advice, and advocacy. PAU's team employs a broad range of skills and mindsets, maintaining a constant focus on the lived experience of their work. Ultimately, the studio aspires to "a form of built thought leadership," in its words, creating tangible prototypes of how cities can and should evolve in response to the challenges before them.
Completed projects include the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, New York, the Sunnyside Yard Master Plan in Queens, New York, and JFK Towers at Schuylkill Yards in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Current projects include The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, East New York Mixed-Use Development in Brooklyn, New York, and the 16 Tech Signature Bridge in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Sage and Coombe Architects
Since 1994, sageandcoombearchitects, a Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE), has created public architecture that strengthens communities and protects the environment. Its portfolio focuses on social infrastructure, with projects ranging from the multiphase transformation of the Noguchi Museum to the design of the next generation of New York City phone booths. Over two decades, its team has designed libraries, parks, firehouses, athletic facilities, art centers, and schools for all ages—and from time to time, it takes on a beach house, townhouse, or penthouse.
Completed projects include The Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York, the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island, New York, and the Edgeless School Exhibition at the Center for Architecture in New York, New York. Current projects include the North Waterfront Park Outdoor Theater in Wilmington, North Carolina, Maplewood Library in Maplewood, New Jersey, and Mulberry Commons in Newark, New Jersey.
Stephen Yablon Architecture (SYA) describes its practice as "creat[ing] inspiring and humane contemporary architecture that helps people live better in our time." Established in 1995, the firm is known for architecture that evokes its clients' identities, enhances their communities, and enables them to innovate for the future. SYA works with a wide range of nonprofit, public, and private clients. Pursuing a holistic approach that includes research, award-winning contemporary design, and technical excellence, the firm strives to create architecture that enables clients and their communities to successfully achieve their visions and goals.
Completed projects include Betances Community Center in the Bronx, New York, Planned Parenthood Queens in Queens, New York, and The Guest Pavilion in Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. Current projects include the Brooklyn Museum Education Division in Brooklyn, New York, the Medgar Evers College Athletic Center in Brooklyn, New York, and the Kingsborough Community College Performing Arts Center in Brooklyn, New York. | and urban planning at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). A licensed architect and certified planner, she leads several design studios to implement capital projects across the agency's portfolio. Her work focuses on design excellence, community-led design processes, and public health and safety. She is currently developing the design priorities for the stabilization of 110,000 housing units slated for future renovation.
In May 2020, amid the Coronavirus pandemic, Delma led the release of the internationally recognized Connected Communities Guidebook, a publication outlining urban design and community engagement priorities that will inform all future capital work at NYCHA.
Delma's work at NYCHA won a 2020 Wellbeing Cities Award from the NewCities Foundation. She was also a finalist for the 2020 Frederick O'Reilly Hayes Prize, which is awarded to extraordinary New York City public servants.
Prior to NYCHA, Delma worked on affordable housing across the country as an architect at Torti Gallas + Partners in Washington, DC. She has also worked on housing policy and construction of modular emergency housing with TECHO, the largest social housing organization in Latin America.
Todd Palmer
Todd Palmer is a design strategist, curator, and cultural leader with extensive experience shaping purpose-driven platforms at the intersection of design, public learning, and spatial equity.
In July 2021, Todd became the first director of the Diversity in Design Collaborative, launched by 20 design-focused organizations aligned to confront systemic barriers faced by Black talent in the sector. He also orchestrated the 2017 and 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial as its executive director, defining the emergent transnational platform as a catalyst connecting experimentation with civic urgencies. Previously, as curator and associate director of the National Public Housing Museum, Palmer facilitated grassroots efforts to rehabilitate a community site as a cultural framework for confronting poverty.
Todd earned a BA, summa cum laude, in the history and theory of architecture from Princeton and a MArch from Columbia GSAPP. He has completed public space commissions in Spain and Chicago, exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and published in the Avery Review. He recently taught a graduate studio at Rhode Island School of Design as a critic in the MArch program.
Bo Liu
Bo Liu is an associate at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R). Born in Tianjin, China, and raised in multiple countries, Bo joined DS+R in 2013. She now leads the studio's recruitment and DEI efforts and has worked on several large-scale projects, including the Centre for Civilizations, Cultures, and Cities at the University of Toronto, the V&A Storehouse in London, and 15 Hudson Yards in New York. She is currently working on a new home for MIT's School of Architecture and Planning in Cambridge. Prior to joining DS+R, Bo worked at Asymptote and KPF.
Bo strives to widen access to architectural education and practice while directing her professional efforts towards combating climate change and social injustice in the field. She has taught at Columbia GSAPP and is a mentor with the ACE Mentor Program.
Bo holds a bachelor's degree in architecture from McGill University and a master's degree in architecture from Columbia GSAPP. She also studied at the Architectural Association in London.
Andreas Kostopoulos
Andreas Kostopoulos is an associate at DS+R. Since joining the studio in 2012, Andreas has worked on several of its independent and cultural projects, including Prada Invites, a collaboration with Prada for its spring/summer 2019 collection; Charles James: Beyond Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the V&A Storehouse in London; and the New Museum of Transport in Budapest.
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The "Ascension of our Lord" recalls that after the risen Lord appeared to his disciples (Luke 24:13- 35,36-43),<|fim_middle|>11:13). Our true home is heaven. | he bids them farewell, blesses them, and promises them the Holy Spirit. At this final moment he helps the Apostles to understand the meaning of his death in the light of the Scriptures. For Jesus it is the end of his journey in this world. For the Apostles it is the beginning of a long journey into the world to take Jesus' message everywhere. But they are not sent to go alone. Jesus promises them a companion on the road: the Spirit. Through this Spirit they will realize that he is still with them. Luke has two versions of the Ascension. In the Acts of the Apostles, the Ascension to heaven happens only after appearing to the disciples for forty days which is a symbolic figure. During this time Jesus prepares his disciples to be his messengers. Their missionary journey will start in Jerusalem and reach Rome, the center of the Roman empire. The Gospel of Ascension tells us that like the Apostles we are all sent out on a journey into the world to take Jesus' message of love to all we meet on our road of life. As followers of Jesus, we have also to be his messengers. The task of evangelizing all peoples is the most important mission of the Church. Every Christian is called to tell the Good News of Jesus to others by word and action. Ascension reminds us also that—as for Jesus—our life is a journey home, to our Father's house. Although God has given us the important mission to transform this world into his kingdom, we always remain "strangers and foreigners on earth" (Heb | 319 |
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Recruitment and Retention of Personnel Directing Rural Libraries: A Review of Literature in Preparation of a Study for Idaho
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"There is an assumption that the public library is predominantly an urban institution, and while that depends on how the words 'urban' and 'rural' are defined" (Sager, p. 5), the statistics reveal that the majority of public libraries tend to exist in towns or population centers of under 25,000 (Vavrek, May 1983, p. 966). Whether or not one agrees with the projection that "…most public libraries, even the smallest, will be led by professional managers" (Kirwin, p. 7), the library and information science profession needs to increase its knowledge about those among its ranks who manage the majority of the nation's public libraries. One of the major problems facing rural public libraries is the recruitment and retention of directors. However, a major barrier to the<|fim_middle|> relate in some way to the recruitment and retention of public library directors.
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Library Philosophy and Practice Editorial Board | tracking of trends in the management of rural library and information services is the paucity of data. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to provide a review of literature and research that can | 38 |
This week on Shared Practices see's the return of Dr Olya Banchik, Dr. Banchik is on the forefront of cosmetic dentistry and studied at the world-renowned Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies, where she has completed numerous courses in the most advanced techniques of aesthetic dentistry and treatment of temporomandibular disorders. Recently Olya moved from Vegas to North Carolina to start her new practice and we catch up with her to discuss all of the recent developments.
For the third instalment of Richards interviews with Olya, we initially focus more on the obstacles that she faced starting her practice from scratch. More of a what to avoid episode as opposed to the last few weeks. Once again, Olya tells some funny anecdotes about some issues she encountered early on and we cover a massive range of topics. Such as : Early infrastructure problems, time allocation, getting set up with insurance, marketing tips, expectations versus reality and later on we cover what drove Olya to go from clinical dentistry to where she is now.
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37:27 – 39:37 Getting exposure in local publications and how to go about it.
39:38 – 41:30 How Olya's first year is shaping up compared to her expectations.
41:31 – 45:42 Going from clinical dentistry to helping dentists in practice transition.
45:43 – 53:56 Deciding if practice ownership is for you.
56:39 – 59:59 At what point should someone reach out for consultancy for practice transition.
1:00:00 – 1:02:17 Interview conclusion and episode outro. | 00:00 – 00:23 Episode intro with Richard.
02:39 – 05:00 How people have been responding to the episodes with Olya.
17:41 – 19:26 A reminder to not forget the basics when focusing on big picture problems.
19:27 – 21:35 The cart measurement catastrophe.
21:36 – 23:33 Allowing yourself the proper time to establish your systems can be tough.
23:34 – 30:36 What Olya learned about verifying insurance, getting credentialed and third-party admins.
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<|fim_middle|> CDS and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital. Key Bank provided construction financing for the project. | By Anuradha Kher, Online News EditorRuston, La.–Collegiate Development Services LP (CDS), an Irving, Texas-based real estate developer specializing in student housing, has unveiled plans for its newest student apartment housing project, at Collegiate Station in Ruston, adjacent to the Louisiana Tech University.According to CDS, the project has been designed to create an upscale living and learning community that meets the needs of today's students and supports the University's expanding enrollment. The off-campus apartment complex is located at 1812 West Alabama on approximately nine acres of land. The eight-building project features three-story garden-style apartment buildings containing 24 two-bedroom, two-bathroom units and 96 four-bedroom, two-bathroom units. This project will provide a total of 432 lease-by-the-bed spaces.Unit amenities include a full-size kitchen with complete appliance package, including refrigerator with ice maker, over-the-range microwave and full-size washer/dryer; furnished living room and bedrooms; multiple bathroom sinks; high-speed Internet access; cable television; ceiling fans; and available safety features, such as intrusion alarms and individually locked bedrooms. Other amenities include a swimming pool, cooking grill, convenient perimeter parking and custom landscaping.The project also features a 5,500-sq.-ft. clubhouse with a large common area, two plasma screen televisions and home theater system, computer lab, media/multi-purpose room, fitness center, kitchen, pool table, game table and management/leasing offices. The project is a joint venture between | 318 |
"When North Star Leasing launched Vision Commerce in July 201<|fim_middle|> process, or requirements while maintaining automation. We have been able to optimize our operations for continued growth without additional overhead."
"The staff of Vision Commerce took both pride and ownership in not just understanding our business, but effectively and professionally changing the way we do business in so many ways. Because of that attention, the Vision origination system has given us incredible visibility with a significant reduction in origination expenses. Along the way we have learned valuable lessons of successful system deployment we will apply across the entire company. Vision Commerce will be a key partner as our business evolves and expands."
"The Vision Commerce team worked with us to understand our business and our requirements. They deployed an origination system that optimized our productivity and streamlined our workflow. Approval time has been cut, application tracking has been improved and we are able to process twice the business without increasing staff."
"The conversion to Vision allows our internal operations and remote sales offices to enjoy a rule based system specifically designed to match our unique operation. Our old system had run its course for Liberty. By combining our strong customer service with Vision's automation, I expect to grow well beyond what our previous systems capabilities allowed."
- Tom Madonna, President Liberty Financial Group, Inc. | 0, we saw an immediate and significant return on our investment in the form of enhanced operational efficiency. The platform automates our day to day activities, allowing us to manage our workflow with ease and process more deals in less time.
We implemented Vision's CRM platform in March 2014 to provide our sales team with an improved method of tracking new leads, managing existing customers, and supporting assigned vendors. Since then we have experienced substantial improvement in our ability to farm existing customers and vendors, as well as increased visibility with regard to our workflow processes. Our sales reps can schedule calls to their vendors in a coordinated effort with funded transactions, and all inbound and outbound emails are captured on the CRM platform. This allows us to view email conversations at any point in time, by any sales rep, and helps us back up their activities when they are out of the office. Furthermore, we have improved our marketing efforts by interfacing our entire database with Constant Contact's email marketing service.
The most important feature of Vision is the team of experts supporting the services behind the scenes. After 30+ years working with many other vendors that supported the platforms I've used, the Vision Commerce team ranks at the VERY TOP. I've never experienced a higher and faster level of response to issues and customization needs. They are simply SUPERB."
"Vision has given us the tools and resources we need to be nimble - a quality that helps us be competitive. We can change our business rules, | 297 |
After 25 years of high-end fashion Collette Dinnigan has finally turned her creativity to her love for interior design and hotels.
Working with Bannisters by the Sea, a coastal boutique hotel a five-minute drive from Dinnigan's NSW South Coast country retreat, penthouse suites 29 and 30 have been completely renovated and reimagined.
Collette's inspiration was to capture the seaside coastal elegance of the suites in a relaxed and comfortable environment, while retaining her strong feminine aesthetic complete with luxury finishes.
The first one hundred guests will receive a limited edition Collette Dinnigan candle made in Grass, France.
PENTHOUSE SUITE 29 is instantly relaxing with the sound of waves crashing. Walking into the living room, past the kitchenette and large trestle style table, you have uninterrupted ocean views with comfortable linen sofas, handprinted cushions by textile designers such as Kathryn Ireland, Penny Morrison and Carolina Irving, a wool rug by Vaughan, a fire place with marble mantle, oak wooden floorboards, wooden shutters and doors.
The bedroom features Schumacher fabrics, brass Aerin Lauder wall fittings and a chair Collette bought in the South of France hand covered in velvet.
The bathroom is real luxury featuring hand made vanities with Carrara marble tops, Perrin & Rowe tapware, a sizeable bathtub and shower, and heated floors. There is also a separate powder room.
Australian photographers and artists who have an emotional<|fim_middle|> bed filled with cushions, two sun lounges and customised cane furniture feature on the deck. | connection to the water are featured throughout — such as Murray Hilton and John Witizg's 1970s surf nostalgia.
Both suites have a collection of botanical and coral sea life sourced from the French markets, as well as charts from Collette's family's sailing journeys across the Indian Ocean.
The balcony offers customised cane furniture in a relaxed setting for two.
Walking past a kitchenette and large dining table into the living room you have stunning ocean views towards the east, and north towards Jervis Bay. Comfortable linen sofas, handprinted cushions by textile designers such as Kathryn Ireland, Penny Morrison and Carolina Irving, wool rugs by Madeline Weinrib and Robyn Cosgrove, a fire place with marble mantle, wooden oak floorboards, then past wooden shutters and doors onto an extended balcony with antique Indian day bed filled with cushions, two sun lounges and customised cane furniture.
The bedroom features Schumacher fabrics, custom lamps and a chair Collette bought in the South of France hand covered in Belgium linen.
The bathroom is real luxury featuring hand made vanities with Carrara marble, Perrin & Rowe tapware, a sizeable bathtub and shower, and heated floors. There is also a separate powder room.
Penthouse Suite 29 - Features a gas fire place with marble mantle, oak wooden floorboards, wooden shutters and doors overlooking the Pacific Ocean and north towards Jervis Bay.
Penthouse Suite 29 - Uninterrupted ocean views from the living room.
Penthouse Suite 29 - The living room features comfortable linen sofas with handprinted cushions and wool rug by Vaughan.
Penthouse Suite 29 - Australian photographers and artists who have an emotional connection to the water are featured throughout — such as Murray Hilton and John Witizg's 1970s surf nostalgia.
Penthouse Suite 29 - The balcony offers customised cane furniture in a relaxed setting for two.
Penthouse Suite 29 - The bedroom features Schumacher fabrics and brass Aerin Lauder wall fittings.
Penthouse Suite 29 - The bathroom is real luxury featuring hand made vanities with Carrara marble tops, Perrin & Rowe tapware, a sizeable bathtub and shower, and heated floors.
Penthouse Suite 29 - Both suites have a collection of botanical and coral sea life sourced from the French markets, as well as charts from Collette's family's sailing journeys across the Indian Ocean.
Penthouse Suite 30 - Gas fire place with marble mantle, wooden oak floorboards, then past wooden shutters and doors onto an extended balcony with cliffs down to the Pacific Ocean metres away.
Penthouse Suite 30 - The living room has comfortable linen sofas, handprinted cushions by textile designers such as Kathryn Ireland, Penny Morrison and Carolina Irving, wool rugs by Madeline Weinrib and Robyn Cosgrove.
Penthouse Suite 30 - Wooden panelling is featured throughout and artwork by Martin Emdur.
Penthouse Suite 30 - The bedroom features Schumacher fabrics and custom lamps.
Penthouse Suite 30 - The large deck overlooks stunning ocean views towards the east, and north towards Jervis Bay.
Penthouse Suite 30 - An antique Indian day | 675 |
Ancestry.com and FamilySearch separately looked back at 2015 and announced some of their plans for 2016.
It's Ancestry's 20th anniversary and in a New Year's greeting sent to subscribers, Tim Sullivan noted accomplishments of 2<|fim_middle|> relationship feature will show how you are related to people in Family Tree.
Searching will be more user-friendly, the search results will be better and easier to use.
Adding photos, stories, documents, and audio files will be easier.
The home page will be dynamic and personalized.
There will be more partner apps.
FamilySearch will add to the 319 digital camera teams that today produce 125 million images per year. The new cameras will focus on international records.
There will be more mobile apps on IOS and Android platforms through FamilySearch.
More people than ever will see RootsTech via live streaming and recordings.
There will be an added emphasis on attracting youth.
There was a 13th item, combined with item 1. Perhaps FamilySearch wanted to avoid the number 13.
Record hinting will get faster (it used to take weeks for new hints to show up) and hints will come from more collections.
To see the list in FamilySearch's own words, see "12 Things You Will See from FamilySearch in 2016" on the FamilySearch blog.
The best thing ancestry.com ever did for me was the planned retirement of FTM2014. It rarely synced as promised, tech support was of no value and now that I have moved all my research to Legacy I can see the garbage that working on ancestry.com added to my tree. Has anyone ever noticed that if you really want to source a City Directory (from the USA) ancestry.com did not film the pages which include the year, location and publisher. So when you add their source to your tree you really don't have any way to prove the information. I use "Unsourced Cith Directory from Ancestry" Also, the DNA results are useless without a chromosome browser. I ask all my matches to upload their results to gedmatch.com so we can at least triangulate our results and determine if the relationship matches the shaky leaves at ancestry. Guess what, they don't always. So ancestry.com is providing inaccurate DNA matching. But - gotta love the records they have. I have been a member since 2000 and use it every day for research. Just wish they wouldn't take so many shortcuts and try to dumb down genealogy research and DNA testing.
"That meant saying goodbye to a few products so we can better hone our focus." LifeStory received explicit mention as one of the products receiving focus. He also called out AncestryDNA's exciting, new New Ancestor Discoveries.
Drop one thing that was really useful and that so many people wanted/used in order to focus on two things very few people wanted or used. Yup. Makes sense to me. | 015 and gave a peek at the coming year.
Ancestry's users have contributed more than 70 million member trees and uploaded 300 million photographs and documents. Ancestry's DNA database surpassed one million DNA samples. Ancestry claims more than 16 billion historical records from 80 countries. In 2015 they added the U.S. wills and probate collection as well as 200 million Mexican records.
Tim gave a nod to the retirement of Family Tree Maker, although he didn't mention it by name. "Our team has worked hard to streamline and improve the overall Ancestry experience for everyone," Tim wrote. "That meant saying goodbye to a few products so we can better hone our focus." LifeStory received explicit mention as one of the products receiving focus. He also called out AncestryDNA's exciting, new New Ancestor Discoveries.
I wonder if international expansion may also be in their DNA plans. Tim wrote, "We'll bring you more global family connections using our powerful DNA network to continue to uncover family history and discover new ancestors with a more in‑depth look at your ethnic origins." Does that mean they are seeking permission to sell their DNA kit in additional countries?
FamilySearch also celebrated the launch of Ancestry's Mexico collection, but as a joint accomplishment.
FamilySearch provided the images and Ancestry paid for the indexing. According to FamilySearch spokesperson, Paul Nauta, "without Ancestry.com's assistance, some estimates suggest it would have taken 20 years or more for volunteers to index the records." FamilySearch patrons can access the indexes at FamilySearch family history centers or—if they have Ancestry subscriptions—on FamilySearch.org.
For more information, see "Vast FamilySearch.org Collection of Mexico Ancestor Records Continues to Grow" on the FamilySearch blog.
FamilySearch outlined 12 things they plan to accomplish in 2016.
FamilySearch Family Tree will be faster and more robust.
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The group's mission -- forty-two cyclists particicapted -- was to join Armenian-Americans in commemorating the Armenian Genocide and to bring visibility to the ongoing efforts of recognition by taking their message to the streets of Los Angeles and by making a strong statement as one united body of committed Armenian<|fim_middle|> word to recruit more riders this year, and as usual the cyclist support van was Misak Terzian.
The ACA was proud to have former Mayor of Glendale, and current Glendale Treasurer Rafi Manoukian join the ride this year.
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SpaceX makes historic attempt to land rocket on Earth
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SpaceX will attempt the first orbital launch of 2015 Tuesday morning to re-supply cargo to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The California-based private spaceflight company will do something unusual in this mission, as this time it aims for a vertical test landing of<|fim_middle|> all people with curly hair make | a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, topped by a Dragon capsule that's loaded with essential supplies on a barge in the Atlantic. After the booster falls away and the second stage continues pushing the payload to orbit, its engines will re-ignite to turn it around and guide it to a spot about 200 miles east of Jacksonville, Fla.
SpaceX chief Elon Musk predicts a 50-50 chance of success at best. He says flying back boosters would allow them to be reused and save money.
One can watch the SpaceX launch live on www.spacex.com beginning Tuesday, January 6, 2015 4:30 PM IST and 5:00 AM EST (1000 GMT).
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You've probably seen a meme with your name or a phrase you said -- and your friends probably had you by the throat to get the answer back.A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.
Memes do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance, each of which influences a meme's reproductive success. Memes spread through the behavior that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate. Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success, and some may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.Dawkins used the term to refer to any cultural entity that an observer might consider a replicator.
He hypothesized that one could view many cultural entities as replicators, and pointed to melodies, fashions and learned skills as examples. Memes generally replicate through exposure to humans, who have evolved as efficient copiers of information and behavior. Because humans do not always copy memes perfectly, and because they may refine, combine or otherwise modify them with other memes to create new memes, they can change over time. Daw<|fim_middle|> typically makes up one unit of cultural transmission remains a problem in debates about memetics. (Source: en.wikipedia.org)
Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (1981) by Charles J. Lumsden and E. O. Wilson proposes the theory that genes and culture co-evolve, and that the fundamental biological units of culture must correspond to neuronal networks that function as nodes of semantic memory. Lumsden and Wilson coined their own word, culturgen, which did not catch on. Coauthor Wilson later acknowledged the term meme as the best label for the fundamental unit of cultural inheritance in his 1998 book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, which elaborates upon the fundamental role of memes in unifying the natural and social sciences.
The discipline of memetics, which dates from the mid-1980s, provides an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer based on the concept of the meme. Memeticists have proposed that just as memes function analogously to genes, memetics functions analogously to genetics. Memetics attempts to apply conventional scientific methods (such as those used in population genetics and epidemiology) to explain existing patterns and transmission of cultural ideas. (Source: en.wikipedia.org)
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The George Golf Course is situated in George in the Western Cape, South Africa.
The course is an 18-hole, 72 par Links/Parklands golf course with kikuyu fairways and bent grass greens. The Championship Course is 6 <|fim_middle|> is a regular feature in South Africa's Top Ten Golf Courses and a must-play for every golfer so come visit and enjoy!
Green fees range between R70 and R380. Prices are subject to change so it is recommended that interested parties contact the Golf Course directly. Booking is essential and visitors are welcome every day, with the exception of Wednesday and Saturday afternoons which are reserved for Members and their guests. | 162 meters in length.
George is often referred to as the "Golfing capital of the Garden Route" and here located in the heart of the Garden Route, at the foot of the Outeniqua Mountains, the George Golf Course offers exquisite scenery of the mountains and surrounding plateau. The course was designed by Dr. Charles Molteno Murray and is one of the oldest clubs in the country.
The golf course is beautifully manicured and offers three tees ranging from Championship to Ladies. It is so respected for its playability that locals often choose it over the famous Fancourt Links. The first hole can be deceptively difficult with a dam on the one side and strategically placed trees on the other. The 17th hole is the signature hole and has been regarded as one of the best par 3's in the world.
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Welcome to the latest installment of our brand new series Mum vs Life. Each week we'll feature a prominent Aussie mum and take you through her day.
This week we talk to former olympian Elka Whalan (formerly Elka Graham). Aside from her successful blog and media career, Elka is now a mother-of-two and is married to four-time Olympian Waterpolo player Thomas Whalan.
I am a MASSIVE morning person and I love starting the day right. I wake up any time from 5.40am-6.20am without an alarm. A sleep in for me is 7am. Most mornings I am up immediately and out the door to exercise.
Breakfast is porridge, then maybe scrambled egg whites with avocado, or it could be beans. I love eating healthy food. I need the right fuel to function for the day and start off in the right way. I also love making fruit juices with fresh mint, strawberries, watermelon, whatever is in the fridge, in it goes to the blender and bingo!
I'm a shower person after the gym but when I can I indulge in a bath, usually when the bubs are both asleep at night so there are no interruptions. During the week I try to have a bath with both our bubs it's so much fun in the tub together.
I always start the day in exercise gear. I try to sneak out before they wake up either to go for a run or the gym. Once home it's a quick shower and then boom - slim jeans and a comfy top with my hair pulled back. I don't give much thought to what I'm wearing; my wardrobe is organised so everything is reachable. I dress according to the weather and what we have planned for the day. And I love bright scarves, they dress anything up!
I've worked in media for the past three years with the Channel Seven Morning Show and just this year started on Sunrise. I'm in there twice a week.
The timing works brilliantly as I'm normally home by 10am and my husband looks after our children. As my hair and makeup is done, I feel fab then I slip into mummy clothes and no matter what I wear I feel great as my hair and face is professionally done ha. I do a lot of hosting and speaking engagements with all different types of companies. The variety in my week makes working in the media so much fun. I blog weekly through my website elkawhalan.com. It's been seven years since making the switch from professional swimmer to media and I love working in TV and media. Everyday I'm meeting new people. My days are always different. Last week was a shoot<|fim_middle|> days when I wear heels"
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I am extremely conscious of what I put into my mouth. Since becoming a mother I need constant energy for our two very young toddlers. I eat about six or eight small meals a day and include lots of water, fresh fruits, a tonne of nuts and nice stir fries. I am very blessed as my husband loves to cook as well so we share this. On the go I'll make wraps with avocado, lean turkey and some salad. I do love cheesecake though!
Working out is a necessity for me. It's the time I have just for ME - not being a wife or mother. For an hour I run, power walk, go to the gym, do ballet, swim...I'm up for anything but regardless I do something every day. Exercise is my healthy addiction for both my body and my mind.
Our children are still very young. They love watching me on television - so my hubby tells me - and then when I come home will tell me they saw me. Apparently their little faces light up. We have told them that mummy and daddy go to work because we love it. We let our eldest daughter know that work is fun and we enjoy it...using it as a positive word rather than a negative. Honestly I love what I do!
I cook for our children and will sit with them through dinner. We are just realising the importance of all being at the table together. It's how they develop healthy eating habits; at the table and all together watching and learning. Easier said than done sometimes though. Our baby boy is just now refusing to sit in a high chair and our girl Nevada likes to eat and then wander around so we are practising very hard at being still and staying seated til they have finished their food.
They eat around 6pm and we will eat once they are asleep round 7.30pm. We don't have a set-in-stone routine but once dinner is over they might be allowed to watch their favourite Disney movie whilst they drink their milk and then we read them a story. We love reading books to them.
I always say I'd rather be a happy mother than a tired mum who is short of patience. We have help and I'm happy to say so. It's what works best for your family. We have a wonderful nanny for half a day on Tuesday and half a day on Friday. This allows me to either have special time one on one with each bub or have time to shop, pay bills, go to the post office, spend quality time with a girlfriend, have meetings and normally I plan my work around those days. Our nanny is just amazing. She loves the children and they love her. She is a blessing in our family. My mother is also amazing as are all our family members on both sides. Whenever we go away our family members will look after them.
Thomas and I try to go to bed together each night. We aim for around 10pm. 8 to 9 hours is brilliant for me. I totally value and cherish my sleep. During the week when the bubs go down for their one big sleep and I need one, I'll happily take one, guilt-free. I'm not ashamed to say I mummy-nap. I wake up refreshed and look forward to the afternoon's activities with the children. I love to read as well but I'm often only a couple of pages in before I start snorning.
It's the elusive answer everyone wants to know: time management. You have to work out what works for you and your family.
I have the bowls out for breakfast the night before. Once they wake up we will dress them in their clothes for the day straight away as opposed to keeping them in their night clothes. I keep a notepad and pen in my drawer next to our bed and will lists of things that need to be done for the day and I tick them off as we go. Children just want your time and undivided attention. We are in a phase of playing with building blocks, hide and seek, painting, cutting, dancing and imaginary playing. We cherish it all. Plan your days from when you wake up - bubs love a routine. We visit the zoo every second week, on Wednesdays we go to the library and Fridays we go to dance class. I look forward to their activites just as much as they do.
We are all super mums. Just keep being the best you possible, feel confident in your parenting abilities and trust me, your children feel all the happiness and radiance surrounding them.
Elka Whalan has successfully made the transition from elite athlete to media personality. Elka is a regular member on Channel Seven's Morning Show and has just started on Sunrise as one of 'Kochies Angels' where she is seen every week live discussing news and lifestyle topics. Elka's stellar swimming career from 2000 until 2006 came complete with an Olympic Silver medal, World Championships, Commonwealth games and World cup medals. Elka is active in media and on speaking circuit and has her own blog at elkawhalan.com.
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An exterior shot of the "new" Whitney locaiton, at the entrance of the High Line Park. Photograph by Ed Lederman.
"America is Hard to See,"
The Whitney Museum continues "America is Hard To See" on the sixth, fifth and third floors. Exploring the layers of American art from the 1950s to the present day, the exhibit continues to try and solve the mystery of American art's parameters. This is the final chapter of my three part report on this historic overview of American art, which is opener for the museum's new location in the trendy West Village. As I explained in earlier installments of the series, the floors are subset into thematic "chapters" in the building. Because of the diversity apparent in the American art scene, each chapter is named for a work within it over any particular style or movement.
The chapter "White Target" is named for this 1957 Jasper John's painting. Encaustic and oil on canvas. Photo courtesy of the National Gallery of Art website.
Following World War II, Artists responded to the new era with different visual vocabulary and materials. Hard-edge abstraction and dynamic pop art replaced the styles of cluttered abstraction with expressionism. Modern technology fostered the development of these artistic practices. Artists experimented with new media, providing even more innovative works during the 1960s and 1970s. The chapter "White Target" follows the time after 1950s Abstract Expressionism. Artists abandoned chaos for showy brushwork and simplicity. Frank Stella pointed out in 1964 that the only solution for painters to seek artistic innovations was to escape the complicated world of Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism.
Large canvases with thick white-impasto passages, with green or black accents, are common features of "White Target" paintings. Dismantling forms to their essentials was the goal of these post-abstract expressionists. Their process turned away from traditional compositional rules, yet maintained a balance of colors, textures and shapes. Stella also noted that these new artists strove to get that "thing in the middle, and symmetrical." He explained that "the balance factor isn't important. We're not trying to jockey around." Stella was implying that the painting focus became the geometry and physicality of a work, including the canvas itself.
Many of the paintings in this chapter are divided down or across the middle of the canvas, like John McLaughlin's "#1" from 1963. Paintings like Jasper Johns' "White Target," the chapter's namesake, have a central focal point. Changing the relative position of an image, instead of "jockeying" its parts, was Johns' and his peers' process. In opposition to the Abstract Expressionists, the paintings in "White Target" have paint applied in a flat manner. The canvases consequently evoke bold yet reserved emotion. Painters and sculptors within this chapter changed the conversation of artistic expression to allow for innovative and daring pathways.
The chapter "Scotch Tape" is named for a Jack Smith film. The film is named for an accident that occurred during its production, when a piece of cellophane tape invaded the camera's lens. Smith, by titling the film after this slip, inadvertently made it important, implying "the real world's intrusion into art" as the Whitney eloquently writes.
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From Y2K to this day, the dominant image of American society and politics was fractured in the eyes of the global audience. Artists of this new era recorded changes resulting from 9/11, Middle Eastern wars, the 2008 financial crisis and the looming threat of climate change upon our way of life. Canvases of disturbed landscapes line gallery walls from Carol Dunham's "Large Bather (quicksand)" to Mark Bradford's "Bread and Circuses." The image of a picturesque American society is challenged with these scenes, which reveal a seedy underbelly of deep-seated issues that just get worse with neglect.
While anxious and distrustful feelings fill the majority of the chapter, hopeful rays shine through. An intimate moment between the first Black President and his wife is revealed in Elizabeth Peyton's "Barack and Michelle." Glenn Ligon's neon relief sculpture "Rückenfigur" reminds us that our country, in Ligon's words, is both a shining beacon and a dark star. It is a poetic reminder of the strong sense of nationalism, and at the same time alienation, felt in this country.
"Get Rid Of Yourself" is a unique section in the "America is Hard to See" show. It is a shifting exhibition space which shows two programs alternating daily. The programs were formulated to counter recent shifts in American culture and its political arenas. Program A shows films interacting with popular culture including advertisements, music, dance and technology. Program B is formed around politically inspired works, undertaking themes of mass media's role in shaping social and cultural consciousness; the politics of race, gender, and sexual identity; and the potential perils of global capitalism. The film, which the chapter's name derives from, was made by the art collective called the Bernadette Corporation. Inspired by the anarchist protests at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, the Bernadette Corporation artists used film to evaluate "decentralized, anonymous political resistance and (rhetoric)" and the conversation it evokes. The protesters call to literally get rid of themselves harps on the fruitlessness of individual effort and a global unrest in a Post-September 11 society.
The dual programs run their courses each day. Program A is shown Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays; Program B is projected on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.
"America is Hard to See" is the new Whitney's inaugural show running until September 27, 2015. Breaking down the show in its entirety required a series of articles which is finally at its end. For you to meaningfully absorb this monumental exhibition, I recommend spreading it out over the course of two days.
For busy New York types needing a cultural boost, I suggest breaking it down over the course of a Thursday and Friday. When the clock strikes five, slip on comfortable sneakers and head down to the Museum for a whirlwind Thursday artistic date night. Admission is $22 for adults; is $18 for students and seniors; and is free for those under 18 years old. Thursday night you should take on the First, Eighth and Seventh gallery spaces. Have a romantic dinner with great views of the Meat Packing, between the first and eighth floor "chapters," in the Eighth Floor Studio Cafe.
You'll go to sleep with a craving for more American artistic innovations; and the perfect time to finish taking in "America Is Hard To See" would be during the "give as you wish" hours on Friday night. Commence the evening at 6:00 pm by enjoying a fine meal in the first floor restaurant called "Untitled," and people-watch passers-by on Gansevoort street. During this visit I advise visiting the Sixth and Fifth floors, taking periodic rests in the sitting areas.
Fri evenings, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm, the museum is pay what you wish. | A glimpse into the "Scotch Tape" chapter. Photo courtesy of Julia Slaff.
Artists in this chapter assembled untraditional materials found in thrift shops and along city streets. They took a collage approach to art making, piecing together deconstructed furniture, assembling burnt paper bits, comics, conveyor belts, and even a stuffed pheasant. Paintings are assembled with found objects.
Following World War II, mass-production and consequential overproduction led to an increase of "junk." Along with impending tensions of Cold War, artists turned to what they knew best in an attempt to resist Cold War consumption that plagued the American consumer. The battle is seen in different works in the chapter through irony, humor, creative intensity and material transformation.
Vibrant colors and animated compositions are common in the works from the "Large Trademark" section on the sixth floor. Paintings and sculptures in this chapter date back to the 1960s, an era when Abstract Expressionism morphed for the commercial realm with the advent of Pop art. With color television's increased popularity, selling to an American consumer became an important part of the culture - and especially to those who made it. Pop artists were inspired by the images of packaging, advertisements, newspaper photography and comic books.
Many leading Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha commenced their careers in commercial art. Warhol was an illustrator and Rosenquist was a billboard painter. Ruscha trained as a graphic designer. These artists produced works with flat, graphic, and mechanically-appearing paintings, occasionally rendered using printing and photographic methods, a force of habit from their commercial backgrounds.
"Large Trademark" presents these artists' feelings towards consumer culture's milieu. Works like Wayne Thiebaud's frosted cakes evoke more cheer and celebration. Others are subtly critical of this new version of the American dream, plagued by over-consumption and social issues of race and class. Robert Bechtle's painting "'61 Pontiac" depicts an ordinary American family posed in front of their new automobile. Upon close observation, one will notice that the new coup is much more detailed than the family's faces. "Madonna and Child," Allan D'Arcangelo's portrait of Jackie and Caroline Kennedy, renders the First Mother and Daughter in a virginal and holy manner. The saturated hues and cartoonish depiction of the figures evokes their materialistic associations. Their public importance, and materialism they wear, together portray a royal yet demeaning picture of these public figures.
Despite its visual joy, the tone of the Pop Art movement was frequently impassive and frigid. The Whitney cites, in "Large Trademark," that Pop Art was responsible for a media sensation for its "charges of vulgarity" that are still felt as aftershocks in American Culture.
The "Raw War" chapter. Photo courtesy of Julia Slaff.
Any cheer from the "Large Trademark" gallery fades when venturing into the "Raw War" chapter. During the later 1960s and into the 1970s, the United States underwent great social and cultural change, particularly with rights for women, racial minorities, and others left behind. Artists addressed these issues through their art as they had done in the 1930s, as an outcry for necessary social change.
There is an uneasiness, and almost unnaturalness, filling the "Raw War" chapter. The walls are full of a variety of works ranging from noir-esque photographs to harsh-hued satirical advertisements, and even sculptural multimedia pieces. There is a clear message for a need for change.
Intense photographs of the Civil Rights movement are displayed by photographers Danny Lyon and Gordon Parks. A fake public service announcement by Milton Glaser titled "Don't Eat Grapes" comments on the plight of exploited farm workers. Numerous pieces address the issue of American "intervention" in Vietnam, particularly a Howard Lester film displayed in a corner. "One Week" (1970) flashes black and white photographs of young handsome soldiers beside a rising death tole, set to twangy all-American folk music. An apparent paradox of pride and disappointment makes the "Raw War" chapter empowering for Baby Boomers - but potentially uncomfortable for those of the Greatest Generation.
"Rational Irrationalism" explores how artists in the 1960s broadened their media horizons by delving into more industrial processes. New materials became available to artists such as neon, latex, lead, resin, and plexiglass. As the Whitney notes, "the factory became a studio and the hardware store a source of art supplies." This phenomenon formed artists known as Minimalists.
Artists such as Donald Judd and Robert Smithson were active in the movement and explored simple geometric shapes with new media and techniques. Judd's 1966 "Untitled," and Smithson's "Alogon," are the results of these new processes. Their intentions were to stimulate a viewer's attention to the "complexities of perceptual experience" of their body, the piece and their present environment. Some artists investigated these art inquiries by forming canvases to play with the relationship between the actual physical experience and spatial illusionism, as Al Loving's Rational Irrationalism does.
From the "Rational Irrationaism" chapter, Eva Hesse (1936 1970). No title, (1969 1970). Latex, rope, string, and wire, Dimensions variable. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Eli and Edythe L. Broad, the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund, and the Painting and Sculpture Committee 88.17a b © Estate of Eva Hesse; courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
Several artists spiraled away from stiff geometric shapes, finding ways to use these materials with spontaneity. It was similar to Jackson Pollock's full-bodied art-making process but with industrial methods. The goal was to make art into a more "active process" yielding to external influences such as gravity or the artists's body. Eva Hesse's "No Title" exemplifies the sporadic nature of this artistic spin off and also toys with the link between a viewers physical and illusionistic experiences.
The Whitney held an exhibition in 1969 which displayed artists from this chapter. The show, titled "Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials" included artists such as Hesse, and Rafael Ferrer, Richard Serra, and Keith Sonnier. The sixth floor terrace continues this '69 exhibition with videos of the performance program which showed the relationship between contemporary music, dance, and visual art.
Art shown on the fifth floor ranges from 1965 to the present day. This floor unveils how creators faced the issues of politics, identity, popular culture and self-narration. Their contributions characterized the twentieth century's finale - and the commencement of the twenty first's.
This chapter displays exemplary examples of this painting experimentation. Painters such as Jack Whitten and Robert Reed painted in a sculptural manner, pouring and spreading the medium across canvases. Elizabeth Murray's "Children Meeting" experiments with expressive and geometric shapes and high-contrast colors, creating a chaotic but balanced composition. "Cabal," a Philip Guston painting, engages with the figure; this was a leap from the artist's formative Abstract Expressionist years working with animated forms. The experimental freedom stimulated works like Cy Twombly's "Untitled" and encouraged symbolism and humor such as Chuck Close's "Phil" revamping a medium near extinction.
Elizabeth Murray's expressive 1978 canvas, "Children Meeting." fortuitously displayed (for purposes of this article) on the Whitney's website. Philip Guston's 1977 "Cabal" psychologically engages with the figure during this painting reinvention. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 50th Anniversary Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Learsy.81.38. © Estate of Philip Guston.
Artists began employing technology of the modern century into their works, as the chapter "Learn Where The Meat Comes From" shows. Signs of experimentation of the critical taboos from "Threat and Sanctuary" are evident in these works, as many artists turned to performance narration captured in film. Although in its early stages, video technology became the primary tool to document and give voice to women and people of color who were sociality silenced. There is a division between artists focused on the formal and technical video elements and by a generation of feminist artists wanting to use the medium to break down power structures in mass media.
In "Learn Where the Meat Comes From," Susanne Lacy impersonates a Julia Child cooking show. Lacy begins by normally preparing a meal, and over the course of the video, transitions to madness. Her deranged devolvement is commentary on the portrayal of women's work and degradation of the female body in the media. Lacy's work is the title of this chapter due to the representation of the power of performance art as an act of expression and protest.
The next-door chapter, "Racing Thoughts," confronts visitors with a confusion of energized street vibes, parodied consumerism and media-centrism. This powerful art movement of the 1980s was instigated by an economic upswing only felt by the politically conservative - making Wall Street tycoons heroes and over-consumption the norm. Those creating art in this decade were raised under the impersonal spell of Pop art and surrounded by a society obsessed with living a work-hard-play-hard lifestyle. Artists employed media-saviness and techniques of representation that inquired about authenticity and originality in a time of recycled ideas and images.
The disparity inspired a movement. Many of the works displayed incorporate readymade products, especially in those of Charles Ray and Jeff Koons. In a Material-Girl fashion, these artists employed actual consumer projects into their works, persuaded by the idea that art's value was not in its meaning but in its monetary worth. This loss of feeling towards the art is poignant in Louise Lawler's photograph of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe at auction. Allusions to art historical references are also seen in the works of Barbara Kruger and Sara Charlesworth. Graffiti works by Keith Haring and Jean-Michael Basquiat toy with the influences of marketing and the television glow.
The adjacent heartbreaking chapter, "Love Letter From The Warfront," documents the strife of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s, particularly upon the artistic community. Artists turned into activists, using their craft to bring awareness and to support to the friends, family, and lovers in their community and beyond. Donald Moffett's "He Kills Me" print, pasted to the opening wall of the gallery, acts as a politically targeted message, criticizing Reagan's nonchalant attitude towards the crisis.
From the "Love Letter From The Warfront" chapter," David Wojnarowicz's "Untitled" (1989) silver print. © The Estate of David Wojnarowicz's. Photo courtesy of www.ppowgallery.com.
Many of the works on view were the targets of cultural warfare with religious and political conservatives who deemed their work as too risqué. David Wojnarowicz was one of those vilified for his controversial art. "Untitled," one of his works in this chapter, is a photograph of an emaciated man on his deathbed. The picture is shocking and not for the light-stomached, yet beautiful with the captivation of a man succumbing to a combative illness. As a whole, "Love Letter From the Warfront" is not intended to be shock-matter material, rather as the Whitney eloquently explains, it is "a more intimate and poetic meditation of the AIDS crisis and the creative community it devastated." There are a tremendous amount of loss and love, and many feelings in-between, radiating from this memorial gallery space. Unfortunately, by the late 1990s, all of the artists featured in this room had died, but their messages live in on in the powerful art they left behind.
The story behind the chapter "Guarded View" begins with Critic Christopher Knight's review of the 1993 Whitney Biennial. Knight condemned the exhibition's artistic quality, while strangely noting the novel amount of works by gender, ethnic, and sexual minorities. In 1994, The Whitney's show "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art" was likewise controversial. Artists such as Jimmie Durham, David Hammons, Mike Kelly and Lorna Simpson were exhibited in these shows exploring identity from sociological perspectives: evaluating culturally-shaped identities and how constructs of race and gender impact our self-images.
From the "Guarded View" chapter, Catherine Opie "Self-Portrait/Cutting," (1993). Chromogenic Print, 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm). Photo courtesy of Fabbrik: Art, Design, and Architecture website.
The majority of the works in this chapter deal with body as a place of "contest, ideology, desire, or disgust," says the exhibition's wall text. Catherine Opie, in her "Self-Portrait/Cutting," has her back to the camera lens, forcing a viewer to look at her as an individual or type. Like an anthropologist researching an ethnography, other works unfold how everyday objects and images create our sense of self. Mike Kelley's crazed doll installation uncovers how objects form a young girls inclination towards "teenage fandom and feminine power and allure." Reaction to conservative criticism of these exhibitions as abandoning traditional aesthetics expanded the understood parameters of what is beautiful in the body and in art.
age as we still switch between screens and printed documents.
Many of the works purposely misuse outdated digital technologies for aesthetic purposes. Kelley Walker's series mixes up past vintage Volkswagen advertisements with modern modeling software. The artist screen printed the 21 pieces by hand. Cory Arcangel's "Super Mario Clouds" projects an animation of cartoon clouds from the memorable Nintendo gaming system any Millennial knows well. These pieces invoke a desire for bygone movements and styes, but at the same time a distance from them. This emotional mixture forces the viewer to internally inquire if with each modern advancement, something meaningful is left behind.
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What to See and Do in Augusta, Georgia
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By: Ryan Reed
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A view of downtown Augusta, Georgia, from the Savannah River.
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A soft red light beckoned as I waited on the median of a bustling downtown street. The traffic light changed and I made my way towards a funky dive bar with a line of people waiting to get in. Midnight had come and gone by the time I passed through the entrance and I was greeted by a cavernous space full of fantastic music and people dancing on a mini-stage. As I stood at the bar admiring the vintage posters on the wall, an Augusta local who was showing me around town leaned over and said, "That's the pool table James Brown used to play on." I eventually settled into a cozy booth with my drink and took it all in. This was not the Augusta that I expected but it certainly was a pleasant surprise.
The Soul Bar
Inside the Soul Bar in Augusta, Georgia.
Photo by: Ryan Reed
Ryan Reed
Like most, whenever I think of Augusta, Georgia, I picture one thing: The Masters. The annual golf tournament takes place every April at Augusta National Golf Club and is known as the sport's most prestigious competition. The winner receives a green jacket and honorary membership to one of the most exclusive clubs in the world. I attended the final round of the tournament, my first time ever setting foot on the hallowed ground, and I will tell you that it is even more perfect than it looks on television. As memorable as that experience was though, I couldn't help but think back to my previous 24 hours in the Garden City. I managed to cover quite a bit of ground and quickly realized that the city is so much more than well-manicured fairways, pimento cheese sandwiches and pastel polo shirts.
Augusta National Golf Course hosts the Masters every year.
Photo by: Courtesy of Visit Augusta
Courtesy of Visit Augusta
What I learned from talking with locals and visiting several museums is that Georgia's second largest city has a diverse community, a vibrant nightlife scene and with several major projects on the horizon, an exciting future as well. Whether you're lucky enough to score tickets to The Masters or not, Augusta is the secret Southern gem you've been looking for, and here are just a few of my favorite spots to check out while you're there:
If you're looking for a historic building with modern amenities, the Partridge Inn is where you want to be. Built in 1816, the hotel – known as the "P.I." by locals – once hosted an extravagant gala for President Warren G. Harding. The property has changed hands a few times over the years but has maintained its charm and unique architectural elements throughout. Plus, the P.I. Bar and Grill on site has an amazing brunch and late-night cocktail selection.
Breakfast: 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.
Head down to Broad Street in downtown Augusta to visit The New Moon Café. The atmosphere is casual with indoor and outdoor seating but they take their menu seriously. Whether you go with a pastry in the display or a breakfast sandwich, you really can't go wrong. The Downtown Mess was recommended to me, Augusta style of course, and it didn't disappoint – a large bowl full of grits, avocado, pimento cheese, salsa, bacon and Cholula rarely does. Wash it all down with a cup of delicious coffee and you're ready for the day.
The New Moon Cafe
The Downtown Mess from The New Moon Cafe.
Something to Read: 10:30 a.m.
After you feed your stomach, feed your mind by walking next door to The Book Tavern. This two-story independent bookstore houses new, used and rare books in a space that has that wonderful "book smell" you can only get in a place like this. Check their calendar of events when planning your trip to catch a reading by a special guest, and be sure to pick up something to read during your trip. You never know when you'll find a shady spot under a magnolia tree.
The Book Tavern
A view from the second story of the Book Tavern in Augusta, Georgia.
History Lesson: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
James Brown Statue
A statue of native James Brown in downtown Augusta, Georgia.
Photo by: Visit Augusta
Visit Augusta
Take a photo next to the life-size James Brown statue located in the center of Broad Street across from the Augusta Common Park, and then head over to the Augusta Museum of History nearby to learn more about Brown and the city of Augusta. I was lucky enough to go on a tour with Nancy Glaser, executive director of the museum, and I was blown away by the museum's collection. Inside, you'll find detailed displays ranging from Civil War relics to iconic golf memorabilia – including a green jacket on loan from Augusta National. The exhibit that attracts visitors from around the world though is the one that covers the life and legacy of the Godfather of Soul. Glaser and her team have curated a wide array of items that tell the story of Brown and his many accomplishments. From his albums, bedazzled outfits to even his comb, it's all here and it's a must-visit for anyone who is a fan of this Augusta native.
Augusta Museum of History
Visitors to the Augusta Museum of History view the James Brown exhibit.
Lunch: 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Bodega Ultima is tucked away in Surrey Center, a shopping center near Westover Memorial Park, and is an ideal spot for lunch. Sit at the bar, grab a table inside or head out onto the patio if the weather permits and grab a cocktail while you're at it – I recommend the Bloody Mary. The menu is Mediterranean-inspired but even if that's not your thing, there's something for everyone (I had the fire-smoked ham and turkey croissant). On your way out, grab a freshly brewed coffee and check out the mini-marketplace along the wall.
Bodega Ultima
The dining room of Bodega Ultima in Augusta, Georgia.
Natural Beauty: 2:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
The South is known for its stunning vistas and Augusta is no exception. Head outdoors and spend your afternoon discovering why they call Augusta the Garden City.
First up is Phinizy Swamp Nature Park located just outside of Augusta. Visitors can spot a wide array of wildlife throughout the 1,100-acre park via guided swamp hikes and park tours. Admission is free and the park is open all year round.
For something a little more laid back, check out the Augusta Canal Discovery Center and go for a Petersburg Boat Tour afterward. The discovery center shines a light on how an ambitious canal project in 1845 transformed the city into an industrial powerhouse and how it has evolved into present-day use. Afterward, explore the Augusta Canal aboard a Petersburg Boat for a guided tour of notable landmarks along the banks.
Dinner: 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
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Drinks: 7:30 p.m. - Last Call
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The Old Fashion Tomahawk at Finch & 5th in Augusta, Georgia.
If downtown is more your scene, head on over to The Soul Bar – the one with the billiards table James Brown used to play on I mentioned earlier. Grab a beer and hang out, but if the right song comes on, make sure you "Get On Up" and hit the dance floor.
The Soul Bar is a local favorite in Augusta, Georgia.
Special thanks to Visit Augusta for their hospitality.
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