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This<|fim_middle|> at her parents.. tried this chutney with daal tadka and plain rice..
Tried making it today and it came out to be a wonderful raw mango chutney.
Wow. it's delicious and very yummy taste. Easy to make and healthy too.
Good try! Different from the regular ones.. | tangy green mango chutney is prepared by crushing and blending raw mangoes with coriander leaves and basic spices. The chutney prepared with this recipe has perfectly balanced tangy and spicy taste as chillies, garlic and ginger gives it a spicy touch while coriander leaves and cumin seeds bring their own nuances. The sugar, even though in small amount, really balances out the tangier spiciness and adds third sweet dimension to its taste.
Grind them until medium coarse paste.
If you want to make diluted chutney, then add 1 tablespoon more water along with coriander leaves.
Mix green raw mango chutney with curd to make a tangy dip for samosa and dahi vada.
Place it in airtight container and store in refrigerator for instant anytime use.
Serving Ideas: Green mango chutney prepared with raw mangoes and spices is a perfect accompaniment with any meal. Serve it as a dip with khaman dhokla, pakora, ragda pattice etc. For a change, use its as dip for nachos.
Wow..I made raw mango chutney and it was good, something different. Should we fry cumin seed in pan before grind?
Response: No need to fry cumin seeds before grinding.
So nice. I like to try every recipe.
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The Deir ez-Zor Museum () is a museum devoted to the<|fim_middle|> in Syria
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Buildings and structures in Deir ez-Zor
Archaeological museums in Syria
Museums established in 1974
Clay tablets
Museums of Ancient Near East in Syria | archaeology and history of northeastern Syria, an area more commonly known as the Jezirah, or Upper Mesopotamia. The museum is located in Deir ez-Zor, the capital of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. It was founded in 1974 and housed in a gallery of a shopping mall. Between 1983 and 1996, it was located in an old law court built in 1930. In 1996, the museum moved to its current location in a building that had been especially designed for the museum. The exhibition halls cover an area of and are arranged around a courtyard. The construction of the new museum was a joint Syrian–German operation.
When the museum was founded in 1974, its collection consisted of only 140 objects, donated by the National Museum of Damascus and the National Museum of Aleppo. The current collection consists of some 25,000 objects, including the majority of the clay tablets found at Mari. The museum also holds many objects found by international teams of archaeologists at sites in the Upper Khabur area, such as Tell Beydar, Tell Brak, Tell Leilan and Tell Mozan. The Euphrates Valley southeast of Deir ez-Zor is represented with objects from the Classical site of Dura-Europos, which was once a border city of the Roman Empire.
The collection is organized around five chronological themes: prehistory, ancient Syria (late fourth to first millennium BCE), the Classical period, the Islamic era and ethnography. It includes a number of life-size reconstructions of buildings from different periods, including a house from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of Bouqras in the Euphrates Valley, an Early Bronze Age city-gate from Tell Bderi on the Khabur River, the southern façade with wall paintings of the "Court of the Palms" of Zimri-Lim's palace in Mari and the gate of the Islamic Qasr al-Heer al-Sharqi.
In 2015, the collection was allegedly removed from the museum by the Syrian Army in view of increased ISIS encroachments in Deir ez Zor.
See also
List of museums | 474 |
I am nervous and excited! I am going with my teenage daughter. DH is staying home.
Any tidbits of wisdom or just any little must do things we should not miss!!
we have finalized the itinerary but have left some open times for last minute things or just to relax with a book in the Parisian sunshine!
Oh, good for you guys. My only advice would be to pack very light so that you aren't lugging around things that your husband usually carries.
How about a cheat sheet for conversions?
There is just too much to even get into any must do things, and I'm sure you have them all covered.
One thing we love to do in Paris is visit temporary art exhibitions; there are so many and they are great.
What is your daughter looking forward to?
she is going to Art School so we will be hitting the many many museums there - the obvious to the obscure!! Of course we will be visitng Versailles!
To be honest, I think she is so excited to get away - Senior Spring Fever, stress with the college thing, etcc. It will be a great bonding week!
She and I are looking forward to experiencing some great Parisian restaurants and the macroons! She is hoping for a glass of wine at dinner!
elsiejune - thanks for the kind words!!
Be sure to notify your bank/credit card companies that you will be in France so that they don't cut you off as some sort of security breach.
Oh yes, I will call the bank and credit card co's - Thanks.
I am so excited for you! I'm sure it will be a wonderful exerience. My mom and I went to Ireland together a few years ago and still reminisce about that trip. I can't wait to hear all about it!
Use ATM's for getting your euros. Most have menus in English. Be sure to notify your bank of your travel dates. Call the 800 number on the back of your ATM or debit card(s) to notify.
Also, keep notes on your itinerary (hotel or apartment address and contact info, flight info, passport numbers)<|fim_middle|> eat something that you have not had before, people watch.
I really appreciate the suggestions - I tend to follow an itinerary pretty closely so I really will try to be flexible and realize mistakes can happen!!
I will derfinitely write a travel report !! | and credit cards and ATM/debit cards info in a separate place from your cards. Make sure you include the international phone number found on the back of each card. The 800 number for calling within the US will not work from Paris.
annes: since your daughter is going to art school, I will again urge you to take in at least one major temporary exhibit. My DD is a designer and she loves museums, but also loves to see new things or major retrospectives.
Last time in Paris, Feb. 08, DH and I went to a David LaChapelle retrospective and that was the most memorable exhibit of that trip. I didn't even think I liked his work that much, but that show was really something.
Congratulations you'll have a ball. When I did Spain with friends I got a few hundred bucks changed into Euros before I left home (My credit union charges a $5.00 flat fee no matter how much you convert). this way I had some "tipping" money for immediate small purchases.
I believe I mentioned on a previous thread of yours the museum at the Palais de Tokyo, also filled with changing exhibits that reflect the contemporary art scene.
Just across the road from the Palais de Tokyo is the Musee Guimet, of Asian art, for a complete and (to me) completely eye-opening contrast.
thank you so much everyone - great information. I appreciate it!
We are very excited for the journey!
I know exactly what you mean. I leave for Paris in a week as well. This will be my second trip to Paris and cannot wait.
Anne and kmac...have a wonderful time!
I will be looking forward to reading your trip reports (no pressure to write one if you really don't want to, I just love reading them!) Plus I'm anxiously awaiting my own trip to Paris at the end of May!
Hello, annesherrod. Tuscanlifeedit mentioned the luggage situation. The first trip I took to Italy after I lost my husband was a good healing experience for me and I had a wonderful time but..I found I wasn't able to put the carryon that I always used in the overhead bin. My husband had always taken care of that. A lovely Dutch man who sat in my row kindly did that for me but every since than I have taken a smaller carryon that I can put in the overhead bin if need although it does fit under the seat so that is good. The same with my check in luggage. To big and heavy to handle gracefully. Of course I met some interesting Italian men but still, it is important to only have luggage that you and your daughter can manage on your own. And maybe you have when travelling with your husband but Tuscan's post did make me smile. Have a wonderful trip with your daughter, you two will be making a lifetime of memories!
Relax, have fun, realize that mistakes or something will happen, do something unplanned, make sure you do things your daughter wants to do, | 615 |
At a luncheon during this year's National Genealogical Society conference David Rencher presented a top 10 list of technologies he wished developers would hurry up and create. Some of these are already available, at least in<|fim_middle|> on the Ancestry Insider website. | infant form. I thought you would enjoy seeing some of the list and reviewing the available technologies.
First came two honorable mentions.
What can technology do in this area? Cloud Computing.
Rencher wanted facial recognition technology to help identify people in unlabeled photographs.
Google Picasa offers face recognition for free. Learn more from Kathi Reid, "How Google Picasa Face Recognition Software Can Help Genealogists," Ancestor Seek Blog.
The MyHeritage.com genealogy website also advertises free face recognition. See http://celebrity.myheritage.com/face-recognition .
I tried uploading my photo to see if they saw any similarity between me and Homer Simpson, but MyHeritage couldn't pick out my face.
So I tried Tim Sullivan, head of Ancestry.com. With look-alikes Johnny Depp, Pierce Brosnan, Henry Fonda, and Richard Gere, Tim is obviously leading-man material.
His closest match? Johnny Depp, pirate and mad hatter.
Next I had to try Jay Verkler, head of FamilySearch.
Ronald Regan and George W. Bush. Wow. Apparently, Jay looks very presidential. And republican. And apparently, MyHeritage doesn't have Mitt Romney in their celebrity file.
Can't see Sullivan and Verklers' celebrity look-alike graphic to the right? Click to see it | 277 |
It's been <|fim_middle|>'ve been back to Sydney once already, and i'm going back again in just over a week. It will be great to see my family and catch up with friends. It's so tricky when i'm only there for a little bit though!! Jeremy's mum is going to come down and stay with my parents while i'm there too, so it will be great to catch up with her too!!
I've done a little bit of scrapping recently, so i thought i'd share. | 2 months since we moved from our little home in Wollongong up to sunny Brisbane! Quite a lot has happened in that time. Calvin has been SO SICK!!! We've started going to lots of playgroups and mothers groups and play centers, and as a result he's picking up every bug known to man. Yesterday he threw up on me about 7 times. Not just little spews either, really massive projectile spews!!
Since we moved up, Calvin has started crawling too. He's been able to crawl backwards for 1-2 months now, but today is the first day that he's been able to move forwards! Very exciting for us all, though a little terrifying! He's only gone a few 'steps' crawling, but i'm sure within a week or so he'll be off!!
Still no teeth for Calvin too. I'm not too worried though - it's certainally easier to breastfeed a baby with no teeth!!
Sleeping has been a bit of an issue for us all since around easter, but it was compounded by us moving - he was starting to wake 5 times a night, so one night i snapped and rung a parents help line. They were very helpful and started me on a settling method called 'camping out', where we sit by the cot while he gets himself to sleep. At the beginning we were very hands on, then moved to just having a hand on him, then just sitting beside him. Now we're gradually moving the chair further away from his cot with the aim of getting out the door. It has been very tiring, but definately paying off. He's slept all through the night 2 nights this week!! Plus, his day sleeps have improved out of sight. Gone are the days when he would only have 3 half hour naps. He's now having 2 naps, and at least one is more than an hour. Today he's had 2 really long sleeps - 1.5 hours this morning, and 2 hours so far this afternoon (he's still asleep!!). I don't know what to do with myself - i might have to start scrapping again!!! I managed to get some quilting done this morning, so that was good!!
I've been trying to get involved with other mothers as much as possible. God blessed us with finding a great church really quickly, so we've been going along to that, though it's tricky to make friends there when you are only there once a week for a couple of hours - most of which is during the service!! Growth groups are starting up next term, so that will be good to help us get to know people better. I've joined the ABA so i can attend the local all age mothers group, going along to a playgroup (at the church), getting myself along to play centers and play grounds where i meet lots of mothers, and i've even started getting out to scrapbooking on my own!!
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Counterion identity effects on the self-assembly processes in a series of perfluorinated surfactant - water mixtures
Zhou, Rongrong (2003) Counterion identity effects on the self-assembly processes in a series of perfluorinated surfactant - water mixtures. Doctoral thesis, University of Central Lancashire.
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The effects of counterion on the lyotropic liquid crystalline phase behaviour of some quaternary ammonium salts of perfluorodecanoic acid in water have been studied using a combination of optical polarising microscopy (OPM), deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance (211 NMR) and cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM). The results from the phase diagram studies flill into two groups. Firstly the ammonium (A) and tetramethylanmionium<|fim_middle|> structure of Mli 1 (R 3 m) phase is essentially unaltered over that of the binary phase irrespective of the amount or type of third component added. In the case of TMAC1 addition the formation of the Mh 1 (0) is driven by a reduction in the electrostatic interlayer interaction via a screening effect of the added counter-ions. In the C10o1 and C8oil addition systems the phase transition is driven by an alteration in the packing of the hydrophobic interior of the aggregates, which is termed a 'hydrophobic packing constraint'. SAXS experiments show that upon the transition from the Mh 1 (R3 m) to Mh1 (0) phase the surface area per molecule is conserved (within experimental error) and occurs more rapidly in the presence of C 10o1 and Cgoil indicating that the stability of the former over the latter requires a well defined intra-layer topology. The Mh 1(0) to L. transition is driven by a closure of defects as the additive concentration decreases the surface area per surfactant molecule via enhanced counter-ion binding in the TMACI experiments, or surface charge dilution in the C 10o1 addition systems.
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Lorna Marie Burrow | (TMA) counterions show a phase behaviour with nematic (N) and random mesh (MJi 1 (0)) phase which possess non-uniform interfacial curvature.
The second group of surfactants with counterions, butyltrimethylammonium (BTMA), dibutyldimetylammonium (DBDMA), and tetrabutylammonium (TBA), form only a classical lamellar phase (La). For both DBDMA and TBA lower consolute behaviour
has been observed. At fixed concentration in all five systems cryo-TEM visualises isotropic liquid phase structures that vary from sphere / rod micelles for A and TMA to vesicles / bilayer pieces for the other surfactants. These results are consistent with a reduction of the interfacial curvature of the aggregates, a phenomenon explained by a closer association of the counterion with the micellar surface. This is postulated to be driven by an increase in the size and hydrophobicity of the counter-ion from A to TBA.
The correlated mesh phase (Mh i (R3 m)) is unique to the TMA surfactant of this series. It is extremely stable, both thermally and in surfactant concentration, when compared to such phases formed in other surfactant systems. To further elucidate the effect of countenon and investigate the mechanisms that stabilise mesh intermediate phases the effects of additives on the Mh 1 (R3 m) have been studied. The evolution of the phase behaviour and lyotropic phase structures formed in the TMA system have been studied upon the addition of salt (tetramethylammonium chloride, TMAC1), cosurfactant (111,1H-perfluoro-I-decanol, CiooI) and oil (perfluorooctane, C goil) using OPM, 211 NMR and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). Upon addition of a third component the Mh1(R3 m) is lost and a Mii j (0) stabilised. Further addition of the third component
drives the formation of L. phase in the TMACI and C 10o1 addition systems. The | 466 |
Highlights of the Co-chairship of Canada and Uruguay in 2020-20<|fim_middle|> the United Nations General Assembly
The Road to 2020: Accelerating Action on Women, Peace and Security
15 Mar 2019 | 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women
Tweets by WPSFocalPoints | 21 and the Transition of Co-chairship to Switzerland and South Africa for 2022
During the high-level event of the WPS Focal Points Network held on the margins of 76th General Assembly, Canada and Uruguay transitioned the co-chairship of the Network to Switzerland and South Africa for 2022. The video highlights some of the remarkable moments of Canada and Uruguay's co-chairship and the transition.
Let's Talk! Women, Peace and Security
The WPS Focal Points Network is launching the Let's Talk! Women Peace and Security (WPS) series. Find out what advancing the WPS agenda is all about by hearing from important leaders in the WPS community.
In this first episode, Canada's Ambassador for WPS, Jacqueline O'Neill, introduces us to the WPS Agenda.
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As a term that gets thrown around a lot, social value has some slightly foggy thinking about it. People know it's important, with large contracts expected to offer a social value strand, but it often falls short of providing what it should – real benefits to real people.
In our line of work, it refers to the wider impact our work has had on people involved with or affected by our projects; focusing on the positive impacts but acknowledging any negative ones and taking steps to remedy them.
When bidding for work, we often get asked what the social value of our offer is. I find this a challenging question – our raison d'être is to support communities to positively impact local change, which to me sounds like social value in itself! But I tend to highlight the fact that we know that our approach to engagement and design reinforces existing local networks and builds new ones that exist long after our time on a project has finished. It's an important and very deliberate outcome of our work – albeit one that is rather hard to measure.
The thing with a term like social value is that it can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Some take a prescriptive, one-size-fits-all approach to it governed by what they want to deliver, rather than considering what's best suited to the needs of a local context. For example, work experience, workshops and talks – all of which might be great in some contexts – need to be relevant and timely, in order to maximise the potential for social value. Otherwise, they can miss the point.
Our responsive approach means it can be a little harder to determine these outcomes upfront. By ensuring that participants guide and define what a project becomes we gain relevance and insight, but often lose the ability to know where it'll end up! When it works however, I think it offers much more value.
Push out prior<|fim_middle|> co-ordinating street parties, supporting residents to facilitate workshops for the first time, editing a hyper-local newspaper, organising community led sports days, trips to playgrounds, holding film screenings and tending to community gardens.
Perhaps the key message here is that it's never good enough to make assumptions about what will deliver social value. It is far more important to listen to what local people are saying, what they think would be useful and finding ways to provide it; be that doing something only slightly differently, or bringing in other people to supplement skills that you don't have.
That's the thing about social value – everyone has an understanding of what it is but a different idea of how to make it happen. As we always say in the make:good studio – "we're not saving lives here". What we are here to do is listen to the people affected by change, and unleash social value by ensuring our projects are responsive to their context, needs and aspirations. | preconceptions and don't just focus on the things that are easy for us to offer, so that we might really hear what is needed and what there is an appetite for. This sounds really obvious but its a step that we see getting missed all the time.
Programme activities collaboratively and support strands of work that are relevant to a particular community. Interestingly, it usually leads to lots of learning for us as well!
Among other things, we have found ourselves | 93 |
Breakout Artists 2016 Chicago's Next Generation of Image Makers
April 28, 2016 at 9:00 am by Elliot Reichert
by Elliot Reichert
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Alex Bradley Cohen/Photo: Alberto Aguilar
Alex Bradley Cohen
"Do you think this should be green?" Alex Bradley Cohen is standing before a painting tacked to the wall in his studio. He points to the leg of a blue chair on the right side of the composition. The painting looks almost done, filled with Cohen's customary flat planes of richly hued colors—sky blue, mustard yellow.
Cohen takes a seat on the floor. He's had a busy year. In the past twelve months, he has shown work at Roots & Culture, in a two-person show at Carrie Secrist Gallery and at The Luggage Store in San Francisco, among other places. He even designed a bumper sticker for the roving exhibition project Trunk Show. It read: "Ideas Are Funny Things." He was also hand-picked to paint a mural for Spike Lee's "Chiraq," a work that featured portraits of influential black Chicagoans from Michael Jordan to Mahalia Jackson to Harold Washington. He pulls out his phone to show me a photo of him cheesing with the director. Lee, clad in all black with a fresh pair of Jordans, is pointing at a paint-splattered Cohen. Working on the set was "super fun," he says.
Alex Bradley Cohen, "Testing Day," 2016. Acrylic on canvas/Photo: Eileen Mueller
Cohen, twenty-six years old, was born and raised in Uptown, where he still lives. He earned his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014, after transferring from Harold Washington College. He credits the safety and comfort of the community with helping him become the person he is today.
"I never thought I would amount to anything," he says, "so staying in Uptown, a community and place I knew like the back of my hand always felt safe." Scenes from his life in the city, both formative and banal, constantly appear in Cohen's art. In one piece, the artist is taking the GED exam while the specters of his parents watch from the walls. A dark red painting depicts the experience of taking the El from Argyle to downtown, tracing the way the city and the people change along the ride. Many works are self-portraits, showing the artist in different moods or environments. "A lot of them are me walking. It's kind of like I'm transforming and going into these different places and spaces within myself," he says.
He's currently working on paintings for an upcoming solo show at Slow Gallery in Pilsen. The autobiographical nature of much of Cohen's work gives you a peek inside what he might be contemplating. "This is, 'He had it within him the whole time,'" he says, holding up a new work. "I'm not that much of a fuck-up I guess," he laughs.
Alex Bradley Cohen, "Self vs Self," 2016. Acrylic on canvas. /Photo: Eileen Mueller
Cohen recognizes that his career is gaining momentum. He's trying to be more deliberate with what projects he says yes to, while being thankful for every opportunity. "Really the most important thing to me right now is making these paintings," he emphasizes. He gestures toward the piece tacked to the wall above his head. "I'm working on this painting of this chair," he says, laughing. (Kerry Cardoza)
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Elliot Reichert
Elliot J. Reichert is a Chicago-based curator, critic, and editor. He is a currently Curator of Contemporary Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana Unversity, and Hatch Projects Curatorial Resident at the Chicago Artist Coalition. Formerly, he was Art Editor of Newcity and Assistant Curator at the<|fim_middle|> yellow, and varying shades of brown. All seem to be of the same character, possibly the artist, Alex Bradley Cohen, himself. Throughout the gallery, titles of the pieces are pencilled directly on the wall. Near the bottom-left piece, which shows the figure with his back to the viewer, looking into a space with differently colored walls, floor and ceiling, the word "headspace" is written. The title could be applied to most of the… Read more »
Presence, Distance, Lines on Paper: The Location of Lines at the MCA | Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. His writing has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, the Journal of Visual Culture, and Newcity.
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Breakout Artists 2019: Chicago's Next Generation of Image Makers We present a few of the myriad artists who represent the unbounded energy of art-making in Chicago.
Breakout Artists 2018: Chicago's Next Generation of Image Makers Newcity presents its 2018 Breakout Artists, a sample of the myriad Chicago makers who deserve our attention and admiration. Whether it's beautiful protest posters wheat-pasted in dive bar bathrooms or gorgeous fabrics woven from pictures and memories, we have artists to thank for the images that move us to feel, to think, and to act.
Breakout Artists 2020: Chicago's Next Generation of Image Makers This year's image makers offer a snapshot of what makes our art community great.
Art 50 2018: Chicago's Artists' Artists Chicago has long been a destination for artists seeking to hone their practice and take their work to greater heights. Hence, it's no coincidence that this art season opens with a retrospective of the original Hairy Who at the Art Institute of Chicago, while the Smart Museum's major exhibition celebrates a broader spectrum of contemporaneous South Side artists—AfriCOBRA, the Association…
Art 50 2020: Chicago's Artists' Artists This list is a testament to the multiplicity of people making art in our city.
Traces of Absence: A Review of SaraNoa Mark at Chicago Artists Coalition By drawing awareness to the phenomena of extraction and recasting of objects in new geographic and political contexts, Mark foregrounds the growing tensions between the tightening of borders and an ever-intensifying movement of global human and material flow.
Alan Pocaro
Alberto Aguilar
Andrew Holmquist
Andrew Rafacz Gallery
B. David Zarley
Carrie Secrist Gallery
Chicago Artists Coalition
Chiraq
DePaul Art Museum
Eileen Mueller
Elastic Arts
Elliot J. Reichert
Erin Toale
Erin Washington
Grunwald Gallery of Art
Harold Washington
Harold Washington College
Houston Center of Photography
Hyde Park Art Center
Kavi Gupta Gallery
Kelly Reaves
Kerry Cardoza
Kitagawa Utamaro
La Keisha Leek
Larry "Lawnchair" Walters
Lee Ann Norman
Leonard Suryajaya
Lilli Carré
Maria Girgenti
Max Beckman
Myra Greene
National Museum of Mexican Art
Patron Gallery
Robert Burnier
Rodrigo Lara Zendejas
Roots & Culture
Roy Sullivan Junior
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Slow Gallery
Steven Bridges
Vasia Rigou
Villa de La Paz
VOLTA Art Fair
Zolla/Lieberman
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Great group of Artists. Congratulations well deserved mentions.
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Holmquist's paintings are AWESOME in person – shout out!
And great list all-around, Newcity 🙂
Colorful, Abstract and Good-Natured Painting | Newcity Art
[…] On the far wall at Slow, four paintings are tacked to the wall in a grid. All feature a similar color scheme: primary red, blue and | 751 |
'Make this normal' | Viral TikTok mum takes child to job interview - and lands job offer
Sophie Parrott Jul 02, 2021 Press Releases, Employers, Recruitment...
A mum has gone viral after taking to TikTok to share her unique experience at a job interview after she struggled to find childcare for her toddler.
Maggie Mundwiller, who goes by the username @314handcrafted on the social networking service, said that she was interviewing for new roles after losing her job amid the coronavirus crisis – The Independent reported.
When the Missouri-based mum was invited back for a second job interview by an employer, she said she was concerned that she wouldn't have childcare for her one-year-old.
However, upon informing the interviewers of her problem, she was told that the organisation was "child-friendly" and that she was welcome to bring in her toddler with her.
'Make this normal'
The TikTok video – which saw Mundwiller also describe how she prepared her son for the interview – has now been viewed millions of times.
It also garnered a wealth of comments from many, with one writing: "It makes me sooo happy to know there are companies like this (sic)".
'Excited and inspired'
Another person said: "Dear corporate America – make this normal".
The mother and job interviewee recently spoke to Good Morning America explaining that she was "so excited and inspired" by the organisation's attitude to her childcare challenge.
She added: "How cool is that - that a company would be so welcoming? It's awesome to know that there are companies out there that are willing to work with parents and understand the struggles that parents are going through and just accommodate."
When it comes to whether the candidate got the job, she revealed in a follow-up video that she was offered the position and that she is "definitely considering it".
'Family-friendly' workplaces
While this took place in the US,<|fim_middle|> Watson added.
https://www.hrgrapevine.com/content/article/2021-07-01-viral-tiktok-mum-takes-child-to-job-interview-lands-job-offer | it has key teachings for employers and HR regarding flexibility when it comes to candidates and job interviews.
In this instance, the candidate was faced with a childcare problem and the interviewers helped provide a solution to ensure that she didn't miss the opportunity.
Additionally, it also points towards the benefits of being a 'family-friendly' employer, both in terms of attracting and retaining top talent.
For example, 2020 data by researchers at Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) found that flexibility and family-friendly policies in the workplace increase staff productivity, engagement, and overall satisfaction.
And with Bright Horizons data finding that 48% of employees see family life as a higher priority than before the pandemic, existing and prospective talent may be looking for support and practices from employers that reflect this.
'A great feather to have in your cap'
Mandy Watson, Managing Director of Ambitions Personnel, told HR Grapevine that in this day and age, it is better to be a 'family-friendly' employer, particularly when top talent is highly sought after.
She said: "Being open about how family-friendly you are gives a good first impression, and that's a great feather to have in your cap."
However, with a younger child in the room, the rec expert did day that there are some considerations to ensure that the interview can work in a practical sense.
She added: "For example, it could be a good idea to keep them entertained with some coloured pencils or an iPad. The interview format could be altered to keep it short and simple, perhaps with a follow-up interview at a later date to ensure you get over all the details.
"Of course, today, a lot of interviews are conducted online over a video call, and there's no harm in allowing that format if a parent or guardian needs to be both focused on their interview and their child simultaneously. This may mean that any site tours or tests are delayed to a different time.
"As an interviewer, the key to managing an interview with a child present is patience and understanding. There may be interruptions, but being able to move through the interview
efficiently and calmly will help put the candidate at ease, and you'll get through it in no time," | 448 |
Hughes Aircraft Co.'s Legacy Comes out of Retirement
Posted by Argonaut Staff | Jan 6, 2016 | News, Playa Vista/Playa del Rey | 2 |
Exhibit seeks personal stories from those who worked for the former aviation tech giant in what is now Playa Vista
By Christina Campodonico
Hughes Aviation Co. as it looked in the early 1970s — Howard wouldn't recognize the place today
When JoAnn Cowans was working on a book of art and personal stories to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Marina del Rey, the artist and author wasn't expecting the research to lead her to Hughes Aircraft Co., the aerospace and technology giant where her husband worked for 12 years.
Discoveries from that search, including old copies of the company's newspaper "Hughes News" and material from her husband's archives, will go on display in February at the Fullerton Public Library in Orange County.
But Cowans says the exhibit is still missing an important element needed to bring the history of Hughes Aircraft Co. to life — people's personal stories, especially stories related to the Hughes campus that is now Playa Vista.
And all of them are important.
Cowans said she didn't realize how important her husband's story was until delving into it.
Last year she happened upon boxes of patents that Ken Cowans had developed while working as a mechanical engineer at Hughes between 1957 and 1969. Because of the often-classified nature of work being done during the Cold War, Ken and his fellow Hughes employees didn't often discuss what they were doing at the office.
So<|fim_middle|> the exhibition.
"Hughes Culver City [was] the motherland. That's where it started," said Cowans of the need for stories from the Westside.
She and Iboshi are accepting story submissions from former Hughes workers through Jan. 15. These written accounts will be placed in binders for exhibition visitors to explore.
"We want the stories that people share over the dinner table," said Cowans, who encourages would-be storytellers to not just refresh their resumes but recount meaningful memories from their time at Hughes, no matter how short or long that might be.
"A page or a paragraph will do," she said.
As for Cowans' story, she recalled how her world completely changed after her husband received a Hughes Fellowship to work at the company. The couple, about to be married, had plans to move from North Carolina to New York, where Ken was originally from and where Cowans planned to study art. Two weeks before the wedding, Ken told her that they'd be moving to California. He went to work at Hughes right away and pursued graduate work in theoretical physics at UCLA. She started taking arts classes at night, also at UCLA.
Yet stories like these aren't just for posterity but to connect young people to Hughes Aircraft Co.'s legacy and its impact on the current technological landscape, Cowans said. Some technologies — such as in-flight entertainment systems, communications satellites that power XM Radio and DirecTV, and miniaturized computers that were a precursor to the smart phone —trace their lineage to Hughes.
"People tend to think of Hughes as a company of the past and something dead and gone," said Cowans. "We are realizing how everything we have today had their beginnings at Hughes Aircraft."
Send stories to Larry Iboshi at iboshi@pacbell.net or mail to 1668 N. Mountain View Place, Fullerton, CA, 92831 by Jan. 15. Submissions should be no longer than 1,800 words.
The Hughes Aircraft Co. exhibit runs from Feb. 1 to Feb. 29 at the Fullerton Public Library, 353 W. Commonwealth Ave., Fullerton. Reach the library at (714) 738-6334.
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Charles Bowley on January 10, 2016 at 2:50 pm
Hello, my name is Charles Bowley and I worked at the Hughes facilities
From 1974 thru 1989. But i was employed at the helicopter division.l was wondering if.
you would be interested in hearing my stories.
Charles Bowley
CIndi Jones on February 26, 2021 at 7:25 am
I'm looking for a guy that worked in maintenance his name was John last name started with an O he was Spanish war glasses semi bald nice smile he's a father of my son I would like for my son to know who he is | it was only in 2015 that Cowans discovered that her husband of 58 years had developed 16 patents while at Hughes and headed a team that developed a high-tech cryogenic cooling system.
"Hughes people don't talk easily. They were so used to not talking," Cowans said. "I was overwhelmed with the work my husband had done."
When Cowans was making these discoveries she was also reading "Hughes After Howard," which recounts how the company reorganized following the departure of its famously eccentric billionaire founder.
The book's author, former Hughes President D. Kenneth Richardson, will speak about his time at the company on Feb. 20 as part of the exhibit's run.
Reading Richardson's book and discovering her husband's patents led Cowans to drop her other project and begin assembling Hughes Aircraft memorabilia and stories for the forthcoming exhibition.
She and retired Hughes electrical engineer Larry Iboshi have solicited dozens of stories from former Hughes employees, but so far most of them are coming from those who worked at the company's Fullerton location.
Now they're seeking stories from those who worked at Hughes headquarters in what was then Culver City (now Playa Vista) to be part of | 247 |
In the last post, we learned that Paul cultivated a sense of thankfulness in his prayers for the church at Colossae. He also celebrated the eternal in their lives, instead of the natural and temporal.
The second part of the prayer (the second<|fim_middle|> and growing in the knowledge of God's will.
Walk worthy. Live in such a way that God was glorified in them.
Be fruitful in good works.
Increase in their knowledge of God.
As I have prayed this way over the past few weeks, my prayer life has changed. I focus less on the "health, wealth, and success" of others and more on the formation of Christ in them.
Are you praying this way too? What are you learning from it?
Clayton Reed is the Lead Pastor of Southlake Baptist Church in Southlake TX.
He resides in Southlake with his wife Heather and children Jack, Josh, Eric, Matthew, Tyler, Abby and Jacob.
Copyright © 2019 Clayton Reed. All rights reserved. | long, drawn-out sentence in the Greek, vv. 9-14) is about Paul's petition. What did the Apostle Paul ask for in the lives of these believers? It's nothing like most of our prayers sound for others!
Paul's unceasing petition for the Colossian believers is aimed at their being filled with | 68 |
<|fim_middle|>" pieces whether worn for day with denim or at night with a soft trouser or bell-bottoms. | Cabana Opens a Portal Into the New World of Swim
Shani Shemer | Photo by Betsy Zanjani
By Betsy Zanjani, Contributing Writer
As of Friday, July 29, 2022
Photos by Betsy Zanjani
Cabana was held July 16–18 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Fla., to retail buyers in search of what's next, and they were not disappointed. The show delivered an experience that captured the trends that emerged in a year abundant with change. From the "taking it to the streets" movement to "fashion goes green," swimwear became less about just summer and the beach and more about seasonless style, versatility and sustainability.
Curated by the show's creator, Janet Wong, many new brands were selected this year to showcase a one-stop-shopping experience. "Continuing our tradition of creating a sense of discovery and newness," Wong added to her accessory offerings, and "they were a big hit with buyers," she said.
A major message this year was designers and brands taking responsibility for the planet seriously. Without compromising on fashion, each made a giant leap into going green. "Upcycling" was the buzzword—reworking materials to create something new.
The show featured artist Taryn Urushido, who over the course of the three days created a work of art from leftover strips of textile fabrics. Also at the show was the nonprofit Ocean Sole, which recycles old flip-flops left on beaches throughout the world and reworks them by hand into one-of-a-kind pieces.
Brands including Devon Windsor, My Beachy Side and Robin Piccone were just some of the many who made hand crochet a major theme this season. Accessories from the Akra Collection, Nannacay and De Siena were among the many that featured local artisan-crafted crochets from straw, raffia and other natural fibers used for handbags, bucket hats, slides and belts.
There's no denying that attitudes have changed. From the catwalks to the sidewalks, swimwear has officially become the new ready-to-wear. Triangle bikini tops are the "it | 447 |
Home BUYING GUIDES Best Motorized Projector Screen 2023
Best Motorized Projector Screen 2023
Tired of your projector screen taking up an entire wall of your living room? A motorized screen is an excellent alternative, keeping the screen out of sight when it's not in use and quickly extending it when it's movie time. Choosing the right model can be tricky, however. Most screens are designed to work in a certain light level, or with specific styles of projector, so there's no one best motorized projector screen for everyone. That said, there are some universal factors that you should consider when you're screen shopping. Let's take a quick look at how these models stack up before getting into the full reviews.
Best Motorized Projector Screen – Top picks in 2023:
VIVIDSTORM S PRO
VIVIDSTORM-Deluxe Tensioned Screen
VIVIDSTORM PRO Slimline
VIVIDSTORM Deluxe
Aoxun 120" Motorized Projector Screen
Screen size 100" 84" 120" 150" 120"
Aspect ratio 16:9 16:9 16:9 16:9 4:3
Viewing angle 170° 160° 170° 160° 160°
Ambient light rejecting Yes Yes Yes No No
Projector compatibility Ultra-Short Throw laser projectors Standard-throw and short-throw Ultra-short throw laser projectors Standard-throw/short-throw projectors (not UST) Standard-throw and short-throw projectors
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Installation Ease
Most motorized screens extend downward. This means you'll need to mount them to the ceiling or wall before you use it, just like with a traditional screen. Many offer multiple mounting options, such as most VIVIDSTORM screens that can be wall mounted, ceiling mounted, or suspended, so you'll still get some flexibility with your installation.
For the absolute easiest installation, the VIVIDSTORM S Pro is the top choice. It rises up from the base instead of extending down. Because of this, you can<|fim_middle|> has a 4:3 aspect ratio suitable for many older shows and movies. For more modern content, you can retract the screen slightly to adjust the ratio to a modern 16:9. With support for 3D content and faithful reproduction of resolutions up to 8K, it can handle any type of content you want to play on it.
As far as projector compatibility, the Aoxun 120" Motorized Projector Screen works best with standard-throw and short-throw projectors. While it can be used with ultra-short throw models, as well, this will likely cause visible wrinkles and lines in the image since it's not a fixed-tension screen.
4-layer screen limits light bleed
Control with remote or wall-mounted control panel
Wipes clean with soap and water
Can be mounted on the wall or ceiling
Supports resolutions up to 8K
3D ready
No ambient light rejecting features
No automatic control option
So What's the Best Motorized Projector Screen?
Any of these screens can be an exceptional choice paired with the right projector. That's the first thing you'll need to consider as you're shopping. For an ultra-short throw projector, the VIVIDSTORM S Pro is the best option (>>> Check on Amazon), designed to support laser-based light sources. Standard throw projectors are more common, and will work with a wider range of screens.
The light level in your viewing area is something else to consider. If you have a dedicated home theater, the VIVIDSTORM Deluxe is an excellent choice, but it will struggle in brighter rooms where the VIVIDSTORM PRO Slimline is a better option thanks to its highly effective ambient light rejection from above.
The bottom line is to remember that the screen is just one piece of your home theater setup, and the best option is the one that works well with your other equipment. We hope this comparison has helped you figure out the best choice for you!
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Easiest installation: VIVIDSTORM S Pro
The viewing angle of a screen indicates how far from center you can be and still get the same great picture. This will be of most concern for large groups like viewing parties, where it's not possible for everyone to sit directly in front of the screen.
A 180° viewing angle is the widest possible, giving even viewers at the very edges of the screen the same image quality. While none of these screens quite reach that full coverage, you will get a wide 170° viewing angle from the VIVIDSTORM S Pro and VIVIDSTORM PRO Slimline.
Widest viewing angle: VIVIDSTORM S Pro, VIVIDSTORM PRO Slimline
Most people go with a projector because they want a big-screen image. While many projectors can generate images as large as 300", screens this large are best in outdoor settings or large auditoriums, and will likely be overwhelmingly large in a home theater. Our top screen pick for outdoor can be found here.
For most home theaters, a screen around 100"-150" is the ideal size, and all of these screens fall within this range. The VIVIDSTORM Deluxe is the largest motorized screen on the list, with a diagonal measurement of 150".
Largest screen: VIVIDSTORM Deluxe
The VIVIDSTORM S Pro is an ideal choice for home theaters built around an ultra-short throw laser projector. Its flexibility is its main advantage. The screen material has a sawtooth structure that allows sound waves to get through without impacting the quality of the image, allowing for speakers to be installed behind the screen.
This unique screen material is also good news for the picture quality. It rejects ambient light, especially light that comes in from above the screen. Thanks to this, you'll see improved color and contrast even when it's used in well-lit rooms. It's also capable of supporting the latest in home theater technology, like 8K resolution and 3D content.
Setting up the VIVIDSTORM S Pro is easy. Just put it where you want it and plug it in—no need for screws or other hardware. While this gives it excellent versatility in terms of where you use it, it's not as versatile when it comes to your projector. It's made to use with ultra-short throw laser projectors, and its light-rejecting design can cause image issues with traditional lamp-based projectors or ceiling mounted setups. Click here for our more in-depth Vividstorm S Pro 120 Review.
Excellent image contrast and color
Perforated design is sound transparent
Easy setup with no required hardware
Works well with 3D content
Silent motor operation
Use is limited to laser projectors
Can't be used in ceiling-mounted setups
The VIVIDSTORM-Deluxe Tensioned Screen is one of the top options for smaller spaces. It comes in a range of sizes, as small as 84 inches diagonally. In all sizes, it has a wide 160° viewing angle, so you'll get the same high picture quality no matter where you're sitting in the room. Once installed, it raises and lowers silently, making it unobtrusive in every sense of the world, and has convenient features like an RF remote and smart opening that synchronizes with your projector.
Another great feature of this VIVIDSTORM screen is its installation flexibility. It's perforated to let sound through, meaning you can install speakers behind the screen without impacting the sound quality. Along with this, it supports wall, ceiling, or suspended installations, expanding your options for how and where to install it compared to other screens.
As far as the picture, the screen itself is made of cinema-quality material that faithfully recreates the color, contrast, and details of projected images from standard-throw or short-throw projectors. Since it rejects ambient light, it can make projectors with a brightness as low as 1,800 lumens look bright and vibrant. The only downside of this is, that same screen design means it won't work well with ultra-short throw projectors.
Acoustically transparent for behind-screen speakers
Easy to clean with just soap and water
Synchronizes with projector to open automatically
Moisture-resistant steel housing
Multiple installation options
Locking height adjustment
Not compatible with ultra-short throw laser projectors
Some users report flaring and wrinkling around the edges
Here's another top screen from VIVIDSTORM that's ideal for those with ultra-short throw laser projectors. The VIVIDSTORM PRO Slimline uses a screen with a sawtooth surface structure and light-suppression technology that blocks or absorbs ambient light from above. This means exceptional contrast and brightness from ultra-short throw projectors. The only downside of this is it will also filter out light from ceiling-mounted projectors, the main reason it's not suitable for standard-throw models.
Paired with the right projector, the VIVIDSTORM PRO Slimline produces an incredible picture for all kinds of content. It gives the full detail for content up to 8K resolutions and can handle any kind of 3D content, as well. With a 120" screen size and wide 170° viewing angle, it's perfect for viewing parties and other large group uses, giving everyone the same great viewing experience.
Like other VIVIDSTORM screens, the Slimline is easy to install and use. It can be suspended or mounted to a wall or ceiling. Along with a wireless remote, it comes with a projector trigger for automatic screen lowering and raising. However it's installed, the gravity shaft and stay wire keep the screen flat and wrinkle-free while you're watching.
Sawtooth screen structure absorbs light from above
Supports active 3D and resolutions up to 8K
Suspended or mounted installation
Includes remote and wireless trigger dongle
Flat, smooth surface when in use
Can't be used with ceiling-mounted projectors
For dedicated home theaters, the VIVIDSTORM Deluxe is an ideal choice. Its image surface is 150 inches on the diagonal, about 50% larger than most motorized projector screens. Along with that, its wide 160° viewing angle means everyone will have the same great view, even if you're watching with a large group.
The VIVIDSTORM Deluxe has a flexible installation. It works with both wall-mounted and ceiling-mounted setups, with an acoustically transparent screen that won't block sound from speakers installed behind it. While there is some wrinkling along the image edges, the overall contrast and color production are high, and it does full justice to Ultra HD resolutions.
The reason we recommend this screen mostly for dedicated home theaters is that it doesn't use the ambient light rejecting technology employed by other screens on this list. Because of this, it's at its best in a completely dark room. It will do justice to the picture produced by any standard-throw projector, but can't enhance or improve the contrast and image brightness, and is prone to wash-out from ambient light sources.
Ideal for dedicated home theaters
Perforated for acoustic transparency
Works with ceiling or wall mounted installations
Slim and unobtrusive when screen is retracted
Some wrinkling and distortion at the screen edges
Not ideal for well-lit rooms or dim projectors
You don't need to spend a fortune to get a motorized projector screen. The Aoxun 120" Motorized Projector Screen is a versatile way to get big-screen entertainment on a budget. It can be installed on either the wall or ceiling, and comes with a motorized control panel you can also mount to the wall, as well as a wireless remote. The surface is also moisture-resistant, meaning you can use it outside if you want and can clean it with plain soap and water if it gets dirty.
When fully extended, this Aoxun screen | 1,686 |
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Jurgen Klopp confident of Virgil van Dijk return but Mo Salah to be assessed
While Virgil van Dijk should be fit to face Crystal Palace, Jurgen Klopp has confirmed Mohamed Salah is still suffering with an ankle issue.
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22 November, 2019 19:50 IST
Mohamed Salah is to be assessed, but Virgil van Dijk should be fit<|fim_middle|> get out of the squad overnight, unfortunately, with some other things – getting sick or ill or whatever.
"From the others, I cannot say 100 per cent. Today is a very important session to judge that, especially with the players who came back late.
"Fabinho and Bobby [Roberto Firmino] and Alisson played on Tuesday, Gini Wijnaldum played on Tuesday, so we have these players where we really need to have a look at how they react and what makes sense for them or not.
"It's always how it is with the first game after the international [break], we have to wait until the last second pretty much to make the decision. Nobody came back with a serious injury or something like that but we still have to look how they are."
Salah, meanwhile, has been dealing with an ankle problem initially sustained in Liverpool's 2-1 win over Leicester City in October.
The former Roma forward missed the Reds' draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford, and seemed to aggravate the issue in a tussle with Manchester City's Fernandinho in Liverpool's win over Pep Guardiola's side at Anfield prior to the international break.
Klopp conceded Salah is still having some trouble with the injury, though said he had trained ahead of Liverpool's trip to south London, with a further assessment to be made on Friday.
"[Thursday] he trained. He trained the whole time since he was here, but only the things we wanted him to do," Klopp said.
"Today is another important session to see how it looks and we can make the decision. It's not that it got worse but it's still kind of there, that's the problem. We have to be sensible with things like this.
"But I didn't make the decision. If I would have made a decision, I probably wouldn't have told you now, but I have to see the session today." | to face Crystal Palace. - Getty Images
Virgil van Djik should be available to feature for Liverpool against Crystal Palace on Saturday, though Jurgen Klopp has acknowledged Mohamed Salah is still struggling with an ongoing ankle problem.
Van Dijk withdrew from the Netherlands squad in midweek, citing "personal reasons", while Salah was not included in Egypt's squad at all.
However, Van Dijk is set to be at Klopp's disposal at Selhurst Park, as Liverpool aims to extend its lead at the top of the Premier League.
"In the moment, yes, Virgil is 100 per cent available," Klopp told a news conference.
"But it's the time of the year when players | 139 |
World Stocks Slump As Investors Suffer Bout Of Nerves
AIG has posted the biggest quarterly loss in U.S. corporate history.
(RFE/RL) -- Stocks and shares on world markets are in turmoil again, driven downward by investor alarm over news that big business entities in the United States and Britain are in deeper trouble than previously realized.
Stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the key bourse in Asia, hovered close to a 25-year low on bad news from New York and London. Most other Asian markets followed Tokyo's downward slide.
Earlier, in New York, the Dow Jones index on Wall Street closed at a 12-year low, and in Europe, the FTSEurofirst index fell to within a few points of its all-time low, recorded in 2003.
Two specific events touched off the bout of selling.
One was the revelation on March 2 that the major U.S. insurance group AIG had recorded the biggest quarterly loss in U.S. corporate history -- a massive $61.7 billion. That follows AIG's total losses for 2008 of close to $100 billion.
The U.S. government has had to step in for the second time to rescue AIG from collapse with a big capital injection, this time of some $30 billion.
The affair has shocked investors, who have been eagerly scanning the economic scene for signs that the worst of the credit crisis is past.
Art Hogan, the chief market strategist for brokers Jeffries and Company, told Reuters on March 2 that the news from AIG points in the opposite direction.
"AIG reminded us today that a lot of financial institutions need more money. They need more capital to the ongoing entities," Hogan says. "AIG needs $30 billion more just to remain in place until we can divide the company up into multiple pieces and, hopefully, sell them off."
'Taking The Steps Necessary'
AIG's continuing troubles are seen as potentially big enough to destabilize the fragile U.S. financial system before the government's $800 billion economic stimulus package has had time to take hold.
White<|fim_middle|> that global economic conditions are deteriorating at a faster pace than previously thought.
In Japan, matters were not helped by the announcement that the finance arm of Toyota, the world's biggest car maker, is asking the government for a $2 billion loan. As world car sales plummet, Toyota is suffering its first trading loss in 60 years.
Analyst Lucinda Chan, of Macquarie Private Wealth in Sydney, says international markets are now being driven by fear, and she expects more pain before there is a turnaround. However, prices drifted higher today on the opening of European bourses.
As Exports Fall, Germany May Help Others To Help Itself
Obama: U.S. To Survive Economic 'Day Of Reckoning'
As Rich Countries Spend, IMF Borrowers Have To Swallow Bitter Pill | House spokesman Robert Gibbs, speaking March 2 at a news briefing in Washington, said the government wants to eliminate this threat.
"We are focused on taking the steps necessary to restructure AIG so that, in the long run, it no longer poses the type of systemic threat that it poses right now," Gibbs said. "And I think today's actions were critical in that restructure."
The second event that scared the world markets was the announcement in London that Europe's biggest bank, Britain's HSBC, suffered a 70-percent drop in earnings last year, and said it is seeking to raise some $18 billion in a share issue to provide working capital.
The two events, coupled together, gave the impression | 145 |
Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 09:56 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
July 10, Colombo: AngelHack Sri Lanka 2018, powered by Ideamart, a telco application development platform, and Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka's premier connectivity provider, returns for the third consecutive year to host the Sri Lankan instalment of the AngelHack annual global hackathon series.
Initiated by AngelHack, a global company that aims to encourage developers, designers and entrepreneurs to become holistic and well-rounded developers, the hackathon is open to all members of the tech community, welcoming those of all ages, genders and skill levels.
Additionally, participants may take part in a team of up to five or solo, to engage in the creation and pitch for a product or service within the span of 24 hours, with judging criteria<|fim_middle|> Impact Award Challenge' and the 'IBM Challenge'. Winning teams will be invited to AngelHack's HACKcelerator program, with overall first place winner's receiving $7,500 and second place winner's receiving $2,500.
Commenting on the global hackathon in Sri Lanka, MIFE Business Head and Ideamart IoT Viranga Seneviratne said, "As we witness the extensive expansion of the ICT industry, both globally and in Sri Lanka, it becomes imperative that local talent is given the opportunity to develop and grow, in order to encourage the generation of new ideas and initiatives that will contribute to the enrichment of lives, enterprises and the Sri Lankan community. Events such as AngelHack create a space for developers of all levels to network within the tech community, while exposing themselves to mentorship opportunities from industry experts." | based on fundability, execution, UI/UX, originality and scalability, under the theme 'Seamless Technology'.
Categories of the hackathon include the 'AngelHack Challenge', the 'Code for a Cause | 43 |
Langaholt offers a magnificent view of the mysterious Snæfellsjökull Glacier. On a yellow sandy beach just a stone's throw away, birds of various kinds enjoy life while the odd seal peeks its head up from the waves only a few metres out. The landscape of Snæfellsnes Peninsula is amazingly varied. Volcanic activity of days long gone and the pounding of waves have created the remarkable surroundings of this bright and cosy bed and breakfast and its popular seafood restaurant. Open all year.
The same family has been hosting guests at Langaholt since 1978. There are 40 rooms, all of which have a private/en-suite bathroom with shower. Many of the rooms offer a splendid view over the ocean or towards Snæfellsjökull Glacier. There is free Wi-Fi in the reception area, lounge and restaurant.
Currently new rooms are under construction at Langaholt and due to<|fim_middle|> head west and make the first stop in the tiny village of Arnarstapi. Continue onwards to the tip of the peninsula and drive the north side eastward along Breiðafjörður fjord. Complete the circle by heading south directly across the peninsula along the so-called 'Lakes route' (Vatnaleið) back to Langaholt.
The accommodation at Langaholt Guesthouse is available on request. Please fill out the booking request form to make a booking. | that there might be some disturbance. The hosts and staff at Langaholt will do their utmost to minimize the disturbance and make your stay pleasant.
Large campsite with bathroom facilities, between the guesthouse and the beach.
Fresh seafood is the key substance in the chef´s specialities. The licenced restaurant has a good reputation and is recognised for fish dishes and other delicious seafood meals.
The golden sandy beach next to the guest house is an ideal playground for both young and old and on a warm, sunny summer's day the sea can be quite tempting! A 9-hole golf course is located next to the shore. A horse rental and geothermal swimming pool with mineral-rich, naturally carbonated water are located at Lýsuhóll (3 km). The closest village is Ólafsvík, a scenic 33 km drive around the peninsula.
Fire, ice and the brutal forces of the ocean have created an adventure playground for visitors. More than a thousand years ago lava ran out to sea while waves carved supernatural figures out in rock. The peninsula offers countless opportunites for nature explorations along the coast or up into the mountains. Regular tours onto the glacier by snowmobile or snowcat are available daily throughout the summer.
Langaholt is located 45 km from the Snæfellsjökull National Park Visitor Centre. There are many remarkable sights within the park that are well worth exploring; places which bear witness of the forces of nature as well as the often difficult living conditions of previous times. Guided walking/hiking tours are available in the summer but everyone is welcome to explore on his or her own along well marked paths.
A tour of the entire peninsula from Langaholt makes for an ideal day trip. Example; | 354 |
TGM has a contemporary and modern yet welcoming interior design set up. From the moment you walk in your troubles seem to disappear with all you can think about is what's on the menu. So we put to gather some highlight dishes which is a must try at the restaurant..
The appetizer selection we liked are Botan Shrimp, Grilled Oyster with Mentai<|fim_middle|> sweetness from the sauce and a little crunch from the Salmon skin. It's certainly an experience to be had.
To finished up your hearty meal try the signature TGM Patbingsu. The Patbingsu is served with sweet red beans, nata de coco and a whole lots of mixed fruits which includes watermelon, mango and dragonfruits. Alongside with that, you'll also get scoops of ice-cream and Oreo cookie sticks to top off the Patbingsu. It's simply delicious ! | Mayo and Tuna Otoshi. The dishes are served in inviting and charming mini creations that taste as good as the look.
A assortment of grilled skewers with a range of meats and veggies can be selected and are grilled fresh form the kitchen to add a little color to the mains.
Main courses here are quite big in portion as all of the sets come with rice, miso soup, fruits and salad. Our favourite dish would be the perfectly cooked and flavoured Salmon Butter Yaki Set. A lovely balance of rich Salmon flavour, | 107 |
Ford GT wins third race in its last four worldwide starts
By dizbizroundupJul 4, 2016, 8:00 AM EDT
Photo: Ford Performance
The Ford GT has won its third race in its last four attempts, combining the Ford Chip Ganassi Racing efforts in both the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship.
Ford didn't quite get out of the gates great at its first four events, three in IMSA and its WEC debut.
But clearly the twin-turbocharged EcoBoost V6-powered car has found its form in the last four, winning IMSA's trip to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in May for the new car's first win, then coming second at the second WEC race of the year at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.
The last two races though the Ford has clearly been the car to beat in the GTE ranks, first with a 1-3-4 in GTE-Pro at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and then with a 1-2 in GTLM in Sunday's Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen. They'll have a chance to continue that roll next week at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in the next round of the IMSA season.
The results are as good as the news that Ford has extended through 2019 for both programs.
See Ford's post-Watkins Glen release, below:
The Ford GT is on a winning streak. Ford Chip Ganassi Racing earned its second double-podium in a row as the No. 67 Ford GT duo of Richard Westbrook and Ryan Briscoe cruised to victory lane for the second time together, this time at the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen, while teammates Joey Hand and Dirk Müller backed up their win at the Le Mans 24 Hours with a runner-up finish.
Westbrook, who handled all driving duties Friday and Saturday while Briscoe went home for the surprise birth of daughter Blake James, put the No. 67 on pole with a track-record crushing 1:41.301, then, incredibly, set that bar even higher on race day.
"It's just such a good period for us at the moment," Westbrook said. "Confidence is so high. It's just a pleasure going to work every day in this Ford camp. It's just been an amazing 30<|fim_middle|>'m glad we got the win and it's all worked out well. I'll be hitting the road as soon as I leave the track to go back to the hospital and see my girls. Thanks to the team and for Richard for sticking it out for me while I was gone. It's been awesome being in the car today. It handled really well. It's nice to lead some laps and get the win."
The move of the race for the No. 66 happened in the closing moments, when Hand passed the BMW the team had been dueling with around the outside for p2.
"Clearly we have a little roll going here," Hand said. "(Briscoe and Westbrook) won at Laguna Seca, we both had fast cars there, then we went to the Le Mans 24 Hours and had a great run there and ended up first and third between these two cars. This Ford Chip Ganassi Racing team, we're hitting our stride. We got along really well from the beginning, but I think with the whole team, everyone is just flowing really good and we're getting great support from our partners like Michelin and Castrol and IHG Rewards Club. There's just a lot of good mojo. This is when it's great to drive for a race team like this. They figure things out.
"We struggled on the No. 66 car. We thought we broke something. We struggled during qualifying. Even during the race, something didn't feel right. There was so much rubber on the race track. It took a bunch of rubber to make the car feel normal, but after that…we had one bad pit stop that put us back to eighth and it was a dog fight to get back from that. The car was good. I was able to get through. We had some great racing. This IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship right now, in GTLM, is pretty awesome. We have some great cars. It's cool for the fans."
Like Hand, Müller credited the team for fixing an issue they dealt with early on in time for the race.
"I love every single second in the car," Müller said. "The car was awesome. We had a little issue with the car yesterday and we found it, so thanks to the team. Ford Chip Ganassi did a great job with the car. It was really, really fast." | days especially, really. First the Le Mans 24 Hours and now this. It was a great race out there. We had a really great battle with the BMW for most of the race. At one point, I thought we didn't have enough for them, but at the end, we just seemed that little bit stronger. It was a really good race. A good race to be part of. I'm really happy for my teammate that he actually made it to the track and he has a nice trophy to bring home to his girls."
Westbrook and Briscoe earned Ford GT's first win at Laguna Seca. Then they stood on the podium at p3 while teammates Hand, Müller and Sébastien Bourdais won on the 50th anniversary of Ford's fabled 1-2-3 finish at the Le Mans 24 Hours in June. Now they're back on the podium after Westbrook earned the team's first IMSA pole in GTLM.
"It's really good to be back here at Watkins Glen," Briscoe said. "Obviously it was a really busy weekend of driving on the freeways back and forth to Connecticut from Watkins Glen, but it's been exciting and it's been fun. It was really strange not being here at the track. I was on the phone a lot with Richard and our engineer and Richard was on fire. He led two practice sessions and got the pole. So I'm coming in last night, and I was kind of nervous. I thought 'I don't want to step in here and let the team down.' I | 323 |
For Lakers support staff, the bubble has been a…
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For Lakers support staff, the bubble has been a frantic, collaborative effort
The people behind the Lakers have been short-staffed, meaning everyone in the bubble is picking up multiple roles and long hours
Andrew Henk, equipment manager, gets footwear ready for Lakers inside the NBA bubble. (Rohan Ali, Lakers)
By Kyle Goon | kgoon@scng.com |
PUBLISHED: August 7, 2020 at 3:18 p.m. | UPDATED: August 7, 2020 at 3:19 p.m.
Andrew Henk unloads bags in the makeshift locker room at The Arena prior to the Lakers' first game against the Clippers. (Alison Bogli, Lakers)
Head athletic trainer Nina Hsieh works during a practice at the Coronado Springs resort in a converted ballroom. (Rohan Ali, Lakers)
Staffers including Rob Pelinka, Miles Simon, Jon Ishop, Andrew Henk, Quentin Crawford and Judy Seto unload a bus full of packages and equipment at the Gran Destino hotel. (Alison Bogli, Lakers)
Dr Judy Seto, the Lakers director of sports performance, has been a key figure for the team in logistics, and helped work on the health protocols that formed the basis of the bubble. (Rohan Ali, Lakers)
Assistant strength coaches Chattin Hill (left) and Ed Streit are on towel duty at a Lakers practice. (Rohan Ali, Lakers)
Head athletic trainer Nina Hsieh helps at a practice at the Coronado Springs resort in a converted ballroom. (Rohan Ali, Lakers)
Chattin Hill directing JR Smith through a workout in one of the improvised Coronado Springs Resort ballrooms that have been filled with weights and equipment. The Lakers also outfitted their own auxiliary weight room in the team hotel at the Gran Destino. (Rohan Ali, Lakers)
Assistant strength coach Ed Streit enjoys a Lakers practice. (Rohan Ali, Lakers)
Athletic trainer Mike Mancias wipes up the floor at a practice at a converted Coronado Springs Resort ballroom. (Rohan Ali, Lakers)
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. >> Thirty-six hours into her quarantine, Nina Hsieh couldn't wait to bolt out her hotel room door.
The head athletic trainer for the Lakers paced as she saw the messages from her colleague who were already out of their rooms, dashing through the sweltering Florida humidity to a warehouse that held almost everything they would need for the next three months. They had to bring all the equipment over in flatbed carts back to the Gran Destino to start constructing improvised weight rooms and training facilities that would last them hopefully through an NBA championship run unlike any other.
Their first practice would be in hours. Players including LeBron James and Anthony Davis would need taping and treatment before taking the court. With a skeleton crew staff and a tight schedule, every minute counted, and Hsieh — who has worked in the organization for the last 12 years — was crawling up her walls.
"I know I was still stuck in my room and couldn't do anything," she said. "I think you're still kind of anxious of what's gonna fit where and what if certain things don't fit the way they work out in your mind."
Little about 2020 has worked out as envisioned — and the bubble at Walt Disney World Resort has been the NBA's way to adapt. But to lower the risk, health experts recommended limiting the number of people who participate. Teams were told they'd need strict caps on the number of people they could send: Just 35, which includes players, coaches and staff.
For the Lakers, it means their equipment manager must find a way to move a bus full of duffel bags stuffed with socks, shoes, jerseys and all manner of odds and ends back and forth from arenas without an assistant. It means their security guard and strength coaches run to a convention center ballroom to pick up packages and deliver them. It means their director of sports performance helps plan everything from when they get meals catered to when they get housekeeping services.
General manager Rob Pelinka started the year swinging one of the biggest trades of the offseason for Anthony Davis and signing contracts for a team that would go on to be the West's No. 1 seed. In the bubble, he's a rebounder and occasionally a waterboy. His employees have watched him mop up sweat on the court at practices.
"There's no task that's too low that we can't come in and help," Pelinka said. "Especially when it comes to our players and their safety and servicing their needs."
It's who the Lakers believe they are. But in the bubble, it's also an absolute necessity.
"We're all now essentially a man-and-a-half," Hsieh said. "Everybody's gotta pick up that extra half a person here, half a person there that's missing."
On the day of the Lakers' first scrimmage at Visa Athletic Center, Andrew Henk did something he never does at Staples Center: He arrived as the same time as the players.
For a team equipment manager, there is no worse nightmare. The initial protocols designed by the NBA limited the window in which teams could arrive, and Henk found himself in charge of bringing nearly two dozen duffel bags of equipment — all the team's uniforms, shoes, socks and all manner of equipment — into the arena. The critical piece of his job is preparation: Even on road trips, he can set up the night before, and lay uniforms and mesh bags with uniform components and shoes out at individual lockers when players come in.
From a purely material perspective, no one on staff faces a challenge like Henk, who is in his first full year as equipment manager for the team. He has a room filled with black duffel bags, which have all the fresh tights, socks, sleeves and other equipment players require for the coming months. He is in charge of team laundry, which takes hours at a time in a complex with a seemingly unending row of washers and dryers. He's in charge of running deliveries from the mailing ballroom to the hotel.
Henk knew the hours would be long and the challenge would be great since the Lakers first told him that his staff would be squeezed in favor of medical emphasis. Henk's assistants can order or send him packages from Los Angeles, but that's about all they can do.
"It was like, 'When am I gonna sleep? When is there gonna be a break?'" Henk said. "And you know, just my mind really never turns off, because as soon as one day ends and is completed, I start thinking about the next day."
Game days are the most stressful: If the Lakers shoot around in the morning, there can be as much as five sets of dirty laundry that need to be washed the next day for 17 players. The NBA has a small army of team attendants who help unload the bus and serve as ball boys, wipe the floors, scoop ice bags and run towels. But health protocols dictate they can't actually hand anything directly to a player — only members of the traveling party can literally hand over things.
Henk, like a lot of people in the travel party, also rebounds during practice. When the Lakers scrimmage among themselves, he runs the shot clock.
While the organization knew they would have to short-staff team equipment, they've tried to be mindful and helpful. Frank Vogel has deputized all of his coaches as "assistant equipment managers" to carry bags and help out in games to stock towels and water bottles to players on a social distanced bench. Other staff members help out on deliveries, running down to the warehouse with golf carts. The NBA has helped by allowing staff to come to locker rooms earlier than players so they can set up sooner.
Downtime is precious: When Henk throws in a load of<|fim_middle|>, revising plans and drafts, getting up to date on the latest science of COVID-19.
Even for small steps like individual workouts, the Lakers and every other NBA team had to open facilities in phases with strict cleaning and isolating procedures. Some teams like Denver never made it all the way through the phases, shutting down facilities after positive tests. While progressing to this point of the restart may look like a steady march, nothing has ever felt assured, even by the long hours Seto and hundreds of others put into creating guidelines.
"People didn't see behind the curtain what it took to even start these scrimmages. We're about to start our seeding games pretty soon, and just to make those happen and get to this point took a lot of work. And it's going to continue to take a lot of work."
The memo's release drew some snickers for its specificity, such as the proper procedures to clean a ball. But this was not a joke to everyone: Henk remembers what a pain it was to clean a full rack of balls after every workout with detergent, water and sanitizer, then leave them outside in the parking lot to dry so they wouldn't drip onto the court.
For Henk and other hands-on staff members, they were simply happy to get back to work. The Lakers were coming up on one of their longer East Coast road trips when the hiatus struck on. As much as working nonstop in the bubble has been a grind, it beats not working at all.
"That was so weird, because obviously this job is a million miles an hour, one thing after another," Henk said. "Then the NBA goes on a hiatus, and it was just literally nothing after that."
What do you pack for a three-month trip? Everything.
What they don't normally bring themselves, NBA teams like the Lakers often get from the home team when they're on the road. Trainers especially raid opposing store rooms for common things like tape or the lubricant that goes between pads on every ankle. But most of that equipment had to be brought with them, packed in a truck and shipped to Florida on 16 (give or take) pallets.
Many of the items were packed by month they'll be needed, Hsieh said, as the Lakers hope for a long playoff run. When she finally got out of quarantine, she sorted out the things she needed right away — like massage tables and wraps — from what she'll need in October (as she described this set-up, Hsieh knocked on wood).
Creating the inventory involved a lot of math on a trip much longer than the Lakers ever pack for, multiplying the demands of one game for a projected run to the Finals, plus practices. The Lakers' stash includes a ludicrous amount of common items, such as two 1,000-unit packages of ice bags. They hand-scooped Vaseline for skin wraps into large tubs that they packed. Then there's things they probably won't even need all of, like two large vats of ultrasound gel.
"I think at that point we were starting to throw stuff into the boxes," Hsieh said, laughing. "We probably won't even go through one."
If the training staff packed heavy, the strength staff packed lean. Chattin Hill and Ed Streit are the two assistant strength coaches under Gunnar Peterson, who remained in Los Angeles. While Peterson remains on call to consult, Hill and Streit were charged with running a weight room on the "strength coach floor" of the Gran Destino where all teams have their personal facilities.
When they got out of quarantine, the duo had to put together a full squat rack — "Luckily Ed is pretty handy," Hill said — and within 30 minutes of finishing their improvised set-up, Lakers players were lifting in their hotel.
The strength staff can also use weights and equipment at playing venues and practice facilities at on-campus ballrooms. But gym time is restricted by cleaning protocols, so plenty of lifts and other conditioning are done in adjoining hotel rooms that can house a maximum of two players and two coaches at a time. They've largely forsaken advanced, fancy electronic equipment in favor of weights and bands — the analog stuff that simply works.
"We've outfitted it with pretty much almost everything we have in our gym (in El Segundo), but just on a much smaller scale," Hill said. "None of the equipment repeats itself, if that makes sense. But we're operating pretty well under the circumstances."
Though downtime is rare, it's best done like most other things in the bubble: together. When Hill isn't reading or stealing FaceTime moments with his family, he practices martial arts strikes with Streit — or sometimes with the Lakers' first security guard in the bubble, who is a jiu jitsu expert. Hsieh swims in the pool, but sometimes indulges in bike rides around the resort with massage therapist Stacey Robinson.
On her first off day she could remember, Seto and Pelinka grabbed rods and bait for a "friendly fishing bet" off one of the bridges at the resort. Pelinka caught four; Seto didn't catch any — but it was a welcome way to blow off steam.
The bubble, which several people in it have likened to the world's biggest AAU tournament, requires going back to what a lot of people in the NBA think of as their roots with long hours and sometimes thankless work. Many staffers have experience in the G League or colleges with the menial tasks and multiple roles they're charged with now.
That's a mentality that starts from the top with Vogel, who famously pleaded his way onto Rick Pitino's Kentucky staff as a student manager and handled all sorts of odd jobs on his coaching path. While some players have teased him for carrying bags to and from the arena, they also have followed his example.
When Vogel took the job, a shadow of dysfunction hung over the franchise — on the day he was introduced, infighting between former president Magic Johnson and Pelinka was splashed across national airwaves. But what's happening now, he said, is a validation of the culture in the organization.
"It's not just the players in uniform. It's the front office, it's the coaching staff, training staff, video team, training guys, everybody working together and helping each other out. And that's been a real positive, a breath of fresh air. " he said. "There's a really healthy atmosphere here. The perception of the way this organization works was very different from reality."
When individual workouts began in May, players filtered in slowly. But two of the chief draws were the Lakers' weight room and the training room. While the Lakers had set up Zoom workouts and sent equipment to players, it's not the same as being there. Hsieh remembered how appreciative players were as she worked on knots in their shoulders, their backs, their legs.
It's an appreciation that carries into the bubble. Players can be notoriously finicky about routines and pregame preferences, but they're adapting to the circumstances just like the people who help heal, train, nourish and clothe their bodies for game day.
Last week, a fridge in the laundry room was suddenly stocked with beer for equipment staffers — a gift from Miami's Jimmy Butler who has a sponsorship. That gesture and other small ones like it communicates the respect that has only grown from players.
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"I always appreciate the things they do, because they don't get any accolades or get any support from fans and stuff like that," Alex Caruso said. "The only recognition they get is from us on the team. .. They're trying, man. Their jobs are already hard enough."
The Lakers' first official game in the bubble was a three-hour marathon against the Clippers. LeBron James returned to the Gran Destino like his teammates in need of a shower and a meal. But as he saw Hsieh, Henk and other support staff loading an elevator with bags to whisk up and store on their floor, he stopped to help out.
"I mean he played, so he's tired and he's hungry. And he's still helping us," Hsieh said. "That's kind of what it's been like. That's what everybody has done."
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More in Lakers | the team laundry in an improvised batting cage at the ESPN Wide World of Sports baseball field, he'll plug in his headphones and run laps around the diamond for a workout: "It's really just one thing after another," he said.
On a recent afternoon, Dr. Judy Seto needed a reference — the Lakers' director of sports performance couldn't remember all the jobs off the top of her head that she's been assigned since the NBA hiatus hit on March 11.
As she scanned her records, she paused to respond to an urgent text — the kind she gets all day long. Messages from the NBA, from the Lakers' staffers back in L.A., from people on the campus itself. Seto is one of the most even-keeled staffers in the Lakers' camp, entrusted as the day-to-day planner in addition to the chief medical person on site — in many ways, the brain of the Lakers' support operation. She has a well-practiced bedside manner, but here, she allowed herself a rare whiff of weariness.
"Sometimes," she said. "I think my phone gets tired."
In the last four-and-a-half months alone, Seto has earned five new titles, all created and necessitated by the pandemic, to carry responsibilities beyond her role overseeing the medical care and performance of every player. That includes Facilities Hygiene Officer, Restart Coordinator, Logistics Manager, Campus Health Officer and Mental Health Point of Contact. This has made her an inflection point for all kinds of logistical elements, from the scheduling of facilities time and oversight of cleaning back in May when individual workouts started, to now scheduling daily coronavirus testing in the bubble.
Since the bubble isn't like normal road trips, the Lakers left their manager of travel operations, Josh Ingram, at home. But Seto works with Ingram often, and also coordinates with the team's player services personnel to make sure everything from meals to housekeeping gets done on time.
Seto has done some of the most mental labor of the Lakers' organization in the last few months: She worked with the NBA and infectious disease experts to help develop the 113-page memo that has become the foundation of the bubble. While the NBA's outward face was near-silence for months, many of the league's medical minds were on conference calls behind closed doors | 470 |
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Now that you've got the mandatory desert safari evenings and endless trips to the malls out of your way, make way for all these fun things you can do in Dubai as a second-timer. Scratch beneath the surface to find a smorgasbord of experiences guaranteed to reinvent Dubai into a different holiday for your next visit.
Beachy vibes
Dubai can be a full-blown beach holiday complete with plenty of sunshine, white sands, clear water and a dizzying assortment of shoreside cafes and restaurants. The biggest and most popular is Jumeirah Beach, surrounded by a promenade of beachfront hotels and the lively district of Jumeirah Beach Residences (JBR). This is a great place to check-in whether you are looking for some me-time or want to spend time at JBR's many restaurants, shops, food trucks and cafes. If you are looking for something more private, the Pearl Jumeirah beachfront is home to luxury venues that let you practice social distancing in style with your private spot under the sun. In the mood to get moving? Head to the Kite Beach for kitesurfing, paddle boarding, kayaking or a game of beach volleyball.
Tandem skydive at Palm Jumeirah
Your Instagram feed isn't complete without an exhilarating skydiving shot above the iconic Palm Jumeirah, one of Dubai's most recognizable sights. After a year severely short on thrills, plummeting from a height of 13,000 feet at over 120 miles per hour is the kind of adrenaline rush that makes up for everything you've missed. This tandem skydive has you securely harnessed to an experienced instructor, so you are always in safe hands
Sightseeing with a twist
When in Dubai, regular modes of transport just won't do. Dial the extravagance up a few notches with a tour of its best sights sprawled in a stretch limo with a glass of champagne. Think you have the desert safari done and dusted? Imagine soaring above the sand dunes in a hot air balloon to catch the first rays of the sun. If you're feeling really flamboyant, board a helicopter for unobstructed bird's eye views of the Burj Khalifa, Burj Al Arab and Palm Jumeirah.
Dubai Garden Glow
Straight out of a fairytale, this magical garden with hundreds of dazzling displays is a sight to behold! The colorful handmade displays, all made with recyclable material, are also a great way to<|fim_middle|>ifa, Cinderella's carriage and many different themed displays.
The garden also houses other theme parks like a Dinosaur Park with life sized figures and Art Park with installations made from recycled bottles, CDs and other waste. Together with acrobatic performances, street artists and theme park favorites like hot dogs, ice cream and pizza, Garden Glow has something for all age groups.
Dubai Safari Park
A wildlife reserve and sanctuary with over 2500 animals from around the world, this Safari Park is the latest addition to the long list of family favorite must-dos in Dubai. The park recreates different ecosystems including a Safari Village, African Village, Arabian Village and others which are a habitat for lions, giraffes, elephants, crocodiles, Komodo dragons, camels and the oryx, the national animal of the UAE. Children will especially enjoy the Kids Farm, giraffe feeding sessions, the Bird Show and many interactive programs.
The Palm Fountains
When Dubai sets up fountains, you expect nothing less than the world's largest and here, The Pointe at Palm Jumeirah, is absolutely on point. Every day from sunset to midnight, two giant floating platforms covering 14,000 sq meters of sea water, towering at 105 meters in height, light up the sky with magical 3,000 LEDs and dances to songs from all around the globe.
To add these to your holiday itinerary or for more recommendations, get in touch with a Travel Tours holiday expert. | create awareness about the impact of our carbon footprint and the effects of global warming. The illuminated displays are visual spectacle and invite you to a world of larger than life displays with talking trees, shimmering flower displays, seasonal themes and new displays that change every year. The painstaking efforts of hundreds of engineers, skilled technicians and artists brings to life a wonderland with a replica of Burj Khal | 77 |
440 Gallery announces Swing new work by Jo-Ann Acey
Brooklyn, NY — 440 Gallery is pleased to present Swing, a new series of acrylic paintings by abstract artist Jo-Ann Acey. This is the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery and features works that have been in development for the past two years.
Acey's works on paper and wood panels have a large-scale presence on the wall, as do several pieces that attract the viewer to explore smaller, intimate spaces. As an ongoing series of paintings, Acey developed Swing out of childhood memories. She recalls being captivated by the dancing and music that her parents were so fond of, and her life at home often revolved around watching her parents jitterbug. The movement, sounds and energy, joyous as it was at the time, became an inspiration for Jo-Ann to examine in her artwork. Freed of nostalgia, Jo-Ann goes on to create spontaneous, pattern-filled surfaces that she fills with sweeping brush strokes and areas of vivid color. The work is a dialogue about the back and forth, adding and subtracting, and layering of decisive marks—similar to how the bold, brassy dance bands from her past summon up a time and a place.
In a nod to a formative study of Chinese brush painting techniques while in art school, Jo-Ann approaches each work without a goal in mind. Working on a flat surface with brush and ink, she begins making marks on the surface with broad, distinctive strokes that sweep along the arc of her hand and arm. Color is introduced gradually and through thickly-applied acrylic paint; she works in and out of the painting to develop palettes that can be muted pastels in some cases, or saturated primaries in others. Most importantly, color dances around vast open white spaces within the composition. Says Acey, "Working in a series, often two or three paintings at a time, allows me to access the progression of each piece. Each one in the series makes the other stronger."
Jo-Ann Acey's studio practice is located at Brooklyn Art Cluster in the eponymous art neighborhood of Gowanus. She is a graduate of Daemen College, Amherst, NY and earned her MFA in painting and drawing from Texas Tech University. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and is included in private collections around the globe including Villa Pignano in Voltaire, Italy. As an art educator, Acey has brought the love of visual art to generations of young people, many whom fondly come back to visit her and stand proudly<|fim_middle|> 5, 2019, in Toronto » | at her side. She designed and implemented art curricula for the Studio in a School Program and the United Nations International School, both in NYC, and continues to consult with various educational programs in the area.
On view : March 13 – April 14, 2019
There will be an artist's reception Saturday, March 16, 5-8 PM, and an artist's talk on Sunday, March 31, 4:40 PM
440 Gallery is located at 440 Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, between 9th and 10th Streets, and is convenient to the F, G, and R subways. The gallery is open on Wed 4-7, Thurs-Fri 1 – 7, and Sat-Sun 11 – 7, or by appointment.
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British Aviator Jim Mollison lands in America after his westward flight across the Atlantic.
Full title reads: "America. Britain's "Lindy" - and aren't we all proud of Jim Mollison and his wonderful 'all-British' Atlantic flight.
United States of America (USA).
Monoplane - The Heart's Content - flies in over Roosevelt field. The pilot, James Mollison, is performing a manoeuvre called 'fish tailing' - throwing the plane from side to side, as he comes in to land after his record flight - westward across the Atlantic.
Crowds of people are gathered to watch. The plane taxis across the airfield. A cameraman is standing on the roof of a car. A lorry is following the plane with a public address system on . The announcer is calling on the crowd to cheer for Captain Mollison.
Mollison gets out of his plane into a crowd of people.
The Aviator speaks to the crowd through a microphone. He says that he has admired America for a long time. He talks about his first sight of land at the end of his long flight. He says that he is eager to fly back home soon, 'as you know I've just been married a very short time. ' He sends a short message to his wife, Amy Johnson.
C/U Jim Mollison. He says that his engine requires no replacements after the flight. It is in perfect condition - a tribute to the manufacturers and British products. He says that his wife was a great help in the preparation.
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Prime Minister Churchill on the campaign trail among energetic crowds
Greece: Karamanlis Address
Proclaiming Greece's first general elections for ten years, Prime Minister Constantine Caramanlis told a nationwide television and radio audienee that November 17 will be a historic election because it will bring forth a parliament with a charter to secures it foundation, and Greece's future. (3 OCT '74).
Israel: Dayan Addresses Golani Brigade
The meeting of the Golani brigade, one of Israel's crack infantry brigades since the days of the war of liberation, at the end of their winter manoeuvres and the key address by the Minister of Defence in the days of the feats of Chanukkah has become a tradition.
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Reshaping Scholarship through Library Innovation
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The RLUK Conference 2019 took place at the excellent premises of Wellcome Collection on 20-22 March 2019. This year's conference theme 'Reshaping Scholarship: Transformation, Innovation, and Cultural Change' was strongly linked to the RLUK strategy 'Reshaping Scholarship' which, having been launched in March 2018, has now moved to its implementation stage. Library and information professionals from across the membership and beyond came together to discuss some of the key issues that concern modern research libraries; these included the ways changing research practices and the proliferation of the digital affect libraries, the need for a cultural shift in values and practices, and the latest innovations in collections.
During the pre-conference workshops, delegates were invited to take part in discussions around best approaches and practices for facilitating openness in collections, the role of libraries in digital humanities, and copyright. The Conference was then formally opened by Prof. Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex) who talked on the impact that the evolving library information structures can have on scholarship and the study of human knowledge. He argued that power structures tended to be more visible in the 'traditional' library whereas, in the digital sphere, lack of clarity around the way resources are created can lead to biases and misrepresentation of knowledge. How can we, then, increase visibility of the power structures in our digital collections and archives? Hitchcock suggested sharing collections via APIs and training scholars, while being more transparent about the decision making processes behind the building of digital resources.
Somewhat chilling observation from @TimHitchcock #RLUK19: in the traditional (print) library the power structures were visible, if not interrogated. Digital collections and sources, on the other hand, can easily conceal their assumptions, choices, drivers.
— Rob O'Connor (@catachretical) March 20, 2019
#RLUK19 the transition from physical knowledge arrangements in libraries, from catalogues to keywords, hides the structure of knowledge and shifts visibility, says @TimHitchcock
— Torsten Reimer (@torstenreimer) March 20, 2019
The IARLA panel that followed the opening keynote provided an international and collaborative perspective on some of the core transformational challenges that libraries are currently facing and which are related to the facilitation of openness in research and scholarly communication, the preservation of knowledge in the digital age as well as the cultural change that institutions and the profession, more generally, are undergoing.
The IARLA Panel
Subsequent presentations offered views on the growing role of the library as a partner in digital humanities – including the rising opportunities for contribution in the areas of publication, curation and preservation of data – and the ways research libraries need to evolve – in terms of organisational structure, services, and understanding of user needs – in order to successfully respond to future challenges. The day closed with a keynote speech by Charles Kriel [Kriel.Agency] who focused on social media and the role they play in perpetuating disinformation through approaches, such as 'microtargeting', which make it difficult for users to get a balanced view of a situation. Kriel's talk offered plenty of food for thought and generated debate around the potential role of the library as a source of 'truth' and its responsibility of preserving our democratic values in the age of fake news.
Charles Kriel delivering his keynote speech
On the second day, our keynote speaker, Gwenda Thomas (University of Melbourne) questioned whether libraries can be neutral spaces based on her experiences at the University of Cape Town and the 'cultural storm' that took place there in 2015 and 2016. Although most of the professional values globally focus on the function of libraries as information gatekeepers rather than spaces, Thomas argued over the importance of seeing libraries as places were high levels of harmony and tolerance can prevail; yet, as her example of the debate generated by a piece of public art hosted at the University of Cape Town Library showed, this can often be<|fim_middle|> and value of special collections; and the significance of understanding researchers' information needs for improving library services.
Gwenda Thomas, Director of Scholarly Services and University Librarian at @unimelb, is starting day two of the #RLUK19 conference with a keynote on whether libraries are neutral spaces or places for the perfect cultural storm?
— Masud Khokhar (@mkhokhar) March 21, 2019
ASPIRATION: What does neutrality require in the context of an academic library? We need high levels of harmony and particularly tolerance. We need to provide a culturally safe space says Gwenda Thomas #RLUK19
— Danny Kingsley (@dannykay68) March 21, 2019
Wondering about the straight faced portrayal of libraries as "neutral spaces" – yes, we strive for that but we must also acknowledge the uncomfortable reality that we are not entirely neutral. #RLUK19
— Merrilee Proffitt (@MerrileeIAm) March 21, 2019
In the afternoon, delegates had the opportunity to hear from the RLUK networks on how they support the RLUK strategy [more information can be found here] or participate in a long table discussion on the 'neutrality' of the library space. The last panel looked at the cultural change in services and practices that research libraries are experiencing to support open research and to integrate open content within libraries. The University of Lancaster showed how they use 'data conversations' as a way of engaging researchers, whereas the University of Sussex and Jisc raised the question of whether libraries can be fundamentally organised around a premise of 'open'. The impact that this shift has had on the profession was also explored through a presentation by the University of Pittsburgh; the argument that new roles have started to emerge in order to effectively support changing research practices was illustrated through an example of a newly created position on digital and scholarly communication.
The third day comprised talks which aimed to assess the current state of library services related to research data management, discuss the role of libraries in research software, and look at alternative approaches to citation-based metrics for the purposes of widening access to research. A range of workshops on the topics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), collaborative collecting, open scholarship, and scholarly publishing offered the opportunity for more in-depth discussions and hands-on work.
We are very pleased that Bethany @nowviskie @CLIRDLF is able to join us at #RLUK19 to deliver the closing keynote on Digital Humanities at the grass roots. pic.twitter.com/0P1bYIhHM2
— RLUK (@RL_UK) March 22, 2019
The final keynote talk was delivered by Rsch Assoc Prof. Bethany Nowviskie (Digital Library Federation, incoming Dean of Libraries at James Madison University) who shared her experiences as the Director of the Digital Library Federation and reflected on how the organisation became the community that is today through expanding and diversifying its membership and moving its focus from technology to people. Nowviskie highlighted the importance of 'grassroots activity' and community engagement for meaningful cultural change in our institutions that can lead to greater social justice. Thus, while going through that journey, she encouraged delegates to take into account the voices that are least heard and those who are left out as well as consider the potential negative impact that their actions, even though well intended, might sometimes have on some groups. The full talk can be read on Bethany Nowviskie's blog.
Many thanks to everyone who participated at the conference and made it such a great success!
Christina Kamposiori, Programme Officer, RLUK
Presentation videos from RLUK19 can be viewed here.
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Chris Grygiel (Leeds) on his RLUK/TNA Professional Fellowship journey
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Research libraries and digital humanities: on shared interests and values
The 2015 Report to HEFCE on monographs and open access: reflections four years on | a challenging task under tense circumstances.
Presentations and discussions throughout the rest of the day aimed to further unpack the conference theme as well as reflect on some of the issues raised by the keynote speakers up to that point. Therefore, the morning panel included talks on the possibilities of shared digitisation to avoid duplication as well as the need to improve metadata for making collections more easily accessible and discoverable; the impact | 80 |
Home » Archive » Four Yankees and a Met will represent New York in baseball's All-Star Game
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Yankees eye World Series while the Mets attempt to regain respectability | and a Met will represent New York in baseball's All-Star Game
by VINCENT DAVIS July 12, 2018 October 21, 2021
Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees' right fielder, along with teammates Gleyber Torres, their second basemen, and pitchers Luis Severino and Aroldis Chapman, will represent the American League in Major League Baseball's All-Star game taking place Tuesday in Washington, D.C., in Nationals Park.
Jacob deGrom, the New York Mets' third-year pitcher, has been selected to play for the National League team. DeGrom was the only Met player chosen from their roster.
Hosted this year by the Washington Nationals, the first time for this franchise, it is MLB's 89th All-Star game, featuring baseball's best players, its biggest stars. The game will be televised nationally by Fox.
Right fielder Bryce Harper and pitchers Max Scherzer (starter) and Sean Doolittle (reliever) will represent the Washington Nationals, a National League team.
The Houston Astros' manager, A.J. Hinch, will manage the American League team and choose their line-up. Dave Roberts, manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, will manage the National League and decide their line-up.
Managers from the previous season's World Series are chosen to manage the All-Star Game. The Astros are the defending World Series champions. They defeated the Yankees in the American League championship and the Dodgers in the World Series.
This All-Star Game will be the fifth in Washington, D.C, the first since 1969, when it was hosted by the Washington Senators, the former D.C. franchise.
Thirty-two players—20 position players and 12 pitchers—are voted to both the American and the National League teams. Players receiving the most votes online at each position are selected as starters for their position. Reserve players are also chosen by online voters and the commissioner's office. Players also vote. Voting is conducted between June 1 and July 5. The results were announced last Saturday.
This game will be Judges', Torres', Severino's and deGrom's second consecutive All-Star appearance. It's the fifth in seven seasons for Chapman.
Outfielder and designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton, last season's National League RBI Leader and Most Valuable Player, a previous four-time All-Star, is waiting to find out if he'll be voted onto this year's American League team. He was a member of the Florida Marlins in the National League until he was traded to the Yankees | 529 |
Oppo F1 Selfie-Focused Smartphone Now Available in India
After launching the selfie-focused smartphone in India last month, Chinese manufacturer Oppo on Sunday announced availability of the smartphone in the country, starting with New Delhi.
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The Oppo F1 also includes proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, accelerometer, and digital compass. The smartphone is backed by a 2500mAh Li-Po battery and houses 16GB of inbuilt storage.
As for the connectivity, the smartphone supports 4G LTE networks (India bands supported), along with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and Micro-USB connectivity.
At the time of its CES announcement, Oppo said the new F-Series smartphones will keep photography as its central focus. As per Sky Li, Oppo Vice President and Managing Director of International Mobile Business, the new series is said to "inherit the excellent camera performance and exquisite design tradition." | Priced at Rs. 15,990, the dual-SIM (Micro-SIM + Nano-SIM) supporting Oppo F1 runs on ColorOS 2.1 based on Android 5.1 Lollipop. The sports an aluminium body and is slim at 7.25mm.
The Oppo F1 houses a 5-inch HD (720×1280 pixels) resolution IPS display protected by 2.5D Gorilla Glass 4 coating with pixel density of 294ppi. The smartphone is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 SoC (four cores at 1.7GHz and four cores at 1.2GHz), Adreno 405 GPU, and 3GB LPDDR3 RAM clocked at 1866MHz are also included the handset.
In the camera department, the Oppo F1 bears a 13-megapixel rear camera with f/2.2 aperture and single LED flash. It also includes an 8-megapixel front-facing camera with wider f/2.0 aperture (1/ 4-inch sensor) along with software features such as Beautify 3.0, 8 live colour filters, and more. The display also doubles as the flash in low | 273 |
Spoke is an automated, help desk assistant powered by artificial intelligence (AI), providing organizations with a self-service platform for ticketing and knowledge management in a tightly-integrated package. The platform gives support teams in any type of organization a single location to manage employee requests using a friendly chatbot to automatically respond to questions on Slack, web, email, and SMS.
Spoke helps facilitate and streamline ticketing processes using AI to find the correct, relevant answers for employees, providing support teams with interruption-free time to work on projects and get things done. Users can file requests through Slack, SMS, email, or via the web. When asked a question, Spoke will either answer it on the spot, or route the request to the relevant department. Because Spoke is powered by artificial intelligence, it gets better at answering questions on its own through machine learning. The knowledge base keeps track of all kinds of useful information automatically, and employees can add items to the knowledge base as their questions get answered.
Users are able to create new teams in order to stay organized,<|fim_middle|> do not like, and I'm not sure if this is lack of employee training because I'm not able to see it from their end, that sometimes employees end responding to questions by creating a new request. Therefore, there are multiple "requests" which are actually responses to the original request. The thread feature has decreased this a bit.
Spoke provides all types of internal support teams with a single place to manage all employee questions and requests.
Eliminate frequent interruptions and spend more time focusing on projects by providing employees with a self-service tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
Spoke offers streamlined ticketing, a flexible knowledge base, a self-service chatbot, and multi-channel support in order to provide employees with the info they need, quickly.
Spoke's friendly chatbot uses AI and machine learning to automatically respond to questions via Slack, email, web, and SMS. The more it's used, the smarter and more helpful it becomes.
Spoke's knowledge base keeps track of all types of useful information automatically and enables users to add new items to the knowledge base as questions gets answered.
Below are some frequently asked questions for Spoke.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Spoke offer?
Q. Who are the typical users of Spoke?
Q. What languages does Spoke support?
Q. Does Spoke support mobile devices?
Q. Does Spoke offer an API?
No, Spoke does not have an API available.
Q. What other apps does Spoke integrate with?
Q. What level of support does Spoke offer? | select team names and colors, and provide specific members with permissions to create, edit, and delete the team's resources. Incoming requests can be automatically assigned to team members, or set as private. Support team members can view all their assigned requests within the inbox, and will also be notified of new requests via email. Users can check their team's metrics by accessing the expanded view to see average resolution times, average response times, how many requests are still open, and more.
Outstanding. A very targeted software that fits a specific need perfectly.
We get a intuitive tool, fully managed by the awesome Spoke team, that allows our organization to centralize domain knowledge that would otherwise be horded and silo-ed by teams and team members. It is an excellent training and teaching tool to streamline users needs for information. Spoke gives time back to our users who would be otherwise burdened with a variety of questions during ramp up and team movements.The software is an excellent approach to managing requests and knowledge. We utilize Spoke to centralize domain knowledge that would otherwise be lost during a turn over or that needs to be communicated to a variety of users. Assigning teams, building out KB articles and letting users generate content is very simple.
The software is an excellent approach to managing requests and knowledge. We utilize Spoke to centralize domain knowledge that would otherwise be lost during a turn over or that needs to be communicated to a variety of users. Assigning teams, building out KB articles and letting users generate content is very simple.
The only con of this software is the approach is so novel to many of our users that there has been a steep learning curve in documenting their domain knowledge using the tool. It is simple to use and operate but our users are use to silo-ed knowledge that using Spoke has been a big change for them.
Overall, Spoke has saved my back many times and reduced walk-up requests. People know they can get their answers quickly if they simply "Ask Spoke!"AI all the way. We have looked for a solution to helpdesk and common questions that provided our users with better overall user experience and Spoke was the answer. Our users live heavily in Slack and thanks to Spoke's seamless integration with Slack, my users are able to ask questions and get answers before even talking to a real human. If they still prefer human interaction, they can raise a request right in the same window!
AI all the way. We have looked for a solution to helpdesk and common questions that provided our users with better overall user experience and Spoke was the answer. Our users live heavily in Slack and thanks to Spoke's seamless integration with Slack, my users are able to ask questions and get answers before even talking to a real human. If they still prefer human interaction, they can raise a request right in the same window!
This isn't a full-fledged helpdesk software and may not support the needs of a growing enterprise. However, Spoke is constantly evolving and open to feature requests.
We wanted a service desk that is easy to use and easy to maintain. We also wanted something that could reduce time spent on menial tasks, and could track the requests we get all the time in various places in our daily schedules. Spoke works much more smoothly with Slack than other products we have tried, and we have witnessed it auto-answering tickets and prompting users for more information. After a couple of months we probably have saved... hours already, in time spent on prompting users for info and disseminating repetitive information.As an application goes, the transition has been pretty seamless. I guess that's just what happens when you make simple, easy-to-use, straightforward software? Also the Spoke team is fantastic - they're definitely one of my favorite vendors to work with, and it always feels like they take our feedback seriously. They're quick to respond to questions and easy to schedule check-ins with. The whole experience is really lovely.
As an application goes, the transition has been pretty seamless. I guess that's just what happens when you make simple, easy-to-use, straightforward software? Also the Spoke team is fantastic - they're definitely one of my favorite vendors to work with, and it always feels like they take our feedback seriously. They're quick to respond to questions and easy to schedule check-ins with. The whole experience is really lovely.
The software is relatively new so some features are limited. But their development cycle is very fast! So it hasn't slowed us down much.
My startup needed a platform to better manage employee requests. Prior to Spoke requests came in the form of emails, text messages, verbal conversations, and even scribblings on post it notes. Not scalable. Spoke helped us centralize requests via its integration with Slack and is the right solution for a company our size. What do I like about most about Spoke? It's simple and easy to use. I love it when platforms are intuitive - 'keep in simple' and they do! Learning existing a new features are a snap, and Spoke provides excellent customer success support if I need help.
What do I like about most about Spoke? It's simple and easy to use. I love it when platforms are intuitive - 'keep in simple' and they do! Learning existing a new features are a snap, and Spoke provides excellent customer success support if I need help.
I'd love to see more features! Spoke recently added forms for requests which is a good start.
I enjoy the software and the prompt customer service. I also love the time saved with Spoke. Suggestion: making an integration between emails and spoke. I'm not sure if that's actually possible, but sometimes employees still email the team questions that can be answered through Spoke and at the moment I have to manually enter the question, assign it to myself, and edit the requester from myself to the employee. I like that it decreases the amount of questions/emails we get since employees can find answers on the knowledge base. I also like the spoke and slack integration and the new thread feature.
I like that it decreases the amount of questions/emails we get since employees can find answers on the knowledge base. I also like the spoke and slack integration and the new thread feature.
I | 1,269 |
Browse through all of the KSP History posts at http://www.ksphistory.com As the Shuttle program got back to normal after the Challenger disaster in 1986, NASA continued to tie up loose ends from the pre-Challenger era. One of these was the retrieval of a special satellite called LDEF.
In April of 1984, NASA conducted a ground-breaking Shuttle mission to repair the Solar Maximum Mission satellite (http://imgur.com/a/v9AgL/noscript). This mission set the stage for future on-orbit repairs, including Intelsat, Hubble, and of course the ISS.
However, prior to SMM's capture on STS-41-C, the astronauts also launched the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF). Outfitted with 57 different experiments around its school bus-sized cylindrical core, LDEF was meant to stay in space for one year and be retrieved and returned to Earth. Schedule delays and the Challenger accident pushed this back, of course. Finally, in 1990, it was time to bring it home, after nearly 6 years in space.
STS-32, flown aboard Columbia, was Commander Daniel Brandenstein's third shuttle flight. He had previously piloted Challenger for STS-8, and also commanded Discovery on STS-51-G. A Naval Aviator from Wisconsin, Bradenstein completed two combat deployments in Southeast Asia and another West Pacific/Indian Ocean deployment later in the 70s. He joined NASA in 1979. Bradenstein served as CAPCOM for the first two shuttle flights, including the ascent of STS-1 (http://imgur.com/a/wiD9h/noscript).
Columbia's Pilot was Jim Weatherbee, another Naval aviator, from Huntington Station, New York. He earned his wings in the 70s and flew aircraft<|fim_middle|> ensure the experiments were not contaminated en route.
There, the LDEF was removed from the bay to complete its final analyses. | carrier missions, logging many nighttime landings. He later became a test pilot. Weatherbee joined NASA in 1984 - STS-32 was his first space flight.
Columbia's first Mission Specialist was Dr. Bonnie Dunbar. Born in Sunnyside, Washington, Dr. Dunbar first worked as an analyst for Boeing. After completing a Masters Degree in 1975, she went to England and worked as a research scientist for the Atomic Energy Research Establishment. Later, she returned to the US to work for Rockwell, where she helped develop the Thermal Protection System for the Space Shuttle. Dunbar first worked for NASA as a flight controller at JSC in Houston, helping guide Skylab on its re-entry (http://imgur.com/a/VkeXA/noscript). She became an astronaut in 1981, helping with the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory before her first space flight in 1985 (STS-61-A).
Next was Marsha Ivins, an aerospace engineer from Baltimore, Maryland and graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Much like Dunbar, Ivins first worked for NASA at the Johnson Space Centre, helping develop Space Shuttle displays and controls before becoming a Flight Engineer. Ivins became an astronaut in 1984. This was her first space flight.
The final mission specialist was George David Low, born in Cleveland but graduating high school in Langley, Virginia. Low was well-educated; he earned two bachelors in both Mechanical and Physics-Engineering and later a Masters in Astronautics from Stanford. Low first went to work for Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California in 1980. There, he worked on preliminary planning for the Galileo mission (http://imgur.com/a/tubxl/noscript). After he earned his masters, he became the principal spacecraft systems engineer for the Mars Observer, which would launch in 1992. Low became an astronaut in 1985. This was his first space flight.
Low comes from an important space family; his father was George Low, an Aeronautical Engineer who first worked for NACA (the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) in the fifties as head of the Fluid Dynamics group. He helped pioneer many basic space problems like re-entry and rendezvous techniques. When NACA became NASA, Low became the Chief of Manned Space Flight. He helped plan much of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. After the Apollo 1 fire (http://imgur.com/a/hWgTc/noscript), Low helped oversee the changes to make it safer. It was his idea for the bold Apollo 8 lunar orbital mission (http://imgur.com/a/rcY1o/noscript), pushing Apollo further towards fame. George Low senior became a NASA Deputy Administrator in 1969 and helped plan Skylab, the Shuttle and Apollo Soyuz. He died in 1984, one month after his son was selected as an astronaut candidate.
STS-32 was the first mission to use the Mobile Launcher Platform 3. ML-3 was the last of the three mobile platforms built for Apollo to be converted for Shuttle use. Like a launch pad on wheels, it carried rockets from the VAB to the launch site. ML-3 was formerly the Apollo ML-1, and launched famous missions including Apollo 8, Apollo 11 (http://imgur.com/a/JiV27/noscript), all the manned Skylab missions, and the Apollo Soyuz Test Project (http://imgur.com/a/JyyA7/noscript). ML-3 would later launch such shuttle missions as the Unity module to the ISS (the first American module) and the Shuttle's final flight, STS-135 in 2011.
Columbia received some upgrades herself since her last flight STS-28 in August. A fifth tank set was added to her Power Reactant Storage and Distribution System, providing additional hydrogen and oxygen for the fuel cells. This allowed Columbia to complete extended mission.
Columbia was rolled out to pad 39A in late 1989. 39A had finally finished its upgrades post-Challenger to accommodate the safer crew-egress systems and greater weather-resistance controls. In early January of 1990, it was ready to fly.
Columbia lifted off from Cape Canaveral on January 9th, 1990. A previous launch attempt the day earlier had been aborted due to weather.
The boosters worked well and after two minutes of powered flight, separated from the ET stack.
Columbia took a direct ascent trajectory, pushing her apogee to the desired 350km height at MECO.
...and the payload bay doors were opened. Around the other side of the Earth, the OMS-2 burn was complete, which circularized the orbit.
The primary payload for Columbia was Syncom IV-5, sometimes called Leasat F5. This model was the first one that had been designed for the Shuttle payload, and had first launched in 1984 (http://imgur.com/a/A2Iix/noscript). Leasat F5 was the final Syncom satellite, a successful communication program used by NASA and the US government. Syncom-2 of course was the world's first geosynchronous satellite, launched in 1963 (http://imgur.com/a/SI9in/noscript).
Leasat F5 was deployed twenty four hours after OMS-2 on the second day of the flight.
The satellite came out of the bay spin stabilized in an easy, slow rotation. It would go on to fire two burns, the first pushing it into a geostationary transfer orbit, and the second to circularize it into a 24-hour period.
Here, the antennae deploy, ready to operate.
Flight day four brought the Rendezvous with LDEF. The crew used a -R BAR approach, in which the shuttle passed beneath LDEF, then circled up over top of the satellite and came at it from the top.
The Remote Manipulator System was extended and tested in preparation.
LDEF waits patiently in space for its ride home, now almost five years late.
The crew positioned the orbiter right over top, with the satellite visible from the overhead windows. Then, they oriented the Canadarm to reach the grapple fixture.
LDEF was successfully captured! The arm rotated it around and the crew conducted a laborious cataloging of all the experiments one by one, taking photos of each.
Finally, it was placed laterally into the payload bay.
With LDEF berthed, the arm detached from it.
Columbia stayed in orbit for another seven days after berthing LDEF. It was the longest Shuttle mission to date, clocking in just shy of 11 days and narrowly out-staying STS-9 (http://imgur.com/a/FIUhT/noscript). The crew conducted a number of scientific on-deck experiments, including medical exams and material study.
At last, it was time to come home. The payload bays were shut, securing LDEF safely, and the OMS burned, slowing the spacecraft down for re-entry.
I think I had a little too low of a pitch on this entry!
Columbia approached for what was only the third night-time landing. I had to use a lot of instrumentation to guide myself here.
And there's that damned invisible building bug again. I had the approach lined up perfectly, and about 50 metres off the ground the orbiter "collides" with something and falls straight down with all of its lateral velocity gone.
Of course, the real orbiter suffered no kraken attack and landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base.
With LDEF still in the payload bay, Columbia was ferried across the US to Florida. Special precautions were taken to seal the cargo bay and | 1,649 |
L to R: Edward Kennerley of Knight Frank, Paul Watson of Arctrend Ltd and Euan Lindsay of St Modwen.
A leading metal pipe and hose manufacturer will be the first company to locate at a business park near Stone.
Arctrend Ltd has agreed a 10-year lease to take 36,000 sq ft of industrial and logistics space at Meaford Business Park.
The unit is the first building on the Staffordshire-based business park, which has planning permission for a total of up to 1.2 million sq ft of office, industrial and logistics accommodation.
We are delighted<|fim_middle|> key employments sites. The road improvements we carried out provide essential infrastructure for the site and have enabled St. Modwen to develop a leading business park for the wider region.
Meaford Business Park is located just off the A34 dual carriageway, immediately north of Stone, Staffordshire, and benefits from direct access to junctions 14 and 15 of the M6 motorway. | to welcome Arctrend Ltd to Meaford Business Park, which is providing this thriving Staffordshire business with room for expansion without having to relocate out of our region. This prime site is part of our strong portfolio of strategic industrial and commercial developments that are raising our profile nationally and internationally and driving economic growth throughout our area.
The LEP secured £4.2million of Local Growth funding from the government for infrastructure works to open up Meaford Business Park, including a new roundabout on the A34, improvements to Meaford Road and a new access serving the business park. The work, which also received a significant funding contribution from St. Modwen, was carried out by Staffordshire County Council.
Meaford Business Park is one of the county's | 155 |
"I've been looked after so well since I arrived", comments the Venezuelan international defender to MCFTV.
Mikel Villanueva Álvarez was born in San Cristóbal, State of Táchira (Venezuela) on 14th April 199<|fim_middle|>. | 3. He started playing football at a later age, as he was a baseball player. In 2012 he joined the Deportivo Táchira youth ranks, taking his time to reach the first team. In June 2014 he signed to ACD Lara, also in Venezuela's First Division, where he made his goal-scoring debut, with four goals in 20 matches. In the summer of 2015, he was loaned out to Málaga CF and joined Atlético Malagueño.
In the 2015/16 season, he played 29 matches (23 in the starting-11) and scored three goals with the Blue and Whites' reserve team, in Third Division Group 9. His good performance saw him called-up to Venezuela's first team, the 'vinotinto', debuting on 20th January 2016 in a friendly against Costa Rica.
In the match that took place on 24th March against Peru, a qualifier for the Russia 2018 World Cup, he scored his first goal for his country, following a corner kick from fellow Malaguista, Juanpi Añor. To date, he has played three international games with Venezuela | 263 |
When some people think of sports cars, they think Italy but the British have built some really fine machines themselves. You see more British sports cars on the road than any other country and most are from Triumph. There is nothing cooler than a little Triumph buzzing around a country road with the top down. The Triumphs were small cars with big hearts. But being small isn't necessarily a bad thing. Being small meant it was<|fim_middle|> can fix any problem you have with the sound system. They can put you with a radio that has every modern convenience you could every want. They are easy to install and sound amazing. You won't go wrong with Custom Autosound. | easier on parts and helped with performance. You could go fast into a turn and that little Triumph would just go where you put the wheel. Lighter weight meant less weight transfer and that meant quick response when the steering wheel was spun. Not only was the Triumph handling beast it also looked great. The long nose, short rear was a main stay in sports car looks. The cars just fit you well. Kind of like the cliché 'fits like a glove'. That's what the Triumph did. It was the whole package and they were fairly affordable too. There were thousands of movies made and when the movie called for a sports car, somebody came in with a Triumph. Seriously, next time you watch a movie look for the Triumph, it'll be there. The Triumph was/is an iconic car in every way. It was from a time before cars were controlled by computers and electronics. You could fix a car with a screw driver and you didn't need laptop to diagnose your problem. But even though the Triumph was a legend the radio had its problems. Thankfully Custom Autosound | 216 |
Aided by peace and neutrality<|fim_middle|> should pick up to 2.3% in 2003, assuming a moderate global recovery. | for the whole 20th century, Sweden has achieved an enviable standard of living under a mixed system of high-tech capitalism and extensive welfare benefits. It has a modern distribution system, excellent internal and external communications, and a skilled labor force. Timber, hydropower, and iron ore constitute the resource base of an economy heavily oriented toward foreign trade. Privately owned firms account for about 90% of industrial output, of which the engineering sector accounts for 50% of output and exports. Agriculture accounts for only 2% of GDP and 2% of the jobs. The government's commitment to fiscal discipline resulted in a substantial budgetary surplus in 2001, which was cut by more than half in 2002, due to the global economic slowdown, revenue declines, and spending increases. The Swedish central bank (the Riksbank) is focusing on price stability with its inflation target of 2%. Growth | 194 |
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MEN'S BASKETBALL & MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY EARN NCAA PUBLIC RECOGNITION AWARDS
INDIANAPOLIS — Sacramento State's men's basketball and men's cross country programs both received NCAA Public Recognition Awards for having Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores that rank among the top 10 percent nationally in their respective sports for the four-year period ending in 2015-16.
The Hornet men's cross country team earned the award for the sixth consecutive year and the seventh time overall. For men's basketball, it marked the program's first Public Recognition Award.
The scores required to be in the top 10 ranged from 984 to a perfect 1,000, depending on the sport, and cross country finished with 1,000 while men's basketball scored a 995.
Sacramento State is the only public school in California, and the only school in the Big Sky Conference to ever receive the Public Recognition Award in men's basketball. In addition, the Hornets are one of only five schools in California to receive the award in men's basketball (Stanford, Pacific, Loyola Marymount and San Diego are the others).
Sacramento State has now seen 19 teams honored by the NCAA since the start of the APR in 2004-05. At least one Hornet squad has received a Public Recognition Award each of the last 10 years.
APR is an annual scorecard of academic achievement calculated for all Division I sports teams. It measures eligibility, graduation and retention each semester or academic term and provides a clear picture of the academic performance for each team in every sport. The most recent multiyear rates are based on the 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 academic years.
Today's announcement is part of the overall Division I academic reform effort and is intended to highlight teams that demonstrate a commitment to academic progress and retention of student-athletes by achieving the top APRs within their respective sports.
July 13, 2017 HORNET STUDENT-ATHLETES EARN EXACTLY 100 SPRING ALL-ACADEMIC HONORS
June 27, 2017 HORNET STUDENT-ATHLETES RECORD THE HIGHEST OVERALL GPA IN SCHOOL HISTORY
May 17, 2017 HORNETS FINISH SECOND IN BIG SKY ALL-SPORTS POINTS CHAMPIONSHIP
May 3, 2017 MEN'S BASKETBALL & MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY EARN NCAA PUBLIC RECOGNITION AWARDS
May 1, 2017 STUDENT-ATHLETE AWARDS ANNOUNCED AT THE 2016-17 GREEN AND GOLDEN GLOBES
April 28, 2017 STUNT TEAM TO COMPETE AT NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS THIS WEEKEND
April 27, 2017 HORNET STUDENT-ATH<|fim_middle|>NET ATHLETICS CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF DIV. I MEMBERSHIP
August 25, 2016 PETRUZZELLI JOINS ATHLETICS AS PSYCHOLOGIST & SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST
August 22, 2016 HORNET STUDENT-ATHLETES EARN 93 SPRING ALL-ACADEMIC HONORS
July 15, 2016 HORNET STUDENT-ATHLETES SET SCHOOL RECORDS IN TERM AND OVERALL GPA | LETES EARN 33 WINTER ACADEMIC ALL-BIG SKY HONORS
April 18, 2017 MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT PART OF FIVE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS HEADED TO SACRAMENTO
March 27, 2017 PRESIDENT NELSEN NAMES MARK ORR DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS
February 15, 2017 HORNET STUDENT-ATHLETES RECORD HIGHEST OVERALL GPA IN SCHOOL HISTORY
February 3, 2017 SACRAMENTO STATE FALL STUDENT-ATHLETES EARN 45 ACADEMIC ALL-CONFERENCE HONORS
January 10, 2017 SACRAMENTO STATE ANNOUNCES RESTRUCTURING OF ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATION
December 19, 2016 ATHLETICS OFFERING TWO FOR ONE TICKET DEALS FOR SIX WINTER BREAK EVENTS
November 15, 2016 SACRAMENTO STATE STUDENT-ATHLETES RECORD HIGHEST GRADUATION RATE IN SCHOOL HISTORY
October 5, 2016 SACRAMENTO STATE UNVEILS NEW STUDENT-ATHLETE STUDY LOUNGE
October 4, 2016 ATHLETICS BRINGS BACK THE HORNET MARK AS SECONDARY LOGO
August 31, 2016 HOR | 307 |
How would humanity change if we knew aliens existed?
George Dvorsky
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search for extraterrestrial intelligence
seth shostak
milan cirkovic
great filter hypothesis
extraterrestrial intelligence
We have yet to discover any signs of an extraterrestrial civilization — a prospect that could quite literally change overnight. Should that happen, our sense of ourselves and our place in the cosmos would forever be shaken. It could even change the course of human history. Or would it?
Top image: Josh Kao; more about this artist here.
Last week, SETI's Seth Shostak made the claim that we'll detect an alien civilization by 2040. Personally, I don't believe this will happen (for reasons I can elucidate in a future post — but the Fermi Paradox is definitely a factor, as is the problem of receiving coherent radio signals across stellar distances). But it got me wondering: What, if anything, would change in the trajectory of a civilization's development if it had definitive proof that intelligent extraterrestrials (ETIs) were real?
Finding a World Much Like Our Own
As I thought about this, I assumed a scenario with three basic elements.
First, that humanity would make this historic discovery within the next several years or so. Second, that we wouldn't actually make contact with the other civilization (just the receipt, say, of a radio transmission — something like a Lucy Signal that would cue us to their existence). And third, that the ETI in question would be at roughly the same level of technological development as our own (so they're not too much more advanced than we are; that said, if the signal came from an extreme distance, like hundreds or thousands of light-years away, these aliens would probably have advanced appreciably by now. Or they could be gone altogether, the victims of a self-inflicted disaster).
I tossed this question over to my friend and colleague Milan Cirkovic. He's a Senior Research Associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and a leading expert on SETI.
"Well, that's a very practical question, isn't it?" he responded. "Because people have been expecting something like this since 1960 when SETI was first launched — they haven't really been expecting to find billion-year old supercivilizations or just some stupid bacteria."
Indeed, the underlying philosophy of SETI over the course of its 50-year history has been that we'll likely detect a civilization roughly equal to our own — for better or worse. And no doubt, in retrospect it started to look "for worse" when the hopes of an early success were dashed. Frank Drake and his colleagues thought they would find signs of ETIs fairly quickly, but that turned out not to be the case (though Drake's echo can still be heard in the unwarranted contact optimism of Seth Shostak).
"Enormous Implications"
"Some people argued that a simple signal wouldn't mean much for humanity," added Cirkovic, "but I think Carl Sagan, as usual, had a good response to this."
Specifically, Sagan said that the very understanding that we are not unique in the universe would have enormous implications for all those fields in which anthropocentrism reigns supreme.
"Which means, I guess, half of all the sciences and about 99% of the other, non-scientific discourse," said Cirkovic.
Sagan also believed that the detection of a signal would reignite enthusiasm for space in general, both in terms of research and eventually the colonization of space.
"The latter<|fim_middle|> as people work to pay their bills and keep a roof above their heads. There could be a kind of detachment to the whole thing, leading to a certain ambivalence.
At the same time however, it could lead to hysteria and paranoia. Even worse, and in twisted irony, the detection of a civilization equal to our own (or any life less advanced than us, for that matter) could be used to fuel the Great Filter Hypothesis of the Fermi Paradox. According to Oxford's Nick Bostrom, this would be a strong indication that doom awaits us in the (likely) near future — a filter that affects all civilizations at or near our current technological stage. The reason, says Bostrom, is that in the absence of a Great Filter, the galaxy should be teeming with super-advanced ETIs by now. Which it's clearly not.
The Great Filter theory suggests humans have already conquered the threat of extinction
It's difficult to not be pessimistic when considering humanity's future prospects. Many…
Yikes. Stupid Fermi Paradox — always getting in the way of our future plans.
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A Sunken Cold War Nuclear Sub Is Leaking Radiation at Levels 800,000 Times Normal | point was quite prescient, actually, because at the time he said this there wasn't much enthusiasm about it and it was much less visible and obvious than it is today," he added.
No doubt — this would likely generate tremendous excitement and enthusiasm for space exploration. In addition to expanding ourselves into space, there would be added impetus to reach out and meet them.
At the same time, however, some here on Earth might counterargue that we should stay home and hide from potentially dangerous civilizations (ah, but what if everybody did this?). Ironically, some might even argue that we should significantly ramp-up our space and military technologies to meet potential alien threats.
Why would aliens come all this way just to invade Earth?
In movies, when aliens invade our planet, they usually have a ludicrous motivation. Like,…
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Most people take it for granted that we have yet to make contact with an extraterrestrial…
Developmental Trajectories
In response to my query about the detection of ETIs affecting the developmental trajectory of civilizations, Cirkovic replied that both of Sagan's points can be generalized to any civilization at their early stages of development.
Some of the Most Plausible Scenarios for Alien Civilizations
We have yet to make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence, making it exceedingly difficult…
He believes that overcoming speciesist biases, along with a constant interest and interaction with the cosmic environment, must be desirable for any (even remotely) rational actors anywhere. But Cirkovic says there may be exceptions — like species who emerge from radically different environments, say, the atmospheres of Jovian planets. Such species would likely have a lack of interest in surrounding space, which would be invisible to them practically 99% of the time.
So if Sagan is correct, detecting an alien civilization at this point in our history would likely be a good thing. In addition to fostering science and technological development, it would motivate us to explore and colonize space. And who knows, it could even instigate significant cultural and political changes (including the advent of political parties both in support of and in opposition to all this). It could even lead to new religions, or eliminate them altogether.
Would people still believe in God after we made contact with aliens?
Mike Wall just got back from the SETICon II conference where he attended a panel discussion titled, …
Another possibility is that nothing would change. Life on Earth would go on as per usual | 508 |
Great story in the Columbus Dispatch this morning about our progress as a group experient<|fim_middle|> teacher today? I did (it was pretty easy since Jan was by my side at the time). How about you? Read Herbert's article. This captures what we seek to do at The Graham Family of Schools.
I made an early comment about how incredible this new application (Bing) in connecting geographic map, in both real and historical time. A map to the world and to the skies from any place, anytime. I am seldom stunned by new stuff because it doesn't seem to matter all that much to me. But this application of augmented reality that the folks at Microsoft have demonstrated and released challenges most aesthetics. It extends what a person can "see" and construct by augmenting both space and time. This application finally let me see what video game designers and players have always seen, but when integrated into maps with pictures and live images of real places that change as the day changes.....pretty cool. I think this might help us all think about where our students are located in the world.
We had a follow up meeting with folks from eTech Ohio yesterday. They are really solid folks with great instincts about technology and learning and how to demonstrate it at a big state conference. We'll be talking with lots of folks about these efforts for future conferences. The good news is that the classroom walls designed and built by students at the Easton Career Center was saved and will be a great starting point for next year.
Several more presenters from the COF reflected on their experiences at the conference. The important general take away that almost everyone had was -- we can do this. We have to do this. But we need to address issues of policy in order to truly integrate technology into teaching and learning. | ial schools, making a difference.
We want to get a banner up asap. We also can use loads of yard signs (though they won't last long in the neighborhood, I fear. We should plan for a more permanent sign that would be visible from Indianola.
Taylor Mall has written what is probably the most forwarded poem ever written. Go on, take a look, because here he is performing this great account of what teachers make.
Tim Berners-Lee is the guy who really did "invent" the world wide web. His motivation was to provide ways for people to work together and to share stuff. His talk at TED last week shows some of the stunning breakthroughs that regular folks have done using Open Data. The building of the Hatti maps by volunteers from around the world, are the maps relief workers are relying on to bring supplies and help to those who need it.
The success of a New York City Charter school, prompted New York Times columnist Bob Herbert to investigate. It's the teachers that make a difference, not the materials, not the textbooks, not the state standards, technology or the proficiency tests. The differences that make a difference in the lives of students are most always tied to an exemplary teacher. Have you hugged a | 252 |
About 45 hot air balloons will launch into the chilly morning sky this weekend as part of Greeley's 11th annual Hot Air Balloon Harvest.
Balloonists travel from all over<|fim_middle|>mboldt has invited pilots from states including Colorado, Texas, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Wyoming and California. In its first years, the harvest hosted about 30 pilots but has since grown to host 40 to 50.
The balloons will be launched in two waves at 7:45 a.m. both days. Helmboldt said the best weather conditions are clear skies and gentle breezes, and he is expecting just that this weekend.
A free pancake breakfast will be served until supplies run out, and helicopter rides will be given Saturday morning and afternoon and Sunday morning. Spectators are invited to come back and line up to receive a tethered balloon ride about 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Saturday night there will be a balloon glow featuring more than 20 balloons.
The harvest is the last balloon festival of the year in Colorado, Helmboldt said, and always comes a little after the Albuquerque, N.M., Balloon Fiesta, giving pilots enough time to "go home and mow the lawn or sleep in," he said.
Helmboldt and his wife started the event in Greeley for several reasons. | the region for the event, said Dan Helmboldt, the event's organizer.
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Running for Premature Babies was founded by Sophie Smith and her late husband Ash after they lost their prematurely born triplets to complications after their premature birth in 2006. Henry was born at 21 weeks, too early for medical intervention to save him, and he lived for one precious hour. Evan and Jasper were born at 24 week and were given a 50% chance of survival.
However at 7 days old Evan became ill with an infection and when he was ten days old he suffered a massive brain hemorrhage. The first time Sophie and Ash held their son was when his doctors removed his life support and he died in their arms. Their third triplet Jasper overcame many hurdles, doubling his birthweight, and they shared many happy memories, but he suffered from chronic lung disease and his lungs kept collapsing. When he was 58 days old his lungs collapsed again and this time no more could be done to save him.
When their babies were in hospital, Sophie and Ash realised that most of the machines that kept their boys alive were donated and learned that the hospital relies on fundraising for 70% of the equipment in the unit. What began as a quest to run the SMH Half Marathon and raise $20,000 for one new humidicrib for the hospital, in memory of their boys, has grown into what is now the Running for Premature Babies Foundation. Our Foundation has so far raised over $5 million for life saving neonatal equipment and funded research to solve the many mysteries of prem<|fim_middle|> 9), but tragically Sophie's husband Ash passed away in 2016 from brain cancer.
Sophie has been recognised in her local community and beyond with the following awards:
2022: Order of the Medal of Australia (OAM) Issued by Governor General & Council for the Order of Australia
2020: Westfiled Local Hero - Bondi Junction
2019: NSW Local Hero - National Australia Day Council. Watch acceptance speech.
2018: Coogee Woman of the Year - Bruce Notley-Smith, State Member for Coogee
2017: Australia Day Community Service Award - Noel D'Souza, Mayor of Randwick
2016: Vi Robbins Volunteer of the Year - The Hon. Matt Thistlethwaite MP, Kingsford Smith
2014: Australia Day Commendation - Scott Nash, Mayor of Randwick | aturity and advance the care of premature babies for the future.
To date over 8000 babies have directly benefitted from this fundraising and some of the very sickest babies may not have survived without it.
Sophie and Ash went on to have two more sons, Owen (now 11) and Harvey (now | 66 |
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A visual entrepreneur, Mark takes risks in image making for a life. Developing new techniques in photography can be an interesting task, and without people like Mark who spend time experimenting, we wouldn't be where we are today in terms of technological advances. From being the technical director and controller at Channel 10 in 1980, creating Australia's first film based S.L.R camera array in 1999, and now being awarded 'Master of Photography' in 2013, Mark Ruff has certainly come a long way, but it has been a hard one. We caught up with Mark Ruff for a little chat about the process behind his 3D images.
Pretty excited – a great time to be involved in image making.
Tell us a little about yourself..
I consider myself a 'visual entrepreneur'. I take risks in image making by developing new techniques and bring them to the market place. QTVR, Multiple camera arrays for broadcast and film production special effects and 3D 'glasses free' portrait printing.
What drove you into becoming a photographer?
I suppose farming has been in the blood, but instead of farming primary produce, I farm pixels.
How did you find yourself working in the 3D photographic industry?
We are familiar with 3D when we go to the cinema – this is 'stereo' 3D where we need the assistance of glasses to perceive a virtual image with depth. I perform 'auto-stereo' 3D where glasses are not required, however, you require more than 2 images for this. 3D is not new with capture previously requiring just a single scanning camera for capture.
However, this linear approach meant that nothing moving could be captured.<|fim_middle|> occasions that I can have a print manufactured in 1 hour after principal photography.
You worked on the opening sequence for Australia's 'Offspring'. Tell us a little about what the actors thought of the 3D process and what happened on the days of filming?
Well, actors don't really have much say. A production company approached me to create the original series opening titles and the actors are essentially, told what to do! It was really just another day on the set for them. Naturally, when working with professionals, they adapt to the situation readily and perform appropriately. The fact that there were 10 cameras instead of one did not impact on their performance. We did all the lighting and with the near real-time system, the producers were able to see results within seconds of capture. They could select the best take on the fly which made our post easy.
Are there any challenges that come with working with so many cameras on a shoot?
Not really. This was a simple 10 camera assignment – not a 60 camera effort. The more cameras on set, the more nervous I get – it's just the way I am. I have complete confidence in the system, but I am always relieved when the 'results are in the can.' Seasoned actors are used to hitting their mark and performing an action to the camera. In this case, the camera is the middle one and they perform accordingly.
Offspring was a relatively simple assignment. Production started at around 5:30 am. We set up and were ready to photograph several hours later and the entire day wrapped at about 1500 (3:00pm) with lunch!
The production went as planned and there were no delays. We chroma screened the environment and I performed the post production.
Although 10 cameras were used, in post, we time stretched each sequence to 5 seconds, that is, instead of the sequences lasting just 10 frames, or less than half a second, we successfully created an on screen duration of 125 frames. Isn't nature wonderful!
It's great to work with professionals, although, I am surprised that more Australian production people have not embraced the effect. It is not that expensive and I am surprised that the thought of having a unique production effect has not had more impact.
Although, this effect is not new. I am just a modern re-inventor of the multi camera technique originally developed by Eadward Muybridge in early 1870's.
You also create fantasy portraits. What are your inspirations behind those and is there lots of planning involved beforehand of each photograph?
3D is difficult to market and 'get out there'. My wife and I decided to offer another product to our clients with Fantasy Portraits of children. Apart from our own children, we have not photographed children at all, however, after our first test, we learned quickly that we had a chemistry with the children that creates wonderful results. The genre has been done very poorly in the past here and overseas and I think we have lifted the quality. Planning is not difficult, however, like any retail photography business you have to be disciplined with business systems and learn sales to gain success.
Kate, my wife, really has the inspiration – all I do is capture the expressions and she sorts through the thousands of backgrounds we have to match up a great pose and background. Fantasy is a great business model and I intend to license this successful concept to other photographers soon.
Where do you see 3D printing in the future? Do you think it's going to advance more so in the advertising world and how?
Commercial 3D printing will always be limited due to its expense. It is more popular overseas where budgets are larger and the industry is more competitive. I have now made the decision to pursue 3D as an art form with limited edition prints.
Why do you think 3D still images are interesting to the human eye?
For portraiture, it is 'like the person is there'. There is a realism that 2D cannot compete with.
What is it like working in Melbourne? Have you ever lived somewhere else and does living in Melbourne come with any advantages/disadvantages when compared to any other city?
I have worked in most countries in the world and there is no better place to LIVE in the world than Melbourne.
However, Australia's small population with little competition and little desire to take risks means that doing BUSINESS here is very difficult.
What are five things you wish you had been told before beginning photography?
You can view Mark's work at his website down below. | The solution was to capture a moving subject with multiple cameras at once. My work involves capturing a subject instantly with the use of between 5 and 9 cameras, and then creating up to 48 images that are interlaced together to create a single image that can be seen to have depth. Secrets of such a system involve synchronisation of cameras, positional stabilisation, colour and luminance variations, vector based interpolation, image alignment and printing.
In terms of techniques, what are the processes behind taking a 3D image for someone who is looking for a portrait?
The process is quite similar to regular portraiture except that I use up to 9 cameras.
This system is not as flexible as a single camera, so the approach is more cinematic where you have the subject (or talent) directed toward the camera (Which one? – The middle camera) as opposed to a single camera photographer moving around the subject. The process is efficient and have demonstrated on several | 196 |
Groundbreaking for New UW Health Stoughton Clinic: Oct. 23
MADISON—To better meet the needs of its patients and<|fim_middle|> allow quicker access for patients to see their physicians and also bring additional medical care to the community."
Alexander said one pediatrician and one or two family medicine physicians specializing in adult care will be added to the staff after the building opens in July 2009.
Learn more about UW Health family medicine clinics throughout the state of Wisconsin. | staff, UW Health will begin construction later this month on a new, expanded UW Health Clinic in Stoughton.
Groundbreaking: Oct. 23
Groundbreaking has been scheduled at 11:45am, Thursday, Oct. 23 at the clinic's new location, 1001 Nygaard Street.
Clinic manager Joe Alexander says the new 14,000-square-foot building will replace the current clinic, which no longer has enough room to meet the growing need for medical care in this area.
"The current providers have seen their practices grow, and that trend looks to continue," he said. "A larger clinic will | 135 |
In a world where international contacts are increasingly vital and where global communication is ever easier, the importance of being able to speak other languages and understand different cultures is paramount. More and more<|fim_middle|> language. This relates directly to the work to be done on the Portfolio.
Performance (50 marks) - learners will demonstrate their talking skills in the modern language with an external assessor in March.
Portfolio (30 marks) – 1200-1500 words written in English, learners will demonstrate their analytical skills in relation to literature or media. Submitted in March.
Graded A, B, C and D. | employers are looking for people with good foreign language skills and more and more courses in Further and Higher Education are offering language options.
Young people proficient in foreign languages will be able to take advantage of excellent opportunities to spend part of their undergraduate studies abroad. You may find it interesting to know that employment rates for graduates with language skills are amongst the highest in the country.
The emphasis in language learning is on oral communication. However, at all levels, we underpin this with solid learning of grammar and vocabulary and we develop the skills of Listening, Reading and Writing at all stages of the curriculum.
The Department puts language learning into context through a number of language opportunities abroad, eg to attend a school in Bochum in Germany, and cultural visits and outings to see foreign films and plays.
The National 5 Course covers the themes of Society, Learning, Employability and Culture and will provide an appropriate level of challenge for our pupils as they deepen their knowledge of the language.
The examination tests the skills of Talking (25%), Reading (25%), Listening (25%) and Writing (25%). The Writing mark is based on the pupils' performance in two tasks. As well as a Writing paper in the final examination (12.5%), a written assignment is also carried out in class time during S4 and is submitted to the SQA to be marked externally (12.5%). Talking is assessed internally. The pupils give a presentation and have a follow-up discussion in the target language with their class teacher on two contexts covered during the course; this is recorded for moderation purposes.
All pupils will begin to study for the National 5 qualification, although some pupils may find the demands of National 5 too challenging and therefore, the National 4 qualification may be more suitable. For these pupils there will be an opportunity to transfer to the National 4 course after the prelim.
Why go on to Higher?
More and more companies are looking for employees with language skills and an increasing number of universities are offering courses which link languages to science, business, tourism, hospitality and law. The Higher course aims to equip pupils with the necessary communication and presentation skills in the foreign language, which give pupils the competitive edge they need in today's modern world. Pupils are expected to work hard and are given the opportunity to prepare in advance for key components of the course. There are only four learning outcomes, which are explained below.
Candidates respond to questions in English and translate a short section of the text into English. Candidates may use a dictionary.
Candidates produce one piece of writing of 150-180 words based on their choice from two stimuli.
Candidates listen to a monologue followed by a dialogue and answer questions in English based on their comprehension. Candidates may not use a dictionary.
Candidates produce a piece of writing from a choice of written stimuli in English. This is carried out in class time and candidates have opportunities for remediation and consolidation of their writing. Teachers provide feedback to candidates during the process. This is submitted to the SQA and marked externally.
The performance is a discussion in the foreign language between the candidate and the teacher based on at least two of the contexts. This is recorded and marked externally.
The Advanced Higher is a challenging yet very rewarding course, which provides excellent preparation for university entrance. Articulating well with the Higher Course, pupils progress even further with their language learning skills to explore the literature, cinema, cultural and topical issues and the current affairs of the country whose language they have chosen to study.
The ability to study and to carry out research independently of the teacher is a key requirement at AH level and once again good preparation for Higher Education. The atmosphere of the Advanced Higher class is purposeful yet relaxed with teachers and pupils working in a more mature, tutorial-like context and pupils quickly establish excellent relationships with our young language assistants thus greatly enhancing their learning experience.
Visits to the outside organisations such as the French Institute, cinemas, and exhibitions or to hear presentations by outside speakers are not uncommon features of this course.
Entry to Advanced Higher requires success at Higher with at least a 'B' grade.
To gain the award pupils must pass all 3 Units and the Course Assessment.
Pupils must pass all 3 units.
In response to texts learners will be required to provide evidence of their listening and reading skills in the modern language, in one of the following contexts: society, learning, employability or culture.
Using complex and sophisticated language, learners will be required to provide evidence of their talking and writing skills in the modern language, in one of the following contexts: society, learning, employability or culture.
Learners will be required to provide evidence of their planning, research and analysis skills based on literature or media within the context of the modern | 962 |
I have a few treasures in my house: pieces of furniture that tell stories of past generations and mementos that remind me of moments I've experienced in this generation. But of course, these are just things. They are items made of wood or porcelain or paper. They have value to me because they remind me of relationships and lives and experiences, but in the end, the objects themselves have no eternal value.
As the keeper of our home, my mission and calling is to fill it with true treasures: rare and beautiful pieces that will endure forever. But it is not up to me to decide what those treasures are; God has already established them.
Oh mamas, may our homes be filled with the kind of treasures God assigns value to in His Word.
Thank You for the wisdom you give us in Your Word.
Thank you for the truths and guidance about parenting that You, the Perfect Parent, graciously share with<|fim_middle|> Amen. | us.
Help us to glean knowledge and understanding from Your Word so that our homes may truly be filled with treasures.
By knowledge and understanding, help us fill our homes with words and actions that build our families' spirits up, rather than crush them.
By knowledge and understanding, help us fill our homes with patience that reflects your glory.
By knowledge and understanding, help us fill our homes with faithfulness and good gifts that speak the language of love. Help us fill our homes with input that reflects Your truth as we leave the outcome to you.
And by knowledge and understanding, help us fill our homes with the true freedom that comes from observing your lovingly laid boundaries.
In the name of Jesus, the One and Only, | 145 |
An unforgettable experience in Iceland
Whale watching in Iceland is a relatively new attraction with the first regular trips starting in 1995. Since then, there has been a tremendous growth in the whale watching business and it is now possible to go whale watching all year from many different ports.
There are few places in the world where you<|fim_middle|>. These include the Blue, Sei, Fin, Sperm and Minke whales as well as the ever popular Orcas or killer whales. Several dolphin and porpoise species also swim in the waters around Iceland. In fact, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has rated Iceland as one of the top ten whale watching destinations in the world.
The high season is during the warmer months when the migrating whales return to the Icelandic waters and blend in with the resident whales. There are four main areas for whale watching, each with its own individual attractions. It is best to find out what species are seen more often in the different areas so that there is no disappointment, e.g. you can go whale watching with Láki Tours from Snæfellsnes where Orcas and Sperm whales are spotted more often than elsewhere just as Humpbacks are seen more often in Eyjafjörður and Húsavík. In Húsavík, Gentle Giants offers different boat options to go whale watching from high-speed rib boats to the traditional wooden boats. Salka Whale Watching offers whale & puffin tours across Skjálfrandi bay, with tradition oak boats, starting from Húsavík.
One of the exciting things about whale watching is actually seeing a whale in the ocean. This is not a given, as whales in the wild do not perform for our benefit. As with any wildlife trip, nature dictates and decides. However, most whale watching operators such as Special Tours in Reykjavík have a 90% or higher viewing success rate in the warmer months.
The main whale watching areas are Reykjavík in the south, Snæfellsnes in the west, Eyjafjörður and Húsavík in the north. Húsavík is known as the whale watching capital of Iceland and has a Whale Centre which provides information on cetaceans and wildlife in Iceland. Whales of Iceland in Reykjavík is a fascinating exhibition where life-size models of the whales found around Iceland are suspended in an ocean-like space.
While most whale watching operators pride themselves in practicing conscious tourism, they need your help. Please put all your rubbish in the nearest bin. Whales and other ocean wildlife do not know how lethal plastic can be until it is too late.
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Gentle Giants - Húsavík | can find as many species of whales so close to shore as in Iceland | 14 |
I love this time of year, everything winding down from the rush of the summer. A sunny day seems so much more precious now that the days are shorter. I was down in our kitchen garden this morning planning to<|fim_middle|> for a few a sunny days or in an airy shed.
About to order some shallots for winter planting. Do I order/buy more in Spring for planting then or just double up on the autumn order and store some until Spring.
Is it too late to plant shallots I'm very behind this year!
What sort of liquid feed do you use to feed shallots? Can you recommend a good one, please?
You can plant shallots in autumn and spring. When I replanted my shallots (see above) I got a very poor harvest. So now I buy fresh shallot sets each spring and autumn. When I discover how to produce really good, big shallots I shall dry some to use as future sets.
The ground does need to be fertilised before planting. I give them a couple of liquid feeds during the growing season. There is some interesting information here about growing prize winning shallots http://www.nvsuk.org.uk/medwyn-williams-vegetable-grow-show-70.html – I think that I might try this method in the winter! | lift two rows of shallots. I knew that I should have lifted them in August but assumed that they would be happy to be left in for a few more weeks. It was difficult to spot them at first as the nasturtiums have romped across half the vegetable patch. When I did find them they were disappointingly small and had started to sprout. What a waste.
We usually dry and plait them. These hang in the kitchen in an airy spot. They last right through to the following summer. If only I had taken half an hour to lift them. I was so despondent that when I got back to the house, I went onto the internet to find a use for the sprouting sets.
Shallots can be planted in the autumn or spring (how do I plant shallots? See Tricks and tips below). We plant in both seasons, buying the sets (bulbs) from our local garden centre. I perked up when I discovered today that you can save shallot bulbs from your harvest to plant as sets. So I'm going to divide up my bulbs and use these as sets for a couple of rows at the weekend. I'm going to try one row of sprouting bulbs and one row of non sprouting. I'm not sure how well they will do, as they are not dried sets. Hopefully they'll take but if they don't I can plant more sets in the spring. Incidentally, our autumn shallots are not ready for lifting before the summer but autumn planted shallots are supposed to do better if we have a long hot summer.
Shallots thrive on fertile soil, so spread a decent amount of rich compost from your compost heap over the soil and dig in well.
Plant the bulbs six inches apart in rows one foot apart. Gently press the sets into the soil so that the papery tops are just peeking out from the soil. Be careful not to damage the root system at the base of the bulb.
Birds love pulling up the sets so I protect them with a tunnel of chicken wire, anchored into the earth with four inch wire stakes.
Each set will produce several shallot bulbs. When the green tops die down, lift the crop and dry outside | 452 |
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By Danny Villanueva, Group Account Director
"Sooner or later, everything old is new again," Stephen King once wrote — an observation that's never been truer than today. Case in point, far from being dead, vinyl records sales rose to $416 million last year, the highest since 1988, and artists like the Black Keys,<|fim_middle|> solution. Agencies and brands need to be digital, need to be social, need to be mobile. This is the future and this is what everything is and this is what you have to do to be innovative. Too often, that gets translated into, "Just do a bunch of digital things and you'll have an impact." But the reality is, you can maybe have a more meaningful or lasting impact for your brand by figuring out what your analog strengths are and the ways you can connect with a consumer on that level. That's going to be a deeper and more lasting connection than chasing likes or social views.
If you open up a store or you do a campaign where you're sending people things, it might seem more outwardly costly or less innovative, but it has the ability to connect with consumers on a much deeper level. That is something that is becoming more valuable as everyone else goes out there and farms for the same likes and clicks and shares as you are.
Print is great. People read more of the ad, they see it and you get a longer impression and a bigger impact with it. But there's been a stampede away from it. Not because it's been less effective, but because people have the assumption that it is dead and that the money would be better spent in digital.
Net/net, think about zigging where everyone else is zagging, and what the real long-term value of analog is. Whether it's a radio ad, or an ad in a print publication, or a paper or a billboard. It's not necessarily as easy or cheap, but it definitely engages in a different way.
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gsosa@dieste.com | Lana Del Rey and Beck are eagerly embracing the format. Instant Polaroid-like cameras have caught on among millennials and their younger siblings thanks to shops like Urban Outfitters.
A new Pew survey shows that print books remain much more popular than books in digital formats. Old-school paper notebooks and erasable whiteboards are the go-to technology among many Silicon Valley types, and even typewriters are enjoying a renaissance in today's post-Snowden, surveillance-conscious era.
Analog experiences provide the kind of real-world pleasures and rewards digital ones can't. Pen and paper can give writers and designers a direct means of sketching out their ideas without the complicating biases of software, while whiteboards can bring engineers out from behind their screens and entice them to take risks and share ideas with others.
In an increasingly digital world where physical objects and experiences are being replaced by virtual ones, analog gives us the joy of creating and possessing real, tangible things: the hectic scratch of a fountain pen on the smooth, lined pages of a notebook; the slow magic of a Polaroid photo developing in front of our eyes; the satisfying snap of a newspaper page being turned and folded back; the moment of silence as the arm of an old turntable descends toward a shiny new vinyl disk and the music begins to play.
But the choice consumers and marketers face isn't one between digital and analog. That simplistic duality is actually the mindset that digital has conditioned us to believe: a false binary choice between 1 and 0, black and white, Samsung and Apple. The real world isn't black or white. It is not even gray. Reality is multicolored, infinitely textured, and emotionally layered. And it's often analog — perhaps less efficient, less perfect, less speedy — which best captures those human imperfections, creating a tactile interface with the world.
The sweet spot is a harmonious blending of the two technologies. The idea that it's one or the other is the false narrative of digital. If you go into a coffee shop or an agency, people are going to have a notebook or field notes next to their iPhone and their MacBook. They might listen to Spotify when they're taking the subway to the office, but they'll go home and put on the record collection. They might read certain books and magazines on tablets but other books on paper.
People want balance. Ten years ago, the attraction was that everything in your life would become digital. You wouldn't need any distractions; you would live in a perfect, uncluttered, Zen-like house where you would stream your art to the wall.
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Billy the Man
by NATE SANDALS October 10, 2006 April 20, 2021
It's 5 p.m. and practice is winding down for Michigan. The coaches have left the ice and the real fun is about to begin.
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A crowd gathers around the goal closest to the Wolverine locker room. T.J. Hensick, Andrew Cogliano, Chad Kolarik – the team's top goal scorers – and others form a semi-circle around the net. At the center of this offensive juggernaut, confined to his blue crease, is Billy Sauer.
For the next 15 minutes, Sauer faces shot after shot, rebound attempt after rebound attempt and joke after joke. Despite the relentless barrage<|fim_middle|>, going 7-2-1 in his first 10 appearances. But his play faltered in the second half of the season, and Ruden started 12 of the final 14 games.
"It's nice to always battle because you make each other better," Sauer recalled. "But at the same time it can be kind of stressful, too."
When asked how Ruden helped his game, Sauer's "no comment" is an icy testament to their strained relationship.
In the summer leading up to his freshman year, Sauer worked tirelessly to get in shape. By the middle of the season he was worn down. Once that happened, it was difficult for Sauer to get back in the groove and feel comfortable in goal.
"I almost worked too hard coming into the summer, and I think it kind of hurt me at times," Sauer recalled. "I was skating probably four or five hours a day. I was working out and everything. It really kind of killed me as far as physically and mentally."
Sauer wanted to please everyone on the team, too. In the process, he saw his game struggle and had difficulty fitting in as a member of the team.
The freshman was timid with his teammates and his coaches, often afraid to say the wrong thing or act the wrong way. As a result, more often than not, Sauer bit his tongue.
Sauer had a difficult time last season, but he knows the experience will only serve to make him a better goalie in the long run.
"Everybody tells you that having a year under your belt is going to help you a lot more," Sauer said. "But I think once you go through it, you really do realize that coming in here that year of experience, just knowing what to expect each time you step onto the ice, is a huge advantage from last year."
The feeling is unanimous in the Michigan locker room – this is a new Billy.
"He's a lot more comfortable this season than he was last year," Hunwick said.
Sauer is certain of his improvement. At the end of last season, he knew there were aspects of his game that needed to be upgraded, and over the summer, he worked with goalie coach Yona Fioravanti to accomplish them.
"I've learned how to self-assess myself," Sauer said. "This year instead of falling into bad habits like I did last year, I'm going to be able to stay more consistent."
Working with Fioravanti at the Maksymum Hockey Camp in Rochester, N.Y., Sauer didn't just focus on his own game. He also had the chance to teach younger goalies the art of the position.
Sauer, who the Colorado Avalanche picked in the seventh round of the NHL Draft this summer, thinks the tutoring helped him better understand his own game.
"(Fioravanti) has me also teach other goalies which helps me analyze goaltending situations," Sauer said. "So now, when I see myself in those situations, I can really tell myself what I'm doing wrong."
Fioravanti was hired as Michigan's volunteer goalie coach last week, partly upon Sauer's recommendation. He said he was most impressed with Sauer's improvement with the basics.
"If you want to break it down, his fundamentals got better," Fioravanti said. "My biggest philosophy is to always watch the puck. . I think that was a huge improvement for him over the summer, huge."
This season, Sauer says he is a more mobile goalie, one of the qualities Fioravanti stresses in his students. Sauer is more confident in his abilities and ready to face any situation without losing focus.
"I've been a lot more patient and calm," Sauer said. "I panicked a lot last year and I thought over the summer it improved quite a bit."
Sauer's teammates and coaches agree that the time he put in over the summer will pay off in big ways this season.
Another improvement for Sauer over last year is his established chemistry with his defense, which didn't lose any members to the NHL or graduation and added two quality freshmen.
"Just knowing a lot of people in your D-corps helps," Sauer said. "You know their tendencies and stuff like that. And as far as just having a friendship with them already built, that helps too."
This year, Sauer doesn't have to worry about friendships off the ice either. While he struggled to fit in socially as a 17-year-old freshman, Sauer feels more comfortable with his teammates this year. He's especially close with his housemates: Mitera, Danny Fardig, Tim Miller and Morgan Ward.
The louder Sauer isn't clear just to his teammates, but to his coaches, too. When something is bothering Sauer, he's not afraid to let his coaches know how he feels.
"This year, I think I've learned to speak my mind more," Sauer said. "I've already had a lot of conversations with the coaches with some things that I'd like to get changed or just how I'm feeling."
Along with a greater general presence on the ice and in the locker room, Sauer is happy to take on the leadership role amongst the team's goaltenders.
Unlike the cold shoulder Noah Ruden showed him last season, Sauer is trying to welcome incoming freshman goalie Steve Jakiel with open arms, and help him as much as possible.
"I'm trying to help Steve out," Sauer said. "I know he's actually a couple years older than me, but I know how it is coming in as a freshman. Just because he's older than me doesn't really mean that he knows what's going on here anymore than I did last year."
Jakiel, who is Sauer's workout partner in the weight room, appreciates the help and is happy to have such a good resource to work with in his first season on the team.
"It's good to have a guy with a year of experience in front to watch in practice and learn from," Jakiel said. "We get along well."
On Monday, the first day the goalies worked with Fioravanti, Sauer looked much more like an assistant teacher than a student. Having learned Fioravanti's methods in past years, Sauer used the opportunity to give quick tips to fellow goalies Jakiel and senior Mike Mayhew.
Winning every time
Last year, Sauer had to fight to earn the respect of his teammates. This year, respect already in hand, he's taking on a leadership role and looks forward to going out and proving he's one of the top goalies in college hockey.
Sauer is aiming to lead the CCHA in one statistical category: wins. For him, it's the most important column in the box score. Sauer thinks he can help an already-talented Michigan squad to achieve its goals and have a strong season.
"You don't want to jinx anything," Sauer said. "But we're really looking forward to a good season. Winning a few titles I don't think is too far out of our reach."
To achieve those goals, Michigan will need to see further proof of just how important a year of experience, newfound confidence and a summer of hard work can be. For Sauer's part, he is certain the difference will come through.
"I don't feel like the youngest person anymore," Sauer said. "I still am, but just having that year of experience makes you feel a lot older."
When he came to Ann Arbor, Sauer was a 17-year-old kid. Now he's an 18-year-old man.
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At one point, Cogliano is sent to the bench for missing an open net. Later, Hensick throws down his stick and pounds his fists on the glass in playful frustration.
All the while, Sauer proves he's ready to be the Wolverines' No. 1 goalie this season. Following a summer of hard work, Sauer is more experienced and more confident than he was last year. He is certain that will make all the difference.
First in line
"Billy Sauer is our starting goalkeeper," Michigan coach Red Berenson said at CCHA Media Day in late September.
A week later, the veteran coach qualified his statement: "Billy Sauer's coming into the season, he's our most experienced goalie, he should be our starting goalie and then we'll go from there."
Just like that, the competition was gone. The fight was called before the opening bell rang. Sauer holds the title, and he likes it.
Coming off a season in which he battled hard to keep the starting goalie job from then-senior Noah Ruden, Sauer said he's happy to have some job security.
"It's nice not having to look over your shoulder," Sauer said. "Just knowing that I can get into the net and do my own thing and not really have to worry about too many other people, it definitely helps."
Sauer's increased relaxation on the ice is clear to his teammates, too.
"There's a lot less pressure on him," senior captain Matt Hunwick said. "He's not really competing for a job. He knows that the No. 1 role is going to be his. At the same time, he's ready for that this season, he's ready to step up to the challenge."
Sauer is self-assured, and it shows in his play on the ice. Asked about Sauer's play following Michigan's 10-2 exhibition victory over Waterloo last Friday, senior forward T.J. Hensick stressed the importance of poise in net.
"(Sauer's) confident in himself, and we're confident in him," Hensick said.
Confidence was hard to come by last year, when Sauer overworked himself and struggled both physically and mentally.
Weight on his shoulders
Sauer arrived in Ann Arbor last year when he was 17. The Walworth, N.Y., native accelerated his way through high school so he could be on the Michigan roster for the 2005-06 season. No one doubted his talent, but it was clear both on and off the ice that he still had some growing up to do.
"Last year he was only 17," sophomore defenseman Mark Mitera said. "Coming in to be the starter at the University of Michigan is a lot to rest on your shoulders at night."
Looking back, even Sauer acknowledged he might not have been ready for the pressures of being a college athlete, let alone a college student.
"Coming as a 17-year-old freshman and only playing one year of juniors when a lot of guys spent two or three years usually was tough," Sauer said. "There were a lot of social adjustments that I had to make. Coming in and trying to fit in as a 17 year old when you're playing with a lot of guys that are 23-24ish, it can be tough."
Some of Sauer's struggles came from not understanding his role on the team. He was talented, arguably more than any goalie on the roster. But Ruden had more experience and had bided his time behind Al Montoya for three seasons. He thought it was his time to shine.
Unfortunately for Ruden, Sauer was the better goalie in preseason practices and began the season as the starter.
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HOW DOES A HANDYMAN CHARGE?
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Updating your kitchen cabinets with new handles is a project with very few complications. The worst that could happen is that you might not have screwed them in tight enough and they come loose.
Replacing an electrical outlet, however, can be very dangerous if you do it wrong. If you don't know about electrical currents and how they work in your house, call someone who does.
Anything that affects the structure of your house.
This list is by no means exhaustive. Before beginning any project, check with your local regulations to see if your project is required to be done by a licensed contractor. Although it's more expensive than hiring a handyman, hiring a contractor is a way to make sure that things are done safely and up to code.
A handyman is the happy medium between DIY or hiring a contractor. As stated above, there are some jobs a handyman isn't allowed to do. This is why some handymen are also licensed contractors. It enables them to spread their nets wider when bidding on jobs.
A handyman can take care of numerous small jobs and sometimes works with contractors on large projects, especially when time is of the essence.
A handyman is quite versatile and can help with everything from replacing your thermostat to paving a new walkway.
They can handle most jobs that you may not have the time or ability to do yourself.
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Could I do it myself if I only had the time?
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Should this take less than a day?
Should this cost less than $500?
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Meadow fruit apple, Lad's love, Red Mustard, Sweet Woodruff, Douglas Fir Tips, Chokeberry, Blackcurrant twigs…..not to mention all the ancient pear varieties whose names still remain unpronounceable! This was not going to be the usual Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir trip!
The early flight to Stuttgart had been slightly delayed, it was early June and I'd just been picked up by Jörg Geiger at the airport. I was about to enter a different and unknown world of drink experiences at first hand.
We drove from Stuttgart towards the small village of Schlat in southwest Germany, which took us alongside the foothills of the Swabian hills which stretch north for over 100 miles (I'd never heard of them either!). The scenery was enchanting in a cosy, lush, rolling kind of way. Lots of small farms and villages, castles perched on hilltops and meadows everywhere, full of ancient looking apple and pear trees.
This is the setting for Jörg, whose family can be traced back at least to the 1600s in the village of Schlat. Jörg is 'of this place' and 'from this land', and his ancestors would have been making plenty of apple and pear spirits (schnapps), sparkling wines from Bratbirne heritage pears as well as ciders and liqueurs. Whilst Jörg still does produce these, he has taken the family tradition in an innovative new direction, adding 'Pri Secco' non-alcoholic sparkling juice drinks, using the fruits, herbs and spices that grow in the Swabian hills.
Apparently, to be Swabian conjures up a unique combination of traits: ingenuity, precision and patience, and the ability to make enjoyment from whatever you have nearby. This is of course Jörg all over.
Many small farms populate the hills, where the heritage fruit varieties grow, scattered across the meadows. Of course these farmers are only able to maintain these meadows and fruit trees within (and get their organic certification) if it is financially viable. To help save and preserve the meadows and wider environment, Jörg pays a very good price to the farmers for their rare apple and pear varieties that grow on their land. All varieties have to be sorted and identified, and each has a price, with Jörg's team confirming quality at delivery point. Amazingly, he now works with over 600 farmers! Consequently, Jörg is well known in the region (bordering on local celebrity), and is helping to preserve the landscape structure and biodiversity, as without demand for the fruit, many of these majestic fruit trees would disappear.
Of course the trees are an important part of the overall ecosystem, and the whole area, which covers seven different counties, is also now a bird sanctuary. Anticipating future demand requires forward planning, as the trees take at least 15-30 years to become fully established, and with climate change bringing milder winters, and more intense summer heat, Jörg is also planning for this, by grafting some heritage fruit varieties from warmer regions onto his fast growing rootstocks.
PRI SECCO – NO ALCOHOL, BUT WHAT IS IN IT?
The final juice mixes are then 'pearl carbonated', a special technique meaning that the bubbles added are kept small and fine (think good Champagne kind of bubbles, rather than fizzy water). This fine carbonation is important in lifting the flavours and for livening the mouthfeel too.
Pri Secco speciality drinks have been made for over 12 years, with continuous development and research. Recipe combinations have been extended and refined and there are now seasonal Pri Seccos too. Only since 2015 and partly due to the complications of certification, the first organic versions were launched, and Jörg has erected an impressive new building for all the in-house production. Unbelievably, Jörg and family also run a hotel and restaurant back in Schlat (highly recommended) and it is here we get to taste all 30 or so Cuvées from his Pri Secco range. I have to say I was massively impressed with the purity, balance and unique flavour combinations on offer, some of which have been<|fim_middle|> mixes from what flourishes in his environment. Make no mistake, these are unique, sophisticated sparkling drinks, which we are delighted to list and have available for you to try, and you won't miss the alcohol either! We recommend you enjoy them chilled from a wine glass. Absolutely everyone can, and should enjoy these. Just one sniff, one taste, will transport you straight to the Swabian meadows! | specially developed to match with local food dishes. Particular highlights for me being the Cuvée 23 with Rhubarb (great match for sweets and desserts), Cuvée 17 with Celeriac, a fantastic pairing with root vegetables, and braised meats. The list goes on with beetroot, cucumber, cherry, strawberry, parsley, nettle, gooseberry leaf and more….. a liquid three course meal!
Being able to visit the region with Jörg and to hear his story, see the ancient trees, walk in those meadows and taste the flavour creations was a real pleasure and privilege. He is a true craftsman, some might say alchemist even, working his magic | 143 |
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For Majority, Samsung Galaxy S4 a Robust Option
March 14, 2013 · by Nick Kwock · in Android, Technology. ·
Today, Samsung revealed its latest flagship phone, the Samsung Galaxy S4 in New York's Radio City Music Hall. Despite the slightly corny use of actors and actresses to model the various features of the Galaxy S4, the phone sounds like a promising piece of hardware integrated with a very robust software suite to make life easier.
All About the Specs
The Samsung Galaxy S4 will have top of the line hardware when it begins to come out at the end of April. The Galaxy S4 will be about the same size as the Galaxy S3, but will be thinner and lighter with a larger screen, coming in at 4.99″, just a bit shy of 5″. In addition, the screen will be full HD (1080p), joining the ranks of HTC's 1080p phones and have a large 2,600 mAh battery that is not only removable, but supports inductive charging. Internationally, the device will feature the first 8 core CPU, Samsung's Exynos 5, while the U.S. variants will probably have the quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro Snapdragon 600. The phone will have plenty of internal storage with the option of expanding it via a SD card slot. Samsung added two new sensors to their latest flagship with an Infrared Gesture sensor and a Temperature and Humidity sensor. The device will also have an Infrared LED so that the phone can act as a TV remote. Just like the Galaxy S3, the Galaxy S4 will feature a prominent physical home button in the center with capacitive back and menu buttons. There were no real surprises in the hardware beyond the addition of the two new sensors, but I wasn't looking for anything drastic. Over all, there isn't much to complain about on the hardware front besides whether or not a person prefers software buttons over any sort of physical ones. As for the battery, I'll have to wait and see what the real world tests show, but it sounds promising.
Edit: Here's an infographic version of the Galaxy S4
The S Suite
Unsurprisingly, Samsung took the time today to distance itself from its Google Android roots. At no point did Samsung say what version of Android the Galaxy S4's OS was built on top of. Instead, Samsung used the majority of the presentation to show off its platform of services and tweaks packaged on top of the Android base (Samsung's Android "skin" is known as TouchWiz) that I will refer to as the S Suite. This should come as no surprise since the Galaxy line of phones through the years have increasingly featured some of Samsung's own software such as the S Pen's suite of apps that debuted with the Galaxy Note, or S Voice, a Siri-like companion that appeared in the Galaxy S3. The S Suite allows Samsung to create its own platform of services for consumers to become familiar with that not only differentiates itself from its Android competitors, but also creates synergy among other Samsung products – an incentive many people, particularly iOS users, are familiar<|fim_middle|>Overall, I can confidently say that the Galaxy S4 is the right phone for the majority of people, beating out HTC's recently announced HTC One phone and its impeccable design. Samsung makes a number of smart tweaks to its TouchWiz interface that the layman will enjoy having. HTC, on the other hand, forces its new Sense experience with its social features onto users. However, for hardcore Android enthusiasts who enjoy having the latest and greatest from Google, they should probably hold out for Google's next Nexus announcement, which may come as early as Google I/O 2013 in May – Key Lime Pie, anyone? People with a Galaxy S3 or Nexus 4 can also rest easy knowing that the hardware shown today isn't miles ahead of their own current phone either although I will admit the hardware is better in almost every aspect. Good job, Samsung (besides the very corny way of presenting it). So, what do you guys think? Are you going to upgrade to a Galaxy S4? Let me know in the comments or discuss it on Google+ here.
Edit: Final note about the Galaxy S4, which, yes, is more of a "S" upgrade to the Galaxy S3 and I say this jokingly: The tag line for the Galaxy S4 is that it's a "life companion." However, Samsung said that it was developed with the way we live now in mind. The way we live can and will most certainly change in the years ahead, so I doubt the Galaxy S4 will be anyone's life companion… assuming it makes it past the 2 year contract mark (for people in the U.S.).
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Dual Camera: Uses both the back and front camera simultaneously for video chat or even phone calls so that the video taker isn't left out and you can show the other person your surroundings without losing the video conversation
Sound and Shot: Record a clip of sound to go with your picture before or after the shutter
Drama Shot: Create a composite photo out of 12 photos that shows movement over time – similar to elapsed time photos
Eraser: Use multiple photos to erase certain things such as a stray person who walked into your camera shot
S Translator: Similar to Google Translate – this app will take written dialog or voiced and translate into another language before listening to the other person and providing a written translation
Adapt Display: The Super AMOLED screen allows the display to automatically change the brightness depending on what you're doing – watching a video, playing a game, or reading e-mails
Story Album: The Galaxy S4 will automatically aggregate pictures taken on a certain day into its own album that can be printed via Buzz for a small fee; It will also know when you're on a trip and will aggregate pictures based on location
Samsung Home Sync: Automatically syncs pictures and video taken to the Samsung Home Sync server, a 1 TB server announced back at MWC 2013
S Voice Drive: Improved S Car that allows voice actions for calls, reading of texts, and more
Samsung Smart Switch: Allows new Galaxy S4 users to transfer all of their texts and contacts directly from their old phone to their PC and then to their new Galaxy S4
Samsung Knox: Separates the phone into both business and personal sides to provide the security needed for enterprise applications
Samsung Group Play: Share music, photos, or play multiplayer games together with up to 8 Galaxy S4 phones even without an internet connection
Air Gesture: Uses gestures to answer the phone, scroll web pages, and more
Samsung Smart Scroll and Pause: Smart Scroll allows you to tilt the device up or down, left or right, to scroll through web pages or e-mails, while Smart Pause will pause videos if you turn your head away from your device
S Health: Keeps track of various information such as how much you walk and pairs with other Samsung health devices such as the S Band
Samsung Hub: An entry way to all of Samsung's content services such as books and movies
Edit: Samsung has gone on record that all of these new features that are not hardware dependent (IR sensor or the temperature and humidity sensor) will probably be updated onto other Samsung flagship devices such as the Galaxy S3 and Note II.
The variety of accessories and all of the various colors they come in was a big part of Samsung's presentation and I couldn't agree more with this. As a consumer, I am looking for high quality accessories made by the original manufacturer to go with my device. I don't want to depend on a third party to create these accessories because I won't know the exact quality although some are definitely better. Google needs to learn this lesson because its Nexus devices have been very popular this past year, but the lack of accessories coming to market with the device is just shameful. The Nexus 7's dock only recently went on sale on Google's Play Store, but the device has been out since July of last year. Samsung was smart to avoid this mistake by showing off the many accessories for the Galaxy S4 including pouches, flip covers, protective cases, and the new S View Cover that has a small display for easy access to important information.
For the Majority, A Great Phone; But for the Android Enthusiast?
Probably the most exciting features here are the ones that take advantage of the cameras such as dual camera and eraser. Knox is also a great addition since many people need to use their phones for business as well. Air gesture is interesting, but we'll have to see how effective it is in practice. Samsung also took the time to point out that you'll be able to use the phone even with gloves on. Whether or not this is thanks to air gesture or the two new sensors added to the Galaxy S4 is beyond me. To be honest, many of these features are simply gimmicks to me and many of them have fairly similar alternatives; however, the message Samsung has here is that all of these features are housed in one device without needing to "know" what else is out there. Samsung is providing consumers with a robust solution that is heavily integrated, a tactic Apple is known for utilizing to great success.
And this is the crux of the argument. For the majority, Samsung is offering a new smartphone with a lot of cool features that works right out of the box – no tweaking needing, no searching for apps needed. However, the hardcore Android fans will still want to look at Google's Nexus line of devices because it's here that we'll see the newest features that will really change how we interact with Android devices. For example, 4.2.x added lockscreen widgets that allow information to be easily displayed and used straight from the lockscreen. It was 4.1.x that brought Project Butter, which put Android on par with Apple's iPhone in terms of smoothness. I must applaud Samsung for the amount of tweaks they've added to Android for their Galaxy phones, particularly with multi-window and S Pen support from the Galaxy Note, but Google is where the majority of the innovation is coming from. On top of that, it seems Samsung was in such a rush tweaking their S Suite for TouchWiz that they failed to secure their phone, as seen with recent news about the Galaxy S3 and Note II's lockscreen bypass. Hopefully the Galaxy S4 does not have any similar security exploits; especially if Samsung wants to sell the idea of Samsung Knox.
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The Commission for Laity in Atambua diocese has recently conducted political education seminars to help empower people, especially young Catholics, in local Church communities.
In all, 314 young Catholics representing all 53 parishes in the diocese attended the seminars, held June 18-21 in each deanery of the diocese: Malaka, North Belu, Mana and Kefamenanu.
Principal speakers were Vinsensius Loe Mau and Herman Abatan, respectively deputy head and executive secretary of the Commission for Laity, and Father Yohanes Laka Senda, praeses (spiritual director) of Lo´o Damian<|fim_middle|> yet developed that potential."
The priest, who is also spiritual director for young Catholics in the diocese, also stressed that "the Church needs young Catholics who, as agents of renewal, can create a new habitus within families and basic communities as well as in organizations and politics."
The desired new habitus involves attitudes and behavior, based on goodness, love and justice, that individuals and groups would use in forming approaches, deepening their understanding and relating to other individuals or groups.
Marsela Fanu, one of two young Catholics who spoke with UCA News after the seminars, said she is grateful for the chance to attend the seminar. "I feel ´converted´ through it," said the 25-year-old woman from St. John the Baptist Church of Neisleu. Before joining the training course, she said, she regarded politics as "a dirty field" into which good Catholics should not venture, and this idea has kept her from getting involved in politics.
However, thanks to the seminar, "I now understand we can evangelize people through politics," she acknowledged. She also expressed a hope that the diocesan commission will regularly organize similar courses.
Alfridus Taolin, 28, from St. John of Vianney Church in Maubesi, said the seminar "helped broaden my horizon and animated my spirit to continue in politics in order to spread biblical values." Taolin, a member of PDI-P TTU District Chapter, added that he hopes more young Catholics will get involved.
Abatan, one of the main speakers, told UCA News that the seminars were part the commission´s 2007 work program. He also explained that they were designed to empower basic communities, especially young Catholics.
He said they aimed to give young Catholics a basic understanding of politics, encourage them to see politics as a "prophetic field" that they must cultivate and salt, and prepare them to become smart and wise political cadres.
"We need smart, skilful and militant young people to manage political issues, so we must provide them with ongoing political education," he pointed out.
Abatan added that all the participants agreed to organize similar seminars in their own parishes and to hold such courses on advocacy education in 2008. | Major Seminary in Lalian, 10 kilometers south of Atambua.
Others were Raymundus Sau Fernandez, deputy district head of North Central Timor (TTU, Indonesian acronym) and chairman of the TTU chapter of Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan (PDI-P, Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle), and Yohanes Bernando Seran, a specialist on political issues.
When Loe Mau addressed the 90 young Catholics attending the June 21 seminar in Kefamenanu, capital of TTU district, he emphasized the importance of their involvement in politics as "a call to spread values of the Kingdom of God."
Most politicians in the country, he told them, are still obsessed with power, high positions and money. When elections near, he said, "they give people big promises and sometimes food and drink, to get votes, but they forget their big promises and stop caring about people after they get high positions."
Therefore, he suggested, "young Catholics should realize that taking part in politics is really a call to salt the political world with biblical values."
Father Senda, 38, said young people nowadays tend to be indifferent and have hardly any interest to get involved with various organizations. "But as young people," he told participants, "you should be open-minded and realize you have so much potential. You just have not | 284 |
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The Syncro Saga
An article in SA4x4 of February 2016, titled 'Shoebox on wheels – Zim, Zambia and Bots in a VW Syncro' brought back so many memories of our own attempt to drive through Botswana's Moremi and Chobe game reserves in my dad's VW Syncro. That was back in October 2009, when we were in our late twenties, and my husband and I and two friends (one being three months' pregnant at the time) decided after months of research and preparation that we had done enough to tackle Botswana. We'd even had a custom roof rack, the length of the Kombi, made
Crossing the pans
I was sitting around a fire with my Dad one Sunday in March, when our general discussion moved to Botswana, a country that has crept into my heart over the last couple of years. We were talking about the Zebra migration every September and October, when the game starts massing in its thousands in the Nxai and Makgadikgadi pans, and then, as if by some group signal, heads to Xhumaga (also known as Khumaga) on the banks of the Boteti River in search of greener grass. We decided this was the year that we should take a trip to see
Beautiful Botswana
As one of the least densely populated countries on the continent and one with a stunning array of wildlife and natural beauty, Botswana is high on the must-see list for any visitor to Africa, and a country I have been looking forward to for a very long time. It has extremely strict conservation laws, and in the more than 17% of the land mass dedicated to National Parks, animals roam freely and are a fixture of everyday life. National Parks are well organised and affordable, and thousands of kilometres of remote tracks lie waiting to be explored. In many regions,
Outward Bound: Nossob Eco Trail
Having been involved in several severe 4×4 challenges of late, it came as a welcome relief to tackle the Nossob Eco Trail, which runs through the remote Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Here was a chance to enjoy open wilderness without any stress about vehicle damage. Starting at the Twee Rivieren post right on the border of Botswana in the Northern Cape's most northerly point, the five-day, four-night trail begins at the point where the Aoub and Nossob river intersect – hence 'Twee Rivieren'. These rivers flow only once every century, but, even so, are lined with massive camelthorns and populated heavily
Long road to the Serengeti
For many years, it had been on my wish list to drive from Gauteng to the Serengeti. Flying would be the easiest, but I wanted to drive. I have done numerous 4×4 trips into Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Lesotho, as well as through South Africa, and I have reasonable experience of this type of adventure. However, the Serengeti is over 4 000km away, and this adds a new dimension to travel – especially if one wants to do it in twelve days. So, where does one start to plan a trip of this magnitude? My starting point was to see
Travel: 18 000km in a Tuk-Tuk
Barefoot Adventurers Club duo, Calum Buckmaster and Willie Badenhorst, have just returned from a seven-month travel fest through eight countries in a 400cc diesel-engined Tuk-Tuk – top speed 40km/h. All to raise awareness for the endangered species of southern Africa. "Eish!" "What are you Mzungus doing?"<|fim_middle|> invited me to join the team at the annual Okavango Bream Classic, I was over the moon. This annual fishing competition in the Okavango Panhandle had been on my bucket list for ages. It combines one of my favourite places (Botswana and the Delta) with one of my favourite hobbies (fishing). However, just because fishing is one of my hobbies doesn't | "From there? To here? In this?" "Barefoot?" "Ah, no, man!" A fairly typical greeting from people we met – including policemen. Friendly, but puzzled and amazed. Fair enough. It's not often you see a couple of young blokes in remote Africa in a little cargo Tuk-Tuk. Getting started The idea stemmed from the time
Botswana by bus
Thick sand, water crossings, salts pans, rough roads – a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter takes it all in its stride on a Botswana tour from Moremi in the north to the Makgadikgadi pans down south. For more information on this and other Protea 4×4 Adventures, fill out the form at the end of this article. Our radio crackled to life. "Guys, make absolutely sure you have engaged four-wheel drive." Jannie Rykaart then repeated the message for good measure, and I glanced sideways at my mate Kobus – aka Kabous. We both wore a hint of smirk. For the last hour, we had
Wild Botswana Part 2: Caves, rivers, hills & pans
Self-drive safaris through Botswana's wilder regions have become more difficult because of the limiting effects of veterinary fences combined with the growing number of concessions in previously "open" areas. But there are still plenty of places where you can explore on your own. Under the disapproving frown of a leaden-faced sky, our hesitant reconnaissance of the world's saltiest cemetery was like the final act of a slow gunslinger. Knowing the outcome, we ran away. (In reality, we prayed for gripping wheels, all the way on our retreat from the lonely island to a man at a gate who could not
Wild Botswana: Part 1
Self-drive safaris through the wilder regions of Botswana have become more difficult because of the limiting effects of veterinary fences combined with the growing number of concessions in previously "open" areas. But it is still possible to explore on your own, and get to some intriguing destinations. "You have to be brave to do this," said Refilwe, as she stepped confidently across the chaotic surface that is the muddy, knee-twisting, temporary shoreline of an ever-transforming lake which centuries ago drew explorers to its capricious existence. Past the dead tree stumps and mud pockmarked by the desperate struggle of cattle, lies
SA4x4 staffer Anton Willemse and his son ticked one of their bucket-list events earlier this year. Thousands of kays in a 4×4, many days' fishing… The result? We're not saying a word. When Darrell van Zeil from Opposite Lock | 557 |
After attending Matt Tietjen's presentation on Coloring Complexity at the Pediatric Cortical Visual Impairment Society conference in June, I decided to adapt this idea for my son Henry. He just turned 6 and just started Kindergarten, and is in Phase II of the CVI Range.
Before we started using this picture sequence board, we spent a lot of time exploring the real objects and their salient features. These are pictures of his actual items at home and he's been working to interpret these 2D objects in photographs for some time now. I've been describing the salient features of each<|fim_middle|>. He is able to understand what is next when he is told verbally, and he is now working on making that connection with a visual representation of the next activity.
Henry is verbal. He is able to string words in a sentence and follow multi-step directions. He has a hard time organizing multiple pieces of information, so he requires prompting to sequence ideas.
Henry has CVI meltdowns often. He has a difficult time with transitions. Kids with CVI don't have access to incidental learning or anticipatory information, so he has a hard time orientating himself to a task or understanding time and what is happening next. I've been using anticipatory language to help him move through his morning routine. He doesn't do well with down time, so we have to move at a good clip. But he still has outbursts in the morning. Just this morning, he refused to brush his teeth and move out the door to get in the car. It's hard, but the anticipatory language and visual schedule are helping with his concept development and his purpose each morning. I also want to begin incorporating a "Finish" bucket, so once he is done with the task he not only removes the photo card, but places it into the finish bucket as just another way help him understand the ideas of starting and stopping a task.
This particular sequence board is for his morning routine, which is when he uses his functional vision the best. I plan to create a similar anticipation calendar for the evening routine. | real object and then continued this salient feature language with the photograph cards.
I've asked him to look at the photograph and then find the object in the house. We're usually in the room where the item is, but I want to start asking him to navigate his way to the item.
I've also added these photographs into an app called Scene Speak (another recommendation from Matt Tietjen). I can add a hot spot with a recording of me describing the salient features. So he looks at the iPad, taps the item, and then the recording begins.
I also created a story book about his morning routine using the app, Book Creator, with the same photographs. So we have a lot of wrap-around activities to support the work of the object calendar. The iPad is such a great tool for him—back lighting, reduced complexity, interactivity. Henry still requires prompting to move through this object calendar and some mornings are better than others.
This picture schedule helps him anticipate his tasks to get ready in the morning. We're just starting to use it, so I've been showing Henry the pictures that represent each task and describing the salient features of the object. I have him place them in order two at a time. For example, first breakfast, then we get dressed. Once Henry gets comfortable with interacting with the board, I want him to work towards choosing the correct picture from 2-3 options after I verbally ask him what's next. This is hard for him right now, but he'll get there | 307 |
Patients frequently mention to me that they want to start meditating but don't know how to start or don't have the patience to sit still for 10 minutes, let alone a half hour or more. The beauty of meditation is that it is completely adaptable to your life. Some people really enjoy the discipline of committing to a certain technique and time each day; others like to try different methods and maintain flexibility with it<|fim_middle|>2 times. So you don't have time to get through 1 round – no biggie, take a couple of deep breaths and go back to your day. There is no wrong way. | .
Meditation of any length of time disrupts the stress "fight-or-flight" system and shifts into the relaxation functions of the body. There is certainly a health advantage to spending more time with meditation, but literally 30 seconds (yes, SECONDS) can make a shift in relaxation. Stopping a busy day, stopping a busy mind for as little as 30 seconds is simply powerful.
Start over again at 1.
This particular technique is great when you find it hard to quiet the mind. There's nothing more frustrating in meditation than to be told "just stop thinking." Easier said than done because the brain is designed to think. That's what it does. By counting the exhales, the numbers give your mind something to do while letting the stress and worries go by. The reason you only go up to 10 is that you will find that your mind will want to wander again and all of a sudden you are up to 15 or 16 counts. Just start over back at 1 and that will refocus your mind on the breath in the moment.
Last, but most important… there is no wrong way to try this. There is no judgment or evaluation of how you do. So your mind wanders by the count of 6 – no biggie, start over at 1. So you get restless if you try to do more than 2 rounds through – no biggie, stop after | 296 |
>When is a dog lost?
>I made a friend when I went<|fim_middle|> the visitors until Bernard stuck his head through the fence and was more or less in our space. Bhikku growled in kind of a watch-it-buster way. They were strolling with a woman who said they belonged to the people who live behind her and often tagged along with her when she went walking. So, no, Blackie wasn't lost.
>Awww.. Labs are so sweet!
>Wonderful story. You had me glued. I'm glad that he wasn't lost. And I could picture the smile!
Are the miniature dobermans really miniature pinschers or is there another breed? I have a miniature pinscher. My dad jokes that she is a cat–the cats always look insulted.
>Cate, until you asked the question, I didn't know that I was using the wrong name for the breed, although apparently I'm not alone. The dogs are in fact miniature pinschers; and if someone could make them shut up for a minute they might be cute (no offense).
Katie, Labs are definitely sweet; mine is incredible, which is why he tempts me to get a second one.
>No offense taken. I agree that the constant yipping impacts their cuteness! | out to get the mail this afternoon. Meandering around the neighbors' yard was a Black Labrador, who looked up at me as I crossed the road and checked my mailbox. From inside the neighbors' house came the customary yipping of the two nasty miniature Dobermans who live there, evil little creatures that not even PETA could love. The Labrador smiled (really, he did) and followed me across the road to my driveway where we chatted for a moment. Middle-aged and well-fed, he had a collar but no tags, a scar on his snout but no visible injuries. He sat at my feet and thumped his tail on the asphalt. I rubbed his chest and he stared into my eyes. If he had been gaunt, or otherwise in obvious need, I would have sprung into action. But it isn't uncommon for country folk to let their dogs wander (despite a county ordinance that forbids it) and this chubby pup just didn't seem lost to me. So I went to my front door—he followed me, as if he might have thought I'd invited him for a drink, or a treat—but when I said no, he slinked off the porch. I wondered if Bhikku, napping inside, would smell this stranger on my hand.
The paper had reports of several missing dogs, but none in this vicinity, and no Black Labs. I'll check again tomorrow and if there is an ad in the paper I'll at least be able to provide Blackie's whereabouts as of about 3pm on Saturday.
Although Blackie wasn't in the paper, there was an ad offering a Yellow Lab, three years old, for free, to a nice home, preferably one without small children. (Hmm, what's that about, do you suppose?) I've been thinking of getting a dog for my dog for some time now, so I tore out the ad. I haven't called yet. But I might.
Update on Sunday 1/8: Blackie came by again today and brought with him his step-puppie Bernard (as in Saint), an adorable (large) ball of fluff with no collar. Bhikku and I were in the yard prepatory to our daily woods walk and he was delighted with | 462 |
National Geographic : 1987 Aug
Fabled beasts attributedwith human industry and engineeringskills, beavers were portrayed in Europe as living in apartment-likedwellings in a 1777 en graving (facingpage). Hunting methods -and subtropicalsetting-arealso in error.Beavers were usually clubbed, minimizing damage to the pelts, before the advent of wire snares and leghold devices still used by trappers(below). himself equally to preservation of the popu list rights of Parliament under Charles II. During the last decade and a half of his life, while actively pursuing the business of the Hudson's Bay Company, Rupert set up a laboratory and metal forge in his lodgings at Windsor Castle. He is credited, among many other inventions, with fashioning a primitive torpedo, the forerunners of the modern revolver and machine gun, tear shaped glass globules known as Rupert's drops that led to the making of tempered safety glass, a naval quadrant that made it possible to take observations at sea in rough weather, and a "diving engine" said to have successfully retrieved sunken treasure. Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Medard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers, the two French adventurers who originated the idea of trading furs through Hudson Bay to by pass the French posts on the St. Lawrence River, ignited Rupert's imagination with re ports of gold and copper. Rupert was excited by the prospect that the backcountry beyond Hudson Bay might yield not only fur but also as much mineral wealth to the Stuart dynasty as the mines of Mexico and Peru had produced for the kings of Spain. Following an exploratory 1668-69 voyage to Hudson Bay by Groseilliers aboard the former Royal Navy ketch Nonsuch, during which the ship's company overwintered, Rupert and his fellow adventurers obtained from Charles II, on May 2, 1670,<|fim_middle|> Proprietors" of all the seas SY and lands of Hudson Bay and its entire drainage system. By setting the geo graphic limits of the territory at the sources of the streams that drain into Hudson Bay, the grant en closed a subcontinent, its eastern boundary extend ing back to the height of land in unexplored Labra dor, its southern extrem ities stretching along a huge territory just above the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River's many N, CALGARY(FACINGPAGE) tributaries. Then it swept into the Red River Valley, south past the 49th parallel, and west to the Rocky Moun tain divide. Only the lands around the great northward-flowing streams (today's Cop permine and Mackenzie), those flowing west to the Pacific (the Columbia, Fraser, Skeena, Yukon), and the Milk River basin draining to the Missouri were excluded. THE CHARTER for "the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England tradeing into Hudson's Bay," in effect, granted a monopo ly over trade originating anywhere west of Hudson Bay, so that if the Northwest Pas sage had actually existed where navigators of that day thought it did, the Hudson's Bay Company could have claimed control of trade rights, based on discovery, all the way to the shores of China. The newborn Hudson's Bay Company rapidly developed into a profitable opera tion. Cash surpluses were reinvested in NationalGeographic, August 1987 208 | a charter as "true and absolute Lordes and | 10 |
Information Minister, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah says the Minority's press conference on the economy and the performance of the cedi should have been done earlier since government has already taken steps to salvage the situation.
Addressing the media on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, after the minority's conference, Mr. Oppong-Nkrumah said the minority provided no new information on the economy, and that the issues they stated are already known to Ghanaians.
"The substance of their presentation today essentially is that the cedi has depreciated and that investors are taking hits, and this is an already acknowledge point. Government has already been working to address the situation.
According to the Information<|fim_middle|> the minority press conference, Mr. Oppong-Nkrumah assured that government is working towards ensuring that the cedi is stable, and businesses flourish in the country. | Minister, there is improvement in the cedis performance against the dollar, and that there are plans to further stabilize the cedi in the coming days.
"So the cedi is gradually making a comeback and this minority attempts to take political jabs is a bit late in the day," Mr. Oppong-Nkrumah noted.
The minority led by Ranking member of the Finance Committee of Parliament, Cassiel Ato Forson held a press conference where government was accused of mismanaging the economy.
They charged government to present a new budget to Parliament since they are not going by the one presented earlier.
According to the minority, the economy has been thrown in disarray together with projections surrounding it as contained in the 2019 budget presented to parliament.
The expressed worry over the depreciating cedi, stating that it has taken a toll on businesses in the country.
But reacting to | 179 |
Ocean thermal energy plant proposed at Keahole
Erin Miller
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| Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 5:49 p.m.
A Maryland-based ocean thermal energy developer is poised to build a test plant at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii, according to a draft environment assessment recently filed with the state. A Maryland-based ocean thermal energy developer is poised to
A Maryland-based ocean thermal energy developer is poised to build a test plant at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii, according to a draft environment assessment recently filed with the state.
OTI officials said the 1 megawatt test plant would take two years to build and employ at least five people full-time once construction was completed. The demonstration plant would operate 25 years. If successful, OTI would like to build a commercial plant on Oahu, which would employ nearly 500 workers. The cost to build the test plant was not included in the draft document, but the document did note roughly $10 million in materials would be used during construction of the Kona facility.
OTI would build the research, development and demonstration plant on 1.9 acres of NELHA's Hawaii Ocean Science and Technology Park. The company considered several locations in other parts of the world before selecting Hawaii.
"OTEC is the appropriate technology for the HOST Park, and the proponent has expertise in development of OTEC," officials said in the draft assessment. "The HOST Park is currently the preeminent location for OTEC development, and the proposed action will maintain that position to the<|fim_middle|>. The plant then uses cold ocean water to convert the ammonia vapor back to a liquid for recycling in a closed-loop system.
"The key technical challenge for OTEC is to produce enough gross energy to run its power-intensive production facility and to efficiently generate net energy at competitive prices for the electric grid," the draft assessment said.
The Kona plant will be land based, which OTI officials said is appropriate for research, but not for commercial production.
"OTI believes that land-based plants are appropriate for OTEC research facilities, but they do not generate the economic returns, at this time, to be commercially viable," the assessment said. "Offshore OTEC power plants include water intake and power generation systems on site that are positioned in deep ocean water, generally several miles from shore. The first generation of OTI-designed commercial plants will be offshore facilities."
Using warmer surface water cools it several degrees and warms the cooler deep sea water. Injection wells will return the water to a depth where the ambient temperature matches the temperature of the used water.
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Officials said they anticipate a finding of no significant impact for the project.
NELHA's existing land-use permits allow OTEC testing, the document said. The type of use does not require conforming with any additional National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration rules relating to OTEC, official said in the draft assessment. NOAA's regulations apply to commercial OTEC projects, the document said, which the research facility is not. The OTI project is also not on the makai side of the high water mark, another requirement that would make the project subject to NOAA's rules.
"The proposed action is a privately owned research, development, and demonstration facility, which utilizes an existing, permitted state-owned pipeline to derive water," the document said. "The pipeline is not for the exclusive use of the proponent, but part of a much larger system that includes other thermal energy research, aquaculture operations, pharmaceutical companies, water bottlers and educational institutions. NELHA retains full ownership of the infrastructure, its maintenance, operation and even ownership of the water."
The Abell Foundation Inc. of Baltimore is OTI's principal member and sponsor. OTI's precursor was Sea Solar Power International LLC. Abell and OTI bring more than 40 years of research and engineering on "optimizing the OTEC cycle and its key components," the document said.
"(OTEC) offers a sustainable alternative to fossil fuel-based technologies presently driving Hawaii's energy economy," the document said. "Unlike most of the renewable energy systems constructed and contemplated for deployment in Hawaii, OTEC is a base load, or firm power technology, producing electricity 24 hours a day, every day."
Any OTEC power used will displace the same amount of power generated by fossil fuels, the document said.
By contrast, non-firm power technologies such as wind and photovoltaic do not eliminate the need to maintain fossil-fueled reserve capacity when wind and solar energy sources are absent or reduced, the document said.
The process to create energy begins with the plant drawing in warm surface water to boil ammonia, creating a gas to generate electricity with conventional turbine-generators | 441 |
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In September, the University of New England Marine Science Education and Research Center celebrated<|fim_middle|> out over waters entering the Gulf of Maine, the facility provides a window to the sea.
Below is a video by UNE about the Marine Science Center building and programs. | ten years since the opening of this state-of-the-art facility.
Designed by RR|A, the Center integrates teaching, research, and marine animal rehabilitation in one building and provides experiential education for students and the community.
The facility contains two teaching seawater laboratories and a third lab dedicated to aquaculture and marine biology research. The marine mammal rehabilitation clinic has pools for treating and studying marine animals, as well as diagnostic and medical care labs. This rehabilitation center is part of a network of centers authorized by the National Marine Fisheries Service.
The Marine Science Education Center set a new standard for buildings of this type, and after ten years, it continues to inspire students and faculty. From the site, to the building shell, to the equipment used in the Center, RR|A designed the Center to limit the impact on the land and the ocean. Located at the mouth of the Saco River, looking | 182 |
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ERISA stands for the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. ERISA is a federal law that governs and regulates all claims disputes and reimbursements from private health insurance companies obtained through employment. Over 80% of the entire healthcare market falls under ERISA and more than 90% of the PPO market is employer based.
How do we determine if a Patient's insurance plan is governed by ERISA?
The easiest way for us to identify if a health insurance plan is an ERISA plan is to see if the insurance is offered through employment. Health insurance plans that are offered through employment within the private sector are ERISA plans. ERISA does not govern any non-private governmental plans, Medicare, church plans workers compensation, personal injury claims or self/individual plans.
What does "Governed by ERISA" mean?
What is an SPD and why is it important?
An SPD is the "Summary Plan Description"; it is the legal governing document of an employee benefits plan. It basically tells an insurance carrier or "third party administrator" what to do. An SPD is important because it is the beginning and the end of how a "third party administrator" makes a determination on your claims.
The SPD sounds like an important document. How come no one knows about it?
Most health care providers are uninformed about private employer based healthcare. Their in-house billing personal follow the same rules and protocols for state insurance collection that have been around for many years. A big problem of being uninformed is that most appeals don't even qualify under the terms of the SPD as a proper appeal to exhaust administrative duties. Most standard appeals from billing companies are merely considered a provider inquiry or simple grievance, which do not qualify as a proper ERISA appeal of an adverse benefit determination. This puts you, the healthcare provider, at a severe disadvantage when dealing with healthcare benefit denials.
What are the most common types of denial used by the insurance industry?
The most common types of denials used by TPA's include; overpayment denials, recoupment, underpayment UCR denials, medical necessity denials, experimental/investigational denials, managed care system PPO discount denials, and timely filing or past 180 day denials.
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Overpayment denials are the number one denial across the United States. The majority of the denials come in the form of refund requests. Fortunately for providers there is an answer. Our knowledge and expertise of ERISA allows us to successfully prevent millions of dollars in overpayments from our clients.
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Insurance companies have recouped over 19 billion dollars of plan assets from healthcare providers nationwide. Recoupment denials go hand in hand with overpayment denials. When you fight an overpayment denial by ignoring it, you set up a serious problem for your practice.<|fim_middle|> avoid these denials especially if your surgical center is going to incur a large cost on a surgery.
What is a timely filing or 180 day denial?
Many providers are under the assumption that they have up to one year to submit a claim with insurance carriers. ERISA plans allow up to 180 days from the date of service to file a claim. If you submit a claim past 180 days from the date of service, most ERISA plans will deny your claim resulting in lost revenue. ARM has created a compliant way to file your claims timely and receive maximum reimbursement, regardless of patient responsibility.
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These denials are very common. 100% of healthcare providers have been denied this way for years; probably without even realizing it. This denial includes any payment that is less than 100% of the medical bill. Insurance companies will report this denial on the Explanation of Benefits as an "allowed amount, maximum allowable charge, or managed care system" for a service. ARM has developed a seamless protocol to appeal 100% of these denials and recover large amounts of monies owed by insurance companies, thereby protecting patient's responsibilities.
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The answer is in the name! These denials are very common and are the easiest denial to prevent. ARM has created surefire techniques to help client's use national guidelines and protocols that insurance companies rely upon in order to make sure a provider's services are indicated. It is of the utmost importance to | 217 |
Most search engines were built 20 years ago when the internet was mostly text. Since then it's evolved to encompass everything in life: social media, video, entertainment, culture, all created by a new generation of creative people for a new audience. GIFs are a much better encoding format for everything around us; they add in time and expression into what was primarily a text based world.
GIPHY and Affectiva discussed the lack of feeling and emotion on the internet and wondered how we could bring the human element back to communication and the internet as a whole. As a result, GIPHY has built a new type of internet<|fim_middle|> most efficiently catalogue all the GIFs into specific sentiment.
Affectiva's technology has aso been integrated in real time events such as the presidential elections to find the best reaction GIFs, as well as give commentary on the emotional state of each candidate.
GIPHY is dedicated to bringing back emotion and expression to messaging and digital communication. GIFs are only the beginning: later this year you'll see GIPHY exploring all the formats that can capture more of everything that makes us human. | search engine – one that revolves around searchable content beyond text. GIPHY organizes all the world's GIFs and makes it searchable and discoverable to everyone. Their partners, artists, users create the best GIFs with their own creation tools which then go through their process to become searchable and available everywhere.
GIPHY experimented with Affectiva's SDK as an automatic way to tag GIFs with emotions and reactions. As a platform for online expression, Affectiva was able to help GIPHY | 102 |
For the 3rd Year Consecutively, Sportsdigita Appears on Annual Inc. 5000 List
Inc. Magazine Reveals Annual List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies—the Inc. 5000
NEW YORK, August 17, 2021 – Inc. magazine today revealed that Sportsdigita made it on the annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees<|fim_middle|> which can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
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"Sportsdigita is honored to make the Inc 5000 List for the 3rd year consecutively. This recognition is a testament to our incredible partners, our highly dedicated team, and our Digideck platform that is revolutionizing the sales world. We look forward to continued growth and momentum in the year ahead and beyond."
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Not only have the companies on the 2021 Inc. 5000 been very competitive within their markets, but this year's list also proved especially resilient and flexible given 2020's unprecedented challenges. Among the 5,000, the average median three-year growth rate soared to 543 percent, and median revenue reached $11.1 million. Together, those companies added more than 610,000 jobs over the past three years.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc., which will be available on newsstands on August 20.
"The 2021 Inc. 5000 list feels like one of the most important rosters of companies ever compiled," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Building one of the fastest-growing companies in America in any year is a remarkable achievement. Building one in the crisis we've lived through is just plain amazing. This kind of accomplishment comes with hard work, smart pivots, great leadership, and the help of a whole lot of people."
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Companies on the 2021 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2017 to 2020. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2017. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2020. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2017 is $100,000; the minimum for 2020 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to three decimal places. There was one tie on this year's Inc. 5000. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.'s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, | 604 |
Played Another World. Liked. To be honest it is really cool and interesting, but more like going to a museum<|fim_middle|>. It needs to understand a history of this game. This is a very old game, created by one person. Here is some really good things from one side and really bad things from another one.
Next Next post: One small step :: Vietnam! | or the zoo. It is interesting to see how the games were made before and grumble that nobody works hard on them now. Blinding eye to the game shortcomings of course, appealing to it's age. Epic game after all!
Éric Chahi – a french guy. He worked on the game for two years. In splendid isolation. The game was released at 91 under the logo of Delphine Software. It must be hit the chart back to that time. People still port and release Another World. Wikipedia counted 26 game systems. And I think here is two reasons of success.
Tech things going first. Game presents like a movie. Revolutionary graphics. Looks so good – Mama don't cry! The game begins with a very long movie scene showing a plot twist. I think it was a time when little revolution in a game dev happened quite often and this is differently one of them. So imagine how people watched it open-mouthed cause of coolness of the opening.
Things was really simple in platformers of that days: Green Hill Zone act 1 → Sonic has passed act 1. Another World is more like a movie! One location smoothly changes into another, rooms are unique, every time you see something new. And it is not about character who can only kill enemies jumping on them and that's all. He even knows how to swim.
Secondly it is how things are mysterious in the Another World, fascinatingly. You are watching that intro, which took a half of development time as people say, lol, and protagonist suddenly dies. And you are like "is it a time to play?". It's time… And then "Gosh! I have a shield to use!". Then "Oh, so that's it, needed to destroy wiring". And, of course "Wow, such a beautiful view!". There is not a single note in a game. No indicators, menus, params. Gameplay only.
Hero, obviously, a physicist. His name is Lester. He goes to work on a sport car and he can deal with particle accelerator by himself. Guess what happens during the experiment. No, not a black hole. More trivial and typical for plot twists of that those times. Lightning strike! And game takes him to another world. There is hard labors and blasters in this world, gladiator fights and force fields. Seasoned physicist turns into wild man and learn how to survive. He makes a new friend and together they are trying to escape from the wildlife and the slave owners.
This world is interesting. It is beautiful and unpredictable. This game is a journey to get freedom in this world that we know nothing about.
I read a review in which author said that he took a look into a walkthrough couple of times. i told myself that the challenge accepted, and finished the game without walkthrough. Sometimes it was really boring. I got stuck too, many times. In modern puzzle games like Braid or Limbo it is clear what objects can be manipulated to solve the puzzles. Nothing is highlighted or detailed in Another World, nothing moves. Unremarkable piece of surface can be crushed by something else unremarkable. Couple of times I got stuck from right actions. It happens that things just doesn't work from the first try and you forget about it trying to do something else. In the end, after several hours of pointless suffering you start to think about walkthrough.
You can't lose in the game, but you can die. You have to die, very often. And checkpoints locations set so bad sometimes. Killed enemies respawn. Player have to deal with room he already finish, before he can start to think of the next room puzzle. And I don't want to hear anything like: "We have become lazy with this present-day casual games with checkpoint and cut scenes at each corner". It is different.
Another one disappointment that is how short this game. Theoretically, it is possible to finish Another World in 15 minutes. But thanks to this lovely puzzles it can takes 50 more times. This is not what I really want to get me involved. I would like to have more adventure or something.
And talking about the gameplay. This seems to be an action game, but gameplay is so slow that it is rather a turn-based battles game. Brain wants Lester run and jump, shoot and have fun but game offers to turn, make a step, then two steps, jump after that and finally shoot. Literally, as I write about it, with commas. And I would not say that this feature. It's just a very weak and dull gameplay.
It is a name of last game release. I played on PS Vita, but it is also on all modern Play Stations, Nintendo systems and Xbox One. Also in Steam and for smartphones. This release is cool! They redraw all of pictures, refreshed animations, remastered music. but game wasn't touched. All of screenshots above are exactly from this release. And below is a comparison with the original game. The Anniversary Edition can switch between graphic modes at any time by pressing triangle button.
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Till Damaskus är en pjäs av August Strindberg i tre delar, där den första utkom 1898 och den sista 1904. Dramat kan räknas till Strindbergs så kallade vandringsdramer.
Titeln anspelar på Nya testamentets skildring av Saulus omvändelse på väg till Damaskus, och den första pjäsen markerar en omorientering mot en öppet kristen hållning hos Strindberg.
Viktigast ur litteraturhistoriskt hänseende är dock Strindbergs experiment med dramatikens formspråk. Till Damaskus låter realistiska scener, men ofta med övernaturliga inslag, kombineras med ett allegoriskt skeende, men för därtill in element som drömscener och dubbelgångarmotiv, som på olika sätt skapar osäkerhet kring vad som är verkligt, och ibland suddar ut gränsen mell<|fim_middle|> delen i trilogin Till Damaskus i fulltext på Dramawebben
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Gonzales faces threat in District 5
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Richard Montez wants the city to foster a "tighter, more collaborative relationship"<|fim_middle|> I can provide for our youth in particular," she said, "is they have a good quality of life."
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Brian Chasnoff is a graduate of Tulane University, as well as the University of Texas at Austin, where he received a Masters Degree in Journalism. He joined the San Antonio Express-News in 2005 as a crime reporter. He was a metro columnist for seven years before joining the investigations team in 2019. As a reporter and a columnist, Brian has exposed corruption and cover-ups at the top levels of local government, including at City Hall and the Bexar County courthouse. | with school districts, and he's running to unseat District 5 Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales to make it happen.
"First and foremost, I think (council members and school districts) need to start talking to one another," Montez said.
That's not happening now, he said.
"I don't really hear it in any plans or policies," Montez said, "and I certainly don't see it in any action."
Raised in the district, Montez was the first in his family to make it through high school. A senior recruiter at FlexTech, Montez said he's most proud of his work as a volunteer at Inner City Development, a West Side nonprofit that provides food and clothing to impoverished families and educational activities for their children.
Montez has served as chair of the nonprofit for three years. Patti Radle, co-director of the program, called him a "great chair of the board."
Radle is staying neutral in the race. But the president of the San Antonio Independent School District Board agreed that the city council could work more closely with school districts.
"I think it is important to have a closer communication, a higher level of conversation between the council person in a district and the school district itself," Radle said. "There's a lot of room for finding commonality."
Areas of collaboration might include "anything that can relate to the dignity of our neighborhoods," she said, such as making libraries accessible in the evenings and constructing sidewalks on school routes.
"Kids are walking through puddles and mud," Radle said.
On Monday, Gonzales acknowledged that Montez, in a race packed with five challengers, is a serious threat: "I know at least one of them is putting on a campaign," she said, referring to the 30-year-old candidate.
But the councilwoman refuted any notion that she's unfocused on students in her district.
"I have a very positive relationship with (SAISD Superintendent) Pedro Martinez and Patti Radle," Gonzales said, adding, "We support all the nonprofits that do all the after-school care and the after-school work … (because) really, the city does not do a good job with the after-school programming for kids."
Gonzales said she routed $1.5 million in the upcoming bond to Family Service Association, a nonprofit that provides social services to low-income families on the West Side, as well as additional funds to libraries in the district: $3.3 million for Memorial Library and $1.7 million for Las Palmas Library.
The councilwoman also initiated a "safe routes" program for students, increasing police patrols on routes before and after school in response to the abduction of a child near Lanier High School in January.
And she's dedicated to making the district a place that students don't want to escape after graduating.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once warned his frequent hiking companion and fellow nature lover, Henry David Thoreau, that Mt. Greylock was a<|fim_middle|> road). Return the way you came or make an 11-mile loop with the AT and Bernard Farm Trail. Don't like to share? Wait until snowfall to trek–or snowshoe–in total solitude.
The Civilian Conservation Corps built Bascom Lodge in the 1930s using Greylock's schist and red spruce. You can't beat a bowl of chowder by the fire. Open, weather willing, through November ($35-$100/night).
From the visitor center on Rockwell Rd., take Bradley Farm and Woodson Spring Trails to Round's Rock for a seven-miler with Taconic Range views.
Take the 5.5-mile trek up Bellows Pipe Trail to the summit, while your there enjoy a local cocktail a cup of chowder at Bascom Lodge. | "serious mountain." Thoreau, of course, climbed it immediately. He summited the 3,491-foot Massachusetts high point via what he described as, in the purplest prose, "a road for the pilgrim to enter upon, who would climb to the gates of heaven." That road is now the 5.5-mile Bellows Pipe Trail.
Hike it by heading 2.2 miles south from North Adams on Notch Road to the trailhead at Notch Gate. The path rises 1,000 feet through the falls-filled ravine between Mt. Greylock and Ragged Mountain. The state's only boreal forest grows here. (Want to make it an overnight? The trail passes a shelter hidden in the pines at mile 2.7.) Link to the Appalachian Trail at mile 3.7 and wind through birch and pines another half-mile to the summit, a flat, open field with a lodge (see right), the Massachusetts Veterans War Memorial (built in 1932), and wide-screen views of the rolling Berkshire Mountains.
Thoreau, of course, didn't have it so cush. He bushwhacked the final part of the ascent and slept on the summit under a plank of wood. And he wasn't rewarded with the now-legendary five-state view. It was socked in, or, in more Thoreauvian terms, obscured by an "undulating valley of clouds." In fall, the panorama draws foliage-heads (the majority drive to the summit on the newly restored | 323 |
Start by<|fim_middle|>! | making the pasta dough. While it is resting in the fridge, start by roasting the sweet potato. Put in a baking tray, drizzle with oil and season with salt, pepper, and a teaspoon of cumin. Bake at 200 degrees for about 30 minutes or until soft.
In the meantime, dice finely the onion and chilli. Heat 1 tbsp of butter in a pan, add the onions and cook for about 5 minutes or until golden. Add the chilli, honey, and oregano and cook for 2 more minutes, then turn off the heat. After the sweet potato is ready, put it in the pan with the onions and mash it with a fork. It does not need to be smooth, a little texture is better. Leave it to cool down for some minutes, then crumble and mix the goat cheese into the mixture.
Roll out the pasta dough as thinly as possible. It helps to divide the dough into sections, as it is more manageable. Mark out the size of ravioli that you would like, and put a teaspoonful of the mixture into the centre of each one. Beat the egg, and wet the borders of each ravioli. Cover everything with another layer of pastry, making sure to press around the mixture for each ravioli and removing as much air as possible. Cut them out, and press the borders with a fork. Repeat until you are out of mixture and/or dough.
To cook the ravioli put them in a pot of salted boiling water for about 10 minutes, or until pasta is soft, it depends on the thickness. In the meantime, heat the 50g of butter, add the wine and leave to reduce for 5 minutes. Add the thyme leaves and a couple of tablespoons of the pasta cooking water. When the ravioli are ready, toss in the pan with the sauce, and serve, topped with grated parmesan.
hmmm....can you give a little more detail as to what you mean by "red chili"? there are hundreds of red chilis. Might it also be called a red pepper?
Hi Mike! To be honest I use any chilli that I might have at hand. I don't really search for a specific one. I usually use a spicy one which does not blow your head off | 479 |
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Limiting the need for external claims management outside the insurer and intermediary, reduces accordingly additional costs and delays in the settlement of the claim which is beneficial for the Insured. | ency II, European Directive, and further national provisions that protect | 12 |
Springfield, Illinois area residents recite Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
A short feature put together by the Springfield State Journal-Register:
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Documentary film worth seeing: "The Other 'F' Word" at the Texas Theatre
Kathryn and I caught it last night at the renovated, historic Texas Theatre on Jefferson Avenue in Oak Cliff (formerly an independent town, now a sprawling neighborhood of Dallas). The audience enthusiasm didn't overpower the movie — the audience was much smaller than the film deserves.
It's showing again this afternoon and Wednesday night at the Texas.
Advantages of seeing this at the Texas:
Parking is easy and free after 4:00 p.m. on Jefferson Avenue.
The bar has Mothership beer on tap (and a variety of other good libations).
Popcorn is cheaper than at most megaplexes, plus it doesn't taste as if made from petroleum by-product (which is not to say it is healthy, but that it may be less unhealthy).
History point 1: This is a near-Art Deco theatre built originally by Howard Hughes.
History point 2: This is the theatre in which Lee Harvey Oswald was captured in his flight from the scene of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
It's a great film.
It's a great theatre to view great films in.
Punk never made a great impression on me. But at length, years later, I think I understand part of the angst and noise of the punkers, thanks to this film. The description at the YouTube trailer:
directed by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins
produced by Cristan Reilly and Andrea Blaugrund Nev<|fim_middle|> New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875.
View historic maps of the region by searching on Alaska in the Library's Map Collections.
Search the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog on Alaska to find, among other things, images of Alaskan landscapes, cultural groups and daily life from various time periods, as well as posters and extensive architectural and engineering documentation for structures throughout the state from the collection Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present.
View the panoramic photographs of Alaska in Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991.
Don't miss the Today in History feature on navigator Vitus Jonassen Bering, who explored Alaska more than 250 years ago.
More sources:
Short history of Alaskan statehood, at the University of Virginia's site
Primary Documents in American History, Library of Congress collection on the purchase of Alaska from Russia
Denali National Park site; index to Alaska's National Parks
Alaska's National Forests, Region 10 – Chugach and Tongass; report on climate change in Alaska from USDA
Milepost.com, the magazine of the Alaska Highway
The Mudflats, the go-to blog on Alaska issues
Website of the Anchorage Daily News, the surviving paper in Alaska's biggest city
Of the many posts on Alaska at Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, you should see at least these:
"Annals of global warming: Columbia Glacier, Alaska (by James Balog)"
"Annals of global warming: Bering Strait, choke point and butterfly effect"
"Alaska's salmon go missing: Why?"
"Alaska volcano blows smoke on Bobby Jindal"
"Dallas shows off dinosaurs on ice"
"Frozen north economics: Where supply, demand and distribution are serious problems"
"Will Rogers and Wily Post crash in Alaska, 1935"
"Geography hidden in plain sight"
"Strange Maps lets things drift – ducky!" (about rubber ducks used to chart ocean currents)
"Historic site vs. attractive nuisance: The famous Alaska bus"
"Song for the Alaska flag"
1895 Rand McNally map of Alaska - Wikipedia image
Map of the Alaska Highway, from Milepost.com
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IN THEATERS NOVEMBER 2ND, 2011
http://www.theotherfwordmovie.com/
This revealing and touching film asks what happens when a generation's ultimate anti-authoritarians — punk rockers — become society's ultimate authorities — dads. With a large chorus of punk rock's leading men – Blink-182's Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Rise Against's Tim McIlrath – THE OTHER F WORD follows Jim Lindberg, a 20-year veteran of the skate punk band Pennywise, on his hysterical and moving journey from belting his band's anthem "F–k Authority," to embracing his ultimately authoritarian role in mid-life: fatherhood.
Other dads featured in the film include skater Tony Hawk, Art Alexakis (Everclear), Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo), Tony Adolescent (The Adolescents), Fat Mike (NOFX), Lars Frederiksen (Rancid), and many others.
These are Tea Partiers with a cause and a brain, and a sense of social responsibility. Lindberg said, near the end of the movie:
That's what I want to hold on to, is that feeling that we can make a change out there. Maybe the way we change the world is by raising better kids.
Readers of this blog may note the great irony in one of the chief profiles of the film being of Ron Reyes, a member of early West Coast punk band Black Flag, who quit the band in the middle of a set to protest the violence that afflicted the Los Angeles punk scene, and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, to raise his kids well.
Heck, it's probably a great film to see even if you can't see it at the Texas.
(You know, I've got some shots of our tour of the Texas Theatre in August . . . hmm . . . where are those pictures? Other computer?)
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November 20, 1942: Alaska Highway opened
Widening the Alcan Highway, 1942 - Wikipedia image from Library of Congress
Thinking of Alaska today — a good day to ponder the Last Frontier.
Alaskan Frontier? It's been 52 years since Alaska became a state. My students' grandparents may remember the time, but the students don't. Alaska has not even been in the news much in the lifetimes of current high school students. Construction on the Alaska Pipeline finished in 1977; the Exxon-Valdez Disaster rocked us in March 1989. Juniors in a Texas U.S. history class were born circa 1994. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's nomination for vice president in 2008 prompted a bit of interest in people in Alaska, but not much more, for our students. The earlier "bridge to nowhere" issue was just one more Washington, D.C. scandal to them. Alaska holds no thrall over most U.S. high school students today.
In autumn, especially in Texas where winters mildly bluster most of the time, my thoughts turn to colder climes and earlier times. I think of Alaska "back then."
Much to study, much to know. Alaska winds through American history in odd, mostly ignored ways — Alaska was the gateway to the Americas for those migrants who came in through Beringia in the Upper Paleolithic period, 12,000 years and longer ago; for nearly 150 years Alaska was the Russian Czar's colonial presence in America, based partly on the exploration of the area by Vitus Bering, after whom both the Bering Sea and Bering Strait take their names (but just try to find that in the Texas text books); the U.S.-Russian treaty of 1824 rarely gets a mention anywhere, though it is the source of the line drawn at 54° 40′ North latitude which gave specificity to the jingo-ist slogan, "Fifty-four forty or fight!" The administration of President James K. Polk resolved that crisis — with Britain — at 49° North, but Polk's popularity maintained. Alaska became Seward's Folly in 1867 when Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia, for about $7 million. This is one more indication of the power and genius in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, that such deals could occur even two years after Lincoln's death (see the story in Doris Kearns Goodwin's book).
Then there were the gold rushes, the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896-99, and the Nome Gold Rush of 1899-1909.
In World War II Japan attacked and occupied two islands in the Aleutian chain; Alaska became a point of defense against Japanese attacks on the mainland. In partnership with Canada, the AlCan Highway took form to supply troops and troop supplies to Alaska — now called the Alaska Highway.
November 20, 1942, marked the formal opening of the road, the Alaska Highway. Even today, it's not a paved road. Those who drive the road need to be prepared for hundreds of miles of graded, but unpaved road, with all the hazards such driving should imply but most Americans are wholly unfamiliar with.
The Alaskan Frontier
Mt. McKinley and the Alaska Range, Mt. McKinley National Park, Alaska, 1958.
Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991
(click the thumbnail image for a larger version; even larger versions available at Library of Congress American Memory site)
On November 20, 1942, U.S. Army engineers, working closely with partners in U.S. civilian agencies and Canada officially opened the Alaska Highway. This overland military supply route, originally known as the Alcan Highway, passed through the Yukon, running from the prairies of British Columbia to the Territory of Alaska. The roadway was over 1,500-miles long and connected Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Fairbanks, Alaska. It provided Americans and Canadians on the Pacific coast new avenues for the transportation of goods, and an increased sense of security after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and escalating hostility in the Pacific. This first phase of construction was completed in less than eight months.
In the 1780s, Russian fur traders became the first European settlers of the land across the Bering Strait from Siberia. Russian influence on native Alaskans is explored in the Library of Congress exhibition In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures. The Library's collaborative digital project with Russian libraries, Meeting Of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska, and the American West, explores the comparative history of the Russian expansion across Siberia to the Russian Far East and the Pacific, the American expansion westward, and the meeting of the Russian-America frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
The Russian-American Company administered Alaska from 1799 until 1867, when Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska for the United States. Congress established The Territory of Alaska in 1912, prompted by the significant gold discoveries of the 1880s and 1890s.
Independence Mine, Palmer Vicinity, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
Jet Lowe, photographer, May 1981.
Built in America: Historic Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
There is a wealth of material on Alaska in American Memory collections.
Search on Alcan in America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 to find pictures of the construction of the road. Search on Alaska (both the bibliographic record and full text searches) in Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 to find legislation, reports, and other related information. This search will retrieve another gem—The Harriman Alaska Expedition: Chronicles and Souvenirs May to August 1899 with photographs by Edward S. Curtis, paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, notes on the region's indigenous trees from pioneering forester Bernhard E. Fernow, and essays by George B. Grinnell, John Burroughs, and John Muir.
Search on Alaska in "California as I Saw It": First Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900, selecting the option "Search Full Text," to find more accounts of travelers and miners.
Search on Alaska to retrieve historic legislation in the collection: A Century of Lawmaking for a | 1,891 |
Q: What part of speech is "down" in "down went the Titanic"?
Down went the Titanic.
What part of speech is down in this context? I have to choose between a) Preposition, b) Noun, c<|fim_middle|> out went the dog running and barking.
The emphasis I wanted here was to stress the outbound movement.
Mostly, these will be phrasal verbs that have been used in this manner.
There are many more but I can't be expected to come up with every one of them.
Even, for example, in sailing: a sailboat is said to come around (change direction when it is on the wind).
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*Around came the boat, and all the students knew enough to change sides.
For reference on phrasal verbs
Bear in mind that a real phrasal verb is not a verb and a prepositional phrase, that is somewhat different. (The dog went down the stairs.)
| ) Verb, and d) Adjective. But I think the correct answer should be "adverb", which is absent from the list.
What do you think about it?
A: Go down is a phrasal verb meaning 'sink'. It's made up of the verb go and the adverbial particle down. Adverbial particles normally follow the verb, but they can, as here, be placed before it for emphasis.
A: Let's have a look and examples.
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*The Titanic went down (went is a verb , down is a adverb)
*Now let's reverse the sentence.....
*Down went the Titanic (Down is still an adverb)
A: English is full of tricks:
down went the Titanic, up went the flag, out went the dog, up flew the parrot, in came the students*, out came the whip, for example.
The phrasal verbs here would be: go down, go up, go out, fly up/down, come in/out.
You can take the preposition and place it in front of the main verb.
Generally, down, up and out, etc. would come after the verb. This is either poetic or funny or emphatic in some way.
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*When I opened the kitchen door, | 262 |
Skibadee: Drum and bass MC dies aged 47 in 'sad day for UK music'
Tributes pour in for the award-winning music star and member of renowned drum and bass group SASASAS.
Monday 28 February 2022 16:22, UK
Image: MC Skibade<|fim_middle|> MC.
His family released a statement on his Facebook page confirming his death but did not say the cause.
Tributes have poured in on social media for the MC, born Alfonso Bondzie, from music industry figures and fans.
Artist Little Dee tweeted "Skibba is to drum and bass what Wiley is to grime", adding that it was a "sad day for UK music".
Drum and bass DJ and producer Fresh said on Twitter "his contribution to drum'n'bass can never be equalled".
UK electronic duo Gorgon City also posted a tribute praising their "childhood hero" and said Skibadee was one of the reasons why they got into music.
Skibadee began his career in 1993 on pirate radio and went on to collaborate with artist Shabba D, creating the SAS partnership together, and later formed SASASAS with DJs Phantasy and Macky Gee and MCs Stormin and Harry Shotta. | e of SASAS, at South West Four Festival in Clapham in 2019. Pic: Dave Burke/Shutterstock
Influential drum and bass musician Skibadee has died at the age of 47, his family have said.
The London-born MC was a member of renowned drum and bass group SASASAS, with his most notable tracks including Died In Your Arms and Streetfighter | 84 |
Linda Reed and Judy Morris sample pies during the Yippie Pie Yi Yea fundraiser at the library.
The "Yippie Pie Yi Yea" fundraiser held Thursday at the Greybull Public Library was a huge success with wall-to-wall attendees. An estimated 100-12<|fim_middle|> Butter Pie" baked by Deborah Rosser.
In the three drawings Ken Mazur and Iyrna Whaley won decorative rope baskets and Nathan Oster won a pottery pie pan.
Chris Waite, director of the Greybull Recreation District, had made a variety of unique pottery pie plates that tasters could elect to use and keep, for a donation to the Greybull Recreation District scholarship fund.
Including the proceeds from "Yippie-Pie," the Foundation has raised $95,630.
Previous Post:Council backs plan from Lovell, Inc. | 5 "tasters and patrons" were present to taste the 26 pies, listen to guitar music provided by Emelyn Pimentel and Ron McClure, and the humorous western "pie" songs offered up by Rev. Becky Anderson.
When all the tasting was done, the $50 Judges Choice gift card went to Cathy Kunkel for her "Greek Honey Nut Pie," and the $25 People's Choice award went to "Gene Autry's Peanut | 95 |
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Newsletter templates are available free online, and Microsoft's Office suite also comes with some. They can also be bought for a small fee. The beauty of templates is that they allow people who may not have publishing or design training to produce professional quality newsletters quickly and easily. Some writing skill may be needed to create the articles and text that will eventually go into the template, and perhaps some skill using Photoshop or another photo editing software may be needed to prepare images, photos, graphics, and logos for inclusion.
Articles can be written using word processing programs and then cut and pasted into the templates, or can often be written directly inside. Once the | 190 |
"Duquesne University was ahead of its time in the area of diversity and ecumenism. The friends I made at Duquesne are truly a cross section of American society, and these friendships have endured and are so meaningful to me and my family. We have continued to visit each other throughout the years<|fim_middle|> to serve others through his involvement in various causes.
True to his concern for others, Alvin Brannick has included a bequest to Duquesne University in his estate plan. | . At a time in our culture when America was segregated, Duquesne's doors were open and welcoming to minorities and members of other faith traditions," Brannick recalls with pride.
While an undergraduate student in the College, Alvin also learned the importance of service. As a student at Duquesne's School of Law, he experienced an emphasis on ethics that cemented his commitment to his fellow man. Later, Alvin's Duquesne education benefited him during his service as Vice President for Development and in-house legal counsel at Carnegie Mellon University. Since his retirement in 1993, Alvin continues | 124 |
4th annual Family Fitness Fun 5K and Expo showcases vitality of Redlands event
By James Ponder - March 16, 2018
The Dave Burton family will be guests of honor at the 4th annual Family Fitness Fun 5K and Expo on Sunday, April 8.
The 4th annual Family Fitness Fun 5K and Expo will bring a host of activities designed to help runners, walkers and other types of movers spring forward into health on Sunday, April 8. The event, which is hosted as a fundraiser for Loma Linda University Children's Hospital by the Big Hearts for Little Hearts Loma Linda Guild<|fim_middle|> enabling participants to pace themselves, whether running to improve their personal time, running for health or just to enjoy a leisurely stroll on a beautiful spring morning. Each participant will receive a commemorative T-shirt and medal.
In addition to the 5K, the event will also feature games for children, a fire truck staffed by firefighters from the Redlands Fire Department, a mobile fingerprinting station, officers of the Redlands Police Department, and a mini health fair with several vendors and community groups offering a variety of takeaway materials for guests. Some vendors, such as J.J. Tae Kwon Do, Country Club Golf, and Fox Dance Studio, will offer free demonstrations. Others, such as The Living Root Cellar, will provide healthy and delicious free samples. Representatives of the YMCA East Valley Circus will also be on hand.
Last year, approximately 500 people turned out for the event. Lynn Sleeth, president of the Big Hearts for Little Hearts Loma Linda Guild, says an even-larger turnout is expected this year.
"It's really gratifying to see so many people turning out for this year after year," Sleeth said. "We have gotten remarkable support from the people of the Inland Empire. They tell us it's a great way to get in shape for summer and have a great time doing it!" | , will be held at the historic Burrage Mansion, located at 1205 W. Crescent Avenue in Redlands. Registration begins at 7:15 a.m. and the festivities officially start at 8 a.m.
This year's guests of honor will be two-year-old Vivian Burton, her parents, Dave and Heather Burton, and her brother, Davie. A few weeks after her first birthday, Vivian nearly died from a heart condition no one knew she had. Fortunately, doctors at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital were able to save her life, and today she is the picture of health. The full story of Vivian's return to health is available online at http://bit.ly/2Foi2p5.
The heart of the springtime celebration is a 5K non-competitive run/walk for people of all ages and abilities. The course traverses a quiet, Redlands neighborhood, | 190 |
DVD: The Aquabats Super Show arrives May 21st
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Shout! Factory, in collaboration with FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment, will release The Aquabats! Super Show! Season One! on DVD on May 21 for a suggested retail price of $19.93. All 13 Season One episodes of wacky crime-fighting, music videos and outlandish villains are included in the <|fim_middle|>!, Aquabats! frontman Christian Jacobs has crafted the perfect blend of live-action and animation following the amazingly wild comic antics of The Aquabats, the galaxy's first group of musical, crime-fighting superheroes. MC Bat Commander, Crash McLarson, Ricky Fitness, EagleBones Falconhawk and Jimmy the Robot will take you along on their mostoutrageous adventures to protect the world from the creatures and super villains out to destroy it.
Formed in the 1990s, The Aquabats are based in Southern California and are on a never-ending quest to right wrongs, destroy boredom and seek justice for all. When they're not busy saving the world, they can be found on tour, traveling the highways and by-ways of the land in their trusty super-customized BattleTram. The crime-fighting, surf-rock supergroup's The Aquabats! Super Show! can currently be seen on The HUB TV Network with season two premiering soon featuring all new adventures (and all new villains)!
About Shout! Factory
Shout! Factory, LLC is a diversified multi-platform entertainment company devoted to producing, uncovering, preserving and revitalizing the very best of pop culture. Founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos have spent their entire careers sharing their music, television and film favorites with discerning consumers the world over. Shout! Factory's DVD and Blu-Ray™ offerings serve up feature films, classic and contemporary TV series, animation, live music and comedy specials in lavish packages crammed with extras. Shout's audio division boasts GRAMMY®-nominated box sets, new releases from storied artists, lovingly assembled album reissues and indispensable "best of" compilations. In addition, Shout! Factory maintains a vast digital distribution network which delivers video and audio content to all the leading digital service providers in North America. Shout! Factory also owns and operates Timeless Media Group, Biograph Records, Majordomo Records, HighTone Records and Video Time Machine. These riches are the result of a creative acquisition mandate that has established the company as a hotbed of cultural preservation and commercial reinvention. Shout! Factory is based in Santa Monica, California.
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Sebastian Vettel feels the Abu Dhabi circuit is a great facility, and admits he has liked the track since its inception back in 2009, a race he won.
Se<|fim_middle|> corners, unfortunately not so many high speed corners, but for the rest you have everything you need and racing at night is always something special. | bastian Vettel feels like the Yas Marina Circuit, the venue for the season finale of the 2015 Formula 1 season, is already a classic place to visit, with the Scuderia Ferrari driver aiming to end the season on a high.
The German knows he will finish third in the Drivers' Championship following Nico Rosberg's two consecutive race victories in Mexico and Brazil, but says that the Abu Dhabi track is more fun now with the reduced downforce than it was in the early years at the venue.
"I've liked the Abu Dhabi track since the beginning, it's a nice place and even though we haven't had so many races here, it already feels like a classic place to go," said Vettel.
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Miami Hurricanes head coach Mark Richt yells during a team drill before the Orange Bowl at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., on Saturday, December 30, 2017. (Andres Leiva / The Palm Beach Post)
[What could Miami's 2019 NFL draft class look like?]
His assistant coaches are on the road recruiting this month, and since head coaches cannot visit schools, Mark Richt has a little time to daydream.
He recently found himself in his staff meeting room, looking at his 2018 depth chart. The names he saw on the dry-erase board, grouped together by position, made him visualize heated position battles that will begin when Miami returns for fall practice in August.
"I've just got a big grin on my face," Richt said, recalling the moment in a Tuesday interview on WQAM.
What gets him juiced, aside from the indoor practice facility that opens in late July, is an impending infusion of talent and depth. This summer, UM's lines get a boost with graduate transfers Tennessee guard Venzell Boulware and Illinois defensive tackle Tito Odenigbo. The tight end room adds four-star recruits Brevin Jordan — ranked No. 1 at his position — and Will Mallory. Receiver Mark Pope is a tantalizing prospect. The Hurricanes, trying to rebuild their roster after an attrition-heavy few seasons, will field close to a full team.
"The numbers will be up for sure, and the skill level and the competition level's going to be tremendous," Richt said. "I'm very excited about it. That's what made Miami great in the past. A bunch of great players competing every day against each other. I think we're going to have enough dudes to make plays and really compete well."
After going 10-3 and winning the ACC Coastal, Miami could keep rising.
Especially if its quarterback play is solid.
Richt has demanded more from incumbent starter Malik Rosier, who enters his redshirt senior year trying to strengthen his grip on the No. 1 job. If Miami opened the season against LSU on Tuesday, and not Sept. 2, the starter "would be Malik," Richt said. "And it ought to be Malik. We'll see if he can continue this summer and knock it out in camp."
Richt is hopeful redshirt freshmen N'Kosi Perry and Cade Weldon and true freshman Jarren Williams will compete hard enough to make Rosier better, and the coach's decision difficult.
Richt has made positive comments about Rosier's ability to run the offense ( He can "go from a bad play to a good play, and a good play to a great play," Richt said Tuesday), but the coach would be overjoyed if Rosier was a more accurate passer. In the spring, Rosier "threw the ball pretty well," Richt said. "It wasn't unbelievable but no one's perfect. … He really had a good spring.
"The other guys, the good news is, N'Kosi is learning a lot more, getting better at what he's doing. He's a very talented passer [and] runner. Weldon missed a couple of practices with an eye infection but when he came back he put back-to-back practices together [and] practiced extremely well. And Jarren Williams is a guy that has come in and quite frankly he's a better passer than I thought he was. He's throwing some dimes out there. He's not quite sure who to throw it to half the time, but when he throws it at something, he tends to hit it."
Richt said the backup job is "open." He remains encouraged by Rosier, but he isn't handing him the starting spot yet.
"I'd love to say this guy's No. 1, this guy's a solid No. 2, and these other guys are battling for playing time or they may redshirt and all that kind of thing. We're not there right now. I'd love to go through the whole summer and know 100 percent who the guy is. Really, Malik is the guy, and he's got to act that way throughout the summer with the leadership role that the quarterbacks take in the summer (when coaches have limited time with players), and he will. He did last summer. He'll do it again.
"I have all the faith and confidence that we're going to have a great summer with his leadership and the other guys can start growing up a little bit more and take more ownership of it."
A depth chart full of "dudes" hopes that happens.
"If you come to Miami, you'd better come to compete and earn your playing time," he said, "because we're going to have some boys that can ball out."
Heading west: Richt's assistants are trying to add to a class presently ranked 10th in the nation by 247Sports. "We'll be all over the state," he said. "We'll be all over the country really. If we have kids that are interested in us, we'll go as far as Oregon if we need to." That was a reference to four-star quarterback Michael Johnson Jr., from Eugene, Ore. Johnson, rated No. 4 among dual-threat QBs, is Miami's top choice this cycle. Other top West Coast players UM wants, per 247, include four-star cornerback Chris Steele (Bellflower, Calif.) and five-star defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux, the top-ranked player in the country.
"We know it's not over until it's over, until signing day," Richt said. "Everyone continues to work a kid. And a lot happens between now and signing day. Seasons go great, seasons go bad. Guys turn pro at their position, all of a sudden they're more interested. Coaches leave and go to another job. You have to keep banging away at the guys you want, fight until the very last minute. The good news is, the battles we are having are against some of the greatest schools in America, which is who we should be battling with."
Richt on Norton: WQAM host Joe Rose asked Richt if the NFL Draft decision of defensive tackle Kendrick Norton, who expected to be selected in the early rounds but fell to the seventh (242nd overall), was "agent-driven, family-driven." Richt declined to say.
"There's a lot of reasons why guys decide to go," Richt said. "The long and short of it is he felt it was time to become a pro. He felt like he was going to get drafted, and no one knows for sure when they'll get drafted. Kendrick, like everybody else, we try to get them as much information from the NFL as we can. as far as what scouts say, what GMs might say, what a coach might say, and put it in front of them, let them look at it, and see what's real.
"The good news is he got drafted. He has a chance to make a living doing it and hopefully he does well."
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15.03.2017: This Policy Paper outlines the position of the "Civil 20" (C20) Working Group "Reform of the International Financial System", which brings together the views of many civil society organisations in the G20 process. WEED is co-chairing this group.
The global financial system is neither resilient nor sustainable. Significant risks and regulatory gaps remain so that citizens are vulnerable to new financial crises, abusive practices such as tax dodging, and new technological challenges. The financial sector must serve the needs of the people and the planet but the G20 still promotes a financial system and monetary policies that create financial instability, social and environmental havoc, inequality, excessive debt and climate change.
Only some of the financial reforms promised by the G20 have been delivered. Furthermore, the resilience of the financial system is put at risk by current policies and attempts to roll back important financial reforms. Quantitative easing needs to be reviewed. Citizens expect to be protected by strong financial regulatory and enforcement authorities that cooperate internationally.
- Strengthen macro-economic and prudential oversight and regulation: Identify and address all sources of systemic risk (e.g., excessive credit or loan expansion in the private or public sector) and promote long term finance.
- Implement the G20 agreed reforms strictly through trustworthy capital requirements and leverage ratios, reforms to address "too big to fail", regulation of shadow banking as well as excessive speculative activities or actors, instead of further uncontrolled expansion and deepening of capital markets through securitization and derivatives.
- Promote a more diverse banking system that is adapted to the needs of all citizens, especially the most vulnerable, to small businesses and to environmental and socially friendly activities. This includes proportionate regulation and incentives for alternative financial institutions such as cooperatives, municipal savings and ethical banks.
- Encourage capital controls to prevent excessive speculation (e.g., against currencies) and financial instability. The OECD Code of Liberalisation of Capital Movements and capital flow clauses in free trade and investment agreements are not appropriate. Complementary are international Financial Transactions Tax and better coordination of G20 monetary policies in foreign exchange markets.
As a result of interest rate differentials between north and south, capital flows into poorer countries soared in the post-crisis years. At present, 1<|fim_middle|> illicit financial flows.
- Publish a comprehensive list of tax havens, based on transparency and effective minimum tax rates. | 16 countries have one or more external debt indicators in a critical range (increased by 38 % compared to 2 years ago), with a trend of further deterioration in all regions. No comprehensive and efficient mechanism is available to deal with these new crises. Instruments like Collective Action Clauses and GDP-linked bonds are useful but not a substitute for a rule-of-law based mechanism.
- Encourage all relevant fora to work on devising orderly and comprehensive sovereign debt restructuring processes, including the IMF and the UN system.
- Prepare enhanced mechanisms for debt relief for the most vulnerable countries as a quick response to economic and natural emergencies.
- Agree on debt sustainability principles based on the UN General Assembly basic principles on sovereign debt restructuring processes.
The health and productive capacity of people and planet are essential for a sustainable economy. Action and regulations must align financial systems with the 2030 Agenda in order to strengthen these, deliver the SDGs and the climate commitments, and add at least US$12trn a year to global GDP.
- Make sustainable finance a core focus of the G20 finance track, including by upgrading the study group on green finance (GFSG) to a permanent working group, and drawing on the full range of experience by civil society worldwide. Require mandatory disclosure on sustainability risks and opportunities for both private and public actors.
- Ensure compatibility with the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement by developing regulation and accountability measures for financing and investments.
- Price in environmental externalities by committing, each country in its own way, to a strong effective carbon price by 2020.
Many billions are lost to illicit financial flows each year. Tax evasion and avoidance by multinational corporations and the rich, the race to the bottom through tax competition, and financial secrecy as revealed in the Panama Papers deprive countries of crucial revenue. National tax systems and global cooperation on tax matters need reform.
- Support the establishment of a UN intergovernmental tax body to achieve an unbiased, democratic and inclusive venue for shaping international norms of taxation and promoting international tax cooperation.
- Require multinational companies to publicly disclose Country-by-Country Reporting information which also is a cost-effective and efficient process for countries to have timely access.
- Establish public registries of beneficial ownership of companies, foundations, trusts and other legal entities.
- Provide automatic exchange of information to developing countries on a temporary, non-reciprocal basis so they can benefit from the information before bearing the costs of compliance.
- Complete the work of the BEPS project on profit attribution - including for the digital economy - by establishing clear rules allocating profit to where real economic activities take place.
- Implement effective oversight of professional enablers of | 540 |
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By the time we arrived, the patient's blood glucose<|fim_middle|> benefit of my leadership position, what would I honestly be most likely to do?
Posted by Martin Ramsay in Productivity & Performance. | level had been determined to be over 800 mg/dl. Having been a medical technician in a previous career, I knew that could be life-threatening. The ER team had been working to get the glucose level down. And everyone agreed she needed to be admitted to the hospital. Yet we spent the entire night in the ER. It wasn't until 6:00 AM the next morning that she was actually transferred to a hospital bed.
My point is that the work processes in that ER were broken. I have no doubt of the staff's intentions. They wanted to give us accurate information and to get our loved one admitted to the hospital quickly. Instead, the bad work processes in the ER could not provide accurate information, did not help the staff prioritize their work, and forced tasks that could have been performed quickly to take hours. Bad work processes drive well-intentioned people to provide misinformation and poor service.
Rather than tell us the truth about the reason we had to spend the night in the ER — that they didn't know, and couldn't find out — they chose instead to try to be "helpful" by placating us with misinformation.
I've seen this same scenario play out in many different industries. Our Leaders Ought To Know clients have experienced a CEATH Company experiential workshop called the Factory on a Desk Top™. Participants "work" in a simulated factory building a car out of Lego® bricks. They have to order parts and pay for them, manage inventory, schedule production, and meet customer expectations. There are dozens of processes that, frankly, don't work very well when the simulation begins. Participants learn that bad work processes drive people, people who know better, to do stupid things. Then they work on improving the processes. Through hands-on learning, participants get up close and personal with the negative consequences of bad work processes.
As leaders, we must recognize that work processes have amazingly powerful control over behavior. Smart people with good intentions often perform poorly under the influence of bad work processes. I'm not saying that workers have no responsibility for their own behavior — they do — but bad work processes add a burden that is difficult to overcome. As leaders, it is our responsibility to fix bad work processes and to make sure they incentivize our followers to their best performance, not their worst.
If your followers' performance isn't living up to your expectations, you may have workers who don't know what to do (in which case they need training), or choose not to do their jobs (in which case they probably need to find a different job to do). But most often the flaw is in the process. As leaders, that is our job: to first fix bad work processes.
What does the process incentivize people to do?
In what ways could the process encourage well-meaning people to something that is, from a broader perspective, the wrong thing to do?
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08.05: Agnes Martin, The Rose
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Volume eight, number five: The Rose by Agnes Martin.
Hello, and welcome to Listening to Art. I'm William Denton.
Agnes Martin was born in Canada in 1912. When she was about 20 she moved to the United States, and she became an American citizen in 1950. She lived mainly in New Mexico, where she died in 2004, but had several periods in New York City, including a decade from 1957 to 1967. It was in the mid-1950s that she changed from representational to abstract work, eventually arriving at a style used in this work, from 1964.
Here is a quote from "What Does One Look At In An Agnes Martin Painting? Nine Musings On the Occasion of Her Ninetieth Birthday" by Richard Tuttle, published in the Autumn 2002 issue of American Art (pp. 92–95):
VI. Painting is inextricable from life. A painting recently unbound from the subject can be free to engage us with issues of great universality. Calm. Repose. Silence. Stability. These are things I come to expect from an Agnes Martin painting.
Fear could also be one of those issues. The artist chooses not to be crushed by life and returns art to the truly social by ending fear with her work. That is a kind of heroism.
To the owner of a Martin painting, living with something that has no tricks can be disconcerting. Martin's depth of knowledge of the knowable, everyday quality/quantity of things is given with almost naive generosity. Those who know Martin are aware of her love of camping and hiking amid Southwestern vistas, adventure, athletics, cars, and of her great sense of humour. These are the kinds of things she actually paints with, and these give life to her pictures.
This is a painting, oil, red pencil, black pencil and sizing on canvas, 182.7 cm wide by 182.6 cm high.
Now let's listen to The Rose by Agnes Martin, recorded at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, on 12 July 2020.
That was The Rose by Agnes Martin. I hope you enjoyed listening to it as much as I did.
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Art Gallery of Ontario. "The Rose." Art Gallery of Ontario. https://ago.ca/collection/object/78/751.
Chilvers, Ian and John Glaves-Smith, eds. A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, s.v. "Agnes Martin." 3rd ed. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191792229.001.0001/acref-9780191792229-e-1696.
Tuttle, Richard. "What Does One Look At In An Agnes Martin Painting? Nine Musings On the Occasion of Her Ninetieth Birthday." American Art 16, no. 3 (Autumn, 2002): 92–95. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3109427.
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The call is out for primary schools to register for the 2014 Danone Nations Cup tournament
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11 February 2014 Primary schools across the country are invited to become part of the biggest youth football tournament in the world by entering their under-12 teams in the Danone Nations Cup.
The South African leg of this worldwide competition will start in April and schools have until 27 March to get their entries in.
The competition is organised with the support of the South African Schools Football Association (SASFA). Games begin at Cluster level with the winners progressing to Regional finals culminating in the nine provincial winners playing in the National finals to determine the national champion school.
Sandile Mhlaba (SA) vs Argentina
The eventual national winners are awarded the honour of representing South Africa at the Danone Nations Cup World Finals in Brazil later this year and will be one of 32 national champion schools from across the globe.
Last year's world finals were in London and Mpumalanaga's Daniye Primary School represented South Africa and will be back in action again this year. "Most of the players from last year are still in the team and with our experience in London we could well win again this year," said Yenzani Ernest Mabunda, Daniye's principal.
Daniye Primary School Team Picture
Mabunda said that winning the title last year has had a positive effect on the school. "We have become a popular school in the area with a 20% increase in our registrations as a result. It makes me proud as the headmaster to know that more kids want to be a part of our school."
For their<|fim_middle|> we went back to school and started asking our teachers to teach about them. So we learned during the trip and even after the trip," he said.
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One of the core values of the Danone Nations Cup tournament is to encourage young people to believe in their dreams. Through this initiative Danone offers a sporting event that reaches out to and inspires millions of children all over the world
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1 March – Cupcakes of Hope Ladies Tea | achievements, Daniye was named the 2013 Developing School Of The Year at the SA Sports Awards and Mabuna says it was a huge honour to be recognised that way. "More kids have signed up for soccer this year, they know the benefits of being part of the schools soccer team."
Going to London also changed the boys. "They gained a lot of confidence," he said. "They came back as different people. The attention they received made them feel that they matter and that they are important too."
Njombo Aden Mabunda, who played for the team in London last year, said he never gets tired of talking about the trip. "We learned a lot. We got to learn about healthy eating and after we met all these countries | 156 |
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Belizean Childbirth: Hospitals vs. Homes
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Viola's son sleeps in a hammock in the middle of the house. Image by Samantha Danis. Belize, 2011.
Delivery room at Corozal Hospital. Image by Samantha Danis. Belize, 2011.
Today I visited the small town of Carmelita, Belize. It's located just past Orange Walk and is home to another Mennonite community. The impact the Mennonites have<|fim_middle|> them with her own, she began to show Gail how to turn a child into a different position.
"Like women pass down recipes, we also pass down our wisdom," Gail said, and that day, she received a few more ingredients to add to her collection from a very experienced source.
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Culture, Public Health, Reproductive Health | had on the country surprised me—I had never even heard the term before I began researching the country. It turns out that these groups harvest over half of what all Belizeans eat and are well-known for their skill as carpenters and engineers. They live mainly in northern Belize, and it is not uncommon to see these fair-skinned, Dutch- and German-speaking people in cowboy hats and overalls piled into the bed of a pick-up truck heading into town.
The Carpenter family—their last name and the name of the family business--welcomes me into their home located above their workshop on the first floor. Viola Carpenter, a mother of four with another on the way, made me feel at home even though I was the only woman not in a cloth dress down to the floor with a bonnet worn over my hair.
Viola spoke openly about her choice to avoid hospitals and opt for natural, at-home births. She said she would rather be in the comfort of her own home, surrounded by her loved ones, which can't happen in a Belizean hospital. Up until last year, a woman wasn't allowed to have anyone in the delivery room with her. Viola said she couldn't imagine giving birth without her husband present because it wasn't just her baby; it was theirs. She would feel as though he was robbed of that life-changing moment of becoming a father.
As a result of her choice to have at-home births, her husband has actually delivered one of her five children. The midwife was not able to get to her fast enough, so he had no choice but to catch their newborn son. Viola said it was her most peaceful, stress-free birth thus far, and she even considered having him deliver the child on the way. When I asked her if she feared having a complication at home without a trained professional present, she said her doctor is right down the road.
"If I didn't make it to him in time, then God just has other plans for me," she said with a smile.
Born and raised in the United States, I don't know anyone who has had an at-home birth, so meeting Martina Pech was a revelation. The 82-year-old Spanish-speaking midwife told me (with the help Viola's translations) that she delivered all 17 of her children completely on her own. She explained she had no choice because the hospitals were too far away, and she had no means of transportation.
In her fifty years as a midwife, Martina has delivered hundreds of children, and all of them survived. She has heard of cases where a woman died during childbirth but she said she never experienced it herself. I asked her about c-sections since this had become such a hot button issue with the Mennonites in Blue Creek, but she admitted she is not familiar with the procedure. She said she looks at it as a positive because it could save lives of pregnant women and unborn babies.
Gail Johnson, a midwife from Texas now living in Belize, accompanied me to Carmelita. She explained that c-sections are proposed when the child is not in the correct position for birth. She asked Martina if she ever had to deliver a baby in the "breech" position (feet first, opposed to head first). Martina replied, "I've never delivered a baby that way because I flip them myself." She then demonstrated on Viola, who had been having some discomfort with her baby pushing up against her ribs. With Viola lying down on her back, Martina gently massaged her stomach and rotated the baby back into the correct position.
"They're taking away my midwifery license," Martina said. "They said I am getting too old to deliver babies." In hopes of passing down her wisdom to others so it is not forgotten, she called Gail over to assist her with Viola. Placing Gail's hands on Viola's stomach and covering | 803 |
In this photo provided by the United States Coast Guard, a USCG helicopter joins vessels of both public and private origon off Cape May Point, N.J., in the search for a single engine airplane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, Wednesday, May 29, 2019. The aircraft's owner says the male pilot was a regular customer who flew recreationally.
Search on for survivors after small plane crashes in ocean<|fim_middle|> the aircraft were "all in order." She says the pilot was a regular customer who flew recreationally.
Police say it's unclear whether there were any passengers. |
Wed., May 29, 2019timer1 min. read
CAPE MAY, N.J. - The Coast Guard is searching for any survivors after a small plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the single-engine Mooney M20J crashed Wednesday morning about 1,200 feet (365 metres) from the Cape May Lighthouse.
State police say that the plane is in about 18 feet of water and that a recovery is being attempted.
Plane owner Lisa Campbell of Air-Mods Flight Training Center at the Trenton-Robbinsville airport says it left the airport, more than 100 miles (161 kilometres) from the crash site, around 8 a.m.
She says the male pilot's credentials and | 166 |
I have this sweet little hedgehog to share with you today which I did as my sample for the Clean and Simple<|fim_middle|> visiting today. I hope you enjoy the video. Being new to doing them I can say I have much to learn, and I appreciate your support.
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At art class on Wednesday past we did this scene in a larger version. I so wanted to do a card, and today is the day.
I used my Mini Misti and magnets to hold my watercolour paper while I painted. It makes it so easy and no messing around with tape. Once dry I die cut the finished piece with my sentiment and the Wonky Border Rectangle die.
I painted the scene using a mix of Daniel Smith and Schminke watercolours, doing the night sky first. I covered up the penguins to splatter the acrylic paint on the night sky, then finished painting the scene.
I think it is so cute .... and am truly grateful for my wonderful teacher Colleen.
And a reminder that the sale continues at My Sweet Petunia.
Products: Neenah Cardstock, Fabriano Hot Press Watercolour Paper, Simon Says Stamp Wonky Border Rectangle Die Set, Clearly Besotted Little Llama Stamp Set for sentiment, Daniel Smith and Schminke Watercolour Paints, Acrylic White Paint. | Challenge at Splitcoaststampers called "Not a Creature was Stirring".
For my card ... I kept it white except for the pops of colour on the image and for the sentiment. This little fellow is exhausted after all the fun in the snow and is catching a nap!
I die cute the circle first and was going to stamp some birch trees, but I did not like that look, so I opted for white die cut birch trees which I attached on foam dots, as is the circle. I cut down one of the trees so the branches would flow in to my circle. I stamped the hedgehog and coloured with Zig Brushes then ran him through my ScanNCut to cut out, then propped him up on the circle, also with foam dots. I stamped the sentiment, then added a few sequins to finish.
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I love the look of ornaments done with alcohol ink, especially using the reds as I have done here. I previously made this card with a red ornament, so I had to make this a bit different, which I attached directly to my card base on foam tape. I added the village, which is coloured with gold Wink of Stella, and changed the ornament cap from glitter to metallic, and this time I did not add the bow. In the background I stencilled on falling snow with embossing paste and changed up the sentiment, finishing with sequins.
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Now that I have handed out these cards I can share them with you.
To start this card I first die cut a panel of watercolour paper using my wonky rectangles. As I want to get more mileage from my embossing folders, and even though this is a 6x6 folder, I embossed only part of my card panel, then did a wash over the embossed area. While that was drying I heat embossed using black embossing powder the Joy sentiment, and yes I measured this before I started the card to ensure I would have just enough room for my sentiment. I cut a narrow piece of silver glitter cardstock and attached where the watercolour and embossing ended, then attached the panel on foam tape to my card base. Previously I embossed pieces of both watercolour paper and cardstock to use for die cutting. This snowflake is one of those pieces in the watercolour paper. A few sequins finished my card.
Thank you for visiting ... see you next time.
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Getting those last minute Christmas cards done today. I had yet to use this green glitter cardstock, or the green metallic cardstock, so they were combined for this card.
The background is die cut with the wonky rectangle die and embossed with my snow drops embossing folder. I die cut another piece using the rectangles as well as a landscape die for the snow and a place to stamp my sentiment. It is attached on foam tape, and the die cut tree tucked slightly behind. I finished with a few sequins. A very quick yet pretty card.
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This is a good-bye flip book that I did for a friend. Her boss (Property Manager) is leaving the company after many years, and as there are too many signatures from employees for a card, my friend had them write their thoughts on paper that could be included in this flip book. Such a nice idea.
I used Neenah 110lb card stock for the cover, buildings and sentiment so it will stand up to the handling. To start, I stencilled the Sunray with Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink to get that look only Oxides can produce.
For my buildings I used Frantic Stamper's Cityscape die and cut the rows so their positions would stagger. I coloured the middle row using my distress marker in the Cracked Pistachio Distress, adding a few layers to achieve more depth of colour. I coloured the windows with my Zig Brush in a bright yellow.
To put the cover together, I attached the back row directly to the cover. For the middle row I added foam tape, and for the front row I added two layers of foam tape. Doing this created shadows from the other buildings ... much like what happens in large cities.
Products: Frantic Stamper Cityscape Die, Frantic Stamper Champagne Glass & Cheers Set, Tim Holtz Rays Stencil, Neenah Cardstock, Tim Holtz Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Ink, Tim Holtz Cracked Pistachio Distress Ink, Tim Holtz Cracked Pistachio Marker, Wink of Stella, Foam Tape, Sequins, Coil.
I needed to do a Christmas card for my bird's veterinarian, and I could not resist painting up this stamp image from Your Next Stamp. They are too cute with their Santa Hats.
I first die cut my panel with the wonky rectangles and the arch dies, then stamped my sentiment in the paradise teal. I aligned the panel to my base so I could mask the area I wanted the stencil the snow in. Once dry I attached the panel on foam tape.
For the birds, I stamped using intense black ink and water coloured using Zig Clean Colour Brushes, adding Wink of Stella to the hat, then die cut the piece with the matching die and attached inside the arch on foam dots and finished with a few clear sequins.
Santa is excited .... he will be visiting us soon!
This is my sample for the Clean and Simple challenge at Splitcoaststampers today, which is to use zigzags on your cards. I first die cut my panel piece using deckled rectangles, then embossed with with the zigzag embossing folder to meet the challenge, but turned it for a change and propped it up on foam tape. Santa is stamped on watercolour paper and painted with Zig brushes, and attached on foam dots. I die cut the be jolly sentiment in silver glitter cardstock, and added the star, which was already on my desk from another project. A few sequins finished my card for today.
Thanks very much for visiting ... see you next time.
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A card similar but different from the card that I did for Iliana earlier this week. I like every card I do to be unique. I was asked how I did the card, so today at the end of this post I am also including a video for those who are interested.
Here is a close-up of this card detailing the sparkle and the layers of colour.
The background panel is a stencil mono-print. I have a link for this technique in my Awesome Tutorials section above. I used watercolour paper for the background and the poinsettia, which I did by laying down layers of colour. In order to do this technique a Misti is a must and you will see why in the video.
Thank you for | 1,722 |
Housing Is Health Care: The Services for the UnderServed Model
Photo credit: S:US
The issue of housing and its relationship to health care services is relatively common in discussions about social determin<|fim_middle|>:
Collaborate with other organizations. I'm on the board of Coordinated Behavioral Care—We are a health home and independent practitioner association (IPA)—with over $1.5 billion in network services (see Coordinated Behavioral Care). Success requires collaboration with both behavioral health and health care organizations and leveraging our individual organizational strengths, instead of being in our own silos. It also requires that we work collaboratively with other health care plans to drive innovation and value-based care for people with significant behavioral health challenges.
Finally, my other advice would be related to technology, EHR, data warehouses and adaptive technology. We need to embrace the benefits of technology and data. This requires substantial financial investment that most nonprofits don't have access to. To address social determinants of health, collaboration among providers and community partners is essential.
Read the original article here. | ants of health (SDH), mainly because it's the SDH that is commonly paid for in health and human services (see U.S. Spending On Housing Assistance Programs: $44.7 Billion In 2016). The case for housing as an integral part of health care seems fairly laid out.
But for more this month from an organization that specializes in integrating housing and social services, we reached out to Donna Colonna, Chief Executive Officer at Services for the UnderServed (S:US), a New York City-based non-profit organization, with a staff of 2,400 that provides $214 million in services. They are supported by various local, state and federal government entities as well as foundations, corporations and individual donors. S:US was founded in 1978, opened its first supported housing program for people with behavioral health needs in 1981, its first residence for adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) in 1982, and has since grown to provide services in the following areas:
1. Developmental Disabilities ($80.8 million)
2. Homelessness Prevention & Shelters ($48.6 million)
3. Supported Housing ($43.4 million)
4. Behavioral Health Recovery & Treatment ($33.5 million)
5. Veterans ($7.9 million)
6. Urban farms
Ms. Colonna explained that S:US has built a values-based culture and philosophy that are the underpinnings of the work of the organization. S:US' roots were in supported housing and community services; services that are now considered to be the social determinants of health. The core of S:US' service delivery model is about partnering with people who come for services to build their personal toolkit for "leading a life of their choice." She explained:
"Our model, or more accurately, our ethical platform, is our belief in human capacity and resilience and in opportunity for all. That's fundamental to everything.
Today, we talk about Housing as Health Care. What does that really mean? We know that people do best in their natural environments—in their homes and communities. S:US provides 2,000 units of permanent supported housing (with another 1,200 in development) for people with behavioral health challenges who were once homeless, and an additional 400 residential opportunities for people with developmental disabilities. We also provide treatment, habilitation and recovery services. But for any of these services to work, you need a home.
We provide social services, but we are also a nonprofit housing developer. And when we build, we also create urban farms mostly in neighborhoods where produce is scarce and the number of people with diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure is disproportionately high. Our farms make it possible not only for individuals with disabilities to find steady employment as the stewards of the farms, but they also receive ongoing training and job coaching that build employable skills in urban agriculture, landscape maintenance, and basic carpentry. Participants receive the healing benefits of therapeutic horticulture and can enjoy the healthy products of their labor. This is something we've done on our own dime so to speak, integrating the idea of wellness and nutrition as part of building a supportive and healthy community. We were selected to participate in the National Health Outcomes Demonstration Project to evaluate the health outcomes of our Urban Farms initiative at three supported housing programs. We are excited to see the findings of that project."
Consumers served
S:US touches the lives of over 35,000 people each year. These are individuals with high needs given their complex and challenging histories—of incarceration, unemployment, substance use, co-morbidities, domestic violence, and trauma. Realizing that it's rare that just one thing keeps a person from leading a healthy, productive life of purpose, S:US' services are designed to serve the whole person, and are tailored to each person's unique needs.
S:US has a wide reach. The organization is funded by federal, state and city sources. Contract-based funding, Medicaid, Medicare and managed care plans are just a few of its payers. Ms. Colonna noted:
"We have contracts with all the major Medicaid MCO plans in New York City including the Fully Integrated Duals Advantage (FIDA) plans for people with developmental disabilities. For both people with behavioral health challenges and individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities we offer crisis intervention supports that keep people from unnecessarily using emergency rooms and hospital services. We are proud of these hospital diversion support services."
Staffing model
Ms. Colonna explained the approach to staffing takes the organizational mission strongly into account, stating:
"We employ 2,400 staff. We work hard to create a supportive work environment focusing a lot on culture. Given all the workforce challenges we face, it's important. We spend so much time on our values, and if you can get champions around that, and you want to create a positive environment, and one where we can innovate, you need the right staff. You want to create an environment that creates a level of excitement about the work."
S:US employs evidence-based and promising practices in their network of services. The organization measures the quality of their services through customer satisfaction, and other metrics to evaluate the impact they have on people's lives e.g. frequency of ER use, hospitalizations etc.
Given S:US' footprint in housing and the fact that housing is essential to good health, a critical measure is housing stability. In FY17, 92% of S:US' permanent housing residents maintained stable housing.
Future of SDH
S:US present and future comes down to collaboration. Ms. Colonna explained | 1,169 |
The use of humor in health care and particularly in psychiatry has already given rise to questions about its role in recovery or as a factor of resilience. The curative dimension of humor has been considered by the majority of therapeutic currents (Chapman & Chapman-Santana, 1995; Rengade, 2014; Van Hemelrijck et al., 2012) while its acceptance by patients has been studied less. In order to further explore the subjective appreciation of humor by patients, we submitted a 30 item questionnaire to 28 patients who attend our unit for young adults (18 – 25 years old) with emerging mental illness. The questionnaires explored 4 domains: humor appreciation, humor vector and context, positive aspects of humor, and negative aspects of humor. Items were scored on a 5 point Likert-type scale (-2: complete disagreement; -<|fim_middle|> and negative ones are partially recognized. Patients think that humor should not be restricted to patients but that care givers should be allowed to be humorous. The context in which humor is done is also important because it is well tolerated in therapeutic groups but less in individual sessions. | 1: partial disagreement; 0: neither disagreement nor agreement; 1: partial agreement; 2: complete agreement). The main results are a general good acceptance of humor. Positive characteristics of humor are generally well appreciated | 44 |
Discovering how we evolved – Evolving genes lead to more evolving genes
Categories: Sanger Science21 May 20134.5 min read
Two of the three sets of FOXP2-regulated genes identified by genomic screens in mouse brain and human brain show signals of positive selection in Europeans, illustrated by the green bars extending above the critical threshold (dotted line). As a control, FOXA2-regulated genes, whose expression is<|fim_middle|> and how genes have evolved and adapted to different roles during human evolution. The method that we developed can be used universally to test for evolutionary adaption in any chosen set of genes. It can aid identification of gene sets that show evidence for positive selection in comparison with matched controls, and thus highlight genes for further functional studies. We are already using this method to search for signatures of positive selection in other gene sets.
Qasim Ayub works in the Human Evolution research group led by Dr Chris Tyler-Smith more…
Qasim Ayub, Bryndis Yngvadottir, Yuan Chen, Yali Xue, Min Hu, Sonja C. Vernes, Simon E. Fisher, Chris Tyler-Smith. FOXP2 targets show evidence of positive selection in European populations.American Journal of Human Genetics 2013. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.03.019
Human Evolution research group
Press Release: Evolving genes lead to more evolving genes
Dr Chris Tyler-Smith
2013-05-21T06:00:14+01:0021 May 2013| | regulated by a different transcription factor, do not show such a signal of positive selection in any population. [doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.03.019]
By Qasim Ayub
As a researcher in the Human Evolution Team at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, I am interested in understanding how humans evolved and adapted to local environments as they established themselves in and out of Africa. It's an exciting time to be working in this area: the huge number of whole-genome sequences from a diverse range of human populations that are available give us an unprecedented opportunity to study the natural selection of beneficial traits in humans over time.
Advantageous adaptations – such as the ability to digest certain types of food or developing our capacity for language – result from changes in the DNA sequences of the genome. These changes leave signatures that we can search for in modern-day genomes. My work is rather like that of an archaeologist, but instead of searching for the tell-tale signs of previous events in the landscape, I am looking for the signatures of evolutionary selection in people's genomes.
Unfortunately there is a problem: the signatures I am searching for can be mimicked by fluctuations in population sizes over time. In the absence of functional evidence that confirms the role of a genetic region in development, it is difficult to be sure which areas of the human genome have really undergone selection. This difficulty has been discussed extensively in the scientific literature.
I have developed a strategy to look at sets of genes for selection signatures by comparing them with control genes matched for gene size, GC content and average recombination rate. The idea came out of a brain storming session at one of our team retreats and I worked on it with help from Yuan Chen, our team's bioinformatician and other team members.
We wanted to test our method to see if it worked or not, so we looked at genes that are controlled by FOXP2, a regulatory protein. Defects in this gene have been associated with speech and language disorders and have received substantial press coverage. We know that altered versions of the FOXP2 gene have been selected for at least twice during human evolution and we wondered whether or not evolutionary changes in FOXP2 had resulted in selection of any of the genes it regulates.
Initially I had intended to use just two published sets of FOXP2-regulated genes that had been identified in humans using a technique called ChIP-chip, that involved chromatin immunoprecipitation and hybridization with microarrays. A fortuitous meeting in Cambridge with Simon Fisher led to a collaboration. Simon's research group had been studying FOXP2-controlled genes in mouse models and he kindly provided us with his, much more comprehensive, list. We then compared all three sets of FOXP2-regulated genes with matched controls using our method.
A surprise finding was the strong evidence for selection of some FOXP2-regulated genes in Europeans, but not in Asians, or Africans. This was reinforced when we found FOXP2 binding motif variants that were enriched in the European populations only for a subset of the selected genes . Does this mean that Europeans have improved speech or language compared with people from other continents, or is this enrichment conferring a different advantage?
The FOXP2-regulated genes that were selected in Europeans are highly expressed in the brain and some have been implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders, which might suggest that they are related to brain function. In my opinion, the selection signal is probably not related to brain function, and almost certainly not linked to speech or language. A gene often has more than one role in the body and these genes are no different: The selected genes have multiple roles in cellular development, signalling, reproduction and immunity. Selection of these genes in Europeans is more likely to reflect local population adaptations to the climate, diet or pathogens that they encountered as their ancestors spread across Europe after splitting from the ancestors of Asian populations.
The study was recently published in the May 2013 issue of The American Journal of Human Genetics. It highlights the complexity of biology | 832 |
American cemetery
Remembrance / 1939-1945 and the Maginot Line / Sites and monuments / American cemetery
385 rue de la Rondenolle
88000 DINOZE
Ot Épinal
The Dinozé American Cemetery is a place<|fim_middle|> that led to the liberation of Epinal and a chapel with a sculpture of the Angel of Peace. The Dinozé American Cemetery is a place of remembrance but also of exchange and reflection on history. "We do not forget, we shall never forget, the debt of infinite gratitude we owe to those who gave everything for our liberation."
Visit on your own at all times, guided tours with advanced booking
FORT AUX FRESQUES - PETIT OUVRAGE DU BOIS DE BOUSSEHESTROFF
MUSÉE DU PAYS D'ALBE - LA MAISON DES TÊTESSARRALBE
CASEMATES DU HUBERBUSCHCHEMERY LES DEUX | marked by history and a reminder of the tragedies of the Second World War. It contains 5,253 graves in two fan-shaped plots and 424 names engraved on the wall of the missing ones. This place instantly takes us to the heart of our past, heavy with emotion and memories.These impeccably and meticulously tended grounds and gardens of the cemetery and the serenity of its surroundings give no hint of the fierce, bitter and savage fighting that cost the lives of so many who lie here. Under each of these headstones lies a soldier with unfulfilled dreams, and this guided walk invites you to discover some of them. We are honoured every time a soldier's family comes to visit the grave of a deceased soldier. We also hold several ceremonies throughout the year to honour our soldiers. A memorial overlooks the soldiers' graves, with a coloured glass mosaic illustrating the Toulon landings | 183 |
Wendy Ruderman Joins The Marshall Project
Rud<|fim_middle|>ing | erman will cover policing issues nationwide.
By The Marshall Project
Wendy Ruderman is becoming a staff writer for The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit that covers the U.S. criminal justice system. She will report on policing issues across the country. Ruderman joins The Marshall Project from the investigative desk at the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2010, she and Barbara Laker won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for their multi-part expose of a rogue police narcotics squad for the Philadelphia Daily News. She was also a Pulitzer finalist in 2019 for a series at the Inquirer called "Toxic City: Sick Schools," exposing environmental hazards in the Philadelphia school system.
Wendy Ruderman.
"Wendy is a tireless reporter with a record of important, breakthrough journalism and deep knowledge of policing," said Susan Chira, editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project. "She has spent two decades exposing abuses of power and producing investigative reporting that serves the public interest. Wendy is an exciting addition to The Marshall Project newsroom."
Ruderman has been covering law enforcement since 1998, starting at The Trenton Times, where she exposed racial profiling of Black and Latinx drivers by New Jersey state troopers. She has also reported on law enforcement, police violence and racial profiling for the New York Times and The Bergen Record.
"I'm thrilled and humbled to join The Marshall Project's innovative and talented team of journalists," said Ruderman. "I admire their passion and commitment to fair, illuminating and frankly, courageous reporting. I'm excited to delve into policing issues, elevating the voices of those most impacted by the criminal justice system at such a pivotal moment in our history."
Ruderman will be based in Philadelphia, and officially joins The Marshall Project on Sept. 7. She can be found on Twitter at @wendyruderman.
Tags: →Philadelphia, Pennsylvania →Polic | 392 |
Q: Split files in Snakemake I have a simple question, but I just cannot figure it out myself.
I have a list of inputs (a,b,c). For each input, I need to extract some data (1 to 23):
bcftools view<|fim_middle|>} -r {params.c} > {output}"
Could you please help?
A: You are not taking advantage of the snakemake wildcards here. If you specify an expand in your inputs and outputs then snakemake will run the rule only once. It tells snakemake that all vcf files are needed to run the rule and that this rule will produce all splitted files. What you need is a rule that can be applied to any vcf file and will produce only one splitted (by chr) output.
IDS=['a','b','c']
chrs=range(1,23)
rule all:
input: expand("{id}_{chr}.txt", chr=chrs, id=IDS)
rule splitByChr:
input:
"{id}.vcf.gz"
output:
"{id}_{chr}.txt"
shell:
"bcftools view -H {input} -r {wildcards.chr} > {output}"
The rule all here will trigger the rule splitByChr as many times as necessary.
Also note that {id} and {chr} in the expand function are not wildcards. They are placeholders for the expand arguments defined.
| -H a.vcf.gz -r 1 > a_chr1.txt
...
bcftools view -H a.vcf.gz -r 23 > a_chr23.txt
I can do it with FOR loop in the Snakemake rule:
IDS=['a','b','c']
chrs=range(1,23)
rule:
input:
expand("{id}.vcf.gz", id=IDS)
output:
expand("{id}_{chr}.txt", chr=chrs, id=IDS)
run:
for i in IDS:
for c in chrs:
shell("bcftools view -H {i}.vcf.gz -r {c} > {i}_chr{c}.txt")
, but FOR loop does not parallelize it. I need a proper Snakemake-way, smth like below, but it does not work.
IDS=['a','b','c']
chrs=range(1,23)
rule:
input:
expand("{id}.vcf.gz", id=IDS)
output:
expand("{id}_{chr}.txt", chr=chrs, id=IDS)
params:
c=expand("{chr}", chr=chrs)
shell:
"bcftools view -H {input | 273 |
<|fim_middle|> fragile patients are touched and nourished by the work done in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at Memorial Children's Hospital," says Michaeleen Conlee, R.N., Executive Director of Women & Children's Services. "We are so appreciative of the continued commitment of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the Four Winds Invitational. Their support is absolutely crucial, and allows us to provide the very best care to families when they need us the most."
The 2014 Four Winds Invitational was held from Friday, June 20 through Sunday, June 22, at Blackthorn Golf Club, located at 6100 Nimtz Parkway, South Bend, Ind. The tournament featured a field of professional women golfers from around the world competing on the Symetra Tour – Road to the LPGA. Nicole Vandermade finished 12 under and won the 2014 tournament.
About the Four Winds Invitational
The Four Winds Invitational was established in 2012 as part of the Symetra Tour — Road to the LPGA, and is sponsored by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and its Four Winds casinos. It is held at Blackthorn Golf Club, located at 6100 Nimtz Parkway, South Bend, Ind. The tournament features a field of professional women golfers from around the world. More information is available at: www.fourwindsinvitational.com.
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The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and its Four Winds casinos are proud to announce a donation of $77,500 to Memorial Children's HospitalÔ. The donation, which is from proceeds of the 2014 Four Winds Invitational and the 5K Run and Fitness Walk, will be used to purchase Giraffe Warmers for the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Giraffe Warmers are used to support the development of newborns by providing a temperature-controlled and protective environment.
"We are pleased that the success of the Four Winds Invitational has enabled us to donate $187,000 to Memorial Children's Hospital over the past three years," said John P. Warren, Chairman of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. "This year's donation of $77,500 will further enhance the neonatal services provided to local residents, including the 500 Pokagon Citizens currently living in Indiana."
"Each day, the lives of our smallest and most | 234 |
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