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The Chester Arts Guild was founded in 1969 with support from the Chester Board of Trade. Meetings, classes and workshops were held in 'The Barn,' a property owned by Mr. and Mrs. David MacKeen on Haddon Hill. Roscoe Chaffey was the first Chairman and more than 100 members signed-up in the first year. The Guild offered classes for adults and children for several years. Enthusiasm was high due in large part to the calibre of instructors who offered their time and expertise, e.g., Don Curley, John Cook,<|fim_middle|> Tim Worthington and Tony Congdon. Among the offerings were classes in painting, drawing, pottery, sculpture and silver work.
In the mid-nineteen seventies art programming was introduced into local schools and the Municipal Recreation Commission began to sponsor summer craft programs for children and youth. The Guild continued at the Barn until the property was sold in 1980. | Franklyn Heisler, | 6 |
One Alabama cop is getting recognition since his good deed at a grocery store went viral, AL.com reports.
Hueytown Police Cpl. Sebastian Goldman was at a Food Giant grocery store purchasing food for the jail inmates, the news station reports. One store employee, a 19-year-old man, was helping the officer load the groceries into his car Tuesday amid torrential weather. That was when Goldman noticed the teen's shoes, which were wrapped in duct tape.
"I looked at him and said, 'What's up with duct tape?' '' Goldman told AL.com. " 'Is that something all the kids are doing? A fashion statement?' "
Turns out the young man was just unlucky and had split his shoes; he was waiting to get paid so that he could replace the busted pair. Given the weather and what he had heard, Goldman wasn't having it. He casually asked the teen his shoe size, before thanking him for his help and driving away.
However, the officer wasn't done yet. After dropping off the groceries for the inmates, Goldman picked up a pair of size 12 1/2 shoes and went back to the grocery store to gift them to the young man.
"I didn't know if he had to walk home in the rain or what,'' Goldman said.
"I said, 'Man<|fim_middle|>Goldman really wasn't looking for attention with his actions, but one shopper, touched by the exchange, snapped a photo and shared it on Facebook.
"Everyone at Giant this morning was in tears when he brought them to the young man!!!! Way to go Office Goldman!!!!" Angela Roach Scory captioned her Facebook post showing the young man's tattered shoes. The photo has been shared over 400 times, bringing attention Goldman's way.
"I hope people take from it that the police aren't really bad," Goldman said. "We've been getting such a bad rap in the news. We're human beings with families and kids and loved ones." | , here you go. I didn't know payday was Friday or two weeks from now,' '' Goldman continued. "He said, 'What do I owe you?' and I told him to just pay it forward."
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"There's an election coming". This was the view of our opposition when we announced we were freezing Council Tax this year - no addition for Adult Social Care as well. Of course our opposition get no credit for stating "the bloomin' obvious", there is an election coming. But the reasons for doing what we have done are a bit beyond headline grabbing because we fundamentally think this is now the right thing to do.
But there are other reasons. Despite a freeze in Council Tax we are investing more in Adult Social Care but that is against a backdrop where steps we took two years ago to change the way we work with the NHS. What we did then means we are seeing little of the delayed discharge issues over the winter months and this saves us all money.
This is also the first year in which Kingston will be become an independent Borough, free from the tyranny of revenue support where the Government does more to dictate our local tax and<|fim_middle|>m over the course of four years. That would be the equivalent of increasing Council Tax by 60%. One resident recently asked me what the previous Lib Dem Council was doing with all this money and I have to admit to being stumped for an answer.
All of us in local government should be proud of what we have delivered in the years of austerity. Other public services could learn that less money to spend means rethinking what you do and never again believing that 'business as usual' is fair to those who receive our services or pay our taxes. Freezing Council tax and investing in the areas where money is most needed means everyone in Kingston wins and like my opposition telling me there is an election coming, that is stating the bleedin' obvious.. | spending than any other aspect of things we do. This has made us look afresh at what we are doing so we are taking that opportunity to refocus the Council. Our end destination is a Council that is less paternalistic and who sees its role as engaging residents to help support themselves and their neighbours. The evidence so far is that this makes them healthier, more connected to their locality and more engaged in the growth and development of Kingston.
We have put a lot of money into social care, parks, playgrounds and roads and pavements. But we have also reduced expenditure across the council by £54 | 122 |
Roundtable Discussion: Fictional/Nonfictional Childhood Games
While we're still in the midst of back to school season we decided to find out just how weird our staff members were as kids. It did not disappoint. This week I posed the question of what their favorite childhood games were growing up. This could have been made up, obscure or traditional. Hilarity ensued.
Bethany: My brother and I made up our own games all the time when we were little (we were homeschooled…what do you want? lol). Anyways, remember the old TV Guides that came in the Sunday newspaper and the whole week's worth of television was in there? And every 1/2 hour show was one block and every hour show was 2 blocks, etc. We would take turns picking a random day and choosing one show on that page. The other would have to guess which show we picked. This literally took hours as we went back and forth trying to guess which show the other picked. I have no idea why we found this so entertaining, but it was our little game. 🙂
CVM: Sadshare time. So I really enjoyed board games as a child, but my sister would never want to play with me. So instead of making my sister play a freaking game with me every once in a while, my parents just bought me the board games on Sega so I could play Monopoly. By myself. In the basement. Alone. It was cold down there. Everyone feel sorry for me even though I had a Sega.
Chris M: My brother had a Fisher Price golf set with a plastic putter, driver, and wedge. In our house, the walk went straight from the front door to the sidewalk, neatly dividing the front yard in two. My brother and I played a game where one of us would throw a Frisbee into the other's zone, and the object was to knock it out of the air before it hit the ground. If it hit the ground, the thrower got a point. If it was knocked down, no points were awarded. Then the defender became the attacker, ad nocem.
Drew: Let's just recap some of the high-concept games that looked SO damn fun in commercials but usually broke, got boring, or caused injury after playing once or twice. Gator Golf (You putt a golfball into an alligator's mouth and it shoots it back at you). Eat At Ralph's (Shove as many pieces of food into a giant man's mouth as you can before he vomits them back out… way to go, America). Elefun (Try to catch butterflies flying out of an elephant's trunk). Don't Wake Daddy (A bunch of punk kids harass their poor father who just wants some rest). Simon (If you don't have friends, play Simon Says with some blinking lights).
All endlessly fun. I feel guilty for making my parents drive me to Toys R Us when really my favorite games to play were tag or hide-and-go-seek or games that actually require movement and physical interaction with other humans.
Scott: There was a construction area open near my house that was essentially abandoned for several years, so my friends and I turned it into our own little BMX course. I had a Dyno VFR, and I was much more confident about my skills than I ever should have been. We had built a pretty big hill, and I decided I was going to attempt to do a backflip. I made it about halfway around, which is the worst percentage of a backflip to complete – landed on my back, and thankfully the fall only knocked the air out of me. X-Games dreams destroyed.
Tristan: Drew I think you forgot cross fire. One of the most intensely fun looking commercials I saw as a kid which ended up just being shooting marbles at each other on a board. LAME! Oh and Mouse Trap. I don't think I ever encountered a kid with the patience to actually set that stuff up all the way. That game may have had more kids make up the rules to it than Mancala or Clue.
CVM: Mouse Trap was the reason I would agree to have play dates with this really annoying girl. She had the game and it was like the Holy Grail of board games (this was pre-sega). She wouldn't want to play it but I didn't care.<|fim_middle|>'t know why my parents weren't concerned about me.
Coit: In my house growing up we had a long hallway with an archway at one end. My sister and I, along with most of our friends and family, were big-time soccer players. So what we would do is take a pillow shaped and made to look like a soccer ball and have penalty kick shoot-offs…indoors! I stopped counting how many times we knocked the Georgia O'Keefe print off the wall directly behind the "goal". Also lost track of how many times I smashed my face. Did not, however, lose track of how many times I was grounded for breaking the artwork and getting too rowdy. 112.
Mike Z: I loved playing Mouse Trap but the trap never fully worked. Something always would mess-up and I would have to manually tip over something to get the trap down. Always frustrated me but still a great game.
The one game we always played was Hungry Hungry Hippos. We would play so much we would get blisters on our palms. I thought that was the most painful injury before bones started breaking playing sports…
Lindsay: One of my favorites was LIFE. My friends and I used to play pretend, with invisible husbands and invisible children, so I think that played into my love of the game. Same with Barbies. Odd isn't it, how when you're younger you wish you were older, and now that we are older it's like "What was I thinking!?" I don't know about the rest of you, but being a grown up isn't at all how I imagined it when I was little haha.
LVZ: My sister and I would get really bored and want to play a game but also didn't want to sit around, so we made up our own game that included physical tasks. I guess we really didn't make up a game, but we assigned feats of strength, balance, and coordination to numbers on the game Sorry! We would play Sorry! as usual but have to do headstands, sprints, or pushups when we drew cards. It was a small town, this was all we had.
Coit: Sounds like you could sue Double Dare for taking your idea on the "physical challenge"
Tristan: My friends and I would do something similar to the effect of Global Guts/Legends of the Hidden Temple. We made an agro crag of pillows and sofas. What can I say we had to grab a piece of the rock!
Beervana: Portland, OR (Part 2)
Oktoberfest – Left Hand Brewing Company
Roundtable Discussion: Favorite Summer Beers... May 22, 2013 | Lindsay Krumel
DC Homebrewers Hosts Fall Barbecue October 14, 2014 | Stacey Goers
Beer Trends | Tavour Ships Craft Beer to Your Door... January 21, 2016 | Mike Zoller
Beerstagram | February 15 – February 23 February 24, 2017 | Holly Gerard | I would sit in her house and play by myself (again, supersadface). We also had Clue on the Sega. I don | 28 |
Drift bottle
wechat drops
Censorship Culture
WeChat is suspending one of its favorite features because people are using it to sell porn
WeChat's one-time "romantic" feature is now full of prostitutes
Published on 3 Dec, 2018 1:00pm Coordinated Universal Time
You type in a message on your phone, place it in a virtual bottle and throw it to the virtual sea within China's most popular social platform WeChat. And then you wait for someone to pick it up and answer you.
This is called "drift bottle", a feature that WeChat came up with during its early years when it needed to attract users. It allowed people to have fun, and turn complete strangers into pen pals. Online forums still whisper tales of those that have found true love through drift bottle -- and even got married.
But on Friday, the function was suddenly suspended. It turns out that these days, virtual bottles are more likely to carry smut than friendly greetings. WeChat's operator, Tencent, said that it discovered through user complaints and media reports that the drift bottle function was used to disseminate pornography and solicit prostitutes.
So much for romance.
It comes amidst<|fim_middle|> a press release on drift bottle's suspension.
Unlike the negative reaction towards shutting down WeChat accounts, the news of suspending drift bottle revealed that for many, losing the feature was well overdue -- despite its popularity. Some said goodbye to drift bottle by posting their own awkward encounters with people soliciting nudes... or taking an opportunity to troll them.
Funny how the picture doesn't match the profile picture, eh? (Picture: Screenshot from Weibo)
Other recounted the times they regretted trying to make new friends through drift bottles after stumbling upon internet beggars, annoying advertisers, scammers performing upgraded version of phone frauds, or just plain old bots. | a wide sweep of undesirable content from Chinese platforms, including erotica, pornography, gambling, and politically unsavory messages. In November alone, regulators shut down nearly 10,000 accounts on WeChat, Weibo and other platforms.
The Cyberspace Administration also summoned WeChat and Weibo, in particular, to reprimand them for "growing wild and creating chaos." It's not surprising then that WeChat jumped to rectify itself after China Youth Daily, the official newspaper of Communist Youth League of China, published an article on November 27th uncovering porn hidden in virtual bottles.
"WeChat has always adopted a zero-tolerance attitude towards this issue," the company said in | 143 |
The bridging scale for two-dimensional atomistic/continuum coupling
Harold S. Park, Eduard G. Karpov, Kam Liu Wing*, Patrick A. Klein
In this paper, we present all necessary generalisations to extend the bridging scale, a finite-temperature multiple scale method which couples molecular dynamics (MD) and finite element (FE) simulations, to two dimensions. The crucial development is a numerical treatment of the boundary condition acting upon the reduced atomistic system, as such boundary conditions are analytically intractable beyond simple one-dimension systems. The approach presented in this paper offers distinct advantages compared to previous works, specifically the compact size of the resulting time history kernel, and the fact that the time history kernel can be calculated using an automated numerical procedure for arbitrary multi-dimensional lattice structures and interatomic potentials. We demonstrate the truly two-way nature of the coupled FE and reduced MD equations of motion via two example problems, wave propagation and dynamic crack propagation. Finally, we compare both problems to benchmark full MD simulations to validate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method.
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Park, H. S., Karpov, E. G., Wing, K. L., & Klein, P. A. (2005). The bridging scale for two-dimensional atomistic/continuum coupling. Philosophical Magazine, 85(1), 79-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/14786430412331300163
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https://bullswire.usatoday.com/2018/06/09/steve-nash-lonzo-ball-l<|fim_middle|>zo Ball says he failed to live up to draft hype with Lakers
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Steve Nash's advice to Lonzo Ball is everything the Lakers could want
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Josh Martin
June 9, 2018 4:00 am CT
Steve Nash's history with the Los Angeles Lakers is dodgy, to say the least. The team's penance for that 2012 trade with the Phoenix Suns will truly be complete once the Philadelphia 76ers spend the No. 10 pick in the 2018 NBA draft. But without the franchise-wide collapse at the end of the Kobe Bryant era that Nash's injuries helped to ignite, the Purple and Gold might not have been in position to select Lonzo Ball in last year's draft.
It's only fair, then, that Nash, now consulting with the Golden State Warriors, has found ways to give back to the Lakers, however small. Last summer, that meant bringing Kevin Durant with him down to the UCLA Health Training Center to work out with Zo. As Lakers assistant coach Miles Simon relayed to Lakers.com's Mike Trudell, Nash imparted some words of wisdom to the Crown Prince of Chino Hills that the team and its fans should appreciate—assuming, of course, that Lonzo heeds them:
Nash told him, 'When I started to score, that's when my assists became better and easier … when I first came in the league, all I wanted to do was pass and make everybody happy. But when I figured out how to score, and make my layups, do all those things, that's when I started to average 20 and 10.'
Lonzo Ball worked out with Kevin Durant and Steve Nash
Scoring was hardly Ball's strong suit as a rookie, much less in the paint. According to Basketball Reference, Zo took just 27.3 percent of his shots within three feet of the rim—as opposed to 52.3 percent from three-point range—and made 49.4 percent of them.
As such, the Lakers have been harping on the importance of Ball being more aggressive and becoming a scoring threat during their offseason skill work with the 20-year-old.
"That's the thing we've been telling Lonzo," Simon said. "At times, even if you miss the layup, it's OK because you're drawing the big and we're probably going to clean it up. But you have to get in there and take them, and you'll end up making them. Some of that will come as he gets stronger and more mature and go through contact. And then there's going off each foot, using each hand, runners, floaters."
It would probably help, too, if Zo were more confident in his free-throw stroke after drawing contact. Per Basketball Reference, Ball's percentage at the stripe (.451) was the fifth-worst mark by a guard who made at least 20 foul shots during a single season in NBA history.
Steve Nash: Lonzo Ball, Lakers can 'definitely' make playoffs in 2019
To be clear, the Lakers aren't starting entirely from scratch with Lonzo when it comes to his finishing around the rim. To hear Simon tell it, the UCLA product made progress in that regard long before he returned to the practice court during the offseason.
"I think he has a lot of this stuff, and as the season went along, we started working on his layup package, and it got better before his injury at the end of the year," he said. "It's something he's got to really concentrate on."
If Lonzo can become a bona fide threat to put the ball in the basket—no matter the distance—during Year 2, his game as a passer and creator should really open up and put him on a path toward All-Star-caliber success.
And if Zo finds his way sooner than did Nash, who earned his first All-Star nod in his sixth season at the age of 28, the Lakers will be that much better for it.
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Security Challenges Are Not As Much As Where We Started From – COAS, Lucky Irabor
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor has stated that security challenges in the country are not as worse as they used to be in the past.
Irabor made the claim at a church service to mark this<|fim_middle|> fear in any part of the country." | years' Armed Forces Remembrance Day. According to the CDS, the current security challenges in the country are not as much as it was when they assumed position.
He Said;
"I would like to specially commend members of the armed forces, especially the veterans who laid the foundation on which we are building upon to bring peace and security to every part of the country.
"There are challenges but the challenges are not as much as where we started from. That gives hope for everyone as we go into the year.
"There is ample opportunity to escalate the actions that brought the peace that we now enjoy and also to take it to another level where there would be no need for anyone to live in | 136 |
Q: a "sound understanding" of something I encountered this phrase:
...a sound understanding of [something]
and here are my questions:
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*Why is the indefinite article used for the uncountable noun "understanding"?
*What is the origin of this phrase? I'm trying to understand the meaning of "sound" in the phrase
A: A Sound understanding implies a thorough grasp of something.
'Understanding' can be both countable and uncountable noun, depending on the meaning or context.
In this context, understanding implies the ability to grasp or ability to infer.This is is a countable noun.
On the other hand, if we consider the sentence:
'She have always shown much understanding since she found out about my divorce'
Here, the understanding implies sympathy and in this context, it is an uncountable noun.
A: "Understanding" is the gerund (noun form) of the verb "to understand". Gerunds are countable, and so therefore "understanding" is countable<|fim_middle|> countable situations, but they are.
We were bothered by the noise from all the comings and goings in the stairwell.
Scoldings are rarely effective for obstinate children.
"Sound" is an adjective in this phrase, meaning "thorough", "firm", or "stable".
I can make my own decisions; I am of sound mind.
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A Tourist Guide to Dresden
March 7, 2012Jason Bartoli
Often referred to as 'Florence on the Elbe', the German city of Dresden has had a bittersweet history. Its renaissance beauty was razed to the ground during the Allied bombing of the city in 1945, about which the American author Kurt Vonnegut wrote his famous novel, Slaughter House Five. But despite its turbulent past, modern Dresden has been restored to its former glory and also holds some breathtaking examples of innovative new architecture. There are plenty of other attractions for visitors to discover. Here's a quick guide to Germany's most easterly city.
Home to medieval princes, kings and duke, by the 19th century Dresden had become a centre of industry. It made cars, medical equipment, cigarettes and cameras, as well as the famous Dresden china.
In February 1945, three days of Allied air raids and widespread fire-bombing destroyed most of the city. However, with the completion of renovation works to the Frauenkirche (Church of our Lady) in 2<|fim_middle|> Filmfest Dresden, also held in spring, short films are screened outdoors on the banks of the Elbe. The best movies win Golden Horsemen trophies, an award named after the statue of King Augustus the Strong at the city's New Town Market.
Dresden Card
The Dresden Card offers big savings on travel and tourist attractions. You can buy individual or family tickets lasting one, two or five days, and costing between 10 and 98 euros.
Regular steamboat tours run from Dresden along the river Elbe passing the famous Elbe Palaces and Pillnitz Castle, which is open to the public and includes an arts and crafts museum.
On a longer cruise you may pass the Konigstein Fortress, the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and the Blue Wonder suspension bridge.
The Kunsthalle contains a fine collection of art, but is better known for its oddly shaped glass dome, which has earned it the nickname 'lemon squeezer'.
The Military History Museum doesn't just commemorate war, but rather seeks to answer the philosophical questions – why do we go to war, and can it ever be justified?
The German Hygiene Museum is all about the human body, and its permanent exhibition holds seven themed rooms covering the brain, sexuality and "diet as a somatic function and cultural achievement".
At the Semper Museum you'll find Dresden's famous Old Masters Picture Gallery, which includes works by Rembrandt, van Eyck and Vermeer, as well as Raphael's 'Sister Madonna'. | 005, Dresden has recovered its status as a cultural and economic centre.
Dresden's most impressive street is Bruhl's Terrace, nicknamed 'the balcony of Europe'. It sits on the banks of the Elbe and is full of historic buildings such as the Royal Art Academy and the Albertinum Museum.
Shops in Dresden usually open from 10am to 8pm. The main shopping street is Prager Strasse, near Dresden Central Station. On Saturday mornings a flea market is held near the Elbe, and every Friday there's a farmers' market on Lingner-Allee.
Look out for Dresden china in antique shops. The back of the plate or cup will have a picture of a crown, with the letter 'D', or the word 'Dresden'.
You should have no trouble finding a bed and breakfast in Dresden and there are plenty of hotels to choose from. The Old Town may be the best area to stay, as it's close to the shops and the river and well worth seeing in its own right.
If you'd prefer to live as a local, visit a booking website to find apartments to rent. Local hosts can give you tips on the best restaurants and other hidden attractions.
In late spring the Dresden Music Festival features around 80 classical performances and attracts 100,000 people a year. If you visit in another season, there may still be something on at the famous Semper Opera.
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You are here: Home »<|fim_middle|> Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1984. She is licensed to practice Physical Therapy in Ontario and California.
Margaret's work in osteoporosis and Physical Therapy has been cited in a number of Physical Therapy textbooks. She has been interviewed as an expert in osteoporosis prevention and treatment by WebMD, the Toronto Star, CTV Ottawa Morning Live, the Senior Rehab Project podcast, and Dr. Rebecca Risk's podcast, Falling Through the Cracks.
She has done research with McGill School of Physical Therapy into the use of a web-based exercise program for patients with osteoporosis. Margaret has presented at the Canadian Physiotherapy Association and the Ontario Physiotherapy Association on treating aging adults and osteoporosis.
She is the proud recipient of the 2011 Award of Distinction from the College of Physiotherapists of Ontario for her significant contributions and achievements as a Physiotherapist.
Margaret operates her Physical Therapy clinic, MelioGuide Physical Therapy, in Ottawa, Ontario where she focuses on patients with osteoporosis, osteopenia and low bone density.
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Sodium and Osteoporosis
July 27, 2012 By Margaret Martin 1 Comment
What is the relationship between sodium and osteoporosis? Are you taking in too much sodium for your bones?
If you are at risk of (or have) osteoporosis, osteopenia or low bone density you have to be more careful and attentive than most people to the food you eat, the exercise program you follow, and the risks and benefits of taking osteoporosis drugs.
Nutrition for osteoporosis involves more than choosing the right foods and supplements to consume.
A proper osteoporosis nutrition program will also identify foods that you should moderate in your diet.
In fact, new research published in the American Journal of Physiology – Renal Physiology, has identified a molecule in the human body that is responsible for sodium reabsorption and controls how the body holds calcium. This has significant implications for our consumption of sodium and I suggest you spend the time necessary to review your own daily sodium intake.
1 Sodium and Osteoporosis
2 How Much Sodium Allowed per Day?
3 Sodium and Calcium
5 Osteoporosis Guidelines
Here are the details of what the researchers found: a diet with too much salt triggers this molecule to reduce its workload so that more sodium can be released through the bladder.
Unfortunately, the same molecule affects how the body absorbs calcium. As a result, not only does salt get expelled from the body, calcium gets flushed out as well. This is bad for both our bones and our kidneys.
The rebuilding process for bones requires calcium and too much calcium in the kidneys could lead to kidney stones. The study confirms that there is a relationship between sodium and osteoporosis since elevated sodium levels can affect calcium in your body.
How Much Sodium Allowed per Day?
The quantities vary depending on your source, but many experts suggest that the average healthy adult should consume less than 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day. Health Canada recommends 1,500 milligrams per day for an average healthy adult. I suggest that you peg your intake somewhere in that range.
The problem with North American diets is that we consume far too much salt and it comes from sources we are not monitoring as well as we should. It is estimated that the average North American adult takes in approximately two times the recommended level of sodium per day – around 3,400 milligrams.
To get a more concrete understanding of how much sodium is found in different foods, I encourage you to read the article by Ryan Andrews, All About Sodium. Pay particular attention to the example of Denny's Meat Lover's Scramble which contains a whopping 5,690 milligrams of sodium – almost four times the recommended daily intake!
The Dieticians of Canada publishes a handy reference table on food sources for sodium.
Sodium and Calcium
Recommended daily intake of calcium varies from country to country. Health Canada recommends 1,000 to 1,500 milligrams of calcium per day for adults.
So how much calcium do you lose when you consume sodium? One of the leading researchers in the study, Dr. Todd Alexander of the University of Alberta, provides the following rule of thumb for you:
For every 100 milligrams of extra sodium you have above what's recommended, you probably pee out one milligram extra of calcium.
If I follow Dr. Alexander's logic properly, it appears that since the average North American adult is taking in about 1,500 to 2,000 milligrams of excess sodium per day, he or she would be flushing 15 to 20 milligrams of calcium into his or her kidneys daily.
That may not sound like a lot but if the recommended daily intake of calcium is 1,000 to 1,500 milligrams over a period of time that loss of calcium could add up. In fact, the situation gets worse if you happen to consume excess sodium and take in too low an amount of calcium.
There appears to be a relationship between sodium and osteoporosis. As a result, I encourage you to estimate your daily intake of sodium and balance that with your calcium intake. Think about your sodium intake the next time you go to a restaurant, the grocery store or reach for that pretzel.
For more information, check out my Osteoporosis Guidelines.
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About Margaret Martin
Margaret Martin is a Physical Therapist with 36 years of clinical experience. Her expertise is in the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis through exercise, safe movement and fall prevention. For the last 15 years, she has concentrated on bone health and has treated thousands of patients for their osteoporosis, osteopenia and low bone density.
Margaret is the author of three books on osteoporosis and exercise. All books are available on Amazon in both print and Kindle formats. She has produced a number of home exercise workout videos on safe exercise for people with osteoporosis.
She is the creator of the continuing education course, Working with Osteoporosis and Osteopenia. This course is accredited by all Physical Therapy Licensing boards across the United States. Thousands of Physical Therapists in the United States, Canada and around the world have completed her training course. Margaret has trained physicians, Physical Therapists and other healthcare staff at Genesis Rehab Services, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Charles Lemoyne Hospital in Montreal, Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, Bruyere Hospital in Ottawa, Osteoporosis Canada, and West Carleton Family Health in Ottawa.
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Business researches play and of import portion in the determination devising procedure for any organisation, determinations which are made without affecting the right ranges and found to hold less effectivity so the determinations which are made with the engagement of the geographic expedition of and handiness of the information.
For the research to be made accurate and the aggregation of the right pieces of information, it is really of import to understand different informations aggregation methods and informations analysis methods. Choosing the right informations aggregation and analysis methods enables the research worker to supply the company with right information for the interest of determination devising. Without taking the right methods and tools the genuineness of the research and information becomes questionable, therefore it is really of import for the organisations and research workers to do certain that their concern research workers are utilizing the right methods harmonizing to the demands of the concern.
In the lines below I have discussed different informations aggregation and analysis methods which can be used in concern research, I have choose a taking retail trade name for this intent and I will plan the information aggregation and analysis methods maintaining in head that we have to research the client satisfaction and trueness with the trade name through the selling research, which is traveling to be a qualitative research. By making this we shall<|fim_middle|> of the client service from the clients of a retail concatenation, so it would be advisable that primary informations should be collect from the clients. Below I have presented the assorted informations aggregation methods that are used in aggregation of primary informations ( Saunders et al. , 2009 ) .
Questionnaires are one of the widely used methods in the aggregation of primary informations, this methods is used in assorted types of societal, concern and selling researches. This method provides the research worker with the flexibleness of clip and resources as figure of participants can take part in the research and research worker can acquire the feedback and required information from the topics in less clip and cost.
For this research, as the clients of the concatenation are involved, I have suggested the usage of questionnaire methods of informations aggregation so that more information can be taken from the clients of the concatenation shop, and more figure of clients can take part in the research ( Coolican, 1994 ) .
Self administered questionnaires are one the types that is used when questionnaire method of informations aggregation is used. In this method the research worker or informations aggregator presents the questionnaire to the participant the so the participant fill in the information and gives. This methodological analysis can besides be used in e-mail or mail questionnaire and besides for the one-to-one informations aggregation ( Easterby-Smith et al. , 2008 ) .
One the advantage of this methodological analysis is that it saves clip and cost of the informations aggregation. As this method supports the electronic mail and mail bringing, more individuals can be contacted at one clip and they can supply information, when used in one-to-one research, this can besides salvage clip of the research worker for the aggregation of informations ( Easterby-Smith et al. , 2008 ) .
The 2nd signifier of questionnaires is interviewer administered, where the information aggregators have a designed questionnaire with them but they do non manus over these questionnaires to the participant. Rather they ask the participant the relevant inquiries and so tag the most appropriate replies. These questionnaires are used when either the inquiries are complex or participants have small cognition or they have low literacy rate. These questionnaires help the research worker to acquire the most accurate information and minimise the hazard of misunderstand at the portion of participant ( Saunders et al. , 2009 ) .
These sorts of questionnaires are high in footings of clip required to carry on the research and cost required to hold the participant give the information. Therefore these sorts of methods are non recommended when the available clip and cost is less.
In informations aggregation methods, interviews are one of the most widely used technique, this technique is really effectual when used for qualitative informations and complex researches. For concern research or selling research where we require the client responses in complex purchasing behaviour, or anything related to human psychological science or determination devising processes is to be explored so interviews are effectual in allowing the research worker know about the concealed attitudes of the mark topics ( Eriksson and Kovalainen, 2008 ) .
Since in our named research we are about to understand the consumer perceptual experience about trueness and client service so interviews besides can be highly helpful in doing consumer talk up and allow the research workers know about what they feel, how they feel, and why they feel and react in certain manner ( Easterby-Smith et al. , 2008 ) .
Face-to-face interviews are one of the techniques that are used when the qualitative information is to be collected. In this technique, the interviewer and the participant sit together and so interviewer starts oppugning. The interviewer asks the participant about the information which is required and attempts to research the concealed forms of their ideas so that the needed information comes out the heads and Black Marias of the participant.
This technique is widely used when new merchandise development is under procedure ; this technique is expensive in footings of clip and resources required. As one interviewer can reach one participant at one clip therefore to acquire the research done, either the more clip is required or more interviewers are required ( Saunders et al. , 2009 ) .
When the physical meeting with participant is non required so other techniques can besides be used for interviews that are called telephonic interviews, in this technique the research worker calls the participant over the telephone line and if participant agrees for the interview so they can hold conversation over telephone.
This technique can be used when participant of the research are geographically off and their physical presence for the interview is non required. This technique has less response rate as compared to other informations aggregation techniques but is less dearly-won and clip expensive because different informations aggregators can work at the same time on the informations aggregation portion ( Saunders et al. , 2009 ) .
One of the most widely used techniques in concern and selling research under the interview subdivision is focus groups. In this technique the research worker gathers few willing people to take part in the argument and give the information. The research worker act as the moderator and through inquiries among people who so discourse and supply their ain feedback on the inquiries. The moderator encourages participant to give as much penetrations as they want so the accurate and relevant information can be collected ( Saunders et al. , 2009 ) .
Focus groups are dearly-won in footings of clip and resources required but they are extremely effectual in acquiring the penetrations of the client perceptual experience and psychologically complex behavioural informations. As our research would be covering with consumer perceptual experience therefore I would propose the we should besides be utilizing the focal point groups so that we can acquire the penetrations of consumer perceptual experience ( Saunders et al. , 2009 ) .
When it comes to analysing the informations so we have two sorts of informations analysis techniques in topographic point, as the information is of two sorts, qualitative and quantitative there both of informations sorts have different sorts of analysis techniques. Presented below are the informations analysis techniques for both sorts of informations along with the advantages and disadvantages of both. I have besides shared that which data analysis techniques should be used in our named research why this information analysis technique will be helpful in acquiring the coveted consequences.
When the research worker uses the interview techniques for their concern research so the information analysis technique pick which is with research workers is interview rating. In this technique the interviewer evaluates the responses by their ain standards ; this technique is helpful in societal researches as it provides the information which is non available in certification format ( Eriksson and Kovalainen, 2008 ) .
The drawback of this technique is that it has the mistake of biasness on portion of, interviewee and interviewer tester, by and large called societal desirableness prejudice. However when there is no other informations aggregation technique is used the interview rating is the technique that can be used for the rating of the interviews ( Eriksson and Kovalainen, 2008 ) .
For the concern research and for empirical surveies observation rating is the techniques that is widely being used, this techniques is besides utile when focal point group technique of informations aggregation is used. The research worker can measure the focal point group by detecting the responses by the participants in the research. There are expected mistakes of biasness on both parts like participant can conceal the information in the presence of others, and research worker can demo the biasness in measuring and construing the research information ( Easterby-Smith et al. , 2008 ) .
Therefore to avoid such biasness it is recommended that research workers should hold a pre defined set of responses and their corresponding consequences, and evaluates the responses on the footing of such pre defined response set.
For the informations collected in research there is another analysis technique which is called quantitative analysis of informations, this information analysis technique presents the more indifferent information consequences as the information is presented in quantitative signifier. Quantitative informations analysis can be used for both qualitative information every bit good as for quantitative informations. For this research worker have to change over the qualitative informations into quantitative signifier and so informations can be analyzed by utilizing assorted statistical analysis tools ( Saunders et al. , 2009 ) .
The drawback of such analysis is that this lone presents the informations analysis in numerical signifier and the concealed observations can be omitted that are of import in some cased. More over to utilize this technique research worker can merely travel for questionnaires. Quantitative information analysis is limited when used with other informations aggregation techniques. Below we shall see the assorted quantitative informations analysis techniques that can be used to construe the informations collected in our named research.
This one of the most normally used technique in quantitative analysis of informations, steps of cardinal inclination provides the information about how informations is clustered around the cardinal point, there are different tools to mensurate the cardinal inclination but three of them are most normally used, these are Mean, Median and Mode. Among them Mean is largely used and calculated as the amount of all the values divided by the figure of values ( Saunders et al. , 2009 ) .
The advantage of utilizing cardinal inclinations is that research worker can easy hold a expression on the centre point of the informations and can cipher the mean response of any sort of inquiry, nevertheless the disadvantage of the utilizing this technique is that, it is affected by the utmost high or low values and the overall computation of cardinal point is affected by the utmost values ( Saunders et al. , 2009 ) .
Along with the computation of cardinal inclination, it is ever utile to work with the step of scattering ; this technique calculates that how much the existent values are off from their centre. This technique is utile in cognizing the spread of informations, and shows that the how much information is spread out ; standard divergence and discrepancy are the popular tools that calculate the scattering of the informations.
So it is recommended for the research workers that when they are working with the quantitative analysis of the concern research so they should be holding the steps of scattering calculated. For our named research that will be mensurating the client rating of the client services, I have besides recommended that standard divergence and discrepancy should be calculated. This will assist us cognize that how many of the clients are really differing from the consequence that came as consequence of computation of mean of the responses ( Saunders et al. , 2009 ) .
Another manner to analyse informations statistically is to use trial on it, so confirm whether the informations presented and hypothesis made in the survey have the significance. Statistical trials can be presented as in two male monarch of trial one being the parametric trials and other being the non-parametric trials. Parametric trials be supposed to merely be used when the informations gathered from a survey is really fulfilling different demands ( Coolican, 1994 ) .
More peculiarly, there should be some interval or informations, and in statistical footings, the informations should be usually distributed. The discrepancies in the two conditions should be rationally comparable. On the other manus, non-parametric trials can ever go on to be used, even when the necessities of parametric trials are content. It is ever ready to hand to do the hypothesis at the start of the research survey and so prove that hypothesis on the footing of some statistical trial ( Coolican, 1994 ) .
Correlation surveies are of import in cognizing the relationship and dependence of two variables with each others. When in concern research worker, if researcher wants to understand the relationship on two independent variable, for illustration the advertisement spend with gross revenues, so the correlativity analysis is really helpful in finding the relationship.
Correlation coefficient is calculated by utilizing statistical analysis tools and can be negative and positive every bit good, negative correlativity shows the negative relationship and positive correlativity shows the positive relationship of the variables. For our named research we shall be step the client perceptual experience about client service of retail shop and client trueness of the clients of the same shop. In this sort of research mensurating the correlativity coefficient of the two variables, client service and client trueness, will be helpful to find whether there is any consequence of client service on client trueness, such relationship help the research worker to understand the cause and consequence of variables ( Coolican, 1994 ) .
Cross tabular matter is really utile tool, presented in the statistical analysis package every bit good. This tool helps the research worker compare the responses of the participants if two of more variables are understudy. These responses are presented in a tabular matter signifier that show that how many participants have responded to two variables in the peculiar manner. For our named research I shall urge to utilize this tool.
As we know that in our research we shall be mensurating two variables, one is client service perceptual experience and other is client trueness and both variables are being calculated for the same retail concatenation. Therefore cross tabular matter will demo the research worker that how many participants have rated both of the variables high and how many participants have rated both of the variables low, this will assist in finding the relationship of the variables ( Coolican, 1994 ) .
This paper presents the informations aggregation and informations analysis tools for concern researches, so that concern research can be made for determination effectual, in this paper I have analyzed that what are the assorted informations aggregation methods that are available for concern researches and what are data analysis methods that are available for the research workers, I have chosen the client services research as sample and selected the informations aggregation and informations analysis method that are appropriate as per demand of the research. | see that what are the available methods of informations aggregation and information analysis and how one of these methods best suits the demands of our research survey. This will enable us to research the current patterns in item and so see the practical deduction of these tools.
Secondary information is used when research worker wants to cognize the current and old developments already been done on the subject or capable that they are analyzing at that point in clip. Secondary informations can be found in the old researches on the subject from the reexamining the literature, making the cyberspace research and looking at the work of the different observers and practicians.
Secondary informations provide the footing to the research worker upon which the research worker makes the edifice blocks of his/her ain research. Sometimes secondary informations provides the research worker with some of import links and utile information that they can utilize their ain research and develop farther ( Eriksson and Kovalainen, 2008 ) .
Primary informations is a sort of informations that is collected foremost handedly and by the research workers at the clip of research ; such informations is non collected by any other research worker. In concern and selling researches primary informations aggregation is widely used, research sections of the companies base their research on primary informations because they want to roll up the stopping points and customized information on the topic every bit good as for the job in manus ( Easterby-Smith et al. , 2008 ) .
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Thomas Balmès, Happiness
Thomas Balmès made a name for himself with the 2010 documentary Babies and returns with his first Sundance entry, Happiness.
The €800,000 film screens in the World Dramatic section and follows Peyangki, a young trainee monk in the remote village of Laya in Bhutan whose mother sends him to a monastery because she cannot afford to send him to school. Meanwhile TV sets are trickling into the village for the first time.
Happiness is a TBC, Quark, Making Movies production for ARTE France, BBC, ITVS International, WDR and NHK, in association with YLE, SVT, DR, VRT, yesDocu and Bhuddist Broadcast Foundation.
How did you get into movie-making?
I wanted to be a cinematographer. I learned production and formed my own company at 22 and since then I have done projects from A-Z as cinematographer, director, producer. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do docs or fiction and realised that fictional films were not for me and that it was something about docs that corresponded more to my way of working.
I developed a network of funders like the BBC and funders in the Nordic countries so I was free to do what I wanted to do. My idea has always been to see the world through a different paradigm and challenge the way the Western world thinks. Happiness is a continuation of that.
The advent of TV is a key through-line in Happiness
I was amazed how few films had been made about it. I had been thinking about going to the US to do a film about the impact of television on American society but I felt it would be more interesting to go to a place where television didn't exist.
But TV is not the major theme
The film became more of its own story and was driven by this character [Peyangki] and the impact of television is more in the background. It's always the case: I always start with a big idea and tend to get to something more human.
Tell us about the production
The idea was to follow one village not connected to television. [Laya] is close to Tibet and these people are living on their own 4,000 metres up.
I arrived in Bhutan about four years ago and there weren't that many places that hadn't been touched by television. Laya with 900 villagers was the bigger of the two options [I was exploring] and the other one was much harder to reach.
[We had] to bring virtually everything from the city: food, gas, generator. We had maybe 50 horses packed with everything we would need. I never stayed more than three weeks there and we went there many times over the three years.
I always use a very small crew. I was filming and I had an assistant, one sound engineer from India and his assistant, one local guy/fixer/translator, two cooks. We were eight people.
You shot in winter. Where did you stay?
They're used to seeing trekkers so there were one or two houses in the village where you could sleep on the ground, so we always slept in the same house.
How did you meet Peyangki?
I went to the monastery just to visit it and by accident met Peyangki and he immediately reminded me of Jean-Pierre in [Francois Truffaut's 1959 drama ] The 400 Blows in the way he would look at you and try to find out how he could [break the rules.]
I needed my character to be very visual so it was crucial that all the situations were super-strong and Peyangki became the main character because I was never bored looking at<|fim_middle|>2 Asian, Middle Eastern and African titles to tempt festival directors in 2020
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She talks about increasing support for producers, advising on the overhaul of France's audiovisual laws and a code of conduct to support victims of sexual harassment. | him and it was always obvious what was going on. At the end of the scene the translator would tell me exactly what was going on.
The final scene where the families are watching TV is haunting.
My nine-year-old son told me: do we look like that when we watch television and I told him: exactly. They looked bewitched. We all look like that when we watch something and I wanted to show it. It was even stranger here because it was the first time they were watching images, but I think it's universal. The whole thing is about eyes and the way we look at things.
How is Peyangki doing?
He moved to a bigger monastery. I went to see him in September and they said everything was going well. It was much nicer for him to be surrounded by more kids.
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...Yes, it's true that Starbucks with its high-traffic locations didn't need advertising to build and maintain high awareness, but try creating a new supermarket coffee brand without at least threshold-level media support.
This, of course, begs two questions: How does one locate the threshold level? and, What does it cost? Like so many advertising questions, questions about "media threshold" produce all manner of response. This time there is no one right answer. But there is a sensible approach<|fim_middle|>'s start with a basic understanding of the nature of brand awareness. The dictionary defines awareness as "having knowledge of." We typically have knowledge of things we consider important. Things not important, we tend to forget. And since most brands are not things of vital importance, we tend to forget them unless we're constantly reminded. Without frequent reminders, most brands get pushed to the back of our minds, or forgotten completely. | that can help most any brand approximate its threshold spending level.
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The Axis Powers
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KESSEL SYSTEM, KESSEL
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Recent events in Galactic history had spurned the creation of a new entity. Born from the ashes of the Ithor Conference, from which every member of this new coalition will depart, a congregation of leadership and nations have united under a single banner. Through trust, comradeship, and an immense desire for mutual prosperity, these leaders have traversed the Galaxy in order to meet on Kessel and thereby begin a new era. The great alliance known as the Axis Powers had come to the Galaxy, and the time had come for their official emergence on the world stage. Arriving in a quiet, humble conference room within a pre-fabricated base which had been erected by the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the first member of the Axis Powers took his place at the conference table.
Genesis Rostu, Grand Marshal of the CIS, had arrived and awaited the entrance of his fellows. Today would be most auspicious indeed, and the Galaxy would tremble in the face of their unified might.
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Sargon Vynea Governor of Bakura was amused at the location of the conference, but there was no denying it was out in neutral territory, easily secured. Accompanied by the battleship Defender the pirates on Kessel had no doubt been keeping themselves hidden under rocks. The Zabrak had already arrived at the disclosed location for the rather low key conference on what would effect the entire galaxy. Greeting the leader of the CIS he put out his hand, "Grand Marshal Rotsu, its an honor to met a man who's done so much for clone rights. My name is Governor Sargon Vynea of Bakura, and as a fellow soldier I must say, I like what you've done with your part of the galaxy."
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Blissfully unaware that this would be his last act as Sith Emperor, Tyrin was in attendance. This was what he had been striving for as Emperor- the opportunity to cement the political supremacy of the Sith over the unkempt masses that were the Protectorate dogs, Republic rodents, Mandalorian savages, and the Atrisian fools. Not long ago, the Empire had stood alone. With precious few, if any, allies that could be called upon. Now it was time to turn the tables back<|fim_middle|> As of now he spoke with her voice and authority. He came a long way from a common thug and conman to this. Now he had been invited with Lord Sargon to a meeting with leaders of certain other factions. He was curious what this would be about, but patience is a virtue. Jared would find out soon enough.
" Transmit a message to Grand Marshal Rostu. We have arrived and would like to receive clearance for landing."
Then he sat down in his comfortable chair and took a sip from his mug of coffee. Finally he was able to drink the sodden substance without any interruptions.
"A pleasure to make your acquaintance Governor, I simply do what I can." replied the clone, "The Fringe Confederation has been doing incredibly well as well! I am delighted to see that all is going well." As the words escaped his lips, he rendered a firm handshake to his new acquaintance and then addressed those who were arriving. First and foremost was giving clearance to land to one of the Fringe's incoming ships, which was done promptly. "You have permission to land, welcome to Kessel."
With that said, the clone stood at the head of the table, inhaled a calming breath, and began.
"My friends, it is time we stand united. The Treaty of Ithor was a wonderful document that aligned the smaller nations of the Galaxy into a thriving community of cooperation. However, this day, we form a new community. Born from the Treaty of Ithor, we shall be full allies with one another: the Confederacy, the Fringe, and the Empire. We shall trade with one another, support one another on the field of battle, and together usher in a new era of Galactic peace and prosperity."
"Your attendance here denotes that the founding members of the Axis Powers are all in agreement. The Fringe, the Confederacy, and the Empire will stand united; and will open its doors to other nations to join our midst as well. I would like to invite the Black Sun Syndicate to join us, if they so choose."
@[member="Domino"], @[member="Tyrin Ardik"], @[member="Jared Ovmar"], @[member="Dranok Lussk"], @[member="Sargon Vynea"].
Leaning back into his chair Sargon nodded, and added one note. "While I can see certain benefits I believe we all know as soon as this is signed and made public what the entire galaxy will think. Signing this treaty is in all honesty a deceleration for gaining more resources and territories. Lets make this honest then, who are we looking at first?"
Jared had arrived just in time to hear Rostu's magnificent speech and his partner's response. He had to surpress a smile. For Sargon's words rang true, he would never have put it so bluntly. But that was why he liked the man, always spoke his mind.
He sat down in the chair next to the man and nodded to all of them.
"Gentlemen, this surely sounds interesting. The Fringean military would not mind to support this endeavour, but like Lord Sargon has already said. We are among friends and allies, why not make our intentions clear to all?"
"I agree, Governor." said the clone. Seating himself in his chair, the man steepled his fingers and contemplated an answer to this inquiry. "If there are no objections, I would say the Omega Protectorate. They are a militant threat of the highest caliber, a threat the security and peace of the people of the Confederacy. What say you all?"
@[member="Tyrin Ardik"], @[member="Sargon Vynea"], @[member="Jared Ovmar"].
Standing up Sargon took out a datapad and simply looked at the galactic map. It was bound to happen in the end, and here it was the meeting that would plunge entire sectors into the flames of war. Was this good for the Fringe, yes between the CIS and Fringe they could pull a complete pincer. As for if it was good for the man, Sargon would decide later his own course in this war. "I don't suppose the Omega Protectorate would simply surrender? No, I suppose they won't but, it was a hope. We agree this is total war? We agree though here, and now civilians shall be treated with mercy." He'd just agreed to do something the galaxy would feel for quite some time, and he wasn't sure he liked himself for it.
Jared could not hold his laughter anymore and let it rang across the room.
"Gentlemen, I think we are in agreement here. The Fringean Military will of course support this beautiful endeavour."
"Before we make an official declaration of war, there are a few things that must be resolved first. No doubt, word of the Axis Powers' emergence will inspire fear in the part of the Omega Protectorate leadership and hasten attempts to reforge the relationship they once held with the Republic. As such, I do believe that it is in our best interests to encourage that door to remain closed, and to encourage the same of the Atrisian Empire."
With that said, the clone tapped on the terminal which was built into the conference table itself and opened a line of communication directly to the Supreme Chancellor's office. Ah, the perks of an alliance. On the Chancellor's end, the Grand Marshal's azure projection would come into view and a respectful nod rendered.
"Supreme Chancellor, I come to you with news. The Ithor Conference has been dissolved, and replaced with a congregation known as the Axis Powers. This union is formed by the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Fringe Confederation, and the Sith Empire to date. Chancellor, I will be quite honest with you, the drums of war are beginning to sound and the Omega Protectorate is the supposed recipient. However, in light of the previous alliance you once held with the Omega Protectorate, the Axis is issuing a term of insurance to the Republic."
"So long as the Republic does not ally with, nor assist the Omega Protectorate in any way during the coming days of war, no strife will be directed towards the Republic. Furthermore, the alliance between the Republic and the Confederacy will continue to stand, in light of your decision to remain outside of this conflict. If you choose to join us in this endeavor, you will have our highest gratitude and possibly an invitation to join the Axis Powers."
"So, what say you? Will you join us in this Crusade, or will you simply choose to stay out of the Conflict? Or...will you choose to assist the Omega Protectorate and guarantee the fires of war upon the Republic as well? This latter outcome is what I'd like to prevent, so I implore your cooperation with this term."
@[member="Philip J. Halen"].
The Lord Admiral shot a glance over at the voice of the Grand Admiral, @[member="Jared Ovmar"]. "I think I'm gonna end up having some fun." He chuckled, dreaming of the vast Fringe fleets that would loom over Protectorate planets.
Non-verbally, Dranok voiced his approval via a massive grin.
Josh Dragovalor
The image of Philip Joseph Halen, the Interim Chancellor showed on the screen. The man did not flinch or seem to even be bothered by the news. He had seen enough terror in the span of his near two day reign as Supreme Chancellor that nothing scared him now. He knew well he was facing likely impeachment due to his actions that led to peace with the CIS, peace that now led to the offer on the table right now, one that would end the war that the Republic was facing.
Ah, but at what cost? Their alliance with Omega Pyre.... It was a risk, for sure... But... His mind travelled back to Polis. And then their attempts to use it to blackmail them, and of course... They had also not given them a single inch of support since, nor had they agreed to terms with former Chancellor Aleidis to remove the man who had killed thousands of Republic soldiers, from power.
And thus, this decision was rather easy for Halen.
"You give a tempting offer, my friend" Halen said with a slight smirk. "And if I agree to this, then there will be no more war, we are on friendly terms?" he asked simply.
@[member="Genesis Rostu"]
"That is correct Chancellor. Should you agree to these terms, then the Axis will be on friendly terms with the Galactic Republic. The strife that had nearly consumed us in recent days will finally come to a finite end, by your hand."
Sargon said nothing as what could very likely be the fate of the Omega Protectorate was sealed by the weak stomach of the Republic. There was no justifying this war, it was in all simple truth a move for influence, and power amongst the small who had emerged as powers. Indeed it might even be considered a necessity in the minds of the Fringe, and the CIS to simply dominate the power that had held them in check so long. Either way it was undisguised ambition, and need to grow into an absolute power of the galaxy. In response to such blatant aggression the Republic had chosen simply to close their eyes, and sit on their hands. In Sargon's mind he knew it was only a matter of time before the atrophy that was the Republic also feel to the power that sat in this room, and on that day they would be alone, as they had left the Protectorate.
"Time is of the essence then. If we are going to strike, we strike while the iron is still hot. The Fringe fleet will arrive here, at Thyferra. As for you, Grand Marshal Rostu, I'm going to guess the biggest blow for you would be Naboo. I've heard lovely things about it, and it will be a blow to their heart." His guess was more a stab at trying to understand the mind of the Grand Marshal, wrong or right it would show him something about the man.
"Then I accept" he said. "We will not offer aid to Omega Pyre, who has not offered us any support whatsoever in this situation, in this coming war between you" he said simply.
"As for aiding the Axis Powers in the future...." he began. "For now, we will stay out of this conflict. If there comes a time where it feels right, then perhaps we will lend aid, and possibly join the AP if the offer is ever made" he said. "For now, I am happy we are able to come to an agreement"
"As am I," began the clone with a growing smile. "On behalf of the Axis Powers, I thank you for your cooperation in this matter. I sincerely hope that your term continues to be characterized by the successful obtainment of peace. Until next we speak, I bid you a fond farewell." And with that, the connection was ended...and a second transmission began. This one was to the Emperor of the Atrisian Empire; for now they had to cover their final base before striking whilst the iron was hot.
"Governor, I simply ask patience. Let us handle these affairs, and then begin." he said, then turning his full attention to the transmission. Once the connection was fully established, he spoke clearly and with confidence.
"Emperor Kahoshi, there are matters that I would like to discuss with you. As of this moment, the Ithor Treaty has been terminated, and a new coalition of nations has been formed. We are called the Axis Powers and consist of the Confederacy, the Fringe Confederation, and the Sith Empire as of this moment. This transmission is to inform you of a single truth, that you may either accept or decline. Your decision this day decides the relationship the Axis and the Atrisian Empire will have from here on out."
"In the coming days, the fires of war will be ignited and shall consume the Omega Protectorate. In exchange for your solemn vow not to ally with, nor assist, the Omega Protectorate in any way whilst the battles rage, the Axis will agree not to turn its sights upon the Atrisian Empire. Should you decline, this guarantee will not exist and we shall see you on the field of battle."
"The choice is yours Emperor Kahoshi. What say you?"
@[member="Akio Kahoshi"].
Warden of the Ice
"Tha Black Sun, too, will stand with this alliance. Though it needs a bloody name change." Her voice was oh so tired yet it carried her customary confidence from the shadows out of which she strode. "Sorry I'm late, there were some unsanctioned pirates that needed to be put down." Joining the others around the table, she nodded to each of the powers represented. "Please do not take this as a lack of commitment, I assure you it will not happen again." Though the way the short Twi'lek spoke, she could have meant being late or unsanctioned pirates.
@[member="Genesis Rostu"] @[member="Sargon Vynea"] @[member="Dranok Lussk"] @[member="Tyrin Ardik"] @[member="Jared Ovmar"]
Akio Kahoshi
Peace through Order
The Emperor received the transmission, a frown settled on his face. He had not expected the Ithor Treaty to last, but it was unexpected for it to end this swiftly and in such circumstances. There had been no rumors in the intelligence community, in fact it almost seemed the alliance was coming from no where. Unfortunately, he was left with a decision he was not terribly fond of. Not that it was much of a decision. Long ago Akio had accepted that sometimes a leader had to do the unpalatable if it was for the good of his people.
"Very well Grand Marshall, you have my word that Atrisia will not assist the Protectorate."
He ended the transmission at that, not feeling the need to explain himself further. There were many things that needed to be done. The Empire was sorely behind now, and that was unacceptable. The Protectorate was surely doomed, but all his sources had already shown the government was collapsing anyway. They likely would not have survived the year, now it was certain they would not. | into the Empire's favor. Perhaps Tyrin's reign would not be known as one of unlimited, ruthless conquest... But it would be the one that saw the shift in political powers align back in the Empire's favor.
And at the end of the day, when all was said and done, that was all he really wanted.
Judas of Vahl
Beyond Broken
Lord Admiral Dranok Lussk, High Commander of the Fringe fleets, strode into the assembly room. Knight Jared Ovmar and Governor Vynea had accompanied him here. Dranok merely stood idly by Sargon, awaiting the chance to jump into the conversation when it came down to military affairs. Granted, he was a man of authority, but politics weren't his forte.
Short post is short.
Arage Bao
The Admiralty
Codex Judge
Jared stood on the bridge of the Retribution and smiled. It was good to be in power. The Grand Admiral had given him her confidence and trust. | 207 |
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An estimated 526,000 adults in Illinois<|fim_middle|> brief intervention models. Our ECHO-Chicago SMI curriculum aims to build capacity at the primary care level to help providers become more competent and comfortable delivering care to patients living with SMI and reducing the burden on specialty mental health care and is appropriate for all primary care providers. | (5.4% of the adult population) had a serious mental illness (SMI) in 2012, much higher than the national rate of 4%. In addition to emotional pain, SMI carries significant rates of morbidity and mortality, including premature mortality of about 25 years compared to the general population. There is a current dearth of close to 2,800 psychiatrists nationally to meet current mental health needs, which necessitates focusing on solutions and treatment access within the primary care setting. Access to specialty care can be even more challenging for minority populations, where many patients are un-or-underinsured. This series will engage community-based primary care providers in advanced training that builds skills to screen, diagnose, and manage SMI; we cover a variety of topics from behavioral management to community partnerships, Motivational Interviewing, and other | 177 |
"The growth and success of this company is directly attributable to our premier customers, our dedicated employees, our suppliers and products reps, and our<|fim_middle|> All Rights Reserved. | service providers," says Thomas A. Morgan, president of Harrington Electric. Morgan joined the firm as an estimator in 1978 with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati. He was appointed vice president of operations in 1985 and held that position until September 1998 when he was appointed company president.
His father, Jim Morgan, Sr. joined Harrington Electric as a seasoned journeyman and foreman in 1959. He began rebuilding the company in 1971.
Developing a close-knit organization with an ethical and professional culture was a high priority for the company from the beginning. The past few decades have been a period of conservatively controlled growth with the development of excellent field supervision, project management, support staff, and top-notch electricians. "Our customers, general contractors, and owners have all come to recognize, respect, and expect that we will provide them with the highest quality of workmanship, delivered in the most professional manner in the marketplace," says Tom Morgan.
Thomas A. Morgan (tmorgan@harringtonelectric.com) has been in the electrical construction industry since 1978, all of which time he has been with Harrington Electric Company. He served as Vice President of Operations for ten years, and has been President since 1998. Mr. Morgan is a Registered Professional Electrical Engineer. He is responsible for the overall performance and success of the company.
Michelle Manganilla (mmanganilla@harringtonelectric.com) is Harrington Electric's Chief Financial Officer. She graduated with Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Cleveland State University. Michelle has been in the Construction Industry for over 15 years.
Bob Laurenti (rlaurenti@harringtonelectric.com) has 28 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, starting out in the U.S. Military (Air Force). Robert is currently an Estimator/Project Manager of telecommunications division at Harrington Electric Co. Robert has performed as a technician, foreman, operations, estimator, project manager, and designer/engineer. Robert has been designer/engineer designing many copper, paging, audio/visual and fiber optic systems for Cleveland Clinic, Key Bank, Cleveland State, and K-12 Schools in Ohio.
Brian Robinette (brobinette@harringtonelectric.com) has been in the Electrical and Telecommunications industry for 27 years as an electrician, foreman, project manager and estimator. Brian has 17 years of experience with data center infrastructure that includes electrical systems redundancy and UPS, paralleling and generation, distribution, BMS site monitoring and management, systems interface, EPO and control, fire suppression and detection, and assistant to design and build. Recent, build and managed projects include Cleveland Clinic and satellite data centers, Fidelity Voice Data Center, Cogent Communications, Penske Logistics Data Center, Level 3 and Cleveland Department of Public Safety satellite data centers.
Dennis Sloan (dsloan@harringtonelectric.com) served as Vice President of Pre-Construction since 2018. Prior to being promoted this past year, Dennis was our lead estimator/project manager on large projects which include H5 Data Center, Benjamin Rose, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Cleveland Sight Center, Quicken Loans Offices, Thistledown Racino, Hillcrest Hospital Family Maternity. Dennis graduated with a BS in Electronic and Computer Technology from Bowling Green State University and has 20-years of experience as an estimator/project manager including large fast pace critical customer projects. Dennis' duties include developing bid/market strategy and internal review of bids.
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Sonic Automotive Names Fintech Industry Expert as Chief Revenue Officer for EchoPark Automotive
CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sonic Automotive, Inc. ("Sonic Automotive" or "Sonic" or the "Company") , a Fortune 500 company and one of the nation's largest automotive retailers, today announced the appointment of Thien Truong as Chief Revenue Officer of EchoPark Automotive, the Company's growing nationwide pre-owned vehicle segment, effective October 4, 2021.
Truong is a fintech industry veteran with over 25 years of leadership and managerial experience building transformative products and solutions for companies including Coinstar and American Express. Truong joins Sonic's pre-owned vehicle segment from Brightloom, where he served as the company's President and Chief Revenue Officer. While at Brightloom, Truong launched an omnichannel software solution that automated restaurant operations and leveraged data for restaurants to create stronger customer relationships.
Prior to Brightloom, Truong was the Chief Revenue Officer for Coinstar, where he led the product, revenue, marketing, and public relations departments, developing product strategy and commercialization of a new payment platform enabling consumers to digitize cash. At American Express, Truong managed the team tasked with building the company's pre-paid card and gift division.
"We look forward to Thien joining the EchoPark family and sharing his knowledge, fintech expertise, and best practices as we develop our first-class omnichannel car buying platform," said David Smith, CEO of Sonic Automotive and EchoPark Automotive. "His innovative, customer-driven approach is a perfect fit for our long-term growth strategy."
"We remain committed to executing our omnichannel strategy, and the appointment of Thien will take us another step closer to our goal," said Jeff Dyke, President of Sonic Automotive and EchoPark Automotive. "Thien's creative, customer-focused approach, combined with his enthusiasm and proven track record of building successful products and solutions, is a great complement to our team."
"I am excited to join the EchoPark team to help revolutionize the future of car buying by bringing a technology-driven, consumer-centric mindset while leveraging Sonic's current world class guest experience capabilities," said Thien Truong, Chief Revenue Officer of EchoPark Automotive.
Following its 2014 launch, EchoPark Automotive has rapidly become one of the pre-owned automotive retail industry's most prominent success stories. The Company continues to expand its EchoPark footprint into new markets and anticipates 90 percent population coverage by 2025, enabling its interim goal of retailing 575,000 vehicles and generating $14 billion in annual EchoPark revenues by 2025, while driving toward a two million vehicle annual sales opportunity at maturity.
EchoPark Automotive guests can visit on-site or online at EchoPark.com to shop over 10,000 high-quality, one- to four-year-old pre-owned vehicles under original factory warranty, with clean CarFax reports. The easy, transparent online purchase experience includes below-market, no-haggle pricing (including taxes and fees), a firm trade-in vehicle offer, competitive financing solutions, and the ability to choose from a selection of quality vehicle protection plans. After scheduling a pickup appointment at an EchoPark Delivery Center or Retail Sales Center, guests are greeted by an EchoPark Experience Guide to help answer any questions and finalize all vehicle purchase details before quickly getting them on their way home with their new purchase. With over 15,000 five-star reviews to date, the EchoPark experience is clearly resonating with guests.
Sonic Automotive, Inc., a Fortune 500 company based in Charlotte, North Carolina is on a quest to becoming the most valuable automotive retailer and service brand in North America. Our focus to accomplish this will be by creating, innovating and providing industry-leading guest experiences, driven by strategic investments in technology, teammates and ideas that ultimately fulfill ownership dreams, enrich lives and deliver happiness to every guest with every encounter. As the fifth largest automotive retailer in North America, our 87 franchised dealerships are committed to delivering on this goal while Sonic continues to take aggressive actions to grow and progressive steps to be the leader in this category. Our new platforms, programs and people are set to drive the next generation of automotive experiences. More information about Sonic Automotive can be found at www.sonicautomotive.com and ir.sonicautomotive.com.
About EchoPark Automotive
EchoPark Automotive is the fastest growing and most comprehensive nearly new automotive retail brand in America today. Our aggressive plan is to cover 90% of the U.S. by 2025 to reach 90% of the population with the most unique business model and utilization of one of the most innovative technology-enabled sales strategies. This approach provides a personalized and preferred, guest-centric buying process that has been proven out by consistently delivering award-winning guest-focused experiences and superior value to car buyers nationwide with an average savings up to<|fim_middle|> December 31, 2020 and other reports and information filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The Company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking information, except as required under federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the SEC.
Investor Inquiries:
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jgreenwald@kcsa.com / ddevoren@kcsa.com | $3,000 over the competition. EchoPark is set to be the #1 in near-new/pre-owned 1-4-year-old vehicle sales by 2025 and already making its mark by earning the 2021 Consumer Satisfaction Award, creation of new Owner Experience Centers, development of all-new online shopping technology and a focus to grow the brand. EchoPark's mission is in its name, Every Car deserves a Happy Owner. This drives all they do, differentiates itself from the competition, and has them focused to redefine the category for their guests. More information about EchoPark Automotive can be found at www.echopark.com
Included herein are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding anticipated future revenue levels, future pre-owned vehicle sales projections, the opening of additional EchoPark markets, future population coverage and the anticipated launch timing of our digital omnichannel platform. There are many factors that affect management's views about future events and trends of the Company's business. These factors involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or trends to differ materially from management's views, including, without limitation, economic conditions in the markets in which we operate, new and used vehicle industry sales volume, anticipated future growth in our EchoPark Segment, the success of our operational strategies, the rate and timing of overall economic expansion or contraction, the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and related government-imposed restrictions on operations, and the risk factors described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended | 311 |
<|fim_middle|> specify if you require the number pad for USB or PS2. | The Goldtouch is an ergonomically engineered split adjustable keyboard to help reduce the risks and effects of RSI. Its two alpha numeric sections may be adjusted both horizontally and vertically.
This ergonomic keyboard helps you to assume a more natural posture that improves both comfort and productivity. It has a range of 0° to 30° on both the horizontal and vertical planes, and is continuously variable between these two angles. This means it can be minutely adjusted to allow for individual wrist splay and pronation. Adjustment is easily achieved using a locking ball and socket latch mechanism.
Choose the Goldtouch Keyboard if you touch type at 35 words per minute or more. If you type at speeds of more than 70 words per minute, the Goldtouch is absolutely essential to prevent undue stress on the fingers and wrists.
The keyboard is USB and PS2 compatible. Please | 176 |
When you talk about diving in winter your non diving friends usually cringe away in horror at the idea of cold water. They can't understand for the life of them why anyone would want to play in the ocean when it's winter. The truth is that diving in the colder months of the year is often just as if not more amazing than diving in the warmer months.
The first and most prominent reason to dive in the colder months is that visibility is usually top notch. More often you will be found doing an underwater happy dance as you descend into the blue and discover that visibility is in excess of 15 metres. Not only can you now usually see the surface (and if your boat diving where the boat is) but the extra light being let into the clear water brings out the loud and vibrant colours of various magnificent sponge gardens. They really transform themselves into beautiful underwater fields with the winter water clarity.
Diving anywhere outside of a bath you are going to need thermal protection. This is why winter diving has never bothered me as without the correct wetsuit<|fim_middle|> usual summer fish species head north for the warmer waters. This includes species that leave their homes down south and migrate up the coast. Along with schools of Yellowtail and Salmon one the the most amazing animals you will ever dive with make their way north, the fur seal. These amazing animals migrate north to the islands off wollongong in the winter as they chase schools of fish. Diving with them is what winter is about for many a diver living in Sydney. The playful nature and up close experience you receive is something that is never forgotten. With some marine life making noise and splashing into the water in an uncouth manner can scare them away, not with seals! They will be all the more attracted to the clumsy animal you become when trying to keep up with their amazing contortion abilities. Seal diving is a bucket list must!
There is a long list of great reasons to dive in winter (not to mention the available parking) so don't let the cold put you off whether it's from learning to dive or from just getting into the water at your favourite dive site. Winter is coming but winter can be fantastic. | or drysuit you will get cold no matter where you are be it in Tonga or Tasmania. So there really isn't a reason to not dive in winter, it just means you need another garment under your wetsuit, a heated undergarment or you need to switch to that super warm drysuit. Heated vests are also a relatively new technology that has made winter diving all the more fun.
With the chilly months lots of the | 89 |
Are You an Independent Consumer?
That is great – and THANK YOU!
We're proud to be a small business in East Dallas.
We also live here and really love this part of town, and we know it to be a special place within our larger city. Wonderful folks like you often say they you're pleased we're here and show interest and desire to support us, but summer is just a slow time for all small businesses. So we decided to reach out to our fellow mom and pop shops, and do something that will help us all.
We are calling it the *Independents Trail*. We are literally creating a *trail* of East Dallas businesses on one solid card that will be available for a small fee ($5-$10), with that<|fim_middle|> everyone and for the economy at large, but banding together to help each other is even better.
We will be announcing as soon as we know for sure which businesses will be onboard with the 'Trail. Stay tuned for info and where to get your cards!
We are HERE: East Dallas! | money going directly to one or more local charities and nonprofits.
We plan to announce this initiative through local all local media.
What we are trying to do is band together, not swim in separate silos… we're going to prove that East Dallas does things differently because we're individuals with initiative, drive, and love for each other. Competition is good for | 71 |
Geoffrey Wu, e-commerce and social media at the Mandarin Oriental, will take up a role with Integrated Hospitality Management to take charge of all PR, advertising and media relationships.
Integrated Hospitality Management (IHM), owner of Posto Pubblico and the newly launched Cantopop, plans to unveil its third property Linguini Fini soon. Wu will work across all three restaurants as well as IHM's Homegrown Foods & Commune Bakery.
In his new role he will continue his foray into<|fim_middle|> 8 June. | social media, with IHM said to be eyeing opportunities in the new media space. The director of communications role is a new role for IHM as it seeks to bring marketing consistency to all its restaurants and wholesale business units.
Wu said he was thrilled with the new opportunity. "My background and passion has always been with the food and beverage side and I am thrilled to once again be working in an area which I truly have passion in," he said.
He starts his new role with IHM from | 102 |
SAN FRANCISCO — Sunday is the big day for the four remaining contenders for the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series championship at Sonoma Raceway.
But Wednesday was fun day for Scott Dixon, Alexander Rossi, Will Power and Josef Newgarden, who along with about a dozen media members in tow took in the sights of San Francisco.
The quartet and media took a trolley car over the Golden Gate Bridge to Vista Point, which overlooks the City by the Bay's downtown, as well as Alcatraz Island.
There, they took photos with<|fim_middle|> mph.
The drivers then wrapped up the tour with some famous Ghirardelli chocolates and a nice lunch overlooking the harbor.
All four drivers were in good spirits, acted loose, laughed and smiled a lot, cracked jokes and even did a little bit of good-natured ribbing with each other.
Of course, Sunday will be totally different and all business.
Alexander Rossi showed some good proficiency cracking crabs.
Rossi, Newgarden and Power savor the crabs they cracked.
Sea lions sunning and enjoying the day alongside Fisherman's Wharf. It was the first time Will Power had ever seen a sea lion.
Drivers getting some famous Ghirardelli chocolates.
Here's the hardware the new champion will tote home after Sunday's race. | the championship trophy that one of them will proudly take home Sunday night, indicative of being the 2018 IndyCar champion.
Interestingly enough, the trolley driver said she was a sportsman race car driver in her spare time.
From there, it was on to Fisherman's Wharf, where the drivers took part in media interviews as well as had a local artist draw caricatures of themselves.
Will Power has been in the Bay area for more than a week, staying there with his family since last week's closed test at Sonoma Raceway. He had an added bonus of sorts at Fisherman's Wharf, seeing sea lions for the first time in his life.
Then it was on to a place where the four drivers really had to test their skills – at cracking hard-shell crabs. It wasn't as easy as it looked for at least a couple of the drivers. Guess it's easier to drive an open-wheel car at 220 | 195 |
What the teams said - Friday in Japan
Mercedes reasserted their dominance on Friday, finishing one-two in both opening practice sessions for the first time since the French Grand Prix. Bottas led the way from his team mate, extracting an extra turn of pace from the W10, but it was a close run thing. The Finn also demonstrated how treacherous this track can be when he lit up the rears and spun in FP2. Bar that, it was a very good day for the Silver Arrows who seem to have a big gap to the rest of the field.
Valtteri Bottas - FP1: 1:28.731, P1; FP2: 1:27.785, P1
"It's been a very positive day for us. It's always so much fun to drive these cars on this track. I'm very happy with the car in general, it felt good from the beginning. I think we can still make some small tweaks to improve the balance of the car, but overall it felt good both on the short and the long runs. We used some of the tyres from Saturday today and the weather stayed nice, so we got plenty of running in which is great. We expect Sunday to be close in both qualifying and the race, so we need to keep pushing. We got an unexpected day off tomorrow but I'm sure the team will keep me busy; we'll be digging into the data and make the most out of it."
Lewis Hamilton - FP1: 1:28.807, P2; FP2: 1:27.885, P2
"It's pretty amazing driving this track - we got a headwind through the esses in the first sector which has been great. It's been a good day overall, we got through our programme but it's a work in progress - there's always time to find at this track, there's always areas that you can improve. Valtteri showed some good pace and it seems we are in a good position at this point of the weekend. This is a track I really enjoy so I can't wait to get back in the car. We'll be analysing the data tonight and tomorrow to try and put ourselves into a good position for Sunday."
Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director
"It's been more interesting than a normal Friday as we have had to adjust from the normal programme with the poor weather expected tomorrow. We'd already decided to bring a Saturday tyre set into Friday morning, even before we heard that all Saturday running was cancelled. That allowed us to do a bit more setup work than normal and it gave the drivers a bit more experience at low fuel. We then heard that the best times from the second session would be used to form the grid if qualifying cannot take place on Sunday morning. That meant we wanted to get decent times on the board so we turned the power unit up a bit and had to run lower fuel than we would normally run. The session itself was solid, the update kit we have brought here seems to be working well although neither driver felt they have got everything out of the car yet. We're going to be working our normal schedule tonight so that the cars are ready for a Sunday morning qualifying when we leave here around midnight. We'll be packing down some of the equipment tonight to avoid it getting damaged in the typhoon and making sure the cars and garage kit are safe from damage if we get a flood. We may not be allowed into the circuit tomorrow so that will mean having some meetings at the hotel to prepare for a very busy Sunday. It's always quite difficult to deal with both qualifying and race in a day but the challenge is good fun and we're looking forward to it. We hope everyone stays safe tomorrow and that the circuit survives the storm so we can put on a good show for the fans on Sunday."
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SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Valtteri Bottas driving the (77) Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team Mercedes W10 on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images)
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain driving the (44) Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team Mercedes W10 on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
Since the summer break, it has been all Ferrari but today they looked comfortably off the pace of their rivals. The gaps might worry the Scuderia - nearly a second back in first practice, and four tenths back in FP2. That is despite bolting on a set of softs and going for a flying lap at the end of the session when the track was at its best. They have a day's respite to try and find some answers...
Sebastian Vettel - FP1: 1:29.720, P3; FP2: 1:28.376, P5
"Today, was not too bad, at least it was better than it looked. We are in reasonable shape, but maybe we are lacking a bit of pace overall. Our rivals looked very comfortable right from the start of practice and they confirmed that pace in FP2.
"I think we have a bit of room for improvement as it wasn't an ideal session, in terms of how we made use of our tyres.
"I'm not sure what I'll do tomorrow: relax and maybe do some indoor sports. On Sunday there will be a big question mark over the state of the track as tomorrow's wind and rain will have an affect."
Charles Leclerc - FP1: 1:29.912, P4; FP2: 1:28.141, P4
"We made the most of our day. Knowing<|fim_middle|> by track evolution during FP1, as well as by teams using the soft at the end of FP2 to set a time that could form the grid, should qualifying not be held on Sunday morning. There's obviously now a big air of unpredictability about the whole weekend, which will hopefully lead to an exciting race."
Albon says Williams 'definitely in a better position' for 2023 – but warns not to expect Haas-style jump in performance
Williams say they've overcome 'controlled chaos' of FW45 development as they wait for new team boss to join | that qualifying has been postponed to Sunday due to the weather conditions, everyone approached free practice a bit differently to usual, especially for the second session. There will be no FP3 this weekend and if we can't drive on Sunday morning for any reason, the results from FP2 will count for the starting grid.
"Our competitors were very strong today and we are not yet where we would like to be. I am not entirely sure where we are lacking in terms of our pace, but I know that some of the improvements will come from me working on my driving. Sunday will be busy, but in the end you always have the same routine before you get into the car, the same mindset. So we will go ahead as usual, working hard on improving in all areas and doing the best job possible to bring home a strong result."
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Sparks fly behind Sebastian Vettel of Germany driving the (5) Scuderia Ferrari SF90 on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Charles Leclerc of Monaco and Ferrari prepares to drive in the garage during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)
A mixed bag for Red Bull. They were well off the pace in first practice, albeit comfortably ahead of the midfield. But roll on FP2 and Verstappen at least looked quick and closed the gap considerably to Mercedes out front. As for Albon, he fared well but complained about his seat being too big along with other niggles. Solve those and he should be happier come qualifying.
Max Verstappen - FP1: 1:30.046, P5; FP2: 1:28.066, P3
"I wasn't totally happy with the balance initially today but we improved a lot from FP1 to FP2 which you can see from the lap times this afternoon. There are still improvements to be made and Mercedes are looking very strong, which is no surprise on this track, but we made a good recovery from this morning. The new Esso fuel also seems to be a good step forward in terms of power which is really positive. It's only Friday so you can't really tell where everyone is but we were all pushing a little harder in FP2 in case qualifying doesn't happen on Sunday and these times set our grid positions. Because of the typhoon we won't be on track tomorrow but we have a full day to look at the data and I will probably set up a FIFA tournament with some of the other drivers. I'm not worried about doing qualifying and the race on Sunday as it won't affect my approach. We can't change the weather and it's out of our control, so now we just have to see what happens on Sunday."
Alex Albon - FP1: 1:30.375, P6; FP2: 1:28.402, P6
"I'm quite happy with how today went and I'm loving the track so I can't wait to get back out there. Sector one is really impressive and I'm enjoying myself. I got into a rhythm quite quickly and I'm feeling a lot more comfortable than I was in Sochi, but I still have some work to do. It's my first time driving here and not running tomorrow means less time for me to learn the track which isn't ideal. It will hurt us a bit but it's the same for everyone and we'll get on with it. Mercedes are very quick and they look good in the corners but our car is getting a lot better and I don't think the balance is too far away. We're making good progress and there's still a bit more to come, so now it's just about fine tuning things to find a couple more tenths. Let's see if qualifying goes ahead on Sunday as P6 is maybe not quite what we wanted. If it's dry I hope to be in the mix of things but this track looks tricky in the wet so if it rains it will be a bit more difficult. At the moment I've got nothing planned for tomorrow but I've heard there's a bowling alley in our hotel so maybe we'll do that!"
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Max Verstappen of the Netherlands driving the (33) Aston Martin Red Bull Racing RB15 on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Alexander Albon of Thailand driving the (23) Aston Martin Red Bull Racing RB15 on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
Sainz's day started badly, when the Spaniard was forced to pull over only a few metres down from the end of the pit lane with power issues. He was pushed back and lost half an hour of running as a result. Once going again, he looked quick and wound up 'best of the rest' in both sessions. Norris had a quieter day by comparison but certainly will fancy his chances of making the top 10 shoot-out in qualifying.
Carlos Sainz - FP1: 1:30.702, P7; FP2: 1:29.051, P7
"I think it's been a positive Friday – after a little heart attack at the start of FP1! We managed to get the car back to the garage, the mechanics did a great job to get everything ready and we went back out to complete our run programme. FP2 was also intense but I'm happy with how both sessions went. The car feels good and we looked competitive.
"However, not running tomorrow means there were different run plans today, so we can't tell for sure where our competitors are. There is a bit of uncertainty but I'm confident we'll be ready for Sunday."
Lando Norris - FP1: 1:31.001, P10; FP2: 1:29.358, P10
"A good day. Everything we planned to do, we got through. We did the testing we needed to accomplish: high-fuel, low-fuel and got good readings and data from everything we did.
"I've only previously done FP1 here last year, so in terms of driving, I've got a bit to work on. I'm not quite as confident as I would want to be, so we'll make some changes before Sunday for qualifying – if it happens. By improving my driving and the set-up, we can take a step forward."
Andrea Stella, Performance Director
"We've had a decent day. Carlos had an electrical issue which delayed his running in FP1, but otherwise everything went smoothly. The car behaved well both on low fuel and high fuel. It was, of course, an unusual day in that we had extra sets of tyres available from those that we usually allocate to FP3, and we also had to take into account that FP2's times might count for grid positions.
"That meant there was a bit of racing mixed in with the usual Friday activities, which we enjoyed. Sunday is going to be another interesting day with qualifying and the race – we're looking forward to it."
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Carlos Sainz of Spain and McLaren F1 walks in the Pitlane during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Lando Norris of Great Britain driving the (4) McLaren F1 Team MCL34 Renault on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)
Renault are the team with plenty of head scratching to do before Sunday's qualifying. Both drivers ran their initial qualifying simulations out of sync with the rest of the field and thus ended up at the back of the pack. They tried again towards the end of second practice, only for both drivers to encounter traffic. With the FP2 results being used to form the starting grid in the event qualifying is cancelled, Renault will have a nervous wait ahead of Sunday.
Nico Hulkenberg - FP1: 1:31.426, P13; FP2: 1:30.334, P18
"It was a tough Friday for us. We made some changes between sessions that seemed to help. We had some balance problems with a lack of grip, especially in Sector One, but worked through it to end the day happier. The times aren't strictly representative as we ran out of sync with the others. It's a day off tomorrow with the typhoon coming in but we will look at everything in detail and be ready to go straight away on Sunday."
Daniel Ricciardo - FP1: 1:31.563, P14; FP2: 1:29.859, P17
"We focused on getting in as much running as possible today knowing tomorrow is off. We improved the car in the afternoon after a difficult morning and found some decent progress. We decided to complete some long runs and then short runs towards the end of the afternoon. Unfortunately, both low fuel laps were compromised with traffic - we're better than what the timesheets say - and I don't think we're too far off from where we want to be. Hopefully we can have a good qualifying and then be in a better position to race on Sunday."
Nick Chester, Chassis Technical Director
"Our pace on the long runs is actually looking pretty good, but we weren't able to show our speed on the low fuel runs at the end of the session. We got stuck in traffic around others who were on long runs, so ended up monkeying around a little bit. We ran the new front wing, which did improve the handling when we found the right balance and set-up. With the revised weekend schedule, we have to put it all together at the right moment, but leave some flexibility to adapt to whatever the weather throws at us."
Cyril Abiteboul, Team Principal
"It was a good, common sense decision to postpone qualifying until Sunday. With the predicted path of the typhoon it would not be wise to have cars on track nor spectators in the grandstands. Cancelling qualifying well in advance allows us to plan correctly and take the appropriate action for team personnel and fans alike."
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Daniel Ricciardo of Australia and Renault Sport F1 prepares to drive in the garage during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Nico Hulkenberg of Germany driving the (27) Renault Sport Formula One Team RS19 on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Charles Coates/Getty Images)
Yamamoto deputised for Gasly in first practice, in what was his F1 debut. The Japanese star acquitted himself well, keeping his nose clean and finishing only one-tenth behind Kvyat. Gasly made up for lost time in second practice, completing a busy programme and running the soft tyres late on to come home ninth. Kvyat bore the brunt of the data gathering for the team, running aero rakes in FP1.
Daniil Kvyat - FP1: 1:31.920, P16; FP2: 1:29.512, P12
"It was a good session, we had a productive FP2 as we knew tomorrow is cancelled so we had an intense programme which was a bit different to usual, it was very busy and we completed many laps. In FP1 we were not where we wanted to be with the car, but in FP2 we made a good step and the car felt better, which was good progress. Overall, we were quite happy with the car and what we managed to do in FP2, we will see if there's room for improvement for Sunday but going straight into Qualifying will be interesting! The conditions may be different to today, it could be windier, so it takes a bit of time to adapt and it will come down to how fast you will be able to find your rhythm."
Pierre Gasly - FP2: 1:29.354, P9
"It was quite a chilled morning on my side watching FP1. It's really great to drive around Suzuka, one of my favourite tracks, and even though I only had one session, it was very enjoyable and I'm really excited for Sunday. We knew FP2 would be really important as Saturday is cancelled, so we tried to do as many runs as we could. We did a combination of Qualifying and race preparation and we managed to do many laps and end up with the ninth fastest lap. However, the car was a bit tricky so we need to study everything we trialled today, as it's OK but we can still find some more performance. We've got more time than usual to work and find the best solutions for quite a busy Sunday."
Naoki Yamamoto - FP1: 1:32.018, P17
"I spent the session getting used to the car; the power is amazing! I was very surprised, I have never felt such power before, so that was the biggest difference between Super Formula and Formula 1. I learnt a few things about the car and the balance, and I gave as much feedback as possible to the team. This is my home Grand Prix and there are a lot of fans coming to Suzuka, even for FP1 on a Friday! I was really surprised and I would like to say thank you very much to all of the Honda and Toro Rosso fans. For sure I wanted to have a better result than 17th, but the most important thing is that I didn't crash and I provided good information for the engineers. I wish the team a great result this weekend, especially Pierre as he gave me his car - I am grateful to him."
Jonathan Eddolls, Chief Race Engineer
"It was great to welcome Naoki san to the team and give him the opportunity to drive the STR14 in FP1 – the atmosphere around the paddock and garage created by Naoki driving the STR Honda in Suzuka was fantastic. He drove Pierre's car and did an extremely solid job for the team. From his first lap you could tell he was on it and he built up the pace lap to lap during this run. Switching to the Option compound for the second run, he extracted the expected improvement in grip from the track and tyre, setting a competitive lap time. He obviously knows the circuit well but this was an impressive session for his first outing in an F1 car!
"Daniil's main aim in FP1 was to complete some aero testing, which included running a rake at the start of the session. General balance was understeer in the car during the session and, even with aero and mechanical changes, we were unable to get a good balance on the car and this was reflected in the lap time – particularly in sector 1. We could see there were a selection of rear wing levels being run across the field and this caused a spread of competitiveness sector to sector, which we would have to analyse for FP2.
"We received the news that Saturday running would be cancelled, which meant we could bring the FP3 tyres forwards and use them in FP2, so each car had three new Options and one new Prime, making FP2 a very busy and exciting session. We made a number of changes to both cars for FP2 with the target of improving the front end – understeer here is very penalising. Daniil used his four new tyres at the start of the session, where he used them in quick succession, tuning the balance between each and ending up with a car he was happy with. For Pierre, given he had missed FP1, he preferred to use two new tyres at the start of the session, saving the final two Options for the end of the session after completing more laps and building confidence in the car. We knew there was a risk with this approach given the likely traffic of others on high fuel, but in the end we could find good track position and he was able to get the most out of it. The changes improved the front end and general performance, which was positive, but we were hoping for a little bit more performance from the car than we showed today. This was the final running before Qualifying, so we have a lot of analysis to do tonight and prepare the cars for an early start on Sunday!"
Toyoharu Tanabe, Honda F1 Technical Director
"We are very pleased to be racing at our home track here in Suzuka. Due to the threat of the typhoon, all track activity is cancelled tomorrow, therefore we changed our programme today, running our entire qualifying and race set up in FP2. It's a shame for the Japanese fans who have been looking forward to this weekend and it is a shame for us too at our homes race, but safety concerns must come first. In terms of today's sessions, the initial signs are encouraging with both our teams looking competitive. As for Naoki Yamamoto, who drove an F1 car, the Toro Rosso, for the very first time today, he was able to do a good job and provide useful feedback for the engineers. From a personal point of view it was enjoyable to work with a Japanese driver in F1, speaking in Japanese!"
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Pierre Gasly of France driving the (10) Scuderia Toro Rosso STR14 Honda on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Daniil Kvyat driving the (26) Scuderia Toro Rosso STR14 Honda on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Takuma Sato of Japan with Masashi Yamamoto of Honda and Japan congratulates Naoki Yamamoto of Scuderia Toro Rosso and Japan during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Peter Fox/Getty Images)
Racing Point continued their recent resurgence, with Perez in the top 10 in both sessions and Stroll not far behind. Whether they can stay there when everyone turns up their engine modes remains to be seen, but at first glance, the team are still heading in the right direction.
Sergio Perez - FP1: 1:30.810, P8; FP2: 1:29.299, P8
"I think we can be quite happy with the performance today – certainly compared to the teams we expect to be racing on Sunday. With the rain due to arrive later tonight, and qualifying cancelled tomorrow, there's still a chance that qualifying might not take place on Sunday morning. If this happens, then today's practice results will make up the grid. If that is the case, then eighth place is not a bad place to start the race. It's close in the middle of the grid – with half a second covering about ten cars – so it's going to be a close battle whatever happens on Sunday."
Lance Stroll - FP1: 1:30.959, P9; FP2: 1:29.597, P14
"It was a good day. I think the car is working well, but we need to see what happens with the weather on Sunday. There are question marks about whether qualifying will even happen – because we don't know if the storm will have cleared by Sunday morning. It certainly made things a little bit more interesting in FP2 and we had to think more about qualifying today. With everything cancelled tomorrow, it's quite a strange feeling. There are not a massive amount of things to do in the hotel and we won't be going outside. So I guess we will hang out and watch some movies until the weather improves."
Otmar Szafnauer, Team Principal & CEO
"It has been quite an unusual day. The Super Typhoon is closing in on Japan and the organisers took the sensible decision to call off track activities on Saturday. With qualifying and the race taking place on Sunday, it means we lose the final practice session. We knew this just as first practice began, so we hastily adjusted our programmes to ensure we completed our qualifying preparations today. Now it's a case of wait and see what happens when the typhoon hits and how long it takes to clear us. I'm hopeful that we can still have the race on Sunday, but obviously the safety of the fans and everybody involved in the sport will take priority."
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Sergio Perez of Mexico driving the (11) Racing Point RP19 Mercedes on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images)
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Lance Stroll of Canada driving the (18) Racing Point RP19 Mercedes on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Charles Coates/Getty Images)
Giovinazzi only managed a handful of laps in first practice after he suffered hydraulic issues. The team worked frantically but couldn't get him back out in that session. Roll on FP2 and it was Raikkonen's turn to suffer reliability woes, which fortunately didn't cost him much time. When on track, the Finn looked quick which bodes well for Sunday.
Kimi Raikkonen - FP1: 1:31.307, P12; FP2: 1:29.477, P11
"It was a fairly straightforward Friday for me. We did a bit more running than we originally planned to make up for the lack of FP3 tomorrow, but in the end the change of plans did not affect us much. We're just outside the top ten and the gaps are very small. We will try and find some more performance with the engineers, as you can always make some progress after practice, but it's impossible to say where we'll be come qualifying. We'll just wait and see what happens on Sunday – it will be close."
Antonio Giovinazzi - FP1: 1:36.887, P20; FP2: 1:29.651, P15
"We lost most of the running in FP1 due to a hydraulic leak, which is never the best way to start a weekend. Suzuka is a new track for me and it's quite a challenging one, so it would have been important to have as many laps as possible: at least we tried to make up for the lost time in the afternoon, and we had some good mileage in FP2. Even after only two sessions, I can say Suzuka is the best track I ran on in F1 so far. Unfortunately, the weather means we'll sit the day out tomorrow and miss FP3, which doesn't make my weekend any easier. In any case, we will push to find the best setup tonight and get a good result in both qualifying and the race on Sunday."
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Kimi Raikkonen of Finland driving the (7) Alfa Romeo Racing C38 Ferrari on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Charles Coates/Getty Images)
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Antonio Giovinazzi of Italy and Alfa Romeo Racing prepares to drive in the garage during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)
Grosjean had a solid day, knocking on the door of the top 10 in both sessions. Magnussen encountered traffic on his flying laps and couldn't match his team mate for pace. But with both cars returned in one piece and with more positivity coming over the radio, it was a decent day for Haas. But given the unpredictable nature of their car, that might not be the case on Sunday if conditions change dramatically.
Romain Grosjean - FP1: 1:31.283, P11; FP2: 1:29.553, P13
"I actually think it was a super exciting Friday. I think it would be cool to have Saturdays like this, with FP1 in the morning and then FP2 in the afternoon, where you have extra tires and the result is your qualifying. You can work on the car, and at the same time push hard, I was trying different things. I thought it was quite a cool day. There's obviously a little bit more pressure on that as free practice. This morning the car was good, but in the afternoon I was expecting a little bit more to be fair, I wanted to have three-four more tenths. We just didn't have it, it's a bit of a shame in that aspect. We'll keep working and we'll see if we actually do have qualifying on Sunday morning or not."
Kevin Magnussen - FP1: 1:31.785, P15; FP2: 1:29.749, P16
"It was a bit of a strange one, considering we now have a cancelled day tomorrow. We had to go for it a little bit in FP2 in case that sets our starting position – who knows if Sunday morning will be ready for action. I hope we get another shot as we didn't really get much out of it. It was interesting having more tires and using those in FP2, but we weren't so quick, our pace wasn't great. Let's see what the weather does on Sunday and go from there."
Guenther Steiner, Team Principal
"A very different FP1 and FP2 than normal, as obviously we won't have FP3 and qualifying tomorrow. Overall it was a pretty good day, we didn't have any issues. All we can do now is wait and see what the weather is doing, hopefully everyone stays safe. We'll be back to continue this on Sunday."
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Romain Grosjean of France driving the (8) Haas F1 Team VF-19 Ferrari on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Kevin Magnussen of Denmark driving the (20) Haas F1 Team VF-19 Ferrari on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images)
Russell concentrated on data gathering in both sessions, his FW42 liberally covered in flow-vis paint. Kubica had a bit of a late start to second practice, but once he got going managed a full programme. With limited parts, both drivers kept out of trouble which was the main thing for the team.
Robert Kubica - FP1: 1:33.484, P19; FP2: 1:30.916, P19
Today was a busy day as qualifying is postponed until Sunday because of the weather risk. We had to fit in more runs and use more tyres, like everyone else, so it was busier and more varied than usual. We do not know what the weather will do on Sunday, so we adapted our Friday programme, adding short runs with low fuel to get a good lap time in case qualifying is cancelled. Sunday will be a compact day with lots of action, and let's hope that the weather clears up.
George Russell - FP1: 1:32.800, P18; FP2: 1:31.071, P20
"It was great experiencing Suzuka for the first time. It's an incredible circuit, one of the best I've ever driven. I was pretty pleased with my laps, although the pace was probably not as strong as I was expecting. We did a lot of aero running; in FP1, we back-to-backed the front-wings across both cars to gather more info, as we had different sensors on each. We're still yet to have the full analysis as there is a lot of data to gather, but the guys have got all day tomorrow to look at it to see what is what! We did everything that we wanted to today so that was spot on."
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: Sparks fly behind Robert Kubica of Poland driving the (88) Rokit Williams Racing FW42 Mercedes on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
SUZUKA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 11: George Russell of Great Britain driving the (63) Rokit Williams Racing FW42 Mercedes on track during practice for the F1 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka Circuit on October 11, 2019 in Suzuka, Japan. (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)
Mario Isola, Head of f1 and Car Racing
"The postponement of qualifying and cancellation of FP3, which was absolutely the right decision under the circumstances, affected the run plans for free practice. Teams not only had to ensure a banker lap, just in case the FP2 times are used to set the grid, but also had to prepare for the race. Despite that, it's very hard to know exactly what the race conditions will be on Sunday, and how useful today's running will have turned out to be. The performance gap between the different compounds is not quite as relevant as usual: the hard compound has not been used much today, while the comparison between the soft and medium tyres was very much influenced | 6,691 |
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The stick that goes inside the ribs is for the lacing that tightens the skin onto the boat.
It's also good to rest a seat on, if you wanted seats.
When the thing was all together I soaked it with linseed oil. I could have done that first and it would have been less work, but at the time it always seems like a pain in the neck.
I put an inch of soft closed-cell foam between the frame and the skin. It serves a number of functions. If you hit a rock the frame won't bite a hole in the skin. It makes the boat float pretty high even if it's swamped. If it gets punctured it's self-healing. This foam is what they shove between the girders of curtainwall buildings. I think it's urethane about 3lbs/cubic foot. It's similar to what they use for sleeping pads for camping. What this foam doesn't do is make you comfortable, since the ribs and stringers are between it and you. So I made a thicker closed-cell mattress to lay on the bottom and cushion the ribs.
I glued the closed-cell foam layer together using contact cement following the directions on the can. It's DAP Weldwood original earthwrecking contact cement. Fabulous stuff unless you're a brain cell.
I used an outer skin of denim, regular jeans material, painted with black rubber roof paint (Sun Roof Systems brand). I used an inner skin of red taffeta to protect the foam from heels etc. and to make the boat more festive.
Here I am fitting the denim skin. There's a seam over each stem and a hem around the edge with a piece of cord in it. The cloth stretches enough to fit tightly over this boat's shape without any other gussets or seams.
When lacing the skin tight over the frame, the lacing cord is just poked through holes punched through the hem. The cord in the hem keeps it from ripping out.
Saul and Arwen embarking on the Charles River to see some fireworks. The oars are Irish style "paint stick" currach oars. The oarlocks are called "tholes and bulls". The pivot boards on the oars are "bulls" and the pins are "tholes". These oars are bigger than they need to be for this boat, which will never go faster than three miles per hour with any oars.
The wheels at the stern are from a bicycle baby wagon. The wheels come off easily but it's no problem leaving them on. To move this boat by bicycle I shove the oar blades under a rib, tie them to the bow with an innertube, turn the boat over, lash an oar handle to my bike rack or seat post with innertubes, and ride away.
How stable is it? About that stable.
Now floating nice and high with all that closed-cell foam, a little bailing and the boat is back bobbing on the water like before.
Really impressive, thanks for putting this up. What quantity of roof paint did you use? It's pretty expensive here and I'd like to get the right amount the first time.
Nice job, nice boat. One correction; 5 minute epoxy is waterproof, I've used it as an emergency repair on boats below the waterline and it's lasted fine.
where do you find Papasan chairs?
I just found one in a dumpster!!
The ARC, Goodwill, alleys, yardsales... Most folks are trying to get rid of them.
Yes. Do it.Do it now! You'll never regret it.
Wrap, bind and duct-tape the joints before you skin it. Bamboo is extremely sharp on split edges and "splinters" (Google "punjie sticks"). Also, check out the Gaelic skin boats, I think the spelling is "camragh". They are brush rings bound about in a doughnut fashion and then laid on a tarp (skin) and then pulled inside and ticked under the brush ring. Paddle away! I pray you can swim, or have rescuers around the pool with a line. Keep trying.
So if there are wheels on the up side of it, does that mean that it can be flipped over and doubled up as a land vehicle too?
yes indeed. just flip it upside down and it's a wagon.
Saul looks like Will Ferrell. | floating papasan chair. Perfect to lay in and look at the sky.
Exactly big enough for two people to snuggle.
The supermodels in the boat are Arwen and Saul.
This boat is part umiak, part currach, part coracle, part papasan chair.
Here's how to make a tougher skin for it from truck tarp material.
The book "Umiak" by Skip Snaith will fill in any construction details that aren't clear here.
The first step was making the stems.
I sketched them out freehand and cut them from 3/8" marine okoume plywood.
To beef up and widen the outer edge I glued on some more plywood using epoxy thickened with wood dust as seen here.
White flour works just as well, whole wheat flour doesn't. Don't use 5 minute epoxy for anything, it's not waterproof.
If I did it again I'd make the stems taller and not nearly as beefy.
Here it is with two main ribs, keel, gunwales, stems, and headboards lashed together with strips of bicycle innertube. At this point you have some control over the shape of the boat.
Fiddle around and change things now when it's easy.
The stem-headboard lashings are nylon string soaked with epoxy afterwards because I was confident those parts wouldn't need to change. It turns out this boat wants to turn around and go the other direction regardless of which direction it's going. So I'd make the next keel with less or no rocker. Water sometimes splashes over the bows, so I'd make the bows higher.
Put those two facts together and the stems will have to be taller too.
I made the two main ribs by cutting the rim of a papasan chair in half.
It's rattan, which is strong light stuff.
The other ribs are much thinner, willow shoots 6 or 7 feet long cut from a thicket. If they grow in the dark they get tall before branching. Then I tied them as seen here and let them dry for a bit. Danielle Smith is peeling the bark off these ribs with a vegetable peeler. "PLUR" written on her hand stands for "peace, love, unity, respect". You'll have to ask her why. The veggie peeler is the best way to take the bark off. If you wait too long the bark will get hard. If you do it too soon and don't oil the ribs enough they'll crack, which isn't really a problem.
The other lumber came from a company that makes wine racks. The lumber bundles they buy come wrapped with same-species tropical wood 20 feet long. I grabbed a bunch of that, ripped it thinner with a tablesaw and a thin-kerf blade, and rounded the edges off with router, plane, rounding plane, spokeshave, sandpaper, basically every tool I had. Router with quarter-round bit followed by hand sanding was fastest. Splinters while hand sanding were a major hazard.
The thin ribs needed little blocks of wood shoved in next to them and lashed over because the main ribs are so thick.
16 ribs times 13 longitudinals equals 208 lashings. I should have used string instead of innertube. It takes a bit longer, but after it's soaked with epoxy it lasts longer too. There's nothing temporary or easy to change about 200 lashings.
The stringers don't need to reach all the way to the stem. It's a lot easier if they don't and the shape goes into some compound curves there so it doesn't really need them for support. The last rib at each end is too sharp a vee to bend, so it's two sticks. It would be better to use curved sticks, putting a bit more volume in the bows. The willow ribs were | 798 |
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Immigration Restriction and Long-Run Cultural Assimilation: Theory and Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Fausto Galli
(Università di Salerno)
Giuseppe Russo
(Università di Salerno and CSEF)
We study the effect of restrictions to immigration on the cultural assimilation of the second generation. Our theoretical model shows that restrictive policies incentivize to permanent immigration individuals with a stronger taste for their original culture. Permanent immigration implies reproduction in the destination country and transmission of cultural traits to the second generation, which will therefore experience a more difficult assimilation. We test this prediction by using the 1973 immigration ban in Germany (Anwerbestopp) as a quasi-experiment, since it only concerned immigrants from countries outside the European Economic Community. Thus, our treatment group is given by the second generation of non-EEC immigrants. Our estimates show that the Anwerbestopp has reduced the cultural assimilation of this generation. This result is robust to several checks, including a triple differences analysis. We conclude that restrictive immigration policies may have unwanted consequences on the process of cultural assimilation.
Fausto Galli & Giuseppe Russo, 2013. "Immigration Restriction and Long-Run Cultural Assimilation: Theory and Quasi-Experimental Evidence," CSEF Working Papers 349, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy.
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Seeing everything a little differently: an interview with Caitlin Crombleholme
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For Decent Company April: beginnings & endings, Caitlin Crombleholme will be performing a piece about a woman doing her very first standup routine ever. (Spoiler: the routine isn't going well.) Caitlin and Decent Company producing director Josh Boerman grabbed an early morning coffee and talked about failure, breakups, and coming out stronger on the other side.
JOSH BOERMAN: What was the reason that you wanted to do a play with a microphone, where you are doing intentionally awful standup?
CAITLIN CROMBLEHOLME: Well, when I saw the first showcase for Decent Company, there was something about that space and people just standing up on that stage in the back of a bar that just, you know, screamed "comedy club" to me.
And the idea just sort of popped into my head. It was one of those things where lines just kept running through my brain and I had to whip out my phone and start writing it down, and an arc was developing, and was just constantly narrating in my head about it.
JB: When did that happen? When did that start?
CC: It started maybe, I think, after I emailed you and I was like, "I wanna try it," and then all of a sudden I had the inspiration. I think just the motivation of actually committing to it jumpstarted a lot.
JB: And do you have any experience with doing any sort of, like, standup or anything like that? Is that anything you've ever tried?
CC: No. I've never done standup. I've never written a play before. I've never done a solo piece. There are a lot of firsts. So I don't know what that says about the fact that the whole conceit is failure in the piece. I guess I was anticipating failure for myself.
JB: Are you— do you fear that? Do you fear failure?
CC: Oh, yeah. Who doesn't fear failure? Yeah, it's terrifying.
JB: I feel like for some people, failure means different things, though.
CC: Yes.
JB: And for some people, failure is scarier than it is for other people. Some people just push it away, pick themselves up, dust themselves off. Other people, if they get knocked down, they're gonna stay down for a long time.
CC: Yeah. I don't stay down. I get knocked down and then I'm really stubborn about it. Sometimes I make excuses, and then other times I'm like, "No, I need to learn from this." So I try to be a good loser, but then I try to avoid it at all costs. Which is counterintuitive. Like, everybody says you need to fail in order to grow and know how to do things better. It's hard for me to accept that sometimes.
JB: Do you want to tell me about an example of a time that you failed, that it sucked and you did learn something from it?
CC: Oh, this is one of those quintessential interview questions.
JB: It is like an interview question.
CC: And I just have one in my back pocket at all times. I've so rarely failed that I— (LAUGH) I fail all the time. Lots of fails.
JB: Would you describe them as epic, these fails?
CC: I'm trying to think of a really epic fail. Oh, this was an epic fail. This was when I just got to college and I was trying to be super sophisticated and, like, figuring out what networking was. I was talking to this dean who worked at my college, and I found out that his sister was a higher up dean at the school.
And I was like, "How is it working with your sister? I personally would hate that." And then I went on this tangent about how I would, like, so bad at working with my sister. And this guy, he was like 30 years older than me, is just staring at me like I am the biggest idiot. And I didn't realize how badly I failed until maybe like three years later when that experience popped into my head again.
JB: And then when those experiences pop into your head, you visibly, physically— you cringe.
CC: Yes. My blood ran cold and I shivered. And I was like, "I am so stupid." (LAUGHS) So, like, the very retroactive realization of failure is— those are the worst ones.
JB: What I like about this piece, though, is that you are just throwing yourself into it. And you are aggressively portraying somebody who's failing, but doing so in a very funny, very believable, very honest way.
CC: Well, thank you. I do think there's something about that crowd mentality, just being in front of people, where suddenly I feel like you let go of<|fim_middle|>UGHS) You know, which is nice. Yeah. There's a lot of myself in my portrayal of Kiki, but then a lot of other parts of her that are projections, like I mentioned earlier, of people I know or have heard about.
JB: Because this is a breakup play, we see a character who is very lonely and is searching for somebody else to fill a hole that exists in her life right now. And is searching externally to try to find that rather than looking inside maybe herself a little bit more, which might be a little bit healthier.
And this is a very personal question, so answer it how you will, but for you, where you are now, are you in a relationship? Are you trying to find a relationship? Did any of that inform how you went into writing this?
CC: Yeah. I am not in a relationship, and I am not actively looking for one. I definitely am the type of person where I want relationships and friendships to build organically. So I haven't, like, overtly sought it out.
But I think moreso than a romantic relationship, something, sort of the guiding idea for me when I was writing this was that Kiki had this whole plan for what her future is. She was going to marry this guy, and they were going to have their wedding, you know, up in Hudson Valley. And then they were going to have three children and then move to Connecticut and have that house.
And, you know, she had it all planned in her head, and that has been shattered, this plan. This preconceived notion that she had that her life would end up exactly how she wanted it to. Which is the case for anybody; nobody's life ends up like that. And she has this bucket list of all the crazy things she wishes she could do, and she hasn't done any of them.
And I think bringing that idea into the play was important for me, as a reminder that you do need to take risks. That you should have crazy goals. You should also anticipate nothing ever going the way you plan it.
JB: Right. Because otherwise you end up in a situation where rather than living in an actual real world, you're basically creating imaginary— you're ending up in situations where you're just infatuated with the ideal focus whoever a person is.
JB: Which is sort of what Brian was talking about in his piece that he did in February. It's like, at that point, is it even a real person anymore?
CC: Exactly: no. She was living in a dream world. Like, her reality was not actual reality, and she's been thrown back into it so violently, and it does make her— one of the things I really enjoy about the piece is that now that she's suddenly seen the light, the rose colored classes are gone. She's actually realizing how unhealthy her relationship was.
And maybe it is a good thing, and she's suddenly reconsidering everything. That's one of those realizations that it's always hard to bring yourself to, but once you go through it, you see everything a little differently.
To buy tickets for Decent Company April: beginnings & endings, click here. | any of the awareness that you have, and you just sort of, like, give into the fact that there is a mob in front of you and you are more open. And take risks that you wouldn't otherwise have.
It's kind of like being drunk or something, you know, where the psychosis has broken down, you're making choices that you never otherwise would, but you do it. And the benefits and consequences are entirely different.
JB: Well, and of course, the character in the play, she is drunk, and she is reeling—
CC: That's true.
JB: —from a very bad morning. (LAUGHS)
CC: Just throwing all of it together. Yeah. Well, and I think the timing is so key that she hasn't had the chance to mourn at all yet. She just jumps into it. So, like, so many of the realizations and the epiphanies and heartbreak just happens onstage in front of everybody. Which is the most terrifying, vulnerable thing to do to oneself, but in this case, I saw it as a liberating thing that was necessary for the character, Kiki, to go through.
JB: So that morning that you were mentioning, for the benefit of the people who obviously haven't seen the show yet, Kiki is dealing with the aftermath of what sounds like a pretty nasty breakup. Did you draw on personal experience from this, or from what you had heard from other people? I'm just curious where that part came from.
CC: There are certainly universal themes and experiences. I have not had that sort of breakup experience. Certainly, I haven't been blindsided in the way that Kiki is. But people do have that experience of, like, when something ends and you weren't expecting it or anticipating it. And it's just like everything around you is shattered. And you have no idea how to process it. Yeah. There are definitely a lot of things that I've pulled from my life in this piece, but a lot of it, there are projections onto other things.
JB: Is it like you've seen other people who have been in these situations and you're drawing on that, or?
CC: Yeah. I've seen other people, I've heard about other people. It's also just, like, one, everybody's first play is about a breakup. So, you know, had to satisfy that trope. And it's also just something people can relate to. I definitely wanted it to be a relatable experience, even if it's outlandish. Something the content of which people can still sort of connect to.
JB: And I feel like that's something that's— I don't think I did it intentionally, but it feels like this whole month, all of the plays are about breakups in one way or another.
CC: Yeah.
JB: Not necessarily romantic breakups, but they're about big, fundamental changes, after which nothing can ever be the same again.
CC: Yeah. Well, and it's interesting that the theme is beginnings and endings when it seems like all the other playwrights have done endings and beginnings. Where, like, when something— it's that vicious cycle, where something ends in order for something else to begin. We're really seeing that, like, it's inverted.
For us to think about any new beginning, we actually have to focus on the ending first. It's a much darker way to view the world and to create work. But it's ultimately for the creation of new things and the proliferation of new ideas.
JB: So you've said this is your first time doing any sort of solo performance or anything like that. Why this play now?
CC: Well, I just went through the process of applying to graduate school for acting. It was just sort of, like, you know, throw your hat in the ring kind of thing. Like, who the hell knows what's gonna happen. And I felt very good about the work that I did for it, but after everything, I feel like I didn't really relish the opportunity to do these monologues and really feel like I'm sharing a part of myself.
Like, there is that veneer of, "This is Caitlin presenting something to you in order to define my future." So I didn't feel like I fully gave myself over, or that I really behaved like myself. And so this was a really lovely opportunity to just completely indulge. Just do all the things I wish I could in an audition room in my real life, like, in any context. Which was a lot of fun. And I feel like I don't often have the chance to just rant and rave for ten, fifteen minutes straight.
JB: But it's not just ranting and raving, either. It's focused. It has heart, it has feeling.
CC: Thank you. Yeah, that feeling in the heart, that's so key. That's something that I think I frequently can forget about in my day to day life. Just interacting with people. I forget, like, we're all human, and the reason this community is involved in theatre is because of that connection, because of that heart.
And it's just so easy to get wrapped up in how vicious and competitive and dark the world is, and lose that little piece of yourself. So, you know, sort of germinating that idea in this piece was really powerful for me.
JB: So how much of Kiki is in you, or vice versa? What do you see that connection as being?
CC: Well, we definitely are— we have a bond, Kiki and I. I imagine that I'm more socially aware than Kiki is. I mean, it says a lot that she went to a comedy night without any friends. I mean, she is there entirely by herself. And then in my head, I would be like, "Ooh. That's sad." But in her head, she was like, "I don't even know what's going on, I'm just gonna do." So I feel like that's a big difference.
But then I think Kiki and I behave very similarly after we've had three cocktails. (LA | 1,273 |
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Speakers will include: Ocean rower Sally Kettle<|fim_middle|>, on how Pakistan needs to look to its Asian heritage for help with its future and the role British Pakistanis can play in this; and game designer Tom Armitage, on our relationships with 'code' and with computers.
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Find out more about the series Four Thought and listen to past episodes on the BBC iPlayer. | , on hope; founder of Afrikids Georgie Fienberg, on why 'stop giving to charity' is the best message a charity can give; director of the Samosa Anwar Akhtar | 41 |
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Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Becomes Vineyard Trust
The Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust will now be known as Vineyard Trust, the nonprofit organization announced this week.
The name change accompanied the announcement that the trust's new flagship property, the old Carnegie library on North Water street in Edgartown, will open to the public on June 23.
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Arable-farming
Category: 06th century
THE ANGLO-SAXONS AND HOW THEY LIVED
The Anglo-Saxons made up the bulk of the population in Britain after the conquest of the country.
The early medieval history of Britain is the history of the Anglo-Saxons.
We shall learn now how the ancestors of the English people lived and worked and at what level of economic development they were in the 5th-11th centuries.
We shall read about:
- their occupations;
- their implements of labour and methods of land cultivation;
- the system of economy that predominated in Anglo-Saxon times.
Most of the Anglo-Saxons settled far away from the Roman towns. They would find a suitable place in the valley of some river, where the soil was good and there was a good water supply. They often used the lands round the Roman villas, but as a rule they lived neither in the villas themselves nor in the Roman towns—they were essentially an agricultural people.
The Anglo-Saxon villages were small. A village which had twenty-five families was considered a large one. Nealy all the villagers were engaged in cultivating the land. Over large areas of unbroken forests roamed the deer, the boar, the wolf, the bear and other wild animals. In other parts great swamps stretched for miles and miles. The Anglo-Saxons had to do a great deal of pioneer work in clearing the forests and breaking up the land for agriculture.
Great stretches of forest separated one village from another.<|fim_middle|>, by drains or furrows made by the plough to carry off the water. This system of land cultivation is known as strip-farming. The outline of many of these strips ploughed by the medieval Anglo-Saxons can still be clearly seen. The furrows of pasture fields that once were arable is one of the commonest features of the English landscape today.
The strip-owners cultivated their fields in a certain order according to the custom of the village. There were fixed dates for ploughing, for sowing, and for harvesting. It was the custom for every strip-owner to grow the same crop as others grew in the big field. One year, for instance, the north field was sown with wheat and each strip-owner had to sow wheat on his strips at the same time with the others. He could not choose for himself what crops to plant on his strips. This method of land cultivation, known as forced rotation of crops, made it possible to grow the same crop in a big field divided into hundreds of narrow strips belonging to many people. In this way crops ripened simultaneously and could be harvested at the same time. After the harvest the plough-land would become a common pasture where all the villagers grazed their cattle.
The system of crop rotation under which arable land was cultivated in small strips and all the strip-owners ploughed their fields at the same time and sowed the same crops so that they would ripen simultaneously became known in Britain as the Open Field System.
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Archive for '06th century' » | Each village with the land belonging to it was surrounded by a thick hedge. When the hedge was well grown it kept wild animals out of the village, and in those parts of England that were fully inhabited the hedge separated the land of one village from that of the next. The names of the Anglo-Saxon villages meant as a rule either their new "home" or a "protected place". A great number of village-names in England today are of Anglo-Saxon origin. Many English towns are called by the old Anglo-Saxon names too. For example, the word ton was the Saxon for "hedge" or a place surrounded by a hedge. Thus there are Northampton, Southampton, Brighton, Preston and others. Burgh or bury was the Saxon for "to hide". There are many village- and town-names derived from these words. Such as Salisbury, Canterbury, Edinburgh, Middlesbrough. The Anglo-Saxon ham, another form of the word "home", can also be found in such names now as Nottingham, Birmingham, Cheltenham. The same is true of the word field meaning "open country", in names such as Sheffield, Chesterfield, Mansfield, etc.
Corn was grown on the arable land—that is ploughed land. There was a great stretch of land that was not cultivated. This was called waste land and was always covered with trees and bushes, and it surrounded the village on every side. In those times there was more waste land than cultivated land. There was also a large stretch of pasture land for cattle and sheep as well as a meadow where grass was grown and cut for hay.
All the arable land of the village was divided into two or, sometimes, three very large fields. The Anglo-Saxon villager had no fertilizer, but he knew that he must not grow the same crop year after year in the same field. If he did, the land would become exhausted and his harvests would be poorer every year. In most places land was cultivated under the two-field system so that it did not lose its fertility. In a few villages the Anglo-Saxons used the three- field system.
Under the two-field system the land was given a rest every second year—crops were grown on one field, while the other field lay fallow; in the following year crops were grown on the second field, and the first field had its turn of fallow. The most common crops were wheat and barley.
Round the field in which crops grew the villagers placed rough movable fences made of wattle. That was to keep out the cattle. After the harvest the fences were removed and the field became common grazing ground for the sheep and cattle. The fallow field had no fence round it and the cattle and sheep grazed there all year round.
The Anglo-Saxons knew already the heavy plough which was used in cutting up land that had not been tilled yet. The plough was made of wood, but the cutting part, known as the coulter and the share, which slices the soil from beneath, were covered with iron. The plough was drawn by oxen in teams of two or four. Possibly two animals were used when land which had been ploughed before was being turned over, while a heavier plough with four oxen was used in breaking up virgin land. Since it was not easy to turn the heavy plough, for convenience in ploughing the large fields were divided into long narrow strips. Each strip measured about an acre. It was 220 yards long as a rule—the distance the ох-team could pull the heavy wooden plough without stopping for a rest. The narrow strips were ploughed lengthways; only the strips which lay on a hill were ploughed crosswise.
Every villager held several strips in each big field and they alternated with those of his neighbours. Nobody had all his strips together in one place, they were scattered over the fields. This was because the soil in the big fields varied a good deal and one man's strips lay in different parts of each field so as to give him a share of both good and bad land. The strips were separated from one another by low banks of earth that were not cultivated and were covered with weeds, or, in most cases | 886 |
As we reported when it was announced, Off-White designer Virgil Abloh is the new creative director of Louis Vuitton's men's division, and his first collection will debut tomorrow, June 21, at Paris Men's Fashion Week Spring 2019. Abloh was a buzzy name in fashion long before he was appointed to the position at Vuitton because of his trend-perfect blend of streetwear ideas with designer fashion, and many in the industry are curious to see exactly how those tendencies will meld with a historic house like Vuitton. Earlier<|fim_middle|> color-shifting iridescent oil slick finish. Most interesting to me, though, is that the bag appears to be translucent, which suggests Abloh is going in guns blazing to transform LV in his image. The bag is finished with a clear plastic chain strap, and I believe the use of chain would also be a a first for the Keepall.
Check out the full image below, and check back on Monday to see our review and more images after the collection debuts. | today, Louis Vuitton gave us a sneak peek on social media.
The photo in question is a shape that will look familiar to anyone who loves bags—it's Louis Vuitton's longtime duffel, the Keepall—but the fabrication is entirely new. The surface is finished in both embossed monogram like LV's Vernis patent leather, as well as a | 75 |
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Valencia is a city on the cusp, if not of greatness, at least of grabbing attention from her sister cities of Barcelona and Madrid. However, it took a land-locked country to point out her best asset: the sea. When Switzerland won the 2003 America's Cup it had to find a surrogate host for the next competition. Four years later, Valencia rose to the challenge, investing EUR500 million in transforming a neglected waterfront and polluted beaches into a sophisticated and sparkling port worthy of hosting the world's premier yachting race. It's not the first time that Valencia has created something out of nearly nothing. A few years earlier, a mass of disused marshland became the site of a fantastically futuristic construction: the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (City of Arts and Sciences). Valencians are justifiably proud of this dazzling attraction, especially as it was designed by a local architect, Santiago Calatrava.
Further a<|fim_middle|> - yes, its resorts stand proud in all their tacky splendour, but head 1.5 hours north of Alicante and you'll discover a completely different scene: lush citrus valleys, quaint villages and the hidden gems of the Costa Blanca coastline. | field, don't miss the traditional villages and secret beaches of the Costa Blanca. Don't be put off by the dubious fame of Benidorm | 30 |
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Recognition for Rugby League at prestigious charity awards
Super League and the Rugby Football League (RFL) have been commended for their ground-breaking approach to promoting social inclusion through sport.
The partners collected the prestigious 'Outstanding Charity Support' accolade at the North West Charity Awards after being nominated by Community Integrated Care, one of Britain's biggest and most successful social care charities. The charity made the nomination both in recognition of their partners' backing of both the Community Integrated Care Learning Disability Super League and its own Rugby League-based inclusion programmes.
Community Integrated Care supports more than 3,500 people across the UK, who have learning disabilities, autism, mental health concerns and dementia. In February<|fim_middle|> game as it does to ourselves. The festival at Magic Weekend was a personal highlight of the 2019 Super League season and it is impossible not to be inspired by the work that is going on."
Ralph Rimmer, Chief Executive of the Rugby Football League, said: "We're proud as a sport of how deeply embedded our clubs are in their communities, delighted to have been nominated by our partners at CIC and thrilled to be recognised for our approach in ensuring that rugby league is accessible to all."
The 2019 Community Integrated Care Learning Disability Super League is set to conclude next weekend on Rugby League's biggest stage – the Betfred Super League Grand Final. Players, coaches, volunteers and partners of the project will enjoy a special celebration event at Old Trafford, where they will be joined by rugby league legends and stars, before watching the big game from the best seats in the iconic stadium.
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Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Accessibility | Sitemap | 2019, the charity was announced as the Official Social Care Partner of RFL and Super League, with a vision of pioneering the development of programmes to promote the inclusion of people with care and support needs through rugby league.
Individual clubs throughout the game have been at the forefront of developing the learning disability version of rugby league as the game seeks to make itself as accessible to as many people as possible.
At the heart of developments has been the Learning Disability Super League, a world-first programme that has given almost 200 people who have learning disabilities and autism the chance to fulfil their sporting dreams. Since its launch at the 2019 Dacia Magic Weekend at Anfield Stadium, the programme has captivated supporters and been featured at a number of high-profile Betfred Super League events and inclusive festivals, developed by the RFL.
Mark Adams, CEO of Community Integrated Care, says: "What Super League the RFL and the clubs have contributed to both our charity and the lives of our Learning Disability Super League players this year has been incredible. Whilst we know that they have supported us without seeking acclaim, it was important to us that we publicly recognise their vision and commitment. It was a proud moment to see their partnership with our charity recognised on such a prestigious stage.
"The values of Super League, the RFL and our partner clubs align perfectly with our charity, as we all share a genuine commitment to making a real difference to our communities and championing inclusion. As this award acknowledges, they have provided Community Integrated Care with exceptional support – and for this we are truly thankful and proud of what we've achieved together.
"This is only the first year of our partnership and we are excited for how much more we can achieve in the seasons ahead."
Super League CEO, Robert Elstone, adds: "The learning disability game is a valuable and important part of the rugby league family, and the award belongs as much to our friends at Community Integrated Care and those people playing the | 399 |
Many hosts across Wine Country are setting up beverage stations at events and parties where their guests can get their own drinks. It's informal, fun and takes a lot of the pressure away from making sure everyone at the party has what they need.
There are so many beverage containers out there right now for sale or rent, and with that in mind, we decided to put together some of OUR favorite beverage station ideas that you can use for your next party.
Use a clear beverage jar and stand it upon crates or boxes for height. Decorate the area with fresh fruit or floral arrangements.
This beverage station is designed for wine or margaritas. Set up all of the glassware and use appropriate décor to match the theme of the event. Just like we did here!
What a cute idea for a race theme party. These are our colored ceramic beverage containers and they come in apple, lemon, tangerine and cherry.
Here, our clients used our clear beverage containers and sliced fresh lemons to create lemonade drinks for their guests. The glassware pictured is our footed pilsner glassware.
This is another fresh lemonade being served at a classic beverage station. Floating inside<|fim_middle|> you really love. | this delicious refreshment is lime, lemon and mint. Doesn't this just look so refreshing?
Our colorful ceramic beverage containers make another appearance. This time with cute little signs that identify the tantalizing contents.
Finally, pre-made beverages in mason jars with unique labels of the happy couple. Collectable, memorable, and such a cute idea. The mason jars were set in our galvanized buckets for guests to grab their own. We love this idea!
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Tan Theta Formula
Tan Theta Formula: Explore more about the Tan Theta Formula with solved examples.
Small Description: Tan Theta, including sine and cosine, is one of the 3 most prevalent trigonometric functions.
In a right-angle triangle, the tangent function is defined as the ratio or the quotient of the opposite side to that of the adjacent side.
The mathematical denotation of the tangent is,
tan(θ)=Opposite Side/Adjacent Side
A table of tan theta values for various<|fim_middle|> and third quadrants and negative in the second and fourth.
Trigonometry arose from a need to calculate angles and distances in fields such as astronomy, surveying, map making, and military range finding. Plane trigonometry concerns distances or angles in a single plane. Spherical trigonometry is concerned with applications of problems related to more than the one three-dimensional plane.
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Tangent Value
π/6
1/√3
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3π/2
Reciprocal Identity Tangent Formulas
We already know that the tangent function and the cotangent function are reciprocals. In other words, if tan x = a / b, then cot x = b / a. As a result, the tangent formula employing one of the reciprocal identities is,
tan x = 1 / (cot x)
How to Find a Tangent?
To find the tangent, you must first find the hypotenuse. The hypotenuse is the longest side of a right triangle. The next step is to choose an angle. There are only two options for angles. You can't pick the best angle. After you've decided on an angle, mark the sides. The opposite side will become the opposite side, and the adjacent side will be the side beside the angle.
Solved Examples
1. If sin (x) = 4/5, calculate the value of tan (x).
Using trigonometric identity, cos2(x)=1–sin2(x)=1–16/25
cos²(x)=9/25
cos(x)=3/5.
Now,tan(x)=sin(x)cos(x)=4/5 ✖ 3/5
∴ tan(x)=4/3
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Ans. Tan theta of a right-angled triangle is equal to the ratio of the lengths of the opposite and adjacent sides. It is also equal to the sine of the angle divided by the cosine of the angle.
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MUSIC lovers raised £600 for Jessie May following a jazz concert in Longwell Green.
Around 120 people supported the charity at the event which was held at Longwell Green Community Centre in November.
It was organised by Jack and Molly Cox who have been running this style of entertainment in the area to raise money for local<|fim_middle|>, 2018 at the same venue, when the band will be Jeremy Huggett's Dart Valley Stompers. | charities for nearly 20 years.
The music was provided by the Roger Wells Hotshots who entertained with a varied programme of traditional jazz numbers.
Molly said it was the first time the community centre had been used for one of their ventures and had proved a success: "The staff at the community centre worked hard to contribute to the success of the evening.
"Fish and chips were enjoyed in the interval and thanks go to the Oldfield shops in Longwell Green and Oldland for cooking and delivering the food on time and to the staff at the community centre for plating it up.
"The evening was a great success and raised over £600, including a bucket collection, for Jessie May."
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To the slaughter?
Local equine advocate speaks out on federal approval to open a horse-meat processing facility
By Meredith J. Graham
Tawnee Preisner, co-founder and vice president of Horse Plus Humane Society in Oroville, looks through the fence at the Valley Meat Co. slaughter facility in Roswell, N.M., which is hoping to begin processing horse meat sometime this summer.
PHOTO COURTESY OF HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY
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When Tawnee Preisner circled the perimeter of the Valley Meat Co. slaughterhouse in Roswell, N.M., last month, she could hardly believe her eyes. Cow carcasses—or the remnants thereof—scattered the landscape, skulls clearly visible from the fence line.
"He was not operating a very clean business there when it was operating as a slaughterhouse for cows," Preisner said recently by phone, referring to plant owner Ricardo De Los Santos. "Is anything going to change just because it's horses?"
Preisner, co-founder and vice president of Horse Plus Humane Society in Oroville, visited Roswell's Valley Meat Co. facility to see firsthand where horses could be sent if the slaughterhouse is allowed to reopen. Valley Meat—previously called Pecos Valley Meat Packing Co., a beef-processing plant—closed down for economic reasons, its owners have told the media, though it had been fined for improper carcass disposal, according to a recent New York Times article.
Preisner wasn't happy with what she saw in New Mexico, and she isn't happy about a recent federal decision to allow Valley Meat (and another company, Responsible Transportation of Sigourney, Iowa) to kill horses for human consumption. That meat likely will be exported to countries in Asia, South America or Europe, where people eat horse in restaurants and at home. (It is illegal to sell horse meat for human consumption in the state of California, but not in all states, such as Florida.)
Horse slaughter was halted in 2007, about two years after federal funding was revoked for inspecting those facilities, which processed an estimated 138,000 equines each year. The majority of that meat was destined for human consumption in other countries. That funding was reinstated in 2011, but Valley Meat Co. is the first plant to receive U.S. Department of Agriculture approval to operate. That happened at the end of June.
Those in favor of horse slaughter, including the American Quarter Horse Association, argue that it offers owners of unwanted horses an option they wouldn't have otherwise.
A study in 2009 by the Unwanted Horse Coalition, an alliance of equine organizations whose goal is to reduce the number of horses euthanized or sent to slaughter, noted four key reasons for the high number of unwanted horses: the economic downturn, the high cost of euthanasia, a change in breed-demand—and the closure of the nation's slaughter facilities.
"Horse owners and stakeholders agree closing of processing facilities is a major contributor to the problem," the study concluded.
So why are people like Preisner—she is by no means alone in her opposition—so up in arms about the possibility of reintroducing horse slaughter to the American landscape? For one, horses are considered companion animals much like cats and dogs here in the United States. Then there's the issue of humane handling.
"The whole slaughter industry is causing a huge problem," Preisner said. "It's a torturous thing for these horses to endure. When they cross over into Mexico, the conditions get even worse.
"But opening slaughterhouses in the United States won't fix that—they'll still endure the same amount of horror being transported."
Her point is one shared by many horse advocates, but it's debatable, according to several sources at the USDA and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), which oversees the transport of slaughter animals. With so many more equines being sent across the border and a lack of funding for inspections because of the closure of domestic slaughter facilities, the welfare of slaughter horses is likely much worse now than it was when they were being processed here in the States.
"[N]early the same number of U.S. horses was transported to Canada and Mexico for slaughter in 2010—nearly 138,000—as was slaughtered before domestic slaughter ceased," reads a Government Accountability Office report to Congress looking at unintended consequences of closing domestic slaughterhouses. "Horses are by nature fight-or-flight animals, and when grouped in confinement, they tend to sort out dominance. In the tight quarters of a conveyance, weaker horses are unable to escape from more dominant and aggressive animals and, thus, are more prone to sustaining injuries. … Moreover, once a shipment of U.S. horses has crossed the border into Canada or Mexico, APHIS no longer has authority to oversee their welfare."
The more humane way to handle unwanted horses, Preisner said, involves educating people about the problem and offering gelding (castration) programs, a huge part of the Unwanted Horse Coalition's mission.
Horse Plus has rescued nearly 3,000 equines in its 10-year existence. Of those rescued, a portion have been euthanized, Preisner admitted.
"Whenever anyone signs a horse over to us, we explain our policies. If it's deemed unadoptable, it will be humanely euthanized," she said. After euthanizing a horse, the organization sends it to a rendering plant. "They [people who surrender their horses] get so upset about that sometimes, but when we picked up that horse, they were going to have to take it to auction."
Rather than euthanizing a former pet, owners often send their animals to auction, where so-called "killer buyers"—representatives of slaughterhouses or middlemen, according to the Humane Society of the United States—purchase them and ship them to Canada or Mexico to be slaughtered.
Since horses in the United States aren't considered food animals, they are treated with medication, including antibiotics, Preisner said, making them unsuitable for human consumption. "Because of the drugs that are in the horses, there's really no way to make it a safe meat for humans to eat," she said.
But those killer buyers are successfully sending horses from U.S. auctions off to be killed, processed and, in many cases, eaten by humans. People in several countries, including Japan, France, China and Mexico, consider horse a viable source of protein. The USDA acknowledges this problem.
"FSIS [the Food Safety and Inspection Service] recognizes that most equines presented for slaughter will likely not have been raised for human consumption," reads the service's document on usda.gov outlining the inspection of slaughter facilities. "Therefore, FSIS has concerns regarding the potential presence of chemical residues from drugs not previously approved for use in all food animals including equine."
Valley Meat Co. is still facing several obstacles in its efforts to convert its cattle facility into one that will process horses. Recently, The Associated Press reported that the state of New Mexico denied the plant's wastewater permit. It also faces opposition by way of a federal lawsuit filed by the Humane Society of the United States, in conjunction with several other agencies.
"It would be nice if we could fix everything overnight," Preisner said | 1,472 |
Mimetic Simplicity
No. 39: Saturday, April 20th, 1996
Why should we take mimesis as the specific difference of the human? Doesn't that imply that we all just copy each other?
René Girard will go down in history as the person who rediscovered this concept that reveals the unity of the human. Girard reminded us that mimesis generates difference as well as sameness, rivalry as well as harmony, indeed, that its intense human form falls so easily into rivalry that harmony becomes problematic and we create for ourselves a culture to defer it.
The richness of our culture and technology testify to the creativity of mimesis for good and for evil. We cannot all copy each other because that way lies mimetic crisis. On the contrary, because we copy each other so well, we must endlessly differentiate; this is the path that only our species has taken.
The simplicity and elegance of these basic ideas are signs of their power. But as mimetic theory tells us, power provokes fear. The empirical mind-set of the social sciences, concerned with collecting data on various behaviors in order to predict them marginally better than before, corresponds to the ancient wisdom of ne quid nimis, nothing in excess. GA, in comparison, by making global claims, sets itself above the marketplace of consumable ideas. Its simplicity inspires the fear that there might be nothing left to think. But understanding the centrality of mimesis brings order to our self-knowledge, not limits. Given the tool of originary thinking, our best minds would build we know not what edifices. If this mode of thought has enabled so few to say so much about so many things, how much more would a whole profession, or even a reasonable subset of it, be able to accomplish!
The question is whether we desire to understand how the real world<|fim_middle|> world, yet we must seek the most plausible hypothesis for its emergence.
What stands behind the sign is not its immediate referent but an atemporal being that the referent incarnates. The one word that is most significant in all languages is a word whose referent can never be concretely instantiated: the name-of-God. Why would such a hypothetical being ever become useful to us? or conversely, why would God reveal himself to humanity? GA offers the first explanation of the emergence of the God-concept from the imitation of worldly behavior.
Mimesis is the key to understanding the sign-world because it provides the link between it and the world of nature. It is entirely understandable that higher animals can make marginal use of language through the use of their near-human mimetic powers. Our near-relatives are not far from being able to make the mysterious leap that separates them from the human. Their use of our linguistic symbols shows how close they can come. Animals, even plants have concepts in the sense of slots into which some phenomena fit but not others. A dog who sniffs my socks can distinguish me from anyone else; he possesses a Gans-concept. Chimpanzees can be taught to use sign-language to manipulate such concepts. But animal sign-manipulations are not only unspontaneous, they do not take off into culture. If language were merely an evolutionarily advantageous development, why is it not taken up and elaborated further by those chimps who learn it? Whatever level of sophistication they attain is possible only in communication with humans, not with other animals. Their mimetic capacities allow them to learn a repertory of manipulations that we reward, but never to experience the sacred fear of mimetic conflict that originally made these manipulations necessary.
The chimps' use of language is a reductio ad absurdum of Skinner's behaviorist theory of language. Behaviorism explains the language of the chimp, but it cannot explain the emergence of human language, let alone that of religion and the other phenomena of culture; it cannot thematize human historicity, the event-consciousness that alone explains this emergence.
The theorization of mimesis tells us many things, including why these insights are not yet generally accepted. Resistance to theory is fear of the sacred, fear of mimetic convergence. Originary thinking forces us to dissolve the barriers between our separate domains of expertise and admit the real power of thought.
The elegance of this way of thinking gives it a potential market value that cannot be indefinitely denied. In some form or other, GA will have its day. This day will come sooner if the readers of this column contribute to spreading, developing, and transforming its ideas within their own spheres of activity. This is our own peaceful version of Marx's demand that we participate in the movement of history. | of appetite and the other world of signs and culture are joined, or whether we prefer the existence of the latter to remain explicable only through faith, or simply left unexplained.
The social sciences tell us that a sign is simply one thing substituted for another. Signs are used by animals as well as humans; our sign system is merely more elaborate, not different in kind. We have religion because we are weak and observe the strength of the forces of nature, we are mortal and observe the permanence of the world beyond our death. And as for culture, animals too make beautiful displays, birds sing lovely songs, and who can say that whales don't tell each other stories…
Our choice is between these worthless explanations and originary thinking: there is no other unified explanation of these phenomena.
Signs "imitate" their object as we imitate each other. But the being that sustains the sign, its Idea or Signified, is not subject to the temporal decay of worldly objects. No materialist monism can deal with this truth. Ideas are mental objects, but they are not the equivalent of their correlate in our brain cells, any more than our words are equivalent to their expression in print or in sound. There is a mystery to the origin of language and signification from a prelinguistic state that natural science cannot explain. To comprehend the mystery is not to eliminate its leap of faith, only to reduce it to its minimal core. Every science takes such a leap, clothed as it may be in the language of rationality. First principles cannot be demonstrated. We think of this as a merely formal necessity, without remarking that it is of the same kind as the undemonstrability of the existence of God. The mental world of signs subsists only within the human community of their users. It cannot be guaranteed by anything out there in the real | 377 |
Payment gateway » Blog » Uncategorized » Is Tokenization the Future of Payment Security?
Payment security is an important issue for online merchants. Their customers need assurance that their data is safe and no one will be able to steal their debit or credit card details. Solutions such as tokenization help online business owners resolve many vulnerabilities in the payment process on their websites. This article is aimed at helping you learn more about tokenization technology and what the benefits of using tokens are.
Merchants need to comply with the Payment Card industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), which tells them how to secure sensitive data used in payments. Note that the PCI now requires data encryption and considers tokenization in the future version of the PCI DSS guidelines.
Tokenization is one technology that provides a payment process without vulnerabilities. In addition, merchants who use tokenization don't have to store sensitive data on their servers.
Tokens contain secret information that proves an identity, such as credit card details or personal data that appears as a random string of characters. Tokenization is about replacing the identifying information (for example a 16-digit card number) with substituted credentials. Using that encrypted information during payment limits the impact of a data breach.
Note that tokenized numbers shouldn't start with any numbers used by major card brands, which are 3's, 4's, 5's and 6's.<|fim_middle|> made in seconds.
As you can see, tokenization solves the problem of storing real credit or debit card data and helps secure the payment process on your website or mobile application. Is this how the future will look? | This is to prevent token numbers matching a valid credit or debit card number.
There are over billion non-cash transactions around the world each day, so it's important to keep every single payment on the highest security level. This is what PCI Compliance is about.
Fraud can happen anywhere in the eCommerce world. It doesn't matter if you're running a small online business or are an owner of a retail chain. What should you know about the fraud?
You can see how the process looks like when you use a payment gateway like SecurionPay.
The customer inputs his or her credit card details (which means the merchant sends the real card data for authorization), a token is created in our API and sent to our token server.
Then, the authenticated response is returned and a token is also sent to your system. Now, you can securely process payments with a token in place of the cardholder data.
Why is tokenization important for merchants?
Each online transaction comes with the risk of fraud, so it's crucial to reduce the risk and provide secure payments. The payment process is done with sensitive cardholder data and merchants have to understand where the vulnerabilities exist.
Tokenization reduces the risk of a data breach. Even if someone steals a token number, it will be meaningless to them. Tokens are just a random numbers, so it's impossible to use them to steal money.
Also, every time a customer uses his/her credit or debit card at a merchant's store, the same token number is given to the merchant's system. This makes it easy for customers to pay with one click for future purchases at a merchant's store. It also makes it possible to create a buying history on the customer's account that could be used to start a loyalty program.
Furthermore, customer's data isn't stored on merchant's servers. A major benefit of tokenization is minimizing the risk of exposing sensitive data.
Tokenization is also a great solution for mobile payments. Not only it is secure, but it also allows instant use. Payments can be | 407 |
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I was in bed this morning reflecting on the awesome retreat I returned from yesterday evening, where I met some lovely people and had an incredible spiritual experience. I opened the curtains and the sun beckoned me from my<|fim_middle|>.
I have always known that people are a big source of joy in life because I love spending fun and chill out time with those I love. I realise that I am lucky because I understand this and prioritise my life so that I make time to keep in contact with friends and family to enjoy experiences and make happy memories. I see so many people rushing around the world trying to 'do' so much and fit everything in. They have forgotten to factor in fun, which is a soulful experience. We are holistic beings and it's important to take care of our mind, body and soul. What better excuse to enjoy yourself with people you love knowing that you are having fun as well as raising your positive vibrations, which in the long term also creates longevity. Remember, we are human 'beings' not human 'doings' so take time to relax and enjoy!! | bed to welcome me on my birthday to re-join the world.
I have received many wonderful wishes via cards, facebook, phone calls & texts and I feel sooo blessed. I really am a lucky duck because I am having a birthday week with plans to celebrate with friends and family up until end of the weekend. I shall be placing my gratitude in a prayer later today. When feeling gratitude one has positive feelings which then attracts more positivity to you thus making your life even happier. If you prefer you can write down things to be grateful for instead of praying | 112 |
I present a framework for conceptualizing changes in society, driven by the forces of globalization, an expanding knowledge society, and accelerating change. The framework is centered on three social paradigms, which I label "Society 1.0," "Society 2.0," and "Society 3.0" (Moravec, 2008c) – expressed as Industrial Society, Knowledge Society, and Knowmad Society. Society 1.0 reflects the norms and practices of pre-industrial to industrial civilization. Society 2.0 refers to the radical social transformations that we are experiencing today, largely due to technological change. The 3.0 or Knowmad Society points to a state of society that is developing into our near future, where accelerating technological change is projected to have huge transformative implications. This chapter also considers the human capital development consequences and necessary transformations in education to meet the needs of a rapidly transforming society, and looks into some of the challenges facing Knowmad Society in an era of accelerating change.
Society 1.0 refers to the agricultural to industrial-based society that was largely present throughout the 18th century through the end of the 20th century. In the early portion of this period, economic activity was centered on family-based enterprises. Children learned at home, and children worked at home. Kids and adults were engaged cross-generationally. Not only were children valuable contributors to the economy at all levels, but adults and kids learned from each other. This paradigm facilitated "learning by doing," which was formally adopted by organizations such as 4-H, and embraced the principle that if we teach youth ideas and skills, they would, in turn, teach their parents (4-H, n.d.).
The rise of the industrial economy saw growth in wage and salary-based enterprises. Kids began to work at low-level and often dangerous jobs until they were segregated from the workplace to protect their welfare. This also signaled the industrialization of education, where, separated from the primary production economy, children were placed into an institutional mechanism of compulsory schooling where kids learned skills from adults (and not vice-versa), and eventually emerged from the system as "educated," young adults, immediately employable for the industrial economy.
In Society 1.0, we interpreted data in an industrial manner – leading to the information age. By and large, our relationships were hierarchical. That is, it was easy to tell how we related with each other. Companies had reporting structures that were easy to decipher. And, we had siloed jobs and roles within organizations and communities. We did everything we could to avoid chaos and ambiguity. Leading toward the end of the 20th century, this model worked fine. It was easy to understand. It was easy to operationalize. Moreover, it benefited from an education system that produced workers for the industrial-modeled economy.
By the end of the 20th century, the industrialization of education and proliferation of meritocratic academic structures in the 1.0 paradigm all but eliminated the recognition of "learning by doing." This evolved norm generally provided socioeconomic advantages for those that successfully navigated the industrialized meritocracy (better jobs, better pay) than those who avoided it or did not survive the system.
The appearance of Society 2.0 is associated with the emergence of the knowledge society that materialized in the 20th century (see esp. Drucker, 1969, 1985). To become meaningful, information needed to be interpreted, necessitating the creation of knowledge workers. However, as Polyani (1968) explains, the nature of knowledge, itself, is personal and is composed of tacit and explicit components. Explicit knowledge is easy to transfer from person to person, and can be communicated, for example, through books. Tacit knowledge, like knowing how to play the violin, is difficult to transfer, and is best developed by "learning by doing." These two forms of knowledge combine in the creation of personally-constructed meanings that defy the absolute objectivity of Society 1.0's industrial information model. Additionally, as social animals, humans engage in community activities and share their personal knowledge across ever-complex, networked systems. This growing ecosystem of personally-constructed meanings and values facilitated the creation of the field of knowledge management in the latter half of the 20th century, which attempted to manage the new elements of chaos and ambiguity related to personal knowledge that were inputted into organizational systems.
Advances in information and communications technologies (ICTs) facilitated the broadened production of socially-constructed meanings. Many of these advancements are made possible through the convergence of the Internet (which has become the symbol for all things networking – personal and technological) and globalization, opening potentials for globally-aware and globally-present social networks. Tools that harness ICTs are not only used to share ideas, but also to create new interpretations of the "reality" we live in. A few scholars (see, for example, Mahiri, 2004) recognize this as a "cut-and-paste" culture. One potent example of this cultural shift is hip-hop, which remixes and reuses sounds, lyrics, and imagery to create new meanings that are as much unique and individual to the hip-hop artist as the creator and the works' original sources. Other examples include the products of "Web 2.0" tools (see esp. Cobo Romaní & Pardo Kuklinski, 2007, for a detailed discussion) that allow individuals to harness new social networks to remix and share ideas and media (e.g., blogs, wikis, and YouTube).
The mass availability of these tools also allows everyday people to participate in an expanded array of vocations and citizen engagement. For example, tools such as blogs, Twitter and YouTube allow for the formation of citizen journalists, who are able to compete directly with mainstream media at a nearly negligible fraction of the cost that mainstream media needs to develop and deliver content. The technologies also allow for the formation of citizen scientists. By donating computing processing time, non-scientifically trained individuals can search for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI@Home project), search for a cure for cancer (Folding@Home), and examine stellar particles retrieved from space (Stardust@Home). Likewise, the Audubon Society has long relied on its social network of professional and amateur birdwatchers to generate a statistically accurate estimate of birds within a given area. Furthermore, technologies allow for the greater democratization of markets, creating citizen capitalists that invest and compete in a global market for ideas, talent, products, and other capital.
Socially-oriented ICTs carry constraints and limitations that force individuals to transform how they think and act. For example, Twitter limits message sizes to 140 characters or less, forcing content producers to deliver clear, concise messages in limited space.
These transformations are leading to new questions for social and educational theorists that are still being debated – and research suggests that these changes are impacting the fundamental organization of the human brain (see esp. Small & Vorgan, 2008). Some key questions arising are: Does Society 2.0 dumb people down, or are we creating a new, hyper-connected, social super-intelligence? If tech-savvy youth are composing their thoughts in 140 characters or less, are we facing a loss of literacy? In a world with Twitter, do we have any cognitive capacity to read full-length novels? In a world with YouTube, can we sit through feature length films? Is technological change, paired with globalization, leading to a loss of our cultural heritages? Finally, how can education remain relevant in a cut-and-paste society where information flows freely?
Note. The J-curve of accelerating change illustrates the exponential development and exponentially reduced costs of technologies. One example is evident in the evolution of microprocessors, which follow Moore's (1965) Law of doubling the number of transistors on integrated circuits every two years, while also reducing the costs of associated processing speed, memory capacities, etc. The inflection point on the graph is the approximate location of the Technological Singularity, at which point change occurs so rapidly that the human mind cannot imagine what will happen next. If this trend continues, and Moore's Law is followed for the next 600 years, a single microprocessor would have the computational equivalency of the known Universe (Krauss & Starkman, 2004).
In other words, change is occurring rapidly, and the pace of change is increasing at a rate that will defy human imagination. Kurzweil's idea is founded on the premise that as technologies evolve, technologies improve, costs decrease; and, in turn, the process of technological evolution advances and speeds itself up, creating a J-curve of exponential, accelerating change (see Figure 1, above). As technologies evolve, they will also prompt social transformations (Morgan, 1877).
This acceleration of change, however, is predicted to have an enormous impact on human imagination and our abilities to predict the future. Vinge (1993) terms the theoretical limit of human foresight and imagination (illustrated as the inflection point on the above graphic) as the Technological Singularity. As the rate of technological advancement increases, it will become more difficult for a human observer to predict or understand future technological advancements.
<|fim_middle|>This industrial model serves the needs of government overseers, but does little to meet the development needs of individual learners. With policies with names like "No Child Left Behind," it is hard to disagree: is the alternative to leave children behind? The unfortunate reality, however, is that, in these industrial-modeled policies, we tend to leave many children behind. These testing-centric regimes produce exactly the wrong labor products for the 21st century, but they are appropriate for what the world needed from the 19th century through World War II. As Robinson (2001) and others have argued, these fractured memorization models oppose the creative, synthetical thinking required for work in the new economy and effective citizenship.
When we focus on how to learn, not what to learn, learning becomes invisible.
In the knowmadic, 3.0 proto-paradigm, rote, "just in case" memorization needs to be replaced with learning that is intended to be personally meaningful for all participants in the learning experience. Moreover, the application of personal knowledge toward innovative problem solving takes primacy over the regurgitation of prior information memorized or "facts." In essence, students become knowledge brokers (Meyer, 2010).
Approaches that enable invisible learning also permit students to act on their knowledge, applying what they know to solve problems – including problems that have not been solved before. This contextual, purposive application of personal knowledge to create innovative solutions negates the value of standardized testing, which does not promote imaginative exploration, creative thinking, or innovative actions.
For example, Pekka Ihanainen (2010) explains that Finnish vocational teacher education is built on a dialogical professional development model. Knowledge and expertise areas of the teachers in training are identified and compared with their occupational competency requirements and goals. Following this assessment, career development trajectories and educational pathways are developed. The system is not only designed to determine how teachers in training meet government requirements, but also relates to their individual interests and professional development goals.
Releasing ourselves from the cult of measurement requires faith and confidence that we are always learning. As we observed in the Invisible learning project, as human beings, we are always engaged in learning – it is one of our most natural activities.
The difficulties in mainstreaming invisible, knowmadic approaches to learning in Western education are daunting. Formal systems are deeply entrenched. Governments believe in a formal approach (it looks good on paper and within state and national budgets). Entire industries (i.e., textbooks, educational measurement) are built around it. And, the scale of the industrialization of education leaves many people wondering if it's worth fighting against. The education-industrial complex is massive.
The system is further reinforced, by design, to change at a glacial pace. While markets can transform and reinvent themselves virtually overnight, governments cannot. They are designed to be slow and deliberative. As a result, they tend to lag significantly, and react to change more often than they proactively design or preact to create beneficial changes.
Paradoxically, despite being key components of systems most responsible for developing human capital and human development futures, educational bodies are designed to change even slower. Educational institutions and systems report to governments, respond to governmental policies, and align their programs to satisfy requirements and funding formulae established by legislative bodies. Moreover, these criteria, including establishing what to teach, depends on who sits on what committee at any given time. By relying on personalities, political gamesmanship, and feedback-looped special interests from the education-industrial complex, many question if the system has perhaps become too large, too slow, and too blind to the realities of today.
The problem is, the emerging pressures of Society 3.0 require educational transformation today. Schools need to develop students that can design future jobs, industries, and knowledge fields that we have yet to dream of. Schools need to operate as generators of the future, not laggards.
Rather, it is time to start anew. As Sir Ken Robinson eloquently states, we need a revolution, not reform (TED, 2010). Revolutions are difficult to ignite. An entire genre of literature that Carmen Tschofen terms "change manifestos" has emerged in education that is rich in calls for change, but falls flat on making change happen (Moravec, 2010). The system, perhaps, has too much inertia. As Harkins and I suggest in our "Leapfrog University" memo series to the University of Minnesota, a parallel approach may be necessary (Harkins & Moravec, 2006).
The Bank of Common Knowledge (Banco Común de Conocimientos, Spain): "is a pilot experience dedicated to the research of social mechanisms for the collective production of contents, mutual education, and citizen participation. It is a laboratory platform where we explore new ways of enhancing the distribution channels for practical and informal knowledge, as well as how to share it" (Bank of Common Knowledge, n.d.).
TED.com (Technology, Entertainment, Design, USA): challenges lecture-based education by creating "a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other" (TED, n.d.).
Knowmads Business School (Netherlands): an alternative "learning by doing" higher education experience, described later in this book, is not authorized by the government to issue diplomas, but invites students to earn a tattoo, if they like.
To move forward in making invisible learning visible, we need to engage in conversations on what futures we want to create. We need to clarify our visions of where and who we want to be. In China, India, and throughout much of the developing world, the vision is simple: Catch up to the West through planned development. However, in the United States, Europe, and much of the rest of the Western world, concrete visions of where we want to be in the future are absent. I assert that either we do not know where we want to be in the future, or we lack the foresight to imagine ourselves in a future that is very different from what we experience today.
The consequence is that we are not making investments to our human capital development systems that will enable us to meet needs set by future challenges. We need to prepare our youth and other members of society for a future and workforce we cannot yet imagine. Moreover, given the potential for today's children to be engaged productively in a "post-Singularity" era, it is important to assist them in the development of skills and habits of mind that will foster life-long learning and continuous, innovative applications of their personal knowledge.
As organizations, communities, and nations, we need to set visions for the futures we will co-create, and act upon them. Throughout the remainder of this volume, we explore some of the methods individuals, teams, and organizations may employ to help develop our visions of the future.
Focused on developing mindware: The focus of technologies should not be on hardware or software, but on how they enhance our minds – that is, the focus is placed on how technologies can support our imaginations, creativity, and help us innovate.
Social: The use of technologies is often a social experience, and their social applications should be addressed. This includes leveraging social media tools for learning such as Facebook, Twitter, etc., which are commonly blocked from formal school settings.
Complicating invisible learning is a problem of equity and equality. Is it appropriate for a select group of "invisible learners" to leapfrog ahead of peers who may be trapped within the paradigm of Education 1.0? If 1% of the population benefits from invisible learning approaches relevant for Knowmad Society, what should we do about the other 99%? Should they not have the right to leapfrog ahead, too?
I believe so. However, I also recognize the incredible inertia mainstream Education 1.0 possesses. Given the rates of accelerating technological, social, and economic change, we cannot wait. The revolution in learning and human capital development needs to begin now. This may mean starting out small, and working in parallel with entrenched systems. But, it also means that we need to lead by example to build a workforce ready for Knowmad Society today.
Cobo Romaní, C., & Pardo Kuklinski, H. (2007). Planeta Web 2.0: Inteligencia colectiva o medios fast food. Mexico City: FLACSO.
Polanyi, M. (1968). Personal knowledge: Towards a post-critical philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago.
Schwartz, P., & Ogilvy, J. A. (1979). The emergent paradigm: Changing patterns of thought and belief. Menlo Park, CA: SRI International.
Stiggins, R. J., Arter, J. A., Chappuis, J., & Chappuis, S. (2007). Classroom assessment for student learning: Doing it right — using it well (Special ed.). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Education, Inc. | Given the rate of exponential advancement illustrated by Kurzweil (2005), the pace of technological advancements in the future may seem nearly simultaneous to human observers. Kurzweil further believes the Singularity will emerge as the complex, seemingly chaotic outcome of converging technologies (esp. genetics, nanotechnology, robotics, and the integration of these technologies with humans). Vinge (in Moravec, 2012) believes the best option for humanity is to merge with our technologies and build a "digital Gaia" of global human-technology integration and knowledge sharing. This merging with technologies could involve augmenting our bodies, engineering "improved" humans, and active involvement in the design of our successor species.
As noted previously, technological change facilitates social change. Near future technological advancements are therefore expected to ignite social transformations that defy human imagination today. Critics of the Technological Singularity, including Rushkoff (2013), contend that it is impossible to disentangle humans from technologies. It is not worthwhile to focus our attention on dealing with future change, as many of these transformations are already occurring today, and we need to become aware with their relationships with the present –and ourselves.
Predictably, the impacts of accelerating technological and social changes on education are enormous. Today's stakeholders in our youths' future must prepare kids for futures that none of us can even dream are possible.
Continuing globalization is leading to a horizontalized diffusion of knowledge in domains that were previously siloed, creating heterarchical relationships, and providing new opportunities for knowledge to be applied contextually in innovative applications. In the realm of teaching and learning, this means that we are becoming not only co-learners, but also co-teachers as we co-constructively produce new knowledge and new applications for our knowledge.
Table 1 summarizes key differences between the three social paradigms that we explore in this book. In the shift from Society 1.0 to Society 3.0, our basic relationships transform from linear, mechanistic, and deterministic connections to a new order that is highly non-linear, synergetic, and design-oriented. The effects of accelerating change suggest that causality, itself, may seem to express anticausal characteristics, due to the near instantaneousness of events experienced by a society in a period of continuous, accelerating change. Therefore, how reality is contextualized (and contextually responded to) becomes much more important to citizens in Society 3.0 than it was in previous paradigms.
A knowmad is what I term a nomadic knowledge and innovation worker – that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere (Moravec, 2008a). Knowmads are valued for the personal knowledge that they possess, and this knowledge gives them a competitive advantage in social and work contexts. Industrial society is giving way to knowledge and innovation work. Whereas the industrialization of Society 1.0 required people to settle in one place to perform a very specific role or function, the jobs associated with knowledge and information workers have become much less specific in regard to task and place. Moreover, technologies allow for these new paradigm workers to work either at a specific place, virtually, or in any blended combination. Knowmads can instantly reconfigure and recontextualize their work environments and relationships. Greater mobility afforded by technologies creates these new opportunities.
Note. List inspired by Cobo (2008).
The remixing of places and social relationships implies that a tremendous impact on education is developing as well. Students in Knowmad Society should learn, work, play, and share in almost any configuration. But, there is little evidence to support any claim that formal education is moving toward the 3.0 paradigm.
When we compare the list of skills required of knowmads to the goals and outcomes of mainstream education, we must ask: Precisely what are we educating for? Are we educating to create factory workers and bureaucrats? Or, are we educating to create innovators, capable of leveraging their own imagination and creativity?
The industrialization of Europe was accompanied by social, economic, and political transformations that impacted education directly. Regents sought to replace aristocratic rulers with citizens instilled with national pride and a willingness to work for the "good" of their country. At the same time, economic growth required more factory workers and government bureaucrats to manage the system as industrial society emerged.
To meet these needs, Frederick II of Prussia, initiated in 1763 what may be considered the most radical reform in the history of education: compulsory schooling. All children in Prussia between the ages of five and 13 were required to attend schools, which were developed into apparatuses of the state. Principles of industrial production were applied to classrooms, which were segregated by age. Pupils were aligned at desks, facing the head, where the teacher, bestowed with the absolute authority of the state, "downloaded" information and state ideology into the heads of students as if they were empty vessels.
In the Invisible learning project, Cristóbal Cobo and I explored a panorama of options for the future development of education that are relevant today (see Cobo & Moravec, 2011). In our work, we did not propose a formal theory, but rather established a metatheory capable of integrating different ideas and perspectives. We describe this as a proto-paradigm, aligned with our visions of a knowmad-centric Society 3.0, which is still in the beta stage of construction.
In their book, The element, Robinson & Aronica (2009) interview many people who have experienced extraordinary success in their careers, and identified that the people they spoke with found their "element" – that is, their success was largely due to the fact that they did something they enjoyed in addition to being good at it. This runs contrary to the "just in case" industrial model of education, and suggests that if we enable more people to pursue their passions and support them, we open possibilities for them to achieve meaningful success.
In the invisible learning proto-paradigm, the inherent chaos and ambiguity related to tremendous technological and social changes call for a resurgence of "learning by doing." In a sense, we are creating the future as we go along, and without a master plan to follow. As co-learners and co-teachers, we are co-responsible for helping each other find our own elements along our pathways of personal, knowmadic development.
A key concern for policymakers and other stakeholders in education is, what is being learned? In an education system focused on industrial information delivery, this is an important quality control issue. People responsible for aligning resources for learning, need to know what works and what does not.
The linearity of the industrial paradigm thrives on mechanical processes. For example, groups of learners are expected to read books progressively, chapter-by-chapter, and recite the information and "facts" they acquired linearly through memorization. In this paradigm, the use of summative evaluation (i.e., tests) is de rigueur. And, this is very convenient for governments. It suggests that the knowledge of students can be represented, tabulated, and communicated as numbers in a spreadsheet report.
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China's New Special Economic Zone Evokes Memories Of Shenzhen
Frank Holmes Contributor
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Forty years ago, Shenzhen, China, was a sleepy fishing village of 30,000. But in 1980, then-Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping designated the southern town as one of four special economic zones (SEZs), thereby giving it special tax benefits and preferential treatment to foreign investment. In the<|fim_middle|> innovation hub, complete with new businesses, universities and state-of-the-art transportation.
The Xiongan New Area, which will eventually cover 2,000 square kilometers—more than twice the size of New York City—is intended to relieve congestion in the capital of Beijing and nearby Tianjin. Among other potential consequences include spreading the country's economy northwest, away from the bustling coastal cities, and boosting gross domestic product (GDP) growth, which has been trending down for the past several quarters. In the first quarter of 2017, China beat market expectations by expanding 6.9 percent year-over-year—a far cry from the double digit growth in years past, but impressive nonetheless.
Potential Investment Opportunities Expected
Like Shenzhen before it, Xiongan is expected to offer phenomenal investment opportunities. Remember, we're talking about a brand new megacity literally built from the ground up. According to UBS estimates, the project will require as much as $580 billion over the next 20 years. As you might imagine, massive amounts of raw materials and resources will be needed, including steel, glass, cement and more. Steel demand alone should increase imports of the metal between 12 and 14 million metric tons per year if mass construction begins in the next 10 years, according to Citi Research analysts.
Shares of several Chinese construction, infrastructure, utilities and transportation companies immediately spiked following the announcement. China Railway Group has gained close to 5 percent since the announcement. China Shipbuilding Industry Corp., which recently said it will move its headquarters to Xiongan, has risen nearly 3.5 percent. Huge moves have also been made by Tianjin Port Development Holdings and China National Building Material Co. Perhaps the biggest gainer was building materials supplier BBMG, which soared more than 34 percent April 3, then an additional 10.5 percent the following day.
Cement prices in China are already having one of their best starts in years and are positioned to exceed 2013 levels, which would benefit materials companies such as China National Building Material Co. and BBMG.
Chinese Real Estate on Fire
Even before the Xiongan announcement, Chinese real estate and home valuations were soaring, with home prices in 70 major cities rising 11.3 percent year-over-year in March. Nine out of the 10 best performers this year in the Bloomberg World Real Estate Index are Chinese firms. Since the start of the month, land developer China Resources Land is up 3.6 percent. Developers Evergrande, Sunac and Country Garden—all of which have exposure to Xiongan New Area and the surrounding regions—are up close to 80 percent so far this year.
Real estate speculators have reportedly descended on the new economic zone, gobbling up property at such a dizzying rate that the local government has had to step in and temporarily restrict transactions. It's possible a real estate bubble could be forming, but with memories of Shenzhen's grandeur swimming in investors' minds, expectations are understandably sky high.
The following securities mentioned in the article were held by one or more accounts managed by U.S. Global Investors as of 3/31/2017: China Railway Group Ltd., China Resources Land Ltd.
Frank Holmes
I cover gold, natural resources and emerging markets, melding macro ideas, such as supercycles, government policies and behavioral finance, to investment opportunities. ... | years that followed, Shenzhen expanded at an alarming pace. Its GDP per capita grew a jaw-dropping 24,569 percent between 1978 and 2014, and by 2016 its population stood at nearly 12 million.
Today Shenzhen is universally held up as one of capitalism's great success stories. Because of Deng's willingness to liberate its economy and open Shenzhen up to foreign investment, the once-poor, now-thriving megacity is known as a world-class tech hub, home to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and one of the busiest financial centers in the world.
Learn how China became a capitalist nation in our slideshow!
Now it looks as if China aims to catch lightning in a bottle once again by designating a brand new region as a SEZ. On April 1, President Xi Jinping announced plans to transform a little-known farmland called Xiongan into a glittering technology and | 197 |
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Passionate about business, family, technology, and taking advantage of the mountains and beauty that we're blessed with in SLC.
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Singapore, 26 November, 2014 - Female magazine's annual flagship event has gone through a few iterations in its 18-year history, but one thing has always been a constant: the publication's ability to discover future stars, social influencers and gorgeous personalities.
Past winners-turned-stars include former history teacher Annabel Tan, who has since fronted ad campaigns for a major beauty house and other brands; Cordelia Daphne Low, a Miss Universe Singapore 2013 second runner-up; and fledgling model Adrian Jalaludin, now a popular sports host in the region.
This year's Gorgeous People (GP), scouted through social media campaigns on Instagram and Facebook using the official campaign hashtag #fgorgeouspeople, garnered over 600 entries.
The final 50 GP are a diverse and eclectic group of individuals. There is a rise in the number of young professionals taking part, including bankers, consultants and entrepreneurs, and among them is potentially another couple of dynamic winners. Each of the male and female winner will be chosen by the Creative Editor of Female, Jeanette Ejlersen and her editorial team, and guest judges – based on looks, poise and star quality.
The chosen 50 debuted<|fim_middle|>e Nomad.
Your journalist, photographer and/or video crew are invited to Female's 50 Gorgeous People 2014 finals and party.
Please RSVP to Vanni Cheong by 27 November, 12pm. | in the print and digital editions of the November issue as well as at the Gorgeous Preview event at Robinsons The Heeren.
During the Gorgeous Preview (Sep 18 – 28), Female also presented two Gorgeous showcases comprising 50 Gorgeous Picks curated by the Female team. Behind-the-scenes footage was shared on the big LED screen of the building facing Orchard Road and readers could show support to their favourite GP via the microsite http://f-gorgeouspeople.tumblr.com/.
New hot club Canvas will be the venue to host Female's invited guests, IT crowd, friends of the Gorgeous People, readers and the fashion brigade on Thursday 27 Nov, and also where Female will name the Most Gorgeous Male and Female of this year's Gorgeous People search campaign.
The winners stand to win up to $5,000 worth of prizes from event sponsors including a 3 Days/2 Nights stay in a luxury villa in Bali from The Luxe Nomad, lifestyle appliances from Philips, make-up from Laura Mercier, shoes from Superga, and shopping vouchers from Robinsons.
The official partners for Female's 50 Gorgeous People 2014 are Air Salon, Canvas and The Lux | 244 |
Utahns are in denial. In the first ever Utah Health Values Study (2017), Utahns underestimated the level of overweight and obesity in Utah. On average, Utahns think only 45% of people in Utah are overweight or obese. In reality the rate in 2016 was closer to 60%.
Utahns incorrectly categorized their own weight. For example, only 11% of survey participants said they are very overweight, but in reality 30% were obese according to self-reported height and weight. In addition, 43% of those who think they are just a little overweight are actually obese based on BMI.
Utahns think they are healthier than their neighbors. However, only half of Utahns report that they get the recommended amount of physical activity each week and while a majority of Utahns self-report that they eat right, research shows they likely do not.
Our health has a huge impact on our ability to do the things we want to do, can limit our quality of life, and can affect relationships with family and friends. But if we don't know how healthy (or unhealthy) we are, we won't know what changes we need to make. Obesity is linked to a number of health problems and chronic diseases, like heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and certain cancers, but Utahns need to accurately recognize if they are currently obese or are at risk for obesity.
What is the Get Healthy Utah Health Values Study?
Get Healthy Utah is a collaborative effort aimed at creating a culture of health through encouraging and facilitating active lifestyles and healthy eating. Get Healthy Utah contracted with Envision Utah and Heart+Mind<|fim_middle|> Utahns think, know, and feel about their health – this study is the first step in that process. The results of the study help provide a sense of what Utahns think about their health.
Check out the local news coverage of this historic study. | Strategies to conduct the first ever Utah health values study. If we want to create a stronger culture of eating right and being physically active, we need to understand what | 32 |
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A nice example of a crinoid fossil of the species Pentacrinites fossilis from the world-famous Jurassic Coast beach of Charmouth, Dorset UK.
The fossil measures<|fim_middle|>ms closely related to starfish and sea urchins, and have been around for many hundreds of millions of years. They still live today in the deep seas around the world.
© 2023, Jurassic Coast Fossils Powered by Shopify | 160 mm (6.3 inches) across which is large for a crinoid fossil from this location. The fossil consists of the head of a crinoid with detailed arms and pinnules spread across the shale. It is preserved in limestone with a layer of pyrite on the surface and has been set into a rock-coloured plaster. These crinoids are very sought after and not easy to find these days, and large examples like this are even rarer. It weighs 205 grams.
Around 196 million years old (Sinemurian, Early Jurassic), this fossil would make a wonderful addition to any collection.
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GameStateManger is responsible for keeping track of game states with a simple pop/push stack.
Chingu::Window automatically creates a @game_state_manager and makes it accessible in our game loop. By default the game loop calls update, draw, button_up(id) and button_down(id) on the active state.
Enter a new game state, Level, don't call finalize() on the game state we're leaving.
Return to the previous game state, don't call setup() on it when it becomes active.
Returns the value of attribute inside_state.
This method should be called from button_down(id) inside your main loop.
This method should be called from button_up(id) inside your main loop.
Remove all game states from stack.
Gets the currently active gamestate (top of stack).
This method should be called from draw() inside your main loop.
Returns all gamestates with currenlty active<|fim_middle|> switching to. .. and finalize() is called on the game state we're switching from.
# Don't setup or finalize the underlying state, since it never becomes active.
The transitional game state is responsible for switching to the "new game state". It should do so with ":transitional => false" not to create an infinite loop.
The new game state is the first argument to the transitional game states initialize().
Very useful for fading effect between scenes.
This method should be called from update() inside your main loop. Enables the game state manager to call update() on active game state.
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A new instance of GameStateManager.
Pops a state off the game state-stack, activating the previous one.
Pops through all game states until matching a given game state (takes either a class or instance to match).
Returns the previous game state.
Adds a state to the game state-stack and activates it.
Switch to a given game state, replacing the current active one.
Sets a game state to be called between the old and the new game state whenever a game state is switched,pushed or popped.
This method should be called from update() inside your main loop.
This method should be called from button_down(id) inside your main loop. Enables the game state manager to call button_down(id) on active game state.
If you're using Chingu::Window instead of Gosu::Window this will automaticly be called.
This method should be called from button_up(id) inside your main loop. Enables the game state manager to call button_up(id) on active game state.
This method should be called from draw() inside your main loop. Enables the game state manager to call update() on active game state.
Pops a state off the game state-stack, activating the previous one. By default setup() is called on the game state that becomes active. .. and finalize() is called on the game state we're leaving.
# Give the soon-to-be-disabled state a chance to clean up by calling finalize() on it.
# Is this doubled in GameState.initialize() ?
Adds a state to the game state-stack and activates it. By default setup() is called on the new game state .. and finalize() is called on the game state we're leaving.
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The Samuel Ferris House is a historic house at 1 Cary Road in Greenwich, Connecticut. Built around 17<|fim_middle|> early settlers of the area. The house was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Description and history
The Samuel Ferris House stands in the Riverside neighborhood of eastern Greenwich, on a parcel bounded on the west by Cary Road, the north by Fitch Lane, and the south by the Boston Post Road (United States Route 1). It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and shingled exterior. The main facade faces south toward the Boston Post Road, and is five bays wide, with sash windows arranged symmetrically around the entrance. The entrance is simply framed, with a small transom window above. Its interior features are indicative of two major stages of construction, with vertical wall planking typical of older colonial construction, and a fireplace surround with feathered panels that date to about 1800.
The oldest portion of the house dates to 1760 or earlier, consisting of the three western bays. The two eastern bays were added about 1800. The house was probably built by Samuel Ferris, whose family was among the early settlers of the area, and was the farmhouse for a farm. The building was moved about 80 feet and put onto a new foundation in the 1920s, when the Post Road was realigned. In 1947, the last surviving Ferris descendant gave the farm property to the town, which built housing on most of the farmland, and sold the house back into private ownership in 1957.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Greenwich, Connecticut
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Houses in Greenwich, Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut | 60 and enlarged around 1800, it is a well-preserved example of a Colonial period Cape, a rare survivor of the form to still stand facing the Boston Post Road in the town. It is also locally significant for its connections to the Ferris family, | 56 |
Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) are a member of the onion family (Alliaceae) grown for their leaves, which are used as an herb. Chives have a much milder flavor than onions or garlic. They are referred to only in<|fim_middle|> sore throat. They believed that eating chives would increase blood pressure and acted as a diuretic. Most sources tend not to agree with these claims.
The Romans also are attributed with bringing chives over to Europe where they now grow wild. In fact chives now grow wild across most of the Northern Hemisphere. | the plural, because they grow in clumps rather than alone.
Chives are chopped raw and typically used for seasoning salads and omelettes, or as a topping for baked potatoes. They are quite commonly used as a garnish in a number of stir fry dishes in Chinese cuisine, long cuts of which are often tossed in after cooking is complete, for both color and their mild flavor.
The ancient Chinese are the first to documented using chives as long ago as 3000 years B.C. and Marco Polo is credited with bringing chives to Europe from China.
Romanian Gypsies have used chives in fortune telling.
It was believed that you should hang bunches of dried chives around your house to ward off disease and evil.
The Romans believed chives could relieve the pain from sunburn or a | 166 |
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Angels' Cole, Pena combine for no-hitter against Mariners on night honoring Tyler Skaggs
You probably remember the 3-error game. The Mariners remember how Dylan Moore moved on from it
Mariners road preview: Angels, A's on deck to open second half | , picking up his first save of the season.
"They are going to put together good at-bats and they are going to score their runs, and they did in the ninth inning, but we were able to hold them off so we'll take it," La Stella said after handing Seattle their second loss in 13 road games to start the season.
Kevan Smith and Brian Goodwin also homered and Mike Trout hit two doubles for the Angels, who avoided a sixth-straight loss to the Mariners. Jaime Barria (2-1) gave up one run in five innings.
Mike Leake (2-2) gave up four runs on three homers in six innings, with Smith putting the Angels up 2-0 in the second on a two-run shot just past the glove of a leaping Mallex Smith and over the wall in the deepest part of center field. La Stella got the first of two solo homers in the fourth for a 3-1 lead, and Goodwin made it 4-1 in the sixth with another solo home run.
Bour and Andrelton Simmons each drove in a run in the bottom of the seventh to make it 6-1. Calhoun doubled to score another run in the eighth for an 8-1 lead following La Stella's second blast, his sixth of the season to set a new career-high.
Mariners manager Scott Servais thought Leake pitched well enough for the Mariners to win, but blamed those late "tack-on runs" for giving their offense too big a margin to overcome.
"Everybody believes in our offense," Servais said. "If we can keep them right there, we always got a chance to come back, and you saw that in the game today."
STELLAR LA STELLA
La Stella needed 73 games in 2017 with the Chicago Cubs to record his previous career-best five homers. He's got six in 21 games this season, which La Stella credits to mental adjustments and the benefits of regular playing time.
"I think for me it's just kind of swinging a little bit easier, not necessarily trying to muscle through the swing," La Stella said. "I don't have to put such an aggressive swing on it. Just put the barrel on the ball and let the ball do the rest."
Hansel Robles threw a scoreless first inning before being replaced by Barria as the Angels became the latest team to employ an "opener." Manager Brad Ausmus considered giving a reliever a start earlier this month against the Cubs, but those plans were scuttled because of bullpen usage.
"Hansel did exactly what we hoped, got the top of the order out and allowed Jaime to start in the middle of the order as opposed to the top and then go through a couple of times, and we went from there," Ausmus said.
Ausmus expects to continue using relievers as spot-starters, a trend that started last season when Tampa Bay sent closer Sergio Romo out in the first inning of consecutive games against the Angels in May.
TRADEMARK TROUT
Trout hit multiple doubles in the same game for the 24th time in his career. Trout also had an outfield assist for his throw to Simmons in the sixth inning when Santana tried to stretch out for a double.
Mariners: OF Jay Bruce did not start because of a sore quadricep but drew a walk as a pinch-hitter in the seventh. ... RHP Chasen Bradford (shoulder) threw a bullpen session Sunday and could be activated off the injured list to play in the two-game series against San Diego.
Angels: 1B Albert Pujols got the day off to rest. ... LHP Tyler Skaggs (ankle) will throw one more bullpen session before being activated off the injured list. ... Ausmus threw batting practice to DH Shohei Ohtani (elbow) on Saturday, but there is no updated timetable for the Japanese two-way star. "We've been pretty steadfast on sticking to his schedule and being cautious with him to avoid any long-term damage to his elbow," Ausmus said..
Mariners: RHP Erik Swanson (0-1, 3.38 ERA) will make his first career road start at San Diego on Tuesday. Swanson took the loss against Cleveland on Wednesday after giving up one run in six innings.
Angels: RHP Matt Harvey (0-2, 9.64) will start against the New York Yankees on Monday in the opener of a four-game series. Harvey is 1-0 with a 1.25 ERA in three career starts against the Yankees.
Mariners manager Servais on Narvaez's career day, disappointing 7-4 loss to A's
Servais on Mariners' 8-2 win over Royals: 'Marco pitching well and we're hitting homers. That's a good formula for us'
Welcome back, Sam. Mariners reliever Tuivailala activated after 11 months on IL
After spending nearly a year on the injured list with a ruptured right Achilles and right shoulder discomfort, Seattle Mariners reliever Sam Tuivailala was activated Monday morning, and could pitch in the upcoming Oakland series.
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Schwarz, Frost Symphony soar to new heights with Diamond and Bruckner
Gerard Schwarz conducted the Frost Symphony Orchestra in music of Bruckner and David Diamond Saturday night.
Last spring Thomas Sleeper retired after a quarter-century at the helm of the University of Miami's Frost Symphony Orchestra. This season several guest conductors and possible candidates for the vacant faculty position are leading the student ensemble.
On Saturday night Gerard Schwarz, the heavyweight among this group, took the stage of UM Gusman Concert Hall to conduct outstanding performances of symphonies by Bruckner and David Diamond.
Prior to Schwarz's appearance, associate conductor Alexander Magalong (one of Sleeper's students) led Junction by student composer Benjamin Webster. The brief score opens with bell-like sonorities from the brass and mallet percussion before string figurations suggest a touch of repetitive minimalism. Magalong shaped the work's<|fim_middle|>2400. | few quiet moments artfully while fully conveying the ballast and brassy aura of Webster's opus. While there was little depth or subtlety in Webster's work, the young composer clearly has some skill for orchestration and the fanfare-like score displayed his sense of instrumental color.
Schwarz is a distinguished podium veteran. He has held music directorships of the Seattle Symphony (a record 23 years), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival. His repertoire is wide ranging but American music of the past and present has long been his specialty. Almost singularly among contemporary conductors, he has championed and recorded the symphonies of Roy Harris, William Schuman, Walter Piston, Howard Hanson and Diamond among others. This repertoire, mostly written in the 1940's and 50's, represents some of the finest creativity of American composers.
Diamond (1915-2005) was one of America's most consistently inspired and inventive composers. That his music has been neglected in recent decades is nothing short of tragic. His Symphony No. 4 was composed in 1945 as a memorial to friends who died in World War II.
While the three-movement work lasts a mere 15 minutes, Diamond's mastery of melodic development, structure and instrumentation shines through every page. Scored for large orchestra, including two harps, the symphony demands high precision from the orchestral forces and Schwarz delivered that and more. Indeed. he brought the Frost players to a new, strikingly high level.
In the opening Allegretto, Diamond overlays thematic fragments with rhythmic figures. Schwarz brought total clarity to the clipped, swirling musical cells while drawing lustrous tone from the strings and pinpoint definition from the winds.
The second movement, a moving threnody, was eloquently rendered. Over the full string contingent, the harp lines of Elif Dincer and Gabriela Gutierrez emerged with clean definition. Diamond's incisive final Allegro is quintessentially American in its restless thrust. Schwarz never let the pace slacken and the orchestra played with vigor and high precision. Special credit to the terrific trumpets.
The symphonies of Anton Bruckner are as commonly encountered in Miami as snow. One can count on a couple fingers the number of performances they have received locally in the past decade.
All credit to Schwarz for programming the Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major ("Romantic"). This work represents Bruckner at his most lyrical and, at times, episodic and diffuse. Schwarz's strong conception of the score kept keen momentum in a purposeful, straightforward manner and his taut tempos avoided monotony in the less inspired pages. The building blocks of the spacious opening horn theme gradually evolved into a full-throated brass proclamation. The five horns produced a finely blended sonority. With the exception of a brief moment of faltering intonation from the violins, the orchestra navigated Bruckner 's sonic tapestry securely.
Schwarz phrased the opening subject of the Andante in almost martial fashion. With nine double basses at stage left providing strong underpinning, the strings sounded full and mellow in the Viennese manner. Schwarz marshaled his forces to tremendous climactic volleys, bringing forth Bruckner's cathedral of sound in full regalia.
The third movement is one of Bruckner's most thrilling scherzos. Horns and trumpets crackled with power and exactitude. Schwarz nicely contrasted the clarinet-led trio section, shaping a peasant landler with almost Mozartean grace. The Wagnerian proclamations of the finale resounded splendidly but Schwarz also brought out the warmth and charm of the contrasting melodies. Winds and strings played with an edge-of-the-seat intensity.
Schwarz's sense of dynamics, even in the bright and challenging Gusman acoustic, was masterful. From hushed string pianissimos to climactic chorales, instrumental choirs reveled in a huge range of volume and tonal hues.
Schwarz acknowledged numerous individual players and sections during the well-deserved standing ovation. Natalie Miller's horn solos throughout were delivered with clarion finesse. Frost faculty member Scott Flavin conducted initial rehearsals and deserves special credit for helping prepare the ensemble for Schwarz.
Kudos to Gerard Schwarz for presenting an uncompromising program that challenged players and audience alike. With the impressive performances he commanded from the students, he should be a prime candidate for the Frost conducting and teaching positions. His high artistic standards and bold repertoire choices would bring added prestige to the Frost School of Music.
Michelle Merrill conducts the Frost Symphony Orchestra in Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino, Falla's The Three Cornered Hat (with mezzo-soprano Robynne Redmon) and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 with soloist Santiago Rodriguez 8 p.m. November 16 at UM Gusman Concert Hall in Coral Gables. frostmusiclive.com; 305-284- | 1,048 |
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The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven
Item#: 9788936017064
Korean Title: Cheongugeseo Doraon Sonyeon
Author: Kevin Malarkey, Alex Malarkey (Contributor)
Translator: Jeong-hee Yu
Publisher: Christian Success
281 pages | 210*148mm
A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life beyond This World
In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son, Alex, suffered an horrific car accident. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex—and medically speaking, it was unlikely that he could survive. ��I think Alex has gone to be with Jesus,�� a friend told the stricken dad. But two months later, Alex awoke from a coma with an incredible story to share. Of events at the accident scene and in the hospital while he was unconscious. Of the angels that took him through the gates of heaven itself. Of the unearthly music that sounded just terrible to a six-year-old. And, most amazing of all . . . Of meeting and talking to Jesus. The Boy Who Came<|fim_middle|> awoke from a coma two months later, he had an incredible story to share. Of events at the accident scene and in the hospital while he was unconscious. Of the unearthly music that sounded just terrible to a six-year-old. Of the angels who took him through the gates of Heaven itself. And, most amazing of all . . . of meeting and talking with Jesus.
The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven is the true story of an ordinary boy��s most extraordinary journey. As you see Heaven and earth through Alex��s eyes, you��ll come away with new insights on miracles, life beyond this world, and the power of a father��s love. | Back from Heaven is the true story of an ordinary boy��s most extraordinary journey. As you see heaven and earth through Alex��s eyes, you��ll come away with new insights on miracles, life beyond this world, and the power of a father��s love.
��God is amazing. I��m just a kid.�� Alex Malarkey
We were made for so much more than the things of this world. Sometimes we can sense it . . . we have a restless, dissatisfied feeling that we don��t quite belong here, that this is not our final home.
Yet who do you know who has been to the next world? Sure, you may have heard stories of white light and tunnels and near-death experiences. But what if there was a person who had been to Heaven—who had actually walked through the gates—and stayed long enough to learn about the things of God? Would you be interested in what he had to say?
Meet Alex Malarkey. Alex and his dad, Kevin, were in a car accident so horrific that emergency workers recommended calling the coroner to the scene for Alex. For the next two months, Alex lingered in a coma. When he finally awoke, he revealed something amazing: He had spent time in Heaven with Jesus while unconscious and had come back with astonishing revelations about what he had seen, heard, and experienced.
You may be intrigued. You may be skeptical. You may be hungry to know more about what lies beyond life on earth. Join Alex on his journey . . . and your life may be changed forever.
��Let the children come to me. Don��t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children.�� Mark 10:14
An accident. A miracle. And a supernatural encounter that will give you new insights on Heaven, angels, and hearing the voice of God.
In 2004, Kevin Malarkey and his six-year-old son, Alex, suffered a terrible car wreck. The impact from the crash paralyzed Alex—and it seemed impossible that he could survive.
��I think that Alex has gone to be with Jesus,�� a friend told the stricken dad.
When Alex | 449 |
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Cav1.3, also known as the calcium channel, voltage-dependent, L type, alpha 1D subunit(CACNA1D), is a human gene. It is mapped to 3p21.1. Voltage-dependent calcium channels mediate the entry of calcium ions into excitable cells, and are also involved in a variety of calcium-dependent processes, including muscle contraction, hormone or neurotransmitter release, and gene expression. Alpha-1D subunit can mediate DHP-sensitive, high voltage-activated, long-lasting calcium channel activity. CACNA1D can form L-type | 222 |
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There's nothing more frustrating to a synthetic chemist than a reversible reaction. We incur great expense to prepare reactive reagents (MeMgBr, LiAlH4, Br2, PhI(OAc)2, etc.) that do their thing and then just stand by and watch after they're done. I think this is in part why RCM<|fim_middle|> essentially all of the material is siphoned to the product. Some of the 2-bromostyrene homocouples, accounting for the mass balance. When they use 3 equiv. of 2-bromostyrene, a little more homodimerization doesn't matter and the yield is 98%! | was so quickly adopted by the synthetic community. You drive off ethylene and the reaction is irreversible.
The seminal paper in this area came out of the Grubbs group (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 11360), describing a method to think about cross metathesis reactions.
Everything you need to know comes down to the Olefin Types and The Rules, but they both have their share of subtleties.
The Olefin Type is determined by the sterics and electronics of the olefin in question. At the boundaries, a simple terminal olefin is Type I, and a hindered electron-poor olefin is Type IV. For more specific (but still generic) categorizations, see the Grubbs 2003 paper.
However, the Olefin Type is also dependent on what kind of catalyst you use. For example, 1,1-disubstituted olefins are considered type IV with the 1st gen. Grubbs catalyst, but with the 2nd gen. version, which can make trisubstituted olefins, they are Type III. Therefore, catalyst selection plays a key role.
Use an excess of one substrate (especially useful if it's volatile and cheap, i.e. isobutylene).
Remove the desired product (or the undesired byproduct) during the course of the reaction. This works if it's volatile (ethylene), or if you know that the product is insoluble.
If one of the CM partners is terminal, a slow addition can help minimize self-metathesis.
Proper protecting group strategy can change the olefin category (sterics impact the Olefin Type).
Don't be afraid to run reactions neat. This is especially true if your CM partner is a Type III olefin like isobutylene, where you can use a large excess without worrying about self-metathesis.
When a 1:1 ratio of the two olefins is used, they see an 80% reaction yield. Considering all the possibilities, that's pretty good! Let's think it through. The hexenyl acetate (Type I) is free to react with itself, but the product 1,2-dibustituted olefin can also re-enter the catalytic cycle, so it doesn't matter. 2-Bromostyrene (Type II) is slow to react with itself, and faster to react with the hexenyl acetate (or the dimer of hexenyl acetate). The desired product is the most hindered and therefore slowest olefin in the system to react, so the net result is that | 555 |
Young Meaning<|fim_middle|>12 | Makers—Teaching Comprehension, Grades K–2
D. Ray Reutzel, Sarah K. Clark, Cindy D. Jones, Sandra L. Gillam
Foreword by: P. David Pearson
Series: Common Core State Standards in Literacy Series
One of the most critical elements in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is the effective teaching of reading comprehension in the early years. This timely resource provides evidence-based practices for teachers to use as they work to meet standards associated with comprehending complex literature and informational texts. The authors offer a practical model with classroom applications that draw on the Construction-Integration (CI) model of text comprehension. Illustrating why comprehension is so important in the CCSS framework, the book distills six key principles for meeting CCSS and other high-challenge standards. Chapters show teachers how to build oral language and text comprehension skills with young readers, including selecting texts, organizing materials, scheduling time, and assessing the acquisition of knowledge.
A practitioner-friendly model for teaching comprehension of informational and narrative texts in the early grades.
Guidance for how to create a classroom environment that supports oral language acquisition.
Instructional strategies, including teaching children to understand text structures, key details, and main ideas of a story or information text.
A standards-based series of formative comprehension assessments.
D. Ray Reutzel is the dean of the College of Education, University of Wyoming, and a member of the Reading Hall of Fame. Cindy D. Jones is an associate professor and director of the Literacy Clinic in the Department of Teacher Education and Leadership at Utah State University. Sarah K. Clark is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education and Leadership at Utah State University. Sandra L. Gillam is a professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University.
" Young Meaning Makers is as practical as it is theoretical. And because it is both, teachers not only get a lot of very practical teaching ideas, they get it packaged in a framework that surrounds, gives credence to, and explains why any given lesson, activity, or assessment is being used with these types of students at exactly this point in their development…. Read (this book) with the gusto it provides and deserves, and go out into your classrooms and make texts come to life through the magic of understanding!"
—From the Foreword by P. David Pearson, University of California, Berkeley
"Every day, teachers in K–2 classrooms face the challenge of engaging young children in tasks and activities to deepen their understanding of text. In this timely and teacher-friendly book, the authors provide a blueprint for a theory-driven approach to reading comprehension based on the Common Core State Standards. This is a must-read for teachers and educators as they strive to meet the new literacy standards and improve reading comprehension outcomes for their students."
—Linda B. Gambrell, Distinguished Professor of Education, Clemson University, and coeditor, Reading Research Quarterly
"The authors start with the most respected theory of how reading comprehension happens, add an insightful and appreciative analysis of relevant Common Core standards, and combine the two with solid, practical instructional ideas. Bravo!"
—James W. Cunningham, professor emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"A major cause of reading difficulties in later schooling is a lack of foundation for comprehension early on. This book contains a wealth of actionable advice about comprehension assessment and instruction in the critical K-2 years. The authors draw on theory, research, and years of classroom experience to provide a well-supported and practical set of strategies for developing reading comprehension. Every educator will benefit from this important text."
—Nell K. Duke, University of Michigan
CI Model Level and CCSS Anchor Standard Tracking Spreadsheet
PAPERBACKHARDCOVEREBOOK
Literacy Success for Emergent Bilinguals
Teaching Skills for Complex Text
Professional Learning in Action
Revitalizing Read Alouds
RTI in the Common Core Classroom
The Fluency Factor
Research-Based Practices for Teaching Common Core Literacy
Helping English Learners to Write—Meeting Common Core Standards, Grades 6- | 837 |
Q: How can we add some text before controller name in cakephp? i have a SEO requirement that when the user is logged in, their username should be displayed before the contrroller name.
I.e.
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*example.com/home - currently looks like this
*example.com/username/home - I want it to look like this
i have tried some basic modification in routes.php such as:
Router::<|fim_middle|> a relative path for assets means the image that is requested changes depending on the current url.
A: if its just image path problem you can use either solution
1 use html helper class of cakephp
<?php echo $this->Html->image('xyz.png', array('alt' => 'alternate text')); ?>
2 use webroot path
<img src='<?php echo $this->webroot ?>img/xyz.png' />
| connect('/haresh/:controller', array('action' => 'index'));
with this, it works, but this option is lost the base path so all images are
disappear. I.e. image urls like this:
<img src='img/xyz.png' />
Don't work.
How do I modify the url so that /username/ is prefixed to all urls, and fix the image path problem?
A: SEO applies to anonymous users
If the urls in the question only apply to users that have logged in - they are of zero SEO value - because googlebot et.al. will never login to your site, and if they did - all urls would be /googlebots-username/....
SEO Routes
Assuming that these user urls are publicly accessible (see previous point, if they aren't they are of no value), all you need to do is define a route for them:
// define other routes first
Router::connect('/about', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'about'));
Router::connect('/:username/:controller', array('controller' => 'default', 'action' => 'index'));
Router::connect('/:username/:controller/:action', array('controller' => 'default', 'action' => 'index'));
Router::connect('/:username/:controller/:action/*', array('controller' => 'default', 'action' => 'index'));
You can then access the username property inside your controllers as
$username = $this->request->params['named']['username'];
Fixing images
This is a seperate problem, but the simple fix is to use an appropriate helper method:
<?php echo $this->Html->image('xyz.png', array('alt' => 'to the abc')); ?>
The answer to most markup problems is to use an appropriate helper method.
Alternatively
Or just use an absolute url:
<img src='/img/xyz.png' />
Obviously if the url is changing - using | 395 |
Are You Comfortable With Your Sound System?
Have you ever put on a pair of old jeans only to find that they're too tight? You might wear them for a while but eventually you realize they're too uncomfortable.
Comfort is a huge factor when you choose anything in your life – even if it seems perfect, like jeans you used to love.
The same goes for the AV in your home. You don't want a sound system that's uncomfortable to listen to. And most of the time it's not about finding the perfect components. It's about designing an audio distribution system with no hot spots or dead zones.
If you want to know how you can improve the sonic experience in your New York City property, this is the blog for you. Read on for more.
See Also: What is the Best Way to Stream Music in Your Home?
If you've ever dealt with a real-estate agent, you've probably heard them talk about the importance of location. Distance to quality food, good schools and other important places is a key concept when you're property-hunting.
And it's true of what's inside your home as well. You probably don't want a couch that blocks a walkway, or a cabinet that bangs into the fridge when you open the door.
So why would you want speakers that blast in one area of your room but can't be heard in another?
The location of your speakers is essential to how comfortable you are with your audio system and how to avoid any sonic dead zones.
If you're enjoying a two-channel system in your listening room, you've probably positioned the dual floor standing speakers in front of your seating area for impactful staging.
On the other hand, if you're in your dining room, you'll want many speakers hidden within the ceiling, evenly placed throughout the space<|fim_middle|> don't want to have to get off the couch every time you want to change the playlist.
Mobile access is key. Selecting your tunes from a smartphone or touch panel tablet is a fun, easy way to enjoy the kind of music you want to hear.
An expertly designed audio system makes it easy to find the tracks you want, group them together and play them throughout any area of your home.
It's a more comfortable way to listen.
Want to know more about how to build a comfortable audio distribution system in your home? All you have to do is click here. | . You can play the music at a reasonable volume, but still hear it clearly.
In your outdoor sound systems, you don't want just a few speakers mounted on outer walls. You want to surround your yard and patio with a perimeter of sound.
A big part of the comfortable sound system is easy access. You | 63 |
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2013 Reviews, Bryan, Erich B. Heider, Foofer, IamHop, News, ShaneXedge, Shooter, staffpicks2013, TenaciousListening
2013 Year End Awards
It has been a whirlwind year here at Postrockstar as we put the finishing touches on our first full calendar year reviewing and promoting all things relevant to the world of Post-Rock and instrumental music. This year we were able review 73 albums and promoted 150 other albums, constantly offering our readers fresh new music to feast their ears upon. As you might imagine dissecting and breaking down the ins & outs of 200+ albums for these year end awards was no easy task. The team has been hard at work researching, discussing and sometimes even arguing their picks for these awards right up to the last very weekend before they went live. At the end of it all, we stand firmly behind our picks and believe these are the very best offerings of the year from some of the most talented bands in their respective subgenres. Without further Ado…
Winner : Ef – Ceremonies
"The craftsmanship and attention to detail found on this album was the first thing that grabbed my attention. 'Ceremonies' has so many incredibly vibrant moments that picking a favorite song is nearly impossible. There is no filler here, each of the eight tracks are all the same caliber of material that I've come to expect from Ef." – James
Click here to read our full review of 'Ceremonies'
Runner Up: Lights & Motion – Reanimation
"It's beautiful, dramatic, powerful, to-the-point, explosive and uplifting. The culmination of everything that post-rock (or a certain school of post-rock) has been trying to achieve for the past decade. It picks your spirits up where all else has failed. It inspires feelings of awe and wonder. It's music for stargazers. It's the sound of your first crush and your last love." – Shooter
Click here to read our roundtable review of 'Reanimation'
Winner: Deafheaven – Sunbather
"Deafheaven does their thing very, very well, and with "Sunbather", have undoubtedly released one of the greatest albums of the year. I know, it came out in June with a full 7 months of music yet to be released, but I can say with great certainty that I'll stand by that statement." – ShaneXedge
Click here to read our review of 'Sunbather'
Runner Up: Light Bearer – Silver Tongue
"Silver Tongue', as an album, is not something that is easily digested (nor are any other Light Bearer recordings, really). To me, that makes the mark of a truly great album. It's not something that's just going to be blurred background music – it demands your attention, and rewards you greatly for focusing on it." – ShaneXedge
Click here to read our review of 'Silver Tongue'
Winner: And So I Watch You From Afar – All Hail Bright Futures
"'All Hail Bright Futures' is like a dream pop album on a sugar-high. Aggressive metal elements that were once a distraction are now left by the wayside in the aid of a cohesive pop sound. I feel like this band has finally found its identity." – Shooter
Click here to read our roundtable review of 'All Hail Bright Futures'
Runner up: Jardin De La Croix – 187 Steps To Cross The Universe
"Fasten your seat belts and secure your headphones tightly to your head because you are in for a hell of a ride. An excellent must-listen to release that is not to be taken lightly. Bands looking to melt faces in 2013 be warned: The bar has been set high." – James
Click here to read our full review of '187 Steps To Cross The Universe'
Winner: My Bloody Valentine – M B V
"It's impossible to have any sort of discussion about shoegaze, as a genre, without talking about My Bloody Valentine, and as such, there were very high expectations and hopes surrounding this album. In my opinion, 'M B V' lives up to the hopes.." – ShanexEdge
Click here to read our full review of 'M B V '
Runner up: The Fauns – Lights
"This British five piece take the best inspirational elements from all of the 90s shoegaze/dream pop giants, and churn out a masterpiece of an album (helped in no small part by Alison Garner's incredible vocals). Though there were other huge, notable shoegaze releases this year, how many other bands released a single mixed by Clint Mansell?!" – ShaneXedge
Click here to download 'Lights' on bandcamp
Winner: Caspian – Hymn For The Greatest Generation
The post-rock world's collective hearts sank for Caspian this past August with the sudden passing of bassist Chris Friedrich. In the wake of tragedy this talented collective of musicians pressed forward, touring and releasing 'Hymn For The Greatest Generation' , an EP that simply stood head and shoulders above the rest of the EP's released in 2013. The acoustic styling of 'CMF' won our hearts as a touching tribute to their fallen brother, while the title track is simply Caspian reinventing their sound yet again.
"They never cease to amaze me because they never waver or falter, they don't even misstep on occasion. Caspian's career trajectory has been a clear path upward since 2009 and the band has transformed themselves into a pioneer at the forefront of a genre that desperately needs leaders. I never know what to expect from a Caspian release, but you can bet I'm going to listen to it the moment it's released. 'Hymn For The Greatest Generation' is as emotionally charged as they come. You shouldn't need any convincing why this EP is a must own." – James
Click here to download 'Hymn For the Greatest Generation' on bandcamp
Runner up: Lavinia – Take Shelter EP
"The beginning seduces you, then proceeds to kick you in the balls, and you're not even halfway through the first song. Lavinia's EP is just too short, I wish it were an hour long." – Foofer
Click here to download 'Take Shelter EP' on bandcamp
Winner: Hammock – Oblivion Hymns
"..Hammock is a band that's only true descriptor is unique. Of course, words like beautiful, ethereal, majestic, can all be used, but they fail in the most magnificent of ways. They fall short because they are just words. The music, the layers, the use of every instrument is what brings life to those hollow words. Hammock is what people think of when they desire a soundtrack to their lives." – TenaciousListening
Click here to read our review of 'Oblivion Hymns'
Runner up: North Atlantic Drift – Monuments
"North Atlantic Drift's Monuments is a powerful record that is both spacious, as ambient music is prone to being, and melodious. What wins it for me is you can drift off to this music, but you are compelled to do so with ears pricked lest you miss some of the bigger moments that almost nudge you to make sure you are still listening. The duo has blended beautifully elements of post-rock and electronica to create one of my favourite albums of 2013 and it is easily placed as runner up for the best ambient release this year." – Bryan
Click here to download 'Monuments' on bandcamp
Winner: J.R. Alexander – Moments
"'Moments' in many ways treads upon Alexander's previous musical ideology except with an added presence of electronica, glitch and downtempo influence. By combining gorgeous string instrument arrangements, elegant piano work and rusticly smooth acoustic guitar work with electronic-inspired beats Alexander has created a downtempo sound that quite frankly has me struggling to find the proper way to describe it. – James
Click here to read our review of 'Moments'
Runner up: The Watermark High – Murmurs EP
"While 'Slow Motion Clarity' could be considered a more ambient, instrument focused album, 'Murmurs' flips the script, giving us a much more glitchy, aggressive side of Watermark High. Straight-forward post-rock fans will likely hate this pick and think that this EP has no place being anywhere near the site. Maybe they're right, who knows, but if you can't see the influence or parallels between post-rock and The Watermark High, your missing the entire point of what we're trying to accomplish with Postrockstar" – James
Click here to download 'Murmurs' on bandcamp
Winner: Lights & Motion – Reanimation
"'Reanimation' is an hour plus long magical journey that explores the depths of the soul by seamlessly transitioning between moments of glory, triumph and heartbreak. After dozens of listens I still find myself impressed at the musical mind of Christoffer Franzén (Lights & Motion). That no one particular instrument stands out as clearly being dominant or "better" than the rest speaks volumes to Franzén's talent." – James
Runner up: set & setting – Equanimity
"Warmth and delicacy permeate the production values of "Equanimity." In fact it's almost sort of intimidating. Nothing is fragile, but everything is very delicate of spirit, like a special memory from a long time ago. Even when set and setting kick into the heavier sections they leave room for breath, which keeps the whole album sounding imbued with life." – Erich
Click here to read our review of 'Equanimity'
Winner: This Patch of Sky – Heroes & Ghosts
This category is always difficult because there are usually several bands well deserving of this spot and this year was no different. Although proper and well thought out cases were made for those other bands, This Patch of Sky was the voting council's collective top pick. With 'Heroes & Ghosts' we witnessed a transformation through maturity and comfort of a band no longer interested in simply blowing away the listener away with raw power, but rather reward the listener through complex build ups, ranges of emotions and storytelling. The leap in quality from their 2012 effort 'Newly Risen, How Bright You Shine' and 'Heroes & Ghosts' is unmistakable and the band's new found direction only excites us for what's to come from this young Oregon band.
"'Heroes and Ghosts' is an impressive step forward for a band who could have chosen to play it safe and continued to carve themselves a nice little niche in the post-rock world. For them to willingly go out of their way to reinvent their sound and further themselves as musicians is a noble undertaking that has earned the band much respect in my book." – James
Click here to read our review of 'Heroes & Ghosts'
Winner: EF – Ceremonies
"To say that we've been ultra critical of vocals in post-rock on this site would be an understatement. Vocals have the ability to ruin even the best of albums when they don't fit in and are overbearing or they have the ability to accentuate everything around them and add an incredible amount of depth when used properly and sparingly. The vocals in Ceremonies take the latter route and are absolutely adorable, heartfelt and shine in their limited role. While much of the staff agreed there wasn't a vocal-centric release quite like Alcest's 'Les Voyages de l'Âme' which took the award this year, the vocals harmonized well enough with the rest of 'Ceremonies' that we felt no other album was more deserving." – James
Click here to read our review of 'Ceremonies'
Runner up: Jesu – Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came
"Again this is just another great example of when vocals can bring out the best in everything else around them. No one understands that better than Justin Broadrick and the vocals found within 'Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came' are very much what we've come to love and expect from him. Downtrodden, static-laced and optimistically bleak, Broadrick's vocals are by no means nothing you haven't experienced before, but than again, there's probably nobody else who could do them any better either." – James
Click here to download 'Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I came' on bandcamp
(Despite our best efforts we simply couldn't pick a winner in this category and after lengthy discussion, it was agreed there would be dual winners for this category. The violin work found on 'Ascendere' offers the album an enormous range of depth and is really what sets it apart from the rest of the field by giving it an identity. 'Ascendere' is the quintessential example of how just one instrument can drastically alter a band's entire sound. While on the other hand Ólafur Arnalds' "For Now I Am Winter" is a testament of true classical beauty and simply in a class of its own)
Winner: Ólafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter
"It would have been a grave injustice for us not to give this award to Arnalds as well, who's latest 'For Now I Am Winter' embodies the very essence of this category. At just 27 years of age Arnalds has classical compositions perfected, each one of his works dripping with heartfelt passages, powerful emotion and an array of sounds that just blend perfectly with one another. 'For Now I Am Winter' is an important album in the career of the young icelandic virtuoso, showing he capable of much more than neo-classical and ambient pieces by incorporating looping electronics, hypnotic beats and offering a slightly more aggressive side to his work. This album is gorgeous." – James
Click here to visit Ólafur Arnalds' website and download 'For Now I Am Winter'
Winner: Aesthesys – Ascendere
"I tend to think of post-rock with neoclassical influence and/or string instruments as noble and place it on a pedestal much higher than the more modern third-wave stylings of big guitar crescendo and distortion driven tracks. Whenever I review an album like 'Ascendere' I expect so much more out of them than a standard album. In that aspect, I think Aesthesys has shined at incorporating these elements into a more traditional post-rock sound. In another light, I feel like their best work is ahead of them and that this album is just a taste of what's to come from a band who's potential is as bright as sun on the album cover." – James
Click here to read our review of 'Ascendere'
Winner: God Is An Astronaut – Origins
"It is unfortunate when a band releases an album that just doesn't connect with their fan base and in that respect we have to give this award to God Is An Astronaut for their 'Origins' album. Three years removed from 'Age of the Fifth Sun', the band opted to leave their dreamy atmospheric sound in the past, pursuing a much different and far less appealing distortion heavy dream pop hybrid sound that left us scratching our heads. GIAA's contributions to the post-rock realm cannot be ignored and we believe that they are band that deserves the respect and attention from the post-rock fans, but we would like to see them get back to their roots in the future." – James
Click here to download 'Origins' on bandcamp
Winner: Arbor Lights – Hatherton Lake
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"Hatherton Lake is a lake in Walsall (UK). Named after Lord Hathertonits, lore includes a story of a diver, who died in a search for the body of the Mayor of Walsall; who had drowned. With that in mind I can tell you that this track, "The Mayor and the Diver" (an extended version of "Coda" from the band's self-titled EP) conjures the panic you could associate with seeing the light fade through the ever stilling surface of the lake as you sink, seemingly peacefully, to your death." – TenaciousListening
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Runner up: EF – Ceremonies
"Ef has once again teamed up with Staffan Larsson to create the album artwork for Ceremonies. Larsson manages to capture the emotional highs and lows of Efs sound through his artwork. The interconnectedness of this artwork to the sound is what makes this stand out to us as the album artwork of the year." – Bryan
Winner: set & setting – "Essence of Paradox"
Post-Rock is a genre built on slow build ups, grand finales and tracks that routinely push the 10 minute mark. Not all 'epic' songs have to push the double digits mark nor do they have to be a brooding masterpiece of layered crescendos and false finishes. Truth is there are probably close to 50 songs that could easily contend for this award but "Essence of Paradox" by set & setting stood just taller than the rest. This song is a near 14 minute marathon of a track that packs an enormous punch, never slows down, never gives an inch, and continually builds to a finale that is well worth the wait. A true masterpiece.
"The band's final song was "Essence of Paradox", their 13 minute long magnum opus that felt like it was never going to end. And none of us wanted it to end either. Louder, faster, harder. Louder, faster, harder. The build up continued as a crowd in awe witnessed a band playing endlessly like the world was crumbling around them. There are few things in this life that are true and pure. Being in the band's presence as they performed "Essence of Paradox" felt like an honor and a privilege. If set and setting was a drug, I would have overdosed and died with no regrets." – James (on "Essence of Paradox" performed live in Seattle)
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Runner up: Cloudkicker – "A weather front was stalled out in the Pacific–like a lonely person, lost in thought, oblivious of time."
Better known as Cloudkicker, Ben Sharp has consistently reinvented his sound with each new release to his catalog, offering his faithful following new glimpses into the mind of possibly the most complete sounding solo project on the planet. But with 2013's 'Subsume' came something I don't think any of us could have imagined: a 16 minute destroyer of worlds that completely changes everything the way we view Sharp as a musician. While 2012's 'Fade' did give us one 10+ minute track, "A Weather Front…" just goes to show that Sharp's Djentbased prog-metal (Post-Djent?) is more than capable of standing toe to toe with epics from the likes of GY!BE, EITS, Sigur Ros, etc.
"Sharp has outdone himself. After looking into Cloudkicker | 830 |
The Mother of all Transitions – Back to School 2020
3 Bites 3 Tips
It's mid-August. Back-to-school is upon us. And with it, all of the anxieties that come with preparing your kids, who have been glued to your side for nearly six months, to begin a new school routine with new classmates, new teachers, and new protocols in an unchartered world. This might be the mother of all transitions. That's why we tapped Dr. Becky Kennedy, clinical psychologist and mom of three, who has an impeccable way of providing perspectives and tools that make parenting feel *almost* easy. She shared her bite-sized wisdom with us, which includes her signature scripts so you can start preparing your child for what's to come.
Every kid should know the word Coronavirus, they should understand what we've been doing by staying home, why the transition is coming, what it will feel like, and what we'll do to feel good through it. Dr. Becky Kennedy, PhD
What To Do (Bites)
Give it To Them Straight – They Already Know Something's Up
One thing parents underestimate the most is that we have to explain tricky stuff to our kids. We may think we are protecting our kids by not talking about things, but here's the thing: information doesn't scare kids. It's the lack of information that leaves them feeling alone and in the dark, which as we know – is where they're most afraid.
Kids are evolutionarily predisposed to sense changes in their environment – it goes back to the early days of survival, where hearing rustling in a bush might send them into high alert until a parent says, "don't worry it's not a bear, it's just a squirrel." Today, they register changes similarly: "I haven't been out, my parents are home all the time, I can't see my grandma." These changes can produce threatening feelings that accumulate and feel terrifying in their body until an adult can explain it. Once they have an experience and are helped to understand why it's happened – that's healing. Here's what you can say:
"There's this jumpy germ called the Coronavirus. One thing we know is it jumps from person to person – it's why people have been in their homes for so long. Staying in our homes has made it safer for us to go out now. There are some interesting things that people are doing now – they wear masks to be sure they're safe from any leftover germs. They'll be taking your temperature when you go to school- that's a little weird! They're doing that to make sure none of the jumpy germs have gotten into any of the kids' bodies."
As with any transition, "Emotional Vaccination" is Key
Beyond giving a heads up about new protocols, you can also ease the back-to-school transition through "Emotional Vaccination" – preparing your child for the feelings they may have around it. Most parents actively avoid this because they "don't want to give their child any ideas or put feelings inside them."
Guess what? You can't put a feeling inside someone else. But you can instil coping, resilience and a sense of safety by letting them know it's okay for them to be upset. For example, "Drop-off is going to feel tricky this year because it's new. I understand that. It's okay if you cry. And it's okay if you don't cry. I know we're both going to be safe. We'll do our goodbye ritual, (see tip 2) then I'll see you at pickup."
When you tell a kid it's okay that they may feel upset and they're safe, you're giving them the message that they have the ability to get through something hard even if there are tears at the moment of goodbye.
Prepare for the Unknown – Let Them Know Things May Change
These days, things change in a moment. School may start then stop then start again. It can feel difficult to have all the answers and properly prepare our kids. What you can do is give kids a list of the things we know, and the things we don't know: "You have so many good questions and I don't know all the answers. For you and me too, it's hard not to know things. Here's what we do know – this year's going to be full of changes. Moments that feel good and some that may feel not so good. This is the schedule for now. Things might change. We might get into a routine then need to get into a new one. Through it all, I will listen, we will talk, we'll get through it together. We are strong and safe."
In saying this, you're grounding<|fim_middle|> a wife. Those are two entirely different things. The reason mommy and daddy go out with each other and with our friends is because it's important for us to be wife and husband and not just mommy and daddy.' Those wife and husband roles can get lost in parenting. When I say goodbye and they cry, I still validate that they're upset that we're leaving. But I think it's really important to explicitly model how to care for yourselves when you're in other relationships. It's good for them in their life going forward."
Biggest piece of advice or wisdom for working moms?
"I think it's critical for working moms to be aware of their own needs and what feels good for them and hold that as separate from recognizing their kids' feelings and needs. In your mind you may know it's important for you to work and continue in your job. Your kids may wish you could do drop-off more. You can still be empathic with your kids about the impact your work has on them, but it doesn't mean you should quit your job. You don't have to have your kids' support or approval in your decision to work. You can acknowledge the difficulty they feel. But you don't need to convince your kids it's a good thing you're working. If you can separate that out and empathize with both, it can be liberating."
Most medal-worthy moment?
"There are plenty of ugly moments where there is hitting, screaming, name-calling. When my kids are acting out, and I can put a limit on the behavior, remove them from the situation firmly and swiftly, and not allow the moment to make me lose sight of the fact that they're a good kid who is just having a hard time versus a bad kid, those are the medal-worthy moments."
What do you hope your kids will say about you when they're adults?
"My mom really allowed me to figure out who I am."
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These conversations might feel difficult. The most underused parenting strategy is roleplaying with yourself in front of a mirror. Practice what you're going to say so you can say it with ease and confidence. If you prefer, write it down and read it to your kids. Tell them you're reading it because you want to get the story right. They don't care and they won't judge you – it's not a job interview. Give yourself that leeway for tough conversations.
Keep a goodbye ritual short and sweet. Don't give the kid too much responsibility within the ritual or it could get derailed. I suggest saying something playful like "see you later alligator," give a hug and whisper "mommy (or daddy) always comes back." Teachers always say kids repeat "mommy (or daddy) always comes back" like a mantra. Practice your ritual the week before. Then when you do it at school, leave and get out of there. Lingering makes it harder for everyone involved.
It's really hard to be a parent right now. We've been operating under an assumption that a few months from now the world will be different from the one we're living in today. But that's been taken away from us, and it's hard to make decisions without it – around health, mental health, etc. The fact is, there is no right answer. The best thing we can do is remind ourselves that we're doing the best we can with the information available at this time. In moments of uncertainty, take a breath, be kind to yourself, say to yourself "I am enough, I'm a good parent," and lean on supportive friends or family members.
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What does your work do for you that you'd miss if you didn't have it?
"To me my work gives me something concrete that feels forward-moving. As a mom, I do my best to tolerate so much mess and difficulty in the short run, knowing that's where resilience is built. My work gives me an avenue where I can put a thought on paper, or see this many clients. It's more linear, whereas parenting kids of different temperaments is not linear. It allows me to tolerate more nonlinearity and messiness with my kids.
My work also helps separate kids' behavior and achievements from my worth as a mom or person. Work provides me this other source of identity, value and points of interest which allow me more distance with my kids – I'm less likely to be compelled to feel over invested in their latest math score or whether they made the A-team in soccer."
There's a lot of mom-judging. What's one thing that might be controversial that you're unapologetic about?
"At night when we say goodnight or if we're going out for dinner, I explicitly say, 'I love being your mom. I also love being | 646 |
Like it or not, we'll all pass away. And when we do, we all leave something behind; it's either something we own or something we owe. For this reason, estate planning is a very important part of the financial planning process. Without proper planning, our loved ones are left trying to sort out our affairs, the transitioning of our assets can be delayed, costs to settle the estate can rise, and family disputes can occur.
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Coordinate your retirement income planning to align with their estate plan by drawing from assets that would pass less favorably allowing you to leave other assets which may pass to your heirs in a more tax-effective manner.
Work closely with estate planning attorneys to discuss your estate plans, coordinate beneficiaries, funding of trusts, gifting strategies and account ownership.
If you have a special needs child, discuss and plan for the transfer of assets in a way that doesn't impact the child's SSI.
Work with your spouse, family and heirs after death to provide for a smooth transition of assets. | . First, we help them understand the probate process and how different assets pass upon death. It's also important that they understand the financial impact their passing can have on their family and loved ones. We outline the documents that play important roles in estate planning such as wills and trusts and then develop a plan to minimize the costs, taxes and delays of transitioning their assets and settling their estate when their time comes. This phase of planning is often done by working closely with an estate planning attorney and tax advisor.
If you have questions about your estate planning needs, we would be happy to discuss them with you. Below are a few ways that we can help you with your estate planning needs.
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Q: CSS relative and absolute, ignoring z-index I have a grid of li's all floated left with a fixed width/height. The problem is when I hover over the Latest Product in the centre, the div which is displayed in not positioned on top and sits under the next li's
EDIT/BREAKTHROUGH:
If I remove the z-index on the relative li this works in all browsers except IE7
A: Try changing the hovered LI's z-index to make it greater than it's siblings, like so in your productOver function:
function<|fim_middle|>().fadeTo('slow', 0, function() {
$(this).hide();
});
}
A: Put z-index: 1; to the bottom row LIs and higher z-inded to all the elements that appear on hover. That should get you started.
| productOver(){
var product_html = $(this).find(".product_html");
// Generate HTML only on first hover.
if(product_html.data("generated") != true){
var tis = $(this);
product_html.find(".name").html(tis.find("h2").html());
product_html.find(".price").html(tis.find(".price").html());
product_html.data("generated", true);
}
$(this).css('z-index','10'); //add this
product_html.stop().fadeTo('fast', 1).show();
}
and of course set it back to it's default on productOut
function productOut(){
$(this).css('z-index', '8'); //add this
$(this).find(".product_html").stop | 165 |
"The Dictator" recalls a time when Ali G reigned supreme
Good "clever" comedic writing isn't easy, but I'd be willing to wager that writing good l"ow-brow" comedy is even more difficult. Granted, I'm pretty lousy at gambling — I owe my roommate $10 for a lost bet that Blue October was to blame for the 1995 hit "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (turns out it was Deep Blue Something, another Texas band with the color blue in the name). But consider the fine line walked between a simple fart joke and a memorable one like Dumb and Dumber or Bridesmaids.
Or, consider the least known of Sacha Baron Cohen's films, 2003's Ali G Indahouse, the first scripted Ali G movie and one that is not particularly funny or what some people might call "good." (Indahouse is the only other SBC film besides The Dictator to not be done in mockumentary style. It's also 90 minutes of proof that waiting a few years to get Ali G in the States courtesy of HBO was worth it considering the U.S. version of Da Ali G Show was sans scripted skits.)
There was a time when I could think of few people funnier than Mr. SBC; then he gave us Brüno.
Fortunately, The Dictator proves there are some signs of life for SBC in a post-Ali G world, which is a relief as Ali G and the two other quirky characters from his eponymous TV series, Borat and Brüno, have been retired. Dictator Admiral General Aladeen may be the weakest of SBC's characters thus far but still provides a vessel for delivering outrageous material, the best of which comes thanks to some incredible wingman work from Jason Mantzoukas (Rafi from FX's The League). When the two are going back and forth it makes for the film's funniest moments.
The laughs take a bit to get going, but once The Dictator hits its raucous high point (with a woman giving birth in a grocery store) there's enough delightfully shocking, brilliantly stupid and oh-so-right offensive moments to keep the laughs coming.
Those not amused by SBC's hijinks from his Ali G days will have similar complaints here. "Is he drawing awareness to sensitive subjects or making light of them?" It's the type of heavy question that caused Dave Chappelle to leave his show and causes uptight critics to toss around words and phrases like "misogyny" or "too soon" instead of answering the only question that matters in comedy: Is it funny?
If you consider yourself sensitive, there's plenty in The Dictator that may offend or outrage, and for you, the answer to that simple question may very well be no. At it's worse, The Dictator feels reminiscent of a bad SNL movie with a handful of rape jokes added in. But, at times, it brings back fond memories of Sunday nights spent watching HBO — a simpler day when The Wire was still on the air and Entourage was just a bad idea bouncing around in Marky Mark's head.
While The Dictator appears to be about 99 percent scripted, there is at least one brief scene where SBC talks to an unwitting extra or two on the streets of New York. And, some of the exchanges between characters — particularly SBC and Mantzoukas — feel at least partially ad libbed. Though The Dictator is missing the kind of back and forth between comedian and oblivious interviewee that made Ali G so magical, a majority of what made that so memorable was SBC knowing how to ask the right questions. It's clear that SBC still has a few tricks up his sleeve to delight and disgust, even if he's not making celebrities look like fools while the audience squirms in their seats.
--Eric Pulsifer
<|fim_middle|>-cool, he's just a whiny prick who drinks too much. The Black Widow is an undercover S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who poses as Stark's assistant. Stark cleans up his act and saves the day, but he hears from Nick Fury that he isn't making the cut for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s superhero team. Should you watch it? Nope. Even RDJ's charm, the addition of Don Cheadle and a bunch of shiny special effects can save this sorry excuse for a sequel.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer — There's a minor connection to The Avengers here with a bunch of the trippy space crap that Marvel did in the '60s: Silver Surfer and Galactus, who appears in this — the worst (or second worst if you want to pull the Ghost Rider card) of the worst Marvel comic book films — as a cloud. Should you watch it? Dear me, no. This is a connection that will probably remain unconnected in the Marvel film universe.
The Hulk — Ang Lee's take on the not-so-jolly green giant was pretty much universally (probably more so than is deserved, really) hated. Should you watch it? Egh... And there's no good reason to if you're prepping for The Avengers. The only bits of Hulk backstory relevant to The Avengers are in 2008's The Incredible Hulk, which rebooted the character for the current Marvel film universe.
The Incredible Hulk — Just five years after Ang Lee's take, we get an lighter reboot of the Hulk. Here, we learn the Hulk is born out of a military experiment to create a super solider. Living in hiding, Banner struggles to control the Hulk through meditation. Important note: When he turns all big and green, he's not just strong — he has limitless physical strength. Should you watch it? If you like seeing Hulk smash shit, go for it. It's big and dumb and there's not much you need to know here for The Avengers unless you want to see how Norton stacks up to his Hulk replacement Mark Ruffalo. (Ruffalo is way better.)
Everything else Marvel-ous — While they could very easily be made to fit in the same world, there's no explicit connections made to X-Men, Spider-Man, Daredevil, or any of the other Marvel properties turned into films.
So there you have it. That's everything you could possibly need to know. Now go see The Avengers. It's as good as superhero movies get this side of The Dark Knight. | "Dark Shadows" is a movie for strange teenage girls
The way I feel about Tim Burton movies is not so unlike the way I feel about vanilla ice cream. It's not bad, but I know what it's going to taste like, and I feel like if I'm going to waste the waist space on frozen creamy goodness it should have some candy bars or molten chocolate or coffee beans or crazy jazz in it. Even when vanilla ice cream is really good — Mexican vanilla with little bits of vanilla bean in it — it's still vanilla ice cream. In this way, Dark Shadows is a familiar thing. Not bad, but not particularly exciting. Not exactly funny, scary or dramatic. Slightly campy and a tad creepy. (I've moved on from talking about ice cream now.)
Dark Shadows is based on the '60s soap opera of the same name. Johnny Depp plays Barnabas, a wealthy playboy from the 1700s who crosses a witch, who in turn transforms him into a vampire and buries him alive, where he remains undisturbed for 200 years. He is inadvertently freed in 1972 and returns to his former estate to check up on his descendants and the town his family built.
Assuming that the words pouring into your eye holes right now are being consumed to help you decide whether or not to see this film, I've decided to introduce someone who sees Burton flicks as more of a chocolate ice cream. (Back to dessert again. I know — I've got a problem.) Hopefully this vanilla-chocolate swirl will help with your movie-going decision making. And with that, I humbly submit for your reader's consideration this real post-viewing conversation.
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Everything you need to know before "The Avengers"
Hands down, Joss Whedon's The Avengers is the best movie to come out of a Marvel comic. It's not brilliant, but it's mighty entertaining. And, dammit if Whedon (Buffy, Firefly, Dr. Horrible) doesn't make it hard to hate him. His fingerprints are all over this epic superhero tale with an ensemble cast of superheroes, and you'll love him for it. As goofy as the action and actors on the screen should be, each character — even the crap ones like Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) — feel real, likable and relatable. The dialogue and the action is sharp and often funny bordering on hilarious.
A handful of Marvel films over the past five years back have paved the way for The Avengers. Whether you're just getting into the universe now or need a brief refresher, here's a (mostly) spoiler-free recap of what came before.
Thor — The god of thunder lives with his dad/king Odin in a galaxy where science has become so advanced there is no discernible difference between technology and magic. (Plus, Stringer Bell is still alive.) Thor (Chris Hemsworth), the heir to the throne, gets exiled to Earth thanks to his jerk-hole adopted brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Thor bumps into and befriends a group of scientists (Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings and Stellan Skarsgård). Quickly learning the ways of our planet, Thor takes up the goal of every Earth male and attempts to bed Natalie Portman. Back in bizarro space world, Loki tries to do bad stuff and Thor stops him. Along the way we get our first peek at the definitely-not-a-real-super hero Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), an archer who plays a big role in The Avengers. Should you watch it? Sure, but is it necessary? Depends. It does lay the groundwork for The Avengers main nemesis Loki, but it's nothing the uninitiated won't be able to follow.
Captain America: The First Avenger — Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is a scrawny, Small Town, USA, kid determined to serve his country in World War II. While he's barely strong enough to hold up a rifle, his quick wits and ferocious loyalty make him the perfect candidate for a secret U.S. super soldier program. He gets strong, gets an indestructible shield from Iron Man's pops, takes out some Nazis and steals their magical space cube, which is later recovered by the senior Stark. Things go down, and Rogers wakes up 70 years later, where Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) tells him he has a job for him. Should you watch it? Do it. It's good all-American fun and basically ends where The Avengers starts off.
Iron Man — Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) is a smart-ass,, over-sexed billionaire genius — think a less emo Bruce Wayne/Batman — who creates a robot suit and becomes Iron Man. He has a magnet in his chest that keeps shrapnel in his blood stream from hitting his heart and killing him. Should you watch it? Hell yes. Iron Man is the stuff of summer blockbuster gold.
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Alumni Chronicles
University of Phoenix staff complete SHE Leads!™ program with Arizona Foundation for Women
By Sharla Hooper
July 12, 2022 • 4 minute read
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Leadership program graduates Jelisa Dallas, Deborah Hoskins and Christina Totah helped drive community impact raising $72,000 for Arizona nonprofits focused on helping women
University of Phoenix is proud to announce that staff members Jelisa Dallas, program manager, Educational Equity, Deborah Hoskins, finance advisor, and Christina Totah, operations project manager, are graduates of the SHE Leads!™ program of the Arizona Foundation for Women (AFW), a not-for-profit agency that advocates for women's causes in Arizona. SHE Leads!™ graduated 29 women from AFW's local second annual women's-centric leadership program. Throughout the past six months, SHE Leads!™ participants raised over $72,000 for non-profits focused on helping Arizona women.
"The 2022 SHE Leads™ class exceeded our expectations! We are so proud of the work they did, and the level of growth they demonstrated," said Tracy DeSoto, director of Financial Services at University of Phoenix and SHE Leads!™ program co-chair. We couldn't be prouder of this cohort as they gained confidence and leadership skills while raising a significant amount of money that will help support the underserved women in Arizona."
DeSoto and Barbara Schifano, senior director of Learning Development, co-chair SHE Leads!TM and serve on the Board of Directors of AFW. University of Phoenix is a proud sponsor of SHE Leads!TM and supports the voluntary engagement of staff with the program and AFW.
"University of Phoenix has been a major supporter and partner since the first SHE Leads!<|fim_middle|>, Inc. and Women's Health Coalition of Arizona. Additionally, a portion of the funds raised will support the SHE Leads!™ program moving forward.
Totah, who raised over $4,000, was formally recognized by the program as a top fundraiser. "I've been trying to tell myself to move forward with and challenge myself, which is what inspired me to join the program," she states. "I also wanted to elevate myself and I felt like I had more to learn. I had support from family and my mentor that helped spark some outside of the box ideas and gained confidence throughout the program."
AFW is a supporting organization of Arizona Community Foundation focused on creating a better life for Arizona's women and children. Their programs include the SHE Counts!® mission to identify unmet needs and develop the initiatives and methods to address them, and the women-focused leadership development program, SHE Leads!™
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The SHE Leads!TM program is a six-month leadership program designed to help participants build the skills necessary for their roles or advancing their career, including having a mentor and completing a fundraising component. The program included a curriculum with topics covering growth mindset, diversity & inclusion, building strategic partnerships and more.
"I've gained such confidence in my ability to ask for help, both in fundraising and in my professional journey," states Dallas. "I valued the practicality of the program – we had opportunities to apply tactics and strategies of what we were learning, such as executive presence, salary negotiations, and developing a growth and leadership mindset in day-to-day interactions. The assessments helped me gain increased self-awareness of my strengths while also identifying where I can lean on others for support."
Graduates worked one-on-one with Champions, or personal mentors, completed personal strength assessments, built strong relationships through after-hours networking and workshop sessions, and developed a toolkit to advance themselves personally and professionally.
The cohort funded the following organizations as grantees: Alice's Place, Check for a Lump, Defenders of Children, Televerde Foundation, Time Out | 294 |
Crowdfunding Platforms Crack Down on Risky Campaigns
Plagued by high-profile flops, Kickstarter and IndieGoGo are bringing in experts to help inventors fulfill their promises.
It's a story that's become routine: A crowdfunding campaign whips up a flurry of excitement, receives a deluge of funds, and then collapses with nothing to show for it. It's what happened to Central Standard Timing, which raised over $1 million for the "world's thinnest watch" before filing for bankruptcy in 2016. It's the story behind Taxa, a Kickstarter-backed company that just closed shop last month, ending its dream of bioengineering glowing plants. It was almost the<|fim_middle|> Planner to help select parts and estimate costs. Again, all these services are free to creators — the companies expect many to sign up for paid services as their products come to life.
Avnet has already helped a dozen or so crowdfunded companies develop their products, and expects the Kickstarter partnership to deliver many more. "The goal here is to get as many startups and creators to engage with the program before they launch," says Kickstarter's Terra.
But it is still early days for this new collaborative model. "It's too soon for us to be measuring the impact [of the Arrow partnership], as a full life-cycle from campaign to shipping is usually a year or more," says Mandelbrot of Indiegogo. "But we will be measuring it." Of course, not all business challenges can be assuaged by reviewing manufacturing plans. All the existing partnerships can do is ensure that if a project does fail, it won't be because the electronics were badly designed or poorly made.
So crowdfunding platforms are inevitably already thinking about extending advice beyond design and manufacturing. Kickstarter and Indiegogo both have multiple retail partnerships to help creators sell products once they have satisfied their backers. Indiegogo also offers digital marketing services.
We may be moving from a world dominated by a few gargantuan electronics multinationals to one with a bewildering diversity of brands, but built upon a similarly small number of platforms: from Apple, Samsung, and Sony to Kickstarter, Foxconn — not only the maker of Apple products but also a gargantuan contract manufacturer — and Amazon, which already has a section dedicated to crowdfunded products. Ultimately, even today's market leaders might seek validation from the crowd before launching a new smartphone or gaming device.
But none of this will happen at internet speed. It will be a slow transition, with plenty more crash-and-burn crowdfunding campaigns to come. I asked Julio Terra if Kickstarter would ever require projects with extreme levels of funding (or those making extreme claims) to use its new design and manufacturing tools. He responded with caution. "It's not something we will ever force," he says. "But we will suggest."
Mark Harris is an investigative science and technology reporter based in Seattle, with particular interests in robotics, space, surveillance, and transportation. He's on Twitter at @meharris for tips and story leads. DM for Signal number for sensitive/encrypted messaging.
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Today, Kickstarter has started offering its inventors access to experts in design and manufacturing. (Indiegogo launched a similar program last summer.) These services include a detailed design review of electronics, global sourcing of components and manufacturing, and even assistance with branding, distribution — the kind of information that is often jealously guarded by large multinationals.
The effort comes not a moment too soon. Every week produces bad news for the platforms: Indiegogo just pulled the campaign of the Titan Note, a transcription tool hawked with unrealistic features, while Kickstarter's Gravity, a weighted blanket, caught negative press for making wild claims about its curative powers.
Success will take more than just leaving the snake oil behind. These platforms will have to harness their creativity with credibility, their enthusiasm with expertise. Crowdfunding platforms have the potential to transform our economy by democratizing entrepreneurship—but only if they figure out how to grow up.
Last year I had a unique opportunity to examine the collapse of one high-profile project: the Zano drone. Kickstarter hired me, as a journalist, to investigate why its largest European project to date ended up delivering only a handful of ineffectual drones before filing for liquidation. Zano's creators, a small Welsh company called Torquing Robotics, scored £2.3 million (then $3.5 million) from 12,000 backers and burned through all of it, plus a million more in debt.
I concluded that Torquing's founders had never possessed the skills or experience needed to pull off their project. They claimed their Zano miniature quadcopter could follow users automatically, avoid obstacles, and even take video selfies. A misleading video overstated the drone's initial abilities, while the massively successful crowdfunding campaign created its own problems, by introducing "stretch goal" features and the need to manufacture on a scale 10 times larger than the company had anticipated.
My report on Zano recommended that "crowdfunding platforms…should reconsider the way that they deal with projects involving complex hardware, massive overfunding, or large sums of money. There should be better mechanisms to identify weak projects before they fund, as well as new processes to provide mentorship, support, and expert advice to newly-funded projects."
Or, as Kickstarter's director of Technology and Design, Julio Terra, succinctly agrees: "Hardware is hard."
Kickstarter project Moment used Dragon Innovation.
Courtesy of Moment
Anyone can come up with a cool idea. Even cobbling together a prototype with 3D printers is pretty straightforward these days. But translating that vision into thousands of reliable, affordable products — and before a more established company (or Chinese imitator) steals your thunder—remains frighteningly complex.
Indiegogo was first to try to bridge that gap. Last summer, it formed a partnership with Arrow, an electronics design and engineering firm. Arrow provides all creators of electronics products a free review of their design and "bill of materials"—the full list of components inside. It checks their availability and gives an estimate for purchasing and manufacturing costs.
In return, Arrow hopes that some of those estimates will turn into purchases through them. Indiegogo recently announced a similar partnership with Riverwood Solutions, connecting creators with off-shore manufacturers in China, Mexico, or Southeast Asia. Backers can see on Indiegogo which campaigns have benefited from the expert input.
"We have learned that there is a long road from having a working prototype to having a manufactured product," says David Mandelbrot, Indiegogo's CEO. "The parts an entrepreneur has in their prototype might be very different from the parts they would need in a manufactured product. Not having done this before, they just aren't aware of those things."
Kickstarter project Scansorial used Dragon Innovation to bring its product to life.Scansorial
As of today, Kickstarter has a similar set of partners. Avnet is one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components, and Dragon Innovation was set up specifically to work with crowdfunded companies like Pebble and MakerBot. Anyone planning a hardware campaign can use an online toolkit with tutorials and webinars from Dragon and Avnet engineers, Kickstarter staff, and creators of past successful campaigns. Those planning larger or more complex projects can apply for a mentorship program that gives individual access to engineers, as well as software tools like Dragon's Product | 1,023 |
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Home » Liquid supplements make strides in a changing landscape
Liquid supplements make strides in a changing landscape
Consumers show favorable image of supplements.
The Republic of Tea launched its Be Active Teas collection, featuring five organic green rooibos-based teas designed to help with refreshment and recovery as well as increased endurance, flexibility and metabolism. The lineup is labeled as an herbal supplement. (Image courtesy of The Republic of Tea)
Formulated to relieve stress and provide calm and focused energy, Koppla Nutrients launched Calm-fidence dietary supplement shots. Functional claims are a key component of the liquid supplement market, experts note. (Image courtesy of Koppla Nutrients)
Energy shots traditionally are labeled as dietary supplements, Packaged Facts' Kristin Rose says. (Image courtesy of Pure Growth Partners)
Jessica Jacobsen
KEYWORDS dietary supplements / functional beverages
The old saying that "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" might someday transition to "A supplement a day keeps the doctor away" as topics such as the U.S. obesity rate, an aging baby boomer generation, and increased energy/alertness continue to bring attention to the nutritional/dietary supplement segment, according to market research firms.
Rockville, Md.-based Packaged Facts estimates in its September 2012 report, "Nutritional Supplements in the U.S., 5th Edition," that U.S. retail sales of nutritional supplements reached $11.5 billion in 2012, up 6.5 percent from 2011 sales, based on Chicago-based Information Resources Inc. (IRI)'s InfoScan data from mass market retailers, reported revenues of individual companies, and figures appearing in the trade press. The market research firm also estimates that the market grew 31.7 percent from 2008 to 2012 and posted a compound annual growth rate of 7.1 percent with consistent, even growth throughout the time period.
Various consumer trends influenced the nutritional supplement market's growth during that time period, Packaged Facts reports.
"The rising health care costs of the past decade have been one of the factors encouraging consumers to turn to supplements as a more affordable way to stay healthy," the report states. "Accordingly, even cash-strapped consumers used to taking supplements have been reluctant to eliminate them from their regimens. At the same time, older consumers<|fim_middle|>-imately $121 million in sales, a 19.3 percent increase from the previous time period. Maker and distributor of the Emergen-C effervescent, powdered drink mix vitamin supplement, the company was acquired by Pfizer Inc., New York, last year.
Available in more than 15 flavors, the seven lines of Emergen-C contain vitamin C, B vitamins, electrolytes and antioxidants. The brand also offers Emergen-C Kidz, which was designed specifically for children, and specialty formulas that support specific health needs such as joint health and heart health.
Showing strong growth, NeuroBrands LLC, Los Angeles, increased 63.6 percent for more than $50 million in sales in IRI-measured channels. Featuring a lifestyle brand lineup that includes formulations that address energy, sleep, vitamin D deficiency as well as other needs and interests, the Neuro product line was developed in 2008 when Diana Jenkins, founder, chairwoman and chief executive officer of NeuroBrands, was looking for a beverage to address consumers' desires, the company told Beverage Industry in April 2011.
The Neuro lineup features seven products: Bliss, which contains chamomile blended with l-theanine; Passion, which features caffeine combined with l-citrulline; Sleep, which includes melatonin and magnesium; Sport, which features potassium mixed with magnesium; Sonic, which contains caffeine fused with l-theanine; Sun, which provides 1,000 international units of vitamin D in each bottle; and Trim, which includes fiber.
Packaged in 14.5-ounce bottles, all Neuro products are labeled as either nutritional supplements or dietary supplements except for Sport, which is classified as a sports beverage on the bottle.
Of the Top 10 liquid vitamins/minerals, only two did not record growth numbers: private label, which was down 3.5 percent, and Botanical Laboratories, a liquid supplement manufacturer based in Ferndale, Wash., which was relatively flat for the 52-week period.
But when it comes to product claims, liquid supplements might not be that different from the rest of the supplement market.
"From a health claim perspective, liquid supplement products do not markedly differ from their tablet or capsule counterparts," says Stephanie Prymas, consumer health analyst with Euromonitor International, Chicago. "For energy products, liquid formats are typically marketed as faster-acting, but this kind of claim is less relevant for multivitamins and the like. For liquid supplements such as calcium or glucosamine, fast absorption is the most popular claim."
Similar to traditional beverages, functionality is a popular claim for supplements. "Functional claims are the lifeblood of the liquid supplement market," says Kristin Rose, beverage market analyst with Packaged Facts. "Although functional claims aren't necessarily diet related, such attributes carry a healthy halo."
Standing out from competitors and offering consumers a convenient format are some of the motivators for new liquid supplement launches, Prymas explains.
"Beverage formats are positioned to fit seamlessly into consumers' busy lives and also avoid negative connotations [that] users may ascribe to 'taking pills,'" she says. "Additionally, liquids are attractive to individuals who have difficulty swallowing tablets, though formats like chewables and gummies are alternative options for this demographic."
Understanding the market
As the liquid supplement market continues to grow, being able to discern supplement products from traditional beverages has become a growing topic.
"Functional beverages are in high demand as consumers look to incorporate more nutrients into their diets," Prymas says. "This creates a rather large gray area where many beverages are virtually identical to liquid supplements — save the former having a nutrition facts label rather than a supplement facts one."
In December 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drafted the report, "Guidance for Industry: Factors that Distinguish Liquid Dietary Supplements from Beverages, Considerations Regarding Novel Ingredients and Labeling for Beverages and Other Conventional Foods." In the background section, the FDA reports two trends taking place when it comes to the marketing of beverages: the increase in the marketing of beverages as dietary supplements while the packaging and labeling of many liquid products represent the products as conventional foods, and growth in the number of beverages and other conventional foods that contain novel ingredients, including botanical ingredients or their extracts, which previously had not been used in conventional products, might be unapproved additives, and also might bear claims that misbrand the product or otherwise violate the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), the FDA stated.
Referencing the FFDCA, the guidance states that the term "dietary supplement" refers to a product that, among other requirements, "is not represented for use as a conventional food or as a sole item of a meal or the diet." It adds that beverages are considered conventional foods under the FFDCA.
"Even when the label of a liquid product characterizes it as a dietary supplement, the product may not in fact be a dietary supplement," according to the FDA's guidelines on dietary supplements. "Liquid products can be represented as conventional foods as a result of factors such as their packaging, the volume in which they are intended to be consumed, their product or brand name, and statements about the product in labeling or advertising. For example, the pack-aging of liquid products in bottles or cans similar to those in which single or multiple servings of beverages like soda, bottled water, fruit juices and iced tea are sold suggests that the liquid product is intended for use as a conventional food."
In August 2012, the FDA announced that it is developing guidance on distinguishing liquid supplements from conventional beverages, following up on the draft guidance that was issued in December 2009. The FDA still is determining a timeline for its release, it says.
"At present, the key regulatory difference between beverages and supplements is that supplement makers must inform the FDA of adverse health events associated with their products; the same standard does not apply to beverages," Euromonitor's Prymas says.
Although the adverse event-reporting requirement for supplements might be an incentive for some companies to officially shift beverage-like supplements to being regulated as standard beverages, consumers are not as invested in the labeling and regulation differences, she adds.
"From a consumer perspective, the official positioning — beverage vs. liquid supplement — is more or less irrelevant," Prymas explains. "Consumers simply want to feel that they are making healthy choices and are particularly drawn to products that help them do so in a convenient, routine way."
Nutritional and functional benefits also are appealing for consumers. Even though dietary supplements don't have the same review process as beverages, consumers still have a favorable and safe impression of them, Packaged Facts' Rose says.
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Projecting retail sales of nutritional supplements to reach $15.5 billion by 2017, Packaged Facts notes that one of the driving factors will be the aging baby boomer generation; however, sales could grow even more if new research findings are developed or marketers are able to appeal to the Hispanic population, it adds.
Santa Monica, Calif.-based IBISWorld reports in its October 2012 report, "Vitamin & Supplement Manufacturing in the US," that changing attitudes among U.S. consumers have affected other product categories in the industry and provided sales opportunities.
"Consumers are becoming more health conscious due to a variety of factors including experiencing the effects of aging, mounting health care costs and rising obesity rates," IBISWorld reports.
Noting that the median age has risen for decades, the market research firm says that the aging population has contributed to industry growth.
"Two distinct trends have driven the uptick: a declining birth rate and longer life spans," IBISWorld reports.
Although pill formats dominate the majority of the dietary supplements market, liquid-based products are growing in popularity, according to market data.
In its "Nutritional Supplements in the U.S." report, Packaged Facts classified supplements into four categories: general supplements, including mineral, herbal and other non-vitamin supplements as well as combination supplements, also referred to by IRI as mineral supplements; multivitamins; one- and two-letter vitamins; and liquid supplements, including vitamin, mineral, herbal and other supplements in liquid form, also referred to by IRI as liquid vitamins/minerals. Nutraceutical foods and beverages, including herbal teas, were not formally included unless they are primarily a supplement or an extension of a supplement line, the report states.
Of the four categories tracked by IRI, liquid supplements occupied the smallest share with 6 percent of sales, according to the Packaged Facts report. However, the segment was the fastest growing with a 14 percent increase — the same growth rate of the supplements category from 2010 to 2011 — during the 52 weeks ending June 10, 2012, in supermarkets, drug stores and mass merchandisers, excluding Walmart.
Based on current IRI data, liquid vitamins/minerals increased 20 percent for $420.7 million in U.S. supermarkets, drug stores, mass merchandisers including Walmart, gas and convenience stores, military commissaries, and select club and dollar retail chains for the 52 weeks ending Feb. 24.
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Informed Consent In Nigeria: Liability Of Medical Practitioners | Mustapha Moyosore
by Legalnaija | Sep 29, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
The right to life is sacrosanct to the bearer and
nobody has the authority to deprive them of this natural gift which the creator
has gifted them. Just as this right is intrinsic and fundamental, so is the
right to decide what happens to one's state of health which ultimately has a
far-reaching effect on the person's life.
This is the reason for obtaining the consent of a
patient before the conduct of any medical process or treatment on them is paramount.
Failure to do so will render the medical practitioner liable for breach of the
Medical Code and for assault on the patient or research subject. This work will
discuss the key concepts around Informed Consent, the components that
underlines this practice and the exceptional cases where it may be legally foregone.
Autonomy is a Latin word for
"self-rule". Every human has an obligation to respect the autonomy of other persons, which
is to respect the decisions made by other people concerning their own lives.
This is in accordance with the fundamental right to human dignity. In medical practice, autonomy is usually expressed as
the right of competent adults to make informed decisions about their own medical care. The principle
underlies the requirement for a medical practitioner to seek the consent or
informed agreement of the patient before any investigation or treatment takes
place. The principle of patience autonomy mandates the health care providers to educate the patients about the treatment
options available to the patient; it prohibits the health care provider making the decision for the patient. It
is an absolute, inalienable right of the concerned patient.
Informed consent forms the basis of the
fiducial relationship existing between the patient and the health worker and it
is essential to the health worker's ability to diagnose and treat patients as
well as the patient's right to accept or reject clinical evaluation, treatment,
According to the provision of Part A section 19 of
the Code of Medical Ethics in Nigeria[1],
informed consent is:
"The permission granted in full
knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a
patient to a doctor for treatment with knowledge of the possible risks and
Informed consent means that patients or
research subjects understand their health condition after much explanation by
their health care provider; the options available to them, and the attendant
benefits and risks of each option.
is important that the person undergoing the treatment has sufficient time to
weigh his or her option before making the decision. In fact, according to the code of medical
practice, the main purpose of
informed consent process is
to protect the patient.
A consent form
is a legal document that ensures an ongoing communication process between the
patient and health care provider. It enables the patient decide which treatment
they want to receive and whether
they even want it or not.
Additionally, informed consent allows the
patient to make decisions
with the close assistance of their healthcare provider. This collaborative
decision-making process is an ethical and legal obligation of healthcare
providers and a fundamental right of the patient[2].
Informed consent generally requires the patient or responsible party to
sign a statement confirming that they understand the risks and benefits of the
procedure or treatment and are willing to proceed and receive it.
The concept of Informed consent is not an
alien practice in Nigeria, its operation, as in other societies, is influenced
by relationships within the culture of the people and the ethos of the Medical
profession. It is modulated by extended
family relationships, the high level of religious expression,
the multiplicity of religions and ethnic groupings, and defined gender and age relationships
within the society. These influences, however, seem
vitiated in the educated patient.
Societies and cultures are neither homogenous
nor static. Therefore, variations in the practice of informed consent exist not
just in comparison with the Western world but also between and within
the different subcultures in the country.
The Nigerian medical community should improve
the ethical conduct of her healthcare workers through better education and
additional research on the consent needs of the Nigerian public.
ELEMENTS OF INFORMED CONSENT
key components of informed consent
are the ethical issues of research involving human subjects. The principles of autonomy, beneficence,
and justice are basic to these ethical issues and merit your consideration. Obtaining informed consent in medicine is a
process that should include:
Describing the proposed intervention to
the patient,
Emphasizing the patient's role in
decision-making,
Discussing alternatives to the proposed
Discussing the risks of the proposed
Making sure the
patient has the capacity (or ability) to make the decision.
The healthcare
worker must disclose information on the treatment, test, or procedure in
The expected
benefits and risks, and the likelihood (or probability) that the benefits and
risks will occur must be fully explained.
The patient must
comprehend the relevant information.
voluntarily grant consent, without coercion or duress.
OF LIABLILIY
The basis of liability on the part of a
healthcare provider or researcher for not seeking the informed consent of the
patient or research subject is that; a person has the right to determine what
is done with his or her body. Failure to secure the consent in circumstances
not exempted by law, attracts liability on the part of the healthcare provider
or researcher. It is the informed consent
that distinguishes medical procedures from assault. Explaining the basis of
liability, JUSTICE CARDOZO stated in the landmark decision of Schloendorff v. Society of New
York Hospital, 105 N.E. 92 (N.Y. 1914)
human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what
shall be done with his own body; and a surgeon who performs an operation without
his patient's consent commits an assault, for which he is liable in damages." (Underlined
is mine for emphasis).
It is important to note that informed consent
does not only apply to surgery. It applies to therapeutic and non-therapeutic
procedures, invasive and non-invasive treatment.
OF INFORMED CONSENT
Consent to
treatment is among the most complex ethical issues healthcare workers face. Therefore,
it is important to understand what is involved.
No one can guarantee positive outcomes in
healthcare settings, but informed consent at least ensures that patients
understand the risks they undertake with treatment. It is also the law, when
patients agree to a treatment, they must sign paperwork indicating they
understand the risks and agreeing that doctors can take specific life-saving
measures if needed.
Informed consent creates trust between doctor
and patient by ensuring good understanding. It also reduces the risk for both
patient and doctor. With excellent communication about risks and options,
patients can make choices which are best for them and physicians face less risk
of legal action.
Informed consent allows patients to make their
own decisions, instead of the traditional approach where the doctor decides
what is best for them. This means medical professionals must offer enough
information to patients to enable them make a choice and provide enough time to
exercise this all too important right, where possible, so patients do not feel
pressured.
Pain medication and some medical conditions
can affect judgment and understanding, so doctors must consider these factors
when seeking consent from a patient.
TO INFORMED CONSENT
There are several exceptions to informed
consent acknowledged by the legal system in most countries.
The generally accepted exceptions to
the requirement for informed
consent include:
Emergencies.
an emergency, a doctor must act quickly to save lives. If stopping life-saving
efforts and describing the risks of a procedure will cause a delay that puts
the patient's life further at risk, then the doctor does not need to obtain informed consent.
waived consent
This is when the patient has voluntarily disclaimed
that he/ she needs not to be sought
before any treatment is carried out on him/her. In this case, the patient has
given the healthcare worker the sole responsibility to deal with his/ her
condition according to their best practice and knowledge. This must be reduced
to writing and signed by parties, to nip in the bud any chance of liability
that may arise, should the patient subsequently deny consent.
the patient is incapacitated
If the patient's ability to
make decisions is questioned or unclear, an evaluation by a psychiatrist to
determine competency may be requested.
A situation may arise
in which a patient cannot make decisions independently but
has not designated a decision-maker. In this instance, the hierarchy
of decision-makers, which is determined by each state's laws, must be sought to
determine the next legal surrogate decision-maker. If this is unsuccessful, a
legal guardian may need to be appointed by the court.
Prior patient knowledge
The patient is already aware of the risks
involved in his or her treatment and has come to a conclusion which he/ she has
disclosed to the healthcare provider prior to the treatment.
Therapeutic privilege
This is when a patient can be expected to
become so emotionally distraught upon disclosure that he/she will not be able
to make a rational decision, and this may hinder his/her own treatment. It
acknowledges that in some situations the disclosure of certain risks would not
be in the patient's best medical interest. This exception does not imply that
the health worker may withhold information simply because the patient will not
agree with the preferred treatment (and later claim it was for the patient's
benefit). It should be exercised with great care and discretion and should not
be used as an excuse to withhold the truth, it is the patient's entitlement.
Patients lacking capacity
Legally, capacity refers to a person's
ability to understand the nature and quality of a transaction and to take
actions or make decisions that influence his/her life. A decision that a patient
lacks capacity is a significant one, as it strips them of their right to
control their life in relation to the decision in question.
Where patients lack capacity, other people
will have to make the decision for them. The health worker must consider the
views of anyone the patient asks the health worker to consult, or who has legal
authority to decide on their behalf or has been appointed to represent them.
Otherwise, the views of people close to the patient, who know the patient's
preferences, feelings, beliefs, and values should be consulted to try to decide
whether the proposed treatment would be in the patient's best interests. If the
patient regains capacity, they must<|fim_middle|> Cap.221 Laws of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria 1990, on 1st January, 2004.
Section 19 ibid.
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WHY WE HAVE THE CODE OF CONDUCT BUREAU | be promptly informed what treatment has
been administered to them and why it was opted for.
A healthcare provider or researcher should
obtain the written, informed consent of the Patient or research subject;
failing which the healthcare provider or researcher will be liable. However,
the healthcare provide will escape liability if it comes under the exception
provided by law.
There are adequate laws regulating Informed
Consent in Nigeria. The problem is with the compliance. The mechanism to ensure
compliance can be improved. Two great factors affecting the issue of informed
consent are; awareness and finance. On one hand, most people are not aware that
their healthcare providers are obligated to get their consents before carrying
out treatment or medical examination. On the other hand, they are also ignorant
of the fact that they are entitled to redress. Some healthcare providers are
also ignorant of the law on informed consent. Those who are aware of the
necessity for informed consent, do not seek redress because of the cost.
MUSTAPHA MOYOSORE. is with Messrs O. M. Atoyebi, SAN & Partners
(OMAPLEX LAW FIRM) where she works in the Corporate and Commercial Department
of the Firm. She has an in-depth understanding of Medical Law and Minin Sector
and has worked with various key industry stakeholders and facilitated several
[1] Issued
by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria in consonance with the provision
of the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act, | 312 |
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Isabel Perez Castro May 21, 2018
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The haploid human genome contains approximately 3,000,000,000 base pairs of DNA packaged into 23 chromosomes. Most cells in the body, except for eggs and sperm, are diploid, with 23 pairs of chromosomes. That makes a total of 6,000,000,000 base pairs of DNA per cell that, if they were to be put in a straight line, would have approximately 1.8 m length.1 DNA compaction is such that the entire genome of a single human cell is squeezed into a cell nucleus with an average diameter of 6 μm. In other words, the circumference of an average mammalian cell nucleus is almost one million times smaller than the length of the genome that needs to be packed into it.2 This means that DNA must be very tightly compacted to fit into the cell, and it implies the need for a high degree of structural organization: it is not enough to just fold the DNA into a very small space, but the packaging must permit access to the information stored in it without affecting or changing the DNA sequence and properties, and this is achieved thanks to the role of supercoiling and its regulation. This is an important and highly regulated aspect of DNA tertiary structure that is found in every cellular DNA, whose study has provided many insights into DNA's structure and function.
The term 'supercoiling' literally means "the coiling of a coil": the cord of a landline telephone, for example, is a coiled wire; when the coiled wire is over- or under-coiled compared to what we could call a "stable" number of turns, it twists over itself due to the strain caused, and we can describe that as a "supercoil".
This coiled phone cord shows a perfect example of supercoiling, or coiling of the coiled cord. (Credit: Pinterest).
On the other hand, Jimi Hendrix's guitar lead was coiled but not supercoiled.
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Likewise, DNA supercoiling refers to the over- or underwinding of a DNA strand caused by the strain on it, and to the way the DNA helix turns over itself in order to release the tension. In a "relaxed" double helix segment of B-DNA (as a reminder, there are three major forms of double-strand DNA in which single strands are connected by interactions between complementary base pairs: A-form, B-form,and Z-form DNA; B-DNA is the double helix described by Watson and Crick, and is the most common in cells), the two strands twist around the helical axis once every 10.4-10.5 base pairs. As twists are added or removed, changes to the strain of the DNA double helix are created and it causes a supercoil.3
Scheme of the coiling and supercoiling of DNA. On the left hand side, DNA double helix (coiled). On the right hand side, the same fragment of DNA has turned over itself creating a supercoil. This rearrangement does not affect the order of the nucleotide sequence. Credit: ICT-CAS
But these changes do not happen at random; on the contrary, the supercoiling of the DNA double helix is modulated according to the cell cycle phase and transcriptional activity,4 and every change is strictly controlled as each one of them regulates access to the genetic code, and may affect metabolism and gene expression. Certain enzymes known as topoisomerases are involved in the regulation of DNA supercoiling: they are required to avoid superhelical tension and knots in order to maintain DNA compacted, and they are able to change the degree of supercoiling without altering the structure or sequence of nucleotides.5
During transcription and replication, the DNA needs to be unwound in order for the transcription/replication machinery to gain access to the DNA so it can be copied or replicated. As we can expect with from what we know now, unwinding will lead to a change in the strain, and this will subsequently cause a change in the way DNA is supercoiled. Topoisomerases play a role here. For example, type I topoisomerases cause single-strand breaks and re-ligation when the DNA helix must be unwound, and type II topoisomerases cause double-strand breaks6 that are subsequently resealed after changing the twisting status of the double helix.
It is not difficult to imagine that, since topoisomerases regulate processes related to DNA replication, they are interesting as drug targets, and in fact their study has given raise to many antibiotics and anticancer drugs.2As an example, the mechanism of action of the broad-spectrum fluoroquinolone antibiotics consists in efficiently disrupting the function of bacterial type II topoisomerases by preventing them from creating breaks in chromosomal DNA when needed, thus hijacking the transcription and replication of bacterial DNA.
Another interesting example is the interaction of some drugs with topoisomerase type IV, that generates double-stranded breaks in chromosomes. Despite being essential for cell survival, this enzyme has the potential to fragment the genome if it works more than required,7 and this potentially lethal characteristic is exactly what quinolones take advantage of: their mechanism of action consists on killing bacteria by uncontrollably increasing the concentration of enzyme−DNA complexes which cause the bacterial DNA to break. These type of antibiotics are also known as "topoisomerase poisons" because they convert topoisomerases into cellular toxins.8
An increasing number of anti-cancer drugs work by interfering with the functions of topoisomerases type I and II in malignant cells. These chemotherapies inhibit the enzymes by blocking the reaction that reseals the breaks in the DNA, creating a permanent breakage in it that leads to cell death (apoptosis). Most of these drugs are selective against either topoisomerase I or II, but some can target both enzymes.
Topoisomerase I inhibitors induce single-strand breaks into DNA, and can work by a variety of mechanisms: they can cause chromosomal aberrations, and some drugs, such as camptothecins, stabilize the complex formed by topoisomerase I and DNA by inhibiting its dissociation; once they are stuck together this leads to DNA damage.
Topoisomerase II inhibitors, like topoisomerase type I inhibitors, can cause chromosomal aberrations, and can act by either stabilising topoisomerase II-DNA complexes that would be otherwise easily cleaved, or by interfering with the catalytic activity of the enzyme, both resulting in double-strand breaks in the DNA. Anthracyclines are topoisimerase type II inhibitors that are amongst the most widely used anti-cancer agents. These drugs induce double -trand breaks in DNA, and cause arrest in the cell cycle by disrupting the interaction between topoisomerase II and regulators of the cell growth. They act by stabilizing a reaction intermediate in which DNA strands are cut and linked to topoisomerase II, eventually impeding DNA resealing and preventing the cancer cells from continuing their normal life cycle.9
There are also dual inhibitors that target both topoisomerase I and II at the same time, which increases the potency of the anti-cancer effect. These drugs work by a variety of means: by recognising structural motifs present on both enzymes, by linking separate topoisomerase inhibitors together into a hybrid drug, or by using inhibitors that bind to DNA and intercalate it.
An interesting feature of inhibitors of both topoisomerase types I and II, is that they exploit the fact that DNA damage can be repaired more efficiently in normal cells than in cancer cells since the latter are deficient for DNA repair. While a deficient DNA damage response is a typical characteristic of cancer cells10 (and what ultimately causes cancer due to it allowing abnormal cells to replicate and eventually causing malignant tumours), the lack of DNA repair mechanisms can be exploited in these cases, in order to damage those same malignant cells in a more efficient manner.11
1Annunziato, A. "DNA Packaging: Nucleosomes and Chromatin". Nature Education 2008, 26.
2Pommier, Y., et al. "DNA Topoisomerases and Their Poisoning by Anticancer and Antibacterial Drugs". Chemistry & Biology 2010, 421.
3D.M.J. Lilley, in Encyclopaedia of Genetics, 2001.
4Binaschi M., et al. "Anthracyclines: selected new developments". Current Medicinal Chemistry2001, 1, 113.
5Champoux, J. J. "DNA topoisomerases: structure, function, and mechanism". Annual Review of Biochemistry 2001,70, 369. doi:10.1146/annurev.biochem.70.1.369.
6Bar, A. et al. "Denaturation of circular DNA: Supercoil mechanism". Physical Review E. 2011, 84 (4), 041935-1. doi:10.1103/physreve.84.041935.
7 Aldred, K. J. et al. "Mechanism of Quinolone Action and Resistance". Biochemistry 2014, 53, 1565. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1021/bi5000564 |
8Kreuzer, K. N., and Cozzarelli, N. R. "Escherichia coli mutants thermosensitive for deoxyribonucleic acid gyrase subunit A: Effects on deoxyribonucleic acid replication, transcription, and bacteriophage growth". Journal of Bacteriology 1979, 140, 424.
9Minotti, G., et al. "Anthracyclines: Molecular Advances and Pharmacologic Developments in Antitumor Activity and Cardiotoxicity". Pharmacology Reviews 2004, 56, 185.
10Hanahan, D. and Weinberg, R. A. "Hallmarks of cancer: the next generation". Cell 2011, 144, 646.
11Van Gent, D. and Kanaar, R. "Exploiting DNA repair defects for novel cancer therapies". Molecular Biology of the Cell 2016, 27 (14), 2145.
Isabel Perez Castro
Isabel Pérez-Castro obtained her PhD in chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela where she completed her thesis on the synthesis of non-natural nucleosides. She then moved to the UK where she has worked in tuberculosis drug discovery at the University of Cambridge, as well as in cancer drug research at Queen Mary, University of London and the Bart's Institute of Cancer. She is now focused on new drug discovery at Magnus Life Science, associated to the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research - UCL.
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What Is a Commodity in Economics?
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Mike Moffatt, Ph.D., is an economist and professor. He teaches at the Richard Ivey School of Business and serves as a research fellow at the Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management.
In economics, a commodity is defined as a tangible good that can be bought and sold or exchanged for products of similar value. Natural resources such as oil as well as basic foods like corn are two common types of commodities. Like other classes of assets such as stocks, commodities have value and can be traded on open markets. And like other assets, commodities can fluctuate in price according to supply and demand.
In terms of economics, a commodity possesses the following two properties. First, it is a good that is usually produced and/or sold by many different companies or manufacturers. Second, it is uniform in quality between companies that produce and sell it. One cannot tell the difference between one firm's goods and another. This uniformity is referred to as fungibility.
Raw materials such as coal, gold, zinc are all examples of commodities that are produced and graded according to uniform industry standards, making them easy to trade. Levi's jeans would not be considered a commodity, however. Clothing, while something everyone uses, is considered a finished product, not a base material. Economists call this product differentiation.
Not all raw materials are considered commodities. Natural gas is too expensive to ship worldwide, unlike oil, making it difficult to set prices globally. Instead, it is usually traded on a regional basis. Diamonds are another example; they vary too widely in quality to achieve the volumes of scale necessary to sell them as graded commodities.
What is considered a commodity can also change over time, too. Onions were traded on commodities markets in the United States until 1955, when Vince Kosuga, a New York farmer, and Sam Siegel, his business partner tried to corner the market. The result? Kosuga and Siegel flooded the market, made millions, and consumers and producers were outraged. Congress outlawed the trading of onion futures in 1958 with the Onion Futures Act.
Trading and Markets
Like stocks and bonds, commodities are traded on open markets. In the U.S., much of the trading is done at the Chicago Board of Trade or the New York Mercantile Exchange, although some trading is also done on the stock markets. These markets establish trading standards and units of measure for commodities, making them easy to trade. Corn contracts, for example, are for 5,000 bushels of corn, and the price is set in cents per bushel.
Commodities are often called futures because trades are made not for immediate delivery but for a later point in time, usually because it takes time for a good to be grown and harvested or extracted and refined. Corn futures, for example, have four delivery dates: March, May, July, September, or December. In textbook examples, commodities are usually sold for their marginal cost of production, though in the real world the price may be higher due to tariffs and other trade barriers.
The advantage to this kind of trading is that it allows growers and producers to receive their payments in advance, giving them liquid capital to invest in their business, take profits, reduce debt, or expand production. Buyers like futures, too, because they can take advantage of dips in the market to increase holdings. Like stocks, commodity markets are also vulnerable to market instability.
Prices for commodities don't just affect buyers and sellers; they also affect consumers. For example, an increase in the price of crude oil can cause prices for gasoline to rise, in turn making the cost of transporting goods more expensive.
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Kennon, Joshua. "Definition and Examples of What Commodities Are." TheBalance.com, 27 October 2016.
Romer, Keith. "The Great Onion Corner And The Futures Market." NPR.org, 22 October 2015.
Smith, Stacey Vanek. "What Is a Commodity, Anyway?" Marketplace.org, 21 November 2013.
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Last year, Incase sponsored the MASH team when they embarked on their uniquely subversive journey to crash the 2009 edition of the Tour of California on their track bikes. For nine days, MASH team riders<|fim_middle|> year later, Project Space is proud to host with MASH a special exhibition entitled "Revisit MASH Tour of California," a retrospective on their incredible journey during the 2009 Tour of California. The Project Space installation will showcase documentation from the MASH experience, including a new short film and behind-the-scenes photography, and a display of artifacts from the tour, such as road-worn bicycles, a torn kit from the 2009 Tour and more.
The opening reception for the MASH exhibition will take place Saturday, May 22, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Preceding the opening reception is the MASH-organized fixed gear only race from Echo Park, coincidentally timed with Stage 7 of the 2010 Tour of California. The race will finish at Project Space, culminating with an awards ceremony during the exhibition's opening reception.
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April 29, 2021 By Tracy F. Seelye, Express Editor
Grants from the School Nutrition Foundation will not only ensure that the W-H Food Service Department continues to provide healthy meals kids like, they will help ease the pressure on towns' capital matrixes as equipment ages and breaks down.
The SNF's grant supplied the district with $20,000 Hobard Equipment Grant enabled the district to purchase an industrial mixer for large-batch recipes and deli slicer — used mainly at the high school.
"It would [otherwise] be part of the capital plan or it would come out of our fund, if we had any money in our fund," Doucette said.
Once awarded, the recipient will work with an ITW/FEG representative to determine what best suits their school district's needs.
New to her position, Doucette hopes to improve the kitchen facilities in Whitman-Hanson, including replacement of an aging stand mixer and adding a food slicer at the elementary school to offer fresh, daily deli sandwiches while saving on staff time and energy. Doucette also explained that various pieces of equipment are no longer functional, including a commercial steamer, food warmer and a wooden prep area that must be replaced with stainless steel.
"We have like a Subway sandwich line at the high school," she said. "I'm not sure how that may or may not work here because the kids are so little."
The schools provide both hot and cold lunch options every day.
Grant applications required information on the average daily participation in lunch programs, how many are on free and reduced lunch plans, whether a district had already received an equipment grant in the past.
School meal programs operate on extremely tight budgets, funded by cafeteria sales and reimbursements for meals served. With revenue declines due to COVID-19 school closures and the shift between distance learning and hybrid models, many school meal programs lack critical funds to purchase necessary equipment and supplies or cover transportation, temporary staffing and other costs associated with current COVID-19 feeding programs.
It is not the only grant the Food Services Department has received of late. Another grant of almost $24,000 through the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) helped replace refrigerated chests for milk, which the district had been renting for nearly $5,000 per month.
"I applied for the Project Bread COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant in the spring of 2020 for equipment to provide bagged meals at the beginning of the pandemic. We received $3,291.66 for a large portable milk cooler to keep the bagged meals safe for curbside pickup," she said. "I<|fim_middle|> free samples on Thursday and Friday."
She applied for the School Nutrition Equipment Assistance Grant in January 2021 for new milk coolers for the district. The district received $23,646.00 for 10 large portable milk coolers. It had been been leasing the milk coolers from our milk distributor.
"Not only does it eliminate a cost, it provides new equipment," she said. "Basically all I was doing was trying to find money."
Another milk chest was obtained from Project Bread.
"This grant will save us approximately $5,000 per year in leasing fees and also provide enough milk coolers for all of our schools for many years to come," she said.
As students are coming back to school, the need is definitely there, said Food Services Director Nadine Doucette.
The Biden Administration is also funding lunch programs across the country so that all student lunches are free through June 2022.
"They're all free now, so it's just going to continue," Doucette said. "I emailed every family that is on full remote still [so they know, as well]. We still do curbside pickup for all families that are full remote. We've seen that number drop dramatically, now that the kids are here full time."
Filed Under: More News Right, News | applied for Dairy on the Go Grant in January 2021 for equipment to serve Hot Chocolate Milk at the high school. We received $940.00 for a Chocolady (Bain Marie Dispenser). We hope that having this hot option along with our cold milk will increase our students milk consumption. We are going to be giving out | 73 |
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© 2017 DocGo.Net. All rights reserved. | They also organized annual sessions with delegates participating from all parts of the country. After the discussions, resolutions were adopted. "The views of the Congress in the form of resolutions were then forwarded to the Government for its information and appropriate action." 3 1. Lectures : Some of the important examples of the lectures held by moderates were based on self government, to reform the government policies, to educate the Indians, regarding Indian culture, tradition, religion, language and economy. Thus In order to create public opinion in England, the Moderates arranged lectures in different parts of England. A weekly journal called India was published in England for circulation among the British population. A British Member of Parliament attended the Congress session in 1889. "He drafted a bill in consultation with 85 Indian leaders for reform and expansion of the Legislative Councils." 4 The British Government passed the Indian council Act 1892. The passing of this bill was one of the achievements of the Moderates. 2. Press : Moderates used different types of newspaper and chronicles to criticizes the government policies through newspaper like Bengali newspaper, Bombay chronicle an English language weekly newspaper, Hindustan Times, Nationalist weekly, Induprakash, Bombay Anglo Marathi daily paper, Rast Goftar and a weekly journal India. They also asked the Government to conduct an enquiry and find ways and means to solve the problems faced by people. The British Government was not opposed to the Congress. Officials of the Government attended some of its meetings. In the beginning, Lord Dufferin encouraged Mr. Hume to form this national organization. "In 1886, he invited the Congress members to a garden party in Calcutta." 5 The British thought the Congress would confine itself to academic discussion of their demands. But the increased criticism of the British policies, made "the government to change their attitude to the Congress from indifference to open hostility." 6 They even ridiculed the Congress saying that it was an organization of self-appointed people, who did not represent the views of the Indian people. "The Congressmen held that they being educated represented the brain and conscience of the country and were legitimate spokesmen of the Indian masses." 7 The Government refused to accept this explanation and paid no attention to the "recommendations submitted by the Congress." 8 3. Meetings and Speeches : The moderates organized meetings at various places like England, Mumbai, Allahabad, Pune, Ahmadabad, Chennai, Delhi, and Calcutta. Their speeches were based on desired reforms and they believed in loyalty to the British crown. They held that the British presence in India was a blessing to Indians and they relied on the British to guide the politics in India. Their speeches were based on the sense justice, honesty and integrity the British. Thus moderates organized meetings and speeches of a very high caliber were made and resolutions containing popular demands passed. They submitted memorandums and petitions to the government 86 for the introduction of desired reforms. They also adopted measures to influence British public opinion in England. "They criticized the policies of the government through the press. Meetings, sessions and lectures." 9 The Congressmen who dominated the affairs of the Congress from 1885 to 1905 were known as the Moderates. They belonged to a class which was Indian in blood and colour but British in tastes, opinions, morals and intellect. "They were the supporters of British institutions." 10 They believed that what India needed was a balanced and lucid presentation of her needs before the Englishmen and their Parliament and their demands were bound to be satisfied. They had faith in the British sense of justice and fair-play. India's connection with the West through England was considered to be a boon and not a curse. "The Moderates believed in loyalty to the British crown." 11 This fact is clearly brought out by the statements made from time to time by the Moderate leaders. Dadabhai is said to have observed, Let us speak out like men and proclaim that we are loyal to the back bone that we understand the benefits of the English rule has conferred upon us. Surendranath Banerjee, described his attitude towards England in these words Let us work with unwavering loyalty to the British connection. "Then will the Congress have fulfilled its mission-justified the hopes of those who founded it," 12 who worked for it not by the supersession of British rule in India but by broadening its basis, liberalizing its spirit, ennobling its character and placing it upon the unchangeable foundations of a nation's affection. It is not reverence that we look forward but unification, permanent embodiment, as an integral part of that great empire which has given the rest of the world the models of free institutions covered the world with free states. Again, To England we look for guidance. To England we look for sympathy in the struggle. From England must come the crowning mandate which will enfranchise our people? England is our political guide and our moral preceptor in the exalted sphere of political duty. English history has taught those principles of freedom which we cherish with our life-blood. We have fed upon the strong food of English constitutional freedom. "The Moderates relied upon the solemn pledges given by the British Government to the people of India from time to time and the Queen's Proclamation of 1858 was one of them." 13 Surendranath Banerjee called this Proclamation as The Magna Carta of our rights and liberties. He went to the extent of saying that the 87 Proclamation, the whole Proclamation and nothing but the proclamation is our watchword, our battle-cry and ensign of victory. It is the gospel of our political redemption. The Moderates believed in orderly progress and constitutional agitation. They believed in patience, steadiness, conciliation and union. To quote Surendranath Banerjee, "The Triumphs of liberty are not to be won in a day. Liberty is jealous goddess, exacting in her worship and claiming from her votaries prolonged and assiduous devotion". 14 In 1887, Badruddin Tyabji, the Congress President, observed: "Be moderate in your demands, just in your criticism, correct in your facts and logical in your conclusions". 15 Dr. Rash Behari Ghosh is said to have remarked; "You must have patience, you must learn to wait and everything will come to you in time". 16 The Moderates believed in constitutional agitation within the four corners of law. They believed that their main task was to educate the people, to arouse national political consciousness and to create a united public opinion on political questions. For that purpose they held meetings. They criticized the government through the press. They drafted and submitted memorandum and petitions to the government, to the officials of the Government of India and also to the British Parliament. They also worked to influence the British Parliament and British public opinion and a lot of money was spent for years for that purpose. The object of the memorandum and petitions was to enlighten the British public and political leaders about the conditions prevailing in India. Deputations of leading Indian leaders were sent to Britain in 1889. Dadabhai spent a major part of his life and income in Britain doing propaganda among its people and politicians. The object before the Moderates was the wider employment of Indians in high office in the public service and the establishment of representative institutions. Surendranath Banerjee pointed out that they lay at the root of all other Indian problems. If power was vested in us to legislate and to control the finances and to carry on the administration through and by our men, in accordance with the principles laid down by our representatives "we should have self-government in the true sense". 17 This could be accomplished by the goodwill and cooperation of the British people. With their firm faith in the values of Western culture and the sense of justice of the Englishmen, no other attitude was possible. | 1,654 |
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Boston Children's Museum: This pass provides half price admission to the Children's Museum for up to 4 people. Admission is normally $16 per person. Children under 1 year old are always admitted free of charge.
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Museum of Fine Arts: The Library pass admits two people for $10 each. Adult general admission tickets are $25! General admission for children aged 7 to 17 is free after 3pm, on weekends, and on Boston public school holidays. At all other times, the charge is $10. Children aged 6 and under are always free.
Museum of Science: The library pass allows up to four people to visit the Museum for $10 each. General admission tickets are $20 for children ages 3-11, $25 for adults 12 and over and $21 for senior citizens.
New England Aquarium: The library pass admits four people for $10 each. General admission tickets are $27.95 for each adult, $18.95 for each child aged 3-11 and $25.95 for each senior. (not available during the summer).
Peabody Essex Museum: The library pass admits two adults for $6 each on weekdays, and $12 per person on weekends. General admission is $20 for adults and $18 for seniors. Youth aged 16 and under are always admitted free.
Wenham Museum: The library pass admits up to 4 people at half price admission. General admission is typically $10 per adult and $8 for children 1-16. Babies under 11 mo are admitted free. You could save up to $20 using this pass!
Zoo New England: The library pass admits 6 people to either the Franklin Park Zoo or the Stone Zoo. The pass reduces the price of admission to $9.00 per adult and $6.00 per child. General admission is $19.95 per adult at the Franklin Park zoo(children 2-12 are $13.95) or $16.95 per adult at the Stone Zoo(children 2-12 are | 425 |
Les Tres Torres és un barri del districte de Sarrià - Sant Gervasi de la ciutat de Barcelona. És un dels sectors que va pertànyer a l'antic municipi de Sarrià.
Es va començar a edificar cap al 1860, en paral·lel amb la construcció del ferrocarril que anava de la Plaça de Catalunya a Sarrià.
Els límits del barri<|fim_middle|>a, Bosch i Gimpera, carrer del Cardenal Vives i Tutó, c. de Font Coberta, carrer de Bonaplata, carrer dels Vergós. Entre els edificis destacables del barri hi ha el Col·legi de les Teresianes (Barcelona), obra d'Antoni Gaudí, i la Casa Muley Afid, obra de Josep Puig i Cadafalch.
Geografia
Amb una extensió de 0,78 km² i una població quasi estable de 22.000 habitants es tracte d'un barri que està dividit i partit per la Vía Augusta dividint el barri en dues parts amb quasi la mateixa superfície. La part nord d'aquesta divisió és coneguda com a la Bonanova i la part sud com a les Tres Torres.
Història
Fou conegut al s. XIX amb el nom de Gironella. Inicialment era un barri de cases unifamiliars amb jardí, de caràcter burgès, amb alguns nuclis de cases vuitcentistes de caràcter menestral. Unes i altres han estat substituïdes, en gran part, per cases de veïns de luxe amb format d'edificació aïllada plurifamiliar.
Vegeu també
Col·legi de les Teresianes
Casa Muley Afid, actual ambaixada de Mèxic
Cementiri de Sarrià
Museu Clarà, actualment biblioteca pública Clarà.
Estació de les Tres Torres
Casa Espiritual Sant Felip Neri
Casa Mariano Farriols
El carrer dels Vergós i el bar Mestres
Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona (COMB)
Escola Universitària Salesiana de Sarrià
Escoles Professionals Salesianes
Jardins de Winston Churchill
Enllaços externs
Les Tres Torres, a la web del districte
el Blog de Les Tres Torres
Video testimonial dels veïns de barri de Les Tres Torres explicant la història del barri | han sigut molt discutits però l'última delimitació ha estat: Via Augusta, Doctor Carulla, Ganduxer, Av. Diagonal, Av. de Sarrià, Passeig de Manuel Giron | 51 |
<|fim_middle|> Richmond Hill home when he isn't sleeping in spare rooms in Bangladesh. | Shawn Ahmed is tweeting gleefully about the white all-access badge he's been handed at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where politicians and CEOs are meeting this week to try to solve some of the world's biggest problems.
The 29-year-old Canadian landed a coveted seat representing the YouTube community after winning an international online competition called the Davos Debates.
It's a coup for a guy from Richmond Hill who ditched a graduate program at Indiana's Notre Dame University about four years ago, then grabbed a laptop and a camcorder and flew to Bangladesh to help the poor. Along the way, he launched The Uncultured Project, using YouTube and Twitter to connect web-savvy friends and donors with people in need.
Ahmed's parents were born and raised in Bangladesh and survived the liberation war that turned East Pakistan into Bangladesh before immigrating to Canada. As a child, Ahmed visited his grandfather in Bangladesh, where he saw children begging in the streets and vowed to help them one day.
That day didn't come until an inspirational meeting about four years ago with the economist Jeffrey Sachs, who made Ahmed realize it was his generation's responsibility to end world poverty.
Since then, he has been working independently but alongside established organizations such as Save the Children USA. But Ahmed isn't a registered charity. He's just a guy with some video equipment, an Internet connection and a lot of fans, who lives in his parents' | 293 |
It's been a bit of a busy weekend. Mostly relaxing. Of course, I didn't get nearly as much accomplished as I hoped/planned. Really, looking at my plans, I didn't get anything checked off my list except getting half my laundry washed.
I really need to get some stuff straightened around the house. I've got a handful of piles all over the place. It's way past time to get them consolidated, sorted through, and organized. That was my main plan for the weekend, but I really didn't make any progress on that.
Yesterday, in the process of cleaning the kitchen and doing dishes, I noticed a puddle of water being created on the floor as the dishwasher ran. I investigated it enough to determine that it wasn't the dishwasher. Instead, it was the garbage disposal, which had rusted through in one place. So, off to Home Depot I go to buy a replacement.
Oh, wait. Before that, I went to church mid-afternoon to help set up for today's Praise Band. But we couldn't set up, 'cause the hall was being used for a supper yesterday evening. No one called me to let me know that we wouldn't be able to set up 'till after supper, so that was a bit of a kink in the afternoon. Oh, well.
After not setting up for Praise Band, I headed downtown to get a library card. The downtown library is really cool. I didn't spend much time there -- I really just wanted to get a card and pick up a ham-related book. But I think I'll go spend more time down there in the future.
Anyway, I did a bit more messing around the house when I got back. That's when I noticed the problem with the disposal. I didn't have enough time to disconnect the old disposal before heading back to church for Praise Band set-up, but I made a bit of progress. I swung by the Home Depot to get a replacement before heading to church. Set-up went pretty quickly, and I headed back home to finish the disposal replacement. That went pretty easy. I went to bed tired.
I overslept this morning, so I didn't make it out to early church. When I got to Sunday School, I ran into a couple of other people from the band. They told me that the other guitarist was sick, and wouldn't make it in this morning. Oh, well. We've got two guitars, we can do it. Oh, wait -- I really just play back-up. The other guitarist plays lead, and a couple of the songs today really featured him. A couple of people were thinking we should switch out some of the songs. Someone asked me if I could play the lead parts. I shrugged -- maybe. With yarbiedoll still under the weather, we were down a vocalist, too, which made it even that much more challenging.
We had some time to run through everything a bit. I played lead and it worked out OK. So that's what we did. All in all, it was OK -- it definitely would have been better with the full band --<|fim_middle|> recovered. I've just been sluggish all day. I did manage to finish cleaning up the kitchen and do about half my laundry, though, so that's something.
It's pretty late, and I really want to resume my running schedule tomorrow morning, so I'm heading to bed. | but it was OK.
I had the full afternoon to do the cleaning I had planned, but I fell asleep during the race. After waking up, I never really | 33 |
Sir Ian Bruce Hassall (10 August 1941 – 14 June 2021) was a New Zealand paediatrician and children's advocate. He was New Zealand's first Commissioner for Children from 1989 to 1994. His career entailed working for children and their families as clinician, strategist, researcher and advocate.<|fim_middle|>iatricians
New Zealand public servants
Academic staff of the Auckland University of Technology
Knights Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit | He was awarded the Aldo Farina Award by UNICEF in 2010 for his dedication to improving child welfare.
Since 2002 he was Senior Researcher at the Institute of Public Policy (IPP) at AUT University in Auckland. With Emma Davies and Kirsten Hanna he undertook research and advocated for attitudes, processes and structures that advance children's interests. He was part of the Every Child Counts campaign to place children's interests at the centre of government. He taught the undergraduate paper, Children and Public Policy.
Early life and family
Born at Arapuni on 10 August 1941, Hassall was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland. He went on to study medicine at the University of Otago, graduating MB ChB in 1965, before earning specialist qualifications DCH (London) and FRACP (Auckland).
In 1966, Hassall married Jennifer Ann Millman, and the couple went on to have four children.
Career
Hassall worked as a paediatrician at the Auckland, St Helens and Karitane Hospitals and at the Mangere Health Centre. He became interested in the health problems associated with disadvantage and in the increasingly evident problem of child maltreatment. In 1974 he was a founder of the Child Abuse Prevention Society (Parent Help) which publicised family violence and its prevention and set up a telephone helpline.
In 1978 Hassall was appointed Deputy Medical Director of the Plunket Society to help develop a project that brought a higher level of service and support to South Auckland, which was then widely seen as a disadvantaged area. Notable additional projects in which he took a leading role were, the 'Stamp Out Measles', 'Fencing of Swimming Pools' and 'Plunket-in-Neighbourhoods' campaigns. He was a member of the research team led by Professor Ed Mitchell which provided the first convincing evidence that prone lying was a major risk factor for Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI).
With David Geddis, Plunket's Medical Director, he was a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. They helped develop the 1989 Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act which adopted a radical, family-centred approach to the secondary prevention of child maltreatment. In 1989 Hassall was appointed Commissioner for Children. His five-year term saw the establishment of the role as an independent public advocate for children, based initially on the Norwegian model.
Following his term as Commissioner, Hassall continued in public and private roles as a children's advocate convening, with Robin Fancourt and Claire Hurst, the 12th International Congress in Auckland in 1998 of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN). In 1998-99 he was international fellow at the Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago.
He was a co-founder, with Robin Fancourt, Judy Bailey and Dame Lesley Max, of the BrainWave Trust which lobbies policy-makers on behalf of children. With Jocelyn Cowern, Allan Barber and Andrew Davidson he co-founded the Kids Help Foundation Trust which operates the 'What's Up' national helpline for children and young people. He was chair of the child advocacy group, Children's Agenda. In 2001 Hassall began work with the Domestic Violence Centre (now Preventing Violence in the Home) as tutor and health sector manager and in 2002 he joined the Institute of Public Policy.
Awards and honours
In the 2019 New Year Honours, Hassall was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the welfare of children.
References
Further reading
1941 births
2021 deaths
Children's Ombudspersons in New Zealand
People from Arapuni
People educated at Mount Albert Grammar School
University of Otago alumni
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Sparks Dispensary Giving Back During Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October 12, 2017 By Kayla Anderson 1 Comment
One of Sparks' premier marijuana dispensaries, Greenleaf Wellness, has launched a community initiative to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For the entire month of October, Greenleaf will be donating $2 per every product sale to Pinocchio's Moms On The Run.
The family-owned dispensary opened mid-May at 1730 Glendale Avenue in Sparks after seeing firsthand the relief that cannabis brought to a family member. Formerly owning a garbage business, the Duques also have a long history of giving back to the community in which it resides.
"Cancer runs pretty rampant in my family," says Greenleaf Vice President Steve<|fim_middle|> visit www.momsontherun.info. For more information about Greenleaf Wellness and its products, visit greenleafwellness.com.
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November is Lung Cancer awareness month..More women die of Lung Cancer than breast | Duque. "My sister (Tammy Kolvet) and I are 4th generations Sparks residents and an important thing for us is giving back to the community," he adds.
Having been friends for years with fellow Northern Nevada residents, restaurant owners, and founders of Moms On The Run JP and Barb Pinocchio, Duque started brainstorming with the couple on what they can do to offer their support for October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
"We've been in the valley a long time…my dad (Spike Duque) loves motorcycles and we know that JP does the Ride for the Tatas. We talked about doing a billboard, then came up with making a donation based on every Greenleaf transaction," says Duque.
Setting a goal to raise $20,000 for Moms On The Run, the donation is meant to help women fighting all gynecological cancers and is not just limited to breast cancer. The Duque family chose Moms On The Run due to their personal relationship and fully supports a cause created to help provide financial aid to families enduring hardships caused by cancer with a primary focus on assisting with everyday expenses to those living with breast and/or gynecological cancers.
As of October 9, Greenleaf has already raised $4,744 from cannabis sales and is on pace to raise close to the $20,000 by the end of the month. "But if we did twice that amount then we'd be happy to donate more," he says.
From a product perspective, it's quasi-proven that cannabis helps with treating cancer and many doctors believe that cannabis can push cancer into remission. However, due to marijuana's federal classification, not many doctors will go on record (or risk losing federal funding) to support it.
"We are all about giving back to our local community. Whether we're selling lemonade or cannabis, if our donation can provide comfort and support for a woman doing this then it's all worth it," says Duque.
"If you're in the market to purchase (cannabis products) this month, then keep in mind that every transaction at Greenleaf goes right back into the community," he adds.
For more information about Moms On The Run and its upcoming events, | 454 |
If You Loved . . . The One True Love of Alice-Ann
I<|fim_middle|> The One True Love of Alice-Ann by Eva Marie Everson. We loved it! It is set on the American home front during WWII. If you haven't read it yet, you need to! 🙂 If you have and want to read more like it, check out the following recommendations.
Books Set On The American Home Front During WWII
The Discovery By Dan Walsh
Gerard Warner was not only a literary giant whose suspense novels sold in the millions, he was also a man devoted to his family, especially his wife of nearly 60 years. When he dies he leaves his Charleston estate to his grandson, Michael, an aspiring writer himself. Michael settles in to write his own first novel and discovers an unpublished manuscript his grandfather had written, something he'd kept hidden from everyone but clearly intended Michael to find. Michael begins to read an exciting tale about Nazi spies and sabotage, but something about this story is different from all of Gerard Warner's other books. It's actually a love story. As Michael delves deeper into the story he discovers something that has the power to change not only his future but his past as well.
A Distant Melody by Sarah Sundin
Never pretty enough to please her gorgeous mother, Allie will do anything to gain her approval even marry a man she doesn't love. Lt. Walter Novak fearless in the cockpit but hopeless with women takes his last furlough at home in California before being shipped overseas. Walt and Allie meet at a wedding and their love of music draws them together, prompting them to begin a correspondence that will change their lives. As letters fly between Walt's muddy bomber base in England and Allie's mansion in an orange grove, their friendship binds them together. But can they untangle the secrets, commitments, and expectations that keep them apart?
Nightingale by Susan May Warren
Nightingale Esther Lange doesn't love her fiancé — she's trapped in an engagement after a mistaken night of passion. Still, she grieves him when he's lost in battle, the letters sent to her by the medic at his side giving her a strange comfort, so much that she strikes up a correspondence with Peter Hess, an Iowa farmboy. Or is he? Peter Hess is not who he seems. Indeed, he's hiding a secret, something that could cost them both their lives, especially when the past comes back to life. A bittersweet love song of the home front war between duty and the heart . . . a battle where only one will survive.
Where Treetops Glisten by Tricia Goyer/Cara Putnam/Sarah Sundin
Turn back the clock to a different time, listen to Bing Crosby sing of sleigh bells in the snow, as the realities of America's involvement in the Second World War change the lives of the Turner family in Lafayette, Indiana.
In Cara Putman's White Christmas, Abigail Turner is holding down the Home Front as a college student and a part-time employee at a one-of-a-kind candy shop. Loss of a beau to the war has Abigail skittish about romantic entanglements—until a hard-working young man with a serious problem needs her help.
Abigail's brother Pete is a fighter pilot hero returned from the European Theater in Sarah Sundin's I'll Be Home for Christmas, trying to recapture the hope and peace his time at war has eroded. But when he encounters a precocious little girl in need of Pete's friendship, can he convince her widowed mother that he's no longer the bully she once knew?
In Tricia Goyer's Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Meredith Turner, "Merry" to those who know her best, is using her skills as a combat nurse on the frontline in the Netherlands. Halfway around the world from home, Merry never expects to face her deepest betrayal head on, but that's precisely what God has in mind to redeem her broken heart.
The Turner family believes in God's providence during such a tumultuous time. Can they absorb the miracle of Christ's birth and His plan for a future?
Tags: Cara Putman, Dan Walsh, historical fiction, historical romance fiction, Sarah Sundin, Susan May Warren, Tricia Goyer, WWII
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6 Responses to "If You Loved . . . The One True Love of Alice-Ann"
Paula August 31, 2017 at 9:48 am #
I have read Sarah Sundin's novels and the Treetops Glisten book! They are tops in my book! LOL! I will have to check out the others. Thanks! I like this feature!
rbclibrary August 31, 2017 at 2:25 pm #
Thanks Paula! I hope it will lead people to more great CF!
Sarah Sundin August 31, 2017 at 10:13 am #
Thank you so much, Beckie! I appreciate the recommendation!
You are welcome. I very much looking forward to your new series. 🙂
Carrie September 1, 2017 at 3:00 pm #
I love this new feature!
rbclibrary September 1, 2017 at 3:33 pm #
Thanks! I don't know why I didn't think of this before. | have found that when I finish a book I really, really like, I want to read more books just like it. So I am starting a new feature on By The Book. At the end of each month, I will recommend books based on By The Book's monthly book club selection. In August we read | 62 |
In health care, diagnosis codes are used as a tool to group and identify diseases, disorders, symptoms, poisonings, adverse effects of<|fim_middle|>agnosis codes are generally used as a representation of admitted episodes in health care settings. The principal diagnosis, additional diagnoses alongside intervention codes essentially depict a patient's admission to a hospital.
Diagnoses codes are subjected to ethical considerations as they contribute to the total coded medical record in health services areas such as a hospital. Hospitals that are based on Activity Based Funding and Diagnoses-Related Group Classification systems are often subjected to high end decision making that could affect the outcome of funding. It's important to look at the scope of diagnoses codes in terms of their application in finance. The diagnoses codes in particular the Principal Diagnoses and Additional Diagnoses can significantly affect the total funding that a hospital may receive for any patient admitted.
Ethically, this highlights the fact that the assignment of the diagnoses code can be influenced by a decision to maximize reimbursement of funding. For example, when looking at the activity based funding model used in the public hospital system in Victoria the total coded medical record is responsible for its reflected funding. These decisions also affect clinical documentation by physicians as recommendations from a Health Information Service can directly affect how a clinician may document a condition that a patient may have. The difference between the codes assigned for confusion and delirium can alter a hospitals DRG assignment as delirium is considered a higher level code than confusion within the ICD-10 coding hierarchy in terms of severity. A clinical coder or Health Information Manager may feel obliged to maximize funding above the ethical requirement to be honest within their diagnostic coding; this highlights the ethical standpoint of diagnoses codes as they should be reflective of a patient's admission.
Factors affecting accuracy in diagnostic coding
Accuracy is a major component in diagnoses codes. The accurate assignment of diagnoses codes in clinical coding is essential in order to effectively depict a patients stay within a typical health service area. A number of factors can contribute to the overall accuracy coding which includes medical record legibility, physician documentation, clinical coder experience, financial decision making, miscoding, as well as classification system limitations.
Medical record legibility
The legibility of a medical record is a contributing factor in the accuracy of diagnostic coding. The assigned proxy that is extracting information from the medical record is dependent on the quality of the medical record. Factors that contribute to a medical records quality are physician documentation, handwriting legibility, compilation of forms, duplication and inaccurate patient data. For example, if a clinical coder or Health Information Manager was extracting data from a medical record in which the principal diagnoses was unclear due to illegible handwriting, the health professional would have to contact the physician responsible for documenting the diagnoses in order to correctly assign the code. In Australia, the legibility of records has been sufficiently maintained due to the implementation of highly detailed standards and guidelines which aim to improve the legibility of medical records. In particular the paper medical record standard 'AS 2828' created by Standards Australia focuses on a few key areas that are critical to maintaining a legible paper medical record.
The following criteria should be used as a guideline when creating a medical record specific to the aid of providing clear documentation for diagnostic coding. In particular the legibility of a medical record is dependent on —
Durability: If a medical record wasn't durable, overtime if a coder was to revisit the record and it wasn't legible it wouldn't be feasible to code from that record.
Ready Identification: A coder must be able to identify the exact record being coded in order to effectively extract diagnoses codes.
Reproducible: A coder would need to make sure that the record is reproducible in that copies can be made to aid in effective coding.
Clinical coder experience
The experience of the health professional coding a medical record is an essential variable that must be accounted for when analysing the accuracy of coding. Generally a coder with years of experience is able to extract all the relevant information from a medical record whether it is paper, scanned or semi-electronic. The diagnoses codes selected from the extraction are generally compiled and sequenced in order to represent the admission. An experienced coder may incorrectly assign codes due a lack of application of a classification systems relevant standards. An example to highlight clinical coding experience would be the standard within the Australian Coding Standards 0010 General Abstraction Guidelines. These guidelines indicate that a coder must seek further detail within a record in order to correctly assign the correct diagnoses code. An inexperienced coder may simply just use the description from the discharge summary such as Infarction and may not use the correct detail which could be further found within the details of the medical record. This directly relates to the accuracy of diagnoses codes as the experience of the health professional coder is significant in its accuracy and contribution to finance.
Weaknesses in diagnostic coding
Generally, coding is a concept of modeling reality with reduced effort, but with physical copying.
Hence, the result of coding is a reduction to the scope of representation as far as possible to be depicted with the chosen modeling technology. There will never be an escape, but choosing more than one model to serve more than one purpose. That led to various code derivatives, all of them using one basic reference code for ordering, as e.g., with ICD-10 coding. However, concurrent depiction of several models in one image remains principally impossible.
Focusing a code on one purpose lets other purposes unsatisfied. This has to be taken into account when advertising for any coding concept. The operability of coding is generally bound to purpose. Inter-referring must be subject of evolutionary development, as code structures are subject of frequent change.
Unambiguous coding requires strict restriction to hierarchical tree structures possibly enhanced with multiple links, but no parallel branching for contemporary coding whilst maintaining bijectivity.
Spatial depictions of n-dimensional code spaces as coding scheme trees on flat screens may enhance imagination, but still leave the dimensionality of image limited to intelligibility of sketching, mostly as a 3D object on a 2D screen. Pivoting such image does not solve the intelligibility problem.
Projections of code spaces as flattened graphs may ease the depiction of a code, but generally reduce the contained information with the flattening. There is no explanation given with many of the codes for transforming from one code system to another. That leads to specialized usage and to limitations in communication between codes. The escape is with code reference structures (as e.g., not existing with SNOMED3).
Hierarchical ordering of more than one code system may be seen as appropriate, as the human body is principally invariant to coding. But the dependency implied with such hierarchies decrease the cross referencing between the code levels down to unintelligibility. The escape is with hyper maps that exceed planar views (as e.g. with SNOMED3) and their referring to other codes (as e.g., yet not existing with SNOMED3).
Purpose of documenting will be seen as essential just for the validation of a code system in aspects of correctness. However this purpose is timely subordinate to the generating of the respective information. Hence some code system shall support the process of medical diagnosis and of medical treatment of any kind. Escape is with a specialised coding for the processes of working on diagnosis as on working with treatment (as e.g., not intended with SNOMED3).
Intelligibility of results of coding is achieved by semantic design principles and with ontologies to support navigating in the codes. One major aspect despite the fuzziness of language is the bijectivity of coding. Escape is with explaining the code structure to avoid misinterpreting and various codes for the very same condition (as e.g., yet not served at all with SNOMED3).
See also
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine
Diagnosis-related group
Medical classification
Major Diagnostic Category
MedDRA
American Health Information Management Association
References | drugs and chemicals, injuries and other reasons for patient encounters. Diagnostic coding is the translation of written descriptions of diseases, illnesses and injuries into codes from a particular classification. In medical classification, diagnosis codes are used as part of the clinical coding process alongside intervention codes. Both diagnosis and intervention codes are assigned by a health professional trained in medical classification such as a clinical coder or Health Information Manager.
Several diagnosis classification systems have been implemented to various degrees of success across the world. The various classifications have a focus towards a particular patient encounter type such as emergency, inpatient, outpatient, mental health as well as surgical care. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) is one of the most widely used classification systems for diagnosis coding as it allows comparability and use of mortality and morbidity data.
As the knowledge of health and medical advances arise, the diagnostic codes are generally revised and updated to match the most up to date current body of knowledge in the field of health. The codes may be quite frequently revised as new knowledge is attained. DSM (see below) changes some of its coding to correspond to the codes in ICD. In 2005, for example, DSM changed the diagnostic codes for circadian rhythm sleep disorders from the 307-group to the 327-group; the new codes reflect the moving of these disorders from the Mental Disorders section to the Neurological section in the ICD
Diagnostic coding systems
A number of diagnostic coding systems are implemented across the world to code the stay of patients within a typical health setting, such as a hospital. The following table provides a basic list of the coding systems in use :
Financial aspects of diagnostic coding
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"When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power."
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"Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul."
"What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others."
"We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution."
"We must pass by the good, moral man, and seek the outcast. We must pass by those who, we think, would make the best members of the Church, and go with our invitation to the very refuse of Society. Sad to say, we must. Sometimes pass by our very children while we go out after others not related to us by fleshly ties."
"When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do."
"Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned."
"We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming a man, to help man. Whoever heard of Jupiter or Mars or Minerva coming down and attempting to bear the burdens of men? The gods were willing enough to receive the gifts of men, but Christianity is unique in the fact that our God became a man with human infirmity and emptied Himself of the glory of heaven, in order that He might take upon Himself the sins, diseases and weakness of our humanity."
"Justification is away beyond anything that a human court of justice ever realizes. It is putting the sinner in the condition before God as if he had never sinned at all. It is giving him a standing | 557 |
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