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DALLAS, TEXAS – February 29, 2016 – Syncrolite LLC today announced the appointment of Gregg Brooks as its Technical Sales Manager. In his new position, Brooks will work with existing and new customers in all product groups at Syncrolite including the newly acquired Strong and SkyTracker lines.
Gregg is a talented lighting designer, production designer, programmer, and stage technician with over 23 years of professional experience. His career has taken him all over the world, working for top designers on concert tours including Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith,<|fim_middle|> has also applied his skills on television with programs such as the Academy Awards, The Grammy Awards, Super Bowl halftime shows, and has been a part of countless live events for VH1, Comedy Central, HBO Specials. | Cher and many more. In the theatre, Brooks has programmed, operated, and serviced the lighting on the Broadway productions of Beauty and The Beast, The Lion King and Aida. Brooks | 37 |
John Gibson (Conwy, 19 de junho de 1790 - Roma, 7 de janeiro de 1866) foi um escultor do País de Gales.
Começou a desenhar com nove anos de forma espontânea, copiando figuras que via em vitrines, e com 14 anos entrou como aprendiz de pintura numa oficina de pint<|fim_middle|>, e começou a chamar a atenção pela qualidade de seus trabalhos. Conhecendo o historiador William Roscoe, teve acesso à sua biblioteca clássica, entrou em contato com obras de artistas italianos e contou com a orientação intelectual de Roscoe, que o encaminhou para o estudo da arte da Grécia Antiga. Então foi matriculado na Royal Academy, onde John Flaxman reconheceu seu mérito e acompanhou seu progresso. Em 1819 viajou para Roma para se aperfeiçoar, conhecendo Canova e sendo muito influenciado por ele, inclusive recebendo apoio financeiro.
Suas obras essa fase já mostravam grande maturidade, e ele foi apresentado por Canova a vários patronos influentes, produzindo outras obras de grande valor. Em 1836 foi aceito como membro da Royal Academy, à qual doou suas propriedades e obras remanescentes em seu estúdio. Morreu em Roma e foi sepultado no Cemitério Protestante.
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Escultores do Neoclassicismo | ores e entalhadores em Liverpool, mas logo cansou-se e pediu para ser instruído na escultura em madeira, e logo na pedra. Deixou a oficina e passou para a supervisão de um certo Mr. Francis | 56 |
Spring in Georgia is a beautiful time of the year. Many of us are already wishing they were somewhere, taking a rest from noisy streets. However, the majority of Georgian resorts stand out for their harsh climate during early spring and choosing one particular location is not<|fim_middle|> very easy to find a good place to stay there, because the infrastructure is much better than in other areas of mountainous Adjaria.
Unfortunately, unlike western Georgia, we have a lot less resorts in eastern part of the country.
It should also be noted that these resorts have curable characteristics as well, with many of them containing mineral waters, apart from fresh air and big forests. | that easy.
In order to help you choose a good place, Allnews.ge has decided to ask Beka Bukhrashvili, the vice-president of Georgian Hiking Federation, for advice.
natural conditions are ideal there, with moderate rainfall and a forest, as well as healthy air and unique mineral waters', - Bukhrashvili says.
As for the hotels and cottages, the prices begin from 10-15 GEL per night (45 GEL at hotels).
Beka Bukhrashvili also says Abastumani is very good to spend some time during spring. The price of a room there is 20 GEL per night and 40-45 GEL at hotels.
If you are not afraid of harsh natural conditions, then mountainous Adjara's Keda Municipality is just for you. Beka says it is | 180 |
AV Research and Development Partnership Fund | Mentor Works Ltd.
The AV Research and Development Partnership Fund is an Ontario government grant program offered through the Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Network (AV<|fim_middle|> and validate innovative autonomous vehicle technologies.
Amount: Up to 50% of eligible project costs to a maximum $1 million in grant funding.
Timeline: Two-stage application process; offers occasional calls for proposals until December 31, 2021, or when all funds are committed.
Eligibility: Ontario-based SMEs (technology developers) with fewer than 500 full-time employees; must partner with another SME, national/multinational enterprise, academia, municipalities, or non-profits.
Project Focus: Development and demonstration of pre-market technologies in the Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (C/AV) sector.
AV Research and Development Partnership Fund Overview: Learn more about the Autonomous Vehicle Research and Development Partnership Fund, including details on each of the program's streams, types of eligible projects, and what types of applicants are eligible to receive funding.
Posted: April 13, 2018. Updated: January 29, 2019. | IN). Through the program's Technology Demonstrations stream, lead applicants (technology developers) work with partners (typically other SMEs, large enterprises, post-secondary institutions, and non-profit organizations) to develop, prototype, | 43 |
Today a minor change to our main site search went live. I hope it is an improvement in the experience of searching the site using a screen reader.
Here is the search page on GOV.UK. It has a filter on the left that has a list of checkboxes in it. Selecting a checkbox will cause the search results to the right to automatically update. This style of interaction presents a problem for users of screen readers, because it relies on the user being able to see the change in order to know it happened.
The solution<|fim_middle|> consultant Léonie Watson to make me realise that, in trying to fix this, I'd nearly made it worse.
My first instinct was to break the Mustache template into many smaller templates. Splitting the result count out so it could be wrapped in a live region and independently updated. This would definitely work but breaks up some legible and quite nicely architected code into something a bit more complicated.
This is not without its problems. It creates a difference between the document order that screen readers and speech recognition software sees and what users looking at the page see. This can be confusing for users who are partially sighted but also use screen readers, or users who are using speech recognition software because they have mobility issues making it difficult to type. The software they are using will describe the page in a way that doesn't match up with what they are seeing.
After some deliberation and discussion with the team I went with the second solution, and was able to push out a quick, easy-to-maintain fix to this problem. We'll be observing how this change goes down with users, and if it doesn't prove to have been an improvement, it's straightforward to roll back, and that's what we'll do.
Here's another GIF of the search page, this time with the VoiceOver announcements in the corner so you can see what is being read announced as the search options are selected.
You can follow Alice on Twitter, sign up now for email updates from this blog or subscribe to the feed. | to this, and similar problems where an action in one part of the page causes a different part of the page to update, is to use an ARIA live region. Content within an ARIA live region will be announced when it changes, so we can wrap our updating content and as soon as the user does anything to affect the results being shown they will be notified.
"Well that's all pretty straight-forward", I thought. "Wrap the result set in an ARIA live region and now GOV.UK search is better for everyone!"
Not so fast. If you wrap the entire result list then every time the user updates the checkboxes their screen reader is going to read out every single search result which is way too much information. This seems obvious now, but it took feedback from accessibility | 157 |
White, ivory, cream<|fim_middle|> big on me now. Whatever size I wear in Halogen, Ann Taylor, or Banana Republic I usually also wear in Talbots. | … it doesn't matter which color you choose. Having a light colored blazer in your closet is a game changer and a regular addition to the capsule wardrobes I create on Wardrobe Oxygen. Unlike grey which reads corporate, navy which can be hard to match, and black which can often be too severe and hard to match, ivory is a winner. It works as an accent, not needing to match with any other neutrals in the capsule. It can dress up and dress down as easily as black, and will make black closet basics look chic and cohesive. Ivory works year round, and it's often more flattering than black and dark neutrals. I incorporated this ivory blazer from Talbots in my real-life capsule wardrobe and in this post I show its true versatility.
When I was invited to visit Good Housekeeping, I was taking a train and immediately hailing a cab to Hearst Tower. I was also asked to wear a pair of shoes from the host company. What would survive four hours on the train and still look fresh and stylish? What could look cool and polished with a pair of sneakers? My ivory blazer! I styled it with a striped top from J. Crew and the same jeans featured in the real life capsule wardrobe. It was a smart choice; the look held up from morning until night, photographed well, and was equal formality to the other event attendees.
A relative was celebrating a milestone birthday at a country club. It was May, but the day was unseasonably cold and rainy. For such an event I'd normally wear a floral maxi dress, but with the weather I wanted to be warm, yet still a bit dressy (but not too dressy). Again I chose my ivory blazer, this time with the matching trousers, as black t-shirt, and a pair of colorful shoes to keep it from looking too corporate.
For the real-life capsule wardrobe, I styled it three more ways to show its versatility.
I'm all about using accessories to change the silhouette of a garment. Scarves, long necklaces, and belts can really add life and outfits to your existing wardrobe. Just by belting the blazer, the waist is highlighted, there's an added print and texture, and a bit of a peplum effect is fun and a bit more youthful. This would be a fun look for brunch, or for Casual Friday at the office. Depending on your personal style and figure, a variety of belts and even scarves could work for this look. Try a wide elastic belt, an oversized scarf tied like a cummerbund, or even an obi-style wrap belt.
You don't need a matched set to look professional at the office. An ivory blazer can make separates suddenly cohesive. While this look is a bit more casual with a white tank, you could easily switch it out for a silky shell or blouse in black, white, or any color under the rainbow. While this look can be office-friendly, the ivory can also make the look more evening, and this is an outfit that can easily go from desk to drinks. The addition of statement accessories and a small handbag are what make it look dressy.
Especially if you get your blazer tailored to fit your figure (everyone needs to do this, no one is shaped like a garment right off the rack), it will look equally great with pants and skirts. While black pants and a black blazer can look a bit too formal, black pants with an ivory blazer looks fresh. Yes, you can mix ivory and cream with white; combining neutrals very close in color can give a luxe look and make cheaper garments appear more expensive (look what it did here for a ribbed tank top, imagine how elevated it would be with a white silk-like blouse). Add a scarf instead of a necklace; by having it black it pulls the whole look together. With such an elegant palette, you can get away with a pair of comfy flat shoes yet still look professional.
When it comes to purchasing an ivory blazer, I recommend buying the best you can afford, if in doubt size up, and take it to a tailor to get it custom fit (this blazer is currently at the tailor as my figure has changed since I originally got it). If well made and well fitting, this is a piece that you can stylishly wear for years to come.
The blazer was a gift from Talbots, the tank and skirt a gift from Universal Standard, and the pants a gift from White House Black Market. However, each item is in this post and featured in the capsule wardrobe because I truly love them and wear them often.
I have short arms and a regular sized body so my tailoring thing is to get the sleeves fixed. If something doesn't have a lining I can do it at home, but linings are complicated so I got to an alterations place. I think it makes a difference not to have rolled up sleeves. I will say that I think twice about a purchase that will involve tailoring b/c it adds expense, but makes the item more wearable.
Same. I don't buy willy nilly thinking a tailor can fix it. But when it's something like this suit, it's such good quality, the style is spot on for me, that it's a worthy investment. Agree it's worth it to not have to roll sleeves. I did that for so many years and I love the polished look of an uncuffed sleeve hitting at the right point!
Interesting piece. I must say I have never thought of tailoring – maybe in the UK it is not as simple, but also I suspect I am just lazy. But I am curious – what happens if a jacket is lined?
Realistically I suspect that your post will never inspire me to have anything altered, but what it has done is made me put on a white tee shirt for the first time in years. I have several but stopped wearing them. Why? I think partly because I feel that you can see a slightly bulgy tummy outlined, and partly because a photographer once told me, when I was complaining that a photo showed too much double chin, that the light reflected up from a light top to emphasise it. But I am wearing a white tshirt now, with some vaguely coral-coloured jewellery, and feeling rather fab.
I take my blazers to a tailor, I don't try it myself but he is able to adjust the lining along with the exterior. He's shortened sleeved that have buttons, has made boxy blazers a bit more fitted, and more. It's not cheap, but it's cheaper than a new jacket and if it fits beautifully it makes the jacket look all the more expensive and polished.
And I LOVE you're wearing a white t-shirt! And boo on that photographer, it's not what you're wearing, it's his lighting and the angle he shot you at/pose he had you hold. Wear what you want (and I love the combo of white with coral it's so fresh!)!
LOL you won't regret it!
Loving this. Thank you for this great series. Totally copying!! I saw this blazer in the Talbots catalog, but then I think they are too preppy for me. You've proved me wrong. How do you find the fit of this blazer? Thank you!
Yay! I am a Talbots fan even though I am not their typical style. I think their clothing is pretty true to size, their petites are true petites and sometimes too short for me. However, this jacket I think is meant to be a bit more of a classic fit and it's a hair | 1,555 |
The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick, an industry executive briefed on the agency's plans said yesterday.
The inquiry began at the end of last week, after it was decided<|fim_middle|> deal, agreed to pay $6 billion for aQuantive, an Internet ad company. One of aQuantive's units, Atlas, competes with DoubleClick.
Among the competitors that had called for an antitrust review were Microsoft, which had lost out in the bidding for DoubleClick, and AT&T, which distributes services over the Internet like digital television. | that the Federal Trade Commission instead of the Justice Department would conduct the review, said the executive, who asked not to be identified because he had not been authorized to speak. The two agencies split the duties of antitrust enforcement.
An F.T.C. spokesman said yesterday that the agency did not comment on pending inquiries.
The deal, involving powerful forces in their respective niches of the online advertising business, prompted privacy advocates and competitors to raise concerns after it was announced last month. Those concerns and the deal's size made a preliminary investigation all but certain, according to antitrust experts.
The F.T.C. has also issued Google a detailed list of questions, the industry executive said. This step, known as a "second request" for information, can suggest that a proposed acquisition raises more serious antitrust issues. But legal experts said the request is mainly a sign that the agency is closely scrutinizing the Google deal.
Privacy groups said it was significant that the F.T.C., the agency that monitors online privacy issues, would be conducting the review.
"We think it's very important that the F.T.C. is taking a look at the Google-DoubleClick deal," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy rights group.
In the days after the planned merger was announced, Mr. Rotenberg's center and two other advocacy groups, the Center for Digital Democracy and the United States Public Interest Research Group, filed a request for the F.T.C. to investigate the privacy implications.
Google has built a lucrative business in selling small text ads that appear alongside its search results and on other Web sites. DoubleClick is the leader among companies that specialize in placing graphical and video ads online.
Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, said that decisions made now about the structure of the online advertising industry could have lasting effects on data collection and personal privacy on the Internet, especially if control rests with a "few powerful gatekeepers" led by Google.
Still, privacy issues are not typically the concern of antitrust officials. In reviewing a proposed merger, legal experts say, regulators weigh the likely impact on competition and struggle with tricky technical matters like defining the relevant market to measure.
Google, the Internet search giant, is facing questions about its privacy practices not only from advocacy groups in the United States, but also from an advisory panel for the European Union. The company has said it welcomes the debate. It defends its privacy safeguards and says its business is based on consumer trust.
As for the DoubleClick acquisition, Google yesterday repeated its optimism that antitrust regulators would approve the deal.
"We are confident that upon further review the F.T.C. will conclude that this acquisition poses no risk to competition and should be approved," said Don Harrison, a senior corporate counsel for Google.
Mr. Harrison pointed to the flurry of deals in recent weeks, after Google announced its bid for DoubleClick on April 13. Later in the month, Yahoo announced it would pay $680 million for the 80 percent of Right Media, an online ad exchange, that it did not already own.
In May, WPP, the big ad agency, said it would pay $649 million for 24/7 Real Media, whose ad serving business competes with DoubleClick. And then Microsoft, which pushed for an antitrust investigation of the Google-DoubleClick | 679 |
Too often we discover at the end of a day that if we aren't careful, our lives are reduced to looking down at our devices and accomplishing whatever's on our to-do lists. In the process, we lose our connection with the deeper human need to be present to what surrounds us. Caring connects us with each other, making us the best of who we are and what we can be. Caring is a decision to engage with the world around us.
Caring enriches all facets of our lives. It makes workplaces worth working in, schools worth learning in, our relationships worth being in, and the world worth living in. Caring is everything.
This session, applicable to leaders at any level and in all walks of life, gets to the heart of creating a workplace and a life that matters. Based on David's book, Caring Is Everything, you will leave with an inspiring and thought-provoking message about the vital role that caring serves in every aspect of our lives.
Learn how caring impacts everything you do: it fosters trust, engages employees, builds loyalty, creates meaning in our lives, and leads to business success.
Understand the true meaning of service leadership and how to build a more fully human organization.
Leave with practical strategies to amplify your impact on everyone you serve – through a stronger authentic and caring presence.
Remember that self-care is an ethical responsibility. In order to take good care of others you must take good care of yourself.
In today's fast-paced, rapidly evolving business and professional environment, a high value is placed on looking outward and upward, continuously striving for the next summit, the next Everest. As successful people, we tend to look upward to the achievements we hope to realize.
But success isn't just about height. It's also<|fim_middle|> current and relevant to your present organization.
Learn the fundamentals of building a cohesive, high-trust leadership team as a board. A healthy culture starts with a healthy board.
Parenting in today's fast-paced, self-indulgent culture of entitlement is not easy. Never has there been a more important time to instill accountability in young people and help them grow into adults capable of facing life with self-reliance.
With over thirty years of experience as a family therapist, youth leader, parent, and mentor to executives, David Irvine understands the importance of raising responsible, resourceful and resilient children who treat themselves and others with dignity and respect.
Balance supports and demands…to nurture accountability in young people.
Instill an accountable mind-set in youth – a commitment to full citizenship rather than consumerism.
Lead young people with a new understanding of rights, responsibilities and contribution.
Work together with teachers to cultivate accountability with youth.
Be prepared for a new awareness of yourself as a parent. You will be supported, stimulated and energized as David inspires you in your challenging and important role as a parent in today's changing world.
This presentation can be a valuable add-on to any corporate event where spouses can be invited for an engaging and inspiring evening presentation. | about depth.
The journey down…the journey within…the journey to The Other Everest… is equally valid.
True – authentic – leadership is fueled by a voyage that takes us inward toward the hardest realities of our lives. The best leadership comes from people who have penetrated their inner darkness, men and women who can lead the rest of us to a place of authenticity away from what the world sees, who have been there and know the way, and in so doing, know the why.
Connect into your vision, purpose and your deepest core values to unlock your true leadership potential and amplify your impact and influence in all areas of your life.
Create a space to reflect, think strategically, and get a new perspective on ways to influence others – while bringing renewed value to those you lead.
Take the time to reset your internal compass – Discover the path to an undivided life – a life with greater balance, inner peace, and well-being in the midst of relentless demands.
The challenging economy in the resource sector during the past few of years has placed leaders in a whirlwind of change. Downsizing, reorganizing, and redesigning the organizations where we work is now the norm. Surviving the change has become today's "business as usual". Whether you are laying people off, frenetically repositioning yourself in the marketplace or growing your business, managing change is the new reality. In the midst of all the chaos, it's time to think of the future in new ways.
Take an opportunity to step away from the fray, be inspired, and get a renewed perspective from one of Canada's most respected voices on leadership and organizational culture. David Irvine's thought-provoking session will provide practical tools and processes for keeping your talent engaged in an uncertain economic environment.
Leave with practical insights and strategies for building an engaged culture when you are in the midst of laying people off.
Understand how everyone is impacted differently by the change and how to respond effectively to the diverse array of reactions.
Re-build bridges of trust. Restoring trust after a layoff is mission-critical in organizations today. Effective and productive organizations and teams need mutual trust and respect based upon authentic and accountable connections. Discover ways to restore trust in the demanding environment of continual change.
Trust is the keystone of success – both in leadership and in life. It's the new global currency. It crosses cultures and generations. Trust lies at the foundation of every relationship and is perhaps the most important issue facing the world today. Building and restoring trust is your number one leadership challenge, and your number one accountability as a leader.
Take this opportunity to gain a new perspective on trust in today's world from one of Canada's most respected voices on leadership and organizational culture. But rather than gaining simply greater knowledge and an intellectual understanding of trust, you will leave with an experience of shifting the fundamental way you build trust in your relationships. You will leave with a new view of who you are as a leader and a fresh vision of what your organization can become – through your capacity to build trust.
Recognize, describe, and demonstrate positive authentic trust building behaviours.
Demonstrate essential skills for trust building with employees who exhibit trust blocking behaviours.
Develop and demonstrate a personal process to build trust with individuals who exhibit blocking behaviours.
Achieve greater authenticity in all relationships.
Develop the capacity to build and maintain trust with groups.
Assist employees to develop accountability.
Develop organizational "simplicity" by "maximizing the amount of work not done" for greater efficiency.
Assist in developing capacities and skills in managing conflict amongst teams.
Develop skills to manage meetings where conflict arises, thus decreasing wasted time and efforts.
To be sustainable family businesses must be built on the foundation of a strong family.
In this session, learn the fundamentals of family dynamics. You will leave with skills for opening communication within and between generations that will lead to respect, high trust, and clear goals that support both the family and the individual – so the family can run the firm instead of the firm running the family.
Building Bridges of Trust – Trust is both a belief in and reliance upon something or someone. It's about connect-ability and reli-ability. This session offers a practical and proven Accountability Agreement Process™ that ensures highly trusting, accountable relationships within the context of a family business.
Accountability In An Age Of Entitlement – Without accountability there will be no success – in a family or in a business. How do you ensure that the coming generation has the necessary mind-set to take the business to the next level and make it in the world?
Succeeding At Succession – In this session you will learn why most family businesses fail to make it past one generation by understanding the three fundamental tasks that are essential for succession success – and a clear path to achieve these tasks.
Conflict Resolution – Conflict is part of any family and any business. This session focuses specifically on the dynamics of an intergenerational family business and ways to effectively handle conflicts that arise.
Building An Engaged Business Culture – Authenticity is the ability to align your passion and talents with the needs of the business and is what keeps everyone in a business family engaged, focused, and loyal. This session will provide a practical, meaningful road map to ensure that everyone in your family is finding their voice, and thus sustaining their commitment to themselves, to the family, and to the business.
Building a customer service mind-set within your organization starts with a service mind-set toward your employees. This inspiring, engaging leadership development session teaches the fundamentals of service leadership.
A service leader is committed to identifying and meeting the legitimate needs of their people and removing barriers so they can serve the customer. To lead, you must serve. The primary difference between a service leader and a traditional hierarchal manager is that a service leader is committed to helping people reach their highest potential. Service leadership is not a technique. It's a philosophy for both leading and living.
As a service leader, the aspiration to lead is preceded by a commitment to serve. It's about choosing service over self-interest.
What does it mean to be a service leader?
How do you coach and help your employees grow?
What is the mind-set necessary for a leader in order to create a service mentality in your organization?
What is the difference between being a servant and being a "slave" to your staff?
Boards serve a vital role that goes beyond simply "getting through the agenda." As leaders, you have an opportunity – and a responsibility – to inspire and engage people, create a shared vision, foster trust, and build an aligned organization.
The leadership necessary to build a great organization does not come about by accident. It takes intentional action, focused discipline, and life-long learning.
David Irvine offers a renewed view of the fundamentals of leadership, culture, and board governance. Gain, in this session, a revitalized perspective on your leadership responsibility, and strengthen your competence in the practice of leadership as a board.
In this inspiring and interactive session, you will learn practical insights and strategies for building a strong board that serves and fosters your full potential as an organization.
Learn the fundamentals of board governance, and your key roles and responsibilities as leaders to achieve an aligned, high trust, collaborative, and focused board.
Develop your mission, vision, and values to ensure that these are | 1,464 |
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Mackenzie Moore
Mackenzie Moore is a Senior Research at the Center for Global Health Science & Security. Her
current work focuses on epidemic intelligence, pandemic preparedness, and response, outbreak
policy tracking and analysis, and the development of evidence-based training courses and
knowledge hubs.
She started working with the Center as a Global Health Initiative Fellow, writing for the
Georgetown Outbreak Activity Library (GOAL), an interactive online tool that identifies all
activities and actors involved in outbreak response. She has worked as a writer<|fim_middle|> has
presented her work with the Center at posters and panel presentations at the Global Health
Security Conference in Singapore in June 2022.
Mackenzie has experience as a global health security consultant and advisor at a number of
organizations, including USAID, IOM Central America, the World Bank, and the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Mackenzie received a Master of Science in Global Health, specializing in Disease Control and
Prevention, from Georgetown University. She was a Regents' and Chancellor's Scholar at the
University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with highest honors and a B.A. in
anthropology and was awarded the Frankenberg Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis in Critical | , coder, and data
manager and now serves as GOAL Project Manager. While at the Center, she has also worked
on global health security governance projects, designed and piloted Field Epidemiology Training
Program (FETP) exercises and coded and analyzed a range of pandemic policies. She | 60 |
Iconic singer and actress Cher is in Pakistan to celebrate the departure of Kaavan, dubbed the "world's loneliest elephant," who will soon leave a Pakistani<|fim_middle|> joked that Kaavan might just find a girlfriend there - who knows?
"Celebrities lending their voices to good causes are always welcomed, as they help starting public discourse and raising pressure on responsible authorities," he said.
"Around the globe there are animal lovers, famous and not famous, and the support of every single one of them is crucial," he added.
Singer and actress Cher here seen in Paris, October 2013. (© AFP PHOTO/ FRANCOIS GUILLOT) | zoo for better conditions after years of lobbying by animal rights groups and activists.
Kathy Gannon, The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD - Iconic singer and actress Cher is in Pakistan to celebrate the departure of Kaavan, dubbed the "world's loneliest elephant," who will soon leave a Pakistani zoo for better conditions after years of lobbying by animal rights groups and activists.
A medical examination in September showed Kaavan's nails were cracked and overgrown - the result of years of living in an improper enclosure with flooring that damaged his feet.
The veterinarian said this was the first time in 30 years that he developed an strong emotional bond with a rescue animal. Now, the "world's loneliest elephant" comes lumbering over when he hears Khalil's voice.
"I was always moving, so never allowed myself to develop an emotional attachment," but with Kaavan he couldn't resist, Khalil said. He said he has pampered and protected him for the past three months, cajoling him into losing weight as well as being less fidgety and more relaxed so he can make the trip to Cambodia.
Khalil | 232 |
Bee's and R/T's at the San Diego Mopar Club car show
Of interest to 440 6pack Superbee lovers alone, here are 2 of the 4 known to be in San Diego. I haven't seen Tom's red one in 10 years though. They are distinguished by the stripe around the trunk, here are the white stripe and black stripe... the other is a stripe delete (you will still see the round Super Bee decal). The story was told to me that he was really enthsiastic about how fine his rare Bee is, (and you can see it here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/06/rare-early-69-stripe-delete-4-spd-440.html#links ) well one of the guys who was talking to him, soon after it first got in town, happened to mention that there are already two green 440 6 pack cars in San Diego (these two you see here) and just took the wind out of the guys sails. As rare as these are, there are 3 in town. The odds are just infinite I bet.
Six Pack Bee stats
Hard tops (WM23M) coupes (WM21M).
They made 1487 hard tops (661 auto and 826 4-spd)
420 coupes (153 auto and 267 4-spd).
at Saturday, July 14, 2007
The coolest Nash I've ever seen.
Labels: Metro, Nash, pro-street
Really good business idea
Parking in the city for motorbikes, that also will tow, tune, and repair bikes
http://motorgrrl.com/
A bus junkyard photogallery
http://testofwill.blogspot.com/2006/03/bus-graveyard.html
Good new pictures of the Zippomobile
http://testofwill.blogspot.com/2006/03/zippomobile.html
Tool logos, trademarks, and parent company info... even has the images of the logos!
http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/trademarks-and-logos.html
What is really informative is the list of the patents, by tool marking indexed to the tool company
Myers, C.H. Patent 288,098
Patent 446,072
in the A-M section of http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/site-index.html
Now if you are looking up a wrench that says "model 1226" you click on the "Model 1226" and it then links you to a photo of the wrench and gives info about it.
If you are looking up (Plvmb or Plomb) another source that has a really fast easy guide to what year it was made is http://www.vannattabros.com/plomb/plombtool.html
Plomb tools had a couple interesting varieties stamped with a couple acronyms:
WF Wright Field items made for the US government.
Ranger AT items made for Fairchild Aviation
PWA items made for Pratt and Whitney.
http://g503.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=262301&start=15
Labels: informative, tool, tools
Never thought of it, but why not a taxi specific junkyard? NY NY
http://testofwill.blogspot.com/2006/11/parts-is-parts.html
Imagine how many taxi's there are in New York, now figuring most of them are Crown Vic's it must pay well to strip totalled taxis for spare doors, bumpers, engines, hoods and trunklids.
July 15th: Just read in Automobile magazine that the Mayor of New York wants to get all taxis there switched out for electric or hybrid, says it could reduce NY states fuel consumption by 25 million gallons a year. Now why didn't that occur to someone when they destroyed all the electric cable cars that ran NY streets?
Annual dues to drive sports cars... cool!
http://testofwill.blogspot.com/2006/12/classic-car-club-of-manhattan.html
http://www.manhattan.classiccarclub.com/ Here's an interesting business model, pay to play. Pay your annual dues, drive any of the clubs cars.
2006 Lamborghini Gallardo
2007 Porsche GT3
2008 Audi R8
2008 Maserati Gran Turismo
2008 Ferrari 360 Modena Spider
1998 Ferrari 355 Spyder
2001 Porsche Turbo
1989 Ferrari 328GTS
2006 Corvette Z06
1965 AC Shelby Cobra
1972 De Tomaso Pantera
2007 Parnelli Jones Mustang
1977 Aston Martin V8
1989 Rolls Royce Corniche II
2005 Lotus Elise HRM Edition
1999 Mercedes E55 AMG
1967 Chevelle Super Sport
1975 Alfa Romeo GTV
2006 Toyota FJ Cruiser
1957 Porsche Speedster
1986 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce
1972 Chevrolet Cheyenne
1972 BMW 2002tii
The streets of New York, on July 13th
As it happens, then, Manhattan's mathematically rational street grid is actually rotated 29º off the north-south axis – and this angle has interesting astronomical side-effects.
In other words, because of the off-center orientation of Manhattan's street grid, you can only see the setting sun "down the middle of any crosstown street" on two specific days of the year: May 28 and July 13.
July 13 is, of course, next week – so watch out for it.
Manhattan is a solar instrument that only works twice.So, because of historical decisions made about the logic and purpose of urban planning – and because of the declination of the Earth's poles – the streets of Manhattan are aligned with the setting sun only two times a year.
Via http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/
For bikers who want the damn light to turn green
Timo Tolonen said...
As a side note, the automated inductive loops cause my friend and his motorcycle no end of headache.
The electromagnetic loop created by it does indeed notice large bodies of metal and adjust the traffic lights accordingly, but sometimes my friend's motorcycle isn't big enough to register ie. the light never changes. (He's especially fond of this happening in the middle of the night w/ no other traffic around).
He later figured out that turning off the engine and restarting it creates a big enough electric signature to make the loop notice him and his vehicle and adjust the light accordingly. The system may be fully automated but it's not sentient just yet.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/geometry-of-traffic-control.html
The designer and builder of the Blade Runner vehicles, Gene Winfield
Above via http://greyhandgang.com
http://www.profilesinhistory.com/auctions/images/Auc17_189.jpg
Winfield was approached by director Ridley Scott to build the futuristic vehicles needed for his science fiction movie "Blade Runner."
The job required construction of 25 various vehicles ranging from flying police cars (called "Spinners"), to taxi cabs, buses, and everday transportation vehicles.
Winfield built all 25 units, but two were destroyed in a shop fire.
The "Spinner" was a marvel of technology, including forward-opening doors and wheels the folded-up into the body during the flight mode. Most of these vehicles were destroyed by the studio upon completion of filming.
However, one "Spinner" and one black & white police "sedan" were put on display outside at Disney/MGM Studios in Florida. Recently, after years of deterioration from the weather, they were moved and said to have been destroyed. Another "Spinner" has been restored and now resides in Japan. A red police "sedan" is currently on display in Miami, Florida at the police museum.
Sidenote, Sam Foose did some work on these too, how about that?
http://www.c-we.com/piranha/page9.htm
For an interview with Gene: http://media.bladezone.com/contents/film/interviews/gene-winfield/
For a look at another Blade Runner vehicle: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/syd-mead-design-for-bladerunner-car.html
at Thursday, July 12, 2007
Labels: Blade Runner, Gene Winfield, Hollywood, movie
If you have an adventurous streak that has to be addressed, there's a London to Mongolia car rally you could run
http://www.theadventurists.com/ bring you the Mongol Rally
I love that they limit the cars to .. ..
"The Vehicle Rule:
You can only use a car with an engine of less than 1 litre that is generally considered to be crap. Motorbikes are limited to under 125cc, ideally scooters. You should be careful not to limit your own fun though. The Mongol Rally is not about making sure you reach Mongolia but the fun you have trying. If you get there with no hiccups you won't have any fun. Exceptions to this rule may be considered for vehicles of notable unusualness with high comedy value. "
And a rule about raising money for a charity (cool), and the rule that you are on your own.
Other than these you are free to sneak, bribe, cheat, connive and generally out-wit the world to get yourselves to Ulaanbaatar. In fact you will probably have to. If you get to the end of the race without some good stories to tell, then the Mongol Rally has failed in its mission. Which it won't.
If you have the sickness of admiring antique automobiles, here's some RV eyecandy. Restoration of a '48 sportsman.
Reinforces the old adage, "Leave this to the professionals" and "Don't try this at home"
Wow, this sure turned out beautiful though
http://mobilesportsman.blogspot.com/
The Camaro from "Better off Dead" found and restored
The late, great Lane Meyer, played by John Cusack in the 1985 flick Better Off Dead, made sweet on Monique over the engine bay of a 1967 Camaro.
Jeff was so taken with the car that he tracked it down, despite the fact that the man who owned it during the filming of the movie had sold it. It was in pretty rough shape, with a tacked-on spoiler, the beginning of rust creeping in, and lots of cracked interior vinyl.
Jeff put together a web site telling how he tracked the Camaro down, complete with unnecessary quotes from the movie playing in the background while you read it.
http://www.betteroffdeadcamaro.com/
You might remember it from the scene where John Cusack races the asian dudes in their rusted out ghetto sled(Muddy Waters playing in the background.)
http://www.timemachinesinc.com/ restored it.
Labels: Camaro, celebrity, Hollywood, movie
"Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire" Metallica -------------Top fuel dragsters.
TOP FUEL DRAGSTER STATS
One dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower then the first 8 rows at Daytona.
Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1 1/2 gallons of nitro per second, (that's about 10 gallons per run!), the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded 747, but with 4 times the energy volume.
The supercharger takes more power to drive then a stock hemi makes.
Even with nearly 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into nearly-solid form before ignition.
Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock.
Dual magnetos apply 44 amps to each spark plug.
This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
At stoichiometric (exact) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture (for nitro), the flame front of nitro methane measures 7050 degrees F.
Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.
Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass.
After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting off it's fuel flow.
If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in those cylinders and then explodes with a force that can blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or blow the block in half.
Dragsters twist the crank (torsionally) so far (20 degrees in the big end of the track) that sometimes cam lobes are ground offset from front to rear to re-phase the valve timing somewhere closer to synchronization with the pistons.
To exceed 300mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of over 4G's. But in reaching 200 mph well before 1/2 track, launch acceleration is closer to 8G's.
If all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs $1000.00 per second.
Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have read this sentence.
Top Fuel Engines ONLY turn 540 revolutions from start light to finish line.
The redline is actually quite high at 9500 rpm.
To give you an idea of this acceleration, the current TF dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter mile. This means that you could be coming across the starting line in your average Lingenfelter powered "twin-turbo" Corvette at 200<|fim_middle|> dollars apiece, fixed the minor troubles, and when he had four or five ready to sell, he placed one ad in the paper. The ad cost 2 dollars, and being quite clever Jim had figured he could just wait until he had several cars, to place just one ad. Savings? 6 to 8 dollars.
With just one ad and 4 or 5 cars, he put one out front of his house with the for sale sign to catch buyers attention, and when it sold he pulled around another.
This kept the nonsense about one being nicer, or a buyer flittering around through all the cars to just a bad idea. The people responding to the ad for one car for sale found just one, and then they bought it for about 100 dollars, and went away. Nice, neat, simple. Savings? Time, aggravation.
Now the last of one group was this yellow and black '30 Ford that a fellow bought, and returned in just 3 hours. Nothing wrong with tha car, but the guy lived a block from work, and soon realized he didn't need the car. He'd bought it on impulse, it being too good a deal to pass up. He returned it and offered to Jim that he'd give back the car for half the price, but being a fair and honest guy, Jim gave him back all the money for the car. Since the car came back to him, Jim decided maybe he was meant to keep it, and so he still has it and regularly drives it.
at Monday, July 09, 2007
Click on all pictures to enlarge them, email me at jbohjkl@yahoo.com
at Sunday, July 08, 2007
City streets of America, 1907 to 1913
Chicago, New York, and St Petersburg Fla respectively.
Images from www.shorpy.com
The Great Race
This guys website is www.BeerSter8.com
http://greatrace.com/greatrace/gr2007usa/
A time and endurance race of terrific old cars from Concord North Carolina to Los Angeles.
For galleries of images http://www.photostockplus.com/home.php?tmpl=12&user_id=31619&event=104755 my teaser pics came from Flikr.
1934 McQuay Norris streamliner
I just found the above photo, compared it to the one below that I found over a year ago when I posted this, and noticed someone photoshopped out part of the lettering above the door.
Built on a Ford Chassis. http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/strange_vehicles/mcquay-norris_streamliner.html
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Click on all pictures to enlarge them, email me at... | mph (on a FLYING START) and the dragster would BEAT you to the finish line FROM A DEAD STOP in a quarter mile distance!
PERFORMANCE EXAMPLES
0 to 100 MPH in .8 seconds (the first 60 feet of the run)
0-200 MPH in 2.2 seconds (the first 350 feet of the run)
6 g-forces at the starting line (nothing accelerates faster on land)
6 negative g-forces upon deployment of twin 'chutes at 300 MPH
An NHRA Top Fuel Dragster accelerates quicker than any other land vehicle on earth . . . quicker than a jet fighter plane . . . quicker than the space shuttle.
http://www.pafoa.org/forum/lounge-108/720-acceleration.html
Labels: drag racing, informative, top fueler, trivia
The ultimate automobile search function, from the Smithsonian
The Museum's online transportation collection includes more than a thousand artifacts and photographs. Browse the collection by selecting multiple categories, eras, and regions.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/ONTHEMOVE/collection/
Classic cars of the '30's
http://www.cromoclassico.com/eng/anni_trenta.html
Alfa Romeo made ambulance vans? Who knew?
Unsual cool cars for sale, mostly race cars... incredible variety!
http://www.fantasyjunction.com/used-cars.php
Maybe you'd like to look up some obscure vehicles, here's the place
Everything from the Oshkosk, to Bantams, Divco trucks to Croselys.
http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/
10 Things Your Rental Car Company Won't Tell You
http://www.smartmoney.com/10things/index.cfm?story=july2006&pgnum=1
From Smart Money magazine via http://growabrain.typepad.com
What restoring a M37 (1963 3/4 ton military Dodge truck) cost in two years to complete the restoration
http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/M37B.htm
People that obviously lack the requisite skills to operate a motor vehicle, also known as "the 10 worst drivers ever caught on film"
http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/07/10-worst-drivers-ever-caught-on-video/
The stupidest thing you'll see today
http://testofwill.blogspot.com/2007/05/lieutenant-lee.html
A Chevy Cavalier painter to look like the General Lee... and it has white walls. Which is more idiotic?
at Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Outside Indian Larry's
http://testofwill.blogspot.com/2007/05/sidewalk-maintenance.html
Hard core New York City bikers
http://testofwill.blogspot.com/2007/05/bicycle-fetish.html
A great story about how fun it is to have a Hummer after a snow blizzard
http://people.ambrosiasw.com/~andrew/snow.html
The Fiat rooftop test track
http://www.quartzcity.net/2006/10/05/futurists-gone-wild-the-fiat-rooftop-test-track/
If spinning tires and drifting is your thing, you may never see a better video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-837380894445012850
Morons are everywhere, it is simple to spot them when they park
http://www.youparklikeanasshole.com/gallery2/gallery2/main.php
http://www.youparklikeanasshole.com/gallery2/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=358
Secret test tracks by Ferrari, Pirelli, Bosch, Pininfarina, Ford and Volkswagen and others
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/204239/inside_story_secret_test_tracks.html
Probably the most incredible automobile race of all time
The race from Peking to Paris, in 1907
http://www.unmuseum.org/autorace.htm
15-horsepower (HP) Dutch Spyker.
10HP De Dion Boutons.
6HP Contal.
40HP Itala
Labels: Paris to Peking race
No idea why this photographer likes covered cars
http://barrylewisphotography.com/pm/pages/imagegroup.public.display.php?igId=101
But I know some people who have a guessing game, to see who's better at figuring out what's under the cover.
Beautiful cars crashed by rich idiots
http://thewrongadvices.com/2007/03/29/beautiful-cars-crashed-by-rich-idiots
Jim Cooley, had a genius idea as a young entreprenuer
I was swapping stories with Jim, owner of the JA Cooley Auto Museum, and when I mentioned weeing him in the neighborhood driving his 1930 Ford, he told me how it is that he's been driving it for about 6o years.
Right after WW2, most people wanted to buy a new car, and this was for different reasons, but partly due to them not having had anything new to drive since about 1940. New cars weren't being built until about 1947, as a matter of fact, Jim told me, Ford was selling trucks to civilians in '46, but not cars. They had a car planned and even had a set of 8 car models for the '46 line that they sent out to dealerships to promote the new '46 cars, and garner some interest from potential buyers. No cars though.
So, with all cars being about 7 years old at the newest, people were in the mood to get rid of the old ones and buy new. So Jim saw the opportunity to pick up model A's and T's cheap.
A lot of A and T models had been neglected all through the war, due to rationing, military not coming home, lack of new tires, broken parts, all kinds of things added up to there being a lot of these old Fords being left in garages and backyards with flat tires, and engine troubles.
Here's the clever part.
Jim bought them for 10 or 20 | 1,370 |
Music Matters.
WHISKEY FOXTROT
Whiskey Foxtrot is a five-piece Americana/Alt-Country/Roots Rock band from Winston-Salem, NC founded by Seth Williams and Sam Foster, in 2017. After<|fim_middle|>019, the band has released four studio singles: "The Broken End" and "Turn Off The Headlights" produced/engineered by Corey Hunt (Uwharrie Mountain Sound,) along with "San Isidro" and "Big Top Town" produced/engineered by Benjy Johnson (Earthtones Recording Studio.)
Under the Whiskey Foxtrot moniker, as well under the solo acts of Sam Foster/Seth Williams prior to officially founding the band, they have shared the stage with several national/regional touring acts including: Ward Davis, Caleb Caudle, Justin Wells, American Aquarium, Corey Hunt Band, Jonathan Byrd & the Pickup Cowboy, Corin Raymond, Damon Fowler, The Curt Towne Band, Preacher Stone, and Chris Anderson & Rattlebone.
Click HERE for full song list.
info@briolive.com | (704) 467-5397 | they decided to team up together in 2017, they quickly became a regional favorite. They play hundreds of shows per year across North Carolina and Virginia while continuing to grow a following in the Southeastern US, including Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina. Whiskey Foxtrot plays with a common goal: to write, record, and perform their own material for audiences across the country, while also covering the songs that have influenced them through the years. Their original music is a combination of country, blues, and rock 'n roll; stemming from influences such as The Allman Brothers Band to Tom Petty, and beyond.
With plans to release their debut full-length LP in 2 | 141 |
Companies and their auditors appear to have a better handle on how to avoid major financial restatements.
Still, almost 1 in 4 restatements this year came with the warning that prior financial statements might<|fim_middle|> added.
Total restatements among companies reporting to the SEC have more than halved since a 2006 peak of nearly 1,850, but the number has plateaued over the past six years.
Chief executives and chief financial officers are required under Sarbanes-Oxley to attest to their oversight of internal financial controls, which forced a rush of restatements as they scrambled to insure such measures were properly in place.
Previous Recession-Era Audit Fees Vary By CFO Tenure: Study Next New Rules, New Corporate Puzzle: Where to Steer Cash? | not be valid, according to data and research firm Audit Analytics. While striking, that's down from more than two-thirds in 2005, the first full year that companies were required to make such disclosures under the Sarbanes-Oxley financial overhaul.
The Securities and Exchange Commission in late 2004 began to require companies that file 10-K annual reports to file a separate disclosure to alert investors whenever previously reported results were in doubt.
Of 650 companies that restated results this year, 153 included that caveat. One was American Realty Capital Properties Inc. The real-estate investment trust last week disclosed errors that were "intentionally not corrected…[and others] intentionally made," which resulted in an overstatement of adjusted funds from operations from the start of last year. American Realty's shares have plunged by nearly 37% since the news.
But companies have put more focus on their internal controls, plus they have better financial-reporting software and information technology. "We're seeing people finding mistakes more quickly," said Don Whalen, director of research at Audit Analytics. So, the errors have less repercussion on prior financial results, he | 242 |
Unhealthy diets (especially those which have a high content in fats, free sugars and salt) and physical inactivity are among some of the leading causes of noncommunicable diseases (NCD<|fim_middle|> physical activity habits is a societal problem. It requires a population-based, multisectoral and culturally relevant approach.
Interventions to prevent and control the growing burden exist, and many are simple, cheap and cost effective. These can be implemented through settings based approaches that promote healthy diets and physical activity in schools, workplaces and communities. | s) including cardiovascular diseases (CVD), type 2 diabetes and certain cancers. 2.7 million deaths are attributable to diets low in fruits and vegetables.
At least 2.6 million people each year die as a result of being overweight or obese.
In 2005 approximately 1.6 billion adults (age15+) were overweight and at least 400 million adults were obese.
Children are also affected. It is estimated that, in 2005, at least 20 million children under the age of 5 years were overweight. Childhood obesity is associated with a higher chance of premature death and disability in adulthood.
Improving dietary and | 139 |
Peugeot 5008 GT Line 1.2 Puretech 130 2017 review
Peugeot's new seven-seater looks like an SUV, functions like an MPV and is decent to drive
MPV turns SUV. Does the new Peugeot 5008 offer the best of both worlds or flawed compromises?
Peugeot 5008 long-term review
Did six months with Peugeot's seven-seater prove it has a place among the largest family SUVs?
by Jesse Crosse
If you ever had the feeling that MPVs are a bit dull to look at, it's something that you apparently share with Peugeot, which has switched its new 5008 from MPV to large SUV largely because of customer preference for the latter class's muscular style.
The 5008 is classed as a large C-segment car, but you could be forgiven for thinking it's more of a fit for the D-segment, seeing as it's 190mm longer than the five-seat, C-segment Peugeot 3008 and 110mm wider than the old 5008 MPV.
The 5008 is available in five trim levels: Active, Allure, GT Line and GT. Engine choices are 128bhp and 163bhp petrol engines or 99, 118, 148 and 178bhp diesels. There's a choice of six-speed manual or six and eight-speed torque converter automatic gearboxes across the range.
The 5008's seven-seat interior is versatile, with a third row of individual seats that fold flat into the floor and can also be removed entirely to increase luggage space from 720 litres to 1060 litres.
On all models, a high-tech, 12.3in i-Cockpit digital instrument display is visible above the steering wheel, along with an 8.0in infotainment touchscreen atop the centre of the dashboard.
When is an MPV not an MPV? Because of the versatility of its interior, the 5008 offers more than the ability to carry your extended family around. The second-row seats stand out from those of competitors in that they're individual and adjustable for leg room and recline. The two third-row seats are also individual and can be pulled up from the floor in a one-touch action.
Each seat weighs 11kg and they can be removed just as easily, lifting from the floor as a folded unit. We found the seats could unfold once out if not handled the correct way, but once you've got the hang of it, they're easy to extract. There are two storage bins in the second-row floor, each neatly concealed under a trapdoor. The front seatbacks have fold-down tables and the front passenger seatback folds forward to form a picnic table.
Inside, there are satin chrome trim finishes and matt-textured surfaces throughout. GT Line trim gets you full simulated-quilted leather seats, Allure gets you part0simulated leather and the GT has full leather seats. Dashboard surfaces have a contemporary fabric-covered finish.
The 1.2-litre petrol engine is surprisingly strong and it's easy enough to take advantage of overtaking opportunities on A and B-roads, despite the 5008's size, and on the motorway it cruises without fuss, while low wind noise makes conversation easy.
The i-Cockpit set-up is slick and appealing to use with plenty of configurations available from a roller switch on the steering wheel.
To have a clear view of the screen, the steering wheel's diameter is small and its top and bottom flattened. This looks and feels a bit odd. The tablet-style 8.0in touchscreen is also mounted high, but physical switches for mode-switching make it easy to use.
The 5008's six-speed manual gearbox doesn't have the most satisfying shift; selecting first at low speed can snag slightly and the linkage could be tighter. The six-speed torque converter automatic, meanwhile, is smooth and reasonably quick-shifting, and that reflects on the smoothness of the engine and progress in general. Gear selection is by the neat electronic impulse control system, which is precise and nice to use.
The steering is on the light side – a little more weighting would be welcome. However, the 5008 has good body control, so it can handle twisting rural roads well. The cars we tried were fitted with 18in wheels, and the secondary ride was a little harsh on poor surfaces.
The Allure 1.2L Puretech 130 S&S is expected to be the biggest seller at £26,295. The entry-level is the Active 1.2L Puretech 130 S&S at £24,495 and the top-of-the-range is the GT BlueHDi EAT8 180 S&S at £35,895.
Peugeot has cleverly recognised the fact that appearance means a lot to buyers, and it's become clear how popular the SUV style<|fim_middle|> I agree, not as good as the 3008), and it has a great interior. I think it deserves to do well for Peugeot
Dear Autocar website designers,
I understand your need to bring revenue in with advertising. However, can you do it in a way that makes your site usable please?
So why only 3.5 stars? The sensible lack of 4x4 benefits internal packaging no end, making this a great family car, surely as good as a Kodiaq? Ahh, but it's not a VW group car, so therefore only 3.5 stars.
danielcoote
Impressive kerb weight
Seriously impressive kerb weight - a bit over 1300KG!
Is that right; because that is well specced focus diesel/estate weight category?
Big Jeff | is generally. In truth, the 5008 is still a 'Multi Purpose Vehicle', and a versatile, well optioned one at that. It just doesn't look like one – and that's what makes it clever.
Peugeot 5008 GT Line 1.2 PureTech 130 S&S
Location Gloucestershire; On sale Now; Price £28,195; Engine 3cyls, 1199cc, petrol; Power 128bhp at 5,500rpm; Torque 170lb ft at 1750-4300rpm; Gearbox 6-spd manual; Kerb weight 1310kg with driver; 0-62mph 10.9sec; Top speed mph; CO2/tax band 117g/km, 22%; Rivals Skoda Kodiaq, Nissan X-Trail, Hyundai Santa Fe, Kia Sorento
Thekrankis
More rhomboids...
...than a Renault.
Ghastly!
Steam cars are due a revival.
Seems like a good car.
But if it was a JLR product it would have 5 stars etc
i bet the perceived quality blah
vw less reliable.
thought I would get in there first. Do I get a prize for saying this?
SmokingCoal
Amazed that this has a 1.2litre 3 cylinder engine in a car designed for seven people. I'm not sure it'd have the grunt to get past HGVs on our motorways, so this is just a car to get the kids three or four miles to school everyday?
manicm
Another utterly predictable
Another utterly predictable review. Oooh let's not upset BMW X1 drivers, so 3.5 it will be.
giulivo
I really like it.
I find it just as desirable as a Kodiaq or Sorento.
The fact that awd is not available even as an option means that rear suspension is very space efficient, which benefits packaging.
the back end looks as though it had a prolapse
the design doe snot gel like the 3008 ,the sid eview looks at odds with the rear end ,the spoiler and rear glass looks as though it was not meant for the car.it should be called the Peugeot Prolapse.
superstevie
Sounds like a better car than
Sounds like a better car than the 3.5 star review. I think it is handsome (although | 541 |
1.<|fim_middle|> know?" You'll be amazed at how that question forces people to come up with a solution.
In conclusion, rather than being annoyed by people's complaints, use them as an opportunity to empower them, a much more useful approach. | Who do you have your attention on?
2. What's your internal conversation?
I further said that if you want to be a really effective listener, just give the other person your undivided attention. Period. Forget all this nonsense about active listening, whatever that means, eye contact, body language, and the rest. Just give the other person, whoever it is, your undivided attention. Have your internal conversation be something like: how are we both going to win here and work together.
There are certain times when it is highly desirable to generate a particular internal conversation and I'll use this post and several future ones to discuss them. If you want to read about this in detail, get yourself a copy of my book at www.UnshackledLeadership.com.
I'm sure you experience times when people come to you with a complaint. And what do we tend to do when we see a complainer coming? Close your door, get on the phone, take a bathroom break, etc. We do this because at that moment, we have our attention on ourselves and the complainer shows up as an annoyance.
Instead, get your attention on them and ask yourself internally: "I wonder what he's committed to that he's complaining?" In the vast majority of cases, when people complain, it's because they're committed to something that's not happening. If you listen for their commitment, you'll hear it every time.
So then you say: "what do you want to do about it?" Not "here's what I recommend you do about it." This is critical. You have to teach people to come up with their own solutions to their problems and not be running to you every time something doesn't work.
This is hard for most men because we love to solve other people's problems for them. Don't do it. Teach people to think for themselves.
Worst case scenario: you ask what they want to do about it and they answer: "I don't know." Simply reply: "what if you did | 411 |
Investing the bank on a solid automatic watch collection doesn't require much work. However, maintaining the quality and operation of each timepiece, well, that's where the true challenge lies. This is where buying a good watch winder becomes obligatory. Googling the product category will present you with a variety of models available directly on the Shop For<|fim_middle|> by up to 900 TBD (turns per day) and select directional settings through the dummy-proof knob positions to set them clockwise, counter clockwise or bi-directional. All-black remains a favorite, though sharp dressers will find the black/purple and orange/brown options to accommodate their hued watches.
A three-slot winder priced at over a grand is a hard sell. Just know beauty and dynamism comes at a price. Wolf chose to decorate its Exotic line with a phython-embossed texture with a chrome-plated door and black nubuck leather lining for exotic appeal, adding more swagger to your triad of wrist candy. The 2.7 module bears the same lock system as all other current Wolf winders, locking the cuff into the rotator drum for a secure fit. All the company's main features – Rotation Options, Directional Settings, and Delayed Program Starts – all remain intact. You're also given the option to run the machine on AC power through the included universal adapter or on D-cell batteries.
A travel-ready winder with the operational prowess of Wolf's more advanced offerings, the Heritage Single is an attractive model that gets the job done and fits comfortably in any weekender. The pebbled and supple faux leather exterior ensures your Seiko sits pretty and secured, even when activating the irregular rotations or pre-programming resting phases into the rotation program. Underneath its fancy sheath is a Mabuchi motor, an industry leader in silent performance that plays incredibly well with nylon gears to limit operational sound. Owners can count rotations on the quartz eye of the winder too.
Sharp design. Sharper execution. The four-piece winder is basically a scaled down version of Roadster previously mentioned, but more applicable for watch owners just building their collection. Each winding module features a lock-in cuff to fit wrist sizes in excess of 10-inches, along with patented rotation programs including intermittent rotation with pause and sleep options. Use the control knobs and buttons to adjust the cycle times and rotations programs. Silent nylon gears keep mechanical rotary as quiet as can be to keep you focused when putting in work in the executive chair. | widget. But those who are actually scrolling through the first page of results will notice one brand sitting atop of the search: Wolf.
Performance speaks in loud volume. And Wolf's stature as one of the leading watch winder manufacturers breaks the sound barrier. See if history tells you any differently.
What Makes Wolf Watch Winders That Good?
Heritage is what defines a brand. Wolf owns one predating back to 1834, where German silversmith Phillip Wolf formed the company after acknowledging his silverware sold better when presented in premium boxes. This encouraged the visionary to redirect his design efforts into creating "sophisticated jewelry cases." Fast-forward more than a century later, strong traditions and work ethics pushed Wolf to expand its accessories line, leading to the creation of its own assembly of luxury watch winders.
Wolf's created these complimentary accessories for every type of technical timepiece, especially a Rolex. Each watch winder is composed from different premium materials –faux leather, leather, and wood—depending on the collection, while employing trademark LusterLock technology that allows the fabric lining found inside jewelry cases to "absorb the hostile gases known to cause tarnishing." This same innovation is said to prevent tarnishing for up to 35 years. Non-magnetized, travel-friendly via 110/220-volt adapter, and silently operated thanks to nylon gears, sealed gearboxes, and silicon gaskets, every Wolf watch winder promotes unmatched engineering.
What Watch Winder Style Suits You?
The mechanics of Wolf's watch winders are quite uniform. Outside of say some advanced digital features and storage options, each is designed to deliver immaculate automatic execution. So while all the extra bells and whistles sound enticing, your goal is to purchase a unit to maintain and store your wristwatches. And Wolf offers something for every watch collector be it the amateur with a ticker for each wrist or the hobbyist swapping between automatics every day of the week.
Single: Boasting the largest number of winders, the Single collection settles novices in by winding up their first ticker with a special cover or extra storage.
Double: An extensive lineup of winders constructed for dual-winding.
Triple: Selective watch owners are given a handful of options to place their trio of wrist strappers on.
Quad: Made for horological trendsetters looking to showcase their handful of watches.
Six piece: Suitable for devoted watch owners needing ticking adjustments for six.
Eight piece: For the classic collector, wind up to eight watches at once.
Modular: Whether your winder supports more or fewer watches, these units add capacity as needed.
Options are a beautiful thing. Suffice to say, Wolf isn't short on them. Now let's help you find a home for those Cartiers and Omegas. Here is a look at finest Wolf watch winders money can buy.
If you're that much of a watch snob, then you seek three virtues from a watch winder: form, function, and fortune. This version of the coveted Roadster goes on to mate Wolf's signature features with a gorgeous design showcased by black pebble faux leather, chrome accents, and an Ebony Macassar wood veneer faceplate…with a price tag to match its opulent appearance. The locking glass cover makes each watch a trophy piece with each module offering enough versatility to support larger, heavier watches. Rotation options, directional settings, and other technical attributes fill up the spec sheet. Quite the decoration for any business office.
The most underrated of the batch, the Meridian collection balances elegant craftsmanship with exceptional functionality. Covering the machine is rich burl wood with gold-plated accents and control knobs that give the winder some pop. Operation is silent. Setting the number of rotations (300-1,200 TPD) and its directional movements is seamless. It's capable of accommodating larger watches too. Not to mention it's customizable through a unique modular system Wolf for watch-winding expansion. Stack as many of these beauties atop of each other once growing out your collection. If burl wood isn't your style, seriously consider the blonde or black options.
Fancy piece of hardware, right? The company boasts the Module as its "jewel of the Wolf crown." Given the status of your watch assembly, this modular winder is flawlessly engineered to allow multiple units to be stacked together for unlimited collective winding. Take advantage of increased Start Delay options ranging from 6-72 hours, monitoring rotational settings on the backlit LCD display. Again, customization is the Module 4.1's biggest selling point with 57 personal programming options accessible to users. Patented lock-in cuff technology keeps watches bound. Directional and rotation (300-1,200 TPD) options are accounted for as well. Start with one and simply add on over time rather than transitioning over to a bigger winder.
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Over 150 Make Bald Move at 10th Annual Hampton Roads Shave to Raise for St. Baldrick's Foundation
by HRSocial | on March 15th, 2013 | 7 comments
The moment her father hoisted her up onto the stage, all eyes were on her. This little sprightly girl with big, soulful eyes and long brown hair. Was she going to cry? Why is she doing this? Oh… she must have….(You pray it isn't so).
"Are you scared?" I whispered to her as my video camera ran. I captured the first buzz of the clippers as they started at the back of her head. Down tumbled locks of beautiful hair. The stylist gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder.
"No," she said. Although I detected a twinge of 'uh-oh' as her 'I'm brave' smile turned into a nervous little giggle.
Karaline Gronbeck, 9, hasn't looked in the mirror yet!
I looked over at her dad. He, with a camcorder perched up high. Capturing every moment. He seemed to fight back tears. I asked him if he was crying. He said no. I didn't believe him.
When all was done, she stared at herself in a hand held mirror and smiled. This time with pride. Mission accomplished, she hopped off the stage into the arms her mother. She and dad compared shaved heads.
Karaline and dad, Chris, compare domes. Photo by Michael Smid
Her name, I found out, is Karaline Gronbeck. She is 9 years old.
"Does she…?" I started to ask her mother, Kerry Beers-Gronbeck. I couldn't finish the sentence. I didn't know how to. But it was the question on the minds of others, I'm sure.
Karaline was one of the 170 individuals who converged on the Westin Hotel in Virginia Beach on March 9 to participate in the Annual Hampton Roads Shave to Raise, benefiting St. Baldrick's Foundation, a national non-profit that raises money to fund childhood cancer research.
In the U.S., more children die of childhood cancer than any other disease—more than AIDS, asthma, cystic fibrosis, congenital anomalies and diabetes combined.
Because kids with cancer often lose their hair during treatment, "shavees" for the St. Baldrick's Foundation show their support by shaving their heads voluntarily, and inspiring friends and family to donate money to support cancer research.
Team from Eastern Virginia Medical School are all in! Photo by Michael Smid
The question I dreaded asking Karaline's mother was whether her little girl was going through treatment.
She is not.
"She is part of Team Mad Lucky," Mrs. Beers-Gronbeck said. "The team captain lost his brother to cancer and she is here to support him," she said. "I'm very proud of her. We're all very proud of her."
(It is understandable that Karaline and other little girls at the event drew the most attention. We girls have an obsession with our hair).
The Gronbeck family: Grandmother (top left), Mom, Kerry Beers-Gronbeck (top right), Karaline holds her shaved off pony-tails (bottom left), Dad, Chris Gronbeck (middle), sister (far right). Photo by Michael Smid
Miles Williams is Team Mad Lucky's captain. He lost his brother to brain cancer three years ago.
Miles, 11, is also a shavee, looks almost unrecognizable with the 'fro he had grown for the event now completely shaved off.
"It makes me feel really good to see so many people," he says.
Under Miles' leadership, Team Mad Lucky<|fim_middle|> passion and levity. Hampton Roads Social really came through with a piece to tie it all up!" – Steven Lin
CLICK HEREto learn more about St. Baldrick's Foundation
CLICK HERE and HERE to see more photographs from Hampton Roads Shave to Raise!
Larry Woods Friday - 15 / 03 / 2013 Reply
Thank you for this beautiful article and time taken to put it together. It is very much appreciated. ~Larry Woods St. Baldricks Hampton Roads Event Organizer
HRSocial Friday - 15 / 03 / 2013 Reply
You are most welcome Larry. There is so much more to be done. You, your team, and the entire organization have inspired us to help spread the word.
David Gosser Saturday - 16 / 03 / 2013 Reply
I appreciate being included in this great article about St. Baldrick's. However, I would like to add/correct a fact: the RED Octopus Crusaders are a team composed by three families who have angels. RED represents Nina Hermes-Thompson. My Tommy is the Octopus, but the Crusaders come from Krissy Kral. I just wanted to clarify that the ROC is a team, #2 this year (always # 1, 2, or 3). We are a locus for a network of hundreds of donors, as one sick child sends ripples across the land. Finally, I must also clarify this point: I will shave my head every year to keep a promise made to my dying son, Tommy, who asked me to do it and save other children. It's an honor and a privilege to do this for such a noble, courageous, and innocent boy, for all the innocent angels, to keep their ranks from growing. Thank you for the coverage, David Gosser
HRSocial Monday - 18 / 03 / 2013 Reply
Thank you for the clarification, Mr. Gosser. We regret the error.
Mark Riva Saturday - 16 / 03 / 2013 Reply
I guess TEAM Averi had left early, we had 12 people there and I believe we raised over 8K...........
We're sorry we missed Team Averi! Congratulations on your fundraising success!
maMark Hoggard Saturday - 16 / 03 / 2013 Reply
I'm so proud to be part of this organization. What a fun way to turn around so many sad stories! Thanks for supporting us. | , consisting of 10 members between the ages of 9 and 12, raised $5,408.
Team Mad Lucky. Miles Williams (wearing glasses). Photo by Michael Smid
Like Miles, several of the shavees, including David Gosser of The Red Octopus Crusaders, have organized teams to honor the memory of their loved one. David's son, Tommy, was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma at 6 years of age. Tommy passed away in 2008 at the age of 9.
"Prior to Tommy passing, I'd heard people describe losing one's child as the worst kind of loss anyone could go through," David said. "It is true. It is absolutely true."
David Gosser, Hampton Roads Shave to Raise top individual fundraiser. Team Red Octopus Crusaders.
David, who has now dedicated his life to supporting the work of St. Baldrick's Foundation said the team chose the name "Red Octopus Crusaders" for Tommy, who loved octopi. Having raised $ $8,210.00, David is the 2013 Hampton Roads Shave to Raise top individual fundraiser. The Red Octopus Crusaders' team of 16 raised $15,585.00, making them the 2nd top fundraisers.
The 2013 Hampton Roads Shave to Raise top fundraising team, "Yes Way, Jose!" raised $19,274.96
The Red Octopus Crusaders. Photo by Michael Smid
There's no turning back now for members of Team Yes Way, Jose.
"Keep Calm, It's Just Hair" Team Yes Way, Jose seems to be saying. Photo by Michael Smid
Though for a serious cause, the shave-a-thon was anything but a somber gathering. The Westin Hotel ballroom was alive with DJ music, games, raffle drawings and opportunities to take photographs with the Tides baseball team mascot, Rip Tide. A Great Clips mascot, provided by event shaving sponsor, Jim Fridtzius, also made an appearance. Mr. Fridtzius is General Manager of nine Great Clips salons in Hampton Roads.
Great Clips shavers
Great Clips mascot was there to mingle and delight
Amber Wadtke, Mrs. Virginia International 2013 was also on site to sign autographs and pose for photographs, wowing the little girls with her rhinestone studded tiara.
From L-R: Rick Rumble (FM99, event emcee), Amber Wadtke (Mrs. Virginia International 2013), Jim Fridtzius, (General Manager, Great Clips), Larry Woods (Volunteer Event Organizer). Photo by Michael Smid
"I'm having a great time," Wadtke said. "I'm happy to be here supporting this wonderful cause."
While St. Baldrick's day is a lot of fun, raising money for childhood cancer research is urgent and crucial. At this writing, Hampton Roads Shave to Raise has raised $110,000 of the $150,000 goal. You can help them reach their goal! CLICK HERE to make a donation.
Sandy Baldwin hams it up for cameras with her long shaven locks
Adam Cuppett of Virginia Beach probably feeling a little like Samson
"As a teacher who lost a close student from his rookie year (Jose, of Team "Yes Way, Jose") to pediatric cancer, the St. Baldrick's Day Foundation has been near and dear to my heart for quite some time. This year, our campaign at Chittum Elementary School (Chesapeake, VA) yielded a new crop of fundraisers and shavees, including a school record 4 girls! It's been especially personal this year, considering the fact that one of our own, 3rd grader, Emily Friar, has been battling leukemia. Thanks for your amazing video. Its tone resonated with our feelings of solemness, mixed with | 841 |
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Public Health England (PHE<|fim_middle|> being a virtual event and without physical testing being able to take place this year.
It is felt there is need for a strong NHTW campaign in future, when conditions allow for the support of physical outreach and health promotion. There was a clear call for commissioners to support local HIV prevention efforts and show an interest in their work "so that more people in the community can be reached and get tested, leaving no one behind".
Unsurprisingly the results of the survey show the clear differences between the virtual 2021 campaign and NHTW 2019:
82% used the social media pack (NHTW 2019: 67%)
58% ordered physical resources (NHTW 2019: 82%)
32% delivered more tests than usual (NHTW 2019: 54%)
NHTW 2021 still had an impact on target communities
Despite the changes of circumstance to the delivery of this year's campaign, stakeholders still reported high levels of perceived impact in their local communities:
92% increased awareness of HIV testing amongst clients and the local community (equal to NHTW 2019)
78% agree NHTW has increased their organisations capacity to impact their community/clients (NHTW 2019: 83%)
32% raised the profile and support of HIV testing by engaging high-level public individuals (NHTW 2019: 26%)
Reactive HIV tests
We asked organisations who provide HIV testing if they had any reactive tests during the campaign.
Ten reactive tests were reported during NHTW 2021, more than NHTW 2019 (6).
Furthermore, all but one tests in 2019 were reported by community organisations, during NHTW 2021 the clear impact of the lack of physical HIV testing meant that all reactive tests were found in sexual health services (SHS). The increase in availability of online (or self-testing/self-sampling) via SHS appears to have also played a role in this change.
Thank you to everyone who took part in the evaluation survey and supported the 2021 campaign.
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Just three weeks until #HIVTestingWeek! Here's everything you need to get involved in this year's campaign⬇️
Our latest newsletter contains all the information you need to get involved in #HIVTestingWeek, plus:
🔸@NICEComms consultation on reducing STIs
🔸@UKHSA news on a case of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea in London
Read it here: https://technology-trust-news.org/5HE-7OY23-D5B41DC568AD8DD8KVS7WHF01997EC51D8BCBE/cr.aspx
We have everything your organisation needs to take part in this year's National HIV Testing Week!
#HIVTestingWeek starts Monday 7 February, get involved using:
🔹Social media pack: http://bit.ly/nhtw2022
🔹Free resources: https://hperesources.org.uk/
Get ready for National HIV Testing Week 2022
National HIV Testing Week 2022 social media pack
National HIV Testing Week 2022: Campaign briefing
New HIV diagnoses continue to fall in England
A new HIV Action Plan for England
Copyright © 2022 Terrence Higgins Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales (reg. no. 288527) , company reg. no. 1778149 and a registered charity in Scotland (reg. no. SC039986). Registered office: 437 & 439 Caledonian Road, London, N7 9BG. | ) and HIV Prevention England (HPE) are launching a campaign which will focus on raising awareness of shigella amongst gay and bisexual men (GBM). Activities for the campaign will start on Monday 28 June 2021.
Shigella transmitted by sexual contact in GBM has been on the increase in England since the start of 2018. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 saw a reduction in diagnoses, but as England emerges from lockdown we are seeing increases in the North West and Manchester, South East and London. We're seeking to promote the campaign in areas where we can access the GBM population and similar past scenarios have indicated are at risk of an increase, for example Brighton.
Due to the symptoms of shigella (severe diarrhoea, fever etc.), it is often diagnosed in primary care or emergency departments, rather than sexual health services (SHS).
Shigella transmitted by sexual contact in GBM is now more dominant than the travel-associated variant. It is important that health professionals look out for the signs of shigella in GBM who present symptoms, rather than relying on a recent history of travel abroad.
What is shigella?
Shigella is a bacterial pathogen which causes infection and can lead to severe diarrhoea and hospitalisation. In England infections are increasing in Brighton, London and Manchester and has been linked to transmission through sexual contact among GBM.
Shigella is an overlooked pathogen as a sexually transmitted infection and health professionals' knowledge about it and the current situation is very low.
This digitally based campaign aims to raise awareness of the signs, symptoms and causes of sexually transmitted shigella, and provide information to GBM who think they may have it.
The campaign is targeted to GBM in the most affected areas of England, but resources are available for all local authorities and stakeholders who are concerned about shigella in their local population.
Have you experienced a bad case of diarrhoea after sex? It could be shigella. It is often mistaken for food poisoning and is caught from bacteria in poo getting into your mouth during sex.
Find out about shigella and what are the causes, signs and symptoms. Learn how to protect yourself and what to do if you think you have caught it after sex.
Campaign promotion and resources
From Wednesday 23 June 2021:
Download the campaign social media pack [ZIP]
Download campaign posts and links [DOC]
Share our social media assets and key campaign messages through your communications channels.
Sign-post people to http://www.sexwise.org.uk/shigella
Download and print your physical resources
Available assets
'Maybe It's… Shigella' poster (size A4)
'Maybe It's Shigella' leaflet (size A6, six pages)
Please email [email protected] for more information or support.
Social Media Pack Summer 2021: I'm ready for a hot summer
We've created a social media pack to make it easy for you to get involved in the summer phase of the It Starts With Me campaign.
Download social media pack
The campaign will remind people of the importance of looking after all aspects of their sexual wellbeing with a positive, fresh and summer-themed creative, it will:
Remind people how to protect themselves from HIV, STIs and unplanned pregnancy.
Prepare people to be sexually active again and encourage them to think about the type of sex they want to enjoy.
Images: a selection of correctly sized images for use on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any other social network.
Suggested posts: examples of posts for Facebook and Instagram plus tweets for Twitter.
Links: the suggested posts for Facebook and Twitter also contain links to online tools and information from It Starts With Me and Sexwise.
NEW: for this campaign we have also created landscape digital posters for hospital and clinic TV screens and digital displays in bars and other social venues.
If you have trouble accessing the pack online please contact [email protected] with your organisations requirements (i.e. social media platform etc.).
It Starts With Me summer campaign 2021: Ready for a hot summer?
Posted on 29 April 2021 11 May 2021
The next phase of the It Starts With Me campaign will focus on raising awareness of good sexual health and wellbeing as England continues to emerge out of lockdown. The campaign will launch on Monday 17 May 2021 and will continue until the end of June, with minimal social media promotion starting Thursday 6 May 2021.
People are keen to return to the things they find pleasure in: socialising, going out and, of course, enjoying sex. The digitally based campaign will remind people how to have sex safely, how they can protect themselves and their sexual partners from HIV, STIs and unplanned pregnancy, and to encourage them to think about the sex they want to enjoy this summer.
Read and download the Summer 2021 Campaign Briefing [PDF].
Check out our social media pack for summer 2021
Update on the National HIV Prevention programme
Posted on 31 March 2021 31 March 2021
The contract for National HIV Prevention programme has been in place since 2016 and comes to its conclusion this year. Public Health England is currently progressing through the required approvals processes, with the intention of going out to procurement for the National HIV Prevention Programme shortly.
In the interim, we're pleased to confirm that the HIV Prevention England contract has been extended until Saturday 31 July 2021, utilising the underspend from the current year to enable continuation of this important work.
For any queries please contact Katie Neate, Programme Manager for HIV Prevention at Public Health England, at [email protected]
National HIV Testing Week 2021 recap
We're proud that National HIV Testing Week (NHTW) 2021 was an outstanding success despite being a very different event to the one we are all used to.
This NHTW our partners across the sector continued to show passion and enthusiasm as they engaged their local populations, albeit virtually and largely through social media channels this year.
Our campaign highlights include:
NHTW's most successful day ever with a record-breaking 8,200 HIV test kits requested on Monday 1 February. Popularity for HIV test kits was so high during this year's event that Public Health England (PHE) funded an additional 10,000 kits, enabling even more people to know their HIV status.
Our NHTW messaging was amplified across mainstream and social media, and the major broadcasters by Channel 4 drama It's A Sin which has continued to influence conversations about HIV as the series comes to a close on Friday.
More than 60 MPs testing for HIV at home, showing how easy it is to test, and engaging in important discussions based on the HIV Commission's recommendations regarding the normalisation and increased access to testing.
Celebrities and influencers including Dr Ranj, Great British Bake Off star and podcaster Michael Chakraverty, Nigerian sexologist Amos Sanasi, influential trans writer Juno Dawson, and many, many more promoting the campaign through social channels via takeover events and video messages on the importance of HIV testing.
We know thanks to the success of this year's campaign many of our stakeholders are interested to know the impact of testing kit uptake in their local area. PHE will be undertaking a review of the data over the next couple of months once most of the tests have been returned.
National HIV Testing Week evaluation results
Thank you to everyone who responded to our NHTW evaluation survey.
We received 71 responses, with more than 80% of respondents working in HIV or sexual health community organisations (41%), Sexual health clinics (32%) and Local Authorities (10%). Approximately one third of responses came from London (17%) and the South East (17%), and 14% from the North West region.
Headline results
NHTW continues to receive high levels of support from key stakeholders working in HIV prevention:
94% of respondents will support NHTW in future
97% agree NHTW is a valuable addition to their HIV prevention efforts
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was the biggest theme to emerge from the survey. There was a clear consensus that the campaign had managed to maintain its effectiveness despite the challenges of | 1,743 |
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The design community gave a mixed reaction to the in-house redesign of The Times Online when its relaunch was covered on designweek.co.uk on Monday. What do designers of such news sites need to take on board to keep them true, but interesting to their audiences?
Big deal. I can't imagine the man about town weeping over the loss of Times New Roman and as for the secondary colour palette, I'll let the bloggers quibble over that, they clearly have time on their hands. Anyway, since when did designers read The Times? I thought they were leftie Guardian-lovers. I think the point is to reach a different audience, in a new way, otherwise<|fim_middle|> of Scottish festival will depend on creative initiative | you'd
just buy a paper – it's much easier to carry around. My advice would be to forget about being true and think more about being interesting. I like the green though.
Stuart Watson, Partner, Venturethree
The act of trying to read The Times Online on-screen with its array of animated ads and pop-ups, intentionally created to divert the eye, is really annoying. The Times site is cleaner than most of its British rivals, but not as good as The New York Times' site, which has a certain dignity. I cannot see on-line editions taking over from print, but I would advocate absolute simplicity, with animation on demand only.
Mike Dempsey, Founding partner and chairman of CDT Design
I think one has to design for the audience and not based on your likes and dislikes. A designer must have some basic criteria that he or she believes to be the foundation of good design – whether for print or on-line – but then must take into account the client's briefing and goals. When it comes to news websites, functionality is the key ingredient. Users want clear navigation, easy-to-read headlines, and a sense of visual organisation. Although aesthetics play a part, it is a secondary role.
Mario Garcia, Founder, Garcia Media
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<|fim_middle|> you up. At that point, even a small detail can ruin your day. | The first and most important answer to that question is contained in the question itself. What should you expect to see? For it to be real, an offer has to be in writing. Nothing else will do.
Employers should understand this. A written offer is just as important to them as it is to you, and they should recognize your legitimate need to have something you can rely on before committing to a big change. A simple email will do, provided it spells out the offer's terms.
What's the time frame for a response? Presumably, you're happy about receiving an offer. You may be downright thrilled. Still, the offer may determine what your working life will be like for years to come. It deserves a thorough look, which doesn't imply second thoughts about the job. Rather, it's a sign that you take it seriously.
Is the offer self-contained? In other words, does it make reference to documents—details of a benefits package, for instance—without actually including them? If it does, you'll need to decide if you can accept regardless.
Who's your point of contact? Different companies handle the hiring process in different ways, and the person handling things now may be a completely new face. Find out who you should reach out to for further discussion or for answers to your questions.
If you're salaried, base compensation may be straightforward, but is a provision for bonuses spelled out? Are there performance-based variables?
If you're hourly, when does overtime kick in?
For every type of compensation, other than those inescapable taxes, are there deductions? How often are you paid?
Benefits come in two varieties, but both are enormously valuable. Some benefits, like health insurance and retirement plans, have clear monetary value, and the more information the offer contains, the better. In some cases, benefits may be subject to a vesting period—a time before they become truly yours—and that variable can have important consequences.
Other benefits, like vacation time, telecommuting options, holidays, sick days, maternity leave, and paternity leave, may be harder to valuate, but they're equally important. In terms of quality of life, they may even be more important. Again, you want as much information as possible.
Companies will often leave the details until later, but it may be worth asking some questions and getting a copy of the benefits handbook.
The ideal offer would contain a complete job description, but most fall short, with many of them simply detailing the job title you're going to assume. If you haven't already seen it, a look at the official job description can help avoid any misunderstandings.
Once the offer is made, the clock starts ticking. First, there's the deadline for accepting the offer. Next, there's the start date. There should be some indication of your expected schedule once you're on board, along with the specification of any probationary period.
Finally, not every offer, even a written one, is unconditional. There may be contingencies, like background checks or drug tests, to be satisfied before your start date. They're mere "formalities," of course, at least according to whoever is keeping things contingent, but they're quite real. Make sure you know what still needs to be done, and ask about timing. Contingencies are only formalities, until you meet one that trips | 682 |
With global ransomware attacks on the rise, computer security has once again become a recent center<|fim_middle|>0 years, ranging from network and data security to the intersection of machine learning and security.
"The further advancement of AI should be established on the premise of security," said Song, who mentioned the wildfire spread of malware accrues billions of dollars in annual damages worldwide and continues to grow in an increasingly interconnected global landscape. "As an emerging field, interdisciplinary and community efforts should be combined for future development," she added.
Joining Song in a panel discussion were Professor Li Kai from Princeton University, Chen Haibo from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Professor Zhang Zheng from NYU Shanghai and CEO & Founder of Liulishuo Wang Yi, talking about the inevitable trend of combining AI and computer security and whether China could become one of the world's leading countries in AI. | of controversy, as well as the theme of the 29th Future Forum Lecture organized by Future Forum, NYU Shanghai and KPMG China, held on campus on July 8th.
Hundreds of science enthusiasts gathered at the Pudong campus for a lecture and panel discussion over the future of AI and Security, and whether the key to stronger, more reliable security exists within the "super brain" of rapidly developing AI technologies.
"The Future Forum adheres to a critical part of the University's mission--facilitating dynamic interaction among academic researchers, entrepreneurs, business leaders and public and private sectors," said Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman.
Keynote speaker and UC Berkeley Professor Dawn Song shared her rich experience in computer security and deep learning research over the past 2 | 153 |
Chemo 'Cocktail' Embraced as Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 19, 2018 — When researchers announced that a four-drug chemotherapy regimen can add years to the lives of some patients with earlier-stage pancreatic cancer, doctors didn't wait.
Trial results were released last spring, and were immediately "practice-changing," said Dr. Hedy Kindler, an oncologist at the University of Chicago who was not involved in the trial.
Dr. James Biagi, one of the researchers on the trial, made the same point. "The standard of care changed overnight," said Biagi, an associate professor of oncology at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.
Experts say the findings represent major progress against a highly lethal disease.
In the study of nearly 500 patients with earlier-stage pancreatic tumors, researchers<|fim_middle|> even able to have surgery. For most patients, the disease has already spread too extensively for surgery to be an option.
So the majority of pancreatic cancer patients do not stand to benefit from this approach.
In the United States, it's estimated that roughly 55,400 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year, according to the American Cancer Society. More than 44,000 will die of the disease.
Pancreatic cancer carries a grim prognosis, in part, because it is often diagnosed late. There is no screening test for it, and people often have no symptoms until the cancer has spread, the cancer society says.
The only chance for a cure, Biagi said, is if the disease is caught early enough for the tumor to be surgically removed. The standard of care has been to follow surgery with six months of chemotherapy — with a drug called gemcitabine.
But even then, 69 percent to 75 percent of patients have a recurrence within two years, according to Biagi's team.
In their trial, the researchers tested the effects of a four-drug chemo regimen versus standard chemo with gemcitabine. The regimen is a modified version of one already used for advanced pancreatic cancer. At that point, there is no hope for a cure — but research shows that the regimen (called FOLFIRINOX) can help those patients live longer.
Biagi's team randomly assigned 493 patients to six months of either standard chemo or FOLFIRINOX following their surgery.
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After three years, 63 percent of patients given the chemo cocktail were still alive, and 40 percent were free of a recurrence. Of patients given standard chemo, just under 49 percent were alive, and 22 percent were recurrence-free.
The overall median survival in the FOLFIRINOX group was 54 months — compared with 35 months in the standard-care group.
The four-drug chemo came at a cost of more side effects, however. Three-quarters of patients had more serious "grade 3 or 4" side effects, versus 53 percent of those on standard chemo.
Those side effects included diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, fatigue and nerve damage in the limbs.
Not every patient who has surgery for pancreatic cancer would be a candidate for FOLFIRINOX, according to Biagi. The chemo needs to begin within 12 weeks of surgery, so patients have to recover well enough to tolerate that.
Ultimately, Biagi and Kindler said, researchers need to find ways to catch pancreatic cancer earlier — and keep digging into the underlying biology of the disease, to develop more precise treatments.
"This new [chemotherapy] standard is an important step forward," Biagi said. "But it's not a complete answer."
The American Cancer Society has more on pancreatic cancer.
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By the end of the study, the median survival rate among those patients was 54 months — or 4.5 years. "Median" refers to the midpoint on the survival spectrum, so half the patients survived longer than that, while half died sooner.
In the world of pancreatic cancer treatment, the results are "remarkable," said Kindler.
"We've never seen a median survival of 54 months in this disease," she said. "That's far beyond what we expected."
Kindler wrote an editorial published with the study in the Dec. 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The trial results were first released at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in June.
"We all went home and changed how we treat this group of patients," Kindler said. "We didn't wait."
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There are times when going to the grocery store is a mundane chore. Then there are visits that yield new treasures. Such was the case when I discovered these two products and splur<|fim_middle|> didn't look good – actually, the spread looked exactly like smooth Skippy peanut butter, which I detest (I'm a Teddie Peanut Butter lover). But I grabbed a spoon and dipped into the creamy substance. The only way I can describe the taste of Biscoff is "melted cookies." That first lick led to the thick slathering of an otherwise healthy rice cake. I knew instantly I'd made a friend for life.
The laundry took a little longer to appreciate, but when I pulled out that first load of warm clothes from the dryer, I smelled the fresh clean scent that I've been using ever since. I can't say it smells anything like lemon verbena, but there's a distinct clean scent that is subtly comforting.
These two habits of mine aren't cheap when compared to similar products, but when I consider the cost of other luxuries I'd like to enjoy, such as weekly nail appointments, regular facials or a live-in housekeeper, I feel like I'm actually saving money. Right?
Biscoff has become a regular pantry item for us since you told us about it – some time ago!! Tom said it tastes like graham crackers, but I like your description MUCH better! Melted cookies! Yummmmmm or YUM-O in the words of Rachel Ray! Thanks for posting Lee, I loved it. | ged on the unknown. Oh, happy day.
On an afternoon when I broke my cardinal rule of not going to the grocery store hungry, I happened upon Biscoff Spread in the deli section, right next to Nutella. The proximity of this mysterious spread to my long-loved one led me to believe that the two spreads must be deliciously related in some way, which naturally meant Biscoff must be mine immediately.
Perusing the store further led me to a display of Mrs. Meyer's cleaning products. I had read in some forgotten article that the Lemon Verbena laundry scent was a favorite, and before I knew it, Mrs. Meyer's was nestled comfortably next to Biscoff in my cart. Those who know me understand that I have a keen sense of smell (which is sometimes a curse) and love nicely scented things.
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The rise of robots, and opportunities for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, were some of the topics that were discussed at the annual Leading Women Summit in Johannesburg.
Embracing the use of technology in the workplace is discussed at the Leading Women Summit in Johannesburg on 8 March 2017. The speakers on the panel are, from left: Jo-Ann Pohl of Telesure Investment Holdings, Lindani Dhlamini of SekelaXabisa, Bernice Samuels of MTN, and Gugulethu Cele, the moderator. (Image Melissa Javan)
Digital fluency was something we needed to teach everyone, Accenture's Roze Phillips said at the Leading Women Summit. Coinciding with International Women's Day, the second annual summit, themed "Disrupting the norm", was held in Johannesburg on 8 March 2017.
This complemented the International Women's Day theme of "Be Bold for Change". It is, according to the International Women's Day site, a call on women to "help forge a better working world; a more inclusive, gender equal world".
.The Leading Women Summit, hosted in collaboration with Forbes Woman Africa and MTN Business, was held at Montecasino in Fourways, Johannesburg.
More women needed in STEM careers
Maria Tulumello, head of human resources for sub-Saharan Africa at General Electric (GE), spoke about the impact of having women in the technology and manufacturing sectors.
Women were still underrepresented in the science, mathematics and engineering industries, she said. One of GE's goals was 20,000 women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) roles by 2020. To date it had 13,700 women in STEM, said Tulumello.
A discussion was held was about the business of social media influencers. Watch the session with social media influencers Aisha Baker, Theodora Lee and Tshepang Mollison, here:
Will robots replace humans?
Phillips, who is the managing director of consulting at Accenture, was on the panel discussion "Forbes Woman Africa Cover Story: The rise of the machines". The discussion centred on whether robots would replace humans in the workplace.
According to Phillips, everyone should be taught how to operate in the digital world. She suggested that people should teach those around them to be digitally fluent. "Teach your girls how to code; teach women, for example, how to do internet banking."
Artificial intelligence understood natural language, Phillips said. "They (robots) can sense things. They can act, these artificial robotics. Knowledge is no longer a commodity."
Although the rise of robotics would lead to job losses, other jobs would be created. "The choice of how we engage with technology is ours. The problems we have now, we should solve now."
Phillips added: "We have the opportunity to take the human-centred approach first."
Ryan Beech, managing director of and chief roboticist at Ryonic Robotics, said there would definitely be job losses. "But we can build skills and train people, especially to work on the robotics."
Charmaine Houvet, public policy director Africa at Cisco South Africa, said it was important to remember that robotics did not exist on their own. "There will be intelligence and we will be in charge of things like that."
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People should be mindful that there were many jobs available in engineering, for example. "The top jobs available are, for example, web developers and system engineers."
Fuzlin Levy-Hassen, senior manager of new industries at the Industrial Development Corporation, said she did not believe that people would be replaced by robotics. "There are cases where we need robots, for example where there's a health hazard concern for people in a working environment."
Creating sustainable employment was important to the corporation, she added.
Using technology to our advantage
Several speakers on the panel, "A for artificial intelligence, B for business, C for C-suite and D for disruption" spoke about how companies should adjust to technology in their businesses.
Lindani Dhlamini, CEO of audit firm SekelaXabiso, said the firm had to embrace the use of technology to accommodate its clients. It would be irrelevant if it did not change according to its clients' needs.
"Technology is here to stay – we have to embrace the use of technology."
Dhlamini advised that businesses needed to be structured for change. "Businesses can leverage off their clients and their suppliers, for example. They must be built for change."
The biggest constraint to technology was how to humanise it, said Bernice Samuels, group executive manager at MTN.
We needed to be adaptable and innovative, she said. "You need to read the market appropriately and see how you can be helpful in other people's lives."
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"South Africa's disruptive mobile apps" was another panel discussion. In this session moderator Alexander Liebner spoke to Cara Lee Hedding, the marketing manager at Zomato, and Ailyssa Khan, the restaurant operations manager at UberEats.
Khan revealed that people mostly ordered healthy foods during the week through the UberEats app, while on weekends it was mostly pizzas and pastas. There was high orders traffic on Sunday evenings.
Hedding said that 65% of Zomato's users were women.
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Heavy ion collisions and black hole dynamics
Steven S. Gubser
Relativistic heavy ion collisions create a strongly coupled quarkgluon plasma. Some of the plasma's properties can be approximately understood in terms of a dual black hole. These properties include shear viscosity, thermalization time, and drag force on heavy quarks. They are hard to calculate from first principles in QCD. Extracting predictions about quarkgluon plasmas from dual black holes mostly involves solving Einstein's equations and classical string equations of motion. AdS/CFT provides a translation from gravitational calculations to gauge theory predictions. The gauge theory to which the predictions apply is $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-YangMills theory. QCD is different in many respects from super-YangMills, but it seems that its high temperature properties are similar enough for us to make some meaningful comparisons.
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Discussion in 'MacBook Pro' started by lam93, Aug 31, 2011.
Im in the market for a macbook pro, with rumors swirling around that a new model is on the horizon the quest is should i buy now? Aside from external changes will there be any internal advancements?
Allow me to switch gears here for sec, the reason why i am in the market for one is because I just got a promotion at my firm, goldman sachs, and received a lofty bonus. I also feel this will increase my productivity.
I'm waiting, I think you should too. I'd hate to spend $2000+ on a computer today to only find out a new redesigned MBP will be released 6-8 weeks later.
But it's all rumors, but Apple have to redesign the MBP sometime, I guess.
Nothing will be able to change my mind from the 2012 17" Macbook Pro. Not even the 27" iMac.
Any computer is old and outdated as soon as you buy it anyway, so it all comes down to this: do you need it? I need one, I'm going to buy MBP next week, if I did have like older MBP or MacBook that worked, I might wait.
That's up to you if you want to buy a MBP when there's rumors of a redesign, if it was just a new processor with the unibody, I might buy one now.
I can't imagine they'll update this year. Maybe first quarter next year, or possibly around the time that the Ivy Bridge CPUs are released.
I would say, if you want to be able to upgrade it yourself<|fim_middle|>, I hope they don't do them air-like. If I wanted air, I'd buy an air. I like the sturdyness of the MBP. I like that size, it's not clumsy, it's not too thin. It's perfect the way it is.
Only thing I'd actually want as far as redesigning goes is some more I/O options like HDMI and USB3 -- although USB3 will probably not be supported until Ivy Bridge. | (HDD/RAM), I'd probably go for the current MBP.
If the next model has a more tapered redesign as has been suggested, you can wave goodbye to the Superdrive, you're more than likely not going to be able to upgrade the storage on your own, and whether or not you'll still be able to upgrade RAM without Apple's help is anyone's guess.
I'd go with the current model. Great machine.
Rumours of a redesign are nothing but rumours, and the only time I've seen them mentioned are by forum members here, not by any reputable source.
OP, buy away if you need one now, if you can wait, be my guest.
An Ivy Bridge, USB 3 MBP next year is very possible.
I'm looking forward to an Ivy Bridge MBP.
If you feel that this purchase will increase your productivity, you should go and buy it immediately; don't waste time worrying about updates that may or may not come.
If they do come soon (not that I think they would), you already increased your productivity in the meantime which should already make it a worthwhile investment. If an update comes a lot later, than again you saved time, increased productivity, and it would prove to be a good investment in the meantime.
If you need it, buy it. If you don't, then don't. I played that game for 3 years, started researching the MacBook when the first unibody came out in October 2008, didn't buy then and kept talking myself out of it. Finally bought one about a month ago and LOVE IT! You don't know what you're missing until you start using it, this thing is awesome.
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The Daily Dot wants to be a small town paper for the entire Internet
Heather Kelly August 22, 2011 9:01 PM
The biggest hurdle to enjoying The Daily Dot, a fun new online news site that launches today, is that its premise is based on a bad metaphor: The Internet is a community and The Daily<|fim_middle|> to fans of Tosh.0, a comedic TV show that summarizes things happening on the Internet. It features a reoccurring bit where the host tracks down the stars behind viral videos and interviews them. The Daily Dot wants to take that one-note joke, go deeper, and apply it to the entire Internet.
"You can talk to your neighbors and people you already know, but how do you know what's going on in the broader world?" asked Thomas. "How do you know what's going on in Twitter?" | Dot is its local paper.
The Daily Dot is an online-only news outlet that reports on the colorful goings-on in virtual "communities" such as Reddit, Tumblr, 4chan and Twitter. The startup was founded by serial entrepreneur Nova Spivack and CEO Nicholas White, formerly of Sandusky Newspapers. To direct editorial content, they brought former VentureBeat editor Owen Thomas on board as founding editor. (I have no personal connection to Thomas.)
"Day-to-day coverage will focus on 'neighborhoods.' Sites like Reddit, like Digg and like Etsy are really like cities. And the web is like a large country of itself," explained Thomas in an interview with VentureBeat.
In lieu of traditional datelines, The Daily Dot kicks-off most articles with the icon of the community it's reporting on, such as Facebook or Twitter. Content is organized similarly to a real local paper, with general categories that include News, Entertainment, Culture, Business and Politics. There's a comics page that features a handpicked collection of comics from around the web.
One thing that small town papers offer that the New York Times or Washington Post don't is the chance for locals to see their name in an article. The Daily Dot recognizes this and plays it up with its Dot Leaderboard Profiles page (seen on the right), which shows rankings of the most popular people from the various online communities.
So far The Daily Dot has raised just under $600,000 in funding from media investors and executives, with commitments for more if needed. The staff of 25 people, 13 of whom are editorial, are dispersed across the U.S.
The Daily Dot isn't just aggregating or highlighting the most popular online stories, posts, trending topics or videos of the day. Its reporters pick up the phone (or send the Direct Message, as the case may be) and contact the people involved to get the real story. The Dot's Writers are applying traditional newspaper reporting techniques, and all the who, what, when, where and why that it entails, to narratives that often take place entirely online. Many of the resulting articles are great, engaging reads that other outlets would have missed. For example, one of its early articles was an obituary of a contributor to Etsy Bitch — someone whose passing might have gone unnoticed outside the small circle of Etsy fans and critics who read that blog.
The Daily Dot also did a good profile of the family behind a viral YouTube video that showed a little girl dancing with a dead squirrel. "We called up the parents and asked them what they were thinking. And it turned out they had a really good story," said Thomas. "It kind of changed their life. They were living off the grid, raising their daughter without internet access in their home. Now the mom is a YouTube microstar."
Some early articles seem forced: Not every viral YouTube video needs a back-story or every Reddit fight a followup. But The Daily Dot's approach is admirably ambitions, and will probably be hit-and-miss while it finds its footing. Once you give in, the content is entertaining and the layout attractive. The site design is graphic-heavy and inviting, with an ample amount of cats in true Internet style.
Some of The Daily Dot's reporting may seem familiar | 668 |
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The Atlantic Launches New Health Channel to Augment Web Brand
One and a half century old publication The Atlantic has adapted well to the medium of web-publishing- beating out much younger titles in its transition to digital publishing- and announced earlier this week that it is adding to its web content offerings with a new channel focused on health.
Taking over for the current "Life" channel, the "Health" channel will encompass "mind, body, food, sex, family, and public health," according to AdWeek. Editorial director of Atlantic Digital Bob Cohn says the property made the decision based on traffic patterns, and noted that the addition of a channel focused on health enables The Atlantic to delve further into "service content." Cohn says:
"We're going from health being a subset of the Life channel to realizing it is a subject of huge interest to readers and where there are things happening [that] we should be on top of… It's a mix of news and at the center of news and personal service, whichis a good place to be on the Web."
The Atlantic's new "Health" channel is now live, and Cohn said that other, similar forays into further verticals are planned in 2012 | 261 |
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Better portfolio management —<|fim_middle|> monitoring the project progress under the respective program manager's supervision. Multiple programs were running concurrently, and they were giving feedback to the strategy on their closure. The project execution followed the typical life-cycle management. It became the responsibility of the program manager to sequence the components appropriately to obtain the benefits. On user acceptance of the deliverables, the transition management was undertaken.
Since the client had long-established processes, the transition management took more time, as the functional members needed to unlearn the old ways of doing and imbibe the current ways of doing as a part of operations. Lots of handholding and helpdesk support were provided here. The target operating model defined for the program got implemented appropriately using these programs. When the benefits got realized, (like increase in repeat orders from the customers for the CRM program), the programs themselves got closed, giving feedback to strategy.
Following is a list of key actions the client took to facilitate the success of this portfolio management initiative.
i) The client had constituted a portfolio review board for better governance. The board reviewed program progress reports along with a live dashboard depicting the progress of various initiatives.
ii) Reward and recognition systems were aligned appropriately to induce the senior managers to achieve the performance targets.
iii) Appropriate change management techniques, including application of organizational models for change management, were used.
iv) A centralized resource management group (RMG) was formed to effectively channelize the resource utilization across multiple change initiatives. This enabled effectively managing the dependencies across various change initiatives in light of resource constraints.
Organizing knowledge portals and imparting trainings for PPM maturity enhancement.
The COE was instrumental in organizing health checks, facilitating assurance reviews and updating the knowledge portal, during the closure of portfolio components. The COE also facilitated project portfolio management maturity assessments and implementation of benefit sustenance plans to ensure that the post-program benefits continued to accrue and the conglomerate was constantly refining its PPM processes for continuous improvement.
The client rolled out the initiatives in phases. Initially there was a huge scepticism amongst some of the functional managers on its success, as they had seen many change initiatives being launched with big fanfare and then floundering. The sustained management commitment, championed by the CEO, made all the difference in its success this time.
By the end of the third year of the implementation, the revenues had gone up by 14% from the base level before the portfolio reorganization.
More importantly, improving top-line and bottom-line figures restored the staff's confidence, reducing attrition and increasing their morale. The conglomerate was also able to gain tighter control over the execution of its projects and programs, by using the best practices instituted by the COE.
An aspect that required improvement related to better-aligned reward and recognition systems with the personnel achievements. The director of human resources subsequently worked on this aspect, to ensure better congruence between project portfolio performance and rewards Supply chain management systems were also tuned up to ensure better operational efficiency towards benefits achievement.
S. Ramani has more than 25 years of experience in the technology and management consulting industry, spanning key account management; project, program, and portfolio management; management consulting (with PwC Consulting); strategy/portfolio development for IT; and client relationship management.
He has more than 20 years of project/program management, including consulting experience, having successfully led multiple large projects/programs for ERP implementations, business-systems integration, and IT strategy development. These projects/programs were implemented in diverse sectors, including in discrete and process manufacturing, automotive, FMCG, retail, and finance.
Ramani holds multiple professional certifications, including PMI-RMP, PMP, PgMP, and PfMP from PMI. He has multiple practitioner certifications from AXELOS/APMG, UK, including PRINCE2®, MSP®, MoP®, M_o_R®, P3O®, Change Management, MoV®, Agile PM, and Benefits Management. His company, GRT Consulting LLP, specializes in providing niche consulting and coaching professional services in the areas of portfolio/program management and for PPM maturity enhancement.
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This paper discusses a client's engagement on how the perspectives of portfolio, program, and project management were integrated and implemented for better business performance. It highlights how this approach enabled the design of an optimal portfolio, resulting in achievement of the strategic objectives of the organization.
The client was a conglomerate with diverse lines of business (LOBs). The business goals and the environments in which the LOBs were operating were inherently diverse. The client faced competition from multiple players, who were seriously eroding the market share. This was a serious concern to the client's top management, who had commissioned an engagement to redefine and implement the portfolio.
c) Commissioning multiple projects to develop required products and services.
This engagement had a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches, to address the continuity of existing change initiatives and stakeholder concerns.
We also emphasize that portfolio/program managers need to speak in business language in a consultative approach to ensure business buy-in and commitment.
Many companies excel in designing strategy. However, its execution poses more challenges. This is more so in an organization with diversified business lines. This paper addresses how the portfolio was redesigned in an ongoing business environment, and how challenges were addressed in a diversified conglomerate.
The client was a conglomerate in diversified business lines, including fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), agricultural commodities (Agri), and consumer lifestyle product group (CPG).
These business lines were inherited from multiple group companies as a part of a family-owned business consolidation and diversification over a couple of decades. Whereas the individual lines of business (LOBs) were given autonomy to run their businesses independently, all the LOBs were using the common shared services, including human resources (HR), information technology (IT), and procurement. The business goals and the environments in which the LOBs were operating were inherently diverse. Whereas the FMCG operated in a highly volatile market, the Agri-commodity business was subject to regulatory restrictions. The CPG (mainly catering to home furnishings) was influenced by trends in lifestyle fashions and other factors.
The client's governance board, consisting of the CEO, the heads of the LOBs, and the directors/heads of shared services, centrally controlled their business from their headquarters. Since the business was diversified, the client faced competition from multiple players, including niche players, seriously affecting their market share.
Progressive deterioration of internal processes, including product life-cycle management, shared services support, and marketing and sales, leading to avoidable delays and wastage and adding to costs.
The CEO and the top management were quite concerned about the state of affairs, and they took multiple steps to redress the situation. An internal study ratified their overall corporate vision, mission, and strategic objectives.
The client had also commissioned a consortium of consulting companies to recommend ways to address the business problems noted above. The consortium was asked to look into what kind of change initiatives the client should undertake to achieve the strategic objectives and how to execute them well to obtain the intended benefits.
This paper discusses how the multiple steps in the engagement were integrated and how this approach benefited the client immensely.
a) The redesign of the project portfolio should lead to realization of the intended benefits, which were critical for achieving the strategic objectives of the organization. These metrics were defined and quantified (for instance, increase in revenue growth of the company by 15% in three years).
b) In addition, the client wanted to institute a robust system to enhance the project portfolio management (PPM) maturity of the organization in managing its change initiatives. The client was keen to cut down the cost overruns by at least 8% and time overruns by at least 5% for all critical projects, in so far as projects were concerned.
a) Assess the existing project portfolio and its strategic fitment.
b) Redesign the organizational portfolio to address the strategy.
c) Implement the programs and obtain the benefits.
d) Execute the projects for delivery management.
e) Enhance the organizational project portfolio management maturity.
We detail out the major steps taken for this engagement.
The client had an ongoing portfolio of change initiatives across multiple strategic objectives. Though these initiatives (including programs and projects) were initially broadly aligned to prior strategic objectives, over the course of years, many of them became redundant or misaligned with current strategy.
As the client's vision, mission, and strategic objectives were reiterated, we (from the engagement team) were entrusted with the responsibility of designing/updating the portfolio for the conglomerate. We undertook a PESTLE (political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental) analysis to understand the forces affecting the client business and their relative strengths. Different LOBs in the client business lines were impacted differently by these PESTLE factors (for example, the Agri-business was getting more impacted by regulatory and compliance-related factors, and the CPG and FMCG divisions were more influenced by economic forces).
The PESTLE analysis was followed by a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis, which highlighted the strong and weak points of the client. Since the client has been in business for a long time, they had a good brand name and loyalty. However, the levels of service and innovation had slowly deteriorated over the years, leading to erosion of its market share.
iii) Few strategic objectives not having adequate support from the change initiatives.
By this analysis, it was demonstrated that close to 20% of the existing change initiatives' budget could be reduced by rationalizing the applications. The client undertook this pruning, which also released valuable resources for implementation of the redesigned portfolio.
The team then determined the core strategies for LOBs. For Agri-business, customer intimacy was paramount, whereas for the FMCG LOB, being a cost leader was the chosen strategy. The CPG LOB focused on product differentiation. These strategy routes enabled the client to consider various change initiatives.
The client had also applied balanced scorecard techniques (Kaplan & Norton, 1996) to ascertain which initiatives to take up at financial, customer-facing, internal process, and learning/development perspectives. For instance, for the Agri-business, unprofitable product lines were stopped and the resources released (from the financial perspective). From the customer-facing perspective, new products were developed in co-creation with intensive customer involvement. Supply chain processes were tightened from the internal perspective, and the field agents were given extensive training on product features (from the learning and development perspective). Similar change initiatives were designed for other LOBs based on the corresponding strategic themes and the value maps. The overall set of change initiatives selected constituted the first-cut portfolio.
This portfolio was assessed in terms of the company's overall capability and its long-term objectives. We had enabled the client to reorganize their portfolio office, which played an important role in its rationalization.
Since there were ongoing change initiatives, it was necessary to accommodate them in the overall design of the portfolio appropriately.
Existing initiatives were reviewed in terms of strategic fitment during this inclusion. As noted earlier, this very reorganization of the portfolio enhanced its delivery capability with focus. This blending of top-down and bottom-up portfolio definition enabled the client to devise new initiatives to address their strategy, at the same time not upsetting the ongoing initiatives significantly.
The portfolio prioritization criteria were appropriately set for various LOBs to ensure that critical projects and programs did not lose out to higher-value support types of initiatives. The consortium consultant team, along with the client senior management, finalized the portfolio deployment plan. This process involved multiple iterations to get their buy-in. We also worked with the portfolio office to devise portfolio progress tracking systems and dashboards.
Once the portfolio got defined, constituent programs were launched. We did extensive work in benefits profiling and understanding which projects to take up to get which benefits.
One of the representative programs that we took up was related to improving the customer relationship management (CRM) system for the CPG LOB. This program consisted of multiple projects, including those for measuring customer satisfaction, reducing the customer complaints turnaround time, and improving the supply chain management system. Target key performance indicators (KPIs) were set for each of these programs, and the consultant team worked backward to identify the outcomes that needed to be placed and the detailed definition of project outputs that needed to get produced. Operational departments were extensively consulted on when the projects should be taken up and when the benefits were expected, in alignment with their change readiness.
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The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) is forecasting a rebound in visitor arrivals in 2010 with moderate growth expected for the region on the heels of positive indicators from the fourth quarter of 2009.
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Comment by David Paul Appell on January <|fim_middle|>,000 inhabitants per year, one of the highest rates in the world, according to the Economist.
With 550 homicides in 2008, Trinidad and Tobago has a rate of about 55 murders per 100,000 making it the most dangerous country in the Caribbean and one of the most dangerous in the world, according to press reports.
The rate of assaults, robbery, kidnapping and rape in Trinidad and Tobago is also among the highest in the world.
According to a report issued by the United States State Department, gang-related homicides and other crimes will continue to increase in Trinidad and Tobago in 2009 and 2010.
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Last night I attended a French St. Martin dinner, presentation and mini-trade fair in Miami Beach. Great product, great people -- and famous artist Sir Roland Richardson was there, too! Anyone have any recent thoughts/observations on the island to share?
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Especiallty all of us who love the Caribbean need to band together right now to support the relief agencies starting to pour aid into Haiti after the total devastation wrought by this week's earthquake...
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Comment by Patricia Borns on December 15, 2009 at 3:20pm
History tells us that none of the colonial powers were all that great, but England tended to circle the wagons around their culture more than others. Perhaps that's contributed to problems today.
Comment by Ed Wetschler on December 15, 2009 at 3:11pm
Funny thing is, Max, when I was a young high school teacher, we taught that all things being relative, the English handled their colonies better than the French or Spanish. Maybe so, yet as you know, the French islands (perhaps with the exception of Martinique) seem to indicate otherwise. That said, there's a lot to love in Grenada, the BVI, Barbados, St. Lucia, Dominica, Antigua, Anguilla....Just have to watch your back in some spots. And the governments of T/T, Jamaica, and Spanish-speaking DR, among other places, really must do a better job training cops to respond. That said, a murder rate that increases 38% may not be as bad as it sounds, given its foundation on such a small population (and, ergo, murder rate) in the first place. But thanks for posting this.
Comment by Max Pesling on December 15, 2009 at 2:00pm
Wow, so now it looks like when it comes to security problems, Trinidad/Tobago may soon outstrip Jamaica! Another reason I'm not wild about the English Caribbean. Anybody care to comment?
Trinidad, Tobago emerge as murder capitals
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Trinidad and Tobago have overtaken Jamaica in a dubious distinction: the "murder capital of the Caribbean."
"Although much of the violence is gang-related, in recent years tourists have increasingly become targets for robbery, sexual assault and murder," says CDNN. INFO.
While homicides increased two percent in Jamaica in 2008, murders were up 38 percent in Trinidad and Tobago.
The US and the UK issued travel advisories warning travelers about increasing violence and the failure of police in Tobago to apprehend and prosecute criminals.
A US travel advisory warns travelers that armed robbers have been trailing tourists as they depart international airports in Trinidad and Tobago. It said:
"Violent crimes, including assault, kidnapping for ransom, sexual assault and murder, have involved foreign residents and tourists (and) incidents have been reported involving armed robbers trailing arriving passengers from the airport and accosting them in remote areas…the perpetrators of many of these crimes have not been arrested."
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Women's Volleyball Tops Ohio State For Second Straight Time
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After three straight victories on the road, including a sweep over Ohio State Wednesday night in Columbus, the No. 3 Penn State Nittany Lions welcomed the No. 11 Buckeyes into Rec Hall for a Top 15 showdown.
The Nittany Lions took three out of four sets, winning 25-15, 25-16, 19-25, 25-14. Their record improved to 20-2 (9-2 Big Ten) on the year while the Buckeyes fell to 19-4 (8-3 Big Ten).
Haleigh Washington led a well-balanced Nittany Lion attack in the first set, tallying six kills and a block in the opening frame. Senior Megan Courtney, playing in her first home match since returning from a foot injury, registered four kills<|fim_middle|> who according to Penn State head coach Russ Rose is "One of the best hitters in the country." Sandbothe and teammate Audra Appold led the Ohio State offensive surge with five kills apiece in the third set.
Nittany Lion fans held their breath during a scary moment late in the third set as star Haleigh Washington went tumbling awkwardly into the net after a failed attempt at a kill. She was able to get up and walk off the court under her own power.
"My shoes were untied," she said jokingly postgame. "There's nothing to it. I'm fine."
Penn State needed a strong start to set four after dropping the previous set, and that is exactly what they got. Ohio State hit the perfect ball off of a beautiful set, but freshman Keeton Holcomb was able to make a stellar dig after which Ali Frantti lightly tapped over the net for the first point of the set.
"It was huge," added Whitney, referencing to the way they opened up the set. "We were able to get our confidence back and find our rhythm for the rest of the match."
The Nittany Lions went on a 10-2 run towards the end of the match in order to seal the win.
"Anytime you can beat a quality team like Ohio State two times in a row, it says a lot about the character of these kids," said a relieved Rose postgame.
Penn State is next in action on November 5 at 7 p.m. at Maryland in the first of four straight on the road.
Tom Shively is a freshman majoring in broadcast journalism. You can contact him at shivelyt97@gmail.com.
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A Person and Her Music: Angela Urbano | for the Lions.
The second set was very similar to the first set in that Penn State took an early lead and never looked back en route to a nine point margin of victory. Six different players had a kill for the Nittany Lions as they tallied 14 for the set next to only two errors.
Ohio State continued to shoot themselves in the foot with six errors on 11 kills for a dismal .152 hitting percentage.
To Ohio State's credit, they did not fold after falling down two sets to none. They came out fighting in the third set, which took the Nittany Lions by surprise. Most of the blame can be put on the seven errors from Penn State.
"Sometimes people can tense up and that's how errors happen," said senior Aiyana Whitney. "We thought we had the game won when obviously we didn't and that allowed them back into it."
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Le Lycée des cancres (Rock 'n' Roll High School) est un film américain réalisé par Allan Arkush et sorti en 1979.
Synopsis
Riff Randell, une lycéenne, rêve de rencontrer Joey Ramone.
Fiche technique
Titre français : Le Lycée des cancres ou Surboum au lycée
Titre original : Rock 'n' Roll High School ou Disco High
Réalisation : Allan Arkush
Scénario : Richard Whitley, Russ Dvonch, Joseph McBride, Allan Arkush et Joe Dante
Photographie :<|fim_middle|>70 | Dean Cundey
Montage : Larry Bock et Gail Werbin
Production : Michael Finnell
Société de production : New World Pictures
Société de distribution : Eurogroup (France) et New World Pictures (États-Unis)
Pays de production :
Langue originale : anglais américain
Format : Couleur Metrocolor - 1,85:1 - 35 mm
Genre : comédie, film musical
Durée : 93 minutes
Dates de sortie :
États-Unis :
France :
Distribution
P. J. Soles : Riff Randell
Vincent Van Patten : Tom Roberts
Clint Howard : Eaglebauer
Dey Young : Kate Rambeau
Mary Woronov : Miss Togar
Paul Bartel : Mr. McGree
Dick Miller : Police Chief
Don Steele : Screamin' Steve Stevens
Alix Elias : Coach Steroid
Loren Lester : Fritz Hansel
Daniel Davies : Fritz Gretel
Lynn Farrell : Angel Dust
Joey Ramone : lui-même
Johnny Ramone : lui-même
Dee Dee Ramone : lui-même
Marky Ramone : lui-même
Production
Accueil
Le film a reçu un accueil positif de la critique. Il obtient un score moyen de 70 % sur Metacritic.
Notes et références
Liens externes
Film américain sorti en 1979
Film musical américain de comédie
Film sur le rock
Ramones
Film musical américain des années 19 | 328 |
Blake Lively is "so grateful" to the team that helped put together her look for the Golden Globe Awards.
The 29-year-old actress took to Instagram with a sweet message for those who helped make her stunning black-and-gold Versace gown.
"It takes a village," Lively wrote on Wednesday next to a snapshot of four seamstresses working intently on the hand-beaded creation. "Thank you ladies. I remember hand gluing plastic stones onto my prom dress. And I was (and still am) so proud of it. Can't believe this is what goes into a dress I get to wear now. So grateful."
It takes a village. Thank you ladies. I remember hand gluing plastic stones onto my prom dress. And I was (and still am) so proud of it. Can't believe this is what goes into<|fim_middle|>, Lively had a great time at this year's Globes. The mother of two shared more candids from her night out, including a red carpet pic with her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and an adorable selfie with Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown captioned, "Playin' it chill."
While Lively and Reynolds looked amazing on the red carpet, the couple almost missed the show. Reynolds, who earned his first Globes nomination for Deadpool, shared with ET that their car broke down just ahead of the ceremony.
"It was touch and go for a second there," he said. "The car didn't work, so we had to sort of hijack a friend's car...[The cops] came and got us, which was great because I didn't think we were ever going to get in."
See more of Reynolds' ET interview below. | a dress I get to wear now. 😊so grateful.
In another post, Lively thanked the glam squad behind her hair and makeup.
"I don't take it, or you, for granted," she captioned a red carpet photo tagging Versace, Christian Louboutin, jeweler Lorraine Schwartz and more.
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The thought of writing a cover letter probably fills you with dread. But, it's an important part of the job hunting process. What's more, a well-written cover letter can boost your chances of landing yourself a job. It doesn't need to be stressful. In fact, with our handy advice, you'll be able to write a cover letter for an education position in no time.
Firstly, it's important to note that your cover letter needs to expand on key points mentioned in your CV. Never simply repeat them. A strong CV will be tailored to the job you're applying for. Therefore, your cover letter is your extra opportunity to hone in on the skills and experience you have which makes you the right person for the job.
Read on for our full guide on writing a cover letter.
What is happening in the industry that the company operates in – is there anything happening which you could highlight to make yourself sound relevant?
What is the company like to work for – could you reference any of the key attributes of the organisation that made you want to apply to the job?
Has the organisation been featured in the news – are there any recent company successes that you can mention?
You may choose to put together a basic version of your cover letter, which you can then edit for each job you apply for. You should structure the document like a formal business letter, with your address and contact details in the top right-hand corner of the page. On the left-hand side, further down, you can copy over the company's address. Below is the structure you should stick to throughout.
Your first paragraph needs to address why you're<|fim_middle|> on Education Jobs, today. | contacting the employer, which role you're applying to and how you heard about it. Keep this short and to the point and reference the fact that you've attached your CV.
The second part of the cover letter should go into more detail about the relevant skills and experience you have. Remember, these need to reflect the points included in the job description. You can usually find these in a 'key skills' or 'requirements' section.
Remember the research you did on the company earlier? This is your chance to show it off! If you've been working in education for some time, or are just starting out, explain why you want to work for this organisation in particular and what you could bring to the role.
Finally, your cover letter needs to close with a call to action. Obviously, you don't want to sound too keen, but it is appropriate to let them know your availability for an interview. Alternatively, if you want to follow up your application with a phone call, let them know that this will be happening. Thank them for reading your letter and close off with 'Yours sincerely'.
Nowadays, it's most appropriate to send your cover letter online. If you're sending it as an attachment, ensure that you save this with a clear file name – such as Cover letter – [Your name] – [Date]. What's more, stick to saving the document as a PDF. This will keep the formatting of your letter in place and ensures the recipient will be able to open it (Windows PCs use .docx while Macs use .pages, but both use PDFs).
Alongside this, when emailing it over, double check that you have explained in the email that it's attached. Always ensure that you've actually attached the document before clicking 'send'. In instances where you need to send the cover letter in the body of your email, make sure the subject line is clear. This should outline what job you're applying to, your name and the reference number if appropriate. For this version, you can remove the addresses and contact details.
Job sites like Education Jobs enable you to submit a cover letter when you apply to jobs. In these cases, you can cut down the contents of your letter to around a third of the length. Ensure that you outline what role you're interested in applying to, your current position and what you're looking for in the future. One sentence on each should suffice. You could even reference your notice period and your interview availability at the end.
It's best to keep your letter to one A4 page. This should be enough space to outline your key details. Remember, no recruiter wants to receive your life story. Keep it short and to the point – they'll only spend a few seconds scanning it.
As mentioned earlier in this guide, it is important to tailor your cover letter to each role you apply to. Pick out the key skills that they're looking for and show that you're proficient in these areas. Doing so demonstrates your interest in the company and shows the employer how you can benefit them.
What's more, it gives you an edge over other applicants, because it shows that you've done your research. As stated previously, small details like addressing the letter to the right person can help you to stand out.
In some cases, you may wish to contact an employer at a school which isn't advertising any roles. This will be to find out if they have any positions available, or if they could consider you in the future. As you'll be making cold-contact, the format will be a little different.
Your first paragraph will need to explain who you are and why you're writing to them. Try to pick something out that attracted you to their workplace to show that you've researched them. You should also outline your key specialism – whether it's a teaching assistant, a teacher, office staff and so on.
In the second paragraph, highlight any key skills that you know are essential for your line of work. You can also talk about your experience so far and perhaps even reference any key industry trends. Finally, your cover letter will close with thanking them for reading your document. Then, state that you are interested in hearing from them about any relevant roles, in the future.
Over all, writing a cover letter doesn't need to be too difficult. As long as you've thoroughly read the job description, you'll be able to match your skills and qualifications to the job in question and show the employer why you are a worth candidates.
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More Than a Great Business Opportunity: How Great Harvest Helps Multi-Unit Owners Pursue Their Passion
Eric Keshin, January 18, 2019
For 15 years, Erika and Ray Boland have been taking the Atlanta bread market by storm. After working in medical supply sales, the husband/wife team decided it was time to pursue business ownership and open up their own bakery-café franchise with Great Harvest Bread Company.
"My husband and I love the bread, and we ate it in different places we lived – Michigan, Missouri and Ohio," Erika said. "But, when we moved to Atlanta, we realized there were no good bread places with the freshly-baked, handmade artisan loaves that we love."
So, in pursuit of business ownership – and a local bakery with great bread – Erika and Ray took matters into their own hands and opened a Great Harvest franchise in 2003.
"We fell in love with the product, and we have always loved their bread," Erika said. "We realized that as their menu expanded to include salads and sandwiches, it would make just as great of a lunch destination as a nice place to buy a baguette. It was a great business opportunity with a brand we really loved, understood and believed in."
A Strong Business Opportunity that Also Plays to Their Strengths
Although the Bolands both worked in medical supply sales prior to opening up their franchise, Erika has an extensive background in nutrition. She is a registered dietitian from Bowling Green State University and has long understood the importance of a well-balanced diet.
"The opportunity was great for us because I'm really into healthy eating, so I was able to use my nutrition background in our cooking and all our recipes," Erika said. "And, my husband has his MBA, so owning this business really plays to both of our strengths, and we're able to implement our knowledge and experience every day."
Great Harvest's fresh-milled, whole grain breads rich with vitamins, nutrients and fiber are essential to a healthy and balanced diet. By providing fresh-baked, natural bread to the community, Erika and Ray are able to play a part in helping their neighbors achieve a well-rounded and healthy diet – something that Erika has long been passionate about.
"We feel good about baking and selling something that tastes great and is also good for you," Erika said. "It makes up a central part of our family's diet, and as a business owner, it's just really important to sell a product and be part of a company's mission you believe in."
Building Brand Awareness and Profits through Multi-Unit Ownership
Erika and Ray experienced such success with their first Great Harvest franchise that they decided to open another one in 2014. The Bolands were able to leverage the brand awareness generated by their first location to drive business to their new bakery.
With Great Harvest Bread Company's unique Hub & Spoke model, expanding to become a multi-unit owner is extremely simple. With the franchise model, a Great Harvest franchisee can cover large territories for significantly less investment than competitors, but still make and serve fresh bread made from scratch, by hand, every day. With control over a single bakery operation, franchisees can maximize coverage while still allowing them to be hyper-local with a personal touch in smaller communities.
Ray explained how they are able to share products and staff between their two locations to maximize profitability. They grind their fresh flour daily at their Hub in John's Creek, and then bake a variety of fresh breads at both their Hub and their Spoke in Alpharetta. Their second location has made it possible for them to bake – and sell – a lot more handmade bread.
"For example, to make 70 loaves of honey wheat versus 48 loaves of<|fim_middle|> a map for that," and have won over 20 Effie Awards for marketing effectiveness. | honey wheat, the marginal cost on those extra loaves is pretty low because I already have the people and equipment there," said Ray. "So another 10 minutes on the baking table and you get from 48 to 70 loaves. Outside of the ingredient costs, there is very little extra labor and the overhead stays the same, so the marginal cost of the additional loaves is really low, which helps your profitability."
Though some may be apprehensive to open multiple locations, Erika said it has only catapulted their brand further and helped them to build on their positive brand awareness.
"Opening the second location was great – it helped us a lot financially," Erika said. "And, as you open more locations, it obviously helps brand awareness. More people now know who we are, what we do and that they can come to us for a great-tasting meal with fresh-baked bread."
Erika and Ray host many events at their bakeries to introduce new customers to the Great Harvest brand, including bakery tours and tasting events. They also go out into their community to do slicing events at races and at schools, as well as attending several farmers markets in the summer. As the Bolands continue building on the brand recognition for their multiple locations, demand for their products has expanded to other nearby markets.
"People in other markets are dying for us to open a store in their market," said Ray.
With multiple locations under their belt, and doing what they love every day, the Bolands have found both happiness and success with their Great Harvest Bread Company franchises.
Are you interested in owning a bakery cafe franchise with a strong mission, solid product and proven success? Contact us today to learn more about franchise opportunities with Great Harvest Bread Company.
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I joined Great Harvest in 2014 as the Chief Marketing Officer and believe so strongly in what we do that I purchased part of the company in January 2016. Prior to that I spent over 30 years at a leading WW advertising agency, and worked on campaigns for AT&T, Burger King, Wendy's, and Applebee's, and introduced stores nationwide for Kohl's and Lowe's as they went national. I have worked on campaigns for Mastercard's "priceless," Army Strong, and Verizon Wireless "there's | 476 |
Harry Winston Histoire de Tourbillon 6
The sky is the limit when it comes to human spirit, and the Histoire de Tourbillon 6 by Harry Winston is a clear expression of this.
By Vincent Daveau
Managing Editor France
Before making a closer examination the object in question, one must first and foremost note that the caliber with the reference number HW4701 developed for the sixth chapter of the Histoire de Tourbillon series is among the most complicated movements ever made by watchmakers.
As a concentrate of technology born of human genius, this beating heart drives a new vision of time by combining two independent hour displays each driven by ultra-complicated regulators, a triaxial tourbillon and a carrousel. The caliber of the Histoire de Tourbillon 6, built in two separate sections, is brand new and is part and parcel of the "ultimate" developments of the past few years. Specifically, it has a regulator for each function. Nevertheless, this watch undoubtedly stands out from the batch of existing products, because the choice of technologies is both daring and fascinating.
A special case
It is obvious that this timepiece, whose case<|fim_middle|> Red Carpet: Watch Spotting At The 2020 Golden Globes
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An Italian Road Trip in Switzerland: Alfa Romeo Stelvio X Eberhard & Co. Quadrifoglio Verde | is made of white gold (an alloy of gold with a fair amount of palladium) with a satin finish, will not go unnoticed on its owner's wrist, what with its exceptional size of 64 millimeters across, from crown to crown. It's an imposing piece, but comfortable to wear. This horological gem, which comes on an alligator bracelet, is produced in a limited edition of twenty pieces. It features a special galvanic treatment known under the acronym NAC. It offers greater resistance and value and gives the watch as a whole a shadowy sheen that enhances its visual impact. It acts as a kind of miniature safe, enclosing and protecting an exclusive caliber whose complexity and overall shape required that the designers rethink the architecture even of the middle case, which boasts never-seen volumes.
A unique caliber
This manually-wound caliber, numbered HW4701, was built around a mainplate and bridges made of titanium, to reduce the weight of this rather massive watch on the wearer's wrist. Powerful and impactful, this watch has a heart made of 683 components, with 141 alone reserved for the triaxial tourbillon, whose weight does not exceed 1.85 grams. It's in a monobloc construction, which nevertheless includes the other two indications, which are kept separate and have their respective regulators.
So the display of legal time, shifted to the left and harbored in a small off-centered circular counter, is run by a gear train connected with the triaxial tourbillon, whose architecture, sidereal in style as usual, is perfectly well known to specialists today. The function placed at the right of the case might have been run by the same omnidirectional tourbillon was ultimately disconnected entirely from that precision device. Instead, it is regulated by a carrousel (developed by the Dane Bahne Bonniksen in 1892), which does one 30-second rotation and is driven by a system of two rapidly rotating coaxial barrel springs, with serially mounted sliding flanges.
An original dual functionality
This construction design is of rare complexity. In addition to demonstrating the extremely high skill level of the watchmakers at Harry Winston, it also aims to minimize any modifications to the two functions in order to ensure that the precision of time (hours, minutes and small retrograde seconds) will not be affected by the integrated double function. This dual function appears on the right of the case and can be activated using a blue ceramic pusher. It allows for two things, depending on one's need: It can start a chronograph that measures relatively brief spans of time (hours, minutes) with a stop and zero reset (carousel cage). And it can adjust the second time zone as needed, once the hands have been set using the winding crown at 3 o'clock.
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His Building Blocks: Happy 40th Heather!!!
This is a guest post from Heather's husband.
Heather has been asking me for quite a while to do a post on her blog, so I thought what better time to surprise her with a post than her 40th birthday! Heather and I met when she was 30 years old. I can't believe we have known each other for 10 years! (I was only 29 at the time so she was robbing the cradle a little bit and I continue to joke with her every year during the month that she's actually two years older than me.) Despite her older age :-) she has always had more energy than me and is definitely young at heart. When we first met I was immediately drawn to her energy, joy for life and her outgoing personality.
During the last ten years I have truly gotten to know what an amazing women she is. She is highly intelligent, outgoing, adventurous, competitive, loving,<|fim_middle|>nell with her high heel boots on so we could sit and enjoy the night sky. She is very creative. I'm so thankful for all the pictures and videos she has taken of our family and others and enjoy looking back at them. Not only does she blog to document our daily life, each year she collects stories and pictures together into books for each child so they'll have them to look back on when they get older.
I could write so much more about Heather but decided pictures might help tell the story, so I had some fun putting together a movie of Heather over her 40 years of life. Please watch and get a brief glimpse of the girl I get to spend everyday with.
She is my best friend, the love of my life and everything I prayed for and am so thankful everyday that I get the honor of calling her my wife. I've only known her for 10 of her first 40 years but am so looking forward to being right beside her for the next 40. Happy 40th Birthday Heather I love you! | driven, compassionate, creative and fun. She desires to be the best at everything she does, whether that was in her career, or now as a stay at home mom and the teacher of our children. She loves to interact with other people and explore new things. She is the constant social planner in our family and I am so thankful for that as the kids would have experienced so much less if I was planning the activities. She loves her family immensely and is always thinking of ways of making all our lives better. She challenges me, which is exactly what I need some times to push me to do things I'm afraid of. Of the two of us she is the less cautious and willing to take risks. A great balance with my calculated and "realist" mentality.
She loves going on adventures and bringing others along with her. I fondly remember going on a way too late at night hike in the woods of a park here in Austin and also remember her climbing up on top of the pergola structure on top of Mount Bon | 207 |
Corbett National Park can be the first choice among the wildlife lovers due to its appealing landscape bounties to the visitors and the presence of variant endangered species in the core zones. Established in 1936, the Jim Corbett Tiger Reserve brings mass appeal to its different areas/zones for the explicit India Wildlife Tour and the most fascinating part of the dense jungle of Corbett is its fantabulous residing options that bring meaning to the wildlife holidays.
Set up by the government for the convenience of the wildlife experts and tourists, Corbett Reserve is being flourished with different forest lodges which are specifically designed according to the jungle ambience. Complemented with luxuriant services poured into every cottages bring a wonderful and fatigue-free stay at Corbett lodges.
The name brings a clear hint that this lodge probably resides in the area of Dhikala zone which is at a distance of 30 km from the Dhangadi gate inside the core areas of Jim Corbett National Park. The perfect location of this resort bounds the guests to throng the most and this is the reason the Dhikala lodge remains filled throughout the year. It is thus advisable to make a prior booking to this lodge for much convenience. Once you are inside the vicinity of the lodge you can find a closer attachment with nature as the home stay is surrounded with ample groves of Sal lined along the flourished Ramganga River.
With the hint of basic facilities, the lodge is being supplemented with 22 guest rooms and 24 dormitory beds. So you can make a pre-booking of the lodge from attractive packages along<|fim_middle|> region was acclaimed as the Jhirna Zone where the rest houses were also named the same. The area is also being known for the dry scrub vegetation and the area is also being illuminated with the Shivalik landscapes to bring picturesque scenery along with the impressive room services at the Jhirna guest house. | with the Corbett safari to make your experience more rewarding.
The Sultan Rest house is the first lodge in the area of Dhangarhi-Dhikala road. The name of the lodge is being inspired through the Sultan Sot which is the name of the seasonal stream running through the area. The lodge is being located amidst the dense area of the jungle to bring one of the best stretches of Corbett National Park.
So, the guests can enjoy the natural wilderness amidst the lush foliages by leveraging the high class services.
The Gairal Rest House is being located at a very short distance from the main routes of Dhangarhi-Dhikala forest road. The rest house has been placed along the riverside of Ramganga at the spot where the Ramganga River first enters the Corbett Park. The Gairal Rest House has one explicit quality of showing a different image at upstream unlike the river flows downstream in Dhikala ranges. Apart from Dhikala, the water of Ramganga River at Gairal brings crystal clear fast inflows along the mountains to reach amidst the dense forests. Thus a stay at Gairal actually lets you mesmerize completely with the panoramic views and the rest house for a lovely and peaceful stay.
The area of Bijrani was once considered as the hunting part for the shooting block and was most famed during the British reign as the rulers used the area for hunting purposes. It is also considered as the core zone of Corbett where the residents (guests) can find diverse vegetation because of the presence of drier terrain along with the diverse ranges of wild species. A perfect land for a peaceful natural stay amidst the natural environment, the Bijrani Guest House is the choice of both natural and wildlife lovers.
One can find the Jhirna Guest House located on the main Ramnagar-Kalagarh road heading towards the east west directions of Corbett. The place where the guest house is being erected was earlier a small village called Jhirni which was further relocated for conservation purposes and so the | 418 |
RBA plugs new digital currencies
The Reserve Bank of Australia is keenly observing the development of digital currencies and has acknowledged the vast opportunities that the blockchain offers the financial sector.
Speaking at a House of Representatives committee on taxation in Canberra, RBA head of payments policy Tony Richards revealed further details of the New Payments Platform, which will be launched early next year.
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"While the longer-term prospects for private digital currencies are unclear, the Bank has previously noted that the distributed ledger and blockchain technologies underlying them have potential for widespread use in the financial sector and many other parts of the economy," Mr Richards said.
"The greatest potential is likely to be in sectors where workflows involve lots of different parties with no trusted central equity, and where current practices are quite inefficient," he said.
"Some frequently suggested financial sector use cases include correspondent banking and remittances, as well as trade financing."
It comes as a group of Australian FinTech startups continue to lobby the RBA and Treasury to create a digital version of the Australian dollar – the digital Australian dollar, or DAD.
Coordinated by FinTech Australia, the three companies presented use cases to the RBA in August, focused on how a national digital currency would create legitimacy and trust around their services.
The use cases focused on foreign exchange, agricultural supply chain payments and lending, and were discussed at a Payment Systems Board meeting in August. While the RBA has not officially backed the concept, it has confirmed that it is closely observing the developments.
"Members agreed that the bank should continue to consider the technical and policy issues associated with digital cash," the RBA said in a statement.
The government and ASIC have made a number of movements this year to regulate digital currencies and stamp out illegal activities using cryptocurrencies.
Earlier this year the government moved to remove the double taxation of digital currencies, and has also put forward legislation to bring them under the remit of Austrac, so digital currencies would face the same reporting and compliance obligations as the big banks.
ASIC has also issued guidelines on how it plans to deal with Initial Coin Offerings, a new form of fundraising for tech startups based on the blockchain.
ASIC issued a paper outlining how ICOs fall into existing regulations based on the form of the "token" that has offered, and saw the regulator take a light-handed approach to the fundraising method.
In his statement to the House committee, Mr Richards acknowledged the rise in popularity of cryptocurrencies and difficulties with regulating them.
"There have been substantial increases in the prices of crypto-currencies like bitcoin and ether over the past year," he said.
Most of this seems to relate to speculative demand and in particular the use of digital currencies as the means of participation in Initial Coin Offerings."
"Cryptocurrencies can serve as a means of payment in the illicit economy. Accordingly, their use may have some implications for tax authorities and they raise more significant issues for authorities tasked with crime prevention and detection.
"The distributed and cross-border nature of digital currencies like bitcoin means that regulation of the core protocols of these systems is unlikely to be effective."
During his address to the committee, Mr Richards also outlined the development of the New Payments Platform, which has been in the works for the past few years.
The new platform would facilitate near real-time transactions between Australians using an email address or phone number rather than a BSB and account number.
RBA has built the "underlying settlements architecture" – the Fast Settlement Service – for the platform. Mr Richards confirmed the platform is now in the final stages of testing, and will be launched early next year.
"The NPP has been a significant project for the payments industry. The NPP has been designed as a platform for innovation that will benefit end-users of the payments system – households, businesses and government entities," he said.
The new platform would also allow up to 280 characters to be included in the payments description.
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Officials – Wigan v Blackburn (28/10/17)
Date: 25th October 2017 at 11:33pm
The Football League have now announced the Match Day officials that will take charge of the game between Wigan Athletic and Blackburn Rovers this Saturday.
Blackburn Rovers travel to Wigan Athletic on Saturday October 28 for the game at the DW Stadium and the match carries a 3pm kick off.
Referee: Darren England
Assistant Refs: James Mainwaring and Nick Greenhalgh
Fourth Official: Tim Nield
Match Day referee England has officiated twelve games in 2017/18, showing 45 yellow cards and one red card.
He took in 42 games in 2016/17, with a return of 121 yellow cards and nine red cards.
His highest card count that year was seven yellows in the game between Cheltenham Town and Yeovil Town.
He took in 30 matches in 2015-16 and in those games, across all competitions and football divisions, he handed out a total of 97 yellow cards and six red cards.
He was most card happy in the match between Accrington and Mansfield on August 18 with a total of ten yellows being shown. He also showed eight yellows and one red in the Portsmouth v Barnet<|fim_middle|>`s hope it`s not another repeat and more of the players edge closer to automatic bans. | match on September 12.
After two years officiating in The National League, which included a 2015 cameo in a Sky Bet League Two fixture, England made the step-up to refereeing in the EFL on a regular basis. In what was just his second season last term, England was the man in the middle for Blackpool's Play-Off Final win over Exeter City at Wembley.
Source – EFL.
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Central | Citation Oil & Gas Corp.
In July 2004, Citation purchased properties located in southeastern Colorado from Anadarko Petroleum Corp. In connection with this acquisition, Citation formed its Central Region to allow key operating personnel the ability to focus on these new assets. The majority of production from its SE Colorado properties is from Morrow-aged sands along the Las Animas Arch located near the town of Cheyenne Wells, Colorado. The Central Region was expanded in <|fim_middle|> improve water injection efficiency and production rates.
Citation's Central Region office is located in Houston, Texas. | 2006 to include Citation's properties located in Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska and Utah. These properties include mature waterfloods as well as primary production.
Citation entered the Illinois Basin in 1998 with its acquisition of the Salem Unit, located in Marion County, Illinois, from Texaco. From 2005-07, Citation constructed a gas plant at the Salem Unit that now processes natural gas and NGL's that had been flared at the wellhead for years. In August 2010, Citation acquired over 150 additional leases and units in 13 fields located in southeastern Illinois and Indiana from Noble Energy that complemented its existing Salem Unit operations in Illinois through the addition of shallow, long-life producing oil properties with operational enhancement and exploitation potential. As a result of this acquisition, Citation became the largest operator in the Illinois Basin. In 2014 we continued our developments in the Illinois Basin, with an additional 31 new wells.
In September 2012, Citation acquired 100 additional leases and units in Kansas from Noble Energy near Citation's existing Fairport and Bemis-Schutts fields. This 2012 producing property acquisition significantly expanded Citation's operations in Kansas with a nearly three-fold increase in production in the state.
Citation's recent activity in its Central Region has focused on developing its assets in the Illinois Basin, specifically the properties it acquired in the Noble acquisition along with continuing exploitation of its legacy Salem Unit. For the recently acquired Illinois and Indiana properties, current plans include continuing to drill and fracture stimulate wells in the Griffin field in Indiana targeting the Salem and Warsaw formations, and recompletions of existing wells to open additional pay in the Clay City area targeting Salem and shallower formations. In the Salem Unit, current development efforts are focused on reactivating and drilling additional Devonian producers and injectors, exploiting the underdeveloped deeper Trenton formation, and reactivating Aux Vases and McClosky producers. In the fall of 2010, Citation initiated a 20-acre surfactant polymer (SP) flood pilot project following a successful single well SP injection test in the shallow Benoist sand. Future potential for the Salem Unit includes continued reservoir optimization, drilling and recompletions, expanding the Benoist pilot SP flood and implementing other tertiary recoveries among various reservoirs. In the recently acquired Kansas assets from Noble, Citation's development is focused on drilling additional 10-acre Arbuckle wells and performing polymer treatments on producing wells to | 525 |
Back in June of last year as I became aware of what was going on inside J.C. Penney headquarters I penned JC Penney's Epic Rebranding Fail. I heard from some in the marketing world who thought my use of the word "epic" was too harsh. My response to them at the time was along the lines of "perhaps, but we just don't yet, do we?"
That of course was J.C. Penney's latest television commercial which all but comes out and says "we screwed up, please forgive us."
Fellow Business Insider contributor Laura Stampler wrote of the J C Penney social media apology tour.
Will Burns from Forbes penned With New Ad, J.C. Penney Plays The Card It Can Only Play Once. Will's title is spot on as surely such a mea culpa campaign can only be used once. So it better work.
Which brings me to Laura' Heller's column on May 2nd - J.C. Penney Is Listening, And Getting A Huge Response. In her article Laura writes of the increasing popularity of J.C. Penney's Facebook page and in particular their "We're Listening" post.
James Cash Penney once said "I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance."I wonder how the man himself would view this most recent rebrand and if he himself would label it as an epic failure and if he would in fact trust those who made the decision in the first place and thereby give them another chance to right their wrong?
Of course we will never know how he would've responded but I would imagine he would've been of the mindset that at the end of the day the consumer will tells us if we were right or not. And since we live in an extraordinarily forgiving society and where our<|fim_middle|> If you have a subpar quarter now and then, don't fall into the trap of running to your ad agency with another rebrand edict at the top of your To Do List.
At the end of the day no one has a crystal ball of course. No one can predict the future. All we can do is learn from our past. Clearly J.C. Penney is trying to do just that. Now, we wait and see if they learned anything. | world is transparency on steroids - I believe this mea culpa will ultimately work in J.C. Penney's favor. Now of course there are provisos to this.
They must, MUST stay the course. Discounts and coupons are back and they need to stay that way. The people have spoken. Yes, you are listening JCP. Now keep listening.
Maintain complete and open transparency. You got down on your knees and asked for mercy from the court of public opinion. Fine. But once you're off your knees, don't forget where you came from.
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Le Storie della Vera Croce sono un ciclo di affreschi dipinto da Masolino da Panicale nel 1424 nella cappella di Sant'Elena<|fim_middle|> decimo è rimasto solo in parte), inseriti in quadrilobi, che portano ciascuno una croce.
Stile
L'artista riprende il precedente ciclo pittorico, sempre ispirato alle Storie della Vera Croce, realizzato da Agnolo Gaddi nel coro della chiesa di Santa Croce a Firenze. Rispetto ad Agnolo, Masolino sintetizza le vicende a causa del minor spazio disponibile.
Le scene di Masolino però sono dominate da una nuova concezione di spazialità nella composizione perché queste non raffigurano tanti personaggi e non sono disperse in una miriade di particolari.
Il confronto tra la Decapitazione di Cosroe e l'arrivo di Eraclio a Gerusalemme e l'affresco analogo di Santa Croce può essere molto dimostrativo della diversa concezione dei due artisti nell'affrontare lo stesso soggetto.
Nel dipinto gaddiano la folla si accalca in primo piano circondando il sovrano giustiziato, mentre a Empoli il numero degli attori è stato ridotto a un manipolo di soldati disposti a semicerchio. Inoltre, eliminando il fiumiciattolo con il ponte e il boschetto che dividono a metà la scenda nell'affresco di Santa Croce, Masolino unifica lo spazio, riuscendo a fare in modo che il corteo di Eraclio proceda dal fondo verso il primo piano, accanto all'esecuzione di Cosroe, ma senza forzate cesure tra i due momenti del racconto. La posizione stessa dei soldati dimostra come il pittore fosse in grado di rendere la successione dei piani in profondità e di rappresentare in scorcio le figure.
Inoltre la scelta di mostrare l'episodio nel momento dell'esecuzione aumenta la drammaticità della scena, concentrando l'attenzione sulla figura del re persiano curvo per la paura.
Queste soluzioni permettono allo spettatore una comprensione molto chiara degli eventi, grazie a un'immediata intellegibilità delle immagini, che provocano un intenso interesse emotivo da parte del credente. Infine la Decapitazione di Cosroe risulta una chiara anticipazione della Decapitazione di Santa Caterina in San Clemente a Roma.
Rispetto al precedente gaddiano, in quello di Masolino risultano più complesse anche le modalità di rappresentazione dell'architettura: anche se nelle scene della Leggenda Aurea permangono reminiscenze trecentesche nelle affastellate fabbriche che fanno da sfondo alla narrazione e nei rapporti dimensionali tra l'ambiente e le figure, nel registro basamentale, invece, la finta loggia è un sintomo dell'interesse del pittore per le capacità illusorie della pittura prospettica, che raggiungerà la sua massima espressione negli affreschi di San Clemente a Roma. Le basi a cipolla delle colonnine e la decorazione corinzieggiante dei soprastanti capitelli rivelano ancora l'usuale inesattezza tardogotica, denunciando una mancata attenzione da parte di Masolino per lo studio filologico dell'architettura classica.
Il gusto prospettico, comunque, è alla base anche della rappresentazione dello scaffale con libri e ampolle nella nicchia nella parte destra della cappella, dove però l'attenzione per gli effetti della luce sugli oggetti prevale su quella riservata alla riproduzione dello spazio.
Il Santo guerriero sul pilastro destro è caratterizzato da linee nette e pure che gli conferiscono un aspetto giovanile ed estremamente aggraziato. Fu Mario Salmi il primo a identificarlo come un guerriero in base all'armatura e al fatto che si appoggia con la mano sinistra ad una spada o ad uno scudo di traverso, e pensò che si trattasse di un arcangelo.
I Santi affrescati nell'intradosso, eccetto il secondo in basso a destra e il secondo in basso a sinistra, sono ritenuti dallo stesso studioso un'opera realizzata da Masolino in cooperazione con i suoi allievi: nei due santi anziani posti in cima dell'arco, ad esempio, ci sarebbe la grafia di Paolo Schiavo, l'unico allievo che seguì Masolino a Castiglione Olona. Inoltre Umberto Baldini, così come il Salmi, coglieva nei Santi una certa vigorosità nella composizione che faceva pensare a un intervento di Masaccio, poi escluso dalla critica successiva.
Sempre il Salmi sosteneva che la collaborazione di questi aiuti si allargasse anche alla decorazione delle vele della cappella, osservando i volti slargati e la visibile magrezza delle figure. Tuttavia la finezza e la simmetria delle croci ripetute nell'arco e nelle vele sono decorazioni caratteristiche di Masolino.
Note
Altri progetti
Dipinti a Empoli
Dipinti di Masolino
Cicli di affreschi della Toscana
Dipinti a soggetto religioso | nella chiesa di Santo Stefano degli Agostiniani a Empoli, su commissione della Compagnia della Croce.
Storia
La decorazione della Cappella di Sant'Elena fu quasi completamente distrutta nel 1633, quando il sacello venne rinnovato in forme barocche e sulla parete di fondo venne addossato un imponente altare in pietra serena. Le campagne di ripristino condotte nel corso del Novecento hanno tuttavia riportato in luce le sinopie.
Gli affreschi furono commissionati a Masolino da Panicale nel 1424: il 2 novembre di quell'anno egli ricevette il saldo conclusivo di 74 fiorini d'oro da parte della Compagnia della Croce, la quale aveva il patronato della cappella di Sant'Elena.
Assieme alla cappella della Croce di Giorno a Volterra (e molto più di questa), e all'ancora più remoto Ciclo della Vera Croce (metà XIII secolo) nella chiesa di San Nicola a Lanciano, il ciclo rappresenta il precedente più immediato delle celebri Storie della Vera Croce di Piero della Francesca ad Arezzo.
Descrizione
Il ciclo di affreschi riprende la Legenda Aurea di Jacopo da Varazze, opera composta nel XIII secolo. Questa contiene la versione più famosa della Leggenda della Vera Croce, che racconta la storia del legno su cui venne crocifisso Cristo.
La cappella di Sant'Elena in Santo Stefano degli Agostiniani a Empoli è decorata da un ciclo di affreschi di cui ci restano solo le sinopie, raffiguranti alcuni episodi della Leggenda della Vera Croce, tratta dalla Legenda Aurea di Jacopo da Varazze. Le vele della volta ospitano quattro immagini connesse al sacrifico di Cristo: il Portacroce, il Crocifisso (secondo l'iconografia del Volto Santo di Lucca); il Cristo Risorto e il Cristo Eucaristico.
Le pareti sono suddivise in tre registri ciascuna. Su quella destra, nel registro superiore si trova La Regina di Saba inginocchiata col suo seguito davanti al legno che fa da ponte sull'acqua del Siloe; subito in basso compaiono L'estrazione del legno dalla piscina e La costruzione della Croce. Sul registro inferiore sono raffigurati La testimonianza della Croce e Il ritrovamento della Croce. In basso, nello spessore del muro, si apre una nicchia affrescata a trompe l'oeil con le ampolle eucaristiche.
Sulla parete sinistra, in alto nel registro superiore è raffigurata Sant'Elena che porta la croce a Gerusalemme; nel registro inferiore Cosroe, re dei Persiani, dopo aver trafugato la Croce si fa adorare e a destra Il sogno di Eraclio.
Nel terzo registro, a sinistra si vede la Decapitazione di Cosroe e a destra un gruppo di soldati ed un cavallo suggeriscono L'arrivo di Eraclio a Gerusalemme.
Nella parte più bassa delle due pareti si intravedono ancora le basi delle colonne di una finta loggia sotto la quale Masolino aveva ritratto alcuni confratelli inginocchiati verso l'altare. Sul pilastro destro si trova la sinopia di un Santo guerriero.
Nell'intradosso dell'arco d'ingresso invece vi sono dieci Santi affrescati a mezza figura (il | 875 |
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The History and Secrets of the Tom & Jerry
Amy Zavatto
Amy Zavatto has two decades of experience writing about wine, spirits and food and consults for restaurants and wine and spirits retailers.
Image: Justin Shiels
With a deflated look upon his face and his hands waving in the air, as if the concept might be physically within reach, Charlie Brown bellows the question in the classic animated holiday movie "A Charlie Brown Christmas": "Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?!?"
Effort, Charlie Brown. It's about effort.
The holidays are thick with it—back-to-back, head-to-toe, day-and-night commitments, be they the plight of partying, voracious volunteering, slogging through a pile of cards to get them in the morning mail or traveling miles to see people you only lay eyes on once a year. You just can't help it. You try and you try hard. And that is why the Tom & Jerry is the kind of cocktail that can only exist during this most exhausting of seasons.
"I was working with Dale DeGroff in 1999, and it was that Christmas that he put the Tom & Jerry on the menu," says Audrey Saunders, the owner of New York City's iconic Pegu Club, where the Tom & Jerry has been made every year since the bar opened in 2005. "He placed this beautiful porcelain bowl on the back bar, and I can distinctly remember asking him what a Tom & Jerry was."
DeGroff shared his recipe with then-green Saunders and entranced her with its Jerry Thomas history. In his book "Imbibe! From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to 'Professor' Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar," drinks historian David Wondrich credits Thomas for making the Tom & Jerry popular in the mid- 1800s.
However, his digging turned up a few articles that made reference to the drink before Thomas was even born, so while it's convenient to pin the name to Thomas' own (and apparently two pet white mice he fondly referred to as Tom and Jerry), it's more likely that the batter-based drink came into existence in the earlier part of the 19th century. Either way, from the moment Saunders first laid eyes on it, she was entirely hooked. "It's a magical drink for me," she says. "I think of it as a liquid gift for our guests."
And what a decadent gift it is, requiring pounds of sugar, the separating and whipping of multiple eggs, a cartful of spices, the rich, heady addition of both cognac and rum, the simmering of milk and the heating of mugs. But the resulting cloud of spicy, warm booziness can make even the most winter-averse person melt at the prospect of a mugful.
The Tom & Jerry is a lot like a live Broadway performance: Sure, there's a script and blocking and rehearsals, but every night it's fresh. Every night, the batter has to get whipped and re-whipped. Every night, it's a little different.
"What I love about this cocktail is that it incurs a culinary side as well as a spirits side," says Adam Jed, of Bluestem Brasserie in San Francisco, who spent the last decade making the Tom & Jerry for his in-laws and just this year took the plunge to ladle it into warm mugs for his customers from early November through the end of December.
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That culinary side helps Saunders to mete out the procedures into tasks that can easily be broken down. "It's not about stability," she says. "It's more about logistics." Two minutes to assemble her mise en place of food processor, container, spatula, sugar, spices, Angostura bitters, vanilla and eggs; two minutes to crack and separate the egg yolks and whites; two-and-a-half minutes to run the egg whites in a food processor and transfer to a bowl; one minute to process the egg yolks in the food processor until they're thin and runny; and two-and-a-half minutes to continue to run the egg yolks and incorporate the sugar, spices, rum, vanilla and Angostura bitters, alternating between adding one cup of sugar at a time and some of the liquid ingredients.
H. Joseph Ehrmann has been making the Tom & Jerry for several years at Elixir, the 100-plus year old bar in San Francisco that he took over and renovated in 2003. "I've always been an Eggnog freak, but when Tony Abou-Ganim turned me onto the Tom & Jerry, I got completely fascinated with it and tried to perfect it," he says.
Part of that was using his culinary background to draw a parallel between the sweet, creamy taste of the milk in the café con leche he loved so much in Spain and homing in on that similar characteristic for his version of the Tom & Jerry. "They don't steam their milk in Spain," he says. "They warm and froth it. Steam thins it out with water."
The Tom & Jerry is no one-and-done type of drink. Making it in batches is necessary, and more often than not that means batches large enough to accommodate at least a dozen single-mug servings. But Saunders' experience with the drink has perfected the technique for nightly near-bottomless crowd-pleasing.
Audrey Saunders' Tom & Jerry
"I've been making Tom & Jerrys for close to 20 years now," she says. "Everyone is so worried about maintaining the loft of the batter, but here's a little secret: The batter doesn't need to be stable at all. It turns out it's easier to work with once it collapses." In fact, Saunders says, once the batter deflates, it's easier to get your whisk to the depths of the mixing bowl and reincorporate all the flavors.
Another secret? Don't bother with the old porcelain bowl and mug sets, which are impractical. "Who in their right mind is going to expose egg batter out in the open to fester at room temperature? I want mine to come directly out of a fridge," says Saunders, who stores her batter in flip-top Mason jars. (For safety reasons, Saunders suggests sanitizing all cylinders and countertops that came into contact with raw egg batter immediately after use.)
Saunders cautions that the batter should be refrigerated immediately after preparation and never be allowed to sit out at room temp. "It should be stored at no higher than 41 degrees," she says. "Once prepared, the refrigerated batter should only be used for 48 hours at the maximum, and if there's any leftover after that point, chuck it."
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Are Cassettes Making a Comeback?
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By: Paul Bentley
In the digital age, where music is bought, sold, traded and listened to through non-tangible formats, consumers have found themselves craving the nostalgic sensation of holding their cherished albums by hand. Vinyl filled that void to a certain extent, causing a major hike of releases in the format between 2009 and 2010. But with that came an economical competition for local independent artists who don't have the capital to circulate their music through the new (actually old) and groovy medium of records. While CDs are still technically on their last legs and the vinyl boom of 2010 is still booming, cassettes have swooped in from the 80s, swinging from decade to decade by polyester tape, to fulfill the demands and desires of a growing community of artists and listeners alike.
While cassettes are making a comeback, this doesn't necessarily imply that they rose from the dead. Tapes have actually been alive and…well, maybe crippled, for use of a better word – in the less mainstream punk, experimental, and "DIY" music scenes. However, an increasing number of big-name artists, such as Eminem and Metallica, are reissuing their classic records onto cassette, which has provided a more widespread recognition for the vintage format.
There are a number of drawbacks associated with tapes, such as poor sound quality and an apparent halt in the manufacturing of cassette decks, which can prompt someone to conclude that these plastic, music-emitting bricks are simply the result of a new trendy phase or a commodity fetish for millennials. Surely, that may be the case in certain aspects for certain individuals; but for those who are passionate about music and invested in the unheard harmonies of their communities, this resurgence of tapes plays a much larger role than vintage kitsch.
Ben Miotke, a cassette enthusiast/collector and employee at Sisters in Christ Record Store, told me how cassettes have more value and practicality than generally assumed. "They're more portable than vinyl and more memorable than CDs and MP3s," he explained. "And they're the least expensive form of physical media." His comment on CDs is highly accurate. There is something unappealing about buying CDs today. After purchasing a local band's CD from the merchandise table, one may experience regret, not because of the music quality, but for the future listening experience. While holding the disk in its flimsy sleeve or squeaky case, one may start to worry if the song names are going to be listed as Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, etc. You may think to yourself: Damn. Am I going to have to type in each song title? Am I going to have to put effort into this? Maybe CD ROMs are too young for millennials (like me) to feel any sort of nostalgia for them; maybe since we already experienced this medium at the top of its class, we don't miss it.
More importantly, his comment on the affordability of cassettes is the main appeal for the outdated format. As I stated before, an economically feasible way for local and independent artists to produce, release, and get their name out there is essential. MP3s have conveniently provided an easily accessible mode for musicians to publicize and promote their music, free of charge. However, with a market for sentimental value and the demand for physical media, independent artists struggle to compete with the pricey market of vinyl. The internet has undeniably changed the dynamics of music for the better, but it has also created a completely jumbled and overloaded web of options, practically free and easily dismissible to the listener, leaving the profitable side of the music industry on the outskirts.
Local bands who don't (or didn't) have a lot of capital, such as Donovan Wolfington and Pope, have released all of their albums onto tape, which presumably played a role in their gaining a profit and a following. They are signed to Community Records, a local New Orleans record label that produces primarily tapes alongside vinyl and CD (and of course MP3). Grace King Records, on the other hand, releases strictly through the quirky middle child of physical audio formats. Patrick McKee, co-owner of Grace King Records, expressed his ideals regarding cassettes and his motives for producing them. "We've been really fortunate to put out eight really good releases since we started," he explained. "It probably would have cost as much to do one vinyl release." Similar to Miotke, McKee holds tapes with sentimental value, meriting the objects themselves along with the monetary advantage. "They're a physical compliment to the music. Much like records, they're a little piece of art that's unique to your experience with the music…and a lot of the time, they carry a story or connection to show where you bought it," McKee said. This personal connection with the format is of course not attuned to everybody's comfort and convenience in regards to the way they listen to music, but tapes nevertheless satisfy a similar nostalgic itch that caused the significant rise in vinyl.
According to both Miotke and McKee, the drawbacks associated with cassettes are not as bad as we think. Most people do not own cassette decks anymore and the idea of spending more than $50 on a supposedly modern machine that's only function is to play an ancient format seems like a bad investment, which it is. Seriously, take a look at the "new" cassette players the internet has to offer. They look just as boxy, angular and bulky as they did in the 80s—as if electronic companies are still trying to get rid of the remainder that sat on the shelves throughout the CD-ROM age. However, one of the most common ways to find a cassette deck is to simply check your parents' basement or storage room. More often than not, you'll stumble upon an old, dusty and forgotten noise box that hasn't fulfilled its purpose in years. And even if family or friends tossed their deck a long time back, these vintage machines can be found on Craigslist, ebay, Amazon, etc., for reasonable prices. Through my online research, the average cost of a used cassette deck is around $25. That's not too bad. Also, if you own a car that predates 2003 (or early 2000's in general, it varies from car company to car company) like Ben Miotke (and myself), then the vehicle most likely contains a cassette player stereo. The car is where Miotke is able to entertain the nostalgia that cassettes bring to music. "When you can listen to an entire album in the way that it was constructed by the artists who made it, it's a lot handier than MP3s. There's no 'skip a track' function. You're along for the ride that the artist wants you to hear through their albums," Miotke said.
In terms of sound quality, "Vinyl is<|fim_middle|> important that the cassettes– the objects– themselves.
I'll end this with a statement made by Patrick McKee of Grace King Records: "Tapes are only as important to me as the incredible music we have the blessing to release. We do this because we have friends who make music that's begging to be heard, and that's the most important part. If there's one takeaway from people learning about this 'medium' that we're into, I hope it's that people listen to the songs our friends let us press to tape. I really believe that it's some of the best music being made. It feels like a responsibility to do something more with their music, and I'm thrilled that we get to expose it to more people." | probably the absolute best listening experience," according to Miotke, and probably everybody else. Tapes produce a "warm, fuzzy, distorted sound" that repels most people. But for others, this sound is aesthetically pleasing and it cooperates with certain genres better than others ("lo-fi" and punk predominantly). However, new technology has been able to diminish the inferior audio quality associated with cassettes. "We have our tapes made by a duplication company who put the highest quality audio files into the tapes, so there's really not much difference in sound quality between records, CDs and MP3s," McKee, from Grace King Records, said. The "warm, fuzzy and distorted sound" that he described depends on the tape player, not the tapes themselves. The appeal for cassettes is the same appeal that comes with vinyl: a physical copy of music that reminds us of a time that we didn't experience or, for the veteran record/tape collectors, reminds us of a time that we did.
So, are tapes making a big-time comeback? Are cassettes going to recover from decades of neglect? That's a tricky question, because as of now, cassettes are almost exclusively involved with independent music and separated from what is being played on the radio. But with Eminem and Metallica rereleasing their classic records via cassette, we may witness the outdated medium enter the mainstream and become more sought out by the general public. However, I don't really think it is necessary for tapes to strive for mainstream status. It is unobservant to not recognize the hip, kitsch and in-style trends that come with vintage commodities such as cassettes, especially when celebrities conform to the fad. But aside from fetishizing the old that becomes the new– aside from what most people would view as a hipster infatuation– there is an important function that cassettes have consummated in local music industries. They provide an accessible, affordable and portable market for a music community that is being overlooked. When and if cassettes come back in style– when they become the new cool thing– I can foresee the important role they play being discarded. As of now, the function cassettes have filled is more | 457 |
Baseball Hits Hyde Park on 4th July Celebrations
By Fay Handley on July 21, 2017 in Client News
Fourth of July celebrations came to London this year, as Major League Baseball (MLB) descended on London's Hyde Park and took over Barclaycard's British Summer Time festival site, hitting home runs out into the crowd.
Former All-Starplayers from the Boston Red Sox and L.A. Dodgers went head-to-head in a quick-fire Home Run Derby,which showcases the game in its most exciting and digestible format. A possible taster of things to come, if regular-season games start getting played here in future.There were also a few non-American participants asEngland cricketers Jos Buttler and Alex Haleseach donned Boston and L.A. team colours to<|fim_middle|> a suitably prestigious and British-made trophy for the winning team. Created by Special EFX, the 'V' shaped trophy was manufactured in polished black anodised aluminium and decorated in green acrylic, and reinforced the MLB Battleground branding of the entire event. The Los Angeles Dodgers won on the day and took the trophy back home to the U.S.
Imagination said "This was one of the most epic large-scale events we've ever worked on – and we're pleased to say that it exceeded expectations. Thanks to MLB Battlegrounds, the perception of baseball in Europe has started to shift and we are extremely excited about what the future holds."
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Anodised aluminium and acrylic trophy
With DJ's blasting out tunes and Colin Murray giving a running commentary,the players took to the stage andstarting smashing balls out – the crowd were given mitts and allowed to keep any balls they caught! Imagination (London)organised the MLB Battlegrounds eventand commissioned | 69 |
If you are planning to acquire gym equipment but are experiencing financial constraints, it is recommended that you consider buying second-hand equipment. Used gym equipment are available in abundance these days; you should not see any problem identifying the ones that will fit your needs.
But then you need to understand the qualities of an ideal gym equipment. Do not be persuaded to buy a pre-owned gym equipment; you would not know if the seller is getting rid of something that has given them a headache for long.
You need to examine your pre-owned gym equipment; you need to ascertain that they are in good state and are working as anticipated before you are ready to seal the deal. Here are great ideas that will help you make sound choices when purchasing your pre-owned gym equipment.
To begin with; you need to see to it that you are dealing with a trustworthy and reliable gym equipment seller. Your seller must have a record of supplying quality used products. And more fundamentally, their rates should be affordable. Ensure your seller does not have a record of taking advantage of unsuspecting buyers.
It is also recommended that you look at the functionality of the pre-owned gym equipment before you are ready to make your offers. Be sure to purchase a used gym equipment that has functional entities. The seller must be able to offer you the history of the gym equipment so that you can assess its reliability.
Such a history should carry all the reports about the gym equipment; including the number of times it was serviced or even repaired. It is recommended that you consider the gym equipment that has not undergone frequent repairs. Buy a gym equipment that is relatively stable –<|fim_middle|> should buy a gym equipment that has a warranty. Find out if the gym equipment manufacturer offers free after-sale services. | you should not seek repair services frequently – it is costly.
Be sure to buy a gym equipment that is maintained well. Pay attention to the crucial gears and utilities – ensure they are functional and are in the right condition. If you can spot tears and cracks on the equipment, then you know that maintenance was inadequate.
It is also a great idea to pay attention to the comfort level of your gym equipment. You see, there are gym tools that can give you injuries and other related health issues. So, do not be eager to buy a gym equipment because the deal is incredible awesome.
It is also recommended that you examine the brand of the gym equipment before you are ready to make your final decisions. Buy used gym equipment and accessories that are from manufacturers that are highly reputed out there.
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When Choosing a Camera, How do You Find its Dynamic Range?
Dynamic range is one of the most important considerations for choosing a camera in the digital age. If you are not familiar with dynamic range, it is the range of tones that your camera can capture between pure white and pure black. The wider the range the better.
Dynamic range is particularly important to the outdoor photographer because you are almost always trying to capture a wide disparity of tones. An obvious example is a typical landscape, where you face a sky that is much brighter than the foreground. You need a camera that can handle the wide disparity in tones without causing the sky in your picture to "blow out" (turn pure white) or the foreground to turn pure black. As such, dynamic range is a really<|fim_middle|> still look to other factors to gauge how the camera should perform. Start by choosing the sensor size you want, then review any low-light performance tests, and make sure the bit-depth is in line with other models (generally 14 as I write this). But remember that dynamic range is one consideration of many, and move on to the other aspects that are important to you.
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But they don't. In fact, as the remainder of this article will show, the whole subject is kind of a mess.
As important as dynamic range is, you would think that manufacturers would test all these cameras in some systematic way and tell you how wide the dynamic range is for each model. There ought to be a consistent scale. It seems like they could just take a picture of something with a wide disparity in tones, and then (a) see how dark the tones got before turning pure black, and (b) see how light of tones that camera was able to capture before they turned pure white. They could just measure the difference in f-stops and voila we would have a simple scale for measuring dynamic range.
Turns out, it isn't that simple.
Some who review cameras have actually tried to create a scale or at least compare different cameras (you will see a couple of them later in this article). The results are wildly inconsistent though. The problem with creating a simple scale to measure dynamic range is with the dark tones. When a camera is attempting to capture really dark tones, the real enemy isn't having the tones turn completely black. Rather, the enemy is noise. At some point, the noise just takes over and the dark tones become unusable. Therefore, the bottom end of the dynamic range scale isn't defined by "pure black" but "usable black." That leads to a lot of uncertainty over when the blacks become unusable.
the dynamic range of a camera is different at different ISO levels. As you increase the ISO level of your camera, the dynamic range actually decreases. This is partially a function of the increased noise at higher ISOs mentioned above.
The type of file also makes a difference. A Raw file will generally have a larger dynamic range than a JPEG.
The dynamic range is also affected by different camera settings. For example, many cameras have a dynamic range expansion feature (Canon calls this Auto Lighting Optimizer and Nikon calls theirs Active D-Lighting), which will improve the dynamic range slightly when enabled. In-camera sharpening will also decrease the dynamic range of the picture.
Accordingly, there is no scale accepted by everyone for measuring dynamic range.
Are there other measurements we can look to to compare the dynamic range of various cameras? Sort of.
First let's take a look at how dynamic range works in the camera. That will help show you what you should be looking at to determine how wide a dynamic range a camera will have.
The digital sensor of a camera is divided up into tiny photosites that collect light. The photosites create pixels in your picture. Each photosite is essentially a bucket that collects light photons. If the bucket is empty, the pixel is black. As you add light photons, the bucket starts to fill up. When the bucket is full, the pixel is completely white. Adding more light photons once the bucket is full won't change anything, since it is already pure white.
The idea is to have a large bucket to hold a lot of light photons. The more your bucket can hold, the greater the distance between black (empty) and white (full). Therefore, the dynamic range is increased.
How do you have a larger bucket? By having larger pixels.
How do you have larger pixels? By having a larger image sensor. A smaller sensor can have less pixels to keep the pixels large, but then you might run into resolution problems.
I got this bucket analogy from a website called Cambridge in Colour. There are a lot of great explanations for technical aspects of photography on their website.
The bottom (black) end of the camera's dynamic range is defined by the amount of noise generated by the sensor. Therefore, the low-light performance of the camera will be what you should look to in determining this point.
The top (white) end of the camera's dynamic range is defined by pixel size. Since this is determined by the size of the sensor, you will want to look at sensor size to determine this point.
That leaves us with low-light performance determining the low (dark) end of the range, and sensor size determining the high (bright) end of the range.
When buying a camera and thinking about dynamic range, these are two things you are already probably considering. If you are looking to gauge the dynamic range of a camera though, these are two items to check right away.
The dynamic range of a digital camera is also determined by the bit-depth of your camera. Each pixel has a certain number of bits. The more the better. Think of each bit as a switch, and the more switches you have, the more color options are available in each pixel. That means you can have more tones of various colors.
Jpegs are generally 8-bit files, and Raw files can be up to 16-bits. Because the measurements involved are logarithmic, the difference between an 8-bit file and a 12-bit file is enormous. For more information about the differences in bit-depth, check out this article. For now, the point is that you should check the bit-depth of the camera you are considering purchasing.
In practice, the bit-depth will probably not result in any changes in your camera-buying decision. Almost all DSLRs have bit-depths of 14. Mirrorless cameras with APS-C or full-frame sensors are also generally 14-bit. Some Micro 4/3 cameras are 12-bit though.
There are 2 different companies that have conducted comprehensive tests of the dynamic range of the digital cameras on the market. They are called DxO Mark and Digital Photography Review (DP Review). Neither is perfect, and both lead to some pretty significant questions (which we will get to later). In any event, the remainder of this article will be the results of these sets of testing. Let's check them out now.
From the results of DxO Mark it appears, as we might expect given the discussion above, that a larger sensor gets you a larger dynamic range. Cameras with Micro-4/3 sensors averaged about 12.5 stops of dynamic range. Cameras with APS-C sized sensors averaged 12.9 stops (an increase of just under 1/2 a stop), and full-frame cameras averaged 13.25 stops (another increase of under 1/2 a stop). This is hardly a dramatic change, but it is definitely worth considering.
There is also a mild correlation between the price of the camera and the dynamic range. In general, the more you pay, the higher the dynamic range. That is also to be expected.
In its dynamic range scoring, DxO Mark places Nikon cameras as 7 of the top 10 cameras tested (including the top 5). DxO Mark has Nikon cameras in 20 of the top 50 spots. How many Canon cameras does DxO Mark have in its top 50? Answer: 0. That's right, not one of the top 50 cameras. DxO Mark has point-and-shoots and discontinued models rated much higher than even professional level Canon cameras.
In its overall scoring of camera sensors (which also considers low-light performance and color in addition to dynamic range), DxO Mark has Nikons in 6 of the top 10 spots, and also as 15 of the top 30. How many Canons in the top 30? Again, zero.
Call me a Canon apologist if you want, but this just doesn't make any sense. Could Nikon have an advangage over Canon in this regard? Sure. But do I find it plausible that Nikon sensors completely dominate Canons and nobody else has noticed or written about it? No I do not.
Don't get me wrong. I do not think DxO Mark is out to get Canon, or is engaged in some conspiracy. But I do think there is something inherent in their tests that biases in favor of some manufacturers and against others. I do not know anything about the specifics of their tests, but the results, as between camera manufacturer, are wildly inconsistent with everything I've ever experienced or heard about these cameras. Further, as shown below, these results are also not consistent with other testing that has been done.
DP Review does not actually create an overall chart showing all the models of camera they have tested. Rather, this chart is something I pieced together by looking at graphs on DP Review's website.
You might have noticed that all the latest models of digital cameras are not on the DP Review chart. For example, you will not see the Nikon D810, Sony A7II, or Canon 7D mark ii. Although DP Review has tested over 100 cameras to date, it seems to take them a while to perform these tests, such that many of the most recently-released cameras have not been tested.
The DP Review results generally show the dynamic ranges of current digital cameras clustered around 9. Half of the cameras shown above have a dynamic range within 1/2 stop of 9. All of them have dynamic ranges between 8 and 10.
The testing done by DP Review does not show improvement in the dynamic range of digital cameras with larger sensors. If anything, the cameras with the smaller sensors tend to have higher dynamic ranges. That is directly contrary to the testing from DxO Mark.
In addition, DP Review does not score Nikon significantly higher than Canon. If anything, Canons fare better than Nikons in the DP Review testing.
There is no consensus as to the actual dynamic range of most digital cameras. DxO Mark puts most cameras between 12 and 15 stops; while DP Review only shows dynamic ranges of 8 – 10 stops.
There is no consensus as to the impact of a larger digital sensor. In theory, this should have a big impact. DxO Mark shows such an impact. The testing by DP Review, however, does not.
There is no clear correlation between price and dynamic range. While DxO mark shows a mild correlation between price and dynamic range, DP Review actually shows a mild inverse correlation.
The impact of the camera manufacturer is unclear as well. As mentioned above, DxO Mark shows Nikons significantly outperforming Canons. DP Review actually seems to rate the Canons a little higher than the Nikons. Both have Sony doing reasonably well.
Dynamic range, while important, is a tricky thing to get your arms around. Without a uniform standard or spec from the manufacturers, it is difficult to compare models. Further, because of the inherent fuzziness in the results, even when you see testing results they are subject to being questioned. As the testing by DxO Mark and DP Review shows, there is just not a consistent scale, and neither is there any consistency between the testing.
Hopefully the information above helps you compare specific models you might be considering. If the model you are considering buying is not on my charts, you can | 2,230 |
"Isn't it romantic? Sort of?"
"More Than Blue" is the sort of love story that requires a viewer to be able to say "yes, this is horrible, but so romantic!", and, folks, I am not good at that. Nope, I'm the guy who is going to spend much of the movie trying to keep myself from yelling "that's not freakin' heartwarming, you ghouls!" despite how generally and earnestly charming this romance can be.
Sung Yuan-yuan, aka "Cream" (Ivy Chen Yi-han) and "K" Chang Che-kai (Jasper Liu Yi-hao) met in high school ten years ago, coming together after Cream's family died in a car accident and K's mother abandoned him, living together in K's house (and both working for the same record label) but never sharing a bed or even a kiss, seemingly content to be best friends. In truth, K has never told Cream that he has leukemia, and as it reaches its terminal stage, he's intent on making sure that she has a happy life after he's<|fim_middle|>. When he sees her apparently spark with dentist Yang Yu Hsien (Bryan Chang Shu-hao), things look good, except that he's engaged to photographer Cindy (Annie Chen Ting-ni) - though with all her affairs, breaking them up shouldn't be too hard.
Maybe it worked a little differently in the original Korean version of this film, but director Gavin Lin Hsiao-chien and co-writer Hermes Lu An-hsuan set themselves a tricky-than-necessary situation to navigate. It would be one thing if K's plan was just misguided and Cream was just fooling herself, or trying to, but they come into this other couple's lives in a selfish manner and are never exactly poised to learn from what they're wrecking. It's easy to spend the movie cheering for the supporting cast, especially Bryan Chang Shu-hao as the lovably doofy alternative love interest and Annie Chen as his (ex) fiancee who at least seems straightforward and self-aware. One doesn't necessarily want to see them with each other, but they're funny characters and Wu plays Cindy with such great lack of b.s. that the audience is with her even when it's probably not supposed to be. There's also what seems like a pretty good workplace comedy/show-business spoof going on around the main characters; it's kind of broad and weird, but also fairly funny.
Truth be told, the main pairing isn't bad at all. Jasper Liu and Ivy Chen Yi-han have good chemistry and commit to the story around them with utter sincerity. You can't do otherwise with what's kind of an ill-advised story like this, and they're both charming and willing to give the script what it needs, making K and Cream feel like they're everything to each other without harping on it or being more ostentatiously sincere than the chaos around them deserves (it's also worth noting that the actors playing the pair as teenagers, Shih Chih-tian and You Ai-ning, capture and establish the characters well enough that I had assumed it was the same actors, not uncommon in Taiwanese movies). The film is nicely paced and casual rather than overwrought, and doesn't let stuff like an Obviously Important Song wear out its welcome.
At least, it mostly works in the moment. A little reflection seems to expose new layers of it being a mess underneath the surface. There's a wrapper around the story with pop star A-Lin and some background characters following the trail of a song Cream wrote so that the filmmakers can tell the audience what they should be feeling about all of this, and more than a few bits of information held back so that the revelation can hopefully give the emotion an extra kick. And there's the ending, which is powerful and romantic in the abstract but which would likely receive another reaction if they actually showed it or even spelled it out rather than alluding to what happened in the most general terms possible. Instead, they hide from the implications and run from the full measure of the tragedy contained in this tragic romance, and it feels cynical and cowardly.
Maybe it's a great multi-tissue movie for those that really go for the love that is too powerful to be contained, is admittedly not me. On the other hand, "More than Blue" too often feels like the filmmakers want to make a simple, classic weepie despite having the plot of a black comedy and underlying issues that deserve to be wrestled with more honestly. The cast and crew have the skills to make the sort of romance that will have people reaching for the tissues, but this story requires something else. | gone | 1 |
Color deepens data storage
Computers have always stored information using different physical states, like the opposite poles of a magnet, to represent the ones and zeros of the binary number system.
Efforts to store more information in magnetic media are focused on cramming more magnets into the same space rather than increasing the complexity of the information because magnets only have two poles.
Being able to store more than two possible meanings in one physical area,<|fim_middle|> to harbor two terabytes per square inch, according to Steckl.
To make the storage devices, the researchers added an 800-nanometer thick silicon dioxide film to a silicon wafer. To write information onto the film, they added holes of 15 different depths using focused ion beam micromilling. Individual holes, or pixels, measured half a micron to two microns in diameter and 50 to just under 800 nanometers deep. The absence of a hole added a 16th color. The researchers controlled the depth of each hole by varying the number of gallium ions shot at the film.
Holes of a specific depth reflect white light, which is a mix of all colors, with a particular interference pattern, yielding light of a certain wavelength or color. Sixteen hole depths produce 16 different colors.
Each hole can hold four bits of information because each color represents a four-bit number. This is because it takes four binary digits to write 16 different numbers, starting with 0000 and ending with 1111. "Four bits makes all the possible parameters," of the 16 states, said Steckl.
In a similar manner, four different hole depths would hold two bits of information, because there are four binary possibilities using two binary digits: 00, 01, 10 and 11. Following this pattern, eight different parameters would hold three bits of information, 36 parameters five bits, 64 parameters six bits, 128 parameters seven bits and 256 parameters eight bits.
The researchers were able to make the holes at a speed of 310 microns per second, meaning the devices are not fast in terms of writing information.
Once written, however the color information can potentially be read faster than binary storage media. Using an array of detectors, or read heads, the amount of information read equals the transfer speed of the read device multiplied by the color bit depth, said Steckl.
The film memory devices are also sturdy. Silicon dioxide is a strong material, making it difficult to alter and potentially very long-lasting, said Steckl. "The robustness of this material makes it [a good candidate] for data storage in harsh environments such as high-temperature or radiation. It may store data [for] centuries," said Steckl. It's also potentially useful for secure applications like smartcards because it is so difficult to alter, he added.
In addition to providing archival computer storage, the tiny points of color could be used to form words or symbols, said Steckl. "A machine that is trained to optical character recognition or a human could excerpt information very quickly," through symbols or words spelled out using the colors, Steckl said.
The researchers can also increase the number of hole depths to gain more colors and therefore more bits, and decrease the size of the holes to cram more information per square inch, said Steckl. "Right now we have 16 levels, and each level is about 50 nanometers [from the next.] By improving the minimum step distance we can go from four bits per pixel to eight bits per pixel. And then by making the hole itself smaller you can also increase the density significantly," Steckl said.
The researchers next step is to make a working prototype of a drive that can read the optical film.
The memory device is a clever and potentially useful device for writing permanent information and reading it out with reflected light, said Robert Dickson, an assistant professor of chemistry at the Georgia Institute. "It provides a very nice demonstration of how, by using color, [you can] potentially write more than one bit of information per data point."
Practical applications for the thin film optical scheme could be developed in three to five years, said Steckl.
Steckl's research colleague was C.J. Chi of the University of Cincinnati. They published the research in the January 5, 2001 issue of Science. The research was funded by Department of Defense (DOD).
TRN Categories: Semiconductors and Materials; Data Storage Technology
Related Elements: Photo 1, Photo 2, Technical paper, "Digital Thin-Film Color Optical Memory," Applied Physics Letters, January 8, 2001.
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Switch channels atom beams | however, is another way to cram more information into a small space.
With this in mind, a team of researchers the University of Cincinnati is using the different colors of light reflected from tiny holes in a thin film of silicon dioxide to gain many different colors that can be used to encode bits. The color of the reflected light depends on the depth of the hole. Like magnetic media, each bit still has two states, but "at every location I can have multiple bits," said Andrew Steckl, a professor of solid-state microelectronics and director of the Nanoelectronics Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati.
The scheme is a write once, read many (WORM) method, meaning media using it cannot be erased and rewritten.
The researchers have produced a prototype of their thin-film media that uses 16 distinct colors, but the method is scalable to many more, said Steckl. "There is virtually no limit to the number of colors that can be produced. It is solely dependent on the detector design and the detector's capability to distinguish colors in different saturation and hue level," Steckl said.
Using the 16-color prototype, the researchers have written more than five gigabytes of information on a square inch of film, which is about double the density of today's DVD disks. In theory, this type of storage media could use more colors | 275 |
Seven Acres Burned in Angeles National Forest; Fire 50% Contained
By R.J. Johnson - @rickerthewriter Jul 21, 2020
Firefighters say a seven-acre fire in the Chantry Flats area of the Angeles National Forest, near Arcadia is 50% contained as of 6 a<|fim_middle|> injured by a rock that hit his shoulder and was taken to a hospital for treatment, according to a Twitter posting on the Angeles National Forest page.
No structures were threatened, and by 4 p.m. the fire was 50% contained at seven acres, the Arcadia Fire Department and the Angeles National Forest reported.
Photo: U.S. Forest Service | .m. this morning.
The fire broke out Monday afternoon and began burning toward the Hermit Falls area, the U.S. Forest Service said in a statement. Hikers in the area were asked to shelter in place while firefighters worked the blaze. At least one firefighter was injured after a rock hit his shoulder. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment. About 120 firefighters on the ground were assisted by six helicopters and two water tankers, the Forest Service said.
No structures were threatened in the area and crews were quickly able to knock down a spot fire that erupted, the Angeles National Forest reported.
The cause of the blaze is still under investigation.
ut for unknown reasons Monday afternoon and was burning toward the Hermit Falls area, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
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The photovoltaic power plant on the former exercise terrain for troops, Lieberose, to the north of Cottbus (Brandenburg) is the largest solar power plant in Germany since 20 August 2009. With the joint assembly of the 560 000 solar modules the Federal Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, commissioned by the Federal Government for the new Federal states, as well as the Minister-President of Brandenburg Matthias Platzeck made this plant to be the largest photovoltaic park in Germany. In Turnow-Preilack, the juwi Group – project developers for regenerative power plants – together with First Solar – manufacturers of advanced thin-layer modules – are currently realising a photovoltaic power plant with an output of 53 MW on an area of 162 ha that is to be fully connected to the grid by the end of this year. Solarserver hereby presents the second largest photovoltaic plant worldwide and Germany's No. 1 as Solar System of the Month October 2009.
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Production of solar energy on the scale of power plants: Lieberose Solar Power Plant in Brandenburg. Source: juwi Group
700 000 Thin-layer modules and 38 inverter stations
The solar power plant between the towns of Lieberose and Turnow-Preilack in the regional district Spree-Neiße has an annual output of approximately 53 million kWh of clean power, which corresponds to about 15 000 households, i.e. to the electricity consumption of a small town. The surface area on which the modules and the inverter stations were erected corresponds to the size of over 210 football fields. Solar power production allows for around 35 000 t of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) being saved. The approximately 700 000 thin-layer modules by First Solar (FS 272-277 etc) were mostly manufactured in Frankfurt/Oder and combine to form an overall module area of approximately 500 000 m2. The 38 inverter stations were supplied by SMA Solar Technologie AG (Niestetal). 37 central inverter stations of the make "SMA SC 1250 MW" and one station of the make "SMA SC 900 MV" are used. The sub-construction was provided by Leichtmetallbau Schletter GmbH from the upper-Bavarian town of Haag.
Lieberose is not only a milestone in the history of photovoltaics and a model project on the restoration of military premises encumbered with military weaponry that shines far beyond the borders of Germany; but this solar park also sets a clear sign in our current times of financial and economic crises that even large-scale photovoltaic projects can be financed and that it is in any event worthwhile investing into renewable energies.
Successful financing in difficult times
For the purposes of realising the project juwi and First Solar developed and implemented a complex financing concept: the outside capital that constituted approximately 80 % of the investment volume came from a consortium of banks made up of KfW IPEX Bank, Bremer Landesbank, DZ Bank, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba) and NordLB, that in turn were refinanced by two development banks. The own capital funds are initially financed by juwi and First Solar through Mezzanine loans. In total the PV park that is to be sold to an investor upon its completion constitutes an investment volume exceeding 160 million euro. The juwi Group anticipates continued investor interest in completed or construction-ready energy parks in the solar as well as the wind sector, since investments in wind and solar parks are very secure and thus very attractive. "Amidst the biggest financial crisis since World War II we accomplished financing of the second-largest solar park worldwide. Thus, we<|fim_middle|> feasibility of PV systems in Germany: more than just a little sunshine
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2010 © Heindl Server GmbH | see that large-scale projects can still be financed," press speaker Ralf Heidenreich emphasises. Long-term, trusting and solid business relationships with investors, banks and the suppliers are an important factor for ensuring the implementation of future projects, juwi emphasises. Juwi enjoys an excellent reputation with banks and investors on the basis of its co-operation that is characterised by reliability.
Increased need for co-ordination in financing large-scale projects
"The drop-out rate of our projects is nil; this, too, creates trust. We are an owner-run, down-to-earth company – and not listed with the stock exchange. The high degree of volatility and nervousness of stock exchanges thus has no impact on us. We can act on the basis of long-term and sustainable projects and do not depend on mood changes of the capital markets," Heidenreich continues. Zartina Ecker, Cleantech expert of the investment bank Jefferies, is quoted in the Capital Magazine in a juwi portrait, "juwi has established itself as a premium brand. Banks prefer financing projects if they know that they carry the name of juwi." However, the larger the plant, the more challenging its financing becomes. Banks continue to be willing to finance large-scale projects, as the Lieberose Solar Park proves. But credit institutions are clearly more cautious and hesitant, and even more distrustful towards other banks, so that juwi partially had to assume the co-ordination of financing. Furthermore, more banks are involved in financing large-scale projects than was the case in the past; this also leads to a need in increased communication and co-ordination. "Until financing had been secured, juwi colleagues of the finance department worked till late at night for many months," Heidenreich reports.
Dangerous weaponry makes way for greener electricity production
As far as the protection of the environment is concerned, Lieberose also sets an example. The solar park not only generates clean energy but also ensured that dangerous ammunition was removed from the property. Lieberose is thus a superb example of the successful combination of climate protection, high-tech and active protection of our environment. The state of Brandenburg leases this property of about 300 ha to the operator of plant, thereby ensuring that this area can be used for the production of solar energy for a period of over 20 years. A once-off payment and the lease of the land financed the removal of weaponry.
Weaponry that was removed before the erection of the solar park. Source: juwi Group
After completion of solar utilisation the PV system will be dismantled and a heathland free from weaponry will be available to realise the goals of environmental protection and to be sustained in the long-term. The state of Brandenburg lends its full support to the solar park. "Projects such as this help us in healing the wounds of the Cold War and also in reaching our ambitious goals in the field of renewable energies," Minister-President Platzeck praises this project.
Large-scale photovoltaic parks planned in the USA
"After US President Barack Obama introduced the energy turn, the market offers immense opportunities for renewable energies. juwi will utilise these opportunities; we have many projects in the making," juwi Chairperson Matthias Willenbacher reports. In summer 2009 juwi Solar signed electricity purchasing agreements for photovoltaic parks and secured the project rights: in Ohio a 12 MW plant is to be erected, in Florida a 15 MW park is envisaged. Overall, juwi plans to connect wind and solar power plants with a total output of over 1 000 MW to the grid in the coming years. The USA will thus become one of the most important markets for juwi. Besides the MW wind parks juwi also has numerous large-scale photovoltaic projects in the making, the output of which will exceed 10 MW each.
Further Solar Energy Systems of the Month:
Thin-film photovoltaic on the way to the world's biggest solar electric power park
Solar energy for heating and cooling
The Combined Power Plant: first stage in providing 100 % power from renewable energy
PV-TEC – Research factory for solar cells
Solar power system offers protection against blackouts
Power for Africa: solar hybrid systems for rural electrification
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I am utterly in love with my newest lace mats and wanted to incorporate one on a butter cream covered cake that I'm in the process of making…but I heard that cake lace couldn't be used directly on butter cream 🙁 The fear is that the butter cream would transfer moisture to the lace causing it to dissolve. Obviously none of us would<|fim_middle|> accents of fondant, lace and modeling chocolate. And yes, I do have a stubborn streak and often do need to see proof before I believe. And so I set out to test whether or not cake lace can be set directly on butter cream.
I smeared about a tablespoon of leftover homemade American butter cream (butter, confectioners' sugar and a bit of almond extract) onto two separate saucers. I put one saucer in the fridge so that the butter cream could harden up and the other I used while it was still soft, soon after it was made. I then placed a small piece of lace directly on top of each, really pushing it into the unhardened cream. Each dish was subsequently loosely covered with a nylon baggie and placed in the fridge over night. I had no idea what would happen, if anything.
To my great surprise and delight, both saucers looked exactly the same way the following morning as they did the previous evening. I even touched the lace to see if it would melt and dissolve with the sudden heat of my hand, but it didn't. The lace retained its integrity. There also didn't seem to be any difference between the lace that was placed on the softened cream and the lace that was placed on the cream that had previously set in the fridge.
I then wanted to see what would happen to the lace when the butter cream would warm up to room temperature, so I had the saucers sit on my kitchen counter in an un-airconditioned room throughout the day. The butter cream on both dishes did soften enough for me to be able to leave fingerprints in it, but the lace remained unchanged and undamaged!
Then I moved on to the freezer test. I put both saucers, still covered lightly with the nylon baggies, in the freezer overnight. The following morning I moved them to the fridge for a few hours and then to my counter once again. I am delighted to share that the homemade lace created using the recipe in my previous article (Homemade Sugar Lace), maintained its integrity throughout these several days of trials.
I have no idea whether lace on butter cream would work using the Swiss, French or Italian creams or whether any of the name brand lace products would behave differently. I am just content that the products that I use do work and I am happy to share my results with you. If anyone has had a different experience I would be very interested to hear about it. | want that to happen. Can you imagine, finishing all the decorations on a cake that is ready to be delivered only to have sections of it melt and disappear into nothingness before your very eyes!
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GPRA Modern<|fim_middle|> the page. | ization Act of 2010: Examining Constraints To, and Providing Tools For, Cross-Agency Collaboration
Recommendation 2013-7 – GPRA Modernization Act of 2010: Examining Constraints To, and Providing Tools For, Cross-Agency Collaboration examines perceived and real constraints to cross-agency collaboration under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Modernization Act and highlights tools available to help agencies collaborate. It offers guidance to help increase transparency, improve information sharing, and facilitate better agency reporting under the Act. The recommendation is also aimed at enhancing the role of agency attorneys and other agency staff in facilitating cross-agency collaboration.
Citation: Admin. Conf. of the U.S., Recommendation 2013-7, GPRA Modernization Act of 2010: Examining Constraints To, and Providing Tools For, Cross-Agency Collaboration, 78 Fed. Reg. 76273 (Dec. 17, 2013).
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The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRAMA) became law on January 4, 2011.[1] Among other things, the Act requires the Executive branch and federal agencies to develop cross-agency performance goals and specifies directives toward the advancement, use, review, and measurement of cross-agency collaboration.[2] Cross-agency collaboration is widely viewed as a powerful means for government...
OMB Circular A-11 implements Recommendation 2013-7 by requiring agencies to report their responsibility for and contributions to Cross-Agency Priority Goals. Consistent with the Recommendation, Performance.gov now includes reports on agencies' progress on achieving CAP Goals.
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A honeybee's brain is hardly<|fim_middle|>, bee species and crops. | bigger than the tip of a dog's whisker, yet you can train a bee just as Pavlov got his pups to drool on hearing their dinner bell. Using a sugar solution as a reward, you can teach the insect to extend its little mouthparts in response to different scents.
Several Pavlovian lab studies of individual worker honeybees, however, found that those fed small amounts of pesticides—especially a class called neonicotinoids—do not learn which scents lead to a sweet reward as quickly as their pesticide-free peers do. Yet, until recently, it wasn't clear what these and other lab studies meant for the health of entire bee colonies, which might have strategies to mitigate the overall impact of problems with particular hive members. "Just because you see the effect in the bee in the lab, strapped into this lab apparatus, [doesn't mean you know] how does this translate into a colony in a field?" says Reed Johnson, an entomologist at The Ohio State University who studies pesticides' effects on honeybees.
To probe the colony question, academic research on neonicotinoids and other pesticides is moving from studies in labs to the outdoors—examining both the effects on entire honeybee or bumblebee hives as well as those on solitary bees nesting near crops. Such studies could help determine how and to what extent pesticides are behind the accelerated rate at which honeybee hives are dying. They also seek to answer whether pesticides are harming other bee species that are important to agriculture.
Since 2006 U.S. honeybee-keepers have reported they lose 30 percent of their hives on average after every winter. Before then, beekeepers would usually lose 5 or 10 percent of their hives after winter. The immediate reasons keepers report their hives are dying seem ordinary enough—winter starvation, pests such as the varroa mite and problems with queen bees such as premature deaths—but researchers are trying to understand why these seemingly normal problems are now happening at an extraordinarily higher rate. Pesticides could be one answer.
So far, honeybee-keepers have replaced lost hives through breeding, but experts worry that in the future bees won't be able to sustain such a high replacement rate. Populations could decline below what U.S. agriculture needs to pollinate America's nuts, fruits, vegetables and even livestock feed.
The field studies entomologists repeatedly cite include ones that found different neonicotinoids reduced the number of honeybee foragers that return to their hive as well as reduced the population growth and queen bee production of bumblebee colonies. Another study found that the neonicotinoid imidacloprid, when applied in combination with another popular, non-neonicotinoid pesticide called lambda-cyhalothrin, increased the likelihood that bumblebee hives will fail. "I do think it is pretty clear that neonics interfere with bees' ability to forage effectively," says David Goulson, a bumblebee researcher with the University of Sussex in the U.K. and an author of the bumblebee population growth study cited above. "For bumblebees, the evidence is overwhelming."
On the other hand, the evidence for neonicotinoids' effects on honeybees is less convincing. Honeybee hives are larger than those of bumblebees and may be better able to compensate for impaired individuals. "It might be very difficult to show the effect in honeybees," says Nigel Raine, a Royal Holloway University of London entomologist who conducted the bumblebee field study suggesting that treated hives were more likely to fail.
Beyond neonicotinoids, research groups have started to find that other pesticides affect learning and population abundance in other bee species. At the 2013 International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy, held at The Pennsylvania State University in August, one study found blue orchard bees and alfalfa leaf-cutter bees had trouble finding their own nests after foraging in outdoor fields that researchers sprayed with the fungicides iprodione, pyraclostrobin and boscalid. (Researchers covered the fields with dense mesh cubes, six meters at a side, to keep the bees from foraging elsewhere.) Another study found apple orchards treated more heavily with any type of pesticides had severalfold fewer wild bee visitors than more lightly treated orchards.
What does all this research mean for laws regarding pesticide use? Are any regulatory agencies using these studies as a basis for changing how many pesticides bees are exposed to in the real world?
In the European Union officials have used studies from universities as well as their own reviews as the basis of a two-year moratorium on many uses of three neonicotinoids called clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. The ban is controversial, even among researchers. It's also not clear what its fate will be, as neonicotinoid-makers Bayer CropScience and Syngenta Crop Protection have sued against the ban, saying there's not enough evidence to merit regulatory change.
In the U.S. the Environmental Protection Agency depends mostly on its own six-year research plan to make regulatory decisions, agency spokesperson Catherine Milbourn wrote in an e-mail. The agency is reviewing six neonicotinoids: in addition to clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam it is studying acetamiprid, dinotefuran and thiacloprid. The review is part of a program designed to regularly reexamine active ingredients in all pesticides approved for use in the U.S. The agency expects to finish its work by 2019. The reason it will take several years is to give pesticide companies the chance to acquire the data the EPA requested.
The EPA also considers studies by university researchers, but such studies often aren't designed to meet the agency's particular needs for addressing legal uncertainties for regulation, according to Milbourn. "We feel the studies that are currently underway at EPA's request are the most important for our regulatory purposes, since they were designed to answer specific uncertainties that we currently have and also to fully comply with federal laws and regulations," she wrote in an e-mail.
When asked for examples of how recent studies don't fill the bill, the agency declined to review others' work that way. Instead, Milbourn and other officials pointed to a proposal from 2012 that describes a method for regulators to determine pesticides' risks to honeybees in greater detail than the EPA had ever previously required before approving a pesticide.
Entomologists working on field studies have their own plans for taking their research forward. Bumblebee researcher Raine is working on further studies for the U.K., including surveys to better determine how much pesticide bees pick up on their bodies or eat in pollen and honey when they live outdoors, for example. Derek Artz, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researcher who worked on the mesh-caged field study, plans a study in the open field. That will let him see whether the two solitary bee species he studies simply abandon nesting sites near crops treated with fungicides, a suspected coping strategy.
Ultimately, however, it may be impossible to perfectly answer all of scientists' and regulators' questions about the effects of pesticides on bees. "There's thousands of chemicals out there," Ohio State's Johnson says. "If you're going to require field studies for all of them, is there enough land area on the Earth to do all these studies?" To address this problem, the EPA and the USDA are developing mathematical models to test every possible combination of pesticides | 1,572 |
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Ice flow modelling to constrain the surface mass balance and ice<|fim_middle|> ± 7% and 89 ± 4% loss of volume, respectively. | discharge of San Rafael Glacier, Northern Patagonia Icefield
GABRIELA COLLAO-BARRIOS, FABIEN GILLET-CHAULET, VINCENT FAVIER, GINO CASASSA, ETIENNE BERTHIER, INÉS DUSSAILLANT, JÉRÉMIE MOUGINOT, ERIC RIGNOT
Journal: Journal of Glaciology / Volume 64 / Issue 246 / August 2018
We simulate the ice dynamics of the San Rafael Glacier (SRG) in the Northern Patagonia Icefield (46.7°S, 73.5°W), using glacier geometry obtained by airborne gravity measurements. The full-Stokes ice flow model (Elmer/Ice) is initialized using an inverse method to infer the basal friction coefficient from a satellite-derived surface velocity mosaic. The high surface velocities (7.6 km a−1) near the glacier front are explained by low basal shear stresses (<25 kPa). The modelling results suggest that 98% of the surface velocities are due to basal sliding in the fast-flowing glacier tongue (>1 km a−1). We force the model using different surface mass-balance scenarios taken or adapted from previous studies and geodetic elevation changes between 2000 and 2012. Our results suggest that previous estimates of average surface mass balance over the entire glacier (Ḃ) were likely too high, mainly due to an overestimation in the accumulation area. We propose that most of SRG imbalance is due to the large ice discharge (−0.83 ± 0.08 Gt a−1) and a slightly positive Ḃ (0.08 ± 0.06 Gt a−1). The committed mass-loss estimate over the next century is −0.34 ± 0.03 Gt a−1. This study demonstrates that surface mass-balance estimates and glacier wastage projections can be improved using a physically based ice flow model.
Sensitivity of grounding line dynamics to the choice of the friction law
JULIEN BRONDEX, OLIVIER GAGLIARDINI, FABIEN GILLET-CHAULET, GAËL DURAND
Journal: Journal of Glaciology / Volume 63 / Issue 241 / October 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 October 2017, pp. 854-866
Basal slip accounts for a large part of the flow of ice streams draining ice from Antarctica and Greenland into the ocean. Therefore, an appropriate representation of basal slip in ice flow models is a prerequisite for accurate sea level rise projections. Various friction laws have been proposed to describe basal slip in models. Here, we compare the influence on grounding line (GL) dynamics of four friction laws: the traditional Weertman law and three effective pressure-dependent laws, namely the Schoof, Tsai and Budd laws. It turns out that, even when they are tuned to a common initial reference state, the Weertman, Budd and Schoof laws lead to thoroughly different steady-state positions, although the Schoof and Tsai laws lead to much the same result. In particular, under certain circumstances, it is possible to obtain a steady GL located on a reverse slope area using the Weertman law. Furthermore, the predicted transient evolution of the GL as well as the projected contributions to sea level rise over a 100-year time horizon vary significantly depending on the friction law. We conclude on the importance of choosing an appropriate law for reliable sea level rise projections and emphasise the need for a coupling between ice flow models and physically based subglacial hydrological models.
Simulations of the Greenland ice sheet 100 years into the future with the full Stokes model Elmer/Ice
Hakime Seddik, Ralf Greve, Thomas Zwinger, Fabien Gillet-Chaulet, Olivier Gagliardini
Journal: Journal of Glaciology / Volume 58 / Issue 209 / 2012
It is likely that climate change will have a significant impact on the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet, contributing to future sea-level rise. Here we present the implementation of the full Stokes model Elmer/Ice for the Greenland ice sheet, which includes a mesh refinement technique in order to resolve fast-flowing ice streams and outlet glaciers. We discuss simulations 100 years into the future, forced by scenarios defined by the SeaRISE (Sea-level Response to Ice Sheet Evolution) community effort. For comparison, the same experiments are also run with the shallow-ice model SICOPOLIS (SImulation COde for POLythermal Ice Sheets). We find that Elmer/Ice is ~43% more sensitive (exhibits a larger loss of ice-sheet volume relative to the control run) than SICOPOLIS for the ice-dynamic scenario (doubled basal sliding), but ~61 % less sensitive for the direct global warming scenario (based on the A1 B moderate-emission scenario for greenhouse gases). The scenario with combined A1B global warming and doubled basal sliding forcing produces a Greenland contribution to sea-level rise of ~15cm for Elmer/Ice and ~12cm for SICOPOLIS over the next 100 years.
Enhancement factors for grounded ice and ice shelves inferred from an anisotropic ice-flow model
Ying Ma, Olivier Gagliardini, Catherine Ritz, Fabien Gillet-Chaulet, Gaël Durand, Maurine Montagnat
Polar ice is known to be one of the most anisotropic natural materials. For a given fabric the polycrystal viscous response is strongly dependent on the actual state of stress and strain rate. Within an ice sheet, grounded-ice parts and ice shelves have completely different stress regimes, so one should expect completely different impacts of ice anisotropy on the flow. The aim of this work is to quantify, through the concept of enhancement factors, the influence of ice anisotropy on the flow of grounded ice and ice shelves. For this purpose, a full-Stokes anisotropic marine ice-sheet flowline model is used to compare isotropic and anisotropic diagnostic velocity fields on a fixed geometry. From these full-Stokes results, we propose a definition of enhancement factors for grounded ice and ice shelves, coherent with the asymptotic models used for these regions. We then estimate realistic values for the enhancement factors induced by ice anisotropy for grounded ice and ice shelves.
Simulations of changes to Glaciar Zongo, Bolivia (16° S), over the 21st century using a 3-D full-Stokes model and CMIP5 climate projections
Marion Réveillet, Antoine Rabatel, Fabien Gillet-Chaulet, Alvaro Soruco
Journal: Annals of Glaciology / Volume 56 / Issue 70 / 2015
Bolivian glaciers are an essential source of fresh water for the Altiplano, and any changes they may undergo in the near future due to ongoing climate change are of particular concern. Glaciar Zongo, Bolivia, located near the administrative capital La Paz, has been extensively monitored by the GLACIOCLIM observatory in the last two decades. Here we model the glacier dynamics using the 3-D full-Stokes model Elmer/Ice. The model was calibrated and validated over a recent period (1997–2010) using four independent datasets: available observations of surface velocities and surface mass balance were used for calibration, and changes in surface elevation and retreat of the glacier front were used for validation. Over the validation period, model outputs are in good agreement with observations (differences less than a small percentage). The future surface mass balance is assumed to depend on the equilibrium-line altitude (ELA) and temperature changes through the sensitivity of ELA to temperature. The model was then forced for the 21st century using temperature changes projected by nine Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) models. Here we give results for three different representative concentration pathways (RCPs). The intermediate scenario RCP6.0 led to 69 ± 7% volume loss by 2100, while the two extreme scenarios, RCP2.6 and RCP8.5, led to 40 | 1,773 |
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More photos are here . | out to San Francisco. My tolerance for air travel grows increasingly low, but I managed to get through it. I got the rental car and made my way to Pat's apartment in the Mission district without any trouble. We chatted a bit there, admired his fetching neighbor across the way who was hanging out on her balcony, and then headed out in search of yummy food. We found a tiny El Salvadorian restaurant that had delicious tamales and popusas. Pat thought it was so good that as we got up to leave he wanted to come right back. Then we hung out in Dolores Park, listened to Michael Jackson blaring on a boom box, and watched cute skinny girls play Frisbee.
We headed on over to the Pirate Supply store just before it closed, which I found to be not particularly entertaining. The we wondered into a new shop in the neighborhood specializing in just honey. The proprietress was a very chatty woman with bright red hair who fed us lots of delicious honey samples, including some fennel honey, eucalyptus, cactus and local honeys. Pat and Rebecca each bought a jar. Then it was back to Pat's where we hooked up with Marcia and Rebekah and Rebekah drove us around on a local's guided tour of "Significant and Insignificant" things. It was quite fantastic. She showed us the big hippie grocery co-op, where all the best night clubs were for any given sexual orientation, all the various strip joints, famous restaurants, the best taco cart, chinatown, little italy, etc. She drove us up and down some really insane hills including the famous Lombard street.
After that we hit Urban Burger for fuel and went back to Pat's to eat and chat and comment on his lack of furniture and attempt to sit comfortably on his partially inflated air mattress. I drove Rebekah and Marcia home and then made my way down to my swanky hotel in Sunnyvale where I will stay this week. It was a very fun and enjoyable time. Pat's crew is a bit obsessed with some random internet video of some dude tripping on acid and ranting about random things that come on TV, which is where the title of this post comes from. I think it's this one.
OK, it is promising to be a very fun and productive week out here. A few reunions are also planned. Further bulletins as events warrant. I took some good and funny photos, too, but on a borrowed SD card since I (again, sigh) left mine at home in the laptop, so I'll have to post those later | 536 |
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Smilingwolf | years we have been energetically fundraising towards a major refurbishment and expansion plan for our beloved six-storey mill building in Salford.
The plan incorporates:
A complete transformation of the 5th and 6th upper floor / attic to create 8 new live/work Artist and Maker Residence Spaces that will be the first of their kind in the North West, offering year-round accommodation and workspace for local, national and international artists. Plus, a vast open space for large scale art-making, events, communal activities, performance and hire.
A full weatherproofing of the building.
An external elevator to all floors.
The total estimated cost for the project is £2.5 million.
In January 2020 we were able to announce that we had reached the final milestone in this mammoth fundraising journey.
Our generous funding comes from:
Arts Council England, who have given £928,000 from their large scale capital programme.
Salford City Council, who have given £330,000 to our project to secure a creative home for artists in the city.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund, who have given £746,000 to protect and share the longevity of our landmark working heritage building.
Plus £475,000 raised by the Islington Mill community of tenants, artists, friends, family, supporters and audiences in a dynamic artist-led fundraising campaign, along with generous corporate and in-kind support of many kinds.
This means that our building programme can commence in 2020!
Our tenancy of this magnificent building is secured and there will be artists at Islington Mill for many years to come, thanks to all of you.
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Reinforcement learning plays<|fim_middle|> with the number of the state values. | an important role in Multi-Agent Systems. The reasoning and learning ability of agents is the key for autonomous agents. Autonomous agents are required to be able to adapt and learn in uncertain environments via communication and collaboration (in both competitive and cooperative situations). For real-time, non-deterministic and dynamic systems, it is often extremely complex and difficult to formally verify their properties a priori. In this paper, we adopt the reinforcement learning algorithms to verify goal-oriented agents' competitive and cooperative learning abilities for decision making. In doing so, a simulation testbed is applied to test the learning algorithms in the specified scenarios. In addition, the function approximation technique known as tile coding (TC), is used to generate value functions, which can avoid the value function growing exponentially | 150 |
Jules returned to New York by 1920 and saw his career take off by 1925. He performed in places like the Manhattan Opera House and critics hailed him as one of the greatest baritones of the day. His letters home mention his work with great New York composers. He even performed his own compositions during recitals, including his most well-known piece, "Old Man River." Though based in New York City and traveling the world, Jules never forgot about home. He returned to Waco many times throughout his career and performed multiple times at the New Hope Baptist Church.
Jules portraying Amonasro in<|fim_middle|> Angeles, California on 14 July 1943 and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Waco, TX. The people of Waco mourned his death, and his papers contain an obituary from New Hope Baptist Church. Aged just forty-five, Jules' life seems tragically short, but a look through his papers reveal he accomplished a great deal during his life.
For more images from the Jules Bledsoe papers, check out our Flickr album! | a performance of Aida in Paris, 1937. You'll find this item in the Jules Bledsoe Papers #2086, box 6, folder 9, at The Texas Collection, Baylor University.
For his career, Jules learned to sing in English, French, German, Italian, Yiddish, and a little bit of Spanish. He refused to limit his success to the United States, and his proficiency in multiple languages propelled his career forward. From 1937 to 1938 Jules traveled across Europe, performing in recitals and in operas, including "Aida," a well-loved piece of operatic canon. Photographs from his performances in Paris and the Netherlands, as well as programs from his stops in Germany, are held in his collection at the Texas Collection.
During World War II, Jules performed across the United States and parts of Europe in a series of patriotic concerts that promoted War relief. On Armistice day, he performed at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium in celebration.
Jules' success enabled him to purchase an estate in the Catskill Mountains of Roxbury, New York. Named Jessie's Manna Farm, Jules operated the estate as a resort for African Americans and advertised it as the ideal get-away for those who loved the outdoors. He installed pools and tennis courts for guest entertainment. The farm promised an escape from city life.
Jules advertises his resort in the Catskills. You'll find this item in the Jules Bledsoe Papers #2086, box 5, folder 10, at The Texas Collection, Baylor University.
Jules died in Los | 348 |
[ARCHIVED] Price earns statewide honor from NCACC
Orange County Vice Chair Renee Price was honored as the North Carolina County Commissioner of the Year by the N.C. Association of County Commissioners (NCACC) on Aug. 15 during the association's virtual annual conference.
Price shared the M.H. "Jack" Brock Outstanding County Commissioner Award with Yadkin County Commissioner Kevin Austin. According to the NCACC, the Award is presented annually to a commissioner who has demonstrated special<|fim_middle|> NCACC Executive Director Kevin Leonard.
Price was recently appointed to serve in various leadership roles for the National Association of Counties (NACo) including Chair of the Arts and Culture Commission, Vice Chair of the Justice and Public Safety Subcommittee on Courts and Corrections, and as a member of the Rural Action Caucus.
"Being an elected official is a calling, and this recognition in a way validates my sincerity in serving the women, men and children of Orange County," she said. "It also signifies my dedication to advancing quality of life and justice for all people—particularly those in our historically-marginalized and underserved communities—locally, statewide and nationally."
Price was first elected to the Orange County Board of Commissioners in November 2012. She said it didn't take long for her to realize her influence could expand beyond the borders of Orange County, and she became involved in the state and national organizations.
"Being engaged in NCACC, NCABCO, NACo and NABCO has afforded me the opportunity to understand and realize the depth and breadth of my role as a county commissioner," she said. "These organizations offer courses and information on county-related issues and provide platforms for discussing and advocating on behalf of our constituencies. Over the past eight years, I have been able to share materials and ideas with my Orange County community on such initiatives as criminal justice reform and mental health awareness. Most importantly is the camaraderie; we are family."
Price also expressed her appreciation to her family members, colleagues, friends, teachers and even strangers for supporting her involvement as well as her friends and family.
"This award also is for family members, colleagues, friends, teachers and even strangers who have shared in my journey through life--instructing, guiding and inspiring me," she said. "I truly appreciate the wonderful members and the fantastic staff of the NCACC, and of course, I am grateful to the fabulous Orange County community. Many thanks also to Michael Carmichael, who continues to be by my side, patiently awaiting my return from countless meetings and happily attending banquets and receptions with me. Finally, I especially—again, especially—lovingly thank my father and my late mother, the two people upon whose shoulders I stand and who have always been the wind beneath my wings."
Price is up for re-election this fall. She has no opposition in the general election. | achievements and efforts, primarily during the past 12 months, on behalf of county government throughout the state and/or region, not just within his or her county. It was first presented in 1963.
"This is an extremely emotional moment in my life because I was nominated and selected by my peers, my colleagues, my friends," Price said. "To know that my fellow commissioners across North Carolina are appreciative of me and my work is an amazingly good and warm feeling. I am very grateful and humbled to be among the wonderful people previously honored with this prestigious award, including two other commissioners from Orange County: Moses Carey (who was honored in 1997) and the late Richard Whitted (1983)."
Price was chosen for her active involvement as a member of the NCACC Board of Directors, the NCACC Justice and Public Safety and Health and Human Services Steering Committees, and as a member of the President's Economic Development Task Force and the President's Special Task Force on Mental Health Engagement. Commissioner Price is also completing her term this month as President of the North Carolina Association of Black County Officials. She served as NCABCO President for four years.
"Commissioner Price has done much to support the work of counties at home across our state and nationally and certainly is deserving of the OCCA award," said | 272 |
Sebastian Grace
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted international travel. In November, the number of people flying remained considerably lower worldwide than the pre-pandemic norm.
But is the pandemic making people feel unsafe, or are border restrictions preventing them from travelling?
I created a survey on the reopening of international travel to the U.S. to inform my final paper. I targeted my social media channels on LinkedIn and Twitter, sent to my contacts via WhatsApp and posted in various Slack channels to drive engagement. The survey had received 36 responses at the time of writing.
I began the survey with general questions focused on getting a broad overview of my respondent pool. When asked where they were from, 15 respondents said they were from the U.S., 11 respondents from the U.K., five from Europe, one from India and four from other countries.
I also wanted to find out whether my respondents were frequent travellers. 23 of the 36 respondents said that they made between zero and two international trips per year on average before the<|fim_middle|>. Take the survey here.
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Analysis: How did China eliminate COVID-19 so quickly? | COVID-19 pandemic. 11 said they had made between three and six international trips per year on average, with only two saying they made ten or more.
I then transitioned to questions on travel safety and COVID-19 disruptions to travel. Here's what people had to say:
Would you feel safe travelling internationally at the moment?
"I have traveled internationally since the pandemic began and I felt safe each time I was on the plane.
"I would feel safe traveling currently. Friends and family have travelled without issue or illness."
"It depends on if the airline is doing anything to make flying a little more safe, like not booking middle seats. I've been flying within the country so I don't see how flying internationally would be that different."
"It depends on where. If it is a country without proper covid response and vaccine availability, I would not be comfortable visiting despite being vaccinated myself. I would also feel very bad risking exposing a population that doesn't have access to vaccines to covid."
"I work at an indoor concert venue where 100s of people take their masks off in the crowd every day. Traveling doesn't seem like a big risk in comparison."
"Although I am fully vaccinated and follow safety measures, it always takes more than one in order to get the job done. There are people that are against the vaccine and people that do not follow safety precautions in order to prevent the spread of the virus, and anyone can be a victim of that."
Has the COVID-19 pandemic changed your attitudes towards international travel?
"Yes! Being on a plane has always been gross, but now it can be lethal."
"Realised quite how dirty and unhygienic it was before."
"The airport and planes are places a lot of people go to, so I have learned to take measures like distancing, washing hands, using antibacterial gel, etc. I will definitely be taking these measures whenever the pandemic is over too because it is just hygienic basics."
"It definitely feels more complicated, and I feel more anxious about hygiene in airports and planes."
"It has changed my view of international travel from an environmental point of view. It was astounding to see in the early days of the pandemic the empty airports and the little graphics that showed the comparisons between planes in the air prior to the pandemic and after it had begun to take hold. This demonstrated clearly the effect of international travel on our environment."
"It made me even more aware of the fragile health systems in some regions of the world and made me worried about getting sick or injured abroad."
"It has changed my awareness of what I carry with me when I travel anywhere. I am more aware of safety needs and the diseases I bring with me."
"Definitely makes me a bit more cautious, but doesn't prevent me from doing it all together."
What have you missed most about travelling abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic?
"Experiencing new cultures."
"Seeing international friends and family."
"Seeing my family. As an international student with family all over the world, it has been hard to be apart of them for so long."
"Flexibility to go wherever and meet up with friends regardless of their passports"
"Different cultures, new experiences and spontaneity. I miss the thrill of booking last minute tickets and exploring new places."
"Visiting other places and people, discovering the new."
"Experiencing other cultures, meeting new people and learning new things."
"The ability to connect with my loved ones who are far away."
"I definitely felt a bit stuck during the worst part of the pandemic, and it's nice to know that the option is open again."
This survey provides a clear insight to respondent's outlook on the COVID-19 pandemic and international travel from around the globe.
It is clear that while safety concerns remain, and some attitudes towards travel have changed, it's importance has not been diminished by the disruption.
Many plan to return to the skies when restrictions relax, and with many borders reopened, 31 of the 36 respondents said they were planning an international trip in the next year.
This survey was informal and unscientific | 829 |
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Applies general knowledge of business developed through education or past experience
Exchanges straightforward information, asks questions and checks for understanding
Develops, implements, and maintains methods, operation sequence and processes in the fabrication of parts, components, sub-assemblies and final assemblies
Interfaces with other engineering functions to coordinate the release of product improvements and/or new products. Launches, releases, approves and implements or issues engineering change requests as required to support design engineering and Operations with new and existing products
Uses basic engineering and DFx principles to estimate and reduce manufacturing and/or product costs, and improve delivered product quality; determines time standards and makes recommendations for tooling and process requirements
Writes and releases test procedures. Gathers operational and test data and evaluates results. Evaluates work methods, procedures and policies
Assists in determining root cause analysis for issues that arise during assembly and/or test of systems
May perform other duties as assigned
No supervisory responsibilities; accountable for developing technical contribution
Develops, implements, and maintains methods, operation sequence and processes in the fabrication of parts, components, sub-assemblies and final assemblies.
Interfaces with other engineering functions to coordinate the release of product improvements and/or new products. Launches, releases, approves and implements or issues engineering change requests as required to support design engineering and Operations with new and existing products.
Uses basic engineering and DFx principles to estimate and reduce manufacturing and/or product costs, and improve delivered product quality; determines time standards and makes recommendations for tooling and process requirements.
Writes and releases test procedures. Gathers operational and test data and evaluates results. Evaluates work methods, procedures and policies.
Assists in determining root cause analysis for issues that arise during assembly and/or test of systems.
May perform other duties as assigned.
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"The Walking Dead: The Final Season, Episode 1: Done Running" Review
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by Alex Quevedo | Reviews | 0 Comments | 05 Sep 2018
While sometimes taking a back seat to others, the underlying focus to Telltale's The Walking Dead series has been Clementine. Her story started six years ago when Lee came across a scared little girl. Now, her story perhaps reaches its end with The Walking Dead: The Final Season. Clementine is back in the spotlight in Episode 1, Done Running. She's found her beloved AJ and is now in a position to be his parental figure. But of course, there's a new world to start exploring with her taking charge.
Done Running picks up with Clementine and AJ on the road. Some time has passed since the events of The New Frontier and Clementine has settled into her pseudo mentor/parental role with AJ. You get the opportunity to take much of what Lee taught Clementine and apply it to AJ, but plenty else will have an impact on his development (more on that later).
When Clementine and AJ come across a train station loaded with supplies, things naturally go sideways. They survive a car crash with the help of a group of young adults and children who have turned an old school into their camp. From there, Clementine must decide how she and AJ will integrate into the group and with their leader, Marlon. There are nearly a dozen survivors, none of whom are likely past the age of 15 or 16. It creates an entirely different dynamic in some respects.
At least tentatively integrated, Clementine must navigate through the personalities, concerns, hunts, survival tactics, and more, while setting some type of an example for AJ.
With the experience of several Telltale games under my belt, including the entirety of The Walking Dead to this point, I never felt the level of depth in a single episode like I did with Done Running. The story is fairly rich and the themes are more intense coming from the view of children.
It starts with how you develop your relationship with AJ. There's clearly something there, but you get to refine it over the course of the<|fim_middle|> low-level additional option that didn't seem to add much; I could do without it.
As mentioned, I never felt like I got so much out of a single Telltale episode than I have out of Done Running. Sure, there have been the great emotional moments in their series or awesome action sequences, but end to end, Done Running just does so much in such a good way. You'll easily get several hours of gameplay out of this episode and feel a much better sense of investment. It doesn't feel like a cog to the rest; it's a good story in its own right and a great establishment of the final season's story. It does so much for the character development of Clementine. This goes a long way to further prove why she's such a fantastic character and why she's worthy of being the star of this final season.
The Walking Dead: The Final Season, Episode 1: Done Running
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A copy of the season was purchased by the review. Episode 1 was played to completion.
While sometimes taking a back seat to others, the underlying focus to Telltale's The Walking Dead series has been Clementine. Her story started six years ago when Lee came across a scared little girl. Now, her story perhaps reaches its…
Written by: Alex Quevedo | episode. The choices you make have an impact not just on how you relate to those around you, but also how AJ integrates. Does he become sympathetic, hardened, or balanced? You get to decide through your choices and what choices you guide him through. Early on, you get to build his relationships with the children around him. It's an interesting dynamic and shows a widened impact your decision making can have with the in-game world.
There's a good amount of time to build up relationships and get to know your situation. With that Telltale experience, I fully expected to have the episode last around 90 minutes; 2 hours max. It took me nearly 2 hours to get through the first act of this episode. It moves at a slower pace, which can sometimes work against the game, but ultimately doesn't drag too much. It allows you to settle into things, explore more, and get to know the new world better. There's plenty to look into with the number of children around, but most of the focus will end up with just a select few. As the newcomer, you get to decide how much of your previous attitude and story carries over into this situation. I liked how much you're able to revisit concepts from the first season in this episode without going overboard. It didn't feel like some love letter to a "better time;" it felt like a developed character bringing her experience and depth to the table.
Some of the ideas and themes throughout the episode are familiar enough: operating within safe zones, internal squabbling, privacy, and such. But they are arguably stronger because they are coming through the eyes of these children. None of them should really be in the positions they're in, but all of them are the product of their respective environments. Clementine and AJ have come from broken groups and a wide range of adult attitudes. The children at the school have been actively abandoned by adults and have had to survive on their own, losing a few along the way. The capacity of dealing with the stresses and the decision making is stretched even thinner among this group of hardened but still hopeful minds. The attitudes of those around Clementine are far different than what she's seen. One kid, Louis, is some general ray of sunshine, spending much of his time singing or schmoozing. It's because, at the end of the day, they're all still just kids. Their grouping allows them to explore that side of themselves.
Mechanically, there are a handful of refinements to the game that I liked, but didn't quite like in some areas. The impactful choices that will change relationships or actually matter to the story are denoted with a slightly different color than those that are more casual. It actually relieved some levels of stress when needing to make conversation choices because I knew whatever I said probably wasn't going to bite me later. I really liked the relationship building through AJ, but you don't actually get to use him in any sort of fighting situations. He's noted as a good shot, but you only control Clementine. With her, you can choose to kill or stun/kill. That actually added a different level of challenge to the game. For example, you can stun a walker, but in the time you would take to kill it, would that leave you open to another walker's attack? Or if you go straight for the kill, does it take too long and now you're being wrapped up by a walker? I liked the flows here, but sometimes the flow of general interaction felt clunky. Gone is the reticule of vision. Instead, you need to make a more pointed effort to interact with items, which felt strained at times. There's a new collectible system in place too, but it seemed to just be some | 767 |
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Are you the type of person that before you buy something you ponder the practicality of it? Do you ever look at something and think, yes it looks<|fim_middle|> or commercial use. All rights reserved. Please don't steal my pictures! | very nice; but what on earth would I do with it? I always think about that not only when I'm thinking about buying something; but also when I'm making something to give to friends or customers. My new bookmark card is a good example of this. The bookmark is functional in its traditional sense; but also as a calendar on the back side (not pictured,sorry!) In addition, there is a place for my business card right in the front. The person receiving it can take the bookmark out and use it for their favorite book and then perhaps place a picture on the card, and viola...instant picture frame. So, go ahead and try it. Be creative and be practical; people will appreciate it. For complete supplies, and instructions check out my Stampin Up! website.
What's new in my life as a Mommy? We had a great little outing to the park, where Jonathan is learning to explore a bit more on his own and climb around more as well. Tyler loves the slide and is very observant, pointing out the things that he hears and sees: the woodpecker, the airplane, the dog in the yard across the street. My daughter Reagan and I are looking forward to an overnight trip to the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia tomorrow. We are going with her Brownie troop and are going to have a real behind the scenes look at the zoo at night time. How exciting!!
Couple of GH items for you all to ponder over the weekend: 1. Could Kate be Spinelli's mom? Is that Kate's secret? 2. Is Michael going to wake up or will the doctors discourage it due to possibly severe brain damage? 3. Are Maxie and Spinelli on the path to coupledom? More GH recaps and speculations on Monday.
Have a great weekend everyone. Please note: I will not be able to blog this weekend; but will be back on Monday!
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Mexico and the challenge of education in Oaxaca with the Ibero-American University in Mexico City
New teacher training facilities set up in a difficult educational context like O<|fim_middle|> order to support the development of the local community and improve educational levels in a state. Moreover, such concrete outcomes can be used as a model to be followed in other educational situations." AVSI has had a presence in Mexico since 1987, through cooperation projects in the sectors of education, family support and nutritional education.
The Foundation has worked in partnership with NGOs, local municipalities and Mexican public institutions, with funding from the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the EU, decentralised cooperation, companies and private Italian citizens. In particular, AVSI has developed key operations in Mexico in recent years, including training for educators and teachers in partnership with local universities; community development in poor suburban districts and in rural indigenous areas through actions to educate, train and support the most vulnerable groups; helping to end malnutrition through education and family involvement, with published results and sponsorship by EXPO 2015, and inter-country adoptions through agreements with the authorities in the states of Campeche and Oaxaca.
Translated by Sharon Cowell (www.therosettafoundation.org) | axaca in Mexico, thanks to a project implemented by AVSI and Crecemos Dijo and supported by the European Union. The graduation ceremony at the end of a training course brought to a close one part of our operations.
"It all started as a simple suggestion, back in 2012," the head of AVSI in Mexico, Rossana Stanchi, recalled during the ceremony as she retraced the most significant steps in the project. "Over time, the idea became a concrete project, and it was made possible thanks to the courage and dedication that the teachers and tutors, the real stars of the project, have shown during these years".
In 2013, the project to involve non-government stakeholders, and thereby the educators and parents, in the state of Oaxaca's educational policies became a reality and it was supported by European Union funding and by the work undertaken by our partners, Crecemos Dijo and the Ibero-American University. One of the project's aims is to maximise and enhance the skills of the teaching staff in the state of Oaxaca, which, as one of the poorest states in Mexico, has been struggling for years to improve the quality of its education system.
"The assumption," as Rossana Stanchi recalled, "Is that education is one of the most effective tools for creating a new generation that is both aware and participatory. And the basis for a society where ethics and reciprocity are the fundamental principles."
The refresher course for teachers, which forms the basis for the project, is now in its second year and the graduation ceremony when the teachers were awarded their diplomas took place at the end of January. The training, which was conducted by a team of leading consultants and lecturers, enabled teachers and tutors to engage in teamwork activities, which kept morale high. Such a level of collaboration also ensured that good academic and professional standards were met whilst allowing them to explore a large number of issues. Among the participants at the graduation event was the representative from the EU delegation, Marie-Paule Neuville.
"Carrying out a project of this nature here in Oaxaca not only poses a challenge but is a real risk. It is, however, a necessary risk in | 453 |
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To all our Falcon classmates and friends.
November is the month for giving thanks, and the Alumni Association wants to express or thanks to all the alumni who have made donations and supported us over the past year. With your support the alumni of AHS have demonstrated to the current population of students and staff at AHS the concept of giving back. Through your efforts we have provided funds for the following programs:
Completion of the new gym graphics project.
Freddy's Closet, providing clothing and basic necessities for Falcons students in need.
The Make Miracles Happen program, granting wishes to deserving students and families.
And our yearly Legacy Scholarship Program, awarding scholarships to AHS students to aid them in continuing their studies.
No donation is too small, and every dollar contributed is used to fund a program that supports the students and staff at AHS. Our goal is to continue to grow and help our school. We all know the economic challenges that face our area and schools in general. We hope that all of you who participated this year feel good about doing something that pays back so completely. We hope you will continue to support the students and staff and that others will consider this option when making your contribution decisions.
We hope alumni everywhere have a wonderful holiday season. You are the best, and we are all collectively Falcon Strong.
Atwater High School Board of Directors.
Reunion Updates
The Class of 1975 has announced that they will hold their 45th Year Reunion on Saturday September 12, 2020. Mark your calendars, more information to come.
The Class of 1980 has announced that they will hold their 40th Year Reunion during Labor Day weekend, September 5, 2020. Mark your calendars, more information to come.
The Class of 2000 Reunion Committee has announced they will hold a 20th
Year Reunion on June 13, 2020. More information to come, mark your calendars and prepare to party with your classmates.
A group of alumni is working on organizing a multi class reunion for those who attended AHS from 1958 to 1965. This includes the original class at AHS and the first four-year Senior and Junior classes. They are looking for classmate information in order to contact them. If you were at AHS during this time and are interested in this event, please send your contact information to the association or to Geri Freitas through her Facebook Messenger site.
If your class year ends in a 0 (70, 80, 90, 00, 10). or 5 (65, 75, 85, 95, 05, 15). now would be a great time to organize a committee, have some fun and start planning for a reunion this year. The Alumni Associate is willing to help, and we have some experts who have had experience in the organizing of these events and will be happy to share some best practices with you.
Milestone Year Memories
M<|fim_middle|> made the section playoffs. Lost in the quarterfinal game to Sierra. Outstanding season.
Both men's and lady cross country teams qualified for the state meet. Congratulations to all the students and coaches for a great season. AHS boys finished 16th in the state, and ladies finished 23 in state. Great performances by the Falcons. | ilestone Year Events
The following class years are celebrating milestones this year. Here are some interesting things that happened during the months and year they graduated. There were many interesting events in every month, and these were selected as only one interesting and, in some cases, fun example.
1969 Nov. 10 – "Sesame Street" premiers on PBS
1974 – Nov. 21 – Freedom of Information Act is passed by Congress over President Ford's veto
1979 – Nov. 4 – Iran hostage crisis begins, when students invade the U.S. Embassy and take 90 hostages, 53 of whom are American.
1984 – Nov. 6 – Ronald Regan is elected President, defeating former Vice President Walter Mondale with 59% of the popular vote.
1989 – Nov. 7 – L. Douglas Wilder became the first African America governor in the US, elected governor of Virginia.
1994 – Nov. 8 – Hurricane Gordon hits Central America, Caribbean and Southeaster US, causing $594 million in damages and 1,152 fatalities, most of whom were in Haiti,
1999 – Nov. 5 – United States vs. Microsoft: US District Judge Thomas Jackson issues a preliminary ruling that the software company Microsoft had "monopoly power".
2004 – Nov. 2 – George W. Bush is re-elected President of the United States, defeating John Kerry.
2009 – Nov. 4 – The New York Yankees defeat the Philadelphia Phillies to win their 27th world championship.
2014 – Nov. 3 – The new One World Trade Center opens in New York City.
A Special thanks to the following alumni who made contributions to the Make Miracles Happen Program at AHS. Your generous support put a smile on peoples face and helped make this holiday season special.
Class of 1969 Reunion Members.
Cherie Griffin Matos (66), Linda Salles (66), Donna Britton Farmer (66), Mike Prows (66), Jon Lebeda (66), Keith McIntire (66), John Rasmussen (66), Jim Crotts (66), Kathy Saca Jensen (68), Pam Arden Beihl (66).
Have a life event you would like to share with your alumni friends. You can submit items through the comment section of the website or sending an e-mail to AtwaterAlumni@outlook.com. Please include your graduation or years attend and a brief description of your even. Items will be published monthly on the newsletter and website.
AHS News
Falcon Football team had a great year, | 572 |
Toby O'Rourke (left to right), Kampgrounds of America (KOA); Marissa Keenan, Sweet Peaks Ice Cream; Paige Williams, Audience Awards; Nicole Hagerman Miller, Biomimicry; Michelle Huie, Vim&Vigr.
Throughout 2018, Montana entrepreneurs shared their business insights on Can Do: Lessons From Savvy Montana Entrepreneurs. As the year wraps up, take a listen to these five interviews from outstanding women entrepreneurs describing the nitty-gritty behind their hard-won successes.
Toby O'Rourke is the first female president in the 56-year history of Kampgrounds of America (KOA). On this "Can Do" episode, O'Rourke explains why she works to create a feeling of community among KOA's many franchises, and what role technology will play in the future of outdoor-focused businesses.
Learn more from O'Rouke here.
Marissa Keenan is the co-founder and owner of Sweet Peaks Ice Cream. Keenan and her husband expanded a single storefront into three states, letting local ingredients do the work to distinguish their ice cream from the competition. On this "Can Do" episode, Keenan describes how she knew what questions to ask<|fim_middle|>&Vigr, a company that sells fashionable compression legwear for men and women. On this episode of "Can Do," Huie explains how she increased her business exponentially in just four short years, and why she thinks Vim&Vigr couldn't have succeeded anywhere other than Missoula, Montana.
Find out Huie's secrets for start-up success here.
Listen to more interviews from Montana's savvy entrepreneurs here. | when creating a startup, and how that sensibility led Sweet Peaks to become profitable in just two years.
Listen to Keenan's secrets for start-up success.
Paige Williams is founder and CEO of Audience Awards, a platform to support short-format filmmakers honing their craft. On this episode of "Can Do," Williams tells of her journey from social worker to award-winning filmmaker to art-meets-commerce matchmaker. Williams explains how to make an income with your art and how she stays connected to the greater business world from Missoula, Montana.
Nicole Hagerman Miller is the managing director of Biomimicry 3.8, a Missoula-based company that creates strategies for businesses based on functions found in nature. Listen and learn as Miller outlines her strategies as a manager and explains how she balances the needs of her staff with their customers.
Learn more from Nicole Hagerman Miller.
Michelle Huie is the founder of Vim | 190 |
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and it is the perfect time<|fim_middle|>! | to introduce some craft fun into your lessons. From color words to rhyming words to character education, these four handprint turkey activities are easy to integrate with the Common Core State Standards or your state's standards. Make this Thanksgiving, a memorable one for you and your students and turn those completed turkeys into bulletin boards!
This turkey can be customized to work with any word family that your students are currently studying. Start by putting the word ending in the body of the turkey and have students brainstorm words that have the same ending. You may want to brainstorm as a class and have the students then copy five of the words onto their turkeys. Color the fingers to act as feathers, add a beak and feet and then hang the completed turkeys across the top or bottom of your white board.
Gratitude is a wonderful thing and adding character education into your handprint turkey craft lesson is a wonderful way to bring it out. Start by having students trace their hands on brown paper and cut out four different colored feathers. In the middle of the turkey, write "I am thankful for." Have students write four of the things that they are thankful for on the colorful feathers. Glue the feathers, beak, and feet on the turkey and you will have a gratitude turkey that is unique as each student in your class. Tie the activity in with vocabulary, handwriting, or a Thanksgiving book that you are currently reading together.
Do you have a Handprint Turkey craft that you love to do with your students each year? Share how you do it by leaving a comment below | 314 |
Minutes of each TMCC 4th-Tuesday club meeting posted here.
Dawn opened meeting. New business: Ona volunteered to head up the Calendar again this year. Please submit your wildlife photos to Ona -Onamaedit@yahoo.com by MAY 1st. Dawn and Jeff talked about March outing to Cisco, Fisher Towers. Town of Cisco has been bought. You do need permission to photograph there, so please see the owner if you go out there.
PSA photos are due April 1st. Category is open. Look at the PSA on the web go down to interclub competition to view the photos for an idea of what wins.
Lupe introduced Scott Folsom from Creative Tinkering. Scott game a presentation on his digital negative process.
For the March competition Red, (and print),Ed did the commentary and presented the judges comments. Ed gave detailed discussion on each photo. The winners are First place Annette Collier, 2nd Vera Mulder, 3rd Ed Kunzelman, and 4th Vickie Jones. For peoples choice – Renee Walendowski.
Dawn opened meeting. New business: Dog sled races is next outing on Grand Mesa, Jan 27. Print meeting is Feb 28th 7pm. This is to help those for the March print competition. Ed said to bring<|fim_middle|>.
New business: On May 13th will be our next outing. Meet at Dawns house for trip all day to see the wild horses in the Bookcliffs. Need a high clearance vehicle or arrange ride with someone going. Bring a sack lunch, drinks and sunscreen. This is sun only outing, if raining it will be cancelled. Email Dawn if you want to go and don't have a high clearance vehicle.
Contact her for address, I don't want to post here.
Dawn announced she will be doing competition for May. Read on for details.
Treasurer report: Begin balance: 1326.53. Expenses for 6 mo rent, web site, and calendar=691.05. Ending balance =730.48.
Debbie Rudd gave presentation on her outings with the Grand Valley Audubon Society, the owl prowl. On the canal trail in redlands they saw the Great horned owl. This trail is behind the Safeway in the Redlands. Then she visited the burrowing owl near the state line, Nice photos of these as well. Burrowing owls move around and if not disturbed for about 3 wks they will stay. They will live in prairie dog holes. On May 19th they will be banding Screech owls. She also visited a barn owl nesting by the Clifton ponds. They are declining due to development and are difficult to see, and they come out only at night.
Renee showed her homework assignment from Jeff's 10 different shots.
Margie spoke about our Picnic. Tenative date is June 4th at the Riverfront Park in Palisade. Time is 3 to 7.
Sign up on sign up sheet.
Donna gave presentation on the TMCC calendar. Bob Pratt got the cover photo. Congrats to Bob!
Donna also showed some photos of her trip to Canyonlands at the Needles district. She advised that while parked there just for the day, a squirrel ate through hoses in her vehicle and they had to be towed all the way back to Junction. Beware of these critters if you go there and try to block them from eating your car.
Sharon Bradshaw presented the PSA submissions. They have not been judged yet.
Dawn announced the next competition for May-submit a portrait photo. Deadline is May 8th. To contests@thundermountaincameraclub.org. Thats coming up in one week photographers so find your pretty portrait. | something or idea that you want to accomplish this year (photography wise). The theme for March competition is Red.
Competitions coming up are Feb. -open which is PSA. March 1st- Club print competition is Red. April 1st-PSA -theme open. May 1st-Black and White.
Outings: In February we will have a snow outing TBA. March 24th Moab outing.
Sharon presented the PSA competition results: Jeff Stoddart got an award for 1st place PSA award. She explained how the judges score: 9 pts total, 3 pts for technical, 3 for impact, 3 for composition. The following were selected for PSA: Marina Schultz score 23.5, Sharon Bradshaw score 24, Cheryl Sweers 25.5, Joan Robinson 22.75, Lupe Herrera -her Red photo, Robert Pratt 22.5, And Ona Griffiths 24 pts.
John Barbier -1st place, Jeff Stoddart- 2nd place, Annette Collier 3rd place, and Lupe Herrera-4th place.
Sharon gave a slide show of members best 3 photos of 2017. Jamie Hartman gave a presentation of video/slideshow he made in Valley of Gods, Utah.
Upcoming classes for February is 2/8/18 Product photography at 3575 G Road in Palisade 6 pm. Then for March on 3/9/18 Color proofing. 7 pm at 1000 N 9th St Suite 20.
Old business: Balance of 1116.30 has not changed since last month.
New business: Dale Rostad has a backpack for sale. Price is 35. Dawn introduced visitors. We have no meeting in December. The next meeting is our banquet which is on January 12, here at our regular meeting room. Sign up sheet went around to sign up to bring a dish.
Next we have officer elections. Dawn talked about the positions before we have volunteers.
Sharon announced that Jeff Stoddart received a PSA award for his submission, I don't have title here. Beautiful mountain and stream photo, and scored perfect. Way to go Jeff!
Sharon went over her club competition results for October open theme. 5th place is Sharon Bradshaw, 4th place Robert Pratt, 3rd place Lupe Herrera, 2nd place Renee Walendowski, 1st place Jeff Stoddart.
We viewed the PSA submissions for January. Sharon does not have the results compiled yet.
Next we talked about our next class coming up. Members would like a class on basic photography and depth of field. Dawn will help teach class which will be on Dec 14.
Renee gave results of Advertising photography competition (October). 3rd place Jeff Stoddart. tied for 2nd-Jamie Zartman, and Renee Walendowski. 1st place is Randall Smith.
Discussion about competitions and John Barbier wants to have next competition with a holiday theme. So he will lead this one and theme is holiday spirit. Photos due by Jan 5 contests@thundermountaincameraclub.org. See web site for info on contest rules.
Also for January meeting print out and fill out the application from our website and bring your dues for next year.
Then Dawn explained our Facebook page and the closed group. If you want to post outings, and don't want whole web to know about it you can use the closed group to announce. Then only the club members can see.
I corrected the minutes for October. The class for November is November 9th the second Thursday in November.
Dawn Morrow opened meeting. Treasurer report: begin balance 1197.66. Deposits 83.70. Dispersments 165. Ending balance 1116.36.
Old business: Outing was cancelled due to car issues and weather.
Class for November. Will be Nov 9 second Thursday. Come with a list of what you need to learn about your camera, what you want it to do. Make list of what you need to know, the camera and manual if possible. 7-9 pm.
Vera gave out the scavenger hunt list: Funky, Cranky, Eternal, Rapture, Befuddled, Arrogant, Baroqued, Abserd, exaggeration, chirosocuro, interlude, capricious, haut, atavistic, In becomes Out.
Matthew Dickey-owner of Capture Grand Valley. CaptureGrandValley.com.
Presentation 2: We had wonderful presentation of Paris photography given by Mel Morris and Cheryl Sweers They spent a month is Paris and shared a fantastic slide show of their trip. Thanks for the show!
Sharon then gave results of PSA competition: Photos selected to go to PSA are from Robert Pratt, Jeff Stoddart, Marina Schultz, Ona Griffiths, Sharon Bradshaw, Sarah Miller. Congrats to the selected photographers.
Next competition is our Advertising/sell something themed for November. Also for the January PSA photos are due Nov 1 too. So we have 2 to submit for by Nov 1. Same email, just please indicated which contest for which photo, so we can sort them out.
Addendum to September meeting minutes: I spelled Cheryl's last name incorrectly and corrected in the September minutes. Cheryl Sweers won 3 categories in the scavenger hunt.
Meeting began with voting on Scavenger hunt.
Old business: Renee read minutes of last meeting. They were approved.
Treasurer report: Starting balance 1165. Deposits 32.50. Ending balance =1197.66.
We have 40 calendars left. Cost is 5 dollars for the first 2 then 8.95 for additional ones. They will make great gifts so get some more.
Renee announced club competition, category is advertising photography. The job is to sell something, anything. Use imagination to sell a product, brochure photo, business, place. Think about what you see in magazine, brochure, billboard. Send your submission by November 1 to contests@thundermountaincameraclub.org. See website for details on sizing.
Also submissions for this months competition are due tonight 9/26. There is a PSA which is due on Oct 1.
Jeff led a discussion about locations that club members have been out shooting. Owl pass and Kebler not so good this year. Vail pass is over except some high spots. Grand Mesa is colorful in some spots.
We have agreed on a Connected Lakes outing. Dates are for Oct 21 3-6 pm, and Oct 24 same time, before next meeting. Ed is leading. Sign up sheet went around.
Faceless self portrait: Dawn Morrow.
Renee called for volunteer for the next years scavenger hunt. Vera Mulder volunteered for next years scavenger hunt. She promised it will be weird.
Jeff asked if class would like to have a class on how to do that thing with your camera that you don't know. We will be holding his the 2nd thursday in November. Bring camera and what you need to learn.
Jeff asked members to bring some halloween/fall photos for discussion next meeting.
Dawn Morrow, President, called the meeting to order. All other board members were absent.
Wildflowers are blooming in the mountains !! Next outing led by Renee is July 27 meeting at Lake Irwin, near Crested Butte, at 8 am. Some folks may camp and do night photography as well.
Website is being looked at by the Board and a consultant to improve functionality.
National weather service can provide a class on spotting severe weather, if we have 10 attendees. A show of hands indicated at least 10 interested members.
Scavenger hunt photos should be brought to the August meeting. details are on the website.
Dawn discussed mentorships teaming experienced members with newer members.
Print competition will be discussed at the August meeting. July 31 is the deadline to give your print to Ed Kunzelman.
Sharon Bradshaw provided summary of Photographic Society of America results/scores. Lupe was an Honorable Mention !! scores were generally good for the club.
the next PSA submittal is due in September for the November competition.
Paul Gana did a presentation on night sky photography utilizing you-tube videos he had created. Good information was provided.
We have more calendars to sell. The first 2 are at 5.00, then after they are 8.95.
New business: Dale has old cannon Rebel with a lens/bag. Dio took offer.
Ed: Print competition: prints are due 7/31, see the guidelines.
Jeff Morse gave a quick lesson on making sure your camera is fully focused where you want it.
Renee Walendowski presented High mountain wildflower photography locations and gave handout of locations.
First place Dawn Morrow, Second place Debbie Rudd, Jamie Hartman took third.
Dawn Morrow called meeting to order | 1,919 |
Q: Using set theory to count the possible paths on an XY plane I'm<|fim_middle|>".
| taking an introductory discrete math course, and we're studying set theory. It's going okay, but I read an example problem which gave me some difficulty. I've included a screenshot of the problem. My difficulty is that doesn't it appear the upward moves occur at 3,5,7 not 2,5,8 like the book says. Also, isn't the set we're dealing with {1,2,...,7} not {1,2,...,8}? .
A: I think you forget zero there at start.
A: Don't use the numbered grid, that will just confuse you. Instead, count from the start of the path. The first line segment is horizontal but the second line segment is vertical so we include $2$ in the set. The third and fourth are horizontal, but the fifth is vertical so we include $5$ in the set, and so on.
There are a total of $8$ line segments needed to make a path between the two points and so the elements in the associated set of a path are the integers between $1$ and $8$.
A: The coordinate of the starting point is $(2,1)$ and that of the ending point is $(7,4)$. So we have $7-2+4-1=8$ "moves | 269 |
Blog Posts — April 20, 2022
How our ESG partner RepRisk is driving positive change via the power of data
Earlier this year, we welcomed ESG data science leader, RepRisk, as a part of our growing sustainability ecosystem, which includes ESG-led partners such as Clarity AI, SDI AOP, ISS and Sustainalytics. We spoke with Jenny M. Nordby, Head of Partnerships and Third Party Distribution at RepRisk, to learn more about the partnership and the data they provide.
Jenny M. Nordby, Head of Partnerships and Third Party Distribution
RepRisk
Why did you decide to work with Qontigo?
There are two main reasons: First, as a leading provider of innovative risk, analytics, and index solutions, Qontigo's commitment to providing clients with cutting-edge technologies and solutions aligns perfectly with the way we identify ourselves as an ESG data science company with a clear use case to support companies to make better and more informed decisions. In fact, with over 200,000 companies covered in our database, we have the largest and most comprehensive database on ESG and business conduct risk.
Second, we have a shared commitment to providing clients with useful, actionable data. RepRisk's mission is to drive positive change via the power of data – and that can only be done if the data is sound. We go to great lengths to ensure our data is actionable and timely for financial decision-making, and aim to partner with companies who do the same.
RepRisk has been in the ESG business for fifteen years, before it was truly headline news. What do you think accelerated the interest in ESG data?
We like to say we've been "doing ESG" since before it was cool – it started in 2006 with developing a list of 100 companies flagged as more ESG risky for our first client UBS, who wanted more information on companies' ESG risk profile than what their existing due diligence and company disclosures could provide. Since then, we've grown our database to cover more than 200,000 companies and 50,000 infrastructure projects.
When the pandemic began, it was speculated that ESG might be deprioritized in the time of crisis and disruptions, but the opposite ended up being true. The "uncertainty" people kept alluding to gave rise to a wish to crisis-proof portfolios and have better insight into the true ESG risks of a company as measured by their ongoing performance and business conduct, supply chain exposure, etc., rather than stale backward-looking data and disclosures. Moreover, through focus on stakeholder capitalism, the market has recognized the power of transparency to achieve impact and change in company behavior.
What's been made clear is that ESG is not just for fair-weather situations, quite the contrary. Much like a seatbelt, crises are when the necessity of ESG data is most evident – and when you want to be sure it's working. Existing high risk business operations were suddenly illuminated by the pandemic. Unsafe working conditions and unfair treatment of migrant workers were revealed by coronavirus outbreaks in sweatshops, as was the case with Boohoo Group. As a seatbelt, ESG data provided investors with risk signals and allowed opportunities for divestment long before that 2.5 billion dollar crash.
Example of the pandemic highlighting pre-existing risks
Source: RepRisk
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You don't provide ESG ratings, but instead you "systematically identify and assess material ESG risks". Tell us a bit more about what that means and how you do it.
Our mission is to drive positive change via the power of data, which can be<|fim_middle|> to a single rating, and looking beyond self-reported company disclosures leads to a better, comprehensive assessment of material ESG risks – thus more positive outcomes for stakeholders.
In order to provide that kind of multi-dimensional analysis, we combine the best of both worlds: AI and advanced machine learning power the size, scale, and speed of its database; human intelligence delivers curated, relevant data.
Our AI algorithms screen more than 100,000 sources in 23 languages every day, and our analysts curate the results of the daily AI screening using a rigorous methodology – allowing for standardization of curation and results. They then annotate their findings and feed them back to the neural networks, training the algorithms and enhancing prediction quality.The result is the world's largest and most comprehensive database on ESG risk.
ESG enables investors the flexibility to select investments based on their own objectives which is why we embrace an open architecture approach, working with many different ESG partners. What do you think is your sweet spot in the ESG data space?
Four main differentiators set RepRisk's dataset apart.
First, our data is risk-focused. We look beyond just controversies, covering the full spectrum of ESG risks, from low-severity adverse incidents to criticism to scandals – and everything in between.
Second, we intentionally exclude company self-disclosures. Nowhere in our daily screening of 100,000 sources do we take into account what companies have said about themselves – as we believe self-disclosures can mask risk.
Third, our aforementioned use of AI, machine learning, and human analyst curation.
And fourth, our data is updated daily and has been generated point-in-time using a consistent methodology for 15 years – no back-engineering involved. That makes it ideal for quantitative analysis and back-testing.
Looking ahead, what are some recent and future developments you have in the works?
We optimize our dataset regularly to ensure that our clients can get as much utility as possible, so we've had quite a few developments recently and have even more in the pipeline.
In keeping with our mission to drive positive change via the power of data, we recently made our methodology public in a series of Jupyter Notebooks so that financial decision makers can configure custom ESG scores.
Similarly, in the past year we've released a number of different features that allow our clients to more easily comply with and navigate different ESG regulations – like SASB, SFDR, and the UK Modern Slavery Act to name a few – and voluntary ESG frameworks like the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
As for what's next, we have two particularly exciting developments coming up this year. First, we will build on our existing country risk metric and develop a solution for daily monitoring of material country ESG risks across the globe and sovereign ESG integration. Second, we've just beta launched our ESG Spatial Analytics tool, which is already receiving quite a bit of demand and positive feedback. We think it's a very positive next step in real, on the ground sustainability work. The tool shows a project's proximity to environmentally sensitive sites – like UNESCO World Heritage sites or endangered species habitats – and links the projects to owner and operator companies.
For more information, contact partnerships@qontigo.com.
Qontigo is a leading global provider of innovative index, analytics and risk solutions that optimize investment impact. As the shift toward sustainable investing accelerates, Qontigo enables its clients—financial-products issuers, asset owners and asset managers—to deliver sophisticated and targeted solutions at scale to meet the increasingly demanding and unique sustainability goals of investors worldwide.
Qontigo's solutions are enhanced by both our collaborative, customer-centric culture, which allows us to create tailored solutions for our clients, and our open architecture and modern technology that efficiently integrate with our clients' processes.
Part of the Deutsche Börse Group, Qontigo was created in 2019 through the combination of Axioma, DAX and STOXX. Headquartered in Eschborn, Germany, Qontigo's global presence includes offices in New York, London, Zug and Hong Kong. | very powerful – so we want to make sure the data we produce is of the highest quality and generated with cutting edge technology.
We believe that the data industry has a responsibility to drive better decision-making for those allocating capital by providing timely and transparent data – allowing for risk detection and mitigation before a risk incident occurs, not after. Multi-dimensional analysis, as opposed | 71 |
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Італійські десерти
Різдвяна їжа | італ. Panpepato - «хліб з перцем») — круглий солодкий пиріг, типовий для провінцій Феррара, Сієна, Терні, Сабіна та Валле-Латина. Панпепато — різновид панфорте. Його виготовляють традиційними методами з різних інгредієнтів, включаючи фрукти та горіхи, такі як мигдаль, фундук, кедрові горіхи, волоські горіхи, перець, кориця, мускатний горіх, а також цедру апельсина та лайма, змішаних відповідно до варіантів з або без какао, меду, борошна або вареного виноградного сусла. Потім пиріг випікається в духовці (бажано дров'яній). Після запікання його покривають шаром шоколаду. Зазвичай його їдять під час різдвяних свят. Колись його готували в кожній родині за рецептами, які трохи відрізнялися один від одного, а сьогодні це, по суті, продукт ручної роботи.
Історія
Panpepato є «прямим нащадком середньовічного солодкого хліба».
Пос | 437 |
LED lighting is becoming increasingly popular, representing 10% of commercial and 4% of industrial lighting sources in 2015. This number is expected to grow each year.
There are several key differences between LED lights and incandescent or fluorescent bulbs. These differences make using LED lighting a great option for your commercial and industrial lighting needs.
We're here to tell you 4 reasons why using recessed LED lighting could be a game changer for your business.
One of the most notable features of LED lighting is energy efficiency. Traditional incandescent, halogen,<|fim_middle|> using automatic controls that maximize the efficiency of the LED lighting. These controls can sense the lighting conditions of the room and decrease light output when daylight is abundant and reducing the need for interior illumination.
All of this means LED lighting solutions can save you a lot of money on your electric bills.
Another source of cost savings comes from the longer lifespan of LED bulbs. LED light bulbs can last over 50,000 operating hours. This means they last 2-4 times longer than other light bulbs commonly used in commercial and industrial settings.
Having to change LED bulbs less often will save you money both on labor costs involved with replacing bulbs as well as the cost of having to buy new bulbs.
Recessed LED lighting will make any room look larger and more open.
One reason for this is because recessed lights are concealed in the ceiling, they do not interrupt the visual space of the ceiling. Not having a fixture hanging down from the ceiling will create the feeling of a taller ceiling and larger room.
Another way recessed lighting makes a room look bigger is through wall washing. This effect involves reflecting light on the wall to wash the wall in overlapping ambient light creating a feeling of more space.
One of the key benefits of recessed LED lighting is the flexibility this lighting option provides. While recessed LEDs are great at providing ambient lighting, they can also be used to spotlight specific areas you want to highlight such as wall displays.
Further, some LED lights can change colors which gives you the option to change the mood or highlight specific areas to meet your needs.
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LED bulbs, however, are much more efficient and use up to 50% less electricity than traditional bulbs. They also produce much less heat than other types of bulbs which can lower your cooling costs.
Additional energy savings are available | 62 |
'17 Blocks' Trailer: A Stirring Examination of the Gun Violence Crisis Through One Family's Saga
Exclusive: Spanning 20 years and culled from over 1,000 hours of footage, Davy Rothbart's award-winning documentary illuminates a national emergency.
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In 1999, filmmaker Davy Rothbart met Emmanuel Sanford-Durant and his older brother, Smurf, during a pickup basketball game in Southeast Washington, D.C. Rothbart began filming their lives, and soon the two brothers and other family members started to use the camera themselves. Spanning 20 years and culled from over 1,000 hours of footage, Rothbart's feature documentary, "17 Blocks," illuminates a national, ongoing crisis through one family's riveting saga. The film takes its title from the location of the Sanford family's home, just 17 blocks behind the U.S. Capitol.
IndieWire has an exclusive first look at the first trailer for the film, which won the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival Award for Best Documentary Editing.
When Rothbart was first introduced to the Sanford family, he was sleeping on a friend's couch in Southeast Washington, D.C. While playing basketball at a nearby court, he met Smurf, a local drug dealer who was 15 at the time, plus his nine-year-old brother Emmanuel, a promising student, his sister Denice, an aspiring police officer, and his mother Cheryl, who must conquer her own demons for her family to prosper.
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"One day, they invited me back to their place for dinner, where I met their mom, Cheryl, and their sister Denice, and I had such a nice time, and they were so generous and welcoming, when they invited me again the next night, I said 'Yes!'," said<|fim_middle|> and at a time in my life when I was really in need of some family. Cheryl likes to say that the Sanfords 'adopted' me — and that's really what it felt like to me."
Rothbart was a burgeoning filmmaker at the time — a first-time owner of what he describes as a low-grade consumer video prosumer Hi8 camera. Together with the Sanford family, they learned how to use it, capturing amature footage of each other and the neighborhood.
"Sometimes I left the camera at their place overnight, over the weekend, or for longer stretches, and they continued to film without me," Rothbart said. "There was no grand plan, no clear vision. While we sometimes noodled with little fictional stories, these were essentially just home videos."
The filmmaker eventually left D.C., but remained close with the Sanfords, returning for holidays like Thanksgiving and randomly filming whenever the moment seemed appropriate. This continued for years until New Year's Eve 2009, when, like many others in their neighborhood, the Sanfords became victims of fatal gun violence.
"I was there the next day, to help in any way I could, and Cheryl said to me, 'Where's the camera?'," Rothbart said. "I hesitated, but she said, 'So many friends of mine have lost loved ones to gun violence — but this is different'. She pointed out how thoroughly her family had been documented for so many years by the rest of us, before he was killed. She had the wisdom and foresight, even in that moment, to recognize the value of that footage. And she knew the grief and pain she'd be wading through in the weeks and months to come, since she'd seen friends go through the same thing. 'We have to keep filming!', she said. 'We have to film everything!' She hoped her family's story — in all its heartbreak — could personalize the vast toll gun violence was taking in her neighborhood, especially for people living beyond, for whom these deaths were often just a statistic."
And so they continued to film, for another two decades, until Cheryl's grandchildren came of age and the story came full circle.
The challenge for Rothbart's team, including the excellent work of editor Jennifer Tiexiera, was to then shape 1,000+ hours of footage into a cogent story that spanned two decades in the Sanfords' life, telling an urgent story about the daily challenges they face, directly from their point of view. "They have lived it, breathed it, and filmed it, and as their friend (and honorary family member), I've done my best to help the family tell the story they wanted to tell — which is both an elegy for their beloved son, brother, and uncle who was lost before his time, and also a celebration of the possibilities of love, courage, redemption, and resilience," Rothbart said of the film, which currently holds a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and its potential for impact.
To that end, Rothbart's team has partnered with organizations like Everytown for Gun Safety and Black Lives Matter D.C. on screenings, and for the film's national release, presented by MTV Documentary Films. Its national virtual release is set for February 19, 2021, streaming from nearly 100 theaters across the U.S., and viewable on computers, tablets, mobile devices, AppleTV, and Roku.
Check out the exclusive trailer and trailer for "17 Blocks," available only on IndieWire, below.
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Mysterium, known as Mount Sarasvati, looms over the Indian Himalayas as the range's tallest peak in the dazzling fictional world Susan Froderberg has created.
Sarasvati "Sara" Troy is determined to reach the peak for which she was christened, and to climb it in honor of her mother, who perished in a mountaineering accident when Sara was just a child. She asks her father, a celebrated mountaineer and philosophy professor, to organize and lead the expedition.The six climbers he recruits are an uneasy mix. They include his longtime friend Dr. Andrew Reddy, a recent widower, and Reddy's headstrong son; Wilder Carson, the acclaimed climber who is tormented by the death of his brother; Wilder's wife, Vida, a former lover of Dr. Reddy; and a distinguished scholar and his wife.
The party's journey is harrowing, taking them from the mountain's gorge, into its sanctuary, and finally onto the summit, a path that evokes the hell, purgatory, and heaven of Dante's Inferno. As the air thins and this unforgettable journey unfolds, Sara emerges as a Beatrice-like figure, buoying her companions up the mountain through the sheer strength and beauty of her being.
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Imprint : picador
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Principles<|fim_middle|> complex effects of electrical stimulation in the brain. | of electrical stimulation of neural tissue.
Deep brain stimulation is a remarkable therapy that has mainstreamed electrical stimulation of the brain for the treatment of neurological dysfunction. To appreciate the mechanisms of deep brain stimulation, we need to understand the excitability of neural tissue. Here, we survey the pertinent principles of electrical excitation in the brain. The amount of current delivered and the tissue conductivity together determine the strength and extent of potentials generated by stimulation. The electrode-tissue interface is an important junction where electrical charge carriers in the stimulation hardware are converted to ionic charge carriers in the tissue. Cathodic stimulation tends to depolarize neural elements more easily than anodic stimulation. The current-distance relationship describes how the amount of current needed to excite an axon increases as a function of its distance from the electrode. This relationship also depends on the axon's diameter because large-diameter axons are excited more easily than small-diameter axons. For a given axon, the strength-duration relationship describes the inverse relationship between threshold current amplitude and pulse duration. Specific stimulation parameters must be considered to avoid stimulation-induced tissue damage. A strong foundation in these principles facilitates understanding of the | 231 |
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In Dallas, in Houston, and in the Future
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The UT System Office of Innovation and Strategic Investment looks at health-related innovation and research around the system.
By Kaulie Lewis
Master's Student in Journalism
The University of Texas System Office of Innovation and Strategic Investment recently released Making Innovation Real, a report on how UT institutions and researchers are changing lives across Texas. It features a number of stories on health-related innovation and research.
At The University of Texas at Dallas, researchers led by Dr. Mike Kilgard have developed a minimally invasive therapy for tinnitus, a disorder that causes sufferers to constantly hear noises that aren't there. Adapting a treatment long used for epilepsy, Kilgard's team paired with a UT Dallas spinout company to develop the Serenity System, a device that uses the body's ability<|fim_middle|> total coincidence, with everything hitting at the right time."
Initially, a small battery pack was implanted in John's upper chest with a wire lead connecting to the vagus nerve in his neck. Each morning, he dons headphones that emit tones paired with the bursts of stimulation to the vagus nerve, which retrains his brain to minimize the sound of the tinnitus.
Across the state, a team working out of UTHealth Houston has developed a new tool to aggregate patient data so that providers and clinicians can make better and faster decisions. Dr. John Holcomb, a former Army surgeon with extensive experience improving trauma care for wounded soldiers, focused on figuring out how to make the best use of data contained (and often hidden) in electronic medical records. His work, along with the help of a team of coders, software engineers and clinicians, eventually led to the development of the Decisio Health Clinical Intelligence Platform. The system aggregates and analyzes patient data in real time, then displays it on a patient-specific dashboard.
"The dashboard doesn't replace clinical thinking," one trauma nurse said. "It just provides us an excellent picture of how a patient is doing, and makes our care better."
For every project in the end stages of development, like the Serenity System or the Decisio Platform, there are others that are just getting started. Many of these are supported by Texas Venture Connect, a program with the objective of connecting university-related researchers with entrepreneurial mentors. In-progress projects include Biosense, a wearable sensor that informs the wearer about his or her metabolic state, and My Learning Curve, a tool that helps childcare providers and clinicians assess premature children for learning and developmental delays.
As impressive as these projects are, they're only the beginning. Expect to see even more life-improving projects in the months and years ahead as UT System innovators continue to find new ways to expand and apply their research and skills.
To keep up with UT System-wide innovation news, follow the Office of Innovation and Strategic Investment on Twitter @InnovationUTS. | to reroute neural pathways to correct some of the "broken circuits" that cause tinnitus. John Eaton, one of the first patients to test the system, says it's the first treatment that's given him relief from over 60 years of constant noise. From the story:
"My wife encouraged me to call and find out if anyone at UT Dallas was doing any work in tinnitus," Eaton recalls. "It was like a Hollywood experience, | 90 |
Its that<|fim_middle|> weekend and get some sleep. | time of the week again when we give you, the reader, links to promote better sleeping habits. There are thousands of sleep related articles that flood the web and newspapers every week, but we take the time to provide only the best and most relevant.
The National Sleep Foundation focuses on sleep hygiene; ways to get better sleeping results.
This article offers a study to will be conducted on willing participants who think that they may have a sleeping disorder. The study would take place in the comfort of a user's home instead of a lab.
A study by the University of California shows how brain activity is affected when sleep deprivation becomes an issue.
A weird but interesting story about daytime sleepiness being linked to the deaths of elderly people. Its not a study that is set in stone, but it does raise an eyebrow.
A fun, yet interesting, story that relates to the millions of coffee drinkers in America. It appears that coffee consumption can be a good thing for women these days.
After reading these articles, try to focus on the clearly stated fact that sleeping plays a huge role in the health of people's lives. If you're not getting enough; change it. Sleep is your body's friend, not its enemy.
Have a great | 245 |
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Dog Day Afternoon Movie Review by Sputnik
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The incredible true story of a man (Al Pacino) who robs a bank to pay for his lover's sex change operation is immortalized in this pitched tale of crime by desperation.
Wanted to watch this movie since a very long time as it is a Oscar nominated movie and Al Pacino was also nominated for an Oscar for his performance.
Loved it. Excellent movie. Sidney Lumet's direction was excellent. Great bank robbery movie. The tension and the chaos with all the cops was so brilliantly captured.
Dog Day Afternoon was deservedly nominated for 5 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Editing. It deservedly won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. I think the movie was unlucky in that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest released the same year. Otherwise Dog Day Afternoon would have definitely won the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director.
Al Pacino was excellent as Sonny. He deservedly was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor. I think he would have won the Oscar that year if Jack Nicholson did not have One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest that year.
John Cazale was excellent as Sal. Charles Durning was excellent as Sergeant Eugene Moretti. James Broderick was very good as Agent Sheldon. Chris Sarandon was excellent too as his wife but its surprising to know that he was also nominated for Best<|fim_middle|>95, continues to inspire and motivate a number of storytellers to this date,...
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Jada Pinkett Smith opened up about self-doubt in a powerful speech while accepting the Trailblazer Award at the 2019 MTV Movie and TV Awards.
The 47-year-old actress took to the stage with her 20-year-old son Jaden - who served as her hype man of sorts, trying to pump up the crowd before her speech - along with presenter and Smith's Girls Trip co-star Tiffany Haddish.
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Pinkett-Smith began her speech by questioning whether or not she really deserved this award in the first place.
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The Awesome Foundation: $1,000 Grants for the Advancement of Awesomeness
By Nathalie O'Neill
Got a crazy idea for a new project? Forget trying to get a bank loan: There's an easier — and much more fun! — way to get funding. The Awesome Foundation, recently featured in a BBC piece, strives for the "advancement of Awesomeness in the universe" by providing funding for broke creative types who want to bring something clever and innovative to<|fim_middle|> But they can also be silly, like a woman who wanted to recreate scenes from the Indiana Jones movies. Whatever they are, they're always guaranteed to be some kind of awesome.
Image: Wikimedia Commons | their community.
The Awesome Foundation is described as "a micro-genius grant for flashes of micro-brilliance" on their website. Together, the group of trustees that forms the Foundation provides monthly $1,000 grants to creators and their projects. "Your idea is yours alone. We don't want a stake in it. We just want to help you make it happen," explains the foundation's website. You don't even have to see your project to completion to get the grant.
The Foundation was created by MIT students in 2009 in Boston, and has since set up chapters across the world. The projects they fund tend to be community-oriented, but overall have a pretty wide range. They can be serious, like an HIV/AIDS Awareness Circus in Ethiopia. | 158 |
The Tennis Doctor
By Laurie Wallace-Lynch, photography by Nikki Wesley
He may not be a real doctor, nor does he play one on TV, but Oakville's Gary Steph<|fim_middle|> he teaches at The Tennis School in Mississauga and the new Milton Tennis Club. "I've taught generations of families in the GTA, and I've had the nickname since I was about 20 and I'm now 48," says Gary.
Growing up, Gary played baseball and hockey, but got into tennis completely by chance. "I was 15 when my best friends asked if they could use the tennis courts at my condo building to practice for a club tournament, and since I had to be with them, they asked me to give it a try. I ended up beating them both, entered the tournament, and two weeks later, I was the club champ."
He played competitively as a junior in the Ontario Tennis Association (OTA) and as a young adult played the International Tennis Federation (ITF), which led to his coaching career.
Gary's trademark secret is to simplify the game. The three most popular shots he's asked to fix or mend are the forehand, backhand and serve.
Forehand: "What I see most is players leaving one arm dangling. Both arms should swing together, as it's a body shot. I tell clients to pretend there is a table behind them on their right side with a 10-pound medicine ball sitting on it, and they need to pick up that ball with both hands and throw it over the net."
Backhand: "Ninety five per cent of people have a two-handed backhand for good reason. Because the game is so fast, the hitting zone for a one-handed backhand is really small, but a two-handed backhand gives you a really big hitting zone to allow you to better handle power, speed and spin. If you are right-handed, your right hand is at the base of the racquet and your left hand is above, also on the racquet, with the two hands touching. It's just like batting a baseball. You use your left arm to stroke through the ball—your left arm does all the work."
Serve: "A good serve should have rhythm and the arms should move together in one fluid motion. The tossing arm should be straight and fully extended while the other arm should be bent with your elbow up and the racquet behind your body, and as you go to hit the ball, the two arms exchanges places. The tossing arm bends to come into your chest and the racquet arm fully extends to hit the ball. As soon as I show clients this Tuck and Hit, their serve improves drastically. The toss should be no higher than a racquet length above your head plus one ball. The best time to hit the ball is when it is stationary or at its peak."
Choosing the right racquet is a personal choice based on many factors, but Gary suggests dropping by a tennis retailer to demo a few racquets. "I'm a Wilson guy and use a balanced racquet called the Wilson Clash. On average strings should be changed once a year, but there is a saying that the number of times you play a week is the number of times you should change your strings over a year."
The best way to improve your overall game? "Get out and play as much as you can and take a lesson or two."
Gary, aka The Tennis Doctor, fully embraces his nickname as a way for clients to reach him. He has two cars and the licence plates are 10SDCTR and TNS-DCTR. Now you have to "love" that!
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The Artist: Bif Naked | enson has earned his nickname "The Tennis Doctor" for good reason. No matter what ails your tennis game, Tennis Pro Gary Stephenson can fix or cure most anything, or teach you the fundamentals. And yes, he makes court calls.
Gary has been the Head Pro of Toronto's Baby Point Tennis Club for more than 15 years and during the winter | 73 |
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[Abstract-only] Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources. The database also includes | 201 |
More and more Panama resorts are springing up around the country to meet the increasing Panama tourism demands. Long left out of the travel picture, Panama is now one of the most talked about destinations in the world. Not only are leisure travelers coming to Panama to enjoy it's wealth of attractions, but so too are retirees looking for their own little slice of paradise. From Panama's Chir<|fim_middle|> island destinations. The San Blas Islands is one of the country's best regions for beach-related pursuits, and though the Kuna Indian-controlled Panama resorts found here tend to be very much on the rustic side, that's just fine by most. The other Panama resorts that attract visitors are the eco-resorts, and in the San Blas Islands, you'll pretty much find the resorts to be part beach resort, part eco-lodge. This is very much the case with the Coral Lodge, which is one of the more unique resorts in Central America. The water villas here actually sit over the water, affording wonderful panoramic views of the beaches and rainforests. Due to the relative hardship of getting to the Coral Lodge, the resort arranges guest transportation. Once you arrive, you'll have the chance to enjoy a range of tours and activities, like scuba diving and visiting a native Kuna village. Most of the Panama resorts will help you arrange transportation, which takes a bunch of stress out of your Panama vacation.
Contadora Island is another top Panama destination, and the Punta Galeon Resort is just one of the Panama beach resorts you can find here. Two beaches can be found just within a few steps of the grounds, and though luxury resorts in Panama are a fairly new concept, this one sure is pretty nice. Should you be looking to relax by the sea, go scuba diving, or just get away from it all, the Bocas del Toro archipelago is another wonderful place to find some Panama beach resorts. The Natural Resort on Bastimentos Island is an intriguing Panama resort, offering huts for guest units that provide some of the creature comforts. The Garden of Eden Resort is quickly becoming a Bocas del Toro favorite, and its location on a private island is sure to have you feeling relaxed the moment you arrive. There's only a few units available at the Garden of Eden Resort, so book well in advance for this one. Back towards the capital of Panama City, you will find an ample amount of Panama beach resorts that are ideal for those looking to escape the city for a bit.
If you are interested in an all inclusive resort Panama option, the Royal Decameron Beach Resort and Casino is a good choice. It's found at Playa Blanca, which is located in the town of Farallon, not far from downtown Panama City. You'll even find a golf course here, and parents can enjoy a list of interesting activities while the kids play at the Kiddie Club. The setting of the Gamboa Rainforest Resort helps to make it one of the best Panama resorts found near the capital. You're within a half an hour of both Panama City and the Free Trade Zone in Colon, but the rainforest surroundings help to make you feel like you are worlds away from civilization. Plus, if you want to arrange tours of the Panama Canal, the resort's location on the banks of Gatun Lake has you as close as you could want to be. Anglers are starting to take notice of the great fishing possibilities in Panama, so for them, the Panama fishing resorts might be the ideal Panama lodging choice. The Tropic Star Lodge rests on Pinas Bay, just 150 miles south of Panama City. It's closed in October and November, but during the other months, you can hope to catch Blue Marlin, Dorado, and Amberjack, among other species. You can arrange great fishing and lodging packages at Panama fishing resorts like the Tropic Star Lodge, and you're sure to enjoy a world-class fishing experience. With so many great Panama resorts to choose from, and more on the way, chances are you'll want to return time and again to this Central American paradise. | iqui Highlands to its many islands, visitors to this tropical land will be treated to a range of stunning landscapes. Many visitors to Panama stay at one of the Panama resorts because they are such an ideal lodging fit. They are increasingly easier to book online, and some figure among the featured accommodations in the many available Panama travel packages. Should you be headed to Panama, the Panama resorts can provide not only a comfortable room, suite or villa. They also provide a list of fun activities and excursions, making it virtually impossible to get bored during your trip.
The Panama beach resorts are likely the most popular resorts in Panama. Mainland Panama features an Atlantic coast to the north, and a Pacific coast to the south, so already you might be able to imagine the possibilities. Throw in the hundreds of Panama islands found just offshore, and you have yourself a top world beach destination. You can find Panama beach resorts close to cities like Panama City and Colon, or you can hop on a plane or boat to get to one of Panama's great | 207 |
Oslo to the western fjords
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In almost any other country, the forested dales and uplands that fill out much of central Norway between Oslo and the western fjords would be prime attractions in their own right, but here in Norway they are overshadowed by the mountains and deep black-blue fjords of the north and west. One result is that the towns and villages hereabouts lack the concentration of tourist facilities found in the more popular areas, though the Norwegians themselves come here in their droves to savour the summer and explore the countryside from their mountain huts and second homes. Setting aside the E6 (see Eidsvoll-bygningen), there are three main highways between Oslo and the western fjords – the E16, Highway 7 and the E134: whichever one you choose, you'll encounter spectacular scenery, from wide sweeping valleys and plunging waterfalls to bare and bleak mountain passes, but if it's mainly speed you're after plump for the E16.
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The E134
The third and most southerly route to the western fjords, the E134, covers the 417km from Drammen near Oslo to Haugesund, passing near Odda on the Sørfjord after 310km. Again, it's a slower route, but it has the advantage of passing through the attractive town of Kongsberg before threading its way across Telemark, a county that covers a great forested chunk of southern Norway. In a country where the fjords are the apple of the tourist industry's eye, Telemark is often neglected, but it can be stunningly beautiful, its deep valleys, blue-black lochs and bulging forested hills intercepted by tiny villages in a manner that resembles the Swiss Alps. The key targets here are Heddal stave church and Dalen, the site of the region's most enjoyable hotel. Beyond Telemark, the E134 nudges its way over the southern reaches of the Hardangervidda plateau to cross one of Norway's highest mountain passes, the storm-blasted Haukelifjell.
The Telemarkskanal
Dalen is the terminus of the passenger ferry that wends its way southeast along the Telemarkskanal to Skien (From mid-May to mid-September, 2 – 7 days a week; 1050kr one-way; telemarkskanalen.no), a journey that takes around 10 hours. Extending 105km, the canal links a string of lakes and rivers by means of eighteen locks that negotiate a difference in water levels of 72m. Completed in 1892, the canal was once an important trade route into the interior, but today it's mainly used by pleasure craft and vintage passenger ferries. It's also possible to make shorter excursions out by boat and back by bus. The jetty is 750m beyond the Dalen Hotel.
The E16
The E16 is the fastest route from Oslo to the western fjords, a quick and handsome 350km gallop up from the capital to both the fjord ferry near Sogndal and the colossal 24.5km tunnel leading to Flåm. It also shoots past half a dozen stave churches, the most remarkable of them being Borgund.
Filefjell and the Lærdal valley
Beyond Vang, it's just 11km to Øye, where the E16 begins its long climb up and over the Filefjell mountain pass amid a bare and treeless landscape dotted with lakes and sprinkled with mountain cabins. On the far side of the mountains, the E16 rips along the Lærdal valley bound for Borgund stave church (see Stave churches: Norway's pride and joy), which is about 50km from Øye. For almost all of its long history, the church stood beside the main road, but not any longer: in 2003, a new set of tunnels bypassed the church as well as one of the most beautiful portions of the old E16, the twisting, 10km-long route through the rocky ravine trimming the River Lærdal. This ravine loop, now signed as an "Historic Route" with Borgund stave church at the east end, is an enjoyable detour that should only take about half an hour. From Borgund stave church, it's about 30km to the eastern end of the massive Lærdalstunnelen, which links the Lærdal valley with Aurland, Flåm and points west to Bergen. The tunnel is part of the E16, but you can instead branch off here for the short trip north along Highway 5 to Lærdalsøyri and the Fodnes–Mannheller car ferry (for Sogndal).
Stave churches: Norway's pride and joy
The majority of Norway's 28 surviving stave churches are inland in the south and centre of the country, but taken together they represent the nation's most distinctive architectural legacy. The key feature of their design is that their timbers are placed vertically into the ground – in contrast to the log-bonding technique used by the Norwegians for everything else. Thus, a stave wall consists of vertical planks slotted into sills above and below, with the sills connected to upright posts – or staves, hence the name – at each corner. The general design seems to have been worked out in the twelfth century and common features include external wooden galleries, shingles and finials. There are, however, variations: in some churches, nave and chancel form a single rectangle, in others the chancel is narrower than, and tacked onto, the nave. The most fetching stave churches are those where the central section of the nave has been raised above the aisles to create – from the outside – a distinctive, almost pagoda-like effect. In virtually all the stave churches, the door frames (where they survive) are decorated from top to bottom with surging, intricate carvings that clearly hark back to Viking design, most memorably fantastical long-limbed dragons entwined in vine tendrils.
The origins of stave churches have attracted an inordinate amount of academic debate. Some scholars argue that they were originally pagan temples, converted to Christian use by the addition of a chancel, while others are convinced that they were inspired by Russian churches. Pagan or not, each part of the stave church acquired a symbolic Christian significance with, for example, the corner posts representing the four Gospels, the ground beams God's apostles upon whom (literally in this case) the church was built.
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Norway? | In the nineteenth century, they also acquired symbolic importance as reminders of the time when Norway was independent. Many had fallen into a dreadful state of repair and were clumsily renovated – or even remodelled – by enthusiastic medievalists with a nationalist agenda. Undoing this repair work has been a major operation, and one that continues today. For most visitors, seeing one or two will suffice – and three of the finest are those at Heddal, Borgund and Urnes.
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You've committed to taking the exam, put in the necessary time, worked on your weak spots, and the test day is almost upon you. What can you expect in the last few weeks prior to the exam?
Leading up to the exam I felt much better regarding my knowledge in treasury. I could list off different regulations, acts and governing bodies with ease. However, I had to fight to keep the same focus I had when my pre-exam score was 56 percent. The last few weeks I had before the exam were spent continually polishing up on topics that I still felt needed more attention. You'll be able to identify what still needs work based on practice exams and the posttest you'll take online with the AFP Treasury Learning System. I saved the posttest for two weeks from my actual exam to act as a measuring stick for my progress. Be<|fim_middle|>• Use the mark for review button to circle back and check on questions you may not have been fully confident on before.
Once done, submit and wait for the proctor to come get you. They'll give you your results as you leave and that will be that. I wish you all the best of luck and please let me know if I can be of any further assistance during your preparation for this exam. | sure your time per question is fast enough that you'll be able to give every question a fair evaluation. Also, be sure that you are now comfortable applying the concepts to actual scenarios for the exam. If you aren't, this may be a sign you need to polish up on that concept.
After passing the posttest, I began to back off studying a bit. I had determined through my scores and how I was feeling that I was beginning to peak and I wanted to still be at my peak when I tested. Being burned out on the information is not a successful strategy to take the exam. It was at this point that I also buckled down on the formulas that were presented throughout the text. Being a recent graduate, I remembered some from class but others were completely new to me. Also, if you don't already know what the Cash Conversion Cycle is or how it operates, learn it backwards and forwards. One person I met at the 2014 AFP Conference joked that he could guarantee us that it would appear at least five times in some form or fashion on the exam.
The Saturday before my exam, I drove the route to my exam location and was fortunate I did, as there were signs indicating upcoming construction during the next few weeks. You don't need any surprises on exam day. The five weekdays leading up to the exam, I studied 30 minutes to an hour per day with one module per day. That Friday, I was grateful to essentially get kicked out of the office an hour before I was supposed to in order to allow me some time to relax before my exam that next morning. This was a benefit of keeping my coworkers in the loop as I've mentioned previously. As you've no doubt heard before, eat a good meal and get some sleep. I also set two alarms just in case something happened to one—once again, no surprises.
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True Soap is made using water, lye* and oil or fat. Mixed together in the proper proportions and at the correct temperature, a chemical reaction happens and the process of saponification begins. After the sapon<|fim_middle|>. Unless they use pure essential oils, they may be scenting with synthetic fragrances, in which case the soap is not all natural! Soapmakers often use herbs, botanicals, and minerals for color. These ingredients also can be natural or synthetic. If this matters to you…ask!
And if a product claims to be some amazing new technology but still pretends to be soap… if it sounds too good to be true…it probably is! Soap Cleans is a blog post I wrote about that subject!
*There are two types of lye: Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) which is used to make bar soap, and potassium hydroxide (KOH) which is is used to make liquid soap. | ification process is complete, the fatty acids from the oils/fats and lye/water are converted to a fatty acid salt known as "soap" and glycerol. Handcrafted soapmakers leave the glycerol in their finished soap. There is no lye left in soap once it is cured or processed.
If someone markets their soap as organic, ask them the name of their USDA Certifying Agent… organic claims for soap are regulated under the National Organic Program and without certification, organic claims are not allowed.
If someone markets their soap as handmade, ask if they make it from scratch or whether they handcraft from a pre-made base, if that matters to you.
If someone markets their soap as natural, ask what ingredients they use for color and scent | 153 |
Work has started on the construction of a new state-of-the-art pharmacy at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust Combe Park site.
Located closer to ward areas and the proposed new Cancer Centre, the new pharmacy will bring this vital service back into the heart of the hospital and allow the Trust to deliver an even better service to patients.
The new Pharmacy facility is the latest project in the Trust's 'Fit for the Future' estates redevelopment plan, as the RUH looks to transform its site and replace old, out of date buildings with innovatively designed facilities in which staff can continue to provide the highest quality care for patients.
Howard Jones, Director of Estates and Facilities says, "Our new, state-of-the-art Pharmacy will help us provide an enhanced, more efficient service for patients. The design of a building has a huge impact on efficiency, our new pharmacy will allow us to speed up our processes and allow our teams to work better together."
Howard continues, "We've worked closely with staff and users of the pharmacy in the design of our new building, to make sure our new facility best meets the needs of patients and staff. After all<|fim_middle|> while work is underway, a new car park has been created near the main entrance to the RUH. Visitors to the RUH site are advised to take these changes into account when planning their journey to the RUH.
Once decommissioned, the old pharmacy will be demolished, creating space to build new Rheumatogy, Orthopaedic and Therapies facilities, the next phase in the Trust's ambitious Fit for the Future programme of works. | the planning and preparation it's great to see work start on site."
The new pharmacy is scheduled for completion in Autumn 2016, and will include a new aseptic unit, where highly specialised cancer and other medicines are prepared in sterile conditions. This will replace the temporary asceptic facility currently located near the main entrance to the RUH.
Regina Brophy, Chief Pharmacist at the RUH says, "Our current pharmacy was built in 1984 and so much has changed since then, the population is growing, new medicines have been developed and regulations are different. We've managed to keep up, but now we are looking to the future and creating a facility that will allow us to cope with further changes in demand, new medicines and increased standards of safety."
Regina adds, "The RUH's current pharmacy facilities are fully operational while the new building is under construction. There will be no disruption to the services we provide and patients will continue to have access to medicines and pharmaceutical advice."
The Pharmacy build site occupies part of Carpark P3 on the RUH site, resulting in limited visitor parking in this area; to ensure that there is no overall loss of parking provision | 243 |
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