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Investigators at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (East Boothbay, Maine) and the U.S. Geological Survey collaborated to study ecosystem changes in the Gulf of Maine. The comprehensive 12-year study of hydrographical, biological, optical, and chemical properties is part of the Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series (GNATS). Data have been collected on multiple cruises each year since 2001 by using a portable laboratory aboard different vessels (figure 1) and occasionally a remotely controlled glider (figure 2). Data collected during these cruises, when analyzed within the context of a century of climatological and streamflow data, document changes in temperature, salinity, and coastal ocean productivity that appear to be related to recent increases in precipitation and streamflow. These results are evidence of a link between changing hydrologic conditions on land and changes in coastal ocean productivity. The study results (Balch and others, 2012) show a 5-fold decline in the growth rate of phytoplankton — the microscopic, single-celled plants that form the foundation of the marine food web and ultimately support the Gulf's fish and lobster populations (figure 3). The decline in productivity, if sustained, would ultimately impact the food supply of commercial fish species; however, this process would not become evident for several years, because several years are required for the larvae of fish and lobsters to reach commercial size. Figure 1.Dr. William Balch in his portable laboratory used on oceanographic research vessels and other ships of opportunity (ferries, cargo ships, etc) for sample and data collection along the Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series transect. Figure 2.A battery-powered, remotely controlled glider deployed seasonally since 2008 (approximately 4 times per year) along the Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series transect to better understand the vertical distribution of optical and hydrographic properties. The Gulf of Maine has received extraordinary amounts of runoff from land since 2005 (the second half of the 12-year GNATS time series), associated with well above average precipitation. For example, 4 of the 8 years with the highest precipitation in Gardiner, Maine in more than a century occurred from 2005 through 2009. Runoff in the Penobscot River Basin was greater in 2005 than in any other calendar year since records began in 1903. In addition, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010 were all among the 20 years with the highest runoff values; runoff in 2007 was also well above average. Increased river discharge appears to be preventing deep, North Atlantic water — which carries silicate and other nutrients essential for phytoplankton growth — from entering the Gulf of Maine through the Northeast Channel, causing significant changes in the Gulf's biogeochemistry. At the same time, greater runoff from rivers has led to an increase in the amount of detritus and colored dissolved organic matter in the water, reducing the amount of light available for phytoplankton photosynthesis and growth. Figure 3.Top panel:Map showing the Gulf of Maine and the location of the Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series transect between Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and Portland, Maine.Bottom panel: Plot showing changes in maximum primary production over time (vertical [y] axis is in years from 2001 to 2010) and space (horizontal [x] axis, shows positions along the transect, in degrees west longitude and distance in kilometers from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia). Dashed horizontal lines signify the summer solstice of each year. Colors, which represent primary production rates, are keyed to the color bar at the right. Cool, blue colors indicate low rates; warm, red colors represent high rates. (Note that the color bar scale is logarithmic, not linear, and covers rates of 3 to 300 micrograms carbon per liter per day — a factor of two orders of magnitude or 100x). Water masses along the transect are indicated at the bottom of the figure: Western Maine Coastal Current (WMCC), Extension of the Eastern Maine Coastal Current (Ext EMCC), Jordan Basin (JB), and Scotian Shelf Water (SS). Temperature and salinity data were compared to measurements made along the same transect beginning in 1978 by other scientists, including Dr. Charles Yentsch, founding director of Bigelow Laboratory. The results show statistically significant increases in surface temperature in the Gulf and decreases in salinity. The increase in sea surface temperature (0.018°C per yr) is considered a moderate rate of warming and is consistent with global increases in ocean temperature reported by other researchers. The decrease in salinity (–0.0087 PSS per yr) is greater than changes observed by others farther offshore in the Atlantic Ocean, presumably as a result of freshwater entering the Gulf fro river sources. Such long-term salinity decreases can be caused by a number of climatological factors, including increases in precipitation and runoff and the melting of the polar ice cap. Balch, W.M., Drapeau, D.T., Bowler, B.C., and Huntington, T.G., 2012, Step-changes in the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the Gulf of Maine, as documented by the GNATS Time Series: Marine Ecology Progress Series, v. 450, p. 11-35.

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It is shown that no stable procedure for approximating functions from equally spaced samples can converge exponentially for analytic functions. To avoid instability, one must settle for root-exponential convergence. The proof combines a Bernstein inequality of 1912 with an estimate due to Coppersmith and Rivlin in 1992. © 2011 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Please contact us for feedback and comments about this page. Last update on 17 April 2019 - 17:30.

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. Editor — Kudos to President Mnangagwa for coming up with a fine team of ministers. The President has demonstrated that he is a listening leader and his Cabinet is proof that he respects the people's wishes. We can see a lot of new faces, with some individuals who have been causing public outcry being dropped. It is clear for all to see that ED means business this time around and the ministers he has entrusted with ministerial roles are a perfect fit for the task at hand. The work that Dr Obadiah Moyo has done at Chitungwiza Central Hospital should be reference point for what he can do for the health ministry. Another good example is Kirsty Coventry who was already doing a lot to develop sport in the country. Professor Mthuli Ncube's track record as vice-president of the African Development Bank speaks volumes. Minister Chitando has already proven that he can do wonders in the mining sector. I have just mentioned a few of the ministers, but it is enough to show the path that the President wants to follow. I am glad the President also mentioned that all ministers will present their progress reports every 100 days to enable the public to track what is being done. Now that the Cabinet has been announced, it is time to work.

Tech to prepare manufacturers, workers for the 'factory of the future' by Kayla Wiles, Purdue University A Purdue-led collaboration will help manufacturers to realistically simulate how workers, robots and machines will work together to improve productivity in the "factory of the future." Credit: Purdue University C Design Lab image/Luis Paredes and Ke Huo Today's manufacturers struggle to keep pace with rapid changes in technology because of the inability to adapt and the new skills required of their workforce. Purdue University researchers in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Indiana University will be developing new technologies alongside a platform that will allow manufacturers to realistically simulate interactions between workers, robots and machines to prepare for the factories of just five to 10 years from now. The work is supported by a $2.5 million grant by the National Science Foundation's Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program, one of 10 new Big Ideas for Future Investment. Simulating factory settings with new technologies before they are available would help manufacturers assess business success and risks, offset costs, scale efforts for training workers and stay competitive. The work aligns with Purdue's Giant Leaps celebration, acknowledging the university's global advancements made in artificial intelligence, algorithms and automation as part of Purdue's 150th anniversary. This is one of the four themes of the yearlong celebration's Ideas Festival, designed to showcase Purdue as an intellectual center solving real-world issues. "Any time you introduce a technological advancement or a new piece of equipment, the learning curve is pretty steep until you get comfortable with the technology and how it interfaces with the human," said Doug Mansfield, the president and chief operating officer of manufacturing at Kirby Risk, an Indiana-based private enterprise that specializes in electrical supply, wiring harness and control panel assembly, precision machining and motor repair and power transmission. The simulation platform would involve artificial intelligence and "augmented reality," which means that objects in the real world are "augmented," or enhanced, by what a computer helps the user to perceive. The platform will also use the "Internet of Things" to wirelessly connect machines with humans and robots, allowing them to communicate and collaborate with one another. "Augmented reality and the Internet of Things would allow robots to extend the mind and hands of a worker, so workers could do much more challenging tasks that robots cannot do, like repairing a compressor, with minimal training," said Karthik Ramani, the project lead and Purdue's Donald W. Feddersen Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Simulations could be of an entire factory, warehouse or of a specific new workflow, such as simulating how robots working with humans would pick up packages and deliver them to a conveyor belt. The simulations would also serve as a way to pre-skill workers for collaborating with the robots that would not only take over routine tasks, but also share work with other robots. A team led by Kylie Peppler, associate professor of learning sciences at IU, will contribute expertise on helping engineering students to become interested and engaged in what factories of the future will involve by developing the skills needed at the same time. Shimon Nof, Purdue professor of industrial engineering and director of the PRISM Center for Production, Robotics and Integration Software for Manufacturing and Management, and his team will be investigating the various ways that humans could collaborate with robots using this new platform. Other Purdue researchers involved in this project include Thomas Redick, associate professor of cognitive psychology, and Alex Quinn, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, who will study how skills and labor are transferred with the system. Researchers at Purdue have begun developing technology that would allow workers to easily instruct robots to perform tasks involving objects, machines and other robots. Credit: Purdue University image/Karthik Ramani Helping new types of workers to learn on the job and to work with robots is vital: Studies have shown that new technologies introduced over the last 20 years have failed to sufficiently increase the demand for labor. "This failure is partly because new technologies have automated a range of tasks previously performed by labor, displacing workers from their jobs, and partly because they have not increased productivity to generate enough demand from other tasks and sectors," said Daron Acemoglu, the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. Acemoglu's team, as part of this project, will be researching the labor market implications of augmenting humans with robotics. "The hope is that a new generation of technologies, powered by artificial intelligence and augmented reality, can both generate greater productivity growth and complement rather than replace workers," he said. The NSF-funded effort also anticipates that by teaching students design and prototyping with electronics and coding, they will become new kinds of workers that increase the capabilities of a smart factory. The technologies developed with the platform will be progressively introduced into the workplace as well as educational settings to pre-skill young people across the U.S. "The idea is to create and serve future manufacturing, rather than just trying to fix problems in the present," Ramani said. AI-based research toward autonomous robots and drones Provided by Purdue University Citation: Tech to prepare manufacturers, workers for the 'factory of the future' (2018, October 10) retrieved 21 January 2020 from https://phys.org/news/2018-10-tech-workers-factory-future.html How did Galileo manufacture his telescope? Determination of glucose in hot beverages Design loads for wind towers & jackets? Water level in a submerged closed vessel after it is turned upright Electromagnet Coil Performing Poorly Temperature of the tank in a superheater More from General Engineering Researchers work to add function to 3-D-printed objects Machines will do more tasks than humans by 2025: WEF 'Augmented reality' tools to help health care workers save lives in war zones, natural disasters, rural areas New glue could make millions of medical procedures safer, less invasive for patients Robots and workers of the world, unite! Short circuit: Tokyo unveils chatty 'robot-eers' for 2020 Olympics Increasingly human-like robots spark fascination and fear No more Iron Man—submarines now have soft, robotic arms Robot teachers invade Chinese kindergartens Must do better: Japan eyes AI robots in class to boost English China shows off automated doctors, teachers and combat stars

Well, this sorry tale started with a desire to enable the Windows firewall on our domain controllers. I'll leave that part of the story for another day, but it did throw up and interesting issue that Microsoft agrees is a bug. I started to see event 5152 filling my domain controller's security event log which appeared to indicate that inbound LDAP packets were being dropped by the firewall. This was obviously a concern. Here is an appropriately redacted example event (note the highlighted port 389 which is (unsecure) LDAP). The packet drop events are being generated as part of a set of "built-in" stealth filters. These stealth filters were introduced in Vista/2008 to ward off port-scanning attacks. Their purpose is to prevent outbound responses (such as TCP resets) to inbound packets sent for the purpose of port IP and port discovery. The 5152 events are misleading in this way because from the text they seem to indicate the INBOUND packet was dropped, when really, it was the OUTBOUND packet that was dropped. Our product team concurs that is just an idiosyncrasy of the implementation. When an inbound packet triggers a reset, the stack classifies the packet against the INBOUND_TRANSPORT_V4_DISCARD layers to determine if the reset should be sent. So in this case, "inbound" really means that the drop occurred during the processing of an inbound packet and before the outbound reset was even generated. Well then some interesting things happened. The domain controllers started to act like all the auditing was disabled which had various effects in my environment. It turns out that as soon as you configure anything in the more granular advanced section, all settings in the regular section are ignored. The solution is to recreate all the settings from the regular node into the more granular node. If I had time I would try and create a cross walk between each regular setting and the collection of more granular settings that it equates to, but I might have to leave that to someone else. Thank you for this! I just enabled firewall on my 2008 R2 domain controllers and was troubled by these same events. Searching around the internet all I was finding were people talking back and forth who really didn't understand the issue at hand. I knew something was odd with the process id showing as 0 instead of the lsass process but couldn't find an explanation anywhere. Now at least I know the events are a bug and I just have to decide whether I want to suppress all dropped packed events in order to not see them. Apparently, they did fix this in Server 2012 because I have several domains running 2012 R2 and these events are not logged even when auditing of filtering platform events for dropped packets is enabled.

Isabella and Minnea are at the Shift 2017 conference in Tenerife, Spain presenting their research topics (conference WWW). The conference and its name are referring to spectral shaping of light and the topics range from applications in energy and photochemistry to biomedical applications. Go check the "Yb,Er up-conversion luminescence from molecular hybrid thin films prepared by ALD/MLD" poster by Minnea and "The use of synthetic hackmanites in storing UV radiation and X-rays" poster by Isabella. Minnea is attending International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV16) in Swansea, UK on 28.6.-1.7. with a poster from our collaboration with Materials chemistry group about manufacturing Perovskite materials with ultrasonic spray method. You can spot us in two conferences next week. Emilia and Tero are participating in the 1st Conference and Spring School on Properties, Design and Applications of Upconverting Nanomaterials (UPCON) in Wroclaw, Poland on 23-27.5. with the topics "Sensitising Up-Conversion Materials with Layer-by-Layer Method" and "Extensive Study of NaYF4:Yb3+,R3+ Up-Conversion Luminescence Materials". Come see their posters on Tuesday. Mika is participating in Biosensors 2016 in Gothenburg, Sweden on 25-27.5. and will be presenting his topic "Using Synthetic Hackmanites as Sensors of Solar UV radiation" on Friday afternoon so go check him there! "Kemian kevät '16 – Innovaatioiden alkulähteillä" which is a seminar event where BSc and MSc students present their thesis topics is held in Arcanum on 26.-28.4.2016. This year also PhD students give a brief introduction about their research topics. Inorganic materials chemistry has plenary lection on Thursday afternoon when our students will have their presentations – also as an added bonus Emilia and Minnea will have their Science Slam presentations on Tuesday. You can find the program and from the Kemian kevät website below. MatSurf 9th Annual Seminar 9.11. The 9th Annual MatSurf Seminar is held 9.11.2015 in Deparment of Physics and Astronomy, Quantum Auditorium from 9.00 forward. We're attending the seminar with a presentation of Hellen "Luminescent Non-Doped Laponites: Anionic Layered Nanosilicates" and also contribute to poster session starting at 15.20. MatSurf stands for Turku University Centre for Materials and Surfaces and is a joint project of several research groups to make the most of the know-how and instruments in the field of Materials Research in Turku, Finland. We're attending the 9th International Conference on Luminescent Detectors and Transformers of Ionizing Radiation in Tartu, Estonia on September 20-25. We're attending the 9th international conference on f-elements is held in Oxford, UK on September 6-9. Come see our posters on Tuesday poster session with numbers #44 and #120.

Leanne Wood visited a Rhondda secondary school to talk to a group of teenage girls about self-esteem, confidence and the importance of ambition and determination in life. The Rhondda AM called into Porth Community School after a session with the pupils was arranged by Head of Upper School Lindsey Walters. The talk covered topics such as careers' options, mental health, Brexit, votes at 16 and challenging gender stereotypes. Leanne added: "It was a pleasure to share my experiences of defying what people expect of a working class woman from the Rhondda. "No matter what your background, there is nothing to stop anyone from the Rhondda following their dreams, achieving their ambitions and being a success.

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The Benny Goodman Papers PDF Finding Aid Finding Aid View This register currently describes scores and/or parts to musical arrangements written for Benny Goodman's bands, orchestras, and combos. Some sound recordings are also included. The Papers also include published music in Goodman's collection; correspondence (including letters from many prominent musicians and political figures); photographs; scrapbooks; concert programs and publicity materials; scripts, interviews, and articles; financial and legal documents; awards, honors, and academic regalia; additional sound recoridings and film reels; and miscellaneous other items. Descriptions of these materials will be added to the register at a later date. 1910-1992, inclusive Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986 Materials chiefly in English. The Papers are open to qualified researchers by appointment. There are no restricted materials in the collection. Please contact the Special Collections staff to schedule an appointment. Some of the materials may be stored at the Library's off-campus shelving facility, so researchers should allow at least two business days to have the appropriate boxes paged. The Benny Goodman Papers are the physical property of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University. Copyrights belong to the composers and authors, or their legal heirs and assigns. Permission to perform, exploit or record arrangements or any of the materials from the Benny Goodman Papers and Collection at Yale must first be obtained from the Trusts under the Will of Benny Goodman, c/o We Three Music, Inc., Attn: Dorothy Webman, 1650 Broadway, Suite 701, New York, NY 10019 (telephone: 212-586-0241; fax: 928-569-7249). The Benny Goodman Papers were established in the Music Library of Yale University by Benny Goodman in 1986. In 9 series as follows: I. Music II. Correspondence. III. Photographs. IV. Scrapbooks. V. Programs and Publicity. VI. Scripts, Interviews, and Articles. VII. Financial and Legal. VIII. Awards, Honors, and Academic Regalia. IX. Miscellaneous. 106 Linear Feet (129 boxes) A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0053 Musical arrangements, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials relating to Benny Goodman (1909-1986), the clarinetist and band leader. At present, this register consist of scores and/or parts to musical arrangements written for Goodman's band, as well as sound and video recordings and film content. Unprocessed materials in the Papers include: photographs; programs and scrapbooks; and miscellaneous items. Benny Goodman was born in Chicago, May 30, 1909. He received his first musical training at a local synagogue, and later studied clarinet with Franz Schoepp. Goodman made his debut at the age of twelve, and left home to become a full-time professional clarinetist when he was sixteen. After a decade of performing as a free-lancer and as a member of Ben Pollak's band, Goodman established his first big band in 1934, and soon it achieved unprecedented success. He won great acclaim both for his dazzling clarinet solos and for the brilliance of his band. In an era of segregation, Goodman was a pioneer in hiring without regard to race; his ensemble included outstanding black musicians (such as Teddy Wilson) as well as leading white performers (such as Gene Krupa). Goodman also employed talented arrangers, including Fletcher Henderson, Eddie Sauter, and many others. At his peak, in the late 1930s, Goodman may have been the most popular musician in the world. His Carnegie Hall concert on January 16, 1938 is regarded as a key moment in jazz history. Goodman did not restrict himself to big band music; he also won renown for his work with a series of small combos that included Wilson, Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Christian, and other prominent jazz musicians. He even pursued a classical career, performing clarinet concertos with numerous orchestras and playing chamber music with ensembles such as the Budapest String Quartet. He commissioned major works from Bela Bart'k, Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, and other composers.Although the swing era eventually passed, Goodman retained a large and loyal following, even as bop, rock, and other musical styles came into vogue. He and his band performed widely, not only in the United States, but also in Latin America, Europe, the Soviet Union, and East Asia. Over the course of his long career, Goodman made innumerable recordings and appeared frequently on radio, television, and film. His life and music have been the subject of many biographies, discographies, and other studies. Benny Goodman died in New York on June 13, 1986. Years after his passing, he remains the unchallenged 'King of Swing.' Big band music -- Scores and parts Clarinet with dance orchestra -- Scores and parts Clarinet with jazz ensemble -- Scores and parts Dance orchestra music -- Scores and parts Music -- United States -- 20th Century Basie, Count, 1904-1984 Bunch, John, 1921-2010 Burns, Ralph, 1922-2001 Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 Cohn, Al, 1925-1988 Edwards, Teddy, 1924-2003 Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 Evans, Gil, 1912-1988 Feller, Sid, 1916-2006 Gutesha, Mladen Henderson, Fletcher, 1897-1952 Henderson, Horace, 1904-1988 Hensel, Wes, 1917-1982 Jenkins, Gordon, 1910-1984 Karlin, Fred Kincaide, Deane Lipman, Joe, 1915-2007 Mancini, Henry, 1924-1994 Miller, Glenn, 1904-1944 Mundy, Jimmy, 1907-1983 Murphy, Lyle, 1908-2005 Newsom, Tommy O'Farrill, Chico, 1921-2001 Ogermann, Claus, 1930- Powell, Mel, 1923-1998 Sampson, Edgar, 1907-1973 Sauter, Eddie, 1914-1981 Stegmeyer, Bill, 1916-1968 Templeton, Alec, 1910-1963 Thompson, Johnny Todd, Tommy Wilder, Alec, 1907-1980 Williams, George, 1917- Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 Woode, William Henri, 1909-1994 Finding Aid & Administrative Information Register to The Benny Goodman Papers Edited Full Draft Finding Aid Prepared According To Local Music Library Descriptive Practices Finding aid written in English. Part of the Yale University Music Library Repository https://guides.library.yale.edu/MusicSpecialCollections New Haven CT 06520 US musicspecialcollections@yale.edu MSS 53, The Benny Goodman Papers in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University. https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/6/resources/10681 Accessed January 19, 2022. Preferred arrival date (YYYY-MM-DD)

The following is a quote from the proposal: "The goals of our cluster of excellence can only be reached with smart algorithmics; the data volume and functional demands are growing, real-time requirements are asking for increased efficiency, and reliability of services becomes more and more important. New ranking algorithms, new ways to organize and search massive sets of data, new techniques for handling geometry in its various aspects, and new methods for dealing with graphs and nets are needed. Highest reliability is essential for some parts of the project. The algorithms group with members at UdS and MPI-INF will provide algorithmic foundations along all axes of algorithmic research: the development of new algorithms and data structures, the investigation of algorithm engineering issues and experimental work, and the provision of reliable and efficient implementations. The principal investigators and their groups have an excellent track record along all axes. They also have a proven record of cooperation with application groups in Saarbrücken and outside. Joint publications with researchers from RA1, RA5, and RA6 exist." The above is still a valid description of our vision and strategy. Our performance in terms of both research results and advancement of young scientists is excellent. In this section, we survey our most important results. Results that were obtained in cooperation with other research areas are discussed in the section on collaborations. Our research provides foundations for the cluster: geometry is a key mode for information representationl search, data mining, and information retrieval are required for efficient data access; ad-hoc networks, routing algorithms and algorithmic game theory are essential for the network infrastructure; data in multimodal applicatations is massive; and security and reliability are major concerns. Computational Geometry seeks to understand the issues that arise when computing with a large number of geometric objects. These issues range from developing and analyzing algorithms, to determining the computational complexity of geometric problems, and to analyzing the combinatorics of geometric configurations. We have achieved progress in all these issues. Elbassioni et al. present a 4-approximation algorithm for the problem of placing the fewest guards on a 1.5D terrain so that every point of the terrain is seen by at least one guard. This improves on the previous best approximation factor of 5. Their method is based on rounding the linear programming relaxation of the corresponding covering problem. Bringmann and Friedrich consider the computation of the volume of the union of high-dimensional geometric objects. While showing that this problem is #P-hard even for very simple bodies, they give a fast FPRAS for all objects where one can (1) test whether a given point lies inside the object, (2) sample a point uniformly, and (3) calculate the volume of the object in polynomial time. It suffices to be able to answer all three questions approximately. It implies that Klee's measure problem can be approximated efficiently even though it is #P-hard and hence cannot be solved exactly in polynomial time in the number of dimensions unless P=NP. Their algorithm also allows efficient approximation of the volume of the union of convex bodies given by weak membership oracles. Tverberg's Theorem is a deep result about partitioning finite point sets into parts whose convex hulls intersect. Basit et al. use a technique that Tverberg and Vrecica recently discovered and show the following extension of the centerpoint theorem. Given any set P of n points in the plane, and a parameter 1/3 ≤ c ≤ 1, one can always find a disk D such that any closed half-space containing D contains at least cn points of P. Furthermore, D contains at most (3c - 1)n/2 points of P (the case c = 1 is trivial - take any D containing P; the case c = 1/3 is the centerpoint theorem). They also show that, for all c, this bound is tight up to a constant factor, and extend the upper bound to ℜd. The computation of 2D arrangements of arbitrary algebraic curves is a fundamental problem in 2D geometric computing. Eigenwillig and Kerber show how to compute it with a refined Bentley-Ottmann sweep-line algorithm. The geometric primitives required are the cylindrical algebraic decompositions of the plane for one or two curves. We compute them by a new and efficient method that combines adaptive-precision root finding (see below) with a small number of symbolic computations. The implementation is efficient and produces the mathematically correct arrangement, undistorted by rounding error, for any set of input segments. Our algorithm is implemented in the EXACUS library AlciX. In 3D, we have made significant progress on computing the topology of a single surface. Berberich, Kerber, and Sagraloff present a method to compute the exact topology of a real algebraic surface S, implicitly given by a polynomial ƒ ∈ Q[x,y,z] of arbitrary total degree N. Additionally, our analysis provides geometric information as it supports the computation of arbitrary precise samples of S including critical points. We compute a stratification ΩS of S into O(N5) nonsingular cells, including the complete adjacency information between these cells. The algorithm uses numerical and combinatorial methods to minimize costly symbolic computations. A complete C++-implementation of the stratification algorithm is available. It shows good performance on benchmark problems from algebraic geometry. Isolating the roots of one- and two-dimensional polynomial systems lies at the core of the algorithms above. Mehlhorn and Sagraloff describe a bisection algorithm for root isolation of polynomials with real coefficients. It is assumed that the coefficients can be approximated with arbitrary precision; exact computation in the field of coefficients is not required. We refer to such coefficients as bitstream coefficients. We mention three results. Each constitutes significant progress on a well-studied and fundamental problem. R. Seidel considers the complexity of sorting strings in the model that counts comparisons between symbols and not just comparisons between strings. He shows that for any set of strings S, the complexity of sorting S can naturally be expressed in terms of the trie induced by S. This holds not only for lower bounds but also for the running times of various algorithms. Thus this "data-specific" analysis allows a direct comparison of different algorithms running on the same data. He gives such "data-specific" analysis for various versions of quicksort and versions of mergesort. As a corollary, he arrives at a very simple analysis of quicksorting random strings, which so far had required rather sophisticated mathematical tools. Cuckoo hashing is the hashing data structure of choice. In Cuckoo hashing, each element can be stored in k random locations out of the n locations of the table. Fountoulakis and Pangiotou prove that for each k ≥ 3 with probability 1 - o(1) the maximum number of elements that can be hashed is (1 - o(1))c*kn, and more items prevent successful allocation. The constant ck is determined explicitly. The k-means method is one of the most widely used clustering algorithms, drawing its popularity from its speed in practice. Recently, however, it was shown to have exponential worst-case running time. In order to close the gap between practical performance and theoretical analysis, the k-means method has been studied in the model of smoothed analysis. But even the smoothed analysis so far are unsatisfactory, as the bounds are still superpolynomial in the number n of data points. Arthur et al. settle the smoothed running time of the k-means method. They show that the smoothed number of iterations is bounded by a polynomial in n and 1/σ, where σ is the standard deviation of the Gaussian perturbations. This means that if an arbitrary input data set is randomly perturbed, then the k-means method will run in expected polynomial time on that input set. A certifying algorithm is an algorithm that produces, with each output, a certificate or witness (easy-to-verify proof) that the particular output has not been compromised by a bug. A user of a certifying algorithm inputs x, receives the output y and the certificate w, and then checks, either manually or by use of a program, that w proves that y is a correct output for input x. In this way, he or she can be sure of the correctness of the output without having to trust the algorithm. We put forward the thesis that certifying algorithms are far superior to non-certifying algorithms, and that for complex algorithmic tasks, only certifying algorithms are satisfactory. Acceptance of this thesis would lead to a change in how algorithms are taught and researched. The widespread use of certifying algorithms would greatly enhance the reliability of algorithmic software. In we survey the state of the art in certifying algorithms and add to it. In particular, we start a theory of certifying algorithms and prove that the concept is universal. Many safety-critical embedded systems are subject to certification requirements; some systems may be required to meet multiple sets of certification requirements from different certification authorities. Certification requirements in such "mixed-criticality" systems give rise to interesting scheduling problems that cannot be addressed satisfactorily using techniques from conventional scheduling theory. Bonifaci et al. study a formal model for representing such mixed-criticality workloads. They quantify, via the metric of processor speedup factor, the effectiveness of two techniques, reservation-based scheduling and priority-based scheduling, that are widely used in scheduling such mixed-criticality systems, showing that the latter of the two is superior to the former. They also show that the speedup factors are tight for these techniques. Broadcast is one of the fundamental operations in networks. Doerr, Friedrich and Sauerwald propose and analyse a quasirandom analogue to the classical push model for disseminating information in networks ("randomized rumor spreading"). In the classical model, in every round, each informed node chooses a neighbor at random and informs it. Results of Frieze and Grimmett (Discrete Appl. Math. 1985) show that this simple protocol succeeds in spreading a rumor from one node of a complete graph to all others within O(log n) rounds. For the network structured as a hypercube or a random graph G(n; p) with p ≤ (1 + ε)(log n)/n, O(log n) rounds also suffice (Feige, Peleg. Raghavan, and Upfal, Random Struct. Algorithms 1990). In the quasirandom model, we assume that each node has a (cyclic) list of its neighbors. Once informed, it starts at a random position in the list, but from then on informs its neighbors in the order given by the list. Surprisingly, irrespective of the orders of the lists, the above-mentioned bounds still hold. In addition, we also show an O(log n) bound for sparsely connected random graphs G(n; p) with p = (log n + ƒ(n))/n, where ƒ(n) ≥ ω(1) and ƒ(n) = O(log log n). Here, the classical model needs strictly more rounds. Hence, the quasirandom model achieves similar or better broadcasting times with a greatly reduced use of random bits. Scheduling on related machines (Q||Cmax) is one of the most important problems in the field of algorithmic mechanism design. Each machine is controlled by a selfish agent, and her valuation can be expressed via a single parameter, her speed. Archer and Tardos showed that a (non-polynomial) allocation that minimizes the makespan can be truthfully implemented. On the other hand, if we leave out the game-theoretic issues, the complexity of the problem has been completely settled - the problem is strongly NP-hard, while there exists a PTAS. This problem is the most well-studied in single-parameter algorithmic mechanism design. It gives an excellent ground for exploring the boundary between truthfulness and efficient computation. Since the work of Archer and Tardos, quite a lot of deterministic and randomized mechanisms have been suggested. Recently, a breakthrough result showed that a randomized, truthful-in-expectation PTAS exists. On the other hand, for the deterministic case, the best known approximation factor is 2.8. It has been a major open question whether there exists a deterministic truthful PTAS, or whether truthfulness has an essential, negative impact on the computational complexity of the problem. Christodoulou and Kovacs give a definitive answer to this important question by providing a truthful deterministic PTAS. The streaming model was developed to handle massive data sets. In this setting, one assumes that one is only given a constant amount of main memory to work with, and the (much larger) input can be scanned one or multiple times. Mestre et al. study the maximum weight matching problem in the semi-streaming model (they assume that main memory is large enough to hold a matching, but not large enough to hold the whole input graph) and improve on the current best one-pass algorithm due to Zelke (Proc. STACS 2008) by devising a deterministic approach whose performance guarantee is 4.91 + eps. In addition, they study preemptive online algorithms, a sub-class of one-pass algorithms where one is only allowed to maintain a feasible matching in memory at any point in time. All known results prior to Zelke belong to this sub-class. They provide a lower bound of 4.967 on the competitive ratio of any such deterministic algorithm, and hence show that future improvements will have to store in memory a set of edges which is not necessarily a feasible matching. Security is an aspect orthogonal to efficiency. Information-flow analysis is a powerful technique for reasoning about the sensitive information exposed by a program during its execution. Backes et al. present the first automatic method for information-flow analysis that discovers what information is leaked and computes its comprehensive quantitative interpretation. The leaked information is characterized by an equivalence relation on secret artifacts, and is represented by a logical assertion over the corresponding program variables. Our measurement procedure computes the number of discovered equivalence classes and their sizes. This provides a basis for computing a set of quantitative properties, which includes all established information-theoretic measures in quantitative information flow. Our method exploits an inherent connection between formal models of qualitative information flow and program verification techniques. We provide an implementation of our method that builds upon existing tools for program verification and information-theoretic analysis. Our experimental evaluation indicates the practical applicability of the presented method. See the report on Jiong Guo's IRG. The proposal lists the following additional investigators: E. Althaus, M. Backes, H. Bast, A. Belyaev, M. Bläser, B. Doerr, S. Funke, N. Garg, J. Giesen, A. Kumar, U. Meyer, and K. Telikapelli. Six of them have become associate or full professors: Althaus (Mainz), Bast (Freiburg), Belyaev (Herriot-Watt), Funke (Stuttgart), Giesen (Jena), and Meyer (Frankfurt). As of July 1st, 2010, the responsible investigators are: K. Elbassioni, M. Backes, M. Bläser, G. Christodolou, B. Doerr, N. Garg, J. Guo, A. Kumar, K. Mehlhorn, F. Neumann, M. Sagraloff, R. Seidel, R. van Stee, and K. Telikapelli. IRG leaders J. Guo (starting in 2009) and G. Christodolou (starting in 2010) added kernelization, algorithms for NP-complete problems, parameterized complexity, and algorithmic game theory to our portfolio. We collaborated with the research areas computer vision, Open Science Web and networks. In cooperation with RA Open Science Web, Mestre studied the enrichment of high-degree nodes in essential proteins, known as the centrality-lethality rule. They put forward the hypothesis that the majority of hubs are essential due to their involvement in Essential Complex Biological Modules, biological processes that are essential for an organism's vitality and composed of proteins that are densely connected. They present a rigorous analysis of five genome-wide protein interaction networks for Saccharomyces cerevisiae, supporting their hypothesis and rejecting two previously proposed explanations for the centrality-lethality rule. The work on fast queries on semi-structured data is also a collaboration with RA Open Science Web. Machine learning plays an essential role in RA Open Science Web. In cooperation with Carsten Borgwardt and Nino Shervidaze, Mehlhorn and Schweizer studied machine learning techniques for structured data. They propose fast subtree kernels on graphs. On graphs with n nodes and m edges and maximum degree d, these kernels comparing subtree patterns of height h can be computed in O(mh), whereas the classic subtree kernel by Ramon and Gärtner scales as O(ndh). Key to this efficiency is the observation that the Weisfeiler-Lehman graph isomorphism test elegantly computes a subtree kernel as a byproduct. Our fast subtree kernels can deal with labeled graphs, scale up easily to large graphs and outperform state-of-the-art graph kernels on several classification benchmark datasets in terms of accuracy and runtime. With RAs Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, we explored randomized search heuristics in PDE-based image compression (Benjamin Doerr, Sebastian Hoffmann, Daniel Johannsen, Markus Mainberger, Frank Neumann, Ching Hoo Tang, Joachim Weickert). The cooperation led to a jointly-supervised master's thesis. The project is based on the recent concept of image compression by partial differential equations (PDEs) proposed by Galić, Weickert, Welk, Bruhn, Belyaev and Seidel. The idea of PDE-based image compression is to first reduce the image to a subset of pixels, called the mask of the compressed image. Then, with the help of this sparse data, the values of the other pixels are interpolated by means of a suitable PDE, for example by homogeneous diffusion or edge-enhancing diffusion. In this, the main challenge is to optimize the ratio of image quality and compression rate. The potential of this approach has been shown experimentally in a comparison experiment with the old and the new JPEG standard. The Figure "PDE-based image compression" above illustrates the method: we see an original image (left) and three reconstructions via interpolation by partial differential equations. Each reconstruction is based on a different mask, that is, a different choice of 10% of the pixels from the original image (depicted below the respective reconstruction). The first mask (left) is chosen at random. The second mask (center) is produced by a stochastic thinning procedure. The third mask (right) is the result of post-optimization of the previous mask using a randomized search heuristic. This results in even sharper geometric shapes and, at the same time, increased detail for smoother areas of the image (error reduction approximately 66%). The most notable external collaboration is IMPECS, the Indo Max Planck Center for Computer Science. It will (1) perform top-quality basic research in computer science (CS) in cooperation between Indian and German computer scientists, (2) serve as a bridge between the Indian and German CS communities, and enhance scientific cooperation between them, and (3) act as a center of excellence in which faculty and students can build careers. In order to reach this vision, IMPECS will do the following: (1) Support ten research groups built around Indian scientists akin to the already-existing Max Planck partner groups. The selection criteria are scientific quality and a joint research program with a group at MPI Informatics (MPI-INF) or MPI Software Systems (MPI-SWS). (2) Organize theme years which will bring together researchers working in the theme through workshops, seminars, schools, and short- or long-term visits. (3) Offer Max Planck visiting professorships for high-profile researchers. (4) Organize the exchange of graduate students. (5) Provide postdoctoral fellowships to Indian researchers for research stays at MPI-INF and MPI-SWS. IMPECS will benefit both countries. The major benefits for India would be a strengthening of its research base in CS that would produce insights and the well-trained PhDs needed by academia and industry. The major benefits for Germany would be improved collaboration with leading Indian scientists and a highly visible outpost in a striving country with lots of young talent. IMPECS started on March 1st, 2010. It is set up for a period of five years and will receive funding from BMBF, DST, and MPG (total funding 4 million Euros for five years). Carola Winzen received a Google PhD fellowship. Kurt Mehlhorn was awarded a honorary doctorate degree from Aarhus University and is recipient of the 2010 EATCS Award. Several best paper awards went to members of the research area: ESA 2010 to Julian Mestre and Vincenzo Bonifaci; GECCO 2010 to Karl Bringmann, Tobias Friedrich, Benjamin Doerr, Daniel Johannsen, and Carola Winzen; and ANT 2010 to Timo Kötzing and Frank Neumann.

The Artist And The Others Cultural connector A Cup of Entrepreneurship Support artists 'Something is not quite right' curated by Ana Sous July 8, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - July 31, 2022 @ 6:00 pm « Workshop: Cultural Entrepreneurship in time of Adversity 'Something is not quite right': curator & artists talk » 'Something is not quite right' 9 – 31 July 2022 OPENING: 8 July 2022, 6 PM. We are happy to announce the final exhibition of 'Art through the Window', project initiated by The Artist and the Others. 'Something is not quite right', curated by guest curator Ana Sous, will be running from the 9th to the 31st of July 2022. Drawing connections between global situations, politics, and personal experiences, how can we question our reality, and be open to different ways of perceiving the world? The exhibition circles around the sensation that what we perceive as true 'is never quite right'. There are infinite ways of understanding reality. According to curator Ana Sous, we may or may not be aware of this, but each truth is as valid as our own experience. The exhibition features the work of Amber Lalieu, Flora Lemmens, Marie-Claire Krell & Joep Caenen – who will especially create a 'hut', a setting built in-situ with which visitors will be able to interact directly. In their artistic practice, the artists explore different ways in which we can perceive the world, reflecting this perspective in their work. The aim is to invite visitors to wonder, question and consider different understandings, recognising the limits of perception. In Europe, many teenagers and young adults have grown up with the feeling that they have always been threatened by something. However, this threat has always been difficult to grasp. Climate change, the limits of economic growth, unemployment and oversea wars are undeniable factors, but these aspects have always been seen as somewhat detached from our daily lives. "(…) sudden acts of terror have burst into our consciousness with the global pandemic, the emerging far-right movement, and the war in Ukraine. The lingering terror laying in front of us hit us hard. The illusionary sense of peace collapsed, and the sense of unease felt by many over the past years manifested itself through concrete and inescapable events. Greta Thunberg said "I want you to panic" three years ago. Maybe let's try to look and question first." – Curator Ana Sous. 'Something is not quite right' is the third of the exhibition series 'Art through the window' initiated by the Artist and the Others. The aim is to provide space for emerging talents working in the city of Maastricht while promoting the creation of fair art practices within the artistic field. The project gives more visibility to artists from Maastricht and creates connections to curators in the Euregio. By strengthening the professional relationship with artists, professionals, initiatives and institutions, we enhance artistic cooperation between different cities of the Euregio. The project is supported by the Municipality of Maastricht. ABOUT THE CURATOR Ana Sous is an independent artist, curator and art historian. She is intrigued by the hidden, twisted, and sometimes dark times in our every-day life. She believes that these moments help understand the dynamics of our postmodern societies. In experimental art practices and in collaborations with other artists, she studies the interplay between art and the world. These include the participatory social installations that have been actively involved in community-building processes in Aachen since 2015. By engaging in different cultural projects in the Euregio, Ana works to build a strong, yet flexible network of artists of any kind.​ We are happy to welcome you on Saturday and Sundays • from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM The exhibition will remain visible 24/7 to passers-by. If you would like to visit the exhibition on your own time, email ronja@theartistandtheothers.nl to arrange a personal viewing. We strongly believe that a combination of talent, skills and expertise can expand professional connections and shape artistic futures. Chlaydoscope: The perspective of the youth from Maastricht point of view CHLaYdoscope project: Do you want to become a community leader? CHLaYdoscope: Open Call for community leader Signup for the TAATO newsletter! Email Address Name Website What emails would you like to receive? Emails about workshops & trainings Emails about open calls & opportunities for artists Emails about exhibitions & events TAATO news © 2023 · website by the concept catcher

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Insomnia/Sick Day Notes Ugh. I had battled a cold for a week or two, with this weird congestion passing back-and-forth between my head and chest. I never had a sore throat, never felt bad. Just constant plug of yuck in part of my body. In the midst of that, I took NyQuil for several nights so I could breath and sleep peacefully. I slept like a baby all of those nights. Since I got off the meds, though, my periodic insomnia has returned. Last night I went to bed 11:30ish, drifted off for a bit then jolted wide awake. I came downstairs around 1:30 to read and have a drink to try to reset my body, then tossed and turned for several hours before maybe getting two solid hours. I hate when this happens. I know my body will eventually get back on track and in a few nights I'll be sleeping great again. And it's not like my days are busy, so I can sneak in a nap if needed. Just doesn't give me much energy or motivation to do things. Didn't help that C threw up this morning, so the errands I had planned got wiped out. I tried to nap but my one cup of half-caff coffee was enough to keep me from getting any rest. At least there's nothing big going on tonight, so I will be relaxed and ready to hit the sack early. Thus, a few more notes that I planned on holding for a couple days but I'll share now since I'm kind of a zombie. Kid Hoops L's team got a 12-point win last night. It should have been more than that; they led by 15 at half and then played sloppy and let it get down to four before we put them away. L had 10, including six in that late run. I forget if I shared this already, but we have new coaches for the winter session. Now the CHS varsity coach and her top assistant/freshman coach are in charge. Our two wins this week were against pretty bad teams, but at least our girls seem to have a much better idea of what's going on compared to when the previous coach was running things. A good change, and a chance for L to spend time with the people who will hopefully be coaching her next fall. College Process I haven't shared the latest on M's college search. You know that she was accepted to IU quickly in November, including admission to the honors program. Then we waited to hear on her next four applications. We got word on each of them over the last three weeks. First was an acceptance from Purdue. She doesn't want to go there, but it was serving as her in-state, backup school. It was nice that she got in, though, because she heard of several kids she thinks have similar grades to hers who got deferred admission. Next came Cincinnati, two weeks ago, another yes. Which was expected. UC is a solid school but not as selective as IU or Purdue. Then last Friday she got word from Michigan: deferred. Which at first she was thrilled about, thinking that meant she has a shot to get in in April when they open up the enrollment spigot again. However, she read that all out-of-state applications are automatically deferred, so they may not have even looked at her file yet. I heard from the parent of another kid who was deferred by UM that is not true; he knows of a couple out-of-state kids that got in last week. So we don't know if M has gotten any attention or not. Michigan is kind of fucking this whole process up. She's never visited there, hasn't done deep research about any specific programs, housing, etc. She just knows it is arguably the best public school in the country. If she gets accepted I think she's really going to want to go there. I'm torn. It would be awesome if she got accepted and had a chance to spend four years in Ann Arbor. But basically doubling the tuition we had planned to pay the next four years changes the parenting math quite a bit. And I'm not sure I could deal with her ego if she gets a Michigan degree! Still, I didn't want to crap on her excitement Friday, so I told her it was awesome that she's at least still in the game. I would be surprised if she gets in, simply because it is so competitive and her non-academic resumé is lacking. But you never know. Now she is stressing about not hearing from UM until April, while both IU and UC need a decision by May 1. I told her not to sweat it, spend the next two months making a choice between IU and UC and then we'll have a plan in place when she gets her final decision from Michigan. We booked a spot in UC's admitted student program in February and will take a similar trip to IU in March. I gave her the task of coming up with some specific questions to ask when we are on each campus so we're not just repeating what we did over the summer. I can't get a good feel for where she's leaning. For awhile I thought she was higher on IU. But over the weekend she told us one of her best friends since grade school may go to UC, and they've talked about rooming together if they both head that way. The good thing is the tuition at the schools is basically the same so she can make a decision purely on where she thinks she fits best. I honestly never realized how stressful this process is. I applied to two schools and knew where I was going. I only applied to UMKC because my stepdad was going through his first battle with cancer at the time and wanted a local option in case I needed to stay in town. The beginning of the year has been busy on the health tip for our family. Or at least for two us. I mentioned awhile back that C was diagnosed with a bulging disk. She's been doing PT twice a week to try to build some core strength and take the pressure off her spine to avoid more invasive treatment. It seems to be going well. I think she's been consistent with her home exercises, and most days when we go in for PT she says she feels better. She's been cleared to do anything that doesn't cause new pain, so she has the ability to be active. She's not really taking advantage of that, although it is January. I just hope she can be consistent with continuing her therapy at home once she's released from PT so she can feel better and avoid either injections or surgery. A couple weeks back I went to a dermatologist for the first time in my life. Being light skinned and having spent too much time in the sun in my life, it seemed like a good time to have a doc who is trained in such matters to take a look at my skin.[1] Good news is I got a clean bill of health. I did have a spot he was a little worried about. Years ago my primary doc told me it wasn't anything to worry about, and S had assured me that she also thought it wasn't problematic. But my dermatologist said while he thought they were both probably right, he wanted to go ahead and do a biopsy just to make sure. I got the results late last week and it came back benign. I wasn't super concerned but was still nice to hear. I figure most people are going to end up with sun-related skin issues at some point, so it's nice to be able to kick that can a little farther down the road. Use sunscreen, my peeps! I often ask S to look at moles, skin tags, etc that look odd. She'll poke it, wrinkle her nose, and say, "Yeah, that's weird. You should get that looked at." Those two months of derm she did really come in handy! ↩ Weekend Notes A lot of sports this weekend. L's team played one game Saturday night. They were matched up with a team that we think were all soccer players in a hoops league for winter conditioning. We play at least one of these teams a season. Sometimes these teams are really good. This one was not. It took awhile for our girls – only eight this week – to find their groove but eventually they got it going. They led 23–2 at halftime and won 40–9. Their coach said he was going to make them run for giving up nine. I think he was joking. L had a great game. She scored 13, all on drives (plus 1–2 from the line). She also completely dominated the girl she was guarding, which happened to be one of S's patients. L didn't know that during the game but giggled when S told her afterward. They were original supposed to play two Saturday, but their second game got moved to tonight for some reason. The losing streak is over! And it couldn't have happened in a better setting, against a more worthy opponent. Three weeks ago most people would have thought KU would destroy Kentucky. Then the Jayhawks hit their losing streak, the Cats seemed to finally figure their shit out, and I was hoping it wouldn't turn into a replay of last year's blowout in Allen. It seemed like it was headed that way for about four minutes, when UK jumped out to an easy 9–4 lead that could/should have been a couple baskets bigger. But the next 35-ish minutes were a masterclass in coaching by Bill Self. He limited Oscar Tshiebwe's touches and the Jayhawks gang-rebounded to limit the toughest rebounder in the nation to only nine for the night. Self ran smart stuff on offense, moving the UK defense around to give KU open looks. And the Jayhawks did their jobs, with Jalen Wilson being his usual stud self, Kevin McCullar shaking off an ankle injury to dominate on the boards and hit the biggest shot of the game, while Gradey Dick battled and finally hit a huge three late. Meanwhile John Calipari was too busy stomping his feet like a baby and screaming at the refs to tell his team to throw the ball to Oscar every possession. It was hilarious watching Jacob Toppin post up and turn it over while Oscar was sadly watching from the other side of the lane. Seriously, Kentucky wins, maybe easily, if Oscar touches the ball five more times each half. KU could not stop him. But the Wildcats apparently aren't well coached enough to recognize a huge mismatch and use it as the first option on every possession. Self is now 3–1 in Rupp Arena, which is pretty damn impressive. Thank goodness the losing streak is over. Not sure how I would have reacted to KU's first four-game losing streak since, checks notes, I was in high school?!?! Now it's back to the Big 12 bloodbath, hopefully with a nice dose of confidence. Also saying prayers and lighting candles for McCullar's ankle. Other College Hoops I watched a lot of the other Big 12-SEC games Saturday, in little chunks while switching around. I could not believe Oklahoma hammered Alabama by nearly 30. Seems a little flukey, like the Crimson Tide didn't take OU seriously on a day OU was red hot. Still a legit-ass win. Baylor-Arkansas was probably the most entertaining game of the day, although we had to leave before it ended. Iowa State-Missouri, with Mizzou in their Norm Stewart era jerseys, made me think I was watching from my room in McCollum Hall in 1990 or 1991. I told my best Tiger and Clone fan friends that all we needed was Jay Randolph and "former Big 8 All American" Gary Thompson on the call and it would have been perfect. BTW, I owe Mizzou fans an apology. I wasn't trying to be snarky when I suggested they would fall apart after KU pounded them in December. It just seemed like an easy prediction, given MU hadn't played anyone tough before KU, got worked over, and then had a brutal stretch of games immediately after. The Tigers have proven me wrong since then with a series of nice wins. I laughed when I saw some bracket prediction last week that had MU playing Indiana in the first round, and both in KU's bracket. It would be crazy for either a KU-MU or KU-IU rematch in the Sweet 16 in Kansas City. The Border War bonus game would obviously be a little more crazy. It ended up being a nice day here, with the sun out and it approaching 50 – S and I even took about a 45 minute walk mid-afternoon – but the quality of the hooping would have been ideal for a more typically cold, snowy January day. The Pacers made big news last week by re-signing Myles Turner, who was going to be a free agent in the off season. Turner is playing the best basketball of his career, and the rumors popped up a few weeks ago that the Pacers made him a contract offer, which included a bunch of their free cap money for the remainder of this year, something no other team could do if they traded him. But when Tyrese Haliburton got injured two weeks ago and the team lost nine of ten,[1] it started to feel like they would again look to move Turner before the trade deadline. I think this is a smart move. It's only a two-year extension, so the Pacers aren't hitching the franchise's future onto a massive contract that could go bad in three years. Plus it gives Turner a chance to be a free agent after the next NBA national TV contract is signed and revenues take another jump. Win-win. As long as Turner stays healthy, which is always the question with him. Now the focus needs to be on finding a way to get a big wing onto the roster, either through a trade in the next two weeks, or more likely over the summer. The team has a great, young core of Haliburton, Turner, and Bennedict Mathurin with a bunch of other smallish wings. They should bundle that bench depth with some of their three first round picks this year into a package to get someone in the 6'8" range who can defend and score. So Chiefs-Eagles in the Super Bowl. Not the matchup I wanted, but not like I had strong interests in the outcomes of the conference title games. I causally watched both games, often with the sound down while also consuming other media. I think M was upset that Joe Burrow lost. He is the first pro athlete she has ever expressed any independent interest in. I can't imagine why. I still have to constantly explain to people here, even ones I've know for years, how I'm not a Chiefs fan. It can be exhausting, let me tell you. Now ten of eleven. ↩ January 27, 2023 / DB / 0 Comments It seems like embedding Spotify playlists has been funky for the past week. I've checked old posts a couple times and received error messages where the playlist should be, only to find them available again a few hours later. So just a note to check back later if it is being a bitch when you first read this post. "True Blue" – boygenius Music fans rejoiced last Friday when the supergroup boygenius released three new songs, one featuring each of its members on lead. At least of the first batch, Lucy Dacus' effort is my favorite. But I'm sure when their new album arrives, Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker will have something to say about that. The new albums seem slow to roll out this year. In my running list of ones I'm looking forward to, there are only four accounted for at the moment. Three of them, including boygenius', will arrive March 31. That's kind of weird. "Rice" – Young Fathers I don't know much about this band. I do know they're Scottish, although two of the members were either born in Africa or have African parents. Globalization FTW! I don't recall if I've heard their music before. But after finding this, I'm definitely going to be listening to and learning about them more. "Smash the Machine" – Babe Rainbow OK, if you've been following along with these playlists and tracking my music tastes long enough, you should know this band is from Australia based on its sound without me having to say a word. "Dress" – Softcult This is the first band that I discovered on The Bridge that I'm hearing new music from on my own. So kind of a big moment? Anyway, this is a deceptive song. It's bouncy and light, and a departure from their normal shoegazey sound, but is deeply serious lyrically. "Jet Fighter" – The Three O'Clock Speaking of The Bridge, another old song I discovered on the Sonic Spectrum show. This band was part of the Paisley Underground movement of the '80s, most famous for spinning out The Bangles. "Under the Milky Way" – Lilly Hiatt I don't usually go for covers of my most favorite songs. But I'm just fine with Hiatt's version of The Church's 1988 classic. "Judy's Staring At The Sun" – Catherine Wheel with Tanya Donnelly One of my favorite collabs of the '90s, featuring a band that should have been massive and the terrific lead singer of Belly. I'm sure I heard it at some point, but I do not remember this mix of the song, which gives Tanya Donnelly the lead vocals in the second verse. Spotify just threw a Belly song at me, so I may have to dive into their catalog today. Thursday Notes We had the first snow day of the year yesterday. It was kind of a dud. The storm that was supposed to drop 5–8" of snow here could only muster about 2.5 inches. As the storm was expected to hit right at the morning rush, most area schools had either cancelled classes or jumped to e-learning well before bedtime Tuesday. M and C found out they would be home Wednesday while they were still in class Tuesday. St P's didn't call it until about 10:15 PM. That was still probably the right move, as the roads were not great right when high schoolers would be driving and younger kids would be waiting for buses. But once the heavy snow ended, it was a letdown to still see grass poking through in our yard. The real bummer was that the snow that fell was very wet and heavy, making it difficult to move. It was too thick for the snowblower and too heavy to pick up with a shovel. So L and I spent about 30 minutes struggling to shove it off the driveway. Even that was tough, since if you pushed snow for more than 10 feet it compacted into big lumps that didn't want to roll any farther. But it was good for snowmen and snowballs! Once we were done L spent about two hours at a friend's house playing in it. She was upset she didn't get to use the snowblower, though. Ours broke two years ago, then I gambled, and won, by not getting it fixed last year, a season we avoided any big snows. I got it fixed before Christmas and she was fired up to get a chance to use it. After nearly a month of relatively mild weather, looks like it's going to be more typical of winter here for the next few weeks. Not super cold, thankfully, but lots of chances for snow. So L may well get her chance to unleash mechanized fury on some snow. She was done with her school assignments pretty early. Or maybe it's because she's been getting up at 5:30 AM lately that she was done so quickly. Her sisters slept much later but were still pretty much done with their work by mid-afternoon. I spent most of the day and evening reading a very good book. I started it late morning and was done by 10:30. You'll hear more about that soon. Twitter has been a huge part of my life for 12–13 years now. I can't remember exactly when I signed up; my current account was not my first so its 2011 start date wasn't my true introduction to the service. I just remember that was when I listened to a lot of tech podcasts, and they were all raving about the platform, so I logged on pretty early in its life. My experience with Twitter was always through using some of the great Mac and iOS apps that were made for it. Tweetbot and Twitterific were the two I used most, although I know I dabbled with others over the years. These were great because they were much more user friendly than either the Twitter website or the official apps. As the company moved into areas like promoted tweets and advertising, these third party apps kept those out of my feed. Until two weeks ago, I had never seen an ad in my Twitter feed or Tweets the company thought I should see based on their algorithm. And I could completely avoid the For You feed. When Tech Karen suddenly shut down access for third party apps two weeks ago,[1] I suddenly had to see how most Twitter users live. And it sucks. A hostile interface that is constantly pushing things on me I don't want, and forgets changes I've made in my personal settings to reflect my interests. It's pretty much the same way that Instagram has gone from one of the best and most enjoyable platforms to one that shows me more ads and Reels, which I never asked to see, than photos from people I choose to follow. Only Twitter has Nazis and people complaining about Furries and constant suggestions that I need to gamble on sports. Because of all of this, I've been using Twitter less and less. I still check it a couple times a day. Where it was once my default time waster, I have reached the point where I often realize "Hey, I haven't looked at Twitter in 12 hours." Because my feed was so carefully curated, I got a lot of good info out of it without being weighed down by things I didn't have time for. So that's a loss. But I'm realizing it may not be as big of a loss as I feared it would be when Tech Karen took over and began tearing the company apart like the toddler he is. I'm hoping that TK either bails and someone else saves Twitter, or some other service pops up to replace it as my favorite virtual water cooler. I've signed up for Mastodon, which a lot of techies are jumping to. But it seems very weird and not functionally ready to scale to the size of Twitter so I'm not spending any time there. I guess as long as the people I get the most value from on Twitter remain there, I'll keep checking in occasionally and tolerating its many issues. And hope that if/when it is saved, rationality will return and third party apps will be allowed again. Based on lies about violations of their policies and with no communication for nearly two weeks after the fact. ↩ Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 81 Chart Week: January 23, 1988 Song: "Don't Shed A Tear" – Paul Carrack Chart Position: #21, 11th week on the chart. Peaked at #9 for three weeks in February. It feels like I've lost the momentum for this series lately. After reviewing the numbers, I did add 15 entries in 2022, which was three more than 2021. Perhaps it seems like I've slacked off because I have a bunch of drafts where I've jotted down ideas, but, for one reason or another, haven't been able to turn them into completed posts. Hopefully I can get back into a more regular rhythm with these in 2023. Aside from my biggest music geek friends, I doubt the name Paul Carrack will mean much to most of you. However, I bet every one of you knows his voice. In 1974 he hit #3 with his band Ace on their debut single "How Long." Later he sang lead on Mike + The Mechanics' two biggest hits: "Silent Running (Dangerous Ground)," which hit #3 in 1986, and their 1989 chart-topper "The Living Years." Throw in "Don't Shed a Tear" and Carrack hit the top ten performing with three different acts. What isn't included in that list is Carrack's most enduring single. In 1980 he joined Squeeze to play keyboards. A year later, on the suggestion of producer Elvis Costello, he sang the lead vocals on "Tempted." Despite becoming a classic in the decades since, that track stalled at #49.[1] Wanderlust was a theme for Carrack's career. Reading through his Wikipedia page is a dizzying experience, as he was constantly hopping around, performing with different groups or different sets of musical friends. Roger Waters, members of the Eagles, Roxy Music, Nick Lowe, and The Pretenders to name just a few of the other acts he worked with. His career path reminds me a little of Marshall Crenshaw's. I can't find any evidence that he had an abrasive or difficult personality, so I think it truly was wanderlust, a desire to perform, and a lack of ego that allowed him to work with so many others. For years I thought that Carrack must hold some kind of record for singing lead on the most Top 40 songs with different acts. However, last summer I randomly came across a note that proved me wrong. Turns out the person who holds the record is even more obscure than Carrack. In 1970, British session singer Tony Burrows had one of the most remarkable runs in chart history. What took Carrack 15 years to accomplish, Burrows topped in a matter of months. In March of that year he hit #5 on "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" fronting Edison Lighthouse. In mid-June he reached #13 with White Plains, singing "My Baby Loves Lovin'." The week of July 4 he again hit #13 sharing co-lead vocals for the band Brotherhood of Man on "United We Stand." And two weeks later he peaked at #9 with "Gimme Dat Ding" as frontman for The Pipkins.[1] Four singles with four different acts in five months. That's pretty good work. He wasn't done. In 1974 he hit the top ten one last time, on First Class' Beach Boys-esque track "Beach Baby," which topped out at #4. Amazingly, not one of those acts ever hit the US Top 40 again. Burrows also released his own music throughout the 1970s. Not one of his solo singles ever cracked the Top 40. You can make an argument that Tony Burrows is the biggest one-hit wonder in chart history for taking five different acts into the Top 40 exactly one time and then basically disappearing. There aren't retrospectives of his work, tributes to the "Tony Burrows Years," or modern artists who seek him out as a collaborator. He had his five little moments and then was gone. "Don't Shed a Tear" is a solid if unremarkable song. Phil Collins once said that Paul Carrack could sing the phonebook and make it sound great. You definitely hear his talent here. His vocals are terrific. I probably sang along with them back in the winter of 1988. Not much else about the song is memorable, though. I would not have been able to recall it without hearing this countdown. At least Carrack has one song we all remember, even if it doesn't bear his name. 6/10 "Gimme Dat Ding"? Seriously? ↩ Jayhawk Talk: 1-2-3, Time to Panic? Perhaps THE thing that has set Kansas apart and made their Big 12 success so consistent in the Bill Self era is their ability to avoid losing streaks. Lose one? They almost always win the next. On the rare occasions they lose back-to-back games, a win in the third is about as easy money as you can find. There might be momentary panic among the fanbase after a loss. But normally that is quickly quashed. Today, though? I'm not so sure. Suddenly the Jayhawks are in the midst of a three-game losing streak, with no easy wins in sight. Jalen Wilson has been fantastic, on as hot of a streak as any KU player since at least Paul Pierce in 1998 if not Danny Manning in 1988, averaging a hair over 30 ppg over the last week. I'm wondering, though, if that's kind of the plan against KU: let J-Will get his and make sure no one else goes off. If so, it has worked pretty well. Since halftime of the game in Manhattan, it's as though KJ Adams suddenly remembered that he is KJ Adams and has kind of stunk. Kevin McCullar has looked thoroughly shook. Although he had 14 points and 12 rebounds last night, he still had some really bad moments. We saw signs of life from Gradey Dick. He was only 2–5 from 3, but he was finally aggressive in getting to the rim again and dropped a game-high 24. If he can get people to even halfway respect his shot fakes and drives, that should give him space to get a couple more good looks per game. Which opens things up for his teammates. DaJuan Harris? Yikes. He hasn't been the same since he smacked his head on the Bramlage Coliseum floor. He somehow was only charged with four turnovers last night, but it seemed like more. Several of those were just bad decisions/plays, not the product of good Baylor defense. He's not getting to the rim as often, either, and when he does he seems more interested in passing out than trying to get a shot off or seek a foul. He went through a phase like this last year, but that was more survivable since he was surrounded with better, or more consistent at least, scorers. There's less room for error this year, especially from him. Monday night in Waco was frustrating because KU did a lot wrong, and still did enough right to make two big runs in the second half, briefly taking the lead midway through. But in each of those moments, it was little mistakes by KU that gave Baylor back the momentum. Bad passes. The inability to hold onto a ball that hit them in the hands. Getting beat and being forced to foul on drives. All little things that add up quickly on the road against a very good team. My random, postgame, half-assed theory is that KJ Adams' development in December may have actually hurt the Jayhawks long term. He was great for 5–6 weeks, meaning Self had no reason to give any of the other bigs meaningful minutes. Zuby Ejiofor and Ernest Udeh might get a look here and there, but as soon as they missed a defensive rotation or blew up a play on offense, Self would sit them down. Now, when defenses are taking away what made KJ successful during that stretch, his lack of size becomes a real problem. But Self doesn't trust Ejiofor or Udeh to come in for more than spot duty. KU really needed a longer player on the court in each of the three losses. Had those freshmen played more minutes in December, would Self have the trust to play them more now? The answer to that question is always "Well, he sees them in practice and we don't, and they obviously aren't doing enough there to warrant the minutes." I just wish Zuby and/or Ernest did enough of something – rebounding, blocking shots, playing solid D – to get on the court for 5–10 minutes a night and force teams to deal with their size. Of course the real source of angst among KU fans isn't losing at Baylor. It's getting waxed at home by TCU Saturday. I kind of saw that coming – I warned you that TCU was the worst matchup in the league for KU because of their size and speed – but I did not expect such a thorough ass kicking. I don't know that I've ever seen an opposing team go on a 19–0 run in Allen Fieldhouse before. In my personal preseason rankings, I had KU third in the Big 12, behind Texas and Baylor. Baylor and KU have both suffered through three-game losing streaks. TCU lost three of four. The league is so tough there's no reason to think that the other contenders won't go through similar spells. The Ken Pomeroy prediction for the Big 12 currently has a four-way tie for first at 11–7 with two teams at 10–8. The challenge for KU is can they get their issues figured out so they can stay in that top six. I'm not the first person to think about this, but over the past week I've been considering losing streaks in the era of NIL. What happens when a kid who is making money to play in college isn't performing well, or his team is losing, or he's just sick of his coach's BS? Are they more likely to look for their own at the expense of the team, to mentally check out, or even flat-out quit? I think most kids who earn a big NIL deal have enough built-in pride where that won't be a factor. But I hate how that's in my mind now. Indiana's Trayce Jackson-Davis shared a message he received from a "fan" a couple weeks back, calling him out for his play and using NIL as a specific argument for how he didn't stack up to the legends of IU who came before him. I doubt he is the only one getting those messages. Players like Jackson-Davis, who is making well into six figures this season, don't deserve pity. However, when they have track records of playing hard, they also don't deserve to have their motivation questioned when they go through a cold spell. Every January KU goes through a rough stretch. Now it isn't always losing three (or more) straight, obviously. But it is a rite of passage this time of year for KU fans to rip on the team, bemoan the recruits we missed out on, and start wondering about who will fill those holes for next season. Bill Self usually figures out a way to get KU right again. The path is certainly tougher this year. A week ago some KU fans[1] were suggesting this year's squad was/could be better than last season's national champs. Now I think most of us are wondering if they aren't more analogous to the 2020–21 team. That team also had a three-game losing streak and ended the year getting humbled by USC in the round of 32.[2] At least for today that seems like an apt comparison. Not me! ↩ That team lost five of seven from Jan. 12 to Feb. 6. Hmmm… ↩ This was the week when I tried to figure out what my new normal listening habits are. The Bridge went back to playing their regular rotation of music, so while I still listened to their stream often, I wasn't quite as obsessive as during their Z to A countdown. But I also didn't completely fall back into listening to mostly newer music on Spotify. Throw in a lot of appointments and my listening time, in general, was reduced. But we'll get there. "Sideways Skull" – The Hold Steady We got new music from a couple giants of indie rock over the past week. As always with THS, this will never match their peak, but it's still pretty damn good. "Tropic Morning News" – The National What is it, 2007 around here? I generally run hot-and-cold with National tunes. This one falls on the hot side. "Blood Rushes" – CIVIC Your occasional reminder that if I could have any job in the world, being a DJ in Australia and getting to play music like this before anyone else would be pretty high on the list. "Dreams" – Brandi Carlile Another song from the list of ones I discovered during the Z to A countdown. I'm not usually a big Carlile fan, but this track is terrific. "Up the Down Escalator" – The Chameleons Last Saturday while out driving kids around, I discovered The Bridge's Sonic Spectrum show, where DJ Robert Moore takes a listen back to music of a certain moment. That show was focused on 1983. In the 20 or so minutes I listened, I heard a couple classics and a couple that were new to me. This was one of the new ones, which totally blew me away. Apparently The Chameleons were big influences on later bands who rose out of the Manchester scene, including Oasis. This song is amazing and I'm mad I had never heard it before January 2023. It would have made so many mix tapes/CDs/playlists better over the past 40 years. "The Magic Number" – De La Soul I was annoyed that I didn't read the news about De La Soul's music coming to streaming services later this spring until well after I posted last week's playlist. I could have included this, the first of their classic songs to hit Spotify. I guess a week late is better than never. Crank this up and get your weekends off to a proper start. "Gloria" – Patti Smith Despite my love for many of punk's originators, I've never really gotten into Patti Smith. I've never had a problem with this song, though. I was reminded of its brilliance, especially the band's performance behind Smith, during the Z to A countdown. Her voice may have been unconventional, but the passion in her performance is irresistible. Jayhawk Talk: The First Slipup Well, KU's end-game luck had to run out eventually. After winning 15-straight games that were decided by less than 10 points, KU came up a point short in overtime in Manhattan Tuesday night. KU missed 10 free throws and 23 3-pointers. They had the ball at the end of regulation and overtime and didn't get a shot off either time. They had the ball at the end of the first half and a chance to run out the clock. Instead Gradey Dick drove into traffic, was fouled, and hit one of two free throws. Seconds later Keyontae Johnson hit a short jumper at the buzzer to put the Wildcats up by five at the half. The Jayhawks still only lost by one on the road to a top 15 team. With three starters fouled out and another (possibly) playing concussed. It takes a lot to kill this KU squad. The only true bad luck of the night was Bill Self calling a timeout with about 40 seconds left in overtime, just before Jalen Wilson swished a 30-foot shot that would have put KU up four. After the timeout KU couldn't get a shot off and the Wildcats hit the game-winner. That was, by almost every measure, a good loss. But it coming to the Purples makes it sting a lot more than it should, and makes the replaying of the dozens of little moments that cost KU a point or two even more bitter. There's also the specter of what lies ahead. Any loss in the Big 12 can quickly turn into a nasty losing streak. KU hosts TCU Saturday, probably the team they matchup with the worst in the conference. Then go to Baylor. Then to Kentucky. Then host K-State. Then go to Ames. Then host Texas. Shit can get sideways really fast, so every close loss seems even bigger than normal. After the first few minutes, when he had his shot blocked at least three times, Wilson was fantastic. Had his late 3 counted, he would have tied Andrew Wiggins for the most points scored by a KU player under Self. He's been super inefficient in recent weeks, but was nails last night. A W in Manhattan on his shot would have propelled him back into the national POY conversation.[1] The rest of KU? Everyone had their struggles. Well, not KJ Adams, who was incredible during KU's first-half comeback but disappeared in the second half. DaJuan Harris had 11 assists but three terrible turnovers in crunch time. I really wondered if he was concussed after hitting his head on the floor. Maybe that explains that poor decision making late? Gradey Dick had a horrible night shooting from behind the arc, going 1–8. That will happen. But, man, some of them were wiiiiiide open. He still managed to pitch in 16 points, grab seven rebounds, and get four steals and two blocks. K-State kept picking on him on defense, and he either got beat badly to give up layups or committed cheap fouls. I don't know if he was ever going to hit another 3, but it sure would have been nice having him on the court instead of fouled out thanks to three soft fouls that came from being in bad position instead of making any real effort to stop his man. Kevin McCullar had been poor for a couple weeks, but was flat-out bad Tuesday. I wondered if he was sick. He looked literally shaky. He nearly air-balled two free throws. He did airball a 3 and hit the side of the backboard with another. He seemed a step slow on defense. Hopefully he did just have a bug of some kind and can rebound Saturday. I had to laugh when KC Star beat writer Shreyas Laddha Tweeted that he had never seen a team as good as KU miss as many layups as they do. If you didn't know he was new to the KU beat, that would be an obvious tell. Seriously, KU misses a TON of shots right at the rim. At least three on the break last night, as guys got stuck between laying it up, dunking it, and worrying about the defense. Easy for me to say sitting on my 51-year-old ass in Indianapolis, but come on, fellas! I'm guessing for a neutral this was a great game to watch. Well, except for the officiating, which was atrocious. Now, it was called pretty evenly. But it was as if the refs decided about 30 minutes in, "OK, this is a rivalry game, it's close, we need to blow the whistle on every play." KSU's Johnson was called for two fouls when he was just in the vicinity of someone falling down. He was given an and-one, and fouled out McCullar in the process, when he flew by McCullar and Adams without being touched. Nae'Qwan Tomlin fouled out on a play when another K-State player clearly was the guilty party. Wilson had a clean steal in overtime that a ref decided he needed to blow the whistle on. He was also hammered on one drive, a shove from Tomlin nearly knocked him over, with no call. Two possessions later he flipped a runner at the rim with the mildest contact and drew a foul. Oh, and worst call of the night was when they stopped play, with K-State driving to the hoop, because Wilson was cramping in the backcourt. Pretty much everyone in my various KU chats said "Oooh, that was a really bad call. And lucky for us!" Those are just the examples that I can think of immediately. Worse than the bad/wrong calls were the sheer number of whistles. There were 49 fouls called in 45 minutes. The game was physical, but never egregious or nasty. It was just two really good teams battling. And the refs decided they needed to take it over. Even then they couldn't do it with any consistency. Quite the commercial for the Big 12! You always laugh when your rival hires a new coach and the fanbase gets irrationally excited about it. That's a fundamental part of rivalries. "Oh, sure, Roy Williams is shaking in his shoes thinking about how to match wits with Jim Wooldridge." So when K-State fans immediately suggested that hiring Jerome Tang would turn K-State into Baylor north, it was easy to be amused. You can't draw big conclusions from half a season, but Tang seems legit. Even assistants who have a good feel for the game can struggle when they have to be The Man. Tang doesn't seem afraid of the moment and made some really nice calls last night. With Baylor not matching preseason expectations (yet), KU fans can turn this into another way to bash Scott Drew, suggesting Tang was the real brains in the operation down there. So now KU is 5–1 in the conference, tied with K-State and Iowa State a third of the way through the schedule. I'm not sure anyone can make any safe assumptions about how the next third of the slate will go. Six games seems like an eternity when every night brings a physical matchup with another good to very good team. Just when you think you have confidence in any squad, they could easily go through an 0–2 week and prove that belief misguided. Although it's going to take a lot for Purdue's Zach Edey to not clean up all the national POY awards this year. ↩ Monday Links Over the holidays I worked hard to get my Instapaper queue cleaned out, especially a whole swath of very long reads that had been sitting there for months and months. Of them, this might be my favorite, an accounting Susie Goodall's attempt to sail around the world by herself. There are all kinds of harrowing details of her effort, but what stuck with me most was how the media framed her journey. Those about Goodall took a different tone, shaped in part by Goodall's fame as the only woman and in part by the fact that the race had released only the portion of the call in which Goodall sounded shaken and distraught. The media never heard Goodall say that she was prepared to save herself…Just like that, it seemed like race organizers were trying to shift the narrative around her journey from lone heroine to feckless damsel in distress. Alone at the edge of the world It's always fun when you visit someplace and learn about its history and, shortly after, that exact thing pops up in the news. Here are details of a study that may explain why Roman concrete was/is so much more durable than our modern stuff. Our tour guide in Rome shared what had been the prevailing view – until this study came out – that it was the volcanic ash the Romans mixed into their concrete that made it last millennia. Previously disregarded as merely evidence of sloppy mixing practices, or poor-quality raw materials, the new study suggests that these tiny lime clasts gave the concrete a previously unrecognized self-healing capability. Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable? This is pretty geeky – I admit I couldn't follow some of it – but it is a cool breakdown of how limited the hardware of the Atari 2600 system was, and how amazing it was that the games that were made for it were as good as they were. Atari 2600 Hardware Design: Making Something out of (Almost) Nothing Side note: I read both this, and a story about the change in the rules licensing for Dungeons & Dragons, on a Sunday morning when I was listening to an American Top 40 from January 1983. Which was just about perfect, as I got D&D for Christmas 1982 and likely spent a lot of that break playing on friends' Ataris. I wouldn't get my own until the next Christmas. YES!!!!! De La Soul's Whole Catalog Is Coming To Streaming Services In March A little late today as I spent most of the morning running around doing things for the girls. It's also been a rather odd start to my music year, and I'm not piling up the new music the way I normally do. More on that below. I have managed to cobble together a few songs for your listening pleasure. "Getting It Right" – Caitlin Rose and Courtney Marie Andrews Another entry in my continuing exploration of where the line between pop and country that I can tolerate lies, and this is just poppy enough for me to enjoy. "Daisy" – atmos bloom One thing there is no question that I enjoy is shoegaze, whether modern or classic. "Shit Talkin'" – Alex Lahey An anthem for the social anxious among us. "Down in the Park" – Tubeway Army featuring Gary Numan For most of the past two weeks I've been listening to the stream of Kansas City radio station 90.9 The Bridge's Z-to-A countdown (countup?) of their entire library. As I type they are in the B's, and it looks like they will wrap up sometime Sunday. It's been awesome. I've heard a lot of songs I love, rediscovered some old favorites I haven't heard in years, and found some songs that were brand new to me. I think The Bridge is going to become a big part of my listening habits even after they transition back to a more regular format. This is one of the new to me songs, a brilliant track from 1979 I had no idea existed. "Lookin' For Another Pure Love" – Stevie Wonder This week's big music death (not counting Lisa Marie Presley) was Jeff Beck. I mostly knew of Beck from his work with Rod Stewart. I also learned in recent years that he appeared on a couple tracks on Stevie Wonder's legendary Talking Book album. Including this track, where Stevie encourages him to "Do it Jeff…" when he adds a lovely solo run. "Taillights Fade" – Buffalo Tom And here's one of the forgotten tracks that I heard for the first time in ages this past week. When Buffalo Tom was good, they were exceptionally good.

3 Stocks to Hold for the Next 20 Years These three stocks can be the bedrock of a buy-and-hold stock portfolio. Jordan Wathen, Jason Hall, and Daniel Miller (TMFValueMagnet) Sep 30, 2017 at 9:00AM I think stock investors can benefit by analyzing a company with a credit investors' mentality -- rule out the downside and the upside takes care of itself. Send me an email by clicking here, or tweet me. Follow @jwthn Twenty years is a very long time. On average, it's a period of time that will include a handful of bear and bull markets, several elections, major wars and conflicts, and periods of economic recession and expansion. Twenty years from now, most companies will have gone through one, if not more, C-level executives. But there are some stocks that have durable businesses and obvious growth opportunities that will be exceptional, regardless of how the economy zigs or zags, or who takes the role as their next chief executive officer 20 years from now. Below, three Fools lay out a case for Mastercard (NYSE:MA), Chubb (NYSE: CB), and Boeing (NYSE:BA) as three companies that are so good they're worth buying and ignoring for the next 20 years. Billions of reasons this payment giant is worth holding for decades Jason Hall (Mastercard): It's easy to assume that electronic payments -- like credit and debit cards and mobile payments -- dominate global transactions. After all, it's how most people in the developed world pay for nearly everything. But globally, cash is still king, with the vast majority of transactions around the world still in cash. That's changing. Technology is driving big growth in electronic payments around the world. Low-cost smartphones are putting electronic-payments devices in the hands of millions more consumers every year. And this growth of new consumers with access to electronic payments is set to accelerate in coming decades. By most estimates, the planet's middle class -- which drives a huge portion of consumer spending -- is set to add more than 1 billion people over the next two decades, and essentially all of these new consumers will have access to a mobile device and can participate in the explosive growth of e-commerce. Mastercard is already a major global-payments leader. The strength of its secure payments network, as well was its relationship and reputation with merchants, financial institutions, and consumers, make it a known quantity that will keep it relevant for decades to come. And since each new customer adds more incremental profit than the one before, Mastercard's profits are set to grow faster than revenue for decades. That should drive amazing returns for shareholders. Don't set a timer on these stocks. These are our top buy-and-hold picks for the next 20 years. Image source: Getty Images. A forever stock Jordan Wathen (Chubb): When it comes to stocks to hold for the long haul, culture matters. That goes double for businesses that make their money by putting their shareholders' capital at risk. Chubb is an extraordinarily well-run insurance company that only got better when it merged with ACE in 2016. Chubb primarily underwrites property and casualty insurance for middle-market businesses, while ACE underwrites property and casualty (P&C) insurance for larger, international companies. Combined, they have an insurance offering for just about any risk worth insuring. The hallmark of a good insurance company is a low combined ratio, which measures how much an insurer spends on operations and losses to claims and losses as a percentage of premiums -- and lower is better. Both Chubb and ACE have historically outperformed the rest of the industry by holding operating costs low and pricing risk correctly. Over the last decade as stand-alone companies, both had a combined ratio of approximately 90%. Competing insurers are lucky to merely break even on their underwriting with a 100% combined ratio. Chubb isn't likely to be a stock that doubles overnight. It's a sleepy, slow-growing insurance company that would prefer to twiddle its thumbs than underwrite bad risks just for the sake of growth. But a conservative culture is what makes it an exceptional buy-and-hold stock, and even though it isn't obviously cheap at 2.3 times tangible book value, Chubb's pricing discipline likely will ensure that it earns above-average returns over the long haul. Soaring for decades Daniel Miller (The Boeing Co.): Investors looking to own stocks for two decades should look at industries with consistent long-term growth and specific companies that can return value to shareholders over the years via dividends. Boeing Co. is a great example. Heading into 2017, Boeing declared its quarterly dividend would increase 30%, to $1.42 per share. The aviation juggernaut has paid a dividend to shareholders for more than 75 years, and has raised the quarterly payment roughly 190% over the past four years. BA data by YCharts. But the reason investors can hold Boeing for two decades is the consistent growth in air travel. Boeing's commercial aircraft generates a majority of its total business, with its defense business making up a lesser portion. While traffic varies per market, Boeing's management anticipates average annual passenger traffic to grow 4.7% annually over the next 20 years, which would drive demand for its commercial aircraft. In fact, over the next 20 years, Boeing anticipates the global need for more than 41,000 commercial aircraft valued at $6.1 trillion -- and Boeing is in line to carve out a serious chunk of that market potential. The key for Boeing to continue rewarding shareholders will be its ability to ramp up its production rates. Boeing's 737 should move from 42 per month currently to 57 per month in 2019. With Boeing's total backlog of more than 5,700 commercial aircraft, shareholders stand to benefit over the long term. NYSE:BA Mastercard Incorporated NYSE:MA One of Boeing's Most Important Customers Says 777X Debut Could Slip Beyond 2022 Boeing to Pay $25 Million to Settle Pentagon Billing Probe Boeing Sees a December Delivery Surge Thanks to 737 MAX Return Dow Jones Slumps 100 Points; Boeing Stock Lower After Fatal Crash; Cisco Fights to Close Acacia Merger Boeing 737 Crashes Shortly After Takeoff in Indonesia 3 Stocks to Hold for the Next 20 Years @themotleyfool #stocks $BA $MA Next Article

Q: Anylogic - How to extract region & province data from a map using code I'm a student using AnyLogic 7 University 7.3.6 for a simulation project. In my project, I want to be able to distribute agents (people) over a geographical area (a city, specifically Stockholm, the capital of Sweden), and place them at imaginary "homes". I know that you can use openstreetmaps for loading maps into anylogic, and I want to able to realistically distribute people with different locations of that map. What I wonder is: is it possible to load a geographical map of a city from openStreetMaps or any other similar source, write code that can extract the different regions or municipalities in that geographical area, and save them as a collection? My guess is that is is possible but difficult. For example, Stockholm (capital of Sweden) consists of 26 municipalities. I want to be able to load a map of Stockholm, write code that can discover the name of the different municipalities within Stockholm (or whatever city map is being used), identify how many regions or municipalities there are in that map (26 in this case) and what their names are, save these to a collection, and then for each municipality, find all of the street names in that municipalitiy. When I have all of the municipalities of a city along with all (or most) of the street names, I can then place my agents at different streets by using the street names. I want to be able to place a different amount of agents (people) in each municipality, and they must not be placed at unrealistic locations (such as water or terrain), thus I reckon I need the street names, so that I can realistically place them at imaginary "homes". I have not found any valuable information of this yet, but I'm trying to. If anyone has got any advice it would be greatly appreciated! A: I have done something similar. To do this you need to create a shapefile that contains all the information you need (municipalities will be one layer of the shapefile (polygons) and streets will be the other layer (polylines) ) and you will read that shapefile with AnyLogic and you can generate random homes based on that. You need to find and expert in ArcGis to help you create the shapefile according to your needs. I'm not an expert in ArcGis, but I have had someone create shapefiles for me, so that would be the first step. Later (Second step) you will have to learn how to read shapefiles once you load them into the map in AnyLogic and transform the shapefile layers into areas and lines visible on the map... You start using the getLayers() function... You have to transform the shapefile into markup that is easily usable in AnyLogic. At the end of the day, your question requires a lot of things, so maybe this answer will point you into the right direction, make you quit the project or be useless... Or you can find a different and easier way to simplify your project without needing so much parafernalia.

SRI Quality System Registrar is proud to announce that it is now part of the International Living Future Institute's (ILFI) JUST™ Program. This program provides a transparent platform of disclosure, a "nutrition label", for socially responsible organizations and corporations. "The International Living Future Institute is pleased to announce that SRI has been recognized with the JUST Label. SRI's pursuit of a Social Equity Disclosure Label is consistent with the organization's long-standing support of Corporate Social Responsibility principles and practices," says Francis Janes, Associate Director, International Living Future Institute. SRI qualified for the JUST Label through effective internal policies in key JUST categories such as diversity, equity, safety, employee benefit, local benefit and community stewardship. In addition to exemplifying transparency, SRI continues to grow as a leader in the sustainability industry. The most recently released version of ILFI's Living Building Challenge, LBC v3.1, requires that a JUST labeled organization must have an integral role during the design and construction phase of a project when submitting for Living Certification. 3R, as a subsidiary of SRI, can act as a sustainability consultant on any LBC project.

DOI:10.1038/105494A0 S. Ramanujan, F.R.S. @article{HardySRF, title={S. Ramanujan, F.R.S.}, author={G. H. Hardy}, journal={Nature}, pages={494-495} G. Hardy SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN, whose death was announced in NATURE of June 3, was born in 1888, in the neighbourhood of Madras, the son of poor parents, and a Brahmin by caste. I know very little of his early history or education, but he became a student in Madras University, and passed certain examinations, though he did not complete the course for a degree. Later he was employed by the Madras Port Trust as a clerk at a salary equivalent to about 25l. a year. By this time, however, reports of his… View on Springer One Citation Sort by Most Influenced PapersSort by Citation CountSort by Recency Did Ramanujan Have Asperger's Disorder or Asperger's Syndrome? M. Fitzgerald Psychology, Medicine Journal of medical biography

Does a shopper turn left or right when entering a retail store? This is one question that many Retailers will use to test a new Designer "Can you ensure my shoppers tread the whole store?" "Do I really need to put a flow path in?" It obviously starts with which way do shoppers walk into the store, presuming there is an opportunity to go either way left or right; is it personal choice, or is geophysical, are we governed by the Moon, what is it. Lets find out: answer this blog with your thoughts and experiences and of course your location.

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We work with juvenile offenders and we call them "Stars" Who we serve, who are these juvenile offenders? We call the juveniles we work with "Stars". First and foremost these are teenagers mostly in the 15 to 17 year old range. If you have ever tried to reason with a 16 or 17 year old who thinks they are all grown up and knows the score, you have a good idea of what you will be dealing with. You will find the same stubbornness, mistrust, tendency to avoid taking responsibility, and bizarre misinformation about how the world works in these kids that you see in your own. You will find a wide range of behaviors, everything from truancy and running away from home, to drugs and murder. You may not find out what the Stars you are working with have done. In Epiphany we don't ask and we don't care. Sometimes kids volunteer the information and sometimes like many teenagers they lie. It does not matter to Epiphany volunteers what the Star has done. By and large, these are what most of society views as disposable kids, especially the ones without good lawyers, the ones most people don't want to think about. Many come from awful home situations. Many of our stars have never had a chance, they were born into families so dysfunctional that they are almost unrecognizable to us as families. It is common for us to work with kids who have never had a visitor in the time they have been in. It's not unusual for us to work with kids who have never had a birthday party, we give them one. Most humans have an in built tendency to lash out when they are hurt. That's what got some of our kids where they are today. Most of us learn in our families that it's counter-productive to lash out, so we suppress the impulse. For many of these kids, lashing out meant and still means survival. Many teenagers are skeptical of Christianity. Most have been told about it, but few have actually seen it in ways which are believable to them. You might sum up our philosophy on this as "talk is cheap." It takes the love of Christ being manifest in the Epiphany volunteers to make Christianity comprehensible to these young people. Seeing is believing, and experiencing Christ's love face to face is an epiphany for many incarcerated juveniles. One of the most amazing things you will find in these kids is hope. They have an amazing ability to hold onto hope for better things. After two years without a visit to hope that their mom will come to see them soon. Hope to get a GED and find a job when they get out. Hope to have a family and a safe place to live. For those of us who work with these kids, these seem like relatively modest hopes, yet for them, in many cases it represents hope for things which have always been far beyond their experience in life. Not all of the stars are from deprived backgrounds, as one South Carolina volunteer discovered when wearing an Epiphany T-shirt at a political rally in another state. One of the aides of the Governor asked her if she worked with Epiphany and when she replied yes I do, the Governor's aide said: "Thank you for giving my son back to me." There is no easily defined "type" that you encounter in Epiphany.

Reduced Capacity of Cognitive Control in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment Authors: He, Haoa; b; c; d | Xu, Pengfeia; b; c; d | Wu, Tingtinge | Chen, Yiqia | Wang, Jinga | Qiu, Yuehonga | Fan, Jine; * | Guan, Qinga; b; c; d; * | Luo, Yuejiaa; b; c; d Affiliations: [a] School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China | [b] Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China | [c] Center for Neuroimaging, Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China | [d] Center for Brain Disorders and Cognitive Sciences, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China | [e] Department of Psychology, Queens College, The City University of New York, Queens, NY, USA Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Qing Guan, School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Nanhai Ave 3688, Shenzhen 518060, China. [email protected] and Jin Fan, PhD, Department of Psychology, Queens College, The City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Queens, NY 11367, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Abstract: Cognitive control for the coordination of mental operations is essential in normal cognitive functioning of daily life. Although the decline of cognitive control in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has been demonstrated, whether this decline is a core deficit in MCI remains unclear. In this study, we employed a perceptual decision-making task to estimate the capacity of cognitive control (CCC) in older adults with MCI (n = 55) and the age-, sex-, and education-matched healthy controls (HC, n = 55) selected based on a commonly used battery of ten neuropsychological tests in five cognitive domains. We found that the CCC was significantly correlated to the neuropsychological measures of the battery. The mean CCC was significantly lower in the MCI group (3.06 bps) than in the HC group (3.59 bps) and significantly lower in the amnestic MCI subgroup (2.90 bps) than in the nonamnestic MCI subgroup (3.22 bps). In detecting and classifying MCI using machine learning, the classifier with the CCC as the input feature outperformed the overall classification with neuropsychological measures in a single cognitive domain. The classification performance was significantly increased when the CCC was included as a feature in addition to measures in a single domain, and the CCC served as a key feature in optimal classifiers with inputs from multiple domains. These results support the hypothesis that the decline in cognitive control is a core deficit in MCI and suggest that the CCC may serve as a key index in the diagnosis of MCI. Keywords: Cognitive control, classification, executive function, machine learning, mild cognitive impairment DOI: 10.3233/JAD-181006 Journal: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 185-200, 2019 Accepted 20 June 2019 Log in or register to view or purchase instant access Issue s1

Welcome to Shepherd Park Citizens Association (SPCA)! Shepherd Park is a thriving, friendly, diverse and historic neighborhood in the District of Columbia. We are located in the northern "point" of DC -- north of Walter Reed Army Medical Center between Georgia Avenue and Rock Creek Park, and we include the neighborhoods between 16th Street and Rock Creek Park that are also known as Colonial Village and North Portal Estates. We have many long-time residents and many recent arrivals, but everyone shares a love for our beautiful neighborhood, with its abundance of trees and gardens and great variety of houses. Shepherd Park was founded in the 19th century when the District's territorial governor, Alexander "Boss" Shepherd, built a summer mansion here. Since then, it has grown into a neighborhood that celebrates its diversity and friendliness. Shepherd Park has many unique and convenient characteristics, and is home to many families who have children attending our excellent local school, Shepherd Elementary, as well as families whose children attend one of the local private schools. We also have a variety of local houses of worship. The Shepherd Park Citizens Association is a membership organization servicing residents of Shepherd Park, Colonial Village and North Portal Estates. The association's mission is to improve the quality of life for Shepherd Park residents. We hold regular membership meetings at which issues of local interest, such as the schools, public safety, property and the environment are discussed. We also host candidate forums in advance of local elections. The SPCA sponsors many special local events, including an annual community picnic, yard sale, potluck dinner and garden tour, and a Halloween parade. To keep our neighbors informed, we maintain this website and publish a quarterly newsletter. Although not sponsored by the SPCA, the nieghborhood also has a very active e-mail list-serve. We encourage anyone interested in the Shepherd Park Citizens Association to join. Feel free to contact a member of the Board using the information in this website to ask questions and learn more about what our association does for one of the best neighborhoods in the city. You are welcome to attend any of the events listed in our calendar. You'll be very pleased with our unique neighborhood. Shepherd Park's Rosalyn Coates talks about the neighborhood on WAMU Metro Connection's "Door to Door"

Q: Python client / server question I'm working on a bit of a project in python. I have a client and a server. The server listens for connections and once a connection is received it waits for input from the client. The idea is that the client can connect to the server and execute system commands such as ls and cat. This is my server code: import sys, os, socket host = '' port = 50105 s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.bind((host, port)) print("Server started on port: ", port) s.listen(5) print("Server listening\n") conn, addr = s.accept() print 'New connection from ', addr while (1): rc = conn.recv(5) pipe = os.popen(rc) rl = pipe.readlines() file = conn.makefile('w', 0) file.writelines(rl[:-1]) file.close() conn.close() And this is my client code: import sys, socket s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) host = 'localhost' port = input('Port: ') s.connect((host, port)) cmd = raw_input('$ ') s.send(cmd) file = s.makefile('r', 0) sys.stdout.writelines(file.readlines()) When I start the server I get the right output, saying the server is listening. But when I connect with my client and type a command the server exits with this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "server.py", line 21, in <module> rc = conn.recv(2) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/socket.py", line 165, in _dummy raise error(EBADF, 'Bad file descriptor') socket.error: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor On the client side, I get the output of ls but the server gets screwed up. A: Your code calls conn.close() and then loops back around to conn.recv(), but conn is already closed. A: If you want your client to repeat what it's doing, just add a loop in there ;) s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) host = 'localhost' port = input('Port: ') s.connect((host, port)) while True: cmd = raw_input('$ ') s.send(cmd) file = s.makefile('r', 0) sys.stdout.writelines(file.readlines()) Should probably be closer to what you want. Other comments: s.listen(1) This statement should probably be moved outside of the while loop. You only need to call listen once. pipe = os.popen(rc) os.popen has been deprecated, use the subprocess module instead. file = s.makefile('r', 0) You're opening a file, yet you never close the file. You should probably add a file.close() after your sys.stdout.writelines() call. EDIT: to answer below comment; done here due to length and formatting As it stands, you read from the socket once, and then immediately close it. Thus, when the client goes to send the next command, it sees that the server closed the socket and indicates an error. The solution is to change your server code so that it can handle receiving multiple commands. Note that this is solved by introducing another loop. You need to wrap rc = conn.recv(2) pipe = os.popen(rc) rl = pipe.readlines() fl = conn.makefile('w', 0) fl.writelines(rl[:-1]) in another while True: loop so that it repeats until the client disconnects, and then wrap that in a try-except block that catches the IOError that is thrown by conn.recv() when the client disconnects. the try-except block should look like try: # the described above loop goes here except IOError: conn.close() # execution continues on...

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Life Is Awesome Interviews with LA artists Contact/Search ERIN McCARLEY: 'Performing live is a freeing experience' Date: November 24, 2012 Author: Monica Category: Interviews Tags: Erin McCarley, Hotel Cafe, Lestat's, Los Angeles music, performing live, Vanessa Carlton ← Top 5 Albums to get you through the holidays GARLAND: Songs of romance, love, desire, faith → ERIN McCARLEY continues to engage audiences with her new album My Stadium Electric. [By Monica Harris] Singer/songwriter ERIN McCARLEY just finished up a fall tour including a stop at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles in support of her second album My Stadium Electric. The soulful singer continues to engage audiences with her blend of pop and indie soft rock. We talk to Erin about her new album and about performing live which she describes as a "freeing experience." Erin, tell us about the creation of your new album. Take us behind the scenes. I recorded half of it in Nashville, half of it in London, and one song in Atlanta, and worked with several producers. In Nashville the producer I worked with, Jamie Kenney, we actually did "Love Save the Empty" on the first record. Kind of all the experimenting started there, and then we took it over to London and did the other half with Martin Terefe. And Ben Allen is the collaborator I worked with in Atlanta for "Pop Gun." I spent 9 weeks in London. We co-wrote a few songs and then it was a crazy process. Because for my first record everything I did was done very enclosed, no team around, it was just me and my one producer. And this time I was traveling around everywhere and spreading it out and picking up inspiration from different places. I did a lot of writing in Scotland, actually. I have a friend that has a place out there and I got to go out there with Jamie and another writer. That was pretty crazy. It was a really good experience. How do you feel you've grown as an artist since your first album? You know, the first record I hadn't toured yet. So a lot of that first record was experiences of me growing up as a child. And I think this second one is me growing up as an adult. And having that experience on the road. I think a lot of these songs were written with touring and playing these songs on the stage, and the performance element was definitely more of a focus than it was on the first. I think that was probably one of the biggest growth areas for me. When are you in your most creative mood? I think when I'm moving. I think a lot of times creativity comes when there's some sort of movement, whether I'm in a car, I'm in a plane, when I'm jogging. There's something about that, that triggers ideas, but then obviously the outcome is usually done when I'm solo and alone and able to really focus in on what that emotion was that I experienced. I read that you used to live in San Diego? Yeah, I learned to surf in La Jolla, at La Jolla Shores. I actually played my first show out at Pacific Beach. I can't remember the name of the bar. It was an open mic and I was horrified. [Laughs.] I was so scared. I also played at Lestat's and Twiggs, two coffee shops in North Park. That was where I got my start. Why do you think you were originally drawn to writing music? I came here to sing. I was sort of writing but it wasn't something that I was focused on. And I think that singing wasn't going to get me very far in a town like Nashville, which is a very songwriting-heavy town. That pushed me and challenged me to enhance my writing skills and dive into that more. So the influence of Fiona Apple and people like Patty Griffin and that whole world, and then moving to Nashville and seeing how big of a world songwriting is, and what it allows you to do, and expand your career. I'm originally from Texas. I lived there for 20 years, and then San Diego a little bit, and then Nashville. I've been in Nashville for five years. Did you grow up in a musical family? Not really. My mom grew up dancing, and that's what I grew up doing. So that side of music, yes. It wasn't a big writing or singing community. What kind of dancing? Every kind, you know, jazz, ballet, and tap. I did it for 12 years. That was my first passion. With the second record I brought more of that in, and I think performance wise, too, I'm bringing more of that in, just not being afraid to move because it's what I grew up doing. So you'll see a lot more of that on the road. What do you feel most thankful for this year? For sure, friends and the community that I have here in Nashville. My family just moved here 3 months ago so I'm very, very grateful for that.Nashville is amazing, it really is, especially for the creative minds. It's a very supportive community. What can we expect at your live shows? I think you can expect a lot. You won't see me behind the guitar a lot. On the first record I kind of hid behind a guitar. This one I'm diversifying and being a lot more free, and using the sample pads and the tambourine and electric guitar. So it's a very lively event and a freeing experience. WATCH LYRIC VIDEO FOR "AMBER WAVES" For more visit ErinMcCarley.com

America Should Help Iran Get COVID Vaccine Following fierce criticism amid a deadly fifth wave of COVID-19 in Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appears to have done something he is often loath to do: overturn himself. Earlier this year, Khamenei banned West-made COVID-19 vaccines, which was implemented as a ban on the most effective vaccines: those produced by Moderna and Pfizer. Now he has noted that Iran should take steps to secure vaccines, officials saying there is no longer a ban on any vaccine. This welcome move creates an opportunity that the Biden administration must seize. It is of the utmost importance that the Iranians are included in President Biden's list commitment vaccinate the world. This would not only be a necessary goodwill gesture towards the Iranian people at a time of diplomatic stalemate over the nuclear issue, but would also help curb the spread of the COVID variants that threaten everyone. By helping the world's most vulnerable, President Biden would make the planet a safer place and rebuild American influence in a way that can help solve other issues, be it multilateral diplomacy with Iran, various regional crises or climate change. Earlier in the pandemic, after reports emerged that US sanctions were hampering Iran's ability to pay for vaccines through the World Health Organization's Covax program, the Treasury Department exempted financial transactions involving vaccines and medical equipment needed to fight COVID . This has helped Iran import larger quantities of the vaccine, although most of it is still Sinopharm's relatively ineffective Chinese vaccine. Now the United States can do more to ensure Iran receives superior mRNA vaccines and other medical aids. This would have two major advantages for the national security interests of the United States. First, it would help control the spread of COVID in the hardest-hit country in the Middle East, reducing the chances that more transmissible, deadly, and vaccine-resistant variants would emerge. Second, the Iranian foreign minister has noted that allowing COVID aid to reach Iran would send a "good" signal about US intentions. That could flatten the Biden administration's negotiations to reinstate the Iran nuclear deal. The need to increase COVID aid to Iran is urgent and the Iranian government deserves a lot of blame for the mismanagement of the crisis. Khamenei's ban has been harshly criticized, and rightly so. In a video that went viral on Iranian social media, a young woman cries and mourns the death of her husband, directly accusing Khamenei of having obstructed the supply of vaccines. Meanwhile, public officials are busy pointing fingers: Health ministry officials have made the foreign ministry the scapegoat for failing to buy vaccines, while former foreign minister Javad Zarif said higher authorities rejected his purchase of 20 million doses from Europe. Things only got worse in August, when the Delta variant hit Iran. More than 700 people died recently. Examining the chaotic and warlike scene in Iranian hospitals, an Iranian official said, "Only the smell of gunpowder is not inhaled and the color of blood is not seen. The pandemic has caused immense human suffering in a country where a large part of the population was already struggling under severe economic hardship due to years of sanctions. As of September 27, more than 120,000 Iranians have died from COVID-19 – and Iranian health ministry officials say the actual death toll is at least double. A to study by BBC Persian found that there were 200,000 more deaths in Iran during the pandemic. Hospitals in Iran's main metropolitan areas are dangerously over capacity. At the top of the Delta wave, Iran ranked fifth around the world in terms of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in intensive care units – after the United States, India, Brazil and Colombia – and across the country there are more and more beds of intensive care. While the pace of vaccinations has steadily increased in recent weeks, many vaccination centers have closed their activities for months "until further notice" due to a lack of vaccines. Iran has so far imported vaccines through three channels: buying them through the WHO's Covax program using funds frozen by sanctions in countries like Iraq and South Korea, buying them from the China via the Iranian Red Crescent and receive them as gifts, mainly from Japan and South Korea. President Biden is expected to speed up the export of mRNA vaccines, such as those produced by Moderna and Pfizer. These have been shown to be safe, effective and are produced relatively quickly. This can be done through the WHO Covax program, Pfizer and Moderna subsidiaries abroad or in third countries. For example, the Iranian foreign minister has been in talks with its German counterpart to import the Pfizer vaccine. President Biden is expected to give the green light to third countries carrying out these transactions and ensure that Moderna and Pfizer subsidiaries in Europe have enough vaccines to meet Iran's orders. The United States can also unfreeze some of Iranian assets abroad to use them exclusively for the purchase of medical products. These transactions can be routed through the US-Treasury Department designed Swiss financial channel with Iran, which has strengthened due diligence standards. Exporting vaccines should be the most urgent priority for the Biden administration. The point is, America will never be safe from the virus until the world is secure. 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"Authoritarianism describes a form of government characterized by an emphasis on the authority of state in a republic or union. It is a political system controlled by typically non-elected rulers who usually permit some degree of individual freedom." Authoritarianism is a form of government where high-status people want to have everything and give orders to the people, regardless their beliefs and ideals. The Authoritarian system does not accept different opinions and always maintains social control. In this essay I will discuss authoritarianism but from two different perspectives. The books that I will use are Animal Farm by George Orwell and In The Time of The Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. After showing both perspectives of authoritarianism I will compare and contrast them and try to show that authoritarianism is present on the side of the revolutionaries as well as on the side of the dictators. This will be discussed on the basis of the examples that are found in the books. Animal Farm is a book that is based on the Russian revolution. It talks about the process that the animals had to go through in order to become free from humans. In this farm the animals are divided into two sections. In the first section there are the pigs, which have all the power; they are the intellectuals because they can read and write. In the second section are the rest of the animals which are not free, they are totally controlled by the pigs. The rest of the animals are the ones who do all the work and receive less food. The book describes how the rest of animals began their revolution and the principles they had, but as time passed the pigs started to change these principles and this is how authoritarianism became a factor in their revolution, against authoritarian humans. In the Time of the Butterflies also talks about a political movement, three sisters who were against their government. This story took place in the Dominican Republic during the Trujillo era. This book talks about the repressions that were made against Dominican people. In this book we have the presence of authoritarianism from Trujillo. One thing that characterized Trujillo is that he was a dictator who had no heart when he eliminated his opponents. A clear example is when Trujillo sent to kill the Mirabel sisters and hides all the evidence so people would think that it was an accident. In Animal Farm there are many acts of authoritarianism "The novel addresses not only the corruption of the revolution by its leaders but also how wickedness, indifference, ignorance, greed and myopia destroy any possibility of a Utopia. While this novel portrays corrupt leadership as the flaw in revolution (and not the act of revolution itself), it also shows how potential ignorance and indifference to problems within a revolution could allow horrors to happen if smooth transition to a people's government isn't satisfied." This novel basically talks about how the pigs took control of the farm and the way they treated the rest of the animals. The pigs that were the most important animals were inspired by some Russian revolutionaries because of the actions they took and the role they played in the revolution against Mr.Jones. Napoleon was the pig who emerges as the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion and his character was based on Joseph Stalin. Napoleon was a bad leader because he forced everyone to follow his orders. For example when he forced all the hens to give up their eggs because he had already sold them and the hens decided to fight against this order by throwing their eggs. He also decides to take the puppies and makes them his personal army. "Napoleon took them away from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education. He took them up into a loft that could only be reached by a ladder" the pigs were the only ones that had the capacity to walk on two legs in occasions and therefore only napoleon could reach them. Napoleon decided to start killing the hens that did not want to follow his orders. At the beginning of the revolution they had their commandments which were sacred but then napoleon took the decision to change each commandment but to his personal interests. "No animal shall kill another animal " but when he started killing the animals that did not obey him, he added to this commandments "no animal shall kill another animal without a reason. " Acts like these make him a dictator with in a revolutionary movement. It is evident that authoritarianism is present on the side of the revolutionaries. For example the behavior that the pigs had towards the other animals is similar to the behavior that Trujillo had towards the rebels and like these example we find many more. Before Napoleon there was another pig that was in charge of the revolution he was a good leader and he was inspired by Leon Trotsky, he was intelligent, passionate, eloquent, and had the sympathy of the rest of the animals but unfortunately he was liquidated by Napoleon. And then there is another pig that is in charge of spreading propaganda. This pig is controlled by Napoleon and he has the duty of convincing the animals that Napoleon is a good leader and that he is not authoritarian. "Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina (1891-1961) presided for 31 years over what was probably the most absolute and ruthless dictatorship in Latin America at that time. Coming to power in 1930, he controlled the government of the Dominican Republic until he was assassinated" Trujillo controlled his country with some commands that were exaggerated. For example, people had to have a picture of him in their houses; he had to be worshiped like God. Another command was that people could speak critically about him, because there were a secret police who was always heard conversations and observed houses. This was implemented to try and stop underground movements against his government. He also had the power to do whatever he wanted with people; he incarcerated Don Enrique Mirabel just to prove to Minerva who had the power. He also took Minerva's degree and therefore she could not work as a layer even though she had finished the university. He also took repercussions against Virgilio and as a result he had to ask for political asylum. This was an absolute act of authoritarianism because he did not tolerate bad opinions and he acted in a despotic way. He did not tolerate that Minerva did not want to have sexual relations with him. He abused his power and had practically destroyed Minerva's life with his acts of repression. It is similar to the behavior that the pigs had towards the other animals and also is similar to the behavior that Trujillo had towards the rebels and like these example we find many more. After analyzing the authoritarian characters from both books, I have concluded that even though these two characters are not from the same period of time, they are authoritarian rulers. One important thing that can be deduced from this is that authoritarianism is a problem that has been present in all revolutionary movements. And many times this changes the perspective of the political movements, for instance what happened to the rebellion in Animal Farm. At the end of this rebellion the pigs started behaving like humans, and instead of helping the animals they got them in to a worst problem. The rest of the animals saw this and could not distinguish the pigs from the humans. For example the behavior that the pigs had towards the other animals is similar to the behavior that Trujillo had towards the rebels. Whit this essay I realized that authoritarianism is everywhere; no matter the context it is very common that people become authoritarian when they reach the power. In 2006 Oaxaca had a big problem with the A.P.P.O, they were fighting against the governor, but at the middle of this movement their leader betrayed them and now days the A.P.P.O has a movement which is not defined or does not follow its original objectives. Trujillo and the pigs were leaders who only wanted to be the highest authority. With these two books we can appreciate how important authoritarianism is and how it affects people. "Authoritarianism Is Authority Of State In Republic History Essay." UKEssays.com. 11 2018. All Answers Ltd. 04 2019 <https://www.ukessays.com/essays/history/authoritarianism-is-authority-of-state-in-republic-history-essay.php?vref=1>. 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John Nicholas Kordic, född 22 mars 1965, död 8 augusti 1992, var en kanadensisk professionell ishockeyspelare som tillbringade sju säsonger i den nordamerikanska ishockeyligan National Hockey League (NHL), där han spelade för ishockeyorganisationerna Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Washington Capitals och Quebec Nordiques. Han producerade 35 poäng (17 mål och 18 assists) samt drog på sig 997 utvisningsminuter på 244 grundspelsmatcher. Kordic spelade också för Canadiens de Sherbrooke, Newmarket Saints och Cape Breton Oilers i American Hockey League (AHL) och Portland Winter Hawks och Seattle Breakers i Western Hockey League (WHL). Han draftades i fjärde rundan i 1983 års draft av Montreal Canadiens som 78:e spelaren totalt. Han vann en Stanley Cup med dem för säsong 1985-1986. Kordic var en beryktad slagskämpe (enforcer) under sin relativa korta spelarkarriär och hade en omtalad rivalitet med Jay Miller, de möttes nio gånger på isen. Den 8 augusti 1992 drabbades Kordic av en akut drogförgiftning efter han överdoserat narkotika och anabola steroider på ett hotellrum i L'Ancienne-Lorette, Québec. Polisen kom till platsen i försök att få honom lugn men Kordic gjorde utfall mot dem och hamnade i handgemäng. Efter att nio poliser lyckades få honom under kontroll och placerade honom i en ambulans, drabbades han av hjärtinfarkt som orsakade att han avled omedelbart av andningssvikt. Han dödsförklarades strax efteråt vid 27 års ålder. Efter hans död, kom det fram att han levde ett hårt liv med missbruk av alkohol, anabola steroider, kokain och annan narkotika samt ansträngd förhållande till sin familj, arbetsgivare och tränare. Han var bror till den före detta ishockeyspelaren Dan Kordic, som själv var en slagskämpe i NHL. Statistik Referenser Externa länkar John Kordic – Stats – NHL.com John Kordic NHL Statistics – Hockey-Reference.com John Kordic hockey statistics and profile at hockeydb.com Avlidna 1992 Kanadensiska ishockeyspelare Spelare i Montreal Canadiens Spelare i Quebec Nordiques (1979–1995) Spelare i Toronto Maple Leafs Spelare i Washington Capitals Spelare i Canadiens de Sherbrooke Spelare i Cape Breton Oilers Spelare i Newmarket Saints Spelare i Portland Winterhawks Spelare i Seattle Breakers Kanadensiska idrottare under 1900-talet Idrottare från Edmonton Födda 1965 Män Stanley Cup-mästare 1986 Spelare valda i NHL Entry Draft 1983 Spelare valda av Montreal Canadiens i NHL Entry Draft

Avs drop fourth straight as Preds' Rinne shuts them out By Ryan DadounDec 10, 2014, 12:01 AM EST The Colorado Avalanche lost netminder Semyon Varlamov again on Tuesday due to a lingering groin injury, but their goaltending wasn't the reason they suffered a 3-0 defeat to Nashville on Tuesday. Calvin Pickard did an admiral job filling in for Varlamov. He stopped 33 of 34 shots and Filip Forsberg's game-winning goal would have been a tough one to stop. Gabriel Bourque and James Neal padded the lead with empty-net goals in the final two minutes of the contest. At the other end of the ice, Pekka Rinne earned a 26-save shutout. He's emerged as an early contender for the Vezina Trophy with a 18-5-1 record, 1.81 GAA, and .934 save percentage in 24 games this season. Perhaps he'll get some consideration for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy too given that he's putting up these numbers after missing most of the 2013-14 campaign because of a hip injury. Colorado has now lost four consecutive games to fall to 9-13-6 in 2014-15. The Avalanche have to overcome a nine-point deficit if they want to make the playoffs. The only silver lining is there's still plenty of time for them to do that. Follow @RyanDadoun View 11 Comments

The Japanese nuclear reactor disaster, which has seen uranium prices hammered worldwide, has lead to Australia based Mantra Resources accepting a 12% reduction in the cash offer from Russia's Rosatom. ­The revised deal brings the takeover offer agreed in December to just over $1.03 billion. Shares in Mantra Resources had slumped 28% last Thursday after ARMZ, the subsidiary of Rosatom managing the takeover, and a major global uranium producer, withdrew from its previously agreed offer price. ARMZ invoked a material adverse change clause in the original takeover agreement in its decision to walk away from the existing Mantra Resources offer, claiming that events in Japan had undermined its financial position and outlook. Meetings between the takeover target, which has the Mkuju River project in Tanzania as its major asset, took place in Barbados where the cash price was reduced from AU$8 to AU$7.02. The announcement of a revised deal saw Mantra Resources shares climb 26%. The revision to the takeover offer came as Nations, including China and Germany, suspensions or deferrals of plans to expand nuclear energy production in the wake of the disaster at Japan's Fukushima power plant.

Following the Jan. 12 earthquake, 1,263 out of 4,716 schools in western Haiti were destroyed and another 2,541 were damaged; 376,000 students were out of school and an unknown number of teachers and students were dead or wounded. The earthquake exposed in gruesome detail the legacy of centuries of colonial practices which created a weak Haitian State unable to properly house or educate its population. The debt of independence, a corrupt local elite, and their friends abroad ensured that successive Haitian governments responded to the needs of a privileged minority. In 2000, the American, French, and Canadian governments cut aid to poor Haitians when the latter voted for the most progressive government in their history. In 2004, these same governments overthrew the Aristide regime, ushering in two years of terror during which social spending was slashed. Prior to the earthquake, Haiti's government funded a mere 10 per cent of Haiti's elementary and secondary schools. The rest are funded privately with foreign assistance. Parents earning two dollars a day cannot afford fees, materials and uniforms, and must choose which of their children attends school. Half a million children don't attend school in Haiti. Many stop and start throughout the year and only four per cent finish high school. To understand the impact of the earthquake on Haiti's struggling schools, I traveled to Haiti with Ryan Sawatzky, President of the Orillia, Ontario-based Sawatzky Family Foundation (SFF). The SFF funds SOPUDEP (Société de Providence Unie pour le Développement de Pétionville) one of Haiti's private schools, which is located in Morne Lazarre, a poor community in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Pétionville. SOPUDEP offers accessible education to the poor by waiving the mandatory fees charged by other schools. The director, Rea Dol, began serving the poor in the 1990s. "Before SOPUDEP became a school, it was a democratic space where community members voiced their needs and aspirations," she says. Political ideals found fertile ground in 2000, when the Aristide regime announced literacy funding. She created SOPUDEP, opening adult literacy programs then a K-12 school. The SFF helped Dol double SOPUDEP's enrolment, feed the students daily, and open a program for street children.

Funding for Seniors' independent living in Wide Bay More than $57 million will be provided to local organisations to help older Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast residents live independently at home for longer. Aged Care Minister Ken Wyatt AM and Member for Wide Bay, Llew O'Brien, said the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) funding would begin on 1 July and run for two years. Mr O'Brien is encouraging Wide Bay residents in need of basic home support to apply. "This is about giving local residents as much support and as many options as possible to remain living at home in their local communities, close to their families and friends," Mr O'Brien said. "The funding will enable dozens of home support providers to continue their important work in local cities, towns and regional areas. "Depending on their needs, people may be eligible to receive help with transport, domestic duties such as house cleaning, personal care, home maintenance and modifications, food preparation and meals on wheels, nursing, social support and respite care. "The program is available for people aged 65 years and over, or 50 years and over for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. "It also includes support services for prematurely aged people on low incomes who are 50 years or over and are homeless or at risk of homelessness. "Your home support plan should be reviewed by your service provider every 12 months, to ensure you are receiving services and supports that continue to be right for you," Mr O'Brien said. Minister Wyatt said the $57.1 million investment in the Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast Aged Care Planning Regions was part of the Coalition Government's $5.5 billion national commitment to CHSP from 2018 through to 2020. "I have seen first-hand the enormous benefits of this program and how it helps older Australians and their families," Minister Wyatt said. "The CHSP funding complements the recent Federal Budget's $5 billion aged care boost, including the More Choices For A Longer Life package to give people more certainty, options and independence." For details on the types of support services available under the CHSP, see https://agedcare.health.gov.au/news-and-resources/your-guide-to-commonwealth-home-support-programme-services To access CHSP services, call the My Aged Care contact centre on 1800 200 422 Older Post Sporting Schools extends its reach to get children more active in Wide Ba Newer Post Early payment of Financial Assistance Grants good news for Wide Bay communities

Q: Why not use a map of maps to store a weighted graph? Weighted graphs are typically stored as an adjacency matrix or an adjacency list. The biggest disadvantage of an adjacency matrix is that it occupies O(|V|^2) space whereas an adjacency list occupies O(|V| + |E|) space. The biggest disadvantage of an adjacency list is that it queries in worst case O(|V|) time whereas an adjacency matrix queries in O(1) time. But if we use a map of maps, does this not solve both the time and space problems? It would occupy O(|V| + |E|) space and query in O(1) time. So why not use a map of maps? A: The same applies to non-weighted graphs - why use a list instead of a set? A map of sets would allow you to answer queries like "is there an edge from node x to node y" in constant time. The answer is that you use a list when you don't need to be able to perform such queries, or other operations (such as removing a neighbour) which take linear time for a list. Many graph algorithms don't require testing the existence of edges, or removing edges; the only thing you need the adjacency list data structure for is usually to iterate over a node's neighbours, and a list (or array) is perfectly good for that. Consider breadth-first search, Dijkstra's algorithm or Kahn's algorithm, for some examples. The only thing they use the graph data structure for is some kind of loop like "for each of u's neighbours v".* They do not need to do any operations where a map-of-maps would outperform a map-of-lists, so for algorithms like these, it makes more sense to use the map-of-lists data structure; it is simpler, smaller in memory, and more efficient to iterate over. On the other hand, if you do want to query or remove edges in constant time, then an adjacency matrix can do that, and is a simpler (and smaller) data structure than a map-of-maps. So you would only use a map-of-maps if you really needed to iterate over a node's neighbours and also perform queries or edge removals. There are some algorithms like that, but most algorithms don't need both. * Kahn's algorithm also removes edges, but it only ever removes the edge currently being visited. Since the position of the edge to be removed from the list is already known, removal from a linked list can be done in constant time; or if an unordered dynamic array is used, removal can be done in constant time by swapping the current neighbour to the end of the array and then shortening the array by 1.

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Florentina Pascual, known to friends and family as "Puring," passed away on January 4th, 2019, at the age of 83 years. She was surrounded by family in the comfort of her home in Kent, Washington. Florentina was born on November 16, 1935 in San Jose City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. She was the youngest child of Santiago Ramiscal and Severa Cera Ramiscal. She attended the Far Eastern University where she majored in B.S. Commerce. She married the love of her life on August 28th, 1955, and became a devoted homemaker and mother of three. She immigrated to the United States in 1986 in San Diego, California before planting roots in Honolulu, Hawaii a year later, where she lived for a decade. She moved back to the Philippines in 1997 before finally settling in Kent, Washington in 2003. A beautiful wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and aunt inside and out, she was beloved by many. She was known for her wonderful cooking, her grace, generosity, wit, compassion, unending kindness, and selflessness. She was preceded in death by her parents, Santiago and Severa; her husband Louie Pascual; and her siblings, Hilario, Hilaria, and Aquino. Florentina will be lovingly remembered by her children, Rodolfo and wife, Jean, Edgardo and wife Lilian, Mildred and husband, Romeo; her grandchildren, Renee and husband, Oliver, Joseph, Justine, Ryan, Rachelle, Krystle, Jordan, Gaile, Inna and husband, Adrian, Jet, and Koji; her great grandchildren, Meredith, Olivia, Phoenix, and Aros; her sister, Ester; and her half siblings, Aida, Tony, Anna, and Priscilla. The loss of her warmth and light leaves a great void in the hearts of those who knew her. Her legacy of love, laughter, and kindness will continue through all the lives she has touched.

\section*{Methods} To estimate the surface contribution of TI to the transport coefficients $L_n$ we assume the bands to be Dirac-like with a subgap $\Delta$ and use Boltzmann equation in the relaxation time approximation, \begin{equation} L_{s,n} = - 2 \sum_{i}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \tau \left(\frac{\partial E_i}{\partial \hbar k}\right)^2 f'(E_i) (E_i-\mu)^{n} \frac{d^2 k}{4\pi^2}. \label{Lsurf} \end{equation} Here the sum is over the upper and lower bands, $i=\pm 1$, and $f' (E)=\partial f/\partial E$ with $f=1/(e^{(E-\mu)/(k_BT)}+1)$ being the Fermi distribution function. Then taking relaxation time $\tau$ to be independent of energy, we find \begin{equation} L_{s,n} = \frac{\tau (k_B T)^{1+n} }{2h^2} \!\int^{\infty}_{{\bar \Delta}}\!\!\! dx \frac{x^{2}-{\bar \Delta}^2}{x} \left[ \frac{(x-{\bar \mu})^n}{\cosh^2 \frac{x-{\bar \mu}}{2}} +\frac{(-x-{\bar \mu})^n}{\cosh^2 \frac{x+{\bar \mu}}{2}}\right], \label{Ls} \end{equation} where $h$ is Planck constant, ${\bar \Delta}=\Delta/(k_BT)$, and ${\bar \mu}=\mu/(k_BT)$. To estimate the bulk contribution to $L_n$ we assume the bands to be parabolic and find in the relaxation time approximation for the conduction band, \begin{equation} L_{b,n} = - \tau \int_{\Delta_0}^{\infty} D(E) \left(\frac{\partial E}{\partial \hbar k}\right)^2 f'(E) (E-\mu)^{n}dE, \label{Lbulk} \end{equation} where $D(E)$ is the density of states. When the chemical potential is far below the bottom of the conduction band, $(\Delta_0-\mu)/(k_B T)\gg 1$, the contribution from the bulk to the transport coefficients is exponentially suppressed, $L_{b,n}\propto e^{-(\Delta_0 -\mu)/(k_B T)}$, and can be safely neglected \cite{footnote4}. The same applies for the valence band contribution when the chemical potential is far away from the band edge. Then the thermoelectric transport is dominated by the surface states and the only sensible contribution from the bulk is to the phonon thermal conductivity $\kappa_{ph}$, so that the figure of merit takes the form \begin{equation} ZT= \frac{L_{s,1}^2}{L_{s,0}(L_{s,2}+{\cal D}\kappa_{ph}T) -L_{s,1}^2}. \label{ZT_withKappa} \end{equation} This expression was used to obtain the results shown in Figs.~\ref{fig:ZT_with_kappa} and~\ref{fig:mu_maxZT}. \section*{Acknowledgments} We thank M. Bakker, J. Heremans, C. Jaworski, J.~E. Moore, O. Mryasov, and D. Pesin for insightful discussions. This work was supported by NSF under Grant No. DMR-0547875, Grant No. 0757992, NSF-MRSEC DMR-0820414, ONR-N000141110780, SWAN, and by the Welch Foundation (A-1678).

"... it betrays the future and betrays the aspirations of our children." Pelosi railed against Republican lawmakers in her speech, decrying the bill as a morally obscene "scam" designed to "install a permanent plutocracy." "This GOP tax scam is simply theft, monumental, brazen theft from the American middle class and from every person who aspires to reach it," Pelosi said. "The GOP tax scam is not a vote for an investment in growth or jobs. It is a vote to install a permanent plutocracy in our nation. They'll be cheering that later. It does violence to the vision of our Founders. It disrespects the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, who are a large part of our middle class and to whom we owe a future worthy of their sacrifice. And it betrays the future and betrays the aspirations of our children. It demands, it morally demands a no vote from every member of this house of the people." Earlier in her remarks, the pro-abortion Democrat pulled out the tried-and-true "think of the children" tactic and managed to connect it to Christmas. "In this season, we celebrate the miraculous blessings of God," Pelosi began. "We reflect on the wondrous joy of children and our responsibility to them. We remember our duty to live justly. And for those of us blessed to serve in this Congress, we must remember our special responsibility to govern fairly, to meet the needs of all of God's children."

Uğurludağ ist eine Stadt und ein Landkreis der türkischen Provinz Çorum. Die Stadt liegt etwa 45 Kilometer westlich der Provinzhauptstadt Çorum am Westhang des Bergzugs Köse Dağı an einem Nebenfluss des etwa zehn Kilometer nördlich fließenden Kızılırmak. Sie beherbergt die knappe Hälfte der Landkreisbevölkerung (2020: 46,2 %). Der Landkreis liegt im Zentrum der Provinz. Er grenzt im Osten an den zentralen Landkreis, im Süden und Westen an den Kreis Sungurlu sowie im Norden an die Kreise Bayat und İskilip. Als Binnenkreis hat er keine gemeinsamen Grenzen mit anderen Provinzen. Der Kreis wurde 1987 gebildet und vom Südteil des Kreises İskilip abgespalten. Der gesamte ehemalige Bucak Uğurludağ mit 17 Dörfern (Köy) und der verwaltenden Gemeinde (Bucak Merkezi) Uğurludağ bildete den neuen Kreis. Der Bucak hatte bei der letzten Volkszählung vor der Gebietsänderung (1985) eine Bevölkerung von 14.110 Einwohnern, wobei 6061 auf die Gemeinde Uğurludağ fielen. Heute (2020) besteht er neben der Kreisstadt aus 20 Dörfern mit durchschnittlich 166 Bewohnern. Eskiçeltek ist dabei das größte Dorf mit 451 Einwohnern. Die Bevölkerungsdichte liegt mit 14 Einwohnern je Quadratkilometer unter dem Provinzdurchschnitt (43 Einwohner je km²). Einzelnachweise

The Shapeshifters among us Why brand adaptation is imperative today We recently launched The Most Connected Brands Index to help businesses and brands understand how they are connecting with consumers and provide them with ways to improve. Prachi Tiwari, Engagement Director at Landor, helped contribute to the report: Today's world isn't one of absolutes. Change is the order of the day — a reality that's not about to disappear. These changes are about behaviours, likes and dislikes, and even values. Similarly, brands used to be absolutes — wholesome but stubborn, resistant to the slightest shifts and averse to adaptation. But today, working with change, rather than resisting it, is more important for brands than ever before. Whether the company is a startup or an established player, flexible evolution helps brands expand and ready themselves for the future. Successfully pivoting a brand — whether executing a 180-degree turn or a slight change in strategy — is all about keeping your eye on what consumers really want, even if it's different from what the brand originally provided. Here are three lesser-known brands not yet in the index that have successfully flexed and reenergised their brands through agile, adaptive strategies. In 2008, 40-year-old Joe Kudla started Vuori, yogawear for men. While niche retailers stocked his brand, Kudla quickly faced serious cash burn at a rate even faster than his revenue growth. Researching his buyers, he realised that customers weren't using Vuori for just yoga. In fact, yoga was just a supplement to most men's overall fitness regimens. According to Kudla, this was the brand's "pivot or die" moment. "While female consumers might want to identify as yogis, men really don't," Kudla explained. So, the brand reconfigured its strategy, positioning and retail plan to be more relevant to its target audience. By revamping the brand's messaging to focus on a variety of fitness activities undertaken by men, Vuori moved from being a yoga brand to a lifestyle brand for men, allowing its audience to choose how they used the clothing and where they wore it. From 2015 onward, without changing a single product, the brand became all about activewear designed with a West Coast lifestyle in mind. Pained by the unchanging experience of standard banks, Moven was conceived as a digital solution to help consumers shop, buy, live and manage their money better. The brand was targeted at today's new breed of digital natives and finding relevancy when most banks were struggling to manage the curveballs of a mobile-first user experience. From making personal payments by email, text or Facebook to making in-store payments through the National Finance Center (NFC), Moven sought to establish a new paradigm for consumers and banks. However, its product required a sizeable behavioural shift for consumers — a shift the banking landscape wasn't quite ready for. It has now evolved into co-branding relationships with large banks across geographies, helping it bring established financial institutions into the digital age. It found a way to speak to millions of consumers who were wary of depositing their paychecks directly into a neobank, but actually liked the money management solutions Moven offered. Building on its strengths of simplicity and understanding users' pain points, Moven adapted to find new growth and relevance with consumers. In its heyday, Western Union sent out more than 200 million telegrams per year. The growth of cheap long-distance phone services and the advent of the internet slowed down its business. In 2006, Western Union shut down its telegram business for good, but revived its wire transfer business (which began in 1871), taking its first steps in the world of online money transfer. It diversified into offering consumer-to-consumer money transfers, business solutions, bill payment services, and stored value options such as prepaid cards. It recently launched a money transfer bot for Facebook Messenger users in the United States to send money to more than 200 countries across 130 currencies. With more than 550,000 agent locations in 200 countries, Western Union is now the world's largest money transfer service. Although telegrams are no longer part of it, the company survived disruptive new innovations, by harnessing its power to transform its business model and navigate today's fast-paced economy. A checklist for building adaptive brands A few common themes emerge from these examples, showing how brands can endure by staying relevant and competitive. Understand the customer's desires By relentlessly pursuing information about customers' mindsets and expectations, brands can keep track of where they are meeting relevant needs and where they aren't. Gut feel won't simply be enough. Go after the right metrics Tracking the right set of brand, business and competitive metrics is critical to help brands stay ahead of the field. In-depth analysis allows companies to see how, when and where their business can pivot. Keep a flexible outlook Sometimes evolving a brand means letting go of long-held offers or moving away from the current core customer. Businesses need to be unafraid and ready to change Make smart, strong choices Deciding the future course for a brand requires an objective mindset, bravery and certainty of focus to make the optimum choice. Brands must know their mission and stick to it. Building flexibility and adaptability into a brand's strategy is the key to ensuring survival — not just today but tomorrow. By building flexibility into the fibre of their brands, companies can ensure that they endure and thrive for years to come. 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Coast Guard interdicts 11 migrants near Boca Raton U.S. Coast Guard 7th District Southeast Contact: 7th District Public Affairs 7th District online newsroom Coast Guard interdicts 11 migrants, 3 suspected smugglers near Boca Raton Editor's Note: Click on images to download high-resolution version. MIAMI — The Coast Guard interdicted 11 migrants and three suspected smugglers Saturday approximately 9 miles east of Boca Raton. During a routine patrol, a Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew located a 22-foot cabin cruiser that matched the description of a target of interest with 14 people aboard at approximately 8 p.m. Friday east of Boca Raton. Coast Guard Sector Miami watchstanders launched a Coast Guard Station Lake Worth Inlet 33-foot Special Purpose Craft—Law Enforcement boatcrew to interdict the vessel, who then transferred the migrants to the Coast Guard Cutter Moray (WPB-87331). The cutter Moray crew embarked the 11 migrants and three suspected smugglers aboard and transferred them to the cutter Richard Etheridge (WPC-1102) crew who transported them ashore to U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody. A CBP boatcrew towed the migrant vessel to Station Lake Worth Inlet for further investigation by the West Palm Beach Maritime Border Enforcement Security Taskforce. "Migrants should not attempt to smuggle themselves into the country," said Capt. Jason Ryan, Coast Guard 7th District chief of enforcement. "They not only risk going to jail but also endanger their lives by entrusting smugglers to bring them across the water with little or no lifesaving equipment onboard." The West Palm Beach Maritime Border Enforcement Security Taskforce is comprised of federal, state and local agencies whose members include, the U.S. Coast Guard, CBP Air and Marine Operations, U.S. Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations and Palm Beach Sheriff's Office. The cutter Richard Etheridge is a 154-foot fast response cutter homeported in Miami Beach. The cutter Moray is an 87-foot patrol boat homeported in Cape Canaveral. For more breaking news follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

From an initial investment banking & high-end residential consultancy company, recent years` market development and the adjacent opportunities brought a transformational period for Crosspoint to be a full-service commercial real estate advisory firm. With a strong financial background, we provide dedicated account teams to drive value via strategic sourcing, reduced operating expenses, reduced capital costs and portfolio optimization actions for our clients. Our final goal is to bring added value to the business of our client, and this is what keeps us different in a tough Romanian real estate market. In 2013, at the International Property Awards gala, in London, Crosspoint was awarded two important distinctions: "Highly Commended Real Estate Agency Award" and the "Highly Commended Property Consultancy Award". Through our international exposure and background, we are able to provide our clients with sophisticated financial advisory through the entire process of representation. The International Property Awards is a competition that targets companies all over the world and rewards the best achievements in Real Estate. Crosspoint represents clients and closes deals in all regions of the world, as well as assists international clients in purchasing or renting residential, retail, offices or land plots in Romania.

S Carinae (S Car / HD 88366 / HR 3999 / HIP 49751) es una estrella variable en la constelación de Carina, la quilla del Argo Navis. Visualmente cerca de la variable PP Carinae (p Car), su magnitud aparente media es +6,93. Se encuentra a 470 pársecs (1530 años luz) del sistema solar. No debe confundirse con la estrella s Carinae (HD 90853). S Carinae es una gigante roja de tipo espectral M2.5IIIe —también clasificada como K5e-M6e— con una temperatura superficial de 3490 K. Con un radio 120 veces mayor que el radio solar, tiene una luminosidad 1430 veces mayor que la del Sol. Es una variable Mira cuyo brillo varía entre magnitud +4,5 y +9,9 en un ciclo de 149,49 días, uno de los más cortos entre este tipo de variables. Estas variables, cuyo máximo representante es Mira (ο Ceti), son estrellas en los últimos estadios de su evolución cuya inestabilidad proviene de pulsaciones en su superficie que provocan cambios en su color y brillo. En unos pocos millones de años S Carinae expulsará definitivamente sus capas exteriores para formar una nebulosa planetaria con una enana blanca en su centro. Véase también Lista de estrellas variables Referencias Gigantes rojas Estrellas variables Variables Mira Constelación de Carina

South Wales using a combination of video and GPS to measure the performance of passenger vehicles and an associated driver characteristic. The GPS recorded real position at regular time intervals which was used to calculate acceleration or deceleration rates of passenger vehicles. The results were used to determine a driver characteristic which indicated how much of the acceleration and deceleration vehicle performance the average driver was willing to use. An acceleration model and a deceleration model were developed based on vehicle dynamics. The models output distance and time required to reach target speeds. The parameters for each model to reproduce the guidelines used in the Austroads Guide to Road Design were derived. Preliminary results indicated that most drivers tend to use all of the acceleration or deceleration lane length currently provided, rather than to utilise the increased vehicle performance available to them. An important feature of the models is that they allow for the use of actual vertical geometry instead of average grades used in former models. © ARRB Group Ltd and Authors 2012. The Author allows the conference host, ARRB Group Ltd, to publish the works submitted for the 25th ARRB Conference, hereby granting ARRB the non-exclusive right to publish the work in printed, electronic or online formats.

Creating a Knowledge Translation Platform: nine lessons from the Zambia Forum for Health Research Health Res Policy Syst. 2012 Oct 3;10:31. doi: 10.1186/1478-4505-10-31. Joseph M Kasonde 1 , Sandy Campbell 1 Ministry of Health Government of the Republic of Zambia, Ndeke House, Lusaka, Zambia. DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-10-31 The concept of the Knowledge Translation Platform (KTP) provides cohesion and leadership for national-level knowledge translation efforts. In this review, we discuss nine key lessons documenting the experience of the Zambia Forum for Health Research, primarily to inform and exchange experience with the growing community of African KTPs. Lessons from ZAMFOHR's organizational development include the necessity of selecting a multi-stakeholder and -sectoral Board of Directors; performing comprehensive situation analyses to understand not only the prevailing research-and-policy dynamics but a precise operational niche; and selecting a leader that bridges the worlds of research and policy. Programmatic lessons include focusing on building the capacity of both policy-makers and researchers; building a database of local evidence and national-level actors involved in research and policy; and catalyzing work in particular issue areas by identifying leaders from the research community, creating policy-maker demand for research evidence, and fostering the next generation by mentoring both up-and-coming researchers and policy-makers. Ultimately, ZAMFOHR's experience shows that an African KTP must pay significant attention to its organizational details. A KTP must also invest in the skill base of the wider community and, more importantly, of its own staff. Given the very real deficit of research-support skills in most low-income countries - in synthesis, in communications, in brokering, in training - a KTP must spend significant time and resources in building these types of in-house expertise. And lastly, the role of networking cannot be underestimated. As a fully-networked KTP, ZAMFOHR has benefited from the innovations of other KTPs, from funding opportunities and partnerships, and from invaluable technical support from both African and northern colleagues. Capacity Building* Health* Leadership* Policy* Research / organization & administration* Translational Research, Biomedical / organization & administration*

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текстуры для photoshop In Celebrating the human rights day, the National Association of people living with HIV and AIDS would like to congratulate the gains made by our government in HIV and AIDS response in particular the availability and access to treatment in South Africa. NAPWA is gladly welcomes the call by our government to double the number of people taking ARV treatment by 2016, as currently the country has 6, 4 million people living with HIV and 2,4 million people who are on ARV's. This is a clear commitment that the country is moving in a good direction to implement the global vision for "Zero new Infections, Zero Deaths and Zero Discrimination". NAPWA believes that HIV and AIDS is an extremely unique epidemic that needs a comprehensive approach. As we celebrate the Human Rights Day, NAPWA would like to thank the contribution made by entire fallen activist who died because of HIV and AIDS related illnesses in the struggle to combat HIV and AIDS. Today we are taking one pill a day, PLHIV they live longer because of your contributions, we salute you. As we celebrate the Human Rights Day, NAPWA do acknowledge that there is still lot that the country needs to do especially to address Stigma and Hate Crime. This month NAPWA is going to dedicate it by convening Community Dialogues nationally to address issues of Stigma and Hate Crime. PLHIV are still facing Stigma and Discrimination in our society. We therefore call for action, respect the rights of PLHIV as human beings and treat them equally as you do to other people who have other chronic illnesses. In the workplace PLHIV living with HIV are still facing Stigma and dismissal because of their HIV status.2 In Conclusion, this year as we celebrate the 20thAnniversary of our existence, NAPWA and other PLHIV organizations are going to embark on a National PLHIV Stigma Index research to measure the levels of Stigma and Discrimination in our country. This will help the country to develop the Stigma mitigation program. For more information please contact the NAPWA Secretary General, Mr. Mluleki Zazini – 072 126 6666

Attack of the Fangirls' Profiles 2003: When Fangirls Attack It was March of 2003. A high school anime club had just started watching Hellsing. In one corner of the room, clinging to a sketchbook, a fan-for-life was born. The first fangirl storyline came together in that initial rush of infatuation. A character about whom I had thought nothing more impressed than "wow, he's mad" during the opening credits was my adored favorite by the third episode. I had to do something. Luckily, I had recently discovered webcomics, and by extension the free-and-easy ComicGenesis (then Keenspace). One signup later, and not only was the world going to see the first story arc, but the next few I had thought up while drawing it. And the next few after that...and the few after that...with no signs that the inspiration would slow up any time soon. The Fans The Integra fangirl was pretty much an authorial self-insert from the beginning, though it wasn't like any of them got individual personalities in-strip. Not yet. Future answer to a winning Jeopardy question: The Walter fanboy was inspired by my friend Matt (introduced to the series through the same anime club), while the Alucard fangirl took influence from another friend, Maddie (introduced to the series by how I suddenly couldn't shut up about it). Still, at this point I made up the designs myself, and the rants of fannish obsession came straight from the heart. Favoritism notwithstanding, I had enough love for all the characters to go around. That love was the fans' downfall. It gave them the determination to cling to their favorite characters through almost anything, but it allowed them to be overloaded: so delighted that they passed out from the squee, at which point they could be tossed back through the portal from whence they came. Of course, they were bound to try again eventually.... Fangirl Home 2004: Return of the Fangirls 2005: Fangirls Are Hell 2006: Fangirls Are All The Same 2008: Getting Sick of Fangirls 2009: Gentlemen, I Fanboy War 2010: Fangirls of the Greatest Generation Erin Ptah 2003-2011

Home > Resources > News > Climate change: 7 young climate activists from around the world Climate change: 7 young climate activists from around the world Greta Thunberg is often the first name that comes up when people talk about the youth environment movement, but there are young activists all over the world. From India to Kenya to USA young people have been demanding greater action on things like climate change, plastic pollution and deforestation. On 20 September kids all over the world will be taking part in the Global Climate Strike, and you can keep up with everything that's going on in our live page here. Then on 21 September young leaders and activists from around the world including Greta Thunberg gather at the UN's Youth Climate Summit in New York. Here are some of the people who are taking part in the movement to inspire change around the world. Lesein Mutunkei (Kenya) Lesein combined his love for the outdoors and football after hearing about deforestation, climate change and plastic pollution. The 15 year old plants a tree for every goal he scores. He encouraged his school and his football club to adopt an environmentally conscious attitude so that as they improve their football they also improve the environment. Alexandria Villasenor (USA) 14-year-old Alexandria Villaseñor strikes outside the UN headquarters in New York every Friday. The teenager, who is a Fridays For Future organiser, said: "I'm too young to vote. When I strike, I feel like I am taking back some agency in my future." Aditya Mukarji (India) Aditya, who is 15, started campaigning to get people to stop using plastic straws at the beginning of 2018. At the age of 13 he went round cafes and restaurants persuading them to swop plastic straws for eco-friendly alternatives. The teenager now promotes alternatives to plastic, campaigns against trees being cut down and supports the climate strikes. Ella and Caitlin McEwan (UK) Ella and Caitlin McEwan from Southampton are two sisters who made a petition asking fast food restaurants to stop putting plastic toys in kids' meals. Ella and Caitlin gathered more than 400,000 signatures. Since then McDonalds said its customers would be able to choose between a toy and a fruit and Burger King said it will remove the plastic toys altogether. Leah Namugerwa (Uganda) Leah Namugerwa is a 14-year-old climate activist and student striker with Fridays for Future in Uganda. She has been striking every Friday for greater action on climate change and plastic pollution since February 2019. Her country, like many others in Africa, is at risk of desertification - that means fertile farming land turning dry and barren. Experts say it's caused by droughts and raised temperatures - two factors linked to climate change. "I wanted to make a positive change in my country and pressure my government into taking action," she told the BBC. Lilly Platt (Netherlands) Lilly Platt was born in Britain but lives in the Netherlands where at just 11 years old she has been striking every Friday for climate change. Accompanied by her mum, she strikes on Fridays for an hour with permission from her school. She is a child ambassador for the Plastic Pollution Coalition and HOW Global, a water charity. And she has her own litter-picking campaign, Lilly's Plastic Pick Up. Started in 2015, when Platt was seven. Holly Gillibrand (UK) Holly Gillibrand leaves school for an hour every Friday to demand action on climate change. Holly lives in Fort William which has a population of just 10,000 people. Around 40 people join her to protest every Friday, "I want to get Scottish leaders to take climate change seriously and [know] that they're destroying my future," she told the BBC. Source: BBC Newsround Ashington, Northumberland - £325 to £425 Per Week Basildon, Essex - £20,900 to £38,810 Nursery practitioner and Senior Lead practitioner Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire - £22,500 to £25,500 Year 1 Teacher - Leeds Leeds, Yorkshire - £100 to £160 Per Day

The biggest problem of the day, ever. Nothing would ever be worse than this. That would be a nice world to live in. I know! If that were my area, the emergency vehicle would have been struck by an idiot driver. Or it would back up traffic for 20miles. i want to live in a world where we designed the sewer gratings properly so they don't trap small animals. I want to live in a world where everyone cares this much and all these kids of problems can be solved.

By Treasure Samuel What is Terra (LUNA)? Learn All About Terra Without the Hype Launched in 2019, LUNA is a native cryptocurrency of the Terra network, a blockchain project that was developed by South Korean firm Terraform Labs. The tech firm is co-founded by blockchain developers Do Kwon and Daniel Shin. Have you recently heard of LUNA and wanted to find out more about the cryptocurrency? Or perhaps you would like to add to the knowledge you have gained on it? This Terra guide is just the article you need. You will learn, in simple terms, every detail about LUNA and its relationship with the Terra ecosystem. We will cover the following in this Terra (LUNA) guide: What is LUNA? What is TerraUSD (UST) and how does it work? What are the other Terra stablecoins? What is Terra Station? Top Terra LUNA Projects Frequently Asked Questions About Terra, Including Is UST a Ponzi? Terra (LUNA) is a native asset of the Terra network. LUNA holders can use the coin to pay transaction fees and can also participate in Terra's governance system which involves suggesting and/or voting for proposed changes that can be made to the ecosystem. They can also choose to stake their coins to earn rewards. (Read on, you'll find out more about how staking LUNA works in the course of the article). Similar to some cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, LUNA coins have a limited supply. LUNA has a maximum supply of one billion coins. Once this number is exceeded, the Terra blockchain will automatically burn the excess coins until its supply returns to a fixed level. LUNA coins can exist in three different states: Bonded: LUNA coins in this category cannot be traded freely. This is because they are staked or delegated to a stake pool, locked up to earn rewards. Unbonded: Coins in this state can be traded freely and are not committed to a stake pool. Unbonding: These are LUNA coins that have been withdrawn from staking or delegating. It will take 21 days to complete its withdrawal. The withdrawal cannot be canceled during the waiting period. At the time of writing this guide that explains Terra, LUNA is the 7th-largest cryptocurrency in the world, with a market capitalization of over $38 billion. The significant rise in value that LUNA started the year with has led Do Kwon, Terra's co-founder, to believe that the coin would remain on that path by this time next year. He expressed this conviction in a recent bet made with crypto proponent Sensei Algod about LUNA trading above $88 by March 14, 2023. Now that we fully understand what LUNA is, let us discuss another token that is built on Terra, the TerraUSD or UST. According to Terra's white paper, the protocol was designed to become a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, one that aids online payments between one party and the other without going through a financial institution. To make this possible, Terra deploys a suite of algorithmic decentralized stablecoins, specific types of cryptocurrencies whose value is usually attached to commodities or state-issued fiat currencies. TerraUSD or UST is one such stablecoin. Among other stablecoins deployed on the Terra protocol, UST is the most used. Launched in September 2020, the popular scalable coin is value-pegged to the US dollar and tracks its price. Using Dropship, a platform that helps developers enable their products on various blockchains, UST was made available on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains. It promises users a high level of scalability, interest rate accuracy, and cross-chain usage. The token also aims to solve severe scalability problems faced by other stablecoins. Some platforms that mint fungible synthetic (tokenized) assets and track real-life asset prices use UST as a pricing benchmark. How Does UST Work? TerraUSD (UST) is an algorithmic stablecoin. UST tries to maintain a value of $1 through the use of LUNA. LUNA is responsible for the stability of UST and all other stablecoins that are housed by the Terra protocol. Unlike collateralized stablecoins such as BUSD and Dai amongst others, UST is not backed up by a reserve of US dollars in a bank account but by the remaining supply of LUNA coins. To create new UST tokens and keep their price anchored to $1, a percentage of LUNA tokens at a time must be burned (permanently removed from circulation.) From this, we can deduce that LUNA and UST share a mutual relationship. Let's make it simple. If, for example, you want to mint UST, LUNA coin(s) worth the amount of TerraUSD(s) you wish to create must automatically be burned. Burning a percentage of LUNA reduces the number of coins left in circulation. With LUNA having a limited supply of one billion coins, burning makes them more scarce and, therefore, more valuable. However, minting more UST tokens has the effect of diluting the existing tokens in circulation and helps in stabilizing its price to a $1 level, a price it always strives to remain at. In simple terms, minting new UST tokens means burning LUNA coins. Both parties benefit as they each get what they want when the mint-burn process takes place – UST gets to maintain its $1 mark, LUNA becomes more valuable. In the Terra ecosystem, one LUNA can be swapped for one UST, and vice versa, at a guaranteed price of $1. This can still happen irrespective of the market price of either asset at the time. This means that if UST's price surpasses or falls below $1, the swapping process can still take place. Worth noting though is that Algorithmic stablecoins like UST are entirely new projects in the crypto industry. Never before has any method of attaching cryptocurrency to fiat currencies existed. UST has only been here for a short period and as a result, has not witnessed major market shocks or stress. As such, it will be hard to predict how well it will do in the coming years. The token is currently the 14th largest cryptocurrency in the world, surpassing $16 billion in market capitalization. Although UST is the most used stablecoin in the Terra ecosystem, there are several other stablecoins housed by Terra which are attached to various fiat currencies. Other stablecoins on the Terra network are: TerraCNY is pegged to the Chinese yuan. TerraEUR is pegged to the euro. TerraGBP is pegged to the British pound. TerraJPY is pegged to the Japanese yen. TerraKWR is pegged to the South Korean won. TerraSDR is pegged to the International Monetary Fund. Terra Station is a non-custodial, hot wallet that allows one to store and manage digital funds. The proprietary wallet supports LUNA as well as all other Terra stablecoins. Users can also use Terra Station to interact with several Terra-based decentralized applications (dApps) built on the platform to swap tokens as well as stake LUNA to validators. Available as a decentralized application for mobile devices and as a browser extension, customers and partners of Terraform Labs reach the Terra blockchain network directly through Terra Station. On the wallet dashboard, a range of on-chain data, including transaction volume, staking returns, and the number of active accounts is displayed. It also contains a staking tokens section as well as a governance portal that allows users to create new proposals and take them to the voting stage by depositing 512 LUNA coins. Top Terra Ecosystem Projects According to data from DeFilLama, the Terra Ecosystem has over $29 billion in total value of locked assets. Below are three of some of the leading applications built on the Terra network. Anchor Protocol Anchor protocol is a decentralized savings, lending, and borrowing platform. UST holders on the platform deposit their stablecoins, and in exchange for doing so receive a 20 percent annual percentage yield (APY). The platform then gathers the deposited stablecoins together and lends them out to borrowers. Worth noting is that the interest rate to be paid by borrowers to depositors is calculated using an automated interest rate algorithm based on the demand for loans and the availability of deposited assets. To secure the loan, borrowers need to deposit their bonded assets (bAssets) on the platform as collateral. bAssets are transferrable tokens that represent the ownership of a staked asset in the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism. The rewards from the staked assets will serve as profits for depositors in the network. However, if, as time goes on, the loan-to-value ratio reduces below a specified percentage, Anchor will start selling the assets to repay the loan to the depositors. The depositors, therefore, have no cause to fear losing their assets. Let us simplify everything we have just said. Users of Anchor can either borrow loans or deposit savings. Depositors gain a 20% APY. This yield is earned from the interest payments of the borrower which are the rewards of the collateral of the loan that was staked. For now, Anchor Protocol accepts deposits and provides loans in only one stablecoin, TerraUSD (UST). It also accepts only two bonded assets (bAssets) as collateral for UST loans, bonded LUNA (bLuna) or bonded ETH (bETH). Additionally, the Anchor protocol has a native crypto token called ANC. users are rewarded with ANC for deposits and borrowings. Mirror protocol is a decentralized finance (DeFi) application that allows users to create and trade assets that mimic or reflect the value of other real-world assets, hence the name. These assets, called synthetics or mAssets, provide investors with exposure to the price of the real-world assets that they represent, without requiring them to own those assets. As a result, if you, for instance, cannot trade certain assets due to lack of funds or any other reason, through synthetics that underlie those particular assets, you stand to benefit from their price movements. Put simply, mAssets work like derivatives that let you track the value of and benefit from a real-world asset without you buying it. These real-world underlying assets could be but are not limited to major stocks and bonds traded on U.S. exchanges. mAssets can be traded for similar assets or stablecoins on automated market makers (AMMs) such as Uniswap or Terraswap. Although the Mirror Protocol is built on the Terra network, its assets can also be found on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) via bridges. Launched in December 2020, the Mirror protocol is governed by the holders of its native token called Mirror Token (MIR), as only holders of the coin can vote on changes to the platform. To mint mAssets on the Mirror protocol, you must first deposit collateral to the protocol which would be more than 150% of the current value of the real-world asset at the time. If the value of a real-world asset rises and exceeds the value of the collateral you deposited, your collateral will be liquidated to ensure that it still meets up to the wanted value. The collateral can also be in the form of another mAsset or any stable coin issued on the Terra network such as UST. Interestingly, you can choose to redeem your collateral. But that can only happen by burning the mAssets issued to you in exchange for your collateral. Like other cryptocurrencies, mAssets can be traded at any time of the day. That is however not the case with minting. Minting of mAssets can only happen during real-world market hours. Launched in June 2019, Chai is a consumer mobile payments app powered by the Terra blockchain. The platform allows users and traders to make and/or receive payments using Terra stablecoins such as TerraKWR. The payment app, which is restricted only to South Korean provinces, cuts out the process of going through middlemen before making payments for services. Chai claims to offer a seamless payment experience, similar to several mainstream payment apps and credit card companies. Unlike these apps and large companies, however, Chai charges its users relatively low transaction fees. This is because it works hand-in-hand with Terra. On the surface, (user interface), Chai looks like a regular traditional payment app. Behind the scenes, however, the Terra protocol utilizes stablecoins minted on the blockchain, something traditional payment apps cannot do, to reduce transaction fees for payments made through Chai. Also, Terra processes transactions on Chai quickly as the merchant or vendor receiving payment is usually instantly settled, hence offering a better user experience in the Chai app. Due to the regular payment app UI that Chai has, some of its users are essentially unaware that they are using Terra's blockchain to pay vendors in TerraKRW. Chai also has a debit card called Chai card. The card allows users to accumulate points and can redeem them for outsized rewards with specific merchants. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Terra LUNA Is UST a Ponzi? Some people have expressed negative reviews about TerraUSD, feeling that the coin is a carefully structured rug pull. For example, earlier this year, the co-founder of MakerDAO, Rune Christensen, on Twitter termed TerraUSD a "ponzi-scheme," stating that the coin will turn into nothing as market conditions change. Some individuals, however, do not share the same views as Christensen, believing that TerraUSD has come to stay. Fears about Terra being a Ponzi scheme stem from the project's algorithmic approach to backing the UST stablecoin. Critics claim that a black swan event such as increased selling pressure for UST could result in many investors dumping the stablecoin. They claim that such a scenario can easily result if Terra lowers the 20% interest rate on the stablecoin or suffers a large scale hack that might lose to the loss of public confidence in Terra. While these fears are justifiable, Terra has moved to strengthen UST's reserves by purchasing billions of dollars worth of bitcoin. This singular approach, as well as other strategies being devised by TerraForm to control the UST peg, might see it outlive the Ponzi claims. Is Terra a ponzi? Investors are advised to reach their own conclusion based on the presented information. Why is Terra buying Bitcoin? Earlier this month, Kwon announced on Twitter that Terra was planning to acquire over $10 billion bitcoin as a reserve asset to back its main stablecoin, UST. However, as of March 31, the project has only managed to accumulate 30,700 BTC worth $1.4 billion at current prices. In another tweet, he said: "If there is any confusion left at this point, we will keep growing reserves until it becomes mathematically impossible for idiots to claim de-peg risk for $UST. $UST is mighty." UST, like every other algorithmic stablecoin, was not originally designed with collateral. As mentioned earlier, collateral is Terra's governance token that can either be minted or burned to stabilize the UST price. As a result, there have been doubts as to whether there would be enough collateral to back up the value of the coin. This is one of the reasons why Terra is buying bitcoin, to use it as a reserve asset for UST. Notably, the use of bitcoin as a reserve asset for UST does not make the stablecoin directly backed by BTC, since it is still pegged to the US dollar. The bitcoins will only establish an indirect peg for UST. By leveraging Bitcoin because it is a more trusted currency, Terra intends to increase the demand for UST as a deep drop in its demand could risk the stablecoin's ability to maintain its peg. What are the risks of staking LUNA? One of the risks associated with staking Luna is that the present annual yield of more than 6% earned from staking could change for the worse in the future. The percentage of the yields you receive tends to reduce as time goes on. Again, if you stake your LUNA coins and wish to withdraw them, you will have to wait 21 days before you can receive them. During this waiting period, the assets cannot be traded and you will no longer receive any staking rewards. A notable risk for anyone who stakes LUNA is slashing. If, for instance, a validator makes a mistake during the consensus process, maybe misses a vote, suffers a network outage, or is offline for long periods, he will be penalized. That could amount to losing part of the staked funds, including that of the delegators. In some cases, the validator could be completely excluded from consensus voting, which means that no rewards can be earned. Find out more about Validators and Delegators below. How does LUNA Staking Rewards work? Holders who want to stake their LUNA have two options: to either become a validator or a delegator. A validator uses their LUNA to verify and propose new blocks of transaction data to the Terra protocol. A delegator decides to support an existing validator's proposals and delegates or stakes their coins to it. There are usually more delegators than validators because of the competition. As such, only the top 130 validators are granted the right to verify and add new blocks to the Terra blockchain. In return for their efforts, validators collect a commission fee from those that delegate coins to their proposals. That is one way they can earn rewards. Validators can raise funds to stake from other Luna holders by delegation. The more delegators a validator has, the bigger the fund, and the higher the chance that they (both the validator and his group of delegators) will successfully propose a block. If they succeed, they both earn rewards gained from the transaction fees of the block. Worth noting is that LUNA holders can delegate their coins to a validator and still be able to earn rewards without needing to comply with validator requirements. Another thing to note is that for you to be able to stake your LUNA coins, you need to create a Terra wallet address using Terra station wallet. Is Terra EVM Compatible? At the time of writing, Terra is not compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). This means that developers cannot easily deploy Ethereum-based decentralized applications on the Terra network. EVM compatibility is a future goal on Terra's roadmap. Is Terra LUNA a good investment? Terra can be a good investment like most cryptocurrencies that have a thriving ecosystem. However, investors must remember that cryptocurrencies, including LUNA, are known for their volatility. Many cryptocurrencies have had their fair share of good days and dips. Like every other crypto coin, investing in LUNA has its risks but it also has its rewards. Whether or not you want to put your funds into LUNA is your personal decision to make. But don't forget to think carefully before making an investment move. 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I am notorious for making New Year's resolutions that never quite get off the ground, but which somehow manage by the grace of God to leave their mark on my body, mind, and soul. What I mean by this is that, while I neglect to carry out a disciplined, biblically-based, Church-sanctioned program of New Year's life renewal, God, in his infinite goodness and perfect timing, allows my resolutions to unfold nonetheless over the course of the year and find their fruition through trial and painful transformation until I become a little more the man I was meant to be. This year, however, God elected to make a preemptive strike in my life by turning a little Christmas overindulgence into a full-blown medical emergency, literally knocking me off my feet and causing me to step back and reevaluate both my life choices and the attitudes that had inspired them. While I thought that my little ordeal would excuse me from my regular writing obligations, I became convicted that God was making me painfully aware of the necessity of letting his divine discipline lead to a thorough and open confession of my greatest needs and his greatest love. My Christmas started off with a wonderful Italian dinner with my wife's family at our home. Following the appetizers, we feasted on antipasto, chicken parmigiana, stuffed shells, and desserts galore. There were quite a few trips to the glass Christmas tree filled with candy as we opened presents and shared good times. After my family left we had some friends over to play games by the fire. I remember thinking – as I always do at this time of year – that this minor bit of intemperance was only for a time, and once the New Year was upon me, I would gradually get back to the business of watching my weight, spending more time with God, and growing as a godly man. While I tried to maintain my composure throughout the entire tribulation, I freely admit that at the time I saw my extreme discomfort as neither light nor momentary, though I was keenly aware that my outer nature was no longer what it used to be. But as I accepted the inevitability of my fate and sank under the influence of the anesthesia, I slowly began to view this divinely-enacted respite from a more eternal perspective, surrendering my control to the One who holds all things in his loving hands. Being knocked on one's backside by a medical emergency is certainly not akin to the persecution that so many Christians suffer for their faith, but it does force us to fix our eyes upon the only One who can see us through our trials to our eternal end. This little temporary ordeal allowed God to refine me in the fires of pain and harsh realities, burning off my casual selfishness and my petty schemes, my self-important pride and my self-pitying attitude. I became keenly aware that life was not to be taken lightly, and that even the simple and silly lies I so often told myself were giving way to a disciplined and persevering faith that would build my character and open the doorway to hope revealed. That first night home, I remember not wanting to take the prescription pain pills the doctors had given me, but was in quite a bit of discomfort and desperately needed sleep. But as I expected, within a half-hour of taking the medication, I could feel its effects on my mood. I drifted off into a very long night of strange visions, intense images, and disheartening dreams. At one point I saw my long-dead mother walking through our old house in her bathrobe, smiling at me. I ran up to her, somehow knowing she had died and wanting to spend time with her. I remember her saying to me, "You need to go out and play; don't stay in here with me!" and I desperately tried to explain to her how life goes by all too quickly and then it is gone. I woke up with tears in my eyes, but understood the message I had received. I came to realize that the "slight momentary" troubles we experience here on earth are meant to remind us of the glory that we experience now by faith and will experience fully when Christ is revealed. Yes, our lives are fleeting. Children all too soon grow up and the shape of our families changes as the years go by. But we are called to go right on playing – to enjoy life, to endure our trials, and to live and laugh and love will all our might as these wonderful realities point us to the greater glory that will be ours in the end. There is a calm that comes after a storm such as this, offering a moment of clarity so profound that time seems to stand still. In my weakness, propped up in my recliner with a cup of tea and my family around me, I gladly yielded to my helplessness and my need for recovery. And when I think about it, that is really what making resolutions is all about. Life throws so much at us, and we who are faithful must push through the days of joy and pain and seek that holy place of recovery where we allow the renewing power of the Savior to pour itself into our lives once more. What a joy it is to know that, through my suffering, the life of Jesus is being displayed in this fallible, fallen man who has been redeemed by grace. It turns my yesterdays into treasures, my tomorrows into hopeful dreams, and my present into an experience of eternal satisfaction and immeasurable joy. I think that is worth a little bit of belly pain, after all. It is overwhelming to think that the One who has overcome the world is working out that same song of salvation in my battered body and the soul that is being transformed from glory to glory, day by precious day. I spent New Year's Eve alone this year. My son and older daughter went to be with some young adult friends and my wife and younger daughter spent time with a few families, laughing and sharing some happy memories. But I wasn't lonely at all. As I sat watching a movie and listening to the rain fall softly outside my window, I thought about the great gifts and eternal blessings I had been given. Their power is what has fueled my unspoken resolutions with true divine resolve and allowed them to unfold over the course of my life. I have a wife who has walked this journey of ups and downs right alongside me and is still there to share the road of trials and triumphs with a glad heart. I am father to three incredible children who still love to spend time with each other being silly and carrying on family traditions that remind us of who we are. I have my health and heart and sense of humor and all those little giftings and idiosyncrasies that make me who I am. Most of all, I have the grace that Jesus has given me that has rescued me from sin and the worst of myself. I have a relationship with the God who is wise enough to guide me, strong enough to move me, and loving enough to drive me to my knees and occasionally my back in order to teach me the wonder of conversion. As you travel the narrow path this new year, may the spiritual surgery that the divine surgeon performs in your life empower you to demonstrate the joy of salvation and the power of transforming love to all you meet. May we surrender our less-than-careful prayers to the One who delights to make all things new as each year rolls around to carry us home!

Yr.: Fr. Weight Class.: 165 Hometown: Concord, Calif. Yr.: Jr. Weight Class.: 165 Hometown: Warwick, N.Y. Yr.: Fr. Weight Class.: 285 Hometown: White Lake, Mich. Yr.: Fr. Weight Class.: 133 Hometown: San Diego, Calif. Yr.: Jr. Weight Class.: 174 Hometown: Tuscon, Ariz. Yr.: So. Weight Class.: 149 Hometown: Seattle, Wash. Yr.: So. Weight Class.: 285 Hometown: Middletown, Md. Yr.: Fr. Weight Class.: 285 Hometown: Fall City, Wash. Yr.: Fr. Weight Class.: 174 Hometown: Fleming Island, Fla. Yr.: So. Weight Class.: 149 Hometown: Tucson, Ariz. Yr.: Fr. Weight Class.: 149 Hometown: Elkridge, Md. Yr.: So. Weight Class.: 141 Hometown: Kensington, Md. Yr.: So. Weight Class.: 157 Hometown: Chatsworth, N.J. Yr.: Sr. Weight Class.: 157 Hometown: Orwigsburg, Pa. Yr.: Fr. Weight Class.: 133 Hometown: Virginia Beach, Va. Yr.: Jr. Weight Class.: 285 Hometown: El Dorado Hills, Calif. Yr.: Sr. Weight Class.: 157 Hometown: Virginia Beach, Va. Yr.: Sr. Weight Class.: 285 Hometown: Centerville, Md. Yr.: Jr. Weight Class.: 197 Hometown: Chapel Hill, N.C. Yr.: So. Weight Class.: 141 Hometown: Jackson, N.J. Yr.: Jr. Weight Class.: 174 Hometown: Reisterstown, Md. Yr.: So. Weight Class.: 165 Hometown: Portland, Conn. Yr.: Jr. Weight Class.: 149 Hometown: East Lyme, Conn. Yr.: So. Weight Class.: 141 Hometown: Ewa Beach, Hi. Yr.: Jr. Weight Class.: 285 Hometown: Lake Alfred, Fla. Yr.: Sr. Weight Class.: 165 Hometown: Marengo, Ill. Yr.: Jr. Weight Class.: 184 Hometown: Brookline, N.H. Yr.: Fr. Weight Class.: 184 Hometown: Delran, N.J. Yr.: So. Weight Class.: 197 Hometown: Savannah, Ga. Yr.: So. Weight Class.: 184 Hometown: Huntingdon, Pa.

This study synthesizes quantitative data from 20 archaeological surveys scattered across 80,000 km2 of highland Mesoamerica, and uses those data to examine macroregional-scale interaction and integration, concluding that this very large area behaved as system with integrated parts (regions). I argue that variations among contemporaneous regions (measured by population density, distribution, depth of settlement hierarchy, etc.) stemmed from the varying roles of cores and peripheries (cores have higher populations, higher population densities, and more urbanization, and peripheries have the opposite). The study area spans the highland region from the greater Basin of Mexico southeast to the greater Oaxaca Valley area. The 20 regional surveys contribute basic data (site size, periodization, civic-ceremonial architecture) on over 14,000 components. The study examined seven periods, roughly equivalent to Early Formative through Early Classic, Epiclassic, and Late Postclassic. Integration is evident in concordant or coordinated changes across the study area in, e.g., overall population (including both growth and contraction), urbanization, internal settlement hierarchy, and fortifications. Contemporaneity among the regions is established through ceramic crossties and trade wares. Times when more regional phases aligned indicate more integration; periods such as the Terminal Formative and Epiclassic have poorer inter-regional alignment, or less integration. This synthesis allows examination of how civilizations grow. Previous syntheses have focused on only core regions and/or not been quantitative. I conclude that Gordon R. Willey was correct that there were periods of greater and less integration and interaction, but that market exchange was the basis for the interaction (Willey argued it was ideology). I conclude that William T. Sanders was correct that regional interactions were important in the highland sociopolitical evolution, but that interaction within the highlands were the most important (Sanders argued that it was highland-lowland interaction). These data reveal several striking patterns, including: Early and Middle Formative populations were highest in the southern Basin of Mexico and Mixteca Alta; community size tended to increase and settlement hierarchy tended to deepen over time, except in the Epiclassic; ratios of mounds/person were highest in the south in the early periods; and, ball court construction was earliest in the southeastern study area. Sorry, the entire dissertation is rather large (9.2 MB in Acrobat PDF format), but I don't have time right now to divide the PDF into chapters. Send me comments, criticisms, whatever wisdom you have. Click here to download 9.2 MB PDF of entire dissertation.

Welcome friends! Glad you could join me for the Virtual Progressive Thanksgiving Dinner blog tour! Nothing compares to a beautiful center piece for the holidays. I realized that if you are cooking a big meal, sometimes the center piece is the last thing you want to worry about. Fortunately, this one you can make a head of time with just a few simple supplies. You could use any combination of fruit in this arrangement. I bought what was on sale. I choose not to use tooth picks to anchor the fruit, because I want to be able to eat it later. The Mason jar rings hold the fruit in place and keep it from rolling about on the tray. I began by planning out where everything would go on my tray. The foam in this photo turned out to be too large, so I switched to the smaller pieces. I nestled the fruit inside the Mason bands, it will get covered up with the greenery in the end. I pushed 3 candles down into the floral foam in the center of the fruit. I trimmed the greenery into 3″ pieces and stuck them into the foam. Then the roses were cut with stems about 2″ long and poked into the foam as well. The object is to cover as much of the foam as possible with the roses and greenery. Don't forget to add the leaves from the rose stems. I put leaves under and next to the fruit as well. The Mason jar bands completely disappeared in the arrangement. The last step is to add water to the tray. The flowers soak up considerable water, check it frequently by touching the floral foam with your finger. If it is dry to the touch, it needs another drink. I do not recommend using Floral Fresh in this arrangement since the fruit is touching the water. You could add a bit of 7UP soda to it and extend the life of the flowers. The arrangement will last about 5 days. Easy to make in advance of the big cooking day. I think you could easily expect to purchase an arrangement such as this and spend $40.00 or more, this one cost me less than $12.00 to make. A few mini-white pumpkins really bring out the color of the roses in the center piece. Be sure and check out these other blogs on the tour!

Clark Insurance moved to a newly constructed building near the Portland Jetport. The building was designed to give the client ultimate flexibility with an eye towards recruitment in a business (insurance) that is having a difficult time attracting millenials. A fitness center, collaborative plaza work area, and open work environment with sit-stand desks, along with numerous meeting spaces, private focus rooms and huddle rooms, were investments Clark made for their current employees and for future workers. In an industry where employees are aging out and retiring at a rapid pace, Clark also created an initiative called Clark Insurance University to train and mentor newer employees entering the industry. This program required a robust training room with state-of-the art AV technology and a flexible meeting space. Messaging, including a "teamwork" wall when employees enter the building, and a "story wall" located near the plaza, reminds employees that the work they do everyday is connected to a larger purpose.

Середи́но-Бу́дський район — колишнє адміністративно-територіальне утворення в Сумській області України. Районний центр: Середина-Буда. Загальні відомості Середино-Будський район розташований у північній частині Сумської області. З півночі та сходу він межує з Брянською областю Росії, на заході — Чернігівською областю України, на півдні — Ямпільським та Шосткинським районами Сумської області. Депутатський корпус рад різних рівнів становить 284 осіб, з них: — районна рада — 36 осіб; — міська рада — 30 осіб; — селищна рада — 16 осіб; — сільські ради — 202 особи.. Географія Територія району розташована в басейні лівобережних приток Десни на південному схилі Середньоруської височини. Річища рік дуже широкі, хоч самі річки в порівнянні з розмірами долин незначні. Заплави рік заболочені, в них багато озер і стариць. В основному в районі переважають дерново-підзолисті, глинисто-піщані, супіщані та суглинисті ґрунти, які потребують внесення органічних і мінеральних добрив. У північно—східній і південно-східній частинах переважають темно-сірі глеюваті ґрунти з високою природною родючістю. Район порівняно небагатий на корисні копалини. В основному це — крейда, глина, торф, які використовуються в дуже малих обсягах і для внутрішніх потреб. Характерною рисою геологічних умов району є неглибоке залягання крейдяних порід і пов'язаних з ними підземних вод. За природно кліматичними умовами територія району належить до Поліської зони. Природний скарб Середино-Будського району — ліси. Загальна площа лісів, лісового фонду становить 35,9 тис. га. Загальна площа озер — 299,2 га ставків — 449,2 га. У межах району розташований Деснянсько-Старогутський національний природний парк. У лісах, на полях та болотах водиться 94 видів тварин і 164 — птахів. У водоймищах живе понад 30 видів риб. На території району росте понад 700 видів рослин, у тому числі лікарських: звіробій, валеріана, безсмертник, душиця, пижмо, чебрець, чистотіл тощо. Історія Середина-Буда стає районним центром у 1923 році, спочатку в складі Новгород-Сіверського, а з 1925 року — Глухівського округу. Із січня 1939 року Середину-Буду переведено до складу новоствореної Сумської області. Центр району — м. Середина-Буда, відповідною постановою Кабінету Міністрів України віднесено до історичних міст України. Перші писемні свідчення про заснування поселення датуються 1638 роком, коли тут були побудовані буда і кузня і розпочалося виробництво поташу та деревинного вугілля. Будний промисел дав назву майбутньому місцю; його поширення приваблювало сюди людей як з України, так і з сусідніх регіонів Московщини. Люди заселяли ці місця ще на початку XVII століття. Це були козаки, селяни-втікачі з Правобережної України і розкольники, які переселилися з Росії в Стародубський полк, щоб позбутися релігійних утисків царського уряду. У цей період з'являються й інші поселення: Ромашкове, Порохонь, Зноб-Новгородське (Зноба), Кривоносівка, Голубівка, Уралове (до 1922 року Олтар) та інші. У кінці ХУІІ століття Середина-Буда стала значним поселенням, яке 1689 року гетьман Іван Мазепа віддав своєму прибічникові А.Гамалію. На початок XVIII століття Середина-Буда перейшла в розряд рангових сіл. Її жителі платили грошові та інші податки. У 1727 році доходи з містечка були визначені на утримання таємного радника Наумова, а у 1764 році на утримання Рум'янцева. Перебуваючи на кордоні з Росією, Середина-Буда у другій половині XVIII століття стала значним торговим центром, з розвиненими промислами, особливо винокурінням. Продукція винокурних підприємств відправлялася Десною і Дніпром у різні місця Придніпров'я, сухопутно до Полтави, Хорола й інших районів Лівобережної України. Сюди приїжджають і російські купці. Зростає кількість мануфактурних, рибних, м'ясних лавок, ведеться широка торгівля тканинами, прядивом, олією, хлібом, рибою тощо. Протягом багатьох років Середина-Буда називалася селом, а після «Жалуваної грамоти містам Російської імперії» (1785 рік) село Середина-Буда стає містечком або ж посадом, а її жителі — деякі з торгових людей — гільдійськими купцями, а власники з посполитих — міщанами. Адміністративний устрій Район адміністративно-територіально поділяється на 1 міську раду, 1 селищна рада та 16 сільські ради, які об'єднують 53 населений пункт та підпорядковані Середино-Будській районній раді. Населення Загальна чисельність наявного населення станом на 01.10.2010 року становила 17 658 осіб, у тому числі: міське — 9294 ос., сільське — 8364 ос. Станом на січень 2015 року кількість мешканців району становила 16 689 осіб, з них міського населення — 9 053 (Середина-Буда та Зноб-Новгородське), сільського — 7 636 осіб. За переписом 2001 року розподіл мешканців району (включно з райцентром) за рідною мовою був наступним: українська — 20,75 % російська — 79,11 % білоруська — 0,04 % вірменська — 0,01 % молдовська — 0,01 % Розподіл населення району у розрізі міст, селищ та сільрад за рідною мовою станом на 2001 рік, %: Пам'ятки У Середино-Будському районі Сумської області на обліку перебуває 75 пам'яток історії. У Середино-Будському районі Сумської області на обліку перебуває 4 пам'ятки архітектури. Політика 25 травня 2014 року відбулися Президентські вибори України. У межах Середино-Будського району було створено 37 виборчих дільниць. Явка на виборах складала — 52,81 % (проголосували 6 917 із 13 097 виборців). Найбільшу кількість голосів отримав Петро Порошенко — 37,31 % (2 581 виборців); Сергій Тігіпко — 16,73 % (1 157 виборців), Петро Симоненко — 10,21 % (706 виборців), Юлія Тимошенко — 10,05 % (695 виборців), Михайло Добкін — 7,32 % (506 виборців). Решта кандидатів набрали меншу кількість голосів. Кількість недійсних або зіпсованих бюлетенів — 2,80 %. Найвідоміші уродженці Ковальов Сергій Адамович (02.03.1930) уродженець м. Середина -Буда, всесвітньо -відомий правозахисник Виходець із с. Мефедівки, герой Вітчизняної війни 1812 року Четвертаков Єрмолай, який командував партизанським загоном селян, зібраним ним після втечі з полону. Кизя Лука Єгорович (21.02.1912 − 29.12.1974) учасник партизанського руху в Україні в роки Другої світової війни, доктор історичних наук, представник УРСР в 00Н (з 1961 року). Народився в с. Жихове Середино-Будського району. Бобров Олександр Олексійович (1850—1904) — хірург, професор медицини, уродженець с. Мефедівки. Шевцов Іван Саввич (1901—1941) уродженець м. Середина-Буда, мер Києва (1937—1941), його іменем названа одна з вулиць Києва. Алексєєнко Іван Пименович (1899–1966), ректор Київського медичного інституту імені Богомольця, заступник міністра охорони здоров'я УРСР, уродженець села Кам'янка. Мільченко Ілля Тимофійович (1897-), доктор медичних наук, професор кафедри акушерства та гінекології Куйбишевського медінституту, уродженець м. Середина-Буда. Рогачевський Георгій Олексійович — Герой Радянського Союзу. Уродженці м. Середина-Буда Гончаров Володимир Ігнатович і Петрунькін Леонід Павлович за технічні відкриття і вдосконалення виробництва одержали високі звання лауреатів Ленінської і Державної премій. Примітки Посилання Офіційний сайт Середино-Будської районної ради Сторінка на сайті ОДА Чухно Владимир Егорович. История населённых пунктов Украины: Середино-Будский район Сумской области.  — Киев, 2013. — 353 с. Колишні райони Сумської області Держави і території, засновані 1923 Виборчий округ 159

India's National AIDS Control Organization plans to provide about 5,000 HIV-positive people with access to second-line antiretroviral drugs beginning in January 2008, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss is expected to announce on World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, the Times of India reports. According to the Times , NACO currently provides access to no-cost first-line antiretrovirals to more than 105,000 HIV-positive people in its 127 antiretroviral clinics. NACO estimates that 3% of people who receive first-line drugs have developed resistance because of poor adherence to their treatment regimens. Health Secretary Naresh Dayal said that UNITAID has offered to donate the drugs to India during the first two years of the program. NACO plans to partner with the country's generic drug manufacturers to provide the drugs after the UNITAID support ends, the Times reports. According to a health ministry official, Ramadoss has not decided if the ministry will accept UNITAID's donation or partner with generic drug makers at the outset of the program. "We had planned to introduce second-line treatment only after" 100,000 HIV-positive people "were put on first-line drugs," Dayal said, adding, "Now that we have crossed that mark, second-line [drugs] will be introduced in January in a controlled manner." Only people who have received first-line drugs through NACO's antiretroviral clinics and have become resistant to the drugs will be eligible for the program, Dayal said. Mumbai-based J J Hospital and the Tambaram antiretroviral center in Chennai will start providing the treatment in January 2008, the Times reports. Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi, PGI in Chandigarh, and antiretroviral clinics in Kolkata, Manipur and Nagaland will introduce the program in April 2008. Ten physicians from these centers will be sent to Thailand to study operational issues relating to second-line treatment in December, according to the Times . About 3,000 HIV-positive people who have developed resistance to first-line drugs will receive second-line antiretroviral access in December 2008 (Sinha, Times of India , 11/22).

Mark Eldridge — Bixby, OK . 2005 Dodge NASCAR Charger – Actual former NASCAR Sprint Cup race car, modified for two persons with doors, full custom interior, custom paint, street legal with lights and signals, full audio/video system inside and another in the trunk, etc. The modifications are too numerous to list them all. Drivetrain is a full NASCAR system with Mopar 360 (450+ HP), Richmond T-10 transmission, Ford 9-inch rear end, and full NASCAR exhaust and suspension.

Q: Kill a created subprocess and all processes created by it What I want? Create a script that starts and kill a communication protocol What I have? I have a python script that opens a shell script, and this shell script initialize the protocol. When I kill the parent process, everything goes fine (but in the final project, the parent process will have to stay alive), but when I kill the subprocess, it become a zombie function, and my protocol keep running. Problems I believe can be: I'm "killing" the shell script (not the protocol, that's what I want) The line I start the shell script: `protocolProcess = subprocess.Popen(["sh", arquivo], cwd = localDoArquivo) #inicia o protocolo` protocolProcessPID = protocolProcess.pid #armazena o pid do protocolProcess The line I kill the shell script: os.kill(protocolPID, signal.SIGTERM) Well, that's it! If anyone can help me, I'll be very grateful A: Zombie processes are processes that have not yet been reaped by the parent process. The parent process will hold onto those process handlers until the end of time, or until it reads the process exit status, or itself is killed. It sounds like the parent process needs to have a better handle on how it spawns and reaps it's children. Simply killing a child process is not enough to free a zombie process.

Posted bytruestorytellingblog May 22, 2020 May 28, 2020 Posted inUncategorizedTags:Attunements, Staging, True Storytelling, Walter Benjamin These are the 7 True Storytelling Principles: You yourself must be true and prepare the energy and effort for a sustainable future Make room: True storytelling makes spaces respecting the stories already there Plot: You must create stories with a clear plot creating direction and help people prioritize Timing: You must have timing Help stories along: You must be able to help stories on their way and be open to experiment Staging: You must consider staging including scenography and artifacts Reflection: You must reflect on the stories and how they create value You can relate all 7 True Storytelling Principles to Walter Benjamin's (1968) seminal essay, "The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov". See this online PDF https://arl.human.cornell.edu/linked docs/Walter Benjamin Storyteller.pdf Figure 1: True Storytelling Framework (Larsen, Boje, & Bruun, in press, Routledge Publishers). Walter Benjamin (1968: 90) tells several stories about "what the nature of true storytelling is." Here I will tell the story of my leadership challenge: How to change my SOLO-leader style to an ENSEMBLE style of leadership? I contend that his examples are about the differences between each 'living story' in a 'web of living stories' of the Indigenous Ways of Knowing (IWOK) and differ greatly from our Western Ways of Knowing (WWOK) obsession with 90-second elevator pitches, info-narratives, and the linear beginning-middle-end (BME) narrative. For Benjamin these ways of WWOK narrative are bringing storytelling to an end. My main point: P5: 'Help stories along' is not a 90-second elevator-pitch, info-news report, or a BME-narrative. Nor is it a explanation of a series of events. Rather, it's a living story web, with layer upon layer of experiences (P2: making space for stories already there), in together-telling about the course of the world (P3: clear plot direction), in that IWOK harmony with Nature and community from generation to generation where one living stories ties on to the next, and so on. In P5 (helping story along) one thinks of a fresh living story when ever a tale comes to a stop. This is also the point of using 'conversational storytelling' approach in the breakout room of the seminar. It is not Chronos-time (P4) but rather Kairos-time of the opportune moment. The other principles are there too. Self-correcting in helping story along and experiments is all about getting into the encounters of conversational storytelling, the doing of inquiry (induction), and the flashes of intuition (abduction), while building your theory (deduction). The process of self-correcting comes from work of Charles Sanders Peirce, and is exemplified in the above dissertations. Figure 2: How the 6 B's of Antenarrative are 'Helping Story Along' (Principle 5 of True Storytellilng Being-true in your True Storytelling means "Being-uncovering" of both the 'true' and the 'untrue' (Heidegger, 1962: section #219) This can be done by applying the 6 B's of Antenarrative as in the Clam Shell image above. True Storytelling is "compelled by the 'truth' itself" (#213). There is a "science of the truth" as we uncover both untruth and truth in our lives at home and work. This is a method of disclosedness by self-correcting conversational storytelling (see Boje & Rosile, in press book by Edward Elgar publishing). We used that method in the True Storytelling workshops, taking leadership out of its 'untold story' (see work by Linda Hitchin) into the self-correcting and self-organizing of together-telling. Before you can do STAGING (principle 6), you must have the uncovered 'new story' of 'Helping Story Along' (principle 5). Do the embodied restorying work, then you have something worth staging to your audience.. Storytelling research we have done in organizations finds that these organizational systems (& societies) are both truth and untruth. We are socialized to be SOLO leaders living and working in ENSEMBLE situations that are increasingly heterogeneous. The result as Eric Zabiegalski puts it, we keep falling into Egoism or Group Think of homogeneous teams as we exclude others. This is a picture of Grace Ann Rosile's horse, 'Nahdion.' He is looking into the mirror, and seeing his 'authentic self' because 'horses never lie.' We used horses as part of embodied restorying way to reach 'Heart-of-Care' Table 1: 7 STEPS of Restorying with ♥ of Care 1. Recharacterize (authentic Self identity) 'Time Travel' to when you were at your best in crisis-situations of stress, anxiety, fear … 2. Externalize (re-label) Make the Problem the old story, not the person. E.g. Mr. Unsustainability, Mr. Stress, etc.; Travel to Sanctuary (safe place) to theatre room for image readjustment 3. Sympathize (benefits) – of old story of Mr. Unsustainability, Mr. Stress; Map the payoffs 4. Revise (consequences) – Map the Organization & Economic influences of old story/old stereotypes of you as Unstainable/Stressed 5. Strategize (Little Wow Moments of exception to grand old story); Time travel to reclaim best of you in Being Sustainable & Unstressed 6. Restory (rehistoricizes the Grand old Story by collecting Little Wow moments into New story) 7. Publicize (support networking) e.g. letter writing with supporters of your 'New Story' of Sustainability Awareness and Balance Selves in Ensemble relationships More info at https://peaceaware.com, https://davidboje.com/eagle & https://horsesenseatwork.com "Letting something be seen" as "the primary locus of truth" (33-35 in Kirkegaard). We work and live in sociomaterial relations, in Nature, in family, and in organizations. The main idea is that the living story web is embedded in the 'sociomaterial practices', in the routines of the working craftsperson (rhythms of work, habits), the weaver, the blacksmith, and so on, this artisans whose storytelling and and the routines are aligned. In WWOK time is treated as finite resource (as Chronos clocktime). In IWOK time is layer-upon-layer, taking time to perfect things. Walter Benjamin puts it poetically this way: "Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the ego of experience". To me this is the essence of P5 (Helping Story Along). It is not in the big punchy narrative of a key event, a catchy phrase, and so on. The living story "takes place in depth, in the boring routine activities, like the weaving, spinning, blacksmithing, pottery-making, and so on, where the self-forgetting happens. Its the rhythm of the work the impresses upon the memory, where the gift of livings storytelling is cradled in the milieu of work, in its most "artisan form of communication" and deep in the "life of the storyteller" (p. 91). "The traces of the storyteller cling to the story the way handprints of the potter goings to the clay vessel" (p. 91). What is this helping the story along, if not a native craftsmanship, perfecting things like one encounters them in Nature? Living story is the layering of experience, "that slow piling one on top of the otters of thin, transparent layers" that reveals traces of the storyteller" and its "through the layers of a variety of retellings" (93) that we are helping stories along. That is the True Storytelling of communicability of experience in the art of storytelling, a process in decline in WWOK, in the last few decades, in particular. For Helping Story Along, Ask 6 Antenarrative Questions. Antenarratives is the stuff out of which a story or narrative is constituted. That means you can antenarrate in advance of having a narrative or story account to speak out or write out or act out. Antenarratives are pre-constitutive processes (Boje, 2001, 2011, and so on). Figure 3: The 6 B questions of Antenarrative Practice You can put the 6 B questions together to make a storyboard, of how you are restorying your leadership challenge. This gets you the 'new story' emerging in your leadership, so you can then STAGE it for an audience, now that you have it in hand. Principle 6 Staging: You must consider staging including scenography and artifacts Figure 4: Boje's Leadership Challenge Example of Restorying, moving out of SOLO Leadership Untruth into a Being-True of his own 'New Story' of ENSEMBLE Leadership My story. I was in little league and blind as a bat. I needed glasses but did not discover that until I was drafted in the Army. I was frustrated, anxious and fearful in sports. The ball kept hitting me in the head, when I played left field, the position they put the dud players. I became a solo leader, with a chip on my shoulder, and was not playing well with others. Beneath 'me Being-in-untruth' of what in Narrative Therapy is called the 'problem-saturated account.' My BENEATH was being-Stuck in the past, as I grew older, I expected not to get chosen on sports teams, then not to get chosen on any kind of leader team. So I acted out and it became my full-filling prophecy. As the BEFORE happened, and uncovered some Little Wow Moments where I actually was part of a team, part of a leaderless group, even a group of co-leaders. It was not often, not for long, and for small things. Those Little Wow Moments are exceptions to the Being-in-Untruth story I keep telling myself. So the Little Wow Moments were not enough to tip the balance, so I could stop being a SOLO leader, off on my own, never part of the ensemble. When I was in the Army, got glasses, I could see, and play sports. In the Army they often give you the job you are lest qualified to do. I had never played golf in my life, so they made me a golf pro. I learned to answer questions generals posed about golf. How do I correct a hook or slide? I read an Arnold Palmer book on golf. I said 'try this interlaced finger grip to practice getting your swing aligned.' They would try it, get good results and ask for more advice. I was still SOLO, but went out to actually play golf, my last day in Nam, and I managed to hit a hole in one on the Saigon Golf Course, in 1968, while a Sergeant in the Army, in the Vietnam War. Figure 5: Boje the Golf Pro in Vietnam After lots of stuff, a divorce, a bankruptcy, and so on, I met Grace Ann and she taught me to meditate (way into the BEYOND, got me to the seminars to learn to be with others, and to pull those forgotten little Wow moments into a 'new story' a new BET on the future. I was not there yet, but I was working on the BETWEEN, doing things with people I could trust and who trusted me, like Jens, Lena, and Grace Ann. The BETWEEN is the forestructuring, doing the preparing in advance, like putting networks together so as to make other things happen. My Bets on the Future are paying off. I am choosing my leadership futuring, instead of being-stuck-in-the-past. Its a life long struggle. I am still tempted to go SOLO, because face Americans are not brought up to be Ensemble Leaders. I like traveling to Denmark where there is more of an ensemble culture. Everyone working in groups all through schools, a social economy. True Storytelling's principle 6 of staging has to be careful about attunements. In Figure 1, Boje and the SOLO Leadership Stage is caught up in problem-saturation by Being-in-Untruth. Over the last few years he has has forgotten Little Wow Moments (BEFORE) where he actually had some Ensemble practices with Jens, Lena, and Grace Ann, plus others.. In the storyboard, Boje begins turning-towards the seedling, in the mutual There is a hidden, undisclosed, discoverable new story of their potential for Being-in-the-world together. There is self-correcting going on here along the Yellow Brick Road of their unfolding lives of Becoming a Heart-of-Care fore One another. Here we organize the antenarrative (B-notions) along the temporal (past-present-future) and generalizing-grounding axes. Figure 6: There are 6 B's of Antenarrative as Boje does the transformation and change from SOLO to ENSEMBLE. The 6 B's are Beneath, Before, Beyond, Becoming, Between, and Bets on the Future. The Fore-terms come from Boje's interpretations of Martin Heidegger's work. Please see Marin Heidegger, we find a hidden staging message in Being and Time. We like this translation, https://www.mta.ca/uploadedFiles/Community/Bios/Cyril_Welch/Heidegger.pdf because the translator's focus is on 'attunements'. Our resident Heidegger expert Sabine Trafimow will tell about attunements. Figure 7: Boje has turned-away and does not see the seedling peek through the soil. Can you see it? Its all about choosing your attunements, as Heidegger (1962) calls them. Some translators call them moods, but that is such a bad way to translate it. Attunements conveys how the quantum energy field work, how we can choose to attune to fear and anxiety (sometimes necessary) but most time we can attune to understanding, and to the heart-of-care. Once you learn you can choose attunements or recognize and be aware of attunements rampant in a situation, you have options, you can navigate a little bit better. Understanding Attunement – Notice how Boje at stage-left is turned away from the seedling (frame 1 of storyboard), not seeing how it is budding from the soil. In the second frame, Boje begins turning towards seedling, but still does not see. In the third frame, Boje is dazzled by the growth of the leaves of seedling. In the frame, at right, the light is on, and Boje is seeing something beyond the five senses of sensemaking. Here the truth of turning-away and turning-toward is featured in the staging. It takes anticipatory resolution, a primordial understanding of the existential, and actually Being-in-the-world of primordial Gaia, and its possibilities for life. Fear Attunement – in the storyboard, Boje turning-away is fear for the seedling, and there is Boje's fear of being uncaring, not watering, not having correct PH, checking the grow light, not turning on the heat blanket, and so on. In fear, we are fearful of something. In Gangsta Gardening, everything can go wrong. Here is an image of the attunements. It is a matter of assessing the attunements happening around you, and making a choice which attunements to bring into the staging. The linear staging is too boring, too much structuring, the cyclical and assemblage are better staging, the spiral is our personal favorite but its virtuoso staging, something Harold and Lillian Michelson would know how to do. Figure 8: Harold and Lillian: A Love Story (Netflix) "Harold describes how he conceptualized the storyboards for the hotel room scene in THE GRADUATE: "I'm trying to get as many different compositions as I can without making it a dull two-headed monster or a two-headed screen of just two people talking and cutting back and forth, which makes it absolutely deadly. I don't care how good the dialog is." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0585118/bio Figure 9: Michelson's staging of the leg-shot storyboard in the movie, The Graduate Bad Staging Attunements are 3 Lords of Confusion: 'Re-Talk, Curiosity, & Ambiguity.' Boje turning-away to these three attunements is the fall, the collapse of staging. In Re-talk the storytelling is too much chatter. In Curiosity the audience attunes to fleeting things, is floating and wandering about the stage. In Curiosity, attention wanders to interesting features, but the audience is not in direct-seeing. The three lords invite audience to attuned badly, in ways that are turning-away from the There, the Here, the Now and the Potentiality for Being Authentically Whole. This will not bode well for the seedling's life potential. Staging is Grounding in 'do-be-do-be-do' (Yes, its Frank Sinatra) Assertion Attunement – is three things: (A) Pointing Out There, Here, and Mattering of seedling needs (you can guess) watering, wind, & the right sun heat, Boje's care (B) Making a Prediction (aka 'bet on the future') a definite seeing the seedling wants to live to be plant, (C) Turning-Towards is Boje Being-Towards the seedling, actually Being-in-the-World in together-telling (seedling & Boje) that takes foresight of the Bet, forehaving the Before of seedling having definite character, and for-conception of the existential foundation of Gangster Gardeners seed-starting in Arid Desert of New Mexico. In Figure 1, there is change in lighting, and clarity of the image Language & Discourse – Often tried in staging, the results usually not good. Language & discourse attunement lead back to re-talk, re-write, and interfere with 'seeing' and 'hearing' beyond the five senses of sensemaking. Hearkening is closer attunement, the noise of life, a seeing that is not sensation, and advances naturally. To hearken very well in staging authentically, not in verbiage that is covering up the staging, like this here. Thrownness and Collapsing of Staging – The 3 lords of distraction (re-talk, curiosity, & ambiguity) are necessary evils of staging, but when out of balance, the thrownness into turbulence is too much. Stagnation of staging takes over. There is a downright plunge into groundlessness, and the void, and the audience senses it. Care Attunement – It takes a 'Heart of Care' to nurture a seedling, to its selfhood, its potentiality-for-Being all the plant can be in its worldhood. This means, "taking it all together" in the staging, you are disclosing a totality of existence, ontologically. In sum Staging in True Storytelling is 'dwelling' in the do-be-do-be-do of action, Being-in-the-world. "If, then, truth rightly stands in a primordial connection with being, the phenomenon of truth comes within the range a of the problematic of fundamental ontology… Because being does indeed "go together" with truth…" (Heidegger, 1962: section #213, p. 273 in this translation). That is the True Storytelling of Staging in its existential potentiality. More at https://true-storytelling.com and True Storytelling (Routledge) book in press. Appendix A: Background Material on Main Themes in Help Story Along & Open to Experiment (perhaps basis of a document to send people): Some things to read: Boje, D. M. (2019). Theaters of Capitalism: Creating Conscious Capitalism. Las Cruces, New Mexico: TamaraLand Publishing. Review at https://www.cairn.info/revue-management-2018-1-page-667.htm or See Kindle Boje, D. M., & Rosile, G. A. (2019). Conversational storytelling research methods: cats, dogs, and humans in pet capitalism. Communication Research and Practice, 1-18. Available online through research gate. Boje, David M. & Rosile, Grace Ann. (in press). How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/how-to-use-conversational-storytelling-interviews-for-your-dissertation-9781839104176.html and online version till published at https://davidboje.com Bonifer, Michael. (2007). Gamechangers: Improvisation for business in the networked world. McKava Press. Boje, David M., & Bonifer, Michael. (2018). IMPROV THEATER FOR LEADERSHIP PEDAGOGY. The Emerald Handbook of Quantum Storytelling Consulting, 51. Larsen, J., Bruun, L., & Boje, D. M. (in press) True storytelling. Routledge. See http://truestorytelling.org Rosile, Grace Ann. (2016). Tribal wisdom for business ethics. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Appendix B: Some basic ideas behind Principle 5: 'Helping Stories Along' is about Indigenous Ways of Knowing (IWOK) not about Western Ways of Knowing (WWOK). IWOK is living story webs, and WWOK is elevator pitches, branding, and controlling a narrative launch. 'Helping Stories Along' is about 'Together-Telling' coming together of an ensemble, not about branding a standard smart message or doing groupthink of Western Ways of Knowing. Kaylynn Twotrees defines 'Living Story' as having a place, a time, and a mind. Jo Tyler says a 'Living Story' is about 'aliveness.' The Living Story in the web of Living Stories is alive, and decides when it's a safe space, a safe time to come out and play. It's not about making it up, or faking it till you make it. Kaylynn works for months with a client helping them get to know each other's living stories. She is helping, building the web of living stories together, so everyone sees their own living story in relation to the whole storytelling emergence. Helping Stories Along means engaging in storytelling conversations by being both dialogical and dialectical (a double movement of dialogical and dialectical), not the usual interrogation interview, not the usual groupthink See work by Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) See new book (out soon) by Boje and Rosile on how to do storytelling conversations for your dissertation? See Boje, D. M., & Rosile, G. A. (2019). Conversational storytelling research methods: cats, dogs, and humans in pet capitalism. Communication Research and Practice, 1-18. (Access at Research Gate). It is about self-correcting by being in the flow of the waves, using conversational storytelling encounters to do sensemaking and course corrections in helping stories along, and being open to experimenting, in a trial-and-error of self-correcting It's about 'Passionate Engagement' being part out in the action, in the living story web, and 'deep listening' in the diversity of living story networks. It is 'Open To Experiment' in the day-to-day, in the everyday, getting out there listening, having storytelling conversations, testing by doing counterstories in the midst of storytelling conversations. Not just a tool, it's an Indigenous Way of Being-in-the-World of relationships to community, and relations to Nature, and to the vibrant energy aliveness of all things. Its about building momentum by lots of experiment in little projects that have involvement with people, all along the way It's rhizomatic like crabgrass, not hierarchical like tree branches. It's about what happens in Tamara-Land, because you cannot be in every room, and rely on chasing stories form room to room (Boje, 1995). This is not selling a clever idea, its about selling what you do This is about Grounding in everydayness, joining in the action, having storytelling conversations, being pat of 'Ensemble Storytelling' A living Story Web means everyone's living story is included in the web of relations, in the grounding of community and Nature Helping Stories Along, means the 'aliveness' of living stories, how they peek out, decide if it's a safe place, a safe time, then come out and become a character, become aliveness and agential. It is about Harold Garfinkel's (1967) work on glossing, terse-telling, indexicals, and all the taken-for-granted of what is untold in saying 'You Know' and the 'etcetera's' (Boje, 1991) yet is part of communicating intersubjectivity of untold stories left untold by those in the know (Hitchin, 2014). Published by truestorytellingblog David M. Boje Ph.D. is a Professor at Aalborg's Business College. He teaches qualitative storytelling science methods at Cabrini University in Philadelphia. He is editor-in-chief of the Business Storytelling Encyclopedia. Boje gives invited keynote presentations on storytelling science, water crises, and the global climate crisis, all around the world. Boje is Regents Professor and Professor Emeritus at New Mexico State University. He is a Director European School of Governance (EUSG) where Louis Klein is dean. He is member of the editorial board of the The Systemic Change Journal that is an ongoing conversation about ways of Governing the Anthropocene, and helping to set up a Sustainability Storytelling Lab. He is working with https://truestorytelling.org on sustainability storytelling, and convenes the annual 'Quantum Storytelling Conference' each December in Las Cruces New Mexico with Emeritus Professor Grace Ann Rosile (https://davidboje.com/quantum). Current printable vita at https://davidboje.com/vita View more posts What is True Storytelling? 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April 28, 2016 by Gary Price Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, University Librarian at UC Berkeley, Joins Authors Alliance Board of Directors From the Author's Alliance: We are delighted to welcome Jeffrey MacKie-Mason to our Board of Directors, where he joins Pamela Samuelson, Molly Van Houweling, Carla Hesse, and Thomas Leonard [former University Librarian at UC Berkeley] in guiding the strategic decisions and activities of the Authors Alliance. MacKie-Mason is the University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer at UC Berkeley, and has joint appointments as a professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Economics. MacKie-Mason earned his Ph.D. in economics from MIT and a master's in public policy from the University of Michigan. He is a pioneering scholar in the economics of the Internet, online behavior, and digital information creation and distribution. Read the Complete Announcement See Also: Interview with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, University Librarian at UC Berkeley (March 15, 2016) See Also: Video: UC Berkeley's Incoming University Librarian, Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, on Why Privacy is Doomed (September 26, 2015) Filed under: Academic Libraries, Interviews, News, Profiles

How Liverpool almost allowed Man City to become favourites - before Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino gamble landed Jurgen Klopp's side were strong favourites to advance after last week's 3-0 victory Kristian Walsh Liverpool's topsy-turvy win saw the Reds almost throw away favouritism in the Champions League quarter-final against Manchester City - before the Reds beat the home side off the boards. Jurgen Klopp's side were strong favourites to advance after last week's 3-0 victory, with City 6/1 to qualify after the full time whistle. Their price shortened to 9/2 by kick off at the Etihad Stadium following injury doubts over several of Liverpool's top stars - including Mohamed Salah, Emre Can and Andy Robertson. Jordan Henderson was also suspended. Manchester City 1-2 Liverpool (agg 1-5) Minute by minute from the Etihad Guardiola sent off Champions League Ratings Gabriel Jesus' opener within two minutes saw City come into as short as 9/4, despite still needing two goals without reply to force extra time. With heavy pressure from the home side, Pep Guardiola's team hit a low of 2/1, but soon drifted to 11/4 at half time. When and where is the Champions League 2018 final? Liverpool could be there in May With City set to go odds on with an early goal in the second half, Salah ensured there would be no dramatic fightback. When is the 2018 Champions League semi-final draw? His goal on 57 minutes put City out to 33/1 to qualify, which would soon become 125/1 and then 425/1 with 15 minutes remaining. Roberto Firmino put the tie beyond any doubt with 13 minutes remaining - with some bookmakers closing the market soon after. The Reds are now a general 3/1 shot to lift their sixth European Cup in Kyiv next month.

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"A Taste of Country" brings to mind fond memories of tying quilting knots alongside Grandma. Pictured here is a hand tacked, patchwork quilt from the early 1920's. It gently rests across a worn deacon's bench from an old black church in Sandersville, Georgia. Indian corn is nestled in a sixty year old basket once used to gather vegetables. A well used rolling pin adds the final touch to the country grouping.

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On leaving the cinema after GoldenEye, I was very ready to see another Bronson Bond and so too were the studio and undoubtedly Brosnan himself, having waited so long to land the role. Tomorrow Never Dies ended up suffering from the rush, as the script had to be ditched and then rewritten as the film was going into production. The result however is a solid Bond and, for me, the best Brosnan. The opening pre-credits scenes once more establishes Bond as a hardworking British agent. 'What's he doing?' Geoffrey Palmer's admiral splutters. 'His job,' comes M's acerbic reply. Looking resplendent in brown leather jacket and polo neck, Brosnan immediately sets about punching machine-gunning and daredeviling his way through a a basket of terrorists and assorted baddies. The action is exciting and also witty. The ejector seat trick being a particularly applaudable moment of satisfactory violence. Perhaps less joyful is Jonathan Pryce's media mogul villain Elliot Carver. Despite hints of Murdoch and the now forgotten Robert Maxwell, Carver is a bit grey and his fake typing skills leave a lot to be desired. Not wanting to film two Bond movies in a row, Martin Campbell had turned down the director's chair. Roger Spottiswoode was keen to take over and followed Campbell's lead in injecting a sense of dynamism. This can even be seen in the M briefing which instead of taking place in an office, is held in the back seat of M's car while being escorted by police outriders at speed through London. The story feels fairly familiar with once more a millionaire manipulating tensions between China and Britain to create a potential world war 3 and incidentally sell newspapers. In Hamburg, Bond meets up with Paris Carver (Teri Hatcher), an old flame who is now married to his target. There is a brief attempt at pathos, a gesture towards an interiority, before we're back to the fun of a remote controlled car that can be played by a Nintendo DS style console. The presence of Michelle Yeoh lifts matters considerably and the influence of Hong Kong action cinema is having its effect. These were the years in which Jackie Chan and John Woo films were becoming increasingly seen in the West, along with more obscure names, partly channeled through the work of Quentin Tarantino. Woo would direct Mission Impossible 2 in 2000 and there is a feel that with Tom Cruise's new franchise gaining momentum and other action films upping the ante, that Bond could no longer get by on the four or five set pieces and a schoolboy sense of humour. Yeoh as Wai Lin is a breath of fresh air and there was even talk of her getting her own spin off movie. If there's any criticism, it's that there simply isn't enough of her. David Arnold had already produced an album of Bond inspired music and got his dream job scoring the film. Moby provided a rejigged version of the Monty Norman Bond theme. But along with the very 90s-ness of the film, the producers seem keen to include references to the Bond legacy. As already noted the story rehashes the Thunderball plot, while adding the Spy Who Loved Me rivals who work together theme and the Thai locations from The Man with the Golden Gun. Q has been demoted to product placement. Brosnan stamps his identity solidly on the role and there's a sense that this is going to be a run after the stuttering fizzle of the Dalton Bonds. And yet the tensions remain - as they almost always have post-Connery - between reinventing the franchise, bringing it up to date or sticking to the tried and tested formula. The first two Bronsnan were by far the most successful at addressing those tensions compared to what came before and after. Minnie Valero link I enjoyed your review. Thanks, John!

So day 2 of my awesome Taipei trip was filled with… nothing but food, railway tracks, lanterns, coffee and more food. Literally, that is what me and my friend had all day. We went to a place called Shi Fen, which was a village with a single railway track running across it. Today's outfit was a maxi floral dress, which felt good because the weather was really hot. I love maxi dresses, sometimes I wish I can wear them everyday back home. Our first stop was of course to get waffles at a cozy coffee shop in Xi Men Ding, a bustling place full of shops and also where we happen to stay. The neighbourhood reminds me of Hong Kong's busy streets, with a twist of Japan and China. On our way to the railway station, we stopped by and got the famous Taiwanese matcha cheese tarts - they're so delicious and gooey in the middle. I can't help but drool at the thought of them… cheese tart perfection. Our first top was a cat village in Hou Tong, where we saw lots of cats roam everywhere. It was quite cute, except it was really hot so I didn't take much photos. We finally reached Shi Fen during the late afternoon, at around 5pm. At this point, it was raining really badly, so the photos are grey and cloudy, but thanks to the power of my Leica camera, everything STILL looks alright. The railway tracks would have looked even better if it was bright and sunny, but we had to make do. The village sold nougat bars, and we bought a few each. They're so delicious! After sending our lantern up in the rainy sky, we headed to another night market (of which I can't remember the name) and had some food. I had some fried taro balls filled with custard, which was VERY tasty. I guess I can't take fried foods well though, because I got a sore throat the next day. Nonetheless, it was really delectable and I was so impressed with the night market's choice of food. We also had the famous Taiwanese beef noodles with soup - the broth was fresh and the meat was tender, and overall it was a very filling bowl of noodles. Apparently, some of the noodles won prizes at food competitions, so that was interesting. That's pretty much it for day 2- it was a rainy, food-filled day! Tw looks so amazing!! :D That beef noodle looks so yummy as well! And matcha cheese tart, I never eat one before :O Looking forward to your next Tw post series!

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Antalya has a backdrop of stunning mountain scenery, and the city is set high on cliffs, with many of its grandesthotels overlooking the sea on the outskirts of the town. The beach area of Lara, approximately 12 km to the east is hometo the best beach in the area, known for its golden sand, which is rapidly becoming a resort in its own right. To the west,the long pebble beach of Konyaaltı is also popular. Heading up into the mountains, you can make the most of the beautiful scenery by visiting the spectacular Düden or Kurşunlu waterfalls. At Saklıkent, just 50 km away from the city centre, you can even ski, where they usually have snow on the slopes until early April. Aspendos: Just 50 km east of Antalya, Aspendos was an important centre of trade during Roman times. Today, themost impressive aspect of Aspendos is her stunning theatre, which was built in approx. 162 AD. It seats 15,000 andhas been beautifully preserved. Each year it hosts the Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival which takes place in June andJuly and gives you the opportunity to see performances of classics in a magnificent setting. The aqueduct, which suppliedwater to the city is also still relatively intact and is an impressive sight. Phaselis: The three harbours of this Lycian port city were once a major commercial centre. In the shelter of Mount Tahtalı,it is a popular stopping off point for yachts, and its clear waters and sandy beaches are popular with sun-seekers. Theremains are mostly Roman and include a theatre, baths, aqueducts, Hadrian's Gate, an agora and an acropolis. Perge: Just 18 kms from Antalya, Perge was an important city in Pamphylia and was visited by St.Paul during hismissionary journeys. Today, the city gate flanked by lofty towers, theatre and baths are of interest. Demre: Also known as Kale, the ancient city of Myra, is mostly famous for its connection with St. Nicholas,who was bishop here in the 4th century. His church is the focus of the annual ceremony which takes place to commemorate him on or around his feast day of 6th December. It is well worth seeing the Roman theatre whichremains here, overlooked by spectacular rock tombs, dating from the 4th century BC.

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Sevyn Streeter is serving up a double dose of epicness today as she celebrates both her 31st birthday and the birth, or release, of her new project Girl Disrupted. While this may be her official debut album, the beauty has been making major moves over the past four years, from co-writing chart-topping hits for Chris Brown and Ariana Grande, to releasing her own sultry singles. She's also been low-key killing it with her edgy chic style. From classic red carpet moments to cool girl swag, she consistently serves up style envy. As we celebrate the R&B singer's breakout weekend, we've put together some of her most breakout fashion moments.

Our heritage rebuild and extension in Scarborough was lucky enough to feature in a segment on Best Houses Australia and was also a finalist in the 2015 HIA-CSR NSW Housing Award in the extensions $200K – $600K category. This home had a 150m2 extension consisting of 1 bed, 1 bath, 1 living, 1 courtyard and double garage with a storeroom plus a heritage renovation with 3 bed, 1 bath, 1 kitchen and 1 laundry. This build took us just 6 months to complete. Take a look at our segment below where Alistair, Denny and the owners talk you through their goals for the home and its features.

Q: Is it possible to set the process group of a child process with PCNTL? The man page for pcntl_waitpid() documents the following option: wait for any child process whose process group ID is equal to the absolute value of pid. I'm interested by this feature (waiting for some child processes, but not all), but can't find any reference to how to set the process group ID of a child process. Is this possible at all with PCNTL? A: Found it. PCNTL does not offer this function, but the POSIX extension does offer posix_setpgid(): bool posix_setpgid ( int $pid , int $pgid )

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Two types of wolves live in Manitoba -- the red wolf and the gray wolf. The red wolf is of the same genetic pool as red wolves living in the United States and Mexico. Some researchers believe the gray wolf in Manitoba to be its own subspecies, dubbing it the Manitoba wolf. Gray wolves, which are scientifically known as Canis lupis, have varying coloration in shades of gray to black. Some sport a little white and others are predominantly white -- hence the common name gray-white wolf often used in non-scientific circles. Gray wolves range in height from 26 to 32 inches at the shoulder and weigh anywhere from 55 to 130 pounds, males outweighing females. They feed on larger hoofed animals such as moose, elk and, if given the opportunity, domestic bovines. Gray wolves prefer forest lands. A large portion of Manitoba's gray wolf population centers in the Riding Mountain National Park, where they are protected from hunting. This population of wolves declined significantly between 1992 and 1997, when the number of individual wolves dropped below 40, according to Parks Canada. As of 2012, park officials have counted 113 individual wolves living in packs ranging in size from six to 10 members. Red wolves are scientifically known as Canis rufus and more closely related to coyotes than to other wolves. They are much smaller than gray wolves. They are approximately 15 to 16 inches tall at the shoulder and weigh 40 to 90 pounds, males outweighing females. They have brown coloring with streaks of cinnamon red and black. They prey on smaller games such as grouse, raccoons, rabbits, hares, rodents, carrion and domestic livestock. Red wolves do not necessarily prefer forested areas, but they do tend to live in areas with heavy vegetation where their prey also live. A thriving population of more than 100 individual red wolves centers around Duck Mountain, which is a Manitoba provincial park. The terrain of Duck Mountain does include some forestland, but it also features the dense shrub-type vegetation and marsh lands red wolves prefer. Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Return of the Wolf?

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BlogAudioBest Doctors Bash "Taylorism" and "Toyota Lean" in the New England Journal of Medicine By Mark Graban On Jan 13, 2016 Last updated May 13, 2019 If you're new to the idea of "Lean," I invite you to download and read chapter 1 of my book Lean Hospitals. Hat tip to Suresh for pointing me toward this article that was just published January 14th in the New England Journal of Medicine: "Medical Taylorism" NEJM is the same journal that published Dr. Don Berwick's article about Kaizen and Dr. Deming in 1989, an article that discussed how those concepts would be helpful in healthcare. Dr. Berwick realized, as he wrote, that not all factories are the same. Some are managed better than others. Employees are treated better in the "Lean" factories. Berwick was right to point out that medicine can learn from other industries… but that doesn't turn the hospital into an assembly line. In the article posted today, Pamela Hartzband, M.D., and Jerome Groopman, M.D. (the later the author of the popular book How Doctors Think), rant about all sorts of things… some of which have nothing to do with Lean. "Advocates lecture clinicians about Toyota's "Lean" practices, arguing that patient care should follow standardized systems like those deployed in manufacturing automobiles. Colleagues have told us, for example, that managers with stopwatches have been placed in their clinics and emergency departments to measure the duration of patient visits. Their aim is to determine the optimal time for patient-doctor interactions so that they can be standardized." What they're saying in the piece is that they fear having their patient interaction time squeezed or shortened inappropriately. If that's indeed happening, this is wrong headed and insulting toward Toyota. I'm pretty sure Toyota would not alienate physicians or other healthcare professionals this way. Look at this video about Toyota helping reduce delays at UCLA-Harbor… it wasn't about timing doctors and speeding up appointments. It's about improving systems and reducing waste and delays. Toyota-ism and Taylor-ism are not the same thing. Toyota operates in a far different way. Bob Emiliani writes passionately about how even Taylor and Scientific Management evolved and get an unfair bad rap today. As I've written about before, some hospitals (or engineers working within them) have taken old-style Taylorism to an unfortunate extreme, including timing how long doctors are in the bathroom. Stopwatching people in the bathroom or the exam room… that's wrong headed, and disrespectful, and it's not solving the problems that matter in healthcare (such as the patient safety crisis). If that's happening, don't blame Toyota. It's not really Lean, it's L.A.M.E., or Lean As Misguidedly Executed. Criticize the behavior, instead of painting Lean with a broad brush. I've participated in many Lean initiatives (and have documented others in my book and here on the blog) and the success came from ENGAGING people, including physicians, instead of telling people what to do or how to change. One such initiative helped a children's hospital reduce the waiting times for outpatient sedation MRIs from 12 to 14 weeks down to just 2 to 3… and they've sustained those results for years. It's not credible to say Lean is inappropriate or that Lean doesn't work. That said, there are many wrongheaded things done in the name of "Lean," when people don't understand the mindset and philosophy behind Lean. Drs. Hartzband and Groopman have all sorts of valid complaints, including how EHR systems can make work more difficult and how CMS has "1000" performance measures that irritate physicians. Neither of those issues have anything to do with Lean. Again from the NEJM: "Physicians sense that the clock is always ticking, and patients are feeling the effect. One of our patients recently told us that when she came in for a yearly "wellness visit," she had jotted down a few questions so she wouldn't forget to ask them. She was upset and frustrated when she didn't get the chance: her physician told her there was no time for her questions because a standardized list had to be addressed — she'd need to schedule a separate visit to discuss her concerns." If physicians are being pressured into cutting time short with patients, that's wrong… it's not Lean. Having an inappropriately inflexible approach to patient care isn't Lean either. They continue: "We believe that the standardization integral to Taylorism and the Toyota manufacturing process cannot be applied to many vital aspects of medicine. If patients were cars, we would all be used cars of different years and models, with different and often multiple problems, many of which had previously been repaired by various mechanics. Moreover, those cars would all communicate in different languages and express individual preferences regarding when, how, and even whether they wanted to be fixed. The inescapable truth of medicine is that patients are genetically, physiologically, psychologically, and culturally diverse. It's no wonder that experts disagree about the best ways to diagnose and treat many medical conditions, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and cancer, among others." Of course patients aren't cars. That's a red herring argument. Listen to Mark read this post (and subscribe to "Lean Blog Audio"): I've personally never seen or been involved in a Lean healthcare initiative that was trying to tell physicians how to be physicians. It was always about providing better service to physicians – making sure surgical cases start on time, etc. Here is a blog post I wrote about "standardized work" a few years ago, which emphasizes, among other things, that Toyota has long emphasized that standardized work should be written by the people who do the work. Micromanaging or interfering with the actual value-added work is not the goal (although it's effective when PHYSICIANS take on the challenge and leadership around improving their own work as physicians). It's not really Lean when an organization focuses exclusively on cost or productivity. Healthcare organizations and leaders have LONG focused on cost-cutting and pressuring people to work faster or to obsess over something like "patients per hour." Those aren't Lean habits; they're healthcare habits (and traditional management habits). The authors admit some positive things have happened: "To be sure, certain aspects of medicine have benefited from Taylor's principles. Strict adherence to standardized protocols has reduced hospital-acquired infections, and timely care of patients with stroke or myocardial infarction has saved lives. It may be possible to find one best way in such areas." "But this aim cannot be generalized to all of medicine, least of all to such cognitive tasks as eliciting an accurate history, synthesizing clinical and laboratory data to make a diagnosis, and weighing the risks and benefits of a given treatment for an individual patient. Good thinking takes time, and the time pressure of Taylorism creates a fertile field for the sorts of cognitive errors that result in medical mistakes. Moreover, rushed clinicians are likely to take actions that ignore patients' preferences." I'd agree with the authors that you can't turn all of the complexity of medicine into a checklist or a protocol. There's a lot of room for and need for clinical judgment. "Rushed clinicians" is often the starting point before Lean (because there's too much waste and chaos around them). Lean isn't trying to speed up the doctors… it's about improving systems and processes and crreating a better environment for them and their patients. "Yet students are now taught the principles of Taylorism and Toyota Lean as early as their first year of medical school. They enter clinical rotations believing that there must be one best way to diagnose and treat every medical condition." Is that really true, that they're being told Lean is all about a "one best way to diagnose and treat EVERY condition?" Again, that doesn't really sound like Lean to me. Real Lean is built around concepts like: Putting the patient first Respecting people (see more) Engaging everybody in redesigning systems and continuously improving Solving problems and testing improvements in a scientific way Having a balanced set of goals, putting safety, quality, and patient flow first… Not blaming individuals for systemic problems Creating a better, less frustrating workplace Improving teamwork and collaboration across silos and disciplines It's not about speeding people up or telling them how to do their work. (See my post on "Lean Mindsets"). It might also be useful to see Toyota's own page about the Toyota Production System, which includes: "People are the Most Valuable Resource: Deeply respect, engage and develop people. Continuous Improvement: Engage everyone each and every day." "Leaders inspire and develop people to surface and solve problems to improve performance." That's not classic Taylorism. Far from it. Time & Motion Studies Are Not "Discredited," Just How They Are Used The doctors also say, in their article: "Medical Taylorism began with good intentions — to improve patient safety and care. But we think it has gone too far. To continue to train excellent physicians and give patients the care they want and deserve, we must reject its blanket application." OK… for all of the dissatisfaction, frustration, chaos, and waste that exists in healthcare BEFORE Lean… and the delays in care and harm that result for patients… What are the doctors proposing as an alternative? Groopman wrote about how doctors interrupt and jump to conclusions after, what, 18 seconds with a patient. Did he jump to conclusions about Lean after 18 seconds or does he legitimately have bad experiences with L.A.M.E. situations? What's your reaction to the article? Tomorrow, I'll go back to work with my head held high, off to a meeting to talk with a cancer treatment center that is looking to use Lean to further reduce delays in patients getting their initial consult. I'm trying to help others improve patient care and outcomes. It's noble work helping those who are doing noble work. I agree it's not all about efficiency, cost, margin, or profitability. Enough with the rants about "Taylorism" and dragging Toyota or Lean through the mud… let's get back to work improving healthcare. Or at least trying. Update: See this post from Modern Healthcare about this discussion. "There probably are some hospitals or large physician practices that have time-study engineers running around with stop watches and calling it an application of "Lean" techniques, as Hartzband and Groopman assert. But process improvement malpractice shouldn't be used to condemn an entire approach to enhancing quality and productivity." And Paul Levy, former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, writes a post, which says, in part: "…what hurts more is the fact that our clinical staff at BIDMC, where the authors reside, were overwhelmingly engaged in the the philosophy and practice of Lean–at least during the time I was there. What's more, they enjoyed it and found that it made their lives better. Indeed, Mark Zeidel, our Chief Of Medicine, regularly offered many positive thoughts on these matters in his missives to his staff, called Kaizen Corner." See this follow up post from June 2016: NEJM Authors Double Down on Their Claim That #Lean & TPS = Taylorism AudioBerwickDemingHealthcareKaizenLAMETaylorismToyota Wise Words from Mark Twain on Continuous Improvement and Perfection "Practicing Lean" Excerpt from a New Chapter – Bob Rush from Tesla Motors Amy Edmondson on How to Really Learn From Failure and Mistakes Carolyn Thomas says 5 years ago Thanks Mark for including a link to my "18 second" blog post. For your readers who haven't yet read Dr. Groopman's "How Doctors Think", I heartily recommend it. Bob Emiliani says 5 years ago It is unproductive to fight the same battle for 100 years. The fact that this is our reality suggests great confusion still exists between Taylor's work circa 1890 and the post-Taylor evolution of progressive management that began in earnest after his death in 1915 and which led to the Toyota Production System and the Toyota Way (and as it continues to evolve). It makes our job of advancing Lean management far more difficult. In fact, it imperils the existence of Lean. To me, these misconceptions have long been tantamount to an EMERGENCY that none of the big, influential Lean organizations have recognized or responded to. I sounded the alarm beginning in 2007 (9 years ago!) in my six volume REAL LEAN book series, 2007-2010), which was largely ignored – to our own and other's peril. I am certain that Taylor, were he alive today, would be mystified at how people today remain stuck on his early work and writings (e.g. the "one best way"), and how the great work of other people that followed him and who built on his (and Gilbreth's) work is so poorly understood. I've been guilty of misunderstanding Taylor myself. So there's a difference between REAL Taylorism and Fake Taylorism? Fake Taylorism (an expert lording over people with a stopwatch, telling them how to do their work) is about as common as Fake Lean or Fake Anything? Yes! There was a huge fight back in the 1910-1935 time frame in which Taylor (when he was alive) and his followers (who carried on after Taylor died) advocated the Scientific Management SYSTEM, and consultants ("efficiency engineers") who got work in companies by just using tools to achieve short-term gains. So, yes, there was in fact a Real version of Scientific Management and a Fake version of Scientific management. The "efficiency engineers" were characterized as "fakirs," "quacks," "cracks," and "charlatans." Fake Scientific Management was far more commonplace than Real Scientific Management. The "fakirs," "quacks," "cracks," and "charlatans" were far more successful (financially) than Taylor's followers. Taylor was wealthy for the invention of and patents for high speed steel cutting tools for machining metals. Real Scientific Management was not a moneymaker. Aside from the dozen or so organizations who adopted the system in its entirety (something like what today we would call "TPS and the Toyota Way"), Scientific Management gave him a lot of grief. He had to testify in front of Congress because he got blamed for all the Fake Scientific Management. It so worth reading his testimony to Congress. Anonymous Patient says 5 years ago I'm not impressed with these doctors. Can I write an article for the "New England Journal of Lean" that decries "Medical Butchery?" I mean, doctors and hospitals help SOME people, but can't extend that into thinking modern medicine is good for all, considering estimates show up to 400,000 Americans are dying due to medical error. What have these Harvard-trained doctors done, in their careers, to solve this problem? Are they just creating smokescreens and boogie men? Tim Delaney says 5 years ago Interesting point and indeed this blog should be submitted to NEJM in reply to the rather disappointing article described. When I was working on Six Sigma at my hospital 10 years ago I met a Harvard-trained doctor who HAD implemented Six Sigma in his fertility clinic with excellent results. At the time most of the hospitals presenting at Lean conferences were smaller ones, the prestigious colleges came late to Lean. This doctor surmised that the reason for this was medical narcissism among those who saw themselves as a cut above the rest. The "H" stands for Harvard and hubris but not for humility," he joked. Ruth Archer says 5 years ago The New England Journal of Medicine is supposed to be a peer-reviewed journal. "The New England Journal of Medicine employs a highly rigorous peer-review and editing process to evaluate manuscripts for scientific accuracy, novelty, and importance." There is a serious flaw in the NEJM's peer-review process to let something like this slip through unchallenged. Anyone who understands Lean would immediately see the issues you highlight in their paper. Because of this, it could call into question the quality and accuracy of all of their articles. Agree! Remember the resignation of long-time editor Marcia Angell in 2009? What was the NEJM response to that? Cameron Stark says 5 years ago The 'Perspectives' section does seem to favour this type of article. The guidelines say 'many Perspective articles include an element of opinion — indeed, some read like op/eds, though others resemble brief magazine features, mini review articles, or "think pieces" '. The NEJM is a prestigious journal, and this will be quoted and cited. It will be important for people responding to realise that this is not an evidence-based piece – it's opinion based. Separating out for people what's Lean and what is not, is probably a good place to start when responding to clinicians (or anyone else) who cites it. The basic tone is not new. I remember a heated meeting a quarter of a century ago when some older doctors decried the existence of clinical guielines, and the use of audit: these topics wouldn't raise an eyebrow now. Seeing Lean working in health settings will have the same effect in the long term. I'm surprised the authors didn't: 1) Have specific stories instead of general rants 2) Didn't couch things in terms of "in our experience…" 3) State that these were opinions. They're writing as if they have authoritative facts and statements. I wonder how the MD authors would react if Jenny McCarthy was allowed to publish an anti-vaccination opinion piece in the NEJM? They'd probably react just the way I'm reacting to their piece. Comments from LinkedIn says 5 years ago Karli Coe, PE: Good read… diagnosis after 18 seconds… wow. Karen Alexandre, Ph.D.: Thanks for sharing. Timing doctors' bathroom visits in the name of efficiency? Disturbing. It's disappointing when human factors/outcomes (job satisfaction, in this example) are ignored in the design/implementation. Jason Lockette, MD, MBA: I'm amazed that physicians vilify standardization and ignore the problems that result when we don't practice evidence-based medicine. The authors speak highly of protocols related to stroke and MI but those were initially resisted based on the same arguments peppered throughout their article. Some surgeons still resist checklists and time-out procedures in the OR despite the fact that they work. Cortney Beshara: Michelle and I were just talking about the very thing you mention in your comment. We both have military backgrounds where checklists are an essential part of many job functions and in many cases… Save lives. People forget where they put their keys… Checklists eliminate a majority of human error. Michelle Kling: Interesting read. From an OR Nurse perspective, I'm tired of convincing surgeons that checklists ensure quality healthcare while producing the best patient outcomes. Seems they rather be convinced that nursing is an actual science and that nurses are not only there to wipe the sweat from thier brow while sitting under those hot OR lights. Jim Gatto says 5 years ago Thanks for the post. Ultimately things like this can not only damage the potential for more great work you and others are doing with engaged or about to be engaged organizations, but it is hard to think that harm will continue to be done by these misunderstandings that they way we have always been doing things (my personal kryptonite) is ok. Or worse that someone was about to take the chance of reaching out for help only to read that lean is of limited use and may harm patient outcomes and minimize the role of Doctors. While I believe in the free exchange and challenge of idea, The thought of continued patient harm and skyrocketing cost is something I refuse to accept as something that is unavoidable. Perhaps I suffer from idealism? In what ways can we apply countermeasures to these types of publications? I'm going to guess that the NEJM doesn't care about my opinion but perhaps we can arrive at countermeasures as a larger group? Again perhaps I'm just an idealist without a plan? Chris Burnham says 5 years ago Mark, I would encourage you to submit a differing viewpoint to the perspectives section of the NEJM. I am sure that there is a physician that would be willing to co-author with you. The authors appear to have been "burned" at some point by measurements and metrics. Sadly, when data is used to punish instead of to create awareness and understanding the current condition, we tend to eventually get bad data. All we can really do is endeavor to help each person we interact with understand that the principles and behaviors that you outline in your post about Real Lean are designed to create awareness. They are also designed to help build an understanding about just how great the gap is between where we want to be and where we actually are in delivering great care to the patient/customer. Only then can we pick up a problem and start the process of improving the current condition. I've asked some physician leaders who are Lean thinkers to submit comments. The reality is that comments would mean a lot more coming from somebody like Dr. John Toussaint, considering it's the NEJM. And I've said before that "data is for improvement, not for punishment" https://www.leanblog.org/2012/07/blame-shame-is-shameful/ Thanks for sharing and reinforcing that view. John Gallagher says 5 years ago Thanks for responding to this piece. Rest assured, the Physician execs at Simpler will have a response for the authors. Your points are all spot on. The question that you ask, though, that is a great point for the authors is this…."What are the doctors proposing as an alternative?" – The fact that they only bash the current system without proposing an alternative is part of the reason the HC system is in the condition that it is today. Too quick to judge, Jerry. - Tech News 5 years ago […] I'll not go through all the details. Mark Graban does that in excellent fashion here. […] More from LinkedIn: Collin McLoughlin: Passing judgment on Lean by using Taylorism as a model is like using the medical science of 100 years ago to diagnose a patient. Meredith Carter GAICD: Yes LAME is not LEAN. Doesn't make inefficient good for patients either. John Lee: Those who don't understand Lean use straw man arguments such as comparing patients to cars and pejorative terms such as "cookbook medicine." The "rights" of decision and information support are completely congruent with a skilled, independent clinician's work and mindflow Another great LinkedIn comment: Aaron Spearin, MBB, PMP: I still find it amazing this far down the line how poorly guided an execution can be. Personally, I'd like to find the root cause. Bad consultants? Or misguided self-taught neophytes in an already bad culture? Or the office suits distorting a program to fit their own vision of it..? I've seen all of these at different times. And to have such a poor perception become editorialized in a medical journal says to me the perception is too common in the medical field, which I find inexcusable . Poor adoption in a for-profit business (widget maker) that only injures itself in a free market is easier to dismiss. To me it speaks for the masses who were never really serious about improving so fundamentally that they are willing to assess and change their own behaviors. Too often "change" is someone else's responsibility. Personally, I'd like to find the root cause. Bad consultants? Or misguided self-taught neophytes in an already bad culture? Or the office suits distorting a program to fit their own vision of it..? Yeah, all of those things happen… especially when hospital leaders already have a cost-cutting orientation, and when they don't respect employees or have a combative relationship with doctors… or when they're focused on money instead of truly meeting patient needs. I also wanted to share an interesting contrast between Lean and traditional management in this NYT article: "In a #lean factory, employee creativity and coöperation between management and assemblers are paramount" https://t.co/4UaEOKhJxj — Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) January 14, 2016 When it's NOT a Lean culture: "At Haier's factory in South Carolina, Chinese managers had to be sent back to Asia because they were alienating workers and threatening productivity." Funny… The way "coöperation" was spelled in The New Yorker article, with the umlaut, is how the word was spelled in the early 1900s, in the days of Frederick Winslow Taylor. Interesting that the editors didn't remove it. Must have been intentional. It must be the "New Yorker" style guide, in general, because they spell it that way here too: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis They're old school. Andrew Bishop says 5 years ago It's a good idea to get physician leaders and some front line clinicians with positive experiences to respond directly in NEJM. It doesn't seem like enough, though, with all the bad feeling expressed and, as previous comments point out, potential damage done. Maybe you (Mark), John Toussaint, and/or others could get a spot on "Explore the Space" podcast with Mark Shapiro. He's exploring issues facing contemporary medicine from a physician's perspective. It's open-minded and generally well done. A good listen, BTW, for the lean healthcare crowd, especially given the "doctors resist change" bias that arises from time-to-time. We would do well to keep listening to all parties and remember that "90% of resistance is cautionary" (attributed to Shigeo Shingo). Andrew… I know Dr. John Toussaint and some others will be responding. It will mean more coming from the MDs. Thanks for the thought about the podcast. I've never been one to jump on the bandwagon of blaming doctors for being difficult or being "resistant to change." The resistance is usually pretty proportional to the lack of leadership from hospital executives or physician leaders. Christian M. Rizo MBA, PMP: I really sometimes don't understand why they are being so dismissive right away with LEAN. We are at a tipping point where we need to be thinking of fixing the whole system rather than saying "business as usual". France Bergeron: What many people don't get with Lean is a deep understanding of Lean as collaborative science. An object study that is scientific (flow), a solid scientific method (PDSA) and tools to make work visible therefore measurable, and above all people who collaborate to define problems and counter them, together. See also this post by Paul Critchley, who has been a guest blogger on this site. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nejm-lean-somethings-missing-paul-critchley An outcome of Lean is often cost savings; that is true. But it's just that – an OUTCOME. It's not the focus – it never was, nor was supposed to be. There are Lean "experts" out there that are hocking that spin, promising big gains in efficiency and savings to land jobs and accounts. But they are perverting our craft, and conclusions like the ones drawn in the NEJM article are the inevitable outcome. nexusxyz says 5 years ago What we should be developing is a solution/service called the 'patient project'. This puts the patient at the centre of all activities as they journey through the health system. Resources, skills, knowledge, etc are consumed around the patient as this journey takes place. Trying to run a hospital with what is an 'ERP' and a transactional focus only suits administrators and is destroying clinical systems/knowledge/capabilities. With respect to the above I reference two studies. Firstly, the University of Sydney undertook a study of the use of 'e' systems across NSW Health and secondly, from the UK there has been a significant review (600 pages plus) of the value of 'e' to health professions. The Australian study laid bare the systemic information system issues and the UK study concluded that information technologies have significant potential but no appreciable or observable value has been added to health service operation by the adoption of 'e' to date – in the case of the UK report that is an interesting observation given the estimated £20billion worth of 'investment' made in 'e' health. Whilst the UK study did not implicitly analyse the underlying information services/system issues the Australian study did. The same conclusion can be draw from both studies in that the use of 'e' technologies as they stand have not delivered beneficial outcomes. This observation applies to the health initiatives not only in the UK but also in Australia and other countries as the same paradigm of technological deployment; IT architecture and software vendors are involved. The patient project can be built and a platform exists to do it. Jamie Flinchbaugh: One contributor to this problem is that lean was not born in the academic halls and therefore many academics don't know how to effectively study it from the outside. Then of course, they try to study it from the outside through publicly available data and interviews. Steve Spear remains one of the few who researched from within. And lean cuts across disciplines, so most academics can only see a piece of it. And so we don't only blame academics for poor research of lean, lets not forget the too-high percentage of companies implementing lean poorly, which can have you easily draw a conclusion that it doesn't work . Steve Spear: Thanks for raising this and raising it loud. It's a critical issue. The transition from art/craft to science is the coalescence of a community around a phenomenon, a theory, and the fundamental principles that define it. Steve Spear: For a variety of reasons, our community has resisted this, so tools/techniques aren't often explained by the principles they support/express, and even the same idea has expression through multiple lexicons. It's confusing enough even for those in the know, more so for those not. Steve Spear: What's the phenomenon: Superior performance–far more yield from far less effort. What's the theory: superior knowledge and skills as the accumulation of superior learning–local and systemic, large and small. What's the theory: the rigorous application of feedback to the design and operation of systems, to the problem solving of systems, and to the sharing broadly what is learned locally. The comments on the NEJM article are interesting. People confuse Taylorism and Toyota / Lean. People confuse the problems with excessive measurement with Lean. People say "patients aren't widgets" (of course they're not). They don't understand that Lean is built on patient focus, respect for employees, and continuous improvement. There's so much confusion out there. People are talking past each other because I'm defending Lean and what they're complaining about isn't Lean at all. It could be ignorance or a lack of education about Lean. It could be that some people are working in organizations that are practicing L.A.M.E. instead of Lean. Arguing about all of these seems like fiddling while Rome burns. My NEJM comment, which had limited space, and is being held for review: The authors unfortunately confuse Taylorism with Toyotaism, or "Lean." They also confound the issue by raising valid concerns about excessive or inappropriate measurement and EHR systems making live more difficult. Neither of those problems are driven by Lean principles or methods. In fact, a Lean thinker would stand arm in arm with the authors to decry waste in all forms, including bad quality measures and lousy computer systems. Lean is about serving the patient, creating a less frustrating workplace, and making things easier while ensuring quality and safety. I'd also join the authors in decrying Taylorism. But, again, Lean is not the same thing. Taylorism is a century-old model where engineers and managers designed the work, and workers just shut up and did the work. The Toyota model builds upon what was taught by W. Edwards Deming, where employees at all levels are respected and are treated as partners in quality improvement and process improvement. Patients are not widgets, facts are facts. Lean is helpful and transferrable as a philosophy, and improvement methodology, and a management system. It's about people leading people and improving the way work is done. Re. Failed systems of measurement, Bob Wachter (author of The Digital Doctor, Internal Bleeding, and others) had this piece in the Sunday NYTimes, yesterday: How Measurement Fails Doctors and Teachers My reaction to that is that some measures are a waste. Or, what's easy to measure isn't necessarily important to measure. I have many teachers amongst family and friends, so I'm sympathetic to heavy handed measure or blaming individuals for system problems. I would submit that part of the measurement problem is that we don't have sufficient methods for IMPROVEMENT. This leads to people gaming the numbers when that's easier than actually improving… and when there's a climate of fear. Just doing away with some measures might reduce some frustration, but will that help our health system improve? More discussion from LinkedIn and my response: Joy Furnival: we need to reflect hard as a lean practitioner (and academic) community about why there is still so much mis-understanding about lean, and badly practiced lean. What is it that we can do better and what is it that we are doing that is contributing to this that we need to change? Great question, Joy Furnival. My hypotheses would be: 1) Lack of education / ignorance about Lean… combined with a word that has very negative connotations… people project or guess what Lean would be, and it's not positive. 2) Distrust of management and leadership and poor relations… therefore something suggested by management (Lean) must be bad 3) Poor implementations of so-called "Lean" (which are really L.A.M.E. or Lean As Misguidedly Executed) where the blind are leading the blind, not really using Lean principles, and upsetting people in the process. 4) Existing mental models of cost cutting, top-down leadership, etc. are incompatible with Lean, so new Lean tools get overlaid on the old mindsets and leadership style. Joy Furnival says 5 years ago I agree with you, I think there are also issues with how we are doing 'lean training' and the proliferation in certification…I feel it is too easy to get a certificate with little practice and experience… but it is what customers often want…. I also wonder about if as a community we are too isolated from other forms of QI and this contributes to the lack of understanding about shared strengths and what we can learn from each other…the recent podcast from IHI open school (Scoville) about IHI-QI and lean is a great example of what we need to do more of. FInally, I wonder about the financial context and how this affects lean in healthcare differently, re growth. Joy, do you have a link to the podcast? I can't find it on the WIHI website. I agree that it's too easy for somebody for feign "expertise" (or even competence) based on an easy online certificate. And, the organizations who hire or employ them to "implement Lean" don't know any better. Link to Scoville podcast on lean vs IHI-QI link to associated white paper published last year on same topic. Still quite high level, but shows potential of what can be learned in both directions, and helps to challenge the 'one method is better than the other' debate that certainly exists in UK healthcare. Think there is a lot to learn via spread approaches and engagement work from IHI,and the use of the collaborative model and similarly about yokoten in lean. There is also much for the IHI approach to learn from lean especially imho re capacity and demand stuff in lean re takt time and cycle times etc. All teach, all learn. And agreed that there's lots to learn, all around, from many different sources. This video you shared with me on Twitter states that the IHI approach has been pretty project based, whereas Lean has more of an ongoing management system to contribute. We can blend both approaches, of course. The "framework for spread" from @TheIHI is similar to my work in teaching change management models. I do recommend checking out the comments on the piece, including some from some MDs and other Lean thinkers who really criticize what was written and/or they defend Lean, such as: Paul DeChant | Physician – Family Medicine/General Practice | Disclosure: None Want to empower physicians? Lean, based on Respect for People, is the way Hartzband and Groopman make two important points: 1) The current practice environment is unsustainable, leading to physician discontent and burnout. 2) Ample time for physician-patient interactions must be protected. They completely misunderstand the role of Lean. It is the solution to, not the cause of, their frustrations. Burnout's drivers permeate medicine today: chaotic work environments, overburden, loss of control, and loss of professionalism. Root causes include fee for service, directives to do more with less, inefficient EHRs, and burdensome regulations. Taylorism misapplies Lean with a top-down push for productivity and efficiency, exacerbating the problem. Lean at Toyota is based on the principles of Respect for People and Continuous Improvement, not the century-old principles of Taylorism. By definition, Standard Work is designed by the people who do the work, not "managers with stopwatches." Appropriate Lean leadership empowers physicians and their support staff to solve the problems they encounter every day, reduce the impact of regulatory and EHR-induced inefficiencies, and increase time for physician-patient interactions. Physicians should demand nothing less. Hear my podcast with Dr. DeChant: https://www.leanblog.org/230 I saw this article about a Children's Hospital in Troy MI that was designed using "Lean design" practices. The CEO (not a physician, it seems) was talking about Lean and said: "Utilizing a process called standard work procedures will help to eliminate variation and increase patient outcomes and safety, Gold says. "Every child who gets their appendix taken out at the Troy facility, irrespective of the surgeon, will [have it removed] exactly the same way," he says." Exactly the same… to what extent is that statement going to be true? To what level of detail? Are the surgeons on board with this? Are they driving this discussion? The hospital says they involved surgeons and staff in the Lean design process, which is the right thing to do (and one thing that makes it "Lean design"). Or, are they being alienated by leaders who are forcing this idea on them? Or, is the CEO out of touch and just thinking the work will be done "exactly the same way" but the surgeons are rolling their eyes and doing it their own way?? I'm sure if there's an emergency situation, the procedure won't be done "exactly the same way." I don't think that "eliminating variation," as that article talks about is the goal, nor is it practical. We can "reduce variation" (for the benefit of everyone involved) — by engaging surgeons and the people who do the work. I hope that's what's happening. Dr. Greg Jacobson, a practicing ER doc and Kaizen practitioner and advocate addresses the NEJM article in the first few minutes of this video: Lorraine Hoult says 5 years ago Very interesting discussion. I agree with you that a misuse of Lean is LAME. In Canada, where health care dollars are limited and hospitals are not allowed to run deficits, lean may be implemented in a LAME way. I think in Canada "fear" may also be playing a large role in how "leadership" implements their version of "Lean". In Canada, cuts to front line clinicians has occurred, levels of care have been changed, urgent care centres have been created etc. There may be little left to cut as far a clinical services go so administration may be feeling like they are a primary target. Trying to meet the metrics (# of patients seen, length of stay, cost per patient) may become more about job preservation than patient care. Just my opinion. Correction: In Ontario, hospitals are not allowed to carry a deficit. Fear may also be playing a role in clinician/administrative relationships. Everyone is worried about job loss. I Hal says 5 years ago Two quick comments. 1 – For every truth (or principle) there are 1,000 perversions of it. Lean is no different. 2 – How many doctors does it take to change a light bulb? None, if it doesn't want to change. Now apply the metaphor to Lean. There will always be early adopters who hopefully get it right. Skeptics who may or may not adopt. And, finally, scoffers who will work against any change. Here's a blog post by Dr. Paul DeChant on this topic: TAYLORISM VS. TOYOTA – MANAGERS WITH STOPWATCHES VS. RESPECT FOR PEOPLE Here are some reflections from Pascal Dennis on his blog. So to Drs Hartzband and Groopman, with great respect, please reflect on the all feedback you've received. Lean is not your enemy – quite the contrary. How not to be lean | Healthcare Quality Improvement 5 years ago […] the lean community, there was a bit of a to do! (see Mark Graban's fab thread and comments here). Not only was it perceived that the author was incorrect to say this, but also that he compared […] John Shook, a former Toyota employee, and CEO of the Lean Enterprise Institute has finally posted a response: "Malpractice in the New England Journal of Medicine" The Hartzband-Groopman article does not represent serious debate. Upon submission, the NEJM should have conferred with experienced lean practitioners, just as you would confer with experts in any discipline. Would you print an opinion piece about heart surgery that was submitted by a dermatologist without consulting the expert opinion of a cardiologist? Of course not. Bob Emiliani has raised valid points about asking why the physicians would write this piece from this perspective. Dr. Groopman has not responded to any tweets. I could email him and ask him to discuss this, privately, or I'd be happy to have a civil podcast discussion with him. If we ask "why?" in this forum, it would only be guessing, but some possibilities include: 1) They have been directly tormented by what I'll call Neo-Taylorism that's being done under the guise of Toyota or Lean… and they are rightfully upset about that 2) It's also possible that they haven't been involved in Lean at BIDMC… that could be their fault (they've chosen not to participate in training or improvement events) or it could be a management problem in that somebody hasn't tried to engage them 3) It's also possible they are just reacting to what they think "Lean" is based on conversations with colleagues within BIDMC or elsewhere. I believe them when they say colleagues have had negative things to say about their experiences 4) It's maybe also possible that they are reacting to traditional top-down command-and-control mandates, poor technology, and cost cutting… and conflating that with "Lean" I can't fault somebody for writing about their own personal experiences and reactions. But, I really would like to know if the esteemed doctors were writing from experience or just speculation. What Virginia Mason's CEO Dr. Gary Kaplan Warns Against With #Lean | Lean Blog 5 years ago […] serves as a bit of a counter, saying "Lean does work," to the recent NEJM article where two doctors claimed that Lean is inappropriate for […] There's a Yuuuge Problem with Donald Trump's Outdated Definition of Leadership | Lean Blog 5 years ago […] I blogged about, the NEJM recently published an editorial where the authors confused Lean with top-down […] Here is a response that was published on the "Health Affairs" blog: The Toyota Production System: What Does It Mean, And What Does It Mean For Health Care? John Toussaint, Patrick H. Conway, and Stephen Shortell NEJM Authors Double Down on Their Claim That TPS = Taylorism | Lean Blog 5 years ago […] might remember the hubbub (and my blog post) about this article that somehow appeared in the NEJM: "Medical […] The NEJM published two letters to the editors and the MDs' response: https://www.leanblog.org/2016/05/nejm-authors-double-down-on-tps-taylorism/ This Doctor is Upset About Something, But It Doesn't Really Sound Like Lean | Lean Blog 5 years ago […] of Medicine… except what they described didn't really sound like Lean (as I wrote about here and here – and also see Dr. John Toussaint's […] "Medical Taylorism:" An Article that Does a Huge Disservice to Needed Healthcare Transformation By Dr. Patricia Gabow and Ken Snyder Dr. Gabow was CEO of Denver Health… Steven Kalavity says 5 years ago Deming advocates at process stability and understanding variation. So, no matter what industry one is in, they cannot really discover or improve effectively with an unstable process. It is similar to scientific experiments and controls. Great article here by a former Boston hospital CEO and good friend of this blog, Paul Levy: It essentially serves as a great rebuttal to those who say Lean doesn't apply in healthcare or that Lean is somehow about telling others how to do their work. In part: "With a little technical help from one of our process improvement experts, a group of clinic employees — from the front-desk workers through the doctors —spent a few days studying their workflow. They discovered dozens of steps that did not add value to the patients or the staff, and they experimented with changes to eliminate unnecessary actions. They also set up self-guided routes through the clinic — with colored footprint stickers on the floor — so that the front desk staff and techs wouldn't have to escort people from step to step. They spent a few dollars on plastic holders to hang outside each office, so that patient records would be on hand for techs, nurses, and doctors. When it was all done, the team had reduced the previous visit time of 187 minutes down to 60 minutes or less, an improvement of more than 66 percent. Now, if I as CEO had gone to the chief of orthopaedics before all this happened and set a target of, say, a 10 percent improvement, I would have been told, "Mind your own business. We're already working to capacity here." But here, with strong support from the chief, the staff themselves analyzed the workflow and designed experiments for improving it. They set their own improvement target, rather than relying on one set by a detached senior executive." Great overview of Lean by Paul in that piece. What Went Wrong? | Bob Emiliani 4 years ago […] there exists deeply-rooted negative associations of Lean to things like layoffs, (Fake) Taylorism, and bureaucratic (check-the-box) Lean. We should expect Lean to have limited appeal going forward, […] This Time, the NEJM Publishes Something Positive About #Lean | Lean Blog 4 years ago […] over the NEJM opinion piece written by Dr. Jerome Groopman and Dr. Pamela Hartzband. See my first post about their article. There are more links at the bottom of this […] Anonymous Lean MD says 4 years ago Dr. Groopman is being ridiculous. The article is an embarrassment. A parallel to his thinking about Lean would be an article in NEJM about aviation. 1) Friends told me about a bad flight they were on, where there was a lot of turbulence and a crash landing 2) Therefore, aviation is dangerous 3) Aviation is not appropriate for human travel 4) Believe me because I'm a doctor Katie Anderson & Isao Yoshino Talk About Their…

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Why did I decide to try this wine? Recommended by the lady working at the Sydney River liquor store in Nova Scotia. We were there on December 23rd (2016) stocking up with "holiday cheer" for our Christmas in Baddeck, NS. I drank this wine on Boxing Day after the hustle and bustle of Christmas Day was over… sitting in my in-law's basement watching the world junior hockey game and chatting with family. Would I prefer one glass or indulge in the bottle? Bottle, but a glass. this wine is pretty strong at 15% so although it tastes like drinking the bottle is the best choice, a glass is likely the wiser choice. And, I have to say that at the price – it is worth savouring over two days. We love trying new wines, will look for this at the NBLCC, hopefully they will have it!

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